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2ic

“You can use a face mask if you like, but it is not really any protection”

Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director General of Health
January 2000
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12303934

Hmm…
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August 30, 2020 8:00am
- amospicton
  
  Exactly. Nothing wrong with changing that view based on new evidence but clearly wearing a mask makes, at best, a small difference. It’s gone from the balance of evidence to the contrary to now in favour. That’s a good reason to wear one in high risk environments but the public perception seems to be that it provides immunity which is both wrong and dangerous.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:51am
  - kowtow
    
    The difference the sight of everyone in public wearing a muzzle makes is the imagery .Imagery of a pandemic , of fear , of death and pestilence that must be avoided.
    
    So wear a mask and join the cast of billions playing at the theatre of fear and govt diktat.
    
    And if you don’t join the “team” you get the western equivalent of the gulag . Ostracisation and sanction.
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:13am
    - Nickc2
      
      Yep, spot the Cindy worshipers. They’re the ones wearing a mask.
      
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      August 30, 2020 10:22am
      - Ruawai
        
        Great idea, instead of running expensive polls just count the number of masks entering each supermarket over an hour to find the Labour voters.
        
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        August 30, 2020 11:10am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        and religiously using the tracking app.
        
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        August 30, 2020 12:04pm
  - Billy Collins
    
    Are you saying we only just in the last few months found out that masks help stop the spread of a virus? Even though medical experts reported the effectiveness of them even during the 1917 flu pandemic, we just didn’t know until the last few months?
    
    Or, is it that experts lower on the medical hierarchy didn’t actually know and were trusting the conclusions of higher ups, which means a handful of major organisations such as the WHO, who may or may not have agendas beyond just public heath, were controlling the global communication surrounding this?
    
    It seems national medical authorities of multiple western countries were previously downplaying masks, as the WHO was too. The moment the WHO changed their position, suddenly everyone else did.
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:14am
- igm
  
  Definitely helps to hide horror heads . . . maybe that is why Labour want them.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:22am
- WaynelSexton
  
  Who’s actually sneezing into a mask though? Everyone I’ve seen lifts it to sneeze, defeating the purpose.
  Even if they do sneeze into the mask, why would anyone think that walking around with a slobbery mask would be hygienic?
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:29am
- Stephen Russell
  
  As I understand it, a mask does very little to protect you from any virus – because you will just breathe it in straight through.
  BUT! A mask greatly limits the spread of microdroplets going OUT. So a mask does reduce the chance that you will pass a virus on if you have it.
  A mask is worn to protect others, not yourself.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:29am
  - DeepBlue
    
    If the masks are red, they will be wonderful propaganda and election advertising. Red rosettes are so 2017. Did you not see Dear Leader’s example?
    
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    August 30, 2020 12:35pm
- 2ic
  
  Oops – in my post above I give year 2000 – should be 2020 of course! I don’t suppose a mod can edit it?
  
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  August 30, 2020 3:30pm
MT_Tinman

Using the tried and true hear-no-evil/see-no-evil/test-no-evil method New Zealand had 100+ days reportedly Covid free.

Then the dictatorship imposes house-arrest on Jafas and Covid not just reappears but explodes in Jafaville.

The rest of New Zealand, ignoring the imposed but farcial “level II” house arrest, remains unaffected.

Am I missing something here?
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August 30, 2020 8:01am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Yes bro. You are missing the fact that Jacinda is always right. Movin on….
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:09am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Her pride precedes her demise. An accounting will be required for the impossibly inept performance of the Ardern R. govt which passes the test of fraud for incompetence substituted for a duty of care.
    
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    August 30, 2020 12:00pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Am I missing something here?
  
  Yes..
  You are forgetting the marvellous theatre we enjoyed for 3 months…. the daily performances at 1pm followed by incisive questioning from our intrepid journalists…
  
  What the Hell was the point of it all?
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:52am
  - MT_Tinman
    
    You’ll have to leave me out of that “we” Maggy.
    
    I have yet to see my first 1pm party political broadcast.
    
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    August 30, 2020 11:30am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Running up the fear quota and anxiety levels. The further lockdown has enhanced that I am seeing shop staff now distinctly bothered.
    
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    August 30, 2020 12:03pm
    - IC5000
      
      > I am seeing shop staff now distinctly bothered.
      
      They are probably relieved when you left.
      
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      August 31, 2020 10:50am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    ‘What the Hell was the point of it all’
    
    Votes
    
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    August 30, 2020 12:04pm
wimpston peeeders

So now everyone expects compensation whenever the govt makes a decision that affects your life or business in a negative financial way (lockdowns, tourism handouts due to border closure etc) how come that dosent translate to the backbone of nz farming?

The govts proposals seriously financially affect a majority of farmers and inhibit them from full utillisation especially gentle rolling hill country that relies on winter crops.

wheres the subsidies? Wheres the support packages? Yup they wont come.

our farmers havent been subsidised for decades and its allowed them to become one of the most efficient in the world because of it, nz competes against highly subsidised countries yet we can still produce a superior product at a competive price.
this probably belongs in Deane Jessups thread from yesterday, but maybe its a time for rethink about subsidies and bailouts?

After all if a bunch of farmers can do it then surely most other businesses can.
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August 30, 2020 8:02am
- Brian McDonald
  
  Anyone who doesn’t understand that in a crisis it is better to support a business than see it fail is a couple of centuries out of touch.
  An up and running business has expertise and experience, contacts and viability for the future better to support than pay for people to be on the dole.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:04am
  - Frank Hematuria
    
    You missed wp’s point.
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:06am
  - wimpston peeeders
    
    straight over your head brian.
    
    re read my post and maybe view it without your labour issue glasses.
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:41am
    - Brian McDonald
      
      I don’t read anything with political glasses – that’s your problem, Using a play on a politician’s name shows how childish you are, so no wonder you think every issue and comment is political, Grow up.
      Trying to compare farmers lack of subsidies long term with a short term fix for a stalled economy is idiocy.
      Meanwhile Judith to her credit isn’t being influenced by try-hards with no skin in the game,
      
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      August 30, 2020 10:12am
      - wimpston peeeders
        
        Love your optimism that the handouts will end midnight tonight and all will be fine and dandy.
        
        tourism will be bailed out constantly for probably best part of a decade untill its normal again, I dont view that short term and even 1-2yrs support is too long.
        sink or swim time, innovate and move with the times after all its part of “the new normal” theres the politicians hints that nothing will be the same again so addaption is needed to survive.
        
        Im guessing youre past work history influences youre view, ever owned a business, employed Ppl? Were you sucessfull and stand on your own 2 feet or did you rely on handouts or a trougher in the public sector and never achieved anything of great worth noting?
        
        to have such a narrow minded view and miss the big picture is pure idiocy.
        
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        August 30, 2020 10:29am
      - Observer of Life
        
        Brian: Cindy the Benevolent treats us like children, sooooo……
        
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        August 30, 2020 2:00pm
      - IC5000
        
        It’s hard to take him seriously. Openly admitted that he wouldn’t help the police solve any crime. What does it say about the morals of a person when they wouldn’t assist the police to put a rapist behind bars.
        
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        August 31, 2020 10:54am
    - chukar
      
      Agree WP.
      But there is the proviso that the quality of the business should be considered before help is considered.
      It is a very sad fact that in the tourism industry there is and has been much subsidisation by local and central government already.
      Ratepayers/ taxpayers are contributing millions to this industry in many different ways ,
      Examples include :Councils Destination and event subsidies, America’s cups ,Film industry etc. etc.
      There is an opportunity now to get thIs industry to stand on its own feet and face reality in the market whatever that may be.
      
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      August 30, 2020 11:38am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Businesses don’t exist in vacuums–they rely on others not only to buy but also to supply. Price wars may not be evident but if a contractor lowers quotes others will have to too and all lose.
    
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    August 30, 2020 12:08pm
    - chukar
      
      KOB,
      Basically correct, but any business that relays on taxpayer / ratepayers subsidies to survive means its survival is due to political patronage.
      
      Robbing Peter to pay Paul can mean Peter can not expand and achieve growth while Paul can and often does demand more and more subsidies.
      
      Quality of businesses does matter.
      
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      August 30, 2020 12:43pm
Kiwi_in_Paris

Huge anti-sniffle protests in London and Berlin on Saturday. They were chanting, “Pedophile protectors!!” to the police outside Downing Street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goFeE-CgwAA
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August 30, 2020 8:03am
- SB2
  
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  Kiwi in Paris, coming to you from courtesy of Sputnik ( er um the Kremlin ).
  
  So its out Covid only an attack of the sniffles!
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:15am
CJames

The proverbial is about to hit the fan in the George Floyd case (the instigation of BLM riots) as his hospital admission blood results have been released. He died because his lungs filled up with fluid from the drug overdose. The coroner concluded “The memorandum ends with Dr. Baker’s devastating conclusion that “if Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he [Dr. Baker] would conclude that it was an overdose death.””
Hard to get a homicide conviction with that despite all the posturing from politicians.
https://knowledgeisgood.net/2020/08/28/george-floyd-the-plot-thickens/
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August 30, 2020 8:03am
- Brian McDonald
  
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  Why don’t you report all the information on the case including that the prosecution is seeking an uplift of sentence.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:00am
  - CJames
    
    Mr Floyd effectively drowned because the drug overdose filled his lungs with fluid. That doesn’t happen in a neck press.
    The politically appointed DAs sought the uplift in sentences because of political pressure, not evidence. That is why the hospital blood results were suppressed for three months – it didn’t suit their polemics. I could also mention that the defence has asked for charges to be dropped because of that blood evidence.
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:24am
    - Brian McDonald
      
      There’s an alternative autopsy report, put that up instead of pretending there is not.
      
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      August 30, 2020 10:13am
      - wimpston peeeders
        
        and that was paid for by… yup biased results there mate.
        
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        August 30, 2020 10:30am
      - CJames
        
        I quote it below. What was their evidence of Asphyxia? Note the comment that they did not actually examine the critical components, but didn’t think it would alter their opinions. In other words, they had preconceived views
        
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        August 30, 2020 10:35am
  - Brian Marshall
    
    I read the actual autopsy report when it was first done. It was in the report that there was no evidence that there was compression on his throat that stopped his breathing. Amazingly it wasn’t reported by the media while whole lots of do gooders all around the world scream ‘Rassssssssissssssm’ at the police just doing their job.
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:34am
    - CJames
      
      That wasn’t the original autopsy report. It was the addendum put out by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner after the families people looked at the documentation. Neither party had the results of hospital admission blood, only autopsy blood.
      “The Floyd’s family attorney had a re-autopsy performed by Dr. Michael Baden*, the former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, and Dr. Allecia Wilson of the University of Michigan.
      
      In announcing the re-autopsy findings, Dr. Wilson stated that she and Dr. Baden “have seen accounts from the complaint and based on that, yes our findings do differ [from those of the Hennepin County Medical Examiner]. Some of the information that I read from that complaint states that there was no evidence of traumatic asphyxia. This is the point in which we do disagree. There is evidence in this case of mechanical or traumatic asphyxia.”
      However, Dr. Wilson conceded that they did not have access to toxicology results, tissue samples, or some organs, but added that those items “are not likely to change” the results of the re-autopsy.
      “The re-autopsy concluded that, even without physical evidence of traumatic asphyxia, such as broken bones in the neck, the compression on Floyd’s neck and chest still caused his death by depriving his brain of blood and oxygen and his lungs of air. Dr. Baden stated that the pressure was not visibly supported by autopsy because the pressure applied by the police had been released by the time the body was examined. ”
      So why did his lungs fill with fluid?
      
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      August 30, 2020 10:01am
      - Brian McDonald
        
        Like counsel said of the defendant’s plea to have the charges withdrawn everyone in the world saw the video and heard the plea of being unable to breath.
        
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        August 30, 2020 10:15am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Brian, the video is quite clear, Floyd was saying “I can’t breathe” well before he was restrained at all. It is clear that he believed that he was suffering from breathing problems almost certainly caused by his fentanyl overdose right at the start of his interaction.
        
        If anything the police are guilty of not treating him as a medical overdose problem, but Floyd did not act as if he was sufficiently ill to make that obvious. He was quite vigorous in his resistance to be arrested, unlike someone dying from insufficient oxygen.
        
        The restraint hold placed on him could not have caused the pulmonary oedema, thus was not responsible for his death.
        
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        August 30, 2020 10:42am
      - Wangas Feral
        
        Dude was saying “I can’t breathe” when he was sitting in his car.
        
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        August 30, 2020 1:53pm
- dcrane
  
  All true but fgs I wish they had gotten off his neck minutes earlier. The guy had stopped struggling.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:14am
  - Ed Snack
    
    True, but unfortunately the approved restraint hold used was supposed to be kept in place to prevent someone going relaxed for a brief period then “erupting” into action again.
    
    If Floyd had been undrugged he might have realised that ceasing to resist arrest before being placed in a chokehold might have got him medical attention sooner. But he was not rational.
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:45am
- SB2
  
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  James, crank website it seems eg recommending a Trump cocktail,
  
  “..Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc + Azithromycin (the “HCQ cocktail”) to treat COVID-19.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:18am
  - CJames
    
    So you mean because he publishes a letter from three physicians to Dr Fauci, quoting medical journal papers, his site is crank?
    https://knowledgeisgood.net/2020/08/17/paging-dr-fauci/
    Or is it that you can’t face the horrible thought that even though Trump advocated it, it might be right?
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:07am
    - SB2
      
      Trump is wrong. See my post 932.am below
      
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      August 30, 2020 10:28am
      - CJames
        
        Your “proof” is an article in Scientific American? That magazine lost its credibility long before it started its “orange man is bad” crusade.
        
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        August 30, 2020 11:17am
      - CJames
        
        Here is a good example of how Scientific American has descended into Woman’s Day territory. Can someone really see the effect of a 0.5degC rise in temperature over last 50 years in people’s health? How do those people who retire to Northland or Papamoa cope with their massive temperature rise?
        https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-climate-change-does-to-the-human-body/
        
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        August 30, 2020 3:51pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    So? You know better than many doctors worldwide?
    What has politics go to do with prescribing?
    
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    August 30, 2020 12:13pm
- igm
  
  Soros will fund another angle . . . the Democrat way!
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:25am
- Catgurl13
  
  It was also no loss from society when GF died. He was a dangerous violent criminal that hurt people. We don’t need or want these types and USA no longer had to pay for his ass out in society where he can commit more crimes.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:02am
The Proper Ghandi

Covid? What’s up with that shit?
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August 30, 2020 8:07am
Tomtoddy

Shane Jones tries (very weakly) to justify the grant to a “green” school and claims it is driven by “ideological tantrums”.

No, Shane, it is driven by taxpayers and citizens who see hypocrisy, corruption, arrogance and gross misuse of public funds and are demanding accountability. Get the money back.
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August 30, 2020 8:07am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  The inveterately vainglorious verbose one could mean that the grant itself was given as a result of the Green’s “ideological tantrums.”
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:10am
- David George
  
  It’s the greens having the ideological tantrums. Everyone else is just calling out the hypocrisy and, possibly, James Shaw’s apparent bewilderment that this is suddenly an issue. Is he seriously stupid or what.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:17am
  - Dougal10
    
    Its not the what!
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:08am
    - david
      
      And it is a rhetorical question.
      
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      August 31, 2020 2:41pm
- Billy Collins
  
  I’m not in NZ.
  
  How big is this among the public? Especially, how big of a deal is this to Green voters?
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:35am
  - softail 1450
    
    … Shaw … [ Mod : sorry … ]
    
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    December 30, 2019 9:09am
  - rangitoto
    
    Don’t know but the Green activists are furious going by their twitter postings.
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:17am
    - sooty
      
      Will the nutless coleader stage a coup?
      
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      August 30, 2020 9:44am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Greens are seriously concerned about losing votes to Labour and ending up under 5%. Just look at the Standard. They are in damage control mode.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:09am
  - Chris Walden
    
    I would rather shit in my hands & clap than give that toilet of a website any clicks.
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:48am
Catgurl13

Are we be subliminly warned that we are going to be in L3 longer?…….I feel it’s winding up to that, with all the articles about staying in L3 published by the media party these days and Mr Hendy spouting the same retoric.
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August 30, 2020 8:10am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Seems to me like they have pretty much said last week that Auckland is definitely going to level 2 tonight. I have had emails from schools and even our local vet saying what the new rules are from Monday under level 2!
  I think there would be a major backlash against Cindy if they decide to extend level 3
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:13am
- DeepBlue
  
  I can’t see how they could stop it tonight. Jacinda would have to make wall to wall announcements on all media with a megaphone “Get back in your houses”. Burn, Burn, Burn all her political capital. It certainly would be an interesting poll of the sheeple v the thinkers.
  
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  August 30, 2020 11:29am
Luke Piewalker

Whatever Cindy’s next Covid announcement is it will be 100% to get the most political gain.

Remember she said it was a Covid election
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August 30, 2020 8:11am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  yup lvl 2 and mass outbreak is on the way 🙂
  I want the herd immunity approach so I think cindys doing the right thing and aiding the spread
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:55am
I remember when

Is there anything that is hot news, that we know less about than the NBA strike.
For instance, how much real input have the players had in terms of personal costs?
Will any loss come out of the players pockets, and if so, how much will it be?
How often do we hear, “our game is now based on black players but very few can afford to see a game live”?
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August 30, 2020 8:16am
Simon

At this point if you still buy into this Covid19 spew that’s being peddled by the State and all its vile apparatus then you would have willingly joined the Hitler Youth in the 1930s.
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August 30, 2020 8:18am
Maggy Wassilieff

What is behind the Waikato University breakdown with its Maori and Indigenous Studies Faculty?

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/m-ori-academics-allege-structural-racism-within-waikato-university-seek-lay-treaty-claim
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August 30, 2020 8:18am
- artemisia
  
  Koha usually pacifies the taniwha.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:25am
  - softail 1450
    
    artemisia, Exactly right and every time its the Koha.
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:06am
    - Dougal10
      
      I suppose at least now days the koha is cash instead of women and children.
      
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      August 30, 2020 10:12am
      - sooty
        
        Mercedes, BMWs, expense account!
        
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        August 30, 2020 1:50pm
      - Nickc2
        
        @ Sooty 1:50PM
        
        …………and drugs.
        
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        August 30, 2020 3:42pm
  - wimpston peeeders
    
    it ceases to amaze me that iwi nationwide have some huge wealth but have never invested in their own ppl, they could easily build their own maori universities, hospitals etc yet theyre greedy and go for a capitalistic model and go for profit while at the same time hold their hand out or point fingers of blame for something they could easily do themselves.
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:03am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  aw god theyve gone from “systemic” to “structural” racism.
  I dont recall that maori had an education system pre colonisation let alone a higher education system, they should be thankfull theyre allowed to even access it but instead they insist on destroying a system thats not theirs and never was a part of them.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:27am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  Wow. Such a racist institution that they even have a Maori and Indigenous Studies Faculty in order to indoctrinate soft-brained incompetents. These radicals ARE the institution.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:31am
  - Komata
    
    TPG@0831
    
    FWIW: In that context (and over a decade ago), I, together with others in a UoW history lecture, were told by a senior Maori academic (No names), that ‘He wakes up EVERY morning determined to continue the war to defeat the Pakeha’. This to a class in which 98% of the participants were European! While certainly sincere, the irony of his statement (made in a ‘European’ institution which would never have existed under ‘Maori’ rule) was completely lost on the speaker. We all just listened, slightly appalled at what we had just heard.
    
    Marriage links me to that speaker’s tribal-group, and subsequent enquiries indicated that he was regarded within said group as being a bit of a nutter and motor-mouth , and that any similar statements that he might make should be taken with a very large container of salt…
    
    With that sort of ‘Management-condoned’ attitude circulating at higher levels within the institution, this recent outburst was only a matter of time in arriving, since if you can ‘dominate’ the curriculum, then it’s only a matter of time before the ‘Dominator/s’ start throwing their weight around, especially as ‘Racism’ is such a ‘Convenient’ and ‘Useful’ word and eminently ‘Suitable for the purpose’…
    
    Noticeably (and unusually), absolutely NO reference is made to the respective tribal origins of the ‘complainants’. Inter-tribal rivalries being what they are, one wonders if there is more than a touch of ‘envy’ involved…
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:22am
- softail 1450
  
  M W, as is always the case in these problems with the Maori elite ,,,,follow the money, every time.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:38am
- IC5000
  
  Probably nothing. Just academic fighting over silly superficialities like they usually do. Office squabbles are the same everywhere
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:47am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    This seems more serious than the usual in-fighting between University departments.
    
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    August 30, 2020 11:00am
    - IC5000
      
      No it isn’t. Unless you’re planning to start a Maori studies degrees next year if you never heard of this crap it wouldn’t affect your life in slightest.
      
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      August 30, 2020 11:23am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Nuts…
        I’m a taxpayer.
        We are supporting this institution….
        and don’t assume that I have to be a student to get value/information out of a Maori and Indigenous studies Department.
        
        I suspect I’ve read a few more papers and theses out of Maori Departments than the average punter.
        
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        August 30, 2020 2:25pm
      - IC5000
        
        I’m a tax payer too. I don’t complain everytime a public servant has an early lunch break to go outside and scratch their balls.
        
        Given that we occupy this life for only a short time this isn’t worth worrying about whatsoever if one has their priorities sorted out.
        
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        August 30, 2020 3:15pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Alas for you, IC5000, I’m not in the habit of taking the advice of anonymous trolls over what I should or shouldn’t be interested in.
        
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        August 30, 2020 6:30pm
      - IC5000
        
        Why are you looking for external validation then?
        
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        August 30, 2020 7:26pm
- Jack5
  
  The problem is trying to reconcile Maori indigenous knowledge with Western science and Western academia. That’s futile: it’s trying to put a horse shoe on a cow.
  
  Maori knowledge, based on oral traditions, deserves to be based in tertiary institutions separate from universities, which are based on Western Culture.
  
  Isn’t that what the three wananga are for? Here’s what the New Zealand Qualifications Authority says about wananga:
  
  Wananga are recognised as tertiary institutions under section 162 of the Education Act 1989. As such, wananga are regarded as the peers of universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education. Under the Act:
  
  “A wananga is characterised by teaching and research that maintains, advances, and disseminates knowledge and develops intellectual independence, and assists the application of knowledge regarding ahuatanga Maori (Maori tradition) according to tikanga Maori (Maori custom).”
  
  Maori claim, for instance, that their traditional astronomical knowledge is a science, but oral traditions don’t fit most international views of what constitute a science.
  
  The confusion hasn’t been helped by the Royal Society of New Zealand, which itself has been watered down by soft humanitarian pseudo-sciences, giving an award like this for Maori “science”:
  
  https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-opinion/media/2020/maori-astronomer-receives-prime-ministers-award
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:49am
- SB2
  
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  MW , as it says some claim / allege academic structual racism at Waikato uni.
  
  Not rocket science!
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:22am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    So where is the evidence?
    It was not presented on the TV item.
    Here’s the Staff membership of The Maori and Indigenous Studies Faculty.
    https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fmis/about/staff
    
    I count 4 Professors, and
    6 Associate Professors…
    
    which sure seems like a well-endowed Department, to me .
    
    (only 1 Prof of Botany when I was at Massey and Vic Uni)
    
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    August 30, 2020 11:39am
    - KH
      
      Hands up anybody who is suprised by this complaint. Very few.
      No matter what Waikato did or did not do, there was going to be a complaint.
      It’s what these types do, we have seen it many times before.
      
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      August 30, 2020 1:39pm
- Fletch
  
  They are cashing in on the controversies overseas, importing it here, to cry racism.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:33am
  - kowtow
    
    To paraphrase ;
    
    People who were never oppressed are seeking restoration/restitution from people who never did any oppressing.
    
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    August 30, 2020 11:39am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I raise this issue because TVNZ presented a fairly lengthy piece on the matter indicating that it has been bubbling away for 2 years or more… but there was no attempt to explain how relations had soured between Waikato Uni Management and The Maori Studies faculty.
  
  I went looking elsewhere (RNZ – Te Ao Maori) and publications of Prof Pou Temara (main spokesperson on the TVNZ piece) to try and find out more info…..but No Luck.
  
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  August 30, 2020 11:07am
  - Nickc2
    
    But hey, the Govt. has plenty of other peoples money (Labour Confetti) to throw around due to putting all of us and our kids/grandkids in hock. I wouldn’t be at all suprised if the Maori Studies Faculty wasn’t thrown a few $Million to shut up until after the election. Alter all, the CoL have a Maori Caucus and I’m sure Silly Willy won’t be slow in putting his hand up for a grant to be given (without any strings attached that is). If they do, how much of that money do you think will find it’s way back to the Labour Party?
    
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    August 30, 2020 12:38pm
- MJHNZ
  
  What a load of woke PC raciest rubbish.
  
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  August 30, 2020 1:26pm
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What is corrupt about the school getting the hammer ready funds? If they meet the criteria, how is it either corrupt or a gross misuse of funds.

You are just using these words to justify your ideological opposition.
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August 30, 2020 8:20am
- fernglas
  
  I think the problem is over whether it does meet the criteria, whether and why the grant was pushed through by a politician whose party’s policies oppose such assistance and whether the funding might better have been allocated to State schools that need it. Plus, I guess, a general social repugnance to large amounts of taxpayer funds being given to a private, for profit business
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:26am
  - SB2
    
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    Um the facts are that private schools regualrly receive government handouts / subsidies fairly bigly!
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:24am
    - David George
      
      Not for capital development.
      They get a small (25%?) contribution towards running costs; a contribution considerably less than the cost of a kid going to a public school. That’s perfectly reasonable, the teachers union and the activist left don’t see it that way, of course, and would prefer all kids went to a state indoctrination centre.
      
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      August 30, 2020 10:41am
- Albert_Ross
  
  If they meet the criteria, then there is something wrong with the criteria.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:28am
- softail 1450
  
  Wayne Mapp, “hammer ready” Jeeeez the “shovel ready” agenda didn’t last long Wayne .?
  How much did that rebranding cost the country and who got paid for it ?
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:30am
- Gravelroad
  
  Labour and the Greens have used ”ideological opposition” to campaign vigorously against “private” schools when it has suited them – citing elitism and waste of taxpayer funds and so on.
  But if you spin it that it might be a “green school” as compared with a “charter school” for example,
  suddenly elitism and use of taxpayers’ money aren’t such a problem.
  Always different when the left do it.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:32am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  Pretty sure you stood for the wrong party…
  
  a private school that wealthy smug hippies could fund got a massive handout all while state schools are crumbling leaking going mouldy dont get cent.
  
  12mil to benefit a handfull of students could have instead been spent to benefit a few thousand students at various state schools.
  
  if youre blinkers are on that bad you cant see that then I suggest you beg cindy for a job as shes desperate for talent that can introduce poor idealogy with no thought or care for the ramifications.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:33am
- David George
  
  It has a lot to do with the fact the assets (school buildings etc.) will be in private hands while public schools miss out.
  Nicola Willis raises some very good points. She’s a great asset to the country.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/video.cfm?c_id=1&gal_cid=1&gallery_id=223525
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:35am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  Get with the program Wayne.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:43am
  - Brian McDonald
    
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    Jeez you tell an ex Parliamentary Minister to get with the programme and claim to be a proper Ghandi, try a dose of publishing under your own name.
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:10am
    - The Proper Ghandi
      
      Hi “Brian” (assuming that is your real name). Telling Wayne to get with the program is a subtle in-joke amongst observant KBers, in reference to a comment ex Parliamentary Minister Mapp made last weekend.
      
      I couldn’t care less if Wayne Mapp is a former minister, because that is largely irrelevant to any argument ex Parliamentary Minister Mapp may advance. Nonetheless, he has contributed to society in his own way, so I acknowledge my respect in that regard. But this doesn’t give him a lifetime free pass.
      
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      August 30, 2020 9:31am
      - Dougal10
        
        He was also well paid for his contribution to society.
        
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        August 30, 2020 10:16am
      - Brian McDonald
        
        I don’t see how he’s getting a free pass or what business that is of yours.
        
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        August 30, 2020 10:18am
      - The Proper Ghandi
        
        Clearly you don’t see, Brian. At the risk of engaging you in a trivial online tete a tete, you appear to assume that Wayne’s former occupation means he is immune to criticism. I disagree.
        
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        August 30, 2020 10:49am
    - calendar girl
      
      It’s none of your business, Brian McDonald, what nom-de-plume The Proper Ghandi chooses to use on DPF’s Kiwiblog.
      
      Fortunately, DPF sets the rules for his blog, not you.
      
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      August 30, 2020 10:31am
      - The Proper Ghandi
        
        You’re a good lady calendar girl (assuming you are a lady) ?
        
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        August 30, 2020 10:51am
      - kowtow
        
        It’s not the nom de plume that worries me , it’s the loin cloth.
        
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        August 30, 2020 12:58pm
      - Jack5
        
        I promise to be good …
        
        What a line old ??‍♀️ Gandhi used: when he slept naked with young women it was just to test his vow of celibacy. ??
        
        https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ghandi-slept-grandniece-historian-tells-uk-government-146049
        
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        August 30, 2020 4:44pm
- CJames
  
  The problem (I wouldn’t call it corruption) with the Green School getting construction funds is that it went totally against all the Green Party policies. I wouldn’t call the principles as I am yet to be convinced the Greens have any. There is a cap on other schools getting construction funds. The business case is wildly optimistic. It seems to have had no review.
  The case seems to have all the hallmarks of the Greens wanting to get into the distribution of taxpayers funds and not really caring what it was for. The fact that Mr Shaw has had to do a humiliating apology showed it was not thought through.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:58am
  - Tomtoddy
    
    CJ, I do call it corruption. Here is a formal definition of corruption:
    Corruption is a form of dishonesty or criminal offense undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one’s private gain.
    
    Shaw’s actions as a person in a position of authority were about a dishonest use of funds that were not his to acquire private gain(votes, adulation) for himself as leader of the party.
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:06am
- Prince
  
  Here speaks an ex-Cabinet Minister, used to treating taxpayer funds as his own little monopoly set.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:29am
- JamesP
  
  Just don’t think too deeply on how:
  1) Parties who promise to spend lots of other people’s money get elected.
  2) Big spending “stimulus” and “infrastructure” projects get enacted.
  3) The criteria for these projects are decided.
  
  I’m looking at a “hammer ready” project at my house right now. But somehow the coin that I might have spent on it doesn’t count until it’s been forcibly extracted, combined with other people’s hard earned coin, filtered through a few layers of bureaucracy, and given to some well connected business who “meet the criteria”.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:37am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Because there are plenty of ” hammer ready” real schools. All over NZ, or even in the ‘Naki if you were trying to splash the cash there.
  
  Why this one “very” special school, with a feeble track record?
  
  25 NZ students enrolled. $11.7 million grant. $43,000 per year fees for the international student – only 25 of them too.
  
  Yup, nothing untoward there at all. Clearly shovel ready.
  
  Opposing corruption and waste is now ideology, Wayne has pronounced, all is well.
  
  Move on, peasants! Know your place.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:57am
Gravelroad

Seems the propaganda campaign surrounding the cannabis referendum has kicked off big time.
Last night on TV1 news there was a giggly puff piece from our Australian correspondent on the greatness of smoking dope.
Today in Stuff there is a letter written by 5 users (but definitely not “stoners” ) extolling the benefits of cannabis and using the good old “look over there” technique eg- one attacked alcohol as being much worse and another repeated misinformation regarding medical use of pain relief oils which I understand are already available.
Dope cool and good.
Tobacco dirty and bad.
Both generate smoke and health issues in a country where our socialist masters have decreed that we must be smoke free.
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August 30, 2020 8:21am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  I openly invite a reporter to come visit me, ill take them around and see the true toll that the “harmless” drug has done.
  ive had 15+yrs exp its effects and mingling with many other users from all walks of life and the 1 trend emerging that I can see now are many of my friends and ex friends are now experiencing mental health issues (incl me) some quite severe and all triggered within minutes of inhaling.
  
  the media need to go do an honest interview with long term normal users not cherry pick the once a month puff n giggle folk.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:03am
  - softail 1450
    
    W P, in my limited experience with the bad effects of canabis Its been a younger person that is a new user overindulging in the drug before getting accustomed to its effects at a higher level of consumption .
    It comes down to blind fear when the user comes face to face with sensations they aren’t familiar with and freaks out ,actually very few people have experienced total fear which is absolutely debilitating in most normal people,it can lead to rolling up in the foetal position when you should really be running as fast as you can.
    Many soldiers were shot in their trenches by their own side because of the absolute fear of going over the top.
    In my twenties I experienced this after taking acid and only more experienced friends stopped me from a freakout, after that I was very careful with any drugs and that one minor scare has kept me away from probably a lifetime of dabbling with drugs as a lot of those same friends are still doing, all good actually, to be fair I occasionally still have couple of puffs with mates now and then but I’d rather have a beer.
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:41am
- dcrane
  
  Presumably much of the political momentum on this is driven by cannabis companies like “Equalis” who are running slick radio ads with soft-voiced women touting their high grade products. I wish we had a simple bill allowing people to grow a few plants and use the result, full stop.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:20am
- Jimmy White
  
  Look shooting yourself with a gun is less painful than stabbing yourself with a knife. Smoking dope is less dangerous than drinking alcohol. The logic astounds me.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:24am
- Catgurl13
  
  There was a story on the Marae prog showcasing a woman in her 60s living in a remote area who makes skincare products infused with cannibis ground root and also muffins made with cannibis butter. She was harping she is in favour of cannibis becoming legal here as she was filmed smoking a joint. An elderly woman living in a remote area growing dope and smoking it,isn’t someone living in reality. It’s all very well being able to live out in the sticks, smoking illegal drugs, selling it and products made from it…..and being on a benefit or pension where there are no jobs around anyway. What a no hope loser she was,but she wouldn’t see that irony.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:39am
All_on_Red

Looks like the RNC went well.
‘Across television and online streaming, the Republican National Convention got 147.9 million total viewers from Monday through Thursday, while Democratic National Convention got 122 million total viewers’
https://pjmedia.com/election/matt-margolis/2020/08/29/sorry-libs-the-gop-convention-had-better-viewership-than-the-democrat-convention-n863459

Raised record money too
‘A senior Trump campaign official told Fox News that the campaign, the RNC, and Trump Victory and Trump MAGAC (Make America Great Again Committee) raised $76 million between the kick-off to the convention Monday and President Trump’s formal nomination acceptance Thursday night.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-campaign-millions-republican-national-convention.amp?__twitter_impression=true
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August 30, 2020 8:22am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Neilson ratings gave it the other way:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Republican_National_Convention#Evening_television_viewership
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:44am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Neilson doesn’t count on line streaming.
    It’s a ‘thing’ these days. You poor ole fella.
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:59am
Cassandra

There’s nothing wrong with a grant to a private school, a business, provided it achieves a purpose and the taxpayer shares in the rewards. Governments do this all the time. Private citizens do it all the time via charitable donations. The problem here is hypocrisy and a very uneven application of discretion. It smacks of special interests and looks very like corruption. And now Shane Jones is involved. But I’m repeating myself.
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August 30, 2020 8:23am
amospicton

Seriously Wayne? The Greens are vehemently opposed to private schools. So why did Shaw think it was a good idea to grant $11m to a single public school? As many jobs could have been created by allocating the funds to public schools.
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August 30, 2020 8:25am
- Sacha
  
  This school is a privately owned/funded business, created by wealthy parents who have a son with special needs – and they can afford to establish it. BUT they are no doubt discovering that it is an expensive project, while being into doubt that it is a worthy project. (9 teachers for 43 children!)
  The stuff article cited the founder’s desire to provide ‘free’ places for less well-off but deserving children as a reason for applying for the grant.
  The Shaw boy was played.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:05am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    I imagine you are right that Shaw was played, though the Greens have a dichotomy over principle. Some (like Shaw) see the Greens as autonomous from state control, free and independent thinkers and all that. Others (like Bradford) see the state as the source of all succour.
    
    I don’t actually know the rules of shovel ready projects, though presumably they have to have some public purpose.
    
    I was simply pointing out that a private school receiving funds does not automatically scream corruption. There should be at least some pertinent fact to show that, otherwise it is just used as a term of abuse.
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:22am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Perhaps remaining silent might have been a wiser course then Wayne?
      
      Of course private schools should exist, and if there is funding support for capital works, I would support them applying. I believe they perform a valuable role.
      
      I also support charter schools, school choice and vouchers incidentally. The current education system demonstrably fails many kids.
      
      However, the issues are:
      1. The greens ahem “principles” – they oppose private schools, and charter schools, and school choice. So why would they demand funding for a private school?
      2. This particular school. Very new, no track record, virtually no students, and a very, very big grant.
      
      I learned that from just reading the media – you had the same access to media that I did. Why did you feel the need to leap in and defend this decision?
      
      The best answer is that it complied with the rules but was unwise (will be fun to see the official advice under the OIA to see if it did).
      
      The worst is that there was a target to spend money in the ‘Naki to try and offset the devastation of the oil and gas ban, and it didnt really matter what it was for, as long as it was spent (remarkably plausible for this incompetent government).
      
      Somewhere in the middle is the Greens seeing an opportunity for some nepotism, took full advantage of it.
      
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      August 30, 2020 11:08am
All_on_Red

There was some discussion the other day on whether there is a ‘shy Tory’ effect occurring in US Polling.
Turns out there is.
Here’s a Research Paper/Survey on it.
‘11.7% of Republicans say they would not report their true opinions about their preferred presidential candidate on telephone polls.
In contrast, just 5.4% of Democrats say they’d be reluctant to share their true voting intentions — roughly half the number of Republicans reluctant to tell the truth on phone polls.
10.5% of Independents fell into the “shy voter” category, just a percentage point lower than how Republicans react to phone polls. ‘

Bet there’s a lot of Trump supporters hiding among Independents too.
https://www.cloudresearch.com/resources/blog/election-2020-poll-respondent-honesty/
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August 30, 2020 8:26am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The shy affect I believe is also here. With bullies in charge who needs to know before we vote.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:43am
  - Brian McDonald
    
    They’re only bullies if you let them bully you.
    
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    August 30, 2020 8:50am
    - All_on_Red
      
      $300 Fine for your Wrongthink
      
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      August 30, 2020 8:55am
    - lifesgood
      
      What about the morons mounting a campaign against Mike Hosking because he doesn’t kiss Jacinda’s feet. They are talking about boycotting Land Rover because it advertises on his show. That has to be the laugh of the day. As if any lefties could afford a Land Rover.
      
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      August 30, 2020 9:25am
      - softail 1450
        
        Lifegood ,the lefties are more likely to be out back of the dealership washing the Landrovers for $17.00 an hour.
        
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        August 30, 2020 9:50am
      - lifesgood
        
        Lol.. they’re even boycotting an undertaker! I knew it…they think they are bloody immortal
        
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        August 30, 2020 10:01am
    - wimpston peeeders
      
      seen what happens if you dont let them bully you?
      
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      August 30, 2020 10:34am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      The bullies come with built-in genes for the purpose. It’s their way or no other.
      
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      August 30, 2020 12:24pm
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT7CrEoqoSU
  
  This touches on the “shy Trump voter” phenomenon near the end, but the whole 50-odd minute clip is a very good watch. China, Trump, and BLM mostly.
  
  Renowned scholar Dr Victor Davis Hanson knows ancient (and more recent) history inside and out, so is always an astute commentator on contemporary events and trends. The parallels he draws between the historical degeneration of Republics/Democracies and our current milieu, and his analysis of today’s French Revolution-esque climate are striking and accurate, imo. Have a watch, highly recommended.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:53am
  - Sigmund Freud
    
    Thanks for the link Mahatma.
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:30am
- IC5000
  
  It will be interesting to see if this has a demonstrable effect in the battleground states then the polls close. Last election the Trump campaign had some real success with its voter suppression strategy however with the BLM protests those democrat supporters and minority voters who couldn’t be bothered to vote might be mobilised on Election Day.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:13am
  - All_on_Red
    
    ???
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:03am
    - IC5000
      
      Exactly. Shows how scared Trump is at losing.
      
      Voters know what Trump is like now whereas before he was a largely unknown quantity. If Trump is spending valuable campaign funds buying airtime in red states like Arizona I wonder what his internal polling really says.
      
      It’s actually amusing to see people like AOR arguing from an emotional not an objective perspective. I can fully accept the idea that Trump could win and would put money on him if I thought he would but unlike the majority of Trumpist KBers I won’t suffer an existential crisis and start manufacturing conspiracies to salve my wounded soul if he lost.
      
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      August 30, 2020 10:53am
      - All_on_Red
        
        I’d observe I put up links to back up what I say far more often than you.
        The crap you dribble is astonishing.
        The fact you voted for Winston confirms you’re a clown.
        Lol
        
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        August 30, 2020 11:21am
      - IC5000
        
        Whoa battle of links.
        
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        August 30, 2020 11:53am
  - Ed Snack
    
    They’ll mobilise if the Democrats offer them a bit more consequence free looting as a reward. Oh, sorry, is that “well deserved reparations” instead of looting ?
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:54am
    - IC5000
      
      Better to be looted than shot dead in the street by a 17 yo Trump supporter.
      
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      August 30, 2020 1:40pm
      - wimpston peeeders
        
        the ones shot dead were doing the looting…
        
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        August 30, 2020 2:51pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Link your evidence he is a Trump supporter please.
        
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        August 30, 2020 3:40pm
      - IC5000
        
        https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/kenosha-suspect-kyle-rittenhouse-trump-rally
        
        Next.
        
        Lucky they don’t have the death penalty in Wisconsin.
        
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        August 30, 2020 7:30pm
fernglas

Why the sudden rush to test all and sundry in West and South Auckland? Routine, or is there something we aren’t yet being told about?
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August 30, 2020 8:28am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  now theyve worked out where the pooze goes theis sewage testing is likely sounding the alarm bells.
  No one has the balls to ask the podium of truth what the sewage tests say.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:07am
  - The Housekeeper
    
    Considering the fanfare that greeted the sewage testing, they have gone very quiet since early July despite getting underway in April. You gotta wonder if they knew it was in the community and that’s why Bloomfield started the “it’s not if but when” narrative.
    
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    August 30, 2020 1:18pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Looks like the Government is trying to pull back from telling us how sewage testing is a key to locating the virus.
      
      Now that the Nats have been asking some detailed questions about the positive result dates and locations of the tests, the spin-brigade has leapt into action:
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/122562424/coronavirus-auckland-covid19-outbreak-hit-too-early-for-sewage-warning-system-to-catch-it
      
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      August 30, 2020 2:43pm
- LTA1955
  
  Marxist playbook in action, divide and rule, those horrible Westies and South Aucks have the Chinese lung rot…next it will be Auckland suburbs in lockdown…COVID’s a scam
  https://ysb.co.nz/no-more-bullshit-protests-have-started/
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:25am
- alex Masterley
  
  My oldest attends MAGs.
  He has been tested twice, most recently last thursday. Negative both times.
  For the first time I am relieved he failed a couple of tests.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:15am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Sorry about the downtick Alex, fat fingers on an iPad.
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:55am
    - sooty
      
      Just before this latest lockdown they came out with wash your hands and wear your mask!
      So to tell half of Aucland to get tested, means something is up and she hopes to get the election over first!
      
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      August 30, 2020 2:02pm
- Nickc2
  
  I guess we will have to wait until 1:PM and see what political advantage Cindy has come up with.
  
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  August 30, 2020 12:11pm
tf78

Why aren’t our medics, front line staff and newly diagnosed people given the opportunity to use Hydroxychloroquine/Antibots/Zinc cocktail, mounting overseas evidence (besides Trump) are recommending it’s use as a treatment. If you can take it before day five of symptoms it allays the virus. Really good review on Outsider’s Encore on Friday night. (Probably on again this morning).

I wonder if Jacinda and co are taking it?!

Were there any new cases arising from Labour’s Launch?
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August 30, 2020 8:28am
- Jules99
  
  Pharmac has banned doctors from prescribing it for use with Covid.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:14am
  - sooty
    
    So if you don’t have covid, your good to go?
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:53am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Because politics is more important than treatment, got it. Pharmac should be charged with reckless endangerment for that sort of behaviour, and with manslaughter for contributing to the deaths of at least some of the victims.
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:57am
- SB2
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  tf78,
  
  9 Covid myths Myth 5,
  
  Myth 5: Hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment.
  
  When a small, now widely criticized study in France suggested the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine might be effective at treating the disease, Trump and others seized on it and have continued to tout the medication despite growing evidence that it does not benefit COVID-19 patients. In a tweet, Trump called the hydroxychloroquine treatment “one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine,” and he has mentioned it repeatedly in his public coronavirus briefings. The Food and Drug Administration initially issued an emergency use authorization for the drug, but the agency later warned against its use because of the risk of heart problems and ultimately revoked its authorization. Several studies have shown that hydroxychloroquine does not protect against COVID-19 in those who are exposed. And in June the National Institutes of Health halted its clinical trial of the medication, stating that while it was not harmful to patients, it did not provide any benefit. Yet Trump continues to hype the drug. Just a few weeks ago, he retweeted a video—viewed tens of millions of times before social media companies took it down—featuring Stella Immanuel, a Houston, Tex.–based physician (who has made questionable assertions in the past, including that doctors had used alien DNA in treatments and that demons cause certain medical conditions by having sex with people in their dreams) claiming hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for COVID-19.
  
  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nine-covid-19-myths-that-just-wont-go-away/
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:32am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Scientific American long ago gave up the pretence of being scientific. Try reading up the Ford Foundation trial, over 25,000 patients in a double blind trial and the result was that HCQ reduced the need for hospitalisation by over 50%. And there are at least 3 subsequent trial results with similar findings. HCQ, applied early, is effective at reducing viral load and symptoms.
    
    It’s not a cure, but applied early it can help reduce the severity of symptoms and improves outcomes. It can’t be given to everyone as there are disqualifying conditions (Eg heart arrhythmias) and it doesn’t provide the same benefits if the patient already has severe symptoms.
    
    To ignore this is a gross dereliction medical ethics, it is placing political correctness above the health and well being of people.
    
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    August 30, 2020 11:02am
    - SB2
      
      Scientific American long ago …??
      
      Since when?
      
      Shall we let Nature have the final say. Just because Trump says so obviously does not make it so,
      
      “Emerging preclinical evidence does not support broad use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients”
      
      There is an urgent need for drugs, therapies and vaccines to be available to protect the human population against COVID-19. One of the first approaches taken in the COVID-19 global response was to consider repurposing licensed drugs. This commentary highlights an extraordinary international collaborative effort of independent researchers who have recently all come to the same conclusion—that chloroquine or hydroxchloroquine are unlikely to provide clinical benefit against COVID-19.
      
      https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17907-w
      
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      August 30, 2020 12:20pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Scientific American has been under the control of the German publishing Company – Holtzbrink- since 1986.
        
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        August 30, 2020 2:47pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        Let me get this right: An extraordinary international collaborative effort of independent researchers has concluded that [..] is unlikely to […]. Weasel word alert.
        
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        August 30, 2020 3:14pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    When Scientific American is your source you need real science education (if able.)
    
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    August 30, 2020 12:28pm
  - Critical Thinker
    
    Here’s the facts regarding Hydroxychloroquine studies:
    https://c19study.com/
    
    “There’s been a massive disinformation campaign that stretches from government to the media that’s either suppressing this message, or it is countering it with a false message, and I’m not an expert in the reasons why that’s happening other than just observing it, but I am an expert in the science and I can tell you the science is all one sided. In fact, the science is so one sided in supporting this result that it’s stronger than anything else I’ve ever studied in my entire career. The evidence in favor of hydroxychloroquine benefit in high risk patients treated early as outpatients is stronger than anything else I’ve ever studied.
    I conclude the evidence is overwhelming. There’s no question that the people who need to be treated and are treated early, it has a very substantial benefit in reducing risk of hospitalization or mortality.” – Dr. Harvey Risch – Professor of Epidemiology with of over 300 peer-reviewed publications.
    
    https://techstartups.com/2020/08/24/renowned-epidemiologist-yale-professor-dr-harvey-risch-says-dr-fauci-fda-caused-deaths-hundreds-thousands-americans-saved-hyd/
    
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    August 30, 2020 1:47pm
- Ruawai
  
  That would be gold if Labour’s own launch turned into a new cluster.
  
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  August 30, 2020 11:19am
kowtow

Anyone else get the feeling that the Media Pardy’s priority reporting on the recent death of a black American actor is part of their insistence of taking a leading part in the woke wave.
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August 30, 2020 8:30am
Jack5

A man who made the most of his prison time tells why prisons are necessary, though you’ll never convince the idiots who want to abolish jails.

A great 30-minute Kim Hill interview with Greg Newbold yesterday is well worth listening to (link below).

Experiencing alcohol’s destruction of his mother, Greg argues booze is worse than marijuana. He warns from experience though, of the danger of heroin, and of methamphetamine.

Greg’s been a sane, informed, public voice on prisons and punishment. He knows the system from the inside: he turned his life around when he served a term for selling heroin.

Greg’s done the country a service with his work on prisons, and with his sound media commentary for years – giving the inside story as it were. He’s been reporters’ go-to man for commentary on prisons, and the country’s been fortunate for that.

Greg’s headed to retirement in the sunnier Bay of Plenty. His sane views on justice and prisons will be missed. We hope you enjoy the fishing and the sun, Greg.

Thank you, Kim Hill, for the interview:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018761703
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August 30, 2020 8:34am
- Swifty
  
  Bloody good interview – wish it was longer.
  
  Cheers Jack5.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:15am
JibberJabber

AOCs deleted tweet,
https://twitter.com/LisaMic75251596/status/1299605302933778432

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1298888840216580098
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August 30, 2020 8:34am
artemisia

About that housing shortage. Good high level analysis by Tony Alexander today.

Low interest rates. Population growth through net migration, though with a temporary dip. Construction slowing, maybe a lot. Banks tightening up on lending with increased scrutiny of applicant finances.

Join the dots. Might come up with increased shortages, construction sector lay offs, house prices and rents rising, more social housing costs paid by the shrinking number of net taxpayers.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/300092993/heres-why-we-are-facing-a-third-big-shift-up-in-house-prices
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August 30, 2020 8:39am
- Colville
  
  Tony is reasonably sane IMHO but even here he dosent address the supply issue.
  Right now land supply is tight and its getting tighter.
  Covid has put a squeeze on lending with developers coming under the spotlight even more as its hard to predict what is a year ahead at the mo’ .
  If the sections arent being opened up then the house market will choke and Labour sure aint gonna reform the RMA to help out.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:53am
JibberJabber

Probably time for another poll telling everyone how bad Trump is polling and that “decent” Joe Biden is gonna sweep to victory.
Tho’ the Dems slowly seem to be waking up to the fact that their domestic terrorism strategy is having the reverse effect on thinking voters and even elected Democrat officials.
https://conservative-team.blogspot.com/2020/08/six-minnesota-democrat-mayors-revolt.html#.X0q2A76-xJ0.twitter

https://twitter.com/Mithrandir1313/status/1298901695821312000
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August 30, 2020 8:43am
- Ed Snack
  
  Michael Moore is also starting to panic, and he got it right last time…
  
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  August 30, 2020 11:03am
wimpston peeeders

might be a chocolate fish payback here as I know a couple of kb users had bets on this dude goin back to jail. turns out its bogus charges trumped up by our corrupt police force. how did it take so long to confirm its a toy replica paperweight? The bullet was plastic and glued in ffs.
you may not like the guy, I personally think hes a douche but what I dislike more is abuse of power and the law.
to continually try to MAKE someone a criminal or appear to be doing criminal things is undermining the system and the guys chances of actualy becoming a reformed citizen

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300092580/arthur-taylors-advocate-pleads-for-ministers-intervention-after-claims-over-toy-gun
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August 30, 2020 8:53am
- KH
  
  Arthur Taylor is a blot on the landscape. Doesn’t produce a thing. Just a leech on everything he touches.
  But he’s breathing, so it’s not too late for him to grow up.
  
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  August 30, 2020 1:55pm
Happychappy

How will the Lockdown decision go today as this will be all about Jacinda and how she can manipulate the vote at the upcoming Election and if she does what has previously happened it will be a vote for safety.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12360599
Can she afford skiers heading to Queenstown in there droves with the figures that are happening daily at the moment or does she send many businesses that are saying they cannot afford the lockdown for another period as they will not survive.
This will be about Jacinda and whether she will survive as she has shown not about who survives.
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August 30, 2020 9:02am
- Prince
  
  Huge decisions for Ardern today.
  The very long gold earrings, or the shorter, very sparkly fake diamonds for distraction.
  Hair back, all-business, severe, or falling over shoulders, empathetic, better for sad, mopey face.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:36am
  - sooty
    
    Hair down, remote control in!
    
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    August 30, 2020 9:55am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I won’t be tuning in. It always gives me a sad mopey face. ?
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:06am
  - kowtow
    
    Fake diamonds are good as they not sourced from African exploitation.
    
    Probably made in India or Pakistan by child labour or in Chinese gulag . Still good though.
    
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    August 30, 2020 11:45am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  youll know in the 1st 2 seconds she appears what the decision will be.
  face like a slapped arse = lost votes/election and prolonged lockdown or maybe lvl 2 with extra restrictions (rebranded lvl 3 in other words)
  
  If shes got a grin like a piano or mr ed then shes the saviour of nz and auckland goes to lvl 2 even tho she knows full well “she aint got this” and its inevitable covid will spread beyond its current confines.
  
  the above will save you getting tortured with 8-12mins of waffle, spin and empty slogans.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:54am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Then the sheeple of Jaffa will celebrate and thank Jacinda as if she has liberated them from a prisoner of war camps. Still 49% of small businesses think Cindy is a better manager of economy. So time for them to crash and burn.
    
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    August 30, 2020 11:19am
  - Prince
    
    Hipkins has saved us all the bother. Moving to level 2 reported by RNZ.
    Todays figures must look better. Happy circumstance or careful management, you be the judge.
    
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    August 30, 2020 11:29am
    - wimpston peeeders
      
      well their aint been very much “carefull management” going on so must be feelz hugz and lil dances then
      
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      August 30, 2020 12:05pm
Waipuk

Should this be counted as a political broadcast

“ crafting a simple red mask, the colour of her Labour Party.”

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/08/coronavirus-jacinda-ardern-shows-how-to-make-a-mask-at-home.html
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August 30, 2020 9:41am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  I thought that too when I seen it yesterday.
  
  just wondering how it would go down in mongrel mob turf if labour goons start covering up with red bandanas
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:55am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Probably doesn’t breach the rules. But it is dumb. Why does the media report on such rubbish, and why does the PM enable them?
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:58am
- alex Masterley
  
  where are the lips and teeth? I thought the PM was trying to channel the Rolling Stones.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:11am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  My wife made 14 masks and she can’t even get a mention in the local free rag.
  But they are NOT red.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:14am
  - SB2
    
    Not red? Why not?
    
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    August 30, 2020 10:25am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Because she’s not a deluded Labourite, you idiot.
      
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      August 30, 2020 11:00am
      - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
        
        Is she not a member of the team of 5 million? Aunty Cindy will be disappointed Captain….
        
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        August 30, 2020 11:15am
- Observer of Life
  
  OMFG .. seriously if that is not a party political broadcast I don’t know what is. It is actually cringeworthy and confirms that she needs to quit politics and retrain as a ECE teacher. ?
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:29am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Watched enthusiastically by aunt Maggie across the street with a huge grin on her face – “isn’t she lovely? She saves lives”. Go figure.
  
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  August 30, 2020 11:16am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Who will save the Reserve Bank?
    
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    August 30, 2020 12:31pm
Bobba Fret

When reporters asked about face masks around a month ago, the answer from Ashley was always washing hands is better and more important and face masks not really necessary.
Now face masks compulsory on public transport and advised when leaving the house in Auckland.
What a difference a few weeks makes!
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August 30, 2020 10:03am
- Ed Snack
  
  Even though masks really don’t work, to insist that they should be worn outside is laughable. There’s essentially zero known cases of COVID transmission outdoors, though participation in riots might change that result a little.
  
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  August 30, 2020 11:06am
  - Nickc2
    
    I guess the moral of the story is don’t go to church and don’t go to weddings. Der ya go, no need for dem masks eh bro he he!
    
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    August 30, 2020 12:50pm
- kowtow
  
  He’s but an actor in the theatre of fear and the director has changed the script…….
  
  All the world’s a stage and all that.
  
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  August 30, 2020 11:47am
Benedict Yu

https://i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/122548528/ngi-tahu-orders-removal-of-historic-lakeside-baches-near-christchurch

The Iwi is entitled to do this. It is their land. But they are causing severe hardship to the occupants of some of these properties for no other reason than conflict with Iwi values and “climate change”.

Now imagine the media reaction if a white land owner in South Auckland decided to demolish the homes of 32 Maori tenants and told the media that the houses of the Maori tenants “conflicted with his values”. That’s right all hell would descend. The government would be pressured into buying the property.

I emphasise that the Iwi should be able to do this. I respect property rights. But that respect is not afforded by Maori. It is blatantly one sided.
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August 30, 2020 10:04am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  I bet ngai tahus dairy farms pollute waterways and contribute to the climate change theyre so worried about.
  
  if the owners were to walk off tomorow and refuse to clear the buildings id bet my left nut hemi and mere etc will be moving in next week.
  This isnt about climate change its about weilding a bit of power.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:40am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Some of them will walk away and refuse to clear the buildings.
    
    It would be interesting to see what would happen if the owners of the baches just clubbed together and decided to ignore to leave. In that case I think the Iwi would double down and use the courts and the police to forcibly remove the occupiers. They would then demolish the buildings and use the courts to recover costs to the extent possible.
    
    Of course they are entitled to do that. But as we saw in that disgraceful episode with the Fletchers housing development in Auckland, respect for property rights is all one sided.
    
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    August 30, 2020 11:19am
    - wimpston peeeders
      
      would be rather ironic to have an occupation on maori land.
      hell id go for a laugh, ill bring in tow a large trailer of pallets to build a few shacks and outbuildings like the ihumato mob have done.
      
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      August 30, 2020 12:09pm
- KH
  
  Cultural genocide by Ngai Tahu at Lake Ellesmere. . There is a huge local history and way of life there. To be destroyed.
  
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  August 30, 2020 2:01pm
Bobba Fret

So what was briefly mentioned on the news that Aucklanders have been flying out of Auckland all around the country without exemptions under our level 3 lock down and no one was checking them?
Whereas, you try driving out of Auckland and you are stopped at the Bombays?
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August 30, 2020 10:29am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  could you take a bus or train out of auckland?
  
  Its a plan developed by muppets writing in crayon so dont expect any consistency.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:41am
- Prince
  
  The empress has no clothes, but don’t tell her fanboys on TV One. Must keep the pretence of order among her loyal subjects.
  
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  August 30, 2020 10:51am
Observer of Life

Ben Yu: I’m envisaging a lot of bonfires occurring between now and 2024.
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August 30, 2020 10:36am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  Id stop paying rates and lease too, council can confiscate and sell to recoup costs so dont think thatll work now.
  
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  August 30, 2020 12:11pm
- gorse
  
  Go to daegel.com. If their forecasts of countries populations are anywhere near correct, there will be more than bonfires to worry about. They say our population will be 3.5 million 2025. This might get scary.
  
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  August 30, 2020 5:20pm
Fletch

Official report released by the Kenosha police. The media was confusing the details. Even I didn’t know whether Jacob Blake had a knife in his hand when confronting officers. Apparently he definitely DID.

Here’s a link to the official report.

Here are the actual and undisputed facts:
• The officers were dispatched to the location due to a complaint that Mr. Blake was
attempting to steal the caller’s keys/vehicle.
• Officers were aware of Mr. Blake’s open warrant for felony sexual assault (3rd degree) before they arrived on scene.
• Mr. Blake was not breaking up a fight between two females when officers arrived on scene.
• The silver SUV seen in the widely circulated video was not Mr. Blake’s vehicle.
• Mr. Blake was not unarmed. He was armed with a knife. The officers did not see the knife initially. The officers first saw him holding the knife while they were on the passenger side of the vehicle. The “main” video circulating on the internet shows Mr. Blake with the knife in his left hand when he rounds the front of the car. The officers issued repeated commands for Mr. Blake to drop the knife. He did not comply.
• The officers initially tried to speak with Mr. Blake, but he was uncooperative.
• The officers then began issuing verbal commands to Mr. Blake, but he was non-complaint.
• The officers next went “hands-on” with Mr. Blake, so as to gain compliance and control.
• Mr. Blake actively resisted the officers’ attempt to gain compliance.
• The officers then disengaged and drew their tasers, issuing commands to Mr. Blake that he would be tased if he did not comply.
• Based on his non-compliance, one officer tased Mr. Blake. The taser did not incapacitate Mr. Blake.
• The officers once more went “hands-on” with Mr. Blake; again, trying to gain control of the escalating situation.
• Mr. Blake forcefully fought with the officers, including putting one of the officers in a headlock.
• A second taser (from a different officer than had deployed the initial taser) was then deployed on Mr. Blake. It did not appear to have any impact on him.
• Based on the inability to gain compliance and control after using verbal, physical and less lethal means, the officers drew their firearms.
• Mr. Blake continued to ignore the officers’ commands, even with the threat of lethal force now present.

https://www.wispolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Kenosha-Police-Association-Releases-Vital-Details-on-Jacob-Blake-Shooting-August-28-2020-PS.pdf

It seems like they did everything right, to me, although a case can be made that they fired an awful lot of rounds.
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August 30, 2020 10:39am
- Ed Snack
  
  Once they start firing, I think that the doctrine is that you continue until the target ceases to be able to respond. Heavily drugged people can still function with extremely serious wounds and be a danger.
  
  That does seem a bit callous and almost designed to kill, but it has been based on experiences. But seven shots to the back and the victim is not dead though he may be partially paralysed ?
  
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  August 30, 2020 11:12am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  sounds like hard drugs were an agrivating factor in the situation.
  
  this guy pretty much done everything possible except ask to get shot. imo hes lucky the officer didnt aim a bit higher.
  
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  August 30, 2020 12:16pm
Critical Thinker

Many of Melbournes Covid deaths are not actually Covid deaths at all. This is what has been going on around the world.

https://youtu.be/16nsDNz-Chk?t=4

And in the US
https://youtu.be/AoiQ9bpJsGA?t=9
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August 30, 2020 11:10am
- SB2
  
  From your first Victory Entertainment link the Auckalnd Covid is a scam, 5 G radiation , anti vaccine etc march!
  
  https://www.facebook.com/events/aotea-square/nz-lockdown-protest/763824494382460/
  
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  August 30, 2020 12:28pm
- WaynelSexton
  
  Covid is just a bed time story for the kids to explain away the coming economic collapse.
  People will want an excuse next year to why the stock market has crashed, their savings are gone and their houses are now worth nothing.
  They don’t want to hear the truth, that they were tricked into a debt ponzi scheme.
  You thought 2020 was bad, 2021 will be the year of global deflation.
  
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  August 30, 2020 2:42pm
JibberJabber

https://twitter.com/Will_of_Ockham/status/1298325946769055745

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August 30, 2020 11:14am
Wired-one

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12360653

So this was never a medical decision, obviously a lot of political blow back occurring currently. What a joke.
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August 30, 2020 11:19am
Ruawai

Interesting to see the spend on motors for the homeless in Rotorua was $5m for 3 months and the spend in all areas has gone up significantly in the last quarter. You could build a lot of houses for that money and seems a coincidence this is happening coming up to an election!
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August 30, 2020 11:26am
- Rich Prick
  
  What did Rotorua do you deserve Auckland’s homeless? You should see the motel mile now, supermarket trollies discarded everywhere, property crime and mental health cases wandering about the place. Our very own Tenderloin.
  
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  August 30, 2020 12:53pm
- Ruawai
  
  Whoops meant to be motels.
  
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  August 30, 2020 9:19pm
Maggie Pie

Smokers 🙁 🙁
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August 30, 2020 11:27am
Benedict Yu

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300094975/coronavirus-everyone-in-south-or-west-auckland-urged-to-take-covid19-test

This is the future. Play whack a mole until the country runs out of money or there is an effective vaccine.
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August 30, 2020 11:30am
- kowtow
  
  ‘until the country runs out of money’
  
  When one has to borrow money ,I’d say one has already run out of money . All gone . Just a question of how much more can be borrowed / created and what are the long term consequences.
  
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  August 30, 2020 11:53am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “Everyone to be tested”
  “Many commenters were concerned the request would flood the testing stations, with more than 500,000 people living in the two areas.”
  But for the inconvenient truth.
  To quote Hipkins….we have large enough stockpiles of the test….300 000.
  OOPs from the idiot boy, in charge of health.
  
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  August 30, 2020 12:25pm
  - fernglas
    
    I think I just heard the PM say that this was all a(nother) dreadful mistake.
    Confusing and scaring the shit out of half a million people by mistake? Fucking useless.
    
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    August 30, 2020 1:26pm
    - Tall Man
      
      There’s only been one real “mistake” and that was by the voters for “what’s in it for wynston”.
      
      Who in their right mind expected that man to “keep National honest”.
      
      The biggest political crook in the country can’t even complete a simple form let alone keep anything honest. As the little mouthy one says, “Shame on you!”
      
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      August 30, 2020 2:14pm
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      ANOTHER fuck up.
      
      Poor Cindy, she just cannot get good help!
      
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      August 30, 2020 4:47pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    3 and 5. Zeros have no value, so there is no extra cost. It is 5 tests when you only have 3 available.
    Why is that so fucking hard to understand????????
    
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    August 30, 2020 5:09pm
I remember when

Surely we must by now be able to assess the most dangerous areas for risk of getting covid-19?
Surely the MOH can produce a short list of the most dangerous activities.
Is it dangerous for people be allowed to be outdoors in numbers, and if so, in what situations?
Give us a list of the pros and cons of masks, so that an educated course of action is followed.
Restrict Levels to the areas that need them.
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August 30, 2020 12:01pm
Maggie Pie

Random Impertinent Question for a Sunday…

“Since when does nailing a corflute sign, with the words ‘Evangelical Church’ to the front of a shed in Stoddard Road Mt Roskill, make it a House of God?”

Asking for a friend.
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August 30, 2020 12:25pm
- fernglas
  
  Some dude called Matthew said
  “For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
  Nothing about whether a shed qualifies, but I guess we can infer that it does.
  
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  August 30, 2020 1:21pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Well, I hope Matty realises he’ll need to be tested for Covid-19.
    
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    August 30, 2020 2:08pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yeah, I think he’s aware of that:
      
      For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
      – Matthew 24:7
      
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      August 30, 2020 4:17pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        And that’s the thing Maggs.
        It’s not whether a ‘shed’ qualifies or not. That’s just being silly!
        Pride of place in our Vestibule, is a beautiful French marble bust of The Virgin Mary. Doesn’t make me one.
        
        Just saying.
        
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        August 30, 2020 4:35pm
wimpston peeeders

the internal polling must be terrible if chippies alowed to be aucklands saviour and do an early release of the decision to “plough ahead to lvl 2”

Robo yesterday chippie today, I think cindys trying to disassociate her image with covid and lockdowns now.
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August 30, 2020 12:34pm
- Tall Man
  
  So the election is no longer a “covid election” it’s now all about “me me me me ardern”….
  
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  August 30, 2020 2:11pm
  - wimpston peeeders
    
    se got her covid election and it backfired when winston forced a delay. now its panic stations, expect desperate poorly thought out policy released in the comming weeks.
    
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    August 30, 2020 7:56pm
KevO'Brien

When devout Bible believing worshippers bring the Holy Spirit there among them.
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August 30, 2020 12:36pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Appears that’s not all the brought, Kev 🙁
  
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  August 30, 2020 1:35pm
- Swifty
  
  Like this guy?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPUMmaBUY8
  
  What a joke.
  
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  August 30, 2020 5:08pm
Jack5

Third World here we come …

If commentator-economist Tony Alexander is right, New Zealanders can expect a continuing dive in our GDP per capita as population soars. That is, a fall relative to the GDP per capita of other developed countries. NZ is already behind Britain, and well behind Australia.

This is from Alexander’s Stuff commentary forecasting demand for housing will stay strong. He notes that average rate of population growth for each year leading into 1990 was 0.7 per cent, rising to 1.1 per cent each year to 2000, 1.2 per cent each year to 2010, and 1.5 per cent p.a. the past ten years on average.

“This past year growth was 2.1 per cent, courtesy of a record net migration gain of almost 80,000 people,” Alexander says, then adds:

Population growth will slow tremendously in the coming year, then recover when the borders eventually reopen.

It seems reasonable in the circumstances to expect that after some ups and downs when the borders open, the net migration gain will settle back at the recent high level of the past decade, and that firm population growth will keep housing demand growing strongly.
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August 30, 2020 12:37pm
Fletch

Hipkins saying the govt will plough ahead with Auckland going down to Level 2 tonight, but it will be more like Level 2.5.

He said Alert Level 2 would be more like level 2.5, with mandatory masks on public transport and limits on social gatherings

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/health-minister-confirms-auckland-plough-ahead-move-alert-level-2-tonight
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August 30, 2020 12:56pm
- Max
  
  Cunning Labour, Inflicting restrictions on gatherings makes it more difficult for all other political parties to effectively campaign for the election. We should be still at level 1 with a government that is in control not this ‘Fawlty Towers’ government.
  
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  August 30, 2020 2:14pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Can I go to Avondale races on Wednesday? Our Ocean Park filly (race 6 #6) is named after the prime minister.
  
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  August 30, 2020 5:09pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I would jolly well hope so…
    otherwise were is the $52.5 Million Racing industry Recovery Monies going?
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/416417/government-reveals-72-point-5m-racing-industry-budget-package
    
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    August 30, 2020 6:54pm
I remember when

What a fiendishly clever plot it has been.
By simply raising the Rest of New Zealand to Level 2, and needlessly punishing the other 3.5 million for two weeks, we can now allow Aucklanders to travel anywhere without a checkpoint.
Now if any cases spread outside Auckland, because of this action, we are able to instantly raise that region to Level 3.
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August 30, 2020 1:22pm
- Tall Man
  
  So basically an acknowledgement that the whole covid lock down is little more than a con. Explains why the Health Minister felt safe taking his family to the beach.
  
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  August 30, 2020 2:09pm
RW Capitalist

Did our PM just threaten us….again.
If we don’t follow her guidelines, they will change the law (and arrest us for not following them)?
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August 30, 2020 1:22pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yes, but child psychology only works on children – and morons
  
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  August 30, 2020 3:01pm
- gorse
  
  Got to win the election to do that. I am not confident they will. The tide is on the turn, it’s just how much. Going to be closer than most people think, I predict. Got to be careful, don’t want to launch Sir Cullen’s Sidekick again though.
  
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  August 30, 2020 5:08pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  We need to consider arrest for her ineptitude. She and her Ministers are well out of the ability range to be in Government. I doubt if they could make a go of tea rooms.
  
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  August 30, 2020 5:57pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You should definitely consider a rest…
    
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    August 30, 2020 6:39pm
MJHNZ

Can someone please start manufacturing a MAGA face mask – Make Ardern Go Away.

This is the only face mask I’m prepared to wear.
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August 30, 2020 1:33pm
- Tall Man
  
  Or …. “Two Ticks Blue” …..
  
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  August 30, 2020 2:07pm
Allan

Would definitely recommend that people listen to Leighton Smith’s latest podcast. He interviews Professor Thomas Borody re a cure, not a vaccine for Covid. This link refers to what he talks about
.https://www.biospectrumasia.com/new…

I found it very informative and interesting.
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August 30, 2020 1:56pm
Greg Ettridge

Peter Dutton seems comfortable with a deal on Tarrant, thinks happy to take Tarrant and step up export of crims in return. Last week was huge, over 200 of these, just 30 to NZ. He did talk about the option of Tarrant serves out sentence in Australia, all Kiwi’s serving a prison sentence in Aus, finish it in NZ.
Jacinda would see the tailend of Tarrant but may hoist a heap of crims long before they would be deported.
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August 30, 2020 1:59pm
- Flossie
  
  And maybe that would let Tarrant have a laugh….laws changed because of him.
  Just let him rot in a NZ jail and we suck up the cost as having dozens of expat Kiwis sent from Oz to do their time here would be just as expensive moneywise, and potentially cause a whole raft of social problems too.
  
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  August 30, 2020 3:49pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Yup a sweet deal. We give them one crim, and every kiwi criminal serving time in Australia gets to come home.
  
  A winning strategy from Dear Leader (again)
  
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  August 30, 2020 4:48pm
niggly

Looks like the Prime Imposter is starting to throw health officials under the bus!

NZH: “Covid 19 coronavirus: ‘Incredibly angry’: PM Jacinda Ardern fumes over ‘wrong’ Government message about tests for south, west Aucklanders”

Hang on! Didn’t the health officials say a few days ago that they want to ramp up testing to 10,000 a day? And isn’t it prudent to test for asymptomatic cases etc?

Seeing we know that everything Ardern says is scripted, how come the “strong language” like “incredibly angry” and “wrong” and “badly” (in the article)?

So is she throwing Health Officials under the bus to pacify say the likes of the Maori/Pasifika community (and her own MP’s) unhappy with the health officials targeting important resources to test vulnerable and potentially high risk areas?

If so, but what if the virus takes hold and spreads? How will she explain she stopped her own Health Officials from trying to deal with the problem “hard and fast”, instead kicking it down the road to become a “problem for another day”?

Is this “good leadership” or simply more CoL incompetence (and self-preservation politicking)?
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August 30, 2020 2:13pm
dcrane

PMs press conference didn’t answer the most important question: Why are they moving Auckland down from Level 3 and allowing much more social contact, when the number of cases per day has not much declined for nearly 3 weeks? Ardern kept appealing to the general design of the covid level system, but she (or the Health Minister) should have been pressed on the specific evidence behind her decision.
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August 30, 2020 2:18pm
- pdm
  
  dcrane – simple answer is that there is an election to win.
  
  She won’t win it with `the jaffas’ in lock down.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:31pm
greenfinger

Bravo, bravo. What a brave decision to drop Auckland down to 2.9. All those in public service better watch out. The Princess is “angry“. You’ll be called out if you even one millimeter out of step. Best for all government department to go into freeze mode. That way, you can’t be blamed for anything because nothing can go wrong.
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August 30, 2020 2:32pm
Maggie Pie

Had to larf to myself last night.
We got invited to a friends place for dinner along with a number of other people whom we hadn’t met before.
Later in the evening, i snuck out to the kitchen to see if they had any cutlery worth taking. And here’s this bloody woman, with her head up the Rangehood, smoking!

Would never get invited to our home.
Just saying.
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August 30, 2020 3:02pm
- Inandout
  
  MP, was she wearing a mask? That is OK.
  
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  August 30, 2020 6:26pm
- [email protected]
  
  That is amazing self control. The thought of someone having such consideration for others by putting their head in a range hood is laudible.
  
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  August 30, 2020 7:00pm
kowtow

Level 2.5 ?

Making it up as we keep moving .
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August 30, 2020 3:12pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  and why isn’t the rest of NZ put into Level 1.573?
  
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  August 30, 2020 6:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

If you are driving alone in your car and still wearing a mask, you don’t need to put a “Labour” sticker on your bumper … We already know
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August 30, 2020 4:00pm
Happychappy

Can we put a list down showing how many times Jacinda blames others for herself and Labours incompetence, today was the wrong information on testing which she blamed those in the Ministry of health but then didn’t remove it herself and left it there for a day without having it removed. The only thing she is good at is lying and blaming others for her and Labours incompetence.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12360705
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August 30, 2020 5:41pm
Cantabrian

Not sure if this has been posted before, but listen to Glen Beck’s observations of Trump. Key take-aways: he doesn’t care what he says – he says what he thinks; he cares about people, and about America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eosa4ChV5U
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August 30, 2020 5:49pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Countdown, at the mall in Glenfield, 2pm. I did not have a mask and was told so – by an idiot who pulled her mask down to tell me. How fucking stupid are the Jaspinda followers? AND THEY FUCKING VOTE!!!!!
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August 30, 2020 6:23pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Just put your fucking mask on before anyone has to tell you…
  
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  August 30, 2020 6:28pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Get lost mm. I will not wear one unless I’m forced to.
    
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    August 30, 2020 7:45pm
Dave Mann

ATTENTION SHEEPLE

There’s just under 5 hours to go before our wonderful and kind leader allows us Aucklanders to partially resume their lives!

Hooray boys and girls! But you must remember to be GOOD little boys and girls and not to even THINK of thinking for yourselves.

If you don’t behave, then expect supreme kindy-mummy to discipline you; and next time it could be level 4 again and straight into the naughty corner.

Remember. Be kind and just do as you’re fucking told, OK? Got it?
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August 30, 2020 7:15pm
- wimpston peeeders
  
  do we get a sticker chart for each time we wear a mask, cough into elbow or be kind? Whats the reward… a lifetime of debt/taxes?
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:04pm
Maggy Wassilieff

New Zealanders have every right to be ‘incredibly angry’ at the Government

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12360705
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August 30, 2020 8:26pm
- Tall Man
  
  Let’s be honest here Maggy, ardern is a liar.
  
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  August 30, 2020 8:43pm
- oob
  
  This article is typical Herald propaganda, deflecting criticism away from Cindy where it properly belongs.
  
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