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Lenticular

Happy Easter! He is Risen!
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April 9, 2023 8:01am
- Tony Stuart
  
  He is risen indeed!
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:36am
  - Jethrod
    
    Hallelujah!
    
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    April 9, 2023 8:38am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Our world is better today than it was 2000 or even 200 years ago, but only in terms of the wealth and health produced as both a result of our technological advances and the system of capitalist democracy in which the Industrial Revolution could start.
    
    I’m doubtful that it’s better because of any advances in morality and ethics inside each of us human beings, although we seem to have been able to act together to produce some societal improvements over time (ending slavery in the West for example), but we still seem to be performing atrocities of different types (sometimes enabled by that new technology). Hence this interesting thought.
    
    “If Kant and Hegel had been right, the progress of the Enlightenment should have made man ever freer, more reasonable, and more upright. Instead, the demons we have so eagerly declared dead rise up ever more powerfully from the depths of man and teach him to feel a profound anxiety at his own power and powerlessness: his power to destroy, his powerlessness to find himself and master his own inhumanity.” – Pope Benedict
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:32am
    - thirteenstars
      
      Oh, now, who would take the opinion of the world’s most famous crossdresser. Nice frock, Ben.
      
      Benedict hates capitalism:
      
      Confronted with the abuse of economic power, with the cruelty of capitalism that degrades man into merchandise, we have begun to see more clearly the dangers of wealth and we understand in a new way what Jesus intended in warning us about wealth.
      
      Dangers of wealth, my ass. The Catholic Church is one of the wealthiest non-governmental organisations on the planet, and no doubt Benedict has enjoyed his share of the spoils over the years.
      
      Capitalism has done more to create brotherhood and goodwill than any other system devised by man. It allows each of us to be valued for how we behave and what value we can bring to the common fold. Race, sex and other factors are set aside in the pursuit of those values. No one cares that your plumber is Maori or the person who invented that life-saving medicine is a woman. All we want is value and we must deal with each other honestly to gain those values.
      
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      April 9, 2023 11:28am
      - Che Guava
        
        The free market isn’t synonymous with capitalism. Capitalism is really debt-expansion. People habitually cite folksy examples like “your plumber” when they are arguing for capitalism, but Blackrock, JP Morgan Chase and the US Federal Reserve are much better exemplars of capitalism than the local dairy and Bob the Builder.
        
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        April 9, 2023 12:24pm
      - kowtow
        
        You sir are a [Mod – debate what they say without making it personal] , making such evidence free assertions .
        
        Cross dresser ? Pfft .
        
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        April 9, 2023 12:54pm
      - kowtow
        
        Hey mod ,
        
        If he can falsely state that the Pope is a cross dresser , how does that pass as debate .And pass moderation.
        
        [Mod – I’m sure you can debate what he has said without getting personal]
        
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        April 9, 2023 2:52pm
      - Lenticular
        
        Untrammelled capitalism is neither efficient nor virtuous. Look at monopolies (either natural, or those that resulted by historical accident).
        They’re inefficient and abusive and able to self perpetuate by impeding entry.
        
        Capitalism needs to be tempered by virtue and charity, neither of which it teaches.
        
        As the Bible says, “if the LORD doesn’t build the house, the labourers have laboured in vain”.
        
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        April 9, 2023 3:30pm
    - Alex
      
      As you have the same surname I will direct you to Jeffrey Hunter who played Christ in King of Kings .
      Good movie !
      There your answer!
      
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      April 9, 2023 11:53am
- krazykiwi
  
  Yes!
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:37am
- Joely Doe
  
  I hope not?!
  The last thing I want to see, is the zombie corpse of Michael Cullen shuffling around!
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:07am
krazykiwi

Slowly. This is how the narrative crumbles. Today’s evidence is this: Swiss government no longer recommends Covid-19 vaccinations, passes vaccine harm liability to prescribing doctors, and has most recipient pick up the costs themselves. Would our resident vaccine enthusiasts care to comment? Aunty, surfing, Okahu? Perhaps Chris ‘Get Boosted’ Bishop could offer National’s perspective?
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April 9, 2023 8:05am
- Master Mariner
  
  The interesting bit in the report is making GP’s liable for adverse reactions from now on.
  So with that in mind, NZ Government will be responsible / Liable until they make a similar statement / Directive ?
  Correct?
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:18am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Right from day one the Govt including Accident Compensation had a disclaimer.
    They would never be responsible for Covid injuries or death, yet they blackmailed us into taking it. (passports or stay home)
    The barrage of lies will never be forgiven
    
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    April 9, 2023 8:49am
    - Master Mariner
      
      The only difference between right and wrong will be time.
      There appears to be close similarities between Covid Vaccine and Themalehyde and its ultimate “Potentially” conclusion ?
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:53am
      - Taieri
        
        Themalehyd
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        Thalidomide?
        
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        April 9, 2023 11:11am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Formaldehide ????
        
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        April 9, 2023 12:01pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        A man called Hyde?
        
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        April 9, 2023 3:52pm
- Fishing in the dark
  
  The politicians and our experts in NZ have their head well and truly in the sand buried.
  With other words, they are the most useless people.
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:27am
  - Alex
    
    Fishing,
    The Bishop got it wrong on boosters just like Luxflakes on Climate.
    
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    April 9, 2023 12:01pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      At least they know what a woman is ffs
      
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      April 9, 2023 12:42pm
      - Alex
        
        Giant Can you be sure?
        They usually follow Labour, who don’t know what a woman is.
        
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        April 9, 2023 3:16pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Yes, both have been asked and both found it quite easy to answer, Luxon has been asked by vulgar leftie media and has been able to tell us, do you hate tgd Nats that much ffs
      
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      April 9, 2023 6:43pm
- Bridgenag
  
  Yes… On a number of blogs this morning…..wonder if our msm will mention?
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:42am
  - Bob
    
    Not so far Bridge..1145 am now.
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:43am
- Grunter
  
  The Swiss have looked at the data (not the woke science) and concluded that the jab is a waste of time at best and dangerous at worst.
  
  Meanwhile our pink haired experts continue to tell everyone including kids to take it. Just so shockingly stupid and bad.
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:51am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Perhaps read the article.?
    
    Almost all persons in Switzerland are vaccinated and/or have undergone Covid-19. Their immune system has dealt with the coronavirus accordingly. In spring/summer 2023, the virus will probably circulate less. The current virus variants also cause rather mild disease. For autumn 2023, the vaccination recommendation will be evaluated again and adjusted accordingly.
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:52am
- ClanMcleod
  
  If there is any genuine justice in NZ there will be a number of people losing their jobs and having their gongs and awards rescinded.
  I believe for some, legal proceedings and jail time would not be out of the question. There will be provable malfeasance. It might have been stupidity for some, but others were fully aware of the lies they were pushing.
  
  The damage they are responsible for is incalculable.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:18am
- Brian McDonald
  
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  “Almost all persons in Switzerland are vaccinated and/or have undergone Covid-19. Their immune system has dealt with the coronavirus accordingly. In spring/summer 2023, the virus will probably circulate less. The current virus variants also cause rather mild disease. For autumn 2023, the vaccination recommendation will be evaluated again and adjusted accordingly.”
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:23am
  - Brian McDonald
    
    “The fire’s burning out so most tenders have been removed but staff will attend damping down for next few days.”
    In world of the bewildered, that means there was no fire.
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:32am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      There was no fire, there were a lot of idiots who saw a large hairy dog and collectively screamed lupus. And a lot of charlatans saw an opportunity and exploited it to the fullest for financial gain, career advancement or simply because they were narcissistic twats.
      
      A lot of misguided people got sucked in by the whole charade, now realise it, and are a bit upset. Sadly most are too spineless to admit it. It’s a long road ahead.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:02am
      - Bob
        
        A lot of misguided people got sucked in b…….
        the consequence of 40 years of ‘teaching what to think, NOT HOW to think and rationalise’
        
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        April 9, 2023 11:45am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    How’s their all cause mortality numbers looking Brian?
    It’s admitted by even the most ardent supporters of this experiment that the jabs prevent neither infection not transmission, in fact, the numbers now show the more vaxxed you are the more chance of getting covid.
    
    Your logic is illogical. It’s over. Let it go. You got it wrong.
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:55am
    - Lance
      
      So is anti-vax the new “moon landings were a hoax”?
      Asking for a friend
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:56am
      - bennerg
        
        In relating the term ‘anti-vax’ to the mRNA gene therapy, you demonstrate the ignorance that has been exploited by the PR agents for the pharmaceutical industry.
        
        There is no similarity in function between your measles or tetanus vaccine to the products created by Moderna and Pfizer etc.
        
        Putting on an All Black jersey does not make one an All Black. A fan maybe, but nothing else.
        
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        April 9, 2023 11:14am
      - Lance
        
        @bennerg
        And yet there is daily ranting here by some that Covid is not only harmless now, but was always harmless.
        This is bullshit and I have had enough of this nonsense going unchallenged. This is why I likened it to the moon landing deniers. Amateurs hell bent on pushing their lack of professional knowledge and mocking anyone who disagrees with them.
        A lot of people died until the virus mutated into a less harmful form. I agree now that the more virulent (but less harmful) Omicron variant has become widespread, we are now ‘out of the woods’
        
        And enough of the extremist themes polluting any rational debate these days. Just because someone doesn’t agree with 100% of what someone says doesn’t mean they are the devil incarnate and eat babies.
        
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        April 9, 2023 11:33am
      - mawm
        
        Lance – How do you explain that for all ages the Infection Fatality Rate of Covid19 is the same or less than a bad flu year, this despite mandated treatments that had adverse effects on the immediate longevity of such patients, and official programs to try and tie all and any death to covid infections?
        
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        April 9, 2023 11:57am
      - Lance
        
        Oh FFS
        Here we go…..
        
        So the countries hit hard and early with overflowing ICU’s and thousands of deaths was just normal flu numbers?
        I call bullshit on that.
        Some countries (like NZ) took measures to lower the peak.
        I am not saying the lefty govt in NZ did a good job, nor that they weren’t grossly incompetent etc.
        
        This sneaking narrative that Delta was always harmless is wrong. There are plenty of govt faults to point to without resorting to conspiracy theory drivel.
        
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        April 9, 2023 12:35pm
      - mawm
        
        Lance – I really expected something more than discredited media claims.
        
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        April 9, 2023 3:29pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Lance – you win moronic, undebatable comment of the day. Are you Jacinda Ardern by any chance?
        
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        April 9, 2023 6:20pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Lance – bring any relevant information to any debate, any time you want. I’ll wait. Take as long as you need. But if you’ve nothing to contribute then get back under your bridge.
        
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        April 9, 2023 6:37pm
    - Thought Criminal
      
      It’s above long term average ClanMcLeod
      
      https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline?country=~CHE
      
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      April 9, 2023 11:00am
  - Fishing in the dark
    
    Brian, just your facts right. In Switzerland under fully vaxxed there are 69% and have almost 14’000 deaths since 2020.
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:08am
- Happy1
  
  Nothing much to see here KK. The Swiss are simply pivoting to a flu vax regime i.e vax people in the autumn ahead of high spread winter.
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:30am
  - The Housekeeper
    
    Yeah, Happy1, turns out it was the just the flu all along.
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:19am
  - bennerg
    
    The issue in Switzerland appears to come down to liability. The agreements with Big Pharma absolve them of all liability wrt mRNA jabs. The Swiss Government is only entertaining a “last resort” policy.
    
    In essence they are pushing liability down to the Doctors, who are now the ones who have to decide whether to recommend mRNA jabs or not. Guess what they will do given their exposure to legal redress now.
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:26am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    That’s the point Happy1 – every covid policy was moronic. It is and never was worse than a bad seasonal flu.
    And 100% guaranteed, the experimental jabs provide no benefit whatsoever.
    
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    April 9, 2023 6:24pm
- Lara
  
  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/safety-of-vaccines.html#:~:text=Benefits%20of%20Vaccination%20Outweigh%20the,%2C%20including%20COVID%2D19%20vaccination
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:32am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Lara – get a better source of information. You are being lied to, promise, the CDC is not a reputable source of information. No matter how much taxpayer money they spend telling you they are.
    
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    April 9, 2023 6:34pm
- mawm
  
  Krazy – along that theme is this fascinating talk from Robert F Kennedy jr. He was called an anti-vaxxer on GD yesterday so in his own words this is what he is and what he has done. He also exposes the CDC and Fauci, talks about pandemic simulations and the CIA, bioweapons and of course Fauci’s involvement.
  
  It is worth the hour spent listening.
  
  https://freedomlibrary.hillsdale.edu/programs/cca-iv-big-pharma/anthony-fauci-and-the-public-health-establishment
  
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  April 9, 2023 11:46am
- Alex
  
  Krazy,
  The
  Bishop got it wrong. Needs to go to the confessional.!
  
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  April 9, 2023 11:57am
Yvette

“3 Waters” – what is happening with it and the issue of “co-governance“?
And “total governance”?

Will Hipkins just leave it as it is – with the Maori Advisory Council already established with Tipa Mahuta as chair, presiding over Taumata Arowai, the Water Regulator which in turn presides over the “3 Waters” Regional Entities – the level at which “co-governance” occurs, while any idiot can surely see “total governance”, with head position in the pile, and the power of unbridled “Mana o te Wai” Statements – several levels above – is already passed into law?

The clock is ticking. October’s election is just over six months away. But despite the Prime Minister’s assurances in early February that the public would be told in “another couple of weeks” of any changes to Three Waters, he has yet to tell us what his government intends.

On his ascension to higher office, Chris Hipkins promised a reprioritisation of policy — ostensibly to concentrate on “bread-and-butter” issues. However, even Blind Freddie could see the rejig was intended to jettison unpopular policies that had been dragging Labour down in the polls and had helped drive his predecessor, Jacinda Ardern, out of office – Graham Adams

New Zealand’s new prime minister was left struggling for words at a news conference after a reporter asked him to define the term “woman”.
https://news.sky.com/story/new-zealand-pm-chris-hipkins-stumbles-when-asked-to-define-woman-12849593

If Hipkins can not define “woman”, he will surely be buggered trying to explain “co-governance”
But in fact he doesn’t need to

Hipkins can just drop the subject, leaving it as it is until Voila!
Look at this – Tipa Mahuta (Tainui) already in the top position
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April 9, 2023 8:05am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The clock is ticking and so is the Stop Co-Governance road tour.
  https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/2023-nz-stop-co-governance-tour/
  
  Scroll down.
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:55am
  - pdm
    
    Registered but still waiting to hear re the Havelock North or Hastings venue.
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:04am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Venue is TBC, to be confirmed. Hawke Bay does not have a venue yet.
      The venue place will be posted 24 hours before.
      Havelock North may be cancelled. I will email Julian Batchelor.
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/131615408/stop-cogovernance-talk-canned-due-to-expected-noise-and-protest
      
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      April 9, 2023 11:31am
      - pdm
        
        StHave the tried the HB Racing Club – Cheval Room.
        
        This is a stand alone room on private property and protesters should be able to be kept out on the street which is 50/60 yards away. Surely the police have a role in that.
        
        BTW the Havelock Community lied to me when I phoned to check if the venue was camcelled. They assured me neither they or the District Council have been responsible for the cancellation. Having said that it would be a difficult venure to keep protesters from.
        
        If I can help with finding another venue email me at: [email protected]
        
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        April 9, 2023 12:37pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @pdm.
        Email to [email protected]
        I am not in your area, sorry. I did email Julian Batchelor, waiting for reply.
        Things are busy for him now. Up at 3am and lights out after 9pm. This guy is committed to this. I have chattered with him personally, after the Orewa place.
        
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        April 9, 2023 4:47pm
- pdm
  
  I doubt Hipkins has the balls to take on Mahuta, Jackson and the rest of the (so called) Maori Caucus.
  
  Therefore no proper changes coming in the near future.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:02am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Does he have any balls? I’m starting to wonder, his choking sickening response to what is a woman suggests he might be slightly aloof, or light in the loafers 😃
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:20am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Oh there will be changes, but not by Chippie. He is just what the Maori Party want.
    Weak and useless. They are laughing!
    Stop Co-Governance will be on his case soon.
    Reading this Hipkins? Grow a pair of balls sonny.
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:49am
- rouppe
  
  There is a huge risk developing.
  
  The election.
  
  The current 5-waters legislation will undoubtedly remain until then. Two polls now have the Maori Party with the balance of power.
  
  If the Maori Party still have the balance of power at the election, not only will the Maori water oligarchy remain, it will be inflated to a point where that oligarchy literally have the power of life or death (access to water) over the population.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:11am
  - Paulus
    
    But in addition what does water produce – not just to drink etc but it generates Electricity in the South Island, which currently flows to the North.
    And guess who will have the control of the South Island Water Ngai Tahu, of course.
    So who can then control the price of power – guess who ?
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:17am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    We have two choices, vote for Hipkins and Co governance, or Luxon who has bowed to drop three waters and all services will not have separatist policies.
    
    I realise some on here want ACT, but it should be ACT party vote Nats electorate, as ACT will not win another electorate, ACT would go well to look closely at who they stand snd where, two Wellington seats have a drag race between Lab and Greens, if ACT looked st these seats and a few others they to stand down and let Nats come through the middle
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:25am
  - Tricati
    
    I just don’t get how Labour still remain so high, with Health, Education, Housing, Economy and Law & Order all going south – Whose supporting this shambles.
    If the next government is formed with the Maori Party holding the balance of power, then we as a country are buggered.
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:34am
    - Lara
      
      It shows us how dumb Joe Blog is!
      
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      April 9, 2023 2:21pm
  - bennerg
    
    Maybe DPF in his role as a polster can chime in and inform us more baout the trajectory of the different Party votes leading up to an election.
    
    Does for example the Maori Party generally poll higher or lower leading up to the actual election?
    
    There will be well estabished demographics on this one – ie who gets out to vote rather than answer a phone call etc.
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:17am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      They have never got more than 1.5% in an election, I just can not see 1000s of people voting Māori party unless those idiot young are moving away from green
      
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      April 9, 2023 12:45pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The Maori Party are suddenly becoming very dangerous and they know it.
    A group of a collective Winston Peters – kingmakers.
    The Party are part of the Elite Maori mentioned in the Stop Co-Governance blog.
    There is a Coup happening that needs to be stopped.
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:54am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      I think a co may well happen in Labour
      
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      April 9, 2023 12:45pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        You got it, G. I hope not.
        But if that is the case, who will be PM? Finance M?
        Minister of Maori Affairs? Where will Mahuta end up?
        My head hurts now, bugger you.
        
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        April 9, 2023 4:58pm
- Alex
  
  Yvette,
  Yes Chip-Pie needs to get onto it quick what is a woman and what is co governance, don’t put it on back burner we are waiting!
  
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  April 9, 2023 3:20pm
Lenticular

We love because He first loved us.

No government policy has as big an effect as the morality of the populace.
The predictions that abandoning Christianity would result in rampant greed, vice, and amorality have been vindicated, IMO.
The alternative predictive frameworks – including those that said we could all get along because we held values of classical liberalism and the institution of free markets – have failed.
In particular, almost every slope that the ‘nuttiest’ fundies said was slippery turned out to indeed be slippery, especially those around sexuality.

Time for a reexamination of where your values come from, centre-right and classical liberal types. The alternatives are wokeness or moral conservatism. The middle ground is dead.
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April 9, 2023 8:13am
- Mike
  
  The problem with ‘moral conservatism’ is the tricky need to specify which morals from which era you wish to be restored. Conservatives tend to oppose any change, but rarely go so far as to advocate for a return to the values as codified in, say. England, 200 years ago.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:11am
  - H. Upmann
    
    Yep, short sentences are always the best.
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:57am
  - crikey
    
    Mike: “Conservatives tend to oppose any change”. Not so. Lots of people – not just conservatives – oppose some changes and favour others. The word you needed was ‘reactionaries’.
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:19am
    - Tom Hunter
      
      I always laughed at all the old reactionaries, plus some young ones, who fought so hard against the revolutionary actions of Rogernomics, trying hard to preserve the distant past.
      
      Of course those Lefties never cast it in those terms. That was literally unthinkable. 😉
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:41am
  - Che Guava
    
    I could live with “a return to the values as codified in, say. England, 200 years ago.”
    
    But you are right Mike: many so-called conservatives today recoil at transgenderism as going “too far.” In response, they want to rewind the clock to, say, 1990, where they could still freely shag around, get as many divorces as suited them, or even experiment with homosexuality if they felt like it.
    
    But without a moral code and with a permissive “do what you want” liberalism, you’ll always end up with transgenderism sooner or later (and who knows what the future holds), because there is no limiting principle in liberalism that would prevent it.
    
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    April 9, 2023 12:40pm
  - Lenticular
    
    That’s such a daft argument and it’s baffljng why liberals think it’s good. Why would we have to replicate one era exactly? We aren’t utopians like you.
    
    Take today’s society, reinsert Christianity and public morals, and let it play out how it will. We don’t need to replicate every feature of the past, just the ones common to the successes thereof.
    
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    April 9, 2023 2:50pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Those are the old paradigms. What does left even mean anymore. The new politics is transhumanism vs realism. Globalism vs local democracy. Censorship vs freedom. The word conservative needs a rebrand.
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:02am
Michael J Baker

Jesus Christ is risen today. The (once) archetypal Western man.
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April 9, 2023 8:19am
- Mike
  
  How ‘Western’ do you think an Aramaic speaking Galilean mystic in the first century CE would have considered himself?
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:13am
  - Lenticular
    
    Not at all. But that’s how transcendently good Jesus is. Even people totally different culture to his own met with massive success trying to follow him.
    
    PS Jesus was far from always mystical; he shot put very direct, very confronting, taboo-breaking truths on a regular basis.
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:30am
  - rangitoto
    
    They were somewhat Hellenised being under Greek and then Roman rule for along time. The NT is a mix of Greek and Jewish concepts.
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:39am
  - Che Guava
    
    Christianity was indeed born in the Holy Land, that it true. But what we call “Western” is grounded in the characteristic “Europeanisation” of Christianity that occurred in about the 2nd millenium AD, for instance through the amalgamation of Aristotelianism and Christian doctrine by, principally, Thomas Aquinas.
    
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    April 9, 2023 12:46pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Yes, and to a degree, St. Augustine had a hand in getting the ball rolling 700 years earlier. 🙂
      
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      April 9, 2023 1:42pm
    - kowtow
      
      Sorry much earlier than that .
      
      St Paul took the message to the Gentiles . Once the Romans got involved it was western and that was mid 4th C AD . The Roman Emperor , Constantine I told them to get sorted thus we have the Nicene Council .
      
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      April 9, 2023 4:46pm
mandk

Not so long ago, and certainly within my living memory, it was acceptable for men to put make up on their faces and caricature black people.

Nowadays, it would rightly be seen as outrageous for anyone to do this.

How long, I wonder, will it be before the idea of men dressing up and caricaturing women is regarded the same way?
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April 9, 2023 8:21am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It’s different because they identify as Women.
  I would prefer it if they self identified and mentally ill.
  
  I say this without any insult to those with mental illness.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:07am
- Paulus
  
  Shh, I still have my Golliwog from collecting jam stamps a very long time ago.
  I will have to get some white paint and colour him in case I am told on !
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:21am
- Stellaboxer
  
  “How long, I wonder, will it be before the idea of men dressing up and caricaturing women is regarded the same way? “ It depends on how long the progressive defends it. Personally I’ve always found it both cringe worthy and insulting, so not soon enough.
  INMHO the whole thing is deeply misogynistic and always has been. Some of the scenes witnessed recently tend to bare that out.
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:55am
Michael J Baker

For clarity. Obviously I mean that Western man was imaged on, and subordinate to, the man of Jesus Christ. Not the other way around. The reality of Jesus Christ is universal.
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April 9, 2023 8:22am
TripeWryter

David Fisher of The New Zealand Herald, in his story (another hit job like he did on Julian Batchelor?) on Chantelle Baker, seems not to understand the difference between alternate and alternative.
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April 9, 2023 8:22am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  More info?
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:07am
  - kowtow
    
    The Ferald have run a huge hit piece by David Fisher against Chantelle Baker in today’s paper . Front page montage too.Under a banner headline “Alternative Realities”
    
    All supported by anEaster Bunny themed depiction of her going down their so called rabbit hole by their in house cartoonist .
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:22am
    - Dr John
      
      and yet, in the same paper, the usual biased column by the ‘trans’ woman who organised the despicable protest against Posie Parker. And not a bit of editorial comment.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:10am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Fisher is the Whorealds number one shill attack dog. He’s a pathetic excuse for a journalist.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:22am
- nathie
  
  The NZ Herald (and MSM in general) need to self-reflect.
  
  Ten, Twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years ago (etc), people speaking out against the “mainstream” were ridiculed by the MSM of those times.
  
  Nowadays those people (from back then) are lauded. Be they (were) feminists, anti-nuclear campaigners, anti-racism campaigners, promoters of revitalising Teo Reo and Te Ao Māori, Greenies, “girls can do anything” campaigners and so on.
  
  What did those people (of yesteryear) have in common with the “non-conformists of today” (like Chantelle Baker? Or Speak Up for Women? Or Sean Plunket or Peter Williams etc etc)?
  
  They spoke out against the Goverment narrative of the day.
  
  Note “Goverment narrative”, not necessarily “Labour Party”.
  
  It seems Woke Stuff learnt their lesson by “apologising to Māori” … will Woke Stuff and the Woke NZ Herald also figure out one day that they were WRONG (again!) by dissing and belittling those that speak out against the Govt narrative of today?
  
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  April 9, 2023 11:35am
kevn

@kk… Like turning the Titanic around, slow.
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April 9, 2023 8:28am
Tomtoddy

I am not an apologist for Chantelle Baker but I can read bias, vindictiveness, superciliousness and careful misuse of material in the Ferald’s lengthy story on her.
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April 9, 2023 8:31am
- kowtow
  
  And here again we have this use of the mysterious Disinformation Project , by te media pardy , as the neo Papal Authority on all things “correct”.
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:34am
  - krazykiwi
    
    “neo Papal Authority” – I like it. Extending the theme, the orchestrated attacks on off-narrative actors are modern day inquisitions.
    
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    April 9, 2023 8:47am
- Gravelroad
  
  @TomT-
  So nothing new there, then.
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:36am
- Chuck Bird
  
  What an unfair hitjob. How much has this currupt government paid for it?
  
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  April 9, 2023 11:05am
  - Paulus
    
    Part of the new $25 million via NZ on Air – as the $55 million appears to have run out as expected and a top up was needed.
    
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    April 9, 2023 1:27pm
    - Ghost
      
      Have you stolen a million from their funding? If so I promise not tell
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131709730/extra-26m-a-year-to-rnz-for-new-digital-platform-am-transmission-after-merger-scrapped
      
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      April 9, 2023 1:30pm
Gravelroad

New restaurant opened here recently on outskirts of smallish town.
Very popular.
Went there yesterday – it was busy with many people who apparently had a lot money to spend.
Most of the staff – young women- not from these parts.
Seemed to be mainly from South Africa and South America. Friendly, efficient and capable.
English their second language.
Sometimes their accents hard to hear in noisy environment.
They were apologetic for the long waiting time for the meals to come out. We wanted coffees at the end, but coffee making canceled due to not enough staff.
Where were the kiwi workers?
Went to large supermarket on way home – nearly every person working the tills was a young, (probably still at college) woman.
Guess it is easier than waiting on tables.
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April 9, 2023 8:33am
- peterwn
  
  That poor supermarket schoolgirl who got publicly lambasted (including by Rosemary Mcleod) and hung out to dry for refusing to sell forbidden items on a WINZ chit would probably beg to differ.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Kiwi workers are flat out studying for their Political Science degrees. No time to work.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:14am
- WaynelSexton
  
  Where are the New Zealanders?
  
  Boomers didn’t have enough kids, then they imported 400,000 immigrants in a 7 year period. (2013-2020)
  The New Zealand Boomers talk about doesn’t exist anymore and will never exist again, you destroyed it.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:27am
  - Flossie
    
    As a boomer I would like to say that when I was having babies there was no WFF or anything. Childcare was basically non-existent, never mind susidised, so few mothers could work to help out Times were just as tough. Sure houses were cheaper but they were very basic. Three beds and one bath if you were lucky. No garage or fences or “landscaping”… you got together with your mates and worked the concrete mixer.
    Wages were way lower too. Groceries seemed to take a huge chunk of available funds, and we NEVER went out to eat, or drink. Just neighbourly BYO gatherings. And yes “Ladies a Plate”.
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:00am
    - Mike
      
      Relative standards of living, along with NZ’s GDP per capita relative to other ‘developed’ countries, have declined for most people over that time, so that a couple need to work 80 hours to sustain what a family could enjoy from 4o hours’ work.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:10am
      - Flossie
        
        I don’t know what you’re meaning by “what a family could enjoy”. Personally I did not enjoy having no floor coverings. And having to buy the cheapest fabric and sew my curtains. Oh, and sew and knit all the family clothes too. Get this too – we didn’t have a car! We did have one “luxury” – a rented tiny B&W TV. Note too that our home didn’t have a skerrick of insulation in the walls or ceiling.
        
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        April 9, 2023 10:36am
    - Taieri
      
      First house in 1987 at 23.5% mortgage plus compulsory mortgage insurance.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:26am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Speaking of no insulation, my parents built a new house in 1955 and I can remember ice on the INSIDE of the windows on frosty mornings.
        
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        April 9, 2023 4:34pm
    - WaynelSexton
      
      Cool story Flossie, but the point was that boomers crashed the birthrate below 2.1 births in the 70s by aborting their babies and divorcing their wives.
      That’s why their’s no workers.
      Then they open the flood gates with the 1987 immigration act, and that’s why it’s hard to understand the workers that do exist.
      Boomers started the decline, instead of following tradition like every generation before them.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:55am
      - Flossie
        
        I thought I’d explained that we COULD NOT AFFORD MORE KIDS!
        I knew heaps of women in the 70s and none I can think of that aborted a baby. A no divorces come to mind either.
        
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        April 9, 2023 11:03am
      - WaynelSexton
        
        So you want me to believe boomer were poorer than their parents, that’s why they couldn’t have 2.1 children?
        
        And the stats only point to one generation embracing divorce.
        https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/29832/divorce-rate-1939-2017
        
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        April 9, 2023 11:40am
      - Flossie
        
        I put it to you Wayne, that our(my) parent’s generation did not have access to reliable birth control.
        
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        April 9, 2023 12:08pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I love going to Queenstown when foreigners are working in bars cafes and restaurants, they are always pleasant and are happy to be there, you can always tell which ones are NZers, the foreigners will chat and talk about where they come from, and these (mainly young women )will happily talk to us older boozers
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:29am
Tony Stuart

An excellent piece from Graham Adams on why Chris Hipkins won’t mention Three Waters, and why he and Kieran McAnulty are determined not to talk about Te Mana o te Wai statements any time before the October election. They’d far rather you didn’t know that TMOTW statements are edicts that hand direct control over water to iwi.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/graham-adams-what-hipkins-doesn-t-want-to-tell-us-about-three-waters

Adams concludes his piece thus:

It’s not difficult to imagine, of course, why McAnulty — and Hipkins — would prefer Te Mana o te Wai statements not to be discussed publicly. As former Kaipara mayor Dr Jason Smith put it forthrightly last June on Twitter: “Whoever gets to write Te Mana o te Wai statements gets control of water, land, planning rules and regulations, land use… TMoTW statements will cover every pipe, river, creek, farm pond or fresh water body. Actively excluding around 85 per cent of New Zealand’s people from engaging in a process which affects everyone/every square inch of the land and the salt water many miles out to sea deserves closer examination.

“If Te Mana o te Wai is such an important principle then surely everyone (ngā tāngata katoa) should be able to be involved. So many parts of society actively excluded from participating is unacceptable and unjustifiable.”

Hipkins and McAnulty can only hope the mainstream media remains largely dozy, lazy and uninformed on the role of Te Mana o te Wai statements until the election. For if the general public fully grasp that Māori will be given extensive — and exclusive — rights to direct how water is managed at a local level, the public mood will change from sour to downright septic. In short order, Hipkins’ hopes of re-election will be sunk by a wave of revulsion at such blatantly undemocratic and divisive race-based policy.

We shouldn’t have to rely on independent journalists like Sean Plunket asking Ministers and the Prime Minister the hard questions. Sadly though, our main media outlets are so interconnected with the government that they will do or say nothing to scare the horses.
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April 9, 2023 8:35am
- Nickc2
  
  IMO, NZ has two choices:
  
  1. We can cede all water(s) to tribal Maori interests, or
  2. We can make sure Labour, Greens, and Maori don’t form Govt at the next election.
  
  Let’s test public opinion.
  
  Downtick for 1, or
  Uptick for 2,
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:03am
  - Jimbob
    
    Nickc2, I agree. That is the only thing you need to do this year, rid New Zealand of these parasites. Nothing else matters. Our country needs us.
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:21am
  - H. Upmann
    
    And what happens when #2 is in place?
    
    10 to 1, something very similar will become law with the other team in place during the next term.
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:02am
    - Nickc2
      
      Have faith! Whoever it is has to be better than what we currently have.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:49am
      - Bob
        
        NOT whoever Nick2. This country now requires 25 years of a National lead government, with ACT support.
        
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        April 9, 2023 11:50am
    - Hollyfield
      
      Act’s proposed referendum on co-governance is a glimmer that may see the issue shelved for a couple of decades. Not a big hope, but better than nothing.
      
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      April 9, 2023 8:27pm
- Tricati
  
  It annoys me National & ACT aren’t constantly asking Hipkins when are they going to debate co-governance like his predecessor promised May last year.
  The government silence on the subject is a clear strategy of ‘out of sight out of mind’, and sending Mahuta overseas adds to my cynicism of keeping it all under wraps until after the election.
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:39am
- grumpy
  
  So the largest dairy farm operator in Canterbury gets to control water use on the Canterbury Plains? Seems about right!
  
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  April 9, 2023 11:20am
- Thought Criminal
  
  The MSM are not allowed to question the co governance narrative.
  
  That was the only formal condition of accepting the tens of millions from the public interest journalist fund. Tells you everything you need to know about labour’s priorities.
  
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  April 9, 2023 1:13pm
Yvette

PART 1: TE TIRITI O WAITANGI
NEWS MEDIA FRAMEWORK

Rationale
<As tangata whenua o Aotearoa, Māori have never ceded sovereignty to Britain or any other State. He Whakaputanga/Declaration of Independence (1835) and te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840) asserted and continue to assert Māori sovereignty, and were signed by hapū and the Crown. Te Tiriti carries rights and obligations for both parties, with implications for social justice. Despite te Tiriti, colonial constitutional practices have entrenched Pākehā systems of governance that continue today. This means our society has a foundation of institutional racism, where organisations, agencies and institutions continue to benefit Pākehā, and routinely produce policies and practices that result in avoidable inequalities between Pākehā and Māori.
– TE TIRITI FRAMEWORK FOR NEWS MEDIA
Commissioned by Irirangi te Motu/ New Zealand on Air

So why did Queen Victoria have Governor Hobson sign a treaty at all?

And why does the Waitangi Tribunal need then to point out –

Article 1
In the Māori text of article 1, Māori gave the British ‘kawanatanga’, the right of governance, whereas in the English text, Māori ceded ‘sovereignty’.

One of the problems that faced the original drafters of the te reo Māori text of the Treaty was that ‘sovereignty’ had no direct equivalent in the context of Māori society. Rangatira (chiefs) exercised full authority (‘mana’) over land and resources on behalf of the wider community.

The term used in the te reo Māori version, ‘kawanatanga’, was a transliteration of the word ‘governance’, which was then in current use. Māori understanding of this word came from familiar use in the New Testament of the Bible (when referring to the likes of Pontius Pilate), and from their knowledge of the role of the Governor of New South Wales, whom they referred to as ‘Kawana‘.
https://www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz/treaty-of-waitangi/meaning-of-the-treaty/

Who is right? – NZ ON AIR or the Waitangi Tribunal?

Because the Tribunal goes on to say –

Article 3
In article 3, the Crown promised to Māori the benefits of royal protection and full citizenship. This text emphasises equality.

– and they leave out the bit that says – “… equality AS BRITISH SUBJECTS”

An example of sorting out all this crap is the overturning of Wade / Roe in the USA a little while back, when everyone raved on about “abortion rights” yet again, rather than what was actually written, or not, into the founding document of the nation.
That is what New Zealand should have taken out of it
But didn’t
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April 9, 2023 8:35am
- Nickc2
  
  What’ll happen to the ToW and all references to it, should NZ become a Republic?
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:30am
  - Yvette
    
    A republic proposition could be interesting
    Does the nation bring in a constitution?
    And how will any bias lean? With Maori about 17 percent of the population. One citizen, one vote?
    And would there be anything special about “We were here first”
    or “We are mysteriously closer to the earth you stand on, and now the water you drink”
    Or would they abandon the whole thing when they try to fit trans-anything into a slogan length clause?
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:58am
    - Paulus
      
      Any cession from the Crown will bring in a new Consitution, drafted in Maori, and supported by Geoffrey Palmer.
      As the Maori written vocabulary is very limited it will be considered to mean whatever Maori want at the time – but may differ tomorrow, as suits.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:28am
      - Bob
        
        Sort of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ stuff !..
        
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        April 9, 2023 11:52am
    - Nickc2
      
      Good call Yvette.
      As usual, there are many unanswered questions but there is a strong and determined drive toward becoming a Republic.
      IMO, Aust will become a Republic ASAP (their so-called ‘Voice’ legislation will be interesting if it gets up (which I doubt)) and we will Piggy Back of whatever they do but with references to Maori preciousness in every clause of a written Constitution.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:56am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It should become a dust-gathering artefact..
    but it will probably become the Foundation document of the ~~tribal kingdoms~~ Republic of Aotearoa.
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:00am
    - H. Upmann
      
      Maggie: I am sure you meant The Democratic People’s Republic of Aotearoa.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:05am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Gosh no…
        
        Democracy is so old hat…
        
        https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/07/not-in-a-democracy-m-ori-party-co-leader-rawiri-waititi-outlines-his-vision-for-a-tiriti-centric-aotearoa-where-the-majority-doesn-t-rule-over-m-ori.html
        
        and “so overly simplistic”
        https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2207/S00214/prime-minister-refuses-to-acknowledge-one-person-one-vote.htm
        
        There’s no way the ethno-elites want the Plebs and Proles involved in their Republic.
        
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        April 9, 2023 11:38am
    - Nickc2
      
      H. Upmann @10:05AM
      I’m picking any reference to ‘Democratic’ will be purposefully forgotten if Labour/Green/Maori are the prime movers of such legislation and naming conventions etc.
      
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      April 9, 2023 11:13am
  - Taieri
    
    What’ll happen to the ToW and all references to it, should NZ become a Republic?
    —————-
    It will expand. The ToW is a very flexible concept.
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:27am
    - Matt Long
      
      Let’s start from the basics, because it a treaty partnership the new head of state that’s able to veto all laws must be appointed by Iwi…
      
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      April 9, 2023 4:11pm
- JJ56
  
  One thought is that if we have co-governance then those that identify as Maori should have their representation through their Iwi, and not have a vote.
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:10am
  - nathie
    
    That’s a really good point!
    
    Traditionally in Maori cultures the chiefs and their family/dependents held power.
    
    Back then no way would the common Maori people have a say in anything!
    
    So to today and co-governance … logically the end point is powerful Maori tribes asserting their dominance (wherever they have been granted the means to control).
    
    Are we heading back to the pre-colonial days of tribal elitism (with Labour thinking they will sitting at the top table with them)?
    
    If so, how does Labour reconcile the power granted to the tribal elites … and the place of (and needs of) the common (Maori) man and woman?
    
    Remember according to Jacinda and Willie – one person one vote is no longer necessarily valid!
    
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    April 9, 2023 2:33pm
Ipanema69

At AIAL this morning.

The airport mac donalds has 3 of its 4 self ordering kiosks out of service.

There are no coffees available.

The queue to the one operating Kiosk is about 50 people long.

This is third world shit hole stuff.

Thanks Jacinda.
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April 9, 2023 8:36am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  She does not care. NZ is nothing to her now.
  Made a huge mess and dropped us like a hot potato.
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:44am
- rouppe
  
  I try to avoid Auckland when flying internationally.
  
  It’s becoming the LAX of the south pacific. Awful, awful experience
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:31am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    Rouppe, spot on.
    15th March I arrived at 6.50 a.m. The plane took off at 10.38 a.m. I had enough time for a cigarette, a hamburger and a cup of coffee. The rest of the 4 hours 48 minutes was spent waiting in queues etc.
    19th March, from when the disembarkation commenced until I got through was 1 hour 38 minutes. Interestingly baggage handling was very good. Customs and immigration had far few staff.
    My wife had seen that sort of incompetence several years ago at Los Angeles.
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:41am
    - Ipanema69
      
      Yup and to boot both lifts from L2 to L1 were “out of service” along with the adjacent escalators.
      
      However the shiny signs in Te Reo were up nearly everywhere.
      
      We have the wrong priorities. Symbolism is now valued over making stuff work.
      
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      April 9, 2023 11:33am
  - Nickc2
    
    I feel ashamed every time I pass through Akld Int Airport.
    Who in their right mind would put an International Airport in the middle of a slum or perhaps build the Airport and then build a slum around it?
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:19am
    - Bob
      
      When I participated in the ‘Opening Ceremony’ of Auckland airport, – about 1966ish- the nearest settlement was a village called Mangere bridge; and the surrounding land was farms all the way to Papatoetoe.
      
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      April 9, 2023 11:57am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I’m at an age when I’m no longer prepared to run with a pack on my back between the domestic & International airports to catch flights.
      
      So now if I’m travelling or returning from O/S, I have to make a choice of overnighting in Auckland or an O/S country before proceeding onto my destination.
      
      I had the misfortune of arriving back at Auckland one evening when the 2 airport hotels were fully booked…and so I went to one just a few km distant in Mangere…
      
      An experience I don’t intend repeating.
      
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      April 9, 2023 1:45pm
      - Nickc2
        
        I know the feeling Maggy.
        I was staying in a Motel in Mangere one night awaiting an early flight in the morning and a rucus broke out that involved the Police. The Police knocked on my door and told me to get in my car and eff off. I slept in the car for the rest of the night at one of those Park & Fly places.
        
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        April 9, 2023 2:08pm
- MCōs
  
  I certainly don’t care about the state of the McDonalds at Auckland or any other airport
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:26am
  - Ipanema69
    
    You may not like Mac Donalds and that is fine.
    
    However this place is a major piece of infrastructure which handles thousands of people per day.
    
    If is furthermore the first and typically the last impression a lot of people have of New Zealand (tourism is one of the countries biggest industries).
    
    If the place is a shit hole then that directly effects NZ’s economic prospects and everyone who chooses to live here.
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:39am
    - Ghost
      
      Because some kiosk aren’t working doesn’t make it a shit hole. Sometimes things break down, they get fixed. You’re thinking too much into an issue that will be fixed
      
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      April 9, 2023 11:48am
      - rouppe
        
        Nah its more than that.
        
        It’s the security screening running at half capacity , yet staffed with over zealous people with a power complex.
        
        As an aside, how many times has an aviation threat been avoided by their actions? None, I’d say. As opposed to letting wanted criminals on board…
        
        Then it’s the border clearance, also running slow because some nonce doesn’t know they need to have their passport and boarding pass available.
        
        All increased by orders of magnitude by the sheer numbers.
        
        Christchurch is still annoying, especially security, but the volume is less so…
        
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        April 9, 2023 1:14pm
- Ghost
  
  50people lined up at a kiosk for McDonald’s for breakfast, that’s the problem right there
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:30am
  - OlderChas
    
    May well have been no other outlet open Ghost. Was nothing but McD’s open last time I was at AK International. But at least coffee was available!
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:46am
  - Bob
    
    What is wrong with the breakfast at home before leaving for the airport?
    
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    April 9, 2023 11:58am
    - Flossie
      
      That’s okay if you live close to the airport. It takes 2 1/2 hours for us to drive there – then sort out the parking etc.
      
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      April 9, 2023 12:14pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    It’s not just Auckland. Recently I was in the security queue at Wellington for an hour and a quarter for a DOMESTIC flight. And the little Hitler made my 73 year old walking stick wielding wife take her shoes off. Unbelievable arrogance and incompetence.
    
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    April 9, 2023 4:42pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Blame Easter Holidays. Maintenance Staff who dont work on Public Holidays.
  
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  April 9, 2023 12:06pm
- virtualmark
  
  I’m no fan of Jacinda, but I really can’t see how she’s responsible for the kiosks at the McDonalds at Auckland airport.
  
  AIAL is about the worst-run company in New Zealand. Totally focused on being a property developer and on over-charging for (near monopoly) carparking. Totally inept at their supposed core business of running an airport. Totally captive to a mindset of distributing the monopoly profits as dividends to shareholders rather than on re-investing in their infrastructure. Really, they don’t need any help from Jacinda to do a crap job.
  
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  April 9, 2023 3:27pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Wayne Brown sell the Auckland Airport Shares then build a new international airport at Dairy Flat, or Kaipara Flats, anywhere on the motorway north.
    Monopolies beget crap service and inefficiency.
    
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    April 9, 2023 4:20pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I have long been a supporter of looking after Veterans. I have seen how some just can’t cope, end up homeless and addicted, and with no real way to recover. An outfit in New Hampshire US helps Vets to cope with recovery. PTSD is a big thing. It is run by Mike Rivers (DV6) who was once addicted, homeless and suffered from PTSD. Now he runs Dysfunctional Farm, a place for Vets to come for help. Suicide prevention is big. The Vets lose a lot. You can follow them on social media and there is a store.
The US Govt does not care for Vets very much. Trump is big on this. Vets gave their Service and sometimes there lives for Freedom.
https://narratively.com/the-veteran-saving-his-comrades-from-addiction-by-embracing-their-dysfunctional-side/

Anyway, back to New Zealand. This caught my eye this morning.
Military veterans going back into battle for mental health of former service personnel.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/military-veterans-going-back-into-battle-for-mental-health-of-former-service-personnel/ar-AA19Chet

Two of three of my Uncles would never talk about their tours. It was too much for them. The other Uncle did about 5 tours and openly talked about it. I guess he liked getting it off his chest. He was not a fighter as such, but a cook. He saw the injured.
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April 9, 2023 8:41am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  A Bit of a side issue..
  
  But I was interested to read that three quarters of our returning 2nd WW men never bothered to collect their medals.
  
  https://www.teaomaori.news/thousands-second-world-war-medals-remain-unclaimed-nzdf
  
  My father was one of them.
  
  “Most complaints from New Zealand veterans centred around having to go ‘cap in hand’ for something they’d earned, which they felt should have been awarded to them as of right.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:20am
  - rouppe
    
    It wasn’t even a matter of “collecting”.
    
    They had to apply for their medals. Apply.
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:33am
  - Jimbo666
    
    Yes the difference in treatment between the two world wars was stark.
    WW1 – medals inscribed with the recipients name and service number was issued to all service men and women, even those deceased.
    The families of those killed were issued with a bronze plaque about 6 inches in diameter, along with a scroll of appreciation.
    Servicemen were also issued with a certificate of service
    WW2 – medals struck but not issued unless requested. They were simply posted out and were not enscribed with number, names etc.
    I’m not aware that any scrolls or plaques were issued to deceased soldiers, nor certificates of service.
    WW2. Medals are still able to be requested by the families even now. They eventually turn up in the post.
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:45am
    - MCōs
      
      When we were kids we played around with Dad’s medals. They rattled around in the bottom of a drawer.
      
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      April 9, 2023 11:44am
    - mawm
      
      Jimbo – The bronze plaque was issued to the next of kin/family of all those who served in British and Empire forces and who died in service, and was known as “The Widows Penny”.
      
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      April 9, 2023 1:03pm
  - kowtow
    
    There are some glaring contradictions in the narrative ( to my mind anyway)
    
    Last night “news” carried the story and said some 100,000 were entitled to the awards .I’d have thought more were.Could be wrong on both counts , happy to be corrected.
    
    Here the article says 20ooo didn’t get them. That makes an 80 % uptake .Which is not low.
    
    Yet the article says ;
    “According to my research, around 75 per cent of New Zealand Army and Royal New Zealand Air Force veterans refused to apply for their Second World War campaign medals in the first few years after distribution began in March 1950.”
    
    Is this more govt , academia , media pardy mis/disinformation .
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:46am
    - Mike
      
      The articles quotes pretty directly from the latest research – from two very careful and meticulous historians.
      I especially enjoyed the bit where the Navy veterans had a very high rate of ‘applying’ for their medals, as it was linked to them claiming their share of prize money!
      Allied to this, most veterans had no trouble in getting their substantial gratuities, for which they also had to ‘apply’.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:18am
      - Don Beckett
        
        I am very proud to have my maternal grandfather’s medals from WW I – he landed on Galipoli on the first day in 1915, and never came home till late 1917 after he was wounded a Paeshedaelle – he joined as a private, and came home a 2nd. Leutenant.
        I am also very proud to have my father’s medals from WW II – even though he had 2 children & was a member of the NZTF from 1936, he embarked in 1943 for Maardi Camp in Egypt and was in the landing on the Italian east coast joining the drive up through Faenza & Rimini to the Po valley. He was in the 27 Machine Gun Battalion, and badly damage his back, & came home on a hospital ship in early 1945 .
        
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        April 9, 2023 12:27pm
  - Nickc2
    
    I can think of a few reasons: being conscripted, wishing to forget what they had been through and lack of public/Govt support on return.
    PS: I am a Vet, (Malaya & Borneo)
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:53am
    - Mike
      
      Some also apparently felt the process was being devalued by giving too many medals to too many people.
      Churchill had a great line that went something like “A medal shines but it also casts a shadow”. Award too few and people are aggrieved; award too many and other people are aggrieved.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:21am
      - rangitoto
        
        These chaps didn’t forget to apply for their medals.
        
        https://preview.redd.it/jktmn2bzcur21.png?auto=webp&s=7cc9fc716b904a0717079583b15e0531075c8b73
        
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        April 9, 2023 10:49am
      - Nickc2
        
        rangitoto @10:49AM
        They look like test dummies for metal detectors.
        
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        April 9, 2023 11:28am
      - Jack5
        
        Mike/Milky’s Churchill quote (his 10.21 post).
        
        A rather mixed metaphor for Churchill, Milky. Where did he say that?
        
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        April 9, 2023 12:08pm
      - Mike
        
        Jack5/Jacksie
        In the House of Commons on 2 March 1944.
        
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        April 9, 2023 1:03pm
      - cmm
        
        “Award too few and people are aggrieved; award too many and other people are aggrieved.”
        
        That’s why there are not just “medals”.
        
        All men, regardless of heroics, were entitled to various campaign medals. These are for participation in the various campaigns.
        
        Medals for heroism, leadership etc are a different kettle of fish.
        
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        April 9, 2023 7:21pm
      - Mike
        
        cmm
        Churchill was talking specifically about the campaign stars and service medals, not gallantry medals.
        
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        April 9, 2023 8:35pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Just found this other article…
    
    The Ministry of Defence sold off some of the original uncollected medals…
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/128307263/ministry-of-defence-selloff-of-war-medals-sacrificed-our-history
    
    Looks like if some descendant now applies for the medals, they get newly minted versions of the originals.
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:27am
    - Mike
      
      Sold off in the 1970s – no one would have expected that the boom in family history, resuscitated Anzac Day commemorations, etc would lead to such an upsurge of (mainly) descendants wanting their fathers’ and grandfathers’ medals.
      
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      April 9, 2023 10:41am
      - Jack5
        
        According to the NZ Encyclopedia (Te Ara), maore than 160,000 people are eligible for the NZ Defence Medal, introduced in 2011 for military service, including compulsory military training.
        
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        April 9, 2023 12:16pm
      - Mike
        
        [Mod – childish trolling deleted]
        
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        April 9, 2023 1:05pm
  - cmm
    
    Not all veterans look at their time in uniform the same way.
    
    Some look back on it fondly – a time of camaraderie that they have never experienced since.
    Some look back at it with horror and PTSD.
    Some are rather indifferent and just want to put it in a box and forget about it.
    
    It does not surprise me that many men just wanted to put the whole mess behind them and feel no need for medals etc.
    
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    April 9, 2023 7:18pm
Bridgenag

follow a clown, get a circus

the deeply unserious people playing with deeply serious fire

”we’re entering the realm of deeply unserious plans from deeply unserious people.
and that’s a very serious situation.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/follow-a-clown-get-a-circus?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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April 9, 2023 8:45am
Master Mariner

https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-hydrogen-superpower-dream-could-be-massive-waste-of-money-says-griffith/

In a nutshell, You simply can not beat the Laws of Thermodynamics.
“When I look at the… graphs – and I do it diligently and I do it from first principle physics, I struggle to believe that hydrogen will be the contributor that is being lobbied for in this country,” he told the inquiry.”
Unquote.
And looking at you Energy Minister,
“The International Energy Agency, too, has come in strongly behind hydrogen, predicting, as a Griffith notes, that by 2050, 50% of the world’s electricity will be used to make the zero emissions fuel.”
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April 9, 2023 8:45am
- kowtow
  
  It is literally magical thinking .
  
  They keep promising future breakthroughs in the technology that ‘must’ replace hydrocarbons but the science just isn’t there .
  
  It’s post modern alchemy . Lead to gold . Funded by unwitting taxpayers who’ll as always will be left with the bill when the bubble bursts .
  
  ‘ The South Sea Bubble has been called: the world’s first financial crash, the world’s first Ponzi scheme, speculation mania and a disastrous example of what can happen when people fall prey to ‘group think’. That it was a catastrophic financial crash is in no doubt and that some of the greatest thinkers at the time succumbed to it, including Isaac Newton himself, is also irrefutable.”
  
  https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/South-Sea-Bubble/
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:12am
  - Jimbob
    
    Kowtow.
    The old adage, fear and greed.
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:34am
- Taieri
  
  The Laws of Thermodynamics? Give it a break…
  
  There’s a new wonderful idea…converting forestry waste to hydrogen:
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/opinion/300848757/hydrogen-fuel-production-may-be-part-of-greener-use-for-forestry-residue#comments
  
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  April 9, 2023 11:10am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Whoops. Pretty hard keeping up with the program Taieri.
    My mind keeps on Boggling //.
    
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    April 9, 2023 12:33pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The cost of getting forestry slash off Gisborne’s hill country is prohibitive… that’s why the forestry companies have left the bloody stuff all over the slopes.
    
    Add in the cost of transporting slash to some boiler located in Gisborne/Wairoa or Ruatoria…and it’s Fantasy green spin.
    
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    April 9, 2023 1:11pm
    - Colville
      
      Yip.
      Its not worth the diesel to gather it and truck it to the mill where they can use it to power the boiler for electricity…so what chance if you further degrade the efficiency by then turning it to a gas.
      
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      April 9, 2023 3:44pm
- cmm
  
  “50% of the world’s electricity will be used to make the zero emissions fuel.”
  
  More accurately:
  * 20% of the world’s electricity will going to make hydrogen.
  * 30% will go into the waste associated with they hydrogen making process (aka heat).
  
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  April 9, 2023 7:25pm
Lee C

Why are the Democrats engaging in a protracted campaign to do as much as humanly possible to put Trump back in the Whitehouse?

Have they never heard the phrase ‘When in a hole, stop digging”?

It is as if they are pathologically obsessed with the man.
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April 9, 2023 8:58am
- Wayne Mapp
  
  I think the Democrats think their best possible opponent is Trump. Based on the midterms they might be right. On the other hand they might be wrong.
  It seems now clear that Trump will be the Republican nominee. Hard to see anyone else appealing to the Republican base at this stage.
  So even if Trump starts from behind, if he is the nominee, he has at least a 40% chance of being the next President. Steve of course would say Trump is a shoo in, but he also thought that in 2020.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:22am
  - Brian McDonald
    
    I agree that the Democrats would welcome Trump as the nominee he got heavily rejected last time and his ongoing problems are not disappearing.
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:28am
    - Colville
      
      Trump would do the Dems work for them in energizing their voter base to actually vote for Biden.
      
      IMHO Trump is probably the only person Biden can beat.
      
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      April 9, 2023 12:17pm
    - Lee C
      
      So it’s all part of the plan, then?
      
      Brilliant.
      
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      April 9, 2023 1:36pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    And Biden got more votes than any president in the history of the US, even more than the messiah, Obama.//
    
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    April 9, 2023 9:28am
  - Che Guava
    
    There’s no way that Trump will be allowed to win, even if he is the nominee. As long as mail-in ballots are a universal option, then there will never be another “straight” US election ever again. They cannot allow a popular and unapproved candidate to claim victory as happened in 2016 (and 2020, if we are honest).
    
    Trump’s greatest achievement is the seeds he has sown – the curtain has been pulled-back on the completely corrupt rape and pillage of America by a hostile elite, and new generations of Americans have woken up to this fact. What was once unsayable even 4 or 5 years ago is now being said and understood by the Zoomers and Millennials. Many Boomers still don’t really get it, but the younger generations will have it so bad now and in the future that political change will be forced out of necessity.
    
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    April 9, 2023 1:02pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Wayne,
    
    Too early to call Trump, or DeSantis, or anyone else yet the Republican nominee. We won’t have a clear idea of who that person is likely to be for nearly 12 months yet. And history says that the early front-runner often blows up or fades out and doesn’t end up being the nominee.
    
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    April 9, 2023 3:30pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Ever heard of a Dominion voting machine Wayne?
    Or countless videos of night ballot drops – like boxes full of them.
    Trump won. Joe would never ever get 81 million votes!!
    
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    April 10, 2023 8:40am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Because it motivates their base and Trump is hate by a lot of centrist voters would therefore choose Biden over Trump.
  
  Will that strategy work? Maybe but frankly Trump should get out of the way so the GOP can run a candidate who can expose all the policy failures of the Dems.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:24am
- H. Upmann
  
  Lee C: this has some interesting insights on that matter — https://www.takimag.com/article/youre-being-played-republicans/
  
  IMO Trump is nothing more than a distraction and needs to piss of and STFU.
  Personally I was an initial admirer of him taking on the establishment but he cannot help but act as if he in a small town talent quest.
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:15am
tknorriss

As David Seymour pointed out on Twitter, the MOE is looking to indoctrinate children with Marxist ideology in maths lessons of all things. It is called “Critical Maths”. Sure to improve the numeracy of our kids. NOT.

The education plan is here:
https://assets.education.govt.nz/public/Documents/Curriculum/cpm/Phase-1-Common-Practice-Model-March-2023.pdf

From the document:

“A critical maths pedagogical approach uses maths
to develop critical awareness about wider social,
environmental, political, ideological, and economic
issues. Critical maths recognises the importance of
understanding, interpreting, and addressing issues of power, social justice and equity in the community and the wider world. Ākonga are encouraged to interrogate dominant discourses and assumptions, including that maths is benign, neutral, and culture-free.”
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April 9, 2023 9:17am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  It is disgusting.
  
  I could go on but that will suffice. 🙄
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:31am
- rouppe
  
  And here we me thinking math was so I could work out my household budget, and check the change at the till
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:35am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Here is an idea. Singapore has the baest results in mathematics teaching globally. Why don’t we sack the communists at the Ministry of Education and pay Singapore a licence fee for their maths curriculum and teaching methods? I’m serious.
  
  New Zealand might need a bespoke history curriculum but it certainly does not need to invent a maths curriculum.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:37am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  We just need them to add, subtract, multiply and divide and go from there into geometry and calculus etc.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:56am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    You mean doing the basics?
    
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    April 9, 2023 10:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  If anyone can explain the concept of maths being benign to me in simple terms (i.e. – one that I could then explain to 5-15 year-olds), I would be grateful.
  
  p.s. (I only have 1 Stage 1 Maths paper…so I don’t think I could cope with an analysis of Higman’s theory and benign subgroups).
  http://math.uchicago.edu/~may/REU2019/REUPapers/Burka.pdf
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:09am
  - rouppe
    
    I saw some of my son’s year 13 maths coursework the other day.
    
    I had never ever seen that maths, and my degree is in computer science. Albeit from 1985 when computers were made of real steel and took up rooms…
    
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    April 9, 2023 1:18pm
- rangitoto
  
  The rot set in back when they stopped using Euclid’s Elements for teaching geometry.
  
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  April 9, 2023 11:00am
- thirteenstars
  
  The long march through the culture.
  
  Nothing can remain untainted. Every aspect of culture and science must be used as weapon to bring down capitalism. There can be no safe refuge. It has to be IN YOUR FACE, 24/7, no respite.
  
  You might not be interested in Marxism but Marxism is interested in you.
  
  You can’t run. They will find you. And they will indoctrinate your children and your grandchildren, and those offspring who you raised and cared for, they will one day, and soon, eat you alive.
  
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  April 9, 2023 11:49am
- graham
  
  “Ākonga (whatever they are) are encouraged to interrogate dominant discourses and assumptions, including that maths is benign, neutral, and culture-free.”
  
  What a stunning contrast that is to the rest of our society, where questioning the accepted narrative is simply not allowed.
  
  How on earth did we get to the stage where our children are encouraged to question the presumption that 2 2=4 if the person claiming that is one of the white male patriarchy; yet questioning whether a man dressing up in women’s clothing and calling himself “Larissa” is possibly a bit weird gets you accused of being a Nazi?
  
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  April 9, 2023 1:43pm
- General
  
  • Critical maths is about using maths to think critically about societal issues and where
  appropriate, take action.
  
  The crime stats aren’t looking too good for a particular group. I propose the action of teaching judges addition, it appears as though they gave up on MATH after attaining a mastery of subtraction and it’s all they employ in sentencing decisions. Grant Robertson seems to have the opposite problem regarding budgeting considerations and consumption of an appropriate number of bakery items per day so perhaps they can pull their heads out for some much needed oxygen, put them together and teach each other.
  
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  April 9, 2023 1:51pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Psycho babble
  
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  April 9, 2023 7:38pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

After this case is thrown out, DA Bragg needs to be fired and then investigated for this ridiculous side show that he’s trying to put on.
https://thedailymojo.com/fec-commissioner-claims-no-evidence-of-violation-in-trump-saga/
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April 9, 2023 9:23am
- Paulus
  
  Bragg is trying to show himself as the coming next US President of African America descent, like the disaster Obama.
  It is all PR as the USA shows all the time, and corrupt.
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:33am
Tomtoddy

It is obvious, backed by millennia of evidence that babies are not playthings and are best raised in a stable family environment with a father and a mother.

Now the elite determined to wreck every tradition, contradict every well established truth in history and especially violate anything of Judeo-Christian origins are adapting law and regulation to allow anyone to raise a new baby, on their own or as same sex. In fact there is tacit encouragement for such activity.

Pity help some of these children.
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April 9, 2023 9:25am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  It does not sit well with me either. A married mother and father is ideal.
  
  I know a gay male couple with a two year old daughter. I have no idea who is the biological mother. This couple has considerable resources and clearly love the child. Babies produced on order for single gay men I am much less comfortable with.
  
  Having said that, there are more vulnerable children to worry about. Children in welfare families with multiple fathers.
  
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  April 9, 2023 9:49am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump lawyer: Bragg will go down in disgrace.
https://spreely.video/v/3171005623/Trump-lawyer–Bragg-will-go-down-in-disgrace
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April 9, 2023 9:27am
Ghost

A bit of a headache for the USA

The US government is in damage-control mode – announcing an investigation into a major leak of military secrets online.

More than 100 documents have surfaced discussing Ukraine, the Middle East, and China.

And the leak is being described as a nightmare for its Five Eyes intelligence partners – like Aotearoa.

Newshub
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April 9, 2023 9:28am
- mawm
  
  It’s time NZ left the 5 eyes and became truly neutral. The world is changing and I cannot see any benefit in supporting US hegemony and fighting their wars or linking our dollar to theirs.
  
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  April 9, 2023 1:19pm
- Nickc2
  
  Aotearoa’s not part of Five Eyes!
  However, there is a little Socialist country down the bottom of the Pacific called New Zealand that is currently a member, and its membership is on rather shaky ground.
  
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  April 9, 2023 1:26pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Ghost.
  In the war of propaganda, believe nothing from MSM about the Ukraine conflict.
  
  These buggars (Russia/USA/UK) are playing 5 D chess and nothing is as it seems. 🙂
  
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  April 9, 2023 3:27pm
ClanMcleod

ffs – my last remaining conspiracy theory just got burned.

Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank has revealed (in a prank call from someone pretending to be Zelensky 🤡🤡🤡) that they are implementing a CBDC and that it WILL be used as a control mechanism.

Only a “little” bit, because “terrorism”, so that’s ok then……

ECB’s Lagarde gets pranked, reveals digital euro will have ‘limited’ control

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ecb-lagarde-gets-pranked-reveals-135218145.html
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April 9, 2023 9:33am
- Master Mariner
  
  In Link,
  “A CBDC tied to digital ID and social credit score will allow the government to freeze your assets or limit your spending to approved vendors if you fail to comply with arbitrary diktats, i.e. vaccine mandates.” Kennedy’s verified account tweeted.
  
  Here’s another Great Kennedy Talk. “Regulatory capture on steroids”, Start after 12 min mark.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1yUOGGC_I8
  
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  April 9, 2023 11:23am
krazykiwi

I’ve just driven 20mins from Wellington’s eastern suburbs into the city. I dove over 8 mains water leaks varying in intensity from hose-level to gushing
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April 9, 2023 10:14am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  The new mayor has more lofty priorities than fixing the pipe leaks.
  
  https://waateanews.com/2022/12/19/wellington-mayor-tries-persuasion-on-tiriti-deniers/
  
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  April 9, 2023 10:27am
Maggy Wassilieff

The trouble when Government Departments devolve responsibilities to a bunch of amateurs.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131645484/the-outrageous-disappearance-of-jason-butler
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April 9, 2023 10:36am
Surely Knott

Luke Malpass at the Herald ran a prebunking article informing us that this election will not be about “imported culture wars” despite that bad Sean Plunket asking “what is a woman?” And those pesky feminists importing Posie Parker to speak.

Malpass said “there appears no real appetite among elected officials to get into a culture war on this issue leading into the election.” Gender is simply a non issue.

Yet that is not true. it appears Auckland council has in the works a “ free “ 9 day festival organised answering that very “what is a woman?” culture wars question called “HER STORY” for everyone who identifies as a woman.

“This brand new free nine day festival promises significant events, unique experiences, talks, workshops, sports, theatre, art and conversations presented across Tāmaki Makaurau.“

“* For every woman, femme queen, AFAB, butch, cis, demi girl, feminine, femme presenting, gender fluid, trans women, women of colour, young women, old women, BBWOC, Indigenous terminology femme identities, mothers, queer women, women who can’t have children, women who don’t want children, women who haven’t even started on their journey, and all those in between. This is for you.”

It’s pretty rich calling it a culture war when one side is armed with all the money, power and protection of the state and the other side is a couple of concerned local women who organise a speaker who shares their concern to speak in a local park.

https://www.herfestival.co.nz/event/ginal
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April 9, 2023 10:39am
- Swifty
  
  The left in New Zealand has become corrupt.
  
  They openly, wilfully, gleefully use taxpayer and ratepayer money to push their political views.
  
  I think it’s at least a partial reason why the country is in many respects moving left at a greater pace of late – it is not a ground up people-driven phenomenon, no, it’s a top-down imposition by an elite few who use our public money to fuel their political plans.
  
  If the shoe was on the other foot they’d be screaming blue murder.
  
  They’re such stinking hypocrites.
  
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  April 9, 2023 12:38pm
Inandout

Hardly reported on by the US media, but Nancy isn’t as popular as she once was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mRh3zKdji8
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April 9, 2023 10:43am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

If you don’t have time to read all Graham wrote, the guts of what he is saying is that the 3 Waters legislation has been drafted in a very cunning and deceitful . It hides the truth. What truth? It gives Maori complete control of all water in New Zealand. They will be able to charge what they like, do what they like, and they cannot be challenged.
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April 9, 2023 10:49am
Widogast Corwin

There will be real problems if the Government only offers an annual combined flu and Covid vaccine in a single shot. There is a trial of this combined vaccine under way in Wellington, with 1600 participants.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/482223/trial-begins-for-combined-covid-19-and-flu-vaccine

The result will be a dramatic fall in the numbers of people vaccinated against influenza.

These people just don’t think about unintended consequences.
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April 9, 2023 11:06am
- Paulus
  
  Just had my annual Flu Vaccine with my Doctor on a routine visit and no other vaccine was mentioned.
  
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  April 9, 2023 1:38pm
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    2025 roll out apparently.
    
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    April 9, 2023 2:34pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Paulus – make sure you ask before being stuck. They won’t tell you up front.
    I got the tetanus jab and apparently had 2 other combined shots. That’s all good, but informed consent means you ask me about that shit before doing it.
    
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    April 9, 2023 6:43pm
- Lee C
  
  Lance Reddeck fit as a butcher’s dog dead at sixty.
  
  Nothing to see here.
  
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  April 9, 2023 1:43pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    “died suddenly” is a trend apparently. Obviously nothing to do with the jab rollout. Correlation is not causation……//
    
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    April 9, 2023 6:47pm
Tom Barker

I’ve been reading “The Earth Transformed,” by British historian Peter Frankopan, a sweeping study of global history from the appearance of life on earth until the present. Understandably, given the scope of the subject matter, this country crops up from time to time in the text. It is invariably referred to as “New Zealand (Aotearoa)” I expect that this is an increasingly common practice worldwide, and one which the bitter old dinosaurs who frequent this blog can do nothing to prevent or reduce.
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April 9, 2023 11:08am
- Swifty
  
  Next time National is in and they do something Tom Barker objects to saying “it’s not what the people want!” I’ll point him to see this post.
  
  Then I’ll point him to the polls which show a majority of New Zealanders don’t support a renaming of the country.
  
  Then I’ll ask him why he’s such a hypocrite.
  
  Then I’ll show him two fingers held aloft.
  
  For the record, I’m pretty ambivalent on the name of our country and I’m not sure why that is the case – I suppose it’s because I think we have bigger fish to fry.
  
  What I will say though is overwhelmingly historical research concludes that Aotearoa was never the name of this country. At best it was a name used by some tribes for the North Island, only. So for those who push the line that Aotearoa was the original name of this country are either quite wrong or deliberately lying.
  
  Either way, it is no way for a government to force a name change on an unwilling populace ie. through ignorance or deliberate deceit.
  
  No wonder New Zealanders resent it.
  
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  April 9, 2023 12:27pm
  - H. Upmann
    
    In Maori translations the ToW calls the country Nu Tirani.
    
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    April 9, 2023 2:07pm
    - Swifty
      
      New Tyranny?
      
      New Tranny?
      
      I’m confused 😂
      
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      April 9, 2023 2:26pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Tom barker. Hardly independent. “ Tom Barker was elected a Labour councillor in 1949 and from 1958 to 1959 was the Labour mayor of St Pancra”
  
  But yes I take your point. The left have been excellent at undemocratically changing language to fit their politics. Vaccine no longer means a product that provides immunity or stops transmission. Transvestite which accurately described men dressed as women, has now been changed to “transwoman” with a slogan transwoman are woman implying that you can actually change more than your appearance you can actually change
  Your sex! (Which isn’t true.) Aotearoa…yip.
  
  John Key was so naive with his flag referendum. If it was the left they would have just required it to be used in all government documents, flown at all schools, and used in all media. And then they would just slowly remove t he old flag calling anyone who flew it a dinosaur and a racist. Democracy , public input, and referendums…..pffft…..so far right and old fashioned.
  
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  April 9, 2023 4:08pm
  - Swifty
    
    That’s a good point about the flag, I hadn’t thought of it.
    
    Yes, Labour just impose without consent.
    
    It really is a type of violation.
    
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    April 9, 2023 4:28pm
    - Swifty
      
      “You’re getting it whether you like it or not….”
      
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      April 9, 2023 6:39pm
- Jack5
  
  Re Tom Barker [11.08 post] on Peter Frankopan, writing of “New Zealand (Aotearoa)” ….
  
  When to take notice? When Frankopan writes a book in Maori. He has learned Russian and classical Arabic, but, as far as we are aware, has yet to learn Maori.
  
  Ah-ha! His latest book, due for official release this month, brings his view of world history up to date with climate change.
  
  Yep, he might very well have come across people talking about “Aotearoa”.
  
  The Times Educational Supplement describes Frankopan both as a “rock star historian” and as a “Byzantine historian”.
  
  Soon, it seems, he will also be known as a climate-change historian.
  
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  April 10, 2023 1:07am
Jack5

The Ardern-Labour news media conglomerate is calling up old-time allies as the Labour Government approaches its doom day.

Vernon Small, former press secretary to Labour Minister David Parker, opens fire at Stuff, which announces he will now be a regular Sunday columnist.

Small makes the astonishing statement praising Labour’s:

… strong economic performance over the past five years, be it low unemployment, lower government debt, and better growth, than in comparable countries …

Vernon, tell us about the Social Credit-style money printing through bond issues, setting off inflation. Tell us about the Covid economic shut down, a disaster compared with the work-on policies of countries including Sweden and Taiwan. Tell us about Three Waters and racial separation.

The column’s theme likely signals a new and desperate Stuff defence line for Labour.

This is, convince voters that inflation’s an illusion and they are in fact in an economic boom.

Divert them from soaring violent crime, from a crashing education system, from water nationalisation, from splitting the country into two race-based systems – which language-change bombardment reminds them of daily, if not hourly.

Vernon Small is a former chess star, a grand master and NZ representative, and he has a Ph.D. in English. After being a reporter at the Christchurch star, he spent a long spell in the Parliamentary press gallery before becoming a press secretary.

The Vernon Small problem for Stuff and Labour is that he’s a good bloke, too decent to deliver political propaganda convincingly.
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April 9, 2023 12:03pm
- Swifty
  
  I wonder what Vernon would think the growth rate would be without the tens of billions the Labour Party has borrowed and spent as a growth stimulant?
  
  Tens of billions that our children and grandchildren will now have to pay back and with interest!
  
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  April 9, 2023 12:32pm
- Prince
  
  Lower Government debt ?
  In what universe is $150Billion lower than $60 Billion.
  Only Vernon Small, who moved from ‘unbiased political reporter’ writing adulatory articles about Labour in 2017 to Ministerial aid in 2018, could write that and not feel ashamed.
  
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  April 9, 2023 12:35pm
  - Swifty
    
    He’s comparing it to other countries.
    
    A sly misdirection on his part.
    
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    April 9, 2023 12:40pm
- nathie
  
  Vernon Small = Labour Luvvie!
  
  I still recall (iirc) those photos on WOBH back in the day that featured Mr Small at Labour drinkies events and gatherings. Part of the Labour fold.
  
  As they say a leopard never changes its spots!
  
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  April 9, 2023 2:24pm
- Sol Invictus
  
  International Master only not Grandmaster – but NZ Champion multiple times
  
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  April 9, 2023 6:58pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I see that Cindy has today announced that the Wuhan Flu has claimed further NZ businesses.
Our bra manufacturer has gone bust.
The specialist in submersibles has gone under.
A dog kennel has had to call in the retrievers.
The suppliers of paper for origami enthusiasts has folded.
The Heinz factory has been canned as they couldn’t ketchup with orders.
A tarmac laying company has reached the end of the road.
The manufacturer of food blenders has gone into liquidation.
Your local bread company has run out of dough.
The clock manufacturer has had to wind down.
The shoe shop has had to put his foot down and given his staff the boot.
Your local computer repair shop had virus issues.
The Undertaker lost the plot.
The tyre shop business went flat.
The fencing contractor got posted out of town.
And the launderette has been taken to the cleaners!
I didn’t mention anything to the washing machine as she puts a different spin on everything.
Certainly not to the fridge as he is acting cold and distant.
In the end the iron calmed me down as she said everything will be fine, no situation is too pressing.
The vacuum cleaner was very unsympathetic… told me to just suck it up, but the fan was more optimistic and hoped it would all soon blow over!
The toilet looked a bit flushed when I asked its opinion and didn’t say anything but the door knob told me to get a grip.
The front door said I was unhinged and so the curtains told me to pull myself together…….”
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April 9, 2023 1:30pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Dear…..

NZers are turning off the news.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018885345/mediawatch-turning-off-the-news

I wonder why.
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April 9, 2023 1:32pm
- Widogast Corwin
  
  “Last year’s JMAD survey found only 45 percent of us were prepared to say they trusted the news media.
  
  In this year’s survey, that has fallen again to just 42 percent – 11 percent less than in 2020. ”
  ____
  What is astonishing is that 42 percent of people trust the media in New Zealand. It is lies or rubbish or both.
  
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  April 9, 2023 1:35pm
  - H. Upmann
    
    That is why Labour is polling at around the same percentage (40+). Most voters are politically unaware of reality as they get a daily fix of propaganda at 6pm.
    
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    April 9, 2023 2:02pm
    - [email protected]
      
      But if those same people are unhappy with their lot in life come October, they will hopefully vote against the government that caused them to become unhappy despite what the media is telling them.
      
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      April 9, 2023 6:46pm
- Swifty
  
  I wonder how many times in the last five and a half years Labour MPs, Ministers and/or their close advisors have thought or uttered the words “This information doesn’t look good for us – how will we hide it or spin it in a way that reflects better on us?”
  
  My guess is thousands of times. Yes, thousands – given there are whole teams in government and the Party dedicated to this function alone.
  
  And they wonder why we don’t trust them and their state-funded mouthpieces?
  
  This crap about conspiracy theories, mis or disinformation, shadowy alt-right groups on social media etc is their deliberate distraction from the main concern – that the New Zealand Labour Party literally drips with spin, deceit, misdirection, the hiding of information and, at times, outright lies.
  
  Until this is addressed our trust in our political process and our news media will continue to decline – and the worse off all of us will be.
  
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  April 9, 2023 2:25pm
- kowtow
  
  The lack of self awareness from these clowns in te media pardy is astounding .
  
  They blame “misinformation”.
  
  No credit given to free thinking , intelligent citizens who can see right through their lies and indeed , misinformation and disinformation that they constantly spout.
  
  No mention of the regime bribe that has kept them afloat , on the obligation to “actively protect the principles of the ToW ”
  
  Today’s major effort by David Fisher smearing the Voices of Freedom people in the Whoreald is yet another example of simply toeing the official regime line.
  
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  April 9, 2023 2:46pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

These posts are from Easter 2020. Facebook Memories folder.
Notice the references to lies from 3 years ago.

The truth about New Zealand’s socialist Prime Minister.
In the very near future we’re going to hear Ardern start crowing about how her government’s ‘strong, decisive measures’ have staved off a biological disaster, with 10s of thousands of lives ‘saved’.
This is, of course, a completely baseless claim, having no more truth than saying weeks of house arrest saved us all from an asteroid strike. Nevertheless, our sycophantic media will once again provide air cover for the lies, presenting correlation as causation. Sadly millions of unthinking New Zealanders will simply accept this at face value.
The truth reads something more like this.
☛ If you are now unemployed, Covid-19 isn’t the cause. You are unemployed because of the Ardern government’s response to Covid-19.
☛ If you are stressed, traumatized or suffering increased family violence, Covid-19 isn’t the cause. You are experiencing this because of the Ardern government’s response to Covid-19. (and please seek help.. don’t wait for a government service)
☛ If you have been forced to close your business, Covid-19 isn’t the cause. You’ve been forced to close your business because of the Ardern government’s response to Covid-19.
☛ If your health is suffering because hospitals have cancelled your outpatient appointments or your scheduled operation, Covid-19 isn’t the cause. Your health is suffering because of the Ardern government’s response to Covid-19.
☛ If you are suffering emotionally due be being separated from loved ones, Covid-19 isn’t the cause. You are suffering because of the Ardern government’s response to Covid-19.
You get the idea. Please, please, please don’t buy the line that all this hardship and pain was necessary ‘because of Covid-19’. That is a unmitigated lie. Spread this message far and wide, because the lies from this government are gathering pace, and for the most part, the media are not holding them to account.
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April 9, 2023 1:37pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Fauci. Another Pandemic? Strange they come in 4 year cycles?
This guy needs to be removed.

https://thedailymojo.com/dr-fauci-fearmongering-again-claims-another-pandemic-could-come-next-year/
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April 9, 2023 2:14pm
lifesgood

Outsiders, on Sky News today gave Chris Hipkins a real serve about his inability to answer “What is a woman”. They scoffed and mentioned how the video clip of his pathetic stumbling has been viewed about 45M times around the world. It has also been retweeted by the likes of Jordan Peterson and JK Rowling. We are a laughing stock for allowing such a wimpy pathetic little man run our country. I can only imagine the laughter around the world if he gets re- elected. After their hearty laughter they went on to give our MSM a serve saying, quite rightly, that they have been bought by the government and that they are the worst MSM in the western world. It’s bloody embarrassing to be a NZer.
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April 9, 2023 2:15pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  45 million? Chippie thinks it is a World Record.
  His next challenge is to beat his own record!
  I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.
  I am not embarrassed to be a NZer, but Jesus, the World is laughing at me because of an idiot Leader?
  
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  April 9, 2023 3:24pm
- DimChappie
  
  Here is a link to the Hipkins piece on Sky News Outsiders:
  
  https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/outsiders/nz-prime-minister-struggles-to-define-what-a-woman-is/video/8ee3890741763cc801888badf13f4493
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:09pm
MCōs

Today is Fred Hollows birthday almost a hundred years ago.
If ever there was a bloke who deserved to be up there with the angels, figuratively (he was an atheist and early on in life a communist), it’s Mister Fred.
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hollows-frederick-cossom-fred-25508
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April 9, 2023 2:30pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Our extended family gave away many pairs of used glasses.
  
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  April 9, 2023 3:58pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Animal vaccines? Chickens?
Who eats chicken? Who eats eggs???

https://redrightdaily.com/biden-finally-addresses-crisis-a-whole-year-later/

This vaccine shit is getting out of hand.
A great ‘RESET?’
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April 9, 2023 2:43pm
Swifty

I wonder whether at any time Robertson, Ardern, Peters, Hipkins et al have ever stopped to wonder that removing the Reserve Bank’s singular focus on keeping inflation in check wasn’t such a good idea after all:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/300849075/ocr-hike-do-74000-people-really-have-to-lose-their-jobs-to-save-economy

Look at how Robertson’s best mate believes we should all now be fleeced to correct their error.
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April 9, 2023 5:04pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Softening the population up for the coming recession…
  all the good lefties can repeat the mantra that a wee bit of unemployment now is necessary to save us all in the future.
  
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  April 9, 2023 5:40pm
Swifty

Marama was right!

Even more white cis-male violence towards women:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cctv-footage-shows-terrified-woman-being-assaulted-in-ngaruawahia-liquor-shop-then-dragged-by-hair-into-waiting-car/TCGJ25LXTFHCRDSMIKYRHD5YWM/
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April 9, 2023 7:20pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Sickening.
  
  Some Politicians in NZ need to take a long, hard look at themselves and the nonsense they spout about violence in our community.
  
  Nothing that happened 150 years ago explains that display of brutality.
  
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  April 9, 2023 8:15pm
  - Swifty
    
    “Nothing that happened 150 years ago explains that display of brutality.”
    
    Of course it doesn’t Maggy, but it suits some people for other New Zealanders to think that.
    
    It suits them very, very well.
    
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    April 9, 2023 8:50pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Police had to come from Cambridge? 40 odd KM?
    Local Police bust, Huntly Police busy, Hamilton Police must have been busy.
    I get the message that Police did not want to be involved.
    
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