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Scott

Yesterday I documented how police are using the prospect of hate speech laws in New Zealand to silence free speech, with an especial focus on Christian preachers. Here are the police threatening Christian preachers on K Road with arrest, a site on which they have preached for 30 years.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/police-called-on-preaching-auckland-christians-filming-controversial-tiktok-video.html

Sadly we appear to be getting our impetus from the formerly Great Britain. Here is the sad tale of Hatun Tash, a Christian convert from Islam. She was stabbed by a black clad man recently. It is clear that his intention was to kill her and to silence her. This on speakers corner in London which was a bastion of free speech.

Unfortunately the more we learn the worse it is. Miss Tash has been threatened multiple times and assaulted. The police who are present do not take any action to protect Miss Tash. In fact they are more likely to arrest her and try and shut her down rather than confront the angry Muslims who are assaulting her and threatening her. The reason the police do this is because they are instructed to avoid any appearance of bias against Muslims, now labelled by the radical left as Islamophobia.
https://www.newsweek.com/suspect-who-stabbed-christian-activist-multiple-times-londons-speakers-corner-still-large-1614088

We have the sad tale in the formerly Great Britain and spreading here, of a society that will not defend itself. That will not defend its own religion, that will not even defend a core tenant of liberal democracy – free speech. In fact we have a society where it’s law enforcement is biased against it’s own Christian religion and is terrified of Islam. One can see how the industrial strength gang rape of young British women by Pakistani Muslim men was allowed to occur in cities like Bradford. The police were terrified to take the appropriate action against Muslims, even though multiple serious crimes were being committed.

We need to take these lessons on board and defend ourselves here. If you don’t like Christianity fine. You have to sort that out with God.
But you have to at least draw the line at freedom of speech. We have to defend freedom of speech. Otherwise liberal democracy is gone, for this generation and generations to come.
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August 7, 2021 8:00am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Our labour, who art in parliament, hypocrisy be thy game; your last day will come; thy making all done on Aotearoa as it is in Zim. Give us another public holiday; and cancel those who speak our trespasses as we never forgive those who trespass against us; lead us into deniable corruption, but deliver us from those with the evil common sense, for what seems for ever and ever, Apersonofnonspecificgenderraceorcolour.
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:59am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Very good!
    
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    August 8, 2021 7:18pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Indeed.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:27am
- rangitoto
  
  “tenet”. A “tenant” is someone who pays rent to occupy.
  
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  August 7, 2021 11:12am
  - Scott
    
    Quite right. I stand corrected ?
    
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    August 7, 2021 12:53pm
- Harriet
  
  The CH-CH wizard was an atheist and the old lady was a Christian but police never bothered them. It’s the police who have changed – not the public.
  
  That cop wasn’t being clear or precise, in other words it’s probably his own opinion and not that of the police. He appeared to be struggling.
  And that’s the problem with police today — getting too involved in conversations with the general public over civil matters and giving policing a bad name. They should stick to criminal law – things like being abusive in public.
  
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  August 7, 2021 1:04pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  “If you don’t like Christianity fine. You have to sort that out with God.”
  
  If you don’t like Hinduism you need to sort that out with Vishnu and the other Hindu dieties? See the (non) logic there?
  
  Occasionally I quite like debating with preachy Christians on the street. At least it’s highly unlikely to descend into a stabbing or beheading.
  
  Not sure why SJWs selectively defend one awful (IMHO) religion over the many others. SJWs are all over the shop on many topics.
  
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  August 7, 2021 3:01pm
Happychappy

Jacinda Ardern accused of treating Politics ‘ as a game’s after posts emerge of her calling for housing as a human right.
But a spokesperson for the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has defended the comments saying they were made while she was in opposition.
The Human Rights Commission announced on Monday it will launch a national enquiry into housing as it says there has been a failure to address the issue by successive Governments Ardern then dodged questions about whether the housing crisis is a human rights crisis.
However an old Facebook post of Arderns has re- emerged where she appears to call onthe then National Government to take action over housing issues.
” So some local Politicians have suggested banning what they call ‘beggers’ I have a alternative idea for him”, she wrote.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/08/jacinda-ardern-accused-of-treating-politics-as-a-game-after-post-emerges-of-her-calling-for-housing-as-human-right.html
So it’s alright to call Judith Collins out when she has made statements in the past when in Government but when Labour and the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have made statements in the same vein it is a different story .
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August 7, 2021 8:04am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Labour, hypocrisy is thy name
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:48am
Luke Piewalker

To the National Party conference on right now …

Please ditch your woke shit. It’s a massive turn-off.

You talk about all the things you have learnt since the last election but clearly you haven’t learnt a bloody thing.

Start talking to us.
And start speaking for us.
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August 7, 2021 8:05am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes with a couple of exceptions they are bloody useless. The “Demand the Debate” slogan is ineffective. I was talking to a bunch of mates last night. All in business. All despise the current government. All eight thought it was idiotic.
  
  Because it devoid of alternative ideas that people can understand. That is why ACT is winning. ACT realises that only transformational change will now repair the country.
  
  Here is a challenge to National. Come up with a plan to fix the school system. Because with those two clowns Hekia Parata and Nikki Kaye you started the slide.
  
  If National win what will they do? There will be a spending crunch and they will make a whole lot of Wellington public servants redundant. They will repeal the worst of the specific laws. They may insert some sanity into transport spending.
  
  But we don’t need a new government to be “less worse” than the current government. After all that is hardly a high bar.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:09am
  - Nickc2
    
    Very true Benedict. We need ideas and inspiration, not dictates and slogans.
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:17am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Are Labour more useful? They don’t build houses they compete in the market for already built ones pushing prices up. Borrow and spend (recklessly.
    
    National are not allowed a platform. The media bribe ensured that. Seymour is allowed, as that causes vote splitting. He is reasonable but has never been a Minister.
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:32am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Sorry you can’t blame the current mediocrity of National on the New Zealand media.
      
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      August 7, 2021 11:31am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        I can and do and they happily created the confusion.
        Corruption in altissimo.
        
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        August 7, 2021 1:10pm
- kowtow
  
  Yep , I couldn’t believe it watching 3 news last night with the great and good of the Gnats on a stage looking like a bunch of primary school kids doing gestures etc and that fella with the stick ….
  
  ……all to appease the Media pardy who will still call them whitey racists irrespective of what they do , like todays’ Ferald , full of anti Gnat doggerel .
  
  I won’t vote for that crap.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:28am
BarryB

It is my sincere hope that climate change turns out to be a seriously serious problem.
( A range of changes are already going to happen no matter what humanity does – I just hope they impact in a way that requires peoples full attention)
Reason: it will give all the queers and weirdoes and snowflakes and woke lot and bike riders and anti-conversion therapists and anti-vaxers and anti-landlorders and all the rest of the bums that are trying to change society for the worse, something really serious to worry about.
When the sea rises a couple of metres and rain storms wipe out roads and peoples front lawns and heat stroke kills more than even the worst covid predictions then these bums will have something actually serious to confront and devote their time to.
We might even make real progress and build a nuclear power station in NZ.
(and for those who scream “what about the waste” – Finland has developed a deep mine in ancient rock to put all the nasties that we make. And a town in the Australian desert is in the process of developing a nuclear waste mine. There is already a deep mine in S.Australia for all sort of nasty waste. Australias ancient rock has been there millions of years and will be there for more millions of years – way more than the time for nuclear waste to break down and revert to pretty much what it is that we mine these days for nuclear fuel.)
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August 7, 2021 8:10am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I seriously doubt that Climate Change will become a serious problem.
  
  Remember when we were told by our NIWA experts that NZ had warmed about 1C in the last Century
  https://niwa.co.nz/climate/information-and-resources/nz-temperature-record
  
  Well, the same author of those Temperature records now reckons NZ has only warmed 0.66C in the last 150 years.
  
  Homogenized series of maximum, minimum, and mean air temperature averaged
  over NZ for the period 1871-2019 are compared with marine temperature data measured over the surrounding ocean surface. Temperatures over the region (the New
  Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone) exhibit an increase (linear trend) of 0.66°C from
  1871-2019
  
  Surface temperature trends in New Zealand and
  25 Nov surrounding oceans: 1870 – 2019
  
  https://www.metsoc.org.nz/app/uploads/2021/02/MetSocCon2020_abstracts.pdf
  
  At a rate of just 0.44C/Century, that’s less than half the amount of warming that we were warned about.
  
  Now why haven’t the media been telling us of this New research?
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:32am
  - sooty
    
    So basically the NIWA, don’t have a bloody clue!
    
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    August 7, 2021 11:11am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      If you work for one of these orgs you have to toe the political line. Take your salary and recite the narrative, or else you are cancelled! And that folks is how we get “settled science”!
      
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      August 7, 2021 3:08pm
- Fletch
  
  We already had Covid to divert everyone’s attention to something seemingly genuinely serious and it still didn’t stop them. Remember BLM and Antifa marches and Govt’s and police ignoring the lockdown and congregation rules for them, because somehow protesting was more important than the health of the nation. They even allowed the marches here in NZ. It seems woke ideology trumps even a pandemic.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:42am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Yep same as in Australia. In the woke run state of Victoria it’s premier (leader of the state) stated the BLM marches during the pandemic were for a “good cause”. Even though he told them not to march, they went ahead anyway and they were let off. Shortly thereafter there was an outbreak and a very long lockdown! No relationship at all according to the lefty infested media. On the other hand, anti lockdown protesters (mostly idiots too IMHO) were pounced on with violence by the cops. Even suggesting as a non-SJW that you might protest the lockdowns resulted in your door being smashed in and plain clothes cops dragging you and you phones/computers away for interrogation. One rule for woke zealots and another rule for everyone else.
    
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    August 7, 2021 3:17pm
- emmess
  
  Sorry to dissapoint you
  We have had a few months of late actually below the 42-year average
  https://www.drroyspencer.com/2021/08/uah-global-temperature-update-for-july-2021-0-20-deg-c/
  
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  August 7, 2021 12:00pm
NK

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/refining-nz-to-switch-marsden-point-to-import-only-terminal/6USM7NNWSYT7ZQHLWH57D5UD3E/

Directly the result of Arderns ban on exploration. Almost 300 jobs lost and hugely damaging to Northlands economy.
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August 7, 2021 8:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  All part of the socialist plan to keep us totally dependant
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:18am
  - kowtow
    
    ……..on horse drawn transport.
    
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    August 7, 2021 9:01am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      They will return as prime movers in the light rail systems.
      
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      August 7, 2021 10:34am
- Biscuit
  
  Never fear, NK, all that Provincial Growth Investment that Winston and Shane put into the area will begin bearing fruits ANY day now…
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:20am
  - pdm
    
    Traffic is flowing freely at the roundabout near Shanes abode – up to three cars an hour when the road is busy.
    
    That will help Northlands prosperity immensely.
    
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    August 7, 2021 9:45am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Not sure how you can link the exploration ban to the decision to close the refinery. We don’t refine our own oil production, because it’s the wrong type of oil. We ship our oil to Asia for refining, & import a different type of crude for refining at Marsden Pt.
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:21am
  - sooty
    
    I thought it went to Cronulla, Sydney for refining.
    
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    August 7, 2021 11:13am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Haven’t you bought shares in biofuels?
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:22am
  - kowtow
    
    Every day I fill up with regular petrol I’m using biofuel.
    
    Oil was once plants and critters …….
    
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    August 7, 2021 12:32pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Haha kowtow. Doing your bit to replenish the atmosphere with plant food it lost millions of years ago. The ocean is THE big Co2 sink. When the ocean slowly cools (courtesy of how little/much sun energy is hitting the planet) it absorbs more Co2. When the ocean very slowly heats up (courtesy of how little/much sun energy is hitting the planet) the oceans release Co2 into the atmosphere. 97% of the @420ppm Co2 in the atmosphere (ie 0.042% of the atmosphere is currently Co2) was NOT put there by humans. It’s of natural origin. Co2 can only absorb certain warming wavelengths to a certain point. Beyond that point the theoretical heating effect diminishes as you add more Co2.
      BTW ignore the Wikipedia, DeSmogBlog, Greenpiss etc smear pieces on these highly credentialed climate scientists. These types of orgs are just idiotic fronts for SJW zealotry. Usually one of these scientists once did some consulting work for this or that energy company or received some research funding from one (as do many SJW outfits) so are smeared as “big oil” shills by these group-think enforcing clowns. https://vimeo.com/128317908
      
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      August 7, 2021 3:49pm
- CJames
  
  No – the refinery closure can’t be blamed on the ban. The refinery was designed and operated to run on heavy crude. The oil that came out of Taranaki is light crude so had to be shipped to oil refineries overseas for processing. So the loss of that Taranaki oil does not affect the refinery’s economics.
  The refinery is closing as it is small, old and too expensive to run.
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:25am
  - BananaLlama
    
    I think you will find that the refinery can process New Zealand Crude.
    
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    August 7, 2021 8:27am
    - CJames
      
      They can only put a small amount of NZ crude into the refinery feedstock. NZ uses about 50/50 petrol diesel/avtur.
      Crudes are a mixtures of carbon chain or ring molecules. The more carbons, the higher the boilingpoint and viscosity Petrol is typically C5-C8, Diesel is C9 to C14. Lube oils and bitumen are heavier. They separate these out in fractionating columns which work on the fluids’ boiling points.
      The NZ crude is very high in light fractions, maybe 90/10 petrol diesel.
      In converters, cracking and hydrogenation units, you can either add carbon chain molecules together or more commonly, split them apart. But they add more cost to the output, which is fairly low margin. Easier to blend feedstocks to give the output mix you want.
      There are whole chapters of it in textbooks (remember them) if you want more details.
      
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      August 7, 2021 1:16pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        In converters, cracking and hydrogenation units, you can either add carbon chain molecules together or more commonly, split them apart.
        
        I’m also aware you can turn coal into fuel through the same process and now you are too.
        Future oil exploration and exploitation around New Zealand could have secured further deposits which could have also been refined at Marsden.
        Not anymore.
        This idea that New Zealand was/is unable to refine it’s own locally produced crude oil is a meme.
        
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        August 7, 2021 1:33pm
      - CJames
        
        Banana,
        Stop being so stupid and do your research. It isn’t a meme, unless the official government statistics are wrong.
        https://www.mbie.govt.nz/building-and-energy/energy-and-natural-resources/energy-statistics-and-modelling/energy-publications-and-technical-papers/energy-in-new-zealand/
        In 2020, total crude oil production, 44.8PJ. Total amount exported 41.83PJ plus there was stock in transit. In 2018 (pre Covid), we produced 59.50PJ and exported 59.61PJ. – Variations year to year depending on storage and shipping schedules. Why would they pay transportation costs to export to a SE Asian refinery it if it could be used here?
        SASOL only extracted oil from coal because they had to. There were boycotts so they couldn’t import crude. And the process they used was a fair bit different to that used in oil refineries. Quite inefficient and very energy intensive, but they could get their fuelstock very cheap. Same with the tar sands in central Canada manufacturing dilbit.
        NZ doesn’t have those sort of resources. And our geology is probably too young to get significant quantities of heavy crude. If you don’t have access to a variety of crudes to blend, then your refinery needs to be purpose-built. Our total imports were 317PJ of which crude oil was half, so we already imported much of our fuel requirement refined and ready for use.
        
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        August 7, 2021 4:38pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        I think you will find that the refinery can process New Zealand Crude.
        
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        August 7, 2021 4:49pm
      - CJames
        
        I never said it couldn’t, nor did Nevermindthebollocks upthread
        What both of us were pointing out was the refinery isn’t set up to process NZ crude to get the fuel mix we need. If you are the expert on refinery operation, what bits of kit do they need to convert light crude to diesel and the cost of that process?
        
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        August 7, 2021 6:01pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        Well when the arguments being made for keeping it open vs keeping it closed are
        
        That it provides strategic security for our energy demands
        and
        It is too expensive, it hurts my feelings and i am triggered =(
        
        One doesn’t need to be an expert to pick a side.
        
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        August 7, 2021 6:32pm
  - artemisia
    
    Government could buy it and convert to green energy. Mention ‘green’ and the nephs will be off the couch in no time.
    
    Just an announcement will do, and a few working groups of course, but best move quickly before the workers with actual skills head across the ditch.
    
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    August 7, 2021 8:56am
    - Tall Man
      
      Maybe “refine” NZ green into biofuel and vape products to appease the greenie mps ….
      
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      August 7, 2021 9:50am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      What is Green energy? Air from the mouths of the Grrrrs or the Minister of Energy’s hydrogen collection?
      
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      August 7, 2021 10:36am
    - Tony Quotes
      
      I feel the threat to move across the ditch carries less weight than it used to. New Zealand is an authoritarian dystopia waiting to happen but Australia are already several steps ahead of us.
      
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      August 7, 2021 9:55pm
  - Jack5
    
    Refineries have also been closing in Australia. It is reducing to two from four, and from eight 20 years ago.
    
    An ABC reporter writing about BP, explains:
    
    “It blamed the regional over-supply of fuel and the growth of mega-refineries in Asia and the Middle East that had structurally changed the regional fuel market, saying Kwinana couldn’t compete with those overseas refineries any more.”
    
    Just under half the shares in the operator of the Marsden Point refinery are held by its big customers BP, ExxonMobil, and Z Energy.
    
    Exxon is closing its Altona oil refinery in Melbourne, saying it was no longer economically viable. Exxon has a refinery at Jurong Island, Singapore, that has a capacity of 605,000 barrels per day, compared with Marsden Point’s 135,000 bpd.
    
    Exxon also part-owns a 335,000 bpd refinery in Saudi Arabia.
    
    BP is selling three of its eight refineries in the United States. The three supply mainly local markets. The three have a combined refining out of 177,000 bpd.
    
    With these closed, BP will be left with global refining capacity of 2.8 million bpd, just over half of it still in the United States.
    
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    August 7, 2021 9:15am
    - ABS4EVA
      
      AUSTRALIA holds only 1 month of Fuel
      
      It’s enemies are preparing to Blockade it.
      
      The CCP Navy have a Base in Papua New Guinea
      when the CCP Recently threatened to Nuke
      Australian Cities – they were serious
      
      The CCP Navy and the Indonesian Navy were doing joint exercises close to Australia when they issued that threat so they only had to give the order.
      
      To Defeat Australia you only need to blockade it
      and that is what they intend to do.
      
      Why they are ringing it with bases.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnt63oAcoHc
      
      The US Navy has now adopted Woke Culture
      to the point it is no longer effective regardless
      of what equipment it has.
      
      That is not opinion that is Fact.
      From US Navy reports.
      
      Sky News is being banned
      because it is actually bringing some TRUTH
      about what is happening in the world
      and in particular Australia.
      
      Most Australian and New Zealanders are so
      Unaware of what is going on that they will be
      happy to be notified on their Dumb Phones
      via an APP
      
      That the War happened it is now over
      and the CCP are in Charge
      
      People are being Bombarded with Commie Crap 24/7.
      
      Communists now heavily influence Melbourne
      and Victoria.
      
      Pacific HQ WW2
      Communist HQ in COVID
      
      If you don’t know you are at War yet and with who by now – Nothing can help you.
      
      The Communists of New Zealand
      
      WILL NEVER ACT in the COUNTRIES
      best Interests
      
      IF they do that is accidental
      
      Jacinda literally falls over herself to work
      with Australia and New Zealand’s enemies.
      
      New Zealand is the Brown Eye of the
      Five Eyes Partnership
      
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      August 7, 2021 9:53am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        What exactly do you think China would have to gain from going to war with Australia, that they can’t already gain through legitimate commercial means?
        
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        August 7, 2021 11:55am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Albert_Ross: “What exactly do you think China would have to gain from going to war with Australia”
        
        A huge amount of energy, mineral, farming, fishing and population-settling resource?
        
        Probably wouldn’t get away with it without huge damage inflicted on them from the rest of the world, but they are world champions in propaganda, subterfuge and playing a long game to get what they want.
        
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        August 7, 2021 4:21pm
    - Bluegrass
      
      Strategically crazy for island countries with geographically long supply lines (hello Oz/NZ) to reduce local refineries’ capacity.
      
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      August 7, 2021 10:51am
      - Nickc2
        
        No worries, China will supply them with fuel in return for fishing rights and on-shore facilities.
        
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        August 7, 2021 12:54pm
      - virtualmark
        
        What difference does the refinery make???
        
        Do you think your hypothetical blockade would allow the crude oil to get through? But block any refined products from getting here?
        
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        August 7, 2021 3:32pm
- you reap what you sow
  
  Part of Cindy’s plan to save the world from climate change?
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:26am
  - Paulus
    
    Cindy has a plan ?
    Wow.
    There will be no need for petrol/Diesel fuel as we know it as we will all be electric coming from overnight charging from the sun ???????
    
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    August 7, 2021 11:26am
- Tricati
  
  The cynic in me thinks the government couldn’t give a toss about those losing their jobs, as resulting increase in petrol and diesel costs will likely reduce hydrocarbon fuel powered vehicle use; their overall aim.
  It would be good to see an objective economist do some numbers on the likely cost of fuel increase, its impact on transport costs and flow-on impact on joe public. In addition to the inflationary impact on families through transport and or grocery costs.
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:34am
- Benedict Yu
  
  “Directly the result of Arderns ban on exploration.”
  
  That is totally incorrect? How did you come to that conclusion?
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:12am
- Fletch
  
  And what do they think powers electric vehicles? Oil and coal. Idiots.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:43am
Mobile Michael

WTF? A High School with 850 students has 11 “non-binary and transitioning” students.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/education/300376589/auckland-students-campaign-for-compulsory-genderneutral-bathrooms-at-schools

In the words of Smashmouth:

“It’s just like any fad, it retracts before impact,
And just like fashion, it’s a passion for the with-it and hip.”
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August 7, 2021 8:12am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Wouldn’t a hula hoop return be better?
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:38am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  What a joke they are – the future of NZ.
  Just put in some portaloos, tell them shit in here or shit your pants
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:48am
- Paulus
  
  Like Tattoos !
  
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  August 7, 2021 11:29am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Lots of activity at Whenuapai yesterday and last night. C130 going in circles, then a light jet about 4pm, then a noisy helicopter about 9 – 9.30.
Wonder what all the excitement is? Are we going to war?
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August 7, 2021 8:16am
- Souvlaki
  
  Another donor to Labour Party coffers coming in under cover of darkness perhaps?
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:26am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Like that Larry Page dude? Rules for thee but not for me
    
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    August 7, 2021 8:45am
    - emmess
      
      Not just him, it’s all of the elites
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fveA7E1wms4
      
      [Us and Them]
      
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      August 7, 2021 12:04pm
      - artemisia
        
        Hey! He is Us.
        
        Diversity doesn’t get much more diverse.
        
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        August 7, 2021 1:32pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        That is well worth watching. Posted on FB, I will prob be back in jail.
        If this pandemic is really dangerous, why don’t these elite arseholes behave like it is serious?
        Us and Them
        
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        August 7, 2021 2:58pm
- oldfella
  
  Steve: what’s Chinese for ‘BANZAI’? ?
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:40am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    WANSUI
    萬歲
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_thousand_years
    
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    August 7, 2021 12:56pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Helen and Judith T taking it for a spin for old times sakes?
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:41am
- kevn
  
  @SteveO… Larry forgot his toothbrush,
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:48am
- pdm
  
  Is Whenuapai still an air force base and do we have planes based there?
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:26am
  - lifesgood
    
    Yes it is and yes we do.
    
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    August 7, 2021 9:40am
    - Greg Ettridge
      
      why does only only one of the 757’s come up on flight radar?
      
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      August 7, 2021 12:21pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        The other one is prob in the repair hangar.
        Old joke, after a Pacific disaster and Islands needing aid. The Aussie Air Force dropped tents and food, The US Air Force dropped medical supplies, the UK Air Force dropped building materials, The NZ Air Force C130 dropped an intake manifold
        
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        August 7, 2021 3:02pm
  - cmm
    
    CINDY1 regularly flies out of there.
    
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    August 7, 2021 9:40am
    - KiwiSapper
      
      On one of the latest model Mk 2021 brooms which have been declared green by the Green Party.
      
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      August 7, 2021 10:07am
  - KiwiSapper
    
    Do we even have planes?
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:05am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yeah we have a few, but none are armed to be able to be used for defence
      
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      August 7, 2021 10:17am
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        The P3K Orion can drop mines, torpedos and bombs, and they regularly practise this. The new P8 can launch the Harpoon missile (range 100km) as well as the above. NZ does not have any Harpoon missiles, but since we are getting the delivery of the P8 next year, that may change.
        
        The Seasprite helicopters can launch torpedos and can fire the Penguin missile, which we do have (range 40 km).
        
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        August 7, 2021 10:50am
      - Jack5
        
        Just to piss off the Greens …
        
        An Orion could also carry nuclear weapons in their internal bomb bay.
        
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        August 7, 2021 11:55am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yeah Wayne but does NZ have any bombs, mines, or torpedos?
        
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        August 7, 2021 12:25pm
- cmm
  
  Next time hop on https://www.flightradar24.com/.
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:39am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Never thought of that
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:17am
- TWEEDSE
  
  Hi Steve. No it looked like it was just one of their ‘frisky’ days. They have them from time to time. Lots of activity then dies down when they all head off to the officers mess for a drink.
  
  Mental note, best time to invade New Zealand is weekends or after the bar is open.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:10am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    So a bit of muscle flexing fun and a taxpayer funded pissup?
    
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    August 7, 2021 12:28pm
JibberJabber

O for Fucks Sake…
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/04-08-2021/o-for-goodness-sake-new-zealand-owes-david-tua-an-apology/

The Left don’t appear to understand the concepts of,
a… Methinks thou doth protest too much.
b…the Streisand Effect.
c…explaining is losing.

Tho’ never let a chance to Virtue signal go by is high on their radar.
https://twitter.com/frankritchie/status/1423386823351422979

Even to the point of pretending to not know where the expression came from.

Those of us who watched live know exactly what was said, it has entered the NZ lexicon and the resulting phrase is now is nothing more than a pisstake and not the heinous slur the perennially offended try to make it out to be.
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August 7, 2021 8:27am
- Okahu
  
  It takes a real man/woman to realise they have been wrong and change their tune to reflect that. It takes even more decency to reflect that when you have joined in the mockery of an individual for something they said (but actually didn’t), it may have been easy to laugh because it was what your friends were doing and it confirmed your collective prejudices.
  
  Tua said Olsen. O for Olsen. It needs no cultural analysis of the “Streisand effect” or pleas to Shakespearean wisdom.
  
  To hear that, all you need is functioning ears and an open mind.
  
  Neither of which you apparently possess. Still, the opportunity to pile in on the side of the hard of hearing and harder of caring was strong with you.
  
  Ffs! And by the way that’s ‘Oh, for fucks sake!’
  you needless prickler of sensitivities. You proud standard bearer for the arrogance of ignorance.
  
  Here’s a thought, how much would it have hurt you to say ‘ how about that? Turned out we were wrong eh? Shame we had to heap decades of mockery on an underserving recipient. Particularly sad that it may have made him reluctant to allow himself a more public role. Very sad to learn it remained a sore point to those who knew him and knew better and that they understandably took it as both a personal and a wider cultural smear.
  
  Go on jibber. Take a fresh listen. And come back and be your best man, or woman. You owe yourself to be correct if you want to opine. And you owe David Tua an overdue, fulsome apology.
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:25pm
hullkiwi

Ardern is accused of treating the housing crisis and resolution of it as a political game, after a historic facebook post emerges.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/pm-accused-of-treating-politics-as-a-game-after-old-social-media-post-about-housing-emerges/ar-AAN0FHS?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

Well knock me over with a feather and call me surprised.

Ardern is all about politics, she is an actress, she feines empathu, offers hugs, and mouths platitudes/soundbbites to a camera.

She is not a deep thinker, she is not a person who can identify issues/problems or offer solutions.

What more can we expect of her, after all she is a very “skillful” politician for the sheeple and low thinking electorate and MSM.
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August 7, 2021 8:32am
- NZer In Exile
  
  “”However an old Facebook post of Ardern’s from April 2016 has reemerged where she appears to call on the then-National Government to take action over housing issues.
  
  “So some local politicians have suggested banning what they have called ‘beggars.’ I have an alternative idea for him,” she wrote.
  
  “What about banning Housing New Zealand from ever treating a garage or a car as shelter, and an excuse for someone to simply be added to the back of a very long waiting list.
  
  “What about banning work and income from ever letting anyone walk out their door without shelter.
  
  “What about banning a hospital from letting a child and their family continually go back to a home that keeps making them sick, but is all parents can afford or find.
  
  “Or we could look at this whole issue differently, and make housing a human right. If you’re going to ban anything, make it the cause, not the symptom.””
  
  Personally I have no problem with the concept Jacinda espoused above. Making a roof over one’s head a human right in a nominally 1st world country? Yeah, OK, no problem there from me. NOW DO IT!!!!!! F F S !!!!
  
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  August 7, 2021 4:32pm
Ruahine

This will teach you lot for not supporting me in the polls.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300375863/jacinda-ardern-says-theres-no-magic-vaccine-number-that-will-see-nz-open-the-border
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August 7, 2021 8:38am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes exactly what I have been saying all along. She does not want to exit closed borders. She likes it this way.
  
  For example we could have maintained flights between Tasmania and New Zealand. Tasmania is as covid safe as New Zealand. They police entries from mainland Australia like manic bastards. ? Yet it has been closed down. Direct flights from Auckland to Hobart equal zero risk.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:18am
  - Jack5
    
    Yep.
    
    Forget about “Aotearoa”, the non-referendum chosen name of our country will be: New Belarus.
    
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    August 7, 2021 11:57am
    - Taieri
      
      There’re no lockdowns in Belarus.
      
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      August 7, 2021 1:26pm
      - Jack5
        
        Belarus hasn’t been out of lockdown since the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.
        
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        August 7, 2021 8:58pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  She has no clue. Just word soup waffle waffle waffle
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:54am
Nickc2

Note, this was sent to me. I’m not the writer of the article but it’s well worth a read.

The Government would have you believe all maori are victims
These ones did’nt get the memo

So we are led to believe that Maori and Pacific Islanders are victims of suppression and racism. We, the white colonisers, have stripped them of their dignity and self worth resulting in them not being able to compete on equal terms with all other New Zealanders. It is clear our Olympic competitors, many of whom posses Maori and Pacific heritage, didn’t receive the memo.

Most of our medals have been won by those, who according to this Labour Government, have no right to be successful due to the oppression, we the colonisers, have imposed upon them. Lisa Carrington, Valerie Adams, David Nyika, David Liti, the Black Ferns, All Black Sevens. In fact thirty-three (16%) of a team of 211 athletes selected are of Maori descent. Amongst the others there are many of Pacifica descent as well. They have outperformed their European teammates by a large margin when it comes to their medal haul.

How can that be? It can’t be possible. Success is not achievable without government intervention. Ardern has waved her magic wand. Her separatism programme has worked a treat. But then again, it is quite possible there may have been other forces at play. Forces like great parents, great dedication, endurance, ambition, application, and above all, passion and damn hard work.

If ever a group of young athletes were delivering a message to their ethnic kin back home, these are they. The colour of their skin is irrelevant. They are wonderful New Zealanders making all New Zealanders proud. This, in spite of living in a politically hostile environment where they are constantly reminded how incapable they are of taking responsibility of their own destiny. Politicians are the antagonist of Maori and Pacifica advancement. This group of wonderful athletes are exposing the lie this Government is promoting. The Government can crawl back into its collective hole of separatism whilst the rest of us share our diversity in sport. Now I’m preparing to watch Lidia Ko do what she does best. She’s not white either.
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August 7, 2021 8:42am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Democrat counting math.
https://rumble.com/vkst7m-biden-uses-dem-ballot-counting-math-claims-350-million-americans-vaccinated.html?
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August 7, 2021 8:46am
- Nickc2
  
  FACT CHECK Reqd Joe.
  Current US Population 331,449,281 (2021 Census).
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:04am
  - gravedodger
    
    @Nickc2, Those census figures will not include the thousands streaming over the border then being bussed and flown to middle America in the dead of night without reference to state officials, Joey just fudged the extra eighteen odd millions.
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:30am
    - Nickc2
      
      Correct gravedodger. They don’t fill out Census forms as they stream across the border. Still, a great many who were featured in the 2021 Census will now have passed away due to Covid or shot each other.
      
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      August 7, 2021 11:51am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      That is in ‘unmarked’ planes. All white with a blue tail. I don’t think they have ID numbers either, did not look for them
      
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      August 7, 2021 4:37pm
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Actual real vaccination data 5 August
    193 Million First Jab, 165 Million fully jabbed
    Just tad off the actual figures. But whats a couple hundred million here or there.
    Jacinda Kate Laurell will be able to verify this.
    She is the only source of the truth
    
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    August 7, 2021 12:26pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    331M plus illegals. He won the election using the same method
    
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    August 7, 2021 12:33pm
    - Nickc2
      
      I can’t dispute that Steve.
      
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      August 7, 2021 12:49pm
KevO'Brien

Electric cars for all by 2030?
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/08/05/bojos-electric-car-revolution-is-going-to-be-a-disaster/
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August 7, 2021 8:54am
- sooty
  
  Electric cars for all.
  But electricity will be rationed!
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:04am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Why don’t the politico’s think about that?
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:41am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I’m sure they have. Rationing will be used for socialist control
      
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      August 7, 2021 10:57am
      - Jack5
        
        Tow trucks will be the business to be in when electric cars dominate.
        
        People will be stranded with flat batteries all over the country.
        
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        August 7, 2021 9:00pm
- [email protected]
  
  There are as many untruths about electric cars as there are about Covid19 vaccines. There is a place for EV’s and there is a place for ICE.
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:25am
  - Nickc2
    
    The place for EVs is on the scrap heap!
    
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    August 7, 2021 9:37am
    - sooty
      
      Parked on the side of the road, would be better!
      
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      August 7, 2021 11:24am
  - hullkiwi
    
    info, there is no place for electric vehicles. Detailed anaslysis of what is required to convert the developed world (because you can’t convert Africa, Latin America or much of Asia) to EVs is a nonsense that has been perpetrated from the boardrooms of a few self interested companies.
    
    Just as an electric vehicle will not work for the climate advisor in the UK, they don’t work in New Zealand. A simple example for you -try going for a weekend’s skiing down at Mt Ruapehu leaving auckland Friday night, returning Sunday evening. Along with everyone else spending a weekend at the ski clubs on the mountain, how are all the vehicles there going to get recharged to do the return journeys to Auckland or Wellington? Or as a young man, with a friend of mine we did a week’s skiing in the South Island – such a trip would be impossible in a week.
    
    Then you have the life cycle of the electric vehicle and generating enough electricity to power a fleet of 5 million vehicles, while not making the power system of NZ fail.
    
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    August 7, 2021 9:48am
    - [email protected]
      
      With all due respect, what percentage of the time do you use your vehicle to go on a long road trip skiing vs drive it back and forth to work, shopping, local trips, etc?
      
      We’ve owned an EV since 2015 and absolutely love it.
      
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      August 7, 2021 1:01pm
      - Bluegrass
        
        Fine for city, not so much for country and large countries like Oz and the States.
        
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        August 7, 2021 1:56pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        How you doing towing your boat and then caravan up to the beach?
        Your supermarket must be close and you use public transport to work?
        // but not really
        
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        August 7, 2021 4:41pm
- tf78
  
  Kev, I wonder how the insurance companies are going to cope with all the fire claims.
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:50am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I wonder how many disclaimers there are about that?
    All care and no fucking responsibility – or payout
    
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    August 7, 2021 4:43pm
    - Nickc2
      
      If I owned an insurance Co, I’d forbid any of my policyholders from parking their EVs on their own or near other people’s properties.
      
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      August 7, 2021 8:01pm
Cinematic

Sydney or Sweden? Soon to be, Auckland or Sweden?
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August 7, 2021 8:58am
hullkiwi

….and now we get a lobby group who want the bad law (that is the hate speech law) extended to undermine the last bastion of true free speech, parliaments debating chamber….

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/muslim-group-questions-whether-mps-should-be-allowed-to-spread-hate-under-the-cloak-of-parliamentary-privilege/ar-AAMZqbM?ocid=msedgntp

From people from countries that do not respect free speech and parliamentary democracy.

These calls need to be seen for what they are, removal of democratic rights and privleges, to be replaced with the modern totalatarianism of woke diversity, and inclusion.
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August 7, 2021 9:04am
- Nickc2
  
  There is a line about refugees striving to turn their adopted countries into the same Shit Holes they just left.
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:43am
- oldfella
  
  Hull, re curtailing parliamentary privilege – the right to free speech in the chamber – the Muslim guy who was quoted said…
  “This is a loophole which has been exploited by these extreme politicians to maximize their sound-bite media-fueled popularity. It is a popularity based on conspiracy theories devoid of facts and vitriolic finger-pointing against vulnerable communities…”
  I think he’s talking about the Maori Party and the way they attack all whiteys? Yes?
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:32am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Old fella, the only time I’ve had a problem with free speech, was when RW Peters would use the debating chamber to hide behind defaming people and would not repeat the defamation outside Parliament.
    
    As for the Maori Party clowns, their oratory in Parliament shows the world that they are nothing but good old racists and bigots!
    
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    August 7, 2021 5:13pm
kowtow

Ardern says no vax pass due to “freedom”.
Since when did this regime fall in love with freedom.

Nope , it’s cos they know certain demographics won’t get it and therefore huge numbers would be “denied” access to services and then there’d be a huge outcry about “racism”.

Someone’s telling porkies , again.
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August 7, 2021 9:08am
- Simon
  
  Yep its the ro vaxxs are 95% efficient to you will need yearly boosters in the blink of an eye. They hope no one notices.
  
  Cindy is thinking of ruling out ro vax passes. They already know if you have the ro vax you can still pass on the ro. Making ro vax passes medically redundant.
  
  Its all so glib. MSM just run commercials for Cindy. They know the ro vax lasts about six months.
  
  If they are still waiting to work out shit they have failed already. But they must know that by now and just being dishonest.
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:48am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  And guess who tells the best porkies?
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:19am
  - Paulus
    
    53% of the voters who gave her this unlimited power.
    
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    August 7, 2021 1:11pm
- cmm
  
  She also said she was not going to stand for PM because she wanted to make babies and those were incompatible.
  
  Remember that passports and border control (as we know them today) were a temporary measure introduced during WW1, but the League of Nations loved them so much that they standardized the practice in the 1920s.
  
  Of course we’ll get vax passports (even if the rest of the world pressures us into it). Once we have temporary vax passports it will soon be easy to add other criteria. Hate speech check, maybe? No doubt the UN would love it.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:38am
  - slijmbal
    
    Having travelled around Africa I’ve had a vaccine passport (not sure if it’s called that name) for decades as you’re bonkers if you don’t get vaccinated and you do need to carry around proof of vaccination just in case.
    
    Various countries have controls around entering without appropriate vaccines. Yellow Fever springs to mind. I recall a conversation with fellow kiwis entering Tanzania who hadn’t had a yellow fever vaccination as it was not compulsory (more accurately Tanzania has a confusing and changing policy).
    
    I explained that they might have a problem leaving Tanzania as other countries would expect them to have been vaccinated against Yellow Fever.
    
    I was asked whether I had Yellow Fever vaccination on entering Australia. I chatted to the immigration officials and they indicated that they would potentially stick me in isolation if they felt we had been in Yellow Fever infection areas and weren’t vaccinated. They had occasionally refused entry.
    
    This isn’t as new as people think.
    
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    August 7, 2021 12:37pm
    - [email protected]
      
      Agree, but you were taking tested and proven vaccines, not a new, never tried before, experimental vaccine whose long term safety has not yet been tested.
      
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      August 7, 2021 1:09pm
      - slijmbal
        
        @cruzpo – we do know that in the short term it is significantly less dangerous than Covid as there have been literally billions of injections (hundreds of millions for Pfizer) and a relatively small number of adverse reactions compared to Covid bad outcomes, which is the whole point.
        
        That number of injections moves us past “new, never tried and experimental” and in to the realms of thinking about potential long term issues.
        
        Certainly some people may feel that their risk is low enough that they would rather not take an unknown long term risk. Personally, I think that’s daft, trading off the definitely known bad against the possible bad.
        
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        August 7, 2021 2:39pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        That is what the debate is all about. The crazy ones mention vaccines for polio, measles, more measles, leprosy, smallpox, mumps – all sorts of poxes, so why not Covid vax?
        Covid vax has been tested by millions – but for HOW long compared to all those others?
        Covid vax is EXPERIMENTAL. I can see future law suites going back to the Nuremberg Code – which are all being debunked atm.
        They can not force this vaccine anymore than they can force blood transfusions
        
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        August 7, 2021 4:53pm
  - Bluegrass
    
    There will likely be individual social credit chips or cards, renewable annually upon payment of a fee and a SocEx [social examination] which will govern entitlement to passports/drivers’ licenses/ownership of private vehicles/travel outside your designated local area/medical care/local and govt services/ alcohol/breeding rights/ ability to vote; etc.
    
    Special shops and ‘freedoms’ for the nomenklatura, apparatchiks and their families.
    
    Unless we are vigilant…
    
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    August 7, 2021 1:50pm
Maggy Wassilieff

British virologist Chris Smith has a regular spot on Kim Hill’s Programme.

He’s just informed us that the Pfizer Vaccine is most effective when the first and 2nd jabs are delivered 8-12 weeks apart. He wouldn’t opt for the short period (2-4 weeks) being used in NZ.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018807258

He also described NZ as being like a bird in a gilded cage…… (I think like a sitting duck is a more apt simile)
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August 7, 2021 9:23am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I take the point Maggie, but I think that NZers don’t truly appreciate how fortunate we are to be living a pre-COVID lifestyle. There’s a lot of bravado here & elsewhere about COVID only being mostly a case of the sniffles etc, but don’t underestimate the strain of social separation, living mostly at home, being worried about how kids, parents etc are coping. We are still living a normal life, albeit with hits to selected business sectors. We can meet up with mates, go to the pub or church or the restaurant without a second thought. That’s gold.
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:31am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The anxiety is mostly driven by govt.
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:42am
  - Cinematic
    
    It’s a fools paradise. There’s always a price to pay. Hospitals in NZ are full of infants and toddlers battling RSV and pneumonia as a direct result of the elimination strategy. Industries decimated. Debt at obscene levels future generations will need to repay. The list goes on and on. And worst of all NZ will get its spike in excess deaths, it’s just been delayed. With a flu variant now the likely culprit due to, you guessed it, the lockdowns.
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:45am
  - kowtow
    
    Very kind of the govt to allow us to be normal…….
    
    …….sad.
    
    That’s not “bravado” , it’s simply a reflection on the govt and all the people who think it’s OK for the vast majority to be penalised , when the effort should be going into the vulnerable , not the totality .
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:49am
- alwyn
  
  I wonder if it is just a coincidence that our Prime Minister had her vaccination shots six weeks apart instead of the three that we are being offered?
  To paraphrase Senator Baker’s famous question during the Senate Watergate hearings we should ask this question about the extended time being a better option.
  “What did the Prime Minister know and when did she know it?”
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:36am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Boosters maybe and two tablets a day just for the plebs .
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:22am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Can the commenters here that attended confirm whether the report on the news last night was accurate? Were they really having Maori prayers and wailing at the start of the session(s).
    If so, I am even more convinced my decision to join ACT was correct.
    
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    August 7, 2021 11:38am
  - septic skeptic
    
    We had our second shot scheduled about 6 weeks after the first. We could easily have delayed that if we wanted to, but I’m not convinced that the science is settled on the optimum gap. DYOR and YMMY ?
    
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    August 7, 2021 11:50am
  - Sacha
    
    I remember reading that the 2nd shots seemed to be most effective about 8 weeks apart – probably 5-6 months ago. I have been wondering why this has not been taken into account here, since we have been so late starting the rush.
    
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    August 7, 2021 12:31pm
- cmm
  
  Perhaps this is just an indication that the vaccine’s effectiveness drops off with time.
  
  Over simplifying here for illustration, but let’s say the vaccine is effective for 15 weeks. If you get a jab and are then topped up again 2 weeks later then you get 17 weeks of cover.
  
  If you only get the second jab after 12 weeks then you get 27 weeks of cover.
  
  Of course it isn’t nearly as simple as that, but given the lack of hard evidence it is difficult to say to what extent this vaccine is effective.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:00am
Maggy Wassilieff

Stuff has allowed comments on the PM’s word-soup interview with Henry Cooke about plans to open up NZ.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300375863/jacinda-ardern-says-theres-no-magic-vaccine-number-that-will-see-nz-open-the-border#comments

Looks like most of her fan-club are still in bed.
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August 7, 2021 9:30am
- Tall Man
  
  Closed now ……
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:00am
  - kowtow
    
    Not surprised , given the thrashing she’s got .
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:58am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Utube are really good at this, they allow comments for 10 or 15 minutes, if the narrative goes the wrong way, they just remove them.
    And while I am on Google
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw
    “After being released from our YouTube suspension, join Digital Editor Jack Houghton as he takes you through some of the moments on Sky News Australia from this week that Silicon Valley stopped you from seeing.”
    I find it very disturbing that a US company banned an Australian company talking to its own people.
    Censorship is just so dangerous, both the left and right and all between need to fight this.
    
    A poster actually said this didn’t occur yesterday, we have climate deniers, now it is evident we have censor deniers. The poster was asked politely to put a link up to win their argument, of course it didn’t happen, the link doesn’t exist.
    
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    August 7, 2021 11:05am
Nickc2

The head of the UK Anti Vaxxer Club dies from Covid.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9867589/Anti-vaxxer-club-boss-56-dies-Covid-mocking-people-getting-experimental-vaccine.html
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August 7, 2021 9:31am
- Cinematic
  
  Who has reviewed this mans medical records to assert he had no underlying health conditions? And why weren’t these stories prevalent in the first 12 months? I call bullshit.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:48am
  - Nickc2
    
    Don’t shoot the messenger. Ask the Daily Mail editor.
    
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    August 7, 2021 12:31pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    If the Daily Mail has that info they will never say so
    
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    August 7, 2021 12:43pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Died from Covid or with Covid?
  
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  August 7, 2021 12:42pm
- Greg Ettridge
  
  He was an Asthmatic, would have thought that was a definite co morbidity.
  
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  August 7, 2021 2:58pm
  - Okahu
    
    True. That knowledge must have produced a pleasing little moment for him. As he wheezed his last terrified moments safe from the beneficial impact of modern science, it’s true, he might have thought, “this is probably just my asthma playing up”. Good for him. Free at last.
    
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    August 7, 2021 9:58pm
Happychappy

Well it could be a long week coming if the All Blacks beat Australia in the first of three Bledisloe Cup matches tonight and the at the Olympics New Zealand continue with their record breaking medal take in Japan.
I wonder what our Sports Ministers take will be on this and whether it he will poke his chest out and take credit for these performances as he has done with Covid-19 and our economy.
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August 7, 2021 9:34am
dcrane

Why get the vaccine now if the govt isn’t going to open the country until next year, if that? If there is no covid around, then why take the risk? There is no long-term data on the safety of this novel vaccine method.

Plus, it’s sounding as if, by next year, the virus will be well mutated and a new vaccine will be needed.

When the borders open, and covid becomes a concern here, then it will be time to consider taking the risk.
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August 7, 2021 9:35am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  dcrane , I have a very similar view, I live on a farm 40 kms from town, I have been in lock down for 200 days, in an area that has never recorded a case.
  They are now demanding 80% before I won’t have to wear a face nappy to go down the paddock by myself.
  I will not touch the vaccines that are here now, my neighbors and some friends have done the experimenting for me and there has been very mixed results.
  The latest TGA figures show 407 deaths throughout Australia from vaccines, 68 a month so a couple a day, events as in problems about 8,000 a month.
  I have at this stage thoughts about going with the Novovax which is due end of the year.
  I see no rush at all, I am statistically going to kill myself with a chainsaw or falling off the ladder at 70 years old before a form of flu takes me out.
  If I don’t clean my gutters, I don’t get any water.
  I am not an anti vaxxer, I term my myself as an anti human lab rat.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:46am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  If Covid keeps mutating how many experimental test vaccines do we have to take to travel?
  
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  August 7, 2021 12:47pm
cmm

Does anyone else see some irony here?

NZ is flying hundreds of people to Dubai (including performers), building a single-use pavilion and spending over $60M.

And this is being done in the Sustainability District.

“The original budget for the event had risen by about $9m due to the event being delayed by a year due to Covid. The majority of the spend has been on the building.”

$9M extra on a $60M spend up is only 15% inflation. Almost sounds frugal.

It seems me they could have done a far better job by:
* Sending less than 100 people.
* Put up a few huge displays and go digital – thereby cutting costs, reducing CV19 infection/MIQ use and simultaneously showcasing NZs digital industry.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-hundreds-of-miq-rooms-ring-fenced-for-expo-2020-returnees/7AIEEPKBPIC6OI4TPJ4ULXWBOQ/
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August 7, 2021 9:35am
- hullkiwi
  
  Now that would be thinking….and no gravy train for all the hangers on!!
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:52am
- Nickc2
  
  I started out thinking this has to be a ‘put on’ and then I read the article and I find it’s as stated.
  How could these bastards be so crass?
  When I read the list of attendees from NZ, I just couldn’t believe these f-wits have the gall to attend such a self-serving bash.
  Let’s face it, I wouldn’t send any of em to attend a Cat Show even if they walked there.
  WHAT AN EFFIN WASTE OF TAXPAYERS MONEY.
  
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  August 7, 2021 12:47pm
Ipanema69

I see that the lead stories on both stuff and nzherald are interviews with St Jacinda and the road ahead with respect to covid.

I havent bothered to read either article and was initially somewhat disgusted by the fawning headlines and lead in text.

However having thought about it the articles clearly illustrate that covid is all that they have got to run on.

The rest of the world is moving on and simply learning to live with covid. Eventually covid will become endemic in nz one way or another. The borders will be open eventually.

As inflation starts to bite and interest rates rise the MSM attention will shift. By 2023 Covid will be yesterdays news.

In short the articles illustrate that it is all downhill from here for St Jacinda.
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August 7, 2021 9:39am
- Ruawai
  
  The MSM, spin doctors and Jacinda are building up for Thursday’s announcements and fanfare. Wonder if Jacinda and her supporting MP’s will be dressed in covid yellow like at the dawn raid apology gala where Jacinda had the modern equivalent treatment of Jesus on a cross, ie Jacinda under a mat.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:59am
- kowtow
  
  ‘it is all downhill from here for St Jacinda.’
  
  And hopefully for the legacy media too.
  
  Chris Trotter’s “400,000 Tories” who put her into power will be the first to wake up and will have the severest of buyers’ remorse and hopefully will blame the media pardy for leading them astray ( cos they sure as hell won’t want to admit to themselves how very stupid they were to allow themselves to be sucked in by the spin)
  
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  August 7, 2021 11:04am
- Paulus
  
  But remember it is National Party AGM this weekend so she gets the media headlines.
  
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  August 7, 2021 1:17pm
Maggie Pie

I just heard the Green Party’s James Shaw on ZB saying…. “he wasn’t worried about the challenge being mounted to his co-leadership at the AGM”.

Bet a peso to a pinch of donkey poop, he can’t rely on Pancho’s vote.

Just saying.
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August 7, 2021 9:40am
- Nickc2
  
  Has Chloe Swarbrick mounted a challenge?
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:48am
  - Nickc2
    
    For those who down ticked me, the challenge was not a stallion.
    
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    August 7, 2021 2:16pm
- cmm
  
  Shaw is far too stale pale male for their target audience. El Mexicano has it in spades.
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:48am
  - Colville
    
    the wonderful thing is Pancho is a loony Green … almost a textbook case. Perfect for scaring away fringe lefties and pushing Greens back down under the 5% barrier where they deserve to be.
    
    Remember…Labour at 40% is WONDERFUL if Green is 4.8% 🙂
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:01am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Surely they would make the MP for Tijuana Co Leader???
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:21am
  - JibberJabber
    
    Heh, wait until the Greens find out what little Rickys Spanish ancestors did when they colonised Mexico.
    
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    August 7, 2021 11:28am
TripeWryter

I turned off Jack Tame in less than the first minute of his Saturday morning show on NewstalkZB this morning.
He totted off 25 things ‘off the top of my head’ that he would have thought were important ‘issues’ (I loathe that word) in this country – and people are worrying about ‘Ao-tear-aroar’.
Ha-ha, he smugly chuckles.
As I reached over and turned him off I thought: ‘You could say the same about your precious, ‘progressive’ Labour government you seem to love so much.’
I thought about the other day as Labour introduced a bill in the House about banning conversion ‘therapy’. Radio broadcast emotional bits of speeches by Louisa Wall and Dr Ayesha Verrall.
And like Jack Tame I quickly ran through my mind all the problems that are stacking up and this Government seems unable to summon the skills to deal with them. Child poverdee, anybody?
And this Labour government Young Jack seems to love so much ‘cos they’re ‘progressive’ devotes time and effort to banning something – and maybe make criminals out of parents – that is not a pressing problem here in ‘Ao-tear-aroar’.
Fewer people, it would seem to me, are affected than the thousands and thousands of children living in ‘poverdee’.
Remember Jacinda’s special project?
Jack got caught out a bit on Thursday evening during ‘The Huddle’ segment of Heather du Plessis-Allan’s programme.
This ‘Ao-tear-aroar’ thing came up. Jack, as usual, was airily condescending and supercilious about any view but his own and those who think like him.
Nick Mills – who is making a damned good fist of being host of a reinstated morning programme in Wellington – just made a comment that he thought the TV broadcasters in particularly were being a bit forced in their babbling away in te reo; that it didn’t seem natural.
Jack did not react well and the mask of good-natured supercilious self-righteousness slipped a bit.
I suspect that’s why he returned to the subject this morning – smugly superior, condescending. He can all but call those who think differently – ‘racists’.
By the way: if you watched 1 ‘News’ last evening you would have noticed that Andrew Saville – who this year has taken to introducing the sports section by babbling away in te reo – simply said: ‘Welcome to sport.’
Well done that man! It’s all that’s needed.
One last thing: I was not flying a flag for the so-called conversion therapy.
I have a much-loved, much younger relative who has begun to transition to the human being they always thought they should be.
She is a much-loved niece. She will be a much-loved nephew.
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August 7, 2021 10:03am
Maggie Pie

Thursday, we find out Larry Page has NZ Residency.

Yesterday, we learn Peter Theil is selling his Queenstown fortress for a song and quitting the country.

I smell a rat.
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August 7, 2021 10:11am
- cmm
  
  I am gobsmacked that Larry Page has been given residency even though he seems to have no desire to live here – just use our medical resources when Fiji cannot provide them.
  
  This is really gaming the system.
  
  The intention of the business investment category is surely that these people bring their money, skills and influence to NZ to build up the NZ economy and increase opportunities for other people in NZ.
  
  Just depositing $3M in the bank and buying a holiday house/bug out location then continuing to live in Fiji is of no benefit to anyone.
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:25am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    It has huge ramifications for the current government, Google that controls utube is just like striking gold when you want to censor the narrative.
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:49am
  - DeepBlue
    
    It was the $10M visa category, and he is reportedly investing in Wisp (?) planes. If I were a new plane startup in NZ I’d quite like Larry Page’s backing.
    
    (I’m not agreeing to the residency application though)
    
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    August 7, 2021 10:56am
Happychappy

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/08/dr-ashley-bloomfield-has-apologised-for-misleading-parliament-s-health-select-committee.html
This is straight out lying how can any official get away with this without punishment and sets a bad example to those that worship Ashley Bloomfield and Jacinda Ardern that lying about corrupt practice is ok.
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August 7, 2021 10:41am
- MrTips
  
  Indeed. Bloomfield would have damn well known who he had spoken to – especially MFAT. He lied.
  To the select committee.
  
  That’s at least a public reprimand. No wonder the MOH is a basket case when they see the boss lie and get away with it.
  
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  August 7, 2021 12:22pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  How convenient.
  
  Story filters out early in the weekend….
  
  lots of time for Labour and the MSM to organise some protective spin before Parliament sits on Tuesday.
  
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  August 7, 2021 1:17pm
- JohnnyOverton
  
  Exactly, let’s hope being caught out will severely tarnish their excellent spin doctor halo’s. I doubt it though, the show must go on & the mob will continue to cheer.
  
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  August 7, 2021 2:53pm
CAKE FACE1

I just found a post I made in July 2020 about the Ro on another forum. Was I correct at all?:

“Anyway, about this nasty flu. This will be my final post about it. No one wants to discuss it anymore. I’ve depressed myself on the topic. However, the economic fallout from corona is the biggest event in a generation, so it deserves further analysis, as tedious as it is.

It is interesting study of mass psychology. As a maverick, I often find the way most people think to be strange. In ancient times, no doubt I would have been cast out of the group, and left to starve alone. Ha.

Anyway, at the beginning of the crisis, the Swedes stood alone. They correctly concluded that this nasty flu would become endemic (it has). While the world was lost in mass hysteria, the Swedes were cold, calculated, rational and dispassionate, as Nordic people typically are. Gradually, every country in the world will open their borders, and learn to live with the virus. Everyone will eventually take the Swedish road.
Only NZ and Oz now stand alone, fighting the inevitable spread of this nasty flu. The question is why do we choose this path?

One reason for this is that there is always hope. An elixir of life, a magic potion, could miraculously save us all. However, most scientists say a vaccine won’t stop all deaths from this nasty flu. The people who have died here so far of corona – typically over 90 years old, with terrible pre-conditions – will still probably die, even with a vaccine. Most people realise this, although its almost unspeakable to say it. When you bring it up, they whisper that you are right, but Fortress NZ should continue, in any case.

This brings to me the second possible reason why we continue down this policy dead end – the huge economic damage is penance for our soon to be committed communal sin. In this unconscious world view, we must suffer terrible economic hardship before we open our borders. We must sacrifice our economy, because the inevitable deaths of people demand this sacrifice. The Swedes didn’t take this approach, but their pagan and Protestant roots are different.

I have a third possible reason for the policy continuing. We need someone to blame for changing it. Everyone knows what needs to be done, but no-one wants to be responsible for doing it. Some think that after the election, Ms Ardern will open the borders.

This would be rather ironical. The woman who some seem to believe is a latter-day Messiah, would get the chance to play her role in history. She would be sacrificed to the mob, in the most almighty backlash in history, even though everybody secretly knows opening the borders must happen. If Ms Ardern is the great leader her supporters claim her to be, this is what she will do.

However, my prediction is that Ms Ardern won’t do the right thing. I think that she is a weak person, so she will maintain Fortress NZ policies permanently. The autistic savants in the Health Ministry will continue chanting their fixed and murderous ideological view, supporting her in this folly.

Instead, Ms Ardern will introduce Think Big Mark 2, to try to replace the tourism industry’s obliteration overnight with something else. It will be a disaster. The America’s Cup wasted funds will simply be a rounding error in comparison.”

How did I do?
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August 7, 2021 10:45am
Tony

A positive consequence of the proposed hate speech laws:

We should be able to get most rap music banned, due to the constant reference to “bitches” and the continual use of the “N” word.

If the government brings in their net filter to protect us all, then they should be able to screen all that stuff out.

Yay.
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August 7, 2021 11:17am
I remember when

Jobs for Nature roles cost $200,000 each, report shows:
Land Information NZ was allocating $40m ober 4 years for a job-creation initiative involving work to control pests and weeds.
The initiative was expected to create about 100 jobs, 70% in Canterbury and Otago, the remainder in Southland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty.
ACT Conservation spokeswoman Nicole McKee said it was ridiculous.
Budget documents showed Jobs for Nature programme costs for wallaby pest control of $685,000 per person employed.
“It’s time to give up these expensive programmes and start spending taxpayer’s money more responsibly,” she said.
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August 7, 2021 11:28am
Maggie Pie

Just been having a chat with Ma. Said she gave bingo a swerve last night and went to bed early. No sooner had she turned on Marcus Lush when she heard him saying “…..how much he loved Lydia Ko and how surprised he was to find out how young she was”

Ma reckons it totally creeped her out to be honest 🙁
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August 7, 2021 11:31am
I remember when

After Olympic Sevens team behaviour in accommodation and on plane:
Rugby Australia CEO Andy Marinos added:
“This behaviour is entirely unacceptable and not befitting any athlete who represents Australia or aspires to to so.”
Might be an idea to have it tattooed on his arm for future use.
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August 7, 2021 11:33am
Clyde

Is it just me, but I’m really pissed off by Steve Braunia’s syndicated column where he constantly refers to Judith Collins as “Whitey Collins” in some Sherriff role. I like satire as much as the next person, but if Braunias referred to Ardern as “Brownie” or “Darkie”, or “Coon”, his column would not be published. Garrick Tremain was ignominiously dumped by the ODT for what was seen as “racist” satire, while Braunias gets published. Welcome to 1984 and Faafoi’s new hate world everyone.
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August 7, 2021 11:50am
- kowtow
  
  The ODT shudda dumped itself over that Tremaine cartoon , after all they were the ones who published it !
  
  They also declared themselves in a banner front page headline “Je Suis” , but then failed to publish the Hebdo cartoon on that occasion.
  
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  August 7, 2021 12:25pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bcaup4NYwE

Supreme Court Case to End Roe v. Wade .

There has not been a case that is as on track to reverse Roe v. Wade quite like this one. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization came after a challenge against the Mississippi law that banned abortion after 15 weeks. The state of Mississippi asked the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow for individual states to ban abortion after the judicially created viability point that has been cited in the past. [26:11. ‘The US has some of the most aggressive abortion laws in the world compared to Europe”. Socialist Cindy: “Hold my Chardonnay’.]
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August 7, 2021 12:02pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvNEV6vJr14

New Zealand’s Prime Minister has a special gift from the Australian Prime Minister.
ScoMo’s gift to Cindy is more 501s. This included ISIS brides. Cindy4UN etc. [5:18]
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August 7, 2021 12:02pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXwyS12om48
Elder v Newsom.

It looks like California might have a Republican governor. They’re still stuck with Dem majorities in the state congress though. [9:39. Still, it’s good news. What’s bad for Dems is good for America.]
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August 7, 2021 12:03pm
Clyde

So, Ashley Bloomfield, “forgot” his texts with MFAT officials over this mysterious UN worker medivaced to NZ from Fiji, when testifying to the Health Committee? Just like Mahuta “wasn’t influenced” by her chats with Auntie Helen, and then of course St Jacinda “didn’t know” about Larry Page’s NZ residency. What a collective load of Pinnochios!
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August 7, 2021 12:06pm
- DeepBlue
  
  Forgot and now it’s Saturday for it to be reported. He should be recalled to the Select Committee to explain and be questioned. Not good enough.
  
  I’m curious as to why this has become such a political hot potato. I mean if it was a genuine medivac according to UN protocols there must be some unusual interference for the patient. I guess it will come our in time as the Fijians are not happy either.
  
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  August 7, 2021 1:53pm
- JohnnyOverton
  
  This why I generally dislike & don’t trust ‘nice’ people with blinding hallo’s. Often their false humility is superficial & condescending, but on the whole, the great unwashed love em. Give me the refreshing honesty of bad guys & gals any day.
  
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  August 7, 2021 2:39pm
Maggie Pie

Does anyone still buy butter at the dairy?

ANCHOR….. $9.20!!

🙁
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August 7, 2021 12:17pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Can’t wait to see what my lambs fetch this year, i suspect you will be buying Tofu.
  
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  August 7, 2021 1:06pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yet I get Danish butter @NW for $6…..very strange eh?
    
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    August 7, 2021 1:58pm
JohnnyOverton

If you don’t accept the fact that the western world is fast becoming a crusading social & economic liberal dictatorship, then this link should be enlightening.

https://www.dw.com/en/poland-should-not-stay-in-eu-at-all-costs-says-minister/a-58779202

After being under the Russian jackboot for decades Poland & Hungary now find themselves under the ultra-liberal values driven EU jackboot.

Of course the EU has no jurisdiction here but the UN does & they’re the source of our global, ultra-liberal, rules based dictatorial regime.

The UN are the enablers of the divisive Maori separatist attack that’s been launched against our constitution, politics, history & way of life.

International law should never override the laws of individual nation states.
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August 7, 2021 12:22pm
- MCos
  
  The true meaning of liberal in the NZ is not same as commonly used in America.
  From the Oxford dictionary
  “relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.”
  
  NZ is a sovereign country. However it is a signatory to many international agreements.
  https://www.lawcom.govt.nz/sites/default/files/projectAvailableFormats/NZLC%20R34.pdf
  
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  August 7, 2021 10:17pm
JohnnyOverton

I watched the TV3 report on the opening of this weekends nats conference & the political correctness was sickening.

No wonder they’re not get any traction, they’re as woke & overly liberal as Labour & all the others.

I’m not a Ross Meurant fan, but here’s some timely advice from him.

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2021/08/06/guest-blog-ross-meurant-act-by-default-national-is-a-dead-duck/
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August 7, 2021 1:11pm
- LauraNorda
  
  Johnny, lost me when Meurant blathered on about “Tory” this and “Tory” that.
  
  What the hell has the British Conservative Party got to do with National and why in his opinion they are knackered?
  
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  August 7, 2021 2:04pm
  - JohnnyOverton
    
    @Laura, ‘Tory’; you may be to young to remember, but in times gone by those who supported the NZ National party were also called Tory’s.
    
    Meurant was referring to the conservative values which the nats once stood for & upheld. They no longer represent those values, they’re now, like labour, a socially & economically liberal party.
    
    After Muldoon bit the dust Rogernomic liberalisation & globalisation became the new reality, so those who still held old school tory values became fewer & fewer.
    
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    August 7, 2021 2:28pm
    - LauraNorda
      
      Nah, sorry Johnny, was on George Gair’s selection panel for the North Shore in 1966 when he came across the bridge after losing the selection for Remuera and after Dean Eyre retired so a little older than you proclaim.
      
      But I do agree Nationals values have slipped and regretfully their values are no longer mine.
      You would have enjoyed the lunch I had with our current MP (in the centre of the North island) the day before Simon Bridges was rolled for Todd Muller. You would have spewed. Now there is a man who does not understand National’s values.
      
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      August 7, 2021 7:34pm
pdm

Hi folks -I have just changed from Chrome to Firefox and have lost the ability to copy and paste.

Can someone help please.
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August 7, 2021 1:31pm
- Nickc2
  
  I suggest you uninstall it and get a download from the Google Store and see what happens.
  
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  August 7, 2021 2:02pm
lifesgood

I posted a $5 bar of chocolate to England. Postage was $23!!! It is apparent that NZ Post is trying desperately to commit suicide. The rigmarole of filling out the new export form was unbelievable. Initials for first name, insufficient, postcode for suburb, insufficient, despite the full address being on the package, etc, etc. Note to self: Do not send little treats to family in the future. Anyone know of a cheaper way to send such things?
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August 7, 2021 1:53pm
- MCos
  
  You posted a what, where?
  
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  August 7, 2021 9:40pm
Maggie Pie

TIMES UK reporting….

The OIC are investigating comments made on ‘Russian State TV’ after the presenter referred to NZ transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard as “dirt”, “perverted” and a “psychopath”.
Russian politician Alexei Zhuralev added….”We stand opposed to all this profanity and perversion. We stand against this scum”

https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1423661104178290697

Go on Alexei….tell us what you REALLY think 🙁
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August 7, 2021 1:53pm
DeepBlue

My order for what JA is prepared to sacrifice to stay in power:

Cycle bridge
15B tunnel (another u turn)
Medical residency fast tracking
Ute tax
Climate Commission (she will create her own policy)
Opening borders
Hate Speech
Gay Conversion.
3 Waters
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August 7, 2021 1:58pm
- CAKE FACE1
  
  Interesting analysis.
  
  I’ll go for the following approximate order:
  
  Cycle bridge
  15B tunnel (another u turn)
  Medical residency fast tracking
  Ute tax
  3 Waters
  Climate Commission
  Hate Speech
  Gay Conversion
  Opening borders
  
  I don’t think that she will be prepared to sacrifice hate speech, because this legislation is a consequence of her Messiah complex. This mental illness also protects the “pray against the gay” legislation. I think these are the policies she wants to keep the most.
  
  With the borders, it’s a bit different. Here, she’s afraid people will die when the Ro becomes endemic, so her achievement of saving lives will be shown to be transient.
  
  Approximately the same number of people will probably die in any case – she’s just wasted $100 billion or so delaying the process for a couple of years.
  
  Irrespectively, since Ro is regarded as her only successful policy, she won’t abandon it. Borders open would see her go from hero to zero, and be responsible for mass death. She won’t take responsibility. Her Messiah complex gives her massive amounts of foolish pride. Jesus brought Lazarus back from the dead. Our Mormon Princess won’t be outdone so easily…
  
  Insular Aotearoa we will stay.
  
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  August 7, 2021 3:04pm
  - DeepBlue
    
    Sound thinking, without Covid mesiah complex Jacinda is nothing. I placed 3 Waters as her most revered policy because I think she will be desperate to keep the Maori caucus on side and if she can borrow another $160+B against Council water assets she can really, really screw the country.
    
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    August 7, 2021 11:09pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I’m sure this is by design. Jaspinda and others come up with these crazy ideas which will never work, almost implement them, then at election time say they are not going to do that; and the stupid sycophants go ‘yay, we won’ and vote for the socialists AGAIN!!!
  Psychology 101
  
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  August 7, 2021 3:09pm
Rusty

If this hate speech becomes law then sooner or later our national anthem “God defend New Zealand” will be attacked as being a hate speech message because atheists and non-christian faiths will consider it offensive to them.

You think that wont happen?
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August 7, 2021 2:48pm
Cobolt24

A good article by Don Brash:
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/natural-and-built-environments-act-rma-replacement
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August 7, 2021 2:50pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Not the first time Ashley Bloomfield has had to apologise for misleading his Minister or the Public:
Remember these times, folks?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300305202/ministry-of-health-apologises-for-misleading-minister-and-public-on-edited-mental-health-report

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/124506375/dr-ashley-bloomfield-apologises-for-accepting-cricket-match-tickets-after-being-lobbied

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-bloomfield-apologises-after-incorrect-positive-case-tracing-statement/POWEXY34GHXTAZCA54INH572TA/

https://www.teaomaori.news/bloomfield-apologises-covid-19-patients-who-had-personal-details-leaked
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August 7, 2021 3:02pm
- MrTips
  
  100% agreement Maggy. Although not appointed by Jacinda, he is in the same mold as Coster – softly spoken, pliable to political pressure and not the sharpest tool in the shed.
  
  I gave up long ago thinking he was ok. He’s not.
  
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  August 7, 2021 3:11pm
I remember when

Biden Pledges to cut emissions, Push Electric Cars:
The President has pledged to cut emissions by 50% by the end of the decade.
Also wants to compete with the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles, China.
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August 7, 2021 3:23pm
CAKE FACE1

Quite amusing:

https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com/2021/08/how-long-are-we-going-to-follow-health.html

Of course, most National supporters have been fooled by the so-called Ro “experts”.

Professor Baker – famously advocated a Ro economic recession or depression because it would help address the so-called “climate crisis”. The man is a socialist or a communist (or both).

Dr Pinky – wink if you like pink… Self confessed socialist or communist.

Dr Hendy – 88k man is definitely a socialist. He loves nothing more than making up numbers to justify new rules.

Dr Raymond Bloomfield – Loves central planning more than Stalin.

And so it goes on…

National supporters are so naive, they believe that this bunch of socialists are trying to help them, rather than impose their socialist New World Order on us…

It is quite absurd…
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August 7, 2021 3:32pm
- MrTips
  
  Actually, Prof Hendy is not just a numbers manufacturer. He’s an avowed climate change fanatic who spent a year taking trains and buses to make a point. https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/116310946/physicist-shaun-hendy-maps-the-lows-highs-and-sleepless-buses-of-a-nofly-year
  
  Which is fine and his perogative, but he’s not a naive random number generator. He has a clear fanatics agenda and wouldn’t care if AirNZ or NZ Refining went bust.
  
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  August 7, 2021 4:34pm
- fernglas
  
  You’ll find that Siouxsie Wiles’ Twitter feed unashamedly admits that she makes scientific decisions based on her politics, and says that all scientists do the same. If so, then the science we are getting is about as reliable as the news, although harder to wipe your arse with.
  
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  August 7, 2021 8:25pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I’m finding it hard to see what separates the Green Party from the Maori Party

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/08/marama-davidson-s-full-green-party-agm-speech.html
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August 7, 2021 4:36pm
Maggie Pie

Hope they’ve got Security monitoring the ‘Disabled Toilets’ at Eden Park….

Aarons in town 😛
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