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Tony Stuart

Kelvin Davis is playing the race card with regard to the allegations against Matthew Tukaki:

Davis has also raised whether racism is behind the criticism of Tukaki: “He’s being condemned for being highly successful, and some people don’t like that. Some people don’t like the uppity Māori but I can’t fault his work.”

Davis’ response insinuating racism is typical of this government. Among those who are critical of Matthew Tukaki are the leadership of the Māori Council, who are in dispute with Tukaki over a contract worth almost a million dollars which was transferred to the NZ Māori Authority, in circumstances that are currently being investigated. Is Kelvin Davis suggesting that the Māori Council is racist?

But the bottom line is this; dishonesty is dishonesty, whether you’re Māori, Pakeha, Pasifika, Asian or any nationality. There are many questions around Tukaki’s appointment to key government roles, and the lack of scrutiny of his past, but the suggestion of racism is not one of them. This allegation does Kevin Davis no credit whatsoever.
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July 6, 2022 8:03am
- graham
  
  I seem to remember Poto Williams pulling a similar stunt when she was Police Minister – “Oh, everybody’s criticising me because I’m a woman”.
  
  I think it was Kate Hawkesby who pointed out that people were also criticising Andrew Coster at the same time, which shot that argument down …
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:16am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    I don’t understand. Cuddles Coster is not a woman?
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:53am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      But maybe he is day snd it’s bigotry
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:46am
- Philview
  
  Only TVNZ and Newstalk have reported this story which is interesting. Mr Tukaki may well be above the law in the new regime so can do what he likes.
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:21am
  - hullkiwi
    
    …and it was a Maori on TVNZ who was breaking the story. So, what is Kelvin suggesting, that it is an inter-Maori issue? Or that because Tukaki is a mate of the Maori caucus, issues of honesty and integrity are irrelevant? Now where I am I hearing that right now? …….step forward Boris Johnson!
    
    Regarding Kelvin. Tukaki has meant he has had step back in front of the camera, but an interesting question about Kelvin is how he is rated in the scheme of things….
    
    Kelvin is Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, so you’d think he’d be Deputy PM, but no, that is Robertson.
    
    Jax is out of the country, Robertson is off with Covid, so who is Acting PM in the absence of Robertson & Jax, is it Kelvin? Ehhhh, no, it is Minister Fixit, Megan Woods.
    
    So, the question is where does Kelvin fit into the scheme of things?
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:12am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      A good analogy, but a couple of points:
      
      1. Megan Woods has never fixed anything. At best, and it’s stretching it a little, she has stopped things becoming much worse, but she certainly hasn’t improved any outcomes. Well, other than taking some heat off Cindy temporarily.
      
      2. I see that two of Boris’s senior Ministers (Treasurer and Health Secretary) have resigned, stating they could “no longer continue in good conscience” and “the public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously.” Those are statements any ethical Minister in this government could legitimately make about this cluster-whatsit, but I’m not holding my breath for it to happen. I also just realised I said “ethical” so you know, sound of crickets.
      
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      July 6, 2022 9:59am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Loddent,
        I agree with you about Woods.
        
        You are correct about Johnson and his cabinet. Since the by election loses he has lost 2 Cabinet Secretaries and his Party Chairman (also someone who sits at the cabinet in the UK), plus a number of junior ministers and other MPs with jobs.
        
        Johnson has had a reputation for lacking integrity and honesty, since school (one of his Masters at Eton said of him, “he never believed that the rules of conduct ever applied to him”. Then before Boris was Mayor of London, he was a MP in David Cameron’s Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Culture Secretary. Cameron sacked Johnson then over an indiscretion.
        
        He is the old cliches about leopards never changing their spots, or the one about turning over a new leaf.
        
        As Ed Vazey (a tory peer) was saying this morning and David Davis (a tory MP from E Yorks) have said Johnson needs to go now. Davis paraphrased Cromell.
        
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        July 6, 2022 10:39am
    - Hebe123
      
      Diversity
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:32am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      As Sleepy Joe Biden said, if you aren’t supporting me, you ain’t brown
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:47am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Perhaps Kelvin Davis is suggesting that Yvonne Tahana is a racist for outing Tukaki. My goodness; racism is EVERYWHERE!!
      
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      July 6, 2022 12:27pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Tribalism still exists among Maori I’m told.
        
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        July 6, 2022 12:29pm
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        Just a useless Maori – surely…
        
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        July 6, 2022 1:12pm
  - alloytoo
    
    The Platform has also being pursuing this story.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:21am
  - Frank the tank
    
    TVNZ – Grunter is good mates with Simon Power.
    Newstalk – The Hosk and HDPA are their main breadwinners so they wouldn’t dare.
    
    The rest of the feckless have been warned by Willy who has the power to withdraw their funding.
    
    Make no mistake this is a red-on-red war. And it is no coincidence this occurred while Our Glorious Leader was out of the country.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:33am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Chubby fingers, he wants this to shaft an asshole, possibly Willie, maybe Davis
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:49am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Tukaki is a blowhard, which is why people don’t like him.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:34am
  - tf78
    
    Name one who isn’t.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:37am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Just look at his vulgar nasty hateful smear when appearing alongside Tania Tapsell, absolutely filthy she is a Nat, she tied him up in knots, and ge smeared her at the end by saying Tapsell will probably be Nats candidate in Tauranga, yet she wasn’t even running. Just a vulgar smug arrogant leftie hater.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:51am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Every time they deliberately play the racism card when they know it isn’t racism they harm the fight against real racism and real racists.
  
  Their actions show them to be the opposite of what they claim to be. Again.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:45am
- Nookin
  
  Tony’ the issue over the contract arose after Tukaki was voted off the Maori Council and lost his executive role. The loss of confidence already existed.
  There was also an issue over pay when he was at Oranga Tamariki when he had to repay some $60,000.
  He does not seem to remain in any one position for very long — including being the Sec-Gen’s man on the UN Council or whatever it was and Drake’s guiding force against the ravages of Covid.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:45am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Dead right Nookin; Tukaki seems to flit from high-paying gig to high-paying gig in the blink of an eye. But the Aaron Smale piece on the spat between the Māori Council and Māori Authority is well worth a read, to get an understanding of the tensions within Māoridom.
    
    https://www.newsroom.co.nz/authority-of-government-contract-questioned
    
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    July 6, 2022 12:33pm
  - I remember when
    
    Nookin:
    Tukaki may not be a Drake any more but he certainly seems to do a lot of ducking.
    Even his lunchtime harassment story at the Mandate Protest failed the litmus test.
    
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    July 6, 2022 1:54pm
- oldfella
  
  Tony, I certainly hope Kelvin is not suggesting the Maori council is full of uppity Maoris for not liking their cuzzie-bro Mr Tukaki. //
  
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  July 6, 2022 12:14pm
Scott

Fortunately the Prime Minister has broken with newshub’s demand for more covid restrictions and ruled out any move back to the red setting. We can agree with this especially since the red and orange and green traffic light systems have at their heart the vaccine mandate. You get more freedom if you are “fully vaccinated” and not much freedom at all if you are not. The vaccine mandate has now gone. And a return to the red traffic light system would seem totally out of step with the Prime Minister’s comments to Boris Johnson that New Zealand is open for business and open for tourism.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/07/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-says-no-expectation-nz-will-move-to-red-questions-whether-gathering-limits-would-make-marked-difference-anyway.html

One wonders what newshub’s game is? Is an alarmist headline trying to get more clicks? Or are they preparing the ground for more lockdowns?

However the Prime Minister then tells us that the best thing we can do right now is mask use and vaccines. And she advertises the booster of the booster for older people. But is this really true? Has the vaccine made any difference particularly since she contracted covid after being boosted. Dr Fauci has had four shots and he got covid. The vaccine doesn’t stop you passing it on. Apparently all they claim now for the vaccine is that your symptoms will become less.

And do the masks actually work? Seeing we have had over a million cases of covid one would say probably not. We know that in England estimates are that 70% of the population has had covid.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/22/seven-in-10-people-in-england-have-had-covid-research-shows-omicron

So we can’t stop this. Eventually we are all going to get it. But for most people it is a mild illness similar to the flu. That’s certainly been my experience.

I actually think the best thing that New Zealanders can do is not get boosted, don’t wear a mask unless you absolutely have to and for the love of God stop reporting in cases. Stop reporting cases. Then our media will have to shut the heck up. Then we can move on.

Ignore the media, ignore the Prime Minister, don’t get boosted, it’s probably bad for you. Don’t wear masks because they don’t help and they are probably bad for your health. And don’t report anything. If you value your freedom don’t report covid cases. It just encourages them to lock us down.
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July 6, 2022 8:04am
- Paulus
  
  It will be a modified Orange (Red in disguise).
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:17am
  - nathie
    
    Orange-Plus (or Red-Orange)!
    
    So many choices for the PM to pick … but may need to take advice from the ~~experts~~ kiddies colouring in books? 😉
    
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    July 6, 2022 8:53am
- glowworm
  
  Unfortunately, I fear the worst for highly vaccinated countries like NZ…
  
  https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/scientific-blog/the-immuno-epidemiological-consequences-of-the-mass-vaccination-experiment-summary
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:18am
- JerJer
  
  Best way to deal with covid is go back to normal. Be exposed to it as much as you can, and don’t wear masks. Regular exposure will build immunity naturally over time. Always has and probably always will with coronavirus. We didn’t exit from the Spanish flu (also coronavirus) pandemic by hiding and using vaccines that have little effect. Yes we did wear masks I have heard, but probably they did have any good ones in those days, and so let’s just assume they had no effect at all. So we got out of that pandemic based on natural immunity built up over time. Same will happen (and is happening) now.
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:19am
  - glowworm
    
    I’m not so sure. At the moment this should be the case for the few unvaccinated among us who are able to train their innate immune systems without the vaccinal antibodies interfering.
    
    But what about the majority vaccinated?
    
    I think we have now trained our immune systems to produce Wuhan based spike antibodies upon exposure to any COVID variant.
    
    In the case of Omicron, it appears that these vaccinal antibodies now enhance infection but reduce severity… meaning we are more!, not less, likely to get infected with a dribbly nose… This has certainly been my anecdotal experience so far in my friend/family group.
    
    But, if we start seeing more repeat COVID/flu/disease in vaccinees then this is a sign that we have damaged our natural immune defense, not just individually, but at a population level, meaning this affects all of us, independent of vaccine status.
    
    If this is indeed the case, then unfortunately vaccinees might need to be more, not less, careful… at least for the time being.
    
    If a C-19 super variant comes along, as Geert Vanden Bossche is predicting (link above) then God help us.
    
    Don’t forget the reason we are now in this position. The MSM, the “experts”, and the current government have directly caused this nightmare.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:23am
    - JerJer
      
      Lucky I didn’t let my kids get done, and they have both had it and they are fine. No worries. If there is a super variant, then I guess that people who have had more boosters or whatever are screwed. So much for kindness. It’s the vulnerable (or people that think they are) that went for the boosters.
      
      I am guessing natural selection will be the order of the day, and that’s fine, it is what it is.
      
      No point listening to a hand-waving loon telling us to wear masks on the way out.
      
      If what you are saying is correct, we are screwed either way and so should just get back to normal. We attempted to vaccinate ourselves against a mild cold this time and screwed it up fantastically.
      
      Just imagine if the situation was serious.
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Going back to normal means Jaspinda admitting that she got it wrong, she fucked up.
    Socialists never apoligise, they blame others and throw them under the bus. Look out Blofeld, even though you are leaving the Titanic.
    “Regular exposure will build immunity naturally over time.” How about emailing that to Baker, Plank, the pink terror and the rest of the liars, Jerjer?
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:44am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      “the pink terror” only inspires terror if it looks like it will sit on you. Other than that she’s a fake-haired, fake-credentialled (i.e. no more an epidemiologist than I am) hypocritical attention-seeking wannabe. Best to ignore.
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:05am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Microbiologist I think. Marine one, studies bioluminescence. Shit that makes light, like glow worms. Could be wrong, but Covid is way off base for her, as much as ancient english poems are for me (cut the steel and weld it engineer)
        I did not dye my hair to distract employers – most of the time hair was full of grinding dust.
        
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        July 6, 2022 2:08pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Jer: The 1918 cloth masks – no paper ones back then – would be no more or less useless than what most of us a wearing today. In other words virtually completely useless.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:40am
    - JerJer
      
      Yes, my point exactly. People keep harping on about the fact that “they wore masks back then, so that must have solved the problem”. You are exactly right, the masks then would have been completely useless.
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:54am
- Morry45
  
  I was thinking about this too…I think though that it is a push to make JA seem sensible again. It’s classic good cop vs bad cop…bad cop being media and the ‘experts’ and JA galloping in to ‘save us’ from the over zealous ones.
  I can’t stand her. But it’s clever marketing.
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:30am
  - pdm
    
    Morry – big job to make Ardern look sensible.
    
    It has never ever happened before – why should it now.
    
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    July 6, 2022 8:55am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    JA and sensible should never be in the same sentence, or even paragraph.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:46am
    - Local Miller
      
      It would be sensible if JA were to resign!
      Sorry, someone had to do it.
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:03am
  - greybeard
    
    If that is her long game then why the hell was she overseas saying that “we are open for business and tourists” ?
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:06am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Get boosted if you want, but if you do, make sure you understand it will not prevent you catching covid and any potential initial “protection” wanes very rapidly.
  Pay attention to the increasing amount of data emerging showing alarming numbers of adverse reactions including deaths, and the latest statistics showing large rises in all cause mortality around the world that are definitely not due to covid directly.
  Initial investigation is showing much of it is due to the effects of the ridiculous responses to covid by governments. These have put extreme pressure on all parts of society, particularly the health system. Lack of access to early diagnosis and treatment is causing people to die. Mandating health workers out of their jobs just one of the moronic things this government has done.
  Then there are the deaths directly caused by the vaccine. These are real, the numbers are disputed, but they are far higher than authorities will admit.
  It will be a long time before someone does a full study on the impacts of these various measures.
  
  Then there is the latest information which krazykiwi posted 2 days ago showing the apparent impact on fertility. I won’t repeat it all here. “Correlation is not causation” etc etc, but when startling numbers such as these start screaming out, it’s time to pause and consider what might be going on and asking what has been done differently recently that might be contributing to these worrying numbers? It isn’t rocket science. It’s isn’t “the science” as Ardern and Baker et al keep talking about. It’s SCIENCE. Science just is, it isn’t locked in a bottle, it is the ongoing investigation into matters. It isn’t static.
  
  Get boosted if you want, but know they don’t work and there are serious risks.
  
  “Vaccine protection: Covid vaccines provide a very high, but rapidly declining protection against severe disease. Vaccination cannot prevent infection and transmission. A prior infection generally confers superior immunity compared to vaccination (in part due to mucosal immunity).
  Vaccine injuries: Covid vaccinations can cause severe and fatal vaccine reactions, including cardiovascular, neurological and immunological reactions. Because of this, the risk-benefit ratio of covid vaccination in healthy children and adults under 50 years of age remains controversial.”
  
  https://swprs.org/covid19-facts/
  
  Wear a mask if you want, but know it does nothing to prevent you from catching or spreading covid.
  
  https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/
  
  Your advice is spot on. Ignore the media completely, don’t even listen or watch.
  
  Ignore the government “experts” and the politicians. They have been wrong every step of the way.
  
  Don’t test for anything. If you’re sick stay home and if really sick, go to the doctor. Other than this, carry on as normal, ignore the bullshit and the sooner enough of us do this, normal service will return.
  
  “You cannot comply your way out of tyranny.”
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:35am
  - Ross Campbell
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Who needs real medical professionals when we have a plethora of armchair doctors on here who can give you all the information with the click of a mouse.
    Don’t know why we bother wasting money on medical schools and rubbish like that when all the answers are obvious to the “properly informed”.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:02am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yes Mike
      
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      July 6, 2022 9:49am
      - mawm
        
        Why respond to this dickhead who contributes nothing. He will never dispute the argument but always tries to denigrate the messenger.
        
        Clan’s summary is spot on. All I can add to it is that drugs for early treatment need to be made available over the counter. They are safe and effective – certainly more so than Paxlovid and Remdesivir.
        
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        July 6, 2022 10:27am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        mawm. Ross is Mike. Mike has many fake names on here. It’s just so more commenters know.
        
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        July 6, 2022 11:27am
    - Frank the tank
      
      What like Siouxie?
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:02am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Siouxsie and the Banshees.
        I guess it is a hair thing – google machine is your friend
        
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        July 6, 2022 2:13pm
    - surfing
      
      There are 5 or 6 kiwiblog commenters who are quite batty regarding covid issues.
      
      They are rather productive though, I don’t think they have much else to do .
      
      It would be nice if there were a separate and continuous covid thread so they could stop cluttering up the general debates with their rubbish.
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:16am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yahoo serious?
        
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        July 6, 2022 2:14pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        “quite batty” – cheers for the technical rebuttal. I’ll get my thesaurus out and try and understand what you’re actually trying to say.
        
        Also, if you think parts of the covid commentary are “batty” or “rubbish”, how about pointing out which parts and why? Then we can have a grown up discussion about it. Or do you still believe in the “single source of truth” from Brenda?
        
        Every time you respond with a petty slur to any post about covid instead of specifying what was wrong and why, you reveal yourself as the intellectual bankrupt you obviously are. Either that or you’re nothing but a a troll.
        
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        July 7, 2022 4:24am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Joking aside, Ross, AI is going to make a lot of experts redundant, including GPs
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:52am
    - Yabster
      
      yes Mike- who needs 3 login to one website? – you produce enough trolling just with the one login -Trolls gotta Troll…
      
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      July 6, 2022 1:18pm
    - gravedodger
      
      One reason to seriously doubt a registered Medic opinion currently is the way they have been cowed by MoH threats to their continuing employment.
      I am very adjacent to several unexplained medical phenomena where clear connections are possibly related to recent injection of mRNA, as in within days, and several Drs refusing to even consider a possible linkage. The atmosphere of denial is palpably guilt ridden. Eventually truth will out and although too far removed by time, will be interesting nonetheless, to some.
      In a similar vein a mate recently positive to the rona by way of a RAT test whatever reliability one might give that. Symptoms of breathing difficulty, headache, fever, all within the gambit of admitted symptoms, however serious nerve pain in both legs causing severe sleep deprivation, vehemently denied as anything related to Sars Covid 19, a wall of silence beyond that rejection.
      Not very long ago a Patient suggesting such relevant connectivity to any series of medical mystery could have received a “Hmmm could be something there” now not so, merely immediate outright rejection as even remotely possible?
      Something could be rotten in The State Of Denmark, methinks.
      
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      July 6, 2022 2:43pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “Get boosted if you want, but if you do, make sure you understand it will not prevent you catching covid and any potential initial “protection” wanes very rapidly.”
    So therefore the vaccines and boosters are not vaccines and boosters.
    May as well take two jellybeans.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:48am
    - Hebe123
      
      Tastier too.
      
      I’ve finally managed to catch the ‘VID. Given Chippie promised that this tricky little virus would hunt down the filthy unvaxxed, it’s taken longer than I expected.
      
      And what a non event. A light cough a few times a day and if I was searching for symptoms I did wonder if I was getting hay fever a couple days back – but it never went anywhere, hay fever is so much worse! Maybe there is more to come???
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:40am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Let us know when Jaspinda allows Covid ANTIBODY testing into NZ and R. T. Rower.
        So far we have not had them to check for natural antibodies.
        Why is that?
        
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        July 6, 2022 2:18pm
    - O C Smith
      
      Black or Blue for me
      
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      July 6, 2022 9:27pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      They never were vaccines. They are prophylactics, and not very good ones either. They don’t protect you from disease. They might for a very short period of time, but the risk/benefit in those under 50 is shockingly negative.
      
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      July 7, 2022 4:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Wearing a mask this late in the game just signals if you are a Jaspinda sycophant or not
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:51am
    - David Garrett
      
      Steve: I think you may be right… and if so, there are an awful lot of Jacinda sycophants about.
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:43am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Glenfield mall is now about 50/50
        
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        July 6, 2022 11:28am
  - oldfella
    
    Has the jab-worm finally turned?
    Some healthcare workers won’t require Covid-19 vaccination
    Some healthcare workers will not be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 from midnight on Thursday as the Government loosens its vaccination order for health workers.
    https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/07/06/some-healthcare-workers-wont-require-covid-19-vaccination/
    
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    July 6, 2022 12:05pm
- Prince
  
  As the number of deaths grow it is becoming more apparent that 2020/21 lockdowns were basically pointless. Eventually a highly infectious disease will get through, and the only logical purpose of the lockdown delays would be to strengthen the Health system. We now know this was not done, and the extra spending was frittered away on consultants and establishing an apartheid system.
  What a wasted opoortunity.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:10am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Prince, the lockdowns and the mandates were nothing more than Socialists flexing the sheep control muscles.
    The Socialists have even compromised our Health system with the outrageous mandates.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:59am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Well they did at least provide a great natural control for the global vaccination programs, illustrating that in otherwise covid and flu free conditions during 2020 and 2021 about 300 per million extra people died during the 2021 vaccination programs in Australia and 400 per million in NZ compared to 2020 (see graph below).
    https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Excess+mortality+%28count%29&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=NZL~AUS
    
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    July 6, 2022 1:29pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    The number of deaths growing aren’t because of covid. They are due to the reactions by Ardern and co and the impact of the “vaccines”.
    There is increasing excess mortality around the globe that is unrelated to covid directly. It remains to be seen how much is physically from the adverse effects of the jabs themselves, and how much from the negative impact of lockdowns like inability to access medical services, depression, alcohol abuse, family violence etc etc etc.
    
    Keep an eye on excess mortality numbers in NZ over the next year. They will tell a story I believe.
    
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    July 7, 2022 4:33am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Agreed. In the UK excess deaths minus deaths “with or from Covid” are strongly positive. Further, the location of death being recorded as “Home” has been in excess for many months. People of unusually young age are dropping dead in their homes at record levels and the authorities are “perplexed”, while the media is “wondering if it’s hot weather, or cosmic rays”. Seriously. As a state managed construct, ‘health’ is fundamentally broken. People like surfing, aunty, ross/mike et al simply can’t believe a system can rot from within. My advice: wake up!
      
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      July 7, 2022 3:06pm
- vant
  
  I already posted in GD on Tue 5 July but I want to repeat here that unless you don’t value your life, don’t get any more boosters.
  
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  Booster rollout might have been responsible for causing 400 excess deaths between December 2021 and March 2022 in NZ.
  https://www.nzcpr.com/covid-19-boosters-and-rising-excess-mortality-in-new-zealand/
  
  Abstract: The rollout of booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the general population is controversial. The ratio of vaccine risk to benefits likely has swung more towards risk than during the original randomized trials, due to dose-dependent adverse events and to fixation of immune responses on a variant no longer circulating, yet the evidence underpinning mass use of boosters is weaker than was the evidence for the original vaccine rollout. In light of an unsatisfactory risk-evidence situation, aggregate weekly data on excess mortality in New Zealand are used here to study the impacts of rolling out booster doses. Instrumental variables estimates using a plausible source of exogenous variation in the rate of booster dose rollout indicate 16 excess deaths per 100,000 booster doses, totaling over 400 excess deaths from New Zealand’s booster rollout to date. The value of statistical life of these excess deaths is over $1.6 billion. The age groups most likely to use boosters had 7-10 percentage point rises in excess mortality rates as boosters were rolled out while the age group that is mostly too young for boosters saw no rise in excess mortality.
  
  Source: John Gibson, 2022. “The Rollout of COVID-19 Booster Vaccines is Associated With Rising Excess Mortality in New Zealand,” Working Papers in Economics 22/11, University of Waikato.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:29am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    A nice simple graph. Vant, the pro vax and the Labour Party will not comprehend that by design. They are pre programed and can not be changed or even challenged.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:04am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “You get more freedom if you are “fully vaccinated” and not much freedom at all if you are not.”
  But nobody will be punished, right?
  The day Jaspinda apologises for that HUGE lie, will the the day I stop calling her Jaspinda the spinner. Ain’t gonna happen is it? All she does is spin fucking bullshit.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:37am
  - mawm
    
    You are too kind. My adjectives for her are unprintable.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:34am
- Ra Henare
  
  Interestingly. It seems that the BOP, as of last week, had 80% of new admission with flu only 20% covid.
  
  Unfortunately my source(BOPH Board member) is now jobless and I have no access to the good oil.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:03am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Actually she kicked it down the road and said no lockdown at this point, that can change.
  They have a problem to f now, because Verral has stated red setting at 10000 a day, so people have been kicked again by this rotten regime
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:53am
Warren

Innocent Victims get nothing for the trauma and the cost of their health problem caused by criminal, because we have a Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Labour Government that are to concerned in trying to con the Public to stay in power.
This while their soft on Crime and romance with the gangs gets the urgent treatment that comes with this Government’s Wellbeing and be Kind Policy.
Here is a example in our Newspapers this morning. An “unrepentant life long member of the Mongrel Mob ” who punched his pregnant partner unconscious has been handed a get out of jail card- but it comes with a condition from the Judge .
James Mehe Te Ruruku Elkington, who has 16 children and now 13 family harm incidents next to his name since September must sign up to rehabilitation aimed at getting his life back on track.
Please can someone tell me that a 49 year old member of the Mongrel Mob and obviously a very bad abuser of family is about to change his ways before he seriously injures someone, what planet is this Judge living on and who will pay the consequences if he ends up killing someone.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mongrel-mob-member-offered-get-out-of-jail-card/TICUNYD4ZDDVDNVB4M3XCQK6TM/
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July 6, 2022 8:04am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Sixteen children and 1 on the way! The man’s a phuqing machine!!
  
  My partner just went out the front door singing
  
  “Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho….”
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:17am
  - Frank the tank
    
    17 votes for Labour
    
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    July 6, 2022 8:35am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    “13 family harm incidents since September 2020” until February 2022 – less than 18 months.
    
    Yep, he seems like he’s on the verge of turning his life around, I mean he’s an “unrepentant life-long member” of the Mongrel Mob and all, but just now – after 49 years on this earth – he’s gained “a level of insight into how being an active member meant he was likely to reoffend.”
    
    Going to quit the gang now, James Meha Te Ruruku Elkington? Yeah, nah.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:28am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Pie – If your partner pays a little bit more tax, more of these social problems can be addressed. I hope your partner listens to Hey Clint Smith.
    
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    July 6, 2022 12:09pm
    - Tony Stuart
      
      The only time anyone should listen to “Hey Clint” Smith is when they want a laugh…
      
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      July 6, 2022 12:25pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  And these drop kicks, male and female, are allowed to reproduce willy nilly.
  
  Cannot get them to have the male and female tubes tied as it is against their rights. So they produce more unwanted kids and the support services will have to pick up the pieces,
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:21am
  - Matt Long
    
    I would have thought reduced sentences or a $500 KFC voucher would be a worthwhile incentive for getting fixed for welfare families.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:16am
- Inandout
  
  Warren, that $2.75 million gift to the MM seems to have seeped well beyond the gang.
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:45am
- Opie
  
  They are us.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:08am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  He is beyond redemption Warren. 13 family harm incidents will just be the start. There will be other laws broken, I am thinking DIC.
  He needs to be in jail for a long time. Rehab is impossible for these mongrels. That is why he is a mongrel mob member – he is a mongrel.
  If he is such a good boy, maybe the dudge can go to rehab with him. Maybe the dudge can go to the pub and get pissed with him. Maybe the dudge can get snackered on meth with him.
  Rant over. Fuck these losers.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:17am
  - gravedodger
    
    Exactly Steve, those 13 ” Family Harm Incidents” are only the recorded ones, don’t ask me to believe there were no others.
    How often do hardened Crims appear with fewer recent convictions, they have figured out how to avoid detection, the rate of offending unlikely to occur.
    
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    July 6, 2022 2:51pm
- Warren
  
  On another subject I sent a complaint to the Electoral Commission over Labour breaking rules in the Tauranga By Election and they sent me a reply today saying they have sent the complaint to the Police to sort it out.
  https://elections.nz/media-and-news/2022/by-election-referrals-to-police/
  
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  July 6, 2022 12:24pm
Frank the tank

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/swalwell-compares-boebert-mass-shooter-highland-park-massacre

After pencilneck Swalwell would have to be the biggest dic*head in the house. Would be delicious if the scroat was an pro-abortion nutcase.

And what red-blooded male doesn’t like a hottie with a gun.
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July 6, 2022 8:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Pencilneck = Schiff, unless there are two with that title.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:21am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Swalwell is one of the anti gun wanks. Lauren Boebert wants to have her gun on board in the House. She has a concealed carry permit.
  Boebert has had an incident so she wants to feel safe. Dems don’t want that. Boebert came across a knife fight I think, but she was unable to stop the killing because she had left her gun in her car.
  But yes, Swalwell is a dickhead.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:28am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Girl’s got game! This is her response to that wanker Salwell trying to “draw a straight line” between a picture of Boebert holding a gun and a picture of the mentally-ill lefty (a tautology I know):
  
  Boebert told Fox News Digital she gets “that Eric Swalwell isn’t a fan of our Constitutional rights and is desperate to distract from his repeated political failures, but the only straight line that needs to be drawn is from Eric Swalwell to Fang Fang to the Chinese Communist Party.”
  
  “I will make sure that line gets drawn when we take back the House,” Boebert continued. “Law-abiding gun owners won’t be smeared and disarmed every time a California failed presidential candidate rolls out of bed with a Chinese spy and tries to blame us for the conduct of others.”
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:57am
Simon

Currently this is the build back better phase. The high inflation, the overwhelmed social services, the record cost of petrol- which impacts throughout the economy, increasing child poverty, declining asset values, increasing interest rates heading into a recession.

Build back better bought to you by Zero Covid.
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July 6, 2022 8:09am
Simon

Spent about a week reading RNZ. Its basically dog shit.
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July 6, 2022 8:10am
- RoboRob
  
  Try the Stuff political cartoons. Propoganda bought to you by $55m, not that stuff weren’t already left wing like most media outlets.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:00am
- MCōs
  
  You read what for how long?
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:00am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    RNZ for a week is what he read.
    All he had to do was ask. Anyone not left leaning could have told him RNZ are commies.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:31am
    - MCōs
      
      Why would anyone read proclaim they read a one of our local media outlets for a week?
      It’s just a news organization like all the rest of them.
      What was he looking for – some subversive propaganda?
      There’s people on this forum who think they’re the only ones not being led around by the nose.
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:58am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        So sad that even mild satire is not recognised by the left. Sense of humour can not be install ed, not matter how hard it is tried.
        I feel for you Mac, I really do
        
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        July 6, 2022 2:37pm
Ehlana

Today is Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day, a time to appreciate those who bring you your favourite websites.

In honour of which, a great big thank you to our host and all those who bring us Kiwiblog each day. Cheers!
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July 6, 2022 8:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You have not seen the latest Invoice from your own webmaster, have you?
  They should be paying for your lunch day – and thanking you!!
  Kiwiblog is different – but you do know why, right?
  
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  July 6, 2022 2:40pm
Frank the tank

I’m not sold on “Our Glorious Leader’s” denial that red is on the cards. Of course there were the obligatory weasel words ‘ at this time’.

We are fast approaching a time where it either the TOTAL collapse of our hospitals OR another lockdown.

Either way love you actions have effectively snookered you.

P.S. Verrall is a very, very nasty little woman
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July 6, 2022 8:11am
- RoboRob
  
  In Christchurch it looks like its on the cards. The thing is I’m not sure how much its actually going to help.
  
  My kids school is closed again due to staff shortages (they have been running short weeks or no school all term). Burnside High is the biggest school in CHCH and for some reason staff seem to be particularly succeptable to all bugs. School has had compulsory masking all term too.
  
  The hospital is overloaded. What will going to red do for them? People will still be sick.
  
  Perhaps if we allowed people to work when they had a cold (like every other year before Covid) staffing might not be so hard? Rocket science?
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:05am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Compulsory masking – there is the problem.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:35am
- Matt Long
  
  Lockdown OR total collapse? How about AND?
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:18am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Frank, she tells lies full stop.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:33am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Asha (not so little ) Verral
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:59am
Simon

Got covid really bad the other day. It was terrible. It was almost as bad as the time I drunk two bottles of Peroni. Was just so tried by 11 pm. Couldn’t stop yawning. Must have been covid. Right? Went to sleep and by 7 am the next day I had recovered. I wish I had the vaccine then would not have gone through this.
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July 6, 2022 8:12am
- RoboRob
  
  If two bottles of Peroni is enough to get you drunk you might want to see a doctor 🙂
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:06am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    They come in 620ml bottles too!
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:44am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It’s the sleep that affects you. You were feeling just fine before sleep, right?
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:37am
Frank the tank

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/chloe-swarbrick-alcohol-abuse-in-new-zealand-is-a-failure-of-drug-regulation/SN5HWHNNFOREDZHA2DDNQFFIOM/

“Gunna” at it again. We should start making a list of all the things “Gunna” is gunna fix when she gets the chance. At this rate she’ll be flat out holding Auckland Central.
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July 6, 2022 8:19am
- alloytoo
  
  Isn’t this a contradiction of her drug policy?
  
  Alcohol is already legal.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:25am
  - Frank the tank
    
    “Gunna” doesn’t care she is looking to save the world one pointless claim at a time.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:05am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Can a piss Chloe is confused again
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:39am
Maggie Pie

I see they just unveiled the new name for ‘The Mental Health & Wellbeing Commission’

From today, it will be known as …..

“Te Hiringa Mahara – Te hinengaro tumata torunga pai o te whakaaro nui”

(Igniting minds through positive energy and thoughtfulness)

You couldn’t make this shit up 😀
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July 6, 2022 8:25am
- Tricati
  
  I got depressed just reading the bloody name.
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:29am
  - graham
    
    I’m beginning to wonder why we bother naming these Departments, Commissions, and Offices at all. Why not just give them a number?
    
    “Welcome to Commission number 37, how may I help you?”
    
    Seriously. Because it means just as much to the average man or woman in the street as the above jumble of syllables, or for that matter:
    
    Oranga Tamariki
    Te Putea Matua
    Te Tahuhu o te Matauranga
    Te Kawanatanga o Aotearoa
    Te Papa Atawhai
    Ara Poutama Aotearoa
    
    What’s the point? How many people would know what on earth “Ara Poutama Aotearoa” means? (Department of Corrections, in case you were wondering).
    
    Give them all a number and be done with it. Makes just as much sense as the current nonsense.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:06am
    - alloytoo
      
      It would certainly be easier to remember with the added benefit that numbers are universal.
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:12am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      Graham just imagine the bill from the printers when every scrap of stationery has to be dumped and replaced with the new improved brand . Every sign and every reference to the former colonial title ,you know the ones that clearly communicated the department’s business to the entire population, have to be replaced. Might be worth finding out just how much this charade have actually spent on themselves and their ideological fantasies.
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:51am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Don’t forget Waka Kotahi or Te Pukenga, or I’ll have to report you to the Pirimihana!
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:51am
- Frank the tank
  
  Katie had some numpty from Stats NZ saying everything was fine and we were all happy quoting stats from April-August 2021!!!
  
  And we pay the six figure salaries of these numpties!!!!
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:33am
  - Inandout
    
    Frank, hell I remember Ginga Hughes ran that Stats Dept, and I think Nathan Guy.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:25am
- Blog-aholic
  
  And yet they did anyway.
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:44am
- Trev
  
  Interesting word “hinengaro” which has a number of meanings. In this context the seat of the mind thus perhaps where positive energy and thoughtfulness comes from. e.g. brains, but a literal translation is “what girls are missing”. The language police only seem concerned with sexism of English words. Why not use English that most people understand rather than some recently scrambled construct in Maori that is meaningless to most including most Maori.
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:45am
  - alloytoo
    
    Because it elevates the woke status of these numpties to have a woke name. They don’t care if citizens can’t access services due to language barriers, ultimately it’s more time for them to spend watching other woke nutters on TikTok.
    
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    July 6, 2022 1:15pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You are racist/
    
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    July 6, 2022 3:07pm
- Ehlana
  
  Tomorrow is the first quarter moon Maggie. I don’t know what that means for our mental health under the new Maori mental health system. I’m just hoping we find out before the 14th whether we should still howl at the full moon.
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:50am
  - Nickc2
    
    Howling at the Moon is soooooo yesterday. Giving koha is the in thing according to modern Maori mythology.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:14am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Is it still aloha when the likes of the Mahuta couzzies help them self ?
      
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      July 6, 2022 11:11am
      - Nickc2
        
        Close, in Te Reo, it’s called ‘kohi nama’ (Debt Collecting) eh?
        
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        July 6, 2022 12:35pm
  - cas
    
    Our cat likes prowling around outside on a full moon. (He’s past catching anything). I’d like a grant to study why.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Cat will be thinking ‘what is that big yellowy dot in the sky? usually it is warm’
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:45am
- RoboRob
  
  Heard on the Radio that ChCH hospital is about to fall over and that Covid is spiking again in CHCH. Apparently ‘Te Poari Hauora ō Waitaha’ has a plan, they might go back into emergency settings.
  
  1) WTF is Te Poari Hauora ō Waitaha? Oh its the CDHBs new name. I see they have already updated the web site. Stop fucking renaming everything to meaningless Maori names and fix the problems with them.
  
  2) I believe emergency settins will fix the issue by cancelling those unnessaray operations. You know that ones that people wait months and years for and that the hospital does for the hell of it, not becuase they are actually needed.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:13am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Not a DHB. DHBs are no more, it’s all centrally-controlled (can’t say “run” as it implies a level of purpose and outcomes as yet unwarranted) Maori wonderfulness now.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:53am
- Prince
  
  So when the next episode of fraud/corruption/incompetence comes from their spending, no one will have any idea who has been fleeced.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:16am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    It’s us. it’s always us.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:53am
- alloytoo
  
  How are Non-Maori Speakers ever going to access this commission?
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:27am
  - Prince
    
    How long before Supermarkets, Banks, McDonalds, KFC, Dominos etc rename to some meaningless word soup ?
    Oh sorry I forgot, they have actual customers to worry about so they’ll stay with names that resonate with their CUSTOMERS.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:07am
    - Tricati
      
      I was in a supermarket in Nelson recently and the aisle markers were in Maori, so its coming.
      
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      July 6, 2022 11:54am
    - Nickc2
      
      Countdown in Birkenhead has already named some of its sections in Te Reo.
      I’m sure Luxon would romp in with a massive majority next election if he were to say all references to Te Reo in Public Service documents, advertising, and State-Owned Broadcasting will be banned under a Govt he leads.
      
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      July 6, 2022 12:02pm
      - Ehlana
        
        We don’t need to get rid of all signs of the Maori language, we just need to learn from every other nation on Earth with more than one language how to handle that.
        
        A sign that says Milk Miraka tells you in two languages where the milk is to be found. Likewise, a document which says the same thing, completely in English, and completely in Maori, is exactly how dual languages are handled overseas.
        
        A sentence otherwise completely in English with a couple of Maori nouns thrown is not intelligible in either language.
        
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        July 6, 2022 2:18pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Ehlana @ 2:18PM
        Sorry, I hit the Report button by mistake.
        However, I don’t have a problem with two languages adjacent to each other as long as they are given the same prominence. That said, why not have every NZ citizen’s language displayed? That way, we’ll have a store full of signs and no goods eh?
        I’m dreading the day when Road Signs and On-Road signage is given in more than the English language. The Welsh language will be longer than the road eh?
        
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        July 6, 2022 2:30pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I got a bloody headache now
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:40am
- ClanMcleod
  
  They could always simplify it slightly (not that it needs simplifying of course 🤡) by making it an acronym?
  
  THMTHTTPOTWN
  
  Like most of those words, I’m not sure how to pronounce it, maybe we could get pay a consultant to let us know how to say it? That would be a good use of taxpayer money?
  
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  July 7, 2022 9:17am
Surely Knott

How do they know how many covid cases there are when the vast majority are by private in home RAT tests?
The MOH definition says RAT or PCR test and click on their link for the definition. The definition says a “Confirmed case” is “A case that has laboratory definitive evidence.” and only includes PCR.

So is the number only people in hospital and health care workers. Or is it “modelled data”? Even if it includes RAT data who is recording their RAT tests and where? And why can’t we see the flu data also. How many people with Covid also have Flu. What variant is the flu?
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July 6, 2022 8:26am
- Surely Knott
  
  Does anyone else know someone recorded as a covid death. The only person I know was someone who was in Hospice for terminal cancer and then I was told it was covid that took them. So how is this recorded. Will our Cancer deaths be lower? Or are the Covid deaths recorded separately by WHO and it’s still recorded as a NZ cancer death in our regular stats?
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:50am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Friend of a friend died from Covid in a resthome. He was 48. The fact that he had stage 4 Prostate Cancer was irrelevant. Poor guy couldn’t even walk – and then caught Covid.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:56am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Covid has cured influenza. There is no more flu data.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:53am
- Benedict Yu
  
  It is self reported. If you test positive for COVID you go to your COVID portal where you click on “Report a RAT test result”. This is your personal portal that contains your vaccination records.
  
  https://covid19.govt.nz/testing-and-tracing/covid-19-testing/report-your-rat-with-my-covid-record/
  
  Why anyone would do this is beyond me. I am guessing that the actual number of cases is way higher than the numbers that are self reported.
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:36am
  - alloytoo
    
    The same vaccination records that DOH gives to third party providers without your permission so that they can spam you for boosters……..
    
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    July 6, 2022 1:18pm
  - Hebe123
    
    So those of us who are unvaxxed, do we need to create an account to report our non event of an illness? Not happening.
    
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    July 6, 2022 4:09pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  SK they don’t.
  
  I think most people are slowly waking up to the fact that the majority of this, if not all, was a fake narrative. When you come to terms with this the next question is “why”.
  It’s the “great reset” and the drive towards Agenda 2030 so beloved by Ardern. We are heading to tyranny and fascism. I’m happy to be proven wrong in a couple of years, but prepare yourself. If we don’t stop these lunatics right now we are headed for a total nightmare.
  
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  July 7, 2022 9:23am
kevn

The Nurses Union need to get the Police Union onside and learn how to get it sorted.
The police union members are well compensated. Even they think so.
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July 6, 2022 8:29am
- Prince
  
  Better still, ask the Remunerations Authority (they set MP’s pay) to have a look.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:19am
Surely Knott

Hairy Maclary Ram Raids Donaldson’s Dairy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellington/comments/vs5x2u/kiwiana/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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July 6, 2022 8:30am
- Matt Long
  
  Up to date and diversity, I think this answers all the criticisms from our woke academic and the MSM fools who print her opinions.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:22am
- Tony Stuart
  
  That book cover is a thing of utter brilliance. Well done to whoever put it together. I would imagine Lynley Dodd would be rolling on the floor laughing!
  
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  July 6, 2022 12:38pm
Frank the tank

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html

Just when you thought it can’t get worse for Sleepy Joe.

Funnily enough if you only listened to our feckless media ol’ creepy is the second coming of Teddy Roosevelt.
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July 6, 2022 8:31am
- emmess
  
  As old Joe would say
  No joke, the Biden Approval RCP page is usually the first thing I look at on my phone when I wake up each morning, to give me a bit of hope.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:11am
- Vory v zakone
  
  Sleepy Joe’s ‘single word’ speech… 🤦‍♂️😜
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zTSiC6cZG4&list=LL&index=11
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:02am
Cassandra

There’s an article on Politik (paywalled) re Grandad’s Army, lamenting the appalling state of our Armed Forces. It makes the point that NZ spends $2.5 billion a year and Australia with 5 times the population $48.5 billion. ACT has committed to a 2% allocation which would amount to a one billion increase ie about 5 minutes welfare.
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July 6, 2022 8:32am
- Matt Long
  
  The top of Australia is uncomfortably close to Indonesia and other not overly friendly nations.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:25am
  - Cassandra
    
    Indonesia not so much – no capacity which warrants high end military equipment – but if you’re implying that Australia needs to spend more because it is closer to China then I think you miss the point. Our relationships and commitments demand a certain level of capability. We do not have it. Australia’s situation is no different (but not the same) and they are working towards it. No-one argues that we should copy Australia but if it is needing to use its capacity then, like it or not, we’ll be involved. NZ must pull its weight. A few hours further from China is irrelevant.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:40am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The NZ Navy is going to get that solar powered kayak one day….
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:00am
  - septic skeptic
    
    I think the correct term is solar powered waka
    
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    July 6, 2022 12:13pm
Jack5

Land of Long Flat-White crowd?

New Zealand gets a mention in the lead paragraph to a Wall Street Journal article on men’s fashion:

“COOL SHIRT.” It’s a straightforward statement that should have a simple reply, like, “Thanks.” But if you ask any guy who’s remotely into clothes, the answer you get is anything but direct. Instead, your absent-minded compliment is met with a sweeping fashion history. “Oh, this shirt? This shirt is spun in New Zealand from wool shorn from a rare breed of white sheep raised by a seventh-generation shepherd who exclusively drinks flat whites.”
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July 6, 2022 8:33am
- All_on_Red
  
  Merino clothing is doing well overseas. Shame we cant convince Americans to buy wool carpet.
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:43am
  - cmm
    
    It is almost always worth chasing high-end, high-margin products like merino.
    Low-end products like carpet wool – not so much.
    There are a lot of sheep in the world. China has more sheep than we and Oz do.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:20am
    - Nickc2
      
      With Tile, Polished Concrete, or Floating Wooden floors with underfloor heating, who needs Woolen Carpet?
      Advance your Calendar ten years and keep up.
      
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      July 6, 2022 9:45am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Thanks Nick- most modern houses have a mix and its rare to find one without some carpet
        
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        July 6, 2022 1:08pm
    - Jack5
      
      One of the farmers who follow Kiwiblog may tell us how much of New Zealand is suitable for merino sheep.
      
      Greenies have shunted them off some of the South Island country to protect indigenous flora.
      
      Low wool prices are hitting even Scottish crofters:
      
      https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58162610
      
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      July 6, 2022 9:56am
      - Matt Long
        
        The SI high country mainly, the other problem with high end fibers or other niche products is that if too many people jump on the band wagon they get commodatised.
        So why don’t we all produce ultra fine Merino wool? Because of climate, soil types, topography and market size.
        We also can’t all produce high end crops for the same reasons, people suggesting everyone moves from animal farming don’t realise their ideas are physically impossible or that cropping regimes are more environmentally harmful than pastoral grazing including greenhouse gas emissions.
        
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        July 6, 2022 11:15am
      - david
        
        You also need to factor in the fact the meat returns from merinos is a fraction of the returns for faster growing sheep. BUT faster growing meat heavier breeds produce coarser wool so on the one hand wool is a by-product of the meat industry while simultaneously meat is a by-product of the fine wool industry.
        The finest wools are often produced on the meanest country which by definition also has the lowest carrying capacity. Feed a flock of merinos well on grassy pasture and the wool quality turns to custard.
        She’s a tough world out there Trev.
        
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        July 6, 2022 11:56am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      We sell wool for carpets in the States, the carpet produced is high end, and that’s with strong wool
      
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      July 6, 2022 11:19am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    We do sell wool carpet to the US, mainly North America, but it’s aimed at the high end user, so it does not catch the full scope of the people. Synthetic carpets were marketing their oil products in the states using glossy pics of little lams running around, we took them to court and actually won which was not expected first up.
    We have contracts for the organic wool farmer which is growing which provides farmers with close to $3 a kilo of wool above the auction price, that wool goes into the high end carpet.
    
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    July 6, 2022 11:18am
    - Jack5
      
      Could this be what the Greens have in mind for NZ?
      
      Dutch farmers are protesting vigorously about Government clampdowns related to environmental policies. Protests have ranged from attacks on police cars to dumping a load of manure on the doorstep of the country’s “nitrogen policy minister”.
      
      Farmers are angry at the prospect of having to shrink livestock numbers to meet pollution targets announced in June. Nitrogen-based emissions will have to decrease sharply.
      
      Police have used dogs to break up protests, and have been making arrests.
      
      On a panel discussion on Al Jazeera last night it was stated that the Dutch are the world’s second biggest food exporters. Their agriculture is a heavy user of imported stock feed.
      
      https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/07/teargas-and-dogs-break-up-farmer-protests-blockades-continue/
      
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      July 6, 2022 2:05pm
Maggie Pie

“Tips from a mate” LOL!!

https://twitter.com/DanielAndrewsMP/status/1544198901724753920
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July 6, 2022 8:37am
- Frank the tank
  
  Back to getting changed in the dark I see…………
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:41am
- Ruawai
  
  There is clearly someone else there taking a photo of tweddle de and tweddle dum taking their selfie, why didn’t they just get this person to take a photo of them instead of a childish selfie, it’s all about the feels.
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:51am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Early Wednesday fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRAZL3LX6K4
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July 6, 2022 8:42am
Surely Knott

Headline. “I accept your challenge ma’am” as James Elkington who has 16 children handed a “get out of jail card” sounds like a lovely headline of a person who hadn’t learned about their whakapapa getting a second chance. No picture of the tattooed mongrel face like there were in previous police reports.
Elkington’s crime is he punched his pregnant wife so hard she went unconscious.
But a quick google shows in 2020 he was also in the news for strangling his wife and a three day assault on her and meth dealing and was sentenced to 21 mths imprisonment. “Elkington’s lawyer, Kelly Hennessy, argued that Elkington should be released on time served, due to his efforts to complete relevant courses during his seven months imprisonment including courses on emotional management, conflict resolution and tikanga programmes.”

So he’d had all the programmes except was still trying to get into drug rehab. Yet his lack of cultural support is still the reason he’s given a “get out of jail” for nearly killing his wife.

In 2019 he was on the run from police for meth dealing and dangerous driving. “Judge David Ruth acknowledged Elkington had completed some courses in prison to try “better” his position. ” So again he had more courses on the state and was remorseful.

The sentences are becoming significantly less punitive as the crimes get worse. And the media now not showing photos of the criminals identity.
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July 6, 2022 8:44am
- All_on_Red
  
  Father of the Year
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  July 6, 2022 10:28am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

CNN reporting that in 2019 Police confiscated a large number of knives and swords off the Highland-Park-Parade shooter, after they were informed by a family member he’d told them… “he was going to kill everyone”

No further action was taken. Hmmm
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July 6, 2022 8:51am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, CNN tend to report anti Republican news so we shall wait.
  
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  July 6, 2022 8:57am
- MCōs
  
  Maybe so, but it was his guns that he used to shoot people.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:14am
  - Sideoiler
    
    Maybe so, but it was his guns that he used to shoot people.
    
    Like most of these shooters,known to authorities!
    I am sure taking away firearms from the law abiding will put an end to this sort of thing, look how well it worked in NZ.
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:28am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Honestly Cossie – you worrie me sometimes.
    
    Don’t you find it concerning he was allowed to legally buy a high-powered weapon after that?
    Sounds like someone dropped the ball…..
    
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    July 6, 2022 9:29am
    - MCōs
      
      That’s the point isn’t it.
      A young guy who’s clearly a potential menace can still go out and buy those guns.
      
      People say Illinois has strict gun control. Maybe it does, I don’t know, but according to Google Maps his city is only about half an hour from Wisconsin.
      
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      July 6, 2022 10:34am
      - MCōs
        
        As it happens he purchased the guns legally in the Chicago area.
        https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/highland-park-shooting-gun-legally-obtained-crimo-mayor-rcna36646
        
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        July 6, 2022 10:45am
      - Inandout
        
        MC, and yes he can still get a driving license to kill people.
        
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        July 6, 2022 11:07am
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        The facts are that the legal owners of assault rifles are not the problem in the US. This is the impression that the government and the media give the casual observer, but it is false propaganda. The really significant problem is homicides with illegal handguns. Handguns account for 45.7% of gun homicides in the US, while rifles account for only 2.6%.
        
        https://www.criminalattorneycolumbus.com/which-weapons-are-most-commonly-used-for-homicides/
        
        Another typical weekend of Black gun violence in the badlands of Chicago:
        
        “10 Killed, At Least 62 Wounded in Fourth of July Weekend Shootings in Chicago”
        
        “The holiday toll is lower than last year, when 19 people were killed and more than 100 people were shot over the Fourth of July weekend. In 2020, 79 people were shot, 15 of them fatally; in 2019, 68 people were shot, 5 of them fatally.
        
        https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/10-killed-at-least-62-wounded-in-fourth-of-july-weekend-shootings-in-chicago/2873732/
        
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        July 6, 2022 12:12pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Legally purchased in Illinois, which has the strictest gun laws in the US.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:34am
- Frank the tank
  
  Mags – I see we might have our first transgender LBQABRCRAPDABRA mass shooter.
  
  Or he/she just liked wearing dresses……..
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:25am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner thought this was worth sharing….
    
    ‘How Cops Should Do It’
    
    https://americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/how_cops_should_do_it.html
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:06am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Looks a bit fetal alcohol syndrome to me
    
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    July 6, 2022 12:38pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  How many times have I said this?
  America does not have a gun problem. They have a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem.
  The Dems are donkey deep in this, using mental health for gun control. Sad.
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:11am
I remember when

While it may be possible to make a case for the covid vaccine having some benefits is that the real question.
Is the question what are the long term consequences of isolation, lockdown, multiple vaccinations and benefits of mask wearing.
Do we need the medical profession to produce some in depth research on the results of withdrawal from normal human interaction with regards to the immune system.
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July 6, 2022 8:59am
- mawm
  
  Every single pandemic measure put in place has been counterproductive, most notably the vaccine. It is neither safe nor effective. There are now a lot of published medical studies that show the damage being done by them to our immune system. It is also well known that isolation from the normal infectious organisms circulating in society has adverse effects on our immune system – ever since the days of Howard Hughes.
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:04am
Surely Knott

Senator Rand Paul (md) interrogates Fauci. “NIH continues to refuse to voluntarily divulge the names of scientists who receive royalties and from which companies. Over the period of time between 2010 – 2016 27,000 royalty payments were paid to 1800 employees.” “Over 193 million dollars was given to these 1800 employees” “Have you ever received a royalty” “Has anyone from the vaccine committee received a royalty?”

Things that make you go hmmmmm. Who got paid in NZ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1dTIfhqrQ
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July 6, 2022 9:03am
- Frank the tank
  
  Paul is brilliant politician. Te Reo and his gang of worktards should watch how a true opposition politician takes apart his opponents.
  
  Time and time again he tears a new arsehole for the “Feltch” to poke his head from.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:09am
krazykiwi

Fed chairman blames inflation on the unvaccinated. One can smell the stench of desperate whataboutism starting to waft around the world.
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July 6, 2022 9:12am
- RoboRob
  
  Im sure it had nothing to do with his incompetance and printing litteral supertanker loads of extra money. I wonder if he missed economics 101 (like most Left wing governments) where they definition of inflation is ‘Too much money chasing no enough products’.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:15am
- Frank the tank
  
  Isn’t it funny how a rushed vaccine developed for a first generation virus is largely ineffective for future generations of said virus.
  
  It’s like they didn’t trust the science regarding previous influenza strains……..
  
  And of course your third and forth jab will work – ala doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:29am
- Matt Long
  
  There was no problem with the models it was an unpredictable long tail event. Yeah, who would have thought lockdowns and mandates would cause the issues like Gib and labour shortages we have here, only people with half a brain.
  
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  July 6, 2022 9:31am
Captain Mainwaring

I have totally lost confidence that ‘Let’s get Wellington moving’ will ever produce anything but permanent stagnation.
No extra traffic lanes to the airport is unbelievable given that the city’s population is going to increase by 80,000 over the next 40 years.
And a slow tram to Island Bay at some monumental cost is utter stupidity in what is after all a small city. Island Bay is not exactly a destination, so this massively expensive pipe dream’s main purpose is to carry Island Bay commuters to work, something that could be achieved by putting a few more buses on using existing infrastructure.
And none of this is going to start for six years.
What are these people smoking?
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July 6, 2022 9:33am
KH

Stuff News ignores the Matthrw Tutaki scandal.
I guess that’s what Editor in Chief Willie Jackson decided.
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July 6, 2022 9:37am
- septic skeptic
  
  My advice is to delete the app.
  
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  July 6, 2022 12:20pm
Tom Barker

Is the young man charged with killing seven people and wounding at least 30 at a Chicago Independence Day parade what is known in the US as a “well-regulated militia”?
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July 6, 2022 9:51am
- All_on_Red
  
  More like a nutter with a wish to be infamous.
  I see he followed Pelosi, Biden and co
  https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/07/04/concerning-social-media-of-person-of-interest-in-highland-park-mass-shooting-n588797
  I thought they had very strict Gun Laws in Chicago?
  What happened to those?
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:25am
  - Nickc2
    
    Chicago has the highest murder rate in the US.
    FWIW, this kid’s father once ran for Mayor. To me this indicates the kid wasn’t exactly impoverished but having a fetish for Pelosi and Biden may be a clue to his insanity.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:32am
    - Matt Long
      
      The Dems seem to think celebrating Independence Day is a shameful act. Is this a July Fourth insurrection stirred up by Pelosi, Schumer and Biden?
      Have they even asked Her Majesty if she would take them back?
      I can’t wait for the impeachments and inquiries.
      
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      July 6, 2022 11:25am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      The suburb or town is highly affluent, but if he stood for mayor in that state he will be a leftie
      
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      July 6, 2022 11:35am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    His social media was following the right people.
    Seriously, New York is trying to get full access to all social media passwords of anyone trying to get a license.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:36am
  - MCōs
    
    Refer to this article.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/highland-park-shooting-gun-legally-obtained-crimo-mayor-rcna36646
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:44am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The fact that Police had removed a number of knives and swords did not seem to wave any red flags to the Police. A family member was told “I’m going to kill all of them” or something.
      There is the problem. Buying a gun and the background check was a failure. Background checks failing – same in Uvalde.
      
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      July 6, 2022 11:22am
Jack5

The refugee racket …

Nearly a thousand police from the UK, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Germany in dawn raids yesterday arrest gang members suspected of smuggling 10,000 people to Britain across the English Channel on small boats.

The Telegraph says this is a quarter of the 40,000 arrivals since the start of last year.

One of the ringleaders is in prison in France after a rival was shot 10 times in Osnabruck last November but survived despite serious wounds to his abdomen.

“This is tough organised crime. They are not squeamish when it comes to territorial disputes and in fighting for power,” an investigator told the German newspaper Bild.
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July 6, 2022 9:51am
Maggie Pie

UNPHUQINGBELIEVEABLE !

Dunedin City Council has so far spent $101,682.25 fighting one of their own Councilors over a $12 Parking Ticket.

The case is ongoing…..
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July 6, 2022 10:00am
- Frank the tank
  
  Why does that surprise you – they just go to the rates money tree and pluck some more dollars.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:10am
- gump
  
  They’ve spent over $100k on legal fees defending themselves against a vexatious litigant … who ironically stood for election as a Dunedin City councillor on a platform of reducing Council spending.
  
  Vandervis has already lost in the High Court and the Court of Appeal and is seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. Each time he abuses the legal process the Council has to spend money on defending the actions.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:39am
  - gump
    
    I forgot to mention that the legal actions aren’t actually over the parking ticket. The Council decided that Vandervis had breached their Code of Conduct after he had a meltdown and harangued a Council staff member over a parking ticket.
    
    He has been seeking a judicial review of the Code of Conduct breach through the court system and keeps losing. And every time he loses he starts another doomed appeal.
    
    This case will be taught to future law students as an example of how the legal process can be abused by bad actors.
    
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    July 6, 2022 10:56am
- MCōs
  
  Guy’s a fools.
  
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  July 6, 2022 10:46am
Suze Wainwright

Has focus group feedback taken the abortion rights attack on the National Party away from the msm…?
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July 6, 2022 10:07am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They will know the hit job by rotten media has failed, they will have had internals and possibly a one news poll to tell them nothing has changed. The princess is still hated in every corner of this country, that is why she is show boating abroad
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:37am
Yvette

It is my understanding that when the US Supreme Court quashed Roe v Wade it is because “abortion” is not in the original Constitution.
Nor apparently are the 27 Amendments which have been added since – that is why they are Amendments, right. – not in the Constitution
So what of them now?
Was Al Capone pleading the Fifth Amendment unconstitutional after all?
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July 6, 2022 10:12am
- rangitoto
  
  The supreme court consider all the amendments, not just the original constitution. They don’t get to make the amendments. There are two available methods
  
  1. A two-thirds (supermajority) vote of members present—if a quorum exists—in both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States Congress.
  
  2. A majority vote of state delegations at a national convention called by Congress at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds (at present 34) of the states. (This method has never been used.)
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:35am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Your understanding is wrong.
  It comes down to two amendments:
  
  The 14th which states that people can not be denied their “rights” and the 9th which states that other rights, claimed “by the people” not explicitly in the Constitution can still be protected by the Constitution (“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people” – basically, just because a right isn’t in the Constitution doesn’t explicitly mean it doesn’t exist).
  
  The 9th is widely regarded as a dumpster fire of an amendment because you could literally argue anything under it and therefore it is mostly not referenced by the Supreme Court (and why Clarence Thomas has stated that they need to actually work out what it means with regards to many undeclared “rights” claimed under the 14th amendment).
  
  The question re Roe vs Wade was actually about the right to privacy (because that was the one right that had actually been explicitly acknowledged under the 9th amendment) but the Supreme Court added Abortion without actually arguing the merits under the 9th amendment.
  
  Pretty much anything can be claimed as a “right” so the question is what the definition of “retained by the people” is? The “Conservative” position is basically that as this is Constitutional Law, the benchmark must be high and therefore the claimed “right” much satisfy a broad, historical acceptance of that right across the country (i.e. a Constitutional level of support for the “right”, not just a standard majority opinion).
  
  The “Liberals” want a much more liberal interpretation that the Court has the right to decide what rights the people get and seem to think a simply majority is enough.
  
  Given the clear intention of the Constitution was to give as much power to the States and people as possible, and nothing in the 9th amendment saying otherwise, the higher benchmark employed by the Conservative justices is clearly more consistent with the rest of the Constitution over what “rights” would be protected.
  
  Yes, it is actually a travesty, but it’s a far more Constitutionally sound interpretation than “the court gets to decide what powers it has”.
  
  Legislators across the US need to get off their arses and actually amend the Constitution to codify those fundamental rights that they claim are included under the 9th amendment. Abortion should be protected but unfortunately, should be doesn’t mean is.
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:46am
  - gump
    
    There’s a grim irony in a Constitution that was drafted to prevent the tyranny of kings and dictators being used to enforce the tyranny of States.
    
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    July 6, 2022 1:33pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Re the so called “Separation of Church and State” decisions:
    
    The Establishment Clause:
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”
    
    So, the Liberal judges (and media) have focused exclusively on the first part and are simply ignoring the second.
    
    This one is easier because the Conservative Justices are correct in law AND fairness.
    
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    July 6, 2022 3:53pm
- Ehlana
  
  The US Constitution was written to permit amendments, which then become part of it. There is nothing to stop the Americans from putting through further amendments, concerning abortion or anything else, if they wish to do so. Of course, it is a difficult process, as you would expect the amending of a Constitution to be.
  
  Contrast with our “Constitutional” Treaty of Waitangi, which does not provide for amendment at all.
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:50am
  - Tricati
    
    Depends of who reads it and their interpretation, as it seems to be getting amended daily to suit the co-governance agenda.
    
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    July 6, 2022 11:58am
- Nukuleka
  
  Your ‘understanding’ is clearly deficient. How about you read the Supreme Court’s reasoning and the decision they came to. Just a mite more sophisticated than your glib ‘understanding’.
  
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  July 6, 2022 12:14pm
Frank the tank

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2022/07/roe-v-wade-single-woman-s-prerequisite-for-potential-partners-goes-viral-in-the-wake-of-abortion-restrictions.html

Judging by the attached picture regardless of someone “shooting blanks” I don’t think there is going to be many takers.

One look at the picture and my penis inverted more than a 5 minute session in an ice bath.
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July 6, 2022 10:16am
- graham
  
  And I see that:
  
  Several women took the opportunity to highlight the “hypocrisy” of men “not liking being told what to do with their bodies”, with one sarcastically quipping: “Oh no… you don’t like being told what to do with your body? Gee… wonder what that feels like.”
  
  Unfortunately for these women, I believe that argument no longer holds quite the impact it once did. Because the simple truth is, in the last two years millions of men (alongside women) have been told that they must surrender their bodily autonomy and must be injected with a vaccine, or lose basic human rights.
  
  Time to come up with a new dinky little catchphrase.
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:33am
  - quarterpack
    
    If it came to a choice between giving birth to a baby I did not want, or taking a vaccine, I would take my chances with being vaccinated ten times over. You can google what its like to give birth.
    
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    July 6, 2022 5:17pm
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  It’s interesting that you never see any really attractive women at pro-abortion rallies. Probably because they have already found a husband and are off having children with him, as opposed to the screeching, fat young (and not so young) things whose only option is aborting the pregnancies that result from the many transactional hook-ups they have on account of being unable to find a man who wants them.
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:47am
  - Ross Campbell
    
    I would be a bit wary about running down women who are not attractive if I were you because with the shocking attitude you regularly display towards females they might be the only ones who will go out with you.
    
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    July 6, 2022 1:47pm
- kevn
  
  @Franks… What’s between the ears is very important. As well.
  
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  July 6, 2022 1:11pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  I won’t be knocking on her door
  
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  July 6, 2022 3:02pm
Yvette

22 April 2022
Commissioners reappointed to Tauranga City Council

HON NANAIA MAHUTA
Local Government
Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta today announced the reappointment of four commissioners to the Tauranga City Council.
“As the Council continues to face substantial infrastructure and funding challenges, it is clear that ensuring certainty for Tauranga is more important than ever,” Nanaia Mahuta said.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/commissioners-reappointed-tauranga-city-council

If Tauranga is run by Commissioners, will Tauranga have a local government election, and if not why are potential voters being sent roll confirmation requests for an election they won’t vote in?
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July 6, 2022 10:20am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Both relevant questions, and as a Tauranga rate-payer (without representation, I might add) my understanding is that no, we will not be having elections this year.
  
  The second question baffles me too – I received the confirmation forms which seem even more pointless than ever.
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:25am
  - Matt Long
    
    Well, once you would have voted for DHB board members as well but the Mahutas are take charge of that one as well, so just possibly the roll confirmation letters are been sent out to Tauranga residents because it easier to spend a million or so on that than do the work to not send them.
    
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    July 6, 2022 11:32am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      You’re probably right, but to be on the safe side I rang the Electoral Commission to enquire about this. The woman that answered didn’t know that Tauranga ratepayers couldn’t vote for the councillors that represent them, and her only recourse was to try and connect me with the receptionist at the Electoral Commission – I kid you not.
      
      I’ve since emailed the EC to enquire why they spent so much telling us we could vote for our local councillors when we can’t, and also to ask if this exercise would be repeated in 2 years when Mahuta is currently thinking about allowing us peasants to get some representation for all our taxation (July 2024).
      
      I’ll report back if I hear anything other than the sound of crickets.
      
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      July 6, 2022 1:09pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I thought the commissioner’s were theee till the election? It possibly has to roll over annually
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:39am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Mahuta had made it plain earlier in the year that there would be no Council election in Tauranga this year because the commissioners were continuing.
    
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    July 6, 2022 12:42pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Or next year, Tony. July 2024 is when Mahuta has deemed us peasants as being fit to get some representation for all our taxation.
      
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      July 6, 2022 1:10pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Tauranga Residents still get to Vote for their Regional Councilors.
  
  Do keep up!! 🙂
  
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  July 6, 2022 1:23pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Yes of course, the BOP regional council.
    
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    July 6, 2022 7:42pm
bennerg

Family First have just put out this video about the official curriculum for schools to use in outdoor education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ku1xNXH5JY&ab_channel=familyfirstnz

Sadly nothing about flying foxes, more about “foxy”.
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July 6, 2022 11:10am
Zorba

What happens in a theocracy when the tree god becomes infected with dieback, its branches become overburdened with hangers on and pests destroy its foilage? I’m still clinging to the hope that The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, holding aloft husqvarna from the bosom of the water, signifying divine providence shall prevail
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July 6, 2022 11:18am
Maggie Pie

OK – maybe I missed it last nite……
I was busy fliking between One News and Revenge-Body-with-Khloe-Kardashian.

Did anyone see reports of all the farmers protesting in the Netherlands?

https://twitter.com/faustianweeb/status/1544178749175889920

Incredible!!
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July 6, 2022 11:42am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Nothing so far on any MSM…..(goes against the narrative you know).
  
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  July 6, 2022 11:59am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  I actually went looking for it within our own media to see if there was a summary, after seeing stories of Farmers mobilising on Twitter in many places (and lead up for a few days that there was a lot of anger boiling) and yet…..nothing, even in World section of Herald.
  Have to wonder, why is that?
  Not newsworthy, or don’t want to give the plebs ideas?
  
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  July 6, 2022 12:02pm
  - mawm
    
    The Dutch PM belongs to the same group as Trudeau and Jabbercinda.
    
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    July 6, 2022 4:58pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  Amazing, how important news is ignored here.
  
  SHOTS FIRED toward protesting Dutch farmers by PM Rutte’s police officershttps://t.co/yHhoVSkLae pic.twitter.com/lpwRyVQyws— Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) July 5, 2022
  
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  July 6, 2022 12:11pm
  - Rodion Raskolnikov
    
    Another clear indication that the MSM are not in the business of covering significant news events, but only constructing narratives to advance the agendas of their funders. As we also saw with the protests at Parliament, they have no incentive to objectively and descriptively cover popular resistance to government policies, because doing so shows viewers and readers that such policies are not popular.
    
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    July 6, 2022 12:17pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Yes, I saw it on Sky News’s Andrew Bolt’s show headed by Roan Dean last night. The whole show last night should have been viewed by all concerned NZers, it was totally relevant to NZers and Australians.
    I’ve been trying to find it on Youtube and post it here but so far, no luck.
    
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    July 6, 2022 12:17pm
    - Lucia Maria
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aMcFW6ExIw
      
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      July 6, 2022 12:45pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    OMG Lucia….this will surely lead both bulletins here tonite!
    
    As one commentator wrote… “Citizens of the Netherlands can now see why governments disarm their citizens”
    
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    July 6, 2022 12:21pm
    - Lucia Maria
      
      LOL, Maggie!
      
      And people wonder why there is no trust in the MSM anymore. Anyone just watching/listening/reading them has no idea of what is happening.
      
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      July 6, 2022 12:27pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Only 11% of USAins have more than “some” trust in TV news, 16% in newspapers):
    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1544436943890837504/photo/1
    
    Media have destroyed their credibility for good – everyone can see they are nothing more than propaganda outlets now.
    
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    July 6, 2022 3:01pm
oldfella

Yvette, we are all being sent roll confirmations for an election in which we can’t vote, as a means of making us even more pissed off with Nanaia and Labour.
And guess what — it’s working!
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July 6, 2022 11:49am
Yvette

Health sector vaccination mandates –
Health NZ said vaccination against Covid-19 continued to be highly recommended for all health and disability workers, while all districts are reviewing the new requirements and assessing what needs to be done to comply with the new rules.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/07/06/some-healthcare-workers-wont-require-covid-19-vaccination/

If centralisation was a valid reason for health sector restructuring, why are “all districts” reviewing the new requirements and assessing what needs to be done to comply with the new rules?
How does the vaccination mandate vary from district ti district – or former DHBs, which are now defunct, but still apparently operational?
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July 6, 2022 12:05pm
- kevn
  
  @Yvette… do-little smoke and mirrors tricks.
  
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  July 6, 2022 1:06pm
Jack5

What’s the National Party’s position on the Reserve Bank, especially as inflation takes off?

Michael Reddell at CroakingCassandra raises the question:

Since Simon Bridges late last year, just after becoming the Finance spokesperson, said that National would not back reappointing Orr and was shut down within hours by his new leader, we’ve heard nothing much at all from National.

Worth reading:

https://croakingcassandra.com/2022/07/06/what-might-be-done-about-the-reserve-bank/
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July 6, 2022 12:08pm
Nickc2

Geothermal activity erupts in Rotorua.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/geothermal-steam-erupts-through-road-in-rotorua-spewing-gas-and-mud/ar-AAZeZEB?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=097b623214754bfbb017ce45e5bff387
Quick, build a Power Station over it FFS!
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July 6, 2022 12:41pm
Maggie Pie

Had to larf….

Went up to clear the mailbox earlier and our neighbor was walking past with her Toy Poodle. Heading home from the shops.

Anyway, she was telling me when she came out of the Dairy, there was some silly old coot in a Mobility Scooter, (rug over his legs and flying a safety-orange Ensign), stopped right next to where she’d left Zoe tied up.
The cheeky old prick asked her….. if the dog was registered?
She asked him if he was an Undercover Policeman.
LOL!!
He sped off in a huff.

Funny thing is of course….nobody we know has EVER registered their dogs. I’ve had three in the last 25 years and it’s the last thing I’d do.
F**ing Councils!
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July 6, 2022 1:07pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Don’t know how many have seen this. Auckland to Welling flight, a baby had a mask on. I don’t know if Air NZ enforced this or not. Law says only those over 12 need to mask up.
Was it a stunt? Who knows.
https://nz.yahoo.com/news/photo-baby-air-nz-flight-proves-divisive-083203822.html
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July 6, 2022 1:20pm
- Rodion Raskolnikov
  
  The insanity is real. Guy with 5 shots and wears a mask religiously, contracts Covid from his 5 year old kid who has 3 shots and wears a mask as well, then unironically complains about the dangers of schools wanting to drop masks. Astronomical levels of stupidity.
  
  https://gab.com/Kakatal/posts/108592869613066036
  
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  July 6, 2022 1:39pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  If the baby fell asleep, is there a risk of SIDS?
  Because not meant to cover a babies face nor lay them on their stomachs at such an early age IIRC.
  
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  July 6, 2022 2:55pm
Maggie Pie

LOL!! Is it just me…

or do all these ‘experts’ look like they should be remanded for a psychiatric-report?

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1544173411584327680

Asking for a friend.
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July 6, 2022 1:47pm
- alex Masterley
  
  A shave, a wash and a haircut would not go amiss…
  
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  July 6, 2022 2:18pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Then it would look like a ventriloquist dummy.
    See what I did? I did not say “he” Got my pronouns right – or did I?
    
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    July 6, 2022 2:24pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Hahah.
  That guy really groomed himself, and put on his best T shirt to make sure he had the gravitas to be taken seriously.//
  (Aside from the lack of splatter on the T shirt, looks like someone who woke up in the gutter, reeking of his own piss.)
  
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  July 6, 2022 2:56pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Some good comments on the Twitter page.
    Best one so far: “He needs to die his hair pink to be taken seriously”.
    
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    July 6, 2022 3:00pm
I remember when

Why is it that following the science often seems to have left the science behind.
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July 6, 2022 1:59pm
I remember when

BBC News:
“Japanese spokesman says that in the last 100 years Japanese temperatures have risen by 1 Degree Centigrade, and in Tokyo by 3 degrees.

No mention of ‘heat islands.’
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July 6, 2022 2:04pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Tokyo in summer is HOT and HUMID>
  
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  July 6, 2022 4:58pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Prostate MRI tomorrow. Must wear a mask.
Inside I will be given another mask – wires in masks don’t work. Don’t want my lips stuck the that big coil thing.
Then when leaving, I will be given another mask. My original one has been ‘disposed of’
Fucking nonsense, I don’t need a mask anywhere!
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July 6, 2022 2:28pm
- gump
  
  The mask isn’t to protect you. It’s intended to protect the medical staff that are conducting your MRI scan and the other patients who will use the machine after they scan you.
  
  It’s a hospital. It is filled with staff and people with illnesses that make them vulnerable to covid. Show some respect.
  
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  July 6, 2022 3:26pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    The mask is a sign of enslavement. It’s not respect to wear it – it’s participation in the enslavement. Everyone needs to stop being afraid and to pass on that courage to others.
    
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    July 6, 2022 4:53pm
    - gump
      
      We’re talking about wearing masks in a fucking HOSPITAL.
      
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      July 6, 2022 5:27pm
      - kevn
        
        @gump… Do a bit of mask research. Start with http://www.vernoncoleman.org
        Sick? Just stay away.
        
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        July 6, 2022 7:55pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It is NEXT to Southern Cross, but not part of the Hospital.
    Masks are useless. Masks are like a wire mesh fence to keep out mosquitos.
    If only you knew that
    
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    July 7, 2022 8:59am
I remember when

In November, HBDHB said 51 staff, including 17 nurses had been stood down after refusing the Covid-19 vaccine.
A nurses’ protest spokesperson reckons it has grown to up to 100.
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July 6, 2022 2:38pm
Maggie Pie

We hear them saying the government needs to open-the-tap on the ‘immigration settings’ in order to allow more workers into the country.

My partner reckons all they need to do, is turn-off the tap to the number of bludgers currently on Benefits.

The ‘staff shortage’ problem could be solved overnight.
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July 6, 2022 2:40pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sorry. It is easy to sort that staff shortage by turning off the welfare tap.
  Who would employ these dropkicks?
  Retired now, but I don’t want to work with these pricks. Would your Partner employ them, or an immigrant who wants to work?
  Back a few years and I worked with three immigrant guys. His name was Ngi, I think. Short guy so we called him Knee. Clever little man, digger/excavator man, but he reconditioned our workshop lathe. From Laos, swam a river and escaped. Last I heard his family was here. wonder where Knee High is now?
  
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  July 6, 2022 3:49pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    OMG…you’re right there Steve!
    My partner would never ‘EMPLOY’ anyone ever again.
    He learned his lesson about 20 years ago (b4 we met) when he discovered his CFO had been ripping him off. As he tells it…broke the guys jaw and threw him out the front door.
    Ended up HE got charged with assault and it cost him over 50k in legal fees defending it. Discharged without conviction.
    But then the Employment Court ruled he had to pay the thieving pr*ck 10k for not following the ‘correct procedures’ 🙁
    
    Contractors only these days. WIN-WIN all round.
    
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    July 6, 2022 4:33pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      There’s no-one as permanent as a temporary contractor, Maggie. One of my six month ones lasted 20 years.
      
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      July 6, 2022 5:43pm
      - Chris Nisbet
        
        I started a 1 month gig around 1999. I’m still here.
        
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        July 6, 2022 6:10pm
- [email protected]
  
  That could work if a business could sack someone who doesn’t perform to the level they signed up to in their employment agreement.
  
  Unfortunately, in New Zealand, when you hire someone it is like getting married to them. It is very, very difficult to get rid of a non-performing employee.
  
  Luckily we cureently have a number of really good employees but it has not always been that way.
  
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  July 6, 2022 6:43pm
Loddenthinks

In an excellent series of iconic LIFE magazine images, there was an image of JFK speaking to a rural community in West Virginia in 1960, during his successful Presidential campaign. He was 43.

To illustrate what a different time and place that was, can you imagine Joe Biden standing precariously on one of those kitchen stool-plus-steps sold by RonTel or similar, holding forth intelligently, without notes, to an audience comprising both blacks and whites?

Especially the white kid in the white t-shirt and buzz-cut, holding a toy gun to his mouth. A few heads would explode (no, not literally) these days at that. Sorry for the link to HuffPo, not wanting to drive traffic I assure you. But it was the only place I could find the photo unpaywalled – it’s the second one down.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-f-kennedy-photos_n_4310671
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July 6, 2022 3:07pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Loddenthinks, JFK was the last true Democrat.
  The lefties did not want where he was going, and the Democrats are the same today – Dems killed JFK.
  Ever heard if Hillary? The one that people just sort of are not there when it is time to ‘testify”
  If I was American I would vote JFK.
  
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  July 6, 2022 3:58pm
Maggie Pie

Honestly, you’d think they could come up with a better name than…

‘The Grocery Commission’
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July 6, 2022 3:44pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Yeah, any Maori phrase would do.
  
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  July 6, 2022 4:03pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    bit tricky when Maori didn’t have words for shop or money or monopolies or regulation or economics, but I guess we can always just jam a few ‘waka’s ‘kais” and “taongas”and other paleo-lithic concepts together and pretend it means something in a modern context.
    
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    July 6, 2022 4:11pm
  - mawm
    
    Tea Commission?
    
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    July 6, 2022 5:13pm
- Swifty
  
  The current head of Beef and Lamb NZ should apply.
  
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  July 6, 2022 4:10pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Arkwright
    
    LOL!!
    
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    July 6, 2022 5:35pm
Swifty

I wish we could put in a Commissioner to keep the NZ Labour Party honest:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/470450/watch-david-clark-announces-supermarket-sector-watchdog-the-grocery-commissioner

Just think of the harm THEY’VE caused. In comparison, the supermarkets are paragons of virtue.
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July 6, 2022 4:06pm
Maggie Pie

The Usual Suspects…

‘Child murderer Southern Thompson abandons name suppression fight’

– Rotorua Daily Post (6 July 3:37pm)
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July 6, 2022 4:10pm
- Swifty
  
  …and the daughter’s name was ‘Comfort’.
  
  Sickening reading.
  
  FFS.
  
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  July 6, 2022 5:08pm
Swifty

Have you noticed that Stuff, whenever they reference National figures with a chequered past, use the word ‘disgraced’ and usually every damn time – but they don’t seem to use it for Labour figures.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/129192425/disgraced-former-national-mp-aaron-gilmore-chasing-wellington-city-council-seat

Shane Te Pou, ex union executive and Labour candidate, committed sins far, far worse that Aaron Gilmour but not only isn’t his name prefaced with ‘disgraced’ they even use him as an opinion writer and quote him regularly (and RNZ have him as a regular panelist).

Why is that?

(Note: for his sins, which I won’t describe here, Te Pou was booted both from his job and from the NZ Labour Party.)
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July 6, 2022 4:42pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  To a certain extent we should stop blaming the government funding for this since the same thing is seen in the USA when the MSM reporting on some crook will put the name (R) right up front of the article, while not mentioning party affiliation for many paragraphs if it’s (D).
  
  Same reason they’ve carried the Left’s water lately on hammering Luxon over the US abortion decision – I even glimpsed a entire NZ Herald front page on Monday – a week after the shit first hit the fan. Wankers.
  
  It’s ideological/partisan for the Left MSM. The money’s just to keep them alive – something that National/ACT should have front of mind when they become the government.
  
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  July 6, 2022 7:54pm
- Jack5
  
  Gilmore, when an MP, got pissed at a private dinner and was obnoxious.
  
  Someone at the next table, went to the media.
  
  Gilmore lost his political career over this. Perhaps Key knew of, or had a hint of, brewing or incipient problems with MPs’ behaviour in the Far South.
  
  Regardless, the penalty was in excess of what Gilmore’s “offence” warranted. And yes, the liberal-Leftist media welcomed the chance to whack Gilmore.
  
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