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mikenmildagain

If you found yesterday’s celebrations for Edible Book Day a little hard to swallow, today’s commemoration might be more to your taste. Happy International Children’s Book Day!
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April 2, 2021 8:00am
- Harriet
  
  Happy International Adults News Service Day!
  
  “…Sky News host Andrew Bolt says New Zealand’s “backstabbing government” is “sucking up to the Chinese dictatorship” after New Zealand refused to join 14 other countries challenging the World Health Organization’s report on the origins of COVID-19.
  
  NZ’s ‘backstabbing govt’ is ‘sucking up to the Chinese dictatorship’ : Bolt
  
  “We need China to allow a proper investigation. I’m talking about the report from the team whose visit to China was very tightly controlled. A team that despite saying, oh no, no, no – this virus almost certainly didn’t escape from one of the two Chinese labs that just coincidently worked on bat viruses like this in the very city, Wuhan, where this pandemic started,” Mr Bolt said.
  
  “No, said this report. China is innocent. This virus came from bats via some animal we don’t know. In fact, it might have even started outside China, and come in on frozen food. Which china has been claiming – to dodge responsibility for three million deaths.
  
  “Now, New Zealand wouldn’t join Australia and all those other democracies which said ‘rubbish report’. What a cop-out. It’s had plenty of time to check the draft of that report. What’s more, even the head of the WHO himself said on Tuesday his own report could not be trusted.
  
  “New Zealand is China’s tool. Letting itself be used to split opposition to China. To split the democracies and help the dictatorship.
  
  “New Zealanders, I love your country, but are you proud that you have a prime minister that sells out your friends to please a dictator?”
  
  $1uffall have the receipts. 😎
  
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  April 2, 2021 3:14pm
Scott

Something is different in the atmosphere today. Can you feel it? It’s Good Friday. It’s a spiritual day. It’s a Jesus day. Welcome to those who come to church Easter and Christmas. It’s lovely to see you ?
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April 2, 2021 8:18am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I may not front up, it does not stop me having faith tho’ . . .
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:18am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    So at 11.23 this comment is still in moderation.
    
    Whose Christian, or other feelings, have I offended which makes my comment unacceptable?
    
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    April 2, 2021 11:24am
    - CJames
      
      Paulus – the moderators might have gone to church. Or they might have decided to have a life. It a thankless task for which there are a lot of complaints but no praise. If you are so upset about it, why don’t you become a moderator?
      
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      April 2, 2021 6:09pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  A blessed Easter to you all.
  
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  April 2, 2021 11:13am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  In Cindy I Trust. She is my GOD. She saved lives.
  
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  April 2, 2021 1:09pm
Ruahine

Labour making it easier for the law breakers.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/04/drug-driving-criminal-limits-to-be-introduced-in-parliament.html
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April 2, 2021 8:25am
- Tall Man
  
  But what if they have kiddie porn on their phone at the same time …….
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:25am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Instant lose of knighthood for you then?
    
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    April 2, 2021 1:05pm
- Maxx
  
  It’s almost like once you get to a point there’s an incentive to keep going
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:31am
Maggy Wassilieff

Michael Bassett on Light Rail in Auckland:

Light rail comes on top of Kiwibuild, ending child poverty, and housing the homeless. This government is nothing more than a collection of willful children blundering about clutching the taxpayers’ and ratepayers’ credit cards, shifting from one cow pat to another.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/auckland-s-light-rail?postId=60657f29b449780015dc80a1
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April 2, 2021 8:31am
- Frank the tank
  
  A perfect summary. Alas most of NZ agrees and supports with them.
  
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  April 2, 2021 8:44am
  - Tall Man
    
    No they don’t but the media says they do.
    
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    April 2, 2021 9:25am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  The Spin-off says Michael Bassett is racist and out of touch – so there…!
  
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  April 2, 2021 8:45am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Being racist and out of touch doesn’t necessarily mean he is wrong about light rail.
    
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    April 2, 2021 9:15am
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      Well, I do believe that certain elements encourage broad spectrum smearing
      
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      April 2, 2021 10:44am
    - Tall Man
      
      Are you accusing Michael Bassett of being a racist.
      
      I think moderation overlooked that.
      
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      April 2, 2021 11:04am
      - JimBobJoe
        
        Of course it did. Mikey gets away with a lot
        
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        April 2, 2021 12:16pm
      - CJames
        
        I would say being charitable and even knowing Milkie’s form, all he is pointing out is because someone may be wrong in one area, doesn’t make them wrong elsewhere. For all his numerous faults, there was more than a few issues Winton Peters was right on. Light rail in Auckland was a notable one.
        
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        April 2, 2021 6:14pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Mikey,
      
      Twyford was enamoured, maybe even “captured”, by the Greater Auckland blog. The writers are all public transport advocates who pulled the Labour Party into both light rail, and high-speed passenger rail between Auckland, Hamilton & Tauranga.
      
      Both are dead ends.
      
      Winston was more realistic and acted as a handbrake on both initiatives. On those things at least I think he was right.
      
      But with Winston out of the picture we’re back to the Labour Party (Woods now) doing their best raving loony impression, with the Greens cheering them on.
      
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      April 2, 2021 1:04pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      There’s nothing right about light rail. How many ponies will they take to do 50kph?
      
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      April 2, 2021 1:40pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    ahhh an ist, must be evil and canceled immediately!
    
    Free the world of all ist’s!
    
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    April 2, 2021 9:24am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      12.00 got up your nose again have I?
      
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      April 2, 2021 12:00pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Cripes, don’t you socialistas dislike getting it on the chin.
    What’s racist: The Maori Caucus.
    What’s out of touch: believing that ideology provides a fix for anything except its leaders desire for power and eventual control of the serfs. Money is a great toy, you can make magnificent inflation with it.
    
    Help keep Cindy in the play pen so she can do less damage before she retires from stress.
    
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    April 2, 2021 11:21am
- cmm
  
  All true, except the cowpat bit…
  
  This lot would never get their hands dirty.
  
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  April 2, 2021 8:55am
  - kowtow
    
    Well , they would , but it wouldn’t be cow pat …….
    
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    April 2, 2021 9:16am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    They walk upright donchakno, might drag there knuckles on the ground making your point somewhat valid, but upright man!
    
    Sorry it, terf or whatever of the 463 available genders or mental disorder you care to identify with . . .
    
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    April 2, 2021 9:27am
- Justitia
  
  “Willful children?” Incompetents and liars who enjoy unbridled power. As our host suggested in a tweet yesterday, they are dangerous. God knows what might be left of New Zealand in 2023.
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:17am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Maybe it’s just me but I would have added….
  “Light rail comes on top of Kiwibuild, ending child poverty, and housing the homeless. This government is nothing more than a collection of willful children blundering about clutching the taxpayers’ and ratepayers’ credit cards, shifting from one cow pat to another…………..”
  
  to keep their own feet warm.
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:07pm
- virtualmark
  
  A simple reality … life is self-correcting. If you are a muppet (ie if you are a political party that thinks building light rail down Dominion Road makes sense) then the reality is that the majority of the population will eventually realise this, your public support will drop, and your opponent’s chances of winning the next election improve.
  
  A simple challenge … what will National do? An on-to-it opposition would bang the drum about what a terrible cost:benefit story this is, offer some better alternatives for how that public money could be invested (or not even spent), and win the next election.
  
  But so far I hear crickets from National.
  
  I believe an increasing portion of the population are growing jaded with Saint Jacinda and are beginning to think Labour are muppets. But so far National hasn’t given those people any reason to think National would be a better/different government.
  
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  April 2, 2021 1:09pm
TWEEDSE

Labour are having to change their underwear after being in full spin about “the new” Tauhara Power Station. And how it is all about their push to sustainable power generation and how wonderful Labour is.

A cursory glance at Wiki shows Tauhara Power Station stage 1 is already built and produces 25MW, 1/10 of one of the generator units at Huntley.

Stage 2 Tauhara Power Station is about to be started. However the application for resource consents for the 250MW power station was submitted in February 2010. The then Minister for the Environment, Nick Smith, determined that this project was one of national significance. In the intervening time, Contact has been drilling to establish viability for the project.

In 2010 it was the National government led by John Key who was in power.

So true to Labours habit of lying, it is nothing to do with them, it is National who got this project of the ground.

More lies from Spindy and doctor do little woods.
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April 2, 2021 8:38am
- Gravelroad
  
  @Tweedse – why spoil good propaganda and spin with facts?
  The people will believe why they are told to believe.
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:32am
- virtualmark
  
  A largely unknown fact … geothermal plants have quite significant CO2 emissions.
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:47am
  - rouppe
    
    Interesting article supporting that
    
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    April 2, 2021 12:35pm
- kevn
  
  @Tweed… Every time I travel at speed, safely and economically, on the North Island expressways, I thank John Key. Remember he kicked that roading programme off
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:07am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Have a look at this for your next power station:
  https://brilliantlightpower.com/
  
  Commercial sales coming on stream. 250Mw in 23 ganged 25Mw units of 15 sqm ea.
  
  Coal, oil, wind, PV, nuclear, are obsolete.
  
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  April 2, 2021 11:40am
  - Happy1
    
    Your are one day late Kev. It’s the second of April.
    
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    April 2, 2021 3:44pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      It’s no leg pull, there’s a another public demo scheduled later this month.
      
      Things are hotting up in this area. Lately the US Navy has joined the patent applicants.
      The phenomena being researched are not new. EVO’s (exotic vacuum objects were found in early vacuum tubes and designers had to work around them. (They appear something like tiny or microscopic balls of lightening.)
      
      I’m bringing these to attention now as universities world wide have been intensely investigating strange energy for years and it seems to be moving now to a fast commercial climax.
      The science may not be settled for years but we may be in just in time to replace our old fuels and to provide cheap limitless electricity without using the primo birdkillers now used for generation from wind.
      
      God gives us hope for the future.
      
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      April 2, 2021 6:14pm
  - CJames
    
    Brought to you by the people who have gone on to bigger things than selling bridges. Anyone who believes in this stuff, and that includes you Kev, failed School Cert Physics.
    
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    April 2, 2021 6:18pm
igm

Pity we did not have the same decent media here:
https://trc.taboola.com/skynewsau/log/3/click?pi=%2Fpage%2Fandrew-bolt&ri=dc61fd9ddec99588f464549b84bac918&sd=v2_90230c10ddeb675606a525b2b4cdabfd_fec7801a-cc40-4055-8e5d-4cf2e7cdacd5-tuct75f948b_1617305818_1617305938_CIi3jgYQhtFJGPzPyPeILyACKAMwpgE4rIMMQMuXEEjziN0DULnoIVgAYABo38zSnaSa47OwAQ&ui=fec7801a-cc40-4055-8e5d-4cf2e7cdacd5-tuct75f948b&it=text&ii=1188930746475490434&pt=text&li=rbox-t2v&sig=15167a76191647f1b8ffd987ad71d02a8519623a641f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skynews.com.au%2Fdetails%2F_6244906630001&vi=1617305937916&r=45&lti=deflated&ppb=CPMG&cpb=EhMyMDIxMDMzMS0xOC1SRUxFQVNFGJCh_tgEIMPJKyoZc2cudGFib29sYXN5bmRpY2F0aW9uLmNvbTIJd2F0ZXIzMTI2OIDcrMoHQKyDDEjLlxBQ84jdA1i56CFjCP4WEIogGBNkYwjXFhDUHxgjZGMI0gMQ4AYYCGRjCJYUEJccGBhkYwiqGhDZJBgZZGMI9BQQnh0YH2Q
Fact not fiction!
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April 2, 2021 8:41am
- igm
  
  Try try this . . .
  https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6245947097001
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:06am
  - tf78
    
    igm – I was just going to post that – brilliant from Andrew Bolt. I hope he keeps his job.
    
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    April 2, 2021 9:22am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    That WHO report is bullshit. The investigation team was given a “tour” of the virology lab at Wuhan. They had an army of minders and were not allowed to ask the scientists there any questions.
    
    Meanwhile the former head of the CDC in America has now come out and said that it is more likely than not that the virus escaped from the lab. This is not just a random guy. Former head of the CDC. He got my attention.
    
    We need to remember that the Chinese government has no interest whatsoever in “truth”.
    
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-lab-theory-robert-redfield-no-evidence/
    
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    April 2, 2021 10:29am
    - virtualmark
      
      The most likely cause of the Covid-19 outbreak is an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
      
      Not the certain cause, but the most likely cause.
      
      If you’re interested in this I recommend reading:
      https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html
      https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-wuhan-lab-leak-scenario-is-still-plausible/
      https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/03/22/why-covid-lab-leak-theory-wuhan-shouldnt-dismissed-column/4765985001/
      https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/josh-rogin-chaos-under-heaven-wuhan-lab-book-excerpt-474322
      
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      April 2, 2021 12:58pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    another nail in the coffin of CER
    
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    April 2, 2021 12:16pm
Ruahine

Not everyone is enamoured with ‘our’ wonderful Gov’t it would seem.

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6245947097001
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April 2, 2021 8:42am
- Tall Man
  
  The odds of that getting traction are about as long as Sir Ron keeping his “gong”.
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:40am
- crikey
  
  The article finishes with this:
  
  “New Zealand is China’s tool. Letting itself be used to split opposition to China. To split the democracies and help the dictatorship.
  
  “New Zealanders, I love your country, but are you proud that you have a prime minister that sells out your friends to please a dictator?”
  
  Uptick if you agree with the last sentence.
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:29am
  - virtualmark
    
    I’m not sure I’d characterise it as “selling out your friends to please a dictator”.
    
    More like successive New Zealand governments have “prioritised trade ahead of our traditional security alliances”.
    
    From Clark to Key to Ardern … both major political parties have prostrated themselves in front of China. Our farmers have benefited. Sort of. But I am convinced we are on the wrong path here.
    
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    April 2, 2021 1:01pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  They are only enamoured with themselves.
  
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  April 2, 2021 11:44am
Souvlaki

Funny I missed this headline in NZ papers:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/01/new-zealand-mental-health-crisis-has-worsened-under-labour-data-shows?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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April 2, 2021 8:52am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  No surprise with all of the lies and mindbending going on from Jaspinda and her cronies.
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:20am
- Tall Man
  
  The surprise would be if it actually appeared in the mainstream media here…..
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:43am
- EssenX
  
  You know things are bad when your own side, in this case the Guardian, is criticising you. There was also criticism in the Guardian by Dr Bryce Edwards about their housing reforms. The thinking left is beginning to realise this Government is ineffective. When will the sheeple wake up?
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:52am
I remember when

Hawke’s Bay’s massive new lake? Council proposes water storage expansion to stop streams drying up:
Te Tua Station, the site of an existing water storage scheme, expansion proposed by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council.
There is no truth to rumours that it is going to be called the Ruataniwha scheme rethink.
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April 2, 2021 8:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Ruataniwha 2. The goalposts just got moved again
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:21am
  - pdm
    
    Te Tua Staion is in the Bridge Pa/Raukawa area – some 50k’s from the original plans for the Ruataniwha Dam. It will not be feasible for water from Te Tua to service the Central Hawkes Bay area as far as I can work out.
    
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    April 2, 2021 12:57pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Massive new lake?
  Won’t the Greens put a stop to it?
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:34am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Cry me a river…
    
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    April 2, 2021 11:29am
  - DeepBlue
    
    Lakes cannot be bad if the alternative is a dust bowl, however some would say it is better to not farm these areas intensively, therefore as much water will not need storing. I think this is admirable, but not practical when we are still trying to feed 40M people from NZ. One part of the equation has to give.
    
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    April 2, 2021 12:08pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Just as with NZ, Aussie gives preference to ‘stars’
before its own citizens.

Celebrities in Australia anger stranded citizens over ‘double standard’

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55851074
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April 2, 2021 8:57am
- kowtow
  
  Elites always look after themselves , their own interests . Blue or Red team , matters not . Same the world over.
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:56am
Nickc2

Australia launches a scathing attack on NZ’s Foreign Policy! Do we deserve it? Of course, we do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlKkAuzpSuY
Socialism rears its ugly head.
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April 2, 2021 8:57am
- Chuck Bird
  
  We have the worst relationship with Australia ever.
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:31am
  - Nickc2
    
    I agree Chuck. She’s even outdone Helen Clark.
    
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    April 2, 2021 9:37am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Just shows us how repugnant the NZ Govt is
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:11am
- ngatimozart
  
  That’s not Australia attacking NZ foreign policy but a Murdoch mouthpiece and they rant and rave about as much as the idiots we have in the Beehive at the moment. Truth is if National was in government they would be pussyfooting it with the PRC as well.
  
  Of course Ardern’s running an anti Australian foreign policy; what do you expect considering her mentor, and Ardern’s going to make matters worse than Clark did.
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:49pm
Ruahine

This will not be in the NZ MSM on Sunday or any day for that matter.
https://www.rt.com/usa/519889-migrants-held-under-bridge-biden-crisis/
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April 2, 2021 9:07am
- Gravelroad
  
  I am sure Batman will be along shortly to tell us (Ad nauseam) that it is all the fault of Trump.
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:36am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I think he already did the other day. This is an assembly point where the msm is banned. The illegals come in at one end and then are bused away.
    Has to be Trumps fault //
    
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    April 2, 2021 10:14am
- virtualmark
  
  If you’re linking to something on Russia Today then you’re losing the argument straight away.
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:46am
- Inandout
  
  Little wonder Harris has walked away from the border fiasco. The grenade is back in Biden’s court. My God, what an awful administration.
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:29am
Im Right

Is it just me or now that the corona virus is not dominating the headlines people are starting to notice and question what has Ardens govt actually acheved in its 4th year.
Baby steps…baby steps, methinks the PM better stop the great unwashed from looking behind the curtain by announcing ‘the wedding’ that will take about 2 and a half years of drip feeding tidbits to feed the MSM before the actual wedding a few months before next election.
Sound feasable?
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April 2, 2021 9:13am
- Tall Man
  
  I don’t mind the baby steps it’s the full nappies she keeps leaving behind that bother me.
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:59am
- Dougal10
  
  But aren’t weddings a bit old fashioned for our youth adjacent pm.
  
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  April 2, 2021 11:08am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    A religious appropriation of an ancient ritual…
    Marx would not be pleased…//
    
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    April 2, 2021 12:24pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Ardern is now sucking Chinas dick. Great achievement
  
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  April 2, 2021 11:26am
  - Nickc2
    
    Whilst practicing for another kid before the next election.
    
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    April 2, 2021 11:28am
  - Ruahine
    
    This is a real metaphor on how business is done with the CCP. You have to give half of your property to the thief or you go to jail.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/123615384/zespri-signs-on-with-chinese-stateowned-firm-to-buy-illicit-sungold-kiwifruit
    
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    April 2, 2021 11:50am
Yvette

New Zealand mental health crisis has worsened under Labour, data shows – that must apparently be the data that is left in the report.

[Mental Health Foundation chief executive Shaun] Robinson was also concerned at the way this week’s report had been delayed, and now published without all the same data and analysis as previous years. The ministry blamed the delays on Covid-19. Particularly notable was the missing data on how many people were engaging with specialist mental health services – a statistic he said was “the centrepiece” of the government’s mental health plan. While the government had commissioned a national mental health inquiry in 2018, he said there still wasn’t a clear implementation plan.

After about a year in power, the government unveiled its “world-first” wellbeing budget in 2019, which drew international attention for its focus on support for New Zealand’s most vulnerable. That year, mental health was given the biggest funding and investment boost on record, receiving NZ$1.9bn

“It’s hard to find much that’s positive,” said Shaun Robinson. He said the report showed the mental health system was in worse shape now than four years ago. “It’s not surprising, unfortunately – the mental health crisis in New Zealand just continues to grow. With the best intentions in the world, the response from government to date is just not adequate. It’s not working.”

There is little that this Labour Government, currently or in the previous term, have not fucked up and failed to deliver on.
My concern (over 75, and with serious under-lying conditions, so a little selfish) is the up-coming attempt to vaccinate the country.
Which could well be a life or death issue.
So, it could be troublesome if they get this wrong too.

All quotes – New Zealand/Aotearoa section https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/01/new-zealand-mental-health-crisis-has-worsened-under-labour-data-shows
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April 2, 2021 9:14am
- surfing
  
  The government response to the mosque shootings
  and covid were ‘arguably’ good.
  
  Everything else they have touched has turned to shite. Nothing arguable about it.
  
  Really, how long does it take voters to wake up?
  
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  April 2, 2021 11:27am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Mosque shooting were a blatant propaganda exercise.
    I believe if covid had not happened , we would have seen a Nuremberg Rally style event at the first anniversary.
    As for covid, if they had followed the “influenza pandemic response plan c 2017”, we wold not have had any community transmission and not shut our economy at all.
    
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    April 2, 2021 12:30pm
    - tf78
      
      RWC the “influenza pandemic” plan was much the same as the plan, if not exactly the same as the one that was used for the 1918 Flu. Same rules apply for any outbreak so it wasn’t ground breaking or that difficult. So I’m sorry there is no “pass” for Jacinda on her response. Re the Christchurch shootings – She did no more than any other leader would have done, so really no pass there either.
      
      She didn’t bother with any major local flooding’s or major bush fires as it wouldn’t get enough overseas media attention. She is as shallow as a car park puddle in summer and not a PM for New Zealand in any sense of the word.
      
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      April 2, 2021 4:54pm
  - kloyd0306
    
    Sadly, a long time.
    Most get their (heavily biased towards the current Labour-Greens govt.) news from state-owned media.
    $105 million buys a lot of propaganda.
    
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    April 2, 2021 12:42pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Never let a crisis go to waste – milk it, make people feel sad, make them fearful, fuck with their minds
    
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    April 2, 2021 2:52pm
artemisia

So homeowners who take in boarders may be liable for capital gains tax now under the revised ‘main home’ bright-line rules. Potentially thousands of dollars, or even much much more. Troy Bowker sets out an example in the Herald today (paywalled).

Who knew? Apart from the Minister of Finance of course.//
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April 2, 2021 9:29am
- DeepBlue
  
  With the housing crisis the government should be doing the opposite… Paying homeowners to take in a boarder. Simple things would help like guaranteeing to make good any damage, an insurance guarantee, no reduction in super payments or a tax refund for example. That would be better than paying hoteliers emergency accommodation.
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:14pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Then the hotels could take tourists from Oz and the Islands. Nope, does not make sense to the current fuckwits, they will NOT relinquish control until forced to come Election time
    
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    April 2, 2021 2:55pm
- Mags
  
  And the savage comments about this inept government have now been turned off that article. Hmm censorship? So much for open and transparent.
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:29pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  I don’t want to give them ideas but, what about those small business’ that work from home?
  Following on from that, an argument could be made for all those working from home…they gain a financial advantage, by not paying for travel to and from work?
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:33pm
  - artemisia
    
    Already included in the new rules.
    
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    April 2, 2021 2:59pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Where are the? Is it all in the Labour Party propaganda pages?
      
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      April 2, 2021 6:32pm
      - artemisia
        
        It’s the 50% main home rule. If the owner lives in less than half of the floor area (or does not meet the proposed new complicated dates requirements) then the bright-line test can apply. In his article Troy Barker gives an example of an owner who has two boarders. If their space plus a proportion of shared space exceeds 50% then the bright-line tax applies.
        
        https://taxpolicy.ird.govt.nz/-/media/project/ir/tp/publications/2021/2021-other-fact-sheet-bright-line-test/2021-other-fact-sheet-bright-line-test.pdf
        
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        April 3, 2021 7:06am
- tf78
  
  artemisia, but what if ‘you’re being kind’ and getting someone who would end up on the street and just asking for koha, would that be OK?
  
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  April 2, 2021 4:57pm
I remember when

Safety Review of Ports of Auckland:
But haven’t there already been official investigations into the three deaths and appropriate improvements suggested.
The Ports of Auckland have an independent Board of eight who in 2020 received fees of $622,000 to provide governance.
So did the mayor meet with them to express his dissatisfaction at the level of serious incidents.
So the mayor used ratepayers money to find out that –
The Review records a ‘difficult relationship’ with the Maritime Union of New Zealand has, at times, ‘hampered’ health and safety improvements.
And, based on worker feedback and review of past year’s incident reporting, including near misses, reports ‘may not capture the volume of incidents.’
In other words, we didn’t find anything that wasn’t already known.
So was this part of the Great (Left Wing) Reset.
Support for the union who are setting up a case for their negotiations with Ports of Auckland in future wage rounds.
In the last three years staffing numbers have increased from 460 to 593, and staff in the 0-3 years service bracket are up from 166 to 296.
The port is working towards being the first operating port in the world to automate.
They have 27 new straddle cranes and new automated systems, with associated ‘teething’ problems.
This, along with the cargo backlog situation, has lead to arguments about hours of work and incident reporting requirements and responses.
In return the Labour Party gets a chance to increase their ‘blue collar’ vote.
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April 2, 2021 9:29am
- Bob
  
  Shades of the 1950’s waterfront disputes; and the creeping power of control of the Unions, not only on the waterfront, but throughout NZ industry as we had during the 1960-70 period.
  Muldoon eventually succeeded in removing the union impediment to rising living standards; but ADERN and fellow MARXISTS are determined to return to the much lower living standards of that period.
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:30am
- amospicton
  
  Compare and contrast with Port of Tauranga, a privatised asset that operates as a standalone commercial enterprise. If ever there was an illustration of the catastrophe that is public ownership of commercial assets it is Ports of Auckland.
  
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  April 2, 2021 11:28am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    In the late 70’s and also the late 80’s I had a lot of experience in Tauranga and POAL. The attitude in TGA was lets get the cargo moving and people will come to us.
    
    In Akl the productivity was about 50% of TGA. In TGA first sling went in at about 0710 in Akl 0730 if you were lucky
    
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    April 2, 2021 1:02pm
Yvette

Has Scott Morrison cancelled Ron Brierley’s Australian citizenship yet, while Jacinda is distracted writing to tell the Queen what she will already know?
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April 2, 2021 9:56am
- Sponge
  
  Will Ron end up as a 501?
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:38pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  If Ron is no longer a NZ Citizen does Ardern have anything to do with him?
  
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  April 2, 2021 6:34pm
Maggie Pie

No Mass this morning so we had a sleep in.
I see the clip from Sky News Andrew Bolt about our government arse-licking China has already been posted.
His damning summary of our PM coincides with my post on GD yesterday from ‘The Australian’.

Like my partner said, bubble or no f–ing bubble, the last place he’d want to be recognized at the moment is in Sydney.
Reckons we’d be about as welcome as a dog turd on a Persian Rug.

Just saying.
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April 2, 2021 10:00am
- cmm
  
  China’s vote locked in for UN position.
  
  #CinD4UN!
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:14am
Brian McDonald

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Can’t see why all the police in the George Floyd case were not charged going by the video the Court was shown, they remedied his complaint of being claustrophobic in the police van by man-handling him out and leaning on his neck for 5 minutes. From memory, some of them may have pled to lesser charges.
I think the situation could explode again, especially around the evidence of one man telling police to check his pulse because he wasn’t moving and police preventing the medical intervention of a medical emergency specialist who told police what treatment he needed because they wouldn’t let her near.
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April 2, 2021 10:01am
- cmm
  
  Brian
  
  You might not know this about crims, but they lie. They are not honest people.
  
  Why would anyone believe a crim complaining that he can’t breath? This shit gets pulled on cops all the time.
  
  As for the kneeling on the neck. Is that real? Having a knee above, or even touching, the neck does not mean that is where the weight is.
  
  If the scummy crim had been compliant and allowed himself to be arrested without a fuss none of this would have happened.
  
  Society needed that scummy crim off the streets and it was up to him to do it the easy way or the hard way.
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:13am
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    So he died because he could breathe and was lying about it, got it.
    Why was he taken out of the police vehicle and placed on the road, what were they waiting for. He was already arrested.
    They weren’t waiting for medical help to arrive because they prevented a medical intervention.
    
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    April 2, 2021 10:17am
    - Wired-one
      
      He died due to drugs in his body and newsflash Brian, if you can say ” I cant breathe” you can breathe.
      
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      April 2, 2021 10:44am
    - EssenX
      
      I think what cmm is getting at is that the situations police officers find themselves in can desensitise their reactions having heard all manner of crap and it’s not necessarily fair to ask how we would react in the same situation. This doesn’t mean there isn’t a police brutality problem (American cops seem to react disproportionately whether to blacks or non-blacks) or a racism problem in the USA (there is and by the way it goes in both directions) but just put yourself in the shoes of American police officers on any given day and you can’t help but feel sorry for everyone involved. There are no winners. Everyone was at fault.
      
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      April 2, 2021 12:35pm
  - WaveyDavey
    
    Oooh I think Brian knows. Only too well.
    
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    April 2, 2021 10:20am
    - cmm
      
      No I don’t think he really does. I doubt very much he sees himself as dishonest or bad person.
      
      To think you have the right to illegally take two lives requires a very warped sense of self and entitlement.
      
      Imagine how broken your brain must be to be able to justify that to yourself to the extent that you act on it.
      
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      April 2, 2021 3:01pm
      - WaveyDavey
        
        Indeed. After murdering a child anyone with the slightest* shred of decency would have taken themselves into purdah never to be seen or heard from again until they died alone and unlamented.
        
        *anyone with a bit more decency would have found a tall building (7 storeys or above just to be sure) to throw themselves off.
        
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        April 2, 2021 3:32pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Agree cmm. However, I fear there is already a predetermined outcome to this trial and I’m afraid it won’t end well for the coppers.
    
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    April 2, 2021 10:24am
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    A small thing for you CMM, no one could remain in that position without the weight on their knee for nine minutes. Just try it, you’ll collapse on the floor even if you could get into that position – which I doubt.
    Going down your fanciful track the knee need not have been there.
    If it wasn’t George wouldn’t be dead.
    
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    April 2, 2021 10:27am
    - Inandout
      
      BM, this Floyd chap was destined for an early death, helped along or otherise.
      
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      April 2, 2021 10:31am
    - cmm
      
      “If it wasn’t George wouldn’t be dead.”
      
      Rubbish. He died from the drugs in his body.
      
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      April 2, 2021 10:33am
      - Brian McDonald
        
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        Not only an epidemiologist but also a coroner. I think you should stick to bike locks.
        The old spindly legs let go on you CMM, tough backing up bullcrap. I bet you’re still puffing. Good work, nearly.
        
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        April 2, 2021 10:45am
      - WaveyDavey
        
        Whereas you, Brian, have a great deal of knowledge of murder.
        
        Twice iirc
        
        Oh, sorry, my mistake it was only manslaughter when you stabbed a guy to death wasn’t it.
        
        Unlike the 17 year old girl that you shot in the head when you were trying to kill someone else.
        
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        April 2, 2021 11:19am
      - cmm
        
        “I think you should stick to bike locks.”
        
        I am open to moral guidance from many people, but not you. Please forgive my bigotry.
        
        “CMM, tough backing up bullcrap.”
        
        You may be surprised to know that we do share some similar events in our histories. I too have shot someone. The difference is that in my case:
        1) The person survived.
        2) It was legal.
        3) It wasn’t an innocent bystander (ie. I’m probably more skilled and accurate).
        
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        April 2, 2021 2:44pm
      - WaveyDavey
        
        cmm
        
        I’d wear being insulted by a murderer of a child as a badge of honour
        
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        April 2, 2021 3:05pm
- Fletch
  
  A knee on the neck was an authorized procedure for the Minneapolis Police Dept. The guy was obviously high and out of his tree on something.
  
  https://archive.is/gncPE
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:37am
- Tall Man
  
  Moral of the story … If you’re claustrophobic don’t get stoned out of your skull and go for a drive. If you get stopped by the police don’t freak out your passengers. If you are questioned, comply with reasonable requests.
  
  When you’re face down digging yourself deeply into the shit, shut up and stop digging.
  
  Hey brian, there’s a word for fucked in the head crims that gets the moderators working overtime. It is rather apt though and it seems so for all time.
  
  No one deserves to die but people die everyday as a consequence of their own stupidity or actions. Car accidents, Pike River but do we really need to seek retribution against those who are participants against their will.
  
  Do you really think those officers started their day with a thought they’d get to kill someone that day.
  
  Any questions above are rhetorical because like many here I don’t really care what you think.
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:58am
- Paulus
  
  She was a lady Fireperson not a Medical Specialist.
  
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  April 2, 2021 11:05am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Other Police officers will face trial after this first trial has ended. I guess what they are charged with finally depends on the verdict in the Chauvan trial.
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:18pm
- kloyd0306
  
  If you are a heavy illicit drug user your health is already compromised. Without the drugs in his system he would have complied with police orders and still be alive today.
  Drugs have consequences.
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:48pm
cmm

Yet another pair of white hands committing crime

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/spike-in-bike-thefts-in-christchurch-166-in-six-weeks/LZX74N36XLWS4N6P2LILWLR6IE/

How about some equal opportunities? Can’t a bro get some recognition for his efforts?

After my son’s 5 week old $1700 bike got nicked in broad daylight at CPIT/Ara a few years back we did some research into bike locks – buying a few and destroying them. Most are pathetic.

That lock shown in the photo can be opened with a set of pliers in under 10 seconds. No need for a huge bolt cutter.

Most cable locks have very loose attachment between the cable and the lock body (normally some pathetic alloy). Hardly more than a press fit. Three or four twists with a set of linesman’s pliers will cause the cable to come away from the lock body – no need to cut the cable.

Moral of the story: If you don’t want your bike stolen then get a good lock – preferable a solid D lock or equivalent. The crims hit the easy targets first.
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April 2, 2021 10:06am
- WaveyDavey
  
  Try this guy for size – if he finds it difficult to pick/open take it as a recommendation
  
  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:12am
  - cmm
    
    There’s a compromise between strength, cost and weight/size.
    
    I ended up buying these: https://hubcycles.co.nz/products/magnum-u-lock
    
    Excellent lock. Tough. Good mounting bracket. Good price.
    
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    April 2, 2021 2:51pm
- Ed Snack
  
  Just be careful of what you wish for. My son did similar research after losing a couple of bikes to thieves, and had a large and solid D lock on his bike outside a supermarket when he went shopping.
  
  Came back out to find the lock absolutely destroyed but still in place around his bike and the bike stand. Trouble was, the locking mechanism was so damaged it wouldn’t unlock, and in his frustration the would be thief had also damaged the bike to make it unrideable.
  
  As it was Katich at night, he had to leave it there and walk home, returning with a relative (too far for me to get there) next day with a hacksaw and a very large lever cutter. After half an hour (with zero interest from passers by or shop security) the bike was freed to be carried home for repair.
  
  And that was a bike rescued from a junk shop and given a new wheel, new tyres, and repaired wheel rim brakes to go with the rusty frame. He won’t get a better bike in the basis that at least when (not if) this one gets nicked it is cheaper to replace.
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:28am
- Inandout
  
  cmm, or ride one of those pesky scooters that seem to be everywhere in Chch. Even groups of them travel in convoy to scare pedestrians. Cars are safer and water proof.
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:33am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Crims are more expert than many people are aware. Trade knowledge is passed around.
  They do select the easier targets first.
  
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  April 2, 2021 11:50am
Fletch

“Weekend at Biden’s”

https://youtu.be/Qu6PH9E5jiA

Funny, because it’s true ?
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April 2, 2021 10:08am
Happychappy

Just a question on punishment and how its dished out, our Governments seem to have problems when it comes to well known identity’s. While Ron Beierly has committed the worst in crime and those that commit acts on children whether it be kiddy fiddling or a selection of child porn on their computer or any other device they need a custodian sentence to this whether you are rich or poor. But for Jacinda Ardern to allow the sexual crime that happened out of the Prime Ministers office , the Labour Youth Party Summer Camp and Trevor Mallard calling Government worker a rapist with not a scrap of proof that cost the taxpayer more than $320,000 you have to wonder is their rules for some and not for others. Ron Brierley or any other who commits this crime deserve the book thrown at them and stripped of any Honours they have. But so should the deviates and rapists ,those that caused heartbreak and distress to others with false allegations and accusations should also get the punishment they deserve not a get jail card that Jacinda Ardern has used as punishment.
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April 2, 2021 10:09am
- WaveyDavey
  
  The Soviet Union also had a policy for the untouchable children of the nomenklatura
  
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  April 2, 2021 10:22am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You are muddling up Australia’s treatment of offenders with NZ’s lax approach.
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:14pm
surfing

https://earther.gizmodo.com/japan-hasnt-seen-cherry-blossoms-this-early-in-1-200-ye-1846593409

An interesting way of measuring the warming world…. 1200 years is a fair time span too.
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April 2, 2021 10:15am
- JJ56
  
  This might help you understand what’s happening https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/03/30/cherry-picking-real-cherries/
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:09pm
softail 1450

KIA Stonic, wow where do the koreans come up with their car names ,is Phil Twyford in charge?
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April 2, 2021 10:35am
Maggie Pie

One of the girls at tennis was saying her Cat becomes a real nuisance inside when the weather gets a bit colder.

But when you realise part of the word “homeowner” is meow, it all starts to make sense.
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April 2, 2021 10:37am
Maggie Pie

And what in the New World Order fuk is this?

https://twitter.com/LSobiscius/status/1377393853339029506
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April 2, 2021 10:53am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Health advice on Twitter can be problematic:
  https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279
  
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  April 2, 2021 11:07am
  - SB2
    
    Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene is something of a nutter in the tradition Michelle Bachmann and Ann Coulter etc
    
    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-55944827
    
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    April 2, 2021 1:13pm
- nathie
  
  Check out all those comments – lmao! Here are just a couple:
  
  “And why do I care what you elite swine have to say. You know nothing about our lives. Stay in your lane”
  
  “Ha ha just another stupid way for the elitist rich to make more money on something so stupid. “Well health safety seal” I bet only for double masked vaccinated patrons I figure.”
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:06pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Wow actors reading a script….must remember to NEVER follow their advice.
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:48pm
- ngatimozart
  
  Looks like a money making grab by a self appointed organisation. Reeks of scam.
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:57pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    I see a slick sign, a bunch of actors reading from a scrip but NO facts, stats even to back up their statements.
    I would hope that people would read the specification on the label, before they buy a toaster.
    
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    April 2, 2021 2:27pm
- WaveyDavey
  
  De Niro – well-known anti-vaxxer
  
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  April 2, 2021 3:11pm
- tf78
  
  Maggie – it is actually short for “welcome to hell”.
  
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  April 2, 2021 5:44pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I am not a man of faith, but this bullshit has to stop. It IS a breach of the 1st.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlAYVqcuc5o
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April 2, 2021 11:21am
- SB2
  
  The Pastor has a controversial and chequered past,
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4680258/Controversial-reverend-joins-Charlie-Gard-s-parents.html
  
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  April 2, 2021 1:10pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

How much longer will Maxwell last. The pedos will begetting real edgy by now.
https://uniteamericafirst.com/epstein-maxwell-threatened-to-feed-alleged-rape-victim-to-alligators-lawsuit-says/?
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April 2, 2021 11:47am
- Inandout
  
  SO, the problem is finding anyone who hasn’t been to the Island to save her skin.
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:07pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    She has insurance. Secret stash of videos to expose them. Deals coming up with the Dems
    
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    April 2, 2021 1:12pm
- virtualmark
  
  I’d expect Ghislaine has been very careful to ensure her own survival. She’s Robert Maxwell’s daughter, and Jeffrey Epstein’s squeeze. Both men were neck deep in arms dealing, and had relationships with all the wrong sorts of governments and intelligence agencies. Both met with “interesting” deaths. Surely she will have learnt from those two experiences how to provide a Samson type defence … for example multiple copies of documents and videos held by several different trusted counterparties and released in the event of her death.
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:55pm
Nickc2

This guy wants to be the next PM of Australia. Well, good luck.
With an intellect like his, he could always come here and join our Labour/Green Govt. They will gladly give him a safe seat.

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/04/therapeutic-albaneses-solar-panels-charging-the-electric-car-overnight.html
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April 2, 2021 12:03pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Here be a fuckwit. Solar panels will charge your vehicles overnight?
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:15pm
  - alloytoo
    
    I thought we were supposed use the BEV car to power our house when intermittent generation fails (as it’s prone to at night).
    
    Of course you can recharge your car in off peak hours like the early morning, a prime time for solar.
    
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    April 2, 2021 3:54pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Not solar, but a possible new sensitive material activated by particles present in the dark. A race is on now for patents.
    
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    April 2, 2021 6:41pm
- SB2
  
  Nicke2 , the science behind the storeage of solar energy that the red necks on your link would no so little about,
  
  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191120131309.htm
  
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  April 2, 2021 5:02pm
- tf78
  
  Nick – I call him “Evergreezy”.
  
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  April 2, 2021 5:49pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Yes, he gets all his happy finishes from Asian massage parlors on long lunch days. He’s not called Therapeutic Albo for nothing.
    
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    April 3, 2021 7:57am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

FB is even banning Trumps voice. You tube won’t be far behind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpFk-tgAaps
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April 2, 2021 12:13pm
- Inandout
  
  SO, the established tech are fearful of their dwindling numbers, but other platforms are emerging. Crowder will be back because he draws viewers and Google knows this. The longer this shit continues the more popular Trump’s new site will become, that is the law of the internet.
  
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  April 2, 2021 2:36pm
  - tf78
    
    Inandout, speaking of such I’m pleased to hear about a potential return of Sean Plunket. I for one would get behind him (in a very small way), but he and his ilk are very important for all our futures.
    
    Imagine having Mike Hosking, Sean Plunket, Leighton Smith, Heather Du Plesse Allan, John Banks and Larry Williams all a press away. It would be amazing!!!!!
    
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    April 2, 2021 5:53pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

If you really want to get into tin foil hat territory some might say that Covid-19 was unleashed on the world by China in order to advance its geopolitical position and seized on by the NZ Government to advance its Socialist agenda.
But of course I couldn’t possibly comment.
I’ve seen the counter-argument to that, why would they hurt their own people. Communist regimes wouldn’t ever have any record of doing that, would they.
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April 2, 2021 12:32pm
- tf78
  
  Steve, I love tinfoil!!!!!
  
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  April 2, 2021 5:53pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

It’s not about control, and it never was //
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-04-2020/watch-auckland-in-lockdown/?
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April 2, 2021 12:35pm
- WaveyDavey
  
  That’s the future that the Greens yearn for.
  
  Apart from for themselves of course
  
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  April 2, 2021 4:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I’m not happy with my soviet down here in New Zealand. Stories of the faithful dobbing in their neighbors to the cops, and this extract from a letter sent by the local Gestapo:
“People may exercise within their neighbourhood or travel by car to the nearest park, beach or reserve where they can exercise. Nearest is a loose definition however common sense will dictate what is and what isn’t nearby. Going to the beach when you have to pass two parks suitable for exercise activities to get there does not constitute nearby. The length of time to exercise is something else where a common sense approach will need to be used.
Meeting up with friends or family to go for a walk or do exercise, even if maintaining a 2m distance, is not complying with the restrictions. You must stay completely within your residential home life social ‘bubble’, whatever that makeup may be. The only time that you can breach that ‘bubble’ is if you are an essential worker going about work or if you are engaging with an essential service e.g supermarket, health care, veterinary care, emergency service.
Going fishing from a boat or taking a ride on the jet ski do not conform with the restrictions. Going hunting, tramping or engaging in high risk sporting activities such as Mountain Biking is discouraged. If you have an accident and require medical attention or rescuing you are unnecessarily placing strain and risk on those who will be deployed to attend to you. Think, is hospital a place I want to be at this time?
Rest assured that if as a country we cannot show self-control, the restrictions are likely to be made tighter and Police will be encouraged to use enforcement against person that are non-compliant. None of us want that!
Please take care of each other, be mindful of those who are less fortunate at this time.”
I’m sorry Mr Plod, but go and fuck yourself hard. You do not have the right to determine what for me is risky and what is not.
I’m shocked at how easily we’ve allowed ourselves to be communised overnight. For the right reasons or not, this whole thing is a massive power grab by the authorities and we all know what Lord Acton had to say about power.
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April 2, 2021 12:38pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  This is from 1 year ago
  
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  April 2, 2021 12:38pm
- SB2
  
  Off to a FEMA / Gulag you go!
  
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  April 2, 2021 1:01pm
I remember when

A majority of American workers are expected to be freelancers by 2027.
The Freelancers Union, with more than 500,000 members, hopes to attract freelance workers (not contractors?), which could help it collectively bargain with government and industries.
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April 2, 2021 12:53pm
- MCos
  
  The Freelancers Union is no more a Union than the Taxpayers Union.
  It’s basically some sort of health insurance for people not covered elsewhere.
  It doesn’t advocate on behalf of anyone in the way unions do.
  
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  April 2, 2021 4:28pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z08RBuQLNR4

Japan Joins Hands With Taiwan. Presitator Unamused.

On Tuesday, CCP mouthpiece Global Times announced that the Chinese military was “continuing to improve its battle preparedness by making its regular exercises more complex and practical and taking potential US and Japanese interventions into account.” Observers said that the exercise’s flight patterns seemed to show Taiwan being encircled on three sides, and the drill was a direct warning to the governments of Taiwan, Japan and the United States.
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April 2, 2021 12:53pm
curry4me

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2021/03/31/texas-legislator-introduces-bill-to-take-critical-theory-and-politics-out-of-the-classroom-n1436362

Texas Legislator Introduces Bill to Keep Critical Theory and Politics Out of Classrooms.

State Representative James White, a Republican who represents District 19 in Texas, has submitted a comprehensive bill to eliminate critical theory’s primary components from schools in the state. The bill has left the committee and had its first reading on the floor. It specifies civics instruction guidelines that include using the founding documents and other significant pieces as required lessons. The bill also prevents teachers from being pressured into teaching contentious current events and requires presenting both sides of political issues if they do cover them.
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April 2, 2021 12:54pm
- MCos
  
  “Texas Legislator Introduces Bill to Keep . . . . Politics Out of Classrooms”
  
  Some sort of oxymoron, I’d say.
  
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  April 2, 2021 4:19pm
  - curry4me
    
    MCos: His obective is to have students leave public schools functionally literate. He’s probably keen on them being taught how to think; rather than what to think too.
    
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    April 2, 2021 6:30pm
- SB2
  
  What else? Big bang theory , Evolution, thinking for yourself?
  
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  April 2, 2021 4:54pm
SB2

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
The intense reaction to Dr Siouxsie Wiles, award Person of the year on KB calls for an explanation. Apart from her Pink hair and upfront and forthright demeanor, I think the anger felt is more the anti-science stance by many that pervades this blog.

This is seen in the popularity of conspiracy theories (especially currently Covid 19 ones.) Reflected also in the number of anti-vaxxers and not forgetting Trump supporters.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/439632/team-of-5-million-deserve-new-zealander-of-the-year-award-siouxsie-wiles
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- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It should have been you. You are far more qualified //
  
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  April 2, 2021 1:14pm
  - SB2
    
    No qualification like Dr of Medicine.
    
    Yours?
    
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    April 2, 2021 1:35pm
    - tf78
      
      SB2, in case you weren’t aware doctors google as much as we do. They don’t seem to diagnose anymore, they just refer you to a specialist – I therefore know as much as a doctor.
      
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      April 2, 2021 6:07pm
- cmm
  
  SB2: Since you have zero scientific training or understanding, you are in absolutely no position to say whether Dr Soixsie Wiles is being called out for legitimate scientific concerns or not.
  
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  April 2, 2021 2:56pm
  - SB2
    
    cmm, your right I have no training. Your medical training?
    
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    April 2, 2021 4:47pm
- WaveyDavey
  
  Well apart from the fact that:
  
  she’s not a virologist (she’s a bacteriologist)
  
  or an epidemiologist (she was slapped down by her boss for telling an actual real epidemiologist to stay in their lane although she doesn’t like it when you mention that)
  
  There are plenty of nurse practitioners with more experience and ability who teach surgeons hand-hygiene
  
  She decided to get involved in politics with her support for a UBI and then went crying off the pitch when tackled about her politics
  
  She’s really quite good at playing the victim card
  
  She chooses to wear “look at me” hair and then moans when it’s noticed
  
  In terms of Covid she’s an entertainer rather than a scientist
  
  Would you like any more? Because there’s plenty
  
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  April 2, 2021 3:27pm
- Philview
  
  I don’t have a problem with her being a go to person for expertise related to her job. I think last year she stepped into political activism and that is when things turned nasty for her. If I had my face in the media and started trying to influence voters leading into an election I would expect a lot of kick back.
  
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  April 2, 2021 3:48pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’m pleased to see Siouxsie Wiles calling out the anonymous folk who abuse and harass people online.
  
  It is NEVER acceptable.
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/new-zealander-year-calls-out-social-media-bullies
  
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  April 2, 2021 4:26pm
  - SB2
    
    Judging by the way she is bad-mouthed on here I would say you have no idea.
    
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    April 2, 2021 4:46pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Perhaps you would like to explain your prolonged abuse and harassment of me on this blog.
      
      Why did you call me hysterical when I posted information of the Pandemic back in February 2020?
      
      Why did you accuse me of being associated with the Alt-right?
      
      What effect did you expect those accusations would have on me and folks who know me?
      
      What is your scientific background?
      
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      April 2, 2021 5:31pm
      - SB2
        
        MW , my answer is simple. Let go of the past ( imagined or real. Mostly imagined imo ) , stop tormenting yourself )and move on.
        
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        April 2, 2021 7:08pm
Maggie Pie

Prof. Siouxie Wiles shares photo of latest hair transplant with Twitter followers

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1377769216481361928

😀 😀
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April 2, 2021 1:01pm
- SB2
  
  MP , can we safely say that you’re an anti science Covid 19 and a conspiracy theorist?
  
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  April 2, 2021 1:38pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Trying a slimy smear there SB2?
    
    Perhaps you need to learn how to frame a hypothesis
    
    Big clue: don’t arrive at your conclusion before you’ve got some evidence.
    
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    April 2, 2021 5:49pm
    - SB2
      
      Are you her personal representative?
      
      Let M P answer.
      
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      April 2, 2021 7:10pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Pig … Mud .. Slime … Steffy .. Wrestle.
      
      See the link Maggy?
      
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      April 2, 2021 8:49pm
- tf78
  
  Maggie, sorry that colour doesn’t suit our Siouxe patsy – nice try though.
  
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  April 2, 2021 6:10pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124734549/police-officer-caught-on-video-calling-woman-skanky-then-shoving-man
Cops 1, louts and skanks 0
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April 2, 2021 1:09pm
Jack5

If you’re looking to fill in 56 minutes on this wet Easter Friday you might enjoy the Youtube video I link to below of the tragedy of the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1940.

The Glorious and two destroyers, Acasta and Ardent, were returning to Britain from the Norway disaster when they were caught and sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

The Glorious’s captain was sailing independently of the main British fleet in haste to get to Scapa Flow for the court-martial of his air commander, who had refused an order.

When the three ships went down, 1531 sailors and airmen died (the Glorious was carrying evacuated RAF Hurricanes as well as its own planes). No-one came to the aid of survivors in the water until they were found by Norwegian fishing trawlers three days later.

The video includes content from German Navy veterans who praise the bravery of the Royal Navy destroyer crews.

https://youtu.be/1yAahSUiXt4
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April 2, 2021 1:21pm
- curry4me
  
  Jack5: Thanks for the link. I’ll watch it later. I only know the bare outlines of the Glorious story.
  
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  April 2, 2021 6:28pm
Maggie Pie

“It’s not so much a blow job, as a blow career”

– VP Kamala Harris
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April 2, 2021 1:27pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING…

Sydney GP’s refusing to take bookings for Covid-19 vaccinations due to vaccine storage and delivery problems which has seen thousands of vials discarded.
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April 2, 2021 2:22pm
Inandout

What a piece of absolute shit.
https://www.lawofficer.com/road-rage-murder/
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April 2, 2021 2:25pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

AOC, low IQ race baiter. We have them in NZ too.
https://rumble.com/vf9veb-tucker-carlson-calls-aoc-racist-for-radical-immigration-rhetoric.html?
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April 2, 2021 2:45pm
- Tall Man
  
  They currently occupy the Treasury benches….
  
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  April 2, 2021 8:44pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    There’s one in the Green Party making a lot of noise atm
    
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    April 3, 2021 8:25am
WaveyDavey

Well I followed the link to the idiot Aus Labor leader’s comments on solar panels and saw this

“Taste Down South With Your Mouth”

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/03/go-down-south-with-your-mouth-excuse-me.html
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April 2, 2021 3:20pm
Maggie Pie

‘Good Friday’ and I’ve been thinking –
Who would you prefer to have as a neighbor?

a) A white Cop with an 18 year unblemished record in the Police Force….
OR
b) A nasty horrible thug with a violent criminal history who had served jail time for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, numerous drug offences, robbing a pregnant woman while holding a knife to her stomach, and passing counterfeet notes?

Now just let me think here… Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe
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April 2, 2021 4:10pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  A Cop, as long as I knew his real name
  
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  April 2, 2021 4:37pm
- SB2
  
  MP, when did you pass your proficiency test in hate?
  
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  April 2, 2021 4:43pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    A few years back now – when i got stuck behind a group of sweaty lycra-clad cyclists riding 3 abreast around Tamaki Drive.
    
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    April 2, 2021 5:44pm
    - SB2
      
      MP , go and talk to your Doctor.
      
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      April 2, 2021 7:13pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Baaaaaaa!
      
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      April 3, 2021 8:26am
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… We had 2 cop neighbours at the same time. One married with 4 kids was very reticent and could barely say ‘gday’. The other ‘dinky’ was quite normal.
  Having them helped to sell our house…
  
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  April 3, 2021 6:05pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Democrats don’t care about illegal immigrants crossing wearing masks when crossing the southern border,
But won’t let your child go to school without wearing a mask.
Who the fuck is in control here?????????
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April 2, 2021 4:44pm
- tf78
  
  Steve, I love the way the demoncats don’t want the border wall but they have the huge wall around the White House – WHY?!
  
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  April 2, 2021 6:15pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The wall is around the Capitol grounds
    
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    April 3, 2021 8:28am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://uniteamericafirst.com/jill-biden-went-to-pander-to-chavez-lovers-and-broke-the-spanish-language-in-front-of-a-nazi-inspired-flag/?
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April 2, 2021 4:49pm
greybeard

https://www.transport.govt.nz/statistics-and-insights/safety-road-deaths/
Waikato-Bay of Plenty.
The killing fields of NZ. What is going on in these areas?
There must be be something very wrong: rubbish drivers, slack policing, speeding trucks, drugged population, whatever.
This has been happening for years in this place. Check the figures.
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April 2, 2021 5:08pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Check a simple metric. Current domicle area of the deceased at that point in time. Most of the rest of country don’t know what fog is – even when they don’t see it.
  
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  April 2, 2021 6:44pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Does a certain ethnic group tend to drive without a license, use drugs, have an unregistered old bomb?
  Join the dots…….
  
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  April 2, 2021 9:27pm
theoldbloke

If anybody thinks Chauvin will get a fair trial they are dreaming. Politics will do everything possible to get a conviction.

I see there is only one brave lawyer in town to defend him. All the rest ran for the hills. Happy to defend muslim terrorists pro bono……. Chauvin nope.

To read a daily summary of the trial(Not the filtered Watpo/NzHearld version.)

https://www.powerlineblog.com/?s=Chauvin&x=0&y=0

PS. I have no opinion on his guilt or not, of the charges. Its the political show trial I am interested in.
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April 2, 2021 5:10pm
Max Sky

The Aotearoa Prime Minister is making a guest appearance on the Wizard of Oz on TV1, there is a moral there we should realise today.
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