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Tony Stuart

Welcome to Level One!

The suggestion however, repeated by Katie Bradford on 1 News last night, that the economy is 95% back is a long way from the truth. Tourism, our leading source of export earnings, is in tatters. The Overseas Student sector, another significant source of revenue, is on hold for goodness knows how long. Tens of thousands of people are newly out of work, and that number will rise when the wage subsidy ends. Hundreds of businesses have closed, and will never reopen. People have taken their own lives because the enormity of the situation was too much for them.

Let’s all hope and pray that there is not a “second wave” of Covid-19, or some mutated form of the virus. Further restrictions on activity would be catastrophic, not only to our collective health, but to the economy as well.
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June 9, 2020 8:01am
- Rich Prick
  
  So that’s the end of bubbles, being kind and markers showing us where to stand? I almost feel adult again. I won’t miss that woman’s voice either.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:08am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    My intuition tells me that you’ll be hearing that woman’s voice loudly & proudly for a wee while yet…
    
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    June 9, 2020 8:24am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Yes, there’s an election campaign beginning soon. Just nine days until the regulated period begins. Then it will be wall-to-wall “team of five million”, “hard and early”, “be kind” and “didn’t we do well”.
      
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      June 9, 2020 8:48am
      - alex Masterley
        
        I think that will be balanced against the torrent of job losses that are being reported.
        Max closing 17 stores for example. Feelz and Huggz dont put bread on the table.
        
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        June 9, 2020 8:52am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        Tony – and it was all achieved by the world’s sassiest chick through a leadership masterclass (apparently)
        
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        June 9, 2020 8:56am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        alex – I believe Cindy’s strategy for dealing with unemployment is to inform employers that she is angry with them.
        
        That will achieve cut through among her adoring subjects and keep them pacified…
        
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        June 9, 2020 9:01am
      - Frank the tank
        
        Damn square you will.
        
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        June 9, 2020 9:26am
      - jv
        
        She is a preacher to the sychophants and certainly not the wondrous communicator she proclaims. A good leader/communicator appreciates the whole team and carries them all to a greater or lesser degree. Doesn’t need to flap and frown and tilt and carry on etc etc. Imagine eg how a mother of a teething little one whose husband has lost his job or whose café had gone under felt about the slg’s dribble about her needing to tell the world about her little dance for Neve. She needs to get out and about and stop talking in her echo chamber.
        
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        June 9, 2020 9:44am
    - bartybart
      
      another 3.5 years
      
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      June 9, 2020 9:02am
    - Frank the tank
      
      I’m going to get the jingle as my ring tone
      
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      June 9, 2020 9:25am
    - Akarak
      
      She’s already dumping on Air New Zealand and the Warehouse. Our newly fledged economic guru will
      no doubt exclude them from her team of 5 million.
      
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      June 9, 2020 10:33am
      - Two bob
        
        fingers crossed the jobless exclude her as PM come sept 19
        
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        June 9, 2020 5:33pm
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    Upticked you but why did you listen? I didn’t.
    
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    June 9, 2020 8:29am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    She was bloody angry talking to that dork John Campbell this morning.
    Clearly she does not like losing the power
    
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    June 9, 2020 8:30am
    - freethinker
      
      This is just the start of arderns Anus Horriblis with a Grande Finale 21/9/2020 when ardern realizes she will be occupying an opposition bench in the next parliament, possibly a back bench or even a park bench – I hope.
      
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      June 9, 2020 1:03pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Don’t worry, the UN is full of political non-achievers. She will be welcomed by them but she will have to take a lesser place in their auditorium of mediocracy.
        
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        June 9, 2020 1:48pm
    - Two bob
      
      I Watched her on breakfast this morning and I swore then laughed at the tv. she seemed blindsided she was getting negativity and the questioning did not favour her at all.
      seemed all she could do was cut off john cambell and keep blabbing irrelevent stuff to deflect anymore questioning.
      
      shes screwed when anything goes off script and unprepared for
      
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      June 9, 2020 1:33pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        You got it. She talks. Why was the dork Campbell not given scripted questions, and scripted answers?
        Maybe he was, but deflected – hence the 5 minutes of unrelated waffle
        
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        June 9, 2020 2:54pm
  - C J Southern
    
    I’m curious to know if laxative sales are inversely proportional to the amount of airtime she gets.
    
    Asking for a friend.
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:19am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    She will be on a viewscreen in your lounge watching you making sure you perform the correct genuflection.
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:31am
  - HeatherW
    
    The Covid-message lady seems to have been replaced by a male voice for the economic messaging. “Unite for the recovery”. They were a tag team last week but haven’t heard her today.
    
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    June 9, 2020 5:49pm
- emmess
  
  The coronavirus is a joke now, since the riots begun
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:17am
- Nickc2
  
  What would the Bradford brat know? She reminds me of two short planks (thick as). Remember her quip about a previous election: “no matter what we did, we couldn’t . . . . . . etc”. Beware, her and her mates will be at it again come the next election.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:22am
  - Tarquin North
    
    The apple didn’t fall to far from the tree in that family. She’s almost as lucid as her mother.
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:01am
- cmm
  
  95% of her sheltered little leftie professional life is back to normal.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:23am
- john1234
  
  In addition, businesses have finally discovered that they don’t need all their staff in an office 5 days a week. Many are going to continue to work from home to varying degrees. CBD districts are like ghost towns so all the associated businesses continue to suffer.
  Bradford’s dreaming.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:26am
  - mandk
    
    Wellington trains still very empty this morning.
    
    Why aren’t public servants back at their desks? The bosses have known for a long while that Level 1 was coming. They should have been prepared. A job in the public service looks like a sinecure, compared to the private sector.
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:13am
    - Inandout
      
      man, when you are enjoying full pay why go back to work?
      
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      June 9, 2020 9:46am
    - Bullion
      
      Public servants I know never stopped working.
      
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      June 9, 2020 10:26am
      - yossarian
        
        Did any get a pay cut? I’m in my 8 week of 80% and no I haven’t had one day off, and been working at 120% of my salaried hours
        
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        June 9, 2020 12:46pm
      - freethinker
        
        Inandout – Public servants don’t work they just attend.
        
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        June 9, 2020 1:06pm
      - Michael NZ
        
        Same here.
        
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        June 9, 2020 3:54pm
    - Ruawai
      
      Public servants should have been instructed to be back at work for the good of the economy.
      
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      June 9, 2020 10:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Does not matter where State Sector Employees are, they produce nothing.
      Just jobs to keep them off the unemployment list
      
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      June 9, 2020 2:56pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Plus a few will have discovered that they don’t need all their staff.
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:23am
- kowtow
  
  ‘Katie Bradford on 1 News last night, that the economy is 95% back is a long way from the truth’
  
  Fake news from a fake news channel.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:35am
  - rockape
    
    She needs to visit Nelson, our tourism is dead, the wine industry and apple industry are struggling to get workers from overseas. Yesterday I went to my usual safety equipment place to get an inflatable fixed. They service all the life rafts and safety gear for the fishing fleet and refits as well as aircraft at Nelson airfield. Just the manager and a young girl left, all th3 rest made redundant and they were just stock checking before closing at the end of the month. Their operation,moved to Christchurch. Don’t even thing we are at peak pain!
    
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    June 9, 2020 8:44am
    - kowtow
      
      The pollies and Media Party live in their own little bubbles , otherwise the beltway , an Americanism.
      
      While the media report on the big company job losses , Warehouse AirNZ etc , the real experience of real people across the whole country goes largely unremarked .
      
      And the crash will hurt everyone, in some ways huge in other ways not so much , but this thing is a disaster.
      
      But as far as the “news” reports are concerned it’s all smiles and happy dancing……
      
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      June 9, 2020 9:07am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        ANZ??? claiming that unemployment may only hit 10.5%????
        Last week they were claiming 9.5%
        If it keep rising at 1% per week, it will be over 20% before the election.
        
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        June 9, 2020 9:48am
    - Tricati
      
      So, the PM is angry at The Warehouse redundancies, and states that if it is a business restructure, then they should say that and not use covid 19 as an excuse.
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/418571/warehouse-job-cuts-i-m-angry-jacinda-ardern
      Maybe the PM could ask The Warehouse, how did the increase in minimum wage help their business, and the fact they were forced closed for a month under Level 4.
      The fact The Warehouse was already looking to rationalize their business prior to Covid, as were where many large businesses in NZ is the bigger story, as it indicates NZ was heading for economic troubles prior to Covid, and this latest saga has accelerated that economic decline and the government has shown no plan on how they intend to deal with it.
      
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      June 9, 2020 9:08am
      - Phronesis
        
        One of the stores announced to be closing has had real estate agents confidentially touting the building for the last 6 months. It wasn’t Covid, it was this govt that made that store unviable.
        
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        June 9, 2020 9:49am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        “… then they should say that and not use covid 19 as an excuse.”
        Pot, kettle…black, are the 3 words I have for her.
        She blatantly used a global pandemic, to cover for her govt.’s incompetence.
        
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        June 9, 2020 9:51am
      - JackRabbit
        
        From that link:
        >>>”I’m angry, if I’m speaking frankly,” Ardern told Morning Report.
        
        She should be angry at herself, she locked up the country.
        
        >>>”At the moment I’m getting hundreds of letters from small-business owners who are giving up everything to try and keep their staff on…. …They are running down whatever reserves they had….”
        
        So Jacinda, who do you think they are angry at: Teddy Bears? The Cookie Monster?
        
        “At the moment I’m getting hundreds of letters from small-business owners who are angry at me because they are giving up everything to try and save their businesses, and I have not suffered at all. I created this problem, and I focus on Teddy Bears and pouring expired milk down the drain while their businesses are going down the drain. I’m so evil, I’ll be a shoe-in for the UN.”
        
        >>>”The government of course and taxpayers are taking a huge hit.”
        
        Exactly where is the Govt taking a hit?
        I don’t see any Govt employees being made redundant. Give the public service a frigging haircut. Drop tax to 15% flat. Drop GST to 10%. Slash your own salary and those around you by 50%, and you might get a whiff of what you are shoveling.
        
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        June 9, 2020 10:27am
      - RightFirstTime
        
        I thought The Warehouse pay the living wage which is higher than the minimum wage. Just goes to show that you can only last for so long by selling cheap crap from China.
        
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        June 9, 2020 11:58am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  It’s called level 1 because one person’s got it.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:41am
  - Colville
    
    If that is true, we should be at level zero.
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:19am
- stewmar
  
  Katie Bradford Doesn’t know Jack!!
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:41am
  - oldfella
    
    But young Katie did know a David (in a biblical sense) according to rumours at the time. Can’t reveal his name on this blog. My lips are sealed and it might also be defamatory. Mods? 😉
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:30am
- JackRabbit
  
  The economy is 95% back.
  
  Kiwibuild is 95% to its targets, just a little tweaking required.
  
  Billion trees is 95% planted, just a bit of rubber stamping required.
  
  And on that note, Tree Huggers Inc have been dealt severe blow.
  
  “A new (NZ) study indicates native plants, despite their tendency to grow more slowly than exotic species like Pinus Radiata, are better at storing carbon in the soil for longer periods of time.”
  
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/06/08/1218353/native-plants-sequester-carbon-in-the-soil-for-longer
  
  Which correlates with what I and others have been saying for a long time. That is unless you have a specific plan to harvest and process the trees you are planting before or at maturity, you are better not to plant them, as grass has better Co2 removal.
  
  Grasses continue to remove Co2, whereas trees only remove it while in growth stage. At maturity they start putting it back. While trees appear to remove more carbon, based on their physical mass, grasses and native plants, remove the Co2 and put it into the soil. Another way of looking at it, grasses and plants create topsoil, without which trees could not grow.
  
  The earth was bare rock. Then came the lichens, then the mosses, then the grasses, and then the plants. Trees were late to the party, after the oxygen rich atmosphere was already created.
  
  But then, Co2 levels should be about 1000ppm to get maximum plant growth. Maximum plant growth means more plentiful food production, better pollution removal and more C02 to O2 conversion, Starve the plants, starve mankind.
  
  Perhaps this is what Climate Madness is all about – starving the planet.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:23am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Foreign tourists account for 20 percent of export earnings. Katie Bradford knows nothing. Don’t bother watching.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:30am
- Philview
  
  I see Jacinda is putting the Warehouse under political pressure. It will be interesting to see if they fall into line. If they do it really indicates a changed paradigm on where control lies in a business.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:33am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    her mentor…just wait….
    https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/09/unveiled-lenins-brilliant-plot-to-destroy-capitalism/280006/
    
    The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
    
    Vladimir Lenin
    
    It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
    
    Vladimir Lenin
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:58am
- Ruawai
  
  Alert level 1: Ardern did a dance, Bloomfield grinned, but Robertson did a ‘fist pump’, the mind boggles!!
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:39am
  - freethinker
    
    [ family – leave it out ]
    
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    June 9, 2020 1:13pm
Jacinda Ardhern

Tony, the country may be at Level 1 but teacher says it’s winter and if we play outside we might catch a cold.

Scary.
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June 9, 2020 8:04am
Maggy Wassilieff

“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose”
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June 9, 2020 8:05am
Maggie Pie

Oh, the grand old Duke of York
He knew ten thousand men
He flew them up to Epstein’s house
And flew them home again

And when they were up, they were up
And when they went down, they went down
But when they were only half way up
They were neither up nor down

Oh, the grand old Duke……. 😛

https://i.imgflip.com/39cb36.jpg
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June 9, 2020 8:07am
- Tony Stuart
  
  If the Duke of York’s men had all taken their little blue pills, they would have been up, up and up 😉
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:10am
- Lance
  
  Interesting development this morning. He claims he has been willing to give testimony for some time, directly contacting them and that the FBI has been so fixated on news headlines they have obfuscated and delayed replying etc.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:37am
  - Tall Man
    
    Delaying until they find something to use to scare him into “assisting” them.
    
    So far it seems he’s been a silly boy shagging young women, despite unsubstantiated allegations. Does that make him normal and stupid or just a dirty old bugger.
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:17am
  - Two bob
    
    I wonder if he has dirt on bill and hillary? Could be why he hasnt co operated he might end up epstiened.
    stay away from tunnels andrew
    
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    June 9, 2020 1:38pm
kevn

“I absoloodly refute that”
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June 9, 2020 8:10am
Swifty

I greatly encourage NZers to check in detail their power bills over the coming months. The early signs are that Megan Woods’ market interventions are not delivering the policy outcomes she sought:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/121755907/working-kiwis-left-out-in-the-cold-by-power-price-changes

If this is the case – then let it be used as yet another stick to mercilessly beat Labour with; in that their policy interventions almost never deliver their desired outcomes or at least not without other, undesired or unintended negative outcomes springing up elsewhere.

These people just cannot resist the urge to meddle – and often in wholly incompetent ways.
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June 9, 2020 8:11am
- Rich Prick
  
  My rather wealthy parents get the payment, it’s actually more than their power bill. Universal benefits are nuts, but they tell me it keeps the good gin in stock. Labour: helping the working man since never.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:19am
  - rockape
    
    Me too in my house there are 3 pensioners and my wife in mid 50s she earns over $100k both my father and law and I have private pensions. We get 4 lots of heating allowance but have a winter bill at around $ 200 pm .
    Efficient house, free logs and solar water. We don’t need it but it pays the wine bill and the treasury isn’t getting any of it back!
    
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    June 9, 2020 8:49am
    - skyblue
      
      They get some money back with the tax on wine:). Win win.
      
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      June 9, 2020 10:05am
  - Janabelle
    
    I get it too, pays the power, the wifi and half mobile bill
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:01am
  - MCos
    
    The alternative to universal benefits is non universal, rather obviously.
    Rich people don’t need to apply for the universal superannuation if they feel the taxpayer of today doesn’t need to shell out when they paid tax at a time when there were fewer recipients.
    Otherwise the benefit could be means tested. This probably causes more trouble and cost than what it’s worth.
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:11am
    - Harriet
      
      Public schools should be means tested also.
      
      The current situation sees people having two jobs, paying the education taxes to do the right thing by their kids, and then seeing the private school getting less funding than the public schools. Meanwhile the ‘rich prick’ simply sends his kids to public school unquestioned, and commits no personal money into their education, EXCEPT, they then pay after school private tuition —- private fees are private fees!!!!
      
      Public schools are there to educate – not to immunise the wealthy!
      
      Where’s her ‘fairness’ in that! 😎
      
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      June 9, 2020 2:33pm
    - Michael NZ
      
      Yeah right MCos.
      They’ve paid in all their lives, they earned it.
      
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      June 9, 2020 4:04pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Woods believes market interventions are similar to the dial on her pie warmer.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:21am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    When Woods is present, the pies don’t get the opportunity to get warm. The thermostat, like market interventions, has been broken forever but only those who will not see, don’t know.
    
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    June 9, 2020 11:30am
krazykiwi

We know that corrupt cops exist, yet we don’t call the police force ‘institutionally corrupt’

We know that violent cops exist, yet we don’t call the police force ‘institutionally violent’

We know that left-handed cops exist, yet we don’t call the police force ‘institutionally left handed’

And yet, at a whiff of racism 12,000km away and contrary to the fact-based evidence and NZers start banging on about out police force and institutionalised racism.
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June 9, 2020 8:13am
- Rich Prick
  
  It’s the woke thing to do. Never miss an opportunity to show your Facebook friends how “on it” you are.
  
  911: What’s your emergency?
  Caller: My store is being looted.
  911: Have you thought about posting a black square on Facebook?
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:24am
- kowtow
  
  Substitute corrupt politician for corrupt cop .
  
  And now that some of the commentariat are suggesting we have “casual racism” , can one also not say we have “casual corruption”.
  
  I note too that the woke media are onto the ‘hate the slave trader” kick .
  
  Here’s another learning moment .
  
  How many of the chiefs who appended their marks to the ‘founding document’ here in NZ owned slaves ?
  
  It’s all well and good to bag the Yanks and Brits , but by that token there’s fish to fry here at home.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:44am
- Yvette
  
  Krazykiwi
  For those who comment on “institutional racism” in the New Zealand Police, I implore them to read –
  “There are 5000 Sams in our prisons. And they include his children, and his grandchildren” [1] a speech given by Kelvin Davis to the Criminal Justice Summit: Plenary discussion on over-representation of Māori in the system, 21 August 2018
  
  Its companion piece is “No mana for Māori” [2] in which Kelvin Davis (again) says for cheap political gain: Māori are more likely to be overweight, depressed, homeless, incarcerated and uneducated according to these disturbing statistics produced under National’s watch.
  
  This now traditional mantra – that Maori occupy the lowest negative social statistics, and repeated fequently and long enough as to be believed (like Ardern’s current “Go early, go hard” to cover the fact, we didn’t) – combined with the attitude Maori are the under-dog – again has just happened: Maori health given an extra $56 million, and next $900 million, because they would be hit twice as hard by cover-19, but in fact the impact was only about half the rate, 9% of cases, against their 16.5% population share.
  
  But it is the under-dog meme and the equally institutional attitude displayed in “5000 Sams in our prisons” that is what is on the other side of New Zealand’s police force and institutionalised racism.
  
  And no one is really dealing with it. Least of all, it would seem, would be Kelvin Davis.
  
  [1] https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/criminal-justice-summit-plenary-discussion-over-representation-māori-system
  [2] https://www.labour.org.nz/no_mana_for_m_ori
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:55am
- krazykiwi
  
  Here was the article that prompted my original comment:
  
  As Heather MacDonald pointed out in the Wall Street Journal [paywalled] this week, roughly a quarter of fatal police shootings are of African-Americans. But this isn’t surprising, even though they constitute 13 per cent of the population, given the disproportionate number of armed black suspects encountered by the police. In 2018 they made up 53 per cent of known homicide offenders in the US and committed about 60 per cent of robberies.
  
  Last year, the US police fatally shot more than twice as many unarmed white people as those who were black. A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philadelphia police department found that white police officers were less likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed black suspects. And a police officer is more than 18 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:18am
Poppa

I hear Shane is making the shift of Auckland port to Whangarei a bottom line

Two problems Shane

1. You need to be elected first

2. When did bottom lines matter to you before?
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June 9, 2020 8:16am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Doesn’t that mean he’s transporting thousands of cars down state highway 1 every day? What about all the other goods that will need to be shipped? Is there even a business case for this?
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:29am
  - Tall Man
    
    Nope. He’s setting up a factory to chainsaw the sides off the freight cars so the cars to be transported will fit through the tunnels.
    
    You need to have a little faith young man.
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:08am
- Nickc2
  
  NEWS FLASH for Shane Jones: Auckland ratepayers own Ports of Auckland, not the F_ing Government FFS!
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:30am
  - Simon
    
    “Auckland ratepayers own Ports of Auckland”
    
    Correction Auckland Shitty Council creditors own PoA. Ratepayers own jack shit.
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:12am
    - Nickc2
      
      Who are the creditors Simon? China or the Govt?
      
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      June 9, 2020 9:39am
  - MCos
    
    In that case the land can be flogged off and used for something else plus the ratepayers won’t be paying so much rates.
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:19am
    - Nickc2
      
      I think you will find the land has to be given to Ngati Whatua. What they do with it is up to them. In doing so, the Auckland ratepayer gets zip.
      
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      June 9, 2020 9:51am
      - Ruawai
        
        If P of A land is ‘reclaimed land’ then Iwi can’t claim to have owned in the past.
        
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        June 9, 2020 10:48am
      - Nickc2
        
        @ Ruawai
        They grabbed all the reclaimed land that is the marina at Okahu Bay. They have their own wardens policing the parking area there. I’ve been on the end of a lecture from these wardens a couple of times. It’s a great money spinner for them, it cost them nothing AFIK.
        
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        June 9, 2020 1:09pm
  - oldfella
    
    China has some great Belt and Road deals on offer at the moment which could help move the port to Northland. Easy as. They pay for it, you default on the loan, they end up owning it. Lots of dosh for Shane’s bros along the way. Choice, eh?
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:39am
    - Nickc2
      
      Sad but so very true oldfella.
      
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      June 9, 2020 1:03pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Until after the election and then that promise will go into the “too hard” basket. Vote buying to get elected in the North. His track record is zero so unlikely to happen.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:36am
  - Nickc2
    
    I hope you are right. I don’t trust the bastard! He is still tarred with the Labour brush IMHO.
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:13am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Where the logic and justification for it except for Shane’s grandiosity?
  Some re-arrangement may be justified but the cost would be enormous as well as the ongoing extra cost of removing freight away from its likely destination.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:33am
- Sacha
  
  Once the port is shifted to Northland there’ll be all sorts of road blocks, tolls, taxes on imports and exports, road and rail charges, and holidays and meaningful ceremonies, and endless blackmail to meet if the freight is to get through. Northland will become a separate entity, to be supported by the rest of the country, and only approved people will be permitted to enter therein –
  And one day someone will say – we could have a harbour without all this palaver, let’s go somewhere else, and leave this lot to get on without us.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:45am
- Two bob
  
  agenda 2030 in play (and I thought winston first was against globalism?)
  Agenda 21,30 etc all involve heavy investment in trainsets and cycleways while at the same time moving rural folk into urban settings, How would 1 achieve that you say?? Well making it impossible to farm with rediculous regulations and turning hundreds of farms that employ thousands of ppl into forest that requires very little labour.
  jacinda herself announced on the world stage that many of her policy aligns with agenda 2030.
  
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  June 9, 2020 1:47pm
- Durden
  
  Shane’s bottom line will be yanked from underneath him by both National and Labour saying they support it anyway in their election policy positions. The Nephs of the North won’t have any use for Shane and NZ First anymore.
  
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  June 9, 2020 2:14pm
I remember when

I see our paper has a cartoon with a big number 1 on the front of it
Obviously all is well because we are in our proper place at number 1.
The feet skip over the ground, there all this free space that used to be filled by tourists available for locals.
According to the Hui the Government is assigning $100 million so that 12,000 homeless can learn to live like tourist live. In motels.
Meanwhile…..
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June 9, 2020 8:16am
- kevn
  
  @I rem… In Rotorua, The Golden Mile as it used to be called, is now known as the MSD/WINZ Mile. Some of the new occupants have lucked in with 4 star/spa and Sky tv.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:44am
  - Rich Prick
    
    I was there a week ago, and now that explains all of the discarded supermarket trolleys with crap in them all over the place. Not to mention Police cars. That’s a great way to bugger tourism, no tourist would want to stay on skid row, that’s for sure.
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:00am
    - Simon
      
      Its a new market. Visit NZ to experience what East Germany 1970s was like. Even the border controls are the same as East Germany.
      
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      June 9, 2020 9:17am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Question:
      Where will I stay, when I travel to the regions for business?
      
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      June 9, 2020 10:06am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Rule of thumb, never stay near a high court when a meth or murder trial is on. And the star rating system instructs you as to the ratio of Government guests to paying guests.
        
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        June 9, 2020 10:26am
Maggie Pie

Now we’re finally at Level One, my partner thinks some may find this info on ‘Track n’ Trace’ useful…..

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZx7_I6XsAgoBG_?format=jpg&name=small
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June 9, 2020 8:21am
- Michael NZ
  
  Maggie
  Brilliant, I had such a laugh, Thanks..
  
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  June 9, 2020 4:11pm
oldpark

What the **** are Wellington City Council up to now. Seems when Wellington Ratepayers were voting at the last election in 2019 even the most lame duck would not have guessed what lay ahead for them by voting in a bunch of self serving Parasitesor more like Triffids. Yes Labour /Green Councillors are hell bent on turning the City into a backwater and destroying hundreds of car parks by creating Cycle Lanes that will rarely be used .
Seems since they were elected in last Octobers’ council Elections other than opposing every positive vision by the New Mayor Andy Foster they have bumped up their income from circa mid $80,000 to circa $111,000 . Now with the proposed destruction of the inner city of Wellington and its roadways and car parks they probably could be compared to not Councillors more like a mirror image of the “Invasion of the Triffids”. Perception that the Wellington City Councillors are bereft of common sense, questions are now being asked who or what are pulling their strings.
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June 9, 2020 8:27am
- Simon
  
  Cycling in Wellington. Unlike Auckland you must have very good weather down there.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:18am
Left Right and Centre

NZ prison sentences:
I couldn’t believe this: no person has ever been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possiblity of parole.

Just like the PM – can’t string a sentence properly.
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June 9, 2020 8:28am
- herb1
  
  worst part of Arderns inability to speak english correctly is the copy catting of radio and TV starlets.
  
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  June 9, 2020 8:49am
  - MCos
    
    You need to work on your punctuation and syntax, Herbert.
    Left, Right and Centre insists on proper sentence structure.
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:26am
  - Parnell Gun Club
    
    I know right. They all seem to be adopting her mangled pronunciations. I suppose it’s a signal of allegiance.
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:30am
    - Tall Man
      
      Nope, signal of ignorance.
      
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      June 9, 2020 9:58am
    - calendar girl
      
      Her inability to pronounce the letter “t” (other than as a “d” sound) is simply embarrassing. And such mispronunciation is spreading throughout the NZ community, notable especially in the speech of young females.
      
      Can our PM’s minders not recognise this trend and persuade their charge to do something to correct her mangling of the English language?
      
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      June 9, 2020 10:43am
      - Parnell Gun Club
        
        Perhaps she is engaging in a deliberate act of linguistic vandalism as a form of “cultural decolonisation”. But more likely Tall Man above is correct and Hanlon’s razor applies.
        
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        June 9, 2020 11:55am
      - pussycat
        
        I wonder if she was initially named Jacinta (a more common name) but couldnt pronounce it?
        
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        June 9, 2020 12:27pm
      - Tall Man
        
        @Parnell
        
        I did see some research many years ago that showed a moderate speech impediment caused people to listem more carefully and “bond” a little with the speaker.
        
        Some successful salesmen have adopted a slight lisp in order to strike that bond.
        
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        June 9, 2020 2:32pm
  - Ruawai
    
    Don’t jepradise things!!
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:51am
emmess

Holy shit
Check this out
Looks like the riots may have been preplanned by elements in a radical environmental movement (Sunrise movement) linked with far elements in the Democratic Party (The Squad)
They were just waiting for a spark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfsuKCgwDpo

Now, I know some of you will pooh pooh the source but this has plenty of video evidence. So let’s hope this is picked up by more non MSM independent media to corroborate it.
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June 9, 2020 8:28am
- Tomtoddy
  
  emmess, you should have posted a warning!!! It is very disturbing stuff even if its only half right.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:50am
- Inandout
  
  emmess, of course they are behind the riots, as are the MSM. They must destroy Trump by any means available, and it has become a farce.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:52am
- Jules99
  
  Video unavailable – has it been taken down? Maybe it’s on Bitchute.
  
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  June 9, 2020 1:40pm
  - emmess
    
    Now, I know it must have been true then
    
    Here it is
    https://banned.video/watch?id=5ede612d3df0b000240aa178
    
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    June 9, 2020 6:47pm
- Two bob
  
  wont let me view the vid Is it Millenial millie? Do parents even realise their kids are getting radicalised by non jihadi ppl? Probably more dangerous and looney then isis
  
  No suprise that george soros donated 33mil to BLM and go toward bailing out “protetestors” that are really thugs looters and low life scum.
  
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  June 9, 2020 1:52pm
I remember when

Is there a male/female split when it comes to covid-19? Why do I find women have a fear of the consequences for children that is out of all proportion to the risk?
This has been shown in the difficulty schools have had re-opening in a number of countries. It doesn’t place the same stress on vulnerable teachers who do have some risk.
It was reflected again on Q&A. “Is it time to ease up on some restrictions”?
Of the replies shown the 2 women were much more in favour of caution than the 3 men.
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June 9, 2020 8:29am
- SGA
  
  I think that you will find that women, on average, are more risk averse than men concerning most things. So, no surprise there.
  I’m not sure what you mean regarding the “consequences for children”? Most of the parents of school-aged children that I know where more concerned with the children “bringing it home” than the immediate risk to the child. Maybe we operate in different circles?
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:56am
lifesgood

I don’t believe for one minute the last covid case in NZ miraculously recovered in perfect time for Jacinda’s glorious (sarc) announcement. Has any reporter thought to investigate?
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June 9, 2020 8:33am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  An OIA asking when last patient passed the threshold for being an ‘active case’ might be interesting. Though if the answer would embarrass the powers that be it is likely that ‘patient privacy concerns’ would be used to prevent revealing it. What would be the most likely to get a response way to ask the question?
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:00am
- godruelf
  
  Cindy actually told Hosking this morning that the news came through Sunday afternoon. I wonder why this significant news wasn’t passed on immediately as breaking news.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:01am
  - SGA
    
    To be fair, they have been reasonably consistent about providing one summary report every 24 hours rather than blow-by-blow reporting. I’m not sure I’d go down the conspiracy route, but that’s me.
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:00am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Dr Bloomfield explicitly stated yesterday that it was just a fluke coincidence. They got the news on Sunday afternoon.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:26am
  - lifesgood
    
    I’ll fix this for you : Dr Bloomfield explicitly stated yesterday, BECAUSE JACINDA TOLD HIM TO, that it was just a fluke coincidence
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:46am
- Sacha
  
  Ms Ardern has worn out her welcome on the covid front. Everyone I know is sick and tired of her. They don’t listen to her announcements. They are not interested in her domestic affairs.
  Mostly, they are worried about how they are going to manage to live on their pensions as they fear that grocery prices will increase further in coming months.
  They haven’t been able to plant vegetables or get out to keep their pantries stocked. Some are waiting for GP appointments
  But I have a feeling they will most certainly get out and vote.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:59am
- Two bob
  
  was to perfect for the last case to clear on monday.
  here and other forums all predicted it once cindy announced they would review lvl 1 on the 8th. the media even questioned it yesterday aswell but got shotdown quickly.
  
  I think its obvious to most that the last case closing was staged.
  
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  June 9, 2020 5:40pm
Justitia

Geoffrey Palmer and others reveal how the KGB “tried to infiltrate the Labour Party”:https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300030183/geoffrey-palmer-reveals-kgb-tried-to-infiltrate-labour-party. Don’t know about you but it seems to me they were remarkably successful in shaping Labour Party policy. New Zealand was the only country to blink during the last days of the Cold War, by banning the US Navy from our ports. The KGB probably didn’t have to try very hard because there were so many willing volunteers. These days Labour (and Green) Party policy is shaped by radical Marxists who exploit the plague of identity politics. Sadly, the National Party pathetically limps along behind them.
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June 9, 2020 8:37am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Socialist Unity Party, with strong links to USSR, was active in NZ up until 1980’s. Ken Douglas and others prominent unionists were balls deep in that and they had a lot of influence in Labour.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:04am
  - Harriet
    
    That’s how the no nukes thing started — Russia feed that desire to the SUP — who then pushed it through Labour and the rest of the left.
    
    Lange was just the useful idiot, with a ‘middle power’ type narrative to oppose the US.
    
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    June 9, 2020 11:25am
    - Nickc2
      
      You are correct Harriet, those were the days when Labour MPs and Union Officials used to sod off to mother Russia for their medical/surgical needs.
      
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      June 9, 2020 1:19pm
- Tarquin North
  
  Palmer did more damage to this country than a Russian invasion would have. I always thought Keith Locke was some kind of plant.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:09am
  - Justitia
    
    Yes, Palmer was left in the hot seat by Lange when the elderly destroyer USS Buchanan steamed towards New Zealand in February 1985, in accordance with a jointly negotiated arrangement for the US to send a non-controversial, palpably non-nuclear vessel which they had also privately assured Lange was not carrying nuclear weapons. Palmer rejected the vessel and the rest is history. For reneging on the deal agreed between the two governments New Zealand’s name justifiably became mud in the US, synonymous with duplicity. Our reputation in international security affairs was trash for 30 years. Thanks Geoffrey.
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:17am
- Simon
  
  In the end the KGB were too creeped out by all the labour types over enthusiasm for Communism.
  
  The KBG decided people that thick were more trouble than they were worth.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:23am
- igm
  
  Who, in their right mind, would pay credence to anything Palmer reveals?
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:43am
- SGA
  
  Don’t know about you but it seems to me they were remarkably successful in shaping Labour Party policy.
  
  Interesting – the KGB were responsible for Rogernomics – the things I learn on Kiwiblog. 🙂
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:02am
  - Justitia
    
    “Rogernomics” was likely of no interest to the KGB. But subverting the ANZUS alliance was. Their ultimate target was Japan. The KGB hoped New Zealand’s ban on US port visits would inspire the pacifist Left in Japan to undermine that country’s defence relationship with the US. In the meantime Labour’s hardliners were so enthused by their government’s anti-American stance that they were content not to oppose Douglas’ reforms too stridently, until the split finally came with Jim Anderton’s Alliance. History is obviously more complex than your simple brain can comprehend.
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:26am
  - Mike
    
    And buying the Anzac frigates!
    
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    June 9, 2020 11:03am
    - Justitia
      
      The approval for the ANZACs was given under the Bolger government. The plan was to buy four but the second pair were scrapped by the incoming Clark government and replaced by “Project Protector”. This provided for a large ferry with serious seakeeping and stability issues (“Canterbury”), four Lake Class Inshore Patrol Vessels which have proved to be useless in the seas around New Zealand, and the two thankfully successful Offshore Patrol Vessels, “Otago” and “Wellington”. Oh and Clark abolished the Air Force’s strike wing to the bafflement and derision of Australia and our partners in Southeast Asia. Let’s keep to the facts shall we?
      
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      June 9, 2020 1:07pm
- Ruahine
  
  Geoffrey Palmer is a dope. The KGB very successfully infiltrated the Labour Party starting in the late 40s. They even setup the Socialist Unity Party as a front for all those Commie immigrants that we got after WW2 from Britain. They were a bloody nuisance always wanting to go on strike and wanting money for their damn causes.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:35am
Left Right and Centre

With political correctness, they took away my freedom of speech.
With identity politics they took away my gender.
With open borders they take away my culture.
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June 9, 2020 8:39am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Welcome to socialism.
  Any cursory read of Marx, will show you their aim.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:27am
DeepBlue

We are doomed… This is what Megan Woods said last year about removing prompt payment discounts on electricity bills: from Stuff….

‘At the time, Woods claimed that the state of the retail market “isn’t fair on power users who don’t shop around or don’t have internet access”. How’s that for a chilling effect on competition – clobber the proactive and molly-coddle the idle.’
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June 9, 2020 8:41am
- Two bob
  
  theres still prompt payment discount for existing customers although its optional.
  my best mate is with same provider on the new “fairer” deal but if I pay online and ontime my power is significantly cheaper.
  
  the thing I never got was ppl would cry bloody murder if their employer just paid them whenever they want without prior arrangement yet the same ppl cant pay their power bill on time even tho they get the bill 2-3wks in advance.
  moral is pay your bill on time and reap the benefits. whats next? campaign for interest free credit cards for those that cant pay it of that month?
  
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  June 9, 2020 5:53pm
Maggie Pie

Does anyone know what new National leader Todd Mullah’s policy is on repealing the ridiculous law banning ‘single-use plastic bags’?
I went to the Supermarket on my way home this morning, and found i’d left all the carry bags in my other car. Honestly, its got to be the most annoying thing this dysfunctional govmint has done, and it really really pisses me off.
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June 9, 2020 8:59am
- bartybart
  
  todd seems to have no policy or idea, he just congratulates the communists on their lockdown
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:05am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  and now they are taking away fruit and vege disposable bags too (at least from countdown).
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:06am
- MCos
  
  Jacinda made you put your bags in the wrong car?
  
  I knew that woman was no good!
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:35am
- stigie
  
  I see the plastic bags as multiple use Maggie and so does half of NZs !~
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:09am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Totally agree there stigie.
    My partner bought 40 packs of 500 ‘Singlet Bags’ off TM about a year ago. He often patrols the hood picking up dog-poop off the berms. Disposes of them during the night in the council recycle bins over at Mt Roskill.
    
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    June 9, 2020 11:56am
- Sacha
  
  I agree – and it’s a constant reminder of all the other stupid things this government has done.
  
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  June 9, 2020 11:10am
- Nickc2
  
  Has he made an announcement about reopening the Oil and Gas industry yet? If so, I missed it. If he doesn’t do so, its two ticks ACT for me I’m afraid.
  
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  June 9, 2020 1:16pm
Benedict Yu

Winston Peters – it is never ending.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/level-1-move-puts-bed-speculation-government-division-winston-peters

“Winston Peters says today’s announcement the country will move to Level 1 at midnight should put to bed “ill-informed speculation” of Government division around the Covid-19 Alert Levels. ”

Ummmm this is what you said on 27 May:

“”We should have got out of this into a better place as soon as possible.”

He said the enemy at this point was not Covid-19, but instead the economic devastation wrought by the disease and the response to it.

He said this view had been made clear to Labour in Cabinet, but it didn’t have the numbers to make it a reality.”
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So it was not “ill informed” – you said it !!. Why does the media give this guy any oxygen? He lies. Simple as.
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June 9, 2020 9:00am
- Tall Man
  
  Coalition, liars. Nuff said.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:55am
- Two bob
  
  20 deaths and a hundred or so hospitalizations were wrought by the virus.
  the economic devastation was bought on by the govts choice of response to the virus.
  
  its amazing our politicians media and sheeple still cant see the clear difference of what a virus does and what bad govt policy and response does.
  
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  June 9, 2020 6:02pm
Paulus

Congratulations must be given to the staff of the Health Department – those who were/are working in their close support of Dr Blomfield who has achieved a starting victory with the current elimination of the Virus.
He has done exceptionally well against many odds not least the person you see on his right at media briefings. There has been friction there also as has been seen.
But he has earned all his $528,000 salary for doing a difficult job – notwithstanding that it is his job.
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June 9, 2020 9:04am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Pity he was forced to tell lies about ppe, masks, and flu vac
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:20am
- krazykiwi
  
  victory with the current elimination of the Virus
  
  We’ll eliminate Covid-19 at about the same time we eliminate the common cold, ie never. The word eliminate in this context is part of Ardern’s UN job application – it has nothing to do with science.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:22am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    and to look at Modus Operandae…..Mico Plasma Bovis?
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:29am
- KevO'Brien
  
  He was a well paid sycophant.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:37am
- rangitoto
  
  The result being that we are now all locked up in fortress NZ.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:40am
Benedict Yu

The other thing that annoyed me yesterday was Winston “[urging] all workers to return to their place of work.”

It is the kind of thing the chief comrade used to preach from the balcony in Bucharest.

My firm has decided to move to a 60/40 split with enough desks for 60 percent of us, and 40 percent working at home at any one time. Less office rent, happy and productive people.
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June 9, 2020 9:07am
- old skool reactionary
  
  Happy but not so productive. Over the years there have been plenty of research and anecdotal self reporting that many office jobs are meaningless. Just take a look at all the crazy job titles in emails.
  
  Of course this is mainly because females were ushered into the workplace and businesses forced to take them on or face legal penalties.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:39am
  - Tall Man
    
    The quality/efficiency of the organisations we have been required to deal with during the lock down period with all working from home has been appalling.
    
    Tech failings and what I call refridgeratoritis seem to be the reason.
    
    One young woman said it was hard to function when all her flatmates hit the piss at 3pm every day.
    
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    June 9, 2020 9:51am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Yes of course – if you have young flat mates, it is hopeless.
      
      I live alone – working at home has been an amazing experience, with seamless technology to collaborate and get things done. Over the last 8 weeks we finished 2 projects under budget and ahead of schedule – because we could collaborate better, we were not in noisy offices, we were not wasting time commuting…
      
      Of course people get together sometimes. But I will never, ever spend 40-50 hours a week in an “office” again. 15 hours per week is my current plan.
      
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      June 9, 2020 10:37am
- alex Masterley
  
  We are all back at work in my office but with the ability to work from home as required or needed.
  Best of both worlds.
  Many of the offices around us are still working from home on a 50:50 basis.
  Means the coffee shops are very quiet.
  
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  June 9, 2020 11:09am
  - Paulus
    
    A relative works in a very high building in Auckland but there are not enough lifts to take people as allowed by the lift regulations, so they have to wait whilst a limited number of people go up (and down).
    
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    June 9, 2020 1:57pm
SmokerGuy

Credit where it is due, the government has got us to this point and that is an achievement. I have not agreed with everything they did during this period but then I don’t think anyone knows yet whether the decisions made will turn out well in the long term. However I have zero confidence this government can handle the next period at all well. It is easy to throw money during a crisis but the true measure of a government is how they handle the period after and they have shown no ability to deliver anything of substance during their term. In saying that I would rate them a 70% chance of being voted in so I can only hope they learn to be a more competent government and fast.
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June 9, 2020 9:10am
- Tall Man
  
  “Credit where it is due, the government has got us to this point and that is an achievement”
  
  You see massive unemployment, economic devastation for many industries and occupations as an achievement?
  
  I hate to see what you’d label as an underachievement or failure.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:31am
Swifty

Just why is Ardern supposedly ‘angry’?

Angry at an organisation’s executive, no doubt whatsoever working in very close collaboration with the owner’s representatives, making decisions based on the organisation’s best interests – or ‘angry’ that their doing so spoils the deceitful narrative that she is trying desperately to portray that we’re all now back to normal?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121764332/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-angry-at-the-warehouse-group-for-proposing-1080-job-cuts
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June 9, 2020 9:21am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Oh dear… Ardern now owns NZ.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:38am
  - calendar girl
    
    That’s always the attitude of committed socialists.
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:57am
- alex Masterley
  
  It is slowly dawning on Dear Leader that the rubber is about to hit the road, in a very big way and huggz and feelz wont achieve anything.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:07am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I think the excrement is going to hit the rotating oscillator 🙂
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:14am
- Paul Marsden
  
  She’s also angry at Air NZ.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:44am
  - calendar girl
    
    With 52% Air NZ ownership and therefore control of the business? What a hypocrite.
    
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    June 9, 2020 3:30pm
    - C J Southern
      
      It doesn’t quite work that way; Air NZ is run by directors – not shareholders.
      
      Technically they could replace existing directors until they had a group willing to fulfil any agendas – but I really doubt that they’d want to go down that path (everything to lose, nothing to gain — especially considering that this current “government” couldn’t organise a piss in a pub – let alone run a large business like an airline).
      
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      June 9, 2020 5:19pm
- Rich Prick
  
  I wonder wether Cindy is angry with “her” airline too. Goose and gander and all of that. Or is she just a vacuous airhead?
  
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  June 9, 2020 11:21am
  - Garbageman
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/121764820/jacinda-ardern-criticises-air-nz-over-its-handling-of-cancelled-airfares
    
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    June 9, 2020 11:43am
Critical Thinker

The World Health Organisation has just come out with this doozy, now that the tyrannical and economy destroying lockdowns have finally been shown to be an outright farce, with Leftist leaders in Western nations encouraging mass protests on the streets in order to seize more power:

“According to the WHO, the spread of COVID-19 among asymptomatic people is “very rare”.

Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Monday, casting doubt on concerns by some researchers that the disease could be difficult to contain due to asymptomatic infections.

Some people, particularly young and otherwise healthy individuals, who are infected by the coronavirus never develop symptoms or only develop mild symptoms. Others might not develop symptoms until days after they were actually infected.

From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a second individual. It’s very rare. Dr. Van Kerkhove said at a news briefing from the United Nations agency’s Geneva headquarters.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-says-asymptomatic-spread-of-covid-19-very-rare?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
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June 9, 2020 9:26am
- krazykiwi
  
  WHO are a corrupt actor in all of this. Their protection of China was disgraceful, and satellite evidence has now emerged that Wuhan hospitals were excessively busy in October, at around the same time Baidu searches for “cough” and “diarrhea”, known Covid-19 symptoms, on the Chinese search engine Baidu spiked.
  
  China didn’t notify WHO that they had a problem until 31st December, by which time tens of thousands of Wuhan people had traveled at all corners of the globe.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:44am
  - fernglas
    
    Diarrhoea is a rare symptom of Covid-19. If that was a major search term, then it suggests that the searches had nothing to do with the virus.
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:18am
- cmm
  
  WHO blew all their credibility a while ago.
  
  Worse for them, this incident has seen them scrutinized far harder than before. For example people asking how a corrupt person like Tedros Adhanom could be put into the role he has.
  
  So many things wrong with WHO leadership:
  * First time a non-medic is running the place.
  * The selction was allowed by the woke people at WHO just allowing the African Union to plunk him in.
  * The guy was a huge Mugabe fan, appointing Mugabe a health ambassador.
  
  Clearly WHO is now a political organisation, not a health organisation.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:47am
JimBobJoe

Oh bollocks Paulus… Why do we only have 176 ICU beds? Why do we have no plan to emergency scale that ICU capacity so the stupidity of a full lockdown can be avoided by scaling up capacity and exercising common sense approaches like moderate social distancing and good hygiene?

Bottom Line: we had a pandemic in 2009. 49 people die of flu variant H1N1. A report was commissioned on the short comings of the response. Nothing much changed after it was issued. That sits firmly on the Ministry and the DG of Health plus both major political parties. Result a fool and her crew have tanked the economy in panic and saddled our children and grandchildren with debt for the next 30 plus years if not longer (with negligible inflation to inflate the debt value away and make repayment manageable)

Our civil service has continuity through executive governance changes. They have not handled preparations properly after 20 plus years of pandemic near misses and scares e.g. SARS/MERS/H1N1. And no reporter has asked them tough questions…. clusterfuck sits at their door as they are the professionals charged with taking the long view and have budget capacity to plan effectively….
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June 9, 2020 9:29am
- Tall Man
  
  Yet 2009/2010 with double the deaths did not destroy the NZ economy and apart from a couple of quaratined locations did not shut down NZ.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:47am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300030183/geoffrey-palmer-reveals-kgb-tried-to-infiltrate-labour-party

Comrade Jacinda Ardern has done their job for them.
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June 9, 2020 9:31am
- Critical Thinker
  
  It sure looks like it ?
  
  Socialist Jacinda Ardern speaking as President of the International Young Socialist League:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaESzRNMVeI
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:50am
  - Two bob
    
    I seen that vid of her only a month or 2 ago and my instant reaction was to classify her as one of the most dangerous ppl in NZ
    
    if thats truly her opinion and ambition to have happen then she is a very very dangerous woman.
    
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    June 9, 2020 6:14pm
krazykiwi

I see the BBC has been mixing their woke signals again. One story yesterday was entitled “27 police officers injured during largely peaceful protests anti-racism protests in London”, with an accompanying image that been cropped to remove the sight of a chap wielding a large length of timber toward a line of police.

They later changed the headline to “George Floyd: London anti-racism protests leave 27 officers hurt”, reflecting perhaps that it’s not possible to have 27 officers hurt in a ‘largely peaceful protest’
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June 9, 2020 9:37am
cmm

For once, $1uff delivers something of interest:

He said he attempted to get tested at the Mangere clinic in South Auckland, but was rejected because he didn’t have a sore throat and wasn’t coughing.

It took a further two attempts to get tested.

“By that time my wife was also affected with the coronavirus and I told the doctor there after taking my test – whether she can test as well and he said no. He said just wait to get my results. So we [were] both sick, only two of us here in the house. So we are looking at each other and talking, trying to shake away the pain and all that,” he said.

By the time Tofiga’s test results came back confirming he had coronavirus, his wife Lilian’s condition was serious.

So in magic Cindyland he only got tested on the third time he went. By then both he and his wife were very sick.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300030203/coronavirus-nzs-last-hospitalised-covid19-patient-lucky-to-be-alive
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June 9, 2020 9:39am
- Tall Man
  
  A very common tale.
  
  Too many tests leads to too many positives which leads to a lower infection rate which shows the over reaction.
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:42am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Exactly.
    
    And now that Ardern has impressed ‘eliminated’ on her UN CV, and on the minds of the world’s adoring media we can expect that anyone presenting with irrefutable evidence of Covid-19 infection will be hidden away and/or their illness dismissed as flu.
    
    Can’t have the real world get in the way of Ardern’s salvationist narrative.
    
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    June 9, 2020 10:02am
    - Tall Man
      
      My son and his partner are unwell and were tested yesterday. Results in 48 hours, depending on courier!
      
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      June 9, 2020 10:27am
      - Two bob
        
        whats the bet they get told its negative but to stay isolated for 2wks to be sure?
        Keep us posted and if the request contact trace details please tell the media first before it gets swept under the carpet.
        
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        June 9, 2020 6:17pm
    - Michael NZ
      
      Just like China’s CCP!
      
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      June 9, 2020 4:41pm
    - tavita
      
      According to the Herald we had someone with a weak positive” today. What is a “weak positive?” answer, a positive when you don’t want to admit there was a positive.
      
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      June 9, 2020 6:09pm
- rockape
  
  Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind! So long as the media dont find out about it!
  
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  June 9, 2020 9:50am
  - Blackface Twin Reverb
    
    Your view of the media is extremely charitable.
    
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    June 9, 2020 11:37am
kevn

@Smoker… Not much chance of that with the current other in this CoL. It seems there are 3 who can do something, the others are just piggy backing along.
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June 9, 2020 9:40am
- RW Capitalist
  
  3??? that’s a big of an exaggeration.
  there are 3 trying to do “something”, none actually achieving anything, except a bloody mess.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:17am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump rallies to start up again.
Trump 2020. MAGA.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/breaking-president-trump-restart-campaign-maga-rallies-planned-sometime-next-two-weeks/?fbclid=IwAR0kjvZ6tzZOyOtOP_p2y32ixtYEXChNW0umqB-SGspdFJ1A9W62OJAw7h0
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June 9, 2020 9:44am
- RW Capitalist
  
  10’s of 1000’s at Trump rally’s
  100’s at Biden rallies (IF he has any)
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:15am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Biden’s rallies held at elementary schools.
    Trump’s rallies are held inside and outside stadiums
    
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    June 9, 2020 1:12pm
chaos

* What you are about to see is part of a two year undercover investigation into the leftist radicalization imbedded within the climate justice movements, which played a roll in the resent unrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this first video, we are going to show how the Sunrise Movement played an instrumental role in carrying out mayhem in the name of bringing about the Green New Deal.*

https://www.facebook.com/JustAnotherChannel/videos/590313351913981/
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June 9, 2020 9:52am
Benedict Yu

Oh here we go. Jacinda is “angry” because the Warehouse is making people redundant. Well she better get used to it.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121764332/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-angry-at-the-warehouse-group-for-proposing-1080-job-cuts
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June 9, 2020 10:08am
- RW Capitalist
  
  is she angry with herself too?
  Her ACTIONS in response to a disease, ….1000 (at least) per week.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:31am
- mandk
  
  Jacinda knows all there is to know about business.
  
  She said she got a lot of insights when she served behind the counter in a fish and chip shop.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:34am
- kevn
  
  @Benedict… JA angry? Hobble businesses like The Warehouse and then be …. angry because the re-build is difficult. FFS.
  Like most of thinking NZer’s…. we are angry.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:59am
- rangitoto
  
  Well she forced them to close their doors. What does she expect.
  
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  June 9, 2020 11:24am
- Inandout
  
  BY, let’s face it, a hell of a lot of her voters shop there.
  
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  June 9, 2020 11:30am
  - Paulus
    
    And they will still vote for her !
    
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    June 9, 2020 2:02pm
herb1

Being older has its downsides as Black is no longer black , white no longer white and a spade isn’t a spade.
White people attacked and vilified for having slaves hundreds of years ago. Black people who like our Maori enslaved there neighbours let alone eating them , no worries.

White Christians vilified for having slaves hundreds of years ago.
Islamic groups such as Isis, Taliban and Boko Haram having in some cases thousands of sex slaves , no worries.

White policeman arrested for murder( rightfully so) sparking world wide riots , violence and looting.
Here in our little country of kindness , numerous Maori babies assaulted and murdered, no worries.
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June 9, 2020 10:20am
Critical Thinker

The absolute state of many of the Democrats: ?

(This isn’t satire)

Democrat run Minneapolis City Council has voted to disband their police.

Reporter: “What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into. Who do I call?”

President of the Minneapolis City Council: “Check your privilege. As calling the police may cause more harm.”

https://youtu.be/GvQv2jlSrTo?t=17

Trump and the Republicans are going to win in a huge landslide in November, if this incredibly dangerous insanity spreads throughout the rest of the Democrat establishment.
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June 9, 2020 10:23am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Give the left enough rope and they’ll hang themselves.
  
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  June 9, 2020 12:05pm
- Rich Prick
  
  So the rioters and looters will all calm down and go home when there are no police? Mind you, it’s a good time to own an educational supplies store, they never seem to get looted.
  
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  June 9, 2020 12:59pm
KevO'Brien

On Ardern R.’s half a $mill/yr she has no concept of others reality. Working capital doesn’t come by feelings but by profitable sales and being able to meet costs. Cash losses to business caused by govt shut down will put people out of work. Better some lose their jobs than the whole business closes down.

Govts can flagrantly hand out money to buy Northland or butter up Maori votes but they have a printing press and can mortgage the childrens’ work for the future. The Warehouse and others cannot. The Directors become criminally liable for trading if the company is broke: the COL do not. They spend without responsibility–no guillotine awaits their incompetency.

Sorry Jacinda time to learn some facts.
☑️☑️We will return☑️☑️
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June 9, 2020 10:33am
- MCos
  
  I was surprised to hear Ardern say she was angry at The Warehouse.
  However.
  These store closure had been planned prior to COVID-19. Their problem seems to be competition from online retailing, and I suspect the ‘no-name’ brands they peddle.
  They sell online themselves, but during Level 4 their service was woeful due to a bottleneck at the couriers.
  In the future these big barn outlets are going to lose out to online shopping.
  Shops that sell Books, newspapers, music have all drifted away.
  
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  June 9, 2020 10:59am
thirteenstars

Level 1.

Does this mean the police can no longer enter private homes without a warrant or deny a person the right to remain silent?

Do you know? Do you care?
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June 9, 2020 11:09am
- Critical Thinker
  
  Yes. The police still have this power under all lockdown levels. Which is up for repeal each 90 days. That was enacted on the 13th of May.
  
  Government approved “Enforcement Officers” also have these same tyrannical powers as the police. Except for warrantless searches of private homes.
  
  http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2020/0012/latest/whole.html#LMS344173
  
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  June 9, 2020 12:37pm
Justitia

A must for all kiwibloggers. If you want to understand how radical Marxists are using identity politics, the “climate crisis”, and the universities to destroy Western values, watch this interview with commentator Douglas Murray: https://youtu.be/gsNz2OkeoDA
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June 9, 2020 11:28am
- thirteenstars
  
  The Marxists, and every other ideology, have been using the education system–and not just the universities–for *decades*.
  
  That’s why they are winning, and why the will win. When the West sacrificed its culture to the destroyers upon the holy altar of public education, it lit the fuse of its own destruction. You reap what you sow, yada, yada, and it’s all true.
  
  What we’re seeing now is nothing. Half the population still has some degree of cultural sanity. Not for long. Very soon comes the tipping point.
  
  Welcome to the future. You paid for it.
  
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  June 9, 2020 12:45pm
oldfella

Seems Kate Hawksby is not impressed with the PM. Where do I sign up?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12338213
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June 9, 2020 11:32am
- thirteenstars
  
  That’s just Kate’s middle-class, white privilege talking. She obviously needs re-educating.
  
  [NB: this comment might be illegal under proposed hate speech legislation]
  
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  June 9, 2020 1:08pm
RW Capitalist

It appears, that the WHO has said that Covid 19, is NOT spread by ‘asymptomatic’ patients. As previously stated.
Would appear:
1. Politicians are not thinking for themselves, just parroting WHO.
2. Politicians are using the most fear inducing rhetoric they can find to control the population.
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June 9, 2020 11:33am
oldfella

The Instapundit blog in the US has it right.
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“New Zealand says coronavirus ‘eliminated,’ lifts all domestic restrictions.”
NOW ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS STAY SEALED OFF FROM THE WORLD FOREVER. OR UNTIL THE VIRUS DIES OUT ON ITS OWN. OR THERE’S AN EFFECTIVE VACCINE.
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June 9, 2020 11:45am
Bullion

Wow, another report shows that the OAS report into the Bolivian election, used as a basis for the coup, was flawed.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3621475
https://cepr.net/report/observing-the-observers-the-oas-in-the-2019-bolivian-elections/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/26/bolivia-dismissed-its-october-elections-fraudulent-our-research-found-no-reason-suspect-fraud/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/world/americas/bolivia-election-evo-morales.html
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/08/the-nyt-admits-key-falsehoods-that-drove-last-years-coup-in-bolivia-falsehoods-peddled-by-the-u-s-its-media-and-the-nyt/
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June 9, 2020 11:47am
Prince

Listening to an interview on RNZ ‘Nine to Noon’ with Stuff’s National Business Editor was a reminder of why Stuff was valued at $1.
She referred to ‘Muller’s Financial package for business’, suggesting companies could lay staff off, then rehire and get the $10K subsidy. That is grossly incorrect, and ignores the safeguards that are clearly spelt out in the package to stop that happening. She then went on to say ‘Jacinda and Grant’ had a lot of fun with it.
Seriously, you would expect some sort of professionalism from a Business Editor, or a National Radio host. If you refer to ‘Muller’ (should be Leader of the Opposition), surely you continue by at least referring to the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance ? But ‘Jacinda and Grant’ ?
This sort of thing is why the media is dying here, and frankly it can’t come soon enough.
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June 9, 2020 11:48am
JibberJabber

Of course, things will only get better once the Cops are disarmed and defunded….
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/6/1/21275944/chicago-weekend-shootings-most-violent-weekend-2020-may-29-june-1?utm_campaign=chicago.suntimes&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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June 9, 2020 11:59am
- JibberJabber
  
  Imagine living in a place where you need one of these,
  https://www.shotspotter.com/alert-service/
  
  and the cops are the problem….?
  
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  June 9, 2020 12:02pm
oldfella

Chicago, well know lefty city, is loud in it’s support of Black Lives Matters. Except for the large number of blacks killed by other blacks each and every week on their own streets. Might be time for Chicago’s white liberals to march on their behalf. Seems like a cause worth taking up. Yes? https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-saw-its-deadliest-day-in-60-years-with-18-murders-in-24-hours-report
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June 9, 2020 12:01pm
Maggie Pie

My partner just found a flyer in our letterbox.
It said if you’re an alcoholic, ring this number. So he did.
It was f**ing Glengarrys.
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June 9, 2020 12:15pm
- MH
  
  i once found a fly in my soup, watched it for days till it crawled out, too late the soup was cold by then, told the ANZ airline hostess, still waiting for a refund even after going into voluntary blocdown.
  
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  June 9, 2020 1:03pm
oldfella

The J.K.Rowling gender scandal rolls on.
The latest support from a high profile friend on the left is withdrawn, after the supporter’s daughter helped dad ‘realise’ the error of his ways. Stalin would be so proud.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8400629/Jonathan-Ross-daughter-Honey-helped-rethink-opinion-J-K-Rowling-transphobia-debate.html
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June 9, 2020 12:37pm
cmm

$1uff shilling for some people that want to use hydro electricity to do “carbon capture”.

Even if you buy into the climate change stuff, this is an astonishingly bad idea technically. Sounds like a great idea for getting the snout in the trough though.

Making CO2 (by burning gas and oil) releasing it into the atmosphere, then trying to catch it again does not seems sensible and energy efficient process.

A far better use of the electricity would surely be to use it directly for productive work (heating, transport etc) and reducing the consumption of gas and oil in fuels.

But then we have a crazy “green world” where the Poms chop down native trees in USA, chip them then send them via ship to Uk to burn them in biofuel power stations to meet their quotas.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/121727214/covid19-recovery-money-should-go-into-co2-capture

#WhoWillFeedThePlants?
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June 9, 2020 12:41pm
MH

they have eliminated Georgie Pie again, how MP’s must suffer, it’s just another blow…
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June 9, 2020 12:57pm
- oldfella
  
  Outrageous. If Georgie Pie is brown we should all hold a protest about his cruel demise, then riot and break a few windows.
  
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  June 9, 2020 4:37pm
Maggie Pie

Quite like it when Kerry Woodham’s on….
means i switch over to Peter Williams.
Although have to say that Chris Lynch guy is dam good.

Just saying.
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June 9, 2020 1:03pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd have got the chop.
Loony left with their nonsense.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/remember-yosemite-sam-and-elmer-fudd-theyve-been-officially-disarmed/?fbclid=IwAR1QJm-98OGbDWyklIrq-AhhcBQqtDZ06ihgk2QxaLcXgEADxLUVVf2hdtM
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June 9, 2020 1:23pm
- Cod Weyne
  
  What is the point of keeping Elmer Fudd if he ain’t got a gun?? He does nothing else but fail every time at shooting that wascily wabbit.
  Might as well kill him off..oops I mean delete him.
  After all who needs a gun totin’ farmer with a speech impediment. Pffft all he did was make people laugh, and we can’t have that can we!
  
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  June 9, 2020 2:05pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Willie always trying to kill road runner. That shit has got to go.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jHU2bbLJIQ
    
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    June 9, 2020 3:02pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    I have a mouse pad – remember those? Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner. I still use it to this day. Ya just gotta love the Coyote’s determination!
    
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    June 9, 2020 4:58pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      But the Coyote is the perfect example of TDS.
      Forget everything except Trump. Tell me I am wrong
      
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      June 9, 2020 5:38pm
MrTips

True story.

Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters and Joe Biden have collectively been in govt office for 144 years.

Trump has been in office for 3 1/2 years.

And yet America’s problems are all Trump’s fault?
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June 9, 2020 1:23pm
- MCos
  
  What problems are they?
  I thought America was doing just fine.
  
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  June 9, 2020 3:02pm
- Mike
  
  You might want to look at a wider sample. There are 100 senators, for instance. Fifteen of them have been in office for over 20 years, with an even split between the parties. Twenty-eight senators are aged over 70, again split evenly between the parties.
  It would seem that Americans love aged politicians, and long terms in office. Remember, this year’s presidential choice is between a 73-year-old and a 77-year-old.
  
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  June 9, 2020 3:22pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Not his point but I guess whoosh, it went right over your head.
    
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    June 9, 2020 6:16pm
I remember when

So now that covid-19 has been beaten Cinders tells John Campbell she “has to look at the evidence”.
Okay she was talking on another subject.
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June 9, 2020 2:14pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Some home truths about what the leftist media tells you – and the truth.
Liz Wheeler, OAN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzVzP-FLanM
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June 9, 2020 2:16pm
- Tall Man
  
  Two downtickers who cannot face the fact that they are either happy being lied to or too dumb to even realise it.
  
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  June 9, 2020 6:15pm
Durden

Yet another example of the press being dumb enough not to ask the obvious question, or their desire to simply to give Jacinda an easy ride.

Jacinda said yesterday that there WILL be further cases of Covid. The immediate logical questions would be “Prime Minister, where do you think this will come from and what measures do you have in place to manage it?”

Would have immediately brought into focus the ad-hoc decisions that are allowing certain people to enter NZ freely, and also highlight the fact that our contact tracing is woefully slow and inadequate.

Fran O’Sullivan pointed this out :
” Jacinda Ardern has yet to provide New Zealanders with detailed assurances that officials have prepared the intensive tracking, tracing and testing regime necessary to ensure that in the event of a Covid-19 virus flare-up at alert level 1 it can be stamped out quickly. This is the essential point that was missing from Ardern’s meandering comments on news media yesterday — although further details on alert level 1 may come later today.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12336710

Nothing came out of Alert Level 1 announcement and nobody thought to ask a question.

Pathetic.
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June 9, 2020 2:26pm
I remember when

I remember Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd,The Roadrunner.
They used to have “shorts” and half-time and then the main movie. At our cinema (the town hall) it was usually a western. A great time.
Funny how I don’t remember anybody I went to the movies with becoming a bank robber, I doubt that many in the audience even owned a gun when they were older.
We didn’t hit anyone on the head with a sledgehammer or buried them alive.
I guess we just understood that the cartoons (or the 3 Stooges, or the Marx Brothers) weren’t real life!!!
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June 9, 2020 2:32pm
- oldfella
  
  You mean Hopalong Cassidy was just pretend? Wow, you’ve shattered my childhood memories. (Accidentally hit Report before I hit Reply – see how badly your comments triggered me! ;)).
  
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  June 9, 2020 4:42pm
- greybeard
  
  I am 71.
  When I was a kid I regularly received toy guns as presents ( cap guns, spud guns etc ) as well as sheath knives.
  These knives had a steel blade with pressed steel handles riveted on, and usually came in a real stitched leather sheath ( stamped with some sort of Western motif ).
  I am, to the best of my knowledge, not a killer or demented danger to the public.
  
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  June 9, 2020 6:24pm
rangitoto

Cindy’s economic recovery plan unveiled. She will get all frowny and mybe even angry if any staff get laid off. So there!.
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June 9, 2020 2:56pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I hear a train coming.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-campaign-rallies-start-again-211311592.html
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June 9, 2020 3:13pm
Prince

Our Glorious Ministry of Health…
“It didn’t happen”.
“It simply didn’t happen”.
“We have reviewed the incident and it didn’t happen”.
“There is no way it could have happened”.

“Um, OK, it happened”.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/121763980/officials-confirm-guests-came-into-contact-with-avatar-crew-from-la-at-wellington-hotel
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June 9, 2020 3:50pm
- Tall Man
  
  Apart from the lie, a nothing story.
  
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  June 9, 2020 6:03pm
dave_c_

What a loon that Bloomfield guys looks like, as he stands holding a piece of paper showing a Covid app component.
Reminds me of the demented souls standing on the street corner trying to sell everyone, the idea, that they need to repent now, as the world is ending.
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June 9, 2020 3:56pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  He is paid more than the PM and he still lets her tell him the words to say
  
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  June 9, 2020 5:34pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Jepradise? Pardee?
    
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    June 9, 2020 6:01pm
- Tall Man
  
  For some idiots it nearly did 😉
  
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  June 9, 2020 6:00pm
Jack5

Kiwiblog poster Scott Hamilton today was in full cry on the Radio NZ chat show, Wallace Chapman’s the Panel.

Hamilton told how he had persuaded an Akaroa restaurant owner to change the restaurant’s name from “Bully Hayes”. Hamilton said that in addition to being a pirate and a Pacific slave trader, Hayes was a rapist and a paedophile. Hamilton quoted evidence in starkly explicit detail.

The panel itself, which included David Slack, enthusiastically added Central Otago’s Lake Hayes to the names which should be changed.

The Maori-dominated, revisionist Geographic Place Names Board would no doubt have welcomed an excuse to dump “Lake Hayes” for the Ngai Tahu name of “Whaka-ata a Haki-te-kura,” but a listener pointed out to the panel that the lake was not named after Bully Hayes.

It is named after a Scots pioneer, Donald Hay, whose name was spelled slightly differently.
Lake Hayes is now the site of a large new housing estate.

The American, Bully Hayes (William Henry Hayes), did run a pub at nearby Arrowtown in the early 1860s during the gold rush, but the lake was named earlier than his arrival.

According to his blurb at the NZ publisher, Bridget Williams Books, blog poster Scott Hamilton “has published books and essays about British socialism, Tongan art, kava drinking, and New Zealand history.”

Scott Hamilton brought in another American link, pointing out that some Confederates had settled in the Pacific Islands after the Confederacy was defeated in the Civil War, and, if my recall is correct, suggested they were looking for slaves for their newe ventures, which included growing cotton.

Wallace Chapman, the show host, could almost be seen over the wireless waves nodding in sympathy. Wallace’s dad was a clergyman in Fiji.

Wikipedia has a good piece on Bully Hayes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_Hayes
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June 9, 2020 5:50pm
- Swifty
  
  Slavery? Rape of women, irrespective of age? Murder of innocents? Invasion of lands?
  
  I agree with Scott, those guilty of such acts should be reviled, shunned and any edifices, memorials or similar to such people should be torn down.
  
  I now urge the appropriate NZ authorities to begin a search through NZ’s history to identify those guilty and publish their names so that we might take to the streets and topple these monuments and enact our righteous vengeance.
  
  Let the searches start about 1250AD.
  
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  June 9, 2020 6:47pm
- Mike
  
  Good on him. Hayes is hardly the sort of figure one could admire. About as attractive as the local cafe here with a mural of Che Guevara on the wall.
  
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  June 9, 2020 6:58pm
Harriet

The bosses are now firing people and Cindy gets triggered?

Oh – so now there is something wrong with the end of capitalism. Funny that! 😎
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June 9, 2020 6:04pm
Colville

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/121767726/carterton-bottle-store-owner-foils-wouldbe-shoplifter-with-stick

Headline is “shopkeeper beats off robber”.

Really? they got friendly awful fast.
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June 9, 2020 6:27pm
- MrTips
  
  1st player: damn, the coach pulled me off at half-time…..
  2nd player: you’re lucky, all I got was an orange….
  
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  June 9, 2020 7:28pm
Tall Man

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/06/akaroa-restaurant-bully-hayes-named-after-19th-century-rapist-slaver-to-change-its-name.html

Woke wankers. Many names have different associations. Who even gave it a thought?
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June 9, 2020 6:58pm
greybeard

New Police Commissioner Andrew Coster is making Mike Bush look pretty good right now.
What is the matter with the man ?
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June 9, 2020 8:50pm
Mike

I’ve just been reading In Defence of Open Society by George Soros. It’s an interesting collection of essays around the them of preserving liberal democracy. Particularly good chapters on the role of IT conglomerates like Facebook and Google, the 2008 GFC, and the EU.
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