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Happychappy

If anyone though this was about having a plan and saving our economy from the worst recession in decades think agains Jacindas plan is all about we went hard and fast, saving our country from thousands of deaths and milking this slogan for all it’s got.https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/10/jacinda-ardern-refuses-to-open-travel-to-australia-says-it-s-too-risky.html
Two weeks out from a Election and the election flyer that put in everyone’s letter Box by Labour whether you want it or not stating Let’s keep moving and a five point plan with no real detail with the main focus on Covid-19 and how they went hard and fast is the plan. I would bet my bottom dollar that Jacinda will open our borders as soon as she believes she has the numbers to govern and is playing the waiting game to con those that believe it is all about keeping our Country safe.
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October 3, 2020 8:01am
- krazykiwi
  
  Yes. Ardern response to Covid has always need to manipulate the population through fear. She will have been receiving near constant guidance from Helen Clark on this.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:17am
  - pdm
    
    As I understand it Heather Simpson has a big influence – she of course is `the voice of Clark’.
    
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    October 3, 2020 9:39am
    - RF
      
      Yep.. I hear Ardern is a puppet on a string with Simpson & Clark pulling it…..
      
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      October 3, 2020 11:54am
      - Mike
        
        I hear that listening to the voices in one’s head might not be helpful.
        
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        October 3, 2020 12:24pm
  - kowtow
    
    I think the fear factor came initially from the Media Party and then the Pollies for their own reasons followed.
    
    But what is very clear is that nearly all the Pollies fear the Media more than anything else , as a negative reaction from the manipulating 4 th estate is a virtual Kiss of Death. As it happens Ardern’s agenda currently matches that of the Media Party . But it wouldn’t take much for the Media Curs to turn on her . Like Pollies they too only care for their own interests.
    
    Unless they’re ballsy leaders like Trump and Bollsinaro.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:19am
- lastmanstanding
  
  The shallow as a puddle mentality of citizens and their inability to separate personality from policies is best illustrated by contrasting Trump and Ardern.
  
  Trumps policies up to Covid had seen record low unemployment and homelessness especially among Afro-Americans. Yet is he hated and reviled.
  
  Arderns policies has seen homelessness and child proverty increase significantly. Yet is accorded sainthood treatment.
  
  I am a Right Wing Conservative and have been since my student days. I have always tried to vote for the party whose policies I believe will increase the living standards of the poor.
  
  First for their benefit as no one deserves to live in poverty in a country like NZ.
  
  Second because the fewer on welfare the less my tax burden.
  
  Third the less chance of crime against myself and my family.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:45am
  - FatTony
    
    If you support Trump, you’re not a conservative.
    
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    October 3, 2020 12:00pm
    - IC5000
      
      Lots of fake ‘conservative’ Trumpists around trying to co-op and take over the word from from real conservatives.
      
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      October 3, 2020 2:05pm
      - FatTony
        
        100% right
        
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        October 3, 2020 3:31pm
- crikey
  
  Everyone should read this from Profesor John Gibson:
  
  https://www.nzcpr.com/killed-by-kindness/#more-33233
  
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  October 3, 2020 12:50pm
Justitia

The Greens’ wealth tax is property confiscation. Many on fixed incomes would be unable to stay in their homes and farmers would be forced off their land. The Greens today are not the cuddly eccentrics of Rod Donald’s or Jeanette Fitzsimmons’ days (if they ever were, that is). They are Stalinists. If I were the parent of a young adult who announced their intention to vote for the Greens I would turn them out onto the street to give them a taste of the future they wanted for New Zealand.
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October 3, 2020 8:07am
- krazykiwi
  
  A better approach might be to assess their income (part time job etc), then charge them 60% of this in board, and make them take this money (in cash) every week and give it to the never-employed slob who lives next door. Wait a couple of months and then have a chat about the value of effort and enterprise.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:24am
  - Justitia
    
    A great idea krazykiwi.
    
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    October 3, 2020 11:47am
- Catgurl13
  
  I have been explaining just that to my 20 yr old son who will be voting for the first time. I asked him does he want to pay a big chunk of his inheritance when our property is sold when his parents pass on?….does he want to pay more taxes for dole bludgers?……does he want to pay double car insurance if dope is made legal?…..he said no to all three. He’s now wanting to vote David and Act.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:28am
  - beadgame
    
    Suggest its better to teach kids work ethics so that they contribute positively to both their own well being and to society, as opposed to encouraging them to bludger off their parent’s inheritance. I would also teach humility about the good fortune of being born into a well off family, and that most kids don’t have parents with this kind of wealth.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:11am
    - Flossie
      
      What kind of wealth are you speaking of? Because someone owns a home doesn’t mean it’s “this kind of wealth”?
      
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      October 3, 2020 10:45am
      - igm
        
        It is wealth to deadbeats that infest state/council supplied housing.
        
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        October 3, 2020 1:45pm
    - Catgurl13
      
      I agree with you and my son has worked full time since 16 and has quite a big house deposit already saved at 20. No credit cards, same mob pH for the last 4 years. Cash only budget. As well as paying a good amount of board at home. He knows nothing is for free.
      
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      October 3, 2020 10:51am
    - mark15
      
      What divisive rubbish.If you marxists get in again,every kid won’t have parents ‘with that kind of wealth’.
      
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      October 3, 2020 8:22pm
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Thank God, one Green vote saved.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:38am
  - YesMinister
    
    I think you mean, he’s now telling his overbearing and electorally intrusive mum that he’s voting Act.
    
    I find it hilarious when parents think they have sway over their adult children and they’re not just being humored for the aforementioned inheritance which is obviously already being brought into play in every day conversation.
    
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    October 3, 2020 12:04pm
    - Catgurl13
      
      No my son can vote for whoever he likes actually. But he just realised he would b paying for self entitled racist lazy people with their hands out, if he votes for this current mob. Something he realized he wasn’t happy doing actually as he’s always worked since 16.
      
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      October 3, 2020 1:49pm
artemisia

Palmy North candidates have held a meeting with some local tenants.

Palmerston North renter Kat Steeneken has rated four political party candidates a fail over their lack of solutions for dealing with the “immoral” treatment of tenants.

Reading about her situation in the article, frankly she looks like a difficult tenant seriously unhappy with her property manager and now facing a big rent rise. Referring to property managers as immoral and not having a code of ethics, perhaps a thinly veiled sledge at her own property manager, is not conducive to a constructive relationship.

She continued – “Property managers are in an exceptional position of power, yet they’re not required to do a single thing to do that job.”

In fact there is a massive volume of law specifically regulating tenancies with huge fines for breaches.

There was a small nod in the article to supply issues, and let’s face it many recently introduced laws and regs might have something to do with lack of supply and rent increases.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/122942069/election-2020-palmerston-north-tenants-grill-wouldbe-mps-about-citys-housing-problem#comments
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October 3, 2020 8:10am
- Chris R
  
  Yes, here we have the pomposity of the self-entitled in full colour and at high volume. How many years did this sloth waste on envy when she could’ve been striving towards her own property purchase? This type off excremental rubbish depicts the media as being in existence to relay whining and envy rather than actual worthy reporting.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:37am
mark15

Macron,merkel,trudeaux,xi,ardern,putin,maduro etc no corona.
Trump,Johnson,Orban,Bolsanaro get corona.
Total coincidence.
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October 3, 2020 8:15am
- SB2
  
  Total coincidence
  
  ??
  
  Yes!
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:16am
oldpark

[Deleted – Your message would have been fine without the personal abuse. Try again. Mod.]
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October 3, 2020 8:16am
- Scooter
  
  This will back fire on her big time, right before the election too. Unless the sheeple of NZ are so brainwashed they think she is doing the best for NZ.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:19am
- oldpark
  
  [You know perfectly well why your post was deleted. Take a break for a week to reflect on your position posting as a guest here. Mod.]
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:23am
Yvette

With Labour returning to previous Election promises, because they have not fulfilled them – like Kiwibuild – are they going to return to false targets and lies of other policies?

For example – “We aim to plant one billion trees by 2028 – 150 million are already in the ground” – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, opening address to United Nations Climate Action Summit, September 24, 2019

While the MPI website One Billion Trees Progress Chart, as at April 14, 2020
Government has directly funded 24,681,000 trees.

After the two years covered by the chart, the target should have been 200 million trees, not 24.7 million.
The actual crux question on such delivery or performance, is “Has the Winston-chosen Labour planted enough trees to sequester enough carbon to make any fucking difference at all?”
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October 3, 2020 8:20am
- Happychappy
  
  Yvette it is again just like the last Election a deliberate attempt to commit political fraud because they know the Electoral Commission have no balls to prosecute anyone about deliberate false statements to the voter.
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:01am
Chuck Bird

Many world leaders have sent messages wishing President Trump a speedy recovery. Even Joe Biden is preying for him. I wonder if and when Cindy will.
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October 3, 2020 8:21am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Preying? Good term
  
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  October 3, 2020 8:23am
  - Inandout
    
    Preying on him by Joe is a scary thought…sniff sniff.
    
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    October 3, 2020 8:38am
- Dougal10
  
  Is he actually sick or just a +test
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:27am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  “I wonder if and when Cindy will.”
  
  Apparently she has.
  
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  October 3, 2020 2:33pm
tf78

Must read and pass on today – Muriel Newman’s newsletter.
http://www.nzcpr.com/newsletter
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October 3, 2020 8:24am
- krazykiwi
  
  Muriel needs to fix her online content. It’s not responsive and as a result is unreadable on mobile devices. I’ve stopped reading.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:14am
  - jonno1
    
    You can click on ‘Show simplified view’.
    
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    October 3, 2020 9:36am
    - Inandout
      
      jonn01, a good idea, then Jacinda can understand it.
      
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      October 3, 2020 1:06pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I expect a few folks in the Universities will be worrying about job security in the next few months.

Aussie Universities are retrenching
Australia predicted to lose one in 10 uni jobs
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6196644941001
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October 3, 2020 8:24am
- JackRabbit
  
  Cindy has shovels ready for them.
  
  Judith Collins is correct. Focus needs to go on the tech sector.
  
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  October 3, 2020 8:37am
  - rockape
    
    The Arts should thrive in the boom times and take a back seat in the bad. That’s what they have done historically.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:41am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Funny how its always the teaching staff led go, but the senior administrators and diversity officers seem immune.
  
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  October 3, 2020 8:56am
  - kowtow
    
    Parkinsons law.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:31am
    - Mike
      
      My favourite Parkinson examples were always the rise in Admiralty staff number while the number of RN ships decreased, and the rise in Colonial Office staff numbers as the number of British colonies decreased.
      
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      October 3, 2020 12:30pm
- LTA1955
  
  Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people. The Marxist bile they spew out in their role as minders of our “intellectual” property doesn’t insulate them from supply and demand. Economics is a bitch sometimes!
  
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  October 3, 2020 8:59am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Maybe they’ll establish woke collectives
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:04am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  It will be the backroom and support staff not the woke social studies people
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:46am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I fear it will be quite a lot of the Science/tech types as they need expensive gear, laboratories etc.
    
    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/massey-university-plan-cut-almost-20-science-courses-proving-unpopular-v1
    
    Also, few STEM folk indulge in Uni politics… hence, they are the easiest to roll.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:37am
SB2

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In respect of Trump don’t underestimate the power of bleach.

I have not the slightest doubt that if this was Jacinda and Clarke little sympathy and sneers from Team Trump.

The virus appears to have a certain preference for right-wing leaders like Trump, Johnson and Bolsonaro.

Aye?
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October 3, 2020 8:32am
- TWEEDSE
  
  I find the pathological dislike or even hatred of Trump bizarre. The only way to truely form an opinion of someone is to personally know them or their actions effecting your life rather than relying on an intermediary opinion.
  
  I don’t know the man and he has never done me any harm.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:33am
  - Inandout
    
    tweed, Trump is not from the left so he is a target.
    
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    October 3, 2020 1:08pm
- Swifty
  
  How many times have you been banned from here for the abuse of other posters?
  
  Why do you seem unable to resist the urge to abuse other people?
  
  Why do you frequently label people and call them names?
  
  How long will you last this time? Or have you reformed?
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:41am
Swifty

Oh no, Jack Body wasn’t a saint after all….

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/close-to-home-first-episode-1975

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300121837/art-or-abuse-historical-allegations-surface-about-beloved-music-icon-jack-body
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October 3, 2020 8:34am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hubby and I arrived at Vic Uni in the mid 1970s to start our Hons degrees and all you could hear around the place were Gamelan instruments.
  
  http://www.nzasia.org.nz/journal/jas_dec2014_johnson.pdf
  
  I’m sure you could study Bahasa Indonesian at that time also at VUW.
  
  But, looks like Indonesia isn’t flavour of the moment any longer.
  
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  October 3, 2020 1:24pm
Ruahine

This is quite an interesting listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWjoFark7kI
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October 3, 2020 8:37am
Catgurl13

Jacinda becoming PM was like winning the lottery. No life experience or knowledge required to run a country. She is only there because Andrew quit. Not because anyone wanted her or elected her to be. She was just in the right place,in the right time. She is NZds biggest mistake younger generations will be lumbered with for years to come even after she is long gone. Please UN take her now!
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October 3, 2020 8:38am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

All of those celebrating President Trump getting COVID will make his landslide victory even better.
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October 3, 2020 8:46am
- PhilBest
  
  Commenting late on yesterday’s thread, I see that predicting Trump’s recovery based on statistical reality, and the proven effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine used properly, earns a few downticks.
  
  I will keep saying this: nice centre right people need to wake up to evil in the world. Yes, medical researchers will rig studies to the noble ends of “progressive” causes.
  
  Didier Roualt is a distinguished expert whose expertise led him to think it was worth a trial of this cheap, out-of-patent, safe drug. His results were impressive, and these results have been replicated all over the world by honest doctors following his protocol.
  
  The so-called studies debunking it, are in some cases fabricated data from whole cloth. In at least one case where the researchers are now subject to criminal prosecution, known toxic doses were administered; twelve times as much as Roault’s dose.
  
  All the other studies involve one of the following: administering the drug only when patients were nearly dead anyway, when Roualt said all along that it must be started early. Not addressing zinc deficiency, which was an integral part of Roualt’s protocol. Not giving an antibiotic.
  
  In some cases, using a trial cohort of healthy people who were all going to recover anyway, so “no-one died in either group, therefore the drug made no difference”.
  
  Nice centre right people who are too lazy to do their own due diligence on the progressive left machine, are part of the problem.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:04am
  - SB2
    
    Didier Roualt?
    
    Barking mad and dangerous,
    
    https://forbetterscience.com/2020/04/22/chloroquine-witchdoctor-didier-raoult-barking-mad-and-dangerous/
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:25am
    - PhilBest
      
      No, the people saying that about him are crooked progressives who don’t care about blood on THEIR hands in the service of their political agenda.
      
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      October 3, 2020 10:48am
      - virtualmark
        
        And you know this for certain just how?
        
        I know you believe. But I fear your fervent belief is getting in the way of common sense.
        
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        October 3, 2020 11:33am
      - PhilBest
        
        I can read the studies. I can read Roualt’s recommendations for time of treatment, and doses, and what of. I can see when “studies” have done something different. As DPF says in a more recent posting, one can understand some things without being an “expert” as long as one can read and comprehend the arguments between experts. The fact that politicians or journalists or bureaucrats choose one particular argument against another, is not necessarily because politicians, journalists and bureaucrats are good at reading and comprehending.
        
        It is not trivial that “Big Pharma” wants to make a killing on a new, patentable cure. It is a sickening irony when so-called “social concern” activists are the biggest useful idiots for bad capitalists. It happens again and again.
        
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        October 3, 2020 9:56pm
- Scott
  
  If Trump does win it will be the most amazing victory against all the odds. Since his election in 2016 he’s had the democrats against him, the media, the never Trumpers, and the deep state. Despite all that the economy boomed under his leadership and unemployment was the lowest in decades.
  Now the virus killed at least for a time the economic boom. There is constant rioting in the streets and his opponent Joe Biden is being protected by a media that is biased to the point of lunacy.
  
  Still he may win. What else could happen before Nov 3rd? Joe Biden could collapse. Nothing would surprise me in this crazy year.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:05am
  - PhilBest
    
    Yes, against all “forces”, which John Key National’s whole assumption is that “you can’t fight”, primarily the MSM. Trump has shattered that rule, and shown that when those forces are based on demonstrable lies, they are vulnerable.
    
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    October 3, 2020 9:52am
    - SB2
      
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      Phil Best , rich irony alarm ringing loud and clear!
      
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      October 3, 2020 10:26am
- MCos
  
  This Donald Trump
  https://twitter.com/telegraph/status/782673397952094208?s=21
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:55am
  - Scott
    
    MCos – I think at the time there were huge concerns that Hillary Clinton was not medically fit to assume the office of President of the United States. The fact is that she did fall down on the way to her car. The fact is that Secret Service agents quickly bundled her into the car and whisked her away. The whole episode was only disclosed because some bystander recorded it.
    
    The media seemed to show little interest at the time? So it was a legitimate target for Trump to bring up. Are we saying now that it was pneumonia? I can’t remember that there was a definitive diagnosis at the time.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:47am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      It was legitimate to mock his opponent for having an illness?
      
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      October 3, 2020 6:35pm
  - IC5000
    
    Looks like it’s more serious that the WH PR machine is willing to suggest.
    
    https://mobile.twitter.com/Acosta/status/1312172504148893698
    
    That’s what happens when you ignore reality I guess.
    
    RIP 207,0000 Americans who died on Trumps watch who trusted their president.
    
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    October 3, 2020 2:14pm
    - Scott
      
      IC5000 – sure it’s all Trump’s fault. I mean he personally killed them. Everyone knows that.
      If Joe Biden had been in charge not one American would have died!!
      
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      October 3, 2020 4:06pm
    - PhilBest
      
      Was it Trump running New York, who played chicken with the virus until too late; who dumped thousands of infected people on rest care homes; and where 45% of the entire USA’s death toll occurred? In the entire rest of the USA, Covid-19 has barely resulted in noticeable “excess mortality”, it is quite right of people like the Governor of South Dakota to refuse to lockdown. Would New York lock down if South Dakota had a pandemic based on the rural nature of its economy? Why should a rural based economy shut down because of a pandemic in which there is an iron correlation with NYC-level urban crowding? I say the same about NZ too.
      
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      October 3, 2020 10:00pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    Stale news – we all saw that in 2016 and knew that Trump was giving back a small dose of what he was copping.
    Try getting up to date – Trump is up against Biden now, just in case you missed the memo.
    
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    October 3, 2020 5:05pm
- IC5000
  
  Steve, I had a great nights sleep last night after a couple of celebratory single malts.
  
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  October 3, 2020 5:43pm
Shaun the Sheep

Does anyone have a progress report on the myriad committees, working groups, enquires, and advisory panels the Ardern government has set up?
How many have reported?
How much have they cost?
Was anything useful discovered?
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October 3, 2020 8:48am
- Bill Felt
  
  This is a good question. The Nats had a site which gave an update but the site is now down (maybe they couldn’t keep up. The following is the latest data I have:
  Government Inquiries and Working Groups
  
  1 Investigation in Waikato DHB CEO Nigel Murray $174,467
  2 Govt review to look at how to control prison population
  3 Govt reviews six contracts for new charter schools
  4 Review of Christchurch Regeneration Anchor projects $78,893
  5 Tax Working Group $4,000,000
  6 Housing Stocktake Report $32,455
  7 Ministerial Advisory Group established for Health $300,000
  8 Investigation into NZDF water contamination $3,800,000
  9 Irrigation funding review $110,000
  10 KiwiFund Bill $42,377
  11 Inquiry into fuel pipe outage
  12 NCEA Review $3,500,000
  13 Digital Economy and Digital Inclusion Ministerial Advisory Group $2,313,000
  14 Independent Climate Commission $3,615,000
  15 Kauri dieback programme review
  16 Chief Technology Officer $500,000
  17 Independent Expert Advisory Panel Review of the Reserve Bank $46,626
  18 Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act review
  19 Productivity Commission inquiry into Local Government funding and financing $2,200,000
  20 Primary Growth Partnership review $100,000
  21 Waste Minimisation Act review
  22 Mental Health inquiry $6,521,000
  23 Joint Working Group on Pay Equity Principles Reconvened $20,000
  24 Local Government Commission review
  25 Film Industry Working Group $12,000
  26 Pike River Recovery Agency $35,000,000
  27 Institute of Small Business
  28 Royal Commission of Inquiry into historical abuse in state care $80,000,000
  29 NZ foreign aid spending review
  30 Auckland Housing Working Group
  31 National Bowel Screening Programme $250,000
  32 Dairy Industry Restructuring Act review
  33 Abortion law reform $515,000
  34 Whistleblowing law review
  35 Human Rights Commission culture review $5,000
  36 Review of Tomorrow’s Schools $45,453
  37 World Digital Rights Working Group $26,000
  38 Upper North Island Supply Chain Strategy working group $850,000
  39 Public Media Advisory Group $1,381,000
  40 Public Media Funding Commission
  41 EQC Independent Ministerial Advisor
  42 Investigation into boosting trans-Tasman business and exports
  43 Review into how Australia and New Zealand can work together digitally
  44 Bid to host International Working Group on Women in Sport $1,815,000
  45 Charities Act review
  46 Insurance contract law review $40,000
  47 Freedom Camping Working Group
  48 Provincial Growth Fund Panel $528,000
  49 Tobacco tax review
  50 Broader Economy and Inclusion Network
  51 Southern Response inquiry
  52 Future Technology Leadership Group $450,000
  53 Crown/Māori Relations hui $84,312
  54 Residential Tenancies Act review
  55 EQC inquiry $3,300,000
  56 Dolphin Threat Management Plan review $280,000
  57 Defence Capability Plan review $90,000
  58 Criminal Cases Review Commission $14,600,000
  59 Monetary Policy Decisions Committee $1,200,000
  60 NZ Business Performance Panel $23,500
  61 Local Government Road Safety Summit $11,542
  62 Takata Recall Oversight Group
  63 Early Learning Strategic Plan Reference Group $56,640
  64 Early Learning Strategic Plan Ministerial Advisory Group $47,400
  65 Future of Work Ministerial Group
  66 2014 family justice system reforms Independent Panel $2,000,000
  67 Whānau Ora Review Panel $800,000
  68 Inquiry into Operation Burnham $7,000,000
  69 NZ Racing review $81,353
  70 Refresh of the Cyber Security Strategy and Action Plan
  71 Independent panel on nurses pay $45,301
  72 Progressive and inclusive Trade for All Agenda
  73 IGIS Reference Group $21,000
  74 Interim Climate Change Committee $3,615,000
  75 Power price review $1,500,000
  76 Criminal Justice Summit $1,625,360
  77 Internal review into Renew Energy waste-to-energy scheme $5,425
  78 Review of the Funded Family Care policy
  79 Review of culture at MSD $331,110
  80 New infrastructure agency
  81 Primary Sector Council
  82 Review of Marlborough schools co-location
  83 Three waters review $1,500,000
  84 Review of entrepreneur work visas
  85 AI action plan $100,000
  86 Wider review of the RMA
  87 Three-way forum on Future of Work
  88 Education Summits $3,119,000
  89 Education Summit Advisory Group
  90 Education sector group taskforce (Joint Taskforce on Reducing Compliance) $5,500
  91 Consulting on Govt approach to social investment $800,000
  92 Curriculum, Progress and Achievement Ministerial Advisory Group $158,720
  93 Stocktake of ethnic diversity on public sector boards
  94 MPI “reorganisation” $6,000,000
  95 Review into ITP sector $217,217
  96 Review of Working for Families
  97 Investigation into Filipino builders
  98 Forestry advisory group $6,000,000
  99 Animal welfare hui $10,000
  100 Fair Pay Agreement team $300,000
  101 Review of TIF criteria
  102 Paid Parental Leave review
  103 Study to measure in-work poverty $120,000
  104 Curriculum, Progress and Achievement Reference Group $70,000
  105 Canterbury Earthquakes Insurance Tribunal $8,000,000
  106 Child Poverty Unit $7,900,000
  107 RMA oversight unit $3,100,000
  108 Home-based ECE review $2,300,000
  109 New central agent to lead national family and sexual violence strategy $2,000,000
  110 Child Wellbeing Unit $700,000
  111 Family justice system reforms expert reference group
  112 Independent Fiscal Institution
  113 Crown Property High Country Advisory Group $36,000
  114 Review of the Government’s use of algorithms $50,000
  115 Funding review of risk-index
  116 Just Transitions Unit $300,000
  117 Just Transitions Summit
  118 Secret ACC review $77,166
  119 Power price review $1,525,000
  120 Holidays Act task force $500,000
  121 Review of the health system
  122 Meth testing review $86,500
  123 Building product quality controls review
  124 National Sword taskforce on plastic waste
  125 Housing and Urban Development Ministry $30,000,000
  126 Safe and Effective Justice Programme Advisory Group $1,300,000
  127 National archives and libraries work programme
  128 Investigation into the Whakatohea Maori Trust Board $162,625
  129 Review of DHB alteration of after hours mental health service
  130 Construction Skills Action Plan $97,585
  131 Review of RUC rebate scheme
  132 Inquiry into Wally Haumaha $150,000
  133 Reference Panel for Green Investment Fund $75,000
  134 Firearms policy review
  135 Advisory group of principals and teachers to consult on NCEA review
  136 Wool Summit $11,347
  137 Financial Inclusion Industry Forum (FIIF) $10,000
  138 Wool working group
  139 Maori Education expert think tank $51,674
  140 National tattoo removal strategy
  141 Psychoactive substances working group
  142 Kahui Wai Māori – the Māori Freshwater Forum $890,000
  143 Trade for All Advisory Board $48,400
  144 Investigation into bus safety
  145 Small Business Council $135,000
  146 Game Animal Council review
  147 Review of Camping-Grounds Regulations 1985
  148 Review of freedom camping compliance regime
  149 Review of national consistency through camping zones
  150 Review of self-contained motor caravan administration system
  151 Review of the Freedom Camping Act 2011
  152 Review of Pacific immigration
  153 Review of temporary work visas
  154 Overseas Investment Act review for water
  155 Open Government Ministerial Advisory Group
  156 Review of MPs pay
  157 Māori justice summit
  158 Regional justice summits
  159 Special victims’ conference
  160 Māori education wānanga
  161 Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council
  162 Racing Industry Transitional Agency (RITA)
  163 Racing NZ Consultative Forum
  164 Special review of the structure efficacy of the RIU and Allied Integrity Bodies
  165 Inquiry into Meka Whaitiri’s assault
  166 Urban Development Authority
  167 Review into Bella Vista
  168 Whitebait working group $37,000
  169 Dunedin hospital delay working group
  170 Office for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti
  171 Review of the CTO role
  172 Food Industry Taskforce
  173 Inquiry into leak of Whaitiri report
  174 International Visitor Levy Governance Group
  175 Family violence joint venture $2,000,000
  176 Review into 1080 drop
  177 Ministerial Group on the Construction Workforce
  178 Review of Vocational Education and Training
  179 Fuel price margins inquiry
  180 Freshwater Leaders Group
  181 Freshwater Science and Technical Advisory Group
  182 Greater Christchurch Claims Resolution Service $4,350,000
  183 Fuel Price Inquiry $1,500,000
  184 Mental Health inquiry (Working Group after inquiry – 21 member team) $0
  185 Inquiry into bullying in Parliament $200,000
  186 Market study into NZ fuel prices $1,500,000
  187 Water contamination around Ohakea and Woodbourne air bases $3,800,000
  
  Resource Management Review Panel
  
  $276,282,947
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:45am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Holy crap. And if those 188 things had never happened nobody would notice.
    
    How about we have government do this. Devote 3 years to stopping the waste and getting all the settings right. And then take 3 years off. Unless there is some kind of disaster just STOP. Don’t pass any laws or announce new spending or ban things. Suspend parliament for 3 years. New Zealand would be a better place.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:02am
    - JackRabbit
      
      #169. Dunedin hospital delay working group
      
      Why do you need a taking group to investigate delays to a project you haven’t even started?
      
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      October 3, 2020 11:54am
  - JackRabbit
    
    Lots of talking heads then.
    
    “Fuel Price Inquiry $1,500,000.”
    
    Cost to determine that fuel prices are set by competition: Less than one minute: $30.
    
    Cost to determine that fuel prices have been increased by Labour’s “we will not increase tax” fuel tax, and the 50% of fuel prices are taxes / levies. A self evident statement – 20 seconds = $20.
    
    Meetings, airline flights, champagne, prawn cocktails and GBA = $1,499, 950.
    
    Being voted out for said extravagance: Priceless.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:38am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Bill Felt – Great, maybe this could form the basis of another advert as discussed earlier on here re the broken promises indicator.
    It would cost a fortune to publish all this though.
    Could we form a working group to raise some money?
    
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    October 3, 2020 12:07pm
  - The Housekeeper
    
    OMG, didn’t think the scrolling would ever stop and got the giggles. Thanks Bill, legend.
    
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    October 3, 2020 4:48pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Oh, I was thinking along the lines of the policy success poster, but in one glance you can see why that won’t work.
    
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    October 3, 2020 6:03pm
- Ruahine
  
  The most useful thing discovered was likely to be that you can fool a lot of the people all of the time.
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:38am
- Gravelroad
  
  In answer to your questions Shaun:
  1. Dunno
  2. Heaps
  3. No
  
  Accountability and up-front efficiency are strangers to the CoL.
  Not to worry though, hundreds of people from far an wide got several nice shopping trips to Wellington at no cost to them, plus the best hotels and fine dining whilst there.
  And a chance to have a moan about stuff through presenting anecdotal “evidence”.
  A sweet gig.
  
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  October 3, 2020 12:01pm
GazzaW

I see that the Herald ‘journos’ are using their best scare tactics in the wake of Trump’s acquisition of Covid. Last night one headline predicted that the Dow Index would be sharply down this morning – it is in fact currently down just fifteen points and comfortably trading over 27,000 points. The second click bait this morning has proclaimed the ‘doomsday nuclear planes have taken tonight to the skies in the US’ and the feature photo is of a B-52 nuclear bomber.
On reading the column an extra couple of unarmed early warning/command post aircraft have been put into the air over the US coastline with their transponders on to show that the US defences remain on the alert in spite of the President being off duty.
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October 3, 2020 8:50am
- tf78
  
  Gazza, I’m sure when Trump took over the Dow was around 17,000 so that’s proof to me of how good he’s been for the American economy and the world’s for that matter.
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:45am
  - GazzaW
    
    Correct – and the media predicted a 50% fall, instead they have a 50%+ increase. How pathetically wrong could they have been?
    
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    October 3, 2020 3:18pm
Inandout

California never fails to amaze with their insanity. People and businesses in their thousands have escaped the State and it has huge homeless problems. No more fossil fueled vehicles; yeah right.
https://trends.gab.com/trend-feed/5f775c904eb99611d5eff64b
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October 3, 2020 9:00am
- Benedict Yu
  
  California sounds hideous. You can see why places like Arizona and Texas are booming. And they have accommodated huge population increases while keeping housing affordable. And they don’t have anything like the RMA. So there’s that.
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:06am
  - PhilBest
    
    That is an important observation. The way urban growth is “allowed” in much of the USA, especially the southern states, has demonstrated that systemic housing affordability and the world’s fastest urban growth can occur together. In fact the affordability is one of the things incentivizing the growth. I tried to tell the John Key government at least a decade ago, that NZ could position itself for real growth including in house-building, as opposed to a bubble based on inflation of urban land prices, by doing proper reforms of the RMA etc. There would be no harm at all from real growth being even greater because of people fleeing Australia’s high house prices, and the harms and distortions from an urban land price bubble could be averted.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:54am
Tomtoddy

Where is Kelvin?
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October 3, 2020 9:01am
- pdm
  
  Witless protection.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:12am
- krazykiwi
  
  Who?
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:15am
  - GazzaW
    
    The cardboard cutout who sits next to Robbo.
    
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    October 3, 2020 9:50am
    - mandk
      
      You know Kelvin doesn’t exist, don’t you?
      
      He’s just a ventriloquist’s dummy Robertson likes to use in parliament.
      
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      October 3, 2020 12:29pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Just found him – as motionless as ever!
  Bugger, it’s a Te Tai Tokerau billboard photo.
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:00am
  - sooty
    
    Is it moving?
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:43am
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      spose eventually…. crap always does!
      
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      October 3, 2020 11:21am
- Catgurl13
  
  He was talking rubbish in The Hui prog today,making a fool.of himself.
  
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  October 3, 2020 1:53pm
PhilBest

I see India is the latest nation to do a random testing program for Covid-19 antibodies to see how many people have been asymptomatically infected. The result is “ten times as many as known infections”.

What is the game with NZ? Are we just a make-believe first world nation, that actually doesn’t have the capability for utilising modern medical science? Or would the facts be inconvenient for someone’s agenda? Saint Ashley actually said at one point, “we don’t believe asymptomatic infection is a thing in NZ”. Well if that is the case, we need to get real first world medical researchers down here to study why we are so unique. But it would be nice to know in the first place by actually doing the antibodies random trials.

Unfortunately there is such a thing as leaving this too late, as antibodies do fade out over time. This does not mean, however, that immunity has been lost. Contra the lies of the alarmists.

https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/09/28/herd-immunity-without-antibodies/
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October 3, 2020 9:09am
- PhilBest
  
  It is worth adding, as the linked essay points out, that even the antibodies testing does not give the whole picture for infections, as around twice as many people as those who develop antibodies, defeat the virus with T cells. So if antibodies testing shows “ten times as many” as known infections, the true level is more like thirty times.
  
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  October 3, 2020 9:11am
- MCos
  
  ‘The result is “ten times as many as known infections”.‘
  
  That would then be 46,780/1,000,000 or 4.678%
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:01am
  - cmm
    
    Compare with, say, Spanish Flu where 30% of the world’s population showed symptoms and almost all the rest must have been infected with no symptoms.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:12am
- cmm
  
  The biggest difference between CV19 and anything that has come before is all the extra data we have. Until we’ve been through a few pandemics with all this extra data, we really don’t know what the data means and how to interpret it.
  
  It’s a bit like all the new climate change data coming off satellites – especially the GNSSRO satellites that are being launched this year and – effectively – do a CAT scan of the atmosphere providing more accurate weather/climate data than has every been achieved before. All this extra data does not tell us much until we have something to benchmark against.
  
  In the past there was no testing. The only way to say someone was infected was to see symptoms. Asymptomatic cases were not counted.
  
  Now we have a completely different situation. 170 positive cases were found at a UK meat processing plant – every single one asymptomatic.
  
  We’re no longer comparing apples to apples. No wonder the numbers and the fear are massively inflated.
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:10am
  - PhilBest
    
    Exactly! But what baffles me is why people think of this “much higher infections than we knew” as bad and terrifying news rather than good news! It means Covid-19 is comparable to the common cold, which might be scary too if we suddenly got a whole lot of data on it, tracking the cases, counting every old person with one foot in the grave already, who had a cold when they died. Covid-19 is obviously nothing like the 1918 virus.
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:59am
  - PhilBest
    
    Besides being in an era of data availability, we are in an era where common sense is in inverse proportion. This is true of many things, there has never been so much information available and yet so much prevalence of mistaken beliefs, fake news, and officially institutionalized fraud.
    
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    October 3, 2020 11:01am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Does the Chief MoH have any qualifications for his role? Why haven’t our statisticians cried “foul”?
  
  Ramdom sampling of a population is a required practice for statistical inference. Now it is seen as interference with the political messaging. We had charts presented day after day showing how the numbers were climbing along with the pipes, drums and laments designed to frighten all.
  
  Those presentations were phoney–a good demonstration of lying with data. They didn’t have the grade of statistics. Any amateur spinmeister should know that if you present a series of daily numbers in an additive form they march excitingly upwards. Their only meaning is that the numbers were added to the previous daily total. Great for fear but useless as information.
  
  NZ was brazenly hoodwinked by the MoH, the Govt and the media. Ardern went hard, fast and loose against the people to scare them into her controlled pen. That was not govt but an attempted coup against the people.
  
  ☑️☑️NZ needs an accounting.☑️☑️
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:16am
  - PhilBest
    
    I repeat something I pointed out again and again in March and April. Those impressive “daily increases in infections” almost all related to a concentrated batch of infections that occurred via “superspreading” in a few places over a few days weeks before, and the gradual, “daily” increase was entirely a matter of the authorities finally catching up with those infected people. If you did a graph of “date of infection” instead of “date infection confirmed”, it would have shown a massive spike that then collapsed as soon as people started acting responsibly. Before lockdown even started.
    
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    October 3, 2020 11:06am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      That makes the charade worse.
      
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      October 3, 2020 12:24pm
      - PhilBest
        
        Exactly, it should be absolutely smashed by a good presentation of the reality that has been misrepresented. It baffles me that no-one is doing this.
        
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        October 3, 2020 10:04pm
I remember when

Although many in the media seem to hold on to the view that Cindy is an oracle, does the crown seem to be slipping?
The covid reports allowed her a platform that best suited her skill set. No opposition and the ability to spread news of COL achievements and how we were being kept safe.
Now she has been bested in consecutive debates and been shown to have no actual implementation ideas for some policies.
It has been good to see some hard questioning of all parties in interviews too.
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October 3, 2020 9:16am
Fisiani

So when the next TV1 poll comes out on Monday and Labour have dropped again to 44% and the greens are on 5% will the media report the growing swell for National
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October 3, 2020 9:31am
Rusty

A Labour/Greens coalition govt seems unthinkable but it it looks like a real probability.

But if this is what the majority of Nzers want then so be it.

Seems Kiwis don’t care or don’t want to know Jacinda is a [del. mod.] socialist/communist along with the Greens

Mind you the biased and pro-Jacinda media have made sure the public doesn’t know her real agendas for this country.
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October 3, 2020 9:35am
- DeepBlue
  
  Stuff had an article on David’s polling assessment that there is a low probability of all 3 things needed for National/Act government occurring. I hope some of the swing voters will see this and understand how Labour is really Labour with Greens.
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:11am
- tf78
  
  Rusty the problem with the bloody greens it seems that the only asset owned by one of them is a COUCH! No wonder they’re happy to take assets from hard working Kiwi’s. They don’t know what it’s like to work towards securing your own future and that of your children. Time to be rid of them once and for all.
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:56am
  - Dougal10
    
    On a 150k a year salary she must be smoking some pretty fancy weed to only own a couch.
    
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    October 3, 2020 1:03pm
- alloytoo
  
  I personally think the more the polls show a possibility of Labour Greens government the more worried ex-nats will shift back to National.
  
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  October 3, 2020 3:55pm
JibberJabber

Avoiding the Fate of Empires.
https://quillette.com/2020/09/30/pasha-glubb-and-avoiding-the-fate-of-empires/

He called the penultimate stage of empire the “Age of Intellect.” This is often seen in the moment as an empire’s golden age. Higher education becomes widespread, and scientific and technological advances abound. And yet, Glubb noted, time and again—from Ancient Athens to the Arab Caliphate to China’s Song dynasty—an empire’s intellectual peak arrives just moments before its fall. As a result, Glubb was intensely suspicious of intellectualism, which he viewed as a product of the “softness” of the “Age of Affluence”—all talk and no action, inventing justifications for why the nation should no longer fight, and conquer, and grow rich.
Glubb was careful not to stray into anti-intellectualism—there is no reason, he wrote, that a nation’s success should be measured in terms of monetary rather than academic achievement. But he worried that a side-effect of the “Age of Intellect” is that increasing political chatter often raises internal political divisions above external threats in the public consciousness.
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October 3, 2020 9:36am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Glubb Pasha who was the Commander of Jordan’s Arab Legion.
  
  The best trained army in the ME at the time.
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:23am
Humble Capitalist

Comrade Ardern’s ‘climate ermergency’ = emissions up 17% under her watch.
Thats all Judith Collins needed to say the other night.
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October 3, 2020 10:05am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  ‘emergency’
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:20am
- SB2
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  ” emissions up 17% under her watch”
  
  ???
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:30am
  - softail 1450
    
    SB 2 ,is totally allergic to facts, they scare him and force him to seek out his safe space with his comfort blankie … [del. mod.]
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/comments_policy :Personal Abuse
    
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    October 3, 2020 10:52am
    - Tall Man
      
      Seen a few recent posts calling other posters liars and a few other choice phrases. Are those no longer regarded as abuse?
      
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      October 3, 2020 12:48pm
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    Well if emissions were 17% down it would be all thanks to Comrade Ardern. 17% up and we dont hear a thing.
    SB2 given the emergency you should be agreeing with me.
    
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    October 3, 2020 2:15pm
TWEEDSE

I installed a web browser plugin that blocked any untrue stories about how great St Cindy of the pestilence is.

But all I get is a blank page. Can anyone help?
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October 3, 2020 10:07am
- Ruahine
  
  Get the Radio New Zealand App.
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:42am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Sorry T – I think there’s a statement in the T&C’s that say’s this application will ALWAYS produce a zero return.
  
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  October 3, 2020 10:44am
Fletch

A.J Croce, the son of Jim Croce, sings his dad’s song, Time In A Bottle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlITVMC4qY8
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October 3, 2020 10:09am
- Don Beckett
  
  Thanks for that Fletch.
  I always admired Jim Croce and loved his songs. Sadly he was one of the many great artists who were ‘Gone too soon’ to quote Neil Diamond.
  His son does a great rendition – I hope he keeps it up and restores hid dad’s memory.
  
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  October 3, 2020 5:27pm
  - Fletch
    
    Yeh, I see there is another video by the same people showing Jim and A.J and his wife in old home movies, when A.J was a kid.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNPbavw50T8
    
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    October 3, 2020 8:10pm
Tall Man

So according to many here and elsewhere Trump is an arsehole and has done a dreadful job sorting covid but cindy did a great job and saved 80,000 lives.

Using the same calcs as the twit who calculated those 80,000 deaths, wouldn’t the USA suffered 5,280,000 deaths but due to Trump’s amazing skill the deaths have only just scraped to 200,000. Surely the left should be praising Trump.
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October 3, 2020 10:12am
Maggie Pie

Just back from a touch of early morning retail-therapy along the Remuera Strip. It’s a fab place to be on a bright sunny day….wonderful shops, wonderful people.
It occurred to me that one of the unexpected benefits of Auckland’s current water restrictions, is the ability to to identify ‘outsiders’ from the state of their motor vehicles.
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October 3, 2020 10:16am
- Observer of Life
  
  Maggie: LOL
  
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  October 4, 2020 12:03pm
emmess

The Green Party needs to follow ‘the science’ regarding this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoO3XQg27UQ
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October 3, 2020 10:23am
I remember when

Among my reading was the following:-
“My family goes to church but I don’t know when – or if – we’ll go back.”
Is this a common reaction and what effect will it have on the local churches?
Will Islam become the leader of religious participation in New Zealand?
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October 3, 2020 10:24am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Not bloomin’ likely.
  
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  October 3, 2020 5:16pm
NK

Just voted, National electorate vote, Act Party vote.

yes to both referendum questions.

It’s all over. May as well announce the new government now – Nact 🙂
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October 3, 2020 10:33am
- marcw
  
  Just got off the phone from the Electoral Commission asking why my Voting Package hasn’t arrived (Ezi-vote card, Party Lists etc). Apparently, because of Covid-19 these are delayed and may not be delivered until 9 October.
  
  Amazing eh, how the power of a virus has jumped from infecting emails to snail mail now. Or did James Shaw have anything to do with the election, since he also couldn’t organise a Census?
  
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  December 3, 2019 12:07pm
  - JibberJabber
    
    Got ours last week. ?
    
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    October 3, 2020 12:38pm
    - marcw
      
      Mt Albert? Wellington Central?
      
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      October 3, 2020 12:43pm
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        Helensville, Northwest AK
        
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        October 3, 2020 2:00pm
      - marcw
        
        Sorry JJ, I was being ironic, not nosey – Mt Albert (Jacinda) and Wellington Central (Robbo) are deep red electorates, so will have had priority for delivery. 🙂
        
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        October 3, 2020 3:15pm
- RJ
  
  Yeah, just voted as well and got told to keep the pen, so everyone gets a free pen
  
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  October 3, 2020 11:38am
  - rockape
    
    Did it say vote labour on it?
    
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    October 3, 2020 1:02pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      But of course. Expect nothing less
      
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      October 3, 2020 1:34pm
- Chris Morgan
  
  That’s nice. Can’t vote here in the East Coast Bays until Level 1. Can you believe that?! Not happy.
  
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  October 3, 2020 11:41am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    If voting is possible now in Mt Eden WHY not East Coast Bays?
    
    Is the election being subverted by discriminatory ballot practices? I would expect at least one Early Voting Place to be open.
    
    This could be an awful trick to have National electorates report after Labour.
    
    Citizenship has rights.
    
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    October 3, 2020 5:13pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Early voting places are open in East Coast Bays, according to the Elections NZ website.
    
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    October 3, 2020 6:31pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Thats the first time Ive heard of anyone going hard and going early this year
  
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  October 3, 2020 2:17pm
- HeatherW
  
  Dearest leader cast her vote at the Mt Eden War Memorial Hall (Dominion Rd Akld) this morning, on the edge of the Mt Albert electorate. So much on the edge (boundary is middle of Dominion Rd) that she and boyfriend were directed to the special vote desks as the orange local electorate boxes only listed Epsom and Mt Roskill. So no photo of her placing vote in box labelled Mt Albert.
  
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  October 3, 2020 2:36pm
Catgurl13

Kelvin Davis just stated on The Hui prog that Labour has built 6k houses…….
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October 3, 2020 10:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  That’s probably not a lie. They may well have built 60000 houses since the first labour govt in 1935
  
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  October 3, 2020 1:36pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    6000* ffs
    
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    October 3, 2020 1:37pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  The ones planned and consented under the 9 years of neglect when government was so bad that LAB got their asses whooped in 4 consecutive elections
  
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  October 3, 2020 2:19pm
I remember when

The latest ‘Central Leader’ has an opinion piece by Tony Holman on their drought and the resulting fire dangers. He draws attention to a NIWA map which shows widespread rainfall deficit across much of the country (climate change is inferred). Mentions of Australia and United States fires.
NIWA map for 3/8/20 to 2/10/20 however show most of the country had normal rainfall for this period. Although the 2/9/20 to 2/10/20 map shows the top third of the NI as again in deficit.
The article has points made under ‘future-proofing ourselves’ which starts with the following:-
‘A fire ban throughout the country with all Councils and the Police to enforce it.’
While this is obviously what needs to be done once conditions are dry enough it appears to miss the major argument.
In both Australian and US fires mention was made of the need to allow small controllable fires to prevent the build-up of combustible material.
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October 3, 2020 10:48am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Aussie BOM has declared a LaNina for this summer… Rain is on the way (we think)
  
  https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/climate-update-la-nina-arrives-but-will-it-actually-impact-new-zealand
  
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  October 3, 2020 11:04am
  - marcw
    
    I wish I had become a weatherman – it’s the only job where you can be wrong every day and still not be fired. 🙂
    
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    October 3, 2020 11:21am
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      Hopefully not- I thought the electorate could fire Labour if enough sheeple see common sense.
      
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      October 3, 2020 12:25pm
    - rockape
      
      How right biggest bloomer was our met man at RAF St mawgan telling us there was a 5% chance of snow. He had been in the ops bunker all night, we had walked through 6 inches of snow to get to his briefing! He was a mate and later admitted his accuracy would be better if he said ,” what you have today is what you will get tomorrow”
      
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      October 3, 2020 12:55pm
- NK
  
  Tony Holman can be ignored by sensible people. The problem is a lot of people are not sensible.
  
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  October 3, 2020 11:05am
Maggie Pie

And have you noticed how it’s always the ‘less well off’ that say the care for the environment.
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October 3, 2020 10:56am
- Albert_Ross
  
  I have noticed no such thing. The one time I went to a local Forest and Bird meeting it seemed to me that the other attendees were for the most part well off (from their dress) and well educated (from what they said). What survey evidence can you cite in support of your statement?
  
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  October 3, 2020 11:00am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner is in fact a Member and an Honorary Ranger WITH Forest And Bird, Al.
    Has been for more than a decade.
    
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    October 3, 2020 11:55am
    - rangitoto
      
      Was your partner one of the commies that carried out the hostile takeover?
      
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      October 3, 2020 12:56pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        May have been before i arrived on the scene Rangi?
        These days, the ‘Honorary Ranger’ badge comes in handy around duck shooting time. Allows him to clear away any maimais that he thinks are set up to close to his or his dads.
        
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        October 3, 2020 2:34pm
      - chukar
        
        Fish and Game ,Forest-and Bird.
        Yep, the urban based entitled who get the benefits of other people’s ( farmers ) efforts.
        And they know so much more than property owners about the rural environment!
        
        It is fascinating to see the “promised “ RMA reforms.
        Built (City)reforms ,rural ,the abuse continues.
        
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        October 3, 2020 9:56pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Honorary rangers are Fish & Game, aren’t they? I don’t think Forest & Bird has rangers.
      
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      October 3, 2020 6:29pm
- bruceavon
  
  Not my experience. I know two lawyers who vote Greens. And some of the parents at Ponsonby schools my kids went to. None of them poor.
  
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  October 3, 2020 2:10pm
Fletch

Apparently the Dems are parading yet another whistle blower (first I’ve heard of it), so here we go again ?
I don’t now anything about it all, but Nunes makes a scorching first statement, eviscerating the Dems for wasting more of their time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2pnTWlp76k
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October 3, 2020 10:58am
- Mike
  
  Is Devin still suing Twitter, his Mom, and his cow?
  
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  October 3, 2020 1:00pm
softail 1450

Good grief the proof that the Maori party isn’t serious about election sucsess is glaring for all to see,they chose John Tamihere as their leader a man that came 4th or 5th in the Auckland mayoral race despite spending tens of thousands of other people’s money on his campaign.
This guy is in such an intense love affair with himself that he completely discounts the fact that he’s not fricking wanted anywhere.
[ final sentence deleted. Insulting to Moko tattoos by associating them with John Tamihere ?]
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October 3, 2020 11:02am
- RJ
  
  He came second in the mayoral race
  
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  October 3, 2020 11:54am
waripori

ACT bus tour is in the Wairarapa. Went to see David Seymour and his band last night. Never met him before and you have to be impressed. His best line was when he was asked if ACT could work with Labour. He said it would be a problem because of their skill shortage.

Not a bad crowd in.
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October 3, 2020 11:29am
SB2

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Careful reflection sugests that the Presiden’t Covid infection could well be fake.

Indespite of the dramatics and finally wearing a facemark and admission to Walter Reed.

Currying sympathy votes etc.

However its only a surmise.

Just learnt his White house doctor is an Osteopath.

Hmmm…
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October 3, 2020 11:45am
- RJ
  
  Oh look, here is the member who claimed that covid was nothing, that anyone posting about it was fear mongering. You have zero credibility with anything but goats
  
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  October 3, 2020 12:34pm
- rangitoto
  
  Is SB2 a fake or a flake?
  
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  October 3, 2020 12:38pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Both
    
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    October 3, 2020 1:42pm
- Mike
  
  An osteopath? Great, and I suppose there’s an astrologer and a faith healer on the staff as well.
  
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  October 3, 2020 1:26pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Nah Mike. You got confused with Labour Party staff, even in young labour
    
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    October 3, 2020 3:37pm
- JibberJabber
  
  This is the typical Leftist Modus Operandi, already covering the bases, when Trump recovers “fake, was never sick”, if it becomes serious enough for him to withdraw ” it serves him right, good job for not wearing a mask, told ya so.”
  A several narratives are already in play from the Fake News Network.
  
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  October 3, 2020 1:46pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  His Dr is a USN Surgeon Commander. Doubt they would have osteopaths
  
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  October 3, 2020 3:01pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  No,
  He is an osteopathic physician…
  quite different qualifications from that of an osteopath.
  Osteopathic physicians are doctors with full, unlimited medical practice rights, who can specialize in any branch of medical care. An osteopathic physician has achieved the nationally recognized academic and professional standards within his or her country to practice diagnosis and provide treatment as a medical doctor. Their key difference from medical doctors (MDs) is that they have completed education at a school that also integrates principles of osteopathic philosophy and training in OMT.
  
  Osteopaths (practicing osteopathy) are primary contact health providers with limited practice rights, who do not prescribe pharmaceuticals, perform surgery, or complete various other functions of a full-fledged doctor. An osteopath is a person who has achieved the nationally recognized academic and professional standards within his or her country to provide osteopathy.
  
  https://oialliance.org/about-us/osteopathic-medicine-and-osteopathy/
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Osteopathic_Medicine
  
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  October 3, 2020 3:47pm
  - Mike
    
    Yeah, it means he has qualified as a real doctor and as a fake doctor…
    
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    October 3, 2020 5:32pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Long time no see. No improvement either.
  Enjoy my news: ☑️☑️ today and No to old people being topped off by rellies. No also to the Cannabis tax grab.
  
  This COL has go to go.
  
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  October 3, 2020 5:03pm
Fletch

The unemployment rate in the U.S right now, is the same as before Obama was reelected in 2012.

The U.S. economy added 661,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate fell to 7.9%. That rate matches the same rate in the last jobs report before President Barack Obama was re-elected in 2012

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/10/02/trumps-7-9-unemployment-rate-is-same-as-when-obama-was-re-elected/

The media thought the number was great then, but it’s not so great now… somehow.
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October 3, 2020 12:03pm
- MCos
  
  The media didn’t think the unemployment rate was great then.
  
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  October 3, 2020 8:40pm
Mummy

Well my 92 yo dad who moved from the Ohariu electorate to the Mana electorate in August has received two different official notifications from the Electoral Commission telling him he’s registered for both. How does that happen? How many other people who recently moved house to a different electorate have received the same thing? Fortunately he’s going to vote blue candidate, ACT party, no to drugs and no to the other one.
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October 3, 2020 1:02pm
- Prince
  
  We’ve received six voting cards for a 2 person household. I’m reluctant to use them all as, for all I know, they might actually vote.
  It seems very messy.
  
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  October 3, 2020 6:23pm
- MCos
  
  Being registered in two electorates is an offence. Tell him to sort his shit out.
  
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  October 3, 2020 8:25pm
JibberJabber

Covid panics after testing positive for Trump,

https://twitter.com/Will_of_Ockham/status/1312184195729383424

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October 3, 2020 1:40pm
greybeard

Stuff has gone completely insane with this “Aotearoa” rubbish.
They must be paid for each time they print it.
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October 3, 2020 2:02pm
- Unity
  
  If you ask me the whole country seems to have gone mad with things Maori. I’m fed up with it. We are ear-bashed all the time on TV and everything is being renamed in made-up Maori. It’s time to push back. We are getting to end up a Zimbabwe country the way we are going. We all speak English but our children are going to grow up speaking pidgen English. All Maori today have other heritage. I’m wondering if they have pushed all of that to one side which really denigrates one part of their ancestry. Aren’t they proud of their other side/s?
  
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  October 3, 2020 2:52pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Total bullshit from made up Moari. Push back. I am going to have a ‘hikareti’ The whole fucking packet.
    Maybe not – stopped years ago.
    These jerks have too many ‘kareti’ up their arses
    
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    October 3, 2020 3:43pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      ‘hikareti’ Sikaloti.
      
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      October 3, 2020 4:58pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Their other sides can’t make claims against the govt.
    
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    October 3, 2020 4:56pm
- Mike
  
  Yes. Every time someone buys one of the Stuff newspapers, they pay for the word ‘Aotearoa’, and every other word. Pretty wild, huh?
  
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  October 3, 2020 3:07pm
- Inandout
  
  grey, like their climate bullshit Maori is settled, discussions will not be entered into. I worry not about local news because I get grown up feed from the internet.
  
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  October 3, 2020 4:43pm
I remember when

Another new case at the border!
Does that mean there has been another inwards flight from India?
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October 3, 2020 2:14pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Depends if Jaspinda gets a vote from that person – they are DESPERATE
  
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  October 3, 2020 3:45pm
- HeatherW
  
  New case from England via Hong Kong.
  
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  October 3, 2020 4:05pm
- MCos
  
  As of 11-Sept about 10% of imported cases came from India. Well over 50% from the UK & USA https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/122705912/covid19-an-indepth-look-at-the-origins-of-new-zealands-imported-coronavirus-cases
  
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  October 3, 2020 8:20pm
Critical Thinker

The Michigan Supreme Court has found Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s lock down unconstitutional.

“The Court concluded the Emergency Powers of Governor Act is in violation of the Constitution of our state because it purports to delegate to the executive branch the legislative powers of state government.

They ruled that Whitmer had tried to hijack the legislative powers of the Michigan legislature. All of those businesses that have failed and all the ensuing bankruptcies can be laid at her feet.”

“We argued from the beginning that unlimited powers for a politician were a terrible idea. Today, we know that they are also unconstitutional.”

Michigan is now unlocked ??

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2020/05/very_good_people.html
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October 3, 2020 2:32pm
Maggie Pie

One of the girls from Tennis asked me this morning if I was seeing anybody. I immediately thought she meant a psychiatrist.
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October 3, 2020 3:31pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You are? Trick cyclist I mean. I am too. They are the ones with deadpan faces. Wish they would go away
  
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  October 3, 2020 3:47pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, aren’t two serving balls enough for you ladies?
  
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  October 3, 2020 4:46pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Normally, if the first one is deep enough.
    
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    October 3, 2020 4:55pm
Critical Thinker

Doomsayers Keep Getting It Wrong ?

“Experts” at Imperial College London told us: shut things down for COVID-19, or more than 2 million Americans will die. They also said, even if the whole population socially-distanced, more than 1 million will die by August.

Too often, such rhetoric is used to shut down dissent.

“There is no such thing as ‘THE science’,” according to science journalist Matt Ridley. “There is science. And science consists of people disagreeing with each other.”

In the case of that failed COVID-19 model, we all should have been wary. The same researchers had an awful track record, having predicted 136,000 deaths from mad cow disease, 65,000 from swine flu, and 200 million from bird flu. The actual number of deaths, for each of those diseases, was in the hundreds!

Models constantly over-predict disaster — whether COVID-19, climate change, or resource depletion.”

The video below explains ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YpfJgVZ5ow
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October 3, 2020 3:42pm
- Critical Thinker
  
  According to the WHO, 750 million people have caught Covid. Which, at just over 1 million deaths, would put the death rate at 1 in 750 – or 0.13%. Which puts covid at around the same death rate as the flu ?
  
  “An estimated 750 million, or 10 per cent of the world’s population, have been infected by Covid-19.” – World Health Organisation director Dr Mike Ryan
  
  He criticised the lack of a global response to plans to raise some US$32 billion for the Covid-19 accelerator programme to produce diagnostic tools and vaccines when they are available to deal with the virus.
  
  “For $32 billion we can develop a vaccine equitably for everyone in the world.”
  
  Dr Ryan said he was “somewhat cynical or at least depressed at the prospect of whether the world will wake up and we will actually see that epidemics are yet another consequence of our poor planetary and ecosystem management.”
  
  “In the end we will be putting out these fires again and again. We have put almost no defence up against the Earth-killing things that are there such as climate change and infectious diseases.”
  
  He exempted New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Arden from criticism.
  https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/covid-19-world-in-for-a-hell-of-a-ride-in-coming-months-dr-mike-ryan-says-1.4370626
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  October 3, 2020 4:12pm
  - Critical Thinker
    
    Mike Ryan WHO – 750 Million cases (IFR 0.13%), innate immunity, cross-protection from other corona
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tV6YuYVzU
    
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    October 3, 2020 4:31pm
- Critical Thinker
  
  Just published in Nature: 81% unexposed showed T cell response to CV19 despite never having it. Maybe due to existing coronavirus strains they’ve been previously exposed to ?
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-020-00808-x
  
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  October 3, 2020 5:05pm
Prince

Nice ad for Labour Flaxmere candidate Anna Lorck on Labour’s TV One News tonight.
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