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Captain Mainwaring

I think I’m going to have to learn Te Reo, otherwise it won’t be long before I can’t understand the TV3 weather forecast.
What are these idiots trying to do to us?
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November 23, 2020 8:01am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  That is one place where clear messaging is always required…
  
  Not much use offering weather warnings for towns folks can’t recognise or locate on the map.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:06am
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    Weatherman: “Thunder, lighting and massive flooding in store for Otepoti tomorrow”
    
    Me: “Haha. Those poor suckers! Wouldn’t want to be an Otepotian!”
    
    Me the next day: “Wait, what?”
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:32am
- Prince
  
  The Woke will be delighted to hear that.
  Fortunately I live in Wellington, so we don’t need weather forecasts.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:08am
  - sooty
    
    Don’t like it at the moment, never mind come back in ten minutes and it will be just what you wanted!
    
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    November 23, 2020 8:45am
    - Prince
      
      Still waiting. Maybe December.
      
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      November 23, 2020 12:17pm
  - Biscuit
    
    Prince, I’m in your camp.
    
    I don’t watch TV3 so haven’t had to endure the f*ckwittery they use there but I chuckle each and every time Son of Jim gives his Weather Promo during One News:
    
    ‘After the break, all you need to know about the weather at your place tomorrow.’
    
    I have yet to hear Dan C even mention my neck of the woods let alone tell me what climatic occurrences I might expect there on the morrow…
    
    Does he – or One News – seriously think there are folk out there too out of the loop to not go ‘Oooh, it was fine today. But it rained in Sydney 3 days ago. Dare I plan for some wetness or should I wait for Dan C to give me the Lesson for Today?’?
    
    [That said, clearly there are One watchers who sit through such ‘Forecast’, complaining pen in hand, ready to downtick whatever it is Hilary Barry is garbed in for the following Seven Sharp.]
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:39am
- Catgurl13
  
  They are also going to be putting Maori on our road signs as requested by the new Maori MPs.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:13am
  - sooty
    
    That’s going to confuse the tourist.
    They have enough trouble with english!
    I no understand. I’m too dumb!
    
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    November 23, 2020 8:46am
  - rouppe
    
    Are they putting English on the Maori road signs?
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:03am
- Yvette
  
  Captain, I too had wondered about the recent upsurge in te reo usage one TVNZ and likes of Magic Talk. And the initial question was how does one learn anything with the usual lack of a translation of what has just been said – but then when you do know what it was, the next question is, How often will you ever want to ordinarily say to anyone “Welcome to One Sport” or “That was your 1 News headlines”?
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:20am
  - dcrane
    
    I could have supported this if the point was to identify useful Maori words and expressions and use them somehow so I gradually learn what they mean. But after years of listening to RNZ I still have no idea what even the most repeated phrases there mean. It’s really just virtue-signaling.
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:06am
- Paulus
  
  Manipulate and control !
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:27am
- GazzaW
  
  The Radio NZ breakfast programme is almost entirely incomprehensible Captain.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:30am
  - Ehlana
    
    I don’t know what they’re trying to say, but what I hear is “Call [John Smith] a ho”. Prostitution is legal in NZ, but do the prostitutes really like to be called hos?
    
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    November 23, 2020 8:46am
    - Aunty
      
      I know. And sometimes they call their old ladies queer. It’s a bit rude if you ask me.
      
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      November 23, 2020 8:59am
- KevO'Brien
  
  It’s pitifully simplistic with its 1840 base words. However the pronouns could drive you crazy–I hope no gender sensitised person gets near them.
  The elders 0f the 1930’s were wise in promoting English for their people.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:33am
- artemisia
  
  Still watching weather on the telly? Why?
  
  I used to use the metservice site until it changed format to be unreadable. Nzcity works well. Nice clear pics 3 hourly for the next 5 days.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:37am
  - H. Upmann
    
    Try https://darksky.net
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:59am
- BananaLlama
  
  They think that using a language no one identifies with will increase its usage rather than increasing resentment.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:44am
- Harriet
  
  I live in aussie as you know and I have stopped reading stuff and the herald.
  In Israel the official languages are Hebrew and Arabic, with English being compulsory in their schools. Their newspapers reflect that.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:48am
- Fletch
  
  You know what? If there is a case to be made for learning one of the official languages of New Zealand, then it should be sign language. There are obviously more deaf people in NZ using sign language than people speaking Maori. Just look at the daily televised Covid press conferences. They always have a person up there signing for the deaf people. Are there any captions in Maori? Or verbal translations in Maori? Of course not. Because everybody can speak English in New Zealand. Which proves to me that Maori is more of a novelty language. It’s not needed for communication in the way sign language is. Which is the whole point of a language anyway. To communicate.
  
  I would support more that sign language be used occasionally on the news. At least it has a real purpose.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:53am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    In this country there are three official languages.
    The point of English and sign language is to communicate.
    The point of Te Reo is to virtue signal.
    
    // (sarc)
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:03am
    - Ruahine
      
      Odakyu-sen.
      I am not sure that English is an actual official language in Aotearoa.
      
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      November 23, 2020 9:40am
      - Ruahine
        
        https://www.times.co.nz/news/petition-to-make-english-official-language-of-nz/
        
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        November 23, 2020 10:41am
  - SGA
    
    There are obviously more deaf people in NZ using sign language than people speaking Maori.
    
    Is that true?
    
    Just look at the daily televised Covid press conferences. They always have a person up there signing for the deaf people. Are there any captions in Maori?
    
    Surely you are deliberately being silly to try to make a point? All that reflects is that deaf people are, in effect, monolingual (so require the extra “feed”), whereas Maori speakers are bilingual, doesn’t it?
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:20am
    - Fletch
      
      Right, but overseas in Japan, China, France, Germany, Italy, etc, they have people who only speak their native language (French, for example), although it is becoming increasingly common for people to have English as a second language. So there is a purpose in learning French, German, Italian etc to be able to communicate. There is no comparison to learning Maori here. It was almost a dead language before it was resurrected a few years ago for mostly cultural reasons. Its primary purpose is not for communication. You may as well learn Latin. Or speak to each other in pig-Latin for fun.
      
      There are probably more people who speak Klingon worldwide than Maori. But the purpose is similar. It’s more of a novelty. If you want to save it for cultural reasons, then fair enough. But it is pointless in making it compulsory to learn in schools or foisting it on the general population via the media when it generally has no purpose.
      
      As I said, there is a point in learning German if you have relatives in Germany or want to travel there. It is communication, to be understood. It is promoting a lie to think that NZ has a similar native language. We don’t. Just imagine if the U.S brought in compulsory teaching of Indian (Native American) language or Australia brought in teaching of the Aboriginal language. Same thing. But you don’t see them doing it, for good reason.
      
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      November 23, 2020 9:57am
      - SGA
        
        There are probably more people who speak Klingon worldwide than Maori. But the purpose is similar. It’s more of a novelty.
        
        No, Fletch. As you reluctantly concede later, there is a cultural aspect here that makes that comparison silly.
        
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        November 23, 2020 11:12am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Yes.
        It would like the Hokkaiko Prefectural government mandating Ainu language courses for its students.
        
        (There would be activists in Japan who would push for this to happen. “The Japanese in Hokkaido stole the land from the Ainu, didn’t you know!”)
        
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        November 23, 2020 11:18am
    - Paulus
      
      Is sign language on TV also in Maori – if not why not?
      
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      November 23, 2020 12:31pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Maori has a residual use in Maori Land and genealogical matters but outside that it is a virtual fossil.
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:28am
  - Observer of Life
    
    And the point is no matter what languages you speak in this country, if you go deaf in your older years you can still communicate with others. So yeh, I’m all for NZ Sign Language to be encouraged mire than the Reo.
    
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    November 23, 2020 6:32pm
- Philview
  
  I note that all media are obviously under instruction to call the country Aotearoa now. The unsaid political motivation behind it bothers me rather than the use of the name. It is evidence of State control of our media rather than various media independently deciding to drop all reference to New Zealand.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:01am
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    You can easily know a policy is unpopular when nobody is ever consulted on it. There are a lot of those.
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:36am
  - GazzaW
    
    I have it from an insider at one of our largest radio stations that there is now a requirement at TV One and RNZ that a minimum number of Maori words are spoken each hour or during the TV News. He said that Maori influence is ‘very strong’.
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:40am
    - Nickc2
      
      I don’t doubt what you’re saying Gazza but if true, shouldn’t we as taxpayers insist that at least 80% of words spoken on Maori TV are in English. The taxpayer pays for Maori TV and at least 80% of NZers speak English.
      As a side note Gazza, I’ve never heard a Maori order a beer in Te Reo.
      
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      November 23, 2020 12:45pm
  - Jack5
    
    Yep, State control of the media coming: TVNZ and Radio NZ likely to combine; the Government now financing rural coverage for newspapers through a scheme run through Radio NZ; NZME (the Herald, NewstalkZB etc) in a co-operation deal with State-financed Maori TV.
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:56am
- Sacha
  
  A few months ago I saved an article from a local paper – it went something like this:
  
  “Te ******** ***********. claims that ******** ****** breaks ************** customs and demands **** for perceived *********** ** ******** . . . . . . . . . . .”
  It went on in 50/50 English/Maori, and by the end I was none the wiser as to the grievance, but got the message that money would be the answer.
  
  As for the weather, I find looking at the sky and feeling the sun/rain/wind is quite helpful.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:57am
- Ehlana
  
  I have a cat. She goes outside first thing in the morning and periodically returns during the day. I use her to determine the weather – if she is wet, it is raining, if she is warm, it’s sunny, etc. Seems quite reliable.
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:36am
- Brian McDonald
  
  They’ve already done it. You missed the bus.
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:50am
- curry4me
  
  Captain Mainwaring: Just get your weather forecast from an app, or the net. Put your TV on TradeMe; or in the local recycle depot. Job done.
  
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  November 23, 2020 1:17pm
- RdM
  
  It’s not just TV and radio.
  Have a look at the chart at the top of this page.
  https://www.stats.govt.nz/topics/society
  (and the Table and Metadata tabs.)
  
  No English at all!
  
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  November 23, 2020 6:59pm
  - Nickc2
    
    It’s a Govt web site FFS. To expect anything else would be pissing into the wind.
    
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    November 23, 2020 7:54pm
Prince

As a lifetime Wellingtonian, I have nothing but contempt for the current mayor.
I didn’t think much of the last one, or the one before that, but Foster is plumbing more depths that I thought possible. To be openly resisting the majority decision of his council, supported by the Courts, explains why the city is in full speed reverse.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/123446946/mayor-andy-foster-literally-putting-up-tents-as-shelly-bay-occupation-begins
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November 23, 2020 8:05am
- MCos
  
  I thought he was supposed to be the bees knees.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:34am
  - artemisia
    
    Mr Foster was not Mr Lester. Job done.
    
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    November 23, 2020 8:49am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Disgraceful indeed.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:34am
- Stephen Russell
  
  Even Andrea Vance recognises that Wellington is a basket case:
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/123435051/wellington-im-sorry-to-say-it-but-your-good-days-are-over
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:57am
  - H. Upmann
    
    This is probably the first time I have ever agreed with anything written by Andrea Vance.
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:16am
- Durden
  
  Do you think he got a dressing from his benefactor / patron Saint Peter J for having taken his money to win the election and letting him down when it came to the crunch.
  
  Maybe the craven grovelling was done in private was not sufficient. Lester has to publicly humiliate himself and do hard labour in the Wellington southerly and rain as atonement. In addition to providing loos and cleaning them I suppose.
  
  If this attempt at thwarting the development does not work, will it stop there, or will St. PJ turn Japanese and give Lester a knife and ask him to do the honourable thing ?
  
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  November 23, 2020 2:41pm
artemisia

Ihumatao housing development – illegally occupied.

Shelly Bay housing development – illegally occupied.

Pukeiahua housing development – parliamentary petition for government to buy from private owners in front of Maori Affairs Select Committee.

Next?
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November 23, 2020 8:07am
- KiwiSapper
  
  You missed the major one. Where were you when Bastion Point was paid for, three times at least and still illegally occupied?
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:57am
Maggie Pie

Just heard ZB’s Mike Hosking saying… “How he’s going to love the look on peoples faces when Biden is sworn in as President on 20th of January”
Ever since he took over from Paul Holmes my partners reckoned he sounds like a bit of a f – – wit.
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November 23, 2020 8:09am
- Catgurl13
  
  Hosking is a smarmy twat. He always make me turn him off on anything I see him on.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:15am
  - surfing
    
    I usually agree with Hosking, but can’t stand his personality.
    
    Conundrum indeed.
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:04am
    - Chris R
      
      The only one worse than Hosking is his airheaded wife who burbles like the judge of a children’s flower-show. Why they inflict the twit on listeners at 5am on week-days amazes me. That said I have stayed away from Newstalk since the date of the Presidential election.
      
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      November 23, 2020 2:14pm
  - Sacha
    
    I’m like that with Holmes – he looks like a self-satisfied smarmy twat to me . . . . . . . .
    I saw a few minutes of a programme earlier this year it was awful ingratiating stuff .
    (Actually, I thought he had died, but I must have been confusing him with someone else.)
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:03am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      You’re confusing him with Paul Henry. Now there is a real self-satisfied smarmy twat.
      
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      November 23, 2020 11:31am
    - rouppe
      
      John Campbell?
      
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      November 23, 2020 12:49pm
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Just a twat
        
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        November 23, 2020 10:39pm
- rouppe
  
  Is he wrong?
  
  If not, maybe he isn’t a f – – wit.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:25am
  - Surely Knott
    
    He’s not wrong. Biden will almost certainly be sworn in. But being a know it all condescending dick about it is where the problem lies. Looking down your nose at other people who are probably on your same political side, and rejecting them is why the left used to lose. Now this place feels like the standard circa 2016.
    
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    November 23, 2020 8:42am
    - rouppe
      
      Well, how one reacts to another is more in one’s own control than that others.
      
      Yes he comes across as a know it all, however he usually has data and examples to back up his position, and he isn’t intimidated by position, hence Ardern getting snarky with him again this morning when he kept asking for facts on when paid-for Pfizer vaccinations were going to arrive,and she didn’t have any.
      
      At the end of the day no one else is in control of your radio dial.
      
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      November 23, 2020 10:42am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, zb get their newsfeed direct from cnn. Without a hate object many companies will find it tough going. The cancel culture under a Biden regime will take action against against any criticism of Joe.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:41am
- Fletch
  
  If Biden is sworn in then Democracy is pretty much dead in the U.S and hundreds of thousands of people have been disenfranchised. It is beyond doubt that fraud occurred on a massive scale to get Biden elected. There are thousands of affidavits from people attesting to such and it goes against every predicted statistical norm as KIA pointed out.
  
  If Biden is elected then the U.S is no longer the most free country in the world. It has become more like a banana republic, with the Democrats the monkeys in charge.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:00am
  - Cantabrian
    
    And see how New York continues to descend into chaos and anarchy. It is just one example of a Democratic led city/state.
    
    The increase in violence has given rise to fears that the city could be returning to darker times, decades ago, when residents feared for their safety amid a crack epidemic. The new crime wave comes as the city also grapples with a faltering economy and pressure to enact police reforms championed by racial justice advocates.
    
    “It’s almost like a perfect storm,” Alfred Titus Jr., an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a former NYPD homicide detective, previously told Fox News. “We had bail reform, then defunding the police, which cut the amount of officers on the streets and the overtime that could be made, and now we have COVID-19.”
    
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/subway-shovings-flamethrowers-nyc-descends-into-anarchy
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:20am
  - SB2
    
    With every hopelessly failed court actions and reviews to remind the American voter.
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:33am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  By leaving the apostrophe out of partners you give the impression that you it spread it about a bit with several partners.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:41am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  Mike has always been a little f—wit.
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:38am
Captain Mainwaring

Another illegal land occupation. Another chance for the police to uphold the law.
Don’t bet on it.
And the dopey Wellington mayor sides with the protesters.
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November 23, 2020 8:19am
- pdm
  
  I am not sure that upholding the law is of major importance to Poto.
  
  Virtue signalling will rate higher.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:24am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    There is nothing higher than the law except God.
    A govt that does not respect law is no government.
    
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    November 23, 2020 8:37am
    - Stephen Russell
      
      You are half right.
      
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      November 23, 2020 10:01am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Seems hate speech is going to figure more highly than sorting out who’s shooting who in Otara.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/123443282/new-police-minister-wants-more-diversity-but-treads-softly-around-race
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/123468320/police-presence-in-tara-auckland-after-third-house-shot-at-in-under-24-hours
    
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    November 23, 2020 8:39am
    - Jack5
      
      The Lefties are hammering away as they build the gallows for free speech.
      
      Here’s Minister of Justice Kris Faafoi on coming controls:
      
      ”There are some clear and significant gaps in the protections against hate speech under the Human Rights Act 1993 that are out of step with thinking in society today.”
      
      Faafoi, who spent 10 years as a journalist for TVNZ and the BBC, will “in the near future” announce proposed amendments to the law. How shameful for a former journalist to be leading the charge against free speech.
      
      Interesting in the Stuff report that Maggy links to: a plug for the Utopian registered charity, JustSpeak, in which Kim Workman is the only male on the board of nine. Another board member is quoted by Stuff saying she will be watching how well the new Police Minister responds to the issue of “unconscious bias”.
      
      You have to smile at Stuff reporting a campaign against bias.
      
      “JustSpeak,” which on its web site describes itself as a registered trust, is sort of a trading name of the charity registered as the Robson Hanaan Trust, and which was first registered as the Amos Trust.
      
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      November 23, 2020 11:20am
      - Jack5
        
        Elaboration: Kim Workman founded the Robson Hanan Trust (I mis-spelled “Hanan” in my 11.20 post above).
        
        According to a Scoop post six years ago, the Trust administers the Rethinking Crime and Punishment project, and Justspeak, the Young Peoples Voice on Justice.
        
        In the trust’s latest performance report, this is included: ” … on the campaigning front, we ran a successful campaign to restore voting rights to people in prison.”
        
        The report also includes:
        
        ” … we also began work to support young people’s participation in the conversation around the referendum to legalise cannabis, with a focus on bringing evidence around the drug law reform into young people’s conversations with family and friends….”
        
        No danger of this mob being clobbered by Labour’s coming clampdown on freedom of speech.
        
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        November 23, 2020 5:37pm
- rouppe
  
  Yes. It’s one thing to vote and lose, it’s another to refuse to accept democracy.
  
  I voted for him lady election mainly to get rid of Lester.
  
  Don’t think there’s anyone decent left to vote for now
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:27am
  - Stephen Russell
    
    There are plenty of decent people left to vote for. Unfortunately there is a shortage of decent people to vote for them. Intelligence and competence are now disqualifying factors in any Wellington council or mayoral race.
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:03am
    - Nickc2
      
      That appears to be a nationwide problem. Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch are just the tip of the iceberg as they say. However, there is a common denominator. No prize for guessing what it is.
      
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      November 23, 2020 10:09am
      - curry4me
        
        Nick2: Rate payers should get two voting forms. This would solve a lot of the problems with drop-kick councillors. Withdrawing competence would solve many of the rest.
        
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        November 23, 2020 1:23pm
- artemisia
  
  To be fair, Mayor Foster did campaign on his opposition to Shelly Bay development. He is now keeping faith with his voters, on the basis Shelly Bay is a big reason they voted for him to be mayor.
  
  All the time voters had another reason.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:52am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    He has done everything in his power as elected Mayor to stop the development. Voters cannot expect more. Illegal occupation is not within his power as elected Mayor.
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:56am
  - rouppe
    
    The only thing there council had control over was one piece of that bay. Cassel already had control of over the rest, with the agreement and collaboration of the owning Maori Trust.
    
    So who is do these “whenua” protesters represent?
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:17am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Well Andy was.bought and paid for by the Jacksons. But this is beyond stupid. Next time Peter realise you have to back a ticket. One vote isn’t enough.
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:50am
jv

Claire Szabo took over a shambles as Labour’s President, did the job behind the scenes and 12 months later was able to stand behind on the stage and reflect on a huge win on election night.
Peter Goodfellow would do well to do the same – do what he is supposedly/apparently good at, stfu and leave it to Judith alone to be the leader. David Carter might well do the same thing.
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November 23, 2020 8:19am
- MCos
  
  The President’s job in a NZ political party is to organise stuff, I would have thought, not become involved in national politics.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:28am
- peterwn
  
  The Board has done 80% of things right. It has been successful with membership and fundraising which are arguably its main roles. There were a few issues surrounding candidate selection, etc but it must be remembered that the Board’s powers are limited here since the dominant decision makers for candidate selection are the Party members in individual electorates and virtually anyone is welcome as a member upon paying a minimum $5 membership fee.
  It is the Caucus that needs a big kick in the backside, not the Peter Goodfellow or the Board. There are major things that Caucus failed to grapple with. Although much work was done on policy, projecting a positive image and feelz was a serious shortcoming, with more negative things coming out than positive. As the late political scientist and commentator Keith Jackson once said, politics is about selling the ‘sizzle’, not the ‘sausage’. Caucus needs to take this on board. Two other things Caucus need to keep constantly in mind – and they should have them pinned up on the wall:
  1. The principal objective of a political party is to get into power and if in power to stay in power.
  2. Loose lips sink elections.
  Seems Caucus got so distracted as to overlook these obvious things.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:50am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The media also exaggerated any hint of concern. Policies were de-platformed but bothered MP’s were promoted.
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:34am
  - Southtop2
    
    Also Peter, and probably most importantly: “stand for nothing, fall for anything!” Does anyone know what the National Parties principles actually are?
    They appear to be very left of centre and seem to motivated by personal self interest of their MPs?
    Maybe the president could assist with reinforcing some principles e.g. (from Wikipedia)
    In a 1959 speech, party leader and Prime Minister Keith Holyoake encapsulated the conservative and liberal principles of the National Party:
    
    “We believe in the maximum degree of personal freedom and the maximum degree of individual choice for our people. We believe in the least interference necessary with individual rights, and the least possible degree of state interference.”
    oh wait isnt that now Act?
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:57am
    - Southtop2
      
      During my lunchtime read I found this: https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com/2020/11/chris-luxon-and-anne-salmondcan-we-stop.html
      Case rested!
      
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      November 23, 2020 12:26pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        I’ve been saying all along. Luxon is not the saviour of the National Party. He will be another Todd Muller.
        
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        November 23, 2020 6:41pm
      - muppeth8r
        
        nz will likely never be led by a bald white man ever again so to suggest luxon is the most retarded thing ever.
        
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        November 23, 2020 8:19pm
      - Cactus Kate
        
        Come on don’t lie, you read me during work hours. Do not feel bad, your boss probably is too.
        
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        November 25, 2020 5:06am
  - Stephen Russell
    
    National had some good sausages. But they should never have opened a window on how they are made.
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:05am
BeaB

Radio NZ having a field day in their perpetual battle against National. Lots of selective quoting and hyperbole from that increasingly unhinged Suzie who hasn’t yet decided if she is an intrepid girl reporter or a giggly girl with Corin.
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November 23, 2020 8:20am
Maggy Wassilieff

Five rules for evidence communication

Avoid unwarranted certainty, neat narratives and partisan presentation; strive to inform, not persuade.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03189-1
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November 23, 2020 8:22am
- Ehlana
  
  Excellent article. Thanks for posting it Maggy.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:33am
- SB2
  
  MW , for unwarrented certainty we get this,
  
  “..New Zealand’s response to the pandemic has been praised. And the country’s Ministry of Health web page on COVID-19 test results includes several paragraphs describing uncertainties, including the likelihood of a false negative (meaning that a test says someone’s not infected when they actually are). The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page mentions no such uncertainties. Neither does the UK National Health Service website (despite us raising the issue with them): it was deemed too confusing. Even with a highly accurate test, thousands of people get false negatives and false assurance that could lead to risky behaviours.”
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:39am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Considering a plan had already been written in 2017
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    i started with “keep it out”
    why did we have any community cases in NZ
    
    oooohhhh I know, because these clowns didn’t follow it.
    
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    November 23, 2020 11:46am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    What’s your point SB2?
    
    Our Min of Health has described uncertainties…. which is one of the 5 Points the authors are making.
    
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    November 23, 2020 12:18pm
Nukuleka

I love the way that the Bidenistas here on Kiwiblog get so frothy and hysterical about Trump contesting the election. For four years Trump has had to endure the most absurd barrage of bizarre and baseless accusations against him from the Democrats and their fellow travellers in the msm. He has been mocked and abused and maligned and laughed at in the most insane manner possible. And now is his chance to say one big final FU to all his detractors. I don’t care one iota about whether or not his appeals are successful- I am quite prepared to believe that Biden, possibly the most inept and weakest candidate ever to be put up by the Democrats, did indeed garner the largest number of votes in history. And I don’t think Trump is undermining ‘the democratic process’. It’s karma and the Democrats deserve it.
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November 23, 2020 8:25am
- Philview
  
  I was watching the news recently and saw footage of Biden finish a speech and then grab a lady’s hair and use it to wipe his face. The media didn’t comment on this strange thing to do. It makes me think Biden could be gone within a year.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:41am
  - C J Southern
    
    Would love to see a link to that occuring just as you’ve described it but somehow I suspect that you won’t be able to back up your assertion.
    
    Prove me wrong.
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:58am
    - Philview
      
      Not the same incident but here is a montage of unusual similar behaviour from Joe clearly showing signs of dementia.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H5NJZMDumY
      
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      November 23, 2020 10:44am
      - Batman
        
        I see your collection of stutter side effects and raise you a forensic psychologist from the Yale School of Medicine
        
        https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2020/04/27/psychiatrist-trumps-mental-incapacity-more-dangerous-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic
        
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        November 23, 2020 10:57am
      - C J Southern
        
        So in summary – as predicted – you’re unable to backup your assertion.
        
        Seems to be a familiar theme among Trumpets.
        
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        November 23, 2020 12:10pm
- Lance
  
  Oh for goodness sake! … there is two threads today alone about Trump. There has been many many more before that.
  
  Please let GD be a place of refuge from the torrent of drivel surround that person.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:41am
  - Nukuleka
    
    Oh for goodness sake, Lance, there is one thread today alone from someone who didn’t learn the basics in primary school and thinks that ‘there is two threads’ is grammatically correct.
    
    Please let GD be a place of refuge from the grammatically illiterate.
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:35am
- MCos
  
  So that’s what it’s all about.
  
  Utu.
  
  You’re humiliated because your man lost to ‘possibly the most inept and weakest candidate ever put up by the Democrats’.
  Bland and all that Biden might be he still managed to win in a ‘landslide’ & it wasn’t because of any bias in the NZ media.
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:57am
- Harriet
  
  “The left keep telling us to shut up while we keep letting them talk.” is an old saying.
  
  Trump has become unusually quiet, while it is Obama for some reason who is back to his most charismatic best.
  
  Cruz is going terrifically well in the prelude. 😎
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:02am
- Inandout
  
  Nuku, I can see a bloody shambles if Biden succeeds but as you allude to, Trump may have the last laugh. Time will tell, or should I say the Supreme Court.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:06am
  - SB2
    
    Inandout, dream on.
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:42am
- Vory v zakone
  
  Who said this?
  
  ‘Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #Follow TheFacts.’
  
  It was Nancy Pelosi, whining after the 2016 Presidency was “stolen” from Hillary ‘It Was My Turn’ Clinton.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:15am
  - SB2
    
    Vory v zakone, did Nancy actually say that?
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:44am
    - Critical Thinker
      
      Fact check: Yes. Crazy Nancy did indeed say that ?
      
      https://thespectator.info/2020/11/13/our-election-was-hijacked-twitchy-com/
      
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      November 23, 2020 12:54pm
      - C J Southern
        
        Sooo – the implication here is that it’s “crazy talk” when Nancy says it, but it’s gospel when Trump says it?
        
        Reality check: It has no credibility when ANYONE says it unless it’s backed by credible evidence – and to date we’ve not seen any of that from anyone.
        
        Moreover, the courts haven’t seen any either apparantly.
        
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        November 23, 2020 5:25pm
  - Bullion
    
    The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee found that the Russian government had engaged in an “extensive campaign” to sabotage the election.
    
    An extract of a summary from the NY Times of the 5th, and final, volume of the report:
    
    It provided a bipartisan Senate imprimatur for an extraordinary set of facts: The Russian government disrupted an American election to help Mr. Trump become president, Russian intelligence services viewed members of the Trump campaign as easily manipulated, and some of Mr. Trump’s advisers were eager for the help from an American adversary.
    
    To get around the paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20201120134942/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/senate-intelligence-russian-interference-report.html
    
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    November 23, 2020 11:17am
- SGA
  
  so frothy and hysterical about Trump contesting the election.
  
  pffft… they’re not the ones writing HUGE guest posts on the subject are they? And, as far as I can tell, you are the first to bring it up today.
  
  Although I thought it was going to be a narrow Biden win, I wouldn’t have been pulling my hair at a Trump victory. I would have shook my head in a vague sense of disbelief and bought plenty more popcorn.
  
  What I have always found more intriguing is the almost cult-like behaviour of some of his NZ acolytes. Much of the criticism of post-election events is more in reaction to their posts than anything pro-Biden, per se.
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:27am
peterwn

There was a big fuss some months ago that the Police were trying to seize assets from a business owner being ‘proceeds of crime’ the ‘crimes’ being Health and Safety breaches. This has been called ‘over the top’ use of such powers which are usually used against drug dealers. Assets are ‘frozen’ and the matter is currently before the High Court with closing submissions due next week and a judgment probably some time in the new year. It will be very interesting as the Judge is a former Law School Dean specialising in Public Law and so would be acutely aware of the issues. Interestingly there is another reason that allegedly justifies asset seizure but this is suppressed. Perhaps this might be the dominant reason.
The judgment when released will make interesting reading.
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November 23, 2020 8:26am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  peterwn, could you please be so kind as to bring the judgment to our attention, as soon as it is released. I am certain it will be most interesting reading.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:47am
  - peterwn
    
    There will be news of the judgment and it will appear fairly quickly on:
    https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/judgments
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:43am
- Nickc2
  
  I understand asset stripping will be linked to the crime of hate speech. Get used to it cupcakes, socialism is firmly entrenched now and this issue is just the beginning. Be prepared to have your house and car given to someone Cindy’s mob deem more deserving. (sarc)
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:53am
  - peterwn
    
    The Police would need to show that there was significant financial benefit from the alleged ‘hate speech’. The objective is to seize the proceeds of crime including money made on the back of it, it is not an additional ‘open ended’ punishment.
    Assuming in this case Health and Safety offences were the only concern (which is how this case has been characterised) then invoking ‘proceeds of crime’ rules could well be over the top. However if there is a pattern of recklessness with regard to Health and Safety issues and a person has financially profited from the lack of a Health and Safety regime and with taking shortcuts, then the issue becomes why the person should financially benefit by having a business advantage over those people and businesses who take Health and Safety seriously.
    The safeguards against excessive and inappropriate use of the ‘proceeds of crime’ legislation lies with the Judiciary who will uphold the law in accordance with its text and in the light of its purpose. The Judiciary has been accused of not fully upholding the ‘three strikes’ legislation by allegedly excessive use of the ‘manifestly unjust’ provision. This clearly shows that the Judiciary is most likely to apply the ‘proceeds of crime’ law with reasonableness and common sense and will no doubt leave the Police upset with some of court’s decisions.
    
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    November 23, 2020 11:03am
    - Jack5
      
      There’s nothing to grab from Stuff, but NZME at June 30 reported net assets of $119 million.
      
      The Herald, Newstalk ZB, and other NZME assets will have to toe the red line.
      
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      November 23, 2020 3:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Moderate Earthquake in Gisborne 5 minutes ago….
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November 23, 2020 8:30am
- RW Capitalist
  
  I think your assessment is on shaky ground.
  
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  November 23, 2020 11:53am
  - peterwn
    
    The ground could not have been shaking that much – it was only a 2.5 which Geonet classifies as ‘weak’.
    
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    November 23, 2020 12:33pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      No
      Check the Geonet site
      https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake
      
      Since 8.24am there’ve been 4 earthquakes located 15km NW of Gisborne.
      
      The one at 8.25am was Moderate – 4.2 at a depth of 20km
      
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      November 23, 2020 1:04pm
      - peterwn
        
        Oops, I should have dived deeper into Geonet – I assumed your comment referred to the 2.5 one.
        
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        November 23, 2020 2:33pm
Philview

The numbers of children leaving school with no qualifications has increased. The Government doesn’t know the reason. Here are my suggestions 1) You scrapped National Standards and didn’t replace them with an alternative 2) You scrapped charter schools. 3) New Zealand is sliding doen OECD educational rankings and you say that eurocentric educational systems don’t work here. This would be a good day for the National Party to say something.
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November 23, 2020 8:30am
- kowtow
  
  They introduced NCEA to suit the failing tail , so why be surprised when the failing tail gets bigger.
  
  Mass education was designed for the masses in the middle . Under our neo socialist system they focus on the bottom and lo and behold as with all things socialist , their “fix” makes the problem bigger.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:14am
  - Sacha
    
    Mass education was introduced in order to provide a work force for the Industrial Revolution. People had to be able to read/calculate in order to work the new machines. The side benefits gradually increased the quality of life for all citizens until countries became wealthy enough to support those who were dis-inclined or unable to provide for themselves – we are now on the downward path to mass poverty again.
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:14am
    - peterwn
      
      Possibly but there would have always been a keenness for education. The canny Scoys in Denedin recognised the value of education – they got a university and medical school up and running. The Canterbury settlers too – classes were held on at least one of the first four ships – the forerunner of Christs College (which quite easily could have become a state school), and Nelson Province where keen people set up a schools system which later became part of the state system (Nelson College did become a state school).
      
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      November 23, 2020 12:42pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  It’s almost as if electing incompetents produces worse results. Could the two things be correlated?
  
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  November 23, 2020 11:59am
Maggy Wassilieff

Kids leaving school with no qualifications increases for 2nd year in a row…

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/431226/the-trend-is-of-concern-school-leavers-with-no-qualifications-rises
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November 23, 2020 8:33am
- Prince
  
  Closing down those nasty Charter Schools is working a charm, eh !
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:38am
- mandk
  
  I heard something on Hosking’s show this morning about kids being put into open plan classrooms with 60+ other kids.
  
  Apparently, they are called Modern Learning Environments (MLEs).
  
  Sounded more like Minimised Learning Experiences (MLEs) to me.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:01am
  - Ian Boag
    
    and 2 teachers …..
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:24am
    - sooty
      
      Yep, spend thousands to knock holes in the wall to make bigger classes, with two teachers.
      Why not keep what we have already, a teacher in each room and save thousands?
      
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      November 23, 2020 10:28am
      - Ian Boag
        
        I have worked in one of these rooms (as a volunteer mentor in a decile 1 school). It seemed to work OK. Teachers seemed as happy as teachers ever get to be, kids seemed relatively on the ball ….
        
        Like you, I’m not a trained schoolteacher ….
        
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        November 23, 2020 10:36am
      - alloytoo
        
        MLE only works for kids who are not struggling.
        
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        November 23, 2020 2:37pm
    - The Proper Ghandi
      
      Do two shit teachers make one good one?
      
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      November 23, 2020 10:45am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Not at all… just double confusion for the children..
        If the teachers in an open shared space are highly competent and if their students are by nature self-disciplined, we see creative teaching and strong learning outcomes. But if the teachers are not from the top echelons of the profession or if the students need more deliberate management, these new learning environments are unsuccessful.
        
        https://www.quietrev.com/never-ending-noise-in-new-zealands-open-plan-classrooms/
        
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        November 23, 2020 12:50pm
- MCos
  
  Be a lot worse this year too due to the March lockdown.
  A lot of kids found jobs to help out their families and didn’t return to school.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:05am
- Ruahine
  
  Yes. Keep them stupid and keep them poor. Voting fodder for the lefties. A clever strategy put in place by Helen Clark with their takeover of educashun.
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:09am
Maggie Pie

Thort this was worth sharing with the group.
We both felt like Asian last night, so decided to head out early to the Dominion Road part of Chinatown. The place was already heaving!
Fluked a carpark right outside a little Jap joint with a ‘C Grade’ Certificate displayed in the window. Decided to try it anyway. Actually, the food was fab and service great. We’ll probably even get takeaways there one night.
But what i was going to say, we learnt a new word…… ‘kuchisabishii’.
According to our waiter it’s Japanese for, “longing to have or put something in one’s mouth”

😛
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November 23, 2020 8:49am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “Kuchi sabishii” in the context of food means “longing to have ______”
  
  In the context of smoking, it refers to the longing to have a cigarette between your lips. (This doesn’t translate into English so well, but expresses the detailed awareness of fine sensations that the Japanese language has.)
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:10am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Thank you Sensei.
    
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    November 23, 2020 9:48am
    - The Proper Ghandi
      
      Bow down for your Sensei, Maggie.
      
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      November 23, 2020 10:48am
      - Jack5
        
        …without “kuchi sabishii” ?
        
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        November 23, 2020 12:00pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, I believe Monica Lewinsky thought Bill Clinton spoke Japanese.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:58am
- Nickc2
  
  What’s kuchisabishii got to do with foot?
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:21am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  Maggie, I’ve long suspected you of having an insatiable case of kuchisabishii.
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:47am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    KK’s?
    
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    November 23, 2020 11:13am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    As an aside, “kuchi sabishii” is a term used by the older generation in Japan. (Those who were young in the chain-smoking days of the 1970s and 80s.)
    
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    November 23, 2020 11:21am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Explaining is losing, Sensei 😛
      
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      November 23, 2020 1:16pm
Suze Wainwright

Why didn’t Ardern just make Kelvin foreign minister?

Then again, I suppose a wahine with a moko is a virtue signal to progressive feminism…
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November 23, 2020 8:57am
- Catgurl13
  
  By promoting Nania,Jacinda had to make the govt look more stupid than it already is. It will be the gift that keeps on giving.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:22am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    By promoting Nanaia Ardern R. is buying some tribal favours. (Land matters?)
    
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    November 23, 2020 1:04pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Oh, I see. The occupation of Fletcher’s land by a bunch of Maori radicals is sorted? Nania Mahuta will call in some favours using her tribal links.
      Ok Nania, now go sort out the Shelly Bay debacle. See how your tribal links go down there.
      
      How much is all this going to cost the taxpayer?
      IMO, it shouldn’t cost the taxpayer squat because Nania is just doing her job as an MP.
      
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      November 23, 2020 1:27pm
- sooty
  
  But Kelvin would have come out! (Of the cupboard)
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:31am
I remember when

Lots of muscle flexing going on it the Treaty area with the newfound rise of the Maori political successes.
Looks like there will be plenty of secondhand statues of the Endeavour and Captain Cook for the avid collector.
The further we get from the actual events the more new information becomes available.
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November 23, 2020 8:58am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/123474951/water-outage-in-newlands-wellington-following-burst-water-main
No problems: the council will plug the hole and then build another cycleway instead of doing proper maintenance.
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November 23, 2020 8:59am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING…

What a total CROCK and a SHAM this is !!

https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1330595111831539712
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November 23, 2020 9:15am
- Ehlana
  
  One wonders what is meant to be happening there. I have observed ballot counts in NZ and I stood behind the counters, so I could see clearly.
  
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  November 23, 2020 9:37am
  - Inandout
    
    Ehlana, I am informed that some election voting centres on the Saturday had no scrutineers because the voting job was alloted to local tenders. If this is true then how much did the tenderers pay?
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:02am
- SB2
  
  Is the scrutineer GOP or Democrat?
  
  Proven Fraud?
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:53am
  - C J Southern
    
    I think the Republicans definition of “proven” is something along the lines of “anything that’s to our advantage to say”.
    
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    November 23, 2020 12:15pm
I remember when

Pumas versus Australia and France against Australia at the week-end highlighted a growing trend in world rugby.
In total there were sixty one points scored in the two games. Every team managed to score at least twelve points.
Only ONE try was scored.
Referees rulings ruled and unfortunately some of them were very, very poor.
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November 23, 2020 9:19am
- mandk
  
  But you don’t understand.
  
  The purists are reclaiming the game, where it’s the goals that count.
  
  Tries are called tries because they enable the scorers to take a shot at goal. The tries themselves count for nothing.
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:44am
  - Batman
    
    Except of course for the five points they award your team.
    
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    November 23, 2020 10:54am
    - mandk
      
      Irony is lost on some people.
      
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      November 23, 2020 11:39am
      - Batman
        
        Oh I understood perfectly well!
        
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        November 23, 2020 1:03pm
I remember when

Another family have put their farm on the market.
Their morale has been broken by the continuous changes being made to industry requirements.
The constant changing of the rules mean always being worried about making a innocent mistake that costs money.
Never being able to say – there that’s that done, I can just do ordinary farm work for the next few years.
Emissions, nitrogen, water, effluent, animal health, council regulations – all costing money and often difficult to understand.
Being asset rich but cash poor.
The result was a danger to mental health unless something changed.
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November 23, 2020 9:41am
- Nickc2
  
  Agree. I think the farmers would do well to form their own political party. Unfortunately, National seems to have deserted the farmers and caved to this Green crap!
  
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  November 23, 2020 1:35pm
- muppeth8r
  
  we are heading down a path many countries throughout history have traveled… mostly dosent end well once enough farmers have had a gutsfull
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:26pm
Maggie Pie

Just another reason why we should be very careful as to the type of migrants we allow into this country 🙁

https://twitter.com/Bradjstone80/status/1330466111289131008

Just saying.
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November 23, 2020 9:41am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  [Mod: A full endorsement of a racist system of government is beyond the bounds of reasonable views permitted on this blog. One month suspension as a consequence.]
  
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  November 23, 2020 11:01am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I wish we were allowed to know what he said so others can avoid a similar punishment.
    
    [Mod: the hint is in the first sentence.]
    
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    December 23, 2019 11:41am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      That would defeat the purpose of removing an unacceptable comment, wouldn’t it?
      
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      November 23, 2020 11:46am
    - RJ
      
      Hard to tell, we already have racist system of government in this country. Great to know that some dhb’s prioritise people on race now and not need
      
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      November 23, 2020 11:55am
    - C J Southern
      
      lol – nice try.
      
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      November 23, 2020 12:54pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    [Nelson voice] Hah hah!
    
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    November 23, 2020 11:45am
    - RJ
      
      What a dick
      
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      November 23, 2020 12:27pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Haven’t we already got an embedded racist system of govt with Maori calling the cards behind a screen?
    How many more occupations to come?
    How many Councils to be taken over?
    ~~Aoatearoa~~ New Tyranny.
    
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    November 23, 2020 5:52pm
  - muppeth8r
    
    When did twitter mods take over kiwiblog?
    
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    November 23, 2020 8:28pm
C J Southern

US Election Reality Check

Suits filed: 39
Proceedings concluded: 27
Proceedings appealed: 5
States gained due to legal action: 0
Votes gained due to legal action: 0
Cases of election fraud proven: 0

Transition to Biden countdown: 58D 20H 10M

Status: The countdown is proceeding normally. All lights are green. All systems are go
#ReportEnds
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November 23, 2020 9:50am
- Fletch
  
  It really doesn’t matter how long. You may as well be counting down the days until Putin is reelected. It’s the same thing now. The will of the voter doesn’t come into it any more. What the U.S will have now is a real #resistance. Not this fake anti-Trump one, but a real pro-democracy resistance.
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:05am
  - C J Southern
    
    The will of the voters elected Biden; the “resistance” comes from the court’s refusal to let Republicans pervert the course of justice.
    
    I wish I could add an entry for “boxes of tissues cried into by Trumpets” – but unfortunately I don’t have any credible data to back it up so (unlike many) I can’t.
    
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    November 23, 2020 12:20pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  https://twitter.com/MattBraynard/status/1328980809437618177
  
  Georgia unreturned absentee ballots analysis (after large polling effort to gather data)
  
  630 confirmed requesting the ballot, 142 said they did not.
  
  Among requesters, 326 did not mail it back but 257 did— and the state did not receive or count them. (47 refused to answer).
  
  So around 40% of absentee ballots from this polled sample population went missing somehow.
  Something seriously stinky going on.
  
  Total GA Unreturned ABS Universe: 138,029
  
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  November 23, 2020 10:05am
  - RJ
    
    Lin Wood has had a few videos sent to him of ballots being trucked off to be destroyed in georgia
    
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    November 23, 2020 11:53am
  - C J Southern
    
    Cool story – got any credible sources to back it up?
    
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    November 23, 2020 12:22pm
    - Batman
      
      Well with Sydney Powell now reduced to independent legal theorist status, I assume she will be on OANN shortly to report that ‘we’ll be getting that evidence soon’
      
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      November 23, 2020 1:07pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        It sure says something when the Trump campaign decides a lawyer is too crazy to work for them…
        
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        November 23, 2020 1:22pm
      - RJ
        
        You are terribly slow aren’t you. Sydney has never been part of the grump legal team, she’s even said that herself a number of times. Her and Lin Wood are part of a group of independent lawyers representing the people and have been taking their cases and building them on behalf of the people. There is a reason for that, you’ll find out soon enough. Representing we the people because they are the foundation of the government.
        
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        November 23, 2020 1:27pm
      - Batman
        
        Ooooh aren’t you all so clever with your little “you’ll find out soon enough” suspense building!
        
        They’re not representing anyone other than the damaged egos of Trump and Trumpists. “We the people” voted Trump out by a margin of six million
        
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        November 23, 2020 2:05pm
      - RJ
        
        Btw for people who were too stupid to not realise that Sydney was working for We The People and not the president she created a funding page for her cases on November 6th.
        
        https://who.is/whois/defendingtherepublic.org
        
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        November 23, 2020 1:48pm
      - Batman
        
        On November 14, Trump described her as part of his legal team.
        
        On November 16, Jenna Ellis described her as part of the Trump legal team.
        
        She has been labelled as a Trump campaign lawyer on Fox News, Newsmax, and elsewhere.
        
        She appeared at Trump campaign press conferences and spoke from the podium.
        
        Would you like to try and split that hair in half again or just keep your overactive mouth shut?
        
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        November 23, 2020 1:58pm
      - RJ
        
        And he described Lin wood as part of the legal team, it they have never been part of his lawyers. They are part of a team working in conjunction with each other.
        
        Sydney has said right from the start she is not one of his lawyers, do try to keep up, but then knowing you it doesn’t matter what she says and has said since she stared. You only take little bits that fit your corrupt narrative.
        
        And the good news is she will be at more trump legal team press conferences to come.
        
        What fun the next few weeks will be. Be sure to start writing your resignation letter as moderator
        
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        November 23, 2020 3:40pm
      - C J Southern
        
        LOL – just saw that. How bad is it when even lawyers like her are deemed too crazy for even Trump’s team?
        
        Looks to me like the death roll has started.
        
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        November 23, 2020 3:41pm
      - C J Southern
        
        “Be sure to start writing your resignation letter as moderator”
        
        Not that we needed any more documentation of your total disconnect from reality, but thanks for providing it anyway.
        
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        November 23, 2020 5:29pm
I remember when

Where are we at with M. Bovis?
I understand they are dealing with an outbreak at the moment involving both the North and South Islands. A number of farms involved.
Interesting when on recently I saw an article that suggested it was eradicated.
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November 23, 2020 10:23am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  7 Active Farms currently – all in Canterbury/Ashburton
  https://www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity/mycoplasma-bovis/situation-report/
  
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  November 23, 2020 12:45pm
  - muppeth8r
    
    a couple in southland just went on restrictions and undergoing testing.
    
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    November 23, 2020 8:30pm
- Dougal10
  
  They fibbed about the numbers before the election . Low infection rates if you don’t test properly .
  
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  November 23, 2020 8:17pm
Maggie Pie

Imagine how different the world might have been without Facebook or Twitter.

Just saying.
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November 23, 2020 10:40am
- Ehlana
  
  Some of us can actually remember, Maggie.
  
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  November 23, 2020 11:08am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    But how many friends did you have in those days, Elana?
    
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    November 23, 2020 11:11am
    - muppeth8r
      
      they were real friends back then.
      
      mags how many of your “friends” do you visit on a weekly and monthly basis?
      How many “friends” have you not visited for more then 3 months, more then 6 months?
      How many “friends” have you never met in person before?
      
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      November 23, 2020 8:34pm
Maggie Pie

John Cleese draws flak from MSM for Tweeting “…..he’s not interested in trans folks” and says “he can’t stand people who lack a sense of humor”

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1330451301302407170

LOL!!
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November 23, 2020 11:06am
Inandout

John Cleese on transistors.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/john-cleese-accused-of-being-transphobic-while-defending-jk-rowling/IJ3PFS2L4KRAOIXDZXJUZN5LY4/
Every book, film, series or any word he has recorded must be expunged forthwith. Cancel him immediately.
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November 23, 2020 11:18am
- graham
  
  I see his fans were “outraged” at the statements (what a surprise):
  
  “Oh, man. I’ve been a fan of Monty Python & some of your other work for years and it’s so disappointing to see you take such a hurtful stance on this issue,” tweeted one.
  
  Which makes me wonder just how much Monty Python this person has actually seen. Obviously one movie they HAVEN’T seen is “Life of Brian”.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c
  
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  November 23, 2020 11:41am
- graham
  
  I rather suspect that, when this movie was produced 40 years ago, none of them dreamed that it would predict reality quite so accurately in 2020.
  
  “Suppose you agree that he can’t actually HAVE babies, not having a womb – which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans – but that he can have the RIGHT to have babies.”
  
  “Good idea Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies! Brother. uh, Sister.”
  
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  November 23, 2020 11:54am
greybeard

The Greens have chosen Genter and Swarbrick for their Finance roles !
Try to out-Mahuta the labour party !
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November 23, 2020 11:54am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Wasn’t there an interview with Swarbrick where she said her most expensive thing she owned was a couch. If that’s true, then what the hell does she do with her huge tax funded salary?
  Shows she’s not very good with money.
  
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  November 23, 2020 4:15pm
Maggie Pie

ZB reporting that following gang shootings in Otara, South Auckland Police have been given permission to carry firearms.
Was down at Remuera New World earlier, and saw a couple of cops parked on the Loading Zone right opposite. Both had their feet up on the dash and eating muffins.

Just saying.
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November 23, 2020 12:11pm
- RJ
  
  They were having sex in the cop car?
  
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  November 23, 2020 12:17pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    😛
    
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    November 23, 2020 1:10pm
- igm
  
  But Ardern and Nash have all dangerous members of the community disarmed . . . Nash said so.
  
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  November 23, 2020 1:00pm
surfing

I don’t know Shane Te Pou, but what an odious little man….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shane-te-pou-chris-liddells-last-minute-reputation-rehab-is-dishonest/3IAG5K5XIQJ6VJEHVQI3WPBYEI/
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November 23, 2020 12:17pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4GdN-titXA

Trump’s final blow to the deep state is going to make it very nervous.

President Donald Trump is making sure of the fact that if Joe Biden takes over as the 46th President of the United States, he carves a distinctive image and legacy for himself, particularly on the foreign policy front. President Trump is said to have expedited the American troop withdrawal plan from Afghanistan. He’s trying to wind down an endless war.
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November 23, 2020 12:56pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xzO9v1BR0

Trump Team is Focusing on Constitutional Issues, Not Just Fraud, in Election Suits.

Stuff can be retroactively classed as unconstitutional. Like segregation legislation
for instance. Also some ‘gun control’ stuff. Trumps team are trying to distract
the MSM by ranting about Dominion. The real stuff is going on off stage.
Trumps team is exploiting the MSMs TDS against it. A constitutional approach
is a good way to have SCOTUS overturn a result in multiple states.
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November 23, 2020 12:57pm
igm

Bet these disgusting arseholes are now being funded motels by taxpayers:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/300164434/landlord-evicts-tenants-from-three-properties-for-intentional-damage
These are the types that get to vote in local body elections also.
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November 23, 2020 1:02pm
- Inandout
  
  igm, domestic landlords should have to fill out an IQ test before even letting their houses. Only an idiot landlord goes domestic nowadays.
  
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  November 23, 2020 2:02pm
Stu2

Chris Christie is a republican insider (ex govenor) who was part of the team getting Trump ready for the TV debates

On ABC he has just said

“If you have got the evidence of fraud, present it,” Christie said on ABC, where he is a contributor. He decried efforts by the President’s lawyers to smear Republican governors who have not gone along with the President’s false claims of voter malfeasance.

“Quite frankly, the conduct of the President’s legal team has been a national embarrassment,” he said, singling out Trump attorney Sidney Powell’s accusations against Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp.
Georgia will conduct another recount of its presidential ballots following a Trump campaign request Saturday, but the recount is extremely unlikely to change his loss in the state. President-elect Joe Biden, who was declared the winner Friday as the state certified the results, has a 12,670 vote or .2% lead over Trump in Georgia.
“This is outrageous conduct by any lawyer,” Christie said Sunday, noting Trump’s attorneys have levied wild accusations in public but have not, so far, raised them in court, where there are consequences for providing false information.
“They allege fraud outside the courtroom, but when they go inside the courtroom, they don’t plead fraud and they don’t argue fraud,” he said.
“Listen,” Christie concluded, “I have been a supporter of the President’s. I voted for him twice, but elections have consequences, and we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn’t happen.”
“If you are unwilling to come forward and present the evidence, it must mean the evidence doesn’t exist,” he went on. “The country is what has to matter the most. As much as I’m a strong Republican and I love my party, it’s the country that has to come first.”

Nice to hear a republican realist
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November 23, 2020 1:20pm
- Fletch
  
  He is full of it. Trump has every right to take the LEGAL recourse open to him, and he is. Especially in the face of such fraud. And don’t think that Biden wouldn’t have done exactly the same as Trump is doing.
  
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  November 23, 2020 1:30pm
  - SB2
    
    Fletch may I suggest you take time out to read let U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Brann decision.
    
    And let it sink in!
    
    https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-constitutions-pennsylvania-87eaf4df86d5f6ccc343c3385c9ba86c
    
     Of course Trump deludedly is going to appeal.
    
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    November 23, 2020 2:45pm
  - fernglas
    
    Sidney has been given the flick so we can assume that there is nothing that the Trump team can do to support her accusations. Lots of talk of fraud, Fletch, but where is the evidence (by which I mean something that will hold up in a court)
    
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    November 23, 2020 2:49pm
    - Nickc2
      
      In America, it’s not evidence that counts, it’s all about which side of politics you are on and if the media is doing your bidding. Pretty much like NZ really.
      
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      November 23, 2020 7:15pm
  - C J Southern
    
    No – he doesn’t have “every right”;
    
    From a legal perspective comments from several of the judges have suggested that some of the lawyers need to up their game … and those are lawyers who don’t even have the balls to accuse anyone of fraud. Why? Because they’d get hauled in front of the bar for lying to the court.
    
    From an ethical and moral perspective trying to subvert the will of the people in a democratic society is reprehensible.
    
    You need to wake up and smell the roses sunshine; the only reason Trump’s lot aren’t presenting ANY evidence of fraud is because there isn’t any – and that’s because there is no fraud.
    
    Trump’s presidency is dead as of 20 Jan 2021 – and no amount of “CPR” from the easily deluded but ever faithful is going to bring it back to life – no matter how many times you post it – or down-tick my reality checks – or say “the evidence is on it’s way”.
    
    I only wish I had just $1 for every time some nutter posted “just wait and you’ll see”.
    
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    November 23, 2020 3:52pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      I hope you enjoy the reset when you’ll be allowed to own nothing and become a serf again.
      You may even wish for the good ol’ days back.
      
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      November 23, 2020 5:42pm
I remember when

Maggie Wasseleiff @ 12.45
I am lead to believe there may be two North Island farms with a connection to Ashburton farms.
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November 23, 2020 1:22pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  That’s more than possible …
  I would think the weekly material appearing on the MPI site is already a few weeks out of date.
  
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  November 23, 2020 2:41pm
Fletch

Talking to a guy in the U.S, and he said to look at the price and availability of ammo. Says it is a bellweather for the way the country is feeling, “as accurate as monitoring the price of gold “.
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November 23, 2020 1:28pm
I remember when

surfing @12.17
Shane Te Pou is a frequent panelist on Sunday morning TV.
Rather more than slightly left leaning and a strong supporter of Maori endeavours.
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November 23, 2020 1:41pm
Maggie Pie

I’m doing Curried Sausages tonite in the Dutch Oven.
When we went out for dinner yesterday, the restaurant owner gave me a couple of little ‘S&B Japanese Golden Curry Mix’ blocks to take home and try.

Any suggestions what i should put in the gravy?
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November 23, 2020 1:42pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  In my day a Dutch Oven was when you farted in bed and flapped the sheets around.
  Times change ………
  
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  November 23, 2020 1:55pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    No no, nothing’s changed Captain. What did you put in yours?
    
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    November 23, 2020 2:01pm
    - Inandout
      
      Maggie, perhaps clogs?
      
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      November 23, 2020 2:04pm
      - sooty
        
        If you have no clogs, red bands are the next best thing!
        
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        November 23, 2020 6:17pm
- Fletch
  
  I hadn’t really seen much about Dutch ovens or related, but then this popped up in my news feed the other day – how to cook a complete Thanksgiving dinner in a Dutch oven.
  
  Apparently it is all about the layering –
  
  The secret is in the layering: Since the potatoes take the longest to cook, they’re placed in the bottom of the pot and pre-roasted before the rest of the ingredients are added. This also makes it easy to smash them right in the pot before adding a layer of garlicky green beans and stuffing, which insulates the beans so they steam-cook.
  
  Just as the turkey is the crowning jewel of the Thanksgiving table, a seared turkey breast is the top layer of this one-pot feast. This allows for the layers to soak up all the tasty juices from the bird while it cooks to be perfectly moist on the inside and golden-brown on the outside.
  
  https://www.thekitchn.com/one-pot-thanksgiving-dinner-23103982
  
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  November 23, 2020 2:05pm
  - Fletch
    
    Actual recipe –
    
    https://www.thekitchn.com/one-pot-thanksgiving-dinner-recipe-23101234
    
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    November 23, 2020 2:13pm
- Swifty
  
  Some ideas here:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7emvnX9RT1A
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agtPO8J8kdE
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE4zbAE5prw
  
  The Japs loves their curries….
  
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  November 23, 2020 2:09pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Japanese curry is CRAP and it looks like it as well.
    
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    November 23, 2020 3:25pm
    - Swifty
      
      I reckon.
      
      I’ve got a Japanese guy flatting with me and his food is generally of a very high standard (he’s an ex-chef).
      
      And then there’s his curries…..
      
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      November 23, 2020 5:50pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Thnx Swifty – ran with the first one 😛
    
    Added the apricot jam, soy, etc and it tastes ABfab!!
    Got it resting in the oven-drawer until dinner time.
    Just need to do the Boil in the Bag Rice and we’ll sit down to an authentic Jap curry served with a few buttered Roti. YUM!!
    
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    November 23, 2020 5:15pm
    - Swifty
      
      Get yerself a cheap rice cooker Maggie – perfect rice every time as long as you know your rice/water ratios for the different rices.
      
      I’ve been using one for the last 25 years or so and would never, ever, revert back to any other method.
      
      This is all you need:
      
      https://www.harveynorman.co.nz/home-appliances/kitchen-appliances/grills-and-cookers/breville-set-and-serve-rice-cooker.html
      
      And as long as you never use metal tools on it (I use wooden spoons) it will last you for a decade or more.
      
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      November 23, 2020 5:48pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Be prepared to be disappointed…
  
  That Japanese curry stuff is sweet goo.
  
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  November 23, 2020 2:37pm
- Twinkletoes
  
  chicken stock
  
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  November 23, 2020 4:54pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yep – used c stock instead of water. Sooo nice….
    
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    November 23, 2020 5:31pm
I remember when

It alright folks!
Julie Anne Genter and Chloe Swarbrick are obviously going to philosophise.
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November 23, 2020 1:51pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  Meanwhile ACT has almost every spokesperson with actual knowledge and experience in the area they are responsible for.
  
  For example, Karen Chhour, their Social Development, Children and Child Poverty Reduction spokesperson actually grew up in foster care.
  
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  November 23, 2020 3:06pm
  - curry4me
    
    Libertarians are right: Yes, each one of them could step into a cabinet job, and make a good fist of it.
    
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    November 23, 2020 6:37pm
Tauhei Notts

I have copied this piece from what I guess is a lapsed Catholic, writing from Buenos Aires.
“People wear the holy rag – covering their mouths in deference to the new religion……desperately hoping this act of faith, like holding up a crucifix to ward off the devil, will protect them.”
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November 23, 2020 1:59pm
Batman

The lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania has had enough of this idiocy ??

“I spent all weekend triple checking that there is *not* a lost, enchanted village in Pennsylvania with 90,000 Trump voters that we forgot to count.”
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November 23, 2020 2:58pm
Inandout

Sidney Powell overstepped the mark and is gone. Before Batman.
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November 23, 2020 3:08pm
- C J Southern
  
  No – he posted it at 1:07 – so beat you by over a couple of hours.
  
  #TryToKeepUp
  
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  November 23, 2020 3:55pm
  - Batman
    
    Probably just as well they did. When I said she was a kook I did mean it.
    
    She has three stars in her name which is a Q reference to Michael Flynn being part of “the plan”, and her Twitter page background pic is a reference to “the storm” which is what they call the end of days situation when all the democratic satanic pedo rings are busted along with the deep state by special agents Flynn and Trump. Truly whackadoo stuff.
    
    It seems she posted something last night which may have been the final straw even for Rudy.
    
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    November 23, 2020 4:45pm
- Critical Thinker
  
  “I understand today’s press release. I will continue to represent #WeThePeople who had their votes for Trump and other Republicans stolen by massive fraud through Dominion and Smartmatic, and we will be filing suit soon. The chips will fall where they may, and we will defend the foundations of this great Republic. #KrakenOnSteroids” – Sidney Powell
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  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/michael-flynn-jr-releases-information-trump-teams-sidney-powell-statement-not-think/
  
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  November 23, 2020 5:00pm
  - C J Southern
    
    Mate, I owe you an apology – I’ve been so wrong about so many things, but now I’ve “seen the light”.
    
    And what a light it is too:
    
    In the past few hours – following your critical-thinking lead – I’ve learned that the earth really is flat and isn’t curved like those liars have been trying to say:
    
    Here ya go – credible evidence! https://twitter.com/theflateartherr
    
    And apparantly man didn’t land on the moon in ’69 either:
    
    More credible evidence! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhxTwcslfCY
    
    Gotta say that I’m really gutted to learn that the ISS is fake though – I used to really enjoy watching it fly over. But can’t argue with credible evidence!
    
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/884902/ISS-hoax-wires-NASA-fake-anti-gravity-International-Space-Station
    
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    November 23, 2020 5:54pm
  - curry4me
    
    Critical Thinker: That’s a positive development.
    
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    November 23, 2020 6:35pm
MCos

I see Sidney Powell has been cut loose by the Trump juggernaut.
Rudi is still hanging on.
It seems the line in the crazy sand was drawn by a blind man.
https://twitter.com/jennaellisesq/status/1330638034619035655?s=21
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November 23, 2020 3:39pm
- RJ
  
  Do provide us evidence where Sydney has said she has been part of the trump legal team, she never has, she has always said she is working independently, as has Lin Wood, and a number of lawyers who are presenting their court cases representing We The People. Btw if you read her statement below you will understand why she is representing we the people and not part of the trump team, hint it is that she is going after politicians from both sides, democrats and republicans
  
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  November 23, 2020 4:45pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    “Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity,” said a statement from Giuliani and Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis.
    During Thursday’s press conference, Giuliani identified Powell as a member of the team defending Mr. Trump, and the president himself identified Powell as someone working for him in a November 14 tweet.
    “I look forward to Mayor Giuliani spearheading the legal effort to defend OUR RIGHT to FREE and FAIR ELECTIONS! Rudy Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, a truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives!” Mr. Trump tweeted at the time.
    
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    November 23, 2020 5:58pm
  - MCos
    
    The GOP & Pres Trump seemed to think she worked for them.
    Don’t be a goose.
    https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1329760015314464770?s=21
    
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    November 23, 2020 7:37pm
greybeard

Hello! Is thad you Joe? Jacky here ! Gidday from Godzone.

What? Joe? Who is Joe? Oh….right ! Yes ! Of course ! Hello!

Congradulations Joe on becoming the president!

What? Who are you? Who? From where ? Noo Zeeland? What happened to Old Zeeland?

Joe! Helen and Heather and Michael and I would like to say thad ad long last a true comrade has finally made the Long March to the White House !

What? Where ? In March ? Which house ?

Joe Joe Joe ! The White House ! You know, where some of the dumbest, most senile, most appallingly ill-educated and ill-qualified people have become the leader of the most powerful ( whoops, now the second most-powerful ) nation on earth !

Just a minute, must find my mask. How the hell are you expected to take your pills when you have one of these damned things on ?

Comrade ! Comrade ! Hey, that sounds great, I’ll say it again. Comrade!
I have this great idea for world domination: I become leader of the U.N, Helen becomes my chief advisor, Heather looks after Helen, Peter and Michael can piss off, you and your Chinese mates can keep on re-spreading CV-19 around the place as long as you wish and Clarke will be appointed Global Minister of Fisheries. How does that sound ?

Ah, there it is ! Now Mr. Morrison, what were you saying ?
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November 23, 2020 4:42pm
RJ

For those who haven’t been following the legal action and just get their news from the weetbix box

Sydney Powell on November 11th stating she is working independently https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1326291952552316929

And her statement
https://twitter.com/docdhj/status/1330707538271203331/photo/1
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November 23, 2020 4:43pm
- RJ
  
  Btw for those who are slow, the trump team is working on civil cases. Sydney Powell is working on a criminal case.
  
  Strange how the intelligence challenged people think you can be fired from a job without being hired, no retainer paid to her, no contracts because she has from day one been working for we the people.
  
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  November 23, 2020 5:12pm
  - C J Southern
    
    My only prayer (as a lifetime athiest) is that when this thing is done and dusted you complete and utter nutters will at least have the common curtesy to hang your heads in shame and f-off somewhere else so those of us with a brain don’t have to keep reading your deluded crap.
    
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    November 23, 2020 6:00pm
    - SGA
      
      As a lifetime atheist, don’t be surprised if your prayers are unanswered. Many of Kiwiblog’s Team Trump are seasoned campaigners here, and they bring their unique perspectives to a range of issues.
      
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      November 23, 2020 8:17pm
      - fernglas
        
        Which means they are bigoted old fools who won’t take “Loser!!!” as an answer?
        
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        November 23, 2020 11:00pm
Batman

A bit of news for those who’ve been harping on about Biden breaking the law (a humdinger of a joke) by taking congratulatory calls with foreign leaders.

Here is the verbatim readout from his call with our PM.

https://twitter.com/JTHVerhovek/status/1330715887935115265?s=19

A boring bit of chat that wouldn’t be out of place in the office lift!
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November 23, 2020 4:48pm
- RJ
  
  Man whose son and himself are Chinese owned invited another Chinese owned leader to a place he won’t ever be in.
  
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  November 23, 2020 5:14pm
- Inandout
  
  Bat, did he know who he was speaking with?
  
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  November 23, 2020 5:38pm
HeatherW

NZ Herald is currently listing a phone factory in Huntly as one of the 3 projects to be fast tracked through RMA. NewstalkZB says it is a foam factory for making beds i.e. Sleepyhead.
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November 23, 2020 5:01pm
- HeatherW
  
  Article has been edited now (several times) plus also corrected the other error re Richmond/Auckland. They must have done the first version after listening to Kindest Leader doing the announcement. I didn’t link to the original article as had autoplay video.
  
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  November 23, 2020 6:09pm
Surely Knott

Another great article from Damien Grant – an actual journalist , beautifully written, funny, insightful and holds Council to account. And then there is Stuff’s donation scheme at the bottom of the page. Maybe they would get more donations, if like tipping your waitress at the table, it went to reward the person you intended. I’d consider paying a donation for that article from Damien. But no I don’t want to contribute to Stuff or agree with their overall editorial direction.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300163379/auckland-council-has-become-a-bloated-debtladen-monster?fbclid=IwAR1F29qKuT-ONdsv9HO9BIW7ErAUMw9ZekOv1AzckIeG00rx_X0wfBPGldo
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November 23, 2020 5:19pm
Fletch

In Georgia, Biden’s lead is only about 12,000 votes. At one stage on election night 23,000 votes were added that were 98% in favour of Biden. It’s just not possible. This is according to the official feed from the NYT website originating from Edison Research, who carried the official results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp0u4dw7GH4&feature=emb_title
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November 23, 2020 5:41pm
- Surely Knott
  
  It looks like there was an *error* according to the Herald. It was in addition to the missing boxes from floyd, fayette and walton counties.
  
  Is this the error …..The Herald says, “Meanwhile, Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer said a 9626 vote error had been picked up during the hand recount in DeKalb County.
  “One batch was labelled 10,707 for Biden and 13 for Trump – an improbable margin even by DeKalb standards,” Shafer said on Twitter.”
  “The actual count for the batch was 1081 for Biden and 13 for Trump. Had this counting error not been discovered, Biden would have gained enough votes from this one batch alone to cancel out Trump’s gains from Fayette, Floyd and Walton.”
  
  So it looks like it was another * error* picked up in Georgia.
  
  It might not be fraud but there were plenty of screw ups in Georgia.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/us-election-georgia-error-nearly-gave-joe-biden-9600-extra-votes/LVBCFVQUZVMQBYWRHLNAGQZEEE/
  
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  November 23, 2020 7:04pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Errors seem to always be in Biden’s favour. How many times does the coin have to come up heads before a sensible person gets suspicious?
    
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    November 23, 2020 8:25pm
Tom Barker

The question we didn’t even dare to ask ourselves – How crazy do you have to be to get fired from Trump’s legal team? – has now been definitively answered – Sidney Powell crazy.
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November 23, 2020 5:53pm
Fletch

First story on 1 News tonight, the media giddy about Biden calling Jacinda. Saying it is “an acknowledgement he got the job”. As usual, the media are full of it.
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November 23, 2020 6:02pm
greybeard

Next weekend’s All Blacks vs Pumas test.
I say: Pumas 22, All Blacks 21.
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