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O C Smith

The Govt once again displays its arrogance by not advising other parties of the delicate situation with the idiotic kiwis stuck in Iran.
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October 28, 2022 8:08am
- riffer
  
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  I think we can all agree that those people are idiots. However, I believe that they did the right thing in not advising others. Delicate negotiations require these things. The risks are too great otherwise.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:19am
  - Blog-aholic
    
    With all respect they were advised not to go.
    
    They broke so many standard rules like using cameras and drones that it was only a matter of time before they were detained.
    
    They played a silly game and they won a silly prize.
    
    One has to wonder if they were anyone else, how much effort the government would have made……
    
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    October 28, 2022 8:28am
    - Paulus
      
      Stop it, they are lovely people with a wide on line audience as influencers (whatever that is).
      Why are these people so clever – do they live in New Zealand – am not sure ?
      
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      October 28, 2022 1:46pm
    - kevn
      
      @Blog… His deep pocketed billionaire father sorted it.
      
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      October 28, 2022 4:10pm
  - Keith White
    
    So the Government locked out actual citizens from coming home because of Covid-freakness but kept schtumm about influencers because they were so special they needed to get home. Eff that notion.
    
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    October 28, 2022 10:08am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      I’m not seeing a government based on rational and consistent principles here.
      
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      October 28, 2022 8:12pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  So long as they pay back any taxpayer’s money that was incurred, the rest I don’t care about too much now. He just gets daddy to write a cheque out. That will be sufficient enough to put this to bed.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:35am
- lastmanstanding
  
  So which ethnic groups make the biggest contribution to our society and which make the least.
  Well at the risk of being labelled racist ( the last bastion of the coward and those who have no rebuttal) I have decided to rank them.
  1. Chinese. Since the current wave starting arriving in the mid 1990s as a result of the HK takeover they have worked to build up businesses and educate their children. The extreme irony is that those children take out the top English prizes along with many other subjects at our best schools. Apart from drug crime Chinese dont feature in our prison population.
  
  2. Indian. Apart from owning most of the dairies and good on them again they educate their children and dont feature in the crime and prison stats.
  3. Europeans. A mixed bag. Have lost their mojo over the past 50 years. Need to pull their socks up. Like the Cruates egg good in parts.
  
  4. Pacific Islands. Generally work hard, go to Church on Sunday and try and educate their children. Sometimes easily lead into trouble. Feature in the crime stats above their population numbers.
  
  5. Maori. Use all sorts of excuses. Like 200 years of colonisation. Various Governments have taught them to put their hand out. Not good at domestic relations (cough). Over represented in all the bad sats. Their Leaders are a waste of space and do nothing to improve their lot. A Tribal people with traits very much like the old English class system. The Tribes head families take and control the wealth ( think Mahuta).
  
  Feel free to add to the above.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:20am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    Actually it is a pretty racist thing to do. To lump every person in the group in the way you have done. Think of Martin Luther King when he said people should be characterised by their individual qualities rather than the colour of their skin.
    
    And I am quite happy to be identified by name in making this statement
    
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    October 28, 2022 9:49am
    - MCōs
      
      I would say the very definition of racist
      
      racist
      noun [ C ] disapproving
      UK /ˈreɪ.sɪst/ US /ˈreɪ.sɪst/
      (UK old-fashioned racialist)
      
      someone who believes that their race makes them better, more intelligent, more moral, etc. than people of other races and who does or says unfair or harmful things as a result
      
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      October 28, 2022 10:21am
      - Don Beckett
        
        A totally unnecessary comment, lastman…
        Agree with Wayne.
        
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        October 28, 2022 10:32am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Coolies. So one people with one law for all?
        
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        October 28, 2022 8:13pm
    - Opie
      
      It’s not rascist, but is a generalization and an accurate one at that.
      
      Just because maoris appear on the worst of the statistics doesn’t mean we should cry rascist and refuse to do anything apart from virtue signal and throw money at it. We need to put our big boy pants on and demand action from those effected, not just throw cash at nothing and expect a different outcome.
      
      Of course there are outliers but the stats don’t lie.
      
      How many maoris do you see running dairies, pizza huts, subway etc? Sweet FA.
      
      Regardless of your skin colour and where you were born, if you get educated and work hard you will have good outcomes in this country. If you smoke weed and sit on the couch you will have bad outcomes.
      
      Its just that statistically, Asians and Indians are more likely to be educated and successful than maoris. “Europeans” can go either way but again statistically do more educating and therefore sit on the better side of the outcome scale.
      
      The opportunity to be educated is available for everyone in this country and for maoris it is literally handed to them on a plate with free this and grants for that. So why don’t more head down this path?, The maoris I know that got educated and work hard are doing just fine. There are no excuses, it’s time for action.
      
      It’s all a personal choice but unfortunately due to lack of motivation from parents sitting on the couch with their hands out eating fried chicken and not giving a shit about their kids and whether they attend school or not causes the problem to continue through generations.
      
      School is compulsory. We have free lunches there. There is no excuse not to attend. Yet kids don’t agenda and nothing is done. How about withholding benefits if your kids don’t attend the minimum days required? How about actually teaching the basics again – reading, writing and maths. Schools are incredibly well funded but its no good if your 10 year old is on the street vaping instead of attending.
      
      We have school attendance at around 40% and educational outcomes well south of that. No wonder we are turning into a country full of dumbasses with their hands out.
      
      It’s not hard to work this out.
      
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      October 28, 2022 10:29am
      - MCōs
        
        That would be *Māori*
        ‘maoris’ is not a word
        
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        October 28, 2022 11:30am
      - I remember when
        
        MCos:
        Why? Samoan, Fijian, Tongan.
        Why not – who decides.
        
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        October 28, 2022 11:39am
      - igm
        
        Is it now a crime to state truthful and relevant facts in New Zealand?
        
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        October 28, 2022 12:30pm
      - Jack5
        
        Our NZ population is so small we probably don’t decide the definitive plural of “Maori” in the English language.
        
        My old (1973) version of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary gives both “Maori” and “Maoris” as the plural.
        
        You still sometimes hear “Maoris” in colloquial use in NZ, but less often than 20 years ago.
        
        With 5 million of the world’s 1.3 billion English speakers we can’t be too definitive about the spelling.
        
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        October 28, 2022 12:36pm
      - Dave
        
        “‘maoris’ is not a word”
        
        It does need a capital letter, and your sentence needs a full stop. Does this mean it is not a sentence?
        
        So what is your scholarly opinion of ‘tattoos’, ‘taboos’ and ‘tiriti’? Are these words? Why (not)?
        
        My friends, Wiremu Hopihona and Kuini Wikitoria, really want to benefit from your erudition.
        
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        October 28, 2022 7:02pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Perhaps it is time for all of us to refuse to be classified by race/ethnicity.
      
      I’ve lost count of the times I have to tick a little box for some bureaucrat to record that I am “European/Pakeha”
      
      My ethnic/cultural background is 1000s of years removed from that of my husband… who also ticks the same box as me…. & neither of us were conceived or born in Europe.
      
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      October 28, 2022 10:44am
      - Opie
        
        I thought that’s where we were heading but over the last few years race has seemingly become important again…
        
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        October 28, 2022 11:27am
    - Nukuleka
      
      You are correct, Wayne. Lumping everyone together based on ethnicity and skin colour in this manner is loathsome. Sadly, governments and others who make decisions that affect our lives employ this generalizing racial and gendering nonsense all the time and that is why we end up with ‘Maori Affairs’ and ‘Pacific Peoples’ ministries- as well as a divisive ‘Ministry for Women’. I agree with you that such organisations are anachronistic and should be abolished as noone should be characterized by the colour of their skin or ethnicity or gender but solely by their personal attributes.
      
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      October 28, 2022 10:59am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      Exactly Wayne. The Government and certain activists are constantly telling us “Maori are more affected by Covid”, “Maori have worse education outcomes”, “Maori don’t live as long”, “Maori don’t earn as much”, “Maori are more likely to go to prison” etc, almost always followed by requested for money for a “for Maori, by Maori approach”.
      
      The thing is that “Maori” is almost never the reason for these issues.
      Covid and lifespan issues relate to health choices like actually going to the doctors, nutrition, poison choices (alcohol, drugs, smoking etc).
      Poor education outcomes relates to going to school and actually studying and doing worthwhile subjects etc.
      Not earning as much relates to education and other life choices (including alcohol, drugs and smoking).
      Jail relates to choosing to commit crimes.
      
      All of these things are very real issues throughout our country which affect more than just Maori. We need to start addressing the personal choices people make instead of just saying – “a disproportionate number of the victims of these choices are Maori so the system is racist/unfair and it’s not their personal fault”.
      
      It is racist to assume that just because someone is Maori that the system will fail them/that they can’t thrive in this system. Race has nothing to do with it, it’s poor personal choices that need to be addressed.
      
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      October 28, 2022 1:27pm
      - Opie
        
        This is exactly it.
        
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        October 28, 2022 4:11pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      Wayne, I have to smile when people use generalizations. A valid basis for a debate.
      In this case you scream racist.
      
      But you seem ok with other generalisations?
      Men are physically stronger than women!
      A university degree makes you more employable/ smarter than a high school drop out.
      etc etc
      
      But I digress. Shout racist at any and every opportunity to make yourself feel morally superior.
      
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      October 28, 2022 1:58pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Well, quite. But we are bombarded by racist statistics and laws all the time. So, Wayne, when is it ok to be racist and when not?
      
      And obviously it isn’t race that causes these stark statistical differences but culture.
      
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      October 28, 2022 3:04pm
    - lastmanstanding
      
      But Im only following the Left who say its Ok to lump people into ethnic or racial groups.
      
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      October 28, 2022 4:42pm
Tony Stuart

Everyone loves a good political train wreck, and Poto Williams provided it yesterday when she tried to bluff and bluster her way past HDPA; check it out:

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/poto-williams-conservation-minister-addresses-the-backlash-surrounding-the-removal-of-the-te-urewera-huts/

We all knew Ms Williams was a pretty poor Minister, but this is really plunging the depths. I saw someone on Twitter describe this as “an exit interview from a resigning Minister”, and that’s what Poto Williams should do; resign. She won’t, of course, which is great news for National and Act!
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October 28, 2022 8:09am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  HDPA was bullying poor Poto
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:12am
  - RoboRob
    
    I actually though HDPA might just hang up on her for a bit there.
    
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    October 28, 2022 9:17am
    - Paulus
      
      For HDP to hang up on her would lower her to the standard of the so called Minister.
      
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      October 28, 2022 1:49pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Poto actually seems like a nice person (not that I’d really know).
    
    Probably a low hanging punching bag for this unbelievably disgusting govt.
    
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    October 28, 2022 8:16pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I have heard HDA question her before, when she starts pissing about and refusing to answer HDA does her job, she gets angry, and no longer seems to support the left.
    She has grilled Robertson, Hipkins, Veral and others for trying to cover their failures, she really gives Robertson a kicking, she laughs at him when he starts bullshiting, he comes down from his high horse and sounds like a whimp when she pulls him up.
    I note Ardern refuses to go on the show because she would fold like a deck of cards like she use to on Hoskings show
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:01pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  That was such a train wreck I’m suprised she’s not also the minister for railways!
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:16am
- peterwn
  
  The gift that keeps on giving! DPF some years back said that the hapless then Labour MP David Benson-Pope was a gift that keeps on giving.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:21am
  - krazykiwi
    
    aka ‘Panty Slut Boy’ if I recall.
    
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    October 28, 2022 8:50am
    - kowtow
      
      Tennis balls and shower rooms.
      
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      October 28, 2022 9:13am
  - Paulus
    
    BP Is still a senior leading Councillor in Dunedin.
    
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    October 28, 2022 10:23am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Not senior at all , he is just a councilor, the vulgar students keep putting fools like him in
      
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      October 28, 2022 11:03pm
- pdm
  
  Heard it live – Poto was pathetic.
  
  If she ranks at number 20 (to make Minister) in the Labour Caucus the rest must be real bloody dunderheads.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:25am
  - Mike H S
    
    But she is one of the “special” people.
    
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    October 28, 2022 8:30am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Dunderheads, you are far too kind.
    
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    October 28, 2022 9:14am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Bwhahahahaha, go and watch Tinneti trying to answer Erica Standford on Tuesday, it was equally pathetic
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:04pm
- surfing
  
  Poto is reading a pre-prepared speech. This is not an interview. Given her evasiveness, she clearly did sign it off.
  
  The management of Te Urewera is a disgrace. Tuhoe Maori are absolutely lazy … they aren’t even being asked to do any work , DOC will do it all, yet maori can’t even be bothered to get on the phone!
  
  When the huts are not replaced, where will Poto be then?
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:35am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Leave her in as this adds to the disaster that Labour is on the whole and their non-performing ministers. The longer the better towards the 2023 elections.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:37am
- artemisia
  
  I’m sure Poto Williams is watching the polls with hope and a prayer. Opposition will be a godsend, big bucks, perks and no hard stuff required.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:38am
  - CJames
    
    With the poll results in Chrischurch, will she get back in?
    
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    October 28, 2022 1:49pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Only if she wins her seat which she probably will , but if they lose a heap of seats and have no one else, she is going to have to push ministers with pathetic questions
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:06pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  That’s a complete embarrassment. Wow.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:38am
- Scooter
  
  It was a shit show but funny at the same time, Heather is great. It was obvious Poto had pre-scripted answers, yes or no not included.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:48am
- mandk
  
  Yeah Williams made Fetterman look good.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:50am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “Does anyone in DOC sign it off?”
  “I am not being evasive”
  Seems nobody in Labour can comprehend a simple question. It was a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:12am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Doc are dictated to by Iwi, this is criminal, these bastards are burning things for the first time, what is next? will it be white people’s businesses?
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:08pm
- kowtow
  
  Was it Chris Finlayson who dreamed up “co governance”.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:14am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Only for the running of the irewera forest, it did not give them the dictate to burn down buildings
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:10pm
- RoboRob
  
  Im going to go against the flow here….
  
  I thought she did the best that she could, without refusing to do the interview at all.
  
  The co governance is obviously a failure, based on her non answers, but as a Maori Labour MP she could hardly come out an say it. Shit labour policy and shit iwi management.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:17am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Poto is Cook Is Maori, not NZ Maori, I think
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:26am
    - Paulus
      
      Yes, she is Cook Island where they speak Cook Island Maori.
      
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      October 28, 2022 1:51pm
- G152
  
  Most of those huts were packed in and buily by the eight pound and found deer cullers.
  And will be missed by the tramping clubs, sports shooters and walkers.
  
  Maybe the tarsealed roads in the area should also be removed as well as those unsightly power poles ?????
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:21am
- Weinerpoop
  
  Yeah I heard that live and just can’t believe she is a minister, couldn’t answer a simple question with a yes or no. What happened to the most open and transparent government ever?
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:26am
  - Nickc2
    
    The problem is they know the interview is limited to a Time Frame between commercials and they tell themselves that if they can waffle their way through the Time Frame without answering a question the interview has been successful in their eyes.
    It’s called Media Training!
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:25am
- Clyde
  
  Just another example – if we need another – of a total fwit of a Minister completely under the control of MahutaCorp, Antidemocrcy Jackson, and out to lunch Davis. The sooner this lot are consigned to the rubbish bins and all their racist nonsense also consigned to the rubbish bins, the better.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:26am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Plumbing the depths Tony. Surprised DG didn’t get onto that earlier 🙂
  
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  October 28, 2022 4:27pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  “They’re in a poor state of repair and need to be replaced”
  
  Replacing means building a new one then demolishing the old one, not torching 44 huts and promising to do some building in a few years – providing there are no pandemics, inflation, or more than a couple of days’ rain.
  
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  October 28, 2022 4:33pm
Warren

People and especially the voter can’t see why this Government and the Health Ministry Andrew Little don’t like targets and measures but it very easy to understand if you are Andrew Little because his ability to do the job is measured in failure.
Can anyone tell me what Andrew Little has achieved apart from ” Failure” and the answer is no, as everything he touches turns to shit, head of the Union when they had the largest loss in membership under his watch, took three attemps to win the New Plymouth electorate and failed so reached Parliament by the list, became Labour Leader and his poll ratings for Labour and himself were the lowest that many in Labour had seen so stepped aside for Winston Peter’s to install Jacinda Ardern as Prime Minister and the rest is history.
I could go on but I would here all day trying to remember when he hasn’t fucked up.
So to sum it up the only thing Andrew Little has got to measure himself against is failure because he hasn’t achieved any thing else apart from the blame game.
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October 28, 2022 8:11am
- Flossie
  
  Let’s not forget Pike.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:39am
  - Paulus
    
    Pike is till on the lam remember as they are doing it again currently.
    More millions to come I expect, but don’t ask how much.
    
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    October 28, 2022 1:53pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  All Angry Andy has achieved is a disaster of a Health system now. He has successfully failed.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:39am
- backster
  
  Well he fixed Pike River didn’t he? Spent many $millions of borrowed money but the Coasters are happy aren’t they?
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:05am
All_on_Red

Rishi Sunak confirms he is a WEF Establishment stooge.
His Masters love all that money for the Green energy scam too much.
‘The ban on shale gas fracking in England has been restored by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in his first PMQs’
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63402777

How many thousand will die this Winter?
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October 28, 2022 8:12am
- Inandout
  
  AoR, I guess we may well ask how many thousands died of cold during the WW2 Blitz? You can be assured N010 Downing St will have its own heating source.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:27am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    They had coal fires in those days
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:27am
    - Paulus
      
      We had coal fires and overcoats too !
      
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      October 28, 2022 1:53pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘As we are now waking up to colder temperatures each morning it’s easy to take central heating and warm dinners for granted. Both heating and eating are vital for our health in the cold weather, but winter hardship – having to choose between heating and eating – causes over 50,000 deaths every year in England and Wales’
    https://www.ageuk.org.uk/leics/about-us/our-news/news-articles/2019/heating-or-eating-what-would-you-choose/
    
    Its been going on for awhile. I suspect it will be worse this winter if its a cold one.
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:34am
    - All_on_Red
      
      More here
      https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2022/both-heat-and-cold-increase-risk-death-england-and-wales-rates-vary-across
      ‘Each year in England and Wales, there were on average nearly 800 excess deaths associated with heat and over 60,500 associated with cold between 2000 and 2019, according to a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health.’
      
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      October 28, 2022 11:36am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Democracy is a sham in the UK, as it is in NZ.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:40am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Agreed. Most NZers are completely disengaged with politics. Of those who are engaged, most think the ills we face will be fixed by a change in government.
    
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    October 28, 2022 8:52am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      My Brother in Wellywood is like that. “Not interested, can’t be bothered”
      Told him “people like you are the reason NZ is in so much shit”
      “Covid” he says
      Well Covid is just a gravy train and a diversion. Meanwhile all of the other Ministries just do as they please.
      
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      October 28, 2022 9:34am
- MCōs
  
  As you will recall it was the debacle over the vote whether or not to have a debate on this issue that was the coup de grace on Ms Liz.
  Reading the article if a free vote was allowed in the Commons the ban would be restored.
  Furthermore.
  The gas would not be available “this Winter” & it would be sold at market rates when it does become available, which may well be little different than current rates.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:14am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Actually she got the majority vote out of 148,000 voters and they all knew beforehand she wanted to lift the Ban
    Just because Sunaks fellow stooges might vote it back doesnt make it right.
    Stating that it wouldn’t be available until next year is a silly reason not to do it
    And as for this nonsense ‘which may well be little different than current rates’
    
    Repeat after me
    Limited supply means high prices
    Plentiful supply means low prices
    
    Do you want deaths over the winter because energy is too expensive?
    
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    October 28, 2022 9:22am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      She didn’t get a majority of Tory MPs, and she wouldn’t have got a majority of the country. She got a majority of Tory party members.
      
      So let’s be clear here. Do we or do we not agree that a Prime Minister should ram through measures that do not have the approval of Parliament, or of the country as a whole, if she thinks it’s the right thing to do and if she can point to a small minority that agrees with her?
      
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      October 28, 2022 9:29am
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘She got a majority of Tory party members’
        Yes Albert, because that’s how it works…
        
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        October 28, 2022 12:25pm
      - Albert_Ross
        
        That’s how it works – and what a shining example, what a ringing endorsement, what a triumphantly successful case study we now have, of the effectiveness of having it work like that.
        
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        October 28, 2022 12:55pm
    - RoboRob
      
      100%
      
      The best way to get oil prices down is to produce more (we are already reducing demand). The concept of US and European governments both reducing production and cutting other energy sources is just crazy.
      
      You can believe in climate change and reducing CO2 emissions and still produce oil while you need it.
      
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      October 28, 2022 9:31am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Same as coal here?
      “Limited supply means high prices
      Plentiful supply means low prices”
      Power station built on a coalfield so we import from Indonesia.
      Makes sense//
      
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      October 28, 2022 9:37am
      - Sideoiler
        
        …Power station built on a coalfield so we import from Indonesia.
        Makes sense//
        
        Huntly burns Indonesian coal because it is cheaper. Waikato’s coal is far too valuable for burning it is a superior coal for coking ie steel making.
        Huntly has burnt very little coal over its life time the first twenty five years were largely gas fired.
        The four 250 meg units each have four coal mills and each mill was run for one week in rotation, meaning that a mill would run for a week every sixteen weeks.
        The biggest downside of indonesian coal is that is is very”soft”and there for extremly abraisive.
        
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        October 28, 2022 10:10am
      - MCōs
        
        Huntley Power Station is hardly used.
        Here’s some interesting live info.
        As of right now it’s producing zero electricity
        https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and-market-data/consolidated-live-data
        
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        October 28, 2022 10:14am
      - Jack5
        
        Sideoiler’s ….Waikato’s coal is far too valuable for burning it is a superior coal for coking ie steel making.
        
        That is not correct. The only coal in NZ that is suitable for traditional steel smelting is from the West Coast of the South Island.
        
        Indonesian coal must be undercutting Australian coal for Huntly. Indonesia is the world’s biggest coal exporter and Australia is the second biggest.
        
        I doubt that Indonesian coal price, including transport to and within NZ, was the reason for Huntly switching from local coal. More likely it was Green pressure.
        
        However, Sideoiler is right in suggesting lower-quality coal is all that’s needed for generating electricity.
        
        Both Australia and Germany burn lignite by the millions of tons in generation plants. Australia has been winding down its lignite power generation, while Germany is increasing its use because of the European energy squeeze.
        
        The virtually untouched, vast lignite deposits in Southland could generate all of NZ’s electricity for four or five centuries.
        
        On gas, it’s worth noting that Solid Energy was researching use of coal-seam gas from the coalfield around Huntly.
        
        NZ has big reserves of CSG, pretty much the same as other natural gas. The Pike River mine explosions were a horrible display of CSG power.
        
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        October 28, 2022 11:53am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @Sideoiler.
        Valuable coal and no steel mill to speak of. Last I heard they were making sheet steel only. It may have closed.
        So are the Huntly coal mines exporting coal? Or maybe no digging.
        
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        October 28, 2022 12:15pm
      - CJames
        
        MCos Huntly is not running as lakes are full. At the rate ofdecline in lake levels, it is likely to be running again before Xmas.
        I you want to know what it does, go on the MBIE site and look at quarterly generation from it. Often greater than many of the hydros.
        
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        October 28, 2022 1:54pm
      - Sideoiler
        
        A bit more info for those comments further down the thread.
        Huntly power station has become what is refered to as a “peaker”station, usually only on line at times of high demand and paid a premium because of it.
        Two of the 250 meg units are currently mothballed and when I left there was discussions over moth balling a third unit and caniblising the oldest mothballed unit(ie that unit will never come back)
        Coal from the Rotowaro east mine came to the station via the over land conveyor directly from the mine, this ceased after the explosion at that mine. what remains is now opencast. The mine produces a low-ash, low sulphur thermal coal for local steelmaking, energy generation, and other food and agricultural industries, note these energy generators are the likes of fonterra,various freezing works etc that dont have gas available to them or the complex electrostatic precipitators or particulate seperation equipment required to burn the lesser quality coals.
        Jack5
        
        That is not correct. The only coal in NZ that is suitable for traditional steel smelting is from the West Coast of the South Island.
        
        Not quite correct Jack The Rotowaro coalfield was first mined in 1915 with open cast mining starting in 1958. The neighbouring Huntly power station was built to be powered on coal or gas and, along with the Glenbrook steel mill, was calibrated for Huntly’s sub-bituminous coal. By the time Huntly was built, the Kupe gas fields of Taranaki had been discovered and Huntly ran on its gas until 2003 when those gas reserves started to decline, prices went up and Hunlty then reverted to coal.
        https://quarryingandminingmag.co.nz/looking-back-on-rotowaro/
        Indonesial coal is markedly cheaper to buy and transport other wise we would burn local coal.
        @ Steve Steel mill still producing and a range of products. https://www.nzsteel.co.nz/products/
        From a quick Google doesn’t look like any waikato coal is exported.https://www.nzpam.govt.nz/nz-industry/nz-minerals/minerals-statistics/coal/regional-coal-resources/
        many of the mines closed now and west coast coal is superior in quality and commands a better price.
        Coal from the Stockton plateau is possibly NZ’s best coal and produces ash at less than 2%
        And a wee disclaimer. I was involved in the instalation and commisioning of the E3p gas turbine at Huntly and the plant half life survey.
        
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        October 28, 2022 2:06pm
    - MCōs
      
      If those same Conservative Party members had the chance to vote between Boris and Sunak I have no doubt the former would have his old job back again.
      https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1583836182781517830?s=61&t=odaVjWrmYqivF-EtgErIvw
      Here in NZ the National caucus votes for their leader.
      Labour involves the members & the unions as well and surprise surprise came up with inappropriate choices in Shearer, Cunliffe & Little as the Tories did with Truss.
      
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      October 28, 2022 9:53am
  - RoboRob
    
    Gas and oil are priced on the futures market. Pricing is based on perceived future supply and demand, flagging future increases in supply reduces the price. The pricing is somewhat unhooked from actual current supply. The UK signalling increased production will actually reduce current pricing.
    
    For example look at the US. They are actually producing quite a bit of gas. However Biden has limited new permits, which will effect future supply. This has increased pricing.
    
    The whole Ukraine war effect on prices is somewhat weird from a supply and demand perspective. Russia still produces the same amount of oil as before, it just now sells it to different countries. The oil those countries used to buy is now bought by Europe. The main real difference is that it may cost more to ship the gas to Europe then it did to pipe it. The shortages of gas were actually occuring pre war / covid, due to the green movement. Covid lockdowns gas us an artificial break but the return to production has moved the issue to the fore. Western governments are blaming the war for this situation but past policy has a lot to do with it too.
    
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    October 28, 2022 9:27am
- Master Mariner
  
  Yes indeed. This only leaves the Shetland field as being marginally productive without fracking.
  So why was Truss disposed ? Who at least inderstood energy.
  A few Red Flags.
  
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  October 28, 2022 3:23pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    https://gcaptain.com/unwanted-russian-oil-singapore/#
    Russian Oil is now making it too Singapore refineries.
    How much has been getting to the more Opaque Asian refineries is any ones guess.
    So I ask a question.
    Can Minister Woods say we are not importing Russian Oil in refined products.
    Nope.
    
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    October 28, 2022 3:26pm
Yvette

May I take the liberty of copying here an article that now seems to have disappeared from Newshub coverage – Willie Jackson’s seemingly rather vehement response to the “attack” on Jacinda Ardern’s Auckland Electorate office –

Labour’s Willie Jackson slams woman who attacked Jacinda Ardern’s office, says there’s ‘violent’ shift in political debate

Labour Minister Willie Jackson says there has been a “violent” change in political debate after a woman allegedly attacked Jacinda Ardern’s electorate office.

Jackson has called the incident a “threat of violence” aimed at our Prime Minister.

A 57-year-old woman has been arrested over wilful damage at Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Mt Albert electorate office earlier on Thursday. Ardern’s office was left with a shattered window and what appears to be a samurai sword was lying nearby.

A spokesperson for the Prime Minister said no one was at the building at the time. She had no further information to provide.

Jackson said on a Facebook post, the woman argues she had “long-standing grievances” with the Prime Minister.

“That doesn’t justify symbolic destruction and smoke bombing her electorate office,” he said.
“There has been a violent change of political debate in this country that has gone from the normal and vigorous disagreement a democracy requires to unhinged conspiracy theories which justify political violence.

“Attacking the PM’s office with a sword and smoke bombing it are not legitimate responses in a democracy, they are the unacceptable actions of a fragment of society who have ended up believing conspiracy theories that are deeply harmful.”

Jackson continued by urging Kiwis to reach out to whānau and friends who may have convinced themselves of some “crazy secret conspiracy” to remind them they are loved.

“This type of irrational vandalism is not a future we want in this country,” Jackson said. “We are New Zealanders, and we are better than this act of vandalism by one person.”

Police hadn’t responded to Newshub about the claims a smoke bomb was let off.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/10/labour-s-willie-jackson-slams-woman-who-attacked-jacinda-ardern-s-office-says-there-s-violent-shift-in-political-debate.html

I find the above article interesting as it seems short of fact, but full in perhaps indicating Willie Jackson’s mind-set on “a “violent” change in political debate” – considering Jackson is tasked with shaping the Maori ēlite response on “co-governance” into form to be taken to Cabinet.

Willie Jackson’s preparing for a frank conversation with the authors of a draft United Nations’ Declaration Plan, who are now four months behind Cabinet’s schedule
The Māori Development Minister is hopeful the authors of a draft United Nations’ Declaration Plan will have a proposal he can take to Cabinet when he meets with them on Friday [last Friday]
In June a first draft was delivered to Jackson, but the minister never took it to Cabinet for consideration because he knew his colleagues wouldn’t support it.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/cabinet-still-waiting-on-co-governance-draft-plan
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October 28, 2022 8:13am
- Gravelroad
  
  @ Yvette-
  And some political reporter on the radio opined on this subject that it was a shame because it might affect the election campaign next year.
  He reckoned that candidates would now probably not do “walkabouts” on the campaign trail because of safety concerns,
  This would particularly impact Ms Ardern who is still, according to him “mobbed” by crowds of adoring fans everywhere she goes.
  Is this correct?
  I wouldn’t cross the road to see Ms Ardern and I get the impression that I am not alone in this.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:38am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    You are not wrong, it’s why Brenda confines her public appearances to primary schools and day care centres. Even then, she gets heckled regularly.
    
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    October 28, 2022 8:42am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      There’s a ‘Three Year Olds against Jacinda’ activist group?
      
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      October 28, 2022 9:42am
  - Weinerpoop
    
    Ardern keeps her presence very quiet now days. When she popped up in Kumara on the coast a while ago no one knew she was coming as she didn’t want protests and the West Coast is normally tribal labour. Look at how badly O’Connor performs and still gets back in.
    
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    October 28, 2022 9:30am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The fans mobbing Jaspinda are just the media.
    
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    October 28, 2022 9:40am
  - O C Smith
    
    I would cross the road ….. to avoid her!
    
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    October 28, 2022 10:04am
  - Keith White
    
    I would cross the road to legally heckle her.
    
    I would use as my guide for what I could reasonably say about her character, direct quotes from Hansard over the years.
    
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    October 28, 2022 10:11am
- Tomtoddy
  
  What the blustering Jackson needs to understand is that the constant push to divide New Zealand leads people to lash out in frustration. Not condoning violence or wilful damage to property but Jackson and his apartheid pushers are going to see is more such reactions. The blame lies at their door.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:38am
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    +10.
    People will resort to violence if other avenues are shut down.
    Cripes – Avi Yemeni prevented from coming here because he has opposing views to the govt?!
    I’m only surprised there hasn’t been more violence already.
    
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    October 28, 2022 8:49am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    This is, we don’t know anything about the woman at all. Nutter? Rough sleeper? Anti-vaxx fanatic? Trangender man who indentifies as an Incel?
    Don’t care.
    
    Some comments on the Daily Blog were on point:
    – Much less than a ram raid, or smash and grab hammer attack. Call a glazier. Yawn.
    
    Also, that if the person is perceived as ‘right wing’, then the sky is falling and political threats, etc. Awful. Conspiracy theories causing harm.
    
    If the person is not ‘right wing’ in motivation, then a one-off, mental health. Very sad. But no political mileage.
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:35am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Given Jackson’s intervention, surely a Special Person?
      
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      October 28, 2022 3:14pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  Jackson is merely giving an opinion of his own and no actual facts. He’s too only successful in his role by creating these negative narratives. I’ve stopped listening to this Minister who also by track record is full of negativity himself. King Race-Baiter of NZ.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:42am
- backster
  
  The last place the offender was likely to find Jacinda is in her electorate office but on the subject of vandalism perhaps Willie could give poor old Poutu a hand and address his remarks to Tuhoi and the Urewera vandals.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:15am
- Yvette
  
  What concerns me a little is that –
  ■ 2010 – New Zealand was reluctantly the last of those countries that did “ratify” UNDRIP – a non-binding Declaration rather than binding Treaty – a stipulated the Treaty of waiting would define the scope of UNDRIP.
  
  ■ 2019 – Mahuta commissions He Puapua – with a relative on the Panel – process hidden from coalition partner New Zealand First. So He Paupau filters UNDRIP “response”
  
  ■ Jackson elicited “co-governance” response from targeted Maori ēlite – a further filter
  
  ■ Jackson filters ēlite Maori response for Cabinet acceptance
  
  ■ Cabinet presumably to yet filter “co-governance” for “non-Maori national conversation”
  
  – and Jackson is the one-man-band organising (filtering) all this “democracy” – which he says is now redefined …
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:30am
- kowtow
  
  Jackson is full of shit and lies.
  
  Nick Smith over a very long period was the target of arson and violence .
  Woodhouse constituency office occasionally attacked in Dunedin.
  Queen assaulted by blanket.
  Brash hit by mud.
  Joyce hit by sex toy ( the media enjoyed that)
  
  H Clark’s office was axed .
  
  Many many examples all predating a very long time anything Wile E Willy was bolloxing on about.
  Why the media don’t contextualise this is not a surprise though.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:45am
- graham
  
  Labour Minister Willie Jackson says there has been a “violent” change in political debate after a woman allegedly attacked Jacinda Ardern’s electorate office.
  
  Jackson has called the incident a “threat of violence” aimed at our Prime Minister.
  
  Threats of violence, or actual violence, against our politicians – or anybody for that matter – are of course wrong; that goes without saying. But to call this a violent change?
  
  Where has Willie Jackson been for the past 15 years?
  
  2004 – Mud thrown at former National leader Don Brash
  2005 – Nick Smith’s electoral caravan burnt out in an arson attack outside his Nelson office
  2007 – Helen Clark’s home in Mt Eden tagged with graffiti
  2009 – Popata brothers admit assaulting John Key at Waitangi
  2010 – Daniel Vale jailed after fire-bombing John Key’s Helensville electorate office in Kumeu
  2014 – Canterbury farmer Mark Feary jailed for four months after being found guilty of six counts of threatening to kill, having mailed abusive letters to John Key and Tariana Turia.
  2014 – Former Act leader John Banks has a bucket of mud thrown at him on his way to a court appearance
  2014 – Shots fired through the window of Hone Harawira’s Kaitaia electorate office
  2016 – Josie Butler throws a sex toy at Steven Joyce and hits him in the face
  2016 – Kris Faafoi’s electorate office vandalised
  2018 – Nick Smith rubbed with rat poison by Rose Renton
  2019 – James Shaw attacked; grabbed and hit in the face, goes to hospital for a precautionary check-up
  2020 – Paula Bennett reveals she received multiple death threats and was assaulted on three occasions during her time as a politician
  2021 – Man attacks Parliament with an axe
  2021 – Graffiti sprayed across the office of Labour’s Taieri MP Ingrid Leary in South Dunedin
  2021 – Kieran McAnulty receives death threats after a confrontation with an anti-vaxxer
  
  Violence against our politicians is, sadly, nothing new. Open your eyes Willie. Stop pretending this is something new that’s never happened before, and stop using it as an excuse.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:54am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Just a pathetic political free kick for Willie it would seem. Did he speak up on the above? Thought not.
    
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    October 28, 2022 8:28pm
- I remember when
  
  Willie Jackson:
  How much different is it to destroying, removing election candidates signs.
  Isn’t it largely a sign of total frustration.
  Perhaps she should have sat on a State Highway somewhere.
  It’s a statement – and the fact it is relatively rare makes it memorable.
  When it happens to a ‘pop star’ leader the signal is more potent.
  
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  October 28, 2022 11:48am
Maggy Wassilieff

How to be an effective Labour Minister of the Crown

1. Know nothing
Melissa Lee: What does the Strong Public Media Business Case say is the total new Crown funding required for Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media across financial years 2027-2051?

Hon WILLIE JACKSON: I’ll have to come back to the member on that.

2. Do nothing
Melissa Lee: When the Minister agreed to arrange for officials to brief me on the business case for the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill, to show the cost-benefit analysis, why has it been over four weeks and I have still not been contacted by his ministry?

Hon WILLIE JACKSON: I have asked my ministry to contact that member. I will ask them again.

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20221027_20221027_20/tab/video?page=3
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October 28, 2022 8:13am
- peterwn
  
  The Speaker’s or Clerk’s office releases submitted questions at 12 noon and any decent Ministerial staffer would immediately refer questions to the relevant Chief Executive who should have someone on immediate standby (on Question Time days) to arrange a response.
  In this case someone is hiding under a rock.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:28am
  - I remember when
    
    The same rock as Grant Robertson’s staffer?
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:51am
- Tricati
  
  I like the way Melisa Lee systematically pulls apart these hapless Labour ministers. She did it with Clair Curran, and is starting to push Willie’s buttons. She is relentless, knows her stuff and won’t take crap so you go girl and get stuck into them.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:41am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I do wish Luxon would let Melissa Lee off the leash.
  Give her ‘carte blanche’ She is a dam good attack dog.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:44am
  - Paulus
    
    For Meliss to go now is not the right time – slowly slowly catchee monkey, is the way for National to go.
    Give Labour more shovels to dig their hole deeper.
    
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    October 28, 2022 2:01pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I just want to see Melissa get her teeth into something, like she did with Clare Curran.
      That was a good beating up Clare received.
      
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      October 29, 2022 7:49am
Ehlana

Maggy, they have still not worked out that just talking doesn’t make anything happen. You actually have to do.

Given their actual policies, that’s probably a blessing in disguise.
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October 28, 2022 8:17am
Inandout

There is a growing world shortage of lithium which is scaring car manufacturers, even Tesla. Imagine purchasing a new EV and after a month the battery malfunctions. The dealer has no spares in stock and you are put on the waiting list. I have a growing feeling EVs have outrun their popularity.
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October 28, 2022 8:22am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Another reason not to go down the EV path amongst many others.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:44am
- curry4me
  
  Oh,dear a lithium shortage. What’s the down side?
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:44am
  - Ra Henare
    
    There is not a shortage of lithium. Its present in seawater for goodness sake.
    Its the cost/ease of recovery in large volume that is the main problem.
    
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    October 28, 2022 2:11pm
- Nickc2
  
  Buyer beware eh? If the fire don’t getch, the battery will!
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:52am
- Cinematic
  
  I’m picking up a new car next week. Didn’t bother looking at ev’s as they’re still way to limited in performance for my active lifestyle. The hybrid model meant no spare tyre FFS. Very happy with my 100% combustion model.
  
  Here’s betting my 100% combustion model depreciates no where near as quickly as any ev bought at the same time.
  
  In fact I’m guessing another owner will still be loving this car in 15 years time, by which point 99% of the evs will have found there way to a scrapyard.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:03am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Logic fail. If there are waiting lists, that indicates that their popularity has outrun them, not that they have outrun their popularity.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:20am
- MCōs
  
  Cars in general have outrun their popularity in Japan with a shortage of chips to bung in the keys.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:21am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yep Toyota have gone back to manual keys due to chip shortages.
    Also Toyota are not going down the EV route any more.
    I know where i would put my money on.
    
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    October 28, 2022 3:35pm
- G152
  
  Well at least they have outrun something without a charge /smiley
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:25am
- lastmanstanding
  
  IMHO EVs are going to be a very costly exercise. Already we are seeing the UK Government telling EV owners there are going to be limits on charging and that they will have to have separate chargers installed that will attract a higher rate. Governments including ours will put RUCs of some sort on to offset the loss ot fuel tax. Thats why Mrs LMS and I havent purchased an EV and instead a very economical petrol vehicle. We will wait and see before leaping in.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:44am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  NZ has Lithium deposits. But no digging OK?
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:47am
  - Inandout
    
    SO, interesting data on world’s biggest lithium mines.
    https://www.mining-technology.com/analysis/top-ten-biggest-lithium-mines/
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:09am
- 103PapPap
  
  A few lithium facts.
  A Finnish report states there is not enough lithium in the world to power the current number of cars and trucks.
  Russia has lithium but it is very deep.
  Ukraine has lithium.
  
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  October 28, 2022 11:26am
- cas
  
  Someone in the pub was telling me the other day of an $8000 damage bill to an EV as it broke down and someone towed it with a rope to the dealer which was only 4 km away. Apparently you are supposed to put them on a tow truck.
  
  Another reason not to buy an EV.
  
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  October 28, 2022 12:00pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Wondering that.
    If towable or not.
    Cheers.
    
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    October 28, 2022 3:37pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Goes for a lot of automatics.
      Disconnect the driveshaft
      
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      October 29, 2022 7:51am
Nukuleka

Am already wondering about my wisdom in voting for supposed ‘independent’ Phil Mauger as Mayor of Christchurch. Phil has selected as his deputy Pauline Cotter, a long term Labour councilor who has only just managed to squeak in as the representative for the Innes ward (and whose narrow victory is subject to a judicial recount). Ms Cotter lists as her prime focus as a councilor climate change! Not rates control, not improved infrastructure nor even improved social amenities…. climate change.

I’m not impressed, Mr Mauger, not at all.
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October 28, 2022 8:24am
- RoboRob
  
  My initial thoughts too. However I hope it is a cunning plan to bring the labour people on board and force Cotter to support his projects, after all she is deputy Mayor and we know the left are in it for the baubles of power.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:36am
- MCōs
  
  One thing I’ve noticed in NZ
  Nobody on social media seems to like their mayor, even if they voted for them.
  They don’t care much for other people’s mayors either.
  Wayne Brown is popular now with some people, but it won’t last.
  The reason.
  Whatever else happens it’s rate increases that concentrate people’s mind and they all say they will make the council more efficient and keep rates down, but it never happens.
  BTW
  Bangkok doesn’t have rates
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:37am
  - PeeJay
    
    biggest issue is that voters think that who they vote for has real power. Suspect most of the candidates also think that. truth is that it is actually the senior and executive managers that have the real power in councils and they never get voted out!
    
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    October 28, 2022 10:19am
    - MCōs
      
      But they are hired by the council to run the engine room and the councilors are on the bridge pulling the steering wheel this way and that while icebergs go drifting by.
      Consultants are hired by the government to plot charts through the icebergs. The government changes and they are paid off, then rehired to plot new charts.
      
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      October 28, 2022 11:54am
      - Paulus
        
        Remember all staff in Local Government are employed by the one and only Chief of Staff -or GM if you like.
        
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        October 28, 2022 2:04pm
ClanMcleod

There was a vaccine safety inquiry in the UK parliament on Monday. Another apology from another overseas politician with a spine and the moral fortitude to admit they were wrong. NZ getting an “honourable” mention.

Although many questions about our Covid response need to be answered, the U.K. is by no means the worst offender. We are not Canada, New Zealand or China – places where Governments think they can exterminate Covid by depriving their population of the most basic civil liberties. However, I am afraid that we still have many questions to ask ourselves, and even much to be ashamed of. I put on record that in hindsight I am particularly ashamed of my vote to dismiss care workers who did not want to receive the vaccine. I very much hope that the 40,000 care workers who lost their jobs can be reinstated, and indeed compensated.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/10/26/the-government-is-in-denial-about-the-risks-of-these-vaccines-say-mps/

The whole article is well worth reading.

This followed the apology to the unvaccinated for the discrimination they were subjected to from the new Premier of Alberta, Canada, Danielle Smith.

https://rumble.com/v1nknza-albertas-new-premier-danielle-smith-speaking-about-the-discrimination-again.html

Not one single MP in NZ has ever spoken out on behalf of the unvaccinated and the abuse and discrimination they were subjected to. How is that possible? That not one out of 120 “representatives” speaks on behalf of at least half a million people? How is that possible in what is meant to be a representative democracy?
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October 28, 2022 8:27am
- Random T Person
  
  This is what has caused total disillusionment with the political class. That when a sizeable number of people with entirely legitimate concerns about their most basic and fundamental rights can be completely ignored, shut down, demonised and othered to the extent that we are left feeling like we should not exist.
  That is the extent of it. The full horror of depersoning those who would insist on their basic rights.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:09am
- leoj
  
  Notice to David Seymour: If you want to boost your polling numbers, copy this UK MP: “I put on record that in hindsight I am particularly ashamed of my vote to dismiss care workers who did not want to receive the vaccine.”
  
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  October 28, 2022 12:33pm
- Hebe123
  
  There is a petition doing the rounds (parliament website not change.org) asking for an apology.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:08pm
Maggy Wassilieff

What’s a $billion dollars here or there?

Our Labour Government doesn’t seem to know whether it gave $6 billion to Social-Service NGOs or $7 billion.

In 2020/21 it is estimated that between $6 and $7 billion went to NGOs for social services. In 2020/21 social sector government departments and Crown entities had at least 18,800 arrangements with NGOs

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2210/S00196/govt-launches-new-chapter-for-18000-social-services.htm

All too difficult keeping a check on where the $$$$ are flowing, it seems.
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October 28, 2022 8:28am
- O C Smith
  
  Rounding or Margin of Error??
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:36am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Labour have proven they don’t like to measure outcomes of investment of taxpayer $$$’s. Labour prefers the lolly scramble approach.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:47am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Labour are just no good with numbers. Time and time again they just can’t grasp it.
  Remember this?
  The difference between a billion and a trillion is 3 zeros. Now as zeros have no value, there is no extra cost.
  AOC. I am pretty sure she did say it but many (lefties of course) debunk it.
  No eye deer.
  
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  October 28, 2022 12:43pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGPR4UFFeyo
Lockdowns are wrong!
Lockdowns and all that came with them were flat out wrong. And now the independent reports to back up that which we have been saying for years are starting to come in.
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October 28, 2022 8:33am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Oh there will be an enquiry, but we are still working on it.
  Nothing more than code for covering up as much bullshit as they can.
  Heaven forbid that someone is to blame.
  
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  October 28, 2022 12:50pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE1Pgn7yYRs

Woke Twitter Employees Beg Elon Musk Not to Fire Them!

Elon Musk isn’t going to fire 1000 Twitter employees. He’s going to fire 5600. Can they learn to code; or install solar panels?
5,600 liberals on the wall, 5,600 liberals on the wall, if one them happens to fall, 5,599 liberals on the wall. [9:09]
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October 28, 2022 8:33am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Those who fear being sacked the most would be the leftist fact checkers.
  Anything slightly right get removed or the author gets banned.
  Donald Trump. He was stopped getting his message out before the media could fuck with it. Twitter is in for a big change. At least Musk will be honest with his advertisers when the bots are gone.
  
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  October 28, 2022 12:59pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Those fired from Twitter today include:
  
  ✂ Parag Agrawal (CEO)
  
  ✂ Ned Segal (CFO)
  
  ✂ Vijaya Gadde (Head of Legal Policy, Trust and Safety)
  
  ✂ Sean Edgett (General Counsel)
  
  A few thousand more ✂’s still to come.
  
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  October 28, 2022 4:12pm
  - curry4me
    
    Woohoo! Musk is firing all the right people. Well, actually, all the left/woke people.
    
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    October 28, 2022 5:50pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Why bother going to school?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/300714904/they-havent-been-back-since-lockdown-8500-children-still-missing-from-schools
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October 28, 2022 8:39am
- kowtow
  
  I don’t understand how her Media Pardy can keep running these “lockdown legacy” stories .
  
  Afterall they were the agency who relentlessly pushed the hysteria that led directly to the draconianism.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:16am
krazykiwi

Apparenty Paypal’s Objectionable Terms Are Back, $2500 Fines For Content They Don’t Like.
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October 28, 2022 8:43am
- curry4me
  
  Yes, I saw that on Twitter. I’ll look for PayPal alternatives in organizations I join.
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:47am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Oh, yet more evidence about how wonderful Central Bank Digital Currencies will be!
  
  You would have read le gato malo’s excellent post on the subject?
  Turns out Paypal’s Usman Ahmed is one of this year’s crop of Global Young Leaders, they seem to be popping up everywhere in the last few years, yet if you had mentioned it to someone 3 years ago you would have been labelled a conspiracy nutter.
  
  it kinda makes you wonder about what those WEF guys would maybe do with a central bank digital currency, huh?
  
  https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-pay-your-pals
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:04am
- Raphael
  
  Then they waited two weeks for the attention to die down. And now they’ve put the policy back into the terms. The Paypal t&c’s now specify a $2500 fine per instance of violating their acceptable use policy, including transactions which in their sole opinion promote intolerance. Intolerance isn’t defined, and could be considered anything Paypal says it is.
  
  Keeping in mind that PayPal decided that the UK branch of the Free Speech Union was offensive enough to ban them from their platform (since reinstated)
  
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  October 28, 2022 11:12am
Bill Felt

Let us have a look at the priorities of the Labour Govt 2017 and compare that to how they are doing today:

The 12 priorities are as follows:
• Grow and share more fairly New Zealand’s prosperity.
• Deliver responsible governance with a broader measure of success.
• Support thriving and sustainable regions.
• Transition to a clean, green and carbon-neutral New Zealand.
• Ensure everyone is earning, learning, caring or volunteering.
• Support healthier, safer, and more connected communities.
• Ensure everyone has a warm, dry home.
• Make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child.
• Deliver transparent, transformative and compassionate government.
• Build closer partnerships with Māori.
• Value who we are as a country.
• Create an international reputation we can be proud of.
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October 28, 2022 8:48am
- Paulus
  
  Wow – what happened ?
  We got f…ed instead.
  
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  October 28, 2022 2:07pm
Rusty

Hardly a day goes by where we don’t hear something about our broken health system in the news.

The latest in the herald is the concern that the stress in our hospitals could drive some overworked doctors to suicide.

Yet for 2 years this govt was prepared to violate Nzers basic human rights with their fear mongering covid measures all in the name of protecting our ‘health”

So why doesn’t their philosophy apply now in our health/hospital system where many are suffering?
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October 28, 2022 8:49am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Does anyone know where you can buy a good, old fashioned fly cemetery?
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October 28, 2022 8:50am
- MCōs
  
  I stopped at some wretched overpriced tea rooms on SH1 north of Whangarei somewhere and they had some fly cemeteries.
  I said to my wife ‘look fly cemeteries’.
  She couldn’t believe I’d buy such a thing, but I did and it was a poor example of what I remember as a childhood delight.
  Then again I used to enjoy marmite on toast in the good old days too.
  
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  October 28, 2022 12:09pm
- leoj
  
  Also, why are Irish Moss jubes not sold in supermarkets?
  
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  October 28, 2022 12:35pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  What?
  
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  October 28, 2022 1:21pm
  - cmm
    
    British humour.
    Pastry thing full of raisins.
    https://bakingwithgranny.co.uk/recipe/fruit-slice-fly-cemetery/
    
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    October 28, 2022 3:29pm
Aunty

For those who don’t follow these things, there was a coma-inducing collapse in Meta’s (Facebook) shareprice on Wall Street overnight. Down 25% in just one trading session!

And if that is not bad enough the price is down ~72% from its peak in January of this year (US$353 – US$96). US$1000 invested in January is now worth US$280.

Zuckerberg’s fortune has declined by billions of dollars in that time. Will he be able to stay on as the CEO of the Company? Probably, he still has the controlling vote. But who knows?

Looks like everyone is hating on the Metaverse.
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October 28, 2022 8:52am
- MCōs
  
  I remember when Facebook first floated. Shares were $65.
  
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  October 28, 2022 12:11pm
ClanMcleod

Yet more evidence emerging that the “vaccines” cause negative efficacy.

Having antibodies against COVID-19 provides children with little or no protection against infection, a study published in JAMA has found. Instead, the main determinant of protection is cellular immunity (i.e., T cells). Worse, against Omicron having antibodies actually increased the risk of infection, which may help to explain the negative vaccine effectiveness seen in a number of studies, where infection rates are higher in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/10/26/antibodies-increase-infection-risk-in-children-study-finds/

But NZ keeps pushing this poison on children.
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October 28, 2022 8:53am
- Ehlana
  
  Are they still pushing it? I haven’t seen any vaccine advertising lately.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:13am
  - kevn
    
    @Ehl… You haven’t seen the targeted cartoon type TV ads?
    
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    October 28, 2022 10:47am
    - Ehlana
      
      Ahh, the glories of Netflix. And pre-recording. So, no, I’ve missed the latest cartoon. Is it like the 3 Waters ones?
      
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      October 28, 2022 2:20pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    The fact that they are even giving it to children 5 and up is criminal. The advertising might have slowed down, but the lies regarding efficacy and claims of “misinformation” coming from “experts” continues unabated.
    
    Here’s Helen Petousis Harris pushing the bullshit and teaching health care professionals how to use psychological techniques to get people to be jabbed.
    
    https://t.me/CoronvirusPlushie/5112
    
    That’s the same Helen Petousis Harris who has just stated she won’t be getting a 4th shot.
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/10/covid-19-vaccinologist-helen-petousis-harris-says-nz-immunity-enough-to-hold-off-on-omicron-booster.html
    
    Though in the article she lies and says 3 shots plus covid infection is your best protection against covid. There is so much bullshit in that statement it’s hard to know where to start in shredding it. It’s bollocks. The best immunity is natural immunity. The more jabs you get the more prone you are to catching covid, that’s not even getting into the risk of injury and death.
    
    Here’s “nanogirl” pushing this poison onto children who do not need it and should never be allowed anywhere near it.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pxrEO3IuFY
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:00am
  - Flossie
    
    How about just this week a direct phone call telling you it’s “time to book your next booster”?
    Not the telemarketer’s fault so I just politely said No thank you don’t think I’ll be having one.
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:38am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Twitter Senior Engineer tells undercover
journalist….

“We only censor the right. We’re all commie as fuck”

https://twitter.com/Serendipityy45/status/1526608905165385729

Now it’s all about to change 😀
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October 28, 2022 9:23am
- All_on_Red
  
  Apparently Musk is going to add a You Tube competitor to Twitter – amongst other things
  That will dramatically increase their opportunities to monetise content more effectively and improve profitability
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:34am
  - Bullion
    
    Unless they have the revenue sharing scheme that YT has, its not going to be a big draw card for content creators.
    
    YT is also just used far more than Twitter and saw off threats from a much, much, much larger platform in Facebook.
    
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    October 28, 2022 5:27pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Jury’s out for me. Superficial change, perhaps. But the EUs ‘6% of global revenue’ fines for what EU bureaucrats determine to be misinformation will be a serious problem for Musk. I don’t doubt he has a plan up his sleeve. The nuclear option would be to block Twitter in Europe. Wouldn’t put that bluff past him.
  
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  October 28, 2022 9:49am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Oh no, another “conspiracy theory” comes true! We must be due for an “expert” to come out soon and explain to us how this is all just “disinformation” and we need laws so we can criminally charge anyone who exposes our fraudulent activity!
  
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  October 28, 2022 11:09am
All_on_Red

More Election fraud in the US
‘Former Orange County Comissioner Cynthia Harris filed a sworn affidavit in late August with the Secretary of State’s office alleging that illegal operations to collect third-party ballots have been going on for years in the Orlando area where voting activists are paid $10 for each ballot they collect.

She described an intricate system funded by liberal leaning organizations that dispatch ballot brokers into black communities to pressure voters to turn over their ballots. The $10 fee per ballot is divvied up among the parties who help complete the harvesting’
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/florida-opens-criminal-probe-democrat-whistleblowers-evidence-ballot?
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October 28, 2022 9:43am
- kowtow
  
  Time magazine covered this under “saving the election”.
  
  Tech billionaires and others gave hundreds of millions to unseat Trump.
  
  Business and unions colluded .
  
  Why would they ?
  
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  October 28, 2022 10:32am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Speaking of which
    ‘A Washington state judge on Wednesday fined Facebook parent company Meta nearly $25 million for repeatedly and intentionally violating campaign finance disclosure law, in what is believed to be the largest campaign finance penalty in U.S. history.’
    https://www.npr.org/2022/10/27/1131907041/facebook-meta-campaign-finance-fine
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:29am
  - kevn
    
    @kowtow… They must pleased with their choice… vegetable biden. Destroying the USA.
    
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    October 28, 2022 4:22pm
Maggie Pie

“What have we let them do to us?”

‘DIED SUDDENLY’ – screens next month

https://twitter.com/SkowMatthew/status/1585406980461559814

Even the trailer is a difficult watch 🙁
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October 28, 2022 9:52am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Good thing I am not young.
  One day there will be Nuremberg 2.0.
  
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  October 28, 2022 10:10am
  - Keith White
    
    Nuremberg 2.0 will be the best possible outcome.
    
    There are worse options.
    
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    October 28, 2022 10:13am
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… and in NZ they/MOH are still pushing the jab.
  
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  October 28, 2022 10:35am
  - Inandout
    
    kev, especially if you are brown and over 50. Does that spooky music on the ad attract these people like moths to a flame?
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:13am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    The response in NZ is way beyond incompetence, it is extreme malfeasance and criminal activity. A number of “experts” need to be going to jail for a long time. Baker being the first to go, but there are many others.
    
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    October 28, 2022 11:20am
- Paul Marsden
  
  As somebody who has a seriously ill member of my family from the jab and whom doctors todate have been unable to help, we have been researching her presentations far and wide, in a desperate attempt to find answers. We have been astounded to have to inform her doctors as to what we are discovering, as they really have little, or no idea about the more serious adverse affects of the jab and also whom they should not be jabbing under any circumstances. Some have confided in us and it’s not good what they say.
  
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  October 28, 2022 10:51am
  - cmm
    
    Extremely few doctors actually keep up to date with research. Most are not really capable of science. For the most part they are “technicians”. ie. they have been trained to follow a procedure of diagnosis and applying a prescribed action. ie. they do exactly what they are told to do.
    
    There are some exceptions: both those who do heaps of ongoing research, and those who are capable of conducting science, but, unfortunately, they are few.
    
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    October 28, 2022 3:24pm
    - Paul Marsden
      
      Of course not. They are almost entirely reliant on what the Medsafe website tells them and that certainly does not keep them abreast of the now, 2000-odd peer reviewed papers worldwide, that traverse the subject matter of the adverse side affects of the jab. Furthermore, most GP’s work from dawn to dusk, so where on earth are they going to find the time to keep themselves abreast of overseas research? The answer is, they’re not. In essence, they simply do as they are told by the NZMC. Life is simpler that way for them.
      
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      October 28, 2022 4:56pm
RockyJ

So here is Chris Finlayson worrying that the precedent of tikanga being applied in the Peter Ellis case might open the door to other claims, eg defamation, on behalf of dead people.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/chris-finlayson-supreme-court-opens-a-can-of-worms-with-peter-ellis-decision/VOY323GGDRG2NKRDMMNERQEUOI/

Well, Chris, this is a monster you helped create. Taken even further the idea of litigation on behalf of dead people could be extended out to the dead from the New Zealand wars and utu for sins committed in the process of colonisation in the 19th century. What a disaster that would be.
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October 28, 2022 10:07am
- Paul Marsden
  
  Wait until the Wanganui River claims the life of someone. Things will get interesting then.
  
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  October 28, 2022 11:40am
  - leoj
    
    Sue the “h”
    
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    October 28, 2022 12:40pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Yell “Trump or Treat”
to get candy. If not I’ll grab my bowl and say
“Bi – Den
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October 28, 2022 10:42am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Peek into the Jan 6th Court.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvajuNl30I
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October 28, 2022 11:07am
My

According to FAA the Prime Minister’s flight out of Christchurch was not broadcasting tracking data for security reasons..So JA she heads to Antarctica and some mystery plane is buzzing around there. Aliens, reptiles, Russians or Chinese I reckon.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/mystery-flights-over-antarctica-as-prime-minister-ardern-visits-scott-base/R6VAN7QEB4GI6XVAFRXTSUM4KI/
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October 28, 2022 11:14am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Either the Herc has broken down in Antarctica or
  Spindy wasn’t happy with the comfort levels.
  There’s a 757 about to land there to pick her up.
  
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  October 28, 2022 1:44pm
  - Paulus
    
    RNZAF 757 could not land there anyway – understood that the USAF gint C17 was chartered so expect it to fly her back today.
    And who pays for the charter ?
    
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    October 28, 2022 2:10pm
    - kowtow
      
      Who pays for the carbon indulgences ?
      
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      October 28, 2022 3:42pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      What are you talking about? I watched it land on flight radar. It was on the ice for about an hour and a half and now it’s on its way back with its VIP passenger.
      But where’s the Hercules? Maybe the 757 delivered some mechanics to fix it.
      
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      October 28, 2022 4:06pm
      - kevn
        
        @Captn… Here’s hoping the 757 took plenty of freight down. Wonder what the Herc ended up doing? Maybe the flight down was a bit basic?
        
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        October 28, 2022 4:17pm
Chris Nisbet

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/too-mean-to-be-green-air-new-zealand-passengers-carbon-offset-rate-slows/RRZPMHUTOD4O6R4ACB65HRE5R4/
Don’t you love it when somebody else tells you you’re too mean with your own money?
Maybe the passengers have more immediate concerns? Maybe they’re just clever enough to realise they’d be wasting their money?
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October 28, 2022 11:16am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/
A Key Strategy Of The Maori Elite To Take Over New Zealand.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/a-key-strategy-of-the-maori-elite-to-take-over-new-zealand/
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/An-elite-Maori-Strategy-to-take-over-New-Zealand-5.pdf
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October 28, 2022 11:38am
Maggie Pie

I see that with the ‘Plain Language’ Bill coming into law last Wednesday, all government departments are now required to appoint….. “Plain Language Compliance Officers”

WTF??
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October 28, 2022 11:58am
Jack5

What gives with the case of Nelson aircraft engineer Lawrence McCann who jumped on the wing of a Cessna plane while its propellers were spinning, ripped open the hatch, and punched the pilot several times while calling him a “fucking moron” and a “cunt”?

The Herald reports the pilot was unable to shut down the engines as he tried to block the blows to his head. His feet then came off the brake pedals, and he was not in control of the aircraft.

In the Nelson District Court McCann was fined $2000 and the judge refused to discharge him without conviction.

The charge was brought by the Civil Aviation Authority.

In June last year the police, rather than prosecute McCann, had referred the attack to an “iwi community panel” meeting, which led to McCann agreeing to undertake an anger management course.

Are the police are able to divert court prosecution on race grounds when the charge is serious enough for another Government department to step in later and bring a charge?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/aircraft-engineer-lawrence-mccann-jumps-on-wing-of-plane-with-engines-running-punches-pilot/O5EWHEEQQXCB4WTG4ASNROXARU/
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October 28, 2022 12:13pm
- blue collar
  
  Seemed to me he only had to shut the doors to the hangar , to eliminate the risk of the plane his guys were working on , coming off the jacks from prop wash .
  Seemed the other pilot cdve done better after being made aware of situation .
  Punching the shit out of him on the wing of a running plane is a touch too far and reckless . Better on the tarmac . Better to talk it through . Better to realise the world doesn’t revolve around him and his work n put plane in a bigger hanger so can close doors or create an exclusion zone Outside if none available . Or stop work and do it when airport quiet .
  Fuck the Maori justice shite , one law for all
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:14pm
Maggie Pie

Personally, I don’t have a problem with this either.
It’s like my partner says…..if a government department ever queries an invoice because it looks excessive, you can always put a part credit thru later.
Rarely do you get a chance to increase it after the event.
Best just go in hard to begin with. Especially if it’s someone else’s money 😀

https://twitter.com/kehetauhauaga/status/1585430427388772352
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October 28, 2022 12:55pm
- Nickc2
  
  Am I right in assuming Martin Jenkins is a subsidiary of Mahuta Corp?
  
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  October 28, 2022 1:22pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  ‘ Date of & value of initial engagement – 01/09/2020 to 30/06/2021 Value
  $1,499,999.48’
  
  Makes you wonder why they wouldn’t just add 52c.
  
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  October 28, 2022 5:47pm
Alex

Gravel road, Jacinda not doing walkabouts because she is too popular, they missed out the UN in front of popular.
There is one town in Ukraine where the Russians are not retreating and that is Bakhmut, of no military importance but will impress Putin as the Wagners The Private mercenary army funded by his “chef” are dug in there.
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October 28, 2022 1:19pm
Maggie Pie

JUST IN….

Elon has just given the arse-card to both the CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Neddy Segal.

He is now in total control 😀

https://twitter.com/drefanzor/status/1585793242984947712
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October 28, 2022 2:39pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “Hello? Mr President, it won’t be long now”
  
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  October 28, 2022 3:49pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yip. Yip. @realDonaldTrump back on Monday 😀
    
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    October 28, 2022 4:06pm
    - kevn
      
      @Maggie… Might almost worth joining Twitter now.
      
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      October 28, 2022 4:13pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I did, about a week ago – contemplating this
        
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        October 28, 2022 4:21pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        DO IT kevey! It’s life changing 😀
        
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        October 28, 2022 4:24pm
      - curry4me
        
        A month ago I was thinking of leaving Twitter. Not now.
        
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        October 28, 2022 6:21pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Not very often the punters get it wrong.
88/13 or 61/41.
https://thepatriotjournal.com/2022-midterms-republicans-democrats-predictit/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=actengage&seyid=28744
OK, I know about the 2020 Election. The punters then were way off base right?//
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October 28, 2022 2:57pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hillary Clinton wins the prize for being the first Democrat to deny the results of the 2024 election.
https://redrightvideos.com/hillary-clinton-claims-republicans-are-planning-to-steal-2024-presidential-election-offers-no-evidence-video/
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October 28, 2022 3:36pm
krazykiwi

Q: What do Bob Saget, Taylor Hawkins, Hank Aaron, Ray Liotta, Coolio and Queen Elizabeth all have in common?

A: They’ll all vote Democratic on Election Day.
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October 28, 2022 3:52pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  And their dogs!
  
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  October 28, 2022 4:24pm
- blue collar
  
  😅nice one Krazy , not only their dogs stevo , their bloody cats aswell 😁
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:05pm
Loddenthinks

Some regulars will know I avoid $1uffed at all costs, even the morning and afternoon quizzes which so often turn into a lesson in a language I have no desire to learn and that has no utility for me.

I followed a link to an article on NZ Herald, and clicked on their afternoon quiz to see what it was like. The very first question? A lesson in a language I have no desire to learn and that has no utility for me. Bye-bye Horrid.
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October 28, 2022 4:38pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Let’s go Brandon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV2S7-1wwa8
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October 28, 2022 5:00pm
Prince

I’m a simple man.
Can someone please explain why our legal system has allowed Michelle Boag’s name to be dragged through the mud like this ?
Even the guilty guy has name suppression, but Boag, who seems to have had nothing to do with the case, is smeared.
I’m not a big fan of hers, but it seems our legal system has become highly politicised lately. Another example being the bizarre ‘not guilty’ verdict for NZ First ‘donation’.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/130297725/michelle-boag-loses-supreme-court-fight-to-keep-name-secret-from-highprofile-trial
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October 28, 2022 5:13pm
Maggie Pie

Just enjoying a chilled Jean Bouchard Chablis and listening to HDPA.

Anyone else feel like me….sick-to-the-back- f-ing-teeth of hearing Canadian, Iranian, Mexican, Maori, and even an MP from Mt Roskill, telling US how they want to control our lives!?

SHEESH!!
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October 28, 2022 5:28pm
kevn

@Maggie… Indeed. A good commonsense summary. Tell them all to fu*k off and sort their own countries out.
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October 28, 2022 7:59pm
- blue collar
  
  Totally agree magstar n kevvy !
  
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  October 28, 2022 8:03pm
Maggie Pie

Meanwhile, in this country, OneEwes reporting….

“TipTop have discontinued the two-litre tubs of Goody-Goody-Gumdrops Icecream”
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