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mikenmildagain

Happy International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists!
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November 2, 2020 8:00am
- IC5000
  
  I can this this one getting the downvotes.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:02am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  St Jacinda of the Covid will provide
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:10am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Why should fake journos escape punishment? Lies, damn lies and opinionated journalists. Note the use of “journal” imply a records of facts not speculation, or imagination.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:22am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Now, now Kevvy. This may be a difficult concept for you to grasp, but ‘crimes against journalists’ are not the same thing as lawful punishment for journalists who break laws.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:32am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      It’s breaking the unwritten laws they get punished for. Interviewing keyboards is to be deprecated.
      
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      November 2, 2020 12:37pm
- JamesP
  
  If I wanted to look good while achieving nothing I suppose getting the UN to declare it to be a “day” for something would be a good way of achieving it.
  
  Even if journalists vie with politicians and used car salesmen for trustworthiness they don’t deserve to be targeted.
  
  However, in pushing “their” issue journalists rather miss the bigger picture. There are certain places in the world where the local government can target ANYONE with impunity. But journalists will get the column inches…
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:52am
  - Brian Marshall
    
    I just can’t figure why the journalists in the west keep pushing an agenda for making the western countries just like the ones that are unsafe for journalists. It’s almost like they’re collectively thick.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:30am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  Waiting for the Day to End Crimes by Journalistas; Bias, Lying, Covering, Suffocating, Denying, Whoring. That’s the short list.
  
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  November 2, 2020 1:47pm
- softail 1450
  
  MMA ,not a problem in NZ we don’t have any of those, not real ones anyway.
  
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  November 2, 2020 2:55pm
Sigmund Freud

I wonder which hard fought-for New Zealand freedoms Jacinda and the drippy left will giggle-away today?
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November 2, 2020 8:02am
cmm

Jacinda’s cabinet: who’s up and who’s down?

Does anyone else get the feeling they’re looking at some kids at kindy playing in the dress up corner?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/jacinda-arderns-new-cabinet-whos-up-or-down-in-or-out/JEZQVE76SXT5LRQ7SMJT4JIEYE/
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November 2, 2020 8:03am
- Ruawai
  
  Yep its all shits and giggles.
  
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  November 2, 2020 8:06am
- redeye
  
  “Ardern said she wanted to balance expertise and experience with caucus talent.”
  
  That shouldn’t be hard. Almost zero expertise and experience will balance out nicely with their caucus talent.
  
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  November 2, 2020 8:19am
Lee C

The long march through the institutions seems to be picking up its pace doesn’t it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_march_through_the_institutions
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November 2, 2020 8:03am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Keep ~~Marching~~ Moving….
  
  https://news.bitcoin.com/a-look-at-the-fascist-agenda-behind-the-great-reset-and-the-wefs-reboot-propaganda/
  
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  November 2, 2020 8:11am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    It’s all on. This has been hidden: COVID? Even Prince Charles is involved. The Lab Coats are proposed to take over. I predicted 50? years ago that “The holocaust of the nerds would make the Nazi look like a Sunday School picnic.” Techs will not be denied power.
    
    This is a serious backgrounder as there is action afoot. Is James Shaw appointment part of that? These proposals for a lock down for climate change completely ignore the new sources of energy coming on stream. It’s a power grab with us in the crocodiles jaws.
    
    https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/10/13/the-great-reset-rule-by-unelected-experts-covid-climate-technocracy-has-arrived-the-danger-of-letting-lab-coats-run-the-world-special-report/
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:34am
- Scott
  
  Lee C – I’m not so sure about that? Despite having the entire mainstream media, the intelligence services, the bureaucrats, the Democrats, the universities against him, it seems more than likely that Donald Trump will win the White House! He is turning out to his rallies tens of thousands of people who see a chance to get their country back. Who don’t want to be ruled by left-wing elites who despise them. Who don’t want the long march through the institutions to succeed.
  
  I know the polls show Biden up by eight. But here is the thing. How can anyone trust a poll from CNN or the Washington post? For three years they peddled the false Trump/Russia hoax and never apologised once when it was found to be totally false. How can anyone think that they would put out a fair and objective poll on Donald Trump when they despise him so much??
  
  Scott predicts Trump by a lot.
  
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  November 2, 2020 8:22am
  - SGA
    
    To be fair, Scott, even Fox News polling has consistently suggested that Trump has work to do
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/poll-biden-trump-lead-narrows-slightly
    If I had to bet, I’d go Biden, but we will know in a couple of days.
    How close were your predictions for our election (I can’t remember)? Did you predict Labour getting a clear majority?
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:26am
    - Batman
      
      Quite so SGA, Trump can do it but he’s got a shitload of work to do
      
      Az. 2016 (Trump +4) 2020 (Biden +6)
      
      Fl. 2016 (Trump +1) 2020 (Biden +3)
      
      Penn. 2016 (trump <1) 2020 (Biden +6)
      
      Wis. 2016 (Trump <1) 2020 (Biden +11)
      
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      November 2, 2020 9:36am
      - Jimmy White
        
        Batman did you make up those polls in your head
        
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        November 2, 2020 4:44pm
    - Scott
      
      SGA – I was very unsure about the New Zealand situation. People like Mike Hosking said that if the greens don’t get in there was a possibility of a National/Act coalition? But I don’t think I made a prediction myself.
      As it was the margin of victory for labour (and the greens) was greater than people expected.
      
      But I am feeling good about Trump. So I am predicting a Trump victory. By a lot.
      
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      November 2, 2020 10:45am
      - SGA
        
        And Fox News’ polling?
        
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        November 2, 2020 11:06am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Agreed. I think Trump will keep all of the states he picked up in 2016 and add Minnesota and New Hampshire. Possibly Nevada and maybe one of the northwest states. BLM and Antifa are doing a fabulous job up that way.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:26am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I wonder if Batman could do us a favour and post his list of those predicting a Trump win on Wednesday.
      
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      November 2, 2020 9:33am
      - Batman
        
        I have been considering whether I post it on Wednesday, or later in the day once the first night is done, or after the final result is in.
        
        Perhaps I’ll post once there is a clear winner (i.e. if Biden takes Florida and Arizona/Texas/Ohio/one of the swing states it’ll be all over rover).
        
        I can foresee a huge shitfight in the courts as the GOP tries to fuck with counting processes.
        
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        November 2, 2020 9:50am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Ooo errr, a list of people? How scary.
        
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        November 2, 2020 10:46am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        The result won’t be known by Wednesday next week, most likely. They are allowing mail-in ballots to be accepted if they arrive up to 3 days after the election date.
        
        So to Saturday our time, and then they have to count them.
        
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        November 2, 2020 10:30pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        In 2016 there was none of this, and I was there for the duration. It’s even happening in Los Angeles and Orlando.
        
        https://twitter.com/redwins3_first/status/1322699901747236867
        
        Convince me a corrupt, confused, babbling old guy with a toxic running mate is going to be confirmed as #46. I’m shifting from a few extra states, to a landslide (excluding Hawaii, Vermont, DC, Delaware and a few other single digit EC vote places on the North East and maybe one of the North West states).
        
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        November 2, 2020 10:57pm
    - kowtow
      
      If he does win and I hope he does, watch the commentari claim the riots were instigated by “black hands’ as right wing agent provocateur / black flag ops to scare the white suburban female vote into the Trump camp.
      
      You’ll also see demands that certain parts of the electorate don’t deserve the franchise . The furious left made those demands when they lost the Brexit vote in the UK.
      
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      November 2, 2020 9:38am
  - The Real Tony
    
    I was musing about this on Twitter the other night.
    
    I follow The Economist rolling average poll and they have Biden winning the College with 350+ votes and Trump with 180+ votes.
    
    Yet at each Trump rally there are 10’s of thousands of people either in them or trying to get in. Take the recent one at Rochester. There were only 250 pers allowed in and there were thousands waiting outside. Rochester has a population just under 120,000.
    
    Even allowing for a number of out-of-towners trying to get in, it beggars belief that there could be such a disconnect with the immense popularity of Trump rallies and supposed Trump unpopularity expressed in the polls.
    
    I generally believe the pollsters endeavour to get it right and there is no intentional deceit on their part, but something weird is going on and election day is going to be really interesting.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:35am
    - Rich Prick
      
      I believe my eyes over the polls. I made that point in 2016 and I make it again. Admittedly, with Covid I haven’t been there at my usual time of year, but the energy is pretty obvious.
      
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      November 2, 2020 10:00am
- David George
  
  From that wiki link re the long march:
  ” the development of radical, “free” media. The fact that the radical Left has no equal access to the great chains of information and indoctrination is largely responsible for its isolation”
  Well they have certainly achieved that. How much of Nationals failure was down to the almost complete capture of our media by the Left.
  The infantile subversion (“who are you to say tha, Fatty”) of an important and perfectly reasonable discussion on the line between personal and collective responsibility for example.
  For the sake of our democracy, our country, we desperately need the balancing counter of a quality conservative media. Our own multi media equivalent of The Australian and The Spectator perhaps.
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:07pm
Suze Wainwright

Why do I get such a belt out of watching committed Green Party of Aotearoa/New Zealand voters in airport departure lounges?
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November 2, 2020 8:04am
- Tall Man
  
  You’re hoping they’re leaving NZ maybe 🙂
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:09am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Nah, just domestic unfortunately – I think it’s all the hypocritical diversity on display
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:20am
  - mark15
    
    They’ve sprayed and walked away.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:22am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Permanently?
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:35am
- Tony Stuart
  
  I’ve several times watched as Green Party MP’s got stuck into the craft beers in the Koru Lounge.
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:03am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Heh, I guess if they’re Kiri Allan’s craft beers, then that would be acceptable…
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:58am
    - mark15
      
      He makes beer?
      
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      November 2, 2020 11:38am
  - sooty
    
    If it’s free, porky will be in the trough!
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:04am
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    I saw Shane Jones troughing once. Literally, not just figuratively. The plate he piled high cried out under the strain before it was forever silenced – by gravity.
    
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    November 2, 2020 12:53pm
tf78

Peta Credlin’s Deadly Decisions – for anyone interested.
https://youtu.be/QKxrfVYOfzl worth a watch.

Sorry it seems now to be unavailable – funny that!
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November 2, 2020 8:16am
- Grant
  
  That video is now unavailable – no explanation given.
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  November 2, 2020 9:29am
  - lifesgood
    
    Sky News says it is now on demand. It was excellent. Daniel Andrews is as crooked as they come, definitely in bed with the strong, belligerent, thugish Victorian unions and the very, very suspect Victorian police force. The Coate enquiry is ridiculous. It is not committed to finding the truth but, rather, to whitewash Andrews and hide the truth. All power to Peta Credlin. I hope the federal govt in Australia takes note.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:33am
  - Ruahine
    
    Try this link.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKxrfVYOfzI&feature=youtu.be
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:51am
Simon

Boris Johnson & conservatives authoritarian Blairite nut jobs.

Blairite clown show just here Labour / National Clown Show & Clown Show lite.
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November 2, 2020 8:16am
- Cinematic
  
  The modelling shows…Jesus wept
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:55am
Dr John

Am I the only person getting cranky at the replacement of city names with Maori equivalents on the tv3 weather bulletin?
But wait, there’s more: wind strength / direction has been replaced by telling us how many clothes to wear! The same ‘bulletin’ will advise ‘1 layer’ for 20 degree Dunedin, ‘2 layers for 20 degree Christchurch, and ‘1 to 2 layers’ for 20 degree Wellington.
Where we are looking for facts, we are getting virtue signalling nonsense.
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November 2, 2020 8:17am
- Batman
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Wait, so the layer indicator, which has been on the metservice website and app for literally years, is now virtue signaling?
  
  Oh come off it. What a first world problem.
  
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  November 2, 2020 8:58am
  - Catgurl13
    
    It is virtue signalling totally.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:06am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      No, it isn’t. If you were determined to be offended by somebody trying to be helpful by providing the information and advice that people actually want, you might call it patronizing or superfluous. But it isn’t virtue signaling.
      
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      November 2, 2020 9:39am
      - Catgurl13
        
        Trying to force Maori on us all when most people even Maori do not even speak their own language.
        
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        November 2, 2020 10:01am
  - Tall Man
    
    I also think the appropriation of maori place names by white media people as offensive ………… 😉
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:14am
    - Batman
      
      Don’t be so woke ?
      
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      November 2, 2020 9:42am
      - Tall Man
        
        I can’t be woke, I ain’t broke 😉
        
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        November 2, 2020 9:47am
      - Batman
        
        Where does that leave the PM and the Green MPs then? ?
        
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        November 2, 2020 9:57am
      - Catgurl13
        
        Don’t be so naive.
        
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        November 2, 2020 9:47am
      - Batman
        
        Naive about what? The non-existent plot to make us all speak Te Reo as the default?
        
        Paranoia is rife on this topic.
        
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        November 2, 2020 9:56am
      - Tall Man
        
        There’s more to wealth than money but lazy bludgers will bludge but I’ve never thought a couch was a symbol of wealth.
        
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        November 2, 2020 11:17am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You are dealing with people looking for any excuse to be offended. Goddam snowflakes.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:34am
    - Catgurl13
      
      We are dealing with people on here looking for any reason to virtue signalling and be woke.
      
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      November 2, 2020 10:26am
- IC5000
  
  Can confirm. I wouldn’t be massively triggered by it.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:03am
  - Tall Man
    
    Well, colour me surprised….
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:15am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  No you’re not the only person Dr. John.
  TV3’s weather department has decided to make Maori language week permanent and it’s causing dissent in our household as Mrs. Mainwaring blows a fuse every time I go on about it.
  TV3, please give it up. The road signs around Dunedin don’t say ‘Otepoti’, or at least they didn’t last time I was there.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:15am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You shouldn’t watch TV if it upsets you so much.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:35am
    - Harriet
      
      You want to bail that too hey Milky! 😎
      
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      November 2, 2020 3:41pm
    - Nermal
      
      I sold my TV set 6 months ago. Watch the programmes I want on my computer curved wide screen via CouchTuner, BitTorrent & VPN. Life is wonderful
      
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      November 2, 2020 4:10pm
  - G152
    
    Great when a language spoken by 20,000 people at the most supersedes the language spoken by 5,000,000.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:49am
    - Cantabrian
      
      Its even worse. I find my local library is now replete with signage that has Maori words in large letters and a small English translation underneath. One sign, listing catalgue numbers and shelves, was in Maori – the English words were in light grey and barely legible.
      Its PC nonsense to cater for 0.04% of the population. What about the other 99.96% of us who are not fluent in Maori and never will be?
      
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      November 2, 2020 12:03pm
  - mark15
    
    Whoah,the otepoti.
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:39am
- Prince
  
  Hit ’em in the pocket. Turn it off or change channels.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:17am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The temp is sufficient. Maori is self destructing through misuse. An irreversible irritation has set in.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:38am
- MCos
  
  In my opinion the two TV channels can scrap the weather altogether.
  There’s a MetService app that can be downloaded onto your phone or the info is on the radio every hour.
  The number of clothes layers is cringey.
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:17am
- Paulus
  
  But the nice lady who does the Weather on TV3 is a Maori so no problem – you will be educated (whether you like it or not – and it will get worse under this new ???Maori influenced Government)
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:39am
  - Jack5
    
    Meanwhile, the push by State TV, State Radio and Stuff to rename New Zealand as Aotearoa has been set back.
    
    A poll shows people don’t want a name change. For those who missed the link on Kiwiblog last night (it comes after discussion of whether people want NZ to be a republic):
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018770794
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:46am
    - Paulus
      
      What the poll shows is irrelevant as far as Maori is concerned.
      There is always an overriding factor here and it is getting worse.
      
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      November 2, 2020 1:36pm
Simon

Polling aggregator fraud 538 / Silver now saying a few days from the election that if Biden loses PA he is in big trouble.

Polling fraudster hedging just before election was widely predicted.
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November 2, 2020 8:20am
- Batman
  
  I’m sure he’s devastated that Simon from NZ calls him a fraud.
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:11am
  - sooty
    
    I see Biden hopped on the stage and said Hi to Minnesota, when he was in Florida!
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:09am
    - Batman
      
      Given the amount of travel they do, I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often with candidates!
      
      Given he has a well documented stammer which he manages, I don’t think this is some great shocking sign of decline.
      
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      November 2, 2020 11:11am
      - mark15
        
        Keep covering Battyboy!
        
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        November 2, 2020 11:40am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      the American Jacinda?
      
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      November 2, 2020 11:30am
    - TWEEDSE
      
      A bit like Ardern saying how it was great to be in China when she had just landed in Japan.
      
      Maybe left brains are more addled.
      
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      November 2, 2020 12:01pm
- plc
  
  Can you please explain why you think Nate Silver is a fraud?
  
  Having read “The Signal and the Noise” I found him very credible. I wasn’t the only one it appears. It was Amazon Best Non-Fiction book of 2012 as well as awards in the Science field.
  
  Interested in your problems with his views or whether you are just talking through your arse?
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:38am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    He’s just buying into the myth that the polls were ‘wrong’ in 2016.
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:11am
Yvette

While Opinion ranges from “National and ACT have become “vanishingly irrelevant” in Parliament following the Greens’ acceptance of the cooperation agreement offered by Labour, a politics professor believes” to kiwiblog’s David Farrar, “The Greens have accepted the paltry offering from Labour, because it is basically better than nothing. But it is pretty minor.” and Former Green MP Sue Bradford said the agreement will “really mute” her party’s voice. “They will simply be an ineffectual lapdog of Labour for the next three years.”

And to vote for, or abstain, on confidence and supply, vote with Labour on procedural motions, hold both Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence (Davidson) and Minister of Climate Change (Shaw), neither with any basic power and no agencies to direct, so the work is co-ordination, seems in fact to amount to next to nothing.

But of course what is most irksome is the inevitable slogans.
“On election night, I said I wanted to govern for all New Zealanders and to reach as wider consensus on key issues as possible. This agreement does that while honouring the mandate provided to Labour to form a majority Government in our own right.” – Ardern
‘Co-operation agreement’, ‘shared goals’

Davidson said the party was “thrilled” with the agreement. “We entered into this negotiation hoping to achieve the best outcomes for New Zealand and our planet,” the co-leader said
“It’s a new parliament and a new day,” Shaw said
(at least Scarlett O’Hara was more truthful, “After all …tomorrow is another day…”)

Merde! – admit it! – you are starting to feel a little green right now aren’t you … like, around the gills.
Please throw-up in something recyclable.
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November 2, 2020 8:20am
- Brian McDonald
  
  Like the MP said 5 elections ago – better for the Greens to be sitting at the table. Some of their ex MPs have criticised acceptance of the Ministerial posts but they may not appreciate how the political environment has moved on – in the same way the Nat’s haven’t.
  While the Nats dithered Labour shored up the Maori vote – how long they hold it is the question but they will be very aware of its importance, hence the reason for Kelvin Davis to be deputy PM today. If he is it will be a strategic decision.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:27am
- tf78
  
  How can we save ‘our planet’ when we can’t even water the garden to keep the birds and bees alive. I’m spending a fortune feeding apples, vogels and seed for them instead of their usual worms and bugs.
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:59am
  - Tall Man
    
    Please stop. There are plenty of bugs out there for the birds. The little fuckers start waking me up about 4:30 during the summer.
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:28am
- Ehlana
  
  A politics professor believes that Opposition parties are vanishingly irrelevant in Parliament? (https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/11/nz-election-2020-national-irrelevant-to-parliament-as-greens-accept-a-post-election-deal-professor.html?) Richard Shaw is further quoted as saying “And if you’re a National or ACT MP, you would be sitting there thinking, ‘Shit, what am I going to do for the next three years?”
  Well, I guess what they could do for the next three years is to represent their electorates, hold the Government to account through Question Time (as far as the Speaker allows), read, listen, learn, contribute to Select Committees and Parliamentary consideration of Bills and prepare themselves to be able to lead the country, should we the people elect them in the future. That’s why I expect Opposition MPs to be doing anyway.
  Perhaps the professor is too young to remember before the previous Labour-led Opposition, which spent nine years doing nothing.
  
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  November 2, 2020 4:35pm
Swifty

If I said that “I’m off to get the messages…”

Who here would know what I am talking about?

Grateful for any responses.
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November 2, 2020 8:31am
- rockape
  
  AS a Glaswegian I would know you were off to do your shopping!
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:23am
  - Twinkletoes
    
    As an Ulsterperson I would know the same! (Don’t know what to call someone from Belfast – Belfastonian?).
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:39am
    - Tall Man
      
      Pissed ?
      
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      November 2, 2020 11:26am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      “Don’t know what to call someone from Belfast ”
      Careful, opening yourself up to all sorts of jokes….
      
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      November 2, 2020 11:33am
- mark15
  
  Its a Scottish term for a trip to the shop.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:24am
  - kowtow
    
    Ireland too.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:59am
- rockape
  
  The correct phrase would be. ” I’am Af tay git ra messages”
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:46am
  - Swifty
    
    Haha!
    
    Yes, my dear old mother used to say it and I’ve always wondered as to it’s origins.
    
    Her father was from High Blantyre, came to NZ in 1925.
    
    I came across this last night:
    
    https://youtu.be/d21PKVeMURA?t=2037
    
    Many thanks.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:13am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Quite a common expression in NZ.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:50am
  - MCos
    
    Particularly when I was a kid, although I haven’t heard that expression lately.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:23am
- Observer of Life
  
  Swifty: Shopping
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:20am
- lifesgood
  
  My mother always said that when she went to do the shopping. She was a third generation NZer.
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:37am
  - calendar girl
    
    Someone has actually used the term “NZer”. Thank you, lifesgood, well done.
    
    I have reached the stage of feeling annoyed whenever someone in our beloved media refers to NZ citizens and residents as “kiwis”. Collectively we are New Zealanders. The occasional “kiwi” reference causes no problem, but the almost universal use of the word “kiwi” threatens to detract from our national identity.
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:52am
    - lifesgood
      
      Thanks! The mind boggles as to what we’ll be called if the clowns ever change our name to Aotearoa – Aotearoarians?
      
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      November 2, 2020 1:13pm
- Pharmachick
  
  Mr Pharma born in Glasgow, says you’re off to do the shopping.
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:27am
Stuart

Student loan paid off today! Thanks all
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November 2, 2020 8:32am
- lifesgood
  
  Well done!
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:10am
- backster
  
  Expecting the Super Gold Card any day soon.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:35am
- Batman
  
  Well done Stuart!
  
  I paid mine off earlier in the year and it’s been a great little boost!
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:15am
- Tall Man
  
  Now …….. mortgage ……
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:25am
- Pharmachick
  
  Thats outstanding! Well done that man! Welcome to the club.
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:28am
Happychappy

Just a question for those astute political commentators out there over the Marama Davidson and the sexual violence part of her folder. When another sexual predator working out of the Prime Ministers office or some other Ministersoffice will Jacinda let them investigate or press charges with the Police if the same sort of situation happens like happened out of the Prime Ministers last term, or will Jacinda take charge again and throw the victims under the bus to save her beloved Party again.
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November 2, 2020 8:36am
- Catgurl13
  
  Well Jacinda let Meka Whaitiri keep her job,after it was prove she had physically and mentally intimidated and abused her staffer. This woman should have lost her job instantly but she didn’t. In fact Jacinda takes her along on many occasions as one of her main circle.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:50am
  - Batman
    
    Uhhh, Meka was the only Labour minister to actually get fired for something. Though I agree that she should have had the good manners to resign, that was never going to happen given her personality.
    
    Remember that a party leader can’t actually throw an MP out of Parliament, as we all remember from the JLR fiasco
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:53am
  - lifesgood
    
    “takes her along” Of course she does, she’s maori. You’ve got to be seen to be inclusive, don’t you know.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:38am
  - Nickc2
    
    Cindy only takes her to along because it’s woke to have a Maori backdrop when dictating Labour policy to the peasants.
    
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    November 2, 2020 12:32pm
kwkiwigirl

Stuff has a piece today on how well NZ has done with the elimination path towards covid with the government’s henchman, Michael Baker, saying how well we’ve done with this strategy compared to Europe. No mention whatsoever of the island advantage of being able to seal off borders, nor any mention of the practical consideration of how much this is costing. Anyway I guess not Ardern’s problem, she will be long gone out of parliament by the tine someone has to pay for this strategy
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November 2, 2020 8:43am
- Tall Man
  
  Ahhhh, ardern gone ….. order restored in the universe and the resumption of journlism…… I think not.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:06am
- Tricati
  
  These ‘experts’ also avoid mentioning NZ’s, population size, low housing density, large regional population spread, average population age/general health and, as you say, we are an isolated island.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:16am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    So, hard and early was really about something in the bedroom then . . .
    
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    November 2, 2020 12:41pm
- Phronesis
  
  So far all they have achieved is delaying the inevitable. It’s increasingly likely that this virus will become endemic globally like the other common corona viruses always have been. Even an effective vaccine won’t work on the elderly or the immune compromised so they will likely get Covid eventually. I see no path to opening the border that doesn’t result in the same people dying as would have if we had never closed them.
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:39am
Catgurl13

The Greens basically got used and shafted by Labour. They are going to be used as a scapegoat so that when things go wrong they can be blamed. Marama and James are little lap dogs begging all the time….so hilarious watching them beg endlessly for something….anything lol.
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November 2, 2020 8:43am
- Ruawai
  
  Presume Marama and Shaw will be turning down the gas guzzling limo and free airfares.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:27am
  - Catgurl13
    
    While telling us all we should be driving EVs.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:52am
    - Paulus
      
      Jacinda has got a new top of the range Audi EV to tow her boat.
      
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      November 2, 2020 10:42am
      - sooty
        
        Has it got four wheel drive?
        If it doesn’t it will get a big fail at the boat ramp by the judges looking on!
        It’s good fun watching idiots at the boat ramp!
        
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        November 2, 2020 11:15am
- SGA
  
  I disagree – I think that the Greens have enough distance to avoid becoming the scapegoat (and I think the NZ public are aware that Labour clearly has the reins).
  In contrast, I think that the Greens biggest risk is becoming their own worst enemy. Sure, they have a hard core who will follow them anywhere (all parties do), but if they promote things too extreme or impractical then they stand to alienate their softer voters.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:36am
  - Catgurl13
    
    Jacinda has only strategically let them in enough to use them as an excuse if things go wrong. She washed her hands of any accountability you know.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:53am
    - SGA
      
      As I see it, given Labour’s clear majority, it will be extremely difficult for them to use the Greens as an excuse for anything. In contrast, the Greens can use Labour’s majority as an excuse for not forwarding more of their agenda. The Greens’ risk is promoting an agenda so extreme that even some of the people who voted for them this election are happy that the Greens didn’t have more say.
      
      How exactly do you see Labour using the Greens as a scapegoat?
      
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      November 2, 2020 10:12am
      - Catgurl13
        
        By blaming them when the Greens ideas are implemented and when it goes wrong Jacinda will say they wanted it that way. Just you wait.
        
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        November 2, 2020 10:29am
      - SGA
        
        Labour is under no obligation to implement any idea from the the Greens. They do so completely at their own discretion.
        Are you aware that Labour can govern alone? They don’t need the Greens’ votes.
        
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        November 2, 2020 11:04am
    - Cantabrian
      
      No doubt she will be blaming Shaw when the nonsense that is man-made climate change is proven to be what it is – a UN driven rort.
      
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      November 2, 2020 12:06pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It’s not the Greens who’ll be dishing out $300M to the UN Green Fund over the next few years.
        New Zealand has committed to providing $300m in climate-related support over the next four years,
        
        Labour is committed to that payout.
        https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/media-and-resources/ministry-statements-and-speeches/new-zealand-contributes-15-million-to-green-climate-funds-first-replenishment/
        
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        November 2, 2020 12:23pm
- Nickc2
  
  Did you notice that like the stray dogs they are, Cindy only fed them biscuits?
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:40pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  They settled for Krispies withan upgrade to Mellow Puffs.
  
  Tossers to a terf
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:43pm
Maggie Pie

Testing. Testing. 1234
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November 2, 2020 8:49am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Welcome back Mags.
  
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  November 2, 2020 8:57am
- Tall Man
  
  Nice to see you back. Don’t let a little occasional OTT moderation dampen your style 😉
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:00am
- Maggie Pie
  
  HEY – thanks TM and CAPT’n 😀
  Hard to believe some of the group are actually down ticking
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:10am
  - Tall Man
    
    I’ve learned that there are plenty of arseholes in this world and they ain’t always in undies.
    
    I take their downticks as an indication I’m on the right path 🙂
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:21am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      I’m with you on that TM 😛
      The more people I piss off the better i like it. Even my partners been with me for ten years now and I’ve got no idea why.
      
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      November 2, 2020 12:45pm
softail 1450

It’s quite depressing to finally see TV1’s breakfast program give up on good looks and talent for diversity and clonelike hosts ,you’ve got the lot there,
The Maori sportswoman co host,
The pacifica news reader ,
The Woke Pakeha/Maori co host,
The gay soy boy weatherman ,
and it goes without saying their arse’s don’t get within 100 km of the couches unless they are being actively treated for TDS stage 11,
They were collectively traumatized this morning when the news man from London Daniel told them to stop demonizing fireworks, He was the last host on that program with the ability to think for himself and voice his opinions .
Right there in that studio is what we have become, ,gutless ,cowardly wimps that flow with the path of least resistance as long as we have diversity ,,SHAME.
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November 2, 2020 8:53am
- Tall Man
  
  Yeah but what do you really think?
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:03am
- Catgurl13
  
  Then we have to put up with the mother and son show on Seven Sharp every night. It’s either that or the extreme far left woke mob telling us all how to live on TV3 Project…..blerk!!!!
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:10am
  - Tall Man
    
    Or ……… Netflix.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:20am
    - Catgurl13
      
      Or if you don’t have Netflix not all of us do.
      
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      November 2, 2020 9:54am
      - Tall Man
        
        Check out watch and see what you can find ?
        
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        November 2, 2020 11:19am
      - Close Hen Counters
        
        TV on demand has done fabulous finds catgurl – we are almost through Des. David Tennant at his very best ☺️
        
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        November 2, 2020 2:05pm
      - Tall Man
        
        EZTV not watch.
        
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        November 2, 2020 7:55pm
    - softail 1450
      
      Tall Man ,apart from some good docos now and then I find netflix to be a never ending flow of b and c grade crap ,anything with the “N” up in the corner is to be avoided like the cheap massed produced rubbish it is.
      Its mostly cheap American and latin American TV soaps that I find unwatchable .in saying that my Mr’s loves it and funds it ,ha ha.
      
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      November 2, 2020 3:09pm
      - Batman
        
        Yeah it sounds like your recommendation engine is broken thanks to your partner’s taste in television ?? I have the same issue in my house, my other half watches what I consider to be dross and her Netflix profile reflects that!
        
        If you had your own profile you may find it is a lot different!
        
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        November 2, 2020 3:17pm
  - Janabelle
    
    The easy thing to do is not watch any of it – it is all brain rotting rubbish
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:29am
  - Rich Prick
    
    I gave up on free to air years ago. Every now and then I am somewhere where it is on. The decent into PC wokeness wrapped up in infotainment is really quite shocking.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:35am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Don’t watch TV if it upsets you so much.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:37am
    - Catgurl13
      
      It’s true though that our channels are just brain washing left mafia.
      
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      November 2, 2020 9:55am
- Inandout
  
  softy, leave the TVOne viewership to the rest homes and institutions. They don’t get upset because many are bewildered/don’t care.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:29am
  - tf78
    
    Or maybe they are old and wise enough to recognize it’s all just comedy.
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:08am
- Brian McDonald
  
  “gutless ,cowardly wimps” speaking for yourself there sunshine.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:31am
- Flossie
  
  How about Mother Amanda on three each morning? This morning she kept going on that she was “blinking twice” – which somehow meant “get me out of here”. I would suggest that she just resigns and walks. I for one will not miss her self righteous blatherings.
  She also seems to have the idea that’s she’s pretty irresistible too and makes many allusions to the guys there fancying her. Doubt it!
  Talk us through it Amanda..
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:34am
  - Catgurl13
    
    Amanda is dreadful with that lefty moaning cringey voice tabbing about nothing endlessly.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:05am
    - Observer of Life
      
      CatGurl13: You have described her well. Awful woman. Wet .. woke .. annoying reading style.
      
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      November 2, 2020 10:23am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner reckons he would.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:48am
    - softail 1450
      
      M P, But would he tell you about it ? and if by chance he does get an invite make sure he takes a spare rolled up sock in his pocket ,LOL.
      
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      November 2, 2020 3:21pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  I have noticed that people who watch state tv news become agitated if they go 90 minutes without applying hand sanitiser.
  I suppose it is a bit like me if I go four hours without a cancer stick.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:54am
- Fletch
  
  I was reading some headlines today on Flipboard and you know that the media have totally lost any sense of impartiality when a person can read a headline and know what the story is going to say before you read it, especially if it is CNN. Case in point –
  
  The stock market has made its prediction about who will win the election
  
  It’s a CNN headline, so I knew right off what their stock market expert was going to say. They wouldn’t have a story promoting anything to do with a Trump win.
  
  Most of the media have strayed far from their original job of reporting facts…
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:28am
Catgurl13

The Green School on the Sunday prog last night stated there is no official progress measurement for their students who don’t follow a regular curriculum. They don’t sit any NCEA exams.and are only given a digital record of their learning upon finishing up there. Parents pay about 20k per child to attend. The school claims outsiders just don’t understand their vision and what they do there. Looks like the wealthy hippy parents sending kids there are getting shafted big-time. Poor kids come out with no official qualifications. How would they ever qualify for Uni or a tertiary institution in future?
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November 2, 2020 8:59am
- Tall Man
  
  “How would they ever qualify for Uni or a tertiary institution in future?”
  
  “Likes” on their facebook page is all they’ll ever need.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:04am
  - Catgurl13
    
    They can say they are qualified crystal planting ceremony experts…..afterall we need more if those!!!
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:33am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I didn’t think you would come out so strongly against private schools and parental choice.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:39am
  - Catgurl13
    
    I don’t believe in elitist nonsense this school stands for while expecting tax payer money. I feel sorry for the kids who will not benefit from this crappy no sense.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:58am
    - Observer of Life
      
      Cat: It’s the kids that will suffer from their parents experimenting with this rubbish.
      
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      November 2, 2020 10:24am
  - Paulus
    
    As a former Private School Parent and Grandparent I can assure you that the required written exams are taken to achieve Uni entry – in my case both a Special Scholarship level.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:47am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Aren’t all schools required to provide a basic schooling to NCEA standards and levels?
  Are these esoteric varieties exempt? I hope there are no public monies involved.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:45am
  - Catgurl13
    
    They just applied and got 13 million of public money.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:06am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Private schools in NZ DO NOT have to follow the NZ Curriculum
    
    Private schools can charge fees and they are not required to follow the Government’s National Education Guidelines. This means that they do not have to follow The New Zealand Curriculum.
    
    Instead, private schools have the freedom to choose an appropriate curriculum
    
    https://www.ero.govt.nz/how-ero-reviews/ero-reviews-of-schools-and-kura/private-and-independent-schools/#:~:text=This%20means%20that%20they%20do,and%20the%20school's%20governing%20body.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:47am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Thanks Maggy for the details.
      
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      November 2, 2020 12:39pm
- The Housekeeper
  
  Further proof that the school is simply an immigration rort.
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:06am
  - Catgurl13
    
    Absolutely….it’s all about sucking people in who want to come here while pushing the greeny agenda.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:34am
- Jules99
  
  I’m fine with parents paying for ‘alternative schooling’, but I don’t think the state should fund it.
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:41pm
- Nickc2
  
  Ah, but they are the future of the Green party. Shaw didn’t get all that money for the school for nothing.
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:49pm
Tony Stuart

Joe Biden gives voters in Minnesota a resounding greeting as he climbs on the podium. The only problem is that, as seen on the board behind him, he was in Tampa, Florida at the time, a mere 1700 miles away!

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1322985448575131648

PS: The temperature in Tampa today is 29*c. In Minnesota, it’s 3*…
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November 2, 2020 9:10am
- Inandout
  
  FGS, who in their right mind could vote for a person not in his right mind?
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:05am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Or vote for a guy who will be replaced by a woman rejected by her own party early in the primaries. It just makes no sense.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:52am
    - Batman
      
      She dropped out in early December ?
      
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      November 2, 2020 11:52am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        Correct; she dropped out when it became obvious she had no traction, and wasn’t going to win.
        
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        November 2, 2020 12:21pm
- waripori
  
  This is very disappointing of you Tony. It would have taken you 2 minutes to check if the clip was real before you posted it here .
  Biden was in Minnesota. The billboard was altered to say Tampa. If someone who purports to know something about politics can be taken in by an obvious fake it is no wonder Qanon thrives.
  
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  November 2, 2020 1:57pm
Littletramp

Another “lightbulb” moment yesterday, as to why pollsters are frequently getting outcomes so wrong all around the world – Trump, Brexit, Morrison, Swarbrick etc. Answer: They are asking the wrong question.
They usually ask who are you voting for, and extrapolate the responses to reflect potential election outcomes.
The more truth revealing question they should be asking is, “Who do you think will win?”.
The answer will reflect the observations of each person asked, based on an analysis of their whole sphere of friends, family, workmates etc, and therefore polling companies will receive get a far more representative answer as to what the outcome may be.
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November 2, 2020 9:11am
Bobba Fret

I tend to think Marama is probably the person who is most pleased with the Greens agreement with Labour. She can hardly contain her excitement of her pay increase. So her and James have done well out of it financially, and can basically argue that it was accept what Labour offered or get nothing. Labour have very cheaply bought the Greens support IMO.
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November 2, 2020 9:15am
- Catgurl13
  
  Anyone would think Marama was the leader of the Greens and James was her PA haha!!!…..oh wait…….
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:07am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Oh you are naughty, but I like you.
    
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    November 2, 2020 1:41pm
Maggie Pie

Our Uber driver (a really luvly guy) retweets….

https://twitter.com/no9977125/status/1322962165804883968

You GO for it chaps! 😀
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November 2, 2020 9:16am
- Tall Man
  
  Prefer this one….
  
  https://twitter.com/i/status/1322973533165785090
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:42am
- Tony Stuart
  
  My 71-year-old brother is an Uber driver in Auckland, and also a Twitter user. His name’s not Abdullah though!
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:07am
Catgurl13

Oh dear and it’s the Iranian Muslims that will be taking action if it’s proven….. https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300147299/iran-threatens-legal-action-against-new-zealand-government-if-sis-raid-is-proven
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November 2, 2020 9:20am
- KevO'Brien
  
  If this matter is true it is surely a breach of state security to reveal our security services actions.
  When will we enforce our laws?
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:49am
- mikenmildagain
  
  It seems to me that the Iranian (and Indian, although you don’t seem as worried about them) government has a legitimate complaint to make if its embassy premises were violated by the NZ government.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:49am
  - Batman
    
    The Iranians less so. They have a history of flouting diplomatic rules and basically being quite shady.
    
    The Indians definitely have a valid complaint I think.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:55am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      And don’t we want to be better than them?
      
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      November 2, 2020 11:06am
  - Catgurl13
    
    How would you even know what anyone was thinking lol?
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:17am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    All SIS raids come with a 30 day money-back guarantee. If not caught during that period they are deemed never to have occurred.
    
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    November 2, 2020 1:01pm
Albert_Ross

Whatever happened to the ban on foreigners buying houses? Is it in force?
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November 2, 2020 9:40am
- Catgurl13
  
  No as anyone can buy a house here.
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:41am
Bobba Fret

Wow, people on the left at the Standard will really hate this success story.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/first-rung/123249946/first-rung-debt-free-diva-saves-deposit-for-first-home-in-12-months
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November 2, 2020 9:42am
Notsofast

Steve Braunias reviews Black Hands

“But it was the only false note in an otherwise beautifully written, filmed, and acted episode. Black Hands went about setting the scene for the killings in a patient and subtle manner. It hinted towards neither David Bain nor Robin Bain as the killer. It played it straight, and it also saved on lighting. Most scenes were played out in a dark gloom of shadows. The central character was neither David Bain nor Robin Bain: it was their big, shabby, dimly lit house.”

Spot the problem? Only one of Robin or David was in an incestuous relationship, so why would the one who was not be seen with a potential motive, and be mysteriously cloaked as a mass killer?
The banality of New Zealand television plumbs undiscovered depths.
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November 2, 2020 9:45am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Where, in the quote you provided, does Braunias mention anyone being in an incestuous relationship?
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:09am
  - Catgurl13
    
    Exactly….. That is only speculation and never proven.
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:18am
- Catgurl13
  
  It really surprised me how good it was. I think it showed David up as a very geeky, clingy failure if an adult. He had an unrealistic view of himself, even self entitled sometimes. It showed how he was getting in between his parents even when they were having an argument and clingy to his mother. It showed how he completely lost it when the Police found him which made him look like a madman. Robin looked pretty normal actually. I felt sorry for him. I quite liked this episode surprisingly.
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:14am
  - The Housekeeper
    
    You do know the producer, Robin Scholes has called it a “complete fiction” right Catgurl?
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:38am
    - Catgurl13
      
      They have to say that of course.
      
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      November 2, 2020 3:10pm
      - The Housekeeper
        
        You’re onto it Catgurl, just checking
        
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        November 2, 2020 5:42pm
- The Housekeeper
  
  NZ On Air clearly don’t agree with you Notsofast as they provided $5m of funding to Warner Bros. for the series which the producer admits is “complete fiction”. They don’t even bother to consider who the murderer was. What’s the point then? How does this add to the debate or inform us in any way? Does a work of fiction take precedence over the mental well-being of the Bain family and friends who begged them not to make it?
  
  Would they get funding to make a dramatisation of the mosque attacks? Would they care if the survivors asked them not to?
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:35am
  - Catgurl13
    
    It’s not actually fiction because David was a geeky misfit who was struggling in the world at 22. You don’t have to know him to see that. It’s well known he failed and dropped out if Uni and who has a paper run at 22?
    
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    November 2, 2020 3:13pm
    - The Housekeeper
      
      It is actually fiction Catgurl, the producer accentuates this.
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/300141205/bain-family-warned-black-hands-producers-the-tv-series-would-make-them-grieve-all-over-again
      
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      November 2, 2020 5:49pm
- RJ
  
  Thank god we don’t have to put up with a movie of how you brutally murdered your wife and daughter.
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:24am
- Jack5
  
  Notsofast’s post includes: “Only one of Robin or David was in an incestuous relationship.”
  
  Says who?
  
  You come up with some wild stuff, Notsofast, but it’s usually about Mark Lundy.
  
  The programme was boring and drawn out. Who will buy it overseas?
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:40am
  - RJ
    
    He’s likely watching it for tips on how to get some silly ex all black to believe he is innocent as well. Oh well only two more years and he can apply for parole.
    
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    November 2, 2020 1:19pm
Tauhei Notts

I have read where some contributors to this blog have experienced difficulty understanding Inland Revenue Department rulings etc. Don’t worry. It is too hard for the Tax Department, themselves!!!
I have just pored my way through CSUM 20/11 being the Case Summary attached to the Tax Information Bulletin. The CSUM makes reference to the Income Tax Act 2004 and the Tax Administration Act 1994, in a case the predated the 2007 Income Tax Act. Then in the IMPACT section on page one proceeds to mix up section BG 1 and section GB 1, and is not sure whether it is quoting the 2004 act or the 1994 act.
I’ll wager good dough that the drop kick who wrote that crap is a Green voter.
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November 2, 2020 9:46am
- KevO'Brien
  
  IRD are suffering at present trying to get all salary & wage earners onto their monthly up-to-date tax system.
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:56pm
I remember when

GLN: Government Legal Network
A collaborative initiative of departmental Chief Legal Advisors and Principal Law Officers (Attorney-General and Solicitor-General).
More than 850 lawyers across NZ’s public sector form the GLN. The GLN offers a shared pathway of legal expertise, professional development and service to the Crown and NZers.
With over 800 lawyers in central government, and an additional circa 350 in wider public sector agencies, the GLN is a shared pathway to Law.
Lawyers in the GLN represent the Crown in the courts, lend expertise to policy development, negotiate commercial agreements, draft legislation and advance NZ’s strategic interests on the global stage.
A growth industry?
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November 2, 2020 10:03am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Why aren’t they upholding the land law registered title rights? The Police dereliction of duty to uphold their oath of office should also concern them.
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:52pm
I remember when

Cathy Lang, a Taranaki cheese maker, is involved with NZ Trade and Enterprise’s international ‘Made with Care campaign’.
After a cheese-making course at Melbourne University course in Melbourne she set up Cloudy Mountain Cheese, with her husband. Over seven years she made about 20 different varieties, which were sold to restaurants and at farmer’s markets.
In 2014, she joined Fonterra, at Te Rapa, before transferring to Fonterra’s Bridge St site in Eltham.
She is in charge of Fonterra’s entries in cheese competitions.
Land sees a bright future for NZ cheese – with our blue cheeses, in particular, proving to be a big hit in our growing export markets.
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November 2, 2020 10:14am
Maggie Pie

Dont know if this was raised here last week, but a major drug bust took place not that far from where we live! Horrified to see the video showing a $600k Ferrari being impounded by the police outside a house in Remuera!! (…..see vid)

https://stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300144623/20000-ectasy-pills-and-ferrari-seized-in-major-police-bust-auckland

(On the upside, my partner’s looking forward to the Police Auction. He reckons that car will go for about half price and he’s already got a plum lined up in the South Island that wants to buy it)
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November 2, 2020 10:20am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  On this subject Maggie, does your partner have any info on whether Giltraps etc. check out the source of their customer’s finances when they are selling this stuff new?
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:32am
- MCos
  
  Will your partner’s ‘plum’ be paying in cash?
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:38am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Hope so 😀
    
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    November 2, 2020 10:51am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      No matter how far down the South Island it is, that car will be a target for a firebombing. That’s if (being a Ferrari) it doesn’t catch fire all by itself.
      
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      November 2, 2020 10:55am
graham

What the hell is a ‘maunga’?

https://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/articles/news/2020/10/fireworks-risk-prompts-evening-maunga-closures-2-8-november/
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November 2, 2020 10:22am
- alex Masterley
  
  An hill?
  Normally used for launching fireworks.
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:52am
  - Papalazarou
    
    Ant hill?
    
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    November 2, 2020 8:36pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  A hill or mount. Explained in the article to which you linked.
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:15am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Mountain.
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:47pm
Suze Wainwright

So Kelvin’s terrified of being deputy PM, but wants to stay as Labour deputy leader.

I’m super confident that his party will accommodate his wishes…
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November 2, 2020 10:27am
- Dougal10
  
  He knows the job belongs to the green girl who won a seat that his boss never could.
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:57am
Captain Mainwaring

Kelvinator ‘doesn’t want to be’ deputy PM.
What a surprise!
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November 2, 2020 10:29am
- Catgurl13
  
  Lol lol lol!!!!!!
  
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  November 2, 2020 10:43am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Is Kelvin Davis making way for Nanaia Mahuta? She appears to outrank him in Maoridom.
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:47pm
  - softail 1450
    
    KEV,only in tattoos,,,,
    
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    November 2, 2020 4:29pm
Tony Stuart

So what we know so far:

* Kelvin Davis wants to remain deputy leader of the Labour Party

* Kelvin Davis has turned down the role of Deputy Prime Minister

* Jacinda Ardern has clearly stated that the Deputy Prime Minister will be the deputy leader of the Labour Party.

Fraser House; we have a problem!
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November 2, 2020 10:48am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  I foresee Kelvin probably getting an ultra-high powered, super duper important, mana-laiden role acting as some kind of mentor figure to the Labour Party’s Maori caucus
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:04am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    He can only do this role when he’s not worried about tourists though
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:06am
  - RJ
    
    restroom attendant?
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:39am
- bruceavon
  
  Labour have dodged a bullet there. His speech on election night was mental. When he started I though Garner etc were mean slagging him off about it. It just seemed like a bit of humour. But then we left coverage and went back later and the bloody poem was still going. A little silly poem would have been weird but ok. But having this thing that went on for 10 minutes was crazy. Need to lose tourism too. That industry is in danger more any other. Anyone but him.
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:11am
- RJ
  
  How about
  
  * Cindy said to kelvin he can’t be deputy prime minister but we will let you pretend it is your decision, we can’t keep hiding your incompetence now kelvin.
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:28am
- rangitoto
  
  Mega Fighteri for DPM?
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:45am
  - Catgurl13
    
    Love it!!!
    
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    November 2, 2020 3:15pm
Maggie Pie

Ol’ Sleepy Creepy doesn’t even know where he is 😛
Yet 48 hours from now, this man could be President …LOL!!

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1322985448575131648
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November 2, 2020 11:02am
- mikenmildagain
  
  President-elect doesn’t become president until 20 January.
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:16am
- RJ
  
  At least joe knows the big words none of us know
  
  https://twitter.com/hollandcourtney/status/1322239388324032512
  
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  November 2, 2020 11:34am
- waripori
  
  It would be good if you read through the blog before posting. This is an obvious fake. Would also be good if the moderators used the time posts are in moderation to check if posters are furthering this sort of rubbish.
  
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  November 2, 2020 3:26pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Don’t forget……. WASH YOUR HANDS!
    
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    November 2, 2020 6:20pm
    - RJ
      
      And flush the toilet.
      
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      November 2, 2020 6:43pm
RW Capitalist

An analogy
This govt., like the last one can be compared to the Americas cup
Started trapped in the start box, ,maneuvered and positioned themselves up and down the start line.
Now that the gun has been fired for the 2nd time, they still have not crossed the start line and don’t appear to have built up any speed after 3yrs in govt.
So am expecting, like last time, them to stall at the start.
2 things could happen
1. Back to the start box an form more working groups.
2. sink where they are
3. yeah I know I said 2 but they may crash into the start boat.
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November 2, 2020 11:40am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Now they will have to face the humongous seas with a non-working rudder and and no working weather system.
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:42pm
Batman

In today’s edition of Dark Political Humour, the Trump advance staff have taken to playing the Titanic theme song at rallies

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/north-carolina-trump-rally-blares-song-from-titanic-as-presidents-campaign-continues-to-sink/
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November 2, 2020 11:54am
- David George
  
  Here’s a really good one – Trump dance/street party with Ricky Rebel.
  https://youtu.be/2KGPjrKTRio
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:44pm
  - Batman
    
    Well, now I have to bleach that from my memory files.
    
    That video alone should be reason for the end of MAGAism.
    
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    November 2, 2020 12:52pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      MAGA!
      
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      November 2, 2020 5:15pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Yeah all the “extreme right wimg hate” on display ……………..
      
      https://twitter.com/i/status/1300290897922453504
      
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      November 2, 2020 6:10pm
Maggie Pie

FOX reporting that new Poll shows Biden winning nearly every province in China.
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November 2, 2020 12:35pm
- RJ
  
  Even Remuera?
  
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  November 2, 2020 12:49pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    You’re sooo right there RJ. My partners mum remembers when the only ones here owned the fruit shop.
    
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    November 2, 2020 1:06pm
  - Nermal
    
    And Wellington, if this blog is anything to go by
    
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    November 2, 2020 4:20pm
RJ

Andrew little minister of health, hahahahahaha
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November 2, 2020 1:15pm
gorse

Stuff reporting Ardern announcing her “top team”. I laughed and laughed. Twyford, Davis etc. Top?? I don’t think so.
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November 2, 2020 1:15pm
- Close Hen Counters
  
  Nanaia mahuta as foreign affairs minister ….splurt…. love to see how that plays out ???
  
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  November 2, 2020 2:17pm
  - Scooter
    
    Read between the lines, Cindy’s saying the border’s closed for the next 3 years.
    
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    November 2, 2020 11:07pm
Benedict Yu

Nanaia Mahuta is Foreign Minister.
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November 2, 2020 1:17pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Nanaia Mahuta is ~~Foreign~~ Token Minister. Who is really going to do the job?
  
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  November 2, 2020 1:25pm
- RJ
  
  She is the wrong person for such an important job.
  
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  November 2, 2020 1:33pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    To be fair, she’s probably the wrong person for any job.
    
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    November 2, 2020 1:41pm
Bobba Fret

Has David Clark been promoted again?
At least she’s finally seen the light with Twyford.
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November 2, 2020 1:46pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmNL5RP-nxw

The media organisations in the US are now in one way or another dependent on Chinese investments to run their businesses and they are willing to go to any length to not offend their overlords in Beijing. The beacon of a free press which the USA was, has become compromised. Watch the video for more.
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November 2, 2020 2:30pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0Hm_oVeGo

US-India Sign Military Agreement.

It’s a mechanism for the two countries to share military intelligence.
Mike Pompeo visited India recently. There is a Quad exercise in the
Indian Ocean soon. MP brought up the CCP everywhere he went in Asia.
The US will build an embassy in the Maldives. He brought up Chinas
religious repression in Indonesia. A YouGov poll shows most people
blame China for the CCP virus. And there may be a CCP virus outbreak
in Kashgar.
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November 2, 2020 2:30pm
Jack5

Radio NZ reports today a “leading Academic in rheumatic fever” saying more would be done to combat rheumatic fever if more white kids caught it.

Red Radio doesn’t tell you that the academic, Anneka Margaret Anderson, is a “medical anthropologist”. The University of Auckland, her employer, says she ” is a qualitative kaupapa Maori researcher who focuses her work around Maori experiences of health.”

Perhaps it’s time for a scientific approach to the problem. Strep throat is a leading precursor to rheumatic fever. The Dunedin medical technology company BLIS was founded on the work of an Australian-born scientist who, as a white kid, caught rheumatic fever.

He put his experience to good use. BLIS products combat strep throat – and other problems.

Has there been a study on the feasibility of providing free to vulnerable kids BLIS tablets or lozenges? These likely would slash the incidence of rheumatic fever.

An Italian research project found the Dunedin company’s K12 tablets were effective against strep throat, and step throat is the precursor to rheumatic fever.

Surely the Government could negotiate a bulk deal on the already reasonably priced tablets.

This would be better than making race the issue. It is a chance of fixing the problem.

The Italian study on BLIS K12 summarised in a report to the NZ Stock Exchange:

https://www.nzx.com/announcements/296668

And a detailed report on the study at Dove Medical Press:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5123729/
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November 2, 2020 2:32pm
- Catgurl13
  
  White kids aren’t in families of 10 kids all living in 1 room. Maori and Poly are the ones in poverty because they choose not to send their kids to school to get educated. My 16 yr old son’s said that it’s mostly Maori and Poly students missing from classes on a daily basis. Could it be that white families stop at a couple of kids they can afford,while Maori and Poly families just keep having as many as they can and that’s the reason illness spreads in these families who have it. You don’t need a university study to figure that out.
  
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  November 2, 2020 3:25pm
- Ehlana
  
  One day some researcher will ask why white kids don’t get it. Has it always been this way – is there some genetic difference that accounts for it? Or did white kids used to get it, but some change in their lives means they no longer do? If the latter, what was the change and can it be replicated by other groups? If they do replicate it, does it have the same results among them?
  
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  November 2, 2020 5:39pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    White kids did get it… in slum communities in the UK and USA before penicillin…
    
    https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.CIR.72.6.1155
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/122260447/we-have-totally-failed-rheumatic-fever-the-third-world-disease-entrenched-in-new-zealand
    
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    November 2, 2020 6:21pm
Fletch

Kamala Harris openly pushing Communism now…

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/11/01/marx-says-what-kamala-harris-promotes-communism-in-new-video/
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November 2, 2020 4:04pm
surfing

House prices gone mad.

Hoping my house goes up another million or so by the time of the next ratings valuation.
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November 2, 2020 4:20pm
softail 1450

Does anybody know who has been put in charge of the useless Shane Jones’s billions or have they mysteriously disappeared like the Alamein Kopu’s entire office fitout ?
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November 2, 2020 4:34pm
chiz

oops
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November 2, 2020 5:25pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Name and phone at Whitner’s Bar.
My name is Donald Duck and I don’t have a phone. Stop being stupid, ducks don’t have phones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3raAsNQO3I&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3fb5-ZC9Mx5EtC-bCGrYLvY03Il_YGK8XqmdqE-qts4zk0nCjaU2in5pQ
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November 2, 2020 5:34pm
Maggy Wassilieff

The problem with shoving some folks out into the community ….

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/121971444/man-returns-to-school-42-years-after-trying-to-burn-it-down-to-finish-the-job
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November 2, 2020 5:43pm
- RJ
  
  Well that is commitment, he finally finished the job.
  
  It ad, he tried to get help before doing it, 5 hours wait to see the crisis team, that is pathetic.
  
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  November 2, 2020 6:05pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Zittersteijn told a probation report writer that his goal had been food and a quiet bed.
  
  What a sad story. The guy should be in some form of sheltered accommodation.
  
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  November 2, 2020 6:14pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Alas, some folks assumed that folks in care were all alike…and they all would thrive out in the community.
    
    He was taken to transitional housing as part of the move to home people without an address for lockdown, but on March 28 he become stressed with the noise and bad language from others, so he went looking for help.
    
    Let’s hope that prison will provide him with a more stable and happy environment.
    
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    November 2, 2020 9:04pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Not all Democrats are Socialist, but guess what? All Socialists are Democrats …
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November 2, 2020 5:58pm
emmess

A non-political reason why the woke left are clueless idiots

They have no idea who Ronnie James Dio and Ritchie Blackmore are
Paste the link in your browser if you Spotify spotify:album:4BesxtR335KUPDRm4VmNGT
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November 2, 2020 6:02pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Well the Lone Star State has told Biden to have sex and travel. Many other excuses for cancelling, but I guess the heat in the kitchen was too hot.
Oh year, that white vehicle was out of bounds, enroaching the other lane – no matter what bullshit you say of hear from the loopy left media.

https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-cancels-tx-rallies-after-attracting-too-many-trump-supporters?
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November 2, 2020 6:15pm
- Rich Prick
  
  That escort of the Biden bus out of town was epic.
  
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  November 3, 2020 1:04am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The Amish are in on this. Traditionally they don’t vote, what does this tell you? Dated Sept 20th.
https://www.independentsentinel.com/oh-amish-mennonites-parade-for-trump-on-bulls-in-buggies-in-carts/?
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November 2, 2020 6:25pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  That religious reactionaries support Trump?
  
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  November 2, 2020 6:32pm
- Cobolt24
  
  I read somewhere around 10% of Amish are registered to vote. How many of that 10% do vote, you can’t be sure.
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:27pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Even the Armish are trolling Biden, such fun. Who would have thought?
  
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  November 3, 2020 1:09am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/123273789/new-christchurch-hospital-building-named-waipapa
I just have to ask: Wai ?
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November 2, 2020 6:33pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Wai not?
  
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  November 2, 2020 6:35pm
RJ

South Island iwi Ngāi Tahu is taking the Crown to court, seeking “rangatiratanga” over all freshwater in its takiwā (area).

The case would seek to establish “shared authority” with the Crown over policy and practice.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/123273969/ngi-tahu-takes-crown-to-court-for-rangatiratanga-of-its-waterways
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November 2, 2020 6:48pm
surfing

It is about time racism against white people stops! This ignorant journalist doesn’t realise we now do to white people what used to be done to maoris!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/kiri-gillespie-change-is-coming-lets-embrace-it/MSSTF5QMO4GGEZQCR7K2LRJMDA/

Especially in light of the historic apology on Friday from Ōtūmoetai Primary School to former Māori students who were removed because of their ethnicity.
“I had no idea such outrageous actions had taken place. The revelation filled me with shock and sadness. Imagine such measures taking place in today’s world?
…
I’d like to think we’ve come a long way since.

Except, we are now taking white students out of medical school so that Maori kids can take their place!

How is this not just as outrageous!
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November 2, 2020 7:24pm
- Cobolt24
  
  Because it’s in the name of ‘equality’
  
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  November 2, 2020 9:26pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This is where the media fear and public servant fear starts. The bastard Govt in NZ has been doing the same.
https://twitter.com/chizmaga/status/1320549146282106881?
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November 2, 2020 7:26pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Tell me in 2 days ok?
https://twitter.com/StatesPoll/status/1322890590007095296?
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November 2, 2020 7:29pm
tranquil

Hi all –

**Fascinating** interview here – Paul Joseph Watson interviews Noor Bin-Laden – the niece of Osama Bin-Laden!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFa3EEvRwuA

She comes across as a **very** intelligent and well-educated woman.
Amazingly, she says that she has found that her being pro-Trump has been more problematic than her carrying her uncle’s surname!
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November 2, 2020 8:09pm
Jack5

The NZ Herald reports:

The South Island’s Maori tribe, Ngai Tahu, has begun legal action seeking a High Court declaration the tribe has rangatiratanga over South Island rivers and lakes.

According to one of the online Maori dictionaries, rangatiratanga meant chieftainship, right to exercise authority, chiefly autonomy, chiefly authority, ownership and broadened, from ” Bible and Treaty of Waitangi translations” to cover “sovereignty, principality, self-determination, self-management”.

The Herald says the Crown was served with papers this afternoon.

It reports that tribal spokeswoman Lisa Tumahai said the claim is to address environmental mismanagement.
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