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Warren

Here is a list of Jounalists, TV Hosts and Reporters and Labour Party Zealots that consistently spew hate on the National Party and their Leader Christopher Luxon.
Lloyd Burr
Simon Wilson
Jessica Mutch McKay
Jenna Lynch
Jack Tame
John Campbell
Samantha Hayes
Patrick Gower
Tova O’Brien
Miaki Sherman
Benedict Cumberland
Simon Dallow
Wendy Petrie
This is the politically supposed Neutrality that is meant to be in our our Media around New Zealand but instead Belly crawl at every whim to our Government the Labour Party.
This is the future of New Zealand Politics if the voter gives Labour their vote at the upcoming General Election, lies, corruption and deciet, this is your chance to stop this corrupt Government in its tracks with Party vote National or Act .
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September 23, 2023 8:00am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Some of them (you forgot Clare Trevett) just try and ‘twist the narrative’ rather than spew absolute hate…
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:31am
  - pdm
    
    Audrey Young.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:47am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Andrea Vance
      
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      September 23, 2023 10:19am
    - Biscuit
      
      Wash your mouth, pdm!
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:08am
- sht1971
  
  Maybe the next time Luzon is asked how his tax band changes will be funded, his answer should be “Your salaries and funding for a start….”
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:33am
  - kowtow
    
    It’s interesting how te media pa ahti are so concerned about the loss of backroom jobs in useless , unproductive ministries and make such a show of it , challenging their hated “right of centre” parties and yet celebrate or are silent about the destruction by left wing parties of whole industries and/or services that our society and wealth are founded on.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:49am
  - Dodger
    
    sht1971
    Wouldn’t that stop them in their tracks?
    
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    September 23, 2023 11:57am
- Che Guava
  
  My view is that, if the hyenas in the media are going to attack Luxon even though he and his party are generally so milquetoast and orthodox in their approach and policies, National may as well stop the bizarre, self-defeating and self-limiting approach of staying withing limits set by people who hate them, and instead go full fascist (as these same media shills would inevitably characterise it). Why not? They are already arrayed against anything that isn’t 100% to their liking, so what will change if National dropped any pretense of trying to keep the media on side? Kick out the jams, I say.
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:06am
  - leoj
    
    Oh, this one is too easy!
    
    Because Luxon is a sap.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:41am
  - rouppe
    
    You mean go more like the Greens and the Maori Party?
    
    They are the biggest fascists in the room
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:58am
  - Scooter
    
    Milquetoast, word of the day thanks.
    
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    September 23, 2023 6:15pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  What’s National and ACT going to do about that? Three suggestions:
  – shut down or privatise TVNZ and RNZ so Labour can never get their mitts on it again. They’re not worth much now in our streaming age so probably better to shut them down and save the money – or even create a tiny tax cut for the lowest income folk, just to rub the journo’s faces in it.
  
  – Cut all government advertising to all MSM. It’s part of what’s keeping the private sector ones alive.
  
  – Let them die. No bailouts.
  
  Die MSM, Die, starting with a post keying off Karl duFresne, Hostility toward the MSM is not a surprise
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:20am
- Mrs_Right
  
  Jenna Lynch – how she got the job as a senior political reporter on Newshub I don’t know. She is mediocre at best.
  
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  September 23, 2023 1:44pm
  - John Loveridge
    
    She’s as dumb as a post, but she’s the best they’ve got. What does that tell you?
    
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    September 23, 2023 6:57pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Don’t you mean Benedict Collins?
  
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  September 23, 2023 3:37pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    Is Benedict Collins gender fluid ? 😆
    
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    September 23, 2023 4:47pm
- John Loveridge
  
  To be fair, I’ve only ever seen Samantha Hayes reading an autocue. Has she ever offered up opinion of her own?
  
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  September 23, 2023 6:56pm
Captain Mainwaring

Ginny is claiming credit for the decline in ram raids.
She’s dreaming.
The real reason is that due to the number of ram raids the supply of old Mazda 2s is drying up.
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September 23, 2023 8:02am
- 3-coil
  
  Well yes, Spinning-Ginny would say that wouldn’t she. Only yesterday she was straight-out lying to refute “Christopher” Luxon’s crime figures too (where’s the self-appointed so-called Disinformation Project when they should be calling her out?)
  Only a fool would believe a single utterance that dribbled out of Labour’s police minister Ginny Andersen’s mouth.
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:13am
  - Sacha
    
    ‘Spinning Ginny’
    Nice.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:36am
  - pdm
    
    Why do Labour keep putting her up?
    
    Do they think she is Jacinda Mark two. She will need to improve he misinformation selling to catch up to Jacinda.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:52am
    - gravedodger
      
      Quite simple pdm some suggest she is more presentable image wise, she can gob off without saying anything, and fills a need for a comment.
      Very similar to another airhead, and NZ media went along with that idiocy for over five looong yeaars.
      
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      September 23, 2023 10:53am
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      pdm – She will be your PM in 2026 when the NAT/ACT/NZ First coalition of chaos goes belly up.
      
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      September 23, 2023 12:32pm
- Gravelroad
  
  You don’t think that the spinners at Labour HQ are re-measuring what can be described as a ram raid?
  It is common tactic to realign outcomes to paint a better picture.
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:22am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Gravel
    
    Maybe they are now recorded as “impatient shoppers who haven’t yet paid”
    
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    September 23, 2023 8:27am
    - Southern Raider
      
      I think more likely “late night shoppers whose cultural shopping preferences haven’t been supported by capitalists colonial business owners”
      
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      September 23, 2023 9:18am
    - pdm
      
      Takeaway exponents.
      
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      September 23, 2023 9:53am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Dunce Exponents
        
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        September 23, 2023 11:03am
    - igm
      
      Is that like the Wellington mayor doing a runner without paying from restaurants.
      
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      September 23, 2023 2:10pm
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    So Labour does have a proud track record?
    
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    September 23, 2023 8:30am
  - PeeJay
    
    100%. Exhibit A – the 105 number. My step-daughter witnessed a non-life threatening instance a few days ago (just outside a police station by the way!) and called the 105 number. After 15 minutes she gave up.
    
    End result – no reporting, therefore no crime took place.
    
    Same thing will be happening with the ram-raid stat’s. They will be redefined in some clever PR/gibberish way – like ‘ram raids are down by 50% and this is absolutely not connected to the 50% rise in the improper use of a non-owned vehicle resulting in unfortunate breakages of glazed shopfront offences’.
    
    Lies, damned lies and statistics.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:15am
  - RoboRob
    
    You are 100% correct. Some months ago (6?) The police changed the definition of a ram raid. About 40% of ram raids were reclassified as another sort of crime. Labour know this is why there has been a sharp drop. The media know it too.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:06am
    - RoboRob
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/problematic-ram-raid-reporting-prompts-police-to-consider-data-collection-change/QZV52QUB45H5PPE3IH242H5KPY/
      
      Labour comparing last year’s ram raid stats to current stats is just plain misinformation.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:16am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    “Mobile misdemeanour”?
    
    “Drive-thru thieving”?
    
    “Ambulatory self-service”? (Shoplifting)
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:21am
- igm
  
  Main problem being the number of old Demio autos have been written off and the little scrotes cannot handle manuals.
  Seems instructors Arden used taxpayers money to provide driving lessons, could not handle manuals either!
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:23am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Only 21 sleeps until Labours arse is booted out the door. Cant wait.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:26am
  - peterwn
    
    It is by no means a fait accompli. The old B……. may well still get >5%.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:43am
  - leoj
    
    ….and replaced with a sappy, weak, woke National Govt.
    
    The improvement will be slight and maybe immeasurable.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:44am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Yes leoj
      
      This time next year I wonder what NZ will be like.
      
      Even if we have to rely on the laws of chance you would have to believe it will be better.
      
      Fingers crossed
      
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      September 23, 2023 2:40pm
- kowtow
  
  It could be a lot more serious .
  
  On NZME talkback yesterday they were discussing the “latest trend” among these scrotes , ram raids no longer ‘cool’.
  
  Worryingly the new craze is knocking people over with car door or car .
  
  Happening already .
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:31am
  - Colville
    
    That has been a thing for thirty years at least.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:39am
    - kowtow
      
      How long has tik tok been around ?
      
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      September 23, 2023 9:54am
      - Colville
        
        5 yrs?
        
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        September 23, 2023 10:17am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        I don’t know, but this is still one of my all-time favourite clips of the “kiki” challenge going horribly wrong. Give that man a DB!
        
        https://metro.co.uk/video/angry-man-slaps-guy-doing-drakes-kiki-challenge-1776838/
        
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        September 23, 2023 10:25am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Captain – Ginny is so cute.
  
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  September 23, 2023 12:26pm
  - igm
    
    Specsavers will be able to assist . . . you have problems!
    
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    September 23, 2023 2:13pm
Yvette

Alex Holland on Kiwiblog last Monday morning: “All of Labour’s race based policies” –
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2023/09/alex_holla;:nd_on_all_of_labours_race_based_policies.html

Of 156 bullet-pointed paragraphs, one on “3 Waters” could be summarised as. –

• The amendment bill allows for public submissions (Community Priority Statements) but with limited consideration, while it imposes a stronger obligation on Water Services Entities to respond to Te Mana o te Wai Statements, which grants more influence to local Maori. This has not beien prominently disclosed by the Labour government, and it primarily affects operational-level decision-making, as opposed to the 50% co-governance at the Regional Representative Groups level.

As far as I can see, the Water Services Entities Amendment Bill, section 145AB, “Who is eligible person”, allows Maori to make Community Priority Statements, as well as non-Maori.
But Mana o te Wai Statements [1] are available to Maori only – and what exactly are these undefined statements for?

This is perhaps the question which Luxon should’ve asked in the leaders ‘s debate when they mentioned co-management versus co-governance.

In fact Luxon should have asked Why is one ethnic minority given priority over all other ethnic groups?
Actually he should be asking that quite often
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[1] Thomas Cranmer has written – The Unbridled Power of Te Mana o te Wai
https://www.thedailyexaminer.co.nz/the-unbridled-power-of-te-mana-o-te-wai/
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September 23, 2023 8:06am
- rouppe
  
  But Mana o te Wai Statements [1] are available to Maori only – and what exactly are these undefined statements for?
  
  Anything they want
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:22am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  A question, Yvette: does the Mana o te Wai Statement clause distinguish between mana whenua (local iwi, who in Labour’s eyes would have some kind of vested interest in local water); and manuhiri Maoris (from iwis outside the local water catchment area); and if not, why not?
  
  Manuhiri Maoris, it would seem to me, would have less at stake than a pakeha family who have lived locally for generations.
  
  And BTW, what constitutes mana whenua when so many Māoris have many iwis in their genealogy?
  
  Lots of questions, unasked or answered publicly by Labour.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:22am
- KH
  
  “ordinary Maori” won’t get a look in for these statements. It’s reserved for the elite troughers. Who will be paid well. A spend time entrenching their position.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:39am
  - Biscuit
    
    Agreed, KH.
    
    One of my pals is a near-millionaire Maori chap who disassociates himself completely from the leftist wokist clique of Maori, all very big on claiming enitlements for said Maori but very small on actually delivering any tangible benefis to them.
    
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    September 23, 2023 11:13am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Why is one ethnic minority given priority over all other ethnic groups?
  
  Oh, that’s because their ancestors were here first. That means they have all this innate knowledge about how water needs to be treated. All completely reasonable.
  Not.
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:09am
  - Ehlana
    
    Because they had water treatment facilities before Europeans arrived?
    
    Do we have many Kiwis of Italian descent? How many centuries before Maori came into existance did the Romans build their aquaducts?
    
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    September 23, 2023 7:32pm
Yvette

i>Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has been asked to comment on the outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in Queenstown.
“I’ve asked the Minister of Health to lead the response. Dr Verrall will lead [a] ministerial team to make sure that we’re getting a speedier response.
… once we know what’s happened, we’ll know where the accountability for whatever has happened lies. Then we need to get a solution as quickly as possible.”
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/21/election-live-jacinda-ardern-reveals-details-of-new-book/

In this matter what part is played by the official Water Regulator, Taumata Awowai?

Our name Taumata Arowai was gifted to us by Hon Nanaia Mahuta, the previous Minister of Local Government.

Arowai speaks to the attention to be in the presence of wai .It conveys our focus on wai as a taonga, and our focus to put wai mauri, wai mana and wai ora at the centre of everything we do. \

The establishment of Taumata Arowai is one of three pou, pillars, of the Government’s Water Services Reform Programme (the other pou are regulatory and service delivery reform).

The establishment of an independent water regulator was also born out of historical incidents like that of Havelock North and others. As a consequence we have the enactment of Taumata Arowai – the Water Services Regulator Act 2020 and the need for regulatory oversight to lift the performance of the system that delivers for the Water Services Reform Programme .

15 November 2021 – Taumata Arowai became the water services regulator for Aotearoa [New Zealand].
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September 23, 2023 8:08am
- Benedict Yu
  
  “It conveys our focus on wai as a taonga, and our focus to put wai mauri, wai mana and wai ora at the centre of everything we do.“
  
  Perhaps it should focus on the causes and prevention of water borne pathogens. Like every other water quality regulator in the OECD. Of course New Zealand water regulators did exactly that for a century. If there was an outbreak of water borne disease it meant that something went wrong. It did not mean that everything needed to be upended and spirituality embraced as the basis of water regulation.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:18am
  - Yvette
    
    Why is there an arrow on my hotel room ceiling?
    Such arrows are known as Qibla pointers. They indicate the direction of Islam’s holiest site: the Kaaba, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
    
    Consider if there was such an arrow on your kitchen ceiling and you had to pay obeisance to te Ao Maori each time you turn a tap on
    To re-establish separation between state and religion, the Maori advisory council, that resides over the water regulator, should be disbanded
    Wai not
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:48am
    - Master Mariner
      
      On ships the holy ones come too the bridge because of the compass and direction.
      Right nuscience.
      
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      September 23, 2023 2:19pm
  - Prophetess
    
    Its Ok “Maori have always been scientists”
    https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/courses/maor/202/2024
    
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    September 23, 2023 12:16pm
    - John Loveridge
      
      It’s just so ridiculous one wants to scream.
      
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      September 23, 2023 7:13pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Taumata Arowai regulates the water suppliers. It’s for the water supplier to manage water quality.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:25am
  - Yvette
    
    So what really is the function of Taumata Arowai?
    Is it to read the Newshub website and then email Queenstown Council to tell them that there appears to be something in your water, and when you find out what the hell the problem is, tell us so we can demand an apology for profaning te Ao Maori, in particular te mana o te wai
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:00am
    - wsk12345
      
      It should be to monitor water quality and deviations from it, and ensure that management of the water assets is in line with (at least) good practice. It should ensure that unless the entity is on top of all maintenance and capex works, that every last dollar charged by councils for water services is spent on water services (unlike the example of wellington today where they divert most of the money to sexier projects, just as the Dunedin City Council did with its electricity assets.)
      
      This is a role that should be added to the existing regulation of electricity, gas and telco businesses by the ComCom. The approach to regulating various types of network businesses is broadly the same around the world, water is not special, and the expertise does not need to be duplicated.
      
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      September 23, 2023 10:34am
    - Paulus
      
      The function of Taumata Arowai is to give very highly paid jobs to the Maori Elite.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:09am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I haven’t seen any analysis of where the crypto has come from. There is always the possibility that a fan of Three Waters deliberately introduced it into the water supply as a reason to vote Left.
  
  If you think that seems paranoid, recall the instances of northern hemisphere wild fires apparently being started by climate fanatics.
  
  I sincerely hope that NZ has not descended to that level.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:29am
  - Matt Long
    
    According to the “expert” it’s because of lambing? Lambs are born infected with crypto? Perhaps central Otago farmers could explain because it makes no sense to me.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:36am
    - Ghost
      
      According to the farming show yesterday on zb, lambing hasn’t even started in that area yet.
      
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      September 23, 2023 9:44am
      - Tom Hunter
        
        Good grief, what farming show is that? I’ve just driven through the area and there are lambs everywhere, as I’d expect for mid-September.
        
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        September 23, 2023 12:29pm
  - kowtow
    
    tv “news” had a uni wallah blaming lambing season.( not a certainty , but a suspicion)
    
    Odd then how it doesn’t happen every year ……who knows.
    
    But we do know that farmers are a very convenient whipping boy , as well as a fashionably villifiable class of people , in this woke period we live in.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:43am
  - greybeard
    
    I agree, NMTB: in fact I sent the following email to Hosking yesterday at 7:36am.
    ” If the main water supply was the problem then why are so few people affected ?
    I smell a rat – maybe a rat in the water supply, but definitely there is something bloody wrong here.
    Why has this problem only manifested itself now, if the supposedly-guilty infrastructure has been in place for so long ?
    Looks like a setup for some reason. “
    
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    September 23, 2023 12:26pm
    - greybeard
      
      As an adjunct to my comment above, there are now apparently 29 cases .
      Out of a population of how many, in Queenstown ?
      Plus visitors ?
      
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      September 23, 2023 2:58pm
Im Right

I see Winston is reverting back to his old true self and lambasting anyone/everyone that does not put him on a pedestal or indeed ask the questions he wants to be asked.
I’m no fan of the mainstream media, but not a good idea to piss them off 4 weeks from election…..but I do agree than ANY coverage is better than NO coverage.
Ohhh I hope he gets 4.9 in the final count, but the old bugger will, in my opinion, get around 7%.
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September 23, 2023 8:13am
- imalwaysright
  
  I’m,
  
  Why wouldn’t it be a good idea to piss the media off.
  
  The mainstream media ratings are about the same as the labour party and most of those viewers are either habitual or gluttons for punishment .
  
  Pissing the media off should be like getting a downtick here. A badge of honour .
  Eh Clan?!
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:15am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    imalwaysright – indeed! I’ve just posted below re Peters. Let the downticks flood in!
    
    Some people just hate hearing the truth. Tragic.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:09am
- PeeJay
  
  I have a horrible feeling you might be right about the likely 7% – it would seem that far too many people have very short memories.
  
  I’ve even heard a variation on the dreaded ‘keep national honest’ routine, although not as frequently as in 2017.
  
  I dread the 3 to 4 week circus that will eventuate if he gets in a position to hold the balance of power – as both Labour and National prostrate themselves before him trying to curry favour.
  
  While I hear a few folks saying they are reasonably sure he’d go with National this time, I remember the same confidence in 2017 and look how that turned out. Winston will extract a heavy price for power – and while his need for revenge against National may have been satisfied, he will still want a hell of a lot for his backing – it will be a heavy price to pay to secure his backing and I’m afraid that Labour will be willing to pay any price to retain power. You don’t need to be a genius to see how this will end up.
  
  I personally hope he fall’s short and is finally consigned to the history bin. I fear I may be disappointed and he ends up holding the fate of the country in his hands again.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:29am
  - Prince
    
    Have no doubts, if given the chance Peters will choose Labour again. Just look at Hipkins’ performance over the last 12 weeks – there is nothing he wouldn’t say or promise to stay in power.
    National is committed to tax cuts.
    Peters WILL choose Labour. Factor that in when you vote.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:51am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      “Peters WILL choose Labour. Factor that in when you vote.”
      
      I disagree. Peters MAY choose Labour.
      
      If Luxon as well as Seymour treat him badly that could happen.
      
      I say Sir Bob Jones is no fool.
      
      https://nopunchespulled.com/2023/09/19/the-winston-dilemma/
      
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      September 23, 2023 10:20am
    - wsk12345
      
      It depends on whether he stands by his bottom lines eg around vax mandates, co governance etc. none of those will stand up in a Labo/tpm/green arrangement. He will find it harder to sell to voters than last time round given he has specifically sold himself on 3 or 4 policies. I don’t think he had done that last time.
      
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      September 23, 2023 10:38am
- John Loveridge
  
  We can all be thankful that he is 78 and unlikely to blight the political landscape for much longer.
  
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  September 23, 2023 7:15pm
Matt Long

[Leave it in the cesspit media please. mod.]
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September 23, 2023 8:19am
- john1234
  
  And so we now see satire censored on KB.
  
  Sad and disappointing to see a site that claims to support free speech censoring satire. It’s a slippery slope from there.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:12am
  - Matt Long
    
    Honestly you cannot expect moderators to get it right all the time, but that was particularly pathetic.
    
    [Mod – different mod, this blog does not do rape jokes]
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:39am
    - Matt Long
      
      I think you are mis-characterising the Tweet, unfortunately now people cannot judge for themselves.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:33am
  - Inandout
    
    john, censorship takes a back seat to the slooow loading of KB. I have a modern laptop that works perfectly and fast broadband.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:56am
  - Lee C
    
    John 1234,
    
    if your satire gets censored, you just aren’t doing it well enough.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:37am
- Matt Long
  
  The twitter post is obvious satire, and a reference to the attacks on Russell Brand.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:16am
Matt Long

And a Tweet by Winston Peters in October 2021 calling for no parole or sole for unvaccinated.
https://twitter.com/TonyStuart55/status/1705299855944581322
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September 23, 2023 8:22am
- Nickc2
  
  The great charlatan.
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:41am
- Souvlaki
  
  In fact, Peters is the ‘Joe Biden’ of NZ politics!
  Full of crap & demented.
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:42am
- greybeard
  
  Send this post to Hosking & HDPA for more coverage.
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:42am
- Swifty
  
  Classic!
  
  Don’t just beware of the siren’s call, actively block your ears to it. The sirens lure you to your doom.
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:45am
  - John Loveridge
    
    Sirens tend to be much more sexually attractive than Winston Peters though.
    
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    September 23, 2023 7:16pm
- Damocles11
  
  https://twitter.com/Coltheman1/status/1705317059402645806
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:59am
- PeeJay
  
  Wait a minute…..are you saying that this bold knight who stands for those who were persecuted for daring to be unvaccinated might be a complete hypocrite? No! Well colour me shocked……not!
  
  Hopefully this quote from Life of Brian should help those who still believe he is the messiah:
  
  “He’s not the messiah he’s a very naughty boy”
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:47am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Maybe he changed his mind as he received more information .
    
    It can happen to anyone.
    
    Well, anyone who is pragmatic and isn’t a blinkered ideologue.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:03am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Because changing your mind when presented with new information is a bad thing?
    
    Ask Benedict Yu about that. He was rightly lauded for changing his original position re all things covid.
    
    The fear/hatred of Peters is visceral. Maybe have a chat with your party MPs and ask them what they can do to negate the risk? I’ve got a couple of ideas…..
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:21am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Well said Clan.
      
      It is getting tedious. A bit like all the dogs start howling when they hear a siren.
      
      We are looking at a government that will actively restrict what the MPs can talk about.
      
      Covid and Climate narratives must not be questioned. The desire for diversity seems to mean a demand of conformity.
      They do fear Winston.
      
      Hardly a house of representatives.
      
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      September 23, 2023 10:44am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Perhaps not all things covid. Specifically I was dismayed to be told that the vaccine was 95 percent effective, only to analyse the data and to discover it was not very effective at all. In turn, that 95 percent number was used to justify excluding the unvaccinated from society.
      
      So if I figure if the pharmaceutical companies and the government plain lie about the effectiveness, what else do they lie about?
      
      I looked at the data daily for 12 months so I think I am qualified in my conclusions.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:10am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        BY – I think you understand my point though? There is nothing wrong with someone changing position on something when presented with new and relevant information.
        
        The breakthrough for me re the nonsensical 95% effective claim was someone explaining to me the difference between Absolute Risk Reduction and Relative Risk Reduction.
        
        One shouldn’t be used without the other to give people full information. The ARR for the covid jab was 0.84%. That number was never mentioned because it didn’t help sell the narrative.
        
        So many lies and distortions used that have done so much damage to peoples’ trust in institutions. Now they want to pretend nothing happened.
        
        What a disaster.
        
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        September 23, 2023 11:24am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Yes of course I take your point 😀
        
        When I saw the first claims, I think I commented here that the vaccines would end the pandemic. Exactly like measles vaccines end, literally, measles outbreaks. 🤯
        
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        September 23, 2023 12:39pm
    - Pineapple Lumps
      
      Changing one’s mind when faced with new information is one thing. But that is not the same as when a politician campaigns for your votes claiming the items that they will champion in parliament, but when they get in power you find that they don’t stand for those things. Instead they have let all those things go for the position of Deputy PM and $1b PGF.
      
      Clan – I too am disappointed by all the elected parties position on Covid. Labour were the perpetrators but apart from Bridges and Collins at times, minor actions by Hipango, there were no dissenting voices. No opposition. This was largely due to the mass compliance of kiwis, too many bloody sheep, and the ability of the legacy media to exploit that.
      
      So the choices for me are:
      
      1. Vote Nats/ACT – make sure we get rid of labour/greens ruiners of the economy and sowers of division.
      2. Protest vote on Covid – options are Democracy NZ and Loyal. Essentially your vote will be allocated on the basis of the overall, but there is visibility of the dissatisfaction.
      3. Winston first vote – what will be truely important to him on the other side of the vote? – based on his previous two goes it won’t be what he campaigned on. I’ve given Winston first my vote once, never again. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
      
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      September 23, 2023 12:01pm
      - wsk12345
        
        Given the NZ loyal debacle with their list, you should write it off for sheer incompetence.
        
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        September 23, 2023 4:03pm
    - Damocles11
      
      The ‘new information’ Winston received was him & his party getting kicked out of Parliament in 2020. Now he needs votes from ‘the Covid people’.
      
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      September 23, 2023 1:47pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        So vote for Luxon who is pushing an even bigger lie than covid, net zero? Best we drop this conversation, it’s a waste of energy. Talking past each other.
        
        I understand what Peters is probably doing. I don’t understand why people give Luxon a bye ball over his lunatic net zero fantasy. All good. Think I’ll go for a late game of golf, enjoy the rest of your day.
        
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        September 23, 2023 2:56pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    And “net zero” Luxon is?
    
    …..lol
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:23am
- kowtow
  
  I enjoy fresh fish , when it’s not too expensive .
  
  But like Peters , if it you let it hang around for too long it becomes very offensive to the nostrils.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:58am
- ClanMcleod
  
  What were the other parties saying in October 2021? They were ALL onboard, and all they did was play politics trying to outdo each other on how the would do EXACTLY the same policies.
  
  Don’t focus on what Peters said without remembering what everyone else was saying at the same time.
  
  Chris “get boosted” Bishop wanted to go door to door and wanted to bribe people to get jabbed.
  
  Seymour STILL claims the jabs are safe and effective, STILL claims they didn’t kill anyone, STILL claims there is no excess all cause mortality in NZ and ridicules anyone daring to send him data proving he is talking crap.
  
  We know what Hipkins was saying. He was going to hunt down those who resisted. Seig Heil!!
  
  Peters might be lying. He might not. But he’s the ONLY person saying anything in opposition to what was inflicted on us over the last 3+ years.
  
  If you hate the idea of him being in parliament so much then speak to the politicians in the party you do support.
  THEY are the people who will be responsible for him getting back in for being too cowardly to address this.
  
  Browbeating, demeaning and abusing anyone who dares say they are considering voting for Peters isn’t going to change their mind. It’s more likely to harden their resolve.
  I get your frustration, but it’s not the voters’ fault that he’s the only person speaking about what, for many, is still the biggest concern for them going forward.
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:07am
  - Che Guava
    
    Indeed, Clan. So Peters changed his tune on Covid for political expediency. OK, that’s to be expected. But as far as I’m aware, National and ACT, or at least the leaders thereof, haven’t changed theirs yet at all.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:14am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Che Guava – even worse, they are acting like kindy kids pretending nothing even happened and point blank refusing to speak about it!!
      
      It’s bizarre behaviour by apparently intelligent adults. Almost as concerning is the rage of many on this blog, probably because they know this, and can’t do anything about it. I struggle to comprehend this.
      I can understand the intense dislike of Peters, but I don’t understand why so many apparently can’t admit that the problem is, the cowardice of the respective parties that they support. Weird.
      
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      September 23, 2023 10:26am
      - Dodger
        
        Clan, I know you are very strong on this covid disaster, but if Hipkins came out and said ,”we got it wrong and made a huge mistake”.
        Would you vote for Labour?
        
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        September 23, 2023 12:24pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Dodger – not a chance. I was a 40 year labour supporter, I will NEVER vote for them or the Greens in my life again, I will actively campaign and persuade others to not vote for them. They are nor the party of the worker as they were founded to be. They have turned into dangerous, totalitarian, ideological fascists.
        
        If you read the Thomas Cranmer blog posts re the whole covid bullshit, it is clear that they were given advice by the relevant experts that this thing was totally experimental, that it was dangerous to young people in particular.
        
        https://cranmer.substack.com/
        
        That it was dangerous to pregnant women.
        This information is also on the Medsafe website here if you want to read it.
        
        https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/Comirnaty-RMP.pdf
        
        The government totally ignored this advice, lied, propagandised and overhyped the jabs as ‘safe and effective’ when it is clear that they knew this was untrue.
        This information is also available to National and Act. They did NOTHING to stop this going ahead.
        
        I wouldn’t piss on Hipkins if he was on fire. But National and Act refuse to even admit there has been a bit of a problem in the last few years?
        
        You might think there are more important things to worry about, I don’t! There has been zero comment from National or Act that assures me that this insanity wouldn’t be repeated at some point.
        
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        September 23, 2023 3:06pm
    - mawm
      
      I suspect there is more to this than just politicians who won’t change their minds. Did Jacinda get the leaders of the parties in parliament to sign a non disclosure agreement?
      
      What was it about? CIA (5 eyes) telling them it was an escaped bioweapon and we all had to get vaccinated so that we didn’t die?? We know that the US DoD managed the distribution of the vaccine, we know that Fauci and his mates were doing gain of function for the US military (DARPA) and the CIA was helping fund it through USAID.
      
      Can we claim reparations??
      
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      September 23, 2023 10:36am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        mawm – all very relevant points, but why is Peters breaking any agreement if there was one? Why are the others not able to do the same thing? If there was such an agreement was Peters excluded? He would surely be talking about it if he was aware of it?
        
        It truly is bizarre behaviour and has me totally perplexed. I reckon I could draught a paragraph in ten minutes that could negate Peters instantly if it was presented properly, and I’m a bloody broken down, semi retired tradie!!
        
        I think it is really quite simple. The respective parties have turned to their focus groups and advisors and are being told the subject is a net negative in the polls. It’s all I can think of, but it is very concerning.
        
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        September 23, 2023 11:31am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Che
      
      Why do you write that he changed his tune on covid for political expediency ?
      
      Maybe he learned something contrary to what he previously believed .
      
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      September 23, 2023 10:55am
    - Matt Long
      
      Peters sees a niche to get over the threshold, Luxon, Seymour see more votes in letting the majority who jumped in the covid scam wagon feel like they were right all along.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:17am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Matt Long – probably the simplest answer. See my post re National/Act political advisors and focus groups.
        They’ve clearly been told it’s a net negative. For Peters it’s a net positive.
        
        Looks like Peters will be back and all that’s left now is how the other parties best deal with this issue.
        
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        September 23, 2023 11:34am
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    Clan – Peters isn’t the only one speaking out. He is the only one getting coverage and cut through. Why are the MSM happy to give him coverage but not others who did more to stand up against the Covid communists?
    
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    September 23, 2023 12:06pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Pineapple Lumps – please reference whatever you have. Please. I am looking very hard for somewhere to place my votes. I am no fan of Peters.
      
      If someone is speaking out point me to them cheers.
      
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      September 23, 2023 3:09pm
      - Matt Long
        
        Clan, I believe he means the parties for those who don’t wish to have parliamentary representation.
        
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        September 23, 2023 4:48pm
- Miritu
  
  Yes, but at least Winston Peters changed his position and had the guts to go out and talk to protesters in the face of a hostile media and parliament. Despite his past track record, he’s still better than National and Act, who still cling to the establishment narrative and who likely would have imposed even harsher mandates had they been in power.
  
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  September 23, 2023 12:21pm
  - Damocles11
    
    That’s ridiculous speculation. ‘Even harsher mandates’?! Turn it up. You should be commenting over at The Standard.
    
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    September 23, 2023 1:51pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Bollocks. He made a cursory pass through the protest, then adjourned to a bar up the road for a feed and refreshments. It was nothing more than a publicity stunt.
    
    I have little time for Matt King, but at least he stayed down there for a few days supporting people
    
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    September 23, 2023 3:43pm
- pm5112
  
  What a fuckwit
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:46pm
Bridgenag

Friday Funnies: Without Big Government…
Who would take care of us?
[Good Oz video in this one….]

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/friday-funnies-without-big-government?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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September 23, 2023 8:30am
Grunter

The release of ACT’s Alternative Budget has, as expected, gone under the radar of most Kiwis. But it should be a wake up call to how dire the country’s financial situation is. Arguably ACT is the most ‘radical’ and fiscally tight of all parties, so this is as good as it can get.!!! Bill English would probably have resigned if he printed ACT’s numbers… They are horrible.

Go read the details on their website if you want, but below is a quick summary:
Core Crown Debt:
Under Labour…..
2019 it was $58 B
2023/24 $163B

ACT
2023/24: $160B
2024/25: $171b
2025/26: $177b
2026/27: $185 b

Of course Labours plans will see the debt go well over $200b, probably close to $250b.

All this debt (ACT) will cost in excess of $10 b pa in interest costs, likely to go higher as global bonds continue to push higher and global risk increases. Think about that. $10b in sunk costs. That isnt paying off the debt it is just the interest.

ACT will run deficits most years and will spend up large on defence and prisons. And of course there are some small changes to income tax that take about $5b pa out of revenue.

So, my point is this. The country is now in a serious financial position. Even our most “right wing” party can not make the numbers work. Growing debt to around $200b means it will never be paid back. Lifting tax and retirement age would get you voted out of office. Cutting core govt services would get you voted out of office. There is no mathematical solution that is politically acceptable to the majority of Kiwis.

A measley surplus of say $2b pa means it takes 100 yrs to pay back the debt. Until the next crisis hits and we all go into lockdown and spend another $100 billion!!!

So, tell your kids and grandkids that Ardern and Robertson have stuffed the country for good. And that their lifetime taxes will fund our last 6 yrs of complete nuttiness.

Grant Robertson – thanks for ruining New Zealand!
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September 23, 2023 8:31am
- Southern Raider
  
  Can we bankrupt the country and start again? Works for other third world countries.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:21am
  - Grunter
    
    Like Zimbabwe? Argentina? Take your pick that’s where we are heading if Labour get back in anytime in the future.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:39am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      I’ve been saying for a couple of years now, New Zimbabwe is a best case scenario.
      
      This level of debt, this level of non-performance of our education sector, this level of focus on divisive trivia over productivity and building tangible useful infrastructure.
      
      Taken together, it is virtually impossible to change direction. New Zealand has been deliberately sabotaged by successive Labour governments, and then not changed by National governments who simply administer bad policy slightly better.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:21am
- PeeJay
  
  Good to see this is being discussed by a few.
  
  There is a serious issue here – I think we may have reached the tipping point that there is no longer a least bad option to get out of this financial mess. Very soon, even under National I fear, we are going to get to a point where interest payments are almost half of our health budget.
  
  You know how bad things are when even ACT realise the savage cuts required to solve the issue would mean they are unelectable.
  
  The problem is that eventually, the piper will need to be paid – and at that point, we will not have the choice.
  
  While I doubt we are looking at a Venezuela or Zimbabwe route, although not unfeasible if the Greens and Maori party have a real say, we’re probably going to end up more like the technocratic governments of Italy or Greece where the leaders are elected but the real power is held by unelected and appointed technical experts / bureaucrats, foisted on them by the likes of the EU and IMF etc.
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:15am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    As per the NYT bestselling book by John Perkins. “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”.
    
    Nicely summarised in this short animation.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=confessions+of+an+economic+hitman+animation
    
    Looks more and more like NZ is in the UN/WEF/IMF/WHO tractor beam. (Mahuta signed us up to the WHO Pandemic Treaty a couple of days ago, didn’t read about that in the Whoreald!)
    
    https://www.who.int/news/item/28-02-2022-new-zealand-and-who-partnering-for-a-healthier-future
    
    The lack of action from most of our politicians seems to concur with this.
    Again, the ‘great charlatan’, Peters, is the only one to speak out about the risk to our sovereignty.
    
    Are the other politicians so naive and unaware? Or are they just happily complying with everything that comes their way to hang on to their overpaid, cushy jobs?
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:33am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Can’t frighten the horses until the head of the snake is cut off – IOW get rid of this disastrous government first, then the big changes can be made. They don’t have to broadcast them until the battle has been won. This is a war we are in – don’t give the enemy any warning of what is about to happen.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:18am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Don Beckett – I hope you are correct for all our sakes. Particularly our kids and grandkids.
        
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        September 23, 2023 11:37am
      - mawm
        
        Don – that is very Winston’esque! Promise one thing and do another. How many of the frightened horses are voting Luxon because he is centre left? How will they feel next election if he makes changes that are not in line with his projected policies?
        
        Luxon is politically left. He will not change but he’ll manage the disaster better.
        
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        September 23, 2023 1:12pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        mawm.
        Did the Lange government advertise their radical economic changes before the election? I don’t recall so, but I was living in Oz at that time. If my memory serves me well, Roger Douglas came up with these reforms after the election, and were embraced by the electorate. Lange lost the next election, because he decided to “have a cup of tea and consider……..”
        
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        September 23, 2023 4:56pm
      - Ghost
        
        Lange won his second election, but stood down in 89, palmer took over, and then Moore.
        
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        September 23, 2023 5:18pm
- Grunter
  
  Seymour has just cancelled his trip to Dunedin today. Txting from Nicola Willis….
  
  Nicola: David, Can we catch up today – my spreadsheet doesn’t seem to be working and Chris wants the numbers by Monday?
  
  David: oK I’ll cancel my Dunedin trip…. C u at the usual place?
  
  Nicola: yep. Is it OK if I bring Bill along this time – he was always good at this stuff?
  
  David: Yep
  
  Nicola: And can you bring your spreadsheet – it seems to still be saying we’re completely broke?
  
  David: Yep & Yep
  
  Nicola: 😮🫣
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:24am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Grunter – Any defence spending is a waste of money. Even PNG police force can defeat us. Move on ACT.
  
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  September 23, 2023 12:37pm
Taieri

“Dunedin climate experts, public sector leaders and campaigners are clamouring for the Dunedin City Council to immediately adopt a plan to reach carbon zero by 2030.”

“University of Otago’s acting vice-chancellor Prof Richard Blaikie said the city needed to “aggressively” reduce greenhouse gas emissions to reach and hopefully exceed the target.”

“The adoption of the plan would help Te Whatu Ora achieve its own carbon zero aims, and support improved health outcomes for the people of Dunedin . . . We urge the council to adopt the plan.”

“With every tenth of a degree of warming we lose lives and livelihoods,” Otago Regional Council councillor Elliot Weir said.

University of Otago Associate Prof of environmental health Alex Macmillan said:”Already at over 1°C of average heating, we are seeing devastating effects from super-heated storms, extreme heatwaves, droughts and wildfires. The effects are being felt here, including pushing up food prices and cost of living.”

“Redesigning our streets, transitioning away from gas boilers, cutting speed limits, funding public/active transport infrastructure, using regulatory levers — the DCC needs to do all of this and more.”

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/councillors-vote-zero-carbon-plan

Surely, this is not what they intended when all inmates of lunatic asylums were released into a “community care”?
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September 23, 2023 8:35am
- Southern Raider
  
  Why does Whatu Ora have no targets on hospital wait times and ED emissions, but Otago University thinks they need to be supported on their zero emissions target.
  
  How does zero emissions help Whatu Ora improve health outcomes?
  
  Time to close down Otago Uni as well. There is some massive cost savings for ACT
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:23am
  - pdm
    
    SR. Even if your comment was satirical we cannot close down Otago Uni because we need to build up the med school part.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:04am
    - Matt Long
      
      Why not outsource medical training to India, give an Indian University the modules needed to practice in New Zealand and get quality graduates for a quarter what it now costs the taxpayer.
      
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      September 23, 2023 10:34am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I have said this before but it is worth repeating.
  
  There are folk who are convinced that changing co2 emissions in Dunedin will change the climate of Dunedin (or Wellington or Auckland). It is of course insane.
  
  At a National scale I have heard James Shaw cite the recent cyclone in justifying further action to reduce New Zealand emissions. That is similarly insane.
  
  Local government has no business in adopting these climate change policies. I don’t know the marginal abatement costs of emissions in New Zealand. And these clowns won’t know either. Maybe it is in New Zealand’s interests for Otago emissions to increase over the next 30 years.
  
  Without wishing to be hyperbolic, these “net zero”, folk like Associate Prof of environmental health Alex MacMillan trigger in me memories of “Year Zero” in Cambodia in 1975.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:35am
  - kevn
    
    BY… MA shaw? lol
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:38am
  - rouppe
    
    You could eliminate every living thing in this country, and the climate will not be influenced one bit
    
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    September 23, 2023 11:41am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I chatted with the local Green candidate after a Meet the Candidate meeting in Patea last night. She had been banging on about all the adverse weather events lately.
    
    I reminded her of a Saturday night in January last year when we listened to a series of explosions. It was the underwater volcano in Tonga erupting, and sending millions of Olympic-size swimming pools worth of water into the atmosphere. Then I asked her if she thought that might have contributed to all the floods on the eastern seaboard of Australia and the north and east of New Zealand this year.
    
    “No” was the answer, to which I replied that a lot of top scientists don’t share her view.
    
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    September 23, 2023 3:48pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Tony. Why do you waste your time talking to insane people?
      
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      September 23, 2023 4:44pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        I suppose because there is a very rough chance that a light bulb moment might occur. Unlikely I know, but worth a rough shot.
        
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        September 23, 2023 4:59pm
- kowtow
  
  The muppets at Otago Uni can’t even manage their own budgets , who the hell do they think they are telling anyone else what , how or why to do anything.
  
  They can fuck right off !
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:02am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Taieri – it couldn’t be any more in our faces. The transition from the covid scam to the climate scam is accelerating at incredible pace.
  The comments from that professor are fully in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
  
  15 minute cities, removal of private vehicles, restricted zones etc etc. It’s almost as though he’s quoting directly from the manual.
  
  Rocky roads ahead for all of us. Be prepared.
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:40am
  - kowtow
    
    EU , World Bank , OECD .
    
    It’s no “conspiracy” theory , it’s full on , top down regime control.
    
    And no shadowy secret either .
    
    “When she took to the floor to give her State of the Union speech on 13 September, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen largely stood by the script. Describing her vision of an economically buoyant and sustainable Europe in the era of climate change, she called on the EU to accelerate the development of the clean-tech sector, “from wind to steel, from batteries to electric vehicles”. “When it comes to the European Green Deal, we stick to our growth strategy,” von der Leyen said.”
    
    https://www.interest.co.nz/economy/124430/concept-green-growth-losing-traction-among-climate-policy-researchers-survey-nearly
    
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    September 23, 2023 12:15pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Cray cray. What possible interest is it of a mediocre city council to try and solve a planet-wide “problem” which they neither contribute to in a material way, nor can make a meaningful change to.
  
  If Dunedin ceased to exist tomorrow, the impact on the “climate” would be nil.
  
  Perhaps Dunedin could focus on mending its roads collecting its rubbish, and running the odd library and sports field? Radical thinking I know.
  
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  September 23, 2023 11:24am
  - kowtow
    
    All these organisations calling for zero this that and the other in the face of some dreamed up , totalitarian “emergency” are absolute and utter hypocrites .
    
    The uni is in dire straits but has built a massive property portfolio and numerous buildings , the health authority( i refuse to use the racist , divisive and unintelligible newspeak names they command us ) has demolished whole city blocks and the steel frames of the new hospital rise from deep driven foundation piles as we speak and the council itself has dug up the city centre streets ( killing businesses already reeling from covid scam) and is building a new largely car free , pedestrian “friendly” main street .
    
    Not one of those major projects by these big 3 players could remotely be anywhere near “net zero” in a hundred years , given the amount of demolishing , digging, foundation pouring and/or steel structural frames involved , all powered no doubt by huge quantities of diesel etc
    
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    September 23, 2023 12:25pm
Paulus

Do I get the impression that after the election that Ardern will return, as she says that she was not burnt out after all.
Labour feminists will still vote for her as current polls indicate.
She still has to do a semester at Harvard although I expect she may not be will no longer be treated as a prima donna.
She says all this about herself in some New York radio programme.
As she says this from the safety of somewhere outside New Zealand as it obvious that nobody overseas will employ her as she is a liability – we know that.
I expect she will soon join the Helen Clark Foundation and make an irrelevant use of herself still in the belief that she is popular.
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September 23, 2023 8:37am
- Southern Raider
  
  She is currently identifying as a female Jesus. It would be discriminatory for us to claim this isn’t true and by referring to her as Jacinda instead of Jesus is just dead naming her.
  
  In the apocalypse of Oct 14 election she will rise from the dead to take control of Labour and save NZ from ourselves
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:25am
  - nathie
    
    Lol … to back that up, noticed the hands moving outwards to strike that pose (probably 90% of the way there) a few times in her video yesterday.
    
    By default Stuff’s video player was muted but it’s amazing to think even with the sound turned right down one just knows she will likely be speaking a lot of waffle (and the waving hands give that away too)!
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:30am
- rouppe
  
  She’ll be “treated like a prima donna” for some time yet, because she controls the narrative overseas.
  
  If and when she returns, she will be kept, at least initially, in a bubble that doesn’t expose her to the growing dissatisfaction of her administration
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:36am
- Benedict Yu
  
  She won’t come back. She can make too much money internationally. She is on the board of the Earth Shot Prize. Led by Prince William and funded by a dozen of the world’s biggest philanthropists. We are talking immense sums of money.
  
  https://earthshotprize.org/
  
  Jacinda is in America on behalf of Earth Shot.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:41am
  - Che Guava
    
    “Jacinda is in America on behalf of Earth Shot.”
    
    She was also in New Zealand politics, not on behalf of New Zealander’s, but on behalf of some of “the world’s biggest philanthropists” too, which is really just a euphemism for the control of global politics by extremely wealthy oligarchs.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:19am
- NothingLeft
  
  I expect she’ll stay overseas for a good number of years , perhaps permanently. She wants everyone to like her, but is probably the most reviled NZ politician in a generation, and would attract a lot of nasty comments any time she was out in public.
  
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  September 23, 2023 11:09am
  - mawm
    
    There are some prize comments about her from Australians on Jo Nova’s blog.
    
    https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/friday-23/
    
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    September 23, 2023 1:22pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Short of standing in a by-election, she couldn’t get into Parliament until at least 2026 because she’s not on Labour’s List. But all this talk is just to promote advance sales of her upcoming book.
  
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  September 23, 2023 3:49pm
Philview

As the election gets closer it is interesting to see much of the media take great care in how they report the run in. Very little analysis of the Labour Government’s performance over the last 3 years and very little analysis of Labour’s policies. The media strategy now appears to be chip away at the credibility of a National/ACT/NZ First Government. No analysis of what a Labour/Green/TPM Government would look like.
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September 23, 2023 8:42am
- Gravelroad
  
  Although it probably was not their intention, didn’t the media provide a clear vision of what a Labour/Green/TPM would look like via the minor party leaders debate the other night?
  It wasn’t pretty.
  It was a disaster.
  It was a display of entitlement, aggression and disrespect for the voter.
  Only Mr Seymour, who was routinely shouted down by all three women there, showed any restraint or intelligence.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:36am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

‘Are you a stripper?’ “I’ll do it if you vote!”

ACT leader David Seymour was promising to lift the ban on pseudoephedrine.

“P has never been cheaper,” he said.

That ban on pseudoephedrine needs to be dropped. So many people suffer unnecessarily because of lack of cold/flu relief.

Winston Peters. I have had enough of this rooster. Hope Luxon rules him out soon. It is not helping the Election campaign.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/sports/other/christopher-luxon-tells-kiwis-to-read-between-lines-as-coalition-questions-continue/ar-AA1h5Ov0
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September 23, 2023 8:43am
- Spam
  
  Yes, and relevant for those who may have missed it:
  FDA says phenylephrine doesn’t work.
  Which we knew anyway.
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:49am
  - Matt Long
    
    Good policy from ACT to roll back a failed one from Key’s government.
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/09/election-2023-act-wants-to-reverse-pseudoephedrine-ban-make-it-easier-to-get-some-other-drugs.html
    
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    September 23, 2023 8:54am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      When I used to get a bad cold, pseudoephedrine was a blessing. I once bought the new formula tablets. Straight in the bin on day 1.
      
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      September 23, 2023 9:45am
      - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
        
        BY Bro – Yes I agree. Same here!
        
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        September 23, 2023 12:43pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Sudafed used to have 120mg of pseudoephedrine, but the dropkick druggies spoiled it for those who suffer. Mistake by John Key. It must cost a lot of money in lost work hours.
    
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    September 23, 2023 11:02am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    A bit like the Pfizer shot then? At $75 a pop.
    Luxon is promising an extra $10 if they get into power.
    A perverse incentive to promote a product that is an abject failure, of zero benefit, and a threat to 99.9% of people who are injected with it.
    
    It MAY have some very short term benefit for those at most risk of covid infection, but it is being shown increasingly that the more shots you get, the more chance of catching covid. Also it is damaging the innate immune systems of people.
    
    This is the likely reason for the increases in turbo cancers, heart attacks, ‘long covid’ and all of the other conditions inflicting the population.
    Also the concerning crash in numbers of live births and dramatic increase in reported disabilities.
    
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    September 23, 2023 11:46am
    - Ghost
      
      The incentive for the gp practises are for childhood vaccine, not the covid shot.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:50am
    - kisekiman
      
      Do you have a source for $75/shot? I understood it was $36 plus change. Still plenty for something that doesn’t work and as for costs of injuries, well we are not allowed to consider let alone discuss those.
      
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      September 23, 2023 2:11pm
      - wsk12345
        
        I believe the $75 is the payment to GP practices for each child that completes childhood vaccs. Was in the news last week – nats want to get immunisation rates back up to about 95% and have offered some additional incentives over the $75 if achieved.
        
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        September 23, 2023 4:12pm
      - Ghost
        
        GPs will get paid $10 for each elligable patient if the childhood vaccines for that practice meets the target
        
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        September 23, 2023 4:33pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Labour trolls are now trying to position ACT as the party of meth and backed by big pharma
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:27am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    As opposed to Labour, the party of the clot shot??? lol
    
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    September 23, 2023 11:49am
- artemisia
  
  Good reason to vote ACT. Seriously!
  
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  September 23, 2023 12:14pm
Damocles11

Peters draws a furious denial from the slighted Bill English. Peters in desperate to duck responsibility for forming a government with the Labour losers in 2017.

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https://www.newsroom.co.nz/election-2023/peters-writes-his-own-history-on-backing-labour-in-2017

‘Asked by host Rebecca Wright if people could trust him to negotiate with the party that won the biggest vote at the election, Peters said: “Excuse me, excuse me you don’t understand why we didn’t go with the majority vote in 2017 do you?”

Wright: “Will you go with it this time?”

Peters: “No you don’t understand how critical it was because I was talking to a man who in his first conversation with me says they are about to roll me.”

Last month, Peters volunteered the same, unverifiable claim to Newsroom in a sit down interview.

“I’d only just walked into the room and English pulled me aside and told me that there could be a coup and he could be about to get rolled.

Asked who was supposedly being lined up to take over, Peters said “Judith Collins.”

He defended his decision to take his votes elsewhere, to a Labour Party that had attracted 37 percent of the 2017 vote to National’s 45 percent, by saying: “How could I negotiate with someone who might not be there in a few weeks? Ring him up and see what he says, he won’t deny it, he can’t.”

Last night Newsroom asked English and he not only denied it, he slammed it.

In a text, English said: “Deny. It’s a ridiculous claim.” Pressed for more, he said: “Mr Peters’ claim is a fabrication.”

The former National leader went a step further, suggesting Peters’ claim now “indicates he could find a reason to go with Labour again after this election”.’
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September 23, 2023 8:45am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Bill English is correct. If Chris Hipkins could cobble together a 4 party coalition with New Zealand First he would grab it.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:49am
  - Prince
    
    And Peters will provide it. He will make up some story about ‘Luxon was about to be rolled’, ‘Luxon was too inexperienced’ etc.
    Vote NZF if you must, but be prepared to accept a Labour/Greens/TPM/NZF coalition.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:02am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      If it happens, Act and National only have themselves to blame. Their intransigence re covid issues is nonsensical.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:54am
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        Clan – the voter has to take responsibility for their vote. If you start the fire then you have to take responsibility for where it burns.
        
        A protest vote is a valid option BUT if you give it to the Charlatan then take responsibility for that. Not blame ACT/Nats Covid actions. It could very well be cutting off your nose to spite your face.
        
        Labour was the primary player in Covid and have fomented economic carnage and division. Greens want to root all that is great and good. Te Pati Māori want entrenched elite Māori power.
        
        I’ll take Nats/ACT over that any day.
        
        A protest vote for Loyal or Democracy NZ will result in allocation of your vote to parties in power.
        
        A vote to Winston, well that is a vote for Winston. He will do what he damn well pleases and I wouldn’t be surprised if he uses it to put Labour back in power. Does he care if you don’t vote for him next election? No, because he will find another group of suckers to get him over the line next time around.
        
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        September 23, 2023 2:23pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Pineapple Lumps – no, the ‘fire’ was started and continues to be fanned by Luxon and Seymour’s intransigence/cowardice.
        
        I can only vote on what I believe in. Not what you tell me to do. That’s not democracy. That’s what Ardern tried and failed to do.
        
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        September 23, 2023 3:48pm
  - kowtow
    
    And as pointed out above te media pa ahti just aren’t talking about that , they are lazer focused on the right co alition .
    
    Likewise I see no constant bleating from them about the labour party selection process that has brought so many bullies and failures to parliament , while they bang on constantly about the same with Act and are happy to keep dragging up Uffindel and van der molen..
    
    It’s so blatant !
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:08am
  - PeeJay
    
    Agree Benedict. Some people have such short memories!
    
    It will simply come down to the size of the bribe.
    
    Regardless of how desperate Luxon is to become Prime Minister, he will never be able to match what Labour will offer. They will offer him everything below Prime Minister – they will even get Hipkin’s to commit sepuku if that is what is required (I personally think this is a potential outcome to get around Hipkin’s wealth tax veto with the Greens and Maori).
    
    It’s very simple. Unless Winston has finally found some principles (pardon me while I pause to laugh), he will always go with the highest bidder.Despite wanting to be Prime Minister, there will be a price Luxon simply cannot pay. Ergo, Labour will always be able to offer him more.
    
    This is not rocket science. It is fairly easy to work out. But here we are with Winston being on the verge of playing 2017 all over again.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:29am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      And if it happens, the folk who voted Winston so he would keep National honest will be crying in their beer. Again.
      
      A big red flag should be this. Chris Trotter has said that he is voting New Zealand First.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:26am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Joe Jonas should be careful that he doesn’t find the Hound on his tail.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66881013
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September 23, 2023 8:46am
Maggie Pie

This lays squarely at the hoofs of Jacinda Ardern…..

‘64% of New Zealanders believe we
are more divided than ever before’

– Source: NZ Herald poll (Dec. 22)
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September 23, 2023 8:51am
- Swifty
  
  I think ‘trotters’ is more appropriate given all the porkies she’s told us.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:03am
  - kowtow
    
    Jackboots.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:09am
    - nathie
      
      Designer ones too.
      
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      September 23, 2023 10:39am
      - kowtow
        
        Hugo Boss.
        
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        September 23, 2023 11:25am
Bridgenag

Coming here soon……

Canadian Court Orders Jordan Peterson to Take Re-education Program

Posted by Daily Citizen Staff | Aug 30, 2023

In January of this year, best-selling author Jordan Peterson was told by Canada’s College of Psychologists of Ontario to undergo re-education therapy for his very public statements, not on professional psychology and science, but politics and culture. The Canadian College of Psychologists holds Peterson says things they don’t care for and feel they have the duty to fix his beliefs. Peterson took his case to court because the College’s order threatens his professional licensure.

The Ontario Divisional Court dismissed Dr. Peterson’s claim in late August and upheld the College of Psychologists’ demand. The Court’s ruling admits its concern is “language used by Dr. Peterson in public statements” made in 2022. The nature of these statements?

The Court explains Peterson’s words were “degrading, demeaning and unprofessional.” So the author and wildly popular commentator must undergo, at his own expense, a “coaching program” directed by the Canadian College of Psychologists so that he might “reflect on, and ameliorate (his) professionalism in public statements.”

Peterson responded to the ruling by saying, “Bring it on” in a social media post, telling his fellow citizens, “If you think you have a right to free speech in Canada, you’re delusional.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/physician-re-education-in-canada?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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September 23, 2023 8:53am
- Benedict Yu
  
  He has said that he will appeal the judgement to higher courts and that he has the money to do so.
  
  Good luck to the guy in charge of the re-education camp with Jordan Peterson in attendance. 😅
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:52am
  - PeeJay
    
    Now that would be a great TV show!
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:31am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      He has said that if he is forced into reeducation, he will post daily detailed accounts of the experience.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:17am
  - Matt Long
    
    I’ve been following Peterson’s X account, there’s some worrying militancy convergence with antifa, unions, oligarchs and regressive politicians in Canada in particular coming to light. New Zealand looks stable by comparison at this point.
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:40am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Canada is probably the only country more screwed than NZ currently. At least Ardern is gone, those poor buggers still have Trudeau. I can’t believe he’s still in power.
      
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      September 23, 2023 11:58am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Actually, I just came across this re Canada, it looks like there is pushback.
        
        A local town vociferously speaking out against their representatives and their plans to destroy their lives.
        
        https://youtu.be/4u3q83MTuVg
        
        We need the same here in NZ.
        
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        September 23, 2023 12:14pm
      - mawm
        
        An interesting Canadian blog is vladtepesblog.com
        
        They have been covering Peterson, the attack on “anti-vaxxer” doctors, the trucker convoy and the citizen enquiry into covid. They have some good editorial content as well.
        
        And yes Justine is worse than Jacinda by a hair’s breadth.
        
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        September 23, 2023 1:34pm
kevn

Maggie… Exactly. Wasn’t even a subject a few years ago.
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September 23, 2023 9:01am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Sooo many tweeting that she should be stripped of her Damehood!
  
  (ps: and kev – pls hit the ‘REPLY’ button when responding….
  goodness knows how many upticks i lose )
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:20am
  - kevn
    
    Maggie… Did that 🙂
    
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    September 23, 2023 11:26am
Exclamation Mark

Didn’t Jim Anderton lead the charge on getting psuedoephedrine out of the night and day tablets?
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September 23, 2023 9:12am
- Matt Long
  
  It was a worrying feature of Key, backing Bradford’s anti smacking bill as well, then ignoring the referendums that followed.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:46am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Anti-smack bill. Look at the little bastards now – ram raids!
    
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    September 23, 2023 11:06am
    - MCōs
      
      I would suggest the young criminals are predominantly the ones whose parents ignore the anti smacking law
      
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      September 23, 2023 3:45pm
      - wsk12345
        
        You mean all the fundamentalist Christian’s that still smack their kids?
        
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        September 23, 2023 4:15pm
  - stiff cheese
    
    Key was ‘woke’ before the term was invented.
    
    Sign the latest neo-marxist claptrap from the UN?
    John: “Yep, sign us up!”
    Redefine the historical meaning of ‘marriage’?
    John: “Ooh, ooh, I want that too!”
    Import migrants at a world beating high rate.
    John: “Come on in, folks! I’m trying to artificially boost our GDP number for a cheap headline before the next election. . . So help me out, new people. Bring some elderly relatives too! ”
    
    Basically he was a ‘shape shifter’, anticipating Labour’s next move, then stealing their thunder by adopting it as his own (maybe a watered down version but still Labour policy at heart).
    
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    September 23, 2023 11:59am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Matt Long – every CIR since they were first enabled has been ignored by politicians. We need the Swiss model.
    
    There is no point in pretending to give people a vehicle for political change when they give a referendum 80% plus support and it is totally ignored. Best to admit it’s a scam and save all the time, money and distress involved in putting these things together.
    
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    September 23, 2023 12:31pm
    - Dodger
      
      Clan, I know you are very strong on this covid disaster, but if Hipkins came out and said ,”we got it wrong and made a huge mistake”.
      Would you vote for Labour?
      
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      September 23, 2023 1:02pm
Southern Raider

So Mahuta just signed some global ocean protection treaty on behalf of us and is trumpeting the benefits of this. Greenpeace NZ has jumped in about what a game changer this is for ocean life.

Didn’t the Labour Māori caucus which Mahuta leads actually veto turning the Kermedec Islands into one of the worlds biggest marine sanctuaries?
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September 23, 2023 9:16am
- MCōs
  
  Nanaia Mahuta isn’t the leader of the Labour Māori Caucus. There are two co-chairpersons, Rino Tirikatene & Willow-Jean Prime and Willie Jackson is the unofficial leader.
  Here’s an interesting article from a year ago that hasn’t aged wonderfully
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/audrey-young-whos-the-power-broker-in-labours-maori-caucus/N5MS7UYOBCY32UJ4EYDE74EQMM/
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:02am
- thirteenstars
  
  That was actually Greenpeace signing on behalf of NZ. Mahuta was just the one holding the pen.
  
  I don’t know of any country that is so fully under the influence of Greenpeace and its authoritarian environmental religion.
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:02am
- ClanMcleod
  
  She also signed us up to the WHO global pandemic treaty. Nothing in the media about that. Nothing from our politicians about that. Who gave them the authority to sign up to a treaty produced by an entity without a single elected representative?
  
  Our democracy is under the greatest threat in centuries. That is no exaggeration.
  
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  September 23, 2023 12:38pm
- mogg
  
  ‘The best laid plans of mice, men and Mahutas
  Gang aft-agley.
  
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  September 23, 2023 1:01pm
  - kisekiman
    
    …and leave us nought but sorrow and pain.
    
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    September 23, 2023 2:20pm
- Observer of Life
  
  SR: The Green Party voted NO too, I recall.
  
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  September 23, 2023 2:11pm
blue collar

UP THE WAHS !!
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September 23, 2023 9:20am
- thirteenstars
  
  Penrith 38-4 over Melbourne last night. Clinical play by the Panthers, reminded me of the way the All Blacks used to play. Used to.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHaRy0QM4d0
  
  If the Warriors can upset the Broncos it’ll be seismic.
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:07am
  - PeeJay
    
    Have had a small bet with a mate since the start that it would be Panthers v Bronco’s final, and Panthers to win it.
    
    Wouldn’t be unhappy if the Warriors ruin that bet though!
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:35am
- greybeard
  
  And that has to be the most puerile, cringeworthy saying for a long time.
  
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  September 23, 2023 1:35pm
Fisiani2

Wellington Central is a fascinating electorate. A recent snapshot poll on Newshub showed that the 18,868 majority for Grant Robertson 2020 has changed -Omer was on only 30%. Sheeran was on 28% and Paul was on 26%. and ACT (who are not standing a candidate and presumably will vote for Sheran ) was on 3%. That was two weeks ago and Sheeran is daily winning over ex Labour voters. The minor parties EV votes are crucial. They know their candidate cannot win . The only candidate for change with a chance of winning is Sheeran. They can give their minor party a crucial PV. But why waste their EV vote on a definite loser. Give Labour an absolute bloody nose. Use their EV cleverly and vote for Sheeran
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September 23, 2023 9:33am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Your comment would be understandable if you explained who are ‘Omer, Sheeran and Paul’.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:57am
  - wsk12345
    
    I don’t live there but know they are wellington central candidates. Fairly obvious I thought given they started talking about put Robertsons majority?
    
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    September 23, 2023 10:56am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    BY Bro – Ebrahim Omer is Labour candidate. He is a refugee who came here and while working as a cleaner did his education in Victoria University. Dr Scott Sheeran (no relation to Ed Sheeran) is National party candidate. He used to work in Abu Dhabi and has returned to NZ to stand for National. Thamatha Paul is the candidate for Toxic Greens. The Toxic Greens are looking to emulate Auckland Central victory by Choloe. Tamatha Paul is a current Wellington City Councilor.
    
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    September 23, 2023 1:29pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  If the Nats take Welly Central stand by for the “Tearing of hair and garments, the gnashing of teeth and wailing” from the distraught lefties.
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:40am
Maggie Pie

“We want to give more weight to the SFO”

– Debbie Ngarewa Packer (co leader NZ Maori Pardy)

https://newsroom.co.nz/news/minor-parties-get-fired-up-over-crime-and-punishment

My partner wondered if Rawiri had run this by his father-in-law?
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September 23, 2023 9:36am
- NothingLeft
  
  So they can look into Mahutacorp?
  
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  September 23, 2023 11:14am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    and don’t forget Associate-Health Minister Peeni Henare’s link$ to $$$$Health advertising
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018897879/national-accuse-labour-of-contract-conflicts
    
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    September 23, 2023 1:08pm
  - kisekiman
    
    No, the Waipareira Trust run by a certain John Tamahere who happens to be the father-in-law of a certain Mr. Waititi of the TPM. Another massive rort.
    
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    September 23, 2023 2:28pm
Gravelroad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/132976903/auckland-councillor-complains-about-promori-posters-encouraging-use-of-te-reo-in-the-workplace

Racism on display at the Auckland City Council.
No room for diversity there.
Only one race matters.
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September 23, 2023 9:58am
- nathie
  
  Notice how the author Todd Nial & Stuff are playing down the extreme radical activist slant to all this and cherry pick favorable attributes like “te reo” and (anti) “racism”.
  
  I mean who wouldn’t disagree with that? But look further at the poster and you will see extreme activist attributes like “resist pakeha culture being imposed on others” and “resistance” and “challenge … new tiriti breaches” (seriously wtf – like opposing 3 Waters?).
  
  Imagine if this was flipped on its head by “far-right white supremacist” extreme radical activists and they said garbage like “resist maori culture being imposed on others” and “resistance” … you get my drift.
  
  It would be appalling … just like this radical Auckland Council employee poster is. Those posters need to go and the employee given a warning.
  
  The employee (and Stuff/Todd Niall) are promoting division. And worse suggesting those speaking up against such division are racist.
  
  What a disgrace.
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:58am
- ClanMcleod
  
  What a complete virtue signaling tosser is Richard Hills.
  
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  September 23, 2023 12:55pm
Maggie Pie

Tuned into TV3 THE NATION earlier…only to find it’s a full re-run of the ‘Power Brokers Debate’ from last week. SHEESH!!

Although one thing I hadn’t noticed before, is how funny Rebecca Wright looks standing side on. Go check it out and see what you think 😀
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September 23, 2023 10:02am
- thirteenstars
  
  She’s a caricature of something sharp and viperish. I’m not too sure what that something is but it’s very unpleasant.
  
  No doubt she’ll go far, but that won’t be far enough.
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:12am
Notsofast

Trans ideology is an unusual movement in that the closer you look the worse it gets.
Irish scholar Helen Joyce graced Sean Plunket’s platform yesterday, and he let her finish her sentences a few times. For an objective view of the disgraceful attitude New Zealand Parliament has to common sense, here is the clip.

https://youtu.be/4ohgXZm3Zu8?si=f80sHPRt0Hae9tEr
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September 23, 2023 10:18am
- Benedict Yu
  
  She has given some longer interviews. They are all worth watching. Most on YouTube.
  
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  September 23, 2023 2:33pm
  - Notsofast
    
    Yes, and Gender: A wider lens, is the most extensive podcast series. Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad cover everything.
    
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    September 23, 2023 2:49pm
artemisia

National’s 100 point plan for sorting the economy is wide and practical, and sounds like there are more plans to come.

Hopefully all plans will have the exact same #1 – Stop wasteful spending.
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September 23, 2023 10:32am
- mogg
  
  Projected interest payments for next year $9.2B,
  thanks to the fat man who has recently become invisible, I wonder why.
  
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  September 23, 2023 12:52pm
Maggie Pie

My partner’s mum knows Maurice Williamson quite well.
They still stay in touch….reckons he’s one of the nicest peeple you could meet.

https://twitter.com/NZStuffPolitics/status/1705267106156249192
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September 23, 2023 10:44am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  In his many years as an MP he had an exceedingly low staff turnover. Some had been with him for years.
  
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  September 23, 2023 11:04am
Benedict Yu

Best of luck to Barry Soper.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/300974651/newstalk-zb-broadcaster-barry-soper-hoping-for-a-quick-recovery-after-upcoming-major-surgery

I see he thinks he might recover sufficiently quickly to still cover the election. I think that is very unlikely. 😳
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September 23, 2023 10:46am
- wsk12345
  
  Shame, he is one of the few decent ones.
  
  Still there is an awful lot of heart issues going around atm. Someone shared the data awhile back – up so rep thing like 70% since 2021 isn’t it?
  
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  September 23, 2023 10:59am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Don’t mention the pachyderm in the room. It upsets people. Might be a few others concerned about the numbers and don’t want reminded of it.
    
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    September 23, 2023 12:59pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Three weeks from now may be pushing it if Hubby’s recovery from his triple bypass 8 weeks ago is anything to go by, although he did manage a 2.5km walk on the flat by the end of Week 3.
  
  Week 3 was probably the week that Hubby was least happy…as he experienced discomfort around his knee area in the leg that had had the vein removed for the bypass grafts.
  
  Apart from the fact that Hubby’s not mowing the lawns now, he’s pretty much back to the condition he was in before he developed angina symptoms.
  
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  September 23, 2023 1:28pm
Damocles11

These threads are starting to degenerate into a place where Luxon is constantly mocked & insulted, along with Seymour, and Peters is praised to the skies.

A current Labour attack line is that Luxon won’t be able to form a government because Seymour and Peters can’t work together. Peters is pouring honeyed words into the ears of a group of disaffected people, and they do his bidding by going around spreading his propaganda.

We are lurching towards the unfortunate situation of Peters holding all the cards, yet again. Labour may pick up votes now if they succeed in painting the Right as a fractious rabble. Hopefully we don’t miss the opportunity to get rid of Labour. It will only take one more term in government for them to complete the destruction of New Zealand, via co-governance, & wealth taxes which trigger capital flight.
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- kowtow
  
  ‘A current Labour attack line is that Luxon won’t be able to form a government because Seymour and Peters can’t work together.’
  
  Not just Labour , but their lickspittle lackies in te media pa ahti .
  
  That sentiment is what the skinny blond on the tv3 minor parties debacle ( it was no debate) at the end of the spectacle said . ie good luck to him working with those two.
  
  The funny thing is she didn’t realise by stating that she basically conceded Labour had already lost the election.
  
  Bwahahahaha.
  
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  September 23, 2023 11:34am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Breaking News. Edmond’s Cookbook banned.
(I can’t link to this.)

The Peoples Labour Govt of Aotearoa NZ (Forever and Ever) has banned sales of the Edmonds Cook Book and it is now classified as a terrorist handbook meaning anyone caught with one may face imprisonment.
Deputy PM and newly minted Minister of Threat Assessments against the Peoples Labour Party, the Left-Honorable Grant Robertson issued a statement to clarify the matter.
“At first we were concerned about Lamington Cakes being weaponised, however further study revealed a concerning number of potential Weapons of Mass (Media replay) Distraction, such as Lemon and Raspberry, Black Forrest, Banana and Butter, and Lemon and Sour Cakes, in fact many others that were also of concern”.
“Let me reassure the people that we did not make this decision lightly, after wide debate including whether to classify these cakes as Weapons of Mass Consumption, and have the people show their support to the Peoples Labour Govt by baking them on a roster basis for Local Electorate Office breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and desert, I am proud to say I collectively made the correct decision in the end”.
“Finally to show you our support of you the people, we invite you the people to join your amnesty and attend Edmond Cookbook burning ceremonies, failure to do so will result in something that rarely happens otherwise – an actual in-person Police visit!”.
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September 23, 2023 11:12am
- Taieri
  
  The Peoples Labour Govt of Aotearoa NZ (Forever and Ever) has banned sales of the Edmonds Cook Book and it is now classified as a terrorist handbook meaning anyone caught with one may face imprisonment.
  —————–
  
  His Majesty Te Kingi Tūheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII may grant pardon, but only in very exceptional circumstances.
  
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  September 23, 2023 1:36pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Maybe he prefers crumpet rather than ‘scones.’ (rhymes with stones)
    Oh yes, English breakfast tea – thankyou old chap.
    
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    September 23, 2023 5:59pm
- cmm
  
  There is now a Maori version which should be safe.
  
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  September 23, 2023 4:52pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Mark Zuckerberg Vs. Donald Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbjiTPZ_8_0
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September 23, 2023 11:31am
Maggie Pie

One thing we luv about Leo is that he’s not afraid to call a Spade a Shovel 😀
He also would have made a great Mayor for Auckland as well….

https://twitter.com/LeoMolloyNZ/status/1705086480497164763
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September 23, 2023 11:33am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

No, Trump’s Not Worried About Going to Jail at All.
Vid, 1.24.

https://thepoliticalmovement.com/2023/09/22/no-trumps-not-worried-about-going-to-jail-at-all/
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September 23, 2023 12:06pm
- Inandout
  
  SO, he will need a large cell to accommodate his secret service detail.
  
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  September 23, 2023 12:59pm
ClanMcleod

The Whoreald, doing wonderful journalism since forever. This headline.

Russell Brand allegations: Comedian breaks silence in global media conspiracy rant

Here’s the 3 minute video. Judge for yourself. I think every word he said is correct. Remember, he hasn’t even been charged, let alone convicted. There is evidence that the media in the UK have been grooming these ‘victims’ for 4 years.

https://rumble.com/v3jx8pg-so….html
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September 23, 2023 1:12pm
- kevn
  
  consp… But, but having their photos taken at nightclubs with ‘a (well known creepy guy) celeb’ was cool at the time. Bit of quid pro quo later…
  
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  September 23, 2023 2:03pm
thirteenstars

There is only one effective way to do this. Act must play on the widespread fear among right-wing voters that Luxon isn’t much more than a political Ken Doll. Good for joshing and jiving with the punters, but not much more than a handy accessory to a Labour-lite Action Barbie named Nicola. Given the alarming falling away of Act support, isn’t Seymour’s optimum strategy to urge the Right to give the wide-awake David Doll all the muscle he needs to break National out of its plastic fantastic play-world and force it to confront political reality?

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/chris-trotter-calling-the-big-dog-s-bluff

Ouch. There’s a lot of sense from Trotter** in that article but his comments about Nicola Willis ring kind of true. She’s always come across as a centrist-type Ardern clone with the voice and the lank Jacindarella hair. I’m not sure Erica Stanford doesn’t have a bit of that in her, too.

**Yes, Comrade Chris, disaffected Labourite, and so disillusioned with the Left he’s voting NZF. Perhaps he’s had some kind of epiphany and is trying to get right with his God, whatever strange form that might take.
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September 23, 2023 1:23pm
- Damocles11
  
  ‘The alarming falling away of ACT support”. ACT were up by 2% in the last poll.
  Trotter has said he is intending to vote for Winston First.
  
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  September 23, 2023 4:23pm
Taieri

Might as well be about New Zealand:

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/22/decades-of-mismanagement-are-dooming-britain-to-decline/
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September 23, 2023 1:32pm
Ghost

First political ad I’ve liked

Don Brash’s Hobson’s Pledge returns fire with attack ad taking aim at Chris Hipkins
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September 23, 2023 2:32pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  No one does attack ads like Don…. ‘KIWI/IWI’
  LOL!!
  
  Butt have you noticed that whenever Chippy is being interviewed live on telly, he always has either Shanal Halbert ot Tamati Koffee standing behind him?
  There’s even an earlier one I’ve seen with Shaneel Lal poking his tongue out 🙁
  
  Maybe I’m just reading too much into it…..
  
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  September 23, 2023 2:54pm
- Mrs_Right
  
  Love it.
  
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  September 23, 2023 7:45pm
ClanMcleod

Good news! They’ve worked out why there is a huge increase in heart attacks!! It’s the ‘anti vaxxers’ fault! I knew it!!!

ALERT! The cause of all those heart attacks is those who claim that “vaccination” is the cause of all those heart attacks
“The science” is now telling us that all those people “dying suddenly” post-“vaccination” have, in fact, been stressed to death by “anti-vaxxers”

Un effing believable.

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/alert-the-cause-of-all-those-heart
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September 23, 2023 3:24pm
Keith White

I won’t post links because they easily found, for people who are interested.

In recent weeks, completely apolitical organisations such as the American Cancer Society have published fairly incontrovertible data which show that newly diagnosed as well as recurring cancers are up by 12% as a conservative estimate, compared to the pre-vaccine years.

But the narrative is fixed, so no one is asking “why”.

My NZ ex-profession’s profound gutlessness on this issue (excess deaths and the likely causes thereof) is truly awful.
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September 23, 2023 5:27pm
- surfing
  
  Did you maybe consider severe covid infection might be causing the cancer?
  
  So, maybe it is the vaccine sceptics that are developing all the cancers?
  
  Better go see your pal Robert Malone and Peter McCullough, I believe they’re selling snake oil to people like you 🙂
  
  That’s a waste of 3 minutes of my life haha.
  
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  September 23, 2023 6:31pm
  - Keith White
    
    There is no scientific basis for coronavirus infection causing a higher risk of cancer; and there is no historical evidence for this either. Given coronavirus infections have been around ‘forever’ and are implicated in respiratory illnesses all the way from the (very) common cold, through to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). But you are clearly heavily invested in your mythology.
    
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    September 23, 2023 8:08pm
  - kevn
    
    You got some learning to do…
    
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    September 23, 2023 8:12pm
  - kevn
    
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cancers-appearing-ways-never-seen-after-covid-vaccinations-dr-harvey-risch
    
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    September 23, 2023 8:22pm
- MCōs
  
  I contracted covid early December last year.
  The symptoms never went away and the GP thought it was long covid
  Wrong
  I had lymphoma cancer, which fortunately is curable.
  The haematology doctor said the cancer resulted from covid. I’m taking his word for it because why not . . . . .
  
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  September 23, 2023 6:40pm
  - Keith White
    
    There is a school of thought that says Covid infection causes an increase in cancer risk; there is a school of thought that says mRNA vaccines increase cancer risk.
    
    What we do know is that a much higher incidence of Covid vaccination in Germany correlates with a higher incidence of cancer; compared to Sweden, and India, where the incidence of cancer has been lower than for comparable more-vaccinated populations.
    
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    September 23, 2023 8:11pm
  - Matt Long
    
    The dental nurse at primary school told me the pain wasn’t from the drill but from the bug fighting the drill, I didn’t believe her because it was patently ridiculous.
    Of course I should have believed the science.
    
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    September 23, 2023 9:58pm
Scooter

Jesus, another Visa type, how many does one tiny country need?

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/election-2023-labour-promises-amnesty-to-10plus-year-overstayers-and-new-super-visa-for-migrant-families/
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September 23, 2023 6:03pm
Southern Raider

Another Labour bribe

If you are an illegal overstayer then vote Labour and they will give you a visa to stay permanently

Direct bribe to South Auckland
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September 23, 2023 6:16pm
- Ghost
  
  Overstayers can’t vote
  
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  September 23, 2023 6:23pm
  - MCōs
    
    Let’s not get technical
    
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    September 23, 2023 6:26pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  “Import the thurd world. Become the thurd world”.
  
  – my old Gran used to say that 20 years ago.
  
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  September 23, 2023 6:30pm
- cmm
  
  It’s worse than that. They can bring in their families, including mum and dad, legally too.
  Just get one overstayer to evade the cops for a year or two and you can bring the whole tribe.
  Sounds like Biden and the Mexican border.
  
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  September 23, 2023 9:13pm
Fisiani2

Party votes are crucial in determining the government but the EV vote allows you power if you live in an electorate that is close. If the Labour candidate scores 33% and the Greens score 28% (a massive 61% for the Left and yet National scores 36% then the National candidate wins the seat. Its old fashioned FPP . Scott Sheeran of National has 31% already and could easily get 36%. Help him if you can
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September 23, 2023 7:10pm
Maggie Pie

Great news if confirmed….Chippie in shock!
a bestie very much in the know just txt my partner that Labor’s own secret internal polling has them @ 19%.

Although personsally, i would have had them lower than that.
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September 23, 2023 7:28pm
- kevn
  
  ACT to be second after the Nats Maggie?
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:08pm
Jack5

A 24-minute TV portrait made 50 years ago of Rupert Murdoch is worth a look.

Murdoch, at 92, has just stepped down as chief of his media empire.

Here’s a sample, from 6.00 minutes into the 24-minute video (linked to below). Asked why so many executives of a TV outfit he’d bought had resigned, Murdoch says: “Because I asked them to.”

Not a man to meddle with, and he especially hated bearded meddlers.

INL, which became Stuff, was a small and remote part of the Murdoch interests for about 30 years until the late 1990s.

The TV feature, at the ABC:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-23/rupert-murdoch-investigated-by-four-corners-what-it-found/102891668
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September 23, 2023 7:32pm
Jack5

Dozens of police in London’s specialist firearms unit are refusing to carry guns after one of them was charged with murder over the death of a black musician, Chris Kaba.

Officers of a London specialist firearms unit have told bosses they won’t carry guns. This follow the court appearance of an officer charged with mudering Kaba in September last year.

The Telegraph says Scotland Yard’s firearms command is in crisis after dozens of officers handed in their guns.

Reporting the shooting last year, the “Guardian” said Kaba’s car was chased by two police cars. After they blocked Kaba’s vehicle, “a specialist firearms officer reportedly fired a shot through the driver’s side of the windscreen.”

Kaba, who was found to be unarmed, was declared dead two hours later.
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September 23, 2023 7:52pm
- Colville
  
  How on earth would a Police have a legitimate reason to fire at someone inside a car after they had blocked the car in??
  
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  September 23, 2023 8:27pm
Inandout

My goodness what a fascinating video of WW2 London crime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbo4ywBZ68w

Also the black market was popular among the majority of the population.
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