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Warren

What a gutless bunch of wimps we have in the New Zealand Media with the Bosses and Journalists prepared to go after Boris Johnson with all the gusto they can muster while they adore and promote the corrupt practice and other policy that is detrimental to the New Zealand economy. They allow our Prime Minister to call out the UN with words like they are morally corrupt while her Government is untruthful, corrupt and decietful to the population of New Zealand.
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July 8, 2022 8:03am
- lastmanstanding
  
  On the matter of Boris. It reminds me of the late 1980s and David Lange and Margaret Pope. As was said at the time one screw and the whole Cabinet fell apart.
  Carrie turned Boris’s head. He let his dick rule his head. She planted Woke and Green Bullshit.She interfered in matters of State that as a little girl she knew nothing about.
  If Boris had kept her in the kitchen and pregnant to keep her busy this wouldnt have happened.
  
  Alas on a geopolitical note it is damaging to the West. China and Russia will be laughing. The Western Leaders ( if you can them that) are a bunch of weak spineless creatures full of their own Bullshit. China is strengthening its position both economically and militarily.
  The West is weakening its position on both scores.
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:03am
  - mawm
    
    Russia especially will be laughing after mini-me Churchill was all bluff and buster and pushing for war. The Western leaders are the weak spineless lot that they are because they are serving the WEF and not leading the government of their respective countries for the good of their people.
    
    It’s been sometime since the UK had a real leader. I wonder who’ll replace him?
    
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    July 8, 2022 9:22am
    - Batman
      
      Mawm you might want to make sure that your massive erection for the communist and kleptocratic strongmen is not showing through your pants.
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:10am
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        When did you go off the rails? I’ve missed your penetrating insights. Is mawm’s Kremlin hardon much different than your own prominent tumescence pointed in the direction of the trannies, gays and women in Washington?
        
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        July 8, 2022 1:02pm
    - Paulus
      
      Johnson and Churchill have one thing in common – they finally conquered Europe.
      
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      July 8, 2022 1:26pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Emasculated
    
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    July 8, 2022 9:26am
    - kowtow
      
      Pussy whipped.
      
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      July 8, 2022 9:30am
      - Batman
        
        Ahhh yes, always blame the woman and never the man for his bumbling and amateur cover-ups.
        
        What a load of sexist claptrap.
        
        Boris has nobody to blame but himself.
        
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        July 8, 2022 11:09am
      - kowtow
        
        Yes he has only himself to blame for being a serial adulterer , philanderer and pussy chaser , that leaves him out of a job and broke .
        
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        July 8, 2022 12:09pm
  - Harry Knuts
    
    Bojo has always been a clown – young blondie at side or not. Bojo operates continually on the ask for forgiveness not permission approach and do as i say but don’t do as i do. Bojo is a grown man responsible for his own actions and decisions. This is all his own making.
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:20am
  - Aunty
    
    Added and abetted by China and Russia of course through the Woke agenda and the manipulation of social media and weak, impressionable minds.
    
    They are already at war with us and our people are to dumb and dense to know it.
    
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    July 8, 2022 12:02pm
Scott

An interesting discussion on Kiwi blog on abortion law yesterday revealed one key fact. That essentially we have abortion on demand up until birth. The only requirement is that the abortion doctor consults another abortion doctor to see whether the abortion is clinically necessary. The language is very loose. According to family first –”The new law means that late term abortions will be available to women if the abortion provider “reasonably believes the abortion is clinically appropriate in all the circumstances,” having regard to the woman’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This is a very broad subjective test.”

And there appears to be no penalties for abuse of the system. That is performing late term abortions that are not clinically necessary. Indeed abortion is out of the crimes act and so the police will not be involved.

Our media let all of this go through with barely any comment even though the law was enacted at the beginning of the global pandemic. Everyone was distracted but the media just let this sail through. Now they are ganging up on Christopher Luxon demanding that he commit to never change the abortion law. Our abortion law is as liberal, or should I say radical, as any abortion law in the world.

I would like to see Parliament revisit this issue next time we have a change of government. Here is the thing. Is it really true that an unborn child can be aborted in the third trimester? Is it really true that a baby can be aborted essentially the day before it would have been born?

How many people are comfortable with this scenario? Although polls show that there is broad support for some sort of abortion in New Zealand, that support erodes to around 25% support for abortions in the third trimester. How is it that a civilised person can be comfortable with the idea that an unborn child who is ready to be born can be aborted? That if that child was born and had health problems then medical doctors would move heaven and earth to save that child. But if the child is not wanted then it can be aborted?

I’m gonna say something condemnatory right now. If you support abortion in the third trimester can you really claim that you are a good person? There manifestly is a baby there. It’s not religion that tells me this, just look at a scan. There is a baby there. Maybe you are ignorant. But if you are in possession of the facts and you support abortion in the third trimester then I would like to suggest that you are not a good person. The abortion law should be changed. Hopefully a new parliament will arise, Princess Jacinda can return to rightful obscurity and we can have a leader that will lead us economically to prosperity and will exhibit a sound moral heart. And first order of business – change the abortion law. The law we have is completely unreasonable and unethical.
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July 8, 2022 8:05am
- Matt Long
  
  DG I think illustrated that the majority of the population have not read the law and simply cannot believe that the law as it stands would be passed by parliament.
  Dr John Campbell https://youtu.be/N2e02QdzJgg talks about brain and nerve function in a mid term baby showing that these babies are able to feel pain but the ghouls in parliament specificly ruled out pain relief being required for aborted babies.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:28am
  - Matt Long
    
    So a quick question for those who believe that because a baby is inside a woman’s body it should have no human rights, as compared with a younger baby born prematurely, without an abortionist’s involvement, having rights under criminal law.
    Do you also believe that during coitus a woman should have the right to perform a Lorena Bobbitt and make phalluus friccasse with no criminal consequences?
    
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    July 8, 2022 8:41am
    - Matt Long
      
      It’s false equivalence isn’t downtickers?
      The real magic that produces personhood in the birth canal happens at the cervix, not the vagina.
      
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      July 8, 2022 9:40am
  - David Garrett
    
    Matt: I have to say I was deeply shocked when I read s.11 of the Contraception and Abortion Act. Frankly I thought those here who said “it’s now legal to have an abortion the day before birth” must be exaggerating, perhaps grossly so. Put shortly, neither in s.11 nor anywhere else in the Act is any kind of limitation on abortion after 20 weeks.
    
    I’ll say again what I said yesterday: As s.11 is written, provided a woman can find a doctor who will to perform such an abortion, it would be perfectly legal. Whether such a doctor could be found is another question; sadly I think in this day and age that might not be as difficult as one would think and hope.
    
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    July 8, 2022 10:38am
    - gump
      
      How can you have read s.11 of the Act without realising that two doctors are required to make the decision, the doctors must hold a reasonable belief that the procedure is clinically appropriate in the circumstances, the doctors must comply with all of the legal and ethical standards of their profession, and consideration must explicitly be given to the gestational age of the fetus?
      
      The law contains safeguards. Nobody undertakes these procedures out of convenience.
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:02am
      - Nukuleka
        
        You mean just like the ‘safeguards’ that existed prior to the 2020 change in legislation and which provided no ‘safeguards’ whatsoever?
        
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        July 8, 2022 11:43am
      - Matt Long
        
        Where did you find the word “doctors” Gump, is that “reading between the lines” or ” you will know it when you see it”
        Health Professionals, another definition you could drive a truck through.
        
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        July 8, 2022 1:49pm
      - gump
        
        @Matt Long
        
        The legislation requires consultation between two “qualified” health practitioners. This has a legal definition which is specified in the preamble for the Act
        
        >”A qualified health practitioner, in relation to the provision of abortion services, means a health practitioner who is acting in accordance with the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003.”
        
        One of the key provisions of the HPCAA is s. 8 which forbids all health practitioners from working outside of their scope of practice.
        
        The only people who can legally offer surgical abortions in New Zealand are registered specialists who must undergo regular peer review and professional development to retain their registrations. There are no loopholes in the legislation.
        
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        July 8, 2022 2:44pm
      - Matt Long
        
        Touche Gump, however “If you are more than 20 weeks pregnant, a qualified health practitioner may provide abortion services if they believe it is clinically appropriate in the circumstances. They will consider your physical and mental health, overall wellbeing, and the gestational age of the fetus.
        
        The practitioner must consult with another qualified health practitioner before providing an abortion after 20 weeks, but they do not need to agree. ”
        
        Abortions can be provided by doctors, midwives, and some nurses. They must hold a current practising certificate, have the necessary qualifications, and have abortion permitted within their scope of practice.
        
        This means that a health practitioner, like a doctor or nurse, may be able to provide some abortion services but not others. For example, they may be able to prescribe abortion medication, but not perform a surgical abortion.
        (MOH website which may not fully represent the Act)
        
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        July 8, 2022 7:00pm
    - Batman
      
      And yet you will probably never find a woman who would carry a baby to twenty weeks then casually decide to have an abortion.
      
      Let alone then find doctors who will find clinical reasons why such a procedure would be necessary.
      
      This is like being outraged that we don’t have laws on the books for alien sexual assault. It ain’t likely to happen!
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:14am
      - artemisia
        
        There are reasons a woman might want to terminate a pregnancy at or after 20 weeks. Like hormones, change of mind, mental health, climate change, pressure from a partner or others. When half the population is below average intelligence, reasoning is not necessarily top of the list.
        
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        July 8, 2022 1:05pm
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        What difference does it make if the abortion is at, say, 2 weeks or at 20 weeks? Either way it’s still the conscious taking of an otherwise viable life. The distinction is totally arbitrary.
        
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        July 8, 2022 1:15pm
      - Surely Knott
        
        What a ridiculous argument Batman. Just because something is rare, doesn’t mean it should be legal. If it’s wrong we make it illegal. Necrophilia is rare but illegal. Alien sexual assault is not rare it is zero. But if the law allows abortion over 20 weeks there will be some. How many over 20 weeks have their been in the last year since the law change, what were the reasons ?
        
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        July 8, 2022 2:09pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Batman: “And yet you will probably never find a woman who would carry a baby to twenty weeks then casually decide to have an abortion. Let alone then find doctors who will find clinical reasons why such a procedure would be necessary.
        This is like being outraged that we don’t have laws on the books for alien sexual assault. It ain’t likely to happen!”
        
        Evidence? Or you just feel this is true?
        
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        July 10, 2022 1:42am
  - fisho
    
    Genuine question – if an unborn child (or foetus if that’s how you want to describe it) is killed between 16 and 40 weeks gestation due to, let’s say a domestic violence or drunk driver incident, what’s the charge?
    I’m sure most people would be calling for murder or manslaughter charges, but considering the abortion laws, is this even possible?
    
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    July 8, 2022 5:13pm
- mandk
  
  Hi Scott
  
  I abhor abortion, but I think there needs to be a great deal of education before it would be possible to even think about making the abortion laws more restrictive.
  
  The main problem to overcome is that it simply doesn’t occur to many people that there might be anything morally wrong with terminating the life of a baby in the womb.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:45am
- Hebe123
  
  I told the Jacinda fan club (book club of 50-65 yr old fensalton ladies which I attended for a period) about the abort to term law and was shouted down “ nobody would ever do that!”. But they can – the law allows it. So why have that law.
  They changed the subject.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:47am
  - gump
    
    The law exists because medical staff need to be able to intervene in those sad and desperate cases where the fetus is non-viable, serious birth defects have been discovered, or the mother will die if the pregnancy progresses.
    
    Late term abortions aren’t undertaken for convenience. They are a rare procedure that results from medical necessity.
    
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    July 8, 2022 10:08am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘Late term abortions aren’t undertaken for convenience. They are a rare procedure that results from medical necessity.’
      
      Citation required.
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:09am
      - simonway
        
        In terms of rarity, there are statistics published. In 2020, 310 out of 13246 abortions were performed after 16 weeks (2.3%).
        
        As for convenience, you just need to observe that late terms abortions are much less convenient than early term abortions. Before 10 weeks (when the majority of abortions are performed), you can choose to take a pill that you administer yourself at home. In the late term, it requires a full-on surgery, becoming more risky the later it is.
        
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        July 8, 2022 2:14pm
    - Batman
      
      You are entirely correct, gump.
      
      But that is not of interest to the forced birth crowd who seemingly prefer to focus on the suspended animation foetus and not the living, breathing and sentient woman.
      
      They would prefer that a baby with serious organ defects be carried to term, be birthed by a traumatised mother, and then suffocate to death outside the womb for a few minutes. That would be the outcome of their preferred legal framework.
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:17am
      - leoj
        
        I see, murder is okay………….
        
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        July 8, 2022 11:31am
      - Batman
        
        People who pass laws that condemn women to die from preventable medical conditions should be charged with murder, yes.
        
        They are knowingly advocating for and acting in a way that will kill women.
        
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        July 8, 2022 11:51am
      - Rodion Raskolnikov
        
        The “forced birth crowd”? I love it when people completely overlook the fact that the woman and her male partner freely choose to have sex long before the actual birth takes place. If they acknowledge that the choice comes at conception, then they can’t make such ridiculous arguments based on choice to terminate. The choice has already been made. Do you think women magically become pregnant out of thin air?
        
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        July 8, 2022 1:19pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “seemingly prefer to focus on the suspended animation foetus and not the living”
        
        Using that logic, it’s OK to stab people in a coma (or under general anaesthetic) in the head???
        
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        July 10, 2022 1:49am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Sorry gump, but “the mother will die” argument has long sailed. In case you haven’t heard, cesarean sections have been around since forever and are incredibly common, and safe. The “mother will die” argument is propounded by the rabid abortionists and should be ignored whenever it is used.
      And if you are going to get into the argument of “non-viable fetus” or “birth defects”, then you have to also get into the argument regarding do you consider the “fetus” to be a baby human being. Then you flow into the old horny dog of historical killers dehumanising their victims to justify their killing. And by the way, by describing the “life” in the womb as a fetus, you are taking the dehumanising side of the argument.
      
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      July 8, 2022 3:27pm
    - Hebe123
      
      BS. I personally know of late abortions where the women in question avoided dealing with the situation unril after 16 weeks. They knew, but hadn’t made a decision.
      
      I’m personally pro choice – but not Lea I g it that late. Make abortions a free for all up to 10, 12 weeks, whatever arbitrary number, but beyond that only due to birth defects or whatever.
      
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      July 8, 2022 7:53pm
  - I remember when
    
    Abortion, freedom of speech, hate speech, left wing v right wing.
    The left have used noise to drown out the needs of any unfortunate aspects that require debate.
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:03am
- Ross Campbell
  
  I believe we elect our representatives to make these decisions on abortion and agree or disagree that’s the situation so I think you can probably put me in the bad person category as I am ambivalent about it all.
  However I will say I think this third trimester argument is a smokescreen along with the religion does not tell me this statement because obviously your arguments around abortion are religious and all abortions are your concern and not just the hot button third trimester you keep referring too.
  Your opinion is yours and you are entitled to it but let’s be honest, if you had your way pretty much all abortions would be banned in NZ from tomorrow.
  There I said it.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:48am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Onya’ Rosco!!
    
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    July 8, 2022 9:07am
  - Matt Long
    
    Well Mike, it’s kind of like this, I also would like to see all child abuse ended too, but I would particularly like to see cases where toddlers are bashed and tortured to death being eliminated.
    
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    July 8, 2022 9:21am
    - Ross Campbell
      
      Clap clap clap Matt.
      You officially qualify as a good person.
      
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      July 8, 2022 9:31am
    - Matt Long
      
      And I would be very disappointed if in a decade or so some “kind” neo pagan acolyte of Ardern’s got child abuse removed from the crimes act because cultural sensitivity.
      
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      July 8, 2022 9:33am
      - Batman
        
        A great way to make yourself look ridiculous.
        
        What was your view on the anti-smacking law, just by the by? I bet you weren’t a Sue Kedgley fan…
        
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        July 8, 2022 11:19am
      - Matt Long
        
        Thanks Batty, I was commenting only the other day how I missed your contributions.
        
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        July 8, 2022 2:02pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        We need Batman here Matt, to keep us on the straight and narrow, and not go off on tangents that go nowhere.
        Bit like Dad4J. Remember him?
        
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        July 8, 2022 2:23pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      @ Matt Long –
      Yeah , a lot of blow hard about abortion – not so much about the continued disgrace that is the horrific abuse and assault of babies and children already born here.
      What do the religious types on here have to say about that? Would they march and protest?
      New violent and jealous partners of needy women do not seem to be able to tolerate children who are not “theirs” so they bash them.
      How primitive is that.
      
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      July 8, 2022 9:41am
      - David Garrett
        
        Gravel: What do the religious types on here have to say about that? Would they march and protest?
        
        Your question is perfectly valid. I was part of the protest in Rotorua a few years ago expressing condemnation of the killing of Moko and the bullshit plea deal which saw his killers get convicted of manslaughter instead of the murder that it clearly was.
        
        Despite the appalling winter weather, It was apparently the biggest protest in Rotorua’s history; a reported 600 people marching from the lake to the courthouse where the killers were to be sentenced.
        
        I have no idea how many of that 600 were “religious types”, but the protest was mainly made up of Maori women of all ages. What was notably lacking was much support from local kaumatua – ONE guy – who was apparently pretty much a nobody in the Maori world – spoke to the crowd before the march set off.
        
        The rest did what they usually do when some Maori baby or infant is bashed to death – fuck all.
        
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        July 8, 2022 10:57am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yes Mike
    
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    July 8, 2022 9:29am
    - Ross Campbell
      
      If you definitively found out the truth you would no longer actually have anything to do all day because constantly writing “Yes Mike” seems to be your full time occupation.
      As long as you find it fulfilling then each to their own.
      
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      July 8, 2022 9:39am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Yes Mike. 😆
        
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        July 8, 2022 10:45am
      - blue collar
        
        Yes mike ….. geeeez , it is surprisingly fulfilling …. Give it a go Rossco !
        
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        July 8, 2022 3:01pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Do vegans have abortions? Just wondering……
    
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    July 8, 2022 9:43am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      And what about fellatio?
      
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      July 8, 2022 10:03am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Was that Placido Domingo or Pavarotti? Or were they tenors?
        
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        July 8, 2022 11:24am
- gump
  
  @Scott
  
  >”If you support abortion in the third trimester can you really claim that you are a good person?”
  
  The law exists to permit medical intervention in those sad and desperate cases where abortion becomes necessary to prevent death or suffering.
  
  Your argument is founded upon the fantasy that all pregnancies result in viable fetuses, and that serious medical conditions that will kill pregnant women don’t exist.
  
  Countries with laws that criminalise healthcare have literally killed women due to confusion, delays, and reluctance of medical to risk prosecution. This is the outcome that our laws avoid.
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:57am
  - David Garrett
    
    gump: You are misrepresenting the case and you know it.
    
    Other than those who object to pretty much all abortions for religious reasons, we are talking about abortions in the third trimester when any birth defect has long ago manifested itself.
    
    Yes, there will be a tiny number of cases where, to save the mother’s life, a late abortion is sadly necessary, but those numbers will literally be tiny: under the old legislation, 98% of abortions were supposedly done on mental health grounds.
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:03am
    - gump
      
      I am not misrepresenting the case at all. It’s not possible to detect all types of serious birth defects before a pregnancy is carried to term.
      
      The lives of pregnant women are routinely placed at risk in countries where outdated and overly rigid laws prevent doctors from offering life saving treatment. Here is one recent high profile example of a woman who was dying in Malta and had to be airlifted to another country where medical treatment was lawful.
      
      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-61959825.amp
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:29am
    - Gravelroad
      
      @DG re your comment above (no reply facility available):
      At the time of the Moko murder I was an occasional contributor on an established social media (family related) rural group .
      It was suggested that the group should make some sort of stand about what had happened to this child.
      However, debate about it was quickly shut down by the group’s moderators and a warning issued that as the people involved were “gang related” we had better all keep quiet and say nothing or there would be repercussions.
      I see Moko’s “mother” recently featured in the msm as a reformed character.
      No.
      And no to the cowards who wouldn’t speak up at the time for fear of gang intimidation and “visits”.
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:52am
    - mandk
      
      Come now, DG.
      
      If the mother’s life is at risk in the third trimester, the quickest and safest thing to do would be to deliver the baby by C-section.
      
      This would allow both mother and baby to live.
      
      There is absolutely no reason to kill the baby in these circumstances.
      
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      July 8, 2022 2:24pm
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        Having listened to both sides of the argument, I am torn between abortion and not mandk, but can see exactly the argument you are making. Having listened to Peter Hitchens on this, his logic was compelling. Though I’m still torn!!!
        
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        July 8, 2022 8:10pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Obfuscation of the worst kind. For most people with a conscience this is not what they are talking about and you know it. The go to for those without a valid argument is to gaslight. It doesn’t work when it is so blatant. It’s stupid.
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:26am
    - gump
      
      The law exists because the sad and desperate cases that it needs to solve also exist.
      
      The only ‘obfuscation’ here is the cloaked strategy that opponents of abortion are using to try and restrict access to medically necessary healthcare procedures. Opponents focus on late term procedures because they hope that by first establishing a legal “bright line” they can then focus on slowly moving that line over time in order to progressively restrict access to abortion.
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:37am
      - Matt Long
        
        Yes, all people who want abortion restrictions have a secret agenda to cause the death of pregnant people from ectopic pregnancies and similar issues according to the Jacindanistas.
        
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        July 8, 2022 1:09pm
      - gump
        
        @Matt Long
        
        Most anti-abortion activists are prepared to tolerate the deaths of pregnant women in order to achieve their larger goal of preventing all women from having access to abortions.
        
        They are willing to sacrifice the lives of strangers in the pursuit of their religious beliefs.
        
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        July 8, 2022 2:53pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        gump.
        That is the most ridiculous assertion I have ever heard. Where do you get your information? The Sataist handbook ?
        
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        July 8, 2022 4:45pm
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        What then, is your argument then gump? Spell it out, and let people rebut if they can.
        
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        July 8, 2022 8:11pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  So you would forbid abortion to save the mother’s life or to terminate a hopelessly deformed/unviable baby. And for some perverted reason you think those who wouldn’t are immoral?
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:33am
  - Taieri
    
    a hopelessly deformed/unviable baby
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    And how do we determine when a baby is “a hopelessly deformed/unviable baby”?
    
    I have no position on abortion, I’m just curious.
    
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    July 8, 2022 1:00pm
    - gump
      
      If only we had specialist doctors for obstetric and gynaecological medicine who have undergone years of training, regular peer review, and ongoing professional development to consider these difficult and challenging cases.
      
      Oh wait! We do…
      
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      July 8, 2022 2:58pm
    - Ehlana
      
      I think that is basically medical. I know it is possible for a baby to die before birth, but at such a late stage that the mother actually has to go through with the delivery. So it seems possible the baby could be dying in the womb, in which case abortion might be the best option. It would be a ghastly situation to find yourself in.
      
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      July 8, 2022 4:10pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Laws to prevent murder do not exist to govern the behaviour of normal people who don’t commit murder, they are there to restrict the actions of the people at the margins who do not think or behave normally or who are quite frankly evil.
    
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    July 8, 2022 1:33pm
    - Matt Long
      
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/15/the-gosnell-case-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
      For example.
      
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      July 8, 2022 1:59pm
      - gump
        
        Kermit Gosnell was operating outside of the regulations and standards of care in his own country. He was rightly shut down and prosecuted. His dangerous and unsafe practices would not be legal in New Zealand under any circumstances.
        
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        July 8, 2022 3:02pm
dave_c_

Yeeha !
Great to see Ardern squirming to respond to the question about being more popular overseas than at home.
As expected, all she could do is ‘Lie, Lie, Lie’
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July 8, 2022 8:09am
- graham
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jacinda-ardern-in-australia-pms-awkward-abc-question/EERJPSICWD3LN3LWAW3Z23MZXE/
  
  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ducked and weaved an awkward question about her popularity at home while visiting Australia.
  
  The 41-year-old leader has gained global recognition but has simultaneously seen her approval back home waning.
  
  In an interview on ABC’s 730 on Thursday night, host Sarah Ferguson touched on a potential sore point for Ardern.
  
  A smiling Ardern said her focus was on domestic issues rather than a perceived “global celebrity” status.
  
  “My total focus is at home. That’s what matters to me,” she said.
  
  Rumour has it that the interviewer was very professional and managed to avoid laughing out loud at that.
  
  Ardern has seen increasing voter dissatisfaction in recent months as the Covid pandemic and economic pressures take a toll on the country.
  
  It would appear that the people at home aren’t getting suckered quite so readily as the rest of the world.
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:23am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Becoming a bad habit//
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:30am
Tony Stuart

This is a terribly sad story, and an absolute clusterf*ck of agencies not talking to one another and stuffing it up.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/review-after-auckland-council-wrongly-tags-call-closes-case-into-woman-later-found-dead-in-parked-car/PN7KUA4EXVDCH4FTGFKY4EW7JI/

So much for Jacinda Ardern defending the number of people in emergency motels when she was last questioned in the House, because “under National, people were sleeping in cars”.
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July 8, 2022 8:19am
- pdm
  
  Inv we live in a nice area in the center of Hastings near Cornwall Park and regularly have people sleeping in cars in our street. Sometimes 3 or 4 vehicles a night.
  
  About 2 or 3 years ago I reported one to the Council after it had been there without moving for 2 or 3 days.
  
  The Council showed no interest whatsoever.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:38am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Why did I think nobody was sleeping in cars any more since Cindy put them in Motels?
    
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    July 8, 2022 8:50am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      They like it
      
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      July 8, 2022 9:31am
- Maggie Pie
  
  It does of course show the lengths some people will go to so they can say they live in Remuera.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:51am
  - rangitoto
    
    Can I park my camper outside your house? I’m getting bored with Kohi.
    
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    July 8, 2022 10:04am
  - Nukuleka
    
    You’re all heart, aren’t you Maggie. Some poor 70 year old woman is found dead in her car after sleeping in it for months and all you can do is make a flippant, smart arsed joke of her situation. Ever heard the phrase ‘There but for the grace of God…’?
    
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    July 8, 2022 10:22am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Oh calm down Nookie….where’s your ‘funny-bone’ man?
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:10am
      - blue collar
        
        You’re hilarious Maggie !!
        Never mind the humourless sticklers , keep it coming .
        
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        July 8, 2022 3:05pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Maggie: Very droll…a rare uptick from me…the comment being even more welcome because it doesn’t mention your real or imagined partner.
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:05am
    - Maggie's partner
      
      DG: That’s because I am not speaking to her at the moment, after she let me down very badly in the semi final of the mixed doubles
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:13am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      HEY… great to see you back commenting Davey!
      
      It all went a bit quiet there for a while when ‘Bung-Fizzer’ gave you a bit of a serve. LOL!!
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:17am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    just plain nasty Maggie.
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:34am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Coincidentally, I used to go out with a guy once who was dyslexic…
      his name was Harry as well 😀
      
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      July 8, 2022 12:21pm
  - leoj
    
    Thumbs up from Jimmy Carr…..
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:38am
- Yvette
  
  Tony, without detracting at all from your very serious comment, I would as an complete aside, point out you may now say “clusterfuck” without the “*” because Jacinda has normalised it yesterday in her internationally reported speech in Sydney –
  
  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s blunt assessment of Pacifc region in major foreign policy speech
  “It’s grim out there.”
  Those are the words Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has used to describe the state of geopolitics in a foreign policy address in Sydney.
  “The honest reality is that the world is bloody messy,” she said.
  That also includes the state of global foreign policy.
  “In politics, we call it a cluster… we just edit out the other part.”
  Ardern gave a major foreign policy address on Thursday at the Lowy Institute, an independent foreign policy think tank in Sydney.
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/07/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-s-blunt-assessment-of-pacifc-region-in-major-foreign-policy-speech.html
  
  I’ll make pointed reference to ‘cluster fuck’ – that will endear me to an Aussie audience and score another realistic aspect to my personality internationally :o)
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:56am
  - My
    
    Yeah, actually a reflection on JA’s inability to understand and articulate the real global political issues and challenges. So reverts to cheap cuss words.
    Get ya money back on the Comms Degree.
    
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    July 8, 2022 9:38am
    - oldfella
      
      My: Show a bit or respect, please. Our Cinders is amazeballs. She’s even a fashion icon. And we all thought she was just a bag lady who bought her clothes from the local op shop. //
      How Jacinda Ardern is winning at fashion diplomacy
      https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/how-jacinda-ardern-is-winning-at-fashion-diplomacy-20220706-p5azf6.html
      
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      July 8, 2022 10:48am
    - graham
      
      Was it whilst studying for her Comms degree that she learned words such as “jepradise”?
      
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      July 8, 2022 10:59am
    - kowtow
      
      Like the really shit comediennes.
      
      They think swearing will be a point of difference for “impact” and get them noticed in a crowded field of underperformers .
      
      And by golly we know she underperforms.
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:14am
- kevn
  
  Those (not) caring folk in Remmers. The woman was not some vagrant type by all accounts. All the locals could do is ring the council and grizzle.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:57am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Stuck up curtain twitchers exercising the great NZ tradition of anonymous petty snitching. Lovely.
    
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    July 10, 2022 2:05am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Gosh, I don’t know Tony. It seems to me entirely reasonable that an elderly lady would go freedom camping in a Suzuki Swift, in an inner city suburb, for several months. I mean, only last summer I took my family of 4 freedom camping around the Auckland CBD for a few months in a Fiat Bambina! //
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:27am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Not only do you not count people on Jobseeker as unemployed in NZ, leading to a very low unemployment rate, we can count people living in cars as “freedom campers”.
  Children going to school hungry can just be called “periodic fasters”.
  
  No problem is too big to solve, if you just change your perspective~!
  
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  July 8, 2022 11:55am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Yes, you’d think by the very name of the benefit that someone on a JOBSEEKER benefit would actually be seeking a job! I was chatting with a person from MSD the other week, and they commented that at the moment, pretty much anyone who wants a job can get one, and their pool of available talent is both pretty thin, and not particularly attractive to prospective employers.
    
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    July 8, 2022 12:22pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      $50+k on offer from Wellington City Council to be a swimming pool guard. 12 vacancies, few takers.
      
      I note from the same article that the average starting salary for journalists is just $42k (snicker), which puts their obsessive jealousy of anyone else’s success into perspective.
      
      Hopefully, a few of the Stuffed crowd will pack it in & head to the pool.
      
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      July 8, 2022 2:39pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        You need some skills to be a pool guard…..
        Observant
        Able to swim
        First aid quals
        
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        July 8, 2022 8:09pm
Lee C

Why are people ‘on the Right’ so clumsy at getting their messages across to others?
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July 8, 2022 8:19am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Like that, you mean?
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:34am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Lee c why? Maybe they’re not primarily concerned with other peoples feelings and just want to get the message across?
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:39am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Because while the Right act in good faith, the Left have spent decades redefining words and concepts, putting a negative spin on the various strengths and values that the Right hold dear.
  
  It’s hard to talk about self responsibility and accountability, family values etc when these are perceived by many to be negative concepts.
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:08am
Nukuleka

The families of dementia patients at a modern, expensive care facility in Christchurch received an email yesterday from admin staff asking for their help in toileting, dressing, feeding and entertaining their loved ones because the facility simply can’t find the staff to fill the vacancies they have. This is a disgrace and is a sad reflection of the inept policies of our current government both in the areas of health and immigration.
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July 8, 2022 8:24am
- surfing
  
  Here’s a doctor who says the surgical waiting lists are the worst he’s seen in 30 years.
  
  Its OK though, Andrew Little put together a taskforce back in May.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:29am
  - Hebe123
    
    Link?
    
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    July 8, 2022 8:49am
  - kevn
    
    @surfing… do-little is his correct title. Ask any nurse.
    
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    July 8, 2022 8:58am
  - rangitoto
    
    Andrew is employing witch doctors to sort out the problem.
    
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    July 8, 2022 10:08am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Don’t worry, Andrew has it all under control. He is organising a militant protest to draw everyone’s attention to this untenable situation and he will be leading, as always, from the very front.
    
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    July 8, 2022 4:41pm
- Matt Long
  
  And in forcing unvaxed out of age care, and in creating generational welfare bludgers who do not contribute to society and are unemployable.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:31am
  - kowtow
    
    There are legions of long term “unemployed” /sickness bennies who should be working but welfarism has created this labour shortage and it is literally generational .
    
    And the romanticisation by the media /left , of drug culture is part of the problem too.
    
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    July 8, 2022 9:42am
- ClanMcleod
  
  End the mandates on health workers. Then ask for forgiveness for being so fucking stupid and insensitive, particularly during an apparent “pandemic”. I mean, how stupid can it get?
  
  “Duh, we have a health emergency, I’ve got a great idea! Let’s force them to do something they don’t want and if they disagree we’ll sack them!!”
  
  The brilliance of Brenda will be remembered forever.
  “Doing a Brenda” will be a new way of describing a complete and utter clusterfuck, “Shit, I left the gas on and the house was blown up, what a Brenda…..”
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:04am
  - blue collar
    
    Did a Brenda today .got 2 sets of work boots , black n brown , 6am darkness put one of each on …. Can’t even dress myself , done a Brenda
    
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    July 8, 2022 3:13pm
- Hebe123
  
  Jus heardmichael Woods assay that it’s employers faults they can’t find workers for low paid jobs as they should pay more. I assume that includes nurses and care workers.
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:10am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    We clearly need to pay our Ministers more, as the ones we have are completely sh*te
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:32am
- Sacha
  
  Privately owned nursing homes/care facilities have a history of over-working and underpaying staff. They use unqualified caregivers, and pay the (compulsory) RNs at minimum hourly rate – and then complain when said RNs leave for better pay in public hospitals.
  Their business model is to make a profit, and not to risk that profit by paying generous wages, or to empty more staff than they are obliged to.
  Looking after people is expensive, but no-one wants to do it, or pay others to do so.
  
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  July 8, 2022 11:50am
  - artemisia
    
    Not to worry, the private care industry has the option to close care beds, and indeed whole care facilities, if not financially viable. And it is happening.
    
    Some will be longer in hospital as a result.
    
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    July 8, 2022 3:56pm
westernScientist

Further restrictions on food production in the Netherlands are not being taken well. But the authorities are taking it even worse

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/video-dutch-police-fire-shots-during-farmer-tractor-protest/

Watch the video, it seems pretty unprovoked to me (without the full context), the tractor drives passed them not toward them or anything.
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July 8, 2022 8:33am
- ClanMcleod
  
  It’s completely unprovoked. It’s a tractor ffs, not a gangstermobile!!
  
  UK Column have covered it in yesterday’s show.
  
  https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-6th-july-2022
  
  Go to 12: 14secs for the Holland protest coverage. The whole show is worth watching, the first story is re the UK online harms bill and the threats to freedom of speech. Very relevant as similar legislation is coming here.
  
  The crackdowns against peaceful protests, particularly in Canada, NZ and others has gone to another level in Holland. Did anyone see any of this in NZ mainstream media? I’m genuinely interested. I don’t watch NZ TV ever. I’ve searched the Whoreald and can’t find a single reference.
  
  The protest is big enough, but the fact that police are firing live rounds at a protester driving a tractor down the road doesn’t generate at least an inquiring article tells you everything you need to know about the media. There is another clip going round showing a cop pulling his pistol and pointing it into the cab of a tractor. Madness.
  
  The media are either controlled from top to bottom or completely and utterly inept. Either way they are not fit for purpose. End of story.
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:22am
  - Rodion Raskolnikov
    
    By any objective standard, the Dutch protest is extremely newsworthy. It is a huge and significant event. But, this is yet another example that the “news” networks are not at all interested in news, only in promulgating contrived narratives that serve an agenda. The agenda of the narrative networks is to present the agenda of the elite decision-makers as having broad public approval. Something like the Dutch protests, the Canadian protests, and our own Parliament protests run counter to this objective, so they are not covered, or if they are, the coverage is so distorted as to be worthless. If you want a clear picture of the reality of the world you live in, you will never get it from the legacy media.
    
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    July 8, 2022 1:45pm
  - mawm
    
    These unwarranted overreaching attacks by police on what have essentially been peaceful protesters in Ottawa, Melbourne, Wellington and now The Netherlands all have leaders that have been schooled by the WEF – Trudeau, Morrison, Ardern and now Rutte.
    
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    July 8, 2022 2:45pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      There is footage emerging of Dutch police dressed like antifa with the face masks etc inciting violence. I’m convinced the same thing happened in Wellington.
      In the Dutch protest the protesters recognise these people aren’t part of the protest and chase them. The undercovers quickly retreat with batons out and are picked up in a marked police van.
      
      https://article.wn.com/view-bitchute/2022/07/07/Undercoverpolice_tried_to_infiltrate_the_Dutch_farmers_prote/
      
      This is now being disputed in some mainstream outlets who are saying that it’s actually from anti covid policy protests from a year ago. I don’t know for certain which story is the more accurate, I have zero faith in mainstream media. The point is though, does it really matter where it happened? What it clearly demonstrates is the police using undercovers to inflame a situation to give them the false authority to use force against peaceful protesters.
      This isn’t going to end well.
      
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      July 8, 2022 4:42pm
Tony Stuart

So, if one conflict of interest is avoidable, two are really careless and three conflicts of interest are absolutely inexcusable, how should we describe a FOURTH conflict of interest involving a company owned by the husband of a senior Minister of the Crown?

https://twitter.com/kehetauhauaga/status/1544933401672617984

I mean, on one hand, you have to be impressed with William Gannin Ormsby’s breadth of skills over a whole range of areas, but the optics of this are dreadful for the Government. It’s beyond time that the Auditor-General was asked to have a look-see.
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July 8, 2022 8:33am
- pdm
  
  Inv- just a thought.
  
  He may Tender for all of this work so he can get out of the house when wifey is home!!
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:41am
- Matt Long
  
  Perhaps they’re waiting for Ormsby to be appointed to the office of the auditor general before the investigation commences.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:58am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Not bad for a British Army medium ranked NCO. Think he rose to the giddy height of Corporal
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:07am
  - cmm
    
    “medium ranked NCO”???
    
    A Corporal is pretty much the lowest rank (other than lance corporal which is really a junior corporal).
    
    From the bottom: Private (which is not really a rank at all), then Lance Corporal, then Corporal.
    
    A medium-ranked NCO would be a sergeant or staff sergeant.
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:04am
    - kowtow
      
      Etymology alert .
      
      Privates and NCO’s make up literally the “rank and file” of a body of soldiers on parade or presumably in formation on the battle fields of old. Usually a platoon at the most basic level. ( Not getting into sections here).
      
      The officers were /are not part of that particular formation, which are the ranks and files of the platoon ( by length and file by width as you look at it from the front) . The officers are on their own line in front of the platoon that makes up the R and F . And in battle either lead from the front or y from behind from where they could see and direct .
      
      On that basis I’d opine that the origin of “rank” is very tied up with the private . And that private is in turn a rank , just the most junior .
      
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      July 8, 2022 1:39pm
  - kowtow
    
    Crickey .
    
    Look what happened the last time a corporal got over promoted.
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:17am
- oldfella
  
  Tony: has anyone actually sighted Ormsby’s CV? You know, what businesses do before appointing someone to a job. //
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:54am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Single line CV that will get him any govt funded job he desires: Married to longest serving labour Maori MP.
    
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    July 8, 2022 1:02pm
curry4me

https://www.bitchute.com/video/eeSepsVjfsk/

Massive Uprising as Dutch Protestors Crush Leftist Globalists!

There’s a massive uprising going on in the Netherlands and it promises to change the world like never before! We’re going to see video from the ground out there, we’re going to see how Dutch politicians are trying but failing in their Trudeau-like crackdown, and stick with me to the very end of this video when I’ll reveal how this massive uprising is part of a changing world order that’s happening right before our very eyes! [12:28]
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July 8, 2022 8:38am
- Inandout
  
  curry, interesting that Hosking had to be dragged to admit that the MSM knew what was going on in Holland and ‘was reporting it’.
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:32am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Indeed. The Dutch protests are a massive story. How it is “not” reported is an indication of just how controlled the media are. Mind you it was similar with the Canadian trucker protests. The only thing we saw in the controlled media were the smear and hit pieces on them. We are ruled by tyrants.
    
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    July 8, 2022 10:25am
- Nickc2
  
  Hosking was very dismissive of the Dutch Farmer’s protest this morning and I for one can’t understand why.
  He was also very collaborative with Murray Olds (a rabid Australian leftie MSM opinion for sale talking head) on Cindy’s speech to the Lowy Institute (a Political Think Tank). I would have thought he would have sided with Greg Sheridan of the Australian Newspaper where he lambasted Cindy for talking crap.
  https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/peta-credlin/jacinda-ardern-gets-lavish-praise-for-speaking-nonsense/video/e4e9e560c955559e1201d6c15f313c32
  Has the worm turned?
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:42am
  - Inandout
    
    Nick, the 8am slot with his wife and the other chap ‘wrapping up the week’ has reached a new low. I couldn’t believe his constantly ailing partner describing her latest flu side effects then they got onto bloody sleeping aids. That slot’s sponsor should really look for better hosts because Hosking is showing signs of being severely thrashed by his bosses and being turned into a State funded wimp. And then we get to Olds.
    
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    July 8, 2022 10:20am
    - Nickc2
      
      Please don’t get me wrong. I generally enjoy his show but this morning it was far too contrived for me.
      Yes, that segment with his Mrs and the other nobody was too crass by far.
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:00am
      - Nickc2
        
        Did you notice this morning that completely out of nowhere and context Hosking said “Willie Jackson has had nothing to do with the production of this show” or words similar? Is that code for “word has come from the Beehive” etc?
        Maybe he’s been told to keep things seemly until after the coup?
        
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        July 8, 2022 12:19pm
    - kowtow
      
      Hosking is way over rated .
      
      He thinks that twit Rudd is the bees knees.
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:20am
      - Nickc2
        
        I have to disagree with him on that. There isn’t a word past or present to describe Rudd’s arrogance, stupidity, and self-adulation.
        
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        July 8, 2022 12:13pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        The trans tasman media often have warped and laughable views of life on the other side of the ditch. For instance The Platform often talk to Aus lefty propagandist Peter Fitzgerald who thinks NZ Labour is the light of the world!!! Both parties are barking up the wrong tree.
        
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        July 10, 2022 2:11am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Yes, his comment about the lack of media attention on the Dutch farmer actions, was crap. Disapointed.
    He said it was on the station (ZB) and “there is no conspiracy”. Well, I didn’t hear it on ZB, and I even went looking for coverage in NZ online, and I still dont understand the context beyond lines on Twitter.
    
    Perhaps there is no conspiracy, as the NZ Media can do a crap job of covering international events without any large coordination or planning – they are just organically and naturally crap!
    And yes, the talk about blankets and other dross on Mike’s chat this morning was just a waste of good air time. How about discuss the events in NZ, like a panel of media observers about events of national significance. I really don’t give as fuck about what they think about hot water bottles, but I do care about manipulative racists and nepotism in our parliament.
    
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    July 8, 2022 12:50pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-FF3LyCWso

Enough is enough! Lets care for those who care for us!

Hospital parking needs sorting once for all! I will go hammer and tong to sort this if you will vote me in as Mayor or Council.
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July 8, 2022 8:38am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBXveuWeXF4

Thinking Nationally Acting Locally.

We need patriot Kiwis in local and central Government. Both are critically important. I need all the help I can get for the Local elections held in October. BUT, we to keep in mind the General National election for next year: The Independent Coalition model is A MUST if we are going to have any success in turning our national back around toward recovery of its heart and soul.
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July 8, 2022 8:39am
Tomtoddy

It is pretty clear Jane Clifton received from the ninth floor one of those “write-something-bad-about-Luxon” or “we-will cut-your-funding” letters.

Her effort in the Ferald is pathetic, mostly gibberish. There is some nasty, dangerous elements too.

It amazes me the way the left feminazies and media generally have twisted the Supreme Court finding. All the court said was its not a constitutional decision for the court to make. It belongs at state level.
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July 8, 2022 8:41am
- pdm
  
  TT – perhaps Mallard wrote it for her.
  
  Doing irrational and nasty comes easily to him.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:59am
- Matt Long
  
  One can hardly be surprised at what Mrs Trevor writes.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:59am
- Batman
  
  Such a letter would be official information.
  
  You should request it from the appropriate Minister and prove it once and for all!
  
  No? Oh, ok, you prefer to live in a dream world.
  
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  July 8, 2022 11:23am
  - leoj
    
    Meanwhile, you live in two worlds – one as a moderator, and the other as a commentator – ON THE SAME BLOG.
    
    Laughable!
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:48am
    - Batman
      
      Oh grow up. So do the other Mods but you can’t pick on them because they are not open about it.
      
      I’m not moderating you at all so I cannot see how you can have a problem, especially given you are replying to me.
      
      Sounds more like you just wanted to throw muck because you don’t like what I’m saying.
      
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      July 8, 2022 12:17pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Why would Jane Clifton waste her time & ours writing about an event happening far away in a country about which we know & care little?
  
  If she really wanted to, she could start with the on-going war in Yemen.
  
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  July 8, 2022 11:35am
Frank the tank

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/07/07/denzel-washington-skips-medal-of-freedom-ceremony-with-joe-biden/

Not so much for the story but the picture of creepy Joe. You know he was secretly wanting to take a whiff of Biles’ hair.
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July 8, 2022 8:41am
- Inandout
  
  Frank, is not that oft used excuse of ‘testing positive’ akin to the old saying ‘don’t come near me I have the clap’? Mahuta, Ardern and a host of others use it when they don’t want confrontation.
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:24am
Maggie Pie

This sounds incredible…..

Kaiapoi man who was Tasered, Pepper Sprayed, then shot multiple-times by the Police in the abdomen, chest and limbs, has been granted name suppression and remanded to appear in court on July 25.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/129203796/man-shot-by-police-in-kaiapoi-facing-multiple-charges

When my partner read this, he said he’d like to see the Cops take a more Soft-Nosed approach.
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July 8, 2022 8:42am
- Libertarians are right
  
  The fact is that Pepper Spray and Tasering aren’t as affective as most people think they are. Criminals often keep going after being shot even, especially when on drugs.
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:01am
  - Cassandra
    
    America changed to .45 calibre because .38 wouldn’t stop charging enemy soldiers (in the Philippines 100+ years ago). However, unless the target is high a Taser usually works OK.
    
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    July 8, 2022 9:23am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Meth head
    
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    July 8, 2022 9:38am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Soft-nosed approach? I have no idea what he means
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:38am
  - Dave
    
    Even I, a firearms dum-dum, understand MP’s partner’s remark.
    
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    July 8, 2022 10:06am
    - graham
      
      “dum-dum” – I see what you did there 🙂
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:18am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      You missed me like a barn door……
      
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      July 8, 2022 2:28pm
Rusty

Jacinda’s recent comments that no country should take sides i.e Chinas totalitarian ambitions in the South Pacific is confirmation she is living in Ga Ga land.

What is she all about — does she believe in defending democracy and personal freedoms?
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July 8, 2022 8:44am
Frank the tank

So Sri Lanka a socialist ‘democracy’ has failed and straight into the arms of Putin.

Another example of socialism being a failed theory.
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July 8, 2022 8:45am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Great model for Jaspinda to learn from//
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:40am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Yes indeed. An example of if you fuck too many things up you can trigger a national crash.
    
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    July 10, 2022 2:18am
I remember when

‘Natural’ to bike and board: Kapiti Observer:
Paul Callister, an advocate with Save Our Rail, a group calling for the return of long-distance NZ passenger rail.
For visiting his daughter in Palmerston North he takes the train to Paraparaumu, then changes to the Capital Connection to Palmerston North, before pedalling to her house in Awapuni.
Driving could have shaved off a few minutes.

Of course, it doesn’t read as well if you were to mention it arrives in Palmerston North around 7.20 pm.
Okay if it fits your schedule and no mention of it being cold and dark in Winter and, maybe, wet.

Can you imagine if this article detailed a ‘right wing’ project.
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July 8, 2022 9:05am
I remember when

Another Public Transport Triumph.
“Capital’s Matariki transport issue; Kapiti Observer:
At least 100,000 descended on Wellington Waterfront.
Many people were then left stranded as packed services left without them.
Spillover bus services were also unable to meet the demand.

Still the GHG savings would have cheered them up as they waited and wondered.
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July 8, 2022 9:12am
I remember when

Leading Ngati Kahungunu into future: DomPost:
Of the 19,695 members of the iwi eligible to vote, just 4113 took part in the election.

Colonialism and racism strikes again?
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July 8, 2022 9:16am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING…

‘New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gets lavish, wonderful praise for talking absolute shit’.

– Greg Sheriden (Editor. The Australian)

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1544987131583467520
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July 8, 2022 9:23am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

From Alaska:
So you assholes think you’re bad now because you jumped me!?? ….I pulled up to MY house, got out of the car and was immediately attacked. They hit me in my face, my arms and my neck. I fought hard as I could, but there was too many of them. I kept thinking if I can just get in my house I’m going to KILL them all….swinging all the way to my door, I was running and hoping I didn’t drop my keys. The streets are one thing but attacking me at MY house…in front of my family?!!! OH HELL NO!!! ALL of you are going to die tonight. I get in my house and grab my weapon and I prayed for strength…braced myself and went back outside. They came at me again …but this time I was ready. I sprayed them all……… DIE DIE DIE!!!!!!!!…I was so mad…….I hate mosquitoes……LOL!!! copy and paste to trick your friends and family … Thanks Mia !
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July 8, 2022 9:24am
- kevn
  
  @SteveO… Sounds like Fiordland.
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:36am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    In Alaska they are huge. Body is as long as my thumbnail. I have been followed by a swarm of them, an bunch about 6M round. So many that you can not see through the swarm. Just went and stood in the BBQ smoke.
    
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    July 8, 2022 9:43am
- Dairy Flat
  
  The mosquitoes up there are legendary. In Denali National Park the wife got bitten through her clothing by a swarm of them, big as Aussie blowflies.
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:03am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The Canadians used to call them the flying false teeth. Only a couple of months in the year was it safe to go into the forests.
    
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    July 8, 2022 10:39am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    We bought a pack called “Deet” Two aerosol cans to spray on exposed skin and a sort of epipen.
    One of our elderly Alaskan friends got bit hard so I gave her the pen.
    My partner used the Deet, but I did not bother, the bastards just followed me but I never was bitten.
    Maybe they don’t like blood contaminated with Jack Daniels/Crown Royal. IDK
    
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    July 8, 2022 2:46pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Or have been eating curry & chili for a few days. 🙂
      
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      July 8, 2022 4:54pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Moose meat. Independence day weekend 2015.
        80 acre bloc, about 35 of us. BBQ, quad bikes, campfire in an oil pipe ring, drinking alcohol and shooting targets with one of the many guns.
        How’s this? Tim Shields, a cop, 5 shot 44 revolver. Tim says the only thing this gun will not stop is an elephant or a blue whale.
        Alcohol and guns? We were all responsible and instructed on guns
        
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        July 9, 2022 10:03am
krazykiwi

In case anyone missed it, here a pic of that moronic Air New Zealand passenger covering their infant’s entire face with a surgical face mask, with holes cut out for his/her eyes.

This is what Ardern’s fear porn has done to so many.
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July 8, 2022 9:25am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The pink terror just had to provide a comment.
  I really think is was a prank, proving that Kiwis have a sense of humour, but there is always one, one who gets triggered!
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:48am
Yvette

For a dim, dull and wet morning –

Have you completed your Tax Return this year?
And is it accurate?
This example shows the importance of accuracy in your Tax Return.
IRD has emailed back the Form to a man in Avondale after he answered one of the questions in a manner that did not satisfy them.

In response to the question, “Do you have anyone dependent on you?”, the man wrote –
“Yes, 32,000 illegal immigrants, 13,000 gang members, 102,000 unemployed, 11,000 criminals plus, still in that category: 121 self-serving, lying ponces in our Parliament, and the entire staff of Auckland City Council”

The IRD stated that the response he gave was unacceptable.
The man emailed back to IRD asking “OK – Who did I leave out?”
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July 8, 2022 9:29am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Splendid! Though he did miss out most of the bureaucracy.
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:41am
Maggie Pie

Have you noticed how many well-educated people are complete fukwits?
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July 8, 2022 9:33am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Some of the thickos are fuckwits too, almost like it is a secret game
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:49am
- Nickc2
  
  I’ve worked with many of them Maggie. They’re usually the ones who decorate their office walls with Arts Diplomas and the like.
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:56am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    In an engineering workshop, the young guys would do things with steel/drills/hammers/screwdrivers/even heavy metalworking machinery, the I would not think possible.
    “How the fuck did you do that” I asked. Blank stare like I had 3 heads!
    
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    July 8, 2022 2:51pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Who are we going for in the final Mags:
  
  Kung-flu Novak or the Melbourne Mentalist?
  
  One thing’s for sure there will plenty of sport wokesters’ that won’t be happy.
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:27am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Settle down, Frank. Novak isn’t actually in the final – yet. He has to play the UK/kiwi in the semis, and while all the money will be on the Serb, that doesn’t mean that Norrie might not get up. Sport can throw up some very interesting results.
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:26am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Wouldn’t that be a turn-up for the books; a Wimbledon final between a Kiwi-Pom and an Ocker!
      
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      July 8, 2022 12:27pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I do enjoy the Women playing. Longer volleys. There seems to be a knew gamestyle happening. The quick ones are winning against the hard hitters. I was a Swiss Miss follower.
    Serena spat the dummy.
    The guys get angrier and smash the racket.
    
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    July 8, 2022 2:58pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      I think the volleys are the same length they’ve always been, but the rallies are definitely taking longer 🙂
      
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      July 9, 2022 9:32am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I stand corrected, I could not think of the term
        
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        July 9, 2022 10:05am
- Frank the tank
  
  Every day, every hour, every minute…..
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yeah Frank. Engineering workshop, I just watch them when they are about to do a project.
    What the hell is he going to do now? Unbelievable, the shit they get up to.
    
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    July 8, 2022 3:06pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Hard not to notice when the MSM is full of them.
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:44am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Have you been listening to Michael Baker again Maggie?
  
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  July 8, 2022 11:13am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    BOOM!!!
    
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    July 8, 2022 3:08pm
graham

Oh dear … Jill Biden has to remind her husband to say “God Bless America” during his 4th of July speech.

https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/jill-biden-swoops-in-to-save-a-lost-joe-biden/video/c3402a9c335510763e4c4c99bc2b1a91

And he still doesn’t do it, instead handing the microphone to Jill!

It really is quite pitiful.
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July 8, 2022 10:02am
- krazykiwi
  
  Remember, plenty around here – including our kindly host – wanted Biden instead of Trump even when fully apparent that Biden cognition was failing fast.
  
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  July 8, 2022 10:29am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Biden is a disaster foisted on us by the US elite.
    
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    July 8, 2022 10:46am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I swear I just heard someone yell out “NANCY PELOSI”
      Could be just those voices in my head arguing again.
      
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      July 8, 2022 3:11pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  That is elder abuse. It’s criminal what they are doing.
  
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  July 8, 2022 11:14am
  - Batman
    
    Yes, ginning up edited videos and soundbites to continue a fake story of cognitive issues.
    
    It is truly slime all stuff, and probably criminal defamation.
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:28am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Hypocrite much
      Your lack of self awareness is amazing
      You behaved like that for years
      
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      July 8, 2022 11:41am
    - graham
      
      Fair enough Batman … how about you provide a link to an unedited video so we can see the full context.
      
      Shouldn’t be too difficult to find, should it. I’ll wait.
      
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      July 8, 2022 12:00pm
    - graham
      
      But also, Batman, please note that this is from Sky News. “The Media“.
      
      Remember, it’s “The Media” we’re meant to trust in this era of misinformation and disinformation. It’s “The Media” who adhere to rigorous standards, are scrupulously monitored by regulatory bodies, who fact-check and research and will publish ONLY the truth. It’s the cesspits of that nasty horrible social media you can’t trust, right? “The Media” is where you go to find the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Hell, we’re constantly being told by everybody that “The Media” is the sole source of unadulterated truth, it must be true, right?
      
      Right?
      
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      July 8, 2022 12:14pm
      - Batman
        
        Sky News Aus right?
        
        Yes not at all leaning on the scales at that joint eh? 🤣🤣🤣
        
        It’s chum for the clicks, which apparently many are apparently happy to provide if it makes them feel superior.
        
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        July 8, 2022 12:23pm
      - graham
        
        I … I’m shocked, Batman.
        
        You actually seem to be inferring that, maybe, just maybe, we can’t trust the media and …
        
        NO! Sorry, but just … no. I won’t have it. We CAN trust the media – ALL the media – implicitly. I know this because they told us so. THEY’RE the ones who do all the fact-checking, are scrupulously monitored by regulatory bodies, who uphold the very highest of journalistic integrity and standards. They would never … mislead, or publish anything out of context, would they?
        
        No, of course they wouldn’t. I simply won’t have anything said against the media. When everything falls; when brave men quaver and falter; when desperate people cry “But who can we trust?”, I will quietly and confidently tell them:
        
        “Trust the media”.
        
        Remember that, folks. It could save your life. Just … “trust the media”.
        
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        July 8, 2022 1:03pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      You’ve been watching the Ardern covid adverts again haven’t you……
      
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      July 8, 2022 2:11pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It is sad when the Dems know he has been unwell for years – but he was their only ticket. How Kamala got to be VP I will never know.
    Still, back to Joe, he does not even know he is POTUS. He is still in VP mode from a few years ago.
    In some ways it does make me angry that the Democrats will stoop so low to win. Don’t worry, they can go way lower, this is just a start.
    
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    July 8, 2022 3:16pm
Zapper

So ECan is getting close to pushing for a law to be passed which will allow 2 unelected members to have full voting rights on the council, because apparantly, Ngai Tahu do not have a voice. This is another anti-democracy move. ECan are apparently unaware that anyone can run for council.
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July 8, 2022 10:07am
Suze Wainwright

So Audrey Young’s delivered her weekly political brickbat to Jacinda for getting her comments about kiwis in Aus not getting welfare under ScoMo’s govt as ‘dead wrong’ ‘and she (Ardern) has not owned the error.’

Good on you Audrey – even though Jacinda would just blame some poor underling in ‘her Office.’
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July 8, 2022 10:30am
Maggie Pie

Just happened to catch the tail-end of a talkback caller to ZB telling Kerry Woodham….
‘that since she’s had to go on the unemployment benefit, basic food costs have become sooo astronomical in this country, that she finds herself having to live on Chickpeas three days a week!’
Tells host….”she’s seriously thinking of packing-up and moving to Australia”.

TBH, I doubt ‘Chickpeas’ would be any cheaper over there anyway?

Just saying.
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July 8, 2022 11:03am
- Loddenthinks
  
  No, they wouldn’t. The same 400gm can of Edgell’s chickpeas is NZ$1.90 here (Countdown) and A$1.70 there (Coles). You’re welcome.
  
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  July 8, 2022 12:38pm
  - Spring Bank Westie
    
    On special at Woolworths in Oz for U$1.20 this week, maybe she should go?
    
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    July 8, 2022 1:37pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  If the answer is only ever to give more money to people who don’t work, the whole developing shithole that NZ is becoming will eventually collapse.
  A welfare state still requires productive people, so it cant be made too attractive to sit at home and collect free money.
  The way to earn more money is to seek education or work experience or work history, and seek a better class of job.
  Start now, Miss Chickpea-fatigue.
  
  If is not enough to simply pay the lowest skilled people more, or give beneficiaries more, but to provide opportunities, incentives and encouragement for people to advance.
  A very close look at families on intergenerational welfare is a start, and the long term unemployed.
  Even if they need to pick up litter or something, they need to get off their chuffs; unless they are stuck in an iron lung or have no arms or legs.
  And damn it all, uplift at risk children, and move then away into state schools and state care if need be.
  
  Never going to happen though.
  NZ is just going to suck harder, go softer and yet become harder to endure.
  If the government really must give money away, they need to start making some money of their bloody own!
  Better to make people pay a % into a charity of their choice than pay tax to the government, as you KNOW they are going to blow for too much of it for no great result even on core areas, or even worse allocate it to something utterly useless (transgender art therapy, Covid lapel pins, or Maori consultancy anyone?).
  
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  July 8, 2022 1:19pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Baaaa! Nice dig!
  
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  July 8, 2022 3:18pm
Local Miller

What’s with employment law and the idea of an “internship”?

Liebour don’t want the 90 day trial period, they hate the youth wage and are pushing up the minimum wage. We apparently have a labor shortage with companies struggling to find staff. So why does my daughter have a problem getting work, and are these offers even legal.

My daughter’s a recent graduate with a degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, finishing top of her class. She’s struggling to find work, and the two offers she has on the table are for UNPAID INTERNSHIPS of up to 3 months! One where they have stated up front that the role won’t lead to a permanent position.

I understand the concept of an internship as part of your degree, but to expect someone with a relevant degree to work for 3 months for free is unacceptable to me. Their justification is that they have to “train her up” into the role, but isn’t that just part of the cost of hiring new staff? Don’t you work that into the fact that you need to look after staff and keep staff turnover down so you don’t spend too much money retraining new staff?

Is it even legal outside of a study program to hire someone as an intern with absolutely no pay? Surely the least they should offer is minimum wage?

To create a more complete picture, she’s a non-smoker, drinks minimally drives her own car, is well dressed and articulate, doesn’t do drugs, etc. and over 25. She has supported herself since completing year 13, gone through other art related diploma courses and had regular work until she went to university full time in 2019, so not a slouch by any means.
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July 8, 2022 11:13am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  But but but – surely the Unions are all over this like a rash!
  
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  July 8, 2022 11:40am
- trout
  
  My guess is an ‘internship’ is, in effect a proxy for a 90 day trial. Employment law has employers tied up in knots when investing in new staff. Even the suggestion of taking your daughter on as a permanent hire probably has legal implications. She just has to suck it up; work for 3 months, prove herself, gain real world experience and build up a CV.
  
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  July 8, 2022 11:47am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Not that simple – see my link:
    
    Employers [offering unpaid internships] must:
    
    ” – avoid getting an economic benefit from the work done by the intern (apart from registered charities)
    
    – avoid having the intern do work that an employee would ordinarily do
    
    – ensure that the internship is mainly about learning new skills and gaining experience”
    
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    July 8, 2022 12:15pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Quite helpful advice on the law here:
  
  https://www.employment.govt.nz/about/news-and-updates/legality-of-no-pay-or-low-pay-internship/#:~:text=Internships%20are%20not%20defined%20in,and%20the%20Human%20Rights%20Act.
  
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  July 8, 2022 12:13pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  LM, congratulations to your daughter and no doubt her family and friends for their support and encouragement. She’s laid an excellent foundation for a rich and fulfilling life, and as her parents you must be proud.
  
  I get that you think she “should be” paid for her work, but there’s absolutely an exchange of value here, if you look at it in a slightly different way.
  
  Three months work in a serious organisation (you don’t mention if it’s private, corporate, NFP or government) and a good reference, plus an introduction to whatever networks she can cultivate in 3 months are worth a lot. I suggest she treats it as say, a practical on-site assignment to complete that part of her education.
  
  Use the time to demonstrate a great work ethic and attitude, ask if anyone needs help, go to any event you can, network like crazy and don’t be afraid to ask someone for a job. Hearing the words “I’d really like to come and work for you” is like music to people’s ears. Good luck.
  
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  July 8, 2022 12:55pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    My firm (IT) offers internships as part of “paying it out”. We pay our interns; it’s not ethical to do anything less.
    
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    July 8, 2022 2:44pm
  - Ehlana
    
    That’s great in theory Lodden, but how do interns feed, house and clothe themselves during these unpaid periods of work? Not everyone will have a family willing and able to support them.
    
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    July 8, 2022 4:16pm
    - Local Miller
      
      Job Seekers benefit!
      Which I think companies know, so they feel they can safely take on internships and not pay people as the government (AKA the taxpayer) is paying them.
      
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      July 8, 2022 4:23pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      The same way she’s done so up until now, obviously.
      
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      July 9, 2022 9:35am
  - Local Miller
    
    Lodden, thanks, and we are proud of her. She’s aware of the benefits of being able to say “I worked at…” however there’s a lot of talk within the Graphic Design community of companies hiring interns then letting them go after 3 months, then hiring another intern and having them do all the worst jobs because you can and don’t have to pay them.
    While I agree with the concept I’m a firm believer that a worker is worth his/her salt, and if you are taking someone on, outside of an agreed study program, you should pay them, at least in NZ at minimum wage. At minimum wage she’d be getting roughly $10,500 (before tax) for the 3 months. That’s a hell of a lot to sacrifice just to say ” I worked at Joe blog Graphics and I know Joe!”
    To my mind if you want to see the persons ability have them do a day or two as an intern, I’m taking qualified person here, and see if they fit. After that pay them, three months is excessive, and the emotional impact of working for 3 months and not being paid is massive. It devalues people and it devalues their work. Even if the company is not “benefiting from their work”.
    One position is a small in house post with a manufacturer, the other is a decent size Graphic Design company with several branches around the country.
    
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    July 8, 2022 4:21pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      I still think you’re looking at it through the wrong end of the telescope. Forget what you’re “giving up” for a very short period of time, think about what you’re potentially gaining by being given that opportunity to prove yourself.
      
      Having said that, I hope she steers clear of any organisation that’s set up a merry-go-round of interns to do the shit jobs and with no teaching or guidance, and no chance of a job.
      
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      July 9, 2022 9:39am
ClanMcleod

El gato malo strikes again, talking about the very concerning direction that the US education system is moving. Particularly in areas like critical race theory and climate “change”.

“they want to make climate and race the axis mundi of everything. both are just more pseudoscience tailored to suit repressive collectivist agendas. the teachers get jobs for life and endless trips to the goody room and in return they indoctrinate the children in their charge into the narratives and pretexts of the authoritarian state. one filthy hand washes the other. ”

NZ is slowly catching up. These woke libtards are going to destroy our societies. They are delusional ideologues. The clock is ticking.
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July 8, 2022 11:21am
- Batman
  
  What is that absolute mumbo jumbo pile of words?
  
  Get a grip, you at least were coherent when presenting your factually incorrect arguments about vaccinations.
  
  Honestly, people should have to get a licence for using the internet. All of the parents who told their kids “don’t believe everything you read on there” fell for the trick!
  
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  July 8, 2022 11:30am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Batty are you referring to the quote from el gato malo? If so, which part don’t you understand? Are there some big words in there that you’re struggling with?
    I forgot to post the link to the whole article.
    
    https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/teach-your-children-well?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
    
    Read it, then come back to me and tell me which parts you don’t understand and I’ll try and explain them for you. Or if you disagree with their opinion (yes, we’re still allowed to have those) then again, tell me which part and why.
    
    Oh, and I know you deleted one of my “factually incorrect” posts re the vax narrative. I wrote to the host with the evidence that it was actually factually 100% correct. So again, don’t accuse me of posting inaccurate information without stating clearly why and with evidence. Otherwise you’re no better than the other moronic bought and owned “fact checkers”.
    I love free debate and discussion. You apparently are unable to do either.
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:45am
    - Ross Campbell
      
      Everyone who writes stuff which contradicts your opinion on Covid is “bought and owned” by some nefarious actor who is trying to stop the truth coming out.
      It’s the stuff of paranoid fantasies.
      
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      July 8, 2022 12:09pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Mike – the actual point is that to date, nobody has proven anything I’ve posted is verifiably wrong. Not once. In fact I’m struggling to remember a time when I was last actually engaged tree one of posts.
        I’ve been subjected to snide abuse, sarcasm and other libtard weapons of mass delusion, but I haven’t been debated with regarding the content.
        Funnily enough it’s the same when I write to NZ media. There’s a pattern and it isn’t good.
        
        That tells me everything I need to know.
        
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        July 8, 2022 12:33pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yes Mike
        
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        July 8, 2022 3:29pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Here’s another opinion piece from el gato malo about the vax and the “coincidental” rise in all cause excess mortality and it references a NZ paper from the University of Waikato.
    
    Read it, and if you can understand it, comment on it. If it’s “disinformation” or “factually incorrect” then state clearly why. If you can’t then jog on and troll somebody else. But don’t accuse anyone of posting “factually incorrect” material without explaining why it is so.
    
    “yet again, we cannot prove causality from this correlation, but it is jarringly precise in temporal alignment and caused a major and durable change in trend. those are not things one should simply dismiss.
    
    coinciditis does indeed seem to be going around.
    
    and it is in line with the relative absolute risk findings of the doshi/greenland et al paper of epi heavyweights that has been making such waves.
    
    we’re seeing similar from new zealand: (new paper)”
    
    https://repec.its.waikato.ac.nz/wai/econwp/2211.pdf
    
    Here’s the full OPINION piece from el gato malo. Alternative OPINIONS always welcome as long as accompanied by rational comments.
    
    https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/all-cause-mortality-effects-of-covid?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
    
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    July 8, 2022 11:54am
Benedict Yu

So what happens if farmers can’t afford the fertiliser tax and go broke?

“The climate body also advised that synthetic fertilisers should be subject to the same charges applied to petrol, coal and natural gas under the Emissions Trading Scheme (or ETS).”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/129193382/farm-fertilisers-should-face-a-climate-penalty-asap–commission

Who would be a farmer in New Zealand? The most efficient farmers in the world and this guy Rod Carr wants to tax them for using fertiliser. Because ‘climate change’.

I bet the Chinese embassy sends cables back to Beijing on this stuff. They must fall about laughing.
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July 8, 2022 11:51am
- ClanMcleod
  
  BY are you following events in Holland? Police firing live rounds at a farmer in a tractor who poses zero threat to them. Someone posted the link further up the thread.
  Their proposed “climate” laws will reduce Holland’s productive farms by 30%. At a time when every man and his dog is screaming that there are going to be worldwide food shortages. You couldn’t write a script like this.
  
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  July 8, 2022 11:58am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Yes saw it. In 100 years folk will look back on this stuff the same way we regard people who used to burn witches.
    
    The world needs to produce food, regardless of climate change. It is best if that food is produced as efficiently and as sustainably as possible. Farmers already have incentives to use fertiliser efficiently. Because of (a) costs. and (b) regional councils monitor its use re water quality.
    
    Now the government will tax fertiliser. That will increase the price of food in New Zealand, increasing child poverdy. And it will make exports less competitive.
    
    I just shake my head at the stupidity.
    
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    July 8, 2022 12:10pm
  - Jim
    
    Watch this report from the Netherlands:
    https://youtu.be/eeSepsVjfsk
    and this similar agricultural populist revolt in Poland:
    https://youth.be/xK6R56Vqv_4
    
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    July 8, 2022 6:14pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Rod Carr is an enemy of the State and should be locked up.
  
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  July 8, 2022 4:14pm
ClanMcleod

Batty – just for you. Another piece of almost certainly “factually incorrect” information for you to shred. Seeing as you’re in such a nice mood and ready for rational adult debate and discussion.

From Eugyppius. Tread carefully, they know their stuff.

“Even the peer-reviewed academic science that everyone is supposed to follow provides clear evidence that vaccinating young people is dangerous and stupid.
So why are we doing it?”

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/even-the-peer-reviewed-academic-science?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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July 8, 2022 12:01pm
ClanMcleod

Batty – a final OPINION piece for you to run your methodical, interpretive faculties over and shred. I’ll leave you with it, got a roof leak to source and fix. I’ll be back in a couple of hours to peruse your responses. No doubt you’ll have clearly proven everything I’ve posted is “factually incorrect”.
This piece is entitled:

“Covd, Capitalism, Friedrich and Boris”

Take as long as you want.

“What we are seeing is a de facto privatisation of the state as governments capitulate to the needs of Western financial institutions.

Moreover, these debts are largely dollar-denominated, helping to strengthen the US dollar and US leverage over countries.

It raises the question: what was COVID really about?”

https://off-guardian.org/2022/07/07/covid-capitalism-friedrich-and-boris/
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July 8, 2022 12:09pm
- kevn
  
  @Clan… He is just ‘commenting’ for our amusement.
  
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  July 8, 2022 2:14pm
Loddenthinks

I’ve been critical many times about the direction of the Police under Cuddles Coster’s political left-leaning “leadership” and with good reason. Yet I fully acknowledge the unquestionable bravery, intelligence and dedication of thousands of rank and file officers continuing to do extraordinary things.

Officers in Feilding last year managed to bring to justice (some of it self-inflicted) a determined and desperate offender who, among other things that day had:

– fired multiple shots at police, on two occasions
– hijacked a woman’s car at gunpoint and then
– intentionally crashed it into a patrol car

They managed all this without injury to the public or Police, and without firearms being used against the offender.

There will be those who say “see, you can police successfully without guns” but when someone is shooting at you, driving at you to ram your car, and sometimes both driving and shooting together, I’d be a lot happier if the good guys could shoot back. That they didn’t in this case is almost certainly down to the fact this guy crashed heavily and took himself out of action. He wasn’t asking questions, and he wasn’t taking prisoners.

Thank you to our boys and girls in blue. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/grand-theft-auto-man-who-shot-at-police-after-carjacking-pleads-guilty/64ANLDK5TACWA5YWHGCTL7XEHM/
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July 8, 2022 12:27pm
Lee C

A good read on The Platform:

https://theplatform.kiwi/opinions/is-it-misinformation-when-the-government-does-it?fbclid=IwAR1nxalerEswTIf1Wi3w3EGU2kWy1fUQgiN0fUwc9-HMnEjB9ZfzsTVSEWA
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July 8, 2022 12:43pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Excellent. There are at least a couple of journalists in NZ who can do a piece that isn’t pure propaganda.
  
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  July 8, 2022 2:16pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  That is good. To Jaspinda, any information is good as long as she and her puppeteers can fuck with it.
  
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  July 8, 2022 3:43pm
Maggie Pie

WOW!! Over a million views already. This is so spicy it burns…..

https://twitter.com/YvetteCooperMP/status/1545027504674689028
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July 8, 2022 12:44pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  The Skripal case!! Tell you what Maggie, these modern Russkie spies aren’t a patch on the old KGB Soviet assassins. A whole bottle of one of the deadliest nerve agents on the planet containing enough of the stuff to kill thousands, they plastered it over the door knob of the house and couldn’t manage to even kill the intended target! Bloody useless! I can’t believe they’re still holding on in Ukraine!
  
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  July 8, 2022 12:57pm
Benedict Yu

The malaise has spread to Australia 🙁

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/treasurer-to-measure-wellbeing-pay-off-from-economy-in-first-budget-20220707-p5azua.html
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July 8, 2022 12:44pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Just watching Oz PM at the press briefing about his meeting with our Dear PM.
Are NZers really going to get a better route into Oz citizenship..?
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July 8, 2022 12:59pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Let me see if I’ve got this right.
  
  A pathway is opening up for our best & brightest, educated at taxpayer expense, to move permanently to another country.
  
  Meanwhile, we’re struggling to fill thousands of jobs.
  
  And our PM and journalists think this is a successful outcome?
  
  Words fail me.
  
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  July 8, 2022 2:49pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Yes exactly. It is hilarious. Honestly everything they do is a disaster.
    
    Jacinda comes home and says ‘Yay I got all the smart and talented people a better deal to go live in Australia’.
    
    What a clown show. 🙁
    
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    July 8, 2022 4:53pm
Maggie Pie

Any first-home-buyers wanting to live in ‘The Mount’ might be interested…

https://youtu.be/c1nZ3y3NYTs

(last sold 1991 for $415k)
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July 8, 2022 1:32pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Looks like the house we used to party up in way back in the 1960’s when I lived in Te Puke. 🙂
  It was probably worth 400 pounds back then. Probably upward of $ 3 – 4 mil. now.
  
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  July 8, 2022 1:53pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Here we go Don…
    18 The Mall, Mt Maunganui, is yours today for $6.85 mill.
    
    LOL!!
    
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    July 8, 2022 2:21pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Thanks Mags – my guess was a bit light. My son owns his own house in Pitau Rd, just 200m. walk to downtown The Mount. He bought it 5 years ago for $1.4 mil. – it was a leaky home. He spent around $350 k. on it and it is now non-leaky, but not fully absolved from the “Leaky home” register. Latest valuation, $3.6 mil. or thereabouts.
      Location – Location – Location !!!!
      
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      July 8, 2022 5:06pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Old weatherboard hose. The house is worth$120K.
  
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  July 8, 2022 3:51pm
ClanMcleod

Tucker Carlson talking about the Dutch farmer protests.

https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1545210414665007104?s=20&t=1gqjrnZkzsFLRRXyO_Pr3w

Looks like the Italians and the Poles are getting restless also. Paul Joseph Watson covers it well. With footage of Dutch police shooting at a totally unthreatening tractor. pulling sidearms on the driver of another tractor and on a citizen in their private car doing nothing aggressive or threatening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-LXw7L1xTc&t=188s

This is all part of the “great reset”. Have no doubt, Brenda is fully onboard with this garbage. We are in the early stages of this collective madness. The Green New Deal and the woke agenda are designed to bring about this “great reset” whether you like it or not. There is nothing “great” about it. It is ideological, delusional madness.
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July 8, 2022 1:35pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Clan, protests have also started in Italy.
  
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  July 8, 2022 1:48pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    As usual, tumbleweed in the media in NZ. They are truly awful.
    I have to admit, I did enjoy the article in The Platform re “misinformation” which of course is decided by the Ministry of Truth and the Disinformation Project. It really is 1984.
    
    https://theplatform.kiwi/opinions/is-it-misinformation-when-the-government-does-it
    
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    July 8, 2022 2:07pm
Jack5

The Woke are going after Hairy Maclary, the great character created by NZ children’s book author Lynley Dodd.

Chris Trotter, at Bowalley Road, rises to Lynley Dodd’s defence:

https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2022/07/defending-dame-lynley.html
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July 8, 2022 1:40pm
Nickc2

Farmer goes old school on Vegan Protestor. Ya gotta love em don’t cha?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/well-done-that-man.html
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July 8, 2022 1:42pm
krazykiwi

Sick of overbearing, quasi-dictators inexorably increasing their encroachment on our lives?

Then spare a thought for the Europeans who from tomorrow we see all new vehicles sold with mandatory ‘black boxes’ that allow the state to monitor “the vehicle’s speed, braking, steering wheel angle, its incline on the road, and whether the vehicle’s various safety systems were in operation, starting with seatbelts.”

The devices are online to state authorities while the car is operational, and use GPS positioning to assess speed. The plan includes implementing centrally managed speed detection, and controls that are relayed back to the car CANBus management system as mandatory directives.
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July 8, 2022 1:48pm
- [email protected]
  
  Can you put aluminum Faraday shields on the black box?
  
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  July 8, 2022 1:53pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Not goana find my Torana!
  
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  July 8, 2022 2:50pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  History has been abolished. 1930 is too far back to bee worried about
  
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  July 8, 2022 3:55pm
- [email protected]
  
  If only new vehicles are required to have these black boxes that allow the government to track you then older, more polluting, used cars will become more popular. Guessing that car dealers won’t be happy.
  
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  July 8, 2022 8:14pm
Maggie Pie

Does this make me a ‘bad person’?

I’m one of those people who could NEVER bring myself to use a Disabled Toilet….but if it’s raining, have no problem using a Disabled Carpark.
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July 8, 2022 2:17pm
- mandk
  
  Judge Frank Caprio might let you off, but I’m sure you would be found guilty in the court of public opinion.
  
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  July 8, 2022 2:27pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Yup! Off to confession with you!
  
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  July 8, 2022 2:51pm
- Biscuit
  
  ‘If it’s raining’?
  If?
  My experience of your Super Sh*tty is that it never STOPS raining…
  
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  July 8, 2022 3:32pm
  - MCōs
    
    Go away & take your bad weather with you.
    
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    July 8, 2022 3:42pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Yes.
  Yes, it does.
  
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  July 8, 2022 3:35pm
- Ehlana
  
  I don’t think disabilities disappear in the rain Maggie. Old story – how would you feel if you needed those car parks and someone did that to you?
  
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  July 8, 2022 4:19pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Probably the same as that poor guy in the wheelchair that tried to get into the toilet at Christchurch Airport when Aaron Smith was using it 😛
    
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    July 8, 2022 5:00pm
Surely Knott

Definitions. The left is excellent at changing definitions.
What we used to call communism inner city hipsters now call democratic socialism. They reject communism and the history that is linked to their ideology and now embrace communism under a new name: democratic socialism. Because it’s not communism they don’t accept the failings of past communist experiments. Under democratic socialism the state still controls and owns everything but the political system is “liberal and democratic.” (Although rarely if ever the case because if the state controls everything then it probably is authoritarian in practice but that is the definition. For an example look at how the state controlled the vaccine mandates and everyone reliant on the state for work is forced to take it or lose your job and access to society – far from politically liberal)

Whereas capitalism is defined by oxford dictionary as an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

But is Capitalism controlled by private owners. Or is Capitalism controlled by consumers and workers. Arguably it is capitalism that is democratic. The consumer votes with their dollar everytime they make a purchase and have significantly more choices and less govt control and surveillance. The worker has more choices about where he works and can negotiate his pay.

Even the word capitalism is outdated because in the knowledge economy businesses are not as reliant on capital or land.
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July 8, 2022 2:49pm
Prince

Another announcement of something that might happen, might not, next year, maybe, but not necessarily, some officials might look at it, maybe.
Accompanied by a brand new flash image of the Prime Minister as young fresh vibrant 20 year old.
I wonder who put that together, how much it cost etc.
If the Government put half the effort they put into advertising and schmoozing the media, to actually getting things done, they would have trashed 20 points in the polls in 18 months.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129216861/pms-plan-to-have-new-path-to-citizenship-for-kiwis-in-australia-by-2023
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July 8, 2022 3:12pm
Surely Knott

Bus drivers want cages to protect them from stabbings. Will the other passengers on the bus also get cages. Can they wear the cages when they walk home from the bus?
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July 8, 2022 3:43pm
- MCōs
  
  London bus drivers are protected from assault by a Perspex shield, or similar.
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:51pm
Libertarians are right

Someone just tried to assassinate Shinzo Abe. Not sure if he’s going to make it yet. No info.
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July 8, 2022 3:51pm
Maggie Pie

My partner retweets (they wont show this image on 1EWES)

Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe shot with sawn-off shotgun….

https://twitter.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1545249495398719488
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July 8, 2022 4:01pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Weird looking weapon? Doesn’t look much like a shotgun to me. A couple of the comments thinking it could be a 3d printed gun?
  
  On another note, if you check the Herald coverage of it they say former Japanese PM “shot”
  
  They put shot in inverted commas. I’m not a grammar expert, but what is the context for them doing that? I’ve seen it used when someone is expressing doubt about something? It’s the Herald. Who knows.
  
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  July 8, 2022 4:16pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yes…a lot of comments saying it looks like a homemade pipe-gun taped together. Not hard to make. Reports now coming out Abe is dead. Japanese copying all things ‘Amerika’
    
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    July 8, 2022 4:34pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Hmmmm, I wonder if it will be a far right white Japanese male suffering from toxic masculinity?
      The Herald commentary tomorrow should be fascinating.
      
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      July 8, 2022 4:48pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Why 3D? 20mm nominal bore pipe (normal steel pipe, not tube)
    OK, 20mm NB pipe say 600mm long. 25mm NB pipe 150mm long. Use a lathe and turn out the inside of the 25mm pipe until it fits over the 20mm pipe.
    Now the 25mm pipe heeds to be threaded so you can put on a 25mm end cap. In the end of the end cap, drill a 3mm hole, sharpen the base of a 3mm drill. It goes in that hole – zap with mig welder.
    Now, the 20mm NB fits a 12G shell perfectly.
    In it goes, slide the 25mm NB into it, and fuckin BANG!
    Sorry Mods, this is all freely available on Youtube. I did not design it, I did not make one ——->
    
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    July 8, 2022 4:52pm
krazykiwi

Oh dear.

The “The virus causes more harm than the vaccines” squad won’t like this.

Peer reviewed retrospective study of 196,992 adults after COVID-19 infection in Clalit Health Services members in Israel between March 2020 and January 2021.

The conclusion: “No statistical difference in the incidence rate of both myocarditis (p =1) and pericarditis (p =0.17) was observed between the COVID-19 cohort and the control cohort”
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July 8, 2022 4:50pm
Jack5

While NZ squeezes out many pig farmers on humane grounds, we will get more imports of pork, some of it probably from China.

This YouTube video shows why this is stupid (the hooking of the pig like a fish is revolting):

https://youtu.be/zuiPOsebeR0
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July 8, 2022 5:00pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

ClanMcleod, seems Batman has left the stage. You were hard on him, but his diversion nonsense is quite good
Batman prob went to the pub after lunch, to order a double stem glass of liberal tears. They don’t cost much, like 40cents a go//
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July 8, 2022 5:03pm
- mawm
  
  Batman made a uncalled for and vulgar comment to mine. I replied to him in a measured tone and he has deleted my reply. I have submitted a complaint about him.
  
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  July 8, 2022 5:33pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Good job. There is no way a moderator should be manipulating DPF’s blog by deleting comments on a thread he has been engaging on. I hope DPF takes action as this appears to be reprehensible behaviour on batman’s part.
    
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    July 8, 2022 6:12pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      One of mine was deleted a few months ago. Don’t know who exactly but I can guess. Had the usual smart arse comment. “Deleted! None of that conspiracy crap here!” – or words to that effect.
      
      I went away, triple checked the content of the post, triple checked that it was verifiable from a number of sources and emailed DPF with the evidence of what I had posted being truthful. He agreed. Said sometimes the mods can get a bit over zealous. As I say, I don’t know for sure who that mod was.
      All I ask is that if they deem a post “false” information then the least they can do is give an explanation why.
      
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      July 8, 2022 6:20pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Govt ad spend up 40% year on year FFS. I wonder what proportion of total $100 million/month NZ advertising spend labour’s ongoing program to buy off all media represent. #corruptasfuck
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July 8, 2022 5:26pm
Maggie Pie

Just thinking to myself…
today is my second-favorite-word starting with an ‘F’

😛
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July 8, 2022 5:38pm
Swifty

At 5.50pm RNZ had a piece on the return of Moriori remains from overseas.

Part of the piece talked about how Moriori had been ‘wiped out’ and that their numbers got down to as low as 200 people.

Funny, they made no mention at all of who did the ‘wiping out’.

A simple oversight I’m sure.//
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July 8, 2022 5:54pm
Maggie Pie

And there goes an hour of my life I’ve never get back 🙁

My partner txt to say he wouldn’t be home till after 7 so I sat and watched ‘The Chase’
Why do people bother…when everyone knows full-well the so called ‘Chaser’ has been out the back studying the answers beforehand.

SHEESH!!
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July 8, 2022 6:07pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  I’m pretty sure it’s worse than you think Maggie. I’ve said for years, they’ll have a tiny earpiece and someone in the control room pumping the answers to them.
  It’s the worst quiz show in years. Hardly anybody wins any money! You’d have been better going down the pub to catch up with your partner. lol
  
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  July 8, 2022 6:22pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Do you reaaly think it’s as blatant as that Clanie?
    A girl from tennis was telling us the other day they make 5 episodes a day and let about 1 in ten win.
    What we get here is all the old sh*t from a couple of years ago!
    TVOne pick them up at a bargain-basement-price and punish us with it 7 nights a week 🙁
    
    Anyway, better fly…just heard the garage door going up.
    
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    July 8, 2022 6:43pm
ClanMcleod

This is how moronic the current narrative is around covid. This is why everyone needs to completely ignore every aspect of it, stop getting jabbed, stop wearing masks and refuse to ever lockdown in your life again. It’s bullshit.

They are reporting “cases” every day. This is after the medical definition of a “case” was changed in an Orwellian move to boost the numbers to fit the narrative being pushed. Hegelian dialect.

“Cases” are based on completely flawed testing systems. PCR tests in NZ are run at a cycle threshold of 45 making the results worse than useless. Look up PCR ct for yourself.
The RAT tests are even less reliable.

Many people have stopped testing, they realise this is bullshit. This also adds to the fact that the number of “cases” is bollocks.

So, this just popped up on the Herald online.
“Today’s case numbers overcounted by thousands due to ‘computer glitch’ – ”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-todays-cases-overcounted-in-ministry-of-health-computer-glitch/EGLU3OT6EOS62CFNHNNF2TPBBU/

We are being played by the people in Wellington and those who are dependent on them for their jobs. Their narrative is falling apart, as they scramble to defend their lunatic position they are making more and more mistakes. This will increase.
I doubt there is a graceful way out of this fiasco for Ardern and her bunch of “experts”. It is going to be a kicking, biting and scratching affair. It is going to get ugly.
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July 8, 2022 6:36pm
- rouppe
  
  Yeah, the computer suddenly decided to add some random figures.
  
  Or… The old adage in IT:
  Garbage in, garbage out.
  
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  July 8, 2022 9:36pm
ClanMcleod

And talking about Hegelian dialects. This very short post popped up on Off Guardian on Telegram. It’s a little cryptic but I’m presuming it is related to the apparent assassination of the former Japanese PM.

“Lone lunatics with home made guns are the REAL danger we are facing guys.”

You heard it here first.

Problem identified.

Reaction incoming.

Solution already waiting in the wings.

Watch this space.
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July 8, 2022 6:39pm
greybeard

Judging by her latest effort on “Stuff”” someone on high must have had a quiet word with Sharon Murdoch.
Hardly anything nasty at all.
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