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peterwn

Andrea Vance of Stuff had a lengthy article about how wrong it was to call the Prime Minister ‘Cindy’. Then Stuff in an article about the dissolution of Parliament referred to Her Excellency the Governor General as ‘Reddy’. Goodness knows what ‘style guide’ supports this usage. Referring to the Governor General and the Judiciary by surrnames only is plain disrespectful, especially when Stuff regards calling the PM Cindy is disrespectful. But then the PM influences how the $50M is doled out to the media while other groups do not have a say.
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September 8, 2020 8:01am
- igm
  
  You are sure on the money with that reasoning . . . “Stuff” would be “stuffed” without taxpayers’ subsidies as they do not have enough advertising revenue to cover overheads.
  Technically they must be insolvent, having no tangible assets, only goodwill; and that would be zilch.
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:19am
  - Harriet
    
    I said right from the outset that $1uff will be liquidated after the election.
    Unless of course someone in Labour would like to tell us of the conditions that go with the $50mil free for fuckwits pork barrel! 😎
    
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    September 8, 2020 8:58am
  - peterwn
    
    Stuff does not even own the printing press at Petone AFAIK it is still owned by Fairfax. Presumably its Boulcott Street offices are leased too.
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:04am
    - igm
      
      All pre-press plant is also leased, “Stuff” per se’ own nothing.
      
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      September 8, 2020 10:11am
      - sooty
        
        That’s why it was sold for one dollar!
        Was TV3 sold for the same amount?
        
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        September 8, 2020 10:44am
- G152
  
  Do as we say not as we do..
  Fake news writ by flakes all mistakes
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:24am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Well perhaps someone whispered to them that Patsy is a dimunition too! Quelle Horreur!
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:25am
- emmess
  
  Yeah whatever Andy
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:32am
- Phronesis
  
  Bizarrely she actually mentioned; Rob Muldoon, Jim Bolger, Mike Moore, Bill English etc, without even acknowledging that none of those names were their given names. Dame Jennifer Mary Shipley, our first female PM no less, was always referred to as Jenny Shipley by the Press.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:20am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Don’t forget Dame Patricia Reddy, or Gerry Brownlee, or Mike Moore, or Bill Rowling or Chris Finlayson or Chris Carter …..
    
    So disrespectful!
    
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    September 8, 2020 10:42am
  - SGA
    
    Dame Jennifer Mary Shipley, our first female PM no less, was always referred to as Jenny Shipley by the Press.
    
    But not “Jen” nor “Bob” Muldoon, nor “Will” English – all acceptable variants that they didn’t appear to use themselves. Does Collins answer to “Judy” (I don’t know).
    
    That said, I can’t say I feel strongly about this issue one way or another, it all seems rather adolescent and petty.
    
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    September 8, 2020 11:21am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Referring to the Governor General and the Judiciary by surnames is treating them the same as everyone else. They don’t deserve more than that, and some deserve less.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:33am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Laughably peter, Vance claimed that no one ever called Key or English denigrating or condescending names. I think she spent too much time wooing Peter Dunn. You really have to wonder what planet she is from given she doesn’t recall “DonKey” or “Double Dipper”.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:37am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    The Dipton Double-Dipper, surely?
    
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    September 8, 2020 1:40pm
- James Stephenson
  
  Of course the use of “Cindy” is designed to emphasis that Ardern is a lightweight, long on presentation but short on substance.
  
  If Vance thinks that she hasn’t completely earned that in her dozen years in Parliament, then she’s deluding herself. Whaleoil was pointing out the similarity that her members bills bore to bumper-stickers years before she was a live leadership contender.
  
  But yeah, I don’t recall anyone riding to the rescue of “Winnie”
  
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  September 8, 2020 12:58pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Vance is pretty stupid for someone from the UK too – her point about not calling Ardern Cindy was that “she’s not a doll!”
  
  She’s referring to the doll manufactured and distributed by Pedigree Dolls and Toys in the UK, from the early 1960’s. Produced as a rival to Barbie, the doll’s name was Sindy – not Cindy. Journalism 101, another fail from Andy Vance (or Bob, as we punters call her).
  
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  September 8, 2020 1:44pm
- Enkidu
  
  Oh, Peter! I go away for a while, and when I come back, everything is exactly the same. You never change. In some ways it is heartening, in others it indicates a certain stodginess and unwillingness to change. But my main point… It has always been journalistic practice to refer to a person by their surname in articles, *provided they are named in full earlier in the article*. It is not a Stuff thing. Look at any news site or newspaper. If I were writing an article on Kiwiblog I might say “Kiwiblog is a blog site set up by David Farrar, and has mainly right wing subscribers. Farrar is a statistician and polster…” If the article in question refers to the GG as ‘Reddy’ before mentioning her name and title in full, then that would be disrespectful.
  
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  September 10, 2020 10:43am
I remember when

TV One late news:
Winston on ‘whistle stop’ tour of the lower South Island. Called in at Mosgiel.
The guitarist sang “Knock, knock, knocking on heaven’s door.”
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September 8, 2020 8:03am
- emmess
  
  He should have been singing ‘Highway to Hell’
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:33am
- Brian Marshall
  
  I normally skip the 6 o’clock propaganda, but I caught that on the TV last night. I turned to the Mrs and said, that is a horrible situation for any campaign to be caught in. What was he thinking?
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:56am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  I gave him a shout out today 🙂 apart from a bunch of reporters and 3 younger volunteers there was no one else there to listen.
  
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  September 8, 2020 2:13pm
Sigmund Freud

Good bye New Zealand.

Kia ora Aotearoa, Cuba of the South Seas.
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September 8, 2020 8:04am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Without the Bel Airs . . .
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:55am
Yvette

Does the current law covering medicinal use of cannabis deal only with manufactured products?

And, considering, to date, only one medicinal cannabis product has been approved, and it is not funded by Pharmac [1], does one have to consider voting for legalisation of recreational cannabis to get anything within a reasonable price range to combat, for example, chronic pain, and will that confine you then to largely cannabis biased to a stronger THC content (for a recreational high) rather than CBS (better targeted pain control)?

So, does someone on constant pain, have to balance that personal gain (self interest) against the social downsides – as yet inadequate road safety measures, for example – of changing recreational use?

[1] https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/425429/cannabis-referendum-raises-questions-over-its-medicinal-use
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September 8, 2020 8:10am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  deliberate ploy to make the med folk vote yes in the referendum.
  
  the legalisation proposals have far more leeway then the med bill. dirty govt tricks at play
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:30am
- YesMinister
  
  ” does someone on constant pain, have to balance that personal gain (self interest) against the social downsides”
  
  No. No they absolutely do not. And anybody who wrote a sentence like that is yet to be in constant pain, but I’m sure the time will come, just like Cullen’s who was against euthanasia until the cancer was in his bones, and just like all the good little pro-life housewives who nip down to the abortion clinic when they have an accidental whoopsie, where your hypocrisy will seem excusable.
  
  The individual’s right not to suffer is supreme. Any other argument is communism and inherent evil.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:43am
- Pharmachick
  
  Similar but different, I nearly got into trouble with this when I moved from the US to Canada. Suffice it to say I run a core facility with analytical stuff in it. In the US, only THC is (/was depending on individual states) illegal, all other derivatives can be used in research. In Canada, up until legalization, all derivatives were illegal, not just for consumption but even for research purposes. Anyway, I’d been in charge about 6 mo and got asked by a researcher to get our tech to run up a protocol for CBD – went to order the standards and… came to a screaming halt. You see the researcher themselves have the permits (24 months to get back then), but the Analytical Facility would also need the permits in order to analyze.
  
  It’s all water under the bridge now since all forms of cannabis are legal in Canada – medical adn recreational.
  
  BTW – latest stats in BC is that there was an uptick in usage in the last [almost] 2 years from 17% population usage to 19%. Driven by the 18 – 39 age-group. The only problem we saw was that the BC Govt. was hugely slow in their licensing (like 1 shop in Victoria, 1 in Kamloops adn 2 in Van) for almost 9 months, also the Govt. website had junk product… so the black market hung round for a while, but its dying now that the pot shops are opening more and over wider area [correctly licensed].
  
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  September 8, 2020 1:56pm
  - Pharmachick
    
    PS Haven’t solved the DUI (what you guys call DIC) problem yet. For various pharmacokinetics (they change with dose and consumption – bane of any testing) and biomarker (we don’t have a reliable on in breath, blood or urine like alcohol) reasons it’s a hell of a thorny problem.
    
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    September 8, 2020 2:03pm
KevO'Brien

Russian COVID-19 vaccine based on earlier work.
https://www.rt.com/russia/500087-worlds-first-covid-19-vaccine-questions/
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September 8, 2020 8:12am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Do you want it administered in your cup of tea, or by a poisoned tip of an umbrella?
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:15am
  - mark15
    
    That was the Bulgarians.
    
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    September 8, 2020 8:40am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Great Uncle Bulgaria? You’re partly right in that it was a Bulgarian dissident that was assassinated, but it’s also highly likely they had help from the KGB.
      
      In the recent cases – Litvinenko, the two Skripols and Navalny, it was 100% the Russians, undoubtedly ordered by Putin.
      
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      September 8, 2020 3:47pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Sometimes it’s smart to consider what others are doing.
    
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    September 8, 2020 12:35pm
- Pharmachick
  
  In the words of world-famous (in NZ) Kiwis everywhere:
  
  “Yeah, nah.”
  
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  September 8, 2020 2:00pm
Tony Stuart

So, Winston Peters was observed having a quiet durry in a no smoking area at University of Otago. But didn’t he quit smoking three years ago?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/94728690/winston-peters-is-ready-for-battle–hes-even-quit-smoking-ahead-of-the-election

Peters is clearly not the man he was in 2017; Father Time has come calling. You’d think if he was serious about staying in politics for another three years, he’d be doing everything he could to stay healthy…
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September 8, 2020 8:14am
- mandk
  
  I don’t care if Peters smokes or not.
  
  But what this does show is that you can’t rely on anything he says about anything.
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:21am
  - Yvette
    
    Winston Peters videoed smoking on Otago University’s smoke-free campus.
    “This policy applies to all University of Otago employees, students, visitors, contractors, volunteers, research participants and any person on any University of Otago Campus at any time, for any reason.”
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    Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters, standing in for Jacinda Ardern, pointed to New Zealand First’s coalition agreement with Labour where the policy came from.
    “Strive towards adding 1800 new Police officers over three years,” it says.
    “As much as I admire Police Commissioner Bush, by adding the word net, he got it wrong,” Peters said.
    “There was never anywhere a statement being net new – words matter/b>,” Peters said.
    
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    September 8, 2020 8:39am
    - sooty
      
      Would you prefer him to smoke or have a whisky?
      
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      September 8, 2020 10:48am
      - Pharmachick
        
        I, quite literally; don’t care.
        
        What Mr Peters puts into his body is his affair, as long as it’s legal.
        
        Now if he’s committing a crime as an elected official, then he should face the consequences, but I’m not sure that disobeying a sign is an actual crime, in which case who gives a proverbial.
        
        I prefer libertarian to libertine, thank you.
        
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        September 8, 2020 2:08pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Stress getting to him?
    
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    September 8, 2020 2:02pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Or that he clearly thinks rules are for other people. Same with electioneering funds, same with the NZF Foundation, same with attacking people under Parliamentary privilege, same with filling in superannuation forms.
    
    It’s the scorpion and frog all over again – it’s in his nature.
    
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    September 8, 2020 3:49pm
Tricati

So, the concerns raised by Hamish Walker, in looking after his constituents, that having an isolation facility in Southland and no resources to deal with an outbreak have proven true.
The appalling comment from Megan Woods that Walker’s concerns were ‘racist’ was purely to distract focus from the continual cock-ups at the isolation facilities. Woods needs to front up and justify her ‘racist’ label in light of the latest info on where a key source of the virus is coming from.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12362862
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September 8, 2020 8:14am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Indeed. 17 positive Covid cases so far from the Air India flight, and very likely more to come.
  
  Like Simon Bridges, Hamish Walker has been proved right by the passage of time, although that doesn’t excuse his poor judgment in leaking information supplied to him by Michelle Boag.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:06am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    To be fair, the poor judgement was in even talking to Michelle Boag.
    
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    September 8, 2020 10:03am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    What a lot of New Zealanders seem to come from Delhi!
    
    Whoops, have I Hamish’d myself?
    
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    September 8, 2020 10:45am
  - Close Hen Counters
    
    Front page herald article on gosh, Indians, bringing covid into the country …. yet crickets on how the poly cluster got infected …..
    
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    September 8, 2020 12:10pm
Tomtoddy

Here is what is rotten to the core in the MSM. A quote from the Ferald – Audrey Young…….’The Matariki policy is also controversial enough to have set the agenda. People are talking about Matariki. They are not debating Judith Collins’ promise to tackle the scourge of methamphetamine’.

Just who are the “people” who are talking about Matariki? Its called interviewing your typewriter or nattering to your fellow journalists. The arrogance and stupidity knows no bounds.

Any journalist with an ounce of integrity and decency would be extolling Collins for tackling a huge thorny issue and be pointing out how vacuous and damaging another public holiday will be on jobs and the economy.
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September 8, 2020 8:16am
- G152
  
  Funny that ‘Matariki’ is a moving target being one date here and another over there.
  Astronomy is better than that
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:27am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    This isn’t astronomy. This is stone-age civilisation mythology and mumbo jumbo. That is all.
    
    I’m so unbelievably glad I sold my business and don’t have to fund extra holidays, extra sick leave, or deal with staff of any kind. I feel very sorry for those that still do.
    
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    September 8, 2020 3:52pm
- Paulus
  
  Yea, OK to bring in Matariki, if and when the Iwi can agree on the dates, which is different to many Maori Groups.
  And of course happy for it to replace Waitangi Day as this not considered a Maori Day but for all the loving 5 Million New Zealanders.
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:34am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Just who are the “people” who are talking about Matariki?
  
  Well, there’s a thread about it on this very blog which as at 8:54 am today has 109 comments on it, so there’s part of your answer. There are also three comments about it under “General Debate” and none about National’s policy on methamphetamine.
  
  The media respond to the signals they get from the public, and the signals are very clearly that the public are more interested in quick, easily understood soundbites than tackling deep, thorny issues for which the only way forward is a long, difficult struggle requiring huge reserves of patience, persistence and money and unlikely to show results within a single electoral cycle, let alone within the couple of weeks that public interest can, at best, usually be sustained for.
  
  That being said, I’ve also had a look at Stuff’s and the Herald’s coverage of National’s announcement and I do not think National have anything to complain of there.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:05am
- MCos
  
  “Just who are the “people” who are talking about Matariki?“
  
  Kiwiblog readers in their droves!
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:19am
- Clyde
  
  And MSM interviewed a “maori astronomer”. WTF is that? An astronomer that happens to be maori, or a maori that claims to be an astronomer? But MSM is so busy turning itself inside out trying to pander to their woke views instilled by their racially appointed board (in the case of RNZ) that they can’t grasp the fact that they are themselves inherently racist.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:22am
- niggly
  
  Yep some woke leftie gets 34,000 signatures calling for Matariki to become a holiday and her ego explodes. MSM join in to promote more wokeness.
  
  The real story is 5 million people didn’t sign the petition!
  
  The other real story is if Labour thought this was important, they would enact it in 2021, not 2022!
  
  Clearly then Labour are looking for “feelz” and “adulation” but as typical, cannot deliver.
  
  (And no I don’t believe their lame excuse it is to give businesses time to adjust – BS as they trampled all over businesses in terms of them deciding which businesses could open during lockdown and which couldn’t – there’s the proof they don’t care).
  
  Meanwhile MSM goes along with this and make it top news. As I said last night I can’t believe how many Labour supporters and Maori I’ve heard that don’t agree with this recently invented call for a holiday!
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:42am
All_on_Red

Morning ‘Suckers and Losers’
‘On Sunday, Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg admitted the White House’s account that President Trump’s trip to a cemetery of fallen World War I soldiers in France in 2018 was modified due to bad weather is probably accurate.

“I’m sure all of those things are true,” Goldberg told CNN in an interview on Friday when asked to respond to evidence a story he published saying otherwise is false.’
And an eyewitness account from someone who was there;
‘Former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Zach Fuentes unequivocally denied The Atlantic’s report last week, a huge blow to the establishment media narrative. Fuentes personally briefed President Trump on the weather situation that led to the trip being canceled. He is also a close personal confidante of former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.

“You can put me on record denying that I spoke with The Atlantic,” Fuentes said on Monday. “I don’t know who the sources are. I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather. Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?”

So that Information Operation dies..
Any correction from DPF?
It’s the season for them so we will see more.
Any guesses what will be next?
I pick something to do with RUSSIA (of course) Russian Banks, and Putin will be in there somewhere.

It’s funny watching the morons get all excited though eh.
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September 8, 2020 8:17am
- G152
  
  Those who repeated the claim should be backing off and apologizing for repeating fake news.
  Or paying a fine large enough to put them out of business
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:30am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  None of that proves Trump did not say anything disparaging about the fallen soldier. All it means is that the sources refuse to go on record.
  But, anyway, this story won’t change anyone’s mind about Trump if they haven’t already been convinced by all the bizarre things he’s already on record as saying.
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You are so pathetic Mike. ‘Sources refuse to go on record’ only means they were bullshitting
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:13am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      As I’ve said before, you don’t have to believe this particular story. Just make your mind up from all the other bullshit that spews from Trump’s mouth.
      
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      September 8, 2020 9:22am
      - softail 1450
        
        MMA, You are a moron Mike, your common sense is dead, you hate TRUMP because he’s a billionaire and has a beautiful wife where as you have ?????????
        
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        September 8, 2020 9:36am
      - Ed Snack
        
        And make your mind up about Mike’s comment based on all the bullshit that spews from his mouth/pen.
        
        It was transparently false when published about the cancellation because of the weather – the NYT doubted that fact back in 2018 and did an FOIA request for confirmation. They did indeed get a response showing that the weather was the cause of the cancellation, and that a road trip was not considered secure. So the information was in the public domain, yet the Atlantic published a story that largely hinged on that as the introduction to the narrative about Trump’s alleged comments. That’s malicious behaviour, and thoroughly despicable, and yet Mikey ties himself to it.
        
        Plus they emphasised the allegation that Trump didn’t want to stand in the rain, yet next day he did exactly that, for an hour. They were obviously confusing Trump with pusillanimous and craven Obama who always had other people standing in the rain to provide shelter for him.
        
        So a simple orchestrated smear, that should and does reflect very badly on those who not only organised it but those who repeated it. Are we going to see apologies from those people for disrespecting the troops. Because the net effect is that they are the ones calling the fallen losers and suckers.
        
        So here we have a special post on KB about this, and it has completely collapsed already. How come all the TDS sufferers are so unendingly gullible and ready to accept any transparent smear ?
        
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        September 8, 2020 9:43am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        @ Ed: “How come all the TDS sufferers are so unendingly gullible and ready to accept any transparent smear ?”
        
        The answer my friend, lies in the question.
        
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        September 8, 2020 3:56pm
  - David George
    
    I’ve followed media coverage of Trump since he got into politics. I have never seen such a campaign of vilification and distortion and outright lies; from the headlines proclaiming his hands were too small (I’m not making this up) featured in the NZ Herald to this latest bullshit. It’s even worse than the “end of times” climate propaganda.
    What’s going on?
    
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    September 8, 2020 10:34am
    - Pharmachick
      
      The small hands thing comes directly from a feud with Graydon Carter when he was Editor in Chief of Vanity Fair. It was a well known irritant that Carter invented, the rest of the media just picked it up later on.
      
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      September 8, 2020 10:57am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Interesting
        The attack on Trump allegedly disparaging soldiers is also not new.
        The Dems tried it against Abraham Lincoln in 1864
        
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        September 8, 2020 11:20am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        ‘small-fingered vulgarian’
        
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        September 8, 2020 11:29am
- Kiwi Dave
  
  Who remembers Dan Rather and his 2004 pre-election publication of George Bush’s Texas Air National Guard records? It’s almost as if you can’t trust the news media.
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:47am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Yes, but there was a “truthfulness” to those records, even if the actual letter was faked, the underlying facts just had to be true, because feelz.
    
    Worth noting for all those who trumpet how Bush disses Trump, how much the Democrats smeared and traduced Bush at the time. Literally Hitler he was, plus a draft dodger for flying in the National Guard instead of going to Vietnam. Leftist smears are pretty predictable, you would think that the TDS sufferers would have twigged to that, but no.
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:46am
- alloytoo
  
  What I don’t understand is how a number of people, who are
  
  a)Identified.
  b) On Record of having been there.
  c) On record of NOT being Trump fans
  
  Have denied this slander.
  
  are somehow less credible than “Anonymous” ?
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:59am
- Critical Thinker
  
  It should have been obvious to everyone that it was a fake news story ?
  
  – Way over the top smear from anonymous sources.
  – Easy to obtain hard evidence that unequivocally showed that Trump wasn’t able to fly to the cemetery, due to bad weather.
  – Numerous staff members have gone on the record stating that Trump never said such things.
  – Even from John Bolton, whom hates Trump.
  
  Fake news is most certainly the enemy of all people.
  
  “Any correction from DPF?”
  
  Only if he’s able to overcome his perplexingly chronic case of TDS ?
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:59am
  - softail 1450
    
    C T, DPF is right up there on the TDS scale with SB2 & MMA.
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:39am
- Fletch
  
  The problem is, is that the media can come up with any bullshit story and some people are going to believe it, even if it isn’t true. That’s what they do. And they don’t care if it isn’t true as long as it helps Biden. There’s that old saying , ‘A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.’
  
  Or as Jonathan Swift wrote in 1710,
  
  Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…
  
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  September 8, 2020 10:06am
- trout
  
  The Atlantic has form when it comes to publishing anti Trump stories. The publication went all out to destroy Judge Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. All salacious accusations were taken as fact in an effort to prove the Judge was a degenerate human being. And of course Blazey-Ford’s made up accusations were never questioned.
  There will be more of this fake news – the Left are worried – the tide of public support is slowly turning and Biden is failing to enthuse even Democrat voters.
  
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  September 8, 2020 10:24am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Did they find Sarah Palin’s placenta yet?
    
    Asking for a friend.
    
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    September 8, 2020 10:47am
- theoldbloke
  
  I am searching for a comment from Wayne Mapp admitting he got suckered by the Atlantic article. Especially as he (in my view mistaken) said that the Atlantic is a reputable magazine.
  It may have been in the past but most definately is not now.
  Just look at some of the Atlantic articles and make up your own mind.
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:20am
- JSelway
  
  So Trump, who openly called McCain a loser, didn’t disparage fallen soldiers by calling them losers?
  
  Interesting…
  
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  September 8, 2020 2:39pm
  - Fletch
    
    Trump and McCain didn’t like each other. And it’s all part of politics. Kalama Harris destroyed Joe Biden on stage during the first debates and when Colbert pointed it out to her she laughed and said, “It was a debate!”, like that explains everything that people are going to lie and disparage each other in politics.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRWF-WLaDEM
    
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    September 8, 2020 8:31pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Dear..
Massive fire not caused by Climate change…(as TV One News stated)

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/09/large-wildfire-caused-by-gender-reveal-party-fireworks-rages-in-california.html
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September 8, 2020 8:17am
- Ruawai
  
  Was the gender revealed a she, he or they?
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:20am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    Wow – I have not seen something so phobic in ages., Gender is not a trinary you know.
    
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    September 8, 2020 8:55am
    - softail 1450
      
      W F ,You do realize that being stridently pro 45 separate agendas is a form of phobia dont you ?
      
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      September 8, 2020 9:41am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    A Phoenix I am picking.
    
    Is that one of the 76 genders?
    
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    September 8, 2020 8:58am
    - sooty
      
      I’m picking ( it )
      
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      September 8, 2020 10:54am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    I’m not sure, but it’s safe to say they’ll be a “fire” person.
    
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    September 8, 2020 3:58pm
- lifesgood
  
  These gender reveals are bloody ridiculous. It used to be announced as an excited phone call after the birth, then it moved to finding out through a scan, now gender reveal parties. What next? Conception parties? A sign of the times, I guess, the younger generation need instant gratification, can’t wait for anything.
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:38am
  - alloytoo
    
    I knew a woman who in respect of her 3 children.
    
    1) Waited to find out at birth.
    2) Found out via scan, told everyone
    3. Found out via scan, rigged a pool….LOL
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:01am
  - artemisia
    
    Gifts are de rigueur at gender reveal parties.
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:10am
  - Jimmy White
    
    Went to a Conception party on the weekend but struck out. More luck next weekend.
    
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    September 8, 2020 12:33pm
I remember when

Councils across New Zealand must must scrap planning rules that require carparks to be put down near new housing or business developments, under newly released housing guidelines.
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September 8, 2020 8:19am
- Tall Man
  
  What could go wrong …..
  
  https://www.alamy.com/an-overcrowded-muslim-area-of-blackburn-lancashire-uk-with-cars-parked-image7922820.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=EC0FAA66-C14C-4F7D-BAF5-D9BFD6E712EA&p=79569&n=22&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&IsFromSearch=1&srch=foo%3Dbar%26st%3D0%26sortby%3D2%26qt%3Dcrowded%2520street%2520parking%2520uk%26qt_raw%3Dcrowded%2520street%2520parking%2520uk%26qn%3D%26lic%3D3%26edrf%3D0%26mr%3D0%26pr%3D0%26aoa%3D1%26creative%3D%26videos%3D%26nu%3D%26ccc%3D%26bespoke%3D%26apalib%3D%26ag%3D0%26hc%3D0%26et%3D0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3D0%26loc%3D0%26ot%3D0%26imgt%3D0%26dtfr%3D%26dtto%3D%26size%3D0xFF%26blackwhite%3D%26cutout%3D%26archive%3D1%26name%3D%26groupid%3D%26pseudoid%3D%26userid%3D%26id%3D%26a%3D%26xstx%3D0%26cbstore%3D1%26resultview%3DsortbyPopular%26lightbox%3D%26gname%3D%26gtype%3D%26apalic%3D%26tbar%3D1%26pc%3D%26simid%3D%26cap%3D1%26customgeoip%3D%26vd%3D0%26cid%3D%26pe%3D%26so%3D%26lb%3D%26pl%3D0%26plno%3D%26fi%3D0%26langcode%3Den%26upl%3D0%26cufr%3D%26cuto%3D%26howler%3D%26cvrem%3D0%26cvtype%3D0%26cvloc%3D0%26cl%3D0%26upfr%3D%26upto%3D%26primcat%3D%26seccat%3D%26cvcategory%3D*%26restriction%3D%26random%3D%26ispremium%3D1%26flip%3D0%26contributorqt%3D%26plgalleryno%3D%26plpublic%3D0%26viewaspublic%3D0%26isplcurate%3D0%26imageurl%3D%26saveQry%3D%26editorial%3D1%26t%3D0%26edoptin%3D%26filters%3D0
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:41am
  - Tall Man
    
    Oops, sorry …….. Took too long to edit.
    
    https://tinyurl.com/y4jdrrqs
    
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    September 8, 2020 8:55am
  - Critical Thinker
    
    Friendly reminder that you don’t need to post all the extra stuff after the “.html” ?
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:03am
    - Tall Man
      
      Thanks. I grabbed and posted the link then the boss arrived with a cuppa ….. by the time I got back the “edit” had disappeared.
      
      Apologies for the wasted pixels 🙂
      
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      September 8, 2020 1:40pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Fair enough, I think. If some people want to buy a house without a car park, that should be between the buyer and the developer.
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:43am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    It should be between the buyer and the developer. In practice, it will affect everyone who uses the street that is going to be crammed with cars.
    
    Houses last a long time and we don’t know what the future will hold, but right now there aren’t that many people buying homes who don’t own a car. It seems more practical to have a garage or parking space that can be converted to an extra room or garden in future if we decide we don’t need a car.
    
    The sensible statist solution is to compel developers to provide a carpark. I’m a libertarian so I would just solve it by charging people to park in the street.
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:49am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I’m sure our agreement on this will be reflected by the respective karma ticks!
      
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      September 8, 2020 10:57am
      - Nigel Kearney
        
        The ticks are meaningless but I don’t know if we completely agree.
        
        If you don’t charge people to park in the street you are letting them privatise the gain from a cheaper home and socialise the cost of finding somewhere to park. If you do charge for street parking, I expect buyer demand for off street parking space would be significantly higher, probably high enough that developers would seldom choose to build without it.
        
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        September 8, 2020 11:47am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Well, ‘charging’ for street parking is either user-pays (meters, permits) or socialised to some extent through ratepayers. I’m not sure whether either scenario would warrant interference in whether a developer sells properties without car parks.
        
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        September 8, 2020 1:35pm
    - Paulus
      
      In New Zealand one car park is not enough – two each property at least.
      
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      September 8, 2020 1:30pm
- Ruawai
  
  This will cause problems with on street parking as many houses now seem to have at least 4 cars especially rental houses that are not occupied by young families.
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:48am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    How is that a problem that the government or councils need to address? If you don’t want to live in a house with no parking, don’t buy it.
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:24am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      Because it concerns the use of public property. Having said that, the better approach would be to control the use of that public property by charging for parking, with preferential (but not free) access to residents. That way the individuals themselves, rather than everybody else, have to bear the responsibility and consequences of their own individual decision to buy a house without a parking space.
      
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      September 8, 2020 10:06am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        That would be the economically rational approach, that would enable people who don’t want to own a car park to either rent one (through parking charges) or do without.
        
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        September 8, 2020 10:59am
      - Pharmachick
        
        Sure, I lived in Grafton (AKL) for a few years and you needed a residential permit from the council to park on the road. Annually needed proof of habitation (power/phone/water bill with name and address) and sent the council $100. Prior to that the med students would drive in and park for the day, so if I left my house by car for any reason, I’d never get a park when I got back.
        
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        September 8, 2020 11:02am
  - gravedodger
    
    Was that not a problem with the Kiwibuild Houses in Wanaka, no garaging.
    Wanaka’s climate and zero public transport made that a total Cluster.
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:52am
    - sooty
      
      But their bikes can sit out in the snow. Take the plastic bag off the seat and you are good to go!
      
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      September 8, 2020 10:59am
- niggly
  
  Lose-lose situation … those houses without carparks means their (householder’s) cars will need to be parked on the street!
  
  Meanwhile another group of planners are (or will be) planning on removing that same street parking … for more cycleways!
  
  Meanwhile people that live a couple of blocks away and that aren’t affected … will be inundated with other people parking their cars outside their houses!
  
  Talk about dumb and dumber planners!
  
  (Sounds like “JAG” Consulting Services are involved in this racket .. or will be after October the 17th)!
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:53am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    How do the electric car owners charge their cars when they’re out on the street? Or don’t we want electric cars anymore?
    
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    September 8, 2020 10:37am
    - Tall Man
      
      From their neighbours outdoor lighting socket 🙂
      
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      September 8, 2020 6:37pm
Observer of Life

TBH who cares he had a sneaky fag behind the sheds at U of O. Another no story story – thanks MSM for another gripping and relevant story.
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September 8, 2020 8:22am
- Tall Man
  
  Well I care a tad. It’s a non smoking area so that shows clearly he’s either ignorant or arrogant. Either will help destroy his aspirations.
  
  Secondly he has made it clear he gave up smoking so again, clearly show he’s a liar. Who’s have thought?
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:38am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I agree. I gave up smoking 20 years ago. I now cannot stand it. No excuses for smoking in a no-smoking area. It shows he is arrogant.
    
    Plus he told us he stopped smoking. There are not too many heavy smoking heavy drinking 80 year olds around. And 80 is not far away for him.
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:01am
  - herb1
    
    A civil society relies on obeying the laws.
    When those who write the laws disobey them , it’s a slippery slope to anarchy.
    One only needs to observe the Democrat party to see that
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:51am
Maggy Wassilieff

ACT’s debt destroyer calculator
https://debtdestroyer.nz/

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300101705/act-launches-debt-cut-calculator-as-other-parties-notch-up-billiondollar-spending-promises
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September 8, 2020 8:22am
Justitia

How do we fight back against the Radical Left’s assault on our freedoms? Douglas Murray argues the sacrifice required of us is small compared with the sacrifices made by previous generations. We must SPEAK UP to defend our values: http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001HnzO9-6JgPPOHRzI_uQo5maYytv4dB226jW86SS3QhQMmFzK-rqLp7GirY-1Np1rSdJvu2XFh2aXStAlXhKQLAfA1CNfb1ZXaYo2roMS_zGomY7M9FipXQiYRTuHbDdQYD9dvhx5t9HEk2yrNIq7EsiZA9-v2ZfpsVq2lPCF-pPI3BEavdJBkIrhQGOl3fdg-11wRycDFTCQwAtfC5UubJDd4DdkF3LQ0Za_xJgGC5_ne00x1lB0LzTNYvTaZV_OXYBDM0xrVC1NpkuvbFTz6ablmHBHgiuPVPW_3yKntXS01heB66T3i31YKMYIAICEk98j1HTwh6hqPBALIXfVJ8jFkm3psJOB&c=Q1W-o0qvNmro-TalGE19pIsoP_Mxu4FCncJfQ9-vZ7WfrTYZGz_8Zg==&ch=o5xHeUWH5lOGigeM2-zXXWq_yukPkIVrKxaXu0rjIfGvFYIKro5p0Q==.

We must not be bullied into submission for fear of being “cancelled”. The clock is ticking for New Zealand.
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September 8, 2020 8:23am
peterwn

So Kiwibank is closing the account of someone because that person is dealing with medicinal cannabis. Now I thought one of the reasons Kiwibank was set up was to provide basic banking services to those shunned by the Big Four banks (at the height of Rogernomics there was a real risk that poor people would be unable to open any bank account). In today’s society a basic bank account and EFTPOS card is a basic necessity. The only alternative would be for WINZ to issue its own EFTPOS card to enable people to access benefits The Responsible Minister should tell Kiwibank to pull its horns in on this one.
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September 8, 2020 8:24am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  prostitutes and med pot folk are a no go at kiwibank.
  
  Go woke go… uh oh its a bank.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:08am
- mikenmildagain
  
  The government does not make operational decisions for SOEs.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:24am
  - peterwn
    
    Kiwibank was set up at Jim Anderton’s behest to give the State influence over the retail banking system. This includes providing banking services to those the other banks are not interested in. A Government edict to Kiwibank to provide a basic banking service (current account and EFTPOS card) would be a justifiable policy decision the Government could impose on Kiwibank. If it is claimed that this is an ‘operational’ matter then why the hell is Kiwibank continuing as a Government entity – Bill English was right – it should be sold off. This is especially as in effect the Government guarantees Kiwibank 100% with respect to individual accounts – don’t tell me that if Kiwibank gets into strife the Government would not bail it out.
    
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    September 8, 2020 11:57am
- RJ
  
  If they are selling it that is illegal. Thanks to this government that want to make cannabis legal it is now illegal to even purchase medical cannabis products from overseas. Bizarre government, legalise cannabis But ban the much cheaper imports of medical cannabis products.
  
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  September 8, 2020 10:33am
- chukar
  
  AgreedPW,
  Bankers should stick to their knitting , the
  law and forget all about social posturing.
  This is an absolute disgrace.
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:20am
- Catgurl13
  
  The account belongs to Rose Renton who is a nutter. She doesn’t understand that it is unlawful to sell dope. Of course KB don’t want to associated with that or her proceeds. The also illegally have her son CB oil into his drip while he was in a coma in hospital which is highly illegal whether or not it’s her child. She’s a nobody trying to be somebody.
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:59am
  - chukar
    
    CG,
    The point is that the deposit belongs to the depositer.
    The only way this should be interfered with is with appropriate legal proceedings.
    Banks are not courts and must not be allowed to behave as such.
    
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    September 8, 2020 12:54pm
  - peterwn
    
    No matter how obnoxious she is claimed to be, society must ensure she has access to basic banking facilities (account and EFTPOS card). As noted elsewhere it is the Courts’ job to impose penalties on wayward people, not the banks’ job.
    
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    September 8, 2020 1:13pm
  - Pharmachick
    
    Uh, Catgurl; that’s a pretty big allegation you just made there. I think you meant to include “allegedly” in your post. Interfering with medical care and/or administering medical interventions without a medical license, and/or administering illegal products isn’t exactly legal. But unless this was previously prosecuted and the courts found for guilt, you might want to be very careful… you can potentially expose yourself AND our host to consequences of unproven slurs.
    
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    September 8, 2020 2:37pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      She told all of NZ that she had administered Elixinol to her 19-year-old son in the Intensive Care Unit at Wellington,
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/70362941/rose-renton-left-with-no-choice-but-to-give-son-cannabis-treatment-illegally
      
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      September 8, 2020 8:13pm
oldpark

Heard NZs Control Freak Cindy Ardern threatening to introduce an extra Holiday for NZs should her pack of ne’er do wells get elected for the first time .
That must mean her crew do no longer need Winston Peters.
Heard one ignoramus called Malpas from the $1.00 worth Stuff say it was a “Master” stroke. Hmmm. For another Holiday.
The real truth and facts and figures are .
If Lie-bour/ Greens stop using the Coronavirus “Fear Driven” Covid-19 gimmick as their Running Mate and no other plans on how to help NZs and our economy we all will have many many Holidays. In fact 365 days a year .
Some Ardern Sycophant said another Holiday for NZ would help Foster our Special Identity.
Yes a Mirror image of the Bankrupt and desperate Citizens of Venezuela . With no jobs, no money, no food, and most of all no hope .
Yes just to reiterate once more . Stop using the Coronavirus “FEAR FACTOR” Ardern and gang to win an election . Open up the Country for normal living. Even though you keep hanging on to you’re “Narcisstic Personality Disorder” Just for once do something useful for all NZs . Life is not always about you Miss Cindy .
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September 8, 2020 8:25am
- oldfella
  
  Hey, oldpark, you said: ‘Heard one ignoramus called Malpas from the $1.00 worth Stuff say it was a “Master” stroke.’
  That’s highly offensive to suggest that ‘Stockholm Cindy’s’ ideas are MASTERstrokes. Doesn’t Glorious Leader self identify as a woman?
  All language today should be non-sexist and PC and anyone who doesn’t toe the line should be subjected to a dose of woke cancel culture.
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:07am
Maggie Pie

I can tell you now, my partner is filthy on Labor for wanting to impose even more costs on business by proposing yet another Public Holiday.
Like he said, there wouldn’t be one of our Maori friends who had even heard of ‘Matariki’ until Jacinda mentioned it.

HDPA hit the nail on the head a few months back…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhSPIWKXYAEBChH?format=jpg&name=small
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September 8, 2020 8:32am
- Tall Man
  
  She doesn’t even try to pretend now Maggie.
  
  She just prattles “covid covid covid” and the terrified all run for cover.
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:36am
  - oldfella
    
    ‘Covid, covid, covid,’ is Stockholm Cindy’s way of keeping her lockdown captives submissive. Seems to work just fine.
    
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    September 8, 2020 11:09am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Maggie has some Maori ‘friends’?
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:43am
  - Tall Man
    
    Rephrase that, Maggie has friends. No surprises mikey doesn’t.
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:03am
    - Jimmy White
      
      Mikey has one best friend Batman/Boy Wonder
      
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      September 8, 2020 12:40pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Clearly she does.
    What an ignorant thing to say.
    
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    September 8, 2020 9:14am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I believe it just as much as her other stories.
      
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      September 8, 2020 9:25am
      - sooty
        
        Why should we believe your stories?
        
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        September 8, 2020 11:04am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Which of my stories don’t you believe, sooty?
        
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        September 8, 2020 11:33am
- IC5000
  
  LOL you have Maori friends
  
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  September 8, 2020 12:05pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Don’t you?
    
    I’m sure my great nieces would find you very personable…… They like cindy as well, well they did before she locked them down.
    
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    September 8, 2020 1:36pm
    - RJ
      
      It would see tall man so many of the labour trolls are racist and find it strange that people have Maori has friends or even relatives. More of them showing their true colours
      
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      September 8, 2020 2:20pm
Nukuleka

Anyone follow the story about the Birmingham killer who rampaged through the City Centre with a knife killing one man and injuring seven others? Notice how the Police Chief blamed the attack on covid restrictions and tensions and how the police and media gave no physical description of the thug apart from what he was wearing? The fact that he was black and the murder victim was a white man have, of course, nothing to do with the police and media collusion. Now let’s just speculate about the media coverage had the killer been white and the victim black…
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September 8, 2020 8:38am
- oldfella
  
  And what if the black killer turns out to be a diciple of Mo’s ‘Religion of Peace?’
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:12am
Maggy Wassilieff

A blast from the Past
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/six-years-of-unrelenting-bullying-at-parliament
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September 8, 2020 8:46am
- Durden
  
  Bunkle. The whinger and entitled trougher extraordinaire. Why should anyone listen to her.
  
  Housing allowance rorter.
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/05/how_some_nz_mps_benefit_from_parliamentary_expenses.html
  
  Virtue signaller at taxpayer expense.
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/187967/Natures-cycle-Nat-gives-Greens-Phillidas-curtains
  
  And the worst…shoplifter
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2007/11/bunkle_to_seek_diversion.html
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:51am
cmm

Real issues are far too hard for Labour, and their voters, to deal with.

So let’s make up bullshit things to fan into the big issues.

In 2016 it was poverdee (both period and child).
In 2020 it is Matariki.
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September 8, 2020 8:48am
- dave_c_
  
  And no doubt a pinch of ‘AyOteeARower’ thrown in to the potpourri of distractions.
  
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  September 8, 2020 8:54am
- beadgame
  
  Yeah – sort of like Key trying to change the flag – that was definitely a real issue….
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:07am
  - RJ
    
    So you are against democracy? People having a choice in changing the flag and voting on it. Which means no this isn’t like Key changing the flag because the people got to vote on that.
    
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    September 8, 2020 10:13am
  - Flossie
    
    So you prefer a PM that just decides what to change without consultation?
    
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    September 8, 2020 10:55am
  - Tall Man
    
    Simple question for a simple man, was a flag change also labour policy at that time?
    
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    September 8, 2020 1:34pm
wimpston peeeders

Cindy had a big policy release yesterday so today it will be a MASSIVE policy released…

im picking some sort of handout to homeless or dole bludgers.
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September 8, 2020 8:48am
- Tall Man
  
  She’ll wait to see what Judith syas before she chooses which piece of fluff to pull out.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:01am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  small business policy day apparently.
  
  yay no eftpos fees will be the major anouncement, think big labour think big…
  
  today how we help small business
  tommorow how we are guna smash your business and ruin you
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:04am
  - Ruawai
    
    Will JA force banks to give this service free of charge or will the taxpayer be picking up the cost?
    
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    September 8, 2020 11:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yesterday she avoided the Tax Policy when asked by Commie Dan, just saying 5 policies would be released this week. 2 down, 3 to go. Will Tax be one of those, or was it lie?
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:24am
- RJ
  
  Perhaps today will be free tampons and pads, it might stop the government bleeding support
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:25am
Catgurl13

If I ever had the chance to come face to face with Jacinda, I would ask her a question. It would be, Jacinda would you consider going to live full time in Cuba or Venezuela?
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September 8, 2020 8:54am
- MCos
  
  Of all the things you could ask the PM about and you’d want to ask a stupid question like that.
  Have you ever been to either of those two countries?
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:34am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You seem to have forgotten this is a question posed on Kiwiblog.
    
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    September 8, 2020 11:01am
    - Tall Man
      
      You seem to think he has forgotten. Are you saying he’s got “biden”?
      
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      September 8, 2020 1:30pm
Simon

No name sources for The Atlantic hoax. Its falling apart just like Biden’s brain.

The Russian truthers who got played and fell hard for this hoax. Try to learn something. There is four more years to go.
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September 8, 2020 9:01am
- RJ
  
  It is fun though, I’ve noticed my friends who are hard core democrats are no longer. A friend of mine also said her family are no longer Democrats but they are continuing to show their support for Democrats Publicly because it is too dangerous in their area of Washington to proclaim anything other. Really sad when you have to do that because of the racist democrat thugs antifa and black lives matter but not when they are raped and killed by other blacks.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:28am
JibberJabber

Book ’em Donny,

https://twitter.com/Will_of_Ockham/status/1303051861147123712
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September 8, 2020 9:02am
beadgame

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Labour doing a great job:
Covid 19 coronavirus: Economy still outperforming expectations – ASB – https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12362274
While National continues to push spending money to keep zombie Tiwai on life support.
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September 8, 2020 9:03am
- RJ
  
  Right, do you understand how much money Tiwi bring into the economy. I suggest you can and look, because that is a huge hit to the economy to lose that much money. And out performing, sure, I’ve just seen another large business in my town close down.
  
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  September 8, 2020 9:29am
  - RJ
    
    Whoops, tiwai. I”lol give you a hint
    
    “ They spend over $700m a year in New Zealand, not including capital expenditure. ”
    
    Yeah, let’s not give them a deal on power that is more than paid off by what they spend yearly in NZ.
    
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    September 8, 2020 10:56am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Fraser House has a new recruit.
  
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  September 8, 2020 10:07am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  the economy is still on govt life support so its all artificial.
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:05am
- Tall Man
  
  How much of your money did they spend?
  
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  September 8, 2020 1:32pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Forget blocking motorways, protestors now attempting to block freight trains.
https://babylonbee.com/news/upping-the-ante-protesters-now-attempting-to-stop-high-speed-trains/?
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September 8, 2020 9:43am
- Inandout
  
  Steve, BLM has almost died down, so climate is back. This is Portland of course, a weird Marxist hell hole.
  
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  September 8, 2020 10:06am
- Jimmy White
  
  Saw a Video the other day of protestors trying to stop a Mile long freight train in the US. Of course it was unable to stop. Boy did those protestors run.
  Sorry could not find it on YouTube.
  
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  September 8, 2020 12:47pm
Lance

It is just you Maggie
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September 8, 2020 9:46am
FatTony

538 Forecast: Biden 71% (+1) Trump 28% (-1)
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September 8, 2020 9:58am
- RJ
  
  My prediction, Biden will drop out of the race due to medical reasons.
  
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  September 8, 2020 10:20am
  - Batman
    
    Oh fun, I’ll add that as a new category in the prediction list.
    
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    September 8, 2020 10:30am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      For the record, could you compile these predictions and post them in a comment?
      Such fun!
      
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      September 8, 2020 11:02am
      - Jimmy White
        
        Mikey use smaller words Batman won’t understand “compile”
        
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        September 8, 2020 12:48pm
    - RJ
      
      Cool, add to my list. Meteor explosion In the northern hemisphere. Major televised announcement. Another global lockdown. Global outrage and disgust.
      
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      September 8, 2020 12:18pm
  - Inandout
    
    RJ, it is just a matter of time, probably weeks rather than months. I find it difficult to watch a person clearly suffering from dementia being paraded like a side show freak. The media mob over there are are trying their hardest to edit the burble out of Biden’s speeches, but in the end some must get through.
    
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    September 8, 2020 11:28am
    - Batman
      
      Added to the list.
      
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      September 8, 2020 11:32am
  - James Stephenson
    
    My prediction, Biden will drop out of the race due to medical reasons.
    
    For Hilary to pick up the pieces as a “safe pair of hands?” or Obama. M.? I don’t see how Harris possibly wins as the Presidential Candidate but then I also don’t see how Biden survives a debate with Trump.
    
    Can the Dems possibly screw the scrum so much that they don’t debate each other, so that they can win the Whitehouse and then quietly pension Joe off?
    
    I’m not a particular Trump fan, but really that takes cynical to a level that would make Winston shake his head (in admiration probably).
    
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    September 8, 2020 1:28pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Yet betting sites are still offering odds for a Hilary Clinton win. A fool and his money, etc.
      
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      September 8, 2020 1:50pm
Gravelroad

Agree that he wears tight pants – but not overly interested in his dick.
He gabbles extraneous padding so much that we mostly have him on mute.
You could try this: Shut eyes so can’t see pants/dick and try to pick out relevant, useful weather info by listening only.
Good luck with that.
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September 8, 2020 10:01am
Inandout

Maggie, so we know he is Dan The Man, not Dan The Muff.
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September 8, 2020 10:03am
Captain Mainwaring

What are you doing watching ‘Weatherman Dan’? TV3’s weather ladies are far easier on the eye.
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September 8, 2020 10:05am
Critical Thinker

WHO: Men 63% of COVID Deaths. Women Most Effected ?

“The COVID19 pandemic is demonstrating what we all know: millennia of patriarchy have resulted in a male-dominated world with a male-dominated culture which damages everyone.

Unless we use quotas and temporary special measures to remove the biases and obstacles to women’s equal participation, women will never realize their full rights, and societies will never reap the benefits of equality and inclusion.

This is the time to rebuild more equal, inclusive, and resilient societies. Our roadmap is the 2030 Agenda.” – ?

https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2020-08-31/secretary-generals-remarks-town-hall-young-women-civil-society-organizations-delivered
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September 8, 2020 10:06am
Fletch

Meet Joe Biden’s supporters…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmXj613HPN8
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September 8, 2020 10:15am
- Tall Man
  
  Ain’t the left full of love?
  
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  September 8, 2020 1:27pm
Yvette

Not only did Labour largely convert then Prime Minister John Key’s referendum opportunity to rebrand New Zealand with a flag change, into a straight political question and made it stick, they now present Matariki as a Labour Party “election policy”.

Is that more of its “OK when Labour does it” crap, or we are incapable of learning a single fucking thing from past our actions?
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September 8, 2020 10:25am
- Raphael
  
  It means that Labour failed so badly at delivering their past policies that they are too scared to put anything else up as a policy.
  
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  September 8, 2020 10:48am
Inandout

I heard Winston make some not very nice comments about DPF, Rumpelstiltskin or some such name. Is he wanting a war?
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September 8, 2020 10:35am
Raphael

Disney’s Mulan live action remake has issues,
There was already an upset that it will cost you $35 to watch on Disney Plus.

But then people noticed that in the credits, they specifically thank the Chinese government department in charge of the Uighurs internment camps
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/07/disney-remake-of-mulan-criticised-for-filming-in-xinjiang

After the film’s release last Friday, observers noted another controversial element: in the final credits Disney offers “special thanks” to eight government entities in Xinjiang, including the public security bureau in Turpan, a city in eastern Xinjiang where several re-education camps have been documented.

The film also expresses thanks to the “publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomy Region Committee”, the Chinese Communist party’s propaganda department in Xinjiang. Disney has been approached for comment.

China has faced international scrutiny over its treatment of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, where it is estimated at least 1 million residents have been detained in extrajudicial internment camps. Uighur women have reported forced sterilisations and birth control as part of a government campaign to suppress birthrates, in what experts have described as “demographic genocide”.
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September 8, 2020 10:47am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Those would be the camps that a NZ politician referred to as ‘vocational training centres’.
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:04am
  - Tall Man
    
    The one’s that cindy is looking to utilise?
    
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    September 8, 2020 1:24pm
- oldfella
  
  Black lives matter. Uighur lives… not so much.
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:18am
  - Raphael
    
    As the MBA says, Black Lives Matter, Chinese* money matters more.
    
    * This refers the to brutal communist regime currently ruling the PRC, not the folk living under it.
    
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    September 8, 2020 12:53pm
Maggie Pie

A friend from Calif tweets…

“ANTIFA behind Biden’s campaign”

https://twitter.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1302921355554291712
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September 8, 2020 10:53am
Durden

Yet another bullshit Labour announcement, including a unachievable demand/deadline, on testing port workers form covid proven to be idiotic and starts getting watered down.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12363033
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September 8, 2020 11:21am
surfing

“Oh the pigs are here,” he said when police arrived.
“They pulled me to the side and then just tried to force me to the ground,” he told the IPCA.
But punching him was not justified, Judge Doherty added.
”

BS… totally justified punch in my view for being disrespectful to cops trying to do their job. Provoke the cops, get a punch. Good job. Too bad the officer wasn’t commended for his actions. And the clown given a week in the cells to reflect on his disrespect against the people of new zealand, whom the cops represent!!
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September 8, 2020 11:22am
- Batman
  
  That’s not how we police in NZ. Getting punched for disrespect is a third world banana republic thing.
  
  Our cops are better than that.
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:31am
  - Pharmachick
    
    Whangamata, 1994…New Year’s Eve… the cops turn up with three mobile detention centers… my little brothers 15 year old friend (guy) “Oink, Oink, the pigs are here”… 40-ish Cop, “come here son”, shoved him so hard up against the bus, with arm so high behind his back, he broke his arm. Also, don’t ask what Tok cops used to do with telephone books and batons in the holding cells on Friday and Saturday nights.
    
    NZ cops haven’t always been the shining beacons of “country constables” they’re depicted as.
    
    Also, Rotorua 80s and 90s anybody?
    
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    September 8, 2020 2:50pm
- kowtow
  
  Locked up for a week by the police for being rude , is a good thing ?
  
  I thought we were a “liberal democracy”.
  
  How can that happen .
  
  I see two have since quit . Sounds as if they jumped before facing some sort of internal sanctions . How very convenient.
  
  I suppose the Granny who had her phone snatched in Melbourne had it coming too , the cheek of filming fascists bullying you ,under a state of emergency . Sounds more like Greece in 1970.
  
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  September 8, 2020 12:01pm
Swifty

Civil servants plead for more money and resources to be put into Pacific health – over and above what everyone else gets:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/425302/what-pacific-health-equity-must-look-like

Seems like ambulance at the bottom of the cliff thinking to me.

What elephant in the room these civil servants fail to mention is just why a. out of all the ethnicities in NZ, Pacific people require even more taxpayer funds pumped into their health outcomes and b. what’s special about Pacific people over say the Irish, the Chinese, the Yugoslavs, the Filipinos, the Mexicans etc here in NZ?

I say again, targeted health funding (or indeed any sort of funding) should be based on need, not ‘race’.

Oh, and Saunoamaali’i Dr Karanina Sumeo – just because the law allows race-based discrimination (equity of outcome versus equality of opportunity) it doesn’t necessarily mean that this is in the best interests of New Zealanders. All New Zealanders.

Sometimes the law is an ass. This is one of those times.
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September 8, 2020 11:22am
- Tall Man
  
  Sit outside any dairy or food bar selling fried chicken and you’ll soon see where the problem lies.
  
  If anything, reducing incomes may be of more benefit to these people to reduce the ability to grab that “Snak Pak”.
  
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  September 8, 2020 1:21pm
Jack5

The World Health Organisation’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has praised New Zealand on its reaction to Wuhan flu, but shamefully ignored the superior performance of Taiwan.

The WHO chief did not act on Taiwan’s early tip-off of the pandemic emerging in Wuhan.

The organisation follows Beijing in refusing to treat Taiwan as a nation.

Has Jacinderella ever mentioned Taiwan when she talks of NZ’s record on Wuhan flu? Taiwan has recently recorded four new cases, all in people arriving from abroad, bringing its total cases in the pandemic to 494, with seven deaths. Taiwan has 23.7 million people.

The outstanding part of its efforts in containing Wuhan flu is its success in keeping businesses running and schools open.
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September 8, 2020 11:23am
WaynelSexton

The year zero barbarians are at it again. I see they are trying to erase Charles Darwin now. This just proves that the people who insist we can just move all our offensive statues into museums are just playing for the enemy.
https://www.rt.com/uk/500027-darwin-museum-colonialist-offensive/
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September 8, 2020 11:28am
- Batman
  
  Swallowed the Russian bait, hook line and sinker.
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:29am
  - WaynelSexton
    
    Russia Russia Russia
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8702867/Natural-History-museum-review-Charles-Darwin-exhibitions-HMS-Beagle-colonialist.html
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/05/natural-history-museum-review-potentially-offensive-charles/
    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/natural-history-museum-is-due-to-review-its-collections-over-problematic-concerns/ar-BB18NltW
    
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    September 8, 2020 12:10pm
  - graham
    
    This story is also on The Daily Mail, The Telegraph (paywalled), and The Express.
    
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8702867/Natural-History-museum-review-Charles-Darwin-exhibitions-HMS-Beagle-colonialist.html
    
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/05/natural-history-museum-review-potentially-offensive-charles/
    
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1332122/natural-history-museum-review-charles-darwin-blm-protests-offensive
    
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    September 8, 2020 12:31pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Jeez Batman, you’re straying off the planet a bit these days.
    
    Not everything is related to Trump or Russia.
    
    Go grab a vodka at the end of the day and learn to appreciate our Northern brothers.
    
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    September 8, 2020 1:18pm
    - Batman
      
      Uhhh, bro, it’s directly from RT, the main Russian state international news outlet that runs the Kremlin’s propaganda.
      
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      September 8, 2020 1:38pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        That was a nice self-own…
        
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        September 8, 2020 1:48pm
      - graham
        
        Uhhh, The Daily Mail refers to “documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph”.
        
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        September 8, 2020 1:58pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The movement to decolonise our museums and western science has been gathering force over the last few years.
  
  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/science-bears-fingerprints-colonialism-180968709/
  
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  September 8, 2020 7:57pm
oldfella

Just spotted this across the road at the YSB blog.
https://ysb.co.nz/france-is-fighting-a-lone-battle-for-free-speech-in-the-west/#comment-95723
David, how about a new post on this subject, or did the Christchurch shootings mean this kind of free speech is no longer an ‘acceptable’ subject on this blog?
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September 8, 2020 11:29am
- Harriet
  
  Here is further why – I just read it last night – an extremely scary future for England with the military possibly on the streets:
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/uknews/englands-criminal-justice-system-was-on-its-knees-long-before-coronavirus/ar-BB18MvKe?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:57am
- oldfella
  
  Wow, 3 downticks so far? Someone went ‘hard and fast’ or as it’s now stated, ‘hard and early’.
  I guess some people on this site just don’t give a damn about free speech. Why?
  
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  September 8, 2020 11:58am
oldfella

Question: did Cindy ever take that pay cut she promised she would take so she could share our pain?
And if not, why not?
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September 8, 2020 11:44am
- cmm
  
  Coz its complicaded. The pay software can’t handle it.
  If they had taken a pay cut you can guarantee we’d be hearing about it 5 times a day.
  
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  September 8, 2020 12:34pm
Maggie Pie

Have been preparing lunch and listening to Chris Lynch on ZB. He was taking calls about “….whether or not you tipped in restaurants”.
It was actually only guys phoned in, but you could tell immediately just from the sound of their voice, whether they would be ‘tippers’ or not 😀
Bit like some people on here. You can bet people like ‘milky’ have never left a tip in their lives. LOL!!
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September 8, 2020 12:21pm
- Tall Man
  
  Why tip?
  
  In the US service wages are abysmally low whereas here we have a minimum wage and I fail to see how delivering food and wine should earn more than the poor bugger out the back that cooks that food.
  
  I get paid for the service I provide and I have yet to meet a client who says here’s an extra hundy for your hard work.
  
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  September 8, 2020 1:15pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    I think all the restaurant staff work pretty hard for very little. If it was a good meal and there’s a tip jar I do tip, assuming all the staff share.
    
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    September 8, 2020 3:44pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Unless it’s a ‘rush job’ and you get a dozen of pis. I just tell them 1 doz and it will be done by the time you get back. Stella thanks.
    
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    September 8, 2020 4:41pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Only tip for exceptional service. Never when it forms part of the establishment’s remuneration.
  
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  September 8, 2020 1:39pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Who wants to tip Mike for his fantastic service to Kiwiblog?
    
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    September 8, 2020 4:43pm
  - Tall Man
    
    We don’t dine out that frequently these days but I struggle to recall exceptional service. I do recall exceptional food so have sought out the chef for a chat and a thankyou. Even just a thanks over the counter seems appreciated. Works especially well at those roadside stalls in BK 😉
    
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    September 8, 2020 6:59pm
Swifty

Wow – Winston heavily abused to his face:

https://youtu.be/T8tbWimdfgY
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September 8, 2020 12:26pm
cmm

Bloody shame about that girl killing herself with paracetamol, but it looks to me that the proposed package reduction is unlikely to help in this particular case.

Paracetamol gets to be fatal around 10 grams or so (ie. 20 standard tablets). It is one of the most commonly used suicide ODs. Many countries limit the number of tablets per package/transaction for this reason – the theory being that if the person buys smaller packages then they are less likely to have many tabs available and have to go to more shops to buy a fatal dose. This gives the potential suicider a bit more time to think about things and reduces impulsive behaviour.

Studies indicate that this strategy might work to reduce suicides.

There was also a similar motivation for moving from bottles to blister packs. Chugging a bottle of tabs can be done in a second on impulse, but splitting out 20+ tabs from a blister pack requires a bit more time and deliberate effort – maybe enough for sense to prevail.

But in this case, the coroner has ruled is was not suicide, so in this case would the smaller packaging really help?

I see that the reduced package size is still a potentially fatal dose. If they really want to do this then perhaps they should reduce the sizes further.
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September 8, 2020 12:32pm
- Random T Person
  
  They need to ban water while they at it, too much and it can be fatal.
  
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  September 8, 2020 12:49pm
  - cmm
    
    Thank goodness electricity, matches, petrol etc were invented when the world was still sane about risk vs reward.
    
    Imagine trying to get approval to wire houses for electricity these days.
    
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    September 8, 2020 1:24pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Or if alcohol was a new invention…
      
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      September 8, 2020 1:47pm
    - Tall Man
      
      You need approval to wire a house??????? Who knew?
      
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      September 8, 2020 6:54pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Who was the MP sucked in by the ‘ban dihydrogen monoxide’ scam petition?
    
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    September 8, 2020 1:40pm
    - Tall Man
      
      cindy.
      
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      September 8, 2020 6:54pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That dihydrogen monoxide shit?
    https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
    
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    September 8, 2020 4:46pm
  - Tall Man
    
    6 litres I believe.
    
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    September 8, 2020 6:53pm
cmm

It is hard for me to get too worried about gang associates sorting each other out, but the dudge in this case really lives in an ivory tower bubble.

Webber:
1) Stabbed the victim to death with many stabbings.
2) Failed to show any real remorse.
3) Is an enforcer with many convictions.

Dudge refuses to give a final strike warning because he thinks it might interfere with parole the chances of Weber turning his life around and going straight.

Dream on sunshine. This guy will be back in the dock within 2 years of being paroled. He will be a repeat customer until either he does get a long sentence or, more likely, someone cleans him up instead.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/122697584/mum-tells-sons-murderer-he-is-a-nothing-a-nobody
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September 8, 2020 1:11pm
wimpston peeeders

well mrs peeeders wouldnt let me go over and have a yarn to winston during his tv interview in Gore today…
sorry guys I only managed a few words yelled from the car driving past.
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September 8, 2020 1:24pm
Critical Thinker

Ireland: Only 5.63% of covid flu deaths were actually FROM covid flu alone ?

Total number of “covid deaths” = 1,777
Confirmed = 1,519 (85.48%)
Probable = 99 (5.57%)
Possible = 159 (8.95%)

Number with underlying clinical conditions 1,677 (94.37%)

93.2% were aged 65 or over.

Average age of “covid deaths” = 82

Average life expectancy in Ireland = 82

https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/casesinireland/epidemiologyofcovid-19inireland/COVID-19_Daily_epidemiology_report_(NPHET)_04092020_website.pdf

#Scamdemic
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September 8, 2020 1:25pm
- RJ
  
  This was an interesting read
  
  The 1% blunder: How a simple but fatal math mistake by US Covid-19 experts caused the world to panic and order lockdowns
  
  So is his Blog
  
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  September 8, 2020 2:26pm
- mandk
  
  The average life expectancy in NZ is also 82 years.
  
  The MoH data on COVID deaths is given in 5 year age groups, but the average could actually be higher than 82, if the deaths have tended to be at the higher end of each age group. The range is 76-84.
  
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  September 8, 2020 3:28pm
  - mandk
    
    Correction – the MoH data on COVID deaths is given in 10 year age groups.
    
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    September 8, 2020 4:05pm
- fernglas
  
  It’s an argument that can use the same stats for different outcomes. The real question is the extent to which covid-19 accelerated death in patients with comorbidities. If, as seems likely, it is on average a few months, then while covid-19 has caused the death as much as any of the other conditions, it is simply not the spectre we have been led to believe.
  
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  September 8, 2020 5:10pm
Happychappy

So has Jacinda found something in the polls to say to say she could face defeat at the upcoming Elections or is it just pork barrel Politics to assure she will be re- elected with the 1.5 billion dollar loan scheme for small business with 2 years interest free.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12363141
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September 8, 2020 1:34pm
- rockape
  
  How will a loan reduce outgoings. All it will do is increase debt and NZ is in enough debt.
  
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  September 8, 2020 2:51pm
- Tall Man
  
  We don’t need loans/debt, we need clients which means we need the economy working.
  
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  September 8, 2020 6:49pm
Maggie Pie

Great to see that Jamie-Lee is to be included in the TV One ‘minor parties’ debate.
I’ve got a question ready to txt in 😛
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September 8, 2020 2:25pm
- RJ
  
  Oh, will be wearing a prison jumpsuit to it?
  
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  September 8, 2020 2:39pm
- wimpston peeeders
  
  I think hes learnt to keep it in his pants so thats a strong no from jlr 🙂
  
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  September 8, 2020 3:09pm
Gravelroad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/122699226/rebecca-gibney–its-better-to-be-kind-than-be-right
Ok, so here’s another one of those mawkish celebrity/influencer “stories” now being paraded on $tuff.
Yeah, yeah – i opened it. But only because of the unbelievable heading about being kind is better than being right – which is the direct opposite of what we were told at journalism school.
The article is a list of a whole lot of things you might want to know about actor Rebecca Gibney.
Then, in the middle of it, up pops a super photo of Rebecca and Jacinda all girlfriends together.
This is the third or fourth now of so-called news stories unrelated to politics where the Prime Minister just suddenly appears – electioneering.
Whoever thought up this strategy – well done. You are getting away with it.
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September 8, 2020 3:24pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Interesting. Who the fuck is ‘Jacinda?’
  Becky is hot, but I have old glasses
  
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  September 8, 2020 4:49pm
Nostradamus

Australian correspondents Bill Birtles and Mike Smith pulled out of China after five-day diplomatic standoff over national security case

The ABC and the Australian Financial Review have rushed their correspondents out of China after police demanded interviews with both journalists, resulting in an extraordinary diplomatic standoff.
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The saga began early last week, when Australian diplomats in Beijing cautioned Birtles that he should leave China, with officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade giving the same advice to ABC’s managing director David Anderson in Sydney.
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But the threatening behaviour from Chinese officials peaked before he could leave, when seven police officers arrived at Birtles’ apartment at midnight last Wednesday as he was holding farewell drinks with friends and colleagues. They told him he was banned from leaving the country, and that he would be contacted the next day to organise a time to be questioned over a “national security case”.

Last week China confirmed that a high-profile Australian television anchor for the Chinese Government’s English news channel, CGTN is being held under “residential surveillance at a designated location”. This is apparently a form of detention in which “investigators can imprison and question a suspect for up to six months while cutting them off from lawyers and the outside world — all before they have even been formally arrested”.

So, despite China’s protestations to the contrary, it appears that Australian citizens are at risk of arbitrary detention in China.
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September 8, 2020 3:40pm
- Tall Man
  
  “it appears that Australian citizens are at risk of arbitrary detention in China”
  
  Some Australians.
  
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  September 8, 2020 6:44pm
Harriet

I bet it ends up being called Malarkey Day.

malarkey
[məˈlɑːki]

NOUN
informal
meaningless talk; nonsense.
“don’t give me that malarkey” 😎
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September 8, 2020 3:55pm
WaynelSexton

Weird, it’s as if Chinese Civilization isn’t built upon Christianity or the Greco-Roman legal legacy. Maybe telling the truth and the rule of law isn’t as important to the Chinese?
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September 8, 2020 4:29pm
RJ

A very good question and answer with Tim Ballard about trafficking. Interesting to hear him say that defunding the police will mean child crimes units will be gone.

Truths About Trafficking – Q+A with Tim Ballard

It is estimated there are 40 million people trafficked worldwide, and more than 2 million children are trafficked into sex slavery. At O.U.R., it is our mission to save and care for these survivors. Please join us in the fight to end modern-day slavery and abolish this atrocity once and for all.
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September 8, 2020 5:48pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300102381/teenage-girls-admit-manslaughter-of-90yearold-woman-after-murder-charges-withdrawn
This is yet another reason why name suppression should be removed.
In a couple of years these 3 pieces of shit will be back on the streets and nobody will be any the wiser.
And when they re-offend the same thing will happen, the judge will look the other way and the parole board, as usual, will make a wrong decision.
So much wrong here, and it just repeats ad infinitum.
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September 8, 2020 5:48pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  No indication in the story that name suppression will be permanent.
  
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  September 8, 2020 5:55pm
- Tall Man
  
  I don’t get the downticks. Is your ex wife on this blog?
  
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  September 8, 2020 6:40pm
  - greybeard
    
    Christ, what do you know that I don’t ?
    
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    September 8, 2020 7:40pm
    - Tall Man
      
      We haf ways and means ……..
      
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      September 8, 2020 7:59pm
RW Capitalist

Just spent the afternoon working at one of my key clients.
They have lost, due to this inept govt.s response to Covid19, 80% of their business and to spite the wage subsidy, have had to lay off half their workers and mothball 2/3 of their machines…managers are on 20 hours per week.
Thanks Jacinda….
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September 8, 2020 7:11pm
- RJ
  
  So many stories like this every day, but the media are ignoring it. Went into town this afternoon and two more shops closed over the weekend.
  
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  September 8, 2020 7:31pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/122695312/senior-teacher-quits-after-alleged-relationship-with-student
Well, at least the guy had a relationship with a female. That is good.
As an aside, I went to high school up north in the 1960s, and one of our male teachers became involved with a senior female student. I don’t think anything came of it. Nobody gave it the attention it gets these days.
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