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mikenmildagain

Happy World Rabies Day!
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September 28, 2020 8:00am
- Jade Warrior
  
  I am foaming at the mouth already.
  
  But seriously – if you’re looking for a bad way to go it would be difficult to top Rabies. The disease quite literally drives its victims insane before it kills them. There is a vaccine but it is only effective if the patient receives it before they start developing symptoms. Nearly 60,000 people (the vast majority of whom live in third world countries) still die of Rabies every year.
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:16am
  - Jimmy White
    
    Bit late for Mike then
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:37am
  - Ed Snack
    
    I think that the first person thought to have been cured of rabies without receiving the vaccine happened a couple of years or so ago, in the US. A child I think, and a lot of intensive care, heavy sedation, etc, and they managed to pull through.
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:40am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Yes very nasty. I visited India a couple of years back. I debated whether to get the vaccine (it is about $400) but did get it in the end. You still need to get medical treatment but the vaccine gives you time, and the treatment is less complicated. The scary thing about rabies is that once the symptoms start it is 100 percent fatal. The symptoms usually start within a few days of being bitten, but there are cases of the symptoms emerging years after the bite – and of course long after the victim would even be able to recall being bitten.
    
    EDIT – A handful of people have survived:
    
    https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/is_rabies_really_100_fatal/
    
    But you would not want to go there.
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:47am
  - GazzaW
    
    A colleague was bitten by a monkey in Nepal some years ago and underwent treatment locally. She said that it involved several very painful injections into the stomach region and I have avoided monkeys and dogs in dodgy regions ever since.
    
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    September 28, 2020 11:12am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Yep, same happened to a friend while we were trekking in Nepal. 14 days of injections into the stomach and then an agonising wait to see if you survive.
      
      Wonder if it was the same dog?
      
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      September 28, 2020 7:01pm
Scott

Although the polls in New Zealand are not quite where we would want them to be, we can look to the USA to see how far polling can be off. According to the polls Joe Biden is ahead of Donald Trump by 5 to 10 points.

However if we look at the measure of enthusiasm we can see that Pres Trump is well ahead. According to estimates he has had 241,000 people attend his campaign rallies. In the same time Joe Biden has had 84 people attend his campaign rallies. That is 84 in total. Just let that sink in for a moment.

At the same time in 2016 it was noted that Hillary Clinton could barely fill an average sized high school gymnasium. At the same time Donald Trump was filling stadiums.

Now in 2020 it’s worse. Joe Biden cannot seem to muster a crowd of even 100 people to his campaign events. At least in 2016 Hillary Clinton could use Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé to pull in a big crowd. Joe Biden probably doesn’t know who Beyoncé is?

It is impossible to see the lack of enthusiasm for Joe Biden on the ground and imagine that in November he will be elected President of the United States by a wave of enthusiastic voters. There simply is no enthusiasm for Joe Biden.

On the other hand enthusiasm for Donald Trump among his supporters is off the charts. Rallies, yard signs, even boat rallies all show massive enthusiasm for Pres Trump. Could it be that the polls in America are way off?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/momentum-trump-not-even-race-trump-240000-attendees-rallies-bidens-84-since-labor-day/
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September 28, 2020 8:00am
- lifesgood
  
  Even the notoriously private Amish have held a Trump parade, complete with horse drawn carts and huge American flags. Way to go!
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:24am
  - Harriet
    
    One of the most iconic pictures of our times:
    
    Trump holding a Bible up in front of the White House halting the long march through the institutions by modern day barbarians.
    
    We will now build a Triumphal Arch just like the one for Constantine the Great. Vandalise that. 😎
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:48am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      One of the most iconic pictures of our times:
      Trump holding a Bible upside down. (FIFY)
      
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      September 28, 2020 10:21am
      - marcw
        
        “Claim: U.S. President Donald Trump was photographed holding the Bible upside down outside St John’s Episcopal church on June 1, 2020.
        Fact check by Snopes.com: False”
        
        “Claim: Says President Donald Trump walked across Lafayette Square to a church and held a Bible upside down.
        Claimed by: Joe Biden
        Fact check by PolitiFact: Pants on Fire”
        
        Claim by M&M … – usual BS
        
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        September 28, 2020 10:33am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Oh, my bad.
        
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        September 28, 2020 11:17am
      - Inandout
        
        If notoriously unbalanced Snopes agree with Trump then he must have held the Bible correctly.
        
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        September 28, 2020 1:33pm
      - sharont
        
        Fake. The left grasping at straws as per usual. But had it even been true it shows how pathetic they are and that they hang on Trump’s every word and action. Time they got a life.
        
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        September 28, 2020 8:30pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  LOL. The object of an election campaign is not to pile up attendance numbers from your already-fervid supporters – it’s to convince the undecided or, even better, people who might vote for your opponent.
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:29am
  - Jimmy White
    
    Right Mike. Biden can convince 80 people while Trump convinces 20,000.
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:39am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Whoosh
      
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      September 28, 2020 9:44am
      - wimpston peeeders
        
        fat fingers dont get your hopes up someone likes you It was ment to be a downtick!!!
        
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        September 28, 2020 10:06am
      - kowtow
        
        Woof
        
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        September 28, 2020 10:10am
    - SGA
      
      I think you’ll find that the vast majority who attend a Trump rally (or most political events of that sort) are already convinced.
      
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      September 28, 2020 9:53am
      - Inandout
        
        SGA, unlike a Jacinda rally just to get a selfie.
        
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        September 28, 2020 1:35pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    That’s usually not wrong, but this time there does seem to be a big disconnect in enthusiasm, and it is necessary to get ones supporters to actually vote. And the Democrats (apart from the rioters) don’t seem at all enthused. Jill Biden had a campaign event in Nebraska, 9 attendees; they had a car parade for Joe, 5 cars. If the media was doing its job this should surely be newsworthy, but crickets.
    
    And what’s up with Joe, his campaign is having no show days (called putting a lid on for the day) about every third or fourth day. On the day ACB was nominated, Biden’s campaign called a lid at 9:30 that day. They’re trying to spin it as “debate preparation” but that doesn’t really work as it has been happening for a month. Is Biden not physically capable of campaigning for more than a few hours ? A couple of time s recently he’s come on to speak and has been almost gasping for breath, seemingly out of breath from walking a few paces. And where’s Harris, 45 days of campaign and not a single press conference ?
    
    Is this a new strategy, don’t front and hope that the voters don’t notice who is on the ticket ?
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:46am
  - sharont
    
    Trump for the win. Biden doesn’t stand a snowball’s show in Hades.
    
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    September 28, 2020 8:33pm
- NoCash
  
  I think you will find that many people who don’t like Trump are also not too keen about Biden neither, hence the low turn out at Biden’s rallies, but they will still vote for Biden just to get rid of Trump.
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:43am
- Fletch
  
  Good thing, but on their side the Democrats have – cheating… And it’s already begun.
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:49am
Souvlaki

KAREL SROUBEK…still so many unanswered questions. Who was at his wedding, is he out on parole, when does his extradition case come up, why did police Commissioner Bush intervene in such an unprofessional manner ??
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/12/so_why_did_the_sroubek_supporter_text_the_pm.html
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September 28, 2020 8:02am
- tf78
  
  S – Bush did as he was told.
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:12am
fernglas

“The reason I am open about my values is so that people understand the lens through which I evaluate evidence. Because if a scientist has told you they are completely objective they are deluding themselves.”
Siouxsie Wiles on Twitter, Sep 18, explains why she has no place putting herself forward as an expert. For the record, Siouxsie, an expert gives us facts, not the political conclusions to be drawn from them
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September 28, 2020 8:02am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  No, she’s right. When experts communicate with the public, they don’t just give us facts. They give us analysis based on facts. In theory that analysis could be done in a way that is completely objective and independent of the biases of the expert, but in practice this seldom happens. Knowing the values of the person doing the analysis is useful information and it would be good if more experts would provide that.
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:29am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  For the record, Siouxsie, an expert gives us facts, not the political conclusions to be drawn from them
  
  Oh Really?
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/siouxsie-wiles-on-why-we-are-unlikely-to-see-a-coronavirus-outbreak-in-new-zealand/
  
  She was against folks generally wearing Masks when Michael Baker was advocating for them.
  
  https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/dr-siouxsie-wiles-urges-kiwis-stay-in-your-bubble-during-lockdown-advises-against-wearing-masks
  
  She even tried making excuses for Jacinda’s selfie (before she deleted her tweet).
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:29am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Someone who fails so majorly and repeatedly is no expert. She’s a mouthpiece for the left filtering her witterings on the basis of what will please them – and patently driven by desire for attention. Media should find someone more competent.
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:50am
    - wimpston peeeders
      
      nearly all “experts” in nz do the same, theyre just political mouthpieces that politicians take advantage of due to their credibility status.
      
      funny isnt it that our brightest people are too stupid to see theyre being used.
      
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      September 28, 2020 10:09am
  - fernglas
    
    Obviously you, Maggie, and others, didn’t read my sentence as an admonishment to a charlatan, but as an endorsement of her. If it was the latter, there would have been a comma after the word “expert”
    
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    September 28, 2020 2:58pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      OMG!
      
      How could I have been so blind?
      
      You’ve employed an Apostrophe.
      
      Please accept my apologies. I did not expect such literary skills in G.D.
      
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      September 28, 2020 5:44pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Please given an example of complete objectivity.
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:30am
  - Sigmund Freud
    
    Ok mikenmildagain, I accept your challenge:
    
    “Mikenmildagain is a Kiwiblog troll”
    
    Done!
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:37am
    - SGA
      
      No cigar – m&m’s has been a KB regular for many years now (trolls are more fleeting), and although many here object to his perspectives (which at least stop KB being too much of an echo chamber), I think that they are sincerely held and not some ploy merely to elicit cheap emotional responses in his audience.
      
      Just having a different point of view does not make you a troll.
      
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      September 28, 2020 9:59am
      - Nickc2
        
        Please point me at the evidence that trolls are more fleeting. To me, that would appear to be a value judgement, not evidence.
        
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        September 28, 2020 12:56pm
      - SGA
        
        That’s it – you are getting the idea. 🙂
        
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        September 28, 2020 2:48pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        Hmm .. I get the distinct impression that M&M is more the type that likes the attention. Kind of like the whimpy kid at school who has no personality, no friends and therefore constantly vies for attention. Nobody likes him or seriously can be bothered with him. He’s an annoyance. Like an itch that you just can’t scratch enough to get rid of.
        But I could be wrong. He may be really sincere.
        
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        September 28, 2020 3:35pm
- Ed Snack
  
  Siouxsie isn’t behaving as a scientist, but as a political promoter. She advocates for political answers and has little regard for facts.
  
  She is demonstrably incorrect about masks and about HCQ treatments, both of which are purely political issues for her.
  
  Liars shouldn’t be given the column space to parade their ignorance.
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:51am
- Billy Collins
  
  I mean, she is technically right. It would be great if scientists were completely objective in their work, but it’s simply not true.
  
  Entire fields of science, namely the social sciences and psychology, are in a replication crisis right now, for example. Many of their most supposedly well established claims have been shown to not be well established. Certain kinds of people tend to go in to certain fields. This can cause a field to be saturated with a particular bias that affects their work. When 1 out of 4 psychology professors openly admit to being radical and marxist, dont be surprised if huge errors go unnoticed for a long time in the field.
  
  https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psychologys-replication-crisis-real/576223/
  
  Another bias that is common in some fields is the allure of elegant hypotheses over ugly ones. There is no scientific reason for it. This can cause hypotheses to be ignored simply for not being very elegant. The appeal of espousing string theory among many physicists, even without any clear observation, and not even having a means to observe it, is a prime example of this, which a minority of other physicists have warned about.
  
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05374-9
  
  It sucks that we have a society that treats experts as some kind of dogmatic high priesthood. Their words should be heeded and taken seriously when speaking on their field of expertise, but not as if they are the words of God. A bit of balance in judgement is needed.
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:19am
- Aunty
  
  To the best of my knoweldge, Siouxsie Wiles plays no offical role i.e., providing advice, to the Government on what the response to the global coronavirus pandemic should be, or is.
  
  She is an academic and a science communicator who has expertise in this area and to who THE MEDIA turn to for help and input in their attempts to understand what is going on and what x, y and z mean and why A, B and C should or should not be done. In that capacity she is simply carrying out her role as a critic and conscience of society, a legally mandated role that all our Universities (and their academics) are encouraged to provide. That is to provide independent informed commentary on the issues of the day.
  
  For some people in here to keep on banging away at her in the way they do is verging on the obsessional, and delusional……….
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:28am
  - bruceavon
    
    Yes. I agree. I have heard her for a long time as a great science commentator in RNZ. When the covid stuff started she seemed well placed to comment and seemed the explain things well and be well informed. I always imagined her as an older dowdy English woman. So I was surprised she had weird hair and was younger. Her appearance seemed to cause something of a backlash against her on the right. I can agree you can dislike her opinion but on here and elsewhere it went beyond that into real hatred. Not sure if she deserved that. She was always just a science commentator. Her problem lately is that she is commenting on politics. And if she wants to keep being an impartial science commentator, I don’t think she can publicly do both. She can’t praise Ardern and then agree with her position on some covid policy. It does not work.
    
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    September 28, 2020 11:01am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Siouxsie is not above having a go at fellow academic who express different views.
    She later apologised for making it personal, albeit without naming Thornley. Not before Auckland University of Technology Professor of Public Health Grant Schofield jumped in to back Thornley. Schofield, too, made it personal.
    
    Accusing someone of being out of their scientific “lane” without discussing data wasn’t acceptable, he said on Twitter, adding: “Some would criticise you a microbiologist in public health.”
    
    https://www.newsroom.co.nz/navigating-a-public-spat-between-scientists
    
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    September 28, 2020 11:34am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    “That is to provide independent informed commentary on the issues of the day.”
    
    And that’s where your argument falls flat on its face.
    
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    September 28, 2020 8:20pm
john1234

Another “mostly peaceful” protest run by BurnLootMurder:

https://play.stuff.co.nz/details/_6194384276001
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September 28, 2020 8:05am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  take some notes so we can”peacefully” protest cindys hate laws shes guna steamroll kiwis with
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:13am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Col. Now do the Proud Boys.
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:30am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Why, they’re not burning, looting, or pillaging, despite the MSM’s heroic efforts to make it seem that way.
    
    Part of the BLM strategy is to try to get an overt response from groups like PB, and that is one reason they are deliberately provocative, attacking random people, smashing up (mostly minority owned) businesses, random arson, etc. They want a violent response so they can claim victim hood – as they know that the MSM will entirely twist the narrative to help.
    
    But it isn’t really working. Despite the lies in the media about right wing provocateurs we can be assured that this is not happening otherwise some of those arrested would be actually charged and not released by complicit local prosecutors.
    
    So you’re just trying the “look, a squirrel” tactic Mikey. Proud Boys are the merest of blips on the radar in the mayhem and violence being promoted by the Democrats and the left, and you should be able to recognise that, if you had any sense of ethics and a brain.
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:59am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Bullshit. Organised violence is just that – you can’t excuse one side because you hate their opponents. Have the guts to call things as they are.
      
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      September 28, 2020 10:23am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        Good point. You’re full of shit, and it’s not good for you.
        
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        September 28, 2020 8:21pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘Now do the Proud Boys’
    
    Sure. No violence at their Portland demo.
    ‘But there were no large clashes between dueling protesters or with police as of 9 p.m. and participants in the various events disbanded hours earlier.’
    https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/09/portland-protests-bring-proud-boys-counter-demonstrators-saturday-live-updates.html
    
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    September 28, 2020 10:40am
igm

Congratulations Scott, yet another cup for the cabinet, and may there be many more. You are an inspiration to motor sport.
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September 28, 2020 8:06am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  And some fuckwit gives that post a downtick!
  No wonder Labour is cruising to victory with people like that out there.
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:18am
  - Chris R
    
    Captain: I have never given a single downtick during my years of visiting here. I can’t see the sense in downticks. When I don’t agree with an opinion I just ignore it. I suspect some Labour dragooned clown downticks to be provocative. It is petty and childish…you are very right to call this out!
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:23am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Do you see any sense in upticks?
      
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      September 28, 2020 9:33am
      - Jimmy White
        
        It’s fun down ticking you though
        
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        September 28, 2020 9:46am
      - artemisia
        
        I’ve given upticks for a good post, even if I fervently disagree with the opinion. Bet I am not alone.
        
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        September 28, 2020 9:49am
      - IC5000
        
        Down ticks are the only ticks worth anything with this crowd. It means you get under their skin. I can even imagine their nostrils flaring and their facial muscles tightening (except for Maggie with her Botox) as they read my comments.
        
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        September 28, 2020 11:30am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Some comments just *demand* downticks though, do they not ? Especially those that complain about downticks.
      
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      September 28, 2020 10:00am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Downticks and upticks are a useful way to mark off comments so that new ones stand out when one scrolls through a thread.
        
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        September 28, 2020 10:34am
  - wimpston peeeders
    
    I downticked because I dislike a useless “sport” (motorsport is pathetic and not a sport)
    I downticked again due to an even more pathetic lil tantrum to getting downticks.
    
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    September 28, 2020 10:13am
    - igm
      
      One assumes you are an ardent supporter of synchronised swimming, ride an electric bicycle, and wear a mask.
      
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      September 28, 2020 11:18am
    - wimpston peeeders
      
      captian how many downticks do I need before I can have a downtick whinge/sob?
      
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      September 28, 2020 11:23am
- MCos
  
  Some people downtick because they’re naturally grumpy.
  
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  September 28, 2020 11:11am
Scott

Race relations is another big issue and at present the leader of the opposition appears to be missing in action. Not so Act leader David Seymour who recently commented on Winston Peters revelation that he threatened to pull the pin on the coalition government if the government brought the land to give to the protesters. Seymour said “Peters could have promoted one law for all inside Cabinet. Instead, he’s rolled it out three weeks before the election.”

To my mind David Seymour is making sense on this issue. Here is the full context. This from the latest newsletter from Don Brash talking about race relations and particularly the debacle at Ihumatoa.

“Ihumatao is perhaps the most visible race-relations shambles that the next government will have to fix.

Located near Auckland Airport, Ihumatao is where activists have protested against Fletcher’s plans to build almost 500 homes on land that it bought from a private owner whose family had owned it since it had been confiscated in 1863 as a consequence of tribal rebellions.

Despite a number of Treaty settlements involving the area, protesters say that the land should be given “to Maori” although it is unclear which Maori.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern foolishly got involved and construction at the site was halted in July last year while a solution was sought. More than a year has passed and nothing has been announced, despite speculation throughout the year that a deal was near.

New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters on Friday revealed that he had threatened to pull the pin on the Coalition Government if the Government bought the land to give to the protesters.

ACT MP David Seymour responded by saying that Peters created the situation at Ihumatao when he made Ardern PM and asserted that “Peters could have promoted one law for all inside Cabinet. Instead, he’s rolled it out three weeks before the election.”
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September 28, 2020 8:08am
- Yvette
  
  Scott
  
  The entire system of compulsory isolation by the government of incoming travellers who may have covid, denies section 25 of the Human Rights Act: that people are assumed innocent until found guilty, but in this case must quarantine as demanded by the Government, because the Government does not trust them to isolate themselves properly and assumes they would not adequately follow prescribed medical requirements, so confine them to hotels rather than allowing them to isolate in their own homes when do they have them.
  
  Given the assumptions the Government has taken in their covid actions, as above, am I able, in similar way, to be as assumptive to suggest that nothing commercial will ever be constructed at Ihumātoa that will not at a future date be cast down again, set on fire or otherwise de-constructed?
  
  Has not New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters, on Friday revealing that he had threatened to pull the pin on the Coalition Government that he had created if the Government bought the land to give to the protesters, indicated the above suggestion is more likely than not?
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:58am
- artemisia
  
  Ihumatao is a cluster and caused by a captain’s call. There are a whole lot of people watching for the outcome, provided there actually is one in our lifetimes. Meantime I certainly hope that the lawful owner is keeping excellent track of costs incurred including interest and also ensuring that capital gains are included in any deal.
  
  If there is a change of government and any deal is off the table there will still need to be compensation paid to Fletchers unless the company chooses to forgo that. Many shareholders aka owners of the company will be ropable if that is the case..
  
  In any case Fletchers will be glad to be shot of the land, and hopefully will think hard and long about entering into any other potentially contentious purchases, especially for specious cultural reasons.
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:03am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    What capital gains? The land isn’t worth anything now. They can’t sell it. If they try to build on it a bunch of thugs will turn up and get in the way, and the police will not remove them. The government can make Fletchers a lowball offer (right after the election of course) and they would be wise to take it.
    
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    September 28, 2020 11:18am
    - artemisia
      
      Fletchers will have to agree to any settlement and IMO applying capital appreciation similar to the surrounding area should be a given. Suggest they request Ms Ardern’s income is garnished to cover the cost of her captain;s call.
      
      If there is a change of government then there will be different outcome and police will not have the option to sing waiata with protesters. Not to say Fletchers will remain interested in building there – who knows.
      
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      September 28, 2020 1:28pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  People are too stupid to see that if the government starts supporting this attitude to privately owned property they could start seeing claims and protests anywhere in their community, including their own property.
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:23am
NK

Pissed off this morning. Newcastle scored an equaliser in the 97th minute to ruin my TAB bet of Tottenham head to head.
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September 28, 2020 8:11am
- Mr_Blobby
  
  Me to.
  
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  September 28, 2020 8:17am
- Jimmy White
  
  Hand Ball
  If the ball hits a player who has made their body “unnaturally bigger” then a foul will be awarded.
  How subjective can you get with this stupid rule.
  Once again an organisation has ruined a game with “Wokness”
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:25am
  - alloytoo
    
    Plastic Man
    Bouncing boy
    Giant man?
    
    Unnaturally bigger?
    
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    September 28, 2020 10:35am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    When Leicester won the league, one of the main reasons was their German defender made an utter mockery of the unnatural position rule. More than once, he leant over with one leg horizontal and his arm hanging down (which is the natural position of your arm when your leg is in that unnatural position) and blocked shots that would have gone in.
    
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    September 28, 2020 11:16am
- Libertarians are right
  
  You should just be betting on there being at least one penalty in any given game. It’s ridiculous at the moment. 20 so far and it’s only the third round (with Arsenal, Liverpool, Man C and Man U with a game in hand – that will be at least another 2 penalties, 3 if David Luiz is playing for Arsenal vs Liverpool).
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:42am
- Loddenthinks
  
  I’m a Spurs fan and watched the travesty that was the penalty decision. Carroll was off-side, Dier had his back to the ball and if anyone thinks jumping to contest a ball with your arms tucked behind your back is “a natural position” then I have 10 Northland bridges to sell you. A joke.
  
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  September 28, 2020 8:36pm
Maggie Pie

GOD i larfed last night!
We’re laying there and my partners scrolling thru his Twitter. He says, here’s someone comparing Jacinda to ‘Mary Poppins’…
Super Callous Fragile Marxist Absolutely Hopeless.

LOL!!!
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September 28, 2020 8:11am
- Philview
  
  I did the same when I saw a picture of Jacinda’s Spitting Image puppet. If satirical mocking of our leader is pretty much banned in NZ I wonder how the Government will cope with it coming in from overseas.
  
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  September 28, 2020 8:31am
  - Jimmy White
    
    For all those that barf when they read the failing newspaper…. bucket ready project below
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12367650
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:29am
    - sooty
      
      Ban it, it’s hate speech!
      
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      September 28, 2020 9:46am
- calendar girl
  
  Thanks for the early laugh, Maggie.
  
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  September 28, 2020 8:42am
- Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
  
  Very early on a Monday, but already a “Comment of Day” contender……that is GOLD !
  
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  September 28, 2020 8:48am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Kiddies take your Marxism: Just a spoonful of sugar makes the Marxism go down…
  
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  September 28, 2020 8:59am
- tf78
  
  Maggie – have you been to our house and looked at what I had written last week on a note pad. How dare you! Haha.
  (well done). (I had futile)
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:39am
Justitia

“It is not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends that we will remember” – Martin Luther King.
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September 28, 2020 8:19am
Tempist

Good to see the Government’s latest announcements on Red Radio this morning showing it’s got it’s finger on the pulse and is working on things that matter – banning sale of moa bones and stickers on apples…
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September 28, 2020 8:20am
- Jimmy White
  
  I thought they said ‘Moa boners and Apple estradiol“
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:32am
Swifty

Wellington’s Last Tram (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLW2dNYXqzU
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September 28, 2020 8:33am
Maggy Wassilieff

What is the point of sustainable/renewable energy?

Seems in India, it is to “facilitate gender positive outcomes” for middle-class and upper class castes.

Bright as night: Illuminating the antinomies of ‘gender positive’ solar development
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X20303235#!

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/09/27/claim-gujarat-solar-park-is-failing-to-fulfil-mandatory-un-renewable-energy-gender-empowerment-requirements/
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September 28, 2020 8:36am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Jacinda speak.
  
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  September 28, 2020 8:54am
- Okahu
  
  What is the point of sustainable/renewable energy? Asks Maggy W.
  Um, so our use isn’t once and gone and unsustainable?
  Things are getting desperate here on the right when we have to find fault with initiatives to train women as well as men in the provision of sustainable energy. Is it because women shouldn’t, can’t, won’t? Do tell Maggy.
  
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  September 28, 2020 8:55am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I know what the point of sustainable energy is,
    
    but I’m also wary of Green spin around energy and conservation projects, especially when poor working folks are forced off their lands and profits accrue to a select group.
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:34am
    - Sigmund Freud
      
      The point of sustainable energy is to preserve our oil and gas fields for the Chinese to confiscate for their own use at an unspecified later date.
      
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      September 28, 2020 9:40am
    - Okahu
      
      Oh, I see your point now. I suppose I just hadn’t realised that the long unhappy world history of people being dispossessed of their land and income was actually because of the green movement!
      I think perhaps you maybe misunderstood when it was explained that most of the worlds biggest environmental vandals are purely motivated by green. (Cash baby! Uncle Sam’s favourite lubricant).
      
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      September 28, 2020 10:26am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        No, not the entire unhappy world history of booting peasants off their land… just recent land dispossessions in India for solar plants:
        
        https://ecologise.in/2017/08/10/indias-dispossessed-confront-a-new-threat-solar-parks/
        
        https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308127461_Spatial_justice_and_the_land_politics_of_renewables_Dispossessing_vulnerable_communities_through_solar_energy_mega-projects
        
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        September 28, 2020 3:26pm
  - wimpston peeeders
    
    whats green about sustainable energy?
    
    nothing it just fucks us a different way.
    
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    September 28, 2020 10:17am
  - alloytoo
    
    “Um, so our use isn’t once and gone and unsustainable?”
    
    If they actually did that, which they don’t.
    
    (Hydro and geo-thermal excepted)
    
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    September 28, 2020 10:45am
    - wimpston peeeders
      
      Geothermal isnt sustainable
      
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      September 28, 2020 11:26am
      - freethinker
        
        I think Geothermal is sustainable as the heat generated by the friction of the earths molten core will keep regenerating whilst the Earth rotates.
        
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        September 28, 2020 1:15pm
greenfinger

Interesting none of the left wing media jounos are asking the Princess what her plans are for Kiwibuild and combating child poverty. I reckon those media companies that accepted any kind of funding from this government must be compelled to disclose this gigantic conflict of interest in full on the front page on a daily basis, even if it is only a foot note.
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September 28, 2020 8:41am
- Clyde
  
  There was a damp bus ticket interview with the PM this morning on Moaning Report and “child poverdy” was raised and deflected. “How about Maori” was the topic pressed by the increasingly annoying Nat radio who seem to have taken on the mantle of advocate for anything to do with the grievance industry. I hear that all cities in NZ are now labelled with their East Polynesian names and organisations like Transit NZ now are called something else that no-one understands. All happening because the RNZ Board are political appointees and all have to have “suitable” outlook on the PC nonsense appearing on a very regular basis. No attention paid to impartiality anymore…
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:05am
Grant

At last, some common sense!
https://www.aier.org/article/emancipation-from-lockdown-in-florida/

Oh for a similar approach here.
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September 28, 2020 8:42am
Maggy Wassilieff

Israel Adesanya acknowledges W(h)anganui and Rotovegas
(watch video….close eyes, if sensitive)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/combat-sports/122906311/demolition-of-the-year-dana-white-labels-israel-adesanya-the-next-big-ufc-superstar
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September 28, 2020 8:57am
wimpston peeeders

why does jacinda need an earpiece just to do an interview with duncan garner?
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September 28, 2020 9:02am
- Jimmy White
  
  Shes working her way up to Vice President. 177 years to go
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:34am
- Lance
  
  So her enormous team of spin doctors can tell her what to say
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:52am
  - wimpston peeeders
    
    yup thats how I noticed, she was about to answer and done the lil earblock/hold thing and concentrate before answering. think they told her to get rid of the disgusted look on her face as it went from lips to ivory in an instant
    
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    September 28, 2020 10:19am
Kiwi_in_Paris

Tedros and Gates would have had a good laugh when they wrote this speech for Bozo, and then found he actually read it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoaHehstpzY&t=3s
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September 28, 2020 9:04am
Maggie Pie

Brain eating microbe found starved to death…

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1310302649930186752
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September 28, 2020 9:05am
Tomtoddy

There is an age old adage that stays true through time – “dont bite the hand that feeds you”.

Any surprise that CEO’s of businesses are saying they think Grant Robertson is doing a good job.
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September 28, 2020 9:09am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Doesn’t mean they’d vote for a party that might get into bed again with the total watermelons who want to steal their assets.
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:40am
Sam Hill

“Last night, Tova O’Brien and her Newshub spin doctors decided their Reid Research poll result suggested National was in a “death spiral”.

This completely twisted narrative was presented despite a poll that showed gains and losses over the past two months of:

Labour: -10.8%
Greens: +0.8%
NZ First: -0.1%
(Downward swing: -10.1%)

National: +4.5%
ACT: +3%
New Conservatives: +1.2%
(Upward swing: 8.7%)

In total that is a swing of 18.8% from the current governing parties towards a potential alternative government of the three right wing parties mentioned.

Given the Colmar Brunton poll showed a result not to dis-similar to the Reid Research poll. Let’s look at what would need to happen for a potential National-led government:

Labour 44.5 (-3.5)
National 34.5 (+3.5)
ACT 6 (no change)
Greens 4.9 (-1.1)
New Conservative 5 (+3.4)

Firstly, this would require more 2017 National voters to return from Labour, yet we can see that this is already occurring.

Secondly, it requires a relatively small drop in polling for the Greens, with the potential that polling is already over-estimating their support.

Lastly, and most crucially, it would require a surge from the New Conservatives in the final weeks. This party was previously the fifth most popular party in the 2011 and 2014 elections.

Last night’s poll suggested the New Conservatives are again the fifth most popular party in New Zealand, with a result higher than that of New Zealand First.

For any chance of the New Conservatives making a late surge, their leader – Leighton Baker – must be included in next week’s TVNZ multi-party leaders debate.

For the next week, everyone on the right should be messaging, e-mailing, tweeting, phoning or doing whatever you can to make sure this happens.

If the New Conservatives can eat up the rest of NZ First’s support and pick up a few more votes along the way, there is a real possibility that we can get rid of this Labour-led government before it is too late.”
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September 28, 2020 9:15am
- Ruawai
  
  New Conservatives would need a seat for this to work as they won’t get 5%.
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:34am
  - Sam Hill
    
    That would have been the sensible strategy a few months ago.
    
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    September 28, 2020 10:08am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  efforts would be futile. I have zero hope that nats will do much better theyre stuck in there ways and playing it too safe.
  
  as others have said theres virtually no difference between labour/national and have never really repealled much of labours dud crap when they do have power.
  
  Save your effort for 2023 and try get Act into the 30% range if you want an actual opposition or really save your effort untill 2024/2025 when an inevitable revolution will occur when the sheeple wake up to the reality of 8yrs of blindness to cindy.
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:35am
  - Flossie
    
    Oh no! Where is 8 years coming from?
    
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    September 28, 2020 10:22am
    - wimpston peeeders
      
      shes had 3yrs + an upcoming 3yrs then win again 2023 and the cuntry is trashed by then. venezuala styles, maybe cindy might put some condition on by then?
      
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      September 28, 2020 11:45am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    New Conservatives haven’t got a shit’s show and Goldsmith has harpooned National’s chances.
    Sadly we’re in for 3 more years of Labour, with or without the Greens.
    It will be Hell.
    
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    September 28, 2020 10:30am
  - Nickc2
    
    2023 may well be too late. Already, we are on the fast track to Socialism/Communism and it’s only taken three years.
    Things to look forward to if Cindy’s mob are re-elected include another Maori monetary grab after Fletcher’s land is given to radical Maoris, implementation of Hate Speech laws, wealth tax and lowering of the voting age.
    
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    September 28, 2020 1:45pm
- MCos
  
  Did you buy your crystal ball from the same $2 shop Paul Goldsmith bought his slide rule?
  
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  September 28, 2020 11:19am
  - wimpston peeeders
    
    sadly I dont think goldsmith even used a slide rule or an abacus.
    
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    September 28, 2020 11:47am
- freethinker
  
  If the Greens fail to reach 5% then it seems that the re allocation of their votes to the centre right means Labour cannot govern alone.
  
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  September 28, 2020 1:20pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I don’t think the electoral system works that way.
    
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    September 28, 2020 3:43pm
- Isobar
  
  The best outcome for Labour will be Greens getting back in and NC on 4.5%. That would hand them a decent majority.
  
  Lets face it NC will never make 5%, but every vote that goes their way, but keeps them below 5% is a vote for Labour.
  
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  September 28, 2020 3:52pm
Rusty

Sky news Australia reported last week that a group of Warriors supporters who racially abused a Panthers player during a NRL game and escorted out of the stadium have been forgiven!

The NRL stated they would get tough on racial abuse during games but apparently an apology was sufficient by these supporters and plus they were forgiven by this Panthers player.

Why as Sky news Aust asked?

Because some of these Warriors supporters were of Maori descent.

If it was only white guys abusing a non- white player during the game we know they would have been vilified.
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September 28, 2020 9:18am
- Classic Liberal
  
  ‘Apparently’. My trust in the msm is now zero. What did they actually say, and in what context?
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:46am
- MCos
  
  https://twitter.com/chloeamandab/status/1294202072796033024?s=21
  Here is a picture of three of them. Don’t look like Maori to me.
  
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  September 28, 2020 11:51am
Happychappy

The one thing Jacinda Ardern has done well is to hide facts ,sweep sexualts complaints under the carpet and throw the victims under the bus after promising them justice. So obviously the voter does not think this is a problem and would rather have handouts than hold the Prime Minister and the Labour Party to account.
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September 28, 2020 9:19am
- tf78
  
  Happy – an unusual approach given the fact she told we plebs to “dob in our neighbours” which seems to be very popular especially amongst the ‘out door hose’ nazi’s.
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:02am
- freethinker
  
  Has she also suppressed the SFO report due pre Sept election on Winstons naughties or will SFO release it pre Oct Election or face being re named the “Serioulsy Flawed Office”?
  
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  September 28, 2020 1:23pm
  - MCos
    
    You know as well as I do that the government can’t influence the SFO.
    Another point is that, unless I’m mistaken, three parties have SFO investigations hanging over their heads. The SFO may have decided that doing something about NZF immediately before the election is unfair.
    
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    September 28, 2020 4:37pm
Kiwi_in_Paris

While Bozo was reading his speech for the UN and WHO, old ladies were getting punched in Trafalgar Square:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1310151974487240709
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September 28, 2020 9:22am
- Critical Thinker
  
  Meanwhile in the dystopian 1984 style “Minority Report” Australia ?
  
  2 Men Detained Because Police Think They MIGHT Attend a Protest
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhJ4zEzeCXY
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  September 28, 2020 9:45am
- Ruahine
  
  Sadiq Khan is in charge of the Metropolitan Police Force.
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:22am
lifesgood

LAst night I heard a moron on the radio state “I will vote Jacinda all the way. She has saved us from Covid” What can you do when there are brain dead people like that voting?

I heard Jacinda interviewed by Mike Hosking this morning. She sounded terrible, really struggling with a croaky voice and repeated upwards inflexions at the end of her comments. It has been noted by voice experts that the upward inflexion, common among teenagers, is a sign of lack of confidence and a plea for approval. Well I can tell her one thing for certain, she’ll get no approval from me.
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September 28, 2020 9:32am
- tf78
  
  lifesgood – I noticed she does it when she’s telling untruths in response to questions asked.
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:05am
- JackRabbit
  
  If nothing else, being challenged by Judith Collins, Davis Seymour and elsewhere, will have in some way forced her to look at the real issues and the failures, even if her eyes have been opened by a fraction. That must be taking a toll. If that is the case, then deep within the recesses of her soul, she must have even an inkling she’s on the wrong path.
  
  If you could read her mind, there will a part of her that knows she has bitten off more than she can chew. That being the case, not all of her would want to win the election. But her Ego is stopping her from entertaining those thoughts, as to linger on them will cause a landslide meltdown.
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:25am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    I don’t know. For three years commenters on kiwiblog have confidently stated that she’d collapse, run off to the UN, show her true commie colours and frighten off the voters.
    
    Yet she hangs in there, looking and sounding exhausted but still there. And sheeple follow her like maniacs.
    
    I’d agree that part of her would like a loss and a long break, but she is so indoctrinated that really believes she is destined to do great socialist things.
    
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    September 28, 2020 10:57am
    - tf78
      
      CL maybe she should take a drug test.
      
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      September 28, 2020 12:26pm
- freethinker
  
  And Jacinda failed to answer Mikes questions – as usual.
  
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  September 28, 2020 1:24pm
Critical Thinker

China has a VERY stringent definition of what constitutes a Covid case – requiring presence of clinical signs and symptoms AND in most cases, epidemiological exposure, AND a positive PCR test (at 35 amplification cycles or less) before counting a Covid case according to this.

By contrast, the WHO, the US CDC, the European CDPC, Public Health England, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Pan American Health Organization require ONLY a single positive PCR test in order to count a Covid case – clinical symptoms and epidemiological exposure are not required. This would mean that many countries are significantly over-counting its cases (and, potentially, its deaths) compared to China.

It’s odd that the WHO has apparently not noticed this anomaly and acted to ensure uniform international standards and definitions so that statistics are internationally comparable.

It is also rather odd that both the CDC and the WHO had guidelines in place to minimise over counting of cases for previous viral outbreaks including SARS, MERS, Ebola and Zika, yet these safeguards have been removed in respect of SARS-CoV2… ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho0cdFifrYE
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September 28, 2020 9:33am
- Critical Thinker
  
  ‘Crimes Against Humanity” Ban on Hydroxychloroquine Based on ‘Faulty’ Study:
  
  Australian Liberal MP Craig Kelly says the ban placed on COVID-19 treatment hydroxychloroquine by Australian bureaucrats violates the Hippocratic Oath taken by doctors and is based on a study since proven false.
  
  He argued the flawed study ultimately gave patients “double the dose of what they know is an overdose.”
  ?
  https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6194885914001
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:52am
  - Critical Thinker
    
    Compare Sweden to Sweden. A fairly typical year in terms of mortality.
    
    Anything else is comparing apples to oranges or Sweden to Norway.
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ei2wtlyWAAAFqz1?format=jpg
    
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    September 28, 2020 9:59am
  - Nickc2
    
    If Trump hadn’t mentioned Hydroxychloroquine as a possible solution, there would probably be no hysteria concerning its use.
    Doctors with scrupils? Gimme a break!
    
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    September 28, 2020 2:07pm
BeeJay

If NZ has 3.7m eligible voters, how can the Newshub Reid Research survey of 1000 people (700 by telephone and 300 by internet panel) be accepted as accurate?
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September 28, 2020 9:34am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Quite easily?
  
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  September 28, 2020 9:46am
- Benedict Yu
  
  The poll has a margin or error of 3.1 percent. It surveyed 1,000 people. If it has surveyed 5,000 people the margin of error would decline to 1.4 percent. Any increases in sample size after that diminish.
  
  So yes surveying 5,000 people would be better. But probably unaffordable.
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:23am
  - rangitoto
    
    The margin of error is a bold claim, which assumes that the sample is representative of the voters. A doubtful assumption.
    
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    September 28, 2020 11:17am
  - Nickc2
    
    Unaffordable? That means Newshub get the result they want and paid for?
    
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    September 28, 2020 2:10pm
- Isobar
  
  It’s been pretty close in recent elections.
  
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  September 28, 2020 3:56pm
wimpston peeeders

can the clown that declared yesterday that its the start of the summer season please explain the blizard conditions outside and the several inches of snow thats accumulated…

its springtime, daylight savings does not mark start of “summer season”, very retarded jaffa thing to say and prob never experienced a frost or snow.
fucking southland brrrr.
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September 28, 2020 9:49am
Surely Knott

A couple are moving to the USA to get affordable lung cancer meds, that NZ won’t fund. A drug that is subsidised in OZ, and UK . We are falling behind the rest of the world, so it is an outrage that we don’t have enough for life saving medicine but we do have $50 million for plastics technology grants. Hint: if you don’t want straws just don’t use a straw. And paper straw technology already exists.
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September 28, 2020 9:56am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  theres covid dances, menstural plays and alpaca breeding stories to be funded, we cant be wasting money trying to save lives. cindy only goes hard and early, cancer dosent meet that definition
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:24am
- kowtow
  
  In Covid Cindy’s Aotearoa you are allowed to die from or get sick with just about any disease or condition EXCEPT Wuflu .
  
  The govt reaction to Wuflu has cost us the earth .
  
  And there’s still some 20 % of voters who’ve been swayed by the Saviour narrative .The only thing in town is Covid.
  
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  September 28, 2020 10:46am
Happychappy

I would like the media to front up and print the proof if Jacinda Ardern has lived up to her promises of lowing Child Poverty by 100,000 like she Promised in the Leaders debate against Bill English last Election.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/338701/labour-would-lift-100-000-children-out-of-poverty-by-2020-ardern
Now you have her trout mouthing Judith Collins about what she has promised so let’s see if the media are game and want to be truthful some figures to back it up .
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September 28, 2020 10:08am
kowtow

James Global Warming Shaw had to have a shawl to keep himself warm at a poorly attended save the sea thingy…….

“Green Party co-leader James Shaw rugged up with a crocheted blanket given to him by a party supporter as he discussed the party’s oceans policy at St Clair last night”

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/decision-2020/stark-contrast-party-leaders
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September 28, 2020 10:19am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  If his shawl was made from organic wool, is there really a problem here…?
  
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  September 28, 2020 11:50am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Wool? Isn’t that what farmed animals produce?
    Animals which wreck the countryside and pollute all our waterways?
    Next time wear a shawl made out of synthetic fibre like any true greenie would. You know – fibre made out of nylon or something.
    Anyway- won’t be many sheep left soon, so synthetic it is then. Just dig more land fills.
    Wool consigned to history.
    
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    September 28, 2020 12:44pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Happy Chappy- we must remember that Ms Ardern has had all those terrible, unforseen events happen during her term of office which no other government in the history of New Zealand has had to deal with – so promises made three years ago are irrelevant to the media – and to a large section of the electorate.
  Ms Ardern has consistently been held to a different standard of truth and achievement by the msm to an extent that has seldom, if ever, been afforded to any other politician.
  She’s just soooo lovely, eh.
  
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  September 28, 2020 12:28pm
- Nickc2
  
  A Granny Blanket!
  
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  September 28, 2020 2:15pm
Ruahine

It is very typical of the muddled emotions called thinking that passes for rational thought in New Zealand society that allows for much of our country to be easily bossed about.
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September 28, 2020 10:26am
Tomtoddy

How puerile and pathetic. Last few months every reference in ther MSM to NZTA has been “Waka Kotahi” NZTA. Today when there is a negative story on hidden documents it is back to NZTA. It is the same with the use of Aotearoa. It gets used for “nice” stories.
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September 28, 2020 10:35am
- oldfella
  
  TT: I saw the same story this morning… and had exactly the same reaction. Pathetic!
  
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  September 28, 2020 11:07am
  - Southtop2
    
    More from Stuff: https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300114743/world-news-day-why-stuff-measures-success-by-trust-not-clicks
    Surely you jest sir? You cant be serious?
    The reason why newspapers are getting smaller is because they used to tell BOTH sides of the story.
    
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    September 28, 2020 12:52pm
    - Nickc2
      
      As advertising dries up, the rag’s size diminishes.
      
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      September 28, 2020 2:18pm
Durden

Interesting article on Interest.co.nz (use browser with no adblocker)

“My view is that, based on the benchmarks above, we have gone from being a nondescript “quite good” to “decidedly average”, and that is being generous. New Zealand should be able to do much better than that. It continues to be disappointing that we keep on sliding back internationally.”

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/107240/end-its-first-term-we-look-economic-benchmarks-we-when-labour-nz-first-greens-government
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September 28, 2020 10:37am
gump

Trump’s tax returns have been leaked and it would appear he is a terrible businessman.

No wonder he has fought so hard and for so long to hide them from scrutiny.
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September 28, 2020 10:44am
- Critical Thinker
  
  Well it’s a good thing that he’s great at running the economy of the US as that nations President then I guess ?
  
  And it’s nice to see that this tax return leak has now debunked the “unreported financial connections with Russia” conspiracy theory held for years by those with TDS.
  
  Moreover, the Times story appears to confirm Trump’s claim that he is under audit by the IRS, which has been weaponized by the corrupt Deep State.
  
  It is also illegal for the IRS to leak the personal tax returns of any individual ?
  
  Past exposures of Trump’s tax returns have confirmed that he has paid millions of dollars in personal income taxes. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was widely mocked in 2017 for revealing a 2005 tax return that showed Trump had paid $38 million in federal income taxes that year.
  
  Keep in mind that the Double Nobel Peace Prize nominee President Donald Trump also donates all of his yearly $400,000 Presidential salary directly to government agencies in need of extra funding ?
  
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  September 28, 2020 11:19am
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    It’s very impressive to hear that the ‘deep state’ is using audits as political weapons given that the audit in question relates to tax transactions that occurred in 2009 and which have been under investigation since 2011.
    
    But putting that to one side, it’s nice to hear that Trump is donating his Presidential salary to help fund Government Agencies – because the tax returns show that he has not funded them by paying the taxes that he owes.
    
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    September 28, 2020 12:05pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  The reverse Midas touch. Luckily he has a public office to monetise.
  
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  September 28, 2020 11:21am
Durden

Strange article on Newshub about which parties are leaking votes to whom compared to 2017.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/newshub-reid-research-poll-for-the-first-time-exclusive-polling-shows-how-voting-habits-changed-since-last-election.html

Suggests Nats leaking to both Labour and ACT, NZ First and Greens mostly to Labour.

Surprising to see Maori party (MRI) leaking to ACT.

Article is strange because, according to graphic 57% of those planning to vote for ACT voted NATS, LAB, and MRI in 2017. So native ACT voters are 43% of the 6.3% of party votes. (Article does not say anything about ACT voters’ intentions)

But ACT only got 0.5% of party votes in 2017.

Where are the rest of ACT votes coming from to give them 6.3%.

Something does not add up.
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September 28, 2020 11:03am
- DeepBlue
  
  Has there been any mention of the undecided voters yet? It was about 15% last week, so if it has increased then this would help with your math, plus make the trend away from Labour worse for JA.
  
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  September 28, 2020 11:09am
DeepBlue

Dr Reti may just save National. A very clear and important mental health strategy.

Keep the policy coming National. We need achievable and believable deliverables that middle NZ voters can relate to.
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September 28, 2020 11:15am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  nothing will save the nats, theyre the up an coming NZ1st party and their days are numbered.
  3 more election cycles theyll either be gone or linger like the greens. be good if they linger as NC and Act will need a coalition partner from time to time.
  
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  September 28, 2020 11:54am
  - DeepBlue
    
    In 2023 one party will be wiped to almost oblivion… It is too early to say if that is Labour or National.
    
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    September 28, 2020 2:13pm
- gump
  
  Shane Reti is the type of candidate that National desperately needs more of.
  
  He is capable, relatable, and clearly takes his position and responsibilities seriously. Something which cannot be said about many of his caucus colleagues.
  
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  September 28, 2020 12:07pm
Jack5

The Woke and Maori pushing to take streaming out of secondary schools.

This parallels the fight to stop any capping low-marks entry to Medical School for Maori students. This has led to a surge of lower-marks entrants, and shrinking room for brighter students.

If Labour gets into power without needing to form a coalition, streaming will be axed.

Maori talk about discrimination being one of the biggest drawbacks of streaming. One Maori in the RNZ link below talks of experiencing racism in a top stream, and of the lack of “Maori subjects” in it.

If you stream classes, clever kids do better, the Malaysian report linked to below suggests, but other kids don’t do as well.

So there is a choice. You boost the performance of the best, or lift the performance at the bottom.

Jacinderella’s team of Woke and Maori would re-make New Zealand.

Every device will be made in three versions, for the right-handed, the left-handed, and the multidexterous. Everyone will be fluent in at least nine languages – English, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Maori, Samoan, Tongan, Niuean, and Sign. All roads will be four lanes with a barrier in the middle, so you can choose whether to drive on the left or the right.

Red Radio: Maori and academics push for the end of streaming:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018765895

A Malaysian study gives both sides:

https://www.scirp.org/html/1-6303311_71741.htm
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September 28, 2020 11:43am
- Classic Liberal
  
  I hope every Asian parent and other non Maori parent who actually cares how their bright kids do in life sees this and votes accordingly.
  
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  September 28, 2020 12:57pm
lifesgood

I just heard the political “commentators” on Kathryn Ryan’s 9 to noon, Nat radio. As usual the commentary was very slanted against National and pro Lablour but at least the woman speaker was more measured. In contrast the left speaker, some man with Neal in his name, either first name or surname, I didn’t quite catch it, who works for Labour was positively vitriolic against National. His uncalled for and snide remarks about the Nat party and Judith didn’t sound to me like someone who was confident his party would win. Otherwise why would you be so nasty? It does you no favours. I suspect their internal polling is not so hot.
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September 28, 2020 11:44am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Neale Jones
  https://www.capitalnz.com/team/
  
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  September 28, 2020 1:01pm
  - freethinker
    
    Maggy – The SFO needs you to do some investigative work – starting on Winston I hope.
    
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    September 28, 2020 1:33pm
Suze Wainwright

Labour’s internal polling must be telling them something unexpected about Tiwai… (will their green shade be happy?).

And to think that their party’s social media Wehrmacht goes into overdrive to try any paint the National Party as yesterday’s men
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September 28, 2020 11:59am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Keeping Tiwai going, outlawing plastic forks, compulsory renewable energy strategy.
  
  Wow, I’m relieved that Cindy’s team is clearly endowed with such phenomenal energy, talent and dedication to unbounded hard work… They’re clearly so busy in the office putting the flesh on these policies – that’s why most of them have been invisible during the current campaigning
  
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  September 28, 2020 12:06pm
rockape

The country has taken a hit financially. What would you personally do if you took a financial hit. Like me I suspect you would prioritize your spending. First what are the “Must Have” Health ,education ,housing” then what are the good to haves ” welfare,roads” then there are the nice to haves ” Art, media,culture,sport. Of course there are the never going to need things and dont ever want things that Labour seem to still want to spend on even when the economy is stuffed.
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September 28, 2020 12:09pm
- lifesgood
  
  Desperate vote buying, trying to cover all areas.
  
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  September 28, 2020 12:49pm
- MCos
  
  Exactly.
  Cancel the America’s Cup and turn that part of the waterfront into a cheap tractor factory for the set upon farmers.
  
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  September 28, 2020 4:53pm
RJ

Winston has a long way to go to serve as long as this guy in politics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73KDtznNrC8
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September 28, 2020 12:18pm
graham

Heh … Stuff’s (unintentionally humourous) opinion piece:

“World News Day: Why Stuff measures success by trust not clicks”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300114743/world-news-day-why-stuff-measures-success-by-trust-not-clicks

Reading this remind me of the line from The Princess Bride by Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Apparently, they no longer use the number of page hits as a measure of success. Oh no. Stuff “no longer subscribe(s) to the antiquated global measurement which pitches us against other New Zealand sites.” The cynic in me wonders if that’s because the “antiquated global measurement” might show they are steadily losing ground? Just wondering …

Anyway, Stuff now loftily “looks to public trust as our north star. Such a change brings its own challenges, not least how to actually measure it.” They assure us that “trust has always been vital and important. Now, it has to become the paramount lens through which we consider the commissioning and creation of our content. If we don’t have public trust in what we produce, we have nothing.”

Well, at least they got it bang-on with the last sentence.

And finally:

Stuff’s newsroom shares these lofty goals, and accepts the challenge. We once had a reputation for clickbait – perception rather than reality, perhaps – but the ongoing attention to unique trusted journalism, diversity and transparency is being recognised and valued.

And to show us they’re serious about this whole “you-can-trust-us” thing, they have published their “Editorial Code of Practice and Ethics”. I warn you now, do NOT read this with a mouth of coffee – I will not be held responsible for ruined keyboards.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/about-stuff/300106664/stuff-editorial-code-of-practice-and-ethics

I noticed two interesting parts in their code.

Firstly, under the heading of “Bias” they claim that “Stuff is politically non-partisan. Journalists should take care not to allow bias – or the perception of bias – in their reporting and in public comments, including on social media.”

All I can say is, that’ll be the day …

And secondly, Te reo Maori. Describing it as “an official language of Aotearoa New Zealand, is a taonga with endangered status” they go on to say that “Stuff has a role to play in the normalisation and revitalisation of the language. We actively encourage the use of te reo Maori in content. That extends to frequently using te reo Maori names for our brands and mastheads, including Puna for Stuff. Words that are in common usage will not be translated into English.”
(Emphasis added)

So, everyone who is paranoid that the media are moving to increase the use of Maori and essentially make it mandatory to learn some degree of Maori, whether you want to or not … turns out you’re not being paranoid after all. If you want to read stories regularly on Stuff, the above states quite clearly that you will have to learn Maori words to understand those stories.

And the icing on the cake? At the bottom of this page is the standard begging letter. “Please support our vital role in society.”

Yeah, don’t hold your breath guys …
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September 28, 2020 12:39pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  If you don’t like it, don’t read it.
  
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  September 28, 2020 1:43pm
  - graham
    
    And that’s what will happen, mikenmildagain.
    
    If I am reading an article and I find that I can’t understand it because of the use of Maori words which I don’t understand, then I will find the information I require elsewhere.
    
    And if this happens more and more at certain websites (as seems likely to happen with Stuff), then I’ll visit them less and less. Because I don’t have limitless time to go searching out what a particular word means, then going back to the article again, reading on until I reach another word which I don’t understand, meaning that I have to look up that word again, then back to the article again until I reach yet another word I don’t understand, meaning I have to look it up … ad infinitum.
    
    So it’s just as well Stuff aren’t going to measure their success by the number of page hits, because I suspect they will be getting less and less.
    
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    September 28, 2020 2:03pm
  - Jack5
    
    Stuff’s doomed.
    
    Bought for $1, it has few physical assets (no printing plants, no buildings). You can’t get a helluva lot of working capital from the bank with newspapers’ famous illusory asset of “masthead value”.
    
    If newspapers survive in New Zealand they will be small, regional publications filling a gap for local news and opinions. The content will be closer to the views of most readers than our present mainstream media are.
    
    Maori language is up against English, the dominant world language in entertainment, culture, business, academia, travel, diplomacy.
    
    When you depend on donations from the public, how stupid to force a second, struggling regional language down donors’ throats.
    
    If Stuff were sincere and rational it would print and publish in parallel in both Maori and English. Donors could select which language they subscribed to.
    
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    September 28, 2020 3:19pm
- mark15
  
  North star!!!
  The one that’s visible from…not here.
  
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  September 28, 2020 2:55pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yes, you think the folks at Stuff could be a bit better informed and refer to something relevant to our Hemisphere or even to our history and use Autahi (Canopus) or Puanga (Rigel).
    
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    September 28, 2020 5:26pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      It’s a literary allusion, as I’m sure you know.
      
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      September 28, 2020 7:18pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’ve always wondered if the person who came up with the title Stuff was having a giant piss-take at Media folk.
  
  Check any decent dictionary and you’ll see one of the definitions for Stuff is:
  
  Worthless ideas, discourse, or writing; nonsense, rubbish
  
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  September 28, 2020 3:15pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  I don’t read it anyway.
  
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  September 28, 2020 4:51pm
Natfan08

1news Colmar Brunton poll out tonight at 6pm! What is your prediction folks?
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September 28, 2020 12:46pm
- Batman
  
  Steady, or within ballpark of the last two polls.
  
  There hasn’t been enough movement over the last week.
  
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  September 28, 2020 1:39pm
- Inandout
  
  Natf, the poll will have Labour winning which is good if the couch dwellers accept this as a fait accompli and don’t bother leaving their TV.
  
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  September 28, 2020 1:46pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Labour 48%
  National 31%
  Greens 7%
  ACT 7%
  NZ First 3%
  New Cons 2%
  Advance 1%
  
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  September 28, 2020 1:47pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    I’d have ACT at 8 and Greens at 6 but apart from that it doesn’t seem to insane.
    
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    September 28, 2020 3:03pm
- rockape
  
  My guess Labour 47%
  National 38%
  ACT. 7%
  Greens 5%
  N First. 2.7%
  Rest don’t care.
  
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  September 28, 2020 5:18pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  So, the poll results were:
  Labour 47%
  National 33%
  Greens 7%
  ACT 8%
  NZ First 1%
  New Cons 1%
  TOP 1%
  Maori 1%
  Advance 1%
  There’s a useful 5% of votes being wasted on parties with no real hope, but at 1% that might be their committed supporters.
  
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  September 28, 2020 7:13pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I couldn’t see a percentage for don’t know/undecided.
    
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    September 28, 2020 7:16pm
Paulus

I see that there is a serious competition between Katie Bradford and Tova O’Brian [Mod: deleted for gross offence.] seeing that after all their hard work that they will get what they want – the extermination of any influence that the National Party will have on New Zealand at least in this election.
They have worked hard to do all they can to denigrate whoever has any influence in the Party ignoring the roguery and lies that the Coalition under their idol has wrought upon the country.
Mind you the National Party has recently opened themselves up to be incompetent making the role of these two persons a lot easier.
Katie – you will get what you didn’t get last time and Tova your secrets are safe – for now.
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September 28, 2020 1:16pm
- lifesgood
  
  Never forget what Katie said last time National won “No matter what we do, no matter what we say National are still ahead”
  
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  September 28, 2020 2:20pm
Bobba Fret

Act’s candidate no. 18 on their list for Whangarei is called David Seymour! That would be hilarious to have two David Seymours in Parliament.

https://www.act.org.nz/candidates
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September 28, 2020 1:32pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Not very likely to happen though, is it? ACT would need 15% of the vote.
  
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  September 28, 2020 1:45pm
  - Isobar
    
    There’s still plenty of time for them to keep cannibalizing the National Party’s base.
    
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    September 28, 2020 3:59pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Doing Double Duty at $22M

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2020/09/28/doc-staff-in-hokitika-could-have-been-housed-for-a-song-a-few-years-ago-now-it-will-cost-us-22-million/#more-7802
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September 28, 2020 2:23pm
Fletch

ANTIFA fight instructor telling his class how to fight dirty and cripple people, and kick people after they are down “if you don’t like them”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIp1pcbRsCI
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September 28, 2020 2:48pm
- oob
  
  Crikey.
  
  Hard to describe groups conducting classes like that as “peaceful demonstrators.”
  
  Weird how they were jumping through logic hoops to describe their gym as a “safe space” where people could “explore aggression if they choose to” whilst they were holding weapons. That’s some Woke thinking right there.
  
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  September 28, 2020 5:06pm
  - Jack5
    
    Fits with the rabble’s calls to defund police and to take guns away from the law abiding.
    
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    September 28, 2020 10:06pm
Herodotus

I read how terrible National was in making a deal by M Savage, now I hear labour has entered into a similar deal that They were only 2 months not going to enter. I get the impression it is govern alone at any cost and we will pay for this bottomless money pit!!!
“Tiwai Point and Rio Tinto – where a foreign multinational corporation exploited the Government’s insistence of partially privatising our power companies and was paid $30 million dollars to continue in business for a short period of time.”
https://thestandard.org.nz/nationals-terrible-deal-making/
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September 28, 2020 5:08pm
RJ

Ilhan Omar connected Ballot Harvester in cash-for-ballots scheme: “Car is full” of absentee ballots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWK56l2VaLY&feature=emb_logo
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September 28, 2020 5:10pm
Duncan Brown

Tukituki readers are invited to a Meet the Candidates meeting at Ascend Global Church (formerly Bay City Church), 1200 Omahu Rd, Hastings, 7pm this Thursday, doors open 6.30pm. It’s a Question and Answer format and will also be live-streamed.
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September 28, 2020 6:37pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Jaspinda, look.
https://hubpages.com/politics/Pfizer-Chief-Science-Officer-Second-Wave-Based-on-Fake-Data-of-False-Positives-for-New-Cases-Pandemic-is-Over
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