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Yvette

■ There were two new confirmed Omicron cases at the border to report among recent arrivals on Sunday – taking the total number of Omicron cases at the border to 90 – but no further spread from the two cases that were in the community last week.

■ Wellington placed under level 2 Covid restrictions after visit by infected Australian tourist.
The measures come after the traveller spent a weekend visiting Wellington from Sydney, and visited sites around the city, including busy inner-city eateries, and popular tourism spot Te Papa, the capital’s museum. – but apparently infected no-one

■ Jacinda Ardern was mobbed yesterday, in an sudden thunderstorm, with citizens pressing against the Prime Minister, aware of her astounding luck, hoping her star-dust was undiminished, and they too would not be hit by lightning.

Someday my jinx will come
When my star-dust’s gone
But I’ll blame Ashley Bloomfield
When we’re engulfed with Omicron
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January 3, 2022 9:33am
- pdm
  
  No Covid places of interest in Hawkes Bay despite supposedly two cases in Napier in the last 2 or 3 days.
  
  How does that work?
  
  Are the covid people hermits – in whch case how did they get it?
  
  So many questions without answers.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:49am
  - Biscuit
    
    Hmmm, pdm.
    
    Of more import to Moi is the Ranfurly Shield.
    
    I am thinking that, purely as a precaution, said trophy ought to be removed from your Covid-ravaged region and ensconced somewhere far more safe.
    
    Like Sky Stadium here in Wellington, e.g..
    
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    January 3, 2022 11:48am
    - pdm
      
      We are quick in Hawkes Bay Biscuit – one of my neighbours gave you a downtick before I even saw your effort.
      
      The shield is safe for many years in Hawkes Bay – the rabble that is called Wellington will have no chance.
      
      I further understand that immovable objects like the Ranfurly Shield are immune from Covid anyway.
      
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      January 3, 2022 11:58am
- kevn
  
  @Yvette… Calling Team Jabby.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:00am
- virtualmark
  
  No conspiracy and no surprise. The missing information is COVID’s “k factor”, which describes how some people don’t pass it on to anyone but meanwhile there are others who are super-spreaders.
  
  See https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/
  
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  January 3, 2022 5:27pm
Warren

It would be interesting if you were able to get the data of all that have used the MIQ when returning from overseas destinations. I say this because of the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern use of this facility to help her friends into New Zealand like the DJ that was the first with Omicron to be found in our Community and if she has been part of giving approval to him to enter New Zealand three times how many others that are Labour donor’s have been given the same privilege before the thousands of New Zealand Citizens that have tried and been unsuccessful when family members have been seriously ill or on their death bed.
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January 3, 2022 9:33am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Real Leaders dont use their position for their personal advantage.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:29am
  - pdm
    
    Ah ha Lastman – you mistake Ardern for a `real leader’.
    
    It is well proven that she is not a leader of any substance at all.
    
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    January 3, 2022 10:52am
  - Bob
    
    Aaaah LastMan…..’dont use their position …’
    
    BUT DICTATORS DO!
    
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    January 3, 2022 12:06pm
  - Fight4NZ
    
    Taking tips from Trump?
    
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    January 3, 2022 5:47pm
  - Jim
    
    Agree. A true leader will ‘gain’ respect for exhibiting exemplary personal qualities by naturally doing the right thing (whether people are looking or not). Poor leaders ‘demand’ respect, and will always be compromised by their own self serving actions. As such there is a cavernous difference between these two people in terms of both their character and ability.
    
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    January 3, 2022 5:55pm
- namron
  
  Warren, do you think it might be possible that the DJ might have some involvement in her wedding?
  After all, look at the special arrangements made for Lorde – who is to sing at it!!??
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:38am
  - Nickc2
    
    Hey namron, get real! It’s far more important to get DJs and Singers through our MIQ system than Doctors and Nurses, no matter what diseases they may be carrying and spreading.
    
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    January 3, 2022 11:00am
  - Squeek
    
    If he did, I doubt he does now.
    
    New arrangements will be made and the master plan retyped by the private secretaries (on their own time of course, not on our time).
    
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    January 3, 2022 11:44am
skyblue

Wake wakey
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January 3, 2022 9:36am
Rich Prick

Want an MIQ spot, think about what to list as your occupation.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/127421845/covid19-infected-dj-among-564-overseas-entertainers-allowed-into-nz
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January 3, 2022 9:38am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Chippie is really good at explaining//
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:05am
- Keith White
  
  I told the truth, I usually do, ’cause that’s the easiest way to remember what I said.
  
  I guess if I had put down DJ I’d be home by now.
  
  8 months and counting… not happy, at all. Especially as even in exile I have to keep paying taxes in NZ – and for what? I’m exiled by the Commie-in-Chief and her Sovietistas.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:07am
Maggy Wassilieff

The nonsense continues..

Why is NZ the only country in the world where taxpayers fund two Weather forecasting organisations?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/chance-of-rain-as-battle-between-metservice-and-niwa-gets-dirty/AY75FY6FRSVQVVDBAKQYVO6GTM/
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January 3, 2022 9:39am
- Marcus Vinicius
  
  I wouldn’t get your hopes up Maggy of the government doing anything sensible about this. The Minister of SOE’s is David Clark….
  
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  January 3, 2022 9:46am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  And, the fers can both get it wrong!
  
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  January 3, 2022 9:54am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    http://www.windy.com will set you right
    
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    January 3, 2022 10:08am
    - Fletch
      
      https://www.metvuw.com/forecast/
      
      Is also pretty good. eg, 3 days ahead –
      
      https://www.metvuw.com/forecast/forecast.php?type=rain&region=nz&noofdays=3
      
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      January 3, 2022 11:05am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  As a boatie I have given up on Metservice.
  “inappropriate for a public safety service” is them, not NIWA. Metservice get the marine outlook soooo wrong to be at the point of being dangerous. I guess they have a new crew of highly qualified “experts” with uni degrees. They know SFA.
  I us other sources now.
  Rant over.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:00am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I use one https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/
    that handles our local area in Christchurch amazingly. Its station is within 500m.
    Its predictions and timing are very close up to week ahead. That’s forecasting as I hoped it would become.
    
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    January 3, 2022 10:29am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Metservice is a shocking site. Terrible to navigate. No pun intended. Not accurate. Windy is excellent for boating. Other than that I’ll look at Metvuw just for the isobar patterns. If I’m not heading out on the water I look out the window.
    
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    January 3, 2022 10:38am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yep, look out the window. If you can see Rangitoto it is going to rain, if you can’t see it, then it is raining
      
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      January 3, 2022 11:05am
    - artemisia
      
      Given up on Metservice. I asked them to continue to keep the old system in parallel. Computer said no.
      
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      January 3, 2022 12:37pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        The old system worked fairly good, but as Govt departments do, if it is not broken they just have to fix it
        
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        January 3, 2022 1:19pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    I use in no particular order:
    Predict Wind
    Met VUW
    Metservice.
    BOM from Australia.
    Then I look out the window to see what is actually happening!
    
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    January 3, 2022 10:59am
    - bennerg
      
      WeatherWatch??
      
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      January 3, 2022 4:52pm
- graham
  
  Why is NZ the only country in the world where taxpayers fund two Weather forecasting organisations?
  
  Quite bizarre. Is our weather really that complex compared to everywhere else on the entire planet?
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:05am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Our weather is made complex by idiots who are complex, the ones that would not last 5 minutes in the private sector
    
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    January 3, 2022 10:40am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Good news, Maggy! The government has produced a green paper to begin the process of reforming research, science and innovation. Perhaps one outcome will be to rethink the 1990s model of inventing artificial barriers between scientific institutions in the name of ‘competition’ and ‘efficiency’.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:19am
  - NK
    
    Outcomes and this Government don’t go together. Please try harder.
    
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    January 3, 2022 10:38am
  - amospicton
    
    How quaintly naive Milky – the government produces papers in lieu of actually doing anything. A plethora of papers, a dearth of outcomes.
    
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    January 3, 2022 11:06am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    Cool a return to 1970’s style Public Service then Mike…
    
    Glide On remake and the crap of 70’s all over again – slow, inefficient government ‘services’ but excellent at the crossword and knowing the bus timetables to Miramar and Karori
    
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    January 3, 2022 11:45am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      At least Gliding On was just a bunch of lazy cynical buggers. Today’s version would be the nightmare of treading on eggshells at every turn because of the infiltration of neomarxist woke lunacy.
      
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      January 3, 2022 1:58pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Yes Jim. Maggy was complaining that our science organisations don’t cooperate the way they did in the 1970s and 1980s. But if you think the taxpayers owning several companies competing against each other is a better model, then I guess you are entitled to that opinion.
      
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      January 3, 2022 4:37pm
- Dougal10
  
  You should see the new multi million dollar building that NIWA have just built in Twizel . It looks like fort knox complete with razor wire.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:44am
- Biscuit
  
  Indeed, Maggy.
  
  And how difficult is it to ‘predict’ 99% of New Zealand’s weather.
  
  Look at what hit the south-east of Australia 3 days ago and copy that across for New Zealand today.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    All I need is an Isobar map, nothing else. It is not that hard
    
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    January 3, 2022 1:21pm
alloytoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYLbJ0H8zdc

Latest John Campbell video.

Interesting study from RSA concerning immunity.
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January 3, 2022 9:51am
- yossarian
  
  NB please use his full name Dr John Campbell, or else others get confused and might feel more like putting knitting needles in their ears than listening to that trumped up little twerp. 🙂
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:16pm
  - curry4me
    
    yossarian: Yeah, that was my reaction when I saw the word Campbell.
    
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    January 3, 2022 6:40pm
Yvette

A wounded PM and ailing economy force England to ‘go Swedish’ on Covid
It’s easy to see why the government is reluctant to add to the economic pain with tougher restrictions.
Government policy towards Covid-19 has come full circle. For now, at least, England has returned to the Swedish way of dealing with the pandemic. Tough, officially imposed lockdowns are out. Trusting the people to do the sensible thing is back in.
Whether this approach will survive the expected surge in hospitalisations from Christmas and New Year revelries remains to be seen. Boris Johnson is the master of the screeching U-turn and with the number of infections hitting new records pressure on Downing Street to act is growing. We have been here before … [pay-walled item] – the Guardian

… A reminder perhaps to ask how “political”, as against medical science based, is the covid response here in New Zealand – does “star-dust” or anything else change what happens here compared to the rest of the world.
One could wonder about the South Island being held in Level 2 so as not to be too more different to Auckland, which may have in turn been held at Level 4 for longer than need be, at the expense of destroying more businesses, and until the voting centre of the next Election were starting to rebel enough …
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No one voted for him, nor for the things this government is doing. Yet they are adding more and more compliance, rules, regulations and controls on our society.
As David Farrar points out, these freedoms that Ashley Bloomfield has decreed are a thing of the past are actually rights that he has taken away and appears to be unwilling to give back:

So let’s look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. and see how many we have temporarily suspended:

– Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person: Needing permission to leave your home is not liberty
– Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state: No freedom of movement for a third of the country
– Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country: 30,000 or more New Zealanders unable to return
– Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry: Not under Level 4!
– Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion;: Can’t go to church or mosque etc
– Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression: Can’t attend a protest march
– Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.: Not under Level 3 or 4
– Everyone has the right to work: Not when your employer can’t open or operate
– Everyone has the right to education: Not under Level 3 and 4
– Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community: Not under Level 3 or 4
– Kiwiblog

And that preceded the Traffic Light System and its sole purpose to segregate Vaccinated from Unvaccinated, to force the latter to join the former, who now need to have boosters.

Perhaps remember that just as any dollar the Government “gives” to any benefit you perceive as receiving, is a dollar they took off you, and now any freedom they confer on you, is likely one they took away earlier.
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January 3, 2022 9:56am
- Keith White
  
  So, some troughing-Commie downticked you Yvette. Sad their vote is worth the same as yours.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:09am
  - Yvette
    
    Keith White, thank you – but even if there are 21 upticks in favour and 20 down it is still a majority, which is what this Government has, or 21 upticks against 4 down, the 4 down would still equate to about 16.5 percent and changing sides, you could still wag the dog. or as this majority dog currently does, wag itself for you.
    
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    January 3, 2022 11:00am
- coge
  
  The political classes, and their enablers have stitched NZ up. It’s very clear the only way we’ll have our universal rights restored, is for the people to take them back.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:33am
- chukar
  
  And they take more than$3 for every 1$ they hand out.
  Got to ask where the more than $2 goes
  Nah —- we know!
  
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  January 3, 2022 2:14pm
Maggie Pie

Had some friends call in last night on their way home from holidaying in Russell.
They own an established boutique Jewellery business in the CBD.
Very lucky that the building they’re in has been owned by their Family Trust for many years.
Had their grandparents not had the foresight to buy it back in the early 70’s, there is NO WAY they would be there today.
They maintain Phil Goff’s legacy will be the complete demise of Queen St retail. Said it really is extremely sad what has been allowed to happen to the City since he was voted in as mayor by the southern based KFC connoisseurs.
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January 3, 2022 10:08am
- NK
  
  If you believe councillors from the North Shore, what will “reinvigorate” the CBD is cycle paths, reduced speed limits, wider footpaths and greenery!!
  
  They’re absolutely fucking clueless.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:41am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    No mention of ‘people’ then?
    
    SHEESH!!
    
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    January 3, 2022 10:59am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yes – look at what they have done in Takapuna and Milford. Main streets are a shambles. Places I used to like I now hate going to
    
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    January 3, 2022 12:42pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Clearly Steve they don’t want us there. They’ve turned dual carriageway streets into single ones and hidden pedestrian crossings behind bushes.
      Anyway, the only shops that are there are the likes of the $2.00 and Take Away ones with nothing of substance eg you can’t buy white goods, carpet, furniture, or entertainment systems anywhere in Takapuna, Devonport, Glenfield, Highbury, or Milford. Wairau Valley is the closest and even then you have to battle bloody cycle-ways to get there. They’ve turned the North Shore into a fucking joke IMO and with no reference whatsoever to ratepayers.
      The same can probably be said for most NZ Cities since Green interests infiltrated Local Govts.
      
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      January 3, 2022 12:55pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Even my Lawyers have moved out of Milford, that is a blessing
        
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        January 3, 2022 1:24pm
I remember when

Voice over on TV ad last night with Jacinda saying “climate change is in our backyards.”
So I went out and had a look but obviously mine hasn’t managed to book a MIQ spot.
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January 3, 2022 10:09am
- Benedict Yu
  
  On climate change, I get amused by folk pointing to coastal erosion and shouting “SEA RISING CLIMATE CHANGE” ?
  
  If you went and found New Zealand tidal charts from the 1950s you would find that mean sea level was within a few centimetres of levels today.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:40am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Always a tricky one because to varying degrees, many landmasses are rising or falling. A good overseas example is in Sweden, Stockholm. That is rising at a significant rate, centimetres per century and the seal level in the city is dropping. This is as a result of the “rebounding” from the time some 12-15K years ago when Sweden was under large amounts of ice that pushed the land surface down.
    
    Local earthquake activity can also affect land levels. As most in Wellington would know, the 1855 earthquake significantly lifted a lot of land around the city and as far afield as Pencarrow Head and around to Lake Wairarapa. In Hawke’s Bay, the 1930 earthquake lifted a significant chunk of what is now the city and also the whole airport area, but also there was a corresponding drop in the coastal area towards Cape Kidnappers, hence the enhanced erosion that area has experienced for a number of years.
    
    Typically measures of sea level change are supposedly “corrected” for known land changes, but these corrections are in some cases subject to dispute. Satellites are the latest measuring device, but are not beyond dispute either. And one measure simply unaccounted for is changes in the actual planet’s shape vis a vis the ocean basins. On a world wide basis, this can have mm to cm implications for sea level over quite short periods.
    
    Short answer is that most of the “information” you see with regard to sea level changes is agenda driven estimates based on models combined with oft dodgy data.
    
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    January 3, 2022 11:10am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I can just see the rabid left rolling their eyes after they read that LOL
      
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      January 3, 2022 1:26pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Yep Kench and others have found most islands GAINING land mass. Oh dear, more inconvenient findings shooting gaping holes in the CAGW hypothesis. I’m sure Wokepedia and other woke slime sites will be quickly writing slander pieces on the offending scientists. Can’t have the masses believing such scientists are credible can we!!!
      
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      January 3, 2022 2:08pm
    - notreadyet
      
      yes and give a thought to the poor paua along the kaikoura coast where the sea level dropped
      
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      January 3, 2022 5:35pm
  - mawm
    
    Since the first today gauges were installed they have shown a linear rise in sea levels. This is true for NZ as well. What the IPCC has done is taken a portion of the graph where there was a slight decrease in rate of rise and where there was a bit of catch up and grafted on to it satellite measuring (which measures something entirely different) to give a non linear impression. This is, like much of what they do, dishonest.
    
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    January 3, 2022 11:59am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Make that milimeters.
    
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    January 3, 2022 12:17pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Correct and even that’s due to the seabed slump.
      
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      January 3, 2022 1:05pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Sea levels do rise – twice a day
    
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    January 3, 2022 1:27pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Subsidence corrected tide gauges in wellington show a calamitous rise of 0.5mm/year in last 60 years. Sydney 1mm/year. Outside of areas with geological subsidence issues sea level rise is a nothingburger, and for cities the rate is slow enough and land expensive enough that it is easy to mitigate with something around $1k/hectare/year of height raising during periodic redevelopment works.
    
    https://www.sonel.org/-Sea-level-trends-.html?lang=en
    
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    January 3, 2022 4:13pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Here you go. Have a look at Sea Levels measured by Tidal Gauges from around the world.
      NOAA has been collating them for years
      https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_global.html
      Nothing radical is happening.
      
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      January 3, 2022 5:28pm
- Fletch
  
  They were on about the new temperature prediction system on the news last night. And had to mention that storms and weather events were ramping up because of climate change (we know this just isn’t true). They also said the temperature was slated to rise 0.25 of a degree every decade. You know, I’m fine with that.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:10am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Kiwiblog is not working correctly – pages keep buffering
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January 3, 2022 10:10am
blue collar

Seems to me labour hv cottoned on to trumps trick … keep making constant rapid change so the people and opposition can’t keep up .
It’s very effective .
I saw a pay walled list of legislation passed in 2021 by Brenda , be interested for a squizz if anyone wants to post .
National / act hv to pick their battles , ones they can’t lose and can get evidence for , and ram them home in the media .
Sound bites . Slogans . Thrust stick with the public .
Seymour is very good at this , the polls reflect it , Luxon ….. we will see
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January 3, 2022 10:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  They need to do something or we are stuck with commie Brenda for a long time. Is that what NZ really wants?
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:45am
TT500

Just a thought
Reflecting on November 9 2021 when i stood
alongside many thousands of fellow New Zealanders
protesting against this faux government at Parliament grounds, and the 122 gutless politicians
who didnt have the stones to address their electors.
You know the same ones who will be begging for
votes in 20 odd months.
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January 3, 2022 10:11am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Is this where the current bunch of woke Govt clowns are taking NZ?
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/senator-cotton-recall-remove-replace-every-last-soros-prosecutor/?
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January 3, 2022 10:15am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hopefully not, Steve. You might have to move to Tom Cotton’s Arkansas.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Arkansas is a dangerous place. Evil people live there
    
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    January 3, 2022 10:47am
    - Jack5
      
      The conspiracy theories against George Soros seem very wacky, even by nutters’ standards.
      
      Soros is the champion of Karl Popper’s philosophy as presented in the great Popper work, The Open Society and its Enemies.
      
      I respect Soros for that, and don’t see that, with Popper’s philosophy important to him, Soros would undermine democracy.
      
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      January 3, 2022 11:05am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Look at Soro’s family connections to known ratbag Democrats and US media. This is a man that can’t return to his homeland Hungary, they hate his commie guts
        
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        January 3, 2022 12:46pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Steve has an interesting definition of ‘commie’: Hungarian Jew survives Holocaust and moves to England after the communist takeover. Makes a huge fortune as a merchant banker and gives most of it away to causes promoting democracy, supporting dissidents against communist rule in eastern Europe among other things. A generous donor to US republicans until the Iraq invasion, and since then a target of fantasist conspiracy theories.
        
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        January 3, 2022 1:41pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Mike, spelling mistake, or grammar.
        “gives most of it away to causes promoting the Democrat Party”
        Fixed it for you.
        Now tell me why Soros is NOT welcome in Hungary? come on, spit it out sonny
        
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        January 3, 2022 3:14pm
      - Tom Hunter
        
        I respect Soros for that, and don’t see that, with Popper’s philosophy important to him, Soros would undermine democracy.
        
        Well, Soros appears to be taking the definition of the term, “Open Society” and stretching it on the rack until it screams.
        
        By which I mean that, while he objected to the closed systems of communist nations and spent money on trying to dissolve them (to the cheers of the West), it turns out that he rather objects to the whole concept of a nation-state, which I put down to his experiences in WWII and a resulting revulsion against them that exceeds even the post-WWI Leftists.
        
        As such he had no qualms about screwing Britain on the pound in the early 90’s, making a billion pounds in the process (the sort of thing Lefties condemned John Key for). It’s no surprise he’s been convicted on insider trading. Also no surprise that he has no guilt about being protected by a Nazi soldier even as that guy went around ripping off Jews. He’ll do what’s good for him and whatever he needs to do to survive.
        
        He’s a “globalist” in the most pure sense of the term, so is quite happy to devote money to fucking up any nation that stands in the path of that dream, whether it be their elections or their system of law and order, which is why he’s dumped millions into backing various prosecutors across US cities who believe in literally dangerous theories about the treatment of treating criminals.
        
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        January 3, 2022 6:35pm
      - Jack5
        
        Soros did make a billion pounds by speculating against the British pound.
        
        He also lost a vast, but smaller, amount, when he failed to break the peg between the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar. Beijing stepped in with its vast currency reserves and backed the Hong Kong Monetary Authority although Hong Kong was still a British colony.
        
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        January 3, 2022 8:57pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      Some have moved elsewhere though, at least one former Governor and his wife spring to mind.
      
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      January 3, 2022 11:11am
    - Fletch
      
      It’s were Bill Clinton used to be governor and used the police as his personal storm troopers.
      
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      January 3, 2022 11:12am
bronny1

After listening to the incredible Robert Malone interview on Joe Rogan I scrolled back and listened to the Peter McCullough one. At one point in the interview (somewhere in 2.10-2.20) Rogan refers to authoritarian governments and complete overreach wrt covid response/vax mandates, and as the worst of the worst refers to “that woman in New Zealand”.

So if you were in any doubt, she is seen as a bit of a totalitarian nut job outside of NZ….
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January 3, 2022 10:17am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yep, the fairy dust is wearing off the polished turd. The sparkle now is iron pyrites (fool’s gold)
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:50am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Or corn.
    
    What is it about corn?
    
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    January 3, 2022 11:20am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      It stinks when it is rotten?
      
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      January 3, 2022 12:48pm
    - oc35
      
      indigestible
      
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      January 3, 2022 9:40pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Not even iron pyrite. More like cheap shitty plastic glitter from the $2 shop.
    
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    January 3, 2022 6:58pm
- Vory v zakone
  
  Dr Malone also suggests that ‘we’ are living through a mass formation psychosis
  
  https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1477091670424526852?t=pcquqrOKzPpqeyLECc1NZw&s=19
  
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  January 3, 2022 12:37pm
  - Vory v zakone
    
    And now
    1. Google is trying to hide the term ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’. That is literally proof of Mass Formation Psychosis.
    
    2. YouTube removing the Malone interview should be enough for everyone to know they’re trying to hide something.
    
    Not allowing legitimate alternative scientific thought from the “narrative” on COVID should make everyone wake up.
    
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    January 3, 2022 12:41pm
    - Dairy Flat
      
      So having read your comments I immediately Googled the term and received many results, one of the first being Joe Rogan’s interview and the YouTube link (which works) to the Malone interview. I don’t understand why you can’t easily access the information too.
      
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      January 3, 2022 3:17pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        Because that would ruin the narrative that all officialdom world wide is lying?
        
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        January 3, 2022 6:04pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Fight4NZ: “Because that would ruin the narrative that all officialdom world wide is lying?”
      
      Total strawman fallacy.
      
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      January 3, 2022 7:03pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        How so?
        I mean in the face of 100s of posts to the contrary.
        
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        January 3, 2022 10:30pm
oldfella

Just heard a radio ad urging families to get their ‘tamaraki’ vaccinated against Covid. Tamariki? Guess this means it’s only for Maori kids.
When can the non-Maori kids get their jabs, or do they have to wait at the back of the bus? /s
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January 3, 2022 10:30am
- alloytoo
  
  Don’t have “tamariki” thankfully, I have children.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:10am
- greybeard
  
  Was that ad aimed at tamariki in Tamaki Makaurau?
  If you don’t know where Tamaki Makaurau is then check the Waka Kotahi website.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:12am
  - blue collar
    
    Very good greybeard , ka pai
    
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    January 3, 2022 11:25am
  - chukar
    
    Waka Kotahi has lost its credibility.
    NZTA on the other hand?
    
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    January 3, 2022 2:20pm
- Nickc2
  
  In any other country, it’d be called racism or apartheid and people would be marching/rioting against it. In NZ, no such thing. Not even the Advertising Standards crowd are interested.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:25am
- graham
  
  Goes hand in hand with every ad that talks about “whanau” (“Get the jab, do it for your whanau”).
  
  I always dismiss the ad right there and then, as it’s obviously not aimed at me.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:57am
KevO'Brien

Effect of vaccines. Scarce video by an emergency practice doctor. Presentation at public meeting in Canada.
Gives an excellent background on how the vaccines work inside our bodies and the consequences. Not too technical and an easy listen. (30 mins).
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-dr-charles-hoffe-delivers-a-dose-of-reality-on-the-vaccine-you-cant-afford-to-miss/5764939
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January 3, 2022 10:34am
- Fletch
  
  This has to be watched by everyone, especially those who think that giving shots to children is safe. In the video he says he started giving D-Dimer tests to his patients before and after their shots (with their permission). A D-Dimer is a blood test that checks for clotting. He found that over 50% of his patients had clotting. After all this research his office – the whole medical building – was burned to the ground, together with all his notes etc. Quite a coincidence, ey?
  
  WAKE UP PEOPLE! This is not normal! Especially his superiors calling him in and telling him he wasn’t allowed to be critical of anything to do with the shots. And him getting fired from his emergency room job of 31 years.
  
  As he says, giving a jab to a child is 100 times more dangerous than the child getting Covid itself.
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:14pm
  - Jim
    
    If you have children in the 5-11 year cohort, you should take time to watch the FDA approval process. It’s lengthy at 7.30hrs because of the multiple representations describing serious harm (I recommend looking at the comments which indicate the most important parts to skip to). Ultimately (when considering human health) it’s an appalling process that seems to lack the necessary rigour.
    https://youtu.be/K4IsVePD8_c
    
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    January 4, 2022 6:17am
- Fight4NZ
  
  Supposing this is accurate and meaningful for 1 moment, if the vaccine being in effect a small dose of a single particle of the virus which doesn’t in fact get into the bloodstream in normal circumstances, can cause this, then this must be occurring in Covid positive cases. Has this been detected? Should Covid infected be dropping like flies due to clotting?
  
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  January 3, 2022 6:54pm
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    I understand that there are a number of other substances in the vaccine to stimulate your body to produce the antigens. Those are unlikely to be in the real virus. Perhaps that explains the situation.
    
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    January 4, 2022 7:37am
Maggie Pie

Since moving to ‘Orange’, I’m not exactly sure what that means with having to wear a mask (?)
Noticed that quite a few of people out jogging this morning weren’t bothering.
Must say the thought of going back to life without a mask scares me a bit.
I’ve been mouthing “fuck off” to people for months and I’m not sure I can stop 🙁
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January 3, 2022 10:37am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Wonder what it is in Te Reo?
  
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  January 3, 2022 3:18pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Funnily enuff, a girl at tennis gave me a ‘Maori Dictionary’ for Xmas.
    
    According to that it’s…… “o raho”!
    
    Hope that helps Steve?
    
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    January 3, 2022 3:54pm
Jack5

Another indictment of the rort is that is New Zealand’s student- visa scheme: a citizenship path thrown in with the course.

Han Zhang has been jailed in Auckland for importing drugs, and for illegally bringing in so many cigarettes he was known as the “little prince of counterfeit cigarettes” “.

He was sentencd to 11 years on one charge, with other sentences to be served concurrently.

Revealed to the court: He was arrested on tobacco smuggling charges a decade after immigrating to New Zealand from China to study English and a business degree.

And two examples of the national fortitude that NZ’s dominant
classes have created:

From the Herald: the judge noted a “cultural report” that cited pressure on men from Zhang’s region of China to emigrate and “generate income and wealth in order to support parents in their retirement.”

So part of immigration strategy is retirement support for China’s 1.4 billion people.

AND, also from the Herald report:

… it is possible Immigration New Zealand will revoke Zhang’s status and deport him when he is eventually released from prison. Because he is from mainland China and his wife is from Taiwan, New Zealand is likely the only place they could stay together as a family, the judge noted.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/judge-orders-prison-for-auckland-businessman-who-imported-black-market-cigarettes-drugs/QG7U64FEQGXQQHU4JAFQPPE7IM/
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January 3, 2022 10:40am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Deport him. He should have thought of the problems he would cause his family before he committed the crimes that offend New Zealanders.
  
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  January 3, 2022 6:32pm
  - Jim
    
    Unfortunately I can only give one up tick. This individual had no concern for the widespread societal harm his crime would cause, so why should society care about him. Clearly he’s a terrible role model to his children so they would be better of without his influence.
    
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    January 4, 2022 6:24am
I remember when

Martinborough Fair is to be held at the Tauherenikau racecourse this year.
Think I might go to the Trentham races at Invercargill as well.
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January 3, 2022 10:40am
- Cassandra
  
  Martinborough to the racecourse is 18 km. It’s local.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I guess Covid can not travel 18 km?
    Safety first.
    
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    January 3, 2022 12:50pm
Benedict Yu

I am back from the West Coast.

When I was down there I was thinking about the Greens and their hatred of West Coast coal mines.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/124146228/new-climate-change-targets-put-future-of-west-coast-coal-mines-in-limbo

Of course most of that coal is high quality coking coal used in steel making. You know the steel that wind turbines and EVs are made of.

It got me wondering if some climate change activists do not understand how steel is manufactured. Nothing would surprise me anymore. ?
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January 3, 2022 10:46am
- alloytoo
  
  Well they clearly don’t understand how EV’s are made and powered.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:57am
- Warren
  
  Did you do the whole the Coast including South Westland and Haast in your trip Benedict.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:01am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Seems that Glenbrook is now only doing sheet steel. Something about Oz shutting down production. Now NZ has to import it.
  Makes it hard to cost a product with steel increasing about 13% each month.
  The Greens obviously want the production of everything stopped, and we just import
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:03am
  - Paulus
    
    With Marsden shutting where are we t0 get Tarmac for our roads.
    Presume Aussie or Singapore !
    
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    January 3, 2022 1:30pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    ” Makes it hard to cost a product with steel increasing about 13% each month.”
    
    Everyone go stay tuned to the NZ media. You are living in paradise. Nothing to worry about.
    
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    January 3, 2022 7:05pm
- bronny1
  
  Welcome back, hope you had fun….we missed you ?
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:13am
- Ed Snack
  
  Most western nations have little if any steel making capacity at all. Steel recovery and reprocessing, sure, but making new iron/steel from ore ? Very little.
  
  Reprocessing recycled iron and steel is cheaper and there is plenty available, for now.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:15am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    [Deleted – there are many (including me) who would like to enjoy the debate here without it being liberally punctuated by your compulsive obscenities. mod.]
    
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    January 3, 2022 3:28pm
surfing

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/forestry-harvesting-drops-by-65pc-as-log-prices-in-china-plummet/DMBNBEJY43DSPJUXDQARKUO5YI/

Paywalled, but, there is a huge timber shortage in nz.

There is a huge oversupply of Timber in china, resulting in price drops and falling timber exports, and industry workers being laid off.

So, why doesn’t some of that domestic timber get used to solve the domestic market? Wrong type of timber??? Kiwis won’t pay international market price?
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January 3, 2022 11:11am
- alan
  
  Days bay has been sinking and the sea has definitely been rising for the last few days as half of Wellington is on the beach and most of Hutt’s islanders are in the sea.
  
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  January 3, 2022 12:40pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Lots of extra boats in the water as well …..
    
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    January 3, 2022 1:31pm
- andydownhere
  
  Local mills cant keep up with demand. Carters closed a mill before bigger mill was ready.
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:18pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  A few years back the cheapest way to buy NZ radiata pine was as a container load from Sydney. Prob still is.
  
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  January 3, 2022 2:29pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Somebody is not planting trees for the future.
  Tintinnabulations!
  
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  January 3, 2022 3:30pm
Cassandra

I’ve lived at or used Mission Bay (we had a spell in Remuera) since 1949. The sea level doesn’t appear to have changed in all that time.
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January 3, 2022 11:15am
Lee C

Pastor Carl Bromley is an outspoken critic of lockdowns. And has used intemperate language to express his frustrations with the current governments’ covid strategy. This has included making direct references to the prime Minister. He has never, to my recollection (having watched a number of live fb postings by him) advocated violence. Rather has affirmed his own faith in God that wrongdoers will get justice.
On New Year’s Eve, in his absence, his home was raided (under Section 18) on the basis that ‘concerns had been raised about him being a firearms owner’.
His house was ransacked, furniture destroyed, office roughly turned over and his wife left in a distraught state. No arrest was made. Instead, his gun cabinet was broken into, his ammunition (stored legally away form the gun) and his gun license were confiscated.
This is a law-abiding citizen who has exercised his right to free speech. He has not engaged in hateful expressions, nor has he incited anyone to violence. But based on the ‘concerns’ of an anonymous source, his legal rights have been openly violated.
This example of police over-reach is, in my opinion one of the actual symptoms of ‘covid’. It exposes the claws and teeth of a state out of control, a police politicised and empowered to victimize those who may express dissention.
Christchurch Pastor’s Home Raided by New Zealand Police on NYE – The Daily Examiner
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January 3, 2022 11:15am
- Nickc2
  
  Comment from Cindy and/or the woke Police Commissioner – Crickets.
  Our chances of having a free election next year are getting fewer by the day.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:33am
- mawm
  
  This police overreach AND covid are symptoms of a global coup by the wealthy technocrats that hang around at the WEF. Covid is the path to a compliant population and the police are their thugs to beat down any who step out of line.
  
  I was watching a video of the police in Amsterdam last night behaving like Daniel Andrews thugs in Melbourne. It seems like it is the global plan.
  
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  January 3, 2022 12:19pm
- Pavel
  
  I’m not too clued up on the firearms laws but, as someone who has almost memorized the search and surveillance act, I know this. In NZ, under the search and surveillance act, police cannot raid your house without a warrant. For a warrant to be obtained they need to produce 2 peices of evidence, that can convince a judge or magistate beyond reasonable doubt, that there is a crime being committed at the house and a search will uncover more evidence of the specified crime. The evidence also has to be legally obtained. The 2 pieces of evidence can not include an anonymous tip off. The person tipping off the police would have to come into the police station and make a statement, identifying themselves, how they know you, the crime being committed and how they know about the crime and then this would only be one piece of evidence not two.. They would also have to put their name to the evidence otherwise their tip off would be dismissed. I could be wrong as I’m not up to date in firearms laws but if this was me my lawyer would have a field day with them, we would scrape through every piece of that warrant and if there was one error in it we would be seeking demotions off all involved. They problem this guy has is how well does he know the law? Enough to instruct his lawyer on what to do? And is his lawyer passionate enough to take it on? That’s the biggest problem in nz justice, lawyers who just pluck at the low hanging fruit. There’s not to many fighter lawyers around but they still do exist and finding one will be his biggest challenge, that will determine his outcome.
  
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  January 3, 2022 12:45pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yes! It was a good post
    
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    January 3, 2022 3:32pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Steve Otto(North Shore) I think someone above is having a bad hair day. 🙂
      
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      January 3, 2022 7:07pm
  - GJM
    
    No warrent is required for suspected breaches of the arms act.
    Furthermore, Police can enter the house and inspect firearms and storage at any time for licensed firearms owners and no warrant is required. Search warrants only apply to gangs and criminals as the police don’t need them to raid the houses of honest people.
    
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    January 4, 2022 9:52am
Lee C

here’s ythe link re Pastor Bromley:
Christchurch Pastor’s Home Raided by New Zealand Police on NYE – The Daily Examiner
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January 3, 2022 11:17am
- Lee C
  
  https://www.thedailyexaminer.co.nz/christchurch-pastor-and-wife-come-home-to-raid-by-new-zealand-police/
  one more try..
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:20am
- Tomtoddy
  
  The guy is not my cup of tea but that is irrelevant. He has been treated horrendously badly and unlawfully. It needs taking further.
  
  We do not need this sort of police thuggery in NZ and the courts need to protect us from it.
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:08pm
Lee C

https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/watch-police-state-christian-pastor-carl-bromleys-house-raided-by-cops-on-new-years-eve/
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January 3, 2022 11:17am
- I remember when
  
  Pastor Carl could clearly learn from Pastor Brian.
  First your get a motor bike, then you turn your congregation into a gang, all you need then is a gang insignia.
  Swap the .22 for an assault rifle.
  Also removes need for restriction on numbers at funerals.
  Problem solved.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:28am
Fletch

The world’s most downloaded paper from the American Journal of Medicine on the treatment of patients with Covid-19, and the most downloaded paper altogether in 2020. Dr Peter McCullough et al had to create this in response to the official govt health agencies in the U.S doing nothing about it. Doctors around the world are using it to help patients with Covid.

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30673-2/fulltext#relatedArticles
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January 3, 2022 11:18am
- Fight4NZ
  
  Antivaxxer nonsense going viral among antivaxxers is not a mark of credibility.
  
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  January 3, 2022 10:37pm
kevn

I’m sure the op is causing some issues within the local police.
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January 3, 2022 11:33am
Pavel

Wow, this woman is pretty keen to drive herself broke and destroy her business. She is all upset that over half the stall holders have left but then says it’s a relief as they were troublemakers. I’m sure that title will bring them back and even if it’s true it shows what kind of people she attracts. Talk about foot in mouth disease. And the press wondering why they weren’t allowed in. Gee, maybe if the had neutral, unbiased reporting and could actually show some form of moderation they might not have received such a reception. But no, the media nowadays is all about doing hit jobs and destroying people over showing two sides to the story. It’s really no surprise they were trespassed off site. What is wrong with nz journalism? We no longer have a free and fair press. They need to be reigned in, they are causing way too much division and it will soon cause social unrest if they are allowed to continue like this.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/01/richmond-stallholders-set-up-separatist-freedom-market-to-flout-covid-regulations.html
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January 3, 2022 11:47am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Karen Roper.
  “It backfired. It totally backfired,” she says. “Pretty devastated.”
  Well fucking good job for being a woke Karen
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:37pm
  - Pavel
    
    And then she says “It was a relief because they were such trouble makers,”. I’m struggling to understand if she was devastated due to a loss of business or if it was because she couldn’t force her rules on them.
    
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    January 3, 2022 2:18pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Karen lost control. That is all.
      
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      January 3, 2022 3:33pm
- artemisia
  
  To my mind the rules around outdoor markets are very unclear. For example – what does this mean (from the linked article)?
  
  A spokesperson from the COVID-19 Group – a business unit of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) – confirmed that under the COVID-19 Protection Framework, farmers markets are treated as retail businesses.
  
  Is the whole market site a (single) retail business, all stalls subject to identical rules? Probably not as there are different rules for takeaways. When is a takeaway not a takeaway? How far from the provider does a table need to be?
  
  And face coverings. At orange these are required ‘inside a retail business’. How does that relate to an outdoor market?
  
  Seems like at the new market many people had exemptions. They can be asked by retailers etc if they have an exemption but not required to provide details. Not sure about officials asking, but there is no need to have an official card. Maybe a letter from the doc?
  
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  January 3, 2022 3:30pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Three more ‘locations of interest’ named in Auckland CBD.

Looks like staff are using the opportunity for Repairs & Maintenance 😛

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1477764136197099522
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January 3, 2022 11:48am
- Ipanema69
  
  Thanks Maggie
  
  The comment in the herald article to get tested immediately is side splittingly funny.
  
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  January 3, 2022 12:08pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Now just got to explain it to the speaker of the house, huge problem
  
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  January 3, 2022 12:54pm
- emmess
  
  I am not interested in knowing about places where somebody sneezed.
  
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  January 3, 2022 2:19pm
oldfella

Over on BFD, Cam is reporting that Siouxsie Wiles has a personal grievance against her employer, the University of Auckland ?
Wiles alleges that her public commentary was a requirement of the terms and conditions of employment, and that her employer failed to adequately protect her from harassment.
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Her lefty friends will be crying pink tears.
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January 3, 2022 11:49am
- oldfella
  
  Looks like Shaun Hendy has the same gripe.
  https://www.employment.govt.nz/assets/elawpdf/2021/2021-NZERA-586.pdf
  
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  January 3, 2022 12:18pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Publicity junkie, ignore her shit, she tells lies
  
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  January 3, 2022 12:55pm
- Jack5
  
  Oldfella’s link includes Wiles’s allegation she’s been “the subject of doxing”.
  
  For anyone-else who didn’t know what doxing meant, this is from Wikipedia:
  
  Doxing or doxxing is the act of publicly revealing previously private personal information about an individual or organization, usually through the Internet. Methods employed to acquire such information include searching publicly available databases and social media websites, hacking, and social engineering.
  
  According to Atlantic magazine, “doxing” comes from the word “document,” or, according to another source, “dropping documents.”
  
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  January 3, 2022 2:07pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Kiwibloggers know what doxxing is, Jack. Remember stephieboy?
    
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    January 3, 2022 4:45pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Yes we do remember [ ho hum ]
      
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      December 3, 2021 5:18pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Following his link is one thing. He is a very stupid person, which I guess everyone reading Kiwiblog already understood. Unlike many similarly stupid commenters, he attracted more abuse because he disagreed with the blog’s prevailing wisdom, such as it it.
        Revealing his name and other details on this blog was the ‘doxxing’ – quite another thing. But I guess you can’t be expected to understand that.
        Lol!
        
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        January 3, 2022 5:32pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        And still you continue to tell lies
        Stephies posted on Kiwiblog what he alleged had been put on a ‘Notice’ about him, as he called it, at the Church he attended (?) and he used his real name when he detailed what was written.
        He was the one who used his one name.
        Thats doxxing yourself so how about giving the constant lying a break huh. Theres been NO doxxing going at at Kiwiblog.
        
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        January 3, 2022 7:29pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Changing your story from the one edited above seems to me like you are lying.
        Lol!
        
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        January 3, 2022 7:53pm
Reid

Carl Bromley explains what happened to him on NY’s eve.

It’s a very strange incident, once you listen to this man.

https://rumble.com/vrthpp-carl-bromleys-new-years-eve-police-state-home-invasion.html
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January 3, 2022 12:05pm
ClanMcleod

Remember the good old days when Brenda and Baker “eliminated” covid?! Ahhhh, memories!!

In Baker’s paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine he said:

“Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern provided empathic leadership and effectively communicated key messages to the public —

“we will continue to be your single source of truth”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1iUL2wf8TU

“we drum in that message for a full two week period of sustained propaganda.”

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

“No, vaccines won’t be mandated.”

“Masks don’t work.”

The good old days.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2025203
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January 3, 2022 12:27pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “Dismiss anything else”
  About time NZ dismissed her compulsive lies
  
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  January 3, 2022 12:58pm
- bronny1
  
  What’s funny is the comments, most of which call out his utter naivety.
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:14pm
- Spoff
  
  The comments on Baker’s NEJM article are hilarious – almost all negative including this tongue in cheek gem:
  “We already knew COVID19 was a major international public health crisis. Now we know the virus has it in for epidemiologists as well.”
  
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  January 3, 2022 2:00pm
Fletch

Newshub trying to convince us that it’s not the vaccine causing heart problems – it’s “holiday heart syndrome” caused by binge drinking…. ?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2022/01/holiday-heart-syndrome-binge-drinking-can-cause-heart-problems.html

Funny how it has never manifested in other years.
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January 3, 2022 12:27pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  What if you binge drink every day? How does that work?
  
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  January 3, 2022 12:59pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  After reading that link I think if anyone believes that shit they need a drink.
  Teetotaler’s rant, they always come out from under their rocks at this time of the year. Fun Police.
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:04pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  “wow, people sure do seem to be looking for lots and lots of new reasons to explain heart attacks in mancubs!
  
  i wonder why that is…?”
  
  Some reasons media are claiming as cited in the link below:
  
  “Rise in heart attacks attributed to pandemic stress and poor diet”
  
  “Cannabis use disorder may be linked to growing number of heart attacks in younger adults”
  
  Climate change gets a mention of course!
  
  “Climate change may cause increased rates of heart defects in babies”
  
  https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-the-heart-of-the-matter/comments
  
  Amazing coincidence but shows it’s got nothing to do with the rollout of an experiment drug obviously.
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:21pm
- Reid
  
  It’s easy to see their ridiculous tactics for what they are, if one has a three-digit IQ.
  
  Problem is, by definition, half of us don’t have one of them. That’s why they feel they can get away with such palpable misdirection.
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:37pm
- emmess
  
  Ironic because the 2020s Coronakarens are the modern day version of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
  
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  January 3, 2022 2:23pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Do not drink, but what I do in my home is different.
    Right Karen?
    
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    January 3, 2022 3:41pm
Rusty

Delta likes going to bars and fast food places and Omicron likes going to strip bars.

These pesky viruses don’t like healthy and family type lifestyles.
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January 3, 2022 12:35pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Omicron is just a hoe
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:00pm
  - greybeard
    
    It is also just another way of spelling “moronic”.
    
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    January 3, 2022 2:53pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Delta Omicron = media control.
      Just a mistake?
      
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      January 3, 2022 3:43pm
      - greybeard
        
        Now THAT is amazing. Thanks.
        
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        January 3, 2022 4:44pm
Maggie Pie

Anybody know what happened with violent drug smubbler Karel Sroubeck’s deportation hearing?
One of the guys at the NYE party we went to, reckons his lawyer holds the key to him still being here.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/convicted-drug-smuggler-karel-sroubek-fights-deportation
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January 3, 2022 1:01pm
- Nickc2
  
  He’ll still be here for the Wedding I’m told.
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:03pm
  - Inandout
    
    Nick, by all accounts it will be a ‘white’ wedding.
    
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    January 3, 2022 2:26pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Clever!
      
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      January 3, 2022 3:45pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Like Virgin Mary huh? Surely, we couldn’t be that blessed.
      BTW, the donkey and those three wise men have a lot to answer for. Fauchi still reckons viagra was in the experimental stages in those days so anything goes.
      
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      January 3, 2022 9:22pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Could be getting a suit made for the wedding
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:05pm
ClanMcleod

This may be the first time in 18 months that I’ve seen an article in the Whoreald that doesn’t fully endorse the “deadly plague and do what Brenda says or else” messages they are fed from the 9th floor.

“Up to half’ of NSW Covid hospital patients went in for something totally different and were positive in routine testing”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-up-to-half-of-nsw-covid-hospital-patients-went-in-for-something-totally-different-and-were-positive-in-routine-testing/JWU2L3C2ZF2HJR5H6XWMJDFRNI/

The same thing has been happening in the UK from the very beginning. Their numbers are closer to 70% admitted for something other than covid but routinely testing positive once in hospital. Of course if they subsequently die they are a covid death, even though in actual fact they were shot twice in the head and run over by a train. But you know, it’s the story that counts.

It’s the same misleading reporting that has helped keep populations terrified for almost 2 years. Citing “cases” as “with” covid. You might as well say someone was in hospital “with” teeth.

I can’t imagine the Whoreald showing some independence. Is the money running out? Did they make a mistake? Or is the message being subtly changed to prepare us for the next stage of the psyop? Is omicron coming to an suburb near you? That Brenda certainly knows how to keep us in suspense.
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January 3, 2022 1:03pm
- mawm
  
  It’s a disease of testing.
  
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  January 3, 2022 4:25pm
Scooter

I love this covid thing, apart from not being able to travel, go to museums, shows, concerts etc (in Europe) etc but at least I haven’t had a cold in 2 years.
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January 3, 2022 1:04pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Or the flu – Covid made the evil nasty flu go away. In NZ 400 to 500 did not die from the flu, how ’bout that?
  
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  January 3, 2022 1:41pm
  - emmess
    
    The new thing they are trying to scare us with is flurona
    https://youtu.be/jikXAp1Lg1A
    
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    January 3, 2022 2:29pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The sheep love it, so do the rabid left (sorry, same people)
      
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      January 3, 2022 3:49pm
rangitoto

Wiles and Hendy vs University of Auckland. Aw diddums.

https://twitter.com/Curious_reasons/status/1477782141098336258
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January 3, 2022 1:17pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  rangitoto that is an interesting development. From the comments it seems that Wiles and Hendy are complaining that the university didn’t protect them from social media comments they didn’t like?
  How “woke” are this pair of fuckwits? Didn’t they realise they were going to enrage at least a couple of hundred thousand people?
  As someone said in the replies. If you’re going to join the cabal you best get your big girl pants on. Or words to that effect.
  Should be an interesting story!
  
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  January 3, 2022 2:17pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Can we complain the University didn’t protect us from them? I think they’ve done far more quantifiable damage to other people than has been done to them.
    
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    January 3, 2022 2:20pm
  - CJames
    
    I think this in the Herald article says a lot
    But in a written response to Wiles and Hendy in August, the university suggested they address the safety concerns by keeping their public commentary to a minimum. University officials also suggested they take paid leave to enable them “to minimise any social media comments at present”. While the two have every right to provide public commentary on the pandemic, they are not “expected” or required to do so, the university has told the Employment Relations Authority.”
    So they sought the publicity and it wasn’t part of their job.
    It was ERA which is always a lot more touchy feely than the courts are.
    
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    January 3, 2022 6:56pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Aren’t Hendy and Wiles primarily working with Te Pūnaha Matatini? Te Pūnaha Matatini is “hosted” by Auckland University. Does that make it a separate legal entity?
      Te Pūnaha Matatini were the group that got the 5 million from the government to produce the modelling which said there would be 80,000 deaths from covid.
      
      This is an interesting insight into Te Pūnaha Matatini and how it came to be.
      
      https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2020/10/28/covid19-modelling-efforts-by-TPM-help-NZ.html
      
      Hendy said:
      “I put some data from Italy into a basic epidemic model”
      
      This is where the fear began and the panic started.
      It was a mistake. The initial Italian outcomes were high for a number of reasons but they were an anomaly. They were also heavily exaggerated.
      The initial Italian data came out of Lombardy in Northern Italy. It is an area with a very aged population. It is an area with very poor air quality, a highly industrialised region. They made mistakes in the early panic as did the UK and NY, cramming their most vulnerable elderly with serious health issues into aged care facilities. A death trap. People were treated inappropriately. People with other medical issues were overlooked. Median age of death was 83. This is where 40% of all apparent covid deaths came from.
      There was a spike in all cause mortality in the first couple of months due to this – referred to as “harvesting”. Not nice, but by May 2020 excess mortality was negative compared to the previous 5 years.
      
      https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)31865-1/fulltext
      
      After Hendy presented his flawed models we read this emotive statement from another of the TPM people.
      “Peter-Lucas told the story of Te Aupōuri’s experience in the 1918 influenza pandemic and the mass graves,” remembers Kate. “It was really profound to be reminded of it. We came away from hearing that, knowing this was the only thing we needed to be working on.”
      There is no comparison with the Spanish Flu and it’s easy to see how a path was taken based on flawed models and emotive narrative.
      
      The original modelling by Hendy referenced the idiotic modelling by Neil Ferguson from Imperial College London a number of times in the advisory report to given to government. Ferguson has a long record of being ridiculously wrong in previous modelling. It’s all outlined in the link below.
      It is a summary of the flawed Ferguson modelling which Hendy basically replicated. Like Ferguson, Hendy is a physics teacher.
      
      https://dailysceptic.org/the-imperial-model-and-its-role-in-the-uks-pandemic-response/
      
      It’s worth reading the whole thing to get the full context, but here is the summary:
      
      “When (if!) the dust finally settles on the Coronavirus pandemic it will be difficult for future historians to conclude anything other than the following: We abandoned our carefully planned and rehearsed pandemic preparedness plans in favour of an experimental measure on the basis of non-peer-reviewed, undocumented, obscure, predictively inaccurate modelling, using a design that leaves out one of the most important variables involved, created by an expert with apparently no formal training in computer modelling or epidemiology and a track record of very high over-estimates of disease mortality.
      
      Prediction is an incredibly difficult business. That said I am absolutely confident that, in years to come, those historians will shake their heads and wonder: “What were they thinking?”
      
      As for Wiles and Hendy – they have been operating through Te Pūnaha Matatini and acting primarily as spokespeople for the Ardern government.
      Why does Auckland University have to protect them from their social media travails? As they are funded by the government, surely this is where they should be running to crying about their hurt feelings?
      Due to their advice to government and their public statements, they have contributed to the destruction of much of the economy, the break up of friendships and families, the segregation and vilification of a minority of NZers and the devastation of peoples’ lives and livelihoods. They’ve enjoyed their time in the media and used it at every opportunity. Surely they knew there would be some blowback? Lucky they don’t comment on kiwiblog.
      
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      January 4, 2022 2:02am
- mandk
  
  Wiles and Hendy are willing agents of Ardern’s fear and control campaign.
  
  As far as I am concerned, a bit of social media abuse is well deserved.
  
  They both strayed well beyond their field of expertise, Hendy especially.
  
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  January 3, 2022 4:24pm
- TS Child
  
  The internet is really good at being mean – pretty sure that’s common knowledge. And I thought that if you were being threatened, then the proper people to protect you were the police? Is this no longer the case?
  Neither of them are speaking on behalf of the university when then put out their messages… can’t see how the university is responsible. I’m unclear if they are speaking officially on behalf of the government, does anyone know (They speak in support of, but are they actually sanctioned mouthpieces)? If so, surely it is the government that has a role in their health and safety …?
  I’d be a bit pipped if i was their employer and their outside work was causing such significant problems – surely their distress is affecting the work they are actually paid to do? I’d be expecting them to stop the outside activity until such a time as their paid-for work was back on track … Or can’t we do that anymore either?
  
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  January 3, 2022 6:02pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Why is the University employing infants? They take it upon themselves to say poorly supported or even outright wrong things in a public space, push partisan non-science political agendas and then get upset when people call them out on it? And have the incredible temerity to blame their employer and seek damages for the public criticism of their volunteered media-whoring stupidity? What possible means does the university have for preventing public discourse anyway? They are abusing the legal system and are not deserving of employment in academia.
  
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  January 3, 2022 9:24pm
cas

I hate gardening but it has been made infinitesimally better with using a Bluetooth speaker and my Blue tooth turntable thumping out my 6 disc collection of Sounds of the Sixties ( British only). It is a pain, however, when a record gets stuck in a groove and I have to run inside to put the needle on. Ah well if this is my only current problem in life…………
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January 3, 2022 1:20pm
- Local Miller
  
  You could make digital recordings of your records and then play them from soothing like a smartphone to the same Bluetooth speakers. No getting stuck in groves unless you let it happen during the recording.
  
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  January 3, 2022 7:31pm
Nickc2

Double Standards? You betcha!
If you’re a Lawyer, Equestrian or even a nobody, the chances of being charged for breaching Covid Rules are greater than if you’re a Foreign DJ who entered NZ under rather dubious circumstances.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-scare-dj-dimension-avoids-prosecution-ministry-of-health/LD7NDOGN257SG4OBYYKY6ILGAY/
This bastard’s not going to be charged. Funny eh!
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January 3, 2022 1:25pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Special rules from the top
  
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  January 3, 2022 2:02pm
- Inandout
  
  Nick, meantime some business gets fined $20,000. Damn that Cindy.
  
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  January 3, 2022 2:20pm
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    I would contribute to a give a little page for them.
    
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    January 3, 2022 7:42pm
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    I think ‘damn’ is a pretty tame word in this instance.
    
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    January 3, 2022 9:00pm
ClanMcleod

“This is not about Corona anymore. It is about a bunch of petty, vain bureaucrats in middling positions scheming from the luxury of their home offices about how they can use the right combination of hysteria, nudging and coercion to squeeze every last vaccination out of a terrorised and weary populace. It is one thing to laugh at the stupidity of all this, another thing to contemplate how long it might last.”

This is from Eugyppius talking about Germany reneging on a promised relaxation of policies due to reduced numbers of hospitalisations.

https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/it-is-not-about-corona-anymore

Sorry, it’s paywalled so you can’t see the actual charts unless you subscribe, but you can get the gist of what he is pointing out.

“I’ve drawn red lines on this chart of infections to indicate the 18 November summit that decreed the hospitalisation incidence would determine restrictions, and the 21 December summit that imposed wide-ranging restrictions regardless of any metrics. The belief in November was clearly that rising cases would yield the numbers necessary to punish the unvaccinated. With cases in free-fall just before Christmas, our politicians changed tactics, and set the clearly inadequate hospitalisations aside. Now, as Bild notes, you have places like Niedersachsen and Rheinland-Pfalz, with barely any Corona-related admissions to speak of, where the unvaccinated are locked out of public life anyway.

The November 21 summit preceded the late-November case plateau by about eight days, and so our politicians were well positioned to claim victory. Perhaps a few of them did, but my memory of the news back then is rather different. There was only escalating moral panic about the threat posed by the unvaccinated. If anything, I imagine there was disappointment over the case statistics within our public health dictatorships, as they realised hospital admissions could never reliably furnish the numbers necessary to close society.

German efforts to impose vaccination have won over perhaps 2.5 million people. It’s the slight rise I’ve circled here in red:
These are almost entirely low-risk young, who have no hospitalisation risk anyway, who personally stand to gain nothing from vaccination, and whose lives are most severely affected by these restrictions. I’ve typed it before, but that does not make it any less true: This is not about health.
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January 3, 2022 2:03pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sure you don’t mean ‘meddling’ positions?
  
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  January 3, 2022 2:23pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Quite possibly Steve. Quite possibly.
    
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    January 3, 2022 3:50pm
- Reid
  
  No it’s never been about health.
  
  Quite the opposite from the get-go.
  
  It’s called mass formation.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INHpQL9fgto
  
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  January 3, 2022 2:30pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The United Spot.
Yes lefties, it is satire, just in case you get triggered. Off to the basement you go now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0aI9XKwX9k
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January 3, 2022 2:16pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/300489731/chlorine-shortage-forces-wellington-pool-to-close-on-scorching-day
Incompetence from Wellington City Council staff as usual.
That $18,000 for a rainbow crossing repaint would sure buy a lot of chlorine for summer pool use.
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January 3, 2022 3:00pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Bromine – Chlorine stinks.
  I can see heads or tails on the bottom of my spa with the pump running. Also reduces the need for other water balance stuff
  
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  January 3, 2022 3:54pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  greybeard someone needs to write a report about this disaster. They need to put it out to tender and get some consultants in for a thorough job. Shouldn’t take more than 8 weeks.
  
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  January 3, 2022 4:39pm
- Inandout
  
  grey, Bunnings had heaps of chlorine yesterday.
  
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  January 3, 2022 5:33pm
Pharmachick

Hello KBers, meet Max Harris. Not a Scientist, but up-and-coming in the Law community, he is an Examination Fellow at Oxford. Quietly getting on with it, and a glittering stack of awards and recognition already, as well as real-life experience despite being relatively early career.

https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/max-harris
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January 3, 2022 3:47pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Bad Cattitude with more data indicating that Original Antigenic Sin is a happening thing. Something that some experts warned was a possibility many months ago.
  Pharmachick, you’ve got a lot more experience of these things than most of us. What do you make of the data and the analysis?
  
  Re data out of Ontario:
  
  “…….vaccination just fell to a -33% VE for cases and this looks to be worsening rapidly, likely because of a rise in omicron prevalence.
  
  this is consistent with not just vaccine escape, but vaccine driven acceleration.”
  
  https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/vaccine-evasion-and-and-oas-signal
  
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  January 3, 2022 3:58pm
  - Pharmachick
    
    @Maggy W: how did you sort it when you were getting stalked on Kiwiblog? Any help gratefully appreciated.
    
    @KBers: Who is this ClanMcleod person (sorry I’ve been gone for a few months, work has been all-consuming lately).
    
    @KBers: I will no longer be commenting on anything COVID-related.
    
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    January 3, 2022 4:58pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      “stalking”. That’s terrible. Call the police. Great idea re not commenting about covid btw.
      
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      January 3, 2022 5:14pm
    - Reid
      
      @KBers: I will no longer be commenting on anything COVID-related.
      
      That’s a shame and not really necessary. This is about truth not politics and we need more of the former and less of the latter.
      
      Clan is from the same camp as I come from which is we not think but know from credible sources something’s not right about how this is being played, and that fishiness extends to multiple areas of the whole covid thing, from the science to the data to the way its presented to the public, a lot of things don’t add up.
      
      But both Clan and I, if I dare speak for him never having met him but on here, are both willing to admit we are wrong, if the data and science we are basing our positions are proven invalid, incorrect, or any thing else which creates doubt.
      
      But we’re also not prepared to take an official’s word for it, just because they are an official. And that includes medical authorities.
      
      The authorities I personally pay most attention to are field workers with success in the field, such as physicians with successful covid treatment track records, etc.
      
      The issue with you not further commenting on covid dear pharmalady, is you’re one of those direct fieldworkers too, so KBer’s will lose a lot, if you don’t reconsider.
      
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      January 3, 2022 5:18pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        “ we not think but know from credible sources” – you can know in your heart of hearts all you like, but that’s cults for you, divorced from the truth.
        “ are both willing to admit we are wrong” – this f that was true then Pharmachick wouldn’t be driven the obvious level of exasperation now expressed. Not unlike BY for another example but with impressive patience.
        But you are right about one thing, KBers will be the losers without her as antidote to the incessant stream of strident disinformation that you two are among the most prolific regurgitaters.
        
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        January 3, 2022 11:07pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        You can speak for me. You’ve covered my position well thank you.
        
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        January 4, 2022 2:10am
    - Graeme Hall
      
      Pity. For someone in the trade who considers Dr Tony Fauci to be a prince-among-men this book raises quite a number of questions about his decisions. Written by true blue Democratic party royalty too.
      
      https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childrens/dp/1510766804
      
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      January 3, 2022 5:31pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        RFK jr is indeed from Democratic Party royalty, but mainly famous as a prince among anti-vaxxers.
        
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        January 3, 2022 6:24pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        According to Scott Atlas, Fauci contributed little to policy development re Covid but hogged the media and supported Birss who monopolised the communication with the states and ignored everything but her own agenda.
        
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        January 3, 2022 8:58pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Hi Pharma, please do as you need to. But I for one always value your contributions (even when they go beyond my man-on-the-Clapham-omnibus level of understanding).
      
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      January 3, 2022 6:27pm
      - Jack5
        
        I, too, appreciate Pharmachick’s posts. It’s good to have an expert contributing to the debate, especially on Covid-19. Please keep posting, Pharmachick.
        
        Clan McLeod can expect problems if he also picks on Maggie W., a descendant of Clan MacDonald, a.k.a. Clan Donald.
        
        There’s no way a McLeod will get away with another Eigg-style massacre of the McDonalds.
        
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        January 3, 2022 8:25pm
kevn

Dr Robert Malones latest is a must read…
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January 3, 2022 4:14pm
JFAP

I’ve met Max. He is a nice, super-talented young man. I’m disappointed to see that he is a signatory to the Wiles/Hendy letter condemning “The Seven” from the University of Auckland.
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January 3, 2022 4:23pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  He must be “woke”. What a pity.
  
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  January 3, 2022 4:48pm
- Pharmachick
  
  I haven’t met Max, a colleague in the Law community in UK commented a while back about a “Young Kiwi lad flying under the radar in NZ, and doing so well o/seas”. It was so great to hear. Agreed. about the Letter…one of the things I wonder, is how much damage NZ did to the Academy by abolishing Tenure int eh late 90s. Tenure has its problems (commonly said as “dead wood”) but there are a lot of upsides too.
  
  Happy New Year JFAP, lets hope 2022 is better!
  
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  January 3, 2022 5:02pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    He won significant scholarships to Oxford (I think) and is a very good speaker. He has published one pretty good book so far, The New Zealand Project, which is stimulating reading.
    
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    January 3, 2022 6:22pm
- Reid
  
  “The Seven.”
  
  Chortle.
  
  Lefties love labels: “anti-vaxxer,” “climate denier”, “The Seven.”
  
  It’s a propaganda thing. Information warfare.
  
  They’re very good at it.
  
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  January 3, 2022 5:02pm
greybeard

Go Bangladesh!
How good is that for the game !
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January 3, 2022 4:40pm
ClanMcleod

Off Guardian with a good summary of last year and a peek at what might be coming next year.
They called digital ID and currency last year and were called conspiracy theorists. They called booster shots and vax passports, same slurs. Everything they called came true or is on it’s way. But nothing to see here.

https://off-guardian.org/2022/01/02/this-year-in-the-new-normal/
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January 3, 2022 4:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Musicians eat sandwiches by placing them in trombones and honking them into each other’s mouths.
Hat and coat is that way>>>> maybe spa pool instead
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January 3, 2022 4:53pm
Maggie Pie

Not sure if I should be worried or not 🙁
Sometimes I wonder if this HEAT might be getting to my partner?
We were laying out by the pool earlier, and a Helicopter flew low overhead.
He put two fingers up and moved them in & out while at the same time making a noise like a machine-gun.
The guys 50 for goodness sake!
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January 3, 2022 5:03pm
- greybeard
  
  But did it make you feel nice?
  
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  January 3, 2022 5:18pm
- Biscuit
  
  I’m 70 this year, Maggie – March 18 in case you wanna start saving up for my surprise present(s) – and I can tell you that us males outgrow such childish actions when we hit 62.5.
  
  Only a dozen years and change for you to wait!
  
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  January 3, 2022 7:44pm
Pharmachick

@Maggy W: how did you sort it when you were getting stalked on Kiwiblog? Any help gratefully appreciated.

@KBers: Who is this ClanMcleod person? Sorry I’ve been gone for a few months, work has been all-consuming lately, and also I got “over” the COVID crazy [Benedict Yu, lasted a lot longer than I did, total hero & voice of reason].

If this Blog will descend into a cesspit, I’ll just go off to twitter (?)
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January 3, 2022 5:20pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Could you stop obsessing over “who this person is”. It’s disturbing.
  Twitter is great, you should check it out. Quite an echo chamber.
  
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  January 3, 2022 5:28pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Stalking sounds bad. I guess it’s all in the definition of stalking though. Someone seems to be solely attracted to your posts? Or something worse?
    
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    January 3, 2022 7:17pm
  - Biscuit
    
    I don’t use Twitter, Facebook or anything of that ilk.
    
    Just three chat rooms…
    
    None of those have, so far as I am concerned, descended into cesspit status, Pharma, but I have always been of the opinion that
    (a) quite often my expressed opinion proves, astonishingly, to be less than 99.9% accurate
    and
    (b) the folk who point out (a) to me, whilst being sons/daughters of unwed parents, serve to keep me somewhat grounded…
    
    It helps, of course, that I use a nom-de-David’s-blog and that abuse flung my way is usually by similarly-anonymous types.
    
    I note MW’s point that she uses her own, rare name in here and so worry about the ‘attention’ she and other folk bold enough (David G, Benedict Y e.g.) to use their real names ‘attract’…
    
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    January 3, 2022 7:41pm
    - Pharmachick
      
      @Bikkie – Cannot believe the LFC let Chelski back in after a 2-0 lead… Everyone is already calling it for Man City this season in the EPL. As an old school LFC cultist, I still believe (!!)
      
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      January 4, 2022 5:26pm
- Spoff
  
  “I’ll just go off to twitter (?)
  My first impulse was to comment: “You will be happy there – they have just de-platformed Dr Robert Malone, probably one of the most credentialed and involved experts in the field”.
  But on reflection, your contributions here have been valuable so perhaps that was a bit snarky. Fact is, I would prefer you stayed.
  The question “Who is this ClanMcleod person?” is out of order. The great virtue of forums like this is that anonymity allows the freedom of ideas. To ask such a question indicates a tendency towards an authoritarian mindset which is the antithesis of scientific enquiry.
  
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  January 3, 2022 7:15pm
  - Pharmachick
    
    To ask such a question is to request why a person that is new here (not me) gets to denigrate, and stalk, and try to “de-platform” me from a blog I’ve been contributing to since 2009 or even earlier.
    
    I’m not going to bloody post all the clinical trials links I posted in 2020, or 2021 for a person that just blusters along and turned up recently. NO.
    
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    January 3, 2022 9:08pm
    - Spoff
      
      Has the science remained static since 2020?
      
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      January 3, 2022 9:46pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Or you could try directing the question directly to me and I’ll respond. I am not stalking you or denigrating you or trying to de-platform you? I disagreed with you over a post. You threw your “qualifications” at me as apparent “proof” of your superior position. So be it.
      
      Whether I am new here or not is irrelevant, or do I have to be part of “the gang” or I don’t get to play? My comments are open to response like any other.
      If you don’t want to respond to a comment no problem. But nobody is stalking you. Nobody denigrated you and nobody tried to de-platform you. That accusation is baseless and up there with the Wiles and Hendy nonsense against Auckland University.
      Have a great day and let’s leave it there.
      
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      January 4, 2022 2:25am
  - Fight4NZ
    
    Unbelievable. You interpreted
    a). The question was meaning what are Clan’s personal details
    b). The question indicates a tendency to authoritarianism????
    It’s that paucity of reading comprehension that shows so starkly how your opinions on the Covid situation have become so wayward.
    
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    January 3, 2022 11:28pm
Its only I

Interesting stuff but dry as toast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC44g4-YHMA

Hopeful stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYLbJ0H8zdc

I would be interested if anyone else is seeing this on anything COVID?

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When you search or watch videos related to topics that are prone to misinformation, such as the moon landing, you may see an information panel at the top of your search results or under a video that you’re watching.

Information panels show basic background info, sourced from independent, third-party partners, to give more context on a topic. If you want to learn more, the panels also link to the third-party partner’s website.

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January 3, 2022 5:55pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@Pharmachick

I don’t think I sorted anything… Some of my posts still attract sleazy little digs.

But I think 2 of the main culprits made some serious mistakes which began to destroy any credibility they may have had here.

To begin with, I think they made the assumption that I was youngish, National Party-affiliated, important, and had a reputation.

It seemed to take a long-time for some folks to realise that I am just a little old lady in the wops with no (and never have had) political affiliations and no influence over anyone.

What I started to do after a couple of years of non-stop abuse and comment stalking was to call out every instance of personal abuse or innuendo… (as opposed to addressing the topic of my comment).

I then began listing (and linking back to ) the various types of smears/abuses I was being subject to.

I stopped emailing DPF when the abuse was just directed at me… but if 3rd parties were mentioned.. or if reference was made that linked my surname to right-wing/neo-Naziism stuff, I notified him.
(There is only one extended family with my surname in NZ).

However, unlike you, I only started commenting on this blog after I was retired. Once I knew there were personal attacks on this blog against me, I resigned from membership of certain environmental groups and I became very canny about how I went about dealing with consultancy work.

There’s some other stuff…. not for public consumption, though.

You could email me at
maggy.wassilieff@gmail.com

(for the trolls…..don’t bother emailing me….
Use your noggin, everything can be traced…)
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January 3, 2022 6:07pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Hi Maggy, I always enjoy your contributions. Thanks for persevering.
  
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  January 3, 2022 6:24pm
- Pharmachick
  
  Thanks Maggy, incoming.
  
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  January 3, 2022 6:48pm
Spoff

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ruled out a return to lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of the Omicron variant. “We’re on the pathway out.”
– Stuff
Of course what he didn’t say is that we were “on the pathway out” before lockdowns – and that lockdowns simply delayed the way out by a year while beggaring the country.
From here on in expect the whole narrative to take on the distinctive aroma of arse-covering.
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January 3, 2022 6:38pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Scomo unfortunately has little control of the states. The Victorian Premier has recently managed to get himself powers that defy the western ethos of checks and balances. Anyone with a brain should leave Victoria ASAP while they have a chance.
  
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  January 3, 2022 7:23pm
TT500

If as Hendy and Wiles contend that their employer
has been remiss in safeguarding them in what i can
only conclude are positions of high personal risk,

Then perhaps their employer should dis – establish
those positions effective immediately.
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January 3, 2022 7:02pm
Maggie Pie

Well well well. Looks like Cindy has asked the Horrid to pull the ‘DJ Dementia’ story about him not being charged from their site.

Been replaced by… ‘Giant Crab sexually molests Aussie golfer’

Check it out for yourself…..
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January 3, 2022 7:40pm
- Its only I
  
  Or asked to speed up the news cycle.
  Nothing Labour or Green Party seems get more than a 12 hour pause before roll over..opposition parties will get all week with a weekend “opinion” piece and an open comment section full of Labours media trolls.
  Funny thing is people pay them good money to do it!
  
  Interesting times.
  
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  January 3, 2022 8:12pm
fernglas

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shaun-hendy-siouxsie-wiles-file-complaint-against-university-of-auckland/JPIUINTAUXI2TDC3K45JC4IDOA/
It seems obvious that if you choose to volunteer controversial comment on a highly emotive public issue, then you are likely to attract adverse reaction on it, some undoubtedly vitriolic. Ask Des Gorman or Gigi Foster.
Unless your employer is not only telling you that you must comment, but also what it is that you must say, they cannot possibly be responsible for your hurt feelings when others disagree with you.
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January 3, 2022 7:47pm
Julie

I notice The Herald Very quickly removed the ability to comment on the Wiles and Hendy story. Clearly they were not too favourable!
Funny this pair were behind the vicious attack on the seven academic staff who expressed their opinion on Maori science and co ordinated others doing so as well. So one rule for them and another for them? What is wirse this pair open,y attacked work colleagues while they are being attacked by outsider’s on social media.
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January 3, 2022 8:07pm
- Fight4NZ
  
  Good thought. Nice piece of comeuppance, cancellers don’t like being cancelled.
  
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  January 3, 2022 11:37pm
Sparrow

Just read the article in the Herald ref Wiles and Hendy taking Auckland University to the courts as the University was not protecting them from abuse. The comments section was open but none had been posted. So sent a comment. On checking shortly afterwards the Herald had closed the comments with none posted. So much for free speech.
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January 3, 2022 8:08pm
Maggie Pie

Ma retweets…

‘Same shit. Different day.’

https://twitter.com/1NewsNZ/status/1477854743963877378
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January 3, 2022 8:13pm
- fernglas
  
  A fate three times more likely for a New Zealand child than death from Covid.
  
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  January 3, 2022 8:39pm
Pharmachick

@okahu, I’ve just seen your comment from yesterday. Thank you very much.
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