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Happychappy

Jacinda Ardern claims her call to dob in Covid rule breakers wasn’t ‘really badly reported’.
Well our Prime Minister is again at her lies as we can forgive one mistake but not two and her answer to this is just out and our lies and bullshit.
She has a very short memory as this was the second time she has called for it with the first instance David Clark being sacked as Health Minister for breaking the rules twice.
https://play.stuff.co.nz/details/_6237783656001
How can the media sit there and listen to the continual lies this Prime Minister orchestrates and when is some going to take her to task , as the lies are blatant not trivial like some say and as the old saying goes let it go and the lie will get bigger and bigger.
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March 9, 2021 8:09am
- rockape
  
  Because of a little thing called cancel culture, ask Hosking.
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:48am
- RalphT
  
  How can the media sit and take it? Easy, I’d endure a heap of shit for $50 million (plus top ups).
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:52am
- Mr_Blobby
  
  Are the lips moving.
  
  Remember the only truth is the truth they tell you.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:54am
- Brian McDonald
  
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  Show the call to dob in Covid rule breakers. You’re making stuff up, again.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:12am
  - Hard Cheese
    
    “That is why I’m asking everyone – now more than ever – to continue to support and back one another. 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://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/03/jacinda-ardern-encourages-calling-out-covid-19-rule-breakers-but-with-kindness.html
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:36am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Classic doublespeak
      
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      March 9, 2021 11:47am
      - Happychappy
        
        This is Jacinda and Barry Soper at press conference this morning.
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/focus-barry-soper-vs-pm-jacinda-ardern-over-her-radio-slots/XDJKMU5JMQ7CQ5BHAKGA6T5QE4/
        
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        March 9, 2021 12:06pm
      - redeye
        
        Barry is not happy.
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/barry-soper-jacinda-ardern-is-treading-water-the-master-of-soft-flattering-interviews/4GKJG4UBCLIKKX4POQWHK4EXD4/
        
        “Ardern is a celebrity leader and she’s determined to keep it that way, which is why she’s turned her back on the Newstalk ZB Mike Hosking Breakfast Show.”
        
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        March 9, 2021 1:04pm
      - nathie
        
        Woah sounds like Soper asks Ardern (at the end of the segment) whether she is “controlling the news”, Ardern has to control her urge to lash back at him (as she also did earlier in the segment), looks like her “unkind” mask continues to slip!
        
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        March 9, 2021 2:38pm
  - Brian McDonald
    
    Calling people out is not dobbing them in. All the down ticks in the world won’t change that. Like I said making stuff up again.
    “dobbed in. past participle. dobbed in. Britishinformal. (dob someone in) to tell someone in authority about something bad that another person has done.”
    “”call someone out” means. to scold or criticize someone strongly. Example Sentences: The teacher is going to call the student out, because he is always late. Anthony’s mother called him out because he was rude during Christmas dinner.
    
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    March 9, 2021 6:13pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Ardern can insist that all she meant was “calling out”, but the reality is that many folk have used her request to “dob in/report” other folks without checking with them first.
      
      Remember, this is not the first time Ardern has requested NZers report rule-breakers to the police
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/new-zealand-site-to-report-covid-19-rule-breakers-crashes-amid-spike-in-lockdown-anger
      
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/03/pm-jacinda-ardern-urges-kiwis-to-stop-dialling-111-to-dob-in-covid-19-rule-breakers.html
      
      I’m sure she knew what would happen when she told NZers to “call-out” rule breakers.
      
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      March 9, 2021 6:24pm
      - Brian McDonald
        
        She didn’t say it, Maggie. Which can’t be changed by people being sure she knew something, unfortunately.
        
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        March 9, 2021 7:05pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I agree, she didn’t say those words.. but she set a tone, whipped up an anger, and hey presto… folks start dobbing in others.
        
        As I stated above.. Ardern’s use of the term “call-out” during her TV address about how angry she was with the rule breakers is an example of doublespeak:
        
        https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-doublespeak.html
        
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        March 9, 2021 7:29pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  At $50M a pop a lot is tolerable.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:37am
- burt
  
  There is never any need to lie in politics.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:49am
  - Bob
    
    BUT ! there is if you don’t understand the BIG PICTURE, or even a small cartoon
    
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    March 9, 2021 12:25pm
  - septic skeptic
    
    I think the exact quote was:
    “I actually believe it is possible to survive in politics without lying”.
    Whereas for me:
    “I actually believe it is possible to survive without drinking whisky”.
    
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    March 9, 2021 12:34pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    It’s almost mandatory for socialist supporters.
    
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    March 9, 2021 2:19pm
- Observer of Life
  
  Happy: Is this outright sexism? Can’t be too harsh as she’s a female .. maybe she might cry if pushed too hard? Surely #metoo must be angry she isn’t being treated like any male counterpart would?
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:04pm
Mr_Blobby

So are we going to see a wide ranging royal commission on the government response to the biggest social and economic upheaval in the history of the country.

And by that I mean an open and transparent commission.

A hard look at the social and economic costs.

A cost benefit analysis, how much is a life saved worth.

And how it compares to other ways people die.

A life in a car accident is worth, say, $100,000. Flying, say, $2,000,000. Covid, say, ??? $100,000,000, $1,000,000,000.

Just wondering.
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March 9, 2021 8:10am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I should say it’s a certainty.
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:44am
- krazykiwi
  
  In the UK, a country that still projects “Stay Home. Protect the NHS. Save Lives”, news is that there is a 6 million patient backlog.
  
  At the end of 2020 there were 4.52 million patients, 224,000 of who had waited for more than 12 months. A year earlier only 1,500 patents has waited more than 12 months for treatment.
  
  The consequence of deferred medial treatments, and psychological/emotional trauma will be felt for generations.
  
  Be kind? Pfffff.
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:57am
I remember when

Oh Dear! Oh Dear!
Oprah has interviewed The Duchess and Prince Harry and found out all the things we already knew.
The British Royal Family are white.
The ‘Anti the Monarchy’ people found the interview told us something that meant the Monarchy should be abolished.
Meghan couldn’t do exactly what she wanted to so she was mistreated.
Harry is finding the Royal life isn’t always fulfilling but has restricted work choices.
Meghan thought about suicide (but didn’t think about all the other people trivialising it affects).
But most of all – we found out that Meghan and Harry would do anything for MONEY.
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March 9, 2021 8:11am
- MCos
  
  The royal family isn’t all white.
  #34 in line for the throne is Senna Kowhai Lewis followed by Tāne Mahuta Lewis and there’s no prizes for guessing their ethnicity.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:16am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Me Again is going to dump Harry Hewitt when it suits her. Shes the ultimate social climber. She went after him for the title and the money.
  
  Lets face it. She was a D grade TV actor nothing more. If Diana had been alive she would have told Harry to stay well clear.
  
  Me Again is Wallis Simpson Mark 2 and it will all end in tears just as that one did.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:37am
  - Lance
    
    Written like a true tabloid journo.
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:09am
  - tui47
    
    Harry Hewitt will lose his children when she dumps him. They will remain in America.
    
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    March 9, 2021 1:23pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Would liked to have upticked your post, I remember, but up/downtick not functioning here.
  Hasn’t been for several days and before that was very slow.
  I noted yesterday some comment about this and obviously it is working for some.
  How?
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:43am
  - greybeard
    
    Me too.
    I use Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS.
    KB seemed to go through some sort of upgrade a day or so ago.
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:16am
    - Nickc2
      
      Back working OK now.
      
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      March 9, 2021 11:55am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Use the refresh feature for your screen. The totals will then appear updated with your ticks. Unfortunately they don’t show that we have personally left our tick or other parasite. I suspect the new feature speeds up response time generally.
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:42am
    - sooty
      
      My up/down ticking is working again! Thank you.
      
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      March 9, 2021 11:47am
- Nickc2
  
  Tell him who his daddy is!
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:01am
- Lance
  
  You can add that unless you are born into the ‘firm’, it will chew you up and spit you out.
  Little old thing called history shows that.
  Was Meghan naïve to not know that… maybe?
  
  But if anyone thinks that the UK ‘media’ are anything other than the lowest form of human life, you are seriously deluded. Scum one and all.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:08am
  - PeeJay
    
    Agreed Lance.
    I think it’s reasonable to say that she is obviously a bit of a diva – but then most actors/actresses tend to be so no real surprise there.
    I’d also say it’s reasonable to say that the coverage of her in the UK gutter press is overtly racist and downright nasty.
    It is possible to have both of those views folks!
    
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    March 9, 2021 1:13pm
- Fletch
  
  Megan has him by the short gingers. The whole thing is a PR stunt to give her an opportunity to bitch and moan. Harry will regret it later. I’m hoping his grandmother the Queen is still alive so he can apologize to her, rather than later when she has passed and he has to live with the regret. Foolish little boy.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:27am
- Ehlana
  
  Actually, Oprah asked and they said they were not being paid to do the interview.
  I gather the advertising spots were expensive though, so someone is raking it in.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:36am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The reference to “interview” does not exclude other charges on revenue.
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:45am
- Ehlana
  
  The interview also implied that Archie wouldn’t be a Prince because of his skin colour – and therefore would not get protection.
  
  The title Prince goes only to the sons and grandsons of the monarch; Archie is a great-grandson. The Queen issued a special decree to make William’s children Princes and Princesses, which is reasonable given their position in line.
  
  Both Princess Ann and Prince Edward chose not to saddle their children with HRHs, probably a smart move considering their futures were/are likely to be outside the Firm. So its not like Archie is unique in “missing out”. And it is certainly nothing to do with his skin colour.
  
  If they had remained in the UK as working Royals, Archie as a child would of course be protected along with his parents – just as other Royal children have been.
  
  If Meghan couldn’t get her facts right about her wedding and Archie’s title and protection, it casts doubt on how accurate she is being with her other complaints.
  
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  March 9, 2021 5:21pm
Frank the tank

So with the vaccine announcement from the Blairite some questions for our feckless 4th estate to ask:

1). We know that the Pfizer vaccine needs to be transported and stored at really low temperatures – do we have sufficient freezer space in NZ for a significant amount of vaccine to be held?
-How is this quantity going to arrive given the limited airfreight being delivered to NZ?
2). Pfizer’s main manufacturing bases are in North America and Europe – if the US and Europe haven’t been fully vaccinated then how are we going to be able to source our doses?

If you can’t answer the above little point discussing the rollout
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March 9, 2021 8:12am
- Paulus
  
  She says that the chosen Vaccine will not be delivered until after the middle of the year so expect nothing this year probably for most people.
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:47am
  - Frank the tank
    
    It’s not going to be a good look when the rest of the developed world is almost fully vaccinated by that date then is it.
    
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    March 9, 2021 8:56am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Well, then we can just rearrange that little slogan of :going hard and going early into
      
      doing it hard by not being early
      
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      March 9, 2021 9:13am
      - Frank the tank
        
        LOL – so true. Should be a slogan Chris Bishop/Dave Seymour pick up and run with
        
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        March 9, 2021 9:22am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        The virus is almost as tricky as her government . . .
        
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        March 9, 2021 12:36pm
  - Jimbob
    
    Basically the country is screwed until we get vaccinations here. We are closed to the outside World, only commodity producing exports will bring in income. This is only half of GDP, not a pretty outcome for New Zealanders.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:58am
    - Master Mariner
      
      Absolutely,
      However they are destroying that day by day and nothing reported.
      Wait till Fuel costs sky rocket then we will really see where we stand.
      
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      March 9, 2021 1:33pm
- sooty
  
  How many airlines have aeroplanes that can transport super cold product! Do they need up rated power supplies etc!
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:51am
  - RoboRob
    
    All of them and no. The Pfizer vaccine can be transported in custom designed boxes with dry ice. The boxes have GPS and temperature monitors. The vaccine can survive just in the box for two weeks.
    
    Pfizer are now applying (in the US) to have the storage requirements downgraded as they have discoverred the vaccine can be stored in standard medical freezers too!
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:21am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      A very compliant “vaccine”.
      
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      March 9, 2021 10:46am
    - Master Mariner
      
      You would think after the miraculous discovery of the “New” vaccine that they would of known the exact storage requirements?
      I mean thats least of the big puzzle? Surely.
      
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      March 9, 2021 1:35pm
      - RoboRob
        
        These vaccines were developed as quickly as possible. They were tested under the circumstances that the producers thought would gaurantee results. Since release they have continued to test them in other scenarios (like at a warmer environment and Under 16s). It really isn’t any big conspiracy 🙂
        
        They are also working on a powdered version, they just wanted to get the base version out ASAP and then work on better versions. Not really rocket science.
        
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        March 9, 2021 3:51pm
  - Frank the tank
    
    It’s a good question that i’m sure squealer (Hipkins) will have an answer for…….
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:27am
    - Apropos of the Wet Snow
      
      “Mr Hipkins” sounds like a name someone would give to their cat.
      
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      March 9, 2021 10:01am
      - Flossie
        
        Be fair… hardly his fault!
        
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        March 9, 2021 10:54am
      - hilaryt
        
        grinner of the day…
        
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        March 9, 2021 11:55am
      - Apropos of the Wet Snow
        
        Flossie
        
        Mine is a “no fault” sense of humour, purely observational and/or conceptual. BTW, yours is a great cat name too … ??
        
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        March 9, 2021 12:45pm
- SB2
  
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  Frank the Tank , rest assured 8 million doses of the Pifzer vaccine are on our shores ready and being rolled out.
  
  In regards to that rollout with 9,000 plus people vaccinated we are ahead of Aussie,
  
  ‘https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/124421168/covid19-new-zealand-beating-australias-vaccination-rates-with-9000-doses-given
  
  I guess it is in many ways problematic on KB with anti-vaxxers bleating human rights abuses as the vaccine program proceeds apace..
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:52am
  - kloyd0306
    
    If you believe that KB is problematic, why don’t you use Comrade Jacinda’s tactic and simply piss off?
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:20am
    - oldfella
      
      I assume Cindy will upgrade ‘piss off’ to include her new fave word, so it will now be, ‘bugger off’.
      
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      March 9, 2021 10:40am
      - Happychappy
        
        Wait on you are not allowed to Question what Jacinda says and give a week or two and Brian McDonald will be calling you a liar and asking you to prove what Jacinda Ardern has said.
        
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        March 9, 2021 11:25am
      - sooty
        
        Just checking stephie if my downtick works and it does!
        
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        March 9, 2021 11:52am
  - RoboRob
    
    No, 8m vaccines have not arrived on our shores. No 9000 doses given is not great, its actually worse than the UK and US did (per capita) in their first two weeks. More quality, un biased, reporting from the folks at Stuff. Take your blinders of SB2
    
    p.s. I am heavily pro vaccine, in particular the Pfizer one, as you may have read in my other posts.
    
    Our PM and goverment in general would do NZ a huge favour by immediately, publicly, taking the vaccine themselves. It beggers belief they have not yet done so.
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:24am
  - Frank the tank
    
    So you are telling me there is already 8 million doses of WuFlu jab here already? Questions:
    
    i) So did Pifzer send them on a consignment basis?
    ii). How did they arrive given we have limited airfreight capacity presently?
    iii) Where are they being stored?
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:26am
    - Master Mariner
      
      My limited understanding is they arrived via Singapore.
      Originally they were to arrive via Australia.
      Out of interest the average temperature (Outside) at 35,000 ft ( 10,000m) is -50 deg.
      
      The lack of vaccinations so far is a beyond belief and falls back on they did’nt have a plan.
      I am guessing they are having issues “transporting” the vaccines outside of main centres and keeping cold chain process.
      More worrrying is no information.
      So what is the strategy? Is there one?
      
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      March 9, 2021 12:10pm
      - nathie
        
        Don’t worry, Jacinda “has a plan”!
        
        She trots that line out every time and the gullible MSM not only parrot it, they don’t even question or ask what it is!
        
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        March 9, 2021 2:45pm
  - NoFax
    
    Where do you get this nonsense that there are 8 million doses are “on our shores” – this is simply false.
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:44am
  - Apropos of the Wet Snow
    
    Stephie
    You should take the Corona Challenge: take a vaccine shot whenever you post something ill-considered and offensive to reason. I’m not sure 8 million doses will be sufficient though.
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:59am
  - WaveyDavey
    
    Precisely Zero NZers have been “vaccinated”
    
    Vaccination requires 2 doses and nobody has yet received their second dose
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:12am
    - oldfella
      
      Good point, WD. So A FEW Kiwis are partly-vaccinated. Impressive. Not.
      
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      March 9, 2021 10:42am
      - sooty
        
        Think you need 14 days after for it to alter your DNA aswell!
        
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        March 9, 2021 11:55am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Are you stating that 8 million doses of Pfizer’s masterpiece bio-adaption mod “vaccine” are already in NZ?
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:50am
  - gravedodger
    
    OK Brains, AKA Stephy, please ask Frazer House why it will not be available till “LATER” in the year.
    Normal Flu shots late Autumn to meet the “winter flu peak?
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:39am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    @SB2
    
    You are confused.
    
    Yesterday the PM announced the Govt has signed a pre-Purchase agreement for 8.5M doses of the vaccine.
    
    “The vaccines are expected to arrive in New Zealand during the second half of the year,” Ardern said.
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300247674/covid19-pfizer-vaccine-purchase-order-made-for-85-million-doses-enough-for-every-new-zealander
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:41am
    - RalphT
      
      Maggy, SB2 confused? Surely you jest…
      
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      March 9, 2021 11:47am
    - sooty
      
      Just as winter ends!
      
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      March 9, 2021 11:56am
    - Paulus
      
      Are there not already 1.5 million doses of the Pfizer here already?
      The rest will delivered be in the second half of the year so most of us will not be vaccinated fully this year.
      
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      March 9, 2021 1:14pm
    - SB2
      
      That’s right and the rollout is well in train. It would be impossible was right now that some here appear to be demanding
      
      Be grateful that we ahead of the Aussies in the number of doses administered thus far.
      
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      March 9, 2021 2:10pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        Can we assume you’ve had one?
        
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        March 9, 2021 4:33pm
- [email protected]
  
  Since we do not really have a big problem with Covid19 infections in New Zealand I am more than happy to wait to see what happens to the millions of people being vaccinated world wide before subjecting myself to an experimental vaccine.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:41am
  - DeepBlue
    
    How long does one wait? I am undecided about the vaccine and am trying to understand what waiting means for me as an individual. Do I wait:
    
    3 months to see the immediate reactions happen, but are at the same rate as other vaccines,
    
    1 year to see if something odd is happening to DNA
    
    5 years to see if it affects fertility
    
    20 years to see what happens long term
    
    The first will be sorted by data soon, the second we’ll know from overseas by the time I have to take the vaccine, the third is irrelevant to me, the forth might compromise my later life. So it seems if the mid term data is OK it is worth taking the vaccine.
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:15am
    - [email protected]
      
      I figure one year is about right. It might take that long for most people in New Zealand to get vaccinated anyway.
      
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      March 9, 2021 12:54pm
    - Happy1
      
      Deepblue What can’t be known for 5 years won’t be known till then. Likewise what can’t be known for a further 5 won’t be known for 10 year. It’s a good move going all the way with Pfizer however it won’t be till late this year that a rollout will really crank up. I suspect that we may be treated fairly favourably because of our reputation for handling the covid thing well and because of Ardern’s personal standing. Once the vaccine is available in quantity things might go quickly. With the flu jab last year all the freebies just rocked up to the hall and 2 nurses, aided by 2 or 3 support people doing The consenting, jabbed 800 in 2 days. The rollout will start with South Auckland and end with South Auckland. Once those over, say, 12 who want a jab are sorted border controls will be lifted for vaccinated people. At that point about 10,000 a day will fly in as will the virus. While most incursions will peater out, some will find areas of low vaccine rates and children. Only those who have chosen not to get vaccinated are at risk. I predict that people will flock to NZ. Frank’s “ NZ is a fucking shithole” is either not widely known or shared
      
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      March 9, 2021 12:54pm
- Brian McDonald
  
  Drrh, did anyone say it was all coming at once?
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:15am
  - hookerphil
    
    Yes ” rest assured 8 million doses of the Pifzer vaccine are on our shores ready and being rolled out.” Your mate Stephieboy.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:12am
    - Brian McDonald
      
      Just read back, you are right – he did say it.
      He’s not my mate btw.
      
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      March 9, 2021 6:18pm
      - kloyd0306
        
        As you and stephie are quite quick to label all us conservatives as racists, etc. I am quite comfortable with lumping you in with him.
        Both lefties who get major downticks.
        
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        March 9, 2021 6:28pm
  - WaveyDavey
    
    Drrh, yes
    
    “…rest assured 8 million doses of the Pifzer vaccine are on our shores ready and being rolled out.”
    
    I realise that comprehension appears to be beyond your abilities. Maybe follow the written words with your finger?
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:40am
    - Brian McDonald
      
      Glad you pay attention to SB’s posts, I don’t. He’s more your style.
      
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      March 9, 2021 6:20pm
      - WaveyDavey
        
        Keep mouthing the words Buh-Ry-ahn, eventually this written words lark will sink in
        
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        March 9, 2021 9:53pm
- septic skeptic
  
  Interesting choice the Pfizer. Much more expensive and much harder to handle than the Oxford.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:40pm
Clyde

Yet again Moaning Report leads with a manufactured “story” on how Police have been photographing young people on the streets. The pictures apparently end up in a data base which enables the Police to be able to solve crimes. Of course any East Polynesian youth who has their picture taken immediately yells “racist” and is supported by their deeply offended parents who would never believe their unsupervised kids would ever be out burgling.

The reality of crime is that it is more than likely to be committed by a person of East Polynesian extraction – the prison statistics are evidence of that. I support the Police doing what they can to solve crime, but of course no mention in the “story” of other youths also being photographed.

What concerns me is that National Radio – an organisation supposed to be bringing us unbiased news – is once again serving up a pile of racially based opinion disguised as news. The decision by Jacinda not to appear on a news radio organisation that questions her in a way she doesn’t like is yet another example of how the media has largely been captured by a political party and that is NOT healthy for NZ in any shape or form.
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March 9, 2021 8:16am
- Apropos of the Wet Snow
  
  Yes, just like the African Americans in the States, the problem with the poor criminal justice statistics pertaining to the “East Polynesian'” community is not those enforcing the law, it is obviously those breaking the law. It’s a crime problem, pure and simple. The Police are correct and justified in using racial profiling, because these are the groups committing a hugely disproportionate amount of the crime, particularly violent crime.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:26am
- DeepBlue
  
  I seem to be out of step here with the uptickers. You are saying all brown kids need to be in a database because they are more likely to later end up in prison. Spare a thought for those teenagers who you have unfairly tarnished.
  
  I think it is appalling that any youth standing on the street has their photo taken by Police there and then. This is harassment.
  
  Of course this is another cry boy race bait story by RNZ, but the bigger picture here is: do we really want Police taking such action on the street when they didn’t have enough evidence to arrest them and take them down to the Police station and process properly?
  
  If the coppas are so desperate for photos they could just get Year photos from the local schools for their database. The ones that have your children/grandkids in too. Which would be equally offensive.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:26am
  - Clyde
    
    That is not what is being said. In the case of one “deeply offended” mother, her boy was amongst a group of youths who were under suspicion for stealing a bag of money. This wasn’t some random stuff, this was following up on a crime. The woke PC actions are to ignore the crime, but scream racism. It is not my fault, nor am I in any way responsible for a bunch of East Polynesians who choose to live a life of crime, aided and abetted by their hopeless parents. And then to have the state funded broadcaster fuel this cranky belief that photographing suspects to assist in the solving of crime is somehow racist just adds fuel to the fire.
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:49am
    - DeepBlue
      
      ‘Stealing a bag of money’ . Someone is joking. Who even says that, or even has a bag of money to steal? That is the classic cartoon of criminal slinking off with a bag of money over their shoulder.
      
      The statement is just a front to take the photo. And will be easy to fact check re a reported crime at that time.
      
      Police Complaints and Privacy Commissioner are now investigating… Terms of Ref they are going back two years and asking all ages to come forward.
      
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      March 9, 2021 12:55pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    What use are the photos to the Police without ID? Are the Police overstepping the boundaries?
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:53am
    - Surely Knott
      
      A review in august found three photos contravened the legislation were destroyed and an apology was issues. Three.
      
      Police commander said,
      “It wasn’t an operation where staff were tasked to photograph at random,” he said.
      
      “They were acting in good faith and indeed were capturing photographs which they felt were in connection to the offending.”
      
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      March 9, 2021 12:02pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      I’m picking for face recognisation software that they “apparently” have.
      Like you say, no ID. however.
      
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      March 9, 2021 12:14pm
    - Sideoiler
      
      What use are the photos to the Police without ID? Are the Police overstepping the boundaries?
      
      But it is not just pictures being collected. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/437959/police-deny-racial-profiling-after-accounts-of-youths-being-stopped-and-photographed
      The police are most definitely over stepping the boundaries.
      It is well past time those in charge of the police were held to account.
      
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      March 9, 2021 12:25pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Too true. Clyde said ‘the reality of crime is that it is more than likely to be committed by a person of East Polynesian extraction’. I’m not sure whether he intended to exclude people of ‘West Polynesian’ extraction, but perhaps we’d be safer if we simply photographed all brown people and pit them in a database.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:43am
RW Capitalist

After wife’s death last Friday
No WINZ do not automatically cancel the pension.
any more misconceptions I have heard, I’ll let you know of anything else.
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March 9, 2021 8:20am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hope you are coping in these unsettled days.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:16am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    I have become comfortably numb,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTseTg48568
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:53am
    - oldfella
      
      My condolences, RW. The numbness will pass, but the sadness will linger. Hopefully being part of the KB community will help, in some small way, to get you through these tough times.
      
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      March 9, 2021 10:52am
    - Apropos of the Wet Snow
      
      Sad times mate, but always best to feel it and heal it RW.
      
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      March 9, 2021 12:53pm
- Charmaine Hawke
  
  My condolences
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:17am
  - Jack5
    
    My condolences, too, RW Capitalist.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:38am
- Flossie
  
  Why on earth would anyone down tick that?!
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:40am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    I have come to terms with the fact
    That there are only 2 types of people in this world
    ASSHOLES
    and NON ASSHOLES
    and the difference is what they CHOOSE to be.
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:55am
  - lifesgood
    
    It would be the Meghan Markle of KB, finding offence where there is none. I notice the PM cannot even pronounce Meghan’s name properly. Man, she’s useless!
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:01am
    - sooty
      
      But there are no T’s in that name.
      
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      March 9, 2021 12:00pm
- Observer of Life
  
  RWC: Hope you’re holding up.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:11pm
- alloytoo
  
  My condolences.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:38pm
- jon
  
  My sympathy to you RW..my memory from 1996 when my mother passed, my stepfather received a letter from Welfare Dept on the day of the funeral advising him that my mothers super had been cancelled. I was appalled at the timing of the arrival of the letter. Am pleased to hear that things in that area have changed.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:50pm
- RdM
  
  My sympathies… as a single person I can hardly imagine; although losing my last parent last year, parting from a girlfriend is hardly the same as you losing your wife, life partner. Good grief.
  
  I hope you are getting some good help with the practicalities as well as emotional support too.
  
  As for WINZ, you might find this internal map of their manuals and procedures useful; I was exploring an unrelated issue there earlier today.
  
  https://www.workandincome.govt.nz/map/income-support/main-benefits/new-zealand-superannuation/changes-and-reviews-new-zealand-superannuation/death-of-a-client-01.html
  
  The second section obviously… looks like the payment will continue for 28 days (presumably you have informed them of your “change in circumstances”) as will yours if applicable; you may be eligible for a funeral grant, and if on super yourself, transition to the single living alone rate.
  
  Lots of internet material since Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ On Death and Dying over 50 yrs ago, on death, dying, grief, TED talks, all sorts, books too.
  
  I found “Emotional healing : how to put yourself back together again / Harry Barry” helpful in part.
  
  I’m sorry, that might all seem trivial against the upheaval of the last few days!
  
  Here’s hoping that you have good friends and connections that can rally around you and help!
  
  Best wishes !!! ;=})
  
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  March 9, 2021 7:26pm
Yvette

An earthquake of 8.0 magnitude is equivalent to 15 million tons of TNT
The Hiroshima bomb is estimated to have been equivalent to exploding between 12 and 18 kilotonnes of TNT.
So, at the lesser number (kindness), one guesses the energy released by the Kermadec 8.1 quake was more than that of 1,250 Hiroshima bombs.
And Brian Tamaki believes this occurred because people criticised him, and his wife Hannah, fleeing Auckland just before the change to covid level 3.
“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?] on the Wednesday. – Brian Tamaki

Media has reported he has been to Te Anau hunting. One assumes he has a firearm.

What degree of publicly displayed irrationality (now and in the past). what self-centred aggrandizement, delusion (apostle and bishop). and lack of Five Million Team-manship is required for the Police to re-examine a person’s current firearms licence, given one exists.
There may even be more evidence in this matter than ever surfaced prior to Tarrant’s atrocities.

So, is this just a thought while I sit upon the throne, thinking “Another day above ground – thank you Jacinda”
Or should the Police Commissioner and Simon Bridges be concerned?
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March 9, 2021 8:20am
- SB2
  
  Yvette, your point in a sentence?
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:54am
  - Yvette
    
    SB2
    How seemingly deranged can your public statements be, before the Police check your suitability to hold a firearm’s licence, if you have one?
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:11am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    and a full description of your intellectual capacity, written legibly on the back of a postage stamp, should leave room for you to sign it.
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:58am
- peterwn
  
  There are two issues with the comparison:
  1. Fortunately in this instance most of the quake energy was absorbed by the planet without causing any significant harm. There was no heat or ‘shock’ energy unleashed into the atmosphere unlike Hiroshima where this caused the physical destruction of the city – the city was allegedly chosen since the local geography meant that the energy of the explosion was concentrated on the city.
  2. Unlike Hiroshima, there was no release of radioactivity during the earthquake.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:02am
- Apropos of the Wet Snow
  
  Honestly, the Tamakis become more appealing by the day.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:29am
  - oldfella
    
    They get a lot of flack, and deserve much of it, but even though I’m not any kind of fan, I understand Tamaki’s church does some good work with former inmates, and troubled males, mostly Maori.
    I believe their success rate is higher than many other organisations in helping these people get back to productive lives. So maybe some credit is due.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:00am
    - Apropos of the Wet Snow
      
      Perhaps that’s why they get so much shit: helping people instead of talking about helping people. Plus they are adherents to the Non-Special Religion. I’d imagine the criticism would be non-existent if he were a self-appointed Mullah. I don’t care if he is a self-appointed Bishop, if he is doing some tangible good in the world. Moral judgements should generally be based on outcomes, not underlying intentions.
      
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      March 9, 2021 12:58pm
- GJM
  
  I assume His Holiness Pope Tamaki has a clean record and plenty of people who can vouch for him and doesn’t hang out with undesirables. The police give firearms licenses to gang members (and then lie about it) , and gang members are hardly “fit and proper” people, so what reason would they have to take his license away?
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:32am
- Master Mariner
  
  Not 100% sure if he needs one if on a “guided” hunt. Which it most likely was.
  Not sure though.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:17pm
  - rockape
    
    He probably just strikes the animals down with thunderbolts, no need for firearms when your so close to God.
    
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    March 9, 2021 3:10pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      I guess so.
      I would of thought fishing be more his thing,
      Divide the waters and all.
      
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      March 9, 2021 4:39pm
  - hookerphil
    
    Was told by my Te Anau B.I.Law that he asked for permission to go hunting on a station type property and was told to F.Off.
    
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    March 9, 2021 8:36pm
I remember when

The Derek Chauvin court case will be about a lot of things but very few of them will involve a genuine attempt to discover the truth.
This case is too big to try as a ‘normal’ court case.
Regardless of your views it will not be what most of us would consider fair.
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March 9, 2021 8:20am
- kowtow
  
  Regardless of outcome businesses will burn.
  
  Crims will be crims.
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:50am
- Apropos of the Wet Snow
  
  Yep. Chauvin didn’t help, but he did not ultimately kill Saint George. He died of a heart attack due to his extreme level of Fentanyl combined with a heart condition. But, if they don’t convict him, the country will go up in flames like it would in some African country. As a group, they’ve been in the States for 500 years, yet still don’t seem to be able behave like other Americans do. The Watts riots in the 60s; the LA riots in the 90s; the BLM riots in 2020. See the pattern? If a verdict doesn’t go their way, it’s off to Target for a free i-Phone and a TV. What’s up with that shit?
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:35am
Greg Ettridge

So this is the new normal, accuse “someone” of racism but you make them all guilty as you refuse to name them.
What a nasty self centred troll this woman is.
Old saying that seems to fit perfectly,
Make your bed you have to lie in it.
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March 9, 2021 8:21am
- mandk
  
  The Royals?
  Meh
  
  Did I tell you, my neighbour’s cat was stuck up a tree the other day?
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:31am
- Gravelroad
  
  For a couple who have pontificated about their desire for privacy and their need to distance themselves from the royal family, they sure do know how to get personal publicity and world-wide attention.
  Prince Harry needs to grow up. He evidently once loved his royal life and all the opportunities that went with it.
  Now he doesn’t want it – so stop attention seeking.
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:35am
  - Paulus
    
    If the media who make huge money out of other people would do as we do in our family – Ignore it but its the media money of course.
    A paper has only one job – to make money – even at so far $105,000,000 here.
    
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    March 9, 2021 8:44am
  - rockape
    
    The Royal family will maintain silence and that pair will soon realise they are nothing but an ex low level royal and a second rate actress. I suspect a divorce within 5 years when the actress realises their is less cash in an ex royal than a royal prince.
    
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    March 9, 2021 8:56am
    - lifesgood
      
      I am certain of it. At the moment Harry is besotted, just like his Great Uncle, Edward, he has a mummy complex and Meghan is “mummy” telling him what to do, what to say etc. She dumped her first husband by text message. Warning to Harry, beware of the text messages.
      
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      March 9, 2021 10:05am
      - Frank the tank
        
        Maybe. There is a lot of ‘protection’ being offered by big Hollywood players such as the Obamas, Disney and Oprah.
        
        They’ll push the 2 twats’ agenda for a few years yet.
        
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        March 9, 2021 11:54am
  - john1234
    
    Harry’s former military pals will be fuming. On one hand, they are close knit and loyal. On the other hand, Harry has been disloyal. Harry should take a look at how James Hewitt got on when he broke ranks with tradition, honour and all that.
    
    Further, Harry, when he still had his balls, was a bloke’s bloke. Lots of girlfriends, and lots of military time with all the machismo that goes with it. There will be many skeletons in his closet that will not sit well with the new woke persona that has been manufactured around him. Now that he’s complicit with shitting on his former world, I expect some stories will start to emerge.
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:01am
    - David Garrett
      
      John: James Hewitt…You mean Harry’s dad? Compare photos of the two of them…
      
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      March 9, 2021 9:17am
    - graham
      
      john1234, those stories have been around for years. He was always the wild child, known to be smoking cannabis and drinking underage. Remember the party where he dressed up as a Nazi, complete with swastika armband? And the reports of him playing strip billiards with some woman in Las Vegas?
      
      Huge respect for Harry in creating the Invictus Games, but he’s turning out to be a bit of a prat, sorry to say.
      
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      March 9, 2021 9:41am
  - kloyd0306
    
    Am convinced that, like his father, Harry sits down to pee.
    Not just grow up but grow a pair!
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:44am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Both Harry and his Missus are child-like and driven by massive egos.
      What other grandson would feel justified with hurty feelings to go on TV like this while Grandad (aged 99) is quite possibly dying in hospital?
      I have a lot of respect for HM the Queen and zero respect for Harry.
      He’s done nothing.
      The Queen has done plenty.
      I won’t be around, but let’s see what Harry is doing for the UK and the Commonwealth when he is
      94.
      Nothing.
      
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      March 9, 2021 1:59pm
  - jon
    
    We need to be thankful that Harry wasnt the first born of Prince Charles and is now some distance in line of succession to the throne. Prince William has a reserve about him which is sadly lacking in Harry. Its most unfortunate that Harry wasnt wise enough to not involve himself with a Hollywood third grader with issues!
    
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    March 9, 2021 1:07pm
- redeye
  
  It was once quite normal to talk about an upcoming babies potential complexion when the parents were mixed race. But that was prior to the world becoming obsessed with race.
  I’d bet they also talked about his hair colour and if the poor little bugger would be tarnished with the ginger look.
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:55am
  - Unity
    
    I remember the first thing I looked for when I saw Archie for the first time was whether or not the dark side showed. I’m not a racist but I think it was quite normal to wonder, especially as he was part of the Royal family. However, I’m definitely not into this Woke nonsense that seems to be overtaking us. I ignore it.
    
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    March 9, 2021 4:07pm
The Real Tony

So I’ve just received my ACC bill for cover for my employees. 2019 final, 2020 final, and 2021 provisional. The total sum requested is a touch under 20k.

It got me to thinking about new businesses and cashflow demands and timing of government tax/levy demands. I was just reading a Forbes article dated late last year about the % of businesses that fail and more importantly why.

While the five reasons given were all solid reasons, they only briefly touched on cashflow as a reason.

This ACC demand is based on a business’ IRD filings, comes at a time when they would be transitioning from one of the 80% of new businesses that survive their first year, to one of the 50% of new businesses’ that survive their second.

Then had to laugh when I opened the next piece of mail from MBIE’s “business” unit and the top of the page is emblazoned with “Helping Businesses Succeed”.
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March 9, 2021 8:28am
- sooty
  
  Do they give you a discount for all the time we were locked down and employees could not work!
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:56am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    No, because they pay out regardless of whether accidents happen at work or at home. ACC is not an insurance company (don’t be fooled by the name). It is a welfare system funded by a payroll tax with no necessary connection between those who pay and those who benefit.
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:25am
Luke Piewalker

Wow Cindy really is a coward. A lightweight coward.

Ditching Hosking in favour of a kindergarten visit?
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March 9, 2021 8:28am
- SB2
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  She would be making more people happier if she chose to do so.
  
  What to do now that Hosking is not Cindy baiting anymore?
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:10am
  - RoboRob
    
    I hope she doesn’t focus on child poverdy or edddducaton. Any more focus on those areas and every kid in NZ will be unable to add and live in poverdy.
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:28am
  - NoFax
    
    SB2 so you agree she is coward and playing to the crowd. I bet if it was the other side you would be outraged!
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:45am
    - WaveyDavey
      
      Just check the response from “the usual suspects” when Trump refused to engage
      
      “Fascism!”
      
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      March 9, 2021 10:02am
- Happychappy
  
  You have to wonder with all dubious things this Government have done and the media has let slide why the tide could be turning.
  You have had the Immigration scandal with drug dealer Karl Strobeck then the sex scandal and the deviate out of the Prime Ministers office that the PM Jacinda Ardern sweeped under the carpet. The Health Minister over Covid-19 lock down,the Immigration Ministers resignation over a trip with lover overseas, and of course the Meningococcal virus and Measle epidemic that lives were lost because of slack responsibility, then at last a trivial lie and the blaming of a 21 year old KFC worker by our kind and caring Prime Minister that won’t apologize for virtually baming her and her family for the latest outbreak of Covd- 19 has turned the worm the might bring her undoing.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/graham-adams-prime-minister-jacinda-arderns-halo-slips-rhetoric-wears-thin/LNPSX43NUWKT6MMULY6TOK7MYM/
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:38am
- Loddenthinks
  
  You’ve only just realised? She loves the fluff pieces and will run a mile from anything approaching a tough question.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:39am
  - sooty
    
    She does love them media fuffies.
    
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    March 9, 2021 12:05pm
    - curry4me
      
      sooty: And they have 50,000,000 reasons to keep printing them.
      
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      March 9, 2021 1:18pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Oma rapeti, oma rapeti
  
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  March 9, 2021 1:58pm
Flossie

Several things I take issue with in the “interview”.
The so-called marriage in the garden with just the Archbishop could not have been legal….surely there’s supposed to be a witness? I bet their marriage licence says the date and place as being the St George Chapel ceremony.
Every family speculates when a baby is expected … will it be blond and curly like its mother or maybe dark like the dad. Doesn’t make it a “race issue” as she’d like to say everything is. Back in the day we also used to wonder if it’d be a boy or a girl!
Because Meghan says something that makes it true? Everybody else lies except her??! Plenty of witnesses to her bad behaviour including the episode about the flower girl dress fitting.
To say she had no idea who Harry was has to be the biggest lie of the lot. And to say she wasn’t given help about protocol is extremely hard to believe. Apparently she just didn’t want to be told anything.
And if she was so mentally distressed and no help available can’t be believed either. She must have had access to any amount of medical care during and after pregnancy.
Poor RF.
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March 9, 2021 8:32am
- lifesgood
  
  Gee she’s a lying hound. I bet the “marriage” in the garden was simply a rehearsal for the big day, as most couples have. I have some polynesian blood in my grand children, which I delight in. before they were born we did discuss how they would turn out, purely in a speculative way. As it happens two are pure european looking and one has gorgeous caramel coloured skin. As far as we are concerned they are all perfect.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:11am
Greg Ettridge

My feelings are the Queen would think that Wallis Simpson was her best lifetime buddy compared with the venom and nastiness she is now dealing with while her husband fights to stay with the living.
Timing is everything in life, if you are going to go full bitter, you couldn’t pick a worse time.
Hate or like the Queen, she deserves much more respect than this.
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March 9, 2021 8:32am
Maggie Pie

OMG! It was Bombshell after Bombshell wasn’t it 😀
Biggest fallout for me was the revelation that Hazz was asked….”How dark Archie’s skin would be?” Now why Hazz even told Megz about that is beyond me.

Had to larf at Kate Hawkesby this morning. She reckons what Harry and Meghan should have done is ask themselves…. “What would Jacinda do?”

BoL!!
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March 9, 2021 8:34am
- rockape
  
  And what would that be, get pregnant by a guy not into marriage?
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:00am
- SB2
  
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  MP, a recent post by you reveals that the colour of the Duchess skin does matter to you.
  
  And we can safely assume many other posters on KB
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:00am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Link?
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:11am
  - Luke Piewalker
    
    @ Mods. I take offence being labeled (along with all other KB posters) – a racist by SB2
    
    Also, it’s actually really revolting how SB2 stalks Maggie Pie. What a creep.
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:31am
    - graham
      
      Luke P, agreed … SB2 seems to have a thing for ladies called Maggie or Maggy.
      
      He has sadly shown himself repeatedly to be creepy.
      
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      March 9, 2021 9:44am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Luke Piewalker:
      
      Yes, SB2 is a drive-by smear merchant, as this other example above shows:
      
      I guess it is in many ways problematic on KB with anti-vaxxers bleating human rights abuses as the vaccine program proceeds apace..
      
      Over the past few months, there has been a wide-ranging debate here at Kiwiblog about the COVID-19 pandemic, and about associated issues such as lockdowns and vaccines. But I can’t recall any comments from “anti-vaxxers bleating human rights abuses”. There’s a reason why SB2 is one of Kiwiblog’s most down-ticked commenters.
      
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      March 9, 2021 9:51am
      - Brian McDonald
        
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        Yes, and there was also a reason you vowed never to post on KB again Nostradamus, just after the Christchurch massacre remember? You had a little fit at the idea you would have to post under your own name after all the stalking and outing of people you’ve done for years. But don’t get mad, get even, and front up under your own name sweetie.
        
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        March 9, 2021 10:27am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Brian McDonald:
        
        Remind us who you are?
        
        The appellant, McDonald, was tried at Auckland, before Prichard J. and a jury, for the murder of Margaret Bell. While standing in the entrance to the Main Street Cabaret in Upper Queen Street, she had been shot in the head by a bullet from a high velocity rifle fired from across the street. McDonald was convicted.
        
        The Privy Council summed you up in three short sentences.
        
        sweetie
        
        Your homoerotic passive-aggressive chat lines don’t impress me. Maybe try your luck on Grindr?
        
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        March 9, 2021 10:46am
      - SB2
        
        Nostradamus , kindly indulge the same in regards David Garrett.
        
        Bet you never would.
        
        A cowardly post if there ever was one.
        
        Hypocrite!
        
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        March 9, 2021 2:16pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        SB2:
        
        Tell us about your recent visits to St Lukes!
        
        pervert:
        
        Jack 5, recently i was at St Luke’s shopping mall and I saw a Muslim lady dressed in traditional apparel accompanied by her two beautiful young daughters dressed in modern western tight jeans and blouses , revealing lovely supple body proportions , including small but ample breasts .
        
        What a perverted comment that was.
        
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        March 9, 2021 3:49pm
      - Brian McDonald
        
        It was such a tearful, biting of the wrist, goodbye. Where people were distraught about the Christchurch event you were distraught about the prospect of having to stalk, and out others on here under your own name. How sad it was for you.
        But then you slunk back.
        You missed out the last paragraph Nosti dear. Well, that I guess, is what trolls do.
        
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        March 9, 2021 6:49pm
    - Apropos of the Wet Snow
      
      Don’t let it bother you. Being labelled a racist just indicates that they’ve got nothing. It’s no better than any act of name-calling amongst school children. Moreover, even caring about being labelled a racist means that you have fully adopted and internalised the dominant leftist worldview. It is inherent in these accusations that they think you have the same moral framework as them. I don’t. They’re into promoting gays, trannies, chemical castration, the denial of objective reality, Globalism, censorship of “heretics,” and they hate white people to top it all off.
      
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      March 9, 2021 10:17am
      - Yabster
        
        great comment ,SB2 and the rest of his lefty woke mates use the racist card at every opportunity- but it is now being used so much and with regard to many situations that it is means sweet fa when it dribbles out of their mouths…
        
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        March 9, 2021 11:27am
      - SB2
        
        “, the denial of objective reality, ” ??
        
        Hitler invading and occupying Poland and Russia?
        
        And not because of Danzig!
        
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        March 9, 2021 2:19pm
  - Frank the tank
    
    If you refuse to name somebody it usually means it didn’t exist.
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:41am
    - Ehlana
      
      Harry said he didn’t want to talk about it – so why tell Oprah? They made sure everyone knows it was not the Queen or Prince Philip, but anyone else who qualifies as a “Senior Royal” is now on the hook.
      
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      March 9, 2021 10:56am
    - SB2
      
      Frank the tank, like your alias?
      
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      March 9, 2021 2:20pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    I haven’t from memory recalled anyone making reference to Meghan’s race as cause for disapproval at all, aside from pointing out that Meghan plays the race card for it for victim status.
    My memory is not quite as selective as yours, so perhaps put up some evidence before accusing individuals, or the whole blog, as guilty of bigotry.
    In comparison the readers here have ample evidence that you are a fucking retard.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:37am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    SB2 Can you give a definitive answer at to what actually constitutes a white person and a racist in your eyes.
    I have Central Asian, Vietnamese, Spanish and native American in me but in small percentages.
    I am basically of Scottish and Irish heritage.
    If I was a dog, the term Bitsa comes to mind.
    I do actually treasure my olive skin, the war office has had numerous cancers cut out, I have had none. She is lily white from the Isle of Man.
    People don’t refer to me as white or black and never have.
    You seem to make assumptions because we may think differently to you, we are racist.
    After getting my DNA results along with several other family members, it was an eye opener to where I came from.
    Calling a person a racist as has happened in last few days but not naming them, is absolutely despicable.
    Kindly name the persons you think are racists on KB.. That won’t happen, you are using the new woke method, smearing untruths without backing it up. If you throw enough shit, some will stick.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:39am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      SB2/stephieboy has named me as a racist on Kiwiblog.
      
      SB2/Stephieboy has identified me as an Alt-right adherent and has posted links to sites displaying Nazi flags and regalia when asked to define what Alt-right means.
      
      SB2/Stephieboy has labelled me hysterical, deranged..
      
      SB@/Stephieboy has enquired what size underwear I wear.
      
      Presumably there is some reason why SB2/stephieboy is allowed to post such stuff on this blog, but I’m buggered if I know why.
      
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      March 9, 2021 12:01pm
      - Luke Piewalker
        
        @ Maggy Wassilieff.
        
        SB2 is an utter creep how he is allowed to speak to you on this blog.
        
        I cannot understand why DPF/mods allow this revolting behavior to continue on this great blog site.
        
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        March 9, 2021 12:17pm
      - sooty
        
        Also wanted tokill me with a plastic bag over my head. He wrote that here on this blog!
        If I lived closer me and him would have met in the church he frequents. Would have interesting for the parishioners and would he have been allowed to carry the communal plate afterwards! I was tempted to contact his vicar, but sadly I never! Now days with hate speech and all would the police be interested.
        
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        March 9, 2021 12:19pm
      - Greg Ettridge
        
        From what you have said, he is one sick puppy urgently requiring assistance on what is considered normal and rational thinking.
        It is sad or sick to think he has to enquire into the size of your underwear, not sure where this comes into in general debate. Maybe he would be more at home on Tinder and Grindr if is sizing up people?
        I am sure he will spring forth and gives us a perfectly factual explanation for his sick puppy enquiry.
        
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        March 9, 2021 12:35pm
      - SB2
        
        MW, false!
        
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        March 9, 2021 2:20pm
      - SB2
        
        sooty , it was never meant and in a moment of sarcasm
        
        Fact!
        
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        March 9, 2021 2:22pm
      - kloyd0306
        
        Maybe, like Batman, he is a moderator?
        Having dual roles and being able to hide behind “Mod” yet still having an agenda, is exactly what is taking place on KB.
        Wouldn’t put it past SB/Stehanie to be so.
        
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        March 9, 2021 3:06pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @SB2
        
        No, what I have written is not false.
        
        You have made those abusive claims about me on this blog.
        
        Here is one where you contend that I have jumped on the alt-right bandwagon.
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/02/general_debate_22_february_2016-2.html#comment-1878204
        
        I am not in the habit of lying, so I could link to examples to back up my statements, but I suspect that is the point of your claim…. “false”…
        to waste my time.
        
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        March 9, 2021 5:03pm
Ruahine

When does the vaccine arrive Cindy?
Gushing announcement made out to seem like we already have it in the country. But no. Just a contract signed. Just as well we were ‘first in the queue’ then.
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March 9, 2021 8:41am
- alex Masterley
  
  Other questions, spring to mind,
  Was it the only one available?
  Is it the only one that can be delivered.
  How much is it costing both in terms of the vaccine and the consumables required to roll out the vacination program and store the vaccine.
  what happened to the multiple supply agreements the government announced last year? are they on hold?
  what contingency plans are in place should the vacine not be delivered.
  why hasnt the PM lead from the front and been vacinated?
  I am sure that there are others.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:10am
  - Charmaine Hawke
    
    Will this be another Tamiflu and in the end we will have a massive oversupply that has to be thrown out?
    Why has this only been authorised for emergency use in the USA?
    Why do the trials end in 2023 and are we part of the world’s largest vaccine trial without our knowledge or consent, and make no mistake some of us will have to get this despite not wanting to unless we wake up soon.
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:27am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      There is an international convention making it illegal to experiment on human populations without the personal consent of anyone affected.
      The Nazis got a little enthusiastic so the Nuremberg Trial stopped repeats.
      Our present govt under Ardern R. is a bit easy on following law.
      
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      March 9, 2021 11:10am
  - DeepBlue
    
    My reading of it is, we’re still paying for the other pre-ordered vaccines, just gifting them to the pacific and impoverished countries. ‘We’re not safe until everyone is vaccinated’.
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:35am
  - Master Mariner
    
    The thing first and foremost on my mind is Vaccine Passport, ( yellow fever vaccination ) card.
    
    Will this be compatible with other countries?
    Will they recognise this, I see Aus mainly going with Astra Z?
    I personally could’nt care less as long as its ok to travel ( OKTB) Ok to Board.
    
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    March 9, 2021 4:46pm
- Bill Felt
  
  Announcing as though announcing is doing!
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:34am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  When they pay the $50 x 10 Million.
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:41am
- herb1
  
  just a “pre purchase contract” so more like a statement of intent.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:05pm
- Paulus
  
  UK Official reported 21 million so far vaccinate but that was last week so many more.
  
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  March 9, 2021 1:33pm
Maggie Pie

My partner reckons poor ol’ Harry has been well & truly “Pussy Whipped” 😛

https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1368932517298925574
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March 9, 2021 8:42am
- Tony Stuart
  
  I think the correct terminology is that Hazza has been well and truly Markled…
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:59am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    And what about ZB’s Mike Hosking yesterday? 😀
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:06am
- SB2
  
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  MP , Pussy whipped? Are you sure that wasn’t Trump?
  
  LOL
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:04am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    What has Trump got to do about this, troll?
    I don’t even like that man, but you seem genuinely fixated.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:41am
Unity

How do we know it’s true about the comment on the colour of Archie’s skin. I’m going to try and watch the item tonight but I can imagine that I wont see it through because I will be disgusted. It’s not going to go well for Harry and, as for Meg, she is just ‘poor me’ seeking and we mustn’t forget that she is an actress so how do we know what to believe. Two American women caught up in the Monarchy (Wallis Simpson all those years ago) and all they could do was divide everyone. They won’t change my total support for the Monarchy and only succeed in losing even more of my respect.
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March 9, 2021 8:43am
- MCos
  
  There were three people who agreed to the interview.
  Harry, Meghan & Oprah.
  Harry obviously agreed with the answers given by his wife. The concerns expressed about the babies colour were made to him by someone either in the family or closely connected not to Meghan. He subsequently told her.
  However it is Meghan, the African American woman, who is getting the shit.
  BTW
  They have left open for whoever made the unfortunate remark to justify themselves & lift the shadow over everyone else.
  “It was me & I never said it”
  
  Comparisons to Wallis Simpson are laughable, except they are both America divorcees.
  Simpson’s prospective husband was King, who couldn’t marry her by law. It was his choice to abdicate.
  Harry was a spare part in a bloated tourist attraction.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:59am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Hi Mcos, Yesterday i posted about the “Dubious : pic in Myanmar.
    After a bit more digging, There are 2 Muslims officials and one was killed in Military custody. So in all likely hood the pic was authentic.
    This however sets the tone to their intentions with Rohinga to the North ( Muslims).
    Thanks for that and accept my apologies.
    
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    March 9, 2021 1:59pm
    - MCos
      
      No problems.
      It’s a crying shame what’s happening in Myanmar.
      The poor buggers are kicked in the teeth by the military at home and those that can go to Thailand to work legally for a pittance or illegally for even less.
      I read about sixty or so working on a building project. They were dobbed in just before payday so the developers got away with not paying for their last month. Some of the money thus saved would, no doubt, be used the pay off police/immigration.
      For the last ten years there’s been a power sharing government in Myanmar, but that’s gone out the window.
      
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      March 9, 2021 5:47pm
- Brian McDonald
  
  Of course, we don’t know it’s true, and I’m not a royal groupie. Phillip is not known for being discrete.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:40am
  - Ehlana
    
    They specifically ruled Philip and the Queen out. Take your pick of the others…
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:58am
Mr_Blobby

What would jacinda do?

Get twyford to fix it.
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March 9, 2021 8:44am
redeye

Seeing the staff used to call him ‘The Hostage’ was the funniest thing I have seen this month.
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March 9, 2021 8:50am
Maggy Wassilieff

How a little lie by a truanting pupil led to the decapitation of her teacher

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/08/samuel-paty-how-a-teenagers-lie-sparked-a-tragic-chain-of-events
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March 9, 2021 8:51am
- WaveyDavey
  
  “The Religion of Peace™”
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:05am
Nukuleka

My God. Imagine how offended all the gingas would feel if it had been revealed that one of the royals had asked ‘How red will Archie’s hair be?’ Or all the fattists if the question had been ‘Do you think he’ll be a big baby?’ Or the non binary trans enthusiasts if someone had said ‘ Do you think it will be a boy or a girl?’

Frankly, I think both Sussexes are fantasists and most of what comes out of their mouths is bilge. A thoroughly narcisstic self-serving pair who have no sense of decorum or manners. Even their much publicized wedding was fake. They’d already got married 3 days earlier.

God save our gracious queen.
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March 9, 2021 8:51am
- Tony Stuart
  
  No they hadn’t Nukuleka. They met privately with the Archbishop, without witnesses, so they could not have legally been “married”. I’d suggest he gave them a blessing or something similar.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:08am
  - Sacha
    
    A long time ago, a few days before my marriage, and after the banns were called on 3 subsequent weeks, my husband-to-be and I had to meet with the (Anglican) priest. who was conducting the wedding ceremony, so that he could see that we were committed to the marriage.
    I expect that this was what the meeting with the Archbishop was for.
    
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    March 9, 2021 2:30pm
Frank the tank

LOL our ‘downticker’ is out in force. L9 must have told him/her to get up earlier
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March 9, 2021 8:56am
Tony Stuart

In August 2020, around the time that an outbreak of Covid-19 in Auckland caused her to increase alert levels and postposne the General Election, Jacinda Ardern said this:

“I will vigorously call out ANY politician attempting to politicise Covid19”

Fast forward to 8 March 2021. Labour MP’s, including Minister of Conservation and Minister for Emergency Management, Hon Kiri Allan, gleefully tweet a graphic proclaiming “Enough Pfizer vaccines purchased for all New Zealanders”. That’s great, except that they won’t arrive until the “second half of the year”, which could be as late as December.

But here’s the rub; the graphic contains the Labour Party logo, and a line of text underneath which reads:

Funded by the Parliamentary Service. Authorised by Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

That’s right, not only is the long-suffering taxpayer paying for this blatant politicking, but the advertisement is authorised by the Prime Minister herself, the same Jacinda Ardern who, seven months ago was going to “vigorously call out any politician” who used Covid-19 as a political tool.

Three cheers for the Labour Party and Jacinda Ardern; hyp, hyp, hypocrisy!
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March 9, 2021 8:57am
- pdm
  
  Hipkins would not confirm to HDPA last evening that the Vaccines would definitely be in New Zealand by 31 December 2021.
  
  Major bluster from him. – no wonder Ardern wasn’t in sight.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:24am
- Master Mariner
  
  The real question is;
  When will they deliver the vaccines on whats already in the country?
  One report said 450,000 vaccines will be here by end of March.
  How many have been done so far?
  Not interested in “advanced purchasers”etc.
  I’m interested in the “Now”.
  Smoke and mirrors.
  
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  March 9, 2021 2:04pm
Inandout

lazza, is that what you call fanny whipped?
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March 9, 2021 8:58am
Maggie Pie

Who said this – and when?

“People think there’s a rigid class system here, but Dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls.
Some have even married Americans”

– Prince Philip. The Duke of Edinburgh. (In 2000)
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March 9, 2021 8:58am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Hands up those who immediately thought of Prince Philip when the issue of the colour of Archie’s skin was raised…
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:03am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    big bro
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:07am
  - kowtow
    
    Looks and complexion are the most normal of discussions among family and friends, how the hell everything gets turned into a George Floyd ,plantation ,oppression ,slavery epic is ridiculous.
    
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    March 9, 2021 1:37pm
- SB2
  
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  I think the gormless Prince Philip must of been thinking of the Duchess of Windsor.
  
  But like many of your posts, the quote is more than lakely your version of fake news.
  
  There, settled!
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:03am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Surely there must be some nubile young mozzies out there you can stalk?
    
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    March 9, 2021 9:15am
  - Jack5
    
    A new nadir for Stephiestani Trolls Ltd.
    
    SB2 puts the boot into the Duke of Edinburgh while he’s lying dying.
    
    Disrespectful to New Zealand, too, given SB2’s insulting the husband of the still-Queen of the country.
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:00am
softail 1450

The “firm” should organize a trip through beautiful Paris in springtime for Markle and include all the under motorway tunnels and a few paparazzi on motor scooters.
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March 9, 2021 8:58am
- mikenmildagain
  
  An uptick for your homicidal urges.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:49am
Rusty

The Queen should strip Harry and his wife of all royal titles. If he and Megan are going bad mouth the royal family and live in another country then why should they be royals anymore?

Megan Markel has been trouble since day one. She obviously never cared about the protocols of the royal family and saw herself as a reformer which she was never entitled to be in the first place.
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March 9, 2021 9:19am
- Loddenthinks
  
  And she’s mixed race too! The horror….
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:45am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Don’t project your race-based lens for judging every outcome onto readers here.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:53am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Typical duck response – no sense of humour, irony or sarcasm. I mean both of us, of course 😉
      
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      March 9, 2021 3:17pm
- Inandout
  
  Rusty, renamed ‘Megan The Merciless’.
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:43am
- Steve Todd
  
  For goodness sake, Rusty, it’s Meghan (pronounced ‘Meggan’), and Markle (as in sparkle). Sheesh!!
  
  Inny — immediately above — take note.
  
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  March 9, 2021 1:51pm
- rockape
  
  There is an expression, “ burning your boats” it has never been more appropriate. It used to indicate burning your boats in a country you had just arrived in so there was no chance of return. I think Harry just applied the match
  
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  March 9, 2021 3:39pm
lastmanstanding

The Chairman of the Central Planning Committee smiled. The media in the soon to be renamed South East Province were proving to be useful idiots. Only a few will need to attend the Re-education Programme.

Not like the media in the Western Island. So much more defiant. They will need extensive re-education. In addition we will put the leaders of the South East Province media in charge of them. That will bring them to heel.
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March 9, 2021 9:34am
Maggie Pie

A bestie from up north tweets….. 😀

https://twitter.com/harrypeterson_/status/1368995630878654465
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March 9, 2021 9:36am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, Plunket commented, he still exists!
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:45am
Jack5

Auckland lesbian terrorists featured in the TV1 documentary last night.

Had a car not come along, they would likely have castrated Mervyn Thomson, the university lecturer they tied to a tree.

Christchurch ears pricked up when it was mentioned that Thomson founded the city’s Court Theatre.

The vigilantes, already hostile to men, were triggered by an alleged rape by Thomson.

Was it rape or consensual sex? The former police detective recounted how, when interviewed about the kidnapping of Thomson, the woman wouldn’t sign her statement alleging rape. That would have allowed a charge to be brought against Thomson.

The former detective suggested she would have faced severe cross-examination in court if Thomson had been charged, with the implication that this scared her from signing.

A trivial question: would the lesbian vigilantes have kidnapped Thomson so easily if had kept his car doors locked?

A second trivial point: one of those justifying the kidnapping seemed to celebrate the group was multicultural. Ah! like the vigilante road blocks over Covid 19. Okay so long as they’re not all-White.

Leftist vigilantism makes you think about the Left-led, NZ clampdown on ownership of firearms by ordinary citizens.
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March 9, 2021 9:41am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Yeah, if only Mervyn Thompson had been packing heat that night.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:00am
  - Jack5
    
    Trust Milky, also known on the blog as Mike, to extend an argument then hammer the extension.
    
    “Packing heat”? You watch too many junk movies, Milky.
    
    Try this in Milky logic:
    
    -Milky logic premise 1: vigilantes are great because they’re Leftist;
    
    – Milky logic premise 2: people who believe in more liberal gun control are a danger to vigilantes and they’re not Leftist.
    
    Milky logic conclusion: Therefore vigilantes are fine, but liberal gun ownership is wrong.
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:41am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Just poking fun at your ‘trivial question’ about locking the car doors, Jack. BTW, of course he wasn’t going to lock the doors – he was there to meet a woman, not to be attacked.
      
      Nothing in that excuses vigilantism.
      
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      March 9, 2021 11:07am
Raphael

Our Glorious Leader has proclaimed 2021 to be the Year of the Vaccine.
You would have though the fiasco of 2019 being the Year of Delivery would still be smarting a little.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/covid-19-coronavirus-jacinda-ardern-says-more-expensive-pfizer-vaccine-worth-it/GZBFE6BO424ITI7UASTRQUNUC4/
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March 9, 2021 9:42am
- Fletch
  
  The year of the vacuous.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:35am
Loddenthinks

Is anyone else astonished at:

a) how much otherwise sane kiwis are frothing over the tell-all royal interview, and

b) how quick everyone is to defend what must surely be the most dysfunctional family business since the Borgias?
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March 9, 2021 9:42am
- Jack5
  
  Italians were busily getting on with the Renaissance while the Borgias intrigued.
  
  Nowadays, we’re not so busy.
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:47am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I thought the interview was pretty tame, really, for all the talk of ‘bombshells’.
  This was funny, though:
  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/07/royal-commentators-hoaxed-into-critique-of-meghan-interview-before-seeing-it
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:53am
- thirteenstars
  
  No. Kiwis are the most nationalistic, groupthinking bunch on the planet which translates to, in this case, not so much-my-country-right-or-wrong but a variation of it akin to my-monarchy-right-or-wrong.
  
  Besides, Markle’s an American and all true Kiwis know how horrendous Americans are, so it’s all her fault. They all know she’s a huckster and poor Harry is her mark, all the while never admitting how much of a thoroughgoing upper class twit Harry is. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
  
  We really haven’t come too far from Prince Chuckles speculating about being Camilla’s tampon, and that was thirty years ago. It’s the well-heeled celebrity victimhood that is sickening, and that applies on both sides of the Atlantic.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:17am
- Apropos of the Wet Snow
  
  Caring about what those two boneheads have to say is effectively a diagnoses of sub-par intelligence and having little else to think about. I think that your attribution of “otherwise sane” is misplaced.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:23am
- Hard Cheese
  
  “It’s not that awful. You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:59am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    That was Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man, if I’m not mistaken. And if you know that, you’ll also know it was wrong – then and now. The Germans invented the cuckoo clock, then known as a Black Forest clock, in the 17th centruy.
    
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    March 9, 2021 3:22pm
    - Hard Cheese
      
      The point of the quote remains the same, German invention or not. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to think of a single pre-WWII Swiss invention better than a cuckoo clock anyway.
      
      Dysfunctional or not, you can’t deny that the Royal family do a lot of good work for the community in their country. And not that having a dysfunctional family is anything unusual.
      
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      March 9, 2021 6:15pm
Maggie Pie

oprah: who said that shit
meg: i’m not going to say
oprah: ok i respect that
oprah: harry who said that shit to you
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March 9, 2021 9:49am
Steve Todd

Just in! A new survey from the Pew Research Centre shows that atheists are more likely to get COVID-19 vaccinated (90%) than any other religious demographic. (See https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/03/06/survey-atheists-are-more-likely-to-get-vaccinated-than-any-religious-group/?)

And which group has the least intention to get vaccinated? Why, White evangelicals, of course.

Also, it’s interesting to see the gap between Catholics (77%) and Protestants (62%).
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March 9, 2021 9:54am
Captain Mainwaring

Prime News has a new presenter, a lovely lady very fluent in Maori.
She has clearly been put in this role for her ability to introduce each segment in a flowing form of Te Reo.
Be warned folks. This is happening all across the MSM. Like the frog in the pot, before we know it we’ll all be citizens of the South Pacific Socialist Republic of Aotearoa.
And there’s nothing we’ll be able to do about it.
I’m bloody glad I’m almost 73 but I fear for my kids and grandkids. What was built up by our parents and grandparents is being destroyed by the woke socialist generation.
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March 9, 2021 9:58am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Show us on the doll where the te reo hurt you.
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:02am
- Nickc2
  
  Complain to your MP. What’s that you say? He’s a Maori? That puts pay to that doesn’t it?
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:25am
- RockyJ
  
  You left a bit out. It will be “South Pacific Apartheid Socialist Republic of Aorearoa”. The Maori activists and their weakly white liberal enablers are aiming for an independent Maori state.
  What they can’t figure out is how to achieve this without getting rid of the rest of us. So, it has to be a state within a state. Given how interlinked we all are it has to be done on the South African apartheid model. You can be assured that this will involve privilege being institutionalised along with the legal and constitutional seperation. Not a very nice prospect for our grandchildren is it?
  
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  March 9, 2021 10:47am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    It ain’t going to happen. The Tribes are bigger than the radicals and won’t take the implied offence to their Tribes lightly.
    They will want their share but won’t be able to agree among themselves (they still have finished the Treaty Settlements) so it could go nasty quickly.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:21am
    - RockyJ
      
      I hope you are right. How does the “implied offence” work?
      
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      March 9, 2021 11:30am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Some Tribes believe they have superiority. Out of control activists could easily irritate a senior tribal leader because these matters of state are seen by them as their territory for negotiation or activity. Their mana is tied in with that. Upstarts horning in may be looking for a share of the spoils too.
        
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        March 9, 2021 2:28pm
- Brian McDonald
  
  I learned a little Te Reo years ago, an easier way to pick it back up now. Rather than fear for your kids and grandkids Captain ask them what they think about it. I did with my grandkids to ask them their thoughts on Covid if only to reassure them they had the right to speak out.
  They were very conservative, as it appears a lot of young people are these days.
  You might find that like PM leaving Mike’s show most people don’t care about more Te Reo being spoken.
  If you read the interview with the Papatoetoe High School headmaster you would have seen that white children and Maori are both in the minority at the school.
  At least for the moment, the PM is more reflective of the younger NZ and smart enough to allay any fears about vaccine supplies on the same day she walked on Mike. Having said that, nothing to actually say that was deliberate and could be giving too much credit to talk back and not enough to the changing media forums.
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:10am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Correct Brian. Papatoetoe has a significant Indian population now. A drive up Great South Road is an eye-opener.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:23am
  - Jack5
    
    Maybe you should learn a little Hindi now, Brian.
    
    Being an Indo-European language, you may pick it up quicker than you would Maori.
    
    I think I’ll have a look a it.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:26am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Of course the kids will be ok with it because they are force fed it at school. That doesn’t make it right.
    
    I don’t actually mind increasing the use of Te Reo but am fully against anti-democratic actions and changing the name of the country/cities etc by changing what they’re called in the media etc to the point that people eventually just give up is anti-democratic. If you want to change names etc PUT IT TO A VOTE! before you start changing the names.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:47am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    the PM is more reflective of the younger NZ
    
    The PM is completely out of touch with young teens from South Auckland and the seedier places in NZ.
    
    https://www.teaomaori.news/quit-rambling-and-get-point-rangatahi-maori-call-better-covid-19-messaging
    
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    March 9, 2021 12:12pm
  - graham
    
    So her Bachelor of Communication Studies in Public Relations and Political Science, PLUS her kickass DJ skills, STILL haven’t helped her get the message out to the adoring public?
    
    Who would’ve thought, hmm?
    
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    March 9, 2021 12:26pm
    - nathie
      
      She says in reply: “What, you expect “delivery”? That means doing work!
      
      And interfering with important things like … kindy visits! And bonus is, the “messages” go down well there – always cheering, clapping support no matter what is said … and Hosking and Soper ain’t there giving me a hard time either whoop whoop”!
      
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      March 9, 2021 3:04pm
  - JerJer
    
    I’ll fix it for you Brian, it is actually that MORE people don’t care about Maori language, not even Maori themselves.
    
    This whole push is because the language is dying, and that is no-ones fault. It is a fact of life that some languages die, and it’s happening all over the world.
    
    This is a last desperate attempt by a bunch of liberal layabouts that most Moari nor anyone else care little about.
    
    Maori names have been place names and on boats and all sorts of stuff for years, no one cares. However forcing people to learn an irrelevant language for no purpose whatsoever just makes people resentful and angry, and that is what the extinction of the language will only accelerate from here.
    
    The people pushing this are the woke brigade, and they will fail, both for themselves, and unfortunately for Maori.
    
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    March 9, 2021 1:50pm
- Sacha
  
  Hey, Cap’n, what’s the Maori translation for: “South Pacific Socialist Republic of” ?
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:21am
  - Inandout
    
    Sacha, I stopped watching Fair Go when NZers were never mentioned, always kiwis and Aotearoa. Then Pippa and the guy with the stiff neck would open with ‘no my, hokey my’. Used to be a great consumer show.
    
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    March 9, 2021 1:45pm
- graham
  
  Same thing happening on TV1 News (SWMBO insists on watching it), all part of the push to “normalise” Maori.
  
  But the thing is, I honestly can’t see it happening … not to the extent that the Government and Vodafone and other organisations are desperately trying to make it, anyway.
  
  Oh sure, there will continue to be the nods to speaking Maori; the brief six to ten word introductions to news items, another four or five words as they go to a commercial break; there’ll be the “kia oras” and the “haere mais”; and of course there’ll continue to be all the Government departments renaming themselves, with the main impact being that when anyone wants to find out how to contact a certain department they will increasingly have to use Google to find out that “first home grants” are administered by something now called Kainga Ora. And the people pushing for “normalising” the speaking of Maori will celebrate and pat themselves on the back and congratulate themselves for another little victory.
  
  But none of this is “normalising” the speaking of Maori. Maybe it depends on your definition – if by normalising they mean that it becomes normal to hear the EXACT SAME six to ten words in Maori, on the news night after night, then sure they’re succeeding. But let’s be honest – that’s just virtue signalling. That’s all it is. It is nothing more than a very superficial attempt to introduce Maori, and that’s all it will remain. Because the simple fact is, it is NOT normal to hear Maori being spoken in New Zealand, any more than it’s normal to hear French or German. Because the vast majority of people simply don’t understand it. Which is why, for all the proud announcements that NZTA is now called Waka Kotahi, we all still talk about NZTA and you still go to a website where 99.9% of everything that is written on there is in English.
  
  So get used to hearing the six words of Maori scattered through the news, and having to look up what Government department is responsible for what because “Waka Kotahi” means absolutely nothing to most of us. But as far as normalising Maori – it simply isn’t going to happen.
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:52am
  - RockyJ
    
    The Germans said “it isn’t going to happen” about Hitler too
    
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    March 9, 2021 1:04pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Relax it will only be for a few years. Then the Chinese will own us and this crap will disappear into a “work” camp.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:05pm
  - Paulus
    
    I rather think the we should be learning an Indian language Hindi as that appears to be the dominant one for those here in New Zealand.
    It appears that Indians are now forming a larger part of our immigration and will soon outnumber Maori and Chinese.
    
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    March 9, 2021 1:55pm
- rockape
  
  Most modern nuclear explosions would release very little radioactivity. They are airburst not groundburst and this increases the damage but greatly reduces the radioactive plume.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:20pm
- WaynelSexton
  
  Captain, the future belongs to those who turn up. The boomers failed to turn up with enough children to keep Western Civilization flourishing in New Zealand.
  
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  March 9, 2021 3:54pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    The boomers did fine, it’s the Millenials that are failing to replace themselves – because NZ laws and regulations have made kids unaffordable.
    
    You need two incomes to buy overpriced houses (prices raised by excessive regulatory costs) on 30 year mortgages with payments that only very slowly abate due to low inflation
    
    Childcare is really expensive – eating up most of an average income, legally kids have to be supervised at all times up until their teens, aren’t allowed to walk to school by themselves until 7 or more and trying to transport more than 3 kids, which used to be easy in any car 30 years ago, is now a logistical nightmare of vans and bulky car seats adding 5-10 minutes to every journey.
    
    >3kids is now an extreme rarity outside of poorest welfare supported families, and even 3 kids is uncommon. That pretty much sinks the chances of having necessary 2.1 kids per woman needed for replacement.
    
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    March 9, 2021 10:05pm
DeepBlue

Sir Brian gets another suck at the sav, to review the Covid review and last lockdown debacle.

Opposition and media do seem to have got under Jacinda’s skin last week.
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March 9, 2021 10:00am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Whilst Roche will undoubtedly do a thorough review and make sound recommendations, what’s the point? Labour sat on the earlier Simpson-Roche report which they received in September 2020, and Hipkins finally released to the public after Parliament had risen for the Christmas recess, on a day when most journalists were recovering from the annual Press Gallery Christmas Party.
  
  It’s not known how many, if any, of the recommendations Simpson and Roche made in that report have been implemented, three months one. This latest appointment of Mr Roche seems to be just another excuse to kick a tricky issue down the road and avoid answering questions on it, because there’s an inquiry underway.
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:16am
- Frank the tank
  
  Roche is a government stooge that will whitewash this review. Otherwise it might be released in time for lockdown 7 in mid October.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:07pm
  - Paulus
    
    He is a thoughtful stooge as he is an Accountant and believe still with PWC.
    Knew him in very early life – thorough.
    
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    March 9, 2021 1:57pm
Nostradamus

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam ‘fully welcomes’ proposed electoral reforms by Beijing

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says the city’s government “fully welcomes” the electoral reforms that have been proposed by Beijing to increase central government control over local politics.
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China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), is expected to approve on Thursday a resolution that will reduce democratic representation in Hong Kong institutions and vet any candidates for “patriotism”. The measures will tweak the size and composition of Hong Kong’s legislature, and the committee selecting the chief executive further in favour of pro-Beijing figures.

China plays a long game. Hong Kong is one example. The South China Sea and Taiwan are two more examples. And yesterday I read this article about how China is playing a long game in the Arctic with its so-called “Polar Silk Road”. I’m curious to see how the United States and Russia respond to China’s geopolitical powerplays.
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March 9, 2021 10:15am
- oldfella
  
  Nostradamus: ‘Don’t trust China. China is asshole!’
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:25am
- Master Mariner
  
  Yes following the Arctic Story as well.
  If they get Myanmar, Which it looks like they are going too by proxy, It will open up borders both sides. Already building a Deepwater port at Pyauck Phu which completes that segment and Gas pipelines direct to Inland China.
  
  As mentioned previously all control over Rare earths, This will be a battle ground for global disruption as everyone going Green, Windmills, EV, and the like .
  The lack of action in recent ASEAN talks highlights where they are sitting in regards to myanmar.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Myanmar_pipelines.
  
  Heres how HK is going.
  
  https://news.google.com/articles/CBMia2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmNoYW5uZWxuZXdzYXNpYS5jb20vbmV3cy9hc2lhL2hvbmcta29uZy1jaGluYS1jYXJyaWUtbGFtLXByYWlzZXMtcGxhbi1pbnN0YWxsLXBhdHJpb3RzLTE0MzYwNTIw0gEA?hl=en-SG&gl=SG&ceid=SG%3Aen
  
  Out of interest, The Chinese passport incorporates all disputed Sea lanes as already displayed in their passport.
  
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  March 9, 2021 1:16pm
- SB2
  
  Never fear. China may try but will ultimately fail Much like the former USSR.
  
  China will never be able to achieve nuclear and technological parity with the US . At least not under its present political and and economic system of governance.
  
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  March 9, 2021 2:40pm
Maggie Pie

It didn’t take long….

Prince Charles and old mate Jimmy Saville trending on twitter

https://twitter.com/Knox64Knox/status/1368951349984047105
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March 9, 2021 10:24am
BananaLlama

Americans trying to cancel the Royal family for not kowtowing to their progressive tyranny. Watch it backfire.
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March 9, 2021 10:32am
Fletch

Are the up and down ticks being moderated now as well? I can’t get them to work.

[The ticks are recorded, just not being shown automatically. It’s a WordPress thing. Mod.]
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March 9, 2021 10:34am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Good to see this problem is now fixed.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:11pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Works now. Even when it did now show, refreshing the page shows it
  
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  March 9, 2021 2:15pm
Fletch

I see old Paddy Gower is right into the criticism of the royal family, saying no way should they be head of state in NZ. Typical leftie. Um, why does he believe Megan?
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March 9, 2021 10:42am
- Tony Stuart
  
  I’m guessing Gower has been drinking the Markle Koolaid…
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:17am
  - Jack5
    
    Or maybe Paddy has found his Irish roots.
    
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    March 9, 2021 11:27am
    - kowtow
      
      Gower is not an Irish name and while Patrick is the patron saint ,that’s Roman .
      
      I doubt he’s a Mick .
      
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      March 9, 2021 1:41pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        He went to Francis Douglas —the Catholic Secondary School in NP.
        
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        March 9, 2021 5:19pm
      - kowtow
        
        Maggy
        
        Catholic school ?
        
        He’s half way to being a Taig in that case……
        
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        March 9, 2021 5:47pm
  - oldfella
    
    Tony, the same way locals luvvies drink JacKoolaid.
    
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    March 9, 2021 12:12pm
- Hard Cheese
  
  Because Gower is an idiot
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:48am
Jack5

The tick malfunction on the blog will be distorting the way ticks are made. The reponse of many will be: I don’t see a tick, so fuck it, I’ll move on.
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March 9, 2021 10:44am
- hookerphil
  
  Mine have just suddenly – after going to a Maggi tweet link – reappeared. That’s the answer, follow Maggie.
  
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  March 9, 2021 11:36am
kowtow

Pfizer , isn’t that the vaccine that killed all them Norwegians a short while ago ?
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March 9, 2021 10:55am
oldfella

This is great: in the US people are starting to use lefties’ nonsensical language against them and they HATE it. (‘Cos it’s different when the left do it.)
https://notthebee.com/article/the-political-right-is-starting-to-use-lefties-idiotic-language-against-them-and-its-beautiful
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March 9, 2021 11:36am
- Loddenthinks
  
  That. Is. Awesome. I now know I’m a Super-straight Super-anti-racist and I feel pretty good about it.
  
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  March 9, 2021 1:25pm
Maggie Pie

Breaking……

JEEP suing Cherokee Nation for cultural appropriation of brand name.
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March 9, 2021 11:36am
- rockape
  
  WhT about those Indian motorcycles so loved in the past by Kiwis and immortalised in film.
  
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  March 9, 2021 3:46pm
oldfella

While we’re distracted by that crazy actress bint and her pussy whipped hubby…
Other, more important things are happening in the world. Like the dangerous rise of climate censorship.
Six retweets. That is all the censorship campaign, Stop Funding Heat, needed to have a series of articles taken down by a major British news website and erased from the web. The activists also extracted a groveling apology from the paper’s editor, who promised not only to join the campaign, but also implied his journalists would stop reporting negatively on their cause and would no longer hold them to account.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/08/the-dangerous-rise-of-climate-censorship/
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March 9, 2021 11:50am
Inandout

Those dodgy Chinese hackers.
‘Microsoft has patched four zero-day flaws in its Exchange email server that Chinese state-sponsored group Hafnium exploited to steal data from private and public organizations worldwide. The vulnerabilities enabled attackers to authenticate themselves, inject malware, execute commands remotely, and exfiltrate data’.
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March 9, 2021 11:52am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Dodgy dealing with dodgy.
  Why was Microsoft using such compromised software?
  
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  March 9, 2021 2:33pm
Captain Mainwaring

Barely Sober is getting stuck into Cindy for hiding from Hosking (and other media).
Good on him. And I thought he was a lefty.
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March 9, 2021 12:15pm
- hookerphil
  
  Perhaps he listened to his wife’s interview with Hipkins and he has been told to remove the scales from his eyes.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:41pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Captain Mainwaring:
  
  I’m guessing that you’re referring to this video clip of Barry Soper asking Jacinda Ardern
  some questions about her media arrangements.
  
  Jacinda looks uncomfortable and, in my view, her answers to Barry’s questions are unconvincing. For example, I don’t think (as Jacinda implies) that there are more media outlets queuing up for a weekly slot than there were for previous prime ministers. Radio NZ, TVNZ and Newshub might each take up, say, 15 minutes of her time. Who else is there?
  
  I note also that Jacinda’s answers are inconsistent with the position yesterday:
  
  A statement from the Prime Minister’s office to Newstalk ZB said: “The Prime Minister’s schedule of media appearances has been reviewed and while it hasn’t reduced overall, it has changed.
  
  So, on the one hand, Jacinda tells Barry that there’s too many media outlets and too little time. On the other hand, her office tells Newstalk ZB that the media schedule “hasn’t reduced overall”.
  
  Whether you like him or not, Mike Hosking has a large media audience (who, perhaps, aren’t the same people who listen to Radio NZ), so it would seem logical for Jacinda to want to speak to that audience every week.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:46pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    I think Captain Mainwaring was referring to Barry Soper talking to Simon Barnett and Phil Gifford, on Newstalk ZB, pretty much as he was putting up his comment.
    
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    March 9, 2021 2:17pm
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    Nostra – so many magazines, so little time.
    
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    March 9, 2021 4:27pm
I remember when

So according to one of the Royal biographers, one of the type of people who stay awake long after the rest of us have been bored witless, there is considerable doubt about aspects of the colour of Archie story.
It wasn’t made to Meghan and appears to have been made some time before they were married.
Apparently, Harry was involved in the, so far without context or detail, discussion.
Luckily lack of facts allows a much more wide-ranging and damaging condemnation
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March 9, 2021 12:26pm
Master Mariner

Heres the thing,
Is NZ going to start mining with Rigs to help supply Rare metals for the expansion of EV fleet or are we going to turn a blind eye and pay a premium and let someone else do it overseas.
Is this captured in Climate commission report how Energy intensive to mine.

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/node/7082

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/09/norways-electric-car-drive-belies-national-reliance-on-fossil-fuels

Are the greenies going ” rent a crowd” and protest ” Deep sea Drilling” for the minerals and metals for EV.
Dont worry they will have something else to “campaign” on now in say 20 years.

Just thought I’d highlight how “Green” they really are.
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March 9, 2021 12:29pm
- kowtow
  
  Same with so much of our manufactured goods coming from the likes of China , India , etc
  
  We lost our manufacturing jobs to them , they make all the stuff really cheaply at great cost: to labour (who are paid sfa); to the environment there where it’s trashed to f#ck,; and they produce all that guff using “dirty” , but really cheap “fossil fuels”.
  
  But we get the “benefit” of all that stuff and tell ourselves how great we’re doing for the environment , while our children work in retail at the Warehouse or serve coffee to wealthy overseas tourists ( used to anyway) and worry the hell over will they ever own a home.( While the third worlders get relatively wealthy , well educated and then come here to buy houses , put in broadband and sell us booze at an off license)
  
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  March 9, 2021 1:50pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Great minds think alike Kowtow.
    Perfectly put.
    
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    March 9, 2021 4:59pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Ah, Norway. Our dewy-eyed Green cultists just love their fixation on EVs.. but conveniently forget that Norway’s seemingly insatiable desire for more oil saw them grant 61 new drilling licences in January.
  
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  March 9, 2021 2:59pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Absolutely, Look how there Sovereign wealth fund financed there future.
    A lot going on up high latitudes, Svalbaad etc.
    Very unforgiving place.
    Wont see to many Green peace protesters there, thats for sure.
    Also of interest biggest ( subsidised) EV take up in europe by all accounts.
    On another note a lot of interest globally about drilling for precious minerals.
    Really like to see there stand on this . As they have “forced” them upon us.
    
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    March 9, 2021 5:05pm
graham

Pffft …

A media commentator, Gavin Ellis, has said of Jacinda Ardern’s decision to pull out of her weekly slot with Mike Hosking:

“Hosking is a robust interviewer and his personal views certainly couldn’t be called left-wing. However, Jacinda Arden is more than a match for him in their debates.“

I would say Mr Ellis is probably one of the very, VERY few people who think that Ardern was even close to being a match for Hosking in a debate.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/jacinda-ardern-pulls-weekly-interview-slot-mike-hosking
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March 9, 2021 12:32pm
- lifesgood
  
  Gavin Ellis…what a twit. I have just seen Barry Soper interviewing Jacinda. She looked absolutely haggard, defiant, angry and as if she is losing the plot. Can’t come soon enough.
  
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  March 9, 2021 12:49pm
- SB2
  
  The Mike Hosking reality,
  
  show pony
  
  Dictionary,
  
  nounINFORMAL•BRITISH
  
  “a stylish or flamboyant person, especially a performer, who enjoys being in the limelight.
  
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  March 9, 2021 2:49pm
Fletch

Some of the facts in the George Floyd case, including the fact that restraining by knee on the neck was an official allowed and recommended non-deadly procedure outlined in the Minneapolis Police Dept handbook, which you can find archived online before they changed it. Also, that Floyd was saying “I can’t breathe” before he was put on the ground. It’s on police bodycam footage.

https://archive.is/gncPE

5-311 USE OF NECK RESTRAINTS AND CHOKE HOLDS (10/16/02) (08/17/07) (10/01/10) (04/16/12)
DEFINITIONS I.
Choke Hold: Deadly force option. Defined as applying direct pressure on a person’s trachea or airway (front of the neck), blocking or obstructing the airway (04/16/12)
Neck Restraint: Non-deadly force option. Defined as compressing one or both sides of a person’s neck with an arm or leg, without applying direct pressure to the trachea or airway (front of the neck). Only sworn employees who have received training from the MPD Training Unit are authorized to use neck restraints. The MPD authorizes two types of neck restraints: Conscious Neck Restraint and Unconscious Neck Restraint. (04/16/12)
Conscious Neck Restraint: The subject is placed in a neck restraint with intent to control, and not to render the subject unconscious, by only applying light to moderate pressure. (04/16/12)
Unconscious Neck Restraint: The subject is placed in a neck restraint with the intention of rendering the person unconscious by applying adequate pressure. (04/16/12)
PROCEDURES/REGULATIONS II.
A.The Conscious Neck Restraint may be used against a subject who is actively resisting. (04/16/12)
B.The Unconscious Neck Restraint shall only be applied in the following circumstances: (04/16/12)
1.On a subject who is exhibiting active aggression, or;
2.For life saving purposes, or;
3.On a subject who is exhibiting active resistance in order to gain control of the subject; and if lesser attempts at control have been or would likely be ineffective.
C.Neck restraints shall not be used against subjects who are passively resisting as defined by policy. (04/16/12)
D.After Care Guidelines (04/16/12)
1.After a neck restraint or choke hold has been used on a subject, sworn MPD employees shall keep them under close observation until they are released to medical or other law enforcement personnel.
2.An officer who has used a neck restraint or choke hold shall inform individuals accepting custody of the subject, that the technique was used on the subject.
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March 9, 2021 12:58pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5u19PEnHH4

Biden Realizes How Powerful India and Japan Actually Are.

The foreign affairs and geopolitical analysis arm of the tfimedia group. I’m your host Shubhangi, and in this video I’ll tell you about Joe Biden learning his latest lesson. European countries are also interested in opposing Chinese ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. [Beijing Biden has agreed to a meeting of the QUAD. He probably thinks it’s some kind of new fangled motorcycle.]
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March 9, 2021 12:59pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5u19PEnHH4

RINO Mitch May Resign.

There is talk of Mitch McConnel stepping down. He has almost a full term
to serve. He has made a list of successors. It’s possibly just a precaution.
He will want a biddable successor. MAGA fans won’t want another RINO in
his place. Trumps Office of the Former President is very active in selecting non-RINO candidates to endorse. A primary challenger for Liz Cheney is being sought. It’ll be a case of Trump endorsements v RINO money. Trump has forbidden the RNC from using his name, and likeness.
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March 9, 2021 12:59pm
- MCos
  
  “Trump has forbidden the RNC from using his name, and likeness.”
  
  That’s a bit like Bishop Brian forbidding the Reserve Bank from putting his image on a banknote.
  
  He’d love it!
  
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  March 9, 2021 5:56pm
Maggie Pie

Boarding School joke….. 😛

Q: Why can’t you get a ‘Pregnant Barbie’?

A: Because Ken comes in a separate box.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1369015823055130634
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March 9, 2021 1:16pm
Maggie Pie

Now that there’s absolutely no Talkback hosts worth listening to between 12 & 4, I thought I may as well watch QT.

And guess who’s asking the first question today…….

“BERROCAS IN THE MORNING AND THE MAGNESIUMS AT NIGHT”

😀 😀
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March 9, 2021 1:55pm
Nostradamus

Man who made death threat against broadcaster Mike Hosking discharged without conviction

The court heard how Tuugasala made a call to Newstalk ZB after he “took umbrage” at Hosking’s comments to the Prime Minister during a “robust” interview. Hosking had made a suggestion to Jacinda Ardern that she improved her Covid-19 because: “you got caught with your pants down”. Tuugasala’s legal counsel David Wang said he took the idiom Hosking used about getting “caught with your pants down” as a literal thing rather than a figure of speech because his English is limited.

Surely, even if you have limited English, you’d think it’s a bad idea for the Prime Minister to be caught with her pants down in public!
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March 9, 2021 2:20pm
- SB2
  
  That will teach him to indulge and waste time listening to Hosking.
  
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  March 9, 2021 2:28pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    SB2:
    
    That will teach him
    
    I must have missed the part where you said that making a death threat is unacceptable, no matter what a broadcaster says on air.
    
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    March 9, 2021 3:39pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  So taking “umbrage” against someone’s comment combined with limited understanding the local language is a defense for threatening to “kill” someone. What an incredible legal precedent for this country.
  I wonder what the the 27 year old 4CHAN user’s legal team might come up with. Perhaps his complexion was similar to an equal mix of the RGB spectrum so he didn’t understand the nuances of threatening others of another RGB mix.
  
  Either which way it is “threatening to kill”.
  
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  March 9, 2021 3:52pm
SB2

The current Covid 19 reality under our PM and our team of 5 million ( excluding of course a few crumbs from KB and elsewhere )

Covid-19: New Zealand beating Australia’s vaccination rates with 9000 doses given

“New Zealand is marginally beating Australia at vaccinating, with more than 9000 doses given since the rollout began almost three weeks ago.

Current numbers from Australia show it has administered 45,754 doses, working out to about 0.178 doses per 100 people.

New Zealand has administered 9441 doses for a smaller population – about 0.184 doses per 100 people.
More than half of New Zealand’s 12,000 border workers have now received their first vaccination, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said at Wednesday’s 1pm press conference…”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/124421168/covid19-new-zealand-beating-australias-vaccination-rates-with-9000-doses-given

NZ will have enough Pfizer vaccine doses for entire population

New Zealand will buy additional COVID-19 vaccines, developed by Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech, which will be enough to vaccinate the whole country, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.

The government has signed an agreement to buy an extra 8.5 million doses, enough to vaccinate more than 4 million people, Ardern said, adding the vaccines were expected to reach the country in the second half of the year.

“This brings our total Pfizer order to 10 million doses or enough for 5 million people to get the two shots needed to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19,” Ardern said in a statement….”

https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/nz-will-have-enough-pfizer-vaccine-doses-for-entire-population-20210308-p578te.html

When it comes to past not a gook look for Judie and Davey boy
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March 9, 2021 2:30pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Can you elaborate whether you received a dose yet ?
  
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  March 9, 2021 5:07pm
  - sooty
    
    He has, but it’s not the covid!
    
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    March 9, 2021 6:45pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      Apparently Caligua suffered from the same fate.
      
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      March 9, 2021 8:17pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  When are we going to be able to claim for forced use of an unproven “vaccine”?
  
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  March 9, 2021 6:37pm
- Hard Cheese
  
  Sadly for you, in the 4 days since that report Australia has increased the number of vaccinations from 45,754 to 86,369. It’s easy to find out, it’s published on the Australian department of Health web site, broken down by state. NZ doesn’t seem to publish any figures other than what St Ashley decides to release to the public, if there is any more up to date count than 9,431 I can’t find it.
  
  If the vaccine rollout was going well (or using one of Labour’s commonly used but comically inapt expressions, “at pace”) you’d think they’d be crowing about it from the highest steeple……
  
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  March 9, 2021 6:49pm
Nostradamus

I hadn’t heard of Shola Mos-Shogbamimu before today. Watch Piers Morgan try to interview her. I say “try to interview her” because she seems to have difficulty with two-way conversations. A low point happens at 1 minute 40 seconds, when she says: “The royal family as an institution is rooted in colonialism, white supremacy and racism”.

There was someone who commented here at Kiwiblog as “UglyTruth”. He was convinced that the Queen was involved a Canadian genocide. I think there was even a suggestion that some children were eaten.

Anyway, let’s bring out the Sholas and the UglyTruths of the world, so that we can lay out the full prosecution case against the royal family!
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March 9, 2021 2:48pm
- Inandout
  
  Nostra, ‘racism’ is such an overused word it has the same impact as the old ‘Persil washes whiter’ ad; in one ear and out the other.
  
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  March 9, 2021 5:25pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The left rely on self serving stupidity.
Why the Electoral College exits and why they wish to dispose of it. Liz Wheeler.
Lefties – go to your safe place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dgyPRIlyY
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March 9, 2021 2:55pm
SB2

kowtow

Pfizer , isn’t that the vaccine that killed all them Norwegians a short while ago?

There is no causal relationship established,
”
Social media posts mislead on Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations in Norway”

https://factcheck.afp.com/social-media-posts-mislead-pfizer-biontech-vaccinations-norway
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March 9, 2021 2:56pm
Inandout

I wonder if Sleepy Joe should be sued for allowing these illegals to roam free?
https://trends.gab.com/feed/5daf66772fea4d3ba000883b/item/6046cf1c74fa442529e32241
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March 9, 2021 3:06pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

April Fool’s Day is cancelled this year, because no prank is greater than the joke that is running this Country now
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March 9, 2021 3:10pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Hes me thinking its been April Fools day for past year.
  
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  March 9, 2021 8:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

RINOs starting to retreat. This Trump guy is just starting.
https://uniteamericafirst.com/america-first-rising-roy-blunt-is-the-latest-rino-never-trumper-to-flee-dc/?
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March 9, 2021 3:33pm
- curry4me
  
  Steve Otto(North Shore) I hope the door doesn’t hit their butts on the way out.
  
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  March 9, 2021 5:26pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Mike was going to be married to Stephanie so his Father sat him down for a little chat.

He said, ‘Mike, let me tell you something. On my wedding night in our honeymoon suite, I took off my pants, handed them to your Mother, and said,

‘Here – try these on’.’

She did and said, ‘These are too big. I can’t wear them.’

I replied, ‘Exactly. I wear the pants in this family and I always will.

‘Ever since that night, we have never had any problems.

‘Hmmm,’ said Mike. He thought that might be a good thing to try.

On his honeymoon, Mike took off his pants and said to Stephanie, ‘Here, try these on.’

She tried them on and said, ‘These are too large. They don’t fit me.’

Mike said , ‘Exactly. I wear the pants in this family and I always will.

I don’t want you to ever forget that.’

Then Stephanie took off her panties and handed them to Mike.

She said, ‘Here you try on mine.’

He did and said, ‘I can’t get into your panties.’

Stephanie said, ‘Exactly. And if you don’t change your smart-ass attitude, you never will.’
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March 9, 2021 3:50pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Steve:
  
  Then Stephanie took off her panties and handed them to Mike.
  
  What happened to Brian?
  
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  March 9, 2021 4:18pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No comment, Brian may get offended
    
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    March 9, 2021 4:54pm
- [email protected]
  
  My wife really liked that!
  
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  March 9, 2021 9:35pm
Master Mariner

Finaly waking up things dont grow on trees and magically appear on shelves.

Bit of positivity and a lot of good work behind the scenes.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/quarantine-rule-change-under-consideration-make-easier-kiwi-seafarers-return-home
https://fyi.org.nz/request/14199-miq-voucher-for-nz-seafarers-working-overseas#outgoing-25450
https://fyi.org.nz/request/14510-miq-voucher-for-nz-seafarers-working-overseas#incoming-55027
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March 9, 2021 4:30pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

No need for description. Lefties, go to you safe place again – mummy will bring milk and cookies.
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DUkj7gkF0VAM%26fbclid%3DIwAR2QnL2FqQgCbOPlSL4ZhpXLvXoLeJHW7IbW2-nlzh1Mnb8Ls6rGHB50X2Y&h=AT3XC3c-4tDCLQ3wF42LJ3wftngVcFKBoSaPq6dG5FymOYan4SQ5lW9mQV96kXpnIn6C022vWxJFy_cwwy307onqWuqvTFYJb4iaOFA5vsOcWv2auO4n1CB_QmzmU3pY1A
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March 9, 2021 4:43pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124484073/man-arrested-after-gang-members-found-with-firearm-in-wellington-central-city
Bugger !
This one slipped under Cindy’s buyback radar !
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March 9, 2021 5:18pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The chap was on his way to the Cop-shop to hand in the firearm which he had forgotten was hiding under his bed.
  
  Just another good man doing his bit.
  
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  March 9, 2021 5:25pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘Men believed to be Nomads and Killer Beez gang members have been found carrying a firearm and cannabis in Wellington’s central city.’
  
  Can’t be right. The Media pardy keep telling us that dope heads are all chilled and pose no threat to anyone………
  
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  March 9, 2021 5:38pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/300248209/broadcasting-standards-authority-draws-a-line-under-te-reo-complaints
What a lot of tutae
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March 9, 2021 5:30pm
MCos

In a few years Archie might get stopped in a South Auckland street and photographed by the NZ police for walking while brown.
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March 9, 2021 6:02pm
Ian Boag

Just curious. Harry has disengaged from royal duties and is off the associated dosh feed. Where does that leave his uncle Andrew? Also off royal duties as I understand it.
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March 9, 2021 6:13pm
Gravelroad

I see on social media that Mike Hosking must have let rip about the Prime Minister’s less than brave decision to no longer front up on his show.
Hundreds of comments from the absolutely outraged (at Hosking) and the delirious Jacinda supporters.
Have said before- will say again: Ms Ardern is the principal of a cult – pure and simple.
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March 9, 2021 6:39pm
Wired-one

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/03/simon-bridges-nick-smith-booted-from-house-during-chaotic-sitting-spat-between-trevor-mallard-and-david-seymour.html

Watching the clip, Mallard is an absolute disgrace as speaker. I’d be putting a motion of no confidence in him daily.
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