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Loddenthinks

I wonder who will be the person that asks Minister for Women Jan Tinetti to define “woman” at Question Time?

My pick is David Seymour, he usually finds a way to ask the right questions.
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April 8, 2022 8:02am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Seymour usually seems too astute to stoop to pathetic trolling in question time.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:03am
  - CJames
    
    I don’t think it is trolling. It is a legitimate question, albeit mischievous. If the Minister can’t define what a woman is, then how can she be the Minister responsible for them?
    Or will this be another “I’m not over operational detail” get out?
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:44am
    - Harriet
      
      Of course people have a right to know what a women is under law — it’s the fucken legislative chamber of parliament Milky!
      
      Or if parliament doesn’t define what a women is, then “Lesbians are disgusting filthy pigs” is clearly acceptable – as it would have no meaning. 😎
      
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      April 8, 2022 12:38pm
      - Harriet
        
        IF Labour and the Greens arc up over it then ACT just need to call the speaker MR until he kicks them out. Point made! 😎
        
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        April 8, 2022 12:45pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Obviously more astute than you then.
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:52am
  - Surely Knott
    
    Definitions aren’t trolling – definitions matter. Legislation needs to include definitions. Eg. for Woman, Maori, Vaccination and Pandemic .
    The traffic light legislation allows discrimination on vaccination but never defines it.
    
    And are we really saying that a person can choose their gender based on identiy feelings and it has no biological basis, yet at the same time race exists and requires special legislation and must be proven through iwi by a family tree and a single named ancestor.
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:00am
    - mikenmildagain
      
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      I’m not aware that there is a definition of ‘woman’ legislated by the NZ parliament. Do you think correcting this should be a priority for a political party?
      
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      April 8, 2022 10:02am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        There’s much you’re unaware of milky.
        
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        April 8, 2022 10:32am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Luckily I have better informed people, such as you, on call at Kiwiblog to fill the gaps in my knowledge.
        
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        April 8, 2022 10:59am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Always accuse others of what you are guilty of yourself – baaaa
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:15am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jan Tinetti better ask Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to see how to divert this
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:18am
  - Matt Long
    
    I don’t believe Ms Tinetti is a biologist.
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:23am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    I see Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed as a supreme court justice, with the three republicans who voted for her being labelled as ‘pro-pedophiles’ by the deranged Marjorie Taylor Greene.
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:34am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Brown-Jackson clearly has sympathy for pederasts, but almost no-one from either side of the political spectrum would share her comfort or understand her choice to in almost all cases hand out lowest possible sentences for men who share videos of children being gang raped. She is clearly a judicial activist, and as such is a poor choice for the Supreme Court whose constitutional function is to interpret law, not make it.
      
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      April 8, 2022 8:55am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Nearly all of the republicans gave up on that particularly pathetic attack, except one of their certifiably insane representatives. Want to count yourself on her side and claim 53 senators are ‘pro-pedophile’? That’s aligning yourself with Pizzagate, Jewish Space Lasers, etc.
        
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        April 8, 2022 10:06am
      - Batman
        
        Given that Judge Jackson’s rulings were right down the middle of the road if what other federal judges hand out, perhaps you should do more research rather than believing what Josh Hawley wants to dog whistle to the QAnon base.
        
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        April 8, 2022 4:21pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    She would more than like last about Jackson’s weak attitude to pedophilia in her courts.
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:35am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  You really think that is a great way to ask questions? Who cares if the left are tied up in their own uncertainty
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:34am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    That is absolutely the best way to ask questions. Words matter, definitions matter. New Zealand, perhaps the only western democracy to have had 3 female Prime Ministers, is in the vanguard of the attack against women.
    
    By sending Gavin Hubbard to the Olympics to compete as a woman, against all logic, biology and that very uncommon attribute, common sense, New Zealand has stated that biological women (i.e. women) can have their sporting and often professional dreams sacrificed on the altar of woke. Let alone the actual threat of injury, which has been demonstrated many times especially in combat sports.
    
    If you think that doesn’t matter, shame on you.
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:10am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Listen, I hate the way this world has become so twisted lately, but the rotten left appear to have problems with their identities, let’s stand back and shake our heads with dismay
      
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      April 8, 2022 9:12am
    - David Garrett
      
      [Deleted – that is what the “up thumb” tick is for. mod.]
      
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      April 8, 2022 9:41am
    - Taieri
      
      New Zealand has stated that biological women
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      Are there non-biological women?
      
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      April 8, 2022 10:09am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Yes – biological men who think they are a woman.
        
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        April 8, 2022 10:27am
      - Taieri
        
        Yes – biological men who think they are a woman.
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        This is what happens when you release lunatics into a “community care”…
        
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        April 8, 2022 4:40pm
- peterwn
  
  It is great when you can get a free front page by-election ad on Stuff for free. But wait, is it payoff for the $55M media bribe?
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:08am
  - kowtow
    
    I get the firm impression the Ferald is heavily promoting Swarbrick.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:35am
- Ra Henare
  
  You do realise she is standing in the By-election in Tauranga!!
  
  So maybe consider it propaganda(again) against any males standing against her..
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:42am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    It won’t be a male, snd it could be a Māori female
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:54am
- mogg
  
  They are cowards every last one of them.
  I saw MP’s in Westminster running away from somebody asking ‘ can a woman have a penis’.
  One of the idiots answered ‘I don’t know enough about it to give you an answer’. This lunacy needs serious backlash, like public list of MP’s who will not answer.
  
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  April 8, 2022 2:37pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    Well mogg – the fact is that anyone with a vagina can have a penis any time they want one. 😆
    
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    April 8, 2022 4:50pm
- gump
  
  Why would David Seymour ask dumb trolling questions in parliament about culture war bullshit?
  
  The ACT party was founded by people who believed in the philosophy of classical liberalism. A key part of their political philosophy is that individuals are in the best position to make decisions about how to live their own lives.
  
  They’re not a conservative party. Have you never stopped and wondered about why they support access to abortion, decriminalisation of drugs, gay marriage, and access to euthanasia?
  
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  April 8, 2022 7:29pm
mikenmildagain

Happy International Romani Day!
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April 8, 2022 8:02am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Milkey, indeed, Happy Romani Day, make sure they see your good wishes in Ukraine where there are no actual Nazis operating.
  
  https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/26/ukraine-fatal-attack-roma-settlement
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:58am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I thought you were finding all the Ukraine stuff too confusing to make up your mind for sure that the Russians are the good guys.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:09am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    3 down ticks for a factual link about Nazis attacking and killing innocent people in Ukraine.
    Inconvenient truth can be annoying can’t it?
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:14am
  - Jack5
    
    Are there Romani/Gypsies in New Zealand?
    
    The Green, Woke Mayor of Dunedin campaigned against the popular name of Gypsy Day in the dairy industry, but I don’t recall any report of these people within New Zealand being offended by the term.
    
    (It was, and perhaps still is, applied to the day when share milking contractors change farms, sometimes moving herds on rural roads.)
    
    Another question is whether India yet officially recognises Roma/Gypsies as part of the Indian diaspora. That is after perhaps well over a thousand years, but might be a precedent for Taiwan recognising Maori as part of the diaspora of that island’s hill tribes.
    
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    April 8, 2022 12:12pm
    - Mike
      
      Taiwan barely recognises its own indigenous people, let alone considering issues regarding other Austronesian descendants.
      
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      April 8, 2022 1:19pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Absolutely mike – I can’t stand it when I see greenie hippies traversing aotearoa’s countryside and referring to themselves as gypsies either!
  
  Complete and utter cultural appropriation.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:10am
Mr_Blobby

I wonder what the red tyrant queen has in store for us today.

The sheeple are staring to wake up, she will need something, anything to stoke the fear fires.

The massive overreaction to an unremarkable little virus, is becoming more obvious everyday.

Climate fear is taking longer to implement, especially as it is some time in the future, the science is looking dubious at best, remember artic ice caps would be gone by 2012.

The red queen may have to consult the mirror in her office, mirror mirror on the wall………..
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April 8, 2022 8:03am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Free petrol, free kfC , she has done it before got a few
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:13am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  XE is on the way. Get ready, get ready. Highly contagious. Get your toilet paper before I lock you down
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:20am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    It’s a mixture of the two Omicron variants, expect it to be weaker again
    
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    April 8, 2022 12:26pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yeah, but people will be infected faster.
      Don’t panic, don’t panic, don’t panic. Ask Blofeld what to do
      
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      April 8, 2022 1:47pm
      - Loddenthinks
        
        My dear old thing, I think you’re confusing Blowers with St Ash of the Pestilence.
        
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        April 8, 2022 6:27pm
- Paulus
  
  Are you saying that she will do anything today – it is Friday and she usually does not do Fridays.
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:06am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Apart from dump the corruption
    
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    April 8, 2022 12:27pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Fridays, or any other day
    
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    April 8, 2022 1:57pm
Benedict Yu

Interesting that the numbers of 5 to 11 year olds who are double vaccinated for COVID is only 19 percent. 54 percent have had one shot and most of those will now be eligible for the second shot.

It seems that many parents have decided not to go back for the second shot. Michael Baker won’t be happy.

https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data
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April 8, 2022 8:04am
- Matt Long
  
  Based on my kid’s school most of those children will have had Covid by now.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:08am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Michael Baker says they still need to get vaccinated.
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:27am
    - Pavel
      
      Me and my unvaccinated kids had covid along with most of the other kids on the street (they all play together) and compared to the common cold it was the weakest cold any of us have ever had. Most people are realizing this now and wondering what all the fuss was about. The way Baker and his peers crow on about it we feel he must be getting paid by Pfizer or something because it really is a nothing burger. I’m surprised anyone listens to him and Jacinda anymore. Memo to Baker, game over, life goes on, no one cares anymore.
      
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      April 8, 2022 8:42am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Michale Baker is a liar who is guilty of medical malfeasance and should be arrested and charged.
      
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      April 8, 2022 9:00am
- Scott
  
  Benedict – I’m pleased that parents have decided not to go back for the second shot. The risk of covid for 5 to 11-year-olds is very very very minimal.
  I would suggest that the risk of the vaccine producing unwanted side effects is greater than the risk of covid for children.
  
  The other reason for children to get the vaccine was so that they wouldn’t get covid and pass it on to their parents. Well that hasn’t worked. The fact of the matter is that our public health authorities have admitted that the vaccine doesn’t stop you getting covid. The reason to take the vaccine is that you won’t get sick and die. Seeing as children are extremely unlikely to get sick and die of covid, seeing as they are just as likely to get covid vaccinated or not, one wonders what is the point of the vaccine rollout for children?
  
  Does it do more harm than good?
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:33am
  - I remember when
    
    As omicron BA.1, BA.2 and now XE have demonstrated, the best we can hope from a vaccination is lessened serious illness and reduced deaths.
    Surely the need now, is for cheap and plentiful medicines that can reduce and lessen the early effects of covid.
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:57am
    - oldfella
      
      Cindy and co are currently considering the merits of a second booster, but going by this massive study, why bother?
      A fourth shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine increased protection against viral infection for only four to seven weeks, according to a massive study published Tuesday.
      The study included 1.25 million people age 60 and over in Israel who received their fourth dose between January and March. Israel uses only the Pfizer vaccine.
      https://news.yahoo.com/second-covid-booster-shot-extends-012300452.html
      
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      April 8, 2022 10:17am
      - John Pakes
        
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        Happy to read false news are you?
        Please tell me who did the study, not the name of the blogger who wrote the article.
        And did the “study” give you any indication on how they were able to “Study” 1.25 million people in Israel?
        Did the all receive a questioner in the mail perhaps.
        
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        April 8, 2022 10:52am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Here’s the paper
        
        Protection by a Fourth Dose of BNT162b2 against Omicron in Israel
        
        https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201570
        
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        April 8, 2022 11:01am
      - John Pakes
        
        Old Fella, the link that you based your judgement on and provided to us, does not quote any reliable source. So you relied on a nothing. And the author of your article also appears to have relied on a nothing, or perhaps just a little selective bit of the full medical report that Maggie kindly provides here.
        The report is very big, I will confess. I will try to get as to how they tested 1.25 million people in Israel, as presumably others were studied elsewhere. How many!!
        
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        April 8, 2022 11:33am
      - Sacha
        
        Here is a talk and analysis of, about 2nd Booster efficiency (aka the 4th dose). It IS rather dense and requires a certain amount of concentration, probably more than readers of yahoo news are willing to apply.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcaSuGusQjw
        
        And if you want to learn about the theory of T cell exhaustion as a result of repeat vaccinations.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhyhLVD-Hs
        
        John Pakes asked for details.
        
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        April 8, 2022 11:40am
      - David George
        
        John, it’s based on credentialed researchers analysis of data from “the Israeli Ministry of Health database, we extracted data on 1,252,331 persons”
        So it’s analysis of official government health statistics, sounds legit. What are you on about?
        
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        April 8, 2022 12:54pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @John Pakes
        
        The method is clear — The researchers used the Israeli MoH database
        
        METHODS
        Using the Israeli Ministry of Health database, we extracted data on 1,252,331 persons who were 60 years of age or older and eligible for the fourth dose during a period in which the B.1.1.529 (omicron) variant of SARS-CoV-2 was predominant (January 10 through March 2, 2022). We estimated the rate of confirmed infection and severe Covid-19 as a function of time starting at 8 days after receipt of a fourth dose (four-dose groups) as compared with that among persons who had received only three doses (three-dose group) and among persons who had received a fourth dose 3 to 7 days earlier (internal control group). For the estimation of rates, we used quasi-Poisson regression with adjustment for age, sex, demographic group, and calendar day.
        
        It is quite common nowadays for MSM science reporters to omit links to the original papers.
        
        Very frustrating…. but the assumption seems to be that most of us need an intermediary to ~~dumb down~~ interpret the study for us.
        
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        April 8, 2022 12:55pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      [Deleted – you’re not a Doctor. mod.]
      
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      April 8, 2022 10:33am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Mod. how do you know ? Please describe my profession.
        
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        April 8, 2022 4:54pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    “Does it do more harm than good?”
    
    That’s a real unknown, and with death rates far less than 1 in a million for healthy kids with omicron (they are 1000’s of times more likely to die of other things this year) the precautionary principle should rule – don’t take the unknown risk for something that has so close to zero reward.
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:00am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    The reality is that Omicron achieved what the vaccines failed at – it wiped out Delta, no doubt avoiding much death and illness. When Delta was around, I followed the evidence carefully, and I thought “I don’t really want to get seriously ill with this thing at my age, even though the probability of serious illness was low”, so I got vaccinated. But Omicron is a game changer. Something never acknowledged by Baker.
    
    This week he actually said he was “astonished” that 1 million people had not got their booster. What a clown.
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:32am
- Raphael
  
  my kids have had one jab. they’ve also just had Covid. I see no point in them getting a second jab
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:59am
  - Sacha
    
    You are being wise.
    I saw a new report on the damage that multiple repeat vaccinations can do to the immune system.
    
    Evidence is emerging that it simply gets exhausted –
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:45am
    - David George
      
      Yes, I know of people getting sick and generally run down after the third shot.
      “European Union regulators warned that frequent Covid-19 booster shots could adversely affect the immune response and may not be feasible.
      
      Repeat booster doses every four months could eventually weaken the immune response….”
      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/repeat-booster-shots-risk-overloading-immune-system-ema-says
      
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      April 8, 2022 1:18pm
Yvette

A Little omission
Little said the role of the new agency was similar to how the Government “handed over leadership and responsibility” for the Māori COVID-19 vaccination campaign to Māori.
“We saw a massive difference, a massive lift in uptake of the vaccination amongst Māori. It’s effectively what we want to do with the Māori Health Authority. Saying to the Māori Health Authority, you take over the leadership of running it, you know how to get to your people, you get to your people, you make sure the services get your people.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/04/no-timeframes-for-m-ori-health-authority-to-improve-m-ori-life-expectancy-but-andrew-little-wants-gap-reduced-completely.html

“…the Government “handed over leadership and responsibility” for the Māori COVID-19 vaccination campaign to Māori”
Little has perhaps omimitted some information
Leadership and responsibility was not all that was handed over –

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The government will spend $900 million in Budget 2020 to support whānau, hapū and iwi to deal with the fall-out of Covid-19.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/416669/budget-2020-maori-to-get-900m-to-deal-with-covid-19-fallout

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Government announces $140m new funding for Māori and Pacific Omicron response
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/462032/government-announces-140m-new-funding-for-maori-and-pacific-omicron-response

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New Covid-19 Protection Framework and $120m Māori Communities COVID-19 Fund
https://www.tpk.govt.nz/en/mo-te-puni-kokiri/our-stories-and-media/new-covid19-protection-framework-and-120m-maori-co

Some of the amounts may overlap – but who the hell can tell?
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April 8, 2022 8:05am
- Philview
  
  The legislation provides for a large number of tribal partnerships through every facet of healthcare. This doesn’t smell a good way to run a health system. Decision making will be bogged down in huis and consultation and demands for funds. Accountability will be gone.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:13am
- RockyJ
  
  That is about $1.2 billion. Where did that money go? Is there any accounting for it?
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:21am
  - Cassandra
    
    If it follows the usual pattern with the Labour Party and Maori then the answer is no. Spend a fortune and claim it’s because of Maori special abilities when Blind Freddy could see that it’s just the money.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:22am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    But if the sheeple are happy to vote Labour, why ask silly questions about where the money went? It is so easy to rule NZ! God, I wish I get a chance! I will bankrupt this country in one week.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:56am
- Paulus
  
  These amounts do not have to be identified accounted or justified – so p….. off !
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:08am
dcrane

These days even Kiwiblog adds a diacritic mark over the a in Maori. These marks show up frequently in the various Maori names and phrases that the government is pushing into our lives.

Why are they there? Maori didn’t have such marks in their written language before Captain Cook arrived, because there was no written language yet. Who came up with them?

If they’re needed to tell us how to better pronounce names that many have pronounced in other ways for years (Taupo), then how come the government uses no diacritic marks on any of our English placenames? Don’t we have to know how to “correctly” pronounce those well?

And who gets to decide how to pronounce Taupo, Gisborne, or Greymouth, anyway?

These symbols are more likely about puffery, performative politics, virtue-signaling, intimidation, and creation of an exclusive club of those “in the know”.
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April 8, 2022 8:05am
- I remember when
  
  The diacritic mark wasn’t included in the original attempt at a Maori dictionary.
  It was a later addition.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:46am
  - namron
    
    Why is it necessary to have diacritic marks if you are just reading Maori words?
    I got over reading things out loud when I left primary school in 1954 and don’t find it necessary to read kiwiblog – whether English or Maori!!
    
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    April 8, 2022 12:41pm
- Ehlana
  
  My best guess, dcrane, is that some language specialists have decided that the way Maori pronounce those names is better represented by the use of those diacritic marks.
  
  There’s nothing wrong with that; other language specialists will probably admire their work.
  
  But as those marks aren’t used in English (which most New Zealanders speak) and most of us use (American) English keyboards, the marks won’t convey any useful information to the wider population and they won’t be able to reproduce them in their own typed communications.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:50am
  - Steve Todd
    
    […] they won’t be able to reproduce them in their own typed communications.
    
    When typing a Māori word that has one or more long vowels (usefully indicated by a macron) on a QWERTY keyboard, all anyone needs to do, is simply hold down the Alt key, type the number relating to the desired vowel (as below), then release the Alt key.
    
    Ā — 256
    ā — 257
    Ē — 274
    ē — 275
    Ī — 298
    ī — 299
    Ō — 332
    ō — 333
    Ū — 362
    ū — 363
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:37am
    - marcw
      
      I believe it only works on a keyboard using the number pad – with “Num Lock” on. Perhaps a rather important detail if correct.
      
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      April 8, 2022 9:51am
      - Steve Todd
        
        Fair comment.
        
        I use a desk-top computer. I tend to forget that most people use smart phones these days. All they need do is tap on the vowel — choices will pop up — then slide their finger up to the long vowel they want.
        
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        April 8, 2022 10:13am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        On a Windows machine, just set the keyboard settings to English (New Zealand). To add a macron, press the tilde (squiggle) key, release & press the letter key.
        
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        April 8, 2022 7:26pm
  - mawm
    
    The same could be said about English words – some are horribly mispronounced.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:03am
    - Cassandra
      
      By all of us including Maoris.
      
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      April 8, 2022 10:23am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      That seem to imply that there is a single correct pronunciation for every word in English, rather than a vast array of regional variations,
      
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      April 8, 2022 11:03am
      - dcrane
        
        Presumably this has always been the case for words in Maori. Language always diverges regionally.
        
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        April 8, 2022 12:17pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Seems that just as English had RP, The Maori language Commission decided that East Coast (Ngati Porou) pronunciation would be the standard taught in learning institutions.
        
        (I only heard W(h)anganui dialect for the first 30 years of my life… hard to break old habits over here in Gizzy….
        
        Tho’ it has only ever been Pakeha who have rudely “corrected” my pronunciation.
        
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        April 8, 2022 1:03pm
      - Mike
        
        drcrane, Maggy
        Quote I was unsure what point mawm was trying to make. Perhaps it was a reference to the pronunciation habits of some politicians.
        
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        April 8, 2022 1:24pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  The only point is to make general public jump through hoops – inconvenience them and force them to waste time and energy on an irrelevance to give maori activists the thrill of exerting control over others. They will always be shifting goal posts to this end, requiring changes in pronunciation or other contrived bullshit to inconvenience general public and give them same malicious joy teenage vegans get from making mum and dad’s life harder
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:06am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Why are they there? As a guide to pronunciation – they indicate a lengthened sound
  
  Who came up with them? in NZ, they had been used infrequently in written Maori from the 1820s…
  
  The use of a macron was formalised in 1987 by The Māori Language Commission
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:07am
  - Cassandra
    
    They’re inventing an alphabet. Fine for the Maori language – their choice, I have no interest in it – but keep your hands off English. So it should be Maori. No macrons.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:26am
    - Bea Rossini
      
      You make no sense.
      
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      April 8, 2022 11:18am
- Inandout
  
  dc, I can’t speak for KB but for any publication that is given funds ‘to survive and flourish’ by this government would be subject to pre-conditions. Include as many Maori words as possible and use the diacritic would be two.
  
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  April 8, 2022 12:35pm
Simon

All Labour governments end with NZ in a recession. This Cindy led shit show will be no different. Worse than usual recession. Focus should be on the incoming Luxon government. So far Luxon is smirking on the side lines making the occasional snipe. Its not good enough. How are National going to repair the damage?
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April 8, 2022 8:06am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They have a better show of repairing the damage that the blowharded poor man’s Gordy Brown
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:24am
  - plc
    
    What exactly do you think Luxon/Willis will do?
    
    Re-institute pure inflation targets for RBNZ?
    Shelve WFF?
    Remove tax incentives for EVs
    Remove tax free status for race based business
    Privatise non core Govt owned entities
    Introduce widescale PPP infrastructure projects
    Remove oil and gas exploration ban (horse has bolted)
    Insist on solo parents identifying other parent
    Introduce customer choice in education/health
    Abolish race based service entities – MHA etc
    State ToW are full and final
    Stop funding media
    
    All of these seem a step too far for Luxon and co
    
    Wet, wet, wet
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:41am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Nope, but they sure as hell will stop the wasted billions, every cent of government money is inflationary, if you get the settings right, then the economy can go a long way to fixing it, foisting compliance on us simply makes the economy flat
      
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      April 8, 2022 12:31pm
- Prince
  
  How else can you repair an economy that is running a deficit of $83M each day, total debt $142B, $79K per household.
  You HAVE to rein in spending.
  With it will come the usual howls from the media and other Left wing groups who think the world owes them a living.
  And so the wheel turns.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:27am
  - plc
    
    Bill English, yes……Nicola Willis? You must be having a laugh.
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:50am
    - Paulus
      
      Willis has a good Parliamentary record working for Fonterra and Bill English as well.
      She is a wife and mother, having four children, so she know something about such as household economics at a minimum – unlike Robertson who was Treasurer of the Vic Uni Students Association.
      I know who experience I would back.
      
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      April 8, 2022 10:13am
      - virtualmark
        
        Unfortunately the Nat’s have devolved to seeing the Finance portfolio as a political prize to be handed out to supporters (Bridges, Willis) rather than the old approach of it being an important portfolio that needs a big brain and a firm personality (Birch, Richardson, English, Joyce).
        
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        April 8, 2022 10:37am
      - plc
        
        Is it wrong to aspire to more than…..better than Grant Robertson?
        
        That’s an incredibly low bar……surely you expect and aspire for more than that?
        
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        April 8, 2022 11:09am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Why FFS, she is anti the wasted spending, she pointed to wasted millions yesterday, I give up, let’s keep Cindy
      
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      April 8, 2022 12:32pm
Matt Long

Hooton behind the Herald paywall suggests Shaw to be dumped , Greens to move to one Woman plus one other gender for leadership.
Luxon to appoint Shaw to lead climate change commission.
Is Hooton making it up? He is/was close to the wets in National.
If Luxon would appoint Shaw to the CCC, it’s a clear signal that he intends to carry on Ardern’s attacks on the middle class, and wealth distribution strategies.
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April 8, 2022 8:07am
- MCōs
  
  If Hooten says it it must be right.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:21am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Why would anyone listen to meathead Hooten, he disappeared off twitter for a month, the same as he did when he hopelessly supported Muller, he disappeared at the very same time as Matt King announced his new party, I roils stare clear of anything Hooten has to say, and I see on the side of Hootens twitter, Matt Kings new party is proudly emblazoned
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:42am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Heh, I read it as a bit cleverly satirical.
    
    You know, kind of purportedly taking the Green Party of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s inner mechanisms really seriously, whilst at the same time demonstrating to all & sundry what an absolute Punch & Judy show the party really is…
    
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    April 8, 2022 2:17pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  And Luxon wants to win the next Election?
  He needs to HTFU and stop being Labour Lite
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:26am
  - artemisia
    
    Before the next election there will be ‘events, dear boy, events’.
    
    National will have a strategy. Yes may be Labour Lite but announcements or policy directions already published indicate maybe not completely.
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:34am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      I can’t see anything in what Luxon has said is anything like Labour, it’s utter bullshit, from people wanting another party, it’s rotten, and if we are not careful, Cindy will fly in again, or is that some peoples plan
      
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      April 8, 2022 8:45am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Can you point to where he said anything that Hooten has stated?
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:43am
  - mawm
    
    Steve – ssshhh! He’s keeping his powder dry.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:08am
    - Bea Rossini
      
      What powder? His bag of itching powder?
      
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      April 8, 2022 11:20am
- Nickc2
  
  If true, which I seriously doubt, National best start looking for a new leader ASAP.
  I would even vote for Winston Peters if he openly stated Man-Made Climate Change was a scam even if I had to hold my nose whilst doing it.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:35am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Bugger Peters, I suggest this bullshit is coming from him, have you seen Luxon remotely mention any of the crap he says? He has only said climate has to be addressed, snd it will be fine through science, this same Peters that proudly told us concrete is being poured into fuel lines from Marsden point, even though petrol has been dropped off this week for the new storage facility, he is so full of shit, snd he will go with Labour again if he gets the chance
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:48am
    - Nickc2
      
      I’m not a Peters fan BTW. I think you will find that the lines filled with concrete were used for imported Crude, not refined product and I have no idea who reported the activity.
      
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      April 8, 2022 9:29am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        The owner of the business said it’s an absolute crock of shit
        
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        April 8, 2022 12:36pm
      - Nickc2
        
        G @ 12:36PM
        What’s a crock of shit?
        
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        April 8, 2022 12:46pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  What utter rubbish, Luxon has clearly stated he is going to help the over worked, over taxed middle, there have been rumblings about Shaw being rolled before, it may happen, Chloe would be their bet for some other gender, why people keep saying shit about Luxon, he says climate has to be addressed, he has said we will do this with science, not bloody taxes, he also says farmers will not be hammered for their important success.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:40am
  - plc
    
    Wow….you really have a hard-on for Chris from Marketing.
    
    Luxon will do SFA to return National to the right side of politics. His sole concern is to try and win back the 500k votes in the centre.
    
    He has demonstrated no idealogical basis….he is a blancmange whose only drive is to be in power.
    
    There is no evidence that he would do anything with that power to reverse the socialist creep of the past 20 years.
    
    Therefore he doesn’t deserve my vote.
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:04am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      No , I do not have hardon for men, has that cleared that up for you? If Luxon does not become PM, it means Cindy is still Pm, or worse, the blowhard Robertson, if that’s having a hard on, then sorry, but this government does not excite me
      
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      April 8, 2022 9:27am
      - plc
        
        So National’s sole purpose rationale in your eyes is….they are not Labour.
        
        Weak……and people wonder why there is a relentless lurch left….National too scared to stand for anything but “we are better housekeepers”
        
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        April 8, 2022 9:45am
    - Prince
      
      Good. Vote for someone else and keep on raging.
      
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      April 8, 2022 9:31am
      - plc
        
        Better than voting for Labour-lite.
        
        At least it demonstrates some aspiration
        
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        April 8, 2022 9:47am
- DeepBlue
  
  I read the article differently, and as it is paywalled it is interesting to read everyone’s reactions here to this paraphrased comment. It shows how speculation quickly turns to rumour which then becomes fact.
  
  Hooten also said Shaw had options overseas and back at his PWC consultancy position.
  
  The point Hooten was making was if Luxon is PM Carr will be gone and Shaw would be a shoo-in as a replacement. Personally, I’d be celebrating Carr going.
  
  For clarity the exact sentence by Hooten was “If not head-hunted by an international agency, he’s (Shaw) a shoo-in to replace Rod Carr as chair of the CCC if Chris Luxon becomes PM’.
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:26am
  - Nickc2
    
    What the fuck do we need a Climate Change Commission for anyway?
    Is it used to shuffle NZ Taxpayer money off to those bludgers in the UN?
    
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    April 8, 2022 1:30pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Seymour gaining popularity? Or is Labour getting nervous? Fake accounts with underscores in their names. Something wrong with underscores? A lot of user names and passwords now require a capital and a symbol.
Another diversion by the left IMO.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/we-would-never-seymour-denies-buying-followers-after-instagram-jumps-by-48-000-in-a-day/ar-AAVYms7?
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April 8, 2022 8:07am
- MCōs
  
  I saw that on Twitter last night, at which point his Instagram account had just under fifty thousand followers. This morning it’s over seventy thousand.
  That’s 40% increase.
  Last night I had a look at some of his followers. Beautiful young ladies posing in their underwear. . . .
  https://twitter.com/shaneellall/status/1511941216518422528?s=21&t=ttDREVzD8KciDvzWCys7Yw
  
  Fairly amusing.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:41am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Maybe they were impressed by his dance moves, particularly the twerking? 🙂
    
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5828917/NZ-politician-horrifies-twerked-Dancing-Stars-Shortens-effort-worse.html
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:12am
- Nickc2
  
  Amazing what happens when a referendum on Co-Governance is suggested eh?
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:43am
- Bill Felt
  
  Seymour came out on Twitter last night and said that he would never buy followers. I take David at his word!
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:05am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Perhaps someone else bought them.
    
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    April 8, 2022 11:04am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The Labour Party? Surely they would not stoop that low just for another diversion?
      
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      April 8, 2022 2:00pm
  - Bea Rossini
    
    He also said it was someone else’s fault. Emotional young staffer?
    
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    April 8, 2022 11:23am
  - 7kiwi11
    
    Doesn’t mean that his staffers didn’t buy them for him
    
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    April 8, 2022 11:27am
  - curry4me
    
    Yes ACT would be very stupid indeed to buy Twit-ter followers.
    
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    April 8, 2022 12:45pm
  - Warren
    
    Yes many said the same when Seymour said he would never do a deal with Winston Peter’s in Politics , but he soon changed his mind a did a deal with the devil over the euthanasia bill to get it passed into law.
    
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    April 8, 2022 2:58pm
Yvette

Ukraine
• Chilling propaganda piece says ‘a significant part of the popular mass’ of Ukrainians are ‘passive Nazis’ and a ‘total purification should be carried out’

• 6) Deliberate targeting of civilians: “The Bandera-elites must be liquidated, they cannot be re-educated. The social “swamp” who supported them must experience terror of war and learn the lesson, and pay for its guilt”.

The Russians do not believe any words can persuade Ukrainians
Why do Ardern’s Government think any words via Russian ambassador here will effect Putin?
Send the Russian ambassador home
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April 8, 2022 8:08am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  If we send him home, Russia will send ours home, our ambassador will be very important for NZers in the area, this is possibly one thing I agree with at the moment
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:50am
Frank the tank

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/07/poll-trump-leads-biden-by-5-points-in-potential-2024-rematch/

Translating that into the electoral college that would likely mean the old coot would lose the whole the the rust belt, Arizona and likely New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nevada and possibly Colorado.
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April 8, 2022 8:08am
- curry4me
  
  Such a loss by the Dems would have no downside. Bring it on.
  
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  April 8, 2022 12:47pm
Gravelroad

So here’s Tiger Woods today competing at the 2022 Masters after a bad car accident in February last year, which nearly resulted in the loss of a leg.
What an inspiration.
Meanwhile back here in New Zild, a sizeable portion of our population will be today lazily sitting inside with their trackpants and masks on, playing computer games, watching videos and checking on their teddy bear window cuddlies – cause Jacinda said “stay home, keep safe and I will save you.”
Pity a few more here aren’t willing to show the courage and determination to get on with life as evidenced by Mr Woods.
Gotta do what the Labour Party bosses say, though, eh.
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April 8, 2022 8:09am
- Opie
  
  Also telling was the thousands of people lining the course to watch him practice and now compete.
  
  Watching the greatest of all time, having recovered from yet more adversity playing against the generation of golfers he inspired in front of tightly packed mask less Americans getting on with life while we still hide under our beds
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:50am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Tiger Woods – serial adulterer, drug abuser, sex addict, found guilty of DUI and sent to rehab, crashed his SUV while driving at 75mph in a 40mph zone in the early morning, wasn’t tested for alcohol or drugs.
  
  Yeah, he’s an inspiration. Almost a role model. Swings it pretty good though.
  
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  April 8, 2022 6:39pm
cmm

The cops are taking forever to prosecute anyone for the savage Tribesman gang attack on a motorist.

The thing that seems to be mostly causing the problem is the “code of silence” gangs operate under.

I don’t see that as a problem. Just hammer the lot of them under the common purpose doctrine.

Gangs are not cultural entities. They are criminal organisations. When they go for a group ride they are out to cause mayhem as a group. Which individual actually assaults a victim is irrelevant – they are all involved.

Charge them all. Any on bail or on probation can go back to jail.

They are not the Rotary Club with one or two rotten apples (whom other Rotarians would willingly dob in). They are criminals. They are all rotten apples (with maybe a handful of less rotten apples thrown in).

Allowing them to hide behind their code of silence like this is nonsense. The very fact they have this code of silence is, in itself, part of the conspiracy to commit crime.

Worse yet, it shows weakness and further emboldens the crims.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/waikato-expressway-attack-explaining-the-complexities-police-face-in-finding-out-who-did-it/
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April 8, 2022 8:09am
- Simon
  
  The police protect the gangs. Good working men, protecting their communities, could take care of the gangs very quickly. Gangs are far out numbered. Over 1,000 to 1. Anyone raising a hand against gang members gets stomped by the Police very quickly.
  
  Gangs are protected by the police.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:18am
  - Parnell Gun Club
    
    Yes the Police (and other Government agencies) are in partnership with the gangs.
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:00am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  If they like the code of silence, put them in solitary confinement until they want to speak.
  Better shut up now before a bleeding heart knocks on my door
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:31am
- Nickc2
  
  The old Kahui defence, formally known as the Sgt Schultz response.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:58am
Simon

NATO says for the first time it must include China’s ‘growing influence’ in its defense strategy

We have seen that China is unwilling to condemn Russia’s aggression. And Beijing has joined Moscow in questioning the right of nations to choose their own path,” Stoltenberg told reporters from NATO’s headquarters in Brussels.

“For the first time it must also take account of how China’s growing influence and coercive policies affect our security,” he added.

https://news.yahoo.com/nato-says-first-time-must-162456393.html

NZ is no longer in a benign strategic environment’.

Russia / China axis has profound implications for NZ. Political and economic.
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April 8, 2022 8:12am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Stolenberg is a total US shill. Nations haven’t had the ability to “choose their own path” for decades. Ask any of the countries who have been subjected to US “interventions” going back to the overthrow of Mossadeq in Iran in 1953 for daring to “choose their own path.”
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:17am
  - cmm
    
    A partial list just from the Cold War era:
    1948–1960s Italy
    1949 Syrian coup d’état
    1949–1953 Albania
    1953 Iranian coup d’état
    1954 Guatemalan coup d’état
    1956–57 Syria crisis
    1957–58 Indonesian rebellion
    1959–2000 assassination attempts on Fidel Castro
    1959 Cambodia, Bangkok Plot
    1960 Congo coup d’état
    1961 Cuba, Bay of Pigs Invasion
    1961 Cuba, Operation Mongoose
    1961 Dominican Republic
    1963 South Vietnamese coup d’état
    1964 Brazilian coup d’état
    1965–66 Indonesia, Transition to the New Order
    1966 Ghanaian coup d’état
    1971 Bolivian coup d’état
    1970–73 Chile
    1976 Argentine coup d’état
    1979 Salvadoran coup d’état
    1979–89 Afghanistan, Operation Cyclone
    1980–92 Angola, UNITA
    1981–87 Nicaragua, Contras
    1982 Chad
    1996 Iraq coup attempt
    
    And they didn’t stop then.
    
    But, but, but… Russian interference.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:56am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Good partial list. Does that mean the Russians are all good to invade Ukraine? Or that East European countries should not be able to choose for themselves whether to join NATO or the EU?
      
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      April 8, 2022 11:08am
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      No country can “choose its own path” unless the US says so. Only the US can project force with impunity, because they are a self-styled benign hegemon and any opposition comes from evil dictators. Russia is asserting genuine sovereignty, and the danger for the US is that this will inspire other nations.
      
      The situation in Ukraine has nothing to do with Ukrainian sovereignty, and everything to do with whether either the US or Russia holds sway in the country. The Ukraine’s sovereignty meant nothing at all to the US in 2014 when they instigated the ousting of the duly elected Russian-aligned government and replaced it with a US-aligned alternative.
      
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      April 8, 2022 1:25pm
      - Mike
        
        Do the very well catalogued misdemeanors of the US mean that Russia has the right to invade a neighboring sovereign nation? Is this Putin’s version of ‘me too’? Or was it belief in his own propaganda that made him miscalculate the resolve of the weak, liberal and effete West to oppose an outright war of conquest and annexation?
        
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        April 8, 2022 3:01pm
- Drone
  
  Hi @Simon, why pick on China, half the world India included refuse to condemn Russia. In fact Israel is actively supporting Russia.
  
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  April 8, 2022 12:08pm
Maggie Pie

Hosk this morning speculating James Shaw about to be rolled by Chloe Swarbrick.

Funnily enuff what I did find a bit strange, in the Chamber yesterday, she was sitting next to the Member-for-Tijuana 🙁

Hmmm….
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April 8, 2022 8:16am
- graham
  
  There is also a story on the Herald (Premium; ie paywalled) entitled “Matthew Hooton: Greens shake-up – Chloe Swarbrick primed to replace James Shaw”
  
  While I honestly couldn’t care less what the Greens do, doesn’t this break their “one male/one female” co-leader rule? Or has that been dumped once they realised how unfair that was to all those Green voters who can’t make up their mind what they identify as these days?
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:54am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    One male and one female rule is just transphobic.
    
    Why the heck should the genitalia/sexual orientation of their leader(s) matter?
    
    The Greens have shut themselves into a dead-end box.
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:14am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Because Greens are bigots; racist, misanthropic and dumb enough to believe that marxism, and introducing differential treatment policy favoritism based on gender, race or even religion can magically improve a society just like it hasn’t throughout history.
      
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      April 8, 2022 7:47pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    graham – they might have realised that in the modern world of multiple genders and gender fluidity, their old school, binary thinking is rapidly becoming outdated. If the Greens wanted to stay “woke” they would need 68 leaders according to this article.
    
    “68 Terms That Describe Gender Identity and Expression”
    
    https://www.healthline.com/health/different-genders
    
    They would have to eliminate at least one other Party from the NZ political sphere, win almost all of the votes and then make all of their MPs co leaders. That may be a bit too much even for the “woke” Greens……….
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:27am
  - curry4me
    
    Yeah, but its the “greens”. I guess their next co-leader could identify as a male/female/leprechaun, unicorn/whatever.
    
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    April 8, 2022 12:51pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Hard to believe, but Swarbrick is worse than Shaw, she is our MP and an utter oxygen thief.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:18am
- Nickc2
  
  [Deleted – you take it too far. mod.]
  
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  April 8, 2022 11:28am
Maggy Wassilieff

Is our Dear PM on deck / asleep at the wheel?
Is she listening to her Associate Ministers?

Appears not….

“Here we have someone who has been happy to take the role of the minister, the support, advice, budget and salary that goes with that but when it comes to actually getting results in her portfolio, the best she can do is write a letter to the Prime Minister.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/04/greens-co-leader-marama-davidson-grilled-over-her-public-letter-calling-for-rent-controls-when-she-s-associate-housing-minister.html
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April 8, 2022 8:17am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I think it has been clear for many years that only the prime minister and two or three other ministers have any real share in decision making. There was a good example on Kiwiblog the other day, with Rodney Hide recalling he had no influence at all on the Waikato River co-governance arrangements, despite being Minister of Local Government and Minister of Regulatory Reform at the time of that important regulatory reform to local government arrangements,
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:24am
  - Prince
    
    Yes, nothing wrong with a minister writing to the Prime Minister expressing displeasure at her own portfolio.
    No doubt this is part of the new ‘Sophisticated’ Government process that we need to embrace, like ditching one man one vote. And hiding significant policies before an election.
    It is so good being part of this new Sophisticated country. What’s next on the agenda Mikey ?
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:46am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Rent controls. A brain dead idea. It could only come from the Greens.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:24am
  - All_on_Red
    
    “In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city- except for Bombing”
    -Assar Lindbeck
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:35am
    - Ehlana
      
      Bombing – is that why they don’t want to send lethal aid to Ukraine?
      
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      April 8, 2022 8:53am
  - MCōs
    
    As I recall the current government instigated a form of rent control during the first covid-19 lockdown.
    Prior to that the National government of Rob Muldoon imposed a long term rent freeze in June 1982, along with wages and prices.
    The Greens, or any of the smaller parties for that matter, can say what they like, and they do, all they ever get is crumbs.
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:54am
    - Nickc2
      
      Yep, write a letter, get some headlines, job done for the year eh? Now, where was I going for the Winter?
      Oh, that’s right, Lebanon’s always good in their Summer and I know a lot of people there.
      
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      April 8, 2022 11:38am
  - Ian Boag
    
    Rent controls. A brain dead idea.
    
    There seems to be evidence that rents are on a bit of a tear. No surprise as values have gone through the roof and rents follow them. Night and day. Return on investment and all that.
    
    The last freeze I remember was Muldoon’s effort in the 70’s. As I recall it didn’t work exactly as intended.
    
    The KB approach to escalating rents seems to be “do nothing” or maybe a bit less.
    
    There are people out there hurting now who would like to see things happen now. Even soon would help. Maybe the best thing would be an increase in the accommodation supplement. This would facilitate further rent increases which – like all subsidies – would immediately be capitalised into the value of the asset. What’s not to like?
    
    So what to do? Rent controls would be a pretty radical step. I would love to hear some other solution that would help in a time frame less that five years,
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:00am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      build more houses and reduce the costs of doing that (ie cut the 100’s of k in regulatory overhead) is only answer. Govt is clearly incompetent at doing that.
      
      And what the hell is the next, hopefully competent government going to do about 20-30k people, 4-5k kids living in motels? That is an enormous problem to solve.
      
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      April 8, 2022 9:40am
      - Ian Boag
        
        I did say “within 5 years”. On the (affordable) housing front this government has turned out to be no better and no worse than the ones that preceded it.
        
        Whatever it was that got Porirua, Hutt Valley, Avondale etc etc built way back when, I don’t understand why it can’t be done again ….
        
        There was a lot of hooha a while back about how factory built houses were going to be the thing. Didn’t happen – at least one prefab house factory went bust and you don’t hear about them any more. I’m a bit surprised that KO aren’t on to that one.
        
        Lord knows what happens to the people in motels in the next year or two. As I have observed before, the motel owners have the problem that MSD clients are far and away the most profitable …..
        
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        April 8, 2022 3:33pm
    - artemisia
      
      Quick solution, reverse government policies that encourage rental owners to sell up or leave homes vacant.
      
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      April 8, 2022 9:40am
    - Zero Kindness
      
      Already taken care of Ian.
      Rising interest rates and therefore rising mortgage rates are having the expected effect on the housing market, a drop of 10% being predicted by some, I suggest 20 – 30% is feasible as the mortgagee sales pick up over the next 12 months.
      IMO the rents have not increased to the level of house price increases as the tenants wages are simply unable to keep up with that ratio.
      Labour government policies created the escalating rents and the economic fall out of their policies will assist in redressing these.
      Young and first home buyers who have entered the hot and over-priced housing market in the past 12 months on the other hand are unfortunately about to find out all about the term negative equity.
      
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      April 8, 2022 9:49am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      The last time this useless government did something to try and influence the housing market, Treasury advice was that the effect would be worse than if they did nothing.
      
      They did it anyway. It made things much worse.
      
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      April 8, 2022 7:27pm
- nathie
  
  Someone (eg Media/Opposition) should ask Marama Davidson about what the unintended consequences are (and see if Davidson can answer them).
  
  For example, even if a rent freeze was imposed, would Labour/Greens carry on with things like imposing more regulations on landlords eg more “healthy homes” type initiatives in which landlords have to spend further money … without any means to recoup costs?
  
  If so one can imagine more “mum and dad” type investors selling up their rentals and if they sell to first home owners (which is good for those people) then it means less rental homes on the market, making things worse for renters!
  
  Also according to Newshub last night they played a clip of Housing Minister Megan Woods saying “no” to rent freezes …. did Marama Davidson even think to consult her senior and lead colleague?
  
  If not then ZB’s Andrew Dickens was right yesterday when he interviewed Davidson and asked her if she was “virtue signalling” (Davidson was not impressed with that line of questioning – she must have been expecting a “Red Radio” type easy and soothing interview)!
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:46am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  You want to go watch Robertsons blowhard attempt from Willis on this issue yesterday, it was pathetic, Hosking had Chester Burrows former police minister, he said wait times are absolutely her job to be over, end of story.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:54am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Chester Borrows, wetter than 50 full Olympic swimming pools.
    
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    April 8, 2022 7:28pm
mikenmildagain

This is cool. Pink Floyd release new music featuring Ukrainian patriotic song. Video embedded in the link.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/07/pink-floyd-reform-to-support-ukraine
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April 8, 2022 8:18am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Thankyou for that Mike – your good deed for the day is most welcome. I notice children singing, is the song something unique to Ukraine?
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:52am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It is: Ой у лузі червона калина –
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oi_u_luzi_chervona_kalyna
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:28am
- ClanMcleod
  
  That isn’t Pink Floyd. It’s Sid Barrett’s replacement, David Gilmour and one of the former band members virtue signaling along with a couple of session musicians. To say this is Pink Floyd is misinformation.
  
  Gilmour is a talented guitarist and vocalist but can’t write songs for shit. Roger Waters was always the brains and the driver of Pink Floyd after Barrett was removed due to his acid induced psychosis.
  Waters is the person who is responsible for all of the classic albums associated with Pink Floyd. Once he left, the name carried on, but the sound became at best, mediocre.
  Gilmour to be kind, is a bit naive politically. When it comes to geopolitics he’s a blond.
  Waters on the other hand has a very good understanding around geopolitics. That’s why the Graun article quotes Gilmour as saying he is “disappointed” at Water’s response in which he said:
  
  ……talk of a Russian invasion was “bullshit … anybody with an IQ above room temperature knows [an invasion] is nonsense”; he has subsequently condemned the invasion calling it “the act of a gangster”, while also condemning “propaganda to demonise Russia”
  
  Waters is correct, Gilmour is a virtue signaling tool using the Pink Floyd brand to promote his own personal views.
  If you want a better understanding of Roger Waters and his political stance, watch the “Us and Them” video. Plenty of political messaging. Trailer here.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppisCJa7Mnc
  
  Better still, watch the documentary “The Occupation of the American Mind” for which he provided the commentary. Trailer here.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppisCJa7Mnc
  
  So no, Pink Floyd didn’t release new music. David Gilmour did and he damaged the brand by doing so.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:51am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Thank you for your reliably pro-Russian perspective.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:27am
    - Jack5
      
      Milky, if ClanMcLeod were pro-Ukrainian, you’d still be niggling him.
      
      I wonder which of the two branches of Clan MacLeod our poster, ClanMcLeod, comes from: the Macleods of Dunvegan, Harris, and Glenelg; or, the MacLeods of Lewis, Assynt, and Raasay?
      
      (Great chance there to use the Oxford comma, eh, Milky?)
      
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      April 8, 2022 12:41pm
      - Mike
        
        What about the Cambridge apostrophe?
        
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        April 8, 2022 1:05pm
  - MCōs
    
    Roger Waters reply to an admirer
    
    Dear Alina,
    I read your letter, I feel your pain, I am disgusted by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it is a criminal mistake in my opinion, the act of a gangster, there must be an immediate ceasefire. I regret that Western governments are fueling the fire that will destroy your beautiful country by pouring arms into Ukraine, instead of engaging in the diplomacy that will be necessary to stop the slaughter. Rest assured if all our leaders don’t turn down the rhetoric and engage in diplomatic negotiations there will be precious little of Ukraine left when the fighting is over.
    
    I’m no expert, but it seems to me a sovereign state is entitled to protect itself and then enter into negotiations from a position of strength.
    Russia isn’t raping women, killing kids, bombing cities to save them.
    They’re angling to reinforce their hand at the negotiation table.
    One may recall the Americans carpet bombing North Vietnam and North Korea before that to encourage them to come round to their way of thinking.
    Sometimes that approach doesn’t work of course.
    The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Afghanistan, Vietnam.
    Sometimes a country gives up something without a fight, Crimea.
    
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    April 8, 2022 2:10pm
cas

I need some advice please. Got a little email from IRD to tell me I could file my tax return which they have virtually filled in for me but there are mistakes and missing income in their version.

This never used to be a problem. I would just amend it and file it but I can’t find any way of doing this now that they seem to have changed their system. They do suggest to go back to those I got income from and tell them to send the info – yeah right.

I want to do this myself as I have always done rather than email or call them. Any suggestions. After all even if they have got it wrong, I will be pinged if it is wrong.
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April 8, 2022 8:21am
- Colville
  
  Are you SURE its from IRD??
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:46am
  - greybeard
    
    Exactly: a couple of weeks ago I received an email purporting to be from Min of Transport, asking me to re-register one of my cars as it was due for renewal “next month”. I checked the stickers and both had months to go.
    Just a scam.
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:19am
- Zero Kindness
  
  Hi Cas
  You can edit, I saved the return as a draft, then when I returned to it I found you need to click on “I want to… Continue editing” on the top right of the first page/screen of the filing. This allows you to change the defaulted amounts as required.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:57am
  - cas
    
    Thank you. I will try this. Yes having recently had my credit card hacked I am doubly careful on what I click on to.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:08am
- Bridgenag
  
  scam
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:11am
- Rappaccinis Daughter
  
  The IRD only ever send an email to say that there is a letter waiting for you on your MyIR login. They never send information directly. You have until 7th July to file your 2022 return and IRD won’t open their system for filing returns for a few weeks yet as they are still recieving data from the banks and share registries.
  
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  April 8, 2022 5:29pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Friday at 4pm we sometimes get a surprise.
Wonder what will be dumped on us today?
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April 8, 2022 8:22am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Shit probably 😂
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:25am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    BY – that’s a very astute observation based on the last couple of years!
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:54am
- mikenmildagain
  
  It’ll be whisky or beer for me, Steve.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:37am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  More rats leaving sinking ship
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:54am
- rockape
  
  Nurses pay equity out today,nurses are not expecting much.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:13am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    But that will be different, Marxists are controlling things 😃
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:59am
RockyJ

The move to implement cogovernance in Rotorua will flush out the government’s support for this travesty for the whole country. Those who think we can reverse this through the next election may be in for a rude surprise.
Under our weak constitutional arrangements there is nothing to stop the government implementing cogovernance for the entire country before the 2023 election. If that was to happen it would be virtually impossible to reverse it.
What recourse would lovers of democracy have if that was to happen? Civil uprising?
Don’t forget that both the minister of police and the minister of defence are Maori.
It can’t happen, can it?
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April 8, 2022 8:25am
- kiwikidsnz
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/128296951/the-agenda-for-transforming-our-constitution
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:43am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Well, 3 waters won take effect till after the r we election, can’t see this sneaking through first
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:04am
- Zero Kindness
  
  We could vote to become the 8th state of Australia, that will fix co-governance very quickly.
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:03am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Australia only has 6 states.
    
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    April 8, 2022 7:40pm
- alloytoo
  
  Instead of reversing it, they should expand it, create 5 more categories based on arbitrary characteristics that should cover the bulk of the population.
  
  Neutralize the toxic spill through dilution.
  
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  April 8, 2022 11:49am
I remember when

Item on TV with doctor expressing serious concern at heart problems being suffered in the seven months after having covid.
Apparently after that the problem drops away very sharply and disappears.
Does that seem like the sort of problem that has been highlighted by those questioning the ‘safety’ of vaccines.
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April 8, 2022 8:26am
- ClanMcleod
  
  “Apparently”. We’re still jabbing people. NZ heading towards implementing the 4th shot. This experiment has a long way to go yet.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:56am
Surely Knott

Newstalk zb reports no arrests made among tribesman gang for the serious motorway assault. But what’s even more extraordinary is the article seems to suggest they haven’t even got a search warrant and are still trying to obtain sufficient evidence. And then they would go in and talk to them. WTF?

What more evidence do you need than a gang with their logos after attending a club day brutally attacks a man. Hi judge can we get a search warrant to electronically survey the organisation that nearly killed this man after attending a gang event. The article reads like they’ve got nowhere. Isn’t that how Rudy Guliani made his name, got a search warrant for surveillance of the mob and cleaned up NYC. While you need more specific evidence to convict surely there is enough evidence of the criminal organisation to get surveillance on them.

“When detectives were able to obtain sufficient evidence they’d be able to seek search warrants to go into gang-related establishments.
“They will want to make sure that the information is authentic and with gang involvement in particular you have to build a case – you build a case first before you go and speak to the people, it doesn’t matter who it is,” said Burdett.
With a search warrant they’d be able to look for further supporting evidence of people’s involvement and try to extract information from those at the locations.”
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April 8, 2022 8:27am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING TOMORROW…..

“New Zealand’s mischief-making Prime Minister, presiding over forcing the largely reinvented Te Reo on the public, to replace the use of English as our most important national and international language”

– The Spectator’ 9th April, 2022

https://twitter.com/KingBar24443861/status/1511821806969454593
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April 8, 2022 8:28am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  No masks
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:58am
curry4me

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10689445/Whistleblower-handed-Hunter-Bidens-laptop-congressmen-fled-Switzerland.html

EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower who handed Hunter’s abandoned laptop to congressmen and DailyMail.com reveals he has 450 gigabytes of DELETED material including 80,000 images and videos – and has fled to Switzerland fearing retaliation from White House

The source who distributed Hunter Biden’s laptop to congressmen and media has fled the US to Switzerland, saying he fears retaliation from the Biden administration.
Jack Maxey gave DailyMail.com a copy of the hard drive from Hunter’s abandoned laptop in the spring of 2021.
He also gave copies and material from it to the Washington Post, New York Times, and Senator Chuck Grassley in his role as ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee – but he claims they all sat on it for months.
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April 8, 2022 8:30am
- Scott
  
  I am pleased that a grand jury is still investigating Hunter Biden. Remember Biden was paid $1 million a year to sit on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. We still don’t know whether he actually ever attended a board meeting and indeed did anything for that money, at the time he was being paid the most of any person associated with the Burisma company.
  
  The reason he was being paid so much was to gain influence with his father Joe Biden, the then vice president of the United States.
  
  Powerline lays out the arguments – “There is no country in the world where millions of dollars paid to a top official’s son for doing nothing would not be regarded as corruption.
  “Large payments to the children of powerful government officials by those with interests potentially affected by those officials’ actions are universally understood to be corrupt efforts to influence the officials,” Manhattan litigation lawyer Francis Menton writes in the Manhattan Contrarian blog.
  “In cases involving people other than the Bidens, whether the official/parent ‘personally benefited’ from the payments or ‘knew details’ of the transactions are considered completely irrelevant.”
  
  “This is all so blindingly obvious. No one has ever bribed Hunter Biden, an unemployable crackhead. Obviously the point of the operation was influence with Joe.”
  
  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/04/in-search-of-the-big-guy.php
  
  This whole debacle is now starting to be covered by the mainstream media. I think Democrats and liberals generally are turning on Joe Biden. I would be surprised, given his corruption and his obvious dementia, whether he sees out his full term.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:45am
  - curry4me
    
    Yes, there is some sunlight being shone on the Dems misdeeds. Brandon wasn’t the only famous person with a child on a Ukranian energy company board.
    
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    April 8, 2022 12:57pm
- Pavel
  
  Even without the laptop there is enough shit to sink Joe. Can you imagine if Trump Jr impregnated a stripper in the back of a strip club then denied he is the father? Or if Trump Jr was video calling while smoking crack? The media would be all over it but not with the Bidens, no their all like “poor Hunter he is getting over his demons, so brave blah blah blah”. Theres a little girl in America who’s mum is a stripper, her dad is a crack head and her grandfather is the president of the USA and no one seems to care. Imagine if that was Trumps kid. Strange times.
  
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  April 8, 2022 8:50am
  - virtualmark
    
    Well, Trump Senior got one of his housemaids pregnant and then insisted she get an abortion. But I guess that’s okay with the pro-life GOP because …?
    
    And Trump Jr *is* video calling while on cocaine. Just watch his videos. That man is high as a kite most of the time. And like Hunter he’s had issues with drug addiction in the past.
    
    I’m not saying either side is right – both are pretty fucked up. But I am saying that being a partisan and yelling at the other guy while excusing the same behaviours from “your” guy isn’t very adult.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:31am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  DELETED?
  Ask the deleter in Chief, the World expert, you know who.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:01am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Ah, we’re back to Butt Hunter. Probably only a matter of a few weeks before it all comes tumbling down, Trump is reinstated as president and the US government can finally get down to revealing the truth about the Clintons, Obama’s citizenship, Benghazi, Pizzagate, false-flag school shootings, pedophile colonies on Mars, etc.
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:35am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Oh you are going be salty if the house flips and Jim Jordan is let loose on Hunter and the “Feltch”.
    
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    April 8, 2022 11:27am
    - Mike
      
      If ‘Gym’ Jordan is in charge of anything, there will indeed be flips.
      
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      April 8, 2022 1:08pm
I remember when

Do they really try:
Newshub: Eating leafy greens could offer protection against Covid-19, study finds:
The accompanying photo includes asparagus, celery and a purple leafed herb.
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April 8, 2022 8:31am
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[Deleted – it’s General Discussion not a place to post random cut and paste obscure links. mod.]
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April 8, 2022 8:31am
G the giant from Dunedin

Today in the USA it’s happy beer drinking day.
Enjoy a beer from Sleepy Joe snd Co. 🍺🍺🍺
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April 8, 2022 8:33am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  As long as it is not Budweiser. God that shit is awful
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:04am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Agreed, James Adams is not do bad
    
    [You obviously can’t be bothered reading your own posts before sending, so why should we? Final warning else I will start deleting. mod.]
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:01am
    - chukar
      
      GG
      Have asked before with no reply but here goes again:
      Are you just a National troll?
      Yes or no?
      
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      April 8, 2022 6:09pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Agreed. I’m allergic to all those over-promoted, bland, multinational beers. Find a locally brewed option. And if the craft beer is too pricey (it’s only beer, after all), just get Lion Brown or Tui, etc.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:46am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Stella Artois Mike. Made in NZ. Hawaii has it, made in LA I think. Alaska has it, made in Seatle. Salty Dawg in Homer Alaska has it on tap!
      
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      April 8, 2022 2:16pm
      - Mike
        
        Whether made in NZ or not, I despise the Stellas, Budweisers, Heinekens, Corona and Peronis, etc. Decidedly average beers, heavily marketed.
        
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        April 8, 2022 2:49pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Sorry Mike, but heavy stuff gives me a foggy head. Pilsner lagers (not all lagers) are fine with me.
        Locally brewed? Stella Artois is done here in Auckland.
        You drink milk, don’t you??
        
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        April 8, 2022 3:48pm
Ra Henare

The propaganda war!!
We are very much aware of the Covid propaganda war which has been raging for the last 2 years.

So why are we not so diligent in questioning the Ukrainian/Western Propaganda war.

All my adult life I have looked for “”another side””|to all major news stories.

I have found these two links interesting from reputable people. (Not media shills)

https://www.thepostil.com/author/jacques-baud/
A review by a real expert. UN guy intimately involved, not some self important Academic.

https://thealtworld.com/scott_ritter/interview-w-scott-ritter-april-6-2022-by-don-debar

Scott Ritter was the UN inspector who debunked the WMD claim by the West to start the Iraqi invasion.

Believe them or not. Up to you.
But it does provide a credible “”other side”” to the story.
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April 8, 2022 8:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Thanks for the links, I will digest it later
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:09am
- Master Mariner
  
  Interesting article and thanks for sharing.
  
  Yes I agree, As in most things there are 3 sides to any story, Both sides and somewhere in between lays the Truth.
  
  FWIW 30 Years ago I worked with Russian Seafarers from Sevastopol who found themselves Ukrainian overnight with the Wall crumbling down. They were detested by the the Ukrainians among whom they belonged.
  
  Alls fair in love and War springs to mind.
  
  A False Flag event to the lead up to this war was this, Although blamed indirectly on Russia it had to come from the Ukrainians and/or Ukrainian aligned.
  https://news.usni.org/2021/06/21/positions-of-two-nato-ships-were-falsified-near-russian-black-sea-naval-base
  
  I find this quote interesting in the article above, by Ra,
  “Some intelligence services see this irresponsible decision as a way to use the Ukrainian population as cannon fodder to fight Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This kind of murderous decision should have been left to the colleagues of Ursula von der Leyen’s grandfather. It would have been better to engage in negotiations and thus obtain guarantees for the civilian population than to add fuel to the fire. It is easy to be combative with the blood of others.”
  
  With the above quote I could’nt agree more.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:31am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Sorry, you are going to need to enlighten me about how ‘Ursula von der Leyen’s grandfather’ is relevant to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:51am
    - Jack5
      
      Actually, Milky, Ursula von der Leyen, is bound to have an interesting family background.
      
      She was born in Brussels, into a German noble family (originally, and perhaps, in part, still Mennonite).
      
      I take it Master Mariner’s reference to Von Der Leyen’s grandfather is something that could be made about millions of German people. So many of them had grandfathers or great-grandfathers in Operation Barbarossa.
      
      According to the Grauniad:
      
      “….at least one of the scandals surrounding the defence ministry is closely linked to Von der Leyen: a parliamentary committee is investigating accusations of nepotism in connection to the allocation of contracts worth hundreds of millions of euros to external consultants. One management consultancy firm awarded with jobs was McKinsey, where her son works as an associate.”
      
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      April 8, 2022 12:55pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    mm, a nudge re my email to you. pls let me know. thx
    
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    April 8, 2022 1:51pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Ra you are 100% correct. The speed at which many apparently intelligent people jumped onto the bandwagon surprised me. After the last 2 years or so of watching the narrative control around covid, using mainstream media as the primary weapon to drive it, I really felt that most people would now be awake to this shit.
  I don’t claim to know what is really happening in Ukraine, I am fully convinced though that the mainstream media version in NZ, from the BBC and from most American outlets, is completely garbage.
  The links you provide are excellent. Ritter is a credible source, there are many others including former US high ranking military sources among others.
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:02am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Jacques Baud is not a very credible source.
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:52am
  - Ra Henare
    
    I guess you have the overpowering urge to see your name in print. Even if it means posting meaningless comments.
    
    Why is Jacques Baud not a very credible source.
    
    I am reminded of my Mothers saying (when reflecting on this comment)
    All mouth and no trousers.
    
    But hey, if it keeps you happy posting meaningless stuff. Fill your boots 🙂
    
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    April 8, 2022 12:03pm
    - Mike
      
      Track record of shilling demonstrably false talking points for Assad and Putin.
      
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      April 8, 2022 1:29pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Interesting, Now Twitter bans Ritter.
  
  https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/272459461/twitter-bans-ex-un-weapons-inspector-over-ukraine
  “You’re suspending a decorated Marine Corps veteran and former chief UN weapons inspector who bravely warned the world about the Bush [administration’s] Iraq WMD lies. Silencing voices of dissent will make your platform un-usable,”.
  
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  April 8, 2022 12:04pm
I remember when

When approximately one in every one hundred and fifty Maori, living at the time, signed the Treaty of Waitangi, that seems to be a reasonable endorsement.
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April 8, 2022 8:39am
- Libertarians are right
  
  It’s actually much higher than that because the vast majority of those that didn’t sign the Treaty didn’t actually have any rights any way. Maori had tribal leadership and anyone not of the “ruling families” (for the most part) had no say. The quiet part that they’re mnot saying about co-governance is that this is still the case. The Treaty was not between the Crown and Maori it was between the Crown and Iwi leadership. The only rights conferred on ordinary Maori were under article 3 which gave each Maori person the same rights as anyone else individually.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:32am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    How were tribal decisions made in traditional Maori society? I’d appreciate knowing more.
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:54am
Maggie Pie

News Flash….

“Nanaia Mahuta outed as a lover of not dark but white chocolate”!

https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com/2022/02/mahuta-loves-herself-bit-of-white.html

God we’re sooo missing Cathy 😛
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April 8, 2022 8:50am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘The milky bars are on me’ has a new meaning.
  That bill is over and above her allotted allowances
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:12am
- artemisia
  
  As a consolation prize, Maggie Pie, there is a new Consumer report on …. tada… hot cross buns from the supermarket. Two supermarket hot cross buns took out first place. No word on the Consumer test of the flash buns.
  
  Herald —
  
  Fresh Choice hot cross buns (half a dozen fo $4.99) and the Countdown traditional hot cross buns (half a dozen for $3.50) were dubbed the “clear crowd-pleasers”.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:33am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    You heard it here first arty! 😀
    
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    April 8, 2022 9:46am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Follow me here for more Home Shopping & money saving tips.
      
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      April 8, 2022 9:59am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Always good to get the tips from the night-fill shift. they always know what’s popular and what’s good value.
        
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        April 8, 2022 10:56am
- DeepBlue
  
  Where has she gone? Been MIA for an age.
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:36am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Too much hate mail from the left I guess.
    Cactus has no issues calling someone out
    
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    April 8, 2022 2:22pm
krazykiwi

Mrs kk has taken 4 regional flights in the last fortnight.

3 of them were first delayed, and then “cancelled due to engineering”.

In all three instances every one of the travelers impacted was moved to a later flight on the same route, and that later flight was 95-100% full.

I believe AirNZ is now routinely cancelling flights for economic reasons, no matter the inconvenience to their customers.
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April 8, 2022 8:57am
- RockyJ
  
  My mate had to buy a one way airfare to Australia urgently. It cost him $2000. Qantas was the same.
  At the same time the government is advertising “Dob in a cartel”. But you have to eavesdrop on a golf course so I guess I can’t.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:28am
  - alloytoo
    
    Alas I would too, but I don’t go fishing.
    
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    April 8, 2022 11:55am
- Master Mariner
  
  Me too yesterday, I had to fly to Wgtn and arrived to find flight delayed.
  Cancelled flight and went home.
  Least the bloody AirNZ Covid app worked and didnt need to show bloody paper.
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:35am
  - Jack5
    
    Master Mariner, you may have missed this post yesterday for the interest of our seagoing Kiwiblog posters ….
    
    There’s been an interesting follow-up to the NZ whaling shanty, Wellerman, which is getting a vast following on YouTube (more than a 100 million hits and versions ranging from the US Navy to the Vienna Boys’ Choir, translations into many languages, and dance versions).
    
    Overseas shanty groups have dug up another New Zealand sea song, and there are several versions on YouTube. Here’s one version of Auckland to the Bluff.
    
    https://youtu.be/UVzcMVcayWI
    
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    April 8, 2022 12:21pm
    - Jack5
      
      Meant to mention this song was written by the late Rudy Sunde, of Auckland.
      
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      April 8, 2022 12:33pm
    - Swifty
      
      These popped up in my YouTube recommendations this week:
      
      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7VJfEGZRmPU
      
      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8svBPh4rZBY
      
      Lou and Simon ft Peter Posa – Maori Car 🚘
      
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      April 8, 2022 1:01pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      Hi Jack, Thanks for link and yes great song.
      
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      April 9, 2022 10:40am
- Lee C
  
  Interesting questions re teh timing adn rationales for vaccine pass roll-out here;
  
  https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1336561776829716&aggr_v_ids%5B0%5D=1336561776829716&notif_id=1649357838298811&notif_t=watch_follower_video&ref=notif
  
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  April 8, 2022 9:56am
- cmm
  
  There is a possibility that they are short staffed due to people being off sick etc.
  
  This could possibly mean they are not able to perform all the required post landing/pre-take off checks etc and can’t turn planes around fast enough.
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:38am
Maggie Pie

Question for the newly appointed ‘Ambassador-for-Gender-Equality’…..
Louisa Wall

Why is ‘The Iron Man’ called the Iron Man and not the Fe-Male.

😀 😀 😀
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April 8, 2022 9:19am
- MCōs
  
  Here’s here’s contact details
  You can put the question to her yourself
  04 817 8865
  [email protected]
  
  Alternatively she’s probably got an office in Manurewa. You could pop by.
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:07am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Was it you saying here yesterday Cossie that you don’t have hot-water in your house?
    
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    April 8, 2022 10:21am
- cmm
  
  I think she’s still focused on getting titanium banned.
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:42am
Maggie Pie

Things that make you go hmmm….

Multi-Billion dollar Chinese Company withdraws from New Zealand leaving hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars in unpaid debts.

Chows entered into deal with them in 2016 but unclear if they were effected.

https://twitter.com/NewsroomNZ/status/1512181114814832650
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April 8, 2022 9:56am
- MCōs
  
  The Key Family might unwittingly own a train line in China.
  
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  April 8, 2022 10:15am
ClanMcleod

Babylon Bee on the money yet again. Apparently Obama is getting sick of working from home and thinking about heading back to the WH. lol

https://babylonbee.com/news/president-barack-obama-returns-to-the-white-house-after-growing-tired-of-working-from-home
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April 8, 2022 10:11am
mandk

Just watched David Parker on Newshub.

Speaking on behalf of Labour, he was cowardly on the issue of weapons for Ukraine, and he was weak on the issue of domestic inflation.

He also interrupted Nicola Willis every time she spoke, while she listened respectfully every time he spoke.

What a slimy p.o.s. he is.

Roll on the 2023 election.
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April 8, 2022 10:38am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Didn’t he also say once that he would not rest until there were no Farmers left in New Zealand….odd given what drives our GDP?
  
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  April 8, 2022 11:23am
  - Ehlana
    
    I think it is already established that GDP is not a concept this government understands.
    
    Try simpler language: No Farmers = No Food
    
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    April 8, 2022 12:14pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      No truckies also = no food. It does not grow on trays in the supermarket.
      
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      April 8, 2022 2:30pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Downtickers can starve. No breakfast for you knuckledraggers
        
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        April 8, 2022 3:57pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      “Try simpler language: No Farmers = No Food”
      Or,
      No Seafarers, No Shipping, No Shopping.
      
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      April 9, 2022 10:42am
oldfella

Recently stumbled across an interesting 4 part drama on Netflix called ‘Tokyo Trials’, about the war crimes trials in Japan at the end of WW2 (they had a strong Kiwi link as one of the leading Allied judges was a New Zealander).
It gives a fascinating insight into what went on both in the court room and behind the scenes, and is particularly interesting at the moment with the talk of one day putting Putin on trial for war crimes.
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April 8, 2022 10:58am
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION…

Anyone else find it strange that an OIA request shows Christopher Luxon and Jacinda were once PENPALS ?
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April 8, 2022 11:08am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Explains word soup waffle
  
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  April 8, 2022 2:31pm
Cassandra

Can I make a recommendation? Can you change the comments system so that the latest show first? That’s normal and has distinct advantages.
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April 8, 2022 11:09am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  But what about those contributors who prepare their comments some time beforehand, ready to post in the GD at 8:00am sharp, thus enjoying the dopamine delivered by high levels of upticks (or in some people’s cases, having their responses – because these people never originate, you see – decimated by downticks)? Your suggestion seems analogous to an MMP system rather than a winner-takes-all FPP, to me.
  
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  April 8, 2022 1:39pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Just like males read a magazine from the back? I do
  
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  April 8, 2022 2:32pm
- Cassandra
  
  Could mods and David consider this please?
  
  [Hi, we will pass to David but we’re unsure if WordPress allows for this – Mods]
  
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  April 8, 2022 4:14pm
- [email protected]
  
  It’s really not that difficult to go to the last thread (usually the newest) and work your way up to the earlier threads.
  
  What would really be useful if somehow the post you have already read could be grayed out so you could slide past them quickly.
  
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  April 8, 2022 6:53pm
Maggie Pie

And Barry standing down as ZB’s Political Editor?

Wonder why that is?
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April 8, 2022 11:25am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  He is pregnant? //
  
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  April 8, 2022 2:34pm
I remember when

HB Today: Three Waters Reform:
Frustrated mayor tells Jacinda Ardern ‘you have lost the people’:
Alex Walker said, CHBDC had been ‘leading a strategy called #thebigwasterstory’ since 2017 and had tripled capital investment in the area during that time.
A further strategy called Facing the Facts had seen council in consultation with the community and “adopt the largest capital investment programme in our wastewater treatment system that this community has ever seen.”
The CHBDC had also worked with neighbouring councils on a range of water initiatives.
But Walker wrote to Ardern: “But despite this Prime Minister, I am sad to say you have lost the people in your path of Three Waters Reforms.”
“Even in my community, which understands the challenges implicitly, they are affronted by the change in property rights, and the scale of the change proposed. They cannot see how their interests will be protected and who will advocate for them.”
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April 8, 2022 11:51am
Maggie Pie

Caller to 1ZB’s Kerry Woodham tells her…. “He saw the crash coming”
That’s why he sold his Van last year and bought a 3-door-hatch to live in.

Says he pays no rent or rates, only costs him $30 a week for gas, and when he gets to see his kids, they all go down to the Beach together for a feed of Cockles.

Kerry tells him “….sounds like you’re living an idyllic lifestyle”.
Thanks him for the call.

LOL!!!!!
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April 8, 2022 12:42pm
- Mike
  
  Idle(ic) lifestyle more like.
  
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  April 8, 2022 12:47pm
potato

As predicted the Clean Car Discount tax system is a dog – NZTA were on the radio lying this morning saying it was only few vehicles – I went to VTNZ today and was told they had an email that came in called “bulk” processing for cars they were having problems with. The country is run by poorly directed spin departments.
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April 8, 2022 12:42pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  VTNZ are a joke. Went for a WOF a few weeks ago. 6 guys testing, 4 others in the office. Was told the wait was about 1 hour 20 min.
  Went to another business, all done in 18 minutes
  
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  April 8, 2022 2:38pm
  - potato
    
    Yeah VTNZ are hoping for a uniform change to walk shorts and pulled up socks.
    
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    April 8, 2022 3:05pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Forgot to mention, 6 guys testing, 9 cars and a boat trailer waiting as well.
    6 guys can not do 9 tests in 80 minutes ffs
    
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    April 8, 2022 3:12pm
cmm

HTF is a crazy woman who is locked up in prison able to create fake social media and email accounts and post on them?

Are prisoners really allowed internet access?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/128309363/woman-who-harassed-expartner-admits-impersonating-another-woman-from-prison-to-blame-her-for-her-crimes
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April 8, 2022 12:54pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  No different of course to a murdering wig-wearing Pedophile, being able to defraud people for hundreds of thousands by setting up fake businesses from his prison cell!
  
  SHEESH.
  
  (google Philip John Smith 🙁 )
  
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  April 8, 2022 1:02pm
  - cmm
    
    Prison doesn’t seem to be what it was.
    
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    April 8, 2022 2:38pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Kelvinator wants them all out
      
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      April 8, 2022 2:40pm
      - cmm
        
        Kelvin is being very unkind.
        Once kicked out the poor buggers will have to cook their own food, score their own drugs and have to their own electricity and internet bills.
        
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        April 8, 2022 2:44pm
Alan Wilkinson

Just finished reading a decade old book that describes very well how we got to this point of government for Ardern’s female airheads, their need for big Government security and the joint efforts of commerce, culture, media and politicians to promote and service their emotional responses.

Very insightful and equally depressing:
“A World According to Women – An End to Thinking” by Jane McLoughlin.
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April 8, 2022 2:36pm
- cmm
  
  Feelz the feelz.
  As you say, it’s a decade old. You could now add the subtitle “and woke blokes too”.
  
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  April 8, 2022 2:40pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Most are just fellow travellers who’ve lost their compass and identity so think they’d better hitch a ride on the women’s train.
    
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    April 8, 2022 2:54pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Go back two more years and see the rabid response to her
  
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  April 8, 2022 2:41pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Link?
    
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    April 8, 2022 2:54pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      International Union of Socialist Youth President.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9rsxFaq6Ig
      
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      April 8, 2022 3:17pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I thought that most New Zealanders with a political interest knew this – even the NZ commies who just hate the vid. It has been removed and reposted on YouTube many times
        
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        April 8, 2022 3:24pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        I thought you meant the book’s author. I bet most of those voting for Ardern had no idea of her background and couldn’t care less so long as she sounded nice and catered for their emotional insecurities.
        
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        April 8, 2022 3:39pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  One of her asides was pertinent: when women left the home for higher education and a career it wasn’t in STEM subjects but in media, education, law and politics. Which they have taken over.
  
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  April 8, 2022 3:01pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Another insight is the female attachment and relation to victimhood. We can all see how that has been exploited.
  
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  April 8, 2022 3:07pm
Steve Todd

The Local Government Commission has today released its determination in respect of the Rotorua Lakes Council (see https://www.lgc.govt.nz/representation-reviews/current-determinations/view/rotorua-district-council-2022/?step=main).

It has determined that the 10 councillors will be elected from one urban ward (6), one rural ward (1), and one district-wide Māori ward (3).

This determination is fully compliant with the Local Electoral Act 2001, and it upholds democracy. Unfortunately, as we all know, it will not be put into effect: it will be replaced by an undemocratic 3-3-4 model, comprising one General ward (3), one Māori ward (3), and four councillors to be elected district-wide.

(It is interesting to note that the council’s initial proposal was a perfectly compliant, democratic, 2-4-4 model.)

But, oh no, those pushing the interests of Māori-roll electors insist on those electors being able to vote for the same number of councillors as General-roll electors, being seven, even though the Māori Electoral Population of the district comprises only 28% of the total population.

Ah, well. Such is life, I suppose.
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April 8, 2022 2:40pm
- Jack5
  
  I think Steve’s on the right track if he favours alternative voting systems rather than appointee wards.
  
  We’re a small enough country that we can fairly easily try new systems.
  
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  April 8, 2022 4:00pm
- chukar
  
  Such should not be life in New Zealand.
  We need a constitution and bill of Rights that all politicians only disturb at their peril.
  NZ with MMP has destroyed the certainty that is needed for stable governance.
  It has become Aotearoa the weak!
  
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  April 8, 2022 6:28pm
Maggie Pie

Further to my earlier post about Barry Soper stepping down as ZB’s Political Editor…..here he is as a young man.
Looks to be well before he came across Heather 😛

https://twitter.com/NakiEthan/status/1512208637493923840
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April 8, 2022 3:03pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Crikey, vax in the era of BA2 appears nearly useless, NZ data now shows less unvaxxed people per 100k in hospital than vaxxed or boosted and about 3-4x more likely to have a positive ‘case if vaxxed or boosted than if unvaxxed (though that may be down to non-reporting amongst unvaxxed who won’t bother given minor symptom and inconvenience of isolation): https://rumble.com/v1023gn-nz-ministry-of-health-data-triple-vaxxed-more-vulnerable-to-covid-and-hospi.html?mref=qnz9d&mc=6f8oi
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April 8, 2022 3:07pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  So WHO is going to take the heat for this “EXPERIMENTAL MEDICATION”
  Blofeld has thrown in the towel – Fauci is – fuck, where is he? Gone with the wind?
  
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  April 8, 2022 4:06pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    ‘Who’ means just that, nothing to do with WHO
    
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    April 8, 2022 4:07pm
Batman

Given that the lies about who is pro-child abuse seem to be continuing, perhaps a refresher is needed on just what kind of people are being sentenced for such crimes:

(Warning, the link may be upsetting to read)

Former Trump aide, RNC operative, and “pro-life” activist Ruben Verastigui has just been sentenced to 12+ years in prison for child porn. He posted about how the sexual abuse of babies is his “absolute favorite.”

https://www.newsweek.com/former-trump-aide-sentenced-12-years-requesting-videos-babies-1696205

So while some want to throw made up claims about sentencing, which are demonstrably wrong, perhaps they should attend to their own backyard first.

This also shows why nobody here should throw about terms like “groomer” willy nilly as a fun political insult. It is despicable.
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April 8, 2022 4:26pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Oh come on Batsy….Trumpy wouldn’t even have known the pedo creep, let alone his predilection for having oral sex with babies.
  
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  April 8, 2022 4:56pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Kiddie porn seems to be very popular with Democrats given number of convictions: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/261-politics/77861810
  Same applies to Republicans in seemingly similar numbers. That is to say it is a pretty universal issue for left and right, major difference being perhaps how it is perceived and what it is felt should be done about those who procure it. like the latest member of the Supremes Brown-Jackson
  
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  April 8, 2022 5:24pm
  - Mike
    
    Hmm, procuring kiddie porn? I don’t think even the most deranged opponents of the nominee made that specific spurious accusation.
    
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    April 8, 2022 6:18pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-zealand-release-more-oil-stocks.
483,000 barrels. 76790 liters.
Wow, just wow.
That Woods person has done it again. These oil stocks are not even in New Zealand – we are paying for the storage of it overseas
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April 8, 2022 4:28pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Nope, I messed up. I am wrong
  
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  April 8, 2022 4:34pm
- MCōs
  
  Apart from anything else that represents about 10% of our annual consumption of ~46mill barrels (~78.8bill litres as far as I can determine)
  
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  April 8, 2022 4:58pm
Maggie Pie

And one of the girls from tennis has just retweeted….

“I know Campbell’s gone, but how much more of this skin-crawling cringe-worthy vomit-inducing tripe does TV1 expect viewers to endure with their weetbix?”

https://twitter.com/MattyMcLean/status/1512208960837021699

As I replied….Ryan Bridge makes no secret of being gay. At least he doesn’t ram it down peoples throats!
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April 8, 2022 4:48pm
SpencerArnold

OK someone put a pamphlet in a mailbox saying “it’s OK to be white”, the police confirm it is not a chargeable offence but apparently that is not good enough. And the article has the condescension to not provide factual recount of the so-called offensive claims inside it nor the names of the authors referenced inside whose opinions were so objectionable, so that we could make up our own minds. Behold, the new Ministry of Truth! https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300560499/call-for-prosecution-over-white-supremacist-leaflet-drop
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April 8, 2022 4:53pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Latest Roy morgan. NAts 38, Act 9, Lab 32, Green 10.5 Maori 2, slight drop from Act from last month, smaller drop for Greens, and increase in minor party support (not Maori), but Act-Nat still comfortably ahead.
https://www.roymorgan.com/~/media/files/morgan poll/2020s/2022/april/8942-c1.png?h=704&w=1082&la=en

Media will probably not report this.
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April 8, 2022 5:14pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Interesting –
  National steady on 38, ACT down another 2.5% so I guess that as a few people around here keep saying, –
  Luxon’s got it wrong, Seymour’s got it right! !!!
  
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  April 8, 2022 6:56pm
- Mobile Michael
  
  By my calculations, Seats in Parliament on this poll:
  
  Nats 49
  Lab 42
  Greens 14
  ACT 12
  Maori 3
  
  Maori Party is very close to 3, will take 1 from National with a small increase in votes.
  
  Nat+ACT=61 MPs.
  
  But the trend is National’s friend.
  
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  April 8, 2022 7:37pm
  - marcw
    
    Unless National / ACT have a solid 5 – 10 seat majority, they may as well pack up tents and go home. With all the pending financial, health, police and social disasters unfolding, any lesser majority will be untenable to be able to make the bold decisions required. All the while, like cornered rats with their cheese (funding) taken, the MSM will be sniping, abusing, lying, and howling about how unfair they are .. look at all those poor people living in cars! Won’t somebody think of the children (on continuous loop).
    
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    April 8, 2022 8:52pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING…

Waka-Kotahi warning EV owners not to use Transmission Gully… ‘because of likelihood of excess battery drain’

LOL!!!
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April 8, 2022 5:16pm
- [email protected]
  
  So it uses more juice going one way but does that mean it will use a lot less juice going the other way due to regenerative braking?
  
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  April 8, 2022 6:35pm
kevn

@Maggie… A long steep hill + headwind + air-con + a load of people. Watch the battery meter die off.
= EV achilles heel(s).
Downhill, all good.
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April 8, 2022 5:22pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  How well do they steer going backwards,?
  
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  April 8, 2022 5:41pm
Maggie Pie

Went out to pay our Hedge man earlier. Relly really neat guy.
He was telling me his Tip-Fees have doubled in the last few months to $230 a ton for green waste!
What a rip-off!!

And to make matters worse, he was saying he’s had over a thousand dollars in fines since Christmas for speeding thru the Waterview Tunnel in his truck.

As i said to him…..that’s Phil Goff for you.
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April 8, 2022 6:25pm
- surfing
  
  So don’t speed through the waterview tunnel? Guy sounds a bit thick.
  
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