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mikenmildagain

Happy Commonwealth Day!
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March 8, 2021 8:02am
Inandout

A type of ‘Hidin’ Biden’ has now been adopted by Jacinda, as now she will not appear on Hosking’s Monday morning in the future. Mike asks the hard questions you see. Many others are waiting to fill the slot and this follows Grant pulling out of the Williams Show.
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March 8, 2021 8:06am
- SmokerGuy
  
  Most open and transparent government ever lol
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:00am
- Justitia
  
  Nice. Now we have a government that officially practices “cancel culture”. Hosking and before him Peter Williams have found themselves ostracised because they or their listeners have “wrong” opinions. Is this “safetyism” or is Cindy running scared? Anyone seen or heard a poll lately?
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:15am
  - Sacha
    
    It’s just her protecting her image. Understandably, she realises that being exposed as ignorant and incompetent will not endear her to critical thinkers, so she chooses to not ‘waste’ her time on them. Some might say it’s the coward’s way out.
    If Hosking were to be removed the station would have no listeners, and advertising revenue would shrink – the number of ads in each break seems to have shrunk recently anyway.
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:52am
- Frank the tank
  
  Most of their adoring audience now use the likes of ‘instaidiot’ or ‘twatter’. That is where the focus will be for the next 18 months and unfortunately it will be a wining recipe for the young sheeple’s vote.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:33am
  - Sacha
    
    I wonder if all the new voters who turned out last year will be bothered to do so again next Election Day?
    Will they still be motivated, or will they be disillusioned by the whole political process, and simply not bother to vote.
    No jobs.
    No houses.
    No cheap overseas holidays.
    It’s going to be tough for the young voters – they won’t have expected that!
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:58am
    - Michael Rodent
      
      There only needs to be a smallish swing on election day and the government will change.
      When governments do change it is almost always because they get voted out rather than the previous opposition being voted in.
      Next election Labour will not have the rural voters who were part of a failed experiment to vote Labour to keep the Greens out. There will also be a reduction in those who believed the rhetoric that Ms Adern saved them from Covid – Labour have failed on many fronts in Covid management since the last elections and will continue to do so as incompetence is in their DNA.
      
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      March 8, 2021 12:25pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        There only needs to be a smallish swing on election day and the government will change.
        
        Hard to agree with that, Michael.
        
        Last October, National and ACT NZ together received 33.17% of the total of Party votes; Labour and the Greens, 57.87%.
        
        Generally speaking, for a party or parties to get 61 seats, they need at least 47% of the Party votes. Consequently, it seems to me, that for the government to change (following the next election), there needs to be a large swing to National.
        
        This far out, the necessary swing seems unlikely to happen.
        
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        March 8, 2021 1:49pm
- backster
  
  Its more than that it has to be seen in conjunction with the Robertson blacklisting of Williams, The Government patrimony of the Media Companies and the dumping of Banks, Plunket, and Bassett all part of the great Socialist reset.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:34am
- MCos
  
  As long as you’re going to mention Biden, did Trump ever subject himself to being interviewed by people who were openly hostile?
  
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  March 8, 2021 1:01pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    Yes.
    
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    March 8, 2021 1:10pm
    - tf78
      
      Often, but he ignored them.
      
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      March 8, 2021 4:27pm
  - Frank the tank
    
    Multiple times
    
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    March 8, 2021 2:01pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Dr Ursula Cochran explains Friday’s tsunami response

https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/08-03-2021/friday-delivered-a-big-test-for-nzs-tsunami-response-how-did-we-do/
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March 8, 2021 8:06am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  It was skux, so no problems
  
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  March 8, 2021 8:13am
  - kevn
    
    @Suze… allan said she was shux. Look it up.
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:06am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    There was a ginormous problem. Being awoken by a cell phone message hours after the event when it was irrelevant is a recipe for ignoring such in the future.
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:16am
- Nukuleka
  
  She lost me the moment she mentioned that mythical land of Aotearoa.
  
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  March 8, 2021 8:14am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    The name that just under 15% voted for in a radio survey this morning.
    The public are obviously not behind the change that the present government are changing without popular consent.
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:04am
    - Frank the tank
      
      It’s a start – a couple of years ago it would have been 5%. The more it is used in the government and big business vernacular the more accepting the sheeple will be.
      
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      March 8, 2021 11:35am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    New Tyranny, indeed.
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:16am
  - doublehappy
    
    Me too; there were other words I have no idea what they mean. I think one language is OK for fairy tales. Science and factual stuff need English, which the majority understands.
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:32am
- edhunter
  
  An interesting read with some information I found of value, especially about the 1st earthquake which was local & hence there was no time to get out a tsunami warning.
  But again and I’m probably showing my WMP but the constant need to Maorify shit is really starting to get on my wick, not only is it place names but shit like this “Whether driven by human instinct, or mātauranga Maori” I imagine that’s gut instinct, fight or flight, why the need to add this into a factual report is beyond me. Anyway I do yearn for a simpler time when…
  Below you is the ass end of the world. The country you can see is the land known as New Zealand. It’s a pretty simple place, really – the North Island – that’s the good one – and the South Island, which sucks. Spanning these two imaginatively titled isles is a turbulent stretch of water known as the Cook Strait. It has been swam across and rowed across, and thousands cross every day by ferry and plane. But only one man has ever tried to jump it. His name is Randy Cambell
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:25am
  - Nickc2
    
    Here we go, along with abolishing statues that bear any resemblance to Capt. Cook and his achievements, will come the Maorification of the name Cook Strait. What the eff will that be? No doubt we will hear it first via those talking heads on TVNZ.
    
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    March 8, 2021 12:31pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Still a load of rubbish. The Raoul Island tide gauges were taken out by the event from the known highly active area nearby and there were apparently no reporting buoys anywhere beteen there and here resulting in huge disruptions and costs with towns and cities evacuated for much of the day. Entirely unnecessarily – though you would never guess from that write up.
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:43am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Alan, The Tide guage will not pick up a Tsunami wave.
    Maybe if on live update. it be luck to to be 2-10cm high.
    Dont confuse tide guages with tsunami beacons
    
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    March 8, 2021 4:54pm
- Master Mariner
  
  I had a brief glance at that. Nothing more.
  Heres some pertinent points with out draining my head trying to read that.
  1. Tsunammi waves travel in a direct line. So why the hell did they put as warning Sth Island and bottom half Nth Island. It has to be in a direct line.
  2. Wave Speed. Travel very fast. Hence were there energy comes from. The Kermadec one was in the Tongan Trench.
  Like I said previously,
  Time = Distance/ speed.
  
  You do not need to be Einstein to work this out.
  
  3. The exact position would of been worked out exactly and magnitude and depth asap by sensors all round the Pacific ( triangulation).
  
  Distance from epicentre say 700 nm. = 2 hrs before arrival, Give or take 15 mins.
  Too late if you recieved alert after the fact ( Did this happen?) and after that the alert can be cancelled.How long before cancelling?
  
  You cant change simple physics.
  
  East Cape, had there been a tsunami would be in the vacinity 10 mins on East cape as example.
  For an Tsunami to be destructive it really needs a shallow sloping beach, Estuarary to release all this energy by slowing down and waves getting bigger.
  Thats how they become destructive.
  A cliff face will result in nothing surrounded by deep water.
  
  So you can narrow down what to do and who to warn by,
  1. Epic centre location
  2. Direct line of fire from epic centre
  3. Shallow shelving beach
  
  Question, was all this done?
  
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  March 8, 2021 2:34pm
igm

Guarantee Hosking’s ratings increase fourfold without Ardern on Monday mornings. I, plus many others, would flick elsewhere when they heard her obfuscating whine start.
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March 8, 2021 8:11am
- edhunter
  
  How long as the PM been doing these Monday mornings on ZB? I remember Key & Clark doing them, does it go back further?
  
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  March 8, 2021 1:23pm
  - andydownhere
    
    34 years
    
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    March 8, 2021 9:28pm
- Frank the tank
  
  It does raise an interesting question though:
  
  where can the hard questions be put to the Blairite:
  
  -Parliament no
  -Media no
  
  see the pattern
  
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  March 8, 2021 2:03pm
Greg Ettridge

“Police have now prosecuted nearly 1000 Covid-related breaches, but are not being called upon to take action against those defying isolation or testing orders.”
These so called leaders and experts would appear the commonsense of a Kindy child.
If you can defy testing orders, then why even do anything at all?
I am sure there is a plausible explanation, my Granddaughter and I are just to thick to think what it is ?
RNZ do an article but fail to ask why or don’t push for an answer, the press have been bought out, journalism is dead in NZ.
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March 8, 2021 8:13am
- fernglas
  
  I think the enforcement power under the Health Act lies with the Ministry of Health, not the Police. So maybe it is Bloomfield you need to ask.
  
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  March 8, 2021 8:20am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    I shouldn’t need to ask anyone, journalists used to be paid to carry out unbiased reporting and ask the hard questions, obviously this has changed.
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:05am
- kowtow
  
  The reason not to prosecute the latest breaches ( while 1000 others were) is a black and white issue .
  
  There was an article some time ago in the ODT where the author opined that those prosecuted down south were “low hanging fruit” , the usual suspects as it were , easy pickings for Plod.
  
  But these decisions seem to be highly political .The Wokester Police Commissioner did verbal gymnastics when interviewed to ensure he could say the Bro(ad) blocks weren’t unlawful , unbelievable.
  
  We also had assurances from gubmint that overstayers wouldn’t be chased up if they came forward for testing , as the priority was beating the virus and not the rule of law.
  
  Strange , but very colourful times.
  
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  March 8, 2021 8:38am
graham

Motorcyclist Who Identifies As Bicyclist Sets Cycling World Record

NEW YORK, NY—In an inspiring story from the world of professional cycling, a motorcyclist who identifies as a bicyclist has crushed all the regular bicyclists, setting an unbelievable world record.

In a local qualifying race for the World Road Cycling League, the motorcyclist crushed the previous 100-mile record of 3 hours, 13 minutes with his amazing new score of well under an hour.

Professional motorcycle racer Judd E. Banner, the brave trans-vehicle rider, was allowed to race after he told league organizers he’s always felt like a bicyclist in a motorcyclist’s body.

“Look, my ride has handlebars, two wheels, and a seat,” he told reporters as he accepted a trophy for his incredible time trial. “Just because I’ve got a little extra hardware, such as an 1170-cc flat-twin engine with 110 horsepower, doesn’t mean I have any kind of inherent advantage here.”

Banner also said he painted the word “HUFFY” on the side of his bike, ensuring he has no advantage over the bikes that came out of the factory as bicycles.

Some critics say he needs to cut off his motor in order to make the competition fairer, but he quickly called these people bigots, and they were immediately banned from professional cycle racing.

https://babylonbee.com/news/motorcycle-that-identifies-as-bicycle-sets-world-cycling-record
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March 8, 2021 8:15am
- john1234
  
  Oh, bravo!
  
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  March 8, 2021 9:02am
Simon

Covid: Japan asks China to stop anal tests on its citizens

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56245404

Whereas NZ neolibs welcome anal probing by the CCP.
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March 8, 2021 8:19am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Change that word “welcome” to “love”.
  
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  March 8, 2021 9:50am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  Seems to be working atreat, just 4 deaths since April, amazing results.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:07am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  NZ neolibs want to be the ones doing the probing
  
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  March 8, 2021 2:39pm
Maggie Pie

According to Kate Hawkesby this morning, hubby Mike wont be watching the ‘Hazz & Megs’ interview with Oprah……..I call bullshit on that!! 😀

Anyway, it will be interesting to see which Meghan actually turns up – the Black, or the White one?

https://twitter.com/abline11/status/1368627294391173120
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March 8, 2021 8:22am
- 103PapPap
  
  According to the Daily Mail they are “Ginge” and “Whinge”
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:55am
GazzaW

The PM has advised NewstalkZB that she is discontinuing her weekly interview by Mike Hosking with immediate effect and will only appear when SHE has something significant to announce. Hosking has said that she will not appear again on his show and that includes election year. He’s one of the very few journalists who holds her to account on a weekly basis and she hates it. Democracy is diminishing by the day in NZ.
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March 8, 2021 8:23am
- Lindsay
  
  No more Chrissy present exchange then…
  
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  March 8, 2021 9:17am
- pdm
  
  The most o[aque government in my lifetime led by the most inept Prime Minister.
  
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  March 8, 2021 9:19am
  - pdm
    
    mod – not sure how this duplicated – can you delete this one please?
    
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    March 8, 2021 10:47am
- pdm
  
  The most opaque government in my lifetime led by the most inept Prime Minister.
  
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  March 8, 2021 9:21am
  - sooty
    
    Just imagine her humby pie eaten in the next interview, when ever that is!
    
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    March 8, 2021 10:42am
  - Surely Knott
    
    So what do we get for news in NZ if our own Prime Minister won’t front for regular interviews on issues facing NZ? Global news?
    
    RNZ runs an article on canadian academic’s Eric Galbraiths latest research that claims happiness isn’t linked to money. (Great Reset anyone?)
    What is Eric Galbraith’s expertise – He’s from the Department of Planetary and Climate Sciences, and his previous research is , “Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems” .
    
    Ok so not actually an economist or even a social scientist. What relevance does his academic background as a marine and climate scientist have to do with whether you can be happy without money? It’s almost like climate science is linked to redistribution of wealth.
    
    Link to research. The money research stands out as very odd.
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yZ_ZNQYAAAAJ&hl=en
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:17am
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      Life’s a sh!t sandwich, but the more bread you’ve got, the less sh!t you have to eat…
      
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      March 8, 2021 1:41pm
- Scooter
  
  Watching her hand wringing during her interview on Breakfast with Jenny May, I would say JA is becoming very anxious and not surprising she’s pulled out of interviews with Mike Hosking.
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:24am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Did she really think the pixies and tinkerbell were going to hold her hand when the s*** hits the fan?
    
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    March 8, 2021 12:05pm
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      I guess that’s the trouble if you’re a spoilt child and you suddenly have to fend for yourself…
      
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      March 8, 2021 1:43pm
- Paulus
  
  Now that Cindy accuses Hoskins effectively of being hard on her in answering questions she does not want to, here is a list of her special friends who will do as she tells them.
  
  Most of this list from another blogsite but am unable to find anything better.
  
  Never in my time have I seen a bunch of females fawn over a Leader that has lied now promised others like victims of the sexual deviate who worked in our Prime Minister’s office allow the deceit that followed. These female have great delight in interviewing and posting glowing reviews on Jacinda Ardern that know other Prime Minister has had before her and can do no wrong in the eyes of these ,
  Jessica Mutch McKay
  Tova O’Brien
  Clare Trevett
  Mihingarangi Forbes
  Jenna Lynch
  Maliki Sherman
  Allison Mua
  Wendy Petri
  Audrey Young
  Hillary Barry
  Liza Owen
  Day by day can pass and one of these Senior Journalists or Reporters will have interviewed or given their opinions on how Great Jacinda Ardern is in their eyes.
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:43am
  - herb1
    
    none of the above are reporters or journalists , they are social media influencers
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:13am
  - pdm
    
    You missed:
    
    Tim Roxborgh
    Jack Tame
    
    Jacinda sycophants both.
    
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    March 8, 2021 12:54pm
- kloyd0306
  
  Now we know why she wrapped fish and chips.
  
  The heat in the kitchen was too tough.
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:55am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  At least Mike doubled down and sent her packing permanently, she doesn’t get to choose her moments in the sun.
  Means unfettered comment with the um argh response.
  Its a win win.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:10am
- Max Sky
  
  An opportunity for the opposition parties to take the Monday slot?
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:40am
  - DeepBlue
    
    JA will soon regret giving up that prime spot for the other leaders to voice their displeasure at her actions, every Monday morning.
    
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    March 8, 2021 2:37pm
- zulumonster
  
  From Mike Hosking’s report on this “They say she’s willing to front on an issue-by-issue basis” – does that mean she’ll be on daily then, rather than just Monday?
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/opinion/mike-hosking-jacinda-ardern-ditching-the-weekly-interview-speaks-to-a-lack-of-backbone/
  
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  March 8, 2021 12:53pm
kowtow

stuff , which makes a big buzz of honouring our past and getting history so right ran a story yesterday about the rear gunner in a “fighter” ,a Southlander whose remains have been found in Germany . Later in the story the “fighter” is described as a Short Stirling heavy bomber.

Any journalist doing that story should have known the difference , if they were true to the stuff values of getting everything so right .

It’s since been amended , after the thrashing they got in the comments . ( Comments allowed , as the science isn’t settled on whether a fighter’s a heavy bomber )

The other one was the story about Maori Dads . For a news organisation that makes such a bigly virtual signal about getting all things Maori and macrons in the right places , how’s this for shit English ;
‘ “Once were Warriors was the first time that a major movie centred Māori, and it was very positive in the sense that it bought domestic violence and the urban Māori story to the forefront,” says Brendan Hokowhitu, father of four and Waikato University professor of Māori and Indigenous studies. ‘

Bought domestic violence , how much did it cost ?
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March 8, 2021 8:25am
- mikenmildagain
  
  These are serious mistakes indeed.
  
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  March 8, 2021 8:47am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Yeah, near enough’s good enough, aye. Who really cares about the details anyway…?
    
    Anne Salmond = brilliant academic; Michael Bassett = really bad, racist one I suppose…
    
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    March 8, 2021 10:10am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Both brilliant in their ways. Salmond an important anthropologist and historian; Bassett an excellent biographer.
      
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      March 8, 2021 1:15pm
- Tomtoddy
  
  The problem with Stuff’s ridiculous story was it lacked any balance and failed to not that Maori father are three times more likely to commit violence than non- Maori.
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/410738/every-day-i-was-beaten-maori-women-three-times-more-likely-to-be-killed-by-partner
  
  What is the sense or value in publishing something so biased? It is turning a blind eye to a real problem that exists and that demands action. Stuff are just gilding a very ugly lily.
  
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  March 8, 2021 9:43am
  - amospicton
    
    Agreed, it seemed to imply that because there are good Maori fathers criticism of Maori fathers is racist. Seems no different to the ‘some of my best friends are Maori’ line.
    
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    March 8, 2021 9:54am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Stuff has opted for openly racist coverage which now devalues everything they publish. Same with their stories on climate change. They’re preaching to their converted and ignored by everyone else.
    
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    March 8, 2021 10:57am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Family violence is common throughout Polynesia. Unless a wife had a high ranking title, where she may have gained power to express her displeasure to her husband, the husband ruled the family including beating children. In turn, the Chiefs had rights over the lesser males who owed them allegiance. Those rights extended as far as execution until the early 19th c. I know of a remote village shop owner who was killed because the exchange rate of a USD was not what the Chief expected–an insult dealt to with a bush knife.
  Violence is probably still being propagated through genetics.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:35am
  - NoFax
    
    There is no scientific evidence to support that behavior is linked to genetics. This is rather close to racism.
    
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    March 8, 2021 12:37pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      If genetic factors affect levels and the body’s regulation of biochemicals such as serotonin, then there would most definitely be the possibility of genetic factors impacting on aggression.
      
      Ref: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110915102917.htm
      
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      March 8, 2021 1:00pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      There is a great deal of informed material that behaviour is transmitted among the generations. My kids are behaving like me. I can see my great grandparents influences too.
      This has nothing to do with racism. Crofters who had to survive in the Scottish Highlands needed to adapt to solitary months alone. That self containment has become embedded in us remote Scots.
      
      There is much more I could write on this topic of inherited characteristics like gambling personalities and bullies. I first discovered personality types when working when working with IRD when I had to personally deal with countless people at the public counters. A delightful job selling income tax to the reluctant who couldn’t understand the paper work.
      
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      March 8, 2021 3:33pm
      - NoFax
        
        Do you really think your kids would be the same if they were raised by a different family? The reason the behave like you is because you are their first teacher – either deliberately or otherwise. The most important cultural aspect we have is language and if ethnically Chinese kids who are second or third + generation can speak English without a Chinese language it shows that it isn’t genetic. It really comes down to the environment we are exposed to as children. Genetics may have an influence on certain conditions that relate to health but psychopathy does not appear to be genetic.
        
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        March 8, 2021 4:33pm
I remember when

Flood of lone migrant children strains facilities:
Children are arriving from Mexico at levels beyond the Health and Human Services Department’s ability to house them.
An average of 321 crossing by themselves every day in the week ending 1st March.
The shelter system is at 94% occupancy and is expected to reach maximum capacity this month.
Before Biden’s inauguration, in the first week of January, an average of 47 unaccompanied children crossed each day.
By early February it was 208.
The situation is expected to worsen with DHS estimating there will be 117,000 unaccompanied child migrants crossing the border this year.
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March 8, 2021 8:27am
- Apropos of the Wet Snow
  
  America is finished. People respond to incentives, and when it is announced that the border will no longer be enforced, and no illegals will be deported and in fact will eventually be granted citizenship, what do you think people will do? Flock to the border in droves.
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:14am
  - Inandout
    
    And the busloads of migrants have Covid, shit that Biden is a screw lose.
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:25am
- SB2
  
  “By early February it was 208.”
  
  ???
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:26am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    The problem is Obamas cages are now over flowing and over crowded. There can be consequences with trying to stick it up the former administration.
    Obama is close by to sort the cages out.
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:15am
  - I remember when
    
    Thought I would be considerate and save people time by not saying – 208 unaccompanied children per day.
    Sorry!!!
    
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    March 8, 2021 1:28pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It was perfectly fine as you wrote it.
      You had clearly stated in your first sentence the subject of your post.
      
      The sentence starting By February clearly followed from the previous sentence.
      
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      March 8, 2021 5:52pm
- theoldbloke
  
  Keeping in mind that the majority of these so called children are 16/7/18 years old. !!!
  
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  March 8, 2021 2:46pm
Paulus

I heard on Hoskins Monday morning programme that our wunnerful princess Cindy is no longer going to preach to us and waffle and obfuscate any more as she has done.
It would appear that he is not kind to her as the other and women repeaters are.
Her office have virtually said that she will appear to answer specific questions prepared in advance – and the answers they/she wants.
Sad really as she obviously cannot take it any more as more and more SNAFU’s appear.
This is despite her how to answer lessons she is apparently receiving from her friend eminent lawyer Linda Clark.
I presume she will only answer to the favoured eight so called lady reporters who will report as told in order that they preserve their seats on her/our overseas aircraft when she goes – albeit other than Cooks I doubt anywhere else during her reign.
Cindy a pity you did not read History as you may well have learned from it.
But obviously not.
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March 8, 2021 8:29am
- Brian McDonald
  
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  Judging by the butt-hurt comments about it some people must have looked forward to those interviews because they imagined that Mike came out on top and they could breathlessly report a one-eyed view of it on KB. Sad movies I guess, I think Herald still has a crossword.
  
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  March 8, 2021 9:19am
  - RoboRob
    
    Mike almost ALWAYS came out on top. Hint, one of the two people involved did research and knew their stuff prior to the interview. The other just made stuff up (JA just to clear it up for you). The interviews were often painful to listen to but insightful also, without them how would we truly know how little our great leader actually knows / understands.
    
    That leaves us with interviews by JA BFFs at Stuff and the Herald and sycophants on TV3 / TVNZ. Hopefully Mike will actually go harder on her now that she has gone into witness protection.
    
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    March 8, 2021 10:46am
  - kloyd0306
    
    Cindy’s gloss is fading, especially in Auckland.
    The long slide has started as the sheeple finally figure out that an empty vessel is running the country.
    
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    March 8, 2021 10:59am
    - Justitia
      
      I should damned well hope so. But there are two and a half years more of this crap to run – the damage will be enormous.
      
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      March 8, 2021 11:21am
      - Inandout
        
        Just, if only we had mid term elections. Of course by- elections are sort of that but we have to hope Labour MPs stand down or die; not guaranteed.
        
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        March 8, 2021 11:29am
  - Yabster
    
    “Butt-Hurt” is that a prison expression Brian…
    
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    March 8, 2021 12:43pm
    - oldfella
      
      I think it’s a description for Covid anal tests.
      
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      March 8, 2021 3:20pm
- redeye
  
  You’ve got to wonder about the ‘favoured eight’ and if they were born without any pride at all, or they disrepect their profession so much, or they’re just so in awe of her awesomeness that they happy to be treated like one of her teenage spin doctors.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:12am
  - Hard Cheese
    
    None of them have amounted to much, middling “journalists” in a dying industry in a small backwater. Best they can do is live their failed dreams vicariously by proxy.
    
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    March 8, 2021 3:12pm
- JerJer
  
  This is good news. Now even people with half a brain have started to realise what a useless bint she actually is.
  
  One day people with quarter of a brain will come on board too, and it will all become much clearer to people like Brian McDonald.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:34am
- doublehappy
  
  I can’t work out what a SNAFU is. I get very fed up with Acronyms that aren’t explained in their first instance.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:54am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Situation Normal: All Fucked Up
    
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    March 8, 2021 12:10pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Standard Navy, Air (force), Fuck Up.
    
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    March 8, 2021 12:12pm
  - amospicton
    
    It originated in the Vietnam War I believe – Situation Normal, All F***ed Up. Think the f-word is ‘fowled’ but I could be wrong.
    
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    March 8, 2021 12:16pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Actually, WW 2 – Situation Normal – Another Fuck Up. American troops coined it.
      
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      March 8, 2021 12:42pm
    - doublehappy
      
      Thanks all; wouldn’t it be easier if we just made it understandable when the term is first used?
      
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      March 8, 2021 3:39pm
- artemisia
  
  One day there will be a change of government. Which media will thrive and which will fade when the money hose is turned to a trickle, or nothing.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:55am
- odysseus
  
  I presume you displayed the same angst when John Key didn’t front on Morning Report for at least 5 years?
  
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  March 8, 2021 12:58pm
  - lifesgood
    
    What self respecting person would?
    
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    March 8, 2021 2:15pm
kowtow

A few adverse and even fatal cases in HK after the sinovac wuflu vaccine.

Not to worry , the authorities say sick and old people are expected to die in the normal course of events.

Funny how the same rationalisation doesn’t apply when the very old and fat die after allegedly getting covid.
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March 8, 2021 8:47am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Medical doctor Dr. Sherry Tenpenny lays out the scientific facts in a devastating presentation.
  The best explanation I have seen to date of how the “vaccine” is constructed and how it work on the human body.
  The Dr also has her own website and is a practicing physician and has been in charge of hospitals previously.
  https://www.infowars.com/posts/medical-doctor-exposes-10-deadly-dangers-of-pzifer-johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccines/
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:47am
burt

So many questions from reading this, all so diligently brushed under the mat in the article.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/124464873/covid19-flight-attendant-vaccinated-against-coronavirus-days-earlier
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March 8, 2021 8:47am
- john1234
  
  Someone here may have an answer to this: Aren’t vaccines made with inactive virus genetic material, and if so, wouldn’t vaccination be expected to result in some sort of positive test?
  
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  March 8, 2021 9:06am
  - RoboRob
    
    Normally they are made with ‘dead’ material. The one in this case is not (a new method). In either case, tests might detect as infected. One would expect the test staff would know the difference. FYI she was only vaccinated two days prior (takes at least 7 days to have some immunity) and may have already had the real thing.
    
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    March 8, 2021 10:49am
- SB2
  
  burt , but the article concludes,
  
  “According to the Ministry of Health, the most likely scenario under investigation is the crew member’s exposure overseas – and whether they were incubating the virus when they were vaccinated – even though they did not have any symptoms.”
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:49am
  - burt
    
    Yeah I saw that, and it pretty much says:
    
    Oh look over here, a squirrel.
    
    The question now ill be how much better/worse the person deals with the actual virus after the vaccine. But like all things covid, don’t expect a single answer from any of the experts and certainly don’t expect them to have any proof.
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:23am
Yvette

“And so suddenly you get the biggest earthquake – I think one of the biggest in the history of New Zealand – that follows after the ravaging of Christ [Brian and Hannah Tamaki’s late night exodus from Auckland in order to avoid the city’s lockdown] on the Wednesday.
“You can’t tell me that’s coincidence, don’t tell me it’s garbage. Come on, if we weren’t persecuted that one day, you fellas had got that right, you could have an excuse to say there’s no connection” – Brian Tamaki
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/brian-tamaki-suggests-criticism-his-lockdown-flee-caused-earthquakes-tsunami-warnings
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March 8, 2021 9:15am
- Hollyfield
  
  What arrogance to suggest that oneself is the most important person in the Lord’s priorities. Our Mr Tamaki is not so much of a humble servant.
  
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  March 8, 2021 6:12pm
Tony Stuart

The Prime Minister complained this morning of being “badly misreported” last week on suggesting people call out family or colleagues who were breaking Covid rules.

But this is what she actually said last week, verbatim:

“I am asking everyone, now more than ever, to continue to back and support one another, and if that means calling a family member or work colleague out for not following the rules, then we should do that. Do it with kindness, but do it!”

https://twitter.com/i/status/1366239124538105857

This was a comment she made on camera, so how can she claim to have been “badly misreported” when media have quoted the exact words she used? Is paranoia setting in?

In the meantime, the notion that she is leading “the most open and transparent government New Zealand has ever seen” is vanishing faster than Grant Robertson is printing money.
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March 8, 2021 9:24am
- Brian McDonald
  
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  Thanks for that Tony can you point out where she said to “nark” on those breaking Covid rules and other such things you and others claimed? That’s far different than calling out a work colleague of a family member around Covid rules – unless you are desperate to score points.
  
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  March 8, 2021 9:35am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    She wasn’t questioned about “narking” on TVNZ this morning when she made the comment about being “badly misreported”. Here’s the question from Jenny-May Clarkson, and the PM’s response:
    
    Jenny-May: “Last week you urged us to call out people who may have been breaking Level 3 rules…”
    
    Jacinda: “That’s actually not what I did. It was really badly misreported…”
    
    https://twitter.com/i/status/1368642807221477377
    
    Urging us to call out people who were breaking Covid rules is EXACTLY what the PM did last Monday, as per the quote above. So why is she trying to rewrite history?
    
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    March 8, 2021 9:46am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      She’s gone bidenesque.
      
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      March 8, 2021 10:34am
    - SB2
      
      Quote the PM saying exactly” it’s OK to snitch and nark on others?” or words to same effect.
      
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      March 8, 2021 10:45am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        Read my 9.46am response to Brian Stephie.
        
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        March 8, 2021 11:03am
      - Frank the tank
        
        You seem to lack comprehension. Sad so sad.
        
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        March 8, 2021 2:06pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Ardern is very keen on rewriting history as the eminent historian and former Labour Cabinet Minister Michael Bassett found out to his cost.
      
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      March 8, 2021 11:03am
    - Miritu
      
      To be fair, ‘calling out’ is not the same as narking or dobbing in. It could mean confronting the person breaking a rule.
      
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      March 8, 2021 2:26pm
      - Tony Stuart
        
        Yes it is, but she wasn’t claiming to have been “badly misreported” for that.
        
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        March 8, 2021 3:31pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  She also set the tone for piling in on a lowly KFC worker who went to work….
  
  When the PM upped her irritation later that day and said rulebreakers should be called out by acquaintances, Newsroom’s Jo Moir called it a ”complete change of tune from the top – and just one of many mixed messages in recent days.”
  
  “In an impressive display of washing one’s hands of responsibility, the Government has blamed these rule breakers for the shift to level 3,” said Moir.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018786240/covid-19-blame-game-and-comms-strategy-questioned
  
  The PM had never specifically referred to any of the other folk who “broke the rules” in previous lockdowns or during MIQ.
  
  It was a calculated move to deflect attention away from her Government’s mishandling of contact tracing.
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:17am
  - Ruahine
    
    I understand that this family that verbally bullied were Asian. The other ones would have not been. It would appear that some type people are fair game for the Labour Party. Just ask Twyford.
    
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    March 8, 2021 11:28am
    - DeepBlue
      
      The parents are Vietnamese immigrants. English not their first language. The letter wasn’t translated for them, according to the daughter who is the one calling BS on Jacinda and asking for an apology.
      
      I do wonder if JA miscalculated and thought she was just dealing with a Papatoetoe High School drop out, but what she got was a driven immigrants’ teenager who can stand up for herself. The latter will be well placed to reach her cohort through social media.
      
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      March 8, 2021 2:52pm
Maggie Pie

Just ducked out to get some fresh Sourdough rolls for lunch.
Obviously the new owners of the local bakery have been drinking the Kool-Aid. I see they’re now referring to White Bread as….. ‘Privilege Loaf’.
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March 8, 2021 9:28am
- sooty
  
  Or are they taking the piss!
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:45am
- pdm
  
  MP – change your bakery.
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:49am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  I wonder if they are discussing the pros and cons of white bread being called “white bread” in Uruguay.
  It is an absolute bargain at NZ$27 a loaf.
  They have run out of zoo animals to eat.
  Maybe its worth perusing what happens when one of the richest oil countries goes full socialist.
  Socialism is so thought provoking, not.
  https://www.numbeo.com/food-prices/country_result.jsp?country=Uruguay
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:30am
  - Jack5
    
    Uruguay has been fairly hard hit by Covid-19, though it’s probably done better against it of any South American country.
    
    The figures for it I see are 63,010 cases and 645 deaths. That’s in population of 3.5 million.
    
    Because of this, the economy contracted 4 per cent last year.
    
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    March 8, 2021 12:02pm
    - Greg Ettridge
      
      The economy has been contracting since these socialist lunatics took them down this path.
      Maybe the NZ government should be asking the question.
      “Why is the present government depriving the population of a basic human right, sustenance to sustain themselves at an affordable level.
      Covid maybe well a small cause, but this has been brewing away for years.
      The whole population now are millionaires but can’t buy afford to buy food.
      If you see this as just related to covid, I am glad I didn’t have the same economics teacher.
      
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      March 8, 2021 12:32pm
  - ISeeRed
    
    Greg Ettridge, when I convert to NZ$ using that webpage’s pulldown menu, a loaf of bread comes to 62c, not $27. Uruguay looks like a very cheap and pleasant country to live in terms of cuisine, lifestyle, culture and cost of living. (I follow an ex-Brit on Twitter who moved there and has never looked back.)
    
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    March 8, 2021 2:17pm
    - Jack5
      
      Perhaps Greg is confusing Uruguay with Venezuela.
      
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      March 8, 2021 2:41pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      Yep, Montevideo is still a free Port .
      
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      March 8, 2021 4:39pm
    - Kiwi Dave
      
      That’s for a meagre 125gm loaf! NZ loaves are about five times as heavy, so more like three dollars than 62c.
      
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      March 8, 2021 7:38pm
    - sealegs
      
      I am in Uraguay at the moment and those figures for food are complete rubbish, our cook is having a field day buying fresh fruit and veges etc as it’s so cheap. The port cafeteria is a RIP off at 5 US for a 743mil can of beer though. Today putting in big order for dutyfrees so no more overpriced beer.
      
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      March 9, 2021 5:56am
  - Nickc2
    
    Socialism or Cindy’s version of it is coming to New Zealand quicker than you think.
    
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    March 8, 2021 2:17pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    I think you are mixed up with Venezeuala and Uraguay.
    The former has one of largest oil reserves.
    
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    March 8, 2021 3:00pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Any nuts in it?
  
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  March 8, 2021 1:22pm
Jack5

At Radio NZ’s web site, a piece noting the end of the Carrick Graham-Hager defamation case has at the bottom: Made possible by the RNZ/NZ on Air Innovation Fund.

The two illustrations are Hager (of course), and part of a book cover reading: “Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning NZ politics.”

Neutral State media!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/the-detail/300246144/the-detail-an-end-at-last-to-the-dirty-politics-saga
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March 8, 2021 9:56am
rangitoto

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/tens-of-thousands-of-us-organizations-hit-in-ongoing-microsoft-exchange-hack/

Could be a lot of Kiwi companies hit by this. Looks like MS Cloud services are ok, so only applies to running on premise MS Exchange Server.
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March 8, 2021 10:13am
Jack5

Rawiri Waititi, MP, please note …

A letter in the New York Times says in response to Biden’s use of the phrase “Neanderthal thinking”.

One Doyle Stevick, of North Carolina, writes to the editor:

“President Biden unfairly besmirches the Neanderthals, who were in the business of inventing tools for survival, not rejecting them.”

Waititi, in a now deleted tweet, described New Zealand Whites as an “archaic species” that is “becoming more extinct”.

Perhaps Waititi can tell us how far ahead of Neanderthals in tool development pre-colonial Maori were.
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March 8, 2021 10:29am
- kevn
  
  @Jack… That’s a good one to ‘wheel’ out.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:08am
- Loddenthinks
  
  I realise this is by no means the most stupid part of Waititi’s moronic utterings, but how can anything become “more extinct”?
  
  Either something is extinct (definition: Extinction of a particular animal or plant species occurs when there are no more individuals of that species alive anywhere in the world – the species has died out) or it is not.
  
  Much the same as “unique” where you often hear people saying e.g. yeah, it’s a pretty unique situation. There are no qualifiers for uniqueness or extinction.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:20am
  - oldfella
    
    LD, note how many TV ‘reporters’ say ‘completely destroyed’, as apposed to maybe just a little bit destroyed.
    
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    March 8, 2021 3:28pm
artemisia

Point of Order makes a very good (and orderly) point. Stop fucking up official announcements by mixing English and the reo into an incomprehensible mess. One or the other, one and the other no problem.

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/03/06/report-makes-case-for-more-money-for-our-mental-wellbeing-but-it-is-presented-in-a-maddening-mix-of-te-reo-and-english/
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March 8, 2021 10:40am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Marvellously rude and confusing. The foreign words don’t belong in English and even less so as verbal confetti.
  They completely mess up any serious document. Also they limit the readership to a bunch of Maori academics who might be able to understand the whole document, but there would only be a handful in New Zealand.
  Public Service? Public Nonsense and an expensive waste of time and resources.
  Inaction by design?
  
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  March 8, 2021 12:00pm
  - RockyJ
    
    If you want an incomprehensible version of Maori mixed with English language look up the “English language” version of the proposed NZ history curriculum. It on the Ministry of Education website. This is the new doublespeak.
    The content is alarming but even this so-called consultation process document is loaded with their agenda.
    
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    March 8, 2021 1:21pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Thanks. My upticker is not working!
      I’m looking forward to retiring at some stage but I’m not going to let pidgin Maori destroy English. As for history–that is whatever the promoter says it is.
      
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      March 8, 2021 3:39pm
curry4me

https://redstate.com/streiff/2021/03/06/fbi-investigation-finds-no-evidence-any-republican-member-of-congress-and-capitol-rioters-but-the-damage-is-done-n338675

FBI Investigation Finds No Evidence Any Republican Member of Congress Aided Capitol Rioters.

The last of the Capitol rioters had barely vacated the premises when Nancy Pelosi’s allies began slandering their Republican colleagues, claiming that Republican members of Congress had taken an active role in permitting the demonstrators… indeed, if they were BLM demonstrators, we would be calling them “peaceful”… to enter the Capitol. Baseless allegations were made that some Republican members of Congress allowed rioters to enter the Capitol by having them issued visitor’s passes.
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March 8, 2021 10:41am
curry4me

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

We Charity: The Scam no one Talked About.

It all started with Justin Trudeau’s government’s decision to award a federal contract worth $912 million to WE Charity Foundation. [Needless to say; the Canadian MSM haven’t not asked ‘Cindy with a beard’ any awkward questions.]
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March 8, 2021 10:41am
BeaB

Why should she be interrogated by Mike H when she has all her fan girls to gaze adoringly at her and agree with everything she says – Jessica, Tova, Jenny-May, Susie on RNZ etc.
Notice how often we get a nasty little comment about National or Collins just in case.
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March 8, 2021 10:50am
BeaB

Plenty of fan boys too, I hasten to add. If anything, even more besotted.
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March 8, 2021 10:51am
- Southtop2
  
  Jack Tame for one but not Marty Devlin
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:23am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Andrew Dickens on Newstalk ZB this afternoon is less than complimentary towards the PM.
    
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    March 8, 2021 1:09pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      I’ve come to like Andrew. Used to think he was an absolute cretin .
      That was until they replaced him 4 days a week with them other pair of twots.
      
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      March 8, 2021 2:26pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        I’m sure we’ve met before, Maggie, though I can’t remember your name then. But I do enjoy your unique SoH.
        
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        March 8, 2021 6:49pm
kowtow

It’s not “investment” , it’s a spend .

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU2103/S00078/grant-robertson-announces-950k-investment-into-increasing-gender-equity-capability-across-sport-and-recreation-sector.htm

“The New Zealand Government has today announced a $950k investment into Women in Sport Aotearoa, Ngā Wāhine Hākinakina o Aotearoa (WISPA), to support the planning and delivery of the 8th IWG World Conference on Women & Sport in May 2022. The news came as Aotearoa kicked off a day of events and activities to mark UN International Women’s Day.”
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March 8, 2021 11:06am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Question One;
  How much will go for women’s club hockey and netball in places like Balclutha and Dargaville?
  Question Two;
  How much will go for top quality representative teams for the elite?
  
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  March 8, 2021 12:04pm
- I remember when
  
  Would the best way to ‘invest’ in gender equality in sport be to relate investment to ability and crowd attendance at elite level, for each sport.
  Many claims seem to be of the ‘I should be getting paid as much as male participants,’ rather than ‘my performances prove I am worth us much as the males.’
  When they are better they should be receive grants accordingly.
  
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  March 8, 2021 1:22pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Tick.
  
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  March 8, 2021 3:40pm
- oldfella
  
  But will it include all ‘wimmin’, including blokes who just feel feminine on the day. And have enough residual male muscle development to win all the prizes?
  Probably. /s
  
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  March 8, 2021 3:46pm
Jack5

🇬🇧 A new democratic hero, the very brave Grandma Wong.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/31/china/grandma-wong-hong-kong-protest-dst-intl-hnk/index.html
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March 8, 2021 11:09am
Maggie Pie

Does anybody really think Meghan would have had any interest whatsoever in Harry if he wasn’t….. ‘Royal’?

I’ve had a few Ginga’s try hit on me 🙁
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March 8, 2021 11:14am
- Ruahine
  
  It is a bit like the lovely Elin. If he had been Tiger the filling station attendant would he have been so lucky.
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=tiger+woods+ex+wife+elin&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=ceoBClF3j8ivXM%252CiFqAU7_ALUebjM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSgL7T2l-s34kvdoHlL9tNsmoecZA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjyx7eInp_vAhX-xzgGHRKgDUQQ_h0wAHoECBYQAw&biw=1280&bih=579#imgrc=ceoBClF3j8ivXM
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:34am
  - andydownhere
    
    The ultimate gold digger
    
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    March 8, 2021 10:21pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie…. Hazza comes preloaded with… ‘baggage’ and money.
  
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  March 8, 2021 11:41am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, on another note, Harry Mountbatten-Windsor is balding quite badly so that probably puts to bed the rumour he had James Hewitt as a father.
  
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  March 8, 2021 1:01pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Interesting you should mention that…..
    Someone calling themselves ‘Palace Insider’ on Insta, posted that Harry has already undergone a micro-grafting procedure while in Cali.
    
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    March 8, 2021 1:38pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Not really. Queenie can play that trump card anytime she pleases. “Who’s ya daddy then?”
    
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    March 8, 2021 2:20pm
Loddenthinks

Look I know it’s a bit like shooting fish in a barrel, but the stupidity and hypocrisy of our MSM appear to know no bounds. I can’t work out if it’s cognitive dissonance or whether they are simply too stupid to comprehend what they’re writing.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/housing-affordability/300242500/after-her-divorce-sue-boyce-realised-she-would-never-get-back-on-the-housing-ladder

The headline and article are all about a person that got divorced and realised “she’ll never get back on the housing ladder.”

The person lives in their own house, which she owns without a mortgage.
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March 8, 2021 11:17am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Well, ‘divorced woman managed to own home again by using inheritance to buy tiny house on son’s property’ wouldn’t really have the same ring to it.
  
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  March 8, 2021 1:01pm
lazza

[Deleted, & take a week break to reconsider your wasting our time. Mod.]

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/comments_policy :Who has the right to post comments on this blog? Apart from [DPF], no-one at all has the right to post comments. Posting is a privilege, not a right.
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March 8, 2021 11:26am
Maggie Pie

BREAKING….

MediaWerks announce that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will appear on Magic with Danny Watson, every Monday afternoon @1:15pm.

Danny has agreed to only ask questions submitted by the PM’s Office.
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March 8, 2021 11:43am
- burt
  
  I heard a different rumor, that it’s Ritchie Hardcore who’ll be interviewing her on even days and Karel Sourbrek on odd days.
  
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  March 8, 2021 12:08pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Danny would be wise to read the history about trade union policies circa 1913 and circa 1951; then he might learn the meaning of the word “scab”.
  It would also teach him how much scabs were despised.
  
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  March 8, 2021 12:08pm
  - Inandout
    
    Tauhei, Danny is the reason I don’t now listen to Magic talk in the avo. Leah on her own is really good but Watson tends to smother her.
    
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    March 8, 2021 1:04pm
  - burt
    
    Comrade, I think your memory is faulty. Hoskings pulled out of the interview, it was always him running away.
    
    You must be getting close to retirement, shall I call the knackers yard.
    
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    March 8, 2021 4:17pm
- DeepBlue
  
  I call fake news on this. Cabinet meet Monday afternoon, and JA wants to spout from the pulpit 1pm whenever she needs to.
  
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  March 8, 2021 2:57pm
Jack5

Cold weather causes a poor grape yield in Marlborough.

Global warming is really stuffing our horticulture.

When the world’s cars are all electric Kiwis will have to go back to beer.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/300244379/hens-and-chicks-cold-flowering-season-behind-smaller-grape-harvest-in-marlborough
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March 8, 2021 12:08pm
graham

I listened to Mike Hosking talking about Jacinda Ardern no longer appearing on his show.

At one point, he commented “To be honest, I’m pleased. The management here not quite as much. They argue accountability is important. And they’re right, but what I argue [is] the PM is a lightweight at answering tough questions.”

Have to say, I agree with his management on this one. Accountability is important, especially when you happen to be, y’know, the PRIME MINISTER. In CHARGE OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. I know he often found it painful, and suspect at times he felt like it was taking candy from a baby, it was so easy to run rings around her.

But I have to ask, who else is going to hold our Prime Minister accountable? And if she was getting frustrated at being asked tough questions, she could always have done something about it – like PREPARE. But no, seems like it’s far easier to bail out from the tough radio interviews.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-cancels-regular-interview-slot-with-mike-hosking-on-newstalk-zb/NLJK5CP7SX4RRH6CIWRYLHFRVM/
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March 8, 2021 12:19pm
- MCos
  
  “I remember him asking John Key the tough questions.”
  Said nobody, ever.
  
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  March 8, 2021 1:15pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Questions aren’t hard when your guest has prepared and knows the answers. Ask John Campbell
    
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    March 8, 2021 3:13pm
I remember when

For Sale: One Standard Road Bike – with roll bars.
Get in now – be a world leader – before the Government makes it compulsory under Health and Safety.
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March 8, 2021 1:08pm
- rockape
  
  Might not be a bad thing. Mrs had her first electric bike v electric bike addition to Ed, both Pensione! They will soon be rivalling scooters. Interesting to see if they have insurance. The thought of a 26kgbike ramming my aluminium sports car would cost a pensioner their income for a year to pay the bodywork damage!
  
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  March 8, 2021 7:52pm
Martin Williams

‘I might get cancelled’: Collins in disbelief at Ardern dropping weekly interview with Hosking.

Umm, she was cancelled. On 17 October, 2020.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/03/national-s-judith-in-disbelief-at-jacinda-ardern-dropping-weekly-interview-with-newstalk-zb-s-mike-hosking.html
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March 8, 2021 1:13pm
- graham
  
  That’s pretty weak, Martin.
  
  Judith Collins was joking that she could be next in line to be “cancelled” (which Newshub helpfully defines in case anybody isn’t sure, as a modern term used to describe the practice of withdrawing support for public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive.)
  
  “You might also expect I might get cancelled for asking questions on that this week,” Collins said, on the topic of the Government’s lack of a full COVID-19 vaccine roll-out plan.
  
  Except, with the stunning arrogance being shown by this Government lately, and with Trevor Mallard on hand to protect them, maybe that joke might not seem so funny if it actually comes to pass.
  
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  March 8, 2021 2:57pm
MCos

Any interested in the situation on the ground in Myanmar might be interested in these tweets.
Puts Dr Seuss, Harry & Meghan, Hosking into perspective. https://twitter.com/poppymcp/status/1368579684762447877?s=21
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March 8, 2021 1:20pm
- kowtow
  
  Cos it’s really shit in Burma , it’s OK for the fascists to make it shit here .
  
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  March 8, 2021 2:47pm
  - Jack5
    
    Military takeover in Burma/Myanmar so ban Dr Seuss titles?
    
    What crap.
    
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    March 8, 2021 3:57pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Out of interest, The person in bag must be a muslim, Alongside the rest carrying it.
  How accurate is this picture ?
  Something does’nt sit right with it.
  
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  March 8, 2021 6:59pm
Master Mariner

Gaining some traction regarding Key Worker status, As per NZ ratifying IMO Circular.
Been an absolute shambles and too be honest a bloody embarssment.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/437869/nz-seafarers-working-overseas-plead-for-priority-miq-spots

As for me, An impossible task and 3 months overdue already, No hope of getting in MIQ.
Currently emergency evacuation for Myanmar vessel if ( When things) escalate.

You dont get more “Key worker” than that.

Hence my frustrations with MIQ process and Government Interference.

Running “the Gauntlet” into Yanong again soon. Last of foreign vessels to do so.
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March 8, 2021 1:27pm
I remember when

The combined budget shortfall for American cities and towns is likely to reach $360 billion by 2022.
If the pandemic continues to cause mass unemployment, that gap could surge further, because of tax revenues and rising crime.
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March 8, 2021 1:32pm
I remember when

Differing facts, False News, Conspiracy Theories or different scientific opinions?
France and Canada reach different conclusions over vaccination with Oxford-Astra Zeneca.
France allows over 65s to be vaccinated while Canadian Health Committee advising against its use in seniors.
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March 8, 2021 1:36pm
Master Mariner

Well who really would have thought.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/124429535/new-industry-research-into-importing-gas-from-australia-criticised

Who is responsible for this economical sabotage and how do we attempt to get commonsense and try re start it.

I personally think the Horse has bolted on this one and NZ will suffer the consequences for years to come. The education system has to shoulder a lot of blame with brain washing the younger MP’s in power,.
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March 8, 2021 1:44pm
Hugh Jarse

There is either one of two things going on with the PM, one is she is arrogant and no longer see’s any need to go on Newstalk ZB as three other PMs have done or two she is so weak and fragile that she can’t take the interviewing by Hosking and prefers the more supportive manner of her Auckland based media friends. Either way it’s a pretty poor lookout for a Prime Minister of a country. More of this behaviour to come though.
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March 8, 2021 1:44pm
Nickc2

Russia gearing up to step into the void created by Australia’s problems with China and export Russian coal to China. Communists ganging up? Who would have thought?

https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d0278801a4fa6200d-pi
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March 8, 2021 2:27pm
SB2

I ‘ve heard a lot about the much anticipated two hour interview with the Duke and Duchess of York by Oprah.,

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2021/mar/08/harry-and-meghan-oprah-interview-what-time-tonight-channel-special-live-today-cbs-com-winfrey-prince-documentary-news

Now how much is the antipathy towards the Duchess is motivated by the colour of her skin on here, social media and elsewhere?

Or are there other reasons?
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March 8, 2021 2:44pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Do you have a one track mind?
  
  Why did the Royals and media turn on Diana?
  Why did the Royals and Media turn on Fergie?
  
  Answer: You don’t rock the $$$$boat$$$$.
  
  Nothing to do with skin colour.
  
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  March 8, 2021 3:38pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Why did the Royals turn against them? Simple really, they both had sexual interests outside their marriages. There are words that could describe their behavior but such words would not be permitted here.
    
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    March 8, 2021 8:31pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      such words would not be permitted here.
      Yes, they are:
      
      Brood mares
      Wronged women
      Put-upon wives
      
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      March 8, 2021 9:03pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  I don’t know a single person that likes her.
  I don’t know a single person that dislikes her because of the colour of her skin.
  It is very important for the Monarchy to be Apolitical but she is not.
  Harry always had a certain charm but she has basically destroyed that.
  She seems to have wanted all the glitz and glamour of being a “Princess” but was not interested in the “obligations”.
  She’s married into one of the most privileged families on the planet yet still claims victimhood status.
  
  None of this relates to the colour of her skin. The only people that claim it’s about her skin colour are racists who only see the colour of people’s skin.
  
  Basically, that you would ask that question says more about you than anyone else.
  
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  March 8, 2021 3:44pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I can comment but not uptick. What gives?
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March 8, 2021 2:45pm
- artemisia
  
  Looks like the tick ‘takes’ and can be seen by refreshing the page. Odd, though.
  
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  March 8, 2021 3:11pm
- Steve Todd
  
  Thanks, Steve. I’m pleased to see it’s not my PC that is playing up.
  
  Until it’s fixed, hit the Refresh button after you up- or downtick, to see that it has gone through.
  
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  March 8, 2021 3:12pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Cheers for that
    
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    March 8, 2021 3:34pm
Jack5

Rising food prices – inflation – from the Covid 19 effects are obvious in our supermarkets.

That was to be expected given the mayhem in international shipping which has flowed on into our coastal shipping, overloading land transport.

BUT! Usually in periods of price rises the news media blame the Government of the day, sometimes irrationally.

No-one’s nailing this inflation on Jacindarella’s door though.

All those millions buying off the traditional media. Was it needed?

You cannot hope to bribe or twist
(thank God!) the British journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do
unbribed, there’s no occasion to.

– Humbert Wolfe

The silence on inflation shows Wolfe’s wrong.
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March 8, 2021 2:46pm
Maggie Pie

WOW! Here’s something I bet youse all didn’t know…

Hazz & Megz married in secret 3 days before the wedding!

More soon….
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March 8, 2021 2:51pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  WOW again! Megz says ‘certain people’ were concerned about how dark Archie’s skin color would be and what the optics would be.
  
  More,,,,
  
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  March 8, 2021 2:57pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  WOW! Megz considered suiside. Said she thort “not being alive would solve everything for everybody”
  
  SAD.
  
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  March 8, 2021 3:01pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    This as she bares all to Oprah. What a crock. If she fucked right off, it would be start.
    No need to do herself in, but stop promoting herself might help – retire from the limelight, step back and surround herself with her loved ones, concentrate on getting better, if she really is all fragile and sad.
    Or swim in her swimming pool full of money, like Scrooge McDuck.
    I see a manipulator who perhaps isn’t getting all she thinks she deserves, is all.
    The worse thing to happen to the monarchy since William the Conqueror.
    
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    March 8, 2021 3:42pm
    - lifesgood
      
      She sounds fucked in the head. Harry, what a loser.
      
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      March 8, 2021 6:56pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  WOW!! Megz says,,,,, ‘the institution’ prevented her from checking herself into an inpatient facility to get help for her ‘suicidal thorts’
  
  My partner just said, “Talk about Martyr”
  
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  March 8, 2021 3:08pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  WOW!! 4 POSTS and not 1 uptick yet ??
  You can all watch it yourself on TV3 tomorrow then
  
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  March 8, 2021 3:14pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’ll give you an uptick when you mention something nice about our dear PM…she’s feeling a bit overlooked at the moment.
    
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    March 8, 2021 3:42pm
  - tf78
    
    Maggie, my ticks aren’t working. Don’t know if I’m on the naughty step or what?!
    
    [Ticks are recording but not updating on-screen. It’s a WordPress thing. Mod.]
    
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    March 8, 2021 4:49pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Well one more thing I will share –
  Megz is having a GIRL!!!! 😀
  
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  March 8, 2021 3:18pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Being wokesters they would need to wait until they can ask the baby’s opinion on that.
    
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    March 8, 2021 4:06pm
- greybeard
  
  “Meghan, who is biracial,”
  Bloody hell. Just about everyone in the US is “biracial”.
  In fact by now they are probably “multi-racial”.
  Just like the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa etc etc.
  I know this may seem a bit far-fetched, but this whole business involving Harry and Meghan seems to be contrived, and if so may have a purpose.
  
  Harry as a 12-year old suffered the violent , sudden and tragic loss of his mother , the fantastically popular Princess Diana. A mighty sad event for anyone, of any age.
  
  He then had to endure years of speculation regarding her relationship with Charles, and her reported relationships with other men , especially the one who is reputed to be his actual father, James Hewitt.
  
  The worst thing he and his brother William had to endure were the rumours regarding the possible involvement of the senior members of the Royal Family in the calculated death of his mother, due to her relationship with Middle Eastern Islamic tycoons of doubtful character.
  
  What if Harry decided to exact revenge for this in a most apposite way: before this happened probably the most infamous event regarding the Royal Family was the abdication of King Edward VIII when he chose Wallis Simpson over the Monarchy.
  For love.
  
  Wallis Simpson, divorced more than once, American, high-society profile.
  Meghan Markle: divorced, part-Black American, film-star celebrity.
  Harry gets his revenge and Meghan gets a lifetime of publicity.
  
  Too much of a coincidence for me.
  
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  March 8, 2021 6:08pm
- Fletch
  
  Just like Pam and Jim on The Office.
  
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  March 8, 2021 6:42pm
- Flossie
  
  Can that be true that just the couple and the archbishop were there? Isn’t there a law that says a marriage must be witnessed?
  
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  March 8, 2021 10:43pm
Nickc2

Agree Steve. I have to do a to see if my up/down ticks have registered. There is something wrong with the site.
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March 8, 2021 2:55pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  KB has also been slow to load compared to other pages
  
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  March 8, 2021 3:39pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I have noticed the slow down too.
    Apart from that and the tick failure all else is OK. I don’t believe the moderation is excessive.
    
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    March 8, 2021 3:45pm
    - Jack5
      
      I, too, find Kiwblog access slow today.
      
      I tried going through VPN, but it’s slow there, too.
      
      Giving an uptick required a page refresh before the tick registered.
      
      Suggestions: Rawshark, the SIS, Chinese hackers.
      
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      March 8, 2021 5:39pm
- doublehappy
  
  Canceled?
  
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  March 8, 2021 4:14pm
- curry4me
  
  Nick2: Yes, I can’t do up, or down ticks either. Word Press sites aren’t up to much anyway. I never get e.mail notice of replies.
  
  [Ticks are recording but not updating on-screen. It’s a WordPress thing. Mod.]
  
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  March 8, 2021 5:35pm
chiz

Industrial grade stupidity alert: A BBC World Service documentary on 5G, including the people behind praesidium and the USB stick that protects you from electromagnetic harm by, er, using high frequency love and magic stickers or something.
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March 8, 2021 3:45pm
theoldbloke

Just tried to look at TV1 Q&A “”on demand” as had a heads up about the Rob Campbell interview.

Yep, the TV1 that is OWNED by the Government.

Surprise surprise. They detect I am outside NZ (correct) and cannot show the segment because of “‘rights issues”

What a load of tosh.
Its Government owned, government funded!!!
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March 8, 2021 4:09pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Same issue to TOB,
  Tried downloading TV1 interview on Breakfast after signing up ,
  This is during the night so we could possibly download.
  Yep, Realised out of NZ so couldnt down load to watch it later .
  NZ media is so focused inwardly now with no News issues overseas.
  
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  March 8, 2021 5:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I have a clean 44 gallon drum at work ….
https://uniteamericafirst.com/leftists-triggered-by-mask-burning-parties/?
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March 8, 2021 4:24pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Nothing wrong here – move along please.
https://www.thebeltwayreport.com/2021/03/404000-absentee-ballots-must-be-thrown-out-in-ga-contested-election-heres-why/
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March 8, 2021 4:45pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Nothing wrong here either …. Wall are bad, unless you want to keep people out??
https://rumble.com/vedjcz-tucker-street-crime-rises-while-congress-hides-behind-their-fences.html?
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March 8, 2021 4:48pm
Fletch

Biden admin orders DHS not to say anything to reporters about the current border crisis…

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/03/07/exclusive-biden-admin-restricts-senior-dhs-officials-from-sharing-border-crisis-info-with-reporters/

This administration is as evil and corrupt as it gets. And getting worse every day.
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March 8, 2021 6:44pm
Fletch

Different generations of kids and their regrets down through the years.

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/068/059/474/original/d29304d348e8c444.png

😄😄
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March 8, 2021 7:02pm
ecco

Ardern has announced that we are getting a shipload of vaccine in ‘the second half of the year’. So WTF does that mean, July or December? At any rate that’s an unacceptable delay. Abosolutely pathetic woman and team.
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March 8, 2021 7:18pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  and why does she have to announce it?
  
  She’s got a Minister in charge of Covid-19 and a Health Department to order stuff.
  
  Shouldn’t she be checking on what her MPs are up to and figuring out how to raise folks out of poverty?
  
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  March 8, 2021 8:08pm
  - nathie
    
    She’s too ‘busy’ to do that anyway! For instance she might be really busy checking in with her comms team, figuring out which forthcoming media appearances are to be cancelled! All that ‘hard work’ does take time!
    
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    March 8, 2021 9:26pm
WaveyDavey

Gotta love the latest wage subsidy…

More paid time off 🙂
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