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CJames

Looking like the lethal Hawaii fire was man-made but not in the way you think. The land that burnt used to be productive farmland but the farms closed when farm workers couldn’t afford houses in the area because of the government’s laws restricting development. The flammable grasses took over. State didn’t want to manage them by controlled burns. The electricity lines that started the fire weren’t maintained as the company prioritised green connections rather than upkeep on what they had. They couldn’t get water to firefight because the department was headed by an indigenous progressive who believed in the oneness of water (the future under 5 waters?). The alarms weren’t sounded – claims made they wouldn’t have been able to get out anyway as only one exit.
Needless to say, the State is a Democrat sinecure so its bound to be some right winger or climate change’s fault, rather than address the ineptitude of their officials.
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August 18, 2023 8:00am
- ClanMcleod
  
  The liberal left Green movement is one of the most dangerous movements in a century. For multiple reasons.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:04am
  - Matt Long
    
    Link to government official refusing to release water for fire fighting until it was too late.
    https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/a-state-official-refused-to-release-water-for-west-maui-fires-until-it-was-too-late/
    
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    August 18, 2023 8:39am
  - kevn
    
    German green effort…
    https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/17/german-military-plane-dumps-200000-litres-of-jet-fuel-into-the-atmosphere-on-two-failed-attempts-to-fly-germanys-foremost-green-politician-to-australia/
    
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    August 18, 2023 8:55am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Best part is who the plane was for and the purpose of the trip.
      
      Notorious air travel opponent and current Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was set to return various sticks from a Leipzig museum to the Kaurna Aborigines.
      
      Another hypocritical ‘green’ ideological lunatic who tells people not to fly, but embarks on a round the world trip to virtue signal.
      
      Apparently, performing these close liberal connections for the media requires the massive carbon emissions of long airplane flights, even for a Green politician who is in general opposed to air travel for ordinary people and once toyed with a proposal to ban all domestic flights in Germany.
      
      The centrepiece of Baerbock’s junket was set to be a tedious post-colonial liturgical exercise in Canberra, at which she would oversee the return of “cultural assets” from the Grassi Museum in Leipzig to the Aboriginal Kaurna people. These objects include a fishing net, a long thin stick reported to be a spear, and two shorter sticks variously described as a club and a digging stick or a wooden sword-cum-club and a digging-stick-cum-bark-peeler. The truth is that they’re just sticks and nobody knows what they were for.
      
      https://www.eugyppius.com/p/bundeswehr-plane-dumps-200000-litres
      
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      August 18, 2023 9:33am
      - krazykiwi
        
        This post from eugyppius is one of my favourite light reads from him. His deftly wielded snark was beautiful. One of my favourite bits is this:
        
        Baerbock and her entourage departed Germany on their rickety aircraft without incident, landing to refuel at Abu Dhabi late Sunday or early Monday morning. They took off again at 3:33 am bound for Australia, but the pilots found they could not retract the landing flaps. They had to dump 100,000 litres of fuel to make the overweight plane fit for landing. When jets dump fuel at altitude, it is aerosolised; the small droplets eventually decay into water vapour, ozone and carbon dioxide, all of which would normally contribute to the greenhouse effect, but as in this case the fuel was released on behalf of Germany’s leading Green climate botherer, we can be assured that the action had if anything an emissions-reducing effect.
        
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        August 18, 2023 9:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It’s Trump’s fault. Fuck know how, but it is.
  Those power lines in Hawaii are ugly. They spoil photos but you just have to put up with them. Big black connection boxes up in the air as well.
  Some guys were doing electrical work at the Aston Waikiki. I asked them about it. They can’t underground as the Islands are volcanic they said. So what about the water and sewerage, I don’t see those pipes up in the air. They looked at me like I had 3 heads.
  Good point one guy said.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:17am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  One News told us that it was strong winds that blew over some power pole, which then started the fire.
  We all know that strong winds are fueled by “Climate Change!”, so it was dirty fossil fuels that actually caused the fire.
  /s
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:26am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There’s problems with relying on sirens…
  
  In Hawaii (and NZ) they usually sound as a Tsunami warning….. Head for high ground… and that would have been the wrong direction for Lahaina, as the fires were coming down from the hills.
  
  If you smell smoke..and see flames.. get out.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Not using the sirens was a good thing. It wasn’t that they weren’t working, they were just not used.
    
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    August 18, 2023 11:36am
- Ghost
  
  I watched a video yesterday from a local, a tree near them collapsed onto a powerline starting the fire, locals were successfully fighting it with hoses then the water was shut off
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:34am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Something very weird about that whole situation.
    
    This story of people ringing victims trying to buy up land is disturbing.
    
    Why Is There Such A Frenzy To Buy Up The Properties That Were Just Burned Down During The Fires In Hawaii?
    
    https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/why-there-such-frenzy-buy-properties-were-just-burned-down-during-fires-hawaii?utm_source=
    
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    August 18, 2023 8:40am
    - Colville
      
      Just nature
      Vultures preying on the weak.
      
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      August 18, 2023 9:15am
- kowtow
  
  Greek fires the same ; govt won’t allow them to cut down trees.
  Oz same; everyone wants to live in the leafy bush suburbs where no one manages the tree litter .
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:41am
  - kevn
    
    Kowtow… same in Aussie, greens control = fires.
    
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    August 18, 2023 8:58am
    - kowtow
      
      North American forests the same.
      used to be mangaed with burn offs etc
      
      Greens say no . So when fires occur they are vastly more destructive.
      
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      August 18, 2023 9:05am
    - miltonF
      
      A conspiracy theorist might say that green parties actually love wild fires. Every time there is a fire they get to scream “climate change” and generate votes.
      
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      August 18, 2023 2:39pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Aus is the driest inhabited continent on earth. It has extreme weather. There’s plenty of evidence of vast fires going way back into the mists of time. The fires of the last 50 years (not to mention the last 200 years) are not at all “unprecedented”, despite the spin from the media and doomer activists.
      
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      August 18, 2023 11:03pm
  - Grumpy Silver Haired Female
    
    I know it’s not fires, but didn’t Green policy to stop burn off of slash contribute (hugely!) to the devastation from Gabrielle?
    Go the greens! (Not!)
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:45am
- Simon
  
  The MSM narrative about the fires will be fake and have no basis in reality. What really happened will come through in alt sources.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:46am
  - Ghost
    
    Let’s see the msm narrative is the lines hadn’t been matained, a tree collapsed on the line, locals fought it with hoses until the water was shut off, video footage confirms this, so what part is fake?
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:33am
    - Dougal10
      
      The council cutting the water off , that couldn’t happen//
      
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      August 18, 2023 9:40am
      - Ghost
        
        https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/hawaii-fires-maui-water-rights-disaster-capitalism
        
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        August 18, 2023 10:32am
      - waikatosinger
        
        According to the Guardian people using disasters to push through law changes that benefit a minority is capitalism. Yet it is the socialists who seem to see every disaster an an excuse to advance the cause. Indeed they are so in love with this strategy that they invent non-existent emergencies like climate change to justify seizing more power.
        
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        August 18, 2023 12:44pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Waikatosinger the climate doomer fraternity get careers out of creating fear AND they’ve got the “noble cause corruption ” thing going as well. Climate doomerism serves as a huge lever to radically transform society (funnily enough, in a way which the far left have always dreamed of). What’s not to like!
        
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        August 18, 2023 11:08pm
    - Matt Long
      
      The climate change caused this disaster
      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maui-wildfires-climate-change-drought-conditions/
      
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      August 18, 2023 9:57am
      - Matt Long
        
        Reminds me of people in New Zealand blaming a cyclone on climate change.
        https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/02/15/no-doubt-cyclone-gabrielle-a-result-of-climate-change-luxon/
        
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        August 18, 2023 10:06am
  - Burtland
    
    yes the BBC were this morning reporting that global warming was a contributor
    – they hunted out an hawaiian climate scientist to interview
    
    lots of weasel words as usual – may have, projected rainfall, our prediction, probably affected, modest contributor, invasive plant species
    
    try here at 1:00
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4scp
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:38am
- cmm
  
  ” The electricity lines that started the fire weren’t maintained”
  
  To be fair (why, the lefties aren’t fair?) high voltage electricity lines often cause these sorts of sparks that light fires – with or without maintenance. This is especially common in hot weather where there are also high winds carrying dust or similar.
  
  But often it is difficult to tell if the fire caused the sparks or the sparks caused the fire. Smoke and such often provide a high conduction path that causes high voltage lines to arc.
  
  This was common in South Africa in the 1970s/80s where fires in the sugar cane fields were common.
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:25am
  - Dougal10
    
    Also why our transpower hate farmers burning stubble fields under the wires . You can hear them arc-ing in the smoke.
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:43am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Don’t forget colonisation as a cause…
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/496046/native-hawaiian-official-blames-colonisation-climate-change-for-wildfires
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:01am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Yeah I’m wondering, before colonialism, the people there controlled wild fires how?
    
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    August 18, 2023 11:11pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  I’m sorry CJ but all your seemingly-reasonable points are demonstrably false. We know this because Biden has already pronounced the cause as “climate change”.
  
  He’s also responded to criticism that he hasn’t been to Hawaii to show support by promising to do so, “as soon as he finishes mourning the dead” FFS.
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:22am
krazykiwi

It is refreshing to read intelligent, informed commentary on a topic. The WHO’s Proposed Amendments Will Increase Man-Made Pandemics by Dr. Meryl Nass sets out is in well documented detail how treaties that were at one time restrictive of bioweapons R&D have been steadily eroded, with the WHO now proposing a coup de grâce that actually incentivises this research while empowering them to declare and centrally manage global pandemics on a whim.

New Zealand is supporting this, as is the UK… but at least they have MPs here who oppose it: “It amounts to a vast transfer of power to the WHO…[and] represents an assault on our freedoms”. — Danny Kruger, UK MP.

Labour and the Greens are a lost cause because a jolly good infestation of totalitarianism is needed if their dreams of perpetual elite status are to be realised. So where are National and/or Act on this? Absent it would seem, content as they are to land soft policy wins while the prospect of global elites feasting on our sovereignty looms large.

We deserve better, and simply dispatching the utterly useless/dangerous mob at the helm today achieves little in the long term.
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August 18, 2023 8:01am
Tomtoddy

A farmer, in his fifties, known to me, committed suicide last week. It is not an isolated incident, sadly. He found the pressure too much. He just couldn’t cope any more with everything crowding in on him from all directions.

With farm prices down he was facing a financial loss. The processors of his products are spending megabucks on reducing emissions. Lower payouts. His end customers around the world have less to buy his goods because they are being taxed and forced to spend more reducing their emissions. Their governments are facing inflation, increased regulations, pressure from green groups, money grubbing scientists faking data and entitled kids who march against something they know nothing about.

At home, a wet autumn and winter made day to day work difficult. There was a time when he felt he was a valued member of the community, contributing to his community and country. Now all he sees is criticism. “Farmers have ruined our rivers”, “dairy is spoiling the environment”, “farmers produce half our emissions and are doing nothing to reduce them”, “farmers need to change to regenerative farming”, “farmers must adapt or die”, and so it goes on.

Government regulations keep coming, council keeps making new rules, more taxes, new forms to fill out, meetings to attend to be told the change, fix, pay more, adapt, more time in the kitchen doing growing paper work, higher costs in rates, levies, fees. Threats of new taxes. Diesel price gone through the roof – doubled. Fertiliser up again – 45%. Farm inflation running high – 13% and rising. Interest cost up again. Bank wants debt reduced faster. Can’t find good labour any more.

Neighbouring farms going into trees – 50,000 hectares in 2021. District population falling. Threatening and expensive RMA changes, district plan changes with new rules, regional council regulations, drones sneaking around inspecting, biodiversity claims, controls on fertiliser use, SNA’s and new regulations on water, wintering stock, Iwi SASM claims with unknown implications. The appears to be no end to the pressure.

Regulators need to stop. At all levels. We are killing our best, most reliable golden egg laying goose by strangulation.
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August 18, 2023 8:02am
- All_on_Red
  
  Well said.
  People forget the insidious creep of regulation and how it can really hurt peoples lives.
  The Climate nonsense is going too far and they clearly intend to go further.
  Sorry to hear about your friend.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:07am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Agree. I hate how these people – some of the hardest working in NZ – have been stigmatized by worshipers of the climate cult.
    
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    August 18, 2023 8:13am
    - kowtow
      
      I wonder how much of it really is their belief in climate or are they using it as the convenient Trojan Horse to lump us with all this regulation and control.
      
      They’ve seen hw the Chinese communist party can and does control its masses and they believe they can do it to us.
      
      Covid proved that.
      
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      August 18, 2023 8:46am
      - krazykiwi
        
        It’s a scam disguised as a Trojan Horse disguised as concern for the planet. Billions have fallen for it, and the wannabe global rulers are licking their chops in anticipation.
        
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        August 18, 2023 9:46am
      - Matt Long
        
        If they believed in climate change they would be paying people to sequester carbon. The only cure for climate change being advanced is neo Marxism, state and corporate control of production and consumption.
        https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/17/yard-stick-measure-soil-carbon/
        
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        August 18, 2023 10:11am
      - bjools
        
        Here’s a conspiracy theory, I actually heard this (PLEASE not my thoughts)
        That the powers that be (internationally) seemed to have acted in this atrocious manner, in unison (re covid). Why would such a diverse group. all act the same?
        Their answer:
        To reduce the planetary population, NOTE the way the treated the most vulnerable.
        Maybe the food supply (farming) is next?
        If a disease won’t do it, maybe starvation will.
        PLEASE NOTE again, a theory I heard.
        
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        August 18, 2023 12:07pm
      - Ra Henare
        
        Given they got rid of pollution I would prefer to live in China. Low crime rate, good roads, Government not taken over by wokeism. conservative.
        
        No regular wasting of taxpayers money (elections) when political bribe/buy votes.
        
        There is some stunning scenery in China(its not all shanghai/beijing) and the Government is actively trying to drag people out of poverty by ensuring sufficient and affordable energy.
        
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        August 18, 2023 8:18pm
    - Stellaboxer
      
      I heard Luxon on ZB the other day taking calls on the Woodham show. I was actually quite impressed by the way he came across and answered the questions until he had a caller ask if in the light of new data which has shown that methane has been over estimated as a greenhouse gas to the tune of over 400% would his government be adjusting our emissions targets accordingly. He went on about how valued are hard working farmers were and how National love them and moved on not answering the question at all. Why would that be I wondered wouldn’t this new information be grasped with both hands by any government trying to hit emission targets, unless of course reducing emissions wasn’t why you were reducing emissions.
      
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      August 18, 2023 11:10am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Well, sounds like he didn’t want to talk about methane, Nats have started attracting younger voters, just possibly he knows what he is doing
        
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        August 18, 2023 12:15pm
- Gravelroad
  
  The effects of 1980’s “ Rogernomics” revisited.
  Very few people cared about farmers and rural communities then.
  Same now.
  That’s Labour governments for you.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:16am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Condolences Tom.
  You are of course correct. The socialists are destroying the real workers in New Zealand. The socialists produce nothing except ongoing rubbish.
  Save the World, save the planet, save us from ourselves. The golden egg is getting smaller. The crazies can’t see this, all they see is regulation and control. The fact that farming is a Primary Industry means nothing.
  What will they do when farming is all gone? The big picture is they are destroying where their base income comes from.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:31am
- Grunter
  
  TomToddy – very well written. Such a sad story.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:47am
- BarryB
  
  Farming was going along OK until Dairying started on the Canterbury plains. Yes – it had been an up and down industry and like all industries had its bright lights and dull lights.
  
  But the Canterbury plains are simply not suitable for dairy. Zillions of litres of water were needed and the least costly way of getting them was to drill holes.
  Over the years people travelling around the plains looked at those irrigation monsters pouring water onto the stones and shingle (because thats what the plains are made of) and they thought ‘that just doesnt look right’. The shine – or lack of negative thoughts – slowly went off farming. Yes the effects of climate change (if there really is such an effect yet) doesnt help. However slowly but surely the public view of farming went down hill – and everytime someone saw those watering monsters crawl across the land the worse the image of ALL farming became. Add to that the proposal that the Dunedin accountant has for a 20,000 cow ‘farm’ in the McKenzie basin – which would need lots and lots of irrigation monsters (I bet that the shine has gone off that proposal in light of todays further drop of the Fonterra next season milk solids price)
  
  …And it came to pass that it was OK to politically kick shit out of the farmers – and in the tradition of needing to blame someone for everything – the government has been doing just that.
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:20am
  - Matt Long
    
    It’s always being fine for regressives to put the boot into farmers, since before Molotov was a boy.
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:59am
- Rich Prick
  
  That’s dreadful. I am sorry to hear, but it isn’t isolated. Labour/Greens have done their worst to demonise the means of production that we need to survive. They might have caves to go live in, but we have mortgages.
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:08am
- Grumpy Silver Haired Female
  
  The cost of compliance with regulations is ignored by those who impose them, especially in the area of mitigating climate change. It’s about time we started adapting to climate change.
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:48am
- bjools
  
  This not a way a grown man should find peace.
  RIP to your friend and condolences to you.
  My 2c, for what it’s worth.
  All should be done to rectify this political attack on our biggest (Almost only) industry.
  In fact, if the Govt. wants to help.
  1. Encourage the Intellectual property that 200 years of farming has taught our farmers.
  2. Encourage small and large manufacturing, associated with farming to produce tools that make it easier (export market here I think)
  3. Broaden our industrial base, so as to take pressure off the rural sector to be our only source of income.
  4. Commend farmers for good working practices, ie how many Km of fencing already installed to keep stock out of rivers,m how many shelter belt trees planted that are not currently counted toward our carbon off set as a country, etc more on effluent recycling etc etc etc
  Just few ideas, that others may know more about.
  BTW, private companies could help. in a small way.
  I heard that when the weighing equipment for stock breaks, the farmer is told to replace it and there is no viable option for repair.
  Is this true?
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:56am
- Nickc2
  
  IMO, it’s only going to get worse.
  Both Labour and the Greens want to give the vote to 16yo kids who know nothing about these things except what their left-leaning teachers have drummed into them under the guise of ‘teachers know everything.’
  If/when they achieve this, votes for 16yos will become the norm, and Capitalism as we know and remember it will be a thing of the past.
  Remember, Winston Peters stated that Capitalism was dead when he sided with that Communist Cretin Arden and put her in charge of NZ letterly to be referred to as Aotearoa.
  Thanks Winston, – NOT!
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:33pm
Keith White

National and ACT were all in on the enforced jab mandate so why should they be expected to behave differently this time around…?
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August 18, 2023 8:04am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Not sure who you were replying to Keith. krazykiwi?
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:34am
  - Keith White
    
    Sorry Steve, yes I was replying to kk / topic Dr Meryl Nass’s post.
    
    I don’t see any of NZ’s significant parties competing for our vote, who will serve justice in this matter.
    
    I think they are either blind/deaf/dumb – or embarrassed and are hoping most people will just go “oh well” and move on.
    
    I am in touch with quite a few other ex-NZ professionals and families who have dead or damaged loved ones, and I am quite sure of two things:
    (a) the Govt, Medical Council, MOH, politicos and jab cheerleaders will never publicly admit they got it horribly wrong from fright, laziness, power-hunger, profit – or all of the above.
    (b) those who lost loved ones, health, jobs, careers, financial security and 2+ years of normal child and adult life will never forgive or forget.
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:17am
- ClanMcleod
  
  We saw Luxon exposed when he decide to ‘re-educate’ Maureen Pugh for daring to simply ask a question re the climate topic.
  No different to Ardern stating the unbelievable statement that government would be your ‘single source of truth’ during covid.
  
  National are a concern. Being a ‘bit less shit’ than Labour isn’t a ringing endorsement.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:48am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Look at their policy, any emissions drops will come from science, at no added cost, believe it or not, most farmers want to do their bit, don’t say know, because I know it’s factual through talking to farmers in my work capacity, they want these inhibitors, they want these emissions lowering rye grasses, there are other products to deliver even lower emissions, how about you decide if you want science based approach or simply being dictated to to shut down farms
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:45am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      How about some proof there is an actual problem before destroyin people’s lives and businesses? Same playbook as covid.
      
      By trying to ‘fix’ it, your admitting there is a problem in the first place. There isn’t. This is the problem with Luxon’s approach.
      
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      August 18, 2023 1:58pm
- coge
  
  Vote National. For submission and compliance. They aren’t going to change once elected.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:57am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They have vowed to cut bloody yo compliance for farmers, investment and RMA
    
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    August 18, 2023 12:13pm
- cmm
  
  Same KoolAid, different colour.
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:29am
  - Colville
    
    As its Friday can I have a double vodka in my KoolAid?
    
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    August 18, 2023 5:16pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Oh [Mod – deleted] he we go again, let me guess, Peters is the only one worthy of voting for cause Nats act and jab[Mod – calm your abuse down], Peters was part of cabinet that shut this nation down, he vote to shut the nation down, and the jabs were on the way before the election, hate Nats snd ACT if you like, but this regime delivered you your pain
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:41am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Don’t waste your breath. Anyone voting Winston is not doing it because they think he will be a positive influence in government. It’s because they are so pissed about the covid response and mandates that they don’t care who runs the country for the next 3 years so long as they get to vent anger on election day.
    
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    August 18, 2023 1:02pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      He talks a good game. I think that’s why people like him. He’s also plainly and openly opposed to apartheid in NZ. Another reason people like him.
      
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      August 18, 2023 11:17pm
Yabster

from the taxpayers union- deceitful, sneaky Liebour/[Mod – use correct names]

The Labour Party are getting desperate. They are trying to trash democratic norms to ram through a stalking horse for their own electoral self-interest.

Last night we spotted that Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty has very quietly introduced to Parliament a last minute bill to change the voting age for local body elections from 18 to 16.

McAnultyThe Electoral (Lowering Voting Age for Local Elections and Polls) Legislation Bill was given just a few seconds of time for the title to be read out in Parliament and tabled.

The Bill establishes a new category of electors, named “youth electors”, and provides for 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds to be registered on a youth electoral roll to vote in council elections. Incredibly, this move to change the voting age has barely been mentioned by the media.

Normally, a Ministerial press release alerts media when the Government is introducing a significant bill to Parliament. But Kieran McAnulty’s media team have been unusually quiet. There is not a single piece of Beehive communications that mentions the Bill.

We’ve spent the morning working through the Bill (it is surprisingly complex as electoral rolls are used for not just local and general elections, but also jury duty pools and various trust elections).

What is clear is that a significant amount of work has gone into this Bill and Labour are not simply kicking the tires on the idea.

We think Labour are gambling on just slipping this one through – probably under urgency next week. Labour may be betting that if they can get this through quietly, it’ll just stay on the books after the election without public outcry to repeal it.

Make no mistake, this is a stalking horse to ready New Zealand for 16 year olds to vote at elections – a change that would greatly benefit Labour and the Greens.

Instead of having a national conversation to build consensus for change (or not), the Government is abusing the final few weeks of its absolute majority in Parliament.
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August 18, 2023 8:04am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  If Labour should win and McAnulty rolls Chippie we are in for the ride of our life. Many won’t survive and will suicide. See Tomtoddy’e post above.
  What is happening to our wonderful New Zealand? I know what has happened under Labour in the past Governances, but now we are going way beyond. It is the worst.
  No wonder she ran!
  So, people, remember how the left are killing NZ come October 14th.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:41am
- Rusty
  
  @Yabster,
  
  I would say most Nzers probably don’t know who the “Taxpayers Union” is.
  
  Some think they are connected with Inland revenue or they are a union for Nz tax payers! — and why do they talk more about politics than taxes?
  
  Just my observations
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:18am
  - thirteenstars
    
    Think again:
    
    “Founded by David Farrar and Jordan Williams in 2013, we enjoy the support of nearly 200,000 registered members and supporters, making us the most popular campaign group championing fiscal conservatism and transparency in New Zealand. Approximately one in nineteen adult New Zealanders receive (and open – see below) Taxpayers’ Union email updates.”
    
    https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/our_mission
    
    That level of membership is many times the membership of Labour or National. Do Kiwis generally know who Labour and National are?
    
    When the Taxpayers’ Union organise a submission to a government proposal or select committee, thousands of people submit.
    
    They are one of the most widely-supported, well-funded and effective organisations in NZ.
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:39am
  - rouppe
    
    @rusty
    
    Taxes is politics
    
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    August 18, 2023 12:35pm
    - Rusty
      
      @roupe.
      Spot on
      
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      August 18, 2023 3:20pm
- cmm
  
  Too many people blame this on the political parties. Wrong.
  
  Political parties are created by the feedback of the voters. What is really broken are the voters.
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:31am
  - Yabster
    
    @ Rusty correct but this is Kiwiblog and our host was the co-founder- I am not a member but get the email and have donated a few times.
    
    CMM- correct to a certain extent- in this case there is no mandate at all. Hope Nats/ACT add it to the scrap list.
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:47am
    - Mark Hanley
      
      Bang on CMM.
      
      There is hope.
      
      I’ll elaborate in due course.
      
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      August 18, 2023 11:30am
    - Rusty
      
      @Yabster,
      
      I know who the Taxpayers union are but just saying many dont.
      
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      August 18, 2023 3:22pm
- Burtland
  
  more in the BFD
  
  https://thebfd.co.nz/2023/08/18/sneaky-change-to-voting-age-pushed-through/
  
  this labour lot are evil
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:57am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Kieran McAnulty is, by many accounts, a very nasty peice of work.
  
  A friend of mine who has dealt with him directly has a very low opinion of him. There will be those within the Mainstream Media that have direct knowledge of how his campaign was funded, and given that Open Season was declared on the likes of Sam Uffendell, I wonder why Kieran McAnulty has been able to get off with no scrutiny of his actions?
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:17am
  - Matt Long
    
    It’s always ok when the left does it.
    The regressive bias of the MSM is well known and proven in Western democracies.
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:43am
  - CJames
    
    When one reads how he treated the woman he was with before he got elected, he comes across as a very nasty piece of work. Should be right at home in the Labour Party, just don’t let him back in society.
    
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    August 18, 2023 12:27pm
  - Paulus
    
    As Dr. Sharma on his opinion of what [Mod – use correct names] did to him a Labour Whip.
    Nasty peace but will make good Labour Leader.
    
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    August 18, 2023 1:49pm
- nathie
  
  Typical clueless Labour – creating more “division” in society whereby 16 year olds then start aligning with their political factions and demonising their opponents.
  
  Or at least one can image the 15-16 year old Green/leftie supporters doing so – after all those lefties have form!
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:36am
  - Burtland
    
    unleash the woke foot soldiers – theyve been in training for a while now
    
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    August 18, 2023 11:15am
- Steve Todd
  
  – a change that would greatly benefit Labour and the Greens.
  
  Oh, Yabbo, what a load of nonsense. The thoughts of a neolib, a sad little man who possesses just enough education to be dangerous lol. (See https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2022/03/sad_wellington.html#comment-3153185.)
  
  Your comment, above, is about as bad as another Kiwiblog trope, that most overseas voters vote Green, which I have previously shown to be nonsense, too (see General Debate, 21 Sep 21).
  
  You clearly missed my response to Matt Long back in March, where I said, here, https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2023/03/general_debate_10_march_2023.html/comment-page-1#comment-3333587, that most 16- and 17-year-olds would likely vote National/ACT. After all, it stands to reason that pupils in the upper decile schools are more likely to be politically aware (and interested enough to vote) than their lower decile peers.
  
  I say again, lowering the voting age to 16 “would have little or no impact on the outcome of future general elections, but it doesn’t suit the right-wingers here to accept, or even acknowledge, that.”
  
  Two further points. The government made it clear for several months that it would be introducing this bill. There was no sneakiness about it.
  
  Secondly, it seems there is no guarantee that the bill will be enacted before parliament rises. Consequently, given that the polls increasingly suggest we will see a change of government in October, it will likely die in select committee, anyway.
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:08pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Your opinion re 16 year olds seems at odds with reality.
    This reported re Austria after 10+ years of 16 year olds voting.
    
    “In the 16-25 age group, young women [in Austria] tend to vote centre-left ,” Sylvia Kritzinger, professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna, told Euronews. However, data is thin on the subject.
    
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    August 18, 2023 8:33pm
    - Steve Todd
      
      Goodness me, you draw a long bow there, Ra. Young women 18–25 possibly tend to vote centre-left, too. So what? As I showed with my overseas voting figures, the 19% Green vote had no effect, at all, on the seat allocation following the 2020 election.
      
      So, my point is, the 16- and 17-year-olds most likely to vote in general elections will not only be insufficient in number to skew the result to the Left, to any noticeable extent, but that, in any event, those of that cohort will most likely be from upper decile schools and therefore more likely to vote National / ACT. And don’t forget, 16-and 17-year-olds include young men, too.
      
      Besides, is there any evidence that governments in Austria have lurched to the Left over the last 10 or so years, as a result of young women, let alone young men, voting? I suspect not.
      
      I take this opportunity to say once again, lowering the voting age to 16 “would have little or no impact on the outcome of future general elections, but it doesn’t suit the right-wingers here to accept, or even acknowledge, that.”
      
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      August 18, 2023 9:57pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Great post – almost as if it was lifted word-for-word from the Taxpayer’s Union release on that very subject.
  
  It’s good practice to acknowledge your sources, and poor form to claim someone else’s press release as your own post.
  
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  August 18, 2023 4:46pm
Grunter

More detail on the problems China economy is suffering. Exports down, imports down, 20%+ youth unemployment, massive debt, property market collapsing, …….

Just another example of central economic planning failing.

Obviously this is all bad news for NZ and the rest of the world.
https://mises.org/wire/china-enters-doom-loop
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August 18, 2023 8:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  We should concentrate on cleaning up our back yard before worrying about China.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:44am
  - kowtow
    
    The way our Elites have made us so dependent on China ,if it goes bung we won’t be able to afford to buy the brush to clean the yard……
    
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    August 18, 2023 8:52am
    - septic skeptic
      
      So who do you think we should be trading with?
      
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      August 18, 2023 1:10pm
  - Ghost
    
    No, because of how tied we are to China their problems will hurt our economy.
    
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    August 18, 2023 8:56am
  - Nickc2
    
    We should never take our eyes off China.
    China hasn’t built up its cache of Military Hardware and Personnel for them to become obsolete. If it doesn’t use the products of its Labour/Investment for its intended purpose, both it (China) and the people who built and trained to use said hardware will have achieved nothing and that’s not in Xi Jinping’s psyche IMO.
    
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    August 18, 2023 2:59pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Grunter, reading that MSM again huh.
  China bad, NZ(the west) good.
  
  Shame a reality check is not easily available in NZ.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:34pm
Bridgenag

German version of Cindy…

Bundeswehr plane dumps 200,000 litres of jet fuel into the atmosphere on two failed and unnecessary attempts to fly Germany’s foremost Green politician to Australia
Notorious air travel opponent and current Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was set to return various sticks from a Leipzig museum to the Kaurna Aborigines.

https://open.substack.com/pub/eugyppius/p/bundeswehr-plane-dumps-200000-litres?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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August 18, 2023 8:07am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It does not matter about the 200,000 litres, the Aborigines got their useless sticks back. Did the Museum save some other stuff fir her next trip?
  Greens, biggest hypocrites of all.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:50am
  - Paulus
    
    Thought she just went home from the Middle East and did not complete her trip ((including NZ).
    What a shame.
    
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    August 18, 2023 1:51pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Nope, she didn’t get to deliver the sticks, she just flew home again – on commercial this time.
    
    Q: What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back?
    A: A stick
    
    Q: What do you call a stick that tries to fly back twice but fails?
    A: A useless stick
    
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    August 18, 2023 4:49pm
Opie

Thanks again to Thomas Cranmer, who has single handedly exposed more government corruption and waste than any “journalist” :

The Hawke’s Bay Chaindog Meth rehab programme run by the Mongrel Mob’s Harry Tam was required to deliver an evaluation progress report by 30 June 2023 under the terms of its government funding agreement.

However a response to an OIA request has confirmed that no such document exists.

So that’s another $2.75 million gone up in smoke with no return.
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August 18, 2023 8:07am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And I bet we never see an evaluation of the success rate of each of the Billion Trees planting projects.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:32am
  - artemisia
    
    MPI does report on the billion trees. And taxpayer funding.
    
    https://www.mpi.govt.nz/forestry/funding-tree-planting-research/one-billion-trees-programme/progress-towards-planting-one-billion-trees/
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:08am
    - Colville
      
      You can thank me for 60,000 of them and no I didnt get any funding dammit!
      
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      August 18, 2023 9:45am
      - rouppe
        
        3 hectares to me, as well.
        
        Can’t wait for them to harvest, been a pretty shit investment
        
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        August 18, 2023 12:39pm
      - Colville
        
        rouppe
        Same. If it wasnt to the nonsense carbon credits it would have total rubbish.
        With the NZU’s its been ok…but just.
        
        But I do get to hunt the land…so….. 🙂
        
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        August 18, 2023 2:05pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I haven’t been able to find any information about the survival rates of the young trees planted out in the last 5 years…
      
      It is one thing to state that 572,577,000 trees have been planted since 2018, but if millions of those young plants have died off in the last few years, then there’s not so much to celebrate.
      
      It’s very easy to shove a young plant in the ground… it’s quite another thing to ensure that the exposed tree (especially if a native tree) survives its first few years and grows into woody maturity.
      
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      August 18, 2023 10:18am
      - artemisia
        
        Well Maggy you were obviously expecting actual outcomes rather than big numbers of dollars spent. Spending, preferably big, is the correct measurement these days.
        
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        August 18, 2023 10:47am
- artemisia
  
  Was there a penalty clause in the contract for outcomes not met? If not, why not? (OK rhetorical questions …).
  
  Where taxpayer funded outcomes are not met, those organisations should fall right to the bottom of the list for more $$$. End of.
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:12am
  - Groggy
    
    Where grant conditions are not met funding can be recalled. It’s a standard clause in conditional grant contracts.
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:54am
Warren

Wow we now know of another Jacinda Ardern fanboy from big Business in New Zealand.
Rob Hewett raised eyebrows at the Horticulture Conference with his Jacinda Ardern comments in his speach.
https://www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/rural-news/rural-general-news/hort-urged-to-back-controversial-emissions-plan
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August 18, 2023 8:07am
- Grunter
  
  Some of what he said makes some sense (but mostly green washing spin).
  
  But he totally falls of his high horse (no pun intended!) when he says we got a 5% Covid premium because of Ardern???!! A very odd thing to say, and total rubbish.
  
  The sustainability story for our commodity ingredients (which makes up 97% of our Dairy & Meat industry output) is of course nonsense. The Chinese, as an example, take about 90% of all our lower value lamb cuts and further process them. All traceability and NZ’s “sustainability” green wash story is immediately lost.
  
  Hewitt mostly talking about the 3% of value add products that our commodity agri sectors produce.
  
  The guy is a light-weight.
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:04am
  - Dougal10
    
    He’s a dangerous **** head with his snout in lots of troughs.
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:54am
Matt Long

It looks like the real Chinese flu may finally hit.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/markets/australian-dollar/aussie-dollar-in-free-fall-amid-bloodbath/news-story/929165d65db4dc7d8a97bc7b27b5ab0d
What will be the political ramifications?
In the 90s Japan was a stable liberal democracy. China is a progressive utopia like Labour and the Greens dream of.
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August 18, 2023 8:09am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  “Aussie ( oops Kiwi ) dollar in free fall ……”
  
  Well the Kiwi barely kept it’s head above the .59 mark yesterday and you can pick up some 91 on your way into town at $3+ …. ( + an extra 12 c soon) ! Starting to remind me of the days when it was down in the 30’s under a failing labour government …..
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:33am
  - Matt Long
    
    Helen did it in only one term in government, this mob is so hopeless they may not get to the thirties in two terms.
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:47am
Dougal10

If it only cost 20 million 10 years ago to build 2 bridges across the waitaki at kurow , how come its going to cost more than 100 million to cross the much smaller ashburton river.
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August 18, 2023 8:10am
- CJames
  
  You have forgotten to allow the extra lanes both ways for cyclists and buses. Plus the native shrubbery for kilometres either way. Plus the river restoration for the native fisheries. Plus the koha and opening ceremony. I wish I was only being sarcastic.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:42am
  - Colville
    
    that is some pricey sausage rolls!
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:07am
- imalwaysright
  
  Because New Zealand is corrupt.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:46am
- backster
  
  The construction will need to follow the principles of TeAo maori and the tekanga of the river.
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:13am
Grunter

Just another example of the horrible shambles that is Ukraine.

F-16’s won’t turn up this year as promised. Ukraine admitting they have no show of matching Russia without an Air Force. A total of 6 Ukrainians being trained in the UK. The West openly saying that F-16’s won’t make a difference anyway.

In the meantime, 1000’s die on the front line. What a pointless slaughter!

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-bitterly-complains-no-hope-using-f-16-jets-year
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August 18, 2023 8:11am
- Cassandra
  
  So more support for Ukraine is needed. Is that your position? Seems very reasonable to me. Either F16s or air defence + HIMARS.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:22am
  - Grunter
    
    Certainly not more support unless its to help negotiate a peace deal with Russia.
    
    Stop this horrendous war immediately by stopping all military aid to Ukraine. It is pointless
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:11am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Exactly grunter.
      Stop throwing weapons at an underdog .
      As for the F-16s, the US will be saving those for their next third rate despot puppet.
      
      This one has done his dash.
      The writing was on the wall when his attempted assassination was “foiled” (read-delayed until public feedback is analysed) last week.
      No real outcry from anyone, therefore his demise will be imminent and a fresh faced moderate will be installed and a ceasefire agreed.
      
      Then we can all concentrate on the boiling planet.
      
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      August 18, 2023 10:38am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Because throwing more fuel on a fire works really well. Sure does, if you want an inferno.
    
    The US are the reason this horrific war happened. They pushed their incessant desire for control in every country too far this time. They are over stretched around the globe and are in disarray politically at home.
    They resemble the Roman Empire more and more with each passing month.
    It is going to take something special to reverse this trend to collapse.
    
    Same in NZ.
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:42am
    - Burtland
      
      72 hours to Kiev
      result – 10 million displaced Ukrainians, 1 million in Poland
      its putlers mess
      
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      August 18, 2023 10:12am
    - NoFax
      
      Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is the aggressor and to blame for every death. Putin could end the war now but he chooses not to. You sound like some leftist always blaming the US.
      
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      August 18, 2023 11:18am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Maybe because this war, like pretty much every other one for 70 years is their doing? How many countries do they have to regime change before you see the pattern?
        I’d say the same no matter which country was doing it. I have no interest in which ‘side’ is doing it.
        
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        August 18, 2023 2:01pm
- Tomtoddy
  
  Where is the UN? Wasn’t it set up after the Second World War to stop conflicts? Why are they not intervening and stopping the useless carnage and bloodshed.
  
  Oh, that’s right. Silly me. They are too busy preventing the “boiling of the planet”.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:26am
  - Lance
    
    All a bit of a joke with Russia having veto.
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:33am
- Lance
  
  Absolutely right.
  Russia just has to withdraw from the land it criminally and murderously invaded to stop the needless slaughter.
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:35am
- BarryB
  
  As with all wars the biggest sufferers are the citizens of the invaded country.
  So why was the Ukraine invaded?
  There are several parts to the answer – but the biggest one is that egotistical Zelenskyy who wanted the impossible – to join NATO.
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:03am
  - Lance
    
    After a huge chunk of the Ukraine was murderously invaded my Russia for no good reason, Zelensky wanted protection against a repeat performance.
    Seems logical to me.
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:14am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      You clearly haven’t been paying attention for the last twenty years.
      
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      August 18, 2023 2:04pm
mandk

I raised the question yesterday of when EVs would start being charged RUC.

Someone pointed out that the NZTA website said 1 April 2024, but I heard David Parker later on Heather DPA’s show, saying that the govt was still thinking about it, and hinting that it might be a couple of years.

Why, for goodness sake? Why not simply charge them in exactly the same way as diesel vehicles are charged?
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August 18, 2023 8:11am
- Matt Long
  
  Because without the big subsidiaries more people will realise buying an expensive vehicle with short term planned obsolescence isn’t the brightest of ideas.
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:31am
- KiWombat
  
  Great question, after all it is the “rich pricks” that can afford Teslas, and that is the group they are trying to target.
  
  Add to that EV’s are heavier because of battery weight, so cause more damage to roads – – –
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:56am
  - Colville
    
    Add to that EV’s are heavier because of battery weight, so cause more damage to roads
    
    Are you taking the piss??
    
    A Tesla 3 is a lightweight compared to my Hilux.
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:11am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      I think you are mistaken.
      
      Tesla 3 weight = 1,760 kg.
      
      https://performancedrive.com.au/epa-reveals-tesla-model-3-power-output-kerb-weight-0809/#:~:text=The%20EPA%20says%20the%20rear,motor%20version%20coming%20in%202019.
      
      Toyota Hilux weight = 1,605 kg.
      
      https://toyota.dreamhosters.com/pages/hilux/spec_2s.php
      
      EVs do immense damage to road pavements compared to petrol cars OF THE SAME SIZE. This is because they are about 500 kg heavier.
      
      Nissan leaf weight = 1,567 kg
      
      https://www.zigwheels.com/newcars/faqs/what-is-the-kerb-weight-of-nissan-leaf
      
      Toyota Yaris weight = 1,025 kg
      
      https://www.carexpert.com.au/toyota/yaris/2022-sx-fb87a459
      
      The reason EVs do so much pavement damage is due to the “4th power law”.
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
      
      This means that, for example, increasing the axle load from 1 tonne to 10 tonnes (a car versus a truck) will increase pavement damage by 10,000 times.
      
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      August 18, 2023 12:26pm
      - Inandout
        
        BY, hence the special EV tyres.
        https://www.michelin.co.nz/auto/tyres/michelin-pilot-sport-ev
        
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        August 18, 2023 12:33pm
      - Colville
        
        I dont think so…
        
        Kerb weight total minimum
        2080kg
        
        But hey..Maybe the manufacturers website is wrong??
        
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        August 18, 2023 2:17pm
      - miltonF
        
        @inandout
        I was under the impression that the only thing different with those tyres is that they are foam lined to reduce road noise. I have them on my EV and they’re great. Yet to decide if I will pay the premium price to replace them though. Might just put up with the extra road noise on a cheap tyre.
        
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        August 18, 2023 3:57pm
      - Hard Cheese
        
        Hilux varies anywhere from 1,490 to 2,055 kg kerb weight depending on configuration, add on 60kg for 80 litres of fuel.
        
        Singling out EVs causing more damage to roads because of their weight is silly – you can make the same argument for the increase in popularity of SUVs and “work” utes like the Ford Ranger (for years NZ’s best selling vehicle) which has a kerb weight of between 1,789 kg and 2,431 kg. I don’t seem to recall many complaints around here about road damage caused by Ford Rangers before it became fashionable to cry about battery weights.
        
        If the road damage and the resultant cost of maintenance is related to vehicle weight, by all means levy RUC on how heavy the vehicle is – but that means ALL vehicles.
        
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        August 18, 2023 3:59pm
- kowtow
  
  Why ?
  
  Cos a whole pile of not very clever people bought what they thought were cheap and inexpensive to run ‘green” motors.
  (labour voters love subsidies) and if their charges suddenly got fair (expensive) before an election they’d abandon those mongs in Wellington who subsidised their cars .
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:01am
  - cmm
    
    I’ll wager the average Tesla driver is a Green supporter – not a Labour supporter.
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:08am
    - Inandout
      
      cmm, I on occasion look at comments on the Consumer site and anything around EVs contain plaudits from obvious Greenies. Any other opinion is quickly shot down by the electric faith orchestra. I have sort of worked out that Consumer being Wellington based has a fair share of Green subscribers. And then there is the plastic straw issue.
      
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      August 18, 2023 10:43am
    - miltonF
      
      The worst part about driving an EV is that people assume you are a crazy greenie. I often experience quite aggressive driving from people in Utes and SUVs.
      
      I think you’ll find that a minority of people actually purchase an EV to “save the environment”. Most people purchase them because they want a modern, quiet, cheap to run vehicle with excellent performance for the price.
      
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      August 18, 2023 4:02pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  “but I heard David Parker later on Heather DPA’s show, saying that the govt was still thinking about it, and hinting that it might be a couple of years.”
  
  He is making that up. Cabinet decided in 2021 that EVs would pay RUC from 1 April 2024. The Government would need to reverse that decision.
  
  https://www.transport.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/OC210437-Extension-of-light-EV-RUC-exemption-RIA-1.pdf
  
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  August 18, 2023 12:44pm
surfing

Why does the Sky CEO still have their job? Clearly someone who has no idea about tech, running a tech company.

The new skybox cpu is woefully underpowered. It is like Sky went to aliexpress and customised the cheapest hardware they could find.

Sky would have been better off upgrading the old skybox , by boosting the cpu, adding 4k and shrinking the chassis (like sony does with the playstation ).
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August 18, 2023 8:17am
- Opie
  
  The only thing stupider than the new sky box is the people foolish enough to sign up for it.
  
  These things never go well.
  
  Always wait a couple of years for technology like this to be really tested properly.
  
  The current sky box works perfectly, don’t mess with things that aren’t broken
  
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  August 18, 2023 8:52am
  - Inthe09
    
    Mine seems to have a 5 second lag everytime I push a button on the remote – not a great experience but I hear the new boxes are even worse. Definitely not in any hurry to get one.
    
    As an aside, I got Skys latest ‘your price is going up’ email this week – so called them and removed the channels that were increasing. Good job Sky – you wanted an extra $2 month, now you’ll get $28 less.
    
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    August 18, 2023 1:10pm
- cmm
  
  “The new skybox cpu is woefully underpowered…”
  
  CEOs do not design electronics. Not even the CTO does that.
  Most times there’s more to adding a feature like 4K than just “boosting the CPU”.
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:06am
Simon

The whole system needs a clean out. All those pinning your hopes on National, well you get your 3 yrs. But lets have some honesty from National supporters who are clinging onto their tribal beliefs. If the system doesnt change (and it wont) switch your vote to Act.
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August 18, 2023 8:26am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Don’t [Mod – deleted, tone it down] tell us who to vote for, just because you jumped the shark, we want rid of this rotten regime, it’s simple, there are two options, Labour or Nats, ACT are a support partner, and will not deliver most of what they say, and the foot soldiers should remain silenced, as Act are starting to lose support to Peters
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:52am
  - krazykiwi
    
    National are polite, friendly socialists. If you want more socialism, vote National. It’s quite simple really.
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:07am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Ask Rockape, he will know and may be allowed to say
      
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      August 18, 2023 12:06pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Bullshit, they want to get rid of all racist bullshit and ownership, that one point is enough to stop that socialist bullshit you are spouting
      
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      August 18, 2023 12:08pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        You love that word, bullshit. Don’t you? Sorry, but it will take more than flaccid invective to convince me that National isn’t socialist. The breadth of their policy agenda calls for more state in my life and yours. You could argue that this is statist rather than socialist. Or you could continue your dewy eyed adoration of National because they’re not Labour.
        
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        August 18, 2023 8:02pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Give me break. Of course voting ACT is a reasoned voting decision. National will be lucky to get 36 percent, compared to 44 percent in 2017. You might want to reflect on the reasons for such a shift, rather than shout at people.
    
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    August 18, 2023 12:12pm
KH

Did PM Hopkins say the extra fuel tax will cost the average motorist one dollar a week?
If so he is saying the average motorist uses just eight litres a week.
Work it out.
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August 18, 2023 8:29am
- Gravelroad
  
  The extra fuel tax will be a great way to force more people who are currently living in rural to upsticks and move to town.
  Politicians ignorantly believe that it is mainly rich farmers who live in the country.
  This is not true.
  Many people live on lifestyle blocks and drive to the nearest town for work, school, sport, shopping and health needs etc.
  Bedda get building those town houses Labour.
  If you can.
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:04am
  - Flossie
    
    Those of us living in more rural locations have zero public transport and are reliant on our private vehicles. Didn’t Parker say words to the effect “it’s only 12 cents!”
    Rates up about 12%, petrol up beyond whatever, food going through the roof (despite a promised bit of GST relief!) and everything else also increasing exponentially How are we supposed to survive on a pension.
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:55am
    - Martonman
      
      House insurance up 18% this year.
      
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      August 18, 2023 11:44am
      - Paulus
        
        Does that include new increased EQC Levy ?
        
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        August 18, 2023 1:56pm
      - Martonman
        
        Yes
        
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        August 18, 2023 3:44pm
  - Flossie
    
    All very well to say up sticks and move. Most people have a wee bit of a problem there – have to sell their rural property first. Not a big long list of willing buyers at this point.
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:24am
- krazykiwi
  
  Yes, he said this. The only reason he gets away with it is because the media do not hold him to account, and by the time someone does the herd is grazing over at some new issue pasture. Seriously, the man could say that stuffing kittens into the fuel tank would increase efficiency and our MSM would ask him an unrelated patsy question.
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:02am
- Drone
  
  KH some more phrases from the same article:
  The extra charges were:
  “minor and necessary”
  and
  “the increased charges would be affordable”
  What planet do these people live on, everything is increasing in cost, electricity, rates, food, transport. The added costs of 3/5 waters, the maori health authority, the grocery regulator, emission trading scheme costs, the tertiary sector reorganisation all spend and no additional income.
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:15am
- greybeard
  
  He will slither and spin then justify his claim by saying that each vehicle carries 3 or 4 people on average trips, so per person, 8 litres/week.
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:31am
- nathie
  
  How about politicians using fuel tax for supporting those that use fuel – cars, trucks and even buses.
  
  No fuel tax funding for green-bicycles and green-walking initiatives – find their own funding for themselves!
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:39am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yes he did, he is a lying asshole, so is Newshub trying to suggest it’s only going up 4 cents, it’s going up 12 cents plus gst so that’s 14 cents, Labour also put one billion dollar in at the budget to fix pot holes, what is going on there?
  
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  August 18, 2023 11:19am
Maggie Pie

Reported in $tuffNZ, the 2023 Census was conducted at a record cost of about $320 million…..and for the second time in a row may have failed to achieve it’s target of 90% participation.

WATCH: full screen/sound up

https://twitter.com/KiwiMusashi/status/1690200327713357826
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August 18, 2023 8:32am
- Opie
  
  She is awful. How do we have people like this running the country?
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:00am
- Paulus
  
  Many Census results will be made up as for example we are told some 78% of estimated Maori did not sign up so results will be estimated again.
  Similarly with PIs was even less.
  Do they estimate overstayers too as the there are many thousands we are told in Auckland and do not want to be identified in ant way.
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:01pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    You mean like all those Indians stuffed into a house in Auckland?
    
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    August 18, 2023 6:47pm
ClanMcleod

Londoners are losing patience with the green climate insanity. Mayor Kahn has been implementing areas called ULEZ. Ultra Low Emission Zones.

ULEZs are areas in London accessible only to low-emission vehicles. Cars that do not meet the city’s environmental standards are charged £12.50 ($16) for entering the ULEZ. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras positioned around the zones read license plates and check them against the vehicles’ make and model in real time. If a vehicle does not meet the environmental threshold, the fine is levied against the car owner. Failure to pay can lead to fines as high as £258 ($331).

Well, Londoners are raising the middle finger and it is wonderful to see. An example for all.

But as of July, at least 200 cameras were stolen or vandalized by a group of citizen activists who call themselves the Blade Runners. According to the Daily Mail, they have promised not to rest until every such camera is removed or destroyed “no matter what.”

https://frontline.news/post/london-authorities-scramble-as-taxpayers-remove-surveillance-cameras

More power to their arms. We are in a war on many fronts. The ‘climate’ movement is front and centre. It is a deliberate attack on our freedom and way of life. As with covid, the whole narrative is a complete scam.
The gender lunacy is a distraction, nothing else. It is designed to divide. Co-governance is another deliberate policy to divide society.

Covid was a policy to primarily see what citizens would accept in the way of infringements on their freedoms. Sadly many fell for this. Hopefully most are waking up. But yet again, it was a policy to divide society.
We all know what the maxim re division is. It is used to make it easier to rule over people. No conspiracy. This is where we are today, so the sooner people simply say ‘no’ to these agendas, the sooner it is stopped.
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August 18, 2023 8:32am
slightlyrighty

In the last two years, this government has spent close to 300 million dollars getting people with money into EV’s.

At the same time the no chargeing of RUC on these road users has resulted in probably 65 million dollars in foregone income. I’ve calulated this by taking the total number of EV’s registered in the past 2 years, assuming an average mileage of 10000 km per annum per vehicle and charging RUCs at the same cost of Diesel. I haven’t included PHEV, but I’m sure that has an impact.

So in 2 years, we are looking at a 360 million dollar expense, which over 20 years, is 7.2 BILLION of Roading Funding that has gone.

EV’s need to be subject to RUC, if for no other reason to stop subsidising the well off that buy them, and to contgribute not only to roading, but also the extra electrical generation that will be required as the electric fleet grows.
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August 18, 2023 8:33am
- mandk
  
  And all this for a pothole creation scheme!
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:04am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They have already announced a pot fund in the budget, it’s utterly pathetic they think we have such short memories
    
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    August 18, 2023 11:25am
- Bridgenag
  
  Registration fees are very low compared to OZ Maybe a better source of revenue
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:35am
Biscuit

I’m evil, I know…

Was just reading a week-old copy of The Sydney Morning Herald and, after the Matildas had won their FIFA Women’s World Cup Quarterfinal, there was talk – even at Prime Ministerial level – about a public holiday being thrown to mark their was-surely-gonna-happen Semifinal-and-then-Final win.

Got me to thinking…

The Labour Party here are fond of knees-ups – especially if Joe Public pays for the buns, pies, cakes and sausage rolls – so I wonder how planning is going for the street parades that will obviously follow their upcoming General Election triumph?
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August 18, 2023 8:49am
Maggie Pie

What measures will NZ have in place to ensure this ‘501’ Chinaman and his wife, will not be able to carry out the same financial scams here when they are deported back to this country from Oz?

And as Australian Judge Britten-Jones noted when upholding the deportation order….”There will be a very real temptation to try to increase his wealth by fraudulent activity”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/132752392/husband-and-wife-501-deportees-scammed-9m-from-banks-using-false-paperwork
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August 18, 2023 8:50am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Any reason why we can’t 501 them back to China? Demonstrably of bad character.
  
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  August 18, 2023 6:54pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump ‘There will be a complete EXONERATION!’
The Georgia fraud will be out soon. Amzing what the crooked left will do to stop him running in 2024. He can do it from jail, it will be a little difficult.

https://finishtherace.com/ella-ford/trump-there-will-be-a-complete-exonerationpromises-to-release-irrefutable-report-on-georgia-election-fraud/
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August 18, 2023 8:57am
Stephen

When will the National Party release their party list? Anyone in the know?
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August 18, 2023 8:59am
- jp_1983
  
  Apparently tomorrow, according to the news headlines
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:36am
- Tarquin North
  
  Tomorrow.
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:22am
- plc
  
  1. Socialist Trained in Corporate Management
  2. Socialist with twinset and pearls in charge of Finance
  3. Egotist willing to bend with wind. BTW “Get Boosted”
  4. Shane Reti
  5. Some socialist
  6. Another more efficient socialist
  
  etc etc
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:23am
  - Matt Long
    
    ☺️
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:51am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Ask Rockape, he will know snd may be allowed to say
  
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  August 18, 2023 11:26am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Dirty Jack Smith Acquires Access To Trump’s Direct Messages And Location Data In Spite Of Twitter’s Roadblocks. Documents enclosed.

https://finishtherace.com/ella-ford/jack-smith-acquires-access-to-trumps-direct-messages-and-location-data-in-spite-of-twitters-roadblocks/
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August 18, 2023 9:01am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

If Russia invades Maui the US would provide money to rebuild it?
Biden continues to throw money about overseas but America is hurting.
The Veterans are treated like shit – they gave America FREEDOM!

https://craigbushon.com/2023/08/perhaps-if-russia-invades-maui-the-us-government-would-provide-the-money-to-rebuild-it/
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August 18, 2023 9:06am
- Ehlana
  
  Has the US government refused to aid in rebuilding Maui?
  I didn’t think they’d got to the rebuilding stage yet. Last I heard they were bringing in more cadaver dogs to try and find about 1000e missing, presumably dead, people.
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:14am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I don’t think buildings other than houses have been entered. Joe is apparently sending each household $700. Meanwhile Joe just sent $200M to Iran in exchange for 5 Americans. Joe has not visited Maui, he said he will later….
    Meanwhile US Military is using some ships and helicopters to help fight the fires. Hawaii has many helicopters but they would not have a winch and monsoon bucket.
    Bottom line is Joe does not give a shit about Americans.
    
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    August 18, 2023 11:57am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump Fans Hammer DeSantis at Iowa.

https://teapartypolls.com/thepoliticalmovement/trump-fans-hammer-desantis-at-iowa-state-fair/
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August 18, 2023 9:23am
Rusty

Sad to hear of the passing of chat show host Michael Parkinson aged 88.

Compared to the rubbish British tv chat shows today he was professional.

Heard a question on one of the radio stations this morning.

What famous rock album did Parkinson appear on the front cover of ?
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August 18, 2023 9:25am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I’m guessing here Rusty, but I think it was Band on the Run by Wings? Not sure if that was the name of the album. But I remember a black cover with lots of people in a spotlight. I think they were all celebs at the time.
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:37am
  - Rusty
    
    @Clan,
    
    I checked it. Your right it was Band on the run released 1973.
    
    Other celebs on the cover were actors Christopher Lee, James Coburn and boxer Joe Conteh.
    
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    August 18, 2023 10:53am
Maggie Pie

“IS IT THEM AGAIN, YOGI?”

What is it with these entitled PI’s stealing money? 🙁

Betty Sio (QSM) found guilty of dishonestly using a document to steal from the Pacific-Island-Safety-and-Prevention-Project.

The SFO fined Sio $3000 for her part in siphoning off about $260,000 from the charity…..

https://twitter.com/NewstalkZB/status/1691689746244751796
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August 18, 2023 9:29am
- Keith White
  
  Maggie, probably Betty wasn’t on the invite list for the MPP’s entitled CEO’s farewell, so she had to grift from a trough somewhere else…
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:32am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Been going on for years. They’d run rings around the SFO.
    Still, it’s only taxpayers money….plenty more where that came from.
    
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    August 18, 2023 9:55am
- cmm
  
  “The SFO fined Sio $3000 for her part in siphoning off about $260,000 from the charity”
  
  “siphoning off”? Whew, at least she didn’t steal anything. There’s no mention in the Crimes Act of siphoning.
  
  So what do you learn from this kids? Steal $3k more than you want because the government will want some of it back.
  
  She still waddles away with $257k (plus no doubt a massively bloated salary for which her only qualification was being brown).
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:58am
- Flossie
  
  Seems ridiculous giving her a fine. Is she going to pay it out of fiddled funds?
  
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  August 18, 2023 9:58am
  - cmm
    
    siphoned, fiddled,… let’s stop minimising what she did. She stole. Not from the charity. Not from the government. From us.
    
    Not satisfied with her grossly inflated salary for bugger all skills, she then felt the entitlement to steal more.
    
    Yet again, the real stealing here is not even in the crime. The worst stealing is in the legal part – setting up and running these troughs.
    
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    August 18, 2023 1:22pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I haven’t heard an outcry from the Lefties for her to be stripped of her QSM.
  
  Odd, that.
  
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  August 18, 2023 6:57pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
That is a lot of books. If anyone wants some call Tim. The number is in there.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/another-200000-of-julians-books-will-be-coming-off-the-press-next-week-which-will-make-550000-copies-printed-since-we-started-in-february-2023/
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August 18, 2023 9:36am
- cmm
  
  I’ll place my standard bet of 50 cents and a servo pie that this book has printed more copies than Cindy’s book will sell in total – the one she got a $2M book deal for.
  
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  August 18, 2023 1:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This is just repugnant. Joe has given US$2,350,000,000.
Yeah, Two point three five billion dollars! There will be 10% for the big guy? US$235M for the Biden family? Maybe not, maybe so.
When will Americans get it? Crooked Biden and his administration don’t give a rat’s arse about you or America. Everyone who supports Biden is a traitor to America.

https://patriotsnewsstand.com/theteapartydaily/biden-has-given-the-taliban-2-3-billion-since-his-humiliating-surrender-to-them/
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August 18, 2023 9:47am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump endorse in South Dakota?

https://patriotsnewsstand.com/redrebelnews/sd-gov-kristi-noem-hints-at-upcoming-trump-endorsement/
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August 18, 2023 9:51am
Philip Hart

Oops

From the Herald
“The two men, who the Coroner granted orders prohibiting publication of their names, were friends and colleagues from the South Island. The prohibition on publication means the name of the mountain can also not be published”

From Stuff
“Climbers who died on Taranaki Maunga in night-time climb ‘not adequately prepared’ – report”

A dollar each way if you call it Egmont. I probably shouldnt have said that…
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August 18, 2023 9:56am
- nova
  
  Maybe the mountain has name suppression so as not to damage its mana? Odd that the coroner granted these orders, given that the names of the men were widely published at the time of the accident (along with their employer, and the mountain!)
  
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  August 18, 2023 11:10am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Is it because the mountain has personhood status? Serious question.
  
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  August 18, 2023 11:46am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Yes that is the reason. It is insane.
    
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    August 18, 2023 12:37pm
- Ehlana
  
  Did anyone else read “Taranaki Maunga” as a collective noun and wonder why they didn’t identify the specific mountain?
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:26pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION….

Should the voting age be raised to 30?
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August 18, 2023 10:07am
- Ehlana
  
  Only if you follow the science Maggie.
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:15am
- Colville
  
  I think minimum $30K net tax paid/yr should be the test…
  
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  August 18, 2023 10:44am
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In SHIt for you
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August 18, 2023 10:37am
- Yabster
  
  the down ticker is earning his liebour money today I see…
  
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  August 18, 2023 11:03am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  I like what another poster put up here a week back:
  
  “RUIN IT FOR YOU”.
  
  Easy to modify signage with 2 letters.
  My wife said a spray can of white paint, and a stencil of RU would be the best way.
  On an unrelated matter, looking to go shopping on the weekend. Probably Bunnings.
  
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  August 18, 2023 12:37pm
- cmm
  
  Deep in the leftie land of East Christchurch there is a poster that has been changed to “In you”.
  
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  August 18, 2023 4:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

According To The FBI And GBI In Georgia: It Is Now Legal To Close The Doors Of The Election Centers, Banish Observers And Press, And Start Ramming Stacks Of Ballots Through The Voting Machines Three Times Or More!

Nothing wrong here!

https://billingsreport.com/the-fbis-chris-wray-legalizes-voter-fraud/
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August 18, 2023 10:50am
Ghost

China’s Evergrande Group filed for bankruptcy in New York on Thursday.

Evergrande was once China’s largest property developer by sales, but after borrowing heavily, the company collapsed in 2021, sparking China’s worst property market crisis on record

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August 18, 2023 10:57am
Bridgenag

Go ahead… get your COVID booster. Nothing to worry about. These are all coincidences.
Maybe it’s time to use reverse psychology?

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/go-ahead-get-your-covid-booster-nothing?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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August 18, 2023 10:58am
Grumpy Silver Haired Female

A grammar rant – unnecessary use of qualifiers.
We don’t visit with, we simply visit (the with is unspoken).
If we are gathering we are coming together, or collecting, gather doesn’t need to have ‘together’ tacked on the end (and neither does collect)
In these days of sentences lacking ‘that’ which signifies the subject of a clause/verb and enhances clarity it is ironic that together and with are added unnecessarily.
Does anyone still know the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?
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August 18, 2023 10:58am
- Biscuit
  
  Heh hegh, GSHF.
  
  This is the sort of grammar misuse up with which I will not put!
  
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  August 18, 2023 12:01pm
- wsk12345
  
  Nope – and I write for a living.
  You don’t need to know what things are named (nouns, verbs, etc) know what is right and what is not.
  
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  August 18, 2023 12:21pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I trust your 2nd sentence isn’t representative of your (usual) work.
    
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    August 18, 2023 3:17pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  “Does anyone still know the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?”
  
  Funny 🙂 Only if they studied linguistics at a decent University.
  
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  August 18, 2023 12:35pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  From the internet; when comforting a grammar Nazi, always say softly, “There, Their, They’re”.
  😉
  
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  August 18, 2023 12:40pm
- Flossie
  
  My personal favourite lately…return back.
  
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  August 18, 2023 1:23pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I still listen to a transitive radio.
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:33pm
  - Colville
    
    What happens when you grab its knob and twist??
    
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    August 18, 2023 4:38pm
    - Drone
      
      It hasn’t got one Colville..
      
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      August 18, 2023 5:24pm
Ghost

Still recovery bodies and some tosser already has a book about it for sale

Fire and Fury: The Story of the 2023 Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change
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August 18, 2023 11:03am
- Martonman
  
  The wonders of AI
  
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  August 18, 2023 11:55am
BeaB

Cannot believe so many want to throw away their votes on minor parties and even Winston First. My worry is we are in for another term of Labour or a marginally successful and hamstrung National Government.
Get the Nats in with a good majority and enough Act MPs to stiffen their sinews. I think even they know that after six squandered years they have to hit the ground running.
Keep Winston out of it. Surely we all know by now he can’t be believed and will always rewrite history to gull the stupid. After all, he was Jacinda’s right hand man and chief fanboy.
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August 18, 2023 11:18am
- 2ic
  
  I don’t know if I’ll be voting NZ First, and I never have done so before. However, I do know I won’t be voting National or Act, as I have for the last 3 decades, as they no longer represent my values.
  
  Here’s just a few things from the NZ First website (https://www.nzfirst.nz/2023_commitments) that are very important issues to me but National and Act lack the courage to confront:
  
  “Under New Zealand First vaccine mandates will end”
  “New Zealand First will repeal the Therapeutic Products Act”
  “Stop indoctrination by removing gender ideology from the curriculum”
  “Ensure a full scale, wide ranging, independent, one year inquiry conducted publicly with local and international experts, into how the Covid pandemic was handled in New Zealand”
  “New Zealand First will ensure no men are in women’s spaces or sports”
  
  National and Act are now beholden to globalist influences and can’t be trusted to represent the best interests of New Zealand. They won’t push back on climate change, the United Nations, the World Health Organisation (the pandemic treaty), the Blackrock deal, Chinese influence etc.
  
  There are other minor parties I would rather support, but NZ First is the only one that is going to get into parliament so my expectation is that his support will only grow when this becomes clear to minor party voters.
  
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  August 18, 2023 12:59pm
  - slightlyrighty
    
    do you not remember 2017?
    
    If you are one of those who is concerned about the Theraputic Products Act, and you can’t remember what Winston did in 2017, might I recommend some Ginko Baloba?
    
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    August 18, 2023 2:38pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Those are some nice words you have there. If you want different words I’m sure Winston will oblige.
    
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    August 18, 2023 3:04pm
  - Colville
    
    Does NZF have values?
    
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    August 18, 2023 4:40pm
  - Drone
    
    2ic normally all the parties are limited in what they can do. Labour have had an insane run over the last three years and the country may never recover. National will not be able to undo much of the chaos Labour have left, they won’t have enough MPs. If Peters makes it into parliament he will be seeking BAUBLES for his support, which will mean he will go with Labour like in 2017, and set the direction of the country until the end of time..
    
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    August 18, 2023 5:22pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    2ic, what planet do you live on?
    
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    August 18, 2023 8:40pm
- Prince
  
  Peters will go with whoever offers the most baubles.
  We can all see that Hipkins is absolutely desperate to retain power – there is nothing he wouldn’t do to maintain the overseas trips and media attention.
  Vote National or Act.
  
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  August 18, 2023 3:27pm
Maggie Pie

Q: What are those in power covering for Shaneel Lal?

“There needs to be answers from the likes of….NZHerald, Chris Hipkins, Marama Davidson and their ilk about what kind of individual they are supporting”

https://plainsight.nz/what-are-those-in-power-covering-for-shaneel-lal/
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August 18, 2023 11:43am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Chippie wants the transistor vote.
  
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  August 18, 2023 12:01pm
- Fedup oldie
  
  Thanks for the link Maggie.
  This guy is dangerous.
  Every parent, grandparent and school principal should read this and start asking questions.
  The year 1-8 RSE is equally concerning.
  
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  August 18, 2023 12:38pm
- kevn
  
  Maggie… hipkins with the fake smile. How jolly.
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:58pm
Benedict Yu

I like actuaries. They are paid a lot of money by insurance companies to do good analysis.

So when they report significant unexplained excess deaths in young people, I take notice. The charts are useful because they divide excess deaths into “COVID” and “Non COVID causes”

https://covidactuaries.org/2022/06/20/excess-mortality-in-the-usa/

The age group with the highest excess deaths in 2021 is the 35 – 44 age group. These deaths exceed elderly death rates by orders of magnitude.
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August 18, 2023 12:07pm
- mandk
  
  Did you know that actuaries are sticklers for punctuality?
  
  They expect you to be dead on time.
  
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  August 18, 2023 12:48pm
  - artemisia
    
    The old definition of an actuary – someone who looks both ways before crossing a one way street. Mind you, not a bad thing to do these days.
    
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    August 18, 2023 1:24pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Actuaries are people who found accounting too exciting.
      
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      August 18, 2023 2:46pm
      - Ehlana
        
        Those were auditors.
        
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        August 18, 2023 3:25pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

T Tahi news. Women going on about safety walking to their cars at Middlemore Hospital. Why just Hospitals?
Many women work at say Restaurants, Hotels etc, on late or night shifts.
Lack of Police is the thing here.
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August 18, 2023 12:09pm
- Bridgenag
  
  YES Went to the theatre and walked back Very shady types around and no police on the beat…..
  
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  August 18, 2023 1:20pm
- cmm
  
  Coz everyone loves nurses – even when they are on strike.
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:06pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Insanity. NZ locks down after one Covid case.

https://rumble.com/vlb1z3-insanity-new-zealand-locks-down-over-one-covid-case.html

Sorry, it was in my FB memories.
Remember this socialist control shit come Oct 14th
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August 18, 2023 12:23pm
Benedict Yu

It will be interesting to see what the police do about this.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300952879/incident-at-ministry-of-pacific-peoples-leaves-staff-rattled-police-called-in

If these two guys threatened people, they clearly committed an offence. However, if they stood in a public place and shouted out questions about the Ministry wasting money, I doubt that they committed an offence.

The staff may well have been offended. However offending people is not an offence. Indeed, I would support the rights of any citizens to protest outside Government agencies.
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August 18, 2023 12:33pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  One of the wokesters on ZB blamed David Seymour for this….because of the JOKE he cracked about sending in a Guy Fawkes!
  
  Even the Fat Controller said it wasn’t funny. Still, what else would you expect from a nasty twat like that 😀
  
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  August 18, 2023 12:50pm
  - Inandout
    
    Maggie, I grew up as a male learning that twats were usefull.
    
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    August 18, 2023 1:15pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Or are you thinking of…. ‘twot’ ?
      
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      August 18, 2023 1:27pm
      - Inandout
        
        Of course, what a twat I am to not recognise the round thing.
        
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        August 18, 2023 2:48pm
    - Colville
      
      Inandout.
      
      That is a different four letter word you are thinking of.
      
      Robertson has neither the depth or warmth to usefully fulfill that function.
      
      and your handle of Inandout makes this a kinda funny topic…:-)
      
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      August 18, 2023 4:45pm
  - Blog-aholic
    
    Fawkes was a failed bomber…..nothing got blown up.
    
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    August 18, 2023 1:41pm
  - cmm
    
    It was a supremely stupid thing for Seymour to say.
    
    He should know by now that anything he says like this – joke or not – is going to be picked up, taken out of context and bent by a weaponised media.
    
    Dumb move boyo! There are just some things you can’t say when you’re a “right wing” politician. Joking about blowing up brown people is one of them.
    
    Luxon has now distanced himself from the comment and this will no doubt be a point raised by the media until Luxon whimps out and promises to never work with ACT.
    
    Seymour needs to control his mouth.
    Luxon needs to grow a pair.
    
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    August 18, 2023 2:12pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Didn’t they go there before Seymour made the comment
      I think Seymour is right when he says this
      “ “Anybody who’s trying to link the incident to my very obvious joke is politicising the matter for political purposes and that’s part of the problem.”
      
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      August 18, 2023 4:11pm
Prince

Tova O’Brien and Stuff at their scandalous best.
Two men enter Ministry of Pacific Peoples’ Offices and ask questions.
No violence, no swearing, they are escorted out.

By the end of O’Brien’s article;
– David Seymour is blamed.
– Chris Luxon is dragged into it somehow.
– Minister Edmonds is quoted saying ‘Violence and threats have no place in our political conversations.’

Buckle up, Tova is back to her ‘News of the World’ roots.
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August 18, 2023 1:11pm
- Paulus
  
  Nah, Tova was never good enough for News of the World – that was the other one from Stuff – can’t think of her name but Irish too.
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:10pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Andrea Vance was the News of the Screws reporter.
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:33pm
Ghost

No reason to link this to Seymour’s comment

Two men entered the Ministry of Pacific Peoples on Thursday harassing staff with questions about how much they and the ministry are spending, Stuff can reveal.

Police have been contacted and supplied with video of the incident.

Article
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August 18, 2023 1:14pm
- cmm
  
  What a fucking moron!
  Seymour needs to think before he talks sometimes.
  
  Now Luxon has distanced himself from the remarks. Is he now going to be pressured into refusing to work with ACT? He’s such a sook he probably will!
  
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  August 18, 2023 1:52pm
- rouppe
  
  Are members of the public not allowed to ask a Public Ministry how they’re spending public money?
  
  Pretty confronting, sure but actually nothing to do with Seymour. I believe it was the media that broke the spending story.
  
  Frankly, if anyone is expected to apologise for this, those Rail nutters ought to apologise to all the people they caused grief.
  
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  August 18, 2023 5:53pm
Maggie Pie

And here’s another question about this government throwing around taxpayers money willy-nilly….

Would the man who has just received compensation after being wrongly convicted of murder, ever been in a job that would have seen him paid $277,000.00 p.a. for the last 18 years?

Asking for a friend.
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August 18, 2023 1:22pm
- mandk
  
  It’s about a lot more than lost earnings.
  
  Apart from the lost earnings, what would you feel you had missed out on, if you had been in prison wrongfully for 18 years?
  
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  August 18, 2023 1:37pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Career politician?
  
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  August 18, 2023 1:41pm
- cmm
  
  How many meth baggies can you move in 18 years?
  But yes, $277k a year seems a bit high when you also consider he had free housing, food and gym membership.
  But, like you said, just taxpayers’ money!
  
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  August 18, 2023 1:49pm
- PeterB
  
  What price liberty? I dare to suggest it is more than $277kpa.
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:16pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  It’s not just the time spent in Prison, but also time spent on Parole since leaving prison, and a recall to prison based on very dubious circumstances.
  
  All in all, since the age of 23 until aged 60, he has been undfer control of the corrections department for things that he didn’t do, and convicted under very dubious evidence that had been altered in ways that may well be deemed criminal.
  
  Imagine if this had happened to you, or someone you cared for. Imagine that the State lied and manipulated evidence, and as a result you lost the ability to have a life because of the dishonesty of people working for the state.
  
  Now come up with a compensation figure that you woud be happy with.
  
  and yes, it sucks that the taxpayer is on the hook for this, but then if that’s the price we pay to have a justice system that is accountable to itself when it gets things wrong, then so be it.
  
  When I was younger, I knew a young man by the name of Aaron Farmer, who had Aspergers and was wrongly convicetd of rape and sentenced to 8 years. He spent nearly 3 years in prison before being exonerated by DNA evidence and it was found that the police had lied.
  
  Aaron got $351000 in compensation in 2011.
  
  He died in a traffic accident in 2019. It’s believed he ended his own life.
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:30pm
  - Ehlana
    
    He basically lost his entire adult life – any chance of a career, of marriage and fatherhood, of a life shared with family, neighbours, friends and colleagues. That’s one hell of a loss. Thank God we had no death penalty.
    
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    August 18, 2023 4:02pm
- surfing
  
  I’d certainly not exchange 18 years in prison in return for 5 million.
  
  50 million is my price. Even then…
  
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  August 18, 2023 3:30pm
- Colville
  
  I wouldnt do one year of prison and being raped for $5mil.
  
  But you think its ok value Maggie??
  
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  August 18, 2023 4:48pm
Colville

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/132770045/woman-who-threatened-to-blow-up-an-aircraft-back-in-court-for-drink-driving-causing-injury

I think she may be an 11 on the crazy/hot matrix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbpGkrViOcE&ab_channel=SamPotter
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August 18, 2023 1:56pm
- Inandout
  
  Col, stuff has asked:
  ‘How does this story make you feel?’
  
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  August 18, 2023 2:54pm
  - Colville
    
    I would probably be dumb enough to take a crack at her after a couple of pints…!
    
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    August 18, 2023 6:05pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      My partner reckoned Judge Phillips probably had a hard-on.
      
      LOL!!
      
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      August 18, 2023 7:12pm
- Prince
  
  ‘Intensive Supervision’…!
  Used to be prison I guess, but now we sentence people to, presumably, one-on-one incarceration in their own homes.
  
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  August 18, 2023 3:15pm
Chuck Bird

This is great news.

Alan Hall to get $5 million and apology for wrongful murder conviction

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/alan-hall-to-get-5m-and-apology-for-wrongful-murder-conviction/BQHOWDXAGBEYBGGXCRH3SOXCQI/
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August 18, 2023 3:17pm
Ghost

Saw a few greens signs today, interestingly they were all on farms right beside national signs
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August 18, 2023 3:39pm
Maggie Pie

Things that make you go hmmm

Thort this might be worth sharing…my partner was saying Elon has just sold all his BTC.

Over USD $370 mill.
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August 18, 2023 3:44pm
Ghost

What a dick comment, of course William is going to support his team, stupid Aussie twit,

Prince William’s Fifa Women’s World Cup Matildas comment slammed by Socceroo great
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August 18, 2023 4:32pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  According to ‘PinkNews’ over half the Matildas are lesbians….
  
  Who would’ve thunk?
  
  https://twitter.com/TarquinVas/status/1692064551985115546
  
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  August 18, 2023 4:44pm
  - Blog-aholic
    
    Well known fact that a large numbre of women in Soccer (and hockey) are gay.
    That said who cares who they bat for as long as that is not at the heart of what they say and do and that it isn’t rammed down our throats.
    It is their business and should not have to be mandated as our business.
    
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    August 18, 2023 4:51pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      I played hockey at Boarding School.
      
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      August 18, 2023 6:04pm
  - AitchW
    
    Who cares? None of anyone’s business!
    
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    August 18, 2023 5:59pm
- Hollyfield
  
  The article also states that Craig Foster is also co-chairman of the Australian Republican Movement and quotes him “I’ve always had an aversion to the concept of royalty — the concept that one set of humans is more special than any other,”
  
  So actually, it’s not that Prince William’s tweet was patronising – I thought it was a nice tweet – actually the issue is that Mr Foster hates the monarchy and he would criticise anything that Prince William says.
  
  Contrast that with Russell Brand’s podcast after the death of Queen Elizabeth II – where he was very clear that he doesn’t support the institution of the monarchy but has the utmost respect for the individuals within it, and especially for QEII. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqPT-2nUA1s
  
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  August 18, 2023 6:09pm
Maggie Pie

Did you see on the News the contingent of Police Officers lined up outside the Angels HQ in Marua Rd? Must have been about 50 of them.

Senior Sargent tells the reporter…. they are there to ensure the travelling public are not inconvenienced tomorrow during the ‘gang funeral’.

First time in 6 years and 2 months out from the election.

Just saying 😀
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August 18, 2023 6:30pm
H. Upmann

Head Hunters on Marua Maggie. Angels are on Brentwood, Mt Eden
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August 18, 2023 6:49pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  WOOPSIE…..My mistake H!
  
  Wonder if the lady from the Census managed to get past their gate?
  Didn’t have a sh!t show at our place 😀
  
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  August 18, 2023 7:04pm
Ghost

RFK Jr. explains Ukraine, bio-labs, and who killed his uncle

Always interested in what Robert has to Amy about his dad and uncle
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- Ghost
  
  “Almost all of the people associated with (JFK’s assassination) were involved with the Miami Station, which was the largest CIA Station at the time and was basically the Cuban Station”, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. “The people who were involved were people like Bill Harvey and David Atlee Phillips, who was clearly involved in my uncle’s assassination. By all evidence, he was Lee Harvey Oswald’s handler at the CIA. E. Howard Hunt made a confession. David Morales, who was the chief hitman, ran the Operation Phoenix program in Vietnam, he killed ten thousand people, he also gave a confession of being in Dallas.”
  
  The Cuba Station was “angry at my uncle for not sending in air cover during the Bay of Pigs invasion”, Kennedy said. “After the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, my uncle developed this friendship with Khrushchev, and he shut down all the attacks on Cuba by Alpha 66 and other groups who were harassing Cuba and sinking Russian ships. They were operating flotillas out of South Florida, and doing raids. My uncle (JFK) and father (RFK) sent the Coast Guard to confiscate their ships and weaponry and arrest those that kept doing it.”
  
  “Why not just admit it now? Why would Biden not declassify the documents?” related to the JFK assassination, Tucker asked. “And why wouldn’t Trump” declassify the documents, RFK asked. “Because he was convinced by Mike Pompeo not to”, Tucker said.
  
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