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Scott

Does anyone else think this still ongoing covid crisis has been massively overblown?
I’m in isolation myself as I write. I’m an older person, of large build, so in the higher risk category.
But I’ve had 3 days of flu like symptoms. Now on day 5 I’m on the improve. Back to work in a couple of days.

So is this it? Is this what we’ve shut the world down for? People are nervously wandering around wearing masks in the main street to this day. Why are we still doing this? What purpose is this serving when for the vast majority of people it’s a mild illness?

Why can’t we be like Great Britain and get rid of all covid restrictions? What are we waiting for?
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June 29, 2022 8:01am
- Mr_Blobby
  
  The Economic and Social Crisis it all caused has been massively understated, if not completely ignored.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:17am
  - kowtow
    
    You heretic !
    
    Fall on your knees and repeat ” She saved us”.
    
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    June 29, 2022 9:21am
    - I remember when
      
      That’s two year old news.
      
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      June 29, 2022 12:22pm
      - kowtow
        
        Nope . Media widely reported it in Faafoi’s valedictory speech.
        
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        June 29, 2022 1:49pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Just ignore the restrictions like I do. Simple.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:29am
  - Matt Long
    
    I think Labour is keeping Covid mandates in place partly to please the Karens who Eric Rush has said give him strife if doesn’t enforce mandates in his supermarket, partly to spite those they see as not bowing to their will and also because they are hoping that reminders like masks will anchor people back to 2020 when Jacinda had a world leading covid approach according to shallow thinking people.
    
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    June 29, 2022 10:22am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Walked into NW Devonport the other day and had forgotten my mask.
      Grabbed what I wanted and was checking out and said to the lady approving my Liquor purchase “sorry, forgot my mask”.
      She replied “no-one cares”.
      Even on the Ferries, who have been VERY strict, there are more people who don’t wear them.
      Slowly but surely…
      
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      June 29, 2022 10:45am
      - Bloody Dago
        
        Some liquor outlets like the Trusts out west are a bit 1984’ish, pursued me around the shop, when I pointed out that other people in the shop didn’t have masks on he said they had exemptions, yeah right. Jacinda fan boy just missing the comb below the nose🤣🤣
        
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        June 29, 2022 4:46pm
    - Jim
      
      Matt, the IMHO the government is maintaining what ever restrictions it can get away with in order for the public to accept (via fear) their largely disproportionate response which has caused social and economic mayhem on future generations of Kiwis.
      I’m not disputing the validity of the initial (short) lockdown response (including the border) that afforded NZ time to observe the pandemic progression. However from that moment on, there was overwhelming global scientific evidence of exactly ‘what and when’ NZ could expect from the virus. But despite all this, the government kept up the unnecessary draconian responses (especially vaccine mandates) and continued to play catch-up to the very last second…remember the RAT debacle. It’s still doing the same now, despite scientific evidence to the contrary.
      
      The main question is why? Incompetence or malfeasance?
      
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      June 29, 2022 10:57am
      - Master Mariner
        
        Incompetence or malfeasance?
        Jim, Both with a large Dose of Idealogy thrown in for good measure.
        
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        June 29, 2022 1:36pm
      - Keith White
        
        “The main question is why? Incompetence or malfeasance?”
        
        I’m a believer in the power of ‘and’.
        
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        June 29, 2022 2:23pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes that is it. For most people.
  
  However not all. I have two colleagues who became seriously ill. Both women. One in 30s. The other mid 40s. Both highly fit. Regular runners.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:33am
  - yobi
    
    And they both probably vote labour or greens.
    
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    June 29, 2022 8:42am
  - emmess
    
    Hmmmm, I wonder what that could have been
    Also, btw I reported the comment above by accident
    
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    June 29, 2022 8:47am
  - Cinematic
    
    Not for most people, for 99% of people. I’m in the UK now and every second person seems to have covid. Life goes on as normal, not a mask in sight. Illness is an ordinary part of life.
    
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    June 29, 2022 8:47am
    - Observer of Life
      
      Same in Oz. Got off the Air NZ flight having had it drummed into us that we must wear masks (I don’t, thanks to my exemption), only to find (pretty much) no masks in sight. The masked I do see I’m wondering if they’re newly arrived Kiwi’s. Nobody but nobody in business or general life gives a shit it seems. NZ – it will stop when you say and do so.
      
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      June 29, 2022 11:25am
  - Ehlana
    
    And it is that fear, that it could happen to me, that I could get seriously sick and end up permanently disabled or dead, that the government has stoked and that drives those who see the unmasked as selfish and uncaring. (Probably the same way they see all National/Act voters, business people, Pakeha or men, actually).
    
    In truth no-one is guaranteed their next breath or a trouble-free life. Most of us realise that, we do our best to look after ourselves and we choose to live the time we have.
    
    The scale of the emotional and mental health problems caused by the response to Covid may prove just as debilitating and deadly as the disease itself.
    
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    June 29, 2022 8:50am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Ehlana – “the scale of the emotional and mental health problems caused by the response to covid” will undoubtedly prove to be far more debilitating and deadly than the disease itself. It is happening. The evidence is becoming clearer with every passing week. The massive rise in heart conditions and “died suddenly” has occurred alongside the rollout of these experimental vaccines. I haven’t got the figures but it is becoming obvious that these events are not happening in the unjabbed group to any extent.
      The financial harm will cause much death, mental health damage and associated societal misery for decades to come.
      Well played Brenda.
      
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      June 29, 2022 9:19am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Those who are not mentally strong will end up a mess, a quivering pile of nothing – and will now vote Labour
        
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        June 29, 2022 10:19am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Jabbed and boosted? My wife was jabbed and had to get the booster for her work (teaches children particular skills), and got Covid, presumably Omicron. We didn’t pay any great attention to isolating from each other, in fact we slept in the same bed.
    
    I was very reluctantly jabbed but refused the booster, and didn’t get it. Anecdotal I know, but I’ve seen some data that suggests Cindy’s statement that “this will be a pandemic of the unvaccinated” is a load of horse manure.
    
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    June 29, 2022 9:01am
    - Michael Johnston
      
      It’s obviously not a pandemic of the unvaccinated considering that 95% of the adult population have been vaccinated and a quarter of the total population has now recovered from covid – and that’s just the reported cases.
      
      The fatality rate sits at less than 0.1% and that’s people who died with rather than necessarily of it.
      
      So yes, we’ve trashed the economy and two and a half years of life for something far less threatening than the seasonal flu. It’s been a monumental failure of leadership, not only in New Zealand, but pretty much everywhere except Sweden.
      
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      June 29, 2022 9:23am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “this will be a pandemic of the unvaccinated”
      
      Totally wrong. My two colleagues who became seriously unwell had three shots.
      
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      June 29, 2022 9:52am
      - Matt Long
        
        You’re surely not suggesting people who have had their immune system compromised by the shots may get much sicker from covid than others BY?
        
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        June 29, 2022 10:10am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The unvaccinated are the healthy ones, the fully vaccinated spread Covid amongst themselves.
      Experimental Pfizer shit.
      
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      June 29, 2022 10:21am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Were they vaccinated? It is becoming more apparent via real world data and empirical evidence that this is now a pandemic of the vaccinated, and the vaccines are doing more harm than any perceived good they might have appeared to do at the beginning. OAS is happening as predicted.
    
    Here are a couple of pieces discussing the current state of things. I’m not a scientist, but what I can understand enough to see that the vaccination programme has been a disaster and it seems to be getting worse.
    Feel free to critique.
    
    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/omicron-ba5-prefers-hypervaccinated?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
    
    And this hypothesis from El Gato Malo who is generally on the money.
    
    “so it looks to me like we’re seeing a classic, expected OAS curve.
    
    genes are selfish. all a virus “wants” is to replicate. covid is adapting to herd antigenic fixation by selecting for variants that spread most readily in the vaccinated. they have become the primary infected and the primary spread vector.
    
    and they seem to be getting covid again and again and failing to generate long term immunity.
    
    spread is rife and waves are tightening and moving increasingly out of season as variants sweep.”
    
    https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/did-ba4-5-interacting-with-vaccines?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
    
    If any of the analysis is wrong please let me know what and why. I’m still trying to understand what is going on. What I’m seeing is very concerning.
    
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    June 29, 2022 9:13am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Kungflu seems to hit women harder – certainly not man-flu!
    
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    June 29, 2022 10:52am
    - tui47
      
      It also seems to hit left wingers hardest. They are the ones doing most of the complaining about their symptoms.
      
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      June 29, 2022 2:52pm
  - JohnRidd
    
    It can be a very serious disease for people whose immune system is not working properly.
    
    The ones who end up in hospital are the very old, the very sick, the very fat and the very deficient in vitamin D.
    
    It is very difficult for people living in the higher latitudes (above 35 degrees) to get sufficient sunshine in winter.
    
    People with dark skin are particularly likely to be deficient.
    
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    June 29, 2022 10:55am
    - jonno1
      
      Your first para applies to me. Caught Covid early May and still badly affected by low saturation and severe breathlessness. Specialist reckons it will improve over time, maybe as long as a year! The problem is that immunosuppressants apparently reduce the seroconversion rate (production of antibodies) so are being withheld. A classic Catch 22 situation. But life goes on, just less actively.
      
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      June 29, 2022 2:37pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    About 1 in 3000 who get omicron die, almost all geriatrics or extremely obese and or otherwise ill. About the same as seasonal flu.
    
    If you are under mid 70’s you have more chance of dying in a car crash this year than omicron
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:12am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Same onboard. Currently have 6 positive cases.
    2 super fit and healthy are the worst affected and older ones just flu and no issues.
    Onboard procedures written for original Covid are a nightmare to deal with.
    Keep calm and carry on .
    
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    June 29, 2022 12:01pm
- emmess
  
  Ah yeah
  Do try to keep up
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:45am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Scott – there are many people who totally agree with you and more are waking up to the nonsense that the reaction to the covid circus actually is and has been a disaster from the beginning.
  
  It might be possible to give some leeway and say that maybe in the first 6 months to a year, some of the policies could be forgiven as being done under unusual circumstances. Personally I don’t think they can, but I can understand how some people might think that because it was “novel” and we didn’t know much about it, panic was forgivable and mistakes can be made.
  
  The fact is, along with most other countries, we dumped tried and proven pandemic response policies that have been around for decades. Policies that did NOT involve lockdowns, social distancing or masking. They relied on basic common sense. Protect the vulnerable. THEY stay home and away from potential infection sources. If you feel ill or showing symptoms, stay home until you feel better. Everyone else get on with living. “Soldier on with Codryl” – remember that?
  Some people get sick. Some people die. Just like always happens. Basic stuff. Stuff that works, always has always will.
  
  Instead, this government and others, decided they could do a King Canute and stop the spread of an aerosol borne virus. They never could and they never will. It was madness. Either that, or as is now becoming more apparent, it was a deliberate policy to implement the “Great Reset” and “Green New Deal” that many western liberals have been pining for for decades. Covid was either the tool or the excuse to implement this ideological insanity. Shutting down economies, restricting movement, implementing draconian and undemocratic laws and mandates.
  
  There are plenty of theories as to why this has been done. If you haven’t found them you will soon enough. It’s becoming clearer with each passing month that this was a deliberate act.
  
  Then there is the compulsion and bullying around “vaccines” that don’t work and are now showing to cause much harm and excess death. Also it appears that those most vaccinated are at most risk of catching covid. It is becoming a “pandemic” of the vaccinated. These are now becoming verifiable facts. The vaccines prevent your innate immune system from recognising and reacting to new variants. The implications are concerning.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:59am
  - Master Mariner
    
    As the scare fear slowly revolves from Covid back to climate change.
    I found an interesting fact.
    Severe Storms and cyclones have reduced by 13%.
    On my phone and cant find the link.
    I find this interesting .
    
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    June 29, 2022 12:07pm
- Paulus
  
  And Shanghai tomrrow I understand.
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:18am
- coge
  
  Of course the British are made of sterner stuff!
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:50am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Scotty boy – I will now count you as one of the 80,000 lives Cindy saved. Move on….
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:52am
- lastmanstanding
  
  I have just read yesterdays post on the Productivity Commission and its people problems. It neatly sums up how shit poor NZ is at managing people.
  I was appointed to my first management role in 1973 at the tender age of 21. I had 8 females reporting to me. The youngest was a couple of years older than me and the oldest was the same age as my grandmother.
  I learnt the art and it is an art form of management in a very short time. Alas over the past 50 years I have witnessed some really shocking management ( and governance a field I moved into some 30 odd years ago).
  In the case of the PC its not hard to see the problem. As an early CEO told me to loose one staff is unlucky to loose two is unfortunate. Any more than that is gross incompetence.
  The problem is people are pitch forked in management without any training or determination if they have the skills. The same goes for governance and Directors. Just like the best players dont necessarily make the best coaches the same goes for management and governance.
  I say a big part of the shit poor productivity in this country is down to a lack of good managers and good governors. Starting with the Parliament.
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:56am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    When I was at sea I told the cadets that the basis of management was
    
    “Look after your troops and then your troops look after you
    
    Motto of RMA Sandhurst. Serve to lead.
    
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    June 29, 2022 10:02am
    - Master Mariner
      
      Yes indeed.
      Never ask to do something your not prepared to do yourself.
      People mix up leadership and communication which are 2 entirely different beasts.
      Ill say again. Pychometric testing identifies any strengths and weakeness and how to deal with personality types. Not too mention how to get optimal teamwork.
      Great tool.
      
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      June 29, 2022 12:13pm
    - jonno1
      
      Exactly. As a junior I told my boss that I considered my primary job was to make him look good. When I became a boss I told my staff that my primary job was to train them, support their endeavours, and protect them from the bigger bosses. Of course, in turn their efforts made me look good!
      
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      June 29, 2022 2:46pm
  - Mike H S
    
    This applies in all areas of life.
    
    While you discuss management here, I have seen over many years that skills in one area don’t necessarily transfer to others. I have been in the aviation industry. Some excellent pilots don’t make good captains and vice versa, some pilots who don’t necessarily have the manual flying skills are good captains.
    
    It is all a matter of recognising what you and those around you are good at. When you look at our present bunch of politicians, you might see that they were very good speakers and Union organisers but when it comes to implementing policies and getting things done, they are shite. Sadly too many people don’t see that, yet!
    
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    June 29, 2022 2:05pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  We must do as dear leader Jaspinda says. She is in control you know.
  
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  June 29, 2022 10:15am
  - blue collar
    
    Except of her hands when talking steveo 😁
    
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    June 29, 2022 10:26am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Trying to outdo the Sign Person for the hearing impaired?
      
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      June 29, 2022 11:33am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  It seemed overblown from the day I first heard that we were going to be locked down back in 2020. Even then we knew that the disease mainly affected the elderly and infirmed, and the claims that 80,000 were going to die unless we shut the country down were patently ridiculous.
  Nothing that has happened since then has convinced me that I was mistaken with that view. On the contrary the more we learn, the more I realise I was correct.
  
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  June 29, 2022 12:04pm
- Hebe123
  
  Wow you’re late to the party.
  
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  June 29, 2022 1:13pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yep that is it, i had hay fever like symptoms and a funny sounding voice, a bit of a pressure head ache, not really flu like, most people i talk to are the same
  
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  June 29, 2022 1:56pm
- curry4me
  
  Simple. Its the only policy Stalinda can see working. She can look out her ninth floor window, and see all the sheeple wearing their masks.
  
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  June 29, 2022 2:08pm
Warren

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/govt-has-spent-1b-on-emergency-housing-grants-including-motel-accommodation/ZISPLXHMVIOIYV34HCE5KSJIVM/
Is this the most Irresponsible Government that New Zealand have ever seen when it comes to spending
Taxpayers money.
Whilst there is a need to look after the most vulnerable what has happened here is the same problem that the Country has with serious crime in New Zealand and the Government’s go soft on crime policies, the only difference here is the Government’s be kind and caring policy that allows people to have, housing ,food ,clothing and many other
things paid by the taxpayer under there Social Welfare system.
So I ask this question will this take us back to the 1970’s when we had the start of generational welfare dependence because the system they have installed now which is raping the taxpayer funds can’t go on forever before the population says enough is enough you have to learn to live with money you get before you can expect handouts.
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June 29, 2022 8:01am
- pdm
  
  As Mike Hosking succinctly pointed out earlier this morning:
  
  The amount is 1.2 Billion.
  
  Which is one Billion two hundred million dollars.
  
  Which is horrendous.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:17am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Haven’t really had much return on that investment
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:47am
- peterwn
  
  It is all about votes.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:26am
- Gravelroad
  
  @Warren-
  “Is this the most irresponsible government that NZ has ever seen when it comes to spending”…….
  Dunno.
  Bedda ask the Prime Minister – our only source of truth…
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300624319/misinformation-is-a-threat-and-affecting-nz-jacinda-ardern-says-ahead-of-nato-speech?cid=app-iPad
  “ What I tell you three times is true.”
  Lewis Carroll, English writer.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:38am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Jaspinda should now what misinformation is and recognise it immediately.
    Hint Jaspinda – it is the same as a “LIE”
    
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    June 29, 2022 10:30am
    - tavita
      
      Steve it is more nuanced than that.
      Trump used misinformation to refer to news stories in the MSM (mostly about him) that were factually incorrect, but as now used by the MSM, misinformation is information that may be true but contradicts the narrative.
      And Jacinda doesn’t generally lie, she makes misleading statements. For example she never said she didn’t lie, she said it was possible not to lie.
      
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      June 29, 2022 3:13pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Misleading statements is a lie by omission, she knows it and you know it. The woman is a compulsive liar, so best you stop lying to me.
        
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        June 30, 2022 9:00am
  - Keith White
    
    I was fairly sure we were doomed, for moderate values of doom, when a couple of years ago I read that she had said with a straight face “if it doesn’t come from my government, don’t believe it, we the government are your sole source of truth”.
    
    …and after saying that, she *wasn’t* pointed at and jeered and laughed at everywhere she went, including by Gough and all the other ‘student politicians’ who when they were barely out of nappies would never ever agree to trust any government on anything.
    
    But then, what to expect from the President of the International Union of Socialist Youth in 2008. “Don’t trust the government, unless I run the government”. Yeah, that’s the ticket…
    
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    June 29, 2022 2:37pm
Maggie Pie

Heard a finance guy on ZB saying he expects New Zealand’s inflation rate to be in excess of 9% early next year 🙁

Is it any wonder…..

https://twitter.com/nzlabour/status/1541324204213141506
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June 29, 2022 8:10am
- Jim
  
  Yep Maggie, I’ve previously relayed messages (from more credible economists than Orr and Robbo) that NZ inflation will top 10% and mortgage rates will be back in the teens.
  
  Best advice may be to start paying off unnecessary debt now.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:15am
  - peterwn
    
    Robbo is not an economist. He majored in political studies at university. Mr Micawber would have a better claim to being an economist than Robbo.
    
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    June 29, 2022 8:29am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      Mr Micawber’s quote
      
      “Annual income 20 pounds, expenditure 19/19/6 happiness, income 20 pounds expenditure 20/0/6 unhappiness.
      
      Mr M new more about balancing the books than Robbo
      
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      June 29, 2022 10:00am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      And an accountant father who went inside for diddling his clients wouldn’t be much of a trainer.
      
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      June 29, 2022 10:46am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Wonder if any of these guys stop and ask themselves what would have happened to them if their fathers were gay?
        
        Just saying.
        
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        June 29, 2022 11:51am
  - cmm
    
    Got any advice for people without mortgages:
    * Kiwisaver: down 25% off what it should be and probably further to go.
    * Cash in bank slowly evaporating due to inflation.
    
    It will be fun to see what happens when people realise they need 15% salary increases to keep from going backwards.
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:34am
    - Master Mariner
      
      I like Warren Buffets advice.
      Invest in yourself. Re educate. Upskill.
      For when we come out the otherside you are ahead.
      Then you may be able to command higher wages.
      Seems the only way to eventually beat inflation.
      For others . The trick is too reduce loses due to inflation.
      There are no winners.
      
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      June 29, 2022 1:16pm
      - Keith White
        
        That advice is relatively straightforward to follow, even if not easy to do, when you are still of working age and physical working ability. For aged and medical retirees, the best many can do is to grow vegetables and spend less money. But for many, having less money to spend will put them literally on the poverty line; and as they are not members of a patched gang, they will get no more $ from Teh Kind One.
        
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        June 29, 2022 2:40pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Media prefer to focus on the American’s problems and laws so as to deflect from rising inflation and crime and falling education rates.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:24am
  - kowtow
    
    “Corrupt news”
    DJT
    
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    June 29, 2022 9:28am
  - Tricati
    
    So true – I have had 2 women tell me the decision by the SCOTUS is just anti woman. When I asked ‘what did the decision actually do, and why did the SCOTUS review the original decision’, I only got blank looks.
    If you ever wanted an example of a media led beat up, this is it.
    
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    June 29, 2022 10:46am
- pdm
  
  MP I have been predicting inflation at 12/15% by election time.
  
  Orr and Robertson have been promoted way above their capabilities and do not have a clue.
  
  Both need to `bite the bullett’ and call in Don Brash, Bill English, Stephen Joyce and a couple of people of Brash’s choice to sort things out pronto.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:33am
  - Paulus
    
    Too late the damage is well done with no sight at the end of whatever tunnel.
    
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    June 29, 2022 9:20am
    - Nickc2
      
      The light at the end of the tunnel is the Departure Lounge at Akld International Airport.
      
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      June 29, 2022 12:37pm
      - Keith White
        
        …where only McDonald’s is open.
        
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        June 29, 2022 2:40pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Go and check the interest rates for something like 3-year or 5-year loans, even just a few months ago they were already at 8%, roughly double what they were two years ago.
  
  They’ll be going up. Business is always fun when your interest bill doubles.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:44am
Tony Stuart

We’ve now spent $1.2 billion on housing homeless people in motels and hotels. That’s $1,200,000,000, which is a pretty substantial sum in anybody’s currency.

Not long after Labour took office, Phil Twyford triumphantly told Parliament that in six months time, Labour wouldn’t be spending $80,000 per day on motel accommodation for those in need of social housing. For once he was right. Within six months, Labour was spending well in excess of $100,000 per day, and now it’s in the region of $1,100,000 per day. That’s $1.1 MILLION every day of the week.

Check out this 1News story from last night about Rotorua, where families from outside the Rotorua district are being imported and located in Rotorua motels. It has caused massive social and economic damage to the city:

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/06/28/rotorua-struggling-to-find-homes-for-displaced-families/
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June 29, 2022 8:10am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Rotorua is buggered as a tourist destination for the forseeable future.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:27am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Hosk just read out a txt from a listener who attended a Conference there last week.
    Said they were warned by the Hotel Manager not to venture more than a block away from the hotel after dark.
    
    Makes it sound like some third world sh*thole 🙁
    
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    June 29, 2022 8:40am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      It is a third world shithole, like most of the rest of NZ under Brenda.
      
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      June 29, 2022 9:38am
      - Frank the tank
        
        New Zimbabwe thank you. Please get the name of our country correct
        
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        June 29, 2022 10:55am
    - John Pakes
      
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      Hi Maggie. Was it you that sent the text to Hosking? Seems to me that you a repeating a comment you made some time back, though then it was you who had attended the conference, from memory. Something to do with a pharmaceutical company?
      Seems to me that it would be a dumb thing to do for a conference leader to set up a conference in a place with such a reputation, it shows no respect for the welfare of the attendees at all.
      So perhaps the conference did not happen at all?
      You sent the text to the right guy though, Hosking feeds on bad news about Rotorua.
      
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      June 29, 2022 9:46am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Pakes is back, with another load of tripe.
        
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        June 29, 2022 10:48am
    - Hometruth
      
      I booked a motel in Rotorua recently.
      When phoning reception to make the booking I asked, do you have and before finishing the question the receptionist said , no we do not have any homeless oeople staying here. Says it all really.
      
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      June 29, 2022 11:08am
  - All_on_Red
    
    We’re going cycling next weekend at Redwoods
    Day trip only- we don’t stay anymore
    
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    June 29, 2022 8:58am
    - kevn
      
      @All on… Go to Waipa. Lots of new facilities there now. Hot pools to soak in afterwards.
      
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      June 29, 2022 9:03am
    - John Pakes
      
      Make sure that someone stays with your car though.
      
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      June 29, 2022 10:05am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Its ok John, we wont be going into town so no need.
        
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        June 29, 2022 10:40am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  NZ should move all it’s pig farming to Rotorua lots of cheap and low skilled labour available, hard to steal pigs, and no-one would complain about the smell.
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:18am
- Master Mariner
  
  Tony , The one of Interest to me is we have spent that ammount for Foreign Airlines alone to fly to the arse end of the World during Pandemic.
  For 1 to 5 % of NZ goods. ?
  Why this is not front and centre Im buggered if I know.
  MAIC . Sorry on phone and limited internet as at sea.
  Thoughts?
  
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  June 29, 2022 1:32pm
Surely Knott

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Efeso Collins was driving in West Auckland in a politically branded car and was being tailgated. As they drove through the roundabout the tailgaters overtook and gave the Collin’s wife who was driving the fingers.

Tick to vote:
Thumbs up: The media is right. It’s definitely a political attack. Getting the fingers while driving shows the drivers clearly were against this candidate. This deserves front page news;. Efeso is being politically targeted.

Thumbs down: It’s her driving. It’s West Auckland FFS. She was probably driving slowly or the speed limit and they were annoyed . Getting the fingers while driving out west isn’t unusual. The media are making something out of nothing for PR purposes.
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June 29, 2022 8:11am
- Frank the tank
  
  Efeso – this is what happens when you are soft on crime. You get what you pay for in life.
  
  P.S. The driver was clearly a gronk but that is beside the point.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:32am
  - Keith White
    
    Semi-rhetorical question: when politicians target people like me (half-white, middle-aged, middle-class, taxpaying, productively-working, fed up with the racist medical apartheid overtaking our country etc.)… at what stage does it become not just appropriate but necessary to target them? For nonphysical / nondangerous values of targeting.
    
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    June 29, 2022 2:43pm
    - Frank the tank
      
      Never. Ridicule all you like however to provoke violence is one of their aims so they can categorise you as one of those mythical “white supremists”
      
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      June 29, 2022 6:40pm
- graham
  
  Haven’t read the story so can’t comment on the specifics, but yes; getting the fingers or having people flash their lights at you ANYWHERE is not uncommon. Doesn’t have to be just out west, I’ve had it around Albany, Orewa, in the CBD, Ponsonby … other drivers get annoyed all the time. You’re driving too slow/too fast/not signalling/in the “wrong” lane/add your own.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:49am
- cmm
  
  How about the third option?
  
  Tick here if you don’t care either way.
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:10am
  - igm
    
    So long as he is not elected, who cares?
    
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    June 29, 2022 9:38am
G152

That sum could go toward the 100,000 promised houses
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June 29, 2022 8:24am
slightlyrighty

The housing of High Dependency individuals in the Inner City in Auckland and Wellington has been a disaster.

Is it any wonder that both these cities have PLUNGED in the liveability ratings?
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June 29, 2022 8:26am
cmm

Megan Woods is either very, very stupid or a liar.

Since a very, very stupid person cannot earn a PhD, even in fem studies, one must conclude she’s a liar.

Woods blames our precarious electrical position on unreliable thermal generation. This is a lie.

Thermal generation relies on fire. Fire is one of the most reliable technologies that has been serving mankind since forever.

Thermal generators have extremely high availability factors so long as they are maintained properly.

Woods is pushing for her darling generation technologies: solar and wind. These are the least reliable technologies there are. The wind blows erratically and the sun does not always shine (and it certainly does not shine at night).

I’m watching as South Africa has massive load shedding due to going down the path we seem to be hell bent on following.

Today South Africa had Stage 6 load shedding. That means an average of 9 hours a day with no electricity!

South Africa has recently invested massively in wind and solar. So how are those going?

Wind seldom generates more than 20% of it’s nameplate capacity and often it is far less – less than 10%.

At peak power usage time (6.30pm) solar is generating nothing.

Meanwhile what IS providing power, lots of it, but not enough, are the old coal power stations – some of those built in the 1970s and still generating power with relatively high reliability even with extremely poor maintenance.

This is what is in store for us unless we pull our heads out of our holes.
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June 29, 2022 8:29am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes I saw that. Can’t rely on thermal generation. 🤡 It seems to have worked well for the last 100 years.
  
  Unless something changes the lights will go out in New Zealand. Wait until we are charging a million EVs. 🤡🤡
  
  TBH it will take a massive power crisis to wake people up. And even then I’m not sure.
  
  Look at Australia. The biggest exporter of coal and gas and they are experiencing an energy crisis. Can’t wait to see what happens in summer when their energy demand peaks.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:42am
  - Gravelroad
    
    What it might take for people to wake up is when life saving medical equipment in hospitals and rest homes breaks down due to power outages – and the backups are compromised.
    Even then the politburo will spin the “nine years of neglect” excuse rather than addressing the problem with some intelligence.
    
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    June 29, 2022 8:50am
    - kowtow
      
      What will it take to wake people up .
      
      I think it will take huge disruption for the ordinary voter to wake up and give the political class the fingers .
      
      It has happened in the UK with Brexit and in the US with the “disruptor” politician Mr Trump .
      The whole Establishment united to try to overturn the one and discredit the other .
      
      We live in interesting times.
      
      The mid terms in the US could be very telling . Where America goes ……..
      
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      June 29, 2022 9:18am
    - Hebe123
      
      Most hospitals have their own backup gennys. If they can get fuel.
      
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      June 29, 2022 1:23pm
  - cmm
    
    Things are very different in Australia (and California etc) because air conditioning is a huge % of their power usage. The nice thing about that is that the sun is generally shining when you need the AC on.
    
    In NZ our peak power usage is in winter when the sun is not shining (even if it is shining, winter sun is relatively feeble).
    
    Thus we must be careful not to fall into the trap of “do what Oz does”.
    
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    June 29, 2022 9:07am
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    https://youtu.be/ELaBzj7cn14
    
    A few years ago, the Australian Energy market was explained by John Clarke…sounds very familiar
    
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    June 29, 2022 9:30am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Welcome to the conspiratorial world of the Great Reset. You know, the one that is the delusional domain of crazed foil hat wearers? Yup!
    
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    June 29, 2022 9:40am
  - Jack5
    
    Coal burning still supplies an important part of Australia’s electricity, especially in Victoria, which burns “brown coal” – lignite. There are huge deposits of this in Southland.
    
    Some reckon Southland lignite would be sufficient to generate all of New Zealand’s electricity for four or five centuries.
    
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    June 29, 2022 10:38am
  - oldfella
    
    Benedict: the late, great Kiwi comic J0hn Clarke explains how the Australian energy market works.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELaBzj7cn14
    BY, not sure if Clarke was still in NZ when you arrived, but he’s best known locally for creating the iconic ‘Fred Dagg’ character.
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:02am
    - kiwikidsnz
      
      snap !
      
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      June 29, 2022 12:44pm
- alloytoo
  
  But But…..if Wind and Solar are free, why do they drive up prices wherever they are implemented.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:42am
  - cmm
    
    Because, of course they aren’t free.
    
    Every time you build a wind or solar plant you also have to build some real dependable power station alongside it.
    
    Thus wind and solar always cost more because they are frilly extras.
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:29am
    - alloytoo
      
      They also have very short lifespans.
      
      Reliables can last a century with proper maintenance and updates.
      
      Unreliables are being replaced every 15-20 years (if you’re lucky)
      
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      June 29, 2022 12:07pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        Heres another inconvient fact regarding Greenhouse Gases.
        The synthetic lubricant is classed as the most potent in the World for a Green house gas in Windmills.
        SF40??
        This has to be changed frequently. Where does it go ?
        
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        June 29, 2022 1:55pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Same thing’s happening in the USA where MISO (Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator) has issued warning that rolling blackouts are coming. See Burn. More. Coal?:
  
  which details a high risk of blackouts this Northern summer resulting from the current gap of 1,230 MW shortfall in power plant capacity to meet its peak demand and reserve margin.
  
  This gap has arisen after 3,200 megawatts (MW) of reliable power plants, mostly coal and nuclear, were retired last year
  
  That gap is going to grow larger in the coming years so even if, by some miracle, they avoid the problem this year, it’s coming for them.
  
  I increasingly feel like The West has gone insane. I don’t mean via fads like trans – we’ve always had fads. No, I mean in the simple form of self-preservation, which you would think is instinctive.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:59am
  - ISeeRed
    
    Those in power making these “insane” policies live lives of relevant luxury and never personally suffer from the consequences of their decisions. That’s why it keeps getting worse.
    
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    June 29, 2022 1:59pm
- Nickc2
  
  Megan Woods is either very, very stupid or a liar.
  Why not both?
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:04am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Pychopathic Liar.
    What else makes sense.
    
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    June 29, 2022 1:56pm
- kevn
  
  @cmm… I will go with 3 pies lies.
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:05am
- Hebe123
  
  Def time to put in a fire if you are in the south and don’t already have one.
  
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  June 29, 2022 1:22pm
- Keith White
  
  “…Since a very, very stupid person cannot earn a PhD…”
  
  Not disagreeing with your comment overall, but, the evidence “out there” in academic New Zealand, especially but not only related to the public health Covid-Pursuivants & Modellers, would appear to demonstrate very frequent exceptions to the statement.
  
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  June 29, 2022 2:45pm
Maggie Pie

Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years jail.

Hilary sends txt….”Hang in there hunny”

https://mol.im/a/10961027
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June 29, 2022 8:56am
- Gravelroad
  
  Bwahhaha-
  Maxwell reckons in court that she was “fooled by Epstein” and the meeting him was the “greatest regret of her life.”
  Sounds like a Hollywood crime show plot with some crass lawyer telling the defendant to lie like a bought one, show tears and remorse etc etc
  Maxwell’s only regret will be being called to account.
  Nothing more, nothing less.
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:10am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    You’re right of course Gravel. Silly bitch got what was coming.
    But funny how we heard every sordid-detail of even how Amber Heard shat in Jonny Depp’s bed, but we have to somehow be content without a single name from Ghislaine’s client list.
    
    Just saying.
    
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    June 29, 2022 9:18am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Who has the book, and why are they hiding it?
      Anything to do with the Clintons?
      
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      June 29, 2022 10:54am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        “They” aren’t arresting Ghislaine Maxwell’s clients….
        because “they” ARE Ghislaine Maxwell’s clients.
        
        The Pedo rapists stay protected.
        
        https://twitter.com/realJohnACastro/status/1539840939040071680
        
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        June 29, 2022 11:41am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0e7BILRox8
        
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        June 29, 2022 12:32pm
      - Nickc2
        
        I’m picking that book will be Ghislaine’s Get out of Jail free card. Who she gives it to could be interesting. If it were me, I’d give it to DJT just to see who in the Dems runs for cover and who lawyers up for divorces, and in what order.
        
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        June 29, 2022 12:47pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Nick, that is brilliant! DJT would have no problem using that.
        Remember what Hillary said? If I go down, I will take half of DC with me.
        
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        June 29, 2022 3:19pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I tell you one thing – Prince Andrew will never set foot in the USA again. He may never leave the UK again.
    
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    June 29, 2022 9:39am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, the client list will also be sentenced to 20 years in embargo. I should imagine the names reach the very tip of the famous.
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:11am
- virtualmark
  
  Interesting that she didn’t decide to be a cooperating witness and shop names. 20 years in prison is a lot of motivation to tell all.
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:02am
  - Keith White
    
    “I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further”. Is probably the message she got.
    
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    June 29, 2022 2:46pm
Surely Knott

Excellent recap video of the experts and politicians (Biden, Fauci et al.) told us clearly that the vaccine would stop transmission. We were lied to. And it was the promise that it would stop transmission that was the basis of the authoritarian mandates.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1478887001118154754
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June 29, 2022 9:03am
RoboRob

Posted the below in the kiwibuld post comments but think it should probably be here…

Labours energy policy is their greatest failure, we just haven’t seen the full result of this failure yet. get ready for 10+ years of power shortages and massive price increases.

I have been calling the energy policy issue for the last 5 years. The irony is that Megan Woods identified the issue and the required supply increase required in her own inaugural speech.

The issue is two fold. Not building enough new generation and not enough baseload capacity.

Labour appear to have done nothing at all to improve the situation and everything to make it worse.

A simple solution would be to require each power producer to be able to supply say 10% more energy then required to meet demand. Any intermittent (read Wind, solar etc) generation added must be matched by a similar (or proportional) amount of baseload generation. The government should have fast tracked any RMA applications with passing being the default position, treating them as emergency requests.

The above would allow, cheaper power as supply would exceed demand. The excess supply would cover emergency situations like breakdowns and droughts. No wind is NOT an emergency situation. It would also address the problem of energy companies building Wind only as an easy option that can get RMA approval, leaving us with a baseload deficit.
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June 29, 2022 9:23am
- Hebe123
  
  A more efficient solution would be to implement a capacity market alongside the energy market. This is done in some jurisdictions but there was never a solid justification in NZ (though it was talked about, it was pretty balanced as to the value for cost/complexity it would produce)=until recent years when lots of intermittent generation sources were developed.
  
  I’m surprised that this hasn’t been revisited, or maybe it has as I’ve been out of market design for close to a decade now.
  
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  June 29, 2022 1:28pm
Monique Watson

Yeah it’s bullshit. The Covid response. Bodily autonomy and get the Government outta my business. And all that,
Most strains of the coronavirus cause a cytokine storm in a tiny number of individuals and those individuals get really sick. The rest of us catch a cold, plod long as normal or get shuffled off prematurely at the worst.
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June 29, 2022 9:24am
Yvette

Trumped – still

Opinion: For the fall of Roe v. Wade, thank Donald Trump
Overturning Roe v. Wade has been the overarching, seemingly impossible goal of the pro-life movement for almost five decades. Now that it has finally been achieved, four words should be on the lips of every pro-life conservative today: Thank you, Donald Trump. – Washington Post

Decades Ago, Alito Laid Out Methodical Strategy to Eventually Overrule Roe
A slow-burning hostility to constitutional abortion rights runs through the career of the author of the Supreme Court opinion overturning them.

Samuel A Alito Jr. Application for Deputy Assistant Attorney General 18.11.1985, p2
… I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.
https://www.archives.gov/files/news/samuel-alito/accession-060-97-761/Acc060-97-761-box1-Alito.pdf

This issue has been coming for at least 37 years.
Was it Trump’s intention to precipitate this issue when he appointed Alito
That is a vital question (as well as that of abortion now) for Americans.

Here –
When challenged by Chan-Green over whether it was fair to call abortion “a distraction” when it is a healthcare issue that many people care about, Luxon said he has already been very clear about his views.

If Chan-Green heard more exactly what Luxon said, she would realise Robertson’s harping is the distraction Luxon refers to.

And out of this US Constitutional issue, a vital question for New Zealanders is the promotion of matters that are not in our “founding document”: the Treaty of Waitangi – the supposed equivalent of the US Constitution.
So, What is actually in the Treaty and what is not.
Like, the Treaty confers on Maori the status and responsibilities of British subjects not the “ruling class” or “co-governance”.

But here it is too early yet to thank Donald Trump – for exposing the treatment the Treaty should get.
Now, Grant Robertson, you need a distraction.
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June 29, 2022 9:24am
Handyman

I’m always surprised when people are surprised by the inevitable.
1. Our highest electricity use is always on cold mornings and evenings.
2. The only way it gets cold is when it is still and no cloud.

Therefore it is obvious we need enough electricity generation for peak periods when there is no wind or solar.

What do Labour/Greens propose as a solution for peak electricity generation on calm cold nights? You guessed it – double the amount of solar and windmills.

The loony left is so stupid they do not even know how stupid they are.
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June 29, 2022 9:24am
- kowtow
  
  Yes , but what’s the “smart” right doing about it .
  
  Ah , they want to trade with the EU , so they’re prepared to make all sorts of looney compromises to keep unelected Brussels officials happy .
  
  We’re doing this by closing down our coal stations , at the very time they are reopening theirs.
  
  I think they’re all looneys.
  
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  June 29, 2022 2:03pm
- JohnRidd
  
  I think they believe that batteries can be used to store the power until when it is needed.
  
  To build a battery to store 1000 megawatts of power for 1 hour at US$120.00 per kilowatt hour costs $120 million.
  for 24 hours costs US$2,880,000,000.00
  
  But we would probably need to about two weeks back up for when on of those large anticyclones sit over the country.
  
  That would cost US$40,320,000,000.00
  Divide by 0.62 to convert to NZ$65,032,000,000.00
  
  To build a battery that will last about ten years.
  
  Then you will also need to build a coal power station in case the low wind period lasts longer than 2 weeks.
  
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  June 29, 2022 3:32pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “Still and no cloud” Yep, winter and nice clear skies day is warm, nice clear sky at night is great. Next morning, frost.
  Solar and windmills don’t cut the ice. We need nuclear. All of those electric cars, utes, trucks, and boats, don’t charge themselves.
  We need nuclear. I don’t mind living near a station. Oh, you anti nuke idiots, the big chimney stack thing with all the toxic stuff coming out of the top? It is steam ffs.
  
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  June 29, 2022 3:45pm
Benedict Yu

Oh deary me. Light rail from the Wellington CBD to Island Bay. That will work :-(.

And get this – a new Mount Vic tunnel with 4 lanes. But only two lanes for private cars. And the old tunnel is just for walking and cycling. So that means 6 lanes of roads through the tunnels, but only two lanes for private cars. 🙁

And I see nothing about duplicating the Terrace Tunnel. Which is a horror story just about all the time as 3 lanes of motorway narrows to one lane in the tunnel.
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June 29, 2022 9:37am
- Benedict Yu
  
  oops forgot link
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/129111474/watch-live-once-in-a-generation-government-shows-hand-on-64b-wellington-transport-overhaul
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:38am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    As Mcos says there is already a two general traffic lane tunnel plus single lane bus tunnel…..
    
    And right next to the existing Mt Vic general use tunnel is a pilot tunnel where it was planned to put two extra lanes through the hill…. been there for decades.
    
    Could easily push the pilot tunnel in two lanes and have two lanes east and two lanes west with the existing bus tunnel converted to a pedestrian and cycle tunnel… (though I am sure that would prompt whining as its a fair hike up the city side of Mt Vic to the bus tunnel entrance…)
    
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    June 29, 2022 2:33pm
- Nickc2
  
  Looks like they subcontracted the design work to Akld Transport.
  Don’t despair, if Akld Transport is involved, the project will never be completed and you’ll all be consigned to bicycles.
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:48am
- 103PapPap
  
  Why Island Bay? It is a fairly ordinary suburb with no major attractions, and Celia Wade-Brown has gone.
  And there is already a separate bus tunnel (albeit one-way) under Mt Vic.
  This has Green Party ideologicalism written all over it.
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:50am
- MCōs
  
  There’s already three lanes through Mt Viv via two tunnels so that would make seven total.
  
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  June 29, 2022 10:01am
  - Lance
    
    If you bothered to read it, the existing Mt Vic will be converted to cycling and walking.
    Looks like Wellington is being fucked over just as bad as Auckland.
    
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    June 29, 2022 10:25am
    - Keith White
      
      Sometimes, voters need to get what they voted for, good and hard.
      
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      June 29, 2022 2:47pm
  - mandk
    
    Indeed.
    
    And one of the three lanes is exclusively for public transport.
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:13am
  - nathie
    
    MCos raises a good point, the Pirie St. Hataitai bus tunnel would surely be the better tunnel to have for walking/cycling. Not only is it shorter, the buses won’t require its use because they will have better alternatives. Being one lane anyway, why waste the twin-lane main Mt Victoria tunnel for cycling? Just utter madness.
    
    As for the new tunnel only having two lanes (one each way) for cars, again utter (greenie) madness. People will still be using cars, vans, people movers, trucks etc despite the Greenies thinking otherwise. It should be 4 lanes for cars (two each) way and if the buses can’t be content with using the old Mt Vic tunnel (only), then make the new tunnel 6 lanes!
    
    What are we, a third world country or something? Can’t we think ahead and be more future-proofing as the city grows larger population wise?
    
    Otherwise all we will end up having is yet more congestion (and cars idling)!
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:52am
- Hebe123
  
  Why island bay? Oh yeah it’s not the route that would provide most benefit, just the easiest.
  
  Just give everyone in Welly an ebike and a thousand
  bucks credit with Uber each year for the trips where a bike is no good. Prob work out much cheaper.
  
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  June 29, 2022 1:31pm
Maggie Pie

News Flash…

NZ Woman-Champion-Golfer Lydia Ko to marry Hyundai heir Chung Jun on December 30 in Seoul.

– The Korean Herald.

Wonder if we’ll see her getting round in a Pregio?
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June 29, 2022 9:37am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  She has done well. Mum and Dad will be real happy.
  They are very dominant, but will relax after she is married.
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:02am
- Matt Long
  
  And they’ll live in New Zealand?
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:19am
  - MCōs
    
    No likely.
    Lydia Ko works predominantly in America & Europe.
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:39am
    - kiwikidsnz
      
      …and in Saudi Arabia, helping to sportswash state sponsored murderers
      
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      June 29, 2022 12:47pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Good. It will stop the idiot rumours circulating inside NZ golf circles.
  
  Lucky bugger – Lydia has some of the best pins in the business.
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:51am
Benedict Yu

I am waiting for these folk to investigate the (at least) six Islamic integrated schools in New Zealand. I bet they don’t promote same sex marriage.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/129102047/institutional-homophobia-more-statefunded-christian-schools-with-antiqueer-policies-identified

Who is being harmed here? What parent is going to send their gay or trans teen to a fundamentalist Christian school or an Islamic school?

As soon as you agree to fund religious schools, this is what you get. No point acting all surprised because the local Baptist school does not promote gay marriage. 🙂 Too funny.
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June 29, 2022 9:48am
- Ehlana
  
  It’s time the media started asking these people perpetually seeking to be offended whether they actually believe in a free society, founded on freedom of conscience, thought, association and expression.
  
  In such a society, people are allowed to think differently from them, express different opinions from them and associate with others who share those opinions. And are just as entitled to have their children educated in schools that reflect their opinions as they are.
  
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  June 29, 2022 10:19am
  - yossarian
    
    But it’s the media who are getting offended, so they’ll continue to ask themselves
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:42am
- Cassandra
  
  The hypocrisy in this is staggering but what is even more so is that anyone is surprised. Most Christian churches and all of Islam opposes homosexual sexual relations. In the case of Islam vehemently so, to the point of murdering participants. At least the Baptists dont take it that far.
  
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  June 29, 2022 10:26am
- Surely Knott
  
  If the journalists could follow up in a couple of weeks and let us know what was the public response. After the article how many students left the schools with these policies and how many new applications and enquiries.
  
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  June 29, 2022 10:27am
Benedict Yu

Why does being lectured on “misinformation” make me feel unwell?

“Ardern discussed this year’s riot on Parliament grounds and the three-week occupation which led up to it, as one of the greatest examples of polarisation in New Zealand, saying misinformation had brought the hundreds of protesters together.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300624319/misinformation-is-a-threat-and-affecting-nz-jacinda-ardern-says-ahead-of-nato-speech

Umm no “misinformation” had nothing to do with the protests. They were protesting because vaccine mandates and passports had excluded them from society and cost many their jobs.
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June 29, 2022 9:56am
- Aurelia
  
  Despo to get her own 6th of Jan capitol inserection vibe
  
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  June 29, 2022 10:12am
- Ross Campbell
  
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  BY-You started off as one of the more reasoned voices on KB but if you honestly believe misinformation played no part in the parliament protests then unfortunately you have gone down the same rabbit hole as many other people posting here.
  
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  June 29, 2022 10:14am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Oh Ross, a true believer.
    Well, colour me surprised – not.
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:33am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Ok Ross give me examples of the misinformation that drew me and my sons to the protest
    
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    June 29, 2022 12:24pm
    - Ross Campbell
      
      I have no idea what drew you specifically to the protest as I don’t know you but the claim was “misinformation had nothing to do with the protest”.
      Well a couple of obvious examples that come to mind was two guys interviewed on TV at the protest saying that Covid was a hoax and it didn’t even exist followed by another shot of a guy holding a placard saying Covid was caused by 5G.
      Yes I know these people were actors paid by the government to discredit the protesters or some other silly explanation right??.
      
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      June 29, 2022 2:31pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    How about Arderns claims that the vaccine for Measles is the ‘same’ as the Covid vaccine
    Iirc BY has the exact quote
    It’s a bit rich the morons on the left ignore their own gas lighting and blatant lies.
    Ardern lies more than Trump!
    Not as much as Biden though
    
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    June 29, 2022 1:36pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      It never gets old. 🙂
      
      “If everyone heeds the call to be vaccinated by the end of 2021, it is our goal to reduce and then eventually remove the need for lockdowns,” Ms Ardern said.
      
      She said COVID-19 could then be treated like measles has been for years.”
      
      https://www.9news.com.au/world/coronavirus-new-zealand-updates-jacinda-ardern-new-plan-for-reopening-to-world/49d56a89-9f74-4793-8732-861c36601d5a
      
      But imagine if we vaccinated the kids for measles. And then most of them then got measles! 🙂 Too funny. Luckily, unlike the COVID vaccine, the MMR vaccine actually stops kids, well, getting measles. 🙂
      
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      June 29, 2022 5:27pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  The “misinformation” narrative is the biggest con trick in my lifetime. Its a sop for the naive who still cling to the delusion that Ardern really is the messiah and really is “kind and caring” when in reality, she is a total fraud.
  Challenge any of them to explain this “misinformation” and their eyes spin in their head and they mutter incomprehensible garbage. As personified by Brenda.
  
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  June 29, 2022 10:15am
  - Nickc2
    
    I rather suspect Cindy will bring back ‘burning at the stake’ for those she considers followers/believers of disinformation. Of course, that is disinformation according to St Cindy of the Beehive.
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:19am
  - mogg
    
    Ardern is the greatest source of disinformation, we can no longer believe a word that comes out of her mouth.
    
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    June 29, 2022 1:43pm
- Jack5
  
  What if there is a more pressing reason than “misinformation” for Ardern to talk with NATO, an alliance of no immediate concern to NZ?
  
  Could it be the Nordic-Turkey problem?
  
  Turkey won’t let Sweden and Finland join NATO unless it kicks out Middle-Easterners Turkey regards as terrorists. These are mainly Kurds.
  
  What if Ardern offers NZ sanctuary to the terrorists (in Turkey’s view) of Sweden and Finland?
  
  This would support Ardern’s ambitions for an international diplomatic career, despite having wrecked NZ economically.
  
  And specifically, a PR opportunity to throw another hijab on the Barbie.
  
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  June 29, 2022 10:48am
  - Jack5
    
    Whoops! Just read that Turkey has withdrawn opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO.
    
    As long as NZ taking the Nordics’ “terrorists” isn’t part of the deal.
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:40am
    - mawm
      
      Funny how that happened after she met Stoltenberg (?sp).
      
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      June 29, 2022 7:51pm
- Yvette
  
  Benedict
  Ardern’s misinformation claim is itself misinformation.
  
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  That misinformation supposedly reached and influenced people means actual information would reach the same people.
  Instead of endless ads saying “Vaccinate!” where was any sound information that explained how vaccines work, and have for decades , and any explanation how MRNA varied from other vaccinations. All could have been covered in a series of ad length items.
  Where was any documentary on MS television – there was not one, that I am aware of.
  
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  As has several times been suggested before, if Ardern or a representative had fronted when the first protesters arrived in their ‘convoy” and invited 10 representatives to meet her or cabinet members in Parliament to hear their points of concern, when the bulk of protesters arrived and demand she show, those there first would have had to say she has done that already. We have sent a delegation in, already.
  In as much as that didn’t happen, is one reason why everything else did happen.
  
  It was not so much “misinformation had brought the hundreds of protesters together”, but further fucking non-delivery of actual information on the part of Ardern’s Government – as much as anything else.
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:02am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Representatives is something the “convoy’ did not have – no leader. That was a downfall. The whole convoy was organised, but at Parliament there was no rep, no bunch of say 3 who would have talked about the reasons for the protest.
    It is almost like the Govt Reps just stayed back and waited for the rent-a-mob to mess things up.
    Yvette, keep up with the good comments, you are a step above many on here – including me.
    
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    June 29, 2022 4:31pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      Mmm. I wonder who organised the food/first aid/dunnies during the protest.
      
      Am sure there was some organisation. I suspect Bishop Brians mob did a bunch of that.
      
      It showed that you don’t need a leader when its a common cause.
      
      If Jacinda had asked for 10 reps, then they would have been selected/promoted by those present.
      But they didnt get the chance.
      
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      June 29, 2022 7:47pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘Misinformation’ means LIES, something Jaspinda is an expert at. Comms degree you know.
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:05am
- mandk
  
  Agreed.
  
  The protest was also fueled when it became clear that Ardern was lying when she said that there would be no compulsion to have the vax, and that people opting out would face no penalties at all.
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:11am
- cmm
  
  Translation: Anyone that doesn’t think the way I want them to is misinformed.
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:26am
  - mawm
    
    Probably more realistically; those who don’t believe my lies are misinformed.
    
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    June 29, 2022 12:27pm
andretti

i have been sitting patiently for 2 years waiting for the world to come to the understanding that the pandemic was no such thing.This was all a massive con.If it was wait for the next con to appear from our elite rulers,for them covid was a huge success and will be repeated by a more elaborate scam soon.
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June 29, 2022 9:58am
- Surely Knott
  
  I would suggest that the next con is already underway and has been for some time.
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:47am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Climate Change.
    
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    June 29, 2022 4:51pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

“All that is necessary for the triumph-of-evil
is six silly old bastards with gavels”

– Isaiah 5:20
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June 29, 2022 10:21am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Why on earth would six aged auctioneers, all of whom were born out of wedlock, have to do with evil.
  
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  June 29, 2022 10:35am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    😀 😀 😀
    
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    June 29, 2022 10:41am
- Frank the tank
  
  Amy Coney-Barrett is not old – neither is Cavanagh. I’d also suggest on a literal basis none of them are “Snows” (i.e. bastards) either.
  
  Mags – is this the first time you and Jacinda see eye-to-eye?
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:03am
- mandk
  
  You do know, don’t you that the liberal’s sainted heroine, Ruth Bader-Ginsberg , thought that the original Roe vs Wade decision was flawed?
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:04am
- Nukuleka
  
  Ah yes Maggie. Abortion up until birth. Pretty popular idea amongst the gals at the tennis club, eh.
  
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  June 29, 2022 3:03pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    They all agree with me!
    
    Vasectomies should be mandated…Life begins at Ejaculation.
    
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    June 29, 2022 3:30pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      And you call yourself Catholic. I’d suggest – waste of time going to Mass. Just a thought.
      
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      June 29, 2022 5:09pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        What you need to understand Donald…. is the difference between Faith and Religion.
        
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        June 29, 2022 6:47pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Even for wankers?
      Pornhub or that ORSM place?
      
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      June 29, 2022 5:32pm
MCōs

I’m expecting an erosion of support for Trump from mainstream Republicans.
With those hard line justices showing they mean business he’s outlived his usefulness.
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June 29, 2022 10:22am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Really? How do Kagan, Sotomayor and Breyer’s massive unconstitutional overreaches mean that Trump has outlived his usefulness?
  
  They are so hard line that they’ve shown (as I showed yesterday) that they simply don’t care about applying the Constitution at all any more.
  
  It’s funny that you clearly think that the Justices that actually apply the Constitution are the hard line ones.
  
  The biggest decision is still to come too.
  
  They’re going after the EPA (and by extension all overreaching Government bureaucracies) in the next week.
  
  Basically, the EPA has claimed they have carte blanche in deciding unilaterally how they want to control anything enviroment related. The lawsuit is saying that the federal Government has to make those calls and they can’t hand that level of power off to unelected bureaucrats. Obviously, Constitutional power should only be wielded by elected representatives of the people. It will be interesting to see how the power mad “Liberal” Justices manage to dissent against this decision.
  
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  June 29, 2022 10:44am
  - All_on_Red
    
    A review of Libel Law will happen too.
    Here’s Justice Thomas making comments about it.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/06/distant-thunder-on-the-supreme-court.php
    
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    June 29, 2022 1:07pm
    - Libertarians are right
      
      Not soon unfortunately. Thomas was the only dissenter there. He’s right of course but there is a certainty that relaxed Libel laws would be weaponised by the Left in the US.
      
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      June 29, 2022 2:13pm
    - curry4me
      
      Sooner the libel law is revisited the better.
      
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      June 29, 2022 2:46pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Not according to my friend in Illinois. “Red tide rising – more than a million Democrats changed to Republican…….”
  
  https://the-american-catholic.com/2022/06/28/red-tide-rising/
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:00am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Don – there is a massive redirection of Hispanic voters (conservative, blue collar and Catholic) from the Democrats to the GOP as many revile from the anti-god, transbender vibes Creepy & co are giving off.
    
    Despite their best efforts the Roe vs Wade shit storm is beginning to pass outside of the feckless in New Zimbabwe.
    
    Do you blame them when this is your unelected official:
    
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58974627
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:09am
  - MCōs
    
    If that’s true there’s no guarantee they are genuine let alone Trump supporters.
    In NZ anyone can join one of the local parties for a few bucks.
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:13am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      OK, how about Flores in South Texas flipping an historically safe Red seat? That’s a reasonable indicator. Pelosi was so mad about that that she elbowed Flores daughter (to be fair it’s more likely that she simply didn’t like a little brown girl so close to her – the deep seated racism in the Democrat party bubbles to the surface every once in a while).
      
      The Democrats are constantly and actively pissing all over the US Democracy (ironically) and people have had enough. And oh yeah, they’re useless. That doesn’t help either.
      
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      June 29, 2022 11:31am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Lol Cosy been hanging out with Bat too much. Dream on and be careful what you wish for. Instead of Trumpy/Palin you’ll get Ronny/Kristi.
      
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      June 29, 2022 11:53am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Candace Owens is highly involves in that.
    
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    June 29, 2022 11:21am
- mandk
  
  I think the GOP would be best served by putting its weight behind more conventional figures.
  
  Ron DeSantis and Kari Lake would make a good POTUS and VPOTUS conservative pairing.
  
  They are both excellent at standing up to the liberal media.
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:02am
- Frank the tank
  
  LOL Cosy – get rid of Trumpy and you get a better, smarter, younger candidate in Ronny DeSantis.
  
  I would think you leftards would support Trumpy – he’s the only candidate that potentially could lose to the old coot.
  
  Sad.
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Who on earth told you that?
  Did you see the size of the crowd at his rally last Sunday? (Sat local time)
  The Fake News Media never show crowds – DJT.
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/25/watch-live-donald-trump-holds-save-america-rally-in-mendon-illinois/
  
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  June 29, 2022 11:18am
  - MCōs
    
    Tonga got a big crowd of supporters along to the league test on Saturday and lost.
    
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    June 29, 2022 12:37pm
    - Frank the tank
      
      The Dems got a big crowd outside of SCOTUS and lost – your point Cosy?
      
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      June 29, 2022 12:55pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        No point, just a diversion. Let’s not talk about Trump just now//
        
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        June 29, 2022 4:03pm
    - Libertarians are right
      
      Because those Tongan supporters don’t get to vote for the winner of the match?
      You do know the difference between democratic elections and a sports game right?
      
      I get the point that a tiny bunch of voters supporting Trump doesn’t mean he has widespread support but your comparison made no sense.
      
      I’d also point out that Trump has clearly shown a willingness to “stack” Courts with Originalists and given those two religious rights cases that went through the Court in the last week (that should have been stopped in a lower Court), there are clearly a large number of ideological Leftist judges in the lower federal courts who Trump’s supporters would suggest need to be replaced.
      
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      June 29, 2022 12:57pm
      - MCōs
        
        My point is drawing a big crowd to meetings doesn’t mean a whole lot.
        I remember when Bob Jones used to draw big crowds to meetings back in 1984 for the NZ Party.
        He came third in Ohariu behind Peter Dunne, who would hardly have filled a telephone kiosk.
        
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        June 29, 2022 3:11pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Does not mean a lot?
        How about a Trump vehicle convoy thing? 96 miles long. That is from the Shore to Hamilton. Flags everywhere. Then there are the on water things, boats everywhere, thousands of boats.
        
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        June 29, 2022 4:09pm
blue collar

If they get trump and he can’t run , god help the dems once desantis gets in . He’s actually extremely clever and capable .
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June 29, 2022 10:39am
- Frank the tank
  
  Yep and if he chooses a competent deputy such as Kristi Noem doubly so.
  
  With Trumpy he’d likely plump for Sarah Palin….
  
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  June 29, 2022 12:57pm
  - curry4me
    
    There’s no chance Trump will choose Sarah Palin for anything. He has excellent judgement.
    
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    June 29, 2022 2:51pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  DeSantis is really needed in Florida. A swing State, not so much now, but remember, lots of dropkicks leaving California and the outer New York, yep, they are going to Florida.
  
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  June 29, 2022 4:17pm
blue collar

So eagle won’t bring his billboards down until the weekend , despite being told to do so …. First impression to voters is that he is arrogant and will do what he damn well wants .
Seems dumb to me .
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June 29, 2022 10:57am
- MCōs
  
  Chap is not cunning enough to be mayor of Wellington.
  Months before the last general election I noticed some Denise Lee billboards in Onehunga.
  The big print said Denise Lee, National
  The small print indicated it was a billboard advertising fortnightly meet your MP meetings at a local cafe, or some such & therefore not electioneering.
  
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  June 29, 2022 2:57pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bt2Q-sVV-0
SCOTUS Just Demolished ANOTHER 50-Year Legal Precedent.

There has been another major victory out of the U.S. Supreme Court. Just days after standing up for life with Friday’s decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, today the Court has taken a stand for religious liberty. As we’ve told you before, a high school football coach was fired because after every home game, he would quietly pray on the field. We filed an amicus brief in the case defending the coach’s right to pray. Today, in a 6-to-3 ruling, the Court reversed the Court of Appeals verdict and stated that the school had punished the coach for an act that was “doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment.” [4:54]
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June 29, 2022 11:16am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r-Y3pComQM

Carl Bromley for Mayor – to make Christchurch the safest city in NZ.

The city council should try to do what it can to make Christchurch a safe city. [1:29]
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June 29, 2022 11:16am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32lyO_f6HQE
Health Mandate Protest Christchurch NZ.

True Kiwis braved a bitterly cold day in Christchurch to stand in protest against the current health V mandates in place stopping Nurses and other Healthcare staff from working – when the country desperately needs them, and they WANT to work. [2:43]
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June 29, 2022 11:17am
Swifty

“I want more money, and I want the NZ Labour Party to legislate that other New Zealanders be forced to give it to me.”

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300624574/sick-leave-rules-shortchange-low-income-workers
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June 29, 2022 11:24am
- Keith White
  
  He who robs Peter to pay Paul will always have Paul’s vote.
  
  He who then weaponises the government against Peter as a member of the European colonizing majority, will get votes from dead Pauls and live Karens as well.
  
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  June 29, 2022 2:51pm
blue collar

Where’s all the cops ???
Mower bloke in the naki had a car through the shop window , apparently only 5 on duty on a Saturday night , they had other priorities so didn’t chase the culprit when he wouldn’t pull over and couldn’t hang around for long .

So where are they ?
Is there a protest somewhere they are all being shipped to ?
Or are they on a cultural course ?
Or hv we recruited a fair few but there’s even more retiring/ quitting
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June 29, 2022 11:29am
- kowtow
  
  Dunedin appears to have had a wild weekend and Plod couldn’t even be bothered to take notes .
  
  No shit.
  
  “Lots of complaints were made about racing and burnouts, but no vehicle registrations were recorded and no arrests were made.’
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/hundreds-street-racers-descend-dunedin
  
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  June 29, 2022 2:20pm
- Keith White
  
  Judging by media reports, most of the Blue Patched Gang’re probably off getting counselling after the horrors they were subjected to while breaking up the Wellington anti-mandate protests.
  
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  June 29, 2022 2:58pm
Prince

I find it hard to blame Stuart Broad for this.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/300624636/england-bowler-stuart-broad-reprimanded-for-throwing-ball-at-black-caps-batter-daryl-mitchell
Broad’s behavious throughout the test (constantly asking for the ball to be replaced, throwing tantrums if it wasn’t, abusing batsmen) was shocking, but the umpires (and commentators) seemed to treat it all as a bit of the laugh.
Broad always has been a spoilt brat, probably because daddy (Chris Broad) is a senior ICC member, in charge of match referees.
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June 29, 2022 11:31am
Surely Knott

Trio lose name suppression for West Auckland murder but no details.

Wasn’t the protocol previously that we hear their suburb of residence (or no fixed abode), any gang associations, and their occupation. Why has this changed. News now is mostly opinions and reckons.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/west-auckland-car-park-murder-angry-scenes-in-court-as-trio-plead-not-guilty/7SAFXKY7MJ6BC3U42ZFNLKUSJE/
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June 29, 2022 11:45am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Morning Report are still interviewing Chris Luxon about abortion etc. Still! Whatever your views, surely it’s time to move on. And, if the media wanted a new angle, why not interview Labour about its MPs having their own views on abortion?
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June 29, 2022 11:56am
- Libertarians are right
  
  They should ask Mahuta how she can justify attacking the US over the decision when she voted against it here.
  
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  June 29, 2022 1:33pm
  - septic skeptic
    
    Mahuta is now saying that she was speaking on behalf of the government when calling the US Supreme Court ruling draconian. I bet she didn’t think of that all on her own!
    
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    June 29, 2022 3:39pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      ‘Think?” What is that? Govt does my thinking coz I told them what to think, NM
      
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      June 29, 2022 5:39pm
- Tricati
  
  Its clearly the new Labour Party strategy to go after National over woman’s issues. Hopkin’s appalling attempt to slight Mitchell, and the pile on from left woman MP’s, is that they are clearly going after National over the abortion issue as they have sweat FA else to use. The economy is toast and every other metric is going south so ‘Play the Man’ is their only answer.
  
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  June 29, 2022 4:41pm
Nickc2

We now have a NATO Conference going on simultaneously with Russian shelling and bombing of Ukraine and what do you think these wankers are debating and signing up to? Fucking Climate Change no less!
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/putin-xi-must-spend-half-their-days-pissing-themselves-laughing.html
I’m failing to be convinced that this whole Climate Change is nothing but a worldwide scam. How could leaders of NATO Countries, Australia and New Zealand be so damned stupid?
Little wonder Cindy went there eh?
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June 29, 2022 11:59am
cmm

With all the hundred of millions of dollars spent on thousands of communicashuns people employed by the government CV19 effort you could be forgiven expecting some quality communcations.

In a word, they are SHIT!

Apart form the confusion of word-soup that makes up the daily numbers/hospitalisations/deaths, here’s another clanger.

Their simplified pictoral guide of how to use a RAT:
* It doesn’t even show the person putting the swab up their nose. The person is just dabbing around the outside of the nostril!
* “… going low and slow, about 2 centimetres deep”. WTF does “going low and slow” mean?

You really couldn’t make it more confusing unless you tried! Even then it would take a good effort.

https://covid19.govt.nz/testing-and-tracing/covid-19-testing/how-to-use-a-rat/#prepare-the-rat-kit
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June 29, 2022 12:03pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Meaningless crap anyway as the RATs are just as useless as the PCR test. They don’t work as intended. The results are meaningless.
  
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  June 29, 2022 12:14pm
alex Masterley

Bugger:
3 out of 5 residing at Chez Masterley have the vid. The other two have had it, although 1 sounds like he is going through round 2 despite testing negative.
I had a couple of days of sniffling and coughing but am back to normal. The other two are the same.
I thought it was my usual winter cold which clears up after 2-3 days. the rat test thing disagreed.
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June 29, 2022 12:15pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  The RAT test is effectively meaningless. It has a strike rate of around 50%. It’s a coin toss.
  
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  June 29, 2022 12:27pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    Agreed, but I did two. both +ve. got sick of sticking things up my nose after the 2nd.
    
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    June 29, 2022 12:42pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Depends on the RAT test.
    There are many brands, and the one I was using was rated at >80%, and I got two positives for two tests on separate days.
    
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    June 29, 2022 4:14pm
Nickc2

Britain intends to ramp up its Armed Forces to meet the challenges of Russia in Ukraine. It’s a long read, but it sums up Britain’s intentions.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/british-army-chief-i-intend-to-mobilise-the-british-army-to-deter-russia.html
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June 29, 2022 12:22pm
- Keith White
  
  “What could possibly go wrong?”
  
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  June 29, 2022 2:59pm
- mawm
  
  Things must be bad in Blighty.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:11pm
ClanMcleod

Another conspiracy theory bites the dust, it’s getting harder and harder to find an opportunity to wear my tin foil hat.

LRAD devices (sound cannons) were used on protesters at parliament.

“Recently, Police have confirmed this through an Official Information Act request, LRAD weapons were used against peaceful protestors who were simply standing for freedom. ”

Note: Those who came in wearing masks on 2 March 2022 were not a part of the protest.

“The document states “…police have 17 LRAD units, bought incrementally since 2016, and that a tactical options report must be completed for the use of an LRAD. The manufacturer’s specifications for the LRAD model ‘100x’, used by police, says the devices can project 140dB, about the sound level of a gunshot, to a maximum range of 600m”.

Police also denied the use of pepper spray at the protest, in clear contradiction to the video footage of protestors being sprayed.

Before the second raid on 2 March 2022, “a new crowd-control pepper spray product with a higher capacity, Sabre Red Mk 9, was also added to the list of approved products”.

“The obligations of police to provide aftercare, by decontaminating and avoiding positional asphyxia, were also changed from “must” to “must if the circumstances allow”. No aftercare was given on 2 March.

Read through the article outlining what went on here:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/revealed-police-used-sound-cannons-against-parliament-protesters/PIBFZEHRIOEADS7SK4Y4SWM464/

“Kind and caring and working for the team of 5 million, unless you disagree with me or refuse to let me inject an experimental product into your body and those of your children. If you do that then I set the dogs on you.

Cheers

Brenda”
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June 29, 2022 12:23pm
- mandk
  
  ‘Police also denied the use of pepper spray at the protest’
  
  That’s a laugh. There is video, from early in the protest, of cops getting caught by the spray their colleagues were firing at protesters.
  
  Naturally, the MSM reported that the cops were sprayed in the eyes, by protesters, with an unknown substance.
  
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  June 29, 2022 2:39pm
- mawm
  
  17 LRADs. WTH! We live in a peaceful country, we have had essentially peaceful protests every now and again (except for the left ie Springbok tour), and there has been no reason for the police to become militarised! Unless this has been long in planning.
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:16pm
I remember when

Local paper had a front page story about a narrow bridge which the local community wanted to be made a one-way bridge.
The article detailed three accidents in the last three years being used to emphasise the need.
The approach to the bridge narrows, so that cars do have restricted separation on the bridge, and it is a stretch of highway that allows higher speed.
In two of the three accidents, one fatal, the cars hit the concrete bridge supports.
However, there is no mention of whether another car was approaching the bridge at the same time.
No mention of time of accident, whether drugs or alcohol were involved or excessive speed.
They propose one way traffic, restricted speed to approach, rather than prominent signs highlighting the danger.

Why are calls for speed reduction often lacking
in what could be considered important facts.
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June 29, 2022 12:38pm
Maggie Pie

And wonder if she got Pedro’s autograph for Neve to show the other kids at Daycare?

https://twitter.com/Dame_Jane/status/1541713654881853441
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June 29, 2022 12:41pm
- Nickc2
  
  Perhaps Pedro gifted Neve one of the Spanish Riding School Lipizzan breed horses to remind her of mummy when she’s away eh?
  
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  June 29, 2022 12:58pm
  - mandk
    
    Would you be referring to the Spanish Riding School that is in Vienna?
    
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    June 29, 2022 2:30pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Spanish riding school is in Vienna. It is named for tye Spanish Style of riding not the nation.
    
    Maybe he can send her an Andalusian. The stud book is run by the Spanish Army.
    
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    June 29, 2022 3:46pm
dcrane

Here we have the NZ Herald vs. an old-school blog written by a German, reporting on the Zelensky-alleged Russian attack on a shopping mall.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/russia-ukraine-war-video-shows-moment-russian-missile-hit-shopping-mall/TD3GBVKN5VXBIKY4YXOXOK7AVI/

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/06/another-zelensky-lie-debunked-white-house-says-ukraine-must-give-up-territory.html

And once again, the old school blog runs rings around the institution that sucks up thousands if not million of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants.

You can even see thanks to the MoA reporting that the second video in the Herald story is from the other side of the complex that was very likely to be the real target.

At the bare minimum, it is completely unacceptable to report on damage to the civilian structure and claim that it was attacked deliberately without also telling the reader about the factory complex that lies right next to it.

NZ Herald is loyal five-eyes propaganda when it comes to this topic, nothing more.
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June 29, 2022 12:53pm
- quarterpack
  
  At the bare minimum, it is completely unacceptable to fire missiles into another (much smaller) nations territory, on account that that you perceive they are a threat to your nations security….
  
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  June 29, 2022 9:40pm
Frank the tank

Any sign of Jethro? Hasn’t been sighted yet. Perhaps he is allowed to be by himself again?
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June 29, 2022 12:59pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  We all know. Worst kept secret i NZ.
  Jethro would have loved Spain – tough guy – bullfights and shit.
  Never mind – I don’t want Mods giving me a hard time.
  
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  June 29, 2022 5:50pm
MCōs

Woman who rushed into Uvale school and rescued her kids is now getting hassled by the police she showed up.
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/mother-speaks-about-saving-her-children-from-uvalde-gunman
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June 29, 2022 1:17pm
Maggie Pie

To think some people give ME strange looks when I tell them
I’ve still got all my Barbie-Dolls…..

https://twitter.com/filmgal/status/1541590912232480768
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June 29, 2022 1:22pm
Inandout

‘The Sergeant at Arms in Charge of Capitol Security on January 6 dies under Mysterious Circumstances’.
Michael Stenger was the man.
Another stray bullet?
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June 29, 2022 1:28pm
Nickc2

France puts a Coal-Fired Power Station on line due to an energy shortage. This’ll piss Cindy off as she travels the world preaching Climate Change misinformation.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/06/28/energy-crisis-government-to-restart-coal-plant-after-power-company-tsars-warning/
PS: this is in addition to France’s Nuclear Power Plants, not because of them.
More EVs anyone?
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June 29, 2022 1:52pm
Southern Raider

Left is in full meltdown on social media attacking Mark Mitchell about something he didn’t say. They must really be struggling in the polls as obvious strategy is to make National look anti women

Mitchell said on ZB that Hipkins needed to inspire confidence in the public he was supporting police and tough on crime, not answering patsy questions about diversity in the police force

Hipkins is on Twitter claiming Mitchell hates women being in the Police and supports Nationals anti women stance, which is not what Mark said
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June 29, 2022 1:54pm
- K
  
  Listening to the discussion on ZB, you could sense it dawning on Hipkins that he could use this to get the Team of 55m to run another culture war headline against National. After a jumbled start to his response where he recharacterised what Mitchell was saying and narrowly avoided declaring that a quarter of New Zealand women were police, his breath quickened and the pitch of his voice started to rise. His heart pumped more oxygen to help with the task of getting the words piling up in his brain to tumble out of his mouth as quickly as possible. With some luck he managed to get them in roughly the right order. His excitement turned to a crescendo of triumph as he talked over Mitchell’s reply, probably thinking ahead to the tweets he would spend his publicly funded day writing and checking for responses in lieu of addressing the issue that was the original subject of the discussion.
  
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  June 29, 2022 5:51pm
Flossie

I’m just politely asking this…if the Labour MP who has his eye on being Wellington’s mayor can take three months off, how necessary was he in parliament in the first place?
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June 29, 2022 2:00pm
All_on_Red

https://babylonbee.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-to-prison-in-spite-of-years-of-faithful-service-to-nations-leaders/
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June 29, 2022 2:07pm
Frank the tank

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/06/28/left-pushes-vaccines-on-children-elmo-got-the-covid-vaccine-today/

Wonder if Cindy will use Manu and Big Ted for her next Kung Flu jab ad?
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June 29, 2022 2:16pm
Maggie Pie

LOL!

https://twitter.com/PotoChchEast/status/1541886643116056577

She was just sacked and replaced by the Whitest guy in the Party…
and a ginga to boot!!
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June 29, 2022 2:18pm
- Tricati
  
  Clearly they are running scared so playing the man the only option – Just Labour bullies with no answers. She really is thick as a brick.
  
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  June 29, 2022 4:43pm
kevn

“Maggie… Isn’t that hipkins a whinger?
Never mind getting/supporting the Police to do their job, but cries about Mitchell and diversity ffs
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June 29, 2022 3:02pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This Maxwell thing is strange. Ghislaine Maxwell will know about the book of names and words, and she will have seen it. Copies or references will be with her family. That is her freedom card. But if/when details come out it will be interesting.
Now, what about other investigations? Epstein did not fly that plane to his Island. There are pilots and crew. There are companies with workers who built all of the air runway, the roads, the buildings, on Little St James Island. They did not build themselves.
There must have been staff for cleaning, cooking, washing. I doubt Epstein could even microwave a pie. Staff for ongoing maintenance, power and water supply, sewerage disposal, fueling of vehicles and boats. All of the fuel and food did not come on a plane, must have been boats or small ships.
There are a lot of people involved – collectively there is a lot of information available.
Who is stopping this??????
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June 29, 2022 3:37pm
- Inandout
  
  SO, perhaps these people you mention value their lives.
  
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  June 29, 2022 4:06pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Don’t you think it strange that the QUEEN gets to send a cheque on behalf of her idiot son to buy the victims silence and agreement to drop litigation against him.
  
  Just saying.
  
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  June 29, 2022 4:06pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Radio NZ breathlessly reported that US medical personnel inquiries about moving to NZ DOUBLED in the immediate wake of Roe v Wade.

A penny to a pound (of sh*t) says there is absolutely no impact on the numbers of US medical migrants.
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June 29, 2022 4:42pm
- mandk
  
  Doubled?
  
  That would be from one to two.
  
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  June 29, 2022 6:04pm
Maggie Pie

So, we learn today that the killer of the poor innocent 51 year old woman in Sockburn on Saturday, was in fact on ‘day-release’ from the Secure Unit of Hillmorton Hospital.

As anyone will tell you that is associated with the treatment of Mental Health patients……in the last couple of years decisions like this are now being made on political grounds, rather than on the medical opinion of Professionals.

Just look around you….under this government the entire country has become a Free-Range-Asylum.

Thank you Dr. Do-Little.
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June 29, 2022 5:06pm
- mawm
  
  A paper presented by a Dane at a Psychiatric meeting recently claims that 1 in 4 cases of schizophrenia is due to cannabis (weed) use. More and more evidence is accumulating on the mental problems related to weed use especially in teenagers. I’m glad our MoH and Government are so up to date on all the research. /s
  
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  June 29, 2022 8:34pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Two stories on Stuff (yes, I read it so you don’t have to):

* $7.3B required for regional trainset overhaul
* $7B required for the Govt’s preferred Let’s Get Wgtn Moving option

The casual reader might have conflated the two into one; but actually they are cumulative.

Staggering amounts of public money.
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June 29, 2022 5:09pm
surfing

Is this a first? Government are building new ‘maori-only’ houses in Tauranga.

A white homeless white family with equal needs would be rejected on grounds of being the wrong skin colour.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/thirty-new-affordable-rentals-to-be-built-in-papamoa-for-nga-potiki-whanau/V6BEPIIQC3X5OXCYOXVNIGL5E4/

Disgraceful really. Equal rights dead in NZ.
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June 29, 2022 8:01pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Nope. Not a first. The taxpayer is building houses on Maori land all over the country. You can be sure that these are not open to all.
  
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  June 30, 2022 7:21am
Maggie Pie

That dopey Fa’anana Efeso, eh….

And not the first-time either by the sound of it 🙁

Hmmm.
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June 29, 2022 9:12pm
DimChappie

Wanted to make a submission on the mental Maori radical Local Government Reform plan as discussed at https://www.nzcpr.com/the-revolution-within/
But when I went to the submission site https://www.futureforlocalgovernment.govt.nz/get-involved/ I found it does not allow independent comment, more like “Suggest a reform which embodies Te Teriti, bla bla.” Made me feel sick so I got out without comment.
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June 29, 2022 10:04pm
ClanMcleod

I’m guessing you’re fingers are aching due to the number of times you’ve had to type that message after the UK and US have launched missiles at smaller nations for the same claimed reasons? 🙄
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