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mikenmildagain

Happy World Voice Day!
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April 16, 2022 8:05am
- RalphT
  
  Speak up, I can’t hear you.
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:20am
Pongo

Imagine if Trump went to shake hands with thin air then got lost, claimed he was a professor at a university and thought Melania was vice president.
This all happened to Biden this week as his approval rating sits at 33%. When he gets retired out for declining mental health in the next few months and the even more unpopular and unbelievably less articulate Harris takes over it will be interesting to see the media coverage.
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April 16, 2022 8:14am
- Mike
  
  Imagine if the hapless US voters get the choice again in 2024 between doddering imbecile Trump and doddering imbecile Biden.
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:37am
  - leoj
    
    The difference being that if you lived in USA you’d vote for Biden.
    
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    April 16, 2022 1:45pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Used to drive an 18 wheeler too you know.
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:01am
- Gravelroad
  
  No, no Pongo.
  Trump is just plain baaaaad.
  And orange.
  And I’m sure Mr Biden isn’t a “womaniser” like past Democratic President John F. Kennedy. nor does he hang out with the mafia as JFK was alleged to have done.
  So you see, Biden is just an old fashioned guy and a wholesome president – and grey.
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:10am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

We need to start worrying what kind of World we are going to leave for Keith Richards
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April 16, 2022 8:15am
- Sacha
  
  Yes, I’m worried for Keith, too.
  How can I help?
  
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  April 16, 2022 8:32am
- Simon
  
  Two worlds now. One the woke bed wetter West run by the worst collection of clowns possible. The other world Russia/China/ India economic mix.
  
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  April 16, 2022 8:50am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Cockroach Keith !
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:09am
- blue collar
  
  It’s a fact he’s going to outlive all of us … we must consider his needs and wants
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:49am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Not to worry, the Queen will see him through
  
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  April 16, 2022 11:03am
I remember when

NZ Windfarms is planning to replace its 92 twin-bladed turbines each 35 metres tall, with three-bladed turbines standing up to four times the height.
Apparently the Covid-19 recovery legislation allows them to apply to fast-track consents.
It would be an environment disaster if it wasn’t ‘Green.’
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April 16, 2022 8:22am
- Master Mariner
  
  Great, Ill be watching how they will recycle the old blades,
  Maybe ask for a Grant to make Bitumen and recycle.
  Im sure there will be a few with their hands out.//
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:25am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Blade are just buried.
    https://stopthesethings.com/2020/05/13/the-big-cover-up-wind-industry-burying-millions-of-toxic-turbine-blades-in-landfills/
    
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    April 16, 2022 12:29pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Are the operators required to report bird strike counts?
  
  Certainly can’t see anyone starting a native bird sanctuary within cooee of Palmerston North.
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:34am
  - artemisia
    
    There is a virtue signalling turbine in Wellington. Just the one. It has been broken for months, and not for the first time, due to weather. Only a few hundred million $$$ involved though.//
    
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    April 16, 2022 10:50am
    - Nickc2
      
      If it wasn’t for subsidies, we wouldn’t have these effin things!
      
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      April 16, 2022 12:12pm
      - Hebe123
        
        Actually they are not subsidised in NZ. We are the “Saudi Arabia of wind” so these are economic in their own right.
        
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        April 17, 2022 9:24am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      It’s not that big – been up there. I guess you mean Mt Victoria? If so, then yes it is all theatre
      
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      April 16, 2022 2:29pm
      - artemisia
        
        Brooklyn Hill.
        
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        April 16, 2022 3:31pm
- Bridgenag
  
  Where are they getting rid of the old blades……..
  
  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:46am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Blades made from fiberglass. How is the resin made? Hint, it comes from that stuff the left hate
    
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    April 16, 2022 2:41pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Should add: It came out of the ground so it can go back into the ground
      
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      April 16, 2022 2:42pm
- virtualmark
  
  The old Windflow Technologies two-bladed turbines have never delivered on their expected potential. And they are only 500kW each, which is too small and inefficient today. So replacing them with modern multi-MW class turbines is a sensible decision.
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:08am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    The ones up at Waipipi in South Taranaki are an impressive site, and they’ve become a feature of the landscape. In the right weather conditions, you can see them from Whanganui. The west coast of the North Island certainly gets its share of wind, and quite a few other areas’ shares as well, so it makes sense to harness it.
    
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    April 16, 2022 12:34pm
    - CJames
      
      When you look at the generation data from the Waipipi windmills, there are a lot of times they are running at less than 5% load. This is no different to the other windfarms.
      When the wind drops a little lower than that, they often suck power from the grid to keep them turning to stop false brineeling of the faces. So just because they are turning doesn’t mean they are doing any good.
      
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      April 16, 2022 1:03pm
  - alloytoo
    
    A sensible decision would be to replace them with Modular Nuclear Reactors.
    
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    April 16, 2022 1:06pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      That N word makes some people go all funny
      
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      April 16, 2022 2:43pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    The only sensible thing to do with these monstrously inefficient white elephants is to dismantle them and fill in the holes. They generate very little of value, mince rare and native birds like there’s no tomorrow, and rely on government subsidies to make their owners rich and the rest of us marginally poorer.
    
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    April 16, 2022 1:51pm
    - Hebe123
      
      That’s a myth. Wind farms are not built in migratory paths and very few birds are actually killed.
      
      It did happen in the early days in California though.
      
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      April 17, 2022 9:26am
- leoj
  
  Environmentalist advocates for nuclear power.
  Cleaner than any other source and by far the most efficient.
  A Greenie, no less!
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-yALPEpV4w
  
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  April 16, 2022 1:50pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That was well worth watching, thanks. At first he was all over the place – too many things at once. But then explained each of those ideas.
    Now if only the rabid Greens in NZ could watch this and comprehend it.
    Nuclear NZ would be a good thing for NZ, but it will take 2 or 3 generations to get the propaganda out of their heads. Protesters wearing gas masks etc. Those masks do not stop radiation, but they instil FEAR!
    What do we do with the nuclear waste? Go watch the video again. The waste is not the size of an Antonov an-225 Mriya, did you see the rubik cube?
    
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    April 16, 2022 3:14pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Put it all in a big rocket aimed at the sun
      
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      April 16, 2022 5:55pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

US Govt trying to stop Elon Musk taking over Twitter.
What could the Democrats be possibly scared of?
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April 16, 2022 8:37am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Why Democrats don’t want Musk to purchase Twitter.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-0oc5heZE
  
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  April 16, 2022 8:46am
- Simon
  
  Musk taking over Twitter looks like a sound business decision. Go woke go broke. If can reverse this can make a fortune. Musk sold EV shit to woke green government and the cattle. Its just business.
  
  Dems (and GOPe) and Big Tech are combined. Dems have promised Big Tech banking when currency goes full digital and will run when everyone has a social credit rating. Big Tech will run all this for government when they go full on micro managing us all.
  
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  April 16, 2022 8:46am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Musk seems to have gone from woke to top bloke when he moved Tesla out of California
    
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    April 16, 2022 9:15am
  - mawm
    
    Simon – How does Twitter monetise its platform? There’s no advertising? The more people who use it, the more hardware needed – and it needs a lot because of the nature of having instant updates on threads each with thousands following simultaneously. There are well known bloggers alleging that the platform is built on government servers and networks. Does this mean that the intelligence network is behind it and this is what they are trying to hide? I’m sure Musk knows and he’s playing a long game.
    
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    April 16, 2022 12:02pm
- Philview
  
  I just read a good article on it at Spiked-Online. The 1984 logic that free speech is fascism per the Democrats. Jacinda thinks the same way, her claim that the Government needs to fund the media to promote free speech against right wing ideology.
  
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  April 16, 2022 8:47am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  That’s like our idiotic government taking over bitumen imports, what could possibly go wrong.
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:11am
- MCōs
  
  Are you saying anyone whatsoever should be able to take over Twitter?
  Or just someone you approve of?
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:15am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    It’s a publicly listed company, why should Twitter be any different to any other publicly floated company?
    
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    April 16, 2022 12:39pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Or someone you approve of MCos?
    
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    April 16, 2022 3:31pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Tucker Carson on Musk/Twitter. All part of draining the swamp, dems are shaking in their boots.
  https://rumble.com/v113gyp-the-left-is-panicking-about-elon-musks-potential-twitter-takeover.html?
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:20am
  - Master Mariner
    
    With out really knowing or following, I would’nt be surprised he dumps his Twitter shares for profit.
    Similar to his manipulation of Bitcoin amongst others.
    
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    April 16, 2022 9:35am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      If he dumps his Twitter shares, Twitter will implode. Get your popcorn
      
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      April 16, 2022 10:49am
    - Pavel
      
      He is offering $54.20 per share. 420?
      
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      April 16, 2022 10:57am
    - leoj
      
      Correct. You don’t know.
      Best not comment.
      Musk has the leftie snowflakes looking for safe spaces.
      Twitter, meanwhile is worried that THEIR version of free speech is NO free speech.
      
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      April 16, 2022 1:54pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Safe places LOL.
        Oma rapeti, oma rapeti, oma oma oma
        
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        April 16, 2022 3:33pm
      - artemisia
        
        And that’s just the triggered employees.
        
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        April 16, 2022 3:50pm
- virtualmark
  
  Where is the US Govt trying to stop Musk take over Twitter? Specifically please.
  
  The *board of Twitter* is trying to stop Musk take over Twitter. The largest shareholder, the famously liberal Saudis, has publicly said they do not support Musk taking over Twitter.
  
  You guys spend all your time stoking your anger and outrage, and not enough time reading and thinking.
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:10am
  - Master Mariner
    
    UAE Leader is largest shareholder I believe . Different to Saudis.
    
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    April 16, 2022 11:10am
  - Vory v zakone
    
    ‘You guys’ lol
    
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    April 16, 2022 12:13pm
- PeeJay
  
  I’m struggling to keep up with the contortionists on kiwiblog over whether Musk is a goodie or baddie.
  
  When selling electric cars (ie green so woke) he seemed to be a baddie on this blog – seem to recall lots of outrage over dodgy business practices, inability to deliver, massive use of subsidies to make tesla viable. Then something changed, still not quite sure what changed, and he is now seen as some kind of goodie sticking it to the man, despite still selling electric cars…….and very much being, erm, well the man.
  
  This is despite him clearly using his profile to make some cash on pretty blatant ‘pump and dump’ trades. Suspect if he’d done this while still being considered ‘woke’ it would be bad, but as he seems to now be viewed positively on this blog, that activity all seems to be ok.
  
  Seems pretty clear that he is a massive tool. A super rich tool, but a tool nonetheless.
  
  Seems to me that the positive view seems to be formed because a billionaire who has notoriously thin skin for criticism is somehow going to emerge as a defender of free speech by reforming twitter?
  
  Yep. Sure that will work out well. What could possibly go wrong.
  
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  April 16, 2022 11:39am
  - curry4me
    
    Funnily, enough, Elon Musk can be good, and bad. Sometimes on the same day.
    
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    April 16, 2022 12:49pm
  - artemisia
    
    Reckon Elon Musk is a chap with principles and a big brain. Disagree with his principles (and actions) – no problem. Can’t argue with the big brain though. And not a bad idea to try to see his principles and actions from that big brain POV.
    
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    April 16, 2022 2:07pm
  - Media hater
    
    Just out of morbid curiosity, when was he considered to be ‘woke’ and by whom? I have never heard anyone label him as woke or ‘woke’ as you prefer, other than your reference above.
    
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    April 16, 2022 5:01pm
- Vory v zakone
  
  Meanwhile this from one of the Democrat Party’s mouthpieces…
  
  BUSINESS INSIDER
  ‘Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post buy marks a fascinating cultural transition in America’
  
  8:59 PM 8/5/13
  
  Also from BUSINESS INSIDER
  ‘Elon Musk’s attempt to buy Twitter represents a chilling new threat: billionaire trolls taking over social media’
  
  12:22 PM 4/14/22
  
  😆😄😂
  
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  April 16, 2022 12:34pm
- Vory v zakone
  
  And BIG TECH company, Vanguard Group is now the largest Shareholder in Twitter stock…
  
  https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/elon-musk-twitter/card/elon-musk-is-no-longer-twitter-s-largest-shareholder-BNwzaP8JDQLlUc6yAJBb
  
  *an investor in Big Tech companies
  
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  April 16, 2022 12:39pm
  - kevn
    
    Like Blackrock, they smell money.
    
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    April 16, 2022 3:13pm
    - Vory v zakone
      
      The Authority @The_Authority tweets
      
      ‘Elon could be rejected and he could turn around and say F Twitter “blah blah blah” Elon gets banned – Public is outraged.
      
      Elon could then dump his Twitter shares Twitter plummets.
      
      Vanguard would be stuck on a sinking ship
      
      Twitter would then be known for defending censorship and lose a tremendous amount of value and respect for banning the man trying to free Twitter.
      
      The optics are amazing.’
      
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      April 16, 2022 8:09pm
Matt Long

https://youtu.be/RFLJwEY2_Lw
The Tuttle Twins books introduce children to basic concepts of economics and good laws and are something of an antidote to the state school woke agenda.
CNN call the Tuttle Twins indoctrination, so you can’t get a better recommendation than that.
I found yesterday five of the books are available as cartoons on YouTube, my kids love them and have watched them back to back.
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April 16, 2022 8:53am
- Rodney Hide
  
  The tuttle twins are great. My daughter made her teacher’s head explode explaining why banning clothes made by kids would only hurt the kids!
  
  Rodney Hide
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:22am
  - Mike
    
    It is indeed important not to restrict children’s fundamental rights to accept gainful employment.
    
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    April 16, 2022 9:43am
  - Matt Long
    
    It was on your recommendation I got the books, thanks Rodney.
    
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    April 16, 2022 9:52am
- RockyJ
  
  Brilliant! Thank you. I will be watching with my grandson and will spread this far and wide.
  We need a NZ version
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:55am
cas

After reading yesterday’s Herald articles by Steven Joyce and Ian Taylor, why don’t we have a Govt where Steven manages it and Ian gets things done?
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April 16, 2022 9:05am
- Nickc2
  
  Too easy! However, one of them would have to declare they are Maori or Transgender, preferably both to get the woke fraternity to accept the change.
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:21am
  - oldfella
    
    Ian Taylor IS Maori, so halfway (or a percentage) to qualifying.
    
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    April 16, 2022 10:53am
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      Is Ian Taylor a real Maori though – or just a pretend one like Simon Bridges and Paula Bennett?
      
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      April 16, 2022 11:34am
      - greybeard
        
        Someone identifies as a maori.
        This suggests to me that they are therefore at least 50% maori blood.
        For someone to be at least 50% maori blood, one of their parents must be a full-blooded maori.
        Are there any full-blooded maori in NZ ?
        To be a full-blooded maori now means that there must have been nobody other than full-blooded maori in the whole family tree.
        Ever.
        As soon as some other race is introduced into the family tree the dilution begins.
        Common sense dictates that if the percentage of maori blood is less than that of other races then you are “another race”, not a “maori”.
        Of course common sense is not as profitable.
        
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        April 16, 2022 5:27pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        For someone to be at least 50% maori blood, one of their parents must be a full-blooded maori.
        
        Not so..
        
        50% Maori X 50% Maori will produce offspring who have 50% Maori Genes (in other words 2 of their grandparents will be full Maori – 1 paternal, 1 maternal)
        
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        April 16, 2022 6:49pm
  - DeepBlue
    
    Sir Ian “Born in Kaeo to a Pākehā father and Māori mother, (of Ngāti Kahungunu and Nga Puhi descent) he grew up in Raupunga and went to a Catholic boarding school in Masterton. Taylor joined the band The Kal-Q-Lated Risk in c. 1967 as lead singer, and later graduated with a LLB degree from the University of Otago.”
    
    He’s putting his LLB to good use.
    
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    April 16, 2022 11:15am
    - Nickc2
      
      Wow, the Maori Caucus won’t like that, a successful Maori who didn’t require Govt handouts or assistance.
      FWIW, there are a great number of such people in NZ. I have worked with many of them.
      
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      April 16, 2022 12:00pm
    - Tony Stuart
      
      He’s doing some amazing work. A friend had a tour of the Dunedin facility recently when PGA Tour golf was on, and saw the way they apply the tracking technology to a real-time broadcast coming in from the States. It’s absolutely brilliant technology, and the fact that they can do it from New Zealand to anywhere in the world is just a little bit mind-blowing.
      
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      April 16, 2022 12:41pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Exactly! Perhaps we could ask him to jam/decieve Russian Missile’s targeting systems going into Ukraine? Every little bit helps eh?
        
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        April 16, 2022 2:02pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Too right! Joyce is bang on the money with this analysis:
  
  It is very easy to fall down a rabbit hole trying to work out what this Government really thinks. They have become very adept at bare-faced assertions that black is white, way in excess of other recent governments. The best way to determine what they actually believe is to examine their actions.
  
  A government facing the risk of uncontrolled inflation and a hard economic landing seriously would take two pretty simple but important immediate steps. They would limit their own contribution to price inflation by controlling their expenditure, particularly their operating spending, and they would use policy changes to limit the risk of further wage inflation (that is, wage increases without accompanying productivity increases).
  
  There is an opportunity to take the first step immediately. The Government’s 2022 Budget is being handed down in a month’s time on May 19. Grant Robertson has previously signalled a whopping $6 billion in extra annual spending in this year’s Budget, which is truly “fuel on the fire” territory. He should call a press conference next week and say that, in light of the inflationary situation, he is cutting that right back to something much more normal. Inflationary expectations would reduce overnight.
  
  The second step is also easily within the Government’s grasp, although perhaps not their ideology. They should immediately reverse their increasingly restrictive labour market policies which are excessively constraining labour supply and fuelling wage inflation.
  
  Their attempts to micro-manage our labour supply have become laughable anyway. In the past week they have announced absurdly specific levels of migrant workers in politically-favoured industries that have proven adept enough at whispering in the relevant minister’s ear. We are apparently to be allowed to import 275 skifield workers, 500 meat processing workers, 300 forestry workers and 280 people who work in wood processing. Never mind the command economy overtones and that previous attempts to import specific numbers of teachers and ICU nurses fell flat.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/steven-joyce-alarm-bells-are-ringing-but-whos-listening/LE2GZPAC2CG7F2XB6LULYW2H6I/
  
  Somehow, I doubt Robertson will curtail his spending plans. His willingness to throw money around is like a sugar rush, and he has become addicted to it.
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:33am
  - Nickc2
    
    I’m with you on most things you are saying Tony. However, I do have one major problem. Who is the largest employer in the country? If you say the Govt, you’d be correct IMO. Now tell me, how the fuck do Govt employees increase productivity without doing themselves out of a job?
    
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    April 16, 2022 9:47am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      That’s a very good question, and probably explains why public service numbers oscillate between National and Labour governments. The Clark government increased PS numbers massively, hiding unemployment. Under Ardern, they have again increased.
      
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      April 16, 2022 12:43pm
  - kowtow
    
    Unbelievably in the same paper compare and contrast to the FRan O’Sullivan hit job on Luxon’s week which is then concluded with a hagiography of Ardern……
    
    …..who is ” recovering her own political sangfroid and is off on a series of brand enhancing visits leading business missions ” ( that of the business assassin)
    
    she’s ” taking on the mantle of a ‘wartime leader’ ” ( no shit , O’Sullivan actually said that )
    
    and to the point of Joyce’s article;
    
    she said …..”the economy is hitting some judder bars ” . Judder bars ! It’s hit a wall .
    
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    April 16, 2022 10:36am
Truman lodge

I see house prices are finally falling. During covid House prices went up 40 percent with no population gain and a shut down economy due to supply. However the last 2 years supply has ramped up causing prices to fall due to supply. A massive house price drop won’t cause a recession if its due to supply. It only will cause a recession if house price drops are due to banks making it harder to access credit. But credit has zero to do with house prices. Leverage has zero to do with house prices. Its all and only about supply. Because supply is causing prices to fall there will be no recession or drop in unemployment due to supply. Phew great news.

Just think if population gain has continued during covid house prices would have doubled. But thanks to supply they have dropped. Just like gala apples become cheap in April… Due to supply.
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April 16, 2022 9:28am
- greybeard
  
  Where I live there has been a lot of new house building for years, but most involve demolition of existing modest dwellings ( beach houses ) and their replacement with large expensive homes.
  I suspect that a lot of these are family-owned properties, passed-down and now ripe for redevelopment.
  So “new builds” are not always for new owners.
  
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  April 16, 2022 5:31pm
  - Truman lodge
    
    Yes they are
    
    It’s all about supply. Like apples and laptops. Crashing house prices won’t cause a recession if its backed by supply. But if the economy crashes due to house price drops its because of bank credit drying up. Luckily house prices are dropping due to supply so no recession will occur.
    
    TUI anyone?
    
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    April 16, 2022 5:53pm
- Sean OConnor
  
  You’re completely ignoring interest rates. Do you think people don’t factor them in when deciding how much they’ll offer?
  
  Easy credit led to an asset boom/bubble, as it very often does.
  
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  April 16, 2022 5:42pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Labour nationalises the local bitumen market.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/128368393/what-does-waka-kotahi-know-about-the-bitumen-market-we-should-be-worried

NZTA is a failure case study in the ‘a good manager can manage anything without having subject matter expertise’. Just one of the leadership team has much time at NZTA; none have industry experience.

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/about-us/about-waka-kotahi-nz-transport-agency/our-executive-leadership-team/
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April 16, 2022 9:29am
Maggy Wassilieff

Earlier in the week the MSM tried to make a big deal of Dr Reti “interfering” in the Australian elections by making the dead obvious observations that NZ nurses would be heading for Australian jobs.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/04/christopher-luxon-can-t-comment-on-whether-dr-shane-reti-should-be-commenting-on-australian-election-policy.html

Last night on TV One News, Andrew Little made the same observation..

A key element of Albanese’s campaign is a promise to boost the number of nurses in aged care facilities, but the New Zealand National party has expressed concerns worries they will end up being taken from Aotearoa.

Health Minister Andrew Little said on Friday that “nurses have been advocating for some time that if we don’t make a significant shift in nurse remuneration, we risk in losing nurses to countries that can and do pay more”.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/04/15/kiwis-urged-to-follow-australian-election-closely/

I wonder if the MSM will go running to the PM and demand to know what she thinks of her Health Minister making comments pertaining to Australian’s election.
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April 16, 2022 9:43am
- Nickc2
  
  Perhaps that’s why the Govt is holding back on Nurse’s back-pay. The nurses won’t emigrate until this money’s in their bank accounts here because they will have difficulty fighting for it from Aust.
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:55am
  - DeepBlue
    
    It seems the backpay payment may have been what was keeping nurses here. If it is cancelled they fly, once it is paid they will probably fly.
    
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    April 16, 2022 11:19am
    - Nickc2
      
      Honestly, ya can’t blame em! Lies and promises, and nothing happens eh?
      Is there any truth in the rumour Bloomfield’s on his way to the WHO? IMO, he could do a lot worse, he could have Robertson as his personal accountant and Phil Twyford writing prescriptions.
      
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      April 16, 2022 11:52am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Lies and promises? What lies and promises?
        Nah nah nah, don’t want the whole blog filled with examples …..
        
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        April 16, 2022 3:39pm
  - artemisia
    
    Mr Little said there is no money in the kitty for more for nurses.
    
    Meanwhile nurses who worked through the last couple of years, even extra shifts, and watched some of their colleagues fired because of mandates, might have noticed billions sprayed about, quite a bit of it wasted.
    
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    April 16, 2022 3:35pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Yes, just imagine how much money there would be to support Health Services if we hadn’t spent it promoting separatist concepts and co-governance initiatives.
      
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      April 16, 2022 8:19pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I think Reti actually mentioned it as Labour Party policy, where as Little said the Aussie government, not sure if that makes too much difference, but it probably is different
  
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  April 16, 2022 12:42pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Na, it’s not different.
    
    No-one in Oz gives a stuffy-poo what NZ politicians say about their election policies.
    
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    April 16, 2022 2:29pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Reti mentioned their Labour Party and stated it was their policy, Little said the Aussie government want this, he never said it was policy of one of the parties in the election
      
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      April 16, 2022 9:22pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Remember Chris Hipkins interfering in Australian politics in 2017?
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95793008/labour-accused-of-interfering-in-australian-politics
  
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  April 16, 2022 12:45pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yes, he tried to shaft the deputy pm in Aussie, that as disgusting, and as usual Ardern failed to sack a scum
    
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    April 16, 2022 9:23pm
Maggie Pie

Another Poll due ?

Time to roll out…..GRANDMA!! 😀

https://twitter.com/mrsrosieb/status/1514813057754533892
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April 16, 2022 9:45am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  This, from a person that has kept families apart for 2+ years.
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:00am
- Nickc2
  
  I wonder if her Granny kept a record of tax paid due that little shop’s trading habits?
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:06am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Sssssh, don’t ask questions like that
    
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    April 16, 2022 10:57am
- kevn
  
  @Maggie…. Shameless.
  NZ as it used to be, pre labour.
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:14am
- Pongo
  
  Quite a nice story, industrious entrepreneurial family but no mention if Grandma declared the taxable income from the “honesty” box.
  I just see her as big hearted, small brained and with not much of a work ethic or ambition.
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:23am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Who? Grandma or St Jacinda?
    I agree with some of the commenters: this is just a PR stunt suggested and ghost written by some of the many Labour Party media hacks.
    It’s using people and trying to capitalise on memories for political purposes.
    Cynical really.
    
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    April 16, 2022 10:48am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      After re reading the Twit comments, it is ghost written imo.
      Shit, I wish someone would write about how good I am – other than myself LOL LOL LOL.
      Can I get a desk job in the bee’s nest, to think up this stuff? I can work from home, seeing as I am now fully retired.
      Money is going out like confetti, I want some.
      
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      April 16, 2022 3:54pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    If those not paying did actually pay, then Tax would be paid. But the loss of product means the Tax on the honest payers is offset by the loss Tax that was not payed – or something.
    How’s that for word soup waffle? 🙂
    
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    April 16, 2022 11:02am
    - kevn
      
      In the books, this’ loss’ would written off as shoplifting/theft. Keep the money though.
      
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      April 16, 2022 1:53pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        You got it.
        Sorry about the waffle, I expected plenty of comments from the leftie trolls on here. They seem to know when they get trolled – wonder why?
        
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        April 16, 2022 4:00pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  How bloody sickening
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:57am
- kowtow
  
  I see she referred to this ‘weekend’ , couldn’t bring herself to reference “Easter” ?
  
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  April 16, 2022 11:11am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Or Passover, or Ramadan.
    https://www.dw.com/en/passover-easter-ramadan-2022-fall-simultaneously/a-61478935
    
    But perhaps she is waiting for next weekend to wish our Orthodox Brethren Καλό Πάσχα, С Пасхой.
    
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    April 16, 2022 2:40pm
    - curry4me
      
      Is that Happy Easter in Russian?
      
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      April 16, 2022 6:00pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Greek and Russian – for Happy Easter.
        
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        April 16, 2022 8:27pm
Matt Long

Most transparent Government ever wants to gag everyone. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/04/mayors-lawyer-up-over-surprise-contract-clause-banning-them-from-criticising-three-waters.html?fbclid=IwAR2lqLBiXiUh4f6qqdoLzXV1dnIhCAE3tZmtRw9gtNEHe-2jYJn8zemWYLk
Councils are reported to be taking the same approach with community engagement committees. More tweaking of democracy.
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April 16, 2022 10:01am
- Yvette
  
  Matt Long, do you refer to –
  Secret council proposal to sell 10 reserves for housing revealed
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/465361/secret-council-proposal-to-sell-10-reserves-for-housing-revealed
  
  – and among the detritus, this –
  “[Kāinga Ora is] now actively engaged with [the] council and have tagged five of the 10 reserves and created plans for each of the reserves. Minister has also put in the request to [the] council to stand up and be part of the solution – use reserves for public housing.”
  
  – perhaps “the Minister” also, being of the Most transparent Government ever wants to gag everyone. told the Rotorua Council “And, do it quietly”
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:18am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Three cheers for the Labour government; hyp, hyp, hypocrisy!
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:29am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

A poll of French voters shows 55% want to see a return of the Death Penalty.
When elected, Marie Le Penn has vowed to put it to a referendum.

https://mol.im/a/1071811

It’s like everyone we speak to……people have realised that kindness and political correctness doesn’t keep you safe at night.

Just saying.
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April 16, 2022 10:11am
- kowtow
  
  I suspect in many western countries the abolition of the death penalty was done at the behest of the left leaning political establishment ( be that politicians , academics , the Media pardy ,churches , trades unions , student unions etc) and that was done generally in the face of an appetite for real justice from the general public , who don’t want their lives or society ruined by crime.
  
  In the case of France , it would be a de facto if not de jure Frexit cos the EU specifically bans the death penalty for its member states .
  
  Mass abortion is ok though . Strange values.
  
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  April 16, 2022 10:56am
  - virtualmark
    
    In most western countries the death penalty is controversial because Christian beliefs say that every life is valuable, and they stress forgiveness for sins/crimes.
    
    Both sides of the political landscape then twist themselves up about those principles. The left is okay with abortion, but not with the death penalty. The right is against abortion, but happy with the death penalty. Neither stance is consistent.
    
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    April 16, 2022 2:36pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Orthodox Christian belief is that the innocent should be protected and that the guilty should receive proportionate justice according to their crime.
      Divine forgiveness and vicarious sacrifice does not displace community order, though the victims of crime may choose to forgive and ask that the guilty do not bear the full punishment for their crimes.
      
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      April 16, 2022 3:41pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Orthodox Christian teaching on the death penalty starts with John 8:1-12. https://www.biblestudytools.com/john/8.html
        
        Personally I would like to know what it was he wrote on the ground.
        
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        April 16, 2022 9:35pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      I don’t support the death penalty primarily because I do not trust the state to justly discharge its monopolistic right to violence. I also believe every life is precious, no matter if it is a nasty adult human or innocent pre-born human. I’m comfortable that my stance is consistent.
      
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      April 16, 2022 3:49pm
      - curry4me
        
        I have the same opinion. And states sometimes develop an appetite for killing citizens. LWOP is fine though.
        
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        April 16, 2022 6:01pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Too many miscarriages of justice for me to support the death penalty.
      
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      April 16, 2022 6:02pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Death penalty is too damned expensive due to all the checks and balances and endless appeals etc that excite a certain sort of leftie. Better to ship them off to a low cost 3rd world prison for the rest of their lives instead. Should only cost a couple of thousand a year to keep em in Prison in Rwanda till they’re dead for example.
  
  UK’s new system for dealing with illegal migrants (shipping them to Rwanda, similar to Aussie Manu island approach) is brilliant. Bet it stops the flow almost immediately.
  
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  April 16, 2022 3:37pm
- MCōs
  
  It seems she might have promised a referendum at some previous election
  https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/What-is-Marine-Le-Pen-s-position-on-the-death-penalty
  
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  April 16, 2022 9:04pm
Southern Raider

Tragic back story, but not historical grievance, blame on any one and a positive outlook.

Need more MPs like this who have real world experience, sensible and focused on the future.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/act-mp-nicole-mckee-opens-up-about-her-tragic-family-secret/MKRS2UOWABEBIIU5LCD2G2VK7Y/
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April 16, 2022 10:12am
- curry4me
  
  That is a tremendous back story. She has coped very well.
  
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  April 16, 2022 1:01pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And no mention that she was one of NZ’s top rifle shooters.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/the-wellingtonian/2389395/Hataitai-woman-shoots-to-fame
  
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  April 16, 2022 6:37pm
Maggie Pie

Just been out in the kitchen making a batch of Orange Scones for lunch.
Had 1ZB on in the background. Jack Tame was interviewing some financial-adviser about the correlation of the OCR and peoples mortgage repayments.

My partner walked past and stopped for a moment to see what she was saying….shook his head and said, “Christ that woman talks some sh*t”
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April 16, 2022 11:22am
Lee C

This maniac is criticising the Government.

Surely this is a security risk?

https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/after-all-thats-happened-wheres-transparency-labour-sir-ian-taylor?fbclid=IwAR0_jIOZonIOHHOJjkvLyS8u29C4IA0GGHQ-uY-jtP_1cyQvH3GnWxE1CeQ
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April 16, 2022 11:32am
cas

Cries I wasn’t quick enough to switch off National radio after the midday news and here we go – Julian Wilcox starts interviewing the Exec Director for Iwi/Maori of 3 waters to tell us what 3 waters is all about. When she started off with “govt has undertaken an intensive engagement process over the past 2 years” and we are looking at the transitioning of assets and aspirations, I felt lucky I hadn’t had lunch. What propaganda.
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April 16, 2022 12:19pm
- Nickc2
  
  [… deleted] Nobody has asked me what I want and I’ve paid rates since 1968. This is nothing but Govt sanctioned theft!!!
  
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  April 16, 2022 1:53pm
- krazykiwi
  
  “govt has undertaken an intensive engagement process over the past 2 years”
  
  The word ‘intensive’ is subjective, but otherwise the statement is correct. What the statement obfuscates is that the result of this ‘engagement process’ has been a resounding call to abandon the whole thing.
  
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  April 16, 2022 3:53pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    ‘Intensive’? Or ‘selective’?
    
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    April 16, 2022 6:12pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  There are now 3-waters govt propaganda pieces pretending to be news stories on TV 1 several times a week. They’re barely even pretending not to be Labour propagandists
  
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  April 16, 2022 7:57pm
curry4me

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2022/04/14/citizens-united-president-david-bossie-one-week-after-rigged-film-zuckerberg-throws-his-hands-up-in-surrender/
One Week after “Rigged” Premier; Zuckerberg Surrenders.
This week, the Center for Technology and Civil Life (CTCL), the organization partially responsible for distributing Zuckerberg’s $400 million grants for election efforts leading up to the 2020 election, said they would cease to engage in similar behavior in the next election. This announcement came less than two weeks after the premiere of Rigged, which shows just how Zuckerberg spent millions to defeat Trump.
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April 16, 2022 12:41pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER0XD80ago4
NPC University Season 4 Episode 15.

Elon Musk wants to buy Twit-ter. NPCs unamused.
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April 16, 2022 12:41pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF_-KEcpjWI
Protesters Erupt in FURY Over China’s Covid Lockdowns.

The People’s Liberation Army is sending destroyers near where a US Navy exercise is taking place. People in Shanghai say they’re starving under Covid lockdowns and are making sure officials know. And China has created the most absurd Tesla knockoff. Watch this episode of China Uncensored for that and more on this week’s China news headlines. [11:27]
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April 16, 2022 12:42pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

If you’re anything like us, you’d have been hanging out for the Ghislaine Maxwell sentencing. Well wait no longer…

There wont be one! She gets out with ‘time-served’!!

Obviously the political elite are all running scared of Jeffery’s little Black Book 😛

https://twitter.com/America1Scotty/status/1514800483310845964
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April 16, 2022 1:01pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  She will be watching her back. Not many can hide
  
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  April 16, 2022 4:25pm
Maggie Pie

Worth sharing….

Even though the rape of Ukrainian women by Russian soldiers has been well documented on the MSM, when our cleaning-lady tweeted this earlier, I wasn’t sure whether to believe it or not 🙁

A soldiers wife is taped telling him…. “to go ahead and rape the Ukrainian women but make sure you wear a franger”

Scrolling thru all the comments, there can be no-doubt as to the authenticity of the claim…..they have both been well and truly exposed!

https://twitter.com/kromark/status/1514964537690177541
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April 16, 2022 2:53pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300565920/three-troubled-waters-why-did-reform-become-so-political#comments

How hard is it for many people to understand the problem here?
That it is absolutely wrong for publicly-owned assets to be handed over to maori, who make up about 15% of New Zealand’s population.
Take the maori control / ownership out of the equation and there may be more support for rationalising and streamlining the so-called “3-Waters” issue.
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April 16, 2022 4:54pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/300567509/do-mushrooms-really-use-language-to-talk-to-each-other-a-fungi-expert-investigates
They probably do a better job of communicating than Jacinda Ardern.
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- Lee C
  
  She doesn’t need to: her job is to keep us in the dark and provide the horse-shit.
  
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