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Happy Inject Yourself With Bleach Day!

12 months ago …
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April 24, 2021 8:04am
- I remember when
  
  Did it work?
  
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  April 24, 2021 8:50am
  - Tall Man
    
    Nope, he’s still an obsessed idiot 😉
    
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    April 24, 2021 10:01am
- MCos
  
  A star is born
  https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1253474772702429189?s=21
  
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  April 24, 2021 8:54am
- virtualmark
  
  Awwww, poor butthurt Trumpies don’t like being reminded their Orange God-King is a moron, and so go all cancel culture. Snowflakes!
  
  Just remember that your hero’s office is a converted bridal dressing room, and he’s living in a small hotel suite in a club that’s not supposed to have residents.
  
  Why? He’s. Broke.
  
  You’ve been grifted by a conman who has a lower net worth than you do.
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:26am
  - Ed Snack
    
    … sucking the dick of a racist senile kiddy fiddler ..
    
    [ Mod : I assume – from the number of your posts – that you value being a poster here. This sort of stuff is OTT on KB. There are plenty of other places that welcome this sort of crap. Do it again and you are on holiday ]
    
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    April 24, 2021 2:47pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  You guys never let go of a lie do you
  
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  April 24, 2021 11:06am
- rouppe
  
  I notice you can’t produce a link where he actually said “inject bleach”
  
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  April 24, 2021 11:16am
  - virtualmark
    
    “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.”
    
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    April 24, 2021 4:45pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      It was in fact contemplated and researched, but did not prove practical. What’s wrong with speculating and promoting possible solutions, being, like, outside the box.
      
      After all, if Trump had followed the purely conventional wisdom we’d still be sitting around with vaccines being more than a year away. All the experts said that developing a vaccine (let alone vaccines) in six months was completely impossible, and that there was no point attempting it.
      
      Maybe thinking outside the square can be helpful, no ? After all, the “experts” have been pretty massively wrong on almost all points of this pandemic.
      
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      April 25, 2021 9:37am
peterwn

So the Electricity Authority has given up on trying to ping Meridian and Contact for allegedly spilling water for commercial reasons. The water was spilled for safety reasons. EA issued its draft ‘ruling’ for the companies for the companies to consider and the response was no doubt a veiled ‘see you in the Supreme Court if need be’. End of matter.
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April 24, 2021 8:06am
- KevO'Brien
  
  What do bean counters know about the physics of electricity generation and the necessity to modulate the water flow from a hydro dam lest the dam does it itself and knocks out all below it?
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:32am
  - peterwn
    
    I suspect the EA had to be seen to do something especially as there are continuing rumblings from small retailers such as Electric Kiwi who, to cut a long story short, expect to be effectively subsidised by the five ‘gentailers’. Incidentally I did a ‘Powerswitch’ exercise yesterday and found I could save all of $75 compared with the ‘gentailer’ I currently use. It was not worth switching especially as the margin of error in the calculations would have been at least $100.
    Years ago (early 1960’s) there was a General Manager of the former NZ Electricity Department who was concerned at the cost of transmission projects and considered ‘factors of safety’ when designing power pylons were too high and considered they could be reduced somewhat. Much of the structural design relied on rules of thumb as computer software to do a rigorous analysis was not then available. Pylons were made to the new skinnier design and some fell over in high winds and the pylons of that genre had to be strengthened and as far as I know the strengthened pylons are still providing good service. Anyway the bean counters wanted a ‘please explain’ when a HVDC pylon near Oteranga Bay (near Makara Beach) collapsed. The response was that when laying the Cook Strait cables the Photinia (the cable laying ship) tugged a bit hard on a cable which in turn put excessive tension on one of the transmission line conductors which caused the pylon to collapse.
    It would be easy to criticise that General Manager who could be irascible at times but he was concerned that NZ had a reliable supply of electricity at reasonable cost. His salary would have been a pittance in real terms when compared with the salaries of the Chief Executives of the five ‘gentailer’ companies. He was awarded a well deserved CBE on his retirement.
    
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    April 24, 2021 10:11am
  - Wired-one
    
    It’s not about modulating the water flow, it’s about maintaining power prices. I know, I work in a control room where this happens.
    
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    April 24, 2021 11:26am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Modulating just referred to the contolled changes in the water out–not why.
      
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      April 24, 2021 3:27pm
    - peterwn
      
      Which country, which utility?
      Deliberately spilling hydro power water without proper reason is a crime (s271 Crimes Act) maximum penalty 5 years prison. This would be a novel use of s271 but I consider it would stick.
      
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      April 24, 2021 3:51pm
fernglas

If the change to only allowing citizens rather than residents back from India will reduce the number of cases by 75%, does that mean that most of those previous returnees were just using this country as a flag of convenience?
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April 24, 2021 8:10am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I love the surprise in your post! On their way somewhere else after parking the parents and their disabled into our social security net.
  
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  April 24, 2021 8:57am
- MCos
  
  Obtaining a PR visa is not a walk in the park.
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:00am
- igm
  
  Need you ask.
  What about those entering from UAE?
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:17am
- Tall Man
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJFiByfiRTA
  
  Says it all……
  
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  April 24, 2021 10:03am
- David Garrett
  
  fernglas: Hit the nail on the head Sir…IMO 90% of the “New Zealanders” returning over at least the last six months will have been persons not born here, and very partial to curry…anyone who was actually born here either returned long ago or decided to stay where they were.
  
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  April 24, 2021 10:58am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Not based on the people at Rydges at Christchurch. I occasionally spot them on their exercise walks around the perimeter of the quarantine hotel. They are 90 percent white people.
    
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    April 24, 2021 11:31am
- OTGO
  
  Arranged marriages
  
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  April 24, 2021 7:41pm
RockyJ

Te Puni Kokiri announces the launch of a new electronic card for Maori only. Named the “Brown card” it will be designed to enable Maori to access the bewildering number of privileges and entitlements they are gaining. A spokesman said “with just a swipe our long suffering people can enjoy their special rights under the new Maori health agency, vote in the new wards and gain access to customary fishing rights. As more benefits come on stream the Brown card will be like the Gold card only better”.
When asked about how the technology was developed the spokesman said “that was the easy part. We recognise that not all Maori want apartheid. From those who do we found a massive chip on their shoulders which we were able to incorporate into their swipe cards and it worked a treat”.
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April 24, 2021 8:14am
- David Garrett
  
  RockyJ: Most excellent Sir…
  
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  April 24, 2021 10:59am
Nukuleka

The indoctrination in our education system continues to move ahead at a rapid pace with secondary school principals- Mt Aspiring College in Wanaka, for example- directing teachers to avoid gender-specific words such as ‘boys and girls’ when speaking to their classes. Out with the binary and in with non-gendered terms such as ‘students’ so that noone, supposedly, feels excluded. Young teachers have already been schooled in this nonsense at universities and teachers’ colleges. The older ones fear for their jobs if they speak out about it. Sigh!
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April 24, 2021 8:18am
- SB2
  
  Couldn’t find a link to that bit of hysteria on your part.I guess the consolation is that you yourself will still be allowed to identify yourself as as boy or girl.
  
  Which one is it?l
  
  Sigh!
  
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  April 24, 2021 8:57am
- Benedict Yu
  
  The parents should rebel.
  
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  April 24, 2021 11:34am
Greg Ettridge

The new world order are now going to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Plugging all the volcanoes and fissures of the world will an interesting exercise.
Meanwhile, I guess they have Greta working on growing their vegan meals without CO2.
What possibly could go wrong.
People actually vote for these morons.
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April 24, 2021 8:19am
- Kiwi_in_Paris
  
  It will never end until they ban spicy food.
  
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  April 24, 2021 8:38am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Greta needs to go back to school and learn something other than activism. Her dopey parents are responsible
  
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  April 24, 2021 8:42am
  - Sacha
    
    Perhaps she has to get back to ‘work’ tomaintaint her parents in the style to which they have become accustomed?
    
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    April 24, 2021 10:09am
  - theoldbloke
    
    Dopey parents. I think smart conniving parents in using and abusing the mental capacity of their daughter to generate huge wealth!!
    
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    April 24, 2021 12:08pm
- virtualmark
  
  Siemens has a really interesting pilot underway with removing CO2 from the atmosphere, splitting water into H2 and O2, then combining it all to make methane, then methanol, then petrol. “Carbon neutral petrol”.
  
  Their rational is that internal combustion engines are going to be with us for at least another 50 years, and they will need fuel. Seems sensible.
  
  So removing CO2 from the atmosphere isn’t as silly as you think.
  
  Be curious, not judgemental.
  
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  April 24, 2021 8:46am
  - kowtow
    
    Be curious.
    
    Take your own advice , bleachy.
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:10am
  - CJames
    
    And how much energy does the process use? You don’t get ought for nought. If it is a true virtue signalling scheme, the power to do it will come from a fossil fuel plant. Just like electric cars in NZ are coal powered.
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:26am
  - cmm
    
    “splitting water into H2 and O2”
    
    Ok, this is not something you can do with a very sharp knife.
    
    There are a very limited number of ways to do this – the major way being electrolysis (What Megan Woods thinks is great). Electrolysis is only about 50% efficient in “high efficiency” settings. About half that is more typical.
    
    So you’d be far better off just using 100% of the energy as electricity rather than 50% as hydrogen.
    
    There are some potential other methods coming down the pipe but those are far from proven yet.
    
    Then react the hydrogen with CO2 to produce methane by stripping off the O2 as water – thereby using up two thirds of that precious hydrogen you just made:
    
    If my chemistry from 40 years ago is still right:
    
    6H2 + CO2 -> CH4 + 4H2O
    
    So we started with a system that was 50% efficient (making hydrogen), then throw 2/3 or it away – so we’re down to 16% efficient. We do however gain the carbon which brings that back to maybe 30%.
    
    Then we burn it in an ICE which is perhaps 30% efficient, so 10% of out useful energy remains.
    
    You’d be 10x better off using the electricity.
    
    So why do these companies say they are doing this sort of research? Good PR.
    
    Much better: just remember that CO2 is plant food.
    
    Being curious, not judgemental is one of those uiseless throwaway statements like “love conquers all”. Engineers are extremely judgemental because they are looking for solutions that work – they are not just dreaming.
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:44am
    - virtualmark
      
      Sure, I know that.
      
      But it is a way to turn cheap electricity into something carbon neutral that you can burn in an internal combustion engine. Got any other options for doing that? Remember … we will have internal combustion engines with us for at least the next 50 years and this is an attempt to come up with a cleaner solution for them.
      
      And it’s less about energy efficiency as it is about cost efficiency.
      
      BTW I have two degrees in engineering and I’m not a dreamer. But still curious.
      
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      April 24, 2021 11:44am
      - Ed Snack
        
        With large amounts of cheap electricity, this isn’t necessarily a silly idea at all. The problem being the supply of the ‘Leccy to start with. Fusion might do it, as possibly would modular fission plants.
        
        There is a huge existing investment in distributing liquid fuels, and this way one could continue to utilise that. Using electricity for transport does assume that battery or other energy storage mechanisms will improve sufficiently and become economic enough for genuine widespread use.
        
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        April 24, 2021 2:54pm
      - kowtow
        
        I have two degrees
        
        Ah ha
        
        Argumentum ad verecundiam……
        
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        April 24, 2021 4:45pm
      - virtualmark
        
        kowtow, it was in response to cmm’s comment re engineers.
        
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        April 24, 2021 5:54pm
  - Romney
    
    Now I’m curious to know how much energy that convoluted process would require.
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:45am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    PV hydrogen is now cheap enough to make petrol for less than $100/barrel. Just a matter of scaling up production. And it will get cheaper.
    
    Thermageddonists can therefore close up shop and get on with more productive things – in 20 years renewables will have eradicated fossil fuels due to lower cost.
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:56am
  - rouppe
    
    How many kilojoules of energy does it take to make “carbon neutral fuel” that has 1 kilojoule of energy?
    
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    April 24, 2021 11:22am
    - virtualmark
      
      Wrong question.
      
      Right questions = How many $ does a litre of fuel made this way cost? And is it cheaper than what other alternative fuels cost?
      
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      April 24, 2021 6:01pm
- kowtow
  
  I wonder where “decarbonising” fits in with human respiration .
  
  The hysterical screaming girls of so called climate action need to spend less time on the streets and more time on basic biology ( and common sense)
  
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  April 24, 2021 8:48am
- SB2
  
  Volcanoes generate about 200 million tons of CO2 whilst industrial and other human-made emissions 24 billion tons according to the US Geological Survey,,
  
  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earthtalks-volcanoes-or-humans/
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:02am
- Inandout
  
  Greg, when Biden took Kerry from his crypt and made him a sort of CO2 boss, well we all knew Greta would beam. She may even make John her CO2 grandfather.
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:20am
G152

Yup. All those undersea vents are just going to have to stop venting.
No CO2 in the atmosphere means no vegetables.
Have they thought this out ???
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April 24, 2021 8:32am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Have they thought this out ???
  
  No.
  
  Did you have another question?
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:01am
- SB2
  
  That’s right but human industrial and other related activities contribute to an excess which is not good for the planet.
  
  https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/why-does-co2-get-more-attention-other-gases
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:07am
  - SB2
    
    Another held up for moderation. as at 10.54am. Why?
    
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    April 24, 2021 10:52am
- rouppe
  
  What’s worse is whether they have thought out what happens if their schemes work so well that crops can no longer be produced in the same quantities because the fuel – CO2 – is more scarce.
  
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  April 24, 2021 11:25am
Happychappy

Isn’t it funny when others make mistakes in quoting figure Labour and the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern jump on them and make a mountain out of a molehill , when it is the Government and statistics not a peep from Jacinda Ardern even though she used these figures when National was saying they were wrong and her stance on poverty and the other nine measures she was quoting didnt stack up.
Now we have Statistics that say they were wrong and have apologized for the mistakes, not a word from our wannabe Celebrity Prime Minister on how her figures have not decreased like she continues to spout.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/stats-nz-apologises-mistake-in-child-poverty-statistics
For once it would be nice if the Prime Minister apologized for her bullshit when she has made wrong statements , but don’t hold your breath for this to happen Jacinda can’t find wrong in herself.
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April 24, 2021 8:33am
- calendar girl
  
  Agreed, Happy.
  
  One small point. I wonder why this PM is referred to so often by her first name, i.e. “Jacinda”? That tends to suggest familiarity, personal friendship or warm admiration. For myself I would prefer her to be referred to customarily by her surname, Ardern, as would happen with any male in the PM role.
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:25am
  - calendar girl
    
    My 9:25am comment above has now been “awaiting moderation” for one and a half hours.
    
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    April 24, 2021 10:59am
    - calendar girl
      
      N0w two and a half hours “awaiting moderation”, so that ‘conversation’ was dead as soon as it commenced.
      
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      April 24, 2021 12:04pm
  - chukar
    
    CG,
    Not a small point at all .Ageed
    
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    April 24, 2021 10:00pm
- Paulus
  
  53% of the voting public thought she was lovely and kind – but she has a big problem that is going to cost a lot of taxpayers money and that is that she has to keep those women who previously voted for National – estimated at 400,000 in her camp.
  The school girls now coming to vote will take time to make that work too !
  So she will do nothing that might lose that new Labour middle class women for the next election.
  Cindy should be worried about is as she appears to ne losing it at the moment and no matter how much money Robertson prints may not have her desired effect.
  
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  April 24, 2021 1:44pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    Why do you keep saying 53%, Paulus? You said it yesterday, as well. As I told you on 1 April, here, https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2021/04/general_debate_01_april_2021.html/comment-page-1#comment-2916553, it’s 50.01% (1,443,545 / 2,886,420).
    
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    April 24, 2021 2:53pm
    - CommanderC
      
      It’s because it was a Labour – NZ First coalition government that was campaigning for re-election (sadly, if you are not left-of-centre).
      
      Labour 50.0%
      NZ First 2.6%
      = 52.6% for the Coalition
      
      Plus supporting partners:
      
      Greens 7.9%
      TOP 1.5%
      Maori 1.2%
      Cannabis 0.5%
      
      = 63.7% for the centre-left / centre, left and green far left:(
      
      National 25.6%
      ACT 7.6%
      the 3 Christian parties 2.8%
      
      = 36.0% for the centre-right, right, religious fundamentalists and libertarians
      
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      April 24, 2021 4:25pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        @CommanderC @ 4:25PM
        
        Okay, the numbers (52.61%) add up, but I don’t accept your reasoning; I am sure that is not what Paulus means.
        
        There was no agreement between Labour and NZ First to campaign together for re-election. They campaigned separately, with NZ First hoping just to survive, which everyone knew (from the polls) was extremely unlikely. The Labour-NZ First coalition government (that included, by necessity, the Greens) most certainly was not “campaigning for re-election.”
        
        By your reasoning, Paulus should be saying that 60% (including Green Party voters) “of the voting public thought she was lovely and kind”.
        
        In actual fact, as we all know, knowing that NZ First was almost certainly finished, many people abandoned National and voted Labour, because they feared a Labour-Greens majority coalition government.
        
        Therefore, again, by your reasoning, given the outcome, Paulus should be saying 58% “of the voting public thought she was lovely and kind”, but, even then, that is hardly likely to be true of the 10%+(?) of National voters who voted Labour, is it?
        
        I await, no doubt in vain, for Paulus’ clarification as to his thinking.
        
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        April 24, 2021 7:24pm
Shaun the Sheep

People who insist that climate catastrophising is based on science don’t understand the critical role of carbon in life on earth.
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April 24, 2021 8:41am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Well when the Environmental Protection Agency declares CO2 is a pollutant, you know someone wasn’t paying attention in Science class.
  
  https://dieselnet.com/news/2007/04epa.php#:~:text=In%20one%20of%20the%20most,2%20emissions%20from%20new%20cars.
  
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  April 24, 2021 8:53am
  - Swifty
    
    Was watching this only last night:
    
    https://youtu.be/pTGMBIrhZOI?t=232
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:11am
  - kowtow
    
    Not to mention that H2O is also a green house gas .
    
    How would they get off dewatering the atmosphere ?
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:13am
  - SB2
    
    MW, because those in science classes learn that an excess of human-created ( industrial and other pollutants ) CO2 gas has a heat-trapping effect,
    
    https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/
    
    Not the idea that Climate change is China created hoax as per Donald Trump etc
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:15am
    - SB2
      
      Moderator, again why is my response to this and other posts this morning held up for moderation?
      
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      April 24, 2021 10:52am
  - Nickc2
    
    Create a small town in a cocoon with absolutely no CO2 whatsoever, make some politicians/activists live/survive in there for at least one year and see how keen they are on removing all CO2 from the atmosphere.
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:22am
  - chukar
    
    The Environmental Protection Agency has been a largely Government funded attack dog on productivity ,development,and people’s aspirations for many years.
    They should be defunded and then let us see how sincere they really are!
    Will they put their hands in their own pockets?
    
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    April 24, 2021 1:09pm
- Apropos of the Wet Snow
  
  Any civilisation-threatening emergency worthy of the description usually has the good grace to make itself obvious to the casual observer. However, the current climate emergency seems to have different and much more subtle ways of going about things.
  
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  April 24, 2021 8:56am
- Dairy Flat
  
  You know civilisation is doomed when carbon based life forms declare carbon is a dangerous pollutant that must be removed. It’s actually quite funny talking to some of the rabid anti carbon nutters; many have no clue of the chemistry of life.
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:56am
- tf78
  
  And diamonds.
  
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  April 24, 2021 10:26am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This was back in Feb, I just found it. Time says election was rigged.
https://freedomwire.com/time-magazine-rigged-election/?
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April 24, 2021 8:49am
- lifesgood
  
  And….Batman!
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:16am
- BeeJay
  
  It appears that Mark Beniof has started to play ends against the middle since he purchased Time Mag! A one time Republican who supported Hilary Clinton in 2016 now calls himself an Independent! Of course! He’s rich enough to call it whichever way he feels about it! Avoiding having his foot in either camp and now wanting to appear neutral. Good place to be if you want to preach whatever conspiracy theory you feel like!
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:18am
- SB2
  
  You tell me where Time specifically say the election was rigged from the original article,
  
  https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:23am
- Don Beckett
  
  Wow Steve, you shouldn’t have put that up.
  Batman is going to go apoplectic. 😆
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:35am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    He’s a big boy now
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:57am
    - Don Beckett
      
      I wonder…….
      
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      April 24, 2021 12:52pm
- Spam
  
  Which part of the time article do you think is the most important? This part?
  
  The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:50am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    As if Steve read the actual article in Time…
    
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    April 24, 2021 11:44am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I did not read the ‘actual’ article. But you must have, please enlighten us Mr knowall
      
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      April 24, 2021 3:17pm
- Brian McDonald
  
  “To the President, something felt amiss. ‘It was all very, very strange,’ Trump said on Dec. 2. ‘Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.’
  
  In a way, Trump was right.”
  
  Yes, he was right there was understandable support even from Republicans that the election result had to be endorsed while Trump talked up an attack on Capitol Hill.
  Keep trying though Steve.
  
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  April 24, 2021 1:25pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You are being selective. Antifa and BLM said they would hijack that peaceful protest – and they did.
    Back to CNN with you.
    
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    April 24, 2021 1:49pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    You do have to admit that the 2020 US presidential election was one out of the box. It basically broke every conventional wisdom tenet that existed.
    
    1. There were 19 counties in the US that voted with every presidential winner since 1980 (and some go back further, one to 1952) and in 2020 18 of those went to Trump. And not just went, average margin was 16 points. One went to Biden by 6 points. That is unusual.
    
    2. No previous candidate in the last century has lost after winning Florida, Ohio, and Iowa – except Nixon in 1960 and it is generally accepted that he was indeed cheated out of victory by vote fraud.
    
    3. Across the nation, Biden generally polled below Hillary Clinton and well below Obama, except in selected key swing state counties where he outpolled Obama by at least double digits and often by 30% or more. So undoubtedly the most brilliantly targeted campaign in history.
    
    4. Benfords law, not an absolute but basically a statistical observation that in genuinely randomly generated numbers the most common first digit is 1, followed by 2 etc. The vote totals in counties are effectively random in occurrence, and indeed all of Trumps vote numbers obey this law. So do all of Biden’s numbers for non contentious counties. However for counties where Biden received large additional votes over Previous candidates in key swing states, those numbers do NOT obey the law. Leading to a suggestion that those numbers are not randomly generated by votes but by interventions that are not random.
    
    None of those is proof positive of vote irregularities, but taken together they do present a case that the 2020 election was indeed highly unusual and departed from expected norms in voter behaviour.
    
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    April 24, 2021 3:12pm
I remember when

The ‘Law of Unintended Consequences’ strikes again?
At a time when everyone who can spell Engineer is wanted, are junior engineers lacking the confidence to sign off on projects.
Are the effects of Leaky Buildings, Christchurch and Wellington Earthquakes starting to appear.
Don’t want to damage/end your career – leave the responsibility resting on someone else.
Is the salary worth the risk of becoming a murderer or charged with manslaughter.
What will happen in this new era of think big buildings and construction.
Do we need to realise that accidents do still happen and not every outcome can be prevented.
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April 24, 2021 8:49am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I was at the Central Institute of Technology when it just opened in about 1975 completing an NZCE (remember those?) in mechanical engineering.
  
  Bruce, the Navy guy on the course, had T shirts made up with a goofy picture with the caption ‘six months ago i couldn’t spell enginajer, now I are one!’
  
  I have no longer got the T shirt but still have the qualification. Any openings for me at 66 that involve extensive coffee breaks or should I apply to the gubbermint or council although I suspect that may be too many coffee breaks for my metabolism . . .
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:11am
- MCos
  
  I don’t recall an engineer in NZ being charged with manslaughter/murder, let alone a ‘junior’ engineer?
  Accidents happens, so does blithering incompetence.
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:31am
Maggy Wassilieff

Fancy a Motel Stay?

Currently around 8500 adults and 3888 kids live in motels…

“More than half a billion dollars has been spent on housing people in emergency accommodation since Labour came into office. I think all New Zealanders know a lot of houses could have been built with that sum of money.”

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/04/govt-accused-of-running-get-rich-quick-scheme-after-national-reveals-motels-being-paid-millions-for-emergency-accommodation.html
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April 24, 2021 8:50am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  $500,000.00?
  
  100 Kiwibuild houses.
  
  The rest was just wasted – George Best
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:05am
- rockape
  
  If they spent that money on building small affordable homes, Kiwibuild would be on schedule!
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:13am
- Tomtoddy
  
  Motelliers love it. They have never achieved 100% occupancy before and they get over $420 per person per night.
  
  A room that would have earned around $600 a week is now earning $3,000.
  
  That will cover the smoke smell, holes kicked in walls, broken windows, spilt booze.
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:34am
  - cmm
    
    No doubt they have contracts saying that the taxpayer will fix all damages. Zero risk to the motelier.
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:50am
    - David Garrett
      
      cmm: Absolutely…if you were a motelier making only a modest income, why wouldn’t you go for it?
      
      But on the subject of Rotorua…my son and I have just returned from a very pleasant three nights at the Blue Lake Holiday Park…while in Rotovegas we took a couple of Tiki-tours up the “motel mile” on Fenton Street. I have to report no sign of gang colours in unit windows or gang members hanging around outside.
      
      I did however notice a “Rotovegas Motel” and a “Rotovegas Boxing Gym” which rather gives the lie to Mr John Stanton’s claim made here that “no-one in our city uses that term for it.”
      
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      April 24, 2021 11:05am
      - lifesgood
        
        And the big sign at the top of the gondola proudly stating it is Rotovegas.
        
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        April 24, 2021 1:00pm
    - sooty
      
      4hrs later, still in moderation!
      
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      April 24, 2021 1:59pm
  - lifesgood
    
    A 10 room motel is earning $30000 a week or $120000 a month. One million, 440,000 a year. Nice work if you can get it and more than adequate to refurbish. A lot of the motels were grotty flea pits anyway.
    
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    April 24, 2021 12:22pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggy, the afternoon show on Magic had a motel owner on discussing the horrendous damage the WINZ clients do to their rooms. Rip fixtures off the walls and leave sheets so filthy as to be unusable. They try to evict bad cients but WINZ say ‘what about the children’. There must come a time when children can’t be used as an excuse for bad behaviour.
  
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  April 24, 2021 1:11pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

New York New York.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e08iJvtFQs
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April 24, 2021 8:52am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Democrat Judges still at their shit.
https://beckernews.com/donald-trump-explodes-as-judge-halts-arizona-election-audit-then-makes-a-startling-prediction-38756/?
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April 24, 2021 8:59am
- MCos
  
  I’m not touching that link.
  I don’t want to see a video of Donald Trump exploding.
  
  On the other hand it could be another tedious rant about how hard done by he’s been – – – send more money.
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:20am
- artemisia
  
  So the judge agreed to pause the Maricopa County audit but required a bond of a million dollars. Ooops, no bond forthcoming. Audit not paused (yet anyway).
  
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  April 24, 2021 10:23am
  - Ed Snack
    
    You do have to wonder why the Democrats are trying so hard to avoid any scrutiny of the votes. If it is all so clean and above board, surely the obvious behaviour is to invite inspection and sneer when nothing of substance is found ?
    
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    April 24, 2021 4:35pm
    - artemisia
      
      There is clearly quite significant disquiet among voters. Not all are the usual suspects either, and not helped by some courts declining to hear due to lack of standing. No doubt legal, but still ….
      
      Putting Maricopa County process to bed will help Dems.
      
      Audit is livestreaming at azaudit.org.
      
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      April 24, 2021 7:27pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        Will help only if a clean Bill of health is given. It will be interesting; what if enough invalid ballots are found to tip the state to Trump, which is a possibility though I have no idea just how likely.
        
        Given that so many in the US do doubt that the election results were arrived at honestly, it has always seemed to me that a series of exacting audits into the votes in the most doubtful counties are in fact necessary. If there was fraud, show it up and prevent it happening again; and if there wasn’t put the doubt to rest. It is very unhealthy to the democratic process in the US that such doubts about the vote and the voting process remain unaddressed. And just shouting loudly that there is no evidence and vigorously attempting to prevent any scrutiny is doing further damage.
        
        Find out, and deal with the results.
        
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        April 25, 2021 9:56am
graham

Time to stock up on popcorn!

“Caitlyn Jenner confirms run for governor of California”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/caitlyn-jenner-confirms-run-for-governor-of-california/K2R2SFTDUEVJ43C5YRZZ6CYBPM/

I find it quite interesting that the article doesn’t ONCE refer to the fact that Caitlyn used to be Bruce. Not once. Even when talking about her past, the article states that “Jenner came to fame as an athlete when she won gold in the Olympic decathlon in 1976. Then she starred on Keeping Up With The Kardashians, a reality show which followed the lives of her family.”

Why would they not state that Jenner won gold WHEN SHE WAS STILL A MAN? It’s as if her past incarnation as Bruce Jenner never happened, or as if once you decide that even though you were born a man, you’re really a woman, then your male life not only ceases, it is erased and shall never be spoken of again. Bizarre.
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April 24, 2021 9:15am
- CommanderC
  
  Hilarity — it’s likely she’ll be the Republican frontrunner
  
  How will the media and Democrats attack her?
  
  Or will it be OK to attack her as she is running as a conservative, even if a moderate conservative.
  
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  April 24, 2021 4:30pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    It will of course be open season and all and any specific charges and insults will be allowed, because as a GOP candidate, Caitlin is not a true trans worthy of deference.
    
    It is different when they do it.
    
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    April 25, 2021 9:58am
Prince

Does anyone know what happened to the Debt Clock, maintained by the Taxpayers’ Union ?
https://www.debtclock.nz/
Last I looked it was over $120B. But official figures seem to stop around 2019.
Just wondering, with all the talk about the broken planet being left to the children, what debt this Govt is also bequeathing them with things like the Abuse commission.
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April 24, 2021 9:22am
Maggie Pie

My partner’s mum called over last night for a chat.

She was saying her and another gal from the Village did something they hadn’t done for ages…. took a cab into Queen Street.

They walked all the way down from the Civic Theatre to the bottom of Custom Street. She said other than the dreadful state of the place, the most worrying thing was that they didn’t see ONE kiwi.
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April 24, 2021 9:26am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Aren’t the kiwis in the Taronga Zoo?
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:38am
  - CherryCat
    
    Taonga zoo?
    
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    April 24, 2021 1:06pm
- Daphne Whitethigh
  
  I wish you’d give the racist comments a rest. You are a blog-clogger.
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:51am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Only just caught up with your comment Daff – must have been in moderation.
    
    And it’s not the first time you’ve had the audacity to accuse me of ‘racist comments’. Let me tell you…. ‘racist’ I am NOT! Our lawnmower man is Asian, our housekeeper is Russian, and the old guy that looks after our beach house is on the Maori Roll.
    
    Truth be known, you are really ‘Daphne Blackthigh’ and part of the BTM movement.
    Admit it!!
    
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    April 24, 2021 7:23pm
    - Nickc2
      
      GOOD ONE MAGGIE!
      
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      April 24, 2021 7:40pm
    - Mike
      
      If it isn’t outright racism, it’s certainly racist-adjacent to think someone looks like a Kiwi.
      
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      April 24, 2021 9:14pm
- henrybryn
  
  Morning, By what criteria does your partners mother define what a Kiwi is. Is it colour, accent, clothes or some thing else. Have a good Anzac week end.
  
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  April 24, 2021 10:31am
- theoldbloke
  
  Perhaps she meant not one white or Maori face?? 🙂
  
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  April 24, 2021 12:22pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, Mum sure likes adventure tours.
  
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  April 24, 2021 1:15pm
- Unity
  
  I was in Queen Street many years ago and it felt as though I was in an Asian country then. All the sign writing was even in an Asian language, probably Chinese.
  
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  April 24, 2021 3:54pm
Jack5

In a jumbled mash of English and Maori, a Woke subeditor of Waiheke’s Gulf News, Jenny Nicholl, lashes those who resist Maorification of our NZ English language.

“Old pukeko,” is her insult to the resisters, though from the Stuff article’s accompanying photograph she’s no chick herself.

Her article could be worth a glance as an example of where NZ Pidgin is headed: an incomprehensible jumble.

We have two spoken languages: English, the world lingua franca, and Maori, the regional indigenous tongue.

NZ Pidgin is the jumbled jabber of the Woke.

Note: Be careful if you want to comment on this as there’s been publicity of a sad case of a woman suffering early-onset dementia and who has a very close name to that of the Woke scribbler, Jenny Nicholl.

A weekend puzzle: decipher this slab of NZ Pidgin and ponder whether the Maori language needs a feminine noun form for Porphyrio porphyrio, the purple swamp hen.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/te-reo-maori/124917871/these-grumpy-old-pkeko-need-to-get-off-the-grass
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April 24, 2021 9:31am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The pukeko down in Christchurch are doing well. The older and grumpier gets the best tucker.
  
  As for macrons isn’t that the name of a foreign HOS? Careful with using them, as native speakers feel it is, as often as not, unnecessary and the user is not part of the club.
  
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  April 24, 2021 3:37pm
  - CommanderC
    
    And really, there’s no big drama on macrons – it’s telling you where there’s long vowels like in Finnish or Latin.
    
    You can always write in double vowels for a long vowel, which will make Maori words look Estonian or Finnish hehehe.
    
    Interestingly, Latin had accents for their long vowels.
    
    Like the paint on the sculptures, the accents often have worn off from inscriptions on ancient buildings and tombstones.
    
    So just like we imagine Roman sculptures to be marble white (when in fact they were colour painted in fancy colours)
    
    we (well language lovers) were thinking Latin was written without accents – but it was written with accents, even in bathroom graffiti and brothel ads, to show the long vowels like in Maori.
    
    So most modern Latin text books have macrons put back in the typed text, to show the long vowels like in Maori.
    
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    April 24, 2021 4:38pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      When you’ve read this, you might consider how we can read this sentence aloud without having some symbol over the e in read.
      
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      April 24, 2021 8:08pm
    - Jack5
      
      Late Saturday chatter for language lovers …
      
      When Ancient Romans did use diacritical marks in writing and stone engraving, apparently rather than a macron, they used an apex (like an acute) or a sicilicus (like a reversed “c”) above the letter.
      
      Macrons are used by modern Latin scholars.
      
      As CommanderC indicates, the Finnish alphabet has variations of its “s” and “z” with carons (some describe a caron as like an inverted hat). Finnish vowels include a couple with umlaut-like symbols, but these seem to indicate “front” and “back” tongue-position in pronunciation.
      
      Russian has two symbols, included as part of the alphabet, that similarly indicate “soft” and “hard” tongue positions.
      
      There’s no problem with using macrons in the Maori language, but if the Woke want to absorb slabs of Maori into an NZ Pidgin they would be wise not to push macrons in this context. Enduring pidgin languages are as simple as possible.
      
      If you’ve got a grasp of Finnish, CommanderC, I doff my hat to you.
      
      The use of Finnish as an example is interesting, given the way Finnish has risen from being the secondary language to the ruling class’s Swedish. It became the country’s main language again. No doubt that attracts the attention of Maori activists.
      
      A video on the Finnish language:
      
      https://youtu.be/D-uWYvlyeBc
      
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      April 24, 2021 9:06pm
      - Mike
        
        Wouldn’t it be great of Maori became once again the first language of New Zealanders?
        
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        April 24, 2021 9:17pm
      - Jack5
        
        Finns would have had a harder task restoring Finnish to the dominant language if the ruling class had spoken English, the world lingua franca, rather than Swedish, which has about 10 million native speakers.
        
        English must have about 450 million native speakers (US population 332 million, UK 68m, Australia 26m, English-speaking Canada 19m, NZ 5m), plus more than half a billion people who speak English as their second language.
        
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        April 24, 2021 9:35pm
I remember when

The Spectator:
‘Racial problems in America are real enough, but it is a country with due process and the rule of law.
BLM constantly rejects this.’
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April 24, 2021 9:32am
lastmanstanding

The Ardern Government and the Greens are the greatest threat to democracy in New Zealand. They are determined to dismantle the bricks of democracy put in place over the past 150 plus years including my grandfathers service in WW1 and my fathers service in WW2.
Their goal is to establish a Maori lead Socialist Republic with its headquarters in Beijing.
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April 24, 2021 9:33am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Do you mean Maori led?
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:37am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Ardern has no electoral mandate for that.
  Already the word “Ngapuhi” has recently appeared as graffiti in Christchurch–Ngai Tahu’s area.
  The tribes are jealous of their territories and the political moves by Waikato (Mahuta) could be highly inflammatory.
  
  They don’t want peace amongst themselves they want power and land rights. That’s what got NZ the Treaty in the first place, they were killing too many of each other to survive much longer. The Brits were called to help out. Simple but basic truth.
  Ignorant govt. What do they expect to get out of this? They let their tiny brains deny their duty of care.
  
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  April 24, 2021 9:51am
  - kevn
    
    @Kev… Like when Ngai Tahu acquired major tourism businesses in Rotorua and Taupo a few years ago. Te Arawa flipped out and promptly bought local tourism businesses as well.
    
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    April 24, 2021 10:04am
- David Garrett
  
  lastman: Delete the reference to an HQ in Beijing, and my guess is you won’t be far wrong…my country is very different from the one I grew up in; in 15 or 20 years – when I hope to still be around – it’s going to be unrecognizable.
  
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  April 24, 2021 11:08am
  - rouppe
    
    In 15 or 20 years I might be in an apartment looking over the Sunshine Coast.
    
    Swim in the summer, caravan trips in the winter… Only real downside is not getting proper use from my Ruapehu Life Pass
    
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    April 24, 2021 11:32am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Some people struggle with change, preferring to wallow in nostalgia.
    
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    April 24, 2021 11:46am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Change can be a struggle, especially when it’s trying to eliminate you.
      
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      April 24, 2021 6:38pm
  - Albert_Ross
    
    Name any country of which it could not be said that it is very different from how it was thirty year ago and in 15 or 20 years it’s going to be unrecognizable.
    
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    April 24, 2021 12:06pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I must agree David.
    
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    April 24, 2021 12:55pm
Monique Watson

However it’s couched, “Work Camps” are unforgivable and when the world is being alerted to Genocide, all civilized nations should act in every capacity though every network of cooperation to deter, prevent and remedy. It’s frightening how the first measure of resort of those unwilling to confront is Appeasement:
Luke Malpass who’s memory does not have a long reach:
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/124933898/new-zealand-isnt-sucking-up-to-china-by-learning-from-countries-mistakes
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April 24, 2021 9:34am
- SB2
  
  As “frightening” as we suck up to Turkey ( Galliopli ANZAC Day ) and the Armenian Genocide or ANSUS ( Nuclear warheads etc )
  
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  April 24, 2021 2:47pm
Bob

No Captain, …
LEAD is the correct word, as in the dense metal. A Maori lead Socialist Republic will sink NZ back into the ocean that the mythical Mau fished the country from.
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April 24, 2021 9:45am
DeepBlue

Hey KiwiRail, how about relocating Te Huia to the container freight run between Tauranga Port and Auckland? That would be bold.
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April 24, 2021 9:45am
Greg Ettridge

The bubble has burst just 4 days in.
A Chinaman spreads the China Flu and closes down an entire city a few hours before a long weekend.
There is a definite pattern starting to emerge, lock downs are pretty much exclusive to holiday weekends.
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April 24, 2021 9:49am
KevO'Brien

Global Warming Proper Gander Week.
Our capable analyst show the data sets:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/23/how-global-warming-isnt/
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April 24, 2021 9:54am
- SB2
  
  Willis Eschenbach
  
  Credentials
  
  California Massage Certificate, Aames School of Massage, Oakland, CA. (1974).
  
  B.A., Psychology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA. (1975).
  
  https://www.desmog.com/willis-eschenbach/
  
  And Anthony Watts, Heartland Institute, and you etc believe his stuff
  
  LOL!
  
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  April 24, 2021 11:23am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I have seen his maths in action. He is formidable in “R” . Researching is a specialist skill, inbred not taught. For some of us it’s a bug we get.
    Willis has an engaging theory that the earth temperature is self regulating within very close limits. I have seen the phenomena myself in Samoa.
    
    A degree may be no certificate of competence. The PM could have done with extras.
    
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    April 24, 2021 3:46pm
Maggie Pie

Other than sounding more proficient in Te Reo than Kupe, whenever ZB’s Jack Tame talks of his frequent visits to destinations with a strong Maori heritage, he always gushes about the people and the location.

This morning it was the wonders Ahipara and 90 Mile Beach…. and his recommendation that all Kiwis should put it on their bucket list.

As my partner just said, he must have been on a Tour Bus. The last time he was there. he made the mistake of leaving his car parked on the side of the road and going for a walk.
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April 24, 2021 9:57am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, the wild North has nothing to do with climate or scenery, it is the residents you need to be aware of. We would have loved to have visited the big kauri tree but as the sign warned it is a 15 minute walk and ‘lock your vehicle’. The parking area was littered with vehicle glass, a sure sign of smash and grab.
  
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  April 24, 2021 1:23pm
sabre

Very disappointing to see the Hawkes Bay farmers market has decided to open on Anzac Day morning, assholes
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April 24, 2021 10:28am
Maggy Wassilieff

NZ – The weakest link

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/23/new-zealands-stance-on-china-has-deep-implications-for-the-five-eyes-alliance

I wonder when NZ will be voted out.
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April 24, 2021 10:34am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Never – too useful in its location and capabilities.
  
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  April 24, 2021 11:47am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Very perceptive…
    
    probably why folks in Mahia are getting tetchy.
    http://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/local-news/20210424/payload-details-redacted/
    
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    April 24, 2021 3:43pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    Really? Suspect you jest Mikey.
    
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    April 24, 2021 4:43pm
- SB2
  
  MW,no it will most likely not.5 eyes is an intellginece gathering agreement, not a formal alliance / Treaty.
  
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  April 24, 2021 2:49pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Discretely asked to leave?
  
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  April 24, 2021 3:51pm
- CommanderC
  
  Never.
  
  NZ is the USA’s closest ally to protect the American base in Antarctica against any swarm of People’s Liberation Army Navy “fishing vessels”.
  
  Next in the NZ Government budget – which I’m sure will be shown to the Big Eye each time there’s ocker whining from the Underarm Eye across the Tasman – is:
  
  a) a new big stonkingly expensive Antarctic & Southern Ocean Patrol Vessel
  
  b) two new stonkingly expensive transport planes with strategic airlift capability from Christchurch to the main U.S. Antarctic Base at McMurdo Sound.
  
  That’s $1 billion of our taxes gone just like that, pays for a lot of eyes.
  
  https://www.defence.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/1c5f84975e/Defence-Capability-Plan-2019-A3-Infographic.pdf
  
  https://www.defence.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/03acb8c6aa/Defence-Capability-Plan-2019.pdf
  
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  April 24, 2021 7:39pm
JibberJabber

BLM Limited Edition Oreo cookies. ?

https://twitter.com/kracsalt/status/1385714904963985410
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April 24, 2021 10:35am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

ANZAC.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vph7710dl57p48f/ANZAC.jpg?dl=0
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April 24, 2021 10:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You downtickers have NO respect
  
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  April 24, 2021 11:26am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Perhaps you could give some brief summary of what is in the link. Then people might look at it. As it is, why would anyone think it is anything better than the usual webshites you link to?
    
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    April 24, 2021 11:48am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      It is about ANZAC, idiot
      
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      April 24, 2021 3:19pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Oh. Biscuits?
        
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        April 24, 2021 6:40pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Our Wiffle-Waffle Prime Minister.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/yesterdaze-some-syrup-to-go-with-that-waffle-please

Article includes this priceless acronym – INEPT

KiwiAnything is now doomed thanks to the dismal failure of KiwiBuild due to an acute case of INEPT, the acronym for “Inadequate Non-Performance Effected by Phil Twyford”
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April 24, 2021 10:47am
- Unity
  
  Where is Ardern these days? We never seem to see her unless it is in front of a class of very young children or something equally ‘tame’. Mind you, I don’t mind her not fronting up to the country because I can’t bear to look at her, with the frowny face and the shaking of her head, not to mention her arms waving about and talking to us as though we are children.
  
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  April 24, 2021 3:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Just had my first shot, gonna get my second as soon as the waitress comes back
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April 24, 2021 10:55am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Bit early in the day, isn’t it?
  
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  April 24, 2021 11:09am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Never too early
    
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    April 24, 2021 11:27am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      The sun is always over the yardarm, somewhere in the world.
      
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      April 24, 2021 11:49am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Uptick for that Mike. Congratulations for not being negative for once
        
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        April 24, 2021 3:20pm
BeeJay

On Aljazeera this morning, in a program “Counting the Cost”, NZ housing was discussed. The only spokesperson on this program to explain the extreme rise in housing prices in NZ was one, Bernie Smith, the CEO of the Monte Cecelia Housing Trust! He clearly stated the failure of this Government’s Housing policies, and the apparent inability of this government to solve the problem, and highlighted the total failure of the Kiwibuild program in NZ. Did quite a good job in showing what a failure the Arden Government has been with their Housing Policy! Was our failing government asked to contribute to the program to explain the failure of their Housing policies! Declined to comment, maybe!
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April 24, 2021 11:03am
Maggie Pie

BREAKING

CNN reporting….
“Caitlyn Jenner intends running for Governor of California”.

As my partner said, if the terminator can win so can a transformer.
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April 24, 2021 11:44am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Slim to no chance.On current polling, the governor would easily beat recall. It’s not even a sure thing that the recall petition will be validated.
  
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  April 24, 2021 11:53am
- virtualmark
  
  I don’t think she has any meaningful chance of winning. But she’s from a family that is addicted to media attention.
  
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  April 24, 2021 11:56am
- PhilP
  
  Wouldn’t mind betting SHE will romp in!
  They’re a strange lot in California, they even have Harry and Meghan FFS!
  
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  April 24, 2021 12:29pm
- Philview
  
  David commented recently that woke heads will explode at the thought of a transexual Republican Governor of California.
  
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  April 24, 2021 1:51pm
- sooty
  
  Very good! Chocy fish for you!
  
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  April 24, 2021 1:55pm
- CommanderC
  
  Here’s a seemingly impartial summary
  
  https://ktla.com/news/california/california-recall-election-process-and-effort-to-remove-gov-gavin-newsom-explained/
  
  HOW PRECARIOUS IS NEWSOM’S HOLD ON HIS JOB?
  
  If petition numbers hold up and a recall election is set, Newsom would be forced to fend off rivals in the midst of a pandemic that has cost the state millions of jobs and shaken life for residents. Many business owners were infuriated by what they saw as Newsom’s heavy-handed restrictions that had some open and close several times.
  
  But conditions have improved in the last two months. Virus cases have plummeted and more than half the state’s population has gotten at least one vaccination dose. All types of businesses have reopened and as infection rates fall they are being allowed to add more customers.
  
  California also is one of the most heavily Democratic states in the country: Democratic voters outnumber Republicans by nearly 2-to-1, and the party controls every statewide office while dominating the Legislature and congressional delegation.
  
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  April 24, 2021 4:56pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

These two clowns wanted chaos and anarchy, it gives them control. Nasty bastards.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/did-biden-waters-want-a-mistrial-in-chauvin-case-we-believe-they-did/?
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April 24, 2021 11:56am
- Inandout
  
  Steve, I watched a Gutfeld Show this week where they were discussing the trial. All guests were at pains to emphasise the trial was a wonderful example of justice and the decision was the right one. Were they trying to stop any mistrial discussion so as not to give ammunition for the Maxine crowd?
  
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  April 24, 2021 1:35pm
- SB2
  
  Want a mistrial? Utter Bollux!
  
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  April 24, 2021 2:51pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Far from finished. Just need to expose the corruption and get rid of RINOs. It is happening slowly. MAGA.
https://uniteamericafirst.com/trump-tells-sean-hannity-he-is-beyond-seriously-considering-another-run-for-president-in-2024/?
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April 24, 2021 12:03pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Please, please run again Mr Trump. Put one of your idiot spawn on the ticket as well, for extra lulz.
  
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  April 24, 2021 1:25pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    He will, and you know it
    
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    April 24, 2021 3:22pm
    - Mike
      
      Great. And will Ivanka be VP, or will it be one of the Fredos?
      
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      April 24, 2021 9:05pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Maybe Candace Owens?
        
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        April 25, 2021 8:44am
Benedict Yu

Just heard Joe Biden say that reducing greenhouse emissions would “create jobs”.

No. If reducing emissions increased economic growth it would have happened already. Reducing emissions requires intervention in markets so energy is produced less efficiently, ie at higher costs than would be delivered by markets.

Germany is the poster child for this outcome. I’m not sure that Joe Biden knows any more about physics and economics than Jacinda. Luckily you can’t beat physics.
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April 24, 2021 12:10pm
lifesgood

Big CCP protest along the Auckland waterfront today. Dozens of cars in a parade all bearing anti CCP banners. Good on them, I say. That bird brained Mahuta and her equally stupid boss have sure stirred up a hornets nest. Don’t think any Chinese in NZ will vote Labour in the next election.
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April 24, 2021 12:18pm
- lifesgood
  
  Could the down tickers please explain what they like about the Chinese Communist Party, I’d be keen to know.
  
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  April 24, 2021 4:02pm
  - Mike
    
    The downtickers are probably thinking that there can hardly be any electoral downside to Labour sucking up to the CCP when National is equally enamored with the Beijing dictatorship.
    
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    April 24, 2021 9:03pm
- kowtow
  
  Link please.
  
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  April 24, 2021 4:50pm
Rusty

So Queen st/city is slowly becoming a place for turf gang wars, how many call outs have the cops had to deal with gun incidents in the last week?

With the ugly construction work and disruption to businesses and pedestrians no wonder the gangs find the city appealing to commit their crimes.
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April 24, 2021 12:42pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK6DPrh_4JM

Make China S#!t Again!

The presitator would like to repeat the 1960s. And we’re not talking sex, drugs, and rock music. From everyone elses POV, it’d be a mixed bag. Less need to compete, and less customers for exports. After all; they weren’t buying a lot of milk powder in 1966.
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April 24, 2021 12:47pm
curry4me

https://www.bitchute.com/video/VHX1cwkx3yg/

France Turning Right. Bad news For Teachers Pet.

Is the nation of France turning to the Populist Right? It sure looks like it! In this video, we’re going to take a look at how more and more pundits agree it’s panic time for French President Emmanuel Macron as falls in the polls, how Marine Le Pen of the nationalist right is capitalizing on his demise by polling at her highest levels ever, and why so many pundits believe that 2022 may indeed be the year that France turns to the populist right.
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April 24, 2021 12:47pm
- kowtow
  
  Prediction.
  
  Le Pen wins first round .
  
  Second round lost when far left and centre combine against her .
  
  BTW , she’s not “right wing” , her policies are actually populist left. Being anti immigration does not make one “rightist” except in the eyes of the Lying Media who will smear in order to screw the scrum.
  
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  April 24, 2021 4:49pm
  - curry4me
    
    kowtow: Yes, some of her ideas are quite leftist. I wouldn’t be surprised if the outcome you predict happens.
    
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    April 25, 2021 10:34am
G152

Able Seaman Robert Edward MARCHIONI, DOB 1/4/1932 Taihape.
Robert Marchioni, a labourer, joined the RNZN on 13 October 1949 as a 17 year old and was committed for six years from the 1 April 1950. His first posting was on the Loch-class frigate HMNZS Tutira on 26 March 1950. His next sea posting was on another Loch-class frigate HMNZS Rotoiti. He joined the ship’s company on 31 July 1950 and remained on this ship until his death. He was promoted to the rating of Able Seaman on 13 April 1951. Rotoiti was deployed to Korea as her sister-ships had been. On 26 August 1951, while a member of a shore party, Robert Marchioni was killed in action. He was given a posthumous Mention-in-Despatches. [3] On 26 August 1951, a raiding party was organised from Royal Marines off HMS Ceylon and seamen from Rotoiti. This party would land at Sogon-ni with the aim of taking prisoners and destroying any gun emplacements if located. Marchioni begged to be allowed to join the raid. Two boats from Rotoiti took the party ashore. As they attempted to assault a North Korean gun emplacement from the rear, they were taken under fire by a machinegun. Marchioni was hit as he rose to throw a grenade and was killed instantly. His body was carried to the beach where the boats were but had to be left ashore as the party was under heavy fire from the defenders. The destroyer HMS Charity and Rotoiti proved covering fire from their 4-inch guns to allow the party to recover to the ships without further loss. [4] Lieutenant-Commander B.E. Turner described Marchioni ‘as one of the greatest seaman boys I ever had.’[5] Turner requested permission to recover the body in daylight but was refused. Marchioni’s body was never recovered. A funeral service was held on that morning after the raid for the dead sailor.[6]
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April 24, 2021 1:28pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Only RNZN fatality during that war.
  70th anniversary of Kap’yong this weekend, too.
  
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  April 24, 2021 2:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Geeze, General Debate is infested with commies today
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April 24, 2021 1:50pm
- Apropos of the Wet Snow
  
  Some of the various classes of participants have apparently unionised.
  
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  April 24, 2021 2:48pm
- SB2
  
  And Neo Nazis too!
  
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  April 24, 2021 2:53pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  The reds are under your bed, Steve.
  
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  April 24, 2021 3:00pm
- MCos
  
  Who are you referring to?
  Pro tip
  I doubt the Communist Party of NZ, if there is one, would give anyone here the time of day.
  Calling people names is childish.
  
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  April 24, 2021 3:40pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The Communist Party of NZ is now Governing NZ
    
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    April 25, 2021 8:45am
- lifesgood
  
  Yep. Fancy down ticking a protest against the Chinese Communist Party….bizzare.
  
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  April 24, 2021 4:03pm
Nickc2

Here’s one for all you Man-Made Climate Change bigots. NASA is turning CO2 into Oxygen.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/23/nasa-marks-milestone-conversion-co2-oxygen-mars-another-crew-heads-iss/
But, But, But, it’s a pollutant, isn’t it?
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April 24, 2021 2:07pm
- Inandout
  
  Gee Nick, does this mean John (CO2) Kerry will have to return to his crypt?
  
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  April 24, 2021 2:36pm
- SB2
  
  CO2 Pollutant ? An excess is the earth’s atmosphere does creating a heat trapping effect ,
  
  Begin with basics here,
  
  https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/
  
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  April 24, 2021 3:00pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Depends what you define as a pollutant. What do the wingnuts like Joanne Nova, Judith Curry, Roy Spencer and Anthony Watts say?
  
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  April 24, 2021 3:02pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Who cares?
    
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    April 24, 2021 7:09pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  All fine – but wait for the Green nutters to ask ‘what happens to the carbon?’
  
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  April 24, 2021 3:31pm
Fisiani2

Let’s start using the term The Failed Government over and over again till it sinks in to the sheeple.
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April 24, 2021 2:39pm
Maggie Pie

HELEN: “Did you remember to get that pack of Z Nails for me, Peter?”

PETER: “I left them out on the bench in the shed.
What do you want them for, H?”

HELEN: “Never you mind”

😀 😀 😀
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April 24, 2021 3:35pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Left or right handed? They go both ways
  
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  April 24, 2021 3:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

So Jaspinda and her team on 5 million, suck on this. We know you hate the US, so you hate US chooks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfPBfMGLf9Q
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April 24, 2021 4:36pm
- BeeJay
  
  SO(NS) FFS Steve, give it a rest, you need to get a life, or get a job! Or maybe take a holiday and don’t take your phone/tablet/laptop with you! Maybe take your holiday in the US where you can join the family of 70 million odd (odd being the operative word) who voted for your mate, Trump, and give us all a rest from your constant verbal diarrhoea!
  It kind of puts people off when you are constantly singing from your personal hymn book, when most of the people are looking for sensible comment and not just your insults.
  
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  April 24, 2021 5:27pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I have a job smartarse. At 69 I still work because I enjoy it
    
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    April 25, 2021 8:48am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/300285491/caitlyn-jenner-files-paperwork-to-run-for-governor-of-california
I am surprised that Bart Simpson hasn’t thrown his hat into the ring.
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April 24, 2021 5:34pm
- Gravelroad
  
  LIsa Simpson is standing for President next time.
  I saw the episode.
  She gets elected…..
  
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  April 24, 2021 7:17pm
  - Mike
    
    Well, the Simpsons did predict President Trump, so electing a fictional character is only a little bit more fanciful.
    
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    April 24, 2021 8:59pm
dave_c_

“Risk Assessment group”
Who are these bastards : ??
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