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Tony Stuart

So, having labelled Nicola Willis “classist and racist” for saying she felt unsafe on Wellington streets, Marama Davidson not only attended a march in Wellington last night to protest unsafe streets, but addressed the crowd as well!

Three cheers for Marama Davidson; hyp, hyp, hypocrisy!
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December 1, 2020 8:03am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Maybe her tea leaves have started sending her warning signs
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:11am
  - 3-coil
    
    Tabatha Paul – the race-baiting WCC councillor who originally called out NicolaWillis as “racist” cos she felt at risk in Courtenay Place also spoke at the rally too! Shameless publicity-[Deleted – Mod] and Class-A hypocrite, our Tabatha is a piece of work.
    
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    December 1, 2020 9:30am
    - Steve Todd
      
      Tamatha.
      
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      April 1, 2021 10:11am
  - Maxx
    
    More likely she saw the signs in the entrails of a capitalist she had sacrificed.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:33am
- Swifty
  
  I saw that.
  
  But what surprises me more is that Robertson didn’t attend, grab a loudspeaker and declare “You’re all imagining it, it’s all in your mind – when I walk Wellington streets I feel as safe as houses…”
  
  Well, that’s what he was saying mere days before wasn’t it?
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:13am
  - Nickc2
    
    Don’t think it’s a good call for any Labour Minister to be mentioning houses at the moment. Especially this lying thieving one.
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:29am
- mandk
  
  Davidson is typical of lefty scumbags.
  
  If they don’t have a response to an argument, they simply smear the other person with labels ending
  -ist.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:14am
  - tf78
    
    mandk – only sheep “bleat” (or so I thought).
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:32am
- hullkiwi
  
  Tony, given the speakers at the rally and the nature of the rally, it smacks of a Green Party hit job on Willis and diversion tactic. Yes, they acknowledged Central Wellington is unsafe, even seedy. However, the reasons for this was the night time party culture in Courtney Place, not the new residents of Cental Wgtn according to speakers and Red Radio(this morning).
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:20am
- Maxx
  
  I bet she had a sleep in this morning after working late last night. Can’t do more than 37.5 hrs a week
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:36am
  - pdm
    
    I bet it is a rare week that Davidson works over 30hrs.
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:28am
    - Maxx
      
      To be fair, it would be a loose definition of work – all of those hui’s take time to sit in, flights to and from the hui along with waiting in the airport are probably another few hours.
      And of course 3 hr lunch meetings, all on the tax payer.
      
      Actually, it would be interesting to see her diary!
      
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      April 1, 2021 10:00am
- Rich Prick
  
  She barks at every passing car (and TERF). Best ignored.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:41am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    There’s no such thing as a TERF.
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:32am
    - Rich Prick
      
      I struggle to care about leftie sub-specie nomenclature. They’re all equally mental.
      
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      April 1, 2021 9:41am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        You think women who don’t agree that men who think they are women, are in fact women – are mental?
        
        What about men who think the same, are they mental too?
        
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        April 1, 2021 11:39am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Reminds me of the scene – David Sheep Shearer and Cindy walked in the Lord of the Rings parade shamelessly…..
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:41am
- surfing
  
  ha ha, that was an even worse april fools joke than DPF’s electric car post.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:08am
- lastmanstanding
  
  I say when the Left screech racisim we invoke LastManStanding Law. Like Godwins Law it says they have no credible intellegent debate to offer.
  Racisim is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:24am
- Thought Criminal
  
  The March won’t make the streets safer. They never do.
  
  The March will only highlight that the streets aren’t safe and make people wonder if Labour is to blame.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:52am
Tony Stuart

Is anyone really surprised that documents released under the OIA have shown that Jacinda Ardern was directly involved in finding places for The Wiggles in MIQ?

Despite a promise they would bring $4.4m into the economy and help sustain more than 1100 jobs, managed isolation officials appeared uninterested in helping The Wiggles into the country in early January.

But as soon as the Prime Minister suggested a “practical solution” be found, an ad hoc exemption was worked out rapidly for the children’s band – who are currently touring the country.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300266851/the-wiggles-tour-appeared-doomed-with-no-space-in-miq–until-pm-got-involved

So the PM told Chris Hipkins to find a “practical solution”, code no doubt to find space for The Wiggles, and of course Hipkins duly obliged.

I wonder how those who are still unable to get places in MIQ, many for compassionate reasons, feel about Hipkins and Ardern tag-teaming to give themselves some Wiggle-room to allow in children’s entertainers.
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December 1, 2020 8:34am
- kowtow
  
  No matter what happens the herd is not interested .
  
  She saved us .
  
  It will take an awful lot “to shift the dial” as they say.
  
  Same with the Wokster Top Cop. Illegal racist roadblocks ; no one cares .
  
  Amazeballs.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:46am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    That is why I call fellow countrymen – let me be PC – fellow countrypersons – sheeple.
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:00am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  But she only jumped when she realised Simon Bridges was showing up the lousy way MIQ was being run.
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2021/01/simon-bridges-makes-desperate-plea-for-the-wiggles-to-be-given-miq-spaces-to-save-nz-tour.html
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:39am
- Justitia
  
  Pity she didn’t join the show and run away with them to seek her fortune. A perfect fit.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:59am
- alex Masterley
  
  Bet the fisherman et al attended the Wiggles.
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:37am
  - Bob
    
    Someone has to escort Neve for the photoshoot. Mummy is sooooooo busy saving us plebs.
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:18am
- Scooter
  
  Hmmm what other times has Cindy asked her ministers to find a practical solution I wonder? Maybe to help a person in prison being granted residency?
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:33am
  - Nickc2
    
    Is there any room left under Cindy’s office carpet where this deliberate and outrageous flaunting of their own processes be swept?
    
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    April 1, 2021 12:34pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Mean while 100’s Seafarers are struggling to get back or been laid off due to the impossibility of repatriating them to NZ.
  Absolute disgrace.
  I’m one of those (trying) keeping Supply lines running.
  
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  April 1, 2021 2:24pm
Happychappy

Ardern says rise in Family and Sexual Violence a ‘ stain on our society’ ahead of Wellington Protest.
Reports of Sexual Assaults and related offenses have increased by nearly 50% in the Wellington region over the past five years according to Police Data.
This is a bit rich coming from our Prime Minister who is well known for being part of a couple of Labour Party in house inquiries and cover up of serious sexual assaults, one when former MP Darren Hughes chased a young lad who was naked down a street in which they lived and the other more recently in which the PM promised those victims that she would get Justice for them over the deviate working out of her office for the sexual assault that was perpetrated by him only to sweep it under the.carpet as quick as possible.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/ardern-says-rise-in-family-and-sexual-violence-stain-our-society-ahead-wellington-protest
How can you say it’s a stain on society when you yourself have been part of the problem by association and deciet.
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April 1, 2021 8:00am
- CaptainCompromise
  
  I love the way they’ve turned this into implying it’s a men-oppressing-women problem, not a socio/cultural-economic problem.
  
  Took them a few days to select the right boogieman.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:29am
  - Harriet
    
    Yep — Morrison of all people is getting the blow torch for questionable actions by other males — while Cindy goes almost unquestioned.
    
    At least Morrison has seen to be honest the whole way. Something that can’t be said about Cindy! 😎
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:10am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    The medium is the message…
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:58am
- Philview
  
  Does Jacinda not know that her Government has released 20% of the prison population and is putting them up in motels in our central cities which is one of the causes of this problem.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:05am
mikenmildagain

Happy Edible Book Day!
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April 1, 2021 8:01am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I read my wife like a book . . .
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:08am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    😛
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:21am
- alloytoo
  
  I’ve heard of consuming literature but this is ridiculous.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:10am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You’ll be eating your words.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:27am
    - Harriet
      
      That’s coming from someone who spits their words out. 😎
      
      [Have a good Easter Milky.]
      
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      April 1, 2021 10:58am
Tomtoddy

A quote from Dr Megan Woods…. “so what I’m saying is it’s based on the data, so what we know is what the four quartiles of housing are, so for the lower quartile, the fourth quartile of that, that is the median point of houses currently that had been sold in March 2021 so it’s on evidence and it’s based on data”.

One of 2 or 3 Ministers trying to run our country. Gawd helps us.
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April 1, 2021 8:03am
- Chris R
  
  Megan speaks with knowledge contained in a squashed brain caused by her excessive drain on the forces of gravity.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:05am
  - Blackbob
    
    Minister for Pies…
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:21am
- Bill Felt
  
  I think Megan Woods is doing a Claire Curran – cracking.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:09am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    She could say she’s skux
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:14am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Bill – You can never crack Megan Woods. She is tough as a nail.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:43am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Reminds me of a nursery rhyme involving a wall and a fall.
      
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      April 1, 2021 9:58am
    - 3-coil
      
      You can’t crack a marshmallow.
      
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      April 1, 2021 10:55am
- mikenmildagain
  
  With a word salad like that, she should be president of the USA.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:10am
  - Scott
    
    Speaking of the President of the United States-
    
    “The deep rig” by Patrick Byrne shows how the electronic voting systems were hacked to swing the election to Joe Biden.
    
    As far back as April 5, 2018 a New York Times article “I hacked an election. So can the Russians” says this, “all cyber security experts who have given electronic voting machines any thought agree. These machines have got to go. The electronic voting machines Americans got to solve the problem of voting integrity turned out to be an awful idea. That’s because people like me can hack them all too easily. I’m a computer scientist who has hacked a lot of electronic voting machines. Imagine what the Russians and North Koreans can do.” (Page 17)
    
    According to Byrne, the precinct administrators enjoy extraordinary privileges such as the ability to drag and drop cues of ballots waiting for adjudication.
    
    And several foreign elections marred by allegations of election fraud there have been windows were vote counting was shut down unexpectedly, and in those shutdown periods there have been large and controversial swings favouring one candidate. It had happened in Africa and in Serbia where the use of such systems have been involved in scandals.
    
    So Byrne looked for counting being shut down during the election. On November 3, 2020 counting of votes stopped in six cities, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Phoenix and Las Vegas. In those hours when the counting was “closed”, hundreds of thousands of votes will push through the system. In those windows where counting had been “stopped” hundreds of thousands of ballots swings occurred, often running 99.4% and even 100% Biden. (Page 31)
    
    That gives an overview. As I work through the book I will give more specific examples from each state.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:24am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Patrick Byrne is a Grade-A kook:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_M._Byrne
      
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      April 1, 2021 8:57am
      - Scott
        
        No Mikey – he just believes the US presidential election was stolen as do I. As do at least half of the Republican voters in the United States of America.
        
        Anyway in other news, the current president of the United States successfully managed today to climb a flight of stairs. With only one small slip. Way to go Joe. That’s definitely the guy who got more votes than any other presidential candidate in history.
        
        https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/joe-biden-nearly-slips-going-steps-board-air-force-one-video/
        
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        April 1, 2021 9:43am
      - Batman
        
        Scott, half of Republicans also won’t take the Trump vaccine because they think it’s a double bluff and it’s actually bad. So given the mind-melting they’ve been subjected to by Fox and sewers like gateway, their views are not exactly attached to reality.
        
        And on the stairs, two points:
        1. Has Trump managed ramps yet?
        2. The stairs and the senility arguments are really proxies given Biden is popular and so is his recovery Act, so repubs don’t have much else to attack him on. They wouldn’t dare attack giving people money these days.
        
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        April 1, 2021 9:47am
    - SB2
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Patrick Byrne is a deep state nutter bordering on Qanon credentials!
      
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      April 1, 2021 9:19am
    - kowtow
      
      Amazing how little our Media Pardy aren’t discussing the Dems wanting to overthrow an Iowa congressional result .
      
      It’s OK when the left do it , you see.
      
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      April 1, 2021 9:36am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Looks like latest news is that the challenge to the GOP winner has been withdrawn and she will remain in Congress. A step too far for Pelosi as some more moderate members were protesting about the optics.
        
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        April 1, 2021 2:01pm
  - RoboRob
    
    Awww comon man
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:52am
    - Harriet
      
      How come Biden doesn’t get pulled up for sexism and trannyism — any other bloke who spoke in ‘mansplaining’ terms would be called out by the media.
      
      When the left does it……
      
      Fucken hypocrites! 😎
      
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      April 1, 2021 11:05am
  - lilman
    
    Salad -Susan Woods,maybe her son but not her.
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:37am
  - Hard Cheese
    
    When it comes to Megan Woods, I don’t think there are many salads involved
    
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    April 1, 2021 1:25pm
- artemisia
  
  Not to worry, Mr Hipkins stands ready to take over the Housing portfolios. He’s Labour’s Steven Joyce dontcha know.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:19am
  - pdm
    
    Might as well give him (Hipkins) transport as well then.
    
    Mind you he seems to have let Education slide into oblivion.
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:31am
- G152
  
  She’s trying to cover the subject Doublespeak where the gaping holes are evident
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:26am
- oldgolfer
  
  One of her goals is clear communication.
  Oh dear oh dear.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:40am
- Allan
  
  In the words of Cam Slater “if brains were dynamite she would not have enough to blow her nose”. Just another trougher parachuted into a safe electorate seat, who contributes nothing of worth to the running of the country. I doubt whether she would pass the first interview in any job application for a management position of a private company.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:02am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Is Megan trying to compete with the appalling
  redhead?
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:03am
  - Nickc2
    
    I could swear I heard her (Megan) say “circle back” at least once.
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:46am
- Loddenthinks
  
  And if you want to watch/listen to this mangled word salad, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=890092225144663
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:38am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Jacinda won’t be defeated until the fat one sings.
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:05am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Dr Megan Woods is primarily focused on spinning this rather than fixing it.
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:56am
- oldfella
  
  Tom, not only does this woman speak with forked tongue, but out of both sides of her mouth, and her arse at the same time.
  
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  April 1, 2021 3:10pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Her PhD is clearly in nothing numeric
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:42pm
hullkiwi

April Fools Joke – Souixie Wiles, New Zealanders of the Year 2021?
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April 1, 2021 8:03am
- 3-coil
  
  I saw that April Fools day story in the DomPost this morning too. Best April fools prank so far – well done Stuff!
  How could Sioux-see “win” this NZer of the Year award the same day DomPost issued an apology/correction for her error ridden opinion piece of the previous day? For a self-confessed racist newspaper they still have a great sense of humour!
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:13am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  For services to Labour propaganda efforts.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:24am
- pussycat
  
  Megan, our own Diane Abbott.
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:23am
- Southtop2
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124716722/dr-siouxsie-wiles-named-2021-new-zealander-of-the-year
  please tell me it is an April fools joke?
  
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  April 1, 2021 12:30pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Welcome to our nightmare.
    
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    April 1, 2021 4:55pm
- namron
  
  I’d forget the “April” and concentrate on “FOOL.”
  Her parents gave her the name “Susana” and her hair was coloured normally.
  Now I consider her name to be –
  “Susie LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME Wiles.
  
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  April 1, 2021 5:59pm
Paulus Gnome

The government will deliver something today!
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April 1, 2021 8:06am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Just kidding . . .
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:07am
  - Maxx
    
    I thought you were suggesting that they had taken up as drivers for Courier Post – doing something they are qualified for and would be useful.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:41am
    - sabre
      
      An insult to all courier post drivers, none of our political fools would last half a day doing real work
      
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      April 1, 2021 9:34am
      - Maxx
        
        Apologies, I should have said Aramex instead of Courier Post – even then, at least they deliver (eventually).
        
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        April 1, 2021 10:02am
    - doublehappy
      
      My dealings with courier drivers show them to be good at their job. That can’t be said of this government. I would be deeply offended if a Courier Driver.
      
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      April 1, 2021 9:39am
- kowtow
  
  Likely to be one of those data dumps , always before a holiday when no one is looking.
  
  Most open and transparent you see……
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:49am
  - sooty
    
    They are all on holiday this week, so maybe not!
    
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    April 1, 2021 1:04pm
Bill Felt

100,000 Kiwibuild homes, eradicate Child Poverty, less Immigration, a Transformative Govt, an Open and Transparent Govt, fast Trains, light trains, Regional Development Fund, 1 billion more Trees, zero Road toll, No more taxes, No Strikes
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April fools!
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April 1, 2021 8:08am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  The New Zealand public have been fooled, my bad, took the utterances of a politician too definitively . . .
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:05am
- Southtop2
  
  front of the queue and we can vaccinate the population before the end of the year
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:51am
hullkiwi

Next April Fools Joke, Simon Wilson, journalist and former editor discussing and talking (on Red Radio this morning) about Public Transport, LRT andtheCRL project as though he knows what he is talking about. What he actually knows you can write on the back of a postage stamp. His knowledge comes from the Greater Auckland Blog and Patrick Reynolds, none of whom are reliable sources on Transport issues.
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April 1, 2021 8:08am
- Ronin
  
  “People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.”
  — Martin Luther King Jr.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:22am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Very apt when applied to public transport lobbyists.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:32am
  - rockape
    
    Especially when they have ur cheque book.
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:31am
- Mike22240
  
  I read his piece in the Herald waiting for the April fools joke and have no idea why I wasted my time.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:15am
  - hullkiwi
    
    The joke is on us. Wilson is advocating for something on subject matter he has no in depth knowledge of , no knowledge how to deliver and no knowledge of what the cost will be.
    
    On the other hand I advised on
    Croydon tram;
    West Midlands tram;
    Manchester tram Phase 3;
    Phorzheim; and
    Hamburg.
    
    Lesson learned – the only place for such a scheme in Auckland – there is nowhere, and we can’t afford an eternal milestone around the necks of future generations.
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:24am
    - lastmanstanding
      
      Trains and trams are 19th Century.
      
      Some thoughts.
      1. Work is changing. Will be 4 day working week with flexible hours.
      2. More work from home less time in office/place of work.
      3. Driverless Electric Pods are coming. Will be linked to form “trams” if necessary where a number of people are going from the same A to B along a same route.
      4. Pods need smart roads to travel on.
      5. Current roads will mostly suffice with some additions add ons where necessary.
      
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      April 1, 2021 12:41pm
    - Paulus
      
      Only to add to the hundreds of billions of money that the so called Government has printed and will have to be paid by our Children and Grandchildren.
      After it is only other people’s money.
      
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      April 1, 2021 1:19pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  What’s a postage stamp?
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:39am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Forgive someone who is old enough to know/remember.
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:17am
- skyblue
  
  Why waste paper? Cut the stamp in 2.
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:23am
Yvette

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern now needs to publicly apologise to Case L and her family, since Case L was right – as we already knew from released information – and Ardern, as she must already know, was wrong.
Hipkins and others must also admit in this event they were mistaken.

And the Covid-19 rulebreakers will have faced the judgment of the entire nation, Ardern said at this afternoon’s press conference. “Plainly everyone is paying the price,” Ardern said about the people’s breaches. “No one in Cabinet … thinks that this is tolerable. What has happened here is a clear breach and everyone is frustrated by it,” said Ardern. – Herald

“No one – in Cabinet, no minister, no politician, none of us that I’ve spoken to – think that this is tolerable. You know, what has happened here has been a clear breach and everyone is frustrated by it.” – RNZ

Ardern should also apologise for the “chilling effect” this has on her urging that “people to call out family and colleagues who are not following the rules of the alert levels” – since people may make mistakes, as she has – even although those mostly could not display the imbalance of power that her accusations have.

Ardern should also drop her fatuous slogan “Team of Five Million” since we have seen how some team players can be isolated before the whole nation.
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April 1, 2021 8:10am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There will be no apology from the PM.
  
  Yet another example of casual Asian racism from our leaders.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:22am
  - Swifty
    
    I say that this is where Labour and the Greens constantly miss a trick.
    
    This pathological inability to admit error just doesn’t go down well with many New Zealanders – in fact time after time we see that after such an apology NZers quickly forget a matter and move on and with increased respect for the one who apologised.
    
    I just don’t get it.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:36am
    - RockyJ
      
      I don’t know what coaching Jacinda is getting but when a leader admits to making a mistake it sends a very positive message.
      I spent 30 years coaching leaders and found that the best ones could do this. It shows they are human and honest, two character traits lacking in our PM.
      
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      April 1, 2021 9:31am
      - Swifty
        
        Exactly.
        
        Honesty and integrity.
        
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        April 1, 2021 10:00am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      It isn’t that they’re immune to the benefits and optics of a public mea culpa; it’s as you stated – their hubris, arrogance and total belief they can do no wrong overrides any shred of pragmatism they may have.
      
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      April 1, 2021 9:43am
      - Swifty
        
        “…their hubris, arrogance and total belief they can do no wrong overrides any shred of pragmatism they may have.”
        
        I really do think you’re right.
        
        As a massive generalisation, on the whole I do find lefties so much more certain of their views than those on the right.
        
        How often have we heard lefties selling utopian promises, full of broad sunlit uplands and all with certainty of outcome.
        
        While the rallying cry of conservatives? Well that would be ‘Hesitate!’ or ‘Let’s take the time to think this through!’ 🙂
        
        I don’t know what it is with lefties. Have they never been told they’re wrong by their parents? Were they constantly showered with praise?
        
        Were they the star pupils at school that the teachers constantly fawned over and told ‘they will be the leaders of the future’?
        
        When they got to uni did the lecturers and professors never tell them they’re talking balderdash? And their thoughts and arguments are flawed and confused?
        
        I don’t know – but there’s no debate about it – many, many on the left just will not admit it when they’re clearly wrong on a matter, even when all the evidence is before them.
        
        They are akin to religious fundamentalists. Supposedly infallible. Inerrant.
        
        When they are so clearly not.
        
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        April 1, 2021 11:17am
  - artemisia
    
    A lie will be round the Vietnamese community before the truth gets its shoes on.
    
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    April 1, 2021 4:17pm
- Paulus
  
  53% of the voting public voted for her and the media party will ensure they continue with that.
  For another $105,000,000 soon, and merger of TVNZ and RNZ just announced (sorry still t be decided, eh Faafoi ?).
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:24am
  - Steve Todd
    
    50.01% (1,443,545 / 2,886,420).
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:59am
- raven
  
  The public apology from the PM should be on all the places that spread her misinformation – 6 o’clock news, RNZ, Herald, etc. It’s the least she can do, and it’s what I would expect from anyone, and she’s the PM so should set an example. If she doesn’t, is there a legal route? For example, slander, deceit, defamation case?
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:31am
  - Swifty
    
    It’s called leadership – something some people say she is a master of….
    
    Snigger.
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:13am
  - Bob
    
    Should also be at a special 1.00 pm standup briefing; we are accustomed to these events now.
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:27am
    - sooty
      
      From the podium of truth!
      
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      April 1, 2021 1:07pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Prob not voting Labour again would be the most severe punishment
    
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    April 1, 2021 5:47pm
- Simon
  
  Yep Cindy was screaming the Covid kills on a Monday on Tuesday she was attacking a Ro patient.
  
  Inability to be honest about a mistake. Covid cult. The bigger issue is that the covid response was about preventing 80,000 deaths. Another much more worse mistake but due to inabilities to admit to errors it’s now a cult. The covid cult rolls on. At this point it’s about protecting the covid facade nothing else.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:35am
- Tony Stuart
  
  The Prime Minister needs to put on her Big Girl Pants, take a deep breath, and offer Case L a full and unreserved apology. However the chances of her doing the right thing are somewhere between slim and non-existent.
  
  Maybe she should seek some counsel from Sir Elton John…
  
  https://youtu.be/c3nScN89Klo
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:39am
  - Maxx
    
    As much chance as Mallard not being biased and Davidson doing some work.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:43am
- Nickc2
  
  IMO, Cindy’s using the same logic as Mallard. Lie and keep up the facade.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:53am
- Scooter
  
  I forget the exact phrase but when she said she believed you can be in politics without lying, she then went on to say something about, but if you make a mistake you can admit it. Lie right there.
  
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  April 1, 2021 4:55pm
Ruahine

The Lies of our Days.
Well Done that girl for standing up to Arderns bullying.

https://thebfd.co.nz/2021/03/31/auckland-district-health-board-confirms-that-covid-19-case-l-attended-work-rightfully/
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April 1, 2021 8:12am
- WaveyDavey
  
  Kindness personified…
  
  “The Ministry of Health directed a request for comment to the Prime Minister’s Office, which replied: “A spokesperson for the Prime Minister said the content of the letters have been publicly available for some time and she had no additional comment to make on them.”
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/03/covid-19-kfc-worker-case-l-wasn-t-contacted-directly-by-health-officials-until-after-shift-oia-documents.html
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:21am
  - Yvette
    
    WaveyDavey
    Earlier media reports on some matters are often the more accurate – before others get in and fuck up the facts.
    
    Case L, the KFC worker said not only did she not receive any information from anyone instructing her to isolate, the information her sister, Case I, received was the complete opposite of what officials have claimed.
    On February 14, Case I, received a text message stating: “casual contacts to isolate and test – their families don’t need to”.
    Case L saw this message – so went to work.
    
    Back on March 1.
    So people who read this then have known for a month that Ardern should apologise.
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:38am
    - Nickc2
      
      How much did she (Ardern) cost Auckland for the totally unjustified lockdown? Perhaps that’s why she won’t apologise and is maintaining she’s right, no matter what.
      
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      April 1, 2021 10:02am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Breaking news – this just in from the Office of the Prime Minister:
    
    “I acknowledge my error in unfairly criticising Case L for legitimately going about her business on the advice of the Ministry of Health. I was wrong and I apologise unreservedly.”
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:57am
    - Nickc2
      
      It’s still April Fool’s day until midday.
      
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      April 1, 2021 10:03am
    - Sofia
      
      Loddenthinks
      Following David Farrar’s 7am post, Government announces one million electric cars initiative, we are all aware it is April 1.
      
      However, what part did this mistake, on the part of Prime Minister Ardern and several of her officials, play determining in the roughly half-billion dollar shutdown of Auckland?
      And is that why Ardern and others can not afford to apologise?
      
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      April 1, 2021 10:07am
- Ruahine
  
  That bullying was used to justify an ego driven shutdown of Auckland by Ardern with no regard to the disruption of peoples lives.
  Hundreds of cases of Covid have been held in MIQ. Not one death, not one taken to hospital.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘The lies of our daze’
  Fixed it
  
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  April 1, 2021 5:49pm
Benedict Yu

So Siouxsie Wiles is New Zealander of the Year. Jacinda was over the moon presenting the award. It was noted that the award was well deserved because Wiles had to overcome prejudice about her appearance and gender.

I don’t care much about the hair. But what I do care about is that she presents as a medical professional while openly campaigning for Labour. Because of that I cannot take her seriously. This is what she said on election night.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/election-2020-whats-happening-what-it-means

“I’ve made no secret of my concern that a change of government may have meant a change to our strategy for dealing with the pandemic. Now the country has spoken and it’s a resounding vote of confidence in the government’s Covid-19 response.

With cases of the virus surging overseas once again, it’s very reassuring to know that with by returning Labour to power we’re most likely to stick to our elimination strategy. I’ll sleep well tonight knowing that.”
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April 1, 2021 8:14am
- Frank the tank
  
  Who knew reading stuff about Wuflu off the net and being employed as a covid expert by the government amounts to NZer of the Year.
  
  Another sad example of our now shithole of a country.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:50am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    One of my sons has lived in Aus for the past 45 years. It looks like he’s been smart.
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:12am
- kowtow
  
  ‘Wiles had to overcome prejudice about her appearance and gender.’
  
  The neo Marxist oppression theme is always with us , even on an occasion that ‘celebrates’ and should be positive , it is turned into division and hatred.
  
  Very dangerous.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:15am
  - Sacha
    
    It may be true. I don’t know why an apparently mature woman is still wearing her hair in teenage mode. I don’t know about the gender bit – I have always assumed she was female – but I do wonder about a woman who needs to make her presence felt in such an attention-drawing way.
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:08am
  - Swifty
    
    ‘Wiles had to overcome prejudice about her appearance and gender.’
    
    Horseshit.
    
    The vast majority of New Zealanders wouldn’t give a big rats arse about her gender, what colour her hair is this week – or in fact what comes out of her mouth.
    
    They’re too busy trying to make an earn to keep their family fed and the roof above their heads.
    
    I’ve seen this time and time again – a person receives some (admittedly-boorish) comments on Twitter or Facebook and it all suddenly ‘OPPRESSION!’
    
    I’m over this victimhood gravy-train. It’s time we all grew up.
    
    I don’t think I’ve ever said on this forum we had never-married women in our family who owned and ran their sheep and cattle farms in the South Island from the 30s through to the 90s – some of the most capable, patient, savvy women I ever met (I stayed with them on school holidays).
    
    They would always tell me “life is what you make it” and would laugh at the thought of a few ill-mannered comments making a difference to their lives or what they thought of themselves.
    
    Some people want to talk about doing it tough? What about dawn to dusk farming during the war, most of it on horseback and with dogs? As single women negotiating with sceptical men on all manner of matters including stock agents, fertiliser agents, shearing services, vets, fencers etc etc etc?
    
    I am totally confident, were they alive today, they would say “there has never been a better time or place in the history of humanity to be a woman than right now and right here in New Zealand.”
    
    They would abhor the modern politics of victimhood, false claims of oppression and of the politics of ‘equity’ as opposed to equality of opportunity – after all “life is what you make it…”
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:24am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “never in the field of human conflict, has so much been owed to so few”
  or in this case
  “never in the field of human endeavor, has so little been done to get any honour bestowed”
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:25am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  She destroyed her credibility in the early days of the pandemic by parroting (wrong) govt policy on not needing to quarantine, low risk to NZ, not needing masks… When experts get it so wrong (and it was obvious teven when the words were coming out of her mouth) they are not fit for purpose.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:37am
  - SB2
    
    kowtow, back to bed now for your long overdue extended snooze.
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:44am
  - SB2
    
    UN, utter codswallop!
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:44am
  - Ed Snack
    
    But oddly enough, she was right about masks. They do not appear to reduce transmission in practice no matter what the theoretical studies say.
    
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    April 1, 2021 2:06pm
- Happy1
  
  I see the French president has put France into a 3 week hard lockdown. Doesn’t he know that 1 study in 10 prove that lockdowns don’t work, that 1 study in 20 show that wearing masks is harmful, that 1 study in 50 conclude that the vaccines are of limited value and 1 study in 100 show conclusively that 1 in 10 of us are left handed.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:42am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Yet oddly enough, recent studies that look at the actual use of lockdowns show that lockdowns appear o have no impact on the spread of Covid-19. This is done by comparing two communities with similar characteristics, one where there were extensive lockdowns and the other where there was none. And the results do show that the actual trajectory of infections and the case/ICU/Death loads are statistically indistinguishable.
    
    If you truly want to be “scientifically” based than studies such as these are essential, because there seems little doubt that lockdowns are economically damaging and possibly (haven’t seen definitive studies though there are some in progress) socially harmful as well. So if lockdowns don’t actually make a difference, then we shouldn’t’t do them, purely on a cost/benefit basis.
    
    This whole situation is sort of new (pandemics aren’t, but the attempt to control and limit spread as has been done is new – some limited quarantining was done in 1918-19 with the flu, but minimal compared to our current efforts); so we can and should learn from this. We most certainly should not allow political considerations to dictate how we respond in the future as has been done with the almost complete lack of early treatment for Covid in the first world. That decision alone probably cost hundreds of thousands of lives, and falls squarely on those who for political reasons disparage working prophylactic treatments that drastically reduce hospitalisation and deaths.
    
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    April 1, 2021 2:14pm
- Happy1
  
  I see the French president has put France into a 3 week hard lockdown. Doesn’t he know that 1 study in 10 prove that lockdowns don’t work, that 1 study in 20 show that mask wearing is harmful, that 1 study in 50 conclude that the vaccines are of limited value, and that 1 study in 100 state that only 1 in 10 of us are right handed.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:49am
- James Stephenson
  
  Couldn’t they find an actual New Zealander to give the award to?
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:57am
Maggy Wassilieff

An anonymous commenter poses an interesting question:

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/if-the-rnz-totara-falls-is-anyone-listening
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April 1, 2021 8:17am
- hullkiwi
  
  No Maggy, I am too busy shouting back at the rubbish I am hearing coming through my radio speakers when I attempt to listen to that station.
  
  An example this morning, Dann interviewing Simon Wilson. Wilson got away with “the model for delivering CRL will bring in the project on time and under budget”. All falsehoods, that went unchallenged by Dann. Format should be a premier station it’s woeful.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:27am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Dann while pretending to be a proper journalist is about as feckless and biased as they come. His brother ain’t much better.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:51am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I used to be a RNZ/National Radio/ 2YA addict.. back in the days when Interviewers let their subject speak without imposing their own (predictable) views on the topic.
    
    Now the radio is turned off for most of the day & night.
    
    I only turn it on if I wake during the night… the programme material usually sends me straight back to sleep.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:55am
    - SB2
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Now it’s Mike Hosking as always?
      
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      April 1, 2021 9:20am
      - Swifty
        
        What a dick comment.
        
        Do you set out to embarrass yourself here daily, or does it occur accidentally?
        
        BTW – do you charge for your labours in the health industry or do you supply them for free?
        
        If you do charge for your efforts does that make you greedy?
        
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        April 1, 2021 10:31am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Your comprehension problem is getting the better of you..
        
        Now the radio is turned off for most of the day & night.
        
        My radio is permanently tuned to 101.3 MHz
        
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        April 1, 2021 10:46am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Should be on 97.3 Maggie, only decent music available.
        
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        April 1, 2021 2:16pm
  - Swifty
    
    “…the model for delivering CRL will bring in the project on time and under budget…”
    
    If he did indeed say that:
    
    1. No-one could possibly know that.
    
    2. Those are the words of either an amateur, a politician or someone with a vested interest. Any professional worth their salt would be saying “based on previous experience of this type of endeavour, locally and around the world, and given it’s scale and complexity, we should consider budget and time overruns a near certainty and we must do all we can to prevent them…we must make it an absolutely key focus to manage all risk of overrun out of our project and even then we probably won’t succeed totally.”
    
    (And I say this as someone who’s living has come from managing all manner of projects for local and central government and private organisations for the last twenty years.)
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:11am
    - Batman
      
      There’s no timeframe and no budget yet so either someone is being a bit cheeky or they’re in denial about how much CRL had cost…
      
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      April 1, 2021 9:43am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Batman, in the time honoured tradition of AT/AC and now the CRL delivery company, the goal posts for budget and delivery of the project have been moved to such an extent, that any reporting of the project is “correct”. But in fact such reporting is false, as there was never a valid business case, never a project budget and never a valid timeline. The number bandied about is $4.5bn, but that is now more than 12 months ago, exclude a number of direct project costs, did not take account of covid (& delays – will be blamed for $billion more), or $3bn more (for additional trains, more stabbling yards, and an additional maintenance facility). Total projected cost is now close to $9bn, so our children, grandchildren and their grandchildren will be paying for this folly.
        
        Another joke in all of this, was Ardern, Wood, Wilson and Dann talking about this project being funded by the PPP model. As someone who has advised on more PFI/PPP projects than the NZ govt has contracted to, PPP is not the answer to this project. PPP is an excuse to see taxpayer/ratepayer money being siphoned off shore into the hands of the likes of the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund! There is no risk to these people when the NZ taxpayer is signing the cheques for public infrastructure financed by a commercial arrangement!
        
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        April 1, 2021 10:14am
      - Black Propaganda
        
        Accidental reported Hullman when I wanted to agree in kind. PPP is a fad of 90s and like a lot of 90s fads best forgotten. PPP is seen as a way to move risk to private industry whilst thinking private industry will stupidly not think to get recompensed. At best a dysfunctional fourway partnership between a landowner (government authority), leaseholder (private industry) and a renter (joe public) who elects the lawmaker (government) who controls the landowner (government authority).
        
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        April 1, 2021 8:06pm
  - doublehappy
    
    CRL = City Rail Link
    
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    April 1, 2021 9:49am
- Ruahine
  
  Not disrespecting your Post Maggy, but for me less like Totara and more like Onga Onga.
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:34am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    more like Onga Onga.
    hahaha
    
    We shall see…
    Totara is one of our most durable timbers… but even so..everybody replaces their old totara housing piles and fence posts.
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:48am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Heart Puriri is pretty good too… On the farm I lived on for a period there were some old fences put in I think in the 1930’s or so that had Puriri posts and kauri battens. Still mostly in good shape 40-50 years later, but some posts were finally succumbing.
      
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      April 1, 2021 2:20pm
- SB2
  
  MW, why anonynous?
  
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/profile/NewsroomContributor/posts
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:39am
  - Swifty
    
    Good grief man! Are you really that stupid?
    
    *Newsroom has agreed to author anonymity in this case to not put the person’s current employment at risk
    
    https://www.newsroom.co.nz/if-the-rnz-totara-falls-is-anyone-listening
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:21am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Well, I can’t tell from that opinion piece who newsroom contributor is.
    
    There’s nothing to identify “newsroom contributor” as far as I can see.
    
    I have no idea why (s)he is anonymous.
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:36am
    - rjay
      
      Whoever it is appears to have literacy issues (lorded, not lauded) and thinks the NZ taxpayer should subsidise a radio station full of German music.
      
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      April 1, 2021 3:13pm
- nathie
  
  RNZ will be screwed by the merger – TVNZ will take their staff/culture over and dumb it down (just check out TVNZ’s “news journalists” to see how “dumbed down” they are (i.e. sensationalism and partisanship) and they don’t care, in fact they seem proud of it).
  
  RIP, RNZ and public service broadcasting.
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:39am
  - curry4me
    
    nathie: Dump the lot. It’s all NPC ‘news’. The private sector produces the same pap. Switch all government ads to Face Book, and Google Ads. Let $tuff, and NZME die too.
    
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    April 1, 2021 2:47pm
Paulus

There was a leak yesterday
– Today is April All Fools Day and the Auckland electric sort of trolley Bus was announced again a day early.
Surely the Labour Greens Government cannot be so silly again !
So it must have been a leaked spoof !
And they should find what idiot announced it.
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April 1, 2021 8:20am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Surely the Labour Greens Government cannot be so silly again !
  Pantomime response to a pantomime question.
  “OOOOOHHHHHH YES THEY CAN”
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:21am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Surely the Labour Greens Government cannot be so silly again !
  So it must have been a leaked spoof !
  
  It will be true. Collective silliness is their norm.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:21am
Tomtoddy

It is now clearer than ever that PM Ardern’s virtue signalling announcement banning gas exploration was one of the most ill-conceived, plainly stupid and counter-productive ever made by a leader.

Reading Fonterra’s submision to the Climate Commission shows how they will use more coal going forward with 3 times the negative effect because of a lack of gas supply. Who is calling this out?
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April 1, 2021 8:31am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Nope. They will figure out how to use electricity to dry milk powder (generated by magic fairies). Or they will be shut down.
  
  make no mistake – if these recommendations are adopted it is the end for New Zealand. Some people realise that. But without a media that does its job, the average person will not get it until the lights go out and they are unemployed. then it will be “What happened?”
  
  Reminds me of this Greek woman I met a few years back. She said that in 2008, everyone in Greece was totally happy. Until they went to the ATM at the bank, and no money came out. That will be New Zealand in a few years.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:44am
  - Frank the tank
    
    It will be worse. We lack the social cohesion of an European or East Asian nation.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:53am
    - kowtow
      
      Across the west the “progressives” are doing their very best to divide once prosperous states along race, class , and gender lines.
      
      Very dangerous.
      
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      April 1, 2021 9:13am
      - Frank the tank
        
        The one good news story about the WuFlu vaccine clown circus is that it will accelerate the destruction of the EU. Italy and perhaps France will roll hard right at their next elections.
        
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        April 1, 2021 10:03am
  - Nickc2
    
    Yes, there will be no European Union to bail us out. The only hope is for Australia to take us back but I seriously doubt they will. I think they would rather become accustomed to having a Chinese territory on their doorstep.
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:21am
thirteenstars

Report: Britain not a racist country. Well, well, well.

Why are the cultural elites so furious with the review? Because they are so heavily invested in the idea that Britain is an institutionally racist country. They need this myth. They benefit from it. It guarantees funding to their organisations, clout for their spokespeople, influence for those who can claim the mantle of racial victimhood. They see the review — rightly — as a direct challenge to the social and political power they have built on the back of the myth of institutional racism.

Bingo. Always follow the money. Always follow the power-grab.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/31/at-last-the-myth-of-institutional-racism-is-collapsing

And by the same standards, neither are New Zealand, Australia, The United States, et al. racist countries.
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April 1, 2021 8:32am
- Frank the tank
  
  Institutions can’t be racist by definition. They are inanimate structures and groups therefore can’t be explained or described by human emotions or feelings. People within institutions could potentially be racist and therein lies the problem with such analysis. Usually these same people are the colleagues, friends and political allies.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:57am
- Lummox
  
  I would like to see this review repeated using NZ data.
  
  I think we would find many examples of institutional racism. Maori wards. Maori seats. Maori sports teams. Maori health care prioritisation. Maori justice options and so on.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:12am
  - thirteenstars
    
    Oh, racism in the modern, woke context doesn’t mean pro-minority racism, it specifically refers to notions of “white supremacy”. You simply aren’t racist if you advocate special treatment and funding for non-white people. Reverse that, and you are certainly racist.
    
    If modern NZ was assessed upon the basis of laws and institutions which favored one race over the other, it would be deemed a very racist society, and a sexist one to boot since there exists a Ministry for Women, yet one cannot find a Ministry for Men.
    
    The modern notion of racism is purely Marxist.
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:11am
- SB2
  
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  Well, it is of late especially if your Chinese But one example if a vicious attack,
  
  ‘Chinese virus’ attack on academic in the UK: and they call China backward
  
  The incident raises questions about the culture in which young men feel free to attack a person of another race
  
  https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3124950/chinese-virus-attack-academic-uk-and-they-call-china-backward
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:22am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I have rarely experienced racism in New Zealand. As for being attacked, I am only afraid of being attacked by thugs in central Wellington and central Christchurch. But they seem to attack white people too. So I guess that is not racist.
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:04am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Thugs attack anyone…and for no apparent reason at times.
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/124713222/brutal-murder-and-burning-of-body-see-two-men-jailed-for-at-least-17-years
      
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      April 1, 2021 2:11pm
      - SB2
        
        MW, the attacks I linked were specifically directed at Chinese.
        
        Thugs was a term related to describe the vicious nature of the attacks inflicted on them.
        
        Possibly inflamed by the usage of Chinese, Wuhan virus directed at them by these” thugs.”
        
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        April 1, 2021 4:11pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @SB2
        
        Nasty thugs have been attacking Asians long before Covid-19 appeared on the horizon.
        
        Haven’t you been aware of the numerous assaults on Auckland’s Asian community over the last 15 years?
        
        Small-bodied humans make easy targets for thugs.
        
        https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/attacks-on-asian-aucklanders-very-visible/
        
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        April 1, 2021 7:42pm
Maggy Wassilieff

NZ too busy to tell the Chinese that they’ve not been open and transparent over their Covid-19 outbreak.

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/nz-is-absent-from-global-group-which-questions-who-study-our-health-officials-we-are-told-were-much-too-busy-on-covid-duty/#more-9976
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April 1, 2021 8:32am
- tf78
  
  Maggy at least this confirms who Jacinda is in bed with.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:42am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Wasn’t H1 on the inquiry team?
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:24am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    She was dealing with WHO’s overall handling of the outbreak
    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO2011/S00074/head-of-who-inquiry-into-coronavirus-response-has-close-ties-to-beijing-should-step-down.htm
    
    She wasn’t part of the Scientific team that went to Wuhan.
    https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3127823/coronavirus-chinese-who-scientists-were-it-together-wuhan
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:04am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      She probably had her input preventing the Chinese getting blamed.
      
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      April 1, 2021 11:44am
- SB2
  
  MW, maybe the PM is deferring to this UN report where in its fact-finding mission to Wuhan was inconclusive as to origins of the Covid 19,
  
  https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1088702
  
  I think until facts and evidence are gathered it is unwise to jump to conclusions spreading nonsense conspiracy theories about the ” Chinese”” Wuhu” flu for obvious reasons,
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:19am
  - Swifty
    
    Why would we listen to you – the very person who said repeatedly pre-March 2020 all this Covid nonsense was just ‘hysteria’ and that ‘we had nothing to worry about’?
    
    Could you have ‘jumped to conclusions before all the facts and evidence was gathered’?
    
    I say for the 1,000th time – you have zero credibility here.
    
    Zero.
    
    (BTW – do you charge for your labours in the health industry?)
    
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    April 1, 2021 1:08pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @SB2
      
      I will go through this slowly for you.
      
      The scientists have filed their report.
      
      Upon receiving it The Director General of WHO stated that the scientists were not given free access to all the Chinese information.
      
      Dr Tedros said the team had difficulty accessing raw data and called for “more timely and comprehensive data sharing”
      
      So a number of Countries issued a Joint statement for China to come clean with everything they know about the origin of the virus.
      
      International criticism
      In response to the WHO report, the US and 13 allies including South Korea, Australia and the UK voiced concern over the findings and urged China to provide “full access” to experts.
      
      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56581246
      
      NZ has opted out of criticising China.
      
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      April 1, 2021 2:27pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING….

Talk about OTT!!

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1377339158272872454
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April 1, 2021 8:34am
- MCos
  
  At the trial where I was on the jury one of the witnesses burst into tears.
  Not because he’d seen the homicide or had any part in it, but because he’d been with the deceased an hour or so before and maybe, in retrospect, he thought he could have done something that would have saved his mate.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:57am
- Frank the tank
  
  Imagine if he gets off. Based off the evidence presented to date this isn’t a strong case. 50/50 at best for a conviction of anything above manslaughter (if they have that charge in the States)
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:59am
- kowtow
  
  The prosecution appear to want to convict on emotion , not facts.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:11am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, my God that Twitter is a strange, twisted place.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:28am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    To be fair though, Twitter has given a lot of idiots a voice.
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:23am
    - SB2
      
      MP, you must have Trump in mind.
      
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      April 1, 2021 12:17pm
    - Tall Man
      
      You mention idiots and up pops ………
      
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      April 1, 2021 2:28pm
- SB2
  
  Your sentiments ?,
  
  He’s thankful he didn’t overdose
  
  https://twitter.com/WallstreetAlena/status/1377339369980223488
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:29am
- Nickc2
  
  Oscars anyone! I’m picking that if the Police Officer isn’t found guilty and sentenced to death, Minneapolis will be raised to the ground, such is the baying for blood and the US Justice System.
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:36am
WaynelSexton

The riots and fires are going to be crazy, once the police officers are acquitted.
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April 1, 2021 8:57am
- kowtow
  
  And a majority of deaths will be other black males killed by black rioters , Asian businesses in ghettoes targetted by the rioters and looters and high end main street fashion shops .
  
  When law and order breaks down it’s always the poorest who suffer the most.
  
  It’s all about justice you see…….
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:55am
andretti

Today is the official start of winter and the end of summer in the hospo industry.
Today the minimum wage increases,top tax rate increase and we have 5 extra sick days coming.To top this off the border will not be opened to Australia.
Is the SHTF about to hit NZ business?
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April 1, 2021 8:58am
- KevO'Brien
  
  There is a shortage of business and working funds and now this local tsunami.
  
  International reports are similar: the lockdowns have destroyed business and work continuity. Supplies have been disrupted and many more businesses are facing closure. Even helicopter money doesn’t always work, often just increasing asset prices which includes housing and the stock market.
  
  Once we had Minister of Finance who understood these basics but now socialist “knowledge” has been substituted. Hence our Govt is unawares of how adrift they are on a sea of uncertainty. Planning is pointless in these circumstances. Is that the function of Govt to lie down and have its tummy tickled by the other parties to economic interactions?
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:42am
- [email protected]
  
  “Reduction in other assistance means even those on minimum wage only slightly better off after increase.”
  
  So what this means is that businesses are taking over the costs from the government. Workers getting more pay from business but less support from government. That’s one way to cut government operating costs and stick it to the businesses.
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:18am
curry4me

ASTERISK PRESIDENCY: Episode 11.
Direct from Harveywood, here is this week’s episode of Asterisk Presidency. Brought to you by the CCP, Wall Street, Oprah, and Burisma.
Will Beijing Biden’s handlers be arrested for elder abuse? Is falling down three times considered lucky in China? Will it become a regular feature of his trips? Will Twit-ter cancel stairs for being ageist if it happens again? Will Airforce One become chairforce one? Is Beijing Biden’s memory suffering after 120 years in the senate? Will My Son Hunter out gross Jaws? Or will it just gross out the audience? Will ‘VP’ Harris fi the border crisis? Will she give the kids better cages? Will Hunter use his ‘energy expertiese’ on another board? Will Texas CCP virus cases keep dropping? Will Beijing Bidens polling improve now he can’t be ratioed on You Tube? Stay tuned folks!
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April 1, 2021 8:58am
I remember when

Incidentally, Wiles we were sleeping
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April 1, 2021 9:00am
Homas

Stuff headline: Dr Siouxsie Wiles named 2021 New Zealander of the Year”.”

So, some woman whose original side-hustle was to endlessly bemoan her belief that women don’t get the requisite recognition for their professional/vocational achievements appears to have pretty much sidelined her day job to pursue another side-hustle for which she is receiving some sort of Olympic level recognition?

Ironic much?
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April 1, 2021 9:07am
Tomtoddy

Seen a bunch of April Fool’s day jokes involving the government including those on Kiwiblog. Most wildly out there.

Scary thing is realising I started believing them until ……. this lot are so capable of such extreme nonsensical actions.
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April 1, 2021 9:15am
Benedict Yu

I see that New Zealand is stuck at 27,000 vaccines delivered. Australia is on 570,000.

What gets me is that we get no honest information. I want a dashboard each day with three columns

1. Numbers of doses in stock in New Zealand

3. First shots given.

3. Second doses given.

How hard is that?
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April 1, 2021 9:16am
- MCos
  
  Both numbers are wrong in your first sentence.
  66,296 vaccines were administered in NZ up to 30-March and about 670,000 in Oz.
  ScoMo had promised four million, which goes to show why you should be careful about setting targets.
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:15am
  - Tall Man
    
    Better to set a high target and fail to reach it than set nothing and achieve nothing.
    
    I taught my kids to shoot for the stars but be happy if they only hit a moon. Beats the “couch” which most in this country seem to aspire to these days … or to be an All Black.
    
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    April 1, 2021 2:26pm
- curry4me
  
  Benedict Yu: Way too hard for this lot.
  
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  April 1, 2021 2:57pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Our Zero-Carbon Navy and its merry-go-round of C-trading.

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/navies-must-reduce-their-carbon-emissions-in-the-face-of-climate-change/

But the RNZN is the only navy paying into an emissions trading scheme. It pays New Zealand’s treasury a capped price of NZ$25 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent and receives a substantial rebate for fuel assessed as burned overseas on task. That’s because those emissions are deemed international and so fall outside the scope of the national scheme.
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April 1, 2021 9:17am
- kowtow
  
  The UK military is ‘going green” .
  
  You can’t make this stuff up , and if anything spells out how utterly bonkers the west has become it must be this .
  
  Meanwhile the CCP army must be rolling around larfing their ‘eads orf.
  
  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/14492952/army-go-green/
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:31am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Lt Gen Nugee is the BiL of Emily Thornberry the Labour Party front bencher.
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:23am
    - kowtow
      
      Interesting but Bojo has gone green since his latest bit of stuff moved into No 10 . Direction must be coming from there.
      
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      April 1, 2021 12:32pm
      - Tall Man
        
        The pillow generally rules the roost … ask the felcherman.
        
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        April 1, 2021 2:24pm
  - Ruahine
    
    They are steadily but quite rapidly building up their armed forces. Particularly Naval and Missile Systems.
    
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    April 1, 2021 10:41am
    - kowtow
      
      Their militarisation of the south china sea is reminiscent of what the japs did in the pacific from the 1920’s , and we all know now what the intent of that was.
      
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      April 1, 2021 12:34pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Back to sailing ships is it?
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:09am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Men of steel, Boats of wood.
    
    At least they will “Stealth” ready if back to wooden boats.
    
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    April 1, 2021 2:30pm
- Nickc2
  
  Do they get a rebate for Search and Rescue missions? Do we deduct a %age of the levy when sent to the Pacific Islands to assist in Disaster Relief?
  Methinks this an April Fools joke but I will check.
  BTW, does the RNZAF also pay a levy when they ferry Cindy and her lot around the world on their many Junkets?
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:44am
kowtow

UK report shows Kent variant no worse than the original bat/pangolin/lab one was.

Remember the screaming headlines about how terrible the variant was?

Who makes up this stuff and why ?

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-hancock-suggests-no-evidence-uk-variant-is-more-severe
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April 1, 2021 9:22am
- SB2
  
  Based on what science?
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:37am
- MCos
  
  Here is another article at variance with that one.
  Personally I’m neutral, but there is a comment at the foot of this one that probably applies to both articles.
  https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/03/30/infections-with-u-k-variant-b-1-1-7-have-greater-risk-of-mortality/
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:55am
- Ed Snack
  
  There is precisely zero evidence that Pangolins are in the transmission chain, and considerable evidence that they are not. Covid has zero adaptions for Pangolins, but significant ones for humans, and as it happens, for mice.
  
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  April 1, 2021 2:27pm
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Bugger, the Government kept its promises and put the minimum wage and pension up. Bugger, bugger bugger. I thought I would be reading this morning how Grant was rolling around the floor laughing that it was extended April’s Fools joke. But he probably did roll on the floor laughing anyway because KBer’s couldn’t say he’d broken more promises and dine out on it for 2 centuries.
More seriously, I was shocked that one of KB’s resident epidemiologists didn’t get NZer of the Year. There was a tremendous effort put in and many fights over the first post in the morning to comfort/frighten/anger the board with the latest inside story on Covid.
Anyway, I’m sure all efforts were appreciated, especially the ones with careful back-tracking or hiding for a few days.
In the real world, I know what it is like being the lowest paid in the business you own, and about how tough things have been for everyone. But soldier’s sons most often know that tough now is nowhere near as tough as during 2 World Wars, transit in old Army camps later. They also know if they have children or grandchildren that those kids near a lot of support to come through the epidemic as well as possible as their great grandparents did a century ago.
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April 1, 2021 9:22am
- JerJer
  
  I feel sorry for you. I think you need to get a job rather than trying to run a business, as obviously you are no good at it. I’m sure there is a nice job out there for you. Minimum wage too since you seem to like it so much.
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:35am
  - Brian McDonald
    
    I feel sorry for you because you’re a hideaway.
    
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    April 2, 2021 8:42am
- Frank the tank
  
  What no coke cans in the local rubbish bins in the last couple of weeks?
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:04am
  - Brian McDonald
    
    No money in coke cans Frank.
    
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    April 2, 2021 8:43am
- plc
  
  Another “He shoots, he misses”
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:53am
- Manu-Rau
  
  Brian, do you ever wonder what Margeret Bell would be doing now if you hadn’t murdered her?
  
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  April 1, 2021 12:22pm
  - Brian McDonald
    
    Come and ask me.
    
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    April 2, 2021 8:40am
- Tall Man
  
  Sad, that’s just sad.
  
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  April 1, 2021 2:21pm
SB2

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I suspect that torching of schools a regular occurrence under National has all but disappeared under Cindy.

Wonder why?
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April 1, 2021 9:28am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Oh really SB? This one happened in February…
  
  https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/devastating-whakat-ne-primary-school-ravaged-fire-in-early-morning-blaze
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:49am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Because the kids aren’t at school enough under this Government to torch it?
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:01am
- nathie
  
  SB2, what a peculiar thing to say … what is your thinking behind saying that?
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:34am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    As usual, his “thoughts” are data free…
    
    Nothing to back up his speculation.
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:24am
    - nathie
      
      Agree, but who goes around thinking of school arsons and political parties in the same thoughts … very odd!
      
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      April 1, 2021 11:41am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  2018: Punui school
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/south-auckland-arson-attacks-school-community-reeling-after-costly-fires/SHE2YFVYUFIF4RQAQLKUBKXSRQ/
  
  2019: Frankton Primary
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/116798275/hamilton-police-seek-info-on-school-arson-culprits
  
  Allandale school
  https://sunlive.co.nz/news/201859-arson-suspected-bop-school-fire.html
  
  2020 Tahuanui School
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/123768331/suspicious-fire-damages-new-build-at-thunanui-school
  
  Kerikeri School
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/toilets-gutted-in-kerikeri-school-fire-arson-suspected/ZTCDWPIJISCTN3TYARKH6OLJMU/
  
  There’s probably more..
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:22am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Your lack of marbles are showing.
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:54am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    SB2, not Maggy who is doing fine.
    
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    April 1, 2021 11:56am
Inandout

Sounds reasonable for Zucker.
https://trends.gab.com/item/6064d7f29b317b316fa09b91
Jobs for the boys.
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April 1, 2021 9:33am
I remember when

Fewer Americans watch Cable News in Post Trump Era:
US cable news network viewership has declined since Joe Biden took office.
Hardest hit Fox losing 32% of its prime-time audience, CNN dropped 16% and MSNBC dipped 7.8%.
Fox maintained No.1 position for overall viewers.
It seems Trump was right when we warned, “Newspaper, television, all forms of media will tank if I’m not there.”
So the US public are less knowledgeable since Biden became President.
And, he’s only been there for a couple of months.
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April 1, 2021 9:47am
- MCos
  
  Fewer people out of only a small proportion of the population.
  Fox was the leading cable news outlet with less than 4mil prime time viewers on average out of a population of 300mil.
  https://www.statista.com/statistics/373814/cable-news-network-viewership-usa/
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:24am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I’m not sure Fox losing 32% of its audience means Americans are less informed. Quite possibly it’s the reverse.
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:12am
  - virtualmark
    
    Fox News is poisonous. Hannity, Tucker, Ingraham, Judge Jeanine etc all openly say they are entertainers not journalists.
    
    They prey on hateful ignorant people who obsess over nonsense and want to be fed non-stop lies, disinformation and garbage that only fits their pre-programmed beliefs. It’s basically a military-grade psy-op expressly designed to line Rupert’s pockets.
    
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    April 1, 2021 12:39pm
    - RiP NZ
      
      haha, right VM – now do CNN
      
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      April 1, 2021 2:04pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        CNN has yet to go to court with the legal argument that no one should mistake its host for a new source.
        
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        April 1, 2021 2:31pm
      - virtualmark
        
        CNN is woke. But I’ve not seen any evidence that they intentionally lie.
        
        Meanwhile, Rupert was one of the first people to get the Covid vaccine, back in December. But Fox News presenters are still bagging the Covid vaccines on-air and presenting vaccine disinformation.
        
        Fox News is against Covid lockdowns, masks, school closings etc … says they are terrible public policy decisions. But Hannity & Carlson now do their shows from home studios because they don’t want to catch Covid.
        
        Carlson tries to tell you he’s an everyday man, like his audience is. But he’s a trust fund heir worth tens of millions, even before his Fox salary.
        
        They. Only. Pretend. To. Believe. These. Things. On. Television. For. Money.
        
        If you can’t see that then that probably means you’re the type of dumb schmuck the Fox News psy-op is targeted at.
        
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        April 1, 2021 4:09pm
    - Frank the tank
      
      Want to explain how CNN, NBC, ABC, SMH, NZ Horrid, Stuffed, FakeNewshub et al are any different?
      
      This is the norm nowadays. True Journalism began it’s march towards extinction about a decade ago. Kinda like the Greek, Roman and Norse gods – when nobody believes you anymore you just begin to sink into oblivion.
      
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      April 1, 2021 2:17pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Frank, I agree that journalism ain’t what it used to be.
        
        But Fox has disconnected from the facts and instead is all about fueling their audience’s hates and fears. Read the three examples I posted at 4:09 and see if you can come up with a genuine list for CNN like that. I can’t. I think CNN has dumbed down, and they’re pretty woke, but they are not intentionally lying to their audience.
        
        And I’d rather have woke than Volk.
        
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        April 1, 2021 6:01pm
- Fletch
  
  Fox wouldn’t have been hit so hard if they hadn’t buckled and joined in the rest of the media companies declaring Biden the election winner when there was little evidence so soon. They have been pretty much bullied into withdrawing their support for Trump and going along with the narrative. If they’d have stayed the course, they still would have been popular.
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:31am
  - SB2
    
    Fletch, one of the few brave moves by Fox willing to inform the obvious.
    
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    April 1, 2021 12:21pm
    - Frank the tank
      
      Bullshit. There decision was solely down to Lachlan wanting to attend LA and NY parties again and Paul Ryan being salty over Trump.
      
      They will be along for the ride again for president-elect Ronny or Kristy.
      
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      April 1, 2021 2:22pm
lilman

Hell Brian you made this old solider feel very inferior.
Sorry but Ardern is a socialist and they are shit.
Every country in the world that has tried this ends in disaster,they simply are the lowest scum on the earth.
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April 1, 2021 9:48am
- SB2
  
  “Every country in the world that has tried this ends in disaster..”
  
  Like the Soviet Union imploding 1991.?
  
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  April 1, 2021 12:23pm
Frank the tank

Anyone seen the ‘plans’ for Ihumatao.

Can someone provide the Maori translation for Eastern European Slum Apartment complex. Because that is what it looks like.
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April 1, 2021 9:56am
- tf78
  
  Frank I read on BFD that a company called Rorirori Construction were going to do the building – no sign of them on google.
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:42am
  - kowtow
    
    Sounds like the Aotearoa version of O’Reilly the Builder from Fawlty Towers.
    
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    April 1, 2021 12:37pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Whare kino
  
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  April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Steve Todd

This just released Pew Research Center survey, pertaining to how Biden’s Catholicism is perceived, is very interesting, and, of course, with regard to Republican respondents, oh so predictable.

See https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/03/30/survey-a-lot-of-republicans-dont-think-joe-biden-is-a-legitimate-catholic/?
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April 1, 2021 9:57am
- Fletch
  
  How can you be Catholic and believe what Biden does about abortion, etc? One of the bishops refused to give him communion at mass last year or the year before.
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:11am
  - lifesgood
    
    You can’t be, end of.
    
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    April 1, 2021 12:32pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Catholics have liberal and conservative wings just like most religions.
    
    Catholic history is largely a tussle between those liberal and conservative wings, with an intensely political struggle operating behind the scenes to elevate Popes from their respective wings. Simple example:
    Paul VI = conservative
    John Paul I = liberal (which is why they killed him)
    John Paul II = conservative
    Benedict XVI = Capital C conservative
    Francis = liberal
    
    Biden is a liberal Catholic. Bill Barr was a Capital C conservative Catholic (Opus Dei). The Federalist Society, that has got itself deeply enmeshed in US judiciary appointments, also has multiple ties to Opus Dei.
    
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    April 1, 2021 4:16pm
- SB2
  
  Pew need to do an item about GOP growing “religious ” affiliation to Qanon.
  
  Now appropriately known as GQP
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:34am
- Ruahine
  
  Neither do I. The same goes for Pelosi.
  
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  April 1, 2021 10:36am
- kowtow
  
  Oh so predictable , innit .
  
  Lefty Jesus freak good .
  
  Trumpy thumps bible , bad .
  
  Very predictable indeed.
  
  Oh dear , how sad , never mind.
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:07am
  - SB2
    
    kowtow still dealing with PTSD aftermath 03/11/ 20
    
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    April 1, 2021 12:25pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Might be an unpleasant surprise to you kowtow but Jesus was a lefty.
    
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    April 1, 2021 4:18pm
I remember when

The Racing Integrity Unit (RIU) has called for star young trainer Mitchell Kerr to be ‘banned for life.’
Although Kerr didn’t appear for the hearing, the chair, former HC Judge Warwick Gendall, heard he disputed the charges but was on the verge of bankruptcy and couldn’t afford a lawyer.
Four charges alleging he sold a non-existent horse, and then charged new owners expenses, oversold shares in horses he trained and charged owners premiums for non-existent insurance policies.
The charges were representative.
Black Cap Matt Henry, All Black Lienert-Brown and several wealthy business men were among those cheated.
A prolific gambler he lost nearly $1 million through Ladbrokes in two years.
He handed in his driver’s and training licences in November, citing ‘mental health’.
Sad.
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April 1, 2021 10:00am
- fernglas
  
  Sad for whom? Addicts don’t have to deal drugs. Gamblers don’t have to defraud people. Most of them suffer from greed, not need.
  
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  April 1, 2021 1:42pm
  - Tall Man
    
    But it is often more of a mental issue as well.
    
    Seems harsh if he can be rehabilitated.
    
    Aren’t the owners in this case gamblers as well????
    
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    April 1, 2021 2:11pm
Jules99

Just want to sound out some people out here. An elderly family member has been in Middlemore recently. Now that he has moved into a carehome, we find out that he was on a ‘do not resuscitate’ order at Middlemore. The person responsible for his care, who was with him every day, did not authorise this. He has dementia, so is not able to authorise it himself. Do Middlemore have policy on this? I’m thinking of writing to them. Just because he’s old, doesn’t mean he’s ready to go just yet. What do you think?
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April 1, 2021 10:07am
- H. Upmann
  
  Definitely pursue. Hospital will hide behind privacy bullshit, but make lots of noise and someone will pick it up eventually and you may get an answer.
  
  Been there too (not Middlemore) and it was found to be “an internal error”. Three years later the patient is alive and well and still driving their car.
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:32am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Is it possible that your elderly family member had previously (even some years back) discussed this matter with his GP/medical team?
  In which case his DNR request might have been in his medical notes.
  
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  April 1, 2021 12:06pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Either that or Trustees have written approval “To pull Plug” if incapacitated.
    
    I know I do.
    
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    April 1, 2021 12:40pm
Fletch

In case you missed it, Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara interviewed him two days ago, but the social media fascists, including YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter have banned it on all of their platforms, or threatened to block and ban anyone who posts it. They are still so threatened and afraid of him.

You can see the full interview here –

https://rumble.com/vf7jdd-the-right-view-with-president-donald-j-trump-and-lara-trump.html
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April 1, 2021 10:15am
SB2

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Well deserved Dr Siouxsie Wiles playing a vital role in keeping the public informed about the science behind Covid 19

“New Zealander of the Year award – Siouxsie Wiles”

Microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles was presented won the Kiwibank award for New Zealander of the Year by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a ceremony on Wednesday night.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/439632/team-of-5-million-deserve-new-zealander-of-the-year-award-siouxsie-wiles
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April 1, 2021 10:27am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Another 1 April joke.
  (The whole of the Ardern coterie and sycophancy is a farce.)
  
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  April 1, 2021 11:48am
- Bobba Fret
  
  When is Siouxsie joining Labour as a list MP?
  
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  April 1, 2021 1:10pm
oldfella

Maybe the line should be:
‘DON’T TRUST FACEBOOK. FACEBOOK IS ASSHOLE!’
Facebook has censored a video of Lara Trump interviewing her father-in-law, Donald Trump, after it warned the family that any content “in the voice of” former President Trump would be erased.
Eric Trump, the President’s son and Lara’s husband, posted Facebook’s warning message publicly, calling it a “slap in the face to 75 million Americans.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/03/31/facebook-censors-lara-trump-interview-with-donald-trump/
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April 1, 2021 10:38am
- Tall Man
  
  Makes you wonder what they have to fear…
  
  If the guy is an idiot let him show the world but if he is not then why?
  
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  April 1, 2021 2:07pm
Fletch

YouTube are going to remove the “dislike” button, probably after Biden getting too many downticks…

The move was announced via Twitter on March 30th, with YouTube explaining “in response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns, we’re testing a few new designs that don’t show the public dislike count.”

As a result, only the accounts publishing videos will be able to see the dislike to like ratio.
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April 1, 2021 11:00am
- SB2
  
  Fletch, what’s missing is a source/link?
  
  Newsmazx ,OAM, Breitbart??
  
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  April 1, 2021 12:29pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Why not Google it, if you are genuinely interested, instead of just lazy-trolling again?
    Rather than imagining the quoted portion comes from your boogey-man news sites, it is clearly on the internet in technology news as fact:
    It is a test, and has had very negative responses apparently.
    “YouTube announced today it will begin testing what could end up being a significant change to its video platform: It’s going to try hiding the dislike count on videos from public view. The company says it will run a “small experiment” where it will try out a few different designs where dislike counts are no longer shown, however none will see the “dislike” button itself removed entirely”
    
    Here is the Twitter post from Youtube for their statement directly: https://twitter.com/YouTube/status/1376942493481193475
    
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    April 1, 2021 3:17pm
- curry4me
  
  Fletch: Well, there’s an end to my part time ob of disliking Beijing Biden videos then.
  
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  April 1, 2021 3:26pm
lazza

“We believe the Government can use economies of scale and cheap capital to manufacture affordable emission free cars”.

Ho de Ho Ho

Wot planet are The Commission” on?

Zinglebonk? … in the Galaxy of Loony-Toons maybe?
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April 1, 2021 11:17am
Master Mariner

And it goes on, Like I have been stating for nearly a year now, Supply chains are broken.

Heres a report from Maersk.
https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/containers/maersk-suspends-spot-bookings-wide-range-export-markets

On another note,
NZ opens up to “Critical” spots in MIQ.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300267231/covid19-more-people-now-eligible-for-emergency-slots-in-managed-isolation

Where the hell is Key Workers in MIQ.

Really seems like Alice in Wonderland
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April 1, 2021 11:21am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING….

‘New Zealand has refused to stand with Australia and its other Five Eyes partners to speak out against a much criticised World Health Organisation investigation into the origins of COVID-19 in China, as it tries to escape Beijing’s wrath.’

– The Australian
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April 1, 2021 11:42am
- Nickc2
  
  Australia and New Zealand – BUBBLE FREE – and I’m picking the Aussies would rather prefer it remain so given NZ’s foreign policy stance.
  
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  April 1, 2021 12:27pm
- SB2
  
  Much criticised by whom?
  
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  April 1, 2021 12:28pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Don’t you read anything?
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/who-criticises-chinas-data-sharing-as-it-releases-covid-origins-report
    
    Here’s the Joint Statement on the WHO investigation
    
    https://www.state.gov/joint-statement-on-the-who-convened-covid-19-origins-study/
    
    Notice: NZ is missing.
    
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    April 1, 2021 3:16pm
- septic skeptic
  
  But “four eyes” has a negative connotation so I guess our membership will be safe for a while yet.
  
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  April 1, 2021 3:40pm
- virtualmark
  
  Yes, unfortunately neither of our major political parties is prepared to sacrifice anything for our national values. Lots of “peace in our time” type appeasement.
  
  Which suggests that those political parties’ values are very malleable and can be bought. And I’d have to say the evidence supports that.
  
  (Not that I think Act or the Greens have better policy positions on China – I suspect they are both as compromised as Labour and the Nats).
  
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  April 1, 2021 4:21pm
rangitoto

Trouble brewing over dam.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/3/31/will-egypt-attack-ethiopia
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April 1, 2021 11:48am
lazza

Newsflash from Hamilton City Duck making session …”Dr Damien Puddle consults to the Council as a “local play advocate”. One of his first acts was to have ten members of a Council Committee make ducks out of Lego. As you can see, only a couple are even vaguely duck-like.

Worse, Dr Puddle says he has made a further 41 Council staff create Lego ducks by way of ‘introduction’ (his words)”.

Is by any chance Dr Puddle Ph D LG policy analyst related to Lucy Puddle-Duck children’s level 3yr old “most loveable character”.

This stuff is not”made up”. A Council chamber play session … Truth these days is stranger than fiction
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April 1, 2021 12:07pm
surfing

With all the governments efforts being directed into giving money and special services to maori people, I was pondering the racial implications of this.

The worst case scenario for a child is to be born into a white low socio economic family. These children receive no special attention, and are left to fend for themselves unlike their brown counterparts. The system is racist for sure, but against lower class white people. They have nowhere to turn.
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April 1, 2021 12:08pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Good on our new Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March checking out the condition of our illegal exploited folk.

Let’s hope he finds out who is behind their trafficking and exploitation.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/439642/jail-visit-mp-lawyer-seek-assurances-on-chinese-men-s-welfare
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April 1, 2021 12:11pm
- Jack5
  
  Didn’t realise the Green MP’s Tijuana electorate encompassed China.
  
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  April 1, 2021 12:18pm
- kowtow
  
  The mass employment of illegal workers in any industry will force down wages therein .
  
  I hope the raids were conducted at civilised hours , we can’t have the Media Pardy stopping the authorities from protecting New Zealand workers rights by visiting illegals before dawn , now can we ?
  
  But what a state of affairs the “diversity” crowd has brought to New Zealand , what with human trafficking , slavery and rampant exploitation .
  
  Uoh , er , feel the enrichment !
  
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  April 1, 2021 12:55pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  As my partner just said… “This is the same green leech we’re having to pay $180 grand a year for christ sake! Hasn’t he got something better he can be doing for the country?”
  
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  April 1, 2021 1:06pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Still dont understand how hes in the country?
  
  Ive been trying for 4 months now.
  
  Being a key worker means nothing to these clowns.
  
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  April 1, 2021 2:36pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Tell em you’re the spare Wiggle.
    
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    April 1, 2021 8:57pm
Yvette

As 194 countries gather online for the World Health Organization’s annual assembly, which is slated this afternoon to hear the first progress report from its international inquiry into the origins and global response to the Coronavirus pandemic, an independent human rights watchdog is calling on the panel’s co-chair, former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, to recuse herself from the position on account of her numerous prior statements praising the WHO’s response, and due to her close ties with the Chinese government [which backed her recent bid to become UN chief] [1]

New Zealand absent from list of countries raising concern over World Health Organization COVID-19 origin report.
The list of nations which signed the statement includes Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway and Japan – but not New Zealand.
Responding to questions from Newshub about why New Zealand didn’t release the statement, a spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta said Aotearoa needed more time to analyse the WHO report before commenting. [2]
No mention of Helen Clark

Integrity, transparency and honesty

[1] https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO2011/S00074/head-of-who-inquiry-into-coronavirus-response-has-close-ties-to-beijing-should-step-down.htm
[2] https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/04/new-zealand-absent-from-list-of-countries-raising-concern-over-world-health-organization-covid-19-origin-report.html
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April 1, 2021 12:16pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Why is’nt this being reported more widely in Main Stream Media.
  Serious statements and repercussions for NZ if not willingly present I’m sure.
  Regardless, The investigation was a sham from start to finish.
  
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  April 1, 2021 2:48pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Aotearoa needed more time, says Nanaia?
  Not New Zealand, or Aotearoa-NZ needed more time?
  We might be getting used to this here is NZ, but the UN might think “what is this country you speak of, the seat in the UN says ‘New Zealand’.
  Or – does she mean that she is working on a response, in the proverbial ‘Maori time’?
  Shame in NZ.
  Shame on Aotearoa.
  Either lazy, or not wanting to displease our chums in Beijing. Bad look in either case, apart from slipping in an ‘Aotearoa’ in there, so scoring some small moral victory for Maori sovereignty types.
  
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  April 1, 2021 3:45pm
Maggie Pie

My partner’s mum txt….

Sir Ron has nodded the bonce to possessing child sex-abuse material.
So where to now I wonder?
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April 1, 2021 12:28pm
- SB2
  
  Hopefully not slapped with a wet bus ticket,
  
  CRIME
  Sir Ron Brierley pleads guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material in Sydney
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/04/sir-ron-brierley-pleads-guilty-to-possessing-child-sexual-abuse-material-in-sydney.html
  
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  April 1, 2021 12:43pm
- RalphT
  
  Deported back to NZ? To live in a hostel near Te Aro park in Wellington, spending his days hassling and threatening people in lower Cuba St?
  
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  April 1, 2021 1:35pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Given the incompetence of this Government, it’s more likely he’d be put up in accommodation next to a primary school.
    
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    April 1, 2021 1:50pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I don’t think he will be exchanging Potts Point for Island Bay
    https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/boy-from-island-bay-2008
    
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    April 1, 2021 2:57pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Brierley has enough Aussie friends in high places to ensure that he is not carted off to a detention centre and be transported back to NZ in cuffs on the next ‘Conair’ flight.
      
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      April 1, 2021 3:48pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Oh goodness… he’s much more upmarket than Pott’s Point..
      He’s remanded to Wolesley Rd, Point Piper .
      
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      April 1, 2021 6:23pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Ma was saying she knew Ronnie back in the early 70’s when when she was flatting in Wellington. Came across a bit ‘weird’ even then apparently.
  
  She said Sir Ron would probably have at least ten years on her, but even back in those days felt she was about 20 years too old for his taste.
  
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  April 1, 2021 2:00pm
  - Swifty
    
    The old man knows him. They grew up not far from each other and went to Wellington College together, Ron two years behind the old man.
    
    Didn’t, of course, know him well enough to pick up on these sorts of character flaws…..
    
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    April 1, 2021 2:32pm
- David Garrett
  
  Brierley should definitely have his knighthood removed…and preferably sooner rather than later. Arguably he should never have got one in the first place…basically all he did was make a shitload of money…and maybe give some small change – for him – to cricket related things.
  
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  April 1, 2021 3:25pm
  - septic skeptic
    
    In essence BIL looked for “lazy balance sheets”. Fundamentally profitable businesses that had underlying assets that they could strip and replace with debt. Once harder times hit, these businesses then went under as they no longer had financial reserves. Businesses closed, jobs lost, Mum and dad shareholders burnt. And for that the guy got knighted!
    
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    April 1, 2021 3:37pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Wellington College and Wellington Cricket might go off on a re-naming spree…
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/119533034/wellington-college-to-review-references-to-sir-ron-brierley-in-wake-of-child-exploitation-material-charges
    
    http://nzcricketmuseum.co.nz/education/landmarks-of-the-basin/
    
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    April 1, 2021 3:44pm
    - kowtow
      
      I’d be persuaded they were in earnest if they gave all the money back…….
      
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      April 1, 2021 5:37pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Arguably he should never have got one in the first place
    
    Very fitting then that it is a Labour PM who is seeking to strip Sir Ron of his Knighthood.
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124725740/pm-calls-for-process-to-strip-sir-ron-brierley-of-his-knighthood-to-start
    
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    April 1, 2021 3:51pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Maggy: Well, the Princess is right on this one…I hope there is a special place in Hell reserved for paedophiles…twisted sick fucks…
      
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      April 1, 2021 4:01pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I think Hell is located on this Earthly sphere….
        
        what sort of hell has each abused child endured?
        
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        April 1, 2021 4:15pm
    - SB2
      
      Also, his old school Wellington College had severed ties .
      
      He apparently gave generously to the school in the good old days.
      
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      April 1, 2021 4:24pm
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    No argument there David – but would you not think that Wiles situation is any different? Someone just setting themselves up publicly for their own self aggrandisement.
    
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    April 1, 2021 4:10pm
Tauhei Notts

Poor old Stuff.
Yes, they have really lost the plot.
Te Aroha residents, looking for their community newspaper, had the Hutt News delivered to them.
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April 1, 2021 12:33pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  They may not know where the Hutt is. It is Te Aroha after all.
  And before you jerks start, my Grandfather owned a Billiard Saloon there in the 1920s. God knows what they did for table lights
  
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  April 1, 2021 5:45pm
rjay

The living wage calculation has added 85c an hour from today.
This article, and others from Brian Scott is still the best explanation of the calculation I’ve seen. I could find nothing on the Living Wage website as to how it is calculated.
https://www.nzcpr.com/controversy-surrounds-the-living-wage-in-new-zealand/
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April 1, 2021 12:39pm
- Swifty
  
  The good Reverend Waldegrave works it out each year in an old school exercise book on his kitchen table at his house in Lower Hutt.
  
  https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1904/S00019/living-wage-for-201819-is-2115.htm
  
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  April 1, 2021 2:09pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  My recollection from reading the original detailed papers is that the starting $18.40 or whatever was a compromise by/for the advisory Focus Groups; it was then $6/hr higher in Auckland but Waldegrave and team thought they could not get away with that.
  
  Initially it was a UK Union put-up job designed to pressure us here. McCarten’s mob have got their way. However it was similar tactics applied via the Arbitration Court in the 1970’s that led to an upwards wage/price spiral. When the Cost of Living Index went up wages followed (repeat until…)
  
  That is now evident here again. Compare your weekly supermarket bills. As a small manufacturer I am having to review my labour costings, giving an increase from $40/hr to $60. The changes to pay for non-working hours have left a lot of uncertainty. My problems are tiny compared to most. There could be large amounts of money involved reducing working capital and increasing risk of businesses continuing.
  
  This govt’s lack of financial care will bring them into the history books.
  
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  April 1, 2021 2:49pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Agree. Wakers the lot of em! Will a coalition of National and ACT bring any sanity and stability to the industrial scene in NZ? I guess we will have to wait and see but I wish they would give us some kind of clue as to what they intend rolling back/discarding and/or replacing in order that businesses can forward plan.
    
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    April 1, 2021 2:53pm
  - rjay
    
    Apparently overseas holidays are part of the calculation for a living wage.
    
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    April 1, 2021 3:30pm
  - SB2
    
    So what does Brian Scott have in mind?
    
    Below the US living wage of $16 54 (US dollars)?
    
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    April 1, 2021 4:30pm
MCos

Years ago the OJ Simpson trial was televised and some of the participants used the occasion to play up to the viewership, most notably the judge and the defence lawyers.
Personally I think it’s a mistake to reduce these trials to theatre, but I suspect the associates of the victim want everything out in the open because America has a history of unequal justice.
In the Derek Chauvin case I suspect a good number of people have decided already whether he is guilty or not and don’t need this month long TV drama.
We have had open & shut cases in NZ that turned up unexpected results and results that are wrong.
There’s going to be a few experts who might throw a spinner in the works.

There has already been a substantial payout by the city. I don’t know I agree with that sort of thing. In NZ ACC effectively replaced that, is my understanding.
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April 1, 2021 12:41pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘everything out in the open because America has a history of unequal justice.’
  
  Yes that’s true . Pretty well established that OJ got off cos no black juror would convict him for killing a white woman …….and the other guy .
  
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  April 1, 2021 5:35pm
curry4me

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ENusEXNKRV0/
Home Schooling Surges 300%.

San Diego Public School Teachers are SNUBBING Their Own Students to Teach MIGRANT Kids at the border, all as Homeschooling SURGES over 300%! In this video, we’re going to take a look at the glaring disparity in the way illegal immigrant children are being treated by teachers and how American students are getting treated, how such a glaring disparity is awakening a populist backlash like never before, and how we can see that backlash already happening in a mass exodus of students from our nation’s public schools.
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April 1, 2021 2:11pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aDTm7GGgyE

Independent Scotland Would Take Ten Years to Get EU Membership Says New Report!

According to a report from the Institute for Government, the whole process of gaining independence (Scexit) and qualifying for EU membership could take Scotland the best part of a decade. And it also backs up what the pro-UK Unionists have been saying since Brexit was achieved.
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April 1, 2021 2:12pm
Maggie Pie

Just had a sneeky peek at CNN.
Does Chris Cuom0 wear Whiteface?
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April 1, 2021 2:33pm
MCos

With regard to the Matt Gaetz story yesterday. Here are some tweets worth reading.
https://twitter.com/bessbell/status/1377118965252587522?s=21
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April 1, 2021 2:40pm
surfing

Bit embarrassing for New Zealand. . .

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/why-new-zealand-didnt-join-partners-in-raising-concern-over-who-covid-19-origins-report/ar-BB1fasFj?li=BBqdk7Q

Rest of the world must be thinking New Zealand is filled with dummies.

Nanaia Mahuta gives “the dog ate my homework” response.
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April 1, 2021 3:29pm
- greybeard
  
  This is one of those events which simply disappear before their true importance is broadcast.
  NZ is quickly becoming a country which apparently wholeheartedly supports China and everything done by China.
  I know that there are many of us in NZ who oppose this, but I fear that our opposition will be suppressed.
  I would like to advise the US and Australia that not not all of us here in NZ are Ardern’s commie puppets.
  
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  April 1, 2021 6:13pm
Maggie Pie

Questions that make you go hmmm….

Should the PRC be allowed to build a $250 million ‘military base’ on Samoa’s Upolu Island?

Asking for a friend.
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April 1, 2021 3:46pm
- greybeard
  
  Shouldn’t we stop aid to Samoa ? Cease their involvement in our country, all of their immigrants, and kick all Samoans out of our rugby teams ?
  I think that would be fair.
  They can’t have it both ways.
  NZ or China, make your mind up..
  
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  April 1, 2021 4:32pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yes, more than 30,000 Chinese there now. As you say – why are we sending them aid?
    
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    April 1, 2021 4:56pm
  - MCos
    
    I don’t think there are any Samoans in the ABs in as much as those of Samoan ethnicity were born here.
    There are of course many countries China has a financial ties with by way of big loans.
    If all their citizens were forced out of the country, together with Chinese born residents it would be like the Dawn Raids on steroids.
    
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    April 1, 2021 5:37pm
Jack5

Bulletin on the Culture War – no offence intended to ?Batman? …

1. Rioting London pupils have led Pimlico School to stop flying the Union Jack and amend history teaching so that “White kings and queens” don’t overshadow BAME figures (“BAME” is an acronym for Black, Asian and minority ethnic” – that is non-White.)

2. A UK independent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities has recommended the term “BAME” be scrapped.

Sherelle Jacobs writes behind the Telegraph paywall that the commission found no evidence that institutional racism exists in Britain.

“In fact, it points out that, in some areas, such as education, particular ethnic minorities outperform their white counterparts.”
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April 1, 2021 3:57pm
Inandout

The vaccine man on radio actually said ‘New Zealand’ instead of Aotearoa, what gives?
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April 1, 2021 4:01pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Must have been a bad news story
  
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  April 1, 2021 9:11pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Something to chew on over Easter. Trump said he is not finished. Things are happening.
https://dailyheadlines.com/the-truth-will-be-revealed-that-could-put-trump-right-back-into-the-white-house/?
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April 1, 2021 4:22pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Oh, has Q set a new date for the gullible to expect Trump to be reinstated?
  
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  April 1, 2021 5:38pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You have failed at reading the link again.
    For such a smartarse, you come across as quite thick sometimes Mike.
    The ‘date’ is not there – but the possible month is. Did you have a TDS blackout when trying to read that bit.
    All the time, Mike gives half informations. Is that not sort of like ‘fake news?????’
    
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    April 1, 2021 5:54pm
  - Tall Man
    
    “Q” isn’t real mikey…
    
    Talk about gullible.
    
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    April 1, 2021 7:48pm
- Inandout
  
  Steve, unless you truly have TDS what does the banning of all discussion of any election irregularities on big tech sites tell you? Even Crowder was taken down from YouTube for merely pointing out given voter addresses didn’t even exist. Luckily the US is not the world and there are alternative sites popping up everywhere where these things can at least be talked about.
  
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  April 1, 2021 5:59pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    We do not see much, because we are programed by play school TV1.
    Even Youtube are not just deleting posts but banning people like Bongino. Fuck, I just got over 30 days FB jail for just ‘sharing’ a post ffs.
    We are now in the cancel culture controlled by 18 year old non genders wearing short pants – fuck them.
    Don’t you dare look at what I am wearing
    
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    April 1, 2021 6:48pm
SB2

Another Kraken Awakes and Capitol Hill insurrection?
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April 1, 2021 4:27pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sad. Either speeling, or trolling
  
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  April 1, 2021 5:55pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124725740/pm-calls-for-process-to-strip-sir-ron-brierley-of-his-knighthood-to-start
At last ! Something for the “PM” to do.
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April 1, 2021 4:28pm
- Yvette
  
  Australian Citizenship Minister Gary Hardgrave is wooing long-term residents with claims that Australia is the best country in the world. Investment tycoon Sir Ron Brierley was one who crossed over this year and jockey Greg Childs has also applied for citizenship. [1]
  
  Does Brierley hold Australian citizenship as well as being a New Zealand citizen, and should Ardern not also initiate the termination of New Zealand citizenship before Australia cancels theirs and sends him home?
  
  [1] https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/australia-woos-citizens/XIRAEWV6Z4NVLRIQ2GQH4SQHLU/
  
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  April 1, 2021 4:32pm
- Inandout
  
  grey, one wonders what other high profile name will also be shaking in their shoes?
  
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  April 1, 2021 6:03pm
Swifty

Women of The Outer Hebrides – Waulking Song | AI Enhanced 1941 Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeSrkZfpAjc
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April 1, 2021 4:31pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://babylonbee.com/news/colorado-baker-tired-of-long-line-of-people-outside-waiting-to-be-oppressed-by-him?
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April 1, 2021 4:42pm
Okahu

I’ve had a wee find. 85c in coins in the car door pocket. Now I wouldn’t normally bother Kiwiblog with such news but…

Dear leader Shipley needs our help. Her reputation as a business director is becoming submerged in a sewer. And the high court is now to decide how many millions she has to pay up to the investors her board fleeced. An amount beyond any available insurance they say.

So how about we here at this bastion of right thinking do the decent thing and have a whip around. This leader of the nation, this spear point of ethics and business acumen, this friend to farmers will be ruined without our help. All because she was (unfortunately) resolutely clueless as to ethics or business or governance, or so it seems the court has decided.

Like I say, I’ve got 5c to spare. Please give what you can. Sort of like a kiwiblogathon. And just remember, even if she was a forgettable leader with ruthless ambition but negligible ability, you are probably actually making a donation to her victims. And of course her lawyers. And her hair dye applicator.
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April 1, 2021 4:43pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Ouch
  
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  April 1, 2021 5:59pm
- Black Propaganda
  
  I pledge one announcement (date to be confirmed).
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:13pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://rumble.com/vf883v-texas-liutenant-gov.-slams-aocs-idiotic-comments.html?
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April 1, 2021 4:45pm
Gravelroad

Labour Party Politburo (propaganda section ) 10
Du Plessis Allen 5

Yesterday I commented on HDPA’s somewhat critical summation of the announcement about the government’s backtrack on the light rail debacle. I said both she and B. Soper must be close to being cancelled.
Today at 4pm, Ms Du Plessis Allan made a statement pulling back on what she had said.
The government “was brave” to have decided to start again with this project etc etc.
So I’m guessing that considerable pressure has been exerted by her employers to tone down, or even stop, any comment or questioning which might show this government in a poor light – even if some realistic challenging of their policies and actions is warranted.
This pressure no doubt has come directly from the Labour Party’s propaganda machine perhaps with a threat to turn off funding.
This is Soviet Russia/East Germany stuff.
Shut up or be prepared to pay a price.
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April 1, 2021 4:54pm
- Swifty
  
  Chilling.
  
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  April 1, 2021 5:14pm
- Black Propaganda
  
  Nah, I think given a day of reflection she is truely pleased with the restart and the appointment of Tracy Martin to screw the scrum. Lightrail is to be a mythical beast in a fairytale of old in a galaxy a long time ago.
  
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  April 1, 2021 8:22pm
chukar

Gravelroad you are so right.

I want to shift to the “ Land of the Free “
If I could find it?
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April 1, 2021 6:58pm
Happychappy

While I am no Ron Brieley fan and think kiddy fiddlers or people that keep objectionable photos of children on their computers or other devises deverve to be in jail with also any awards they they may have given in the Queens Honours list stripped I have to say this about Jacinda Ardern . The Prime Minister has allowed a rapist and deviate escape punishment from a serious crime ,she has helped in a young Labour person escape punishment on sexual assault, has let the Speaker of the house call a Parliamentary worker a rapist that cost the Taxpayer over $ 350.000 with more litigation to come,but even though it is well deserved she has started the process to have Sir Ron Brieley Knighthood stripped .
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/124725740/pm-moves-to-strip-sir-ron-brierley-of-his-knighthood-wellington-college-removes-signage
It should happen without any doubt but really why did these others get the get out of jail card from Jacinda Ardern and Labour.
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April 1, 2021 7:22pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Not a comment have I seen today commiserating with those poor sods whose margin tax rate rises to 39%
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