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Warren

Surely they new this decision would cause problems for Australian Tennis.
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/tennis/1545356/Novak-Djokovic-Australian-Open-airport-border-force-tennis-news
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January 6, 2022 8:02am
- Tony Stuart
  
  He has now officially been turned down for a visa, and is set to be deported from Australia.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/tennis-novak-djokovic-has-visa-cancelled-told-to-leave-australia/72SDXR46QXQK5GERCGTGHID5FU/
  
  I guess he could always become a DJ, and seek entry to New Zealand…
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:15am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Maybe not over yet.
    
    https://twitter.com/danelldav/status/1478839587195793422?s=20
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:00pm
    - mawm
      
      Hero! I think I will have to ensure my grandson is named Novax in his honour.
      
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      January 6, 2022 12:46pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I’m sure you won’t mind if I steal that
      
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      January 6, 2022 1:55pm
  - Cinematic
    
    The madness shows no sign of ending.
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:48pm
- R
  
  A very silly decision to bar him entry. One imagines the Serbian Government could take similar action against Australians intending to arrive in Serbia.
  
  The science spoke and said he could play. (The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) and the Independent Medical Exemption Review Panel appointed by the Victorian Department of Health approved his exemption.) Alas, as we have seen here, politicians got involved and felt it necessary to ignore the science. Shameful.
  
  If the Aussies want to make a martyr out of Djokovic, they’re doing a bang-up job.
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:28am
  - rouppe
    
    Tennis Australia gives a bit of a finger to the state government, and the state government responds with a swift kick to the nuts
    
    The decision to get an exemption to the Australian Open and the border entry decision are two different decisions with two different criteria.
    
    The state government was pretty angry that Tennis Australia gave him an exemption to play so clearly any irregularities with his visa were met with zero discretion.
    
    I’m sure Serbia uses that tactic for its purposes too. Like shepherding illegal migrants to the border with Hungary.
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:13pm
    - Bluegrass
      
      It is a federal Govt issue – not state – as Victoria state noted.
      
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      January 6, 2022 1:47pm
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    Imagine the political damage if an overtly unvaxxed Djokovic were to destroy his vaxxed opponents, all while suffering no ill effects (a very likely outcome). The symbolism would be profound. More people may start asking themselves questions. In a way, it would be very similar to the Black Jesse Owens beating the White sprinters in Berlin in 1936 and the undermining effect on Nazi propaganda this caused.
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:22pm
  - Bluegrass
    
    Have you even bothered to check the facts?
    
    It had nothing to do with science.
    
    He had the wrong visa.
    
    Why he had the wrong visa is the question.
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:45pm
- Mr_Blobby
  
  So they are going to cancel the Australian Open.
  
  May as well if the best players are not going to be there.
  
  What was wrong with a daily test?
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:44am
- k1w1
  
  Ol’ NoVax Djokovic must be fuming. I bet he rarely hears “no”
  
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  January 6, 2022 1:12pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    The BBL has become a shambles in Australia also with multiple players being sidelined often just before the game.
    Many of them don’t have Covid and are vaccinated and frequently tested. Just passing through the same room is enough to be prevented playing what is essentially an outside game.
    Suddenly club players are being rounded up and randomly thrust into a BBL game at very short notice and senior Australian cricket officials are venturing out of their gilded offices to manage and coach them.
    Presumably these club players from the suburbs have no contact with covid?
    Really casts doubt on the efficiency of the vaccines.
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:05pm
Yvette

Hiding behind the loophole of a dead sex trafficker? Stay classy, Andrew
… What follows can only be speculation, with the duke’s case not due to be heard till later in the year. But having his legal fees quietly covered by the Queen would feel like the very upper limit of what a lot of people in this country would accept. There are, of course, many committed anti-royalists in the UK, but the British public don’t in the majority regard the 95-year-old sovereign as the sort of freeloader at whom they might scream: “We pay your wages!” The Queen’s various vast incomes have not been a hot topic of debate in recent years in whatever counts as middle England.

But in the event that Giuffre’s case against Andrew proceeds and he loses it, and a multimillion-dollar payment has to be made, you get the feeling public attitudes would change overnight if the maternal bailout ran to forking out Andy’s damages for him. You can imagine people who are quite happy for the Queen to spend money restoring obscure Scottish castles and whatnot suddenly feeling less relaxed about it being spaffed on paying blood money for a sex offender. Whatever the accounting, I’m not sure any distinction between public funds and private income would be made by the average person.

Anyway, that’s enough banging on about Andy’s mama. Not that I haven’t very much enjoyed the recent articles by gentlemen of a certain age who have FINALLY found a woman they care about in the long-running Epstein story. Unsurprisingly, perhaps – it’s the Queen! Here at last is a lady tangentially connected to the grimness whose honour and dignity actually matters, as opposed to those of the other ladies involved, whose tribulations they have at no point been interested in writing about.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/04/loophole-dead-sex-trafficker-stay-classy-andrew-virginia-giuffre-epstein

Guardian’s Marina Hyde writes “Anyway, that’s enough banging on about Andy’s mama”, but bangs on a bit more, but a bang for my buck would ask –
What reflection – in the usual values: transparency, honesty and integrity – is there of the Queen, in her dealings with son Andrew?

“Here at last is a lady tangentially connected to the grimness whose honour and dignity actually matters …” No, not a lady tangentially connected” – Andrew is Her son.
Andrew’s position at the moment undermines any loyalty due the Queen, because she, if in charge of her realm, knows Andrew’s position, or should, and undermines herself in not commenting, like – telling the truth, regarding it.

Karakia/Prayers
Speaker: Almighty God, we give thanks for the blessings which have been bestowed on us. Laying aside all personal interests, we acknowledge the Queen, perhaps, and pray for guidance in our deliberations …
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January 6, 2022 8:08am
- rouppe
  
  Reading this it seems to me the word “procure” is a long stretch.
  
  Dinner parties were held, women were invited, which they freely accepted. When some realised they were there to give Prince Andrew a GFE, some left.
  
  I did not get the impression from that story that women were brought against their will, nor were forced to do anything.
  
  PA does give the impression of an entitled brat, though he would not be the first royal with that malaise.
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:24pm
  - Paulus
    
    Surely Andrew was not the only male invited for the deliction of these well paid young professionals ?
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:51pm
- Nukuleka
  
  And the convoluted point being lengthily made here is….?
  
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  January 6, 2022 1:19pm
Bridgenag

Reid posted a very good link late yesterday that explains alot ……

https://rumble.com/vrxs6t-mrna-inventor-faces-tough-questions-as-jab-deaths-explode.html. 

Need time to watch the whole item but well worth it. Also tried to buy The Real Anthony Fauci but not available….
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January 6, 2022 8:09am
- Bridgenag
  
  Only two comments when I posted an hour ago mod. Is this a power thing maybe?
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:01am
- Mummy
  
  https://nehls.house.gov/posts/joe-rogan-experience-1757-dr-robert-malone-md-full-transcript
  PDF transcript of the Joe Rogan interview with Dr Robert Malone on Spotify. #1757. Should be compulsory listening/reading for everyone.
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:57am
  - MCōs
    
    “Should be compulsory listening/reading for everyone.”
    
    Is that your solution to ‘cancel culture’?
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:33pm
- Sacha
  
  So now Pfizer is setting Malone up? “If you hadn’t invented it, we wouldn’t have made a dangerous vaccine. It’s all YOUR fault!”
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:38pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    I guess the NZ gummint along with others made the wrong choice going with A merry Car
    Should have gone Chinese 🙂
    
    https://tinyurl.com/3kfzpn7p
    
    Would have saved a gazillion dollars as well
    
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    January 6, 2022 6:48pm
- mawm
  
  Very good information coming out from him. I liked when the questioning got into the conjecture about bioweapons, deep state and CIA involvement. Malone clearly knows more than what he is giving up but if I was him I’d hire some personal security.
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:50pm
  - Fight4NZ
    
    He definitely needs help.
    
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    January 6, 2022 11:31pm
- Geoff1
  
  It is available at
  https://www.amazon.com.au/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childrens-ebook/dp/B08X5YWRRP
  I purchased the Kindle edition 29 Dec 21.
  
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  January 6, 2022 1:08pm
Prince

What a shambles the Covid Booster Jab process is.
Not wanting to wait for 2 hours in a queue, I decide to book an appointment, having had my 2nd jab in August.
First available date is 15th February – they seem to still be running of a 6 month lead time for the booster, not 4 months.
Typical of the overall inept management of the vaccination process.
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January 6, 2022 8:14am
- Sacha
  
  Why bother with the booster? If it is true that Delta is on the way out, and Omicron is at worst a heavy cold, why not just go with the risk of catching the cold?
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:41pm
  - Prince
    
    Well that’s my choice and I decided to have it.
    Appears the Govt has other ideas !
    
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    January 6, 2022 3:03pm
- Man Among the Ruins
  
  What do you expect to gain from your booster?
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:44pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I think soon your Vaccine Cert will expire and you will not get another clearance without a booster.
    “Not only will there be no forced vaccines, but those who choose to opt out will face np penalties at all”
    Jacinda Ardern, 20th Sept 2020.
    Let’s keep lying.
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:07pm
- Cinematic
  
  I’m double jabbed and now of the view that this Pfizer vaccine is one of the biggest medical cons of all time. I shan’t be boosting.
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:52pm
  - Prince
    
    Fair enough. I want the booster but the Govt appears to be insisting I wait six months.
    I’m told they are on holiday until the 17th Jan.
    
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    January 6, 2022 3:05pm
- DeepBlue
  
  You have to be patient.
  
  Only walks ups available now until 17 January when also the kiddy vax starts. The IT booking system is taking 3 weeks over Christmas to be upgraded to correct the exact problem you identified:
  Change 6 month to 4 month eligibility, and presumably to allow for multiple boosters.
  
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  January 6, 2022 2:48pm
  - Prince
    
    Is that because the DoH has IT people who couldn’t make it in the real IT world ?
    
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    January 6, 2022 3:07pm
- Squeek
  
  Yes, shambles as usual. Just change the date you had your jabs to 6 months ago and the appointments will open up. Is that bad?? Well no, cos the Minister said you can get the booster after 4 months.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:27pm
kevn

Jabs for children? Just NO.
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January 6, 2022 8:14am
- rouppe
  
  I wonder whether this means those aged 5-12 now have to wear a mask where the rest of us do.
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:26pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It will be coming. Virtue signaling compliance, [deleted – not here. mod.]
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:09pm
- Ra Henare
  
  It seems that many are not keeping up with the science.
  Yes in 2020 children were NOT getting Covid.
  So no need for vaxs.
  
  However its now 2022 and the rules have changed with the latest variants. YES children under 11 are getting Covid and ending up in hospital and ending up in intensive care and dieing.
  
  AND the numbers of kids getting infected (as a Percentage) and dieing is growing.
  
  So either do some reading of up todate reports or continue to be a luddite. The choice is yours.
  
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  January 6, 2022 5:01pm
Warren

Even the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said he does not want him there and threatened to put him on the first available flight to where he came from.
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/tennis/1545018/Novak-Djokovic-Australian-Open-Prime-Minister-Scott-Morrison-Rafael-Nadal-Roger-Federer
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January 6, 2022 8:16am
- R
  
  ScoMo makes Jacinda look like a Rhodes Scholar. If you were intent on ignoring the science – which ScoMo has done here – wouldn’t you do the decent thing and inform Djokovic before he has embarked on a 14 hour flight? Surely you wouldn’t wait until Djokovic has arrived before throwing a tantrum. Isn’t that how mature adults behave?
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:43am
  - Bluegrass
    
    As I mentioned above -it was the wrong visa. End of story.
    
    But nice rant, bud.
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:51pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      When the courts have ruled we will know.
      
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      January 6, 2022 3:10pm
  - Paulus
    
    Not ScoMo’s decision as he cannot be seen to be interfering in Victoria’s State affairs.
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:53pm
    - Bluegrass
      
      Entry visas are federal, not state, decisions.
      
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      January 7, 2022 10:25am
Master Mariner

This article has Piqued my interest.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/chance-of-rain-as-battle-between-metservice-and-niwa-gets-dirty/AY75FY6FRSVQVVDBAKQYVO6GTM/

“MetService briefed the Ministry of Transport that “Niwa relies on automated forecasts with no intervention from professional meteorologists” which, MetService believed was “inappropriate for a public safety service”.
As my wife knows to change the TV3 weather segment to TV1 due all sorts of profanities , I also believe putting people at undue risk due to the total lack of understanding the “Basics” of Meteorolgy.
Keep in mind Meteorology is forcasting the weather and Climate is 30+ years.
Its not rocket science but too have NIWA doing “forecasts” for DOC is literally putting them at risk. I agree with Met service on this.
Another question is why are councils now issuing “climate change” forcasts from NIWA. Surely its a boon for the insurance industry with higher premiums?
Have a look at NIWA website.
https://niwa.co.nz/climate/research-projects/providing-climate-change-advice-to-new-zealands-regions
Alarm bells ring.
Ok my prediction for next 12 months.
We are still in La Nina cycle which looks like lasting for another 6 – 12 months.
Hot water in Western Pacific and lots of rain, Watch out for cyclones in Ntn NZ and plenty of unstable wx with hotter than normal sea surface temperatures, A milder ( same as last year) authum and Winter with lots of precipitation ( rain) and Wind. ie unsettled.
The elephant in the room is when it changes to El Nino, Ie cooler water in NZ and very cold and dry ( Bugger all rain) winter and spring/authumn , And more settled weather. This will result in droughts and for the dams will be run to critical low levels.
Watch your power bills go through the roof!
I could keep rambling on as this is very close to my heart but essentially its very basic forcasting and meteorolgy and think it would be more beneficial for DOC personel to do a simple Meteorology course and learn how to read the weather than rely on micky mouse NIWA climate guestimates.
Anyway thats my 2 bobs for today
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January 6, 2022 8:19am
- Jimbob
  
  The metservice I find good for a forecast a week out, I get all my long term forecasts from the USA paid prescription. The guy who owns the company also gives a commodity outlook, which is is partly depends on the climate changes. He is very accurate. As aside, this decade is going to get slowly colder and by 2030 we will be in a global icy cold climate that will last for decades. You have been warned, wood burners are advisable.
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:29pm
- Ruahine
  
  My Climate Change is better than your Climate Change.
  
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  January 6, 2022 1:45pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Further: there’s been no statistically significant global warming for over 9 years–see the article referred to in a later post.
  
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  January 6, 2022 4:39pm
Over Taxed Worker

“The next MIQ room release is Thursday 6 January at 1pm (NZT) for approximately 1,250 rooms across March and April. The lobby will open at 12noon (NZT). Find out more information.
Due to the delay to the opening of the self-isolation pathway from Australia, airlines do not currently have any red flights scheduled from Australia for March or April. For this reason, those travelling from Australia will not be able to participate in tomorrow’s room release. MIQ is working with airlines in relation to schedules and future releases.”

The total incompetence never ends.
However there was still time in the schedule to arrange a wedding.
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January 6, 2022 8:21am
- Man Among the Ruins
  
  Wasn’t the mass vaccination program supposed to obviate the alleged need for this system? Why does it persist?
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:46pm
Lee C

I’ve been doing a Health and Safety Policy for my concern to share with clients adn stakeholders when I tell them I will not be accepting ‘Boosters’.

I have come to the conclusion that if we were to apply proper informed process to the current situation, that a PCBU who enforces vaccinations in his or her (or its) workforce is not acting in a reasonably Practicable manner as informed by the Heatlh and Safety at Work Act 2015.

I will be advocating for policy which does not enforce or support ‘mandatory’ vaccinations for those who are not required a number of reasons.

An acknowledged potential for legal challenges under Employment Law.
The Acceptable Risk factor and Hazard/Risk controls available.
The potential for ‘side-effects’ and legal challenges should coercion by a PCBU be considered a factor.
Wellness – and mental health implications of enforcing a medical procedure on an employee agaisnt their will.
That a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to a virus with such a high survival rate is not a reasonably Practicable way to engage in Risk Assessments.

I would welcome your observations.

Here is Worksafe on teh subject:
“Where a business or service can demonstrate it has done this, [Hazard/Risk Assesemnt] we will not take prosecution action if we disagree with the decisions you made in your risk assessment. (This only applies to enforcement action within WorkSafe’s responsibilities.) We will instead take an education-first approach, so you understand what is reasonable to require in your circumstances and have the opportunity to act on it.”
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January 6, 2022 8:26am
- All_on_Red
  
  ‘education-first approach’
  Hahahahaha
  Careful what you wish for. It will be off to the gulag with you!
  
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  January 6, 2022 8:42am
- kevn
  
  @Lee C…. Good luck. Carl Bromley was offered ‘education’ by the police back in August 2021 with the C19 mask policy. He refused their offer. Didn’t end well for Bromley.
  Trust is long gone.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:01am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Are the Police now doing door-knockdown education?
    
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    January 6, 2022 4:40pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Without knowing the details , Id Hazard a guess in the likelyhood and consequences of your Risk assessment would control the Risk of ,
  “An acknowledged potential for legal challenges under Employment Law.”
  
  A more serious note,
  A robust Risk assessment would / should negate any litigation.
  As for me, We probably do an average of 3-4 everyday and find it a VERY useful tool for declining doing a job from the charterers for example/ and / or changing the process.
  
  Should’nt be a problem in my mind to achieve your outcome.
  It proves Due Dilligence on your behalf for an “expected outcome”.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:02am
- artemisia
  
  Is anyone potentially impacted likely to make an official complaint? If they do, sounds like you will be well prepared based on above and your previous posts. If a complaint and investigation does happen, a whole lot of people and businesses will be watching the outcome very very closely.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:38am
- bronny1
  
  Agree, I have been wondering for awhile what will happen when a young lad is coerced into the vax and gets myocarditis. I’d certainly be lawyering up and going for maximum reparation. How can you force someone to get a vaccine that may make them sterile or incapacitated (as in the case of the 12 year old in the Pfizer trial who has been paralysed and in a wheelchair since)? There would have to be a massive individual benefit to outweigh the individual risK? Or does work safe work on a population rather than individual basis?
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:01am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “Not only will there be no forced vaccines, but those who choose to opt out will face np penalties at all”
    Jacinda Ardern, 20th Sept 2020.
    Let’s keep lying.
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:15pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  If genuine and honest informed consent was applied and all honest and accurate information regarding potential outcomes after the jab were to be given, I don’t believe any employer could morally or legally mandate the jab. But we don’t have true informed consent and don’t have honest and accurate information regarding the efficacy of the jab and certainly not around the negative effects.
  Good luck, but we are operating in a closed bubble where only a single narrative is permitted. Any employment court is going to defer to “the single source of truth”
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:06am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    I had friends over at the weekend who I hadn’t seen for a number of months. After an hour or so sitting in the sunshine drinking wine one of the two on hearing that neither my wife or I were vaccinated started to panic and claimed she didn’t feel safe and that she didn’t want to infect her grandchildren with Covid! I asked her to elaborate. Not one of her concerns were based in science it was all misinformed nonsense peddled by this criminal government. I pointed out that she could contract and spread in the same way we could but we didn’t feel unsafe in her company. You could almost hear the cogs spinning in her head like a grandfather clock about to chime. What really seemed to confuse her though was when I pointed out that having such misinformed opinions around the vaccine how had she made an informed decision to have it and had anyone told her that she would be having 4 monthly boosters each with their own potential risks when she presented for vaccination. It was very sad to witness.
    
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    January 6, 2022 11:10am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      It will also be sad to witness you and your wife having your life sucked out because you won’t get vaccinated.
      
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      January 6, 2022 11:42am
      - Mr_Blobby
        
        I am pretty sure that I am going to die, but not from Covid.
        
        In fact I don’t know of anybody that has had Covid, let alone died from it.
        
        But I have a lot of people I know, who have had bad reactions to the vaccine, some very bad, heart issues etc and one possible death.
        
        But hey, it is alright to be scared, it is really, I am not judging you.
        
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        January 6, 2022 12:04pm
    - R
      
      she didn’t want to infect her grandchildren with Covid!
      
      Did you ask her why she took the time to get vaccinated if she has no faith in its efficacy? Why she should be anxious when she’s “fully protected” is bizarre. You could have reminded her that anxiety can have a seriously negative affect on one’s immune system.
      
      if you repeatedly feel anxious and stressed or it lasts a long time, your body never gets the signal to return to normal functioning. This can weaken your immune system, leaving you more vulnerable to viral infections and frequent illnesses. Also, your regular vaccines may not work as well if you have anxiety.
      
      https://www.healthline.com/health/anxiety/effects-on-body#Immune-system
      
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      January 6, 2022 11:52am
      - Stellaboxer
        
        Yes R I Pointed out most of those issues but unfortunately she had swallowed the same pill as the Captain.
        
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        January 6, 2022 1:42pm
    - Mr_Blobby
      
      Yes I have had to have several conversations with friends and relatives.
      
      Unvaccinated does not mean Infectious, and if you are vaccinated you are safe right.
      
      That is the purpose of getting vaccinated in the first place.
      
      So far all the Covid variants have arrived with fully vaccinated passengers.
      
      Covid does not make the top 10 list of things that are going to kill me, not even close.
      
      What is sad is young children, who are lest vulnerable, no Chris Hipkins, they are not the most vulnerable group, afraid to go to school because they will catch Covid and die, people afraid to leave their houses because they will catch Covid and die.
      
      … [Not here – mod.]
      
      When the fools wake up and realize that they have been conned history will not be kind to Jackboot Jacinda.
      
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      January 6, 2022 12:00pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10371785/amp/Husband-anti-vax-mandate-California-Deputy-DA-46-died-COVID-says-wasnt-vaccinated.html
        
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        January 6, 2022 11:50pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Jacinda however she may speak is not the law.
    
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    January 6, 2022 4:44pm
- Fletch
  
  It’s worth listening to this podcast with Auckland lawyer Liz Lambert.
  
  https://open.spotify.com/episode/64QOKUCOnBCp63Nofh9NIc
  
  She says that the mandates are not legal. Someone at the BFD summarizes it here –
  
  A summary of the key claims made by Lambert in the below podcast is:
  
  1. Employers and self-employed can ignore the mandates,
  
  2. The way the government structured the law, any employer can decide to keep an un-vaccinated person at work without needing an exemption (clause 12A and clause 9),
  
  3. In case of vaccine injuries of an employee, the responsibility if you imposed a mandate in your company is *on the employer* and not on the government and may imply fines and in case of severe injuries – even jail.
  
  https://thebfd.co.nz/2021/12/15/the-magic-bullet-is-clause-9/
  
  Lambert also says that because the mandates have not been gazetted, they can’t be enforced. The below is from an email doing the rounds of a Zoom call with Lambert.
  
  (1) The COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 was purposely never gazetted (in Liz’s opinion, to stop the NZ Government from being liable for wrecking the economy, killing people, causing suicide, euthanasia, etc). This means that the Act itself and everything which has happened under that Act is illegal, including the mandates (which Liz thinks will be gone early in the New Year). Also, legislation cannot be retrospectively gazzetted, which means actions taken in the past under the Act (orders, mandates, etc) cannot be made valid retrospectively.
  
  eg, fines imposed for breaching orders or mandates (e.g. the $12,000 fine imposed by WorkSafe on Oliver’s Gym) are unenforceable, businesses no longer have to comply or be running scared of fines and censure, the Police have no authority to act under the legislation, etc.
  
  (2) It is a principle of law that legislation cannot have restrospective effect. This has also been specifically declared in section 12 of the Legislation Act 2019. This means that the medical exemptions obtained by thousands of people under clause 7A of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021, before that order was changed at 11:59 pm on 7th November 2021, are still valid and cannot be invalidated.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:49am
  - JackRabbit
    
    I have checked the gazette and she / you are correct. The vaccine mandates have not been gazetted.
    
    Temporary vaccine approvals have been, as have what classifies as an exemption, but the vaccine mandates have not.
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:16pm
pdm

Lee – your call and I fully support your right to take the best action for the future of your business and staff. Good luck.

mrspdm and I are having the boosters on the advice of our GP and ages 75 and 71. Plus we both have some medical issues, me more so than her.
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January 6, 2022 8:41am
- Tony Stuart
  
  I will be doing likewise pdm, due to underlying medical conditions, not out of any particular fear of catching Covid.
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:36am
  - Biscuit
    
    Onya, Tony.
    
    Nowt wrong with taking precautions!
    
    A healthy 2022 to you – and even to Hawkes Bay-loving pdm!
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:36pm
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    “…due to underlying medical conditions, not out of any particular fear of catching Covid.”
    
    I respect anyone’s right to choose, but isn’t the “underlying medical conditions” aspect the very thing to which (we are told) Covid presents a complication? Shouldn’t this be the factor that does make you fear catching Covid? Moreover, it has been clearly demonstrated that none of these doses (booster or otherwise) will prevent you contracting Covid.
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:53pm
- Biscuit
  
  Me too, pdm, although I have no medical issues.
  
  (Besides excessive cuteness, of course, but that’s an ‘illness’ that I hear has never ventured as far up as Hawkes Bay…)
  
  Was curious, I walked round to my sister’s yesterday and then from there up town to do some shopping.
  
  ‘The Bun Factory’ that I often stop at had a crowd of about 50 people outside it.
  
  Curious, I thought, that place usually shuts the first few weeks of January.
  
  I had a nosey.
  
  There was a Unichem next to it and it was chockablock with folk in the line for booster jabs before those souls outside got their turns. Dunno if they had all made bookings or not – I suspect they were all just ‘turn-up-at-the-door on Day 1’ types) but I shall make a booking so as not to have to loiter with intent for, what, a couple of hours?
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:31pm
  - Cinematic
    
    Bizarre behaviour. They all must live in terror.
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:56pm
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    I can’t think of anything much more depressing than the thought of having to line up like livestock to receive your third dose of an ineffectual substance from the government. If the vaccines had actually been tested and trialed sufficiently before being rushed into the bodies of millions, they would have been able to tell you a year ago that you’d need a top-up every few months. The only two explanations are that: 1) they knew full well all along but chose not to mention this for propaganda reasons; or 2) as I said above, the substance could not, despite their claims, be called “effective” at all, due to the insufficient testing.
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:00pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Line up – just like a sheep drench ….
      
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      January 6, 2022 2:24pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        You’re not allowed Ivermectin sheep drench (as formerly advertised on tv.
        
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        January 6, 2022 4:49pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        Haha. A friend of mine is using the drench Ivermectin as a prophylactic – he checked up the details, and it is identical to the human version.
        
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        January 6, 2022 5:48pm
    - NK
      
      “Safe” and “effective” don’t you mean. They’re the two words being used.
      
      Do you think our leaders know the difference between relative and absolute effectiveness?
      
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      January 6, 2022 2:27pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      Your suggesting that the vaccine could have been trialled with variants that didn’t exist at the time?
      
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      January 6, 2022 11:56pm
- Lee C
  
  Thank you pdm I fully respect your right to make an informed choice, too.
  
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  January 6, 2022 3:49pm
curry4me

I’ve supported ACT since 1994. No more until they come out against pointless vaccines and boosters. No pro-ACT posts. And no upticks for same.
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January 6, 2022 8:43am
- Sacha
  
  I was inclined to favour Act – I thought that Seymour was openminded and evenhanded. The I read his rather juvenile comments about unvaccinated people deserving what they (in his opinion) get, and serve them right.
  At that point I rebelled, I’m sick of the threats from uninformed public figures which pander to other ignoramuses like themselves.
  He’s off the list!
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:54pm
  - curry4me
    
    Sacha: Act, the LINO Party [Libertarian In Name Only.] From a FB commenter.
    
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    January 6, 2022 4:05pm
- Cinematic
  
  NZ needs a liberty party.
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:57pm
- coge
  
  Absolutely. The ACT party will need rebranding and fresh leadership after Seymour’s endorsement of state mandated segregation. Sad.
  
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  January 6, 2022 1:22pm
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Cove I agree it’s very disappointing as he was doing so well until he like Luxon revealed themselves to be poll rather than principal driven. Didn’t Luxon declare that his patience with the unvaccinated was running out? Wow who the hell does he think he is? Not to mention Seymour’s demands that children’s vaccinations get fast tracked. The freedoms that this government have eroded are the issues of the day and what do we get from the opposition? Push back, alternative policy, a declaration of how they would enshrine the bill of rights? No I get how they would be tougher.
    
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    January 6, 2022 4:18pm
    - Clownworld
      
      What is the “end” that Macron refers to?
      
      The end game? Is this akin to the final solution?
      
      The new normal is this the end?
      
      Perhaps time to rebrand it to the old tyranny?
      
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      January 7, 2022 3:00am
curry4me

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/04/joe-manchin-kills-biden-agenda-again-build-back-better-is-deader-than-ever/

BBB is a Goner.

While the establishment media reported Sunday from two confirmed sources that Manchin was resuming negotiations on Biden’s $1.9 trillion reconciliation package, the West Virginia senior told reporters the massive tax and spend plan was still dead.
“I’m not agreeing to any of this,” Manchin said about changes to the package the media reported. “There’s been no conversations” with the White House.
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January 6, 2022 8:44am
curry4me

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

How Putin keeps Russia strong and unshakeable.

Vladimir Putin actually likes Russia. He will act to preserve and defend its interests. [6:32]
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January 6, 2022 8:45am
- MCōs
  
  “He will act to preserve and defend its interests.”
  
  I’m not particularly interested in watching something about a guy who blatantly murders people to stay in power.
  
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  January 6, 2022 2:44pm
iMP

Looks likely judge will rule against HRH Andrew and case can proceed. I agree. The wide reaching Maxwell settlement that paid out lots of girls on a regular basis (now back for more) can’t be a coverall for anyone and everyone associated (Andrew, Clinton, other rich pricks). Each case must proceed individually on its merits ( or be combined). But coverall absolution is not a thing in the law, as the Bolger Fiscal Envelope discovered.
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January 6, 2022 8:47am
- Prince
  
  Also will be more top paydays for Giuffre. She will be a very ‘rich prick’ indeed when this is over, whether those she accuses are guilty or not.
  
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  January 6, 2022 8:53am
- Paulus
  
  Hilary will not allow Bill to be prosecuted.
  Money and influence counts in the USA.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:47am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    What about herself? She has been to the Island
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:29pm
- Nickc2
  
  Are you a Lawer or some other legal opinion/expert whose credentials are acceptable in the USA?
  I would suggest your quoted document:
  https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-HilMaor-t1-body-d10-d7.html
  has little if any relevance to the case in question.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:51am
- R
  
  The wide reaching Maxwell settlement that paid out lots of girls on a regular basis (now back for more) can’t be a coverall for anyone and everyone associated.
  
  I disagree. Presumably Virginia Roberts’ claims of rape relate to a small number of people. Presumably she had Andrew in mind when she (or hew lawyers) inserted that clause. Why insert it if it has no meaning? Indeed her lawyers could have inserted a clause to say that whatever happened in Roberts v Epstein had no effect on related-claims that Roberts might make in the future. Why insert a clause that appears to have the opposite effect to that?
  
  And you appear to have forgotten what happened to Bill Cosby who was convicted of rape. His conviction was quashed because of a non-prosecution agreement from an earlier case in which he was involved.
  
  Castor has said that he told Cosby’s lawyer verbally that he would not prosecute the actor and comedian, and that he then issued a press release announcing that his office’s criminal investigation had concluded. In court, Castor testified that he took those measures in an attempt to get Cosby to testify in any civil suit filed by Costand. In its June ruling, the state Supreme Court found that non-prosecution agreement binding.
  
  A prosecutor promised Cosby that he wouldn’t be charged. Not only was he charged, he was convicted. The Cosby and Andrew cases should serve as a warning to prosecutors not to expect the judicial system to accept their manipulation of the system.
  
  https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1059890971/prosecutors-ask-u-s-supreme-court-to-review-the-bill-cosby-case
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:37am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Lets hope all your questions are answered in Court.
    The Judge clearly thinks there’s a case to be heard so I guess he knows more than you.
    Good photo of Andrew and Virginia here
    https://news.sky.com/story/prince-andrew-accuser-virginia-giuffres-secret-settlement-with-jeffrey-epstein-to-be-made-public-today-12507864
    He looks happy- lol
    
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    January 6, 2022 4:02pm
Maggie Pie

Anyone else been thinking of ‘working from home’ during lockdown?
I have.
Well here’s a novel idea. Would like to get some feedback.

https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1478477269916127243
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January 6, 2022 8:49am
- Ruahine
  
  Feedback. Hmm.
  Pushback. Nooo
  
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  January 6, 2022 8:53am
- Lee C
  
  I’ve been trying to give certain bodily fluids away for free for years, with little success, so I’m probably not the right person to ask.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:04am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I have a cabbage/onion/egg pie recipe that may be of use.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:06am
  - Lee C
    
    Where do I rub it?
    
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    January 6, 2022 9:07am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      That’s the beauty of this recipe…
      
      maggie pie can consume pie whole
      
      You can deconstruct the recipe
      
      Just place the cabbage leaves on the engorged swellings
      https://www.verywellfamily.com/thmb/zfQUTaXAjVcidt2hItbsM-sxN10=/800×0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/cabbage-leaves-breastfeeding-and-breast-engorgement-431593_V2-01-a322877e1ee74178859269cfcbf6e840.png
      
      and have an onion/egg pie instead.
      
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      January 6, 2022 9:14am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Well if that is your new schtick, I hope in this case you don’t follow through and do me a solid, ya know?
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:11am
- rouppe
  
  She had 260,000 followers of which let’s say 2500 purchased her “product”. (50 jars a week for 50 weeks).
  
  That’s less than 1% stupid people. Less than I thought, actually.
  
  So I guess if you have that many followers, Maggie, give it a go. Can’t hurt. Unless you over do the beans
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:37am
- Don Beckett
  
  Well Maggie, a mate of mine some years ago was thinking of trapping fish farts and using them in a spirit-level making business.
  If your marketing for bottled farts doesn’t make it, maybe you could diversify into the spirit level market. You would have to sit in the bath to catch the farts though. 😆
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:18am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble…..
    
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    January 6, 2022 10:32am
- JackRabbit
  
  Selling hot air? She has all the right credentials for a job in politics.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:30am
- KevO'Brien
  
  You’ll need some heavy duty containers for recycling.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:45am
iMP

Imagine if Trump decides to run. And Hillary does too. Rerun of deliciousness. Best rematch of the era.

Biden will be forced to “decide” not to run. If he does, the Dems could hardly deny him the candidacy, or it’d be an admission they and he were woeful (as if that was ever in dispute).
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January 6, 2022 8:51am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  The dems will find a way to shuffle Dopey Joe to one side and move Kamala somewhere else and then stand AOC for President
  
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  January 6, 2022 8:57am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    AOC against Trump? Bring it!!!!!!
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:31pm
    - MCōs
      
      The chances of either of them being their party’s nomination in 2024 is small.
      AOC is too left wing and would be barely 35.
      Trump would be 78 and is increasingly unhinged.
      However if it came to pass she is far sharper and better researched than him. He would rely on embarrassing insults.
      
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      January 6, 2022 3:00pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Lol
        
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        January 6, 2022 3:21pm
    - curry4me
      
      Steve Otto(North Shore) AOC makes JA look like she should be CEO of MENSA.
      
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      January 6, 2022 4:08pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  A ballot trafficking whistleblower who came forward to “True the vote” in Georgia (cos his mom told him to come clean) says he made $45k from stuffing mail in ballots into drop boxes for a large organisation at $10 each. 4500 ballots. He is just one of 242 trafficker’s identified from cell phone pings and ballot box video surveillance.
  That strongly suggests hundreds of thousands of votes added illegally by democrat operatives in Georgia 2020 (Biden’s margin of ‘victory’ was only ~12k). A similar sized operation has been identified in Arizona (similar ‘victory’ margin for Biden).
  
  https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-opens-investigation-possible-illegal-ballot-harvesting-2020
  
  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/huge-georgia-ballot-trafficking-whistleblower-admits-making-45000-stuffing-ballot-boxes-just-one-242-traffickers-possibly-1-million-ballots/
  
  If it was done in those two battle ground states then for sure it was done in the others too. Tech giants are going to have to work hard to scrub this from social media.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:12am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    And right on queue; they have apparently found similar Democrat mail-in-ballot trafficking operations in 5 other states (guessing that will be in the battle ground states) on top of Georgia and will release information over coming months:
    
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/breaking-big-true-vote-releasing-ballot-trafficking-findings-investigations-five-additional-states/
    
    This is going to get very interesting, will politicians, govt officials and corporations invested in maintaining status quo be able to resist the pressure that this creates on them to investigate and prosecute? There’s an election result at stake and control of a multi-trillion dollar govt budget in the balance, so I am think this will be squashed somehow.
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:11pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      One strange thing about all of those ‘mail in’ ballots. Fucking boxes of them dropped off during the night.
      Many did not have fold creases on them. Most mail you have to fold to put in the envelope.
      Just saying.
      
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      January 6, 2022 2:34pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        But but but, US political ‘experts’ here on KB tell us there was no fraud and you were unhinged if you thought so.
        I guess this will just be another thing they were wrong about.
        Remember the Russian Collusion Hoax? Good times.
        Haha
        
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        January 6, 2022 3:25pm
- Flossie
  
  It would be ridiculous. A bunch of senior citizens bumbling through “debates” they’ll probably lose the thread of. There ought to be a compulsory retirement age for politicians.
  I’m speaking as an older person here too.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:39am
  - Nickc2
    
    But that will only apply to ‘old-pale-male’ Pollies. Women will be exempt because (well, just because) and Maori will be exempt because the ToW doesn’t mention it and to do so would be racist.//
    
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    January 6, 2022 11:25am
- Inandout
  
  iMP, only in one’s wildest dreams could Joe be seen to last until 2024. Nurse Jill will have a nice retirement situation on her wish list this year, and I would predict around May. As regards Hillary I think the stench of Epstein’s ‘Love Island’ will put paid to her endeavours.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:23am
- coge
  
  Trump/Clinton, 2024 “This time it’s personal”
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:05am
  - iMP
    
    Trump/Clinton 2024. “Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid”. In that order.
    
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    January 6, 2022 11:50am
I remember when

Belgian surgeon sentenced to 10 months for sexist speech.
I remember when everyone understood what common sense was.
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January 6, 2022 8:52am
- Ehlana
  
  No, you remember your childhood, when you thought common sense was something all grown up people had. Now you are older, you realise how rare it really is.
  
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  January 6, 2022 3:41pm
NK

Today is a sad and historic day for this country, for the wrong reasons.

Today is the day vaccinations for Covid become available for children, and booster shots become available for others.

Don’t. Do. It.
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January 6, 2022 8:53am
- BeaB
  
  Got my booster yesterday. Long queue outside chemist before vaxers had even arrived. Mainly old and white folk, happy to stand and wait in the heat.
  No ill effects today but more protection.
  I want a few more healthy years and am grateful for anything that helps me get them.
  Will line up for the 4th shot too, as is happening now in Israel.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:05am
  - mawm
    
    That is your choice and nobody should criticise you for it.
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:12pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Baaaa
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:37pm
  - Clownworld
    
    …”end” …Macron etc
    [ Mod : just post it once ]
    
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    January 7, 2022 3:15am
- Flossie
  
  Don’t think I will do it.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:24am
  - mawm
    
    Me neither but one day I might need to fly to Australia and I will fight and resist as much as I can.
    
    I wait in anticipation for a few more honest life and health insurance CEO’s to come out.
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:14pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  I think it will polarise. Will be fascinating to see the data on take up. TBH I can’t predict it.
  
  I have a friend with a five year old who was counting down the days. Literally. She will have her daughter at the doctor this morning as the door opens.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:39am
  - NK
    
    Let’s not kid ourselves that it’s “voluntary” and not “mandated”. It is mandated – no school, no sport, no music, no drama, no friends etc without being vaccinated. There is NO evidence that children have ever suffered from the virus in sufficient numbers to justify a vax mandate. None. Indeed, there is a body of science that suggests the opposite.
    
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    January 6, 2022 9:46am
    - bronny1
      
      And the impacts such as on the ovaries, heart, vascular system, brain….just listened to the joe Rogan/Malone interview again. No way any daughter of mine would be going near that needle!
      
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      January 6, 2022 10:06am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        But what would you do if your daughter was excluded from contact with her friends and school activities indefinitely? That is the dilemma faced by parents today.
        
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        January 6, 2022 11:50am
      - bronny1
        
        Benedict – orgs like VFF are setting up activities and sports for excluded kids.
        Basically anything you can get now with your pass is available or will be on the “black market” except perhaps travel and eat in restaurants.
        
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        January 6, 2022 12:00pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        The whole thing will fall apart soon, just have have to hang on.
        
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        January 6, 2022 12:10pm
      - Man Among the Ruins
        
        Agree, Lucia Maria. I’m still holding out, but I know that it will only be a matter of time before the holdouts have been proven correct (in the same way that every other putative “conspiracy theory” has eventuated without fail). I wouldn’t wish injury to anyone, particularly innocent children, but there is no way that this will not blow up in a lot of people’s faces. Unwise, short-term and externally pressured action is not a good policy. Hard reality will shake people out of their hypnosis.
        
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        January 6, 2022 1:09pm
    - NZpatriot
      
      What age does that requirement apply from?
      
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      January 6, 2022 10:20am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Currently 12.
        
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        January 6, 2022 11:41am
      - bronny1
        
        It’s going to be over 5s from mid Jan I thought?
        
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        January 6, 2022 12:00pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Agree NK – a sad day indeed. there is evidence which may have been suppressed that the jab is harmful for children, and is curing a problem that children simply don’t have.
      When will this insanity end? But the problem of course is that so many people have bought into what could almost be described as a hoax – like our good host, and many like him.
      
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      January 6, 2022 10:22am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Here is the professional opinion of Dr. R.W. Malone, the inventor of the mRNA gene therapy, WRT jabbing children. It’s a very worthwhile & eye-opening article, definitely opposing jabbing children.
        
        https://www.rwmalonemd.com/mrna-vaccination-in-children
        
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        January 6, 2022 10:58am
      - Fight4NZ
        
        Pity Dr Malone has lost credibility, if there is truth in what he is saying it has been lost by the hysteria, a common issue for the antivaxx stance.
        https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-malone-vaccine-inventor-vaccine-skeptic/619734/
        
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        January 6, 2022 11:04am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        It is not over. The FDA is expected to receive an application for vaccinating infants older than 6 months any time soon. So expect New Zealand government to approve that around April.
        
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        January 6, 2022 11:52am
      - bronny1
        
        Flight – he is far from discredited. The Atlantic article was a bit job from a non journalist. Go listen to the first 10 min of his interview with Joe Rogan where they discuss his credentials – yes it takes 10 mins. There is arguably no body in the world more qualified to make these statements as Malone.
        
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        January 6, 2022 12:05pm
      - NK
        
        Go listen to the first 10 min of his interview with Joe Rogan where they discuss his credentials – yes it takes 10 mins. There is arguably no body in the world more qualified to make these statements as Malone.
        
        The entire three hours is completely absorbing. I’m going to post it here for others to view.
        
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        January 6, 2022 12:27pm
      - mawm
        
        Flight – that was a hit piece done deliberately to discredit him. There is no truth behind the story. The Atlantic has form. They did the same with Trump in spreading the lie about him making derogatory comments about the US troops. This lie was exposed when about 20 people who were with him at the time all denied that he said it.
        
        BTW it is owned by Laurene Powell Jobs who is a far left activist with lots of money.
        
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        January 6, 2022 1:23pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        The Atlantic article is a hit job? Could it be that the Rogan show is a snow job?
        This one has more of the feel of a hit job but is more specific to the interview. Certainly enough there for me to know not to waste my time on the it was so bad it is now deleted interview.
        https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/01/02/what-is-mass-formation-psychosis-robert-malone-makes-covid-19-vaccine-claims-on-joe-rogan-show/?sh=1180faeb1d4c
        
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        January 6, 2022 2:11pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      How can schools opt out of their duties?
      
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      January 6, 2022 10:46am
      - cmm
        
        Health and safety. They just have to say that they feel unsafe when the child is around.
        
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        January 6, 2022 10:54am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Health & Safety doesn’t cut it. School Boards could be sued on the grounds of failing in their duty of care. That applies to all pupils. There is sufficient evidence now that the vaccinated are more harmed than helped.
        See this. A leading economist and an excellent observer and filter. The truth is coming to the light:
        https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/01/05/now-people-are-dying-from-the-vaccine/
        
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        January 6, 2022 11:01am
      - cmm
        
        KOB: Easy.
        
        We now live in the age of feelz not facts.
        
        A violent child can be excluded from the school because other children/staff feel unsafe. Surely an unvaxxed kid can be excluded too on the grounds that the rest of the school feels unsafe when they are there.
        
        We already have unvaxxed kids being excluded from various activities like school camps. How hard is it to extend that to the classroom too?
        
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        January 6, 2022 2:33pm
    - Fletch
      
      I have a feeling the jabbing of children is not for the sake of the children. As RFK Jr said the other day –
      
      They have come for our jobs. They have come for our transport. Now they are coming for our children, and we have an obligation as parents to protect them. There has never been a government in history that has told its people, ‘We are going to demand that children sacrifice themselves and take risks to save old people.’ It’s always the other way around. The old, the mature, the adult, always put themselves at risk to protect their children.
      
      https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1477735797994491910
      
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      January 6, 2022 10:57am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        I checked the data today. 88 percent of 12 to 15 year olds have been vaccinated. I can’t be bothered checking, but I would guess that is very high by world standards. The reason is the penalties the kids face if they are not vaccinated.
        
        The numbers of 5 to 11 year olds who are vaccinated will be heavily influenced by the sanctions on young kids who are not vaccinated. But if they are similar, I would say vaccination rates will be similarly high.
        
        Kids HATE being excluded. If they can’t go to the pool or on school trips with their mates, parents will be pressured to vaccinate. Which is exactly what the government wants to happen.
        
        Incidentally, 88 percent of Maori are now fully vaccinated. Can the road blocks come down now?
        
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        January 6, 2022 11:47am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Well child sacrifice has been a feature of many cultures in the past (Eg sacrifices to Moloch by Phoenicians). And many many cultures practiced infanticide (of various forms, often extra-legally). It was useful in the days of excessive birthrates caused by uncontrollable fertility. But i agree in our age it is unethical to trade health of children for health of geriatrics.
        
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        January 6, 2022 2:35pm
      - cmm
        
        BY: “The numbers of 5 to 11 year olds who are vaccinated will be heavily influenced by the sanctions on young kids who are not vaccinated. ”
        
        That is certainly a factor, but I think it is more the pressure being placed on the parents.
        
        Apart from shitheads in gangs etc, most parents want to be seen to be taking care of their kids. There is nothing that makes them feel worse than the thought of someone else thinking that they are a poor parent.
        
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        January 6, 2022 2:38pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Sounds like another case of Munchausen by proxy, seems very popular with mothers lately.
    
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    January 6, 2022 3:38pm
- tf78
  
  NK – I’m fed up with these paranoid, ignorant sheep who don’t realize that these experimental inoculations don’t work. Which booster level will the microchip be included? It’s not far away now, judging from the mass compliance so far.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:06am
  - Okahu
    
    Hold on. I read back in 2020 that the Gates/Soros/Clinton/(pick your witch) microchip had been inserted into vaccines on this very site. Are you telling us they haven’t got around to it yet? Boy. Tardy. Hard to get world domination if you don’t get out of bed. Except of course in your mind. Easy then.
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:54pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Actually back in 2020 Biden and Harris were ridiculing the Vaccine and encouraging vaccine hesitancy.
      https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-and-harris-preemptively-sow-doubt-on-trump-vaccine-announcement
      I see more have now died from Covid under Biden than Trump.
      
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      January 6, 2022 3:56pm
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    Talking about microchips in the vaccine discredits your otherwise sound position. No microchip is needed (yet) when a digital pass on smartphones will be issued. That said, there is no functional difference between an internal and an external tracking device. They may as well stamp a barcode on the foreheads of the compliant, it’s the same effect. Let the observable evidence support the argument, without invoking unnecessary elements.
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:18pm
- Wayne
  
  You seem to struggle to take in the most basic of information. Vaccinations for children are available from the 17th of Jan.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:13am
  - NK
    
    I’ve spent too much time around the likes of you, Wayne, it’s affecting my judgment.
    
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    January 6, 2022 11:25am
- Nickc2
  
  And how much is it going to cost to get the kids of those who identify as Maori vaccinated? You can bet there’s no separate cost account for them YET!
  Just saying.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:33am
  - Surely Knott
    
    Everyday people who are Maori have the same problem with the mandates as t he rest of us. those who don’t want to t aske it are pressured, bullied, coerced and excluded from work and society. There is a political class who are benefiting and making decisions.
    
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    January 6, 2022 11:48am
- Liberty
  
  The hypoconedracts are lining up like
  Lemmings.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:41am
- Roona
  
  I have a 9 year old son, I have been dreading this day since the rollout started. I have had many a sleepless night, the stress this is having on me is overwhelming.
  This will break up marriages, cause huge family’s rifts and stress.
  I will do anything I can to avoid it, thinking alternative sports teams, independent school camps, the school we pay $21k a year for should provide excellent home schooling resources.
  It’s just insane that this is actually happening!!
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:45am
  - PeeJay
    
    I don’t envy any parent at this time.
    
    I have a few friends that are double vaccinated but were far from convinced on the merits of the vaccination – as adults they made the choice thinking that it was marginally worthwhile but it was a close call (I am in the same boat). They are really not happy having to make this choice for their children though. As adults they could be responsible for their decision – they are really torn when it comes to making this decision for their children.
    
    Sadly I can see this causing quite a few marriages to fail in the next few months. What horrible times we live in.
    
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    January 6, 2022 11:30am
    - mawm
      
      All because some rich people have got together and want to remould the world to their vision and damn the rest.
      
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      January 6, 2022 1:31pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Divide and conquer, turn people against each other!
    
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    January 6, 2022 11:31am
  - bronny1
    
    Voices for freedom is working on setting up alternative sports and activities for kids – get in touch with them.
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:06pm
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    Roona
    The reason it is affecting you is because you know it’s wrong, unnecessary and evil. So what if your kid’s life is disrupted for as long as it takes for the folly of this policy to manifest? Life is about trade-offs. It may be one year. It could be 6 months. It is up to you, but I think that if you love your child you will refuse to let them risk permanent damage to their health. I have no doubt you will be vindicated in the fullness of time.
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:23pm
- coge
  
  Bring on the General strike, 2022. Conditions are tinder dry.
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:06am
I remember when

Dr Mark Stocker: Letter to Listener:
A great last paragraph.
Still worse was the open letter signed by more than 2000 academics and others condemning the “magnificent seven”; I personally know some of the signatories and I honestly thought better of them. Indeed, in the 35 years I have lived in Aotearoa New Zealand, this document constitutes the most shameful instance of academic bullying I have witnessed.
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January 6, 2022 9:01am
KevO'Brien

Follow the money:
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/why-suppress-early-safe-treatments-for-covid-heres-24-billion-reasons/

Why does our govt not act independently of the USA? It was obvious that the US acted improperly with the chief actors having a financial stake in the outcomes.
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January 6, 2022 9:01am
- tf78
  
  KevO, it’s not the USA, it’s the W.E.F.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:07am
- Man Among the Ruins
  
  New Zealand is, in effect, a vassal state of the US, which is the global hegemon. Ardern just does what she is told. This is also why National sing from the same song sheet.
  
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  January 6, 2022 1:26pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    No, it is a vassal of the W.E.F and the (criminals)wealthy people that run it, and have the CDC with Faucie & Co., and the UN in their sway. Sure, a part of the USA is also involved, but the liberal Dems, who are presently in control (not for long though).
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:31pm
Lee C

Well I’ll be crtainly getting my child vaccinated.

It’s the only sensible thing to do.
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January 6, 2022 9:06am
- NK
  
  You just wrote a H&S report arguing against mandatory vaccinations, and further, you have said you won’t be taking the booster shots. You make no sense.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:11am
  - Lee C
    
    Well, if Maggie can dole out farts, surely I’m allowed to take the piss, NK.
    
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    January 6, 2022 9:27am
    - NK
      
      /sacr alert – noted.
      
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      January 6, 2022 9:30am
    - NK
      
      /sarc!!
      
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      January 6, 2022 9:30am
- cmm
  
  And Ill start taking the pill to reduce teenage pregnancies.
  We must all do our bit.
  
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  January 6, 2022 2:44pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Cut you dick off to stop rape, there’s an idea//
    
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    January 6, 2022 3:20pm
    - Lee C
      
      There’s more than one kind of rape Steve, I suggest you sew up your asshole, then we’ll all be covered.
      
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      January 6, 2022 3:52pm
KevO'Brien

Not cold enough? No Statistically-Significant Global Warming. Monckton reveals the truth again:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/03/no-statistically-significant-global-warming-for-9-years-3-months/
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January 6, 2022 9:07am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  It’s pretty clear that there is about 1.4°/century warming in satellite record. The world is certainly warming, it’s just not at all concerning or dangerous – about the same as everyone moving 150km closer to the equator in a century.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:15am
  - DeepBlue
    
    Well, the great drift North is a fact. Look at how many people live in Auckland compared to Invercargill. However, it is a little harder for flora and forna to be so mobile.
    
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    January 6, 2022 3:17pm
- Flossie
  
  Real freezing temperatures for Britain. Does this mean climate cooling, or is it just weather? My guess it’s put down to a bit of a freak system..
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:27am
- Master Mariner
  
  Another great one too Kev,https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/04/eu-natural-gas-and-nuclear-are-now-green-energy/
  
  “In the wake of Europe’s catastrophic September green energy crisis we all knew the EU’s commitment to renewables had to end, but I’m personally surprised the EU bureaucracy moved so quickly. The haste with which they made this decision is evidence of how worried EU leaders are about rocketing energy prices and blackouts”.
  
  And does’nt Putin know it //
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:27am
  - cmm
    
    Well any of those make a hell of a lot more sense than calling Hydrogen green.
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:45pm
Souvlaki

Lets hope Graham Adams is correct( below), and Ardern is swept overboard in 2023….earlier would be preferable however !
https://democracyproject.nz/2022/01/05/graham-adams-2022-arderns-plans-for-co-governance-with-iwi-face-rough-seas/
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January 6, 2022 9:09am
- Tony Stuart
  
  The likelihood of her government not going full term is very small, given her outright majority in the House. All we can hope is that Labour continues to decline in the polls, and backbenchers, seeing their future livelihoods disappearing before there eyes start to cause all sorts of mayhem. Even that is unlikely though, as any List MP’s who went rogue would be quickly dealt to via the waka-jumping legislation, and replaced by party hacks who shut their mouths and toed the party line.
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:41am
John Pakes

Often in this modern New Zealand we are told of the “correctness” of things, things such as only someone who is Maori can give a true opinion of things that matter to Maori. Which some will see as the truth, and others will see as rubbish.
This correctness is not restricted to we alone. An example popped up in the Guardian, where the casting of Helen Mirren in the staring role of Golda Meir in the movie “Golda” is wrong as Mirren is not Jewish and therefore cannot give true feeling to the role as she has no feeling for being Jewish.
It seems that this correctness is everywhere.
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January 6, 2022 9:17am
- EssenX
  
  Some people have lost sight of the meaning of “acting”.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:30am
  - plc
    
    Yeah, we’ve already had a Afro-Caribbean Anne Boelyn
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:54pm
  - Prince
    
    This may help.
    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155595915026778
    
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    January 6, 2022 9:19pm
- NK
  
  If that is the case, no actor depicting a historic character could ever play that role unless they were part of that “culture”.
  
  It’s why they’re called ACTORS!!
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:32am
  - R
    
    Yeah Holocaust movies would be somewhat tricky because those playing Nazis would need to be actual Nazis. How would the Jewish actors respond to that?! 🙂
    
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    January 6, 2022 10:51am
- Littletramp
  
  JP, this “non maori ” having a valid opinion on things maori, has a parallel argument as vaxxed vs unvaxxed.
  Surely there is more relevance in knowing what you are talking about than the fact you may have a moko on your chin.
  With covid it must be more relevant if you are sick than if you are vaxxed?
  Dogs are meouwing and cats are barking – the world is insane.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:44am
- Ruahine
  
  Quite right JP.
  I would not cast Helen Mirren as Golda Meir.
  I reckon Gal Gadot would be a far better choice.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:59am
  - mawm
    
    In this time of wokeness, political correctness and a lack of firm grasp on reality by Hollywierd I think there can be no choice other than Whoopie Goldberg. Heh, even her surname will fit the billing.
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:40pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  There are some Maori still stuck in their ancient culture based on pagan gods and beliefs. These are properly very hard for non-believers to deal with. However governance is being planned for NZ on the ancient basis. No way!
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:52am
- Nickc2
  
  Acting is acting and those who are good at it are amply rewarded.
  To make the case, an actor called Rock Hudson was famous for playing the part of ‘eternal lover’ to a great many actresses and was admired and worshiped by many. However, he was Gay (not the happy type) and he died of Aids.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Hudson
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:43am
Maggie Pie

This all sounds like a bit of a worry if correct 🙁

My partner was talking with a guy in the construction industry yesterday. He was telling him the ‘Cell Doors’ at Auckland Prison are rusting out!
This not long after Corrections spent something like $300mil with FLETCHERS on a reno. Rumors are they might have used some sort of ‘cheap-sh*t’ steel sourced out of Chynaa.

We haven’t been able to find too much about it in the msm….although this appeared a few days ago in Stuffed.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/crime/127190811/doors-at-auckland-prisons-maximumsecurity-unit-broke-weeks-after-300-million-renovation
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January 6, 2022 9:26am
- pdm
  
  Maggie – most unlike Klueless Kelvin to use the cheapest money.
  
  I am pretty sure he is addicted to the Labour mantra of spending as much taxpayers money as he/they can.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:40am
- cmm
  
  It has been moved:
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/127190811/doors-at-auckland-prisons-maximumsecurity-unit-broke-weeks-after-300-million-renovation
  
  Is it really due to cheap shit steel? I think it is more likely due to using steel that is too light.
  
  Corrections is blaming vandalism. FFS – these are crims. Prison vandalism is as old as prisons! You’d think they would specify building them properly.
  
  But maybe the new touchy-feely people don’t like solidly built doors. Perhaps they conflict with the sensory garden: https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-harbour-news/105517532/auckland-prisons-300m-new-wing-includes-sensory-garden-health-centre
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:11am
- GJM
  
  The linkie is broken and searching on Stuff has no sign of the story.
  Did the instructions come from the 9th floor of the beehive to memory hole the story as it showed either incompetence of the government or the government supportrs Fletchers?
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:21am
  - cmm
    
    See the new link I posted above.
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:47pm
Clownworld

Looks likely corrupt politics and the increasing draconian new China totalatarian state called Australia is abusing power yet again to deny the no.1 tennis player entry to their prison country.

Hopefully am wrong.

Won’t be surprised. Who is next?
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January 6, 2022 9:41am
- Clownworld
  
  The acting sports minister is Karen Andrews?
  
  A Karen was involved and no doubt related to Dan Andrews. All makes sense now.
  
  Australia is officially ruled by woke marxist despots.
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:26am
- Benedict Yu
  
  If he has a properly documented medical exemption to being vaccinated he will be allowed in. But it looks like he has no such medical exemption.
  
  Are you actually arguing that he should be treated differently because he is famous?
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:25pm
  - Cinematic
    
    No, arguing the basis of any exclusion of anyone based on a lack of having had a second rate vaccine is utter nonsense.
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:12pm
  - cmm
    
    Perhaps he has an exemption that other places accept but Australia does not.
    
    Bottom line though is that allowing an vaccinated person in would cause people to start asking questions.
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:49pm
  - Clownworld
    
    No the mass psychosis is working. People think the rules are gold standard but rather the rules are political. Novak is a political football. The evil is 25 other exceptions made and no one released their details. Novak is a target.
    
    Hopefully he wins in court. Otherwise if he loses then the totalatarian mad win.
    
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    January 7, 2022 12:30am
Scooter

This fiasco with Novak Djokovic will be a huge embarrassment for the Australian Govt, and no doubt hurt them more than him.
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January 6, 2022 9:44am
- PeeJay
  
  Doubt it. This is purely a reaction to a very bad public reaction to his exemption. Politicians be politicians.
  
  I do wonder though if the same reaction would have followed if this had been the terribly nice Federer or even Nadal rather than the moody, broody Serbian Djokovic? He is absolutely brilliant but he is a bit of a tool – makes it easy for them I guess.
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:39am
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    Was it actually in response to “a very bad public reaction to his exemption” that occurred organically, or was this simply, as is often the case, a manufactured “reaction” cited by the government to disguise and legitimise their own motivations, given that it would be a very bad look for their government(s) to have a perfectly healthy unvaxxed athlete win the Australian Open against vaccinated opponents?
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:34pm
  - Cinematic
    
    A very bad reaction from whom? A couple of newspaper scribes and a couple more Twitter Karens?
    
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    January 6, 2022 2:14pm
- coge
  
  I don’t believe it’s a fiasco. It’s part of conditioning the public for the new paradigm of 2022.
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:45am
- Colville
  
  You think he got on the plane without having already banked a chq? LOL. Best paid flight of his life.
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:45pm
kevn

@Maggie… Bit like the inferior reinforcing steel been used on some big constructions. Rusts and just pops the concrete.
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January 6, 2022 9:45am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Chinese “stainless” steel rusts in no time up here.
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:08pm
  - Colville
    
    Stainless is just mild steel with a bit of chrome chucked in…its nothing special.
    All of NZ is beside the sea and SS doesn’t like it. (unless it as Moly in it)
    About 50 different grades in NZ…twice that in China.
    Easy to bend SS is low chrome…rusts in a heartbeat and is cheap!
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:51pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Dunno about 50 grades. 316 is marine grade.
      303/304 is easier to machine but yes it rusts on the surface unlike mild steel.
      I work in the marine industry
      
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      January 6, 2022 3:28pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Molybdenum is in 316, but not in 303/304
      
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      January 6, 2022 3:30pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

“French President Emmanuel Macron had said earlier that he wanted to “piss off” unvaccinated people by making their lives so complicated they would end up getting jabbed. He … also called unvaccinated people irresponsible and unworthy of being considered citizens.” – The Guardian

Macron overlooks the fact that his powers are derived from the people, and the French people have form in responding to leaders they take a dim view of.
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January 6, 2022 9:47am
- Clownworld
  
  He also thinks he is the coming pariah messiah.
  Evil muppet.
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:27am
- PeeJay
  
  I suspect that if he runs again, and he hasn’t confirmed this yet, then due to the numerous candidates lined up in the first round, he’ll get through as the anti-Macron votes get dispersed widely, and end up winning in the second round as he’ll be up against a weak far right candidate.
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:41am
- Surely Knott
  
  Macron – interesting questions. His comments show it’s obviously not about health.
  1. In the article on this statement, Sky news however calls him a centrist and le pen far right as if to tell us who is reasonable. But how can you be centrist when you are forcing an experimental provisionally approved vaccine with death and heart disease as a side effect without personal consent and encouraging hate and two classes of people.. How can you be described as far right when you stand against discrimination.
  2. Macron says “he will annoy them(the unvaccinated) till the end” When is the end? I thought it was when we were 90% vaccinated. When is the end exactly.
  3. Unlike NZ, France has opposition that speaks out against “two classes of people” from both sides of the floor. Marine Le Pen said “This vulgarity and this violence of the President of the Republic prove that he never considered himself the president of all French people.” Stephan Troussel, a member of the Socialist Party, said that Macron is playing with fire. Where is our opposition. The green have disappeared and sold out and our liberal party no better. Is there any other country without a single party in opposition to this.
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:13pm
  - Clownworld
    
    NZ is becoming the new banana republic. MMP helped speed it up. Nat and Lab both puppets of the globalists.
    
    France is just behind NZ in terms of making people take vaccines and restrictions.
    
    NZ now is not NZ then as in 10 or 20 years ago.
    
    Perhaps there will be a continuing accelertated exodus from NZ.
    
    Which countries protect individual liberty still and are not lapdogs to the UN or wokeness?
    
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    January 7, 2022 12:40am
UrbanNeocolonialist

Omicron excess deaths in SA (Gauteng)
https://twitter.com/ShabirMadh/status/1478814055590727685/photo/1
looks to only be about 1-2% of yearly deaths in this mostly unvaccinated population. That’s about the same as the flu is normally.

Can we please open the border and stop with the covid hysteria now. Mitigation measures are no longer rational.
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January 6, 2022 9:48am
- cmm
  
  Even then it is still deaths WITH Omicron, not FROM Omicron. Deaths WITH flu are far higher.
  
  The same for the hospitalisations in SA. Less than 20% of the people in hospital WITH Omicron are there due to Omicon. Most are there for other reasons (eg. broken legs or having babies).
  
  As Baker has told us, approx 1/3 of the deaths in NZ are WITH flu.
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:15am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Nah this is ‘excess deaths’ above normal statistical baseline, so you can say pretty clearly that they are due to omicron.
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:35pm
    - Cinematic
      
      Nonsense. A period of excess deaths will inevitably follow a period of below average deaths. For any number of reasons.
      
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      January 6, 2022 2:18pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      I don’t believe you can draw that conclusion. There are plenty of parts of our world experiencing excess deaths well ahead of any with/of Covid deaths.
      
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      January 6, 2022 2:18pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Look at the graph I posted at 9:48. There is a clear bump in excess deaths contemporaneous with the Omicron wave, and not to either side of it where it is close to normal. So how else are you going to explain it?
        
        Note the bump is only 1-2% of normal yearly deaths, in NZ that would be 350-700 without the benefit of vaccinations that might reduce it to 10-20% of that.
        
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        January 6, 2022 2:40pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Some even get lead poisoning (shot) but still a covid statistic coz he had covid.
        But did he really? or just a fear porn lie?
        
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        January 6, 2022 3:34pm
    - cmm
      
      The concept of an “excess deaths” baseline is broken because the death numbers with or without a pandemic go up and down anyway.
      
      At the moment South Africa’s crime rate is also out of control (even more so than a short while ago). The murder rate is up 7% on last year.
      
      Meanwhile, travelling and alcohol consumption are down, so road deaths are down. But suicide is up more than 100% in some areas.
      
      HIV and TB are up due to CV19 lockdowns.
      
      So comparing one year against another and blaming all the difference on CV19 is somewhat problematic.
      
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      January 6, 2022 2:58pm
Captain Mainwaring

The other thing you won’t hear about in the MSM, told to me by a chap who has contacts ‘in the know’.
Transmission Gully is ready to go, but the impasse is because Porirua City Council is refusing to pay their share of the penalties arising from Covid-related delays.
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January 6, 2022 9:48am
- DeepBlue
  
  Plausible, based on there being no MSM screeching headlines about contractor owing squillions in daily penalty rates.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:00am
- Opie
  
  I thought it was because they stuffed up the application of the final road surface and it’s too slippery when it rains (bitumen diluted with kerosene to allow application in cold temperatures but they used to much and the stones sit under a slick top layer), the result being around a third of it needing to be relaid and guess what… now it’s too hot!
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:06am
- Bob
  
  refusing to pay their share o……
  AND neither should Porirua Council or any other entity pay penalties.
  The delays are the direct result of bureaucracy and government edicts based around Covid – continual lockdowns.
  Their is a legal phrase ‘force majeur’ which covers such events.
  The government is trying to reduce the cost of the project by imposing penalties; the real reason is because Robertson has bankrupted the country, and there is not sufficient funding available for payment of legitimate expenditure.
  There was no danger to the workers out in the fresh air building the infrastructure; some time out in the fresh air would have been beneficial to the health of the many bureaucrats associated with the project.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:06am
- rouppe
  
  We’ve got no money, bro.
  
  Plus we’re having to deal with all the silt run into the harbor from the works, plus there’s no proper slipway for the inevitable cluster that’s going to occur where SH1 meets SH59 south bound.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:47am
- Prince
  
  Apparently they are waiting for Govt ministers to return from holiday – expected late Feb- so they can cut ribbons, make speeches and take all the credit.
  
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  January 6, 2022 9:23pm
ds

The other thing you won’t hear about in the MSM, told to me by a homeless man in Botany.
Luxon’s electorate office in Botany was a gift from the CCP.
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January 6, 2022 9:55am
- Bob
  
  ds…
  I think you are confusing Luxon – elected MP – with the Labour Party ‘wannabe elected MP’s offices
  Luxon could probably afford to buy the whole street of houses.
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:07pm
- Ruahine
  
  ds.
  Was that information from someone known as Mr Ross?
  
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  January 6, 2022 2:01pm
- Colville
  
  He owns 4 investment properties so he probably owns it himself.
  
  He isnt a Labour MP who gets a sweetheart brownpaper bag deal from a Union then lies about it.
  
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  January 6, 2022 2:15pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

4 cases of myocarditis out of 285 boys in a christian school: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/there-are-now-4-myocarditis-cases
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January 6, 2022 10:00am
- krazykiwi
  
  It’s not only the deaths post-vaxx, but also the many sub-clinical cases that fester away like time bombs. Regulators pushing vaxxes on children have blood on their hands. Watch them quietly switch their tormentors clothes for civvies to hide amongst us as the carnage grows.
  
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  January 6, 2022 2:24pm
I remember when

Received an email from the Dominion Post saying there is something hidden in their newspaper.
I have had a careful look.
Can only conclude it is the News.
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January 6, 2022 10:03am
- Bob
  
  Like the Horrid in Auckland, if it is relevant news,it must be well hidden!
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:08pm
- Biscuit
  
  Keep looking, I remember when.
  
  We’re only six days into 2022, I know, but surely – surely – it can’t be long before the fabled news story of interest will appear in the Dom Post!
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:39pm
Capricardo

A builder I once knew had a side business collecting fish farts for spirit levels.
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January 6, 2022 10:07am
EssenX

I know there’s mixed feelings about Afghan resettlement but did the Government just resettle an arguably corrupt politician who appears to speak no English and his thirteen family members (13!) ahead of those who speak English and have trade skills working with our armed forces!?

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300490811/former-afghan-vice-president-given-safe-haven-in-new-zealand

This is a Government for corrupt elite by the corrupt elite. Someone needs to get billboards up to get the persuadable to start questioning how bad this Government is.
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January 6, 2022 10:09am
- Nickc2
  
  for corrupt elite by the corrupt elite
  Swap the word Govt for elite above and this individual should feel right at home living under this Govt.
  Birds of a Feather, as they say in the classics.
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:02pm
- greybeard
  
  A fair bit of money would have changed hands to do this, I suspect.
  Look out for upcoming headline “NZ government minister XXX pays multi-millions for new beach house”.
  
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  January 6, 2022 1:19pm
  - greybeard
    
    Ah! I see that “NZ government minister XXX” has downticked me.
    Jolly good.
    
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    January 6, 2022 3:05pm
tf78

Tomorrow is the last day to make a submission on the Three Strikes Law – get on to it people.
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January 6, 2022 10:12am
Maggie Pie

I’m looking forward to watching Novak being denied entry into OZ when it’s shown on…. ‘Border Security: Australia’s Front Line’.

If SKY’s current programming is any guide, we should get to see it in about 6 years from now.
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January 6, 2022 10:12am
- Biscuit
  
  Maggie, in all my years of travel – and visits to 73 countries – I’ve never had any problems with Border Security.
  
  My only embarrassment re same came in mid-1985 when, back from a lengthy trip to Europe, the CustomsOfficer at Mangere saw all the immigration stamps and said ‘Wow, that was a good trip!’
  
  I mentioned I’d tried to cram in as much top football as I could.
  
  He was, it transpired, a Mnachester United fan.
  
  (Shit happens, eh?)
  
  I said: ‘Oh, I was at the FA Cup Final’ (where United had beaten Everton) and said ‘I’ve got the programme in one of my bags.’
  
  He said got a mate to take over his post, took me to an adjacent counter, and said to me: ‘Show!’
  
  So everyone else in the queue(s) got to see three customs officers (it must be a condition of their employment that they support Man Yoo!) intently leafing through said programme – and several others I’d brought back.
  
  I often wonder what those folk were thinking:
  
  ‘Wow, that must be a SERIOUS stash of porn he’s trying to bring in’, etc.
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:27am
- rouppe
  
  It is a bit of a laugh.
  
  Tennis Australia gives a bit of a finger to the state government, and the state government responds with a swift kick to the nuts
  
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  January 6, 2022 10:45am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    As I understand it the state government is saying it is a federal matter.
    
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    January 6, 2022 12:10pm
NK

Anyone who visited the adult entertainment club between Wednesday December 22 and Friday December 31 was advised to isolate for 10 days after their last visit.

The Mermaid Club and Femme Fatale were also named on Sunday as sites linked to positive cases in the last two weeks, with the Pelican Club deemed particularly high risk.

Timeline re DJ Dimension:

The musician…On December 26 and 27…visited several locations in Auckland, including central city nightclub Impala.

Why is the Pelican Club “particularly high risk” and the other two are not?
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January 6, 2022 10:15am
- Colville
  
  I would suggest that at 2 clubs punters were watching dancing while at the Pelican punters may have been engaged in the Horizontal Mamba style of dancing…
  
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  January 6, 2022 2:18pm
Yvette

Macron used a vulgarity to describe his strategy for pressuring vaccine refusers to get coronavirus jabs.
In an interview published by Le Parisien newspaper late Tuesday, he used the word “emmerder,” rooted in the French word for “crap” and meaning to rile or to bug. His salty language dominated news broadcasts Wednesday.
“The unvaccinated, I really want to bug them. And so we will continue doing so, to the end. That’s the strategy,” he said in the sit-down interview at the presidential Elysee Palace with a panel of its readers.
The 44-year-old outspoken, centrist president also expressed his desire to run for reelection in April’s presidential vote. Yet he said he is still waiting to formally declare his candidacy because he wants to focus on the pandemic first.
Macron’s comments come as lawmakers are heatedly debating new measures that would allow only the vaccinated to enjoy leisure activities such as eating out. More than 91 per cent of adults in France are fully vaccinated.
Macron’s goal is “to draw all the attention” and “make his contenders disappear, on the Trump model”, political communications expert Philippe Moreau Chevrolet tweeted.
It is also a way to point the finger at people who haven’t been vaccinated as being responsible for the situation — instead of being himself held accountable for the record numbers of infections, Moreau Chevrolet said.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/01/05/macron-directs-salty-language-at-frances-unvaccinated/

Macron is of course the Leader who Ardern set out to impress with her decision to usurp any further oil or gas exploration – when France imports almost all (about 95 percent of) its methanol – and Ardern’s new position (trading off with Winston his traitorist support for his unworkable waka-jumping legislation) must have been a grand puzzlement to them.
Now with the Traffic Light System totally beset on vaccinated versus unvaccinated, how long before Macron’s view is here déjà vu?
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January 6, 2022 10:34am
ClanMcleod

Maggie the first video of Novak at the airport in Australia had been posted on twitter. He seems to be handling the furore quite calmly.

https://twitter.com/danelldav/status/1478839587195793422?s=20
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January 6, 2022 10:54am
- Maggie Pie
  
  LOL!!!
  
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  January 6, 2022 11:41am
- NK
  
  That’s brilliant!!
  
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  January 6, 2022 12:00pm
- Colville
  
  Great quote..
  
  You’ve got to hand it to Australian authorities. They terrify people, lock them in their homes, deny them basic human rights, make future life and freedom contingent on submitting to mandates & then manage to convince those people that
  @DjokerNole
  is the bad guy!
  
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  January 6, 2022 2:24pm
emmess

Macron wants to shit on the unvaccinated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ivr1Rp58gU

I hope this awful excuse for a world leader gets his arse absolutelty handed to him in the French Presidential election coming up in a few months.
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January 6, 2022 10:55am
Maggie Pie

You can tell just by looking at SCOMO he’s not a tennis player.

Wonder if he’s ever been a DJ?
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January 6, 2022 10:55am
Okahu

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Wow. What a summer break we are getting. Can anyone recall such a sustained period of hot settled weather apparently stalled over the country? And the sea. So deliciously warm. I wouldn’t be surprised if the boffins tell us this is the hottest such period on record. If so, it will of course follow a succession of such claims. Obviously we ought not draw anything from such basic findings because we are of course a comfortably right wing community and we are rightly terrified of what it might mean to believe such empirical observations.

So even if it were yet more evidence of a climate changing, as predicted by climate modellers for decades now, we must pretend that socialists wish to control us and that is why we must disbelieve the evidence of our senses and our instruments. And why when our blog host David Farrar, a man of obvious intelligence and father of young children feels it appropriate to mock the efforts of climate change activists.

Why, only two days ago he witlessly opined that climate change activists only target western countries. Now I suppose on those grounds he would have felt safe denouncing anti slavers or suffragettes in not being able to be more instantly universal in their ambition.

But of course the desperate stupidity of his position is best laid bare by China, the country where to raise your head in protest of the state may have you sanctioned, even imprisoned for being ‘meddlesome’ or as they say, ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’, claiming it will be carbon neutral by 2060.

Now that target may be unmet or open to enquiry as to how it is accounted. But it is a target set by the worlds largest economy to utterly change its method of powering its economic engine in light of the threat it has perceived. Some climate activism there.

But I suppose it was a fun afternoon for the denizens of Kiwiblog to bang on about socialists wanting power and Cindy’s wedding and modellers and their models. And being wound up by distracting manufactured outrage. Declaring traditional organs of information are invalid rather than addressing the crisis at hand seems to be the new model to invigorate and dumb down the right.

What’s the word for this condition? Obtuse?
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January 6, 2022 10:59am
- CAKE FACE1
  
  Dearest Okahu,
  
  The weather is indeed beautiful. It is a fantastic time to be alive – I would say that it is the best time in the history of humanity! Never in the history of this planet have humans on average lived so well. It is time to be thankful to globalisation and democracy for the amazing gifts it has given the world since WW2. See Mr Pinker for details.
  
  You fooled me once with the “Deadly Delta” cruel hoax. I’m not now buying the Omi-con.
  
  On your most recent end of the world scenario, you seem to be worrying yourself silly by climate change.
  
  For the record, I agree with you that China is mostly to blame for the world’s increased carbon emissions.
  
  Of course, you are a fanatical socialist. Mr Xi is your guy! I think the first thing you should do is stop supporting him, and his ugly system (socialism). The man is a socialist monster. Take his poster down from your bedroom wall!
  
  Please let me know what you would like me to do about your climate crisis. I assume your solution is for everyone to hunt for raw turnips with their bare hands in their back garden. It’s not for CAKE, but if you do want to do this, then knock yourself out.
  
  Assuming that you are correct about this “climate crisis”, I understand the worst case scenario is New Zealand will have temperatures a couple of degrees higher in thirty or so years? I don’t think that this would wipe us all out, and I suspect cabernet grapes could be much improved…
  
  Socialist fear mongering is quite tiresome. What solutions do you have?
  
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  January 6, 2022 1:35pm
  - Okahu
    
    Sure. How about a voucher system for greenhouse gas emissions allocated equally to each citizen. Want to burn some petrol/coal/diesel? Use your vouchers. Need some more? Buy them off someone prepared to sell theirs. Can’t buy any at the price you can afford? Congratulations you have found the true price of the activity you wish to engage in. Landing and berthing rights only to those who purchase appropriate credits. A market model that actually rewards those that don’t pollute. It sure would be interesting to have a model where those without resources could carbon bank.
    
    A policy of zero assistance to those who buy land subject to inundation by rising seas. That should be easy to agree to by those in denial of any climate change as it will have no impact on them. I do notice you seem content that NZ becomes 2 degrees warmer. It would make for longer summers but I’m not sure you have thought through the impact that will have on ecosystems here and around the world. Nor what considerable challenges to elements of our physical infrastructure that would present. The alarm has been raised regarding the potential of Antarctic ice sheets to release enough water into the oceans to submerge all our wharves, their feeder road and rail services, our biggest international airport and much roading infrastructure. Let’s not mention the housing stock and industry and farmed land likely to become untenable.
    
    And how about a one child per adult policy? No right to reproduce at will can exist in a society (or world) that comprehends the physical limits of the ecosphere, let alone the ability of other organisms to co-exist with our species on this planet.
    
    Of course pretending these concerns are those of a socialist hanging posters of the Chinese Premiere on the wall makes you feel superior. And by focusing on your distaste for the messenger you imagine you have made a point. You haven’t. Or rather you have continued the proud tradition of pretending everything is going to be fine. A position favoured by those who don’t want to acknowledge the science, not models but observations, the trends of which point to an alarming future for many already born.
    
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    January 6, 2022 5:49pm
    - CAKE FACE1
      
      Thank you for your post.
      
      You accept that China is the main cause of carbon emission increases.
      
      Perhaps your scheme to address this problem might not be too bad, if Mr Xi and Mr Putin bought into it. They won’t.
      
      As such, your proposal is simply to vandalise the “Aotearoan” economy. Somehow, this act of self harm is supposed to save the world? It won’t.
      
      You then advocate Chairman Mao’s one child policy. Wow. You couldn’t make it up. What the hell. You could go the whole hog in supporting Chinese socialist policies and advocate throwing a million or two Uighurs into concentration camps, for good measure?
      
      I hoped you might have something serious to contribute, but alas, I sense that I over estimated you. Never mind.
      
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      January 6, 2022 10:43pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Were in the La Nina season when the water from the Antarctic is being returned. It’s cyclical. The water gathers heat as it traverse the equator and lands up hundred of metre deep off Indonesia or thereabouts.
  
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  January 6, 2022 5:13pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  rather than addressing the crisis at hand
  
  I take it you haven’t read the latest IPCC (AR6) report…
  https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
  
  TLDR, maybe?
  
  Let me help you out…. The IPCC have backed away from the alarmist models. They’ve also started to take into account those other natural factors (that “denialists” had been telling them about for 30+ years).. like solar variability, cloud behaviour, ocean oscillations…and things don’t look as dire as we’ve been led to believe.
  
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  January 6, 2022 5:56pm
  - Okahu
    
    Thanks Maggy for posting that link. I hope all who read this blog will acquaint themselves of the information it contains. You have done well.
    
    Though I’m not sure if you understand the findings it presents so perhaps in turn I can summarise for you.
    
    We as a species continue to transform our physical environment through the release of greenhouse gasses. The earth’s atmosphere and oceans have demonstrably warmed as a consequence of those emissions. Each additional tonne of greenhouse gas released continues that process. We continue as a species to increase our emissions. Fair?
    
    Perhaps you take comfort that other factors, none of which we have any control over, may have a role in temperature change. It would however be a brave reader of the statistics to assert that anthropogenic emissions were not the dominant input in our warming world.
    
    But let’s imagine for a moment your apparently indifferent, even sanguine approach is warranted. That our warming world with all the challenges that poses with regard to extreme climatic events, ocean acidification, wildfire, permafrost melt, glacier retreat, ice shelf collapse and general heat induced ecosystem stress is all natural. Would it make sense to add ever increasing greenhouse gasses to the mix? Wouldn’t that be like, in fact literally be adding fuel to the fire?
    
    Might not finding a way to move away from our 18th century technology of extracting and combusting ancient carbon sources make some sense?
    
    Please feel free to help the readership with examples from the IPCC report you link to which supports such a position. I must have missed them.
    
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    January 6, 2022 8:31pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I suspect you have a comprehension problem..
      
      I have not expressed indifference about climate warming.
      
      I have merely informed you that the IPCC has now backed away from those over-heated models (once known as the 8.5 “business-as-usual scenarios”) which have been the basis for much of the Emission policy work undertaken by Agencies.
      
      The IPCC is also acknowledging the role of natural factors in climate… this means, that we are likely to see much more research being published on these matters and presumably a better understanding of climate dynamics.
      
      You may well have missed the nuances in this large report, but in brief:
      
      1.The IPCC is no longer talking of high levels of global warming (4-5deg C) in the near future.
      
      2. The World’s GhG emissions are tracking lower than once believed.
      
      So it looks like the World has time on its hands to adapt to another 1.5deg C over the next century or so.
      
      I think we have more serious ecological problems facing us…. unequal distribution of resources: leading to exploitation of forests, fisheries and degradation of soils and waterways….
      
      And wind & Solar aren’t going to be the solution to Northern Hemisphere winters.
      
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      January 6, 2022 9:23pm
      - Okahu
        
        Very happy to see you aren’t one of the right wing clowns that deride the very existence of climate change Maggy. It perhaps ranks as one of the existential problems our species confronts that we are prone to such powerful forces of tribalism that we eschew rationality in pursuit of group approval…
        
        In the interest of finding common ground I would also remark that it is also gratifying to see you acknowledge we have multiple problems that must be confronted. “Unequal distribution” you say? Be careful the loons here don’t get to call you a socialist. That tribalism thing again eh?
        
        But to your points. I’m afraid you have gone all fluffy there. While we will undoubtedly learn more as more science is undertaken and findings published these will have all but zero chance of changing the trend or trajectory of our warming. You mention ‘in the near future’ we won’t be 4-5 degrees hotter. Which would be great news except even 2 degrees of warming is sure to produce profound and irreversible change to ecosystems and society. Some of those changes may have the potential to bring about runaway effects. These are potentially cataclysmic in scale, methane release from melting permafrost, lessened planetary albedo due to sea ice loss being but some. We have but a crystal balls chance of knowing just how some of these impacts will play out. So perhaps, depending on what model you care to employ, the time taken to a point we don’t want to reach is contestable.
        
        100 years you say will have us at 1.5 degrees. Perhaps. Perhaps not. That gives time to sort things out you say. I admire your confidence if not the reasoning that supports it. Pray tell, when is the best time to act on an unwanted trend? Early when identified or late when the options are invariably either more drastic, more expensive and inevitably even less politically palatable? Unless you have a planet fixing trick you haven’t yet shared? Anything less and you are resorting to faith.
        
        We know the solution. Transition away from technology that produces the problem. In particular, we need to do everything in our power to move past carbon as a fuel source. It will be incredibly hard. But it will never be easier.
        
        By the way. I quite agree it will be hard to power Northern Europe with solar and wind alone. Given the stakes I would have rather Germany maintained its nuclear programme. But here we are.
        
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        January 7, 2022 1:34am
- gorse
  
  Had to light the fire three times on the lead up to Christmas. It was really cold. Never ever have I had to do that before.
  
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  January 6, 2022 7:42pm
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    Cool story bro. Let me guess, Cleveland? Krackow? Llanelli?
    
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    January 6, 2022 8:39pm
Fletch

It looks like both Fonterra and Silver Fern Farms want to impose vaccine mandates, and there is pushback already. This will likely include truck drivers for the companies etc and could impact farmers and the food supply in this country. All for the sake of this damn vaccine that doesn’t even work.

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

It’s the ultimate in stupidity. ?
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January 6, 2022 11:03am
NK

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/04/frances-macron-stuns-as-he-declares-un-vaxxed-not-citizens/

He’s following Arden and her “two classes of citizens” desire.
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January 6, 2022 11:17am
- Surely Knott
  
  Interesting that this follows Trudeau who recently said the unvaxxed were racist misogynist conspiracy theorists. This must be this weeks agreed global response in how to get the booster done when omicron is a bust. Disappointingly for NZ pfizer fans it is summer which is far more effective than the vaccine so they may have to work harder to get the booster uptake.
  
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  January 6, 2022 1:27pm
  - NK
    
    Yes, the World Economic Forum’s “future leaders” are not disappointing their paymasters.
    
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    January 6, 2022 1:37pm
    - mawm
      
      I would love to do a live interview with any one of these “leaders” and ask them if they are vaccinated. Of course we know the answer, but then I say that in that case they don’t mind if we take some blood there and then and do an antibody test.
      
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      January 6, 2022 1:56pm
- Simon
  
  Luxon said just before Christmas he was getting impatient with the unjaxxed. He is part of the problem.
  
  If the jaxx wasnt so chicken shit they wouldn’t be turning on the unjaxxed.
  
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  January 6, 2022 5:01pm
I remember when

It’s an exciting day today.
Because of Christmas/New Year, the replacement day holidays and our three times a week postal delivery, today will be our second mail day in two weeks.
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January 6, 2022 11:30am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Some of the replies to the Horrid’s tweet seem a bit harsh 🙁

What happened to “be kind”……and “they are us”

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1478853012995153927
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January 6, 2022 11:38am
I remember when

Isn’t it amazing that inspite of the constant pressure they are under, medical staff still have time to remind us of the worst possible scenario.
Emergency medicine specialist Dr John Bonning, “Unfortunately at the moment people are experiencing extremely long waits to get emergency care.”
Once Omicron arrived, ED’s would have to deal with even more cases, he said.

Nothing you can do about it but a least it gives you something to worry about.
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January 6, 2022 11:53am
Benedict Yu

Just another thought on covid vaccines and kids.

The government is going to give top priority to vaccinating young Maori kids. Because of the Waitangi Tribunal decision. But you can see what will happen. Maori parents will be way more resistant compared to other ethnicities. And so the rates will be low. And the Maori elite will attack the government.

The gulf between Maori elite and activists and Maori parents and kids ih the real world is so obvious. But the Maori elite are shameless and the government doesn’t call them out.
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January 6, 2022 12:18pm
- Simon
  
  “And the Maori elite will attack the government.”
  
  Its part of the pantomime. The gubermint will then hand out hundreds of millions in the Maori kiddie jaxx drive to the same moaning elite.
  
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  January 6, 2022 5:03pm
- All_on_Red
  
  The only thing ‘elite’ about the maori elite is their ability to grift.
  
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  January 6, 2022 5:13pm
Hollyfield

This morning I went to a cafe for brunch (for the first time since early August) in a central Auckland suburb.
There was a large sign outside saying to have your vaccine pass ready to show at the door.
There was nobody at the door.
Walked up the counter, nobody there. Took a menu to read while we waited. Somebody came out of the kitchen (may have been taking food to a table), told us to come back to the counter to order and someone would check our vaccine passes at the table.
Dutifully went and sat down at a table, then later one of our group went to the counter to order for us.
I commented to the group that we had now ordered and paid for food, and what would happen if any of us were unable to show a vaccine pass?
Food delivered to table. Eaten. Plates later cleared away.
Then we left.
We were not asked for our vaccine passes at all. I also did not observe anyone else showing their passes.
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January 6, 2022 12:36pm
Maggie Pie

Just made a ‘Devonshire Tea’ to have by the pool.

Been listening to idiot callers on 1ZB predicting…. ‘a major house price correction’. LOL!!
One moron with a speech impediment told Francessca…. “he was getting in the popcorn”

There’s only ONE WAY house prices are going.
We’ve got a standing order for Champagne 😛 😎
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January 6, 2022 12:43pm
- MCōs
  
  Conversation at the tea party must have been a bit slow.
  
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  January 6, 2022 3:42pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    You must admit tho Cossie…it’s a great subject!
    
    I mean, even you and the missus would be Millionaires now wouldn’t ya?
    
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    January 6, 2022 7:33pm
oldfella

Has Cindy has her booster yet? Would have been due a couple of weeks ago, but no announcements, or photo ops showing her leading her ‘team’.
Call me suspicious, but…
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January 6, 2022 1:05pm
- Ruahine
  
  oldfella.
  Perhaps she is waiting so that her child can be vaccinated as well and together both can be the lead story on the ‘news’.
  
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  January 6, 2022 2:10pm
- Inandout
  
  old, wait for the wedding ceremony.
  ‘Jacinda and Clarke have chosen this setting in which to be married because it provides an appropriate backdrop for the public affirmation of their love for the booster’.
  
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  January 6, 2022 4:26pm
CAKE FACE1

CAKE is double vaxxed, and I might even get the third.

Nonetheless, I was mulling over why Cindy and the gang are so desperate for everyone to get vaccinated, to the extent that they are fanatically bullying people with mandates.

I suspect the reason for these actions are that the unvaxxed are super embarrassing to the government narrative.

Approximately 10% of adults aren’t vaccinated – this is nearly half a million people.

We were told Covid would kill 80,000, but that the vaccines saved them. Fair enough.

However – why haven’t 8,000 unvaxxed people died? I thought that Cindy said “Deadly Delta” would seek out and kill the unvaxxed?

“Deadly Delta” was supposed to be super infectious – far deadlier and more transmissible than the seasonal flu.

The unvaxxed destroy the government narrative.

I suspect that this is why the government wants to eliminate them. They embarrass Cindy.
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January 6, 2022 2:24pm
- cmm
  
  Your big failure is trying to make sense of the words.
  
  Wrong move. Just focus on the feelz.
  
  If you try to understand through logic then your head will hurt trying to understand:
  * Why the vaccinated should fear the unvaccinated.
  * Why people should feel threatened when someone doesn’t write down their tracking details.
  * Why Omicon should be kept out.
  
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  January 6, 2022 3:47pm
- Fight4NZ
  
  Why. The antivaxxers have been protected by the high vaccination rates and other non-medical interventions. I haven’t received my thank you yet, have you?
  
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  January 6, 2022 4:37pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    So if you’re fullt protected, why are you concerned about those who do not wish to tkae the very tainted “vaccine” experimental gene therapy ?
    
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    January 6, 2022 7:44pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      The high rates of vaccination are contributing to my protection also so not greatly concerned. I am also not so stupid as to pose such a meaningless question in the first place.
      
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      January 7, 2022 8:44am
David Garrett

These fuckers have got to be joking:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/127443503/givealittle-page-for-funeral-of-mongrel-mob-member

P sales must have been bad lately. Do we really have citizens who are so fucking dumb or deluded that they would donate to the Mob for some scum gang member’s funeral? Sadly I guess we do.
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January 6, 2022 2:27pm
- Truman lodge
  
  DG
  
  They are a club not a gang!
  
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  January 6, 2022 2:57pm
- Bung Fizzer
  
  Yeah but, Uncle Tam needs more dosh to ‘cure’ the P addicts that his cohorts sell.
  
  C’mon mate, give a little for the hard done by scum of NZ’s society because Uncle Tam needs more dosh. The slush fund from Jaspender and Bob the union rep can only go so far
  
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  January 6, 2022 3:35pm
- David Garrett
  
  And who can believe Stuff thought it newsworthy that the Mongrels had set up a “Givealittle” page for one of their mongrel members?
  
  Perhaps they’ll reassess giving them the time of day the next time one of their prospects rapes and kills some sad drug addicted prozzie to get his patch. Or perhaps not.
  
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  January 6, 2022 4:35pm
- Simon
  
  ” or deluded that they would donate to the Mob for some scum gang member’s funeral?”
  
  Called money laundering. They buried Dog Shit and he was so loved the public gave $500,000 in donations.
  
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  January 6, 2022 4:56pm
- [email protected]
  
  It will be interesting to see how much income this give-a-little page generates and especially a list of the contributors!
  
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  January 6, 2022 7:00pm
Nickc2

Most KBers would have seen the video and listened to the commentary from Pastor Bromley after his house was raided by Police without him being present and left in the state as shown in the Video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L5FHohTCHs
Well, finally, the MSM has addressed the issue and all they could come up with is:
Police told Newshub no arrests were made or infringements issued as a result of the incident.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/controversial-christchurch-pastor-fuming-over-police-seizing-his-rifle-and-ammo/ar-AASr4Ep?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
What a fuckin disgrace! Both the MSM and Police should IMO be held accountable by Opposition Political Parties. If this is the forerunner to another four years of this Govt, God (whoever’s) help us FFS.
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January 6, 2022 2:30pm
- curry4me
  
  Nickc2: Yes indeed. Maybe the LINO Party could take up his case. Formerly ACT, the Freedom Party [Libertarian In Name Only]
  
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  January 6, 2022 4:52pm
Maggie Pie

ALERT!!

Fleur from tennis has txt…….

‘HOT X BUNS @ COUNTDOWN GREENLANE’

I’m heading over there right now. Just take my money 😛
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January 6, 2022 3:01pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

AOC.
Bartenders don’t serve wine, they serve alcohol LOL.
The helmet is to keep the tin foil hat in place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMAA6_rudlM
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January 6, 2022 3:04pm
Sparrow

Have visited retail, cafes and restaurants on numerous occasions over the past two weeks in Auckland and Northland. Only on two occasions have I been asked for the pass. A restaurant in Auckland and the cinema in Whangarei. People and businesses getting on with life. Have not heard of police carrying out random checks they have better things to do. Plenty of boats going north.
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January 6, 2022 3:06pm
- [email protected]
  
  I genuinely feel sorry for businesses that are required to ask you for your vaccine pass. Many will lose income they sorely need.
  
  Fortunately, their collective pain will hopefully create a situation where they will question the government that created these rules that negatively affect them.
  
  The next few polls will tell us.
  
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  January 6, 2022 6:54pm
Loddenthinks

Late in the day I know, but I found this to be vary apposite:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1478880382942527491
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January 6, 2022 3:56pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Stop it, the children will get offended
  
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  January 6, 2022 4:00pm
Maggie Pie

One of the girls from tennis was just telling us speculations rife that Novak was set up nicely by ‘Scotty from Marketing’ and his best mate ‘On-the-button-Dutton’, all to make Cindy look bad with HER call on the DJ !

Wouldn’t surprise me…..
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January 6, 2022 5:19pm
- Fletch
  
  “Novax” Djokovic. Good for him. I mean, all this virus stuff could blow over in a few years. Could be like the flu after everyone has been exposed to Omicron. But many athletes who have been vaxxed are so damaged they may never play again. Not to mention the dozens who have died on the pitch.
  
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  January 6, 2022 5:40pm
  - MCōs
    
    “dozens who have died on the pitch”
    
    I was talking to a chap I know a couple of days ago who’s work involves driving around the countryside in a work car which is easily identifiable as belonging to one of the mobile phone network owners.
    He gets hassled by wild eyed conspiracy theorists who accuse his employers of all manner of stupid behaviour.
    He carries around reams of info to counter the claims, but of course it’s all dismissed out of hand as bollocks.
    
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    January 6, 2022 7:31pm
    - Fletch
      
      People are keeping track. And it’s not dozens, it’s hundreds.
      
      https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot/
      
      https://www.bitchute.com/video/z5GlfUCWccAI/
      
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      January 6, 2022 9:31pm
CAKE FACE1

For two long years. CAKE has been not so patiently waiting for the media to ask Cindy – what is your exit strategy from Covid restrictions?

My suspicion is that she intends to retain restrictions forever, but it would be nice if the media asked the question, in any case.

Most likely, Cindy would just just answer the question by babbling unintelligible nonsense, as she usually does.

Cindy is a great communicator? Perhaps for people high on acid…

Anyway, perhaps National can ask Cindy for the medium to long-term Covid plan in Parliament?

I’m hopeful that National will stop collaborating with Cindy in the next two years, but I’m not holding my breath…
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January 6, 2022 5:32pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING…

Talking of tennis, I see where World No.1 ASH BARTY is on her way to becoming the first Ozzie woman to win her home major in the last forty-four year….and good on her!

Yet you never really see much of Ash outside of her playing tennis.
The likes of Maria Sharapova and Anna Kournikova were always on international magazine covers promoting things like…… ‘Porsche’ and ‘Rolex’.

Just saying.
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January 6, 2022 7:20pm
Surely Knott

The nz media headline story blamed the unvaccinated and has to issue a retraction . Rnz article reposted as the Heralds lead story blamed an unvaccinated person for the case at the ponsonby road longroom location. But it turns out the infected case was vaccinated and the herald issues a retraction . They now report, “ This article has been amended from a previous version that stated the person was unvaccinated”. The question is how did they get it wrong? They know it’s passport only and The restaurant owner in the article said he had been given no details about the case or their vax status. It wasn’t a wrong detail in the story – an unvaccinated positive covid case at the long room was the headline and the main thrust of the story. Are they so keen for an anti vax story that they made it up? Or did they get wrong ininformation and from
whom? Is this another case of the frozen peas where the business calls foul on a media story? What is the point of different papers when they all just repeat the same news stories.
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