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mikenmildagain

For those who missed out on St Patrick’s Day festivities yesterday, never mind. Today is Sheelah’s Day. Sheelah was believed to be the wife or daughter of St Patrick. Although her feast is no longer widely celebrated in Ireland, it has remained popular with parts of the Irish diaspora. It is marked, of course, by the heavy consumption of alcohol.
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March 18, 2022 8:00am
- CJames
  
  Surely for the Irish, heavy consumption of alcohol is only done on a day ending in “y” isn’t it?
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:11am
  - Swifty
    
    God invented drink so that the Irish wouldn’t rule the world.
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:13am
  - mogg
    
    The Craic was good in Cricklewood, the boys wouldn’t leave The Crown
    There were glasses flying and biddies crying as the Paddies went to town
    Oh mother dear I’m over here and I’m never coming back…….. yes we are all Brendan Behans on the 17th.
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:59am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    I can vouch for the fact it is any day beginning with a ‘T’. Tuesday, Thursday, today, tomorrow, Thaturday and Thunday.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:29am
- cmm
  
  “It is marked, of course, by the heavy consumption of alcohol”
  
  Is such blatant racism tolerated on this blog?
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:15am
  - Opie
    
    Yep. Hating on whitey is encouraged.
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:18am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      For many, many years the Irish did not count as ‘white’.
      
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      March 18, 2022 9:17am
      - kowtow
        
        Evidence please.
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:03am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Particularly noted in the successive waves of immigration in the US, where it took several generations for the Irish, and later the Italians, Jews and eastern Europeans to get recognised as fully human. I believe early Irish immigrants in the US were sometimes referred to as “Negros turned inside out”.
        
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        March 18, 2022 12:32pm
      - kowtow
        
        Thomas Mckean, Charles Carroll,James Smith,George Taylor,Mathew Thornton,Edward Rutledge,Thomas Lynch, george Read, John Dunlap .
        
        All with Irish heritage and signed the declaration of Independence.
        
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        March 18, 2022 3:06pm
      - Sean OConnor
        
        That’s a tired old talking point with no basis in reality. The US only used to allow white immigration; the Irish were seen as white, while also being seen as somewhat inferior. The main prejudice against them was anti-Catholicism, but the progressive Left hate admitting that Christians have ever been persecuted anywhere, so they’ve created alternate history where they weren’t white.
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:39pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “For many, many years the Irish did not count as ‘white’.”
        
        A plain assed lie.
        
        They were looked down upon by protestants. A far cry from your BS very long bow claims of “not counting as white”.
        
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        March 19, 2022 5:09pm
  - kowtow
    
    It’d be interesting to see how similar comments around peliedes time , whenever that is would be treated if they were bandied about in such negative generalisations concerning certain other ethnic groups ….
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:27am
    - peterwn
      
      An airport had a row of clocks (Flinders Street Station style) for different time zones. The one for Dublin had the numbers anti-clockwise and the hands went backwards. There was a fuss about it being racist.
      
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      March 18, 2022 9:41am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        People really have lost the plot along with their sense of humour. Anyone needing a reality check needs to look at Dave Allen and how the topic should be treated.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN0s_ImoJTw
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:33am
  - alloytoo
    
    I like to think your average Irishman isn’t that fragile.
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:33am
    - graham
      
      Agreed, and actually I would extend it further and hope that the vast majority of people aren’t that fragile, despite the best efforts of snowflakes and the Greens to convince us otherwise.
      
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      March 18, 2022 9:32am
      - Stellaboxer
        
        The Irish tell jokes about Kerrymen or people from Kerry. Just an ever shrinking minority to benchmark yourself against I guess.
        
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        March 18, 2022 3:38pm
    - kowtow
      
      Mate , it’s not the Paddies you need to worry about .
      
      It’s the perpetually offended on behalf , the hypocrites and the commos.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:05am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Not only that, we often laugh at Irish jokes too – as long as you tell them slowly.
      
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      March 18, 2022 2:19pm
      - kowtow
        
        They have to be told slowly so kiwis can understanfd them.
        
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        March 18, 2022 3:07pm
Benedict Yu

Eric Crampton sums it up. ?

“Not enough hours in the day.

The government is consulting on a pile of ways of making the country a worse place.”

http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/2022/03/triage.html?m=1

His first target is the proposed “glass container deposit scheme”. The government thinks this will improve recycling. Supermarket carparks will have machines. You load up your car with your empty bottles and drive to the supermarket to feed your bottles to the machine in exchange for 20 cents per bottle.

Or you can have the friendly rubbish collectors empty the yellow bin from your house ?. I know what I will be doing.

As Eric points out, such a scheme could reduce the guilt of littering. You are sitting on the beach drinking a beer or a coke. No rubbish bin. “I’ll just throw it on the sand. Some kid will collect it for the 20 cents”.

The thing is there are thousands and thousands of public servants working on these oddball policies while the country is burning to the ground.

And of course the new recycling programme will need to be named. That will be a complex task. I am picking “Karaihe Papatūānuku” ?
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March 18, 2022 8:00am
- cmm
  
  There are at least two other unintended consequences with littering:
  * For many people, that 20c or whatever is not worth the effort so they chuck the bottle in the bin along with their other rubbish. Along come bottle miners who then dig out all the rubbish looking for the bottles and leave the rest of the rubbish strewn over the place. This happens in USA with people mining for aluminium cans.
  * Once people get paid to do something they should anyway, they become entitled and unpaid stuff becomes unpalatable. Cindy pays me to handle the glass rubbish. If she doesn’t pay me to do something with my chip wrappings and other stuff I’ll just throw them on the ground.
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:13am
  - MCōs
    
    Back in the good old days glass beer & soft drink bottles used to be refundable.
    Most people didn’t bother except kids.
    This meant school parents associations and the like used to have bottle drives that raised good money. Exhausting work as I recall.
    That was in the days of big beer bottles, but the clear glass soft drink bottles were more lucrative.
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:28am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      The Bottle Drive at Palmerston North Boys’High School was organised with military precision. For weeks afterwards the school quadrangle was piled high with bottles of all shapes and sizes, especially large brown ones in crates of twelve. In its day, the Bottle Drive was a major fundraiser.
      
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      March 18, 2022 9:33am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Happy days. Unfortunately, this attempt to turn the clock back will be stymied by the unavailability of parents to take part in bottle drives due to the multitude of other activities requiring their attention on a Saturday morning.
        
        Times have changed.
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:46am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Oh dear, Tony. Educated at PNBHS then moved to Whanganui because Palmerston North was too exciting?
        
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        March 18, 2022 12:34pm
    - Rusty
      
      MCos- I remember the bottle drives back in the 70s as a school kid living in the inner city of Ponsonby and Parnell.
      
      Some people would decorate their front gardens with stacks of beer bottles.
      
      Good old days!
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:43am
  - rouppe
    
    Their proposal basically ignores plastics 3-7.
    
    I made a submission, basically saying ditch the bottle recycling (an idea from the 70’s) and ramp up the household recycling portion to include all plastic types and build a recycling center for all plastic types.
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:51am
    - 7kiwi11
      
      Maybe we could have our milk in glass bottles again and it could be delivered to our house early in the mornings.
      
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      March 18, 2022 9:23am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        and some of us could make a living stealing milk-bottle ~~threepences~~ dollars.
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:22am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        How much extra are you willing to pay for the minimal added convenience?
        
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        March 18, 2022 11:58am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      In the case of plastic waste it’s almost certainly more environmentally and economically efficient to incinerate it for power.
      
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      March 18, 2022 11:57am
      - rouppe
        
        Which is a form of recycling, really.
        
        Anything other than dumping it has got to be better…
        
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        March 18, 2022 12:59pm
  - RoboRob
    
    Thirdly this is just another tax. Most people will throw them in the yellow bin and the govt will get an extra 20c tax per bottle. It’s a bollocks idea that the Greens will love. It wont help at all with recylcling and will just add another government functions (glass taxing and collection services).
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:15am
  - Liberty
    
    Just another example of our good and kind government being a bit challenged.
    Do they have any idea of the logistics of operating over all of NZ?
    There will be a freight factor someone will have to pay. In the woke cities such as Auckland
    Due to the quantities sold freight won’t be a problem. But out in the small towns and villages. Who is going to pay for the collection and returns?
    Does the 20cent include GST it’s more likely to be 23cent
    23 cent is going to play havoc with the cost of living numbers.
    What happens at food banks. Will the poor people be able to cash in their bottles?
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:50am
- bjools
  
  “The government thinks this will improve recycling. Supermarket carparks will have machines. ”
  Unless these machines have an auto bottle washer.
  These machines will become petri dishes until empty.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:04am
  - bjools
    
    Other questions
    How will payment be dispensed?
    If cash, vandals will figure out how to get the money.
    If manual, say, take a docket to the retailer for payment. What does the retailer get out of it for the extra cost of operating this?
    It is a shame these bureaucrats don’t actually get paid to think.
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:49am
    - Nickc2
      
      During my youth, we took recycling seriously. We would collect bottles, take them to the local pub and cash them in. During the week, we would acquire more bottles from out the back of the pub and repeat the cycle.
      
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      March 18, 2022 1:36pm
      - bjools
        
        Try this one,
        http://www.sistersofmercyunion.org.uk/_uploads/_cknw/files/The%20Green%20Thing%20(002).pdf
        
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        March 18, 2022 5:27pm
- wgtn_dude
  
  The MfE consultation document on the recycling scheme smacks of further state control and pushes even more costs onto the long suffering end consumer…
  
  – Mandated return stations will be the sellers of the containers/bottles (eg supermarkets, bottle stores, farmers markets, etc) who won’t do this without passing on costs
  – Return stations may have to option to reject returns for product that it does not stock or did not sell
  – Levy’s imposed on all containers/bottles
  – Levy is refundable, but only if one can has the inclination, or capacity, to return the container/bottle
  
  Just on that list, there are so many fishhooks.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:32am
  - rouppe
    
    How will they stop rubbish being thrown in there?
    
    Only have to look at clothing bin recycling to see how disgusting some people are, and it only takes 1 to ruin the whole lot
    
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    March 18, 2022 1:01pm
- Scott
  
  I read recently that they are going to fundamentally change the way that we do adoptions??
  
  They have also passed into law safe zones so there are no protests around abortion clinics. This means that lawful protest, even silently praying, is banned around abortion facilities.
  
  Obviously as DPF pointed out yesterday they are going to spend millions of dollars on a $29 billion plan to build 24 km of railway in Auckland.
  
  The trouble with this lot is that they think they are the smart people. They are the enlightened people, they are the good people and they will do whatever they want between now and the next election.
  
  No one is going to stop them. The media is not going to hold them to account.
  
  This shows the tragedy of single issue voting. When covid dominated our thoughts we all voted for an inexperienced government headed up by a relatively young woman with little life experience and a burning desire to bring socialist principles to every area of public life.
  
  Can we please please reconsider our vote come next election? The poor country can’t take much more of this.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:00am
- Local Miller
  
  Interesting the responses here. We had a deposit on most glass bottles when I was a youngster back in South Africa. It seemed to work pretty well there, the big thing being that glass bottles were reusable. For most of the glass bottles, the local bottle store was a collection point. Go buy your weekly supply and drop of last week’s empties. The same process worked for the wholesalers who collected empties when they dropped off full. The bottles eventually worked their way up the stack to the bottling companies who washed, sterilized and reused. The big thing was no significant new infrastructure was needed as the it piggybacked off the existing routines. At the most the retailers needed a collection point and one staff member to man it, typically over the weekend, and a bit of storage.
  10c on a bottle was a lot of money back then, and most of our acquaintances returned the bottles. Also it had nothing to do with government, all the money was tied up in the “owners” of the bottles.
  While there was a good amount of bin diving to collect bottles I don’t recall there being issues with a mess around the bins, certainly no more than one would see from other hobos searching for food, etc. In fact I recall people too lazy to return their bottles would typically place them next to the bin knowing someone would pick it up.
  I earned my share of pocket money returning bottles. Currently there is no incentive to recycle or return, and my understanding is our recycle rate across the country is pretty poor. A bit of cash incentive would help, but it should be related to the real cost of the bottle and not driven by government.
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:28am
Warren

National demand more scrutiny over Parliament protest as Labour blocks Select Committee from questioning Police Commissioner this from what’s supposedly in Jacinda Ardern’s eyes are most transparent Government in New Zealand’s history.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/national-demands-more-scrutiny-over-parliament-protest-as-labour-blocks-select-committee-from-questioning-police-commissioner.html
Labour know things were not done right and does not want the media and others to know the truth on whether it was her call to force the Commissioner into the violent scenes that were televised Nation wide.
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March 18, 2022 8:00am
- slightlyrighty
  
  I heard Grant Robertson on the Radio making some bland excuse about this, and then not 2 minutes later, calling for an enquiry into the lack of Flouridation in Wellington Water.
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:18am
  - kowtow
    
    good thing they didn’t , I don’t want bread coming out my taps.
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:28am
  - Bloody Dago
    
    This is Spindy’s team empowering 3 wankers cause Wellywood water wallahs screwed up the fluro. They obviously need help from Mahutu’s
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:41am
    - Fisiani2
      
      Why should councils spend any money on upgrading water facilities when the Labour party wants to steal all the water facilities that ratepayers have paid for with no compensation. Outright theft.
      
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      March 18, 2022 9:48am
      - Ehlana
        
        I think that might be one of those unintended consequences our government can never see coming.
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:51am
  - MCōs
    
    Two entirely different situations.
    The fluoridation fiasco is a cover up by local bodies that don’t want to admit their 3 waters infrastructure is a mess and will cost the ratepayers a fortune to modernize.
    The police commissioner could be put in the awkward position of being contradicted by the findings of the study Independent Police Conduct Authority report.
    One thing’s for sure the Nats are looking for looking for some sort of reason to claim he is either soft on crime or doesn’t have the confidence of the police rank and file.
    Same with Dr Bloomfield.
    Both will be gone at the earliest opportunity if there’s a change of government.
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:50am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Whose water infrastructure is a mess? Cherry-picking Wellington and Hawkes Bay doesn’t negate the fact that the vast majority of local authorities manage their drinking and waste waters, and their sewage, perfectly adequately and with room for growth.
      
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      March 18, 2022 2:24pm
    - GJM
      
      Cuddles is safe from the IPCA. It is not called the Internal Police Coverup Authority for nothing. It takes years to get an answer and even if they find the police have acted wrongly, nothing ever happens, nobody gets fired or jailed. Even where a cop is accused of near perjury by the judge (see the crown V Lincoln “Asburton toilet firearms case”), nothing happens.
      
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      March 18, 2022 4:30pm
  - nathie
    
    Makes one wonder what the real truth is (instead of the Labour party spin).
    
    Here’s a couple of speculative reasons (which may be better than Robertson’s spin why 3 Water reforms are needed)!
    
    *Labour’s covid/immigration rules prevented Wellington Water from bringing specialists back home to deal with the issue (or specialists left after being “stranded” & missing their families in Wellington) ??
    
    *Woke WCC Councillors wouldn’t approve Wellington Water new funding requests to remedy a number of issues (including fluoridation), preferring to use the funding for other special interest activities??
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:24am
    - Nickc2
      
      How convenient that Wgtn should have a problem with its Water System, just when Mahuta was having massive problems trying to justify her 3 Waters rort.
      I also noticed Robertson jumped on this during the ZB Hosking show this morning to further pave the way for theft of ratepayer assets for Maori gain.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:22am
- graham
  
  It really is quite bizarre.
  
  Throughout the protest, we were fed the usual lines about how this was only a tiny minority of people, they were completely in the wrong from the beginning, the protestors were to blame for everything, the poor Wellingtonians were abused and threatened, children couldn’t go to school, etc. And that the police actions throughout were completely correct.
  
  Yet, given the opportunity to justify it, Labour shuts down any questioning.
  
  Why? For three weeks we were told ad nauseum by the media that the protestors were the baddies, and everybody else were the goodies. So what do Labour fear in being … open, honest and transparent ™?
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:23am
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    You have a water crisis in Wellington so the speaker of the house leaves the sprinklers running.
    
    Another water main bursts and several Wellington suburbs are with out water.
    
    Most wellingtonians dont drive past parliament daily but they do use water.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:40am
  - G152
    
    Which is why I call them Liebor…
    Honesty may have little reward but its always the best policy
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:49am
  - Jim
    
    Transparently corrupt imho Graham.
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:14am
  - Matt Long
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-national-party-leader-christopher-luxon-calls-for-vaccine-passes-mandates-passes-and-other-covid-19-restrictions-to-be-dumped/LFNBLVCZHGODSGCBBECBUJDAGY/
    Luxon gets in quickly to forestall Ardern’s announcement signalled for next week.
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:50am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Ardern was fully behind the outcome at parliament. Her instructions to Coster would have been simple. “Get those bastards off my lawn, I don’t care what you have to do, just get it done, they’re messing with my positive media profile.”
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:48am
  - MCōs
    
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    And most of the country would have agreed.
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:52am
    - RightNow
      
      The tyranny of the majority
      
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      March 18, 2022 9:22am
      - MCōs
        
        C’est la vie in a democracy
        
        Alternatively it’s the tyranny of of minority
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:18am
      - Aunty
        
        More like the wisdom of crowds.
        
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        March 18, 2022 11:09am
    - gravedodger
      
      Not supported by the red/green indicators, currently 25 zip or are they still avoiding the total absence of warming this morning, Five degrees on my fence around 0700.
      Come on MCos get your tickers up and running.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:24am
  - pdm
    
    Clan Mcleod – The Despicable Mallard must have been involved in the decision making and instructions as well.
    
    After all his efforts to treat the protesters like he treats the opposition in the house when protecting Jacinda failed miserably and seriously exacerbated the situation.
    
    He would have been totally pissed off and seeking retribution. An enquiry might have shown he alone was the catalyst that started the unruly behaviour by a few when the police mounted their final charge.
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:04am
    - nathie
      
      “Clan Mcleod – The Despicable Mallard must have been involved in the decision making and instructions as well.”
      
      Absolutely Mallard, as he is responsible for Parliament security.
      
      Absolutely Robertson, as he is the de-facto Labour leader (as well as local MP).
      
      Ardern would have left it to these two to keep her informed of developments (as she snuck away those first few days).
      
      “…like he treats the opposition in the house when protecting Jacinda failed miserably…
      
      Check out NewstalkZBs’ Week on Demand for Wednesday (4.50pm), where Barry Soper and Andrew Dickens played back audio from the debating chamber where Mallard yet again shut down the Opposition questioning the PM and Mallard’s “protective” (unjustified) reasons for doing so.
      
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      March 18, 2022 9:16am
  - chukar
    
    Aotearoa day ,second of March 2022.
    The day all the NZ Politicians caused or supported State abuse of peaceful protestors in this country.
    There must be an enquiry followed ,hopefully , by resignations and a parliament wide apology!
    All politicians are culpable!
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:15am
  - Pavel
    
    “Positive media profile”? Umm, you might want to check her social media profiles. The media can make all the positive profiles they like but at the end of the day the only profile that matters is her social profile and it isn’t pretty. Give it a year or two and anyone who has worked for, or been associated with, her will have a blank on their cv and claim they were on the dole during that period. With all the failures I sure as hell wouldn’t hire anyone from this government. She thinks she’s going to age like fine wine when she’s actually going to age into vinegar.
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:24am
    - gravedodger
      
      No ageing time needed Pavel.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:26am
  - Liberty
    
    “Get those bastards off my lawn”
    The where is Clarke sign might also been a factor.
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:05am
  - kowtow
    
    No way , she’ll have said to him “be kind , they are us”.
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:47am
  - coge
    
    All she needed to do was lift the mandates.
    
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    March 18, 2022 3:23pm
- septic skeptic
  
  Another agenda item for the Royal Commission into the Covid response.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:02am
- Surely Knott
  
  Finally. Good work National. Let’s get some sunshine on this.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:41am
- Nickc2
  
  IMO, Cindy and Mallard are shit scared it will be revealed that the Police were not independent of Govt influence.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:46am
- mogg
  
  The protest was valid and Democratic, it also achieved some of it’s goals. When the demonstrators were forced off Parliament Grounds by Police violence, immediately Aredern started talking about easing restrictions and ending mandates, she also said ‘this is nothing to do with the protest’. Funny that.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:16am
  - Nickc2
    
    …..and to add to that the humour of the latest Political Polls impact on Labour Pollies and their supporters.
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:38pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They will not want Coster to spill that he was forced by Cindy, I reckon there was a tow between government and Coster, not sure what about, could have been Mallards mess, or it could have been the dictator in chief, Coster was going to start towing cars, he reneged and left the mess up blaze for 2 more weeks
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:55am
- Nickc2
  
  Don’t we citizens/taxpayers have the right to demand the Select Committee hearings be Televised? They are in some other Commonwealth Countries.
  Let’s face it, we own Parliament, pay the wages and also own the Parliament TV Channel. Let’s use all these resources FFS.
  Yes Cindy/Mallard, it’s in the public interest.
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:48am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Most are Nick. They can take a bit of finding at times, but if you’re patient, you can usually access the live stream.
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:07pm
    - Nickc2
      
      If you find the one we’re talking about, can you please post the link on KB?
      
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      March 18, 2022 2:40pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait is not pussy-footing around with PC language when describing the folks terrorising a Rotorua Street.

https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/289522-councillor-lashes-out-over-street-terror.html

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/463519/councillor-mp-seek-immediate-response-to-troubles-in-rotorua-street
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March 18, 2022 8:09am
- I remember when
  
  Just a matter of the council being able to identify the one she is taking about.
  So many choices.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:17am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hey, thanks Rotorua
  
  Dumping ground for MSD clients
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/128095775/violence-drugs-and-vandalism-around-homeless-motels-seen-as-destroying-our-city-rotorua-mayor-says
  
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  March 18, 2022 1:14pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Rodney Hide on the new New Zealand

The new New Zealand known as Aotearoa is totalitarian. There is one acceptable view on everything and anyone expressing alternative views is morally reprehensible and to be condemned and destroyed. We have learnt to keep our ideas and thoughts to ourselves. To speak your mind risks your career, business and social standing.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/aotearoa
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March 18, 2022 8:12am
- Hebe123
  
  Excellent piece, thanks for sharing.
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:36am
- 7kiwi11
  
  And now they’ll be teaching our kids in schools what the acceptable views are.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:19am
- Raphael
  
  Rodney Hide needs to get back into politics. Not sure if ACT is still the correct party for him or not. But he would be good to have back in parliament.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:07am
  - pdm
    
    Raphael – Rodney was probably the best speaker I have seen in the debating chamber. He knew his topic and had excellent presentation the times I saw him.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:56am
    - Nickc2
      
      Agree, might as well chuck Prebble and Brash in there too. I think they have all matured and seen the light since leaving Parliament. IMO, between the three of them, they have a lot to offer but not to Cindy’s mob.
      
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      March 18, 2022 1:29pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Wait snd see what Matt King has, it could well be part of that, I would not rule out that’s where Bridges is heading either.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:56am
  - surfing
    
    He stuffed it up, being the perk buster , then taking the perks. We’re all human though, but, people don’t like hypocrisy.
    
    Would be good to have him back in Parliament.
    
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    March 18, 2022 4:01pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Rodney Hide does not know what ‘totalitarian’ means.
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:37am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Clearly leftie voters in this country don’t either.
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:14pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    “Rodney Hide does not know what ‘totalitarian’ means.”
    
    RH vs Milky on knowing what totalitarian means.
    
    Any bets? 🙂
    
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    March 19, 2022 5:12pm
Captain Mainwaring

Given that Spindy is looking for every love bite she can get at the moment, what’s the bet that Steven Joyce gets an invitation to open
Transmission Gully?
It’s the least that could happen, he’s the guy who pushed it through after 50 years of stalemate.
Don’t hold your breath.
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March 18, 2022 8:18am
- pdm
  
  Capt – there is no chance of Stephen Joyce opening Transmission Gully.
  
  The opening will be a photo opportunity so Jacinda and Michael Woods will be center front with Robbo and others leering over their shoulders and all blaming National for the delays.
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:27am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    See my comment below. No way there will be an “opening ceremony”.
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:28am
  - RoboRob
    
    If it wasn’t for National this road and the new motorways in Christchurch would never have happended. The motorways in CHCH were on the books for decades and Labour kept pushing them out. The Key govt pushed them up the list and now we have infinately better transport in and out of CHCH, the roads are a silver bullet for traffic flow and travel time.
    
    The Greens should also hang there heads in shame as anyone with a brain (not the Greens) knows the sitting in congestion and stop / start traffic causes by far the most gas usage and therefore emisions. By improving traffic flow you not only make peoples lives better but you also help the environment.
    
    Guess what, EVs and Busses need roads too. Trains are inflexible, once a route is set, thats it. Busses can change routes to suit demand, trains just run empty and then get decomissioned. Stupid Greens / Labour, arggh
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:22am
    - gravedodger
      
      Right on the money RoboRob, I can easily traverse the southern burbs from semi rural Selwyn to the Estuary in around 30 minutes, out to 34 when the Lights on the Brougham St part do not co-operate.
      North via The Western Burbs not so gr8, Hornby intersection can be a bitch and around the Sawyers Arms Roundabout, once through the Clearwater roundabout its a breeze.
      Dont mention using Pound Rd though, I use it returning to the MWay via Greywacke just before Gardiners, it even has a NPD fuel stop before that merging lane assisted access.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:45am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      And mighty fine roads they are too, that ring route from not far from the park that comes out at Rolleston is awesome, at Rolleston in 20 minutes, rather than the half hour amble to get out of the city, the motorway north of Auckland which is a toll road is equally as brilliant, you would save the $2 odd in fuel avoiding the old road. Another Nat road
      
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      March 18, 2022 11:09am
  - tui47
    
    Jacinda can no longer appear in public without the risk of being chased out of town by protesters – footage of her vehicle being chased down transmission gully by angry protestors vehicles would not look good internationally. Would be damn funny though!
    
    She will leave it to Michael “Rivers of Filth” Woods.
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:37am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Notice she was not at CHCH for the biggest this week, but the leftie mayor was
      
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      March 18, 2022 11:15am
    - Matt Long
      
      Seeing she got found by protesters after her Waitangi photo op, maybe she’ll go with blue screen technology for a virtual opening ceremony.
      
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      March 18, 2022 12:06pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  There won’t be any official opening. These guys hate roads. The barriers will just be quietly removed at a quiet time of day. Probably 0500 on a Saturday morning to test it out over the weekend.
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:27am
  - Matt Long
    
    That won’t prevent them from a photo op and claiming credit. Hypocrisy is their middle name.
    ” This road will save thousands of tons of CO2 pollution through shortening travel times.”
    
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    March 18, 2022 8:41am
    - pdm
      
      So Jimmy Shaw will have a speaking part too Matt?
      
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      March 18, 2022 9:06am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      They can hardly claim credit when Woods blamed Nats just yesterday for a failed PPP, even though that cancelled that side of the project at great expense
      
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      March 18, 2022 11:16am
  - MCōs
    
    It’ll be interesting to see what happens when the dust settles.
    The reason it took so long to get the OK, as I recall, was because it was never really considered worthwhile.
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:09am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Earlier this year I heard one of the Labour Party commandants say on radio that the main reason for the delays and problems with the Transmission Gully project was because the previous government had entered into a public/private partnership to achieve it.
      And this proved conclusively that PPP’s were baaaaad and only the Labour Party government could do it properly.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:23am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Based on Ardern’s performance with kiwibuild if Labour were in charge of Transmission Gully we’d be lucky if they managed as much as your name!
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:44am
      - pdm
        
        Gravel – I heard Michael `Rivers of Filth’ Wood saying exactly that about PPP’s either yesterday or the day before.
        
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        March 18, 2022 11:00am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Labour cancelled the contract, the failure was of their making, if I remember it cost 100 mill or something to can the project
        
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        March 18, 2022 11:17am
    - gravedodger
      
      The US Military back in the Forties offered to build a four lane from the Capital to Auckland for free, now remind us who was the Government who declined that on the grounds “IT WOULD NEVER BE NEEDED”. HaHaHa
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:50am
  - 7kiwi11
    
    I don’t know about that. Lefties never need much of an excuse to get the rent a mob in for a karakia!
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:21am
  - Mummy
    
    That’s what happened with the Kapiti Expressway. We looked out the window of the 5.30am train and said oooh look, there’s cars on the new road. After being given the opportunity beforehand to walk it which thousands of people did.
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:13pm
    - DeepBlue
      
      I wonder if there will be a TG walk over.
      
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      March 18, 2022 2:36pm
      - coge
        
        Unlikely. Haven’t you heard of the deadly Omicron? The lady on the TV news told us about it!
        
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        March 18, 2022 4:07pm
- Thought Criminal
  
  IF there is an opening ceremony, they won’t invite anyone but themselves. Nasty selfish children don’t share credit.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:14am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  What about the partners in the was to be PPP that Labour canceled ?
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:05am
billyt

Who’s telling porkies
In herald this morning ‘Of those in hospital, 618 were in Auckland. One-third of admissions in the northern region clearly had Covid as their reason for treatment, said the chief clinical officer of the Northern Region Health Co-ordination Centre, Dr Andrew Old.’
Yesterday Bloomfield told hosking it was more like two thirds!
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March 18, 2022 8:19am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  One third: two thirds… what’s the difference?
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:14am
  - Local Miller
    
    My thoughts exactly, Bloomfield was only out by 1.
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:35am
- ClanMcleod
  
  The numbers will say whatever the “single source of truth” wants them to say. That’s the reality of NZ government and their media poodles these days.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:17am
Matt Long

https://democracyproject.nz/2022/03/16/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-behind-simon-bridges-shock-departure-and-what-comes-next/
Bryce Edwards suggests Bridges didn’t want to continue working with back stabbing wets.
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March 18, 2022 8:21am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Never waste an opportunity to diss the right
  – Labour dictum
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:16am
- Nickc2
  
  Bryce Edwards! Another Socialist opinion piece scribbler who won’t be missed from the annals of NZ History even when he grows up.
  
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  March 18, 2022 1:01pm
  - Sean OConnor
    
    He’s spot on here. Luxon is clearly instituting liberal dominance. Himself, Willis, Bishop, Goldsmith….when Reti is your ‘conservative’, there are none.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:43pm
Benedict Yu

I have a male colleague who is gay. Not a close colleague. And him being gay I never thought about. He is highly competent at what he does. Yesterday he mentioned that he had to go collect his son from preschool.

He and his partner had arranged for a woman to have the baby as a surrogate with one of the couple as the biological father.

I am sure this child will lots of love from the couple. They have money, a nice house, etc. Way more than the thousands of kids who have drop kick mothers and fathers.

That being said, it does not sit quite right with me. I guess I am attracted by the idea of a society with functional married parents. But maybe that is a forlorn dream. ?
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March 18, 2022 8:22am
- Benedict Yu
  
  For the avoidance of doubt by “married parents” I mean a biological and anatomical man and a biological and anatomical woman.
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:30am
- cmm
  
  Yup, this kid will grow up in a different situation but is not really that much different to lopsided single/divorced/whatever families.
  
  The main thing is to go back to your second last paragraph though. This doesn’t come close to making the top ten things to worry about with crappy families/childhoods in NZ.
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:32am
  - Nukuleka
    
    Every child has the right to a mother and a father. Sadly, occasionally the mother or father or both turn out to be hopeless at parenting or get divorced and so on- and the child may end up having a crap upbringing. That’s life. But that doesn’t negate the basic right of the child to have a mum and a dad. Gay couples who use surrogacy are focusing entirely on their own neediness and should get a dog.
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:15am
    - dubya
      
      I try not to worry what people do legally with their own time and resources. Surrogacy is a massive undertaking of both those things. If a couple is prepared to jump through those hoops then they are almost certainly going to be committed and caring parents.
      
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      March 18, 2022 9:53am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Any possibility of activists with a political agenda using their kids as pawns?
        
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        March 19, 2022 5:13pm
    - MCōs
      
      The parents of my children got divorced.
      I can tell you everyone was better off.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:24am
      - Sean OConnor
        
        My parents divorced. It had become necessary, but that was through their own fault. It’s a plague and the outcomes for children of divorcees show it, you and our society are in denial of the bleeding obvious.
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:45pm
    - Albert_Ross
      
      What responsibilities are created by the child’s “right” to a mother and father, and on whom do those responsibilities fall?
      
      Because a right that doesn’t impose a specific responsibility on other people, isn’t a right.
      
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      March 18, 2022 2:24pm
- kowtow
  
  Problem more generally is that society is now barely functional.
  
  There’s a veneer of functionality but it’s paper thin and the cultural marxists and many , many others are working hard to tear it down.
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:44am
  - MCōs
    
    What a load of bollox.
    How many Marxists do you encounter & what do they do to upset you so much?
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:28am
    - Sean OConnor
      
      Cultural Marxism is the descendent ideology of the Frankfurt School. It sees inequality of aggregate groups such as races, sexual minorities, etc, as only a product of power relationships and something to be eliminated through government fiat.
      
      It’s also known as identity politics, or wokeness.
      Given your views, it’s highly unlikely that your friends aren’t woke.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:49pm
- Si334
  
  But its a binary choice for Society – to have hetero couples only you have to deny gay couples the opportunity for a family via a law. As a hetero I am slightly uncomfortable with same sex parents – its just different to how I feel. But I am more uncomfortable denying these rights, and particularly when being hetero has no impact on being a drop-kick or not – speaking as someone raised by a single mother, and who wouldnt have changed a thing.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:01am
  - Nukuleka
    
    What’s this about a gay couple’s ‘right’ to have a family? Is this enshrined somewhere in law?
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:26am
    - Taieri
      
      What’s this about a gay couple’s ‘right’ to have a family?
      ————
      
      What does this “right” arise from?
      
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      March 18, 2022 9:40am
      - Batman
        
        By virtue of the Bill of Rights, which some are so fond of citing these days.
        
        By virtue of discrimination based on sexual orientation (in this case) being illegal, it protects the right of reach person to procreate via natural or medical means.
        
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        March 18, 2022 9:54am
      - Si334
        
        So I am married (hetero – to a woman) with 2 kids. Where is my legally enshrined right to have a family? Or is it just that there isnt specifically a law preventing me from doing so, just like there isnt a specific law preventing gay couples.
        You could also term it in terms of opportunity rather than rights. I have the opportunity to have a family, and I am uncomfortable with denying others that opportunity via a specific law.
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:15am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Monty Python’s fault.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlo7YZW8vPA
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:48am
      - Taieri
        
        By virtue of discrimination based on sexual orientation (in this case) being illegal, it protects the right of reach person to procreate via natural or medical means
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        Does the right of a child to have a father AND a mother not matter anymore?
        
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        March 18, 2022 2:15pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        So Batman, the bill of rights is foundational? Or just when it suits some people?
        
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        March 19, 2022 5:14pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      It sure ain’t in the Law of Nature.
      
      I mean square pegs dont fit round holes.
      
      Some people have the the amazing ability to over complicate the simplest things and herein lays the problem.
      Some would say “Baffle with Bullshit” .
      
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      March 18, 2022 11:08am
      - Matt Long
        
        I see MIQ is closed down except for Mariners, do have any insight there?
        Also airline staff and unvaxed, which also don’t make sense but I thought Mariners seems weird.
        
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        March 18, 2022 12:14pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        At Matt.
        Not sure too be honest.
        But assume its for fishing industry and Ukrainian seafarers.?
        Ill check.
        Fwiw all seafarers are vaxxed.
        
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        March 18, 2022 2:30pm
- Opie
  
  It’s none of my business and there are way worse situations for a kid to grow up in but for me, it is not ok for a kid to grow up with 2 dads.
  
  That kid will have a very hard time at school
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:12am
  - Batman
    
    They won’t. Schools aren’t like they were 15 or 20 years ago.
    
    Most kids are aware of the concept that not everyone has 1 of each type and that some people have some combination of 1 parent, 2 parents separately, 2 or the same type, or a total of four thanks to a break up and new relationships.
    
    My generation was the last to use phrases like “oh that’s gay” as a negative. We stopped using it after a while and when we left school.
    
    So kids with two parents of the same kind will be fine. Their parents will probably be way more committed and enthusiastic than some more unfortunate kids with useless straight parents.
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:44am
    - Nukuleka
      
      You clearly don’t spend much time around kids nor schools. ‘Gay’ continues to be used by kids as a term with negative connotations. Get out more, Batty. Live in the real world.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:08am
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        Ideologues can indoctrinate kids all they like, but the majority of kids know, and will always instinctively know, that two men having anal sex is an abomination and a perversion of nature. People still hold this view, but the simple reason this feeling of revulsion is expressed less and less is through the accompanying fear campaign. Fear campaigns are only needed to enforce ideas that are fundamentally wrong.
        
        Even among straight people, sodomy is hardly a loving act, but is more like a violent visitation on the subject. It’s irrelevant that they have the urge to do it. A lot of people have an urge to be immoral (in fact we all do, but part of being moral is the struggle to be that way). Normalising homosexuality (and now encouraging it at every opportunity) is a subversive anti-society instrument along the same lines as “free love”, promiscuity (and thus single motherhood), easy divorce, and easy abortion, in that they all fundamentally target and undermine the family (particularly the large family), consisting or a mother and father and several children. These things may seem fun or convenient in the short term, but fun and convenience cannot maintain a sound social order in the long term. Society has collapsed in proportion to the systematic undermining of the family (which is why religion, and particularly Christianity, needed to be discredited and undermined, because this is the original driver of such a family structure). If you are pro-gay, you are anti-family be necessity.
        
        High levels of depression, suicides and general disfunction among gays aren’t because they are bullied (although it no doubt occurs), it’s because they know full well that their behaviour is wrong and runs counter to nature. Ditto depression, suicides and general disfunction among those who embrace the other aforementioned “fruits” of liberal progressive doctrine. It’s all intimately connected.
        
        It is a paradigm case of going against the natural order for two gay men to use a surrogate to produce a child who will necessarily be raised without a mother. As others have mentioned, it’s a vanity project, and one among two individuals who are damaged on some level.
        
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        March 18, 2022 11:49am
      - MCōs
        
        There are a few teachers in our family.
        I’ll make some inquiries.
        I know when I went to school there were ‘no’ homosexuals (pre the use of the word ‘gay’)
        Similarly
        When my father went to school all the kids were right handed.
        The left handed kids, like my father, were forced to change. Subsequently his hand writing was appalling.
        
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        March 18, 2022 12:38pm
      - Batman
        
        Ignoring Rodions usual insane homophobic regressionist rubbish…. Nukuleka; that’s interesting to know. I have a bunch of small people in my family from pre-school to teenagers, so do have a frame of reference. My comment was probably a bit blazé when really I shouldn’t expect all parts of the country to move as quickly as the cities.
        
        It’s disappointing but probably not surprising that the old homophobic crap is still hanging around, and it would seem that the parents need to do a better job of teaching their kids not to be little shitbags. Same with teachers if and when they hear that sort of stuff.
        
        Sadly it wasn’t until after school years that some of my friends felt safe to come out of the closet and which triggered the change in my generation about how using terms like “gay” in a negative way actually do harm those around you without even realising it.
        
        I know of at least two from my cohort who killed themselves because they were conditioned to believe they were abnormal. That’s the kind of harm which needs to be stamped put, which is exactly the kind of harm people like Rodion promote.
        
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        March 18, 2022 12:59pm
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        Oh, Batman. I’d exchange your reflexive abusive responses for an argument any day of the week. I’d be delighted to engage you in a contest of ideas. Let me know when you get some.
        
        I don’t have any irrational fear of gays, I just have a very strong argument as to why their behaviour is self-evidently wrong morally, teleologically and physiologically. Is it really the “homophobes” who are the ones who are out of kilter, or is it instead the homosexuals and their “allies” (and whichever camp you identify with is irrelevant) who dismiss any challenges to their behaviour in this defensive name-calling manner? Whenever I’m called names instead of being argued with, I’m forced to conclude that I’m right. If that makes me a homophobe then so be it.
        
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        March 18, 2022 1:09pm
      - leoj
        
        Who knew that Batman believes that depravity is normal?
        
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        March 18, 2022 2:57pm
    - I remember when
      
      When I went to school homosexuality was illegal so I guess that coloured our opinions.
      That being the case, how much has the Parliamentary Protest polling been influenced to the constant reference to it being illegal.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:08am
      - MCōs
        
        Homosexuality has never been illegal in NZ.
        Sexual relations between men was was illegal prior to 8 August, 1986.
        After that date it was legal over the age of 16.
        
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        March 18, 2022 8:50pm
    - Jim
      
      I can agree times have change largely for the better, but still believe economic and mental preparedness will result in better quality of parenting regardless of biology and sexual orientation of their parents. However I do think it important for all children, especially those with same sex parents, to experience a broad balance of male and female influences in their social and educational development.
      
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      March 18, 2022 11:38am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Using “oh that’s gay” as a negative, I still do Batman. My daughters use it from time to time as well.
      
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      March 18, 2022 12:49pm
- septic skeptic
  
  IMO any gay couple that make the effort to have a family are likely to have the commitment required to be good parents.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:13am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Quite right septic. People are people, there are good and bad amongst us and the bad will be bad. I would say that mothers and fathers bring different things to the table when it comes to raising children, but gay parents shouldn’t be excluded. Well, as long as they don’t try to transition their kid(s) from one sex to another before they have any idea about sex!
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:51pm
  - Sean OConnor
    
    That’s silly. By that logic you’d have a zero divorce rate and 100% good parenting rate among heterosexuals that need substantial medical assistance to conceive. Not the case.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:53pm
- I remember when
  
  BY:
  If there is a problem perhaps it comes back to the ‘you can have anything you want’ belief.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:14am
- CPB
  
  From a moral perspective it is difficult to justify intentionally denying a child their biological heritage. And by that I mean a decision has been made by adults that an unborn child has no need for their biological mother or father. It’s the intent that matters here, as kids end up without biological parents for many reasons, but in this situation it is by design.
  
  As a parent it is patently obvious that men and women play distinctly different roles in raising kids and they aren’t interchangeable. There is simply no way I can replicate the relationship my wife has with our kids, nor she mine. And the differences are very much tied to our biology. They can’t be separated from it.
  
  But in a secular society, children are really just economic units. As long as they are raised to be good contributors to society then intentionally denying them a cornerstone familial relationship doesn’t seem to matter. I personally think gay parents who adopt, rather then create, are doing the morally right thing as they are more likely to be improving a potentially sad or bad situation.
  
  For a lot of people, as long as kids are loved and safe then that’s all that matters. I get that, I just can’t agree that as adults we should use the privilege of our existence to deliberately alter something so fundamentally important to a child’s identity.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:17am
- Thought Criminal
  
  If I had to choose between these guys and someone on benefits or with substance abuse issues or at on orlf those motels etc.
  
  Easy decision.
  
  I hope they go well and raise a much loved child.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:18am
  - Local Miller
    
    This is what we call relative morality. Option C is worse than option B, so I’ll support option B. Why not support option A which is best and try solve/eliminate both option B & C which are just plain bad?
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:44am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Because you have no evidence Option B is bad?
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:17am
      - Thought Criminal
        
        Exactly. Why would you assume that these guys are bad?
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:57am
  - Flossie
    
    And of course there’s no “unplanned” babies in a gay relationship. Not ideal, but one assumes each one is very much wanted.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:40am
  - coge
    
    Family is the building block of society. As long as the children are loved and well cared for. Is all that really matters to me.
    
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    March 18, 2022 4:29pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Any kid who gets access to two hard working adults striving to do what’s best for them on a daily basis is likely to be happy and successful and has a high probability of turning into a tax paying asset for NZ. We have below replacement birthrate in the west, and need every middle class baby we can get to offset the drain created by money pit sucking progeny of welfare baby farmers, bad parents and shithouse education system.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:21am
  - Taieri
    
    Any kid who gets access to two hard working adults striving to do what’s best for them on a daily basis is likely to be happy and successful and has a high probability of turning into a tax paying asset for NZ
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    Is this how we perceive having children nowadays? As “tax paying assets for NZ”?
    O tempora o mores!
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:00am
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      My thoughts exactly. Can’t we have a moral society with a few less irrelevant baubles instead of producing “tax paying assets” just to sustain an immoral society? People aren’t economic units. That’s the kind of attitude that comes from nihilistic materialism and having Mammon as the only god. High GDP is not the goal of social life. Morality (or a state of “the Good”) is ultimately living a harmonious life through respecting an observable natural order of things, both as a society and as individuals, and gays having surrogate children flies in the face of this aim.
      
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      March 18, 2022 11:59am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  In the bad old days (and in today’s world), men impregnated women and went off to war..
  sometimes they returned to spouse and kiddies, many times they didn’t.
  
  In the bad old days (and in today’s world) women died in childbirth and hubby was left with a motherless child to raise (or give away).
  
  Sure, some of us have been raised in stable ma & pa families, but many of us have been raised in families with one or more non-biological adults…
  
  As long as kids are provided with the basics of food and shelter and care, then whatever works is fine with me.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:40am
- Ehlana
  
  I think every child has the right to know who their biological parents are – who gave the sperm, who gave the egg (for the avoidance of doubt).
  
  Why? Because however unpalatable the thought may be to some, those are the genetic parents of the child and their medical history and information is relevant to the child’s medical diagnosis and treatment. That is why when you change doctors, they ask you about your parents’ health. Also, knowing who your genetic parents are helps stop you marrying your half-sibling.
  
  So my question would be, in these surrogacy arrangements, (1) do they actually know which of them is the father? and (2) how will they ensure ongoing access for their child to the relevant medical information from the mother?
  
  I always here claims in these cases that the child will not miss out on input from the other sex because the parents have friends. But friends are not parents. They may come and go. Will they really have the kind of connection with the child which enables conversation on intimate matters?
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:33am
RockyJ

Ardern’s strategy to destroy kiwi culture rolls on. Yesterday the new history curriculum was announced. Chris Lynch gives a good summary below.
In essence it is critical race theory being deployed to brainwash our children into accepting cogovernance by 2040. As set out in He Puapua. No mention of the musket wars or the Maori colonisation of the Chatham Islands. It includes promotion of white guilt.
The consequences of this will play out in playground violence “hey bro, you stole our land”.
It will also ramp up our rising youth suicide. I know one woman who worries about her 13 year old daughter’s climate anxiety through the school climate curriculum. This will add guilt to climate anxiety felt by our children.
What kind of people are Labour? How dare they sacrifice our young to allay their own guilt over the imaginary past.
While this is going on our educational performance in STEM subjects continues to plummet.
I am really angry.
https://chrislynchmedia.com/newsitems/il5zx2sjj3qv7n2f5wrnuf2vt56vjj
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March 18, 2022 8:24am
- Yabster
  
  yep Labour and the Marxists/Maori Elite are starting with the 5 year old children- pushing there views down our childrens throats in th hope of pumping out new party members who have been indrocinated re co governance, colonisation etc- National needs to come out alot stronger on this- Min of Ed is a shambles and Universities no better.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:28am
- nathie
  
  Would it be fair to say that Europeans were not the only colonisers?
  
  Surely Maori were the first colonisers (roughly 800-odd years ago).
  
  Surely then the second colonisers were from Europe (roughly 200-years ago).
  
  Could the Chinese (in the latter 1800’s) be deemed the third colonisers? Granted their numbers were relatively small in comparison, but nonetheless many left their homelands to migrate to many countries including NZ and start a new way of life.
  
  Then could the fourth colonisers (post WW2) be the Polynesians that migrated in relatively large numbers in the 1950’s & 60’s?
  
  Then could the fifth colonisers be other Asian nationalities that started to migrate in larger numbers mainly from the 1980’s onwards?
  
  If so, NZ does seem to have a history of colonisation (good and bad depending on one’s viewpoint or biases, but on the whole “good”), but certainly not in the way that it is being portrayed by Maori radicals and lefties)!!
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:41am
  - Ehlana
    
    You mean, New Zealand has had waves of colonisation by humans?
    
    Perhaps we go really radical, and teach children that the oldest human remains have been found in Africa and about the spread from there, reaching Australia about 50,000 years ago, but the South Pacific only much later, including NZ around 1200AD (more or less last on earth).
    
    I wonder how that fits their narrative?
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:43am
    - kowtow
      
      Yer and once they reached here and filled the place up they were in a state of almost continual warfare and environemntal degradation.
      
      ( not that that’s any different to anywhere else , but is they gunna teach that )
      
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      March 18, 2022 1:03pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  It’s not about their “white guilt”. They are trying to push division and anger etc because that’s how they get power.
  As for STEM, they did what Socialists do and simply redefined it, adding an utterly worthless A (Arts) to make it look better.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:48am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    STEM became STEAM?
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:25am
    - fisho
      
      Yep. It is STEAM at my kids school, utter bollocks in my opinion. The arty-farty teachers were obviously feeling inferior, we can’t have that can we!?
      
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      March 18, 2022 1:06pm
- Centrist
  
  I used to teach back in the day and would often add things not mentioned in the curriculum to add depth. Hopefully today’s teachers have the time and inclination. The musket wars are needed for background to the TOW, and Te Rauparaha’s war party slaughters of the Moriori in the Chathams and South Island (around Akaroa) show why the All Blacks’ ka mate haka is still controversial in the Chathams and amongst Ngai/Kai Tahu. That sort of stuff is really interesting for kids, especially boys.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:43am
  - Philview
    
    My children have recently left school and were taught a lot of New Zealand and Maori history through their schooling. It blows my mind that the PM got up yesterday and said NZ is the only country in the world that doesn’t teach its own history. The dishonesty is astonishing and the media just go along with it.
    
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    March 18, 2022 1:49pm
    - Batman
      
      What she will mean (this is not me agreeing with her) is that is it not a core part of the curriculum that every child learns as they progress through school, and taught as a history programme.
      
      Indeed, a lot of schools do a good job of teaching our history, including mine which took us on a full battlefield tour from Pukekohe to Wellington (down the middle anyway).
      
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      March 18, 2022 1:52pm
- RockyJ
  
  Jacinda Ardern, doing more for youth suicide than any prime minister eva.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:47am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Draconian covid policies triggered our decision to remove our 12 year old from the education system. After reading that article, any lingering concerns we had are now gone.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:54am
  - Jim
    
    Power to you Clan. I shamefully used to think home schooled children had pious crazy parents, but over the past two years my attitude has completely changed. I now admire parents who dedicate so much effort in organising a quality independent education for their children. It certainly can’t be easy, but I would imagine a collaboration of smart and talented people could produce outstanding results. Furthermore it’s most unlikely that homeschooled children would ever be negatively impacted by the disruptive behaviour caused by children of ineffective parents.
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:54am
- WaynelSexton
  
  So this is where the boomers complete rejection of our Christian British history has taken us.
  I hope the money was worth, destroying homogeneous, moral communities.
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:44am
- chukar
  
  History ,whatever happened , must be the truth of what actually occurred.
  It is evil to rewrite history to influence the youth of today!
  Seek the truth and it will set you free!
  
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  March 18, 2022 1:11pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

It’s a shame that the new history curriculum does not appear to cover the Musket Wars as, after the arrival of the pakeha, it has had the biggest impact on Maoridom.
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March 18, 2022 8:31am
- Yabster
  
  Have seen some of the teaching videos- basically ‘whitey bad man- “Maori was living in Utopia” before European contact. One teaching aid video mentions we “owned” all of NZ- Then they will show the map of NZ diminishing overtime.
  
  Firstly- Maori where and are Tribal -not one people as the woke are trying to portray.
  Secondly – there was no concept of ownership- you took the land by force – ie Te Rauparaha (same theory didn’t seem to apply to Europeans for some reason)
  Thirdly- most Chiefs ceded Soverignty so the could get the same protection as other Bristish subjects- the main thing they were seeking protection from -other Tribes.
  
  If you have school age children -show and interest in what they are being taught- and challenge it.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:38am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You should be wary of criticising approaches to the teaching history by presenting your own stream of garbled fragments of poorly understood events.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:27am
    - Yabster
      
      lol milk – I don’t care a jot what you think or what your opinion is- I have to put up with it though as this is a semi free open blog – we all know your leanings..
      
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      March 18, 2022 2:14pm
    - Harriet
      
      “…. poorly understood events……”
      
      So where exactly does this WH and F thing come from?
      
      It makes no lingual or grammar sense — and unlike ancient Greek — that is about the only single difference involving the entire alphabet!!
      
      It clearly appears a load of crap just like their idiotic ‘science’.
      
      It’s like me getting rid of a u and replacing it with a v – and to be pronounced as w.
      
      In other words — I would be called a Roman Plagiarist.
      
      How old is the Maori king’s wife BTW? 😎
      
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      March 18, 2022 4:49pm
  - curry4me
    
    It would soon become a fairly exhausting process de-programming your kids. “But dad/mum, why are the teachers saying one thing, and you’re saying something completely different”?
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:35pm
- mogg
  
  I hope it’s going to include Māori history pre Pakeha.
  Including the log entries from trading ships which came to buy Kauri for ship building. Not that it is suitable reading for school children anyway.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:30am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    How can the ‘pre-Pakeha’ history include ‘log entries from trading ships’?
    
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    March 18, 2022 2:37pm
    - mogg
      
      I’ll give you a clue ‘they were on trading ships’, think
      it over for a while, see if the penny drops.
      
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      March 18, 2022 4:49pm
- G152
  
  Or the Chathams
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:53am
I remember when

Hands up everyone who was watching the Sylvia Park School tears and was so move they cried themselves.
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March 18, 2022 8:50am
- 7kiwi11
  
  I did have a bit of sick in my mouth. Does that count?
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:30am
- Yabster
  
  sickening wasn’t it.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:39am
Maggie Pie

I thort my partner’s mum made a good point last night when she said….

“The poor have been voting Labour for over a 100 years and they’re still poor”

Just saying.
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March 18, 2022 8:53am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Very well said, partner’s mum.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:02am
- MCōs
  
  At least they’ve lived a long life.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:24am
  - RightNow
    
    Voting from the grave bro
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:05am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Some of their children haven’t.
    
    Read this and weep…
    
    “My client was 17 years old, intellectually disabled and living in poverty, otherwise a caring and loving mother of another child with her long-term partner.
    
    “Her late son was born prematurely yet she was discharged from hospital two days after his birth, while suffering from post-natal depression with insufficient community care.”
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/auckland-baby-death-judge-orders-permanent-name-suppression-for-intellectually-disabled-mum/BNJAD2IIOATSOYWZQGW4VF4GTY/
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:45am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Corollary: the poor are poor because they are stupid, and easy access to welfare produces ever worsening outcomes over the long term as a proportion of people use it as a career choice.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:26am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Wasn’t it Jesus who said “You will have the poor with you every day for the rest of your lives”?
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:36am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    And later added…. “Dependent upon your Postal Code”.
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:47am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Don’t you worry, Maggie Pie, you won’t miss out. Kainga Ora will ensure that the poor take up residence in Remmers
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:54am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Jesus was mainly noted for hating on the rich and powerful though.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:28am
    - kowtow
      
      What’s this “hating on” crap .
      
      The ‘on’ is superfluous.
      
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      March 18, 2022 12:08pm
    - Manu-Rau
      
      Where in the New Testament does it say that?
      
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      March 18, 2022 12:20pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Matthew 19:24
        
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        March 18, 2022 2:38pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Really? So pleased to an accomplished practitioner of Christology in our midst. Was that in your fortune cookie Mike?
      
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      March 18, 2022 12:23pm
    - fisho
      
      Is Jacinda the new Jesus? Asking for a friend.
      
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      March 18, 2022 1:09pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Oo Oo – I want to see her walking on water please.
        
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        March 18, 2022 3:04pm
Warren

Yesterday Health Director Ashley Bloomfield was on Newshub assuring them that this wasn’t happening so why today have we this .
Covid 19 Omicron outbreak : top Doctors say patients waiting in hospital corridors for up to 24 hours, so where’s our Health Minister hidingwhile all this is happening, the noise is deafening from a MP that’s well out of his depth.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-top-doctor-says-patients-waiting-in-hospital-corridors-for-up-to-24-hours/6CCPUEZKNB5DH5F6XX7GVQLHDM/
Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister used to front these stories once apon a time , but now there is no political rewards she hides away from the negative news.
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March 18, 2022 9:00am
- alloytoo
  
  Billions of dollars spent on Covid relief and MIQ.
  
  But hey at least those foreign DJ’s were able to lighten the mood.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:31am
- ecco
  
  I think that people are getting that Ardern is a fairweather PM. Only fronts the good stuff. It’s showing in her declining polls. Thank goodness.
  Fairly shallow woman. Probably a bit representative of the millenial attitude towards life. (Is she classified as a millenial? Or too old for that…)
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:45am
  - mogg
    
    She is a coward!
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:32am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Yes, interesting article indeed.
  
  “Covid is an added complication but it’s not the cause of the problem and this has been predictable, so it’s a manifestation of an underfunded health system,” Bonning told the Herald yesterday.
  
  An underfunded health system. Yet 140 billion dollars was spent on propping up Ardern’s covid narrative. How much was spent on preparing the hospitals and their ability to cope in the event of a health crisis? Nothing.
  Ardern is guilty of extreme malfeasance.
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:01am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  That was yesterday. Get with the program.
  
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  March 18, 2022 3:05pm
Thought Criminal

I found this on fb. A reminder of our leaders psychological issues and it makes you think how much these issues have influenced her pandemic response.

REFLECTION
June 2017 Newshug PR piece about our PM and her anxieties. She was Labour’s deputy leader at the time and o na PR charm offensive.

“I do live in constant fear of what might be. Clarke really tries to pull me back from the precipice of anxiety a lot, but it’s just who I am,” she says.
Ms Ardern says the pressure and anxiety has ballooned since she took over as second in command, adding that it would be unmanageable as leader.
“I hate letting people down. I hate feeling like I’m not doing the job as well as I should. I’ve got a pretty big weight of responsibility right now; I can’t imagine doing much more than that,” she says.
“When you’re a bit of an anxious person, and you constantly worry about things, there comes a point where certain jobs are just really bad for you.”

Crickey, if she was anxious when she was deputy leader of the opposition – her anxiety level must be through the roof now!

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/06/poll-jacinda-ardern-s-popularity-plummets.html#:~:text=Clarke%20really%20tries%20to%20pull,I%20am%2C%22%20she%20says.&text=Ms%20Ardern%20says%20the%20pressure,I%20hate%20letting%20people%20down.
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March 18, 2022 9:06am
- septic skeptic
  
  Always possible she was not telling the truth back then either!
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:15am
- cas
  
  How does she get through the day then now that she’s PM and there is so much else to angst about?
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:35am
I remember when

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March 18, 2022 9:10am
ClanMcleod

For anyone genuinely interested in the politics and reasons behind what is actually happeing in Ukraine and not just the cheerleading mainstream headlines, this piece in The Daily Sceptic is worth reading. Toby Young’s UK based blog.
It is measured and non emotive, fact based analysis.

“Are Zelensky’s hands tied in peace negotiations by the country’s neo nazi militias?”

“Ukraine is not a Nazi state, but the Ukrainian state’s support – for whatever reasons, valid or otherwise – of neo-Nazi or Nazi-aligned groups makes the country an outlier in Europe. The continent has many extreme Right-wing groups, but only in Ukraine do they possess their own tank and artillery units, with the state’s support.”

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/03/16/ukraine-are-zelenskyys-hands-tied-in-peace-negotiations-by-the-countrys-neo-nazi-militia/
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March 18, 2022 9:14am
- Aunty
  
  A very powerful statement by the former Republican Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  
  https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1504426844199669762
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:38am
- cmm
  
  Ukraine is a mess and has been for at least 20 years.
  
  “The continent has many extreme Right-wing groups, but only in Ukraine do they possess their own tank and artillery units, with the state’s support.”
  
  That is true, but the flip side is also true. Ukrainian military depend on the support of the extreme Ultra-nationalists like the Azov Battalion
  
  The ongoing civil war in Eastern Ukraine is basically a gang war between the Ultra-Nationalists (Azov Battalion etc) and the separatists.
  The people who just try to get on with life are being screwed over the most. Where else in the world are government forces using aircraft and artillery to attack apartment blocks with little old ladies and families in them?
  
  It is not surprising to me that many in Eastern Ukraine are asking for Putin to intervene and protect them from their own government.
  
  I don’t think there are goodies and baddies. There are only varying degrees of baddies.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:47am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    I 100% agree with everything you say.
    My frustration has been at the automatic and unthinking adoption of the #IstandwithUkraine by so many, in the same way they jumped on the “covid is a deadly pandemic” narrative.
    There is much more nuance to the situation in Ukraine than most realise.
    This video is just one example of the dark side of this. On Ukrainian television, calling for the extermination of 1.5 million people in Eastern Ukraine.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9SOVarOFJk
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:27pm
- kowtow
  
  In Ireland the ultra nationalist , far left Marxist Sinn Fein party have an armed wing , on both sides of the border . Are in govt in NI and have a very good chance of becoming the govt of the Republic .
  
  There are some very nasty dangerous people around and they’re closer to us than we’d like to think.
  
  Ukraine is no outlier.
  
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  March 18, 2022 12:06pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Fair point. That’s what happens when there is a political vacuum, it will be filled by radicals of one hue or the other. The recent rise of popularity of Peters in NZ is a good example. Many here are revolted and apparently surprised. They shouldn’t be. National’s failure to oppose Labour and their inane and repulsive covid policies was a very bad mistake. People want rid of Ardern, but so far, Luxon and National haven’t really offered anything that looks substantially different to Labour.
    Chris Bishop in particular has been a liability.
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:40pm
- Nickc2
  
  A very interesting link. Having read it, what to believe, arguments can be made for and against?
  If what’s contained in the link is true, it’s a very sad state of affairs that such information is not given wider distribution and thus debate.
  That aside, speaking for myself, I currently live in a country (NZ) where it’s also often impossible to extract the truth about internal affairs due to Govt lies and 4th Estate bias.
  Typical recent examples of this have been the Anti-Mandate demonstrations, associated Parliamentary Behavior, and the benefits and pitfalls of the Pfizer elixir commonly referred to as vaccine.
  
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  March 18, 2022 12:23pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Here’s another good video discussing the topic in what I believe is a very fair and balanced way.
    Unherd is a UK based channel hosted by Freddie Sayers. They do some very good productions.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUgKTfe-IqA
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:45pm
Maggie Pie

Our cleaning lady is due soon….she shared this Tweet earlier about the war in Ukraine and suggested we might like to watch it.
(I think this guy was one of the Kennedy’s? Already had nearly 8 million views in the last few hours!)

https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1504426844199669762
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March 18, 2022 9:16am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Impressive. May it penetrate some minds. Unfortunately human stupidity cannot be underestimated as some of the comments make clear and as we are experiencing in this country.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:08am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    His claims about the “insurrection” in America and the attempted “overthrow” of the US government were very impressive. Fair play to him, he did at least admit his father was a Nazi.
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:12am
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      “Insurrection,” Arnold? You can tell it’s propaganda when nobody at all has been charged with the crime of insurrection (although, in many instances, they were locked in solitary confinement for months on end without charge, in an overt display of “Putinism”). How these people keep a straight face is impressive.
      
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      March 18, 2022 12:57pm
      - kowtow
        
        The minute I see “insurrection” in relation to that business i simply turn off. Cos you know it’s bullshit , propaganda , lies.
        
        Thanks for saving me the bother of checking out the link.
        
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        March 18, 2022 3:31pm
  - mawm
    
    It’s on twitter so it must be true.
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:25am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, Arnie has excelled in this video and hopefully ordinary Russians can get to watch it. Amazing that Putin is blocking messages that show Russians demonstrating against this war. Blocking messages…now where have I heard that before? On the subject of your cleaning lady one hopes her name isn’t Miranda and that she doesn’t smash your breakables.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:31am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Tatiana.
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:06pm
- HeatherW
  
  Arnold’s ex-wife Maria Shriver is part of the Kennedy family – daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
  
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  March 18, 2022 2:42pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I stopped when he mentioned attempted insurrection Jan 6th.
  Yes it was – by the non Trump supporters, antifa, blm, and the rest of the rent a mob.
  Arnie enjoys his freedom in the US right??
  Hypocrite
  
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  March 18, 2022 5:22pm
Benedict Yu

I have beeen following the vaccine data for 5 – 11 year olds. They are all coming due for their second dose. It seems to have polarised parents.

First dose is stuck at 53 percent – so about half of parents are not going to vaccinate their kids.

But the ones that DID vaccinate seem to be bringing their kids back for a second dose, with 20,000 done so far and the numbers ramping up each day.

https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data
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March 18, 2022 9:30am
- alloytoo
  
  My 7 year old bounced back from Covid in two days.
  
  He now enjoys far better immunity than the obsolete vaccines can offer.
  
  In the UK the data indicated that for health 17 year olds (and below) that vaccine made no difference to their severity of disease.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:35am
  - Batman
    
    It would be nice to have the new antibody testing technique more freely available outside of Auckland pharmacies (from next month), then you’d have to put up or shut up on the immunity claim.
    
    The natural immunity is not that beneficial and not long lasting.
    https://www.immunology.org/coronavirus/connect-coronavirus-public-engagement-resources/covid-immunity-infection-vaccine
    
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    March 18, 2022 9:59am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Natural immunity is stronger and longer lasting than any protection from the pfizer jab. We know any protection wanes rapidly and we know it is causing negative efficacy, hence the murmurings already beginning about a 4th shot going to be needed soon.
      How many times are you going to stick this shit in your arm before you realise it isn’t doing what it’s supposed to? If you want to be a guinea pig fill your boots, but don’t compel others to follow your madness.
      
      “Since autumn 2021, several countries reported a negative vaccine effectiveness against infection, that is, vaccinated people had a higher infection rate than unvaccinated people. In countries like the UK, negative vaccine effectiveness reached up to minus 100% in some age groups (i.e. vaccinated people had double the infection rate compared to unvaccinated people; see next chart). In response, several countries simply stopped publishing this somewhat embarrassing data.”
      
      https://swprs.org/covid-vaccines-a-reality-check/
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:20am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        We know
        
        Who is this ‘we’ you keep going on about?
        
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        March 18, 2022 10:31am
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        I think “we know” refers to the existing body of knowledge in the world, as well as “we” being anyone with an internet connection who is willing to use it in order to inform themselves beyond what is dished up on a platter in service of policy goals.
        
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        March 18, 2022 12:11pm
      - Batman
        
        Haha McLeod you claim that as fact then link to a random blog which promotes the Rwandan genocide false flag conspiracy, is clearly massive anti-vaccine and pro covid conspiracy.
        
        It’s hardly a reliable scientific source!
        
        Meanwhile I linked to a legitimate scientific body and appropriate data sourcing, not a random Swiss blogger.
        
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        March 18, 2022 1:15pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      And can you link to where the antibody testing is available? Ardern banned the importation of antibody testing in mid 2020. Are you saying it is now available in NZ? If so I’m in.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:21am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        One Covid antibody test is going to become available through some pharmacists, but at $100/ finger prick, it’s not going to be used by the hoi-polloi.
        
        https://www.newsroom.co.nz/covid-immunity-testing-could-be-coming-to-a-pharmacy-near-you
        
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        March 18, 2022 11:17am
    - rangitoto
      
      Antibody testing doesn’t tell the whole story. Long term protection is from the memory B and T cells.
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:25am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Seriously are you mad? How do you think humans have survived the various coronavirus strains that have surged through human populations since the begining of human kind?
      
      Your Corona-19 vaccines are a dud – they don’t prevent catching or transmitting the virus. But Batman still pushes them and ridicules the human immune system.
      
      Truly you deserve to walk the streets in a cartoon characters costume – because you are unhinged
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:50am
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        Exactly. I am healthy with a functioning immune system, so I am confident of my defenses against even “novel” viruses. I don’t need to outsource my immune response to Big Pharma, because mine is both better and free of charge.
        
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        March 18, 2022 12:14pm
    - alloytoo
      
      There are two things to consider here.
      
      Covid vaccines which were designed for Alpha, for a specific spike protein.
      
      it’s obsolete and under armed.
      
      Omicron is significant removed from Alpha, hence the extremely high levels of infection amongst the double jabbed. (case in point, myself and the remainder of the family (with the exception of said youngster) were double jabbed)
      
      (Delta also exhibited a high degree infection with the double jabbed)
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkjBi7dOTAg
      
      The video by Dr John Campbell is entitled “Superior Natural Immunity”
      
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      March 18, 2022 12:04pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        And yet they keep spending millions on advertising boosters. Insanity.
        
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        March 18, 2022 12:50pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Pfizer stockholders need their fat juicy dividends.
        
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        March 18, 2022 2:37pm
    - Frank the tank
      
      Nice fishing there Bat.
      
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      March 18, 2022 12:35pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Why is it not free Batman??
      Govt control is still the same – as it was 2 years ago – they fucking banned antibody tests, so as to go with their narrative of control of ALL New Zealander
      
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      March 18, 2022 5:25pm
  - kowtow
    
    yep , and lockdowns would be terrible for them . mentally , physically , socially , educationally etc .
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:58am
- Show me the evidence
  
  And yet in Florida they are recommending against vaccinating children. No, it’s not political, their Chief Medical Officer looked at the science and concluded it is all risk and no benefit. And even in the UK looking at the latest government data the vax rate of adults is high, but the 1st dose vax rate of under 12s is stagnant at 2% (i.e. only those with serious health issues). The British children have all either had covid (and just got a cold) or they know it will be just a cold for children. It’s in Figure 3a:
  https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1061532/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_11.pdf
  I have met people here who are petrified about their 3 year olds getting covid (because they’re not vaxxed). I don’t understand what part of the message “it’s mild for children” people haven’t understood.
  And for the record, none of our unvaxxed household of 6 people in South Auckland has had it yet but we would like to get Omi as protection against any future more virulent variants. As Bill Gates himself said “Omicron is a very effective viral vaccine, sadly more effective than the vaccines themselves” – well I paraphrased but that was the gist of what he said. He did use the word “sadly” though which is a bit of a tell IMO.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:50am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Vaccinating young children is tantamount to child abuse. There is absolutely zero justification for doing so.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:23am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Well as of yesterday 255,444 young kids have been vaccinated in New Zealand. 🙁
      
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      March 18, 2022 10:33am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        BY as you know, a lot of the reason behind that had been the many millions of dollars spent by this government to convince people that there is a benefit to vaccinating children, which is a terrible lie. Those responsible need held to account in any future inquiry.
        
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        March 18, 2022 11:15am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Clan,
        ‘many millions of dollars spent by this government to convince people that there is a benefit to vaccinating children’
        Who is paying?? I will leave that open
        
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        March 18, 2022 5:29pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Unless your kid has serious health issues that make them high risk – eg cystic fibrosis or compromised immune system.
      
      The covid vaccines are probably the lowest risk choice for at least some of the population, and likely the majority if highly pathogenic strains like Delta are dominant. But likely for a lower proportion of the healthy population with Omicron.
      
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      March 18, 2022 12:19pm
- Thought Criminal
  
  What is the case for vaccinating children? Serious question.
  
  It lowers the risk of server symptoms or death? This is nearly zero for children anyway.
  
  It reduces community transmission? Are you kidding? Omnicron is ripping through New Zealand’s heavily vaccinated population.
  
  It protects the vulnerable? How exactly?
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:04am
  - alloytoo
    
    There may be a case for vaccinating children with existing co-morbidities.
    
    However with heathy youngsters the chances of an adverse vaccine reaction are greater than a serious problem from covid.
    
    Furthermore the Data out of the UK (In January) is suggests no benefit for otherwise healthy under 17’s
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:09pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  CDC data on C-19 survival rates by age group, published December 2020, for the period before vaccines were available:
  
  0-19 years: 99.99997
  20-49 years: 99.9998
  50-69 years: 99.995
  70+ years: 99.946
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:13am
Littletramp

Just reading an article by a contributing writer in a foreign newspaper and a line resonated with me about the world today with so many issues.
Writer (Frank Giustra) says “It almost feels as if there is a universal collective denial of the obvious facts.”
That statement be applied to covid management, geopolitics, gender issues, economic/financial (mis)management, climate change hysteria et al.
What is going on?
The scary part is, particularly with the world financial systems and also the Russia/Ukraine conflict, that we may have just moved past the point of no return.
What does the exit look like from the high inflation/high global debt/low interest rates flywheel?
What does the exit look like from the US manipulating the world into WW3 to destroy Russia?
Sorry, no solutions to offer yet, just daily musings.
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March 18, 2022 9:33am
- ClanMcleod
  
  They are very valid musings. The world is in a bizarre place right now. So much distortion of reality. I think you’ve given me an idea. Time to switch off the TV and radio and get on with living.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:25am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Turn off from the world and concentrate on your feud with the golf club?
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:35am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      TV and media aren’t “the world”, that’s your first mistake. And what feud? You read too much into comments. Try reading the actual content and don’t make stuff up.
      I still play golf. I’m not “feuding” with anyone. I disagree with a committee decision, I understand why they made their decision, but I disagree with it.
      What part of that is a “feud”?
      You need to get out more.
      
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      March 18, 2022 1:14pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Need to get out more??
        The basement is locked, Mike is a ‘conveyer’ of what he is told to say.
        Remember those vacuum tube things to take your money and paperwork, and they send down the change and receipt? (George Courts?’
        Yup there is a vacuum involved
        
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        March 18, 2022 5:36pm
      - MCōs
        
        Lamson tube, they were called & you must be pretty old to remember them.
        
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        March 18, 2022 9:06pm
      - marcw
        
        Lamson tube systems still in use – Christchurch Hospital has an extensive network first installed around 1990 linking wards, A&E, Op with their laboratory (which is over the road from the main hospital). The network is extended to new buildings as constructed. Very effective and efficient.
        
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        March 18, 2022 9:20pm
I remember when

No doubt the Commerce Commission had a section in their report covering the affect that manufacturers can have on food prices.
How cakes of chocolate can be 200 gms not 250 gms, cans of fish 185 not 200, prepacked fruit and vegetables whatever weight, packets of biscuits 160, 180, 200 or 250 gms.
Coffee refills 90 not 100 gms, packets of teabags 30, 50, 100, 200, toothpaste 90, 110, 120, 160 gms.
How many size changes are accompanied by a new price or even just new packaging.
The affect of weather on fruit and vegetable prices.
Are supermarkets totalling to blame for a package containing 1 kg of potatoes costing $9.99.
If we are talking about supermarket profits, we have to remove everything else when we equate them to food.
And we are no even starting to consider ‘healthy food.’
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March 18, 2022 9:38am
- kowtow
  
  Another trick is one bread loaf at 700 g while another company is 750 g.
  
  Caveat emptor.
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:57am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Comparative shopping used to be relatively easy. No doubt one of the reasons why there are so many different sizes in various products.
    
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    March 18, 2022 4:44pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Bluff oysters – Jesus H Christ they milk it – Covid, Transport, and then the profit (GST) margin becomes more.
      Lefties, do not try to understand – your math is shocking
      
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      March 18, 2022 5:42pm
      - chukar
        
        Yes ,but they are beautiful ! !
        6 per annum and one of those in a carpet bagger steak!
        Sheer decadence!
        
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        March 18, 2022 6:41pm
      - MCōs
        
        These days if I fancy eating something I just buy it.
        I don’t intend to be the richest man in the cemetery
        
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        March 18, 2022 9:20pm
    - Mike
      
      It’s still easy enough for anyone with a grasp of basic maths.
      
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      March 18, 2022 6:03pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

One thing I would like to make clear….while I may have made the odd crack about Vlad recently, it was never meant as anything personal 🙁

https://twitter.com/newscomauHQ/status/1504553155882848272
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March 18, 2022 9:39am
- Frank the tank
  
  Fake news Mags. The boyfriend did it. Went all ‘Pistorius’ on her.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:45am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    PWEW!! Thnx for clearing that up Frankie 😀
    Ever since installing ‘ad-blocker’ there’s been a few sites I can’t access.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:07am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, gives new meaning though to the old saying about living out of a suit case.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:35am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  Is she among this lot, I wonder?
  
  https://gab.com/Shazlandia/posts/107911821995253000
  
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  March 18, 2022 12:59pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Good God!! WTF?
    
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    March 18, 2022 1:51pm
Tony Stuart

Kudos to Dr Shane Reti for holding Andrew Little’s feet to the fire over $4 million worth of MMR vaccines that had to be destroyed last week because they had passed their expiry date.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/17/4m-worth-of-expired-mmr-vaccines-binned-last-month-reti/

Given the issues with measles in 2019, which have been well documented, having to dump a significant quantity of doses borders on criminal negligence. Meanwhile Andrew Little seems to want to blame everyone but himself.

It’s just another day in the Socialist Paradise of Aotearoa/New Zealand, where $4m of waste is a mere drop in the bucket.
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March 18, 2022 10:03am
- Nickc2
  
  Four or five new State Houses worth just written off!
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:08am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  I’m more inclined to worry about the waste and cost of injecting people who didn’t want it. In comparison this $4M is probably negligible.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:23am
- Maggie Pie
  
  And Dr Reti also pointed out there’s ANOTHER $5 million worth of MMR to be destroyed by the end of this month as well 🙁
  
  “How many Hip Ops would that have done?”
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:31am
- Mr_Blobby
  
  Not sure if it is a waste.
  
  I have a very low opinion of the MoH and the medical profession in general.
  
  I will be thinking very hard about taking anything recommended by the MoH or my doctor.
  
  The covid scam has opened my eyes.
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:03am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Didn’t that also happen in the Tamiflu fiasco?
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:17am
- oldfella
  
  Tony: $4m is enough to build about four metres of the planned city to airport light rail system. Pocket money to this crowd.
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Andrew Little made a judgement call
  
  We have had a health system that has had to respond at pace to a worldwide pandemic and had to go from business as usual to administering currently 10.8 million vaccinations to our population to keep them safe from the horrors of COVID-19. That does require trade-offs.
  – Q.#6
  https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20220317_20220317_16
  
  Fact is some folks are gonna be collateral damage in the Covid New Order World.
  
  They’re also known as expendables
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:44am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    Folks are collateral damage in many contexts, and that is sometimes justified. Lives would be saved if the national speed limit was reduced to 20kph, alcohol was banned altogether and every man between the ages of 16 and 40 put in preventive detention; but we don’t do any of that. Lives would have been lost if we’d kept the border open, not locked down, not masked, not socially distanced, not vaccinated; and yet there’s a case to be explored that that collateral damage would have been worth bearing to avoid the lasting cost that all those measures have burdened us all with.
    
    The point here is not to defend Little. He’s a moron, and his incompetence is unforgivable. It is to say that you can’t judge a policy solely on whether it will save or cost people’s lives. Uncomfortable as it may be, individual human lives do have a finite economic value.
    
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    March 18, 2022 2:41pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      It was clear very early on that QALYs from draconian covid measures would far outweigh any savings. Those heretics who dared suggest such a thing were branded psychopaths, smeared, shunned and vilified. The Great Barrington Declaration one prime international example. Covid Plan B here in NZ was another.
      As time has passed and real world, empirical evidence has emerged it is clear that these people were right and that our chosen “experts” were wrong by a very large margin.
      Those responsible for the policy decisions made are guilty of malfeasance. They cannot say they didn’t know. Many renowned experts stated clearly, that lockdowns and social distancing etc were not only a bad choice, they were experimental reactions. That we have had long understood pandemic preparedness plans that work which were ditched unceremoniously for this novel, experimental approach.
      The same can be applied to the rushed, experimental vaccines. We are still living in this experiment and the outcomes are disastrous already. What they will be ultimately remains to be seen.
      You are right in one regard, human lives can be measured in economic value, they also have human values. This is what QALYs measure. Here’s one assessment from Professor Gibson at Waikato.
      
      https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/14388
      
      From Covid Plan B.
      
      https://www.covidplanb.co.nz/
      
      The physical, societal and economic harm done by Ardern’s draconian covid policies was well predicted. She chose to ignore these warnings. One day hopefully we will find out why.
      It was never about health.
      
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      March 18, 2022 3:17pm
I remember when

Great how the timing of so many government announcements is now predetermined.
MIQ by border reopening.
Sign in requirements by Australian tourists.
Transmission Gully opening by the requirements for local councils to be advised two weeks in advance.
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March 18, 2022 10:17am
Jack5

Ardern has quietly, sneakily, announced introduction of the revised history curriculum for schools.

The word must have gone out to State TV and State radio and to the bribed media to play this down while Ardern is under increasing pressure.

What a lie when she claims the motive is that New Zealand kids need to learn their history. We nearly all have at least a basic grasp of our history.

Ardern wants New Zealand kids indoctrinated in Woke, Black Lives Matter-style, Maorified history. The history of the current wave of Left-wing revision in history: Whites are the villains, ancient colonialism is the cause of present woes.

This comes in parallel with a slide in our teaching standards in maths.

Our teachers are a core support group of Labour. They and Ardern have buggered the education system so thoroughly that only privatising vast parts of it will save the country from an economic slide.

In the meantime we should explain to our kids and grandkids that they are to be brainwashed and lied to.

Adults need to know where political parties stand on this and know in time for the next election.

Otherwise, the end of the Ardern road will be a remote, isolated, small country called Aotearoa, speaking a tiny indigenous language, with Third World education standards in maths, science and history, and with a racially disadvantaged non-Maori majority.

The video I link to here shows there’s even more to come. Some sort of “vision” to be inculcated into kids.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300543256/launching-new-history-curriculum-one-of-pm-jacinda-arderns-proudest-moments
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March 18, 2022 10:27am
- Jack5
  
  Sorry, but the discussion of the history curriculum higher in the thread hadn’t appeared when I posted this.
  
  I realise the moderation system is necessary to protect DPF legally, but at times it buggers the flow of discussion.
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:41am
- kowtow
  
  wasn’t quietly at all . done with plenty of media cover along with her declaring it as one of her proudest moments.
  
  Nb not improving education “outcomes” , child poverty , etc but the introduction of a politicised “history” cirriculum , says it all really.
  
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  March 18, 2022 11:54am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Education is teaching people how to think. Indoctrination is teaching people what to think. The new history curriculum is not education.
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:23pm
  - Jack5
    
    …Wasn’t done quietly at all
    
    Well down the list on TVNZ last night.
    
    And nothing of the positions of National or ACT. Where do they stand on this?
    
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    March 18, 2022 1:24pm
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      David Seymour was on ZB and criticising it, in an interview with one the contributing historians.
      He called it “myopic” and “divisive” and said it does nothing to prepare NZ youth to being citizens of global society, or our shift to being multicultural.
      It understood history entirely though the “exercise of power” & “colonisation”, rather than understanding change from technology/innovation or other lenses.
      The academic refuted all of it, of course.
      
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      March 18, 2022 3:05pm
Its only I

Labour are running adverts on youtube with the PM front and center with a large prominent Labour sign.
The advert says because of the war in Ukraine and global inflation Labour has recognised there is real financial hardship cause by those things…..alone….and Labour, not gov, but Labour have done the right thing and taken 25 cents off the price of petrol.

Is that legal?
Who is paying for that?
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March 18, 2022 10:48am
Goon

If you want a taste of how the world will look under 3 waters…..meet the new drinking water regulator

https://www.taumataarowai.govt.nz/about/who-we-are/

“We’re a Crown entity with a Ministerial-appointed board. Alongside the independent board is a Māori Advisory Group, Te Puna.”

Is it that health science needs a little more mātauranga to keep us safe or just makework for the brostocracy? You decide
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March 18, 2022 11:05am
- Nickc2
  
  Jesus effin wept! It’s going to cost a fortune to overturn this lot. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it, it just means it’s going to cost heaps. And then, we have to restore all the infrastructure back to its owners – the ratepayers of each current council.
  Theft must not go unpunished.
  
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  March 18, 2022 2:26pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Taumata Arowai’s role is to regulate water providers. It was set up in response to the Havelock North ecoli fiasco. In part it takes on the public health water quality testing previously performed by MoH.
  
  I’d say it’s going to be holding Wellington Water to account.
  
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  March 18, 2022 5:39pm
Frederick

Yesterday I was listening to Andrew Dickens on Newstalk ZB. He went into a speel about tax cuts being inflationary and then as is par for the course in these matters had to mention Luxon’s $8000 tax cut.

I texted him saying his comments were ridiculous, that the tax cuts will be used for making ends meet – such as grocery bills, not buying a new TV or fridge, and was he auditioning for a job with TV1/3 as the standard of his comments would surely merit such a job.

Surprisingly he texted back saying “no but most will be getting more than a thousand. Luxon will get 8000 more. He already makes ends meet”

There we have it folks. A typical leftie “Rich Prick” jibe and a complete absence of even bothering to look at the data for the tax cuts proposed by National. If he had done so, such as looking at David’s tax table he would have seen that the maximum tax cut was $1073.

Lazy knee jerk journalism. Please come back soon HDPA.
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March 18, 2022 11:11am
- greybeard
  
  I texted Dickens too: just told him he was stupid.
  
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  March 18, 2022 12:14pm
  - Sean OConnor
    
    ZB must see the ratings fall off dramatically whenever Dickens comes on, he’s awful.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:56pm
- Swifty
  
  I would like to see their argument that tax cuts are inflationary.
  
  What, are they saying that if the government takes money out of my pocket and spends it that is not inflationary, but leaving it in my pocket and me spending it somehow is?
  
  The only difference is who’s spending it.
  
  As I say, instead of there mere assertions I would welcome hearing from Robertson etc exactly what the argument is. And in the absence of hearing that argument I will continue to think they are just bullshitting, again.
  
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  March 18, 2022 12:41pm
  - Sean OConnor
    
    Tax cuts are inflationary unless spending is also cut, as deficits are inflationary.
    
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    March 18, 2022 10:56pm
- Nickc2
  
  It’s only fair that those who contribute the most tax should reap the most from tax cuts. Tax cuts will be funneled back proportionately to tax paid.
  At present, it’s those who contribute nothing or the least who are the ones whose lifestyle is being supported by those who contribute the most.
  Let’s face it, without taxpayers, there’d be nothing for life’s bludgers and they would have to get off their arses and earn a living like the rest of us.
  
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  March 18, 2022 2:36pm
Alan Wilkinson

This seems a pretty good summary of the medical-political cockups in the pandemic: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/10-biggest-covid-mistakes-americans-apology-dr-marty-makary

Probably yet another topic Labour won’t be keen on reviewing.
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March 18, 2022 11:24am
- ClanMcleod
  
  All of the same cockups as happened here in NZ. Bizarre how most of the world was in lockstep for 2 years.
  
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  March 18, 2022 2:26pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yes indeed.
    Whether climate change, education cirriculum, asset seizures, crime response.
    Etc.
    It all leads back to one common denominator.
    Unfortunately most can not join the dots.
    
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    March 18, 2022 3:12pm
Maggie Pie

Sounds like RotoVegas will need to pull finger if it wants to be ready for the influx of Ozzie Tourists next month.
Just overheard an elderly lady telling Kerry Woodham they spent a week there in a B&B and couldn’t believe how run down the hole place has become.
Reckoned they went to The Aquatic Centre and the pools were like knee-deep with leaves!

Maybe they’re having trouble finding people who want to work?
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March 18, 2022 11:27am
- Frank the tank
  
  They could put enclosures around all the motels on Fenton Street and call them attractions.
  
  wait………
  
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  March 18, 2022 12:33pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-41Nl7KCZcs

Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain, Episode 19 “Please Explain Disaster Management”

Disaster management, whether it is a natural disaster or a political disaster, is an important part of politics. But what does a party do when they have a leader who keeps stumbling from one disaster to the next? Desperate times call for desperate measures so join us for this week’s episode of Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain as we learn just how desperate politicians can get when dealing with disasters. [2:17]
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March 18, 2022 11:53am
curry4me

https://www.localmatters.co.nz/news/groundbreaking-covid-case-churches-v-state/

Groundbreaking Covid case – Churches v State
Ōrewa Community Church has joined 14 others in taking the government to court over restrictions imposed under the Covid-19 traffic light system.
They claim their right to practise their religion, including gathering to worship, and being open to all, are unfairly impacted by the Covid-19 traffic light restrictions.
Madeleine Flannagan of Hibiscus Coast Legal Chambers is one of two barristers representing the 15 applicants (on behalf of 110 churches and two mosques).
Flannagan describes the case, Ōrewa Community Church and Others v Minister for Covid-19 Response and Director General of Health, as constitutionally important.
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March 18, 2022 11:54am
curry4me

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fed-to-raise-interest-rates-for-first-time-in-three-years-in-bid-to-combat-inflation/

Fed to Raise Interest Rates for First Time in Three Years in Bid to Combat Inflation

The Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it will raise interests rates by a quarter of a percentage point, hiking rates for the first time since December 2018 in an effort to curb rising inflation.
Following their March meeting, Fed officials said in a statement that the Federal Open Market Committee would raise the benchmark federal funds rate in order to cool an overheated economy, bringing the rate to between .25 and .5 percent.
“With appropriate firming in the stance of monetary policy, the committee expects inflation to return to its 2 percent objective and the labor market to remain strong,” the Fed said in its March statement, adding that the committee “anticipates that ongoing increases in the target range will be appropriate.” [This wouldn’t happen if there was no Bidenflation.]
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March 18, 2022 11:54am
burt

He has finally woken up and decided being as divisive as the PM might not be a good idea.

I wonder if it was the fact everyone is catching covid or the popularity of his mentor dropping away that woke him up ?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/128096613/covid19-national-party-calls-for-pandemic-restrictions-to-be-phased-back
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March 18, 2022 12:06pm
- Muttonbird
  
  Good to see the National Party declaring the pandemic over for the 20th time.
  
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  March 18, 2022 12:11pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    That is an outright lie Muttonbird.
    
    No-one has declared the pandemic is over.
    
    Luxon, just like many others, has stated that there is no longer any public health rationale for vaccine passes.
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:46pm
    - burt
      
      has stated that there is no longer any public health rationale for vaccine passes.
      
      There was never any public health rationale for mandating, or building a vaccine passport system around, a vaccine that doesn’t stop people catching or spreading covid.
      
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      March 18, 2022 1:07pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      I got excited when I read the headline.
      
      “National Party leader Christopher Luxon calls for vaccine passes, mandates to be dumped”
      
      Then I read the article. The substance is nothing like the headline.
      
      “He spoke to media this morning with his Covid-19 response spokesman Chris Bishop after issuing a call for the Government to immediately scrap vaccine passes for all but large, indoor events.”
      
      “In a statement this morning, Luxon also called for all scanning requirements to be dropped immediately and to get rid of vaccine mandates for all young people aged under 18.”
      
      So what’s a “large event”? 20? 50? 100? Why not just drop them completely?
      Why only drop mandates for under 18s?
      
      The whole covid act needs to be repealed as soon as possible, vax passes need to be gone immediately, the same with mandates.
      
      Come on National, stop tinkering around the edges.
      
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      March 18, 2022 1:27pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Luxon’s trying to get ahead of Ardern’s announcement next week, is Labour also announcing the pandemic over for the 20th time?
    Will she do a little dance?
    
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    March 18, 2022 12:53pm
    - kowtow
      
      Parker looks like he is getting ahead of Dear Leader.
      
      ‘Attorney-General David Parker says New Zealand could return to normal faster than we might imagine, because the Omicron outbreak has not overwhelmed the health system.’
      
      https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/nz-could-be-back-normal-faster-people-expect
      
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      March 18, 2022 1:14pm
      - Dougal10
        
        Behind the scenes Parker is one of 3 actual leaders of labor (robbo and little are the other 2) all 3 of them being unpalatable to the NZ public as a PM hence the figurehead.
        
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        March 18, 2022 1:41pm
      - Tony Stuart
        
        That would suggest that Cabinet has already made its decision , but they’ll get more mileage by deferring it to Monday.
        
        Once again our speedway will run tomorrow night, on a beautiful autumn evening, with four enclosures, each with 100 spectators. We’d far rather throw the gates open, but this is the best we can do at the moment, until Ardern makes an announcement. Meanwhile, clubs like our up and down the country, in a variety of sports and activities have cancelled “normal” running, and gone ahead in modified form like us, or just decided it’s too bloody hard and flagged it.
        
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        March 18, 2022 2:36pm
      - kowtow
        
        TS
        
        How dare this woman use this language and shame on the Media Pardy for never ever challenging her.
        
        “For us, it is about a step towards more normality. ”
        
        She’s the cause of all the abnormality , and it continues.
        
        https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/vaccine-passports-mandates-may-go-nz-works-woo-tourists-pm
        
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        March 18, 2022 2:56pm
  - burt
    
    What pandemic ? Do you mean the one where we need to be tested to know we have it and we need to be bribed and coerced to take the vaccine (that doesn’t work) for it ?
    
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    March 18, 2022 1:05pm
Maggie Pie

What a lot of the other girls from Tennis find a bit strange…..is that just looking at Mihi, she could easily be a member of the Club.

It’s a worry.

https://twitter.com/Mihi_Forbes/status/1504578334734565379
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March 18, 2022 1:11pm
Rusty

Announcement next week from the PM all mandates, boosters, restrictions, traffic light systems, mask wearing, contact tracing etc, will cease and become voluntary only?

Probably unlikely they will all go but this govt might start sensing many Nzers are getting sick and tired of even hearing the word covid especially when they can see with their own two eyes how the rest of the world are getting on with life and living with this flu virus.
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March 18, 2022 1:12pm
Ra Henare

Well done Auckland airport.
Its 99% pre covid services for arriving International passengers.

My 3rd inbound trip since October 2020.
When MBIE was “”in charge”” it was an effing shambles.

It was great to have the adults back in charge.
Only one extra step from pre covid. That being the medical document check adding about 40-90 seconds to arrival time.

Sadly also normal loadings on the SIngapore to Auckland flight…ie FULL.

With border restrictions about 30% full so plenty of spare seats for inflight snooze.
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March 18, 2022 1:21pm
Libertarians are right

YouGov in the US have recently polled people on what they believe the size of various demographics are and the results were scary:

People massively overestimate the size of minorities (clearly not understanding what minority means).

“This holds for sexual minorities, including the proportion of gays and lesbians (estimate: 30%, true: 3%), bisexuals (estimate: 29%, true: 4%), and people who are transgender (estimate: 21%, true: 0.6%).”

“It also applies to religious minorities, such as Muslim Americans (estimate: 27%, true: 1%) and Jewish Americans (estimate: 30%, true: 2%). And we find the same sorts of overestimates for racial and ethnic minorities, such as Native Americans (estimate: 27%, true: 1%), Asian Americans (estimate: 29%, true: 6%), and Black Americans (estimate: 41%, true: 12%).”

This stupidity doesn’t seem that important until you realise that the various pushes for diversity and inclusion are based on the insane estimates rather than the true numbers.

They say TV etc should closer resemble the real world but they base it on completely made up, grossly incorrect numbers. This of course results in massive overrepresentation of those minority groups.

This is very advantageous to Socialists etc because it allows them to pretend equality doesn’t exist etc (or is far worse than it actually is).
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March 18, 2022 1:24pm
- Ehlana
  
  It’s not surprising actually. Many people probably base their estimates on television programmes they watch. “Reality” shows depend on who applies to them; if gay couples seeking a new home are over-represented in applications, they will be on the show too.
  Script writers, meanwhile, need to be seen t0 be inclusive. The audience can only follow a handful of characters; if a central cast of six includes one non-hetero character, one member of a minority religion and one non-white person, you have an over-representation of “minorities” – multiplied across every show.
  
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  March 18, 2022 3:40pm
Maggie Pie

Obvious the MOH aren’t targeting Remuera households with their Radio Campaign.

“A booster-shot is the best way to keep Omicron out of your whare”

– 1ZB
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March 18, 2022 1:36pm
- H. Upmann
  
  I heard it as “out of your forry”
  
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  March 18, 2022 1:48pm
- graham
  
  They haven’t been targeting my household either … just those with “whanau” and “tamariki”.
  
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  March 18, 2022 2:00pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    Thank God it’s a racist virus. The rest of us can throw away our masks and vaccine passports, the bastard is only after brown people!
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:06pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  The great communicators like using words that 7.9 billion people don’t understand. It makes them feel important.
  
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  March 18, 2022 2:06pm
- kowtow
  
  Misinformation , disinformation and quite simply false .
  
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  March 18, 2022 2:53pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Heh, its probable that more people speak Maori in Remuera than they do in Manurewa
  
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  March 18, 2022 4:08pm
ClanMcleod

Here is the best example you will get today as to how far the mainstream media, The Whoreald in particular, have descended into the gutter.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kids-kampus-parent-in-disbelief-as-auckland-preschool-emails-far-right-conspiracy-website-link-to-caregivers/OPCA27YFCKJLB3K6WQUCXLMQZU/

This is nothing more than a disgusting smear piece, riddled with the usual baseless accusations we are becoming used to seeing.
They don’t tell us the content of the video, no, they attack the platform that it is hosted on using tired tropes rolled out by the intellectually weak.

“They struggle to comprehend why Blackwood thought it was appropriate in her role as a childcare provider to send out disinformation on a platform “filled with racism, anti-Semitism and propaganda”.

“In their weekly update, Kids Kampus in Mount Eden encouraged parents to view a video on the website BitChute – known for hosting far-right individuals, conspiracy theories and hate speech.”

These were the exact same accusations leveled at the protesters in Wellington. They are equally bullshit.

It’s hard to figure out what the problem was with the original post, there is mention of “anti vax” so that’s probably enough to attack someone these days with lies and inaccuracies. The reason many videos are now on alternative channels is because of the extreme censorship by Youtube. Same with Twatter and Faceache. They are losing credibility rapidly.
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March 18, 2022 2:09pm
Maggie Pie

My partner has always had a real bent for all things nautical.
He ‘s been keeping track of where all the Russian Oligarch’s boats have been going to avoid being seized.

Looks like Vlad’s bagman Roman Abramovich is smarter than your average Bear. He’s sailing both his ones under the protection of the ‘British Ensign’ which means nobody on the high-seas can touch them. Cheeky monkey!!

https://mol.im/a/10624917
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March 18, 2022 3:06pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Maggie Pie
  
  The British Flag especially the ones in the Crown Dependencies is a Flag of Convenience.
  
  You don’t even have to be a Brit to command a ship under the British Flag! When I went to sea in the ’60’s you had to have a minimum number of Brits in the command positions to wear the UK Ensign.
  
  Now anyone can and the people who can afford these Floating Gin Palaces love having a Red Ensign out the back.
  
  I would love to see what the Oligarch’s Yachts have aboard in the way of comms but also things like Diving Bells and Dynamic Position Systems
  
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  March 18, 2022 5:21pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner is a member of the RNZYS and often flys the ‘White Ensign’ on the back of his boat when he takes clients out for the day.
    
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    March 18, 2022 6:29pm
ClanMcleod

Bad Cattitude is such an excellent blog! The latest post re the new “woke” culture is brilliant.
Re the current insanity spreading around the planet…….

“the fact that it looks absurd to you is just a screening mechanism akin to the way that nigerian finance minister internet scammers make deliberate grammatical errors so that only the most gullible marks respond or the way stage hypnotists run through an audience to find those easiest to mesmerize.
make no mistake, there are people that gender transformative climate action will make quack like a duck every time you say “oppression” and those are the ones that the build back better gang wish to rally to them like sauron calling the ring wraiths (if nazgul had weird dietary restrictions and identified as genderfluid demihobbit climatologists).

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-woketron?
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March 18, 2022 3:32pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128099094/employers-may-be-forced-to-reveal-starting-salaries-in-job-adverts
More f**king commie, socialist, controlling, envious rules on the way.
As if the country hasn’t enough problems, now the so-called “government” wants to dictate to employers how to employ their workforce.
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March 18, 2022 3:39pm
- Swifty
  
  It’s nobodies damn business what agreements have been struck between employees and employers except themselves and the taxman.
  
  However I fully expect Labour and Greens to believe this is yet another perfectly justified forced intrusion into the lives of NZ citizens and is yet another perfect example of the constant chip, chip, chipping away of our fundamental rights to live our lives free from state intrusion.
  
  I wonder where Paul Hunt is on this issue? Liz McPherson?
  
  Their silence is deafening.
  
  When will NZers wake up to the fact that bad futures await us should we not throw out governments who treat us as their social experiment playthings?
  
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  March 18, 2022 3:57pm
- [email protected]
  
  Most employers hire and pay employees based on the job they are doing. There are some employees doing the same job that are better than others. If an employee doing a great job finds out that other employees not nearly as good are getting the same pay they would be unhappy. The results would be a negative incentive to work hard. The good employees would be unhappy and possibly leave. Then you are stuck with the poorer employee. Conversely, a poor employee discovering they are being paid less will be unhappy. Either case you will have unhappy people. Pay should be based on productivity not on the knowledge of what others are being paid.
  
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  March 18, 2022 8:14pm
Maggie Pie

I think I see what you did there, Caitlyn 😛

https://twitter.com/Caitlyn_Jenner/status/1504496090426445828
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March 18, 2022 3:45pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Not sure why Hillary Clinton is still considered a Politician. She hasn’t had a job in 12 years. She served as an elected official for 8 years, from 2001 to 2009…that’s it! American voters told her to go away, twice, including her own party in the 2008 Primaries. She went to college for that long, but nobody still calls her a student…
I’ll shut up now, so I don’t end up “meeting Jeffrey Epstein”
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March 18, 2022 3:54pm
- Sean OConnor
  
  She’s showing every sign of running in 2024. I’d like to say not even Dem primary voters are that insane, but who knows?
  
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  March 18, 2022 10:58pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Thought:
You can’t sell electric cars if petrol is cheap.
If you don’t think that’s part of the plan, you’re not paying attention
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March 18, 2022 3:59pm
- surfing
  
  Elon Musk invaded Ukraine to sell cars?
  
  Your comments on covid vaccines make sense now.
  
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  March 18, 2022 4:03pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Lefties have no understanding of satire – lefties are born without a sense of humour, save on operations when they grow up (never)
    
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    March 18, 2022 5:08pm
    - Mike
      
      It’s always handy to have the ‘only joking’ card to play when people call out nonsensical statements.
      
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      March 18, 2022 6:11pm
  - Sean OConnor
    
    The Biden administration is saying it more or less openly; go watch Harris and Buttigieg’s recent comments on transitioning to electric cars.
    For that matter, explain a good rationale for refusing to expand US oil production while increasing imports from Iran and Venezuela.
    
    Or just go on Reddit and look at the comments; this is how the average progressive thinks.
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:06pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  That would be that Great Reset conspiracy theory? Indeed. I can’t wait until 2030 when I own nothing and I’m going to be happy apparently.
  
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  March 18, 2022 4:51pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That’s exactly the thinking of Jaspinda. Special elite group of ‘we know what’s best for you, and we will force you to do it’
    
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    March 18, 2022 5:05pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    I’m looking forward to being happy.
    
    Does the promise reference whether I’ll also be dribbling?
    
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    March 18, 2022 5:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Many Americans do not want the US to supply weapons to Ukraine, why? Because Americans are once bitten, twice shy. Biden would withdraw Americans from Ukraine, and leave the hardware there for the fucking Russians!!
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March 18, 2022 4:02pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  It’s already happening and the Russians are handing over all collected weapons to the separatists in Donbass including Javelins recently captured.
  Biden doesn’t care, he’ll help fight Russia right down to the last Ukrainian.
  
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  March 18, 2022 4:54pm
  - Mike
    
    Perhaps you could go over there and explain to the Ukrainians that they should just comply with the Russian demands.
    
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    March 18, 2022 6:06pm
Maggie Pie

Honestly, of ALL PEOPLE…..

you’d think 1EWES would know what the f—k a MOKO was when they saw one!

https://twitter.com/INewsNZ/status/1504233868727042051

BAAAAWHAAAAAA!!
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March 18, 2022 5:01pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Play school TV1 is full of adult children in the computer age. Call that MOKO a QR code to scan and they will understand
  
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  March 18, 2022 5:11pm
- H. Upmann
  
  And the comments….good Friday night stuff. LAMO.
  
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  March 18, 2022 7:42pm
Warren

Children as young as 13years old sleeping ruff on our streets.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/16/kids-as-young-as-13-sleeping-rough-highlights-housing-shortage/
So why has our media not gone full ape over this discovery , they seemed to have no hesitation when this was happening in 2015 when National was the Government.
Again we see how politically corrupt our MSM and there Senior Journalists are.
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March 18, 2022 6:50pm
- curry4me
  
  Watch them begin pimping the homeless, and poor the day after National forms a government.
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:57pm
Nookin

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/kavanagh-college-be-renamed

So, The Bishop acts strictly in accordance with Canon law when abuse is brought to his attention. That, however, is not good enough for the body that promulgates and enforces canon law. The church is removing his name from the school and, to rub in its hypocrisy, is calling the school Trinity Catholic College.
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March 18, 2022 7:06pm
- kowtow
  
  Wokery .
  
  No doubt a case could be made by slave descendants that their ancestors were forcibly baptised in the name of the Trinity before being forced onto ships to cross the Atlantic to the Americas .
  
  They’d have to rename it to , er , the School With No Name So No One’s Offended.
  
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  March 18, 2022 7:18pm
- MCōs
  
  Canon Law doesn’t trump NZ criminal law. Those priests should have been reported to the police.
  Imagine the outcry if these guys were dealt with under Sharia Law?
  
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  March 18, 2022 9:35pm
  - Sean OConnor
    
    You’d be minimising, deflecting, denying, and rationalising it in that case, MCos.
    
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    March 18, 2022 11:09pm

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