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Maggie's partner

If ever there was a time for government decisions to be based on good sense and prudence, rather than polls and popularity, it is now. Sadly……..
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November 29, 2021 8:00am
- cmm
  
  I think you are doing Cindy a great disservice by not mentioning her awesome inchewishun.
  
  If she puts her knickers on backwards, or has a dodgy curry, all her decisions will change.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:33am
- Mr_Blobby
  
  That would require the government to openly admit that they got it all wrong.
  
  Not going to happen.
  
  All the pain inflicted both economic and social would be unforgivable, the mob would tear them apart.
  
  We will have to leave that one to history and it will be a stain of epic proportions.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:33am
  - bennerg
    
    This the basic problem – covid quickly became a political event, NOT a medical one.
    
    Medicine and science can turn on a dime without a problem, once proof is provided that the previous understanding was wrong.
    
    Unlike politics that will bury itself, and the country, before they admit to any failings at all.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:03am
Mr_Blobby

Welcome to another day of lockdown tyranny.

Bring on the covid clowns.
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November 29, 2021 8:04am
- bennerg
  
  Talking to another unvaccinated individual today, and we agreed that an unintended consequence of the traffic light system is that from Dec 3rd all the unvaccinated people are going to be protected from the great “unwashed” vaccinated people with depressed immune systems and inability to repair their DNA (as recent scientific papers have shown), and as more than likely they will be the ones who will be passing on whatever variant turns up on our doorstep.
  
  Thanks Jacinda!
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:07am
  - Aunty
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-delta-outbreak-vegan-who-refused-covid-jab-because-it-was-tested-on-animals-dies-of-virus/YETYIJE3VE2ONKPI5DNIHBROXY/
    
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    November 29, 2021 12:14pm
    - Tom Hunter
      
      Same as those who put up news items about Euro soccer players suddenly dropping dead with heart problems…
      
      By contrast here’s some actual data, Covid-19(Delta) Case Fatality Rate in NZ:
      
      Of these 5,325 were unvaccinated cases (1876 are kids under 12, 30 of whom have been in hospital at some point).
      
      We’ve had seventeen Delta deaths, I assume that still includes the gunshot victim, and for argument’s sake we’ll assume they were all unvaccinated, even though we know that’s not the case.
      
      So that’s a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 0.32%.
      
      Among the unvaccinated!
      
      Scary!
      
      BTW the seasonal flu in the USA has a CFR that bounces between lower than 2% (good flu season) and near 3% (bad flu season).
      
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      November 29, 2021 12:36pm
      - bronny1
        
        We know that 5 of 15 were double vaxxed. Of the 10 unvaxxed one died of lead poisoning one was a 90-something woman with so many comorbidities she couldn’t be vaccinated.
        
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        November 29, 2021 5:18pm
    - cmm
      
      So? My trice jabbed mother dies from CV19 too.
      
      What’s your point?
      
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      November 29, 2021 1:45pm
      - Aunty
        
        Just telling it how it is, cmm. You have a problem with that?
        
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        November 29, 2021 3:55pm
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    Yes I will also be limiting my exposure to the great “unwashed” vaccinated.
    
    My reason is that they can carry a higher viral load before showing symptoms, making them far more infectious.
    
    The reason why you should keep your “fake” vaccination passport for emergencies only.
    
    The long term effects of the vaccination will probably not known for many years.
    
    My guess is a compromised Immune system.
    
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    November 29, 2021 3:08pm
JibberJabber

The future of New Zealand…
https://www.nzcpr.com/the-fatal-flaw/

Jacinda Ardern’s obsession with co-governance can be seen in the fact that the Pae Ora Bill, to replace democratically elected Health Boards with an apartheid system controlled by Maori, is being rammed through Parliament during a crisis, when an ill-equipped health service is desperately trying to ready itself for an expected tsunami of Delta cases.

The PM’s obsession can also be seen in her determination to ignore widespread opposition and force through her disastrous Three Waters proposal to replace democratic control of local government water infrastructure and services with tribal control. The Bill is expected to be tabled in Parliament any day now, with submissions called over Christmas, so it can be rushed into law early next year.

What is particularly galling is the fact that not only did Jacinda Ardern seek no mandate from voters to replace democracy with tribal rule, but she deceived the public by campaigning on moderate policy promises, that were radicalised, once she realised she could govern alone.

As the British politician Lord Acton astutely observed in 1887, “Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

What Prime Minister in her right mind would even consider delivering the effective privatisation of critical public assets and services into the hands of a powerful and self-interested tribal cabal, who cares nothing for the rights or concerns of other New Zealanders?

The signs have been around for decades.
Don’t say you haven’t been warned…
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November 29, 2021 8:05am
- Yabster
  
  The bullshit has to be stopped somehow- least ACT and National would repel this garbage from the garbage dumd dumb PM. With all the money spent on settlements, no taxes paid by iwi companies who make millions a year- how come this hasn’t trickled down to Maori?- answer the elites are mega rich and the average Maori is getting jack shit – especially the urban ones who belong to no Iwi.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:54am
  - Sean OConnor
    
    National will never do it. Even ACT won’t, unless they have some credible competition to their right.
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:36am
    - bennerg
      
      OK, then lets ask them and get their commitment in writing or not. Then we will know.
      
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      November 29, 2021 10:08am
      - bennerg
        
        Here are some sample questions. I would suggest there are three options to answer:
        Yes
        No
        Maybe – if this is chosen then they must explain fully.
        
        Questions of every standing candidate:
        
        1. Will you immediately repeal the Vaccine Passport System upon election?
        
        2. Will you immediately repeal the Three Waters legislation upon election?
        
        3. Will you immediately restore the DHB system will elected local boards upon election?
        
        4. Will you immediately restore local government to true democratic structure, with only members elected to office, upon election?
        
        5. Will you work to restore true democratic governance of all public authorities
        
        6. Will you work to restore local control over school boards, with parents having authority to guide the direction of the school
        
        7. Will you work to restore freedom of speech in all bodies, councils, universities and all educational institutions, so that noted speakers, academics and scientists can talk freely without interference from their employers, professional associations, and the government itself.
        
        8. Will you work to restore educational diversity, allowing for independent schools to be established following the philosophies and morals and ethics of the parents who wish to send their children there, with funding based on the same amount as would state schools.
        
        9. Will you immediately establish an enquiry into the handling of Covid-19 in New Zealand, and the decisions made that have laid waste the economy, including those that have politically divided the nation, and give it the mandate to review the current pandemic response document that was ignored, with consequences for those involved.
        
        10. Will you restore the justice system to ensure that those committing the worst heinous crimes are kept from mainstream society, and that at all levels, from juvenile to adult, there are immediate and significant consequences appropriate to the crime.
        
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        November 29, 2021 10:27am
    - Yabster
      
      well yes they are politicians but both parties have said they would repel so- vote them in and hold them to account.
      
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      November 29, 2021 10:18am
    - Chris R
      
      National WILL do it and have promised openly to do so. I am sure ACT are equally like-minded.
      
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      November 29, 2021 11:21am
- bronny1
  
  ESP given the shambles they have made of Waikaremoana. Two years from great walk to completely f*cked. Pocketed a few mills each year for upkeep at the same time they destroyed it.
  Won’t be so cool when it’s our water assets.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:59am
Yvette

The Ministry of Health expects 455,847 people to be eligible for a booster shot by the end of the year. [1]

The Government has launched its long-awaited vaccine pass, with those who are fully vaccinated able to download a pass later on Wednesday morning. [2] – Nov 17 2021

So those first to down load Passes but requiring boosters by December 31, will have passes still valid until May 17, 2022 – six months since they arbitrarily downloaded their Pass – nothing to do with the period of Pfizer fizzle out (in aspects of the vaccine waining, other than apparently its reduction of serious illness and hospitalisation)
Just how much of a danger to their communities are people in the same medical “expiry” situation of the “455,847 people”, above, but who do not have a booster?

A question, some journalist (with sufficient spinal fortitude) should ask Ardern, is –
Why does the Pass have an Expiry Date?
The answer should be –
Because the vaccination wains in efficacy after six months
Then the question, the journalist (still with more spinal fortitude) should ask Ardern, is –
Why does the Expiry Date relate to the totally irrelevant download date of the Pass, rather than the medical date of receiving the second vaccine dose (+ plus two weeks for optimum protection)? Are you, out of not wanting to issue passes with already Expired Dates on them, and for lack of an simple extra line of computer code in the Pass programme, issuing a potential 4.2 million invalid Passes nationwide, and what danger will that pose?

Where is a journalist that will ask that?

[1] https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/11/more-than-450-000-new-zealanders-eligible-for-booster-shots-by-end-of-2021.html
[2] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300456058/covid19-nz-vaccine-passes-launched-will-be-needed-for-extra-freedoms-over-summer
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November 29, 2021 8:07am
- Ruawai
  
  Agreed Yvette, my son had his vaccine early due to occupation and now has a 6 month vaccine passport despite needing his booster next week.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:31am
- sooty
  
  That journalist would have to be home schooled!
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:35am
- cmm
  
  “Why does the Pass have an Expiry Date?”
  
  No, I disagree. It has nothing to do with the vaccination effectiveness but rather they want the ability to change the passport mechanism by forcing people to upgrade in 6 months.
  
  If it was really based on the lifetime of the vaccine, then it would be far shorter – maybe 3 months.
  
  It’s looking like a good bet that the existing vaccinations will be even less effective on the new variant, so those who look to the vaccine for the cure to everything will probably be queuing up again in March or April.
  
  Just remember, it’s all theatre. Then it makes a lot more sense.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:38am
  - krazykiwi
    
    It’s a bit more sinister than theatre, notwithstanding the fact I’ve previously used the same term. ‘Vaccine passports’ are all about conditioning our population to accept that freedoms are a conditional dispensation of the state. This, of course, is the first rung in the totalitarianism ladder, and far to many New Zealander are happily climbing.
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:20am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Gone from theatre to pantomime
    
    ‘She’s behind you!’
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:33am
    - sooty
      
      National Identity Card. It makes sense then!
      It was always political!
      
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      November 29, 2021 10:44am
      - mawm
        
        International ID card with your social credit score stored on it.
        
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        November 29, 2021 11:37am
- Spongebobby
  
  I would appreciate some questions asked regarding the logic, or lack thereof, in the implementation of the traffic light system. It has been reported several times in the media that NO regions will get a green light, presumably then, the South Island will all be orange.
  
  Under an orange setting, without a vaccine pass requirement, a hospitality cannot open for dine in and gyms can’t open at all. So suddenly, on 3 December, it will be ‘unsafe’ for unvaccinated people to go to the gym even though they have been doing so since 7 September when we moved to Level 2. A Christchurch hospitality business that has been trading well and safely for almost 3 months, would have to shut it doors unless it opts into the vaccine pass regime.
  
  This makes NO sense as there has been no community transmission down here: even though a couple of Delta cases have moved around Christchurch in October, they did not spread. Call me cynical, but this sounds far less about health and the spread of a virus, and far more about exerting pressure on businesses to opt into the pass regime and, as a consequence, push the last vaccine holdouts into getting the jab.
  
  Additionally, on the COVID website it clearly outlines the requirements for an Orange setting:
  
  “At Orange, there will be community transmission, with pressure on our health system. The whole of health system is focusing its resources, but can manage primary care, public health, and hospitals. There may also be an increasing risk for at-risk people”
  
  None of that applies to the South Island and Christchurch and surrounding districts are close to, or over, 90% fully vaccinated. If we don’t get a Green light now, when will we?
  
  Where are the journalists?
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:57am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    ‘Journalists’?
    
    Surely you jest good sir!
    
    I have $110million of keyboard jockeys for you just over here . . .
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:36am
  - virtualmark
    
    I don’t follow why the Waikato is orange, but Rangitikei is red …
    
    I know there’s lots of cases in the Waikato, but have I missed some big outbreak in Palmie?
    
    Or maybe it’s just more proof that the only consistent thing about this Government is its inconsistency …
    
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    November 29, 2021 4:27pm
- krazykiwi
  
  “Vaccine passes launched. Will be needed for extra freedoms over summer”
  
  There is no functional distinction between ‘vaccine passes’ setting one free and Arbeit macht frei.
  
  Further, if you expect to receive freedoms from the state then you are permanently enslaved.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:24am
  - virtualmark
    
    Calm down.
    
    It’s really no different to a drivers license. A Government-issued permit to do certain things. And I don’t see people here jumping up and down decrying drivers licenses.
    
    And yes it has the same flaws as drivers licenses … the ferals will either forge one or just ignore the idea altogether.
    
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    November 29, 2021 4:30pm
- I remember when
  
  So 4.2 million passports, 8.4 million jabs, 450,000 booster shots before end of year, plus another 8.4 million boosters shots in 2022 or maybe 10 million by then.
  Sounds like a lot of advertising income to spend.
  Who is going to provide the counter arguments.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:59am
Russ the Muss

A commonly held narrative is that the Nats have no talent. This is BS and I’d argue they have a stronger front bench than labour, they just need leadership, unity and a press strategy! I’d pit the current core of; luxon, Stanford, Bridges, Bishop, Willis, Mitchell, Brownlee, Doocey, Kiriger and Simone as far stronger than the current kiddies running the treasury benches
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November 29, 2021 8:08am
- BAM
  
  The problem is they all think they’re the chosen one.
  That’s why National is a complete fuckup, too many Chiefs, not enough Indians.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:25am
- amospicton
  
  No Reti Muss?
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:32am
  - BAM
    
    Reti is probably Nationals biggest asset but it seems most can’t see it.
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:27am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Except he seems to have supported what Collins did.
      
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      November 29, 2021 10:29am
      - BAM
        
        He was just supporting the leader, isn’t that what you want in a deputy?
        
        For all you know he might have had said he had issues with what she was about to do, but when it comes down to it, it was Collins decision as leader, he had to back that decision.
        
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        November 29, 2021 10:35am
      - kaykaybee
        
        An asset sadly lacking in many in the caucus. Collin’s has had the ego boys running around undermining her.
        I’ll never forgive them for that.
        
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        November 29, 2021 12:18pm
- pdm
  
  I would add Chris Penk to that list – very under rated I think.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:56am
  - dime
    
    Yeah i like Penk. big future ahead i think
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:45am
- MCōs
  
  The problem with electing a new leader is all 33 caucus members have an equal vote so it only takes 16 to swing in behind a contender.
  All the bright sparks can easily be out numbered in a tight race.
  According to Matthew Hooten, Judith Collins has promised some votes to Luxon including a couple who might just slip down the list if Bridges is the big boss.
  I would suggest if Bridges gets the job there might just be some blood on the floor, not just in the caucus.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:03am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Once again with these National Party people, it’s all about them personally, not about us, the long suffering voters.
    I would like to see some honesty come into their decision making re leadership- who is the best person capable of rattling Ardern’s cage and effectively curbing the huge power of the Labour Party?
    If that is genuinely and realistically Mr Luxon – then ok. Go with him.
    But if it is not – then be brave and pick the person most likely to succeed whether you like them personally or not.
    People out here are really over the National Party’s selfish factionalism at the expense of the voters.
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:37am
    - Paulus
      
      If leadership is required then look at Chris Penk – a former senior Submarine Captain – now Lawyer
      I believe to captain a sub you require leadership skills.
      
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      November 29, 2021 10:59am
- KevO'Brien
  
  “Press strategy”? They need permission first to be allowed to have anything printed. Second it cannot be uplifting to them or assist in any way their Leader being elevated beyond “unfit to govern” status.
  Articles attacking the mental health of National MP’s may be printed without permission. Those which attack the National Leader may qualify for the Cinderstrike media bonus. Electoral law has been temporarily suspended.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:11am
- Bill Felt
  
  Name one Labour Minister that has competently undertaken their role?
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:52am
  - pdm
    
    Peter Fraser? Syd Holland? Keith Holyoake?
    
    John Key had a great opportunity but chose the Labour Lite route.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:09am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Roger Douglas
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:39am
- Ra Henare
  
  Why did you omit Shane Reiti?
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:36am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Because the man’s name is Reti.
    
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    November 29, 2021 11:40am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      Con’t panic Mr Mannering just a bit of bad spelling Sir.
      
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      November 29, 2021 6:18pm
- virtualmark
  
  The Nats have plenty of managerial talent. Is always their thing … lots of people who’ll make good steady Ministers.
  
  But they don’t have a front (wo-)man who can win the votes from the Waitakere man type swing voters.
  
  A third of the electorate are tribal Nats/ACT. Another third are tribal Labour/Greens. But it’s the other third in the middle where you win or lose the election. That’s the talent, charisma and skill the Nats lack.
  
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  November 29, 2021 4:32pm
Pavel

Scrolling through the Stuff website this morning I saw this article and the brief on it that says “The government will today outline which parts of the country get what freedoms from Friday”. I find this outrageous. Who the hell do these politicians think they are? This is how dictators talk. I have an idea, how about the politicians go back to Wellington and leave us alone. With such high vaccination rates these laws are written simply to punish people who don’t follow the governments narrative. I feel like these laws are more suited to the South Africa of the 70s. To even write such laws is psychopathic in the least and shows how unfit for government this lot are.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/127122657/covid19-new-traffic-light-settings-for-each-region-to-be-announced-by-jacinda-ardern
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November 29, 2021 8:12am
- Ruawai
  
  Another way of saying this without the Government spin “The government will today outline which parts of the country get what restrictions from Friday”
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:30am
- Taieri
  
  “The government will today outline which parts of the country get what freedoms from Friday”
  ————–
  
  Our “freedoms” or what’s left of them, depend on the whim of a small bunch of people, some of whom we didn’t even elect. Or ever heard about not that long ago.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:14am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Taieri correct neither did they tell us what they intended to do.
    
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    November 29, 2021 6:20pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Excuse me! Many more politicians come from places other than Wellington than otherwise.
  
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  November 29, 2021 5:26pm
Frank the tank

Omicron – sounds like a transformer from 1984.

All for what appears feeling fatigued and a headache for 48 hours……..

If the Vulcans flew past earth they wouldn’t even stop to take a look.
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November 29, 2021 8:13am
- Pavel
  
  Omicron is an anagram for Moronic.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:31am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Omicron is an anagram for ‘fuck here we go again!’ or something very close . . .
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:39am
- Random T Person
  
  What about the Vogons, and in particular Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz. They’d vaporise the place stat.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:47am
  - Ehlana
    
    They would read poetry to us. Hard to say if that would actually be worse, really.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:50am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Omicron has its uses as a source of refreshed controls:–
  https://thelibertydaily.com/three-reasons-you-should-be-skeptical-of-the-omicron-narrative/
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:13am
  - Bloody Dago
    
    The Media is the virus and have been busy around the scuttlebutt today doing the job they have sold their credibility and souls for. Spreading pestilence, famine, and by crikey didn’t the moronic strain spread so quickly like a couple of days its everywhere…………How convenient!
    
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    November 29, 2021 4:28pm
- Chris2
  
  If you know your Original Star Trek series, you may recall that Mr Spok actually fell in love on the planet Omicron Ceti 3. The following plot synopsis has an eerie parallel with NZ today – just substitute the word “spores ” below, for “Ardern” …..
  
  “The Enterprise is ordered to clean up the aftermath of a doomed colony on Omicron Ceti III, a planet under constant irradiation from deadly Berthold Rays. Upon arrival, however, the colonists aren’t only alive but in perfect health, with no desire to leave their new world. They are in fact under the influence of plant spores which not only keep them in good and improved health but simultaneously keep them in a placid state of happiness and contentment. Mr Spock reacquaints with Leila Kalomi, an old friend who had been (and still is) in love with him. She leads Spock into being affected by the spores, and he is thereafter, for the first time, able to express love for her in return. Eventually the entire ship’s crew is affected, leaving Kirk alone to wonder how he can possibly rescue them from perpetual bliss”.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:14am
  - rangitoto
    
    The story is a rip off from Homer. He’s not around to claim royalties though.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:21am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Hopefully James T Kirk shot first and asked questions later like usual
    
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    November 29, 2021 12:22pm
  - Observer of Life
    
    Ku-vark
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:51pm
- Ehlana
  
  The best evidence for the existence of intelligent life outside Earth is that they have not contacted us…
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:49am
- Stellaboxer
  
  If they try to stop this mutation then you know they are up to something else. This is the mutation that will become prevalent and harmless. It should be welcomed with open arms!
  
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  November 29, 2021 6:23pm
G152

I was getting worried there,
It appeared that there was an end to Covid and the world would be returning to normal.
But no, they found a new version, more inoculations required, more stay at home, traffic lights. more podium of truth and less actual news.
But no.
We are under the thumb.
And line up for your out of date internal passport.
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November 29, 2021 8:16am
- BAM
  
  They’ve purposely created an environment that produces more infectious variants.
  
  Have a look at this, it explains it all
  https://thehighwire.com/videos/vaccine-expert-warns-of-covid-vaccination-catastrophe/
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:29am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Yup. Mass vaccination in the middle of a pandemic (technically an epidemic) with a non-steralising experimental ‘vaccine’ and the establishment is going, “huh? Gosh? Must need more jabs – right?”. And right around the world idiots are rolling up their sleeves for the 3rd and 4th doses. It’s like the world’s largest, live Darwin awards.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:14pm
Yvette

Shaw needed a headline number to take to Glasgow following the embarrassment of the Emissions Reduction Plan. Fifty percent sounds pretty schmick.

If there is a cause for outrage, it’s not the accounting. It’s the sheer scale of the offsets required to get us there. Some two-thirds of the forecast reductions come not by actually reducing our emissions but by buying offsets – around 100 million tonnes of emissions savings.

If we’re talking analogies, that’s like saying you’ll lose weight by paying someone else to run around the block twice a week.

It gets worse. We don’t know the cost of these offsets yet. The Climate Change Commission estimates anything between $2 billion and $20 billion [$2 – 20 billion? – nothing like a having a buck or two each way]. This year’s rise in carbon prices raises those stakes even higher.

What will happen to all that money? We don’t know, but there’s a fair chance that we’ll be paying other nations to plant trees for us. Lots of trees. Potentially we’d be increasing our exotic forests by 50 percent, except that extra half will be overseas.

How are we going to count those trees and measure that carbon? Other rich nations are also wanting to buy those offsets, so how are we going to make sure that there is no double-counting and funny business, like there was under the Kyoto Protocol? Will those forests lock up that carbon in perpetuity in a world with more droughts and wildfires? And most importantly, do the people in those countries get a fair say in what happens to their land? Will they accept it being bought and tied up by rich Westerners?
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/offsets-not-accounting-tricks-the-outrage

Jacinda Ardern in an address to a New York UN Climate summit stated, “We aim to plant one billion trees by 2028 – 150 million are already in the ground”, when her Government had, in two years, only directly funded 24,681,000 trees, or 2.46 percent of the 1 billion total.
Shaw was appointed by the Glasgow summit to supervise transparency in all nations’ transactions – laugh yourself stupid over that. His first task should be to damn Jacinda for her mis-speaking.
And now not only does Ardern’s Government kick the climate can down the road, but into other people’s back yards.
Will they try Columbia, Venezuela, or China, and expect more transparency, honesty and integrity than our own Government, who will omit lessening emission here to the extent that they offset them offshore in other people’s back yards?

Sorry we didn’t deliver on that policy either, but it was really Columbia, Venezuela, and China who didn’t deliver – for shaw!
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November 29, 2021 8:16am
- artemisia
  
  Some of those trees are already on arable land. Land owned by a few who did the sums and assessed the risk.
  
  Tough work being a farmer, especially as they get older and the offspring have left for the cities. A few dots can be joined.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:30am
- emmess
  
  Defund the COP
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:37am
- sooty
  
  Is jimmy still off shaw!
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:38am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Speaking of Shaw, is the prick back yet?
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:46am
  - Frank the tank
    
    BMW Jimmy is probably in home iso marvelling at the magic beens he brought at COPOUT 26
    
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    November 29, 2021 8:51am
  - Jethrod
    
    Don’t ask, just be thankful that he is not around peddling his garbage and unachieved goals at COP26.
    Surely he could have doubled JAG on her bicycle at 1 am this morning.?..now that WOULD have been helpful.
    
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    November 29, 2021 2:46pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  There are reasons to oppose buying carbon offsets as a means of delivering New Zealand’s commitment to help with reducing global emissions. But the cost is not one of them.
  
  If it were cheaper to reduce emissions here in New Zealand than to pay another country to reduce theirs, then we’d do it here. But it isn’t. You can’t complain about offset purchase on the grounds of cost and then say we should reduce emissions here instead, a course of action which would cost far, far more.
  
  If you think the cost of buying offsets is too high, when it’s actually the cheapest way of reducing emissions, then your quarrel is with the target level, not with offset purchasing.
  
  No, it’s not like paying somebody else to run round the block in order to lose weight yourself. The climate does not care where emissions come from, so a tonne of carbon emitted from a Chinese power plant has exactly the same impact as a tone emitted from cars on New Zealand roads. Therefore, reducing emissions from the former is exactly as valuable as reducing emissions from the latter, and whichever is the cheapest is the one that is the best use of money.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:06am
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘Carbon’ is an Element- which you are made of.
    Carbon Dioxide is the trace Gas.
    Please try to get it right.
    
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    November 29, 2021 11:21am
    - oldfella
      
      All on red: CNN has just posted an article that debunks human-caused climate change (or at least the models). I wonder if stuffed would be interested in carrying the story? Yeah, nah. //s
      https://lidblog.com/questioning-climate-change-models/
      
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      November 29, 2021 12:17pm
    - Albert_Ross
      
      Oh FFS it’s just a convenient and very widely used shorthand for greenhouse gases, of which there are several.
      
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      November 29, 2021 1:08pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    A_R, theory is as you say. Practice will be very different.
    
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    November 29, 2021 5:30pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Will we be expected to insure those trees? What happens to the credits if the trees are incinerated in a forest fire?
  
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  November 29, 2021 5:31pm
RockyJ

Co-governance, currently being implemented for Three Waters and the health system is not only a future disaster in terms of social justice but is already proving an operational cluster f—k. As the Stuff article shows co governance involving Tuhoe and Doc in the Urewera National Park is resulting in trashing of Doc facilities, maintenance failures and closure of public access. The remedy, of course, would be more public money thrown at Tuhoe. https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300456239/lake-waikaremoana-and-its-great-walk-have-been-closed-for-months-as-thoe-say-the-relationship-with-the-crown-has-failed
My own experience of co governance has been the Hauraki Gulf Forum. Set up in 2000 it is directed by iwi representatives and local authority and government officials. In 20 years it has introduced nothing to enhance conservation in the Hauraki Gulf. The reason is all proposals are targeted as gains to Maori only, eg co governed coastal domains (Ahu Moana) or customary rights reserves (AKA Maori only fishing areas).
The future for the delivery of any benefits from co governance to anyone looks dim.
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November 29, 2021 8:17am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  One disturbing aspect of the lock-down (Lock-up) around Lake Waikaremoana is the fate of kiwi in the
  kiwi enclosures around peninsulas into the lake.
  
  https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1388-kaitiaki-of-the-kiwi
  
  I’ve heard that dogs have recently been in the fenced-off area, but I’ve not been able to find out anything about the fate/condition of the kiwi.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:18am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Small flightless birds on Maori land = food.
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:56am
- I remember when
  
  What is co-governance.
  Governance is of itself self explanatory and all encompassing.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:21am
- Bill Felt
  
  Maori Track record from day 1:
  
  Sediment records show a huge increase in charcoal and bracken spores around the 13th and 14th centuries. At the same time, there was a massive decline in pollen from forest trees, marking a striking and devastating change: up to 40% of the forest was burnt within 200 years of Māori settling in New Zealand.
  
  Source: Teara.govt.nz
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:12am
otago-man

I was in Southland recently for a few days and talked to many people of different backgrounds, and none of them liked Jacinda, what surprised me though was how much they despised her, especially the middle aged women
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November 29, 2021 8:22am
- Paulus
  
  Why the did the Southland women overwhelmingly vote for her ?
  
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  November 29, 2021 11:02am
  - Stephen Russell
    
    Maybe because they despised Collins even more?
    
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    November 29, 2021 4:17pm
Maggie Pie

I know Auckland comes in for a lot of stick, but honestly, where else can you find your own piece of paradise just 40 mins from home?
Late Friday we made the decision to head up to beach for the weekend.
Weather and tide were perfect.
Almost had the place to ourselves.
Laid back and did sweet-fanny for two days.

Heading back last night I couldn’t help but think to myself…. just how lucky we were that my partner’s grandad discovered Tindalls before the Harawera’s.
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November 29, 2021 8:32am
- RiP NZ
  
  https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/11/28/iwi-closing-one-of-northlands-most-pristine-holiday-spots-closed-over-covid-fears/
  
  Lucky if any of us colonisers will be allowed to go to a beach at all.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:42am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Ah yes…Margaret Mutu.
    
    Once labelled as New Zealand’s version of ‘Robert Mugabe’
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:42am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Parkiri is also ‘closed’ by the local tribe. This includes lifeguards therefore if any of the locals get in trouble fishing for Koha they drown.
    
    Only in New Zimbabwe…….
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:59am
- Frank the tank
  
  Shhhh…… enough people already up on the coast. We don’t want too many more interlopers like the plonkers on their hydrofoil devices polluting our beaches.
  
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  November 29, 2021 2:02pm
Tomtoddy

The Prime Minister is to make an announcement later today that she will be announcing later in the week the establishment of a new Maori taxation department – Te Tari More Taake.

Under the terms of te Tiriti and shared responsibility the new department will have revenue raising powers similar to the IRD. The legislation will bring the present IRD in under Te Tari More Taake’s control.

The PM stated their was keen interest among Maori leaders for senior roles in the new department.
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November 29, 2021 8:32am
- emmess
  
  The sad thing is that I am not sure if that is satire or not
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:39am
- pdm
  
  Does that mean Tainui, Ngai Tahi, Ngati Porou and all of the other Maori Tribes will now pay tax?
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:59am
  - pdm
    
    Ooops Ngai Tahu – apologies for typo.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:13am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      They think like they are the only one
      
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      November 29, 2021 2:01pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  I hope this is only a humorous piece.
  As a old Tax Gatherer the constitutional issues are horrifying.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:17am
Bridgenag

It is all so depressing….what can be done? While the media are working for the government we are in a vice. So many alterations to laws and new laws without scrutiny. If we don’t hurry up this site will be accused of hate speech and closed down just like all the anti government YouTube, twitter, etc posts that get taken down within hours. They must have trolls constantly watching for dissent. 20,000 marching in Melbourne in the weekend and not a peep. Groundswell reduced to Media Watch tractor comments………….. sigh
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November 29, 2021 8:34am
JibberJabber

Some clarity from Cactus K on the Luxon issue,
https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com/2021/11/luxon-as-leader-no-choice-is-always.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Currently we have a Prime Minister who previously had a CV so dreadfully weak that she had to bring up her fine work at a Fish and Chip shop in Morrinsville.
Politics however is ALL about timing.

And Chris Luxon left Air New Zealand in June 2019.

Covid arrived in February 2020. When Air New Zealand had a gold plated CEO take over. Not even he could stop the company tanking.

Tell me Chris Luxon does not have the lady luck of timing on his side? He dodged the largest bullet in corporate history being in charge of an airline during Covid.

The National caucus have no other option but to pick Luxon and FIFO – fit in or fuck off.

This one short blog post is the most I’ve heard about Luxon, be nice if we could hear something from him, tho’ just maybe the “media” are ignoring him cos’ they perceive him as a threat?
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November 29, 2021 8:35am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Luxon was on Q&A with Jack Tame a few weeks ago, and was impressive; here’s the video:
  
  https://youtu.be/o_YPLVJ-C6Y
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:23am
  - Nukuleka
    
    I watched the interview- first time for me to see Luxon in this situation. Fluent, intelligent, good-humoured, on point. Excellent. Like others I worry that his view of the changes he wants to see in the National Party involve more wokeness but maybe he is indeed the man for the job. He’s an adult and that’s what’s desperately needed at present in NZ politics.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:55am
- Alwynn
  
  I just hope that Luxon read and took note of Shakespeare when he was at school.
  The Bard knew it all. As he wrote in Julius Caesar.
  “There is a tide in the affairs of men
  Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
  Omitted, all the voyage of their life
  Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
  On such a full sea are we now afloat;
  And we must take the current when it serves,
  Or lose our ventures.”
  Go for it. This Government has got to be dumped at the next election and I think Luxon is the only one with a chance of doing so. He is the only one I can see getting the women’s vote back to National.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:16am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Despite lacking that most essential of political assets – hair!
    
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    November 29, 2021 5:35pm
iMP

LUXON vs BRIDGES

The biggest impediment to Bridges is the Muller and now Collins fallout. Bridges has to reconcile both those factions to his bosom. Both were not happy with him. Luxon doesn’t have to do either. Lux is the cleaner option if this is about unity.

Why go Bridges with all that in-house animosity to resolve? Back foot from the start.
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November 29, 2021 8:35am
- All_on_Red
  
  There is nothing inspiring about Luxon
  Women will not support him over Ardern
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:41am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Nor will they with Bridges. Voters like that are painted on.
    
    Luxon is the better bet to sway independents and swing voters.
    
    However I do say that as an Act voter now
    
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    November 29, 2021 8:45am
  - iMP
    
    Sandford as his deputy. Fixed.
    
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    November 29, 2021 8:46am
    - septic skeptic
      
      How was Little going as leader with Ardern as deputy? Nobody votes for the better deputy.
      
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      November 29, 2021 9:02am
    - All_on_Red
      
      No, it isn’t fixed.
      I’ve seen coloured rocks which inspire more than he does.
      He offers nothing but the appearance of an adequate Middle Manager.
      If you think that’s enough to break the rusted on support Ardern enjoys from women, then you haven’t been paying attention.
      
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      November 29, 2021 9:04am
      - plc
        
        Chris from Marketing vs. Cindy from Communications
        
        Shoot me now!
        
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        November 29, 2021 9:20am
      - alloytoo
        
        Casual observation suggests to me that Collins was the glue holding some women onto Ardern. In Collins absence, with a half decent alternative Ardern would start shedding that support rather rapidly.
        
        I rather think Bridges would be a good choice, he’s looking far more relaxed since his first time around and has rehabilitated his image somewhat thanks to Paula Bennett’s game show.
        
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        November 29, 2021 9:29am
  - Takere
    
    Do you mean ‘real’ women or the other kind?
    
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    November 29, 2021 12:37pm
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Luxon is the choice of the people who haven’t moved with the moment. He is everything we don’t need. IMHO
    
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    November 29, 2021 6:41pm
- sooty
  
  Yep, utu on all the ones that voted muller is always in the back of their mind!
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:42am
- Mrs_Right
  
  Why would they choose Simon again?
  He is a smart and likeable guy but not long term leader material.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:49am
  - C-Town
    
    He needs to spend some more time in a senior ministerial role before the public starts liking him again.
    
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    November 29, 2021 11:49am
- Chuck Bird
  
  To choose Luxon for that reason it to reward wrongdoing. I am referring to Collins particularly.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:51am
- Random T Person
  
  Luxon is the spitting image of Captain Underpants. In the spirit of Boaty McBoatface, I’d actually quite like to see New Zealand potentially led by this auspicious superhero.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:52am
  - RockyJ
    
    Actually he bears some resemblance to Robert Muldoon. All he needs is the cheek dimple.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:37am
- H. Upmann
  
  Will Luxon roll back ANY Ardern separatist racism?
  
  Will Luxon roll back ANY Ardern Covid inspired totalitarian initiatives?
  
  Will Luxon roll back ANY Shaw multi-billion dollar climate scams?
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:53am
  - Frank the tank
    
    No but neither would have Key or English – that is why you vote Act and get them into the low 20s.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:01am
    - H. Upmann
      
      It was rhetorical question Frank. Key was very weak by not throwing out some of Clarke’s rubbish still today burn our money. Luxon will be much worse, bringing in new PC, racist and climate dictates.
      
      I have voted ACT right from their first election bar one when out of NZ.
      
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      November 29, 2021 11:35am
  - Doc Holliday
    
    climate scam?
    
    You need your head read.
    
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    November 29, 2021 2:47pm
    - alloytoo
      
      When the cure is worse than the ailment and sold by snake oil salesmen……
      
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      November 29, 2021 9:27pm
- pdm
  
  Neither would be my choice but that is irrelevant because I am not in Caucus or even a party member.
  
  Whomever they choose must have 100% support if they are going to raise their polling.
  
  Ardern and her crew are like turkeys sitting on a fence at present but only David Seymour and ACT are trying to knock them off.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:03am
- I remember when
  
  The vital fact is that they need a leader who will be retained, even if they fail to win the next election.
  Everybody still moving forward.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:13am
- Raphael
  
  My personal preference would be for Bridges. Unfortunately, as he has been in parliament longer, there are too many other senior Nats already sharpening their knives for his back over past perceived or actual slights.
  Luxon has the advantage of being the new kid on the political block with no past upsets.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:41am
  - jon
    
    *Luxon has the advantage of being the new kid on the political block*. Don Brash showed how after entering Parliament in 2002, becoming leader of the Nats within 18 months and then nearly winning the election in 2005 how newness can be a PLUS.
    
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    November 29, 2021 11:53am
    - Raphael
      
      John Key largely did the same.
      
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      November 29, 2021 1:55pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Both Bridges and Collins were taken out by Cindy’s bribed media mob. Muller was probably one too finding their heat too difficult to sustain. Most voters have no concept how difficult an MP’s life can be. Their families are under attack too.
  
  Judith and Simon did the best they were allowed to be seen doing. There is massive obscurity surrounding Judith’s take out.
  Don’t expect the next Nat Leader to be seen to perform better. That is against the spirit of the media bribe.
  
  It may be time for the Opposition parties to call Jacinda’s bluff. If they refused to attend Parliament in mass that might get the GG’s attention.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:11am
  - alloytoo
    
    I suppose this also depends on whether the press have smelled the blood in the water yet.
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:31pm
Benedict Yu

What does it mean when someone sends you and English language email, and they finish it with “See you at the hui apōpō. Looking forward to a mighty korero.”?

It just makes my head hurt. I literally do not know what this person is referring to. I have decided to delete it. If it is important something will turn up.

Honestly this is now happening daily. I usually work my way through with google translate but it all seems kind of pointless when neither the sender or the recipient are proficient in Maori.

I should reply 我不明白. See how that goes down 🙁
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November 29, 2021 8:39am
- Bridgenag
  
  ………………and the babble on NZR and TV
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:43am
- sooty
  
  I always thought a succinct “Fuck Off” was best!
  Understood in all languages.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:44am
- Inandout
  
  BY, same with bloody Consumer and Air Points….kia ora X. Then ACC on the radio has gone full Maori.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:03am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Ben, I don’t bother with translating it. I respond by return email saying please send your email to me in English as I do not understand the language you are using. You may not be aware, but English is the universal business language of the world, and to make yourself understood, it would be beneficial to you to use that language.
  
  I sent a shorter (and blunter) version to my Kiwisaver provider who started and finished their correspondence in Maori.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:10am
  - pdm
    
    `Ben, I don’t bother with translating it. I respond by return email saying please send your email to me in English as I do not understand the language you are using.’
    
    IIVV – have done that to both Westpac and Air NZ in the last week or so. No reply from either yet.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:18am
- mandk
  
  You could always demand that they write entirely in English or entirely in Māori, with the option of sending a video version on NZ Sign Language.
  
  Tell them it’s just too confusing if they mix the languages.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:21am
- MCōs
  
  Life in NZ is such a trial isn’t it!
  
  My son likes to slip a few Thai words into the conversation. Trouble is my wife doesn’t understand any of them.
  About twenty years ago she worked with some Cambodians in Wellington. Even though they all had very limited English vocabulary they understood each other very well.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:48am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    We have a Thai friend who married an Alaskan. We were talking about flight times NZ/Hawaii/Alaska.
    She starts counting in Thai, so I start counting in Maori.
    “Papa, talk in English”
    “You too little one” lol
    
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    November 29, 2021 2:11pm
    - The Housekeeper
      
      Steve, if your point is that you’re an arrogant asshole, well done.
      
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      November 29, 2021 4:28pm
    - ISeeRed
      
      When I ran a translation service in Bangkok, one time a Thai-American couple came into the office with their young daughter. The Thai mother spoke terrible broken accented English to her child, the American father terrible broken accented Thai. It took all my strength not to leap out of my chair, slap them both hard and yell “WTF are you doing?! Talk in your NATIVE LANGUAGE to your daughter so she’ll learn both languages correctly!”
      
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      November 29, 2021 4:31pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  In the past I returned mail to sender at their cost prominently marked on the outside as to why.
  
  English embroidered with Maori is not English and probably for a govt agency not an official language to communicate in.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:18am
- RockyJ
  
  Replying in Latin is cool. Another dead language and the ancient language of us whiteys.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:39am
- Paulus
  
  I would just file trash it if it came to me, like any other language em I do not understand or wish to !
  
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  November 29, 2021 11:08am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  For nearly 50 years, I’ve been exposed to Hubby’s immediate family and Cousins. They are all fluent in at least 3 languages… Not once in those years have they had any need to use anything but English to communicate with me… with the possible exception of на здоровье.
  
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  November 29, 2021 1:09pm
plc

During extended lockdowns the normal situation is people save money as they have less discretionary (and frivolous) purchases.

Why then is there a new “provider” being set up to fund with $20 million of taxpayer funds, to support the increased costs of the positive Covid cases self-isolating at home?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/127112465/covid19-mori-home-isolation-scheme-needs-20m-to-carry-on
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November 29, 2021 8:39am
- Pharmachick
  
  Can confirm. Saved mid-high 5-figures, BC was hard lockdown for ~6 months, then softer version 12 months. Nothing to buy in first 6 mo except contactless Amazon delivery (lightbulbs, dishwashing fluid etc) then the following 6-8 mo. takeout pizza or sushi. Plus the odd Amazon gift for B’days, baby showers etc. Amazingly I worked out I don’t need that stuff. Also save thousands of $ not traveling – used to do 50 – 100K air miles/year, not going back to that. random impertinent Q: why is a glass of wine in an airport $15??????
  
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  November 29, 2021 3:14pm
Fletch

The doctor in South Africa who altered the authorities to Omicron, Dr. Angelique Coetzee, says so far it’s really quite mild and we shouldn’t be panicking. She can’t really understand why. It’s probably been in the UK all the time without being noticed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ95CKkl5lI
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November 29, 2021 8:40am
- amospicton
  
  It seems to me that if Omicron is more transmissible and has less severe symptoms than delta we should be importing it ASAP and thus solving our problems. Expose everyone to the mild omicron, displace delta and get on with life. Except that would expose the government for the rudderless ship of fools they are so it’s unlikely, even if they are “following the science”.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:09am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Interesting note about “Omicron”, it has over 20 specific mutations compared to its nearest known relative, and this is almost uniquely different and seemingly highly unlikely by pure chance.
    
    A couple of hypotheses have been advanced about tit; one is that it is another lab release from someone (UK or SA most likely) experimenting with the virus, and there are some “rumours” of an escape in a Capetown facility. More likely though is the possibility of the “collision” between HIV and Covid, with an immune compromised HIV patient harbouring and active Covid infection kept in partial check by the anti-HIV medications for an extended period, possibly up to 8-9 months, and as a result generating a stable by highly mutated version in the long active period. That long infection would be a process similar to the serial passages experiments thought to have been involved in the laboratory adaptation of the original Covid version in Wuhan.
    
    Early days, but interesting. See Billy Bostickson’s Twitter feed for further on this.
    
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    November 29, 2021 1:43pm
    - Pharmachick
      
      My money is on collision between HIV and COVID.
      
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      November 29, 2021 3:18pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        Can you imagine the outrage and outcry if we started demanding people declare their HIV status? If HIV+ people could be legally fired and banned from businesses?
        
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        November 29, 2021 4:35pm
  - JeffW
    
    Sorry, fat fingers. Should have been uptick
    
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    November 29, 2021 3:28pm
Tony Stuart

Remember when Jacinda Ardern vowed and declared that taking guns from licenced firearms owners was going to make New Zealand a safer place?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-gun-violence-houses-are-getting-shot-up-people-gunned-down-more-than-900-firearm-offences-this-year/OZRH2IN5KNOZV2LYZUGBH2XCQI/
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November 29, 2021 8:42am
- Tony
  
  I agree. The gun buyback scheme makes kiwibuild look like a roaring success.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:48am
- alex Masterley
  
  In our area over the weekend we have had one arson coupled with a shooting on Friday nite, and another shooting last nite.
  It is not safe out there.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:56am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    900 gun crime incidents so far this year; that’s almost three per day! Couple that with a 50% increase in gang numbers since Labour took office, and it’s little wonder our streets are becoming less safe by the day.
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:15am
    - Spoff
      
      Overheard at Rotary the other night.
      Karen (American) to a rural Kiwi:
      “Aren’t you frightened living remotely when there is all this violence?”
      “Nope.”
      “Why not?”
      “Everyone up my road has a shotgun.”
      
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      November 29, 2021 10:30am
      - sooty
        
        But she left every unlicensed gun still in the hands of the gangs.
        
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        November 29, 2021 10:56am
      - Pharmachick
        
        There is a 100 year old, one lane swing bridge onto our Island. On disembarkment, one is greeted with this:
        
        https://www.alamy.com/warning-sign-on-westham-island-ladner-british-columbia-canada-image434287855.html
        
        My neighbours are salt of the earth (mostly cropping farmers) and wouldn’t hurt a fly, unless you try to steal their tractors or hurt they and theirs. Mind you, at this time of year (goose, duck, pheasant season) gets a bit “boomy” of a morning and evening.
        
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        November 29, 2021 3:24pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      By design, scared people are amenable to additional social controls, as we are seeing with Covid. Authoritarian governments dream these current happenings, makes the propaganda much easier to carry out. And without a means to defend oneself, one must perforce depend on the government for said protection, adding to the dependency.
      
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      November 29, 2021 1:45pm
- Russ the Muss
  
  There is no gun crime in thorndon. Not sure what your talking about. Aotearoa is very safe, stop trying to overhype some marginalized communities letting of some steam occasionally.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:11am
  - Okahu
    
    Funnily enough I heard some bloke on the radio purporting to represent the Newmarket business area. Raved on hysterically about the unprecedented rise in bashings and beatings and mugging and bashings… yes, he did double dose the bashings. He sounded terrified, or at least very worked up for his moment with a microphone.
    
    Now Newmarket had a Smith and Caughey dontcha know so we can’t have that can we? Little old ladies with a new hat or a set of doylies being bashed and mugged and robbed…(and bashed) ! So I went to the police stats website. Green. Newmarket was coloured. I think that was good because the CBD was a yucky orange and it is well known as the best place to give and get a good bashing. ( I blame the evil weed. Too many yoof getting pre loaded on the stuff and heading into town, all riled up and maddened by the satanic reefer, failing to pull and fighting over their White Lady orders).
    
    Anywho, I did find this fascinating. Heading up the stories the police care to put on their website.
    
    Tea cup tape investigation continues!
    
    I kid you not. Busy busy busy!
    
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    November 29, 2021 11:26am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Let’s all move to Thorndon! Cover the acre of grounds of Premier House with minimum six story buildings.
    
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    November 29, 2021 5:42pm
- Prince
  
  Maybe contracting out to the Mob for the destruction work didn’t work out so well.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:22am
  - Pharmachick
    
    Didn’t work for Mick Jagger and company in 1969 at Altamont, either. But why would we learn from the past, aye? Just misunderstood, marginalized… oh I an’t even be bothered satirizing it anymore.
    
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    November 29, 2021 3:30pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  An update – a Police officer was seriously hurt last night, hit by a car when he was trying to lay down road spikes, and at least one, possibly two officers have been injured this morning in a firearms incident in Glen Eden, which has left a man dead.
  
  With an estimated 1200 to 1400 Police not yet vaccinated against Covid, perhaps they don’t see the virus as the greatest thread to their health on a daily basis.
  
  Best wishes to all the injured Police for a speedy and full recovery.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:55am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Tony there is a major crisis about to hit our boys in blue. Many older, white officers are looking to exit over the next couple of years. Coupled with 1,400 non vaxxed younger brown officers and moronic border requirements there is going to be a real issue with meeting minimum law and order requirements into the election.
    
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    November 29, 2021 2:10pm
Flossie

Luxon is a man who stated last week that he needed more experience in parliament and yet suddenly he finds he is The Man for Leader? Busy few days he’s had getting all that experience in!
I can’t imagine if I was young, female, relatively poor, or of a different skin hue that he would have any appeal whatsoever to me. I’m actually all of those (except the young bit) and he doesn’t do it for me. I see him as a privileged and patronising old dude.
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November 29, 2021 8:44am
- Raphael
  
  I don’t think last week’s Luxon was expecting Collins to shoot herself in both feet on Thursday PM.
  
  Last week’s Luxon was putting off leadership challenge expectations to make sure he was not perceived as a threat to the current leader.
  
  This week’s Luxon has the advantage of a previous leader having taken themselves out, so he can run without have appeared disloyal
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:45am
- James Stephenson
  
  I’m a white, follically-challenged, professional bloke in my 50’s (just) and IMO, if he’s the answer, then the wrong question is being asked.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:50am
  - greybeard
    
    Whenever I see a photo of Luxon I am reminded of Humpty-Dumpty. Sorry, but I can’t help it.
    
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    November 29, 2021 12:17pm
    - oldfella
      
      greybeard: and when you see a photo of Jacinda you are reminded of… ?
      
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      November 29, 2021 1:02pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        XXX
        
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        November 29, 2021 1:48pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Nancy Pelosi – without the alcohol
        
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        November 29, 2021 2:19pm
      - bronny1
        
        evil
        
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        November 29, 2021 5:31pm
Maggie Pie

And my partners mum seems to be walking with a new spring in her step.
She was just telling me she met a guy with an ‘Apple-Mac’ over the weekend.
He made her feel 50 again 😀
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November 29, 2021 8:50am
- Fletch
  
  If he has a Mac he is probably rich ?
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:53am
  - Ed Snack
    
    To be fair, the latest MacBook Air is hardly expensive and remarkably quick, plus it has exceptional battery life for that power. Replaced my wife’s old MacBook Pro with one a few months ago and it has been great, faster, lighter, and twice the battery life. Have to say that the new Apple CPU’s are quite remarkably better than the opposition offering at present.
    
    Waiting myself for the new 27” iMac equivalents to be released and hoping that they don’t go all iMac Pro on them which would ratchet up the price too far for me to bother.
    
    Having a Mac can make you more productive too. How, well, see an article or comment in a new game, decide that looks like a great game I should get that and try it……shit, doesn’t run on a Mac, so back to work….
    
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    November 29, 2021 1:51pm
    - Pharmachick
      
      Me too – about to get one of the Pros with a M2 (need the extra power as I do some stuff that requires iteration and uses up mucho RAM). Mr. Pharma has a new Air with the M1 – phenomenal.
      
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      November 29, 2021 3:32pm
- westernScientest
  
  haha, I bet the DOB on her vax pass now confirms it too
  
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  November 29, 2021 2:27pm
Truman lodge

We seriously need to rethink our democracy. I used to support the Westminster system. Now labour are just ramming through everything, and apparently the people support it because they voted Labour.

I didn’t see 3 waters in their election manifesto? We have to fully accept or reject a manifesto without any compromise under the system. The courts can’t protect our rights. Our system worked in the past because we had a majority British settler population, giving the illusion the system worked well.

We need to seriously rethink our political and legal system. Especially with tribalism and etho nationalist parties in parliament.
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November 29, 2021 8:57am
- Albert_Ross
  
  When people say stuff like this, what they always mean ultimately is that people who are not elected, should have veto power over the decisions of those who are.
  
  But they never specify who these non-elected veto-holders should be, how they should be appointed and on what terms, to whom they should be accountable and by what criteria, etc.
  
  You want a re-think – go ahead and give us your thoughts.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:11am
  - Truman lodge
    
    Albert Ross
    
    I wasn’t thinking of the US system.
    
    I could refer to brexit as an example of the parliament trying to ignore a referendum. I don’t want judicial activists or unelected veto.
    
    My preference is the Swiss option of a combination of representatives and direct democracy via referendum.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:44am
    - Okahu
      
      Perhaps you could lay out your thoughts in more detail? A swish of the hand in some general direction over the map could get great results since you seem unable to pick between Westminster, Washington or Zurich. I mean how about Beijing? Unprecedented growth stats. Happy smiley people free of doubt or at least the opportunity to express it. Or Beirut, where the threat of guaranteed religious violence has forced an unworkable three way clusterfuck of mutual hatred on the failing state.
      
      Or perhaps 1970’s New Zealand where a succession of gerrymandering minority governments under the sway of a megalomaniacal drunken dwarf were, your words, just ramming through everything, and apparently the people support it because they voted (National). Well I suppose it was the right sort of New Zealanders who had the wrong ones with their lower legs caught in the fence back then. And did what they did because they could…When you could be sure you were safe telling the Sheila’s their place and making like miserable for queers. And how about we scrap a state operated plan to create a fund to pay for retirement? She’ll be right said the dwarf. Perhaps a few more subsidies to the folk on the farms. How about we pay them to burn down native bush on steep hill country. Let’s set up a Marginal Lands outfit and pack it with a bunch of the right sort of right people. What could go wrong…?
      
      Now some pretty hefty minds have put themselves to this task you have set yourself. I wish you well. Perhaps it is just as well to enter the arena free of pre conceptions like a farm kid in a big city candy store, dazzled by the bewildering array of options, charmed by the colours and shapes. And the jars! So big! So pretty!
      
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      November 29, 2021 11:55am
      - Truman lodge
        
        Okahu
        
        So under our system our members of Parliament checks with their constitutes before voting on a bill?
        
        I’m not in fairly land. Ok you want my truth. No govt and a libertarian state. Taxation without representation. Why should banks create our money supply?
        
        Explain to me why Labour is the right choice to improve men’s health and suicide rates and improve men’s education. How does a majority parliamentarian system help this? Charter schools band for example. So you don’t believe in self empowerment.
        
        Lefties like you are know as beta simps.
        
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        November 29, 2021 2:49pm
    - Albert_Ross
      
      I didn’t say anything about the US system.
      
      What makes you think referenda would deliver better policies than the Parliamentary system? If we are capable of electing this utterly useless and incompetent Government on the basis of Jacinda’s lovely smile, we are just as likely to vote for ill-founded and badly thought-out policy proposals on the same basis. Referenda held now would almost certainly deliver more stringent vaccine mandates than even the Government is proposing, and quite likely indefinitely extended border closures.
      
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      November 29, 2021 1:18pm
      - Truman lodge
        
        Because under representative democracy lobbyists and media control the narrative.
        
        Members of Parliament say they are here to represent the views of epsom or Mt Albert which is total bs. At least under direct democracy people would be empowered and directly influence policy. That being said mob rule is not ideal.
        
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        November 29, 2021 2:44pm
      - Truman lodge
        
        Unelected burecrats set our immigration numbers.
        
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        November 29, 2021 2:50pm
- RockyJ
  
  If we had a decent constitution, like the USA has, what Ardern is doing would be illegal.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:41am
  - Okahu
    
    Yep, good as gold that Constitution those yanks have got. If only they could decide to read it as an originalist or an evolutionist might, or have a way in determining the meaning of its words centuries later that wasn’t tied to the political appointees to the Supreme Court. The USA is on borrowed time. Rights declared and preserved by their constitution to over representation of the backward and bewildered states is fundamental to that demise.
    
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    November 29, 2021 12:07pm
- Mark
  
  Truman I did not see Key promissing to raise the GST rate by 15%,in fact he denied any intention of doing that.He lied and increased GST.But he gave his fat cat mates a big tax cut,and the rest of us got diddly squat else apart from the bill.It would appear the luvvies on here are prepared to forgive a deliberate lie by their team,woe betide if Labour come up with new policies.Hypocrisy writ large again.
  
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  November 29, 2021 1:54pm
  - Truman lodge
    
    I don’t support our system because its taxation without representation and correct key did something he did not campaign on. I think it’s unfair whoever is in power.
    
    However 3 waters is a massive bill that should have been campaigned on.
    
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    November 29, 2021 2:52pm
- Paulus
  
  Labour do not need a manifesto as they have Jacinda.
  
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  November 29, 2021 2:16pm
Surely Knott

The gang wars continue in West Auckland as the helicopters circle again on Monday morning. Stuff reports a large property fire. “Police have surrounded a property in Danube Lane. A witness said they heard officers telling someone to “put it down.. ” ” Armed officers are once again standing guard.

How different this is to the wellington inner city political and media class. Can we have a map showing dots and crime of where the elite who represent us live and also a map showing where they have placed parolees and social housing.The two would be completely distinct.

NZ should move parliament to Waitakere for the next three years. The green star rated top of the line old Waitakere Council office building connected to the trains is still empty. Let media and the politicians and their contractors live and work in West Auckland for a few years so they understand NZ’s problems and so the money and contracts associated with their work can flow to the areas that most need it.
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November 29, 2021 9:04am
- Truman lodge
  
  Surely knott
  
  THEY ARE CLUBS!!! NOT GANGS..
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:57am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Bear in mind that many of our politicians already live in Akld.
  
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  November 29, 2021 5:46pm
I remember when

Omicron:
“Anyone who has booked International Air travel is left up in the air.”
Or not, as the case may be.
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November 29, 2021 9:05am
I remember when

Indigenous:
On TV3 item last night Ruth Wong – Ngati Kahungunu.
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November 29, 2021 9:09am
BAM

I have no idea why National thinks corporate business leaders/managers make good politicians.

I hate to break it to you chaps but these people are generally despised and hated by the people that have to work underneath them, especially women.
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November 29, 2021 9:19am
- Albert_Ross
  
  There’s your problem, right there. You think that a “good politician” is one that is liked.
  
  Certainly, somebody who is liked is likely to be successful at getting elected. But that’s no guarantee at all that once elected, they will be more able, or even as able, than less likeable individuals – to design and implement effective policies that deliver worthwhile outcomes.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:02am
  - BAM
    
    If you can’t get elected you never make it to stage 2, so what wrote will never happen.
    
    Politicians, especially aspiring Prime Ministers have to be relatable to the majority of voters and relatable in a good way.
    
    Was John Key relatable?
    Is Ardern relatable?
    
    Who is the most relatable?
    1) Luxon
    2)Bridges
    3)Reti
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:49am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      An excellent argument for retaining the list system
      
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      November 29, 2021 1:34pm
    - rockape
      
      Unless of course your a Green list MP.
      
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      November 29, 2021 1:43pm
- Paulus
  
  At least they may have had a real paying job which did not come from Academia, Maoridom, Unions or just Parliament.
  Ardern, Mahuta, Roberson and Little as examples.
  
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  November 29, 2021 11:13am
- bronny1
  
  I think you should at least have some relevant experience outside parliament, such as running a business, a farm, management in a corporate, etc. That isn’t an unreasonable requirement.
  
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  November 29, 2021 5:34pm
Maggie Pie

A friend (well connected and very much in the know) believes that thanks to JK’s efforts over the weekend, the ‘deal’ has already been done….

Leader: Christopher Luxton
Deputy: Nicole Willis
Finance: Simon Bridges
Health: Shane Yeti
Front Bench: Bishop, Upston, Penk, McClay Woodhouse, Mitchell

We shall see….
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November 29, 2021 9:36am
- Julie
  
  I’m pleased to see you rate Penk , he’s our local MP and I think he’s one to watch in the future.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:55am
- MCōs
  
  Seymour says he’s sure he’ll be able to work with Luxon just as well as Key, English, Bridges & Collins.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:00am
- pdm
  
  MP – is Yeti coming down from the Himalayas? lol.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:22am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    He’s the MP for Kathmandu 😉
    
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    November 29, 2021 1:20pm
- Alwynn
  
  Did the friend really tell you that the leader was going to be Luxton?
  I wouldn’t take very much notice of what they say as there is no one in the National Caucus with that name.
  It is LUXON for Christ’s sake!
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:27am
  - Inandout
    
    This will be the end of Keys.
    
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    November 29, 2021 11:05am
    - gorse
      
      Key
      
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      November 29, 2021 5:11pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    To be fair, the recent death & subsequent obituaries for John Luxton may have suggested the error.
    
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    November 29, 2021 5:48pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  LUXON! LUXON! LUXON! LUXON!
  Get it right for God’s sake. We’ve even got the host on Newstalk SB saying ‘Luxton’.
  Sheesh……….
  ps. It’s also Nicola not Nicole, and Reti not Yeti.
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:27am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    It’s ‘ZB’ Cap 😀
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:29am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      You got me there Mags, but you’re still behind 3-1.
      
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      November 29, 2021 10:41am
      - Alwynn
        
        I’m sorry to say it but I am on Maggie’s side on this one. When you post a comment correcting someone’s spelling or grammar you have to be perfect. That is why I keep them as short as possible so that it reduces the chance of error.
        For the moment I would have to say “Arise Captain Ahab”. Moby Dick just got you.
        
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        November 29, 2021 11:50am
- Russ the Muss
  
  One criticism, not enough females. This opens up a big angle of attack. So Stanford and one other have to be there ahead of Woodhouse and Penk. In 2021, as unpalatable as any quote may sound, it’s non negotiable especially for the media party who are of course mostly females, tovessica will hit them with this all day long.
  
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  November 29, 2021 11:30am
  - Pharmachick
    
    Oh for crying out loud… I’m a female full Professor. Tokenism should just go away and die, and that includes this B/S idea of “but, but. but there isn’t enough women”. If they are qualified they’ll be there.
    
    Also re: the comment above that these guys are despised by the women that work for them – not across the board, actually. We have an OWG (old white guy) Dean that is LOVED, behaves impeccably and is inclusive if not woke. We also have an OWG Associate Dean that is not. I believe he called me “high maintenance” the other day for refusing to lend my CV to an effort that is bound to fail. To which I replied “Peak career LOL’s, being a senior female full professor and called “high maintenance” by an OWG in middle management for declining the “opportunity” to do a bunch of work for other people”. I am told he then called me a b**ch for it, when I wasn’t present [but academia right… 3/5 people he said it to tattled, ha ha ha ha].
    
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    November 29, 2021 3:43pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Lordy!
      
      It never F***ing ends does it.
      
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      November 29, 2021 4:30pm
      - Pharmachick
        
        No it effing doesn’t.
        
        But I, for one; will not sit aside an allow this crap.
        
        Maggy, you’re of an age as my first Faculty mentor, I was Assistant Prof in the USA (= Lecturer) she was a full Prof at Georgetown, husband retired, so they came back to Hawaii and she transferred her grants and her research lab to HI. I was 28, she was 64…. in all seriousness she once told me as follows:
        
        “Do NOT EVER accept, the statement that we’re making progress, even though it’s incremental. I’ve been told that since the 1970’s. I’m the first wave of feminism, and I survived Academia. Incremental is not good enough in 2006”
        
        For the rest of you, I DONT identify as a feminist because of this crap. I’m either good enough, or I’m not. That’s all.
        
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        November 29, 2021 5:10pm
    - Russ the Muss
      
      I wish I could be Sympathetic, but academia to me is a strange old planet, and other than the parties the best thing from uni was graduating and getting away from all those pretentious academics…
      
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      November 29, 2021 9:39pm
      - Pharmachick
        
        “… but academia to me is a strange old planet… pretentious academics…”
        
        Nailed it.
        
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        November 30, 2021 3:20pm
ClanMcleod

A NHS Doctor blogs:

“What has been witnessed in the last two years is not medical science. It is the death of reason and the birth of a religious cult. The Church of Covid fathered illegitimately by the financial elite and delivered from the womb of governments. Its Holy Trinity, the Pfizer, the Moderna, and the Aztec-Zeneca. Baptism is by experimental vaccination. Its priesthood (SAGE), itself controlled by the papal WHO. Pope WHO mediates between the people and the Viral Gods mostly through belief systems of fear and disgust.”

https://tcp.art.blog/2021/11/25/all-hail-covid/
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November 29, 2021 9:42am
- MCōs
  
  What do the other 122,445 doctors who work for the NHS say?
  https://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-numbers-of-doctors-and-nurses-working-in-the-nhs
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:05am
  - Inandout
    
    MC, perhaps that statement can be re-worded to… ‘What are the other 122,445 doctors who work for the NHS permitted to say?
    A certain NZ health board has ceased most orthopedic operations and shifted the nursing staff into wards waiting for the Covid/Delta/Moronic pandemic. Repeat 2020 and rinse.
    
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    November 29, 2021 11:12am
  - mawm
    
    The rest of the doctors? You can divide them up into the young and idealistic who still believe everything they are told, those that go along to get along, those that want promotion and follow the leader, those that want to get into research teams, the researchers who depend on big Pharma for funding and finally those that need the salary to pay off student loans, mortgage and feed a young family.
    
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    November 29, 2021 12:22pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    You are quite a sick and twisted Ardern sycophant aren’t you. All good. Truth always outs and good prevails.
    
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    November 29, 2021 8:48pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Well they’ve been lied to repeatedly, many want to keep their jobs, have been threatened with censure if they don’t follow the narrative.
    It’s crumbling. Here’s one of the lying NHS people on your list being exposed.
    
    https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/28/nhs-chief-stephen-powis-claims-the-overwhelming-majority-of-covid-icu-patients-are-unvaccinated-but-is-he-using-out-of-date-data-from-july/
    
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    November 29, 2021 11:02pm
Sporteone

I know this is a few days old now ‘Guest post: Dr Ardern knows best’, but why have the MSM not picked up on it. It is just another example of the arrogance of Ardern and her party, or is it that its not about Auckland.
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November 29, 2021 9:43am
- ex-golfer
  
  I’ll give you $155 million worth of reasons the MSM have not picked up on the story that Ardern decided not to follow the advice of the DG of Health to put the country south of Auckland into Level 1 from 1 Sept.
  
  I assume at that particular 1pm presser she did not use her normal “Based on the advice of Dr Bloomfield Cabinet has decided……….” phrasing.
  
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  November 29, 2021 11:24am
Maggie Pie

Little Person: “Do you have a book a book about discrimination of Dwarfs”?

Librarian: “Right behind you. Top shelf”

;D 😀 😀
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November 29, 2021 9:53am
- ClanMcleod
  
  And who was the asshole who thought calling a certain speech impediment a lisp was a good idea? ??
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:02am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    And rhotacism, where you tend to pronounce r as w. That’s one that Kiwibloggers seem to find it particularly hilarious to mock
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:04am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      And God forbid you tell an Irish joke, oh no. I detest wokism.
      
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      November 29, 2021 10:38am
  - krazykiwi
    
    To limp is to walk with a lisp
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:14am
  - Ed Snack
    
    I once had a brief stint trying to code in LISP, nice idea, but…..
    
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    November 29, 2021 1:56pm
- cmm
  
  My great aunt (or maybe great, great aunt – I lost count) who had polio and a built up shoe was called….
  
  Eileen.
  
  I kid you not!
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:58am
Rusty

Better face the fact our PM and her like minded friends (comrades) see this world in a different way compared to the average person.

Greedy western capitalists don’t care about the poor and indigenous people in their societies and so they must be punished both financially and morally.

Problem with this reasoning is that most people in the west aren’t rich or poor but in the middle.

The middle class are actually the losers because they end up supporting the poor and rich.
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November 29, 2021 10:04am
ClanMcleod

The Daily Skeptic has a good article today talking about the rise in heart problems apparently increasing in normally health and fit young people.

“A further three football players collapsed during play this week, bringing new interest to the question of what might be the connection between this unusually high number of on-field medical emergencies and the Covid vaccines.”

Just coincidence of course.

https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/27/whats-the-truth-about-covid-vaccines-and-heart-attacks/
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November 29, 2021 10:06am
- quarterpack
  
  ClanMcleod …Yes and I could post a link proving absolute proof of the exitance of the Unicorn, complete with footage of Unicorn frolicking in the morning mist.
  
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  November 29, 2021 11:35am
  - RightNow
    
    Prove it
    
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    November 29, 2021 12:16pm
  - westernScientest
    
    sounds cool, lets see it
    
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    November 29, 2021 2:19pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    quarterpack. I’m open to anything, post your link. I’d love see evidence that unicorns exist, amazing looking creatures apparently…..bring it on.
    
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    November 29, 2021 8:52pm
Maggie Pie

And you’ll luv this one too…..bestie Mickey Havoc tweets. LOL!!

https://twitter.com/havocexpress/status/1464801673084223497
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November 29, 2021 10:20am
- sooty
  
  Luv it! The clowns lined up at the sideshow waiting for the ball in the mouth!
  
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  November 29, 2021 10:50am
KevO'Brien

The lock down planning continues. Includes footage of the WEF head talking about us getting transhumans via the jab…
https://www.globalresearch.ca/worldwide-resistance-against-vaccine-covid-fraud/5755538
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November 29, 2021 10:22am
I remember when

Why do anti-vaxxers get such a bad rap.
If we use the current Tairawhiti region mass calling for the cancellation of R&V as an example.
Nobody else seems to have much confidence from having been vaccinated.
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November 29, 2021 10:23am
Maggie Pie

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

My partner calls bullsh*t on that.
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November 29, 2021 10:35am
Yvette

The Royal Mint has revealed a 50 pence coin in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The coin, the first 50p to be produced with a royal event tribute on the tails face, will be circulated next year.
The coin will feature the number 70 with her cypher framed within the zero at the heart of the design, the Queen has approved the design.

A complementary coin worth 30p will be released at the same time for Poms who think they are due some change.
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November 29, 2021 10:40am
In Vino Veritas

As I posted on the 2nd day of the cricket test, the decisions against NZ are mounting up. Close decisions when we are bowling are being given not out, forcing us to review, close decisions when we are batting are being given out, forcing us to review. You expect some of both. But not ALL of the decisions ALL of the time. I reckoned that we would see a marginal one against NZ be carried as umps call and so it came to pass with Nicholls.
Yesterdays effort with Young was also special. I listened with dismay as the Indian commentator said “very unlucky for Young, not getting his review in time”. How about very unlucky for Young, the umpire made a dreadful decision with the ball not going to hit another set of stumps, so far did it turn.
Even the TV coverage it looked like it was missing, yet the commentators all yelped “its close!” Seriously? missing by 6 inches is close now? I can tell you if Gavaskar had given out to that, he would have taken his batting partner off the field with him, and there would have been a riot.
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November 29, 2021 10:47am
Maggie Pie

WHO says Omicrom is an even more virulent strain than the Delta variant?

Asking for a friend.
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November 29, 2021 11:12am
- ex-golfer
  
  And the doctor that discovered it says its no more than a headache and body aches for 48 hours (ie: the flu).
  But that won’t suit the NWO narrative.
  
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  November 29, 2021 11:19am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, most ‘experts’ say it is not but the timing for the Traffic Fright system is spot on.
  
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  November 29, 2021 11:21am
- cmm
  
  It is way to early to say with any certainty, but from what I’ve seen so far or the Big O:
  * It is more infectious that Delta.
  * It has less impact than Delta (less side effects & hospitalisations etc).
  * It is likely the vaccine will be far less effective than for Delta.
  * It is displacing Delta and other variants.
  
  Based on what I’ve seen so far I think the sooner we get the Big O here, the sooner the pandemic ends. Go hug South Africans.
  
  But, like I said, it is still early days. I am not a doctor. This is not medical advice.
  
  Remember that this is the normal course of viral pandemics – the virus starts off nasty then basically wains over time – normally it’s a two year pandemic (eg. 1918, 1957, 1968,…) but could be lengthened by all the clever people monkeying with it.
  
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  November 29, 2021 1:44pm
ex-golfer

I see the police are now going to target people smoking or vaping in the cars while carrying passengers.
Good to see they have solved the gang issues and gun crimes freeing up their time for this new and most important function.
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November 29, 2021 11:18am
Maggie Pie

ZB reports….

“Poto Williams personally calls every Officer that’s been seriously injured”

Auditor-General to probe excessive phone bills incurred by Minister of Police.
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November 29, 2021 11:25am
burt

R&V is to be a vaccinated passport controlled event where only “safe” people can go surrounded by other “safe” people.

But for some reason a massive number of people who seem to think we need vaccine mandates and passports to protect us don’t seem to think vaccines, vaccine mandates and vaccine passports can protect us.

Can anyone explain how vaccines, vaccine mandates and passports, are going to help in any way at all if they can’t even be relied upon protect a bunch of mainly young people who are not highly represented in covid hospitalisations or deaths?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/127125027/thousands-sign-petition-urging-gisbornes-rhythm-and-vines-festival-to-be-cancelled-over-covid19-spread-fears
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November 29, 2021 11:31am
- sooty
  
  If they cancel, no job for part tme DJs either!
  
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  November 29, 2021 12:18pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Here’s what the aids association says and how we have interpreted the law in relation to other viruses .
  
  “People living with HIV have the same human rights as everyone else, including the right to health, privacy, non-interference from the state and non-discrimination. No one can refuse you a job, housing, medical services or dental services because of your HIV diagnosis. In fact, it is illegal in NZ to discriminate based on HIV status under the Human Rights Act..” (Well that’s been thrown out the window for covid)
  
  “In New Zealand, as long as you’re using condoms every time you have … penetrative sex, you are not legally obligated to disclose your HIV status.” ( So the obligation is about the condom not the virus. It seems with covid they are treating the vaccine as the condom, despite the vaccines questionable efficacy. And therefore you can be infected with covid and go to R&V as long as you’ve had the vaccine . )
  
  “Under New Zealand law, everyone has a legal duty not to endanger the life, health or safety of others. In law, this means that people living with HIV must take ‘reasonable precautions’ to avoid transmitting HIV to sexual partners. ‘Reasonable precautions’ would mean participating in sexual activities that involve a very low risk or no risk masturbation, oral sex and kissing, and using condoms for..(penetrative)… sex.” (So what is a reasonable precaution for covid? With HIV they say oral sex, and kissing is low risk when you have HIV and can be done without disclosure.
  So that means Low Risk covid activities should be able to be done without an mrna vaccine or disclosure. But no.
  Surely an outdoor R&V concert with mostly young healthy people is very low risk because outdoor transmission is low that’s why we are allowed outdoor bbq’s. A high risk activity would be having a long close contact hospital visit in an enclosed room without a mask while you are covid positive .)
  
  “The legal consequences of having an undetectable viral load have not been tested in New Zealand courts. In this case, even though there is no risk of sexual transmission, it is recommended to use condoms with partners who are unaware of your HIV status.”
  
  (So this is where it gets interesting. The vaccine is probably more similar to the drugs that suppress hiv viral load (ARV) . And whether a low viral load is low risk hasn’t been determined in court.
  . The vaccine is similar to ARV because people can’t see that you are taking it. Yet they don’t make you carry a passport to declare whether you have taken your ARV medicine when you go into Rhythm and Vines. They trust that you are keeping yourself well and that you will have a low viral load if you kiss someone. )
  
  Finally the comparison stops because we are restrcting people who dont’ have covid. The aids advice is about people with aids. The aids advice suggests that the requirement is you should take reasonable precaution. For covid is reasonable precaution a mask, being outdoors, that you feel well, that you are not meeting vulnerable people, that you have not been in close contact with other covid cases, or is it only taking the vaccine as per rhythym and vines narrow definition of low risk. With Aids if the activity is low risk – (oral sex with an HIV positive person) there is no requirement for disclosure- but you may not go to rythym and vines without a passport proving you have had a covid vaccine. And you may not go to the Auckland Museum with it’s high cavernous ceilings and open spaces, or sit at an outdoor cafe table .
  
  https://www.nzaf.org.nz/life-with-hiv/living-with-hiv/
  
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  November 29, 2021 2:03pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Oral sex with an HIV positive person is low risk?
    
    Surely that depends on whether one is giving or receiving?
    
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    November 29, 2021 5:57pm
    - Surely Knott
      
      Yip Oral sex with an hiv person is stated to be low risk on their website. So use that as a legal benchmark for what would constitute low risk with covid. A person with hiv needs no disclosure and no passport for oral sex but someone with no covid needs and no vaccine is restricted from going to an outdoor cafe.
      
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      November 29, 2021 7:52pm
  - mawm
    
    “Finally the comparison stops because we are restricting people who dont’ have covid.”
    
    This is the salient point. Is it because the other members of the public do not know that you do or don’t have covid? But here they are saying it OK if your sexual partner doesn’t know if you have HIV.
    
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    November 29, 2021 7:24pm
- mandk
  
  The reported number of signatures is somewhat less than 10% of the Gisborne population.
  
  I wonder what proportion of the signatories are actually locals.
  
  And what proportion signed under fake names.
  
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  November 29, 2021 3:12pm
- Inandout
  
  burt, Te Tairawhiti is now the name for Gisborne and the venue for the royal marriage so we can’t have that city polluted so as to spoil the wedding.
  
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  November 29, 2021 3:26pm
  - Alwynn
    
    Has a petition started yet to ban the PM, and all the beautiful people she is inviting to the glorious event, from having a wedding in Gisborne?
    Ban her I say!
    
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    November 29, 2021 5:35pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Ban her if you like, she’ll then have it in Te Tairawhiti.
      
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      November 29, 2021 9:11pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Will free up a lot of accommodation. Just in time for wedding guests?
  
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  November 29, 2021 5:54pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCRhL5MGuo

The Clash: Has BoJo lost his mojo?

Has BoJo lost it? Could Labour have done better? Will he be rolled? He won an election with an 80 seat majority, and pushed Brexit through. What about the borders? [13:25]
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November 29, 2021 11:45am
- Inandout
  
  curry, BoJo shows all the signs of being pussy whipped; drained of vital human juices.
  
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  November 29, 2021 3:16pm
  - curry4me
    
    Inandout: Yes, that’s what I think.
    
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    November 29, 2021 11:13pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfe6zxGaqfc

Mark Dolan: The Omicron variant has all the makings of an omni-con and an omnishambles.

It looks like omnicron will just be an omnishambles. [11:11]
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November 29, 2021 11:45am
dime

Do we know if the victim of gang violence this morning in glen eden was from a marginalised community?

thoughts and prayers.

hope the cops are ok!!!!
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November 29, 2021 12:16pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Do we know if the victim of gang violence this morning in glen eden will be tested for covid? Wer they vaccinated. Will it be a police statistic or another health statistic.
  
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  November 29, 2021 2:20pm
- David Garrett
  
  Ah dime…how many times do I have to remind you that “marginalized communities” have now evolved in “people with high and complex needs”?
  
  I’m sure both you and I share a similar view regarding what they actually “need”…
  
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  November 29, 2021 2:45pm
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Heh David! It’s similar to “vulnerable” people. I had a conversation with my wife and some friends a good few weeks back. I suggested that when the Government says “vulnerable”, interchange that word for “stupid”. 90 times out of 100, I reckon I’d be spot on.
    
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    November 29, 2021 3:28pm
Maggie Pie

Ma reckons the real reason Jacinda didn’t get married earlier, was because she knew nobody would vote in a Prime Minister called Jacinda Gayford.
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November 29, 2021 12:31pm
- Mike
  
  I don’t know, or care, if your Ma or you are married or wheter you changed your names to suit traditional conventions. Why do you care about whay name Ardern uses?
  
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  November 29, 2021 1:03pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I suspect you may not know this milkey….but it is possible to read something you don’t like on the internet and simply move on with your life.
    
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    November 29, 2021 1:44pm
    - Mike
      
      I am curious about people’s odd habits. What’s your excuse?
      
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      November 29, 2021 1:50pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Honestly Mike…you are some sick twisted dude.
        
        Glad to have you here though 😀
        
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        November 29, 2021 2:40pm
      - Mike
        
        I always appreciate the Otahuhu sense of humour, Maggie.
        
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        November 29, 2021 6:54pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Mike, where is your sense of humour?
    
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    November 29, 2021 2:15pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Lefties are born without one
      
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      November 29, 2021 2:36pm
      - Mike
        
        I could get upset that you don’t understand my little jokes, Steve, but I’m determined to break through your unremitting negativity and find some things wr can both laugh about.
        
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        November 29, 2021 6:52pm
- MCōs
  
  Few of our female leaders seem too keen on taking their husband’s name; otherwise there would be Judith Wong-Tung, Helen Davis, Debbie Packer . . .
  
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  November 29, 2021 2:01pm
  - plc
    
    Helen Tizard
    
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    November 29, 2021 4:05pm
  - Observer of Life
    
    But isn’t Helen’s a marriage of convenience??
    
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    November 30, 2021 11:11am
I remember when

Not a great time to be collecting signatures, in Auckland, for the repeal of the 3 Strikes Law then.
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November 29, 2021 12:53pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Sadly, this is unnecessary
  
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  November 29, 2021 5:59pm
dime

“Theresa Gattung: Gender pay gap – Why New Zealand women are effectively working for free from today”

gee that sucks for them!

They work until march/april/may for the govt. now free!

what virtue signalling crap.
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November 29, 2021 1:43pm
- alex Masterley
  
  She has been out of the limelight for a while. Perhaps she feels the need to remind the world that she exists. Not that I was missing her.
  
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  November 29, 2021 2:27pm
  - Mike
    
    Had a close working relationship, did you?
    
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    November 29, 2021 5:02pm
- surfing
  
  Hmm, women now achieve higher academic success than men, so , that needs to be changed too!
  
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  November 29, 2021 6:54pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  [Deleted – no evidence, so you are just insulting. mod.]
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:50pm
Maggie Pie

Honestly, don’t you just want to swipe that smirk off Xi’s dial……

https://twitter.com/TanzaniaUpdates/status/1464152041757069321
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November 29, 2021 2:34pm
- sooty
  
  Everything running to China’s plan then!
  
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  November 29, 2021 5:35pm
rangitoto

Cindy says you are now allowed to go to the dunny at your friends place. Did I miss anything else she is giving us permission to do?
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November 29, 2021 4:14pm
Hugh Jarse

Not one of the gutless media are going to ask the PM why we didn’t move to Level 1 in the South Island in September when Bloomfield said we could, and why we aren’t doing it now. We can’t trust them to challenge the government on anything, it’s absolutely pathetic and they are really are bought and paid for.
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November 29, 2021 4:26pm
Stu2

Interested to see that the areas going to traffic light red have been determined at a local body level, and are not entire DHBs.

For instance Wairoa is in the Hawkes Bay DHB and the rest of that DHB is orange.
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November 29, 2021 5:25pm
Maggie Pie

So, the worst kept secret in the WORLD has finally been exposed!

It was Prince Charles who cracked the joke about Archie’s skin color 😀

As would ANY parent with a wayward child.

SHEESH!!
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November 29, 2021 5:28pm
- sooty
  
  I think that question would be asked by most parents of different race children, what ever colour or race. Black, white or chinky.
  What’s the grandkids will look like!
  
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  November 29, 2021 5:33pm
- Mike
  
  Personally, I can’t wait to see him preside over the end of monarchy in NZ.
  
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  November 29, 2021 5:53pm
Littletramp

We saw John Rahm (golf) test positive for covid earlier this year and win the US Open 10 days later. Just watch the NZ Breakers (Basketball) team who have 7/8 members test positive come out in a week or two and play in the Oz series.
How long can they keep up this B/S narrative of a deadly virus?
We just have to open up, let it run and hide the old and vulnerable from risky situations. The rest is just control from the top to hide the fiscal malfeasance, and to cancel any political opposition voices.
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November 29, 2021 5:40pm
CAKE FACE1

The past couple of years have been the worst of my life. Anyone who savours freedom will understand this.

I am now completely over this Covid crisis. I never understood the people who love hiding under their bed (which seems to be most New Zealanders). Life is slipping away. Why waste a second, let alone years?

There was hope that the borders were going to sort of open in May 2022 (with a nonsensical seven day isolation). Now even this easing of restrictions looks likely to be cancelled. It is unbelievable.

How long can this nightmare continue for? Is Cindy going to try to keep the borders shut until the next election?

I want to get out, but I need the borders to open properly. I would then probably come back if National / ACT win the next election.

Alas, I fear that Cindy will win the next election. This shows how low most peoples aspirations are in this country.

Cindy is in essence a vandal. This country is being wrecked. It is a shame, but the majority seem to like it this way.

They are not me…
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November 29, 2021 6:12pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  There are many beige people on this planet who have led meaningless lives for so long that this “crisis” has been the greatest thing to ever happen to them.
  They never had the balls to do anything important or useful. Now they can wear a mask and scowl at anyone who doesn’t. The mask is their badge of honour. The visual evidence that they are “good” and “virtuous” and that they “care” and are part of the “team”.
  It’s nauseating, horse manure.
  The only good thing is that deep in their own hearts they realise that it is nonsensical virtue signaling. They will always be beige nonentities. No matter how many masks they wear.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:48pm
Maggie Pie

We just watched Simon Dallow introduce the ‘One Ewes’ item about the shooting of 3 Cops in Glen Eden.

Spoke half the time in Maori 🙁

My partner said…”What a pussy! Surprised Ali Mau actually left him”.
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November 29, 2021 6:12pm
- Chuck
  
  Well done had a good laugh thank you!
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:21pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Maggy. With all due respect why the hell are you watching Dallow’s Maori news?
  3 news has kept me much better informed for the last 30 years.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:16pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    AND he even blamed the shootings on Covid.
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:52pm
surfing

Wonderful maori now qualify for taxpayer funded gang tattoo alterations — not to remove tattoos, but, to have “New Zealand” replaced with “Aotearoa”….

This is madness (if true, which hopefully it isn’t?????)

https://nopunchespulled.com/2021/11/29/great-news-for-taxpayers/
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November 29, 2021 6:53pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  IIRC correctly, Corrections scrapped its tattoo removal programme about 20 years ago as it had no impact on reoffending.
  
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  November 29, 2021 7:12pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@Maggie Pie

Help!!!!!

I can’t make out if Our Dear PM has discovered a 1980s culotte outfit or whether the maxi is back.
Here she is today on the way to the podium..

https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/4/y/w/0/z/9/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.1240×700.23oubk.png/1638164775135.jpg?format=pjpg&optimize=medium
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November 29, 2021 7:48pm
- Inandout
  
  What a hoot if she mistakenly wore a MAGA mask.
  
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  November 29, 2021 7:50pm
- H. Upmann
  
  Borrowed it from her mother.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:08pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  LOL!!
  Reference my GD post from last week in relation to ‘SaveMart’.
  
  That entire ensemble would definitely be something she’s discovered left thrown on the floor at the back of her wardrobe.
  
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  November 29, 2021 8:10pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Fabulous..
    I might just repurpose the old curtains in the spare room…
    
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    November 29, 2021 8:50pm
- Scooter
  
  Well she does like to shop at second hand stores, looks like something from the 70’s
  
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  November 30, 2021 8:47am
Russ the Muss

I was looking at Robbo over the weekend and this comment may not be popular, but I don’t think these guys are having fun. All the comments from us rightys over the left loving power are of course correct, but to extrapolate that this covid nonsense is a power trip from dear leader and her lackies is im thinking wrong. Robber and lately Adern and Hipkins look tired and over it. I don’t think they can keep going on carry this useless team of amateurs. Every ministry is in tatters. Health, education, police, justice, housing and of course 3 waters. This is a shambles. Crime is skyrocketing, poverty is stubborn at best and inequality is still growing, these guys are under massive pressure and 3 people can’t run an entire state. I’m backing all 3 are done from politics in 3 years. If they get a 3rd term they will step down. They already look over it and it’s going to get worse. If National come put of this mess as a strong team. There political lives are going to go from bad to worse.
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November 29, 2021 8:58pm
- Mike
  
  People have been claiming on this blog for four years now that Ardern is closr to breakdown. File your prediction under wishful thinking.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:32pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Ardern is toast and her legacy will be as the worst PM in NZ history. Robertson? In 2 years nobody will even remember him or the rest of the morons in Labour.
    
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    November 29, 2021 9:53pm
gump

”A well-known Pukekohe newspaper editor who steadfastly refused to get vaccinated has died of Covid-19.”

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300465994/popular-journalist-and-staunch-antivaxxer-dies-of-covid19
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November 29, 2021 9:35pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  It would be great to see an autopsy performed. Every “covid” case in NZ has been “with” covid. Completely different to “from”. We have the perfect example of the man shot and killed listed as a covid case. There are many thousands of people in NZ who have tested positive for covid. Many will die from various reasons. This doesn’t mean they are covid deaths.
  I despise the NZ media and politicians who have used this statistical manipulation for their personal aims.
  Without a post mortem (which they won’t have) there is no way of knowing that covid caused the death of this man. RIP.
  
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  November 29, 2021 9:59pm
  - Lou2
    
    Be great if we ever saw articles saying well fuck, glad I didnt have the vax cos that was nothing but a bad cold. Plenty of people have had just that experience but ofc you never see that in the media. Or the people getting f$cked by the vax.
    
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    November 29, 2021 10:14pm
- surfing
  
  My view is that those in high risk categories should be taking the vaccine. 80 years old is high risk.
  
  But everyone has to weigh up the risks for their personal situation. eg, a young healthy adult, maybe skip vaccination if you are worried about long term effects.
  
  A friend’s son got really sick after taking the vaccine… and, it was definitely one of the known side-effects of pfizer. Vaccination is a non-zero risk.
  
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  November 29, 2021 11:37pm
The Feed

So, under this infantile “traffic light” “system”, can a fully vaxxed person travel from Wellington to Auckland?

If so, when?

And if not, what is the point of this vaccine, then?
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November 29, 2021 10:12pm
surfing

This traffic light system is a dog’s breakfast.

We’re going to have people from Red areas travelling to ‘Orange’ and ‘Green’ areas. Doesn’t make sense because you’re exporting high risk to lower risk areas.

And, they’ve made a huge hoohah about events gatherings. Who will know the difference?

All I see is that covid is going to spread regardless of these traffic light settings and these restrictions are going to confuse the crap out of people.
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