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Happy International Day for Biological Diversity!
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May 22, 2022 8:05am
- iMP
  
  How long to we have to endure these first day posts?? Moderators, PLEASE, a moratorium. 6 months at least.
  
  [Mod – it’s a GENERAL debate iMP. You might just have to grow a thicker skin, or read past the posts]
  
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  December 22, 2021 8:43am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    Could we perhaps have some first up comments about biblical archaeology or Argentinian travelogues instead?
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:45am
    - Bridgenag
      
      Sometimes his minders let him put something to get upticks but again…..just attention seeking. Best not to get sucked in I used to downtick without looking but mm like Hannibal enjoys it all. Best to ignore.
      
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      May 22, 2022 1:15pm
  - David Garrett
    
    iMP; Sadly you have just made the Chief Troll’s day…
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:48am
    - iMP
      
      If only Trolls could reflect on respective up or down ticks and honour the consistent opinion of the People. It’s a lack of self awareness; and kinda arrogant to just keep on. It’s like an unending car alarm.
      
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      May 22, 2022 10:16am
      - Ross Campbell
        
        So basically what your saying is that you only want to hear opinions which are the same as yours.
        Living in echo chambers where everyone just agrees with each other leads to the kind of polarisation people were talking about yesterday.
        All blogs need more dissenting voices, not less.
        
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        May 22, 2022 10:38am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Honouring the ‘consistent opinion of the people’ might spell the end of any more attempts to revive the ‘new’ New Conservatives, etc. And that would be sad.
        
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        May 22, 2022 10:45am
      - Nookin
        
        “…honour the consistent opinion of the People”?
        
        Isn’t that comment the prelude to cancellation? Are we seeing the birth of cancellation culture on KB and, what is worse, in General Debate? Is “ People” capitalised because it has a special definition for the purposes of the comment, ie exclusively those people who share your view on mmm?
        
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        May 22, 2022 10:58am
      - wilderbeast
        
        Funny if it wasn’t so true
        
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        May 22, 2022 11:49am
      - kowtow
        
        Ross C
        
        Only his daily day post isn’t an opinion or contribution .
        It’s done as trolling.
        
        And when he does contribute something sensible ( occasionally) he does get big ups from many here.
        
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        May 22, 2022 11:59am
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        Because mike doesn’t have the nous to contribute anything substantive (except perhaps the occasional tedious waffle about some obscure matter of military history), all he can do is snipe at intelligent contributions and post his hilarious “World X Day” dad jokes. I wouldn’t elevate him to “troll” status, because trolls are clever, whereas mike’s efforts are all pretty banal and low-tier. The best response, instead of downticking him, is to neither up or downtick him. The hit a man’s* ego takes when nobody even bothers to engage with a comment is profound.
        
        *mike’s gender is indeterminate, but I am tolerant either way.
        
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        May 22, 2022 12:32pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Oh David, you write ‘troll’ as if it were a bad thing.
      
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      May 22, 2022 10:43am
      - David Garrett
        
        Milky, it speaks volumes for you that you think trolling is a positive thing…you are just a sad little man Milky…probably sitting in your underpants in front of your computer in your very average house in Tawa or Lower Hutt, STABBING at the downtick button…and giggling like a schoolgirl when someone bites…as, sadly, I just did.
        
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        May 22, 2022 10:46am
    - David Garrett
      
      Ross Campbell:
      “…Living in echo chambers where everyone just agrees with each other leads to the kind of polarisation people were talking about yesterday.
      All blogs need more dissenting voices, not less”
      
      Well said Sir, and congrats if that is your actual name. But these inane references to supposed international days of. X or Y add absolutely nothing to the debate, and are probably intended to simply annoy. You may not know that “mikenmildagain” has at least one other nom de plume here, and happily admits to being a troll – in fact he quite clearly loves the attention he gets as one.
      
      Just in case you didn’t know…
      
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      May 22, 2022 1:10pm
      - Bridgenag
        
        Which one of the googled Ross Campbells’s do you think he is?
        
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        May 22, 2022 1:22pm
      - David Garrett
        
        Bridgenag: firstly, why on earth would I bother Googling him? Secondly, who knows? Which is why I added the phrase “if that is your actual name” after my congratulations.
        
        As you will well know if you’ve been here more than five minutes, I put much more value on the comments of the 5% here who have the courage to put their names to their opinions.
        
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        May 22, 2022 1:45pm
  - Pavel
    
    Most of the time he’s not the first one to post but his posts always seem to be at the top.
    
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    May 22, 2022 9:53am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Suspicious!
      
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      May 22, 2022 10:42am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        I actually get you mike – you’re always desperate to display your superior intellect and reasoning power to us all here.
        
        Kind of an: “I’m really to smart to be on this blog, but I’ll impart my wisdom to benefit you all anyway…”
        
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        May 22, 2022 10:49am
  - iMP
    
    They are never general debate. The posts are junk mail and noise. Kiwi bloggers are pretty unanimous on that and with the daily tedium of them. Just sayin’ in a general debatey kind of way.
    
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    May 22, 2022 1:06pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Junk mail – exactly. The vast majority of Mike’s posts fall into that category. Which is a shame, as he occasionally shows that he has the ability to contribute; and those contributions are welcome, if not always in tune with the majority. Which is just fine.
      
      Mike – please try to the the better version of yourself.
      
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      May 22, 2022 7:32pm
  - cjn
    
    I enjoy them. Keep it up. Moderators defend free speech.
    
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    May 22, 2022 4:49pm
CJames

Guess what. There is no real financial risk from climate change/ catastrophe/ heating.
https://youtu.be/bfNamRmje-s
Looks like HSBC is the bank to be with.
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May 22, 2022 8:05am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  And the commentator is getting hauled over the coals
  
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  May 22, 2022 8:10am
  - Nickc2
    
    By whom? Has freedom of thought and expression been banned already? These Green elites don’t like it up-em eh?
    
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    May 22, 2022 9:25am
- Master Mariner
  
  Absolutely agree with his statement that he wastes too much time on dealing with Climate change for no result.
  Climate change is the new word for “Cooking the Books”.
  Incidently I bank with HSBC and find their security second too none.
  It was originally formed as a bank for the opium “traders”.
  Also the most targeted and fined Bank probably in the World.
  Alarm Bells ring when you “Must” invest “ethical” investing, Think AMP and no Fossil fuels as an example for Kiwisaver etc.
  The politicisation of Kiwisaver should ring la warning, Loud and clear.
  Thanks for sharing CJ.
  
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  May 22, 2022 8:35am
  - Paulus
    
    Most people do not realise that the HSBC is a British Bank with HO in London, and always has been.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:29am
    - Master Mariner
      
      Not correct Paulas. They changed to London when China handed TOOK BACK HK.
      Only recently HO in London.
      
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      May 22, 2022 11:56am
    - kowtow
      
      Don’t think it “always has been”
      
      It’s earliest history was in Honkers , then expanding to Shanghai and then many other places in the east .
      
      But yes it has moved its HQ to London.
      
      As to the opium , yes in the early days that was a major commodity sold into China , but so were many many other things and the traders of all manner of goods needed a bank .
      
      And so the bank was set up in the 1860’s in HK , some 20 years after the First Opium war.
      
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      May 22, 2022 12:07pm
- Tomtoddy
  
  Well spotted CJ. Lots of commonsense and reality in that presentation. Any downside from an extra degree or two of warmth will be easily dealt with when needed if there is any. Markets will adapt and so will humans.
  
  The socalled “catastrophe” is a massive con job driven by media and misallocated science funding.
  
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  May 22, 2022 8:43am
  - Rodion Raskolnikov
    
    I just wish all of the so-called emergencies that keep cropping up didn’t always without exception benefit those who shout the loudest about them and who also determine and propose the solution. That seems to be the discernible pattern.
    
    If I was a sceptical person, I’d have to conclude that the mass of people are being lied to and manipulated for the benefit of the few, the same few who benefit no matter what form the latest emergency takes.
    
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    May 22, 2022 11:34am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  A century of current climate warming is about same as moving 100km closer to the equator. Complete non-issue. And everyone can see we are now at start of massive shift from fossil fuels
  
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  May 22, 2022 10:31am
  - Rodion Raskolnikov
    
    Ice core data suggests that the earth has experienced massive climate upheavals in the past, both extreme warming and extreme cooling. This data is for a 20K period from the present day, but in far earlier epochs, both the global CO2 and temperatures were much higher than even today. The key point is the relative increases and decreases.
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_core_project#/media/File:Evolution_of_temperature_in_the_Post-Glacial_period_according_to_Greenland_ice_cores.jpg
    
    Here we are in a relatively stable situation for the last 6 or 7 thousand years (see the furthest right side of the graph above), which has been conducive to the rise of civilisation.
    
    Two questions naturally present themselves:
    
    1) What caused the huge swings in the past (because it cannot have been the present bogey man, human industry)?; and
    
    2) Given the past swings and the current multi-millennia period of stability, why did the climate never “runaway,” in either direction, when it was going between extremes in the past?
    
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    May 22, 2022 11:41am
  - alloytoo
    
    As a small nation with very little effect on global emissions (arguably net zero emissions given our export of 80% of our food product), we need to honestly evaluate whether or not our policies are going to make a stitch of difference to global temperature in the near to medium term.
    
    We then need to compare the cost of the potentially futile attempt to the reasonable costs of adaptation.
    
    BECAUSE if we fail in our attempt to change the climate and bankrupt ourselves in the process we will be too poor to pursue once affordable adaptation policies.
    
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    May 22, 2022 3:33pm
    - Jim
      
      Agree, but political grand standing and virtue signalling about climate alarmism is essential for those few individuals aspiring to a lucrative international intergovernmental career path (United Nations).
      
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      May 23, 2022 6:42am
SmokerGuy

Amazing Australia elects a labour government when they only need to look across the Tasman and see the train wreck one is causing here. Prepare yourselves for pain Australia!
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May 22, 2022 8:07am
- Nickc2
  
  IMO, the Aust election was won by the media and the ABC’s lies in particular.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:29am
  - Rodion Raskolnikov
    
    The media always decides modern day elections, because, although their ability is fast diminishing, they control the information flow and create narratives, thus they shape perceptions, and therefore, they shape decision-making.
    
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    May 22, 2022 11:48am
    - Nickc2
      
      Agree. Joe Biden would never have been elected if it wasn’t for media manipulation and lies.
      
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      May 22, 2022 2:05pm
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        And the flip side of that is that the first Twitter purges didn’t occur until after Trump was elected in 2016, because, notwithstanding the coordinated legacy media campaign directed against Trump, free speech on social media was one of the biggest factors in his victory, so free speech had to go as censoring “dangerous ideas” was necessary.
        
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        May 22, 2022 4:08pm
  - Thought Criminal
    
    If people are dumb enough to believe it. Then they deserve what they get.
    
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    May 22, 2022 1:50pm
- blue collar
  
  Throwing out tennis stars for not getting injected and crash tackling kids to be struck off the electioneering to do list ?
  Scomo was strong geopolitically , hope albos up to it , not sure about this school for the pacific nations to fight China thing they dreamed up is worth more than a pinch of shit
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:48am
- Pavel
  
  They only have to look back at the last time labor were in power over there. Howard leaves office with $30 billion in the bank, K Rudd blows the lot within 3 months giving everyone a cheque for $900. K Rudd, and then Gillard, go on a spending binge and run up billions in debt leaving the incoming coalition a mess to clean up. They then struggle to try and balance the books by cutting back wasteful schemes and unnecessary spending, upsetting all the freeloaders, then lose to Labor. Now Anthony is in he’s already talking about posting out cheques to everyone again and billions upon billions of new spending. Been going on in Australia forever. Labor get in and blow money then the Coalition get in and have to fix it up and the cuts make them unpopular so they vote Labor again who blow the cash and run up debt so they vote the coalition again. The big thing is almost all western democracies run this way and always have (think Thatcher and other people’s money). One sides financially responsible and the other isn’t.
  
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  May 22, 2022 10:15am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That is exactly what is happening here with Jaspinda, spending “other people’s money”
    In this case, my Grandkids, and Great Grandkids
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:38am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Whitlam was the worst……..Really highly qualified people applying for menial jobs.
    
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    May 22, 2022 1:19pm
- mogg
  
  Scomo went net zero, which had been his point of difference and won him the last election.
  Bojo’s net zero has helped to push energy prices to record levels in UK, meanwhile his polling is at record lows. Germany same thing. Many politicians are just too stupid for words.
  
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  May 22, 2022 12:09pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Golly G’s bill to enfranchise 16 + 17 year olds, plus other likely Green-favouring changes, has been selected from the biscuit tin.

40 percent of 16 and 17-year-olds vote in a way that’s different to their parents in countries like Scotland and Wales that already have that voting age.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-calls-for-voting-age-to-be-lowered-to-16.html
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May 22, 2022 8:11am
- Debsta
  
  Great, more uninformed voters…just what we need! 🙄
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:46am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    ‘indoctrinated voters’
    Fixed it for you.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:39am
- David Garrett
  
  Nevermind: These are the same clowns who want the age of full criminal responsibility to be raised to twenty-five…the not entirely irrational reason? That the brain doesn’t fullymature until then.
  
  So they want offenders to remain in the Youth Court until age 25 on the grounds that they are not fully mentally competent, but want to lower the voting age…Yeah, that makes sense! To a fuckwit leftie, since it would be them benefiting most from idealistic teenagers voting.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:48am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I thought it was 23. Teenagers get the brain take out at 13, and get it back at 23. During those years they are fuckwits.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:41am
    - mawm
      
      Some seem to never get it back again.
      
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      May 22, 2022 10:48am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      We have a Young Adult Court here in Gisborne… for 18-25 year olds.
      
      The justification for this court is that many young adults have limited executive functioning (thinking,memory and focus).
      
      Speaking virtually at the launch in the Gisborne Courthouse yesterday, Chief District Court Judge Heemi Taumaunu said research had shown the brains of young adults were not fully matured. Their brains continued to develop in response to environmental conditions.
      
      https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/local-news/20220506/life-changing-and-brave/
      
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      May 22, 2022 5:00pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    In my mind , If your old enough to go to war then you should be able to vote.
    Why complicate things any more than use logical thinking.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:46am
    - David Garrett
      
      MM: Yours is an oft quoted comparison, but IMO it is a false one.
      
      For a start, to the best of my knowledge, no western country drafts soldiers aged 16. Secondly, and much more importantly, soldiers are specifically trained not to think or question, but simply to do what they are told “theirs is not to reason why…” and all that. Thirdly, soldiering is a activity that is best suited to young men (and sadly women these days) whose primary quality is that they are physically fit and healthy, and able to do physical things for longer that older people cannot.
      
      Voting for who is going to run a country is a completely different animal; it requires – or at least that is the theory – thinking and reasoning; the ability to test one theory against another, and work out the most convincing. It also requires some ability to work out who is the most likely to be truthful; to be a person of integrity; to have similar values to you.
      
      All of the above are precisely not what is required in a soldier.
      
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      May 22, 2022 1:20pm
      - G152
        
        Joined the RNZN at 16.
        And there were younger entrants
        
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        May 22, 2022 1:32pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Old enough to go to war equals old enough to vote?
        No, not quite David.
        I enlisted in NZ’s Military at age 15yrs, 3mths which was the minimum at the time. By the time I was old enough to vote (21yrs), I had already been involved in two conflicts (Malay Peninsular and Borneo).
        Politicians make the rules and the military are compelled to comply. Politicians send Military Personnel into harm’s way, not the Military.
        BTW, Politicians declare war!
        
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        May 22, 2022 1:45pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        In that case, nick2, you could well know a couple of my close friends who were in the same theatres. 🙂
        
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        May 22, 2022 5:21pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Should be no vote unless you pay the Bill’s (tax!) Ideally vote power should be proportional to tax you pay.
    
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    May 22, 2022 11:57am
  - Ehlana
    
    Sauce for goose should be sauce for gander for this one. I could agree to full criminal responsibility kicking in at 25, as long as that was also the voting age and the age at which you could legally purchase and consume anything which might affect the working of your brain (like alcohol or marijuana, for example).
    
    I know humans are never completely consistent, but when it is this blatant, shouldn’t there be at least some embarassment over the fact?
    
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    May 22, 2022 4:49pm
- kowtow
  
  The continuing debasement of democracy.
  
  By the far left.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Great, bring the voting age down to 16. They can work and pay taxes, drive a vehicle, smoke?
  But what about alcohol? Bring that age down too, and see what happens
  
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  May 22, 2022 10:45am
  - Paulus
    
    16 year olds working to pay taxes – yea !
    Great paper round.
    
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    May 22, 2022 1:14pm
- chukar
  
  Has GG got the qualifications to push this?
  Was she born here,or is this just an idea from her country of origin. Looking at that country , there is very little effective voting for anyone!
  So perhaps she should withdraw this bill?
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:30pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Our Dear Pm is out of isolation and heading out of the country for ~~a jaunt~~ something.

They said she would follow through with her plans to travel to the US next week. Further details about her itinerary would come out on Monday.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/05/21/pm-out-of-covid-isolation-feeling-well-for-us-trip/

Meanwhile the New PM of Australia will be off to the Quad Summit in Tokyo on Tuesday.., meeting with the PMs of Japan and India, and the President of the USA.

https://www.kantei.go.jp/quad-leaders-meeting-tokyo2022/index.html

Strange how I seem to know more about the travel plans of foreign dignitaries than I do of our own Dear Leader.
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May 22, 2022 8:18am
- MCōs
  
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  What’s Kim Jong-un up to these days, Maggy?
  
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  May 22, 2022 8:28am
  - Simon
    
    Kim is very chipper. He will be required to hold back Japan, offset S Korea, while China moves against the rest of the pacific against a badly declining American
    
    North Korea will do very well in the new Russia China order.
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:32am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    He’s checking out what Yoon Suk-yeol and Joseph Biden have been proposing.
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:46am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    But specifically, for today…
    He’s just back from visiting the coffin of Hyon Chol-hae
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdSs98zr9QM
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:53am
  - bjools
    
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/19/north-korea-nuclear-missile-test-biden/
    Something he dared not do under Trump.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:20am
- Simon
  
  Ardern to get her orders for NZ by American globalists. China teaming up with Russia has upset the apple cart bigly.
  
  A couple of dancing kiwi fruit will not mask the problems NZ now has as an American satellite with a changed China.
  
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  May 22, 2022 8:29am
- Yvette
  
  Maggy, isn’t Jacinda going to get an honourary ~~degree~~ or something from a university she never went to, until now?
  
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  May 22, 2022 8:31am
- pdm
  
  Maggy – she does not want New Zealanders to know about the `side trip’ to the UN to see what her options are there.
  
  Rats leaving sinking ships and all of that.
  
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  May 22, 2022 8:41am
  - NK
    
    Probably visiting Klaus.
    
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    May 22, 2022 9:03am
    - Nickc2
      
      Yep, she’s checking in with Klaus for a pat on the head and a tummy rub as a reward for fucking up NZ’s economy and setting its citizens against each other over racial issues she and her Maori Caucus created.
      
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      May 22, 2022 9:09am
    - Hebe123
      
      My mum keeps saying it’s Davos this week. Nothing in the media, I mean propaganda pages. And Cindy is quiet on her itinerary….
      
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      May 22, 2022 10:44am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    She said we were going to get the most transparent government ever and for once she wasn’t lying because I for one can see right through it.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:52am
  - mawm
    
    Does she have to go to Geneva for the pandemic treaty or can she sign away our sovereignty in NY?
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:54am
- Benedict Yu
  
  “Meanwhile the New PM of Australia will be off to the Quad Summit in Tokyo on Tuesday.”
  
  It just seems inconceivable that he will be in a position by Tuesday to represent Australia at such an event.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:29am
  - westernScientist
    
    one would presume a whole entourage of public servants who may well not be completely incompetent (coming out of Morrisons government) will be their to hold his hand.
    
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    May 22, 2022 9:38am
  - blue collar
    
    Haven’t even counted millions of votes yet … is he the pm ?
    
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    May 22, 2022 9:50am
- Paulus
  
  Why did I read in the media that she left on her overseas holiday yesterday evening ?
  
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  May 22, 2022 10:31am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    The media left yesterday. I understand that the PM goes tomorrow.
    
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    May 22, 2022 1:24pm
  - HeatherW
    
    Broomstick One was due out yesterday including the press people etc. Due to USA Covid entry rules Ms Ardern cannot arrive before 24th (10 days after symptoms/positive test). Harvard University commencement speech is the 26th May.
    
    Taylor Swift (singer) got her honorary degree from New York Uni this week.
    
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    May 22, 2022 1:32pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Let’s hope the ‘toothed one’ has a relapse. 🙂
      
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      May 22, 2022 5:23pm
RockyJ

Can anyone tell us what the protestors on the Auckland harbour bridge were protesting about. Plenty of reporting about how disruptive they were but the issue at stake was carefully avoided by the main stream media
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May 22, 2022 8:25am
- westernScientist
  
  I thought it was against 3 waters…
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:39am
- blue collar
  
  Was thinking the same thing.
  Can’t be a woke reason then , must be a practical one tied up with the general population
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:51am
- kowtow
  
  Agreed . You had to look very hard for wot they were about .
  
  Print media in final paragraphs talked of a van with “Mana News” on it , they then used that to tie the bridge thing in with the parliament protest .
  
  But looking at it on face value . The flag , the people and the name of the van points to an ethnic issue .
  
  But we can’t rely on our Media Pardy for any real enlightenment in these mercenary , ‘progressive’, post modern and very divided times.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:59am
- Nickc2
  
  Maori issues! Not enough koha in the budget I think. There were many flags that depicted Maori.
  
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  May 22, 2022 1:06pm
Maggy Wassilieff

The downtickers are on duty early this morning.
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May 22, 2022 8:27am
- MCōs
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  There’s another one for you for being pretentious enough to think your farts don’t smell.
  
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  May 22, 2022 8:31am
  - Cinematic
    
    What planet are you inhabiting today?
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:34am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, Mac is from Narnia.
      
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      May 22, 2022 10:57am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Thanks,
    I collect them.
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:37am
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      Splendid! Demonstrate your sustainability and save gas by farting in bottles.
      
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      May 22, 2022 9:58am
  - Michael Johnston
    
    Rude sod, aren’t you?
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:39am
  - Greenheart
    
    What an obnoxious comment. Brain cleanse necessary
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:52am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It is obnoxious in the sense that MCös writes in a manner to indicate that he knows what I think.
      
      But I’m a biologist, and know a fair bit about farts..and it worries me not in the slightest that folks are aware of the fact that I fart, and depending on my diet, the farts can be smelly, stinky or downright offensive.
      
      But perhaps MCös’s comment was an attempt to publicly shame me.
      
      I’ll add it to my list of anonymous abuses I’ve accumulated on this blog
      
      i.e.:
      I’m mad,
      I’m hysterical
      I possess a stinky cunt
      I have saggy LITTLE tits
      I’m premenopausal
      I suffer from sexual jealousy
      I’m racist
      I’m an alt-right Trumpeter
      
      …and probably a few others I’ve forgotten.
      
      cheers
      
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      May 22, 2022 10:24am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Illegitimi non Carborundum
        
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        May 22, 2022 11:00am
      - oldfella
        
        Maggy, on the flip side, I love your educated comments. Always worth reading. Keep ’em coming.
        
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        May 22, 2022 11:03am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Seems like MCos should be a little more careful about comments that might trigger people.
        
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        May 22, 2022 11:10am
      - MCōs
        
        There’s plenty of opinions expressed on this forum that I find disagreeable and plenty of my opinions aren’t particularly popular. That’s the nature of social media.
        However there’s two common comments on this forum that I find particularly annoying; grizzling about tardy moderators & complaining about downticks.
        
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        May 22, 2022 1:45pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Mcös
        
        I din’t complain about downticking.
        I made a simple observation (@8:27 there were about 5 comments up on screen and all had been double down-ticked (at least).)
        
        If you refer back through the archive you will see I’m pretty happy with downticking, because:
        a) It indicates KB is not an echo-chamber
        and
        b) along with up-ticking, it is a useful device for seeing at a glance which posts I’ve read.
        
        For the life of me, I can’t see why my post warranted a sledge of personal invective against me.
        
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        May 22, 2022 2:43pm
  - graham
    
    Wow. What ruffled your feathers this morning, MCōs?
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:53am
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      Must have been hoping for a Brumbies win…
      
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      May 22, 2022 9:59am
Lee C

Neil Oliver on teh plandemic end-game:

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=298536262484317
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May 22, 2022 8:35am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I like his voice, Scot, but very clear. He also knows what he is talking about. Television presenter, archaeologist, and author.
  
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  May 22, 2022 11:04am
- kowtow
  
  Bill Gates Foundation donated some $ 400 mil to the secret conspiracy that joined the trades unions and big business in the US to unseat Trump.
  
  They make no secret of this now . It was covered by Time Magazine.
  
  Trump was literally the only statesman who could and would have stopped this.
  
  They had to get rid of him.
  
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  May 22, 2022 2:00pm
Tricati

A disturbing read to put you off your Sunday morning coffee. Please can National/ACT start screaming out loud about this, as this is the type of corruption that pisses the general public off.
https://www.thedailyexaminer.co.nz/all-in-the-mahuta-family/
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May 22, 2022 8:37am
- David Garrett
  
  Tricati: The Mahutas have been deeply corrupt for 100 years; much more concerned with lining their own pockets than benefiting the plebs in Tainui.
  
  Back in the 1940’s when the first “full and final settlements” were negotiated between Princess Te Puea and Peter Fraser, a faction in the tribe wanted the then substantial compensation payments – 6000 pounds per year for 30 years – to go into a special fund which would only be used for two purposes: to buy farm land in the tribal rohe when it came up for sale, and to send promising Tainui to uni.
  
  If that had been how the money was used, Tainui would own half the Waikato now, and who knows what skilled and educated leaders they would have produced. Who vetoed the idea? The Mahutas…who also insisted on a one of payment of 600 pounds – what a senior lawyer earned in a year in 1944 – for King Koroki’s “personal use”.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:38am
  - curry4me
    
    That’s very interesting. I had no idea how venal they were.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:01am
    - David Garrett
      
      curry: “Venal”…good word.
      
      The long and short of it is the Tainui could have become as successful as the Ngai Tahu are now – and also, as I said in my original comment, own half the Waikato.
      
      My research for a series of articles I wrote 30 years ago – published in the Dominion back then – showed that 6000 pounds was the price of a good size dairy farm in the 40’s, or several million dollars in todays money.
      
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      May 22, 2022 10:32am
      - kowtow
        
        Ngai Tahu get preferential tax treatment as a charity .
        
        That must help the books.
        
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        May 22, 2022 12:28pm
  - David Garrett
    
    ..And of course King Koroki was a Mahuta.
    
    My source for all of the above: “Te Puea” by Michael King…recommended to me as the authoritative source on the confiscation claim payments by one Denese Henare, the wife of sometime commenter here, Wayne Mapp, former MP and cabinet minister.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:04am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    The creation of the King movement, and similar arrangements in other iwi, copying European ideals of hereditary and unaccountable monarchies, has arguably been deleterious for most Maori. I wonder if it is possible to study the comparative outcomes for hapu and iwi which followed more closely their traditional models of leadership and decision-making.
    
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    May 22, 2022 11:50am
MCōs

If the ALP hadn’t burdened themselves with such an odious leader they might have scraped through for another term, from my observation.
He was the latest in a string of five PMs (1 of them twice) who couldn’t string together four years at the top job.
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May 22, 2022 8:46am
- Nickc2
  
  Joe Biden now has an equally stupid twin brother. His name is Anthony Albanese (Albo for short).
  What’s the bet he will be rolled by a woman within his current term?
  Australia wept!
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:02am
  - Dr John
    
    as they were saying in Australia last week “it won’t be easy with Albanese”
    
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    May 22, 2022 11:04am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Roller by my Brother’s good friend Julia?
    
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    May 22, 2022 11:09am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I heard he’d planned to be like ScoMo and use the first letters of his Christian name and surname as a moniker. Then someone suggested he would forever be known as AnAl, so that idea was dropped 😀
    
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    May 22, 2022 1:28pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Albo’s also known as ‘Therapeutic Albo’ for his propensity with ‘therapeutic massages’ arguably with happy finishes.
      https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/01/therapeutic-albo-wants-you-to-know-about-his-final-touches.html
      
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      May 22, 2022 2:13pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Dear cosy,
  
  An election to lose. Albo will be gone in less than 2 years as Tanya does a Julia. Dutton is opposition Leader while Australia goes into recession. Liberals have got rid of their moderate handbrake (unlike here) and will be a more unified party. I suspect there will be buyers remorse in some of these inner city suburbs when the recession bites.
  
  The first covid leader to fall. Ardern and Biden to follow.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:14am
  - westernScientist
    
    unfortunately Trudeau and macron both managed to scrape though
    
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    May 22, 2022 9:46am
  - MCōs
    
    Nobody likes to lose an election.
    
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    May 22, 2022 9:56am
- smttc
  
  Except Morrison isn’t the leader of the ALP. Idiot.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:17am
  - MCōs
    
    Quite right.
    The last thing the Labor Party over there would want it him as leader.
    Try LNP, then.
    As I recall he only became became Liberal leader because the other contenders cancelled each other out.
    
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    May 22, 2022 9:45am
Yvette

Budget 2022: Cost-of-living sweetener planned well in advance – Robertson
May 20 2022
The $350 cost-of-living relief payment for more than two million New Zealanders in Budget 2022 was a surprise to some, but Finance Minister Grant Robertson says it is something the government has been working towards since the beginning of the year.

March 7
Ardern denies ‘cost of living crisis’, won’t cut petrol taxes
It comes as new research from Consumer NZ found that the cost of living was the top concern of New Zealanders. But speaking to Newshub’s AM, Ardern said she would not describe the current situation as a crisis. “We are experiencing high inflation as are many countries at the moment,” she said. “It is projected to get better this year.”

March 9
Ardern again refuses to answer if there’s a cost of living crisis
Jacinda Ardern has once again refused to admit there is a cost of living crisis in New Zealand, going on the offensive in a debate against National’s Christopher Luxon.

Someone has perhaps been untruthful – again
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May 22, 2022 8:55am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Clearly Jacinda Ardern is OUT of the loop.
  
  She doesn’t seem to have a clue as to what her ministers are or aren’t doing.
  
  She is dependent on scripted responses prepared by others.
  
  I’m happy for anyone to refute the above.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:32am
  - westernScientist
    
    she might not be a very good listener
    
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    May 22, 2022 9:48am
  - kowtow
    
    I won’t try to refute that.
    
    But she’d refudiate that.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:02am
  - septic skeptic
    
    OK then, I absolutely refute that!
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:05am
  - Taieri
    
    I’m happy for anyone to refute the above.
    ———-
    
    I refute it on behalf of Jacinda Ardern.
    
    She often claims to speak on behalf of all New Zealanders of whom I’m one. So, if she can speak on my behalf, I can speak on her behalf. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:13am
blue collar

Auckland winning rugby again …. Still hate them and Barrett’s a traitor .
They will choke in the finals , they are weak minded pooftas who should stick to crochet not mens sport ,
They huddle around their hand bags , undo their girls blouse , and relax sipping lattes and giving each other pedicure and manicures .
How the fuck are those raging blue n white limp wrists gonna win ?
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May 22, 2022 8:58am
- Nickc2
  
  Well done the MIGHTY AUCKS!!! I’m pleased Boden Barrett saw the light and asked to play for them. He obviously saw the light and decided those Wgtn Wankers weren’t worth the effort.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:40am
  - Colville
    
    I think the $1mil/yr paychq might have helped too….
    
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    May 22, 2022 11:09am
    - Nickc2
      
      Wouldn’t you?
      A player’s career is rather short and unless you’re promised a lucrative job at the end, you need to live off your investments for the rest of your life, whilst paying taxes as you go. And that’s not taking into account nursing injuries along the way.
      
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      May 22, 2022 1:15pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Reads like a closeted elderly man raging against ‘teh gays’.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:41am
  - blue collar
    
    Scarred by fitzys mob 😁
    
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    May 22, 2022 9:53am
Yvette

… In a statement shared to social media, Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi acknowledged the $166 million boost to Whānau Ora commissioning, but was critical of the overall Māori health amount.
“It’s taken 182-years for Māori to get 2% of the budget.
“By that logic, we will need to wait 1840 more years to get 20% of health investment, and by then Jesus Christ will have returned.”
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/05/19/188m-maori-health-authority-boost-not-enough-says-experts/

Has anyone, in all the reports there are on Health spending in the Budget, seen a table or list which simply states where actual amounts are allocated to specific areas?
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May 22, 2022 9:23am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Or we could allocate health resources by need rather than race. That’s an idea. 🤡
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:34am
  - oldfella
    
    BY: couple that idea with ‘one law for all’ and you could be on to a winner!
    Chris? Are you listening, or is today taken up with your weekly Te Reo lessons?
    Priorities, and all that… //
    
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    May 22, 2022 11:11am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Here’s the estimates for Health
  https://budget.govt.nz/budget/2022/by/dept/moh.htm
  
  Here’s a pretty good overview
  https://www.bdo.nz/en-nz/budget-2022/health-wellbeing
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:40am
- mikenmildagain
  
  All in here:
  https://budget.govt.nz/budget/pdfs/estimates/v5/est22-v5-health.pdf
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:43am
Master Mariner

Helen Thompson: are we facing an international energy crisis?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018842865/helen-thompson-are-we-facing-an-international-energy-crisis

There are a couple of important points not stated above,
Namely , The Oil Majors and Opec+ can not meet demand.
And the World is nationalising natural resources, Energy security, Pipelines and Food.
Push come too shove, It will be “first up best dressed” with everyone looking after themselves regardless of International Treaties, obligations and Conventions.
Look no further than the Pandemic and Vaccines commandeered at the expense of less lucrative countries.
Here is NZ profile.
https://www.iea.org/articles/new-zealand-s-legislation-on-oil-security
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May 22, 2022 9:23am
- curry4me
  
  I wonder which other countries will follow Germany’s lead in declaring gas and nuclear clean fuels? I wonder who will stop paying lip service to ‘globull warming’/ ‘climate change’ first if the lights look like going out?
  
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  May 22, 2022 10:05am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yes Indeed, Interesting fact is Germany has closed Shroders office as he still on the board of Rosneft.
    Merkyl next ?
    Hungry still buying Russian gas as really have no option.
    The new buzz word is “weaponising Gas”.
    Have you ever heard of a silly statement. Quite simple, Pay or the Gas gets turned off.
    Another thing is when will Putin do so ? Really an own goal as far as the Europeans are concerned.
    Climate change or a freezing home ? I’m pretty sure I know where peoples mind will turn too with climate change a distant second.
    Yep Nuclear and now Gas is Green energy.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:57am
  - oldfella
    
    curry4me: if the lights look like going out in ayoteearower, the Greens will expect us all to simply light candles. No need to panic.
    
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    May 22, 2022 11:13am
    - David Garrett
      
      Oldfella: But only candles made of sustainable beeswax…the white ones you buy at the supermarket are of petrochemical origin
      
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      May 22, 2022 1:52pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        Hunting whales will be back in “Vogue” for the oil.
        throw is seals as well. FWIW I still have my seal sc
        kin shows from 20 years ago from Namiba and still going strong.
        
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        May 22, 2022 4:31pm
    - curry4me
      
      Yeah, that wouldn’t surprise me. They’ll all have deisel generators though.
      
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      May 22, 2022 8:32pm
- Paulus
  
  Understand Venezuela will be opening up their Oilfields – they have one of the largest oilfield reserves in the World.
  We can buy direct from them can’t we Cindy – your mates !
  
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  May 22, 2022 10:37am
Gravelroad

Smiles Like Jacinda-
People are upset about a race horse being named Smiles Like Jacinda and are demanding it be changed.
How about Teeth Like Jacinda then?
I don’t understand why Smiles Like Jacinda is perceived to be an insult.
Surely Jacinda’s smile is what has got her so far in politics?
The media and her celebrity and leftwing followers have often commented that she has such a lovely smile – and what more could you want in a Prime Minister?
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May 22, 2022 9:36am
Lee C

Covid was Liberalism’s End-Game:
https://unherd.com/?p=430832?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=66ad652a7b&mc_eid=b5ede45c05

“It also requires a certain human type which, fittingly enough, looks like a caricature of the medieval personality: a credulous, fearful person.”

Does this sound like anyone you know?
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May 22, 2022 9:37am
- mikenmildagain
  
  You remind me a little of former commenter Shawn Leee Herles, previously Lee01, with his constant refrain of ‘liberalism is a mental disorder’.
  
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  May 22, 2022 9:46am
  - Lee C
    
    I am not the same person.
    
    I do not think Liberalism is a mental disorder.
    
    I belive in and gree with many of teh tenets of ‘Liberalism’ from Ruskin, Bentham down.
    
    I think Liberalism is a central platform of modern Western Intellectual Traditon.
    
    I also think that what is often called ‘Liberalism’ in teh contemporary context is actually ‘Totalitarianism’, and the term ‘Liberalism’ is just a cute label to disguise the monstrous agendas of the ‘I know best’ classes.
    
    I also think you are one of them and are so steeped in your pomposity, you do not realise it.
    
    Heres’ and example of how Liberalism can be applied in contemporary New Zealand:
    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=363972625728075
    
    You don;t have a mental disorder, Mike, you are just uncritically parroting a pardigmatic view.
    
    Soon, it will be replaced with actual Liberalism.
    
    Try not to grieve too much.
    
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    May 22, 2022 10:00am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Labels, labels, labels. Trying to classify social and political views so that those espousing those ideas can be associated with even less palatable ideas can be a bit tiresome.
      See, for example, the constant efforts by some to associate mainstream social democratic policies in NZ with the most egregious totalitarian regimes of modern history.
      
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      May 22, 2022 2:20pm
- David George
  
  That is a really great essay Lee. A philosophical look at the reasons for, among other things, the rise of illiberal liberalism. Much of what he says in relation to the covid panic also applies to the climate (non) debate.
  Excerpt:
  “A variation on this theme is the utility of moral panics — spiritual warfare — for pursuing top-down projects of social transformation, typically by administrative fiat. The principle of equality under the law, which would seem to be indispensable to a liberal society, must make way for a system of privileges for protected classes, corresponding to a moral typology of citizens along the axis of victim and oppressor. Victim dramas serve as a permanent moral emergency, justifying an ever-deeper penetration of society by bureaucratic authority in both the public and private sectors.
  
  Once this pattern of government by emergency snaps into focus, one experiences a Gestalt shift. The self-image of the liberal West — as based on the rule of law and representative government — is in need of revision. Our society’s response to Covid brought this anachronism to mass awareness.
  
  The pandemic brought liberalism’s deeper contradictions into plain view. On the one hand, it accelerated what had previously been a slow-motion desertion of liberal principles of government. On the other hand, Covid culture has brought to the surface the usually subterranean core of the liberal project, which is not merely political but anthropological: to remake man. That project can come to fruition, it seems, only with a highly illiberal form of government, paradoxically enough. If we can understand this, it might explain why our embrace of illiberal politics has met with so little resistance. It seems the anthropological project is a more powerful commitment for us than allegiance to the forms and procedures of liberal government.”
  Here is a cleaner link: https://unherd.com/2022/05/covid-was-liberalisms-endgame/
  
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  May 22, 2022 10:54am
curry4me

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

Macron Surrenders to Putin over Ukraine Crisis.

Ooh bad Russia! Cut it off. Oops no gas, or oil. Ummmm……. We will pay in Rubles. And open bank accounts in Russia. France has form when it comes to surrendering. [3:42]
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May 22, 2022 9:39am
- rjay
  
  Difficult to believe France has surrendered so easily. Doesn’t sound like the France we know from the latest history curriculum.
  
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  May 22, 2022 10:56am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Could you direct me to those references to France in the ‘latest history curriculum’?
    
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    May 22, 2022 2:21pm
  - curry4me
    
    Yeah, it took si weeks in 1940, so they’re on form. Or near enough. This Russo-Ukraine war has been going about that long. At least there won’t be a Vichy France this time.
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:35pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ZqgAIxviA

Greece is now hooking up Kurds with Europe.

Greece and Turkey are quarrelling over possible gas deposits. Greece is using Kurdish seperatists as a weapon in the struggle. The Fourth Reich needs an alternative to Russian gas. [4:08]
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May 22, 2022 9:40am
- Master Mariner
  
  Yep, Thats the reason why Turkey is vetoing Finland and Sweden in joining Nato.
  The Kurdish issue.
  Incidently Turkey has found reasonably large Gas fields recently.
  So has Ukraine.
  
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  May 22, 2022 11:04am
  - Taieri
    
    So has Ukraine.
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    There’re significant natural gas resources there. Two of the largest ones are onshore Yuzivska field in the Donbas region and offshore Skifska field. Both are not fully developed due to the political factors.
    
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    May 22, 2022 1:44pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      Also offshore Taieri in Ukraine, Not too much in the media about this.
      Right on Europes doorstep. Unfortunately Nord Stream 2 by passes this !
      Interesting. Is this the real reason for the invasion of Ukraine.
      I’m starting to think so.
      
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      May 22, 2022 4:37pm
  - curry4me
    
    There are also gas fields that Greece disputes with Turkey.
    
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    May 22, 2022 8:36pm
Lee C

Mr. Plunkett endorses free speech.

The Humanity!

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=984143032293840
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May 22, 2022 9:54am
Tasman devil

What is Russia doing to offset it’s carbon footprint increase caused by their invasion of Ukraine?
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May 22, 2022 9:57am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Disposing of thousands of fossil-fueled military vehicles by deliberately running them into Ukrainian shells and missiles?
  
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  May 22, 2022 2:24pm
Maggie Pie

Just home from Mass before the rain started.
Got some fresh tiger bread and chelsea buns for lunch.

I thought my partner made a good point earlier when he said…
“What a badly thought and complete waste of taxpayers money the $350 ‘Cost-of-Living Payment’ was to those on lower incomes.
All the poor people will do, is blow it on fags and KFC.
What would’ve been far better for the country’s economy, would be to have given it to the rich, who’d have invested it and turned it into $3500 by the end of the year.”

More idiot thinking from these commie pricks who think they know best.
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May 22, 2022 10:18am
- Gravelroad
  
  I thought your partner opined (via yourself, of course) that the Liberal/coalition would “piss in “ at yesterday’s Aust election?
  What happened to that, then?
  Starting to wonder if your partner is really as smart as we are led to believe………
  
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  May 22, 2022 10:47am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    TBH gravel, it’s more that he doesn’t believe in giving a sucker an even break.
    
    And no need to wonder…. the thing that attracted me to him, not only is he smart, he’s also very good looking and rich.
    You? 😀
    
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    May 22, 2022 11:01am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Yep, I’m a good looking farmer and as everyone knows, all farmers are rich.
      Your partner sadly, does not appear to have a very sound grip on predicting outcomes.
      
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      May 22, 2022 11:21am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Single?
        
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        May 22, 2022 11:38am
- RightNow
  
  I’m sure it’s a coincidence that $350 is the going rate for an ounce of weed.
  
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  May 22, 2022 11:04am
- MCōs
  
  Your partner was grizzling about being stuck over on the North Shore yesterday due to some protest on the Bridge.
  It seems they were anti three waters if that makes him feel better.
  
  We were caught on the Mangere Bridge an hour or so ago, stuck behind a couple of police cars.
  One of them was weaving left & right with a sign on the roof Do Not Overtake
  Incredibly someone in what was clearly not a police car was trying to pass them in the bus lane.
  The police pulled off at the next exit, turned off the sign, lights & sirens and tried to blend sheepishly into the other traffic. Drama over.
  
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  May 22, 2022 2:07pm
ClanMcleod

Nice cartoon from Mike Yeadon’s group.
Our esteemed, runaway leader prominent reflecting her important position in promoting this bullshit.

https://t.me/robinmg/19733
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May 22, 2022 10:21am
Inandout

Was watching a body cam walk around central London taken about 2 weeks ago on a brilliant Spring day. The crowds (with sound) appeared good natured and thoroughly enjoying the sunshine and the food outlets were very busy. There were many families and the kids were smiling and obviously happy to take in the many touristy sites like Buckingham Palace and St James. What was an obvious difference to NZ lay with the lack of face masks, perhaps one in a hundred wore one. I was immediately reminded of what we were like pre covid, faces uncovered, smiles obvious and free. We are now a sad and compliant country.
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May 22, 2022 10:41am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  The virus takes on a different set of characteristics when it crosses our borders, hence the need for face masks. To paraphrase John Lennon, “Covid is over (if you want it).”
  
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  May 22, 2022 12:02pm
- Interested Party
  
  Just been to the local Long Bay markets, I’d say at a guess 90% weren’t wearing masks
  
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  May 22, 2022 1:37pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Yep. A close friend is now in the UK. Says that it’s all over.
  
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  May 22, 2022 7:56pm
Swifty

I think Rawiri Waititi makes a good point, sort of.

Here he is having a grizzle about arts funding and, in his words, how little Maori arts (eg. Kapa Haka) receive.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/budget-2022-te-pati-maori-slams-te-matatini-kapa-haka-festival-funding/MPHFGCXK4HMGLQ6CBYXTCKYW3M/

I know how we can equalise all the arts funding – scrap the lot!

Leave the millions and millions annually in peoples pockets and let them decide what arts organisations they wish to fund, if any.

And If Maori benefit so much from Kapa Haka then I’m sure they could find some dough from the treaty settlements, or their own pockets, to pay for it.
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May 22, 2022 10:56am
rjay

Left wing economists BERL have an article about the infamous Black Budget of 1957 in which they opine that it was actually a great budget and Nordmeyer was not a naughty boy but just misunderstood.
The classic bit of self delusion is this final paragraph:
“The story of the Black Budget teaches us that decisive budgets can be unpopular, even if they are technically successful. Budgets are perceived to be tied to the values of the party which implements them, and this perception can sway the political battlefield for decades to come. It is doubtful that we will see another Black Budget from either side of parliament. Being decisive is never easy, or popular.”
I guess the budgets of 1984, 1985 or even 1991 were not decisive enough for BERL. I can’t imagine they would deliberately rewrite history.
https://berl.co.nz/economic-insights/reflecting-infamous-black-budget
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May 22, 2022 11:07am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Monkey pox vaccine coming soon?
Just an FYI, when you pronounce Monkeypox, the k is silent.
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May 22, 2022 11:44am
Maggie Pie

I see where Albanese is already saying that over time, government departments will be renamed to include indigenous meanings, and that all Newsreaders will be required to include Aboriginal words every now and again.

Just like it is here, we’ll be seeing the controlled demolition of Australian society.
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May 22, 2022 11:50am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Which indigenous language in Aus.
  
  Unlike here where we have one Maori language in Oz they have hundreds.
  
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  May 22, 2022 1:39pm
- MCōs
  
  My sister went to work amongst the Aboriginal people in Wilcannia, NSW, helping to pick up the pieces after the controlled demolition of Australia’s indigenous people.
  
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  May 22, 2022 2:22pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Spose you’d know a few jokes then wouldn’t ya Cossie?
    My partner often tells one about a cricket-ball which I’d never repeat here 🙁
    
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    May 22, 2022 3:28pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Aaww – go on – spoilt sport. 😆
      
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      May 22, 2022 5:29pm
- Prince
  
  I think he’ll find the Aussies are a little more forthright in their rejection of this stuff than Kiwis.
  Short 3 year term coming up.
  
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  May 22, 2022 8:55pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  It’s becoming very apparent we have no functioning democracy in the West any longer. These people are puppets and they are being installed to comply with Agenda 30 and all of the other UN/NWO shit that we are told are “conspiracy theories”. They aren’t.
  Ardern, Trudeau, Biden, Albanese, Bojo, Macron, can anyone seriously believe that these are people working in the best interests of their people????
  
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  May 23, 2022 8:28am
Maggy Wassilieff

Crikey….

A Stuff Journalist has just realised that NZ Journalism has a PERCEPTION PROBLEM

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300586494/55m-for-your-troubles-the-problem-with-journalism

How on earth did that happen?
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May 22, 2022 11:58am
- nathie
  
  Yes excellent balanced coverage and interviews by the author. A darn good read.
  
  OTOH New Zealand On Air’s head of journalism Raewyn Rasch demonstrates she is out of touch with reality (and incapable of understanding unintended consequences), and probably should resign and move onto something else!
  
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  May 22, 2022 1:10pm
- David Garrett
  
  Maggy: Yes…a good attempt…but why did she have to use silly figures of speech like this:
  
  Former Newshub boss and consultant Hal Crawford was brought in to chat with stakeholders and put scaffolding in place..”
  
  “stakeholders”; “scaffolding”…why can’t these youngsters just use plain language??
  
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  May 22, 2022 2:14pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Because the English language is not frozen in place from the time one first learned to write in paragraphs and use figures of speech?
    
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    May 22, 2022 2:27pm
- curry4me
  
  There is no perception problem for most Kiwis. They perceive them to be bought, and paid for shills.
  
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  May 22, 2022 8:42pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The United Spot. Elon’s happy ending.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lxjq7z0UYU
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May 22, 2022 12:01pm
CAKE FACE1

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300586494/55m-for-your-troubles-the-problem-with-journalism#comments

I suggest that you comment here on your thoughts on the NZ media. Alas, no doubt stuff comments will be closed before my post appears here.

“Batman” is, like most socialists, painfully slow.
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May 22, 2022 1:01pm
Over Taxed Worker

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-spinoff-get-ready-for-an-emergency-alert-on-your-mobile-phone/6HTNVB4ZZC5WARMNJ3MFO7B6JQ/
Besides scheduled test alerts, agencies will press send only where there is a serious threat to your life, health and property.
Looks like they have worked out JA is free of COVID, and will bring more “serious threats to your life, health and property.”
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May 22, 2022 2:14pm
Ehlana

So, when do we move to the Green (Covid) traffic lights?

Why are we still in Orange?
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May 22, 2022 4:55pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Because the “deadly” Omicron variant has joined with ‘monkeypox’ and we may all die. 😉
  The silly thing is, we’ll all die one day – some sooner than others, irrespective of the cause.
  
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