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Matt Long

Have you seen the new version of The Little Red Hen? The animals who refuse to help are “having a conversation” about health, carbon dioxide pollution, the ownership of water, and hate speech.
But it has a happy ending; those who refuse to work confiscate the bread from the little red hen for their parties, destroy her oven and machinery, and plant her fields in pine trees. Then they print money to buy food from the Chinese Communist Party until rampant inflation and shortages break down civil order, and the CCP takes everything.
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June 30, 2022 8:02am
- Nickc2
  
  …… and all Aotearoans lived happily ever after.
  Next Episode in the series is called ‘Ding-Dong the Bitch has Gone’ and its shot entirely in New Zealand with all NZers playing themselves.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:15am
- kevn
  
  @Matt… The Marsden Point refinery is being parked up for the next invasion.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:39am
- kevn
  
  A good summary of arden performing for the big kids at the G7. Disinformation (from her).
  http://www.thedailytelegraph.co.nz
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:54am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Link goes to a domain thing.
    Try https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/guy-hatchard-jacinda-ardern-leads-the-way-with-disinformation/
    Ardern spoke to them about the New Zealand capital grounds riot and played to her gullible audience by suggesting the threat to social cohesion and public health in New Zealand society was originating in Russia and might result in war.
    
    Seriously?
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:18am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      She did indeed. I posted this a couple of days ago from the “Disinformation Project” (I kid you not) – of course the Disinformation Project originates out of Te Pūnaha Matatini who received 6 million from Brenda to produce “models” that told her version of truth. I don’t know if she funded this report directly, but she is all over this.
      
      22 pages, you really have to read it to see the depths she is prepared to go to in her efforts to totally control the narrative. As we now know, it is her only skill. But she is being exposed for the fraud she is on a regular basis these days.
      It is abundantly clear, Ardern works for other masters, not the people of NZ.
      
      https://thedisinfoproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/The-murmuration-of-information-disorders-May-2022-Report-FULL-VERSION.pdf
      
      As per her comments to NATO, it’s all the Russian’s fault. Of course a couple of the trolls here tried to say I was exaggerating, now we have it straight from the horse’s mouth. No offence or dental slurs intended.
      
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      June 30, 2022 9:25am
      - cmm
        
        “I don’t know if she funded this report directly”
        
        C’mon you know the answer: it came out of your pocket.
        
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        June 30, 2022 10:31am
      - kowtow
        
        That woman has no shame .
        
        Addressing a bunch of over priveliged middle class youf , she called them “comrades”
        
        Same person goes to NATO and slags orf the “comrades”
        
        And the int’l media tell us she’s the bees knees .
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:02am
      - mawm
        
        NATO are looking for war and they are lining up their pawns. Jacinda is intellectually too dull to realise that she’s one.
        
        Turkey has got its F-16’s – 40 of them, and has dropped it’s objection to Finland and Sweden joining NATO. Expect to see Kurds filling govt housing soon.
        
        https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/06/29/deafening-drumbeats-for-war-biden-sends-more-u-s-troops-to-ukraine-border-101st-airborne-deployed-six-destroyers-to-mediterranean-f-35-squadrons-to-u-k/
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:04am
      - Master Mariner
        
        @ Mawn. Exactly.
        The Asia Pacific region is being bought into NATO.
        All because of EU ,Germany over reliance of cheap energy.
        Now its our problem too apparently .
        Like hell it is.
        
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        June 30, 2022 1:07pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Is she fantasizing or psychotic? Dealing with mental health issues and young children is difficult for everyone, let alone having to pretend to be statesman at the same time, I hope she recovers.
      
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      June 30, 2022 9:26am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        In answer to your question: Yes
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:04am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      The woman is beneath contempt. It’s increasingly obvious that her only interest in New Zealand is to use it to elevate herself regardless of the consequences. She is a ruthless careerist. The only light in the whole sorry story of her and her pathetic government is that by the time they are tossed out they will have become the perfect illustration of why you should never vote labour again.
      
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      June 30, 2022 9:51am
    - kevn
      
      @SteveO and Clan… Thanks. My bad. No ‘the’ in the correct link.
      It is an important read.
      
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      June 30, 2022 10:06am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I used the google machine and it took me straight to it without a whole lot of other luggage.
        Impressed for a change.
        
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        June 30, 2022 10:50am
    - blue collar
      
      Russia and mis/dis information ….. funny , looked to me the sole cause of the riots was her refusal to talk with protestors
      And now the hypocrite is telling nato to talk ….. no arms race n nukes n arrrrgh the bloody gall of the psycho babbling lunatic
      
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      June 30, 2022 5:25pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    kevn – your link didn’t work for me. I think this is the one you want.
    
    https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/guy-hatchard-jacinda-ardern-leads-the-way-with-disinformation/
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:19am
  - kevn
    
    to self. NATO not G7… That global stage comes next.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:04am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    What about her bulkshit at NATO today, telling them not to let Ukraine create an arms race, FFS sound bites as bloody usual, snd the airhead gave Cuba another kick, we will lose trade with China soon, snd we will not score a deal with the UK, farmers better get ready for a huge drop in meat schedules next season
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:05am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      We’ve already got an FTA with the UK, and personally I’d have very little problem not trading with China. When you sup with the devil, you’d better have a long spoon.
      
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      June 30, 2022 11:32am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        I meant the EU, before Brexit we covered both UK and EU, anyone wanting a cut in sales to China is a bloody idiots im sorry. China buy 50% of all agri products, they force the price up by their shear volume, there is no bloody waiting customer, this country is going to be slammed beyond repair by these marxist bastards.
        China does not buy the country when we sell them our agri products
        
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        June 30, 2022 3:24pm
    - Stellaboxer
      
      I see Mahuta has joined in the misinformation push. According to her there are Russian troll farms dedicated to destabilising New Zealand society and spreading uncertainty about vaccines. No examples, no specifics, no explanation as to the Russian motive. Get ready for the $2 dollar shop tyrant Ardern to attempt censorship of the net in NZ. This regime must go.
      
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      June 30, 2022 11:43am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Shitodear – we don’t need the Russians to destabilise NZ society – Jaspinda & her cohorts are doing a perfectly good job on their own.
        
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        June 30, 2022 2:58pm
      - Stellaboxer
        
        I think the idea is that when the country finally collapses the ghoul can claim it was the Russians fault
        
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        June 30, 2022 3:17pm
      - blue collar
        
        They can blame Russia as much as they like , we will still sack them in the election .
        Or will we ? Anyone else thinking our election will be rigged ?
        Not possible ? Why not ? If biden can get 80 million …..
        
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        June 30, 2022 6:30pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        They never give specifics, if they did their narrative would be shredded. They can only talk in vague language that is almost impossible to challenge. All we can do is expose it at every opportunity.
        
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        July 1, 2022 9:40am
Warren

Has Efeso Collins been caught out bending the truth over the dangerous driving and abuse to the Auckland Mayorality Candidate.
The driver of the car involved in the incident with the Family members on Monday has come forward with a different story and version of the events.
Collins and his wife FIA yesterday claimed they were nearly run off the roadby ” Irresponsible Cowards ” in two vehicles hurling abuse at them ” as we were driving together these vehicles dangerously cut us off at the merging Traffic Lanes where KFC Te Atatu is.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/driver-accused-of-dangerous-driving-and-abuse-towards-auckland-mayoral-candidate-efeso-collins-speaks-out/DKIOHXXRF3EOJMDBRVAO4O4OJE/
It also has been mentioned that Collins himself might not have been in the car driven by his wife
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June 30, 2022 8:05am
- bartybart
  
  brown victimhood
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:13am
- MCōs
  
  There’s nothing in that Facebook post by Mrs Collins to indicate Mr Collins was in the car.
  The headline doesn’t match the story in the article.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:13am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Bernard Orsman needs to gets his facts right.
    He just adds to the confusion – is that by design?
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:26am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    How unlike the Herald, $iuffed, and other bought-and-paid-for MSM to run misleading headlines!
    
    I’m sure the Ministry of Disinformation will be all over this like a cheap suit. Not.
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:34am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Can Efeso and his wife get any more snowflake?? road rage wasn’t even about her and yet she’s claiming she’s abused. Dear god – give me strength. Doesn’t she now have to give an apology for lying? i would expect that is i was the other party. C
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:23am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Lefties
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:53am
- Matt Long
  
  Jussie Ofeso?
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:35am
  - yossarian
    
    Just need the Maga hats!!!
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:52am
- Chris2
  
  Collins played the brown victim race card when he was at the swearing in ceremony for Councillors in 2016. His claims was found to be without foundation:
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/driver-accused-of-dangerous-driving-and-abuse-towards-auckland-mayoral-candidate-efeso-collins-speaks-out/DKIOHXXRF3EOJMDBRVAO4O4OJE/
  
  Frankly, we don’t need another career politican who has lived off the tax-payer for all his life, as Mayor of Auckland.
  
  It’s a concern too that his wife is activity promoting herself by going to the media. More political nepotism I am sure, if Efeso Collins is elected Mayor of Auckland
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:40am
- Surely Knott
  
  Efeso Collins was also reported as saying he received “death threats” in the form of a bomb threat in July 2021 after he said that police 10/7 tv programme was racist. He was called to the station and tolled as the bomb threat was made to the police tipline?!? How weird that a criminal would make the bomb threats to the police tipline. But “Police swept his home and his offices in the central city and Manukau but no bomb was found.” A police report was filed
  was anyone ever publicly named and charged.?
  
  Josephine Bartley also said she was abused by “anti-vaxxers” and a police report was filed after 3 intimidating men abused her in her sign written car. Was anyone ever publicly named and charged?
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:40am
  - Surely Knott
    
    In a separate article about parliamentary protests, MP Steph Lewis said “Lewis’ office is on the ground floor. She said last week protesters walked about the building banging on windows to “intimidate MPs and staff”.
    
    “They called at us ‘come out, come out wherever you are or we will come in and find you’. We were threatened with being lynched, hung, or kidnapped.”
    
    Did these people ever get arrested. Surely police would have parliamentary grounds camera footage. I would have thought there would be immediate arrests. But I don’t think we saw anyone charged with this or named in the paper?
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:48am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      It’s strange isn’t it that all these white supremacy types all suddenly appear on Arderns watch along with the rest of the deplorables, homophobes, racists, misogynists and alike. I’m sure these people existed in numbers before her tenure but it’s amazing how they have multiplied to numbers almost equivalent to the percentages reported in the National and Act polling figures. Why it’s almost as if anyone that disagrees with the government is a in that basket.
      
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      June 30, 2022 11:59am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      I was sceptical of Lewis’ claims at the time, and am no less sceptical today. If someone was threatening to break into a parliamentary office, surely you would have called security or the Police, rather than a reporter at the newspaper. In addition, the protesters were being kept well back from the parliamentary buildings.
      
      Sorry, but this account from the MP for Whanganui simply doesn’t ring true.
      
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      June 30, 2022 1:40pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He may not have actually bent the truth, it’s possible he was in the middle of something else, it would have looked that way especially with his bill board
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:06am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Collins wasn’t in the car, the “road rage” was nothing to do with him or his wife, and his wife was using a mobile phone, while driving, with kids in the car, on the motorway.
  
  The guy who reported this is also Samoan and is an “avid supporter” of his bid for the mayoralty, so no axe to grind.
  
  Collins has form for this sort of thing too – false claims of raaaaacism directed at his family when swearing in as a Councillor some years ago. Really these people have no shame.
  
  #JussieSmollettof the South
  
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  June 30, 2022 11:43am
Frank the tank

What is “Our Glorious Leader’s” fascination with the states at the moment:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129126518/government-designates-us-group-proud-boys-the-base-as-terrorist-organisations

Are they any different from BDS/BLM/Antifa – who surprise, surprise aren’t on the terror list. Speaking of the states good to see the Kangaroo Court has gone full retard overnight.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/29/new-j6-narrative-about-trump-and-secret-service-collapses-hours-after-tuesday-hearing/

Sorry Cosy your Magaorgasm regarding the demise of Trumpy will have to wait.
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June 30, 2022 8:06am
- Philview
  
  I haven’t heard her Nato speech but the headlines suggest she criticised China. I just wonder what political agenda is at play here. I am not bothered by her having a crack at China but every thing she says will be either framed around re-election or in her own best interests. If China turns around and puts the squeeze on trade to the point of dire economic consequences for NZ I don’t see that helping re-election chances. What does she know right now that she is going to use for her benefit later?
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:53am
  - MCōs
    
    An expression I saw the other day regarding the West’s relationship with Saudi Arabia also explains our relationship with China (& a number of countries with Russia)
    ‘Oil is thicker than human rights)
    In our case it’s ‘milk’, in Australia’s case it’s ‘minerals’.
    We can jump up and down all we like about Hong Kong, Tibet, Taiwan, the Uighur.
    China can cut us off at the knees before lunchtime.
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:40am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Jaspinda is as cunning as a shithouse rat/
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:48am
    - Frank the tank
      
      I disagree. She is just plain stupid. Emperor Clark on the other hand fits that description to a tee.
      
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      June 30, 2022 10:14am
      - yossarian
        
        You think? She played the Machiavellian master Winston Peters like a fiddle.
        
        Even he didn’t see it coming and don’t ever underestimate your enemy!
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:56am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “Emperor Clark on the other hand fits that description (cunning as a shithouse rat) to a tee.”
        
        This interview on The Platform with Sir Ray Avery would appear to confirm what you have written:
        
        https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/sir-ray-avery
        
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        July 1, 2022 5:46pm
  - westernScientist
    
    she doesnt know anything, she is just saying what she thinks they want to hear, and is dumb enough to think that both the NATO members and the CCP will not realise when she contradicts herself (if she is not self aware enough to realise she contradicts herself). If she was at a meting with china it would be all praise for the CCP
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:00am
- MCōs
  
  Seeing as you’re going to address me with a degree of familiarity, that would be *Cossy*.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:23am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Why not *cuzzy* – can we add the *bro* at our own discretion ? 😆 😆
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:28am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Thomas Manch (stuff) is full of shit. I hope he is reading this.
  ‘Proud Boys’ are NOT aligned with Trump at all. That is a barefaced lie.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:33am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The Federalist. Hutchinson saying she heard things that someone said that someone said….
  Being economic with hearsay, and Cheney using everything to discredit Trump. There are others willing to testify, but they will not be called. Cheney does not want the truth from those ‘others’
  Cheney is a hardcore RINO, and should have been replaced long ago. Cheney should never have been allowed to be a candidate for the other RINOs and Dems to vote for.
  Kangaroo Court.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:46am
  - RichardX
    
    What actions has she taken that make her a RINO in you opinion?
    Is it just that she wants to hold your favourite ex President to account?
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:14am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      She’s actively partaking in a kangaroo court against him with nothing even coming close to evidence. You actually need evidence to hold someone to account. She’s completely ignored the concept of due process.
      
      It’s alright though since Schiff has undeniable proof of Trump being behind Jan 6th. He just hasn’t shown us yet.
      
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      June 30, 2022 10:47am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Shifty Schiff has nothing. He has played this game before. He will not be asked for any evidence.
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:07am
      - mawm
        
        Schiff also had undeniable proof of Russia backing Trump. I wonder where that went?
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:13am
      - Nickc2
        
        There’s enough evidence against Schiff from two impeachment attempts against Trump to make anything he says challengeable.
        IMO, he’s a real dumb arse, a liar, and an oxygen thief!
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:52am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Being one of the ten that voted to impeach Trump is enough.
      And, Joe got 80 million votes? Pig’s arse.
      
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      June 30, 2022 11:05am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Where did RichardX go?
        Got your arse kicked a bit boy?
        
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        June 30, 2022 3:44pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Richard, I think, had his question answered. Trump is the republican party, so anyone who dares contradict anything Trump says or does must be republican in name only.
        
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        June 30, 2022 4:27pm
      - RichardX
        
        Some of us have a life outside of Kiwiblog.
        
        I am amused by your simplistic view of US politics. I wonder if it has anything to do with your unquestioning acceptance of the sources you use and your endless reposting of memes.
        
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        June 30, 2022 8:15pm
  - kowtow
    
    Yesterday our “news” presented her testimony as evidence .
    
    Nary a word that it was hearsay.
    
    Yet more fake , corrupt “news”.
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:06am
    - Nickc2
      
      Exactly! We pay for that misinformation. It’s not as if the truth of that sideshow/evidence wasn’t known when TV1 went to air. It just didn’t suit the dictates of their masters to include it.
      BTW, does Simon Dallow write his own scripts or are they handed down by another left-wing racist advocate?
      
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      June 30, 2022 12:18pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The fact that Cheney said that was true, but she just repeated hearsay from unknown sources. Our ‘News’ is just as bad as CNN, MSNBC – can’t be bothered listing them all.
      
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      June 30, 2022 3:53pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  That woman who spoke yesterday was lying, both security and the driver said this was not true, this crap should be stopped, it’s straight out lies.
  I watched our news last night, they replayed what Trump was saying on Jan 6 , but stopped just before Trump said protest safe and peacefully, they should be sued
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Carefully selecting to change the context. Just like Candace Owens and Ted Lieu. Chair Naddler lets it run, then Candace gave him his arse on a plate. Good to watch.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-poqjet5mY
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:20am
  - Nickc2
    
    I saw that too and my immediate thought was Red Willie Jackson (Minister for Broadcasting) will be very pleased with the way that clip was presented and edited.
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:56am
  - Paulus
    
    She was not there, so it is only hearsay.
    
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    June 30, 2022 1:35pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      AOC said she was so scared – hiding in the bathroom in her office! She was not even in that building ffs.
      
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      June 30, 2022 3:56pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    It remains to be seen whether the security person and the drive would deny it under oath. Also, not all of her evidence was ‘hearsay’, and FWIW, it’s not a criminal trial so it’s not like it becomes legally inadmissible evidence.
    Also, nothing anyone testifies to seeing Trump do or hearing him say is going to change the minds of the yokels who have adopted him as their personal saviour.
    
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    June 30, 2022 4:32pm
    - Libertarians are right
      
      Or the nutjobs who think he’s Hitler/the Devil incarnate.
      
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      June 30, 2022 4:46pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Not as clever as Hitler, but not imaginary like the Devil.
        
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        June 30, 2022 8:10pm
dcrane

Stuff reports on a previously healthy NZ teen suffering from a rapidly developing severe autoimmune disease (Guillain-Barré Syndrome), yet they don’t ask the obvious question of whether and when this child had been covid-vaccinated. This syndrome is widely reported to be associated with the mRNA covid vaccines.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/129099113/sportloving-teens-body-shut-down-by-rare-autoimmune-disease

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.820723/full
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June 30, 2022 8:07am
- mawm
  
  I can imagine 40% of New Zealanders reading that are asking themselves why the youth’s vaccination status hasn’t been mentioned.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:29am
- dcrane
  
  Hmm…
  “died suddenly” searched in Google: (page hits)
  
  2019: 55,700
  2020: 65,500
  2021: 77,600
  1st half of 2022: 104,000
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:01am
- David Garrett
  
  As a person who is triple vaxxed, and thus by definition absolutely not an anti vaxxer, I most definitely want to know whether and when this kid was vaxxed.
  
  Whatever the answer, I will definitely not be having a fourth dose.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:49am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No more for me either DG. I have had two.
    After the news of more and more being affected I decided against it. I always questioned was it experimental or not?
    The manufacturers will always get off the hook. Too big to fail.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:04am
    - Don Beckett
      
      I will definitely not being having my first dose/jab.
      
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      June 30, 2022 10:31am
      - leoj
        
        You may be the wisest.
        
        I am wishing I never had the first two.
        
        Pfizer fizzer. A scam.
        
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        June 30, 2022 10:54am
  - alloytoo
    
    Assuming the vaccine was safe and effective, the real question everyone should be asking is:
    
    “Should we be vaccinating small children and babies where their survival rate is 99.99%?”
    
    Given that the efficacy is in serious doubt (Especially in respect of pediatric doses), safety issues appear to mounting, and the government of the day has not only granted Pfizer immunity, but in my humble opinion recklessly pushed our population into exposing our children to a number of risks (known and unknown), for no medical benefit.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:18am
    - Phronesis
      
      No we shouldn’t. The paediatric vaccine exists solely to appease the government induced fears of anxious mothers. It was a serious medical and ethical failing that it was ever approved for use in New Zealand. Having been involved in such approvals in the past I would assume that there was a degree of political pressure involved in its approval in order to support the vaccination at all costs narrative of the govt.
      
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      June 30, 2022 10:57am
      - mawm
        
        Medsafe have one job – to keep New Zealanders safe. They have failed.
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:18am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Other clowns were used by the Govt to induce fear. Baker, Plank, Blofeld, and the pink terror.
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:31am
      - dcrane
        
        In the US, I hear that the pressure for getting the vaccine on the pediatric schedule is also related to liability laws there – something to the effect that the manufacturer is shielded if the govt puts it on the schedule. Would need to check however.
        
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        June 30, 2022 2:42pm
      - dcrane
        
        New Zealanders should demand to see the contract signed between the government and Pfizer.
        
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        June 30, 2022 2:47pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Must be a terrible thing. In the link from that link is an item about Riva Walker-Pitman, having the same thing. She recovered but not without a fight.
  Poor kids.
  Back to the vaccination. Those experts saying the vax is safe need to be grilled – all of them. Far too many problems even Worldwide to say the vax is not responsible for these reactions.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:01am
Matt Long

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/whangarei-district-council-ordered-to-pay-man-43-million-over-negligence-in-closing-his-quarry/5CLGWB4DGTQ7KBYIMV6XCPI42A/
Just one of many people who have had the lives adversely effected by petty bureaucrats either acting maliciously or by “high ideals” and for those who finally get some kind of justice the tax or rate payer picks up the tab.
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June 30, 2022 8:07am
- Matt Long
  
  “A Northland man who claims his life was almost ruined by Whangārei District Council after it closed his quarry – despite it having consent – has been awarded almost $4.3 million in damages and costs.
  
  Jim Daisley operated a quarry on a property in Knight Rd, Ruatangata, after buying it from the previous owner in December 2004.
  
  The property had been used for quarrying for several decades beforehand…”
  Forced to sell up because the WDC “lost” his consent.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:10am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Headline says $43m. Story says $4.3m.
    
    Those damned dots.
    
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    June 30, 2022 3:24pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Saw the headline yesterday ( paywalled of course being a Herald sub) and immediate thought was ‘more of the rates down the drain because of stupidity’.
  Not a fan of “regulation” but legislation along the lines of H&S personal liability exposures for entity’s governance and operating “officers” would go some some way to reducing these situations. It’s way to easy in this country to hide behind the “entity” protection knowing someone else will pay if you stuff up as an “officer”. Can’t see it happening of course.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:05am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Paywalled, but I got as far as 17 years. That is ridiculous, 17 years.
  I guess the Council is another too big to fail. Same as ACC. They keep obfuscation or whatever, changing case managers, meetings in different places all over the City. The plan is to fuck you off so much that you give up and walk away. no fun when you are in pain and stoked up on painkillers.
  To anyone reading this, don’t give up. Lawyer up with the best. For ACC I used Miller Law Wellington. I won.
  Back to the guy in Whangarei. $4.3M. But is that enough? They destroyed your business, your income, and your pride. If $4.3M is not enough, have another go at them.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:15am
Maggie Pie

BREAKING….

Six more women have come forward with allegations that Trump tried to grab their steering wheels.
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June 30, 2022 8:09am
- emmess
  
  Maybe it has something to do with this
  https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:11am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Kangaroo Court is a diversion from Joe’s total mess ups.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:19am
- G152
  
  That farce of a ‘trial’ which isn’t a trial.
  Why if they were really upset at what was happening didn’t they say at the time?????
  I smell a rat
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:19am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    They did not say at the time, because Trump was not running for POTUS 2024 back then.
    RINO Liz Cheney is leading the charge.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:27am
- Frank the tank
  
  Don’t get Cosy started Mags.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:21am
  - kevn
    
    @FRank…. add bat to that.
    
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    June 30, 2022 8:41am
    - Matt Long
      
      Where is Batty? I’m missing the TDS.
      
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      June 30, 2022 9:31am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yer, me too!
        
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        June 30, 2022 10:21am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        No. Just no. Like the Candyman, if you mention it’s name thrice it will be summoned!
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:48am
- Simon
  
  Scot Adams calls it Long TDS.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:24am
  - Vory v zakone
    
    @ScottAdamsSays
    
    ‘So far, Trump’s second term has been a huge success. He has several major SCOTUS victories, looks better than ever compared to Biden, and the Jan 6 theater just went full Jussie. You can’t win harder than that.’ 😜
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:22am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Not even POTUS and still winning!
      
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      June 30, 2022 10:22am
- alloytoo
  
  Aaah so Women are adult human females with steering wheels.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:34am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Grab em by the steering wheel!
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:30am
    - alloytoo
      
      Unless they have a joy stick…
      
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      June 30, 2022 11:56am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Only if they are trans……
        
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        June 30, 2022 3:08pm
- Nickc2
  
  The ‘Me Too’ movement strikes again eh?
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:55am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  More likely their starter buttons, Maggie.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:13am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yep, grab the by the steering wheel.
  
  We have seen these false accusations before. How’s it going Stormy?
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:24am
- Biscuit
  
  Maggie, I heard that Amber Heard is willing to testify against Donald Trump for $15 mill. or so!!
  
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  June 30, 2022 1:26pm
- curry4me
  
  Priceless; for the rest, there’s Mastercard/Visa.
  
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  June 30, 2022 6:23pm
Tomtoddy

The rank and unabashed hypocrisy of the developed world toward fossil fuels knows no bounds. The wealthy countries demand the poorer countries use renewable energy. Last month the Group of Seven went so far as to announce they would no longer fund fossil-fuel development in the third world.

Meanwhile, Europe and the U.S. are begging Arab nations to expand oil production. Germany is reopening coal power plants, and Spain and Italy are spending big on African gas production. So many European countries have asked Botswana to mine more coal that the nation will more than double its exports.

The developed world became wealthy through widespread use of fossil fuels, which still overwhelmingly power most of its economies. There are enough batteries in the world today only to power global average electricity consumption for one minute. Even though the supply is being scaled up rapidly, by 2030 the world’s batteries would still cover a bare 10 minutes. Solar and wind despite subsidies and preferential treatment are still hugely unreliable and are unable to meet the nameplate performance. Blackouts and brownouts are happening and will become more and more the norm as hypocrites and idiots outdo each other to be green.
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June 30, 2022 8:09am
- hullkiwi
  
  But don’t worry, Greenpeace UK are busy chastising the UK govt for not moving fast enough to a “renewable green future.” They get breathless that the UK and Europe are not moving “fast enough” to a carbon neutral, while failing to explain or understand that most of the world is struggling to survive under current circumstances, so what chance does Africa etc have when you can only buy an EV. This given that the most developed country on the continent can’t even keep the lights burning at present? You just have to laugh at the thinking of these clowns!
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:28am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Tomtoddy – and of course, batteries have a relatively short shelf life, can be very volatile, are extremely difficult to dispose of (not to mention not very environmentally friendly), and the raw materials to manufacture them are limited and often come from dubious sources. Like the children we know mining for cobalt in Africa. Cobalt is the new blood diamonds.
  
  To qualify my comments, I live fully off grid due to not having any other option because of location. I’m not opposed to the idea of alternative energy, but I totally understand the limitations of the technology, particularly on large scale.
  
  Having some requirement for an element of solar as part of a new build makes some sense. It is relatively inexpensive when done then as opposed to retrospectively. It can feed the grid during the peak power generation times in daytime while many people are out and about. This could add to NZ’s already ample renewable energy efforts. We are already at well over 70%.
  However, it will only take a very small percentage of drivers turning to electric and the present generation capacity would be overwhelmed.
  
  These ideologues are great at “feel good” but they obviously have no concept of the reality of these things.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:37am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    You are wrong on just about every point.
    
    EV batteries are guaranteed for 8 years, any other part of your car guaranteed that long?
    
    Tesla say their batteries hold at least 80% charge after 200,000 miles.
    
    All the major EV manufacturers are establishing recycling plants.
    
    Fires may have been a problem initially. Now it almost never happens. Tesla has built 1 million Models 3’s. How many have caught fire?
    
    In NZ most people do their EV charging at off peak times, so no significant energy supply problems, even when EV’s get deep market penetration.
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:36am
    - rangitoto
      
      Off peak charging doesn’t help. It still burns fuel (coal usually) or drains lake storage.
      
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      June 30, 2022 9:58am
      - leoj
        
        The feel-good numpties (read: Labour/Green voters) who have bought into this EV nonsense are so unaware that coal is needed to power their green dreams.
        Arse – say hello to teeth.
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:03am
    - Taieri
      
      The 8 year warranty for the batteries means that they will be replaced free of charge should they fail within that period. It doesn’t mean that they will maintain their optimal performance in 8 years as the latter depends on the operating conditions, charging intensity and a few other factors.
      
      It doesn’t really matter what Tesla says. Bernie Maddoff also said many things about the stuff he was peddling. So did Volkswagen about emissions. As stated before the longevity of a battery depends on its operating conditions. No more no less.
      
      At present there’re not that many EVs in NZ so their charging does not affect the grid all that much. But if they were to completely replace ICE vehicles the situation will change dramatically. Why do you think there’s a ripple control on domestic hot water cylinders?
      
      As for the fires…the owners of MV Felicity Ace might have sligthly different opinion from yours. Not mentioning the underwriters…
      
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      June 30, 2022 10:14am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Wayne until someone actually has the balls to do the hard numbers on energy consumption at peak stupid (i.e. sometime in 2020s) regarding energy consumption (with our moving bombs ) and our supply including how we are going to transport energy from the South Island to the North I can’t take your last sentence seriously.
      
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      June 30, 2022 10:18am
    - alloytoo
      
      Hands up everyone who’s fuel tank has failed after 8 years or now holds 20% less fuel than when manufactured.
      
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      June 30, 2022 10:26am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Wayne, most people don’t do EV charging at all because they can’t afford EVs.
      
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      June 30, 2022 10:45am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      “any other part of your car guaranteed that long?”
      
      Of brands sold in New Zealand, Kia, Hyundai and Mitsubishi all offer 10 year warranties on the Powertrain.
      
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      June 30, 2022 11:56am
    - Paulus
      
      How do the owners get new batteries as the when the car is built the batteries are built into the chassie and the body lowered to the chassis.
      I assume that this will happen when getting new batteries, at say 8 years, that the car has to be dismantled first to get the old batteries out.
      Not sure I have seen an advert for EV battery renewals yet !
      
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      June 30, 2022 1:43pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Battery disposal is easy, just bury it same as wind turbine blades.
    It all came out of the ground so it can go back in the ground/
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:39am
Tony Stuart

Dr Shane Reti made an outstanding speech in yesterday’s General Debate in Parliament:

https://vimeo.com/725120233

Dr Reti talked about the letter sent to MBIE a year ago detailing the desperate state DHB’s were in. This is the thrust of his speech:

Because Andrew Little ignored the cry for help a year ago when a district health board (DHB) chief executive wrote, on behalf of every DHB, pleading for help, a letter with dire warnings and actions that were needed immediately to “avert a health crisis”. A year later, the chickens have come home to roost.

Let’s see if Andrew Little takes a general debate call this afternoon, 48 hours out from significant health reforms, which would be the convention with such a big structural change. Let’s see if that happens, and if he wants to defend what I’ll lay down on the table today. The Minister is trying to say he only found out about this letter a month ago. I do not believe that, and I want to challenge that on at least two points.

First of all, if the Minister didn’t know about the letter, he should have known about the letter. This letter was on behalf of every single chief executive in the DHB sector—that is, the most senior executive group in our hospitals—and they deserved his attention.

Secondly, very senior people in the Minister’s own ministry also received the letter—the ministry he is supposed to have oversight for. It was also sent to the acting Deputy Director-General of Health Workforce New Zealand on 28 July last year. It’s a very senior person, the Deputy Director-General, inside the Ministry of Health.

I contend that Andrew Little should have been aware, or was aware, of this letter from DHBs a year ago and he did nothing. The Minister was warned a year ago and did nothing. His track record in this sort of MO is well known. I’m inclined to remember ICU beds—warned about it, did nothing, and the dire consequence that came from doing nothing around ICU beds, and particularly building new ICU beds, particularly in Auckland.

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/HansS_20220629_051540000/reti-shane

It beggars belief that Little wasn’t told about this letter, which had been cc’d to the Deputy Director-General of Health. To not brief the Minister of a letter of that significance would almost certainly be a resignation offence. That’s because of the No Surprises policy which operates in ministerial offices.

It’s pretty clear that Little has ignored multiple warnings about the state of the health system. That’s entirely on him, yet he continues to blame National for “nine years of neglect”. It’s time for Little to accept responsibility for HIS role in our under-pressure health system.
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June 30, 2022 8:18am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Nothing good will ever happen to the Health System as long as Dr. Dolittle is in charge.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:24am
- igm
  
  Hosking totally exposed his ineptitude in a big way on Newtalk this morning. He is, and always will be, out of his depth in any public office.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:24am
- Benedict Yu
  
  This new health authority will do untold damage. The DHB staff will be scrambling for jobs on the new authority. And that is before we add in the Maori health authority.
  
  I am very grateful that I have private health insurance.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:35am
  - igm
    
    Can you imagine visiting a tohunga for medical advice?
    Maybe better seeing a dropout from med school. Seems very few of those entering with lower educational qualifications are qualifying.
    
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    June 30, 2022 8:46am
  - Nickc2
    
    Don’t be surprised if this Govt attempts to ‘Nationalise’ the Private Health Sector in NZ. The Trade Unions don’t like private competition and Andrew Little is their man in Govt.
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:07am
    - igm
      
      The private medical sector operators are far too professional for jerks like Little and scunging unionists to get involved with, they being at low levels of achievement and competence.
      
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      July 1, 2022 7:28am
- pdm
  
  Inv – one should never ever forget that `Bikee’ Dr David Clark started the rot within Labours Healh administration.
  
  `Dr do Little’ as Little is apparently named within the Health workers ranks only continued and advanced the chaos that Clark had started. Perhaps/probably speeding up the downward trend because anything Little touches usually turns to custard.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:44am
Yabster

I see Cindy has quietly deemed the Proud Boys and The Base as Terrorist organisations. I wonder what criteria is used?- and has that been applied to NZ organisations that do drive by shootings- terrorising neighbourhoods…?
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June 30, 2022 8:19am
- ClanMcleod
  
  As has been pointed out numerous times by many people, Brenda is nothing more than a globalist shill. She doesn’t operate on behalf of the people of NZ.
  We have four years of disaster and societal collapse in this country as all the evidence we need. Nobody is that inept, not even her, which means everything has been deliberate. It is going to get worse. I hope people are prepared.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:43am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Wish NZ had a 25th Amendment.
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:50am
- pdm
  
  `The Base’ – isn’t that a shopping center in Hamilton?
  
  Hell mrspdm and I have been there a couple of times and no one told us it was infested with terrorists.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:47am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    No terrorists there as it is owned by a Maori Charitable organisation.
    
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    June 30, 2022 12:34pm
- Matt Long
  
  There’s a simple test, do they use the word comrades in their meetings? No? Terrorists then.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:53am
- James Stephenson
  
  Yeah the Proud Boys, a bunch of lads that wave American flags to counter-protest the masked violent loonies of Antifa, are “terrorists” but apparently only the military wings of Hezbollah and Hamas deserve that categorisation.
  
  So, in this country now, you can fundraise for Hamas so they can shoot Israelis, but if you wanted to chip in to buy a Proud Boy a new Fred Perry shirt you’re going to jail.
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:15pm
  - Jim
    
    Never mind the government’s own drug peddling, extortion and intimidating bike gangs that daily terrorise the good citizens of NZ.
    
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    June 30, 2022 5:03pm
Maggie Pie

How bizarre…

Desperate for publicity, and no doubt sympathy, Auckland mayoral hopeful Fa’anana Efeso has been caught playing the ‘Race-Card’….and according to the Horrid, not for the first time it would seem 🙁

The reporter attempted to contact Fa’anana and his wife Fia for comment on the latest allegations, but at time of publishing had not received a reply.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1542066471047766023

(the comments are worth a look as well 😀 )
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June 30, 2022 8:21am
- Frank the tank
  
  In fairness Craig Lord would have got our of his car and punched the guy; Leo Molloy would have returned the serve threefold and they would have been too busy perving at Viv Beck to pull the fingers.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:24am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    And I see on twitter they’re calling him…. ‘Efeso Smollett’
    
    LOL!!
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:05am
- Swifty
  
  Has Efeso been telling porkies?
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:26am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    He has been telling chickens as he says they were near KFC
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:21am
- Littletramp
  
  Is there any reason why the KFC Te Atatu is mentioned by both sides of this story as a location landmark?
  Is it like Sky Tower dominance on the landscape, or more “Don’t get between me and my KFC bro”?
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:00am
  - pdm
    
    Tramp – perhaps was meeting constituents there. Sort of like a natural habitat.
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:23am
    - pdm
      
      perhaps Efeso…………………….
      
      (Note – wouldn’t let me edit for some reason – well within time.)
      
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      June 30, 2022 9:25am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Efeso’s Campaign song?
  
  Full screen / Sound up 😀
  
  https://youtu.be/C2cMG33mWVY
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:38am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Stole my car eh hoa
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:59am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Efeso is getting alot of hurty feelings lately… truly a snowflake. Shouldn’t this be a warning sign he isn’t thick skinned enough for the job.
  
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  June 30, 2022 2:24pm
Simon

The sinking shit show Global American Empire has just roped in Ardern. Its that bad. GAE gave Cindy some international MSM head lines and so Cindy would have sold out NZ for a few blankets and beads.

BRICS will make NZ a better offer in time. The future is bright. In the meantime the clowns out of Wellington will tie NZ to the failing GAE and it will get worse.
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June 30, 2022 8:23am
- mawm
  
  The US is certainly looking to make war on Russia. At a time that NATO (read US) has formally offered Finland and Sweden membership the US is building up forces in Europe. They are planning to establish a permanent forward command post in Poland, move a Brigade Combat Team to Romania, place two squadrons of F-35 aircraft in the United Kingdom, add more air defense to Germany and Italy, and increase the number of naval destroyers based in Rota, Spain, from four to six. They are already bolstering their forces in Europe to 100 000.
  
  War is a terrible thing and nobody in the West is looking for a peaceful solution! And now Jacinda has signed us up to it as well.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:54am
  - rangitoto
    
    The peaceful solution is for Putin to cease the invasion.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:06am
    - Paulus
      
      Putin is like Hitler – mad, diseased and bloody dangerous until their ultimate end.
      
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      June 30, 2022 2:20pm
  - Ehlana
    
    Is anyone not in the West looking for a peaceful solution?
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:25am
    - mawm
      
      Well at the moment it is the West against Russia. Russia is essentially one man. The West has many Heads of State and other organisations in it. Wasn’t the role of the UN to prevent any future wars? They have been very quiet.
      
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      June 30, 2022 11:26am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        UN is corrupt, needs to be disbanded. It is 2022, not 1947.
        
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        June 30, 2022 12:03pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Joe has no clue as to what is happening. The warmongers are the Generals in the Pentagon. Trump had them under control.
    
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    June 30, 2022 12:01pm
    - cjn
      
      Could be Hillary Clinton in the State Department. Trump couldn’t control them. Dug in too deep.
      
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      June 30, 2022 4:42pm
Benedict Yu

Funny what you stumble across.

Readers will recall that James Shaw travelled to Glasgow last year for a two week climate change conference.

The travel costs just for him and one of his office staff was $53,297.

Also something that got no coverage at the time. The delegation included “iwi representatives”. All of the travel costs for these iwi representatives were met by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.😳

https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/media-and-resources/proactive-release-proposed-overseas-travel-hon-james-shaw-cab-21-min-0376/
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June 30, 2022 8:26am
- pdm
  
  BY – furthermore Shaw arrived after all the other countries leaders had buggered off home from the conference.
  
  What a mover and shaker Shaw is.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:51am
  - mandk
    
    And he delivered his address to a near-empty hall.
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:01am
  - wgtn_dude
    
    Am not normally one to jump to the defence of the Greens or Labour, but Shaw arrived for the second week of COP.
    
    This is the business end of the event and where the ‘stuff gets done’ like negotiations and ratifications, etc. The first week is for the photo ops and fluff speeches.
    
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    June 30, 2022 12:27pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Did he not turn up too the discussion on Methane ?
    Got his dates wrong?
    Regardless a Real Winner is our very own James.
    
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    June 30, 2022 1:29pm
  - Jim
    
    Likely the best time to clean up what’s left of the conference buffet and have a singsong.
    
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    June 30, 2022 5:06pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Conspiracy theory alert!!!
  
  I think people are starting to see it now.
  That outrageous waste by Shaw and co is mostly lost among the wasteland of media garbage we are confronted with on a daily basis. In normal times it would be a headline and would be subject to much scrutiny.
  
  Here’s the theory.
  Covid was the opening gambit for “The Great Reset”.
  Crash the economy, stop ease of movement, stop social interaction, cause more and more division in society via abhorrent medical, racial and gender policies in particular.
  Ensure people have to focus on day to day survival rather than the bigger picture.
  Ensure they blame a minority in society for all their problems. This creates the platform to implement all of the ideological fantasies that these dangerous lunatics dream of.
  
  Agenda 2030
  The “Great Reset”
  The “Green New Deal”
  
  Sadly these mad schemes aren’t conspiracies, they are all documented and available to peruse in the public domain, for those prepared to look for them.
  We can’t say we didn’t know. They have been publicly stating what they plan for many years now. What remains is to see whether or not enough people wake up in time to stop this.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:55am
  - mawm
    
    Tucker Carlson has a great monologue on it. (17min)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgSqVNnH0R8
    
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    June 30, 2022 9:26am
  - Ross Campbell
    
    “Ensure people have to focus on day to day survival instead of focusing on the bigger picture”.
    My sympathies if you are in this situation Clan but food banks and other charities can help.
    Never be afraid to request assistance.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:37am
    - leoj
      
      ….or, put another way….. forget self-reliance. Just put your hand out, begging style.
      
      What a great lesson for the next generation.
      
      It is no wonder that the generation raised during the 30s depression then WW2 are the tough ones.
      
      Since then, a disturbingly large proportion of us have become saps.
      
      My parents were bloody heroes.
      
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      June 30, 2022 11:12am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yes Mike
      
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      June 30, 2022 12:12pm
- hullkiwi
  
  Three comments.
  WTF!;
  Why? And
  What did these hangers on add or what did they learn that would benefit NZ in the future?
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:07am
- Nickc2
  
  I didn’t read anything about what these Maoris did at the International Marxist gathering so I’m assuming they were Window Dressing who promptly left when Biden spat his dummy due to not being the center of attention he imagined he was and walked out. After that, there was virtually nothing except for James Shaw delivering a self-indulgent speech to a near-empty venue.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:27am
  - david
    
    They were probably lined up rather “all you can eat and then some” buffet.
    Random Impertinent Question: when he was asked about the membership of his rugby team of “officials”, why did Shaw fail to mention Iwi reps?
    
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    June 30, 2022 1:06pm
Frank the tank

Greg and the Saudis are winning. Go woke, go broke. Expect US sport to lose all their tax exemptions if Trumpy or Ronny get the White House.

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/06/29/trump-blasts-pga-tour-years-stingy-payouts-players-liv-opens-bang/
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June 30, 2022 8:26am
Rusty

This on going saga with Eden park and should it ever have been revamped in the first place has been brought up again by herald sports writer Gregor Paul.

Structurally and visibly its not the greatest looking rugby stadium in the world but as Paul points out it has been a fortress for the ABs since 1994 so it must have something going for it.

Dont know what the rugby fans of Christchurch think of this bickering about Eden park when it looks like they may never get a new stadium in the next 10 years which is a disgrace for the greatest non-international team in the world.
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June 30, 2022 8:36am
Ross Campbell

Was downtown yesterday and came across a guy street preaching.
I assumed he was your standard garden variety god pusher but once I got closer I found out my assumption was wrong.
This guy was preaching religion,Trump,Putin and Covid conspiracy all wrapped up together.
I had heard quite a bit of his crap presented in various forms on here but this guy took things to a new level.
Some of the main take away points:
1.Ardern was sent here by Satan to kill the nation’s babies and young people.
2.Putin and Trump are the new Messiah,sent here to rid the earth of sin and demonic beings.
3.Pfizer is the devil and if left unchallenged will cause another Armageddon.
4.Anyone who had the covid vaccine is now inhabited by the devil and can only find redemption by never allowing any more foreign agents to enter their bodies.
There was heaps more but I won’t spoil the surprise too much because trust me, if some of the people on here come across this guy you are going to absolutely love him.
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June 30, 2022 8:37am
- Nickc2
  
  Another loony Andrew Little’s organisation let out of the Asylum. Others let out have gone on stabbing sprees so this guy’s religion can’t be that bad eh?
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:35am
- Yabster
  
  troll on troll
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:58am
  - alloytoo
    
    Victimless Crime?
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:32am
- Frank the tank
  
  Does this person actually exist Ross?
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:36am
  - Ross Campbell
    
    Indeed he does sadly.
    Maybe his name might even have been Frank…
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yes Mike
      
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      June 30, 2022 12:20pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  You should probably stop taking what ever drugs you’re on.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:51am
  - Ross Campbell
    
    Oh are you still sulking about our exchange the other day over the US Supreme Court?
    Come on, chin up, move on, your a big boy now.
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:41am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yes Mike
      
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      June 30, 2022 12:19pm
    - patreon_36178434
      
      If you’re going to troll
      Why not learn to spell first ?
      
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      June 30, 2022 1:15pm
    - Libertarians are right
      
      I made reasonable, well articulated points, you attacked me and then doubled down with “both sides do it” when in fact they don’t to the extent the “Liberal” justices currently are.
      
      Why would I be sulking? You embarrassed yourself and then came on here again to attack us again and embarrassed yourself again.
      
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      June 30, 2022 1:34pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yes Mike
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:18pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Hopefully a more accurate paraphrasing than than Hipkin’s was of Mitchell re-Labour pasty questions on police diversity on ZB.
  
  But yes, the comment of the evident waste of over a billion $ on mental health care is apt. Sounds like someone who might need meds, or at the very least ignored as an irrelevant individual.
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:34pm
- wilderbeast
  
  #didn’t happen.
  
  Nice yarn though Ross
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:30pm
Jim

I have a good understanding of the appalling state of the health sector through the experience of very experienced health sector workers that I know.

The headline being, it is sadly VERY broken and the media reports of 6 hours waiting in ED is sadly ‘very optimistic’ when compared to the daily reality.

A main daily issue is unsafe staffing at all clinical levels (consultants, registrars, house surgeons and registered nurses). Ministers Little and Farfoi have been openly reported to have not incentivised overseas recruitment, which is the only way to address this shortfall.

Meanwhile Senior Managers are effectively double jobbing with unreasonably scaled job descriptions, and are therefore unable to focus on anything but today’s immediate crisis.

The net result is daily stress and low morale; in essence a sinking ship.

Let’s hope that Minister Littles’ health reforms (introducing HNZ and MHA from tomorrow) have more substance than flash new titles, to speedily address these core underlying issues of our defeated WakaMole Health Service.
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June 30, 2022 8:42am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Don’t hold your breath. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on “the system”, with none of that going to actual healthcare. All that will be achieved will be a bloated bureaucracy based centrally, with no idea of what is going on out in the regions.
  
  In my career in the health service I went through a number of restructures, including the funder-provider split model in the early 1990’s. As always, the actual provision of health care will suffer, but the shiny-arses at Healthcare NZ and the Maori Health Authority will do just fine, thank you very much.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:42am
- Phronesis
  
  “Incentivised overseas recruitment” the incentive is money and the only way you are going to get permanent staff is to raise pay rates across the board to be internationally competitive in what is an international market.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:02am
  - alloytoo
    
    Traditionally the incentive has been a bit more than money, however Labour have screwed that pooch into oblivion.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:36am
  - Phronesis
    
    At the clinical level healthcare is 20-50% understaffed. i.e There are that many vacant positions that are budgeted for but are unfilled due to no one with the requisite qualifications being willing to do the job for the money offered. I wonder how many such positions exist at management level? Very few I suspect, but then management doesn’t require any actual qualifications or accreditation by a professional body.
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:06am
  - Jim
    
    As a bum pluck example: How about the government offering 100% income tax rebate for first five years employment if they achieve citizenship. Likely this would incentivise each nurse to chose NZ with a $150,000 lump sum (much more for doctors).
    
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    June 30, 2022 5:15pm
kevn

@BY… shaw must have needed a little team of haka performers to add/detract from his global cred.
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June 30, 2022 8:46am
Maggie Pie

You gotta luv this guy…..

“We have a Maori elite. Then we have US”

– Rawiri Te Kowhai

https://twitter.com/TaxpayersUnion/status/1542005941452754944
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June 30, 2022 8:50am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Rawiri must be NZ’s “black face of white supremacy.”
  
  https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-20/recall-candidate-larry-elder-is-a-threat-to-black-californians
  
  How dare he……//
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:07am
- Frank the tank
  
  Another ‘wrong type’ of Maori for Steamboat Willy, Mahutacorp and the rest of the tribal elite.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:22am
kiwikidsnz

I’d never heard of this woman before.
Not your average 17 yo pregnant high school student.

America’s richest self-made woman: From dairy farm to $11.6 billion net worth
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/richest-self-made-woman-in-us-diane-hendricks-grew-up-on-dairy-farm.html?
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June 30, 2022 8:59am
Sideoiler

Shit I am glad I don’t live in Aotearoa!

Inflation through the roof, unemployment figures fudged, half the population living in social or emergency housing, record waiting times in hospitals.
Must be a real bunch of halfwits running that place.
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June 30, 2022 9:03am
- Nickc2
  
  Second opinion not required.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:39am
- mandk
  
  The unemployment figures from the HLFS aren’t fudged – they are based on the number of respondents saying that they are available and actively seeking work.
  
  The problem is that the number of people receiving a Jobseeker benefit is considerably greater than the number of people who are actually unemployed.
  
  And, of course we know the reason why – Ardern, Robertson and co want to encourage benefit dependency.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:10am
- Cassandra
  
  I do live in NZ and sadly I agree with your description.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:35am
- Ross Campbell
  
  “Half the population living in social or emergency housing”
  I know gross exaggeration is the norm here but this is really getting carried away.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:40am
  - MCōs
    
    From my experience living in Bangkok and reading the local news NZ is a land of continual natural disasters. Earthquakes, floods, and man convicted of assault with hedgehog & I expect mosque massacre.
    The Australians in the office weren’t much interested.
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:23am
  - Nickc2
    
    Half the population living in social or emergency housing
    What’s wrong with that? The other half are either on the waiting list or awaiting a flight out at Akld Int Airport. //
    
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    June 30, 2022 12:01pm
  - zulumonster
    
    You’ve told us that a million time FFS Ross …
    
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    June 30, 2022 3:27pm
nathie

More madness with certain Wellingtonians wanting to doom their own city, caught a Morning Report interview with GWRC’s Daran Ponter and a basin reserve preservation (and cycling?) advocate.

As is usual with these types of elite lefties they want the plebs to move to public transport, cycling or walking.

Both of them support the absurd Lab/Green elite leftie notion that any car tunnels through Mt. Victoria should only be max two lanes in total (i.e. one lane each way), in order to discourage car use.

Nevermind that will only cause congestion, increase emissions and waste petrol/diesel/EV battery levels as cars are stalled (especially when heating is running), inching forward as traffic is banked up prior to merging, also obviously cause inevitable delays and wasted productivity.

All of which cost wise, will exceed by a large magnitude the efficiencies gained to provide for a few dozen cyclists and maybe a couple of hundred walkers wanting to travel through the tunnels eg in the morning peak travel times!

As well as the utter economic madness to spend billions on a few dozen cyclists and couple of hundred walkers …. why are these turkeys now disincentivising EV car owners?

I thought the elite lefties wanted more EV uptake? I guess in conclusion, no they don’t really support EV uptake at the end of the day, they pretend they do, but really just want more people using public transport & “light-rail”? Well good luck with that also, when we have pandemics or simply cold and flue circulating! Or when one wants to go shopping, ya know, to obtain groceries or simply support shops and businesses by buying their products!
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June 30, 2022 9:03am
- alloytoo
  
  These are luxury beliefs designed to raise the status of the adherents at the expense of the rest of us.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:23am
- Benedict Yu
  
  The other thing that got me was the assertion that the light rail to Island Bay would ‘create’ thousands of new homes because people would be so enchanted to live along the rail route.
  
  Where will all those new houses be built? There is plenty of land in the Wellington region to build new houses but not much between the city and Island Bay. I guess they will demolish the existing houses and build apartments.
  
  Another key thing missing from yesterday’s announcement was a solution to the Terrace tunnel. It is an absurdity – it needs to be duplicated.
  
  Neither was there anything about upgrading SH2 to Upper Hutt – the current road is dangerous because it has light controlled intersections in 100 kmh zones.
  
  Nothing about fixing the horrible bottleneck at Petone where the esplanade joins SH2.
  
  Anyway, as usual nothing will happen. I predict Wellington will look exactly the same 10 years from now, but with more crime and shit box houses in Upper Hutt costing $2 million.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:43am
  - G152
    
    Well they used to have trams running those routes
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:37am
  - plc
    
    Public golf course at Berhampore?
    
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    June 30, 2022 12:47pm
- Hebe123
  
  There is not a single use of my car that can be replaced with busses (with any reasonableness – yes i could possibly go grocery shopping but would have to replace 1 trip per fortnight with 3 per week, yes i could get 2 buses to the airport but 1.5 hours on the bus at 5.00am isn’t reasonable). I can’t carry my bike, visit my folks, go to my volunteer shifts, or take my dogs with me on the bus.
  Wellington is slightly better in that regard, but honestly, how do they think people will get around?
  
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  June 30, 2022 11:14am
  - Diogenes
    
    I agree fully with Hebe’s reasons why buses can’t replace cars, with one exception. In Christchurch at least, every single bus has a bike rack in front — some carry two bikes, and some (increasingly) three. I put my bike on the bus very regularly, and as I frequently have to cross the city, it’s a great boon.
    
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    June 30, 2022 2:37pm
  - Matt Long
    
    That’s a bit harsh, I think most of the travel I do could be done in a bus, the upfront cost, running costs and parking are a deterrent but plenty of room for supplies, being able to use bus lanes in the bigger centres, no seatbelts or baby seats would be convenient.
    How long can one park one’s bus at a bus stop to do ones shopping?
    
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    June 30, 2022 3:15pm
Chris Morgan

We often hear that ‘optics’ are huge in politics. So, what are we to make of our darling on the world stage being stood in the back row on the far left of the leaders photo and being sat at the very end of the table for the leaders dinner with no one opposite her and Boris on her right? Message being sent or someone not getting it right?
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June 30, 2022 9:05am
- oldfella
  
  Chris, but as our MSM tells us in breathless prose, Glorious Leader got to make a speech to NATO leaders. Wow!
  And because she’s such a super-star her time slot was a whopping … 3 minutes!
  I’m sure she made a te rayo greeting, which probably left about 60 seconds for the important stuff. //
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:35am
- Frank the tank
  
  Said it before – we are the fat chick invited along with our hot friends (i.e. Australia, Japan and South Korea).
  
  We are rent a crowd. Table 17 with the kids at the wedding.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:25am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  She is not as important as she thinks she is.
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:32pm
  - MCōs
    
    I don’t think anyone, including most of our PMs, excluding maybe the one who played golf with the President of the United States and hung out with Richie, has every thought we were particularly important in the world.
    I saw that picture of the PM seemingly relegated to the back of the class with only Brexit Boris to talk to.
    
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    June 30, 2022 1:25pm
  - Paulus
    
    She is not as important as her paid for media tell us !
    
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    June 30, 2022 2:25pm
Gravelroad

On Te News last night, which I didn’t watch, there was apparently a report of some industrial grade noise machine used on the protesters at Parliament.
The person who saw this item said it was a device developed by the US military which could seriously impact hearing. Allegedly specially imported to Aotearoa.
Havn’t seen this anywhere else.
Anybody shed any light? Or noise?
It did seem to rattle the Minister for Everything, Hipkins though.
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June 30, 2022 9:06am
- Yvette
  
  Police used ‘violent’ sound cannon on Parliament protesters
  https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/06/29/police-used-violent-sound-cannon-on-parliament-protesters/
  
  … overseas these acoustic missiles have caused permanent hearing loss without a social licence.”
  When asked by 1News if the use of the device was appropriate considering its potential to cause long-term hearing damage, Police Minister Chris Hipkins said he was unaware of the matter.
  “That’s an operational issue for the police… I haven’t actually been briefed on their action there.”
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:30am
  - Phronesis
    
    Yet one of the devices was placed on the roof of a parliament building which would have required the explicit approval of Speaker Trevor Mallard. An operational issue for Police perhaps but Mallard had to approve it.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:04am
    - Gravelroad
      
      I call that a breach of human rights on a group of civilians.
      If any of the protesters can prove their hearing has been adversely impacted by the use of this machine by the Labour Party government – then I hope they sue them somehow.
      
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      June 30, 2022 10:39am
      - Ross Campbell
        
        I doubt any of them could prove their hearing was affected but damaged brains would be easily proved.
        
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        June 30, 2022 11:45am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yes Mike
        
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        June 30, 2022 12:35pm
      - Fuzzysnuggleduck
        
        Ross Campbells comments have the same drive-by flavour as Mike/Mikenmild.
        Having seen MM and sometimes the Mike account post daily and repeatedly, I am feeling a sameness along with an absence of the former.
        Is this a sock puppet account?
        
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        June 30, 2022 12:40pm
      - glowworm
        
        I saw it, from a distance and from my bike in the aftermath of the protest. I have photos too. Looks and sounds a bit like a giant smoke alarm. You definitely wouldn’t want to be too close to it. But I think the sound attenuated quickly. I was perhaps 100 yards from it, and a chainsaw would have been louder, or perhaps it just wasn’t focused on me? Or at full noise?
        
        Many got injured that day. I saw some very bad blunt truama injuries, with significant blood. One was an old man, I think just a bystander like me who got too close when it got violent… and another guy too. Both had significant leg injuries. Neither could walk. Maybe from the gun like thing I saw the Police using?
        
        Pepper-spray is very effective tool for the Police, and the people who got sprayed in the eyes also appeared in much more pain than anything that big smoke alarm thing could do.
        
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        June 30, 2022 1:18pm
  - mawm
    
    Since when did our police need to become militarised?
    
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    June 30, 2022 11:31am
- Nickc2
  
  From memory, it’s called an LRAD. They were widely used against Greenpeace during their anti Whaling campaigns in the Antarctic.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:47am
  - alloytoo
    
    Wildly used by terrorist groups then.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:38am
    - Nickc2
      
      I wouldn’t call the Japanese Terrorists. They were going about their business when Greenpeace became involved.
      
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      June 30, 2022 12:38pm
      - alloytoo
        
        my mistake, I thought GP were using it.
        
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        June 30, 2022 2:26pm
Yvette

Jackson not ‘comfortable’ with co-governance draft
Willie Jackson is delaying taking a draft United Nations’ Declaration Plan to Cabinet because he knows ministers won’t support it
A draft United Nations’ declaration plan has been delivered to the Māori Development Minister but is being held back from Cabinet until some of the recommendations are watered down.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/pro/jackson-not-comfortable-with-co-governance-draft

The article is subscription only, so I have not read it.
But I consider the headline and sub are enough to ask–

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If discussions were held with targeted Maori (elite) why is Jackson acting as a filter between the views expressed and those to be presented to Cabinet.

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From the blurb under the accompanying photo – Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson hopes to take a paper to Cabinet at the end of July to get a draft Declaration Plan signed off that can be shared with New Zealanders and consulted on .
If Cabinet is the next filter, why do they not just write the wider consultation paper themselves?

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Is all of this an example of Jackson’s claim –
Minister of Māori Development Willie Jackson says democracy in 2022 is broader and more expansive than just one person, one vote.
… “The nature of democracy has changed. This is a democracy now where you take into account the needs of people, the diverse needs, the minority needs. Its not the tyranny of the majority anymore, that’s what co-management and co-governance is about. It’s nothing to fear,” Jackson said.

Jackson may be right – Its not the tyranny of the majority anymore
It seems to be the tyranny of tyrants
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June 30, 2022 9:07am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Apartheid wasn’t tyranny of the majority either.
  
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  June 30, 2022 9:19am
Libertarians are right

So the evil (and I mean it) Democrat Californian AG just “leaked” the full list of firearms owners in California including their address, whether they held concealed carry and why they had the permit – which means the list specifies the addresses of judges and law enforcement personnel.

He said it was for transparency purposes but was mainly because SCOTUS just shot down New York’s attempted restrictions on the second amendment.

3 things will happen of course:
1) Criminals will know where to go to steal guns, putting those gun owners families at risk.
2) Criminals will know which houses to rob and commit other crimes against the occupants without the risk of facing firearms.
3) Judges and law enforcement officers (and their families) will die.

As I said, evil.
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June 30, 2022 9:16am
- leoj
  
  …and if the firearm is worth less than $900, there will be no police enquiry, let alone prosecution.
  
  Now, even the wacky, Hollywood elites are buying guns.
  
  The state has been in the hands of Democrats forever. The voting population deserve them.
  
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  June 30, 2022 11:25am
- Inandout
  
  Lib, California has really flipped and will be the first State in the US to fold.
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:12pm
Plue

What’s wrong with the MSM
The media comes in for some comment on this site and I came across this in my online travels.
I thought others might find it interesting.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/problems-with-media/
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June 30, 2022 9:26am
Bridgenag

SENT TO ME

This is a concise summary of just a few of the changes being addressed for the most part by non-constitutional means. Might be a good idea to spread the word as silence infers agreement and I doubt any Kiwi worth their salt is in agreement with this brief list.

JACINDA ARDERN – A TSUNAMI OF CHANGES IS COMING

Hi to all concerned New Zealanders,

Has Jacinda Ardern become a puppet to the tribal elite? After the opening paragraphs we list some facts from the Government’s He Puapua 2040 plan! By deliberately concealing the He Puapua agenda for tribal co-governance from voters during the election campaign, Jacinda Ardern has knowingly orchestrated an illegitimate abuse of power. As a result of the rollout of this illegitimate agenda, a cultural takeover of New Zealand’s most fundamental social and constitutional values is underway.

Our established democratic order is being swept aside by an incoming tide of race-based tyranny. Following is but a sample – remember these are taken from the Government’s own plan. Some parts have already been enacted.

1. A SEPARATE MAORI HEALTH AUTHORITY;

o Funded by the Taxpayer.

o With veto rights over the entire health system

o Maori patients are now being prioritised over non-Maori.

2. DEPT OF CONSERVATION LAND:

o Government documents have now emerged showing a plan to transfer the ownership and control of the entire Conservation Estate to Tribal Authorities

o The Dept of Conservation has now formed an “Options,

Development Group” (ODG). This group has made a recommendation to give control and governance of DOC to Maori.

3. LAND & BUSINESS:

o Exempting Maori land from the requirement to pay rates.

o Iwi businesses now worth several billion dollars do not pay taxes.

o Taxpayer funding to upgrade maraes.

4. EDUCATION:

o Rewriting the history of this country to suit a Maori agenda in the Education curriculum. The rewritten curriculum shows pre and post European Maori to be a different person than what was observed and recorded by early Europeans.

5. LOCAL GOVERNMENT:

o The abolition of the right of local communities to hold a binding referendum on Maori Ward Seats on Councils

o Local Government Minister Mahuta is now undertaking a review and it appears likely to lead that 50% of Council seats will be held by Maori.

6. GOVERNANCE:

o Two complete Governments that overlap.

o A new written Constitution based on a new interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi.

o At least five per cent of all Govt procurement contracts must now go

to Maori businesses. All government departments/agencies must now provide a report that shows at least five per cent of the procurement for goods and services was from Maori businesses.

7. JUSTICE

o A Maori Court system, where offenders with a Maori ancestor will be treated differently from other offenders.

o Maori Jails, where inmates with a Maori ancestor will be treated differently to other inmates.

o Western Common Law being replaced by Maori “tikanga” (Maori customary & practices). See Justice Churchman’s Decision May 2021

o Where people of Maori ancestry will have greater legal rights

8. WATER

o Granting Maori rights to ALL fresh water

o Giving Maori access to funding for their legal costs to claim the Seabed & Foreshore, from mean high tide out to 12 nautical miles.

o Opponents to Maori claims must fund their own legal costs.

9. MEDIA:

o Maori language and culture are now being forced into Government Departments, Local Authorities, and state funded media.

o The guidelines for the media in the government’s latest funding of $55 million dollars to them, now prevents an opposing point of view to the government’s race-based program being aired.

THE ABOVE IS JUST A SAMPLE OF WHAT IS IN THE HE PUAPUA 2040 PLAN.

New Zealanders across the land are being falsely accused by radical separatists of racism and discrimination against Maori when they question what is the He Puapua plan about.

“If we are to salvage our democracy, we have no option but to get out of our comfort zones and engage in protest by means that may not come easily to us.”

Spread the word. Do not be afraid of being called a racist. Speak out.

We want equality. We need to stand up and fight this plan.

Sent on behalf of

“All for One” United New Zealand

Alfred Johns,

Lambton Quay,
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June 30, 2022 9:45am
- Phronesis
  
  2040 plan? I’d say we are more than halfway there already. The next centre right government needs to pass a very simple law that states that all discrimination on the basis of race by the NZ govt or any of its agents is illegal. I think a majority of NZ’ers would still support that.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:21am
  - Bridgenag
    
    I think it is all frightening. Any jobs in Wellington have the TOW believe or no job and I have heard that it is more like 50% Maori involvement for contracts. Sadly with no investigative journalists in the country we will continue jack booting our march………..sigh
    
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    June 30, 2022 12:51pm
Tony Stuart

I see Grant Robertson has tested positive to COVID-19 and has gone into isolation. Kelvin Davis is next in line to lead the country.

So with both the PM and her Deputy off the scene, who is more likely to stage an uprising; Labour’s back bench, or the Maori caucus?
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June 30, 2022 10:02am
- Frank the tank
  
  The Hugh Wright’s sales assistant or Mahutacorp are next cabs of the rank at the moment.
  
  I expect they’ll add it to Chipkins’ tasks to lead the country till Our Glorious Leader is back from her holiday.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:40am
  - Nickc2
    
    If there’s an overthrow attempt, you can bet your life Willie Jackson’s involved in there somewhere.
    Mahuta for President with Willie Jackson as Vice President eh?
    
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    June 30, 2022 12:34pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  How convenient, he does not want to face the music, just like Jaspinda.
  Special K in charge? Oh fuck.
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:40pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUi9hRTBIbw
China Will Never Have “Overwhelming Victory” Against Corruption.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has declared an “overwhelming victory” against corruption. The only thing is, there has been no victory against corruption. In fact, the whole anti-corruption campaign isn’t even about corruption. Watch this episode of China Uncensored for what Xi’s corruption campaign is really about, who it’s targeting, and why it’s not a victory. [Zero tolerance for (the wrong kind of) ‘corruption’. //9:07]
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June 30, 2022 10:07am
- Phronesis
  
  I didn’t watch it but it looks a lot like the current covid response in China is not about covid either. It looks a lot like the battle for political control in China is a lot hotter than gets reported in the West.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:23am
  - curry4me
    
    I think the current lockdowns in China are a mi of political tensions, and a stress test to see how prepared the country is for war.
    
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    June 30, 2022 6:50pm
curry4me

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

2000 Mules Team Launches New ‘Sheriffs Initiative’: National Hotline for Election Integrity.

Sherrifs, and citizens have been given the tools to connect together to prevent election fraud.
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June 30, 2022 10:07am
Alan Wilkinson

How come Pharmac today announced recall of a blood pressure pill that Pfizer recalled in March due to elevated nitrosamine contamination levels?

Why does it take more than three months to withdraw it here?
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June 30, 2022 10:18am
- Phronesis
  
  Probably because withdrawing it with out ensuring that a suitable replacement was available would present a considerably higher risk to patients than continuing to take the medicine in the short term.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:25am
  - cmm
    
    That doesn’t really stack up.
    
    Not all people on a medication have the same level of risk or need for the medication. It is not one-size-fits-all.
    
    For some, it is likely that it would be better to keep taking the meds and damn the risks of the contaminants.
    For some, it is likely that their risk profile is lower and the risks of the contaminants outweigh the benefits of the medication.
    For others, they could switch to a different med.
    
    With transparent and open information the GPs could help decide the best action for individual patients.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:40am
    - Phronesis
      
      The risk from nitrosamine contamination is incredibly low. There would be higher exposure from eating bacon. Essentially they are a potentially dangerous contaminant over the very long term and it’s not unreasonable to require that the medication doesn’t contain nitrosamines. There would literally be no one who would be better off stopping their meds (assuming they actually need them which is debatable in some cases).
      
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      June 30, 2022 11:16am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    They’ve had three months to organise a replacement and they still don’t have one. Never mind, let’s reorganise the health system and get some Maoris running it. That will sort it out, won’t it
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:51am
  - Paulus
    
    My Doctor gave me a replacement prescription early this morning.
    
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    June 30, 2022 2:29pm
- cmm
  
  Pfizer, the brand we’re supposed to trust to vaccinate our children, is distributing contaminated products??
  
  Naah, can’t have the people know about that.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:42am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Pfizer pulled it, Pharmac didn’t.
    
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    June 30, 2022 10:53am
    - cmm
      
      I realise that. In this case I think Pfizer did the right thing.
      
      It seems to be that Pharmac dropped the ball though. Is that because they’re under pressure to downplay any negative vibe associated with Pfizer at a time when Pfizer is being kicked all over town for the way they’ve played fast and loose with CV19.
      
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      June 30, 2022 1:05pm
- Ehlana
  
  For the same reason it took us, how many weeks was it again? to respond when they e-mailed us about buying Covid medication from them.
  
  There’s a huge health sector bureaucracy to rearrange, don’t you know. No time for mere public health measures.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:54am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Branded as ‘Accuretic’ Not the ones I take.
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:48pm
Bill Felt

Jacinda in the EU to secure the EU/NZ FTA. With her cheque book out to pay for Ukraine stuff and the tilt away from China, NZ was trying every trick in the book to close this deal.

Now this is looking unlikely as the Europeans have not conceded on dairy, beef, lamb. Ardern is going to have to back track here and do some damage control to her ‘international mover and shaker’ image.
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June 30, 2022 10:22am
- Cassandra
  
  Jacinda is in the EU for a job interview.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:37am
  - Paulus
    
    Please give her a job somebody – anybody, and God Help You !
    
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    June 30, 2022 2:31pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  ‘image’, is all it is.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:40am
- Frank the tank
  
  Did you expect anything else – Macron just lost his majority and like the rest of Europe is stumbling towards recession and stagflation. They are not going to hang an important voting block out to dry for the international rent-a-crowd.
  
  So accept a shitty trade deal that actually REDUCES the primary sector’s access to Europe OR go back with nothing.
  
  Cindy-politics-101
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:44am
  - Matt Long
    
    Get a bad deal then announce it as peace in our time is the politician’s way, adding progressive to the title to differentiate it from a mere common trade deal.
    
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    June 30, 2022 3:25pm
- greybeard
  
  Does anyone really think that Jacinda Ardern is qualified to talk about international trade deals with other nations?
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:52am
- mandk
  
  There’s only one solution.
  
  Ardern must stay in Europe until the French farmers accept our lamb, beef and dairy.
  
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  June 30, 2022 10:58am
Iamright

Just seen the photo of our foreign affairs minister at chogm over at ysb. For the love of nz I hope it was photoshopped but I have a horrible feeling it’s not. I wouldn’t let my wife out in the garden dressed like that. I’m sure someone with more tech skills can copy into KS.
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June 30, 2022 10:37am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Was the other day, but if you are going to wear a tent, iron it ffs.
  The World is watching, so bloody embarrassing.
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:53pm
mandk

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129127167/acting-prime-minister-grant-robertson-comes-down-with-covid19

Silly man; he can’t have been vaxxed.

Didn’t anyone tell him it was effective, as well as being safe?
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June 30, 2022 10:39am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I guessing he was vaxed twice and had one booster. Someone else with 3 shots has given it to him.
  Lockdown the Government!!
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:57pm
- I remember when
  
  Great to see that despite the dangers of Covid-19 you can still run the country if you catch it.
  
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  June 30, 2022 2:03pm
- Matt Long
  
  Thanks God he was vaxed and this “rare breakthrough infection” will only be mild unlike for the unvaxed who are dropping like flies.
  
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  June 30, 2022 3:29pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I’m in Oz watching a very detailed analysis on SBS of the expanding NATO alliance into the Indo Pacific.
India seems very worried that a bunch of Cold war nations are trying to flex their muscle into a region where there is no reason for their presence.
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June 30, 2022 10:46am
- Frank the tank
  
  Yep – we (the West) seem to be single handedly helping India join a coalition with China and Russia. This would be bad, bad news for the world.
  
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  June 30, 2022 11:18am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    India is no friend to China, a history of war, disputed borders and even recent violence in such regions.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/world/asia/indian-china-border-clash.html
    Traditionally non-aligned, India might not like it, but it has much more to be concerned about with China’s preparations and belligerency than NATO playing politics with nations outside of the traditional Atlantic sphere.
    
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    June 30, 2022 12:48pm
    - mawm
      
      And yet they are part of the BRICS alliance. How the West failed to secure India as an ally amazes me.
      
      I laughed when I heard that India was buying cheap Russian oil and selling it on to the West at much higher price.
      
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      June 30, 2022 4:50pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    India badly needs help to maintain its fairly fragile democratic institutions in the face of increasing sectarianism.
    
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    June 30, 2022 1:18pm
    - Phronesis
      
      Must be because they can’t work out who was there first. If they could agree who was there first then they could just give them special privileges and that will fix everything. Or so the MSM keeps telling me.
      
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      June 30, 2022 6:08pm
cmm

It is only halfway through the year and South Africa has already stacked up more load shedding than any previous year in their history.

They are currently on level 6 which means everyone loses power for up to 8 or 9 hours a day – in chunks of 2 to 2.5 hours.

This is happening despite both a reduction in consumption (due to economic downturn) and a flurry of new energy projects.

So why, if they’re building energy projects, are things not improving?

Simple really. They’re building useless stuff.

A lot, if not all, of the new energy projects are joint green energy projects with foreign donations: South Africa forks out some % of the costs, some foreign entity/government forks out the rest. The foreign entity then claims the carbon credits/eco-smugness/whatever associated with the project.

Unfortunately the projects are focused on being green rather than actually providing power. They do not actually generate power when needed (when the sun isn’t shining) so they do not alleviate the power shortages.

Worse yet, they have gobbled up South Africa’s energy money that should have gone into maintaining the reliable coal powered equipment that actually does the real work.

Net result: the power system continues to get worse.

Savvy analysts peg the chance of a massive South African grid collapse at around 50% within the next 3 months. I would agree.

I think if you also look at the probability of “level 8” or worse (ie. periods when more than half the country is not getting electricity) then it is more like 80%.

Rolling blackouts tend to become runaway events for a few reasons:
* Much load is defered by load shedding – not eliminated. If I couldn’t use electricity from 6pm to 8pm then I’m going to use double from 8pm to 10pm. Thus load shedding does not work in the long term.
* Electrical systems are designed to be on all the time. Turning things on/off (especially large transformers) causes various stresses on these parts leaving to premature failure. Youtube has many excellent videos of exploding transformers. They’re filled with cooling oil that burns well.

Unfortunately we are not learning and are trying to go down the same road as they are.
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June 30, 2022 11:00am
- Inandout
  
  We have a long history of power cuts.
  
  ‘Heaters banned during peak hours, lighting controls, 30 per cent power cuts in the North Island – sound like one of the electricity-saving campaigns New Zealand has endured in recent years?
  
  Actually, they’re all measures imposed during the 1940s, when the power supply couldn’t keep up with demand. And a look back through the files suggests that this country’s electricity-supply problems have been more perennial than occasional.
  
  In 1958, for example, a 15 per cent cut was imposed in the North Island. In 1973, efforts to cut power use even included closing down TV broadcasts earlier than usual, and there were daily blackouts in some areas’.
  Herald 2008
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:50pm
  - cmm
    
    Yup, the occasional power cut is one thing. Having power so bad that it is out half the time is quite another.
    
    About 12 years ago we had snow that knocked out our power for 5 days or so. Some people lost power for over a week in other parts of inland Canterbury. It wasn’t a huge hassle for us – just pull out the gas stove and fire up the Tilly lamps.
    
    All easy to survive, but it’s a completely different matter when modern city folk lose power to a whole city for days or weeks.
    
    By the end of this week, South Africa will have had 1000 hours of load shedding so far this year. ie. an average of 5 hours a day.
    
    On top of that, many areas have experienced further “load reduction”. That’s technically different and is not counted in the 1000 hours, but results in the same thing to the customer: no power.
    
    Then there are still faults. Turning transformers etc off/on during load shedding and load reduction causes increased faults. Some areas have experienced faults lasting well over a week.
    
    So for some people this all stacks up to almost 50% no power during the first half of this year.
    
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    June 30, 2022 2:47pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  2022 is turning out to be the year when chickens come home to roost for much of the west and it’s silly Green energy policies of the last 10 years enacted by ignorant virtue signalling politicians that have seen reliable baseload thermal shuttered in preference for unreliable renewables. Australia is teetering (renewables), as is Europe (exacerbated by Russia) and some of USA.
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:59pm
- glowworm
  
  Huntly is a strategic asset in more ways than one. Not only for energy security in a dry year. But also for real-time grid security (voltage stability) into Auckland and the Upper North Island.
  
  Put simply. The entire North Island is at more risk of a black event without Huntly. Transpower have some voltage stability projects that have been approved to help this situation in the future but it is a very difficult technical power system stability issue.
  
  Ironically, the new’ish 400kV capable transmission line built into Auckland has such a low impedance (think big pipe) that it creates a large contingent event risk if it fails, especially if both circuits of the line fail at the same time.
  
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  June 30, 2022 1:46pm
- Phronesis
  
  You don’t happen to know what sort of ‘Black start’ capability the SA grid has?
  
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  June 30, 2022 6:11pm
greybeard

This morning Hosking interviewed a scientist from Victoria University in regard to the development of non-addictive painkilling drugs.
During that interview she said that they had been working on it for about 15 years and expected it to take a further 5 years before clinical trials were begun.
She said that the development of such new drugs was a long-term exercise.
If that is the case then how on earth could the so-called vaccines for Covid-19 be developed in a matter of months before being approved and released for world-wide use?

( You can hear the interview on NewstalkZB “On-Demand” at 7:17am this morning ).
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June 30, 2022 11:04am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The Covid Vaccine is actually saline. Sssssssh, don’t tell anyone
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:59pm
Swifty

“Our journalism is so wonderful, so vital, so essential, so valuable in making NZers lives better that we need the NZ Labour Party to shovel millions of taxpayer dollars to us each annually to keep our companies afloat and our noses in the trough…”

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/129123048/gutsy-valuesled-journalism-sees-stuff-and-the-spinoff-form-partnership
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June 30, 2022 11:12am
Blog-aholic

I see we are being softened up for ZERO EU trade deal…..
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300625704/pm-prepared-to-leave-brussels-without-an-eu-trade-deal

Well worth the effort.
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June 30, 2022 11:39am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Yes, I saw it as pretty transparent that we should expect nothing, when she dressed up ‘potential walking away with nothing rather than agreeing to a bad deal’ as both her being in control and having a clever strategy. Rather, we won’t be offered diddly squat & certainly not from a single trip, smile & wave.
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:51pm
  - cmm
    
    I’m so glad we’ve got Strong Cindy doing Captain’s calls for us! John Key would have just rolled over and given them anything.
    
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    June 30, 2022 2:51pm
- I remember when
  
  No don’t tell me.
  It’s going to be called “Stuff Off.”
  
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  June 30, 2022 1:49pm
Maggie Pie

My partner retweets….

says he had the same thing happen to him once 😀

https://twitter.com/tweettruth2me/status/1541745258970710017
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June 30, 2022 11:59am
- Ross Campbell
  
  Yes well I always thought there was something a bit unusual about your relationship and now we are starting to get some insights.
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:13pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    You know you are one bitter, sick and twisted individual milkey.
    
    That’s what I like about you.
    
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    June 30, 2022 1:31pm
- cmm
  
  It’s so hard to keep up… are leper jokes still un-PC?
  
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  June 30, 2022 2:54pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Not at our place 😀
    
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    June 30, 2022 3:10pm
    - cmm
      
      I’ll come around and drop something off then.
      
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      June 30, 2022 4:57pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Well just be careful you don’t walk into the screen-door…
        wouldn’t want you to strain yourself.
        
        😀 😀 😀
        
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        June 30, 2022 5:11pm
Jack5

How can a trade deal with the EU compared with our free trade agreement with China?

Our computers, gadgets, tools, electric drills, most of our
cellphones and heaps of other equipment come from China. Unlike us, silky handed civil servants from Wellington don’t dip into Aliexpress to find computer thing-me’s or electronic gizmos or car parts or astonishingly cheap clothing.

The Industrial Revolution, followed closely by soaring consumer demand, has moved to Asia, but our bureaucrats think the action is still in Europe.

Volkswagens and Audis already come into NZ because we have since the days of economic theory Roger Douglas been pretty much duty free to imports.

What will the Europeans buy from us that doesn’t compete with their home products?

The only effects noticeable will be the New Zealand versions of traditional European cheeses. Instead these will be re-labelled with Maori or colonial classifications dreamed up by Woke PR hacks.

If there is use to NZ of an FTA with the European Union, it is likely be in reminding China that we could sell some of our goods elsewhere.
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- Jack5
  
  Edit: …. since the days of economic hero Roger Douglas …
  
  Sorry!
  
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  June 30, 2022 12:07pm
- cmm
  
  EU is a minni-me version of UN and if Cindy wants to keep going with her quest for #CinD4UN! then she’ll want to be on-side with all the EU people she can.
  
  Having a FTA with with both UK and EU that are equivalent is also a good way to signal that she’s not a Breexiteer.
  
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  June 30, 2022 2:59pm
kevn

“Maggie… Rumour has it that Mike Tysons efforts would push his lady receivers head through a wall. Then he would fall off.
Urban myth. Maybe.
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June 30, 2022 12:44pm
OTGO

Watched the Maori All Blacks v Ireland game last night. Is it just me or is the dilution now so great that its hard to tell if they are a maori or not?
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June 30, 2022 12:45pm
- I remember when
  
  If they are playing rugby, no matter what the level, they are probably Maori or Pacific Islander.
  South Island still delaying the takeover.
  
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  June 30, 2022 1:43pm
- Yabster
  
  Cullen Grace……
  
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  June 30, 2022 2:33pm
Jack5

Slummification rules on housing in our main cities are just weeks away.

In Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch and Rotorua, up to three dwellings of up to three storeys per site will be a permitted activity without need for resource consent.

No on-site parking! No provision for on-site charging of electric cars! Perhaps limited access to some units for firefighters and other emergency workers.

What a mess.

Then National leader, Judith Collins, and the then National housing spokesperson, Nicola Willis supported Labour’s plans for this slummification.

That was a surprising political decision. There was nothing in it for National if the new housing rules worked, but the suppoort took the blame off Labour for down sides of the changes.

The new rules:

https://www.landlords.co.nz/article/976520440/rules-for-massive-residential-intensification-only-weeks-away

National supported Labour:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/453824/housing-density-to-increase-across-new-zealand-under-rare-bipartisan-solution
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June 30, 2022 12:56pm
bennerg

Newstalk ZB Reports:
“A top epidemiologist is calling for mandatory isolation for those who contract the flu, treating the illness the same way we deal with Covid-19.”

I suspect that creating a sanitised environment will mean that we create a weaker set of genes in our community, with the inability to learn to fight these diseases. An unintended consequence.

Where do these guys come from, and where do they get these ideas?

Disease and death are a part of life, and unless we are fighting them, we become weak and ultimately vulnerable.

Until these so called “experts” start promoting good healthy lifestyles, reducing obesity and “fast foods” intake, instead of these silly self promoting pronouncements, they will have little credibility.
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June 30, 2022 12:59pm
- glowworm
  
  Agreed 100%. This appears short-term thinking, based on fear from uneducated people who call themselves experts.
  
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  June 30, 2022 1:59pm
- alex Masterley
  
  The man needs to live in his own little gated community (of one).
  
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  June 30, 2022 2:26pm
- Flossie
  
  How do we diagnose “The Flu”? Most people I know seem to think they have the flu when all they really have is a cold. Is there a RAT for this flu? So many questions!
  
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  June 30, 2022 3:01pm
- JerJer
  
  He is a knob. No one listens to him any more. They would have to pass more laws for that to happen. Given how unpopular Cindy and co are they would never do it.
  
  If they tried then there would be mandatory flu testing to come into the country.
  
  Good luck with that.
  
  The only reason this village idiot is talking this up is because he was completely wrong about Omicron, which is less problematic than the flu and now he has been found out.
  
  The vaccine mandate was only required because of the shambles that our heath system is in (it cannot deal with even the flu).
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:19pm
Nickc2

Trump crucifixion attempt crashes and burns.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/25yo-female-trump-staffer-looking-to-make-a-name-for-herself-crashes-and-burns.html
There are pictures for those who don’t like reading long diatribes.
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June 30, 2022 1:05pm
surfing

There was an article in the Saturday Dominion (thanks Taupo Cafe) 2 weeks back, saying it won’t be long before a prison guard is seriously injured or murdered.

They were right on point…

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/vicious-hawkes-bay-prison-assault-mongrel-mob-inmate-stabs-guard-12-times-in-face-in-cowardly-shocking-attack/AYQUW5FK5C3QQNXUSPHRVSV7MM/
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June 30, 2022 1:10pm
- Warren
  
  Yep this is the same Gang that Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister gave millions of dollars to help them to go straight and kick there drug habits.
  Labour or the Prime Minister are not very good judges of what a Mongrel Mob members character is.
  
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  June 30, 2022 1:39pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Is this another way of saying she bought drugs with tax payer funds?
    
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    June 30, 2022 3:43pm
Gravelroad

In the care of monsters’: Woman entrusted with care of little Malachi Subecz sentenced to life for his murder

Is there anything more reprehensible than a person (won’t say “caregiver”) who tortures to death a small child?
What is wrong with the friends, family and Oranga Tamariki that they stood by and allowed this to happen?
This woman who beat and burned a little boy to death was being paid by us, the taxpayers, to look after him even though she said she hated him
I want my money back.
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June 30, 2022 1:11pm
I remember when

Lucky for the Labour government lockdowns don’t cause inflation.
Lockdowns don’t like to a widen of the gap between the affluent and the poor.
Lockdowns don’t increase the pressures on hospitals.
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June 30, 2022 1:38pm
Bobba Fret

What a surprise, we are staying in Orange.
Who bloody cares!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129131217/covid19-traffic-light-setting-remains-at-orange-reinfection-rules-changed
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June 30, 2022 1:43pm
- Cinematic
  
  A bunch of destroyers who through a completely over the top response to a single virus have put NZ in an extremely perilous situation economically and socially. All they can do is double down on the destruction, to do otherwise is to admit they were horribly wrong. Which they were.
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:09pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Apparently we are staying in Orange due to rising cases.
  How do they know how many cases when most cases are by private RAT test and you don’t leave the house. The MOH has conflicting information it says a confirmed case is by RAT or PCR but the detailed info page says it is lab verified PCR. So only sick people in hospital are cases?
  
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  July 1, 2022 7:57am
Maggie Pie

TWITTER TRENDING…

“If we don’t expand ara hurihanga cycleways in Aotearoa, we are breaching our Te Tiriti o Waitangi”

– Julie Anne Genter (Green Party list MP)
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June 30, 2022 1:46pm
- Nickc2
  
  What would she know about the ToW, she’s an American FFS. Ask her about Bicycle lanes on the North American Indian reservations and see what BS she comes up with about that?
  I can’t recall her rubbishing her home-land for Rail-Roads running through Indian Reservations.
  Can we be assured she and Nancy Pelosi aren’t related?
  
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  June 30, 2022 1:52pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Julie Ann Agenda can cycle back to Canateorada anytime she f-ing well likess. The sooner the more pelaseant New Zealand will be.
  
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  June 30, 2022 2:23pm
- Raphael
  
  I wasn’t aware that tre-treaty Maori were big on cycling. You learn something new every day.
  
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  June 30, 2022 2:25pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Mate, they didn’t even have the wheel.
    Imagine what they thought when they saw it.
    
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    June 30, 2022 2:41pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Let’s hotwire it?
      
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      June 30, 2022 2:47pm
- Yabster
  
  she is to the left of the looney left- breach of a now expired treaty hmm seems the new interpretation covers anything you want it to esp if its woke.
  
  The didn’t have the wheel let alone cycyles…
  
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  June 30, 2022 2:38pm
- Flossie
  
  Seriously? Whatever next from that woman!
  
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  June 30, 2022 3:02pm
Raphael

So EY (formerly Earnst & Young) has been fined US$100 million because *check notes* their auditors were cheating on their ethics exams.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sec-fines-ernst-young-100-million-auditors-cheat-on-ethics-exam/
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June 30, 2022 2:22pm
k1w1

Clearly out of the limelight far too long, I see one M. Baker is suggesting mandatory stay-at-home orders for the sniffles now. Go away, Baker. Or better yet, look around you and see the damage for which you are partly responsible.
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June 30, 2022 2:41pm
Steve Todd

It looks like the Electoral (Māori Electoral Option) Legislation Bill is about to be read a first time. “This bill would allow people to transfer between the Māori and general electoral rolls at nearly any time, and as many times as they wish.”

See https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/bills-and-laws/bills-proposed-laws/document/BILL_125252/electoral-m%c4%81ori-electoral-option-legislation-bill.
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June 30, 2022 2:41pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  This means:
  Maori can jump onto the Maori roll just before the Census and then jump back out later, massively increasing the number of Maori seats with far less voters in each seat.
  It also means that when a by-election is announced, Maori on the Maori roll can jump over to the General Roll to vote in the by-election and jump back out after. The only requirement here is that they do so before the Speaker issues the notice of vacancy. For Simon Bridges, they would have had about 6 weeks to switch rolls before the by-election.
  
  Maybe it will be abused by enough people to make a difference, maybe it won’t but the risk is significant.
  
  What a horrible, anti-democratic piece of trash legislation.
  
  Also, and this needs to be pointed out always – Labour did not campaign on this AND the media isn’t allowed to question it because they can lose their funding if they do.
  
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  June 30, 2022 3:15pm
- cmm
  
  So it looks like a Maori can do the following:
  * Join the Maori roll, thus pumping up the number of Maori seats.
  * The day before the election (or whatever), change to the General roll.
  
  Few Maori then vote for all the Maori seats. The value of a Maori vote is practically doubled.
  
  Won’t be gamed…. naah.
  
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  June 30, 2022 3:29pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    Won’t be gamed…. naah.
    
    Not going to happen, cmm. Here’s why.
    
    Following the 2018 census and Māori option (early-August 2018), the calculation of the number of Māori seats was (Māori Electoral Population (MEP) = 473,077 / SI quota = 65,458; quotient = 7.23), therefore seven. (See https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/number-of-electorates-and-electoral-populations-2018-census.) This was based on there being 247,494 Māori on the Māori roll (52.41%) and 224,755 Māori on the General roll (47.59%).
    
    As at 31 May 2022, the Māori enrolment figures were: 273,286 on the Māori roll (51.47%) and 257,634 on the General roll (48.53%). The MEP in 2018 was 1.91 times the number of Māori on the Māori roll (473,077 / 247,494).
    
    That would mean that, as at 31 May 22, the MEP is about 521,976 (273,286 x 1.91).
    
    Let’s say the South Island General Electoral Population has increased by 9.50% since 2018 — it increased by 9.7% between 2013 and 2018 — giving 1,141,580 (up from 1,047,321 in 2018). Divided by 16, that gives a South Island quota of 71,348. The MEP as at 31 May 22, being 521,976, divided by 71,348, gives a quotient of 7.32; therefore still seven seats.
    
    Therefore, to get an eighth seat (right now), the MEP would need to be 570,784 (71,348 x 8). That means there would need to be 298,840 Māori on the Māori roll, up from the current 273,286.
    
    But, at the 2018 Māori option, there were only a total of 18,119 movements between rolls, being 10,163 from the Māori roll to the General roll, and 7,956 from the General roll to the Māori roll, a difference in favour of the General roll of 2,207.*
    
    * With new enrolments, the Māori roll ended up increasing by 1,200 people, but the General roll increased by 4,015 people.
    
    Given that the percentage of Māori on the Māori roll has fallen from 57.61% (222,362 / 385,977) in 2006 (see https://elections.nz/democracy-in-nz/what-is-an-electoral-roll/what-is-the-maori-electoral-option/) to 51.47% a month ago, it is hard to imagine there could be a sudden net rise of some 25,554 people on the Māori roll in (say) the six months leading up to the 2028 census*, in order to obtain an eighth seat (in the knowledge that they could then switch back to the General roll). It simply would not happen.
    
    * The bill will not become law until 31 March 2023 —so there won’t be any incentive for such a sudden increase to occur between now and the 2023 census (on Tuesday 7 March).
    
    Besides, organising the switching of anything like a sufficient number of (disinterested?) voters for such a manipulative purpose would be very costly, in both time and money, not to mention the ensuing public backlash / outrage and the consequent harm to personal reputations.
    
    I’ll leave my comments re. Māori switching to the General roll in the run-up to a General Election, in order to turn a National marginal electorate Labour, for another time.
    
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    June 30, 2022 7:43pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      This is not fair. There should be no maths in Kiwiblog comments.
      
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      June 30, 2022 8:03pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Given that I messed up, I think you might be right.
        
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        June 30, 2022 8:26pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Too much for you Mike? What is wrong with a few stats?
        
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        July 1, 2022 9:00am
    - Steve Todd
      
      I made a mistake. The paragraph starting “Therefore, to get an eighth seat […]” should read—
      
      “Therefore, to get an eighth seat (right now), the MEP would need to be 535,823 (71,348 x 7.51 [not 8]). That means there would need to be 280,536 Māori on the Māori roll (535,823 / 1.91), up from the current 273,286.”
      
      That means, further down, the figure of 25,554 should now be 7,250. The point I was making takes a bit of a hit, but remains valid. Nothing like enough people would be interested in participating in such games.
      
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      June 30, 2022 8:19pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Fuck. It is becoming like the Dems switching to the Republicans – to vote for RINO Liz Cheney, then switching back to the Democrats that they and RINO Cheney are!
  
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  June 30, 2022 4:37pm
Maggie Pie

Just back home…. and another $164 lighter.

You honestly think these half-witz have any f**ing idea what they’re actually doing?

https://twitter.com/nzlabour/status/1541973481541222401
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June 30, 2022 3:02pm
- cmm
  
  With the increase in price the GST increase means the government is taking just as much tax as it was.
  
  So they’re basically making a virtue out of nothing.
  
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  June 30, 2022 4:06pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Lucky you don’t drive a petrol Landcruiser.
  One fill equals $240 or so
  
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  June 30, 2022 4:39pm
  - tf78
    
    My son’s drives a G Wagon and it’s now over $300 – he still loves it. Need to look into the LPG conversions again.
    
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    June 30, 2022 7:59pm
cmm

Fuck this government and the horse they rode to town on.

Has anyone else noticed the incrementalism of “helping” businesses through business.govt.nz?

First they start business.govt.nz, email bombing everyone who is GST registered by raiding the IRD databases.

But, that’s OK right, because it was done in exceptional circumstances (CV19) as a way to help businesses cope.

First off, they send out information on the various subsidies etc. Awww that’s nice of them. Only a dickhead would complain about that.

Then it became a voice piece for pushing Cindy and the Pink Wonder’s bullshit.

Then it because HR-type bullshit about caring and wellbeing for employees. For example, do you have a whistle-blowing policy?

And now more recently it is being used to push carbon guilt – tools to calculate your carbon footprint and 0800 lines for advise on how to help set you up to be nice and green and why the Fair Pay Agreement is awesome (as is the Emissions Trading Scheme) and you should support Cindy’s point of view.

“You are receiving this COVID-19 update from business.govt.nz because you registered with Inland Revenue in the past as a business, contractor or self-employed person.”

Ummm, 100% of that has got fuck all to do with CV19!

So a whole communications apparatus – ostensibly set up for the CV19 emergency – keeps going and has grown even though it no longer has anything to do with CV19!
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June 30, 2022 4:02pm
- Ian Boag
  
  There there. Calm down.
  
  Some browsers have a “delete” button or a “filter messages like this” function. Remember the good old days when spam was all about cheap Viagra and penis enlargement tools …. 🙂
  
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  December 30, 2021 6:02pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I hate being forced to read irrelevant emails too. Sometimes it takes hours to read them all, even though I can guess from the sender or subject line that it is junk.
  
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  June 30, 2022 4:35pm
- nathie
  
  Now that you’ve blown their dastardly/bastardly cover …. they will likely double their comms staff teams to double down their disinformation efforts to us plebs!
  
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  June 30, 2022 5:20pm
- Swifty
  
  cmm, would you please cut and paste the text of the Fair Pay Agreement email?
  
  Many thanks.
  
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  June 30, 2022 5:31pm
- Raphael
  
  there is also the government e-invoicing system they’re wanting tradies to use for all their invoicing needs.
  
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  June 30, 2022 7:40pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-drink/128994142/the-tricks-supermarkets-use-to-get-us-to-spend-more-money–and-how-to-defeat-them#comments

Presumably the author of this article, when she relocates to Sydney, will write similar items about her new Australian supermarkets and food suppliers ?
Yeah, right.,
I like supermarkets: they have a fantastic range of products, they have to contend with zillions of rules and regulations, they employ lots of people doing a meaningful job, they are open for business most of every day, they don’t charge for parking, etc etc.
Unlike some people their owners never pass judgement on others.
Go to Australia Ms Wilkes. You will be back, I guarantee it.
And when you do return, I hope every supermarket in NZ has you on a blacklist.
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- greybeard
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/129114778/why-im-joining-the-postcovid-brain-drain-from-new-zealand
  Here is her previous post to give some relevance.
  
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  June 30, 2022 4:53pm
- tf78
  
  People forget, and I’d never thought about it before, but the price of their power bills must be huge..
  
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  June 30, 2022 8:02pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION…

What happens tomorrow when the new Health Authority takes over from the old Health Authority?

(They’ve even spent a million-dollars+ on the new logo.)
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June 30, 2022 4:50pm
- mawm
  
  The same managers turn up – just with a different title, and new stationary would be my guess. The clinical staff will just keep on doing what they do best but with extra paperwork.
  
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  June 30, 2022 5:04pm
- cmm
  
  Well it will be chaos and nobody will know where to go.
  * All the old colonial signs will be taken down at midnight and it’s going to be a week or two before the stars are right to carve new signs and get them blessed. Nobody will know which waka (lift) to take to go from the waka waka (car park) to the waka tūroro (ambulances).
  * Your appointment for Monday 4 July will be cancelled and you’ll get a new one posted to you for Mane, 19 Hōngongoi.
  
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  June 30, 2022 5:07pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yes….it’ll be absolute BEDLAM!
    Can’t see anything good coming out of it for improved patient-care.
    
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    June 30, 2022 5:17pm
jon

See Chris Hipkins is spreading disinformation by claiming the Proud Boys in the US are a White supremist group, when in fact its make up is multi racial. He is either ignorant of this or its an inconvenient truth that would spoil the govt’s narrative on the Proud Boys. I suspect its the latter.
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June 30, 2022 5:00pm
- mandk
  
  It’s like the PM and her buddies saying that the anti-mandate protest was full of white supremacists, when about 1/3 of the people there were Maori.
  
  They are all mendacious.
  
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  June 30, 2022 6:11pm
fernglas

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/christchurch-mosque-terror-attacks-full-coronial-hearing-to-begin-in-may-2023-coroner-explains-long-lead-up/
What a complete waste of time and money. Cause of death? Gunshot wounds inflicted by Tarrant, who has been convicted and sentenced. End of story.
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