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Happychappy

Opinion: Damion Grant – Jacinda Ardern a truly transformational Leader.
The one thing I admired about Margaret Thatcher in a addition to a magnificent sense of style was her determination to get things done.
In Jacinda Ardern we are blessed – or cursed, depending on your perspective – with a Leadercut from the same Fabric as Thatcher , even if they wear their garments very differently.
With each passing month it is becoming evident that Ardern does not mearly want to be re-elected , she wants to leave behind a very different NZ to the one she inherited.
She May Succeed.
It seems appropriate to point out that I missed the trend, writing onthe night of the last election that I expected Ardern to Govern from the centre, I misjudged this Prime Minister and her ambition.
We are in the middle of transformation away from the ideas and dreams of Sir Rodger Douglas and towards a new centralization of our society and economy- a chance that will almost certainly endure long beyond the lifespan of this Government.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/300348036/jacinda-ardern-is-a-truly-transformational-leader
I very good read but I am not sure like probably many others on the site whether Damion has had a very bad dream or has decided that Jacinda Ardern is the real deal like many in this Country believe.
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July 4, 2021 8:00am
- Simon
  
  Cindy is a shape shifting clown. The supposed compassion which just masks the coercion.
  
  This guy gets Thatcher wrong as well. The Tories who wanted the UK to join in the EU currency Union used the poll tax to remove her.
  
  These Cindy clowns threaten to build back better couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:34am
  - kowtow
    
    They can organise piss ups at youff camps…..
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:38am
- JackRabbit
  
  “…whether Damion has had a very bad dream or has decided that Jacinda Ardern is the real deal like many in this Country believe.”
  
  Or he has been got to.
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:36am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Or he understands which side his bread is buttered. He’s right in one point though – she will leave New Zealand a very different country to how it was before our self-inflicted gunshot wound to the foot.
    
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    July 4, 2021 11:49am
  - Unity
    
    He probably receives ‘funding’ one way or the other!! That’s the usual driver for all this racist nonsense. From where I’m sitting it’s not going to end well.
    
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    July 4, 2021 2:22pm
- RockyJ
  
  Jacinda’s legacy will be a nation divided along race lines and in conflict. Reversing the ridiculous climate change and free speech changes will be easy.
  The balloon will go up when the seabed and coastline is embedded back with the public, the water assets returned to local authorities, the history curriculum abolished, the Maori health authority terminated, referenda on Maori wards and the Maori seats in parliament and the Treaty of Waitangi industry ended.
  Then we will see much wailing, hikoi and serious ructions. We must stand firm. It will be very ugly.
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:41am
  - tui47
    
    It will be impossible to reverse. The left and the media will cry racism when a future government makes any attempt to change what Jacinda has done. Once the laws are passed there will be no going back for New Zealand. Meanwhile with both the Government and the media obsessing about the effects of colonisation the divisions will continue to grow between Maori and non Maori. Instead of seeking racial equality for all, NZ will become a country where one race is deliberately alienated in order to raise another up.
    
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    July 4, 2021 1:10pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Agree, the Maorification of NZ is but another addition to the Mine-Field sown by this Labour Govt that will be virtually impossible to clear. IMO, they know this and don’t even attempt to hide their smugness. Evidence of their smugness is festooned throughout smarmy Willie’s so-called explanation about the He Puapua Plan/Report.
      It’s not as if we haven’t been forwarned.
      
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      July 4, 2021 1:36pm
  - you reap what you sow
    
    The proposed water reforms enable the maori cabal to impose a royalty on fresh water. So every time you drink coffee or flush the loo the Maori cabal’s coffers will grow. Ask Cindy that this is not true?
    
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    July 4, 2021 1:37pm
- Gravelroad
  
  @Happychappy,
  No, Ms Ardern is nothing like Margaret Thatcher.
  For a start, Mrs Thatcher studied chemistry at Oxford University and was a research chemist before becoming a barrister.
  She had intelligence, knowledge and integrity which contributed to a stellar governance career.
  Ms Ardern “studied” Comms for a BA and she comes across here as spoilt and entitled amateur.
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:44am
  - Nickc2
    
    ……..and lots of other derogatory things but to name them would amount to hate speech.
    
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    July 4, 2021 9:52am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    This is a video of Margaret Thatcher addressing the United States Congress for an hour, mostly without notes.
    
    https://youtu.be/yYiOvW0IS0s
    
    This guy is a twit if he thinks Jacinda is anything like Margaret Thatcher.
    
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    July 4, 2021 9:57am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Yeah but did you count the number of times Thatcher said “comrade” during that speech? Oh, that’s right. None.
      
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      July 4, 2021 11:50am
    - Nickc2
      
      No second opinion necessary Benedict.
      
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      July 4, 2021 12:35pm
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    And one other simple difference: Thatcher didnt just talk, she delivered. And very real transformation as well.
    
    The GB she inherited was a complete mess. Took real skill and a spine of steel to do what she did, and the left hate her for it, but they equally forget the state the country was in as a result of labour governance.
    
    Just like ours is rapidly heading towards. Wonder if National will stop fucking about and become credible anytime soon.
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:18am
- Tall Man
  
  I have never had a high regards for his opinions and this merely confirms my stance.
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:45am
- Tom Hunter
  
  We not just have a post here the other day showing that the likes of Damion Grant and company are rapidly heading towards the ash heap of history as fewer people than ever, subscribe, buy or even read shite like the DomPost.
  
  Why on earth are you still paying attention to what these clowns mumble in their sleep as they indulge in yet another Leftist wet dream?
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:09am
- Paulus
  
  Margaret Thatcher was Europe’s First Woman Prime Minister.
  She was a top Oxford University (Girton) scholar who studied Chemistry, then was called to the Bar as a Barrister later.
  Three terms and longest British Prime Minister.
  How can you even consider her and Karen Ardern ?
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:44am
- MrTips
  
  I think you’ve missed, like many commentators on that Stuff link, that Damiens article is a massive exercise in trolling.
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:45am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Must be satire …
  
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  July 4, 2021 11:14am
- Frank Thomas
  
  Did any of you actually read the article? It’s very cleverly written. It is satire dressed up as if it was written by an Adern sycophant. Probably too subtle for both the vehement pro and anti Adern people to see this. I can assure that Damien Grant is no lefty and no fan of this government.
  
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  July 4, 2021 12:04pm
  - hookerphil
    
    Quite agree, I felt it was very cleverly written – there are a number of sentences in it that obviously are a take off.
    “workers will next year get another day off to celebrate the joys of living under the benevolence of our glorious leader.”
    “what matters is the scope of this prime minister’s ambition, not the success or failure of individual projects.”
    ” The only real thing slowing the Ardern agenda is a skill shortage in her front bench and an inability to implement some of this administration’s more ambitious projects.”
    But then in his final sentence
    “towards a new centralisation of our society and economy – a change that will almost certainly endure long beyond the lifespan of this government.” so perhaps he is serious or simply stating that no National Government ever changes any thing that Labour bring in.
    
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    July 4, 2021 12:34pm
    - tui47
      
      It will be impossible for any future Government to change. The cry of racism and white supremacy will become too strong. No one wants to be accused of racism so very few will speak out.
      
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      July 4, 2021 1:13pm
- KH
  
  That transformation intends race will determine how importat your vote is. Or that your vote might not be counted at all.
  This link lays out a lot of the issues. It’s a bit dense to read through, but stick with it. (and share it)
  https://democracyproject.nz/2021/06/30/elizabeth-rata-ethno-nationalism-or-democratic-nationalism-which-way-ahead-for-new-zealand/
  
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  July 4, 2021 12:45pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  What an insult to Margaret Thatcher, comparing Jacinda to her. I think Damien has been spoken to by someone telling him that if he writes anything too negative about Jacinda, his services will no longer be required.
  
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  July 5, 2021 8:16am
Humble Capitalist

4th July, 1984
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July 4, 2021 8:02am
Fidel Cashflow

I sat for quarter of an hour typing this comment in Word so I could copy and paste it immediately at 8:00am and be the first comment of the day, but I’m a few minutes late after all:

Good Morning everyone!
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July 4, 2021 8:07am
- Master Mariner
  
  8:00am ?.
  0800 hrs please //
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:20am
  - Fidel Cashflow
    
    Aaargh! I’m a landlubber, matey!
    
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    July 4, 2021 9:48am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I have always been a fan of 24 hours time.
    
    One thing that really winds me up is the use of 12.00 pm. There is no such time. There is 11.59 am, 12.00 noon and 12.01 pm.
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:01am
I remember when

What a strange world we live in at present.
If you are a children you can decide for yourself what sex you are.
But councils can decide you can’t use their facilities because they think your views are controversial.
The Government is all for protecting the rights of minorities and the LBTG+.
However, they can compel you to go into lockdown and restrict your movements.
All this despite the fact that freedom of choice is how we have evolved to where we are.
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July 4, 2021 8:16am
- kowtow
  
  ‘that freedom of choice is how we have evolved to where we are.’
  
  Our freedoms come from at least one thousand years of struggle against oppressive power . Today we’re handing back gains willy nilly , in order to be saved .Saved from whatever Boogie Man the powerful invent for the moment.The contemporary ones being covid, climate and colonialism.
  
  “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
  HL Mencken
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:13am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  You missed Q and I – please correct and resubmit
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:29am
KevO'Brien

New Zealand is about to give part of the country that English ethnicities built back to the original aboriginal inhabitants.
We can be suckered.

Paul Craig Roberts reflects on this being the last “4th July” for the USA.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/07/01/enjoy-july-4-this-sunday-it-might-be-the-last-one/
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July 4, 2021 8:25am
- Paulus
  
  Today, for many years, has been Tauranga’s Kite Day day where many kites are flown together.
  Suddenly it is called Matariki Kite Day, as though Maori invented them surely.
  – the Greeks would have approved as they actually flew kites thousands of years ago.
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:49am
Yvette

Hate speech and something that puzzles me a bit …
Of the Christchurch mosque gunman, Prime Minister Ardern said – “He sought many things from his act of terror, but one was notoriety, and that is why you will never hear me mention his name. He is a terrorist, he is a criminal, he is an extremist, but he will, when I speak, be nameless” – Hansard

Ardern’s motivation seemed to be to deny the shooter notoriety, but her own remarks appear to have ensured that his name be mentioned – in explaining why she’ll not utter tit – in media locally to world-wide coverage, like the BBC, Guardian, ABC News, Washington Post, USAToday and Vogue.

But further it seems to have incited (or inspired) the Royal Commission in their Report to write –
2 The terrorist attack was carried out by Brenton Harrison Tarrant, who has since been convicted of terrorism, the murder of 51 people and attempted murder of 40 people. He is now serving a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. We generally refer to him in our report as “the individual”. His name will not appear again. … and it doesn’t in 792 pages.

So they followed Ardern’s dehumanisation of the shooter, and neutralise him as an unknown.

And now Ayman Jamal, producer of the proposed THEY ARE US movie, says –
“In a mirror of New Zealand’s own approach, during the film the gunman is never shown and his name is never spoken.” which may ‘whitewash’ the shooter to the point of vanishing, and so detract from the reality of the event, side line victims, and denigrates the whole country by saying it is New Zealand’s own approach.

And – “When the film was announced, it was said that the main protagonist would be Ardern and her response to the tragedy during that first week”, so they have backed of that somewhat, but the whole approach – not depicting the shooter – is her influence, despite “Ardern has distanced herself from the film, saying she had no knowledge or involvement with it.”

Is this not a remarkable example of “hate speech” by stating you’ll not actually say something?
And under Kris Faafoi’s stipulation – not a definition, but a condition – it is “hate speech” if it normalises hatred against a group to be protected under the Human Rights Act, and encouraged others to do the same?
(normalise – bring or return to a normal or standard condition or state)

I would be keen to know if Stephen Franks, a spokesperson for the Free Speech Coalition and a founding director of Wellington law firm Franks Ogilvie, agrees.
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July 4, 2021 8:28am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I don’t follow your argument that this could be hate speech, but by making Tarrant “The Terrorist with No Name”, our silly PM has made more of this deluded young man than she needed to.
  
  He is just like numerous other disturbed, mass killers whose names have dropped out of our memory… but Tarrant’s has been given extra significance by virtue of not being used by officials.
  
  Dumb, dumb, dumb!!!
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:36am
  - Matt Long
    
    Maybe she got the idea from reading Harry Potter, as I recall her line for the 2017 election “Let’s do this” was from Bridget Jones’s Baby.
    
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    July 4, 2021 9:51am
  - Yvette
    
    Maggy Wassilieff, I thought Ardern’s not naming Tarrant goes some way to reducing the reality of the horror of his actions – all 51 people killed, and 40 wounded were attacked by an unnamed gunman?
    And the Royal Commission referring to Tarrant as “the individual” also neutralises him as an unknown. It seems a little like when someone interferes with the facts of the Holocaust.
    It may not be “hate speech” but it seems to diminish what befell a group of people, which appears to meet one of Faafoi’s ‘conditions’.
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:35am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It may not be “hate speech” but it seems to diminish what befell a group of people, which appears to meet one of Faafoi’s ‘conditions
      
      Txs..
      
      Now I get your point.
      
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      July 4, 2021 11:45am
  - Paulus
    
    I am sorry that it now appears that Ardern is losing the plot of life in New Zealand.
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:50am
- rouppe
  
  This is what all the Leftists did. Stalin used to not only kill his opponent, but the entire family of his opponent so that no trace of that name would continue
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:13am
- slightlyrighty
  
  By having the terrorist remain nameless, are we not regarding him as an individual who carried out an abomination, but as the nameless face of a group that must be rooted out??
  
  By referring to him on a continual basis as the individual, we shelter him from being exposed as the sad and sorry excuse of a person he is.
  
  Tarrant is a sad, pathetic excuse of a man. Small of stature, small of mind. He should be named and shamed.
  
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  July 4, 2021 11:48am
- alloytoo
  
  It appears to be an Orwellian attempt to erase him and more importantly his motivations from public discourse and replace it with a preferred narrative.
  
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  July 4, 2021 11:51am
fernglas

I’d love to wish you all a happy Independence Day, but as you are all still being told what to do by Ardern, Hipkins, Baker and Bloomfield, and seem happy to lap it up, it would be a wasted sentiment. Only ten more days and you can celebrate the French chopping the heads off their self-appointed aristocracy, which seems more appropriate,
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July 4, 2021 8:28am
- Inandout
  
  fern, and the French lady witnesses in the front row carried on with their knitting using pure virgin wool. OK, no doubt dyed with the odd red splotch in parts because Work Safe wasn’t invented back then.
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:10am
- kowtow
  
  The “French” didn’t .
  
  A small faction of extremists did .
  As they did in England and Russia .
  
  Political violence to further one’s aims is never the answer.
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:18am
krazykiwi

A well written piece: A Zero Covid Utopia Downunder? Pt 1… from LeftLockdownSkeptics no less (‘Socialist anti-lockdown news and analysis’)
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July 4, 2021 8:31am
- Benedict Yu
  
  It is inevitable that covid will become endemic in Australia and New Zealand. Unless the current border closures remain in place for a decade or more.
  
  I have commented before that Jacinda seems to take pleasure from the closed borders. It was telling that she had to be dragged to approve the trans tasman bubble.
  
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  July 4, 2021 8:40am
  - Inandout
    
    BY, thank goodness our minds are not yet clamped because we have access to a world of internet that happily by-passes the Labour MSM. I can remember pre internet times when we were captured by the Dominion and Herald weekdays and SSTimes on Sunday. Letters to the editor were carefully filtered and 6pm TV was just as now, inane.
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:19am
  - kowtow
    
    Those closed borders have brought their own problems to our creaking health system.
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/07/hospital-across-new-zealand-overrun-with-sick-kids.html
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:23am
- Master Mariner
  
  Great article.
  Very hard to disagree against logic (common sense).
  
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  July 4, 2021 8:47am
- Simon
  
  Zero Covid nut jobs. In Australia the people are just ignoring the lock down / home detention orders. Morrison is even talking about the ro changing to endemic. The ro is over in Australia.
  
  NZ is still a covid hold out. Covid has still owns the Clown Show gubbermint and all the cattle. But the Covid good times for Cindy is running out.
  
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  July 4, 2021 8:49am
  - Inandout
    
    Simon, listen to the covid lady and detect a tad desperation in her instructions. If you have a sniffle get tested, just in case you have the dreaded plague. I could just as easily say ‘eat more citrus fruit’ if you have a sniffle.
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:22am
    - DeepBlue
      
      If I had a winter sniffle I wouldn’t rush to get Covid tested only to be transported to some isolation centre. I would stay home and wait for some other muggins in my rural town to be declared Case 0.
      
      Research has revealed 2/3 of sick NZers don’t get tested for Covid. The scary virus is waining.
      
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      July 4, 2021 1:22pm
Maggy Wassilieff

NZ is to change the Funding Formula for Tertiary Researchers.(University, Polytech Wānanga)

https://www.tec.govt.nz/news-and-consultations/performance-based-research-fund-improvements/

Maori Researchers will have a funding formula 2.5X that of Other ethnicities (except Pacific Staff)

Pacific Staff will have a funding formula 2X that of other Staff (non-Maori)

All in the name of fairness and diversity, I see.

These changes will promote a stronger, fairer, more diverse tertiary education system that that helps us grow and share New Zealand’s research with our communities.
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July 4, 2021 8:37am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Thanks Maggy. Appalling.
  
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  July 4, 2021 8:41am
- tf78
  
  Maggy, we just have to get them out of bed first.
  
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  July 4, 2021 8:42am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’m sure it is possible to read old research papers in the JPS or TRSNZ and copy /paste sections into ~~a rehash~~new “research article ” from the confines of one’s bed.
    
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    July 4, 2021 9:42am
- krazykiwi
  
  Repugnant apartheid. Policies like this are endorsed by every party other than ACT.
  
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  July 4, 2021 8:43am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Do you know National’s position?
    
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    July 4, 2021 8:52am
    - Fidel Cashflow
      
      Probably something unworthy of the name National.
      
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      July 4, 2021 9:07am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Ask Don Brash.
      
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      July 4, 2021 11:21am
- kevn
  
  @Maggy…. Quality output assured? Doubt it.
  
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  July 4, 2021 8:44am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yep.
    Quality output already measured by its ” diversity”.
    Job done.
    
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    July 4, 2021 9:26am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Oh absolutely,
    
    The purpose of the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) is to ensure that excellent research in the tertiary education sector is encouraged and rewarded.
    https://www.tec.govt.nz/funding/funding-and-performance/funding/fund-finder/performance-based-research-fund/
    
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    July 4, 2021 9:45am
    - Kiwi Dave
      
      Cultural inclusiveness: the PBRF should reflect the bicultural nature of New Zealand and the special role and status of the Treaty of Waitangi (te Tiriti o Waitangi), and should appropriately reflect and include the full diversity of New Zealand’s population.
      
      So the PBRF reflects both our bicultural nature and full diversity; perhaps the authors of this should reflect on the conceptual coherence of this criterion.
      
      Still, for $20,000, despite not being a staff member, I’m prepared to research the English TOW, counting how many times ‘partnership’ and ‘equity’ appear in it. Using the new funding formula, they should be able to find a Maori staff member who can do the same research on the Maori TOW for $50,000.
      
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      July 4, 2021 11:02am
      - Tall Man
        
        A very simple measure of how the parties believe an agreement should be is how they acted after the agreement was made.
        
        Do we have any evidence to show that maori acted as if they were in “partnership” with the crown immediately after, and for the next 100 years, the treaty was signed.
        
        If there is such evidence I think it has been well concealed.
        
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        July 4, 2021 11:26am
      - Nickc2
        
        Ha, ha, I’ve already done it using the CTRL+F function in the Maori and English PDF versions. of the ToW.
        No mention of partnership or Aotearoa in either document.
        
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        July 4, 2021 12:31pm
- Simon
  
  Any research that is politically motivated in this manner is garbage. All this racist crap will only achieve the undermining of research credibility.
  
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  July 4, 2021 8:55am
- Master Mariner
  
  Diversity is a word that has changed in meaning in tbe last 5 years.
  In the corporate board world it has gone from meaning ideas and representative equality.
  Now it means indigenous ideaology and gender identity.
  What could go wrong.
  I have said and firmly believe that top line managers need to be phychmetric tested for optimal and functional
  “Team “performance.
  Isnt Team performance the requirement no longer required?
  
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  July 4, 2021 8:56am
- Master Mariner
  
  There goes that word diverse again.
  A bit like the African word Uhuru.
  Which means everything and anything?
  Alarm bells should ring.
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:14am
- RockyJ
  
  I consider this, plus the government requirement that 5% of suppliers have to be Maori firms, to be obviously racial discrimination. If that is the case is a complaint to Meng Foon as Race Relations Conciliator in order?
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:48am
  - Paulus
    
    But Meng Foon is only a puppet of this so called Government anyway – so forget it.
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:52am
- Northshoredoc
  
  Good find Maggy, on the face of it this looks appalling. I suspect there will be a rush from academics to either identify as Maori or include substantive waffle in their application as to how there research is inclusive of, or of benefit to Maori.
  
  Do you know what the full actual funding formula is I was not able to find it at the TEC site ?
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:13am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Do you mean this?
    
    The Quality Evaluation: this is a periodic assessment of the research performance of eligible TEO staff, undertaken by expert peer review panels. This component makes up 55% of the fund.
    
    The funding allocation is based on the award of funded Quality Categories and subject area weighting of Evidence Portfolios submitted by TEOs. It is calculated relative to:
    
    a. The funded Quality Category assigned to Evidence Portfolios (EPs) – e.g. A,B,C or C (NE);
    b. The full-time equivalency status of the participating TEO’s PBRF-eligible staff member as recorded in the PBRF Staff Data File; and
    c. The weighting for the subject area to which EPs have been assigned.
    
    The postgraduate Research Degree Completions (RDC): this is a measurement of the annual number of PBRF-eligible postgraduate research-based degrees completed at participating TEOs. This component makes up 25% of the Fund.
    
    https://www.tec.govt.nz/funding/funding-and-performance/funding/fund-finder/performance-based-research-fund/
    
    (under Funding Allocation)
    
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    July 4, 2021 11:53am
- Nickc2
  
  If enough of them put their minds to it, they will discover wheels don’t have corners but a non-favored more hard-working species will have to write the research findings. Oh, shit, that effin hate speech threat again.
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:19am
- namron
  
  Reading of any/all special funding for Maori [ I remember that Maori are 16.9 of our population and hope that “others” are getting 83.1% to do the same.
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:22am
- kowtow
  
  Zimbabisation.
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:25am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Bill of Rights to be applied?
  This govt’s out of control. They have no respect for any law.
  Cinders amateurs must be gone before they cause further damage to New Zealand.
  
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  July 4, 2021 12:26pm
- Pharmachick
  
  Fuck me! No no no no no no no no no.
  
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  July 4, 2021 2:20pm
  - Pharmachick
    
    Look, sorry – that was a straight up shocked response, I need to put the keyboard away when I do that.
    
    Let’s unpack this in a broader sense. Some pertinent thoughts (in no particular order, and with Biomedical Science bias):
    
    If a white male has a potential new drug for breast cancer that’s almost ready for clinical trials, and loses out because a Maori or Pasifika researcher has let just say a “2.5X or 2X lesser” idea about how a tumor grows –> all of NZ loses out on the new drug. Whilst the tumor progression grant is 12-15-never years from affecting clinical medicine. Breast cancer affects Maori and Pasifika as well (obv.).
    
    Funding anything but the best science (hard, soft, natural, biomedical) short changes the tax payers doing the funding and will result in poor quality science with no hope of advancing our understanding of the real world –> may as well just burn the $ on a bonfire in downtown WLG, AKL, HAM, CHCH or DUN… do you know what 1,000,000 of $20 notes looks like? At least the homeless would keep warm for an hour or so.
    
    This is precisely the sort of crap that drives (drove) postgraduate students, post doctoral fellows and research scientists/Academics like me from NZ, and ensures we won’t come back (some may think my absence is a good thing, fair enuf). NZ’s academic landscape will become [even more of] a wasteland under such a proposal.
    
    Controversial point: I would suggest instead of decimating the grant proposal/review system, the central bodies include strategic initiatives in e.g. Maori & Pasifika Health, Maori & Pasifika natural remedies (pharmacognosy), Maori & Pasifika history. Now, these competitions would be open to EVERYBODY, but in this way the funding bodies can implement strategic initiatives that strengthen cross-cultural ties (oh wait, do we/you still have those in NZ?) and increase knowledge in areas we know need help – such as poorer health care seeking in Maori and Pasifika, poorer medical outcomes, higher rates of certain diseases etc. For example see Ed Mitchel from Peds at AKL Uni/Starship and all the amazing work he did on rheumatic fever (massively over represented in Pasifika families).
    
    I could go on, but this is likely tl:dr. See post above for the concise version.
    
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    July 4, 2021 2:38pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Shall I give you the rest of the good news….
      
      Research on the Maori World (Te Ao Maori) and Maori Knowledge (Matauranga Maori ) will now attract funding at the same level as high-level Science research.
      
      Supporting Māori researchers and research by increasing from 1 to 3 the subject area weighting for Evidence Portfolios assessed by the Māori Knowledge and Development panel and applying a funding weighting of 2.5 for Evidence Portfolios submitted by Māori staff.
      
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      July 4, 2021 3:17pm
      - Pharmachick
        
        Oh Maggy…
        ?
        
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        July 4, 2021 3:40pm
KevO'Brien

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset/5730652
Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics (emeritus) has published a free E-Book and this site has excellent background material.
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July 4, 2021 8:41am
krazykiwi

The common cold could prime immune system to fight Covid

Interesting, to me at least, that this positive research comes from Imperial College, the same stable that bred the lying, hyper-data torturers who arguably panicked leaders into this mess.
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July 4, 2021 8:50am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  404 -page not found. That did not take long to get censored
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:11am
  - Charmaine Hawke
    
    It is there under this link https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/02/common-colds-could-prime-immune-system-fight-covid/
    
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    July 4, 2021 9:33am
- krazykiwi
  
  Sorry. Fat fingers. Try this link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/02/common-colds-could-prime-immune-system-fight-covid/
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:25am
- JackRabbit
  
  Link does not work. Extra characters in link.
  
  Amended:
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/02/common-colds-could-prime-immune-system-fight-covid/
  
  KK the article’s premise is in fact correct. Mapping the immune response in the first Covid-19 patient in Australia was carried out by researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne.
  
  https://tinyurl.com/4tn28rbb
  
  https://about.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2020/march/covid-19-the-immune-system-can-fight-back
  
  The researchers determined that the immune response to Covid was the same as the response to the common cold.
  
  Which gave an obvious conclusion to the reader of the importance of a healthy immune system to fight Covid.
  
  Which is why it triggered red flags amongst the medical profession when WHO stated that nothing would stop Covid, especially not things that would boost your immune system. Which is in the same vein as the world wide narrative that is flooding search engines (on Google at least) that only the vaccine will stop Covid, when experienced medical professionals ~~will~~ may tell you (if know you are not a govt or media mole), that Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Ivermectin, and Doxycycline are effective in treating Covid.
  
  Part of our hate speech laws push is to silence dissent and anything against the narrative. Frau Ardern even saying that it is disturbing that even experienced doctors are seeding doubts about the vaccines. But rather than listen to what those experienced doctors are saying, she labels them as having bought into the anti-vax conspiracy theory.
  
  Doctors know that if they speak out against the narrative, they are at risk of having their medical licence revoked.
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:26am
  - tf78
    
    Jack, that begs the question – WHAT IS IN THE VACCINE that they/we so desperately need? I’m not going near it thank you very much and have told my kids not to too.
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:56am
    - Batman
      
      Uhhhhhh, a defensive measure against SARS-Cov2.
      
      That’s what is in it.
      
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      July 4, 2021 11:29am
      - JackRabbit
        
        Wrong on all counts.
        
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        July 4, 2021 11:53am
      - Greg Ettridge
        
        no spike proteins for me, enjoy them while you can Batman, they will give you the verdict on their effectiveness and side effects in next few years, but you may not have to wait that long.
        
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        July 4, 2021 12:29pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Doxycycline I take for bad sinus
    
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    July 4, 2021 11:19am
    - JackRabbit
      
      I’ve also taken it.
      
      Standard issue for Doctors and Military personnel visiting or stationed in underdeveloped countries.
      
      Doxycycline – laying waste to viruses and parasites since 1965. Now patents expired and only costing a few cents, there is no profit in it for Drug Companies.
      
      Choice: Sell Doxycycline and make almost no money, OR sell useless vaccines rushed to market and make $100Bn. Hmm.
      
      When the inventor of the mRNA process has serious doubts about its safety, its a worry.
      
      Moderna stated that “the mRNA CAN reverse engineer DNA, but only in patients with compromised immune systems, however the chance of this happening is unlikely.”
      
      [1] Covid-19 compromises your immune system.
      [2] What percentage is unlikely?
      
      It is rather like saying you can’t get addicted to LSD unless you already have Lysergic Acid Diethylamide in your system, and that it is unlikely.
      
      As we know, the current side effects of the vaccine are being under reported. The long term effects of the vaccines may not be known until vaccinated children grow up, and discover fertility issues.
      
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      July 4, 2021 12:08pm
    - Greg Ettridge
      
      took hundreds travelling over the years, don’t seem to have had any real detrimental effect on me.
      
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      July 4, 2021 12:27pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      I used to issue it to crew after notorious port calls after a week or two.
      And for Malaria.
      Maybe thats whats wrong with the Greens.
      Theyve had the clap for years and adverse to remedial drugs.
      Just ask Caligua.
      
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      July 4, 2021 2:31pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        Either that, or they’ve never been de-wormed and the worms are in control.
        
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        July 4, 2021 7:43pm
  - Bluegrass
    
    Moving past George Orwell’s 1984 and into the far more sinister territory of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
    
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    July 4, 2021 11:30am
- kowtow
  
  “Leaders” are paid to lead , not to panic .
  
  I still wonder who was it that Ardern took the call from , from the UK I suspect , that she used to set us on this panicked and destructive response to the Chinese Sniffles.
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:27am
Master Mariner

Diversity is a word that has changed in meaning in tbe last 5 years.
In the corporate board world it has gone from meaning ideas and representative equality.
Now it means indigenous ideaology and gender identity.
What could go wrong.
I have said and firmly believe that top line managers need to be phychmetric tested for optimal and functional
“Team “performance.
Isnt Team performance the requirement no longer required?
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July 4, 2021 9:06am
- JackRabbit
  
  I have said and firmly believe that top line managers need to be phychmetric tested for optimal and functional “Team “performance.
  
  I have said that we need to return to pure electoral representation, where an MP is accountable to his/her electorate. And where the electorate, not the party, chooses what candidates, it wants to stand for election. And all MPs must pass basic real world IQ tests, and be drug tested.
  
  No-one in their right mind will vote for a dope smoking bludger. They just come in on party lists. Party lists are a bit like bad farming – you buy few rough looking one or two year old lambs, and you get the daggs and parasites thrown in for free.
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:51am
  - Ian Boag
    
    Sigh. And where a party can turn a minority of votes into a majority in parliament. And where a party can get 10-15% of the national vote and 0-2% of the seats. And where if you live in a strong National (Labour) seat but are a Labour (National) supporter there is no point voting anyway. As a nation we have been through all this.
    
    I know – let’s have a(nother) referendum.
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:26am
    - Tall Man
      
      Why not have another referendum?
      
      What we the people selected, is not what bolger and co foisted on us is it?
      
      Now that we have seen it in action with the tail wagging the dog, and currently dog is very apt, we the people may not select this abortion of MMP again … or maybe we will.
      
      We have a General Election every 3 years so maybe an additional question wouldn’t be a great hardship would it ……..
      
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      July 4, 2021 11:24am
      - Ian Boag
        
        Why not have another referendum?
        
        And if FPP wins that will be the end of it? No more referenda after that because the people will have spoken?
        
        A significant proportion of the electorate (anyone under 45) has not known anything except MMP. You can pretty much tell the age and political sympathies of those who want to revert to FPP …
        
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        July 4, 2021 12:08pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Ian Boag @ 12:08PM
        Why not have another referendum?
        Ian, in any referendum, some people won’t get what they want but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have one on MMP or any other matter so important to everyone. Whilst at it, why not ask the people of NZ do they want the next Govt to continue with the Maorification of NZ (the implementation of the He Puapua Plan in other words)?
        Oh, and another item for referendua: Do you want to abolish the List MP crap?
        
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        July 4, 2021 12:21pm
      - Jack5
        
        We only had one referendum, didn’t we?
        
        Someone may be able to tell us whether there was to be a follow-up after a year or two of the system.
        
        We shouldn’t rule out development of new systems that combine both the accurate reflection of voting numbers of MMP, and the direct representation of FPP.
        
        In other words no list MPs.
        
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        July 4, 2021 12:33pm
      - Tall Man
        
        “A Royal Commission was set up to review our electoral system. Their 1986 report made two major recommendations:
        
        Adopt the MMP representation system,
        Increase the number of MPs from 99 to 120, where half would be elected in single-member electorates (as before), and the other half would be selected from party lists based on each party’s share of the vote
        1992 referendum
        
        An indicative (or non-binding) referendum was held in September 1992.
        
        People were asked:
        
        If they wanted to change electoral system, and
        What kind of system they preferred, with four options to choose from: MMP, single transferrable vote (STV), supplementary member (SM), and preferential vote (PV).
        The Government promised to hold a binding referendum if the majority wanted change.
        
        While voter turnout was low, at only 55% of registered voters, support for change was clear at nearly 85%. Nearly 70% of those voters preferred MMP as a voting system.
        
        1993 referendum
        The second, binding referendum was a straight contest between FPP and MMP. Campaigning for and against MMP was fierce.
        
        The 1993 referendum was held at the same time as the 1993 general election, and voter turnout was high at 85% of registered voters.
        
        MMP won 54% of the vote, to FPPs 46%. New Zealand had chosen a new electoral system.”
        
        We also had a relook in 2011 and a majority elected to retain MMP however recommended changes were never made and some of the changes that were made were not taken to the electorate.
        
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        July 4, 2021 2:25pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Increase the number of MPs from 99 to 120, where half would be elected in single-member electorates (as before), and the other half would be selected from party lists based on each party’s share of the vote
        
        That’s SM – not MMP. It’s more proportional than FPP, but less so than MMP. FWIW I don’t think any other country uses it.
        
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        July 4, 2021 3:34pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        @Jack5 @ 12:33PM
        
        We shouldn’t rule out development of new systems that combine both the accurate reflection of voting numbers of MMP, and the direct representation of FPP.
        
        Jack!! Why couldn’t you have just said ‘STV (in large electoral districts)’, and be done with it?* The alternative system (to MMP, or FPP) has already been developed, and perfected.
        
        * That would also suit Master Mariner, too, I’m sure.
        
        This is why I occasionally point out here, that nothing we say on Kiwiblog has any effect whatsoever on public policy. Our comments don’t even have any effect on what other Kiwibloggers think!
        
        I’ve been banging on about how superior STV is, for almost eight years now, but whenever a Kiwiblogger mentions how we must “get rid of MMP / change our electoral system”, they never (and have never) said “to STV”! — a PR system whereby all MPs are directly elected by the People.
        
        Whatever our pet subjects are, “the message” just never gets through to others. It is so annoying!
        
        Following on from Tall Man’s 2:25PM comment, we are not “due” another referendum until at least the 2029 election. But, we are not likely ever to have another one — certainly not during the remaining years of my life. Why? Two reasons: 1) today’s electorate is not going to vote for FPP — just have a look at a photograph of Muldoon’s 1977 Cabinet, to see why; and 2) politicians hate the power that STV gives to the electors.
        
        The Nats gave the plebs a crack at changing away from MMP (in 2011), in the forlorn hope that they would choose SM. It didn’t fly.
        
        I’m sorry, Kiwibloggers, but we’re stuck with MMP for many, many, more years to come.
        
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        July 4, 2021 3:45pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        What we the people selected, is not what bolger and co foisted on us is it?
        
        Um, yes it is, Tall Man. (It is not precisely what the 1986 Royal Commission on the Electoral System recommended.)
        
        The Electoral Act 1993, in which today’s MMP system was enacted, came into force once the People voted for MMP at the 1993 General Election.
        
        The details of today’s MMP system were overseen by Murray McCully (Minister of Justice), with Ruth Richardson jumping up and down to make sure the South Island got 16 electorates, not the originally intended 15.
        
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        July 4, 2021 4:00pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        @Ian Boag @ 3:34PM
        
        The SM option was 90 Electorate seats (elected by FPP) and 30 PR seats. Proportionality would apply only to the 30 List seats, allocating the seats to the parties using the modified Sainte-Laguë method (by dividing each party’s Party vote by 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, etc., instead of by 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc., as with the Sainte-Laguë method used under MMP).
        
        Tall Man should have said, “and the other half would be selected from party lists based on each party’s share of the vote so as to achieve overall proportionality.” [Para 2.116 (e) of the Royal Commission’s Report.]
        
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        July 4, 2021 4:30pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        @ Ian Boag @ 12:08PM
        
        And if FPP wins that will be the end of it? No more referenda after that because the people will have spoken?
        
        Exactly, Ian.
        
        The Right pine for FPP, because they know from history that, under that system, National is elected to government more often than Labour.
        
        They believe they are born-to-rule; indeed, that they are the natural rulers. They are so desperate to return to FPP that Tall Man is even proposing a referendum is held every three years, no doubt until the People “see sense / do the [R]ight thing!” It’s hilarious.
        
        (Does anyone here seriously think that David Seymour wants another referendum; that he / ACT would vote with National to ensure one is held, say, at the 2029 election? Hardly!)
        
        History also shows that changing electoral systems is notoriously hard to do — goodness knows, I know that, from personal experience — if only because elected representatives prefer to stay with the electoral system under which they were elected.
        
        Get used to it, Kiwibloggers: MMP is here to stay.
        
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        July 4, 2021 4:51pm
  - chukar
    
    Agree with you but that is not National’s track record so far.
    The selection process has been pretty much limited to the entitled and or “born to rule” in many electorates.
    Talent, ability, integrity are there in the party. It just needs to be tapped!
    
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    July 4, 2021 6:30pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Trial on proxalutamide cuts covid death in hospitalised patients to <10% https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.28.21259661v1
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July 4, 2021 9:06am
- krazykiwi
  
  There is a gathering tsunami of evidence highlighting the efficacy of pre-existing treatments. The narrative’s insistence that these experimental ‘vaccines’ are our only hope should sound alarm bells to the wise. To the foolish, not so much.
  
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  July 4, 2021 11:37am
  - kevn
    
    @kk… The FDA ‘permitted’ the Pfizer stuff as ‘unapproved’ .
    Strange terminology.
    Hmmm
    
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    July 4, 2021 1:18pm
Yvette

A secular Government?
The protection and promotion of te reo me ngā tikanga Māori as taonga is key to the success of a New Zealand that embraces its diversity and the partnership created through Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
– The Crown’s Strategy for Māori Language Revitalisation 2019–2023

HRC considers that tikanga Māori has an important place in the provision of ongoing support for the community. Tikanga Māori are the first laws of Aotearoa, providing deeply embedded systems and practices to regulate behaviour – Reflections on the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks on Christchurch Masjidain on 15th March 2019

More often it seems, the Treaty of Waitangi is accompanied now by Te Ao Maori – the Maori world view, which surely amounts to a form of religion, comparable to Christianity perhaps – but usually to the exclusion of that Christianity. So how acceptable is this in Government which is supposed to be secular – with state and religion separated?
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Te reo – language
tikanga – translates with a wide range of meanings — culture, custom, ethic, etiquette, fashion, formality, lore, manner, meaning, mechanism, method, protocol, style, customary law. A concept known as Tikanga dictates the traditional rules, customs or laws for overseeing life as Māori. – Wikipedia
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July 4, 2021 9:08am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Not acceptable at all. The reintroduction of Maori Gods and spirits is a path to Hell.
  Religion has become separated from the State. Are we now to cause offence by acknowledging false ones to our detriment?
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:25am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Individuals reveal their preferences through both behavior and markets. The reality is that the vast majority of New Zealanders have no interest in learning the Maori language. If they were interested and willing to pay, Maori language schools would appear, just like the French, Spanish, and Chinese language schools that respond to demand for such learning.
  
  The Government’s strategy is essentially coercing people to use Maori by embedding it in English language. Seriously, there are government agencies that commence meetings with Maori prayers. All these public servants, usually not a single Maori in the room, saying Maori prayers that they have been forced to rote learn, not knowing what they mean. Then the singing starts up. Of course most of these people hate what they are doing but they cannot speak up.
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:16am
  - Batman
    
    I can’t be bothered with most of your post but I can address the end bit.
    
    No, “most” meetings do not start with a “prayer”. In my experience only particular events or when welcoming people to the organisation do you have a mihi or welcome which is localised to the region you’re in, usually given by someone who is Maori or part of the leadership team.
    
    Depending on what it is, yes a chunk of people won’t grasp most of it, though a basic mihi is pretty easy to understand.
    
    And no it is not rote learned, in my experience the person delivering it is either fluent already or has learned what that specific welcome says and means, even if they don’t actually have fluent Te Reo skills.
    
    Long story short, yes sometimes it’s a bit lost on the crowd but it’s no worse than waiting for boring waffly English speeches to conclude so you can get to the reason you’re there.
    
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    July 4, 2021 11:27am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Where to start… I did not say “most” meetings. The person I spoke to told me it was material meetings like weekly staff meetings or working groups. So a few times per week there will be such meetings. She told me, and I have no reason to disbelieve her, that her government department has a Maori song describing the mission of the agency and they sing it before or after staff meetings. And she rote learns song and has no idea what it means.
      
      OK maybe she is lying to me. I doubt it.
      
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      July 5, 2021 5:31am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I don’t believe the govt has power to coerce the use of Maori and even more to embed Maori usage in English That is neither English nor Maori.
    
    As for compulsory Maori prayers that is an abomination. Time for a purge.
    This is not harmless either. Maori spirits are just another part of the hidden satanic world. That doesn’t mean they are irrelevant but they do have power and may act against those without protection. Been there.
    
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    July 4, 2021 12:42pm
  - tf78
    
    Benedict, not only agencies but private girls schools – 3 times a week, compulsory.
    
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    July 4, 2021 1:07pm
  - Paulus
    
    As I understand something like 2% of the population confidently say they speak Maori who is going to teach the other 98% ?
    
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    July 4, 2021 2:01pm
- Yvette
  
  Interestingly –
  Bridges says Labour ministers ‘a bit religious’ about He Puapua report
  https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/bridges-says-labour-ministers-bit-religious-he-puapua-report?auto=0
  
  and – Former National Party leader Simon Bridges says the Government is still trying to implement He Puapua and side-stepping a wider constitutional conversation with the New Zealand public.
  
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  July 4, 2021 11:06am
Captain Mainwaring

happychappy seems to be having a well-earned sleep-in this morning.
And Maggie Pie has gone to mass.
Oh, and SB2 is on holiday.
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July 4, 2021 9:08am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Oh, happychappy turned up. The Mod must have been sitting on him for a long time.
  
  [Mod: even moderators sleep in sometimes]
  
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  December 4, 2020 9:22am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  How long did stupid boy get this time?
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:12am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I think stupid boy got a couple of weeks.
    
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    July 4, 2021 9:22am
    - Swifty
      
      Thanks Cap’n, I had been wondering that.
      
      Also, haven’t seen Milky for some time.
      
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      July 4, 2021 10:04am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Peaceful without them isn’t it?
        
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        July 4, 2021 11:21am
- Happychappy
  
  No Captain I take the wife to work at 6.45 and then come home home and watch the poms advance to the semifinals of the European football Championship as it normally takes to 9.am or after for the mods to release my message.
  
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  July 4, 2021 9:28am
Tauhei Notts

A year ago, today, being 3rd July American time, I wrote down this part of a speech by a politician.
“In our schools, our news rooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far left fascism that demands our absolute allegiance.
If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras and follow its commandments then you will be sentenced, banished, black listed, persecuted and punished.”
It is still quite chilling.
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July 4, 2021 9:17am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  6 years ago today I was at a host family camp on an 80 acre block 30 miles west of Wasilla, Alaska. BBQ moose, sitting by the fire, shooting guns, drinking alcohol and telling lies.
  Wish I was there now at the height of summer – daylight 24/7
  
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  July 4, 2021 11:26am
  - kowtow
    
    Ha ha , Hilary Clinton would call them “deplorables” .Which is hate speech.
    
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    July 4, 2021 1:31pm
- kowtow
  
  Newsrooms .
  
  last night on TV3 they played a piece from an ITV “reporter” on the Canadian Indian residential schools . It used very emotive ,I’d say almost inflammatory language , not to mention potential lies and misinformation against the people who ran those places .
  
  To question the media narrative is no longer part of a democratic exercise , it is a modern heresy , for which you’ll be at least be branded a heretic and at most soon possibly arrested and in front of a judge …….
  
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  July 4, 2021 1:39pm
  - Okahu
    
    Just what is the appropriate response to the discovery of mass graves of children, unceremoniously buried without their deaths being notified to their families or the authorities? Is it any wonder that for the communities from whom these children were removed there is a little upset evident in the reporting? In fact other than as an assertion of your indifference to this particular mass killing, what is your actual problem? That it has been made public? That it doesn’t reflect well on those who had a duty of care? It’s perhaps telling that your greatest concern should have settled on the nature of the reportage.
    
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    July 4, 2021 4:51pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Only one down tick, and I was quoting the devil incarnate, viz The Donald.
  
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  July 4, 2021 8:19pm
Yvette

The te reo-fication of One News seems to be less annoying now as it appears more glib, fast, and formulaic, so takes less time.
It still grates a little, when the front person is European, offers mihi, greetings or thanks, to an equally European reporter, and is about as self-ridiculing as the programme IDs on the rival channel that say ALL GOOD, THREE. Since the majority of Three’s programming appears to require ‘Violence’ warnings, they frequently cut from the most dire drama of excruciating circumstances to a screen that says ALL GOOD – totally atmosphere destroying.
The te reo-fication of One News seems to have a similar adverse effect, and I doubt anyone is enthused to study the language as a result.

But what does Simon Dallow on 1 News, most evenings, actually say in Maori that sounds like “A quin eh”?
Unless my hearing is going, and he says something entirely different, there no ‘q’ in Maori and a syllable can not end in a consonant. It may be one of the shortest phrases used, but seems the most annoying for not making any sense.
I will be grateful to anyone who can enlighten me.
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July 4, 2021 9:38am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It could be..
  “e whai ake nei ā”
  meaning
  ….coming up… (ie. next items)
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:29am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Very impressive ?
    
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    July 4, 2021 11:04am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yeah, but located within one click on Mr Google…
      
      https://www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjYxNzg/Paakiwaha/Opinion:-He-Whakaaro-/-Opinion
      
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      July 4, 2021 2:06pm
- oldfella
  
  Yvette, I have this theory that he’s actually muttering ‘this ‘bro talk is so f*cking, stupid, eh? and we’re only picking up a couple of the words.
  Who could blame him?
  
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  July 4, 2021 10:41am
- kowtow
  
  Wot’s the point of a communication when the vast majority of listeners don’t understand wot’s being said , beyond the sender being a virtue signaller and alienating his message .
  
  No doubt they consider themselves now to be “educating” us rather than “informing” us .
  
  Welcome to 1984 .
  
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  July 4, 2021 11:07am
  - Paulus
    
    But Karen Ardern is learning us peasants !
    
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    July 4, 2021 2:04pm
- Flossie
  
  I saw an item on Seven Sharp on Friday night about mispronunciation of words (I specifically recall “jepradise” and a clip of JA saying exactly that).
  A linguistic expert (professor? Can’t recall) was then asked about the fuss over mispronunciation and she said that it really doesn’t matter.
  I was waiting for at least one of the two presenters to then ask why it is so necessary that words in te reo Maori simply HAVE to be correctly said? (To the point where it actually puts off some people from even trying the language.) Of course no such question was forthcoming.
  
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  July 4, 2021 11:18am
  - tf78
    
    Flossie, I worked for the Japanese for 7.5 years and they laughed at me when I tried to speak Japanese, I did them a favour and gave up.
    
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    July 4, 2021 1:12pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      I don’t know many Japanese who would have the rudeness to laugh at a gaijin attempting to speak nihongo…
      
      See, I am following the modern style of chucking foreign words into English and hoping for the best.
      
      English is a wonderful language.
      
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      July 4, 2021 6:30pm
- Pharmachick
  
  It would be transliterated as “following a”, translated as “following on”
  
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  July 4, 2021 3:53pm
ABS4EVA

Though it is good to Celebrate America freeing itself from the Corrupt British Rule Australia and New Zealand are still under

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watauga_Association

It was actually the people of the Appalachian Mountains and the Watauga Association that
declared Independence First,

They Also Turned the Tide in the War for Independence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_Mountain

In Contrast to this NZ Worships
Mao’s Feather Cloak and Te papa
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July 4, 2021 9:53am
- kowtow
  
  “America” just didn’t want the English Crown telling them who and how they could trade ( Navigation Acts) . The elites in the colonies also didn’t want to pay for their own defence against the French ( Seven Years War), they were happy to have the English and certain Indian tribes do that for them and finally they were very pissed off that KG III didn’t want them expanding their reach across the Appalachians .Proclamation of 1763.
  
  Independant to persue the subjugation of a whole continent . Fair enough , but nothing to do with freedom , democracy or fairness . Unless you were part of the Boston Elite , a bit like today’s elites .
  
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  July 4, 2021 1:07pm
ABS4EVA

Brother Claude Ely
Blessed Elvis Presley as a Child

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

Elvis Wanted to be a Gospel Singer

The First Song Brother Claude wrote was
AInt No Grave

Which was the Last Song
Johny Cash Sung

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zE4-LX0wrY

AMEN
Rest in Peace My Brothers

Brother Claude was the best and had way more
energy in his Music than Elvis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DFSsHhSh-0

That is White Appalachian Gospel Music

Little David Play On Your Harp

Still going strong in the Mountains
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July 4, 2021 10:11am
ABS4EVA

The Original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlOvbcQhDs0

Song Right by a Believer who wrote the Song.

There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down.
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July 4, 2021 10:13am
rouppe

Does anyone else think that Tom Scott’s latest output breaches the Harmful Digital Communications Act?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/96288672/tom-scott-cartoons

Surely suggesting someone squandered an opportunity to kill themselves is a breach
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July 4, 2021 10:17am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Or how about Today’s Poem entitled “An ode for .. Jacinda Ardern in “Newsroom”
  
  Yes, it is a spoof on our PM and her cronys (ala Capping-level crap), but it contains these nasty, (?) defamatory lines …
  
  From the other side of the Great Wall of the Polls,
  there comes the faint sound of lopping and wails
  as The Pretender, Lady Judith, executes more traitors.
  
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/an-ode-for-jacinda-ardern
  
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  July 4, 2021 2:18pm
oldfella

Some good laughs if you’re into US politics.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/the-week-in-pictures-goddess-in-stilettos-edition.php
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July 4, 2021 10:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Some good stuff there
  
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  July 4, 2021 11:40am
Maggie Pie

Called into ‘Bakers Delight’ on the way home from Mass to get a couple of their Apple & Cinnamon Scrolls.
While I was waiting in the que, I heard a couple of old biddies standing in front of me whispering something about David Seymour. As I leaned in a bit closer to try catch exactly what they were saying, some guy behind me leans in to my ear and sez…”How do you find that Porsche?”. Without even looking at the creep, I said…”You just walk out of the shop, turn left, and there it is”.
By that time it was my turn to be served. Completely missed the goss on David.
SHEESH!!
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July 4, 2021 10:45am
Tom Hunter

Some years ago the US Left – and naturally the Left here on Kiwiblog – was very, very upset that the Republican-led Senate of the day refused to even look at the Obama Administration’s nomination for a Supreme Court justice to replace Scalia.

Loud were the cries of outrage about the process, and the “silly” fears of Merrick who was, they claimed, a mild, “moderate”, centre-leftist jurist with solid, sensible notions of how to administer justice.

I don’t think these claims were disputed much by the Right, but plenty had their suspicions that it was propaganda bullshit.

Garland’s few months as US Attorney General have shown that such suspicions were right on the money with this summation being the most concise:

Finally, let’s note once again the absurdity of claims that Merrick Garland is a moderate. No moderate would have filed the Georgia voting rights case, issued yesterday’s press release, or authorized the West Virginia transgender athlete filing.

Garland is a perfect tool of the left. He presents a mild, cerebral public image, while rubberstamping whatever leftist proposals that he receives from the likes of Gupta and Clarke.

Looks like the US dodged a bullet when McConnell stiff-armed the prick and his boss, Obama.
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July 4, 2021 10:50am
- Batman
  
  Awww you mad that your buddies attempts at racial and gender discrimination are being pushed back against?
  
  It was never about Garland in the senate, it was solely about McConnell retaining power and the chance to swing the court if the GOP nominee won in ’16.
  
  As we saw in the last couple of weeks, McConnell is quite willing to attempt to block more nominations right up until 2024 in order to attempt to install a 7-2 or 9-0 conservative court, if luck goes his way.
  
  Of course, that would be a filip for the GOP and the religious authoritarian movement. But it doesn’t account for the consequence which will inevitably come, increasing public support for a rebalancing of the court and stacking it with a majority of young liberal justices.
  
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  July 4, 2021 11:40am
MrTips

RANDOM QUESTION FOR THE DAY

If there is separation of Church and State……..

why do we pay people to carry out pantheistic ceremonies in our govt departments, universities and other crown entities?

If, as a Catholic, I requested Benediction for a University function, I would be told to sod off. I suspect many other faiths would get the same.

But some don’t – and no-one bats an eyelid at the blatant anomaly. This is not about rightness of belief, it’s about consistency.
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July 4, 2021 10:53am
Paulus

Corona is still a great Mexican (Belgium owned ) manufactured Beer, and must dislike being associated with such a worldwide Chinese sourced disease.
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July 4, 2021 10:58am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Do you know why it is served with a slice of lemon in the top?
  
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  July 4, 2021 12:12pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Lime actually SteveO.
    
    The purpose of that is to keep the flys off the neck….but that’s the bars in Tijuana for ya 😛
    
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    July 4, 2021 1:17pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Correct. I had lemon in Hawaii, no lime maybe??
      
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      July 4, 2021 2:02pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        No flyz?
        
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        July 4, 2021 2:24pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        No flies, but they like my Stella
        
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        July 4, 2021 3:33pm
oldfella

Jacinda Ardern walked into a bank to cash a cheque. As she approached the cashier she said, “Good morning miss, would you please cash this cheque for me?”
Cashier: “It would be my pleasure, sister. Would you please show me your ID?”
Jacinda: “Truthfully, I did not bring my ID with me as I didn’t think there was any need to. I am Jacinda Adern, leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister of New Zealand.”
Cashier: “Yes sister, I know who you are but with all the regulations and monitoring of the banks because of impostors and forgers and requirements of the legislation, etc., I must insist on seeing ID.”
Jacinda: Look, just ask anyone here at the bank who I am and they will tell you. Everybody knows who I am.”
Cashier: “I am sorry, Ms Ardern but these are the bank rules and I must follow them.”
Jacinda: “Come on please, I am urging you, please cash this cheque.”
Cashier: “Look Ms Ardern, here’s an example of what we can do. One day Tiger Woods came into the bank without ID. To prove he was Tiger Woods, he pulled out his putter and made a beautiful shot across the bank into a cup. With that shot we knew him to be Tiger Woods and we cashed his cheque. Another time, Andre Agassi came in without ID. He pulled out his tennis racket and made a fabulous shot where the tennis ball landed in my cup. With that shot we cashed his cheque. So, Ms Ardern, what can you do to prove that it is you and only you?”
Jacinda stood there thinking and thinking. Finally she said, “Honestly my mind is a total blank … there is nothing that comes to my mind. I can’t think of a single thing. I have absolutely no idea what to do. I don’t have a clue.”
Cashier: “Will that be large notes or small notes, Ms Ardern?
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July 4, 2021 10:59am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Hit the nail on the head!
  
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  July 4, 2021 12:13pm
- oldfella
  
  Tremain, the best political cartoonist in the country, holds Jacinda up to the ridicule she deserves.
  https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/cartoon-of-the-day-34
  
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  July 4, 2021 12:54pm
Fletch

APPALLING conditions for kids in Biden’s migrant camp – disease, lice, overcrowding, etc, etc.

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

Took the BBC to report it.
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July 4, 2021 11:19am
- Batman
  
  Let’s conduct a mental exercise Fletchy boy, do you think these conditions only came into existence on 21 Jan 2021?
  
  Or do you think that it is possible for them to exist prior to that and in fact be triggered by certain policies which split up families and were designed specifically to do so without preparation for the facilities needed?
  
  I bet you’ll have a long ramble ready to go which proves why it is magically now a problem when it was good and fine six months ago.
  
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  July 4, 2021 11:50am
  - Fletch
    
    Batman, well, between Biden totally opening the borders and letting in hundreds if not thousands of illegals a day, from the beginning of his tenure and now, then YES.
    
    I bet you’ll have a long ramble ready to go which proves why it is magically now a problem when it was good and fine six months ago.
    
    Because six months ago the U.S actually had a policy to keep illegals out. Now they are streaming in. It doesn’t need a university degree to understand it. And the media don’t want to know about it. Neither do Biden and Kamala. You can bet if this had happened under Trump the media would be screaming about it every day – talking about kids being mistreated. There was slight overcrowding under Trump and the media and Dems went crazy THEN. And it was nothing like as bad as it is now.
    
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    July 4, 2021 12:00pm
    - Paulus
      
      Do the millions of illegals vote Democrat once in ?
      I assume they are able to illegally vote somehow like they have done before.
      
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      July 4, 2021 2:10pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Of course they do, and most more than once. There is no previous paper trail to follow.
        Dems will never win without cheating. 80M votes for Biden my left tit
        
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        July 4, 2021 3:35pm
  - alloytoo
    
    1. Obama and Joe built the camps in the first place.
    
    2. They weren’t overflowing in Trump’s tenure, and those adverse conditions would have been far easier to manage
    
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    July 4, 2021 12:11pm
    - kowtow
      
      And Obummer paid the Mexicans millions to strengthen their southern border so that the ‘problem’ of the illegal migration would be Mexico’s and not the Americans .
      
      Optics and hypocrisy.
      
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      July 4, 2021 12:49pm
  - Tall Man
    
    If the kids are arriving separated from their parents who’s responsible?
    
    Isn’t attempting to enter a country illegally illegal? Should all incaceration facilities be like
    Mar a Lago? I can see Trump going for that .. biden not so much 😉
    
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    July 4, 2021 2:45pm
Maggie Pie

And hope yo’ all made a few bucks last night with my partner’s tip yesterday morning on the ‘AB / Tonga’ match at 100 – nil.
He put a lazy K @2 to 1 on with his Oz bookie.
Just pin money really, but made the watch on telly worthwhile 😀
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July 4, 2021 11:49am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Sarasota Florida, yuge. Trump due very shortly.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/03/donald-trumps-florida-rally-what-he-talk-tonight/7826160002/
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July 4, 2021 11:52am
- artemisia
  
  I see Donald Trump has an account on Rumble now. A few days in and closing on half a mill subscriptions. Might not mean a lot in itself but another indication that free speech is not quite dead.
  
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  July 4, 2021 12:36pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    He got 45000 in the first 4 hours
    
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    July 4, 2021 2:05pm
    - fernglas
      
      Wow. That’s close to a hundredth of a percent of the population of the US, and in only four hours. MAGA.
      
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      July 4, 2021 5:05pm
Fletch

So, those facemasks… We’re all so concerned about CO2 and its effects, yet a new study shows that wearing facemasks increases the levels of CO2 breathed in to 3 times acceptable German standards…

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2781743?appId=scweb

The authors tried out various masks, including KN95 respirators and surgical masks, on 45 healthy children ages 6-17 in southwest Germany. The room was “well ventilated several times” for each experiment, with CO2 content of ambient air kept under 0.1% by volume.

The first 3-minute measurement gauged “baseline” unmasked CO2 levels. The next 3-minute intervals were for CO2 content in “joint inhaled and exhaled air,” inhaled air only and exhaled air only.

Two thousand parts per million of CO2, or 0.2%, is the limit for closed rooms under German law, the study said. The child with the lowest CO2 level was three times higher than this limit, while one 7-year-old was measured with 25,000 parts per million.

And maybe even 6 times higher, depending on the mask –

Contrasts between the 2 types of masks were not significant. We measured means (SDs) between 13 120 (384) and 13 910 (374) ppm of carbon dioxide in inhaled air under surgical and filtering facepiece 2 (FFP2) masks, which is higher than what is already deemed unacceptable by the German Federal Environmental Office by a factor of 6.

The study was also shared by Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist Stefan Baral on twitter, who said, “(does sharing this make me an anti-masker?)”

https://twitter.com/sdbaral/status/1410680306210910212
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July 4, 2021 11:54am
- Fletch
  
  Ivor takes a look at it in a YouTube video as well…
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxJ21cT26A
  
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  July 4, 2021 12:30pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Scientific name for a mask is ‘covid diaper’
  
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  July 4, 2021 2:07pm
Maggie Pie

Just been scrolling thru my tweets and thort this worth sharing.
Don Jr. lets his feelings be known in no uncertain terms…..

‘Nothing says womens liberation and progress like a wo-man with a dik winning a woman’s beauty pageant’

https://twitter.com/haveaconcern/status/1411448328584372231

LOL!!
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July 4, 2021 12:02pm
- rangitoto
  
  May be end of life for Hubble Space Telescope. Is suffering computer malfunction.
  
  https://interestingengineering.com/hubble-computers-broke.
  
  For sale:
  
  One slightly used, misfigured Ritchey–Chrétien 2.4m optical set available with sub aperture corrector plus miscellaneous cameras and instruments. Purchaser must arrange to collect, as is, where is.
  
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  July 4, 2021 2:32pm
Jack5

Oranga Tamariki’s sudden closedown of the Christchurch “care and residence” facility for boys over abuse allegations is proving stupid and cruel.

Where are these young people to go?

Why did the organisation’s chief executive, Sir Wira Gardiner, ordered the closedown be expedited before there was accommodation for these young people.

This will likely prove a disastrously hasty decision for Oranga Tamariki, which is among the responsibilities of Kelvin Davis, Minister of both Corrections and Children.
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July 4, 2021 12:23pm
- tf78
  
  Jack, they’ll just change the name to Jacinda’s safe house or something as inane.
  
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  July 4, 2021 3:15pm
Jack5

Strange we’ve never heard of this NZ Army unit …

Kelvin Davis, as associate Education Minister, on the Cabinet web site, announces the launching of a “learning resource to help the next generation learn about the storied history of the Maori Battalion.”

Bet it will be in English.
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July 4, 2021 12:26pm
- Tall Man
  
  Wonder if it covers Monte Cassino ….
  
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  July 4, 2021 2:39pm
  - david
    
    Or Tekruna in Libya
    
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    July 4, 2021 10:29pm
oldfella

In a new local podcast, a well-credentialed Kiwi talks about climate change and EV’s. (30 mins)
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New Zealander Michael Kelly is the former Prince Philip Professor of Technology at Cambridge University and despite believing that the climate has changed has been labelled a Climate Change denier. He believes that important information is being kept from the public.
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vYWN0aXZlLWludGVsbGlnZW5jZS1uei8/episode/OGQ3ZjQ2OTctZGE3Yy00YzY4LTliZTAtNDMwMDZjOTBmMmJl?hl=en-NZ&ved=2ahUKEwjWt_zLocPxAhXYbn0KHeHOCnIQieUEegQIChAI&ep=6
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July 4, 2021 12:41pm
chukar

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/125621601/omarama-farmer-fined-for-illegal-clearance-of-significant-vegetation

A great example of the appalling regard for property rights in New Zealand. Another pakeha farmer from the south being booted again.
This is the reason for the SNA debate – quite simply if the state wants to control these areas the state should buy them.
Taking (or stealing ) use rights without compensation is bullying, by the state, of the worst kind!
Why own land when you can’t use it for increasing productivity ,making a living or simply enjoying it?
Just keep paying the mortgage, rates and other taxes — somehow
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July 4, 2021 12:48pm
- Greg Ettridge
  
  Disgraceful behaviour by council and government.
  The mayor must be so proud of this conviction.
  All farmers should stop paying rates on “stolen land”.
  It is worse than the Zimbabwe land grab in many ways, the government wants to leave the land under your financial commitment control, but remove all rights to make your land profitable.
  You really can’t make this shit up.
  Gary Kircher the Mayor,made these comments before his election.
  “A review of the funding policy (which determines rates) to get a better equity about who is paying for what.
  Particularly in the farming area, where there are inequities in there. ”
  How about no rates from land that is no longer commercially viable through government intervention, that would be a good start.
  Garry appears to be shill that doesn’t give a stuff about farmers.
  
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  July 4, 2021 1:31pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    ” remove all rights to make your land profitable.”
    That is what socialists do
    
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    July 4, 2021 2:11pm
Tom Hunter

From the latest Vogue magazine, now that super-wealthy, High Society maven Anna Wintour’s long nightmare is over and the Democrats are back in power:

Part of what makes the Bidens’ right-out-of-the-gate successes so extraordinary is that they seem to have perfectly read the room: We have been through this enormous, collective trauma, and here’s a calm, experienced, empathetic president, and here’s a first lady who is driven, tireless, effortlessly popular, but also someone who reminds us of ourselves. She’s selling a new vision for how our most fundamental institutions ought to work—infrastructure, education, public health—even as she goes to extraordinary lengths to keep a real-world job, to stay in touch with what makes her human and what matters most.

I had no idea Batman and Stephieboy wrote for Vogue.
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July 4, 2021 1:09pm
- Tall Man
  
  Not enuf speeling mistackes tobey steffy …..
  
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  July 4, 2021 2:28pm
oldfella

I see Canada has entered a new wave of tearing down statues of ‘problematic’ people like Queen Victoria, and our current queen, Elizabeth.
I wonder how long till some in the UK decide Princess Diana is too ‘white’ to be honoured and tear her statue down.
And as for a future statue of Glorious Leader…
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July 4, 2021 1:15pm
- Nickc2
  
  You shouldn’t mention Glorious Leader oldfella. It will result in an amendment to the ToW stating that 21st Century statues in commemoration of the decolonisation of Aotearoa must display Cindy standing between Nania Mahuta and Willie Jackson.
  
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  July 4, 2021 1:49pm
- tf78
  
  oldfella, what was that movie Inglorious Bast…ds.
  
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  July 4, 2021 6:30pm
Swifty

Excellent piece on trans lunacy.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9753017/HELEN-JOYCE-argues-gender-self-identification-lobby-harming-children-women-trans-people.html?ito=native_share_article-top
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July 4, 2021 1:30pm
ABS4EVA

Do you people like Appalachian Gospel

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

Smokey Mountains Home Made Instruments

The Appalachian people lived in peace with the Local Indians as much as possible

GOD BLESS AMERICA
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July 4, 2021 2:15pm
ABS4EVA

My NZ Grandfather was an Engineer
Priest Soldier who served left NZ in WW1
to Server with THE AMERICAN ARMY

Thank you Sweet Jesus
God Bless America

that is VISIONARY

4 Brothers serving in the NZ Army
Amen to that

Him and Mum in Retirement Watched

The First Marine Division pass their Home in Auckland during WW2

PRAISE THE LORD and PASS THE AMMUNITION

GOD BLESS AMERICA

and let’s all get Ready for Number 3
with Joy in our hearts and Faith in the Lord

Amen

BRING IT ON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUOPvtVZwo8

Spoke and wrote Fluent Maori before it was hip

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
And we’ll all stay free
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July 4, 2021 2:22pm
Fletch

Country singer Aaron Lewis’ song questioning what is happening in the U.S at the moment surges up the iTunes charts to #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnNJv5yNZjE

And the uncensored version –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9WUIfdKIA
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July 4, 2021 2:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Toby Keith (Courtesy of the Red White and Blue)
Happy Birthday America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoZftznHz7o
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July 4, 2021 2:30pm
- Nickc2
  
  A great number. Another is his American Soldier. I think he did both at the Trump Inauguration.
  
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  July 4, 2021 2:35pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    He did. A REAL Patriot
    
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    July 4, 2021 3:38pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear..
Folks who quit maths at 16 or younger have stunted brains (and cognitive development).

Cohen Kadosh said continuing with maths will not just improve mathematical ability.

“It involves a region in the brain that is critical for logic reasoning, planning, high level cognitive functions, high level thinking and I think this is why we were interested in this region.”

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018802456/how-quitting-maths-can-affect-teens-brains
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July 4, 2021 2:36pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Most Labour Politicians quit early? Prob because they did not understand anyway. They did however learn about the roving decimal point
  
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  July 4, 2021 3:40pm
Maggie Pie

HONESTLY…. how bad is this?

We just went for a quick drive up One Tree Hill to get rid of all last nights leftovers in the bins up there.
On the way back down, we stopped to watch a Chinese family chasing a tame Bantam. One of the kids caught it and quickly handed it to the father, who promptly stuffed the poor thing inside his jacket. Then they all ran off towards the carpark.

No guesses what they’ll be having tonite 🙁
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July 4, 2021 2:40pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Sarasota – the fake media.
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1411523912614227968?
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July 4, 2021 3:51pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The United Spot is satire – in case you get offended ….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG_edWNQoh8
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July 4, 2021 4:01pm
MCos

Something I saw on Reddit before deleting the app.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/odaxhu/they_can_barely_manage_english/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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