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krazykiwi

It’s time.

It’s time for self-aggrandising experts to be exiled back to their small corners of academia.

It’s time for doctors to remember their oath, to find their voices, and to start promoting proven treatments.

It’s time for an honest evaluation of vaccine efficacy, and vaccine harm.

It’s time for evidence and data to be set free from the shackles of the fear narrative.

It’s time for the fear narrative to be butchered and hung on the city gates as a sign to future generations.

It’s time for our human rights be put above arbitrary derogation by our leaders.

It’s time for an apology from the lying tyrants before their Ceaușescu moment arrives.

It’s time for individual and national sovereignty to be wrestled from clutches the rapacious globalists.

It’s time for the never vaccinated to be freed from their prisons.

It’s time for the irrationally fearful to be freed from their prisons.

It’s time for laws that prevent our leaders from ever again assembling those prisons.

It’s time for leaders to serve interests other than their own.

It’s time for humble leadership to displace toxic hubris.

It’s time for unity to displace curated division.

It’s time for healing.

It’s time.
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February 20, 2022 8:00am
- mandk
  
  Thank you krazykiwi.
  
  Very well said.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:03am
- Mike
  
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  krazykiwi’s Martin Luther King moment?
  But will it ever be time for him to stop posting pretentious slogans for the Kiwiblog echo chamber? C’mon krazykiwi, emerge from the shadows of the blogosphere and take command of the legions of right-thinking, real Kiwis crying out for a leader to defy Pharoah and lead them to the Promised Land.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:43am
  - krazykiwi
    
    No thanks, mike. Unlike megalomaniacal lefties, I am quite happy to contribute practically and below the radar. In this instance that sees ~30 kiwibloggers contributing to a fund that helps feed the protestors.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:45am
    - Don Beckett
      
      I would also contribute if I earned more than the pension. Prayers & best wishes for your continuing Charity.
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:47am
    - Merv
      
      Would like to contribute as well, kk. How?
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:58pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    Grow up Mike.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:46am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Maybe I will grow up one day, Don. I just hope I don’t end up as a dyspeptic, permanent welfare beneficiary like you
      
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      February 20, 2022 5:11pm
      - AitchW
        
        Wow. Nasty, ad hominem and puerile all at once. Is it really so difficult to respond civilly?
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:41pm
      - wilderbeast
        
        “Permanent welfare beneficiary”. If he really was, would that make him lesser in your eyes Mike? New lows….
        
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        February 20, 2022 7:14pm
  - wilderbeast
    
    Pretty unbecoming Mike. Why do you have to get personal? If that’s KK’s style let it be and just tackle the issue.
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:59am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Tackling the issue? This is Kiwiblog.
      
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      February 20, 2022 5:09pm
      - wilderbeast
        
        If your hold KB in such contempt why grace it with your presence?
        
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        February 20, 2022 7:15pm
- mawm
  
  It’s time for a Truth and Reconciliation Committee and for those responsible for the carnage and deaths to be punished, for never again should people like these be allowed to wield any influence in the world.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:47am
- amospicton
  
  One uptick does not suffice kk
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:05am
- cmm
  
  I think the greatest apology is due to the people who were forced into submission by coercive tactics and threats.
  
  They are the vulnerable, that relied on the experts and government guidance for their welfare. Their personal circumstances mean they are unable to make a personal choice and had to submit to pressure.
  
  I will acknowledge that I am fortunate and, yes. privileged. I have been able to refuse, because:
  * I am mortgage and debt free – removing many pressures.
  * my business model means I can. My skill set means I am in demand and I can work from home.
  * I have a solid background in both statistics and science, so I do not have to rely on the MSM and “experts”.
  * I have not been caught up in the social pressure.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:12am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    cmm – and you voted Labour last election because Cindy saved your life??? I sincerely hope not….
    
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    February 20, 2022 11:00am
    - cmm
      
      Sidekick I have read your comment 5 times trying to understand it and I have failed.
      
      Perhaps it was sarcasm, if so it escaped me.
      
      For clarity: I have voted in the past for Green, National and Act and never for the others.
      
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      February 20, 2022 1:44pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Don’t feel too bad about voting Green – we all have youthful errors of judgement ?
        
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        February 20, 2022 3:23pm
      - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
        
        You voted for Greens. Oh no….
        
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        February 20, 2022 3:49pm
      - cmm
        
        I should clarify: Rod Donald-era Green.
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:17pm
- Brian McDonald
  
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  It’s time to use your own name.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:21am
  - bjools
    
    So the lefties can persecute him?…personally
    
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    February 20, 2022 12:32pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      TBH, kk comes across as quite sensible some of the time. Dunno where she finds the time for a life with the level of net research she must be in to. Anyway, if she wants to be listened to by people outside KB it ain’t going to happen from behind a pseud ….
      
      Her choice ….
      
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      February 20, 2022 6:24pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  In the final days the Chancellor retreated to the bunker under the Reichstag.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:40am
  - backster
    
    You mean she didn’t retreat to Rotorua to plant trees with school children.
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:03am
- Rich Prick
  
  I’d add the media to the list with a charge of conspiracy.
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:23am
- Paul Marsden
  
  Add: It’s time to follow the money trail
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:46am
- coolas
  
  Really Kiwibloggers?
  
  Over 100 upticks for KK’s list which includes, ‘It’s time for an apology from the lying tyrants before their Ceausescu moment arrives.’
  
  Ceausesco was executed by firing squad along with wife.
  
  I’m surprised DPF allows reference to executing New Zealand politicians on his blog.
  
  As for you, KK, that’s a really depraved thing to say. Sick mind you.
  
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  February 20, 2022 11:20am
  - cmm
    
    What is wrong with what KK says?
    
    He is not making a call to insurrection.
    He is not calling for preople to execute anyone.
    He is not even wishing that on her.
    
    I cannot speak for KK, and unlike you I do not think I can read his mind.
    
    A “Ceausescu moment” does not mean a literal execution any more than the term “political suicide” means a literal suicide.
    
    History has proven to be unkind to tyrants. Many have been killed, literally. Others have faced political death – not a real physical death.
    
    If Ardern does not apologise at some stage very soon – before it is too late – she could very well end up as politically toxic goods – her UN career plans in tatters. For a power-hungry political climber like Ardern that is quite likely a fate worse than death.
    
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    February 20, 2022 1:41pm
    - coolas
      
      cmm: How I can I know KK’s mind when it’s so obviously unhinged.
      
      Your defence of his execution ‘metaphor’ is worthy of the politicians you say you despise; illogical, deceitful, and nasty.
      
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      February 20, 2022 3:06pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        These guys don’t care, coolas. They think those sort of references are a sophisticated code that their imaginary opponents could never decipher. We are just fortunate that so very few of them actually have the courage to act on their bloodthirsty impulses.
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:16pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    This was the Ceausescu Moment: https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/the-ceausescu-moment/270398
    
    It wasn’t his execution, it was the moment he lost the room.
    
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    February 20, 2022 3:01pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I’m so glad you explained that a ‘Ceaucescu moment’ referred to a dictator losing control than to a dictator facing summary execution.
      Can you tell me, then, why reference to Ceaucescu are so popular as opposed to references to Honecker, Jaruzelski, Jakes, or any of the other commie dictators toppled in 1989?
      
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      February 20, 2022 5:21pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        Presumably because the others’ authority didn’t collapse so publicly and dramatically – akin to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. However, I agree the collapse of Lefty dictators is always popular as is their execution.
        
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        February 20, 2022 8:18pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Is it fun making such fractally wrong guesses when the correct information is so readily available?
        
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        February 20, 2022 8:21pm
  - cmm
    
    Ceausescu no doubt had many moments. Nowhere does KK say that he is refering to the execution. That is all in your head.
    
    Stalin and Hitler too had many moments. Was Stalin’s moment when he was killed? Hitler’s when he committed suicide?
    
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    February 20, 2022 5:21pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Same question to you as to Alan Wilkinson.
      
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      February 20, 2022 5:22pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        How often do you need it answered?
        
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        February 20, 2022 8:19pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Only once by you, unless you have another hilariously wrong answer.
        
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        February 20, 2022 8:21pm
  - wilderbeast
    
    I think they call it “gaslighting” ?. Thank goodness everyone’s worked out the playbook by now….
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:48pm
- Jacqueline
  
  Dear krazykiwi, Don Beckett and friends,
  I am putting my hand up for that leadership role. It can only be one little Kiwi, unattached politically, and hitherto unheard of, and nervous about it; I believe it’s me. Until now, I too worked for freedom under the radar, in my case almost totally isolated (and frequently derided) for decades.
  
  What is the most important thing? It’s not people, and it never was, and never can be. The most important thing is pure loving action at the right time – for the sake of all the people.
  
  How can we make contact? If the host is willing, please do. It is time.
  
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  February 20, 2022 11:51am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  “It’s–”?
  
  It’s like a Rudyard Kipling redux.
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:04pm
- Pheobe
  
  Brilliant, hope its OK to share.
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:12pm
- covfefe
  
  Have you noticed how crazy people are though? I have just seen a young man, probably student, walk up a steep hill in Dunedin wearing glasses and a surgical mask. Outside. On his own. I know not very kind but OMG what a loser.
  
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  February 20, 2022 1:31pm
- Aunty
  
  I think it’s time for someone’s medication, darling. Have you seen the doctor today?
  
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  February 20, 2022 5:08pm
mandk

I was at the anti-mandate protest at Parliament again yesterday. The crowd was getting on for twice as large as it was on Friday.

For my volunteering stint, I was collecting rubbish around the site. So many people thanked me for what I was doing, but it really was a pleasure to be able to contribute.

I also had some more wonderful encounters. On the way down, I was sitting on the bus next to an old lady. We didn’t say much to one another, until she started waving enthusiastically to some protesters holding anti-mandate placards, as the bus neared the station. This gave me the opportunity to ask if she was going to the protest. She said she would like to, but that she felt too weak to do so. I told her I was going, and she could not express enough thanks for what I was doing. She said it made her feel proud because it was like the New Zealand of old, where people’s rights and liberties were respected. She started to get a bit emotional, and I’m not ashamed to admit I did, too.

I met a midwife who had been fired for not being vaxxed, and I met two former police officers who had been fired for the same reason. One of the former officers had 23 years’ experience, and I guess the other had much the same, judging by her age. Apparently, there is a support group for around 160 former officers who had been fired or put on indefinite unpaid leave.

I asked the two former officers if they would re-enrol, if they were offered their jobs back when the mandate ends, but both said No, they had had enough. 4+ decades of experience down the drain – what a waste.

Mrs Mandk met a couple from a small town in Central North Island who had both lost their jobs, he as a digger driver, she as a care giver. Worse still, the bank had just foreclosed on their mortgage, even though they were able to continue meeting the payments, with support from family.

I am sure there are lots of other protesters who have lost their jobs, or had family members who have experienced being fired.

I feel angry for these people, and I am angry at the PM, the government and all the other MPs, none of whom have had the courage to demand an end to the mandate. It seems to me that they are most concerned with keeping their snouts in the parliamentary trough.

Ardern won’t care, though. She obviously only cares about the possibility of people dying with/from COVID. She is too callous, even to acknowledge that there are diverse and large negative effects of the mandate.

Tragically, the negative effects will persist long after the mandate is gone and COVID is a memory.
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February 20, 2022 8:00am
- Brian McDonald
  
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  Did you even think about the businesses that can’t run while you say prayers on the front lawn of Parliament and block the streets, did you think about the jam for commuters that just want to lead their own lives to go to work and go home, or the students that can’t attend their university, the people told to take their masks off?
  Didn’t think so.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:25am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Brian, you win the ‘Flaccid Counterargument of the Month’ award.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:29am
  - The Other Enoch
    
    Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t. But I wish I was there for I am thinking of all of those Auckland businesses who couldn’t trade for 4 months, of all of the hospitality businesses whose trade is still compromised, of all those who have not been able to properly say farewell to departed loved ones, of all those who have had medical procedures deferred, of all those who are missing out of proven vaccinations, like measles and whooping cough.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:31am
  - Weetbix3ways
    
    How many business are actually on the blocked streets, Brian? Can you name them?
    How many people are delayed significantly by this minor blockade Brian? It isn’t exactly a commuter thoroughfare.
    How many students are actually prevented from attending classes Brian? It’s a peaceful demonstration, anyone can walk through, or around.
    What benefit do you get from your absurd virtue signalling here, Brian? It’s laughable.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:33am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Precisely. What is hurting Wellington’s CBD the most is almost two years of a huge chunk of the public service working from home. Wellington’s CBD has been a ghost town since the first March 2020 lockdown.
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:37am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        Oh please Tony, Wellington has a few weeks of a protest, and its the end of the bloody world. Auckland, NZ’s largest city, was locked down and had the Army stopping people from leaving for months by the very Government that’s having a sook now. And I didn’t hear anything from your average Wellingtonian regarding Auckland, other than laughter. Wellingtonians, you know, those leftist tards that vote Robertson in every year, get exactly what they deserve.
        
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        February 20, 2022 9:57am
      - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
        
        Tony S – Public service never worked when they were in offices, now they are “working from home”?? News to me bro!!
        
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        February 20, 2022 11:03am
      - Jimbob
        
        “The public service working from home”, back in the 80’s when I worked at a public service department, working from home was code for an extra holiday. We used to laugh our heads off.
        
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        February 20, 2022 12:18pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        A ghost town? It’s not Whanganui, Tony.
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:24pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      Will that big supermarket up Molesworth St be seeing an increase in business as a result of the protesters nearby?
      It might have been doing it a bit tough with so many of their usual customers (public servants) staying at home to “work”.
      But – possibly not – cause – masks.
      
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      February 20, 2022 10:10am
    - bronny1
      
      Apparently accom is all booked up – by protesters
      
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      February 20, 2022 1:09pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    I’ve thought about it Brian. End the mandates! And the restrictions for omicron which is a cold. It’s not the protestors holding up the country. It’s the baseless use of emergency powers.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:34am
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      Surely bro – Cindy very well knows once she yields her power a bit she will be toast. Fear is the only factor that is keeping Cindy’s party in the 40’s still.
      
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      February 20, 2022 11:05am
  - Nickc2
    
    When change is required, sometimes sacrifices have to be made. Ask yourself who sacrifices what when Unions call strikes and protests.
    That’s something this Union dominated Govt will never ask themselves. However Brian you could be the first.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:38am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      The main result of union strikes is to deprive union members of income.
      
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      February 20, 2022 5:25pm
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Amazing how people suddenly care about adverse effects on business and convenience to the public when there’s a protest for civil liberties. They don’t seem as interested in the affects of the ridiculous traffic light system or lockdowns on business. Anyway who do these protesters think they are, all that’s happened is they’ve lost their jobs and ok maybe a house by exercising a fundamental human right. The fact that that there’s no scientific basis for a mandate due to the vaccine not actually stopping transmission is a slight irritation I guess but think of the inconvenience to commuters.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:47am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    Where were you when the BLM protestors did the same?
    
    Yeah, thought not. Idiot.
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:16am
  - artemisia
    
    There are traffic detours in place. Not sure why students can’t attend their courses. Their only potential issues are when they and staff coming and going and how much of a problem is that in practice. It’s not like citizens are wearing body armour and linking arms to stop them entering buildings.
    
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    February 20, 2022 11:17am
    - Hollyfield
      
      I’m surprised the university has closed for 8 weeks, instead of reviewing it weekly based on the situation at the time. Do they have some inside links to the protest leaders that the protest will last at least that long? Or is this a signal of their lack of confidence in the police and in the government?
      
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      February 20, 2022 5:20pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        I would figure it is based on the fact that the courses are organised around an 8 week semester. So if you lose half a 100-level course because of disturbances, you would not get enough info to enrol for the 200-level course that follows it ….
        
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        February 20, 2022 6:32pm
  - Squeek
    
    Many people in Wellington are working from home so it must be quiet for businesses in that area anyway.
    
    On the positive side for those businesses, they have had 4 years of massive growth in the public service, adding many people to go shopping, eating in cafes and bars etc, apart from a few periods of lockdown, and the current protest period.
    
    The lockdowns and Working from Home policies for public service employees meant people had to stay away, whereas the protest is only an inconvenience for access.
    
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    February 20, 2022 12:35pm
  - wilderbeast
    
    You mean those businesses that the government has systematically destroyed already over 2 years, with lockdowns, silly seating rules and operational decisions by self serving management teams to let and encourage virtually every central Wellington bureaucrat “work from home”. Bring out the business argument when it suits; I’ve been making it for two years and the government, leftist Twitterati and MSM have been wilfully deaf.
    
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    February 20, 2022 3:15pm
- Tricati
  
  My post of the day – Thanks for going and supporting the protesters, much appreciated.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:27am
- krazykiwi
  
  Kudos to you and Mrs mandk for rolling your sleeves up and actively contributing.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:31am
- Paulus
  
  Will you admit to having voted Jacinda at the last Election ?
  Can’t find many who did now !
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:29am
- namron
  
  mandk, it is significant that your contribution has significant meaning for people in ALL parts of NZ
  So many messages on kiwiblog are selfish, negative little personal whinges which give no acknowledgement to the fact that the mandates are a national problem.
  Your message is inclusive and can be supported by people from Kaitaia to Bluff. Thanks.
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:46am
Jade Warrior

Does anybody know where our Prime Minister has gone?

Her government is now facing what is probably its most serious political crisis to date and there is no sign of Jacinda. What is she doing?

Prime Minister – the people of New Zealand are waiting to hear from you!

What is your plan for getting us out of this mess?

Have you been totally blindsided by these protestors? Have you run up against something your cheesy smile, trite platitudes and compliant media can’t fix?

I’d like to think you have the solution Jacinda but I fear that you don’t.

But for the sake of New Zealand, I hope you can prove me wrong.
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February 20, 2022 8:02am
- Souvlaki
  
  …..and surely of equal import…what does Clark(e ) have to say???…..ever quick to twitter when John Key point out we are now a hermit Kingdom?
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:19am
  - pdm
    
    Clarke is now New Zealand’s invisible man – taking over from Angry Andy.
    
    Does anyone else think Clarke got a bollocking for his last intervention into the political arena?
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:46am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      He gets a spanking on 22nd
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:52am
    - Inandout
      
      pdm, he probably got a ‘smacky bum bum’.
      
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      February 20, 2022 10:48am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  You forgot frown face and tilts head nods
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:51am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Jade bro – According to Gayford, she is is the hardest working PM we ever had. So she must be working hard. Ask Commie John Campbell or Alison Mau. They will tell you how hard working she is.
  
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  February 20, 2022 11:07am
- Ruawai
  
  Last seen planting trees with children following her around like the pied piper near Rotorua.
  
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  February 20, 2022 11:51am
- Jim
  
  It had better not be doubling down
  
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  February 21, 2022 6:58am
Clownworld

“There is a time for everything under heaven”.
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February 20, 2022 8:02am
Lee C

… and KK it’s time for teh journalists to get off their high horses and actually investigate what is going on at ground level:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/eye-in-the-sky-wellingtons-anti-mandate-parliament-protest-from-above/ASLQ46UVSC4TF36772L4FLQDMA/?fbclid=IwAR2DjPYrH0JBaDubjn2p4ifbdCUu22aiKfGeKimBF531qfcLvq9b2_isnxg
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February 20, 2022 8:05am
- krazykiwi
  
  Agreed. It’s not like we’re short of It’s time… material.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:09am
  - Mike
    
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    It’s time…for your medication, Mr krazykiwi, the granchildren are visiting today and you know the whole family have a better time when you are calmer.
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:46am
    - Cassandra
      
      Unnecessary Mike. Debate, not abuse.
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:24am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Again Mike, grow up.
        
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        February 20, 2022 9:54am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        Yes, because Mike should do as he is done by.
        
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        February 20, 2022 10:39am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Indeed Albert. Kiwiblog is not a debating forum. For most commenters, it is a safe space for their opinions to echo. For me, it is entertainment. I see no reason to enter into a serious debates in a forum that does not hold serious debates.
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:29pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Milkly, thinks he’s Bob Crane in Hogan’s Heroes, actually Wilhelm Klink.
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:26am
      - oldfella
        
        Matt, sometimes Mike comes across more like Sgt Schutz’s not-as-smart cuzzie. 😉
        
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        February 20, 2022 9:44am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        He ain’t no Hogan
        
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        February 20, 2022 9:53am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Fun facts: the Hogan’s Heroes show was successfully pitched to Jewish-American TV executives. The German characters in the show very mostly played by refugees from Hitler. The actor who played the French cook character, Le Beau, was a French Jew who survived a concentration camp.
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:32pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Lee – journos get off the high horses? How about they get out of bed first…
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:13am
  - oldfella
    
    Suze, it can take forever for journos to not only get out of bed, but take off their blinkers.
    And some never do manage the latter.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:46am
    - curry4me
      
      They often also have to find some aspirin, and a glass of water. Some have to try and remember how they got home the previous night.
      
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      February 20, 2022 11:26am
- G152
  
  Our current media has been bought by the government.
  Look for example as to how they malign the current protest and how such never happened during those land protests.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:15am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    NZ Media are with very few exceptions highly partisan lefties. Job 1 for fixing NZ is restoring balance to the 4th estate by defenestrating 70% of them and their back office staff (and all their bosses) hiring fresh faces from the right and centre to replace them, and setting up structures to prevent such ideological capture happening in future.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:23am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      Right, so who exactly do you envisage doing this job of murdering or at the least causing serious bodily harm to several hundred people, and then ensuring that people with approved views take their place?
      
      And how do you envisage the subsequent structure working? Who is going to decide what should and shouldn’t be published, and subject to what criteria? How are these people going to be appointed and supervised, and who is going to pay them?
      
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      February 20, 2022 10:43am
      - curry4me
        
        The market can decide what kind of journalists and media organizations are required. A national led government could tip things in the right direction by dumping TVNZ, and RNZ. And not giving the media any more ‘cindybucks’. Some of the independant journalists from the demonstrations should be admitted to the press gallery.
        
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        February 20, 2022 11:30am
      - Trev
        
        Private enterprise works wonders. Our paid for media, especially Stuff, would wither were it not for government funding and cushy advertising and advertorial arrangements with government. Having to respond to the actual wants of the people and business rather than the government would quickly improve “legacy” media. They would be become responsive or die.
        
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        February 20, 2022 12:05pm
  - oldfella
    
    The media were merciless in their stories about the illegal Ihumatao occupation. Merciless, I tell you.
    Yes, Fletchers sure got a solid kicking.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:50am
Justitia

The word around Wellington is that the government is now committed to pursuing a full-on centrally planned command economy. First off the block will be the government taking over and monopolizing the procurement of all “critical” imports. MBIE officials have been tasked with this project. The requisitioning of Rapid Antigen Tests was just a tiny foretaste of much bigger things to come. No, I’m not kidding and it isn’t April Fools’ Day.
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February 20, 2022 8:07am
- PeeJay
  
  The scary thing is two or so years ago, I would have looked at your comment and thought, that’s a bit out there, borderline tinfoil hat even, maybe even a downtick.
  
  2+ years into this now, and I read that comment and I now think, nah……they wouldn’t do that…..would they? Maybe they would? Bloody hell, they really could do that!!!
  
  2+ years and look at where we are. A rumour that the government is moving towards a command and control economy and it’s no longer considered a ridiculous rumour!
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:45am
- virtualmark
  
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  Surely that is only the word among the feverish and deluded.
  
  No political party in Parliament – including the Greens – has any aspirations for a “centrally planned command economy”.
  
  You are mad.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:59am
  - Justitia
    
    Thanks for the compliment virtualmark. I understand your disbelief; I had the same reaction initially. But like He PuaPua an entire, till now subterranean, agenda is emerging into the half light of day. Because they have the numbers, and realizing their time in office might be limited, they are going for broke to build a socialist paradise right here in Aotearoa, as soon as possible – by shock and awe.
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:48am
    - virtualmark
      
      Justitia, it’s not disbelief. Let me be clear. No one has any intention for a “centrally planned command economy”. If that is “the word around Wellington” then let me be clear that that word is only circulating among the rabid, ignorant and panic prone.
      
      Certainly, some elements of New Zealand would like to see separate Maori functions. Whether in health or infrastructure or wherever. Labour has some sympathies for those people. But I’m also sure that sympathy will end just as fast as their political polling dries up.
      
      And that’s still a long way from a “centrally planned command economy”.
      
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      February 20, 2022 12:48pm
      - Justitia
        
        you need to see the wider context. New Zealand must adopt its first Emissions Reduction budget by 31 May this year, for the period 2022 to 2025. That budget will be attuned to a plan driven by the command economy approach evident in the Climate Commission’s recommendations in its report of last year. This government’s ideology will not allow it simply to let the ETS work its magic on its own .
        
        Establishing a monopoly over the procurement of imports sits alongside that approach. So does centralizing the management of all water related assets in New Zealand, for which legislation has been prepared for next month. Add to that the disestablishment of the DHBs and total control in the Health sector being centralized in Wellington.
        
        Wakey, wakey.
        
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        February 20, 2022 2:03pm
      - kevn
        
        @virtual… Consider the new plans for centrally controlled racist health plans.
        Consider the centrally controlled education plan.
        Plus the He puapau as mentioned above.
        
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        February 20, 2022 2:11pm
      - virtualmark
        
        kevn,
        
        We have all sorts of centralised *management*, in both the private and public sector. We do that because it leverages skills, and ensures consistency of service.
        
        And we often have centralised *procurement*, for example Pharmac but it also happens in the private sector such as, gasp, Mitre 10 and Foodstuffs. We do that because it leverages economies of scale, and ensures consistency of product.
        
        I’m sure that you, Justitia and most commenters here benefit from those approaches.
        
        But none of that is a *centrally planned command economy*.
        
        Get back to me when a Kiwi Stalin arrives with a 5-year plan, nationalises all the private companies and farms, forces everyone to be employees of the state, and directs the economy. But as far as I can tell no political party here has ever even suggested such an approach let alone had it as a policy. So if that is “the word around Wellington” then it’s just word among the deluded.
        
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        February 20, 2022 2:23pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        FWIW, I can confirm that there is no such ‘word’ around Wellington. The idea that any NZ government, let alone the present comically inept one, could secretly plan a Stalinist control economy is an idea that could only survive on platforms like Kiwiblog.
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:36pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They have also taken procurement for M95 masks as well, businesses orders have been canned the same as RATs , watch for these rotters to take control of the flu jabs, I am pretty sure I heard Ardern say they will mandate flu jabs, but that may have been for the elderly .
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:02am
Tony Stuart

If you read nothing else today, check out Damian Grant’s outstanding column at Stuff. It’s one of the best pieces on the parliamentary protest yet:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300519867/parliament-protest-the-podium-of-truth-has-shifted-and-may-never-return
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February 20, 2022 8:09am
- Gravelroad
  
  The writer did not include the farmers’ protest march to parliament held in 1986.
  One of the (rather conservative) inmates here attended and will never forget what a positive experience it was.
  It is estimated that 14,000 people from throughout NZ took part.
  Muldoon R. came out the door of the House of Representatives and spoke to the people.
  @farmerslivesmatter
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:29am
  - Mike
    
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    Was that when Muldoon still thought he could make a comeback by undermining his successors as leader?
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:48am
    - chukar
      
      No Mike, There were almost 15,000 well behaved farmers from all over NZ who walked through Wellington that day – including me.
      They were supported by topdressing aircraft “buzzing” the beehive.
      The atmosphere from most Wellington residents was one of support with applause and congratulating the marchers.
      Muldoon had the courage to come out and speak to the protest and was very well received.
      His replacement Bolger is on record as calling the then Labour Government actions “evil”at subsequent protest meetings around the country!
      Today’s politicians have hidden in the Beehive like cowards.
      This is yet another Labour government ignoring the needs of New Zealand
      
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      February 20, 2022 10:00am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Please tell the class what Bolger did as prime minister to reverse the previous government’s ‘evil’ actions.
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:38pm
  - Matt Long
    
    I took part as a teenager in Whangarei, I recall a lot of people in attendence in what was largely still a rural service center. Labour destroyed a lot of rural towns and people’s lives at the time.
    My impression is now that the protests were largely ineffective, that the politicians thought the marches, the devastation and suicides were a great joke.
    Until some angry famers got in Lange’s face and gave his car a good shaking, then the idea of the peasants revolting struck a bit closer to home.
    Groundswell and the current protests are failing in effectiveness because we are in fact feeding the sociopathic sadistic egos of politicians by admitting they have power over us and are hurting us.
    We need to get a bit smarter and identity how to make life uncomfortable for the oppressors, identify where the weak points are in their make up, without resorting to violence or getting offside with the population.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:08am
    - Tomtoddy
      
      I beg to disagree Matt. I was around and involved at the time including being in the Wellington march.
      
      Among many helpful outcomes the march achieved relief for farmers who were being put under by their bank. There were substantial debt write-offs, capital repayment postponing and other relief.
      
      Reality was previous governments let the economy get out of control. Inflation and interest rates well into double figures. A correction had to happen. It was ugly but inevitable. The marches did dull the sharpness of the sword.
      
      It is a reminder that there will have to be a correction after we get rid of this present govt. It will also be tough but inevitable.
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:19am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Please provide a list of the ‘destroyed’ rural towns so that they can be registered as archaeological sites.
      
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      February 20, 2022 5:40pm
- Jim
  
  OMG what a truly refreshing viewpoint, and so apt in describing the ever divisive rhetoric of the PM to marginalise and discredit these brave and determined kiwis (rightful protesters).
  To the other ‘lap dog’ journalists in NZ, please take note of such objective writing holding political power to account, such articles fortify our democracy.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:32am
  - Nickc2
    
    Our Democracy must be protected at all times, no matter what it costs.
    NZ was once renowned for having great leaders with foresight, dignity and humility. Unfortunately, that all gets lost sight of each time a Labour Dictator is elected.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:52am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      What exactly do you mean by “our democracy”? The Government we have was elected through our democracy, and next year we will all get the opportunity to re-elect them, or not, under that same democracy. What do you think wrong in this and what do you think should be changed?
      
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      February 20, 2022 10:48am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        No one on Kiwiblog has any answer to that sort of question, albert.
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:41pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      Nice epitaph for Mr Winston Peters there, Nickc2.
      He lost any semblance of being a great past leader with “foresight, dignity and humility” when he, on a personal whim, appointed Ms Ardern as Prime Minister.
      
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      February 20, 2022 10:49am
      - Nickc2
        
        Winston was never a leader, let alone one with the qualities mentioned. If he was, he would have foregone his own selfish reasons/ego and not anointed another Labour Dictator.
        However, he did save us from some of the PM from Hell’s dictatorial dictates (eg CGT).
        
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        February 20, 2022 11:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “It’s not the way we protest in NZ” JA.
  What the bloody hell would she know?
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:38am
  - Swifty
    
    An unbelievably fatuous comment from Ardern.
    
    And plainly wrong, for obvious reasons.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:07am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Such a fatuous comment that I can almost believe mikenmild wrote it for her 😀
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:39am
      - Swifty
        
        Heh
        
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        February 20, 2022 9:43am
      - pdm
        
        Probably Klueless Kelvin Inv – he has to contribute something, sometime.
        
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        February 20, 2022 9:49am
  - westernScientest
    
    The link Tony posed above has a good paragraph on that:
    
    “What the prime minister meant, I suspect, is it isn’t how she and her cohort of performance revolutionaries choose to conduct themselves, where the object was to get the Instagram photo and move on somewhere comfortable for a soy latte and vegan muffin.”
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:02am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    She is a famous protester you know
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:05am
- [email protected]
  
  Surprisingly comments allowed by Stuff.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:41am
- Mr_Blobby
  
  I dont read stuff i just dont.
  
  Bit of a laugh.
  
  The mayor and other troughers complaining about the protesters camping out at parliament and blocking a few streets, the vast majority of wellingtonians would not notice it.
  
  It is not like they drive past parliament everyday.
  
  Then yet another water main breaks and several suburbs without water, I bet the residents noticed that.
  
  Local businesses complaining about a lack of customers when that is what the protest is about, apartheid.
  
  It sounds like they only want white (vaccinated ) customers not black (unvaccinated ) customers at their white (vaccinated ) only businesses.
  
  They would do very good business if they hung out a sign, all welcome, we don’t discriminate.
  
  But I really don’t see what all the fuss is about, the smelly infectious unvaccinated will pass covid around themselves and all die, problem solved.
  
  Crime is up they say, but most of our police force has been relocated to Wellington, so what are the crime stats. I suspect with so many police crime should be down.
  
  I suspect that the fringe groups causing problems outside camp freedom may be linked to the government, the police know them and ignore them . Or are the media interviewing their keyboards again and making it up.
  
  Given everybody has a camera these days where is the footage of this mystical magical crime wave hitting Wellington.
  
  Meanwhile I have a group of protesters heading down next week, these guys are very experienced, they know the law, they just needed some financial assistance.
  
  Party central will be the steps of parliament, party on. You certainly can’t party anywhere else,
  
  Just a thought has anybody seen our prime minister? She seems to be missing in action again.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:43am
- RockyJ
  
  Great article from Stuff. The only thing that I disagreed with was Natalie Portman as Catwoman. Michelle Pfieffer? Purrr
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:45am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    MP had the bone structure for the leather pants ???
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:06am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Double down ticked for liking Michelle, oh well , a couple of the gaggle that O’Connor says pollutes the left
      
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      February 20, 2022 12:04pm
- Mike
  
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  Sorry Steve, too busy reading the hilarious comments here.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:49am
  - Cassandra
    
    Pathetic, Mike. I’m sure you’re being facetious but this sort of comment makes you look silly.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:31am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Have you rehearsed your correct te Reo pronunciation for the karakia at tomorrow morning’s Zoom team meeting yet?
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:36am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Yep that’s definitely the most important issue for public service to get on top of in NZ.
      
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      February 20, 2022 2:02pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Not working tomorrow, but thanks for your concern. what is this Zoom thing, btw?
      
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      February 20, 2022 5:43pm
    - wilderbeast
      
      ? made my day!
      
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      February 20, 2022 7:21pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Too late, Stuff, too late. If you’d wanted alternative voices for your relentlessly Leftie world you could have tried hiring some permanently as reporters. Throwing the occasional Libertarian or Right-wing scrap out to the River of Filth isn’t going to cut it.
  
  Here’s a test: let Damian write a piece about global warming.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:52am
- emmess
  
  Good article, and from Stuff no less
  I think the author really nails in when he talks about performative protest.
  The clearest example of which has to be the astroturfed Greta Thunberg ‘Fridays for Future’
  A day off school if you attend a protest, real commitment there.
  Also I have to laugh when on YouTube I keep getting served the GenLess ad paid for by the government which talks about the protest culture.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:09am
- mogg
  
  Many who protest do so out of economic necessity, their jobs and financial security have been damaged by the mandates. On the other hand many public servants and the political classes in Wgtn are on full pay, working from home at the tax payers expense. These people want mandates to remain they are enjoying it, and they all vote jacinda.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:20am
- The Other Enoch
  
  Tony, I’d like to refer you, and other KB’ers’ to Muriel Newman’s latest post at http://www.nzcpr.com
  
  It is one of the best.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:35am
- C-Town
  
  There’s no need for anyone else to read it. It’s written by Andrea Vance and full of anti-protest and anti=Trump hyperbole. But it was fairly new and there were about 7 comments. I decided to add a comment on my own. As I was writing more comments were being added. About 30=something And just after a clicked on submit, comments were closed. Typical Stuff.
  
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  February 20, 2022 11:13am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Actually, it’s not written by Andrea Vance. It’s written by Damian Grant, after he spent a couple of days on site at the protest last week.
    
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    February 20, 2022 11:25am
  - C-Town
    
    Sorry, somehow the first half of my comment was cut off. I was referring to another article on stuff which had a link on the Damien Grant article. Damien’s article was good. Andrea’s one wasn’t.
    
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    February 20, 2022 12:24pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Andrea writes for the Wellington Beltway, otherwise known as C*nts Corner, now facimg an unprecedented encounter with people who actually do stuff. They don’t like it.
      
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      February 20, 2022 3:08pm
Lee C

and here is a pretty scathing indictment of Ardern’s leadership, to boot…https://perspectivemag.co.uk/from-saint-to-sinner/?fbclid=IwAR2mBBAot_BWsLM_w893CBhphsIFqLu3YK3zJZ-z6UJlxaYo4KlniDUCZ_g
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February 20, 2022 8:10am
- CJames
  
  Notice how the first commenter is Russell Brown supporting Jacinda. No doubt as part of the $55 Million.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:34am
  - Mike
    
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    I love your evidence-free assertions. Please never change.
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:50am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Mike…. Mike….. Mike
      
      You jumping on every thread and snarking shows you think the jig is up for your government and things are swinging away.
      
      Never stop – it makes my day reading your increasing snide and desperate comments. Comedy gold…
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:38am
    - CJames
      
      You can be unbelievable stupid milky. Did you ever try checking out the link? You could have corrected me if you had – he is actually the second commenter. The first one had three words.
      And as one later commenter noted “Russell Brown you are not even remotely neutral or in the position to make an enlightened comment on this. I’ve seen your Twitter handle & connections to Clint Smith, Neale Jones and the labour paid stooges. (All paid off by labour).”
      
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      February 20, 2022 12:39pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        CJames
        When I think of Russell Brown, which is very seldom, I recall most his strident advocacy for rational drug laws, care for the disabled, and public broadcasting, none of which causes have been helped by any government in my lifetime. So I am somewhat at a loss, but perhaps you can provide a more detailed critique to demonstrate that Mr Brown has always praised Labour and criticised National, even as both parties have pursued essentially identical policies in those same areas.
        
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        February 20, 2022 7:25pm
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Yes, I said something to that effect, but more scathing about Mr Brown, a couple of days ago and I guess it was thought to be too harsh so was vanished.
    
    To be fair, Russell Brown would be like that for free. He’s been tribal Labour forever. Who can forget his Mum’s recipes on Public Address as Clark sank into mild authoritarianism.
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:53am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Pretty much all of the leftie twatteratti are, one way or another, paid by the taxpayer, some as full time propagandists. That needs to stop.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:30am
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    Russell who?
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:02am
  - Paulus
    
    Again, I understand it was $50 million then another $55 millon = $105 million, and they appear to be running out of that money so need another top up soon.
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:35am
- Colville
  
  In voting for Mother Teresa, I unwittingly ushered Caligula into office.
  
  That pretty well nails it.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:06am
Suze Wainwright

At least the protest has determined aotearoa’s Chardonnay socialists from the real ones – and the types of people who Labour’s Twitterati and Social Justice Warriors in the media prefer (and who they do not…).
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February 20, 2022 8:10am
Souvlaki

Below an article detailing the littany of failures of co-governance in Te Urewera.To my mind, predictable and a forerunner of what ws are likely to experience with Labours imminent co-governance over our already perilous health service and ,to add fuel to the fire, a proposed right of veto by Maori over Health Dept plans. What could possibly go wrong…huh?

https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/127779621/how-huts-and-bridges-in-te-urewera-fell-into-a-state-of-disrepair
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February 20, 2022 8:12am
- artemisia
  
  The net of that article appears to be – thanks for all the money, we spent it on our priority, reconnecting to the land. Sorry not sorry about the bridges and huts but ever so happy to see there’s more money in the hosepipe. Is it OK if we spend it on our priority? We will anyway with a small nod to huts and bridges.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:35am
- alloytoo
  
  Separate but equal, there’s I’m sur we had a special word for that….was both an oxymoron and an onomatopoeia.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:28am
  - oldfella
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:08am
  - oldfella
    
    alloytoo:
    racial segregation specifically : a ~~former~~ current policy of segregation and political, social, and economic discrimination against the ~~non~~ white majority in the People’s Republic of ~~South Africa~~ Ayoteearower.
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:19am
    - alloytoo
      
      People’s republic of Azania still practices economic discrimination.
      
      There’s a reason many refer to “Apartness”
      as “Apart Hate”
      
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      February 20, 2022 12:21pm
- The Other Enoch
  
  The real story here is that the Te Urewera debacle is a harbinger of things to come. 3Waters? Seperate Maori health? We are headed for very troubled times.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:38am
- RockyJ
  
  I feel sorry for the DOC staff. Imagine seeing your life’s work being squandered while at the same time having to sit through workshops being told what racist assholes you are
  
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  February 20, 2022 11:09am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Canada. Trudeau is freezing the bank accounts of the peaceful protesters.
How long before the tyrants do that here in NZ?
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February 20, 2022 8:14am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Downticker alert, he is here already. Must have shit the bed
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:19am
  - Mike
    
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    It’s a bit early in the day for you to get grumpy, Steve. Is everything okay at home?
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:52am
    - pdm
      
      Is this Mike the troll Mikenmild in disguise?
      
      If it is he is not very good at disguises or trolling and should give both up.
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:52am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Mike is his Patreon handle
        
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        February 20, 2022 9:56am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Foxtrot Oscar
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:55am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    It could be Alf, Robbo may have been already
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:09am
- Lee C
  
  I’m conscious of the incredible parallels between Ardern and Trudeau:
  Children of the elite,
  Taught by Schwab.
  Obsessed with image.
  ‘Left-leaning’.
  Young.
  Tyrannical.
  
  Party-animals.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:22am
  - Jim
    
    Narcissistic vanity.
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:34am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    You can criticise Jacinda for many things, but as a ‘child of the elite’? I think not.
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:49am
    - Lee C
      
      NMTB- What does Ardern’s dad do for a living? And her cousin?
      How does she get to family gatherings?
      
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      February 20, 2022 10:07am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      What? Her family has deep routes in farming for many generations, if money causes you to be the elite, then she has it in buckets, her grand parents do not have much time for her
      
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      February 20, 2022 10:11am
  - Jack5
    
    The Canadian newspaper, the Globe and Mail, on Klaus Schwab. A taste:
    
    Mr. Schwab is a notorious moonshine salesman, and the simpering chumps who fall for his windy rhetoric – for example, Justin Trudeau – typically lack either the ability or the nerve to implement the kind of sweeping changes (“we must build entirely new foundations for our economic and social systems”) he envisages.
    
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-great-reset-conspiracy-theory-is-a-great-embarrassment-for-all/
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:59am
    - Jack5
      
      I’m wary of conspiracy theories, and hadn’t taken notice of alleged Schwab influence on Trudeau (and, by extension, Ardern), but, hooked this very morning, I’ve found – from Iceland, of all places – a copy (released under our Official Information Act) of a personal invitation to Ardern from Schwab to attend Davos:
      
      https://seemorerocks.is/klaus-schwabs-love-letter-to-jacinda-adern/
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:20am
  - covfefe
    
    Is her dad Fidel as well??
    
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    February 20, 2022 1:46pm
- oldfella
  
  Steve, the latest Week in Pictures from Powerline has some great funnies about Trudeau.
  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/the-week-in-pictures-bonus-edition.php
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:25am
- DistantObserver
  
  https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/trudeau-dictator_b_6314494
  
  Don’t say people weren’t warned.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:36pm
I remember when

Is it Vaccine Passports – OK
Or Anti Mandate protest – OK
Are Labour trying to turn it into the “Battle of OK Corral.”
Or, it it “Coster’s Last Stand.”
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February 20, 2022 8:14am
- oldfella
  
  IRW: you mean PC (Police Commissioner) Custard? Probably a very nice man, but may be out of his depth in his current job.
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:30am
Michael J Baker

I flew down from Akl to Wgtn yesterday for the protest. I won’t repeat my assessment of the ground situation as it’s the same as ones mentioned here.
I asked my friend who picked me up from the airport if the protest had impacted him. He’s a lawyer that lives in Miramar and works on The Terrace and a few days in Johnsonville. He said no, not really. It will certainly be impacting people with offices immediately next to parliament but I’m skeptical it’s massively impacting Wellington. I think some arrangements should be made for the schools nearby but otherwise Wellington just needs to accept this is part of being a political city. Take the good with the bad. No doubt this will be an outrage to some of the more pampered BMW drivers that work in the area. Ending the mandates that will be unnecessary in a few months – if not now – is such a simple solution.
P.S. It’s laughable that the Labour aligned city councilors (and Labour-aligned National MP Nicola Willis) thought their little letter would have any influence. Lolz.
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February 20, 2022 8:17am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  BMWs – purleese! Woke Welly is a Tesla totara (or a Leaf, if you’re just a twig)
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:05am
WaynelSexton

It’s time to walk into a supermarket without a mask on. Come on guys you can do it!!!
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February 20, 2022 8:19am
- David George
  
  Our local countdown don’t care, I go there unmasked with no problem. In fact they now have a sign (next to the old and faded one saying masks are required) saying that if you’re not wearing a mask please use the self service checkout. That’s it.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:44am
- Weetbix3ways
  
  I did yesterday. And there were several others there also breathing freely.
  And no-one cared a whit.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:46am
- MCōs
  
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  Just don’t come near me, thank you.
  You may or may not care whether you get COVID-19 or care whether or not you might spread it around are think it’s all a laugh, but others around you do.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:54am
  - Weetbix3ways
    
    Masks don’t change that equation at all, so you can relax and go about your life normally.
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:37am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Are you not vaccinated?
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:40am
  - David George
    
    Turns out the masks are almost completely useless, best thing you can do is stay at home, self isolate. I will try and avoid you though, perhaps a wee sign “M’Cos. Stay away”, something like that.
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:59am
    - MCōs
      
      “Turns out the masks are almost completely useless”
      
      That is, of course, your opinion.
      Refer to the following extensive report that concludes
      “When used in conjunction with widespread testing, contact tracing, quarantining of anyone that may be infected, hand washing, and physical distancing, face masks are a valuable tool to reduce community transmission.”
      https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118
      
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      February 20, 2022 12:50pm
      - Weetbix3ways
        
        “the difference between US states with mask mandates and those without, and found that the daily growth rate was 2.0 percentage points lower in states with mask mandates”
        
        OK, I’ll give you 2%.
        I’ve seen as high as 4% (in a ‘crowded’ country, which we are not). Let’s be generous and use 4%.
        
        So 96% chance it’s not going to help.
        But if you are concerned about catching a mild influenza-like illness (which Omicron IS), by all means, wear a mask. And a face-shield.
        Or just stay home. Actually that may be a bad idea, most accidents take place at home. Keep a helmet on, just in case.
        
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        February 20, 2022 1:30pm
      - RichardX
        
        Of course MCos was referring to mask use and Weetbix provides stats referring to mask mandates.
        
        Not the same thing.
        
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        February 20, 2022 8:43pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You could just stay home, and order online, and pay delivery. How long before you get the idea that you are penalised by being forced to stay at home?
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/coronavirus-jacinda-ardern-confident-enough-kiwis-will-get-covid-19-vaccine-for-herd-immunity-without-being-forced-to.html
    
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    February 20, 2022 1:58pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  But then seeing as I don’t scan, I sign in, security will be walking around asking “who the fuck is Donald Duck – signed in at 1.37?”
  
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  February 20, 2022 1:53pm
jon

Is there an online petition in SUPPORT of the protesters out there?? No doubt, unlike the MSM coverage of the anti protester petition, there would be zero reporting of a pro protester petition by them.
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February 20, 2022 8:19am
- bravefart
  
  Try this one:
  
  https://www.change.org/p/new-zealanders-nz-convoy-2022-show-of-support-anti-mandate-protest
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:45am
  - jon
    
    Thanks Bravefart.
    
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    February 20, 2022 11:06am
  - curry4me
    
    Thanks, I just put it on my FB page. I got some pictures of the Octagon protest yeaterday. Looks like a few tents and 30-40 people.
    
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    February 20, 2022 12:08pm
- westernScientest
  
  this one was posted by someone yesterday – to remove mandates etc, rather than support for the protest
  
  https://www.change.org/p/new-zealand-government-end-new-zealand-mandates-march-1st?signed=true
  
  Has anyone tried to start a parliamentary one?
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:17am
Russ the Muss

It’s a strange summer another absolute deluge overnight in wellington and a stiff southerly, hope all those at the freedom camp are doing OK and can get warm and dry ASAP. Will do another run of food provisions later on, quite humbling seeing kiwis muck in and help each other out. Long live that kiwi spirit.
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February 20, 2022 8:22am
NeverMindTheBollocks

I see Maori spokespeople are complaining about Protesters camping on ‘their’ gardens.
The Manu Whenua of Wellington are Ngati Toa from Kawhia and Te Atiawa, their vassals of Taranaki. Together in the 1820s they genocided Ngai Tara, who had inhabited Wellington for hundreds of years.

At the risk of Godwinning, it’s like Germans proudly retaining ownership of houses stolen from Jews sent to the concentration camps.

Personally, I don’t know how Ngati Toa & Te Atiawa ki Te Whanganui a Tara descendants can look at themselves in the mirror.
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February 20, 2022 8:22am
- JimBobJoe
  
  To be fair most of the destruction of the local and established Wellington Iwi was done by Ngati Mutunga and Ngati Tama, allies and fellow travellers of Ngati Toa and Te Atiawa.
  
  Tama and Mutinga then went to the Chathams and repeated the bloodbath on the Moriori.
  
  Te Atiawa are hyprocrites of the highest order – and constantly bang on about their Taranaki connection. They should all decamp home and gift their wellington lands back to the descends of the real mana whenua…
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:48am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

He’s not going away is he?

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/justice-complex-in-nevada-was-just-renamed-in-honor-of-donald-trump/?
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February 20, 2022 8:23am
- Scott
  
  It appears that Trump will be running for president again. The mainstream media should thank him because he single handedly kept their ratings high during his presidential term. Now he’s not president outlets like CNN have lost most of their audience.
  
  Secondly Trump was right about everything. About China, about being spied on, about the need to take a balanced approach to covid etc etc. Regarding spying special counsel John Durham is getting to the bottom of the spying on Trump, the interception of electronic communications while Trump was running for office and even while he was president!
  
  Lastly Trump is a leader who wants to free up the economy and get people working again. What he doesn’t want to do is run every aspect of your life. He believes in freedom, unlike other current political leaders I could name.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:36am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Here is basic conformation.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyKmLh4QIBA
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:17am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    De Santis would be a better choice, he’s really distinguished himself as Florida Governor during the pandemic
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:32am
    - Weetbix3ways
      
      +1
      And would not be polarizing (rightly or wrongly) like Trump.
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:48am
    - Scott
      
      Urban – Yes I’d be good with De Santis. He seems to have done well in Florida. Good governance experience there and stood up for freedom in his state. No mask mandates for school children and not allowing them to be taught critical race theory. There’s two good things he’s done, just off the top of my head.
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:51am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      I think he will be vice prez, but Trump may go for a woman
      
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      February 20, 2022 10:16am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Candace Owens? She is right up there with stopping the fake news
        
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        February 20, 2022 2:01pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        She’d be great, a real talent for rhetoric.
        
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        February 20, 2022 2:15pm
    - Nickc2
      
      De Santis has already said he would be proud to serve as Trump’s Vice President and anything said about the issue is just media hype.
      Now, why haven’t I heard that term ‘just media hype’ before? That’s right, it’s most certainly not being used in any of our MSM gutter press articles masquerading as Truth from the Podium.
      
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      February 20, 2022 11:33am
    - curry4me
      
      De Santis – Trump or Trump De Santis. Whichever as far as I’m cocerned.
      
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      February 20, 2022 12:11pm
  - Cassandra
    
    Sadly, Scott, he’s also a rather unpleasant and impetuous man. Of course none of us is perfect but Trump sure has a lot of downside. Great campaigner and instinctively got lots right but……………..
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:35am
  - virtualmark
    
    Um, Scott, did you miss the bit in the last day where Durham walked back his “spying on Trump”?
    
    The facts are clear that the “spying on the White House” happened during Obama’s time there, not Trump’s.
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:28am
    - Scott
      
      Virtual – as I’ve said before you used to be a very good commentator but sadly you’ve had a very bad case of TDS for some time now.
      How many times have we heard this? The walls are closing in on Trump, they have him now.
      Here’s my question to you. Do you now accept that Trump was never a Russian agent? That the media coverage about Trump and Russia was false?
      Do you accept that?
      
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      February 20, 2022 11:23am
      - virtualmark
        
        https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/18/how-right-embraced-false-claim-clinton-spied-president-trump/
        
        Here, complete with dates, timings etc.
        
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        February 20, 2022 12:51pm
      - virtualmark
        
        And in response to your question … Trump has been a Russian *asset* for more than 20 years.
        
        I would not say he has been an *agent*, where that means he willingly and knowingly works alongside their security and intelligence services.
        
        I would say that he has been an *asset*, where he provides service and sympathy to their national interests.
        
        There are books going back as the late 1990s that set out his ties to Russian organised crime. He is a third-generation organised crime asset (his grandfather ran brothels for the Italian mob, his father laundered money for the Italian mob, Trump himself laundered money first for the Italians and then for the Russians once they squeezed out the Italians).
        
        Trump’s political ties to the Russians were well set out in the (bi-partisan!) Senate Intelligence report that you can read for yourself at https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CRPT-116srpt290.pdf
        
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        February 20, 2022 12:56pm
- virtualmark
  
  Actually, based on the judicial decisions that came out this week it’s more and more likely he is going away. As in “going away”.
  
  The NY AG had a huge win against him this week. The National Archives are going after him for having taken material – including “Top Secret” classified material – to Mar-A-Lago, and his tame reporter (Maggie Haberman) said he’d been showing those materials to punters there. And the Georgia prosecutor now has a special grand jury.
  
  Then Mazars said “Oh those 10 years of financial statements we did for him are inaccurate and we disavow all responsibility for them”. So presumably a bunch of lenders are now looking to foreclose.
  
  So it hasn’t been a great week for him.
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:06am
  - virtualmark
    
    Oh, and I forgot to include that this week the DC Circuit Court (a Federal court) ruled that 3 separate civil lawsuits against Trump for the 6 January insurrection can go ahead.
    
    Trump’s expected to appeal, but to lose on appeal.
    
    So it’s really not been a good week for your guy.
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:26am
  - Weetbix3ways
    
    Classic TDS victim. Just can’t help yourself!
    
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    February 20, 2022 1:33pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Weetbix, I’m just describing the real-life events that happened this week. The judgements I described, the Mazar’s development … they are facts that you can see for yourself.
      
      You people need to read more. And learn to read the news objectively.
      
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      February 20, 2022 2:36pm
      - Weetbix3ways
        
        The ‘news’ was the same from 2016 to 2021, and now into 2022.
        I can read the news. I’m also wise enough to not believe every word of it.
        
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        February 20, 2022 3:43pm
      - RichardX
        
        Weetbix, Are you claiming Trump was in breach of the Presidential Records Act in 2016?
        
        You must be when you state “The ‘news’ was the same from 2016 to 2021”
        
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        February 20, 2022 8:45pm
  - Scott
    
    “Trump has been a Russian *asset* for more than 20 years.”
    Virtual – that’s really out there. Really out there.
    Trump’s really got in your head. Sad ?
    
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    February 20, 2022 4:59pm
    - Mike
      
      Guys like you must sicken actual conservative US republicans.
      
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      February 20, 2022 6:16pm
      - RichardX
        
        Scott doesn’t know the difference between an agent and an asset as it isn’t in the bible.
        
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        February 20, 2022 8:46pm
blue collar

I hope someone is making a documentary old school style .
Wandering around getting footage of ordinary people , opinions and events . Right from day one with first media murmur of something going on in China .
Kinda like Michael Moore .
Provide a real narrative as opposed to a msm reported narrative .
A lot of it will be downright embarrassing as a nation , and filled with fear .
Give future generations a glimpse of how powerless people are under emergency powers and fear .
And how to get out of it ….. restore the power , new parliament fence or not .
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February 20, 2022 8:24am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

From FB.
The simple fact that you were fooled and conned does not make you an idiot.
What makes you an idiot is when you blatantly refuse to look at the truth and make the conscious decision to believe the lies.
_________

Take note Jaspinda
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February 20, 2022 8:28am
- virtualmark
  
  It’s possible that FB comment was meant to be read a different way, by a different audience …
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:07am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Audience? For idiots that do not know they are idiots?
    When you die, you don’t know you are dead. Only others around you know, and suffer.
    It is the same when you are stupid
    
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    February 20, 2022 2:05pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Steve, I’ll compare IQ and cognitive tests with you any day. Please arrive sober.
      
      Here’s a hint. If you’re getting your news from Facebook it is almost certain that you are being fooled and conned, and that you are an idiot.
      
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      February 20, 2022 2:26pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Right
        
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        February 20, 2022 6:24pm
bronny1

I have wondered over the last few months who the people are that get medical exemptions from the jab. I don’t know of anyone personally, but through friends I have heard about people suffering anaphylaxis or myocarditis from the first dose, ending up in hospital for 4 days at deaths door, but getting a “no” from Bloomy. So do you have to die to get an exemption? Probably you’re not applying. So who are the 500 or so that HAVE received them?

I was talking talking to an (ex) psych nurse the other day (mandated out), and was able to enlighten me. He said that said 90 docs and psychiatrists at his DHB got medical exemptions from the jab because when all this kicked off they flat out said no, we won’t take it – and the hospital would not be able to operate with a loss that big. This is consistent with something i heard months ago, except this time it comes from a nurse who was told this by a doctor colleague. This nurse said that the biggest disappointment for him is that the docs subsequently failed to stand up for the nurses when it was their turn. So I guess they signed an NDA or something?

Anyone know anything?
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February 20, 2022 8:29am
- westernScientest
  
  Yeah it is basically no one that gets them. Mrs wS works in health care, so is subject to the mandates. Had heart issues after the 2nd one, still ongoing nearly 6 months later but getting better, waiting to see a cardiologist (still, but on the list), been on beta blockers etc. GP says dont get the booster, you will end up in a really bad way, but you wont get an exemption. In the clinic they have applied for 3 females in similar circumstances, and it doesn’t even make it to the review panel. It sounds like just to make it to the review panel you have to have been very close to dieing, in hospital, with records, and in the records it has to say it was because of the vax. That is just to get to the panel. GP doesnt know of a single exemption being given out, none of her clinics patients have even ended up at being reviewed by the panel, just rejected outright.
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:33am
  - Spoff
    
    The vaccine danger to life and health is becoming evident to the investing class through the insurance industry stats:
    https://rumble.com/vv1adx-breaking-exclusive-former-blackrock-portfolio-manager-exposes-pfizer-fraud.html
    
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    February 20, 2022 11:34am
  - wally
    
    Approx 300 of the exemptions were participants in the Valneva vaccine trial. There is another group about to get exemptions who are in the SK Bioscience vaccine trial.
    
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    February 20, 2022 1:22pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    there was about a 10% increase in ‘excess deaths’ during the ’21 flu season in NZ (in absence of covid and most flus and colds), above those seen in the 2020 flu season when colds and flues were similarly absent. That’s about 2000 kiwis dead. Australia and Taiwan were similar. Can anyone offer an explanation for why that is definitely not down to the vaccine programs that were then underway in these three countries?
    
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    February 20, 2022 2:22pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I posted this the other day. Worth a repeat just in case the NZ media missed it.
https://rumble.com/vupht5-reporter-stunned-when-protester-walks-up-and-says-most-unexpected-thing.html?
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February 20, 2022 8:31am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Not many journalists left – he is right – the vast majority of them have an agenda.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:35am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Or you could save us a great deal of time and tedium wasted on scrolling through screeds of advertisements spun out endlessly with poorly written padding, and tell us what was the most unexpected thing the protester said.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No ads for me. Install Adblock Plus
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:20am
Benedict Yu

A security fence around Parliament? To keep out the deplorables.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300521107/cabinet-plans-to-erect-parliamentary-fence-as-protest-lingers

Will National and ACT pledge to remove it?

As far as I can tell there have been protests at Parliament forever, many much larger than the current one.

In 1977 there were long running protests against a proposal to expand the powers of the SIS to intercept private communications.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/demonstration-against-sis-amendment-act

https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/34075/protests-against-the-nzsis-amendment-bill-1977-picketing-parliament

There were 10,000 protestors. Hundreds of police. There were 150 people dragged screaming and kicking from the debating chamber.

Ironically, one of the protestors was a university student, Trevor Mallard.
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February 20, 2022 8:32am
- Jim
  
  Is that really the kiwi way? Politicians have seriously failed our democracy if they feel the need to erect barriers between themselves and the electorate.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:39am
  - artemisia
    
    Well there is only a fence announcement so far. Based on rather a lot of other delivery promises it ain’t going to happen in our lifetimes.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:18am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Same in Washington DC, C/- Pelosi
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:21am
- Matt Long
  
  Mallard knows what was going in his head at the time, that’s why he fears the protests, projection is virulent in politics.
  He assumes the protesters are the same kind of dirt bags he and his mates are.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:39am
  - alloytoo
    
    Labour always seems to do that and nothing is ever as bad as they say it’s going to be.
    
    What does that say about them?
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:34am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Just like the golfer standing over someone in the bunker to make sure they don’t touch the sand is only checking because they themselves cheat
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:50am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Do as I say, not as I did …..
    
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    February 20, 2022 6:28pm
- Swifty
  
  It’s our Parliament, not theirs.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:07am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    True, we are their employers. Next time they want a salary raise, the employers say NO!
    You are getting a salary decrease for doing nothing except moan about salaries.
    Leeches
    
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    February 20, 2022 2:33pm
- Jade Warrior
  
  Establishing a fence will turn the Parliamentary complex into a prison – what a great look for Wellington! I’m sure the mayor would love to see that. The presence of a security fence would also heighten the concerns of many that our MPs are increasingly isolated and detached from the people they supposedly represent.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:17am
  - PeeJay
    
    If there is one thing that this protest has shown is that our MP’s, sadly without exception, are very much isolated and detached from the voters.
    
    This has been increasingly clear for many years with politics increasingly seen as a viable career rather than a side gig in public service after a real career elsewhere (farmers, business, unions etc).
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:52am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The voters are just an ATM machine. Withdraw what you want plus some extra for fuckups
      
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      February 20, 2022 2:35pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Build that wall, build that wall
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:18am
  - alloytoo
    
    Make sure they’re all inside before you realize you’ve forgotten a gate.
    
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    February 20, 2022 4:01pm
- oldfella
  
  BY, will the fence be made of solid material to keep out the ‘river of filth’?
  ‘Cos if it’s netting the filth will just flow right through it and we can’t have that.
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:49am
- curry4me
  
  No way! They’ll take turns ferrying materials down for the builders!
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:17pm
- nathie
  
  Betcha all those Labour politicians and Mallard, wanting to build a wall around Parliament, did not agree with Trump when he wanted to build a wall!
  
  On a serous note, isn’t this a tad over the top, Mallard?
  
  None of the protesters have said they want to do a “Jan 6” and “invade”!
  
  Meethinks the Paranoia in Mallard is getting to him.
  
  After all, has he really thought this through? In essence Mallard (and Robertson) is wanting to increase the “divide” between those in power and the people (visibly too).
  
  Perhaps Labour MP’s need to reflect on this, when they meet to approve the funding that Loud-Speaker Mallard needs.
  
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  February 20, 2022 1:06pm
  - Batman
    
    Yes, a fence at 32 Molesworth Street and the 3,145km long US-Mexico border are definitely the exact same thing and not at all different ?
    
    A portion of the protesters have expressed exactly those intentions, hanging officials and taking control of the government.
    
    If the crowd want results, their current demands need to change.
    
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    February 20, 2022 1:11pm
    - nathie
      
      Yeah fair point, I was being a bit facetious!
      
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      February 20, 2022 1:40pm
    - alloytoo
      
      I think the difference is that Trump’s fence was intended to keep non-citizens out of the US.
      
      Mallard’s fence is intended to keep New Zealanders from their own parliament.
      
      Even MIQ isn’t like Trump’s fence, it’s intended purpose appears to keep New Zealanders out and let foreign entertainers in.
      
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      February 20, 2022 4:05pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Maybe they could build a fence faster than a house ……..
  
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  February 20, 2022 6:25pm
RockyJ

Is the tide turning on climate hysteria?
The council of Port Macquarie-Hastings City in Australia have decided to revoke the city’s climate crisis declaration.
Would that Auckland Council could be rational. We all know that the real reason Auckland did this is so Goff could raise extra revenue using his bogus climate levy while appearing to keep to his promise to peg rates increases to the rate of inflation
Meanwhile Auckland keeps approving waterfront developments with no provision for “accelerating sea level rise”.
We can only hope others in positions of authority wake up like those brave Aussie councillors
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/18/its-just-misuse-of-council-resources-port-macquarie-revokes-climate-emergency/
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February 20, 2022 8:32am
blue collar

Trust has been eroded .

I’ve always been a cynic but understand many people truly believe those fine gentlemen and women hanging in picture frames on their walls actually had their best interests at heart .
I believe many now don’t .

I think this govt hijacking a minor health crisis has destroyed trust in the govt for at least 70% of people .

Any govt . From now on .

The only way to reunite the nation would be to hv a royal commission and prosecute Brenda , chippy , Robbo , Hendy , wiles , little etc , the media aswell …. openly , in front of the nation . And lock them up . Let the people unite in vengeance.
Will never happen . But that is what it will take .
Or a war .
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February 20, 2022 8:32am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Nah, just let the voters eject em at next election. And stop publically funding left wing activists (academic and otherwise). We need to restore political balance to our public institutions; media , academic and public service, because they are all working to indoctrinate our kids and wreck our country’s future.
  
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  February 20, 2022 2:27pm
Benedict Yu

“our political elites do not get to define the boundaries of legitimate dissent.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300519867/parliament-protest-the-podium-of-truth-has-shifted-and-may-never-return

This is a good read. Remarkably, Jacinda is saying you can demonstrate against the mandates but ‘anti vax’ messages will not be tolerated.

I agree with the author. People will not take the COVID vaccine for a variety of reasons. I may think that some of those reasons are silly but that is besides the point.

The COVID vaccines are a personal choice. I am much less tolerant of parents deciding not to vaccinate their children with an MMR vaccine with a 50 year track record. Because that is putting children in harm’s way.

These folk are not moving until the irrational vaccine pass system is dismantled. Or they are removed by hundreds of police with batons.
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February 20, 2022 8:33am
- artemisia
  
  From Mr Grant’s opinion piece, basically the ball is squarely in the government’s court and they have no idea what to do since their #1 deterrent – sprinklers – failed.
  
  The prime minister is stuck. She cannot negotiate. She cannot back down. She needs to look upon those on the lawn and despair – for those rabble are the captains now. For as long as they can remain in place, they are the story.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:44am
  - pdm
    
    arty – she will not negotiate because she has no idea how to.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:56am
    - artemisia
      
      The PM’s PR staff are onto it. How to look like she is negotiating without actually negotiating.
      
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      February 20, 2022 11:20am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Sure she does. Frowny face & a little *** stamping should do the trick. //
      
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      February 20, 2022 3:44pm
  - Bridgenag
    
    Where is she?
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:51am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      She is at home making leg extensions on trousers.
      I will leave it at that
      
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      February 20, 2022 2:40pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  More and more people are realising what a vaccine is and what it does, and how.
  The Covid Vaccine is NOT a vaccine, it is experimental medication. Also an experiment on how socialists control the people
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:45am
  - Spoff
    
    New Zealand’s pandemic of the fully vaccinated: Up to 100% of Covid-19 hospitalisations are among the fully vaccinated according to official data
    https://www.sott.net/article/464611-New-Zealands-pandemic-of-the-fully-vaccinated-Up-to-100-of-Covid-19-hospitalisations-are-among-the-fully-vaccinated-according-to-official-data
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:49am
    - [email protected]
      
      Not quite 100% but the official data does show that the number of covid hospitalizations for the vaccinated is increasing rapidly but the number of hospitalization of the unvaccinated has been decreasing daily.
      
      Perhaps because the unvaccinated are not allowed to participate publicly or are taking a more cautious approach due to their vaccination status.
      
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      February 20, 2022 11:26am
      - MCōs
        
        Since 16-August 2020 there have been 683 hospitalizations of whom 86 were fully vaccinated 7 days beforehand.
        https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-case-demographics
        
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        February 20, 2022 1:02pm
      - Weetbix3ways
        
        How many of the hospitalized were vaccinated in the 2020 stats do you think, MC?
        In a similar way, if we count the number of NZ covid infections per day for the period June 2018 to June 2020, you’ll be impressed just how low the number is!
        
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        February 20, 2022 1:38pm
      - bronny1
        
        MCos….misinformation. We now live in a world of omicron. Delta, alpha and the rest are all but gone. Many of the hospitalisations were also pre vaccinations when everyone was unvaxxed. Stop using outdated data to push your barrow. It and you are irrelevant.
        
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        February 20, 2022 4:31pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        MCos, maybe they had influenza – which is not being addressed?
        Every respiratory problem is now Covid Covid Covid.
        Covid has eliminaded flu
        
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        February 20, 2022 6:35pm
- slernz
  
  The protests were predictable. Label 10 percent of the population as antivax terrorists, treat them like lepers and this is the result. Mallard is a bully. Glorious Leader not listening, nor seeing. I don’t know how this is going to end. Violence. I hope not. If the government sanctions violence they have lost. Mallard certainly can’t foresee this. Can the PM? I doubt she does?
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:50am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    There response over next two weeks will be very telling. the mandates are past their use by date as Omicron (aka the flu) is rapidly spreading through NZ with similar impact to the flu (though far more infections), and Labour are trying to pretend that reality is something other than what we can all clearly see now; the empress has no clothes.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:40am
  - Weetbix3ways
    
    That’s 30%+, not 10%.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:53am
    - slernz
      
      Ninety percent of the population are vaccinated.
      
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      February 20, 2022 11:30am
      - Weetbix3ways
        
        Ninety-something percent of the population that regularly interacts with the health system, is my understanding. So me an mine are not counted, too healthy.
        
        But Brenda is labeling a lot more than the unvaxxed now.
        
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        February 20, 2022 12:27pm
      - bronny1
        
        Not all by choice. Polling showed that 30%+ were coerced.
        
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        February 20, 2022 4:34pm
- alloytoo
  
  “Jacinda is saying you can demonstrate against the mandates but ‘anti vax’ messages will not be tolerated.”
  
  The problem is that on Jacinda’s instruction all the protests (irrespective of the signs they are holding) are anti-vax, and the term “Anti-vax” has been broadened beyond someone who is sceptical of the medical technology of vaccination completely, to include people who have legitimate scepticism of safety and efficacy of an individual product.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:40am
  - oldfella
    
    Will Cindy please provide us with a list or approved, and non-approved things we can protest about.
    Save a lot of time and energy for everyone. /s
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:54am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Cindy does not get to pick what people choose to protest about.
    
    Quite a Potemkin moment, when you think about it.
    
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    February 20, 2022 3:46pm
- Jim
  
  Benedict, so right you are. The authorities may be fortunate enough to disperse this current protest, but if the underlying issues remain the same (or made worse with jab 4/5 mandate etc) the protest will gain even more momentum next time, and again the next time as people rise against unscientific tyranny.
  
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  February 21, 2022 7:12am
krazykiwi

Trudeau is a one man Cuban beguile crisis.
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February 20, 2022 8:34am
Matt Long

Why the obsession people have for RATs?
We’re now dealing with the highly contagious but low virulence Omicron and BA.2 which is now displacing Omicron.
RATs and PCR tests were relevant for the more virulent and less contagious delta virus but now things are simper.
You will most likely get Omicron/BA.2, if you have symptoms you can assume you have it.
Most likely you caught it from someone with a vaccine pass.
It will give you a high degree of immunity from more virulent strains of COVID.
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February 20, 2022 8:35am
- krazykiwi
  
  From the arch-vaccinator Bill Gates yesterday:
  
  “Sadly the virus itself – particularly the variant called Omicron – is a type of vaccine, creates both B cell and T cell immunity and it’s done a better job of getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines.”
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:40am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    “Sadly”. Not “Joyfully”?
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:47am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Sadly because this natural vaccine doesn’t contribute to Big Pharma profits or the Ctrl Left’s global power grab
      
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      February 20, 2022 2:30pm
  - bronny1
    
    “It’s the vaccine we DIDN’T develop”
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:49am
    - mawm
      
      Seriously, who did develop it?
      
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      February 20, 2022 12:18pm
      - bronny1
        
        Omicron? Do you reckon that came out of a lab? I suppose it might have.
        
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        February 20, 2022 4:35pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “Seriously, who did develop it?”
        
        Who knows at this stage? Could have been any country. A number of countries have the capability.
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:03pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Listening to this carefully it seems fairly obvious the “sadly” comment was referring to the fact that the nations of the world weren’t prepared enough for this pandemic (especially in regards getting good treatments and vaccines out to the world).
    
    The lefty branch covidians will be having a melt down over his calling Omicron “a type of vaccine” for sure. Cheer-leading lefty governments in forcing prototype vaccines on all and sundry by coercion is what gives these elitist petty-fascists their jollies. Seeing especially annoying virtue-signallers like Trudeau and Arden rubbing it into the faces of their opponents is an extra special treat for these people.
    
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    February 20, 2022 5:18pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:51am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Why the obsession people have for RATs?.
  
  Because RATs are the only way some uncontaminated-but-close contacts can keep their businesses going.
  
  Who wants to run a business that gets closed down every 10 days because one of your workers has a house mate who is covid positive?
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:53am
  - Matt Long
    
    And where their test is positive? Is that an own goal?
    My point is businesses should not be crying about no access to rapid antigen tests but the whole stupid isolation farce with Omicron.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:37am
  - Weetbix3ways
    
    That’s why a lot of businesses now are asking their employees NOT to get tested.
    There’s no significant risk from this virus.
    There IS significant risk to business, and by extension, their jobs and livelihoods.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:55am
    - Jim
      
      Yep even a stiff article 21 Feb saying people in ER for other issues, are being tested and found to have incidental Omicron.
      
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      February 21, 2022 7:22am
- cmm
  
  RATs allow them to keep their authoritarian system in place.
  
  Without RATs they’d have to treat it like the common cold because it would be impossible to shut down all the businesses. People would revolt.
  
  RATs allow them to find a “middle path” and keep a degree of control.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:27am
- alloytoo
  
  I think there is a legitimate use for Rat tests to protect vulnerable people.
  
  Beyond that I don’t believe the severity(or lack of) of Omicron warrants it.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:43am
- MCōs
  
  My son is a school teacher. His wife is a school teacher. He tells me every school in Auckland, pretty much, has had someone down with the bug.
  He currently has hay fever, but he wants to know it’s not covid-19. He’s taken PCB test that takes up to five days to process, during which time he is away from work.
  If it comes back negative he goes through the same process again if, for example, he gets a cold.
  Regular rat testing, while not as accurate at least gives a good indication.
  My daughter’s husband works from home so he can just plough on if he’s waiting for the results of a PCR test.
  
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  February 20, 2022 2:32pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Cabinet to rebuild trust with the public by building a wall around Parliament – hmm.

What part of “Representative” don’t they understand?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300521107/cabinet-plans-to-erect-parliamentary-fence-as-protest-lingers
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February 20, 2022 8:37am
Benedict Yu

Something amusing and non COVID.

I recently passed through Kaitāia. Northland has some great attractions. But sadly Kaitāia was not one of them. Gang members doing burnouts at the petrol station, run down and vacant buildings. General atmosphere of poverty. And curiously the staple diet seems to be fried chicken.

And so I was surprised to learn that Kaitāia has been voted “most beautiful small city in New Zealand.” ???

What are the judging criteria?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/nz/300521277/are-these-really-new-zealands-most-beautiful-towns-and-cities
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February 20, 2022 8:41am
- Matt Long
  
  I kinda wondered that myself, I do like that people wear their gumboots while shopping at Pak n Save there.
  There’s pockets of arty stuff, maybe that’s why the vote, or maybe they did the usual and took bribes or interviewed their keyboard.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:52am
- Colville
  
  I spent a couple of weeks in the far North a few years back. My lasting memory (other than all the crayfish I got) was that the shops obviously didnt sell paint brushes. So many houses just falling apart from lack of care. and you know if you (dared) knock on the door there would be a bunch of lard arses on the couch stoned.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:11am
- Nickc2
  
  I’ve no idea what the author of the article about Kaitāia was smoking/injecting at the time but it most certainly wasn’t legal.
  I was in Kaitāia just prior to this Covid fiasco and stopped at a restaurant in the main street for lunch. whilst having lunch, a fight started outside with protagonists bouncing off the front window complete with some of the foulest language (not Te Reo) I’ve heard.
  Someone came from out the back of the restaurant and locked the door and assured all patrons there’s nothing to worry about, it happens almost every day. He went on to say the Police had been called but they hadn’t arrived when I left but an ambulance was in attendance.
  If that’s the author’s image of a beautiful small city, the author should give up that stuff he/she/it’s smoking/injecting. It can’t be good for humans.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:23am
- cmm
  
  The major industry of Kaitaia and beyond seems to be the benefit.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:29am
  - Cassandra
    
    Grandest building in town is the WINZ one. Everything else is derelict but not Handout Palace.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:40am
  - virtualmark
    
    And marijuana.
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:09am
    - cmm
      
      Really? Is there still money in dope? I thought all the biz had moved into P etc.
      
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      February 20, 2022 1:45pm
    - GJM
      
      A number of years ago, the weed industry in Northland was judged to be bigger than the Northland dairy industry.
      
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      February 20, 2022 1:54pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        They have cows up there? News to me.
        Oh wait …..
        
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        February 20, 2022 3:04pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Presumably, like a lot of NZ, the natural scenery is nice, but aside from that the place is fcukd!
  
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  February 20, 2022 5:20pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The best thing about Kaitaia is it has three roads out. All lead to better scenery.
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:45pm
- wilderbeast
  
  Bang on. Parts of Northland, and other far flung parts of the North Island, are real rat nests. There are gems there in the people and the attractions too, but there are places that wouldn’t be out of place in the third world. Drug addiction, gang control and abuse of the most heinous kinds are endemic. I’m on record as saying I’m happy to go there on a fishing holiday with my mates (we can manage ourselves) but wouldn’t take my family on holiday there. When I get lectured by woke types in Wellington on what they perceive as my right wing attitude to crime, I ask what their preferred method is doing to protect the victims of domestic abuse, child abuse etc in the Far North. Of course they haven’t even been there, much less mixed with the locals like I have.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:37pm
kevn

@Matt… Pyjama wearing with (fake) Ugg boots was a common sight in Rotorua supermarkets. Might still be so.
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February 20, 2022 8:58am
- Weetbix3ways
  
  Yup.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:56am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

“This isn’t a left or right issue. This is about an uprising of everyday citizens in democracies around the world.”
https://rumble.com/vurv7n-entrepreneur-perfectly-explains-what-the-freedom-convoy-is-all-about.html?
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February 20, 2022 8:58am
Maggie Pie

MAJOR CONSPIRACY THEORY – OR…..

When one of the girls from tennis sent me these Twitter links earlier, I became quite worried.

Sounds like the ‘Anti-Mandate Protest’ on the Government grounds could be nothing more than a a cover for something a lot more sinister 🙁

I’m at sixes & sevens as to whether or not I should forward it to Gilda….but she might be better to hi-tail it back up here.

What do you think??

https://twitter.com/Te_Taipo/status/1494738379057295361
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February 20, 2022 9:02am
Random T Person

Spent a great day at the protest. Met many people, including a former mayor of Taupo, an anaesthetist from Akl, a data scientist, several small business owners, high fived a lot of hippies and quite a few face tattooed Maori warriors.
Yes there are some conspiracy theorists. And drum circles. And heaps of hippies (might be safe to go to the coromandel again). But we are allowed to believe whatever we want, aren’t we?
What I didn’t find : white supremacists or racists.
Well worth the trip. Go if you can, see for yourself. And stop the mandates and Covid tyranny.
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February 20, 2022 9:13am
- alloytoo
  
  It was really curious that Trudeau was accusing the truckers of being white supremists etc when many of them were Sikh and had much of that community were in support of the Honkening.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:47am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I trust you will do something stupid with your vote next year to help ensure Cindy gets a third term.
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:27am
  - Random T Person
    
    Sod off G. What I do with my vote is my business and no politician, and most certainly not Mr Luxon, has earned it.
    
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    February 20, 2022 12:09pm
- cjn
  
  What I would like to know…The Prime Minister, Megan Woods, now Gerry Brownlee say the protest outside Parliament is being funded by foreign money. They don’t refer to any particular foreign entity so one is curious. What is the motive of these donors? Is it to bring down the government? Is it to show up the Opposition as completely useless? Is this another case where the FBI are storming the Capitol under the disguise of Trumpists? Is it Elon Musk and Bill Gates? Tell us you are not just relying on the Kiwi’s reputed zenophobia to get sympathy for poor little you.
  
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  February 20, 2022 1:01pm
  - Batman
    
    Can you provide an actual referenced quote for that claim re foreign funding?
    
    From what I’ve seen, it has been speculated online that foreign assistance is helping Counter Spin (web platforms linked to Infowars and Steve Bannon).
    
    As far as politicians go, they have only really said that foreign themes have been imported. Which is reference to the QAnon themes, a global conspiracy about the vaccines etc. They haven’t said foreign money is funding it…. Though if we look at Canada, it’s highly likely there is some floating about potentially.
    
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    February 20, 2022 1:19pm
    - bronny1
      
      They have suggested that it’s being funded from overseas. Actually.
      
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      February 20, 2022 4:39pm
  - alloytoo
    
    Perhaps it’s being funded by New Zealanders stuck in MIQ hell?
    
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    February 20, 2022 4:14pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    “Foreign money” of the nefarious and large type, that is not just individuals choosing what causes they like, is more likely to be poured on the current clown show currently destroying NZ. The current clown show is dividing and degrading NZ very rapidly. The overwhelmingly loony left infested MSM and “big tech” is supporting that lunacy. That’s what certain large and evil empires want! Much easier to screw over divided and degraded countries!
    
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    February 20, 2022 5:00pm
  - Jim
    
    They are just deflecting the normies (msm consumers) with a notion that it’s not good hardworking kiwis who are dissatisfied with their government. No way it couldn’t be domestic descent, as we have Saint Jabcinda who saved us all.
    
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    February 21, 2022 7:27am
Biscuit

ROME, Oct. 31, 1991

Pope John Paul II acknowledged in a speech today that the Roman Catholic Church had erred in condemning Galileo 359 years ago for asserting that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
The address by the Pope before the Pontifical Academy of Sciences closed a 13-year investigation into the Church’s condemnation of Galileo in 1633, one of history’s most notorious conflicts between faith and science. Galileo was forced to recant his scientific findings to avoid being burned at the stake and spent the remaining eight years of his life under house arrest.

WELLINGTON, Oct. 31, 2381

The New Zealand Labour Party today formally apologised to the people of New Zealand for erring ‘big time’ inflicting Jacinda Ardern on it ‘all those years ago’…
‘Over-promising, non-delivering, only interested in her point of view, udderly refudiating anything not fitting her narrative, surrounding herself with sycophantic numbskulls, my, she was a piece of work, wasn’t she?’, report concludes.
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February 20, 2022 9:14am
- Benedict Yu
  
  We can only hope that it does not take 359 years.
  
  I hope that National announces a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the COVID response when it is next in government.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:25am
  - Weetbix3ways
    
    I doubt it. Or it will have terms of reference that render it toothless.
    They would be self-incriminating.
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:58am
  - PeeJay
    
    That’s why it is so important that there is no royal commission before 2023 and that there is a change of government.
    
    If Labour / Greens are still in charge by then, the RC will be a joke and the report and findings will be an approval of all actions taken to date. Worse still, think of all the recommendations – more ‘co-governance’, more centralisation, less rights!!!
    
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    February 20, 2022 9:59am
- Gravelroad
  
  @ Biscuit-
  I think it was Mr Winston Peters who chose Ms Ardern to be Prime Minister – and even the Labour Party was amazed.
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:58am
  - Biscuit
    
    Agreed, Gravelroad.
    
    I actually imagine that Labour, wistfully, wish Winston had kept his nose out of things.
    
    Peters’ annointing of Jacinda & Co after the 2017 Election meant that – Shock! Horror! – all the promises made by that mob that they never expected to have to implement suddenly had to be (attempted to be) implemented.
    
    Remember the 100,000 houses? The billion trees? The City-to-Airport tail link? The stern lookings-into of things like the ‘price-rorting’ by supermarkets, petrol companies, landlords etc?
    
    Not a WORD back then, you’ll remember, too, of such things being ‘aspirational’. Nope.
    
    V. easy to promise lots of things in Opposition (especially as I say, when you believe there was no realistic chance of you becoming a Government).
    
    V. difficult to actually implement them once Winston was playing with his baubles again and your cute glutes were ensconced in the Beehive.
    
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    February 20, 2022 12:00pm
    - bronny1
      
      Your gluteus comment made me vomit just a little ?
      
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      February 20, 2022 4:40pm
Tasman devil

Clarke Gayford has not been seen in public in 2022.

He hasn’t been seen in public since his DJ mate hit the headlines in late December(Mod. This is not an attack on a family member of a politician as Gayford regularly enters political debate, and has become a political figure himself).

Why?

Similarly the PM has largely been off our screens compared to last year.

Why?

Have the Labour Party focus groups told the power couple that they are a liability?
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February 20, 2022 9:24am
- virtualmark
  
  Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:10am
  - Jim
    
    ?
    
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    February 21, 2022 7:28am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  You may find out on Tuesday
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:29am
  - leoj
    
    Do we have the same radar?
    Tuesday keeps coming up.
    
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    February 20, 2022 2:42pm
    - Vory v zakone
      
      Yep. Is 22/2/22 some sort of revelation day?
      
      #thebestisyettocome
      
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      February 21, 2022 3:16am
- Justitia
  
  Maybe they’re concerned about Ceausescu syndrome? :https://youtu.be/wWIbCtz_Xwk
  
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  February 20, 2022 10:38am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    Cant wait until Cindy has her Ceasescu moment. Popcorn time!!!!!
    
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    February 20, 2022 12:06pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Don’t be an idiot.
      
      We all know what you mean by “Ceausescu moment”.
      
      I didn’t vote for Labour. I don’t rate Jacinda Ardern as PM. But hinting and provoking that someone be tried and executed is just evil nonsense.
      
      Too many people here are driven by hate, prejudice, fear and anger. You’ve lost all reasonable and sensible perspective.
      
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      February 20, 2022 1:04pm
      - Tom Hunter
        
        We all know what you mean by “Ceausescu moment”.
        
        Oh FFS. I know you’ve been hysterical about this stuff since Jan 6, 2021 but get a grip.
        
        When I think of a leader facing a Ceausescu moment I’m thinking of the scene where the horrible fuck and his even more horrible wife were standing on the balcony to address the River Of Filth, only to be shocked and astounded when the crowd started booing both of them – before the TV feed was cut.
        
        Great moments in Communist history
        
        Comrades, comrades, sit quietly…. hello?
        
        That horrible voice you can hear beside his is his wife telling the crowd to quiet down.
        
        Oh yes. I’d very much like to see a moment like that with our Princess PM, though it would be asking too much if Gaylord was there telling the crowd to be quiet, only to have Ardern tell him to shut up.
        
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        February 20, 2022 1:24pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        virtualmark: “You’ve lost all reasonable and sensible perspective.”
        
        All? Nope. A few, maybe.
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:27pm
- oldfella
  
  Tasman, I’m predicting that Punxsutawney Cindy will soon emerge from her bunker under Parliament buildings and announce that the mandates will continue until all the dirty and unkind protesters abandon their river of filth and go home.
  That’ll do it.
  
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  February 20, 2022 11:05am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    I’m guessing they’re “brainstorming” in their bunker trying to work out how to not lose the war on sanity.
    
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    February 20, 2022 5:31pm
Benedict Yu

This is an example of what happens when a government becomes obsessed with one health issue. The rates of childhood vaccinations for MMR have crashed. For Maori kids it is a disaster.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/127609790/risk-of-deadly-disease-outbreaks-as-noncovid-childhood-vaccinations-plummet

So we have the idiocy of targeted advertising to persuade Maori parents to vaccinate their kids for COVID, which is of little risk, while ignoring the parents failure to get the kids vaccinated for measles.

What a clown ? show.
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February 20, 2022 9:32am
- Cassandra
  
  This is what happens when someone can’t see the wood for the trees. Instead of spending all her time preening on camera about a single issue, upon which she had no impact after the first broadcast, Ardern should have been leading a government. All the daily stuff should have been handled by a health minister or officials. That’s what happens when you’ve never had a real job.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:45am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  And they have also delayed or cancelled 10’s of thousands of cancer, heart and other life-sustaining treatments at no small cost in death and suffering, as well as destroying businesses, careers, education and prospects of young, and adding 50-100k in debt to each real taxpayer in NZ. All to service their infantile covid monomania (and cindy’s propaganda factory)
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:49am
  - Bridgenag
    
    10 upticks
    
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    February 20, 2022 10:58am
- bronny1
  
  Worst of all….the trust in western medicine, including traditional vaccinations, will be destroyed for decades. When people find out that their docs didn’t have the guts to stand up to tyrants, but instead encouraged vaccination of people who didn’t need it/for whom it was particularly dangerous.
  I’ve done my own research on medical things most of my adult life, but also been guided by my doctor. I will never trust a doctor to have my best interests at heart again. I doubt I’ll be alone in this.
  
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  February 20, 2022 4:45pm
- Jim
  
  Perhaps a direct consequence of political overreach during c19 response and then losing public trust in science and authority?
  
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  February 21, 2022 8:11am
Little Tons

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/461893/covid-19-south-auckland-gps-call-for-new-anti-viral-drugs-in-battle-against-omicron

Except for ivermectin… of course… boldly going where no bureaucracy has gone before and doing all they possibly could for the people HA. Go hard?… how about GO AWAY.
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February 20, 2022 9:43am
TT500

Just watched the child actor Jack Tame interview
Andrew Coster. Looked like he was going to burst into tears at any moment.
Coster batted his lefty crybaby ranting away with ease

Hey Jack you could be the Police Commisioner
Oh hang on , i think they have to bench press 10 kg in training
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February 20, 2022 9:48am
rangitoto

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10530247/Jeffrey-Epsteins-friend-Jean-Luc-Brunel-prison-suicide.html

I wonder if Hillary was in town at the time.
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February 20, 2022 9:53am
Tauhei Notts

Steve Otto’s comment at 8.45 a.m. is worth more than a mere uptick. It is a salient description of what we are all on about. I will repeat it.
“The Covid Vaccine is NOT vaccine. It is not even an inoculant.
It is an experimental medication.”
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February 20, 2022 10:13am
WaynelSexton

Bill Gates is sad that omicron gives better immunity than vaccines.
1 min video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Y0fIzX7TY
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February 20, 2022 10:25am
- Weetbix3ways
  
  So sad, no billions to be made on natural immunity.
  
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  February 20, 2022 11:26am
- NZer In Exile
  
  To be very specific, he said Omicron is a type of vaccine and it gives B and T cell immunity to Covid.
  
  As I understand it, with surviving Omicron infection (which is a highly likely outcome unless you can be knocked over by a feather already), the body is given a “mug shot” of a whole virus to “remember” and keep a watch out for, which would be superior to just giving the body a quickly fading mug shot of only the spike protein from the original covid strain (as in what most of the Covid prototype vaccines do).
  
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  February 20, 2022 5:50pm
- cmm
  
  I’m surprised Gates didn’t try to patent natural immunity.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:36pm
- Jim
  
  Sadly! BG is a terrible communicator and just gets even more weird and creepy.
  It’s as if Billy is talking to big pharma shareholders.
  
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  February 21, 2022 8:16am
Maggie Pie

CAPITAL TRENDING

Gilda rips up that smarmy little Jehan Casinader for ass paper….

https://twitter.com/Strange_G/status/1495142990582796288
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February 20, 2022 10:39am
Bobba Fret

Great article in the NZ Herald this morning by Steven Joyce. Unfortunately it is pay walled but lots of support in the comments.
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February 20, 2022 10:42am
- nathie
  
  Some article highlights, as I don’t think anyone covered this yesterday? Which was a shame because the whole article was excellent reading, Steven Joyce’s thinking on these current matters is way more advanced than Labour’s superficial announcements, and personal insults to the protesters (care of Ardern, Robertson, Mallard and Wood).
  
  A third piece of evidence is the suggestion from a Horizon Poll that 30 per cent of New Zealanders have sympathy for the protesters camped on Parliament’s lawn. I’ve always been cynical about Horizon’s methodology but even if it’s 25 per cent, that would surprise many people.
  I am not surprised. The Covid response has created many losers. We’ve rightly talked a lot about the people caught on the wrong side of the border. But they are not the only ones.
  
  …. abridged (this is copyrighted content)
  
  The Government certainly didn’t create the pandemic, but some of their actions have made it much worse than it needed to be. The vaccination delays, the inexplicable obstinacy against new forms of testing, the failure to increase hospital capacity, the layers upon layers of levels, traffic lights and stages which make people’s heads spin.
  
  …
  
  And their blind loyalty to the Ministry of Health and its Director-General is a sight to behold. Dr Bloomfield has been politically dissembling at best about his organisation’s confiscation of RAT test orders. In any other Government he would have been carpeted and there would be talk of resignation.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/steven-joyce-protest-much-bigger-than-the-protesters/S3KOCXK5CLV66FADRASHBLZROU/
  
  I hope NZ see’s more of Steven Joyce’s thoughts, particularly when National & ACT form the next government in 2023!
  
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  February 20, 2022 1:28pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Not to mention not promoting the simple and nearly free health measures that would have greatly reduced individual risk – losing weight and taking a few ultra safe supplements. These are things that could have saved more lives that covid will ever cost at a small fraction of the incredible price we have all paid.
    
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    February 20, 2022 2:39pm
  - nathie
    
    Thanks Mod (and good abridging too)!
    
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    February 20, 2022 5:39pm
Yvette

Police could have acted sooner on Parliament protest – Cahill
Police have had to bring in more staff from across the country to help with the efforts in Wellington. There are about 200 staff that have to be available at any one time in case things escalated. The increase in resources in Wellington mean others in crisis are missing out.

“It’s victims of crime that are missing out, it’s victims of family violence, it’s people in a mental health crisis that police are just struggling to meet and certainly the minor investigations have to fall because police don’t have the resources,” says Cahill.

The police union expects this protest to last a couple of months.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/02/17/police-couldve-acted-sooner-on-parliament-protest-cahill/

So now in every utterance she makes for quite some time to come, will Jacinda have to add an update on the “Parliament Protest”,?
– or will she declare it a nameless non-entity and never refer to it again?
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February 20, 2022 10:46am
Scooter

Haha our very own “Kiwi Mussolini” Jacinda mentioned at 5min. Not sure who the guy is but great video, rips into Justin T also.

https://youtu.be/cZjoSMHaBTg
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February 20, 2022 10:52am
- Justitia
  
  Excellent clip Scooter.
  
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  February 20, 2022 11:41am
- alloytoo
  
  “Kiwi Mussolini” is rather catchy.
  
  Except of course the light rail to the airport isn’t on time.
  
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  February 20, 2022 4:29pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  If you don’t want to be tracked and profiled by the big loony left creeper orgs, you can search Kiwi Mussolini on Bitchute.
  
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  February 20, 2022 6:20pm
emmess

Justin Castro may have partially smashed the Ottawa truckers protest
But more have popped up all over Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovmStA2e8Zs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWlVJvagd8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw6YQlaH2Oc

Hold the line, boys
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February 20, 2022 10:54am
- mawm
  
  A weak man with too much power is a dangerous man.
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:39pm
coge

This Govt apparently have no interest in restoring freedom to Kiwis. Therefore the people are taking their freedom back. No Govt permission is required for this. The protest will continue to grow this week. With calls to all Kiwis throughout NZ to reclaim their freedom, by way of countless little acts of civil disobedience. And a national boycott on businesses who have chosen to segregate.
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February 20, 2022 11:00am
wilderbeast

One of the take outs here for me is just how inconvenient it is to the MSM and government to be faced with a group of people prepared to think for themselves. Their reaction speaks volumes.
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February 20, 2022 11:00am
Southern Raider

The far left are loosing their minds over the protest. All over social media (mostly twitter) for a start
– continuing claims all are nazi
– deploring the police to use violence against the protesters
– claiming they shouldn’t be allowed to protest as it’s undermining their legitimate use of protest
– also the same people who seem to have glee when commenting on reports of small business closing

Most seem to be over represented by public sector workers, far left activists and Labour voting elderly

Even journalists seeming to switch on twitter between posting media articles to their own opinions about how dirty and evil the protesters are

The woke are now even calling for the woke commissioner to be fired and claiming he’s undermined by the old boys club who want to continue racism and bullying in the Police
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February 20, 2022 11:05am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  It’s extremely amusing seeing someone like Man of the People Chris Trotter losing his shit over a free expression of political dissent, particularly when he is on the council of the Free Speech Union.
  
  https://www.fsu.nz/about
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:46pm
  - Tom Hunter
    
    There’s more than few like him who have read the room wrong. Trotter’s splenetic outbursts don’t quite match those of Bob Jones (https://nopunchespulled.com/2022/02/18/disgraceful-ineptitude/ ) but they’re close.
    
    Also notable that both men have had few or zero comments on their most recent articles, probably because they’ve had a bunch of responses that dont agree with them and even taken them to task on their “principles”, whether of Free Speech (Trotter) or Libertarianism (Jones).
    
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    February 20, 2022 1:51pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    It’s clearly the wrong sort of working class uprising. Stalinda needs to sort out those goddamned Kulaks.
    
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    February 20, 2022 2:42pm
lazza

Oh Touche Sir.

Viz Our PM …

“Have you been totally blindsided by these protestors? Have you run up against something your cheesy smile, trite platitudes and compliant media can’t fix?”

Answer:

Why … “Yes” … of course.
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February 20, 2022 11:07am
oldfella

Just spotted this on the bottom of the main stuffed page:
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Not trying to make things awkward, but…
You’re probably thinking, ‘this is another call from Stuff asking me for money’. And you’re totally right. But hear us out. The stories you read here cost time and resources to make. So we’re asking those who read them to contribute financially. What do you reckon, NZ?
I’m sure we’d all like to tell them what we reckon. Maybe they should open up all their stories to comments from the public.
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February 20, 2022 11:12am
- Prince
  
  Govt funding must be inadequate.
  Typical Govt Dept, suffering under four years of neglect.
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:28pm
- wilderbeast
  
  When they eventually go under I’ll park my usual attitude of not basking in others’ misfortune and toast their obsolescence
  
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  February 20, 2022 1:17pm
- Little Tons
  
  I cant exactly recall, but i think most all major mainstream online news sites removed the ability to comment on articles, it was under Cindys watch, and the CCH shooting was the reasoning behind it. I could be wrong though, but it was around that time.
  Prior to that, even stuffed comments policed as it was, was still gave one a bit a read into the public sentiment. that is completely gone now, only the most benign idiocy has a comment function, and even that can only be supportive.
  These media outlets are all fully captured, they are only function as advocacy journalism and that is only if it is 100% aligned with Cindys PR campaign.
  
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  February 20, 2022 6:00pm
  - RdM
    
    RNZ (the rediculous forced change to an acronym, like changing a flag, a (CEO?* perhaps vanity project IMO) turned off comments in July 2016, well before the ChCh XXX.
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/308405/why-we're-turning-off-comments
    
    Perhaps one could do a search on when other outlets turned off or severely restricted comments.
    
    NZME (NZ Herald &etc.) has this, but allows few:
    https://www.nzme.co.nz/about-nzme/terms-conditions/nz-herald-s-house-rules/
    
    (* the same CEO who proposed automating Concert FM because yoof & streaming – rejected!)
    
    I wonder if he himself has ever listened to through, or even has, a quality FM tuner and a good hifi system, or whether he dips in to low bit-rate streaming himself, like the yoof he imagines do.
    
    Perhaps he has no idea how good and captivating his own Concert can sound, through such?
    
    Tuners for instance, ranked and appraised at
    https://www.fmtunerinfo.com/
    
    And say what you like about Govt owned RNZ – Concert, National, Shortwave (to the PI & etc.) – and I do think it important that a Govt should have a national broadcast medium, ideally neutral politically, – just the facts, ma’am – I do think that in case of bare news reporting that they mostly get it so, as (even if selected) ‘facts’.
    
    Of course, content is provided NGO & Govt media releases, as to the online providers.
    
    Sort the wheat from the chaff.
    
    I still think a Govt – and doesn’t each worldwide? – should have a nation, national broadcast channel.
    
    Cleaning it up and making sure it is as neutral as can be is a different thing from just having it.
    
    I would hate to see a nations outlets owned by commercial interests, themselves owned by … ?
    
    But yes, in the magazine (9-to-noon, Afternoons, The Panel) programs the hosts often seem to have a lefty bias, have drunk the kool-aid on ‘climate change’ and the covid, and give not only those interviews but also any anti alcohol sugar or tobacco reformist cranks uncritical platforms…
    
    Kim Hill too despite her intellect and listenable interviews seems to have bought into ‘climate change’. As Bryan Crump on Nights. Jim Mora?
    
    You can however listen through that to content.
    
    But all of the music on Concert FM, from classical through jazz, world music, ambient, contemporary, live concerts, is entirely apolitical, as are the announcers, hosts, curators.
    
    So, as National increasingly involves itself with music interludes and programmes – despite it being broadcast on FM in mono – none of that being objectionably political – the music is what it is – I intend to write to the CEO and technicians there, proposing that National should be in stereo, if they are going to broadcast shows and live songs – they don’t seem to realise that technically, only a few stereo microphone set-ups mix down well to mono – and that also, they should spend next money on upping the bitrate that they actually stream on.
    
    National is at spoken word level, but now doing music. Concert has all these downloads, but at well below the 320kbs max for mp3, almost CD-like.
    (I think they have them at 196kbs, must check.)
    
    World class classical internet radio streams do stream at 320kbs.
    
    That’s what the CEO should aspire to, IMO.
    
    Put National out on stereo, now that they’re doing so much music, and upgrade its bit-rate, and for Concert, raise the broadcast streaming bitrate, and – but this would no doubt cost – although maybe in future – make all those live recordings and program downloads available at 320kbs quality.
    
    This would be a far better legacy for a CEO …
    
    In the old days, bandwidth was expensive, as was local storage. These days it isn’t.
    
    So how about becoming world class, RNZ?
    
    Mods: I realise I’ve digressed with the radio part, but please treat it as a preview – while I was in the flow, I just wanted to get those thoughts down.
    
    Writing practice. Some notes to draw on later!
    
    Maybe I’ll try the radio part out in GD later … Ta!
    
    ~ RdM
    
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    February 21, 2022 12:21am
rjay

11:05am – The Government has denied rumours that they are planning on building a fence around Parliament as the protest stretches into a 13th day.

A government spokesperson told Newshub that, “Cabinet has no plans to build a fence around Parliament”.

This comes after sources told the Sunday-Star Times Cabinet is set to consider and approve the building of a fence wrapping around the entire Parliamentary complex

“Has no plans…”
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February 20, 2022 11:15am
- Prince
  
  “Plans to build a fence protecting Parliamentary complex are underway, well-placed sources told Stuff.”
  No doubt the same sources that claim protesters abuse and threaten bystanders, are plotting the overthrow of democratic government, and have a store of weapons on the grounds.
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:26pm
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  When building a fence equals digging a hole. Nothing says “government with the will of the people” like a protective fence around the halls of power. Biden’s got one too, I believe. I think Berlin had a big fence at one point too.
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:40pm
  - RdM
    
    “When building a fence equals digging a hole.”
    
    “This post has been removed because it might cause a fence”
    
    https://ifunny.co/picture/this-post-has-been-removed-because-it-might-cause-a-AGFwCO8e8
    
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    February 20, 2022 7:56pm
- alloytoo
  
  I suspect no contracting company was willing to take their call.
  
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  February 20, 2022 4:31pm
emmess

Huge jump in polling for the Canadian Conservative Party, after coming out in favour of relaxing Covid restrictions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_45th_Canadian_federal_election
https://ipolitics.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Canada-iPolitics-18February20221.pdf

Lessons for Nationals and ACT
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February 20, 2022 11:16am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  Too late now.
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:41pm
  - emmess
    
    I disagree
    Better late than never
    I see ACT is now questioning the mandates
    Take any wins that you can get, but keep pushing.
    
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    February 20, 2022 1:14pm
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      Maybe. But no matter how hard they try to expunge the stains of complicity in wrongdoing, they won’t be able to remove reminders of past wrongs.
      
      Macbeth, Act 1, scene 5
      
      LADY MACBETH
      Yet here’s a spot.
      
      Doctor
      Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.
      
      LADY MACBETH
      Out, damned spot! out, I say!–One: two: why,
      then, ’tis time to do’t.–Hell is murky!–Fie, my
      lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
      fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?–Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him
      
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      February 20, 2022 2:33pm
    - leoj
      
      Seymour is a dollar each way kind of guy.
      On the other hand, Luxon put a tenner on the govt and his horse has lost its jockey.
      
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      February 20, 2022 5:27pm
- curry4me
  
  National and ACT are still committed members of Branch Covidians. There is little prospect of a change.
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:48pm
curry4me

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

Ottawa Police Trample Disabled Elderly Woman, Cops Are Beating Protestors, DC Freedom Convoy

Ottawa Police Trample an elderly woman and have been seen Beating defenseless protestors after Trudeau Crackdown leads to over 100 arrests. US Truckers announce plan to march on Washington DC in a protest inspired by the Freedom Convoy 2022 movement. [10:39]
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February 20, 2022 11:18am
curry4me

https://www.bitchute.com/video/YJEz9UmX7fU/

More House Dems Quit Than any time Since 1992.

Some Dems can see the writing on the wall. Some are likely just ready to retire anyway. [11:02]
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February 20, 2022 11:18am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_VX7in8_tc

Kamala Saves the Day
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February 20, 2022 11:19am
ecco

I see the Ferald is still following the narrative that it’s the police’s fault that the protest has got so big. How can this be? This is all about Ardern & her government refusing to budge on even discussing the protestors concerns. This is a protest almost solely against the actions of Jacinda Ardern. This narrative can only be facilitated with the help of control over the two mainstream media outlets, The Ferald and $tuffed.

As useless as Coster is, this is not about him. I guess he’s prepared to take the hits for Ardern. What would he be on? I’m guessing around the $600-700k mark. I suppose he’ll hang in there for the whipping on that wicket.

Anybody with half a brain would realise it’s not possible to tow 400 cars and remove 1000+ people from an area in one go, without violence.

I see the Ferald and $tuffed are still maintaining the line that the protestors are abusive to passers by etc. This wasn’t what I saw when I went for a stroll through the protest site the other day. Where are they getting their material from?
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February 20, 2022 11:21am
- ecco
  
  One other line the ‘bought out’ media (Ferald & $tuffed) seeming to be pursuing is that the housing market has plateaued. This would be due to the tanking of liquidity due to Minister Clark’s, (of mountain bike fame), poorly enacted CCCFA amendments basically sledgehammering anyone’s applications as of December wanting a loan. It has not only plateaued the market, it has also stopped the property market from functioning properly at any level. This will flow on to small business owners who have used their family homes as collateral for debt to fund their businesses.
  
  Liam Dann, another Ferald/Labour sycophant business reporter, has a piece on this and a similar article is appearing simulaneously in $tuffed today indicating that these lines of editorial have come from Ardern’s spin department.
  
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  February 20, 2022 11:30am
- jon
  
  *Getting their material from* all those fat cat Wellington lefties who reside in the wealthy Wellington Central seat who will do anything to discredit the protesters.
  
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  February 20, 2022 3:21pm
TT500

Oh dear looks like Mrs Betty’s little boy Brian is about to take a bus ride, albeit underneath it

You all remember Brian, standing over the medical profession, unjabbed to be consulted in the carpark
after hours at extra cost,blah blah.

Now Brian has decided its a bit of a cold. Don’t worry Brian we’ve got it all written down.
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February 20, 2022 11:21am
- ecco
  
  I have the utmost respect for Betty for even speaking out this week. Good on him. Same also to the Auckland Grammar principal who was brave enough to go on newshub to let the public know that the government had banned the RATS that he had secured in order to run his school properly. These people are putting their professional lives on the line to go public and should be applauded.
  
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  February 20, 2022 11:34am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Yep, when the current regime is gone we need to promote those who had courage to speak against it at risk to themselves. They are the stalwarts we want in leadership positions.
    
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    February 20, 2022 2:48pm
I remember when

US: “Phantom braking” investigated:
US regulators have begun a formal investigation into hundreds of thousands of Tesla cars, after complaints that the vehicles automatically apply the brakes at high speeds for no reason.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it had received 354 complaints over the past 9 months about ‘phantom braking’ in Models 3 and Y.
Tesla recalled about 54,000 vehicles this month over claims that their driver assist technology was allowing them to conduct ‘rolling stops’ at stop signs.
The NHTSA has investigated at least 33 crashes involving Teslas using driver-assist systems since 2016, in which 11 people were killed.

Technology isn’t always automatically better,
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February 20, 2022 11:29am
- Weetbix3ways
  
  In some cases it’s also being used outside of it’s intended limits. Autopilot, for example, is supposed to be actively monitored, but often isn’t.
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:24pm
  - cmm
    
    What’s the point of having actively monitored autopilot?
    
    Actively monitoring the system is far more stressful than just driving yourself.
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:48pm
blue collar

WANT TO END THE PROTEST ?
Simple . Brenda talks to the protest . Hears them and gives a response , preferably with a timeline for mandates to end
Don’t blame police
Dont blame Wellington council
And don’t blame the protesters
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February 20, 2022 11:44am
- GJM
  
  If she had done that when they arrived, it might have worked, so the protesters made their point, and went home before the stormy weather.
  Given her habit of lying, there is no way anyone would believe any commitments now. 90 % faxed for freedom, 2 jabs for summer and all that’s
  
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  February 20, 2022 3:49pm
Maggie Pie

From the….. ‘you can’t make this sh*t up file’

‘DANGEROUS PRISONER ON THE RUN AFTER BEING SUPPLIED WITH GET-AWAY VEHICLE BY CORRECTIONS STAFF’

John Douglas Willis escaped from Rimutaka Prison in a white 2008 Toyota Van while working in the jails Herb garden.

Willis, who has been in prison for more than 10 years, has a criminal history that includes assault to commit rape, abduction for sex, and kidnapping. He has been described by police as ‘extremely dangerous and irrational’

The public are advised not to approach, but if spotted, to call Cuddles Coster direct on 0800 LANTERN.

– Stuffed (Feb 18 @22:22)
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February 20, 2022 11:52am
- Inandout
  
  I wonder if the herb garden contained Cinnamon plants?
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:32pm
oldfella

stuffed has pictures of cops physically LIFTING cars out of the way. I guess those tow trucks PC Custard said were standing by didn’t turn up.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/wellington/300521997/live-protesters-in-wellington-dig-in-for-their-13th-day
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February 20, 2022 12:08pm
- Russ the Muss
  
  There is something quite sad about this. I have spoken to many cops over the last few days in and around parliament and my feeling is there morale is very low. This is rubbish work for them and they are not happy. Failed leadership over a period of time e has cumulatived in this Shambles and I’m betting there will be a many resignations soon. MiQ was taking its toll and this will be the last straw. Those that joined up to make a difference and believed in a better NZ, standing at Ease for 8 hours in the rain and cold, a mixture of abuse and symptahy from protesters, tortuous music from the home side, and forced to retreat many times as well as the embarressment of being trespassed from the camp and not knowing if they could enter. A lack of backing from the police minister and chief. These are dark days for the Bobby. The other thimg I have noticed is how out of shape many of them are, I know they have dropped the PCT standards, but they have no physical presence or intimidation factor at all. Our police force deserves better than the current leadership.
  
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  February 20, 2022 2:33pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Time for them to get a little ‘Blue WuFlu’ walkout methinks. The govt loses legitimacy all the faster when they can’t get people to follow their orders.
    
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    February 20, 2022 2:51pm
I remember when

When I first started working I was involved with the preparation of the company’s Woolstore staff wages.
From October to March, the period during which the main Wool Sales occured, they worked long hours.
The hours were so repetitive they still they remain in my memory.
During the working week they worked 12 hours a day, 8 Ordinary, 3 Time and a half and 1 hour Double Time.
At the weekends it was 12 hours on Saturday and 10 hours on Sunday.
Saturday 3 Time and a half and 9 Double Time and 10 hours Double Time on Sunday.
So they worked for up to 82 hours a week and were paid for 112 hours.
Most worked less than that but the whole of the period involved extensive overtime.
Their summer holidays were the statutory holidays each year.
I guess some of them suffered ‘burn out’ but don’t know of any.
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February 20, 2022 12:13pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Some of them got burn out and returned to Law School in mid February.
  What they learned while working alongside Joe Public in the wool stores helped them become very competent public practitioner lawyers in later life.
  
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  February 20, 2022 5:55pm
I remember when

The number employed is high, and the economy has been performing well, but I was wondering what the wages bill total is and in what industries is it being earned.
We no longer have large numbers of those previously employed still working in the tourist industry.
Backpackers have largely disappeared.
Working visa numbers also seem to be far less than was previously the case.
Employers in many industries are crying out for seasonal staff.
There seems to be a large hole in business activity we are not hearing about.
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February 20, 2022 12:28pm
krazykiwi

Vaccine Effectiveness Continues to Fall – Triple Vaccinated Now Up to Three Times More Likely to be Infected, UKHSA Data Show

I look forward to @surfing’s robust, evidence-based rebuttal.
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February 20, 2022 12:30pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  You can find a robust, evidence-based rebuttal if you follow the links in your article back to what Public Health Scotland actually said. There is full and detailed explanation in there as to what the data does and doesn’t show.
  
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  February 20, 2022 12:46pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The data is English, not Scottish.
    
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    February 20, 2022 2:37pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Their ‘rebuttal’ was to stop publishing the data. What are they hiding?
    
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    February 20, 2022 3:42pm
- cmm
  
  Yeah, but kk that’s why a third shot isn’t enough.
  
  Roll up your sleeve higher and get your fourth shot.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:52pm
- Jim
  
  Yep the weekly UK Gov Vaccine Surveillance Report has demonstrated this consistent trend for about 5-6 months now. However they keep tweaking the data, shading columns etc to obscure the open fact.
  
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  February 21, 2022 8:21am
Southern Raider

Anyone else got a vision of Jacinda at the moment rocking front to back on the floor in her Sandringham house, fingers in her ears, changing “La La La La” over and over again and looking more maniacal by the minute?
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February 20, 2022 12:31pm
- Inandout
  
  SR, that is presuming she still resides at that house.
  
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  February 20, 2022 1:41pm
- RdM
  
  No, but a vision – er, photo – of her at her Pt Chevalier house, which interested me because of the placement of the stereo system, speakers, etc.
  
  It would likely have boomy bass, particularly with the RH one in the corner …
  
  Acoustics and optimal loudspeaker placement in rooms is essentially a scientific endeavour;- there is plenty online and in books about this – so I guess these were placed for convenience, inchuision.
  
  In other words, no research or consultation.
  
  I’m guessing too though that they might be NZ made Image loudspeakers, I might be wrong.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/other-spaces/89238813/at-my-place-jacinda-arderns-1990s-brick-and-tile
  
  Remembered that from a few years ago.
  Wasn’t too hard to find again.
  
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  February 20, 2022 8:42pm
Yvette

Protest leader, Brian Tamaki’s daughter Jamie Warren, lays out list of demands for Ardern, warns she needs to resign and new elections be called if demands not met

Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/newzealand.
Moderators remove posts from feeds for a variety of reasons, including keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose.
https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/sw26ge/protest_leader_brian_tamakis_daughter_jamie/

17 hours ago –
Brian Tamaki’s daughter Jamie Warren, speaking at Parliament on behalf of the Freedoms and Rights Coalition, has laid out a list of demands for the Government.

In a statement from the coalition – which praised her for bringing “strong and decisive leadership to the protesters”, Warren laid out her four key points:

• End the mandates by March 1 2022
• Negotiation on March 1 with the Government on behalf of the protesters and the New Zealanders who support them
• A clear end date to the COVID-19 Health Response Acts and all its amendments
• Jobs reinstated to those affected by the mandates, and the back pay of wages lost as a result of them

Warren warns if the Government do not revoke the mandates, then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern needs to resign and new elections be called.

“This has now gone beyond an arm wrestle to have the mandates removed, as the next chapter in this epic struggle for political change and the fight to get our country back, has just begun,” Warren said.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/02/latest-on-covid-19-community-outbreak-parliament-protest-saturday-february-19.html

What happened to that?
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February 20, 2022 12:41pm
- Inandout
  
  Yvette, mentioning Reddit tends to remind me of a Soviet frog.
  
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  February 20, 2022 1:40pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Reddit moderators are some of the most officious oafs you will ever find on the internet especially the ones on r/ newzealand
  Kiwiblog moderators are mild mannered by comparison.
  
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  February 20, 2022 2:49pm
oldfella

Karl du Fresne has just shared this on his blog. Worth resharing on KB. Karl explains…

https://karldufresne.blogspot.com/2022/02/don-franks-posted-following-poem-as.html
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February 20, 2022 12:49pm
- oldfella
  
  FWIW, it’s a very pointed list of rules for how to protest properly. It could have been written by Cindy for the current mandate protests.
  
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  February 20, 2022 1:00pm
mawm

Neil Oliver from GBN with a reasoned commentary about covid, hidden numbers, Trudeau, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-836RNdDZKg
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February 20, 2022 12:57pm
- [email protected]
  
  He calls “Australia and New Zealand the prison nations”.
  
  How true.
  
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  February 20, 2022 1:25pm
TT500

I’m guessing ecco that you know your bestie Brian
has been a very loyal foot soldier for the regime

I think he has just remembered that old college
science class experiment, the one when a certain
mattter hits the fan
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February 20, 2022 1:00pm
oldfella

Thursday is Freedom Day! Boris Johnson prepares to lift lockdown restrictions once and for all next week in his ‘Living with Covid Plan’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10531173/Thursday-Freedom-Day-Boris-Johnson-prepares-lift-lockdown-restrictions-all.html
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February 20, 2022 1:04pm
- Cinematic
  
  Should have happened months ago. The UK has been an absolute cluster. Follow the science (Sweden) next time is the worldwide learning.
  
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  February 20, 2022 2:03pm
coolas

“Warren warns if the Government do not revoke the mandates, then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern needs to resign and new elections be called.”

So bold and authoritative bet daddy Brian the Apostle Bishop Tamaki is mighty proud of his girl.

Go Jamie, can imagine Jacinda is shaking in her flat heels, at the awesome threat pose to her.
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February 20, 2022 1:12pm
wilderbeast

I see Andy Foster is asking government for money to support businesses affected by the protest. Where’s he been for the last two years? Government policy and absurd operational decisions (“working from home”) has made central Wellington a hitherto unseen ghost town. If businesses lack the financial resilience to ride out a protest that is not yet two weeks old perhaps he should look at how the service sector in Wellington had the rug pulled out from under it two years ago and was already blown to smithereens. What do you say about that Mr Foster?
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February 20, 2022 1:26pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

It is just a mask.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZjILL0BeQ
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February 20, 2022 1:26pm
Stu2

MIQ numbers are increasing at a great rate – they may be about to run out of capacity

13/2 1789
14/2 2058
15/2 2485
16/2 3132
17/2 4093
18/2 5895
19/2 8090

In the same period self isolation has only doubled, so there must be a lot of people whose circumstances make self isolation impractical

13/2 2252
14/2 2658
15/2 2865
16/2 3420
17/2 4191
18/2 4439
19/2 4776

https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-current-cases
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February 20, 2022 1:34pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Do not Pass Go.
https://www.tiktok.com/@theunitedspot/video/7065938728992116014?_t=8Pyv2m4O96M&_r=1
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February 20, 2022 1:37pm
Maggie Pie

STUFFED TRENDING 😛 😎

https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/1495176256945414145
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February 20, 2022 1:59pm
- Its only I
  
  I don’t have a twittle tattle account and a join banner stops me reading it.
  
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  February 20, 2022 2:48pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Honestly, you should join. The benefits are mind-blowing!
    I’ve learned more from being on Twitter in the last 5 years than I did spending 12 years at boarding school.
    And I went from not having any real friends at school to now having nearly 7000!!
    
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    February 20, 2022 4:11pm
    - kevn
      
      @Maggie… Add us on KB as well. Must another thou who enjoy your input.
      Kudos to the girls at tennis as well of course.
      Your twitter sifting is great.
      
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      February 20, 2022 5:37pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Cheers Kev! Means a lot 😀
        
        (Even here i’ve got a couple of nasty lefty haters)
        
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        February 20, 2022 5:58pm
  - Its only I
    
    I will take your word for it.
    I’m not puter savy enough to stop the tracking.
    
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    February 20, 2022 6:14pm
ecco

Be good to know the BMI stats of those 100 people in hospital with covid. It’s quite a relevant stat. There’s a big difference as to whether a person ended up in hospital who has co morbidities and someone who did not and still ended up in hospital. I’m not wanting to know their names or anything. Just whether they are in the overweight/obese category.

Ethnicity stats would also be helpful. Then one could gauge how much of a threat covid is to themselves personally based on these stats. Why do the Ferald and $tuffed persist with numbers in hospital headlines that don’t mean anything without accompanying obesity and ethnicity stats.
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February 20, 2022 2:10pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Good point ecco.
  The lack of any pertinent information put my bullshit detectors upon alert as early as mid April 2020.
  In 0ver the past 22 months I have never personally heard of anybody who has been seriously infected with Covid-19. All news seems to have been, like my hands so often, sanitized.
  By the way, those few who have tested positive rate Covid as nothing like as serious as a severe hangover.
  
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  February 20, 2022 3:48pm
- tf78
  
  ecco, age is also a very relevant stat, most of the Covid deaths in Aussie were between 81-86 years old.
  
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  February 20, 2022 6:08pm
kevn

New data on https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/covid-19-pandemic-of-the-vaccinated/ re infection rate, jabbed and not.
Time for a refund.
Oh, the contract… dang.
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February 20, 2022 2:15pm
Bazmeister

Total persons currently infected 13785. Number in Hospital is 100 and this equates to 0.07 per cent of those people. Should I be worried….?
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February 20, 2022 2:50pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Actually 0.7% of known cases, probably much less of actual cases, asymptomatic not being identified.
  
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  February 20, 2022 3:19pm
- Weetbix3ways
  
  What percentage of those are in hospital BECAUSE of covid, versus those that just happen to have tested positive while in for something unrelated?
  
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  February 20, 2022 3:47pm
  - tf78
    
    Weetbix, are you talking about the Virus (Circus) so deadly you have to have a test to know you have it, or the other one. (Yet to be named for security reasons – i.e. they haven’t identified it or made it up yet).
    
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    February 20, 2022 6:11pm
- mandk
  
  How many of the 100 were admitted for some other reason?
  
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  February 20, 2022 3:51pm
  - tf78
    
    mandk, One hundred, why do you ask?
    
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    February 20, 2022 6:12pm
    - mandk
      
      Seriously?
      
      I was asking how many of the 100 had been admitted for something else and were subsequently discovered to have covid, or were infected while in hospital.
      
      Just like there is a difference between dying from covid and dying with covid, there is a difference between being in hospital because of covid and being in hospital with covid.
      
      Is that simple enough?
      
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      February 20, 2022 7:46pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Well Covid vax cured them from influenza – maybe there is something else?
    
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    February 20, 2022 6:43pm
- GJM
  
  Are those in hospital due to covid, or in hospital with something else, say a gun shot wound, but tests show they may have covid?
  As we know, if they die, irrespective of the ral cause such as getting shot, it is a covid death.
  These are some fundamental facts we need to know, yest the MSM are incapable of asking simple questions.
  
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  February 20, 2022 3:58pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    He died from lead poisoning – just happened to have asymptomatic Covid
    
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    February 20, 2022 6:46pm
- cmm
  
  According to various numbers we have approx 2.5 beds per 1000 population.
  
  Assuming beds are reasonably full, that means 0.25% of all NZers are in hospital for all causes.
  
  Since likely only 50% or less of people infected with Omicron are getting tested, only 0.3% or so of them are in hospital.
  
  If only 0.3% or people with Omicron infections are in hospital and 0.25% of everyone is in hospital, then it really does not seem like Omicron is significantly more likely to get you in hospital than just being alive.
  
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  February 20, 2022 5:37pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Run that past Blofeld, Hendy and the pink terror please
    
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    February 20, 2022 6:48pm
Its only I

Will there ever be an end to the stuff whataboutism hit pieces on the stuff site berating the protestors and using the 97% vaxxed so we were right you were wrong, go home.

The real challenge the protestors seem to have is that they are not one story with one message, so rubbish click bated articles written by sanctimonious fantasists fill the gaps with absolutely anything that doesn’t hinder the covid media fund top up negotiations.

Not one person is in ICU today because of omicron.

What’s interesting over the last few years is how the company supplying the gov with its vaccine and with the documented history of deceit and incredible fines they paid because of that dishonesty have become a more reliable information source than the British Medical Journal who has been flagged by FB as an alt fact, conspiracy seeding little amature blog after posting an accurate article about that same company making the stuff they are wanting to inject into infants.
The post covid enquiry is going to be challenging for everyone involved.

Perhaps Jacinda could get a marketing job with pfizer if the UN gig gets cancelled?
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February 20, 2022 3:36pm
- Doc Holliday
  
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  February 20, 2022 4:09pm
  - Its only I
    
    So Doc these whataboutisms the Govs media team keep publishing..do you think they could compare the protesters camp with the Labour run alcohol fueled youth camps?…women are safe and going about their own business at the protestors camp unlike Labours gatherings.
    Imagine this whataboutism?
    As its often said….
    If a female within Labour was genuinely respected when they said NO! to a male repeatedly and it was actually accepted the first time then two things would have happened….
    1. the females at the summer camp would not have been sexually predated upon and had to tell their story in court after the offending was buried.
    2. Andrew Little would have had to stay leader of the Labour party through the election.
    
    Then of course “whatabout” citizens of other countries have a choice of vaccine, not having to starve themselves to get out of MIQ or be pregnant with a useful skill set to embarrass the gov enough to get into MIQ.
    “Whatabout” Clarke Gayfords phone call to a medical professional on behalf of some mates?
    
    Labours claim to know about poverty, poverty? I’m sure someone from Somalia will pen a “Whataboutism” opinion piece for stuff ridiculing Labours claims about the poor in NZ..not.
    
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    February 20, 2022 7:07pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  The real challenge the protestors seem to have is that they are not one story with one message, so rubbish click bated articles written by …
  
  Nope. This is an MSM ideologically dedicated to supporting a government that might implement many Leftie ideas (plus $105 million).
  
  There is absolutely nothing the protestors could have done to change the MSM narrative. Like all narratives it was written before they arrived.
  
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  February 20, 2022 6:35pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “No matter what we do, what we say, the polls don’t change” or something like that.
    Who said it??
    
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    February 20, 2022 6:50pm
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      Katie Bradford the TV reporter whose Mum was a Green MP and supported anti smacking bill
      
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      February 20, 2022 6:54pm
  - Its only I
    
    They have been placing placards in view of the stuff cam.
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:42pm
- Mike
  
  ‘if the the UN gig gets cancelled’
  Why do you snowflakes always want to ‘cancel’ people?
  
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  February 20, 2022 6:46pm
  - Its only I
    
    Mike?
    Why are so many pro gov/jacinda comentors called mike?
    
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    February 20, 2022 8:01pm
marcw

Three headlines today –

Covid 19 Omicron outbreak: Record 2552 new cases, 100 in hospital, RATS for Auckland cases – NZ Herald

Vaccination making little difference to infection rates – David Seymour

Covid-19: Experts dismiss Seymour’s claim vax rate making ‘little difference’

Which one is the odd one out?
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February 20, 2022 4:06pm
Doc Holliday

Is anyone recommending Ivermectin? Reading between the lines maybe krazykiwi?

Is this Coster’s Last Stand?
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February 20, 2022 4:14pm
- tf78
  
  I think a lot of doctors would prescribe it if they were allowed to. I do believe it works. Let’s face it, everything Trump did worked!
  
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  February 20, 2022 6:02pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    It’s called “off-label” prescribing. Any doctor can do it. By and large they don’t – go figure ….
    
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    February 20, 2022 6:29pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      Around 15% of prescriptions in the US are for off-label pharmaceuticals.
      
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      February 20, 2022 7:01pm
    - mawm
      
      Ian – That’s incorrect. It’s ‘off label’ for covid but in NZ since the declaration from the Podium only a few selected Drs are allowed to prescribe it for the ‘on label’ indications. Go and ask your GP to prescribe you some and see what his response is.
      
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      February 20, 2022 8:38pm
    - cmm
      
      kk: It’s not just in USA.
      
      Around 15% of all meds prescribed in NZ are off-label.
      Around 50% of pediatric meds prescribed are off label.
      Many psychiatric meds are off-label.
      
      All off-label means is using the drug for something other than what it was approved for. Many drugs are found to have other benefits beyond their original approval and this use is off label.
      
      For example, a very common off-label usage is using asprin in low doses for heart attack prevention.
      
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      February 20, 2022 9:04pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I think Trump took Hydroxychloroquine
    
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    February 20, 2022 6:53pm
Maggie Pie

‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ placards appear at Wellington’s Anti-Mandate protest.

Cuddles Coster now admits…. “Any THOUGHT of forcibly removing protestors has completely disappeared.”
Says “They could be there till Christmas”
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February 20, 2022 4:45pm
Maggie Pie

Here we go guys…..Gilds last vid for the day.

Thanx for having us at ‘your place’ Hon 😀

https://twitter.com/Strange_G/status/1495227426821275652
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February 20, 2022 5:18pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Maggie Pie,
  Thank you for bringing Gilda’s video to our attention.
  The part that got me was that almost all of the women there looked as if they would be part of Jacinda’s hard core support group in October 2020.
  When a politician’s hard core support group goes, that politician is in more strife than Flash Gordon.
  
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  February 20, 2022 5:49pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Know what you mean……love the way she concentrates on capturing the fat ugly scrubbers in the crowd 😀
    
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    February 20, 2022 6:26pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Soon WCC will come in and say ‘you have no licence to hold a concert
  
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  February 20, 2022 6:56pm
Hollyfield

Yesterday the Herald reported that Police had “serious concerns” about safety at last night’s Rhythm & Rights concerts. I haven’t seen anything reported today of any incidents, so presumably their fears were unfounded.
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February 20, 2022 5:56pm
Yvette

■ Meanwhile, the Government has denied reports it is considering building a Parliamentary fence as the anti-mandate protest stretches into day 13

■ Govt denies reports fence will be built around Parliament

■ 5:00pm – Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard has asked officials to look into the cost and practicality of fencing the complex to prevent a repeat of the occupation.
Mallard said he asked Parliamentary Service to begin the work on Tuesday – but expected it would take months for a plan to be drawn up.
If approved, Cabinet would then have to sign off on the funding
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/02/live-updates-latest-on-covid-19-community-outbreak-parliament-protest-sunday-february-20.html
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February 20, 2022 6:33pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The Duck embarrasses himself and then blames others ……
  
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  February 20, 2022 6:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

She is going to prison//
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh4auy2-JXM
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February 20, 2022 7:18pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Who, Steve?
  
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  February 20, 2022 7:38pm
Maggie Pie

Things that make you go hmmm…

See where one of EPSTEIN’S besties, French model agent and pimp for Jeffrey, Jean-Luc Brunel, hanged himself in his prison cell this morning.

He was being held on charges of raping minors and allegedly procuring more than a thousand girls and women on behalf of his dead mate.
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February 20, 2022 8:04pm
TT500

I don’t think the missing PM has much chance of
getting a selfie with jason kerrison after his powerful
and symbolic speech on the stage at the protest
village today.

Hats off to you Sir
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February 20, 2022 8:17pm
- cmm
  
  I see he was “slammed” by Hilary “I’m the news” Barry.
  
  Silly old bint.
  
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  February 20, 2022 9:08pm
fernglas

I am constantly fascinated by how intolerant the self-labelled “progressives” are of anything that offends their world view. The sound of collective media sphincters slamming shut because they have suddenly realised they are not universally beloved? The pursed lips of the PM when she says that this is not the way we protest in New Zealand? Mallard almost using the Clintonism of calling the protestors “deplorables”?
30% of NZ’ers oppose the mandates, most of them in the 30-50 age group. They will not be impressed, and I bet there’s more than a few Labour voters amongst them.
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February 20, 2022 8:38pm
TT500

Is that the same Hillary from The Womans Weakly
and No Idea cover shoots ?
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