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mikenmildagain

Celebrating today the 2ooth anniversary of Louis Pasteur, whose research provided breakthroughs in our knowledge of the causes and preventions of diseases. And how to make milk safe to drink.
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December 27, 2022 8:00am
- krazykiwi
  
  1822: Pasteur worked to make sick people to be healthy.
  
  2022: rapacious, criminal pharmaceutical companies make healthy people sick so they can profit from that sickness.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:12am
  - Simon
    
    “2022: rapacious, criminal pharmaceutical companies make healthy people sick so they can profit from that sickness”
    
    Yep. And they touted a morbidly obese woman as a public health expert. That was health.govt.nz for you. Its very disgusting.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:02am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Very thoughtful of you mikey for celebrating today the 2ooth anniversary of Louis Pasteur, who was a very good Catholic, and prayed often that he would receive divine assistance in his work.
      As a further memorial, it is today the feast day of St. John, Apostle & evangelist, who was the youngest of the apostles, and was the only apostle who was not martyred. 🙂
      
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      December 27, 2022 10:53am
      - Mike
        
        Thanks Don. I’ll try to cover some of the more entertaining mythical people in future comments.
        
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        December 27, 2022 11:05am
      - Jack5
        
        Trust Mikenmildagain/Mike, long known to most of us on Kiwiblog as Milky, to be on to the Pasteur anniversary.
        
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        December 27, 2022 11:48am
      - Don Beckett
        
        That would be great Mike. It will be interesting to see how you give your atheistic view on historic people who, according to you, never existed. 😆
        
        As a suggestion, how about Julius Caesar – or Shakespeare? There are idiots out there who cliam they never existed. 😆
        Oh – and how about Neil Armstrong & the moon landings – that’ll give you plenty of material.
        
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        December 27, 2022 12:51pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        That’s a couple of very tired strawmen you have there, Don.
        I’ve never read of anyone who thought Julius Caesar was a mythical figure. Please enlighten me.
        As for Shakespeare, yes there are many educated people who claim that other individuals wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to the Bard of Avon. There is no real evidence for the Oxfordian or Baconian outside the conceit of the ingenious arguments put forward by the deluded proponents. Shakespeare’s existence as person is questioned by no one.
        
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        December 27, 2022 2:52pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Not so much fun having the old straw man thrown back at you Milky?
        
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        December 27, 2022 6:45pm
  - Than
    
    Oh yeah, yeah vaccines evil we get it.
    
    God if you’re going to keep endlessly repeating nutjob conspiracy theories, at least try to find a new one.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:31am
    - Simon
      
      The so called vaxxs are unsafe jerry
      built garbage that you were tricked into injecting.
      
      The harm the jaxx have caused isnt played out yet. This is part of experiment you were warned about.
      
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      December 27, 2022 10:09am
      - Lance
        
        ……………………… like Polio vaccine, small pox vaccine
        Wicked, nasty horrors visited upon humanity by evil pharma?
        
        Or just the latest ones?
        Please tell us how far down the rabbit hole you have gone.
        
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        December 27, 2022 10:25am
      - Ghost
        
        Been a few outbreaks of polio caused by the polio vaccine the past few years
        
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        December 27, 2022 10:30am
      - Lance
        
        @Ghost
        Is that view a parody or do you actually think that?
        
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        December 27, 2022 12:56pm
      - Ghost
        
        What lance that the polio vaccine has caused a few outbreaks the last few years?
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/02/vaccine-derived-polio-spreads-in-africa-after-defeat-of-wild-virus
        
        https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/vaccine-derived-poliovirus-faq.html
        
        https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON408
        
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        December 27, 2022 1:02pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      Being almost entirely covid free until near the end of 2021 NZ and Australia in effect formed a huge natural vaccine safety trial, and the results are damning.
      
      Excess death data from ’20-’21 pre-covid infected NZ and Australia showed a huge jump in excess deaths after the start of vaccination programs throught he middle of 2021 before covid took off.
      
      In NZ that was equal to about 2000 extra people dying.
      
      There is litte doubt that the vaccine is causing a huge number of deaths through subtle cardiovascular (especially heart) damage. But with all the reputations and careers on the line, and huge Pharma lobbying/advertising budgets (they own the loyalties of the key institutions that would normally be working to get to the bottom of this), it will take years perhaps decades for there to be any sort of honest accounting.
      
      https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Excess+mortality+%28count%29&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=NZL~AUS
      
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      December 27, 2022 12:02pm
      - Keith White
        
        As a regular proponent of the concept that “the plural of anecdote is not data” – I like to see solid data before drawing conclusions. So I am not relying just on my own practice over the last two years but also, the (ever-increasing) global documentation of excess deaths and the likely cause. What is interesting, because it is entirely absent from any public discussion in New Zealand, is that excess deaths are in double figures (depending on which governments’ figures you’re looking at, between 11 and 17%) and most spectacularly and/or awfully – feature in 2021 after the jabs and boosters were provided, mandated and indeed insisted upon; NOT ( excuse the caps) in 2020 when the Wu pox was apparently supposed to be wreaking its level havoc across the globe.
        
        I suspect like many posting on this blog, I’m proffering an opinion and not expecting to change anybody’s mind; = this is my opinion, it’s worth exactly what you paid for it which is nothing. I conserve and channel my active efforts elsewhere = into asking appropriate questions and doing my best to influence the people who make policy… to, obviously, essentially zero avail.
        
        Nevertheless, I think it’s important not just pound the keyboard but to try to influence the people who make those policy decisions even if they are recalcitrant, oblivious, arrogant, tone-deaf, unresponsive apparatchiks who understand only one thing: the best way to Get Ahead in the very Short Term is to enthusiastically support the Current Thing. Be that Co-governance, Mandated jabs, trashing Informed Consent, or proselytizing Assisted Suicide.
        
        What’s (perhaps perversely) fun about this, is that when I approach various institutions with polite inquiries… they go quite quickly and weirdly defensive, I don’t know why: I’m just your average keyboard pounder. I wonder if they are anticipating a higher volume blowback in their short-term futures? for all I know, they’re already getting it but people like you and I don’t know it.
        
        Ah well. Coffee break is over, back to the hard grind of seeing patients and trying to figure out not just what is wrong with them, but can I persuade a bureaucrat to fund the solution.
        
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        December 28, 2022 1:34am
- Rodney Hide
  
  Raw milk is safe to drink. As long as it is not contaminated. 200 million years of evolution perfecting the perfect food.
  
  Rodney Hide
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:22am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Raw milk is okay if consumed fresh. It is not very safe to store and retail. Some people prefer raw milk, and some people with that preference are incapable of determining whether the milk they buy is safe, and some retailers of such milk don’t care if their customers get sick because their product is ‘natural’
    
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    December 27, 2022 8:27am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “It is not very safe to store and retail.”
      
      Yes agree. As a niche product, fine. Used by cheesemakers who know what they are doing. Great. Distributed at scale across the country for kids to pour on their weetbix, no.
      
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      December 27, 2022 8:33am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Some pharmaceutical companies don’t care that their products make people sick because they are more interested in profits. Your slur against those selling raw milk is nonsensical.
      
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      December 27, 2022 8:34am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      As a kid I grew up on raw milk. and we didn’t have a fridge, just a food safe.
      My early morning job after the milking was done was to go get half a billy of fresh cream. Porridge, fresh cream, butter and brown sugar. Nom nom nom.
      
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      December 27, 2022 9:26am
      - Ghost
        
        Poor billy…..
        
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        December 27, 2022 9:32am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @Ghost. Uptick. Don’t know why…
        
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        December 27, 2022 9:34am
      - Jack5
        
        Rodney Hide’s … Raw milk is safe to drink..
        
        As long as you’re not lactose intolerant, and humans didn’t become lactose tolerant until a few thousand years ago.
        
        You would think that, with a growing Asian population in NZ, the proportion of people with lactose intolerance will be rising.
        
        https://bpac.org.nz/BPJ/2007/October/lactose.aspx
        
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        December 27, 2022 10:43am
    - MCōs
      
      When we were kids and stayed out at the family Bach by the River mouth for a couple of weeks we walked over the fields and picked up some raw milk from the farmer.
      Couldn’t stand the stuff. Warm and lumpy with cream, but Mum who was from a Shrophshire farm swore by it, although she never touched it except in her tea.
      We had no fridge out there and it was often sour by the end of the day.
      God knows what poison we put in our your bodies and people grizzle about chicken McNuggets!
      
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      December 27, 2022 9:55am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I agree. I have eaten excellent raw milk cheese because I trust the cheese maker.
    
    However raw milk can easily become dangerously contaminated which caused widespread severe illness and death in young children before pasteurisation.
    
    And that 200 million years of evolution provided the perfect food for calves, not humans trying to drink the stuff on a gigantic scale.
    
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    December 27, 2022 8:29am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      I agree, like many raw products, we’re back to personal choice and personal responsibility. As you are no doubt aware, one of the most poisonous fish on the planet is also an extremely expensive delicacy. No doubt those who consume it take care to know who is giving it to them and their reputation and skill.
      
      Everything in life carries a degree of risk, but the last thing any of us needs is ideological politicians and bureaucrats attempting to control every single aspect of it for our “safety.”
      This is NZ is in the abysmal state it is today and getting worse by the week. The attempt to eliminate covid is one of the most obvious and worst examples.
      
      “Net zero” carbon emissions, “zero road deaths 2050” and making cigarettes illegal are just 3 of the moronic policies to “protect” the population which will have massive unintended, but predictable and predicted consequences that will far outweigh any possible good that comes out of them.
      
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      December 27, 2022 8:53am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Good stuff. Personal choice without a Govt telling you what you are going to do.
        Duck Steve, here come all the ‘Karens’
        
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        December 27, 2022 9:29am
    - peterwn
      
      The historic issue was drinking raw milk from diseased cows can cause illness or death. Pasteurisation was to milk as a firewall is to modern computer systems. Modern dairy farm practices and advances in veterinary science has resulted in a significant reduction of disease in dairy cows which means the chances of illness from drinking raw milk is far less than in the past. However there is still presumably considered to be sufficient risk that ‘mainstream’ milk needs to be pasteurised before being sold or converted into other dairy products. Fonterra cannot take the risk since if it did not pasteurise the milk it processes there could be sufficient instances of illness or even death as to raise serious concerns about the quality of its products. There are exemptions / loopholes for small time operators but they are unlikely on the basis of size and probabilities to have serious incidents. But one fatality could spell the end of one of these small firms. To illustrate that risks remain, an Australian supplier was selling unpasteurised milk as ‘bath milk’ (presumably Cleopatra style) not intended for human consumption. A child died after drinking ‘bath milk’ (which her parents purchased for human consumption). This shows that risks remain.
      Possibly the time may have come when modern science and quality assurance means that pasteurisation is no longer needed. The issue is whether despite this there continues to be genuine concerns or whether there is bureaucratic inertia on the part of health authorities. It is probably a bit of both.
      
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      December 27, 2022 10:17am
    - Fishing in the dark
      
      Most peoples don’t know anything about the food and about the food preservation
      
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      December 27, 2022 11:30am
  - pdm
    
    Rodney as a kid I and my father used to drink it in a rather scungy looking mug, that was kept in the `single cow bail’ for that purpose, on a regular basis. No running water to wash the mug with.
    
    No one got ill from it – not even my townie cousins two or three of whom stayed with us most school holidays in the late 1950’s early/mid 1960’s.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:45am
    - JohnRidd
      
      Children who grow up on farms drinking raw milk have their gut flora and immune systems trained.
      
      City children do not.
      
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      December 28, 2022 6:54am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    I’d probably relish the stuff if starving, otherwise it’s chunder material for me!
    
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    December 27, 2022 6:48pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Damn shame the same altruistic motives aren’t seen today rather than the rapacious medical industrial complex that has no motive to make people healthy.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:31am
- Inandout
  
  I recall as a child eating my breakfast cereal with thick cream obtained (separated) from the family cow which wandered the back lawn. The milk was also delicious and creamy.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:47am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Agreed, as Benedict points out though, not really a system that could be trusted for the mass delivery of dairy products to the whole population.
    Like your water supply, we’re off grid, but we know the source and we know the required safety procedures are in place.
    If I had access to raw milk I’d be all over it, sadly we have no dairy farms close to us.
    
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    December 27, 2022 8:56am
  - pdm
    
    Yep – we used to separate milk and make butter – well my mother made the butter my job was to turn the handle on the separator and the churn.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:47am
- Simon
  
  Today Louis Pasteur would censored for spreading dangerous information that goes against the prevailing govt science narrative.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:50am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    The government would have been lobbied by the dairy industry with multitudinous “reports” and “studies” “proving” just how “lethal” said product was which heavily influences their policies. I’m not saying there aren’t potential safety issues.
    
    Just as they were lobbied by the pharmaceutical industry with “reports” and “studies” “proving” just how “safe” and “effective” their products are.
    
    Follow the money. It is almost always leads to the answer to perplexing questions.
    
    My point is, I’m a fan of education not regulation wherever possible.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:43am
    - Simon
      
      Yep happened with Walter Reed and John Snow. The establishment / science were very anti these pioneers who changed the world for the better.
      
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      December 27, 2022 10:13am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy#Galileo_gambit
      
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      December 27, 2022 2:55pm
  - Keith White
    
    Yes indeed, pretty sure he would have been cancelled… as Igor Semmelweiss was (lethally) when he tried to persuade members of my profession to wash their hands between attending ladies in labour.
    
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    December 28, 2022 1:44am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  whose research provided breakthroughs in our knowledge of the causes and preventions of diseases.
  
  Strange, because with all those thousands of years of traditional medicine practices preceding him, you’d have thought that someone would have cracked the mystery of Bertie Germ long before the 19th Century.
  
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  December 27, 2022 9:13am
  - oldfella
    
    Maggy, Maori science did it centuries before Pasteur. //
    
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    December 27, 2022 10:01am
    - greybeard
      
      That’s right ! They did it at their Antarctic research centre.
      
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      December 27, 2022 10:42am
      - G152
        
        As good a site to milk fact as anywhere
        
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        December 27, 2022 11:04am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Good starter post, Mikey!
  
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  December 27, 2022 9:15am
artemisia

Herald today –

Mail-order booze: Alcohol delivery takes off, sparking concerns about lack of regulations

More regs, gotta have more regs. Alarm bells are ringing. But before any new regs, how about figuring out the problem to be solved and the size of that problem. And also how much existing regs and circs have contributed to, or indeed caused, the problem.

Like for example – stop opposition against new licences unless living close to the proposed outlet, hospo outlets closed due to staffing, ram raids and robberies, petrol prices, traffic stops.

Home delivery to the intoxicated should be regulated, they say. Apart from how, and how many are there anyway, have the wannabe regulators considered that the intoxicated will get to their goal somehow, and be more of a danger to themselves and others than staying home on the sofa. Or more likely order up big earlier in the day or have a temporarily apparently sober door-opener.

Noticeable that the organisations pushing for more regs have a stake in the industry one way or another. More regs always mean more money from taxpayers for compliance, and costs on suppliers hence consumers will also have to increase to cover their end of compliance. I expect their deliverers will require special training and breathalysers. Of course more money needed from taxpayers to support services as well, just in case. Including to the ‘wider community’ say the Salvation Army. Really?

Just trying to be helpful here, unlike the virtue signallers and those who see potential for an addition to their gravy train.
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December 27, 2022 8:04am
- ClanMcleod
  
  artemisia – as per the comments above about raw milk, it’s a bureaucrats wet dream. These people thrive on the opportunity to make regulations and rules, it’s what gives their lives meaning, and pays the bills. They aren’t going to let that go. Ever.
  
  In the UK they recently reduced the recommended weekly maximum standard drinks for men from 21 to 14. The same as women. The original numbers were based on a guess.
  
  https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2007/10/20/Englands-drinking-limits-based-on-guess/94321192888630/
  
  It looks like the new number will be about “equality” and to ensure trans men aren’t negatively affected no doubt…….//
  
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  December 27, 2022 9:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Breath test before the booze is handed over.
  This current Govt can do it, and it creates more jobs.//
  
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  December 27, 2022 9:38am
  - artemisia
    
    Breath test, and driver’s licence regardless of age. Driver to fill in and upload the paperwork before leaving the premises.
    
    Actually, it would just be simpler to have the driver accompanied by a police officer at all times. And as a bonus the delivery vehicle is less likely to be hijacked. How is that not a good thing.
    
    I do wonder how these folk with such good ideas think those ideas could be implemented in the real world. Though we do currently have a government specialising in unintended consequences so good free advice will be available.
    
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    December 27, 2022 10:55am
krazykiwi

Very clear, immunity-101 explanation of how Covid shots weaken immune systems: Booster Caused Immune Tolerance. The IgG3 chart is particularly telling.

As the author observed, perhaps giving untested pharmaceuticals to billions of healthy humans wasn’t a good idea.

Remember, Ardern told you this stuff was Safe And Effective™
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December 27, 2022 8:05am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I was awake early and read that with increasing horror the further I got into it.
  It explains a lot.
  If the health authorities do the right thing and carry out the much needed data analysis then we can get a definitive answer. I certainly won’t hold my breath, so many people are up to their necks in this public health disaster, they will fight tooth and nail to ensure their arses are covered.
  The truth will out eventually, the longer they fight it, the more damage done, the greater the punishment they deserve.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:20am
  - kowtow
    
    As with the other Great Scam of the century , climate catastrophism , there will never be any real data analysis , just lies , emotion and propaganda.
    
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    December 27, 2022 8:29am
  - krazykiwi
    
    One substacker I follow describes this injectable as a ‘slow kill bio weapon’. I treated that description with some scorn, but articles like this have made me more amenable to that suggestion. The linkage between IgG3 suppression and cardiac damage from repeated infections is very, very important. We desperately need leaders with the honesty to challenge the path we’re on.
    
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    December 27, 2022 8:36am
  - Paulus
    
    Had to get a blood test this morning and checked nearest local Medlab to see if open.
    Yes, 20 minutes drive and guess what toatally shut and locked with no explanation.
    Duh !
    
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    December 27, 2022 10:51am
    - Ghost
      
      This and next week medlab, gp’s and pharmacy in my town only open Wednesday to friday. Except emergency pharmacy and after hours gp
      
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      December 27, 2022 11:04am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Public holiday today
      
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      December 27, 2022 3:13pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Public holiday means some places are open – maybe.
        Paulus and blood people means some manager never got the close/open dates sorted for Labtest.
        Here is a beauty, this online stuff is shit. We wanted KFC for late lunch on Christmas day. Daughter has the app, orders with credit card, and pick up at Glenfield Mall. Really? The Mall was closed!
        In the end KFC on Oteha Valley road was open. I think Daughter has, or will make some noise. Nice chicken – enough for dinner as well. No price but it was Daughter’s Christmas gift to the Family.
        The online shit needs some attention in New Zealand.
        
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        December 27, 2022 4:48pm
- MCōs
  
  Something to amuse you while you consider nobody really cares
  https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1607436534554464258?s=61&t=wonbbirvuu1Z6ZuPHOPaqw
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:33am
  - Simon
    
    Here you go Mcos. From the link. Get your cancer screening done.
    
    Immune tolerance developing MONTHS after booster shots perfectly explains the strange delayed effect seen in excess mortality – and why vaccination rates explain more and more excess deaths as time passes.
    
    What have we done?
    
    Perhaps we should not have conducted vaccine trials at Warp Speed?
    
    What will happen to all of us if we cannot get herd immunity and many people develop dangerous immune tolerance?
    
    https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/booster-caused-immune-tolerance-explains
    
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    December 27, 2022 8:56am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    MCōs – some people actually really do care which is why they spend time researching the stuff that our “experts” and health officials refuse to. They don’t do it to for amusement or to come on here and post snide remarks. This isn’t a joke. If it transpires as it looks like it is currently, then we are currently living during either one of the worst crimes against humanity ever or the most colossal fuck up by politicians ever.
    Either way, those who are speaking out aren’t doing it for entertainment. Maybe try showing how wrong they are with evidence? Once the genuinely open and honest debate is permitted and we get to the truth, then we can talk about moving on.
    I’ve said before, I will be more than happy to be proven wrong. I’ll be ashamed and contrite and hope those who tried to convince me that I was wrong will forgive me for getting it wrong, and understand that my position wasn’t taken out of malice.
    I know I will do the same if it turns out we were right to be skeptical and questioning. For most, not all. There are many who know there is something wrong with this “vaccine” and the associated policies, but are too invested or too cowardly (or both) to speak up. Those people will never be forgiven or forgotten.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:23am
    - I remember when
      
      The problem isn’t even whether we are right or wrong.
      It is that we use of what happened with covid to ensure that any errors are reduced if we have another pandemic.
      This includes careful analysis of any possible long term effects.
      This either isn’t happening or is being kept from public view at present.
      
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      December 27, 2022 10:54am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yep, Safe and Effective. Where are her “experts” now?
  What Does Immune Tolerance Do?
  “Immune tolerance prevents rapid clearance of the infection, making boosted people the slowest to clear Covid-19.
  It prevents the formation of lasting neutralizing immunity, thus making affected people suffer from repeat reinfections. In other words, forget herd immunity.”
  
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  December 27, 2022 11:31am
- NZer In Exile
  
  To be fair, the generic midwits in charge are caught in these events like deer in the headlights. They just follow orders through the official channels. The system locks into place and the received sh#t is pumped downwards onto the masses.
  
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  December 27, 2022 6:55pm
Benedict Yu

This is sickening. Stuff congratulating itself on its work for the year.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300772250/five-stories-that-changed-aotearoa-in-2022

It starts with the Parliament protestors…

“Over months of investigation and hundreds of hours viewing the key protest drivers’ own videos, the team untangled the key spreaders of mis- and disinformation….”

It then goes on to Andrea Vance hounding “anti vaccination” local government candidates.

They also give themselves a big pat on the back for unmasking the evil Sam Uffindell.

Oh and don’t forget their role in uncovering a “mistake in the Government’s carbon budget”. Yes folk were still talking about that one over their Christmas 🦃 turkey. 🤡🙄
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December 27, 2022 8:18am
- slightlyrighty
  
  It amazes me that Uffindel is still being used to help cloud over the issues raised by Dr Sharma and Louisa Wall regarding Labour’s culture.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:36am
  - kowtow
    
    Not to mention Mahuta Corp.
    (which $tuffed of course didn’t)
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:21am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Udfindel will be hounded by the press forever.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:34am
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      BY – My sources tell me, he won’t be reselected for Tauranga again….
      
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      December 27, 2022 12:33pm
      - Paulus
        
        Bollocks !
        Uffindell is already selected to stand and will get a good majority.
        
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        December 27, 2022 1:38pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yeah yeah year year.
        Sources change into sauces, nice while it lasts!
        
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        December 27, 2022 4:57pm
- Philview
  
  The last couple of months I have pretty much stopped looking at TVNZ News, 3 News, Stuff, ODT. Too much propaganda. I mostly go to the Herald to get daily news. Read Kiwiblog, NZCPR, Bowalley Road, Spiked and a few other sources which includes RNZ. I still enjoy some of the RNZ content despite their political leaning.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:45am
  - I remember when
    
    RNZ:
    Great item on the 1996 Spanish Intellectually Disabled Basketball team that won gold before being disqualified.
    The interview was with one of the two players who were disabled.
    
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    December 27, 2022 10:24am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I would say go Kiwiblog, then forget the rest of that shit. Go to overseas news. Europe or the US.
    New Zealand News is just shit.
    
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    December 27, 2022 5:00pm
    - Keith White
      
      But, Steve, it is mindfully- and wokefully-curated shit. So there’s that 🙂
      
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      December 28, 2022 1:48am
- David Lenny
  
  I particularly liked their investigative series of stories by crack journalists revealing for the first time the machinations behind the 3 Waters legislation.
  
  Thank goodness for stuff – speaking power to truth on our behalf!
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:47am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Must have missed that one. Perhaps it was buried on page z.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:19am
- Inandout
  
  BY, an indication of why Stuff is dying and needs Jacinda funding infusion. Only the brain dead actually believe that shit.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:52am
- kowtow
  
  Broke my rule of trying not to click on $tuffed , but the best bit of that was the first sentence in their begging appeal ;
  
  “Everyday , 365 a year , we deliver news like this, free from political influence, unchecked rumours and click bait .”
  
  Bwahahahaha.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:55am
  - Nickc2
    
    False Advertising is a crime. Report it to the Advertising Standards Authority.
    https://www.asa.co.nz/
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:41am
  - Simon
    
    Stuff is mental illness.
    
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    December 27, 2022 10:15am
  - Swifty
    
    Free from click-bait my arse!
    
    Evening Post headline, 1939: “Germany Invades Poland!”
    
    Stuff story headline, 2022: “Hitler’s latest target revealed.”
    
    or,
    
    “Hitler massing troops on border; find out if it’s YOUR country on his list.”
    
    or,
    
    “Poland overrun! Hitler’s GENIUS HACK for combining the efforts of Armed Forces!!”
    
    You suck Stuff.
    
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    December 27, 2022 11:52am
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      Swifty – Be happy as long as they don’t publish a picture of Right Honourable Jacinda Ardern’s picture in the story.
      
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      December 27, 2022 12:34pm
      - Swifty
        
        “Long, droopy earrings now all the rage in Berlin! Fashionistas credit Jacinda!”
        
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        December 27, 2022 1:08pm
      - Swifty
        
        “Jacinda criticises Churchill! Says his speeches need more work!”
        
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        December 27, 2022 4:32pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @Swifty.
        “Jacinda criticises Churchill! Says his speeches need more work!”
        Jaspinda speaks a lot, but wants to say this needs more work????
        OK, no insults, even though I was going to.
        
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        December 27, 2022 5:08pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    “we deliver news like this, free from political influence, unchecked rumours and click bait”
    
    Riiiight. Not sell-out pawns of the govt at all!!!
    
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    December 27, 2022 7:02pm
- MCōs
  
  I would suggest events that have changed Aotearoa are rare.
  Covid, mosque massacres, changes of government by definition, 1981 Tour. That sort of thing.
  Most people haven’t even heard of Uffindell, let alone the government’s carbon budget.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:55am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    It will change when we all have our “personal carbon budget”. Exceed it and your car won’t start and you can’t buy an airline ticket.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:02am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Just keep the Toyota, Benedict.
      
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      December 27, 2022 9:20am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Fuck that old Toyota. Get a Landcruiser.
        Leave the Camry? as a backup.
        Here we have a 1999 Subaru with 169K on the clock. 1600 cc shitbox, but it drives really well!
        
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        December 27, 2022 5:12pm
    - pdm
      
      BY – how is Jimmy Shaw going to get to those Climate Change Conference then?
      
      His Carbon Footprint (whatever that is) must be sky high already.
      
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      December 27, 2022 9:53am
      - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
        
        pdm bro – Right Honourable James Shaw offsets his carbon foot print by paying for Air NZ’s carbon offset fee.
        
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        December 27, 2022 12:35pm
      - marcw
        
        Evidence that he pays for it? More likely taxpayers do through Parliamentary Services funding.
        
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        December 27, 2022 12:44pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Tandem bike with Julie
        
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        December 27, 2022 5:13pm
- graham
  
  Oh dear. Seems like Stuff spent much of 2022 diving deeper into their very own conspiracy theories.
  
  Spending “months of investigation and hundreds of hours” eagerly “researching” all these terrible people spreading misinformation and disinformation, carefully “untangling” who was behind it all and dissecting their “beliefs and backgrounds, and working out how they were “recruiting mainstream New Zealanders to their cause“.
  
  Then more hours carefully spent “researching” candidates standing for local elections, discovering that – gasp! – some of them held some views that might not have been mainstream. Imagine that – people who think for themselves and maybe don’t always go along with mainstream views. How shocking!!
  
  Stuff have really lost the plot, and far from “exposing” other people who have supposedly been sucked in by “conspiracy theories”, it looks like they’re the ones who are heading deep into ‘Reds under the bed’ -type paranoia and hysteria. They really need to step away from their keyboards, take a break from social media, and get out into the real world for a while, with real people.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:57am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    We can only hope that Christmas will be a circuit breaker for them. Casual conversations at the barbecue or camp ground, that sort of thing.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:22am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Couldn’t agree more @Graham.
    Well said.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:27am
  - kowtow
    
    I do recall a report where a journo said a cop forced his photographer to delete the photos he/she had taken of the early morning , large and supposedly secret mobilisation of police prior to the attck on the parliament protesters.
    
    Now that’s a really big story of state interference with the so called fourth estate , but it got no traction , wasn’t particularly highlighted or carried by other outlets .
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:28am
    - kevn
      
      @kow…. The photographer should have a double memory card camera. Maybe he did.
      
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      December 27, 2022 10:29am
      - kowtow
        
        Yer but that’s not the point is it.
        
        It’s how the media , obsessing with “anti vaxxers” at parliament and extremely anxious to present the Ardern regime’s agenda , gave a free pass to the police when one of their own was possibly illegally interfered with by an agent of the state.
        
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        December 27, 2022 12:13pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    graham – in the last 2 years I must have asked dozens of journalists, politicians and “experts” to please give me clear examples of “mis/disinformation” so I know what to watch out for. To date I have not seen or heard a single example. Not one. It is a nonsensical sound bite similar to “conspiracy theorist.” I’ve given up asking.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:33am
    - zulumonster
      
      Clan – my favourite bit of mis/disinformation (mainly for the comedic value) was the reporting of the policeman taken to hospital after being sprayed by a protestor with some dangerous chemical – possibly acid.
      The breathless MSM reports of this dastardly act went quiet after footage showed the poor officer was a victim of “blow-back” from another officers attempted pepper spraying of the protestors!
      As they say – don’t piss into the wind!
      
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      December 27, 2022 10:44am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Best ask Jaspinda. She knows this shit.
      Do you have a few (4) hours up you sleeve to listen to her response?
      Best walk away………..
      
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      December 27, 2022 5:15pm
- BeaB
  
  ‘white knuckle ride’ Don’t make me laugh.
  They are as bad as our puerile announcers on TVNZ. Last night’s news solemnly told us to compare prices and think whether we really needed something before we bought in the sales. So helpful.
  Most of our reporting seems to be wagging a reproving finger at us or giving us lame advice.
  I particularly love how they lecture their middle-class readers about behaviours mainly exhibited by the great unwashed.
  
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  December 27, 2022 9:45am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Why do you read Stuff Benedict?
  
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  December 27, 2022 10:25am
- I remember when
  
  Benedict Yu:
  “When facts are stronger than fiction.”
  So they they started the article on the right note!
  
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  December 27, 2022 10:29am
Paulus

Like much of our propaganda so called media they are sick.
Sad really – but they are well academically educated and know it all.
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December 27, 2022 8:34am
G152

In spite of the government we have reached another New Year not a happy new year nor a successful or prosperous one but a new year where we can look anew upon the lights of our lives and try to resolve the dark.
Happy new year and see you all here next year
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December 27, 2022 8:34am
wisteria

The shame of the parliament protest is that if the PM had come out on the day and spoken to the protesters they would all have gone away. Instead she “invited” them to stay which they did.
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December 27, 2022 9:24am
- krazykiwi
  
  I don’t think they would have decamped. The protesters wanted, and got, an end to vaccine mandates. Ardern appearing before the masses adorned with a kind, tilty head would have achieved nothing for either party.
  
  In contrast, Luxon or Seymour having the courage to come our of hiding would have been helpful.
  
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  December 27, 2022 9:59am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    KK – I am confident you are correct. A toothy smile and a wave would have done nothing. A concession was needed and she was never giving that.
    
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    December 27, 2022 10:03am
  - Matt Long
    
    Luxon was completely on board with the madates, despite the evidence by that time already showing mRNA jabs ineffective against transmission and omicron being the best vaccine against the disease, had the Nats been in charge the response would have been probably more heavy handed but better managed.
    What kind of knob calls himself Chris Get Boosted?
    
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    December 27, 2022 10:46am
    - Matt Long
      
      Down ticked for accuracy?
      Must pretend National is the second coming because Labour is worse?
      
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      December 27, 2022 11:49am
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      Matt – Mr Bishop will be soundly defeated by Ms Anderson in Hutt South. Then he can change his name to “Chris Booted Bishop”.
      
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      December 27, 2022 12:37pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Son of a Bish!
        
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        December 27, 2022 3:17pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      Lots of tetchy tribal nats, hot on the downticks. National carried Ardern’s putrid water right throughout the scamdemic. You tribals need to own that.
      
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      December 27, 2022 12:58pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Bishop is still claiming that he’s happy that so many go vaccinated. He’s either extremely stupid or another coward who won’t admit he was wrong even when the evidence is overwhelmingly showing that he was.
      
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      December 28, 2022 7:17am
- kowtow
  
  The shame of the protest is the right to be there was partly established by court decisions around the arrest , conviction and appeal by the likes of Mallard /Hipkins in their early activist days .
  
  The same people who used the police and the full power of the state against protesters they didn’t like .
  
  I think it was newshub who reported this .
  The rest of the bought and paid for Media pardy , not so much.
  
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  December 27, 2022 9:59am
- Yvette
  
  Agree, Wisteria
  If Ardern had seen the first 50 or so protesters and invited a delegation of 10 to come into Parliament and express the groups views, when the rest arrived and called her out, those first arrivals would have had to tell them “She has been out, done that”
  
  But she didn’t do that – nor did a representative do it in her place.
  That may be why protesters stayed on and the tone of the gathering changed and ended up throwing paving stones at the police.
  So how much of that is on Ardern as any other factor?
  
  Or Trevor, skulking around like the Lunchpack of Notre Dame
  
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  December 27, 2022 9:59am
  - kevn
    
    @Yvette… I don’t there were any of the genuine original ‘protesters’ throwing pavers. They had all packed up and gone when was clearly going bad. It was the random rabble who turned up to make agro, that did the throwing.
    All in all a stain on NZs recent history.
    
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    December 27, 2022 10:28am
Scooter

So will the Govt have a swim to zero (or other buzz phrase) policy to stop drowning or is it just political and financial advantageous to target drivers?

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/three-dead-after-drownings-in-pukekohe-opotiki-and-upper-hutt/
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December 27, 2022 9:47am
- I remember when
  
  Scooter:
  Unfortunately as both tallies will include people who are taking their own lives never a possibility.
  
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  December 27, 2022 10:03am
  - Scooter
    
    IRW, I’m not sure many suicide by drowning or driving. Just unfortunate stupidity I’m afraid and you can’t legislate for that.
    
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    December 27, 2022 10:27am
  - CaptainCompromise
    
    Finally someone else gets that one of the reasons our road deaths are what they are is the way suicides are counted which is not the international norm.
    
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    December 27, 2022 10:30am
- kowtow
  
  How about Plod suggest the full cost of driving be reflected in the fee for driver’s licence . Like what they propose for holders of firearms licences.
  
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  December 27, 2022 10:42am
ClanMcleod

Is this the worst Freudian slip ever????

WHO Director General – ‘So if its going to be used its better to focus on those groups who have risk of severe disease rather than as we see some countries are using to give boosters to kill children’

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1473583067784744962?s=20&t=q_4bwuTRvjnIvk9i4Oabeg

Oh dear………
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December 27, 2022 9:50am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Even if it was an accident, the point is still being made by the head of the WHO. We shouldn’t be vaccinating children!!! But the lunatics in NZ keep doing it!!! What is wrong with these people???
  
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  December 27, 2022 10:14am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hell’s Bells…
  
  He doesn’t even realise what he has just said.
  
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  December 27, 2022 10:29am
I remember when

Hypocrisy?
So Tescos are going to assess our farm production to ensure it meets their sustainability guidelines.
Would it be a better idea if they applied the same level of oversight to the sugary, salty, fatty crap that they sell in tolley loads?
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December 27, 2022 9:59am
- Colville
  
  You dont understand the “problem”
  
  Climate change/carbon accreditation. They put a green sticker on the lamb and some lefty lovvie twat pays an extra five quid for the feel good factor. Tessco makes easy money.
  
  You take all the shit sugar fat foods off the shelves and people go elsewhere to buy that because they want bad food. Tessco lose money.
  
  Lecturing people is fine as long as it doesn’t impact the bottom line.
  
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  December 27, 2022 1:31pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Gen Z kids will be traumatised when they find out Santa is not real.
You can’t make this shit up! My head hurts now.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/gen-z-parents-prove-they-are-the-lamest-generation-canceling-santa/
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December 27, 2022 10:10am
- Sideoiler
  
  ….You can’t make this shit up! My head hurts now.
  
  Oh yes you can.
  Cop a load of this.
  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085481553260
  Her intro is as follows,
  1/8 Black, semitrans lesbian who dates men. Head of Gender Studies ACL Univ. I educate the ignorant.
  FB has deemed her page must be marked as satire.
  Here’s it’s twitterings.
  https://twitter.com/annlesbyphd
  
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  December 27, 2022 10:53am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Took one look at her clock and backed away. I know crazy when I see it!
    
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    December 27, 2022 11:06am
    - Taieri
      
      It’s a parody.
      
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      December 27, 2022 11:43am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Still crazy!
        
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        December 27, 2022 12:13pm
  - Taieri
    
    LGBTQIIAANBPPKS2+ BIWOC
    ————
    
    Will they ever run out of letters?
    
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    December 27, 2022 11:40am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    No word on her star sign yet.
    
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    December 27, 2022 3:21pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Interesting parody account.
    
    Will be pissing off the real crazies as it’s very very close to their actual ravings!!! They don’t like people noticing reality.
    
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    December 27, 2022 7:14pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    And along similar lines:
    
    School Zoom Board Meeting on School Mascot Replacement:
    
    https://odysee.com/@Plazma:9/7e16514877881617:f
    
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    December 27, 2022 7:26pm
- Nickc2
  
  Well, they believe in the Man-Made Global Warming myth and that Maori didn’t steal our assets when they took over all water in NZ?
  
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  December 27, 2022 12:03pm
  - Paulus
    
    No, no, no, it is now Climate Change not Global Warming.
    Got to change all the headings and monikers.
    
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    December 27, 2022 1:44pm
- JJ56
  
  Meanwhile in the (possibly) real world https://www.thefp.com/p/was-santa-actually-a-mushroom-tripping
  
  h/t @curryja
  
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  December 27, 2022 1:24pm
I remember when

Nearly useless information:
Label on new garment showing temperature for washing, so small that 90% of population will have trouble reading it.
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December 27, 2022 10:14am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Almost every conspiracy theory people had about twitter turned out to be true.
https://twitter.com/GretchenOO8/status/1606852465751629825?
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December 27, 2022 10:31am
Maggy Wassilieff

Money games and 3 Waters

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/paying-for-three-waters-on-the-2nd-day-of-christmas

Is anyone any the wiser after reading that?
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December 27, 2022 10:35am
- Yvette
  
  Is anyone any the wiser after reading that?
  
  No.
  And the $120-185 billion seemed to originally be the range maintenance could cost us, but now appears to be the amount we need to borrow to obtain, without any comment about repaying that loan and interest as well – repayment being normal with a loan?
  Or is that a Ardern Labour-gifted problem to grandchildren’s children?
  
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  December 27, 2022 10:48am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Two turtle doves to be replaced by two fat native pigeons?
  
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  December 27, 2022 3:22pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

“I love the reality of Elon Musk being possibly the savior of our republic and free speech
He is not a liberal or conservative
He is too smart for that
But he has a deep deep realization that the truth is what our country needs Especially as respects social media
There I said it !!

How’s them Free Speech bananas Jaspinda? Do you know what ‘Truth’ is?
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December 27, 2022 10:36am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/the-waitangi-tribunal-an-example-of-absolute-fraud-and-corruption/
The net Taxpayers of NZ are paying for an elite Maori coup, all based of fraud and corruption.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/The-Waitangi-Tribunal-Is-a-Farce-Part-3-1.pdf
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December 27, 2022 11:17am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Does anyone work at the Work and Income in Glenfield ? Could you please stop the alarm that’s been going since yesterday. I called ADT security which is the number on their building and they said it will require an employee to disable the alarm or contact ADT.
ADT can’t do anything. Good luck trying to find a keyholder.

Here is the thing: If it was on fire there would be immediate action. I am not saying torch it, just saying how useless Security can be.
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December 27, 2022 11:43am
- PHC
  
  Does anyone work at work and income?
  Try noise control or if all else fails expanding foam in the outside siren box
  
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  December 27, 2022 12:18pm
- Nickc2
  
  There’s a Police Station nearby, surely they can hear it as well? If they can’t, they’re probably all at Long Bay waiting for the beach to become crowded again eh?
  
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  December 27, 2022 12:52pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I’m not sure if the Police use that building anymore.
    Long Bay. The extra parking could be opens with a cordless grinder with a cutoff wheel. 15 seconds.
    
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    December 27, 2022 2:07pm
    - Nickc2
      
      There’s Police Cars there every day.
      
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      December 27, 2022 2:14pm
I remember when

Canada/US cold spell:
“Worst blizzard I have ever covered.”
Veteran Storm Chaser Reed Timmer.
Bet they are all glad there is ‘global warming.’
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December 27, 2022 12:06pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  As I predicted last week, ‘experts’ are explaining that the USA freeze is CAUSED by climate change.
  
  “As the Earth warms further due to human-emitted greenhouse gases, such events could become much more frequent in the near future — one of the many impacts of climate change. ”
  
  “https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/expect-more-bomb-cyclones-courtesy-climate-change-86788
  
  So yes, this freeze is caused by global warming. Off to the disinformation reeducation camp with you 🙂
  
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  December 27, 2022 12:40pm
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    I wonder if there’s any way to differentiate these human-caused weather events from all the ones that occur naturally.
    I note that this ‘expert’ says these weather events _could_ become more common – I take that to mean they haven’t, which would jibe with all the many times I’ve read that weather isn’t becoming more extreme.
    
    I just had a wee read of some study about polar vertices- in the summary they had this to say…
    “Make clear that any individual extreme weather event is not the consequence of either the existence or gross properties of either polar vortex”
    
    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~sobel/Papers/waugh_et_al_16_accepted.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi6i8iC25j8AhV_V2wGHdXTBWo4ChAWegQIHhAB&usg=AOvVaw0yjffrEeQY1veyuYXlTbFM
    
    I read that Germany is going to ‘invest’ another $28 bn in more ‘renewable’ energy in an effort to reduce the chances of future blackouts. It seems that they really will have to suffer through the consequences of their insane policies before the climate change crisis can come to an end.
    
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    December 27, 2022 3:21pm
Benedict Yu

Julie Ann Genter is calling on the Government to reduce public transport fares. She is calling on the Government to abolish the “very costly” fossil fuel subsidies in New Zealand.

What subsidies? Petrol is heavily taxed, with much of the revenue going to subsidise public transport.

It is like she lives in some parallel world.

https://twitter.com/JulieAnneGenter/status/1602819931929980928
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December 27, 2022 12:30pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  She is also campaigning for a “freeze” on all residential rents.
  
  I guess that proves my thought on her “parallel world”.
  
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  December 27, 2022 12:32pm
  - Nickc2
    
    I’ve e-mailed the Mayor of Rochester, Minnesota USA (Kim Norton) advising her that if her city’s missing its idiot, she’s here in NZ, and it’s about time she came and collected her. So far, no response. //
    
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    December 27, 2022 12:39pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Greens mental model of how the world works is only very weakly coupled to reality. They espouse the same kind of insanities – cool sounding but fundamentally unworkable due to all the destructive incentives and unaccounted costs – that killed tens of millions in the Great Leap Forward.
    
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    December 27, 2022 12:45pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Let’s face it, she is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
  
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  December 27, 2022 2:09pm
- JeffW
  
  It is time someone pointed out that public transport subsidies are effectively a transfer from most of NZ to especially Wellington, and a small proportion of other large city residents.
  
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  December 27, 2022 3:51pm
Ghost

Another stabbing.

A man is in critical condition after a stabbing at a popular beach spot in Taranaki.

Detective Senior Sergeant Byron Reid said the man was undergoing emergency surgery on Tuesday morning, and enquiries were underway to establish what happened at Waitara’s Marine Park.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130865623/man-in-critical-condition-after-stabbing-at-popular-taranaki-beach-spot
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December 27, 2022 12:32pm
Benedict Yu

A company called South Island Resource Recovery Limited has developed proposals for waste to energy energy plants on some former Canterbury landfills. A an obviously sensible idea if it is being privately financed. The impact assessment shows no adverse effects on air or water.

ECAN has rejected the application.

The proposal may have “unknown effects on mana whenua”.

“A site-specific Cultural Impact Assessment is required to be completed either by, or in close consultation with Te Rūnanga o Waihao. ”

http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/2022/12/not-outside-of-asylum.html

Welcome to the madness.

Hat tip: Eric Crampton

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December 27, 2022 12:35pm
- All_on_Red
  
  I believe the expression is ‘Brownmail’.
  
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  December 27, 2022 12:40pm
- Nickc2
  
  It’s nothing that a sizable annual serving of Koha won’t fix Benedict.
  We debated this yesterday and I believe this was the conclusion.
  
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  December 27, 2022 12:44pm
- Swifty
  
  I’ve said before in here from young bro, involved in resource management, legal stuff in central north island.
  
  “Want cultural impact statement? That’ll be $50,000. Want it within six months? That’ll be $100,000.”
  
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  December 27, 2022 1:14pm
- Yvette
  
  Benedict
  “A site-specific Cultural Impact Assessment is required to be completed either by, or in close consultation with NZAL –New Zealand Asian Leaders.”
  
  QED :o)
  you are welcome
  
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  December 27, 2022 2:02pm
  - Yvette
    
    Benedict, sorry – there was no personal implication intended in that, didn’t occur to me until later – could have been the Indian Associations & Socio-Cultural Organizations of New Zealand, Hindu Council of New Zealand or Jacinda’s Islamic Womens Council of New Zealand (IWCNZ)
    Still QED
    
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    December 27, 2022 2:15pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Getting to be not safe anywhere. I always wait 5 mins and scan the area before going into a liquor store.
  
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  December 27, 2022 2:11pm
kevn

@Swifty… I gather 20% of the cost of any council charges are due generally useless/unwanted/not needed bro stuff.
Great gig for a very small number of people.
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December 27, 2022 2:04pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hunter about to be exposed?
https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1606333696880963586
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December 27, 2022 2:26pm
- NothingLeft
  
  I think the world has seen enough Biden dick pics already. But would be nice if Biden’s corruption was finally prosecuted.
  
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  December 27, 2022 6:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Climate change is caused by racism. Silly season is all go!
https://spreely.video/v/2460097549/Jane-Fonda-Claims-Climate-Change-Caused-By-RACISM
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December 27, 2022 2:35pm
- Inandout
  
  SO, she must be in her 90s.
  
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  December 27, 2022 3:40pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I have no idea. Climate change caused by Racism. She is mad.
    America will never forgive Hanoi Jane. That was disgusting.
    
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    December 27, 2022 4:28pm
  - Nickc2
    
    She scrubbed up well in Barbarella, but since then, it’s been all downhill.
    
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    December 27, 2022 8:06pm
kevn

@SteveO… and the earth is flat not round.
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December 27, 2022 3:09pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You know this of course. The rabid left are standing on the outside of the rectangle, frothing at the mouth. Rectangle because the rabid left choose the longest area to see how far they can go to the left. See that one down the end with a sign? “No more something”
  I am sure you know this Kevn.
  
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  December 27, 2022 3:48pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Lazy, casual headline. No mention of what kind of blessing; nor whether the type of blessing has any relevance to the deceased.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130866175/blessing-to-take-place-at-site-of-drowning-at-wellington-campground
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December 27, 2022 4:12pm
- Mike
  
  Do you care whether the campground is blessed at all, let alone by whom and how?
  
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  December 27, 2022 5:05pm
NZer In Exile

Wikipedia itself admits it’s full of unreliable horseshit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_reliable_source

Far left cancel culture twits still try to tout it as gospel truth and big tech (dragged around by the nose by it’s most infantile employees) promotes it. And we wonder why everyone seems to be going nuts????
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December 27, 2022 4:41pm
- Mike
  
  Wikipedia requires citations from published sources. Even a [Mod – no need for that] should be able to see that an encyclopedia cannot use itself as a source.
  
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  December 27, 2022 5:03pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    “requires citations from published sources”
    
    You realise that means nothing at all in terms of whether the material is factual or not? All sorts of loony/biased/slanderous excrement has a “published source”.
    
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    December 27, 2022 6:24pm
    - Mike
      
      Wikipedia is an invaluable reference tool. There is no comparable enterprise that provides such a wide range of references as a basis to consider further information on a topic.
      I’d welcome your suggestions for better starting points when considering a topic with which you had previously been unfamiliar.
      
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      December 27, 2022 7:27pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Wikipedia is a complete and utter joke.
    
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    December 28, 2022 7:26am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Do you have a more comprehensive starting point when you ‘do your own research’?
      
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      December 28, 2022 7:30am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Kind of squares with a thought I had today. When I was young environmentalists were the most knowledgeable either with deep science knowledge or direct on the land experience like a marital cousin who managed one of the early organic farms in North Canterbury. Now most environmentalists know bugger all about anything except what others have told them they should worry about.
  
  It’s an unhealthy progression.
  
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  December 27, 2022 5:06pm
Alan Wilkinson

Covid day 4. Feel a bit tired after 2 loads of washing, pruning a tree to fix tv reception, taking a toaster apart and a trip to Paihia to click/collect groceries. Only real symptoms are a sore throat and a bit more sweaty spells though it is very hot and humid today. Really a glorious summer day.

So far I’m a fan of the antivirals I dashed to Kawakawa to collect before Xmas shutdown on day 1. Wife and I are both 2 + 1 booster vaxed but she is not old enough to qualify for antivirals. She’s had a rather miserable time with a horrible cough. Likewise her unvaxed daughter. I had a fever the first night and muscle pains like them but I could feel the antivirals rolling back the infection. Day 2 I even mowed a lawn whereas they struggle even to climb stairs.

So, why on earth has our control freak Government and medical establishment done such a totally crap job of procuring and making antivirals available??
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December 27, 2022 4:59pm
- NothingLeft
  
  post symptomatic antivirals are fairly ineffectual for covid, you don’t get symptoms until the viral load is nearing peak, where immune system has already ramped up into near-equilibrium with viral replication and slowing viral replication slightly at that point achieves little (maybe reduces length of convalescence slightly). Basically not worth the trouble in most cases.
  
  Taking antivirals all the time as a prophylactic measure (eg safe cheap ivermectin) is a better bet, as reduces rate of increase which in exponentials makes a big difference, giving more time for immune system to ramp up.
  https://c19ivm.org/
  
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  December 27, 2022 6:13pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Agreed. If Ivermectin isn’t available then a weight adjusted supplementation of Nigela Sativa could be helpful.
    
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    December 27, 2022 6:23pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    My experience was taking them as soon as I got a +ve RAT test, the morning following a negative one. I could feel the infection advancing in and from the throat/nasal area and an hour or two after taking the first dose that eased off. The only side effect noticeable has been a bitter taste in the mouth. The drugs are nirmatrelvir and ritonavir.
    
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    December 27, 2022 6:56pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      I should say that I was taking the RAT tests because my wife was infected, not because I had symptoms.
      
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      December 27, 2022 7:01pm
- krazykiwi
  
  What ‘anti virals’ were you prescribed? If it was Remdesivir or Molnupiravir I STRONGLY recommend you do some independent* research on the efficacy and side-effects of these drugs.
  
  *By ‘independent’ I mean ignoring anything published by FDA or CDC. These organisations are captured by the pharmaceutical companies they are supposed to be protecting us from.
  
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  December 27, 2022 6:20pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Covid day 5. Last day of antiviral course. RAT test is completely clear. Throat just a little tender. I’ve had no nasal symptoms and only a minimal coughing.
  
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  December 28, 2022 9:18am
Ghost

Another murder.

A woman has been charged after a man’s death in Te Puke.

Bay of Plenty Police are investigating the death of a man in Te Puke on Monday night.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300774414/woman-charged-with-murder-after-man-dies-in-te-puke

A man is facing multiple charges including kidnapping following a fatal crash on an Auckland motorway.

A 19-year-old woman was killed in the single-vehicle crash just after 3am on Monday on the Southwestern Motorway.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/12/man-charged-with-kidnapping-after-woman-s-death-on-auckland-motorway.html
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December 27, 2022 5:12pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  I wonder how many of those incidents somehow involved meth use.
  
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  December 27, 2022 6:28pm
NothingLeft

FBI got hold of Hunters laptop in Dec 2019 and I assume soon new it to be chock full of alarming indications of corrupt payments from Ukraine and China, yet Biden didn’t get nomination till June 2020.

Why did the FBI sit on their hands and then run interference and misinformation campaign over laptop for Biden? Did the FBI/intel community like the fact that they had kompromat on the future president – was that a viewed as a positive rather than a negative?
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December 27, 2022 6:23pm
- Mike
  
  Interesting questions; what answers do you have? Should the FBI have been quicker with their other politically sensitive investigations?
  
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  December 27, 2022 7:31pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    I don’t know, but the facts as they stand don’t make much sense unless FBI has a nefarious and worse than partisan agenda – Their actions with twitter files demonstrate they knew what was on laptop as they ran interference pre-election. They had laptop 6 months before Biden won nomination, and could have (should have) spoken up to remove him from the running – he clearly wasn’t the best candidate in the Democrat field.
    
    So why did FBI leadership (or whoever pulls their strings) run interference for Biden with prima facie evidence of corruption in their hands prior to Primaries? It looks like more than just incompetence.
    
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    December 27, 2022 8:10pm
    - Mike
      
      Sure, I get your Butt Hunter angle. But why did it take the FBI so long on some political inquiries while it sped through others?
      
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      December 27, 2022 8:56pm
Ghost

How sad that this is even needed in this country

An Auckland dairy owner says he’s had to install a metal cage around his shop counter so he and his wife are able to feel safe at work.

Salisbury Superette owner Hitesh Patel said they decided to install the cage after a dairy worker was killed in Sandringham last month.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-dairy-owner-installs-metal-cage-to-stop-robbers-after-other-violent-dairy-attacks/4OP47HOVOZHQNLJILYGPPKKGH4/
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December 27, 2022 7:11pm
- MCōs
  
  The dairy owner down the road from me did that years ago.
  It was robbed in 2003 but it was more than ten years before they got their got organised.
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:57pm
  - Ghost
    
    That’s sad that they have to resort to this to protect themselves.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:01pm
  - MCōs
    
    The cage around the counter around is hardly a thing of beauty, but those dairies have little intrinsic architectural value to start with.
    
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    December 27, 2022 9:01pm
Ghost

THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607378386338340867?cxt=HHwWhoCzlYmIx84sAAAA
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December 27, 2022 7:24pm
- Mike
  
  [Mod – deleted, not relevant]
  
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  December 27, 2022 7:32pm
- NothingLeft
  
  looked at by 43 million people in 17 hours. MSM can’t get 10% of that number of eyeballs
  
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  December 27, 2022 7:57pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  There are some twits crapping over the comment thread there.
  
  That kind of Government suppression of free speech should be actionable under their constitution shouldn’t it?
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:53pm
Jack5

Stuff talks Woke …

St John Ambulance has been doing excellent service to New Zealanders since 1885. Most of us admire it, or even love it.

Stuff today in a news report of an accident calls it “Hato Hone St John”.

What a bastardised Pidgin name. “Hato” as the Maori word for “saint”, and “Hone” the Maori pronunciation of “John”.

According to the organisation itself, the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem first came into being about 1070, when a hospice was established in Jerusalem by monks from a neighbouring Benedictine abbey to care for Christians making the long and dangerous pilgrimage to the Holy Land. That was probably before Maori first set foot in New Zealand.

By all means, when in the Maori language, use “Hato Hone”, but why inflict this borrowing from English back into English and shack it to the English-language name?

Stuff is going breakneck speed to Pidgin-ise English as spoken as NZ; breakneck speed before the ~~payola~~ subsidies from Ardern end.
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December 27, 2022 8:38pm
- Ghost
  
  Nothing to do with stuff, St John changed their name to Hato Hone St John
  
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  December 27, 2022 8:40pm
  - Jack5
    
    Stuff doesn’t have to use the Pidgin name.
    
    For example, the internet address used by the organisation is still “https://www.stjohn.org.nz”.
    That could have been changed, as there is no macron in “Hato Hone”.
    
    FFS, is anyone going to phone for a “waka tūroro” or a “waka harihari tūroro” rather than for an “ambulance”?
    
    It’s interesting that the leading online Maori dictionary still calls St John Ambulance “Kāhui o Hoani”.
    
    To be consistent, Stuff, instead of touting online for subscriptions and donations should ask for “ohaurunga” and “koha” or “takoha”.
    
    That would get them off the Government’s subsidy tit (joke).
    
    [Mod – thanks but sssh]
    
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    December 27, 2022 8:50pm
    - Ghost
      
      Here is the new ambulance design for you
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/new-ambulance-new-design-for-te-puke-st-john/3RKINW3MFVNED5CWBVACMB4QRM/
      
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      December 27, 2022 8:55pm
      - Jack5
        
        Thanks for pointing to that picture, Ghost.
        
        We’re used to red for danger, for warning, for “Here’s a fire engine, please make way”. Not sure if green does anything for a hurrying vehicle that needs others to give it road room. I don’t think the busy clutter of words and Maori symbols helps identification, either.
        
        Nek minnit, instead of a siren, there’ll be an electronically blasted haka, or at least a shell trumpet.
        
        The four-word, double-up, Woke name of St John Ambulance seems to have been cemented in three months ago.
        
        With increasing size; with difficulties of running an organisation on donations; and with Woke rust; maybe it’s now time for either: replacement by a new State organisation, or a split into local organisations, funded and run entirely locally.
        
        St John Ambulance has done superb work for New Zealanders. Perhaps it’s near time to say thank you very much indeed, and then move on.
        
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        December 27, 2022 9:22pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Groan. Now watch its service go belly up too.
    
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    December 27, 2022 8:55pm
Ghost

A song to close the night off

David Bowie – Heroes
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