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Warren

While our Prime Minister try’s to convince New Zealander’s on how great thou are, her team of bumbling MP’s show what a bunch of out of there depth no hopers they are.
The Health system is in crisis with Minister Andrew Little blaming everyone else except himself.
The Economy is in dire straits and with inflation and interest rates rising and people are hurting with prices expected to hurt the public by a extra $150.00 a week.
Housing is now out of control and not helped by a Minister that thinks it’s in the public interest to spend funds that should used for housing and have state houses achieve there warrant of fitness that this Government made law, instead using them fund to do up their Kianga Ora offices instead.
Now you have our prisons with less prisoners because of Labours kind and caring policy costing more with the headlines screaming ” Expensive Failure New Zealand’s cost per prisoner rises while jail population dwindles. This from a Minister Kelvin Davis that has no ideas.
This Government will go down in History as a Government of failure that has dug a hole for itself with Minister’s and back benches that are inept and out of their depth with a Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister show of arrogance that shows no bounds.
If the Media were honest with themselves they could make the case that this Government and their Minister’swould struggle to get 5 out of 10 in any portfolio.
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March 28, 2022 8:04am
- Matt Long
  
  $150k per annum to house prisoners and rising, it brings a whole new meaning to paid your debt to society.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:51am
  - Matt Long
    
    Whoops I got that all wrong, our government cares about corrections staff and their clients, we have lifted funding per client by $50k.
    Kind caring government he Waka whare herehere koha.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:03am
  - artemisia
    
    Now if there were recidivism targets and transparent reporting against them we the taxpayers may well give the spending a tick. Minister Davis tells us the extra spending has gone into better rehab programmes, sadly fallen behind under 9 years of neglect.
    
    Minister Davis – money /mouth please.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:24am
  - Jim
    
    From this government and its ideological zero carbon and zero road toll, I wouldn’t be too surprised if next the Ministry of Justice announce a zero crime 2050 goal. Ohh wait it might be zero prisoners!
    
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    March 28, 2022 6:04pm
- KKKKatee
  
  Steven Joyce’s projected fiscal hole of $11.6b was a tad conservative. Of course, he had no idea what Cindy (Mum’s an ace budgeter) & her fools were planning.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:58am
  - Raphael
    
    and for some reason people still try maintain the lie that Joyce was wrong about there being a hole.
    
    The only thing he got wrong was thinking it was smaller than it’s proving to be.
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:23am
    - Ehlana
      
      I can’t help wondering if Labour took that as a challenge: “We’ll prove you wrong, Mr Joyce. You think we can only dig an $11.6b hole. We’ll show you!”
      
      And they did.
      
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      March 28, 2022 3:02pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Labour goes “hold my beer”
        
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        March 28, 2022 3:20pm
- pdm
  
  Warren – previous absentee Minister David Clark could share some of the blame.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:59am
  - pdm
    
    ….absentee Health Minister……
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:58am
  - Clownworld
    
    Sick Health Ministers…
    
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    March 29, 2022 4:45am
- Nickc2
  
  this Government and its Ministers would struggle to get 5 out of 10 in any portfolio
  
  You’re being over-generous there Warren.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:00am
- Weinerpoop
  
  Couldn’t agree more, they are a disgrace
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:09am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Three quarters of citizens say New Zealand is a nation divided. This is the result of the Toxic Trio Socialist Labour Party Communist Green Party and Facist Maori Party seeking to divide and rule. Their aim is to have certain Elites command and control the peasants.
  I say may the Toxic Trio rot in Hell.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:27am
  - rouppe
    
    Yes, though I wonder whether for different reasons.
    
    Maybe some said we were divided because this government is instituting separation by race.
    
    Maybe others said divided because white mofos are racists
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:10am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Warren bro – Still the same gummit along with the worst party on earth, the toxic Greens will be returned in 2023 and screw you further in the name of climate change. Get ready for it. Pie eater Megan Woods is forcing bio fuels blend on petrol companies which is expected to raise the price of petrol by 5 cents and diesel by 10 cents from next year.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:31am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Vote Bats yo keep the greens out, I can see it now, and the racist Moudi
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:52am
  - rouppe
    
    Why can’t they get the tax exemption on ethanol just like Gull does?
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:11am
  - Frank the tank
    
    SCS – when your beloved hits the eject button after her New York job interview/holiday poor man’s Gordon Brown will be flat out getting above 25%.
    
    Speaking of which Te Reo Luxon and the National party are juicy odds right now at $2.38. I would be on that horse.
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:31am
    - Matt Long
      
      $2.38, where, the TAB?
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:25pm
    - jgw739
      
      Bring back iPredict
      
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      March 28, 2022 5:34pm
- Justitia
  
  Labour’s war on democracy and accountability continues, this time with an attack of the right of citizens in Wellington to appeal to the Environment Court against District Plan proposals: https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/128180704/wellington-city-council-looking-to-fasttrack-district-plan-ruling-out-appeals
  
  To those who voted Labour at the last election, I have no words to convey my contempt for what you have enabled.
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:21am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Justitia – “To those who voted Labour at the last election, I have no words to convey my contempt for what you have enabled” – That includes farmers, small businesses and the traitors of Taranaki.
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:05pm
    - Justitia
      
      They know who they are.
      
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      March 28, 2022 1:45pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Many small business owners are not afraid to admit they made a mistake. But they made that mistake because National was not doing them any favours either.
      Today’s National Light is nothing better than today’s Labour
      
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      March 28, 2022 3:26pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Prisoners snd prisoners costing 300 million more now, but the prison population has dropped by 25%
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:50am
- Jim
  
  Yes Warren indeed it’s a sad reflection of our society that media funding is now largely provided by the state and big corporations. Also that many young fledgling journalists today seem insufficiently informed of world history to consider repeating patterns, and seem untrained in critical thinking as is necessary to seek the unadulterated truth. Either knowingly or unwittingly these journalists now protect the interests of their corporate and state benefactors, at the expense of freedom of information, expression and individual liberty. There is no escape though, as in time their own children will inherit this ever more corrupt corporate world.
  
  This is why many smart people now turn to the burgeoning independent media companies filling the void in seeking that unadulterated truth. Conversely these new media often rely on ‘old school’ voluntary or part paywalled subscriptions from individual members of the public (to the few uninformed scowling KBers, I’m certainly not referring to Toni on Twitter or Frank on Facebook who heard something down at the dairy).
  As many other KBers have offered in the past, here are a couple of excellent professional examples from the UK and US, that offer a more balanced view of world events:
  
  https://www.spiked-online.com/
  
  https://greenwald.substack.com/
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:55am
Loddenthinks

I don’t wish to add to the grief of the family and friends of the recently-departed Cat Pause, but I couldn’t leave this uncommented, from $1uffed:

“She had fingers in many pies and a big influence on all of them.” Yes, well, quite.
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March 28, 2022 8:04am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  To glorify obesity in the way she did cannot be a good thing.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:08am
  - Rodney Hide
    
    Further illustration of how counterproductive universities have become. Defund them.
    
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    March 28, 2022 8:19am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      More like getting rid of the Marxists who lecture on this kind of shit
      
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      March 28, 2022 8:23am
    - kowtow
      
      yes they need to tighten their belts.
      
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      March 28, 2022 8:29am
    - glowworm
      
      Or don’t send your kids there?
      
      What seems to be required is a well funded technical university, which operates on merit, and where acceptance is based on merit, not dollars.
      
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      March 28, 2022 8:37am
    - cmm
      
      Either that or only fund the high value stuff (engineering, real science, medicine, law etc).
      
      But I think you’re right: once you open up the funding then it will inevitabley expand to what it is now – a situation where universities are now more interested in Bullshit Studies than things which need skills in society (engineering, etc).
      
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      March 28, 2022 8:38am
      - bjools
        
        Agree, my thought
        Funding linked to the census.
        A lack of any service occupation, like Health service, engineering etc. Determined by the census, becomes the education funding model for 5 years.
        ie weighted by need, not political dogma.
        
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        March 28, 2022 9:01am
      - kowtow
        
        bjools
        
        I wonder what the ‘weighting” was for her course .
        
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        March 28, 2022 9:19am
      - mandk
        
        If we cut out all the courses ending in ‘Studies’ we would save a huge amount of money and be able to fund medicine, engineering properly.
        We would also be able to give students a reasonable stipend, renewable annually dependant on good performance, to fund their studies.
        
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        March 28, 2022 9:32am
      - rouppe
        
        Remember it was the last Labour government under Helen Clark that funded basket weaving courses and overseas hip-hop junkets.
        
        A leopard’s spots don’t change much
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:14am
      - bjools
        
        mandk
        I would score, from the census, each course due to need.
        eg
        If we are short something…
        Doctors………100% funded
        Nurses………..100%
        Engineers….. 90%
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        Sociology…….20%
        Studies (as you say)…….0%
        We currently fund all degrees by 80%
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:34am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Perhaps ACT will press for a ‘charter university’ as the bone thrown to them next time they get a bum or two into a ministerial office chair.
      
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      March 28, 2022 9:26am
    - Bloody Dago
      
      Finally Rodders address’s the elephant in the room. 95% of the Walking Dead stumbling around the hallowed halls of wackademia in this country need the boot.
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:09am
      - crikey
        
        “Wackademia”. Love it. Add on wackademic.
        
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        March 28, 2022 10:21am
      - Biscuit
        
        Oh, agreed, crikey.
        
        Permission, Bloody Dago, to purloin that term?
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:32am
      - bjools
        
        Missing an ‘n’?
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:38am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      The institutions are infested with these grifters. Let them have the north island. Sane people to the south. Separate countries.
      
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      March 28, 2022 6:00pm
  - KKKKatee
    
    Absolutely not. Imagine lugging all that weight around day after day.
    
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    March 28, 2022 8:59am
    - mogg
      
      Not just a physical affliction, also a psychological
      burden to go with it, (personality problems).
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:02am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Thing is, who were her brainwashed followers? All of those who think being the same is OK?
        Repeat something often enough and it is seen to be true by the sheep
        
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        March 28, 2022 3:34pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Captain: Quite so…and as I said on GD on Dr Pause yesterday, in trying to normalize morbid obesity, she and her fellow travellers were and are doing great harm to a generation of kids.
    
    Morbid obesity is not normal and healthy, and “fat but healthy” has now been discredited by most commentators in the medical profession, although it is true that some fatties don’t have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, and some skinny chaps have one or both. I’m not sure why that is, but it’s irrelevant anyway.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:51am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      @DG: the clue is in the name, isn’t it? Morbid obesity.
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:11am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Riding on a name that attracts attention. Could have stayed with Caitlyn
        
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        March 28, 2022 3:49pm
    - Klondike
      
      Skinny said fatty shouldn’t eat a pie
      Fatty said skinny was telling a lie
      Skinny laughed then fatty was dead
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:45am
    - Jim
      
      Yes David I concur. However our modern politicians and corporate leaders live in a world of woke inverse realities. Try asking (on the record) what constitutes a healthy human weight to Bloomfield et al, and I bet it’s the same fluffy non response that politicians have if asked to define what a woman is.
      
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      March 28, 2022 2:07pm
  - Chris R
    
    Agree Captain. The glorification of obesity is wrong very wrong no matter the motivation. Given we have a socially based health system in NZ to which all taxpayers contribute her conduct is reprehensible.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:54am
    - David Garrett
      
      Chris R: Quite so…and that is why libertarian arguments about the supposed “right” not to wear motorbike helmets or wear a seatbelt must fail here, while they are perfectly valid arguments in countries like the US which have pure “user pays” health systems.
      
      And furthermore, I am told that surgeons in this country frequently refuse to do certain operations unless or until the prospective patient loses X amount of weight.
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:59am
      - Jim
        
        Some in the wakacademic world might call that discrimination of fat identifiers. However in reality I understand it’s necessary to improve risk of procedural success, or to put another way, to minimise risk of complications or death during the procedure.
        
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        March 29, 2022 6:23am
  - Biscuit
    
    Am I bad when I say that the first time I ever knew of this lady was after her death?
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:30am
    - bjools
      
      YES….very bad…you are commanded to know and sympathize with every leftist loon,
      with a barrow to push….mostly filled with money//
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:42am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      When things went quiet the media did another junk post about her, rabbiting on about ‘it is ok to be fat’
      Trick cyclist bullshit, it is not ok to be obese – nothing wrong with being large.
      I think Cat Pause knew this would happen early in her life
      
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      March 28, 2022 3:55pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Lucky you, Biscuit. If she’d seen you, you may not have lived to tell the tale!
      
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      March 28, 2022 6:26pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Covid?
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:13am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    FtT – possibly, but as in all cases that cast doubt on the “single source of truth” – anything that doesn’t fit the narrative is not permitted to be challenged.
    
    The last 18 months has seen a massive surge in “died suddenly”. Correlation is not causation.
    
    “Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
    
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    March 28, 2022 8:59am
- Cassandra
  
  The writer had a sense of humour. The picture in Stuff was an eloquent example of one being worth a thousand words. And a rare example of $tuff actually being worth reading.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:41am
- cmm
  
  According to the crap she wrote, she must have died of excessive health.
  
  Health problems of fat people are not caused by being fat but because the medical system discriminates against them. Apparently.
  
  The MSM allowed her to publish her misinformation that has helped to encourage many people to accept, and even relish, their disease rather than seek help.
  
  Don’t speak ill of the dead etc, but it is really a good thing that she is no longer pouring out her toxic nonsense. It is a pity she did not stop on her own and turn her life around.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:47am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    According to the article she was “a pioneer of fat liberation.”
    I’ve Googled it, but I still can’t find out what exactly that means.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:10am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      This might help:
      https://msmagazine.com/2019/10/18/the-feminist-history-of-fat-liberation/
      
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      March 28, 2022 9:38am
      - David Garrett
        
        Mags: Thanks…I got as far as this in that article:
        
        fatphobia impacts fat people from every identity group. You can be fat and black, fat and heterosexual, fat and differently abled, fat and trans.
        In fact, unpacking the work of The Fat Underground makes it clear that fat acceptance came out of queer and feminist organizing.
        
        As soon as you see a phrase like “differently abled” (funnily enough such people often have self deprecating terms for each other) and works like “unpack” I don’t want to read any more of “the narrative”.
        
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        March 28, 2022 9:58am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Cheers. It read like a dictionary of “wokeness”. I learned many new terms and I’m going to sign up to the NAAFA. (National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance”.) It’s got my full attention, obviously a critical movement to help humanity progress in a positive manner.
        
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        March 28, 2022 9:58am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    I’m pretty sure the coroner will not find that she died of humiliation cmm. And of course Jan Thomas has no shame at all, along with Cynthia white, who runs Social Sciences. Both should resign forthwith after the Crowder debacle.
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:40am
- Simon
  
  Massey University is what the West has become. Putin calls it the Empire of Lies. Will anyone fight to preserve this system? China’s century.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:53am
  - kowtow
    
    Why use a liar like Putin to define us.
    
    China’s century . Not so sure , but why are we so close to them and they militarising the oceans and them trampling sovereignty and democracy .
    
    Where will we stand when the balloon goes up in our hemisphere?
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:05am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      In the balloon basket?
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:23pm
    - mawm
      
      Putin might be a liar but he’s probably correct in his definition of what the West is currently.
      
      Nations that are dependant on sea trade need to cosy up to the dominant sea power. It used to be Britain and currently is the US that keeps the trade routes open. When China becomes the dominant sea power will they be benevolent or will they use it to control other nations?
      
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      March 28, 2022 1:54pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Counterpoint: once we are decolonized, we won’t need any sea trade.
        
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        March 28, 2022 5:26pm
      - mawm
        
        milky – how are we going to get all the secondhand cars and TV sets from Japan? Oh I forgot it’ll have to be bicycles but they come from Taiwan.
        
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        March 28, 2022 6:53pm
  - Jim
    
    The EoL is an accurate description which is too frequently exposed by the hypocrisy of many western leaders, choosing money and power over holding dear the democratic principles and morales.
    
    One such sad example is the Cintongate saga of claimed Russian Collusion, which is now exposed as fabricated by Hillary and her allies and perpetuated by media and big tech caused election interference in 2016.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60868795
    Another recent example is the Hunter Biden Laptop saga, the suppression of the information by media and big tech (again) is also blatant partisan election interference in 2020.
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/24/medias-suppression-of-hunter-laptop-was-election-i/
    
    See a pattern?
    
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    March 29, 2022 6:47am
- slightlyrighty
  
  I’ve never felt it appropriate to speak ill of the dead. I do happen to know that she did not die due to a medical event, nor of any natural causes.
  
  Read into that what you will, but recent events had led to a large amount of negativity directed at her.
  
  Words have power, and we should all do well to remember this. My rule is never to say online what I wouldn’t say to a person’s face, and while that has been tested, and bent at times, it serves me well.
  
  There are more than a few commentators on here that could learn how to constructively disagree.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:53am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Mmmm. Read between the lines eh?
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:17am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Yes, but Kiwiblog is not a place where the usual civilities of life are observed.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:28am
    - David Garrett
      
      Milky: That comment, coming from one of the nastier (anonymous) trolls on here is a bit rich…
      
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      March 28, 2022 9:42am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I didn’t say I observed civilities, did I? Isn’t it enough that I scrupulously follow the comments policy? I doubt even I or Maggy Wassilief would have enough time in the day to tut tut over every uncivil comment here.
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:52am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Milkey, KB is a place where the realities of life are observed, certainly relative to mainstream media. Civility is nice but it needs measured with reality checks. KB gives those on a daily basis. Sometimes it can be like life, unpleasant. But the truth often is. The secret is recognising it and dealing with it in the required manner.
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:04am
    - bjools
      
      Criticizing her philosophy, the things she says and the money paid to her FROM US.
      Is within the bounds of the “usual civilities of life”.
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:46am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Unlike on The Standard, of course.
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:25pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        You spelt ‘strandard’ wrong
        
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        March 28, 2022 4:06pm
  - trout
    
    ‘If you cannot take the heat you should not be in the kitchen’. If you wish to promote and proscelitize your own cultural values and denigrate others for not falling into line you have got to expect blowback.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:30am
  - David Garrett
    
    Slightly: You are hinting at suicide…if you know, or have good reason to suspect, that that was the cause of death then say so; media are allowed to go where once they feared to tread on that these days, so our host cannot get into hot water from publishing (in the legal sense) what you say.
    
    Are you suggesting she might have felt humiliation about that paper from a made up person which was endorsed by her and other luminaries in “fat studies”?
    
    Oh, and the old “never speak ill of the dead” is so last century…If I was to expire tonight, I very much doubt my enemies would suddenly decide I was a good guy after all…I certainly hope not.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:40am
    - cmm
      
      I suspect the timing possibly links it to this:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekDq_Ebi2I
      
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      March 28, 2022 9:52am
      - David Garrett
        
        cmm: That vid is truly awesome….reminds me of when random daubings by chimps were accepted as “cutting edge art” by art galleries 30 odd years ago. Brilliant.
        
        I had to look away though from the short segment showing “350 pound land whales” on oxygen being loaded into helicopters.
        
        Many thanks for the link…I see it’s been viewed over 1,000,000 times…I imagine it will be ten times that soon.
        
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        March 28, 2022 10:22am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Out of my 11 Aunties and Uncles the fatest (3rd born of 12) was the last one to pass, aged 93. I can still see her crunching on pork crackle.
        There ya go. Underlying medical conditions or combination
        
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        March 28, 2022 4:15pm
    - Homas
      
      I didn’t click at the time, but all I had heard was the old “…in her sleep” chestnut – which I suppose could somewhat disingenuously (but not outright “dishonestly”) encompass an OD – especially considering that it comes via that Russell woman.
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:25am
    - slightlyrighty
      
      I do wish to respect a families privacy, and I have no cause to put her loved ones through any more pain.
      
      I am certain that had we met, we would not have got on at all, but that doesn’t mean I should take any pleasure from what has transpired.
      
      and yes, I understand that there was a backlash about the manufactured paper. Certainly the total lack of any peer reviews has shown the lack of academic rigour at play here, and that will certainly reflect poorly on Massey.
      
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      March 28, 2022 2:48pm
    - Sean OConnor
      
      I think speaking ill of the dead should be reserved for those who are vicious and malevolent, not the crazy or misguided.
      
      The Left are the bad guys, we don’t want to be like them. There’s no advantage in slagging her off or joking at her expense.
      
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      March 28, 2022 5:44pm
  - David Garrett
    
    My rule is never to say online what I wouldn’t say to a person’s face,
    
    A sound policy, and one I have always followed. Funnily enough, since my political career flamed out, NOT ONE person has ever had a go at me to my face…apparently at 64 and 5′ 9″ I am too scary to confront in person.
    
    Anonymous trolls just do it online, or from a free email address. Or before I got an unlisted landline, drunken abuse – anonymous of course – late at night.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:46am
    - bjools
      
      I see it as an intellectual midget,
      blowing smoke into your belly button (not your face)
      or
      kicking sand…on your shoes (not your face)
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:54am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Stop it, I’m starting to feel sorry for you.
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:54am
      - David Garrett
        
        You’d be one of those brave boys who heckled like hell when I was on “Backbenchers”…but who then quickly made for the door when the show started to wrap up. You don’t have a wispy beard, wear a worn James K Baxter tweed jacket, and carry a WW II gasmask satchel do you?
        
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        March 28, 2022 1:14pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Oh my, what a fertile imagination you have. Tell me, have you ever sought any assistance with impulse control?
        
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        March 28, 2022 2:16pm
    - cmm
      
      DG: Your political career might have flamed out, but it burned brightly.
      
      In your 22 months of being an MP you achieved far more than most MPs achieve in a multi-decade career.
      
      If you had just been a bench warmer you’d likely not have been attacked this way and could have kept your nose in the gravy for an extra decade (at least).
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:15pm
    - Brian McDonald
      
      “too scary to front in person”. According to who. Yourself? You’re not hiding out of bravery – even by pumping up your height. Swamp rats these days, yawn.
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:40pm
      - David Garrett
        
        You know where I live Brian…I’ve told you often enough.
        
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        March 28, 2022 1:15pm
    - Black with a Vengeance
      
      What sort of Samoan are you boy?
      _______________
      
      Haha…try calling me boy face to face and you’d get a crick in your neck, Gimli.
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:49pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Yesterday he was busy assuring me that brown people don’t put a very high value on human life.
        
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        March 28, 2022 2:18pm
      - Black with a Vengeance
        
        I’ll be heading up north in the spring for an extended jaunt round Te Ika a Maui.
        
        I’ll probably stop off for a little kanohi ki te kanohi.
        
        Be dead keen to hear what ol mighty mouse has to say for himself then…
        
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        March 28, 2022 6:42pm
  - cmm
    
    I do share your concern to an extent, but can we really have a situation where everyone just feels pressured to keep quiet because they are fearful someone might hear what they say and then go top themselves?
    
    Uncle Occam would no doubt point out that her dying a week or so after a massive spoofing of her fat studies bullshit on youtube by Steve Crowder are likely linked.
    
    There is no doubt that she has caused immense harm to fat people and the the credibility of academic institutions in NZ, not to mention troughing on the taxpayer.
    
    A person who is prepared to do these things should be open to criticism and needs to be ready for some argy-bargy.
    
    No, that does not mean she deserves to die or that I am happy that she is dead. As I said before it is a shame that it had to end this way, but that was her choosing – not the choosing of others.
    
    So where is the middle path, if there even is one?
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:47am
    - Taieri
      
      There is no doubt that she has caused immense harm to fat people and the the credibility of academic institutions in NZ, not to mention troughing on the taxpayer.
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      But…who provided her with the platform to spout this nonsense from?
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:04am
    - David Garrett
      
      cmm: Nicely put…and I feel compelled in this “right to be offended” age we live in to add that of course I am also not glad she is dead. But perhaps – just perhaps – this spoof by Mr Crowder might lead to some sensible re-evaluation of the dreadful harm that normalizing morbid obesity can cause…and maybe even of the validity of “fat studies” itself.
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:26am
      - cmm
        
        While crowder was having a go at fat studies, I think he was more focused on the stupidity that has overtaken scientific and academic institutions.
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:04am
      - Taieri
        
        cmm
        While crowder was having a go at fat studies, I think he was more focused on the stupidity that has overtaken scientific and academic institutions
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        A couple of examples from today’s headlines:
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300548759/covid19-we-need-a-national-ventilation-scheme
        
        https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/getting-around-win-win
        
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        March 28, 2022 12:07pm
    - Taieri
      
      cmm 1104
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      Clicked “report” by mistake. My apologies.
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:05pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    That’s sad if true but truthfully is the consequence of pandering to fruitcake delusions instead of refuting them. Encouraging the problem instead of solving it never ends well and is the regular outcome of Lefty policies. Massey shutting down Albany STEM faculties while expanding fruitcake ones like hers in Palmerston North is lunacy all round that should result in a wholesale cleanout of that University’s leadership.
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:04am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Is this true or just an attempt by the usual suspects to use tragedy (death at 42 is a tragedy even when it’s due to someone’s own choices) to push their agenda?
    
    It reminds me of when the Green Party went after the people that were against the Global Migration Compact when that guy attacked Shaw for ignoring him over abortion issues.
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:18am
    - kowtow
      
      Just another way for control freaks to stifle freedom of speech .
      
      Suicide is huge among middle aged males . often to do with their being victims of a legal system that favours females in family break ups .
      
      But let’s not go there .
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:12am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    I would certainly have said that to her face had I had the chance, but I was unaware she may have taken her own life. That was based on multiple media reports that she had died in her sleep.
    
    The fun poked at the “fat liberation” community by Steven Crowder was not directed at her personally but she was certainly a big part of that community. Yes, I know.
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:24am
  - glowworm
    
    Hard to not agree with that.
    
    However, there are many things that I no longer say face-to-face, to many people, because of our current predicament into this woke political totalitarianism – for want of better terminology…
    
    This is self censorship.
    
    I do it daily. In fact, I even lie to some family members to avoid conflict…
    
    Commenting anonymously, on sites like this allows one some freedom of expression and the ability to be able to think again, openly and honestly. I think this creates hope for a better future…
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:37am
  - DeepBlue
    
    You’re all getting very close to glass houses and stones. I’m sure I read a post here last week about Cat Pause being duped by some comedian guy infiltrating Massey University Fat Studies online conference chaired by Ms Paul.
    
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    March 28, 2022 3:36pm
  - Jim
    
    I understand your point Slightly, but the KB (public square) comments are not deeply rooted personal criticisms, but rather question the societal value of academia normalising morbid obesity.
    
    Facing facts, metabolic health is an endemic problem across the developed world. It’s a travesty that public money can be used this way by Auckland University, and yet the MoH does nothing to promote public awareness campaigns of this serious issue.
    
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    March 29, 2022 7:01am
- David Garrett
  
  Lodden: If only she had stuck to putting her fingers in them rather than the pies in her gob…
  
  But naughty me: “fat shaming” again…although my son tells me it’s “body shaming” now; apparently you mustn’t say “that woman must have cancer, she is skeletal”
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:32am
- Creature from the river of filth
  
  There was plenty of mention in the stuff article about the “huge” presence she had and “huge” smile.
  
  All the better to eat you with my dear
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:34am
- James Stephenson
  
  According to Stuff, she was a “Mover and a shaker” in the fat studies space…
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:39am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    When she stood up, yes.
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:28am
  - Bridgenag
    
    ROFL
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:36am
    - curry4me
      
      I wonder if funeral homes have ‘double wide’ coffins; like trailer parks have ‘double wide’ moile homes?
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:57am
      - Rumblestrip
        
        They do and some of them are gigantic
        
        http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/30/in-death-as-in-lifeonesizedoesnotfitall.html
        
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        March 28, 2022 3:17pm
- Klondike
  
  Yes reality ‘real science’ hits their warped agenda. Being a morbidly obese fatty means you die an early death and are a burden to health services until then. It shouldn’t be socially acceptable.
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:29am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I never understood how Ms Pause gained a work visa/ PR whatever she had, given her BMI. Recall the South African family who are in the exit lounge due to the mother’s weight problem.
  
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  March 28, 2022 6:41pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Wellington City Council are having the chairs from the (closed) main library auctioned off. They’re rather designery & all very nice; would seem to have plenty of life left in them.

However, it’s not been explained why they have to be disposed of rather than be retained for the will-be-built-one-day new library.

It also defies belief that the proceeds (est. $100k) are being donated to charity. Not only is this an insult to ratepayers, I wonder whether this is even legal – despite general competence it’s not the Council’s job to effectively give away public assets.
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March 28, 2022 8:05am
- Nickc2
  
  it’s not the Council’s job to effectively give away public assets
  
  Hey Bollocks, that’s exactly what the Govt’s going to do with its 3 Waters rort. It’s stealing Ratepayer’s assets and giving them to Maori.
  The Govt is establishing a precedent.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:15am
Matt Long

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/government-says-it-will-push-ahead-with-biofuels-plan-raising-cost-of-fuel-5-10-cents-a-litre/PFPJY53PRQRQTLHZGWAJKSPAK4/
Petrol quality to fall still further from next year, however it will cost 5 to 10 cents more to compensate.
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March 28, 2022 8:05am
- krazykiwi
  
  Biofuels: So the hungry eat less while the driven drive more.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:22am
  - kowtow
    
    World’s wheat belt in one of the most unstable parts of the world and the twatteratti think it’s a great idea to grow trees for carbon farming and give over arable land to grow virtue signal crops for transportation.
    
    The world really has gone mad.
    
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    March 28, 2022 8:32am
    - cmm
      
      Biofuels are a system that grows plants by soaking up CO2 which get digested and converted into ethanol (releasing a lesser amount of CO2 in the process). Once burned it all goes back to CO2 again. This is apparently sustainable and green.
      
      Agriculture is a system that grows food by soaking up CO2 (releasing a a lesser amount of CO2 in the atmosphere). Once consumed in human bodies it all goes back to CO2 again. This is apparently evil and unsustainable.
      
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      March 28, 2022 8:54am
    - tui47
      
      The fact the world is going mad is the unexpected consequences of being a first world developed nation. Another consequence is the creation of lazy members of society that do not want to contribute anymore. Humans have lost sight of the essentials to sustain humanity. However, they never lose sight of causes to promote. Once those causes were big important equality issues such as civil rights, equality for women, support for the poor and downtrodden. For the first world woke, these have been solved so they seek to go further and fight for every little minority woke issue they can find (currently all the transgender crap). Which makes me wonder whether this will bring the first world to its knees until they realise that food, shelter, contributing to society is the most important thing.
      
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      March 28, 2022 9:05am
    - mawm
      
      Kowtow – The world really has gone mad.
      
      Here’s why – “Survey finds people who identify as left-wing more likely to have been diagnosed with a mental illness”. One just needs to look at the bar chart.
      https://summit.news/2020/02/12/survey-finds-people-who-identify-as-left-wing-more-likely-to-have-been-diagnosed-with-a-mental-illness/
      
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      March 28, 2022 2:17pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Perhaps you have that the wrong way around
        
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        March 28, 2022 6:43pm
  - JJ56
    
    The hungry aren’t yet at the point where they eat slash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(logging)
    
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    March 28, 2022 8:39am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The Govt is not to blame for increasing fuel costs, it is the War in Ukraine//
  Or something
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:25am
  - Ruahine
    
    Yes that must be true.
    I have read that in both Stuff and The Herald.
    I am fairly certain it was printed on the same day.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:02am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Well we were warned, here’s Herr Schwab and one of his young protégé, the lovely Justin, giving us a heads up in 2016. Cindy will be on this team. I don’t remember her campaigning on Sustainable Development Goals or Agenda 2030?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njb15SOGDnA
  
  The SDGs sound lovely and fluffy, but they have been developed by unelected, billionaire funded people, and if they are so wonderful, why aren’t we being included in the conversation? According to Herr Schwab by 2030 we’ll “own nothing and be happy”. Though I’m pretty sure him, his funders and his disciples will still be traveling first class around the world and living the luxury lifestyle.
  
  We are regressing to the lords and serfs days. Progress. A wonderful thing.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:33am
- alloytoo
  
  emissions will of course increase.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:47am
- bjools
  
  Palm oil….save the Orangutans?
  The greens are fine with this?
  This was proposed by the Greens years ago, only to find that NZ could only produce about 10% of the required additives and would have to import.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:30am
  - Matt Long
    
    My guess is refined Russian oil from SEA will be imported with ethonol of doubtful provenance already blended.
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:13am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  The morons are in charge of our asylum. There is absolutely no problem they cannot make worse.
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:07am
- Master Mariner
  
  An interesting UK perspective.
  
  “In summary, the introduction of E10 adds to the government’s growing heap of mixed messages. With scientists questioning the impact of E10 on the reduction of emissions in transport, and the government behind on its EV targets, it is unclear why this course of action was favoured. But what is clear is E10 is unlikely to be a silver bullet in the move to a zero-carbon world, and in fact is rather little, rather late. ”
  
  https://avieco.com/news-insights/the-gimmick-behind-e10-forecourt-fuel/
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:16am
  - Nickc2
    
    Cindy and the Greens are definately trying to get rid of Internal Combustion Engines. If you want to create problems for your vehicle, use E10. The effin stuff’s not going into any of my vehicles as long as there’s an alternative (and I’m not referring to EVs).
    This link provides an insight into Biofuels, E5, and E10 in particular. It’s not recommended for use unless there’s nothing else.
    https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/used-cars/e10-petrol-how-will-switch-affect-your-car
    In short, E10 petrol’s higher bioethanol content is corrosive to rubber parts, gaskets, seals, metals and plastics, which causes engine damage, so it could dislodge deposits in older engines and fuel systems, causing blockages. It should only be used with expert advice, which means pretty much never. Courtest Google.
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:43pm
krazykiwi

“We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.” — B W Lowe
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March 28, 2022 8:05am
- Loddenthinks
  
  I was discussing this very point with a friend last evening – using the recently-forced-through act that allows people to change the reality of their gender by filling in a form and paying a small fee.
  
  When you can convince people that a male is really a female and has been since birth, well you can convince them of just about anything.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:12am
  - Inandout
    
    Lodd, first gender change which can be followed by date of birth change. Why should age matter? I can see troubles ahead for photographic evidence when a subject refuses to remove their face covering for identification purposes. In fact age could be seen as somewhat racist because whiteys tend to outlive brownies.
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:07am
Simon

Lesson for NZ.

Joe Biden openly molests young girls on stage and no one says anything and pretends not to notice. Very tip of the iceberg of the sick corrupt American ruling class. Red State Mercia will not fight for the globalist system run by and for these abominations. China Russia axis wins by default. It’s just a matter of time.

Send John Key up to China to negotiate NZ’s surrender to China Russia axis. If NZ goes now will get better early deal terms. Its China’s century, the sick fuck DEM/ GOPe have finished Mercia.
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March 28, 2022 8:09am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Mercia hasn’t been a country since the ninth century. Just saying.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:34am
dh

Just tested positive for covid quite exciting. I’m fit 19 year old. Just got mild flu symptoms. Might sneak out for a few self iso surfs. Don’t need to contact anyone. Make the most of the days off. It’s the roar too. 😃
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March 28, 2022 8:19am
- ClanMcleod
  
  The salt water through the sinuses will be wonderful for your system, as will the physical exercise and the natural vitamin D and endorphins. Enjoy.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:47am
  - Inandout
    
    Clan, but..but..those old remedies aren’t sold in chemists.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:09am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      I’m sure a pharmaceutical company is hard at work right now trying to figure out how to own these things and bottle them. Think about the shareholders!
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:08am
- cmm
  
  “It’s the roar too”
  
  So it looks like a stag might die of CV19 too!
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:56am
  - pdm
    
    Clever cmm.
    
    Look for it in next Mondays numbers. lol.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:03am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    “with” not “off”. It will be technically accurate reporting……
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:22am
  - chukar
    
    CMM
    Don’t know about that, but there seems to be an awfully large numbers of Hummels in the wild population at the moment.
    
    Must either be the Government or deer are going woke like the rest of us!
    
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    March 28, 2022 7:06pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Karen will be around to give you a lecture shortly
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:09am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Just remember to mask-up when you’re in the hills.
  You don’t want to pass Covid-19 onto our deer.
  
  https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/03/09/1084440012/researcher-finds-stunning-rate-of-covid-among-deer-heres-what-it-means-for-human
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:50am
  - dh
    
    Yeah nah. Will probably just go for a few surfs. Where we are our beaches aren’t crowded anyways and they are just down the road. Just keep distance from people if I see them. Can’t just do nothing for 7 days I’ll go mad.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:58am
    - oldfella
      
      dh, don’t go mad. Please. Our mental health system is already stuffed so don’t want you adding to the load.
      BTW, get well soon. 😉
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:28am
    - curry4me
      
      If you get a really sore throat drink a teaspoon of Tumeric in warm water. Repeat until its not sore. It worked for someone I know who got wokebola.
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:02pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  When I had it a couple of weeks ago, I went to the pub and yo work and did not realise I had it, my boo went funny, but no runny nose or sore throat. Tested positive on the Tuesday night, negative by Saturday, bonus was I was able to go to pub and never missed a weekend
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:50am
- cjn
  
  dh: You should watch Remy Surfing USA! Youtube.
  
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  March 28, 2022 4:43pm
Frank the tank

Went out west for the first time in a couple of years. Specifically New Lynn on the weekend.

Being up on the Coast I haven’t seen the impact of the increase in poverty and cost of living and are somewhat insulated. Boy oh boy. As for the ghetto-slum apartments being built in every street. You would think town planners want to recreate Soviet Warsaw or the slums of Bogota.

When I went into Lynn Mall unmasked I immediately started to hmmm Kenny Loggins’ “danger zone”
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March 28, 2022 8:19am
- Taieri
  
  You would think town planners want to recreate Soviet Warsaw
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  “Soviet” Warsaw was almost totally destroyed in 1944.
  
  “(…)By January 1945, between 85% and 90% of the buildings had been completely destroyed; this includes up to 10% as a result of the September 1939 campaign and following combat, up to 15% during the earlier Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 25% during the Uprising, and 40% due to systematic German demolition of city after the uprising.(…)”
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Warsaw
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:46am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Warsaw/Moscow, Poland/Russia – perhaps it’s all the same for Frank.
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:28pm
    - Frank the tank
      
      Stalin/USSR, Ardern/Labour – perhaps its all the same for Mikey
      
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      March 28, 2022 2:16pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I think confusing one eastern European city for another could be excused, but I doubt anyone would confuse the USSR with a NZ political party. Although this is Kiwiblog, so all sorts of misconceptions could be prevalent.
        
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        March 28, 2022 5:23pm
  - Frank the tank
    
    SOVIET WARSAW. NOT PRE WW2 WARSAW!!!
    The soviets came in and rebuilt large chunks of the city following the Nazis and the Red Armies destruction into large, lifeless slabs of concrete.
    
    2/10 effort there – Kelvin Davis would be proud.
    
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    March 28, 2022 2:15pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  “When I went into Lynn Mall unmasked I immediately started to hmmm Kenny Loggins’ “danger zone””.
  
  That has made my day Frank. Farkin’ funny!
  
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  March 28, 2022 1:32pm
G152

Is every-one ready for the chaos that Russia is going to inflict on the world.?????
Get your seeds ready, dig up the back lawn and be prepared for several years of isolation, shortages and spotty communications.

Going to be a sad sad time
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March 28, 2022 8:24am
- mawm
  
  Biden and the NWO have beaten him to it.
  
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  March 28, 2022 2:30pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Radio NZ is all of a flutter that Power of the Dog now has a rival, Coda. Their championing for Jane Campion as first two-time female Director/ Best Picture winner seems likely to be trumped by a movie by and about deaf people.

This is an object lesson in intersectionalism; plus the way that the Left will eat their own in response to just one gaff (Campion’s ill-judged comment about her difficulties being greater than those of the Williams sisters).
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March 28, 2022 8:25am
- kowtow
  
  Ill judged ?
  
  Nah , no one’s allowed an opinion anymore . Unless it’s to confirm the current orthodoxy.
  
  ‘The west has learned to stand up for its values’ , what values.
  
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  March 28, 2022 8:46am
- MCōs
  
  What’s your opinion of the movies?
  I haven’t seen Coda so I can’t comment, but I watched Power of the Dog and was ready to turn it off, but persevered and eventually found it most worthwhile. It’s not a barrel of laughs.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:04am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    He’s not interested in whether these movies are any good, silly, he wants to have a rave about ‘intersectionalism’, whatever that is (something about road safety?).
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:37am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      whatever that is
      
      You prefer to see things as black or white/ rich or poor/straight or gay/ right or ~~wrong~~ left, do you?
      
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      March 28, 2022 9:56am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I’m sure you know better than to argue on Kiwiblog that intersectionality is a meaningful tool for examining oppression or empowerment.
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:01am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
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        March 28, 2022 1:11pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I’ll have to take your word for it…I’ve never mastered that double-think, confuse-a-jargon stuff.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality#/media/File:Venn's_four_ellipse_construction.svg
        
        Though I can recognise a Venn diagram when I see one…and it is fabulous that 50 years after I studied the mathematics of set theory (at Massey University), I finally can see someone using its jargon.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR70knMr2Hg
        
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        March 28, 2022 1:15pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Hi Mikey, I’ve not seen either movie so can offer no comment as to their relative merits. However, my point was that Hollywood commentators & Oscar voters appear to weigh in the balance factors extraneous to relative artistic merit. There’s been a hoo-hah in recent years about black directors/ artists etc, for example. Radio NZ shares in this nonsense.
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:34pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I’ve only seen Power of the Dog. I thought it was excellent. Their is, of course, no precise way of judging artistic merit. Some of my favourite films possibly have very little artistic merit, or critical acclaim. I don’t like lots of films that have been acclaimed or awarded.
        It’s quite possible that people let their enthusiasm for social change, or for conservatism for that matter, affect their subjective opinions. The Oscars is a business seeking to remain relevant in an era of changing tastes.
        
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        March 28, 2022 2:28pm
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    I read Sam Elliots’ in depth review of Power of the Dog so didn’t bother going to see it.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:51am
    - Hometruth
      
      I started to watch Power Of The Dog and gave up half way through
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:24am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    I found it unconvincing. The change from arshole to mentor didn’t ring true. Nor did his hero worship and the gay youngster was over the top. Felt like I had just sat thru a sermon.
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:14am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      And a bloody long sermon at that (2hr 5min)
      
      Fortunately I’ve developed the ability to sleep through tedious and obvious ~~tripe~~ tropes.
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:32am
      - oldfella
        
        I lasted about 20 minutes, then decided it wasn’t worth the time and effort. Tedious movie.
        Thank goodness I didn’t pay to see it on a big screen or I’d have asked for my money back.
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:31am
      - Hebe123
        
        first clue – Jane Campion.
        Even if i was allowed to go to cinemas (I’m too dangerous until next week), that would have put me off.
        I’m sure most people only go to films like hers as a bit of a w*nkfest.
        
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        March 28, 2022 3:49pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Have you not seen any other movies where an initial antagonism later turned to romantic involvement?
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:58am
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        Antagonism is different from being an arsehole. One is an emotion and the other is an attribute.
        
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        March 28, 2022 1:02pm
    - curry4me
      
      I think that if the 1989 earthuake had wiped out Harveywood, global IQ would have risen three points by now.
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:06pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    I haven’t seen either either, but after your ringing endorsement that The Power of the Dog nearly made you turn it off and only after gritting your teeth and persevering did you find it worthwhile, I’ll give it a miss.
    
    I found The Piano to be the biggest pile of over-hyped tosh ever perpetuated on the cinema-going public, so it’s fair to say I’m not a fan.
    
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    March 28, 2022 7:32pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  “Jane Campion as first two-time female Director/ Best Picture winner ”
  
  Jane Campion has never won an Oscar for Director or Best Picture. She was nominated for The Piano but it didn’t win Best Picture (Schindler’s List won) and she didn’t win the Director either (Spielberg did, for Schindler’s List). She did win for Best Screenplay.
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:46am
  - oldfella
    
    loddenthinks: she might have won Best Screenplay, but not without some arguments over the origins of her story.
    Jane Campion says she has a clear copyright to her screenplay for The Piano and is distressed by “uninformed speculation” that it was based on an 80-year-old novel.
    The New Zealand film director is seeking an apology from the Oxford University Press for its Australian film companion citing The Piano as being based on Jane Mander’s 1920 book The Story of a New Zealand River.
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/campion-speaks-out-over-piano/TPLSRVMLEWDY5CVYQQXH7QQ65I/
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:37am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      There is plenty more ammunition here for the Kiwiblog clobbering machine:
      http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/print/0009/field-piano.html
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:34pm
  - MCōs
    
    Dame Jane Campion became the first woman to be nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Director.
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:39am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      I guess in newspeak “nominated” means “won”
      
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      March 28, 2022 2:01pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Feminist Journos in this country will be scribbling that Campion not winning is the greatest miscarriage of judgement in the history of the Oscars if Campion doesn’t win.
        You have been warned!
        
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        March 28, 2022 2:10pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I suspect many people regard being nominated for an award as better than not being nominated. But perhaps you could express it differently. How about this: In forty years of film-making, Jane Campion has only been nominated for five Academy Awards, and in most years she hasn’t been nominated at all.
        
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        March 28, 2022 2:34pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Whoops – my bad!
    
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    March 28, 2022 6:52pm
- Observer of Life
  
  Youngest and I watched “Power of the Dog”.
  Don’t bother wasting your time. It’s just arty-farty bollocks. Youngest is extremely bright (and practical). Both didn’t have a clue what was going on until the “3rd” part. As I said… BOLLOCKS.
  
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  March 28, 2022 5:26pm
Matt Long

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/secret-report-sheds-light-on-aos-and-questionable-state-of-police-firearms-training/PMKEL2UIFW5RESEPNTEYQNVO2Y/
Handcuffed prisoner from mental health call-out was accidentally shot in the back by partly trained AOS officer. Fortunately he survived because gun was mistakenly loaded with training rounds. All’s well that ends well then.
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March 28, 2022 8:35am
- cmm
  
  It is a good example of “shit falls downwards” or “rotten apple” where large organisations try to peg all the failing on individuals rather than the system.
  
  Yes, this individual member was probably not up to the job (yet), but there were other massive failings here.
  
  When training rounds and live rounds get mixed up then that is no longer a problem caused by one individual. It is a huge break down in the ammunition handling system which indicates a massive failure in management.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:07am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Except when Alec Baldwin kills someone on a film set. Then it’s definitely his fault alone.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:38am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      It’s rough when you pull the trigger AND you are the producer responsible for the people and systems. Doesn’t leave many places to hide.
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:20am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Only five months since the shooting. I guess that’s enough time for you to pre-judge the outcome.
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:08am
      - curry4me
        
        Then, its Trump, and the NRAs fault. // sarc
        
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        March 28, 2022 12:07pm
      - Matt Long
        
        Closing down gun clubs will be the best strategy to prevent future tragedies. //
        
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        March 28, 2022 12:46pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Seems to be taking a long time to investigate this unfortunate accident.
        Has Baldwin stopped blocking Police looking at his phone yet?
        The latest is he admitted firing the weapon and is accusing the victim of telling him to fire at her.
        
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        March 28, 2022 12:49pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        @mm, since when is stating the facts as reported prejudging?
        
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        March 28, 2022 1:08pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I dunno, you were the one alleging someone was hiding.
        
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        March 28, 2022 2:35pm
    - cmm
      
      Of course it was the individual’s fault in that he should check his equipment every time he uses it.
      
      However the point that I was attempting to make is that there are clear problems in the system if training rounds and live ammo are getting mixed up.
      
      It’s not a matter of which one is to blame. They are both to blame.
      
      That is also the case with Baldwin. Many problems there: he should have checked himself. Also, it is problematic when live ammo and blanks were both present on set.
      
      That they took their prop guns out for a bit of shooting with live ammo is inexcusable. From my limited understanding Baldwin was responsible for both: both as the trigger-puller and the person in charge of the set.
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:11am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Lol mike, as always, being disingenuous. Baldwin not only fired the shot that caused the damage, he was a producer. So he WAS part of the management of the film. Whoops.
      
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      March 28, 2022 1:41pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        That’s what Alan noted above. Do you not read these threads before commenting?
        
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        March 28, 2022 5:19pm
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    Alec Baldwin may eventually be forced to agree with that
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:52am
- oldfella
  
  Matt, you’re an ex-cop. Has the time come to issue sidearms to all frontline police?
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:38am
  - Matt Long
    
    Are you thinking of Matt King?
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:48pm
    - chukar
      
      News on stuff,
      Girls fighting and one participant pulls a gun!
      One threatened by placing the gun against another’s head.
      Gosh hasn’t Arderns gun confiscation worked well?
      In NZ , ( sorry Aotearoa ) Even Schoolgirls are now armed!
      
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      March 28, 2022 2:42pm
    - oldfella
      
      Matt Long, yes, sorry. Meant Mr King, Duh…
      
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      March 28, 2022 4:41pm
ClanMcleod

Here’s a LOL for a Monday morning. Rishi Sunak, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer challenged by Talk Radio host Julia Hartley Brewer to define what a woman is. Talk about unprepared.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpDQpWiPbB4
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March 28, 2022 8:41am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  That guy is a waste of space and oxygen
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:16am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Perfect product of public school, oxbridge and the conservative party. So, yes, a waste of space and oxygen.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:41am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Wrong type of Indian ehh Mikey.
      
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      March 28, 2022 10:18am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        It seems like he’s more of a cowboy, actually.
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:08am
- Ford Prefect
  
  The simple question of What is a Woman is tying the left in knots. Why is no-one asking What is a Man?
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:34am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    This might help:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_This_Is_a_Man
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:09am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Coz the answer is problematic
    
    I. 1. A human being (irrespective of sex or age); = L. homo.
    
    https://www.oed.com/oed2/00139525
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:12am
    - Biscuit
      
      Maggy, can you imagine Neil Armstrong these days:
      
      ‘That’s one small step for a L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.P.Q.R.S.T.U,V.W.X.Y.Z.’
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:44am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        “That’s one small step for a human”?
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:58am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        And what happens mike, if you identify as say, a cat. Are you part of “human” any more?
        
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        March 28, 2022 1:42pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        “That’s one small step for an Earthling”?
        
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        March 28, 2022 5:11pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Sorry, that last suggestion is unnecessarily exclusionary, as not all earthlings are capable of bipedal locomotion.
        How about: “This is a minor movement for an Earth-based organism, but a major movement (giant could be sizest) for all of us”?
        I’m sure we could improve on the message. I doubt Neil Armstrong thought of his words on the hop, so to speak.
        
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        March 28, 2022 5:17pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Not just tying the left in knots – Sunak is a Conservative MP and Minister. Everyone’s sh*tting themselves in fear of the inevitable woketard lefty pile-on if they get it “wrong” and heaven forfend they ever say what they actually think.
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:36am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They are dying for someone on the right to say a member of the fairer sex !
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:54am
  - bjools
    
    Q: If there is no clear definition of a woman.
    There can be no clear definition of….A glass ceiling.
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:16pm
Yabster

great vid by Neil Oliver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW5KlbHyFOY
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March 28, 2022 8:46am
kowtow

The media goin’ on and on about a drummer’s death from drugs like it’s some sort sort of surprise .

The surprise is so many are still alive.
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March 28, 2022 8:56am
- Lee C
  
  Don’t forget the ‘enlarged heart’ there kowtow…
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:16am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  10 different substances?
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:18am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Probably including nicotine, alcohol, and vitamin D.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:42am
- ClanMcleod
  
  He was 50 years of age. He was a very fit man. He died of a heart attack. His heart was twice the normal size. Band leader Dave Grohl had compelled him to get vaccinated. He had drugs in his system. He “died suddenly”.
  These are all facts. The coroner will report on cause of death.
  Of course correlation is not causation.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:27am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    “He had drugs in his system.”
    
    This really tells us nothing. What drugs? How much? Weed? Meth? Cocaine? Aspirin? Caffeine? What????
    
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    March 28, 2022 5:16pm
- curry4me
  
  Drug overdose, self inflicted bullet wounds; drowning in a Beverly Hills swimming pool. Natural causes for the ‘beautiful people’.
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:10pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Too many cups of coffee?
    
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    March 28, 2022 5:31pm
Lee C

More from the ‘Rivers of Filth’

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=541782827237289&aggr_v_ids%5B0%5D=541782827237289&notif_id=1648403021625204&notif_t=watch_follower_video&ref=notif
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March 28, 2022 9:00am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Dropkicks. Strayed away from the original protest.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:21am
Nukuleka

I’d be interested if any kbloggers have done research into Ukranian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky and the influence this man has had on Ukranian politics through his involvement as a patron of Zelensky, through funding far right militias such the Azov Battalion, the energy company Burisma (of Hunter Biden fame) and so on. He seems to have been a very powerful player in Ukranian affairs, having even at one point been appointed as Governor of a Ukranian province. So many fingers in so many influential pies.
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March 28, 2022 9:00am
- All_on_Red
  
  I think the oligarchs try to ‘support’ everyone. It’s probably safer that way.
  Not sure Kolomoisky is happy with Zelensky now
  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57198736.amp
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:09am
- kowtow
  
  No but this author is interesting.
  
  “In one place, I explained that Vladimir Putin’s invasion has roots in the widespread Russian belief that Ukraine has always been part of Russia; in that sense, there are parallels with China and its claims over Taiwan and Tibet. Elsewhere, I pointed out that one can have a desire for imperial grandeur—as Putin clearly does—without being a rug-biting nutter. Was Julius Caesar delusional? Clive of India? Catherine the Great? In another place again, I observed that Ukrainians electing a Jewish president is more significant in historical context than Americans electing a black president.”
  
  https://lawliberty.org/world-war-iis-unfinished-business/
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:15am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Well, they are all delusional, of course, unless they succeed.
    
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    March 28, 2022 9:44am
Handyman

Every time someone comments on the Labour party – “can they be more stupid?” they rise to the challenge.
Now they are just showing off. They have found a way to increase petrol prices and increase food prices with one virtue signalling move.
1. Petrol prices to increase 10c they say – make that 15c at least.
2. Divert crops from being used to feed people so increasing food prices and reducing availability.

Can they be more stupid? Yes when the biofuel will need to be imported.
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March 28, 2022 9:05am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It’s a competition – everyone gets a prize
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:22am
  - Blog-aholic
    
    More like a participation award. They are all participating in the deconstruction of New Zealand.
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:45pm
- Trev
  
  Intensive cropping involves lots of diesel burning machinery too! This needs proper cost – benefit analysis. Also where is the bio fuel going to come from?
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:25am
  - Matt Long
    
    Also burns up soil carbon and produces lots of nitrous oxide but it is great virtue signalling.
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:51pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Bio diesel from algae was all the rage about a decade or so ago. Not sure what happened with that.
    
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    March 28, 2022 5:32pm
bjools

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/128184665/solomon-islandschina-security-deal-is-gravely-concerning-pm-jacinda-ardern-says
From the piece.
““We were in contact with the Solomon Islands, even at leader level, myself and the [Solomon Islands] prime minister, at the end of last year. Even then there was talk of China’s presence as they were looking to regain stability after some significant disruption in-country.”
ie
To Jacinda,
YOU KNEW…and as usual did nothing.
This was the time to have summits with Aus. and the US….make a plan to prevent this.
BUT just like Covid….you were too busy promoting your own image.
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March 28, 2022 9:09am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  It’s comforting to read that Chinese expansion in the South Pacific is Jacinda Ardern’s fault. Now we can be confident that if we vote her out next year the Chinese will go away.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:48am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Too late, she has let them in
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:08pm
  - bjools
    
    WOW…I see the down ticks show that your MONUMENTAL misread/misinterpretation of what I wrote, was not missed.
    Was it a deliberate attempt to defend your incompetent and lazy princess of no clothes?
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:09pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I merely made the point that the NZ prime minister is not solely responsible for the security of the SW Pacific.
      If you are up to 10 minutes of learning, I recommend you listen to this:
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/middayreport/audio/2018835988/china-solomon-islands-agreement-a-game-changer-says-expert
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:44pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    “Now we can be confident that if we vote her out next year the Chinese will go away.”
    
    It will be a massive step in the right direction. Totalitarians love their enemies to have idiots in power.
    
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    March 28, 2022 5:34pm
- Nickc2
  
  Very true. We did send a contingent of Police and possibly Military there recently, along with the Aussies but I haven’t heard if they are still there or have returned.
  Recently, Aust has been very active in building its Military in terms of capability and size along with hardware and personnel to combat the very real threat of China to our area of interest, but we have done squat.
  I agree with you bjools, this threat is not exactly new and Cindy and Mahuta’s response has been nothing more than head in sand stuff.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:53am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    NZ has made extensive contributions to peacekeeping in Solomon Islands this century. Our troops were withdrawn a few years back, but we sent about a 100 personnel back there for a while last year after the latest riots.
    The conflicts in Solomon Islands remain unresolved, and the temptation is for different factions to seek outside support.
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:20am
- MCōs
  
  “make a plan to prevent this”
  
  Do you really think NZ can compete with China when they make an offer that can’t be refused?
  I don’t specifically know what’s going on in the Solomons, but when it comes to propping up these small countries we can’t compete economically and when we try our government gets hammered back home.
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:01am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Surely Kiwibloggers are always saying we should spend more on development assistance in the Pacific. Aren’t they?
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:21am
    - Matt Long
      
      Maybe that we should be providing effective assistance.
      Throwing money around like a mad woman is more of a left wing thing.
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:53pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      “Surely Kiwibloggers are always saying we should spend more on development assistance in the Pacific. Aren’t they?”
      
      A “nice to have”. You need a booming economy to do “nice to haves”. Voting in starry eyed woke idiots won’t help.
      
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      March 28, 2022 5:39pm
- Warren
  
  But how would Jacinda know when neither her or Minister Mahuta have been there so you can’t blame the Chinese for them taking advantage .
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:03pm
- curry4me
  
  ScoMo isn’t doing a lot either according to Sky.
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:12pm
  - Nickc2
    
    He’s too busy fighting a bunch of Cindy types in preparation for an upcoming election.
    In all sincerity, his Minister of Defence (Peter Dutton, an ex-Qld Copper) is on the ball and doesn’t take no shit where Australia’s Defence is at risk (unlike our minister in charge of similar stuff).
    
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    March 28, 2022 2:00pm
Tony Stuart

If Matthew Tutaki from the National Maori Authority says we have nothing to worry about with regard to Maori co-governance, should we in fact be really worried?
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March 28, 2022 9:09am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Tukaki
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:16am
  - Frank the tank
    
    “Turdkaki” would be more apt
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:39am
    - kowtow
      
      Tut , tut , tut.
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:18am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Does the National Maori Authority have any authority?
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:22am
  - Ehlana
    
    According to their website, they are a member based organisation comprised of individuals, Iwi and community based organisations, Maori business and industry, academia and researchers and also something called a Registered Maoris Organisation.
    
    They are currently suggesting we consider doing away with all party political donations and moving to a fully (taxpayer) funded model “to avoid corruption”; a price freeze on essential items and the rental market, with restrictions on quantities purchased, to address the rising cost of living, and they are concerned about stationary poverty as children return to school.
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:10am
    - Ehlana
      
      And no, that’s not a spelling error on my part. I took it from their website headline.
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:10am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yes, their concern about literacy problems is all too real.
        
        https://www.maoriauthority.org/post/stationary-poverty-on-the-rise-as-tamariki-return-to-school-across-the-country
        
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        March 28, 2022 11:15am
    - kowtow
      
      a member based organisation
      
      Exclusively male then ?
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:19am
    - Nickc2
      
      Listening to Matthew Tukaki on the Hosking Show this morning saying we (non Maori) had nothing to worry about.
      Well Matthew, I’ve got some news for you. When Maori say that, there’s every reason to be worried and the demands your lot are making in Ehlana’s post @ 11:10AM to me, is just the beginning of another drive for taxpayer’s funding by/for your elite.
      
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      March 28, 2022 1:35pm
    - Bridgenag
      
      And the big Maori Trusts will pay tax like the rest of us //
      
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      March 28, 2022 2:19pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yes, rotten little Willie has said the same thing
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:09pm
- curry4me
  
  Yes.
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:13pm
- Colville
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-government/300548196/mori-involvement-in-three-waters-governance-is-an-opportunity-to-share-knowledge-culture-and-expertise
  
  another one.
  
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  March 28, 2022 1:42pm
Lee C

Advance NZ said this:
https://www.facebook.com/100001588210571/videos/757930452247423
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March 28, 2022 9:12am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Who ?
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:09pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  I don’t do FB. And neither should anyone with a functioning brain IMHO. Any other sources for this?
  
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  March 28, 2022 5:40pm
Maggie Pie

We happened to catch a ZB soundbite of Kelvin Davis earlier this morning.

He was saying something about the success of his government in lowering the jail population by twenty-five percent, in allowing thousands of violent criminals to remain out on the streets.

The thing my partner picked up up on, was how Kelv seems to have taken on even more of a Maori accent.
Doesn’t actually fill you with confidence 🙁
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March 28, 2022 9:16am
- Nickc2
  
  Kelvin’s been practicing his new age Maori accent in order to lend support to his BFF Silly Willie Jackson as he goes about justifying the He Puapua report to Parliament this week.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:21am
- Frank the tank
  
  Special K has an excuse to whereas white media personalities don’t. The latest I heard some white turd burger media personality was passing a kidney stone pronouncing Orewa.
  
  And don’t get me started on Taupo – half the media follow through when talking about that place
  
  Thank god I live in a suburb that (at the moment) has an English name…..
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:44am
- mandk
  
  Davies is just another Labour moron (like Ardern and Little), who can’t comprehend that every government intervention has a cost as well as a benefit).
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:30am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Big talks today at cabinet about co governance and Māori management, it didn’t sound too good on the radio today, it will open an avenue, apparently it’s straight out of Hepuapua word for word
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:20pm
  - Prince
    
    Willie Jackson (the Labour MP in charge of Maori strategy according to TVNZ’s Meiki Sherman) will demonstrate his deep understanding of political strategy on how to sell this dog to the public.
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:58pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Don’t worry Maggie, when he again put’s his size 12 in his gob, you’ll only hear muffled grunts. It’s only a matter of time, after all, he’s only just been allowed to begin talking to people again. After 4 years!
  Does he have marks on his cheeks were the harness holding the little red ball was?
  
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  March 28, 2022 1:49pm
- DeepBlue
  
  Kelvin has spent the last year solely consulting iwi on He Puu Pua and his accent is proof.
  
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  March 28, 2022 3:55pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Did you ever notice that when you put the 2 words “The” and “IRS” together it spells “Theirs”
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March 28, 2022 9:24am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Luckily we don’t have an IRS in NZ then, Steve.
  
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  March 28, 2022 9:49am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Yeah, but ours is funnier:
    The Maori version of Inland Revenue is Te Tari Taake which means “the Tax Office” but the Taake part looks awfully like what the IR does which is take.
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:10am
  - cmm
    
    Just a tiny slip. D is right next to S on the keyboard.
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:25am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      So he meant to spell ‘Theird’?
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:00pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        It’s pronounced ‘Turd’
        
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        March 28, 2022 6:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Horizontal Harris is becoming more incoherent than Brandon.
https://rumble.com/vwqb89-vp-harris-now-almost-less-coherent-than-joe-biden.html?
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March 28, 2022 9:36am
- Inandout
  
  Steve, horizontal will step in when Joe is asked to stand down due to ‘mind sickness’. God help the US and God help the 81 million who voted for Biden.
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:18am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    81 million my left tit. Joe could not get enough supporters to fill a primary school classroom.
    Remember the Trump rallies? 11000 in boats, vehicle rally 96 miles long?
    Joe would never even make 1% of that
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:21am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I’ll bet a fair few of the rally attendees didn’t bother to vote, ‘knowing’ that Trump had it won.
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:23am
    - Inandout
      
      SO, yes but sometimes to be safe you just follow the usual line on voting numbers. The Hunter Biden censorship highlights the real fear big tech had last election there.
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:04pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Biden’s handlers knew his voters we’re hiding in their basements too, so his addresses from the cellar were a master stroke.
      Covid let Karens take over the world.
      
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      March 28, 2022 12:57pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/128142111/theyre-going-to-rip-our-whole-family-apart-kinga-ora-tells-family-to-leave-a-week-after-mothers-death
There is some vital information missing from this article and the reporter should have provided it.
The family photo shows 20 people: are they all living in this one house ?
Who pays their rent ( if any ) ?
How many of the family work?
What efforts have been made to get them into their own house over the last 21 years?
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March 28, 2022 9:57am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Sorry but I don’t have a lot of sympathy there.
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:17am
  - Homas
    
    I have to admit that watching the deceased’s rellies come to the realisation that state housing entitlements do not in fact constitute part of the deceased’s estate has become one of my favourite flavours of schadenfreude.
    
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    March 28, 2022 10:26am
- Frank the tank
  
  Was thinking the same thing.
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:45am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Even if they don’t work, there is a lot of welfare dollars coming in over 21 years
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:23am
  - Hebe123
    
    ha they’ve probably paid the house off with their welfare dollars then?
    
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    March 28, 2022 3:54pm
  - artemisia
    
    Not clear from the article how many actually live in the house, or how big it is or how many are expecting to be housed in what sounds like another state house. So the usual standard of woke ‘journalism’ from Ethan Te Ora.
    
    Whatever the family are offered and accept, if there are multiple income streams then good chance the household will be paying market rent. So what’s wrong with a private rental at market rent? Or saving up for a deposit. I guess the household figured that getting the media involved would push them up the waiting list, now that they are on it. Looks like it worked. Sorry about the other 25,887 waiting.
    
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    March 28, 2022 4:32pm
- curry4me
  
  There will be a story like this every week once there is a National/ACT government. They’re ust getting some practice in.
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:17pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Brandon needs to be stopped.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/bidens-nuclear-deal-with-iran-dangerous-to-national-security/
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March 28, 2022 10:00am
- Master Mariner
  
  And you wonder why the Saudis wont pump more.
  
  Russian influence increases in the Middle East as Americans wane.
  
  Interesting enough is that Iran’s Oil and Gas has “supposedly” been priced in the Price per bbl.
  
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  March 28, 2022 1:21pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    SA and Iran are mortal enemies.
    
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    March 28, 2022 5:42pm
PHC

Unvaccinated Male 50+ obese smoker.
Got symptoms on Friday.
Haven’t even needed a Panadol.
Why the bedwetters have shut down our country for a pathetic pathogen is beyond me.
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March 28, 2022 10:15am
- Matt Long
  
  To be fair omicron has always been known to have mild symptoms, I had a similar experience one night with a fever, cold sweats for for a couple more nights. Our kids weren’t even sick for a full day.
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:04am
  - PHC
    
    Yet we still have these ridiculous mandates in place including our kids wearing a mask all day at school.
    
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    March 28, 2022 1:03pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I have probably had it or even a variant, but I can not get tested for natural antibodies. Desperate Govt banned the testing to ensure more people got double/triple vaccinated. Cunning as shithouse rats.
  Remember these bastards come Election time.
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:27am
  - kevn
    
    @Steve O… Apparently you can get tested for c19 immunity, self-funded, $100 or thereabouts, = 3 jabs.
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:30am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      What happened to free healthcare in NZ, that the Govt blows their arse about?
      It is their narrative or no narrative
      
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      March 28, 2022 11:51am
- Hebe123
  
  It appears to me that the unvaxxed are suffering the least from Omicron. Any unvaxxed out there had a dreadful time of Omi?
  I’m pretty sure i had it months ago, but was just like a cold so can’t be sure 🙂
  
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  March 28, 2022 3:56pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  I know a double vaccinated (mRNA) kid (17) who got “covid” (F knows what strain. Probably Omicron since it now dominates here) and he had symptoms of adult flu for a few days (sore throat, tired, chills , aches, fever). Great vaccine that! I do really get the impression they are clutching at straws with the current vaccines at this stage of the game.
  
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  March 28, 2022 5:46pm
ClanMcleod

The UK’s Dr John Campbell has been an interesting watch over the last year. Witnessing him become “red pilled” has been fascinating, he’s now fully in the covid sceptic camp.
One of the quirky things picked up by his regular followers on Youtube was the small, black toy dog on his window sill. For over a year it had a mask on it. The mask vanished about a month ago without a word from the good Doctor.

Anyway, his latest video covering a peer reviewed BMJ article is excellent and something that needs paying attention to.

“The illusion of evidence based medicine”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZlZIXHT0yA

Very valid in the covid era which has woken many up to the medical industrial complex which is as dangerous as the military equivalent.
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March 28, 2022 10:18am
- bennerg
  
  He is a reasoned and rational speaker, and delivering a measured message. Well worth the time to listen too.
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:50am
- MCōs
  
  I’m always skeptical of these populist self proclaimed ‘experts’ who make a ton of money telling people who distrust the tradition sources of information what they want to hear.
  
  Unscrupulous oncologists resident in foreign lands with wonder cures make a killing.
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:29pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    I am always skeptical of the lines sold by MSM and govt these days, as they are without question vast lying propaganda machines promulgating ‘narratives’ to suit the deepest pockets; tech oligarchs, big pharma and politician/elite preferences as evidenced by pretty much all reporting on big stories over the last 2 years. So many easy examples like covid origins, hunters laptop, FUD campaigns against unprofitable covid treatments etc.
    
    John Campbell has been easily the clearest and least contentious of science educators during Covid. He is only reporting on science and data, almost always peer reviewed, and is clearly pained by what he sees going on with the bastardisation of ‘the science’ by various organisations operating for profit and power
    
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    March 28, 2022 2:03pm
Libertarians are right

Dr Cat Pause’s death shows a major issue we have in our universities these days. Labour MP, Dr Deborah Russell called her an Activist and an Academic but that’s a huge problem.

How can someone be a reliable expert on an academic subject when they are actively participating in activism on that subject? Last weeks fake paper which her and her activist friends lauded is a perfect example. It conformed to her activist principles so she gave it academic approval. This is a very bad thing for academia.

We need to ensure controls are in place so these Activist Academics (Activist Teachers too) separate their activism from their teaching and publishing.
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March 28, 2022 10:38am
- Frank the tank
  
  Horse bolted on that a long, long time ago.
  
  I remember studying law at Auckland Uni in the mid 90’s and getting force fed Moana Jackson and Annette Sykes’ activist garbage for half the paper.
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:49am
- mikenmildagain
  
  That seems a very odd view for a libertarian.
  Do you think other sections of society should be subject to similar prohibitions?
  Should roading engineers, for example, be banned from expressing support for more money being spent on new roads?
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:26am
  - Matt Long
    
    Should roading engineers, for example, be paid to sway public opinion away from private travel, or to make private travel harder? Probably not, but here we are.
    
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    March 28, 2022 1:01pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    You (deliberately?) misunderstand my point. I 100% agree with their right to activism. The issue is that there is no academic value of work done by someone showing a clear bias (an example the Left loves is climate scientists working for Big Oil). Having that bias and even expressing it is fine, but expressing it in the academic work makes that work worthless.
    
    Your example is irrelevant because the roading engineers beliefs aren’t affecting their work.
    
    A relevant example would be an Accountant that votes Labour or Greens and wants higher taxes. They have every right to advocate for higher taxes but when doing people’s tax returns they should still act within the law to make that client pay the least tax payable. There are significant ethical constraints on Chartered Accountants to ensure they act in the best interests of their clients. Academics jobs are to create and prove knowledge. Activism does not play a role in that.
    
    Universities need to work harder to ensure their employees act in the furtherance of academia, not activism (peer review is supposed to do this but as shown, it’s tainted by activism in some areas)..
    
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    March 28, 2022 1:15pm
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Libertarians, I often wonder whether mike is just trolling commenters, or whether he’s just plain stupid. When I see his response to your post, I go for the latter. He is arguing that University lecturers, who hold a captive audience, can introduce political propaganda when they like. Unlike anyone else, like a roading engineer, or an accountant, who would find that if they tried to be an activist, they wouldn’t have a business for long. But then, mike is a hard leftist, the odds on him having any understanding of a business are at best, minimal. I think you are more likely to see him screaming “workers, unite”!
      
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      March 28, 2022 1:56pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I note that you made no attempt to ground in libertarian principles your proposal to control what academics can do or say, let alone how such a censorship regime could operate.
      Your proposal would, of course, lead to the most absurd results. To take a trivial example, you would appear to support the notion that a toxicologist should be prevented from publicly airing the relatively common opinion that laws governing the use of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana should be consistent, and based on health risk rather than tradition.
      I think you are confusing the term ‘activist’ with ‘someone with whom I disagree’.
      
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      March 28, 2022 2:47pm
      - Libertarians are right
        
        Again, you misunderstand. I am in no way against a Toxicologist saying that “laws governing the use of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana should be consistent, and based on health risk rather than tradition.” They are totally within their rights to do so. I would however have a serious problem with them offering a toxicology report to the Police switching out alcohol for Tobacco in a drink driving causing death case. Do you see the difference? I’m not against activism, I’m against people inserting their activism into their job (which they are not paid to do).
        
        I’m not talking about censorship, I’m talking about ensuring Academic papers are properly vetted and peer reviewed to ensure they are actually of value.
        
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        March 28, 2022 5:00pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      “You (deliberately?) misunderstand my point. ”
      
      Bitchy little misrepresentations and straw-man is BAU for milky. 😝
      
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      March 28, 2022 5:48pm
Maggie Pie

Will this woke diversity never end?

See where the Academy-of-Motion-Pictures is going to ban nominations for an ‘Oscar’ from 2024, for any film that doesn’t include…. Black, Gay, or Disabled actors & crew, in the production of the movie.

Sounds like they might have been taking inspiration from the MP-for-Tijuana’s tweets 😀
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March 28, 2022 10:51am
- Frank the tank
  
  Won’t be an awards by then the way they are going
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:21am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yes…think you’re right there Frankie!
    
    Can’t imagine anyone being too interested in a black Jack Reacher mincing about the place in leg-length discrepancy boots.
    
    LOL!!!
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:32pm
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      I dunno Maggie, Tom Cruise is a near dwarf, and he did it for a while…..
      
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      March 28, 2022 1:58pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, the Oscars audience year by year diminishes and the rules that apply to movies are killing the industry.
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:52am
- Blog-aholic
  
  What ever happened to the best people getting the job done to create the best movie? Go woke, go broke.
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:39pm
Matt Long

Thrilling news for those who thought the royal wedding was off, it’s still on!!!!!!!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/pm-jacinda-ardern-absolutely-still-getting-married-to-clarke-gayford/X5YJVEV5QR5WQOI3JCTAUIKFAQ/
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March 28, 2022 10:57am
- cmm
  
  “There was quite a discussion between Chris [Hipkins] and Grant [Robertson] about which one of them would have broken the news to me.”
  
  Translation: I can’t act like a grown up and they were bricking themselves over how I would respond.
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:14am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Notice how these puff pieces no longer have a feckless journalist associating their name with it.
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:22am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  There is an unmentioned reason for the delay …..
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Perhaps not oddly enough (if folks realise I’m in Gizzy and know a bit about plants/gardens), but I’ve been well aware of the preparations that were taking place at the original location for their wedding (Bushmere Arms) then Young Nick’s Head Station.
  
  Sadly the gardener at Bushmere Arms died a couple of months ago.
  
  The garden installers at Nick’s Head Station are talking of retirement.
  
  Might pay for the Dear PM to go with a beach wedding…
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:34am
  - kevn
    
    @Maggy… Or maybe just… GO.
    
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    March 28, 2022 11:59am
- Ehlana
  
  *topples over with emotion*
  
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  March 28, 2022 11:48am
slightlyrighty

Fantastic move by David Seymour following his proposal for a referendum on Co-Governance.

I liked his wording.

“All political authority comes from the people by democratic means including universal suffrage, regular and free elections with a secret ballot.”

Willie Jackson took issue with Seymour on Twitter regarding a debate on Co-Governance, and Seymour pointed out that the wording he used was taken VERBATIM from the NZ Labour Party Constitution.
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March 28, 2022 11:17am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Thats a burn for sure.
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:37pm
  - Colville
    
    Jackson is too stupid to feel the pain.
    
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    March 28, 2022 1:48pm
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Phew-ee Blog, the scar will be a doozy.
    
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    March 28, 2022 1:59pm
- Lee C
  
  Reminds me of a story about a guy arrested getting off an airplane in the USA.
  
  Apparently the cabin crew were alarmed at him muttering about ‘freedom’ ‘Rights’, ‘Liberty; and ‘Tyranny’.
  
  Turns out he was a actor rehearsing his lines for a play about the American Revolution and the writing of the Constitution.
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:39pm
Maggie Pie

Prime Minister Ardern says she agrees with concerns raised by poster on ‘KB General Debate’ @5:37pm last Saturday, relating to a possible attack by Solomon’s based Chinese Submarine on Devonport Naval Base.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1508153446540664843
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March 28, 2022 11:40am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Who is this Solomon guy, and where does he keep his Chinese submarine?
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:02pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He was a Maoriori chief from the Chatham’s 😃
    
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    March 28, 2022 12:25pm
- Matt Long
  
  Perhaps she’s concerned about a possible deal for a base in the Kermadecs being gazumped.
  
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  March 28, 2022 1:04pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Fun fact: NZ’s anti-nuclear policy started with Sid Holland telling the British that they couldn’t use the Kermadecs to test their hydrogen bombs.
    
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    March 28, 2022 2:55pm
- The Boss
  
  The Prime muppet agrees with your partner! LOL.
  Great minds think alike? No, don’t think so. Maybe she reads KB, who knows.
  
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  March 28, 2022 1:15pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A7IgKSJzG0

Ballot Printers Ordered to Be Installed on All Voting Machines, Produce Paper Backup Trail: New Law.

This should make it harder for anyone to cheat. It’ll also be useful if any given election is close. [22:05]
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March 28, 2022 11:43am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBipMxh34Mw

PM: Solomons-China pact bad for the region

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is calling the Solomon Islands’ proposed security pact with China a bad deal for the Indo-Pacific. However, Mr Morrison says he will not pressure the island nation to dump it. “They make their own decisions,” he said. [1:53]
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March 28, 2022 11:44am
Libertarians are right

Rod Drury giving $100k to ACT to stop the Government giving more power to the Maori elites is totally in line with his giving hundreds of thousands ($2m is technically millions?) to Ngai Tahu related charities despite it being a very wealthy Iwi. It seems like giving money and power to the people at the top of the Iwis doesn’t actually do much to help ordinary Maori.
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March 28, 2022 11:58am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  And Drury is part Māori, funny how they turn on their own
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:26pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I suspect Rawiri Waititi had no idea that Rod Drury had Maori forefathers, just as the 2000 or so “academics” who condemned the Listener 7 had no clue that Professor Garth Cooper was Maori.
    
    https://www.fsu.nz/m_ori_professor_under_investigation_for_views_on_m_tauranga_m_ori
    
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    March 28, 2022 2:17pm
krazykiwi

Those for whom Safe And Effective™ has become a quasi-religious incantation should definitely not trouble themselves by reading this: Vaccine Safety Update #29.
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March 28, 2022 12:00pm
Jimmy Brown

Hosking on point.

“One of two things is going on inside the government.

One, they know they are in trouble and likely to lose the next election so they’re going hell for leather and getting as much of their agenda in place as they can. Or are they literally are completely removed from the real world and don’t have a clue?

How else do you explain today’s activity at Cabinet that involves them moving forward on Māori self-determination plans?

The plan comes out of He Puapua, the document they have. They tried to pretend it didn’t exist and when it did exist, they played it down as no big deal.

The document that talks of separate parliaments, legal systems, and health services. What part of that can they possibly believe is a vote winner? What bit is the bit that excites middle New Zealand? What part of their plan to get re-elected involves going to ordinary, everyday New Zealanders and explaining that running separatist systems is something that we are all going to love and embrace?

It’s a vote killer, short of the clique of separatists who long for this nonsense. It is political death and yet here we are today looking to move it forward.

It’s also a two-fold debate. The first bit that has aggrieved so many is the fact this hasn’t even been debated. No one asked us, we haven’t talked about it, and it wasn’t part of the election. It’s a bit like three waters, what part of the election campaign featured three waters? It’s been done in secret.

The second part, even if you did debate it, what possible sense is there in going down a separatist path? What country having done down a separatist path thought they had made the right call?

The Labour Party some of us have voted for in previous years was not this party. Labour was once centrist with a hint of the left. Their welfare was a little more generous, their social programmes a little more widespread, and the hiring policy in the public sector a little more liberal. But separatism has never been, nor should it, ever be part of any major political party in this country.

The Māori Party? You expect it. But Labour? The party of Savage, Fraser, Nash, Nordmeyer, Lange, Palmer and Kirk? Come on.

How has this been party been so badly hijacked by the radicals? Why is today’s decision even on the agenda?”
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March 28, 2022 12:05pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  The so called Māori caucus
  
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  March 28, 2022 12:27pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  “Or are they literally are completely removed from the real world and don’t have a clue?”
  
  I’d put my money on that one.
  
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  March 28, 2022 5:52pm
Letterman

Where is the Cat Pause / Steven Crowder article on Kiwiblog that was posted a few days ago about the brilliant academic “Fat Studies” sting Crowder pulled off?

Has it been taken down?

Did Massey University lawyer up something?
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March 28, 2022 12:10pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Gone. I can’t locate it either.
  
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  March 28, 2022 1:03pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    The last Wayback Machine archive was 17th March, so prior to the original post. Meaning it is unrecoverable.
    
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    March 28, 2022 1:07pm
    - Inandout
      
      krazy, so much for the saying ‘nothing disappears from the internet’.
      
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      March 28, 2022 1:30pm
- graham
  
  I didn’t read the article, although I remember seeing it briefly. But I wonder if, given the report of Cat Pause’s death, DPF removed it because he felt it was inappropriate to leave it up.
  
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  March 28, 2022 1:17pm
  - Joely Doe
    
    That was my guess. Noticed it had disappeared yesterday when I tried to link to it.
    
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    March 28, 2022 1:32pm
  - Letterman
    
    I wasn’t aware that Steven Crowder had claimed responsibility for Cat Pause’s demise?
    
    Free Speech and all that?
    
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    March 28, 2022 2:09pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      It wouldn’t be the first hoax to have unintended consequences:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Jacintha_Saldanha
      
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      March 28, 2022 5:07pm
    - graham
      
      I’m not talking about Steven Crowder, and indeed his video is still available on YouTube.
      
      I suggested that DPF may have removed his post because he felt it was inappropriate or insensitive to leave it up. And unless DPF chooses to comment, we probably won’t know for sure.
      
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      March 28, 2022 5:53pm
- Inandout
  
  Let, try this if you want to watch it from the source.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekDq_Ebi2I&t=1s
  
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  March 28, 2022 1:39pm
krazykiwi

The Bee gets stung by Twitter ban. Joel Berry explains.
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March 28, 2022 12:59pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  More proof that the left are born without a sense of humour.
  Ban ban ban is all they know
  
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  March 28, 2022 1:46pm
Maggie Pie

Before I managed to reach the off-knob, heard those 2 Dims on ZB agree with each other …..that Capital Punishment is not the right answer for this country’s most violent Psychos.

WTF is it with people like them?
They obviously never knew Jo Pert for a start 🙁

Just saying.
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March 28, 2022 1:55pm
- Nickc2
  
  My radio turns itself off when it hears those two leftists with their hands on their dicks.
  
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  March 28, 2022 2:06pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Works for Singapore.
  
  On a side note I now believe the 2 Ronnies are there for comedic relief. Like an extremely labored Hale and Pace……
  
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  March 28, 2022 2:27pm
cmm

The conflation of real guns with fake guns to push a narrative is astounding.

“Auckland mayor Phil Goff said the incident is “of real concern” and the community should avoid becoming like the United States, where guns are “commonplace”.

“It strengthens the argument for more effective controls so that firearms do not get into the hands of people who are not registered to own them.
”

Hey Goofball: There are already all sorts of restrictions to prevent REAL guns, especially pistols, from falling into bad hands.
Are you now suggesting that there should be firearms licenses (or worse) for starter pistols and such too?

Numerous others pack in too to show their ignorance.

The problem is not the guns (or the fake guns). The problem is the scumminess of the people brandishing them.

The far bigger issue than the guns (or fake guns) is the culture that promotes gangsterism.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-school-students-brawl-woman-charged-with-carrying-imitation-firearm/VKHTYEEBCGAMJ776OQKYBHVUR4/
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March 28, 2022 2:25pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Send him on a solo trip to the Alaskan Interior – and see if he wants a gun. He could try Bear Whispering
  
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  March 28, 2022 2:29pm
- tf78
  
  No wonder he’s not off to the USA.
  
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  March 28, 2022 5:59pm
Klondike

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/russia-ukraine-war-legendary-stalingrad-tank-division-destroyed-as-ukraine-reclaims-key-town/U2SNXZJUPVJA5MFMHDXRYKZWUA/

I know as fine journalists they only copy/paste but has the division really been fornicating in Ukraine (rooted) or has it been destroyed (routed)
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March 28, 2022 2:26pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Perhaps they meant ‘rooted’ in the sense of ‘many members of the 4th Guards tank division are now permanently rooted in Ukrainian soil’?
  
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  March 28, 2022 5:04pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

These guys know, more than most, how great Build Back Better works for the American worker. FJB!!
Joe Biden is so clever//
https://rumble.com/vxd3p7-laid-off-keystone-xp-workers-dont-hold-back-torch-biden.html?
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March 28, 2022 2:27pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=295788846025126&set=p.295788846025126&type=3
  
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  March 28, 2022 2:31pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

Is it acceptable for Female Athletes to mount the winners-podium if they have a penis?

Asking for a friend.
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March 28, 2022 2:37pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Need a guillotine to fix it
  
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  March 28, 2022 2:38pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Maggie, hard to know where to start. Anyway, welcome to clownworld! 🥳
  
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  March 28, 2022 5:57pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

You wonder why I get angry about what is happening to NZ?
I wonder why you’re not!
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March 28, 2022 2:37pm
Bridgenag

Agree
I get depressed when retired captains of industry believe all the stuff on TV…..wear their mask when walking…..take off when sitting…and these were the Crème de la crème of their day!…….sigh
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March 28, 2022 3:00pm
Libertarians are right

Wow – Will Smith just got up and slapped/punched Chris Rock in the face at the Oscars for making a joke about Jada Pinket-Smith’s hair loss (saying he was looking forward to GI Jane 2). He totally lost his mind.

Then he won Best Actor but ruined what should have been the greatest moment of his career and his entire reputation.
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March 28, 2022 4:29pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Nope Libertarians, he did exactly what was required. Don’t go making jokes about my wifes appearance when a total retard would think she was self conscious about her hair loss. It’s Chris Rock that has lost his mind. I would have done the same myself. Except I wouldn’t have slapped him. I’d have knocked his teeth out his arse.
  
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  March 28, 2022 10:16pm
- Clownworld
  
  Actors are revolting…
  
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  March 29, 2022 4:48am
Maggie Pie

I’ve come around to the belief that Face-Masks should probably be mandated…..particularly in Asian Supermarkets.

I often head over Dominion Rd way in search of the genuine Hoisin Sauce & Peking Duck Pancakes.
I must say there has been a noticeable drop in the number of locals that you would normally find coughing & spitting in the Vege aisles.
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March 28, 2022 4:52pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I hear full-face masks might be mandated at the Otahuhu Tennis Club, for aesthetic reasons.
  
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  March 28, 2022 4:55pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    If you have nothing nice to say then shut the fcuk up!!
    
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    March 28, 2022 7:13pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      And that goes for your cat too!!
      
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      March 29, 2022 8:40am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300551983/lamborghini-ferrari-and-1m-cash-seized-after-600kg-auckland-meth-bust
Charge the car dealers as well, for laundering drug money.
As if they didn’t know !
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March 28, 2022 4:53pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Difficult to prove. Might as well charge people who sold them anything – houses, for example.
  
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  March 28, 2022 4:56pm
  - Colville
    
    Impossible not to know… all transactions are subject to AML laws.
    Cant even take $5K in cash now.
    
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    March 28, 2022 6:55pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Reminds me of that old joke….
  
  Q: what do you call a Maori driving a Ferrari?
  
  A: a board member of Ngai Tahu
  
  LOL!!!
  
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  March 28, 2022 6:27pm
  - MCōs
    
    The only bloke I knew who drove around in Ferraris, Lamborghinis, was a car dealer in Bangkok who lived a couple of doors away.
    He imported them to order at great expense for precocious young entitled rich gentlemen who’d never done a day’s work in their life beyond some international university.
    While he waited for the balance of the money to come through he’d park them out the front of his house and anywhere else he could find a spot.
    
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    March 28, 2022 8:19pm
NZer In Exile

THE RIVER OF FILTH: THE PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVE NZ

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ugVDoy2dFXSL/
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March 28, 2022 6:36pm
DimChappie

Steven Crowder’s Fat Studies impersonation is spectacular, but can anyone help me figure out why he seems to have waited 2 years to publish the video? The conference was in 2020. Is it possible there has been legal action holding it up?
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March 28, 2022 9:42pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  It certainly proves the point that there is no academic discipline in that particular field if they had 2 years to spot a fake, and did not do so.
  
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  March 29, 2022 8:04am
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My suspicion is they found out about it soon after the video conference and have been fighting to stop publication. Would have been very stressful to the academics involved.
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