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krazykiwi

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” — Mark Twain
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May 15, 2021 8:32am
- Maxx
  
  He also had some great wisdom.abiut arguing with a fool.
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:29am
- peterwn
  
  Reminds me of two news items yesterday.
  1. Fortune magazine declares Jacinda a top world leader. They have believed her BS.
  2. 11 year old boy perplexed at Jacinda’s answer to his letter about Starship hospital funding. He cut through the BS and was not fooled by her letter.
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:04am
  - kowtow
    
    That Fortune list was a bit like the Oscars , Woke as f@#k.
    
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    May 15, 2021 12:16pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Sums up Labour/ Dems or even world politics.
    From 1982
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3X3rKtruSg
    “Two of them say their Jesus, one of them must be wrong.”
    “…How come Jesus gets industrial disease?”
    
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    May 15, 2021 12:56pm
- Than
  
  True enough. The problem is that everybody thinks it’s the other side that has been fooled.
  
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  May 15, 2021 11:07am
krazykiwi

A Primer for the Propagandized – Fear is the Mind-Killer

The recipe is simple. Take a naturally occurring phenomenon, say a seasonal virus, and exaggerate its threat far beyond every imagining—despite exhaustive evidence to the contrary. Suppress, silence, ostracize, and demonize every individual who dares present facts that expose the false mono-narrative.

Whip up a witches’ brew of anger, envy, and, most importantly, fear, escalating emotions to a boil so as to short-circuit our faculties of reason and logic.

Isolate us from one another, supplant real-world interactions with virtual feuds, label nonconformists as a threat to the group, and pump the public with a disinformation campaign designed to confuse and atomize. In essence, foster a cultlike mentality that shuts down thought to guarantee assent.

Cultivate and wield our cognitive biases—especially ingroup bias, conformity bias, and authority bias—against us in a comprehensive divide-and-conquer policy that keeps us too busy squabbling amongst each other to recognize and unite against those corralling us into a Matrix-like collective delusion that enables the powerful to extract our resources for their own gain.
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May 15, 2021 8:34am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  A huge problem for our country is that very few people will be able to comprehend krazykiwi’s erudite and brilliant contribution, here to day.
  Indeed, many will want to suppress, silence, ostracise and demonise people like me who praise krazykiwi’s writing.
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:18am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Who do you think the author is talking about when she refers to ‘the powerful’ who ‘extract our resources for their own gain’?
    
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    May 15, 2021 9:30am
  - krazykiwi
    
    You are to kind, sir. In this instance I’m simply the messenger, rather than the author. What I am beginning to detect is an increasing willingness for people to speak out against the creeping totalitarian nightmare. Too many of us, and include myself in that assessment, have been happy to turn a blind eye. I can’t any longer. I have grandchildren, and I desperately want them to grow up in a world that affords them liberty, choice, and freedom from tyranny.
    
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    May 15, 2021 9:47am
- JackRabbit
  
  “Cultivate and wield our cognitive biases—especially ingroup bias, conformity bias, and authority bias—against us in a comprehensive divide-and-conquer policy that keeps us too busy squabbling amongst each other to recognize and unite against those corralling us into a ~~Matrix-like~~ Marxist collective delusion that enables the powerful to extract our resources for their own gain.”
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:19am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “The recipe is simple. Take a naturally occurring phenomenon, say a seasonal virus, and exaggerate its threat far beyond every imagining—despite exhaustive evidence to the contrary. Suppress, silence, ostracize, and demonize every individual who dares present facts that expose the false mono-narrative.”
  Rewrite for history.
  The recipe is simple. Take a naturally occurring religious group (Jews), and exaggerate its threat far beyond every imagining—despite exhaustive evidence to the contrary. Suppress, silence, ostracize, and demonize every individual who dares present facts that expose the false mono-narrative.
  I believe the word “Ghetto” is a yiddish word, 1000’s of years old.
  Taken up in Italy in the 16th century.
  Have we not learned from the past?
  
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  May 15, 2021 1:05pm
Inandout

Joe obviously hasn’t heard the saying about ‘adding fuel to the fire’, but I hear the Rice lady is pulling the strings now; not Harris.

‘The Biden administration notified Congress this week that it will send millions of dollars in U.S. assistance to the Palestinians aimed at promoting peace with Israel even as violence between the two sides rages.

As the conflict intensifies despite U.S. calls for restraint, the administration notified Congress on Thursday that it will provide $10 million to Palestinian groups in the West Bank and Gaza to support exchange and reconciliation projects with Israelis. The recipients of the aid were not named.

The State Department said Friday that the money is part of more than $100 million that the administration allocated to the Palestinians earlier this year, reversing a near total cutoff in support under former President Donald Trump.

In a notice to lawmakers obtained by The Associated Press, the U.S. Agency for International Development said the $10 million would go to support “people-to-people efforts to bring together conflict-affected groups to address divisions that may be rooted in group differences such as ethnicity, religion, status, class, or political affiliation in areas affected by conflict and civil war.”

It said the money would be spent mainly on cross-border projects between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza, but might also include programs for Jews and Arabs living in Israel’.
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May 15, 2021 8:38am
- krazykiwi
  
  “it will send millions of dollars in U.S. assistance”
  
  Why not just send the money to Iran and/or Syria. That’s where it will end up.
  
  The Dems know it, too.
  
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  May 15, 2021 8:53am
  - crikey
    
    Why not send it to Russia so they can send more weapons to Iran for that country to send on to Hamas.
    
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    May 15, 2021 11:28am
- stewmar
  
  the $10 million would probably pay for a few more missiles.
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:20am
  - chukar
    
    Yes ,
    Also NZ has a heap of confiscated guns that could be donated to help!
    
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    May 15, 2021 8:04pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  A drop in the bucket compared to US military assistance to Israel, of course, but any initiative that promotes peace and reconciliation should be supported.
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:28am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    And as it should be mike, given that Israel is a long standing US ally. Still beggars belief that the US would give any money to a place that doesn’t exist, and which will almost certainly end up in the hands of Hamas, a terrorist organisation that has vowed to wipe Israel and Jews off the face of the planet.
    
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    May 15, 2021 12:05pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  The money will be needed now to repair bomb damage in Gaza.
  Sending rockets over the fence into the neighbours backyard is no way to peace.
  If you befriend your enemies you will be surprised what that will do.
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:07am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Israel has been conciliatory to the inhabitants of Gaza since whenever.
    It doesn’t seem to work.
    
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    May 15, 2021 10:50am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      It is difficult.
      
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      May 15, 2021 12:43pm
- dcrane
  
  Sounds like typical Democrat virtue-signaling. Why don’t they tell Israel to stop settling Palestinian land, give East Jerusalem back, and make peace one way or another or else lose the 3 billion a year the US sends them?
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:18am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    They listened to such arguments and gave back the Gaza Strip, including using their police and army to forcibly remove Jewish settlers from their properties of house, greenhouses and so forth.
    
    Land for Peace, etc, etc.
    
    In the wake of what has happened with Gaza since then, few Israeli’s believe that theory any longer.
    
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    May 15, 2021 12:25pm
  - Cassandra
    
    Do you really think that that will result in peace? Sadly, when the Israelis tried the soft approach it came back to bite them. Which is not to endorse the current approach – this is an intractable problem.
    
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    May 15, 2021 1:06pm
- Scott
  
  Inandout – my understanding according to American author Lee Smith is that Obama is pulling the strings. He stayed in Washington, this is really Obama’s 3rd term.
  Obama was never a friend of Israel.
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:23am
KevO'Brien

Fear goes a long way in the absence of sense.
Ardern a world Leader? The woman who challenges Parliament’s sovereignty. Our Megan M?

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/ardern-tops-list-worlds-greatest-leaders
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May 15, 2021 8:43am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Make people fear for their lives and they will listen to you.
  If they listen to you, many will obey you.
  
  Conclusion: Fear leads to obedience.
  
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  May 15, 2021 8:45am
  - 3-coil
    
    Odakyu-sen.
    Conclusion: Fortune Magazine doesn’t know its arse from its elbow.
    
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    May 15, 2021 9:27am
  - JackRabbit
    
    “Conclusion: Fear leads to obedience.”
    
    It is partly fear per se, but strong intention and confidence also leads to obedience, whether the motive be for the forces of good, or forces of evil. Confidence tricks are aptly named for a reason. People with weak minds believe what they are being told, because their confidence has been plausibly gained, from someone who “appears to know” what they are talking about.
    
    The only escape from the emotional lefty quagmire is to have your thinking firmly rooted in principles and rational thinking.
    
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    May 15, 2021 10:37am
- dave_c_
  
  Where’s my puke bowl ?
  
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  May 15, 2021 8:53am
  - sooty
    
    The people overseas hear good things about her, but we have to live with her and we know better!
    
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    May 15, 2021 9:00am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      I divorced that woman because one can only stand the abuse for so long. Oct 2023 cannot come soon enough.
      
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      May 15, 2021 9:28am
    - KiwiSapper
      
      Care to extrapolate that a bit further?
      We, here in NEW ZEALAND hear only “good things” about her from the “bought and paid for media. What a sad, shallow and “owned” level our “Fourth Estate has grovelled itself down to.
      To misquote Henry II, “Will no one rid me of this “annus horribilis.?”
      
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      May 15, 2021 11:05am
      - Peter S
        
        You put one more n than was needed in the last quote.
        
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        May 15, 2021 2:20pm
    - Paulus
      
      Sadly I have many overseas contacts and they all think our Cindy is the answer to the World’s problems.
      I shocked one in the UK by saying that after almost 60 years living in New Zealand, I am saddened and feel ashamed to be a New Zealander currently.
      As I am in the terminal section of my life I am disappointed and sad for our Children and Grandchildren, whom have great top University degrees, top jobs some in the Public Service but now appear to have been what I called Cindy brainwashed.
      Terribly sad.
      
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      May 15, 2021 11:27am
      - Bob
        
        Rest assured that during the last four years, particularly during Covid; their brains were washed far more often than their hands.
        
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        May 15, 2021 2:47pm
- yossarian
  
  In the comments section of Stuff (I know, I know… but I couldn’t help myself), I compared Jacinda to the Kardashians. But then I had to correct myself, because at least the kardashians understand business.
  
  BTW the comment wasn’t published
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:00am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Yes, sometimes comments just ‘disappear’
    
    How convenient – the two age enhanced birth providers on the seat outside the quad retail distribution unit public announcement on the media information device . . .
    
    Enough woke?
    
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    May 15, 2021 9:30am
- Cinematic
  
  Let’s face it, she got this award based on sex, youth, looks and woke sound bites. Any objective measure of leadership would have her scraping the bottom.
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:01am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    She once was OK rarking up a Socialist Youth Conference but such a cheerleader is not a Nation’s leader. That requires executive ability, not just licking stamps or making Pooh Bah his cuppa or filleting her partner’s gurnard.
    
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    May 15, 2021 10:12am
  - Bob
    
    based on sex, youth, looks and woke sound bites…..
    and a fawning MSM, predominately female with a private MARXIST AGENDA
    
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    May 15, 2021 2:45pm
- Jack5
  
  It’s just the opinion of Fortune magazine, which was founded by Time’s founder Henry Luce in 1929 on the eve of the great sharemarket crash.
  
  This, from Wikipedia, is a clue to Fortune’s current status:
  
  On November 26, 2017, it was announced that Meredith Corporation would acquire Time Inc. in a $US2.8 billion deal. The acquisition was completed on January 31, 2018.
  
  On November 9, 2018, it was announced that Meredith Corporation was selling Fortune to Thai billionaire Chatchaval Jiaravanon for $US150 million. Jiaravanon is affiliated with the Thailand-based conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group …
  
  Still $US150 million (about $NZ207m), beats the $1 paid for Stuff.
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:09am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Would make a good patsy question in the House – “is the Prime Minister aware of any reports confirming her magnificence?”
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:25am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  World leader for telling lies, but they did not mention that
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:30am
- Observer of Life
  
  “Ardern’s decision that her, and her Cabinet ministers would take a six-month, 20% pay cut in 2020 to “show solidarity with people who had lost their livelihoods” due to Covid-19 was another reason behind her No 1 ranking.”
  Did they take a 20% cut in the end????
  
  “And last year, Ardern’s administration made it easier for women to negotiate with their employers for more equitable pay.”
  What was this??
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:43am
- adamsmith1922
  
  If you read the article at Fortune is hagiographic and reads like a Labour PR puff piece
  
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  May 15, 2021 11:02am
- alwyn
  
  Didn’t you think it was a fascinating list?
  I didn’t recognise any of the first 10 except for our Great Leader. The first one I knew of after her was the lady in position number 11. I doubt if I am the only person in thet situation. I can only wonder where Fortune got the rest of them from.
  
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  May 15, 2021 2:22pm
MCos

Man arrested for voter fraud in Colorado
https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-wifes-murder-now-accused-voting-trump/story?id=77692708
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May 15, 2021 8:59am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  He should have voted for Biden in her name, then there would not be a problem
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:32am
- JibberJabber
  
  Of course, they can’t arrest the Democrats that committed voter fraud, they all died years ago…
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:35am
- Apropos of the Wet Snow
  
  I wonder if this is to distract from the systematic ballot fraud that is being uncovered in Arizona? They are finding double-digit discrepancies in some of the batches they have audited. For instance, finding only 165 votes in a batch that was logged as having 200. That’s a 17.5% discrepancy that cannot be accounted for. Panic is setting in and it’s a beautiful thing.
  
  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/6/democrats-worried-arizona-audit-may-uncover-fraud/
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:37am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Trump won bigly and the cheating Dems know it
    
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    May 15, 2021 11:55am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Also does appear that the entire set of databases containing all the 2020 election data was deliberately deleted just one week before the servers were delivered to the audit team.
    
    Doesn’t matter which side of politics you are on, surely that must be an absolute declaration of guilt and an explicit acknowledgement that there is/was something to find that should not have occurred.
    
    Similarly the passwords to achieve admin level access have been explicitly denied to the Senate and Audit team.
    
    In forensic IT, this is a huge “Tell”, and it means guilty but trying very hard not to be exposed. If you are and have been honest, there is never any problem in supplying passwords and preserving data. Speaking here as one who has had some involvement in the field.
    
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    May 15, 2021 2:43pm
- Ed Snack
  
  MCos, there’s always a few of these, there were several people arrested for minor vote fraud in Texas (Democrats in those cases); none of which are really notable. Small scale fraud has always happened and it cuts both ways. Except in the rarest of circumstances it makes zero difference.
  
  What is concerning is fraud on a scale to make a difference. Like the case of Michigan where around 400,000 votes were illegally (as ruled by a judge well after the election) counted on the insistence of the (Democrat) Secretary of State. Those votes arrived after the deadline and either had postmarks after the votes had closed or had no postmarks at all and arrived late. Those votes went something like 75% for Biden, so a 200,000 swing, the margin was well below that.
  
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  May 15, 2021 2:47pm
Chuck Bird

I am pleased to see there are a significant number of Kiwi’s who are no longer fooled by this communist spin artist.

Jacinda Ardern honoured abroad, less so at home

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/fran-osullivan-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-honoured-abroad-less-so-at-home/SG2DPE75QQ2ISYG6K6XWIC4DHY/
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May 15, 2021 9:00am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Fran’s opinion carries the same weight as Stupid Boy’s
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:34am
  - RalphT
    
    Speaking of which, isn’t the tone of this blog much better now that he’s away on holiday?
    
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    May 15, 2021 10:22am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yes
      
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      May 15, 2021 2:04pm
- JibberJabber
  
  There’s a reason this drivel is hidden behind paywalls, tho’ you do have to wonder who would pay for this utter shite.
  Maybe Frannie could explain how the leader of a political party that has failed in every policy and promise to the countries constituency could be considered “the world’s greatest leader”?
  
  Unless you are a Labour voter where Failure is considered Achievement and Aspiration is the Participation Trophy they are chasing.
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:42am
lazza

Public Sector Wage claims:

Some relevant facts courtesy the Taxpayer’s Union:

Quote: “The average salary in the public sector is $84,500, compared to $69,000 in the private sector.

Last year wage growth in the public sector was 3 percent, compared to just 1.7 percent in the private sector.

15,000 public sector workers are paid salaries higher than $100,000. Few of these will be teachers, nurses, or police.

The highest-paying Government department is – wait for it – the Social Wellbeing Agency. That agency’s staff enjoy an average salary of $151,700.

Next highest-paying are the Public Service Commission, the Ministry of Defence (not the frontline Defence Force), and the Pike River Recovery Agency, all paying average salaries above $130,000”.Unquote.

NOTE!: “Few of these will be teachers, nurses, or police”.

Go Nurses!
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May 15, 2021 9:02am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Are you able to draw any conclusions from these figures?
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:25am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    Each of departments cited are small with less than 100 people. They are more like executive management organisations than traditional government departments. For instance in MOD around half are managing and organising purchase contracts such as the $2.3 billion P8 contract.
    
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    May 15, 2021 1:28pm
- Gravelroad
  
  I see that Starship Hospital is still advertising on TV this morning for financial assistance from private citizens to provide more ICU beds for sick babies.
  No – dead turtles, Pike River fat cats and faceless bureaucrats more deserving.
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:33am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    But, hasn’t our PM written a nice letter about this matter?
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/05/11-year-old-cooper-sinclair-left-confused-by-jacinda-ardern-s-response-to-letter-urging-more-funding-for-starship-hospital.html
    
    Cooper has been left scratching his head after the response.
    
    “It’s awesome that she wrote to me and it’s a nice letter but she doesn’t really answer my question about why the Government can’t give some more money to Starship,”
    
    Even an 11 year-old can see the PM is all b.s.
    
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    May 15, 2021 9:39am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Cooper is finding out that Jaspinda does not answer anyone’s questions, it is just waffle
      
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      May 15, 2021 9:43am
      - sooty
        
        At least he can warn all the rest of the school.
        Maybe not so many labour voters!
        See cindy there are consequences!
        
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        May 15, 2021 10:00am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I was 11 or 12 when I became aware of socialism. Social Studies teacher banging on about the Aswan Dam. I could not get it into her thick skull that the dam would provide irrigation and therefore food.
        She had the idea it was built by slaves. Fuck she was thick
        
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        May 15, 2021 2:08pm
    - Swifty
      
      Hahahahaha!
      
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      May 15, 2021 9:49am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      It’s not Cinder’s money. She may have got the votes at the ballot box but the money is Parliament’s.
      Her govt has to introduce a Bill, after giving the required notice, to have Parliament Vote on this use of taxpayer’s money under their imposition and control.
      
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      May 15, 2021 10:21am
      - RalphT
        
        Nearly there, Kev. It’s actually OUR money.
        
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        May 15, 2021 10:23am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        The money belongs to the NET Taxpayer
        
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        May 15, 2021 11:11am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        The sovereignty of Parliament gives them the sole right to tax. I’m not a constitutional lawyer but I have been a tax specialist and implemented international tax systems.
        
        It’s an interesting matter you raised because it implies that the Treasury and Auditor must be defacto agencies of Parliament, not just merely helpers of the govt of the day.
        
        Govt has devolved on Cabinet by them being sworn in as HM’s Executive Councillors. No MP takes any oath of duty as an MP of New Zealand.
        They have no formal duty of care. To some its just tax, grab and spend to further their power.
        The ability of the Ardern govt to solely command a majority is severely unfortunate. It is giving Ardern ideas above her paygrade; ideas that cost King Charles I his head.
        
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        May 15, 2021 12:58pm
    - Badger
      
      Don’t know the origins of this story, but using your kid to make a political statement is always disgusting. As disgusting as handing them placards and saying “march.”
      
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      May 15, 2021 9:34pm
- RockyJ
  
  I looked up the Social Wellbeing Agency online. It has been going for over a year. It seems to have three staff. These are an Acting CEO, a Director of Organisation Performance, and a Director Office of CEO.
  Seems to be a think tank, with a boss, HR assistant and an office manager.
  I bet they have a nice office and some computers.
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:39am
  - Bob
    
    Not forgetting a six figure salary, starting somewhere above the figure two !!
    
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    May 15, 2021 2:39pm
Tony Stuart

Another day, another broken promise from our illustrious government:

The Government has failed to meet a deadline it set itself to give local councils more control when dealing with forestry conversions.

Last year the Labour Party made a pre-election promise that it would give local councils the power to determine what classes of land could be used for forestry in the first six months of its term.

This was in response to concerns from some rural communities that too much productive land was being lost to forestry.

Last week a public meeting was held in North Otago, where the community is outraged at plans that will see a large sheep and beef farm at the head of the Kakanui River converted into a permanent carbon forest.

They say it is a special environment that needs to be protected. But the company that has bought the farm, New Zealand Carbon Farming, said its forests provide a rich habitat for the county’s unique native flora and fauna.

Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher said there was not a lot the council could do apart from lobbying the Government to change policy.

“I think they need to bring in some rules around protecting special areas and being able to have a national environment standard that says where carbon forestry can and can’t happen.”

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor admitted these reforms had not happened yet.

“Look, it probably is a bit slower than it should be, but we are going to keep moving forward and, I guess, in the meantime it is a discussion local communities should have.

“I think if New Zealand Carbon Farming pick up the vibes, then maybe they should reconsider but it’s not for me to make a judgment on their business decisions,” he said.

The Government was still committed to the review but there was no timeframe for when it would be complete, O’Connor said.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rural/2021/05/govt-fails-to-meet-election-promise-deadline-over-forestry-conversion.html

The issue of productive pastoral land being purchased and converted to forestry is a very real concern for rural New Zealand. The rising price of carbon makes forestry an attractive option for overseas investors. Changes to the Overseas Investment Act in 2018 to stop foreigners buying up New Zealand land left a loophole that allows overseas investors to buy land if they plant it in trees.

We know how Grant Robertson and Jacinda Ardern feel about loopholes; look at the speed with which they legislated to close the “loophole” which allowed investors to claim interest payments as an expense!

Once again, the Labour government has over-promised and underdelivered. What was promised here is relatively small in terms of the work required to achieve it, and if there was no serious intention to implement the change, O’Connor and his mates shouldn’t have made the commitment. Unkept promises are becoming the hallmark of this government.
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- artemisia
  
  This government might not be great at keeping commitments made pre election but is pretty good at making and speedily executing commitments nobody ever heard of pre election.
  
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  May 15, 2021 9:36am
- DeepBlue
  
  I wonder how many rural voters ticked red on this promise alone. They were ultimately trying to save their small communities.
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:07am
- Ruawai
  
  That is a standard Labour Government line they trot out ““Look, it probably is a bit slower than it should be, but we are going to keep moving forward “. Utter BS.
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:58am
- adamsmith1922
  
  Plus I thought the Paris Accord specifically stated that productive farmland should be used for food not forestry. Though the Ardern regime would rather have trees than farms
  
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  May 15, 2021 11:06am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    It does indeed. This comes from our submission on a remit we took to the Lower North Island National AGM last year:
    
    Article 2.1 of The Paris Climate accord in regard to mitigating and reducing emissions states that it must be done:
    
    IN A MANNER THAT DOES NOT THREATEN FOOD PRODUCTION
    
    If we put a million hectares of productive pastoral hill country farmland into permanent trees under the ETS, we are going to lose $1.25 billion p.a. of net future export receipts as a result [source NZ Beef and Lamb economic service]. These are export earnings the country can ill afford to lose, particularly with the current shutdown of New Zealand’s other big export earners, the Tourism sector (which is going to be totally shut down for the foreseeable future) and the International Education sector, detrimentally impacted long term as a result of COVID-19.
    
    Planting of pine is fine, but it has to be the right place. Marginal hill country is fine for pine plantations; productive pastoral farms are not.
    
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    May 15, 2021 12:20pm
    - chukar
      
      TS,
      I know of a little NZ valley consisting of some of the hardest hill country in NZ where there is the quite amazing spectacle of forestry being planted in large areas and a pathetic attempt at removing previously planted wilding pines all at the same time.
      Oh and both mostly funded from the same source.
      Our caring (stupid )Government!
      
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      May 15, 2021 9:46pm
mikenmildagain

Happy International Conscientious Objectors Day!
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May 15, 2021 9:23am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Are you one Mike?
  
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  May 15, 2021 2:10pm
Ruawai

New portrait hung in parliament of our serious frowning one dressed as a Muslim and a much larger picture than the others.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/05/portrait-of-jacinda-ardern-joins-corridor-in-parliament-featuring-artistic-impressions-of-former-prime-ministers.html
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May 15, 2021 9:35am
- Tall Man
  
  Gaddafi did the same thing
  
  https://bijijoo.com/blog/hyrax/2011/02/gaddafi.jpg
  
  Notice the similarity of the expression.
  
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  May 15, 2021 11:54am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    So did Chairman Nao Zedong
    
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    May 15, 2021 2:13pm
- Observer of Life
  
  That is one shite portrait. Bet she hates it too. LOL
  
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  May 15, 2021 12:16pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    Very appropriate though – wooden head
    
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    May 15, 2021 2:11pm
- nathie
  
  Has Rafael Gonzalez-Montero lost the plot?
  
  All the other portraits show former PM’s as themselves, not playing “dress up” (yes dress up, Ardern never wears such clothes 99.9% of the time).
  
  And all other portraits show former PM’s in true portrait fashion – Ardern’s portrait looks like a cross between a news photographers voyeuristic quick snap and pop art!
  
  Oh well whatever rocks the artists’ and Rafael Gonzalez-Montero’s boat I suppose.
  
  Wonder if TU or ACT will OIA how much taxpayers forked out for this image which looks more at home elsewhere than NZ , let alone in the new enlightended Māori age of Aotearoa!
  
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  May 15, 2021 12:32pm
- pussycat
  
  looks like Helen Clark
  
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  May 15, 2021 1:09pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  God will not be mocked. Ardern by formally dressing as a Muslim is either mocking Muslims or the Christian God whom those in the gallery would have recognised.
  
  Ardern is building up for a personal confrontation which is most likely to remove her from power.
  
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  May 15, 2021 1:34pm
  - Keith White
    
    “Faster, please.”
    
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    May 15, 2021 8:13pm
- Hollyfield
  
  “A portrait of Jacinda Ardern has been placed in a corridor in Parliament where artistic impressions of former Prime Ministers are put on display. ”
  
  Former Prime Ministers? Do they know something we don’t?
  
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  May 15, 2021 1:45pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Looks like the same face Mother Superior put on at boarding school, when someone pimped on me for stretching ‘Cling-Film’ across her toilet bowl.
  
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  May 15, 2021 2:09pm
- DeepBlue
  
  Who did the shuffle along to squeeze her next to such estemed company. I though Helen Clark would be in that spot.
  
  I’d love to see the before layout.
  
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  May 15, 2021 4:47pm
- Sacha
  
  Oh my goodness – that portrait is awful.
  But very recognisable.
  Do the PMs take them with them when they go?
  
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  May 15, 2021 4:51pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Has Prime Minister Ardern converted to the Muslim faith?
  If not, why would there be a depiction of her as a Muslim on display in her workplace?
  If a PM was a Catholic, would she/he be allowed to have a picture of themselves on display in Parliament holding a crucifix?
  
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  May 15, 2021 8:00pm
Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes

Accidently clicked on stuff, and saw this headline: Scientists create machine that helps COVID patients breathe through their bums

I didnt read the story, but assume this muts be a follow up to:
Scientists discover that Politicians breathe & talk through their bums….
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May 15, 2021 9:52am
Maggie Pie

My partner was saying last night… that if anyone had told him Auckland’s Business Elite, would gather together to be lectured by somebody whose background included that of a commie sympathizer, and whose only previous link to private enterprise was working for a Morrinsville Takeaway, he would have fallen about the place in fits of laughter.

LOL
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May 15, 2021 10:18am
- Tricati
  
  But she did give ‘master Piece’ of the day – a story on ‘cheese rolls’ for FS.
  I wish TV had panned the faces on the attendees as I suspect it would have been priceless.
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:41am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    And I purposefully left out saying…. ‘unmarried mother’ in the description, because even I can relate to that.
    
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    May 15, 2021 12:16pm
  - Bob
    
    That’s why there was no broadcast TV coverage of said story.
    
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    May 15, 2021 2:35pm
JibberJabber

Margaret Thatcher

One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Yeah, Jacinda, she’s talking about you.
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May 15, 2021 10:22am
ABS4EVA

If any one did not notice
in Nuclear Free Aotearoa

The CCP Threatened to
NUKE AUSTRALIAN CITIES
Last Week

https://www.news.com.au/world/china-threatens-australia-with-ballistic-missile-strike-via-global-times-propaganda-tool/video/4a681fceb22eb465ae9964b2ec57a5a9

They mean Business and their Business
is WAR

Coming to your neighbourhood

Don’t worry NZ keep worshipping
Mao’s Maori Cloak in Te papa
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May 15, 2021 10:23am
ABS4EVA

I really think people who subscribe to
Wet Market Theories of Covid have
WATER ON THE BRAIN

https://www.sirfnews.com/chinese-military-discussed-weaponising-covid-in-2015-ccp-document/

Their the CCP Documents

<
In 2015, Chinese military scientists discussed how to weaponise Sars coronaviruses ― the coronavirus is a kind of Sars, referred to as Sars-Cov-2 ― five years before the Covid-19 pandemic emerged in Wuhan, China, a document for internal consumption extracted from the communist state shows. Scientists on the payroll of the Communist Party of China (CCP) were collaborating with a US-funded NGO on so-called ‘gain of function’ research to make bat coronaviruses infect humans more easily.
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May 15, 2021 10:26am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300307630/super-rugby-the-rise-of-140kg-crusaders-prop-tamaiti-williams
Sheesh !
No wonder there are fewer kids playing junior rugby: imagine coming face-to-face with this guy on the field.
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May 15, 2021 10:27am
- Tall Man
  
  Bring back the “biff” …. That’d solve the problem, as long as you were the giver not the getter 😉
  
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  May 15, 2021 11:51am
- ABS4EVA
  
  I used to stop them in their tracks lift them off the ground and dump the b a s t a r ds on the ground
  that was when most school boy teams
  played better than the present Wallabies
  and AB”S and in many cases out weighed them
  
  Stop the pc kumbaya politically correct crap
  
  PLAY THE GAME
  and GET INTO THE FINALS
  NEXT TIME
  
  YOU PACK OF LOSERS
  
  Rugby is about Discipline and TEAM WORK
  
  then there is the hand to hand stuff
  
  140 kg
  BIG DEAL
  
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  May 15, 2021 4:57pm
Maggy Wassilieff

School lunch doublespeak..

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/125132401/schools-advised-to-discourage-kids-from-eating-homepacked-lunch-over-government-supplied-ones
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May 15, 2021 10:34am
- greybeard
  
  Yes.
  From the Ministry of mis-Education.
  ( under-Education ? non-Education ? )
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:37am
  - Ehlana
    
    It’s spelled I-n-d-o-c-t-r-i-n-a-t-i-o-n, greybeard.
    
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    May 15, 2021 3:17pm
- JackRabbit
  
  Most responsible parents know to pack lunches for their children that are nutritious and healthy. It will be the children of these parents that are rejecting the unhealthy bland “Cheese and Mayonnaise” sandwiches.
  
  Beside many of the funded lunches go elsewhere.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/125100360/where-do-thousands-of-uneaten-taxpayerfunded-school-lunches-go
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:51am
- Yvette
  
  from Maggy’s linked item –
  Schools have been advised to discourage kids from eating their own home-packed lunch, and to wait until kids are hungry, to provide the Government’s free lunches.
  
  Schools provide lunches because some children otherwise go hungry. Answer: hold off the food until children are hungry enough to eat anything – genius!
  I’d have though a survey to find out precisely why school lunches are rejected, might have been a better solution – too obvious I guess.
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:51am
  - Bob
    
    Requires management and rational thinking skills!
    
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    May 15, 2021 2:30pm
- Badger
  
  After 150 years of public education, isn’t this a solved problem?
  
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  May 15, 2021 10:59am
- Gravelroad
  
  Another example of unacceptable state control and social engineering.
  My grandkids take a nice, healthy lunch to school and kindy, lovingly prepared by their hardworking parents.
  So, the government decrees these kids are not allowed to eat their food until others in their class have had a government controlled and monitored lunch.
  There is one word for this dictatorship and that is communism.
  You cannot make one set of children better by denying and punishing another set.
  
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  May 15, 2021 11:00am
  - sooty
    
    Naughty children not eat the nice lunch provided by the kind taxpayer!
    Government is starting look stupid in providing luncyes that the children wont eat, so they are going to the bennies. Next thing we will be providing free food to all bennies and have to deliver and cook it for them!
    
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    May 15, 2021 11:43am
    - Bob
      
      Don’t we do that already in many ‘Bennie’ circles?
      
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      May 15, 2021 2:29pm
  - Prince
    
    I expect a decree to be issued soon saying all children who take lunch to school must pool them for distribution across the school.
    Preparing them for the outside world in our socialist paradise.
    
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    May 15, 2021 11:57am
  - kowtow
    
    A short while ago there was a story from an Oz school that said the powers that be wanted parents to stop reading to their kids at home …….. as it dis advantaged the kids who came from homes where the parents didn’t.
    
    You can’t make this stuff up.
    
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    May 15, 2021 12:29pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Same with math. The teachers push common core, which is wholesale rubbish
      
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      May 15, 2021 2:22pm
    - Badger
      
      Unless you provide a source I’m assuming that “make it up” is exactly what you did.
      
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      May 15, 2021 3:19pm
      - kowtow
        
        On yer bike . Look it up , if you can ,shouldn’t be too hard to find for a short sighted nocturnal ground dweller .
        
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        May 15, 2021 6:32pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    What drivelling morons in the Ministry ever thought that was a good idea?
    
    No wonder our education is on a downward slide.
    
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    May 15, 2021 2:25pm
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    I must have gone to really progressive primay & secondary schools in the 60’s as school lunches were avaiable every day. Put your order in at morning play time, pay your 6p or shilling if you were really hungry, and piping hot fish and carbs turned up at midday. Real treat when I was allowed to get a “school lunch”. ?
    
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    May 15, 2021 3:28pm
- Sacha
  
  I heard a few minutes of Marcus Lush singing the praises of the advantage of free school lunches.
  He apparently hates making his kids lunches, that they don’t eat what he provides and bring the remnants home for him to dispose of. And did I mention that he likes the ‘free’ aspect?
  He thinks that it’s good that everyone has the same lunch so that the have-nots do not feel discriminated against.
  He was insulting/rude to listeners who phoned in to disagree with him, and I turned off .
  I think being on the Invercargill Council has gone to his head, it’s letting in hot air,
  
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  May 15, 2021 11:03am
  - lifesgood
    
    I wish Newstalk ZB would get rid of him. Apart from his blatant lefty bias he is absolutely hopeless as a radio host…..long pauses, begging people to ring him etc. other hosts don’t have those problems.
    
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    May 15, 2021 12:46pm
    - Souvlaki
      
      The long pauses I suspect are due to “electric puha”.
      I’ve listened to his ramblings long enough to be reasonably confident in my diagnosis.
      Its his way of giving the 2 fingered salute to those ZB listeners who may choose to tune into his polar opposite…Hosking !
      
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      May 15, 2021 1:16pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    [Deleted – OTT abuse. mod.]
    
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    May 15, 2021 1:04pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Thanks mod., good to know where the line is.
      And I agree with lifesgood.
      
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      May 15, 2021 2:12pm
- Swifty
  
  Hipkins says:
  
  “We live in an environment that makes healthy eating very difficult….”
  
  Horseshit.
  
  In the history of human civilisation, there has never been a time where eating healthily is so easy.
  
  We are surrounded with an abundance of relatively cheap healthy food and ingredients either a stone’s throw away or in fact able to be delivered right to our door.
  
  We live like kings and queens compared to 99.99% of people who have lived before us.
  
  Billions of our ancestors would have given nearly anything to live like we do.
  
  I have to admit I quite like Hipkins (but I’ll never forgive him for the charter schools tragedy), I think he’s a quite capable bloke and whenever I’ve heard him interviewed he generally gives good and straight answers – but for heaven’s sake he talks some crap sometimes.
  
  This isn’t leadership – it is the infantilisation of the population. At times I think all Labour wishes is for everyone to become dependent on them and Labour MPs can then fully assume the role they’ve always wanted – that of being in total control of the lives of all New Zealanders.
  
  And for those who think I’m wrong – point me to any, ANY, times over since late-2017 where any, ANY, Labour MP has something along the lines of “Oh for goodness sake, people need to grow up and take care of these matters themselves – this is nothing to do with the government and we refuse to become involved….”
  
  Waiting…….
  
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  May 15, 2021 11:13am
  - greybeard
    
    “At times I think all Labour wishes is for everyone to become dependent on them and Labour MPs can then fully assume the role they’ve always wanted – that of being in total control of the lives of all New Zealanders.”
    I posted that very same sentiment on KB some time ago, as well as sending it to Hosking and Williams & HDPA.
    It is a typical socialist/communist wish to make as many as possible dependent on the state.
    
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    May 15, 2021 12:26pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    What I really don’t like about this is the punitive nature of the demand:
    So my 7 year old gets out his home made food stored in the politically correct container (no plastic wrap etc) at lunchtime.
    He’s feeling hungry.
    But just as he gets out the sandwich someone at home has made for him, along comes a teacher or some other person in authority , who tells him, No, you cannot eat your food yet.
    You must wait at least 10 minutes until the other children have had theirs. You might be hungrier by then.
    That is just plain wrong, and if that happened to my kid I would be down at the school quick smart to complain about inequality of access to food for my child.
    This is a ridiculous idea.
    Ms Ardern: when your child goes to school, and presumably with a lunch provided by someone in your household, are you seriously going to tell her she may not eat it because others have to have their “special” lunch before her?
    Doesn’t matter if she is hungry yet or not?
    Don’t think so.
    
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    May 15, 2021 12:51pm
    - Sacha
      
      Many kids would eat their lunches at morning break/playtime. Fruit at lunchtime. Then when they got home after school they would have another ‘lunch’ which kept them going until dinner.
      This sort of arrangement kept their blood sugars and energy levels up for the whole day.
      Child-rearing made easier.
      
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      May 15, 2021 5:03pm
- Surely Knott
  
  My neighbour gets the spare school lunches to take to work as his wife is a teacher.
  
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  May 15, 2021 11:48am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Commies forcing welfare dependency
  
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  May 15, 2021 11:58am
- dave_c_
  
  “taxpayer funded school lunches are going uneaten, and the Government is not counting the numbers.”
  Typical of the current junta – Required outcomes are not defined, and not counted deliberately.
  If counting took place, it would further show what a pack of jollies we have running the place.
  
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  May 15, 2021 3:08pm
- Ehlana
  
  Unbelievable. I wonder how many grown adults, on what salaries, were involved in deciding to suggest that schools “discourage kids from eating their own home-packed lunch, and … wait until kids are hungry, to provide the Government’s free lunches.”
  
  Though come to think of it, since I understand many children come to school hungry, this would mean having lunch at 9am, when most children with a home-packed lunch will still be full from breakfast.
  My concern is, when the home-packed lunch crowd sit down to eat their lunches at lunchtime, when they are hungry, what will the other children eat?
  
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  May 15, 2021 3:39pm
oldfella

Over on The Daily Blog, Chris Trotter asks a great question: Will Labour Defuse The He Puapua Time-Bomb?
“The moment Nanaia Mahuta set the wheels in motion; the moment the relevant Cabinet Committee signed it off. From that moment the logic of te Tiriti began to unfold like a coiled fern. That’s the thing about documents like He Puapua: once written, you can’t unwrite them. Once they are in the world, you only have two choices. Either you embrace their conclusions and make them your own. Or, you cast them away from you like sin.
And, please, don’t blame Labour’s He Puapua problem on John Key. The advice he received on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was that it was a statement of good intentions – not firm intentions. New Zealand could take it – or leave it in a drawer.”
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2021/05/14/will-labour-defuse-the-he-puapua-time-bomb/
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May 15, 2021 10:44am
- Yvette
  
  Oldfella
  
  NZ does U-turn on rights charter April 24 2010. At the UN: Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples has flown secretly to New York for a speech to the United Nations signing New Zealand up to a declaration on indigenous rights.
  
  [Under Helen Clark] Labour strongly opposed the declaration, fearing it was too sweeping and labelling it incompatible with New Zealand’s constitutional and legal arrangements and Treaty settlement policy.
  It also feared the creation of two classes of citizenship and said the declaration would give indigenous people veto rights over laws made by Parliament.
  
  From Pita Sharples’ full speech to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues –
  8. In moving to support the Declaration, New Zealand both affirms those rights and reaffirms the legal and constitutional frameworks that underpin New Zealand’s legal system. Those existing frameworks, while they will continue to evolve in accordance with New Zealand’s domestic circumstances, define the bounds of New Zealand’s engagement with the aspirational elements of the Declaration.
  
  Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples, in addressing the UN, finished with – New Zealand’s support for the Declaration represents an opportunity to acknowledge and restate the special cultural and historical position of Māori as the original inhabitants – the tangata whenua – of New Zealand. It reflects our continuing endeavours to work together to find solutions and underlines the importance of the relationship between Māori and the Crown under the Treaty of Waitangi. [1]
  
  So the Declaration has been “defused” (or dumped on) by Helen Clark, John Key and Pita Shaples, and given only a lukewarm reception by Ardern.
  
  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the reason for not publicly releasing it was because it wasn’t government policy, hadn’t been considered by Cabinet, and she didn’t want its release to suggest to people it was being implemented in full. [2]
  
  While the new Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson says he’s read it in its entirety, Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little says he hasn’t read it at all – ruling out Collins’ suggestion He Puapua had “inspired’’ his announcement of a Māori Health Authority.
  
  The question is: Who is actually driving it now – probably Willie Jackson is one.
  What may unhinge it is any Declaration move that actually breaches the Treaty.
  Like Ihumātao.
  
  [1] http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3599153/NZ-does-U-turn-on-rights-charter
  [2] https://www.newsroom.co.nz/he-puapua-the-report-dividing-parliament
  
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  May 15, 2021 1:49pm
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    Jacinda is being disingenuous & the Govt has already committed to implementing it as govt policy.
    
    https://www.act.org.nz/he_puapua_needs_some_sunlight
    
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    May 15, 2021 4:14pm
  - DeepBlue
    
    Maori caucus in Labour, who are on a mission to show it is better to vote Maori Labour than the Maori Party if you want real change.
    
    They got a heck of a scare with Tamati and two Maori Party MPS. To such an extent a rocket has been placed under the couch.
    
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    May 15, 2021 5:03pm
Maggie Pie

Honestly, it’s when you get sh*t like this popping up on Twitter, that you ask yourself why you even bother 🙁

https://twitter.com/capitalkiwi/status/1393101050236739584
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May 15, 2021 11:02am
oldfella

France Bans Schools from Using ‘Gender-neutral’ Words in French, Says It’s ‘Harmful’
The government of France has directed schools across the country to stop using ‘gender-neutral’ spelling of words, saying the practice threatens the existence of the French language. The ruling, according to a news website, was issued last week by the country’s education ministry which aims to put an end to the use of midpoints that include both feminine and masculine endings to words.
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/france-bans-schools-from-using-gender-neutral-words-in-french-says-its-harmful-3727547.html
Does Te Reo have gender neutral words? Might be time to ban them as well. /s
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May 15, 2021 11:16am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Does Te Reo have gender neutral words
  
  sure does for personal pronouns…
  
  ia = he, she, it, him, her
  
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  May 15, 2021 2:29pm
- greybeard
  
  Tres bon !
  Vive LA France !
  
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  May 15, 2021 3:32pm
Monique Watson

I shouldn’t go on NewsHub I really shouldn’t. It’s too fucking depressing seeing some article about a Liberal elitist google the pay of the top public service execs and say their salary should be given away. When I live in a part of the world where CEO’s wouldn’t be in that pay band. Its not uncommon to be on seven figures which I say to illustrate how NZ needs to be competitive in a global market. In fact it shouldn’t an aspiration to solely work for a salary. You stay poor focusing on salary. It’s the options part of the package that’s important. You are rewarded for wealth creation. You can be happily unemployed concentrating on wealth creation. Oh and I was talking to a CEO yesterday and he said, “Oh didn’t your Prime Minister do well….” I informed him of her job qualifications and he was most surprised.
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May 15, 2021 11:27am
oldfella

Don’t mess with Israel.
The Israeli military apparently used a brilliant deceptive maneuver to take out Hamas’s terrorist fighting force and underground tunnels — in a single blow.
In what could only be described as killing two birds with one stone, the Israel Defense Forces on Thursday night told news reporters that the Israeli ground forces were on their way to Hamas-held Gaza.
The news spread quickly through the mainstream media and affiliated social media accounts. Believing an Israeli ground invasion to be imminent, Hamas ordered its terrorist fighters to seek shelter in the tunnel network dug up under the Gaza city.
What followed the Hamas mobilization was a massive wave of Israeli airstrikes — comprising of 160 aircraft — on the Gaza tunnel network with the jihadi group’s top terror brass sitting underground, right where the IDF wanted them.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/05/reports-israel-lured-hamas-fighters-into-tunnels-with-rumor-of-ground-invasion-then-bombed-tunnels-in-massive-airstrike/
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May 15, 2021 11:31am
Swifty

Well I’ll be a monkey’s cock – RNZ’s Jane Paterson disagrees with Ardern that our electoral donation laws need reviewing:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/442589/sfo-charges-an-indictment-on-political-parties-not-the-system

What the hell is going on at RNZ? Is this the harbinger of some great breakout of common sense?

Somebody needs to get in there quickly and stamp it out!!!!
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May 15, 2021 11:34am
- Tall Man
  
  “Somebody needs to get in there quickly and stamp it out!!!!”
  
  Trust me, someone will ….
  
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  May 15, 2021 1:14pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Ardern is coming apart at the seams.
    
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    May 15, 2021 5:47pm
    - sooty
      
      H1 & H2 will be around shortly to sort her out and cancel any writing contracts she has!
      
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      May 15, 2021 9:01pm
BeaB

I see Ardern’s ChCh Call summit is discussing an international central office.
There can be only one person fit to head it up.
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May 15, 2021 11:37am
- Bob
  
  She is far too busy saving the sheeple from Covid.
  
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  May 15, 2021 2:22pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  It should be in the Auckland Islands.
  
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  May 15, 2021 5:46pm
- Keith White
  
  Harrison Bergeron.
  
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  May 15, 2021 8:16pm
oldfella

Tensions Rise In Middle East As One Side Wants To Kill Jews And The Other Side Are Jews Who Don’t Want To Die And Neither Will Compromise
https://babylonbee.com/news/tensions-rise-in-middle-east-as-one-side-wants-to-kill-jews-and-the-other-side-are-jews-who-dont-want-to-die-and-neither-will-compromise
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May 15, 2021 12:03pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Now if I put that on Facebook, I will get another 30 days in jail
  
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  May 15, 2021 2:29pm
I remember when

OECD Covid-19 death rates:
Interesting figures that seem to prove that Sweden did no worse than the OECD average.
So what effect does that have on the state control argument – do as we say or else.
Should it be enough to be fully updated on the latest facts about the virus and, apart from action on specific flash points, leave it to individual behaviour.
Was there/is there any need, other than for specifying distances, to control outdoor activity.
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May 15, 2021 12:05pm
I remember when

Newshub: National Maori Authority boss calls for beer company to be ‘hauled before the Human Rights Commission’ after owner’s racist rant.
– and for its owner to be barred from the liquor industry altogether.
So where does this banning/barring stop.
Is it just the liquor industry.
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May 15, 2021 12:10pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  There is no National Maori Authority. They can call themselves what they like within the law but what are they authority over and under what legislation?
  
  Maori are still tribal and there is NO Maori nation per se. The tribes each arrived separately from different places of origin making them natural enemies in the normal context. The Kingi movement was attempt to set up a King with the status of Victoria but that did not get the tribal support desired and is now just a Waikato relic occupied by a former truck driver. It was a self proclaimed style and title.
  
  I could be the National Dog Leg Straightening Authority but it’ meaningless without power. Activists only have fists and noise not power or rights.
  
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  May 15, 2021 5:44pm
  - tf78
    
    Kev O, do you think we could possibly have an “English Language Week” and take our language back again.
    
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    May 15, 2021 8:18pm
Maggie Pie

We were just watching Sky News.
Reporting that Chynaa has ‘verbally’ told some of it’s LNG Importers to avoid ordering any further LNG cargoes from Australia.
It’s worth about $15B annually to Oz.

As my partner said, “They can be real plicks when it suits them”
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May 15, 2021 12:12pm
- sooty
  
  But where else and at what price?
  
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  May 15, 2021 8:57pm
I remember when

Bush Telegraph:
Suresh Patel QSM is the first person from Tararua to be inducted into the Manawatu Legends of Sport.
The induction, a complete surprise to Patel, was made at the Downer Tararua Sports Awards.
He was the 27th person awarded the honour, joining icons like Ian Ferguson, Chris Amon, Phil Skoglund and Dr Farah Palmer.
Patel’s passion for sport has seen him play cricket, hockey and rugby. He has been a coach, referee and administrator.
Patel was made an Honoured Member of the NZ Indian Sports Association in 2012, a life member of the Central Districts Indian Sports Club in 2016, and the Dannevirke Chamber of Commerce in 2017.
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May 15, 2021 12:19pm
Jack5

Can anyone tell us whether the “National Maori Authority” is an official State organisation?

It features in a Herald report today in which the “National Maori Authority” chairman, Matthew Tukaki, calls for a brewery “to be hauled before the Human Rights Commission” over “racist comments”.

A quick online search of NZ legislation didn’t throw up any reference to “National Maori Authority”.

The Charities Registry has an entry for “Nga Ngaru Rautahi o Aotearoa National Maori Authority Incorporated,” and this is also listed at the Companies Office’s registry of incorporated societies.

The latter registry shows this is the organisation’s fourth name. Earlier names were:

– Nga Ngaru Rautahi o Aotearoa National Urban Maori Authority Incorporated.

– Nga Ngaru Rautahi o Aotearoa Incorporated.

– Nga Ngaru Hauora o Aotearoa Incorporated, the name when the organisation was formed in 1998.

The Charities Register lists a “trading name” for the organisation: “Nga Ngaru”.

It also lists a web site, http://www.ngangaru.co.nz. My Malware Browser Guard blocked me from going there saying it was suspected of being compromised.

Strangely, this site address is is available for purchase, but ngangaru.com is not. I couldn’t get through to it either. Perhaps a hacker-scale Kiwiblog follower might succeed.

Meanwhile, if anyone can use “national authority” as part of an organisation title, that could get interesting.
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May 15, 2021 12:40pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Those morons will be the first to squeal when they get hauled up in front of a kangaroo court for their own racist rants.
  
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  May 15, 2021 5:13pm
Maggie Pie

I see ‘Sleepy Joe’ never made it out of the basement then 😀
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May 15, 2021 1:07pm
Tall Man

As if Shane hasn’t got enough problems to focus on …

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/05/female-doctors-earn-up-to-73-000-less-than-their-male-counterparts.html

He is perhaps unaware that women have children and are often unwilling to forego their best breeding years in order to undergo speciality training. Also, many male doctors start but drop out due to the demands that are put on them and revert to general practice.

However, I know of 2 young female doctors who are doing just that in order to specialise.
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May 15, 2021 1:42pm
- Ehlana
  
  I suspect the long-term answer is that we need to train at least twice as many people in medicine, so there are enough people to, firstly, have reasonable working hours (to keep more of them stay engaged) and secondly, to allow for slower progression into specialties. It might actually be an advantage if medical professionals had first hand experience raising (their own) children.
  Of course, it would be an enormous investment in medical schools and, if hours drop, salaries would need to change commeasurately. I wonder if the profession would actually go for it?
  
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  May 15, 2021 4:53pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Currently, most “specialists” are near enough to 40 before they hang up their own shingle as they say.
    
    Extending that would mean higher rates as they would only have a few max earning years 😉
    
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    May 15, 2021 6:07pm
- Ian Boag
  
  GP is a specialisation too ..
  
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  May 15, 2021 8:33pm
NoFax

In Auckland city today there is anti-Semitic protest going on. It’s outside my window under the guide of being pro-Palestinian. However, I know it is anti-Semitic by it’s chants. “Israel must go” and “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea”. It looks like Unite Union is fully behind this.

What a sad day for NZ that proud anti-Semites walk the street and chant vile language.
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May 15, 2021 2:43pm
kowtow

‘Government scientists revealed in minutes released on Friday night that the variant could ‘realistically’ be 50% more infectious than the Kent strain, which models project could lead to 1,000 deaths a day, as well as 10,000 daily hospitalisations, by the summer.

Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said that it is ‘highly likely that the strain is more transmissible. ‘

This from the UK Daily Mail.

Watch this space , bet it doesn’t happen. More Fear Porn from the “experts”
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May 15, 2021 2:47pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  There is data that suggests it is no more intrinsically transmissible, just rampant in Indian close living with extended families.
  
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  May 15, 2021 5:54pm
  - Keith White
    
    I vote for Chinese scientists under orders from Xinnie the Pooh ran a ‘gain of function’ increased-pathogenicity mod on the previously-weaponised but accidentally-prematurely-released WuFlu virus, to ruin their populous neighbour and make their border war easily winnable.
    
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    May 15, 2021 8:18pm
Monique Watson

First it was Mahuta and now Shearer pushing out the anti Jew propaganda

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/05/jewish-settlers-undermining-two-state-solution-for-israel-and-palestine-david-shearer.html

Neither of them had cause to comment. Top level trolling. Fucking disgusting.
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May 15, 2021 3:52pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Two state solution is long dead.
  
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  May 15, 2021 5:55pm
Inandout

Another baby, another case for Oranga Tamariki it was reported.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300308371/investigation-launched-after-threeweekold-baby-critically-injured-in-hamilton
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May 15, 2021 4:04pm
Inandout

Now that the US has no President Trump I would imagine Putin will have a ball with the bumbling one.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/2879954/putin-unleash-hitler-youth-propaganda-army-peddle-hate/

The pipeline company paid $5 million ransom to the Russian hackers.
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May 15, 2021 4:13pm
JohnnyOverton

Whoopsie, foot in mouth disease stuff. Poor bugger, must have had a long night sampling his own product. Very bad for business in todays very touchy-feely world.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/442598/eagle-brewing-owner-apologises-over-unacceptable-comments

I just noticed the bar is closed for the weekend. Kai Tahu may have rounded him up & shipped him off to a re-education camp for some good old brownwashing.

Of course when a Waititi, Tamihere or Jackson spew out hatred against us ‘fuckin white, racist colonial bastards, they get nothing but praise.

The double standards are beyond absurd. The problem with consciousness raising, which only transforms unconscious bias into tongue biting conscious bias, is its simply used by one group in society to thought control another. It’s real emasculating purpose is to attack & fragment an individuals personality & weaken natural born defence mechanisms. This process increases insecurity, which is why many today are constantly reduced to 2nd guessing their every thought, word & action. Is this progress? The jury’s still out on this one.

One things for sure, the globalisation elite, our social media leviathans & the liberal MSN thrive on these dangerous, soul destroying, divide & conquer processes.
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May 15, 2021 4:37pm
- Prince
  
  Pretty easy fix. He just needs to say he meant to put a ‘Non-‘ in front of the Maori, and no one would bat an eyelid.
  
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  May 15, 2021 6:20pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Hear, hear.
  
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  May 15, 2021 8:33pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/125143868/thousands-march-aucklands-queen-st-in-support-of-palestinians
I bet Jacinda was there somewhere.
This is what we can expect, more and more.
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May 15, 2021 5:24pm
- sooty
  
  Peeping out thru the curtains?
  
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  May 15, 2021 8:53pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Goodnight. Spa and a table of drinkies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDjXeWksP4w
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May 15, 2021 5:43pm
Monique Watson

Lol I got the Northern Hemisphere view of the night sky from the hot tub. Before I put my phone down I noticed those bollucks Green MP’s Swarbrick and the Mexican protesting about those poor Widdle Hamas militants being pounded by the IDF. I’m sorry you have that in your midst. At least Biden came out and said Israel has a right to self defence and there was only minor isolated squawking in Congress today.
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May 15, 2021 5:56pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/nz/125142788/fifty-lucky-children-get-to-fly-over-new-zealand-during-a-special-flight-in-boeing-7879
This is great stuff.
Well done Air NZ and others.
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