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Yvette

“Co-governance”
Ngai Tūhoe don’t see co-governance as the final answer. Instead, “it’s the next bus stop in a journey that has to be made”, according to an iwi leader.
… Tāmati Kruger (Taneatua) is the chairperson of Tūhoe Te Uru Taumatua and was the tribe’s Chief Negotiator for the 2014 Treaty settlement … [in which] … the former Te Urewera National Park was returned to Tūhoe to run in partnership with the Department of Conservation.
… “I don’t see it as the final destination. I don’t see co-governance as the answer. But I think it’s the next bus stop in a journey that has to be made. It’s everyone’s journey. It’s like gravity, you can’t defy it. It’s on its way.”
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/04/09/co-governance-tuhoe-on-what-is-and-isnt-working-in-te-urewera/

It will be very interesting to see how Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern defines “Co-governance”.
And this time it will have to be a bit more substantial than “When you see it, you will know it”.
By the time you see “co-governance” it may be a little late, depending on your view of it.

And if “co-governance” is the next bus stop in a journey that has to be made, what is the real destination, and does Ardern confirm and define that as well.
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April 11, 2022 8:01am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Do you agree with Luxon because of weasel words, we do not actually know what co-governance means under this regime?
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:09am
  - Yvette
    
    Giant
    [Luxon] says under the previous National government, co-management was implemented where local iwi worked with local and central government managing local natural resources.
    “But what we’re now talking about is co-governance happening in the sphere of delivery of public services.
    “Personally, I believe you don’t need two systems to deliver public services, you need a single system that has enough innovation to target for people on the basis of need.’’
    
    Yes, Giant, I agree with Luxon
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:54am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Thank you, it’s very clear to me what Luxon means, I just can’t understand why people can’t see it, he has ruled out resources and services having two separate platforms, surely this is what we all want, and as he says, apart from that, we don’t know what is in any policy, as usual, Labour are silent.
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:28am
      - curry4me
        
        Yes, Chris Luxon made a good move there. The 3 Waters billboards are a good idea too. It’ll help silence critics, and keep National’s feet to the fire.
        
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        April 11, 2022 1:42pm
    - Jack5
      
      No doubt where Ardern stands on this.
      
      On State TV last night she was ecstatic about the Woke, pro-Maori revision of history teaching in schools.
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:34am
    - chukar
      
      Harriet:
      It really does not matter whether
      “co governance applies to managing local natural resources ?”
      Perhaps you had better ask the users of these resources about that?
      Foresters, farmers and other land users have had the use rights they have paid for continually eroded and compromised by rafts of regulation coming from a cabal authorised by successive Governments including National.
      These land users have paid for the right to use their land. They also paying the ever rising land tax called rates ( something Iwi does not have to pay)
      The worst example is Bolger’s RMA!
      Encrypted in that document is privilege for Iwi.
      Luxon’s National clearly is not going to address these weeping sores.
      He has said so!
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:48am
      - chukar
        
        My apology Harriet,
        The above is meant for Yvette!
        
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        April 11, 2022 11:38am
- Simon
  
  Who gives a fuck about Cindy, she is gone burger. All questions should be directed at Luxon the incoming PM.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:12am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The idea is to make Jaspinda meltdown and throw in the towel. Completely destroy the Labour Party for what they have done to NZ.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:20am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Straight after her US holiday is my bet. When she realizes the rest of the world has moved on from Kungflu.
      
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      April 11, 2022 8:23am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        If she goes, she will mirror Key and give Grunter the full year to get his disaster sorted
        
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        April 11, 2022 10:29am
      - cjn
        
        Putin’s veto may prevent Ardern getting a job at the UN that answers her ambitions in which case we may be stuck with her. The women at the meeting were very upset at the abuse she is getting. Poor thing! She will get a sympathy vote from them.
        
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        April 11, 2022 6:06pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He answers his questions Cindy can’t, we don’t get rid of Cindy if we do stupid things with our votes.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:37am
  - Paulus
    
    [deleted by Mod, sexist abuse]
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:17am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Yes bro, it will be in 2035 all questions will be directed at the incoming PM Max Key. Until then your queen bee is Cindy.
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:41am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Perhaps we should play that game. Offer Tuhoe immediate independence. They never signed the Treaty, after all.
  
  But – cut off all govt transfers; set up a passport controlled border; make them responsible for native wildlife, land erosion protection etc. Not to mention currency & return of their own 501s.
  
  If that takes them back to Neolithic times – well, that’s where they were & as I understand it, that’s where they want to go back to.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:14am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Second the motion.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:24am
  - G152
    
    Yup.
    No electricity. No highways and no transport apart from foot.
    After all they want to live as if it were 1800.
    And no modern health care.
    After all if a few leaves can cure everything and give a life span of 30-40 years who can say nay.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:26am
    - Kiwi Dave
      
      Why should independence mean living without modern medicine and conveniences? They’re not mutually exclusive.
      
      It’s quite tempting to say the People’s Democratic Republic of Tuhoestan should eventually exist unsupported by NZ taxpayers, but what happens when, short of cash, it asks China for a big development loan?
      
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      April 11, 2022 11:34am
      - Bloody Dago
        
        China is dismantling all on its own: https://www.infowars.com/posts/shock-video-thousands-of-locked-down-shanghai-residents-scream-from-their-apartment-buildings/ 26 million people lockdown in their own homes, 5 times the population of NZ. No big loans from China any more!
        
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        April 11, 2022 1:09pm
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    If you want a truly just aotearoa, you need to dismantle Western Society
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:32am
    - Harriet
      
      [deleted, racist stereotyping. Final warning – Mod]
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:54am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      where ‘Just’ = Venezuela
      
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      April 11, 2022 11:39am
  - Nickc2
    
    Put in a hard border, then close the damned thing!
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:48am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You can read Tamati Kruger’s vision for Tūhoetanga here:
    
    https://e-tangata.co.nz/identity/tamati-kruger-we-are-not-who-we-should-be-as-tuhoe-people/
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:14am
  - rouppe
    
    That’s the beauty of the UNDRIP.
    
    “Indigenous” peoples get to have both.
    
    Of course the intent is that Maori (eg) should get to continue their local practices under the broader umbrella of a nation and its laws. Such as marae protocol – which they do. Immersion schooling in Te Reo only – which they have.
    
    It is stretching things to say that includes veto over national health decisions. Or the ability to block water management decisions unless certain conditions of self interest are met.
    
    Te Urawera shows that Maori will expect control of all the money without doing anything to further the interests of the National asset they manage
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:50am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    NMtheB you forgot plowing up the roads , removal of the electric grid system . Wouldn’t want to leave anything that would remind them of colonisation. Of course telecommunications are up to private providers so long as they are prepared to receive payment in green stone
    
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    April 11, 2022 12:32pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      No greenstone in the Ureweras. All comes from the Water of Greenstone island – the clue’s in the name.
      
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      April 11, 2022 7:37pm
- kiwikidsnz
  
  Because co governance works so well: https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/127779621/how-huts-and-bridges-in-te-urewera-fell-into-a-state-of-disrepair
  
  & of course the Govt think it’s great: https://ipanz.org.nz/Article?Action=View&Article_id=150110
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:17am
- Ruahine
  
  I do like the analogy of the “Bus” by Tamati Kruger.
  I wonder who is driving the bus and who is sitting in the front seats of the bus and who is sitting down the back of the bus.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:17am
  - curry4me
    
    That is easy to answer. The rest of us are in the back of the bus. Complaining about it would be “raycist’.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:35am
    - jgw739
      
      Not really, the rest of us would be pushing the bus.
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:55am
    - Warren
      
      Ask yourself this why should Maori get Co Governance with only 16.8 % of the population and how can you give into them when they refuse to let women have the same rights at Waitangi.
      If Jacinda Ardern gets her way and it does become law she will take New Zealand back over 125 years and they won’t be happy until they get complete control.
      
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      April 11, 2022 2:14pm
  - peterwn
    
    And who ends up under the bus.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:36am
    - kowtow
      
      Exactly.
      
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      April 11, 2022 9:48am
  - Spring Bank Westie
    
    We know who are licking the windows..
    
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    April 11, 2022 12:03pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  “he former Te Urewera National Park was returned to Tūhoe to run in partnership with the Department of Conservation.”
  
  And now the facilities in that wonderful Park are going to ruin.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/127779621/how-huts-and-bridges-in-te-urewera-fell-into-a-state-of-disrepair
  
  Perhaps that is the plan? If the bridges and tracks fall to bits, annoying white and even more annoying Chinese folk won’t visit.
  
  Unfortunatly if they wreck the health system that is more serious. You can always go to another National Park, at least for now.
  
  BTW speaking of co governance… I discovered that Christchurch Council has entered into an agreement with the local hapu for cogovernance of the residential red zone here. This is a huge area. The most likely use will be planting native trees and installing trails, and ripping out all the legacy infrastructure. 100 years from now it could be a great native forest with walking trails.
  
  But how does this co governance work? Are the local Maori going to pay for the upkeep of the red zone, or do they just veto every sensible idea?
  
  My prediction is that the red zone will look exactly as it does today for the rest of my life.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:23am
  - Hebe123
    
    Awesome dog walking area! Hope it stays as it is with hardly any people.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:54am
    - rouppe
      
      Apart from a growing itinerant group?
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/128313376/protesters-occupying-christchurch-red-zone-are-breaking-the-law-and-must-leave-council-says
      
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      April 11, 2022 9:52am
  - Hard Cheese
    
    But how does this co governance work? Are the local Maori going to pay for the upkeep of the red zone, or do they just veto every sensible idea?
    
    They’ll provide half a dozen members on 100K salaries for a committee that meets for 2 hours a month to veto every sensible idea
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:52am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    I wouldn’t visit the former Te Urewera national park if you paid for my fuel to get there. These clowns think they can spout racism at me , tell me I’m the root of all their ills and flirt with independence para military fantasies and I’ll still rock up in my camper and hand over the cash and accept being abused as part of the authentic experience. Nah I’ll go and spend my money where I’m welcome. You reap what you sow.
    
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    April 11, 2022 12:41pm
  - Jack5
    
    The Christchurch City Council is solid-Left and disorder-level spendthrift, but who will step forward to clean it up when the coming local body elections are held?
    
    To be fair, with the Leftist Government having bought off the media, it will be hard for reformers to get a hearing.
    
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    April 11, 2022 5:28pm
- WaynelSexton
  
  You just need to read a history book to know where we are headed.
  
  National borders constantly change.
  If settlers wanted to keep their nation, then they should of had kids.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:29am
  - Ehlana
    
    In NZ it’s the other way round actually. If Maori wanted to keep their nation, they needed to have kids with each other, and preferably within their tribe.
    
    Instead they so inter-married with the settlers that today every New Zealander is at least part non-Maori.
    
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    April 11, 2022 11:32am
- RockyJ
  
  I don’t think Ardern has thought out what cogovernance would look like. But here are some clues;
  1. She has specifically ruled out a seperate Maori parliament
  2. She recently announced that the first round of consultation was complete and the next round will be with the general public. The first round was with “iwi and Maori organisations”
  
  This should suggests to me that the 50% representing the Maori half of the co will not be democratically elected by Maori. Remember that democracy is a western tool to keep colonised people oppressed (sarc). Instead the Maori side will be made up of the usual collection of unelected tribal grandees and aristocrats who already have their noses in the trough.
  
  As usual ordinary Maori who work for a living will be shafted along with the rest of us.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:55am
- pdm
  
  Even mrspdm who is pretty ambivalent re politics called He Puapua apartheid when she heard something about what Labour seemed to be proposing on the car radio yesterday.
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:43am
- Bloody Dago
  
  Co-governance hasn’t been a raging success in your neck of the woods Tamati? You probably could co-governance a piss-up in a brewery but it would look like Mariupol afterwards. This isn’t negativity here, its just the reality of your world, and is not shared by 86% of New Zealand’s population.
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:53am
NeverMindTheBollocks

One group of land occupying protesters moans about another group of land occupying protesters.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/128323375/concerns-grow-as-new-unwanted-occupation-rises-from-parliament-ashes
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April 11, 2022 8:01am
- Prince
  
  Quite amusing. One day the media dubs your protest ‘the illegal occupation of Parliament grounds’, the next you’re ‘protecting Shelly Bay from the hands of developers’.
  Similar to yesterday’s TVNZ. One minute a Labour MP claims Ardern is a vindictive politician, this is ignored by The News, then ‘Sunday’ runs a hagiography branding Ardern as caring, sharing and kinda cutesy.
  Who to believe ?
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:41am
  - kowtow
    
    One day the Media Pardy were all ’bout wimmin’s rights , now they all ’bout trannies’ “rights”.
    
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10703327/Women-strip-searched-trans-officers-born-male-say-police.html
    
    And if you don’t like it , it can become a non crime hate incident , or if Plod having a bad hair day , they’ll do ya for a full on hate crime .
    
    Orwell did warn us.
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:52am
    - alloytoo
      
      Back in the day, the objective of “Trannies” was to blend into society as a member of the opposite sex and carry on with their lives.
      
      Nowadays the objective appears to be a “Trannie”
      
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      April 11, 2022 2:50pm
Warren

Isn’t it funny when things go wrong for Party Leaders that the heavy hitters like Mike Williams former Labour Party President crawl out of the woodwork to fiecely defend the undefendable.
The problem is these people have a habit of joining forces with the media to crucify those that are a threat to their own Party but cry wolf we it brought to their attention that their Leader has destroyed one of there own.
Obviously what has been said by Louisa Wall has tainted the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern but as the old story goes you play with fire and you will get burn’t so you have to take your hat off to the former MP with her story and timing of it has obviously caused the damage she intended and the big gun has arrived to smear the damage it has caused.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/departing-mp-louisa-walls-claims-countered-by-ex-labour-party-president/VVNV3ODSHS3REZGSNDTQ3RBJQQ/
I don’t trust a word Former President Mike Williams spouts and I certainly don’t trust the lies Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson have to say, interesting times ahead especially with a couple of polls on the horizon and Jacinda Ardern will be hoping the rest of the media won’t join the circus in condemning her further.
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April 11, 2022 8:02am
- Lee C
  
  I wonder how many bins Mike had to go through to find the ‘evidence’ to back up his assertions this time?
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:07am
  - chukar
    
    LC ,
    And taxpayer paid trips off shore?
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:44am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  PM asked if she had talked to Louisa Wall. ‘We have had exchanges’ or something.
  She won’t speak the truth, so here is a link to some truth.
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/04/jacinda-ardern-reportedly-told-louisa-wall-she-would-never-be-minister-under-her-leadership.html
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:13am
- Frank the tank
  
  Wall is the first rat to leave the stinking and sinking ship. She won’t be the last. Wait till Labour’s polling starts to have a 2 as it’s first number.
  
  It’s also very telling the ‘poor me’ interview on OnePravda last night. Me thinks the finger is going to be on the ejector button very soon……..
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:14am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Who will be next? One of the most useless would be David Clark.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:26am
    - RoboRob
      
      Poto will loose her police portfolio. She might through her toys depending on what she gets, if anything.
      
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      April 11, 2022 8:50am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        She was grilled by Bishop as the associate minister of housing on Thursday, she was a complete failure in her replies, and the dept speaker even made her answer properly
        
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        April 11, 2022 10:35am
    - Nickc2
      
      Is there anyone in that party that’s not useless?
      
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      April 11, 2022 9:01am
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        The best of them are useless. Unfortunately most are worse than useless and actually destructive.
        
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        April 11, 2022 9:42am
      - pdm
        
        Yep AW.
        
        Who in the private sector would give any of them a job?
        
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        April 11, 2022 9:47am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Reminds me of kids that went to school to eat their lunch
        
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        April 11, 2022 10:26am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Yes, Louisa Wall 😃👍🏻
        
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        April 11, 2022 10:36am
    - Bobba Fret
      
      If all the useless Labour MP’s left, it would be a very small party!
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:50am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Twyford.
      
      Still very salty from his demotion and currently selectively leaking. Te Atatu is a bell weather seat as well. If it looks like he is going to lose it the knives will be out.
      
      Knows where a few bodies are as well.
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:52am
  - Chris R
    
    She didn’t leave she was pushed for the radiant reason that she’s too smart and accomplished for the Ardern Circus. Clearly the PM saw her as a threat to her ridiculous “administration.”
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:28am
  - RockyJ
    
    Yeah, nah. They won’t leave. They are all useless for work in the real world. Being an MP is the highest paid job any of them will ever get.
    They will put up with anything to hang on.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:38am
  - DeepBlue
    
    I hope Jacinda’s overseas trips go extremely well. So well that she decides living in another country is far better for her exhausted self.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:43am
  - edhunter
    
    She didn’t jump far, just far enough to land the role of Ambassador for Gender Equality (Pacific)/Tuia Tāngata, sounds a pretty cushy number travelling the South Pacific being ignored by governments that have bigger problems & bigger cheques coming in from other sources.
    Wonder what it pays?
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:28am
  - Warren
    
    Well I’m glad I never watched our deceitful Prime Minister try to con the public on Sunday on TV One last night. Sheer Exhaustion took a toll Jacinda Ardern said of the experience but how would you know after all the lies and and accusations she has made about the public In general as many I have spoken to believe it was all about her and what the world thought about her not New Zealander’s.
    https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/04/10/jacinda-ardern-opens-up-on-covid-toll-sheer-exhaustion/
    Even now with the polls against her its all about Jacinda and fuck everyone else and you only have to read the Louisa Wall story to understand that.
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:44am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Petulance is another of her attributes !
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:38am
  - Paulus
    
    It looks from the latest polls, and their movement, that Labour will have no List seats next time round, and may even lose some elecctorate seats (to Maori or ACT).
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:22am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Can’t see any electorates going to Act except Seymour, Nats will take back several of the royal blue seats they lost, there was a thread about this 2 weeks ago. I am picking they lose at least 10 electorates, and a big call, I think Napier will go blue again
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:40am
      - Frank the tank
        
        Watch for Te Atatu; Maungakeke (wrong spelling I know); every seat north of the bridge; Hamilton (both seats) and every provincial seat.
        
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        April 11, 2022 1:06pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  The main thing is Wall has called out the nasty spiteful Ardern for what she really is. Be kind anybody? Now this party is hated more and more by the day, the public will be sickened by the re-emergence of Williams, the very same Williams that publicly stated he was going to Aussie to dig dirt on Key.
  I see her valedictory speech is on Thursday, PM does not do Thursday, I wonder if she will even bother to turn up, if she doesn’t, then that’s a disgrace.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:14am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Japinda’s body language can change very quickly
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:27am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Her body language always looks shit !
      
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      April 11, 2022 8:40am
      - Bloody Dago
        
        Her body language isn’t her own, it’s held in place by other peoples unseen cognitive hands DEF:
        1 : of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering)
        
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        April 11, 2022 10:01am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        And what she wears. Always loos like she found a suitcase full of Grandma’s clothes
        
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        April 11, 2022 10:29am
      - ecco
        
        It’s that derogatory smirk that I find most offensive. Like she’s mocking the other person or interviewer. Similar to Helen Clark but worse. I just turn off the power if she appears which is getting more and more. She seems to be punch drunk on celebrity. Drinks her own koolaid.
        
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        April 11, 2022 11:17am
- My
  
  But JA has given her the tick for a role with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a New Zealand-based ambassador trying to improve the empowerment of women in the Pacific and focusing more broadly on LGBTQI+ rights.
  Whoah.. tough gig. What will she do all day? Really, come to work at 9am on May 2 sit down in her office at FAT improve the empowerment of nah.. I can’t type it twice.
  No wonder we have a blow out in Gavt debt.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:58am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Warren bro – don’t pin your hopes on any upcoming polls. KB readers were pinning their hopes on the Rogue-Morgan poll to see whether Labour will drop further down. Labour steady, National didn’t move an inch, Greens dropped half a percentage point and ACT registered the biggest drop and going down every poll. Next poll will show Cindy comfortably ahead and it will be business as usual. Mark my words.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:30am
  - Alwynn
    
    “Mark my words”
    Certainly, since you ask so nicely.
    On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 represents ridiculous I will give you a 2. You words don’t mean anything but you have spelt most of them correctly.
    Summary? Must try harder.
    
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    April 11, 2022 3:24pm
cmm

At a time when there is supposed to be a witch hunt on to flush child care services of predators we has this:

A woman who was convicted of having a threesome with a minor (ie. had sex with the minor as well as coercing the minor to have sex with another -ie. sex trafficking) ends up with her conviction being quashed.

Why? Was it due to some breakdown in the legal process? Nope, it was because quashed because having a historic conviction was found to have significant consequences on her life.

Now she’s free to go back to what she knows best – being a child carer.

The whole point of legal deterrents is that offending, and a conviction, will cause significant consequences on your life. This argument is used far too often to discharge without conviction.

This can only embolden criminality of all sorts, including predatory behaviour in child care services.

I love the language: she has been haunted by the conviction. Feelzy stuff to make you see her as the victim rather than the predator she is.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/haunted-by-historic-charges-conviction-quashed-for-childcare-worker-who-had-threesome-with-minor/M5LO2IVM4T4WD7ZPHW733B3X7M/
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April 11, 2022 8:03am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I would normally agree with you. But having read the story and it is the right decision. The woman commited this offence in 1996, when she would have been between 16 and 18 years old – it is impossible to tell. It just says she is now in her “early 40s”. If the facts of this case are that she has a criminal conviction because at 16 years old she and her 16 year old boyfriend had sex with a 15 year old girl, I agree it should be overturned.
  
  If she was 18, or 19, or 21 at the time, that makes it it more serious. I am just saying that my 16/15 scenario is quite consistent with the facts as presented in the article. And today 16 year olds do not suffer life long consequences for having consensual sex with 15 year olds.
  
  BTW nowhere in the article does it say the 15 year old was coerced.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:12am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  If you read the entire story I’m pretty happy to accept that she was a victim also in the original set-up.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:13am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Still doesn’t sound like child care should be her preferred calling
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:15am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Why? At 16 or 17 she had sex with someone who was 15. Now in her 40s you think she is a danger to children?
      
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      April 11, 2022 8:25am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I’ve known folks who have had shit upbringings and they spend their time making sure other kiddies don’t go through what they experienced.
      
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      April 11, 2022 8:26am
- R
  
  The article suggests the woman may have been eligible for a discharge without conviction – that suggests that any criminality was minor. And it was 26 years ago. I’m not sure I want to see someone punished for the rest of their life over something that didn’t see them go to prison (she received a six-month suspended prison sentence). Damien Grant would understand.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:22am
- Im Right
  
  Pretty sure if the child carer in this case was male no sympathy nor quashing of conviction would even be considered.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:25am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  A 15 year old is not a child despite what our crazy law says. Teenagers have no licence to be irresponsible in my book.
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:46am
  - RichardX
    
    Is a 15 year old responsible enough to vote in your book?
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:24am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      If they work and pay tax.
      
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      April 11, 2022 2:52pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Play school TV1 asked Jaspinda about Nurse pay.
Did the Govt go back on it’s word – yes or fucking no!
All we got was word soup waffle somehow the problem going back 6 decades.
Why can’t the media nail her over and over until she answers?
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April 11, 2022 8:06am
- Lee C
  
  “IF I MIGHT BE ALLOWED TO FINISH..”
  
  Is all they’ll get from her as she trots out her scripted persiflage.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:09am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    The more she says that, the more patronising she looks. People are over her, one major reason is that patronising way she has.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:17am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s pretty clear from her RNZ interview this morning that she has prior notice of the interviewer’s questions..and she answers with her rehearsed “impactful” phrases.
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018837730/expelling-russian-ambassador-still-an-option-jacinda-ardern
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:18am
    - RoboRob
      
      It’s a dirty secret that the govt sponsored media are hiding. She wont do interviews without a heads up on the questions. She then has her large spin staff (paid by us) script her answers. She is not the only one, a large number of her MPs (especially the Maori ones)clearly read from scripts. This is evident when the answer doesn’t match the question because the questioner asked the question in a different order to what was provided.
      
      It’s also one of the likely reasons she pulled out of the Hoskings morning interviews.
      
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      April 11, 2022 8:58am
      - Hard Cheese
        
        NoneHigher Mahuta is a shocker for reading from a script, HDPA calls her out on it every single time
        
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        April 11, 2022 10:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    My favourite, “AS I WAS SAYING” and “AS YOU WILL REMEBER”
    Second one throws the responsibilty straight back at the interviewer.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:33am
- Frank the tank
  
  Bahahahahaha. Your first mistake was watching OnePravda.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:15am
- R
  
  But she did admit that she went back on her word about vaccine mandates! Her comms team must be devastated.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:28am
- Nickc2
  
  NZTV1 wants some more Koha eh!
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:10am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Not yet – closer to the Election there will be truckloads of dosh
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:31am
- rockape
  
  Easy to see who is lying. Nurses last pay agreement signed off by Little said “Essentially the pay equity settlement will determine pay rates, effective from 21 December 2019”. Clear to me. If you want it from the horses mouth see Facebook, Andrew Little, Payequity 16/08/2021 see his comments from 12-28 mins.
  Jacinda is a liar !
  
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  April 11, 2022 10:56am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Did the TV1 presenter kneel down and worship her? If not, I am disappointed.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:39am
Master Mariner

Another excellent article worth reading regarding Energy Security.

“A true energy transition must be competitive, reliable, and cheap, not a tax-collection and looting machine. It must consider all technologies. More industry and fewer politics. More competition and less ideology.”

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Environmentalists-Are-Crushing-Europes-Energy-Independence-Ambitions.html

And equally relevant for NZ,

“Inflation was already out of control in Europe before the invasion of Ukraine was even a risk. Consumer price inflation in Spain was 7.6 percent, in Portugal it was 4.2 percent, and in Germany, 5.1 percent. Euro area consumer price inflation was 5.8 percent.”.

So I will ask again, “How is NZ’s nuclear moment going” ?

On a brighter note,
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/04/greymouth-petroleum-allowed-to-search-for-oil-and-gas-off-taranaki-coast-despite-ban.html

So a “Claytons Ban” on Oil and Gas ?
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April 11, 2022 8:07am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Nuclear NZ will not happen in my lifetime, but I wish it would (I am 70 soon)
  The kids in school are still being swamped with confusion between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The 3 mile island and chernobyl are history. Nuclear research has come a long way
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:42am
  - Master Mariner
    
    “Nuclear Moment” is in reference to Our Dear Leaders famous quote regarding Energy security ( Oil and Gas).
    
    I was thinking along the lines of some more “Nefarious Organisations” bank rolling the Green Movement here and overseas.
    
    If they are that concerned about Climate change, Raising sea levels and Co2 , Then indeed Nuclear would be that Silver Bullet.
    
    So you really have to ask yourself why Nuclear is out ?
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:55am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Some of these climate change flakes need to go to places like Alaska. The icefields that feed the glaciers are huge. Alaska has over 300000 glaciers, most unnamed, some untouched by humans.
      The World will end in 12 years, oh wait, only 10 years now
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:35am
  - RoboRob
    
    The silly thing is that its so obvious. Nuclear power is a technology we already have and is literally the ‘silver bullet’ to CO2 emissions. If climate change really is a cataclysmic event why aren’t we shutting down coal power plants and replacing them with Nuclear? Cause greenies also don’t like Nuclear?
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:01am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Cause Greenies will have to admit that they have been wrong for decades
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:46am
    - alloytoo
      
      Because viable solutions invalidate religions, especially doomsday cults.
      
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      April 11, 2022 3:01pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  “They will find nothing because there is nothing” – Chris Luxon’s golden words
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:40am
NeverMindTheBollocks

For each 501 returned to NZ, we should round up & send back a possum or wallaby.
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April 11, 2022 8:08am
- tui47
  
  One possum is not enough compensation. 1,000 possums for each 501. Possums cost NZ more in terms of pest control than a single 501. Perhaps give the out of work 501s the job of trapping live possums to send back?
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:25am
  - Matt Long
    
    The problem is they love possums and they’re endangered in Oz, a better swap would be one socialist politician per 501 starting with Ardern.
    
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    April 11, 2022 11:13am
- Hebe123
  
  Or Tarrant.
  Wouldn’t he be a free man in Aussie if we deported him?
  Let them manage that.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:59am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  I had to.make a backroad middle of the night trip at the weekend and the number of possums trying to join their mates dead on the road was amazing. I drew the line at running over the cow though.
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:50am
Tony Stuart

So Louisa Wall lobbed a hand grenade into the PM’s office yesterday in the Q+A interview. Of course Q+A is a TVNZ programme, and you’ve had have expected 1News, another TVNZ programme to have followed this story up last night, wouldn’t you? Isn’t it newsworthy that a Prime Minister who exhorts us all to “be kind” would show such a lack of kindness to a fellow Labour MP, who has shown she can get things done.

But the 1News bulletin last night did not have a dicky-bird about Louisa Wall and the Q+A interview, which definitely asked questions about the PM’s demeanour and judgment. That seems rather strange, given that 1News has a significantly higher viewership than the niche political programme. Who made this editorial decision, and did any staff at 1News have any correspondence with any staff from the PM’s office over the weekend?

It’s interesting too, given the Stuff piece on misogyny at the weekend that Newstalk ZB quoted “former Labour Party member” Shane Te Pou, with him further blackening Wall’s reputation, accusing her of having a high staff turnover, suggesting she has a reputation for bullying, and that Wall had a low profile in her electorate. Is it misogyny when a former Labour Party member attacks a sitting MP, or is misogyny the sole preserve of the right?
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April 11, 2022 8:11am
- Simon
  
  TS you are doing hard work for National, but really no one should give a fuck about the wreckage of a Labo government. All focus should be the incoming National led government.
  
  Wall is off to some bull shit role, gender diversity at MofFA.
  
  “Pacific Gender Equality Ambassador” Will National close this shit down??
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:20am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  The whole thing is sickening, what does her staff retrenchment have to do with anything? I may like to remind everyone, the PM turned over every single staff member she had in her first year as PM. We have heard of Arderns shouting with anger in the corridors, but does this also mean she is a bully? The arrogant sneer she gives when sitting after failing to answer questions says it all really.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:23am
  - kevn
    
    @G… “yip, yip”.
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:25am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘Anyone at TV1 who mentions this will be in MY office in the morning’
  Orders from the top, Captains instructions
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:44am
- curry4me
  
  That’s what is called “situational ethics”. Things are either right, or wrong according to who said, or did a given thing.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:47am
  - RichardX
    
    curry4me
    That’s what is called “situational ethics”. Things are either right, or wrong according to who said, or did a given thing.
    APRIL 11, 2022 8:47AM
    
    That is a bad definition of situational ethics.
    
    Situational ethics have nothing to do with the who and everything to do with the situation…hence the name.
    
    As an example, while it is wrong to steal, is it wrong to smash the window of a closed shop selling defibrillators if there is someone having a heart attack just outside it and it may save his life?
    The “who” has no bearing on the situation.
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:15am
    - Harriet
      
      LOL — breaking and entering to BORROW something and then return it due to ‘saving someone’s life’ is nothing other than a ‘life and death situation’.
      There is nothing ‘ethical’ about doing the right thing, no matter how you go about it, while saving someone’s life.
      
      A train is coming and a healthy young girl is asleep on the tracks, and a very obese man is on the overhead bridge above her and the emergency stop switch — how should I save her?
      
      Only by jumping off yourself. 😎
      
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      April 11, 2022 12:49pm
- MCōs
  
  ‘Is it misogyny when a former Labour Party member attacks a sitting MP’
  Why should it be.
  Did he attack her because she’s a woman?
  
  To answer your last question.
  Anyone can be a misogynist, women included.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:50am
  - oldfella
    
    mcos: what about racism? Can anyone be a racist, Maori included?
    
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    April 11, 2022 11:35am
    - MCōs
      
      Is that a serious question?
      
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      April 11, 2022 7:15pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Perhaps the real truth behind Louisa Wall being delivered the arse card was that she was never one of Willie Jackson’s team… a major power broker in Labour.
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:36am
  - Jack5
    
    Yep, Wily-Willie led the coup that gave Maori control of Radio NZ, and he will make the same happen to TVNZ in the new State media monolith.
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:22am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    She won’t have wanted to be part of this so called Māori caucus, she will be opposed to He Puapua I bet. She may very well open a can of worms on Thursday with her valedictory speech. Not so funny for them now, of course they loved the idiot JLR implosion.
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:46am
- oldfella
  
  Tony, it seems Sunday did a hagiographic piece on Cindy last night. My guess is that the 1news 6pm editor was told not to run anything that night that might challenge Sunday’s take on Glorious Leader.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:34am
- peterwn
  
  It is very easy to trump up ‘charges’ of staff bullying and to find a former staff member with chip on shoulder to ‘support’ the claim.
  Seems to me Louisa Wall was found some job in the hope she would walk quietly but has left all guns blazing. Her sporting celebrity status would be helpful here – no one can undo that.
  
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  April 11, 2022 2:32pm
Simon

The Jews control world governments

The earth is flat

The vaccine is safe and effective

All these absurdities are misinformation. Who should be the gate keeper to prevent misinformation? No one, as no one is qualified enough. Least of all the current government.
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April 11, 2022 8:13am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Reptilian shape shifters control the World Governments – just take a look around you/
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:47am
Tony Stuart

Will the Police be visiting Maggie Pie today to ask her to account for her movements last night 😀

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/luxury-stores-in-auckland-damaged-in-ram-raids-overnight/ODDMGCROVTCZOX3FO7LRUJYRD4/
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April 11, 2022 8:13am
- Frank the tank
  
  Police will already know who the offenders are by CCTV. They of course won’t be able to charge them because:
  
  a). They will be a minor and under the age of 18; and
  b). Of a certain ethnicity where education rather than charging is the preferred option.
  
  No charges will be laid over this.
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:22am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The Police don’t seem to give a damn about ram raids according to Dairy and Business Owners Association chair Sunny Kaushal.
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/04/dairy-owner-calls-for-police-minister-to-resign-blames-soft-on-crime-government-for-increase-in-ram-raids.html
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:40am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    This is all due to under investment in police from the previous National gummit. Moving on…Kiwis accept that.
    
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    April 11, 2022 11:44am
  - oldfella
    
    Maggy, I wonder how concerned the cops are about this? (Probably just a couple of ‘mostly peaceful’ rival social clubs letting off steam.)
    Gun shots heard at Head Hunters pad in Auckland, rival Australian Mongols gang are the early suspects
    While no one was injured, the Herald understands the early stages of the police inquiry has linked the attack on the Head Hunters pad to another shooting outside the Femme Fatale strip club in downtown Auckland on Friday night.
    One person was admitted to Auckland Hospital in a critical but stable condition.
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gun-shots-heard-at-head-hunters-pad-in-auckland-rival-australian-mongols-gang-are-the-early-suspects/CIPFA3EZENWFDL7T6SVDZUWCRE/
    
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    April 11, 2022 11:58am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  See what happens when you go out on the piss? You get blamed for everything/
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:50am
- Maggie Pie
  
  LOL!! Hardly worth the effort.
  Bought heaps of knock-offs in Bangkok about 5 years ago and nobody knows the difference 😀
  One of the girls from tennis sold an LV Wallet I gave her on TM with a dollar reserve….got over 300 bids!
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:18am
  - kevn
    
    @Maggie… I tried to sell a knockoff Rolex on TradeMe. I did say it was a ‘copy’.
    Busybodies complained and the ad got taken down.
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:27am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Do you still want to sell it Kev? I know my partner would be interested.
      
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      April 11, 2022 9:32am
      - kevn
        
        @Maggie… I paid peanuts, because I bought 2 (not a Rolex) from a street ‘vendor’ in Beijing and stuck to my 10 rmb counter offer for a pair.
        Gave the other (not a) Rolex to an old friend who loved wearing it at work. Really looked the part for him. The other guys in the warehouse always talked about how he must be overpaid to afford a Rolex. It just kept going, no problem.
        I am always amazed at the engineering and accuracy of the copy process.
        Now, back to the clown circus…
        
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        April 11, 2022 10:04am
  - MCōs
    
    The wrist watch came along after inter city train travel in 1830 meant we became slaves to the time of day.
    Now one doesn’t need one because the cell phone can tell you within a split second what time it is and people grizzle if the PM is a couple minutes, GMT, late for an advertised news conference.
    When I was at school a friend of mine had a watch that gained 20sec every minute. Who cares. Bells controlled our lives.
    My sister had a broken down bloody great grandfather clock fixed up in her lounge.
    Now she gets woken up throughout the night by the racket it makes.
    
    A guy in our office bought a whole lot of those bullshit Rolexes. We all thought he was crazy. I don’t know what he did with them. The bargirls are insulted if you try to give them one, so I’m told.
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:46am
  - Frank the tank
    
    The hidden back room……Oh the memories – my wife’s ‘rolex’ lasted a couple of years.
    
    I remember walking down the main street in Bangkok. Sukhovit (some shit) and marveling even in the 3rd world their streets were safer than ours. dodging ‘masseuses’ as opposed to meth addicts and gang members……….And that was 5 years ago!!!
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:58am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  I wouldn’t query Maggie about her movements if I were you, Tony.
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:53am
krazykiwi

Two doses. Protection against infection attenuates and turns negative by ~26 weeks.

Three doses. Protection against infection attenuates and turns negative by ~12 weeks.

Four doses. Protection against infection attenuates (and may yet turn negative) by ~8 weeks, according to Israeli study

Anyone see a pattern?
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April 11, 2022 8:13am
- Lee C
  
  The pattern is – if you have enough of them you will achieve Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome, kk.
  
  It’s the only logical outcome, but certainly a great outcome for the pharmaceutical industry.
  
  In related issues – Johnson and Johnson were fined $572 million for this
  “Oklahoma’s attorney general accused Johnson & Johnson of a “multi-billion-dollar brainwashing campaign” to get doctors to overprescribe opioids, downplaying the addiction risks. J&J shares surged after the ruling.”
  
  https://www.dw.com/en/johnson-johnson-fined-572-million-for-fueling-opioid-crisis/a-50177028
  
  Hmmm, ‘agressively marketing’ a product that is known to harm.
  
  Why does that sound familiar?
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:29am
  - krazykiwi
    
    A great outcome for the Big Pharma is turning healthy people into unhealthy people. They’ve been perusing this strategy for decades, witness their successfully turning unhappiness into “Clinical Depression” and thereafter selling literally billions of meds like lollies. In the past the regulatory agencies seemed to catch a lot of this, but I posit that those agencies – ie the people within them – are now largely captured by the huge financial influence and inducements of Big Pharma. I still shake my head we people self-assure themselves of what they’re about to take into their bodies using claims that Big Pharma make about their own products.
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:15am
    - krazykiwi
      
      I should add that I’m not dissing clinical depression. It is real, and horrible. What I’m objecting to is all unhappiness being classified as such and thereafter being medicated for.
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:20am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep,
  It’s time to book your 5th dose.
  
  https://www.goerie.com/story/news/coronavirus/2022/04/09/second-booster-fifth-dose-covid-19-vaccine-gets-complicated/65348334007/
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:34am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday appeared to throw in the towel on more government restrictions over COVID-19 — insisting it’s now up to Americans to make their own medical risk assessments.
    
    “This is not going to be eradicated, and it’s not going to be eliminated,” Fauci told ABC’s “This Week.” “And what’s going to happen is that we’re going to see that each individual is going to have to make their calculation of the amount of risk that they want to take.”
    
    So assess your own risk … but only you have sustained unknown impacts on your immune system as a result of ‘doing the right thing’ and accepting the inadequately tested vaxx junk.
    
    As for “what’s going to happen”, I hope that is a Nuremberg 2.0.
    
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    April 11, 2022 12:51pm
    - Frank the tank
      
      The “Feltch” will be too busy lubing himself up when the house turns and the GOP make him public enemy number 1.
      
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      April 11, 2022 1:09pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        In a crowded field of pandemic bad actors vying for a podium finish, Fauci has savaged allcomers in the hope of taking 1st, 2nd and 3rd for himself. He’ll want to do more than resign once he loses his sponsors.
        
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        April 11, 2022 4:52pm
      - cjn
        
        The sound you hear is Fauci’s hard drives being crashed. Now that is a co-incidence. As usual Remy is there: Love Song.
        
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        April 11, 2022 6:33pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  KK, link not working, or is it me?
  
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  April 11, 2022 8:55am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Sorry. Re-linked below.
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:40am
- Yvette
  
  krazykiwi
  Have the vast majority of those in New Zealand now with two initial vaccinations and a booster, had all those doses for Alpha, while the virus has now mutated through Beta and Delta to Omicron, with possibly another variant now on the way?
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:04am
  - krazykiwi
    
    The vaxx gives initially strong, but thereafter attenuating protection based on the Alpha/wild spike protein. This only mutated slightly in Beta and Delta, but is majorly mutated in Omi. You can see the drop off in efficacy here.
    
    There will definitely be more variants. These vaxxes are ‘leaky’ which helps drive viral evolution.
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:39am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Bad Cattitude is generally on the money. Things are looking quite worrying for the vaccinated in particular, but potentially all of us.
      
      “it has long been known that the covid vaccines were non-sterilizing. it has also been known, based on the countries like the UK that report the stats honestly that the vaccinated are at greater risk of contracting covid than the unvaxxed. this has even been known about the boosters.
      
      but where this gets really worrying is this: each new variant is seeing this relative risk rate rise and the rate of rise is accelerating. this is, unfortunately, exactly what one would predict as a leaky vaccine with a strong tendency to antigenically fixate those having received it drives viral evolution to prey upon this vulnerability. herd OAS replaces herd immunity and vaccine driven evolution does the rest.”
      
      https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/covid-is-becoming-increasingly-vaccine?s=r
      
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      April 11, 2022 10:18am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    The XE variant is just the two omicron variants mixed, snd from reports it seems weaker again
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:54am
    - krazykiwi
      
      True. But the problem appears to be the vaxxed getting continuously infected. If there is a negative impact on the immune system from each infection, and to be clear that is hypothesized by some* based on their reading of the data, then this would be a very bad thing.
      
      *Igor is a good analyst and I recommend his posts, but he is sometimes a little quick to draw conclusions in my opinion.
      
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      April 11, 2022 4:57pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Sorry, link is here.
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:24am
G the giant from Dunedin

I can only say the triple vaxed in my local are hardly getting sick, but the ones that did not have booster are getting sicker, that is fact, I think I was glad I was triple vaxed now
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April 11, 2022 8:25am
- krazykiwi
  
  That’s good for them. They appear to be bucking the trend. The now strong evidence to suggest the opposite.
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:27am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    That is bullshit, yea most are catching COVID, but it has nothing to do with severity, I am talking so possibly 50 people that have had the roo pox, not one appears to have had more than a 2 day cold, my symptoms were just hay fever symptoms, no runny nose nothing, just itchy eyes, and a bit of snot that had to be bought up
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:52am
    - krazykiwi
      
      You are speaking of anecdotal evidence.
      
      I have posted evidence based on official data gathered over millions of infections.
      
      Neither is ‘bullshit’.
      
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      April 11, 2022 5:00pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  When did they have the booster? The vaccines give initial protection but it wanes very rapidly. It now seems that by three months you are in to negative efficacy territory.
  Data out of the UK is very worrying for the double and triple vaccinated. Right now the double jabbed are the worst affected, the lag between getting the jab and the waning is the likely explanation for this.
  
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  April 11, 2022 10:11am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  To the down voters on my post, I am speaking from experience and a gaze over several people from all cross sections of society in that local, no one triple vaxed appears to been hardly effected, including me, but I have heard of 3 that weee only double vaxed, and they did appear to be worse effected
  
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  April 11, 2022 10:49am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    As I said above, the timing is everything. If, as is likely, people got their booster in the last couple of months they would have had initial protection. It wanes rapidly. This is an experiment, it’s going to take time to get the empirical evidence.
    
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    April 11, 2022 8:26pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmwAKh153P8

Russia : our new reality. Refugees, new laws, news that we see.

I will share our life in Russia, new laws that appeared in the country after February 24th, how sanctions effected our access to social media and networks, and how Russia accepts refugees. [26:18]
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April 11, 2022 8:31am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrF9mQDF9nw

French presidential election begins April 10th.

Le Pen might beat Teachers Pet in the French presidential election. The usual suspects are not best pleased. [14:03]
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April 11, 2022 8:31am
vand

“…accusing her of having a high staff turnover, ”
suggesting she has a reputation for bullying, ..”
Absolutely true – one stood up recently to the pressure , and possibly this pushed her out.
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April 11, 2022 8:55am
Maggie Pie

Watched the replay of Q&A with Jack Tame interviewing Louisa Wall.
God he can be such a fawning little scrote!

Actually I quite like Louisa….comes across as a really eloquent lovely lady. And admired the fact she introduced the ‘Safe Zones amendment bill for access to Abortion Clinics’.

But couldn’t believe hearing that nasty Shane Te Pou on ZB earlier, virtually describing her….. ‘as a pain-in-the-arse’.
Yet his is the same guy throwing his weight behind Otara born Fa’anana Efeso for Mayor of Auckland ffs 🙁

SHEESH!!
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April 11, 2022 8:58am
- Ra Henare
  
  Never really heard of Shane Te Pou.
  So looked him up on Duck Duck go.
  
  An interesting person.
  In my day we called them “”chancers””. No real substance. Started as Union delegate at the Glue Pot in Posonby…haha….Interesting that he claims to be HR Manager at Mega. A Kim dot com company.
  Why do I smile. How many employees at Mega which would require an HR Manager??
  
  But he seems to have got himself some sweet jobs in Media.
  
  Or have I got the wrong Shane Te Pou.
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:08am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Shane Te Pou is a former candidate, campaign manager and executive member of the Labour Party.
    
    https://www.newsroom.co.nz/profile/ShaneTePou/posts
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:59am
- Tom Hunter
  
  And admired the fact she introduced the ‘Safe Zones amendment bill for access to Abortion Clinics’.
  
  You must be fun at Mass having such discussions with the other parishioners.
  
  The trick with online personas used as satire is that one must always remain in character.
  
  Admittedly the Catholic church isn’t much more than a wet, woke social justice league nowadays, having lost all the moral fights to the extent that its schools now celebrate Pride Week.
  
  So enjoy Frank Zappa’s Catholic Girls
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:21am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    The thing is Tommy boy…you sound like yet another of the typical stale pale males that like to make a nuisance of themselves standing outside an abortion clinic waving a homemade cardboard sign with the rest of life’s losers, denying a woman’s right to choose.
    
    I seen enough in my life to be able to think for myself. You’re pathetic.
    
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    April 11, 2022 9:45am
    - Tom Hunter
      
      The fun and the laughter comes to a screeching halt. 🙂
      
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      April 11, 2022 9:51am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Never let it be said God doesn’t have a SOH…he created people like you.
        
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        April 11, 2022 10:45am
    - Ra Henare
      
      Of course there are maby sides to the pregnancy story.
      Other than its the womans choice.
      
      Yep we all know that in todays world to suggest anything that even hints at such options is deemed mysoginy.
      
      Well guess what?. I dont do PC.!!
      
      The other side of the story appears to me. to be NO consultation required. I know of a few fathers who would love to keep their child, even to to extend in one offering “”paying”” the expectant one to go full term and act as a surrogate. The resultant infant to be sole custody of Dad.
      
      Of course there is the large right to life group who don’t like killing unborn children. But that’s another debate.
      
      And there fellow KBS. IS a long “debate”” from all sides of the question.
      
      I used to support a mothers right to choose argument, but after a couple of personal real life experiences I have moved to the other side.
      
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      April 11, 2022 12:07pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        The essence of a surrogacy contract is willing parties. Obviously the father didn’t offer enough.
        
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        April 11, 2022 2:34pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Here’s one for you Tommy from the same artiste….
    
    ‘Does it hurt when I pee?’
    
    https://youtu.be/fiu6DFXeF9A
    
    😀 😀 😀
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:04am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  As if Te Pou is not a pain in the ass
  
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  April 11, 2022 10:56am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Maggie Pie – Efeso will win easily. So don’t sweat over it.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:46am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    But that’s mainly because everyone we know never bother voting.
    If it was only Ratepayers who were allowed (as it should be), Fa’anana Efeso wouldn’t have a shit show.
    
    The only thing I’m sweating over, is what the Berms will look like over the next 3 years 🙁
    
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    April 11, 2022 1:43pm
BeaB

The Labour campaign against Louisa Wall is clearly racist, homophobic and misogynistic. Don’t Labour like strong women of colour?

I question the job Mike Williams says Ardern gave her. Does Ardern just ring up a government department and say, “create a job for …” and it is done. A whiff of corruption here, surely. Especially when the job is such an obvious jack-up.
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April 11, 2022 9:18am
- Nickc2
  
  Aoteawhatever, the most corruption-free country in the world! YEA, RIGHT!
  It’s a good thing people outside NZ have never heard of that country else they may believe the quote.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:35am
- MCōs
  
  “The Labour campaign against Louisa Wall is clearly racist, homophobic and misogynistic.”
  I’m inclined to think you’re wrong on all three counts, but I’m sure you didn’t just say that out of the blue.
  
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  April 11, 2022 1:26pm
- DeepBlue
  
  Seems Wall was promised a suitable job to exit this term if she dropped her legal case against her electorate selection.
  
  It’s taken 18 months to find/create that roll. A respectable time for Wall to go quietly and not make a fuss for Jacinda on her way out. //
  
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  April 11, 2022 1:29pm
- MCōs
  
  What you are suggesting sounds suspiciously like the mechanism National used to get Shane Jones off the scene back in 2014 when he became Pacific Economic Ambassador.
  Louisa Wall has been appointed Pacific Gender Equality Ambassador, which sounds more authentic than Shane Jones’ position given her record in parliament.
  
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  April 11, 2022 1:53pm
slightlyrighty

The one question that nobody has asked the PM, and it is the one that needs to be asked, is simply this.

“How does Co-Governance differ from what we have now?”
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April 11, 2022 9:22am
- septic skeptic
  
  No point asking Ardern anything more important than what Gayford cooked for dinner last night. The answer is always long-winded obfuscation. I’m pleased to see people are tuning out in increasing numbers.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:14am
Libertarians are right

So two of the attempted kidnappers of the Michigan Governor got off and the other two had hung juries (of those that didn’t plead out). [sentence deleted, exposing DPF to risk – Mod] Who would have thought?

There’s a good reason “conspiracy theorists” always assume the FBI are behind bad things that happen (like Jan 6). They have a history of this kind of stuff.
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April 11, 2022 9:35am
- Nickc2
  
  Reminds me of a lecture I attended in the mid 80s I think where a visiting American Lecturer proudly stated: “Ya can buy anything in the States, and that includes justice.” I had been to the USA many times previous to that and since but that line stuck with me forever, because it’s so true.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:28am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    It wasn’t really a bought result. More that the defense simply claimed that most of the organisation of the kidnapping was done by the CIs and the accused were simply along for the ride and actually hadn’t done anything more than open their big mouths.
    
    There are transcripts even showing the main CI talking to his FBI handler going through which psychos to bring in on the plan. The CI even supposedly paid for the people to all meet up etc.
    
    Buzzfeed did a big expose on it but came from the angle of “look how the FBI managed to capture these psychos before they had a chance to maybe do something”.
    
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    April 11, 2022 1:39pm
altiora

As predicted a while back, and like night following day, as soon as the polls indicate Ardern is losing, the “Misogyny Most Foul” narrative is being pushed. Michelle Duff’s moral panic article is now making its rounds through linkedin. Complains about the “infantilization” of Ardern and claims this is a “national security” threat. It’s funny how this misogyny didn’t prevent Ardern from securing an unprecedented absolute majority. It’s funny how the “Aunty Cindy” is more used by her supporters. It’s funny how Thatcher and Merkel never experienced this. It’s funny how calling names of a Labour PM is a “national security” issue but not calling Key “Don-key” and “Shon-key” isn’t. It’s funny how we cannot infantalise Ardern, but she can continually talk down to us like we’re stupid children.
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April 11, 2022 9:36am
- Batman
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Just look at the obsession many have with the PM, it is clear that there is a problem. A lot of the comments that get binned here about her are variously sexist, degrading, and outright abusive.
  
  Sadly there is a very nasty streak amongst partisan political followers. It goes both ways of course but shonkey and donkey are nowhere near what gets levelled at the current PM, 75% (imo) of which is unjustified.
  
  Of course there was terrible stuff levelled at the Key admin by the left, particularly at female ministers, that is also part of the same problem.
  
  People on the internet are the worst versions of themselves. That is amplified when it comes to the treatment of women.
  
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  April 11, 2022 10:19am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Look at your obsession with Trump and those who support him.
    You are very much a hypocrite when it comes to nasty comments.
    You lie a lot too- or you are just ignorant.
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:36am
    - Mike
      
      No one could accuse AoR of being opposed to nasty comments.
      LOL
      
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      April 11, 2022 12:46pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    There is a lot of passion about the PM. But consider this. John Key never smirked while he created 2 classes of people and then banished one group from society, and lead a campaign of shaming and slurring them every day in the media. They weren’t allowed in cafes, hairdressers, and fired from their jobs for making a decision not to take a novel medical treatment. And then when they gathered to protest they were called all manner of names and then violently removed from the protest grounds.
    
    And the second is a concern about proposed co-governance arrangements that some feel will forever take away their equal voting rights as a new zealand citizen based on their race.
    
    That’s why people are concerned and mad. For those that were locked out of society they feel abused hurt and abused.
    We are not obsessed with John Key because he didn’t micromanage the daily minutae of our lives. Nothing to do with her sex. The level of upset is directly related to performance.
    
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    April 11, 2022 11:37am
    - Batman
      
      You aren’t upset with Key because he was a National Party PM doing National PM things. That’s not exactly a bulletproof argument.
      
      I will say that I saw parts of the left (the blogs) rant on and on about Key smirking while attacking working people, “selling off the silverware”, and generally being an evil corporate “Nactzi”.
      
      Sure the current PM has had to do some controversial things with the pandemic but none of that excuses the abuse she receives. All it does is show the depths some people will sink to as part of justifying their irrational anger.
      
      I’m no fan of whatever the co-governance is, without even bothering to wait for the consultation on it, before anyone says I am.
      
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      April 11, 2022 1:09pm
      - Frank the tank
        
        I personally don’t believe the abuse levelled at Ardern is any worse/better than what is thrown at Key it’s just it is highlighted more.
        
        The issue for Ardern is particularly over the last 2 years her decisions have had life changing impacts on people. That is when emotions take over.
        
        On a personal level I find the Sunday interview and Duff’s article insulting. The poor little lady argument doesn’t wash with me. Most people’s lives have been adversely affected by decisions over the last couple of years not just the PM. Then again the target audience was female.
        
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        April 11, 2022 1:21pm
      - Surely Knott
        
        2 classes of people. Yip Yip that is what it is.
        
        Sorry Batman that is discrimination and tyranny. I haven’t seen any more abuse of her than anyone else to be honest. Did you see what they did to Nick Smith. A giant lifelike statue with his arse and balls hanging out shitting in a pot and the artist was celebrated and featured in the Herald.
        
        The anger at ardern is about the tyranny. She violated the bill of rights. She wasn’t forced to do this. She chose to do it. The MOH recommendation was that mandates would divide society and she took it to the furthest level to encourage people to take her shot.. She chose to do it to an extreme level banning people from everything from cafes (indoors or out) to haircuts to kids outdoor sports. The UK for example you were only banned from large stadium events and bars. She chose the harshest most personal measures to oucast a group from society. How do you think those people feel. Especially as the reality of the seriousness of the disease and the effectiveness of the vaccine are plain for all to see.
        
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        April 11, 2022 1:30pm
      - Batman
        
        Yeah that’s not tyranny. I get that you are very energetic about one topic but that doesn’t make excusing the prolific abuse an acceptable thing to do.
        
        Otherwise the argument must be that people aren’t smart enough not to resort to abuse or are so overwhelmed by their feelings that they can’t control them.
        
        It’s not controversial to say that very personal abuse against public figures and their families is unwarranted. No matter what side of the fence it comes from.
        
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        April 11, 2022 1:35pm
      - MCōs
        
        “I personally don’t believe the abuse levelled at Ardern is any worse/better than what is thrown at Key it’s just it is highlighted more.”
        Seeing as you, and me, aren’t privy to the stuff that gets sent to this PM or any former PMs, you don’t know.
        Sure you can read all the comments on Stuff/Herald/whatever articles, look at cartoons, read posts of mainstream social media, but repugnant & all that it might be I would suggest it’s not the worst of it.
        
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        April 11, 2022 2:08pm
      - Surely Knott
        
        You’re accusing me of being energised about one topic?! Hello. NZ literally has been a one topic country for two years. Covid Covid Covid covid Covid Covid. 24/7. The deadly cold. On the podium of truth. On the motorway signs. Everyday on the news and the banner on the newspaper. In every shop window.
        The scanning, The masking, The vaccinating, The sanitising. Teddy bears on your letter box. The legislating. The traffic lights. No other issue , no other kind of death, or sickness got a look in. 24/7 blanket coverage of the stupid virus.
        
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        April 11, 2022 2:11pm
      - cjn
        
        Are you trying to run a small business and conscious that if it goes belly up that a number of parents will lose their jobs, their independence and their self-esteem? Are you a farmer?
        
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        April 11, 2022 6:51pm
  - peterwn
    
    And there was the even worse abuse against John Key’s daughter (and she was NOT a politician!), so much so that she probably left NZ because of it. And Jacinda thought that was a great joke.
    Horrid case of double standards here.
    
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    April 11, 2022 12:20pm
    - Batman
      
      Yes, and that’s even more reason for the right, and people on this blog, to reflect on their own comments.
      
      That includes the many, many insults which use her daughter (who isn’t even an adult of course) as leverage to abuse the PM, which moderators routinely trash and edit out. Then there is the unsubstantiated gossip which is hurled about with glee.
      
      The ‘they did it so it’s fine’ argument is not a winner unless one is a craven hack (I’m not calling you that Peter, I know you’ve got a long record of being decent!)
      
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      April 11, 2022 1:25pm
  - Yabster
    
    75% huh?- done an acurate survey or just pulled that out of your….
    
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    April 11, 2022 12:27pm
    - Batman
      
      I wondered if someone would be stubborn enough to ignore the “(imo)” which is very clearly right next to that figure I have expertly guesstimated 🤣
      
      Happy Monday Yabby, you win a prize of absolutely nothing.
      
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      April 11, 2022 1:22pm
      - Yabster
        
        no prize wanted or required Batty
        
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        April 11, 2022 2:23pm
- Matt Long
  
  It’s concerning to me that people were suggesting on KB last night that NZ should be sending our Light Armoured Vehicles to Ukraine when there is a national security threat in little old Aorearoa with people saying mean things about St Jacinda.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:31am
  - Ra Henare
    
    The other stupidity is how would these LAVs get to Ukraine.
    By Sea? Yep MIGHT arrive in 2 months.
    By Air? Guess the USAF could divert one of their C5 Galaxy Aircraft from delivering USA stuff to detour 20,000 miles to NZ.
    
    I guess a lot of people dont really understand logistics in this day and age.
    
    Now about those spare parts and building supply shortages…….Funny that ..Similiar logistics problems.
    
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    April 11, 2022 12:12pm
    - Batman
      
      Both Canterbury and Aotearoa have cargo/LAV carrying capacity. We can also do a joint shipment with the Aussies, as we did to fill a C-17 two weeks ago.
      
      Of course we can’t instantly get them there but they’re a lot more useful in Ukraine in two months than they are here right now.
      
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      April 11, 2022 1:27pm
Gravelroad

So the “hitting balls with sticks” enthusiasts gave a stooped and limping Tiger Woods a huge ovation as he left the US Masters golf arena today @13 over par.
Whatever you think of the guy, he is one who has overcome adversity, injury and personal difficulties – yet here he is still fronting up to challenges as a professional.
Oh well, am just going to check up on my window teddy bear and turn on Netflix.
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April 11, 2022 9:41am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I found it sad to watch a clearly broken Woods hobbling around the course. He never stood a chance of competing in it, I was surprised he made the cut. But, he is a massive draw card for the media. He has an exemption to play, but no doubt would have received a hefty appearance fee in return for the promotion he gives the tournament.
  I didn’t see anything worth cheering about.
  
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  April 11, 2022 10:24am
  - Gravelroad
    
    So do you seriously think Tiger Woods competed in the 2022 Masters for the money?
    A man with $US1. 7 billion in the bank?
    You don’t seem to know much about how successful people operate.
    
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    April 11, 2022 12:22pm
    - Mike
      
      Perhaps he was just desperate to share his wise-after-the-event retrospective prediction.
      
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      April 11, 2022 12:55pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Mike – as usual, I have no idea wtf you are trying to say but as usual, you contribute nothing to the discussion. Get back under your bridge.
        
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        April 12, 2022 8:03am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      I know there are people who like making money and don’t have a limit to how much they want to make. I indirectly know one of the richest men in NZ. I asked a few years ago why, in his mid fifties and with everything he could ever need or spend that he didn’t slow down his insane lifestyle, the answer was making money was what pressed his buttons. He thrived on the competitive side. So be it and each to their own.
      I didn’t say Woods needed the money. I pointed out the obvious, at his age and with the surgeries and injuries he has had he was never ever going to be competitive. EVER.
      Just so you understand, I wasn’t having a go at him. I love golf, I have followed Woods avidly since he was an amateur and I knew before he turned professional that he was going to be the greatest player of a generation and possibly ever. He is an inspiration. A sporting legend and I am full of admiration for him. One of the greatest moments in sport was his coming back to win the Masters in 2019. Astonishing.
      But this appearance was sad. To listen to commentators trying to explain and excuse every mistake or poor shot was pathetic. The man’s body is obviously broken. The fact he can still swing a club is amazing.
      My point was and is, he had nothing to gain by playing in this tournament. My reference to the money wasn’t a slur, it was a basic observation.
      
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      April 12, 2022 7:54am
  - Frank the tank
    
    It’s not an exemption – it’s an invitation. And based off past endeavors deserves it. The Masters and Augusta don’t pay appearance fees. Ever.
    
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    April 11, 2022 1:23pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Call it what you like, win it once and you get an exemption. You get to play in the tournament every year for life. Calling it an “invitation” doesn’t change that fact. It’s why Bernard Langer and other greats were there.
      And you seem to be a little naive about how professional sport works. The Masters organisers and Augusta may not directly pay players to play, but it does happen. Always has.
      
      https://www.golfdigest.com/story/golf-appearance-fees-sirak-0710
      
      I wasn’t dissing Woods. I was making an observation. I admire the man greatly.
      
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      April 12, 2022 8:02am
- I remember when
  
  I was always of the belief that the third round would be when Tiger would start to be ‘found out.’
  For the first two rounds the adrenaline would have helped him dismiss the pain and discomfort.
  By the third round, the effort of the previous rounds would have been starting to impact.
  Any blemish would be magnified, both in his mind and his ability to recover from it.
  He isn’t getting any younger so that adds to his problems with recovery.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:09am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Gravelroad – Don’t forget to check how the scones are cooking too….
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:48am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Have you got a good scone recipe I could try SCK.?
    The one you used during the lockdowns would be appreciated ……..thanks,
    
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    April 11, 2022 2:17pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Are our Greens still expecting NZ to be GM-Free?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/465051/call-for-review-of-genetically-modified-tech-regulation-in-nz
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April 11, 2022 10:04am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Breeding roses is GM. Hybids are modified
  
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  April 11, 2022 10:57am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Indeed, but basic biology seems to have bypassed some folks.
    
    And perhaps we shouldn’t mention that NZ has been exporting hybrid vege seed for the last 50 years or so
    
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    April 11, 2022 2:17pm
- Matt Long
  
  Yep, unless it’s Gates’ Frakenburger, then GE is sweet as.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:33am
Swifty

Some questions regarding Louisa Wall’s recent appointment to the newly invented Pacific Gender Equality Ambassador:

Why was this role conceived?

How was this role conceived?

When was it conceived and by whom?

What was the recruitment process? How many other people applied?

How did Wall hear about the role and was it publicly notified? Was it notified on Seek or TradeMe for example?

What date did applications open and close?

Which people were involved in her selection?

What criteria were used which determined Wall was the best candidate?

What will it cost taxpayers?

What results are expected to be delivered, by when? How will we assess value?

What measures are in place over time to assess whether it is a success or a failure? If a failure will she be let go?

What was the Labour Party’s involvement in any of the issues raised above?

So many questions……

Perhaps members of the news media might provide us with some answers?
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April 11, 2022 10:36am
- Ehlana
  
  Perhaps members of the news media might provide us with some answers?
  
  Yeah … Nah
  
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  April 11, 2022 4:46pm
- Don Beckett
  
  If she had any balls (wink) she’d turn the offer down and continue to expose the Ardernising of NZ. (Ayotee a rower is a differnet country).
  
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  April 11, 2022 5:07pm
- Swifty
  
  Just heard on RNZ:
  
  1. the salary is $210,000 annually
  2. Its a two-year fixed term, presumably renewable
  3. The role was not advertised (there were no other applicants)
  4. Wall was directly appointed
  
  Right, good on RNZ for reporting that. My view is that unless we get full and complete answers to the questions listed above my default belief is that this is open and naked corruption by the NZ Labour Party – using public money for political gain.
  
  Buying Wall off and to step down.
  
  What other conclusion can we possibly draw?
  
  Another question to add to my list too – was their a Foreign Affairs staffer approached by a Labour Party person to create this role? Who was that person and who was that staffer?
  
  And why did the Foreign Affairs person say “Yes”?
  
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  April 11, 2022 5:44pm
  - cjn
    
    Is this job to be with Pacific people living in NZ or does it involve going to Pacific Islands and telling them a thing or two. I’m quite confused. Naturally I’m confident that she speaks the languages, otherwise it would be colonialism.
    
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    April 11, 2022 6:59pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Our Dear PM is sticking by her out-of-touch MP.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern defends under-fire Police Minister Poto Williams

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/04/dairy-owner-calls-for-police-minister-to-resign-blames-soft-on-crime-government-for-increase-in-ram-raids.html
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April 11, 2022 10:44am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Once again she will do nothing about a useless minister, this will fester and crumble if she ignores it, expect to see Williams fall on her sword.
  
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  April 11, 2022 10:59am
- Swifty
  
  Ardern and Williams proving and admitting beyond all doubt that “all they’ve done” hasn’t worked in reducing crime.
  
  It hasn’t made a blind bit of difference.
  
  Just like the $1.6 Billion poured down the drain in mental health.
  
  Just like the housing stats.
  
  Just like the surgery waiting lists.
  
  Just like beneficiary numbers.
  
  Just like every other damn thing they promise to fix.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:00am
- peterwn
  
  Jacinda seems to find having to oversee Ministers as an annoying intrusion just as Poto finds actually having to do something as Police Minister to be an annoying intrusion. Poto seems to be an electorate MP in an electorate she has no interest in and a Minister in a portfolio she has no interest in. Her key interest seems to be supporting Pacific and other people in South Auckland. If an ordinary employee is hired to do Job A but chooses to spend all her time on B, the employer would soon be asking awkward questions. But in this case the employer (Jacinda) seems quite content to let Poto do what she wants.
  Even Greg O’Connor would make a better Police Minister than her.
  
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  April 11, 2022 12:04pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  The word soup being used to defend the hopeless Poto Williams is incredible.
  Hopefully Spindy is going down a bottomless hole here.
  
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  April 11, 2022 12:14pm
I remember when

Ram raiders hit luxury shops on Queen St in Auckland: RNZ:
Ram raid early on Monday morning on Gucci and Louis Vuitton stores.
Associated photo suggests that ‘defensive’ bollards simply shifted the point of contact.
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April 11, 2022 10:48am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Here we go! One of President Biden’s finest speeches….

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1512476276120072200
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April 11, 2022 10:49am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  What did he fumble over this time?
  
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  April 11, 2022 10:58am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Is he just trying to repeat words fed to him through an earpiece? So jumbled it’s hard to see how they are the result of a line of thought
  
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  April 11, 2022 12:13pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Love it… BIDEN: “I was in the the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him, that’s when I traveled 17,000 miles when I was Vice President. I don’t know that for a fact.”
  
  The author then notes that “They called for the 25th amendment when Trump slipped on a wet ramp and sipped a bottle of water in an odd way.”
  
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  April 11, 2022 12:23pm
rangitoto

Interesting – I just read an article on how the Ukraine troops are able to sneak up on Russian positions at night undetected by the IR surveillance. They use yoga mats which make them invisible to the Russian night vision gear.
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April 11, 2022 10:53am
Swifty

When will New Zealanders get it through their heads that internships are only for socialists to make use of either Government departments or by Matt McCarten when he’s trying to recruit large numbers of foreigners as free foot-soldiers for Labour election campaigns?

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/128326666/when-is-an-internship-actually-employment-intern-takes-on-ministry-of-education

Try this in the private sector and they’ll have you charged with employment offences and pilloried in the press by lunchtime.
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April 11, 2022 10:55am
- Mike
  
  Internships have become a bit of a plague recently in the public service, Swifty. I have no problem with short-term paid gigs, summer jobs, whatever, but I think there is a fair bit of make-work going on.
  This scholarship thing seems like the student might be taking the piss. One might be forgiven for thinking that the legions of HR professionals at the MoE might have been able to come up with a suitable employment contract for such a scheme. Instead, of course, they will fight this at enormous expense to prove they were right all along.
  
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  April 11, 2022 3:08pm
  - Swifty
    
    I had my tongue firmly in my cheek when I wrote that and you raise good points – especially re the HR people and the risk being run by the MoE in allowing the possibility of this situation occurring.
    
    I wonder how the unions. leftie MPs, leftie academics etc would react if, say, Foodstuffs started offering ‘internships’ in their shops at small rates of pay but in return for on the job experience?
    
    I might say “willing buyer, willing seller”.
    
    I suspect they might say something different.
    
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    April 11, 2022 3:55pm
    - Mike
      
      I think internships are ok if there is useful work to be done and experience to be gained, and pay is fair.
      I’d be horrified if there were unpaid internships – just another leg-up for the already privileged.
      
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      April 11, 2022 4:48pm
      - Swifty
        
        I don’t know if you saw my late reply to you the other day about similar stuff, but I’m intrigued about the attitude of many on the left that:
        
        1. they know better than you what’s good for you
        2. they will use the law to force you to comply with their wishes.
        
        This internship/minimum wage stuff is a classic example.
        
        Where an adult New Zealander, of sound mind and body, freely and willingly chooses to work as an intern for six months for no pay in return for the work experience, knowledge, skills and contacts they will gain – what business is it of anyone else to say or dictate that they cannot do that?
        
        Same goes for jobs paying below an arbitrary minimum wage.
        
        What business is it of anyone else?
        
        This is the arrogance of the left to me – ordering people about, telling people that they know better what is good for them and, in these instances, actually causing them harm by reducing people’s options.
        
        I’ll never understand it and I suspect I’ll never agree with it.
        
        And again, there you go with that word ‘fair’.
        
        Fair as defined by you, a person completely removed from the transaction and who suffers no consequence of being wrong?
        
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        April 11, 2022 5:20pm
      - Mike
        
        I didn’t make it clear that I would distinguish between public and private sectors on paying interns. If you have a private company and you can work out a way of getting free labour (legally) then good luck to you.
        Anti minimum wage? Extend your argument and it legalizes indentured labour or even selling onesrlf into slavery..
        
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        April 11, 2022 5:52pm
      - Swifty
        
        How would you define fair Mike?
        
        Should someone with absolutely no skin in the game have any say in what others do with regard to the arrangements they make in their private lives? If so, why?
        
        If Luxon et al began ordering you about, telling what you can and cannot do in your private life and under threats of jail etc you’re ok with that?
        
        “My body, my choice!”
        
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        April 11, 2022 6:46pm
      - Swifty
        
        Or are you only ok with ordering people about if you personally agree with the reasons behind the ordering?
        
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        April 11, 2022 6:47pm
      - RdM
        
        I had the impression that there were “unpaid internships” in the world out there.
        
        Anyway, I was reminded of the film:
        https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-intern-2015
        
        As for the IRD / Employment Court determinations on who is a contractor vs an employee, some companies will skirt close to the edge on this and still do – labeling someone as a ‘contractor’ so no holiday or sick pay etc. yet expecting them to behave as an employee.
        
        I was caught in this 20yrs ago, and have a neighbour who is now;- he’s expected on time, can’t charge for transport time, no holiday leave or sick pay etc. & yet his employer drew down the Covid lockdown payments as though he was an employee. Too scared to protest and lose his job.
        They pay withholding tax for him I think.
        All the rest is for him to sort out.
        
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        April 11, 2022 7:16pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Interneeships are a plague in London and New York among the financial and city professional services sectors. They are seen as a means of attracting talented graduates with the promise of a potential permanent job in an investment bank. The contracts with the Intern are framed in such a way that they are not employment contracts, and so the “employer” avoids all minimum legal standards of employment. In reality, they are legitimised slavery.
    
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    April 11, 2022 10:07pm
ClanMcleod

The WHO is currently working towards being in charge of future “pandemics”.
It would mean the substantially Gates funded, non elected body would be able to direct you in NZ and everywhere else to lockdown. It would give the unelected WHO the power to order compulsory vaccination. It would give the WHO the power to control this country’s response to any health issue, real or like the covid circus, imagined. No, not that it doesn’t exist, but it was never an emergency as was painted.
Anyone not aware of the current moves being made without your consent needs to check this out. It is happening.

https://www.keepbritainfree.com/post/urgent-stop-the-who-taking-over-our-democracy?
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April 11, 2022 11:02am
- oldfella
  
  Clan: if WHO gave a lockdown/vaccine instruction to NZ, would they need iwi consent for it to happen? Like everything else in our future? /s
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:49am
- krazykiwi
  
  Where is our Opposition in terms of promising to arrest and reverse the leeching of our national sovereignty to supranational entities?
  
  That’s right.
  
  Crickets.
  
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  April 11, 2022 11:54am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    kk – this is an extremely worrying and dangerous development. Extremely dangerous. It’s another step towards subservience to the UN and Agenda 2030.
    It’s no longer a “conspiracy theory”.
    
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    April 12, 2022 8:06am
Harriet

[suspended for multiple racist comments, four weeks – Mod]
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April 11, 2022 11:09am
Maggy Wassilieff

The questions that will never be asked…

Why was this mentally unstable chap allowed entry into NZ in the first place?

How thorough were the background checks on him?

Why did his family leave him isolated in NZ?

A year earlier, after Samsudeen’s arrest, his brother had written to authorities that “dreadful and painful incidents” in Sri Lanka growing up had led to Samsudeen’s mental instability, and that isolated as a refugee in New Zealand, he got ensnared in controversial material online.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/465058/lynnmall-attack-security-fears-trumped-mental-health-support
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April 11, 2022 11:42am
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION…..

Any truth in the rumor the real reason Louisa got the ass, was because she pissed off Kelvin and upset the Maori caucus?

Asking for a friend.
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April 11, 2022 11:46am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What I can’t understand is why Louisa didn’t realise she was one of Jacinda’s mates.
  
  The PM knew they didn’t have a strained relationship.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300563234/jacinda-ardern-denies-strained-relationship-with-outgoing-mp-louisa-wall
  
  Honestly, what would you do if the girls forgot to invite you to a night out?
  
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  April 11, 2022 12:10pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Well i see where someone else has said…. “That to be on Jacinda’s team, you had to agree with everything she said.
    Lou had principles and worked for the people, not just in the interest of her Maori mates”
    
    (And none of the girls invite ME out…I invite them.)
    
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    April 11, 2022 1:15pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Wouldn’t be surprised. The Labour Party is more of a party for the Maori Elite than the run of the mill workers.
  
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  April 11, 2022 1:04pm
- Frank the tank
  
  No I believe it was her bestie, poor man’s Gordon Brown that has the issue ever since Wall put her waka in behind “ashamed to be a man” Cunliffe.
  
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  April 11, 2022 1:26pm
krazykiwi

Transgender killer who has changed from male to female now says she identifies as a baby and demands nappies, baby food and a dummy in her prison cell. Source.

Perhaps he/she/it could just identify as a free person and demand the cell keys under his/her/its human rights.
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April 11, 2022 11:51am
- Ehlana
  
  Extraordinarily sad. Particularly when you consider that prisoners who probably do have a genuine case for additional support, resources, or protection no doubt often find they cannot get it.
  
  The problem is, having accepted that a biological male can be female for prison purposes, on what basis can they decide that a biological adult is not a child? And what the hell happens when the first paedophile makes the same claim?
  
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  April 11, 2022 4:54pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Whew…

Our Dear PM has checked the data…
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/04/slower-police-response-time-data-conflated-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern.html
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April 11, 2022 12:03pm
Swifty

Ardern denies Louisa Wall’s claims she would never make a cabinet minister:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300563234/jacinda-ardern-denies-strained-relationship-with-outgoing-mp-louisa-wall

The problem that Ardern has got, and it’s one entirely of her own making, is that a large part of the population now doesn’t believe much of what exits her mouth.

And who could blame them?

After four and a half years of excuse-making, blaming others for her and Labour’s mistakes, never admitting error, constantly laying her and Labours failures at the feet of National, telling repeated porkies, constantly seeking praise where none is due and the slimy underhand way she is trying to slip major constitutional change past the goalie – how could New Zealanders think otherwise?

I’ll believe Wall against anything from Ardern in these matters.
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April 11, 2022 12:09pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  Stop for a minute to think about the lack of logic in the PM’s statement.
  
  Louise wall says that there is a strained relationship with the PM. The PM says there is no strained relationship.
  
  The very fact the PM says there is no strained relationship is, in itself, evidence of that strained relationship.
  
  I don’t think that there has ever been such a clear example of Gaslighting by the PM, and this is so obviously wrong, that it would be laughable if it wasn’t for her ‘black is white’ thinking.
  
  Ms “I reject the premise of the Question” is becomeing more and more of a parody at every turn…
  
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  April 11, 2022 2:17pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The very fact the PM says there is no strained relationship is, in itself, evidence of that strained relationship.
    
    Well, you can see that, I can see that; but such an obvious fact is irrelevant when you are an empathetic Leader who leads with kindness.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/31/jacinda-ardern-political-leaders-can-be-both-empathetic-and-strong
    
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    April 11, 2022 3:18pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The diversion at 1.30 in is amazing, and Jaspinda was not called out for not answering the question. Scripted answers – Jaspinda and play school TV1
  
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  April 11, 2022 4:01pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Ardern is a proven liar. Wall isn’t. I know who I believe.
  
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  April 12, 2022 8:08am
Yvette

“The minister has presided over a significant increase in police resourcing; 1400 extra police, over $400 million has gone into increasing the number of police – because we know that makes a difference to communities feeling safe.” – Ardern
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/04/dairy-owner-calls-for-police-minister-to-resign-blames-soft-on-crime-government-for-increase-in-ram-raids.html

So $285,714 per placement of a new Police officer?
Or are Jacinda’s words to be interpreted in some way other than this?
So, how many more times is $285,714 than what a new Police officer is payed?
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April 11, 2022 12:19pm
Lee C

two more senior DHB Chief Executuves have resigned.

WTF is going on here – is it a purge, is it a protest, – or is it rats from a sinking ship??

Cathryn Cook (mid central)
Chris Fleming (Southern)
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April 11, 2022 12:27pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  I suppose if the DHBs are going to be abolished it’s time to find another job while you can.
  
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  April 11, 2022 12:37pm
  - Harriet
    
    For the size of regions and cities in NZ you don’t need ‘chief executives’ running a hospital with auxiliary services.
    
    It only takes competent management.
    
    The NZ government place people between the public interest and themselves —– so they can then deny responsibility if ‘their plans’ start to fall apart.
    Shifting the blame it is called.
    
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    April 11, 2022 1:03pm
- rjay
  
  Under the legislation all DHB CEOs lose their jobs on June 1. Last week they were all offered 6 month extensions but of course by then the clever ones were looking for other options before the rush.
  
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  April 11, 2022 1:14pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Going to one major DHB and where will the useless go? It will end up like Auckland Super City, and leading to the same as 3 waters shit.
  All in new working groups to study why we have a (non talking) Minister of Health and fuck knows how many associate Ministers of Health. 7 or 8 associate Ministers counting those who are past use by date?
  The tip of the iceberg – blah blah blah, has only started.
  
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  April 11, 2022 4:09pm
potato

Been involved with failing government policy implementation recently, David Clark’s CCCFA and Michael Woods Clean Car Rebate tax, It’s worth noting that Karakia and Pronouns seem to working correctly, pity about the real world stuff for ya average kiwi is a fuck up.
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April 11, 2022 12:45pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Tertiary educated women, highly biased towards humanities education and indoctrinated by far left academics have almost no common ground with the rest of the population. We see it in NZ 2:1 female:male support for Greebour – and in this polling for USA of similarly extreme gender biased support for Democrats:
https://twitter.com/TennantRob/status/1513188530725523462/photo/1
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April 11, 2022 12:52pm
- Lee C
  
  Now now, you will incur the wrath of Stuff and be considered a security risk for having ‘mysogyny’..
  
  Why you are little more than a terrorist, UN.
  
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  April 11, 2022 2:10pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  It’s tragic in that the political gender divide will inevitably lead to a huge social disconnect that will show up as large numbers unable to create or maintain relationships due to incompatible world views and as a result many will miss out on having children and vastly more children will grow up without dads.
  
  It will also strongly encourage men to leave NZ to find a compatible partner and avoid the destructive political persecution and economic decline of a country where left wing women dominate the polling booth, a trend that will only worsen over time.
  
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  April 11, 2022 2:11pm
  - Mike
    
    I’d strongly encourage you to leave New Zealand seeing you seem to think female political, social and economic power will condemn us to a dystopian future.
    P.S. It must be very tiring to be so pssimistic about the future.
    
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    April 11, 2022 3:57pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Since they are absolutely useless at doing anything but talking and screwing there are bound to be plenty of other jobs once they have finished wrecking the country.
      
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      April 11, 2022 6:36pm
    - cjn
      
      Mike, Have you ever noticed how many NZ “white” men have Asian wives whom they have “met” overseas. As far as I can tell the arrangement is mutually happy and their offspring seem well-adjusted. I have. I wonder why this is?
      
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      April 11, 2022 8:46pm
Maggie Pie

I’ll tell you something else that really really pisses me off 🙁

And that’s having to sit behind some idiot driver at at an intersections, who insists on waiting to turn left until the red-arrow goes green….even though there’s nobody on the Pedestrian Crossing!

Mainly it’s oldies and asians. FFS…life’s too short.
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April 11, 2022 1:02pm
- Frank the tank
  
  It’s the fu*ktards that move through lights at 15kph that fuck me off. Green means go not slow.
  
  It’s the same type of people that wear masks in their cars.
  
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  April 11, 2022 1:27pm
- H. Upmann
  
  ….and in-car mask wearers
  
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  April 11, 2022 1:34pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    They are just signaling that they vote Labour!
    
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    April 11, 2022 2:05pm
- Lee C
  
  Use the FADO principle – Forget it and Drive On..
  
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  April 11, 2022 2:07pm
- MCōs
  
  My wife is an old Asian.
  When she’s been in Bangkok for awhile and comes back home she can forget there are road rules besides turning your hazard lights on when you go the wrong way down a one way street.
  Red lights. Who cares as long as they’ve changed within the last five seconds.
  The judge, as it happens.
  
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  April 11, 2022 3:16pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Funnily enuff Cossie, it was an elderly Asian lady behind the wheel of an early model faded bloo Mazda that I got stuck behind at midday.
    Turning left out of Vicky Ave into Remuera Rd.
    I was heading to Bakers Delight to get a custard scroll for lunch.
    
    What does your wife drive?
    
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    April 11, 2022 3:47pm
    - MCōs
      
      Nothing at the moment.
      She is still recovering from her broken wrist.
      
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      April 11, 2022 4:17pm
Maggie Pie

Caught the tail-end of a ZB News item out of Wellington earlier that got me thinking…..

What would WE do, if our Landscaper knocked on the door and told us he’d found a ‘Human Skull’ in the garden?

Would we immediately ring the Police and wait till they came and dug the whole place up looking for the rest of the body….or quietly just the chuck the f***ing thing in the bin. Hmmm.
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April 11, 2022 2:37pm
- MCōs
  
  Donate it to Middlemore. They have a a wee display near the entrance of stuff like that.
  Pro tip
  These landscape people are notorious gossips.
  
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  April 11, 2022 3:22pm
- Stacey H
  
  In our case I would chuck it in the neighbours bin and then call the cops.
  
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  April 11, 2022 3:31pm
- krazykiwi
  
  I move it to the part of the garden that most needed a good digging over before calling the Police 🙂
  
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  April 11, 2022 5:03pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Our biggest concern is what would happen if it turned out to be a previously undiscovered Urupa?
    
    Best to just get rid of it and say nothing my partner reckons.
    
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    April 11, 2022 5:13pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  A friend dug up a skull when he was putting in a gatepost up here and quietly buried it again. Last thing he wanted was a bunch of idiots emoting over it and bureaucrats and police fussing.
  
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  April 11, 2022 6:31pm
Lee C

I saw a brilliant prank where a builder got one of those full-size skeletons you can purchase at Hallo’ween. He half-buried it under the deck knowing in twenty or thirty years someone would be ripping up the deck and would find it.

Genius.
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April 11, 2022 2:55pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING…

I see where Elon has just decided NOT to join Twitter’s Board now!

My partner was wondering if he shorted the stock?
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April 11, 2022 3:24pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  It means he can keep buying it up to take effective control over time if he wants – Twitter board were trying to prevent that by limiting him to 15% stake if he was on board. When Musk started buying about $15billion would have taken a 50% interest, so he’s probably only put in $3 billion or 1% of his net worth to date.
  
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  April 11, 2022 4:28pm
Jack5

Pro-Russia demonstrations in Germany, which has about 1.2 million people of Russian origin living there — and 325,000 of Ukrainian origin (before the arrival of current refugees from Ukraine).

Meanwhile, the German Government says it has reached the limit of stockpiled military supplies it can give to Ukraine, and future help will have to come direct from arms manufacturers.

https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-pro-russia-demonstrations-spark-outrage-in-germany/a-61422488
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April 11, 2022 5:20pm
- Mike
  
  Well, wr [we] even have a few pro-Russian demonstrations on this blog.
  
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  April 11, 2022 6:12pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Wow! Fascinating and detailed account by “true the vote” on how they figured out the operation of the pervasive illegal fraudulent ballot harvesting operations (including identified organizations and mules) that Democrats used to steal the 2020 election. If short of time watch 26:00 on as they show many examples of mules in action. From this data they have examined in detail across many states they estimate 7% of mail in ballots, thats 4.8 million ballots total were fraudulent This makes the election steal as clear as day, with incontrovertible evidence video and cell phone evidence linked to actual perpetrators. How are the DNC/big tech/legacy media oligopoly gonna try and make this story go away?
https://rumble.com/v10ajh2-how-the-did-it-true-the-votes-catherine-engelbrecht-and-gregg-phillips-on-t.html
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April 11, 2022 5:37pm
- Inandout
  
  UN, we were led to believe Joe was a stellar candidate for President. Many on here were fooled.
  
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  April 11, 2022 6:45pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Nice work if you can get it…

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018837815/departing-mp-louisa-wall-to-earn-up-to-210-000-in-new-role

Txs Taxpayers.
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April 11, 2022 6:23pm
- Swifty
  
  “The Prime Minister today clarified the situation…..”
  
  Good god, how Wilson opened the goal for Ardern to score.
  
  “Bullying by Wall…..”
  
  What an absolute character assassination of Wall by RNZ.
  
  I’m appalled at Wilson’s lack of objectivity.
  
  RNZ is lost.
  
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  April 11, 2022 6:57pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    RNZ has been lost for decades. Certainly since Hosking and Plunket left it.
    
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    April 11, 2022 7:20pm
  - peterwn
    
    As I said elsewhere it is very easy to trump up a bullying ‘charge’ and find a ‘victim’. Possibly there was some bullying but unlikely to be worse than in Jacinda’s or other Beehive/Parliament offices.
    Another thing – those who set Parliament’s timetable would have known to slot in an ‘unliked’ MP’s valedictory on Thursday since this is Jacinda’s kindergarten visiting day.
    
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    April 11, 2022 7:39pm
Maggie Pie

Remember the #turnardern

Now I see they’re saying the best way to stop sales of Jacinda’s books is to leave them face up……
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April 11, 2022 7:20pm
Maggy Wassilieff

3rd covid vaccine death announced..

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300563840/ministry-of-health-announces-third-death-linked-to-covid19-vaccine

….At 9pm by the MSM

Death occurred in December 2021.
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April 11, 2022 9:20pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Very weird report. The board first reviewed the death in Dec so it’s unclear when the death occurred? Was it also in Dec. Then the board doesn’t look at it again until March and now we get told?! And now it goes to the coroner. They also unusually don’t give the name, age or gender of the deceased which they have for the others, and only gives vague timing as to when they took the vaccine before they died. But there are a few deaths covered in the media we were waiting to hear the outcome on – but it’s unclear if it is one of them. Lack of transparency as usual.
  
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  April 11, 2022 9:54pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  But as yet no discussion or explanation for the 2300 anomalous excess deaths (above 2020 total) during the 2021 vaccination program.
  
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  April 11, 2022 10:33pm

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