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Warren

If the Labour Party and Tova O’Brien from Stuff are so convinced that they are polling just as well or better than what other polling Companies are saying then , produce the Mills Talbot poll as you have to show it because we have been in this predicament before with Tova O’Brien and her bias bull shit and one eyed views.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300948032/live-labours-polling-shows-rosier-picture-for-party
Labour and the Government have need to back up their bullshit with proof not daydreams.
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August 11, 2023 8:00am
- rockape
  
  It was as recently as 6 June that Talbot Mills had Labour leading when other polls had them well behind. Still if it stops Tovas bitter tears let them have it.
  
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  August 11, 2023 8:49am
- redeye
  
  One trick Tova wrote yesterday about Luxon’s poor personal polling and then Curia showed he was equal on 25% with Hipkins.
  From memory that was the tactic she used against Bridges. Over and over again.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:03am
  - 3-coil
    
    redeye: Tova and Tori Whanau hit on a young friend of ours who was out on the town in Wellington recently (he was not impressed by their age-inappropriate overtures! 😂). How can we take any utterance from Tova seriously when she openly parties with the political classes she is paid to hold to account?
    
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    August 11, 2023 10:30am
    - Biscuit
      
      3-coil, always remember that- provably – Tova couldn’t understand a simple employment contract but she feels qualified to interpret a rogue political poll that her masters have put in front of her….
      
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      August 11, 2023 10:46am
    - John Loveridge
      
      Tory was out on the piss again? Colour me shocked.
      
      As for Tova, well…
      
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      August 11, 2023 3:21pm
    - Beach Haven expat
      
      I presume it was a taxi home for them?
      
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      August 11, 2023 7:27pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  ACT says it will save $1 Billion from day one of governing. I say that is much too low a target. They and the Nats should do what the Lange Government did following the 1984 election. Ministers sat down with their Department CEOs and when thru not only the Budget but the previous years accounts line by line. The results are set out in Roger Douglas and Richard Prebbles book. Prebble found the Department of Education had used the unspent Budget to purchase so many school desks and chairs they had to rent a very large warehouse to store them. They had years and years of stock.
  When I was an Auditor in the late 70s I once audited a heavy machinery manufacturer and importer. I found invoices to the Ministry of Works dated the last day of the financial year that had been paid for that day for equipment that wasnt going to be supplied for months. When I asked the Accountant he laughed and said they did that every year to use up the unspent Budget so it didnt get taken off them the following year.
  I suspect that Budgets are being padded and the way to find out is to ask the CEO “What would be the worst case if I cancelled this expenditure and then divide the answer by a factor of 10 or 20 to get the real answer.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:13am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Similar thing at the Dept of Statistics in the mid 70s.
    New IT Boss(Colonel Fizz Lewis-ex army) ordered double amount of Computer equipment required working on theory that request would be halved) Kirk Government in the seat at the time.
    
    Lo and behold Rowling took over as PM and Minister of statistics and approved the lot.
    
    Poor old Fizz was hawking spare equipment around Government departments for quite a time as he had no space for all this equipment.
    
    Needless to say salesman at International Computers was a very happy man with his rather large commission cheque.
    
    Yes, I knew Fizz(Old school gentleman) and I also had worked with ICL bods.
    
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    August 11, 2023 9:51pm
- cmm
  
  I would rather that they do keep pushing bullshit polling. That makes it more likely their voters won’t feel compelled to vote.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:34am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Funny Peters said this morning his polls for NZF way better, and they use the same pollsters
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:19am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    I keep saying it over and over to Tova and Rover, and even Greg Grover from Nova:
    
    There’s only one poll that counts!
    
    And after that poll, on October 14, I hope to really be in clover. Over and out.
    
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    August 11, 2023 11:17am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Wouldn’t worry about her Warren. Her opinion isn’t worth any more than yours or mine. And that’s pretty much all you get from her. I’m entirely with Bob Jones, it’ll be a landslide to National & ACT. And imho I reckon minimum of 6 years, more likely 9. Labour and the Greens will still have a core of aging University Union types and hard leftists in their midst, as they will be lifers having no job to fall back on.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:36am
- Random T Person
  
  That’s not all. Ingrid Leary skips a queue in her car, glossed over. Sam Uffindell does the shopping, headline news and multiple analyses.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:45am
  - kujira
    
    And NOT the first time that car has been seen doing same thing!
    En-title-itus much Ingrid!
    
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    August 11, 2023 3:15pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Queue jumping is a disease that seems to disproportionately afflict SUV drivers. Same with barging into lanes (IE simply attempting to point a front corner of the SUV into a non existant gap and play chicken with the driver in the other lane). See it everyday. These dangerous moron pests are sold the lie that being in a “high and mighty” knob box gives them a special place on the road.
    
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    August 11, 2023 4:53pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Queue jumping is one reason that motorists don’t like cyclists, who push their way to the front at the traffic lights.
      
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      August 11, 2023 7:19pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Auckland was a dangerous place to use a bicycle decades ago.
        
        Melbourne is simply suicide for cyclists. People piled on top of each other and pissed off with the many roadworks and log jams. Many many moron bogans and entitled a-holes in “he-man” over sized wank wagons driving aggressively and many distracted drivers. Tons of trucks also. Pretty sure around at least one cyclist a week is killed and many many more seriously injured.
        
        Yet many cyclists act like they are breezing along in some flower filled lane somewhere in Amsterdam. The woke state govt seems to encourage this delusional thinking.
        
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        August 11, 2023 9:23pm
- Paulus
  
  If I hear correctly Tova and many of her contemporaries may be out of a job soon as Stuff scrabbles for some money.
  
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  August 11, 2023 1:34pm
  - John Loveridge
    
    I have heard from an industry insider relation that Stuff is in a pretty grim state. I can’t see myself shedding any tears if they go under.
    
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    August 11, 2023 3:23pm
peterwn

Italian Government thought they could impose a 40% windfall profits tax on Italy’s banks. This tanked their shares and the Government quickly pulled back. Lesson here for left wingers in UK, NZ, etc. Now in NZ, the Reserve Bank is effectively forcing shareholders to buy more bank shares through what is effectively a DRP (Dividend Reinvestment Plan) scheme. This is because banks have to reduce dividends to build capital for resiliance purposes. Surprise, surprise bank shareholders expect a return on this extra capital. Bank shareholders lose their money first if a bank goes down the gurgler.
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August 11, 2023 8:01am
- Simon
  
  You mean left wing nutjobs like Nicola Willis who wanted to exam bank profits here. Just vote ACT instead of these borg simping clowns National.
  
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  August 11, 2023 8:45am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Don’t talk shit, she said she was sure the banks were doing the right thing, she clearly stated that she would have a quick look at banks yo see they were not price gauging, what the hell does that have to do with the Italians wanting to tax the shit out of banks.
    
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    August 11, 2023 10:22am
Mark Hanley

I posted this link late yesterday but it is worth another airing in a more prominent position.

Neil Oliver articulates the evidence and reasoning behind the anthropogenic climate disaster fraud (Oliver will draw the same conclusions if he looks into the covid fraud)!

Worth watching to the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD9KG-j7C0M

NZ needs investigations into the following issues from the incoming National/ACT government and answers….
1. the cause of NZ’s horrific mortality rates post the covid jab rollout.

2. NZs position as the only OECD country still promoting and administering the failed covid jab,

3. revelations by Dr Mannich’s covid batch study that the NZ Government purchased and administered early pfizer covid batches known to cause unacceptable, frequent, and DEADLY adverse events.

4. Race based policies which appear to only benefit the Maori King’s family

5. Labour Ministers defrauding taxpayers by awarding lucrative government positions and contracts to family members (what we hear about is the tip of the iceberg).

6. Jacinda’s mysterious wealth accumulation
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August 11, 2023 8:04am
- amospicton
  
  No-one has a lower opinion of Ardern’s term as PM than I do but I call BS to point 6 re wealth accumulation. No listed company (BlackRock for example) is going to bribe a sitting PM. And even she’s too smart to accept it.
  
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  August 11, 2023 8:46am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    The very reason for an investigation is remove “calls” and produce “”evidenced based conclusions”.
    
    A review of Pfizers convictions and fines might enlighten you a little more.
    
    In fact Maggie Pie posted a Pfizer link for you below…
    
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    August 11, 2023 9:18am
  - rouppe
    
    I distinctly remember her saying in opposition that she “couldn’t afford to buy a house” and then six months later was buying a $1M+ house in a leafy suburb.
    
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    August 11, 2023 9:55am
    - Taieri
      
      While I don’t have much time for her “couldn’t afford to buy a house” shite, to be fair, buying a $1M+ house is not a big deal these days, whether in a “leafy suburb” or elsewhere. Especially on the PM’s salary and with a boyfriend, who is, I assume, also well compensated.
      
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      August 11, 2023 10:37am
      - mawm
        
        She was also looking at a $2 million Bach in Tairua.
        
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        August 11, 2023 12:27pm
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        Pretty obvious that she has been able to buy property in the same way as any other family on their levels of income. As PM she was paid around $500,000. No doubt Clarke Gayford with his television shows would be getting north of $300,000. So take home pay of about $550,000. Five years of that should be enough to buy a house in Sandringham and a beach house in Tairua.
        
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        August 11, 2023 1:03pm
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Thanks again Wayne for letting us know why you think a kb poster is wrong.
        
        Perhaps you can let us know why Adern and her pals:
        
        – ran the most expensive covid response in the OECD
        
        – lied to us, then mandated the Pfizer jab after they had received the medsafe report stating the pfizer jab was neither safe nor effective.
        
        – despite being late to order the pfizer jab, purchased the early Pfizer Jab batches which were known to cause unacceptably numerous (on memory… 1 in 33) deadly adverse reactions.
        
        Adern and her pals didn’t take these actions to get re-elected.
        
        It certainly wasn’t the right or noble course of actions.
        
        It certainly wasn’t to make NZ better place.
        
        SO WHY?
        
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        August 11, 2023 2:17pm
    - Ghost
      
      She did what most people do, she got a loan
      
      https://www.parliament.nz/media/9105/register-of-pecuniary-and-other-specified-interests-of-members-of-parlia-2022.pdf
      
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      August 11, 2023 11:38am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Apparently it was done one on one with that goggle eyed idiot that came how without isolating in the middle of lockdown to pull off higher fhizer deal, are these companies not all linked? Remembering of course this government were slow of the mark with the original jabs
    
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    August 11, 2023 10:26am
  - GJM
    
    The bribes in cases like these are usually some fomr pf payment in kind. Directorships and cushy jobs in Ukranian oil companies with 10% for the Big Guy, etc. In Cindy’s case, who really is going to by her book adn what makes it worth $1m? What cushy job is she goign to be parachuted into.
    
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    August 11, 2023 6:01pm
- igm
  
  I have asked elsewhere for a OIA printout of Ardern and Bloomfield’s bank statement deposits . . . would be interesting.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:19am
  - rouppe
    
    You’ll get nothing. Personal bank accounts are not official information
    
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    August 11, 2023 9:56am
    - Mark Hanley
      
      Rouppe. Do you have any suggestions as to OIA requests (or other actoons) IGM should make to uncover the truth?
      
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      August 11, 2023 10:05am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      They are if they don’t match the their pecuniary interests
      
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      August 11, 2023 10:30am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yes, I note they found it easy to get Biden juniors dodgy bank records
    
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    August 11, 2023 10:28am
    - Ehlana
      
      Maybe they have different laws in America?
      
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      August 11, 2023 1:14pm
      - Paulus
        
        In America you change the laws to suit whatever result you want, and against anybody with money.
        
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        August 11, 2023 1:40pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Personal information, such as bank statements, are so far outside the scope of the Official Information Act that they might as well be on another planet.
    
    The only way to get private information like that is if you’re the Police, backed by a Court order. In which case you’d have to prove to a judge that you had probable cause for why you need that information.
    
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    August 11, 2023 12:18pm
    - Mark Hanley
      
      That sounds promising virtual.
      
      A properly run inquiry which uncovers suspicious behavior should result in a police investigation.
      
      The purchasing and injecting of the deadly early pfizer batches into Kiwi medical staff and who knows who else, after the deadly side affects were known and reported, is worthy of a criminal investigation.
      
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      August 11, 2023 1:02pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Good luck with that.
        
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        August 11, 2023 2:37pm
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Virtual.
        
        Are you saying you’ll spend time whinging on kiwiblog but…
        
        you won’t commit to spending time helping the many kiwi folk enduring unimaginable suffering from the actions of Jacinda Adern, chippie, Bloomfield, etc.
        
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        August 11, 2023 3:41pm
Grunter

It increasingly looks like China is in deep economic trouble. Their largest property developer, Country Garden, heading into bankruptcy. CG is 4x larger than the collapsed Evergrande that tipped up in 2021. Chinas local Govt loans are all dependent on property, so a potential tipping point in this obvious house of cards. China exports and domestic consumption also very soft. Along with high debt and plummeting population, the central control system must fail. It’s only a question of when not if.
Not good news for NZ’s largest trading partner.
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August 11, 2023 8:07am
- surfing
  
  Not good news for NZ either. NZ farmers have been smacked by China.
  
  China is increasingly likely to be the trigger for the next GFC.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:24am
- NothingLeft
  
  More than 40% youth unemployment, collapse in house price bubble (many down by more than 50%) and catastrophic amount of businesses going under. A huge number losing jobs. Emperor Xi under a lot of pressure may get desperate enough to do something extreme.
  
  Good youtube channel that reports on the problems in China https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaObserver0
  
  NZ is going to be hit hard as China simply will not be able to import the (relative) luxuries we sell them.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:26am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Still expected to grow 5%
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:31am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  And cue a war to save Xi’s bacon.
  
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  August 11, 2023 12:21pm
  - Grunter
    
    Same motivation as the US who now have US$32T+ Govt debt that will never be paid back and growing around +US$2T each year.
    
    ($32T = $32,000,000,000,000)
    
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    August 11, 2023 1:32pm
Gravelroad

We live rural on a property which sustains two small businesses.
For the past two weeks we have had no internet access – due to system failure.
(Am in town at present so can communicate.)
We get mail delivery three times per week which is currently under review by NZ Post – so this will be further diminished due to “no one getting or sending hard copy mail these days”.
We have increasingly erratic land line phone which is under threat because “no one uses land line phones now.” But, our land line has proved to be a life line as previous cell use came through the internet.
No internet also means no on-line bills can be paid because “no one wants to (or can) send a cheque through the mail.”
Online shopping/ ordering? No.
Inmates here have been obliged to look at TV “news” for information. That’s been an eye-opener.
What a slick, banal, slanted experience that has proved to be.
No wonder that a good proportion of the population have no real accurate knowledge of what is going on.
This is not a “poor me”. We will get back an internet connection. But we will have to work it out and get it ourselves.
That is the way it rolls for rural services.
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August 11, 2023 8:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘Mailbox’ needs to be changed to ‘billbox’ or junkbox.
  
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  August 11, 2023 8:22am
  - Biscuit
    
    Steve, looking back at the past month, the only things I have taken out of my (physical) Mail Box have been:
    *Flyers from Real Estate firms
    *Letters – two of ’em, grrr – from Chippie telling me how wonderful he thinks his Government is performing
    *Supermarket junkmail.
    
    The last mail item of any value to me was from a letter from the Department of Justice agreeing with me that, at 71 and hard-of-hearing, I really ought not to have been invited by them to do jury service.
    
    All my bills are received – and paid – on-line…
    
    Small wonder that NZ Post are shutting down services … but times move on. Remember milkmen and/or coal deliverers?
    
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    August 11, 2023 8:37am
    - pdm
      
      Did you not get a letter from the Electoral Commission a few days ago to check your details before the election Biscuit?
      
      Maybe you are a `non-person’!!!
      
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      August 11, 2023 9:16am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      Got a magazine I get 6 monthly and the Electoral Commission’s Letter asking if my details were correct.
      
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      August 11, 2023 9:24am
      - Biscuit
        
        Hmmm, I just asked my boss and she told me (a) yes, a letter from the Electioral Commision HAD arrived for us both and (b) she had opened both and decided nowt needed to be done.
        
        I must recheck her employment contract with me…
        
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        August 11, 2023 10:49am
    - [email protected]
      
      Love your comment young fellow.
      
      I’m old enough to remember home visits by our GP!
      
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      August 11, 2023 7:45pm
- thetiedarch
  
  Get Starlink. Basically ‘plug and play’. There’s a good deal on for rural NZ customers at the moment.
  
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  August 11, 2023 8:29am
- Pavel
  
  I live on a rural property 70kms out of town. Ironically today I’m getting wireless internet installed as my spark broadband (copper, our only option) is just getting slower and slower and slower. What’s happening is less and less people are using copper and with a massive decline in landlines it is becoming unviable for spark to maintain the lines. Whatever happens the service will never get better and only decline. Most of the new technicians nowadays are not even trained in how the copper networks work and are instead trained in Fibre and wireless making it harder for spark to even find technicians that can maintain the lines. Spark really don’t give a stuff about lightly populated areas and have done zero towards Fibre and wireless systems. I’m lucky a small local company has seen this opportunity and installed their own towers around the place otherwise I’d continue to enjoy the same level of service as you. Call me old but it doesn’t seem that long ago we were all screaming at spark to “unbundle” the network, a network that seems mostly unused and obsolete now and are in such a poor state I wouldn’t be surprised if spark just switched it off and write off their losses.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:15am
  - Ghost
    
    Spark are just the retailer, fibre, copper, they do not own that, that’s chorus
    
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    August 11, 2023 9:33am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Laying fibre, via ducted network, to folk that live 70km from an urban centre, is not a great idea for a private sector businesses.
    The Rural Broadband initiative, and other more recent rural connectivity builds, were/are being done with support ($$) from government.
    
    It is not the Telco companies ‘don’t care’ about rural communities, but that fibre past the front door of every person down every rural road or gravel track is not going to happen.
    
    User pays – price on application – is possible for fibre builds (same as any new property development). But when the laying of network is hundreds of thousands of dollars to even reach the premises – even if neighbours pitch in together – and the line rental for the wholesaler/network operator is tens of dollars a month you can surely appreciate why it is about as ‘fair’ to expect a landlord owed 100k by a former tenant to be happy with $10 a week repayments.
    It is not a viable model for anyone.
    
    There is a price to be paid for bucolic living environments. There is no lack of caring – but there is reality. Look at radio, Wireless or satellite options if copper ADSL is declining for you.
    FYI – I work in the industry, and some of my own colleagues live rural and struggle with such issues. You might need to drive further to the supermarket, or have poor broadband, but get a lungful of that fresh air!
    Pros and Cons. Nobody is a victim.
    
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    August 11, 2023 1:02pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Maybe have a meeting with the locals and a chorus UFB rep. See if you can get a UFB fibre to the locality (there may already be a fibre link feeding the locality for other purposes, which has sufficient spare capacity) then hook that data feed up to a nice high 4G tower for mobile data as the “last mile” to the house. Possibly unaffordable but worth checking. Failing that, there is somewhat expensive, somewhat limited in monthly data allowance (also prone to interference from heavy rain/cloud), is satellite internet. Some satellite services are prone to data “latency” which can cause delay on real time communication like voice and video calls. I believe Musk’s satellite internet service is fairly low latency (which is good).
      
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      August 11, 2023 2:59pm
- mawm
  
  Gravel – I live in central Auckland and get only 3 postal deliveries a week as well. It seems to be a NZ Post “cost-saving” initiative.
  
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  August 11, 2023 12:37pm
Benedict Yu

This story may look trivial but it has a serious lesson about hate speech and wokeness. In the UK of course.

In summary… A 16 year old autistic girl gets drunk and out of hand. Hardly the first time that has happened. A family member calls the police. Police arrive and try to reason with her.

Autistic girl tells female police officer “You look like my lesbian nana”. Police officer goes nuts. Autistic girl gets dragged away by several officers, charged with homophobic hate speech.

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/police-update-after-teen-who-27495824

I have seen video of the event. It looks horrific. (It has been taken down)

This girl should have been attended by paramedics, not the police. She is autistic and vulnerable. She had not committed any crime as far as I can tell. But she told a female police officer that she looked like a lesbian granny and that got her dragged off and arrested.

This is where these hate speech laws can lead.
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August 11, 2023 8:12am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Unfettered Wokeness, combined with hate speech laws are a recipe for disaster.
  
  This will allow those who, a few years ago would have been diagnosed as mentally ill, to dictate how society must align itself.
  
  When something as fundamental as how we define a woman is now up for individual interpretation, and done so under threat of sanction if a person is deemed to have transgressed, then we know things have gone too far.
  
  Jordan Peterson warned us about this 6 years ago.
  
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  August 11, 2023 8:26am
  - mawm
    
    Slightly right – this is communism and the heavy hand of the state enforcing their diktat. Also this is under a Tory government. What hope do we have in NZ?
    
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    August 11, 2023 12:39pm
- Ehlana
  
  Given how inclusive modern day police forces are supposed to be, how is being compared to a “lesbian nana” hate speech? Does the officer have something against lesbians? Or old people?
  
  Or is there something more to the story that we are not being told?
  
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  August 11, 2023 8:30am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Not hate speech. Just a fairly mild personal insult.
    
    “Hate speech” should be very clearly defined as literally and unambiguously inciting people to go and commit violence, doxxing, stalking.
    
    “You’ll know it when you see it” and the like are just nebulous justifications for policing political dissent.
    
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    August 11, 2023 5:04pm
- Scott
  
  The UK police appear to have capitulated to Wokeness. They drag off autistic girls while they can’t control rampant crime in London. Crime is out of control in the UK.
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12389745/Police-launch-crackdown-threat-Oxford-Street-TikTok-crime-wave-Officers-arrest-youths-outside-McDonalds-cops-ramp-patrols-shopping-district-viral-social-media-posts-urged-followers-rob-JD-Sports.html
  
  The justice system is just as bad. Alison Saunders (note that she is a woman), the chief Crown prosecutor in London, prosecuted John Terry of Chelsea back in 2012 for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand during a match. Terry called him a “f****** black c***” after the two of them were abusing and insulting each other during a heated exchange on the pitch. Terry was found not guilty because it was impossible to determine whether he was racially abusing Ferdinand or speaking words that had been spoken by others.
  https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/jul/13/john-terry-cleared-anton-ferdinand
  
  This is where the social justice zealots make life a misery for everyone. In a heated football match there will be insults. But it’s a man’s game (sorry ladies). And men should be able to speak their mind. I’m not a fan of the language. But a realistic view of human nature knows that these things will occur in competitive environments and give them a pass.
  
  We need to fight back against Wokery. As I have often said it is an alternative religion for those that have abandoned Christianity but still want to think of themselves as good people.
  
  As Elon Musk has said, “Wokeness is an armour to clad yourself in false virtue.” It makes life miserable for everyone and we should abandon it.
  
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  August 11, 2023 8:33am
- Simon
  
  “Police officer goes nuts”
  
  Diversity hire in action.
  
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  August 11, 2023 8:47am
- Rusty
  
  @Benedict,
  
  It’s an example of the illogical thinking of hate speech laws.
  
  Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder. What one person considers as hate speech can differ to what another person thinks.
  
  And even then you must consider the context that alleged hate speech is said.
  
  Does that person have mental or drug problems or is it said in jest or under duress?
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:00am
- Notsofast
  
  Leor Sapir shows a direct link from Obamas dear colleagues 2010 letter on title 1X, to the social crisis that has ensnared the Western world. Everything topples like dominoes, free speech, social engineering by essential services in banking, telecoms and so on, medicating and mutilating children, pronouns and indoctrination in schools from California to New Zealand, Nigel Farage’s bank account. The labour party has been in charge through this rapacious invasion, so hold them completely accountable and get rid of them for a generation.
  Add in the evil of co-governance for good measure.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:09am
- stewmar
  
  But she told a female police officer that she looked like a lesbian granny and that got her dragged off and arrested.
  
  Perhaps the girls parents should have taught her good manners.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:28am
  - cmm
    
    Autistic and good matters don’t go together.
    
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    August 11, 2023 10:47am
    - Flossie
      
      That’s not necessarily true. I have an autistic grandson and you could not fault his manners…other than to say he may have difficulty looking a stranger in the eye. These generalisations do nothing to help autistic kids (people) be accepted.
      
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      August 11, 2023 12:49pm
      - cmm
        
        Fair enough, but I will say that all the autistic kids I know are pretty much “unfiltered” and say what is on their mind without worrying if it offends anyone.
        
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        August 11, 2023 4:30pm
  - grumpy
    
    She told her she looked like “her” lesbian granny….. the girl’s granny is a lesbian!
    
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    August 11, 2023 12:14pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      And her Nana has a wife
      Sounds like she literally meant the cop looked like her Nana
      Poor girl- but what’s with a 16yo being given alcohol?
      
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      August 11, 2023 1:12pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    “Bad manners” should not get a 16 year old girl dragged away by 7 officers and locked up.
    
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    August 11, 2023 2:54pm
- Notsofast
  
  Also worth noting that labour policy seems to include effectively shutting down message boards like this one.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:26am
  - cmm
    
    But don’t worry… Standard will be subsidised. We can all move there.
    
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    August 11, 2023 4:35pm
- artemisia
  
  Recommend the recent article at BBH by Gary Judd. Specifically the concept of ‘believed infallibility’ – we are 100% right so all of you in the world who disagree are 100% wrong.
  
  And this –
  ‘…freedom is a precious commodity, the denial of which may start in small ways but imperceptibly extend into all facets of life in the absence of conscious efforts to sustain it.’
  
  https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/gary-judd-kc-freedom-is-a-precious-commodity
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:08am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Even in NZ, Police (or fire department) might attend things that might be more medical in nature.
  However -drunk person going feral, I dont care if they have mental health issues or are on the spectrum or not. Kicking and screaming for police = sympathy rating at ZERO.
  Police should be able to get hands-on with out of control people.
  The only issue I have is the charge being hate speech.
  Truncheon coming down between the eyes, wrenching limbs, dragging out by a fold of skin is all good.
  Weaponising wokeness, not good.
  
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  August 11, 2023 1:09pm
- Beach Haven expat
  
  Cops have got a significant problem under UK law over this. In their statement moaning the video doesn’t give the full context, they say the girl was arrested on suspicion of a homophobic public order offence.
  Unless they and the CPS can find some other offence, they will fail to get a conviction on three fronts before you even get into the argument of the girl’s intent and whether she was being criminally offensive or she said it due to her disability.
  1) It happened in her own home, not in public
  2) No member of the public was near-by to hear the comment and feel alarmed, threatened or harassed by it. Her family won’t count and can’t see them giving evidence for the cops they were upset if they were called as witnesses
  3) That just leaves the cops at the scene and there’s well established case law police officers have a much higher threshold than ordinary members of the public before they can be victims of a public order offence. The girl’s words go nowhere near that threshold – often swearing at a cop isn’t enough
  
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  August 11, 2023 7:25pm
waikatosinger

National builds it. Labour runs it into the ground.
Applies to roads, hospitals, schools, the internet, the power grid, defense forces …
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August 11, 2023 8:14am
- Colville
  
  …the economy….
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:54am
  - cmm
    
    National don’t build the economy.
    
    They just put up less barriers thus allowing the public sector enough room to build the economy.
    
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    August 11, 2023 4:36pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Common sense…..
  
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  August 11, 2023 12:26pm
mandk

“But Labour’s internal party polling by Talbot Mills shows the party about five percentage points higher than that.” https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300948107/labours-new-polling-shows-rosier-picture-for-party

Desperate spruiking of Labour by Tova O’Brien on Stuff.

One could almost believe that the Labour Party is paying Tova //
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August 11, 2023 8:19am
- Raphael
  
  if I recall correctly a previously leaked Talbot Mills survey was not looking good for Labour.
  
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  August 11, 2023 8:43am
- Blog-aholic
  
  They are. Labour pays Stuff, stuff pays Tova.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:42am
- Colville
  
  and Stuff has comments open on Tovas story…which never happens… they will cherry pick a couple of favorable comments and block everything else…
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:56am
  - rockape
    
    Yep, mine blocked and it wasn’t even insulting her.
    
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    August 11, 2023 1:03pm
    - sirknz
      
      $tuff claim that they never block comments unless they are against terms of service. Never seen them block vitriol from people wishing bad things on right leaning people.
      
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      August 11, 2023 3:14pm
  - sirknz
    
    Their usual MO is to hide the comments against their narrative in the middle of their list and all the ones that are pro their narrative are at the beginning and end so that no matter how you sort (oldest or newest), the negative comments are lost in the middle.
    
    They also tend to have the same names crop up in the comments section of political pieces being pro Labour, but I have kept away from $tuff comments for some weeks now and a lot of the regulars have changed account names.
    
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    August 11, 2023 3:09pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Tova will be operating on a leak from an ashore like Robertson, note it wasn’t officially leaked
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:33am
- softail 1450
  
  mandk,The taxpayer you mean ??
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:56am
Maggie Pie

Tori threatens Wellington residents who continue to put unsuitable items in their Recycle Bins, that someone from council will come around…. “and do a big poo in your letterbox”

https://twitter.com/WgtnCC/status/1689437812720902144

🙁
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August 11, 2023 8:23am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Just had a look at the WCC twitter feed. A lot of frivolous shit on there!
  
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  August 11, 2023 3:03pm
oldpark

No mention on so called “Stuff” about the latest NZ Taxpayer Poll Results .

All I can read is a report from a cub reporter who got dumped by a Television Company last year talking about a Labour Party well massaged internal Party Poll result to offset the Taxpayers’ Union Poll .
Talk about Running Scared if there is a change of Government .
Seems they allegedly have been propped up and kept afloat by part of the Fifty Five Million Dollars allocated to them by the Ardern /Hipkins Cabal Taxpayers money handout to all of NZs so called Main Stream Media.Surely Not? Go Figure .
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August 11, 2023 8:23am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yes there is, Tovas whinge snd whine about Labour internals has the TPU (Curia) poll in it
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:35am
- SoloView
  
  @ oldpark
  
  Is this the article you are referring to?
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300948107/labours-new-polling-shows-rosier-picture-for-party
  
  It mentions that Taxpayers Union Poll advises that:-
  National/Act could form a government
  New Zealand 1st could get 5.8% of the vote
  Labour is down to 27.1%
  
  Hardly “no mention” of the Taxpayer Poll results
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:36am
slightlyrighty

Question.

Is Eddie Jones the Winston Peters of Aussie Rugby?
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August 11, 2023 8:27am
Spring Bank Westie

Was watching AM Show this morning, Ginny Anderson and Erica Stanford Friday chat.

During the discussion around the new bill being pushed through Parliament regarding additional support/counselling for crime victims Ginny clarified that the bill meant a wider group of victims would be eligible for assistance.

Then she said victims of sexual assault would then be able to get counselling “JUST LIKE SERIOUS CRIMES”.

I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who have been sexually assaulted that would not be impressed that our current Police and Justice Minister doesn’t consider they were victims of a serious crime.

This is just appalling.

I emailed AM Show to ensure that they were aware of what was just said, I don’t know whether they will revisit the video footage, maybe they’ll just delete it from their website.
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August 11, 2023 8:40am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Ginny.
  As I said yesterday: “I have two short planks that are not as thick as her.”
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:18am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    As we used to say at sea
    
    “thick as two short freezer doors”
    
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    August 11, 2023 9:26am
- redeye
  
  I just watched this and was suprised that, as most of the discussion was around the Victim Assistance Scheme, that no-one mentioned the hugh wack the Mongrel Mob got help the addicts they were creating.
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/08/election-2023-labour-does-absolutely-not-have-plans-to-replace-chris-hipkins-before-voting-day-ginny-andersen.html
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:25am
- rouppe
  
  The best assistance possible would be to lock the criminals up for longer
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:59am
Rusty

Going on current polls is it possible Winston Peters/NZF may return to parliament?

On one hand I agree with a lot of things he says about Labour wrecking this country but on the other hand when hes in a position to do something about it he goes missing in action.
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August 11, 2023 8:40am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Winston first knows which buttons get positive comments.
  Take no notice of him, ignore him, don’t give him oxygen.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:21am
  - mandk
    
    Agreed.
    
    I dislike Peters even more than I dislike the party he put in power in 2017.
    
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    August 11, 2023 9:26am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Peters is as much to blame as our departed commie ex-PM.
      Now the Mods may not like that statement, but it is true!
      
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      August 11, 2023 11:01am
Raphael

it will be interesting to see what traction Alfred Ngaro’s New Zeal party manages to gain. It is very late in the game to be launching a new party.

https://newzeal.org.nz/
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August 11, 2023 8:46am
- greybeard
  
  So late in the game you have to ask “why now?”.
  Maybe he needs the attention, or maybe he sees a way of getting money.
  Anyway, the Christian values he sees as the cornerstone of his party are not limited to any party: I daresay many National supporters are staunch Christians, as would be some Labour supporters and maybe even one or two true Greens !
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:06am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I am not a man of faith and I support National.
    Hell, I am not even Christened!
    
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    August 11, 2023 9:25am
  - rouppe
    
    Religion should not be anywhere near politics.
    
    As distinct from individuals being religious.
    
    But if you are launching a party based on religion, that makes my alarm bells go off.
    
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    August 11, 2023 11:02am
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      A party based upon religion, being an idea or an ideology as far as I see it, is not as repulsive as a party based upon race.
      
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      August 11, 2023 2:35pm
- Matt Long
  
  Another one, groan.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:55am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Will this work? A message for ALL Political Parties.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/767058338508386
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August 11, 2023 8:49am
- mandk
  
  Nice story, but Luke 16: 19-31 is a much better parable.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:24am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Sorry, not a man of faith so don’t do the Bible.
    By all means, you can. 🙂
    
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    August 11, 2023 11:03am
    - RdM
      
      You can refer to a text without being involved in the religion. In fact Comparative Religion used to be offered as a study course, don’t know now.
      
      Looking at, learning about, comparing religions.
      Not indoctrination into one!
      
      Anyway, easy to look up (I didn’t know it either;-)
      (I use Start Page as my default search engine now)
      https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=Luke+16%3A+19-31
      
      Or see here for an immediate explanation
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_man_and_Lazarus
      
      Same with John 11.35
      https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=John+11.35
      
      But you need to scroll down to grok results.
      Perhaps the most succinct version is:
      
      “Jesus wept.”
      
      https://www.bibleref.com/John/11/John-11-35.html
      
      As I wrote, just looking at references. ;=})
      
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      August 11, 2023 9:12pm
  - Greenbanana
    
    When looking at what Labour has done and the policies of their wanna be coalition partners,I think John 11.35 would be more appropriate!
    
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    August 11, 2023 1:13pm
Maggie Pie

It’s been over a week now, yet the suspected Lime-Scooter-Shooter Dariush Talagi STILL hasn’t handed himself in to Police.
This despite numerous requests in the msm that he do so.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/495213/man-sought-over-fatal-queen-street-shooting-named-by-police

Maybe he is also a victim of Labor’s ‘Tomorrow Schools’ and unable to read?
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August 11, 2023 9:01am
- Matt Long
  
  Perhaps they didn’t offer enough KFC.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:56am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Imagine if there was a 99.7% chance you would never get cancer, but you were forced to go on chemo just in case.
Remember the Covid fear porn? The lockdowns, the mandates, the childish red traffic light? And two vaccine jabs to get a passport?
WE WERE BLACKMAILED BY ARDERN AND LABOUR. Never forget that come Oct 14th.
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August 11, 2023 9:02am
- cmm
  
  ” but you were forced to go on chemo just in case.”
  … and chemo didn’t do anything to fix the cancer anyway.
  
  We do actually have this type of overreach in other areas too, with 9 year olds getting HPV vaccinations.
  How many 9 year olds are really sexually active?
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:27am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    The constant drive to give more and more vaccines is going to accelerate the total destruction of trust in our medical authorities.
    The number available in NZ is bad enough, but the schedule in the US is beyond belief.
    
    https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html
    
    This isn’t health, this is a business model and it will cause many to turn against original vaccines that actually do some good.
    
    Our daughter will not be getting the HPV. We are investigating the meningococcal jab. Previously we would have assumed both were totally safe and trusted the authorities. No longer.
    
    After the last three years, our faith in medical authorities is shredded. As with any relationship, losing this trust is a terrible feeling.
    
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    August 11, 2023 11:05am
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      Around herpes, I remember a guy at a party trying to get me to take a hit on his vape, and I said “Oh no, herpes, not today!” and he said, “you can’t catch it if you already have it.”
      
      Sage advice.
      
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      August 11, 2023 2:44pm
- leoj
  
  Not to mention the spike in unexplained deaths among those who have been vaccinated.
  
  When will in-denial Seymour acknowledge this fact?
  
  Even though Seymour and ACT will likely get my vote, it will be a case of “holding my nose” at the same time.
  
  ACT was in lockstep with National, Labour and the Greens regarding the protests. That hiding place behind Jacinda’s skirt sure must have been comfortable.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:33am
Albie

RANDOM THOUGHT:
Why hasn’t Auckland Transport changed it’s name yet? Tamaki Makaurau and waka’s must surely be more culturally relevant in Aotearoa 2023.
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August 11, 2023 9:12am
- leoj
  
  Don’t give them ideas.
  
  The maori crap needs to be stopped in its tracks.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Trying to think one up that is not confusing?//
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:09am
Maggie Pie

And this – WATCH

“Pfizer, a multi-national pharmaceutical company with an apalling track record, who had prior to Covid, been fined $3Billion for criminal acts, was given blanket immunity to produce the Covid vaccine….”

https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1689502847719886848
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August 11, 2023 9:16am
- Keith White
  
  It’s good to remind people of this. Some of us pointed this out to the Govt, the MOH, the NZMC and NZMA 3 years ago – and we also highlighted the extremely dangerous ‘short cuts’ taken to make the WuFlu vax which were clear even with the limited info dribbled out by the vaxmakers and the MOH to MedSafe – and we were dismissed and/or vilified. Karma will be a beeeatch when the Peace Crimes Tribunals convene.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:35am
- ClanMcleod
  
  DW News is a global news TV program broadcast by German public state-owned international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW)
  
  They are as mainstream in Germany as the BBC is in the UK.
  
  One of their reporters is actually covering the impacts of vaccine injuries. Meanwhile in NZ, mainstream media and politicians refuse to even acknowledge that covid happened, let alone admit the jabs may have harmed people.
  
  The report is very interesting, though the numbers they acknowledge will be hugely underestimate. Worth watching.
  After acknowledging that there are many vaccine injuries, and that these people have been ignored and/or treated despicably, her last sentence at the end of the video is:
  
  “What’s now needed is research, research and more research.”
  
  It might have been a better idea if they’d done the research BEFORE experimenting on the population? Just a thought…..
  
  https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1689722242660290561?s=20
  
  In NZ? Get your booster!!
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:18am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    I suspect the Germans are starting to panic as BioNtech are a German firm and their product via Pfizer is starting to look a little bit dodgy/life threatening/ long term heart damaging
    
    The Germans are very by the rules – and will follow orders, but once they get a bee in their bonnet that by the rules approach will mean a very in depth search for the truth….
    
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    August 11, 2023 2:37pm
cas

A couple of random thoughts for the day.

1 I am surprised the left haven’t blamed John Key for the fires in Maui.
2 Another ad for Kiri Allan local MP in our newspapers this week.
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August 11, 2023 9:18am
- I remember when
  
  Was it, the ad, relatively speaking?
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:31am
Maggy Wassilieff

Why do some folk need financial incentives to get their health checked?

Aren’t free mammograms and maternity checks enough?

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/don-brash-you-have-every-right-to-be-upset-about-this

Is there any evidence that the incentives produce better health outcomes for MHA recipients ?
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August 11, 2023 9:25am
- cmm
  
  “Is there any evidence that the incentives produce better health outcomes for MHA recipients ?”
  
  Better outcomes for patients is not the goal.
  
  The goal is to get better numbers.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:29am
- I remember when
  
  Does providing incentives simply mean that the government/ministry works harder to make sure they achieve the outcomes.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:30am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Maybe they should try mandating like they did with the covid ‘vaccines’? That went really well didn’t it?
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:20am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Because some woke people in their arrogant and unexamined state of bigotry believe some people are mentally challenged simply because of their racial heritage.
  
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  August 11, 2023 3:14pm
- Ghost
  
  It’s win win isn’t it? Mother gets checked out, gets a $50 prezzy card. Baby gets its first dose of KFC that night as the $50 card is spent……. Unhealthy baby born.
  
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  August 11, 2023 3:21pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

When earth was invented, humans didn’t have to ask for anything, they didn’t need permission either.
But then one day a group of people took control and now the year is 2023.
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August 11, 2023 9:32am
- Keith White
  
  Wait for it…
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic
  
  Mod: link is to the YouTube version of Zager & Evans’ song “In the Year 2525”. They were 500 years late in their predictions…
  
  [Mod – you make it so easy telling me what the link is, thank you]
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:38am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Now I really do feel like I am 71 LOL
    
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    August 11, 2023 11:13am
Gravelroad

Can’t believe it.. Nick Mills on newstalkzb this morning pushing for Winston Peters to be back in Parliament.
And plenty ringing up agreeing.
What is wrong with people?
What helpful or relevant is Peters ever going to do?
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August 11, 2023 9:33am
- Warren
  
  Gravelroad that tells you that the Talbot Mills poll is bullshit.
  I hope Winston does think he can return to Parliament as he is also stripping the vote from Labour which the Left can not afford for this to happen.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:51am
- leoj
  
  Sadly, morons with short memories still exist.
  
  Winston is a full-blown traitor.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:38am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Funniest thing at about 945 on nicks show, some call said the reason Winston didnt go with National in 2017 was National would implement any NZ First policies including the PGF….. The caller sound very young. Obviously didn’t know Winston hates Bill English with an absolute passion given Bill was a seconder on the National Caucus motion to expel Winnie from the National Party…
  
  Seriously people need to know the shit from the shovel before spruiking for Winnie First
  
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  August 11, 2023 2:44pm
- mawm
  
  Gravel – This is what a democracy is about. No matter how unsuitable a person is to represent people in Parliament if he/she gets enough people to go along with his/her policies then he/she gets elected. So the biggest political snake-oil salesman is milking the crowd – just as the other parties are doing, to get their votes.
  
  I’m not a Winston supporter, never will be, but I do not see either of the 2 parties most likely to get my vote acknowledging their mistake in supporting a very destructive policy and offering their support to the injured and bereaved.
  
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  August 11, 2023 5:49pm
Burg

How about if Nats plus Act win then invite Winston to join but dictate the terms, knowing they can be dumped at will.
Maybe Winston as Maori Affairs and Shane Local Government.
I personally dislike NZ!, but being dispensable would be new ground for Winston and maybe these two could be useful in these porfolios.
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August 11, 2023 9:34am
- mandk
  
  Given Shane’s interest in a certain type of film, perhaps he could be Minister for Arts and Culture.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:46am
  - I remember when
    
    He will certainly get done to the bare facts.
    
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    August 11, 2023 10:24am
- rouppe
  
  That would put Winston at the cabinet table which is apparently a red line for Seymour
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:07am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    The issue is really about all three being needed to form a government. In that case I reckon David Seymour will just need to swallow his pride and get on with making such a coalition work.
    
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    August 11, 2023 1:14pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  He’s a pretty good look as foreign affairs guy. Well received in Aus I believe.
  
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  August 11, 2023 5:07pm
Nickc2

No doubt most of you will have read the Taxpayer Union’s (TUs) way ahead for the replacement of 3Waters legislation.
IMO, it’s great but will it be given any form of acceptance by any political party? Whilst the TU wants to punt their plan as a ‘People’s Bill’, I doubt that will see the light of day.
What do others on KB think?
Here’s the link to the TU Document:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgzGtwWLGrNVVSQkSnPnKgGNnHWxH
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August 11, 2023 9:40am
- Grunter
  
  I’ve read the summary – and it looks very good. Written by adults, not racist student and iwi politicians……
  
  Both ACT & National would implement all, or most of this plan. And most local councils would back it.
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:10am
  - Nickc2
    
    Yep, agree. I think most Councils and certainly most Ratepayers would agree.
    Let’s face it, stealing Council and Ratepayers’ assets and giving them to a minor section of the community based on ethnicity (actual and/or assumed) is IMO, a jump too far to the left for NZ as we currently know, accept, and pay money in support of.
    
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    August 11, 2023 3:38pm
- Jethrod
  
  Having produced such a constructive bill, one would hope there is input from a political party on the right. Brigitte Morton and Stephen Franks I think have the credibility to have some sort of nodding arrangement with Act or National.
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:21am
Maggie Pie

Maui Apocalypse – WATCH

To think we were there soaking up the sun in 2019.

https://twitter.com/crimewithbobby/status/1689651190274166784
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August 11, 2023 9:42am
- Blog-aholic
  
  2019 was the calm before the storm.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:48am
- lifesgood
  
  And you just know the morons will come out screaming “Global warming, global warming!”
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:05am
  - Grunter
    
    Come on! It is “Global Boiling!” “Global Boiling!”
    
    PlEASE KEEP UP!
    
    What is the matter with you people? Don’t you realise how unprecedented this is….? It’s an emergency….!!
    
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    August 11, 2023 10:54am
Chuck Bird

The charge should have been more than a common assault charge. The POS claimed he hit this woman three times in the face because he feared she would hit him. The police refused to protect the women and have told Kellie-Jay Keen they will not protect her or any woman that come to hear her when she comes to a court for the hearing of the man who allegedly assualted her.

LGBTQ activist pleads guilty to punching 71yo at heated Posie Parker rally

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/posie-parker-protest-activist-pleads-guilty-to-punching-elderly-woman-at-heated-auckland-trans-rights-protest/
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August 11, 2023 9:46am
- Maggie Pie
  
  And certainly has a high-powered Barrista representing him!
  
  As my partner just said….Emma don’t come cheap.
  
  https://emmapriest.co.nz
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:55am
  - H. Upmann
    
    You and I are paying Maggie. It is called Legal Aid.
    
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    August 11, 2023 11:29am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Are you sure? I do not think high paid Barristers work for legal aid.
      
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      August 11, 2023 11:50am
      - H. Upmann
        
        Many, if not most, do. Emma does Legal Aid work.
        
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        August 11, 2023 12:04pm
  - sirknz
    
    All that education just to make Coffee?
    
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    August 11, 2023 4:22pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  I should have included that I emailed the police spokesperson of Act and National and complained that the police replied to Mrs Keen that they would not offer protection to her or anyone who came to hear her . I am disappointed neither party share my concern.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:22am
  - Notsofast
    
    I think because they voted for sex self ID the political landscape leaves them hoist by their own petards.
    The police are protecting their people now, as in Act, National, and the state police:
    
    Shaneel Lal and his autogynephile friends.
    
    Act and National must support the police protecting them ahead of the women who by definition oppose the self ID law.
    
    That may sound convoluted, and it always is, in Alice through the looking glass.
    
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    August 11, 2023 12:09pm
  - artemisia
    
    Imagine the global incredulity if pics circulate showing KJK completely surrounded by several layers of grannies in crash helmets.
    
    Shades of the Springbok protests.
    
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    August 11, 2023 1:00pm
cmm

Why is it that so many people think Labour are better than National at health?
I could understand if they said Labour is better at something like social welfare etc, but health?? How can people see the waiting lists and queues at hospitals and think that?
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August 11, 2023 9:47am
- Ghost
  
  I think people forgot the mess Annette King caused, it took national a lot of work to fix that up, what Little and co have done this time, I’m not sure national can fix that in the first term.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:51am
- Keith White
  
  A good question. I think there is a combination of factors
  
  1. Youth. When young you tend not to use the health services unless after an accident or for maternity – and those cases get admitted acutely, while other older patients get sent home at 2 a.m. (recent case in Wanganui just the tip of the iceberg) or sent home to wait again for surgery.
  
  2. Ignorance. The PJIF has been consistently used to tell NZers that National is responsible for any and all problems with the racist, underfunded, supremacist neocolonialist health system that Labour inherited a few, what, months ago – and Labour need time to make its neoapartheid health care changes work out so be kind, comrades.
  
  3. Ghosting. It is rare that the MSM publish more than the occasional episodic health care systematic failure – so people tend to believe these are one-offs rather than the new routine, and that these occasional episodes show the media can be trusted.
  
  4. Coverup. “Election 2023: Minister of Health ‘disappointed’ no new waiting list data before election.” Of course you are Dr V.
  
  5. Asphyxiation. Multiple OIAs for health care issues have been denied.
  
  6. Emigration. People who would have stayed and fought but lost their NZ jobs under the vax mandate needed to have an income to pay their bills, so have left to get jobs overseas.
  
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  August 11, 2023 9:59am
  - rockape
    
    At a cost of around $2000 a night for a hospital bed, plus beds are in short supply, it makes sense to send home those who don’t need the bed. There are too many patients waiting in corridors or ambulances.
    
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    August 11, 2023 10:26am
    - Keith White
      
      So sending a 74 year old lady home alone – and she had to walk in the dark as there were no taxi chits or other transport available to her – at 0200 on a dark winter’s morning makes sense to you? After she had been in hospital for an excessively fast heartbeat for hours? (All info in the newspaper).
      
      Well if that makes sense, then sense is not what it used to be.
      
      And if she had slipped and fell and fractured her hip? Oh never mind, no-one would be held accountable.
      
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      August 11, 2023 12:15pm
      - rockape
        
        You might be surprised at how many use ED as a B&B. Sure their are cases like the one you mentioned but usually taxes are provided, or an ambulance or there is assurance that caters will look after. But granny dumping is still a thing at holiday time where granniy is brought to the hospital because the family caring for them wants to go away for the weekend. They drop grannie off at reception then leave.
        
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        August 11, 2023 1:23pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        NZ family member has a very similar recent story. Lives in a major city. Too many shocking anecdotes like this coming through. The media are f’ing cowards and idiots covering this up.
        
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        August 11, 2023 4:15pm
  - mawm
    
    Keith – after the Labour profligate spending (for which they have nothing to show) National Party will have to cut so many services/staff that the average punter will notice it and blame National. Ryall got it right and did some sterling work on health. I think Reti is probably up against a far greater challenge.
    
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    August 11, 2023 6:01pm
- I remember when
  
  cmm:
  Because the employees are public servants.
  They are also largely union members, or, at least, their salaries are negotiated by unions.
  This leads to left wing identity.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:16am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Because they wrongly correlate spend with achievement.
  Labour, objectively tend to spend more on Health than National.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:26am
I remember when

A number of articles lately about wind farms being either aborted or delay in installation.
When wind farm electricity doesn’t come online when planned what effect will it have on EV vehicle production and sales.
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August 11, 2023 9:58am
- cmm
  
  “When wind farm electricity doesn’t come online when planned what effect will it have on EV vehicle production and sales.”
  
  Probably none because wind farm output is so low.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:21am
Handyman

I wouldn’t be too worried about New Zealand First getting into parliament or not.
There is no way Peters will go into a Labour/Green/Maori/NZF coalition.
National/Act can happily form a minority government and have NZF on the cross benches.
They only need to get a “confidence and supply” agreement from NZF by agreeing to some “policy wins” and maybe ministers outside cabinet.

A more interesting scenario is NZF getting 4.9% of the vote.
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August 11, 2023 10:04am
I remember when

Parliament is still largely a boys’ club: Gordon Campbell.

Is that why every Party, Labour, National, ACT, Greens, in parliament at present have female deputy leaders?
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August 11, 2023 10:04am
- Taieri
  
  Parliament is still largely a boys’ club: Gordon Campbell.
  ———–
  
  Wrong. It’s exactly 60 and 60. And in October 2022, the number of women MP’s was actually higher than men for a while, with a vacancy in Hamilton West electorate.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:48am
Tomtoddy

Winston thinks ACT and Seymour are “worried” about his rise in the polls. Well, he’s right. They should be worried. I certainly am.

NZFirst could be responsible for the country retaining the present group of incompetents if he came in at 4.9% or if he goes over 5% and then decides he has had to change his mind and put Hipkins back in the driving seat. Leopards don’t change their spots.

Which ever way you cut it if NZFirst are near the levers of power we face uncertainty and disruption. Their populist brand of politics has no place in a situation where strong, decisive decision making over the next 3 to 6 years is critically important.
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August 11, 2023 10:09am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Anyone with a brain should be worried. Winston is the reason we have the worst Government in our history currently in power AND he did so out of spite AND against the wishes of the majority of his voters.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:29am
  - cmm
    
    AND the majority of those voters will still vote for him.
    
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    August 11, 2023 10:59am
- ClanMcleod
  
  There’s a simple solution to keeping Peters out. Take the space he’s currently invading.
  
  The space inhabited by those who’s lives were irrevocably damaged by ‘vaccine’ mandates and ‘vaccine’ injuries. The people who National and Act point blank refuse to even admit exist. Talk about alienating a big group of voters.
  
  He’s also picking up on the concern many have re the deal with Blackrock, to date, I haven’t heard much opposition from the other parties?
  
  He’s also strongly anti the co-governance nightmare.
  
  He may be insincere, but he’s getting his oxygen from these three areas. Particularly the ‘freedom’ movement.
  Why have National and Act abdicated that substantial area of concern?
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:39am
Surely Knott

Local Community page this morning. Auckland Suburbs. Heaps of cops out with guns. Maybe get your kids to go the other way to school.

“My husband just drove by and said there was someone down. Best not to let kids walk past”

Then “Ambos are working on a person it’s bad”

Just another day in Aotearoa….
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August 11, 2023 10:11am
- Surely Knott
  
  And yet 3 hours later still nothing in the msm.
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:17am
  - SoloView
    
    @ Surely Knott
    Reported in the Herald at 11:25 am.
    They must have read your comment.
    
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    August 11, 2023 11:51am
Keith White

Yesterday someone said net zero would not cost anything.

Well now.

“Net-zero” refers to the goal of reducing emissions to the extent possible, and balancing any remaining emissions which cannot be eliminated.

“More than 70 countries, including China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Thailand, have made net-zero pledges. All told, these countries account for the vast majority of both emissions (80 per cent) and GDP (90 per cent).

“What would it take to reach net-zero? And what kind of economic and social adjustments might be required? McKinsey tries to answer those questions, based on a hypothetical scenario to achieve net-zero emissions by around 2050 developed by the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a group of 105 central banks and financial supervisors.

“In economic terms, spending on physical assets on the course to net-zero would reach about US$275 trillion by 2050, or US$9.2 trillion per year on average, an annual increase of US$3.5 trillion. To put it in comparable terms, the US$3.5 trillion increase is equivalent to about half of global corporate profits, one-quarter of total tax revenue, and 7 percent of household spending.

‘That ain’t no cost, buckwheat’ (quoting from the TV series “Wiseguy”…) even if we disregard the effects of Cheops’ Law.

(Cheops’ Law: ‘Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget’. Robert A. Heinlein; attributed to his fictitious character Lazarus Long).
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August 11, 2023 10:16am
- Libertarians are right
  
  If the activists were honest about agricultural emmissions (i.e. allowing sequestration in grass and calculating methane emissions honestly), we’d already be pretty close to “Net Zero”. So, realistically “Net Zero” only costs the Left giving up political power and ulterior motives – so it will never happen.
  
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  August 11, 2023 10:32am
  - Taieri
    
    If the activists were honest about agricultural emmissions (i.e. allowing sequestration in grass and calculating methane emissions honestly)
    ———-
    
    But they can’t be. It would mean that they would have to accept and admit that what the cows produce comes from the atmosphere and returns to the atmosphere. And ultimately, considerable amount of carbon contained therein is retained, first in the bodies of the livestock, and then in the bodies of the consumers of the said livestock.
    
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    August 11, 2023 10:54am
- Handyman
  
  Let’s calculate the cost another way.
  1. Calculate how many tonne of CO2 must be eliminated to reduce concentration by 1 ppm.
  2. Calculate the cost of the latest pet project in terms of cost per 1 ppm.
  3. Then let the country decide:
  EITHER
  we build a new hospital in every city, fill every pothole and complete every motorway
  OR
  go ahead with the latest project to reduce CO2.
  
  Also, bearing mind, reducing CO2 by 1ppm will have no effect on the climate.
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:00am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Taxpayers Union.
We have created a “People’s Bill” to repeal and replace Three Waters within 100 days of a new government.
Need to be on the mailing to see it in full.
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August 11, 2023 10:36am
mandk

The Performance of Manufacturing Index fell by a further 1.1 points, to 46.3, in July.

Will Labour declare a manufacturing crisis? You know, like when it was never that low under National (except for one month at the start of the GFC).

BNZ Senior Economist, Doug Steel stated that “the July result was the fifth consecutive monthly sub-50 reading and, outside of Covid lockdown periods, the lowest reading since the GFC days back in June 2009”.
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August 11, 2023 10:39am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/julian-batchelor-under-attack-first-the-electoral-commission-yesterday-the-human-rights-commission-youd-never-guess-the-charge/

Well Paul Thistoll can stick it in his left ear.
This is all a diversion to waste Julian’s time, so as to disrupt future meetings

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Ref-225086-Confidential-Notification-of-a-Complaint-to-the-Human-Rights-Commission-.pdf

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/225086-Notification-Letter-Julian-Batchelor.pdf

Left wing hacks, 13 of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnrU3rxyYbM&t=12s

Dunedin meeting Aug 12th. Venue changed, live streamed.
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August 11, 2023 10:57am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

New Lynn MP and Minister-for-Statistics Deborah Russell, says Labor should have no concerns about recent dip in the polls.

Assures colleagues ….”Help is on the way”

https://twitter.com/BeeFaerie/status/1685475140774367232
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August 11, 2023 11:25am
- Ghost
  
  New MP for Remuera Helen Clark?
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:28am
- mandk
  
  Was she made Minister for Statistics because she can’t interpret stats?
  
  Lack of talent for the job seems to be a requirement for Labour ministerial appointments.
  
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  August 11, 2023 11:29am
  - Beach Haven expat
    
    As I said at the time she refused to honour her pledge to quit if the census didn’t get over 90%:
    There’s lies, damned lies and the minister of statistics
    
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    August 11, 2023 7:38pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Went back a third time to look.
  What is going on with their eyes?
  Are they all on a socialist brain trip????
  
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  August 11, 2023 5:44pm
mandk

Quote from Stats NZ consumer prices manager, James Mitchell:
“While overall food inflation has slowed, it is comparable to the increases we saw in 2008 and 2011.”
https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/food-prices-increase-9-6-percent-annually/

This is clearly incorrect, given that food price inflation was 9.6% in the year to July 2023, compared to 7.6% in July 2008 and 7.9% in July 2011.

The question is – was this just a stupid comment, or does it signify an attempt to put a political spin on the numbers?
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August 11, 2023 11:58am
- sirknz
  
  Good news everyone, it will only cost you just under 10% more to eat food this year…
  
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  August 11, 2023 12:38pm
- miltonF
  
  The cost of food isn’t really increasing. Food actually becomes cheaper in real terms, year after year. It only feels like food is becoming more expensive, because the NZ dollar is losing value, along with our wages and savings.
  
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  August 11, 2023 3:01pm
Tauhei Notts

Deborah Russell trying so valiantly to drum up enthusiasm; somehow it reminded me of the strident and shrill female sports journalists telling us how women’s sport in our country has such a great future.
Facts.
1. NZ was lucky enough to be in the weakest group at the FIFA cup, and still couldn’t make the “16”.
2. NZ had its worst result in history in the Netball world cup.
Deborah; if you had been around 33 years ago you would have been telling everybody who would listen, and haranguing everybody who was sick of listening to you, that Moore will defaecate all over Bolger.
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August 11, 2023 12:00pm
Observant Octagenarian

I have met quite a few CEOs over the years when I was working, including a couple of Fortune 500 companies. Didn’t meet one you could call ‘unlikeable’.
Yet that is the branding the left wing media have bestowed on Chris Luxon, who was CEO of a couple of large companies.
You don’t get to be a CEO if you are ‘unlikeable’.
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August 11, 2023 12:05pm
ClanMcleod

FDA Admits Guidance on Ivermectin was Illegal, Invokes ‘Sovereign Immunity’ for Misleading Statements

This a huge story.

Ivermectin was vilified around the world. There were a number of reasons this was done but the primary one was that, they could NOT get ‘Emergency Use Authorisation’ if there was any other effective treatment available.

This Substack has chronicled the illegal war on PSYOP-19 early treatment therapies by the very perpetrators of the “pandemic,” and their associated criminal mandates. It is no surprise that the most vilified early treatment repurposed drug Ivermectin has also been by far the most effective:

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/bombshell-fda-admits-guidance-on

I ordered from overseas as it was impossible to get here. It was stopped by customs and destroyed, while I got a letter from them admonishing me for daring to try and look after the health of my family.
I finished up having to buy the animal version from a rural supply service. Cheers NZ government for driving me down the more difficult and potentially dangerous path.

This ongoing legal case is highlighting the corruption involved at the highest levels.
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August 11, 2023 12:07pm
Keith White

I also had chloroquine and ivermectin taken from my luggage before it was delivered to the quarantine prison hotel.
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August 11, 2023 12:11pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  It is abominable what has happened in this country and it has been supported by all the main parties. It is hard to not believe we are governed by a uniparty. It is irrelevant who is in charge.
  
  It will get worse. Here’s the unelected terrorist head of the WHO explaining how the digital health passports are coming, like it or not.
  
  The head of WHO, Tedros at the press conference last week announcing the launch of the global digital vaccination passport system. His speech injects the public with a decent dose of invasion of privacy, a step up in a totalitarian globalist regime, and belt tightening in surveillance and life management.
  Note that Tedros explicitly states that the system will be used in future epidemics, conflicts, the climate crisis, and other emergency situations. I spoke about a world of rising restrictions and control especially through the climate crisis as the next excuse to tighten the belt. here it comes.
  Share this so that people understand what is coming.
  
  https://twitter.com/efenigson/status/1667275089090428929?s=20
  
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  August 11, 2023 1:04pm
  - mawm
    
    The evidence of harm that our governments forced on us is accumulating with many, many scientific papers showing it, but you wouldn’t know it if the MSM were your only source of “the truth”.
    
    This article “What They Did To The Children” will send shivers down ones spine, and they knew about many of these harms before they implemented the non-pharmaceutical measures responsible for them.
    
    Despite all this our governments want to hand dictatorial powers to an unelected WHO that failed in every measure to protect the worlds population. Why? Just so they could continue getting money from Pharma and malevolent billionaires
    with a god-complex?
    
    https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/10/what-they-did-to-the-children/
    
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    August 11, 2023 2:13pm
Bridgenag

Robert W Malone

Jill and I have previously written extensively on the trusted news initiative, the links between corporate media and the intelligence community, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (including their funding of “advocacy journalism” in journalism schools like Columbia), and western governments. With this essay, David Marks provides more receipts and another piece of the COVIDcrisis censorship and propaganda puzzle.

https://open.substack.com/pub/reportfromplanetearth/p/misleading-publishing-and-chronic?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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August 11, 2023 1:14pm
ClanMcleod

Babylon Bee strikes again with bullseye accurate satire!

Megan Rapinoe Gets New Job With Galactic Empire Training Stormtroopers To Shoot

https://babylonbee.com/news/galactic-empire-recruits-megan-rapinoe-to-train-stormtroopers-to-shoot>
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August 11, 2023 1:21pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

“This stardust won’t settle, because none of us should settle”

– Dame Jacinda Ardern

https://thecelebwealth.com/jacinda-ardern-net-worth/
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August 11, 2023 2:07pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  “How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.” JA.
  
  Doesn’t age well that one…..I see she is lited as being married too…..
  
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  August 11, 2023 2:12pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    “How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.” JA.
    
    Yes that was mostly true maybe 40 or 50 years ago.
    Now, that statement is pretty questionable.
    
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    August 11, 2023 4:21pm
- Ghost
  
  Fake already disproved, and that figure came from a junk website.
  
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  August 11, 2023 2:17pm
- kevn
  
  Maggie… arden is not married as far as I know.
  
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  August 11, 2023 4:02pm
Maggie Pie

“What people need to understand, is that the MORE tax they pay,
the more FREE stuff they can get”

– The Member for Tijuana

https://twitter.com/RMarchNZ/status/1687963878402191360
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August 11, 2023 2:44pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  He is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
  
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  August 11, 2023 3:01pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Let’s hope he’s back to being a projectionist at ‘The Capitol’ by Oct 15th.
    What have we done to deserve a useless arsehat like this in the NZ Parliament?
    
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    August 11, 2023 3:13pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      “What have we done to deserve a useless arsehat like this in the NZ Parliament?”
      
      Stood by and did nothing while neomarxists infiltrated all institutions.
      
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      August 11, 2023 4:23pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Let’s hope he’s outski to Mexico, never to trouble us again.
      
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      August 11, 2023 7:56pm
- mandk
  
  It was just a slip of the tongue form the Member for Tijuana.
  
  He meant to say: ” … the MORE tax OTHER PEOPLE pay, the more FREE stuff YOU can get”
  
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  August 11, 2023 3:35pm
- Ghost
  
  You need to stop going to such accounts and reading them, your skin must be raw with all the showers to get rid of the dirty feeling.
  
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  August 11, 2023 3:41pm
Ghost

Vice President Joe Biden meets Tyler Vargas-Andrews, Biden really doesn’t come off great in the story

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August 11, 2023 3:07pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  NY Post: Marine in Kabul airport blast says he was told not to shoot ISIS bomber:
  
  https://nypost.com/2023/03/08/marine-in-kabul-airport-blast-says-he-was-told-not-to-shoot-isis-bomber/
  
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  August 11, 2023 3:23pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Whitehouse cocaine was within the Biden Family orbit.
No shit!

https://roccistuccishow.com/report-white-house-cocaine-belonged-to-someone-in-biden-family-orbit/
The cocaine was blown up. Up whose nose?
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August 11, 2023 3:07pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Having an affair.
Trump made the absolutely bizarre accusation that the Fulton County District Attorney investigating the former president and his allies of meddling in Georgia’s 2020 election was having an affair with someone she had prosecuted.
Seems Trump saying this is not OK, but Trump having an affair(if he did) many years ago, is fair game!
Willis was having an affair with a gang member? Shut up shut up shut up!
The left are screaming LOL!

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/trump-made-an-absolutely-bizarre-claim-about-one-of-his-prosecutors/ss-AA1f59Wh
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August 11, 2023 3:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump Attorney Says “Mike Pence will be one of our best witnesses at trial”

https://spreely.video/v/3901873658/Video—Trump-Attorney-Says–Mike-Pence-will-be-one-of-our-best-witnesses-at-trial-

Trump 2024.
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August 11, 2023 3:24pm
Maggie Pie

Dudges vie with one another in hope of being selected onto the Board of Briscoes.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1689760126545129472

Jesus wept 🙁
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August 11, 2023 3:27pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  From the Herald article:
  
  “He laundered $420,000 for the Comancheros, mainly via paying cash for luxury vehicles. The cash was the proceeds of the sale of Class A drugs.”
  
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  August 11, 2023 5:14pm
Swifty

When should we expect the resignation of the Minister for Social Development, Carmel Sepuloni?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sample-reveals-half-of-beneficiaries-paid-wrongly-by-msd-what-happens-next/BH3AUQ2RB5BRPMRMSNWMTAWDW4/

This is what the NZ Labour Party want more of.

FFS – how many years has Sepuloni been in the job? What has she been doing all that time?

An abundance of talent eh Chippie?

This government is an embarrassment.
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August 11, 2023 3:31pm
- Nickc2
  
  What an effin feeble excuse!
  To assess eligibility and entitlement staff must go between as many as 10 systems requiring re-keying of information, separate logins, and switching between multiple screens.
  I’m sure that if I was still in business and came up with an excuse like this, I’d be laughed out of the building by those gathered around the Coffee Jug/Water Cooler.
  To deprive people of their entitlements because it’s too difficult to fix the problem is simply gross.
  I feel sure that if I owed the Department of Social Development any money, they’d come up with a way to invoice me quick smart, even if the invoice was written in pencil and sent by Snail Mail eh?
  
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  August 11, 2023 4:52pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    To be fair, MSD has just launched a project to rebuild its IT systems as they are pretty old & not connected. Will cost a pretty penny, though.
    
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    August 11, 2023 7:58pm
    - Nickc2
      
      If they grew their systems as they grew the department, this situation would never arise.
      Small-minded managers or bean counters?
      
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      August 11, 2023 9:34pm
Chuck Bird

FYI

Rose Hipkins and the ‘refreshed’ science curriculum
https://commonroomnz.com/rose-hipkins-and-the-refreshed-science-curriculum/
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August 11, 2023 3:40pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

There is no ‘feud’ here. DeSantis and Trump are electioneering – they are helping each other. It is really a game and they both know this. Even bad publicity is still publicity right?

https://rantsofizzo.com/dominick/analyzing-the-potential-outcome-of-the-2024-presidential-election-from-a-conservative-perspective-trump-vs-desantis/
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August 11, 2023 3:41pm
Gravelroad

Stopped at local village dairy today – after school ice creams.
Two notices on the counter: “ Scan below to help save this dairy.”
From the government’s plans to stop cigarette sales.
Dairy has been there for years and years – a local fixture.
It takes a Labour government to destroy small business in no time at all.
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August 11, 2023 3:47pm
- sirknz
  
  Well we’ve had one craft brewery go under and another on the rocks in the last two weeks. Both had been in business for years, picking that another one will probably be close to the wall for next week.
  
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  August 11, 2023 4:34pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Megyn Kelly, the podcast host, said that Ms. Rapinoe had “poisoned the entire team against the country for which they play” ahead of the game.
This is the person that refused to go to the Whitehouse when Trump was President.
Seemingly this misfit does not even support her team because they are Americans ffs.

https://rantsofizzo.com/dominick/trump-cheers-the-defeat-of-rapinoe-and-the-u-s-womens-soccer-team/

Now one could say that Trump does not support America, think about that.
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August 11, 2023 3:54pm
Swifty

Food prices fall!!!!!!!

What you mean my bananas are cheaper today than yesterday? Or cheaper than last week, last month or last year?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/495586/cheaper-fruit-and-veggies-drive-first-food-prices-fall-since-february-2022

No, it just means the prices are rising a little less sharply of late.

FFS RNZ.

Just what is your malfunction?
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August 11, 2023 4:06pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Bananas. Harry Chapin. He wrote this song for Johny Cash.
  Harry, the story teller.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeZJ6WSVVAk
  
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  August 11, 2023 4:58pm
- Keith White
  
  Comrades, rejoice!! The Banana Ration has been increased from 4 per month to 2 per month. All hail the Glorious Leadership of the People’s Republic of Ardernistan!!
  
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  August 11, 2023 6:19pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

But Hipkins said he has been clear that “we won’t be implementing a wealth tax”.
It’s a captain’s call from the Labour leader. Remember, this little prick has told lies to NZ in bucketfuls!
He is saying what he won’t do, so when will he be questioned about what he will do?
He was full of what he would do during Covid as Minister of Health, among other portfolios.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/new-poll-results-do-kiwis-support-hipkins-decision-to-rule-out-wealth-tax/ar-AA1f4BCc
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August 11, 2023 4:10pm
- Nickc2
  
  Never ever forget, he hid the He Puapua document from his partners in crime at the time, NZ First.
  Trust Hipkins at your own peril!
  
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  August 11, 2023 4:22pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Some Bank Records?

https://billingsreport.com/oversight-committee-releases-bank-records-proving-hunter-received-20m-from-russian-and-ukrainian-oligarchs/

I just don’t know how the crooked Biden clan get away with this. Is the body count getting too embarrassing?
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August 11, 2023 4:30pm
- All_on_Red
  
  ‘WASHINGTON, D.C. — As evidence of bribery and corruption by the Biden family continues to mount, Democrat lawmakers in the nation’s capital have expressed heavy skepticism, saying they will need a lot more than just eyewitnesses, financial records, audio and video recordings, and admissions of guilt from parties involved for them to believe any of it.’
  https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-say-itll-take-a-lot-more-than-eyewitness-testimony-bank-records-audio-video-complete-confessions-for-them-to-believe-biden-did-anything-wrong
  
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  August 11, 2023 5:05pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Non-impeachment of Biden is ending all trust in rule of law for at least half of the US population and perhaps irreparably growing the partisan divide.
  
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  August 11, 2023 6:56pm
Chuck Bird

Poem from Groudswell

Laurie recites poem ‘Labour Is The Problem’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6jZuoryqrU
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August 11, 2023 5:52pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/300948541/national-mp-sam-uffindell-blasted-for-sexism-over-supermarket-habits
Another Labour-fangirl hack trying to perpetuate the muckraking.
Dear God, have they nothing more substantial to investigate? Like government graft and corruption on a monumental scale ?
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August 11, 2023 6:11pm
- Ghost
  
  I was shocked to read cheese is $20 a block, we’ve never paid over $13
  
  Just the labour trolls attacking him.
  
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  August 11, 2023 6:30pm
Ghost

This is pathetic. I know Timaru hospital has sent ED staff to Wellington when they needed staff, to Christchurch when their anaesthesiologist resigned.

Due to the nationwide doctors shortage, “a single solitary doctor simply cannot be found anywhere within Te Whatu Ora” to avoid overnight closures over the weekend at Ōamaru Hospital, the district health service chief executive says.

Chief executive for the Waitaki District Health Services Keith Marshall said Ōamaru Hospital Emergency Department would close its doors on both Saturday, August 12, and Sunday, August 13, from 5pm until 8am.

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August 11, 2023 6:29pm
Benedict Yu

Just when you think we have hit peak media bias…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/300948541/national-mp-sam-uffindell-blasted-for-sexism-over-supermarket-habits
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August 11, 2023 6:31pm
- Ghost
  
  Media’s got to cover up the bad labour polling and the past few months of bad labour articles. What to do
  
  I know let’s release a report naming countries trying to interfere in NZ
  
  Didn’t work, can someone look and see what a national mp has been doing and leak it to some troll so we can include their comments in the story
  
  Hmmm, is it working, has anyone got anything on luxon yet, maybe he looked at a woman the wrong way or maybe mispronounced a Māori word, anything yet? My god we’ve got to do a poll next week give me something now about luxon eating babies please
  
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  August 11, 2023 6:39pm
Ghost

Bloody hell

Parliament’s new ‘Te Kāhui Mōuri’ unveiled last month cost about $500,000.

The pricetag has been criticised by the ACT Party’s leader David Seymour. He has called it “tone-deaf” during a cost of living crisis when Kiwis are “being asked to tighten their belts”.

“It’s about 30 average workers’ taxes for a whole year or one average worker’s taxes for 30 years to put up a couple of pou,” he said.

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August 11, 2023 6:34pm
Prince

Sunday is the day Hipkins will announce his plan to destroy NZ’s much-applauded GST system, in a last-ditch, desperate attempt to hang on to power.
National Radio today announced this would be hugely popular, despite it being against all advice from economists, his own Finance minister, and anyone who understands how valuable a simple, broad taxation system is.
Once destroyed, it will be virtually impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.
Hipkins is nothing better than a vandal. A ram-raider desperate to cling on to power at any cost to our country.
He deserves to go down in a crushing defeat that tells his Party we will never again put up with this ‘win at all costs’ behaviour.
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August 11, 2023 7:15pm
- Ghost
  
  I’m guessing from surveys I’ve had they are looking at a few things including reducing the fuel tax again,
  
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  August 11, 2023 7:25pm
Maggie Pie

Just been sitting in the Drawing Room prior to diner and having a few drinks. Thort myy partner raised an interesting question…he wondered how someone like Rob Fyfe would vote this year?
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August 11, 2023 7:32pm
- Ghost
  
  Can he just write in Wayne Brown and then claim he got confused?
  
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  August 11, 2023 7:47pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Coincidence you shoud mention Len Brown…we just had a Chinese takeawy deliverd 😛
    
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