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Warren

Well why have people not rebelled more over some of our Prime Ministers Jacinda Ardern rules as really most border on blackmail in which again shows there is rules for some and not for others.
The latest is Rythem and Vines might need to be canceled because of our vacation rates, well if that’s the case and the Goverment are using it as a tool through its popularity so be it, I never voted for this Government or the current Prime Minister and most that will go to Rythm and Vines Concert so those that would will get there just reward for the seeds they sowed.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/11/covid-19-government-set-on-letting-aucklanders-free-for-summer-but-they-might-have-nowhere-to-party.html
Let’s face it Rythm and Vines is just another mechanism for Jacinda to gather votes and push one of her policies on testing the drugs young people have to make sure they will not harm the people that want or need to get high.
I am sick to death of this Government and its Leader using blackmail to ensure the Labour Party and there Leader achieve from blatant bribes and blackmail of the population in New Zealand.
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November 6, 2021 8:00am
- Thought Criminal
  
  In a democracy, you get the government you deserve.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:25am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    More accurately, you get the government a majority of voters think you deserve.
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:32am
    - rouppe
      
      The previous election, yes. Though that was an aberration, which is quite appropriate for this government.
      
      Usually the votes end up with a hodge podge with no majority. From that point the government we end up with is completely out of the voters control.
      
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      November 6, 2021 8:56am
      - MCos
        
        The current government, and all governments under MMP, is there because a majority of the votes were cast for that side of the house.
        Previously, back to 1951, the majority of the votes were cast against the eventual government.
        
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        November 6, 2021 1:56pm
    - dcrane
      
      In the US, “a majority of voters” often being a small minority of the population, the rest not having been allowed a decent candidate to vote for.
      
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      November 6, 2021 9:09am
    - Surely Knott
      
      More accurately, you get the government a majority of voters were convinced you deserve, based on the promises and the advertising on the packet.
      
      Labour.org.nz Party Principles.
      
      A few of the stated Principles
      
      *The natural resources of New Zealand belong to all the people and these resources, and in particular non-renewable resources, should be managed for the benefit of all, including future generations. (Cough)
      
      *All people should have equal access to all social, economic, cultural, political and legal spheres, regardless of wealth or social position, and continuing participation in the democratic process. (Equal access or equal outcome?)
      
      *All people are entitled to dignity, self-respect and the opportunity to work. (Unless they are unvaccinated)
      
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      November 6, 2021 11:05am
  - Scott
    
    Thought criminal, totally agree. I just had breakfast at a local café here in Masterton. Talking to the owner, “how’s business?” He waves his hand, not so good. He is one of the many many frustrated people here in New Zealand. It’s nothing like Auckland. But here in the provinces hard-working men and women are really struggling. Level 2 is bad for business, it depresses business, customers are anxious, many people stay away and masks are a constant reminder of fear and stay home.
    
    But I am also reminded of the reality that we voted for this. We voted for her. She will save us! I will save you! How is that working out?
    
    I see in Sweden, which never ever locked down, they still have a few covid deaths each day. But not many. They just learned to live with it. We need to learn to live with it. It is never going away. We are going to have to take the hit that every other country took. Jacinda won’t save you.
    
    Get up every morning, say your prayers and then face the day with courage.
    “Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save. When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing. Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
    whose hope is in the LORD their God.” – Psalm 146:3-5
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:34am
    - R
      
      Leaving aside religion, I agree with Scott.
      
      There’s a silly story on a Stuff today about an 87 year old woman whose grandson claims she died because of Covid. Maybe she did or did not. But the fact is she exceeded the average life expectancy for women. She was also vaccinated which means, based on expert findings from Norway earlier this year, that the vaccine may have been a contributor to her death.was she told about the risk of vaccination? Probably not.
      
      https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/126909806/family-left-with-questions-after-noncovid19-death-of-auckland-rest-home-resident
      
      https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/124894538/life-expectancy-continues-to-rise-however-gains-slowing-mori-narrowing-gap-but-large-disparity-remains
      
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      November 6, 2021 10:30am
      - fernglas
        
        She was on end of life care for long term dementia and had only a few weeks at best to go. Why was she double jabbed in the first place? Covid would have been a mercy, as flu has previously been. And why did her family consider it necessary to run off to the press over a clinical decision? And finally, why did Stuff even give them the time of day? Or is it diagnosis by consensus these days?
        
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        November 6, 2021 2:43pm
      - Surely Knott
        
        Where is the consistency. On medsafe their are 94 deaths after vax. They are divided into unlikely (40), not enough information (38), under investigation (15) , and vax death (1).
        
        There were over thirty under investigation the week before and they seemed to have been moved to not enough information. The under investigation deaths remained the same since July. So it obviously takes months to investigate. And many are never determined.
        
        Not so Covid deaths. Covid Deaths there is only one statistic which is covid deaths reported. They never say not enough info, and they don’t report covid deaths that were deemed unlikely. And the deaths seem to be reported the next day or in the same week. I think this article is the only covid death “unlikely” we have seen. Maybe they are triying to show a more balanced approach.
        
        The same article was repeated on Newstalk zb. And included a statement from Michael Baker who said, “There is a weakness in our coding system that says you can only die of one thing.” ….”About 500 people die each year in NZ after contracting influenza. But only 5 to 10 percent of those are recorded as influenza deaths because most of the patients had underlying conditions that made them vulnerable to infections.” But there are multiple reporting systems Baker said and he believes it will most likely eventually be reported to the World Health Organisations as Covid Related.”!!!
        
        This system is ripe for abuse. Did we even have a pandemic. We have been grossly mislead and the numbers are meaningless without more context and a consistent application. Oz provides all cause mortality data every month current til July 2021. We have no mortality data since 2018. Government knows more about you than you know about the government. Vax Passes please.
        
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        November 6, 2021 5:06pm
    - Bob
      
      we voted for this…
      Whats this ‘WE’ white man.
      Not one of the 5 million team at all… correct terminology is ….many voted for.
      
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      November 6, 2021 11:59am
    - Mr_Blobby
      
      Could you imagine the horrid or get stuffed running anything on sweden that showed the government in a negative light.
      
      I doubt that very much.
      
      Could you imagine the horrid or get stuffed running anything on the situation in Israel that woul show the government in a bad light.
      
      No way in hell
      
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      November 6, 2021 12:34pm
    - Mr_Blobby
      
      After the protests and her abysmal performance, sir I am only taking questions from the attributed press, I think she ment accredited, if you dont stop i will stop the press conference.
      
      My guess is she will go into witless protection.
      
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      November 6, 2021 2:47pm
      - sooty
        
        But the rest of the cabinet is there already and the backbenchers are running scared and dusting of CVs!
        
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        November 6, 2021 4:07pm
      - Jim
        
        Most transparent government…yea right
        
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        November 6, 2021 7:16pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  Such a coincidence that Rythm & Vines in Gisborne may get cancelled and suddenly there is Covid in the waste water in Gisborne. I guess that is to try and up their vaccination rate this weekend.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:58am
  - Warren
    
    Bobba you look at the amount of times Covd-19 has been detected in towns water system since the need to increase vaccines in them particular places and how many cases have been added because of that test. I live in Huntly and a couple of weeks ago it was found in our waste water and what followed was a campaign to get those that had not been vaccinated to have their first jab.
    Now let’s get this straight Huntly has still not had a positive case of Covid -19 since it was first detected in New Zealand, not one and we again have suffered with a month lockdown, so again I call this Government out for there bullshit and scaremongering because they have no plan and everything selfishly is stacked there way to control New Zealander’s.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:21am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    How do we know those reports are true?
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:54am
    - Sacha
      
      Such is the scepticism abroad –
      I have wondered just how the water is sampled,
      and at what times.
      And how much is taken?
      And who decides which drain hole is sampled?
      It all sounds like so much hokum to me.
      
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      November 6, 2021 10:31am
    - Unity
      
      Exactly!! I don’t believe a word that comes out of their mouths. Everything is all too convenient to enable them to keep on controlling us. Well I’m willing to take my chances so they can just butt out of my life. Wishful thinking??!!
      
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      November 6, 2021 11:00am
    - RichardX
      
      Kev, That is a question you need to ask yourself far more often than it appears you do.
      
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      November 6, 2021 11:01am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Whatever I report here is usually backed up by multiple diverse sources. I won’t always be right but I do try to apply reasonable filters. I’m not too bad at evaluating tech improvements.
        
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        November 6, 2021 12:01pm
      - Alan1930
        
        KevO’Brian I don’t think Ive seen you post information from a source that’s credible yet.
        
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        November 6, 2021 1:42pm
      - sooty
        
        When they test the wastewater is it no 2 or 3 they are after? Millions of gallons per day entering the teatment plant, divided by one persons waste per day? Need in the haystack type hunt! If we had journalists they could get a tour of the plant and tell us the results! “Except for Chch because theirs burnt down and probably goes straight into the Avon river.”
        
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        November 6, 2021 4:16pm
- Nickc2
  
  Let’s face it, if Peters hadn’t put her there in 2017, she wouldn’t have been elected in 2020. To this day, she would just be another wannabe on Labour’s Brag Wall of no-hopers.
  IMO, the blame for the current and future dilemma we find ourselves with lies firmly and squarely with Peters and yet, there is a possibility that only he may save us from ourselves in 2023, should NZ1st be successful and choose to team with ACT or National or even sit on the crossbenches.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:17am
  - Bob
    
    Winston, if successful will sit on the crossbenches; he can then control NZ to suit his TRIBAL advisors.
    
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    November 6, 2021 12:02pm
    - Nickc2
      
      I’m not sure what you mean by TRIBAL here Bob. Peters AFIK is not into things Maori and has been anti-Maori stuff, even to the point of supporting the removal of Maori Seats in Parliament.
      If you are calling TRIBAL the big end of town, I agree with you all the way. Horse Racing, Gambling, Fishing and Forestry spring readily to mind here.
      
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      November 6, 2021 12:59pm
  - Dairy Flat
    
    Well said, and so far you’ve managed to escape vitriol for even mooting such a thing. I despise Peters’ political manouverings but quite simply the numbers will not stack up for National and Act unless there is a landslide against Labour, which is unlikely. National and Act need to try and make peace with the man because if he runs again they will need him. It’s bloody politics at it’s worst but still better than the destruction of the country at the hands of the inept and the racists.
    
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    November 6, 2021 12:05pm
  - blue collar
    
    Cindy n labour are. Gone … you’re quite right , what will the opposition / incumbent govt look like ?
    National
    Act
    Winston
    My picks …..
    national 31 %
    Act 18 %
    Winston 6 %
    Based on nothing but a working mans instinct
    
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    November 6, 2021 5:47pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  Theres a old saying in business. Never set a target unless you know you can meet or beat it. There is another old saying. Always under promise and over deliver.
  If this Government had been smart they would have said that when the medical experts said it was save to open up they would. And they would have told the medical experts to say the same.
  Now they would have copped flak. But they would have had the flexibility to balance the medical with the political.
  Instead they have boxed themselves into what may prove to be a fatal corner.
  What ever they do they will piss off Aucklanders or the rest of the country both with significant numbers of soon to be former supporters.
  
  BTW I have always held that voting is an 80/20 game. 80% vote according to how the Government is impacting their personal circumstances and 20% vote along ideology lines. I point to the 2002 election where the Nats got 22% as an example.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:22am
  - Cinematic
    
    I’ve little doubt that they’ve lost Auckland and all will not be forgiven. But, in behind covid they are managing to push through parliament a host of attacks on the culture of our country. Perhaps that is what will be the most damaging aspect of this government in the long term.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:49am
    - bronny1
      
      Perhaps!!!!!?!
      
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      November 6, 2021 2:57pm
- Alan1930
  
  “Well why have people not rebelled more over some of our Prime Ministers Jacinda Ardern rules as really most border on blackmail in which again shows there is rules for some and not for others.”
  
  Because most people see them as sensible decisions that thrust the onus back on the idiotic few who refuse to be team players and accept the responsibility for their actions?
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:06am
- Harro104
  
  Many folks I know in Auckland are not complying and take pleasure in their low level non compliances. All power to them.
  
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  November 6, 2021 5:18pm
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Happy International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict!
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November 6, 2021 8:00am
- Master Mariner
  
  Remind James to fly past Afghanistan on his way home and give the Taliban a few tips.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:30am
- Simon
  
  On Sunday, Elon Musk left UN bosses in shock when he openly revealed a vast pedophilia network run by UN officials.
  
  Elon Musk questioned the UN over its child sex ring during a heated Twitter dispute over whether enormous sums of money can address world hunger
  
  The article details a report exposing how UN peacekeepers “orally and anally raped” children in the Central African Republic and how top officials at the UN’s children agency, UNICEF ignored the scandal in an apparent attempt to cover it up.
  
  See at
  https://.twitter.com/elonmusk/
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:31am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Very bad things happen during wars. I really hope Elon Musk will do everything he can to strengthen international institutions, promote world peace and contribute to environmental sustainability.
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:56am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    Mmmm. Elon Musk has form in seeing pedophilia everywhere, and we have seen allegations of a vast secret ring of child abusers before, notably that which led to the UK’s Operation Yew Tree which in turn led to … no charges being brought. A bit of careful, thoughtful skepticism is probably warranted here
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:00am
  - Nickc2
    
    The UN Authorities don’t learn, they tried to cover up a similar practice in East Timor.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:29am
- JibberJabber
  
  Absolutely, every armed conflict should be performed in a Stadium between the Leaders of the opposing Nations as the combatants.
  #lastpersonstanding
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:31am
- ABS4EVA
  
  PREPARE FOR WAR
  PREPARE FOR WAR
  PREPARE FOR WAR
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:12am
- andydownhere
  
  Who gives a toss about that. Our country is going to hell and you worry about that
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:14pm
iMP

Canterbury ethnic cleansing?

On the banks of massive Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere (NZ’s 4th largest lake) at Greenpark, Canterbury homeowners have lived, fished and played for over 120 years (1900). In other words, they’ve established cultural usage, te whakamahi tikanga. Maori, of different tribes, have used parts of it for longer, taken it from one another, and fought over it: Ngāti Mamoe, Ngai Tahu, Waitaha, et al.

100 years later (1998) local’s kainga was given to Ngai Tahu as part of a huge treaty settlement (including much of the South Is. coastline). Within three years (2024) Ngai Tahu will evict the 12 decade-long homeowners from their inter-generational homes and kohi Kai, using a political ruse of ‘water quality’ to discontinue leases.

We see the ethnic divide-and-rule ideology of the government in practical play. On the basis of ‘water quality’ and a treaty settlement 100years after their establishment, leaseholders (of multiple ethnicity) are to be evicted from their intergenerational homes. Many are elderly.

Is this ethnic cleansing? Ngai Tahu suggest the huts settlement is culturally significant. The shores of Te Waihora are expansive and almost completely empty other than as grazing. Why this tiny pinprick hamlet of European and Maori leaseholders have to be removed from this empty expanse, is little more than a power grab. It is divisive. It is unconscionable. It is a disgrace. Will Greenpark Te Waihora become a Canterbury Bastion Point?
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November 6, 2021 8:01am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Do you think the lease holders are entitled to remain there after their leases have expired? Should the government legislate to override the legals rights of the landowners?
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:06am
  - iMP
    
    Like the Irish and Scottish dispossessions by ‘legal’ English land-holders, given that cross-border land by the Crown to its ethnic aristocracy? Or do you mean ‘legal’ repossession in Zimbabwae on the basis of ethnicity?
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:18am
    - mikenmildagain
      
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      Perhaps more like the demolition of Palestinian homes to make way for Jewish settler. All perfectly legal, according to the Israeli courts.
      
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      November 6, 2021 8:30am
      - Harriet
        
        All was fine up until after the Oslo accords when some Arabs then told Palestinians they no longer had to pay their nominal rents to Jewish landlords, some did and some didn’t, and now the one’s who didn’t have to pay up.
        
        There was never a problem until the shit stirrers stirred one up — and the western media and you continue doing it. 😎
        
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        November 6, 2021 10:12am
    - kowtow
      
      Let’s not push the evil “English” theme too hard cos most of the ‘dispossession” done to the Scots and Irish was actually done by the French , (who had also dispossessed the Anglo Saxons, who had in their turn dispossesed the Romano Britains , who had dispossesed the Celts) and in many instances with the active connivance of their fellow countrymen.
      
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      November 6, 2021 8:51am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    You are missing the point. As usual. No the owners are entitled to end the leases.
    
    But just because you can do something, doesn’t mean that you should. The point that is being made is that these people are being evicted for ideological reasons. It has nothing to do with their impact on water quality.
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:23am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Is wanting to use your own land for your own purposes ‘ideological’? Sounds scary.
      
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      November 6, 2021 8:29am
      - iMP
        
        The Greenpark village is a tiny pinprick on the map of Lake Ellesmere, which is mostly empty with grass. Why does Ngai Tahu NEED to evict them? For what purpose? They’ve been there longer than Ngai Tahu who were repatriated from Kapiti by Ngati Toa after converting to Christianity, to Banks Peninsula about the same time, after being dispossessed themselves from Kaiapoi and Onawe.
        
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        November 6, 2021 9:03am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Do they have to give a reason that satisfies you?
        
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        November 6, 2021 9:05am
      - rouppe
        
        I agree with parts of what both you and Benedict are saying.
        
        It’s a lease. So to Mike’s point of course they have the right to not renew it. However given there is no pressing need for that particular spot and the residents are elderly, there are other ways to do it.
        
        Why cite water quality of there isn’t a problem? Perhaps waste water is being tipped directly into the lake. That’s not acceptable, just like the dodgy waste water situation at the boat houses in Titahi Bay.
        If that is the case, to Benedict’s point, lease renewal could include the requirement for a fully contained treatment system on every plot, alongside a condition that on the death of the current leaseholders the land returns to Ngai Tahu.
        Eventually the whole place would empty out, and fairly quickly if they are that old.
        
        But at the end of the day it is Ngai Tahu’s land.
        
        It is interesting to see how Ngai Tahu: don’t pay tax; are getting continued subsidies; get a top up on every subsequent treaty settlement; want (Maori) social housing tenants to have tenancy for life; have no compunction to move white people off their tenancy.
        
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        November 6, 2021 9:17am
      - Jack5
        
        And on Lake Ellesmere is the spit, which the Government has forked up $16 million to buy jointly with Ngai Tahu as a potential rocket launch site.
        
        The tribe says the land traditionally was used at a Maori transit site.
        
        The space launch potential claim is based on the fact that Rocket Lab in 2015 considered the spit as a potential site. Rocket Lab uses a site at Mahia in the North Island and is developing a site in the United States for its larger rockets.
        
        Ngai Tahu Properties assets, with the property bubble, surely must be close to $1 billion. Like other Ngai Tahu businesses, the company is a legal charity, and exempt from company tax.
        
        You have to wonder whether it had any part, small or big, in our political parties’ opposition to capital gains tax. Or would charities be exempt from any such tax, as well as to company tax?
        
        This puff for the state-helped tribe purchase of the spit was published by Stuff at the time:
        
        Mark Rocket, chief executive of unmanned high-altitude solar aircraft company Kea Aerospace, said Christchurch was already a gateway to the Antarctic and would soon “be a gateway to space”.
        
        And this, from another Stuff-puff report:
        
        If the venture succeeds New Zealand would join countries such as Iran, Israel, India, North and South Korea and Argentina, as well as the great powers, in staging a successful rocket launch.
        
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        November 6, 2021 9:32am
    - Yvette
      
      If Mahuta has her way, Ngai Tahu will control water in most of the South Island.
      QED
      
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      November 6, 2021 8:45am
      - WallyG
        
        Fixed it for you: “If Mahuta has her way, Ngai Tahu will control most of the South Island.”
        
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        November 6, 2021 9:14am
      - tf78
        
        Yvette, do you think Mahuta is going to clean up the mess ‘her’ water created in Gisborne?
        
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        November 6, 2021 10:10am
    - Nickc2
      
      Another Mahutaism. Don’t go to sleep, there’s more to come.
      Despite Maori Science, they still believe they own water because it’s been there forever. Their Science deliberately ignores how rain is produced because there’s a bucket of other people’s money to be made simply by convincing them the implementation of the 3 Waters rort is for their own benefit.
      
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      November 6, 2021 9:41am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “Do they have to give a reason that satisfies you?”
      
      I suspect you are being deliberately obtuse. Society operates on norms and collective cohesion. At least it used to.
      
      How about we apply your philosophy to social housing tenants?
      
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      November 6, 2021 9:57am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        One of those norms being, the right to do as you wish with your own private property. A right is not a right if it is only available for nice people to use in a nice way. The Maori land owners are not answerable to us, and while we’re not obliged to like what they’re doing, we do not have the right to make them stop it and nor would we want there to be such a right.
        
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        November 6, 2021 12:22pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        I agree. They should not be stopped. But I can say that is a bad thing you are doing imo.
        
        What shits me is the lack of symmetry. A bunch of Maori recently terrorised a land developer into abandoning a housing development and then terrorised the government into buying the land.
        
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        November 6, 2021 2:13pm
    - Nickc2
      
      IMO, these leaseholders should picket their properties and not move on regardless of what legal mumbo jumbo is bought against them. Just do an Ihumatao and stay put! Cindy will buy the land using taxpayer money with a bit extra thrown in for your hurt feelings and all will be well.
      How can that not work? The precedent has already been established.
      Oh, sorry, that won’t work, wrong ethnicity involved.
      
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      November 6, 2021 1:28pm
  - I remember when
    
    mandm:
    That sounds like a reasoned answer and well may be.
    Of course, you don’t have to terminate the lease all you need to do is make the lease too expensive.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:15am
  - Taieri
    
    Should the government legislate to override the legals rights of the landowners?
    ——————
    
    It has. Vide legal rights of residential landlords.
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:35am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      And we strongly disapproved of that.
      
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      November 6, 2021 12:23pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  The games’s afoot.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:58am
cas

It’s all very well to look at the results of waste water testing in Gizzy and Hawkes Bay. But many rural or isolated communities are on tank water or bore water so they will never know how far it has spread in say the PM’s old stamping ground of outside Murupara or round the east Cape. At least Te Whanau Apanui got off their chuffs and got a huge % of their population double vaxxed.
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November 6, 2021 8:07am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I don’t understand the technology of waste water detection. Detecting a virus from one person in millions of litres of waste water. If they can actually do that it must be great technology.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:25am
  - David George
    
    Yes BY, it must be a remarkable technology; they have to ram a foot long probe up your nose to detect it in a living human but can find it diluted billions of times over in the waste water.
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:32am
  - lifesgood
    
    I’ve been thinking the same. I actually don’t believe it.
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:34am
    - Unity
      
      Nor do I. I don’t believe a word that comes out of their mouths. There are so many ‘convenient’ things that happen to give them a reason to keep on controlling us. They are liars – absolutely.
      
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      November 6, 2021 11:05am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    It is pretty amazing. DNA sampling can also give you information about every animal species living in a body of water. I believe it has provided conclusive proof that there is no Loch Ness Monster, for example.
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:34am
    - Yvette
      
      It is New Zealand technology used to search for DNA in Loch Ness.
      Why they didn’t use the same science to test water running from the Pike River Mine drift is unfathomable (pun acknowledged)
      
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      November 6, 2021 8:51am
    - Cinematic
      
      Nonsense Mike! I’ve seen the grainy footage for myself.
      
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      November 6, 2021 9:10am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Given the theoretical impossibility if proving a negative, probably more accurate to say that they have shown that the presence of a “Loch Ness Monster” is extremely improbable.
      
      I imagine (because I haven’t checked) that this testing also involves PCR techniques for amplifying DNA/RNA fragments, anyone know for sure ? If so, the method is extremely sensitive and can potentially detect down to parts per trillion or even more. At those levels though false positives must be a concern. And I guess there could be cross over if they are detecting the S protein as that could very well be shed by vaccinated individuals.
      
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      November 6, 2021 10:46am
      - Alan1930
        
        In other words “despite being completely unqualified in the field – unaware of the techniques and procedures actually used – you think you know enough to conclude that it’s probably mostly wrong because what they’re coming up with doesn’t suit your narrative”.
        
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        November 6, 2021 1:48pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Astonishing, particularly when we know how flawed the PCR test is. A test which involves sticking a swab to within a millimetre of your brain, yet still gets it wrong regularly. Or is it like the PCR test, to quote a post on KB the other day, it can detect oysters on mars if the ct is run at a high enough rate?
    I’d love to know more about this wastewater testing. If it can do that then surely it should be really easy to come up with an accurate and less invasive test for people?
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:45am
    - alloytoo
      
      And companies that currently produce pregnancy tests could probably get it to market quickly.
      
      as long as the consumer doesn’t confused.
      
      Husband: Honey, I did that pee test and I’m sorry to say I have covid.
      
      Wife: I’m sorry too, you did a pregnancy test…..
      
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      November 6, 2021 10:19am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Then again the Govt has been known to tell lies to achieve their goal (testing and vax numbers)
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:46am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Totally agree BY. We obviously have amazingly good technology to be able to detect such a small amount of Covid in such a large amount of waste water. I struggle to believe it too.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:01am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Seems that the water sample is concentrated (500ml to 2ml) and then PCR test run on the concentrate.
    https://www.esr.cri.nz/our-expertise/covid-19-response/other-covid-19-work/wastewater-faqs/
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:24am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Do we know Maggie which part of the virus they are amplifying ? Could it be the S protein or part thereof ?
      
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      November 6, 2021 10:48am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Some genes that code for the envelope protein.
        
        https://www.otago.ac.nz/biochemistry/research/otago736925.html
        
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        November 6, 2021 4:29pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    It’s self blindedness. Maori science in action?
    The PCR test may detect a fragment in its 2^40 power magnification. That fragment is one which included in the item given for matching or arises through errors in dna chain replication.
    Plenty of room for false positives, error or falsity.
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:03am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      So basically just more statistics manipulation to maintain a narrative?
      
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      November 6, 2021 10:09am
    - bronny1
      
      I’m guessing they test with a higher number of cycles in areas where they want to increase vax and a lower number of cycles otherwise.
      
      But like testing vaxxed people at 25 cycles and unvaxxed at 40.
      
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      November 6, 2021 3:09pm
  - Alan1930
    
    “I don’t understand the technology of waste water detection.”
    
    Correct. You don’t.
    
    Picking up on your inference then I guess it must be faked then.
    
    Many people don’t understand the technologies of rocket propulsion, and operating in space and lunar environments — so I guess that must be faked too.
    
    Or – maybe just maybe – things can still exist even though those of us who have not had any specialist training in them don’t understand them?
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:11am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      It doesn’t follow we have been hoodwinked. But there is scope for deceit.
      
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      November 6, 2021 12:02pm
      - Alan1930
        
        And I’m sure that you can link to an article written by a pasty chef that “confirms” it …
        
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        November 6, 2021 1:51pm
Chuck Bird

This is premium but another good article by the Herald. The media is definitely changing. Mind you the Stuff is not very much.

Bruce Cotterill: Freedom — it’s not just another word

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/bruce-cotterill-freedom-its-not-just-another-word/QWRXTKQYBR7X6MFKUIAJWRH4FI/
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November 6, 2021 8:08am
Tony Stuart

I saw the Taxpayers’ Union Stop Three Waters advertisement several times on TV1. Congratulations to those involved in putting the advert together, and to those who have provided funding to enable it to air during prime time.
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November 6, 2021 8:16am
- redeye
  
  I’m picking we wont see on of those convenient leaks of the latest UMR poll in the near future.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:15am
- alloytoo
  
  I’m surprized TVNZ actually agreed to air it.
  
  Still it was $25 well spent.
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:23am
  - Bob
    
    TVNZ don’t want everyone to see the station managements political bias; may affect their ratings and flow of funds from ARDERN
    
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    November 6, 2021 12:11pm
Philview

I am not sure if Luke Malpass penned a satirical opinion piece on Stuff today or he meant it. It was along the lines of this time next year with Covid behind us the brilliant Grant Robertson will have focused on and sorted out 3 Waters and other major issues etc
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November 6, 2021 8:22am
Souvlaki

How do I get Arderns itinerary in Auckland next week?
I wish to join the thousands wishing to “welcome ” her to Auckland…prison of 1.5M subjects.
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November 6, 2021 8:23am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Any visit to Auckland will be carefully controlled. Selected crowds. Indoor events. “Accredited” media only. Good camera angles to show how popular she still is on the news. An army of PR people and friendlies in the media will make sure of that.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:31am
  - Simon
    
    social media means that Ardern will not be to slither away from the damage she has inflicted. Ardern’s MSM lackeys will not be able to shield her.
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:37am
  - dcrane
    
    Will happily volunteer my time to stand outside any of those venues with a “friendly” sign, if we can find out what they are and when.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:13am
    - Ed Snack
      
      A sign like “let’s go Jacinda” maybe ?
      
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      November 6, 2021 10:49am
    - curry4me
      
      dcrane: #Lets go Cindy, perhaps?
      
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      November 6, 2021 4:45pm
  - yossarian
    
    Er…can’t have crowds, because no more than 25 people isn’t it?
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:35am
- Russ the Muss
  
  You are joking? Thus will he a stage managed affair with NO public involvement. It will be closed venues with friendlies only. And the only optics will be her emphasizing with a poor luvvie who is upset about covid and them sharing a social distanced hug in solidarity. This thin skinned, so called leader will face no one who will cause a commotion…..politically smart, but cowardly as expected.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:34am
  - Biscuit
    
    Agreed, Russ…
    
    Fawning TVNZ Reporter, let’s call him John Campbell, eh?:
    And it’s a beautiful day here in Tāmaki Makaurau [waves arms about in typical John Campbell fashion] and you can just feel the excitement in the air [puts stresses on WORDS you wouldn’t normally expect] as Her Majesty St. Jacinda, Mother of the … well, Mother Of Neve, anyway … makes her long awaited visit [swoons] to New Zealand’s oops Aotearoa’s biggest city.
    [Gazes into camera and nods approvingly at his reflected image…]
    You may be wondering why we’re not outside. Well, it appears that there are one or two right wingers out there intent on ruining the festivities. Shameful stuff, eh? We in the mee-jya decline to give them any coverage – we know who pays our bills, eh? – so here we are inside this little room with the other accreditted political reporters, counting our latest pay and flipping through our photo albums – look, here’s me with Jacinda having a coffee together. She even autographed it! – whilst we await the first half dozen Labour MPs you’ve never heard of to run interference and to nod sagely, in camera shot, of course, whenever Jacinda says anything.
    [Alarmed expression]
    Those one or two right wingers can make a lot of noise, can’t they?
    Yikes, THEY’VE BREACHED SECURITY.
    They’re … in … HERE.
    Tova, go find your own Jacinda minder to hide behind.
    They’ll not target ME, of course, because I’m an award-winning journalist…
    [Scream]
    [Hasty cut back to ONE News studio presenter]
    Well, I’m not going to be the one to deep clean THAT camera whenever it gets removed from THERE…
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:37am
- Tony Stuart
  
  I suspect you’ll have to hope that someone in Ardern’s office has loose lips, and tips people off as to where she will be.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:37am
  - pdm
    
    Given there must be 40 or 50 (guessing) people in the PM’s Department (boosted from the 15/20 National had – again guessing) there must be at least 2 or 3 that dislike her to the extent they may do the good deed.
    
    Then there are the back bench Labour MP’s seeing their cushy numbers slipping away with the poll slides. Unlimited potential for a leak.
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:47am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      they may do the good deed.
      
      Do they need to be double-vaxxed to do the good deed?
      
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2021/11/government-responds-to-new-covid-19-ad-implying-kiwis-need-to-be-vaccinated-to-have-sex-this-summer.html
      
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      November 6, 2021 9:27am
  - alloytoo
    
    I suspect some of the “Accredited” journalists sensing some blood in the water may well have loose lips.
    
    What’s Tova got to lose after all?
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:29am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  She will sneak in under darkness via Whenuapai
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:47am
  - lifesgood
    
    I saw a comment on twitter that said she arrived at Whenuapai last night. I don’t know if there is any truth in that, though. If she slithers out of Auckland without meeting the public she will only add fuel to an already raging fire.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:18am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Flight Radar 24 has the 757 making a lot of trips to Darwin and back. Why? Someone with more knowledge than me may want to check
      
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      November 6, 2021 11:39am
  - sooty
    
    But that only gets her in the backdoor to Ak!
    Check her house, she maybe in residence for the wekend.
    Any even picket the back and side doors aswell.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:23am
    - alloytoo
      
      Does she have to be home, 10 mins video of protesters on social media…..
      
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      November 6, 2021 10:31am
    - Inandout
      
      sooty, I recall the Key residence in Parnell being attended by various sorts of demo types. Why has Jacinda escaped this?
      
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      November 6, 2021 11:32am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Keep an eye on Flight Radar 24. I think you are looking for NZ7571. Someone may want to correct me on this.
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:18am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Kindy visits only.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:46am
- RightFirstTime
  
  “Let’s Go Brandon”.
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:24am
- Alan1930
  
  Translation: You’re one of a clueless minority who is prepared to go to great lengths (radicalised even) to ensure that the government’s plans fail at all costs – even though it’s at the expense of the country.
  
  People with that kind of irrational and selfish attitude are THE problem with this country. Thanks for nothing.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:18am
Lee C

I apologise for the length of this, but, here goes:
How did You Get So Cynical?
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances. ― Milton Friedman

Recently I read an article about the Italian Health System. Pecifically how it has revised its original statistics for mortalities ‘from covid’ from 92,000 in 2020 to – wait for it – ‘just under 4000.
After so much initial panic, this is quite a revision.

It brought me full circle in a strange sot of way. During ‘Lockdown’ in 2020, I recall a press furore about covid mortalities in Milan. It was a pie-chart, so even I could understand it. From from memory, it indicated that of 304 cited deaths ‘from covid’ only eight epople died without any other pre-existing condions, such as cancer, respiratory illness, diabetes etc. This is still an appreciable number. However when we look at unrelated cases – for example alleged deaths post-vaccination – we will often find that the initial number cited is reduced as subsequent reviosns and new information comes to light a generous interpretation might half the initial eight to four, a rigorous one might reduce the number to two. The point being simply claiming ‘x-amount of people died of…’ is emotive, but not scientific,

I reflected to myself that Italy has an aging demographic, is the economical (and literal) ‘Sick man of Europe’. The Rest of the EEC are literally hanging them out to dry. After teh bail out of Greece, it appears there is no relief to be had. For any person charged with running such a health system in Milan, having ‘covid’ to explain such apparently radical systemic failures must have been a god-send, or, might simply reflect how many people of a certain age, with certain conditions, would have died anyway.

I mean, who wants to write up ‘It was a symptom of a failing health service, ageing poulation intensive living conditions, illiteracy, poor health and life-styke choices, and cultural practices whiich make hugging, kissing and close contact practically mandatory’?

At approximately the same time, I watched a statistical breakdown of the fatalities cited in China (remember when it was politically acceptable to call this ‘Wuhan-Flu? – yes about that time.). It indicated that in a population the size of China, the fatalities were as to be expected from any flu-like virus. The presenter went so far as to indicate that in a population of Chinas incrediible mass, ‘more people were likely to die falling off foot-stools’ than of the number cited as a result of Wuhan.

Meanwhile the Western and Governments (with the exception of Sweden) press went into overdrive, showing arial photos of showing mass graves in New York. Except, they were stock photos of similar ‘mass graves’ because New york State has so many unclaimed bodies, routinely that this is how they are dealt with. Coupled with photos of people ‘defying social distancning’ on beaches which turned out to be shot with telephoto lenses that foreshorted perspective and create an illusion of epole side-by-side. Throw in reports of overcrowded ICU units in different parts of the world, all showing the same photo of one ICU unit, (I mean did any actuall journalist take part in this narrative?) I began to form my opinions. Amongst them was this one: The press are making stuff up? But why? Why wold any responsible media outlet stoke panic and fear, unless they were genuine aout their fears regarding covid?

I wish to share what I call ‘The Lucy Principle’ with you. In the famous Children’s book The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis. Peter and Susan go to their mentor, concerned that either their Lucy, or their brother Edmund, has lied to them, but Lucy’s story about going into Narnia via a Wardrobe, is so fantastic, it beggars belief.

“Logic!” said the Professor half to himself. “Why don’t they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is telling the truth. You know she doesn’t tell lies and it is obvious that she is not mad. For the moment then and unless any further evidence turns up, we must assume that she is telling the truth.”

The Lucy Principle is simply this: logically, it makes sense to assume that people who tell the truth can be trusted. Logically, it makes sense to assume thatpPeople who lie do not deal in truth. Once a lier is exposed, it makes logical sense to assume you are being lied to in other regards by that person. You cannot control what they say, only your response to it.

So, even earlier this year I saw a photo a a dead man in a street in India – attributed to ‘covid’ which turned out to be an old photo of some unfortunate who died in a gas-leak, it simply reinforced The Lucy Principle about teh media and covid in my mind.

The most recent fatality I’ve consumed information about in the New Zealand media failed to mention that the poor unfortunate who died, was in her eighties, until the final paragraph of reading. This suggests that the editor had to engage in some Swiftian exertions in order to make this unfortunate death ‘about covid’.

And yet within the media there is a deafening silence about elderly people who may have had their journey hastened by factors including stress and fear from a ‘pandemic’ frail bodies unable to deal with vaccination, lonliness and anxiety because in tehir final days they were denied access to their loved ones. There continies to be a wilful lack of engagement with stories circulating about adverse reactions to vaccinations, premature deaths, official statistics, or even possible hoaxes.

I mean, if a chemical plant opened on teh edge of your community, and adverse reactions adn deaths were emerging at the same time, what journalist or editor worth their salt, would simply ignore even the possibility that it deserves to be investigated, even if only to prove that such rumours should be discounted? What happened to teh sense of community loyalty we once considered a given by local press?

In this regard, I consider the press to be guilty of more than lies by omission, I’d accuse them of failing their readership, failing their own standards, and failing the nation, and finally of outright sadism.

I may be guilty of an incredible dose of confirmation bias, but notwithstanding, I’d like to share a few observations with you about the ‘uses’ of covid.

Well, it certainly cleared up China’s ‘student uprising’ in Hong-Kong overnight didn’t it? Governments across the western world keen on progressing their own agendas, mimicked China’s use of ‘Lock Downs’ – despite there being no scientific, epidemiological or ethical prior justification for it. Suddenly failing Political Parties found they were going up in the polls. Suddenly, policies which normally would be criticised could be conveniently forgotten, while laws which usually would result in popular uproar, could be passed for ‘safety’ reasons. I am not interested in other conspiracy theories, ‘Agendas’, lizard-people, micro-chips, and such. My view is much more prosaic.

People and politicians, when presented with an opportunity to act in teh absence of usual ethical restrictions, will abuse their positions and do so. They simply cannot help themselves.

If we consider the ‘Lucy Principle’ it is necessary to ask yourself this.

“Has this [insert politician/media outlet] lied to me before before?
“Is this [insert politician/media outlet] mad?

If the answer is ‘No’ to both of these it is logically safe you are being told the truth. If your answer is ‘Yes’ to either of these, it is logically safe to assume you are being lied to.
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- kevn
  
  @LeeC… Indeed. The continual lying/half truths by arden, just reinforces the fact that most utterances are tainted by degrees of untruthfulness.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:35am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  The ‘Lucy Principle’ is just CS Lewis’s restatement of his ‘lord, liar, or lunatic’ trilemma – a pretty lame argument for the Jesus-god.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:37am
  - iMP
    
    CS Lewis was far from ‘lame.’ An Oxford don and one of the twentieth-century’s greatest philosophers and writers. Still quoted extensively today, such is his reach and wisdom over a century later
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:07am
    - lifesgood
      
      A wonderful man. MM either hasn’t read his works or is being wilfully blind to them. There is no excuse for ignorance.
      
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      November 6, 2021 9:21am
    - Lee C
      
      LoL. C.S. Lewis speaks very highly of you though, Milky.
      
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      November 6, 2021 9:27am
    - Mike
      
      It is unusual for Kiwibloggers to cite membership of academia as a person’s first cause for praise. Lewis’s Christian apologetics were unconvincing, even in his day. Dressing the Christian message up in some fantasy stories for children has led to a measure of fame for the author.
      
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      November 6, 2021 9:30am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      I think I prefer C. S. Lewis’ view of theology issues over those of mikenmild.
      
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      November 6, 2021 10:15am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    Waaaaaaahhhhh. Says Mike.
    
    Really lad try and put up some sort of argument not the tired trope of god botherer etc….
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:25am
- artemisia
  
  Milan and environs – ”Made in Italy” by thousands of workers from China, including Wuhan, living in large groups in close proximity. Applying the Lucy Principle as many have done of course ….
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:39am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Re your analogy of a chemical plant on the edge of town followed by adverse events. This short post sums it up very well.
  
  “what other things have you done recently that you have never done before? often, new unexpected outcomes are caused by new behaviors.”
  
  seen anything like that around lately, mate?
  because that’s probably where you want to start your investigation…
  
  https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/australian-hospitals-are-swamped/comments?
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:53am
- Yvette
  
  Lee C – “Has this [insert politician/media outlet] lied to me before before?
  
  We aim to plant one billion trees by 2028 – 150 million are already in the ground.
  – Ardern, 24 September 2019, Opening address to United Nations Climate Action Summit
  https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/opening-address-united-nations-climate-action-summit
  
  Government has directly funded 24.681,000 [trees] As at April 2020.
  – Forestry-tracker-infographic-14-04.png. MPI website.
  
  There is one straight-out mis-speak, to the UN and the world.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:08am
- Alan1930
  
  Above-average toy toss, but I still think you can do better.
  
  Good try though!
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:18am
  - Lee C
    
    Excellent Riposte Alan!
    
    I think it is wonderful that people are eager to share their skill sets on KB.
    
    But if I wanted advice about how to be a better tosser, I’d probably go to a paid professional, rather than a n amateur, no matter how dedicated to their art they may be..
    
    Thanks all the same.
    
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    November 6, 2021 3:00pm
- Observer of Life
  
  Lee C: 1000 upticks to you. ?
  
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  November 6, 2021 6:33pm
Maggy Wassilieff

A possible benefit of Covid-19…we might be spared the Waitangi day circus.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/11/waitangi-commemorations-set-to-be-held-virtually-in-2022-due-to-covid-19.html

I bet Our Dear PM will breathe a sigh of relief if she doesn’t have to front up there in 2022.
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November 6, 2021 8:24am
- Hollyfield
  
  You missed the article in the Herald saying she’s having a working honeymoon at Waitangi.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/waitangi-honeymoon-for-the-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern/JLSTEX56H5D6KGOVBPREPA4C3M/
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:32am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Closest thing she gets to having a honeymoon. I feel so sad, break out the violins, cry me a river. What a soggy fucking puff piece by the horrid
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:23am
  - LauraNorda
    
    So the people of New Zealand will be paying for Cindy’s honeymoon in Waitangi, should it go ahead.
    
    Excellent, still sucking on the Taxpayers tit.
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:08am
  - Bob
    
    she has already had the HONEYMOON, with family to prove it!; just needs the wedding bit.
    
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    November 6, 2021 12:16pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  I guess that implies that Northland DHB won’t have reached 90% double vaxxed before 6 February 2022.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:38am
  - Colville
    
    I guess that implies that Northland DHB won’t have reached 90% double vaxxed before 6 February 2032.
    
    FIFY
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:44am
- kowtow
  
  I don’t know why they go up there to prostrate themselves on the altar of race politics to be belittled and assaulted .
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:00am
  - sooty
    
    They are short of dildos?
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:26am
Bridgenag

Does anyone know the numbers on the Remove MIQ petition? Know where to find the results?
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November 6, 2021 8:27am
- Tony Stuart
  
  60,000 plus as of 6pm last night.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:44am
  - pdm
    
    Inv was close to 62,000 I think when I looked mid week.
    
    Bnag – scroll back on Kiwiblog there is a link about a week ago and it updates itself.
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:51am
    - Bridgenag
      
      Thanks
      
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      November 6, 2021 9:58am
Benedict Yu

So come February it will still be too dangerous to visit Northland and the Bay of Islands?
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November 6, 2021 8:27am
- David George
  
  Hone and his henchmen will stop you visiting Northland regardless of what the government decides. We’ll see who’s really running the show; will Jacinda & Co stand up to the ethno nationalists. Ever?
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:36am
  - sooty
    
    Does Hone have a border checkpoint at the airport?
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:28am
- Thought Criminal
  
  It’s probably politically dangerous for jacinda to visit Auckland atm.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:37am
- Cinematic
  
  Covid is different in NZ. For a bunch of political reasons it’s way more deadly here. I know this because of the well measured work of Hendy, Baker and Jackson etc.
  
  Baker referenced the mass graves in NY. Jackson said recently the hospitals in NSW were overwhelmed. Hendy said 80,000 would die.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:40am
  - pdm
    
    Cine – Jacinda sycophants all 3.
    
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    November 6, 2021 8:52am
  - Clownworld
    
    Liars and madmen indeed.
    
    The first utterances from Rod Jackson I heard were so unhinged , I realised either he was from another planet or he simply had sucummbed to mass psychosis.
    
    Baker the liar in the same league as Jacinda and Fauci.
    
    Hendy though is he just a black hole theorist who drowned in his own amateur modeller of epidemiology, he started on this in April 2020?
    
    All up three unwise men.
    
    Rider of the fourth horse would no doubt belong to Suzie , another “scientist” who is also a BLM and other social justice warrior causes expert. Unlike her actual dubious phd as an expert.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:37am
Benedict Yu

Qantas is surging back as Australia reopens.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/11/5/australian-flagship-carrier-qantas-announces-500000-bookings

It is even bringing its A380s out of deep storage way ahead of forecast.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/qantas-to-bring-first-a380-back-to-australia-next-week-20211105-p5969d.html

It was only a few weeks ago that Jacinda was sneering at the bad management of COVID in NSW.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/ardern-tells-kiwis-to-stay-home-to-avoid-nsw-s-devastating-numbers-20210821-p58kph.html

I remain a firm supporter of vaccinations and I will have my booster as soon as it is available. But I also support freedom. I have reached the point where I will enthusiastically join any public demonstrations against internal borders and restrictions on movement.
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November 6, 2021 8:34am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Completely agree. People have had a chance to get vaccinated, or not. Their choice. It’s a free world.
  
  Let’s get on with LIFE..
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:40am
- curry4me
  
  Benedict Yu: A small town FB page I read daily had an article about the local school. Their cafe manager is leaving on the 15th, because she won’t get the Cindy mandated jab. Almost all the comments are anti compulsion. Multiply this as students compain about their favorite teachers leaving because they won’t get the Cindy ab. Then add the likely reaction if she makes it compulsory for school kids.
  
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  November 6, 2021 4:56pm
Master Mariner

Remind James to fly past Afghanistan on his way home and give the Taliban a few tips.
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November 6, 2021 8:37am
- Master Mariner
  
  In reply to MM above.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:39am
Benedict Yu

This is such a pig ignorant article.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300447300/covid19-more-pkeh-are-unvaccinated-but-mori-are-being-stigmatised

Of course in absolute numbers, fewer Maori are unvaccinated than the rest of the unvaccinated population. Because Maori make up 15 percent of the population. A 12 year old could explain that.

The point is that Maori asked for and were given preferential access to the vaccines at a very considerable cost. Yet very large numbers of Maori under 65 have not taken advantage of this preferential access.
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November 6, 2021 8:39am
- ClanMcleod
  
  It’s a reflection of the vast majority of the NZ mainstream media sadly.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:07am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Our MSM – mad, bad and secure in its safe space.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:26am
    - sooty
      
      There’s plenty of money to keep them onside!
      
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      November 6, 2021 9:31am
  - Cassandra
    
    The Stuff headline should be “Stupid Racist South Auckland Doctor Can’t Do Arithmetic”.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:37am
- surfing
  
  Government bent over backwards to vaccinate maori, yet they still complain.
  
  One day they will have control over health, water, justice, and so on, but ,they’ll be worse off than today and complain more than ever.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:16am
  - Nickc2
    
    Didn’t Cindy flick them another $200m a day or so to assist their health providers to get more of them vaccinated? Great rort! Who (person/position) receives all this money and who gets to account for it?
    “Don’t looky here, it’s all gone eh bro,” as another brand new Mercedes 4WD pulls into the Maori Affairs Car Park.
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:35am
- Stu2
  
  Yet again I find myself agreeing with you!
  
  Thursday first dose rates :
  Maori 73.7%
  Pacific 86.2%
  The rest 92.0%
  
  92% is outstanding, dumb article
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:18am
- PeeJay
  
  Glad you picked up on it also. Couldn’t believe how bloody stupid it was! Anyone with a basic grasp of percentages could see it for what it was – another poor Maori hit job in the increasingly racist stuff. Surprised it didn’t contain the standard line on poor Maori vaccination rates being down to racism. Funny thing is though that it clearly is racism to massively prioritise one ethnic group with preferential access and financial incentives! Dare say this story will do it’s job though and shake loose another few hundred million in advance of the Auckland visit by Ardern!
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:28am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Maori are now down to 5%. They left their tribes and intermarried over a very long time.
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:11am
- alloytoo
  
  Perhaps the Non-Maori citizens of Auckland or indeed NZ, should submit a treaty claim for a few billion dollars.
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:39am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    That privilege has already been reserved to a select bunch of “Maori”.
    
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    November 6, 2021 12:04pm
- Alan1930
  
  Why complain given that they’re 15% of the population but 43% of COVID-19 cases?
  
  Statistically they’ll remove a greater percentage of themselves from the gene pool due to their vaccination choices (or rather lack of them), which will probably bring a smile to the faces of quite a few here.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:25am
I remember when

Remember when a war meant there was shooting and people were getting killed every day.
So is there a war in New Zealand at present.
Never mind at least we are still have a “Shot Bro’ bus.
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November 6, 2021 8:42am
- Cinematic
  
  There does appear to be a war going on in NZ. Low IQ meth head gangsters driving around our beautiful country shooting people. Unbelievable.
  
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  November 6, 2021 8:51am
  - oldfella
    
    Cinematic, as long as the gang meth heads have had their covid vax so we can all be safe… /s
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:39am
Reid

Some of you may be aware that the US VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Reactions Reporting System) data shows that 100% of the adverse reactions from the Covid vax come from just 5% of the lot numbers.

This article demonstrates through statistical analysis that it’s impossible for this to be an accident.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244109
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November 6, 2021 8:51am
I remember when

It’s rather paradoxical that covid has been detected in the Gisborne waste water.
At the same time a petition is being circulated to stop “Rhythm and Vines’ being held.
Where are the Vaccination Passports going to be useful.
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November 6, 2021 8:52am
- sooty
  
  With a wedding and a guest spot as DJ at the hooly, I’m picking Gissy will be wide open!
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:34am
- Alan1930
  
  “a petition is being circulated to stop “Rhythm and Vines’ being held.”
  
  I didn’t know that – thanks for the heads up. Where can I sign it?
  
  The last thing we need in the middle of a national crisis is people assembling unnecessarily. Church groups should also be banned. But no – human stupidity will continue unabated – and then they’ll blame everyone but themselves when the shit really hits the fan (this thing is just starting).
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:28am
Akarak

Jacinda’s world of fantasy exposed in a recent internationally published interview*!

“Two of Ardern’s abiding political memories are watching painful 1980s reforms wreck lives and livelihoods in her youth – reforms where the cure was, at least initially, worse than the disease.”

Bear in mind that Jacinda was born in mid 1980!

“Her second memory was watching gains of the Clark Government (which she briefly served as a staffer) slowly whittled away by the Key Government that followed. This memory has coloured her desire to seek bipartisan consensus on everything from child poverty, to climate change, to the recent housing deal”.

Obviously this bipartisan consensus would also include Three Waters, Mental Health, Health Reforms, Covid 19 etc.

Bet that’s news to Judith Collins and David Seymour!

* Including our own NZ Herald
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November 6, 2021 8:54am
- septic skeptic
  
  I hope the incoming ACT/National government whittle away all the gains of the Ardern government within the first 100 days.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:22am
  - alloytoo
    
    Day 1: Royal commission into covid response.
    Reverse all captain’s calls.
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:43am
- thirteenstars
  
  “Two of Ardern’s abiding political memories are watching painful 1980s reforms wreck lives and livelihoods in her youth…”
  
  It’s an article of faith in Labour that Rogernomics was a heresy. The excommunications happened during the 90s and Clark’s government was the Second Coming.
  
  Fact is, Clark or Ardern wouldn’t have a country let alone an economy to rule over if we hadn’t been saved first by Roger Douglas, et al., and then Ruth Richardson under National.
  
  I doubt many Kiwis even realise how close this country got to becoming a permanent South Pacific shithole.
  
  And it was almost pure luck, and it’s ultimately thanks to Bob Jones’ formation of the New Zealand Party and the ousting of Muldoon’s authoritarian government.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:44am
  - Bob
    
    permanent South Pacific shi…..
    and it would appear from the manipulated polling, that the majority of citizens still don’t.
    Muldoon’s (authoritarian)? govt stopped the UNIONS from taking control of NZ
    
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    November 6, 2021 12:22pm
    - thirteenstars
      
      “Muldoon’s (authoritarian)? govt stopped the UNIONS from taking control of NZ”
      
      Oh, please. All Muldoon did was substitute one form of control with his own brand of micromanaging the economy, and which nearly destroyed it.
      
      Note that from 1984-1990 under Labour the unions didn’t take control of the country, actively opposing Rogernomics which led to his demise and Lange’s infamous “cup of tea”. And in the early 90s it was the repeal of the Shop Trading Hours Act and repeal of compulsory unionism that effectively stamped out militant unionism.
      
      Perhaps Muldoon should have tried liberalising the economy, but no, command and control was his thing and Jones knew something had to be done or we were in big trouble.
      
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      November 6, 2021 1:10pm
pdm

I R W -Mongies, Black Power and other gangs are doing their bit – there is a shooting in New Zealand most days. Even if they shoot at the wrong house.
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November 6, 2021 8:54am
- kowtow
  
  Patently untrue .
  
  Nash and his police minions said the gun confiscations from the lawful licenced owner would make New Zealand safer .
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:11am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yeah, but….
  
  Haven’t we been told by a Labour MP that Gangs don’t bother civilians?
  
  “In my three years as Minister of Police what I know is the gangs do not target civilians,” he said.
  
  Nash said incidents, like the shooting at Thirsty Whale, where innocent bystanders were caught up is rare.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/mp-stuart-nash-v-napier-mayor-kirsten-wise-as-gang-violence-turns-into-political-brouhaha/WVNRCTHRKTPPCX4QEZOQFX7F4U/
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:32am
  - Cinematic
    
    Oh that’s ok then. Let them go for it. Let’s pop them all on a sub antarctic island with all the guns and ammo they desire.
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:53am
  - Jack5
    
    A Cabinet Minister describes non-gang members as civilians.
    
    That implies he regards gang members – gangsters – as either legitimate soldiers or similar service members, or as members of
    something equivalent to the police.
    
    For example, we don’t describe as civilians people who may help at fires as civilians when they aren’t professional or official volunteer firefighters. We sometimes may describe non-sworn police staff as civilians, depending on the context. We don’t describe as civilians people at an accident scene who help ambulance staff.
    
    Labour has let gangs run riot. Now it’s giving them semi-official status.
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:49am
  - Nickc2
    
    With regard to the link Maggy provided, what’s that monogram on Nash’s jacket pocket? Does anyone know?
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:53am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      NZ Parliamentary Rugby Team logo
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/68627232/parliamentary-rugby-team-dominant-up-front
      
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      November 6, 2021 1:38pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Thanks Maggy. I know a lot of people who’d kill to mark him including myself in a Rugby Match.
        No doubt he’d talk the opposition to death before the match using all his pro-Cindy platitudes.
        
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        November 6, 2021 1:42pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  ” there is a shooting in New Zealand most days”
  
  I thought Cindy confiscated the guns. What happened there?
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:55am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Only the legal ones, and some illegal sawn off barrels
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:34am
Tomtoddy

Mary lives in a Retirement village. She is a very social person loves being part of the daily activity.
Swims every day, plays bowls and cards. She isnt jabbed. The village has now ruled she cannot any longer mix with the others so she is confined to her apartment. It is driving her silly.

Mary’s husband is in care, half a city away. He is going down hill with dementia. Mary could no longer cope with him. The care facility has banned non-jabbed people. No more visits for Mary.

Mary has three children all grown up with their own family. All overseas and cant get home. She misses them acutely.

You might ask why doesn’t Mary simply get a jab and many of her problems will be fixed. She can’t. She has a throat and lung condition and has been advised not to. Life has become hell.

True story – name changed.
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November 6, 2021 8:55am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Very sad. And there will be so many other people in the same situation. It is not kindness what this government are doing.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:07am
- kowtow
  
  I sincerely hope the Marys of this country didn’t vote Labour.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:10am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Or if they did, they sure as hell won’t next time.
    Labour are shitting in their own nest and don’t even know. Sssshhhhh
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:37am
- kevn
  
  @Tom… Tragic. She couldn’t get an exemption anyway. GP’s have been told NO exemptions.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:22am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Blofeld said only one way – his way
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:38am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    That has to be one of the most cowardly and despicable acts from this government yet. Pretending to allow exemptions while instructing those able to give them, not to give them. It doesn’t get much lower than that, though I am quite sure Ardern is capable of doing so.
    She never ceases to amaze, but not in a good way.
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:00am
- rouppe
  
  And therefore can get an exemption which should negate those restrictions
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:36am
  - Tomtoddy
    
    Mary has a Dr’s certificate but that is not recognised.
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:26am
- Clownworld
  
  Tom the injustice and cruelty imposed on people like the one mentioned is pure evil.
  Care homes? Must be a special kind of care like Jacinda carehomes where we have to be cruel to be kind?
  
  If the rest are vaccinated why would she be a threat?
  
  Evil and madness.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:43am
- Observer of Life
  
  TomToddy: I’m in AKL. If Mary is also in AKL and needs someone to pick up her husband to drive him to her (if it’s do-able??). I’m happy to help. Bloody criminal.
  
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  November 6, 2021 6:51pm
  - Tomtoddy
    
    Thanks OoL. That is a great offer. I think she will be OK for wheels. Appreciate the thought.
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:06pm
Frank the tank

The feckless media seem taken aback by the sudden criticism being levelled at them.

Did they honestly think nobody was reading nor taking notes on their dishonesty?

If there is one good thing to come out of this lockdown it is that a good proportion of the population has woken up to their bias.
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November 6, 2021 9:00am
- Cinematic
  
  Frank the tank I have fact checked your post on behalf of the msm and the result is “False”.
  
  No one pays any serious attention to the msm these days.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:20am
- oldfella
  
  Frank, if only some of our ‘accredited’ journalists had Chris Trotter’s ability, and willingness, to state the bleeding obvious.
  
  “There is no safe way to let people out of lockdown while Covid-19 is raging through the community.
  But, as this Government is fast discovering, there is also no safe way to keep 1.6 million Aucklanders under house-arrest indefinitely.”
  
  http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2021/11/freedom-day-aucklands-coming-ready-or.html
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:28am
Reid

Useful summary of the main stages of the Great Reset broken down in a timeline from Dec 2019 to Sept 2022. It shows what’s to come. The timeline is not necessarily going to be accurate because they adjust things as ground conditions materialise, but it’s a useful bullet point summary of what’s coming up for us all. If anyone thinks the plan is merely a theory, just look it up on the WEF website, I expect most of you have already done that.

https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/the-great-reset-the-plan
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November 6, 2021 9:03am
- Mike
  
  I expect most rely on Reid’s gift of discernment to find and present for our edification the truth of what is happening in the world.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:35am
  - bronny1
    
    He’s more intelligent than many on here, that’s for sure.
    
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    November 6, 2021 3:36pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      He does make me wonder why such an intelligent man would go to so much trouble to post such unmitigated bullshit.
      
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      November 6, 2021 4:06pm
- mawm
  
  Why would a developed country’s government go along with this? I can understand any communist leader – Ardern, Trudeau, Macron, Andrews, but why would Johnson, Morrison and the non-communists in Europe. What is the threat to them? Why, why why?
  
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  November 6, 2021 12:37pm
kowtow

UK Daily Telegraph yesterday reports energy co Drax have a huge power stn in N Yokshire .
Used to burn coal , then went “green” and claims to burn “biomass” that’s claimed to be a by product of the forest industry . In fact it uses trees from the Baltic , the US and Canada and now produces way more CO2 than it ever did using “dirty” coal.

Furthermore the carbon footprnt of shipping all that “green” biomass thousands of miles to the UK is also way higher than using local “dirty” coal.

Not to mention the real world deforestation actually going on to create “green” bio mass.

Huge subsidies amounting to billions of pounds sterling are also involved in this greenwash power generation, how ‘sustainable” is that?
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November 6, 2021 9:06am
- kevn
  
  @kowtow… Bit like their/labour coal importing scheme shipped from Indonesia, transported from Port of Tauranga to Huntly power station. Madness.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:21am
- rouppe
  
  Planet of the Humans. On YouTube
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:39am
- mandk
  
  I never understood the difference between coal and biomass.
  
  Aren’t they both just carbon from vegetation?
  
  Or am I missing something?
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:45am
  - alloytoo
    
    Bio mass involves felling living forests, coal not so much.
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:53am
  - Ed Snack
    
    To be fair, coal is biomass from many millions of years ago. Back then, at times, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere was over 3 x what it is now. The concentration dropped at least in prt because of the sequestration of carbon into coal and oil. A lot also went into carbonate rocks like limestone.
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:09am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I think the spin is that biomass can be sustainable/renewable
    (Source of energy – sun via photosynthesis), whereas
    coal is a finite, limited resource (on human time-scales)..
    Of course when it is primary, old-growth forests that are being harvested for biomass digesters, it makes a mockery of the Greens claiming to care for the environment.
    
    https://www.stand.earth/latest/forest-conservation/forests-and-wood-pellets/drax-dont-
    burn-canada%E2%80%99s-old-growth-forests
    
    https://theecologist.org/2018/apr/16/hardwood-forests-cut-down-feed-drax-power-plant-channel-4-dispatches-claims
    
    https://www.fern.org/fileadmin/uploads/fern/Documents/Up%20in%20Flames.pdf
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:14am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Biomass?
      Massive. The UK has been importing trees grown in the USA for the purpose of fuelling their power stations. That’s been going on now for some years. (5?)
      
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      November 6, 2021 12:08pm
- I remember when
  
  Will wilding pines allow us to be world leaders in the use of ‘biomass’ for energy.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:50am
- Andrei
  
  Drax sits on one of the largest coal fields in Europe
  
  It was one of four power stations built in the 1960s in that area because of the abundance of cheap locally available coal – the other three are mothballed
  
  The cooling towers at Drax are, um well really cool to look at while the water vapour emerging from them provide one of the canonical images used to illustrate articles about global warming and deadly GHG emissions
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:03am
kowtow

A David Seymour tweet .

“Ashley Bloomfield has attended Cabinet 17 times this year, a breach of its rules. Bloomfield almost certainly attends Cabinet more often than Ministers outside of Cabinet, like James Shaw. The Govt has become completely captured by the health bureaucrats.”

Where’s the Media Pardy?
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November 6, 2021 9:08am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Cabinet must be the master of its own rules. Bloomfield is accorded statutory rights. They have been watered down with Ministers now able to operate in his name.
  
  Are they meeting for political purposes?
  Cabinet collectively have not got the brains of a small mouse. For Minister to make orders on matters formerly reserved to the judgement and power of the Chief Medical Officer of health is a usurpation of powers.
  His collaboration speaks against his fitness for his office.
  
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  November 6, 2021 12:16pm
ClanMcleod

Whitney Webb always has an interesting perspective on things. This analysis re “Green” finance and the threat to national sovereignty is well worth a read.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/11/investigative-reports/un-backed-banker-alliance-announces-green-plan-to-transform-the-global-financial-system/
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November 6, 2021 9:15am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Doesn’t strike me that you are going to get an overthrow of the capitalist system if bankers have embedded themselves in the Green slime.
  Plutocracy Rulz!
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:36am
  - Mike
    
    Is ‘green slime’ a biological term?
    
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    November 6, 2021 9:52am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      sure is:
      https://niwa.co.nz/sites/niwa.co.nz/files/styles/full_screen_feature/public/green_algae_IMG_4422-crop-JQ-vel_credit_Landis-Hare.jpg?itok=CSIQj-KK
      
      But if you want to get technical, you could call it FAB.
      
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      November 6, 2021 11:38am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        It must be very interesting to be a biologist in the early years of the Holocene extinction event.
        
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        November 6, 2021 12:48pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I may be fairly long in the tooth, but I seem to have missed the extinction of our mammalian megafauna by a good few thousand years..
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction#/media/File:Extinctions_Africa_Austrailia_NAmerica_Madagascar.gif
        and NZ’s avian megafauna by just 600 years.
        
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        November 6, 2021 2:35pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Still early years, as the sixth mass extinction event is accelerating markedly as humans become ever increasingly capable of exterminating entire species.
        
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        November 6, 2021 3:08pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        as the sixth mass extinction event is accelerating markedly
        
        Is that a fact?
        How many bacteria, fungi, slimemolds, blue-green algae, and protozoans have gone extinct in the last 10,000 years?,,,,,,
        and how many went extinct around the Last Glacial Maximum?
        
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        November 6, 2021 3:52pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Ok, perhaps it comforts you to believe that the planet’s ecology is improving, due to human care, instead of being increasingly devastated by human impact.
        
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        November 6, 2021 4:08pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Or perhaps you miss the point, entirely, as you so often do.
        
        I’m focused on ecosystems/habitats… Have you any clue as to how many have disappeared from NZ in my lifetime?
        
        Or do you think we all should just be focused on whales and kakapo like DoC?
        
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        November 6, 2021 8:01pm
  - Reid
    
    So what the Green New Deal in the US does is it funds a whole lot of leftist community groups to take certain actions in the name of fighting AGW but in reality they’re political activist groups. So the US taxpayer will be, if the bill passes, funding the left to win every single election in perpetuity. Because the “infrastructure” bill also enacts federal election rules that override the state election laws. Such as enacting rules for widespread use of postal ballots, which are a major vehicle for Dem fraud.
    
    Bankers know this and are playing along because they are looking at China’s 1.2 billion consumers and they want China to become the global leader in a world where everyone uses the Chinese goverance model with social credit systems and concentration camps and controlled media and all the rest of it. Some people haven’t yet understood that the multinationals and Big Tech and the banks and the big Wall Street firms and Big Pharma are all on the opposition side along with the Dems. Some people haven’t realised that the people running these entities are not, repeat not, conservatives.
    
    That’s why the banks are doing that.
    
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    November 6, 2021 10:13am
- I remember when
  
  At least a “Net Zero” economy may be easier to achieve than a “Net Zero” emissions target.
  
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  November 6, 2021 9:47am
I remember when

Just been looking at the advertisements in the NZ Farmer for rural properties.
Some of the ‘raped and pillaged’ land certainly looks good in the photos.
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November 6, 2021 9:27am
- LauraNorda
  
  Must have been like than when the filthy Colonialists nicked it off the early settlers.
  
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  November 6, 2021 12:03pm
Philview

I see we have a case where the family say their loved one was hospitalised and died of Covid. The MOH are denying she died of Covid. I take it then that she was double jabbed.
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November 6, 2021 9:27am
- septic skeptic
  
  Just another little white lie.
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:45am
- Charmaine Hawke
  
  She was also late staged dementia so I am picking it is that she died from but the family in their grief won’t accept this.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:23am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Many years ago, when I was working in health, we had a lovely Indian chap die from Motor Neurone Disease after a five year illness. His wife wanted to sue the hospital because there was no resuscitation attempted when he slipped peacefully away. She simply could not accept he was terminally ill, let alone that he had died. It was genuinely sad.
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:46am
- MCos
  
  The story was in Stuff this morning.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/126909806/family-left-with-questions-after-noncovid19-death-of-auckland-rest-home-resident?cid=app-iPad
  Personally I’m just a little uncomfortable these stories are being aired in public. It’s not as if there’s any suggestion a crime has been committed.
  
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  November 6, 2021 2:31pm
Ruahine

kowtow.
This doco by Michael Moore has a bit to say about the deceit of Biomass for fuel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
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November 6, 2021 9:30am
I remember when

The media have largely ignored Michael Plank’s lament about the lack of assessment as to where covid infections most likely occurred.
He admits it is impossible to be definite, about exactly where/when an infection happened, but thinks a list of likeliest probabilities would allow much greater certainty when deciding action.
Yesterday, director of public health, Caroline McElnay largely dismissed the dangers of supermarkets and drive-thru contact, when explaining changes to places of interest.
Twenty months of varying lockdown levels and some of the most important information about ‘keeping safe’ is not properly researched.
How dangerous is outdoor contact.
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November 6, 2021 9:42am
- alloytoo
  
  it depends on whether or not they are protestors or gangs.
  
  Tricky virus apparently likes protestors
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:56am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Plank is an average mathematician. Why he gets a voice in an apparent health emergency is beyond me. He’s the same coward who was blocking anyone on Twitter who dared ask him what were quite polite and valid questions.
  Seriously, look at who our “experts” are. Plank, Hendy teaches physics, Baker has never practiced medicine in his life. It’s ludicrous how much influence these people appear to have over government policy.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:07am
  - Taieri
    
    Seriously, look at who our “experts” are.
    —————
    
    And Wiles is a bacteriologist who became an instant virology expert…
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:33am
    - Bridgenag
      
      AND NZ’er of the year sigh
      
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      November 6, 2021 1:12pm
- Ed Snack
  
  Outdoors is, as far as I can find out from published data, not dangerous in the slightest. Wing outdoors seems to be almost complete protection against catching Covid at that time.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:13am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Outdoors bring sunshine and UV, smiles, recreation, hope.
    No masks means clean air with no re-breathing CO2. Plants may like it but but it upsets human physiology.
    
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    November 6, 2021 12:24pm
Ruawai

Is it just a coincidence that Gisborne, Napier and Stratford all have covid in the waste water on the same day?
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November 6, 2021 9:43am
- kevn
  
  @Rua… Distraction from Auckland debacle while they were testing for P.
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:37am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Propaganda to boost test and vax numbers. In other words a leftist lie
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:44am
- KevO'Brien
  
  If they are PCR testing: no. The test could show petunias in the Arabian desert.
  
  PCR has specialised lab use for increasing a specimen size. It was never intended for predictive purposes.
  
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  November 6, 2021 12:27pm
gonzo

This made me laugh (a little bit sadly)…
“The West Coaster is among thousands of other New Zealanders experiencing the devastating effects of climate change and sea level rise”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/126903078/the-west-coast-town-building-a-wall-to-defend-from-the-sea

Actually, he’s suffering the devasting impacts of living in a house directly on the beach ?!! And good on him – that would be fantastic!!
No surprise – seas erode coastlines. I suspect this might have been happening for a few billion years??
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November 6, 2021 9:46am
- Tomtoddy
  
  Correct. As a former WestCoaster I can verify it was worse 50 – 60 years ago.
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Folks in Hokitika knew back in 1914 that building their town on a beach wasn’t the wisest decision they’d made.
  
  https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/26470
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:53am
Ruawai

Looks like Jacindas gun buy back hasn’t stopped guns being used to kill people in NZ. Wonder if she bought the guns off the wrong people, honest gun owners rather than the gangs. Maybe she should instruct Coster to go and take their guns.
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November 6, 2021 9:46am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  And the gangs say to Coster “come and get them”
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:46am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Who wore it better, Lauren Boebert or AOC (Tax the Rich)
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1456425970806763520?
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November 6, 2021 10:02am
K

Jacinda Ardern: “I can say this to Aucklanders. We are not going to keep you trapped over Christmas. It is not right.” – an admission that she knows that Labour’s current restrictions are inherently wrong. Someone should ask her if she values peoples’ right to see each other at Christmas higher than their right to see each other at Diwali.
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November 6, 2021 10:04am
- Cinematic
  
  “Keep you trapped”. It’s what we are, humans in a trap.
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:33am
CAKE FACE1

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/126909806/family-left-with-questions-after-noncovid19-death-of-auckland-rest-home-resident

Last year in New Zealand, or in overseas countries excluding Singapore, this death would have previously been classified as Covid.

It sounds like we are now changing the rules for what counts as a Rona death. In the UK, having Covid within 28 days is all that is required.

If the policy change means that we can stop lockdowns and open the borders sooner, it is probably a good thing, although the authorities should be upfront and honest about the changes…
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November 6, 2021 10:06am
- Andrei
  
  She was doubly vaccinated and classifying it as a death from Covid would show their vaccine strategy is a bust
  
  This whole pan~~dem~~ is predicated on shifting definitions to support the hysteria
  
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  November 6, 2021 10:41am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Statistical manipulation is the only way to maintain a narrative that is actually a lie. As when the vaccine rollout began at the start of the year the CDC decided to instruct PCR tests to be run at 25 cycles instead of the 35-45 that had been the norm. Narrative control. “Look, the vaccines are amazing, the number of postive covid tests is plummeting!”
  Yeah nah.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:42am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    They were following the WHO who had made it plain that 25 was the max. Further, all who had been PCR tested had to be re-tested and informed consent to be obtained before each PCR test.
    
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    November 6, 2021 12:33pm
    - cmm
      
      All very well, but redoing a test months later is still not going to give an honest result.
      
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      November 6, 2021 1:43pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Indeed. But the WHO was making that point that informed consent was required.
        
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        November 6, 2021 4:54pm
  - cmm
    
    Doing anything that is not an apples to apples comparison is not science. It is fraud.
    
    The only way to really have done this honestly would have been to do all the original sampling with 25 and 40 cycles and then compare 25 to 25. I suspect that PCR testing can’t be stopped and checked half way so that likely doesn’t work.
    
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    November 6, 2021 1:42pm
Brian McDonald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-delta-outbreak-jacinda-ardern-promises-aucklanders-can-travel-at-christmas/SOY6AQE73AXYOKU7WUKD4TG6VM/

All sounds reasonable but it should be remembered others in NZ have shown they protect their tribal borders.
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November 6, 2021 10:07am
Over Taxed Worker

Per NZH Jacinda says “The border is one area where once you pull that lever, it’s very hard to pull it back.” She said she would not want people returning from overseas only to find that COVID-19 was as bad in New Zealand as the place they had come from.

I am sure people can make there own decisions about COVID-19 risk and not come back if they are worried!

Yet more proof she thinks she knows best, and that the rest of us are kindy kids.
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November 6, 2021 10:13am
- Cinematic
  
  Yes what a ridiculous statement. Unbelievably stupid position to take.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:36am
JohnnyOverton

This will be Johnny Overton’s last KB comment. Is that a loud yippee I hear.

Yes I’m killing off Overton on KB as he’s nothing but a deluded pain in the butt, so times up for his pointless waffling. In actual fact he’s become an alienated pariah in this, the land of his birth & yes, your typical, old grey lone wolf howling in the wilderness. Before I knock him off for good he has a few things to say as of course, he always like to get the last word in.

Once upon a time I believed our young nation had a great & visionary future ahead of it, yes I even thought NZ was destined to lead the world by example & make a real difference. Well how stupid I was & how times have changed, as now, when I reflect on the state of our nation, all I see is a failed state which has been infected to its core by the extremities of liberalism. Yes, the land I once loved has become totally enslaved by the ideals of the UN backed, ultra-liberal, globalization elite, who’re doing their best to cheapen & destroy all that was great about our western civilisation.

I now feel I don’t belong here anymore, if I really ever did. This land is no longer my home & my time here is done, so the only choice left to me is to turn my back on NZ & spend my few remaining years, as far away from our maddening shores as possible.

I must also add, in recent times I’ve grown to hate our very adolescent NZ, its unchallenging aspirations, its mainstream mediocrity & its predominately selfish, shallow, cargo cult, social media & consume obsessed, sheep like populace. Of course I’m not immune from such things & this hatred as I’m also a product of our degenerating & soul destroying kiwi environment.

If there was a like minded bunch of radical conservative kiwis who dreamt of a very different NZ from the one we know today, & were prepared to fight for it, then I would join them in a flash. Sadly this is not the case, as all the fight seems to have deserted us & all I see & hear is endless moaning about everything under the sun. As Iggy said & now Greta says, all bla bla bla, so a lack of meaningful ideals or inspiring action makes us all dull boys & girls. Maybe this has something to do with the influence of cyber space on our world which is definitely hollowing out our cultures, societies & the authentic personality & genuine humanity within all of us.

Ah well, enough of this ridiculous musing, time to say goodbye & good luck.
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November 6, 2021 10:18am
- Reid
  
  I have both sympathy for and agreement with your sentiment but your position reflects a hopelessness which I’m not yet ready to accept since doing so means surrender, and fuck that.
  
  Even if you get knocked down, the only way you ever lose is to fail to get back up on your feet. Even if that happens ten times in a row, you still haven’t lost if you keep getting up.
  
  Most people here don’t recognise the peril you and I recognise they are all, in this country and in the world. There is no safe place. You won’t escape this anywhere in the world. You either stand where you are and fight, or you surrender.
  
  As time goes by more and more people are recognising what you and I and krazy kiwi and a few others here recognised a long time ago. We remain heavily outnumbered by the people who are, at present, willingly boarding the train to the camps. But that’s all the more reason to stay strong and stay in the fight.
  
  Never give up. Never, never, never give up, as Churchill told that room of schoolboys all those decades ago, remains to me the best advice in this current situation.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:40am
  - Jack5
    
    Johnny, you won’t escape the Woke.
    
    Mass hysteria is everywhere.
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:57am
    - sooty
      
      Ken and Karen have crossed every border!
      
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      November 6, 2021 4:40pm
- Harriet
  
  Lowest common denominators all throughout NZ – including the family home – not just due to a fixation with a 1pm daily press conference – but at 6pm for a decade Kiwiblog GD is abandoned, so as not to miss the government’s never ending direction on all things imaginable. National is to blame in a bi-cameral country.
  
  In the 70’s it looked like the future was Switzerland but it’s turned out more like Swaziland.
  
  From peaches to people lowest common denominators haven’t been produced or breed in NZ but imported.
  
  As Shipley said when National changed immigration settings “It’s because they are too far behind.”
  
  Too many is Marxism 101. 😎
  
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  November 6, 2021 1:23pm
- Alan1930
  
  I suggest less time reading the deluded waffling on KB and more time in the real world (hint: it’s STILL what you choose to make it; the map isn’t the territory – social media isn’t proportional to what happens in reality).
  
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  November 6, 2021 2:05pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Antonio Gramsci would be disappointed.
  
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  November 6, 2021 2:51pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  Hi JohnnyOverton,
  
  If there was a like minded bunch of radical conservative kiwis who dreamt of a very different NZ from the one we know today, & were prepared to fight for it, then I would join them in a flash.
  
  Good, don’t leave before these like minds are able to form. I think many are still in the groggy from sleep, hasn’t the pain ended yet, phase.
  
  Don’t give up until you are dead, that’s my motto.
  
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  November 6, 2021 4:24pm
- Bridgenag
  
  Agree with every word but at least the site provides release from the tension of helplessly watching our little country being ruined. At least the petitions [and marches] might get something happening.
  
  Please don’t give up.
  
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  November 6, 2021 4:25pm
Reid

Media tell you about the wonderful new covid pill Pfizer has developed but fail to mention it’s a patented version of the out of patent ivermectin only about 1/12 as effective and with no long term safety profile and with a cost of around I think $1200 for a course of treatment as opposed to a course of treatment for IVM which costs a few cents.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/11/coronavirus-new-covid-pill-from-pfizer-cut-risk-of-death-by-89-percent-in-trial.html

This is your media. Don’t tell me they don’t know this. It’s not possible, it’s so obvious. And furthermore, watch Pharmac go along with the bollocks and pretend it’s the only solution and the NZ taxpayer must cough up.
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November 6, 2021 10:20am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Your link provides evidence that the media aren’t saying that molnuparavir is ivermectin.
  
  What is the evidence that it is?
  
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  November 6, 2021 12:36pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    They are, unsurprisingly, completely different.
    
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    November 6, 2021 1:10pm
Maggie Pie

THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

Recall last month the IRD warned it would writing to….. ‘wealthy New Zealanders who they believed had a net worth of at least $20million, asking for details of exactly how wealthy they are and how muck tax they are paying?”

https://twitter.com/EvilArthurFleck/status/1456493624066150403
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November 6, 2021 10:22am
- marcw
  
  See, capitalism has failed, just like she told NZ.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:14am
- Bridgenag
  
  Is that true …… she is worth $28 million! sigh
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:21am
- WaveyDavey
  
  You should see how the wage subsidy/resurgence payment is working out for me
  
  Long live lockdowns
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:35am
- KevO'Brien
  
  IRD would have been keeping a watchful eye already. They have trained professional grade accountants as Income Tax Inspectors and would be immune to political witch hunts.
  
  Taxpayers are a fractious bunch, Inspectors do a difficult job, not seek to annoy people.
  
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  November 6, 2021 12:40pm
Tomtoddy

Poor old Joe. It was a long way to go to have a sleep. How much “carbon” did he create with all his planes, cars, security, hangers on, etc?

He didnt contribute anything of any consequence, either because his Bills to reduce emisssions are being undermined by the hour by his own party.
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November 6, 2021 10:40am
- Tony Stuart
  
  If all the people who fell asleep listening to speeches from Prince Charles were laid end to end……they’d be far more comfortable 😀
  
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  November 6, 2021 12:23pm
Maggie Pie

And with the Supercity now in its 176th day of gubmint imposed Lockdown, have you noticed how many people are wandering around out there that actually LOOK like sheep?
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November 6, 2021 10:49am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I had the misfortune to have to go to Greenlane Clinic a week or so ago. It reminded me of the movie Zombieland. Stunningly depressing.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:21am
  - oldfella
    
    Clan, was it a botox clinic? I hear they’re very popular at the moment, as long as you only get jabbed in the upper part of your face as you can’t take your mask off during the procedure. 😉
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:37am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    There’s no need for it of course.
    Hairdressers have never been soo busy doing ‘home cashies’.
    My own Stylist came early the other morning and before he’d even pulled out he’d taken about 10 other calls.
    
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    November 6, 2021 11:51am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      “pulled out?”
      So he’s not just doing hairdressing then?
      
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      November 6, 2021 12:48pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Out the driveway, silly!!
        
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        November 6, 2021 1:40pm
Truman lodge

Jacinda says we will not be trapped at Xmas.

I call BS!!!!

We will be given allocated times that will be such a shit show that people won’t bother leaving.
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November 6, 2021 10:51am
- sooty
  
  Does she think we still believe in santa?
  
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  November 6, 2021 12:11pm
CAKE FACE1

The government has stopped contact tracing?

This is a shame, because they never gave me time to download the gap, and now the system is finishing, before I ever managed to sign in properly.

Maybe next pandemic!
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November 6, 2021 10:58am
- sooty
  
  Well with only 44 people covid tracing, it was never going to work!
  
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  November 6, 2021 12:09pm
Fletch

One writer tries to extrapolate how many kids would needed to be vaccinated to stop one kid dying of Covid.

https://basedunderground.com/2021/11/05/pfizer-covid-vaccine-fails-risk-benefit-analysis-in-children-5-to-11/
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November 6, 2021 11:08am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Wow, 1-2 million doses of vaccine need to be administered to 5-11yr olds to save one life. And that is without accounting for unknown long-term risks (eg see the 90+ excess deaths amongst teen boys in UK over last few months since they started getting vaccinated). Instituting child vaccinations is terrible anti-science (and hippocratic oath) policy. Good only for Big Pharma balance sheets and those they pay to do their bidding.
  
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  November 6, 2021 3:07pm
- bronny1
  
  Omfg!!! We were talking about NNTT the other day. My dad takes statins for which we were saying it has a very high NNTT. But this is many many multiples of that!
  
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  November 6, 2021 4:01pm
- MCos
  
  How many people need to wear car sear belts to save one person dying in an accident?
  How many buildings have to be strengthened to save one life in an earthquake?
  How many life jackets . . . You get the picture.
  
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  November 6, 2021 4:05pm
ABS4EVA

THE IPA of AUSTRALIA

Analysing DAN’s

ONE RING To Rule them ALL powers

DAN’s new Powers EXPOSED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvFQ8onfOfA&t=330s

Be Warned She want’s this

AND WORSE
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November 6, 2021 11:17am
Chuck Bird

This is worth a look at. I have had 2 jabs and will have a booster preferably not Pfizer. This shows to me that anyone with an IQ higher than Comrade Ardern that not all the people opposed to a vaccine and particularly Pfizer is not stupid and/or ill-informed.

I believe this government made a big mistake in not having more than one vaccine. Even if the claims made in the video were not true having an alternative surely would increase the uptake of some vaccine.

There should be some research on how many who refuse to be vaccinated would accept vaccination with another vaccine.

MEDICAL JOURNAL: Pfizer vaccine trial RESEARCHER blows whistle on DATA INTEGRITY & FALSIFICATION?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oaDo4ozr5Io
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November 6, 2021 11:35am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Wouldn’t it be informative to be able to see a copy of the contract Ardern signed with Pfizer? Are there any restrictions on alternatives? Not just other vaccines either.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:45am
  - Fletch
    
    Yep, someone needs to make an OIA or whatever they call it and demand to see the deal. From what I understand, overseas the vaccines cost around $20 a shot. Would be more than that here in NZ. How much have they spent on this stuff?
    
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    November 6, 2021 12:12pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Some international contracts have emerged. I read the one from Brazil which was typical. No responsibility would be accepted by Pfizer for anything. They were to be indemnified… All pay, no care.
    
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    November 6, 2021 12:45pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  You might want to seriously think long and hard about mixing and matching experimental jabs. Seriously. This isn’t potato salad we’re talking about.
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:51am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Too right. From the multitude of reports I have seen I am concerned that some peculiarities revealed are true. If so, different batches of “vaccine” have been used possibly unknowingly–I suspect some testing was going on.
    
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    November 6, 2021 12:50pm
Yvette

“We are now talking about a life and death situation. The life of vaccinated white New Zealanders and the deaths of brown unvaccinated New Zealanders.
“Arden must now take back control of Government from these unelected bureaucrats.”
He dubbed Bloomfield the “Dictator-General of Health” over blocking the agency from “life-saving Māori data”.
This puts poor communities and thousands of Māori at risk, Tamihere said.

As of November 4, 73 per cent of Māori have received their first dose and 55 per cent are fully vaccinated.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/11/05/moh-again-refuses-to-release-maori-vax-data-despite-court-ruling/

• When it seems to be established that some resistance to vaccination is actually resistance to Government directives, how will retrospective disclosure of private medical information, that identifies patients, help that resistance?
• Are Tamihere’s utterances actually highly racist?
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November 6, 2021 11:46am
Reid

Excellent analysis from sundance on the mindset of the modern left. It’s written based on the US left but the same mentality plays out here…

Democrats Will Not Stop Their March Into Madness – Modern Leftists Have No Capacity For Introspection, They Will Get Worse

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/11/03/democrats-will-not-stop-their-march-into-madness-modern-leftists-have-no-capacity-for-introspection-they-will-get-worse/
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November 6, 2021 11:46am
ClanMcleod

Is this what winter 2022 holds for NZ? Evidence is piling up. The real stuff, not the fantasy garbage presented by Hendy and Plank.

https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/04/are-vaccines-driving-excess-deaths-in-scotland-a-professor-of-biology-asks/
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November 6, 2021 11:46am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Rand Paul hands Fauci his arse on a plate. Tells Fauci he changed website to ‘cover your arse’ on gain of function research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AcwcdSVvVc
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November 6, 2021 11:51am
lifesgood

Can anyone tell me this? Are Waiheke Island residents still commuting to Auckland City for work? If they are why can’t mainland Aucklanders go to Waiheke? The residents could just as easily carry the virus home as anyone could. Seems utterly nonsensical but then every rule this govt makes is.
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November 6, 2021 12:06pm
Leofric

Jacinda Ardern: “And because, you know, yes, we are in, you know, the biggest health crisis of a generation, frankly going back to 1918, and a significant economic crisis as well, and yet to be the person who is able to steward New Zealand through that time despite the difficulties that it presents, I still consider it an honour.”

“Able”?
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November 6, 2021 12:07pm
- cmm
  
  “frankly going back to 1918”
  
  Liar in chief lies…. wow – who’d have thought that?
  
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  November 6, 2021 1:36pm
oldfella

Garrick Tremain again illustrates how to do a good political cartoon.
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/cartoon-of-the-day-64
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November 6, 2021 12:12pm
I remember when

Greta said, “Blah, Blah, Blah.”
What a wonderful summation of all she had to say.
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November 6, 2021 12:14pm
KevO'Brien

This needs a “Please Explain”–
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/11/04/must-read-hospitals-are-jammed-with-people-seriously-ill-and-dying-from-the-covid-vaccine/

(References included.)
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November 6, 2021 12:53pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Could this be the long-term potential unknown harms we feared from experimental vaccines? There has been an unexplained 20% (=90) increase in non-covid excess deaths amongst ~1.8 million teenage boys in UK over last 4 months (but not girls) in line with their rollout of vaccinations to teens. So about 1 in 20,000 are dying which is far higher than killed by covid pre-vaccine. Myocarditis comes with a very bad long term prognosis and is known to be caused by vaccines and seems to be worst in young men (low body fat?).
  
  https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher/status/1456161395309961216/photo/1
  
  Vaccines still seem to be safest bet for older adults, but there’s a good chance they are worse than catching covid for young men and boys at least.
  
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  November 6, 2021 1:55pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    There is serious concern now being reported too about the effects on women and fertility.
    
    I hope the de-populationist’s dreams are not being implemented.
    
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    November 6, 2021 4:58pm
artemisia

Nice headline, Durr v Sweeney New Jersey –

FNC’s Carlson: ‘The Party that Is Calling for Firing Truck Drivers Is Suddenly Losing Elections to Truck Drivers’
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November 6, 2021 1:17pm
ABS4EVA

IF you just go Vaccinated on the ASSUMPTION
you would get Freedoms back

SUCKED in you just Submitted
YOU ARE THEIR SLAVE

and NOW THEY KNOW it

ROLL over LAB RATS
for the NEXT ROUND
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November 6, 2021 1:26pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Fighting this poxy Labour Govt is like playing snakes and ladders with them. There are no ladders, just [deleted] snakes
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November 6, 2021 1:38pm
70andstilllearning

“Taitokerau Border Control has introduced a pass system at Kāeo Bridge so people living north of the alert level 3 boundary can still get into town to buy groceries.
TBC staff would give drivers a letter allowing them through the checkpoint.
Those crossing the bridge would have 30-40 minutes to do their shopping in Kāeo and would then return the letter to TBC representatives on their way back.”

I presume this is pretty well how other new government initiatives in the pipeline might work:

Here’s your permission letter luvvie – now hurry along cos you only got 30/40 minutes before we need our letter back!

Seems that those legally appointed to make ( or not make as the case my be) exemption decisions appear to be redundant anyway.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/covid-19-delta-outbreak-new-kaeo-bridge-pass-system-for-locals-needing-food-fuel/DH4AJNVQVEEN7ENQV5ZWVKESLM/
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November 6, 2021 2:08pm
Benedict Yu

Bloody hell. We are borrowing a billion a week. Yay let’s increase welfare.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/126911010/live-government-announces-new-boosts-for-family-tax-credit-and-newborn-payments

This is exactly like Greece 2007. What. The. Actual. Fuck. ????????????
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November 6, 2021 2:17pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Except the Super. All the old people are going to die soon so a waste of money. Spend the money on programing and reprograming future Labour voters
  
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  November 6, 2021 2:45pm
  - Nickc2
    
    She’s desperate! She can’t handle the fact that there are people out there who hate her guts.
    This more money for beneficiaries stuff is usually reserved for three to four months out from an election. Perhaps the MSM should be questioning her along these lines but they won’t. Their favourable comment has already been paid for.
    
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    November 6, 2021 3:52pm
- Mrs_Right
  
  She is getting absolutely hammered in the comments on Facebook after that announcement.
  
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  November 6, 2021 2:57pm
  - sooty
    
    Do they have to get jabbed to get it!
    
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    November 6, 2021 4:44pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

‘Earlier today, Adhern told RNZ …..
“She had no intention of relinquishing her role as PM at this stage. But should she decide to step down, she’s aware there is already an outstanding candidate in line ready for a swift handover”

https://twitter.com/radionz/status/1456452090729885696/photo/1
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November 6, 2021 2:30pm
- marcw
  
  It even made news in the UK. Taking over Boris’ role?
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/04/chips-mammoth-spud-set-steal-britains-world-heaviest-potato/
  
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  November 6, 2021 2:43pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Savage
  
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  November 6, 2021 2:49pm
- Nickc2
  
  Oh no, not Robertson. Jesus wept!
  If we’re not already the laughing stock of the free world, we will be when he takes over the reins of the Maori People’s Republic of Aotearoa.
  Oh shit, I forgot, we’re not a free world anymore. We’re all supposed to have open borders aren’t we?
  
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  November 6, 2021 4:01pm
BananaLlama

She’s Pretty Fascist
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November 6, 2021 2:33pm
- sooty
  
  If she’s wort the reputed 25 mill, she’s now a fascist!
  
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  November 6, 2021 4:46pm
Tauhei Notts

I was disappointed that Labour would increase the abatement for Working For Families tax credit from 25% to 27%. When Family Support Tax Credit was first introduced the abatement rate was 18%.
I was thinking of that bloke with three children, what with twins, the eldest is three. That bloke learnt several years ago, while at university, that free love is expensive; he has a child support liability.
The wife stays indoors as she has the three little ones to bring up. He earns $1350 per week and their finances are stretched out like a shanghai. Her father finds a 3 hour Saturday morning job for the young father of three. Money for jam; $33.33 per hour. The father-in-law is pleased to help his son-in-law out. The father-in-law is concerned when the young father points out that out of the $100 the tax man will take $33, ACC want $1.40, the student loan will take $12, $3 for KiwiSaver and $18 for Child Support and $27 abatement on the Working For Families Tax Credit.
The older gent says;
“stay home with my daughter I will give you $6.00; you will be better off.”
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November 6, 2021 2:49pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  This is why I, aged 69 only work 4 days a week. I have paid a lot of Tax over the years, and they still want to penalise me coz I collect Super. Yes my partner works and is not at retirement age yet.
  Why would anyone go over the set earnings limit to be Taxed at 70 cents for every dollar you earn? Robbing bastards.
  Look it up yourself
  
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  November 6, 2021 2:59pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Perhaps superannuation should be subject to the same restrictions placed on other welfare benefits. Would that make you happier?
    
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    November 6, 2021 3:13pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Superannuation is not a welfare benefit. Stop being a dick Mike. Sad boy. Superannuation is something you would vote for – or you don’t want this?
      Moan from Fraser basement for the rest of your days?
      
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      November 6, 2021 4:16pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        You are going to have to explain to me how national super is not a welfare benefit. Just because you believe you are entitled to a pension paid for by taxpayers does not make it different from any other benefit paid for by taxpayers.
        
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        November 6, 2021 4:29pm
      - cmm
        
        Of course it is different.
        
        It’s part of “the deal” made when people pay tax. Pay tax now and part of that goes into super later.
        
        It is the government deciding to inject itself into the retirement game.
        
        It is completely different to welfare. If you want to make the claim it is the same, then why can’t everyone get welfare?
        
        I would however agree that when a person who has not worked gets to retirement age, they are really pulling the benefit – not super – because they never contributed to it.
        
        It is also completely different from ACC – which is really just the government injecting itself into the insurance industry.
        
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        November 6, 2021 5:14pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Social Security Income Tax has been levied long for the purpose. At 7.5% it was ultimately inbuilt into Paye and the tabular tax rates.
        
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        November 6, 2021 5:25pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        What a load of nonsense. Just because some people want to pretend that a universal benefit is something they ‘earned’ does not disguise the fact that it is paid by current taxpayers to a generation that is generally very well off indeed.
        
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        November 6, 2021 5:52pm
    - cmm
      
      Fuck off! Getting super is part of the deal we’ve been promised in decades of tax paying.
      
      It would be fraudulent to cut the super now.
      
      The only way vaguely moral way forward is to cut the super back slowly over 25 or more years – matched with a decrease in tax take – so that people can replace the super with savings.
      
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      November 6, 2021 5:09pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Could you provide a citation for said promise. So far as I can recall, national superannuation was introduced from 1976 to replace the contributory scheme because it would mean less communism, or something.
        
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        November 6, 2021 5:53pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  The abatement is too high.
  The 70% rate inflicted on those with non-super qualifying spouses is extortionate. It effectively taxes every extra dollar out of existence.
  I hate dealing with WINZ because of the uncertainty.
  
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  November 6, 2021 5:20pm
Lucia Maria

Ministry of Health reveals more details on vaccine pass for domestic use and international travel

Above is a link to an RNZ article on the vaccine passport and the company that will be involved in implementing it.

The article, however, do not take you to the RNZ site, instead it seems to be a copy of it posted via Microsoft Start. I accessed it via my Edge browser news.

Accessing the article in this way provides the ability to react to it via likes, dislikes etc and also you can comment. Bwwahhahahaa, this article has bipassed the NZ Media censors. It currently has 73% dislikes.

Now to the really, juicy parts. The Ministry of Health has identified the IT company that will be involved in developing the vaccine pass.

The ministry has contracted New Zealand tech company MATTR to create both vaccination passes for use domestically and internationally.

I checked the NZ Company register and found that MATTR is 93.75% owned by Spark.

So, if you’d like to protest the development of the vaccine pass, one way of doing to is to withdraw all business from Spark.
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November 6, 2021 2:53pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  MATTR is 93.75% owned by Spark.
  
  Indeed…
  
  all teamed up with MBIE and DIA
  
  https://www.reseller.co.nz/article/667559/spark-mattr-launches-decentralised-identity-tech-incubator/
  
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  November 6, 2021 4:58pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    There is some merit in digital ID’s for govt business. I have one for dealing with the Companies Office where the registration and maintenance of documents has legal significance. My actions on line in that context are all formal.
    I would not like to see it extended to everybody.
    
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    November 6, 2021 5:09pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Interesting.
    
    Very swish looking offices in that pic from October 2019, must have had a large injection of cash.
    
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    November 6, 2021 5:42pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  The UN/WHO/WEF/GATES are all involved too in preparing such.
  
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  November 6, 2021 5:11pm
nathie

So the PM goes into witless protection (again) over the last few days (due to too much bad covid news) … and today she pops out of her hiding place to announce spending some $272 million of taxpayers money, completely out of the blue, to shore up her support base and gain sympathetic media coverage?

When does carefully crafted public image campaigns cross the line called “corruption”?
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November 6, 2021 3:31pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  What can we do about malfeasance at Government level?
  
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  November 6, 2021 5:00pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Exercise your vote wisely?
    
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    November 6, 2021 5:02pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Did that.
      Tooo many other voters who are stupid.
      
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      November 6, 2021 7:50pm
Reid

Doctor gives the best explanation to covid and vaccine
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LukPaRDJHysl/
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November 6, 2021 3:49pm
- Aurelia
  
  Reid, that link was amazing. !!!
  
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  November 7, 2021 12:18am
RW Capitalist

For some reason, I had to write this down.
It was 8 months ago yesterday (she died).
It’s her birthday today.
and I’m just having one of those moments I suppose.
It helped to write it.
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November 6, 2021 3:57pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  My sympathies RWC.
  
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  November 6, 2021 7:51pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING COP26

World Leader, Rwandan Environment Minister Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya, slams teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg for… “Complaining for the sake of complaining”

Not a dicky-bird from little Jimi Shaw 😀
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November 6, 2021 3:58pm
- Nickc2
  
  Did Jimi Shore take his prayer mat with him to lay out at the feet of St Gretta?
  
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  November 6, 2021 4:06pm
- sooty
  
  He hasn’t got there yet, still travelling in the pointy end!
  
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  November 6, 2021 4:48pm
Reid

From Dr. Emanuel E. Garcia:
To: Prime Minister Ardern

As a physician and New Zealand citizen, I am writing in stupefied disbelief at the enormously damaging COVID policies you and your government have pursued and are continuing to pursue. I will disregard the hubris of your contention that your Ministry of Health is the ‘single source of truth’ about COVID matters, but will instead focus on several facts.
1. the elimination of a respiratory coronavirus is not possible — as you are now grudgingly admitting
2. relying on ‘vaccines’ such as the Pfizer mRNA injection — agents that neither prevent infection nor transmission and that have resulted in enormous numbers of deaths and adverse events worldwide — is foolhardy
3. neglecting to encourage and pursue preventative measures and EARLY TREATMENT of COVID is incomprehensible…

…Sincerely,

Emanuel E. Garcia, MD
Eastbourne, New Zealand

Read the whole thing, it has a coupla links in it you should look at.

https://archives.simplelists.com/nfu/msg/17961860/
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November 6, 2021 4:06pm
- kevn
  
  @Reid… Compulsory read. Thank you.
  
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  November 6, 2021 6:51pm
Bridgenag

If only we had a strong opposition………sigh
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November 6, 2021 4:20pm
CAKE FACE1

I’ve been thinking about Cindy’s wedding. I want to help out, because she is so special.

My idea is that she should use a LOTR theme for her wedding vows.

In the LOTR, the ring was inscribed in Black Speech created by Sauron as a constructed language to be the sole language of all the servants of Mordor. It says – “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” We would perhaps need to translate this into Maori, to update the story to NZ.

Next we need to cast all the characters.

Gayford could be the Gollum character. Cindy could be Sauron.
Jessica, Tova and the media gang could represent the Orcs.

I would suggest Winston Peters as Saruman the Brown, who enabled this entire theatre.

The story could be that into the ring Cindy has poured her cruelty, her malice and her will to dominate all life.

Gayford places the Ring on Cindy the Cruel’s finger in Gisbo, and consequently we all in live in darkness forever.

What say you?
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November 6, 2021 4:24pm
- Spring Bank Westie
  
  I prefer the Game of Thrones Red Wedding option.
  
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  November 6, 2021 7:15pm
- andydownhere
  
  Wheres the part where Princess Cindy dies?
  
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  November 6, 2021 11:29pm
- Nickc2
  
  A parody predicting true life in Lil-Olde-NZ.
  I only hope they all disappear into the darkness forever.
  
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  November 7, 2021 9:17am
sooty

I must apologize for the covid numbers.
I predicted they would top 200 on wednesday.
I was wrong, it’s today!
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November 6, 2021 4:54pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think the harder prediction will be:
  When will our covid infection case numbers start decreasing?
  
  I’m thinking somwhere around March 2022 (for this current outbreak)…..and a resurge later in the year.
  
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  November 6, 2021 5:29pm
- Hard Cheese
  
  You were closer than Hendy’s mob then, maybe they should be paying you the $6,000,000
  
  “Some of our modelling is suggesting at the moment that through the course of November we could reach up to the 200 cases per day mark,” Ardern said.
  
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  November 6, 2021 6:53pm
Inandout

Even the music stations are now pushing the jab. ‘Please everyone, go get your first or second jab’. If Spotify begins this malarky I will be very annoyed.
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November 6, 2021 5:14pm
Maggie Pie

Anyway, have a great weekend if you think I’m not too skinny!
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November 6, 2021 5:15pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’s not an attractive look as you head into your twilight years, MP.
  https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jHFsYHRLBSM/Rh4HBLNOVFI/AAAAAAAAArg/NvUI6dQFWVY/s400/old-woman-beach6.jpg
  
  (Meant with concern and luv, of course)
  
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  November 6, 2021 5:36pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    LOL!!!
    
    Grandma had saying…
    “You can never be too rich, or too skinny” 😛
    
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    November 6, 2021 6:01pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      “You can never be too rich or too thin”- Duchess of Windsor.
      Never knew your Grandma was the former Mrs Wallis Simpson……would explain a lot tho.
      
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      November 6, 2021 8:47pm
Pheobe

Came across this article, it’s 12 months old, but still worth the read, re Jacinda’s direction for UN 2030 agenda.
https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-opinion/nzs-path-united-nations-agenda-2030
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November 6, 2021 5:24pm
CAKE FACE1

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November 6, 2021 6:07pm
Maggie Pie

Piddling down ere…
A few of my partners mates arrived earlier to play poker and watch the cricket.

Just took the hor’dourves in and we’ve lost SKY!!

LOL
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November 6, 2021 6:37pm
Hard Cheese

Does Ardern ever stop lying? Only took her 6 days to change her story

Nov 1

“Some of our modelling is suggesting at the moment that through the course of November we could reach up to the 200 cases per day mark,” Ardern said.

“At that point we are predicting that vaccinations will have impact and we’ll not necessarily see them rise beyond that.”

https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/10/31/modelling-suggests-200-cases-a-day-in-november-ardern/

Nov 6

“Ardern said today’s new record daily high of 206 cases was not unexpected or a sea change in the growth of case numbers.”

Ardern said the current level of Covid cases is tracking on the middle range of the modelling earlier presented by the Government.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/pm-jacinda-ardern-announces-boost-to-working-for-families-payments-best-start-payment-topped-up/HTBYVHPT5LZAY4BW7XQPVN76IA/
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November 6, 2021 7:30pm
[email protected]

Just a short note to say that we enjoyed a marvelous day at Maire Park Whangarei today. Lots of people enjoying the sunshine and each others company. Living a normal life with no masks and no social distancing.

The children were outside using the swings and slides and having a great time getting some outside exercise as well as having a nice feed.

Thanks to all the police officers that didn’t stop us having fun.

I would guess that what we enjoyed today is not unique and that this is going on in a lot of places in New Zealand.
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November 6, 2021 7:57pm
gorse

I can’t comment on Stuff’s reporting in Ardern’s truly affordable increase in welfare. I wonder why?
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November 6, 2021 9:29pm
ABS4EVA

The Best VAX in the World is about to be approved

99% of KIWIS do not know what it is
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