General Debate 22 January 2020

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kevn

I am puzzled why the police don’t do simultaneous major raids on these East Coast gangs. Clearly the gangs have lots of firearms. Bound to be a fruitful exercise. Show NZ they are serious.
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January 22, 2020 8:04am
- Harriet
  
  Agreed – or they’ll end by showing other chapters, fire arm owners and the public at large that they aren’t serious. Big mistake being soft this time round.
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:38am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Don’t be silly; they still have a long list of “right wing extremists”, Christians, conservatives and recreational shooters to get through, and at 12 armed Police per raid, you can only do so many.
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:38am
  - Harriet
    
    Yeah it’s like half the country are criminals and the other half haven’t been caught yet…..oh hang on…..I forgot traffic. 😎
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:46am
  - Ruahine
    
    Most of the Gangs are far left. They rob from the rich and the poor to give to themselves. Gangs and the Greens are a very close fit.
    
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    January 22, 2020 1:55pm
    - Simon Gotlieb
      
      Holy crap, that’s ludicrous.
      
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      January 23, 2020 2:07pm
- cmm
  
  No that would set a precedent and they would have to start doing raids on other cultural groups like Morris Dancers
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:45am
  - Lee C
    
    I’d support taking out Morris Dancers just on a point of principle….
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:48am
    - Biscuit
      
      I’ve not seen a Morris Dancer in YEARS.
      
      Same, curiously, with the Hare Krishna mob. There was a time in Wellington when I couldn’t walk home with encountering them at least once a week..
      
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      January 22, 2020 9:47am
      - Sacha
        
        Ahh …… those were the good old days. Weren’t they?
        
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        January 22, 2020 10:10am
      - cmm
        
        “I’ve not seen a Morris Dancer in YEARS.”
        
        That just proves how cunning and secretive they are… exactly why then need watching!
        
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        January 22, 2020 10:28am
      - Ruahine
        
        Hare Krishna. Another pack of phonies started by a guy living in New York 1966.
        
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        January 22, 2020 1:59pm
      - sooty
        
        We use to have one that came here for the downticks!
        
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        January 22, 2020 3:36pm
- chaos
  
  The gangs are far better armed than the police. Not sure the police are the right ones to send in, maybe the military should deal with terrorists on nz soil.
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:47am
  - mark15
    
    Just like Venezuela!
    No.Heard of ‘mission creep?
    
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    January 22, 2020 10:30am
    - sooty
      
      They would needt to bring their fully automatic guns with them and the bloody big Barrett sniper rifles with them!
      
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      January 22, 2020 3:38pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  It’s pretty damned serious if the police feel that they have lost control in region – rule of law failed and given way to rule by gangs. They are really saying the East Coast is a nascent narco-state.
  
  Police have to focus on worst-first policing. They have to stop the worst offenders in their community as the priority rather than pissing around on the easy stuff – like traffic/hurty words etc.
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:10am
  - tedbear
    
    It’s pretty damned serious when the police can’t even protect their own police stations and shoot someone pinching their guns.
    https://thebfd.co.nz/2020/01/keystone-cops-busted-mis-informing-minister-proving-how-inept-they-are/
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:34am
  - GazzaW
    
    Isn’t it ironic that the action is happening on Stuart Nash’ home turf? Hardly what he needs in election year.
    
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    January 22, 2020 11:59am
    - sooty
      
      But isn’t it good to show how bloody useless Stewart Nash is and his leader and it’s election year!
      Oh the embarrassment!
      One of Lairbours election planks!
      
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      January 22, 2020 3:40pm
Andrei

Greta is giving the world’s elites a dressing down again – this time at the posh ski resort of Davos.

Personally I get cognative disconnect at the sight of a high school truant lecturing us all on our lack of knowledge of science according to her understanding of it
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January 22, 2020 8:06am
- Harriet
  
  Trump described Golly and Gretard as prophets of doom! 😎
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:52am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    My retort to Greta, Golly etc. would be. “Ok Doomer”
    
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    January 22, 2020 7:24pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Heh, even handed though – she blames both left and right.
  Maybe her script writers have been taking PR lessons
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:52am
- Rich Prick
  
  She’s far better scripted this time, but still as annoying as fuck to listen to. I almost feel sorry for those who have to endure the little girl.
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:57am
  - chaos
    
    I feel sorry for her, so manipulated that her only way out of this scam is suicide.
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:59am
    - JackRabbit
      
      If she shows signs of back peddling and upsetting the plan, it will either be that, or someone will slip her something and be committed to a mental institution, as a vegetable. Or she may just burn out and collapse from long term self induced mental fatigue.
      
      Either way, the official story will be that she broke down, and blame lack of action on climate change, and/or blame all the “deniers”.
      
      She is obsessively hammering out mis-truths and bullshit, which has to be taxing her body and particularly her brain to the max.
      
      Without a healthy meat based diet, which includes the fats necessary for brain cell re-generation, it may explain her underdevelopment. Unless she is being pumped full of nutrients and drugs.
      
      Her brain cells will not be re-generating as fast as she is burning them up, so something will eventually give.
      
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      January 22, 2020 9:47am
- Stephieboy2
  
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  Andrei, and other Trumpeters, Greta George Soros’s patsy?
  
  https://thehill.com/homenews/house/471558-hill-says-soros-conspiracy-theories-are-new-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:02am
  - MrTips
    
    Man SB, you really can’t help shredding your gouda all over this blog can you? Just for one day, can you NOT act like a herbicidal maniac addicted to urinal cake?
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:23am
    - JackRabbit
      
      MrTips
      
      Stephie has to earn his daily paycheck from his masters. Maybe they have threatened that bad things will happen to him if he does not comply.
      
      Or perhaps he is just dumb, gullible, and is obsessed. Either way, someone got to him, even if just feeding him faulty information that he believes is real. Maybe part of some liteweight sleeper program.
      
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      January 22, 2020 9:37am
      - sooty
        
        Does stephie get paid by downticks?
        Because he would go broke on upticks!
        
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        January 22, 2020 3:44pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        @sooty
        
        Actually we should probably thank him. Without his negative whetstone of outpourings, we would have nothing to sharpen our blades of clarity, positiveness, and principle on.
        
        All he does is give us more reasons to better communicate our ideas. Harness his negativity for positiveness.
        
        Thanks Stephie, bring it on. May every bolt of negative energy, be transformed into good. The more you oppose the good people on the blog, the more you empower them. The more you act up, the more your negativeness is obvious to others who are still undecided.
        
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        January 22, 2020 6:45pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I suppose a number of folks on this blog must get pissed off with me always replying to stephieboy and MMA’s repetitive harassments, but as these folks weren’t pulled into line ages ago, I can only assume that DPF doesn’t mind if I bore folks rigid by hogging his blog space.
        
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        January 22, 2020 7:11pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        @Maggy Wassilieff
        
        If we do nothing, badness wins.
        
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        January 23, 2020 9:46am
- JackRabbit
  
  It turns my stomach as well.
  understanding”.
  
  Greta knows very little but understands nothing. Understanding is a byproduct of repeated application of knowledge and the investment of time. A short order cook in a 2 star restaurant knows food. Gordon Ramsay understands food.
  
  If anyone for a moment believe Greta understands Climate Change, then I have some very fine silk to sell you that is invisible to all but royalty. The Emperor’s new clothes and other fables and myths exist to warn us of deceitful people.
  
  So of much bigger concern, is the gullible people who support her. Gullible people voted Hitler into power, gullible people invested with Bernie Madoff, gullible people trust Winston Peters and the constant lies of Labour.
  
  Gullible people pride themselves on being smart and intelligent, however they have blindspots that do not allow them to see the deceivers.
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:14am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Greta needs some damn good feeds of nutritious food.
    
    I don’t know of any healthy 17 year-old female that looks as emaciated and under-developed as she does.
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:22am
    - JackRabbit
      
      Pavlov’s Dog?
      
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      January 22, 2020 9:24am
    - Tall Man
      
      https://climatechangedispatch.com/greta-tesla-plastic-garbage/
      
      https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/12/12/how-dare-you-watch-greta-thunbergs-borrowed-tesla-littered-with-garbage-and-single-use-plastics/
      
      Based on the rubbish it doesn’t look like she practices what she preaches.
      
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      January 22, 2020 9:25am
      - JackRabbit
        
        Thanks Tall Man.
        
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        January 22, 2020 9:54am
      - JackRabbit
        
        Its all part of the left leaning thinking that it is everyone else’s fault, and the rules they preach do not apply to them – i.e. “they are special”.
        
        Same as the attitude of Skeena Rathor, who is a ten year old brat in the body of of an adult.
        
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        January 22, 2020 10:16am
      - cmm
        
        Expected…
        
        According to Hugzilla, climate change is the most important issue of our generation, yet she has had at least 6 international flights for holidays in the last 18 months, as well as her notorious single person 757 flight.
        
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        January 22, 2020 11:05am
    - JackRabbit
      
      Probably feed her a strict vegan diet, which would explain her emaciated condition. If she performs on cue like Pavlov’s dog, may she gets to binge on bacon. There is little doubt she is programmed and conditioned, and every attitude and presentation choreographed.
      
      Reminds me of the movie, the Boys from Brazil.
      
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      January 22, 2020 9:33am
    - Ruahine
      
      It’s the drugs. She has severe behavioral problems. She is supposed to be seventeen now. I have never seen a modern seventeen year old girl look like that.
      The drugs make her look freakish and unusual, hence all the media attention. TV seems to accentuate visual strangeness. It is a social phenomena very popular in Victorian times but in the last few years is showing up more and more on social medias. Even Ardern sometimes display a visual strangeness that is captured in her face when she is in ,for her, uncomfortable or unplanned situations. She seems to forget herself.
      
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      January 22, 2020 2:16pm
  - Stephieboy2
    
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    JackRabbit, data sets and spreadsheets that back up your global warming denial stance ?
    
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    January 22, 2020 10:22am
    - Local Miller
      
      I’d point you at Tony Heller’s videos on YouTube, but you’d probably just shout: DENIER and hide your head in the sand.
      Tony shows clearly, using publicly available historical data that the “new” graphs and data being released is heavily manipulated to support the cause.
      There is no man made warming.
      
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      January 22, 2020 11:04am
      - JackRabbit
        
        StephieBoy does not understand and cannot arrive at meaningful conclusions. He is a strict copy and paste boy.
        
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        January 22, 2020 12:28pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      Are you still being paid to be a troll, or are you in denial of that?
      
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      January 22, 2020 11:58am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        He’s too thick to have a job.
        
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        January 22, 2020 7:10pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      Global warming, Global cooling. Yep its all happening. Don’t deny it for an instance.
      * Gets colder at night, warmer during the day.
      * Colder in Winter, warmer in Summer.
      * Warmer coming out of an ice age, colder going in.
      * Warmer when we get closer to the sun, colder when we move further away.
      * Climate change every time a test nuke ripped a hole in the upper atmosphere. 1000 and counting.
      * Climate change every time a Directed Energy Weapon is tested or used.
      * Climate Change every time an extra-terrestrial visitor craft punches through the ionosphere and ozone layer.
      * Climate Change every time the earth tilts a little more on its axis.
      * Climate Change every time the planetary alignment changes.
      * Climate Change every time aluminum chem trails are deployed to create a giant sky based Yagi virtual antenna array in conjunction with ground based receivers, to detect disturbances and arrivals in the upper atmosphere. Usually to detect Santa’s sleigh at Christmas but occasionally a snooping extra-terrestrial craft that heard Stephieboy was looking for a new home, and a more recent arrival searching for an inmate that escaped “soul solitary” and took up residence in the body a young Swedish girl’s body (possession) and causing havoc on the 3rd planet in the solar system.
      
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      January 22, 2020 12:24pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        !Typo Correction
        
        “…took up residence in the body a young Swedish girl (possession), causing havoc on the 3rd planet in the solar system.”
        
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        January 22, 2020 12:46pm
  - Raphael
    
    But Greta believes that she can actually see the CO2.
    So she must know and understand it!
    
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    The supernatural power to see CO2, an invisible gas, seems to be kept out from the press kits in the last while.
    
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    January 22, 2020 11:10am
    - cmm
      
      If you were treated as badly as she is you’d probably see CO2 and pink unicorns too.
      
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      January 22, 2020 11:29am
    - tf78
      
      Greta being able to see the invisible and odourless shows how much BS surrounds her.
      
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      January 22, 2020 12:15pm
- DRHILL
  
  I don’t know how many people are going to take Geta seriously now since her famous “How dare you!” speech.
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:30am
  - Rich Prick
    
    I prefer to get my daily intake of doom from more mature sources, not an angry, but carefully managed school dropout.
    
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    January 22, 2020 10:14am
- Nermal
  
  Greta and the politicians. Talk about the blind leading the blind
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:31am
- tedbear
  
  How’d she travel to this one?
  Rubber band powered skateboard?
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:37am
  - Local Miller
    
    A loaned Tesla that looks like a garbage truck inside now that she’s had it. And guess what, it’s full of plastic garbage!
    
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    January 22, 2020 11:05am
- adamsmith1922
  
  Surely you mean failure to understand science, Greta is the High Priestess of a cult subscribed to by celebrity luvvies, film star, woke royals, woke journos and Ardern
  
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  January 22, 2020 11:22am
- Nickc2
  
  Trump has put her and her followers in their place at Davos.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytYygV347sc
  
  Well said Mr President. I wish some other world leaders had the balls to stand up to this Man Made Climate Change crap and tell it for what it is. Sadly, Cindy won’t be one of them, she is well and truly on this band wagon. It’s the socialist way of course.
  And she is suprised that she can’t get a deal for our aluminum and steel in the US.
  
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  January 22, 2020 12:56pm
Hugh Pavletich

President Trumps Davos Speech … Essential Viewing …

President Trump delivers keynote speech at Davos … The UK Telegraph / Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezAZEzLMp44
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January 22, 2020 8:23am
- Stephieboy2
  
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  Is Soros and Greta behind the China cliamte change hoax?
  
  [Mod: I’m tempted to spam this comment, and will for future incoherent dribble. What is wrong with you? Honestly, grow up.]
  
  [Different Mod: And so say all of us!]
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:06am
  - jcuk
    
    upticks for the MODS 🙂
    
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    January 22, 2020 10:21am
    - mark15
      
      Well,it had to happen sooner or later.
      
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      January 22, 2020 10:32am
      - Biscuit
        
        The Mods are revolting!
        
        Oh, wait, that can be read two ways, right?
        
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        January 22, 2020 10:40am
      - sooty
        
        Not Batman?
        
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        January 22, 2020 3:48pm
  - cmm
    
    Mods: This is a tactic that is sometimes called pissing in the well (or poisoning the well if you prefer).
    
    Find “the enemy’s” forum, then just make it unpleasant for people to participate and thus shut down what “the enemy” talks about.
    
    It’s DPF’s blog, so I will not tell him how he wants to run it, but I’d be asking myself whether it really is worthwhile having stephie around.
    
    I will certainly acknowledge that occasionally, maybe once out of 10 posts, stephie says something that helps progress debate. The rest of the time… pissing in the well.
    
    stephie: As much as you try shut me down by slurring me as an apartheid apologist etc, you will not win. You do however manage to make things unpleasant.
    
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    January 22, 2020 11:39am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      You do however manage to make things unpleasant.
      
      and that’s the whole point isn’t it?
      
      Stephieboy & fellow trolls want to provoke us into a position where we lose our cool and embarrass our host.
      
      In the years I have been commenting here, I have not seen stephieboy win any converts… I think he repels loads of us.
      
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      January 22, 2020 12:10pm
      - Biscuit
        
        Agreed, Maggy.
        
        I just checked.
        
        If you had a ‘rap list’ like this, you’d have taken the hint by now and buggered off, right?:
        
        StephieBoy – 1st warning 28/12/14, 1st strike – 11/7/16, 2nd strike – 18/12/16, 3rd strike – 22/1/17, 4th strike – 21/3/17, 5th strike – 13/06/17, 6th strike – 18/2/19.
        
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        January 22, 2020 2:31pm
      - sooty
        
        He gets another blog named after himself and not allowed to visit!
        
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        January 22, 2020 3:50pm
    - tedbear
      
      I’d love to see a ‘stephie’s posts’ downticks counter on the sidebar.
      
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      January 22, 2020 12:51pm
      - cmm
        
        I’m sure there is an easy way to block a poster for the rest of the week once they end up with, say, 100 more downticks than upticks.
        
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        January 22, 2020 1:20pm
- coge
  
  Trumps address was magnificent. Everyone should hear it. Utter contrast to what the Doomists on TV want you to hear.
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:00am
  - Inandout
    
    coge, he spoke well but all I can say is ‘stay safe Donald’ because his enemies are incandescent with hate. He has turned Washington on its head.
    
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    January 22, 2020 10:45am
    - sooty
      
      He had better notv isit Arkanses!
      
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      January 22, 2020 3:51pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Fantastic:
  
  This is not a time for pessimism, this is a time for optimism. Fear and doubt is not a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope, and joy and optimism and action.
  
  But to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow, we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the Apocalypse.
  
  They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortune tellers, and I have them, and you have them and we all have them and they want to see us do badly but we won’t let that happen. They predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the 70s, and an end of oil in the 1990s.
  
  These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives.
  
  We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country or eradicate our liberty. America will always be the proud, strong and unyielding bastion of freedom.
  
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  January 22, 2020 12:47pm
  - Nickc2
    
    What’s the bet this isn’t in the main news bulletin(s) tonight?
    The news will be full of the Trump Impeachment proceedings but will not include articles the Democrats F’d up in their haste/lying in order to impeach.
    
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    January 22, 2020 1:55pm
- Vory v zakone
  
  Meanwhile back at the #SchumerSchiffShamShow in the swamp.
  
  ‘No-one is above the law. Here’s the law ….’
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPzLyAvN7Ys
  
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  January 22, 2020 5:29pm
- JB.49
  
  But, but, but….Jacinda said that capitalism has failed!
  
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  January 22, 2020 5:58pm
Yvette

… According to Peters, it was not “common sense” to teach Kiwi kids to eat less meat.
“To be sidetracked by extremists, who would think they would get rid of all these important people [meat farmers], and dare I say it the very economic life of this country, is not going to happen.”

I will await with interest, an incident where a school student tells a teacher on any climate change subject to rack off because whatever the subject of contention may be, it is not “common sense” and quote Winston Peters as being his authority on that.
In fact if I was a National supporter with a student at school I would endeavour to organise the confrontation.

And is Winston a “climate change denier” or does he accept there is varying degrees to the problem and various solutions, and to stigmatise and demonise meat-eaters is not one of them, in his opinion.
Also Peters said, this coalition is between NZ First and Labour and he hasn’t seen any agreements Labour have made with the Greens.
If Winston can reject material introduced into the school curriculum, by a Party which he doesn’t accept as part of his Government, are students allowed the same choice or autonomy Peters has?

Extra ammo –
Jones added that New Zealand First is “deeply suspicious of any scientist” who “preaches” ways to fight against climate change.
“This gospel of absolutism – we don’t like that and we’re not going to acquiesce in that.”
… Jones’ kitchen won’t be stocked with beans and rice anytime soon, the Minister adamantly saying he “won’t be desisting from eating copious amounts of kaimoana [seafood] or meat. That’s how I grew up.”
“I don’t want the politically correct brigade colonising my dietary habits – it will never, ever happen… Schools have absolutely no authority to stigmatise and demonise us meat-eaters,” he told Newshub.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/shane-jones-unleashes-on-bible-bashing-climate-change-activists.html
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January 22, 2020 8:25am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Does anyone else think it was simply coincidence that NZF raised this issue on the very day it emerged that Shane Jones had known about NZFFP six months earlier than he claimed to have “formally” known?
  
  Classic diversion from the Peters First party.
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:40am
  - chaos
    
    Nz first could end this policy right now as part of the government, and if the government doesn’t want to listen they could go to election over it right now. Will they, no because nz first are just after distraction, media attention and no intention to do anything, as usual.
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:48am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    RNZ would rather spend more time asserting that National does nasty adverts on Facebook
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:59am
    - Tall Man
      
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/controversial-philippines-foreign-secretary-teodoro-locsin-jr-praises-new-zealand-after-simon-bridges-visit.html
      
      They also try to paint Simon Bridges meeting with this guy as “controversial” and make it look like Simon is “guilty by association”.
      
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      January 22, 2020 9:22am
  - curry4me
    
    Yes, absolutely. Nothing to se here peasants. Move along. Shortland street is on soon. /sarc
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:12am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It may be deliberate on NZF’s part to challenge the Climate Change teaching resource, but I can assure you that National stands to lose a number of votes if they don’t pull these resources to shreds.
    
    It’s not just the anti-meat bias that is so wrong with these resources.
    
    There is a clear undertone that the mental wellbeing of their pupils is to be disrupted in these lessons and it is the duty of the teacher to deal to the angry and recalcitrant.
    
    Do we really want primary school teachers playing mind games with our pre-teens?
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:41am
    - adamsmith1922
      
      See here for some of my thoughts on this nonsense
      https://adamsmith.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/some-counters-to-apocalypse-cow-veganuaryvegans-and-related-issues/
      and
      https://adamsmith.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/apocalypse-cow-2/
      where George Monbiot loses the plot
      These people are dangerous
      
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      January 22, 2020 11:29am
      - Minsk400
        
        See my comment from yesterday’s debate – Vegans emit more N2O than meat eaters to the extent that it’s worth 40% more than the methane production of a cow per year
        
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        January 22, 2020 12:33pm
- Sydney Alvarado
  
  He looks like he should cut back on whatever he is eating.
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:37am
- RoboRob
  
  All the usual from NZF / Winston. It’s election year, tme to position yourself on issues that will get NZF to 5% in the polls. Winston doesn’t have to believe what he is saying or do anything about it when he gets in, all that is required is 5 out of 100 people believe enough to vote Winston.
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:12am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Yes Robo, that is precisely what happened before the last election.
    Two or more times per week, his PR spinners sent out magnificent media releases carefully crafted and pitched to a variety of audiences. We got the rural themed ones and they were persuasive – sounded really good- here was someone who understood rural and valued primary production etc etc.
    These online releases were shared and shared some more (which is how we received them not being NZ1 admirers or supporters).
    It turned out to be all a cynical manipulation of generally voiceless and powerless people most of whom will not be sucked in by the Cult of Winston next time – surely?
    
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    January 22, 2020 12:28pm
    - DeepBlue
      
      This will happen again in 2020. Which may mean the Government will be unable to pass any non ‘middle voter/ centre’ legislation as NZ First shores up the vote.
      
      So 2020 may become Labour’s Year of Quagmire (bog).
      
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      January 22, 2020 7:29pm
  - gravedodger
    
    Not quite five out of one hundred people, Winston First needs five out of every hundred “Voters”, and that should be too hard!
    
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    January 22, 2020 1:17pm
- rouppe
  
  But eating less meat is bad for the planet.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12302081
  
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  January 22, 2020 11:06am
- greybeard
  
  Peters is doing nothing more than covering his arse with a carefully crafted PR statement.
  
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  January 22, 2020 12:56pm
  - sooty
    
    Whinenys PR material sticks like shit to that old waxed brown paper toilet paper!
    
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    January 22, 2020 3:56pm
- Nickc2
  
  I guess there has to be a first time, so I agree with Shane Jones on this one.
  
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  January 22, 2020 1:33pm
rouppe

Matk Reason having a go at the woke at Australian Tennis.

He can be a dork, buy I agree with him this time
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January 22, 2020 8:33am
- Raphael
  
  I usually think that Mark Reason is a useless hack, but like a stopped clock, I agree with him on this.
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:52am
- Tall Man
  
  100% nailed it.
  
  Like you I am surprised he has had the courage to write this. It will be ignored by smoko time though.
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:52am
  - Nukuleka
    
    Excellent article. I believe that most NZers would agree with this viewpoint.
    
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    January 22, 2020 10:51am
Happychappy

Sroubek: ‘ I learned my lesson’.
Well has anyone else like myself have suspicion of why the next porole hearing will be in November 2020 and just after the General Election. Or is this a ploy by Labour who hope to be elected to a second term in Goverment.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/118771071/karel-sroubek-denied-parole-for-the-third-time-for-importing-drugs
Does Jacinda an Lees-Galloway think if they are re-elected then they can approve Sroubek residency and have three years to help let the public dissent die down.
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January 22, 2020 8:34am
- SGA
  
  Well has anyone else like myself have suspicion of why the next porole hearing will be in November 2020 and just after the General Election
  
  When I was listening to this story on the radio yesterday, I just assumed that there was a fairly standard interval between parole hearings. Is there any reason to assume that isn’t the case here and that it is part of some conspiracy?
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:53am
- Tall Man
  
  “I have learned my lesson”.
  
  My god, I’d love to see the notes of every recidivist’s parole hearing and see how many times that pathetic phrase is trotted out.
  
  The only thing he has learned is to do it “smarter” next time and don’t put anything in writing.
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:54am
  - alloytoo
    
    Well that is the golden rule.
    
    “Don’t get caught.”
    
    Most people don’t get caught because they don’t do the deed in the first place.
    
    If you’re applying for parole you are by definition too stupid to obey the golden rule.
    
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    January 22, 2020 10:15am
- Raphael
  
  Is the lesson he learned not to trust mates who are politicians to bale him out, as they will look after themselves first?
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:10am
  - cmm
    
    Trust but keep the negatives.
    
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    January 22, 2020 4:37pm
- alloytoo
  
  Doesn’t he need early parole to attend the wedding?
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:14am
  - freethinker
    
    Day release perhaps?
    
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    January 22, 2020 10:52am
    - cmm
      
      One day to go to a wedding in Rarotonga? That’s a bit tight isn’t it?
      
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      January 22, 2020 4:38pm
- Nermal
  
  Well, if he’s learned his lesson he can be a good little Czech in his home country then
  
  Fool me once, shame on you.
  Fool me twice, shame on me.
  There’s not going to be a third time despite what Jacinda’s friends want
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:34am
- Ian Boag
  
  31k immigrants were granted residency in the year to May 2019. I would be surprised if the number has decreased since then. The Minister definitely appears to have stuffed up this ONE and has quite properly been called out on it.
  
  But – if there was (published) evidence of any others KB would be all over it.
  
  It was interesting that the previous Immigration minister has had very little to say about this matter. If every approval based on ministerial discretion was in a press release there would be regular hoohahs. “Why was this useless twerp given residency?” “Why was this other outstanding character declined?”
  
  There is a process for appealing deportation orders. Like all legal stuff it takes time. I believe he hasn’t a dogs show of overturning the deportation order but that’s just me ….
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:27am
Vallager

If you asked the people of Hawke’s Bay, right now, what would be their top 3 societal problems they would like fixed, it’s a safe bet that Gangs would figure in most people’s response.

In life, when confronted with a problem, the solution lies in 2 possible directions: what are “they” going to do about it, or what are “we” going to do about it?

The They refers to our elected leaders, people who are paid to achieve solutions for us, through legislation, through innovation and through leadership.

It doesn’t matter what political party they belong to, if they are in the job, then achieving solutions is their responsibility. They got themselves elected because they convinced a majority of voters that they would be the best provider of solutions.

But if they fail to provide, or even suggest solutions, then the responsibility devolves upon us; what are we going to do about it?

The answer, in this case, is almost certainly nothing. For society to solve the gang problem would require a concerted effort, of courage, conflict and sacrifice.

And, putting aside the post legislative imbalance of weaponry, most of us are too busy working to earn money to pay for our lives, for more cycle paths and for the fabulous salaries of the numerous politicians who represent us, let alone engage in a full scale anti gang endeavour.

The sad truth is, as far as our leaders are concerned, that the gang problem is well and truly in the too hard basket. And without leaders of courage and wisdom, that is where it will remain.
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January 22, 2020 8:41am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Like the poor Gangs will always be with us. The only solution is termination. The fact is the Gumint and the Police are helpless. If take extreme measures they will be condemned if they do little or nothing they will be condemned.
  
  This is one case when I have some sympathy for both. They cant win. All they can do is try and contain the problem and hope to minimise civilian casualties.
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:18am
  - DigNap15
    
    They govt is not helpless.
    They just dont do anything about it.
    Other than give free money away and let drug dealers and drug users off.
    
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    January 22, 2020 1:28pm
- MrTips
  
  Hawkes Bay has a lot of rural folk, also armed, who may take matters into their own hands if it gets bad enough. I don’t condone that, nor want it, but it could happen if the Police and Govt appear too useless or cowardly. And there are 10x more members of the public than the gangs and police combined.
  
  I don’t think I’m being outrageous in pointing this out. What would you do if you daily life was under serious threat from gangs and drugs?
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:26am
  - Vallager
    
    Go the Farmy Army!
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:43am
  - Harriet
    
    “……What would you do if you daily life was under serious threat from gangs and drugs?….’
    
    I would stand outside the local police station with a sign saying — “I’m the Supreme Commander of Civility in the Pacific. ”
    
    And then I’d go about announcing personal standards of behaviour – with a bullhorn.
    My target is obviously the local council, and Mayor in particular.
    
    Policing is about behaviour outside the law – not behaviour within the law. I’d then guess they wouldn’t bother me — but support me! 😎
    
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    January 22, 2020 5:07pm
- Inandout
  
  Vallager, is this the next step here?
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5346699/First-private-police-force-caught-400-criminals.html
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:51am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  It’s not that hard to disable gangs – their power comes from the collective intimidation they can create. So:
  1/ limit their ability to associate (criminalize association with other known members), including electronically
  2/criminalize known gang regalia, no matter whether it be patches, hand signs, hair cuts, motorbike type, jewelry, tattoos (mandatory laser removal, long prison sentences for new ones), specifically colored clothing, branded clothing or other.
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:55am
  - Inandout
    
    UN, your ideas are a defence lawyer’s dream.
    
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    January 22, 2020 12:01pm
  - cmm
    
    Cut the dole to any that flaunt it.
    
    Basically we’ve got the problem that we have let these “cultural organizations” get away with far too much for far too long. Now they are multi-generational.
    
    The government researchers are quick to point out that we’ve had gangs for a long time. Just look at the “milk bar cowboys” in 1950s. FFS: Is there not a difference???
    
    They feel above the law and they are consulted with, and asked to please cooperate. THey are not treated as criminals but important community members.
    
    How many gang members are there? It seems hard getting reliable numbers. Some numbers say around 6000 or so which seems absurdly low.
    
    Approx 80% of prisoners are apparently gang members. That’s enough to completely overrrun the prisons if they care to.
    
    If approx 80% of prisoners are gang members then there are around 6000 gang members just in prison. For each gang member in prison there must be a good 5 or more outside prison, so a number of 30-40, 000 would seem closer to the money than 6,000.
    
    30,000 + all their scrotes can cause far more trouble than society can deal with.
    
    The cops can really do nothing with their hands tied behind their backs. They are stuck depending on gang cooperation which, inherently, results in some quid-pro-quo.
    
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    January 22, 2020 12:29pm
Old White Loser

Why are we not screening arrivals?

Did we not learn with the measles outbreak, that we need to act early.

This is spreading fast.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-virus-kills-two-more-patients-as-authorities-step-up-control-measures-11579614626
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January 22, 2020 8:49am
- chaos
  
  “ “It is hard to believe [the official number of] cases, but there are all these cases popping up in so many neighbouring countries,” said Piotr Chlebicki, an infectious disease expert at Mount Alvernia Hospital in Singapore who worked on the nation’s Sars epidemic. “China has a track record of under-reporting cases, so the true picture may be completely different.””
  
  https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3047050/asian-health-officials-fear-wuhan-coronavirus-outbreak
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:00am
  - Stephieboy2
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    chaos , the Minsitry of Health has the matter fully in hand and the China Health authories ( unlike SARS) has fully informed major international Health and disease control centres fully about the coronovirus ( eg genome sequencing,’ etc)
    
    https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/novel-coronavirus-china-2019-ncov
    
    Please lay off the panic button alert!
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:15am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      You are wrong again.
      
      Listen to Prof Baker, interviewed this morning.
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018730733/wuhan-virus-continues-to-spread
      
      He has no confidence in China reporting cases accurately.
      
      As there are now cases of the infection in other countries, we are at the start of a pandemic (by definition).
      
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      January 22, 2020 9:48am
      - Stephieboy2
        
        Novel Coronavirus – China
        
        Disease outbreak news : Update
        
        MW , even the Prof needs to be bought up to date,
        
        12 January 2020
        
        “China shared the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus on 12 January, which will be of great importance for other countries to use in developing specific diagnostic kits.”
        
        https://www.who.int/csr/don/12-january-2020-novel-coronavirus-china/en/
        
        And may add, CDC
        
        https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/summary.html
        
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        January 22, 2020 10:36am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        So you, stephieboy are telling me that Professor Michael Baker doesn’t have his finger on the pulse on this matter…and you quote some reference 10 days out of date.
        
        You are so far out of your depth, that it’s tragic.
        
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        January 22, 2020 10:51am
      - Stephieboy2
        
        MW, I think your’re the one that nedds to keep up to date ,
        
        Health ministry alerts travellers to China on new deadly virus
        
        15 Jan, 2020 2:33pm
        
        “..Otago University public health professor Michael Baker said the virus certainly appeared to be severe and it came after the SARS coronavirus pandemic of 2002 which killed 774 people.
        
        But he said that was highly infectious, which this virus didn’t appear to be, so people with plane tickets to China shouldn’t be too worried.
        
        Since the source is confined to one city in China, then if you’re going to Wuhan it would be a thing to think about, but I think it would just be a matter of keeping up to date with developments from the World Health Organisation and also the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention,” he said…”
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12300684
        
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        January 22, 2020 10:54am
- igm
  
  Cannot do that they may be upset!
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:04am
- SGA
  
  Why are we not screening arrivals?
  
  What do you mean by “screening arrivals”? Ask them if they have any flu-like symptoms (most of those would be garden-variety coughs and colds, btw) , ask whether they are from Wuhan, …? What would your criteria for action be, and what form would that action take (quarantine, put them on a plane back with other unaffected people)?
  I’m not being dismissive of your concerns by the way, I’m just pointing out that it’s not a simple as it sounds.
  
  Currently they are talking about a few hundred cases in a country of a billion+, and it’s not clear how readily it spreads across humans (airbourne, physical contact, etc), so it may be a little premature to hit the panic button just yet. But, yes, worth being concerned about.
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:08am
  - Tall Man
    
    Is that you cindy?
    
    Not simple so let’s not do this eh?
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:16am
    - SGA
      
      meh – It’s a fair question, and I’m just being pragmatic – What do you mean by “screening”? Questions – oral or written? Cameras to detect people with raised body temperature? Physical examinations? Testing samples?
      
      What’s your threshold for action on “possibles”? What action do you take on possibles – quarantine, send them back on a plane with unaffected people (should you warn those people?).
      
      It’s easy to ask for “screening” without worrying about what it means.
      
      To be honest, really you need the screening to occur at the port of departure, not arrival.
      
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      January 22, 2020 9:30am
      - Tall Man
        
        As I have said before you are being pedantic. Do whatever screening it takes that is practical and doable.
        
        Is that ok with you?
        
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        January 22, 2020 9:39am
      - chaos
        
        Three airports in USA are using thermal cameras now with people from direct flights.
        
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        January 22, 2020 9:42am
      - SGA
        
        Do whatever screening it takes that is practical and doable.
        
        Which is just another way of asking what I am asking. What would be practical and doable AND reasonably effective – on one hand, people will lie on questionnaires, on the other hand it’s not practical to give everyone a full physical examination.
        And it doesn’t deal with the question of what to do with the “possibles” (most of whom probably have the symptoms due to more garden-variety illnesses). Isolation? I’d be furious if an airline was knowingly carrying a high-risk passenger back home without informing me as a fellow passenger.
        
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        January 22, 2020 9:50am
  - Old White Loser
    
    Most countries when you arrive, they screen you as you walk from your plane.
    
    China under-reports, as well as medical staff who have treated paitents have been infected.
    
    This alone is a concern.
    
    http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30523865/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/how-thermal-imaging-cameras-spot-flu-fevers/#.XidbtMgzaUk
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:17am
    - SGA
      
      There seems some question as to thermal imaging’s effectiveness (apparently, no expert myself)
      
      Prof Baker said the exponential rise of cases in China would suggest it would spill over into places where Chinese people travelled.
      
      However, he said thermal screening was ineffective, as shown in research, and not recommended since it could not pin down the potential type of illness a traveller had.
      
      Current measures at the border are risk-based screening assessments that increase chances of detecting passengers who arrive ill or may have been in contact with infected people, he said.
      
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/407848/new-china-virus-tests-to-detect-disease-not-available-in-new-zealand-yet
      
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      January 22, 2020 11:54am
  - Paulus
    
    Do not airports can have a “radar type” machine which scans every entry and delivers their body temperature ?
    Temperature indicates fever or irregularity.
    Sure I have seen somewhere recently.
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:36am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Some epidemics don’t allow time for thinking it through, reasoning it out, working parties, on going consultative committees etc. This one suggests that our borders should be closed forthwith until we have certainty. The virulence is already demonstrated and where that has been encountered in the past like in 1918 there were massive deaths.
    
    Every few centuries some real nasty appears and as the populations have increased massively and become more urbanised the potential for risk has increased likewise. That’s demonstrated with the Aussie fires–there’s now 25m people largely concentrated in urban surroundings enclosed by fire prone trees. Different hazard but proximity driven.
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:47am
  - Bell-47
    
    As a regular visitor to Japan and less frequent to China, all international boarder arrival gates are setup with infrared cameras and mostly but not always manned screening stations if you show any signs of elevated temperature. It has been relaxed somewhat in Narita lately but this latest outbreak will restore the manned stations. I have been stopped in Beijing around the time of the SAARS scare because I did in fact have a cold at the time. The questions were very much about where I had travelled, where I intend to go, where I was staying and so on. Fortunately my cold was just garden variety so no need for further tests and was released within a few minutes.
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:51am
- KH
  
  Screen arrivals? LOL.
  This is the public health service in New Zealand, the most incompetent of the lot.
  They are all hui no doey
  Are the workers named and organised to get to the airport. ? Do they have the equipment to screen? Is there any expertise among the screeners? Are there any screeners?
  Our public health service needs to do a co design with maori on this issue. Should only take a couple of years
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:10am
- cmm
  
  Arrivals is too late. Screen them before they get on the plane.
  
  A person sitting on a plane can spread a virus to 20 people on the plane who will then not be detected when they get off the plane.
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:27am
  - SGA
    
    Arrivals is too late. Screen them before they get on the plane.
    
    Agreed, but of course someone may be asymptomatic on departure (or even arrival). I found out halfway across the Pacific that I’d picked up a stomach bug in LA.
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:33am
    - cmm
      
      Agreed, but at least if they are asymptomatic on departure they are less likely to be infectious.
      
      I am not proposing doing away with arrival screening, just add departure screening too.
      
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      January 22, 2020 10:30am
      - sooty
        
        Drawback of screening at the departure is people rushing to catch flight will hav raised temperature and all sweaty!
        
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        January 22, 2020 6:05pm
  - chaos
    
    Agree, but also china wont do that. And we saw how useless NZ was with measles.
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:43am
    - cmm
      
      Easy-peasy: If you don’t do it, no flights.
      
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      January 22, 2020 10:31am
      - SGA
        
        Which leads to the “crunch”. How willing are people to disrupt the lucrative tourist trade?
        
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        January 22, 2020 10:44am
      - cmm
        
        ” How willing are people to disrupt the lucrative tourist trade?”
        
        That’s short-term thinking.
        
        How many tourists cancelled coming to NZ during the measles outbreak?
        
        How lucrative do you think the tourist trade would become if it became known that flying here was safe vs unsafe?
        
        When there are interesting new diseases, people become irrational. Heaps of people worry about going to shitholistan destinations where they could potentially get infected.
        
        If NZ managed to stay on a “clean” list that would likely boost tourism.
        
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        January 22, 2020 11:45am
      - SGA
        
        That’s short-term thinking.
        
        You and I would agree on that.
        But you and I also know that there are others who aren’t willing to sacrifice certain short-term gains for uncertain long-term serious negative consequences.
        
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        January 22, 2020 12:00pm
      - cmm
        
        SGA: Correct.
        
        For many, short-term thinking is: “what’s for breakfast”.
        Long term: what’s for lunch.
        
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        January 22, 2020 1:57pm
    - MCos
      
      NZ wasn’t useless with measles. The people who didn’t have their kids vaccinated and in some cases still refuse, were the problem.
      My granddaughters parents were advised what vaccines they should have and ensured they got them. Some people don’t, for whatever reason and put their kids at risk.
      From what I understand it’s all provided for by the public health system at taxpayer expense.
      
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      January 22, 2020 10:53am
      - chaos
        
        No, the problem with measles in nz are the people who had a vaccine but not the follow ups.
        
        * Anti-vaxxers are not the reason for Auckland’s measles epidemic, an immunisation expert claims.
        
        “The major problem is there’s a lot of young to mid-life adults walking around who didn’t get fully vaccinated when they were young,” says Immunisation Advisory Centre head and GP Dr Nikki Turner.*
        
        https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/immunisation-expert-we-knew-a-measles-epidemic-was-likely/ar-AAGJ5OL
        
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        January 22, 2020 11:01am
    - Stephieboy2
      
      chaos, be informed for a change,
      
      measles epidemic in New Zealand: Why did this occur and how can we prevent it occurring again?
      
      Background
      
      “Prior to 2019, the most recent measles epidemic in New Zealand occurred in 1991 with an estimation of tens of thousands of cases, followed by 1997 with 2,169 cases notified. Since then smaller outbreaks have occurred in 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2016, with the largest of these being in 2011 with 489 cases.9
      New Zealand was verified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having eliminated endemic measles in October 2017 having demonstrated the absence of local transmission for more than three years. However, it was acknowledged at the time there was was at risk of further transmission due to known immunity gaps across the population.10
      New Zealand historically had low immunisation coverage in the childhood programme with significant equity gaps. In 1991 less than 60% of children were fully immunised for all the Schedule vaccines by two years of age with only 42% of Māori and 45% of Pacific children fully immunised. Gains were made over the following…”
      
      https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/read-the-journal/all-issues/2010-2019/2019/vol-132-no-1504-25-october-2019/801
      
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      January 22, 2020 11:04am
      - chaos
        
        gee troll maybe you should learn to read what I posted before you post then you will comprehend you’ve posted basically agreeing with the article, moron
        
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        January 22, 2020 12:40pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  NZ doesn’t yet have the material to test for the Chinese virus… Australia does.
  
  We’re behind the ball game (again)
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/407848/new-china-virus-tests-to-detect-disease-not-available-in-new-zealand-yet
  
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  January 22, 2020 11:03am
  - Stephieboy2
    
    Come on, MW get real in a rapidly changing and evolving situation!
    
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/21-01-2020/cheat-sheet-should-we-be-freaking-out-about-the-mysterious-virus-in-china/
    
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    January 22, 2020 11:08am
  - chaos
    
    Maggy Aussie may also have their first case
    
    * An Australian man may also have the virus and is currently quarantined at his home in Brisbane with flu-like symptoms, The Guardian reported.
    
    He had recently also travelled to Wuhan, and officials are awaiting the results of tests to confirm whether he has the disease.*
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/first-us-case-of-chinese-coronavirus-diagnosed-reports.html
    
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    January 22, 2020 12:38pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      At least Aussie can test directly…
      we will have to send suspected samples to Aussie for testing
      
      Australia (and their PM) is on to it..
      https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-screen-to-begin-in-sydney-airport-after-first-us-case-diagnosed/02e15d8a-628e-4321-8458-f6074366f86f
      
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      January 22, 2020 2:10pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Why can’t we test here? Why do we have to send samples to Aust?
        
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        January 22, 2020 2:15pm
- Close Hen Counters
  
  Because Dr Dave is praying it will go away ….. hopeless
  
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  January 22, 2020 3:03pm
chaos

Jacinda Ardern comments on the current coronavirus

“”…………….”

Scott Morrison.

“ This afternoon I was briefed by the Chief Medical Officer Prof Brendan Murphy on the coronavirus detected in China’s Wuhan area. The CMO has advised that while the current risk level is low, precautions are being taken to protect Australians.

We will be raising the level of our travel advice for Wuhan City to level 2 – exercise a high degree of caution. I urge all Australians travelling to check the DFAT Smartraveller website for specific updates.

Prof Murphy, with his state medical colleagues, has initiated measures to mitigate infectious persons entering Australia. We are well prepared to respond to this situation and we will continue to monitor and take action where necessary.“

https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1219499072375017474?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Enews%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

* A case of the new virus spreading rapidly in China has been reported in a patient in Seattle, Washington, Reuters reports. The patient, initially diagnosed with pneumonia, had recently returned from China. This is the first US case of the virus, which was first detected in Wuhan, a city in central China. It has already sickened around 300 people and killed six.*

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075647/us-wuhan-coronavirus-case-china-deaths-virus-illness
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January 22, 2020 8:51am
- chaos
  
  We finally have a travel advisory.
  
  https://www.safetravel.govt.nz/news/novel-coronavirus-wuhan-china
  
  What a joke, my advice is use Australia for travel advisory
  
  https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/news-and-updates/novel-coronavirus-outbreak
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:04am
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    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    chaos and NZ Health Dept advsiory alert 7 days ago!
    
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    January 22, 2020 9:17am
    - chaos
      
      And that is not a travel advisory is it. Nope, so people who are going to China and have been checking the government website have had no advice until today and even that advise is lacking and crap compared to what other countries have up.
      
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      January 22, 2020 1:44pm
- Tall Man
  
  No opportunity for a hijab or hug so not interested…..
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:14am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x35OJbUVqgs
1,000 EU financial firms apply for post Brexit UK access!
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January 22, 2020 9:01am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfytCBsEIyg
Mark’s Mailbox: The Case for an Unimportant Araby.
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January 22, 2020 9:02am
G152

Control the ‘gangs’ 24/7 .
Be on their doorstep.
Random traffic stops every 100 meters.
Property searches random timing several times a day.
Weapon searches and confiscation, kitchen knives, hammers, spanners, anything that could be (not would be) used as a weapon.
Stop the dole.
Track them everywhere they go.
Put a guard on their properties at night to protect the non gang members.
In short make their lives hell
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January 22, 2020 9:09am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There is a Mongrel Mobster gang house at the bottom of my street.
  
  We laugh every time we wander by and see a bunch of bros or their lady friends knocking on the “door”/boarded up windows … and then waiting, waiting, waiting for someone to unlock/unchain/dismantle/ the whole caboodle before they can gain entry.
  
  I always wonder why they don’t call ahead and say… “be round in 5….put the jug on”.
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:55am
  - mark15
    
    I thought the current drug shipment arrival signal was a bunch of fireworks going off
    
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    January 22, 2020 10:39am
- MCos
  
  I don’t know, but I suspect the main problem with the proliferation of gangs is the P epidemic.
  There’s big bucks involved, which is kind of attractive to kids living on dead end street.
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:33am
- DigNap15
  
  Raptor!
  
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  January 22, 2020 1:31pm
Maggie Pie

You will all recall when i posted here late last year that Kim Dotcom had told his twitter followers… “he expected the Supreme Court verdict relating to his Extradition Appeal to be handed down before Christmas”.

‘And a little boy waits’ – there is no doubt this long running saga is taking its toll.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOwiVPlU0AAMjaq?format=jpg&name=900×900
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January 22, 2020 9:23am
- chaos
  
  Mod that was worse than nude harry yesterday. My phone screen almost cracked.
  
  [Mod: we can’t be held responsible for any trauma or damage sustained as a result of clicking one of Maggy’s links ;)]
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:45am
  - chaos
    
    I’d uptick you mod, but I cant
    
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    January 22, 2020 10:04am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Maggy is not Maggie (Pie).
    
    You can click on my links with confidence, for what fails to shock this little old lady will be suitable for even the most sensitive KB viewer.
    
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    January 22, 2020 10:14am
    - chaos
      
      Have you ever tried picking up a phone with kdc photo on hit maggy.? Almost broke my wrist it was soooooo heavy
      
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      January 22, 2020 1:03pm
  - Biscuit
    
    It astonishes me that, given his wealth (however it was acquired), Mr Dot Com hasn’t yet managed to find a tailor with the ability to kit him out in something other than a black onesie…
    
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    January 22, 2020 2:24pm
    - chaos
      
      Or at least used photoshop
      
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      January 22, 2020 3:33pm
      - Biscuit
        
        chaos, imagine the barrels of printing ink he’d have to go through to come up with some colourised clothing!
        
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        January 22, 2020 3:42pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  The sooner this shyster is shipped off to the Land of the Free, the better for all of us.
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:47am
- RoboRob
  
  I’m glad im not the only one interested in this. I have no idea why the wheels of justice turn so slowly here.
  
  It is injust to all parties involved that cases like this drag out for as long as this. I know that mistakes were made by the police and that dotcom has money / lawyers but the pace of scheduling, hearing and ruling on things seems manifestly injust. If he is not to be deported it is cruel to unfair to him, if he is to be deported it is unfair that he gets to spend 7? years extra in NZ.
  
  Labour, NZF and Greens all met privately with DotCom many times when the Nats were in power. All expressed support for him. I an concerned that the delays in decision making at this stage are so that the minister, who has the final say, can do so shortly after the next election. Therefore avoiding any voter ramifications that may occur.
  
  If that happens I believe this case will have dragged through 3 NZ governements and Obama, who started the whole thing, is very long gone.
  
  p.s. I would like him to be deported.
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:57am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    With justice in the USA being on the verge of extinction their case against KDC is unsound.
    KDC has proved himself a very able software developer and could be an asset here if we would let him.
    He did get caught up in NZ politics but may himself have been taken advantage of by the fanatics involved.
    I believe KDC is more an asset to the world being free than locked away because of crusading USA media companies. His achievements to date suggest more to come.
    
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    January 22, 2020 11:39am
Tall Man

‘And a little boy waits’

Is the fat kraut sitting on a kid?

What an arsehole……. that poor kid must be seeing 🙁
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January 22, 2020 9:27am
- chaos
  
  Na, he got swallowed up just his tonsils he sees.
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:46am
- Tony Stuart
  
  That reminds me of the time David Lange said how he had one foot in Wellington and one foot in Auckland, to which some wag replied “Can you imagine the view from Taupo?” 😀
  
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  January 22, 2020 9:49am
  - Biscuit
    
    Tony, your analogy brings back to my mind a brilliant Afrikaaner putdown.
    
    Back in the Apartheidist era, they referred to liberalistic whites (invariably coastal: Cape Town, PE or Durban) as soutpiel.
    
    Which translates as ‘salt penis’, implying that those folk had one foot in South Africa and the other in Europe … and that their you-know-whats were dangling in the Mediterranean…
    
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    January 22, 2020 3:59pm
Maggie Pie

A friend tweets 😀

“It’s an AGE thing”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOr_noeXkAAS6Al?format=jpg&name=small
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January 22, 2020 9:55am
- Fletch
  
  Is this about Hayley Holt becoming pregnant at 39?
  Oh Hayley, I always thought we’d end up together ?
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:22am
Durden

Remember Glenn Greenwald ? And his friend Edward Snowdon ? Dotcom’s friends who tried to assist in taking down John Key and failed.

Greenwald is now being charged by the Brazilian government for being involved in hacking Telegram accounts of government officials and publishing that information in his magazine The Intercept and profiting from it.

Soon one day, the turn will surely come, for our local procurer of hacked information and purveyor of partisan drivel written using the hacked information – Nicky Hagar.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2020/01/sem-ter-sido-investigado-glenn-e-denunciado-por-procurador-sob-acusacao-de-hackear-a-lava-jato.shtml&prev=search
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January 22, 2020 10:04am
- Stephieboy2
  
  There was a time when Greenwald was a headache for Hillary Clinton and her 2016 election campaign ,
  
  https://theintercept.com/2016/10/09/exclusive-new-email-leak-reveals-clinton-campaigns-cozy-press-relationship/
  
  How times change!
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:44am
fightingtemeraire

Last year I read in an UK PAPER and article by a Lady high up in the Min of Health.

She said that it wasn’t GW that was going to get us but a pandemic of Spanish Flu proportions. She said that with fast and efficient world wide travel it would spread ;like wild fire.

With the PRC not liking to advertise any failings in their Utopia you can bet your bottom YUAN that this bug has been around longer than they have let on.

We are into the PRC major travel season when tens of millions move around and with the hygene outside the main cities not very good look out.

Which muppet is Duty Minister at the moment.
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January 22, 2020 10:15am
- Harriet
  
  Agreed.
  
  I can understand Ebola coming out of the Congo.
  
  But I can’t understand why all other deadly diseases come out of China — and none from India.
  
  There appears to be something seriously wrong in China and the Ambassador should be quizzed about it given how easily these diseases can now travel worldwide.
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:31am
  - Raphael
    
    more people means it can spread faster, and mutate faster into bigger, stronger, nastier diseases.
    
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    January 22, 2020 11:23am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Massive population. There may be lesser immune defences in the population. Diets are different too. You meet all these things in testing antibiotics in a lab environment. A cell-culture dish becomes a microcosm.
    
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    January 22, 2020 11:28am
    - Harriet
      
      My question still stands — why not then India?
      
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      January 22, 2020 4:26pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    People and their animals are in close contact for much of their lives in Rural China.
    
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    January 22, 2020 12:24pm
    - Stephieboy2
      
      MW, oh weally? Unlike our Dairy, Sheep,Beef and poultry farmers?
      
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      January 22, 2020 3:22pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Sounds like you’ve never been anywhere in rural Asia or wandered through an operating wet market, stephieboy.
        
        I do assure you, they are nothing like NZ farms or our Killing Chains down at the local abbatoirs.
        
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        January 22, 2020 5:03pm
      - Stephieboy2
        
        MW, I take it you have travelled extensively through rural Hubei and Wuhan its main city?
        
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        January 22, 2020 5:09pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Didn’t you find the answers in smartansweronline?
        Cats and humans exchange diseases in NZ why shouldn’t that happen elsewhere?
        
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        January 22, 2020 5:42pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        MW, I take it you have travelled extensively through rural Hubei and Wuhan its main city?
        
        Not at all, stephieboy… I’ve only been through one wet market in Guangdong Province… but maybe next year.
        
        However, I did study Microbiology yonks ago and know a bit about hygiene practices in slaughter houses….
        
        and I don’t find much difficulty with comprehending papers like this:
        
        Major emerging and re-emerging zoonoses in China: a matter of global health and socioeconomic development for 1.3 billion,
        
        https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971214014970
        
        Almost every household in rural areas is engaged in livestock production, including pigs, chickens, bovines, sheep, ducks, etc. Different domestic animals live in the same environment, which provides a dynamic micro-environment that contributes to interspecies transmission, even from animals to humans.59, 60
        
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        January 22, 2020 6:17pm
  - MrTips
    
    From the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, entered Jan 14, 2020. How quickly things change in 8 days:
    
    “SARS is a zoonosis caused by SARS-CoV, which first emerged in China in 2002 before spreading to 29 countries/regions in 2003 through a travel-related global outbreak with 8,098 cases with a case fatality rate of 9.6%. Nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV was common while the primary reservoir was bats and the intermediary source was civet cats in the wet markets in Guangdong ( Hui and Zumla, 2019 ). MERS is a novel lethal zoonotic disease of humans endemic to the Middle East, caused by MERS-CoV. Humans are thought to acquire MERS-CoV infection though contact with camels or camel products with a case fatality rate close to 35% while nosocomial transmission is also a hallmark ( Azhar et al., 2019 ). The recent outbreak of clusters of viral pneumonia due to a 2019-nCoV in the Wuhan market poses significant threats to international health and may be related to sale of wild animal as game food at the seafood market.
    
    As of 10 Jan 2020, 41 patients have been diagnosed to have infection by the 2019-nCoV animals. The onset of illness of the 41 cases ranges from 8 December 2019 to 2 January 2020. Symptoms include fever (>90% cases), malaise, dry cough (80%), shortness of breath (20%) and respiratory distress (15%). The vital signs were stable in most of the cases while leucopenia and lymphopenia were common. Among the 41 cases, six patients have been discharged, seven patients are in critical care and one died, while the remaining patients are in stable condition. The fatal case involved a 61 year-old man with an abdominal tumour and cirrhosis who was admitted to a hospital due to respiratory failure and severe pneumonia. The diagnoses included severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock and multi-organ failure. The 2016-nCoV infection in Wuhan appears clinically milder than SARS or MERS overall in terms of severity, case fatality rate and transmissibility. There is currently no clear evidence of human to human transmission. At present, 739 close contacts including 419 healthcare workers are being quarantined and monitored for any development of symptoms ( WHO, 2020b; Center for Health Protection and HKSAR, 2020 ). No new cases have been detected in Wuhan since 3 January 2020. However the first case outside China has been reported today, 13th January 2020 in a Chinese tourist visiting Thailand, and is being treated in hospital.
    
    However, many questions about the new coronavirus remain. While it appears to be transmitted to humans via animals, the specific animals and other reservoirs need to be identified, the transmission route, the incubation period and characteristics of the susceptible population and survival rates. At present, there is however very limited clinical information of the 2019-nCoV infection and data are missing in regard to the age range, animal source of the virus, incubation period, epidemic curve, viral kinetics, transmission route, pathogenesis, autopsy findings and any treatment response to antivirals among the severe cases. Once there is any clue to the source of animals being responsible for this outbreak, global public health authorities should examine the trading route and source of movement of wild and domestic animals from other parts to Wuhan and consider appropriate trading restrictions or other control measures to limit. The rapid identification and containment of a novel coronavirus virus in a short period of time is a re-assuring and a commendable achievement by China’s public health authorities and reflects the increasing global capacity to detect, identify, define and contain new outbreaks. The latest analysis show that the Wuhan CoV cluster with the SARS CoV.10 (Novel coronavirus – China (01): (HU) WHO, phylogenetic tree Archive Number: 20200112.6885385 ).
    
    This outbreak brings back memories of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China in 2003, caused by a novel SARS-CoV-coronavirus ( World Health Organization, 2019a ). SARS-CoV rapidly spread from southern China in 2003 and infected more than 3000 people, killing 774 by 2004, and then disappeared – never to be seen again.”
    
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    January 22, 2020 12:50pm
    - Stephieboy2
      
      Nice C and P , Mr Tips!
      
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      January 22, 2020 3:24pm
Jack5

New Zealand house prices relative to incomes are high, Michael Reddell reports today at Croaking Cassandra.

Higher than Australia, Britain, Ireland, and about double the United States figures.

https://croakingcassandra.com/2020/01/22/housing-unaffordability/
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January 22, 2020 10:16am
- Harriet
  
  Meaning that business investment would probably be the opposite — far lower than other countries.
  
  As John Key said in his first speech to Aussie businessmen “NZ business people can be a bit too precious”. I wouldn’t invest in NZ.
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:39am
- cmm
  
  I’m not sure about Ireland, but anyone talking about Australian, NZ and US house prices is full of porkie poo.
  
  There is no Australian, NZ or US house price. Prices are highly variable from area to area. A semi-rural house in Texas or Georgia etc can cost peanuts relative to a major city.
  
  The issue with NZ is that we have such a tiny population that we have not spread out much and we also pay through our noses due to import costs.
  
  Compare Auckland house prices with NYC, Sydney etc and tell us how you get on.
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:44am
  - Jack5
    
    I’ve had another look at the Reddell article linked to, and he does compare house affordability in Auckland with New York, Sydney, and several other international cities.
    
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    January 22, 2020 1:17pm
Cobolt24

Tobacco factory plans to close in Wellington, axing 122 jobs: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118949231/imperial-tobacco-closes-petone-factory
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January 22, 2020 10:25am
- cmm
  
  More biz-op for the gangs!
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:44am
chaos

Is it time for compulsory seatbelts in buses

*A woman and a girl are in hospital after they lost limbs when a bus rolled near Queenstown.

Stuff understands a woman lost an arm and a girl both her hands in the crash. The woman was airlifted to Dunedin Hospital and the girl to Christchurch Hospital. *

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/118949875/two-women-in-hospital-traumatic-injuries-after-serious-queenstown-bus-crash
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January 22, 2020 10:42am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Is it time for these cheap PRC owned travel companies to be put inder the spotlight in NZ
  
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  January 22, 2020 11:59am
  - sooty
    
    The leson to learn here is don’t put your arms and hands out the window and wear your seatbelt!
    It is not nice to have your body between the ground and the bus!
    
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    January 22, 2020 4:07pm
chaos

*Paula Bennett struggles to trust Winston Peters ahead of election showdown*

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/paula-bennett-struggles-to-trust-winston-peters-ahead-of-election-showdown.html
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January 22, 2020 10:45am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Paula doesn’t have that on her own. I don’t trust the evil prick either.
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:58am
  - chaos
    
    Yeah, and hopefully that is national starting to signal they will refuse to deal with Winston
    
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    January 22, 2020 12:51pm
rouppe

Veganism is worsen for the planet that an omnivorous diet.

Scientifically proven!
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January 22, 2020 11:03am
- Stephieboy2
  
  rouppe,
  
  disputed here,
  
  “Eating meat has ‘dire’ consequences for the planet, says report”
  
  To feed a growing global population and curtail climate change, scientists say we need to radically change our food systems.
  
  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/01/commission-report-great-food-transformation-plant-diet-climate-change/
  
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  January 22, 2020 1:00pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Keep enjoying your mung beans and lentils, idiot.
    
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    January 22, 2020 3:03pm
    - Stephieboy2
      
      Captain Mainwaring, and your shanks of horsemeat!
      
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      January 22, 2020 3:25pm
  - rouppe
    
    I guess the science is settled then ?
    
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    January 22, 2020 4:32pm
    - Stephieboy2
      
      roupee, nope!
      
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      January 22, 2020 5:48pm
  - rouppe
    
    Actually the back half of the report is saying exactly the same stuff, especially around the amount of waste of perishable food
    
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    January 22, 2020 4:37pm
  - cmm
    
    NatGeo used to be a fine informative magazine. Now it is just an activism tabloid.
    
    I had some old NatGeos form the WW2 days. Of course it was filled with pro-Allied/anti-Axis propaganda.
    
    But now it’s even worse than that.
    
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    January 22, 2020 4:43pm
Poppa

Happy New Year fellow KBrs. I am back from the wilderness

Rather interesting, over the holidays I was talking with a friend who I thought would have been a Labour voter. It turns out that he cannot stand them & thinks Cindy is a very bad joke.

He also is hot on Pike River, Gun buyback, climate change

So all is well with the world after all
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January 22, 2020 11:32am
rightoverlabour

Now could someone explain how more CO2 creates blizzards, since supposedly CO2 traps heat. Maybe it can’t speak Spanish?

https://electroverse.net/storm-gloria-brings-heavy-snow-to-spain-killing-at-least-3/

Oh bugger, happening in English speaking countries too. Maybe it never read the IPCC report on how it is supposd to behave.

https://electroverse.net/record-snowfall-buried-many-regions-of-north-america/

And the big volcanic eruptions have not even started in earnest yet.

Google Canada Latest snowstorm images. When you can’t get out your front door because the snow is at the rooftop, it’s obviously Global Warming….
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January 22, 2020 12:08pm
- chaos
  
  They were impressive I was watching videos of people last night showing the snow over their doors, cars and houses. Damn.
  
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  January 22, 2020 12:50pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  rightoverlabour, This will help you,
  
  “Why cold weather doesn’t mean climate change is fake”
  
  Weather and climate aren’t the same thing, meaning you can expect harsher winters in a warming world.
  
  First, it’s important to understand the difference between climate and weather. Climate is defined as the average weather patterns in a region over a long period of time. It’s the difference between Europe’s temperate and Mediterranean zones versus the harsh cold conditions of the Arctic tundra. Each of these climate regions experiences day-to-day fluctuations in temperature, precipitation, air pressure, and so on—daily variations known as weather.
  
  How warming can lead to cooling
  
  When the term global warming was popularized a few decades ago, it referred to the phenomenon of greenhouse gases trapping heat in the atmosphere and warming the average temperature of the planet. Though record high temperatures in many places have been one impact of this decades-long shift, scientists now understand that an atmosphere changed by rising levels of gases like carbon and methane leads to more climate changes than just warming….”
  
  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/01/climate-change-colder-winters-global-warming-polar-vortex/
  
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  January 22, 2020 12:53pm
  - cmm
    
    Thanks stephie. That explanation is the best one I have seen and explains everything.
    
    I’ll paraphrase and say it back to make sure I understand properly.
    
    CO2 keeps things warm by trapping warm air – like your duvet.
    
    If you put the duvet on your bed in summer you get too hot, so best take it off and put it away.
    
    If you put your duvet on in winter you get too cold, so best take it off and put it away.
    
    That all makes huge sense now.
    
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    January 22, 2020 4:51pm
    - chaos
      
      I need a drink
      
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      January 22, 2020 4:53pm
      - cmm
        
        Put a duvet on your drink and it will chill down nicely, according the stephie’s scientists.
        
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        January 22, 2020 6:21pm
  - DigNap15
    
    They had to make that last paragraph up to justify their shit
    
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    January 22, 2020 6:27pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Actually Stephieboy, I fully understand the false logic that argues that increased CO2 will cause colder storms. I was taking the piss. But thanks for the post that clearly demonstrates you have no idea about any of the physics behind climatology.
    
    Have a read here for some solid science…
    
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/11/no-global-warming-is-not-causing-more-frequent-arctic-outbreaks/
    
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    January 22, 2020 6:57pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Warning to regular KB posters, Griff responds in the comments. Be afraid, be very afraid…..
      
      However, they know how to deal with Griff
      
      Quote” ROTFLMAO.
      
      “Climate Change” (TM) causes everything, even things diametrically opposed to one another – Griff didn’t tell you?
      
      Or, more correctly, it doesn’t cause any of it, because it’s an imaginary “crisis” that doesn’t exist.
      
      I wonder how Griff deals with all that cognitive dissonance; maybe he drinks.”
      
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      January 22, 2020 8:42pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I wondered how long it would take other KBers to realise who is pulling stephieboy strings.
        
        Well done.
        
        Perhaps DPF and the Moderators will have a relook at the harassment I have been getting on this blog.
        
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        January 22, 2020 9:34pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Oi Genius, read this:
    
    https://www.co2web.info/ESEF3VO2.pdf
    
    Then refute line by line or accept that the IPCC Alarmist Fraud is nothing but junk science.
    
    Have fun.
    
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    January 22, 2020 7:18pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Ok Stephie, explain how this then occurred way before CO2 and methane emissions…..
    
    https://apnews.com/49a5ef9d50804ef3a75c58562bb75b11
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:19pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Here is more stuff for you to read darling. I know the graphs and technical stuff will go “whoosh”, but do read the comments below the article – They refer to twats like you.
    
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/02/04/disrupting-the-theory-on-pv-and-global-warming/
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:24pm
Lance

I just made the mistake of looking at the midday news on TV1. It is a new year and being on holiday, I thought I would try something different.
I had to turn it off after there was a breathtaking item ……………..after the fires in Australia, and after the rain…………… NEW PLANTS SPROUT!!!!
Oh the wonder .. oh the miracle of it all (oh the bleeding obvious to anyone with half a brain)
Then quickly following by an even more idiotic item stating that because of climate change NZ forest will burn like Aus eucalyptus sooner rather than later.
It would have been more appropriate as a part of “not the nine o’clock news”. It is either a piss take or journo’s have regressed to kindy kids logic.
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January 22, 2020 12:24pm
- chaos
  
  do we have that many arsonists in nz?
  
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  January 22, 2020 12:48pm
  - Stephieboy2
    
    chaos , thats an amaizing idea that Aussie Bush fires were caused by arsonists.
    
    I wonder where that came from?
    
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    January 22, 2020 2:00pm
    - cmm
      
      You are correct, but probably not how you think.
      
      In a dry environment like Australia, especially with eucalyptus trees, you do not need arsonists to start fires. Just about anything will start a fire.
      
      However arsonists make it way worse. Many arsonists are themselves triggered by fire. They see one, or see it on the news etc and they start another.
      
      The impact of arsonists is not fires per se because Oz is going to burn anyway.
      
      However arsonist cause there to be many fires simultaneously which overloads firefighting resource meaning that the impact is way worse.
      
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      January 22, 2020 4:58pm
      - Stephieboy2
        
        183 arsonists reported starting bushfires over a one year period in 2019 early 2020 are the facts!
        
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        January 22, 2020 5:03pm
      - chaos
        
        just ignore the troll. Wasn’t that long ago that troll was posting articles about a fireman who started fires in Australia, either they have seriously mental health issues or the account is used by multiple people.
        
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        January 22, 2020 5:19pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Q.
      Where did the idea that arsonists are responsible for some bushfires come from?
      
      A.
      From Official research commissioned by the Australian Government
      
      Bushfire arson : a review of the literature
      
      https://aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/rpp61
      
      and: 61 Bushfire Arson Bulletins
      https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/bfab
      
      and: 57 Bushfire Inquiries.
      
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      January 22, 2020 5:23pm
      - Stephieboy2
        
        MW, there is the belief that the fires were started by arsonists rather than climate change factors!
        
        https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arson-australia-fire-climate-change_n_5e166365c5b600960c5f6af6
        
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        January 22, 2020 5:49pm
      - cmm
        
        stephie: Climate change has NEVER started a fire.
        
        You might argue that climate change could create more fuel (trees growing better) or make the fuel burn hotter because it is drier, but people explain a mechanism whereby climate change STARTS (ie. ignites) a fire as you claim.
        
        Even the most outlandish IPCC reports do not claim that the temperatures would get so hot that it achieves the flash point of wood (around 300 degrees C).
        
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        January 22, 2020 6:19pm
Maggie Pie

Just got back home and switched on the radio. It was still tuned to 1ZB after breakfast. Horror of horrors, that pair of cringey fawning lefties are back doing the 12 – 4 slot 🙁
[Even my partners old mother refers to them as… “dripping dicks”]

What’s happened to Andrew Dickens? They make HIM sound like Alan Jones.
At least we’ve got Magic!
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January 22, 2020 12:56pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  Maggie Pie, still lamenting the good old days of Leighton Smith?
  
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  January 22, 2020 3:36pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Do you subsribe to his podcasts, Steph?
    Can be bit long-winded, but ‘Mrs Producer’ adds a few good titbits (not as fab as Kate Hawkesby on earlybird though) 😀
    
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    January 22, 2020 4:17pm
- softail 1450
  
  MP,If you are going to listen to those two it might pay to get a permanent sick bag you can carry around whilst listening ,absolute leftie dribble .
  
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  January 22, 2020 3:57pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    GOD – honestly, i can see why some people say they lose the will the live!
    It must be very disheartening for the Host that has to follow on from them – there wouldn’t be any listeners left.
    My partners mum was saying she only knows of three people in the entire Retirement Village that admit listening to them. And all 3 wear incontinence pads 🙁
    
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    January 22, 2020 4:26pm
- alloytoo
  
  Andrew can be heard on Monday.
  
  I would much prefer him everyday.
  
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  January 22, 2020 5:38pm
chaos

Great to see he is improving. Much respect for his attitude and his fight he has had and has in front of him.

* To everybody who has been supporting me I would like to say a big Thank You. We are grateful for the kind donations received through the Givealittle page and I am enjoying reading the awesome messages and comments that have come, they’ve really helped me.

A few days ago I moved out of ICU and into the National Burns Centre. This is a big step in my road to recovery. So far I have had 14 visits to theatre – sometimes the surgeons are grafting parts of my body and other times they are changing my dressings and checking out the progress of the work they have done.

Now that my fingers are no longer bandaged I have been able to use my iPad to catch up with my friends.

Thank you so much for your kindness – it means a lot to me.

Jake Milbank*

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/help-support-jakes-recovery
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January 22, 2020 1:02pm
- Tall Man
  
  As well as extensive financial support from ACC using our levies.
  
  I realise he has had a tough time but this “givealittle” stuff is getting silly.
  
  In the same week as the White Island eruption many people were incapacitated in NZ through illness which gains little support unless through private insurance.
  
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  January 22, 2020 2:27pm
Jack5

White male voter: Justice ain’t colour blind, and Labour’s got your number …

The Labour coalition has affirmed it supports a race-based justice system, the Attorney-General, Parker, saying 21 new District Court judges will improve access to justice and boost diversity on the bench.

Of the 14 named today, only one is a white man, though five are white women. Six of the new judges are Maori, one is Maori-Chinese, and one is Samoan.

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/21-new-judges-boost-diversity-improve-access-justice
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January 22, 2020 1:25pm
- sooty
  
  They should have to dump one judge to appoint another.
  Get rid of dipshits!
  
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  January 22, 2020 4:11pm
- DigNap15
  
  #White JudgesMatter
  
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  January 22, 2020 6:24pm
- Simon Gotlieb
  
  Probably would pay to see how many existing judges are white men. Even after the addition of the “more diverse” candidates the white guys are most likely stuff the majority.
  
  Your hash tag more appropriately should read #whitepeoplestillruleeverything
  
  That’s not going to change for quite some time. A few moves in the direction of diversity aren’t going to make a big difference … yet.
  
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  January 23, 2020 2:31pm
DigNap15

Re the gangs
The government really must do something abouy them soon
Or they wil get out of hand like in Mexico and Gautemala etc.
In Mexio they kills lots of mayors, and even the army is scared of them.
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January 22, 2020 1:35pm
- chaos
  
  Question is, have we already left it a few decades too late
  
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  January 22, 2020 1:46pm
  - Tall Man
    
    No. It’s an easy fix within the existing laws, we just need a police force prepared to use them.
    
    Look at the two twat cops that drew their firearms on the guy robbing their station and they just watched him take the last two firearms and walk away to his car and drive off.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/116143670/cop-shop-gun-thief-jailed-for-embarrassing-anzac-day-burglary-in-palmerston-north?rm=a
    
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    January 22, 2020 2:24pm
    - Simon Gotlieb
      
      Jesus, imagine if they’d shot him. You wouldn’t stop hearing about how evil the cops were for weeks.
      
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      January 23, 2020 2:32pm
- Jack5
  
  The NZ police force isn’t alone in choosing the easy target, in our case legitimate, licensed firearms owners, and backing away from fighting toe-to-toe with criminal gangs.
  
  Look at what’s happened in Britain. The police have arrested people for internet “hate speech”, while they long ignored the appalling ethnic-Pakistani gangs’ paederastic rape and sex-enslavement of thousands of early-teenage English girls in Rochdale, Newcastle, Bradford, and now Manchester.
  
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  January 22, 2020 2:44pm
Manolo

Bring the straitjacket, please.
“With today’s emissions levels, the remaining budget is gone in less than eight years. These aren’t anyone’s views. This is the science,” Thunberg said. The numbers were cited from the International Panel on Climate Change’s 2018 damning report about the scale of the climate crisis.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90453825/greta-thunberg-we-have-eight-years-to-save-the-earth
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January 22, 2020 2:16pm
- Jack5
  
  Here’s part of the New York Times report of Thunberg speaking at Davos:
  
  “Let’s be clear. We don’t need a ‘low carbon economy.’ We don’t need to ‘lower emissions,’” she said. “Our emissions have to stop.”
  
  Only that, she said, would enable the world to keep temperatures from rising past 1.5 degrees from preindustrial levels, which scientists say is necessary to avert the worst effects of climate change. She and a group of young climate activists have called on private investors and governments to immediately halt exploration for fossil fuels, to stop funding their production, to end taxpayer subsidies for the industry and to fully divest their existing stakes in the sector.
  
  Our emissions have to stop? She wants us to stop breathing out carbon dioxide?
  
  You first, Greta.
  
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  January 22, 2020 2:57pm
  - Harriet
    
    Hahahahaha — Golly has to now go nuclear to stop emissions!
    
    And given that we need carbon to survive – zero is a ridiculous target – we would end up being reliant on volcanoes to survive! 😎
    
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    January 22, 2020 3:17pm
  - Stephieboy2
    
    Jack5 , unfortuantely we have only one atmsophere that Gretam you, I and others have to share.
    
    Her reported comments don’t appear unreasonable in today’s world!
    
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    January 22, 2020 3:29pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      Greta has the wrong idea. A replacement has to be found for energy needs. So the sequence should be finding alternatives. Stopping using fossil fuels (a concept I actually believe in) should first be preceded by alternatives. Otherwise you are condemning millions, if not billions of people, to death by starvation, and extreme cold.
      
      I notice Greta is keen to use the products and byproducts of fossil fuel or product created using fossil fuel, so she does practice what she preaches, so does not believe in it.
      
      On the other hand if Greta knows a source of clean energy that could replace fossil fuels, why is she keeping quiet about it. The correct way to phase out something inefficient and unproductive is through competition with something new. But no,Greta has no alternative.
      
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      January 22, 2020 4:56pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        Typo – should be: “so she doesn’t practice what she preaches, so does not believe in it.”
        
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        January 22, 2020 5:08pm
      - Stephieboy2
        
        “I notice Greta is keen to use the products and byproducts of fossil fuel or product created using fossil fuel,,”
        
        In a perfect world whe would undoubtedly use a sailing boat unlike you!
        
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        January 22, 2020 5:56pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        @Stephieboy2
        
        I’ll miss on the sailing boat. Found them too difficult on the road to Mount Cook.
        
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        January 23, 2020 4:48pm
  - alloytoo
    
    The midievel warm period is pre-industrial
    
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    January 22, 2020 5:42pm
chaos

An update for David’s post yesterday

* New Zealand’s absence from a global holocaust memorial event has been called disappointing by the New Zealand Jewish Council and labelled disgraceful by the Opposition.

Israel is this week hosting the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and international Holocaust Remembrance Day……

New Zealand Jewish Council president Stephen Goodman says the lack of representation is “disappointing but not necessarily totally surprising”.

“I would imagine it’s a case of priorities in Government. But, given it’s the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz being liberated, it would have been an appropriate time to go,” he said.

“Australia takes a different attitude on such matters and it would be nice if these things were given a higher priority here.”*

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12302439
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January 22, 2020 2:50pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  From the NZ Herald link ,
  
  “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is speaking at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Auckland next week.”
  
  Is Gerry Brownlee ( or some other Nat ) going to the global Holocaust memeorial event?
  
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  January 22, 2020 3:34pm
  - chaos
    
    you really are a troll aren’t you, because even you would understand that invite was for New Zealand govt to send a representative which means that no someone from the opposition cannot just turn up there. Stop trolling and try to think before you post
    
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    January 22, 2020 3:51pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Stephie ‘think’.
      That’s a big ask.
      
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      January 22, 2020 4:09pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    Stephie, conscious thinking, like conscious love, is an action, not a reaction.
    
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    January 22, 2020 5:13pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear, oh dear

A senior staffer to Minister Phil Twyford owned lobbying firm while working for Minister
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12302571
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January 22, 2020 3:43pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  MW, next time you post this kind of thing provide a fuller picture ,
  
  “..In a statement to the Herald, Ebert said he disclosed this to DIA – his employer – and they were aware of his directorship “from the outset”.
  
  He said “no conflict of interest arose” and said that “no Government relations work was undertaken for anyone during the whole period”.
  
  In his statement, Ebert said he had undertaken three “short-term research and communications jobs [that] were done for three separate non-government clients between August 2018 and January 2020 to supplement my part-time income.”
  
  None of these jobs, he said, were government relations work and no conflict of interest arose..”.
  
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  January 22, 2020 5:06pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    >>>He said “no conflict of interest arose”
    
    Equally: “Billy Bunter said that during his time managing the school tuck shop, there was no conflict of interest between that management role and his obsession of eating 23 cream buns a day.”
    
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    January 22, 2020 5:40pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    MW, next time you post this kind of thing provide a fuller picture ,
    
    I realise you have a serious cognition problem, so I will go through this slowly for you.
    
    I posted a link….. and you cut & pasted back material within that link.
    
    Did you realise that you don’t need to do that for most of us on this blog?
    
    We are quite capable of clicking on a link and reading the material therein without clogging up this blog with repetitive stuff.
    
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    January 22, 2020 5:41pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Are you really that moronic?
    
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    January 22, 2020 6:20pm
  - MrTips
    
    Stephie: if you can explain how a company that is not actively trading still puts in annual returns, that would be great.
    
    And then please shut up.
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:03pm
- cmm
  
  No point in having influence if you can’t turn it into cash eh?
  
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  January 22, 2020 5:09pm
Stephieboy2

Reassuring. No need to for a panic alert from some KB posters

” Coronavirus threat still low for New Zealand – expert”

An expert says it’s too soon to be screening passengers to New Zealand for the coronavirus.

Nearly 300 cases have been confirmed in China and Australia is now screening passengers at the border.

A Brisbane man is in isolation with symptoms of the virus which has killed six people.

Auckland University’s microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles told Kate Hawkesby the threat is still low for New Zealand.

“Some cases are now being detected in Shanghai and Beijing, but these are all for people who have travelled from Wuhan. The countries which are doing screening are those with a direct flight from there.”

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-edition/audio/siouxsie-wiles-coronavirus-threat-is-still-low-for-new-zealand/

Unless of course arriving directly from Wuhan!
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January 22, 2020 3:43pm
- Harriet
  
  Stephie —
  
  I can understand Ebola coming out of the Congo.
  
  But please explain why nearly ALL deadly diseases come out of China – while none come out of India.
  
  The Chinese ambassador needs to be grilled over this as there is clearly something seriously wrong in China and which is DEADLY TO EVERYONE!
  
  Screening is for boobs. 😎
  
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  January 22, 2020 4:17pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    >>>”But please explain why nearly ALL deadly diseases come out of China – while none come out of India.”
    
    Maybe…. India don’t have the technology sophistication to create or breed them?
    
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    January 22, 2020 5:31pm
    - DigNap15
      
      What do you want?
      Deadly diseases or spam?
      
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      January 22, 2020 6:21pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        Neither
        
        Genetically engineering has been going on for a long time, as man attempts to play god.
        
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        January 22, 2020 10:44pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    There are substantially different dietary regimes between India an China. The Indian diet, on balance, may be more protective.
    
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    January 22, 2020 5:49pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      Or perhaps it is the genetic engineering that China has, that India doesn’t.
      
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      January 22, 2020 10:46pm
  - DigNap15
    
    So why does Ebola only exist in Central Africa?
    
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    January 22, 2020 6:22pm
    - Stephieboy2
      
      DigNap5 , in your bubble chamber maybe racial?
      
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      January 22, 2020 8:53pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    @ Harriet
    
    India has been the origin site of some human diseases.
    
    Emerging & re-emerging infections in India: An overview
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3767269/
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:33pm
- cmm
  
  There are many things that we take steps to reduce even though the risk is low.
  
  Wear a seatbelt? I have not had a crash in well over 500,000 km. What a waste.
  Lock the house? Waste. Most likely a crim didn’t come try break in last night.
  Insurance? Tens of thousands of dollar – not needed.
  
  The cost of screening need not be high. We probably have all the toys already and they just need to be plugged in.
  
  The “oops I was wrong” cost of putting up a screening that never stops a single case is very low.
  
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  January 22, 2020 5:08pm
- JackRabbit
  
  Stephie,
  
  If you are at all concerned:
  
  All viruses by definition are parasites of one form or another, from micro organisms to much larger organisms. The ancient “old wives tale” that garlic stops vampires is based on a truth. Vampires are anything that suck blood from humans. Most parasites do exactly that.
  
  Start taking or increase your dose of aged garlic extract.
  
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  January 22, 2020 5:29pm
  - Stephieboy2
    
    JackRabbit, a much better and comprehensive defintion is here ,
    
    https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5997
    
    I’m confident Assoc professor Siouxsie Wile would run rings around you!
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:05pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      Your confidence is misplaced. You do not know me or what I understand, and/or who I know in health and/or the successes they have had, or what projects, inventions I or others have been involved in.
      
      This is not a battle of who has the biggest dick, it is about sharing useful knowledge.
      
      A simple “hey JackRabbit, thanks for the info” would have sufficed.
      
      Your emotion circuits need a serious overhaul.
      
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      January 22, 2020 8:42pm
      - chaos
        
        Sad,this troll doesn’t care for Sharing information or having conversations, no matter what anyone posts here, the idiot will disagree with it.
        
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        January 23, 2020 12:20am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Who the fuck is Kate Hawesby?
  Serious, I have travelled from the Shore to Ponsonby and never met that person
  
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  January 22, 2020 6:07pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Stupidboy,
  Expert. X is the unknown, and spurt is a drip under pressure.
  All 7 of you dickheads who plague the blog
  
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  January 22, 2020 6:12pm
  - Stephieboy2
    
    Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    And who are you unknown outside KB’s bubble chamber unlike-
    
    Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles
    BSc (Hons), PhD
    
    Associate Professor
    
    In: Molecular Medicine and Pathology » Medical Science » Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
    
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    January 22, 2020 7:59pm
    - Two fish and a scoop thanks Cindy
      
      Argument from Authority.
      
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      January 23, 2020 7:30am
- MrTips
  
  Knowing what I know about Siouxsie, let’s just say I’m waiting for the face palm.
  
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  January 22, 2020 6:12pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    My partner’s name is Susan. Good thing her parents knew about silly first name syndrome
    
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    January 22, 2020 6:23pm
  - chaos
    
    Isn’t this the nut job the media pulled out with the frontera powder contamination a few years ago and she was basically fear mongering with bullshit? She is also I believe the winger who couldn’t get funding and went to the media crying
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:26pm
    - Stephieboy2
      
      chaos , improve things with facts.
      
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      January 22, 2020 8:52pm
      - chaos
        
        Actually troll it is factual, and you can go read her own article she wrote for stuff where she whines and sulks about not getting funding for several proposals she made. You can even go and read her comments about the frontera fear mongering she made in the msm, so troll, go and learn something for yourself
        
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        January 23, 2020 12:17am
chaos

China is basically shutting the area down to fight this. 22 health care workers already infected with it there.

* China has said that 440 people have now contracted a mysterious Sars-like virus that has killed nine people, as the government unveiled measures to attempt to rein in the spread of the disease and advised residents of Wuhan not to leave the city.

China’s national health commission, in its first major press briefing since the outbreak was detected in late December, said the virus is mainly passed through the respiratory tract and the nation was now at the most critical stage of prevention and control.*

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/22/coronavirus-china-measures-rein-spread-mutate-disease-death-toll
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January 22, 2020 8:24pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep,
  Don’t go to Wuhan….
  Don’t leave Wuhan, if you are already there.
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:40pm
  - Stephieboy2
    
    MW, quite!
    
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    January 22, 2020 8:46pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  chaos , MSM Guardian by joves!
  
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  January 22, 2020 8:43pm
  - chaos
    
    You really are a stupid person
    
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    January 23, 2020 12:18am
    - Simon Gotlieb
      
      He’s got a point though. No less than five times this month other posters have been more or less vilified for attempting to link to The Grauniad.
      
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      January 23, 2020 3:09pm
rightoverlabour

Where is the fucking Hockey Stick?

Look at this graph.

https://bobtisdale.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/Figure-11.png

from a comment by Tom Abbot here:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/27/the-real-climate-crisis-is-not-global-warming-it-is-cooling-and-it-may-have-already-started/

“Here’s the real global surface temperature profile, the U.S. surface temperature chart. All the old, unmodified charts from around the world resemble this one. They do not resembel a “hotter and hotter” alarmist Hockey Stick chart.”
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January 22, 2020 9:04pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Look here for a real attack on Mann’s Fraud….
  
  https://climateaudit.org/2007/11/06/the-wegman-and-north-reports-for-newbies/
  
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  January 22, 2020 10:01pm
- cmm
  
  It’s probably a bit more like a goalie stick:
  
  http://obo.co.nz/ranges/other/goalie-stick-fatboy-f1
  
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  January 23, 2020 4:10pm
Hugh Pavletich

Media response … so far … to this year’s Demographia Housing Survey

Note Google New Zealand Search ‘Housing Affordability” … with the header …

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=4l0oXruDIaSG4-EP0IuBmAg&q=housing+affordability+nz&oq=housing+affordability&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i131j0l9.2986.10047..12372…0.0..0.388.5696.2-19j3……0….1..gws-wiz…..0..0i10.d-nw6Cr47uE

New Zealand’s housing affordability is getting worse, with prices now seven times the median household income. Research group Demographia’s annual housing affordability survey shows that New Zealand has a “median multiple” of 7, or seven times the median income for a median house – up from 6.5 the year before.3 days ago
.
.
Google New Zealand Search ‘Demographia’ …

https://www.google.com/search?q=demographia&rlz=1C1GIGM_enNZ518NZ518&oq=demographia&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0j69i59l2j0l4.11251j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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January 23, 2020 4:28am
cmm

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/118988168/sonny-bill-williams-will-not-wear-super-leagues-chief-sponsor-due-to-religious-beliefs

Is SBW really so damn good?
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