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mikenmildagain

Happy World No Tobacco Day!
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May 31, 2022 8:01am
- RightNow
  
  I ask this question a lot, many seem not to grasp my point but here goes again.
  If “we” are so sure of the harms tobacco causes why have we not simply made it illegal already?
  
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  May 31, 2022 2:15pm
  - blue collar
    
    Nothing wrong with smoking that’s why .
    Plenty of positives that don’t get mentioned .
    Powerful people smoke
    Today there’s massive tax intakes on inflated prices govt happy
    Like drugs it will happen anyway
    350,000 smokers in Nz 10% of the voting eligible
    But most of all it’s pleasureful and stress relieving and social ….. fuck the lungs , why ban pleasure ?
    Wanna meet people outside your circle at work or pub ? Go to the smoking area , great for intelligence gathering
    
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    May 31, 2022 4:49pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      By definition there’s not a lot of intelligence there.
      
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      May 31, 2022 9:06pm
- alloytoo
  
  Don’t smoke, don’t care.
  
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  May 31, 2022 6:16pm
Maggy Wassilieff

ACT is calling for an investigation of the Mahuta-Ormsby deals.

“The Government needs to answer questions about Nanaia Mahuta fully and swiftly”,

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2205/S00291/mahuta-questions-need-answers.htm
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May 31, 2022 8:06am
- pdm
  
  Maggy – not going to happen. This Government does not do anything `fully and swiftly’ unless it is feathering their own nests.
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:24am
  - redeye
    
    You mean like rush through their unemployment insurance just as the polls show there will be at least 20 unemployed labour mps next year.
    80% of an mps salary sure beats the dole.
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:50am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Oh well, it’s political corruption, it should go to the police
    
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    May 31, 2022 3:46pm
- Raphael
  
  But the Herald is focusing on the fact that some online troll called Mahuta the “N-Word”, and she called the cops on him.
  Many many commenters on the FB post were asking if the “N-Word” was Nepotism.
  (and the Herald then closed comments, saying given our recent history the comments were depressing)
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:26am
  - Hard Cheese
    
    I suppose it could have been nitwit, nincompoop, ninny or numbskull.
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:31am
  - graham
    
    No surprise there.
    
    The Herald – which, less than three months ago, stated that they “try very hard not to publish alarmist headlines etc.” – would far rather run with sensationalist stories around someone using a naughty word (because, clickbait!) , than something boring and dull like a perceived conflict of interest involving a sitting MP who just happens to be our Minister of Foreign Affairs and thus representing us on the world stage …
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:50am
    - cjn
      
      Fortunately she is not representing us as the earlier item on KIwiblog this evening makes clear.
      
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      May 31, 2022 6:55pm
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Heh, Nanaia the nepotistic noblewomin
    
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    May 31, 2022 9:22am
  - Philview
    
    The Herald now headlining that the Talbot Mills poll has Labour ahead. Where did that poll come from, never heard of it before. Sounds like a desperate attempt by the media to claw back momentum for Labour.
    
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    May 31, 2022 1:56pm
    - Raphael
      
      Talbot does Labour’s internal polling.
      
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      June 1, 2022 5:30pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yet it’s fine to say pale male stale Grrrrrr this country is f……d
    
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    May 31, 2022 3:48pm
- surfing
  
  I would argue that she is entitled to do this under the principles of the treaty of waitangi.
  
  Who are you/ACT to say maori culture is wrong?
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:28am
  - blue collar
    
    Who is act ?
    Who is anyone ?
    Anyone can say anything …… even you …. And the answer is harden up princess
    
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    May 31, 2022 4:55pm
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    There are no “Principles” in the ToW
    
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    May 31, 2022 6:21pm
- Swifty
  
  This was just so, so preventable.
  
  If Mahuta was astute, back in 2020 or before, Mahuta should have got the family around and said “Right, we’re about to kick off 3 Waters, He Puapua, the changes to local democracy etc and we can’t afford the merest whiff of scandal. The stakes are too high. None of you can apply to do any sort of work in any area of Government I have the slightest interest in. Ply your trade somewhere else in government or, even more preferably, stick exclusively to the private sector…..”
  
  But did she? No.
  
  Knowing NZers and the opposition parties would be on the lookout for any sniff of wrongdoing, what did the Mahuta family do? They actively sought and applied to do work in the very areas their wife/sister/aunt was responsible for!
  
  And repeatedly! Knowing it would look bad and reflect badly on Mahuta!
  
  What does this say about them? Are they so up themselves that they just don’t care how things look? Do they think themselves untouchable? Are they so reckless that, for a few tens of thousands of dollars, they are happy to see this so-called wonderful move for Maori jeopardised and potentially threatened by a corruption scandal?
  
  Have they just not given this any thought?
  
  Or, are they so craven that they just didn’t give a fuck? That this, using family connections to enrich themselves, is just so normal to them.
  
  I’m just so stunned at the brazenness of it all. The lack of sophistication.
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:31am
  - Paulus
    
    I doubt if she cares what people think anyway – she will get her own way for which she has been working for many years
    
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    May 31, 2022 1:46pm
  - wilderbeast
    
    Well put. You’re dead right about what an honest approach that puts NZ / Maori interests ahead of the Mahuta family, but that’s not the game is it? Makes me laugh the accusations levelled at the Pakeha settlers and “colonialism”. The elephant is much closer to home, in the room even – tribal elites that have siphoned off “Iwi money” in industrial quantities. The type of money and privilege the average non-Maori could only dream about.
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:16pm
  - Bloody Dago
    
    A yes to all of the above, Swifty. I have heard rumors of whole families on the payroll, The eye watering arrogance and sheer greed of these bludgers will have a reckoning one day
    
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    May 31, 2022 9:33pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “You will be helping the Whanau if you answer as I instructed you” NM//
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:29am
- kowtow
  
  The media are already playing distraction for her .
  
  Someone was extremely rude about her on facebook .
  
  ( Not trying to justify that , but just saying)
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:39am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Not only is it her husbands family, but it’s also her relations family, behahahaha
  
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  May 31, 2022 3:44pm
krazykiwi

Even with deaths attributed to Covid-19 removed, excess deaths are being logged in most western countries when using a pre-Covid baseline. What is killing more people today in a statistically significant manner?

This researcher has taken public data from the UK, and from Denmark and despite relatively different Covid non-pharmaceutical responses has established a comparable excess death rates relative to ‘vaccination’ rates. Refer Further Evidence That Covid Vaccines May Be Fatal for One in Every 4,000 Doses.

Of course it is likely that some excess deaths are due to lockdowns and other damaging state-mandated interventions, so this may distribute the blame somewhat. Even so this excess death outcome is an emerging and consistent theme. It is something that our authorities must confront, more so if individual leaders are keen to avoid the stand in any Nuremberg 2.0.
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May 31, 2022 8:06am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  What’s ‘Nuremberg 2.0’?
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:16am
  - kevn
    
    Why would arden use NZ airforce one (currently in the US, broken down) for the USA jaunt, rather than commercial flights?
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:24am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      Because she like to Grandstand and pretend that is RNZAF 1 as opposed to Horsebox 1
      
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      May 31, 2022 8:26am
    - G152
      
      NZ airforce one? Its the royal coach
      
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      May 31, 2022 8:37am
    - Nickc2
      
      It was reported his morning that she had planned to take a commercial flight back to NZ before she left. If so, why the eff did she take the RNZAF Aircraft to the US? It would have involved less costs to take commercial flights both ways and including travel within the US.
      I think she’s lying again/still.
      
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      May 31, 2022 8:38am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        There is a Boeing factory in Washington. Take the plane there and tell them to fix it properly – no band aids.
        
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        May 31, 2022 12:00pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Steve Otto(North Shore) @ 12:00PM
        
        I think you’ll find there are [STOCK OUT] problems with spares for Boeing 757s and their Airframes are well past their use-by dates. //
        
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        May 31, 2022 12:11pm
    - Jimbo666
      
      She isn’t using the RNZAF plae. She’s coming home commercially, she always was. Knew that the B757 wouldn’t make it.
      No comment on the unserviceability from the Minister of Defence or the armed forces head!
      
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      May 31, 2022 8:41am
      - Nickc2
        
        Maybe the Aircraft was intending to continue from the US and take Mahuta and her tribe to Ukraine to sort out the problems there with an overnight stop and briefing in Moscow eh.
        That’ll be a hoot eh?
        
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        May 31, 2022 11:54am
      - Jim
        
        PM needed to take RNZAF B757 to take her sizeable shill communications entourage, but once the trip is over she’s clearly decided to ditch the heavy baggage and go solo on Commercial Airlines Princess Class.
        
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        May 31, 2022 5:48pm
    - Debsta
      
      Because she’s special
      
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      May 31, 2022 8:51am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Convenience I guess. To be fair, you would not find a leader of any developed country making this kind of trip on commercial flights.
      
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      May 31, 2022 8:57am
      - namron
        
        Anyone know how many people jacinda has with her?
        
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        May 31, 2022 9:25am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Media are calling is “Jacinda Ardern’s Boeing” as if she is flying the fucking thing.
        
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        May 31, 2022 9:35am
      - kowtow
        
        Yep ,
        
        Commercial air travel is so plebeian.
        
        That’s why there’s so many private jets at Davos .
        
        You see it’s not about deomocracy , equality , the climate.
        
        It’s about power and control. And the prestige and status that goes along with that.
        
        Oh for an honest fourth estate.
        
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        May 31, 2022 9:46am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        “developed” country… stick around Benedict, it’s only a matter of time until we slide back to third-world status. Perhaps we can cosy up even more to the CCP and get some of that sweet sweet aid money.
        
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        May 31, 2022 9:51am
    - chukar
      
      Broken down is utterly inexcusable!
      What is wrong with Air Force Aotearoa!
      Perhaps they should have just used a Waka!
      
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      May 31, 2022 9:55am
      - royce987
        
        The RNZAF fly old aircraft because they do not have enough funding from government to replace the planes.
        
        It is very hard to get spare parts for 757 jets nowadays, and the government does not plan to replace them soon.
        
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        May 31, 2022 12:43pm
      - Paulus
        
        Both B757 are well beyond their use by date since they were bought cheap from Air Canada.
        C 130 would not have broken down anyway but the seats are uncomfortable for such an illiustrious person.
        
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        May 31, 2022 1:50pm
      - Jim
        
        Well quite aptly they do use the Kiwi symbol
        
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        May 31, 2022 5:49pm
  - Weetbix3ways
    
    Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it…
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:25am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It’s a secret Mike. Just be quiet about it.
    
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    May 31, 2022 9:36am
  - Fishing in the dark
    
    just smarten up your war history knowledge.
    
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    May 31, 2022 10:34am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      He knows exactly what it is. It’s just Mike being Mike, no panic.
      
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      May 31, 2022 12:02pm
- Bullion
  
  Correlation does not mean causation. There are other reasons, such as health systems swamped with covid cases not being able to treat anyone sufficiently. People may have caught covid which negatively impacted an organ in their body, cleared the disease but die due to failure of that organ impacted by covid.
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:04am
- mawm
  
  kk – it is looking more and more like Pfizer deliberately terminated their control group early to hide the severe adverse/fatal effects of their “vaccine”.
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:13am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Indeed.
    
    Unblinded trialists. The vaxx injured being removed from their trial. Fake trial sites onboarding thousands of fake people every day. More here: Pfizer Trial Fraud: The House of Cards Shakes.
    
    My former used car salesman Nigerian Uncle who is now a politician blushes when pointed to Pfizer’s lack of integrity.
    
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    May 31, 2022 1:45pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  All is not going well for the CCP in the Pacific. Some of the countries are pushing back and refusing to sign up to parts of the agreements. I suspect the US has reminded the leaders that when Uncle Sam is displeased they and their citizens may suffer. Like subtle hints about the CIA and regime change.
  This is good new for Aus and NZ. Both governments have been asleep at the wheel over this issue and have just woken up.
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:37am
  - kowtow
    
    Will be interesting to see which ones sign up to the huge emitter.
    
    I don’t want to hear the Media pardy bang on about climate change canaries when these “vulnerable ” islands take the CCP road , or sustainability when their fishing fleets hoover every last fish outta the ocean .
    
    Remember how they surrounded the Galapagos .
    
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    May 31, 2022 9:51am
  - Paulus
    
    Will some of those who agree to China find themselves not too easy access to the social welfare of New Zealand ?
    
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    May 31, 2022 10:50am
  - oldfella
    
    LMS: Shane Jones gets stuck into Labour, and Mahuta, in today’s horrid over their inept reaction to China’s encroachment in our backyard.
    Behind a paywall, but he says…
    Who can remember our Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta giving her allegorical 2021 speech about the taniwha and the dragon at an event hosted by the NZ China Council?
    It was designed to showcase New Zealand’s fresh approach to international diplomacy with China. At the time, it sounded a bit weird but the media shrugged it off.
    The minister asked us to believe that the taniwha is endemic to Aotearoa but can trace its lineage across the Pacific. Protectors apparently, holding dominion over seas, lands and territories. Well this guardian is sadly missing in action as the dragon flies above the Solomon Islands and Samoa.
    (and ends his article with…)
    …our role in the Pacific cannot be maintained through formulaic interactions. Kiwis need to see more practical effort and commitment from Minister Mahuta – and fewer facile fairytales.
    
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    May 31, 2022 11:01am
    - Akarak
      
      If I remember Nanialiar was accused of plagiarising parts of her 2021 speech. This is o’k apparently as Jacinda’s speech to the assembled at Harvard also used plagiarism in a desperate attempt to hide the fact that Jacinda is not as smart as she would like others to believe!
      
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      May 31, 2022 3:49pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Who cares what the fat controller thinks
      
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      May 31, 2022 3:50pm
- blue collar
  
  Is it just the baby boomers rolling over ? The demographic bubble ?
  If not my money is on sleep deprivation .
  New research says this causes Alzheimer’s /dementia .
  Alzheimer’s stats follow the sleep curve 100% . In 1946 sweet fuck all Alzheimer’s . Most got 8 hours Kip or more , dark no tv etc no phones or internet . One parent worked an 8 hour shift , life was slow n stress free ish
  Today both parents work , life is fast , blue light from phones etc affecting sleep , too much info active brains …..6 hours ? 4-6 hours ?
  Recently they discovered the brain gets rinsed by spinal fluid but only in the second 4 hours of deep sleep . First 4 hours no rinsing
  If you don’t rinse the brain all the toxins and glitching synapses remain . Use it or lose it , if the synapses etc don’t get a chance to fix themselves they’re gone .
  If you start sleeping properly you can halt Alzheimer’s . But you can’t get lost shit back
  
  Alzheimer’s … 2nd or 3rd biggest killer now ?
  
  A new killer
  
  There’s ya stat . Get some sleep everyone
  
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  May 31, 2022 5:06pm
Simon

The current polling is a disaster for NZ. No doubt National will limp over the line and Luxon will be the next non-Labo PM, But given the state of NZ if National were a genuine opposition to Labo they should be crushing Labo in the polls.

Housing, crime, jerry build over regulation, misallocation of resources due to government pricing, left wing run government departments, failing infrastructure, over taxation, cost of basics like food & energy, race-based land grabs, increasing poverty of the most vulnerable, disfunctional expensive unaccountable councils, failing monetary policy etc etc Then there are major issues around how to handle a changing China / US political dynamic in the Pacific.

Instead National seem to be content to tinker around the edges and snipe at Labo. When by now National should be crushing Labo. National offer no reforms, solutions or any way to reverse the steady decline. Hence the polling and the massive numbers of New Zealanders who will leave the country.
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May 31, 2022 8:07am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  FFS the vulgar media tried to smear Luxon on no policy this morning, he handled them well and said don’t worry about us, we will have a full set of policies before the election, he has stated policy will start being delivered late this year
  
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  May 31, 2022 3:53pm
Tomtoddy

NZ lacks media commentators/writers who have business experience or real understanding of the issues. Today’s Ferald claims the Reserve Bank surprised them by raising the OCR more than expected and includes a soft piece by the Bank’s economist explaining away their sloppy management.

The Reserve Bank dropped the ball and is a willing partner with our big spending government in allowing inflation to get out of control. Offshore influences are involved but poor management is very much part of the problem. Lets have some accuracy and depth in reporting.
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May 31, 2022 8:08am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Every government around the world is blaming external forces (pandemic, Russkies, etc) while every opposition party is blaming internal mismanagement.
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:15am
  - artemisia
    
    According to the recent Monetary Policy Statement 50% from tradeables (imported). I wonder what the other 50% is.
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:19am
  - Rodney Hide
    
    Hi Mike
    
    Supply and demand determines the price of the NZ dollar against a representative basket of goods. The Reserve Bank control the supply so the Bank determines the price.
    
    Moreover, this fact is represented in the governing legislation and the Bank’s agreement with the Finance Minister.
    
    The failure is entirely internal.
    
    I understand the politics but the economics is clear cut.
    
    Rodney Hide
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:46am
    - mikenmildagain
      
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      It’s nice that you can be so certain about the so very uncertain social science premises of economics, which you contrast with politics as if one were more clear cut than the other.
      
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      May 31, 2022 9:30am
      - Rodney Hide
        
        Hi Mike
        
        Economics is very clear cut. Politics never is unless economics is applied to it! All we need is the observation that people make choices, the rest follows.
        
        If people make choices, then incentives matter and if they matter, then supply and demand. (Supply is just a reverse demand curve.). From supply and demand we can derive monetary theory which is happily – – but as we are witnessing, tragically – – borne out by experience.
        
        The power hungry and those hoping for a free lunch like to believe free wealth exists and, indeed, that like fiat money it can be printed. They put their lust for power and their fantasy beyond the reach of logic and experience.
        
        And when confronted with logic and experience, feign wisdom by suggesting logic and experience are simplistic and that the world is more complicated.
        
        Best
        
        Rodney
        
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        May 31, 2022 9:44am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I wish I could see complex things in such a simplistic fashion and be so certain of my rectitude on every issue.
        Also…’fiat money’, as if there was such as thing as ‘real money’.
        
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        May 31, 2022 11:41am
      - hullkiwi
        
        …and Rodney, with that I offer up Adrian Orr..refer to his responses last week when asked if the govt was to blame for printing, borrow and spend causing inflation. In response he said such questions were too simplistic.
        
        Did he miss macro economics at university?
        
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        May 31, 2022 3:35pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yes MMA, and most govts in democracies around the world have lamely walked into the same blind alley while pouring petrol on the bonfire of economic recession.
    
    Each one locked down their economies on more than 1 occassion during the past 3 years;
    Each one willing handed over large sums of money to multinational pharmaceutical companies;
    Each one printed money;
    Each one is using further stimulus to kick start their economies;
    Each one has had a part to play in the growth of the autocracy that is Putin’s Russia;
    Not one of the said governments and leaders of government have a clue as to how their respective economies work!
    
    So, as usual it is easy for clueless politicians to blame it on external factors as though they didn’t have a part to play in what was causing the economic head winds that each country is now facing!
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:55am
  - RoboRob
    
    Yeah Mike, its all external forces. Thats why the countries that went crazy with money printing and spending (NZ, USA, UK etc) are having the biggest problems while those that did lower QE have more moderate inflation.
    
    Check the charts, NZ Borrowing and inflation was on the rist BEFORE Covid.
    
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    May 31, 2022 9:17am
- Nickc2
  
  That would be nice. Who do we talk to about that? UMmmmmm. Next question moving on …….
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:45am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You are being too kind. The NZ Media are “WOKE” and know “SWEET FUCK ALL”
  Children!
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:39am
- peterwn
  
  They exist, but they are behind the ‘Businessdesk’ paywall (BusinessDesk founders recently sold out to NZME).
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:48am
  - Hebe123
    
    Yeah and I deleted the app when I found out
    
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    May 31, 2022 10:17pm
- kowtow
  
  It wouldn’t have taken much for any business reporter to know old Reserve bank “Tane Mahuta” was talking shite , along with the redec of the lobby into a pagan shrine.
  
  But then the Media Pardy have “embraced” neo marxist crt.
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:53am
- lastmanstanding
  
  The RB under the current Woke Left Governor has been a disaster. He moved too slow and too late raising interest rates after pumping too much money into the economy.
  He not only got it wrong once he got it wrong twice. FFS. His job is to manage inflation. First year Economics students know the economy is like a super tanker. You gotta turn the wheel well before you want the ship to turn.
  Orr didnt. He turned the wheel when the tanker was already heading for the sand bank. Hopeless.
  Now he has to hike the OCR higher and faster than he would have to correct his FU.
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:58am
  - Paulus
    
    Orr only did as Robertson told him and we know he knows sweet f. a. about economics
    
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    May 31, 2022 1:55pm
cmm

No greater metaphor could we ask for that Cindy1 breaking down in Washington.

She really can’t be helping her support by gallivanting around the world, maskless, surrounded by CV positive people while the plebs back home must dutifully don their masks to go to the shops.

Does she really want to win the next election? I suspect not. She has achieved all the bullet points she needs on her CV and can get on with her real life goals:

#CinD4UN!
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May 31, 2022 8:08am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Embarrassing!
  
  3rd Worldish!
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/us-trip-pm-jacinda-ardern-s-plane-breaks-down-in-washington-third-member-of-delegation-tests-positive-for-covid-19.html
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:09am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Considering the regularity with which RNZAF planes have always broken down while transporting VIPs, I am surprised that governments don’t either invest more in defence equipment or simply charter aircraft for these big delegation tours.
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:13am
    - Harry Knuts
      
      or catch a commercial flight like the rest of us do. you know… save the planet and all. After all it’s only little ole’ NZ – hardly a world power needing high security.
      
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      May 31, 2022 8:38am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      I agree. The Boeing 757s are ex commercial airliners, manufactured in 1993, so coming up to 30 years old. I have no doubt that the RNZAF maintains them well, but they can’t work miracles.
      
      The problem is that apart from buying second hand kit, the RNZAF has so few planes that it needs the 757 to do multiple roles. It is far from ideal VIP transport. It is too big, uses lots of fuel and has insufficient range for flying to the USA and Europe.
      
      In contrast the RAAF has the 737 BBJ. A specialised VIP transport with 11,000 km range.
      
      https://www.boeing.com/commercial/bbj/
      
      For 8 people of fewer it has the Dassault Falcon, also with a range of 11,000 km.
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Falcon_7X
      
      Yes, New Zealand is not Australia. But we can do much better on defence. And yes it is affordable. It is about choices. The TOTAL operating spending of the defence force is about $4.5 billion. An extra 3 billion would transform it. And trimming $3 billion from the criminally wasteful spending would be a walk in the park.
      
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      May 31, 2022 8:44am
      - cmm
        
        “In contrast the RAAF has the 737 BBJ.”
        
        In contrast, the RAAF has 12x the taxpayers to support their largess too.
        
        NZ is supposed to be a land of equity. Cindy should fly commercial just like anyone else does.
        
        Certainly our military has been screwed into the ground. Much of that is through funding shortages but some is also due to their redeployment for non-military activities such as flying Cindy and Ron Marks around.
        
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        May 31, 2022 8:53am
      - Thought Criminal
        
        I’m surprised jacinda hasn’t done this. Spending other peoples money without care or hesitation is one of her few strong suits.
        
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        May 31, 2022 8:58am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “In contrast, the RAAF has 12x the taxpayers to support their largess too.”
        
        5x
        
        So let’s have a modern defence force that costs 20% of that of Australia.
        
        Right now our spending is $NZD 6 billion. (not the $4.5 billion in my previous comment)
        
        https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/new-zealand-increases-202223-defence-budget-by-4#:~:text=New%20Zealand%20has%20announced%20a,75%20billion%20in%202021%E2%80%9322.
        
        Australia spends $AUD 48.6 billion.
        
        https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/australias-202223-defence-budget-climbs-by-74
        
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        May 31, 2022 9:39am
      - MCōs
        
        Nothing wrong with NZ being a land of equity. It should be a goal for us all to aim to achieve.
        Equality is the word I think you mean.
        
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        May 31, 2022 9:47am
      - kowtow
        
        Buying a jet and painting it in air force livery is not “defence” equipment .
        
        It’s a prestige play .
        
        So these big noters can jet about and hob knob with each other when a telephone call would suffice .
        
        Meanwhile if it hasn’t been said already , it’s call sign should be “Air Farce 1′
        
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        May 31, 2022 9:58am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “The TOTAL operating spending of the defence force is about $4.5 billion. ”
        
        CORRECTION: $ 6 billion
        
        https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/new-zealand-increases-202223-defence-budget-by-4#:~:text=New%20Zealand%20has%20announced%20a,75%20billion%20in%202021%E2%80%9322.
        
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        May 31, 2022 9:59am
      - Paulus
        
        Believe she has five more overseas trips (including one with Mahuta – Fiji, I believe) planned for this year so bloody well fix the 757s or !
        
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        May 31, 2022 1:58pm
      - Jim
        
        So effectively Ardern has left us wearing face masks and flown to the US in a thirsty old clunker to drum up international tourism and discuss climate emergency action……..hhmmm seems quite hypocritical.
        
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        May 31, 2022 6:09pm
  - bjools
    
    3 of Ardern’s party have covid????
    Ardern = Typhoid Mary of covid???
    Was she fully well when she left?
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:15am
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      In medical terms, who cares, because they will all be perfectly fine. In socio-political terms, the fact that she and they were/will all be perfectly fine should – if people could see the dots let alone join the dots – result in mass public unrest due to the waste of time the last 2 years of oppressive governance has irrefutably been.
      
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      May 31, 2022 12:01pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Spread the pox Cindy
      
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      May 31, 2022 3:57pm
    - Jim
      
      The 3 vaccine regime is working well then. Maybe they needed 4 or 5.
      
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      May 31, 2022 6:10pm
  - Tomtoddy
    
    I was on a trade mission with Mike Moore in Eastern Europe back 30 years ago or so on the RNZAF Boeing 727 when it broke down. We hired a mothballed Russian built plane from LOT – the Polish airline.
    
    The darn thing’s engines wouldnt start and after lots of breath holding, smoke, loud banging and delays we managed to get airborne. There was no lining on the cabin walls, some seats were not locked into position. Never been so happy to get back on mother earth.
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:33am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      The 727s were fun. I recall that to get to Nelson Mandela’s funeral, Bolger had to travel something like Wellington-Townsville-Darwin-Christmas Island-Singapore-Colombo-Maldives-Seychelles-Nairobi, etc.
      
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      May 31, 2022 8:48am
      - cmm
        
        Yup, the twit should have just flown AirNZ to Sydney or Perth, then Qantas to Johannesburg.
        
        We’re in NZ with a small country miles away from anything. We should cut our cloth accordingly.
        
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        May 31, 2022 8:56am
      - MCōs
        
        Some of you might think NZ is one of the more inconsequential countries in the world, but we do have some standards.
        Furthermore
        If you think NZ will never amount to much, it won’t.
        
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        May 31, 2022 10:18am
      - MCōs
        
        Don’t be so hard on Mister Jim.
        It’s his birthday today.
        
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        May 31, 2022 10:23am
      - Graeme Hall
        
        Hunter S Thompson travelled on these planes as part of the Press pack during the Nixon days. Called the Boeing 727 “God’s Motorbike” for its take-off climb.
        
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        May 31, 2022 11:28am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      Flew through Moscow Airport once.
      
      Planes at an angle, wheels missing, doors missing, flaps at an angle on the parking lots.
      
      Grass between the runways “as high as an elephant’s eye”. Glad I was flying JAL
      
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      May 31, 2022 9:05am
    - Raphael
      
      There was a Nepalese airline that fixed an electrical fault on one of their 757s by sacrificing a goat.
      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nepal-airline-idUSDEL1551420070904
      
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      May 31, 2022 10:01am
      - alex Masterley
        
        Its passengers also attempted to start cooking fires in the cabin instead of relying on cabin service…
        
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        May 31, 2022 10:04am
      - kowtow
        
        Pakistani airliner , theory, brought down by primus stove cooking .
        
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        May 31, 2022 11:06am
- Stellaboxer
  
  She’s looking ridiculous and it couldn’t happen in a better location to a more deserving person.
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:13am
- rouppe
  
  A look in the blurred background of her photos while wearing a mask showed most people not wearing them.
  
  A bit like her climate change rhetoric. How many times has she flown from one side of the country to the other?
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:15am
- Mummy
  
  Surely if enough people download the mask exemption “certificate” and legitimately stop wearing them, to use her favourite word, pragmatism will surely win over. I haven’t worn a mask for weeks but now with my “certificate” safely in my wallet I can stop wearing them legitimately.
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:17am
  - Rodion Raskolnikov
    
    Why not just stop wearing one, based on reason and evidence, rather than on the say-so of some bureaucrat who made you wear one in the first place without any reason or evidence? Imagine the concept of “needing a mask exemption from the government” in only 2019. Laughable.
    
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    May 31, 2022 12:07pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Stop wearing them and throw your “certificate” in the bin where it belongs.
    
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    June 1, 2022 3:41am
- Paulus
  
  Perhaps it is because it appwars that Jessie and Tova are not with her on this trip – but she has five others scheduled this year I understand.
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:39am
- Master Mariner
  
  It was telling meeting Blackrock in the US in my mind,
  https://www.weforum.org/about/leadership-and-governance
  Blackrock is all over this.
  https://community.oilprice.com/topic/30900-the-world-economic-forum-wef-davos-2022-conference-held-this-last-week-of-may/
  So what was discussed with Blackrock ? Are we not allowed to know? And if not why not ?
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:46am
  - Rodion Raskolnikov
    
    Because the future of governance involves NGOs like the WEF and private companies like Blackrock (i.e. “stakeholders”), both unelected and wholly unaccountable, dictating to the lower-level elected representatives how things will be (if they haven’t been doing so already for many decades). Don’t ask too many questions, peasant.
    
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    May 31, 2022 12:11pm
Hugh Jarse

Is the RNZAF 757 in the US at the moment operating as a mobile brain washing centre for the media ?. Old faithful Betty it’s called by the onboard media apparently. Sounds like they have been well and truly captured. Be great to know how much food, alcohol and jet fuel they have gone through while keeping the PM away from scrutiny at home.
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May 31, 2022 8:11am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6DTHndUS_I

Tories Officially Launch Review To End BBC Bias

The Tories want the BBC to end its liberal bias, or at least tone it down. [3:35]
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May 31, 2022 8:15am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3EwYxftefA

Communist Leprechaun Confirms Chinese Atrocities By Mistake!

By trying to prove they are fake, this debunker proves they are real.
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May 31, 2022 8:15am
Maggie Pie

Chris Lynch reports….
“ACT Party want’s answers over Nanaia Mahuta and Government family connections”

With Cindy not here to run interference for her, Nanaia doesn’t look happy.

https://twitter.com/TumaiTawhiti/status/1530778643882196992
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May 31, 2022 8:16am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Definitely not Happy, maybe more like Angry, Dopey or the little talked about 8th dwarf Scowly.
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:59am
- Maggie Pie
  
  And THIS just popped up…… LOL!!!!
  
  https://twitter.com/BrianFe92823259/status/1531382487683072000
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:25am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  How unfair to blame Mahuta just because her rellies are getting good jobs!
  
  Why do you think she is in politics?
  
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  May 31, 2022 11:47am
Zapper

How low do Labour need to poll before journalists start making up stories about coup attempts in an effort to create a coup attempt?*

*Just kidding, that only applies to the other guys
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May 31, 2022 8:26am
Maggy Wassilieff

What exactly is our Dear PM going to say in the White House?

Our Revered past PM decodes the 30-min theatre.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/31-05-2022/helen-clark-on-jacinda-ardern-at-the-white-house-how-it-works-and-why-it-matters-now
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May 31, 2022 8:29am
- hullkiwi
  
  With 3 cases of Covid in the party, what are the chances of Sleepy Joe & Jill taking a rain check on meeting Cindy & Clarke?
  
  Besides, what could she tell Joe?
  1. How she “stamped out” Covid – doesn’t look good?
  2. How she stopped gun crime? Tell that to the people with shot up homes, who live in a gang war zone!
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:40am
- Paulus
  
  She will not be allowed past Kamela.
  Nobody, even nobodies, appear anywhere near Sleepy Joe.
  Remember the Americans are paranoid over their Presidents.
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:42am
- cmm
  
  “What exactly is our Dear PM going to say in the White House?”
  
  “Yes Joe, you guessed right: Organic Peach shampoo.”
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:53am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He might say I could smell the almond milk on her breath
    
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    May 31, 2022 4:05pm
Harry Knuts

Cuddles Coster confirms no one has died since they changed to a no-pursuit policy on chasing crims – however crime has escalated as the crims know they will get away with the smash-and-grab – https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/andrew-coster-reveals-police-are-reviewing-pursuit-policy-after-spike-in-ram-raids-violence.html
Crims are well knowledgeable about how soft Cuddles and his crew are and what they can get away with (excuse the pun).
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May 31, 2022 8:35am
- Galzy
  
  “The 10 years before the policy change we killed 60 people through police pursuits. No one has died in a police pursuit since we changed the policy. But obviously, there is a balance. ”
  What’s with the “we killed”, no, they largely killed themselves by fleeing… That’s the fundamental problem these days, its always somebody’s elses fault
  
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  May 31, 2022 1:19pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Our Min of Foreign Affairs is MIA.

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2022/05/30/mahuta-might-have-missed-a-trick-but-other-ministers-are-braying-about-more-millions-for-pacific-peoples-employment/#comments

But as one of the comments asks:
Could our newly appointed Ambassador for Gender Equality in the Pacific be sent up to Fiji and Tonga and Niue and check out that the Chinese have embraced gender diversity.
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May 31, 2022 8:37am
- Swifty
  
  NZ Labour Party MPs are liars – and I’ll tell you how I know.
  
  On one hand they actively campaign for and deliver large pots of ‘aid’ money to Pacific nations (thereby hoping for increased political support at home) while on the other hand deny there is any downside whatsoever for the frequent and large increases in the minimum wage in NZ.
  
  So why the ‘aid’ money? If, as they say, raising the minimum wage has no downsides why don’t we just tell Pacific nations to triple or quadruple their minimum wage rates and they will be wealthy just like us, overnight. With no downside.
  
  NZ can win too as we can then dispense with the Pacific aid budget altogether – there would be no need for it.
  
  Of course, I don’t need to spell out to smart KBers why Labour MPs won’t take this course of action……
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:54am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Indeed. Realistically, Marama & Golriz should also be there to ensure that Chinese intentions for the Rainbow community are noble…
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:16am
- Paulus
  
  Scheduled airline I trust !
  
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  May 31, 2022 2:02pm
Harry Knuts

interesting app to download – flightradar24.
Check out on any given day/time how many int’l flights to’ing and fro’ing to NZ compared to other countries. You could make an easy conclusion our borders are still closed with the lack of int’l flight into/out of NZ.
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May 31, 2022 8:41am
Maggie Pie

To see Cuddles agree with Ryan Bridge this morning, that 14 & 15 year old kids can run rings around the Police, was a total f**ing embarrassment!

Says he is again ‘reviewing’ their pursuit policy.
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May 31, 2022 8:42am
- kowtow
  
  I listened to him on the Hosk this am .
  
  Very interesting use , or lack , of language .
  
  In the interview he did not refer to the people involved in the shootings as “gangs” , they were “warring groups” or just “groups” .
  
  He did sound tough though when the register was brought up.
  
  It’s really important to hold license holders to account if they sell guns to the “gangs” . Here the word is invoked . And yes the police will go after those license holders and hold them to account ,no mealy mouthed stuff there.
  
  Next question shudda been ; “but Andy you’re the one doing the licensing” “why you giving licenses to unreliable folk”.
  
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  May 31, 2022 10:10am
- kowtow
  
  The pursuit policy gave control of the roads and theft of vehicles and by extensio the ram raid surge to the scrotes .
  
  Funny though ,it’s the media who hype up “Cops kill babies by chasing cars” and then when the inevitable consequences come round ie outta control crime, the same media cry ” Cops must do sumfing”
  
  Tosser media pardy.
  
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  May 31, 2022 11:04am
  - MCōs
    
    For years the police regularly chased these you kids in stolen cars and once in a while a speeding car crashed resulting in deaths.
    Nowadays the chase policy has changed and kids don’t get killed.
    Are there any more incidents than before?
    
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    May 31, 2022 8:53pm
David Garrett

Deep breath…let me make it clear that I don’t think the behaviour (as reported) of the short lived TVNZ Breakfast host is acceptable; no woman should be subjected to unwanted kissing or grabbing.

But does anyone else think the story is being somewhat…pumped? Is saying ” there’s no hotter combination than white blouse and black skirt, and you really make it work” ” Openly objectifying the appearance of the recipient..”? Really? I would have said its a rather corny approach which most sensible women would simply delete, after replying “fuck off Santamaria”

Or am I just showing my age?
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May 31, 2022 8:55am
- Blog-aholic
  
  There is no hot combination in the TVNZ breafast show, so he must have very low standards if that is the case.
  Maybe someone just grizzled that he appeared to have made some comments when at Al Gizzara and so tht was enough, off with his head….
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:04am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  “fuck off Santamaria”
  
  Depends on the power relativity.
  
  Sure, F.O. could work if the new staffer was senior or equal to the newscaster, but not going to work if the newbie was a junior.
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:05am
  - David Garrett
    
    Maggy: I take your point – but what’s Santamaria going to do – complain about his crude approach being rebuffed? And the story breathlessly tells us what happened when the (presumably young) woman complained: he simply ignored her when he encountered her from then on, which is absolutely the correct outcome. None of the young women lost their jobs or were otherwise disadvantaged; someone up the chain told the guy to cut it out, and he did.
    
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    May 31, 2022 9:16am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      but what’s Santamaria going to do
      
      With regard to the present debacle… I’ve no idea.
      
      But he’s being well worked over…
      
      I wonder who he pissed off….
      
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      May 31, 2022 9:35am
      - David Garrett
        
        Maggy: I meant “what was he going to do” when given a smack by Al-Jazeera…but you are right about the present debacle…He’s going to have to do something; as it is, his career is pretty much over…being branded a sex pest in this day and age is only a step or two above being branded a paedo. Much greater effects than allegations of drug use or abuse of booze.
        
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        May 31, 2022 9:40am
      - James Stephenson
        
        I’m surprise that Santamaria hasn’t played the race card in return, surely that trumps all?
        
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        May 31, 2022 10:09am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Exactly Maggy. Many men seem to have no real concept of the power situation in workplaces as they have always been the unacknowledged beneficiaries of a status quo that they never imagined was anything but natural.
    
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    May 31, 2022 9:34am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I’ve encountered at least 6 females in my working life who played nasty power games with juniors.
      
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      May 31, 2022 9:37am
      - James Stephenson
        
        The vast majority of discrimination claims that end up in front of employment tribunals in the UK are brought by women complaining about how they are treated by other women.
        
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        May 31, 2022 10:03am
      - surfing
        
        The worst boss I ever had was a female. She sacked so many people, some were good workers too. Whenever she sacked one of my team members I’d be the one who had to try and bridge the gap.
        
        People were scared of her, she was a real b****, and bad for the company bottom line.
        
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        May 31, 2022 4:28pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Also true. Bullying is equal opportunity.
      
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      May 31, 2022 11:45am
    - Ehlana
      
      I don’t think its only men mikenmild. I think we have long had a culture in some quarters whereby people think it is okay to treat others poorly, because when they were the juniors, that’s how they were treated. It’s like putting up with bad behaviour is “paying your dues” for the reward of being able to do it yourself one day.
      
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      May 31, 2022 2:03pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        As i noted above, bullying is gender-blind. Sexual harassment and assault, however, seems to be predominantly male on female.
        
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        May 31, 2022 4:10pm
- All_on_Red
  
  The person who complained is just a racist who is being insensitive about another persons cultural mores.
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  May 31, 2022 9:06am
  - Swifty
    
    Was it a sexual emergency?
    
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    May 31, 2022 9:10am
- Maggie Pie
  
  And does anyone get the feeling……the Kamahl Santamaria & Nadia Lim sagas, are nothing more than ‘media-smokescreens’ to deflect from the REAL issues facing the country?
  
  Just saying.
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:07am
  - David Garrett
    
    Maggie: I agree…Chris Fa’afoi has said more on this…issue…in the past few days than at any time in his career to date. He’s the Minister of Justice FFS, at a time when we are seeing unprecedented gun violence – multiple drive by shootings in one night – and their response is “let’s repeal that awful three strikes law.”
    
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    May 31, 2022 9:10am
- Swifty
  
  What has been on my mind is will TVNZ management get away with openly misleading NZers, if not actually lying to us, by initially saying this issue was merely a ‘family emergency’?
  
  Do they routinely mislead us in this way? Is this normal for them?
  
  Should we not expect honesty from our public servants or have we become so jaded that accepting the bullshit shovelled in our direction is now acceptable?
  
  Back in the day this was called a cover-up and people used to lose their jobs for it.
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:09am
- David Garrett
  
  A little off topic, but I stumbled on this interview with Sir Les Patterson the other day:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSMff1jmiRU
  
  Imagine the conniptions if that was broadcast today? Fucking hilarious.
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:23am
  - Swifty
    
    And this one….
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl4ie3TaPGg
    
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    May 31, 2022 9:27am
    - David Garrett
      
      Swifty: Brilliant…imagine telling that joke about Joan Collins now on TV…and here we are all in a tizzy because some TV presenter hit on some young girlie…well to be fair, we don’t know what exactly transpired, and it could be a good deal worse than just an unwelcome pass.
      
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      May 31, 2022 12:23pm
      - Paulus
        
        Do we know it was a Girlie or !
        
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        May 31, 2022 2:05pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    Just watched that David. Bloody hilarious.
    Bring back Sir Les Pat…… 😆
    
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    May 31, 2022 10:41am
- alex Masterley
  
  I think it is a massive pile in from all other media who are taking the opportunity provided by the outrage created by Santamaria’s alleged behaviour.
  It also creates a smoke-screen for other things, such as why a person with serious mental health issues was allowed recently to wander around Mt Albert, why the police are powerless to deal with the scroats doing ram raids, or the gang warfare for that matter, etc etc etc.
  
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  May 31, 2022 10:09am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Tova O’Brien is really hot on the story.
  
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  May 31, 2022 10:13am
- DistantObserver
  
  One has to ask if TVNZ was really particularly wise to go down this path now it looks like it is on the path of a character assassination.
  Sure it looks to be inappropriate behaviour, but you would think it is something a couple of adults can move past without it being some sort of national story.
  Everyone has heard the rumours about the incestuous nature of staff that work at TVNZ – hell even their ‘me too’ reporter was licking carpet under the nose of her husband at the time.
  An organisation once worth $2 billion is now worth nothing, indeed costing the taxpayer money.
  And this looks like another reason to shut it down.
  
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  May 31, 2022 10:15am
- ecco
  
  I reckon it’s just a beat up job. Maybe they found out he’s right leaning, hence they don’t want him there any more. Very hard for the tv networks to find presenters who fit the woke agenda they have now.
  
  Hate watching sky sport now. The presenters, even the white ones must have been told to greet in maori before the commentary. Almost unwatchable. Where else in the world is this happening? Nowhere I’m guessing. I don’t see all the american presenters greeting in indigenous american indian speak before they commence broadcasts.
  
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  May 31, 2022 11:31am
- MCōs
  
  I worked in two offices over the years where women bothered an array of males in a sexual manner.
  I might think the chaps would be flattering.
  Far from it, one woman was dismissed within a fortnight and the other, who was the daughter of the big boss, was spoken to.
  Neither occasion was a barrel of laughs in the office.
  
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  May 31, 2022 2:55pm
  - MCōs
    
    A mistake in that comment
    It should have read
    ‘*You* might think the chaps would be flattered’
    
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    May 31, 2022 4:01pm
Master Mariner

An interesting development in Supply chains for NZ.

https://business.scoop.co.nz/2022/05/25/new-zealand-coastal-shipping-boost-biggest-turnaround-this-century/

“Minister of Transport Michael Wood announced on 24 May 2022 the Government had committed $30 million of funding for coastal shipping funding through the National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) to improve domestic shipping services, reduce emissions, improve efficiency and upgrade maritime infrastructure.”

30 million as opposed to ( Last Count) 1.3 billion supporting foreign airlines to fly to NZ during Covid.
Minister for Transport should of supported this iniative when it became immediately obvious 2 years ago.

Although positive for NZ I feel too little too late but hopefully give NZ some certainty in getting goods to market after collapse of Supply chains.

At a rough guess, I would say 2 feeder Containerships ( Small), One Bulker and at least one Product Tanker ?

What NZ really needs is a high class Maritime Training college that works outside of political interference and indoctrination etc.
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May 31, 2022 9:03am
- Nickc2
  
  $30m won’t go far. They’ll need heaps more than that in consultancy fees to carry out cost-benefit and feasibility analyses.
  Spend the $30m on lottery tickets and hope for the best.
  
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  May 31, 2022 12:02pm
- Taieri
  
  At a rough guess, I would say 2 feeder Containerships ( Small), One Bulker and at least one Product Tanker ?
  ————
  
  Maersk Nadi and Maers Nanshi are going to be crewed by the Kiwis from mid-June. Both are about 2500 TEU. Kokako (product tanker) is still sitting at the Auckland anchorage.
  It looks like there’ll be more than just two box boats as Swire Shipping and Move Ocean are also in the play. Also, some outfit is talking about exporting minerals from the West Coast.
  
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  May 31, 2022 12:40pm
Albert_Ross

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/468122/the-land-laid-bare-why-maori-can-t-build-on-their-whenua

Their own insistence on inalienable communal land ownership is a huge deadweight impediment to Maori economic progress.

It’s very well understood that communal ownership discourages and stifles enterprise and development. There must be economists in the public service who understand this.

Shouldn’t they be explaining it, and helping Maori to move on to an approach which will better enable them to help themselves, rather than enabling and assisting them to remain in self-imposed stagnation?
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May 31, 2022 9:08am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  They often seem much more dedicated t stopping anyone else doing anything than doing anything themselves. AFAICS the Maori Land Court exists to achieve that.
  
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  May 31, 2022 2:57pm
Matt Long

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kickboxer-hayden-todd-who-plead-guilty-to-sex-and-violence-charges-allowed-to-travel-headlines-oz-fight/NZXGEACR72OG3M6EZVB4UP74CU/
Looks like our kick boxer made it to Oz despite the naysayers but found Charlie Bub a more challenging opponent than his female victim.
Great to see NZ still treats sportsmen as needing a free pass from serious physical and sexual assault, I’m trying to keep track of all the special classes we have now, perhaps if someone could set up a spreadsheet with a caste system.
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May 31, 2022 9:15am
- graham
  
  DJs must come near the top, don’t they? They were able to obtain MIQ facilities while the ordinary plebs (you, me, doctors, nurses, and so on) had to hope and pray that they could even take part in the lottery.
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:28am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Wasn’t that friend of Cindy’s a Muay-Thai Coach?
  Vaguely remember he emailed her once about that Czech Kickboxer doing prison time here for importing drugs or somethng.
  His name escapes me….
  
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  May 31, 2022 9:36am
  - David Garrett
    
    Is Mr Soubrek or whatever his name is still inside do you know? He’ll be looking for help in high places when he gets out and deportation becomes his next problem.
    
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    May 31, 2022 9:43am
    - alex Masterley
      
      He has a case before the Immigration and Protection Tribunal but it hasnt been heard yet. No doubt the usual change of representation requiring a delay while new lawyers get up to speed reason…
      
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      May 31, 2022 10:15am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Richie Hardcore…
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-says-richie-hardcores-sroubek-text-was-unsolicited/LO6DC37AR2M2BEZ7XWLMSRXDXE/
    
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    May 31, 2022 11:30am
Tom Barker

Was the 18-year-old who killed 19 primary school children and two of their teachers in Texas recently what is known in the US as a “well-regulated militia”?
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May 31, 2022 9:36am
Nickc2

Mod(s), is there a logic involved in the order in which posts are cleared? If so, what is it?
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May 31, 2022 9:50am
Ehlana

From the Hub, a few days back: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/05/covid-19-solo-mum-with-multiple-chronic-illnesses-trapped-at-home-because-people-won-t-wear-masks.html

This woman suffers several chronic illnesses, “including chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, endometriosis, anxiety and depression.” She is also the sole parent of a son who’s father “isn’t around”. She has kept him away from school all year, fearing he could bring Covid home and make her sick. For the same reason they no longer go out.

She describes feeling abandoned, isolated and struggling mentally. People say they care, but then won’t wear masks. Her simple message: “We are all still each other’s responsibilities and it’s just been put on us who are disabled and we still need help. We are working very hard every day to keep ourselves safe so please just continue to look after us.”

There is, of course, no information about how she has ended up so alone – apparently no family, friends and a father not willing/able/aware to step up and care for his own son. I’m guessing her various illnesses have played a part in her social isolation.

On the one hand, it’s a very sad story. But on the other, it seems to miss the part where everyone else has taken responsibility for her, providing everything for her and her son, from a home and food to healthcare and education. Those who work to provide for her need to look after themselves too – and that means they have to allowed to move on from living in crisis. Humans just can’t do that forever.
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May 31, 2022 10:11am
- kowtow
  
  very selfish not letting kid get an education.
  
  likewise the media pardy still pushing the lie/ moral pnic that it’s a problem for the majority to bear responsibility .
  
  How did she ever manage during flu seasons . Where was the media pardy then.
  
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  May 31, 2022 10:59am
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  Can’t she just wear a mask? Problem solved. If masks work (they don’t), then, if you have an assembly in which one or more people are unmasked while one is masked, then the masked person should be fine, shouldn’t they? Like vaccine recipients, and to the extent that either is effective (they aren’t), the wearing of a mask is only relevant to its wearer, nobody else.
  
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  May 31, 2022 12:27pm
- Taieri
  
  She doesn’t need the mask. She needs a psychiatrist.
  
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  May 31, 2022 12:41pm
  - mawm
    
    She could probably pay her way doing adverts for Trojan.
    
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    May 31, 2022 3:08pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Anxiety disorder stoked by fear-porn-pushing media in service of power-hungry politicians who have embraced the covid non-science and rejected rational risk assessment.
  
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  May 31, 2022 1:45pm
Maggie Pie

Don’t know if anyone else has picked up on it……but my partner’s mum commented on how much more radiant she thought Liz is looking these days since Phil passed.

Just saying.
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May 31, 2022 10:23am
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… Andy and his antics must keep her awake at night tho.
  
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  May 31, 2022 10:49am
  - David Garrett
    
    Kevn: Andy’s pretty much been canceled hasn’t he? Twelve million pounds poorer after he’d paid off a woman he’d never met, let alone had sex with.
    
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    May 31, 2022 10:58am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Oh, he meet her alright
      Judging by the grin on his face, possibly more…
      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/15/virginia-giuffre-prince-andrew-picture-settlement-lawsuit
      
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      May 31, 2022 2:11pm
  - crikey
    
    The thought of Andy keeping her awake at night really does bother me.
    
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    May 31, 2022 1:52pm
kevn

@Ehlana… I feel sorry for her son. Trapped in her self made isolation.
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May 31, 2022 10:23am
- Ehlana
  
  Yes, there must be a serious welfare issue there – if he is not at school and spending all his days alone with a mother who is not coping, that can’t be good for him.
  
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  May 31, 2022 10:26am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Once upon a time we had truancy officers to see why our kids weren’t in school.
    
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    May 31, 2022 11:32am
Inandout

I watched a Canadian duo test drive a 2004 Toyota Century V12 on YouTube and was unaware this company made such a vehicle. It surpasses even Lexus in build quality and the paint finish was completed by highly qualified technicians. All electrical interior gadgets worked perfectly with none of the usual faults a vehicle of this age would display, especially if European. Anyway Toyota have released an updated model range.

https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/toyota/22998350.html
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May 31, 2022 10:25am
- All_on_Red
  
  I like what Toyota are doing here.
  ‘, hydrogen engines generate power through the combustion of hydrogen using fuel supply and injection systems that have been modified from those used with gasoline engines. Except for the combustion of minute amounts of engine oil during driving, which is also the case with gasoline engines, hydrogen engines emit zero CO2 when in use.”
  https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/35209996.html
  They have started racing them-which is interesting.
  https://pl.motor1.com/news/504287/toyota-corolla-hydrogen-combustion-engine/
  
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  May 31, 2022 12:08pm
  - alloytoo
    
    Of until some woke idiot realizes that Di-Hydrogen Oxide is by far the worst green house gas.
    
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    May 31, 2022 12:13pm
- alloytoo
  
  The Japanese always seem to make their electronics work don’t they, even on entry level vehicles.
  
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  May 31, 2022 12:10pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Toyota’s only V12, built to Rolls Royce standards. JDM only when new. Buyers are senior politicians, company bosses & the yakuza.
  
  The best ones have doilies & lace curtains.
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:54pm
DimChappie

Chris Trotter on Labour’s Mahuta problem:

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/05/31/must-read-nanaias-super-narrative/
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May 31, 2022 10:54am
oldfella

Over on the Daily Blog, Chris Trotter has a very insightful take on where the Mahuta nepotism allegations, and the whole co-governance push are leading us. And how it could end very badly for Labour, and the country.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/05/31/must-read-nanaias-super-narrative/
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May 31, 2022 11:30am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Broken planes, old joke.
In a South Pacific crisis,
US Air Force dropped food,
Australian Air Force dropped blankets,
British Air Force dropped tents,
NZ Air Force dropped an intake manifold.
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May 31, 2022 11:55am
oldfella

Why have the two Muslim women pictured in this stuffed story – and in the front page tease promoting it – had their faces manipulated to make them white? And not just a shade or two paler, but glaringly chalky white!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300598389/how-pleas-for-help-in-the-leadup-to-the-christchurch-attacks-fell-through-the-cracks–chapter-1-the-iceberg
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May 31, 2022 12:28pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Something must have really frightened them. //
  
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  May 31, 2022 4:31pm
All_on_Red

Why do we still have to wear masks?
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May 31, 2022 12:34pm
- H. Upmann
  
  You don’t have to at all.
  I have not worn one anywhere for almost four months. Was challenged only once, by a supermarket security guard.
  
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  May 31, 2022 3:07pm
Yvette

Ardern is fully vaccinated and recently recovered from the virus before leaving New Zealand, so is theoretically immune to serious illness herself from contracting covid, or developing a heavy viral load to pass on to anyone else, but the question is still whether such a condition of artificial and natural anti-body protection stops her from being a carrier, from one infected person in her team to the President of the United States.
Will this perhaps be the ultimate test of “herd immunity”?

And after the Harvard audience applauded Ardern’s gun policy (despite Auckland drive-by shootings), her remarks on democracy (despite her “co-governance” wedge), Jacinda’s rainbow deputy and people, and her having a sip of water, would the same audience turn on her in an instant if she passed covid to their ageing (and likely co-morbidic) President?

Will Jacinda return to Aotearoa leaving behind a broken-down plane and a wrecked international reputation on covid protocols?
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May 31, 2022 12:46pm
- greybeard
  
  There is no such thing as immunisation against CV-19.
  Vaccination is not immunisation.
  It may as well be saline solution.
  
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  May 31, 2022 3:36pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  would the same audience turn on her in an instant if she passed covid to their ageing (and likely co-morbidic) President?
  
  They probably would now as they look forward to 2024; they’re desperate to have Biden not run again. 🙂
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:23pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

My partner thort this worth sharing with the group…

ANZ flexi-mortgages are now @ 6.05%
Add on another min 150bps rise this year and you’re looking at 7.75 – 8.00.
Reckons things could get REAL ugly for poor people with a mortgage.
They’ll need to cut back on the avo on toast. Big time!!
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May 31, 2022 1:16pm
- surfing
  
  Good. Maybe house prices can fall back to historical growth rates…. would require a decent 80% drop in prices (in some areas) to get there though.
  
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  May 31, 2022 1:52pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Strewth, I had it yesterday. Cost me about $2 I reckon.
  
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  May 31, 2022 4:48pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Totally normal behaviour? Hope they don’t breed.
https://rumble.com/v16dgrf-unhinged-liberals-get-vile-lose-their-minds-outside-nra-meeting.html?
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May 31, 2022 1:23pm
- surfing
  
  Almost as bad as the vile anti vaxxers at the Wellington protest. Hope they don’t breed either.
  
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  May 31, 2022 1:53pm
I remember when

“HB Today: New Government building sparks parking pinch in Napier.
MSD Department currently have 195 people working from the building, with a capacity of 300.”
Is this a growing trend, as I am aware of what seems to be similar circumstances elsewhere.
Part of the walking, cycling or bus push by the government?
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May 31, 2022 1:47pm
Maggy Wassilieff

We are in a cost-of-living crisis.

How does our Government respond?

By running a load of hit-jobs on the Leader of the Opposition.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/christopher-luxon-denies-using-cost-of-living-as-political-tool-as-labour-unleashes-attack-ads.html

Well, it’s a tactic that has worked so far for Ardern & co, but I really think Our Min. of Finance could spend a few minutes learning how to balance NZ’s books instead of pissing around with social media ads.

Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson – who authorised the social media posts
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May 31, 2022 1:50pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Speaking of Robertson, his defence in the House today of Mahuta’s nepotism was as unbelievable as it was sick-inducing.
  
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  May 31, 2022 3:30pm
surfing

anyone notice these in the budget?

$10 million to embed the commemoration and celebration of Matariki
• $4 million to Te Matatini
• An additional $1 million to the Museum Hardship Fund, administered by Te Papa, to support the whare taonga from the ongoing effects of COVID-19
• $3 million to the Waitangi National Trust Board
In addition, Budget 2022 provides $42.9 million in capital funding to rebuild a fit for purpose Spirit Collection Area for Te Papa

That’s 60 million more dollars slipped into maori pockets, in the budget fine print .

The ‘1 million dollars’ given to maori because of covid is pure theft.
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May 31, 2022 1:51pm
- skyblue
  
  I will miss Palaides day. Flying to UK on 23 June.
  
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  May 31, 2022 10:55pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Rawiri Waititi makes it clear that a vote for the Maori Party is really a vote for Labour & Greens.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/nz-maori-party-rules-out-right-wing-coalition-after-next-election
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May 31, 2022 1:58pm
- Swifty
  
  Strategically dumb.
  
  Lowers their bargaining power with Labour.
  
  Not surprised.
  
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  May 31, 2022 2:21pm
- JerJer
  
  This assumes he will have a voice after the election, which I think is very unlikely.
  
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  May 31, 2022 3:59pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  If anyone is under any illusions about co-governance after the next election, read Rawiri Waititi MP’s utterances and demands
  
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  May 31, 2022 6:33pm
Maggie Pie

CONSPIRACY THEORY ?

I know it’s probably ‘old-hat’ these days…but we were watching a doco on ‘History’ recently about 911.
They showed a slo-mo vid taken by a member-of-the-public just as the plane hit the Tower.

Question is….how on earth did the wings cleanly slice thru the side of a concrete steel-reinforced building and not fall off – and even the fuselage remained intact?
Even my partner commented that he’d expect to see some sort of crushing inertia.
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May 31, 2022 2:24pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  The walls will be designed to take big vertical forces not horizontal. Also a lot of the strength may be in central spines rather than external walls (often mostly glass).
  
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  May 31, 2022 3:06pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Plane wings are extremely strong and had speed on their side.
  
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  May 31, 2022 3:32pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner knows quite a lot about flying Cap.
    He was saying the nose of a 757 is made of pliable lite weight materials. No way could it have travelled into the side of the building and maintained it’s integrity thruout entry.
    
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    May 31, 2022 4:04pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      A wall of windows is not very strong. Also the nose cone is designed to penetrate air very efficiently so will also penetrate other substances by deflecting rather than pushing.
      
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      May 31, 2022 4:27pm
- greybeard
  
  How does a karate expert smash concrete blocks with just bone, flesh and muscle?
  
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  May 31, 2022 3:34pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    A friend of ours had a real neat party-trick where he’d blow up a Hot-Water-Bottle until it burst.
    No easy task you would think?
    Until he revealed the secret to my partner…..you put the hottie in a microwave for 5 minutes the day before. That denatures the rubber to such an extent it’s easy as inflating a balloon.
    (Always wear safety-goggles when performing)
    
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    May 31, 2022 4:17pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  The velocity of a jet powered plane of massive size, structurally strong such as wing must be, along the thin leading edge, into concrete and glass, notwithstanding any steel work at right angles to that leading edge – striking in a building of such height that flexible material/design was built into the structure by necessity.
  Not that hard to accept video image of a wing on a passenger jet at speed would cut into, and the mass carry well in to, a building it struck?
  
  Like Flight 93 which hit the ground at a dive when passengers fought back against the jihadis; material actually entered the ground. There is NO large debris to see at the crash site, just a crater. (But then some fools do say that the crater is a missile strike, and it was fake too).
  
  Penetration by the plane is how the central stairs where knocked out when the material carried well inside, trapping the upper floors, and jet fuel poured down shafts and burnt people to death below.
  
  I was also watching a 9-11 docu’ recently, and turned to my wife as it showed footage of the planes hitting; a docu’ which spoke with some of the thousands of people who worked there/tens of thousands who visited daily, and I turned and said to wifey, “……Isn’t it incredible there are retards that think this is fake, and that demolition charges are what brought down the towers?”
  
  Kind of like flat earthers, or Sandy Hook deniers, such people seem to draw strength from being members of some sort of club. And the internet allows nutters to connect with ease.
  
  Best thing to do is outdo them on the Full Retard theory with something even less plausible.
  – Make an assertion that not only were the Twin Tower never knocked down by terrorists, but the-Twin-Towers-never-actually-existed-at-all!
  Gasp!
  
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  May 31, 2022 3:49pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Plane going 8-9x the speed of a car on the motorway, nearly 100x the energy per tonne, with strong wings capable of supporting 100’s of tonnes, containing a whole lot of fuel and with engines weighing many tonnes each. Your eyeballs and experience are a terrible judge of the physics of such an impact. Impact energy involved is more akin to a fully loaded freight train. And the twin towers actually had a relatively lightweight construction relying upon steel for majority of strength rather than concrete.
  
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  May 31, 2022 4:02pm
- MCōs
  
  I read about a run of the mill engineer who made mega bucks by producing just such an authentic documentary.
  I’ve worked with engineers. Those buggers are trained to protect their profession.
  One engineer will proves the plane sliced through the steel columns. Another engineer will tell you the building was designed for that to happen . . . . .
  
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  May 31, 2022 4:22pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    At the speed the plane was travelling, the fuselage would have penetrated the external window wall and crumpled inside out of side od external cameras. Likewise, the wings would have penetrated & folded once inside the building.
    You may have seen photos of a piece of straw that had penetrated a car windscreen – toughened glass – when the car was could in a tornado or such. The straw would have hit the windscreen end first at 90 degrees – if it was at any other angle, it would have bounced off.
    
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    May 31, 2022 4:40pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Here’s one of the vids they showed in slo-mo on the doco.
  If you advance it frame-by-frame and you can see what they meant as the plane penetrates the Tower.
  
  https://youtu.be/7YLm3pkAiJQ
  
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  May 31, 2022 5:08pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Soz,,,go to #7 the one from Evan Fairbanks
    
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    May 31, 2022 5:11pm
surfing

Bertrand Russell – Message To Future Generations (1959)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihaB8AFOhZo

Age old wisdom.
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May 31, 2022 5:06pm
Prince

Where has all the money gone, Andrew ?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/wellington-top-stories/300602163/hutt-ed-overwhelmed-asks-only-patients-needing-urgent-care-to-come-to-hospital
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May 31, 2022 5:44pm
Maggie Pie

News Flash!

Following the ousting of Breakfast Host Kamahl Villamaria, TVNZ announces new appointment….

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1531313816650260481
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May 31, 2022 6:26pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  MP – Is that able to be identified by any recognized contemporary intersectionalities?
  
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  May 31, 2022 7:40pm
- Andrew S
  
  Word on the street according to my sources is that the new lass/lassy with and or without the ‘hairy lasso’ plays tennis somewhere near Remmers or was it reamers?
  
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  May 31, 2022 8:04pm
kiwikidsnz

On TV1 news tonight the team of $55M continued their propaganda efforts on behalf of their Govt paymasters.

First, an academic apologist for the Medical schools racist selection practices of 40% Maori Pacifica irrespective of ability labelled as racists those calling out beneficiaries of the practices.

The following item had as “Disinformation” spokesperson Mahuta, Foon & the newsreaders labeling anyone who criticizes He Puapua co governance as misinformed & racist.
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May 31, 2022 7:26pm
Nickc2

Has anyone else noticed that many downticks have disappeared overnight?
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