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mandk

I went to the anti-mandate protest yesterday, for the first time since last Sunday.
As I got off the train at Wellington station, I found myself walking towards the protest behind a group of middle-aged and old ladies. Were they, I mused, part of the Silverstream branch of the NZ Revolutionary Socialists party? Were they some of the Islamophobes or Anti-Semites, Michael Wood told us about? Or were they, perhaps, those violent extreme right wingers Ardern warned us against? Did they have baseball bats concealed about their person? I couldn’t figure it out, but whatever kind of dangerous trouble makers they were, they certainly disguised themselves well.
My first updated impression of the protest was that it had grown significantly since last weekend. There were a lot more tents, and more were arriving all the time. I took the opportunity to welcome a couple of young guys erecting their tent to their new home and to wish them a long and happy stay.
There is now a Christian enclave occupying the area in front of the Parliamentary Library and the large portico at its entrance. I stayed for a prayer and a song, and then went to the admin tent to ask if I could do anything to help.
I was asked to give all the portaloos a quick clean and remove any graffiti and litter. Out of 20 or so portaloos I cleaned, only one had any litter nor graffiti, so all I really had to do in most of them was spray disinfectant around the seat and give them a good flush. Some of them obviously needed emptying, but the guys who do this arrived soon afterwards.
Halfway through my cleaning stint, I met Leighton Baker, and said hello and keep up the good work. He insisted on shaking my, hand even though I told him I might be germy. Solid bloke.
The organisation and efficiency of the protest is very good. The large pile of rubbish sacks that had accumulated at the bottom of Molesworth Street had gone, the catering was excellent, and there are more and more facilities for the protesters. You can now get a haircut, and there is a barber shaving people. Showers and laundry facilities are available. And the food remains good quality and plentiful.
The security is impressive. It is mainly being run by Maori kaitiaki. I chatted with one of them, and she told me that they had run drug dealers off the site. There is no alcohol or weed smoking, and even cigarettes are frowned upon.
My main concern is that the government will try to run black ops on the site, to portray the protesters in a bad light, but I think the security folk are alive to that possibility.
The friendliness of the protesters is heartening, and they are willing to share their stories. Some of the stories are very sad, tales of loved ones dying and damaged soon after getting vaxxed.
Again, I met protesters who had lost their jobs because they were not vaxxed. This time they included a trauma nurse who was previously working in ED and theatre, a corrections officer, and an HR manager.
I have no doubt the protest will continue to grow, and it seems that support amongst the wider public is growing.
I will be there tomorrow and again on Sunday.
Kiwibloggers, let’s all demand an end to the mandate now. It is doing an enormous amount of harm. And the vaccines don’t even work.
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February 19, 2022 8:00am
- Simon
  
  Good work. Compare this report to MSM……
  
  False flag by the gubbermint was always on the cards. Encouraging criminal class to join the protest so all could be smeared.
  
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  February 19, 2022 10:32am
- krazykiwi
  
  An informative update. Thanks
  
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  February 19, 2022 10:38am
  - Brian McDonald
    
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    I was really interested in the point you made about the way the 3rd tower fell, but I noticed they cut you off.
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:12pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      A forlorn failure runs interference.
      
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      February 19, 2022 12:45pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Now that Coster has effectively ruled out the Police ending the occupation, the ball is squarely in the PM’s court. Every day she delays, the protest will grow; that much is clear.
  
  So this morning she needs to put on her Big Girl pants, assemble the Cabinet, and tell them that all vaccine mandates will be lifted on 27 February, the same day when New Zealanders can return from Australia without having to enter MIQ.
  
  This will go against every fibre of her political being, but letting the protesters stay in Parliament any longer will damage Brand Ardern more than lifting the mandates will. And if she’s not prepared to do that, she should be off to see the G-G with her resignation as PM.
  
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  February 19, 2022 10:52am
  - nathie
    
    The PM? What or who is this PM you talk of?
    
    Oh you mean Ms Ardern who hasn’t been seen in Wellington for days …. has she gone into hiding again?
    
    Mind you apparently an Ardern look-alike was spotted in Rotorua on Thursday, meeting children.
    
    Can’t have been the real Ardern though because surely if it was the brave news media would be asking her why she isn’t in Wellington leading the government response against the protest!
    
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    February 19, 2022 11:06am
    - bronny1
      
      Those scum don’t need any managing! They are just a stream of islamophobic, racist filth aren’t they? //
      
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      February 19, 2022 2:59pm
    - Jim
      
      Ardern is just distancing herself from the protest, and has left the media to discredit it. However Costa et al are on a hiding to nothing if /when the any bad press (state brutality or protest undermines Ardern) rolls around the international press.
      
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      February 19, 2022 8:13pm
  - Sacha
    
    I think that Parliament Sitting is in recess for the next month? If so, the PM will not be much concerned as she works from home – a case of out-of-sight-out-of-mind.
    She will deal with it later, if she has to. (And somebody else hasn’t.)
    
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    February 19, 2022 11:17am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      No, Parliament is in recess next week, but is back on 1st March.
      
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      February 19, 2022 11:44am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Recess you say? Not such an emergency after all?
        
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        February 19, 2022 3:58pm
      - DistantObserver
        
        Jesus Christ, they only just got back to Wellington, time for another holiday.
        
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        February 19, 2022 8:45pm
  - curry4me
    
    She’ll get the most junior MP to announce that kind of thing as she flies to Harvard.
    
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    February 19, 2022 11:50am
    - pdm
      
      Curry – do you mean she will get Tukituki MP Anna Lorck to hand out Berocca to the protesters.
      
      That is about all she (Anna Lorck or Ardern for that matter) is good for and even doing that could be a serious challenge.
      
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      February 19, 2022 12:42pm
      - curry4me
        
        Either her, or the very junior ‘health minister’ she used a few days ago.
        
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        February 19, 2022 7:13pm
    - Paulus
      
      Harvard in May I believe – other World trips before that I thought I read.
      Interviews, as if anybody will have her, in say New York
      
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      February 19, 2022 1:35pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Getting paid much to go there and speak (gushing drivel)?
        
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        February 19, 2022 4:00pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Unfortunately Tony if the princess removes the mandates in a logical manner as you suggest, she will be roundly condemned by Luxon, Wills, Bishop and Seymour for putting the Government’s agenda at risk and endangering the population with crippling freedom.
    
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    February 19, 2022 1:02pm
- curry4me
  
  Thanks for helping out and posting the report.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:49am
- Brian McDonald
  
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  Is this was a post of FB it would be accompanied by a warning. Glad you found a welcoming tent in the middle of the desert.
  
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  February 19, 2022 12:10pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    If it was on FB I wouldn’t be reading it. Are you a Zuckerberg product offering to advertisers?
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:49pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    BD you do realise FB is garbage?
    
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    February 19, 2022 4:01pm
- Kevin Herlihy
  
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  As more and more people arrive on site the situation will overwhelm protest organisers. Maintaining logistical control i.e. tiolets, rubbish, traffic control, litter, will ultimately fall on the council. Police will also have to step up to maintain law and order and prevent rioting and looting.
  
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  February 19, 2022 12:20pm
  - Bridgenag
    
    Wow Hope you are paid well…… sigh
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:53pm
  - bronny1
    
    I doubt it. Most of these people actually have to manage situations much more complex than this in the real jobs they were fired from.
    
    You from the laptop class might see organising rubbish collection for a few thousand people as overwhelming but these are competent people.
    
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    February 19, 2022 3:01pm
    - Kevin Herlihy
      
      It is Wellington ratepayers who will suffer the cost of the clean up and damages, which will run into many thousands. Mayor Foster has said that the protest exceeds any resources the council currently has to deploy.
      The protest organizers have gone to ground and won’t accept any responsibility for what they have created or for the actions of the protestors which is steadily overheating.
      
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      February 19, 2022 3:49pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Get yourself down there Kev, & take a look for yourself.
        
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        February 19, 2022 6:40pm
Biscuit

Angry Andy, Minister of Health, reckons he was ‘blindsided’ by the news that 10,000 healthcare workers are planning to go on strike.

Not for the first time do I muse that Angry, sharp as a marble, has no idea what day of the week it is.

I feel it is only right and proper that some kind soul helps him out there.

Lemme, magnanimously, be of assistance:

Mr Little, it is presently Saturday and it will be for the next 16 hours.
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February 19, 2022 8:00am
- Colville
  
  next you need to give him a map and a torch so he can find his own arse hole.
  
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  February 19, 2022 8:52am
  - DistantObserver
    
    Down pike river mine I believe.
    
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    February 19, 2022 8:46pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  It’s worse than that, my twice-cooked friend. The media very kindly said he was blindsided. He actually said (twice!) that he was “ambushed” as if the cunning journo lay in wait deliberately to trip him up.
  
  In fact it was an entirely reasonable question of a Minister responsible for the 10,000 striking workers and who should 100% have known about it.
  
  Predictably, the bought-and-paid-for MSM made very little of Little’s little indiscretion.
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:06am
  - pdm
    
    Biscuit – my twice cooked friend.
    
    I love it!!!
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:48am
    - Biscuit
      
      I’ll cry, pdm!
      
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      February 19, 2022 11:06am
- Lee C
  
  Yes ‘ambushed’ him exposed as not knowing his job is a conspiracy.
  
  Probably a ‘far-right’ ‘white supremacist’ one, too..
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:15am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    journo responsible is ~~straying off the team of 55 million plantation~~ an anti-democratic racist nazi antivaxer homophobic terrorist (did I miss any of left’s favorite slurs?).
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:35am
    - bronny1
      
      I think they are also misogynists.
      
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      February 19, 2022 3:03pm
    - mawm
      
      Very far right wing, white supremacists and fundamentalist Christians.
      
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      February 19, 2022 6:09pm
2ic

I saw a post from a Kiwiblogger a few weeks ago about a video from former Pfizer scientist Mike Yeadon comparing serious adverse events from the Covid vaccines to flu vaccines from previous years. I found the graphs presented quite chilling, and I thought this information deserved a better airing so I thought I’d repost it.

For full context, watch this video from the 50 minute mark for 10 minutes or so:

Dr. Mike Yeadon | Session 86: The Fog Is Lifting
https://odysee.com/@Corona-Investigative-Committee:5/Mike-Session-86-en:0

These are the 2 charts from the video that say it all really:

Flu Vaccines: Consistent product across many manufacturers, lots, years, only 2 outliers
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nrtXHtxGoOQ03aeUiECVK1yqHRKTOGug/view

Covid Vaccines: Does this look like the same consistent product by manufacturer and lot?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/166cS-LmOdMlV11qvAfFQsOo0VBHuxlzM/view
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February 19, 2022 8:01am
Captain Mainwaring

So Princess Mahuta is off to Europe to save the world from a Russia/Ukraine war.
Good strategy. The protagonists will take one look at her and bury themselves in the trenches.
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February 19, 2022 8:01am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  She needs a taiaha and a mere for full effect
  
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  February 19, 2022 8:44am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Nope Steve, she will have a fairy tale about a taniwha and a bear. That’s it. Can you just imagine how humiliating for NZ it is to have her turn up and talk to intelligent people?
    
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    February 19, 2022 8:59am
    - H. Upmann
      
      Yes, chapter 2 of the chronicles of the Taniwha and the Dragon.
      
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      February 19, 2022 11:23am
  - dubya
    
    Just hope the grass skirt doesn’t fall off.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:00am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Mind bleach please
      
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      February 19, 2022 2:27pm
  - namron
    
    Steve, don’t you think the graffiti on her chin will be enough?
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:29am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    I thought chicks weren’t allow sticks (or to talk in ceremonial settings) in the double plus good institutionalised misogyny of traditional Maori culture
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:38am
  - I remember when
    
    I think you will find she is taking a “taihoa.”
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:49am
- MCōs
  
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  Maybe instead of making fun of the Minister of Foreign Affairs you should concern yourself with that which is actually occurring in the Ukraine.
  Head of the LNR posted a video about evacuation of refugees from Russian occupied area of Ukraine on the state news outlet, but the metadata shows that the file was created two days before it happened.
  Clearly an invasion of at least that area is imminent and if you think oil prices are high now. . . .
  
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  February 19, 2022 8:55am
  - RightNow
    
    It’s not either/or, we can do both.
    
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    February 19, 2022 11:26am
  - cmm
    
    Let’s say I am really concerned about the situation in Ukraine.
    
    Since it is a serious situation, I’d want serious, competent people to be involved in trying to help negotiate a peaceful outcome.
    
    There is no way our Minister is sufficiently skilled to be of any use.
    
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    February 19, 2022 2:20pm
    - MCōs
      
      I would suggest no politician from NZ has ever had a meaningful influence on European shenanigans.
      Their job is to add to the numbers backing one side or the other hoping there’s some payback down the road.
      
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      February 19, 2022 6:33pm
  - NoCash
    
    #FreeDonetsk
    
    Tell the Ukrainian to stop shelling Donetsk.
    
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    February 19, 2022 5:12pm
- ecco
  
  Haha!
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:01am
- oldfella
  
  Mahuta will just need to flash her taniwha and Putin will flee.
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:41am
- Inandout
  
  CM, face masks in some cases are advantagious.
  
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  February 19, 2022 10:18am
- Clyde
  
  I’m surprised that she can tear herself away from enabling her ambition of 3 waters and local government reform. Must feel that its all sewn up and the Red Queen is on board. I can imagine Putin’s response to seeing her.
  
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  February 19, 2022 10:21am
  - marcw
    
    He’d be asking for a longer table.
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:32pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Putin and other non-woke strong-men see people like that (western wokesters and western identity politics zealots) as very useful I’d say. The more the better (on the opposing side).
    
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    February 19, 2022 4:07pm
- emmess
  
  The one that 100% definitely absolutely started on Feb 16?
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:24am
  - NoCash
    
    It’s been imminent since Dec 2021.
    
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    February 19, 2022 5:23pm
Yvette

PM refuses to engage with ‘illegal’ protest, insists Ihumātao involvement ‘not the same’

Jacinda is right, Ihumātao is ‘not the same’. Then she acted illegally, abused her position, and told Fletchers to stop any construction, when it would be obvious to Fletchers that anything they did construct would be overnight be demolished. Next: 16/12/2020 – “Ihumātao land deal ‘unlawful’ until validated by Parliament”

A steering committee consisting of the ahi kā (the occupiers), a Kīngitanga representative, and two representatives of the Crown would decide its use, with the Auckland Council [and the whole country bemusedly] acting in an observer role. At the moment –
Any progress from this point on is down to Kīngitanga – and whose voice it chooses to be represented in the governance group.

So while the Government will want to leave it to Kīngitanga to resolve the almost impossible task of choosing, some ministers may find themselves in a sensitive and conflicted position … A number of other senior Labour members, including Foreign Affairs Minister and Waikato-Tainui MP Nanaia Mahuta, are closely connected to the movement.

It is believed Kīngitanga are yet to decide their representatives to decide the fate of Ihumātao

At the time the Government announced the deal, it allowed for a five-year process to get shovels in the ground. – not so encouraging for the current Parliament demo, but considerably more hopeful for the Maori Health Authority and “3 Waters” never delivering anything

SOUL (Save Our Unique Landscape) protesters at Ihumātao had been peacefully occupying the privately-owned land next to the Ōtuataua Stonefield’s historic reserve for the best part of four years. – that too foreshadows bit of a bummer, especially for Mallard
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February 19, 2022 8:02am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Yep, she’s completely full of “it” and the people can see it in full view.
  
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  February 19, 2022 4:08pm
artemisia

Oh dear, Minister Sepuloni has dropped her ball. Again. Taking a cue from the ambushed Minister Little?

(Intrepid and persistent, well done him, credit where due) Stuff reporter Aaron Smale:

I asked if she had read the report on redress from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care – a pertinent document for someone whose ministry was responsible for setting up oversight for Oranga Tamariki.

Minister Sepuloni’s response to questions about the bill she is responsible for.

“I think, you know, the thing here is that setting up, if we talk about the, the, we’re not talking about, I’m, I’m, I’m not overseeing Oranga Tamariki and how they operate, I guess that, I mean, in terms of, I’m not in charge of Oranga Tamariki.

When eventually an interview was set up, after 17 minutes and complaining that questions were not submitted beforehand, Minister Sepuloni hung up.

How interesting that this item made it into print.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300520836/questions-left-hanging-as-minister-for-social-development-carmel-sepuloni-hangs-up
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February 19, 2022 8:03am
- artemisia
  
  And on the subject of Minister Sepuloni, who is having a bad week –
  
  Sepuloni said the Government inherited a housing crisis and it would take time to build the number of extra state houses required.
  
  About that housing crisis inherited. Social housing waiting list 31 December 2021 25,525. Difference from June 2017 +20172. That is households, not individuals
  
  As for households in motels etc. If the demographic follows the social housing waiting list about half will be single people with no children. At 25% of their probably low income to live in good emergency accommodation, where is the incentive to move?
  
  https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/02/18/exclusive-record-365-million-spent-on-emergency-housing/
  
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  February 19, 2022 8:13am
- Benedict Yu
  
  “I think, you know, the thing here is that setting up, if we talk about the, the, we’re not talking about…..”
  
  ????????????????????
  
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  February 19, 2022 10:59am
- greybeard
  
  In a word: unbelievable.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:07am
  - cmm
    
    Unfortunately you are wrong.
    
    This is completely believable.
    
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    February 19, 2022 3:10pm
PaulP

Another promoted far beyond their ability.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300520836/questions-left-hanging-as-minister-for-social-development-carmel-sepuloni-hangs-up
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February 19, 2022 8:06am
WaynelSexton

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Went to the supermarket today to get some milk. Once again I was the only one not wearing a mask.
Starting to think that 30% are actually in support of beneficiaries partying in Wellington, than actually being against mandates.
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February 19, 2022 8:11am
- RightNow
  
  Maybe start to think that a lot of those at the protest would have been gainfully employed but for the mandates.
  
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  February 19, 2022 10:33am
Pongo

Brilliant piece in Stuff, of all places, about a journalist who took weeks and weeks to get an interview with Sepuloni and finally got one when she was being driven somewhere.
The interview transcript shows how utterly useless Arderns cabinet is and how useless she has been at getting even a mediocre performance out of any of them, she has a huge caucus but they must be even more useless.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300520836/questions-left-hanging-as-minister-for-social-development-carmel-sepuloni-hangs-up
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February 19, 2022 8:18am
Justitia

The Royal College of GPs says, “stop the scaremongering around Omicron”. For most people it’s no more dangerous than the common cold: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/dr-bryan-betty-royal-college-of-gps-medical-director-says-we-need-to-start-thinking-about-how-to-live-with-covid-and-move-through-it/

We have far bigger challenges ahead including seasonal influenza which kills 500 people each winter, and the enhanced potential for a major measles outbreak after 2 years of COVID focus.

There is no longer any justification for the mandates, if there ever was (I believe they are illegal). Follow the science Cindy!
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February 19, 2022 8:20am
- covfefe
  
  I met him once – very sensible man – that was back in the rheumatic fever scare days.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:31am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  May-November 2020 saw about 1500 less deaths than usual in NZ due to absence of respiratory illnesses. Omicron has been officially estimated to kill about 460-1450, so mostly likely less than an average flu season.
  
  Now please resume media government’s preferred and promoted level of panic over the big fat nothing that omicron is.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:52am
- hullkiwi
  
  And where didn’t that story get coverage? TVNZ as per usual. Is it any wonder the protest in Wellington expresses contempt for the media?
  
  When both state & private media edit news coverage to the extent of providing misinformation, is it a surprise people express conspiracy theories?
  
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  February 19, 2022 2:26pm
Tasman devil

The Labour rabble really is great entertainment, both for us and them, but Labour backbenchers would be well advised to munch heaps of those subsidised Bellamy’s luncheons because only herpes lasts forever.
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February 19, 2022 8:22am
thetiedarch

Coming up on the 2 year anniversary of COVID, I’ve been pondering:
– we’ve had 2 years to observe how the rest of the world dealt with massive outbreaks
– 2 years to roll out vaccinations
– 2 years to build up a robust method for contact tracing
– 2 years to strengthen ICU capacity
– 2 years to figure out and implement a way to safely and fairly let kiwis come home
– 2 years to plan for the end of mask and vaccine mandates
– and 2 years to implement everything g else we might have needed to get past COVID.

Yet the only thing we’ve done is vaccinate 95% of us – and that’s mostly the result of the general public chipping in!

Such a massive failure by this government. I wish there was a plain way to explain this to the 40% who still love Ardern, but I suspect that blind ideology is preventing rational thought and analysis.
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February 19, 2022 8:23am
JibberJabber

Things are indeed dire for Labour if even David Fisher can read the writing on the wall.
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February 19, 2022 8:29am
Tasman devil

Do they sell KFC in the Ukraine?
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February 19, 2022 8:30am
- Paulus
  
  Yes, I expect so they do in most of the Worlds Major Cities.
  Shanghai and Beijing are full of them, and Macs.
  
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  February 19, 2022 1:41pm
Marcus Vinicius

Am I the only one who thinks the NZ mainstream media who from 2017 – 2021 built up Ardern as some kind of political goddess are rather late in starting to sing a different tune about the PM and this government now that the political winds are starting shift now the Nats appear to be back in the game?

The same weaknesses in current government policy have been apparent from the start. Yet the media chose to ignore many of them until recently.
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February 19, 2022 8:33am
- Souvlaki
  
  Agree entirely….let down by media to almost criminal degree.
  This article below…would not have been published last year…BUT this type of disgraceful behaviour has been going on since Arden ascened the throne…but un reported:
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300520836/questions-left-hanging-as-minister-for-social-development-carmel-sepuloni-hangs-up
  
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  February 19, 2022 8:40am
  - Marcus Vinicius
    
    When was the last time 1News interviewed Ardern and gave her a right royal grilling about key issues and performance of ministers?
    
    I doubt their political editor has ever done this.
    
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    February 19, 2022 8:43am
    - tf78
      
      Marcus, they’d have to track her down first. She’s gone into the bunker.
      
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      February 19, 2022 8:53am
      - alloytoo
        
        Probably to get advice from Justin.
        
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        February 19, 2022 1:13pm
    - ecco
      
      Tv1 s political editor, Ms Mutch is married to Ardern’s bodyguard isn’t she? Very ‘ impartial’ political editor eh…
      
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      February 19, 2022 9:03am
      - CJames
        
        That isn’t a causal link. Many of the bodyguards have not thought much of the people they are guarding.
        
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        February 19, 2022 12:22pm
    - RightNow
      
      I loved the footnote at the bottom of the article, it’s delicious irony…
      “This is a Public Interest Journalism funded role through NZ On Air”
      
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      February 19, 2022 9:09am
      - Unity
        
        I call it ‘The Propaganda Press’. You can’t believe a word they say. Everything to do with the left is positive spin and anything to do with the centre and right is negative spin – and brief. Most Journalists aren’t what you would expect Journalists to be. They are full of propaganda and nowhere near the actual facts.
        
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        February 19, 2022 11:36am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “Public Interest Journalism”
        
        Insidious double-speak at it’s finest.
        
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        February 19, 2022 4:18pm
    - kowtow
      
      Grilling ?
      
      The closest that ever came to was when the Minister of Unlawful Mountain biking , who should have been in Wellington ,there was a health emergency of 100 years magnificence , went for a jolly in his red branded van , while we were all told not to …..
      
      ……the press conference she hosted after was pure theatre and in fairness to the reporters they started to get stuck in , and she ,The Great Communicador , was getting flustered and visibly annoyed ( they don’t like it up em) , she actually sighed , and just at the point where any other pack would have finished her off , came a patsy from the wings , and …….that was it , the subject changed , it was like the eye of a storm , all went suddenly quiet and all the menace was gone .
      
      Who was that journo ? I don’t know , but the media pack knows and there’s really so little to this Empty Suit .
      
      Another tactic she employs is the slap down ” I refudiate that” ( or some such) she says with a sharp nod , frowny eyebrows , squint and always accompanied with an exagertaed look to another journo for the next question .In other words , here’s your chance to change the subject .
      
      If they had any balls they’d say ” With respect , you didn’t answer the question my colleague put to you , and the public deserve an answer” or some such.
      
      But then you don’t bite the hand that feeds you .
      
      Innit.
      
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      February 19, 2022 9:53am
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      I’m not even sure that Jack Tame & John Campbell ask her patsies anymore
      
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      February 19, 2022 10:23am
      - Paulus
        
        Who !
        
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        February 19, 2022 1:43pm
      - Nickc2
        
        AFIK, the questions are to be forwarded in advance of the interview so the interviewee can’t be ambushed as was claimed by Angry Little and that other oxygen thief Carmel Sepuloni recently.
        Little complained he hadn’t been made aware there was to be a Nurses strike (he said on air that he had been ambushed by the question and didn’t have an answer) and Sepuloni hung up on a Journalist because she didn’t know about changes to Housing NZ (Kainga Ora) (a report she hadn’t read). That after attempting to waffle and obfuscate through her reply to the question.
        
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        February 19, 2022 1:56pm
    - Prince
      
      Seven Sharp is doing an item highlighting Sepuloni’s performance in this area, and questioning her about this interview.
      
      Oh, sorry no, apparently not.
      
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      February 19, 2022 1:10pm
  - Scott
    
    It would be nice if the media reported honestly on the virus. Yesterday Dr Bryan Betty said the Omicron was a mild virus like the flu. He is head of the general practicioners of NZ so hardly a fringe figure. But it was buried deep in a Newshub story.
    It should have been the lead. Omicron is mild. It’s like the flu.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:22am
    - Sacha
      
      Or a heavy cold even. Or a sniffle. It depends on the state of your immune system.
      
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      February 19, 2022 11:27am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      “He is head of the general practicioners of NZ so hardly a fringe figure. ”
      
      Don’t worry, the anonymous far left propapanda/slander trolls at Wikipedia (which is heavily promoted by “big tech”) will fix that!
      
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      February 19, 2022 3:14pm
  - rouppe
    
    That would have been a humiliating read for old Septic Tank Sepuloni
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:51am
  - GJM
    
    Indeed, didn’t the Red Queen issue instuctions to the caucus saying they didn’t need to talk to the media. Saying in essence that “we own them and what are they going to do anyway since we are so popular”?
    
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    February 19, 2022 6:06pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  We were just talking last night about the change in Soper in the last 6 months vs. Soper 2017-20
  
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  February 19, 2022 8:41am
  - CJames
    
    Remember he was supposed to have been a drinking buddy of Winston, so that may have influenced his behaviour.
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:24pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The ‘do as I say, not as I do’ is really rearing it’s ugly head for all to see.
  Socialism is here
  
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  February 19, 2022 8:41am
- Yvette
  
  Marcus Vinicius – now that the political winds are starting shift
  
  Maybe it is that the media is still capable of seeing which side their bread will be buttered on
  
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  February 19, 2022 8:45am
- Biscuit
  
  Marcus, I chuckled evilly last night when watching TV One’s version of The News.
  
  One of the placards being waved by the Parliament protestors read:
  WHERE’S CLARKE?
  
  My chuckle wasn’t so much that the question was (and is) being asked but rather was that someone from Jacinda’s Office would almost certainly be on the blower to berate TVNZ’s head honcho.
  
  ‘This is so NOT the News Jacinda is using taxpayer money for you to run…’
  
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  February 19, 2022 8:46am
  - oldfella
    
    Biscuit, begging the obvious follow up.
    ‘Prime Minister, why did you fiance vanish as soon as the wedding was cancelled?’
    Cindy is always keen to use her family to gain politicla mileage, so the question would be quite appropriate.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:45am
    - GJM
      
      He is just hanging out at home, doign a few jobs aroudn the house you know. He doesn’t get out of home much these days…
      
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      February 19, 2022 6:07pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    My son who is remotely acquainted with Clarke says that he is ‘M I A’. (Gone undercover).
    
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    February 19, 2022 10:27am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Seems to be a badly kept secret
      
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      February 19, 2022 11:04am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      “Sent to Coventry” as the old saying goes?
      
      Paid to STFU with a non disclosure agreement?
      
      Could mean Jacinda will bail from this gig? Oh how I bloody hope so!!!
      
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      February 19, 2022 3:18pm
  - curry4me
    
    I’m sure he’s busy packing his bags…. for the trip to Boston. Stalinda will need some moral support when she addresses Harvard.
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:00pm
    - mawm
      
      Will he be allowed into the US?
      
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      February 19, 2022 6:22pm
- Nickc2
  
  I’ve been noticing a trend in the last two or three weeks where Shock Jocks on Newstalk ZB are spitting their dummies when callers suggest MSM bias towards this Labour Govt. This has been particularly evident with Kerre Whatever and those two Clowns in the afternoons (self-righteous pricks).
  I wonder if this has been bought about by NZME policy or Sponsor/Advertiser pressure?
  Does anyone know?
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:00am
  - alloytoo
    
    To be fare Kerre gave the PM a fare amount of stick last year before the lockdown (I only heard it because I listened in the car to her opening).
    
    I switch off the two clowns in the PM.
    
    I’ll listen to Andrew Dickins (Monday afternoons) he’s a lefty, but his position has been pretty consistent.
    
    Frankly HDPA is the spicy show at the moment, perhaps being preggers has made her more irritated.
    
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    February 19, 2022 1:20pm
- notreadyet
  
  not really sure how much the nats are back in the game, yes going at present but a lot of the rights support base are very disaffected with their performance on a whole range of matters and current one now top of list
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:01am
  - curry4me
    
    National are Labour lite. They have been since the mid 1960s. They agree with Labour about the Wellington protest.
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:02pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  You’re half right – the veil has certainly slipped but any traction gained has been due to the sheer incompetence and arrogance of the government, not anything National has done. Their gains have mostly been at the expense of ACT and can most likely be attributed to the replacement of Collins, who I greatly admired but became unelectable.
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:27am
  - kowtow
    
    Unelectable .
    
    I wonder how much the Media Pardy played in that , like they did to Brash .
    
    There are big stories there about how the Media Pardy have held the Opposition to account and why .
    
    I’m beginning to think they fear a real ballsy govt that would cut their funding and their drive to destroy the econmy ( global warming , regulation , race division etc)
    
    They seem to lose their heat when a “progressive” heads the Tories.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:57am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  After the complete lack of critical reporting, they are no longer Mainstream media. They have lost the right to be called that. They are the legacy media, and their actions have accelerated their demise.
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:59am
  - Unity
    
    They are a propaganda media, elevating the left and presenting brief negative reports on the centre and right.
    
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    February 19, 2022 11:39am
coge

Can someone explain to me why National endorsed these Jim Crow styled segregation mandates?
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February 19, 2022 8:33am
- Unity
  
  They will do themselves irreparable harm if they don’t start doing what’s right and that is talking to the Protestors. They don’t have to agree with them but they MUST talk to them if they are to retain any credibility. Perhaps they are listening to the propaganda press and believing what they say. This will be their downfall if they don’t wake up as to what’s going on. I know many are critical of National’s stance and lack of action. They are letting an ideal situation pass them by instead of doing the right thing by talking to the Protestors and also taking advantage of Labour’s cowardice.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:42am
  - Gravelroad
    
    @unity-
    They are certainly not the robust, confident, professional National Party that I was once happy to support.
    You can see it with their off siders who comment on here. They present a strict party line – unimaginative and over cautious.
    National had an opportunity earlier last week to take a stand but didn’t bother in case someone on Twitter got upset.
    I agree with Lucia Maria below: they are more scared of the media and the spin section of the Prime Minister’s department than they are of taking a stand and doing the right thing.
    No doubt Tony Stuart, Peter and G the Giant will be along shortly with damage control.
    
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    February 19, 2022 3:14pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  They had a battle last year and the side that was becoming more aware of reality lost. The ones in charge have drunk deep from the Koolaid and probably realise that any moves towards reality will lead to their rolling. IMO. And they seem honestly scared of the media and their PR guys.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:58am
  - coge
    
    It’s hard to imagine Caucus unity is anything other than a stage managed charade at this point.
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:51pm
- curry4me
  
  Because they are Labour lite.
  
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  February 19, 2022 12:04pm
- Prince
  
  Because it doesn’t really matter what they do.
  Labour is the Government.
  
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  February 19, 2022 1:13pm
Humble Capitalist

Comrade comrade hows your mythical team of 5 million today? All united for another day of stamping out the plague?
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February 19, 2022 8:37am
krazykiwi

I’ve went down to the protest yesterday. It had been 4 days since I last went on-site, and the increased level of infrastructure is amazing. A stage has being constructed, the medical and food tents are expanding, there is a security team, admin and volunteer co-ordination hub… and a chalk blitz on steps with direct, (mostly) polite guidance for our politicians.

I had a meeting with the food/sanitation logistics leader. There is a big program of work to ensure this protest is set up for in for the long term. Despite what the MSM lamely attempts to suggest, >99% of the protestors are focused on these two things:
– End the mandates
– Repeal the Covid-19 Health Act and subsequent Health Orders

I’ll spend more time there this weekend.
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February 19, 2022 8:41am
- Marcus Vinicius
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  They would have a lot more support from the average Kiwi if they stopped blocking the roads.
  
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  February 19, 2022 8:45am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The whole idea of a protest is to inconvenience people even if it upsets those with no connection to the mandates.
    There will always be someone having a bitch
    
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    February 19, 2022 8:48am
  - yossarian
    
    Poor Wellington (the home of the over paid bureaucrat), they can’t use one or two roads. Didn’t see much sympathy from them while Auckland was locked down all those months.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:03am
  - notreadyet
    
    how many roads are really blocked and how many affected, is it not the media beating that story up as it’s all they have
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:03am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Really only lower Molesworth St, of any note. The rest are side streets. Molesworth St leads up to one of the main motorway on-ramps & also to Wadestown and Wilton. Having it blocked is an inconvenience but it’s a five minute detour via Bowen St & Tinakori Rd.
      
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      February 19, 2022 7:20pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    You mistake yourself for the average kiwi.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:07am
    - Tom Hunter
      
      You should get a few signs set up that quote the following over a photo of the Bronx Bimbo:
      
      “The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable. Activists take that discomfort w/the status quo; advocate for concrete policy changes …To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable…that’s the point.”
      
      I recall that was all the rage in 2020.
      
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      February 19, 2022 10:07am
      - Marcus Vinicius
        
        Pretty lame attempt at humour. My life isn’t that dreary.
        
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        February 19, 2022 11:58am
    - Marcus Vinicius
      
      I don’t recall claiming I was.
      
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      February 19, 2022 10:17am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Wellingtonians have long enjoyed the attention of being in the beltway and close to the action. What goes around comes around.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:28am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Are you the voice of the average kiwi? It’s just that I don’t get how you would know that.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:39am
  - I remember when
    
    “If they stopped blocking the roads.”
    Do they think perhaps that the blocked roads represent the problem the unvaccinated suffer every day.
    The constant obstacles to their progress and
    
    NO indication as to when it will end.
    
    What does that remind you of.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:56am
  - kowtow
    
    Yer but if this was protest that the Left Establishment approved of , all we’d hear is ” Democracy is messy” , the price is worth it , blah blah
    
    You know a bit like how the Media pardy gave /give a free pass to the criminality of the so called BLM / Antifa movements and largely ignored their far left inspiration , funding , disruption etc
    
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    February 19, 2022 10:01am
  - R
    
    They would have a lot more support from the average Kiwi if they stopped blocking the roads.
    
    The Government would have a lot more support from the average Kiwi if they didn’t force people out of jobs for not getting jabbed.
    
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    February 19, 2022 10:15am
  - Westie Bob
    
    Given the proximity to parliament most of those being inconvenienced will be public servants or those earning a living off public servants. I say f###
    em. How much did they really care when Auckland was locked down for months.
    
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    February 19, 2022 11:22am
  - alloytoo
    
    Aside from Parliament lawn (at present) there are very few average Kiwi’s being inconvenienced at the moment.
    
    The average kiwi is on the whole happy for it to take place in Wellington (and frankly thinks they deserve it)
    
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    February 19, 2022 1:26pm
- Gravelroad
  
  @KK and biscuit above:
  Well, if a stage is being constructed at the protest site, bring on the DJ’s.
  Maybe even Clarke might make a surprise celebrity guest appearance………
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:01am
  - tf78
    
    Gravel, Cindy will be itching to get out there.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:09am
  - Its only I
    
    Everyone has his phone number.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:42am
  - oldfella
    
    gravelroad: You mean some kind of ‘Masked DJ’ thing? Imagine the surprise when the mask came off and it was Clarke underneath.
    Assuming anyone can actually find him.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:48am
  - Gravelroad
    
    And Shifting Houses.
    When the protest is over , Mr Gayford (if available) could come in handy to reprise his TV programme.
    An episode on shifting structures off the lawn at parliament and transporting them somewhere could be entertaining.
    Better get Fish&Game in to advise on the River of Filth though. They did a grand job on the dairy farmers without even getting their hands dirty.
    
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    February 19, 2022 10:38am
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    With the state of parliament lawns, no lawnmower sales happening.
    
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    February 19, 2022 11:36am
  - bronny1
    
    There is a dance party advertised there starting at 4pm
    
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    February 19, 2022 3:16pm
- ecco
  
  Is there a givealittle page I can donate to for these guys?
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:25am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    ecco it appears these protesters have learned from TrueDope and other totalitarian woketards and are smarter than that.
    
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    February 19, 2022 3:41pm
- oldfella
  
  krazy: this is the kind of article which will get Labour heads exploding. Interviews with a bunch of protesters who come across as everyday Kiwis, with genuine concerns. Not a nutter amongst them.
  I reckon ‘they are us’, but I’m not sure Cindy would agree.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/127803126/distrust-and-freedom-why-the-parliament-protesters-came-and-stayed
  
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  February 19, 2022 10:18am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    This will have Jacinda and her propaganda-army scratching their heads. We’ve got Maori security, coromandel type green/left swamp people, and what appears to be ex military type logistics, respected knighted personalities and “normie” mums, dads and kids. I think whatever the outcome, the fallout from this will sink the govt futher.
    
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    February 19, 2022 3:51pm
Yvette

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said threatening to tow the vehicles of anti-mandate protesters in Wellington had escalated tensions in an unsafe way.

Given earlier intentions and threats to tow vehicles, is the now apparently brilliant, but second plan, of “constructive engagement”, not due to some Police acumen, but more that they couldn’t find anyone to tow anything – and that military vehicles capable of any towing, are to recover items rather than move them still in any good working order?

“We continue to carefully navigate our options to reopen the roads, but the most desirable way to end this safely is to encourage open communication channels,” Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said. – have a conversation, absolutely

Which is sort of what David Seymour said, but more simply, and Trev Mallard lamely repeated, and which Jacinda will still not recognise.
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February 19, 2022 8:41am
Jim

I’m certainly not antivax (having had dozens of jabs due to working in remote geographical locations for 40 years) and have (reluctantly) had two Comirnaty vaccinations in order to continue accessing civil society. However quite reasonably I am now very dubious about the latest mRNA vaccines which have proven to be of limited effectiveness and limited safety. The most concerning aspect is the lack of durability of this vaccine, with NZ government ‘deciding’ (i.e. nil evidence) that 3 monthly is the new vaccination schedule.
We all know the ‘nominal date’ of expiry for NZ vaccine passes will soon be upon us, and I’m finding articles like this in the UK press quite chilling.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10520621/Australians-need-five-doses-Covid-vaccine.html

I do wonder how many people, who currently condemn activities of the Anti-mandate Protest, would consider a change of heart if they were told our politicians were planning on subscribing its citizens (and their children) to an enduring experimental vaccination schedule?

Of course only time will tell, as out PM is remaining tight lipped of government plans either way, and despite having a virtual crystal ball (called world events) the MSM are still not asking the really important questions.
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February 19, 2022 8:52am
- leoj
  
  The results of initial tests of the vaccine are not available for 70 years.
  It is a giant experiment, forced upon a large proportion of the population.
  Watch Pfizer’s stock price plummet in the coming months.
  
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  February 19, 2022 12:15pm
Southern Raider

Who is the next “celeb” to join the Freedom Camp?

Got Gilda, Jason and Russell so far.

Maybe a DJ?
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February 19, 2022 9:06am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  Craig Monk – children’s author, singer songwriter, whose works include:
  The Wonky Donkey
  Kaha the Kea
  Willabee the bumblebee
  
  Put on a concert for the children this morning.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:34am
  - curry4me
    
    That’s good news. I wonder who the next one will be?
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:19pm
pdm

It seems Carmel Sepuloni has subscribed to the Winston Peters system of Politics by not reading reports – even those of Royal Commissions.

She then `sucked the kumara’ in a big way and hung up on the reporter during an arranged 30 minute interview – complaining she should have been sent the questions before the interview.

Another lightweight minister , ill prepared and well out of her depth..

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300520836/questions-left-hanging-as-minister-for-social-development-carmel-sepuloni-hangs-up
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February 19, 2022 9:08am
- jon
  
  Out of her depth but that doesnt matter as she represents the required ethnic diversity in the cabinent.
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:19am
- Loddenthinks
  
  The verbatim responses from Sepuloni were hilarious and informative. We learned exactly how stupid and unprepared she is, just like Angry Little Andy.
  
  A sample so you don’t have to visit the cesspool of woke:
  
  “I think, you know, the thing here is that setting up, if we talk about the, the, we’re not talking about, I’m, I’m, I’m not overseeing Oranga Tamariki and how they operate, I guess that, I mean, in terms of, I’m not in charge of Oranga Tamariki.”
  
  You know man, the thing!
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:31am
  - Cinematic
    
    Wow that’s low IQ.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:34am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Questions in an interview should be spontaneous and based on the answer to the previous question.
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:58am
- Exclamation Mark
  
  Jesus , that was painful to read. To think she’s drawing a 6 figure salary…
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:59am
Southern Raider

Great to see the Harvard Facebook page being slammed by real kiwis questioning what were they thinking and suggesting they investigate the real damage Jacinda is doing to NZ.

They must be asking themselves some serious questions
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February 19, 2022 9:08am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

From FB.
How do we get a bracelet or pass to verify vacinne info before landing in Maui to avoid long lines? We have QR code but it’s not green.
You can get cleared at the airport before your flight and get the wrist band. What airport are u flying out of? LAX.
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Why can’t NZ have things this simple? There is a hard way and an easy way, Labour will always choose the hard way so the can fuck people around, shows authority
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February 19, 2022 9:12am
- PeeJay
  
  The problem isn’t just Labour, it’s deeper than that. Politicians trust the bureaucracy to investigate and report on options available. When you consider the poor standard of executive and senior management in central and local government who are mostly on a lifelong career gig where promotion and perks are tied to not rocking the boat, it’s no surprise that the foolish and intellectually challenged Minister can be effectively captured by his or her department.
  
  Labour are certainly useless but the bureaucrats are just as culpable for the appalling performance of government in NZ. The only difference in government, really, is that the party at the top of the tree occasionally changes – the folks who actually do the work, formulate and implement ideas, are always the same.
  
  That’s why local government is a disaster zone – change the mayor or councillor all you want, the real power is below the elected level and that never really changes.
  
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  February 19, 2022 10:26am
  - chukar
    
    You are absolutely correct PJ.
    And the growth in the bureaucratic numbers ( and salaries) is making this worse by the hour!
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:36pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yep, the same dead wood has been there for years, no matter what Party is in
    
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    February 19, 2022 2:30pm
ecco

Ardern starting to throw people under the bus for the spiralling protest disruption, ie Coster and now Wlg mayor Foster, via her media friends at the Ferald. Ardern’s spin dept working overtime with edicts for the Ferald editor.

As Hosking referred to her the other day as she shrugged her shoulders – ‘protests are nothing to do with me – I’m just the prime minister…’. Apt summation of Ardern’s attitude towards unpleasant consequences of her making.

I actually feel sorry for Coster despite all his failings. He’s just the fall guy for an inept, out of their depth government. Shit of a time to be police commissioner, with Jacinda ‘duck for cover’ Ardern at the helm.
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February 19, 2022 9:13am
- Don Beckett
  
  Upticked, with the proviso that Coster – as Simon Bridges said – is the most woke commissioner we have ever had, and I think he is out of his depth, like his boss, and her boss. I think he’s useless – an ideal occupant of ‘Bullshit Castle’.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:54am
- GJM
  
  Cuddles Coster is hated by some polcie i have talked to. Woke, out of touch and incompetent. A perfect candidate for a senior public service role in fact.
  He is a liar as well with hsi comments on firearms, proven by teh police’s own figures.
  If he will blatently lie about the small stuff, secure in teh knowledge the media won’t call him on it, then he will have no issues about lying about the big stuff.
  
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  February 19, 2022 6:17pm
I remember when

What good is a leaderless protest? Mike O’Donnell asks in an Opinion piece in the Dominion.
“No one is prepared to stand up and articulate a position …”
And isn’t this what is making the Anti Mandate protest so effective.
It is whatever you want it to be, whatever you think it should be.
You don’t simply read what someone else says, and think “I agree with that,” and tick the box.
“the banal “Bring back Trump”
Donald Trump was an Anti Mandate protest.
He represented the voice of those who feel the government ignores them.
The problem is further exacerbated by the media becoming representatives of the ‘left or right’ wings.
Those one hour covid lectures are coming home to roost.
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February 19, 2022 9:17am
Yvette

“We need to be de-escalating this down to get into a position where most of us are just going to have a mild to moderate illness, that we’re going to get through like any respiratory illness in winter, and we need to be moving on, and perhaps the way we’re approaching it at the moment is causing more problems than good, and we may have reached a pivot point with that.”
– Dr Bryan Betty, medical director of Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/02/covid-19-dr-bryan-betty-says-change-in-mindset-needed-with-omicron.html

Pity no one seems to have asked him about “Long Covid” – nor has Betty remarked on that himself
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From the same article –
On Monday, the Ministry of Health issued a statement advising that of the 20,000 swabs taken in Auckland, about 80 to 90 percent of those who turned up didn’t need to.

If 18,000 of the total need not turn up, it reduces the valid tests to 2,000.
Monday there were 981 community cases (– Ministry of Health, too)
So just under half of the tests the Ministry of Health apparently deemed need turn up.
Isn’t that just a little screwy?
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February 19, 2022 9:21am
Cinematic

I see Trudeau’s man child performance has hit a peak. There’s something really strange about that guy. In NZ we have our own version of strange leadership. Jacinda is basically invisible these days and when sighted has a ghostly cadaverous appearance. Where have the semi normal politicians gone?
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February 19, 2022 9:23am
Lee C

The elephant in teh room is there is no idea about ‘when mandates’ will end, because the Governemnt is shamelessly out of its depth about how to deal with a Health issue.

But they know this has never been about ‘health’ but rather has been about about political oppoortunism, and they are very adept at milking that.

Hence, they have no incentive to actually provide ‘health’ but every incentive to exploit the situation to the hilt.
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February 19, 2022 9:25am
- Cinematic
  
  Yes, it’s surprising to me that DPF and others have faith in the quaint notion that Labour will see the light and begin to act democratically and responsibly.
  
  They know exactly what they’re doing and basically it’s whatever takes their fancy on any given day. End of story.
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:38am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “Labour will see the light and begin to act democratically and responsibly.”
    They didn’t the last 5 times they were in power. Why would the 6th time be any different?
    History repeats.
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:15pm
I remember when

NZ Council for Civil Liberties: 3/11/2021:
Vaccine mandates and certificates vs our liberties and rights:
Conclusions:
“But we need to remain vigilant about the kind of society these measures, that may seem attractive or necessary in the short term, lead to in the long term.”
“If government isn’t open with us about it’s new stick-like carrots and when it will shut them down, it may find that it has lost the high levels of public trust it has previously benefited from.”

And where are we after 3 and a half months.
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February 19, 2022 9:26am
Observer of Life

Here’s an update on the Freedom Protest in WLG…
Worth a wee look.

https://youtu.be/xhPcBOo2eAg
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February 19, 2022 9:36am
- cmm
  
  “This is not a condition young children should be in.” says Cindy.
  
  What? Being outside, a bit of adventure and camping, live music and being part of history?
  
  What the hell would she know about taking care of children? She has prioritised her political career over her child who sees more of the nanny than her mother. Indeed, it looks like she conceived for political expedience.
  
  Telling people they are poor parents is the very last thing Cindy should be doing.
  
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  February 19, 2022 4:14pm
  - Nickc2
    
    This post deserves more upticks.
    
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    February 19, 2022 9:22pm
I remember when

Nadine Chalmers-Ross: The Project:
Said she was in favour of the Mandate because, “it makes people get vaccinated.”
MIQ survey shows nearly 80% experience anxiety, depression, panic attacks.
They are already vaccinated.
South Auckland GPs call for new anti-viral drugs in battle against Omicron: Stuff:
South Auckland doctors are calling for two new anti-viral drugs.
Only problem Pharmac says the drugs may not be available until April, at the earliest.
Auckland Grammar has been blocked from collecting shipment of RATs.
Not approved by MoH – but widely available in Australia with an accuracy assessment of 90%.
Exceeds target set by the Ministry.
Only 11 products approved here; Australia has approved 26.
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February 19, 2022 9:36am
- NZer In Exile
  
  “South Auckland GPs call for new anti-viral drugs in battle against Omicron”
  
  Why is the govt so quiet on Covid treatment drugs?
  
  Why are is there no campaign to help people minimise their risk profile for covid (ie get to a healthy weight and stop habitually eating diabetes-inducing shit)?
  
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  February 19, 2022 4:28pm
I remember when

Telsa not yet cranking out Semis but progress is clear.
Production is slow and calculated for now.
The company has had little to say in its lastest earnings report.
No answers were given as to when customer deliveries expected to start.
However they did release a photo of four Tesla Semis charging at the new Megacharger station at Gigafactory in Nevada, where the e-truck is in low-volume production.
PepsiCo are expecting their first few Semis by the end of 2022.
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February 19, 2022 9:45am
Maggie Pie

Spare a thought for Tova O’Brien and her 90 day Restraint clause.

😀
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February 19, 2022 9:50am
- oldfella
  
  Maggie, I hope Tova’s taking the opportunity to learn to code. As well as work behind a bar, if she can find a hospo venue that hasn’t gone broke.
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:56am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Could always do what JK and Max have done…work for the Chow Brothers 😛
    
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    February 19, 2022 11:01am
    - oldfella
      
      She’s always been good at selling herself.
      
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      February 19, 2022 11:22am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Oh, you are awful!
      
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      February 19, 2022 1:00pm
  - curry4me
    
    She could investigate opportunities in the solar panel installation industry.
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:26pm
- JibberJabber
  
  heh, it’d still be all Judiths fault from the one-trick pony that is Leftova.
  
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  February 19, 2022 9:59am
- PeeJay
  
  Surprised we haven’t had an update on her pulling pints yet…….I mean the poor dear was practically destitute with being a barmaid her only option.
  
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  February 19, 2022 10:29am
oldfella

This is interesting on stuffed. A whopping 37% said NO.
Poll: If you have mild symptoms, will you get a Covid-19 test?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300521097/poll-if-you-have-mild-symptoms-will-you-get-a-covid19-test
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February 19, 2022 9:54am
- WaynelSexton
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  You guys on kiwiblog can’t even walk into a supermarket without a mask. You and the other 95% of the population will definitely get tested.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:18am
  - bronny1
    
    I don’t wear one and I will defo not be tested. Though I’m pretty sure I already had it, so I don’t think that will be a problem I have to face.
    
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    February 19, 2022 3:26pm
- emmess
  
  Only 30% said yes or probably
  Remember too, most on our side never would go to stuff unless clicking on a link
  Those that would not get tested is likely to be even higher
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:35am
- cmm
  
  What’s really the point of testing for mild symptoms anyway?
  
  Even if you have symptoms, you just treat the symptoms. How you treat them is no different because they’re Omicron or a normal cold.
  
  Sure, if you have extremely serious symptoms then that’s another matter. It is important to eliminate other more serious causes for the symptoms.
  
  But the most common symptoms for Omicron are indistinguishable from a cold and can surely be treated the same way.
  
  Note: I am not a doctor, this is not medical advice. Be an adult and think for yourself.
  
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  February 19, 2022 4:20pm
Opie

If there was a(nother) measles outbreak in the country and daily new cases of measles were around 2000 yet 1500 of those cases had taken the measles vaccine would you be ok with it?

Or would people be calling for an enquiry?

And would those numbers justify destroying the careers of those who didn’t take it?

Why so much power being exerted over a vaccine that has never worked as advertised against a disease that causes less harm overtime in all individuals as per the history of viruses…

You have to have this so called vaccine to play golf by yourself outside! Are you ok with this?
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February 19, 2022 10:02am
- PeeJay
  
  Very good comparison. And yes, I know that as there are far more people vaccinated, the number infected would be higher but it’s not the point is it? This vaccine was sold as something that would stop you catching it – it clearly doesn’t, and this is no longer debatable.
  
  I actually think this, among other things, is what is driving support for the protest. Ardern and her ilk are referring to the vaccination percentage like this is a percentage of the people who agree wholeheartedly with her strategy (if knee jerk reactions can be termed a strategy!).
  
  I am triple dozed and I can assure you that I did so reluctantly and only due to my employment. I have gone from negligible interest in the protests to growing support – the initial police reaction (that cop who did the plank on the kids head should be charged IMO), and the groupthink reaction of our political masters refusing to even acknowledge the protesters have a genuine grievance has really turned my views. And for the National / ACT supporters on here, I know they are not in charge, but they’ve been completely tone deaf on this – sitting on the sidelines, nodding along in agreement with the Government is not exactly showing leadership is it.
  
  On the vaccine (and general Covid policy) we have been sold 100% bullshit. The vaccines, at best, seem to stop you from getting seriously ill, and that’s certainly debatable and there have been plenty of debates on this blog over that! What is not debatable is that the vaccines clearly do not stop you from catching Covid – therefore it really is fair to question whether they are actually working as originally advertised.
  
  Let’s be honest here. They were sold as a cure, along with no penalties, no mandates if you chose not to get it. This is not a left v right debate, it’s a simple state of facts which the record can clearly show.
  
  If I had bought this as a consumer I’d have been demanding a refund! It’s probably arguable that the dishonest advertising would have been in breach of the fair trading act!
  
  The funny thing for me is, if they had been honest up front and sold the vaccines not as a cure, but as a mechanism to ensure you didn’t get seriously sick or die, then I think most kiwi’s (and other nationalities) would have made a rational choice to proceed. But the politicians just couldn’t help resorting to bullshit and lies, and here we are.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:14am
Maggie Pie

CAPTIAL TRENDING….

And a BIG UP’s for bezzie Gilda….she’s there for those of us who can’t be!

SO MUCH LUV HON 😛

https://twitter.com/Strange_G/status/1494537715177586690
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February 19, 2022 10:02am
- Caleb
  
  Who can watch that and downtick?
  Are you not Authoritarian, a Hypocrite and Obstinate.
  
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  February 19, 2022 10:23am
- greybeard
  
  If that was shown in full on TV1 / TV3 things might start happening . Great video thanks.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:26am
- Opie
  
  Thats a hard watch. Pulls on the emotions seeing kiwis fighting together for a common cause.
  
  Those people are us. They are our champions. They have shifted the narrative.
  
  The fact that peaceful people have come together to stand up for everybody’s rights and for what this country used to be shows just how much damage this government has done.
  
  We have said that this ends when we fight back. You are watching the fight back.
  
  To anyone that’s there, been there, going there, donated, sent supplies, argued with their mates who supported this governments rubbish – thank you.
  
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  February 19, 2022 12:51pm
Rusty

Heard baby face Jack Tame say on ZB radio this morning the police should go and arrest all the ring leaders in Wellington as the only way to end the protests.

Tame like most of the MSM are not interested in the reasons ‘why’ the protesters are there — to remind Jack “no mandate vaccines”

I don’t recall Tame or any of the MSM condemning the BLM marches 2 years ago when vaccines weren’t available like they are now.
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February 19, 2022 10:03am
- Gravelroad
  
  Why would arresting the “ring leaders” stop the protest?
  Plenty of leadership options amongst the ordinary people.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:01am
- kowtow
  
  Did he mention they have a right to be there .
  
  A right established at least in part by the case law around Mallard’s arrest and acquital for a 1977 protest there.
  
  The same Mallard who denied these people the same right and who may have set the police on them , as well as the sprinklers.
  
  And who intimidated the Press Gallery into not talking to them.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:04am
- Matt Long
  
  First, media;” these protests are crap there’s no leadership.”
  Next, media:” Arrest the leaders ”
  
  Maybe the protesters are a bit smarter than the fake news party.
  
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  February 19, 2022 1:25pm
- tenzing
  
  Probably a good thing that there’s no obvious “ring leaders” – there’s no particular leader for our team of 55 million to target and smear, making their usual takedown tactics completely self-sabotaging and ineffective.
  
  Over time, as this is getting more communally organised with a tidier festival vibe, this is looking more and more like an uprising of “the people” – something that those who identify as socialists (such as our PM) should support!
  
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  February 19, 2022 1:46pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Tane opens his mouth and something vacuous comes out. Situation normal.
  
  And they fret about misinformation on social media.
  
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  February 19, 2022 3:56pm
oldfella

The BFD today gets stuck into NZ’s media/govt collusion. Appalling!
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Last year New Zealand hosted the APEC online conference. Unbelievably for a wholly online conference, it still came with a price tag of $76 million dollars.
We can at least tell you where $93,000 of that $76 Million dollars went.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs paid Stuff and the NZ Herald $93,000 to publish full-page ads and puff pieces about APEC.
https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/02/19/govt-paid-nz-media-for-apec-puff-pieces-template-do-not-use-make-a-copy/
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February 19, 2022 10:06am
Joely Doe

Royal trumpets blared as the royal god made her entrance into the royal caucus. “Announcing,” cried a royal brown-nose, “the Queen of the Hermit Kingdom, First of Her Name, Protector of the Realm, Jacinda of Arc Near Morrinsville, Mother of Neve, Clarke’s Missus Or Will Be When the Wedding’s Back On, Minister of Secrets, Graduate of the Malignant Brotherhood of the International Union of Socialist Youth, Widely Rumoured but Unconfirmed Special Envoy of the Illuminati!”

“Morning,” she said, and asked for a high horse to sit on. They brought one in. Higher,” she said. They brought another one in. “Higher still,” she said.

They brought in the highest horse there ever was.
“I suppose it’ll do,” she said…

Steve Braunias: The secret diary of the Hermit Kingdom

Is The Herald off the reservation?
Has the $105 million run out?
There is no way this piece would have been published at any time over the last 4 years!
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February 19, 2022 10:10am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  That’s the first time I’ve ever seen Braunias ridicule the Left?? Rather well too.
  
  The worm has not only turned but is wriggling back fast.
  
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  February 19, 2022 1:05pm
R

This can’t be right – ten drugs to treat Omicron were tested and Ivermectin came out on top?

we evaluated the drug efficacy against their target protein encoded in the Omicron through molecular docking approach. Most of the tested drugs were proven to be effective. Nirmatrelvir (Paxlovid), MPro 13b, and Lopinavir displayed increased effectiveness and efficacy, while Ivermectin showed the best result against Omicron.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08176v1
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February 19, 2022 10:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  We are being played by the socialist control freaks
  
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  February 19, 2022 2:36pm
I remember when

Should Covid-19 vaccination mandates be reviewed now: RNZ:
Yesterday 1947 Cases.
How many cases did the Vaccination Passports prevent?
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February 19, 2022 10:12am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  80 thousand?
  
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  February 19, 2022 2:37pm
Give a Man a Fish

Cindy says the Labour government continues to be “your single source of truth”.
That line probably still works on 5 year olds and the state funded media.
But for most people, the Labour government continues to be your main source of division in New Zealand.
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February 19, 2022 10:13am
Bernard Black

I am a huge Blackadder fan, one of My all time favourite shows.
Absolutely wrapped when I saw all episodes are now on Prime video, no more messing around with DVDS when I feel like visiting with old Slack Bladder and Baldrick.
But something is missing, one episode to be exact “General Hospital”
Why is it not there I wonder?
The only reason I can think of is that it has become a victim of cancel cuture due to one particular line (in bed with nurse Mary) ” when I joined up we were still fighting colonial wars, if you saw someone in a skirt you shot him and nicked his country”
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February 19, 2022 10:35am
- Tom Hunter
  
  You’re also obviously a fan of another great British sitcom
  
  Fran: So what’s it like then? The fags and booze.
  
  Bernard: Well, to be honest, after years of smoking and drinking, you do sometimes look at yourself and think…
  
  Fran: Yep…
  
  Bernard: You know, just sometimes, in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that four hundredth glass of cornershop piss at 3am, you do sometimes look at yourself and think…
  
  Fran: Yep…
  
  Bernard: … this is fantastic. I’m in heaven.
  
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  February 19, 2022 1:26pm
  - Bernard Black
    
    You would be correct.
    You need a lawyer Fran, that would be expensive though.
    Maybe you could get someone to pretend to be a lawyer, you know the type, arrogant, cruel, a liar, a real bastard.
    Manny and Fran both look intensely in Bernards direction
    
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    February 19, 2022 4:13pm
Maggie Pie

A friend retweets….

Wellingtonians – this is the way!

https://twitter.com/JorgeBarrera/status/1494375401140981770

LOL!!!
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February 19, 2022 10:42am
Master Mariner

Well I wondered how long before this would happen.
https://gcaptain.com/felicity-ace-car-carrier-continues-to-burn-in-mid-atlantic/
“Lithium-ion batteries in the electric cars on board the vehicle carrier Felicity Ace have caught fire and the blaze requires specialist equipment to extinguish, captain Joao Mendes Cabecas of the port of Hortas said.”

The insurance premiums to transport EV will either go through the roof or be stopped from transportation by sea until either special ships are built or segregated as per IMDG code. ie Instead of 10 cars end to end possibly only one car can be transported,

And possibly another casualty, However not sure if any EV onboard but even with One EV on fire the Toxicity from smoke itself poses serious ability to control.

https://gcaptain.com/flames-engulf-grimaldi-ferry-euroferry-olympia/

Lithium Ion batteries are posing a serious problem for Insurers not too mention safety of shipping and crews.
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February 19, 2022 10:48am
- Master Mariner
  
  Further Information I missed.
  
  https://gcaptain.com/electric-vehicles-and-maritime-transportation-fire-hazards-identified/
  
  “In the event of a lithium ion battery catching fire, it is important to note that such a fire reaches very high temperatures, produces toxic gases and is inextinguishable.”
  
  Interesting to see what the Insurers say now.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:13am
  - Inthe09
    
    A 747 cargo flight out of Dubai crashed in 2010 as a result of fire from a large quantity of lithium-type batteries on the aircraft.
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:27pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Boeing 787 Aircraft also suffered from Lithium-Iron Battery fires and were grounded for several months. AFIK, the final solution was to replace these batteries with another type.
    https://simpleflying.com/boeing-787-battery-problems-overcome/
    Once again, Cindy and her subservient comrades (the Greens) are all knowledgable wrt EVs else they wouldn’t be offering Govt discounts on those purchased.
    
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    February 19, 2022 1:27pm
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      The batteries are still hi-spec lithium, but the manufacturing processes to prevent shorts were improved, and battery isolation and insulation to reduce the spread to other cells was better designed. The battery compartment was further isolated and vented so fire could not spread inside if it did occur. Obviously the changes they made were approved by the FAA. The 787 has two electrical generators per engine, and only one generator is necessary to maintain normal flight operations. Only independent ground starting is affected if the batteries are OOS.
      
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      February 19, 2022 2:01pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  just need to add high capacity sprinkler systems to the RORO ships so they can douse burning cars in a heap of water (it does work to suppress heat generated and stop fire spreading, even if it can’t stop the lithium fire) in an emergency.
  
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  February 19, 2022 12:55pm
  - Nickc2
    
    The ship still has to get rid of the water rapidly in order to stop it from slopping around in mass causing a possible capsize.
    
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    February 19, 2022 1:30pm
  - alloytoo
    
    Maybe store the cars in special ejection pods.
    
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    February 19, 2022 1:42pm
    - Nickc2
      
      All the Penguins and Hectus Dolphins will die from Lithium Poisoning. That’ll make the Greens join the protest eh?
      
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      February 19, 2022 2:27pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    You will then have massive free surface high up in the ship and she will capsize v quickly.
    
    This is what happened when the Normandie caught fire in NY during WW 2 and the Empress of Canada in Liverpool.
    
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    February 19, 2022 2:06pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      You don’t need 1000’s or even 100’s of tonnes of water, just an inconsequential (to stability) few 10’s of tonnes delivered over a few 10’s of minutes to keep the burning car well doused, a burning EV battery only has enough energy to evaporate about 1 tonne of water. It’s a challenge for a fire truck, but not a fixed installation on a ship.
      
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      February 19, 2022 3:25pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  My partner was saying there’ll be a few hundred Bentleys and Porsches going cheap later in the year. All ‘left-hookers’ unfortunately.
  
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  February 19, 2022 3:20pm
- cmm
  
  You can’t send them by air, you can’t send them by sea.
  
  Maybe that’s my Elon Musk is so interested in space?
  
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  February 19, 2022 4:29pm
Tony Stuart

A must-read piece today quoting Dr Bryan Betty, medical director of Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners:

It is time for a change in the mindset when it comes to Covid, says Dr Bryan Betty, who is medical director of Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.

Dr Betty told Checkpoint he has been supportive of the approach to Covid-19 but the situation in the pandemic had changed rapidly, and New Zealand’s stance should too.

“For the last two years we’ve dealt with Covid in the sense of Delta, which is a very dangerous disease, we’ve had an elimination strategy … and I think it’s built up quite a fear or anxiety in the community about Covid.

“However, in the last four to five weeks, the situation has changed dramatically with Omicron, which is not Delta – it’s much more like a common cold, flu-like illness. And I think we need to move into a space very rapidly of thinking we’re going to live with this and get back to some sort of normality.”

On Monday, the Ministry of Health issued a statement advising that of the 20,000 swabs taken in Auckland, about 80 to 90 percent of those who turned up didn’t need to.

As a result of the anxiety, asymptomatic people were showing up for testing, Dr Betty said.

“We don’t have the capacity to test those [asymptomatic people] at the moment, but it is a reflection of the anxiety that’s in the community at the moment, and I think we need to start to move away from this.”

Language in reports, like ‘healthcare emergencies’, was unhelpful in moving forward, he said.

“We need to be de-escalating this down to get into a position where most of us are just going to have a mild to moderate illness, that we’re going to get through like any respiratory illness in winter, and we need to be moving on, and perhaps the way we’re approaching it at the moment is causing more problems than good, and we may have reached a pivot point with that.”

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/02/covid-19-dr-bryan-betty-says-change-in-mindset-needed-with-omicron.html

Kudos to Dr Betty for speaking out like this. I wish him well today as he faces the inevitable torrent of abuse, innuendo and attacks on his integrity from those who won’t hear a word of criticism for the Government’s Omicron strategy.

Attack him all you like, but what Dr Bryan Betty is saying needed to be said, and needs to be acted upon, because he’s dead right.
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February 19, 2022 10:59am
- Cinematic
  
  The good Dr should have been saying this 18 months ago.
  
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  February 19, 2022 11:12am
  - RichardX
    
    Did you miss the bit where Dr Betty states “However, in the last four to five weeks, the situation has changed dramatically with Omicron, which is not Delta – it’s much more like a common cold, flu-like illness”
    
    Very difficult to make that comment 18 months ago.
    
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    February 19, 2022 12:35pm
    - Cinematic
      
      Yes after claiming Delta was the bogey monster, but the data shows it wasn’t so. So this same point could’ve been made 18 months ago. Comprehend?
      
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      February 19, 2022 1:26pm
      - RichardX
        
        You think the doctor is lying when they state in the last four to five weeks, the situation has changed dramatically?
        
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        February 19, 2022 7:59pm
    - cmm
      
      Even if you want to focus on just Omicron, the data has been solid since the the second week of December. That’s already 2 months ago.
      
      And the good doctor still fails to mention other ways yo boost immunity: Vit D, exercise etc etc.
      
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      February 19, 2022 4:31pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Shouldn’t say “I told you so.”………..but
  
  “I TOLD YOU SO.”
  
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  February 19, 2022 12:15pm
I remember when

Article in HB Today about Road Test by reporter on before and after new 80 kph limits.
“On Thursday night 91-octane at BP Bay View, last stop north, was 265.9 a litre, the next morning at Taupo’s last stop south, Z Energy, it was 282.9 cents per litre.
Now that, really, is where there should be a limit.”
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February 19, 2022 11:27am
TT500

It appears to me that the only person who has
not recognized the irrelevance of the child actor
Jack Tame , is himself
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February 19, 2022 11:40am
Prince

Mallard must go. Worst Speaker ever.
https://www.fsu.nz/mallard_must_go
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February 19, 2022 11:44am
- curry4me
  
  I saw this earlier, signed it, and put it on my FB page. Thanks for posting it again for those who might have missed it.
  
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  February 19, 2022 12:38pm
curry4me

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/02/18/here-comes-the-american-trucker-peoples-convoy-when-it-will-head-to-dc-what-you-should-know-1202616/

Here comes the American trucker ‘Peoples Convoy’… when it will head to DC, what you should know

As an American “People’s Convoy” takes shape following in the footsteps of Canadian truckers, a political action committee has partnered with truck convoys across the nation to travel to Washington, DC in protest of COVID mandates and overreach by the federal government.
The Great American Patriot Project sent out an email blast on Wednesday urging supporters to join, volunteer for, or donate to the American Truckers Freedom Fund. The email asserts the truckers “represent a movement of peaceful, non-violent Americans from all walks of life who are dissatisfied with the unscientific, unconstitutional government overreach in regards to mandates.”
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February 19, 2022 11:44am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sleepy Joes will use the National Guard to try and protect Washington DC.
  Remember Jan 6th, when Pelosi refused the offer form Trump to use the Nation Guard?
  Funny how it is different when the left do it
  
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  February 19, 2022 2:57pm
curry4me

I went to the Cranmer Square protest yesterday afternoon. There are about 30 tents and up to 100 people there.
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February 19, 2022 11:46am
- cjn
  
  Curry4me: I tried to make it today but no parking!!! Could someone give a Saturday report. The music sounded good and pavements busy.
  
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  February 19, 2022 5:36pm
  - curry4me
    
    There are more tents today, and someone donated portaloos.
    
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    February 19, 2022 7:31pm
curry4me

https://nypost.com/2022/02/17/amazon-suspends-black-lives-matter-from-its-charity-platform/

Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform.

The beleaguered Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been kicked off Amazon’s charity platform for its failure to disclose where tens of millions of dollars in donations it received nearly two years ago have ended up.
AmazonSmile, which gives a portion of eligible purchases on the online shopping site to charities, said it “had to temporarily suspend” the group today, an Amazon spokesperson told The Post.
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February 19, 2022 11:46am
TT500

I hope Mallard and his mini me Michael Wood
enjoy their final taxpayer funded jaunt,as they
sail down the River of Filth when the good people
of New Zealand (remember that country?)
Drain the Swamp.
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February 19, 2022 11:55am
Lee C

..and in Brazil…https://www.facebook.com/100001745334045/videos/4918646108195545
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February 19, 2022 11:55am
Maggie Pie

Driving home from the Indian Dairy earlier and heard Jack Tame on ZB.

Thought to myself…..Bloody hell, imagine living next door to somebody that’s right into f—-g Compost Heaps!

SHEESH
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February 19, 2022 12:07pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  I’ve got 3 compost bins, Maggie, in a row down the hill. Every year I empty the bottom one and tip the others down one bin. Works a treat on the kitchen and garden waste. The wekas get rid of the smelly stuff pronto too.
  
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  February 19, 2022 1:16pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Well, we’ve got 3 additional ‘WasteCare Bins’ that go out every week.
    And if that’s not sufficient, my partner will often drive over to Mt Roskill and dump any old food scraps in the Council bins.
    
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    February 19, 2022 1:42pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      I suspect that might be news to him. ?
      
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      February 19, 2022 3:37pm
- Gravelroad
  
  @MP-
  Yes, well I will agree that it must be unusual to live next door to someone that’s right into f..king compost heaps.
  But we are aware that people in Auckland do things a little differently to the rest of us.
  
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  February 19, 2022 2:19pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING….

I see on FOX……they’re reporting Ottawa’s ‘Chief-of-Police’ has resigned due to an onslaught of criticism of his handling of the Covid protests and the way it’s crippled the Capital.

Will we see Cuddles follow suit?
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February 19, 2022 1:13pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  When will Trudeau do the same?
  
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  February 19, 2022 1:17pm
  - curry4me
    
    there is a campaign for him to resign. Its done by the Canadian truckers. Only Canadians should use the e.mail address below. The Governor General of Canada says she needs 958,000 emails to remove Trudeau. The email address is info@gg.ca and the heading should be
    Non Confidence Vote and she is
    The Honourable Mary Simon. Then just say this is a Non Confidence Vote for Justin Trudeau.
    
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    February 19, 2022 7:33pm
- marcw
  
  Has he resigned for the reason you have given, or is it because he no longer wants to follow the government instructions – that he is no longer willing to carry out their illegal and unwarranted instructions?
  
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  February 19, 2022 1:25pm
Maggie Pie

THIS – LOL!!

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster is acting more like a concierge than a cop. Would the protesters like more parking? How about tickets to Wearable Arts?
They won’t need to ask him about Wellington on a Plate – he’s already handed them that.

Raybon Kan (NZ Chinese comedian)
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February 19, 2022 1:31pm
- Prince
  
  Kan isn’t a comedian.
  … [Deleted – not here please. mod.]
  When National is in power this can be quite cutting, speaking truth to power.
  When Labour is in power, he is just another vacuous toady.
  
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  February 19, 2022 6:39pm
TT500

Looks like this will be Costers last stand.

Mallard will now have to add , Police Commisioner
to his recently aquired position of Prime Minister.

Its all becoming a bit Idi Amin looking, how does it go?
oh thats right . Its an operational matter for the police
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February 19, 2022 1:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Is this where the Labour Govt wants to do? Police arresting peaceful protesters. Barricades to stop visitors from helping the protesters?
https://ourpatriot.com/candian-police-arrest-two-organizers-of-freedom-convoy/?
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February 19, 2022 2:26pm
TT500

It seems evident that amongst the many failings of cabinet minister Michael Wood, can be added his very poor knowledge of New Zealand geography.
His claim that under the under the eleven day old Freedom Village, lies a River of Filth he omits that the river passes under the Parliamentry Precinct, a location he and his fellow travellers have occupied long before the recent visit of the good, honest, law- abiding, hardworking, taxpaying , voting people of New Zealand
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February 19, 2022 2:45pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Seems like Canada has their own Trevor Mallard, running cover for the Prime Minister.
Take note Jaspinda, this is coming to you. You will have to do some explaining soon – without lying.
https://rumble.com/vv3sq3-trudeau-demolished-and-humiliated-in-person-by-conservative-leader-in-parli.html?
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February 19, 2022 3:26pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The Lock Her Up Game Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb7ILz4gFyw
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February 19, 2022 3:47pm
Maggie Pie

Anyone honestly believe that Biden would allow Putin to invade Ukraine?

Asking for our Cleaner.
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February 19, 2022 4:13pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Biden wants Ukraine invaded so the US can get involved.
  Joe Biden and Hunter Biden have ‘unfinished business’ in Ukraine. They need to silence a few – like Hillary does
  
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  February 19, 2022 4:30pm
  - Mike
    
    Put down the bottle, Steve.
    
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    February 19, 2022 4:43pm
- greybeard
  
  Anyone honestly believe that Biden can prevent Putin invading the Ukraine?
  
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  February 19, 2022 6:15pm
Biscuit

I’m grateful I never won me any Olympic Games gold medals…

Picture it. Me, cute as, flashing my pearly whites at the cameras. And, back home, my Mum – never a Sports fan – ‘doing a Mallard’ on the assembled media with the garden hose and yelling ‘P*ss off, you lot, I’m trying to catch ‘Coro’ here…’
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February 19, 2022 4:31pm
Biscuit

Can your average citizen make a Missing Person report to the Police?
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February 19, 2022 4:32pm
greybeard

Do Doubles partners have anything to do with threesomes?
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February 19, 2022 4:35pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  New Balls?
  
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  February 19, 2022 5:07pm
Maggie Pie

Something from the Twitter archives….

As relevant today as it was then 😀 😀 😀

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1494115268146171906
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February 19, 2022 5:03pm
Pineapple Lumps

Key messages from the Parliament grounds today:
This is a protest not a party
No drugs or alcohol allowed – need to be present at all times
No behaviour that the legacy media can use to create anti-protest propaganda
All chalk writing on cenotaph to be removed, want to show respect to our vets and war hero’s
We are staying until the mandates are gone – this from Mothers that have left their families to be here to fight for their children

Mallard and the poor police actions last week have cemented the cause in place. The resistance is strong.

I think Jacinda has a bigger battle on her hands than she knows.
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February 19, 2022 5:06pm
Yvette

Covid-19 PCR tests: Auckland results taking up to five days to process

So, since it has always been implied the daily case numbers are from the tests 9am the day before to 9am the day they are announced, can each days score now actually be up four days behind where the virus has really spread?
So, four days behind in delivery
Late, like the Ardern Government is in everything else
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February 19, 2022 5:16pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  I thought we were promised surge testing capacity of up to 60,000 tests per day…
  
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  February 19, 2022 5:40pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Capacity reduces once more than 5% are testing positive because group negatives no longer deal to most of them.
    
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    February 19, 2022 7:26pm
Shunda barunda

Margot Stuffington, upper class resident of Wellington gives her opinion on the protests :p
https://youtu.be/_Vr62Ds4pnk
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February 19, 2022 5:37pm
- Don Beckett
  
  What a dag. Obviously transgender //
  Hillarious, but probably very close to the mark.
  
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  February 19, 2022 5:47pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    What a piss take!! Sums it all up
    
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    February 19, 2022 7:08pm
NZer In Exile

Breaking bombshell. The show’s over clowns!

Bill Gates: “Sadly the virus itself particularly the variant called Omicron is a type of vaccine, creates both B cell and T cell immunity and it’s done better job of getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines…”

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1494769981581627398

No doubt the trolls under the bridge will try to bury/massage this but it’s already copied on the woke-proof platforms (so eat poop, big tech and your woke sycophants) 🙂
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February 19, 2022 5:39pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  “Sadly”. Sums it up really.
  
  My choice of word would be “Joyfully “.
  
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  February 19, 2022 7:49pm
Its only I

Congrats to the protesters placing placards in front of the Labour party media teams live camera.
The stuff staff could not find a shot that didn’t have something in view.

While doing some maintenance on the local hall I got a cup of tea and a chat with a few of the locals. It seems that half the local Jacinda fan club has decided (their own words) the PM is a nice girl but probably not really suited to this type of work.
They are surprisingly large group of older women meeting to chat, do scrapbook stuff and knit things..mostly chat and eat some fine cake.
After a bit of chat they collectively that gave the PM the little granny pat on the head with the “awe you tried your best love” with a long list of alternative things a we girl like her could do.

Its a small start, bit of a laugh but not the biggest supporter demographic unfortunately.
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February 19, 2022 5:59pm
westernScientest

So first: Wow No way, this could not possibly have been seen coming:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/127827608/covid19-labs-call-for-rethink-on-pcr-tests-as-swabs-threaten-to-overwhelm-system
Now apparently the labs can only cope with 25000 tests a day.

Second, I wish Seymour would get off the fence, now he is going to accept the partition from the protest to end the mandates:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/127828513/protest-concert-at-parliament-causing-serious-concerns-for-police
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February 19, 2022 7:50pm
krazykiwi

Felicity Ace. It’s a car carrier ship that cruises by my window every six weeks or so. Not any more. With 4000 vehicles aboard, including 1100 Porsches and 189 Bentleys it is on fire and adrift near the Azores. The crew have been rescued.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/18/shipping-news/
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February 19, 2022 9:18pm
wilderbeast

Anyone else noticed how the same media outlets that use brown people for all sorts of “virtuous” reasons in the usual course of events is now using rough looking brown people to run down the image of the protest? And they lecture us on institutionalised racism….
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