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mikenmildagain

Mr T is 70 today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJnKm6ftPu0
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May 21, 2022 8:05am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Hey, Man!
  
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  May 21, 2022 8:12am
- alloytoo
  
  Crazy Fool
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:27am
- Frank the tank
  
  I pity the fool!
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:36am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Ghez, I didn’t think he would make it with his steroid abuse, he has had heart problems for years because of said abuse
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:40am
curry4me

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

Time to get organised to the next level…Can You Help?

It’s time to take ‘organisation’ to the next level in the fight against this Totalitarian state hybrid of ‘Facisim & Marxist neo communism’. Can you and will you help? It’s time to action a team of skilled, dedicated, honest, humble hard workers who believe in the cause and are willing to commit to putting the hard yards in to fight for our Nation.
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May 21, 2022 8:06am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  I like this comment that was left under the video:
  
  “Shake some trees? The whole forest needs to be burned to the ground and replanted with trees that will grow straight and true. The ones there at the moment are riddled with disease.”
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:52am
curry4me

https://www.bitchute.com/video/HulYEpEB8Zg/

Elon Musk Abandons Democrats.

AKA Musk knows who is going to try and attack twitter with shilling and bots if he takes it over. Musk doesn’t just own a tech company. He also owns car and space companies too. So, he is less vulnerable, and more flexible. Bezos has similar flexibility. [08:29]
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May 21, 2022 8:07am
- oldfella
  
  curry: this is an interesting article on why the left hates Musk – basically because he’s a tycoon they can’t bully.
  https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/the-left-hates-elon-musk-because-hes-a-tycoon-they-cant-bully/
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:59am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Bit like Trump.
    
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    May 21, 2022 10:58am
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      Paraphrasing Musk, “I am exposing them and they will come after me for it.”
      
      A few days later ….
      
      Them: “Musk exposed himself to a flight attendant.”
      
      Exactly the same principle as four years plus of Trump bashing. How anyone doesn’t see how these things work (i.e. coordinated campaigns to bury outsiders and trouble-makers) is beyond me at this point.
      
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      May 21, 2022 11:58am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    He’s exposed their malfeasance in a big way and isn’t cowed into submission by their fascist ways.
    
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    May 21, 2022 12:26pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Trump went in rich. The left hate him because he won’t act like a crook politician.
    Trump 2022/2024
    
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    May 21, 2022 1:36pm
  - curry4me
    
    Yes, that’s one of the reasons. And him wanting to vote Republican won’t make them less angry.
    
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    May 21, 2022 1:39pm
G152

If mania is a big fad then minia would be a small fad
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May 21, 2022 8:12am
- Don Beckett
  
  And to be really diverse, there could be ‘femania’ – and many others.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:32am
  - Don Beckett
    
    For those who can’t work it out, the Latin word for ‘woman’ is ‘femina’ – hence the English ‘feminine’.
    I know, explaining is losing – that is, mansplaining.
    Give me my hat & coat…………
    
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    May 21, 2022 5:03pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Labour has paid far too little attention to wealth creation and too much to its redistribution.

Not my words – prescience from Margaret Thatcher
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May 21, 2022 8:12am
- peterwn
  
  Rubbish! There are plenty of Scrooges with their full money bins just waiting to be emptied out.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:30am
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    “The problem with socialists is that they eventually run out of other peoples money.” Also Maggie Thatcher
    
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    May 21, 2022 4:05pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    You forgot the // PeterWn.
    
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    May 21, 2022 6:15pm
- Ruawai
  
  And too much spent creating jobs for bureaucrats who don’t generate any income for the country and in fact cost the people who generate the income.
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:38am
ClanMcleod

Be afraid, monkeypox is here! This year’s pandemic may be on the way. But fear not. That stalwart protector of public health, Tony Fauci, is at the forefront with advice about how to survive.

https://babylonbee.com/news/fauci-recommends-stopping-spread-of-monkeypox-by-covering-eyes-ears-mouth
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May 21, 2022 8:20am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You beat me to it. Video at the bottom is good if it is still there “We don’t talk about China”
  
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  May 21, 2022 8:48am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    I haven’t seen that yet, I’ll grab another coffee and check it out. Pretty wild weather out there today, won’t be venturing out anytime soon!
    
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    May 21, 2022 8:50am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      This link might do it, if nor, Mods can delete.
      https://youtu.be/GfJOh25Enco
      
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      May 21, 2022 8:54am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Lol, “can’t hear the Beagle’s screams cos I had their vocal chords surgically removed”. Very well produced.
        I just received my copy of Michael P Senger’s book, “Snake Oil, (how Xi Jinpeng shut down the world)”
        Looking forward to reading it.
        
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        May 21, 2022 9:10am
  - Jim
    
    Is the (corrupt) WHO still praising the CCP authoritarian response?
    
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    May 21, 2022 10:35am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Jim – Worse than that. They are in the process of implementing a treaty that will give the WHO power over all of us, to decide what is a pandemic, when it is a pandemic, and what measures to take to “fix it”. These will include lockdowns, vaccinations, social distancing, masking and all the other fascist measures we witnessed in the last 2 year.
      The will have the power to override democratically elected governments. Mind you, they seem to have already adopted that power. This is just formalising the arrangement.
      
      As former US congresswoman Michele Bachman points out:
      
      “In less than two weeks’ time a vote will take place in Geneva Switzerland at the World Health Assembly. They’re important because they’re the governing body of the World Health Organisation, WHO. This authority that they would be given would impact 99.4% of all the people in the world. There are 193 nations belonging to the UN.
      
      The Biden administration is bringing amendments that would propose that all nations of the Earth cede their sovereignty over national healthcare decisions to the WHO, the World Health Organisation. So what this would mean is that the WHO would have decision-making authority to intervene into United States Government policy and any nation of the world without our permission.”
      
      https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/11/the-biggest-global-power-grab-we-have-seen-in-our-lifetimes-how-serious-is-the-threat-from-the-who-pandemic-treaty/
      
      This is the same WHO with Bill Gates as their second biggest funder. He was their biggest funder until Trump pulled the US out of the scam. Biden’s administration put them back in. Gate’s funding is not much less than that spent by the US.
      No thanks.
      
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      May 21, 2022 4:53pm
- CJames
  
  It seems that in the real world, monkey pox is linked to LGBT networks. If correct, that will be embarrassing. I wonder how they will link it to Trump.
  https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/20/monkeypox-cases-linked-to-sexual-contact-and-lgbt-networks/
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:07am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It’s incredible isn’t it?
    
    Oh look, what a coincidence!! Just as happened with covid, the “experts” had a meeting where they simulated a “pandemic” and lo and behold….!!!
    
    “Elite media outlets around the world are on red alert over the world’s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox in mid-May 2022—just one year after an international biosecurity conference in Munich held a simulation of a “global pandemic involving an unusual strain of Monkeypox” beginning in mid-May 2022.”
    
    https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/the-prophetic-monkeypox-simulation?
    
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    May 21, 2022 9:23am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Some broad will say she had it, and Trump raped her. Same old, same old
    
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    May 21, 2022 1:38pm
- pdm
  
  CM – Baker, Jackson, Hendy and Wiles will all be reappearing today preaching doom and gloom.
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:08am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Be very worried if Our Government starts importing pet prairie dogs (squirrels) from Ghana.
    
    https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/outbreak/us-outbreaks.html
    
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    May 21, 2022 10:19am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Steer clear of gay and bi-sexual men, and keep them away from ya wife and the pox will stay with them
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:42am
  - mawm
    
    It’s not spread exclusively by having sex.
    
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    May 21, 2022 5:18pm
- I remember when
  
  “The CDC confirming a staggering 1 infections so far.”
  “So for Monkeypox there are two possible outcomes in the US – it can become more or less prevalent,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
  
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  May 21, 2022 12:23pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    That’s got be a contender for 2022 Statement of the Bleeding Obvious
    
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    May 21, 2022 6:17pm
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  Just like Covid, all pre-arranged to clamp down further and to take away your remaining freedom and rights.
  
  https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf
  
  “In March 2021, NTI partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. The exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures—exploring opportunities to improve prevention and response capabilities for high-consequence biological events. This report summarizes the exercise scenario, key findings from the discussion, and actionable recommendations for the international community”
  
  Of particular interest, see page 9 and “Attack, May 15 2022”
  
  https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/strengthening-global-systems-to-prevent-and-respond-to-high-consequence-biological-threats/
  
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  May 21, 2022 1:39pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Mike, I got something for you.
The Democrats are getting desperate.
Jocelyn Benson is not only corrupt, but she is not above making accusations that she makes up in her head.
She needed a distraction, so she made one up. She claims that an anonymous friend got second-hand information that President Trump called for her assassination.
Seriously?????
https://illicitinfo.com/2022/05/mi-secretary-of-state-claims-someone-told-her-president-trump-called-for-her-assassination/
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May 21, 2022 8:29am
- I remember when
  
  Steve Otto:
  Are you sure he didn’t mention an assignation – for a very lonely friend.
  
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  May 21, 2022 12:26pm
Nickc2

No doubt, lockdowns, closed borders, vaccines, and masks will be in vogue again.
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May 21, 2022 8:29am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Just what Jaspinda needs. Covid is dead for Labour
  
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  May 21, 2022 1:40pm
Cassandra

More disinformation. Maori Health Authority only gets $xxxxxx while NZ Health Authority gets 10 times as much. As if the NZHA will be turning away Maoris. Psychologists and mental health workers may well require special race-based training but cancer and diabetes actually demand X-rays and scalpels which do not discriminate. We do not need a separate health service for Maoris. Or Koreans. Or anyone.
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May 21, 2022 8:32am
All_on_Red

So NASA’s Voyager 1 has been travelling for 45 years and is 14.5 Billion miles from Earth.
It still hasn’t found an honest politician.
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May 21, 2022 8:38am
- ClanMcleod
  
  A fruitless exercise. More to the point, what is the impact on climate change in the galaxy with so many travel miles accumulated? I bet they didn’t think about that when they embarked on this white elephant!
  
  Where’s James Shaw when you need him?
  
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  May 21, 2022 8:42am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  If you think about it, “Charisma” as we generally define it, and that most seem to want in the politicians we elect, is a nice way of saying “can lie convincingly”.
  
  There are sound evolutionary reasons why you want the duplicitous bastard leading you and representing your interests against competing groups. We really do want and prefer Narcissistic liars and rogues like that shit-head Winston Peters to weak assed goody-goods like Jimmy Carter.
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:18am
- bjools
  
  Looking under the wrong rocks?
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:46am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Voyager 1 is being careful, might find the whole NZ Labour Party under a rock……
    Mind you, it will take them 45 years to get back here and find the fucking mess they created in 2017 to 2003 is still being paid for by the ever bullied net Taxpayer.
    
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    May 21, 2022 4:01pm
- mogg
  
  Yes there is an incredible photo taken from cameras
  on Voyager, looking back at Earth as it left our solar system. If that doesn’t make you think nothing will.
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:53am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  In the same way that you will never find a square circle, you will never find an honest politician because the concepts are analytically contradictory.
  
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  May 21, 2022 12:02pm
ClanMcleod

Probably one of the best cartoonists around, Bob Moran nails it yet again. This time regarding the early warnings about reemergence of covid measures in the UK come Autumn.
Entitled “Cough”. Nails it.

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Cough200.jpg
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May 21, 2022 8:38am
Tricati

Listening to local talkback yesterday it was telling the host, who tends to lean a little left, gave Megan Woods a hard time over the budget and pinned her down on dismissing Treasury’s advice over the $350 Inflation Payment for those earning under $70K. No amount of voice raising by Woods put him off, and when she said he needed to ask the finance minister why Labour didn’t heed Treasury’s advice. Brownlee was pure gold, pointing out she is the associate finance minister so would know.
The other issue getting under the skin of the host was the $350 million to merge Radio NZ & TV1 when Pharmac got so little. It made me think, wasn’t the merging of these two entities the undoing of Clare Curran, with her undisclosed meetings with Coral Hirschfeld. It seems Labour have been hell bent on creating a larger ‘left leaning’ mouth piece for their agenda and were never going to let the issue go.
The amount of push back Labour is getting from all quarters over their budget is telling, in that they have really misread the country’s mood (likely arrogance), and the amount they have spent including from future years has only cemented the view they are useless at managing the economy. No number of selective graphs comparing them to Nationals GFC response (they missed adding the Christchurch earthquakes financial response) will help them now, as it is the financial pain today that tax payers are focused on.
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May 21, 2022 8:39am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yes I have noticed the we will back to surplus sooner hogwash. It’s a load of crap, especially if Robertson is already using money from 2 budgets time.
  As you say the CHCH the first in 2010, but carried on for some years causing damage every time an aftershock struck above 5 , what you may have forgot is the Blenheim earthquake which cause huge damage to roads SH 1 and buildings in Wellington adding another 20 billion, that earthquake was in 2016 I think
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:48am
- michael_s2
  
  Robertson also neglects to mention that when National took office at the end of 2008 the GFC was under way and Cullen was bragging “we have spent it all”. In fact deficits were forecast for the ensuing 10 years.
  
  Labour in 2017 inherited a surplus.
  
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  May 21, 2022 12:18pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  $350m is quite a bit of dosh for a merger.
  
  I mean, I’d do it for a mill. My way, though.
  
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  May 21, 2022 1:38pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  A typo, Tricati, but love it! “Coral Hirschfeld.”
  Very fitting!
  
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  May 21, 2022 4:24pm
CJames

See how Ms Pelosi is getting real delusions of grandeur. She is injecting herself ito the Brexit issues and no surprise, coming down on the side of the EU. She has threatened that the US Congress won’t support a free trade deal with UK because of Northern Island protocol.
I am certain that Boris and Liz Truss will be marking off the calendar to November
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May 21, 2022 8:45am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Pelosi wants Ursula von der Leyen’s job? Just what the EU needs, they are already corrupt LOL
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:06am
  - kevn
    
    @SteveO… They could just push her around on a gurney I suppose.
    
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    May 21, 2022 9:47am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Russian Vodka in the IV Drip!
      
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      May 21, 2022 10:01am
- kowtow
  
  It can be no surprise that the domestic US Irish Republican White Catholic vote is so important to the Democrats that they’re prepared to damage the trans Atlantic relationship .
  
  More race politics from the “progressive” party.
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:53am
Maggy Wassilieff

Janet Wilson writes on “elite capture” and discusses the unconscionable confiscation of RAT tests by Ardern’s Government.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/128699265/fighting-inequality-is-about-practical-changes-not-culture-war-bickering
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May 21, 2022 8:47am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Pathetic Govt. ‘personal use imports prohibited’
  What about Duty Free alcohol?
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:12am
- nathie
  
  Thanks for posting that was a good read.
  
  Also learnt something new (apart from the concept of “Elite Capture”), that of the concept of “Deference Politics”.
  
  Which is quoted as “when people (mostly white) become allies of the oppressed and blindly follow them. He says it flourishes where people don’t have any life experience of the topic, then take direction from those who do. “Deference politics means I’m going to find a person of some particular identity, and whatever that person’s thoughts or opinions or perspectives are, they’re also going to be mine.”
  
  This is exactly what we are seeing in today’s NZ, as the Govt (and the public sector, and the news media etc) in my opinion “appropriate” some (but not all) features of Maoridom that they have selected to be instilled into Kiwis and their way of life.
  
  I think we need more discussion and debate on this topic (of Deference), because whilst there are sometimes some advantages (after all NZ’s foundations were built upon “two peoples” coming together), nowadays it has become weaponised to force change (hand in hand with Cancel Culture to silence those who merely ask questions) and is becoming increasingly divisive and leading to corrupt practices, and very scary futures for the harmony of the “two peoples” as envisaged back in 1840.
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:57am
ClanMcleod

Whoops, my bad. I just checked Bob’s cartoon again and it’s actually even better than I thought. The “expert” in the image has a clipboard in his hand with the proposed WHO “pandemic” treaty data in it. Something that should be front and centre in the media but is barely mentioned. Also something that needs to be stopped.
The whole organisation needs either disbanded or completely gutted and rebuilt. As it is currently it is not only not fit for purpose, it is a danger to every person on the planet.
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May 21, 2022 8:48am
- mawm
  
  I suspect it’s too late.
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:05am
- bjools
  
  Side thought
  I see the world is worried about food shortages due to Ukraine.
  Surely this is a world health issue….what is WHO doing about it. Haven’t really heard anything either.
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:57am
  - rouppe
    
    It should be a UN issue. Something akin to the Atlantic convoys.
    
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    May 21, 2022 11:10am
    - nathie
      
      Agree, instead of sitting around in their NY HQ comfy chairs being paid to do SFA, the UN should be ensuring the safety of merchant shipping transiting to and from Ukraine’s ports (not there are many left), and should the Russians take on the convoy then retaliation should be allowed (including the attackers logistics i.e. wherever they re-arm/re-fuel etc).
      
      For crying out loud this ain’t rocket science, otherwise what are the UN enabling, the death, starvation and economic collapse for hundreds of million people? Talk about watching a slow motion train wreck in progress!
      
      Sure get it that Russia has veto at the UNSC, but if a UNSC member is endangering the world’s food supply then drastic measures must be taken.
      
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      May 21, 2022 1:12pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    FAO?
    
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    May 21, 2022 1:39pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    The food problem has been coming long before Ukraine happened. As in NZ, countries are paying farmers not to farm and turning productive land into wilding.
    
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10374283/Anger-rewilding-plan-hand-millions-farmers-plant-trees.html
    
    Though at least there they are paying them, not legislating as Ardern has done. It is happening almost everywhere in the West. They’ve forgotten the historical lessons about food security. Outsource everything at your peril. As Labour are doing with Marsden Point.
    
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    May 21, 2022 5:01pm
Niz

Sigh. Wimbledon banned the Russians from playing because it might look bad if Medvedev won and some royal had to present him with a trophy.
Because Medvedev represents Putin, right? And we all think Putin is just like Hitler, right? So that makes Medcedev just like Hitler, right? Or something idiotic like that.

Freaking politics and sport.
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May 21, 2022 9:10am
- CJames
  
  There was consequences of the decision, but not in the way people expected. Wimbleton has lost the ranking points. Oops, that wasn’t supposed to happen.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:12am
- Inandout
  
  Niz, hypocrisy reigns in the energy world.
  
  ‘Kent dockers refuse to unload Russian liquified gas from two tankers making their way to Britain – as UK is set to spend £2BILLION on Putin’s fossil fuels this year despite sanctions’.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:15am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  It’s really a great metaphor for not only the Russia/Ukraine conflict in particular, but how the socio-political sphere is manipulated in general: censor someone or something, lest reality break through and destroy all of the coordinated efforts to establish an illusory reality.
  
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  May 21, 2022 12:28pm
- septic skeptic
  
  Sporting success is clearly very important to the Putin regime – hence the state sponsored doping that has been going on since the days of East Greman swimmers.
  
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  May 21, 2022 2:26pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Just like 1981
  
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  May 21, 2022 4:26pm
Lee C

Got an email from Fire and Emergency New Zealand yesterday.

Urging me to ‘wear a pink shirt’ because as an organisation we want to show we are opposed to ‘bullying and harrassment’.

I shit you not.
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May 21, 2022 9:15am
- kowtow
  
  On my perambulations yesterday , noticed many pupils heading orf to skool in pink .
  
  It would be the brave one who turned up sans signal virtuing outfits as dictated by the school principal /kommissar of wokery . Couldn’t help but wonder if said pupil would be subjected to any officially sanctioned “bullying” if they made the decision to stand up for personal rights and autonomy . And of course that would apply to any work place too.
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:25am
  - Prince
    
    I told my kids to reply ‘We can’t afford to buy any pink outfits’.
    That shuts the teachers up and generally works out very well for the kids for a couple of weeks. Special hugs etc.
    
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    May 21, 2022 10:13am
  - rouppe
    
    How many different coloured supporter days are there now?
    
    White ribbon, blue ribbon, pink ribbon, yellow ribbon, green ribbon, red ribbon… Is there a rainbow ribbon? Probably.
    
    That’s what I say to the charity muggers now. Only $5 a week? If I did that for everyone who asked I’d be spending $100 a week on “causes”
    
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    May 21, 2022 11:17am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Well in an engineering workshop, any bullying would mean the guy would to go to a tooth doctor…..
    
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    May 21, 2022 4:29pm
- alloytoo
  
  The pressure to wear stuff in “solidarity” is much akin to bullying.
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:31am
  - bjools
    
    Irony?
    
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    May 21, 2022 10:04am
    - kowtow
      
      Nope , it’s a fact .
      
      In the UK they have “Poppy Fascism”.
      
      The irony is the very left wing institutions which dismissed all things war and commemoration through the prog 60′ s, 70’s and ’80s , like the anti British BBC are the ones who’ve “embraced” Poppy wearing , as their own virtue signal every November ,are the ones who would be insisting , behind the scenes of course for absolute compliance.
      
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      May 21, 2022 10:59am
- cmm
  
  To think that somewhere in Fire and Emergency NZ there is someone employed to push this wokeness.
  
  The same too in all councils and government departments.
  
  I wonder whether Fire and Emergency NZ has a policy on climate change?
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:34am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Do they still produce those calendars of semi-naked men?
    
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    May 21, 2022 9:49am
  - bjools
    
    Banning CO2 extinguishers?
    
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    May 21, 2022 10:05am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      BAN it BAN it – keep singing
      
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      May 21, 2022 4:31pm
- blue collar
  
  We had it last year and on a site of 100 me n my mate were the only ones wearing pink …. Copped it all day from the mongrels , good naturedly but 😅
  This year , genuinely forgot //
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:38am
- I remember when
  
  Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
  Does pink show it’s not full ‘red blooded’ bullying.
  
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  May 21, 2022 12:38pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Anyway, it’s not pink, it’s ‘flamingo’
  50 shades of pink?
  
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  May 21, 2022 1:45pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

In Alaska the Anchorage Fire Dep wear pink on promotion and fundraising days. On the back it reads “Not Afraid to Wear Pink”
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May 21, 2022 9:19am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Tough guys. Who wants to fight a fire at minus 25C?
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:03am
- bjools
  
  Where my sister works, they changed their HiViz vests, for visitors, to pink.
  Thefts of HiViz vests fell to zero.
  I am not kidding.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:08am
cmm

South Africa is going through merry hell with electricity. One of the problems they are having is that the wokesters are pushing for “green energy” which really can’t solve their problems. There is one though that is looking interesting: CSP.

CSP is concentrated solar power. This is not photovoltaic panels, but involves capturing the sun’s heat and then using that to generate steam to spin a turbine.

When you design an electrical system it has to provide for the peak usage. The average is not that important. The peak is. For South Africa (and likely for NZ too – I have not checked), peak usage is in winter in the evenings – around 6:30 pm.

By then the sun has stopped shining (it has pretty much lost its strength by 4pm in winter) so PV is no longer working. The wind also tends to drop off. CSP has stopped gathering energy too.

But CSP has an ace up its sleeve. It can store the heat and time shift it. Sure, there is some loss, but it is still highly efficient out to 6 hours after sunset.

This makes it pretty good for addressing the usage peak that is an hour or two after sunset.

Yes, you could use PVs to charge batteries, then discharge the batteries but this is extremely wasteful. The charging efficiency of batteries is maybe 85% and the discharge/generation maybe the same – meaning around 30% of the power is lost in inefficiency with what is already an extremely inefficient system . On top of that cost of battery maintenance is huge.

So is CSP the magic bullet? Unfortunately not. It takes up too much space and is still prone to the weather. The largest plant in the world, Noor 1 in Morocco, is hundreds of acres and achieves only 160MW peak (an average of 42MW). That is not even one tenth of the capacity of a single coal generator. And that is placed in the most perfect location in the world.

Even Morocco, the country with the best sunshine in the world, still uses over 80% carbon-based electricity.
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May 21, 2022 9:31am
- rouppe
  
  Some have been known to use gas in the mornings to boost the temperature of the water quickly.
  
  They don’t tell you that…
  
  Oh, then there’s the incineration of any bird that flies into the collection cone.
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:28am
Jack5

In yesterday’s discussion about “cultural safety and Treaty implications” of recruitment of medical staff from overseas I filed last night, too late for moderation, this:

It may or may not be relevant that, at the magazine of the NZ Nurses’ Organisation,
Joel Maxwell is one of three in the editorial team, and is listed as co-editor.

Maxwell, in Stuff columns, was long a champion of Maori language and Maori kultchur, and a scourge of the remnants of colonialism.

The magazine title is Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand. Its last print edition was in January-February. It is now an online magazine.
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May 21, 2022 9:33am
CAKE FACE1

Has New Zealand ever been as polarised as it is now?

We must be approaching USA levels of polarisation.

When you read Cindy supporters, it is doubtful that these differences of opinion will ever be eliminated.

I see no solution.
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May 21, 2022 9:38am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  New Zimbabwe soon with Doctor President Jaspinda Ardern.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:07am
  - Nickc2
    
    An honorary doctorate is only recognised by the University that granted it. In lil-olde NZ, she will always be recognised as ……… (append own noun).
    
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    May 21, 2022 10:19am
  - Paulus
    
    She took off last night for the USA to get her Doctorate from Harvard next week.
    Do they realise how stupid they are but her PR overseas still tells them how wonderful she is.
    John Harvard from Liverpool in the UK would be ashamed of what they are doing surely.
    Who has gone with her ?
    Did Tova miss out too ?
    
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    May 21, 2022 1:31pm
- Ross Campbell
  
  The whole western world including NZ definitely is very polarised but the fault with that lies in both the left and right.
  The left has gravitated towards identity politics and manufactured outrage at every turn and the right has gravitated towards conspiratorial thinking and admiration for anti democratic strong man type rule.
  If people want to reject what I’m saying then that’s fine but this blog itself is testament to more radical positions with alot of the fringe nonsense that is now a staple on here barely getting a look in 10 years ago.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:46am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    NZ hasn’t been this polarised in my lifetime. It has all occurred under the “leadership” of one person. “Kind and caring” Ardern.
    Tell me more about these “conspiracies” and about this “democracy” you speak of. Ardern is a dictator and she is destroying this place financially and socially. It will take decades to fix.
    How democratic is 3 waters?
    
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    May 21, 2022 5:08pm
- MCōs
  
  I don’t think NZ is particularly polarized.
  Sure, people get wound up on social media, but there’s not the strikes, protests of the past.
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:28am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    What? The country has never been more divided
    
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    May 21, 2022 11:51am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    That’s because the unions have been totally emasculated. Are there any left?
    
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    May 21, 2022 5:05pm
- mogg
  
  Now that jacindamania is in free fall, it’s now all about divide and rule for Ardern & co. She is firmly into attacking traditional values, of course backed all the way by MSM. The silent majority are being browbeaten and the opinion polls are showing it
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  May 21, 2022 2:31pm
artemisia

Will New Zealand supermarkets, and other employers, be far behind? No problem with paid leave but isn’t that what annual leave is for? Or evenings and weekends?

Trans and gender-diverse staff at Coles will now be entitled to 10 extra days of PAID gender affirmation leave … A Coles spokesperson confirmed to Daily Mail Australia gender affirmation ‘can be any process that a team member undergoes to affirm/confirm their gender identity’. ‘This may be in the forms of social affirmation, medical affirmation or legal affirmation.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10827451/Trans-gender-diverse-staff-Coles-given-10-days-extra-leave.html
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May 21, 2022 9:39am
- Taieri
  
  What a wonderful idea!
  
  The fraternal government of the Peoples Republic of China applauds this initiative, hoping that it will eventually extend to cover all employers, large and small.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:06am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Good grief 😳
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:24am
- rouppe
  
  I’d like to use that to socially and legally affirm my male gender.
  
  Surely it’s just as important to be able to affirm the stability of my gender as to affirm its change?
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:31am
- alloytoo
  
  Does one have to be trans or gender diverse? I could spend 10 days affirming my gender by looking at members of the opposite gender on the beach.
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:48am
- Debsta
  
  FFS where does it all stop 🙄
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:58am
- Sideoiler
  
  Will New Zealand supermarkets, and other employers, be far behind? …
  
  No not far behind at all infact leading the way.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/countdowns-transgender-policy-spectacular-step/LDALKJUJK5IHWL6L5HARZK3XHQ/
  
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  May 21, 2022 12:58pm
- [email protected]
  
  It does not take ten days to pull down your pants and have a look.
  
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  May 21, 2022 5:20pm
Brian McDonald

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Best comment of the year so far on Ukraine “genius move” Trump on Putin. His second “genius” move was making Nato great again after Donald failed to weaken it.
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May 21, 2022 9:39am
- Cassandra
  
  Trump was actually a wake up call for NATO. For all Donald’s multiple faults, accusing the Germans of freeloading was the right call.
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:45am
  - kowtow
    
    Multiple faults ?
    
    Show me someone flawless.
    
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    May 21, 2022 10:51am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Not sure about “multiple faults”. His policies and predictions were largely the right ones. It’s only his manner of speaking that is often cringe worthy.
    
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    May 21, 2022 12:35pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I think Trump handed Angela Merkel an envelope with an Invoice inside. On live TV, must have been satire, but Merkel got the message.
    Where is she now????
    
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    May 21, 2022 4:37pm
- bjools
  
  You really are proof, that there is no cure for stupid.
  The “Genius” quote had nothing to do with this war.
  Nato was made stronger by Trump, he forced them to increase their individual input to NATO.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:13am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Whatever that means
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:25am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Do you think Brain was doing satire?
  Nope, it was just another poor attempt digging at Trump. Keep it up Brain.
  
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  May 21, 2022 4:40pm
Diogenes

I went to the Warehouse yesterday hoping to buy a nail file. Not finding one, I asked an assistant. “We don’t sell them,” was the reply. “They could be used to stab someone.”
I went back today to check around the rest of the store. In the garden section there were secateurs and sharp pointed hand forks. In the workshop section, plenty of screwdrivers. In the fishing section, a choice of wicked looking fishing knives. In the homeware section, some very sharp, stabby kitchen knives. Most of the above had no protective sleeves. I checked with one of duty managers, and he assured me that that what I was told yesterday was indeed the policy.
I never realised that a nail file was by comparison such a dangerous implement. (Incidentally, I bought one at the $3 shop next door. It was so heavily encased in tensile-strengthened plastic, I needed a very sharp object to extract the file.)
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May 21, 2022 10:00am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Imagine if Mitre 10 could not sell things that could be used as weapons in store. 🤡 Knives, chain saws, log splitters, axes. 😂
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:40am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Following Airline policy. No nail files, but you can carry a lighter with your smokes in your shirt pocket.
  Same as a small small pocket knife on the key ring – but the keys are not dangerous? ….
  
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  May 21, 2022 4:46pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Kris Faafoi apologises after admitting to appearing on Newshub disguised as leading Economist…..

https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/1527151206539223040
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May 21, 2022 10:03am
- Prince
  
  Eaqub is a Labour fanboy.
  He helped them into power, and his lucrative consulting activities rely on them remaining in power.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:08am
  - mogg
    
    Eaqub is the economist who 20 yrs ago was saying,
    ‘don’t buy a house because renting is cheaper’. So far as I know he has never been asked to explain this statement.
    He is now saying that Labour’s 50b 2 year orgy of spending (debt) has had no effect on inflation.
    
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    May 21, 2022 2:54pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Well, two downticks, prop from people who now nothing about numbers.
  Oh, and you missed the //
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:12am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    It’ll be 3 soon once milkey wakes Ross up 😀
    
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    May 21, 2022 10:14am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    And you forgot it’s know not now. 😃👍🏻
    
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    May 21, 2022 11:53am
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… Eaqub… the guy who reckoned it was better to for Aucklanders to rent rather than buy a home. That was about 5 years ago. I met him at at an airport and he confirmed his statement.
  Pretty sure he ended up buying a home a bit later on.
  Economist? 500k a year, why wouldn’t you. Unless you had chosen to buy commercial/industrial of course…
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:31am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yes, of course he changed his mind about buying a house once he & his wife started a family and encountered the real world.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/94966044/shamubeel-eaqub-ive-bought-a-house-at-last
    
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    May 21, 2022 10:53am
Nickc2

Question for those with legal backgrounds.
Can a new Govt in NZ declare Labour’s Debt as ODIOUS DEBT and refuse to take measures to repay it?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/odious-debt.asp
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May 21, 2022 10:11am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I don’t have a legal background. But I have some knowledge of capital markets and how sovereign credit ratings are allocated.
  
  And I can tell you unequivocally the answer to your question is “no”. 🙂
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:36am
  - Nickc2
    
    It will be interesting to find by what authority.
    
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    May 21, 2022 11:45am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Keep an eye on what happens to Sri Lanka
  
  Sri Lanka defaults on debt for first time in its history
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61505842
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:57am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The Robberson will know this.
  Spending outrageously knowing that it all becomes the inherited debt of the incoming Party.
  Why do you think the money printer is going flat tack? Cost of paper and ink is mega!!
  
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  May 21, 2022 5:14pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Elon Musk changing his tune?https://twitter.com/Rudio1John/status/1526585849994952705?
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May 21, 2022 10:17am
Maggie Pie

Anyone else get the feeling something is badly wrong?
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May 21, 2022 10:17am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes me. I was tipped over the edge onto anxiety by the Budget. Pharmac got $191 million for new drugs. Seriously I would not begrudge them progressively getting a 50 percent increase in funding.
  
  Then I saw $327 million to merge TVNZ and RNZ. And $100 million plus for a Maori climate-change plan.
  
  Does Treasury advise that such spending is criminally stupid? Can we see that advice? Or do they just now add up the numbers?
  
  So yes many things are seriously wrong.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:32am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner’s broker fears the US economy may be on the brink collapse 🙁
    He thinks we’ll end up crawling back to Chynaa and having to say sorry.
    
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    May 21, 2022 11:09am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      We get nothing by the way of trade without tariffs with the US we need China no matter what people think of them, they buy 50% of our products, that 50% is no way buying influence at all, but the Chinese can snd do pull all support with trade ( just ask Aussie) with buying products, they could bankrupt us
      
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      May 21, 2022 11:57am
      - kowtow
        
        ‘they could bankrupt us’
        
        That;s exactly why you don’t put so many eggs in that particular basket.
        
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        May 21, 2022 5:08pm
    - Nickc2
      
      I fear he may be right. I think they’ve been taking leaves out of Cindy’s & Robbo’s book by throwing money at shadows.
      
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      May 21, 2022 12:55pm
    - kowtow
      
      The US economy can’t ‘collapse’. It has a massive domestic base . Things could and do get very hair em scare em. But it won’t collapse.
      
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      May 21, 2022 5:10pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Re- ya bullshit about China FFS, if we lose 50% of our trade receipts, where the f….. do you think we will pluck the trade from to fill the lost 40 billion of trade ? Wake the hell up, as I stated, the US will never give us a trade deal, blame Lange for his no nuke stance, the only trade we get has huge tariffs on them, we can not compete with tariffs, end of story
        
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        May 21, 2022 8:41pm
  - Yvette
    
    Benedict Yu – And $100 million plus for a Maori climate-change plan.
    
    Benedict, you may have glanced at the Climate Commission’s Report – Ināia tonu nei: a low emissions future for Aotearoa, Advice to the New Zealand Government on its first three emissions budgets and direction for its emissions reduction plan 2022 – 2025.
    https://ccc-production-media.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/public/Inaia-tonu-nei-a-low-emissions-future-for-Aotearoa/Inaia-tonu-nei-a-low-emissions-future-for-Aotearoa.pdf
    
    Although a coalition of more than 300 lawyers has filed suit against the Climate Change Commission and Climate Minister James Shaw in the High Court, and the Report is discredited for failing ti comply with Paris Agreement aims, this Report is supposedly a Maori climate-change plan.
    
    Can Government spend any of $100 million plus on another plan while this is in question?
    
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    May 21, 2022 11:58am
  - SoloView
    
    @Benedict.
    If this repeats for the same time period the TVNZ/RNZ $327 million refers to, then Pharmac will receive an extra $573 million
    
    Pharmac has an additional $191 million. My understanding is that they will get at least the total amount of their budget next year and the year after as they get this year.
    
    Pharmac total $573 million extra for 3 years.
    
    TVNZ/RNZ total $207 million extra for 3 years
    
    ($327 million minus the RNZ $120 million (for 3 years currently paid from NZ On Air)).
    
    Not saying I like or dislike any of this – just another way of looking at the figures
    
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    May 21, 2022 1:11pm
  - MCōs
    
    Pharmac will have about $1.5 bill next year.
    
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    May 21, 2022 6:02pm
  - chukar
    
    Propaganda’s far more important to tis Government than anything else including health!
    
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    May 21, 2022 9:23pm
- mawm
  
  Can you imagine being handed the power to essentially close down the world, lock down the masses, force medication on them against their will, have every government subservient to your will and not have to declare what the medical emergency is, not having to be questioned about it nor supply any scientific data? And you are not a doctor but a Marxist who’s way out of your depth who runs cover for a Maoist country, and has a billionaire enriching you beyond your wildest dreams. This billionaire, also not a doctor, who has declared the wish to depopulate the earth through vaccination and who is heavily invested and making money from the vaccine industry, “advises” you before you make any decisions. Imagine having the world media “failing” to mention this and running cover for your every move so that essentially you have become untouchable.
  
  No, I don’t feel that something is wrong at all. //s
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:16am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Of coarse this is ‘sarc’// your move mawm//
    
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    May 21, 2022 5:21pm
oldfella

I see stuffed has managed yet another opinion piece about the Nadia Lim comment. Yawn!
Having beaten up the story in the first place, I suspect the MSM will now make sure it lasts longer than the Ukraine/Russia war. //
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May 21, 2022 10:20am
- septic skeptic
  
  It’s the 2022 version of ponytailgate!
  
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  May 21, 2022 2:30pm
kevn

@Maggie… Looks odd. Some sort of CGI/iA thing going on.
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May 21, 2022 10:26am
ClanMcleod

I’ve been in and out the last few days so if this has been posted before apologies. A warning.

Why the World should be very concerned about New Zealand under the Jacinda government –

“Yesterday, Te Punaha Matatini published a 21-page document entitled “The Murmuration of Information Disorders” (see attached release from the Science Media Centre) designating those opposed to the government’s pandemic policies as violent right wing insurrectionists planning the weaponised storming of parliament and the execution of public servants, academics, journalists, politicians, and healthcare workers.”

https://waikanaewatch.org/2022/05/19/why-the-world-should-be-very-concerned-about-new-zealand-under-the-jacinda-government/

The danger isn’t just for us in NZ. She is a globalist shill.
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May 21, 2022 10:30am
- Ross Campbell
  
  I sincerely hope the average citizen of Waikanae has more common sense than to take any notice of alarmist rubbish like this in their community blog.
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:56am
  - Rodion Raskolnikov
    
    You have every right to be alarmed Ross. In fact, if you aren’t alarmed at this point, then you haven’t been paying the slightest attention and considering the clear implications, and are likely someone of low intelligence.
    
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    May 21, 2022 12:44pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Ross – which part of it is rubbish and why? Take a couple of days if need be. Amendments to this treaty are currently being negotiated. FACT. If approve it will give the WHO power over governments to dictate health policy. FACT.
    If you don’t think that’s worth worrying about then there really is no help for you.
    
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    May 21, 2022 5:16pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Seen Mike today Ross?
    Mike is MIA.
    
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    May 21, 2022 5:27pm
- nathie
  
  Unsurprisingly Te Punaha Matatini missed one of “Aotearoa’s” greatest disinformation proponents …. Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson and most of the Labour Party.
  
  And in many instances the Media (when journalists give us their “opinions” as fact, which nowadays is much of the time. Examples? RNZ’s Morning Report, the 6pm TV news, and the media narrative in general).
  
  And behind the scenes stuff that readers/viewers/listeners won’t realise, which is the Editorial stance which guides the journos.
  
  And let’s not forget it was a journo herself who exposed the fact that Labour were (are) having weekly “news agenda” meetings with media editors across the “motu” (not some conspiracy theorist)!
  
  Simon Bridges mentioned some of this in his valedictory speech “But if the government of the time is giving you your best talking points every single day you come to this place, maybe you’ve got the balance wrong.
  
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  May 21, 2022 11:34am
  - nathie
    
    Edit (didn’t finish off in time):
    But then again perhaps Te Punaha Matatini groupthink thinks both National and ACT are the only political “disinformation proponents”?
    
    If so that would make sense as it fits there “right-wing conspiracy” (at the Parliamentary protests – totally ignoring those of the Left that also felt and espoused the same)!
    
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    May 21, 2022 11:43am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Just like the many US democrats on record for all to see, inciting political violence. They then create a fluffed up “white supremacist” bogeyman in an effort to silence protest against their own very destructive and divisive policies. Seems to come from a common playbook.
  
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  May 21, 2022 12:41pm
Stellaboxer

I heard an ad on the radio encouraging us all to learn NZ sign language as it’s our third official language. I hope RNZ takes this seriously and broadcasts Morning Report in it. It would definitely improve the show and address any accusations of hopeless leftists bias levelled at it once and for all.
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May 21, 2022 10:49am
- nathie
  
  “Apparently” the PM supports this! The evidence for this is, first she uses what people call “word soup” (to talk and talk about something else other than the question), but she now is regularly seen practicing “wavey arm soup” (in which she flaps her arms around very fast and all over the place, so that sign interpreters have trouble keeping up with their translations)!
  
  Sadly sometimes satire reflects real-life???
  
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  May 21, 2022 1:20pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I know a good ‘sign’
  
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  May 21, 2022 5:29pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

There was some criticism that the US 2020 election ballot fraud investigation by “True the Vote” and described in “2000 Mules” documentary didn’t show any of the 2000+ mules doing repeated visits to drop off illegal votes. True the vote have responded with this video of a mule in Detroit doing (illegally) four drops of multiple ballots in two days at the same drop box:
https://rumble.com/v15had7-exclusive-video-from-detroit-shows-ballot-traffickers-in-action.html
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May 21, 2022 10:57am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  When the cellphone location data by itself demonstrates their multiple visits to multiple drop boxes over multiple nights, then additional video footage seems superfluous and unnecessary.
  
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  May 21, 2022 12:53pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Six Counties with small drops in each County?
  But that is the one of plenty recorded.
  You do know that the left always cheat, don’t you?
  Even here in Godzone
  
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  May 21, 2022 5:34pm
ClanMcleod

NZ is on Bad Cattitude’s radar re the handouts to help people “fight inflation”.

“isn’t this kind of maybe like trying to fight an obesity epidemic by handing out cinnabon coupons?”

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-the-inflation-diet?

Nailed it.
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May 21, 2022 11:23am
- NZer In Exile
  
  All need to tighten belts across the board (that’s you too, politicians, bloated unionists and public servants) and yes their does need to be some redistribution to spread the load in difficult times.
  
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  May 21, 2022 12:43pm
Suze Wainwright

Isn’t it time for Simon Wilson to shut up and support his little woman with her Project Chloe…?
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May 21, 2022 11:27am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I had a smoke – who is Chleo
  
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  May 21, 2022 5:36pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Good stuff by the look of it! 😂
    
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    May 21, 2022 6:07pm
Sparrow

All governments waste tax payers money on their pet topics. This lot are gold medal winners. Its not been commented on a lot but a further $200 million on another review of moving Auckland port to the Manukau. This is scandalous. This was rejected out of hand before but here we go again. Presumably the same consultants eating at the trough. The idea of moving it to Whangarei is questionable but the Manukau. Presumably its because the Minister of Transport and Roskill MP would like to see big ships pass his lounge window instead of just playing with his plastic tug in the bath.
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May 21, 2022 12:28pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Exclusive Green School in Taranaki has still to spend
$8 Million of its Government “loan”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/128706741/green-schools-expansion-project-is-set-to-finish-mid2023

It must piss some of the other eco-groups off that their community/sustainable proposals have hit a brick wall with this Government. (perhaps they just don’t have the right connections)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/128698163/budget-2022-funding-bid-failure-more-of-the-same-for-mori-and-pasifika
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May 21, 2022 1:01pm
- nathie
  
  Presumably the Green School isn’t affected by the likes of Gib board shortages …. because surely they are using materials 100% supplied by mother earth like ponga tree walls and weaved flax roofs? 😉
  
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  May 21, 2022 1:23pm
surfing

Police are guilty of aiding and abetting law breakers….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/planned-protest-activity-on-auckland-harbour-bridge-draws-large-police-presence-as-woman-arrested/4QXXG5JF44DMWQ5GKQMNLFBN6M/

Cops shouldn’t be escorting these illegal protestors, they should be tear gassing them.
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May 21, 2022 1:33pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

What I don’t understand is why I have to pay income tax. After all, Grant can just print some more money instead.
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May 21, 2022 1:45pm
- chukar
  
  NMtB,
  Using the ( substantial)left overs from the pandemic print up for Labours Budget wish list is totally irresponsible.
  These funds needed to be cancelled to reduce the burgeoning inflation their printing programme has already caused!
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:32pm
Maggie Pie

Things that make you go hmmm….

Monkey Pox seems like the kind of thing that might happen to your body if you had taken multiple injections specifically designed to damage your immune system.

WATCH:

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1527760631109394432
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May 21, 2022 2:31pm
- Ross Campbell
  
  First human monkeypox case appeared in 1970,Covid vaccine first used 2020.
  Hey let’s join the dots as there must be a link right…
  
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  May 21, 2022 4:06pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Hard to believe this ramraid has been undertaken by a bunch of youth out for some fags and lollies.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300594036/ramraiders-target-historic-bronze-auckland-monument-almost-a-century-old
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May 21, 2022 2:34pm
- nathie
  
  Yes, a bunch of youngster opportunists wouldn’t “uplift the bollards protecting the fountain and bolt-cut the metal fence protecting it”, it sounds like a premeditated and organised crime, probably by a bunch of misguided fools thinking the statue is “colonial” and “racist”.
  
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  May 21, 2022 2:47pm
AlphaWhiskey

https://youtu.be/aNpKZ46V6dE

More evidence that the US election was highly suspect. Watch 2000 Mules.
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May 21, 2022 2:37pm
Tauhei Notts

Yesterday our host had piece up on why our country finds it difficult to access foreign nurses.
I did not respond yesterday as the article made me too upset.
I recommend that piece to any of you who missed it.
Like me, you can read it and weep.
We are unlucky that the only place in our country that you can learn about lunacy, such as that explained yesterday, is on this blog.
Thank you, Mr David Farrar.
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May 21, 2022 3:50pm
Jack5

The gender debate …

Professor Kathleen Stock, the British philosopher and feminist who resigned her university post over the gender row, spells out her position in an interview with Kim Hill.

Did I hear correctly that she is one opposing UK adoption of NZ ban on “conversion therapy”?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018841934
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May 21, 2022 5:00pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Apparently the woke (in the USA at least) in effect appear to be a pushing a coercive type of “gender-fluidity” conversion therapy on young kids. Never mind the mounting evidence that there are many cases of buyers regret in later life (especially after often irreversible sterilisation from puberty blockers and from essentially irreversible life changing gender reassignment surgery).
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:55pm
Maggie Pie

My partner was sooo pissed off.
He got held up on the Shore for nearly 2 hours earlier this arvo….so was pleased to hear the Cops were finally doing what they get paid for!
Good job!!

https://twitter.com/Phillyb60192622/status/1527824555485839361
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May 21, 2022 5:22pm
NZer In Exile

For those interested in following the Aus Federal election tonight, polling booths close at 8pm NZT.

Sky News Australia is covering the results through the night and can be viewed at the link below:

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/federal-election/watch-live-sky-news-australias-federal-election-night-live-coverage-with-expert-analysis-from-kieran-gilbert-peta-credlin-and-andrew-clennell/news-story/cf3886dfcd2d7692ca44cf8daa5ab3c8
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May 21, 2022 7:56pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Slight correction; The polls close at 8pm NZT for the eastern states (where the vast majority of the Aus population live). The other states close up to 2 hours later due to the various time differences heading west across the country.
  
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