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Warren

Rotorua ‘disorder event’: screaming, revving, gang sloganchanting heard.Also cars used as weapons others fighting, Is this the New Zealand everybody wants
because this is what you can expect from our loving caring Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the rest of her Government if Labour wins the next election.
The Police are compromised with a weak and woke Leader and can’t get to every major crime so this is becoming the Norm and is not helped by our Government giving donations in the thousands to gangs around New Zealand.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rotorua-disorder-event-screaming-revving-gang-slogan-chanting-heard/HAMB6FBFL7UXBGWXKXKRBKV32E/
Just a note to.all those lovies out there that think our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern can do no wrong don’t come back screaming about this violence if you or any of your families suffer this fate ,as you have had prior warnings.
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February 8, 2022 8:00am
- alex Masterley
  
  Add to that the bloke being deliberately set on fire in Newmarket a week or so ago week, and the disorder in Kingsland over the weekend.
  Rome is burning while Cindy fiddles!
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:23am
  - kowtow
    
    And yet another gang altercation in Northland leading to drug , cash and arms seizure.
    
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    February 8, 2022 8:36am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    And the media cover there ears and eyes and chant “lalalalalalalalalalalala” inanely.
    
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    February 8, 2022 8:46am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    and Sheeple like her fiddling so they reward her with 44% support. So what is the issue here? Majority rules bro.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:00am
- Simon
  
  Police protect the gangs from working men who could sort these criminals out very quickly.
  
  The police protect the gangs. This is how it works.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:45am
- Loddenthinks
  
  This from the police: “We want to reassure the public that we take this behaviour extremely seriously.”
  
  “We want to reassure the public that we take this behaviour extremely seriously, but we’re not allowed to because Cuddles has told us to be kind and give them a free pass.”
  
  Fixed it for ya.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:30am
  - Prince
    
    Your call is very important to us.
    You are number 78 in the queue.
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:47am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    not so new police commissioner is so woke he’s asleep at the wheel.
    
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    February 8, 2022 1:24pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Only doing what he has been told. Be kind, and all that shit
      
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      February 8, 2022 3:01pm
- bronny1
  
  Contrast that with the crowds at the Convoy yesterday. Lots of noise, thousands of happy people.
  
  But who gets vilified?
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:28am
  - Batman
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    It’s so weird how people who believe whatever they have read on Facebook and dodgy online sites are ridiculed for their factually wrong opinions!
    
    They’re entitled to protest, they’re not entitled to escape any consequence or criticism.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:37am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Hypocrisy much?
      Don’t worry Batty
      We haven’t forgotten how you were sucked in by Russia Russia Russia.
      Hilarious- all those years you argued and were wrong!
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:10am
      - Batman
        
        Red, you can say I was wrong all you like, it doesn’t change the cold hard facts that Russia ran disinformation operations to divide groups and helped with the Hillary emails story.
        
        Did it interfere in the election counting and systems? No.
        
        Was it a foreign interference in the campaign? Yes.
        
        Your comment demonstrates that I’m correct. I am free to have my opinion and you’re free to criticise me.
        
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        February 8, 2022 12:13pm
    - Viva Christo Rey
      
      I don’t know anything about misinformation or conspiracy theories but the story the governent and the mainstream media are telling us does not make any sense even on its own terms.
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:39am
Captain Mainwaring

Fantastic achievement by snowboarder Zoi.
Funny, I didn’t notice any messages of congratulations from either Spindi or her Minister of Sport, Grunter.
Could it be that her successful parents are not Labour voters?
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February 8, 2022 8:00am
- tui47
  
  Don’t worry. The PM’s office will be rushing to set up a PR opportunity for Jacinda to further promote herself by an association with Zoi’s Olympic success. There is no doubt about that. There was apparently a post from Jacinda on Instagram. Of course we all know she didn’t write it herself – her PR team did it for her.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:18am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    I hear Brenda once served Zoi fush n chups when Zoi was on her way to the skifields, she even threw in an extra few chips to give her a bit more energy. So technically speaking, Brenda was part of the team that helped Zoi get to the top.
    Let’s go Brenda!!
    
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    February 8, 2022 8:58am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Dunno about that. Clan.
      Zoi comes from Wanaka – you know, that elitist, colonial outpost not far from Queenstown where only rich white people live (and visit for right wing conferences).
      
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      February 8, 2022 9:40am
      - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
        
        Queenstown will be strong Labour outpost after 2023 elections.
        
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        February 8, 2022 10:01am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        I’d better give the PR team a heads up!!
        
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        February 8, 2022 10:04am
      - Nickc2
        
        Poor little hard done by Refugee kid eh?
        
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        February 8, 2022 11:04am
- MCōs
  
  Look a bit harder
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:42am
- barnacle bill
  
  Another fail mark for the Captain..
  
  https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/govt-congratulates-zoi-sadowski-synnott-nz%E2%80%99s-first-ever-winter-olympic-gold-medal
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:05am
- pdm
  
  Capt – it was a long weekend.
  
  It is very unreasonable of you to expect the Prime Minister of any of her minions to work over long weekends – that is for the lesser people to do.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:11am
  - barnacle bill
    
    @pdm
    
    Given the above congratulation to Zoi were sent out on Sun 6th on a long weekend, does your little rant now make you feel a little bit stupid ?
    
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    February 8, 2022 1:33pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jaspinda and Grunt are running cover for thiefing off with RAT stuff. To busy to congratulate someone
  
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  February 8, 2022 3:04pm
artemisia

Kainga Ora possum in the headlights again yesterday, One News.

The Prime Minister said firmly in the item that Labour inherited a housing crisis in September 2017 and that ”the last National government continuously sold off state housing”.

Be good to see her and others repeating this mantra challenged to quantify just how many were sold, to whom and for what. Let’s see how many were sold cheaply to Community Housing Providers (their tenants get the same taxpayer subsidised rent as government tenants), how many sold for redevelopment and tenants rehoused (eg Glen Innes / Eke Panuku), how many were too old or damaged to be economically repaired, and how many sold because there was no demand for size or location.
All that information is almost certainly readily available, National used to publish most of it during their terms.

Noting that the social housing waiting list has quadrupled in the past 4 years. September 2017 5,844; December 2021 – 25,525. Tell us again about the housing crisis you inherited, Prime Minister.
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February 8, 2022 8:02am
- G152
  
  The number of 100,000 houses promised comes to mind.
  What happened ?
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:16am
  - john1234
    
    They built a net negative in the last 6 months – more removed than built!!! Only in Labour’s New Zealand…
    
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    February 8, 2022 8:58am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    G152 – That programme has finished and Labour is moving ahead with other election promises. That is what the 44% of sheeple who keep supporting Labour and Cindy.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:02am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’s the virus’s fault
  
  Just over 200 new homes were added to the national stock by Kāinga Ora,
  
  https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/02/07/govt-blames-covid-19-for-small-increase-in-new-state-homes/
  
  The Government removed 910 houses from its stock last year.
  
  Were these houses really beyond repair?
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:28am
  - oldfella
    
    Maggy, were any of these 910 house worse than a long term motel room? For a solo mother and young kids who have gang members and drug dealers in units on either side?
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:57am
  - PeeJay
    
    I’ve worked as a consultant on a KO project – doing some costing advice for a project in Christchurch. Gold plated, high spec with expensive architects etc with an OTT design that wouldn’t look out of place in a blue chip suburb. Progress? Fair to say that glaciers move quicker.
    
    No surprise to me that they have such terrible completion rates. Yet they still hire ever more folks on $150k/year (or more) to move bits of paper around who genuinely couldn’t get a $80k/year job in the private sector.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:14am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    910? Easy money at $1M a pop
    
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    February 8, 2022 3:08pm
- Simon
  
  Build Back Better for this very limited gubermint should be to get the social statistics back to where they were when National ran things.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:12am
- Prince
  
  After a year of NZ Media and the Govt claiming the Govt was building houses at last, it appears yet again they removed more than they built.
  This fact even escaped onto One News last night, but was ‘refuded’ later by the PM.
  The lies just trip off the tongue like the mighty Waikato.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:51am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    ohh Jacinda is referring to Gayford’s Moving Houses program that no one watched.
    
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    February 8, 2022 4:30pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Gosh, it’s been a while since we heard the old “9 years of neglect” and that the last National government continually sold state houses. Your questions are spot on, Artemisia, and I can advise that the vast majority of them were sold to affordable housing providers, including more than 1,000 in Tauranga to Accessible Properties.
  
  AP is a not-for-profit organisation that specialises in the very difficult task of managing housing stocks for disadvantaged people, and does a brilliant job of it. The last National-led government, recognising the incontrovertible truth that with very few exceptions, the private sector will manage assets and resources, and provide services much more efficiently and cheaply than any government department can, managed the very orderly transfer of much of the stock to organisations such as AP.
  
  It’s the diametric opposite approach to socialist governments who believe they should control the means of production, own all the assets, and deliver all the “services” much better than a greedy capitalist would. And they’ve been proven wrong time and time again.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:23am
Scott

Last week our family visited Huka Falls. The information board at the start of our walk let us know we where guests. It appears the area is subject of a land claim by local Maori.
“The tribes of the Waikato River now seek the restoration, management and protection of the river for the benefit of current and future generations.”

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/community/your-community/iwi/a-maori-perspective-te-ao-maori/waikato-te-awa-a-taonga-treasure

Later that same week Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, co leader of the Maori party, wrote in the NZ Herald Saturday – ” Te Pati Maori knows that the only way this nation can work is when Maori are supported to assert their rights to self management, self determination and self governance over all their domains.”

The common thread is that Maori appear to want to regain control of this country and the rest of us will be guests reliant on their sufferance.
For myself and my family we know no other country. Many of us will be in the same situation. We need to understand there is a move afoot to take our country away from us and give it to the Maori.
Please don’t think this will lead to equality. Radicals don’t believe in equality. No the Maori will run the show and we will be reliant on their good will.

If you want NZ to remain the country you love you must vote differently. A vote for Labour or the Greens is a vote for separatism and Maori ascendancy.
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February 8, 2022 8:05am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Well the new health legislation Pae Ora deals in its entirety with Maori, Pacific people get a small mention but the remain 80%+ of New Zealands are refered to as ‘other populations’.
  
  Yes it is true look it up, we are according to this governement ‘other’ jesus wept.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:30am
  - Bridgenag
    
    So will all the Maori trusts pay for it then?
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:15am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      There are some that think this Kiwiblog is fiction//
      
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      February 8, 2022 3:12pm
- artemisia
  
  In the meantime take action to make our households as robust as possible. Review assets, encourage critical thinking, look across the ditch or further.
  
  Nobody knows what the 2023 or 2026 elections will bring, but be prepared for Labour / Greens to rule.
  
  When France decided to go after the wealthy plenty of other countries said ‘Welcome’.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:30am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Finally artemisia is realising the truth that 2023 and 2026 will be Labour/Green gummits. In 2023, when National traitors (Farmers, Small Businesses and Sheeple of Taranaki) realise National/ACT won’t make it, they will switch their vote to Labour and Labour could rule on its own again. Otherwise, wealth tax is coming for sure.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:05am
  - Hard Cheese
    
    This is good advice. Place your vote where appropriate, and have a Plan B – whether you decide to act upon it or not, just make sure you have one.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:16am
  - curry4me
    
    artemisia: Yes, if Labour and the Gucci Greens’ can form a government, and rule in 2023, it’s ‘game over’. They’ll push through their divisive legislation. It’ll become the norm, and National ACT won’t be able to reverse it. Then a one way ticket to Oz, or elesewhere will be a very rational choice for the under 40s.
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:19pm
- Truman lodge
  
  Scott
  
  Bang on!! Can those of us who’s ancestors came in the 1800s be returned to the UK to avoid this future?
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:40am
  - I remember when
    
    TL
    That will be great for the people who want a shorter day in winter and less local global warming.
    
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    February 8, 2022 2:40pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘and the rest of us will be guests reliant on their sufferance.’
  
  That’s why it’s so imperative to resist the language police and all their divisive inventions and insertions .
  
  It’s now Media mainstreaming of so called tangata whenua or ngati xyz on the one hand and tangata treaty or ngati treaty on the other .
  
  Them and us . One group true belongers , the other here on sufferance .
  
  When I see people like Lux falling for this “progressive” race trick and using their terms I actually despair .
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:41am
- pdm
  
  Hey Debbie – we do not want the whole country in blackberries and scrub again.
  
  It took a hell of a lot of clearing last time and New Zealand wasn’t on the verge of insolvency then.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:51am
- john1234
  
  Hey, it worked out great in Zimbabwe – what are you worried about?
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:59am
- KiwiSapper
  
  A spurious land claim has no relevance in respect of defining legal ownership. So it is to be ignored, just as any other political claims being made today should.
  As for maori expecting you to accept being described as “guests”, pffft. Their arrogance is becoming insufferable.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:14am
- Prince
  
  We all know this is more about Govt money than any land.
  There’s gold in them thar hills.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:53am
- Albert_Ross
  
  The common thread is that Maori appear to want to regain control of this country and the rest of us will be guests reliant on their sufferance.
  
  Those are Scott’s words, not Ngarewa-Packer’s.
  
  By all means we can carry on shouting “You’re anti-democratic!” and they can carry on shouting “You’re racist!”; but if we want to move beyond that divisive and embittering stand-off, we could try asking a few questions as to what Ngarewa-Packer actually means. Doing so, in a civilised, polite, good-faith sort of manner would be far more difficult for her to brush off with a dog-whistle cry of “RACIST!”.
  
  For example: All of us have “rights to self management, self determination and self governance over all their domains”. Wouldn’t we all agree that it is right and proper that in our own home, I and my family get to choose what we wear, eat, watch on television, grow in the garden etc, and (subject to legally-defined and strictly controlled exceptions) we get to decide who is and who isn’t allowed to come into the house?
  
  “Oh, but that’s not the kind of thing Ngarewa-Packer really means!” Isn’t it? How do you know? Have you made any attempt to find out what she means by terms such as “their domains”, “self determination”, “self governance” and “self management” as opposed to what you assume she means?
  
  I think being asked, reasonably and politely, to explain what exactly she means and the details of how she envisages it working, would give her a great deal more trouble than shouting “they want to take over the whole country!”
  
  She can respond to the latter simply by saying “no we don’t, you are making racist assumptions”. Easy – point scored, move on.
  
  But she can’t simply dismiss the former. On the contrary, the more she tries to explain, the more she’s likely to come to realise that she really, really needs to think through, much more carefully, what is actually in the real interests of her constituency.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:21am
  - RockyJ
    
    Over on LinkedIn I frequently ask Maori activists and their white enablers exactly what they mean. I find that none of them either want to be specific or are sufficiently thoughtful or articulate to tell me. Instead they resort to insulting me personally.
    The closest I got was someone saying “a great equalising is taking place”.
    Your approach is absolutely spot on. If they did manage to specify what they want I think I even they would recognise how ridiculous and abhorrent it would be. At least in the public domain. I shudder to think what is being said in those numerous taxpayer funding indigenous people’s conferences they go to.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:46am
- jon
  
  Scott have no fear Cindy stated this very day on the Greens call for the return of private land to Maori that *its not something we’re CURRENTLY giving consideration to*!! Take what you like from that.
  
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  February 8, 2022 2:13pm
- Black with a Vengeance
  
  Even if you’re Maori from another iwi you’d still be a guest.
  
  Tangata whenua only applies to your regional homelands.
  
  Maori only want sovereignty over their own lands not the entire country as one people. That’s a conversation between all iwi after all the confiscation reparations are addressed.
  
  Think of it like Scottish independence and Ireland wanting the north back.
  
  You don’t visit Scotland or Ireland and think you’re a native who belongs there just cos your white and your last name is McDumass.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:05pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Yeah
    Primitive tribal system
    We know
    That’s the problem
    Built in division
    
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    February 8, 2022 8:24pm
    - Black with a Vengeance
      
      Oh you mean like the left/right partisan white male political patriarchy thing masquerading as diversity when a token gesture is made towards inclusivity ?
      
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      February 8, 2022 8:28pm
- Black with a Vengeance
  
  Back the truck up to 1840 pilgrim…
  
  “For myself and my family we know no other country. Many of us will be in the same situation. We need to understand there is a move afoot to take our country away from us and give it to the pakeha.
  Please don’t think this will lead to equality. Radicals don’t believe in equality. No the pakeha will run the show and we will be reliant on their good will.”
  
  See what I did there ?
  
  In spite of a treaty and guarantees of sovereignty fast forward to now and Maori are still waiting on equality.
  
  So much ignorance and lack of self awareness amongst Pakeha I’m inclined to believe it’s genetic…
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:14pm
  - Media hater
    
    You’re not even black bro! Although you do seem vengeful.
    
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    February 9, 2022 8:13am
Simon

Climate change or the next gain of function train wreck? Which is the real emergency? If they crap on about climate change and insist on taxation, spending & regulation while silent on the gain of function research then gubermint is fraud.
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February 8, 2022 8:10am
Pavel

I drove from Te Kuiti to New Plymouth yesterday (along Highway 3) and got caught up in the mandate convoy. Wow. Along with hundreds of vehicles I also saw thousands of people on the side of the road cheering and waving. In New Plymouth all the bridges were packed with people and in the centre of New Plymouth, on the Macdonald intersection, there were people everywhere. This is just one stretch of road that doesn’t take a hell of alot of traffic in comparison to other main roads and I can only imagine how many were on the other main highways around the country. The government really needs to pull their head out of the sand and take notice, I can’t imagine any of these people will be voting labour ever again and for every protester there must be at least another 10 that agree with them but couldn’t make it. Its a pity National want to do vaccinations in schools, they could pick up alot of votes if they were to campaign against the mandates. Alot of people are saying Labour are destroying the country but going by what I saw yesterday I say Labour are destroying themselves if they choose to ignore these people.
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February 8, 2022 8:10am
- Lee C
  
  Labour and National are destroying the country.
  
  I hope to see a new political party emerge to harness the aspiratons of thsoe who protest, and their families and friends.
  
  This must never be allowed to happen again.
  
  If it were up to me, charges would be laid against Ardern and all of her enablers.
  
  The so-called ‘Opposition’ parties and ‘Independent Media’ are a sick joke, hiding under Jacinda’s skirt.
  
  A pox on all their houses.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:00am
  - Warren
    
    Have a good look around and see how many people on here voted for Winston Peter’s and his party over the years just to keep National honest and the same can be said about Labour because like Peter’s people love her politics. People like you have forced National to the center for the vote and just like those same voters have forced Labour to do the same.
    I will bet you the same will happen at the next election because people can see Jacinda Ardern is for herself and can’t stand losing , so back to the center she will go to to make sure she has enough behind her to win a third term.
    There is no way Winston Peter’s will rise again and if you don’t vote National / Act Labour will Govern again.
    The center is where the vote is and political Leaders need it to win.
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:46am
    - noodlum
      
      200,000 votes wasted on minor parties last election. (8%)
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:46am
    - Lee C
      
      “People like me’ – who evaluate our politicians based on their ability to show ethical leadership, and respond to the electorates’ needs – ‘we’ are not the problem, Warren.
      
      People who are political windsocks who surrender their stated principles for short-term convenience are the problem.
      
      ‘The centre’ has been successfully ocuupied and is now a ‘left-leaning, post Marxist’ enclave because of it. Luxon ‘I’m learning Te Reo, I’m pro-mandates, I’m about ‘choice’ (but only for abortions)’ is not a Right-leaning politicina.
      
      He is a hollow suit, an empty brand. He does not appear to actually have any principles or stand for anything, apart from watching the nation burn so he can get his own sausage sizzled.
      
      The ‘Right’ have been corralled, cajoled and bullied onto teh reservation, and now only appear able to function if they do nothing to ‘upset’ ‘the left. That’s not the faulet of ‘poeple like me’. That’s all on them.
      
      ‘The centre’ you refer to does not exist It is a fairy-tale you are clinging to. Your party of choice has abandoned you.
      
      If all you have, is ‘more of the same’ only better modelled, then it’s time to start asking yourself, who do they represent?
      
      I’ll grant you it’s not ‘people like me’.
      
      But I’d also suggest it isn’t really ‘the people’ either.
      
      The legacy of this bread and circus fiasco will be the debts our children will have to pay.
      
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      February 8, 2022 2:39pm
      - blue collar
        
        Totally agree lee c …. I thought Luxon would stay neutral and 6 months from the election go anti mandates . I’m appalled he has cast his die already .
        I can’t work out Seymour’s sudden drop in the latest poll , must’ve only rung up Maori and bureaucrats after his state of the nation speech .
        I think they are all too scared to go against covid narrative as they believe injections equals support for current policies and underestimate the amount of people who are against said policies …. injected or not .
        Hard to tell , until someone comes out and says it .
        Polls …. they don’t mean shit ala trump first time around .
        Unless they suit my view … then of course they are accurate ?
        Would some leader of Nz please step forward and declare anti mandate . Please .
        Seymour should hv met the rally , he needs to be the yin to labours yang , way out on the right and let woke Luxon flounder in the middle .
        
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        February 8, 2022 4:55pm
      - Warren
        
        Lee C all you ever do is whinge about National and their leaders and lately you even whinged about David Seymour so I would suggest with all the knowledge you believe you have that you should enter politics and show people what made of as your all talk with no substance.
        
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        February 8, 2022 8:19pm
  - curry4me
    
    Lee C: The New Conservatives Co-Leaders are travelling with the convoy.
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:23pm
  - leoj
    
    Luxon cost himself and National by not meeting with the convoy.
    Seymour should have seized the opportunity.
    Me thinks, this is not over.
    
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    February 8, 2022 2:32pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Is Winston sniffing the breeze and timing his run?
  The first party to stand firmly on a policy of immediate removal of mandates and immediate removal of vax passports will pick up at least 10 points. At least.
  This move has no negative impact on “fighting the virus”. You can still get as many jabs as you want, still wear as many masks as you want, wash your hands repeatedly or stay at home – but you should be given a notice and a card when you buy your masks or get your jabs that clearly states:
  
  “THESE ACTIONS WILL NOT AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO CATCH COVID OR SPREAD IT TO OTHERS – IT MIGHT REDUCE YOUR SYMPTOMS”
  
  Then move on. It’s the easiest win for a political party in many years.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:08am
  - Lee C
    
    I agree CMc and have written to Shaw about this.
    
    All I got was a polite ‘Thank you for your message’.
    
    Oh and some dyed-in-the-wool ACT type accusing me of being ‘pig-headed’ and ‘bigoted’ becasue I suggested Shaw was two years behind in this issue.
    
    I’m astounded at the sheer lack of political acumen the Oppostion parties have exhibited these past two years.
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:45am
  - Raphael
    
    The problem for Winston is enough peoplep still remember that he is to blame for us ending up with our Glorious Leader.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:17am
    - blue collar
      
      At least he kept them relatively sane
      
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      February 8, 2022 4:58pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        BC, Jacinda could have gone bat-shit crazy for all I care; if Winston had not picked her then she’d have faded away to the oblivion that she deserves.
        
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        February 8, 2022 7:06pm
      - blue collar
        
        I’m Ignorant on how it played out . Was under the impression Winnie wasn’t offered the chance to team up with national , by national . If they offered and he chose labour out of spite then what a mongrel and totally agree .
        
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        February 8, 2022 8:19pm
  - Harry Knuts
    
    so Winnie is dark on Labour as Jacinda basically managed him out. So this round you reckon he’s kissed and made up with National? maybe a possibility
    
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    February 8, 2022 4:34pm
- KiwiSapper
  
  I cant’ speak for the number of supporter’s the Freedom Convoy would have encountered on their way to Wanganui yesterday, only that I turned out to salute them.
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  As for the number of protest vehicles, I lost count after 200+.
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  Wellington roads around parliament are going to gridlock this morning and sadly, many of the protesters will not be able to reach the beehive. Probably not really a loss as the One Trick Show Pony has once again gone into hiding and is refusing to meet them. I must admit, she is very very good at hiding when any unpleasantness is imminent.
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  Transparent and open…..Oh and “kind.” Utter bare faced lies from the worst Prime Minister NEW ZEALAND has ever had the misfortune to cursed with.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:23am
- Roona
  
  This is massive, If I was David S I would be on the steps of parliament ready to talk!
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1N8nLTQw5_rzJDLyDi7pYuXFjirLfrOSaGtACukr2mJ9kO30p_7CVloL0&v=Q3OJ1VTWceU&feature=youtu.be
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:24am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Nah, according to Jacindanistas it’s a small group of right wing racists and misogynists. No way it’s representative of a substantial part of middle NZ. //
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:26am
  - Fight4NZ
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Massive?
    Not from what I saw. Even the Auckland shots showed a few hundred at most.
    So I guess I would have to agree it is good to see that. Very satisfying to see that so very few have been conned into the antivaxxer rabbit hole.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:29am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      “anti vaxxer” – stop with the childish gaslighting please.
      Very very few are anti vax. The number of people opposed to vax in NZ has been constant for decades. This is different. These people are anti vax mandates and passports. It’s a huge difference.
      The fact that Brenda’s Branch Covidians think it’s acceptable to force people to inject themselves and their kids with experimental drugs, and to exclude them from society for failing to comply speaks volumes. This is the reality in NZ today, no matter how much you snipe from the sidelines and wave your pom poms.
      It’s a stark reminder of how fascism rises. We saw it in Nazi Germany, it starts with small things. It can escalate very quickly unless it is stopped. Brenda needs to be stopped, urgently.
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:04am
    - krazykiwi
      
      antivaxxer, a pejorative for those of inconsequential intellect, used in the absence of reason, evidence or sound case.
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:07am
    - Bridgenag
      
      Anti mandate. BTW are you being paid to troll and misinform?
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:18am
      - Fight4NZ
        
        Am I being paid? Not as obviously as Clan and kk that’s for sure.
        Misinformation is statements like “experimental drugs” as a totally baseless lie. I am not making those statements.
        No one is being forced. But there are consequences.
        As one of the vast majority it is completely misrepresenting the situation to say I am “sniping from the sidelines”, let alone trolling. Sorry the facts don’t sit well with you.
        I see the Nazi Germany fear porn is still on the agenda too. And then try to say the vaxxed are scared of the virus – too much irony.
        
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        February 8, 2022 12:25pm
      - Hollyfield
        
        I know a lot of families who are very uneasy about having to vaccinate their children – pressure from school and sports groups made them cave. They are not anti-vaxxers at all, but are unhappy that they feel forced into this decision, and they are worried whether they made the right decision. Of all the parents of young(ish) children I know in this situation, all except one had voluntarily chosen to be vaccinated themselves, and that one not voluntarily vaccinated has been vaccinated because her workplace required it. These people are definitely not anti-vaxxers. Just anti-mandates, and especially anti-coercion from organisations jumping on the bandwagon imposing non-govt mandates.
        
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        February 8, 2022 5:58pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        Any of these people you know had any issue?
        There problem is not the mandates, it is the baseless fear porn about the vaccinations which so many here have jumped on the band wagon about. That’s what these people you know should have a problem with.
        
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        February 9, 2022 8:38am
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      Can you please articulate exactly why you oppose everyone, including yourself, having bodily autonomy and biological integrity? I really don’t see what the argument is supposed to be with respect to these “antivaxxers.” The proposition appears to be that anyone who thinks that they should maintain their rights and be free of coercion is a fascist, which seems to be a clear inversion of the reality here.
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:37am
      - Fight4NZ
        
        I don’t oppose everyone, including yourself, having bodily autonomy and biological integrity.
        I also don’t oppose some other anti community ideas and actions, nor do I oppose the consequences that flow from them.
        
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        February 8, 2022 12:27pm
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        That’s what you don’t oppose. But what do you propose, though? Do you propose that a person exercising their rights is thereby “anti-community” in some way, and should be punished for it, because I cannot see how they are, nor why they should be, respectively (in fact, the “anti-community” party consists of those who wish to negate the rights of members of the community).
        
        Opponents of mandates are pro-rights fundamentally, as opposed to “anti-mandate” which is the preferred framing, for obvious rhetorical reasons. They want to maintain the status quo of freedom from a coerced breach of their bodily autonomy, whereas those who support vaccines want to radically alter the status quo: therefore, they are the party that needs to justify themselves and make an argument for mandates and punishment for not compliance, not the former group. That being the case, what is your positive argument for flagrantly denying everyone the right to their own conscience and property rights over their bodies, free from the element of coercion inherent in consequences of restricted civil rights and potential loss of employment?
        
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        February 8, 2022 12:57pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        For those that have been vaxxed their rights are not in any way less than the vast majority of the population. Like it or not it is a global pandemic and Governments worldwide have put measures in place with varying degrees of restriction.
        If you are not vaxxed then you are affected by the mandates fundamentally because you are anti-vaxx, rather than “pro-rights” which is the preferred framing, for obvious rhetorical reasons. Choosing not to be vaccinated has temporary repercussions, being vaccinated has none. Poor choices, undesirable outcomes.
        
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        February 8, 2022 1:44pm
    - Pavel
      
      I must of seen hundreds of signs and not once did I see anything about anti Vax. It was all about freedoms and dropping the mandates.
      If there is one thing covid has shown us it is that our system of government does not go far enough in controlling those who are in power. There needs to be an overhaul of parliaments power of what they can and can’t do. An example is the Bill of Rights act needs to be honored and in no way can be overridden. The last few years have shown us the failings of our free society and that many things have to change so no one can impede on our freedoms ever again. It’s time to clip these peoples wings, put them back in their box so to speak and leave the people to be. Politicians need to be scared of even mentioning such things let alone actually trying to implement them. They don’t seem to fear the people at all, quite the contrary.
      “When politicians fear the people, that’s a free society. When the people fear the politicians, that’s tyranny”.
      
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      February 8, 2022 12:38pm
    - leoj
      
      What does the Koolaid taste like?
      
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      February 8, 2022 2:36pm
  - curry4me
    
    Roona Thanks for the link. The leader, and Co-Leader of the New Conservatives are going there.
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:26pm
    - Lee C
      
      Well – The New Conservatives just got my vote.
      
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      February 8, 2022 2:42pm
      - curry4me
        
        Lee C: Mine too. I delivered leaflets for them, and ACT in 2020. Net time it’ll just be NC.
        
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        February 8, 2022 7:12pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  “National is pro vaccine party. So we have nothing to do with the convoy” – Nicola Dud Wills, Deputy Leader of National party. I am sure NZ First will now see the opportunity and grab all these votes and then support Labour to form a gummit.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:07am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    They can be as pro vax as they want, all they need to do is come out and condemn mandates and passports. There is no excuse if they support this.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:28am
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      National and ACT have taken a shit in their own nest, as the saying goes. They’ve boxed themselves in to such an extent as a pro-mandate party, aligned with the government, that I can’t see where they can go as and when the public en masse decide they aren’t having any of it, which we are seeing now. “Sorry, we got it wrong” will be insufficient given that all of the relevant information that undermines the argument has been available and in the public sphere for 12 months or so. I’ll never vote for them again, that much is certain.
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:43am
      - curry4me
        
        Rodion Raskolnikov: Yes, I’ve been very disappointed in ACTs performance on the vaccine mandate issue.
        
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        February 8, 2022 12:30pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Just watch these loudly, self-proclaimed vaccine supporters start to switch sides, and tell us they’ve “always held doubts” as the evidence builds that this generation of experimental gene therapies put more people in harms way than they do liberate others.
    
    I mean, I get Ardern and her ministerial miscreants ignoring evidence and doubling down, but for Luxon and Willis to do likewise is evidence of their abject stupidity.
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:17pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      Disclaimer:
      – The Covid19 vaccines have worked surprisingly effectively along side non-medical measures. Compare Delta outbreak in NZ to other countries where it got into the community.
      – The vaccines are definitively not gene therapies
      – Few in the population are terrified by the virus, the vast majority have just taken the sensible precautions on offer. Most fear-stricken are antivaxxers of the vaccine which has proven to have a very high safety record internationally.
      – the minimal inconveniences of the non-medical measures will be quickly forgotten in the return to normality.
      – the process to return to normality is underway with the arrival of omicron, with NZ moving along its own schedule which will be argued to be slow or fast but ultimately of minor consequence.
      – There is no evidence vaccination can lead to more virulent strains. Unsubstantiated antivaxxer scare story.
      – the rare phenomenon of Original Sin has not been observed with Covid-19
      – The Jews and other “untermensch” of the Nazi Germany regime were defined by inherent and unalterable attributes. You can get a vaccination and move from unvaxxed to vaxxed in NZ. Any attempt to draw a parallel is not only wildly inaccurate, but disrespectful of those who suffered and those who fought to liberate them.
      
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      February 8, 2022 12:42pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        You really are beyond hope if you believe that enumeration of nonsense. I simply can’t be bothered knocking each and every one of your points out with evidence. It would be wasted on you, pearls and swine and all that.
        
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        February 8, 2022 1:30pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        That would be evidence like the case below of the MSM not mentioning the convoy anywhere?
        Your credentials as a leading conspiracist here are more than well established. Throw whatever mud you like.
        
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        February 8, 2022 1:49pm
      - Lee C
        
        You read like someone in a bunker, in total denial that your empire is on its last legs, Fighty.
        
        Don’t worry, your imaginary crack battalions will save the day!
        
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        February 8, 2022 2:45pm
- JJ56
  
  Regardless of ones view on the issues the protest gives me hope for NZ
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:31pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The Labour Govt will just order more sand. They are good at ordering it, but in needed they will steal it
  
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  February 8, 2022 3:19pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Reply was to Pavel. Long thread.
    
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    February 8, 2022 3:22pm
beautox

Australia opening it’s borders in two weeks time, not that you’d know this from NZ Press
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-07/international-covid-borders-to-reopen-scott-morrison/100810580
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February 8, 2022 8:12am
- mawm
  
  Only for the triple vaxxed even although it makes no difference to the spread of the virus. It’s all about control as you scan in your vaxx passport and go onto their system.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:38am
- MCōs
  
  Here’s this from the same day as the article you refer to.
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/461043/australia-to-end-international-border-closures-fully-reopening-on-21-february
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:48am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Did you miss the memo? There is only one source of news (whoops truth) in NZ.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:17am
- Surely Knott
  
  Only to the fully mrna vaccinated.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:18am
- SoloView
  
  @ beautox – perhaps these links might help…
  
  08/02/22 0752 hrs – NZ Herald
  07/02/22 1902 hrs – Radio New Zealand
  and 1 hr 20 mins later than your post
  08/02/22 0924 hrs – Stuff
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:35am
  - Fight4NZ
    
    ROFLMAO.
    No, they have done their own research and those news stories must be fake news. Or does that not make any sense either?
    The commitment to their group think in the face of incontrovertible facts is staggering.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:32am
Inandout

Weird pro Jacinda poll comes out the night before the truckers arrive in Wellington. It appears Labour and National wont meet the truckers because they are joined at the hip with mandates, but a great chance for another Party to show some backbone.
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February 8, 2022 8:14am
- kowtow
  
  That convoy doesn’t exist , no reference that I could see in the Whoreald , unless I missed it , which would be the point.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:34am
  - SoloView
    
    @KT – did a Herald search on the word “convoy”
    
    The New Zealand convoy anti-vaccine mandate protest rolled into Napier greeted by an enthusiastic crowd of supporters.
    7 Feb, 2022 04:01 PM
    
    Hundreds of convoy protesters due to arrive at Parliament
    8 Feb, 2022 09:55 AM
    
    Protest convoy rolls through Hawke’s Bay after weather slows arrival
    A big protest convoy has rolled through Napier on its way to Wellington.
    7 Feb, 2022 02:11 PM
    
    Protest convoy heading to Wellington from both ends of NZ
    
    NZ copycat of the Canada Freedom Convoy on the move. Police are monitoring.
    6 Feb, 2022 04:43 PM
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:08am
    - Fight4NZ
      
      Bwaw ha ha!!!! Stop it, my stomach is starting to hurt.
      
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      February 8, 2022 10:35am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Good boy Fight – you are being a good little socialist, and doing everything that Brenda asks of you – good boy.//
        
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        February 8, 2022 12:04pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        Ooooh, burn.
        I do aspire to be a bad boy like you Don. But I can read.
        
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        February 8, 2022 12:49pm
    - bennerg
      
      Sadly these articles are not featured at all, so you are required to do as you did, you need to search for it. So you have to know about it first haha.
      
      Not what true “News Sites” are all about.
      
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      February 8, 2022 10:40am
    - Thought Criminal
      
      Fair play.
      
      I wonder if these articles ever presented on the front of the digital site. Or outside the paywall. There’s more than one way to hide a story that disagrees with your narative.
      
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      February 8, 2022 10:50am
    - kowtow
      
      print version?
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:03am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No motorway cameras either …..
    
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    February 8, 2022 3:24pm
- mawm
  
  There are none with any spine. The greatest challenge we face now is to prevent the Davos crowd from taking away our freedoms but all our politicians seem to be aligned with them.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:43am
- MCōs
  
  Do you really think that of all the hundreds of protests up and down the country TV3 would guess this one to be the most devastating to the established order, and hurriedly push forward/delay the release of a poll that basically conforms to all bar one of those released recently?
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:57am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I saw that poll. I’m not a political animal but really smell a rat, Apparently all the changes were at the expense of Seymour? I fail to see what he might have done to cause such a drop?
  Wait – did he go back onto “Dancing With the Stars” again ffs???? 😉
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:34am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    A kiwiblog commentator has reported being contacted for this poll, and there was an anti-Nat question – ie it was a push poll designed to favour the left.
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:40am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Let them push-poll. The truth will out. It’s over for Ardern the tyrant, and for her motley crew of inconsequential miscreants.
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:27am
    - Batman
      
      Urban, one question that someone determined was “anti-nat” does not make it a push poll.
      
      People need to harden up and stop looking for sad excuses every time the news isn’t glowing.
      
      The polls all have their small biases, overall the picture is similar.
      
      National is doing better but it’s a long haul to the election and governments don’t become unpopular in the space of three polls.
      
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      February 8, 2022 12:19pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        In the usa polls have become yet another political advertising tool biased to boost your team, to the point where there is a consistent 10-15 pt difference between Democrat and Republican sponsored polling. Why do you imagine that NZ would be any different when NZ’s Labour funded media have become such blatantly partisan propagandists (Newshub and RNZ in particular), and pollsters are paid to give the customer what they want.
        
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        February 8, 2022 5:02pm
      - Batman
        
        I’m sure DPF could give you a sharp lesson in why importing foreign political polling dreams does not apply to NZ.
        
        For a starter, they’re all signed up to the same Accord on polling.
        
        Secondly, your theory relies on the bought media theory being true in reality, and there’s scant evidence of that being the case outside of stories people just don’t like so decided the media was bought.
        
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        February 8, 2022 5:07pm
  - bronny1
    
    I’m not surprised he has lost votes given he has doubled down on the loss of civil liberties being the right thing.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:30am
    - curry4me
      
      bronny1: ACT have lost my vote.
      
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      February 8, 2022 12:33pm
- SoloView
  
  @ Inandout – They started the poll on the 22nd January (it takes a fortnight of polling).
  
  I think this was because they knew the truckers would arrive in Wellington today /s
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:41am
Tony Stuart

The two North Island convoys headed to Wellington have merged. I’ve just seen a tweet from a friend on the convoy that the lead cars are going through Otaki, whilst the tail of the convoy is still passing through Levin.

Whatever your thoughts on this kind of protest, it’s most certainly captured the interest and support of a large number of New Zealanders.
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February 8, 2022 8:15am
- NK
  
  Except Nicola Willis and our main opposition party.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:55am
- krazykiwi
  
  Our daughter is currently driving North on SH1, circa Porirua. She is careful with her choice of words as lawyers typically are, but her comment was “… this convoy is huuuuge. I’ve neve seen so many NZ flags!” and “tons of supporters giving free food and drinks”
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:25am
  - Fight4NZ
    
    Yes, shameful misuse of the NZ flag.
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:52pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Troll, not worth an interaction with
      
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      February 8, 2022 3:30pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        Meaningless name calling, not an interaction.
        
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        February 8, 2022 3:42pm
      - curry4me
        
        Steve Otto(North Shore) My thoughts exactly.
        
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        February 8, 2022 7:15pm
    - Hollyfield
      
      Could you please expand on your reasons? With the very brief context of your comment I have the impression it’s “I don’t agree with this protest so therefore they shouldn’t fly the flag”. I would like to understand your reasoning, because I don’t see why people shouldn’t fly the flag if they want to. As long as they’re not disrespecting it, such as burning it as many other protests do, I don’t understand the problem.
      
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      February 8, 2022 6:58pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        Put it this way, let’s say China decided to go to war and was invading this part of the world. There inevitably would be a small section of the population who would say don’t fight China and fly NZ flags claiming to be patriots. Meanwhile the vast majority would be contributing any resources they had including their lives to fight.
        
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        February 9, 2022 8:44am
Benedict Yu

I wonder how many parents are going to be turned off by this?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/127702133/canterbury-school-establishes-genderneutral-student-leadership-team

““We didn’t want to define the students by the gender for those roles,”

Which is fascinating. The Green Party defines people that way – a male and female leader.

JAG embarked on a “pay equality” drive in the state sector based entirely around “men” being paid more than “women”.

This is all very confusing.

The reality is that there are two genders. Male and Female. There are of course people born with ambiguous genitalia which is unfortunate. But AFAIK their gender can usually be determined by chromosome analysis.

A high school student who is “male” does not become “female” simply because he declares that.

However, these are simply my opinions. And I am clearly in the minority which is fine. If most parents agreed with me, it would be impossible for one of the largest high schools in Canterbury to make these changes.
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February 8, 2022 8:18am
- cmm
  
  I don’t think it is so much what parents feel, but rather what parents feel they should feel.
  
  It is easy to brow-beat people into compliance and submission.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:30am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Don’t really understand what you are objecting to in the school’s proposal. They’re saying that jobs should be given to the best candidates, regardless of their gender.
  
  Isn’t that precisely what we’ve always said here?
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:32am
  - Todd123
    
    Do you seriously think it will be about getting the most suitable students – rather the appointment of the most suitable students will be in line with modern ‘box ticking’ criteria -i.e. lets make sure we have 1 gender neutral student (tick) one Maori but preferably 2 (tick) and one from another minority ethnic group (tick)
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:21am
  - alloytoo
    
    Once again you demonstrate the one size fits all ideological approach of the left.
    
    I prefer a more nuanced approach.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:02am
  - Jack5
    
    Albert Ross’s ” They’re saying that jobs should be given to the best candidates, regardless of their gender.”
    
    There’s more to it than that. This is Lincoln High School’s deputy principal, Kylie Horgan, in the Stuff report:
    
    The changes came after consultation with Christchurch-based charity Qtopia, which provides support, workshops and free counselling for LGBTQIA young people.
    
    “We had a representative from the rainbow community come in to do personal development with our staff … ”
    
    The school has also abolished the role of deputy student leaders. Here’s Horgan on that:
    
    “It’s part of getting rid of that hierarchical sort of thing, which is quite a traditionalist, colonial approach.”
    
    Might as well close the school then. Secondary schools are traditional, colonist, very Western.
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:27pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Ben, watch Matt Walsh (of the Daily Wire) demolish transgender|gender activists on Dr Phil. It is beautiful to watch. And apparently caused the activists to suffer depression and anxiety afterward!
  On JAG’s pay equity, watch Jordan Peterson. He slays all comers regarding pay equity.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:44am
- graham
  
  A high school student who is “male” does not become “female” simply because he declares that.
  
  It seems utterly bizarre that the western world appears, by and large, to have simply accepted almost without question that a male can say “I feel I am a woman” and, lo and behold, he IS one. He is what he feels like. And if you question that, well you’re transphobic.
  
  And yet … just last week, there was the story of a transgender swimmer who beat the next best swimmer by a record 38 seconds at a competition in Ohio last year – around a full lap. Leading the US competitive swimming’s governing body to rethink its eligibility criteria for transgender athletes, following this utter farce.
  
  I don’t know that you ARE in the minority, Benedict. As cmm says, it is far too easy to brow-beat and bully people into compliance and submission, leading them to say in public what is the politically-correct accepted line. Because to do otherwise would inevitably lead to scorn, derision, loud cries of “Bigot! Hater!”, and it’s just easier to say what everybody wants to hear.
  
  For me, former athlete Caitlyn Jenner – who just happens to be transgender – has nailed it when she says:
  
  “All of this is woke world that we’re living in right now is not working. I feel sorry for the other athletes that are out there, especially at Penn or anyone she’s competing against, because in the woke world you have to say, ‘Oh my gosh, this is great.’ No it’s not.”
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:57am
  - Rodion Raskolnikov
    
    The logic of the argument for transgenderism is entirely consistent with my claiming to be “trans-vaccinated” and thus being classified as vaccinated.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:52am
- Todd123
  
  I would not be happy with this – and I suspect a majority would probably not support this, even if they say they do in certain circles. What is happening is that a very small cohort of people are managing to increasingly drive the agenda on such topics. The school Principal presents the decision as a decision based on merit – i.e. it allows them to pick the best of the best. In today’s world that seldom happens and it is more likely to be about giving more scope to ‘tick the right boxes’ in the appointment of the student leadership team. The Principal also roles off old tropes such as having a head boy and head girl as amounting to a “colonial structure” – yawn.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:04am
  - alloytoo
    
    I think it’s really just an excuse to reintroduce misogyny. Now that’s colonial.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:04am
- Centrist
  
  Madness
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:07am
- kowtow
  
  Odd how a school , so keen on being right in the new looney post modern world ,gets it so wrong .They are not “students” they are pupils .
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:13am
- Weinerpoop
  
  I live in the area and think this is a disgrace and can’t believe it has been allowed to happen. I also went to school with Horgan, I had nothing good to say about her then and I still don’t. This is all about her not what’s good for the kids or the school.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:20am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    I’m looking forward to the posturing twit choosing two of the same sex as head pupils. That will really set the cat amongst her pigeons.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:56am
    - graham
      
      Only if they were both male.
      
      If both are female, everybody will be in raptures.
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:03am
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        I don’t think so. A whole lot of boys and their parents will be looking for a new school.
        
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        February 8, 2022 12:06pm
- I remember when
  
  BY:
  Surely they don’t mean that ability is going to be the sole determinant.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:34am
  - Jack5
    
    Ability as the sole determinant.
    
    Ability at what? Woke activity?
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:35pm
- SoloView
  
  @ BY
  Is Lincoln High saying they want the best person for the job irrespective of their gender?
  
  “Cherry said the new structure means “you get the best team”.
  “It’s not just limited to a boy in this role, and a girl in that role,” he said. “It helps with getting a good team and there’s no discrimination involved.” “
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:48am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    As soon as they pick two of the same sex the perception will be that inded there is discrimination involved.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:02am
Yvette

Daily cases numbers – warning: a little boring as hell – but are experts doing a number on us?

Four students test positive in Hawke’s Bay, cases drop for second straight day as 188 new COVID infections announced – Newshub, yesterday evening

Saturday February 5 : 243 (record) community cases from tests total (last 24 hours): 21,471
Sunday February 6 : 208 community cases, tests 16,873
Monday February 7 : 188 cases, tests 12,830
– from https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-news-and-media-updates

If you have 10 cases from 2,000 tests it is plain to see that is 5 cases per one thousand, dividing number of cases, 10, by number of thousands, 2, gives of course 5.
So using the above figures you get, per thousand rates of –

Sat : 11.31 cases per 1,000 tests (243 divided by 21.471 thousand)
Sun : 12.32 cases per 1,000 tests
Mon : 14.65 cases per 1,000 tests

So the daily rate per 1,000 is increasing, and Mondays 14.65 multiplied by Saturday’s 21.471 thousands (if Monday’s cases were derived from the same number of tests) would give 314 cases not 188

… experts warn about COVID fatigue as testing numbers plummet
Ministry of Health figures show there were 100,000 fewer COVID tests completed in the week following the Omicron community outbreak compared to the Delta outbreak in August.
It comes after New Zealand saw a drop in cases on Waitangi Day with 208 COVID cases announced compared to a record 243 infections on Saturday. – Newshub

Whether it is “covid fatigue” or “covid fear” – that “a mild cold” may take you and your family out of work for 2-3 weeks (needing enough plonk, baked beans and of course toilet paper for that period) – however whatever the cause: if tests “plummet”, cases must likewise “plummet”
While the actual infection or spread rate increases

Experts may be horrified at the simplistic calculation above, given multiple variables, but the numbers are Ministry of Health figures, and it is quite plain what is done with them – transparent and with integrity.

What is really a little horrifying is that health experts themselves have not done anything with them.
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February 8, 2022 8:19am
- kowtow
  
  I think “experts” should be in apostrohes or at least prefaced with “so called” , “controversial” , or some such .
  
  The Media Pardy does that to their chosen out grouptypes , so why not ?
  
  What have the so called ‘experts’ got right ?
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:33am
- Julie
  
  It would be interesting to see who is getting tested voluntarily. I suspect it will be the retired, health compromised and government and local employees and those that can work from home on full pay.
  From conversations i hear, young or healthy people who cant work from home and stand to lose money through isolation are simply not scanning nor getting tested. Its clear the experts are working this out as well but woffle around the point- its covid fatigue!
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:35am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No scan, no test, sign in as ‘Donald Duck’
    
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    February 8, 2022 3:33pm
- cmm
  
  Yvette – there is nothing wrong with the way you analyse this. Keep it up!
  
  This is the way the real picture leaks out from behind the facade of a controlled narrative.
  
  There are of course other factors too, but they are probably less likely to change as fast.
  
  For example behaviour changes. As people cotton onto the fact that they will get locked up for up to 3 weeks, they will be less inclined to get tested unless they feel sick. When that happens, there will be a lot of infected people hiding from being tested.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:39am
  - Fight4NZ
    
    Agree it is a sound analysis and an interesting insight.
    I am not sure in what way it is “the way the real picture leaks out from behind the facade of a controlled narrative.”? The conclusions are the same as those in the other post below on the comments of Dr Colin Tukuitonga. That is testing down, probably more community cases than being found, plus speculation on the reasons.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:57am
- RoboRob
  
  When the latest set of rules were announced my initial gut reaction was that this was an own goal. People would stop testing and contact tracing to avoid the onerous result of a positive test or contact.
  
  I am stunned by the number of people, including those on the radio, publicly state that this is their intention. Of course the result is ‘good’ for labour as they can trot out the low number of cases even though the water testing results will likely tell a completely different story. On water tests, ever notice that they never give any detail around these, just nebulous ‘matched with what we would expect in this area’ statements.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:02am
- Yvette
  
  1 News website page lead – well, top left item –
  Not enough testing being done in Omicron outbreak – expert
  Dr Colin Tukuitonga says current testing numbers do not reflect the true situation in the community.
  Although the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation had predicted 50,000 cases by Waitangi weekend, case numbers were actually a record 243, then 208 and 188 over the long weekend.
  
  University of Auckland Associate Professor of Public Health, Dr Colin Tukuitonga, told Breakfast one of the reasons for far lower case numbers could be that not enough people with Covid-19-like symptoms are coming forward to be tested.
  
  … Testing numbers leading into Waitangi weekend this year were more than 20,000 each day, but over Waitangi weekend dropped to below 16,000.
  He said longer isolation periods could be a factor in people’s decision not to get a test if they were sick, particularly if they were from a big family or lived in a household with many others.
  
  … Complacency was also at play, Tukuitonga said. Into the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, he said people had had enough.
  
  … Talk Omicron is a mild form of the virus was not helping, Tukuitonga said.
  … “We need to keep testing, both for yourself, your whānau, but also for us as a nation because if we don’t test, it’s like flying blind, we don’t know where we’re going.”
  https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/02/07/not-enough-testing-being-done-in-omicron-outbreak-expert/
  
  One expert – but, interestingly, with few figures to slam his argument home.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:33am
  - Local Miller
    
    “He said longer isolation periods could be a factor in people’s decision not to get a test if they were sick”
    and
    “Complacency was also at play, Tukuitonga said. Into the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, he said people had had enough”
    No s#1t Sherlock! Isn’t this exactly what a bunch of us predicted when her majesty announced the lockdown regime a week or so ago? Why can’t these people do a basic “What If” analysis?
    
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    February 8, 2022 2:43pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Your analysis is spot on. Cheers.
  
  “Experts” obfuscate and over complicate simple matters so as to maintain their air of superiority and their over inflated salaries. The rest of us call it “waffle”.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:38am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  they could get more truth from sewerage testing (tracking covid concentration). But I suspect they don’t want to report ‘bad’ news
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:43am
  - Yvette
    
    UrbanNeocolonialist
    On each of the days commented on above, the Official information was –
    Wastewater • No unusual detections to report.
    – including Saturday with record numbers
    Should Saturday’s covid tainted crap have not percolated through the system by Monday?
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:25am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Well weekends are prime curry consumption time in my household, so I would expect it to get into the sewerage pretty quick.
      
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      February 8, 2022 11:38am
      - Yvette
        
        Like the Newlands, Stokes Valley, Petone takeaway franchise “CURRY TO GO”
        Often I have, after I do. OK, TMI
        
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        February 8, 2022 1:53pm
- Local Miller
  
  It’s sort of a reasonable analysis, but you need to look at what drives the number of daily tests. Since tests are not only voluntary, they are self selected. i.e. Sick people go for tests, so a reduction in the number of tests implies fewer people are feeling sick, or too lazy or too busy with the long weekend, or some such factor. Then the most likely to get tested are the people who are the most sick. Assuming this sort of behaviour, I would expect the Cases/1000 tests to increase a bit as the number of tests go down. To the point where you could get a rate of 100/1000 because only 100 really sick people came for testing and 10 of them had Covid.
  To get a true Cases/1000 tests value you need to have random testing, which we clearly don’t have.
  
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  February 8, 2022 1:51pm
- blue collar
  
  Bravo Yvette ! I was wondering the same thing and far too lazy to work it out .
  Should be front page news ….
  
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  February 8, 2022 5:10pm
I remember when

Standing in a queue at cafe yesterday waiting to pay.
Just in front of me was the proverbial ‘little old lady.’
“Things have changed haven’t they”, she said pulling her mask down so that she could speak.
“I’m ninety now and haven’t been out for a while.”
“Things are certainly different,” she ventured, “I didn’t realise how much it has changed.”
She could have just said that she was bewildered, what the hell has happened.
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February 8, 2022 8:19am
- kowtow
  
  You don’t have to be 90 to be bewildered by all this fear porn insanity ,at least she should have the maturity and insight to see what’s been going on.
  
  Look at how youngsters , pupils and chidren have been treated over this and what their reactions emotional and physical might be ,while they were never at risk , andnow they want to jab them too when they don’t need the needle, not to mention they’ll be lumbered with the debt at having kept a few very sick and very unhealthy oldies alive for a couple of weeks longer……..
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:28am
- RoboRob
  
  So much support for labours lockdown is coming from these little old ladies. They seem quite happy for people to be locked down.
  
  Every time I hear talkback on the radio some retired person calls to say how good a job JA is doing, and that we should just ‘wait a little longer to see what happens before re opening borders etc’.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:04am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  “Jacinda saved me, so I will vote for her” – 90 year old lady. Game over.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:11am
  - alloytoo
    
    Jacinda is forcing your grandchildren to wear masks, and it’s unnecessary.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:14am
Maggy Wassilieff

If the Maori Party wants Iwi to divorce the Crown, why should the Crown be obliged to continue with the relationship?

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2022/02/07/proposals-for-constitutional-change-are-aired-and-the-prospects-of-nz-remaining-a-democracy-look-bleak/
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February 8, 2022 8:20am
- kowtow
  
  Seymour gets all sorts of crap from the cartoonists and commentariat over one law for all , but these Race Hustlers get none for this utter imbecility .
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:23am
- pdm
  
  Time to withdraw all funding and see what happens then.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:00am
- Cassandra
  
  The “partnership” with the Crown might be a bit difficult without a crown, don’t you think? But the plus of this is that we can finally consign the treaty to a museum, where it belongs.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:06am
  - Paulus
    
    Nah !
    Maori want a new Treaty drawn up by them and for them.
    In Maori of course so they can interpret what is in in any way they want.
    
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    February 8, 2022 2:10pm
- nathie
  
  I wonder why the Maori Party thinks it represents the views of all Maori?
  
  It’s like saying Labour represents all other NZ’ers … or that National represents all other NZ’ers (imagine the howls of outrage, furious keyboard typing and angry street protests from the Left, especially the Hard-Left including violence, should someone from National continuously claim that they represent them)!
  
  The Maori Party usually attract 1-2% in polls (or 1.18% in the last election), they are pretty much the mouthpiece for Radicals and the Hard-Left, which are minority (even if they do attract a lot of media coverage eg from “radical” academics etc).
  
  Most Maori, the majority, don’t wish to live in the past and are not radical. They, like most other NZ’ers simply want to get on with life, raise a family, have a roof over their head etc.
  
  Mind you younger Maori can be influenced by these radicals proposing “utopia”, that’s why it is important for Politicians and the MSM to be “accurate, fair and balanced” in their reporting of Maori Sovereignty issues, eg give both sides.
  
  For example, Maori activists (and uncritical MSM) say the South Island belonged to Maori prior to 1840. But what does that mean, when we are talking about a SI Maori population pre-1840 in the thousands? And did they live over the entire SI? No they didn’t! They mainly lived in small groups near the coast.
  
  So promoting “giving back all of NZ to Maori (the view of the radicals) is somewhat nonsensical, if one thinks about it.
  
  On the other hand, if Maori lived in concentrated areas (such as Northland, the Waikato and the East Coast (Gisborne/Hawkes Bay areas) etc etc, well sure perhaps there could be claims that could have some validity (eg when land was dubiously appropriated) – so why not concentrate efforts (to resolve conflict) where the genuine issues are – not a blanket approach of “everything” as preached by the radicals.
  
  Then to cap things off, Maori pre-1840 were in a state of perpetual warfare, where tribes overran others (or made alliances), and over time the “ownership” of the land changed due to conquest.
  
  In other words, trying to solve land issues is fraught with extreme difficulties, discomfort and unintended consequences (even amongst Maori tribes themselves), if we as a nation are to continually look back into the past and remain stuck there.
  
  The Waitangi Tribunal has one job to do, which is to resolve past injustices, not invent new causes and propose radical change.
  
  The only winners if this comes to happen will be the elites (both Maori and non-Maori), is that the sort of future we want for our nation?
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:17am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  I’ve been thinking about this a little bit lately. The British Monarch is the Crown and has a resident representative, the Governor General. The ToW is an agreement between the “Crown” and Maori leaders (or their respective decedents more accurately). So why are the temporarily hired day to day Office Administrators, who have to reapply to the GG for their job every 3 years ( usually with help from some lackey these days), calling all the shots? Shouldn’t the discussions be between the GG (representing the Monarch’s view) and Maori if there is a change to be made to the ToW? The same sort of thing applies at regional and local body level. While I’m not necessarily a fan of republicanism as it has it’s own issues, it seems that the almost universal abdication of real governance in favour of self interest is stuffing this country. Self interest, of course, isn’t something new in governance behaviour but I can’t recall it being taken to such heights in my lifetime.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:26am
kowtow

Simon Wilson’s column in today’s Whoreald really epitomises how the bought and paid for Media Pardy hold power to account these days .

Wilson ‘s clearly very unhappy that Lux is more popular than his paymasters are , shock horror , Lux doesn’t deserve it as he hasn’t done anything yet !

Has Wilson ever done a similar column on Ardern and her Labour party?
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February 8, 2022 8:21am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Wilson points out that Luxon’s investment properties gained more in value in the last year than Luxon was paid in his final year as Air New Zealand CEO. That’s completely irrelevant, given they are merely capital gains on paper, not realised until a particular property is sold.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:45am
  - RoboRob
    
    That and his gains were likely made in part by international money printing chasing a place to rest. That sharemarkets went up crazy amounts was a factor of low returns in the banks and piles of printed money chasing a limited number of shares. My shares did well last year too.
    
    So what if he has investments and they have done well.
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:07am
  - Cassandra
    
    And do a similar analysis for all MPs. It’d be interesting. And irrelevant.
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:08am
  - Centrist
    
    If they have that is due to Labour’s terrible job “at fixing housing affordability”. It should be a slight on Ardern, not on Luxon.
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:10am
  - yobi
    
    Don’t forget those gains are because of labour party policies, or lack thereof.
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:46am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Wonder if they will post stories if property goes the other way…..
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:52am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    [Deleted – your idiocy has overstepped the mark. If you think it’s funny to throw around defamatory statements, do it on your own space. Banned for a week. mod.]
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:13am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Has Wilson ever written anything worth reading beyond the headline? He is the perpetual radical Lefty drip.
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:07am
Loddenthinks

The inexorable rise of wokism, invariably accompanied if not fueled by stupidity, continues apace in New Zealand, at least in Canterbury. Lincoln High School has ended the tradition of appointing a head girl and head boy, replacing them with a “non-gender specific team”.

As if this wasn’t stupid enough, they now have 4 in the team instead of heads and deputies. “We got rid of that layer,” Horgan said. “It’s part of getting rid of that hierarchical sort of thing, which is quite a traditionalist, colonial approach.” Kylie “Karen”Horgan is the Deputy Principal by the way. They now have 4 “heads” but it’s not hierarchical – hmmm.

This indoctrinator also said “We have got a lot of gender-neutral students, probably a higher percentage than most schools, which is great, we celebrate that.” I don’t think having a higher percentage of mentally-unwell, gender-dysphoric, very confused teenagers than other schools is anything to celebrate, but that’s probably just my traditional, colonial approach coming through.

By the way, in an effort to dismantle the traditional colonial structures that are getting in the way of these young people becoming who they think they want to be, the school previously changed the uniforms to make them “gender-neutral” – the uniform now consists of a shirt, jacket and tie for all students. Nothing traditional or colonial about that.
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February 8, 2022 8:21am
- cmm
  
  How the hell is this “colonial”?
  
  Every social structure in the world, colonial or not, has the concept of “leaders”, “chiefs” etc.
  
  If anything, Western colonialism breaks that down by introducing democracy where the leaders/chiefs etc serve the people.
  
  In most other systems the chief/king/whatever has complete control over everyone’s lives and can take what (s)he wants – including a person’s life.
  
  I wonder whether Mzzz Horgan is a history teacher?
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:44am
  - Yabster
    
    If I was a parent of a kid going to the woke shit hole- I would be finding an alternative or at leasst pushing back against the board/Teachers.
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:15am
  - oldfella
    
    I’d suggest that Mz Horgan’s title of deputy principal also smacks of colonialism and she should relinquish it, and the salary that goes with it, immediately.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:11am
- RoboRob
  
  Wouldn’t you wonder what is going wrong in your community if you have a particularly large number of students that cant decide on what sex they are?
  
  It’s not ‘illegal’ to be fat either, but if my school had a high proportion of overweight students I would be wondering what was going wrong in the community. I wouldn’t be celebrating that my school was particulary fatty friendly 🙂
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:11am
  - oldfella
    
    Yes, that statement should read: ‘We have a lot of mentally confused gender-neutral students, probably a higher percentage than most schools, and that gives us no reason to celebrate.”
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:14am
- cjn
  
  Loddenthinks: Of course the Maori tribal system (pre-colonial) was very hierarchical. Some may think this was a good thing. Millions of Hindus live in a hierarchical society to this very day. As far as reducing the hierarchy of the administrators in a secondary school that would be merely cosmetic. One of those has to take responsibility in the end for the stuff-ups. It would be interesting to know if the school is bulk funded and allowed to divi up the salaries according to the group think.
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:15pm
krazykiwi

Spotify publicly declare their support for free speech, while quietly taking down 113 Joe Rogan episodes. Forked tongue, much?
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February 8, 2022 8:26am
- RightNow
  
  I understand Joe voluntarily took those down himself kk. Apparently he’s said the n word a few times in the past.
  Spotify are fighting to keep the Joe Rogan experience. He’s a big earner and they know it. I’m keeping my subscription for now, won’t miss old Neil.
  Rumble apparently has offered Joe 100 million over 4 years to move to them.
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:38am
- kowtow
  
  It really is Orwellian .
  
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  February 8, 2022 8:42am
I remember when

Omicron increase dwarfed by booster push: msn.com:
Only the northern wards have the vaccination status of the hospitalised cases reported –
one not vaccinated, six fully vaccinated and one status unknown.
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February 8, 2022 8:26am
Tempist

Interesting article on mask mandates, health guidance/politics, and efficacy

https://unherd.com/2022/02/were-masks-a-waste-of-time/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=58c6cc887b&mc_eid=db8f2d7b95
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February 8, 2022 8:29am
Truman lodge

Why is every non Maori I encounter wearing a tiki or greenstone a raving woke socialist? Is that some sort of membership card? I have known many people of different political persuasions that wear Celtic jewellery, but with Maori jewellery they seem all hard left.
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February 8, 2022 8:38am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  It’s a religious symbol of virtuous identification with the oppressed while living an entirely unaffected life with no obligation to do anything but talk.
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:43am
- fisho
  
  Agreed, there’s some form of competition running in Wellington, largest carving wins!
  I thought the intent of carvings (pounamu, bone, wood) worn around the neck is they’re spiritual and worn against the skin. Many are blessed for the wearer when presented. Why, when wandering the mean-streets of Wellington or sitting on the train do I notice they’re invariably worn outside multiple layers of clothing/ties when sported by someone with pink/blue hair or an Ministry of Education branded laptop?
  Could it be that they’re being used more as a means of signalling virtue or ‘rank’ than something that actually has a cultural and spiritual meaning to them?
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:21pm
- Jack5
  
  They’re stoned, Truman Lodge. They’re Woke stoned.
  
  Unlike similar or identical greenstone from Canada, China, Burma, Russia, Australia, the New Zealand rock has mystical powers.
  
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  February 8, 2022 1:26pm
Frank the tank

As every competitive junior sporting event get’s cancelled, postponed and adjusted for Wokebola I note with amusement there are no restrictions for siting on a device for hours on end with a bottle of coke, chips and a chocolate bar.

What is better for our children’s health?
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February 8, 2022 8:42am
kevn

Again, very little in MSM about the truckers convoy.
dailytelegraph.co.nz seems to have most updates on the NZ and Canada scene.
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February 8, 2022 8:43am
Frank the tank

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/07/stacey-abrams-required-children-to-cover-their-faces-so-she-could-go-maskless/

Oh Dear. Another left wing do as I say not as I do.

Remember that news article that slammed a teacher for doing the same thing earlier in the Wokebola plandemic?
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February 8, 2022 8:47am
NK

I heard Nicola Willis on Newstalk ZB this morning confirm the National Party does not agree with the anti-mandate protest and they will not be meeting the convoy at Parliament.

So there we go folks.

I am completely over our politicians. They’re all spineless gimps.

It is very easy to be pro-vaccine but anti-mandate, but no politician has the courage to say it.
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February 8, 2022 8:54am
- kowtow
  
  Politicians have been taught a very firm lesson by the Fourth Estate , any deviation from Wuflu Orthodoxy will be presented as far right, looney territory ,extremism , so just don’t go there .( I’ve no doubt their internal polling and focus groups would endorse and confirm this approach)
  
  But yes the adherence to statism via mandatoryism is extremely disappointing.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:07am
- kevn
  
  @NK…. Nats are just playing into ardens hands.
  Sooo smart.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:10am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Thousands of people have taken part in, or gone out to support, the truckers and the Groundswell protests.
    Does the National Party seriously think these are Labour Party supporters?
    How dumb are ya, National?
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:52am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      So dumb they think that Luxon’s rise and National’s improved polling are at the expense of Lab/Greens and not ACT, which they very clearly are.
      
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      February 8, 2022 9:59am
    - Ruawai
      
      National should support freedom of choice.
      
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      February 8, 2022 10:08am
- MCōs
  
  Has it occurred to you that other people have a different point of view to you & maybe they represent the majority?
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:14am
  - Local Miller
    
    What has the majority got to do with my personal health choice? We don’t mandate that everyone should eat meat just because the majority believe it’s good for everyone! Silly example maybe, but the concept is the same. We allow minorities to make their own decisions and there are probably a myriad of examples across the world where minority decisions are supported by politicians even if their personal view is different.
    Hell, the majority of us believe that fossil fuels a good for society and don’t cause global warming, but her majesty is trying to ban their use in NZ. How do you justify supporting a minority in the one instance but not in the other?
    
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    February 8, 2022 4:58pm
- krazykiwi
  
  National – Carrying Labour’s putrid water since whenever. They are spineless, Vichy collaborators.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:39am
- Gravelroad
  
  Bye bye National Party.
  Hello one government.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:43am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  they are courting the swing voter (ie social media influenced women) because they want to win the next election. Supporting no mandates would turn them off and make them an easy target for Labour’s propaganda dept/media party (but I repeat myself)..
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:47am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Ok, maybe so, but does that preclude National Party leadership from being prepared to listen to another point of view?
    It’s gutless just to say “I don’t agree with your thinking so I’m not going to communicate with you.”
    Since when has the Labour Party and it’s leadership had so much influence and moral authority over National?
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:55am
  - mawm
    
    And with that they have turned away the traditional Tory voter.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:17am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Nats are always going to need ACT to win, and vice versa. So you get the chance to affect the power balance in the right leaning govt we hope will replace the current omnishambles. I think that is a good thing.
      
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      February 8, 2022 1:53pm
      - Gravelroad
        
        @urban-
        Good-o then.
        You seem to be implying that the National Party won’t be bothered if I vote for them or not.
        So be it.
        
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        February 8, 2022 3:00pm
- Nickc2
  
  NATs behavior on this is unforgivable! They should be capitalising by insisting the protest is about ‘Mandatory Vaccinations’ (lack of freedom to choose), not Anti Vaccination.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:49am
  - chukar
    
    The huge farmer protest in the 80s was greeted on the steps of Parliament by the then leader of the opposition ,one Robert Muldoon.
    Political courage and integrity seems to have gone with the advent of MMP.
    Democracy demands that these protesters are met!
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:26am
- curry4me
  
  NK: New Conservatives are meeting them. Of course their leaders aren’t MPs yet.
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:45pm
- Local Miller
  
  Well Leighton Baker of the New Conservatives is anti mandate and supports the truck convoy, but the MSM are doing their best to ignore him. The only place I’ve really seen TNCP videos is on Facebook.
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:47pm
  - NK
    
    Forget him and them. The NCs are not a viable force and never will be.
    
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    February 8, 2022 7:51pm
Maggie Pie

Just been checking out Breakfast on TV3.
Always quite liked Ryan Bridge. Shame he’s gay.
Mel and Bernie (who I actually know from tennis) seem real relaxed on the new set. They sure run rings around the oppo.

As for that little creep Campbell over on One……have you noticed how diminutive he looks standing between those other two heifers?

Just saying.
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February 8, 2022 8:58am
- RoboRob
  
  Thought the weather guy was ‘weird’. Perhaps he will get better. Always hated the idea of roaming weathermen (waste of money) though so perhaps that colours my opinion. Why you need a special person to read the weather forecast I will never know ?
  
  Ryan is great and he actually asks hard questions during interviews. I wonder how much longer JA will show on his show before she ditches him, like she did Hoskings.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:15am
- kowtow
  
  When he was on radio he played the English nurses doing their version of the Maori pre slaughter war dance …….
  
  ……he was having such fun .
  
  Until an elderly sounding Maori woman phoned in and demanded , very stridently that he stop and never do it again , such being so very disrespectful .
  
  Boy oh boy was he contrite. Coward of the highest order.
  
  Fear of the race inquisition really stalks the corridors of “news” organisations.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:26am
- Frank the tank
  
  I’m surprised the new line up isn’t more woke and diverse. Bernie must have slipped through the net because woke she isn’t
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:33am
- MCōs
  
  If you ever meet Jenny-May Clarkson or Indira Stewart face to face I’m picking your wouldn’t repeat that slur with the same enthusiasm.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:55am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I’m not going to lie Cossie…I can be a nasty bitch sometimes.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:22am
  - kowtow
    
    Wonders if Mcos would repeat the assertions he makes here to the faces of those Thai generals he’s so obsessed with ……..
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:08am
Surely Knott

This conservative Canadian Politician is running on a platform of FREEDOM. Freedom from oppressive tax, freedom to raise your children with your values, freedom to speak without fear, and freedom to make your own health and vaccine choices. I wish we had a party like this.
https://www.facebook.com/100069188045730/videos/688039492558710/
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February 8, 2022 9:03am
Maggy Wassilieff

Did our Government take RATs which were already in the country?
Chris Bishop reports that they did
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2202/S00045/government-admits-it-took-tests-already-in-nz.htm

Prime Minister says they didn’t

She rejected reports that health officials had taken rapid antigen tests from other New Zealand companies, saying healthcare giant Roche said this was incorrect and that the Government had not received tests allocated for any other company.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-cases-pop-up-in-multiple-school-communities-as-students-settle-into-class/BEYPJJ4FKJCRHFTCTID3FAZ6LQ/

Who to believe?
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February 8, 2022 9:21am
- kevn
  
  @Maggy… Bloomfield said ‘they’ did.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:35am
- krazykiwi
  
  I know for a fact that police showed up at the offices of Contact Energy and seized their entire supply. I believe this happened on Wed 26th Jan.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:36am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    kk – well we are at war with a virus. //
    
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    February 8, 2022 9:53am
  - kevn
    
    @kk… The police must find that type of political work demand galling, surely.
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:21am
    - kowtow
      
      No , they are treaty partners now , so are doin’ the Lord’s work keeping certain particularly vulnerable communidies safe.
      
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      February 8, 2022 10:59am
  - pdm
    
    kk they cannot do that – Contact is my Power Company and I want them to have sufficient staff to keep my lights on.
    
    Steal them from Meridian or Genises if they want to – they are fair game as far as I am concerned.
    
    St Ashley leave Contact’s RAT supply alone!!!!
    
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    February 8, 2022 10:21am
  - Russ the Muss
    
    The police turned up?? Are you serious? Surely some doorknob from the MoH with a clipboard would have just walked in and said this is ours with the official papers, and if there was any resistance they would have plod on speed dial? I am stunned if the police did that? How does that play out if that’s the are. Ashley rings the cops and asks them to door knock on business to grab some boxes? This is all getting a bit OTT.
    
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    February 8, 2022 3:56pm
- Nickc2
  
  There were two firms who had RATs in the country. The Govt stole one firm’s RARs but not the other’s. The PM’s Spin Merchants have spun the story in such a way that Cindy’s only talking about the firm whose RATs weren’t stolen.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:39am
- Blog-aholic
  
  She is lying. They have and they did.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:39am
- Loddenthinks
  
  I choose to believe the about-to-be-sent-to-Siberia MoH official who decided to disobey a direct order and tell the truth.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:03am
- curry4me
  
  Maggy Wassilieff: Rats stealing RATs.
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:48pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    First ever case of RATS joining a sinking ship
    
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    February 8, 2022 7:26pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Must check out ‘QT’ later today if I’m up.
Here’s Golriz …..showing off her latest parliamentary attire before departing Tamaki Makaurau for another hard day at the office to justify her 4k a week salary. SHEESH!

https://twitter.com/golrizghahraman/status/1490557810673078272
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February 8, 2022 9:43am
- Frank the tank
  
  [Deleted – inappropriate. mod.]
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:55am
- Nickc2
  
  She could take a seat with the Maori Party during QT and nobody will notice any difference.
  Then again, perhaps it’s Camouflage so she can hide among Labour MPs.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:00am
- oldfella
  
  Maggie, a comment below the Golriz tweet said:
  88 new cases today. Ao/NZ should be extremely proud. Modelling based on experiences with Omicron abroad suggested we should have far more cases by now. But because we vaccinated, masked up, and took responsibility for our wellbeing, we are breaking the trend. We are amazing.
  Absolutely, and as long as only Uncle Fred and his dog are getting tested, the new cases will remain low. Better hope widespread testing doesn’t resume any time soon to burst the bubble.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:24am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  My goodness..
  
  When did sox with sandals become a thing?
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:56am
  - Blog-aholic
    
    The photo of the dress looked like it was dirty, like something sticky had been spilt on it? Yuck.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:59am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I know her mum was Iranian….maybe her dad was a Pom? 😀
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:03pm
  - Jack5
    
    I wonder whether “sox with sandals” are more convenient for someone suffering from multiple sclerosis.
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:56pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    For a Green? Since, like, foreva!
    
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    February 8, 2022 7:27pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sand in the jandal. Summer sand on the beach in that Auckland place we hardly hear of. Sad really
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:15pm
I remember when

When is there going to be recognition of the fact there are three vaccination views.
Anti vaccination
Pro vaccination
Anti vaccination Mandate
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February 8, 2022 9:45am
- bennerg
  
  [deleted by Mod. Untrue and unsubstantiated claims. Keep that fake crap off KB]
  
  So the categories are in fact:
  
  Anti vaccination
  Anti- mRNA therapies
  
  Pro vaccination
  pro mRNA therapies
  
  Anti vaccination Mandate
  Pro Mandate
  
  One of the first rules of propaganda is to confuse the issue by blurring the lines, and this is a classic example.
  
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  December 8, 2021 11:04am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Remember When – Exactly. I don’t care how many jabs a person takes if they feel it is good for them. Their choice. I’ll never agree with mandated medical procedures. I cannot fathom why Brenda supporters don’t seem to be able to grasp this?
  Whether someone is jabbed or not has zero bearing on their medical status. What is wrong with people?
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:38am
  - mawm
    
    Possums in the headlights.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:23am
- Surely Knott
  
  I don’t even like Anti Vaccination as a term which is obviously used to link this novel technology to older more trusted procuts. Anti Transport or means you are opposed to the entire category of transport not just helicopters.
  
  So the categories should be
  1. Anti Vax (a person who generally doesn’t like vaccination prefers natural remedies)
  2. Anti MRNA ( a person who supports existing vaccination technology but is hesitant about these particular MRNA vaccines safety and efficacy profile and long term risks or are waiting for it to be fully approved)
  3. Anti Mandate (any decent person who understands democracy and the bill of rights and opposes totalitarianism)
  
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  February 8, 2022 6:04pm
  - bythesea
    
    exactly – well said.
    
    It would be interesting to know what proportion among the vaxed are anti-mandate. It is an entirely reasonable position.
    
    Another incorrect categorisation is vaxed versus unvaxed, which gives a similar distorted view and talking points.
    
    The vaxed breaks into at least three groups
    1. because they wanted it
    2, because they were coerced against their will by threat of livelihood
    3, because they were coerced against their will by threat of social exclusion
    
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    February 8, 2022 8:06pm
Bobba Fret

After that latest poll, I see over at the Standard someone is saying that two or three Act MP’s are thinking of rolling Seymour!
Talk about trying to start a malicious rumor as without Seymour they would be gone.
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February 8, 2022 9:50am
- MCōs
  
  Good Lord!
  
  What a disgrace!
  
  Fancy trying to start a malicious rumour!
  
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  February 8, 2022 2:10pm
- Other_Andy
  
  “…without Seymour they would be gone.”
  Seymour was the reason for ACT voters to vote ACT, really? The only important difference between ACT and National was that ACT was a Libertarian Party. Yes ACT is economically slightly more conservative than National but the real difference was their Libertarian view that it was inherent in the nature of human beings as individuals that they are the owners of their own lives and must be free to act according to their own judgments. My gripe with them started when they went with the ETS scam, National signed us up for that. Now David Seymour has abandoned ACT’s Libertarian principle to appeal to the government media-controlled polls there is no real difference between National and Act anymore and without principles it has become a personality vote.
  Polls and popularity are fickle masters as David Seymour will find out.
  I predict ACT without holding on to its core principles will be gone WITH Seymour.
  He won’t win a personality contest with Ardern or Luxon.
  They need to get rid of him and get someone who stands for and will defend the core principles of the party.
  
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  February 8, 2022 3:38pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Well here they are, which two or three?
  https://www.act.org.nz/act-mps
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:20pm
lazza

Hey Pavel “You’re Dreamin”

A convoy does not a government make.

Sure … dissent for that is your “right”

“Democratic Process” (Law-DOHH! even an election maybe?) … it aint.
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February 8, 2022 9:51am
- kowtow
  
  ‘A convoy does not a government make.’
  
  True , dat .
  
  But constant fear porn from the Media Pardy did .
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:38am
Maggie Pie

And here’s something else….we’ve never ever been rung by Pollsters.
Is it true that they don’t call numbers with a Remuera prefix if they’re seeking a Labor bias result?

Then there’s this…..

https://twitter.com/truereckons1/status/1490771992919744512
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February 8, 2022 10:08am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Excellent. Congrats to whoever cut and pasted that from KB.
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:48am
- lifesgood
  
  I have been rung 3 times by polling companies. They ask for my post code and then very quickly say “Sorry, we have had enough people from your area” and hang up. I live in St Heliers. This is for real, not BS.
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:09pm
  - MCōs
    
    I have never been rung by pollsters of any stripe.
    Our postcode is 2022 so maybe this is my year!
    
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    February 8, 2022 2:15pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Just tell them ‘waikikamukau’ does not have a postcode
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:23pm
Surely Knott

Had a minor operation a couple of weeks ago. Had three RAT tests because i’m not fully vaxxed. One for the consultation, one at the hospital for the surgery, and one for post-consultation. If I had tested positive no doubt I would be recorded as an unvaxxed hospitalisation. People with a vax pass are not required to test. This skews the hospitalisation statistics massively because you don’t get recorded as a vaxxed covid hospitalisation case unless you get sick with covid.
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February 8, 2022 10:12am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Surely an administrative error. //
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:41am
- Fight4NZ
  
  “would be recorded as an unvaxxed hospitalisation”
  Of course.
  But not as an unvaxxed hospitalisation with Covid. Same as a vaxxed hospitalisation.
  How would this skew statistics?
  
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  February 8, 2022 2:20pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    It skews the statistics because only the unvaxxed are required to be given rapid antigen tests. At least that was the case to see the specialist at southern cross remmers.
    
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    February 8, 2022 6:08pm
- MCōs
  
  I took my wife to Middlemore A & E a couple of weeks ago and the first thing they did was give her a PCR test.
  It was the same for everyone.
  Both of us are triple vaccinated.
  Subsequently she required an operation.
  However.
  I was with her for a good deal of the time, but wasn’t tested.
  A lot of people come and go, but nobody seemed to be tested.
  
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  February 8, 2022 2:36pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Obvious they know you don’t have Covid, just by looking at you! ///
    
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    February 8, 2022 4:26pm
Benedict Yu

Oh how predctable. 🙂

“University of Otago senior lecturer Dr Lesley Gray is encouraging anyone with with cold or flu-like symptoms, no matter how mild, to get tested for Covid-19.”

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/02/expert-calls-for-more-kiwis-to-get-covid-19-tests-as-rates-plummet-by-more-than-5000-a-day-over-waitangi-weekend.html

Not bloody likely.
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February 8, 2022 10:21am
- oldfella
  
  BY, yes, come and get tested so we can throw you in home detention prison, with your family, and throw away the key.
  Ah, thanks, but no thanks.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:26am
- ClanMcleod
  
  “Get a test!!! The numbers aren’t scary enough!!!!”
  It’s Pythonesque.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:42am
  - kowtow
    
    Python was comedy.
    
    This is sinister .
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:36am
trout

The most dangerous man in NZ right now has to be Adrian Orr, Governor of the Reserve bank. His lack of judgement in the management of the money supply is going to have damaging long term consequences; he alone has made easy money available to banks (the RB operates a funding- for lending programme – doling out $7.78B dollars to banks last year) for lending thus fueling the house price boom. He has overseen the the printing of billions of dollars (all debt) for Grant Robertson to squander. But he takes no responsibility; he is full of hubris; has an autocratic style that has resulted in 12 (more or less) of his top staff jumping ship. And seems to be answerable to noone.
The only commentator with her eye on the ball is Jenny Ruth, writing for BusinessDesk (her articles are behind a paywall but worth reading); she has accused Orr of ‘professional malpractice’ because of his denial and apparent unawareness of impending high inflation and avoidance of responsibilty.
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February 8, 2022 10:21am
- Jack5
  
  Jenny Ruth is doing a very good job, Trout, and so is the Interest.co web site.
  
  With the inflation storm about to hit, it would be timely to spend an hour listening to this excellent one-hour lecture by Milton Friedman in 1978 on inflation and money supply (the RB’s job):
  
  https://youtu.be/B_nGEj8wIP0
  
  You might need to reset it to the beginning of the video
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:47am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I followed Orr as head of the Super Fund. People raved about how well he “managed” the funds and was worth every cent of his massive salary and bonuses.
  Nonsense. During that period Paul the octopus would have done at least as well if not better. One of the biggest bull markets ever. Driven by massive QE after the 2008 financial crisis when many major outfits should have been left to burn but weren’t.
  As you say, his policies have helped create the housing crisis, money is going to fixed assets, not productive enterprise. Orr is a fraud. Good on him for getting away with it, but under the spotlight he is a fraud.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:49am
  - Jack5
    
    Didn’t the Super Fund have most of its overseas investments in passive funds? They just follow the market – up or down.
    
    Let’s see how the Super Fund fears in any big market downturn.
    
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    February 8, 2022 11:27am
    - Jack5
      
      Edit: Let’s see how the Super Fund ~~fears~~ fares in any big market downturn.
      
      Sorry!
      
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      February 8, 2022 12:52pm
  - Over Taxed Worker
    
    I want Paul the Octopus – cheaper cost and doesn’t utter climate change every second sentence.
    
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    February 8, 2022 5:18pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  CroakingCassandra has had his measure from way back. Just another idealogue out of his depth.
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:51am
Benedict Yu

So in the USA you can rock in to Walmart and get a choice of 15 COVID rapid test kits.

https://www.walmart.com/browse/health/covid-testing-kits/976760_976798_542089_3092061

I did a quick trawl of 6 other OECD countries – it is the same deal.

https://www.thelocal.fr/20211228/covid-self-testing-kits-to-be-sold-in-french-supermarkets/

Yet in New Zealand, they are being allocated Soviet style. So every OECD country is wrong on this, and New Zealand has got it right?

If I had kits I would take them on holiday and test myself every 3 or 4 days. I just do not get it. But that applies to everything they do so I should not be surprised I guess.
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February 8, 2022 10:31am
- kevn
  
  @BY… NZ gummint just steals them from private companies. No-one seems to care too much.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:52am
- ClanMcleod
  
  BY – nothing other than clear evidence that we are in a command economy. Total control is all Brenda knows. From RATs to the “truth”. She wants it all.
  She is mentally unhinged, and I don’t mean that as a slur or an insult. It’s an observation. No, I don’t like her, but this is based on observations over the last 5 years. It isn’t emotive, it’s based on logic and concern for the damage someone like her can do. Something which is clearly evident now.
  She is dangerous.
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:55am
  - Fight4NZ
    
    It was you who said above “I’m not a political animal “?
    
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    February 8, 2022 2:25pm
- MCōs
  
  Sure you can buy them, but why should you?
  Who should spend $15/pop for an unreliable test when it’s to someone else’s advantage?
  If someone is required to be tested let the person/organization who requires the test provide it.
  If someone in the household is crook it could cost an arm & a leg to test everyone else a couple of times.
  
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  February 8, 2022 3:02pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  How can you get a test when ‘RATs’ have been stolen?
  Brings the numbers down coz if positive, nobody will notify the socialists of it.
  When will the sheep wake up to the lies?
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:35pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Climate ‘scientists’ acknowledging that climate models are bollox (and running too hot) because they can’t model clouds (as skeptics like me have been yelling for decades). Wall Street Journal:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-change-global-warming-computer-model-11642191155?st=5eotefamj84zvvz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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February 8, 2022 10:40am
- chukar
  
  The climate models may be bollocks but the Carbon taxes are far too real!
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:33am
- Rusty
  
  If the experts cant get the weather forecast for the weekends consistently right — then how do they know what the climate/weather for this world in 30-50 years time will be?
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:48am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Roy Spencer was ostracized by his “profession” long ago for pointing this out. They still hate him.
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:53am
Rusty

Normally I would say:

– Chris Hipkins should resign because of his skepticism over covid modelling.

– Ashley Bloomfield should resign because of the RATS fiasco.

-Jacinda Ardern should resign because shes in charge of the Govts countless fiasco’s on the covid response.

But the problem is — who would replace these people?
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February 8, 2022 10:45am
- kowtow
  
  Blofeld should also be held to account for saying swimming isn’t swimming , when so many others have been prosecuted for similar .
  
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  February 8, 2022 10:52am
bronny1

I was at the convoy yesterday when it arrived into Picton. OMFG. Smiling, shouting, tooting happy people. Not a mask in sight. Pure joy.

What was most interesting was watching the drivers and passengers. Young, old, hippies, super straight looking types, loads of families, Maori, white, black, about half the vehicles had a dog in view, old wrecks, massive trucks, new camper vans, vans etc. there was no one demographic. What there was was joy and unity.
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February 8, 2022 10:59am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  To mix a couple or metaphors, the wind has changed direction and the spreading contagion of open rebellion will be even more virulent and impossible to stop than Covid. A smart politician with foresight would see this shift (in fact they would have seen it many months ago), but these are qualities that are sadly lacking in Wellington.
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:01pm
westernScientest

So place your bets:
at what time today will we get an MSM narrative of a far-right-extremist attempted insurrection in the capital?
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February 8, 2022 11:08am
- kowtow
  
  Took one for the team and checked TV 1 and stuff.
  
  Leading imagery very heavily of the ‘motorcyclists’
  
  The semiology of that being very obvious to anyone with more than one functioning brain cell.
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:09pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  6pm, on play school TV1. Really, where else would you go for that crap?
  Speaker of the house will have it on (she may even record it)
  I will be in the spa pool if I am allowed
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:41pm
Nickc2

Neil Oliver delivers a serve (an ace Maggie) to the world about the Covid fiasco. Any resemblance to the situation in Lil-Olde-NZ is purely coincidental.
Yea, Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6zDBPMMJmI
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February 8, 2022 11:45am
oldfella

Remember, everyone, these people are our friends. /s
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/stronger-tighter-bolder-china-russia-alliance-rings-a-bell-20220207-p59ucd.html
Might need to change that expression to read: ‘China AND Russia is asshole.’
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February 8, 2022 11:48am
ClanMcleod

Another great Youtube video from Dr John Campbell re the British Medical Journal now being attacked by the “fact checkers”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMf-Zq7xJcY

How did 1984 become reality inside 2 years???? If someone had said this would happen before 2020 everyone here would have ridiculed them as complete nutters. But here we are.

Fortunately the BMJ has teeth of their own and don’t need to take this shit lying down.

“Facebook versus the BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong”

https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o95
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February 8, 2022 11:48am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  FB have the morals of a sewer rat. Don’t let them use and manipulate you under the delusion you are the user.
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:59am
  - lifesgood
    
    Am I the only one that thinks Mark Zuckerberg looks very strange? Is he autistic? not that there is anything wrong with being autistic but sometimes autism has its own thought processes which don’t align with mainstream. If he’s not strange his hairdo sure is.
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:04pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Looks like a premie
      
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      February 8, 2022 7:33pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Facebook are starting to lose subscribers and are going backwards.
    Not sure the Zuckbot can turn it around either.
    Meta looks like a real Cluster etc
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:15pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Alan – I deleted FB totally over a year ago.
    
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    February 8, 2022 12:52pm
- krazykiwi
  
  BJM… that’s good stuff. I imagine Facebook’s ache-laden, pizza-chomping censors would struggle with one or two of the multi-syllable words in that paper.
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:07pm
- kevn
  
  @Clan… Thanks for all that.
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:24pm
- Fight4NZ
  
  Dr Campbell has made some useful contributions.
  From around 4 minute mark in this one for instance:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25-iJKPA1CA
  But he is not above making errors and does need to be taken with caution.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGmRwQ4TZc4
  
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  February 8, 2022 3:16pm
Captain Mainwaring

Huge queue of terrified lemmings at my local testing site this morning. It was mostly empty during the long weekend.
No doubt the number of sniffles cases released tomorrow will be over 1000.
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February 8, 2022 12:02pm
westernScientest

Winston is sniffing out the trough again:

Winston Peters
The freedom convoy heading to parliament represents a large number of kiwis who are frustrated with the govts delays, inconsistencies and incompetence resulting in the loss of freedoms and livelihoods.

We all should listen to the legitimately frustrated kiwis – including the PM.
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February 8, 2022 12:10pm
- Jack5
  
  Heard Peters on the radio. He sounded a little frail. He seemed to be breathing in the middle of sentences.
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:50pm
  - Paulus
    
    Peters is a one time heavy smoker and does that to breathing sometimes called emphysemia.
    – does he still smoke ?
    Bet he still does !
    
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    February 8, 2022 2:21pm
curry4me

https://www.thedailyexaminer.co.nz/convoy-protesting-vaccine-mandates-descending-on-parliament/

Convoy protesting vaccine mandates descending on Parliament.

A large vehicle convoy protesting vaccine mandates by the New Zealand government is travelling the length of the country. Those participating in the convoy are making their way to Wellington in two separate groups – one departing Cape Reinga, and the other from Bluff.
The convoy protest was inspired by the ongoing trucker’s convoy protesting Covid-19 vaccine mandates in Canada.
While this protest has been largely ignored by mainstream media outlets and dismissed as a minority group of activists with fringe views, our reporters on the ground have found that in fact, it is a very different story.
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February 8, 2022 12:10pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8iJqQtE48

France’s ultra-conservative turn is exactly what Europe needs to counter Islamism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpRZRbI_B_Q
Freedom Convoy Awakens Patriot Protests Around the World!

The Freedom Convoy in Canada is awakening comparable protests all around the world! In this video, we’re going to look at how Ottawa has become the center for patriots all over the planet, we’re going to see the futile attempts by Canadian officials to
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February 8, 2022 12:11pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Mayor of Ottawa has declared state ov emergency!
  Jaspinda may do the same – so as not to answer questions – just throw it straight at Wellington’s Mayor.
  It is called ‘throwing others under the bus’
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:48pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry1lWNTeK1k&feature=emb_imp_woyt

Rory Nairn took “the jab” on the 5th of November 2021. 12 days later, on the 17th of November, Rory passed away tragically on the bathroom floor. Ashleigh Wilson, his fiancée, stood helplessly by, unable to save him. They had just bought their dream home, were due to be married on March 26th, 2022, and had planned to start a family. [27:33]
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February 8, 2022 12:11pm
- Spenditb4theytaxit
  
  What sort of halfwitt down ticks this? Honestly!
  
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  February 8, 2022 11:41pm
K

The Herald reports “The movement – dubbed the Convoy 2022 – has attracted hundreds of people from all around the country and it is expected that up to 1000 vehicles will arrive outside the steps of Parliament this morning.” – most of the cars must be occupied by just a driver, and the rest of the cars must be expected to attend the protest unaccompanied by a person.
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February 8, 2022 12:19pm
- Hugh Jarse
  
  Yes and the mass disruption created by those few hundred people in those 1000 cars seems to be all out of proportion to their numbers ?
  
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  February 8, 2022 1:05pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Who did you copy that from? A senior Labour Party spinner?
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:51pm
Batman

Paging Mikenmild / Mike – your prediction of gang members doing burnouts at the front of the convoy has come true.

Just see the Stuff live blog and the video at the top of page.

The same bunch of low-rent, low IQ losers who would usually get all sorts of abuse from the KB comments section.

A chocolate fish to Mike for his prescient (if slightly easy) prediction!
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February 8, 2022 12:28pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  You’ll luv this Batsy….. 😀
  
  https://twitter.com/guldurbakalim/status/1490778983398584324
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:52pm
  - Batman
    
    Hahaha Maggie there really is a bike for everyone!
    
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    February 8, 2022 1:47pm
- kevn
  
  @bat… Low hanging fruit time.
  I noted (1) one burnout mark and many bikers just cruising through.
  Yawn…
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:53pm
  - Batman
    
    Kev dawg, it matters not the size or number, merely that it is correct.
    
    Mike wasn’t predicting large numbers anyhow.
    
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    February 8, 2022 1:49pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  As you say, an easy one to predict. Aesop said something about a man being known by the company he keeps.
  Also Matthew 7.16
  
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  February 8, 2022 12:59pm
  - Jack5
    
    …a man being known by the company he keeps.
    
    Milky, for you, that’s all of us here, on Kiwiblog.?
    
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    February 8, 2022 1:18pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I can surely be known by my love of laughing at bizarre beliefs.
      
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      February 8, 2022 2:30pm
- kowtow
  
  Think about it for 2 seconds.
  
  Motorcycles have easy mobility , can move to where they are most visible , for max publicity .
  
  Were they part of the real convoy or just last minute , gate crashers ?
  
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  February 8, 2022 1:45pm
  - mawm
    
    The thing that makes me laugh is that Batty and M&M think that gangs are not entitled to protest the removal of their human rights too.
    
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    February 8, 2022 2:05pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I expect a ‘protest’ by gang members to be treated by Kiwibloggers as seriously as they treat any other complaint by gang members.
      
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      February 8, 2022 2:31pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      Like removal of their “rights” to housing from KO?
      
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      February 8, 2022 3:21pm
- Frank the tank
  
  https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/peter-thiel-steps-down-from-facebook-meta-board
  
  One for you Batty. Is Thiel Trumpy’s new VP and if so how will your liberal mates over in the states deal with the first openly gay VP?
  
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  February 8, 2022 2:54pm
  - Batman
    
    New VP huh? I thought he was going to be finding and pushing culture war narratives? You clearly have world-class sources, Frankie in Hollywood!
    
    Also, remember how you all love to say that FB is a tool of the left and part of the establishment silencing conservatives? That looks a bit silly and awkward given Mr Thiel has been on the Board for the entirety of the MAGA tenure.
    
    As for the gay VP bit… Probably not much enthusiasm given his track record of being a bit of a shitbag and funding Meta which is almost universally hated these days!
    
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    February 8, 2022 3:43pm
ClanMcleod

Substitute Karl Lauterbach for Andrew Little, or any of the vocal “experts” promoting the NZ covid response.

“Karl Lauterbach is probably the worst health minister Germany has ever had. He is also a very stupid person. He really, really wants you to worry about Omicron, but every day Omicron fails to be worrisome. Even as cases surge, hospitalisations remain more or less flat, and official Corona deaths remain well below their peak in 2021, if anything on a slight downward trend.

Like a lot of stupid people, it is very important to Lauterbach that he be perceived as intelligent. Towards this end, he likes to tweet about “studies” and “research.” Because he is a total idiot, he rarely understands what he’s talking about, and often makes a fool of himself.”

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/karl-lauterbach-on-why-omicron-is

“Our Corona policies have always been absurd, but every day it gets worse. Lauterbach and his ilk want to vaccinate you with old vaccines, because otherwise you’ll face multiple Omicron infections, and multiple infections could be dangerous. The very fact of your vaccination will however do nothing to prevent multiple Omicron infections, and population-wide vaccination will only select for Omicron substrains that more effectively escape our outdated vaccines and guarantee these dreaded infections and reinfections happen more often.”

Worth reading the whole article. It explains Original Anitgenic Sin in more detail. Something that was warned about many months ago and now appears to be happening overseas.
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February 8, 2022 12:40pm
- MCōs
  
  I would suggest Leonardo Conti was worse.
  He was Reich Health Leader, 1939-44
  
  This chap was in a different league altogether as you’d expect.
  
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  February 8, 2022 3:16pm
Reid

In light of Luxon’s refusal alongside Ardern to meet with the convoy or even to address them, I hope someone here can draw his attention to this.

If necessary, by grabbing him by the scruff of his neck and forcing him to watch it.

Lest any mods become confused, that’s not an invitation to use or wish force on him, it’s a mild mark of the frustration millions of Kiwis are feeling as our leaders abandon us while our country, which belongs to us, not to them, descends into an authoritarian dictatorship.

And if Kiwiblog can’t see fit to release this post without modification, then consider yourselves part of the problem, not part of the solution.

https://youtu.be/lpty0rhU9q4
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February 8, 2022 12:49pm
- Nickc2
  
  I couldn’t agree with you more. Refer to my post @11:45AM
  
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  February 8, 2022 1:18pm
- Batman
  
  Reid, see, posts do sail through when they are mature in tone and temper!
  
  Good work, even if the end of your comment is a bit high handed ?
  
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  February 8, 2022 1:51pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Personally, I enjoyed his presumption to be speaking on behalf of ‘millions of Kiwis’. Reid seldom fails to deliver on my expectation that his words will provoke amusement.
    
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    February 8, 2022 2:36pm
- mawm
  
  Reid – Talking of authoritarian dictatorship this documentary is worth the hour and three quarters it takes.
  Battleground Melbourne – https://youtu.be/xzfJGC1_yPo
  
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  February 8, 2022 2:13pm
- MCōs
  
  Somehow I doubt ‘millions of Kiwis’ feel their leaders have abandoned them.
  Just because you’ve wound yourself up into a knot demanding individual rights at all costs at all times doesn’t mean everyone else is of a like mind.
  
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  February 8, 2022 3:33pm
Jack5

The International Student Visa category will reopen for processing from October, reports the NZ Herald.

This will enable international students across the industry to enter for the beginning of 2023.

Unanswered: will this re-open the student-visa residency rort, whereby the course providers are able to throw in New Zealand residency to their foreign students.

Will they again sell entry to and settlement in NZ as much as, or more than, education?

If anyone benefits from entry and citizenship sale it should be the State, representing present citizens.
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February 8, 2022 1:05pm
- westernScientest
  
  dont worry, by 2023 no one will want the residency anyway
  
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  February 8, 2022 1:22pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  It’s not exactly traditional from immigration to NZ to be for the benefit of existing residents.
  
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  February 8, 2022 1:24pm
  - Jack5
    
    Milky, here we’re talking about a bounty – private people are, in effect, selling citizenship.
    
    For the would-be citizens, this is pretty much like an import or sales duty, like that on alcohol or tobacco. That duty goes to the State, not to bottle stores and dairies.
    
    The student visa rort has also distorted immigration policy. Intelligent developed countries compete strongly for the most able and promising students.
    
    Our NZ system has tended to bring in young people purportedly to study subjects such as IT, but who soon moved into lesser skilled work such as counter staff at whiteware stores, selling electricity door-to-door, making or delivering hamburgers, driving taxis.
    
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    February 8, 2022 1:41pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I agree with all of that. I’m just reflecting that immigrants here, as in many countries, have typically met with a certain amount of hostility from people already settled in the country. See, for example, the New Zealand Wars, Chinese poll tax, 1970s dawn raids, etc, etc.
      
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      February 8, 2022 2:38pm
      - Jack5
        
        That’s not unique to New Zealand.
        
        From what I remember of Gordon Allport’s The Nature of Prejudice, the latest wave of immigrants to the United States is subject to the most discrimination, followed by the previous wave, and so on.
        
        African Americans, who were brought in enslaved, and indigenous Americans, like Maori, I presume, are outside the immigration tiers, I imagine.
        
        Student-visa rorts are about fairness of selection of those allowed in, and about who in the host country profits or otherwise benefits from the selections.
        
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        February 8, 2022 3:40pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Oh, I agree. Immigration should be for the benefit of the immigrants and the host country. Historically, both here and everywhere, it does not generally rest on that basis.
        Successive NZ governments have operated on a largely unfounded assumption that more immigration results in a better NZ. Yes, there are benefits from immigration, but there are also costs.
        
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        February 8, 2022 4:35pm
ex-golfer

Why am I not surprised this didn’t get any more media coverage?

Tariana Turia: “I don’t rate Jacinda Ardern”

https://chrislynchmedia.com/newsitems/i-dont-rate-jacinda-ardern-dame-tariana
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February 8, 2022 1:06pm
Maggie Pie

AMAZING IF TRUE! 😀

John Campbell to leave TVNZ and join ‘The Platform’

But you’d have to wonder about Sean Plunkett’s state of mind, surely?

https://twitter.com/damiengrant/status/1490820325461823488
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February 8, 2022 1:09pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Maggie, you may want to read closely the name of the writer of that “news item”.
  
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  February 8, 2022 1:12pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Sad for the biggest dork on NZ TV.
    ///////////
    
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    February 8, 2022 5:00pm
- graham
  
  NBR reporter: Mr Sat Ayre.
  
  I … don’t think it’s true, somehow …
  
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  February 8, 2022 1:16pm
marcw

From NZ Parliament website: “Due to the debate on the Prime Minister’s statement, there will be no oral questions on Tuesday 8 February 2022.”
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February 8, 2022 1:13pm
- MCōs
  
  Noted
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:36pm
RRM

Just checked out the mandate protest:

Murphy St completely blocked, all other streets flowing fairly normally, including the main bus thoroughfare Lambton Quay – Thorndon Quay.

A couple of big bikes in attendance but no nothing to suggest gangs.

Disappointed but unsurprised to see Luxon stand side by side with Ardern in refusing to meet them, pretending to be “too busy” and conflating “anti mandate” with “anti vax” to appear less controversial.

Where is the ACT party? If they won’t meet this protest then they are libertarians in name only.
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February 8, 2022 1:26pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  It would seem to be unusual for ‘libertarians’ to be blocking the freedom of other people to move as they wish.
  
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  February 8, 2022 2:41pm
  - RRM
    
    There was a weak, politically correct mandate protest march late last year from civic Square to parliament. Police escort, road closures…. it was completely ignored by the govt.
    
    The lesson was clear, asking nicely gets you ignored. So now they are asking more forcefully.
    
    All of this could have been avoided if they had been listened to, back when the govt first decided to exclude the unvaxxed from society, and the majority was okay with that.
    
    They weren’t listened to, they were thrown under the bus, so now here we are. I don’t blame them one little bit.
    
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    February 8, 2022 3:35pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I’m not sure that interrupting the usual daytime traffic of ordinary working Wellingtonians will generate much sympathy for the cause of these folks. In my experience, the main result of protests is an increase in the self-satisfaction of the protestors, corresponding with a decrease in the esteem (if there was any to start with) everyone else has for the protestors or their cause. See, for example Springbok Tour, Bastion Point, and Foreshore and Seabed.
      
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      February 8, 2022 4:31pm
      - Batman
        
        Protests merely serve to prove the silliness of those involved. Today is no different than the anti-seabed mining, mining on crown land, asset sales etc.
        
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        February 8, 2022 5:10pm
      - Tauhei Notts
        
        Ordinary working Wellingtonians!!!
        I have studied on this blog over a number of years the behaviour of the sort of local body politicians that “ordinary working Wellingtonians” elect.
        On that basis “ordinary working Wellingtonians” are not worth a pinch of cat’s excrement. If people get the local body politicians that they deserve then “ordinary working Wellingtonians do not deserve very much.
        
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        February 8, 2022 8:01pm
Maggie Pie

If my maths are correct, according to the official Gov Website, Australia has ordered something like 280 MILLION DOSES of Vaccines……that’s enough for 10 JABS for every man, woman, child and transgender person in the country!!

Will it ever end?

https://health.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/covid-19-vaccines/about-rollout/vaccine-agreements
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February 8, 2022 1:48pm
- Batman
  
  Maggie you might need to read the page and associated links, rather than a quick number count.
  
  A bunch of that number is future purchasing agreements and international aid programs.
  
  A further bunch, like the 4m for the UK, have been sent to other countries as part of supply swaps.
  
  So taking the total and assuming everyone gets 10 is a bit too ‘post-tennis gins maths’ for this time of day ?
  
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  February 8, 2022 1:59pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    LOL!!
    
    It’s not often you’re right Batsy, but you’re wrong this time 😀
    Have a squiz at the attached Tabs (1&2) showing total ‘Covid19 Vaccine Purchases’ across the Globe.
    Like me, you’ll find them very enlightening.
    
    https://launchandscalefaster.org/covid-19/vaccinepurchases
    
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    February 8, 2022 2:29pm
    - kevn
      
      @Maggie… You’re doing a wheelie over him. Hard to refute that data.
      
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      February 8, 2022 2:38pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      He didn’t argue the total number, it’s the detail that matters.
      Any particular favourite tipple?
      
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      February 8, 2022 3:38pm
      - Batman
        
        Quite. The idea that future contingency is part of it doesn’t seem to sink in.
        
        Life is brilliantly simple when you don’t go beyond simplistic numbers and call it data.
        
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        February 8, 2022 3:50pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  NZ needs shitloads. Go hard, go early like they always do.
  Ahead of the first!!!!
  
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  February 8, 2022 5:03pm
Jack5

Rio Tinto wants to extend the life of the Bluff aluminium smelter beyond 2024.

It’s significant that it says:

“We are working closely with Ngai Tahu, Southland and key industry leaders to find the best way to achieve this.”

Overseas industrialists see that NZ is already well down the track in racial separatism in government.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/461084/rio-tinto-wants-to-keep-operating-tiwai-point-smelter-past-2024-closure-date
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February 8, 2022 2:09pm
- Jack5
  
  Ngai Tahu and the Australian iron-ore miner Fortescue Metals Group have expressed interest in using Manapouri power after (and now if) the Bluff aluminum smelter closes in 2024.
  
  They are talking of a “green hydrogen” venture to obtain hydrogen without using electricity generated with carbon resources.
  
  The Invercargill free newspaper, Southland Express, said that Ngai Tahu ki Murihiku and Fortescue Future Industries were “one” of the groups interested in Manapouri power after 2024.
  
  Ngai Tahu’s interest won’t be unrelated to Maori moves to take ownership of NZ water resources. These would include Lake Manapouri, which drives the generators that provide the Bluff smelter with electricity.
  
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  February 8, 2022 2:29pm
- bronny1
  
  Pity we won’t need them anymore. Transpower has built much of the upgrade needed to get the power up to Canterbury. Tell them to sod off and get their cheap power deal somewhere else.
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:12pm
  - Jack5
    
    Canterbury consumers can’t match the smelter as a customer: 24 hours a day, seven days a week, round the year, one bill.
    
    Besides, NZ will soon desperately need the $1 billion a year or so of exports that come from the smelter, plus reasonably priced aluminium a key raw material of many NZ industries.
    
    And if not a smelter, a hydrogen plant would pay more than consumers about 600km away. Again, steady 24-hour demand round the clock and round the calendar.
    
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    February 8, 2022 7:51pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Government ramping up the need for boosters.

There will be MILLIONS of us infected soon

New Zealand’s Omicron outbreak could result in millions of infections and hundreds and thousands of confirmed cases, newly-released modelling shows.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300511282/omicron-nz-modelling-hundreds-of-thousands-of-cases-with-peak-possible-in-midmarch
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February 8, 2022 2:30pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Modellers working even harder to give the country multiple fear-gasms.
  If only they shorten the time for the 4th jab!
  I will go around and line up again!
  
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  February 8, 2022 3:54pm
- mandk
  
  I wouldn’t pay much attention Maggy.
  
  The non-epidemiologist, Hendy is behind the forecasts.
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:21pm
  - Batman
    
    Would you prefer having a data modeler undertake data modelling, or have an epidemiological specialist undertake data modelling?
    
    I sure wouldn’t want a car salesman servicing my car.
    
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    February 8, 2022 5:04pm
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      There is such a thing as an epidemiologist who does modelling.
      
      In fact, any real epidemiologist would know a fair bit about modelling.
      
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      February 8, 2022 6:15pm
- MCōs
  
  You contradict yourself.
  One sentence you say there will be millions.
  Next sentence is a quote from the article which says could result in millions.
  
  Fortunately for me I don’t have to plan ahead for what may happen in the next wee while with regard to the healthcare system, but some poor sod has to make some sort of call so that the government can make decisions.
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:33pm
- Gravelroad
  
  @MW
  Seems as though the Labour Party and its strange leader are getting a little frustrated that the omicron numbers are not so far trending up at an acceptable rate.
  Control settings slipping.
  
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  February 8, 2022 7:07pm
kevn

“Prepare for winter” arden says… indeed, after multi lockdowns and diminished contacts, peoples natural immunity is very low.
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February 8, 2022 2:55pm
- Fight4NZ
  
  Outside of a few weeks in the last couple of years, with a few more in the case of Auckland, there has been very little reduction of intermingling.
  Are you saying natural immunity is short lived? Better get the booster then.
  
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  February 8, 2022 3:36pm
Maggie Pie

SHEESH!!

IPCA shiny-arses sitting around in their Ivory Tower, give yet another poor ‘Beat Cop’ and his Dog a good kicking.

Can you imagine how the guys & gals in Blue out there must feel?
Honestly, they must wonder why they even bother sometimes.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1490857226826829824
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February 8, 2022 3:02pm
wilderbeast

Jacinda starts the year in the house with three issues and implied threats:

– Winter is coming and public health will suffer
– New variants are coming
– We’ll do our best not to shut down schools and daycare

Where the f*ck does it end? Honestly. If Labour is truly still preferred with 44% of people then i’ll eat my hat. I just don’t believe any of this. We are surely living in some digitally manipulated fantasy world
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February 8, 2022 3:24pm
Captain Mainwaring

So according to Stuffed the new Interislander ferries are going to operate between Picton and Te Whanganui-a-tara.
Honestly, do these so-called journalists use these stupid place names just to see how many of us they can piss off?
Oh well, if we need to take a ferry to Wellington we could always use Bluebridge.
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February 8, 2022 3:48pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Why isn’t the new waka sailing between Waitohi and
  Whanganui-a-tara?
  
  Or is the journalist too lazy to find out the original name of Picton?
  
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  February 8, 2022 6:21pm
ecco

WTF is there an announcement on the Ferald that the PM is going ‘to speak’ at 4pm. Is she still wanting to do party political broadcasts? I guess people who are sitting around may want to listen in if they have nothing better to do.

Why doesn’t she just let people get on with their lives without having to keep making announcements. It’s truly cringeworthy. She’s the ultimate control freak. She was missing in action over the holidays. Why all of a sudden is she perpetually in our faces again? She’s overestimating her importance in NZ society. Can’t stand the woman…
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February 8, 2022 3:59pm
- Batman
  
  You can have an unhinged rant but really you are ready WAY too much into this.
  
  The media love live and breaking news because it gains eyeballs and clicks. Post-cab has been streamed online for years, I remember when Key’s post-cabs were livestreamed every week.
  
  I’m no Branch Ardernian but fuck me, you need to calm down. You seem totally unhinged and triggered by a fucking weekly occuring event.
  
  Go have a beer outside or something.
  
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  February 8, 2022 4:07pm
mandk

Good speech by Luxon this afternoon.

But I think he should try to say a bit less, slow down and add emphasis to his key points.

Btw, doesn’t that Maori dude in his culturally-appropriating cowboy hat look a complete prat?
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February 8, 2022 4:16pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  That cowboy ain’t even got a horse, except the one he is taking to the trough
  
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  February 8, 2022 5:07pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh, it wasn’t two shots for summer after all.

According to the Prime Minister:

It was two shots for Delta, and three for Omicron,

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300511002/covid19-live-jacinda-ardern-speaks-to-media-after-cabinet-meeting

Well, what will 4 shots and 5 shots be for?

Because no-one mentioned 3 shots in the vaccine campaign before Christmas.
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February 8, 2022 4:59pm
- Fight4NZ
  
  You are right there, no did mention that before it was known. And situations never change so you will always be right. Sounds like you are scared of needles too.
  
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  February 8, 2022 5:07pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Sounds like you are scared of needles too.
    
    When you’ve had your nether regions cut to get a baby out, your cervix fried to zap a virus, your bosom cored, then a covid vax needle presents no fears.
    
    It’s just that I don’t like folks who tell porkies.
    
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    February 8, 2022 6:14pm
    - Lucia Maria
      
      Maggy, logged in just to give you an up vote for this one!
      
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      February 8, 2022 6:55pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I’ve yet to meet a female who has needle phobia.
        
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        February 8, 2022 7:00pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I know at least two.
        
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        February 8, 2022 7:51pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Maggy, totally agree!
        
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        February 8, 2022 7:53pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Mike, have they had children?
        
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        February 8, 2022 8:15pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      If only there was a porky told you would have made sense.
      
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      February 9, 2022 8:35am
- DeepBlue
  
  4 shots for Autumn and 5 shots for Winter
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:38pm
Tony Stuart

Roy Morgan have released another poll today, with polling conducted throughout January. And for the first time for a several years, National (35%) is now polling better than Labour (33%). This poll has National/Act five percentage points ahead of Labour/Greens.

At 33%, Labour would lose at least 20 MP’s. That’s going to make Labour’s back bench very, very nervous, as they see their tenure at the trough slipping away. Expect to see that nervousness flow through into some unruly behaviour over the next few weeks and months, as Labour’s back bench suddenly tries to be relevant and engaged.
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February 8, 2022 5:25pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Link to the RM poll is here:
  
  https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/8892-nz-national-voting-intention-january-2022-202202072332
  
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  February 8, 2022 5:26pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Lol- cue lots of triggering from that result.
    
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    February 8, 2022 5:42pm
- wreck1080
  
  I can only pray!!!!
  
  Bob Jones predicted labour losing the next election, due to maori pandering and a pathetic covid response.
  
  I like Bob Jones, although, only a matter of time before he gets the Joe Rogan treatment haha.
  
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  February 8, 2022 5:57pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You mean he will get to be world famous and mega rich from peddling all sorts of nonsense while pretending he’s just asking questions.
    But they are both gifted comedians.
    
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    February 8, 2022 7:53pm
    - wilderbeast
      
      What’s wrong with being rich? Perhaps he’s smart and effective, dunno….and he was the circuit breaker that ended Muldoon’s rein. Significant historical figure. I’d say he’s done ok
      
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      February 9, 2022 9:23am
- Cinematic
  
  I doubt national is really in the lead. I doubted Labours strong showing in that poll earlier this week too. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
  
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  February 8, 2022 6:00pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Bloody hell, what are these polling companies playing at.
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:48pm
Maggie Pie

There’s still a lot of rocks to be lifted 🙁

My partner’s mum has been closely following these disgusting child-abuse cases that occurred at Dilworth. A long time friend of hers hubby was on the Board at the time. Although he resigned some years ago.

She just sent this link about the latest deviant to admit his guilt….Ma reckons it’s incredible how all those charged seem to look sooo much alike.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1490898416112656391
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February 8, 2022 5:42pm
wreck1080

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-welfare-fears-for-rangatahi-stranded-in-dubai-with-omicron/IQKKFSAK25MSOKUMWMGFHNSEI4/

A Maori organisation recently sent a maori children’s group to perform in Dubai on 1st Feb. I don’t know how anyone could be so stupid to arrange such a trip at this time.

Now many of these children are stuck in Dubai, because, well covid. And, the parents and people associated with the group are demanding the government do something.

I’m dumbstruck as to why they sent these kids in the first instance. Adults have trouble travelling, let alone a group of children.

And, presumably this group took MIQ spots ahead of people who have far greater needs , such as life and death!!

I’d love to know who paid for these children to travel to Dubai too. If it was the taxpayer, I wonder if a bunch of white kids could get the same deal?
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February 8, 2022 5:55pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  These dancers are part of the entertainer contingent of 401 folks.
  
  The crew are among a contingent of 401 performers, entertainers, leaders and guests granted group allocations to travel to Dubai and return via MIQ for the expo, to showcase Aotearoa to the world.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-nz-performance-at-world-trade-expo-cancelled-after-dance-crew-members-get-covid-19/REYFLOL26DNA7OIJ3ZN62YHK7Y/
  
  The taxpayer will be paying for this jaunt.
  
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  February 8, 2022 7:08pm
  - fernglas
    
    There’s not much point showcasing a country nobody can visit, is there?
    
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    February 8, 2022 7:13pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    So, the 401s, not to be confused with the 501s
    
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    February 8, 2022 7:46pm
Surely Knott

“50 in a youth dance troupe have gone to Dubai. Several tested positive on the night of the performance.

Ngarewa-Packer says that group has now swelled to 50 and, while around 30 made it home only to test positive at MIQ in the Pullman hotel in Auckland”
“We understand that there are now 50 in total, mainly rangatahi with Omicron (21 in Dubai and 29 in MIQ),” the Māori Party co-leader wrote.”

It’s a confusing article but it sounds like everyone in the troupe has covid. What do they reckon the efficacy of the vaccine is exactly? 0%.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-welfare-fears-for-rangatahi-stranded-in-dubai-with-omicron/IQKKFSAK25MSOKUMWMGFHNSEI4/
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February 8, 2022 6:50pm
- [email protected]
  
  Can’t resist 🙂
  
  So maybe the vaccine caused them to get the virus? 50 out 50 vaccinated people catching the virus? Hope this isn’t the case but would like to know if getting vaccinated actually increases your chance?
  
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  February 8, 2022 9:10pm
Lucia Maria

Jordan Peterson on the current situation in Canada.

YouTube video: Oh, Canada.
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February 8, 2022 7:52pm
BananaLlama

Very sad to hear that all of our major political parties refuse to meet with anti mandate protestors and listen to their concerns. There will be a backlash for this and it wont play into the Center right blocs hand.
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February 8, 2022 9:46pm
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Fantastic. Thanks.
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