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mikenmildagain

Happy International Harry Potter Day!
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May 2, 2022 8:01am
- Don Beckett
  
  MMA going Potty this early in the morning 😆
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:15am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Great to know that you’re all good with J K Rowling, mike.
  
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  May 2, 2022 11:55am
Scott

Dancing with the Stars was, before this season, often wonderful family entertainment. Memorable moments included former All Black Glen Osborne’s inspired and sublimely beautiful waltz. William Wairua was a wonderful dancer. And then there were the “so bad they were good” contestants such as David Seymour and the late Paul Holmes.

Sadly it seems the show now resembles a university revue. The overly praised same sex couple, the respectable British judge that turns out to be a drag queen and another judge that resembles a homeless person. Last night we had an interminable exposition of all things gay including the idea that if your father is homosexual and his father is homosexual then you will be homosexual. An idea absurd on its face.

Sadly our new woke overlords have taken hold of DWTS and turned it into an unwatchable parody. At least we still have the option of turning off this camp display.
My other concern is that we are indirectly paying for this travesty through NZ on Air?
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May 2, 2022 8:02am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I’d blame whoever is forcing you to watch such tripe.
  
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  May 2, 2022 12:13pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    I’d blame whoever is forcing me to pay for such tripe.
    
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    May 2, 2022 6:04pm
- rouppe
  
  I stopped watching when Sonia Gray was eliminated.
  
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  May 2, 2022 12:46pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Stop watching terrestrial TV with all it’s govt propaganda pretending to be news, incredibly fake (and frequently narratively scripted) ‘reality’ TV designed for the bottom quarter of the bell curve with concepts centred on borderline prostitution and manufactured conflict, and crappy competition programs again manufacturing conflict and infused with the propagandist agendas of wokster media.
  
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  May 2, 2022 12:59pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Gave up watching after the first episode. along with thousands of others I’m sure.
  
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  May 2, 2022 2:18pm
Tomtoddy

Gidday mate. Gotta tell ya, mate, them PC sheilas wanna ban, ‘mate’. You’ve been me mate, like forever, mate. Dunno what else to call you, mate. Crikey, mate they reckon ‘mate’ is now offensive. Buggar me, mate they’ll be banning beer soon. Does it mean me and the mrs can’t mate any more? What else can a good mate do after getting’ home from havin’ a cold one at the boozer? Place is goin’ wacka, mate.
See ya
Ya ole mate.
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May 2, 2022 8:02am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Whateva
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “bro” is also offensive, right bro?//
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:18am
- kevn
  
  @Tom… ‘Mate’ is also useful when you forget someones name.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:26am
  - alloytoo
    
    Why does nobody use “chum” any more?
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:12am
    - Don Beckett
      
      or Buddy – or Cobber……..
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:16am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Or ‘Darling’? My go-to in a tight situation.
        
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        May 2, 2022 6:05pm
    - kevn
      
      @alloy… or ‘Tiger’ anymore?
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:51am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Isn’t ‘mate’ death in te reo?
  As in ‘ka mate’?
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:56am
  - Don Beckett
    
    slightly different pronunciation – ‘martair’
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:17am
- bjools
  
  WOW, if I use the word “Mate” it means one of 2 things
  1. You are a friend of mine
  2. I’ve forgotten your name (not your face) …common for me.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:00am
  - 7kiwi11
    
    I’ve noticed a lot of immigrants are quick to pick up the use of ‘mate’. I think using it is an easy way for them to assimilate.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:30am
- bjools
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbsHox73mRo
  Watch the whole thing but especially from 3:30.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:04am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I’m offended
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:06am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Get over it, ya dick. 😉
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:24am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Bwhahahahaha
        
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        May 2, 2022 10:58am
- slernz
  
  She’ll be right, cobber!
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:19am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Cindy says she doesnt think our style of democracy is sophisicated. So what style of democracy does she favour. Is it the Maori style. Thats where the White Motherf…… pay all the tax but only get 50% of the say.
  Or the Chinese style where Cindy gets to choose the parties and candidates that the rest of us can vote for.
  I say having made that statement she owes us the decency of an explanation. What say you.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:23am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    lastman, have you lost the question mark from your keyboard?
    I can send you one if you like.
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:52am
    - lastmanstanding
      
      Apologies Capt. No doubt DG will be along to deal to me as well.
      
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      May 2, 2022 1:20pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    She is out with a hiss and a roar this morning after not being seen for 10 days. Dictating to tourism, must be high quality and environmentally friendly, god she gives me the shits! Also telling us dumb peasants not to jump to conclusions or something equally mean less over ram raids
    
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    May 2, 2022 11:01am
    - tui47
      
      Did you see Stuart Nash at Auckland International to greet incoming tourists with a silly PC tee shirt on? Government behaving has if they are launching an amazing new policy when in fact they are just removing a restriction that went on far too long.
      
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      May 2, 2022 11:57am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Ardern likely wants wokish democracy (ie Marxist democracy) where we are all made “equal” first.
    
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    May 2, 2022 12:22pm
  - Ehlana
    
    Dame Anne Salmond, Distinguished Professor in anthropology at the University of Auckland, and 2013 New Zealander of the Year, has been writing a series on the Treaty for Newsroom. Today, she wrote about the principle of equal representation.
    
    It turns out Maori governance, as observed by some of the first non-Maori here, was as unsophisticated as our current kind. Dame Anne quotes Francis Dart Fenton (of the Fenton agreement which established Rotorua) as observing that, “No system of government that the world ever saw can be more democratic than that of the Maoris. The chief alone has no power…No individual enjoys inﬂuence or exercises power, unless it originates with the mass and is expressly or tacitly conferred by them.”
    
    Apparently, the message has been lost somewhere between 1857 and today.
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:54pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      “No system of government that the world ever saw can be more democratic than that of the Maoris.
      
      Worked really well for Maori slaves, I gather.
      
      http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-TreRace-t1-body-d9-d2.html
      
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      May 2, 2022 2:17pm
      - Ehlana
        
        True, but I guess the same came be said of much ancient “democracy”. And I don’t think anyone has suggested re-instituting slavery yet.
        
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        May 2, 2022 2:45pm
      - Swifty
        
        Good heavens, are these features of Te Ao Maori we all keep hearing about these days?
        
        It’s funny, I never hear these sorts of things mentioned. I only seem to hear about the ‘fairy people’ stuff, living in total harmony with each other and the environment and how they’ve got great ancient lessons and teachings for us to apply to modern issues.
        
        The varying classes of slaves? Correct slave management? How to treat the survivors of those you’ve just raided and slaughtered? How to select only the choicest women from your vanquished? Correct slave ownership transfer protocols? Slave marriage management?
        
        Goodness gracious, will this ‘knowledge system’ find it’s way into our school curriculum under Maoritanga Studies or Matauranga Maori?
        
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        May 2, 2022 3:14pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Were you under the impression that iwi leaders were absolute rulers of their people?
      Coming from monarchical societies, many Europeans in the age of discovery assumed that prominent natives must exercise kingship on similar lines.
      
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      May 2, 2022 2:18pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Good on ya mate
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:27am
- Clownworld
  
  Tell her she’s dreaming mate!
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:33am
- tf78
  
  If they want to ban that they’re dreamin!
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:31am
- mogg
  
  If they ban the word mate, Daniel the Aussie hero would be struck dumb. He’s on you tube:
  ‘Aussiest interview ever- what a legend’
  Hilarious or what?
  
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  May 2, 2022 1:45pm
Captain Mainwaring

So the first fifteen minutes of 3 News last night was taken up with a bullshit story about sea level rise, featuring a bunch of ‘experts’ we’d never heard of before. Apparently sea levels around NZ are going to rise twice as fast as previously forecast because of something they made up. There would seem to be a gravy train for so called ‘sea level rise experts’ and they are trying to get the insurance industry to price all coastal dwellers out of their houses.
What they failed to mention is that the surf invaded the main street of Hokitika in about 1865, and it happened again in 1914, sweeping many commercial buildings into the sea. But it hasn’t happened since and Revill St. is still in the same place. So it’s not sea level rise.
TV3 is planning more of this crap for tonight. Maybe that would be enough for me to give Government TV another chance but the mixed-up language would probably confuse me.
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May 2, 2022 8:03am
- Simon
  
  A lot of Auckland CBD is built on reclaimed land. Billions of commercial investment into CBD shows no sign of stopping. Even the insolvent Auckland Shitty Council continues to pour hundreds of millions into Auckland CBD.
  
  Man made climate change is a massive fraud.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:11am
  - tf78
    
    I’ve been hearing lately that Germany are behind the scam. It makes sense now when you see they are almost the sole supplier of oil/gas and China on the other hand supply all the crazy solar panels and windmills. How much more stupid can the West get.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:33am
    - tf78
      
      Sorry my mistake, I meant to say Russia.
      
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      May 2, 2022 11:12am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yes, and the rotten government are to build Dunedin hospital that still has not started on land that was once well below sea level, what bullshit these muppets talk
    
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    May 2, 2022 11:28am
- Ruawai
  
  What I would be interested in seeing is sea level variation over the last 100 years to act as a predictor of the future rather than the projections of this group. The scientist from this group this morning interviewed by Hosking says these new models are projections not predictions. Found this comparison or projections vs predictions: “Prediction” conveys a sense of certainty while “projection” is associated more with the possibility of something happening given a certain set of plausible, but not necessarily probable, circumstances.
  An insurance guy on the radio last week said you will still be able to insure these coastal properties for all types of insurance except sea level rise, so shouldn’t be too risky to buy and insure and take the risk.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:11am
- Pavel
  
  Its just media generating fear. We had the cold war and threat of a nuclear winter, then global warming, then Islamic terrorism, then climate change, then Trump, then covid, now its back to sea level rises and global warming and CO2 levels rising. It’s just the media hyping up the fear levels as that’s what sells.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:14am
  - mawm
    
    It’s a pity they are not hyping up of fear of real threats like a One World Government, build back better, Klaus Schwab, Biometric digital ID, Social credit scores, digital money, freedom of speech, all freedoms, etc.
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:23pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Softening us up for the bullshit climate change budget. Sea level rise of 30cm (300ml for us normal folk) by 2050, my left tit
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:17am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    300 millilitres? A drop in the ocean – perhaps 300 millimetres?
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:28am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Millimeters. I know how to measure – got my very own tape measure you know
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:11am
  - pdm
    
    I’ll raise you my right testicle.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:06am
  - tf78
    
    Just over an inch in my language.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:35am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      That would be 30 millimeters.
      1 inch = 25.4mm
      
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      May 2, 2022 2:31pm
  - rouppe
    
    Well, what they’re not mentioning is the sea levels have risen some 120m since the last ice age. This last amount, whether it is happening faster or not, is just more of the same.
    
    This isn’t a humanitarian catastrophe, this is normal.
    
    They also don’t talk about how the polar bears seemed to survive the 120m rise, as did the coral, the penguins and most other things.
    
    They don’t mention that vast areas of land went from unsustainable, to temperate food baskets. They don’t mention that the last warm period (before the last ice age) had sea levels higher than today as well.
    
    It’s just normal, by archaeological standards
    
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    May 2, 2022 3:03pm
- RockyJ
  
  I see the great leader on Newshub this morning announcing that she can save us from predicted sea level rise. FFS! We are only just recovering from the Covid fear porn and now the fake announcements of climate catastrophe based on predicted sea level rise.
  We all know that climate predictions are inevitably over blown just as Covid predictions were. But some of the stupid will buy this latest big lie. Geobbels would have been proud.
  Just to allay your doubts here is a chart of real world data showing real world sea rise in Wellington Harbour showing no change in the rate of rise well below this fabrication.
  https://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/221.php
  In the words of Yogi Berra “it’s very hard to make predictions, especially about the future”
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:19am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Jaspinda can save us from the predicted sea level rise? That must be in Ah tee rower.
    We in New Zealand will be just fine.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:16am
    - Don Beckett
      
      She’s just imitating Obama.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:29am
      - Jim
        
        Yep, who also talks climate alarmism, but is confident enough to own a multimillion dollar waterfront property. Hmmm.
        https://www.homesandgardens.com/news/president-obama-new-house-marthas-vineyard
        
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        May 2, 2022 12:58pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Obama is not Maori, he is Kenyan
        
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        May 2, 2022 3:18pm
    - Stellaboxer
      
      If you project calamity with worst case scenario models then, just as with Covid , Ardern can save us and say hey look I saved you. If nothing near as bad as the models suggest actually eventuates then it looks like it’s true. It’s like watching a bad magician. The claim will simply be that it would have been so much worse if we hadn’t of done the things we did.
      
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      May 2, 2022 11:50am
  - Pavel
    
    The elites at the UN say they can stop climate change, sea level rises and fix all environmental disasters quick and easy, all the world has to do is pay them billions and billions of dollars, problem solved.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:59am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Billions, you say. Where do I sign up?
      
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      May 2, 2022 6:15pm
  - Local Miller
    
    I love the fact that we can download the raw data and reproduce the graph. Then insert a trend line. ALL trend line types show the same result: Sea Level Rise has been linear since we had consistent data. I used from Jan 1945 to Jan 2020, so 75 years of data and the average rise is 2.7mm/year.
    So 300mm in 110 years, at best.
    
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    May 2, 2022 11:50am
    - mawm
      
      You are correct. The oldest tidal gauge is in NY and the 200 or so years of recordings made show a linear rise. The IPCC have a graph where they have taken a flat section of the graph of sea level followed by a bit of catch-up (there is always some variation around a linear graph) and then grafted a satellite record at the end to produce a image that shows an increase in rate off rise. The satellite measures something completely different! This is how dishonest they are.
      
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      May 2, 2022 1:31pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    check out subsidence corrected sea level rise around the world (tide gauges corrected by nearby long term subsidence established by GPS). Wellington harbour true sea level rise is about 0.5mm/year over long term (2.5mm/year of subsidence). Sydney harbour similarly 1mm/year true sea level rise.
    https://www.sonel.org/-Sea-level-trends-.html?lang=en
    
    Can be differences in rates of rise and fall around the world due to few 100m of ocean nearest surface undergoing warming or cooling that changes it’s density (and therefore height) relative to other parts of world ocean.
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:06pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “trying to get the insurance industry to price all coastal dwellers out of their houses.”
  Well they can start with the Obamas at Martha’s Vineyard
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:21am
  - Ruahine
    
    So presumably if the sea is supposed to rise 30 cms around the coast of NZ it is also going to have to rise around the rest of the world at similar levels given that the worlds ocean level have some geographical variations.
    I have had a quick calculation as to how much extra water will then be in the oceans. There is not enough water in the world to have such a rise in sea levels. Unless all this sea rise is only going to occur around Li’l Old New Zealand.
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:48am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Probably going to import some water, we import just about everything else.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:18am
      - kevn
        
        @SteveO… If 3 Waters goes the way she/they want it might be cheaper. Nah, just collect the (free) rainwater.
        
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        May 2, 2022 10:55am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Can i presume you calculations have also demonstrated that sea-level rises or falls of 30 cm could never have happened in the past either, because there was never ‘enough water in the world’?
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:26am
    - Observer of Life
      
      Rua: I’m sure I heard on the news that it will only rise in “certain parts” of NZ. Go figure…
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:30pm
  - bjools
    
    Are Labour still advocating for a $1bill stadium on the Auckland waterfront?
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:31am
    - tf78
      
      Floating stadium.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:37am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Good for ducks …….
        
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        May 2, 2022 2:33pm
- G152
  
  Sea levels can only rise if there is sufficient water held in those pesky glaciers and icecaps.
  And every time the sea level is raised by a mil it takes virtually trillions of liters more to raise the level another mil.
  Some-ones making quids out of this
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:21am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Another DOOMSDAY Glacier breaking off and coming to you//
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:16am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The ice fields that feed the glaciers in Alaska are huge, I have flown over them. There are more than 300,000 glaciers there, mostly un named. It ain’t gonna melt full stop
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:20am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Personally I think it is the Taniwha’s who need a truckload of koha
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:22am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  You can add the BS spiel on the “Milked” doco this morning on the AM show! Looks like Labours’s outsourced MSM info supply to the Greens for ongoing scare propaganda. Predictable given they’ve run out of Covid scare material.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:30am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Covid was the warm up act. Part of the “great reset”, “green new deal”. Now we’re moving into the main event. The covid circus is being supplanted by the climate circus.
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:00am
  - nathie
    
    It’s almost if it is designed to fit in with Labour’s and James Shaw’s soon to be announced policies on climate change in the next few weeks (which Labour have printed off another $6 billion for Budget 2022 …. but still no major increases for Pharmac to actually save people’s lives i.e. people in actual/real life-threatening danger)!
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:07am
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      @nathie – “It’s almost if it is designed……” – would guarantee it’s a new taxpayer funded campaign designed to “fit” the purpose you suggest! 🙂
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:08am
      - nathie
        
        Bit like Newshub’s coverage of 3 Waters the other day – lots of overage of burst water pipes in Wellington and the Hawkes Bay contamination issue from a few years ago …. but nil coverage of the co-governance aspect!
        
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        May 2, 2022 4:09pm
  - Ruawai
    
    Climate is the new covid agenda of fear for the govt.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:57am
- ecco
  
  Appears to be topic of the month for Ardern’s communications dept. Seems to be applicable to any MSM outlet that’s receiving significant covid media bribe fund monies that they must run this theme. I guess Ardern will rotate topics. Zero road toll will be another topic. If we are to stop global warming then China and the US are the ones who are going to significantly have to change their behaviour, not a handful of nz farmers.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:33am
- Dr John
  
  and tv3 showed footage in this report of flooded streets in Westport.
  Mate!! The flooding came from the fairly regular storms in the southern alps that caused the Buller river to rise a bit more than usual.
  Nothing to to with sea level rise! Nothing!
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:33am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Fake News? Really? Fake News in NZ? How awful
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:23am
    - tf78
      
      I think the new word is ‘Hoax”.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:40am
  - I remember when
    
    And the suggestion that there were serious oversights of river maintenance operations.
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:32pm
- Unity
  
  I’ve lived by the Coast for all of my long life and the sea level hasn’t risen one iota. Of course we have extreme weather events and king tides which do a lot of damage but the sea soon settles back down to where it has always been. There have been extreme weather events all through the ages long before the industrial age. I have a switch in my brain which turns on every time these ‘climate idiots’ spout their nonsense. As if we could be so clever as to change the climate!!??
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:45am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It works like ‘socialism’ Creeps up on you over the years, so you probably haven’t noticed it//
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:25am
- nathie
  
  So hang on, I thought sea level rise was occurring naturally at around 1mm/year or just over …. but now these “climate scientists” are saying it will accelerate to 300mm/year within 40 years?
  
  Methinks the modelling of these “climate scientists” has as much credibility as any of the likes Shawn Hendy’s predictions – just over the top biggly bigtime!
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:54am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Wonder if is caused by that roving decimal point that Labour use a lot?
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:26am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    The modelling is supposed to be over the top firstly to get your attention and then to prove the political response correct by not coming to pass.
    
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    May 2, 2022 11:57am
  - Ehlana
    
    Apparently some of the problem is less the sea level rising and more that NZ is naturally sinking. Something to do with plate tectonics.
    
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    May 2, 2022 2:59pm
    - nathie
      
      Heh – so they are modelling an incredible amount of natural sinking over the next few decades!
      
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      May 2, 2022 4:06pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Did they say their modeling was a ‘world first’ and to their knowledge was not being – or had not been – done overseas?
  
  I hope their modeling has been adequately peer reviewed and subject to all the robust debate protocols and tests that such a model would demand. Merely obtaining the happy approval of James Shaw might not suffice
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:01am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    I see Ms Ardern is saying the sea level rises aren’t inevitable and all we have to do is reduce our emissions…
    
    Hmmm, aotearoa to be a world leader and savior of the planet once more.
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:05am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Gee, perhaps she can stop the land sinking, too.
      
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      May 2, 2022 9:59am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        And lo, I’m sure it will thus be reported…
        
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        May 2, 2022 10:24am
      - Ruawai
        
        She might call on Maui to lift the North Island back out of the sea if it subsides a little.
        
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        May 2, 2022 11:00am
    - David Garrett
      
      Suze: Yes….with our utterly miniscule contribution to greenhouse gas emissions we can make a difference!
      
      As I have said here before, a scientist once told me that if the world’s greenhouse gas emissions for a year was a 2 litre jug of milk, New Zealand’s share of that jug would be one half of one drop.
      
      Whether anthropogenic climate change is happening or not – and it might be – there is absolutely nothing we can do about it down here.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:05am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        That’s where the elective course in Virtue Signaling as part of the Comms degree comes in particularly useful
        
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        May 2, 2022 10:26am
      - 103PapPap
        
        Yes, NZ contribution to global emmisions is about 1/5th of 1 percent. Even if we culled all cows and banned cars and trucks it would have zero affect on world emmisions.
        
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        May 2, 2022 12:59pm
    - pdm
      
      Suze – Aotearoa can never lead in anything – it is a mythical place.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:08am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        Not totally sure about Aotearoa, but I sometimes think about aotearoa
        
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        May 2, 2022 10:27am
    - Nickc2
      
      I heard on the news this morning that Nicola Willis (deputy leader of the National Party) has jumped on the rising sea levels bandwagon too.
      This really pisses me off as they were almost going to get my vote.
      No, it wasn’t a Media Beat Up, she spoke about it in favour of the Insurance Industry FFS.
      
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      May 2, 2022 2:20pm
  - Taieri
    
    I hope their modeling has been adequately peer reviewed
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    By the Peer Review Mutual Admiration Society?
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:35am
- nathie
  
  Also are these “climate scientists” experts in tectonic plates and geology as well?
  
  Since when has Wellington been sinking?
  
  If it is then another massive earthquake will lift things up!
  
  I recall reading/seeing photographs of the area around Turakirae Head that has risen over thousands of years.
  
  “Turakirae Head consists of a broad gently sloping area extending 300 to 500 metres from a line of steep hill slopes to the sea’s edge. The steep hillside was a sea cliff more than six thousand years ago and the gently sloping area has been raised above sea level by large earthquake movements since the cliff was cut.”
  
  https://www.geotrips.org.nz/trip.html?id=249
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:02am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    That’s true for the Eastern side of Wellington /Wairarapa.
    
    But Wellington Harbour – Hutt Valley is at a bit of a hinge point where the Pacific plate is diving under the Australian plate and leading to subsidence of the city-harbour- Valley (and presumably western side of (Wgtn peninsula) as well as the Marlborough Sounds.
    
    https://www.eqc.govt.nz/resilience-and-research/research/search-all-research-reports/coseismic-subsidence-in-the-lower-hutt-valley-resulting-from-rupture-of-the-wellington-fault/
    
    https://mapping1.gw.govt.nz/gw/slr/Sea_Level_Trends_in_the_Wellington_Region_Update_2018.pdf
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:10am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      A bit more fragmented than that, I think, as the alpine fault splits into several distinct faults in the Cook Strait area – Makara, Wellington, West Wairarapa, etc
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:36am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yes,
        I’m well aware of that, MMA
        
        But the subsidence affecting Wellington City and up the Hutt valley is happening along the Wellington Fault. (as in my first link above).
        
        https://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/IOF/It-s-Our-Fault
        
        And if you look back at the comment I was replying to…
        it was: “Since when has Wellington been sinking?”
        
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        May 2, 2022 2:30pm
    - nathie
      
      Thanks Maggy, I’ll now have a good read (good to learn something new)!
      
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      May 2, 2022 3:53pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        This might help…
        
        Explains a bit how subsidence has been measured in recent decades in NZ..and the problems with trying to establish controls for sealevels for land that goes up & down
        
        https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/162592/1/Late_Holocene_Sea_Level_Changes_in_New_Zealand_Submitted.pdf
        
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        May 2, 2022 8:17pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    wellington harbour subsidence on here is 2.5mm year:
    https://www.sonel.org/-Sea-level-trends-.html?lang=en
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:14pm
    - nathie
      
      Thanks also, that’s quite interesting (although trying to figure it out)!
      
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      May 2, 2022 3:56pm
- Niz
  
  The NewsHub headline I saw this morning said ‘statistics revealed’ that this sea level rise was coming.
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/05/alarming-new-statistics-reveal-new-zealand-s-sea-level-could-rise-30cm-in-next-10-to-20-years.html
  
  The headline appears to have changed to say that it’s merely a prediction.
  
  How many predictions by these ‘experts’ have come true to date?
  Maldives underwater yet?
  Polar bears extinct?
  Polar ice cap gone?
  
  How can this sort of tripe be allowed by our BSA?
  
  Oh, if anybody out there is keen to sell their sea-side bach in an effort to get out before it’s inundated, I’ll take it off your hands for a grand or so.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:08am
  - Surely Knott
    
    And another prediction…9 Aug 2017, NZ Herald. re Kauri Dieback (aka phytophtora agathadicida one of the many phytopthoras that occur naturally in our native forest soils) “The disease has spread throughout the park, and in worst-affected areas like Piha, kauri will likely be extinct in five years, Auckland Council’s report says” (It hasn’t spread by foot, it was always there and the genetic testing shows that it is not newly introduced but centuries old..)
    
    2023 is next year! I can safely assure you that Kauri are not extinct or even dying in the West Coast they are thriving. Since 2017 the local environmental scientist leading the rahui put forward a public parliamentary submission that an NGO they have set up should run the regional park, and be funded to manage the science and have full legal enforcement powers of the public park and any tree they deemed infected. The latest submission to parks by Iwi shows what was always the end goal. People are to be shut out of the centre of the regioanl park and the interior tracks permanently closed and a high usage track created around the perimeter. The submission called people questioning the plan “ecoracists”. This is exactly what the UN Agenda 21 wildlinks conspiracy theorists had predicted.
    
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    May 2, 2022 11:07am
    - mawm
      
      I wish the Phytophthora would leave my Griselinea hedge alone. It’s getting expensive replacing them and adding Trichoderma to the soil.
      
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      May 2, 2022 1:45pm
    - trout
      
      That kauri dieback is spread by humans was always an unproven hypothesis; Dieback occurs in locations well away from tracks. The spreading vector is likely to be wild pigs that root around trees but that does not suit the narrative and does not justify the authoritarian people movement control measures. There has been ample opportunity for spread of dieback by trampers from the Waitakeres the the Hunuas; hasn’t happened. No pigs in the Hunuas, no dieback.
      
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      May 2, 2022 1:53pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Covid is taking a breather, so the climate steps in to fill the vacuum.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:11am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1 are coming for you – get another booster…….
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:24am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      These, I gather , are subvariants of omicron which is a variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
      
      And what are variants of subvariants called?
      
      Looks like folks are calling them lineages
      (Not a term I’ve seen in taxonomic hierarchies before…… I think “races” was once used).
      
      https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-classifications.html
      
      As an aside: that link from the CDC indicates that
      currently no covid-19 variants are of high concern.
      
      Currently, no SARS-CoV-2 variants are designated as VOHC.
      
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      May 2, 2022 9:53am
  - zulumonster
    
    Exactly. Can anyone remember when the first person died of / with Covid and we all hid under our beds for months? Now we seem rather sanguine about 7 – 10 deaths a day.
    The Covid fear is starting to wear thin so Climate Change is next in line.
    At least it doesn’t matter how much it will cost, Robbo will just put the printing press into overdrive … problem sorted.
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:48am
    - pdm
      
      zulu – wasn’t the first covid death that fellow shot by Police? lol.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:11am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Nah, he died from lead poisoning for not paying his drug bill
        
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        May 2, 2022 10:32am
      - zulumonster
        
        I thought it was an elderly woman on the West Coast … with much conjecture as to whether it was a “with or from” Covid death.
        
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        May 2, 2022 12:40pm
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      The “Covid Crisis” and “Climate Crisis” are intimately related, and are really two sides of the same coin. Together they will be used to reshape society. They are two faux “public emergencies” manufactured through the use of distorted or false data, speculation and prediction of havoc, coordinated media messaging, appeals to emotion as against reason, collective guilt, censorship of dissent etc.
      
      While neither emergency is perceptible (i.e. no deaths in the the street, most of us nor anyone we know know of anyone who has died with Covid, typically no very serious symptoms, nor any abnormal and more frequent turbulent weather events as a matter of course), we are told that both “emergencies” are either actual or imminent so require urgent action by a unified world (i.e. no sovereign approaches). Under the pretext of emergency action and collective responsibility, they are both aimed at centralising government, removing your freedom and autonomy, subordinating civil and human rights, curtailing property rights, transferring wealth to the super wealthy and so on.
      
      If we allow implementation without resistance, your quality or life will be destroyed: you’ll be physically and virtually tracked and monitored with your digital ID, you will be required to act as you are told as an emergency mitigation measure, your spending will be restricted based on carbon consumption, and your inefficient large rural properties will be subjected to such a tax or other regulative burden that you will have to sell up to the super wealthy and move to a more densely populated urban areas, thereby enhancing your trackability.
      
      You will own nothing and be happy, your voice will not be represented in decision making, and you will be effectively a serf – but at least you’ll have been kept safe from a virus and the weather.
      
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      May 2, 2022 12:02pm
      - Jim
        
        In a densely populated biometric surveillance super city… what’s not to like?
        
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        May 2, 2022 1:08pm
      - mawm
        
        You are 100% correct but unfortunately more than 50% of the NZ population are either unaware of it or are welcoming of it. The vaccine doesn’t work, the pandemic is essentially over – what are those QR codes on your still mandated “vax passport” for?
        
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        May 2, 2022 1:57pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    Not in my office it isn’t.
    2 came down over the weekend and there is one more possible.
    Rat tests all round…
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:58am
    - Surely Knott
      
      Right…the disease isn’t over. But the scam is up because people can now compare the hype to the reality. Everyone now knows many people who’ve had it. They can no longer lie about it’s severity. Remember the early propaganda with people dropping face down in the street’s of wuhan supposedly with covid.
      
      Unfortunately with Climate Change comparing the results with reality isn’t as easy because of the longer time frame so easier to spin.
      
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      May 2, 2022 2:31pm
- bjools
  
  Note:
  they use the words “IF” a lot.
  They use the phrase “If we don’t mitigate these potential hazards….xyz MAY happen”.
  I always think,
  1. we may be hit by an extinction level event (meteor) too.
  2. IF we caused this…..how can we fix it?
  2a. Not by moving money around the world, to gain power for a few advocates
  2b. Sending countries bankrupt.
  Also, since I actually deal in measurement equipment.
  Is sea level rising?
  How did they measure it?
  The satellites they use to measure this.
  It is normally at an altitude of less than 1000 km but could be as low as 160 km above Earth – which is low compared to other orbits, but still very far above Earth’s surface.
  So
  160Km distance from the measurement position.
  160 000m or 16 000 000cm. or 160 000 000mm
  They are telling us
  They can measure 16mm of sea level rise…..really?
  A couple of questions.
  How many measurements do you take at each point of measure?
  How many points around the globe do you take measurements?
  How often?
  Are local conditions, at the time, taken into account?
  How many satellites are used and are they all calibrated the same?
  The most accurate forms of measure on earth are weighing machines and they can’t measure to this accuracy.
  eg 160g to 0.000 001g (generally the best is 160g to 0.0001g) even if in specialized equipment 0.000 01g, this is still 10 times less accurate than they are claiming.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:27am
  - Ruawai
    
    Projections not predictions!!
    
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    May 2, 2022 11:01am
    - bjools
      
      I didn’t use either, I am suggesting that they are using an erroneous theory and test method to back up that (fake) theory.
      and
      Are using propaganda to say otherwise.
      
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      May 2, 2022 12:39pm
- Close Hen Counters
  
  Watching TV3 last night was a tragedy in itself – the gloomy climate change farce followed by the freak show, dancing with the stars … the actual dancers are as incredible as always but the rest? I know maybe three of the ‘stars’ and am not sure what the judges are seeing! One judge seems to know about dancing but the other two …. Word soup waffle ….. would love to know if they have had a decline in ratings compared with other seasons
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:08am
  - krazykiwi
    
    “Watching TV3 last”
    
    I’ll watch TV3 sometime after I’m finished gnawing my own arm off.
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:06pm
- Paulus
  
  What do you think the so called media are being paid for – called Obfuscation or hide the bullshit.
  Good Socialist practice used throughout the world.
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:19am
- krazykiwi
  
  What is usually missed in this discussion is that the measurement is relative to land level, and given that our entire crust is itself floating on a molten core, land levels can and do change.
  
  Stockholm is a good example. Sea level there is receding at 3.72mm/year because the land mass is rising.
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:20am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Same with Scotland. Likely due to the removal of the weight of ice ex the Ice Age, with the previously compressed land springing back.
    
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    May 2, 2022 6:25pm
- G152
  
  Is a fraud.
  Example all the BS about the failing glaciers.
  The Earth is coming out of an Ice Age.
  The oceans are not warming there is always a warm layer at the surface thanks to the SUN.
  Then there is a layer below which the sea temperatures seldom vary and then only 1 or 2c at the Poles.
  The Great Barrier Reef is not dying.
  It is constantly replacing itself. Any-one who has seen coral bloom knows that.
  And the GBR has been and will be a great tourist attraction for years to come.
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:46am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  That makes up for the rise we weee promised 20 years ago and only got 10% of that rise even a bigger joke, my missus sister moved to New Jersey in 1999 she catches a ferry across to he job in Wall st, Manhattan was to be below water by 2016, she says the water tide on the wharf are no higher than they were in 99, and amazingly Manhattan is still there, it’s time we told this bullshit to take a hike, and Cindy wants to plough 4 billion extra wasted money into this bullshit, by god this country is stuffed.
  
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  May 2, 2022 11:23am
- tui47
  
  Every news outlet had matching articles today. Has a message gone out from Ardern to churn out some climate friendly policies to justify a massive new tax in the May budget?
  
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  May 2, 2022 11:59am
  - kowtow
    
    We know that the Dept of PM has a weekly briefing with the editors.
    
    That’s a huge “news” story , but also a massive constitutional one .
    
    Why don’t we hear more about that ?
    
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    May 2, 2022 12:43pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    yep, media are to promote the thermageddonist line or miss our on govt advertising revenue. Just as for covid, treaty issues, maori wonderfulness and other left wing hobby horses.
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:21pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Looking for the nervous classes to be slitting their wrists.
  
  Or moving to Hamilton.
  
  Which is much the same thing.
  
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  May 2, 2022 6:12pm
rjay

Looks like National has picked a winner for Tauranga. Stable marriage, three degrees, successful corporate career, successful “green” business -all by age 39. What had Jacinda done by then?
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May 2, 2022 8:05am
- Paulus
  
  Ardern has a qualification in Fish & Chip wrapping.
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:24am
- Opie
  
  Yuck. He’s not white is he? I hate white people.
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:28am
  - Opie
    
    Would I have been able to make the same comment with black/brown/maori in place of the word white?
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:30pm
  - Matt Long
    
    White pale stale male, cis-gender do we really need more accomplished people in Parliament when we could have incompetent diversity. 0
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:41pm
cmm

“Sinking coastlines mean parts of Christchurch will feel impact of sea-level rise earlier than expected”

Really?

So over the next 100 years there’s going to be 30cm of subsidence in Chch.
They also expect there to be 60cm or actual rise by 2100 (if so, it better get a move on). More likely, most of “rise” by 2100 will be due to subsidence.

Akaroa will, apparently, have 30cm of rise by 2040 (most of that due to subsidence, not rising). Great. We can test that within our lifetimes. I doubt that will age any better than Al Gore’s claims of an ice-free North pole by 2012.

On the other hand, but not written about in the article, some areas have negative sea level rise. Kaikora rose over 2 metres, so is good for sea level rise for 700 years before it is back to 2000 levels. Wellington also has negative sea level rise since 1850 due to the huge uplift in 1855 and other events. At 3mm per year it will also be hundreds of years before Wellington gets “sea level rise” and, most likely, there will be other uplift events during that time.

This conflation of sea level rise (if it is really happening) and subsidence is Junk Science! It is bullshit. It needs to stop. Especially if they’re going to cherry-pick.

The same is happening on all the Pacific Islands. Every one of those islands has been thrust up from the depths by forces deep in the earth. Almost all are a peak of a volcano. When people measure “sea level rise” at these locations, what are they really measuring? What is water rising/falling and what is land rising/sinking?

“Programme co-leader Professor Tim Naish, of Victoria University of Wellington, said 20 years ago it was thought sea-level rise was like pouring water into a bathtub – if you put more water in, it rises uniformly around the world, but Naish said it is actually much more complicated.”

I dispute that. We’ve known about uplift and subsidence for centuries (eg. Wellington earthquake in 1855) and gradual uplift/subsidence due to tectonics since the 1970s. He is correct though that there has been an oversimplification.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/128505544/sinking-coastlines-mean-parts-of-christchurch-will-feel-impact-of-sealevel-rise-earlier-than-expected
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May 2, 2022 8:05am
- Ruawai
  
  Looks like they are only looking at projections of subsidence not at any projections of uplift, pretty selective! Also this makes it look like we have a bigger risk from geological factors than climate change/CO2 emissions, which is probably true but makes it hard to say we need carbon sink forests, low emission cars etc
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:14am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  It’s lucky that readers of Kiwiblog have your simple assertion that Tim Naish is wrong. It’s great that you can share your knowledge that things are much more simple than the complicated situation described by a professor of geology.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:15am
  - Blog-aholic
    
    I always ask of any climate scientist who their research fund backers are? Where does Tim Naish get his funding from and who are behind that door?
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:58am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Yes, a professor of geology, like that other noted professor, Michael Baker, clearly experts in their field. //
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:02am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Perhaps you are a fan of the John Key approach to expertise: “He’s one academic and, like lawyers, I could provide you others who would give a counter view”.
      
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      May 2, 2022 9:33am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        No, not at all. I love listening to and learning from actual experts, not the shills who find results that those paying them demand.
        The covid circus has been a revelation to me. It took a few months for enough data to come in, but as I suspected from quite early on, we were lied to by the “experts” who were give free access to all of the mainstream platforms. Those highly qualified people who did not follow the script were censored, deplatformed, smeared, gaslit and demonised. It stunk to high hell at the time which is why I had doubts early on.
        It is abundantly clear now that those people were the ones speaking the truth, the Bakers, Wiles and Hendys of this world weren’t just wrong, they deliberately lied to us. Empirical evidence shows that pretty much all of the covid “conspiracies”, lab leak theory, that the vaccines don’t work, that the trials were fraudulent, these have all been proven to be true. All of the claims about vaccine efficacy and that it was not an experiment, that it was tested and approved. All lies.
        
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        May 2, 2022 9:50am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I feel sorry for you, now that you have learned to dismiss any expertise that conflicts with what you feel should be true.
        
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        May 2, 2022 10:39am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Like this criminal government telling us they listened to the science over COVID, only to find they took no notice of the vast majority of info from science
        
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        May 2, 2022 11:31am
      - Matt Long
        
        I do subscribe to Key’s view Mike, all experts have an agenda, if their agenda is likely lead close to the truth and be beneficial I will pay attention.
        Have you built your ark yet? Better to be on the safe side I would think, Prof. Nash could be under estimating.
        
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        May 2, 2022 1:49pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    A profesor in oceanography ?
    Otherwise he can bugger off.
    FWIW It is NIWA leading the sealevel rise and rest assured the insurerers will be adding a premium.
    Paid by the bloody councils for high risk low lying levels.
    FWIW NZ is rising any way.
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:14am
  - JJ56
    
    mikenmildagain if you think that the use of satellite measurements to judge the impact of geological movements on sea level is something new in NZ, think again. It is all being done for the theatre.
    
    Perhaps read “Sea Level Rise in New Zealand: The Effect of Vertical Land Motion on Century‐Long Tide Gauge Records in a Tectonically Active Region” Denys et al https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JB018055
    
    You know you are dealing with climate science marketing when you read that a 30 cm slr in Wellington would turn a 1:100 year event into an annual event. Of course it won’t. A 1:100 year event will remain just that but get 30 cm higher up the coast line. All this tell us is Wellington has a relatively narrow tidal range.
    
    As you might have noted things are much more complicated than the simplistic situation described by a professor of geology.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:04am
    - JJ56
      
      I should add that at least some progress is being made. These types of projections are based on scenarios of social economic and emissions futures.
      
      At least they are no longer using the completely implausible RCP8.5H+ invented by NIWA and MfE to really scare everyone, and have now retreated to SSP2-4.5 as the likely one and SSP3-7.0 as the “high” scenario.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:17am
      - Ian Boag
        
        Leaving aside all the alphabet soup (related to slr I assume) …. I am a bit confused about the subsidence thing.
        
        Naish is a geologist and talking about subsidence figures that have been measurable for about 15 years with some sort of satellite technology. So are the subsidence figures also questionable?
        
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        May 2, 2022 2:00pm
      - JJ56
        
        The paper linked to above just with a skim through the Introduction helps. The issue is that there are multiple processes at work some of which are not regular e.g. seismic events.
        
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        May 2, 2022 2:31pm
- Simon
  
  Tidal gauges show the same rising sea level today as over hundred years ago. If the sea levels were rising due to melting polar ice then the gauges would record an acceleration in sea levels rise compared to one hundred years ago. They dont. They are the very small rise compared to hundred years ago.
  
  Man made climate change is a political fraud and the which the so called science follows.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:19am
  - kowtow
    
    parts of Europe are rising .
    
    Cos they’re reacting to the weight lifted off them by the ice melt , 10 to 20 thousand years ago .
    
    Yes there is climate change , and there’s no need to panic.
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:57am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Barrack Obama seems like a smart guy.
  
  He recently paid $US 11.75 million for a massive house. On an island. At sea level. A few hundred metres from the Atlantic Ocean. Looks like he is not worried about sea level rise :-).
  
  https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CWBJevfn3FRs4YBEnZawdE-1280-80.jpg.webp
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Martha’s Vineyard.
    Maybe Obama knows something that the climate change scaremongers and us, don’t?
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:56am
  - I remember when
    
    B Ob @ COP26:
    “Time is running out.”
    Perhaps he is going to rescue it.
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:59am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    The wealthiest people on the planet are, obviously, also the ones least concerned about possible impacts on their personal property, being well able to afford mitigation or relocation. I’m always surprised this point is overlooked by people who make frequent references to such situations.
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:00am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Wealthy folks don’t like poor folks spoiling their view.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:13am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      As you know, I’m from Castleciff…. long known as beyond the dump at Whanganui….and when I was growing up, a place of sand, lupins and stenches from the abattoirs, the Tannery, soapy Gilberds, etc.
      
      A place to flee, if you could afford to.
      
      But views to die for, if you love sea, surf, wild cliffs and dramatic sunsets and very cheap real-estate.
      
      But how to keep the ferals/low-lifes at bay?
      
      Establish a gated community:
      
      Longbeach Drive becomes a private road serving a gated community comprising residential properties along it’s length.
      https://www.whanganui.govt.nz/files/assets/public/district-plan-changes/transport-assessment-castlecliff-plan-change.pdf
      
      (you gotta laff… it’s still a windy, sandy dump)
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:26am
      - Hebe123
        
        Went there last year Maggy. Was looking for a freedom camping spot with my dogs in the van. Castlecliff was gorgeous!
        
        You wonder sometimes why people choose to live on a little square in town.
        
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        May 2, 2022 5:28pm
  - kowtow
    
    The proof of this climate bullshit is in the pudding as it were .
    
    If govts around the world were convinced that all this sea level rise stuff were true , why then are they , and the private sector pouring hundreds of billions into building critical infrastructure into places soon to be inundated .
    
    Two NZ examples are the massive Dunedin Hospital build , largely on reclaimed former sea shore and now Nelson wants to expand its airport runway , also on a sea front , mostly former sand spit islands.
    
    “Eco” voters must be some of the dumbest people on the planet.
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:53am
    - mawm
      
      k – The Honourable James Shaw?
      
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      May 2, 2022 2:11pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Ditto Wellington. Council busy rebuilding the Town Hall, Civic Building, Central Library & (with VUW) a new music school, all beyond the ‘Beach at 1840’ plaques & more or less at sea level. Estimated costs: a gazillion
      
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      May 2, 2022 6:58pm
  - pdm
    
    How did Obama get so rich?
    
    I thought the POTUS salary was less than Ardern gets paid.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:14am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      You might have missed the bit where he, and his wife, wrote memoirs for many millions of dollars, continuing a noble American tradition.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:42am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        book advances and vast appearance fees (and now media deals that result in no content produced) for speeches are the standard method for money laundering to politicians and other public figures in USA. Obama is the(?) major powerbroker in DNC.
        
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        May 2, 2022 1:32pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Shall we say good business deals?
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:47am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        10 % for the big guy !
        
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        May 2, 2022 11:32am
    - MCōs
      
      Look at his tax returns.
      
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      May 2, 2022 5:50pm
- nathie
  
  Well if natural subsidence will be as bad as these scientists are predicting … there is nothing we humans can do about it as it is “mother nature” doing her thing!
  
  Apart from managed retreat of course, but no need to panic as these natural subsidences (that can take thousands of years) won’t be accelerating in the next 40 years!
  
  Anyway on the plus side, if they tell us where the opposite of subsidence is occurring, well people can go snap up property there in knowledge that future generations will be safe!
  
  Hang on a minute, are these scientists receiving funding from property developers by chance? 😉
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:14am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Same in Hawaii. The plate moves over the vent (3 inches a year) Way up in the north west the older island are sinking into the ocean. Soon the ‘Big Island will not be over the vent and a new island will be created.
  The sea is not rising!
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:27am
- Master Mariner
  
  Bang on CMM.
  Question. With the numerous satilites put in Orbit the last 10 years measuring exactly this with high accuracy.
  Is the Data freely available yet ?
  Or burried as it does not meet the narrative.
  I would of thought it would confirm once and for all by now.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:34am
Nickc2

PCism! Ya gotta luv it dont’cha?
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May 2, 2022 8:06am
Ra Henare

What happened to all the fact checkers.

In abundance EXCEPT when reporting the Russian Ukraine war.

The media just regurgitates anything from western “”news”” sources.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/russia-ukraine-war-ghost-of-kyiv-fighter-pilot-killed-identity-revealed/66GSTG55BT76XDIOXM6JMJSGSE/

Gave me a belly laugh

Its so blatantly bullshit and has been debunked by sane minds in the aviation community.
https://theaviationist.com/2022/04/30/ghost-of-kyiv-eventually-debunked/

But the Herald just splashes it out.

So what other bullshit are we being fed?
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May 2, 2022 8:07am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Wars have thrown up myths since forever. Why would the Ukraine war be any different?
  See, for example:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_of_Mons
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucified_Soldier
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rommel_myth
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Tights
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:50am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Let me walk you thru the post slowly Miken. You seem to have a comprehension problem.
    
    I am talking 2022. Yes this year.
    Not historic events. Pre Internet.
    
    I am talking about fact checkers which are proudly quoted in many Media.
    
    NZherald which touts.
    NZs best journalism
    
    NZHerald only seems to fact check things its editors dont like.
    Eg Trump, Russia Etc
    
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    May 2, 2022 2:44pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Fact checkers are only allowed to check the right !
  
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  May 2, 2022 11:33am
dave_c_

Are we being continuously duped ?

So much for ‘Sea levels rising’ !
Reports today indicate that the culprit is that the ‘land is sinking’ and that we need to address it as though sea levels are rising.
What utter bollocks in my view – it is either one or the other – can’t be both.
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May 2, 2022 8:07am
- Ehlana
  
  In Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, when the hot air craft started sinking, they threw the surplus weight overboard until it rose again.
  
  Can we do the same with our sinking land?
  
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  May 2, 2022 3:53pm
wisteria

Sea level rise is the old bogie that journalists use when they cannot be bothered finding out about real issues. The world changes all the time and New Zealand with it. However people who buy properties on the beach front are asking for trouble when there is an extreme weather event. Floods are a regular event and can be devastating.
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May 2, 2022 8:08am
- Bridgenag
  
  During quiet times it was shark attacks that filled the
  spaces!
  
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  May 2, 2022 12:46pm
Yvette

3 Waters – while everyone else is distracted by the sea possibly inundating there homes

Tuku Morgan (Waikato Tainui) … What we’re interested in is the proprietor rights over water, and that is a discussion to be had with the Crown, not with councils.”
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/04/29/iwi-involvement-aims-to-further-safeguard-water-assets-robertson/

“… With the Crown, not with councils”
While population share in 1840 was somewhere between 90 or 97 percent Maori, and 10 to 3 percent were Crown and Others, the population portion has now vastly reversed to about 17 percent Maori, and 83 percent Others.

Which is a matter the Treaty, the “living” founding document, did not foresee .
So, in “a discussion to be had with the Crown”, in the context of the Treaty – perhaps a badly written real estate agreement and protection contract, and over 182 years old – what about the Others now, the 83 percent?

Not only does the Treaty seem not to mention the word ‘Aotearoa’ (and I’d have thought it should), nor does it seem to accomodate ‘the Others’ – the now 85 percent of the population – unless indirectly in Article 3, in that “Maori will have will have citizenship equal to, and with the protection of, British subjects” – they, “subjects”, being Us – as in “They Are Us”
Feel swamped?
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May 2, 2022 8:11am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Amber Heard look-alike spotted vacationing in Otago…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/128492412/faeces-left-on-mps-car-so-bad-its-funny

LOL!!
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May 2, 2022 8:12am
- JibberJabber
  
  Most definitely not Teacup Yorkies responsible for that delivery…
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:39am
  - JibberJabber
    
    For those that haven’t heard that reference before…🤣
    https://www.newsweek.com/johnny-depp-amber-heard-defecating-bed-viral-clips-tiktok-twitter-1699652
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:45am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Thnx for that Jibbzy!
      I just assumed everyone would’ve been following events closely as me 😀
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:46am
- MCōs
  
  My wife had a job about twenty years ago cleaning the Abel Tasman Hotel on Willis St.
  One of the less savoury aspect was discovered shit in the beds after students had stayed there for the weekend.
  They’re probably eminent judges now.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:47am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  That’s a bit hard when she is still in court daily on the other side of the world
  
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  May 2, 2022 11:34am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Are there other giants like you in Dunedin, G?
    
    Asking for a friend
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:44pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Not as powerful as me, are you being a little nasty ?
      
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      May 2, 2022 8:46pm
- zulumonster
  
  First time I had heard of Ingrid Leary. I think the last 23 words of this quote were superfluous …
  “Leary moved to Dunedin to run for the seat in 2020, and was not known for courting controversy.”
  
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  May 2, 2022 12:50pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    She comes from Waiheki, she spent lock down at Waiheki when she scarpered from here during the campaign, on Waiheki radio she said she was going to win the seat and it is a place holder seat, i have heard not one person say they voted for her, while Nats had a great candidate, and boundaries moved hard to farming land south of Dunedin , and the margin is now back over 10000, that margin was down to 3000 , i simply do not believe this useless woman could charm the farming community where she was unwelcome during the campaign
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:50pm
iMP

Unfortunate headline of the day..

“Why Scientists Want To Probe Uranus.”
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May 2, 2022 8:19am
- bjools
  
  Scientists = aliens?
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:46am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Unless they’re Proctologists
  
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  May 2, 2022 7:02pm
andretti

One of the leaders of the sea rise rubbish is no other than Obama.Look where he is building a multi million dollar home in Hawaii,say no more.
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May 2, 2022 8:25am
Tony Stuart

Does anyone else see the benefits of National selecting a Financial and Economic Crime specialist as its Tauranga candidate? Might all those who have benefited from slush funds like the Provincial Growth Fund and the Covid Fund, about which Treasury has already expressed reservations, be a little worried at the prospect of Sam Uffindel becoming an MP, then a government MP next year?
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May 2, 2022 8:34am
- Tricati
  
  One can only hope, but suspect MSM will be focusing on Mr Uffindel is a whit male, therefore National don’t believe in equity in their caucus.
  A person selected on merit longer applies these days, its all about diversity and look out if you don;t comply.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:53am
  - Ra Henare
    
    What will locals think when looking at another National “”parachute”” candidate.??
    
    Uffindal only moved to Tauranga last year!!
    
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    May 2, 2022 2:46pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      He moved there to live and work, who cares , we have the rotten Leary down here , yet she is hardly ever here, mostly in Wellington or Waiheki
      
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      May 2, 2022 8:52pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  You think a new backbencher will immediately be in charge of the serious fraud office, for example?
  Having recently read Peter McCardle’s memoir, I think you seriously overestimate the influence of new MPs. Unless you think Sam Uffindel will get the John Luxon treatment, but personally I think national is recovering from its recent revolving-door leadership policy.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:05am
  - David Garrett
    
    “…revolving door leadership policy.”.
    
    Let’s see…Clark went off the UN leaving Goff with the keys…he didn’t fire so they got Shearer…he clearly didn’t have what it took so they got Cunliffe…he was so unpopular Angry Andy was able to get the nod…but he was too angry – and was leading them to oblivion…and then the Princess saved them!
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:20am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I didn’t say Labour had had no comparable leadership issues, did I?
      The question is always an open one: is the latest hope the next PM?
      I may have remarked before that the bitterest enmities in politics are always within parties. Any group of two or more MPs will always develop factions.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:54am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        He offers us more hope than the pathetic rabble he opposes
        
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        May 2, 2022 11:41am
    - MCōs
      
      Clark lost the leadership because her time was up as almost invariably happens with a change of government.
      It happened to Bill English twice.
      There have been exceptions in recent times.
      Keith Holyoake and Bill Rowling
      
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      May 2, 2022 5:11pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    You throw out the bait, and look who comes along and takes a bite!
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:03pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Nothing could be worse than the utterly revolting revolving door or unionist scum from the pathetic Labour party
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:54pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They might look into the dodgy government budgets, 1.9 billion in mental health missing
  
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  May 2, 2022 11:36am
curry4me

https://www.bitchute.com/video/poCtUybj37w/

Musk Doesn’t Like Truth Social.

Elon Musk’s new name for Truth Social is Trumpet. Definitely good for a laugh. [4:35]
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May 2, 2022 8:34am
curry4me

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

USA’s new diplomat to Saudi Arabia is a disaster.

The new ambassador to Saudi Arabia is usually a retired general. Brandon’s appointment is a career diplomat. He doesn’t like the crown prince. The US isn’t taking a tough line against Houthis. [4:08]
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May 2, 2022 8:35am
septic skeptic

I hope you are right but my impression is that all parties pretty much ignore each other’s nepotism and corruption.
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May 2, 2022 8:41am
JibberJabber

Cactus gives Stuff a reality check on their race-baiting…
https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com/2022/04/chinese-have-profited-and-copied.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

The most successful Chinese restauranteurs in New Zealand serve food white people (and Maori) like. Unless they are targeting “real” Chinese clientele and are likely immigration scams and fronts. Many have a separate menu written in Cantonese or Mandarin. It will contain delicacies that SPCA patron Bob Kerridge would be crying over. If you go to regular Chinese hotspots in Auckland take a Chinese person and speaker and have them ask for it, I bet you will find such. If there is a way to eloquently glide around New Zealand’s moral and ethical animal code, you can bet your bottom dollar the Chinese, Vietnamese and Thais will find it. Good on them. Waste not want not
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May 2, 2022 8:43am
- MCōs
  
  My wife is Thai.
  When we lived in Wellington she worked in a few Thai restaurants and got to know a lot of Thai restaurant owners.
  The were no separate menus with delicacies the SPCA would cry over.
  Can’t speak for other ethnic restaurants.
  I asked a fish and chip shop owner in St Heliers Bay what was in his sausages. He said he didn’t know.
  He laughed
  I laughed
  And stuck with that which was advertised as crumbed fish.
  
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  May 2, 2022 1:02pm
Maggie Pie

Just how many ‘Booster-Shots’ are we expecting?

My partner’s mum has become a little upset by what she sees as constant bullying by the MOH to get her Booster-Shot.
For the last couple of months, she’s been subjected to numerous txts and phone calls, all in an attempt to cajole her into getting the 3rd Jab.
TBH, the only reason she got the first two, was because Liquorland insisted on a ‘Vax Pass’ to gain entry into their stores.

Then on Friday, she received an email directly from Ashley himself.
Not only was it a personal message imploring her to get boosted, but it also included a Video co-starring Dr Siouxsie Wiles!

https://vimeo.com/677065668/948183557e

(I just watched it….if you look closely, you can see where Siouxsie has dyed her roots black.)
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May 2, 2022 8:45am
- pdm
  
  MP – mrspdm and I have had our lot of covid vaccinations.
  
  No more for us.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:49am
  - David Garrett
    
    pdm: Moi aussi mate…there is just too much very concerning information around now about this “vaccine” that is in fact a treatment…and a very ineffective one.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:23am
  - Flossie
    
    I’m not fronting up for any more jabs either. They obviously do not even work very well as lots of covid +ve people have had the full gammit of them. Also wastes so much taxpayer money.
    
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    May 2, 2022 11:55am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, Hosking mentioned some survey where the boosted had a slightly better chance of not dying of the Crom. I remembered Mike was boosted during the big push and he surely has a ‘jab to grind’, though he wouldn’t say that out loud.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:04am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Well , i can say i only had hay fever like symptoms, no runny nose or coughing
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:57pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Loved it when they asked one of the “experts” will we need further shots. Short answer, we have no idea….lol. Of course, the vaccine is safe, tested and approved and no way is it an experiment. lol
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:10am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Pfizer’s Motto….
    
    ‘A Patient Cured Is A Customer Lost’
    
    😀 😀 😀
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:29am
- bjools
  
  I just had my first full nights sleep, since I got the 2nd shot.
  or
  I just had my first full nights sleep, since my wife’s illness was diagnosed 3 years ago.
  
  I learned this method of measurement from the podium of truth.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:52am
- Surely Knott
  
  And we still don’t have all the info on the drugs safety. Latest Medsafe Adverse event report is out, Thyroid is now added as a “safety signal” including graves disease.
  
  Also still no word on the cause of death of the young lady who died in Muriwai after her vaccine which we were told could be another drug but the haematology reports were not back and the coroner had not yet assessed the case.
  
  When the NZ woman in the UK died of Lemsip , she died on Jan 7 and we had a coroners report in the media by April.
  
  Why have we still not had reports from the coroner on the Remuera woman’s death and the Muriwai teen’s death from last September. When can we expect results. Yet they continue to push the product while keeping the public in the dark.
  
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  May 2, 2022 2:22pm
I remember when

Michael Wood: Facebook:
Our government’s investment in public transport is supporting two new electric ferries in Auckland.
This will drastically reduce emissions for the public transport system.

How drastic can it be – there are only two of them.
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May 2, 2022 8:48am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Wonder if the passenger fares cover the electric bill – or are we the Ratepayers subsidising them
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:52am
  - Ehlana
    
    Public transport systems the world over don’t generally cover their costs Steve. I don’t think anyone expects them too. They are supposed to provide transport options for those who can’t drive themselves, or don’t want too. And hopefully relieve traffic congestion by getting some peak commuters out of their cars.
    
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    May 2, 2022 5:06pm
    - Pineapple Lumps
      
      Ehlana – that may well be true but not sure how it is relevant to electric ferries, which:
      
      1. Wont reduce cars driving between Waiheke and Auckland
      2. Will increase the size of the loss rate-taxpayers will need to cover. But no worries its just other people’s money being spent.
      
      On the environmental front, the ferries will increase dirty coal imports required for electricity generation. Just as electric cars do. Not to mention all the harm caused mining the metals required for battery manufacture. In short an environmental disaster.
      
      More presence over substance while wrecking economic harm. The only winners here are the globalists intent on destroying the sovereignty of our nation and any cronies trying to impress them.
      
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      May 2, 2022 9:45pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I thought i read it only has 45 mins power, who the hell would go to Waiheki or somewhere on that in poor weather, then what happens when it gets across the other side , or is that why there are two, just one in use at a time while the other is powered up
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:00pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Our Dear PM is giving a “speak” this morning.

Ardern’s speak will cover New Zealand’s relationship with the United States and share her thoughts on how New Zealand can navigate geo-strategic challenges particularly in an environment of heightened uncertainty with the emergence of the Ukraine crisis.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/prime-minister-set-to-speak-at-us-business-summit-today/SO2LOA74HSWZSHQ4USLX2ENCF4/
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May 2, 2022 8:49am
- pdm
  
  More drivel best suited for talking to Kindy kids.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:50am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I don’t see how New Zealand matters at all to the USA. What do we offer to the USA?
  
  The USA has marines stationed in Australia.
  
  https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2022-03-14/us-marine-corps-darwin-australia-rotation-covid-19-coronavirus-5339176.html
  
  It has use of all Australian Ports and military airfields and has two high priority intelligence gathering facilities and Pine Gap and North West Cape. Also Australia has a well resourced military and is an ally of the USA.
  
  New Zealand has ..well… nothing. Not quite literally, but from the perspective of the USA it is nothing.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:58am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You have ignored the installations at Waihopai and Tangimoana, for a start. Too tiresome to list here all the other things you could easily find out about the NZ-US relationship.
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:37am
    - Paulus
      
      I believe Waihopai is now shut down.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:30am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Just the radomes..
        
        There’s still some spook stuff going on out there.
        
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        May 2, 2022 2:39pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Waihopai won’t look the same these days….
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300557548/virtually-obsolete–waihopai-spy-domes-dismantled
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:49am
- Blackbob
  
  It will be more bumper sticker slogans.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:05am
- ClanMcleod
  
  The Herald can’t even get basic English grammar, good job we’re being moved to our other language!!
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:12am
  - David Garrett
    
    Clan: You still read the Herald? Even more mistakes than Stuff…and God knows that’s bad enough.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:25am
    - oldfella
      
      DG: you’ll enjoy this.
      What do editors do to earn their paychecks? These days, not much. In the blog and digital age, most editors sit around reading copy that’s provided for them by writers. They might change a word here or there, or bitch about a couple typos, but that’s it. For this they get paid a lot more than the writers who produce the pieces that drive the traffic that pays their salaries.
      https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/when-editors-were-necessary#.Ym1g8vqz62F.twitter
      
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      May 2, 2022 12:43pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  A US Business Summit. I hope they know what they are in for, maybe take a translator.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:41am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  All she said was the US have to go more in the pacific, why the hell should they
  
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  May 2, 2022 12:13pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Ardern says parts of NZ’s tax system are unfair, refuses to rule out wealth tax.
Someone needs to inform her that ‘wealth’ is not Income. The wealth is only realised if you sell your asset – but you still have to live somewhere, maybe one of those State Houses she is building?
Get your greedy mits out of my bloody wallet.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/ardern-says-parts-of-nz-s-tax-system-are-unfair-refuses-to-rule-out-wealth-tax/ar-AAWOgyv?
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May 2, 2022 9:06am
- alloytoo
  
  The Tax system is unfair, but not in the way she’s suggesting.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:24am
- Swifty
  
  There goes that word ‘fair’ again.
  
  You just know whenever they use the word ‘fair’ with regard to tax you can automatically tell they’re on the make.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:26am
  - Don Beckett
    
    But just think how “kind” she is being. //
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:54am
  - mawm
    
    Swifty – has she said how much of my labour it is fair for the indolent to appropriate from me?
    
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    May 2, 2022 2:25pm
    - Swifty
      
      What a good question.
      
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      May 2, 2022 4:44pm
- Nickc2
  
  Wealth is generally defined as: an abundance of valuable possessions or money. An equally accepted generality is that wealth is acquired post-tax. This to me indicates that Cindy is intending to apply yet another tax-on-a-tax.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:37am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    A dead Granny/Grandpa Tax (Capital Gains) – but she wants it before you die
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:43am
    - Nickc2
      
      Be careful of the seeds you sow Steve. Cindy will water and nurture those seeds and grow them into another tax called Death Duties.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:07am
    - Paulus
      
      She said there will not be a CGT whilst she was PM.
      So as soon as she goes (soon this year) whoever takes over (not Robbo) will do one and it will be a disaster costing more that it will earn, but will appear to look good socialist primciple.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:34am
      - Nickc2
        
        Given the way she keeps framing responses to questions about tax, the more convinced I am that she won’t be fronting the next election campaign.
        God help us, not three years of Robertson at the helm FFS. He won’t be content with having destroyed my country, he will take great delight in making it impossible for any future Govt to turn back Socialism in NZ.
        
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        May 2, 2022 2:04pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        No CGT from Cindy. But, a Wealth Tax – she never ruled that out.
        
        See how easy it is to get around promises, through the simple application of weasel words.
        
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        May 2, 2022 7:10pm
- Tricati
  
  If she wants the tax system fairer, then she needs to look at taxing iwi, churches, charities and businesses such as Sanitarium – Then all those that generate income are taxed appropriately.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:56am
  - Ehlana
    
    Taxing businesses owned by charities (of any kind) makes sense, as it provides a level playing field for other competitors. The tax paid profits should be paid as a dividend to the owning charity to use for its purposes.
    
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    May 2, 2022 5:12pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Now she has been caught out bumbling over what she said in 2020 , its preposterous to say she is refusing to rule out envy tax on the rich pricks.
  NOT THIS TERM dont ya know
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:04pm
ClanMcleod

Another “conspiracy theory” bites the dust. Struggling to find some new ones. I’d best message Siousxie and Baker to see if they can help……

“Vaccine study of 23 million shows risk of ‘heart problems’ from Moderna or Pfizer jab”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1598594/vaccine-news-pfizer-modern-heart-problems-myocarditis-pericarditis
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May 2, 2022 9:17am
- Ross Campbell
  
  More lies.
  Myocarditis and other related heart problems as a result of Covid vaccination were known and declared as a potential side effect a long time ago and were never a conspiracy theory which has now bitten the dust as you suggest.
  The study you link to gives some results which show possible events from the Pfizer vaccine at about 7 per 100000 which translates to o.oo7% which is infinitely small but obviously of concern to those out there who are either paranoid or grasping at any small straw to try and bolster their fringe positions.
  Instead of emailing Siousxie and Baker maybe try your knitting club at Voices of Freedom as this type of non event news will I’m sure be a revelation for them.
  
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  May 2, 2022 1:01pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Climate change = weather.
Many will have seen my comments about Exit Glacier in Seward, Alaska. Supposedly receding at 160 feet per year. The yearly markers are on the trail to the face.
BUT, Exit Glacier used so be right into Resurrection Bay, some 12 miles away. Been happening since way before the Industrial Revolution.
Go away bullshitting scaremongers
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May 2, 2022 9:19am
- Master Mariner
  
  Strange thing called The Ice Age may shed some light on the matter and 12 miles of valley.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:39am
Nukuleka

I know I have posted on this topic before but here goes again. Christchurch is literally becoming the shit capital of NZ. Most days the putrid stench from the compromised Bromley sewage plant hangs over the eastern and Central city area, and on the odd occasion the wind takes it over to the more affluent suburbs of Merivale and Fendalton. It is both a mental and physical health threat. The CCC and Environment Canterbury are big on talk and pitiful on action. NZ calls itself a developed 1st world country. Joke.
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May 2, 2022 9:22am
- Blog-aholic
  
  But it does play into the 3 waters propoganda planned narrative. The longer it takes to fix the more they can say that is why you need central co goverment control.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:25am
  - Tricati
    
    Especially given Lianne Dalziel was on the supposedly independent 3 waters review committee that was stacked with Labour sympathizes.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:00am
- Inandout
  
  Nuk, I vividly recall the compost plant in Panmure/Glen Innes (Merton Rd?) that I had to drive through regularly. Yes some days the smell was rank but mostly affected the surrounding industrial park. Eventually it was closed but in its day provided cheap compost.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:29am
- alex Masterley
  
  When I was a kid in the ’60s we lived on Pages Road, Christchurch – adjacent to Cuthberts Green, which backs on to the Bromley poo ponds.
  When the prevailing winds did not work we would catch a whiff which even then was putrid.
  I have always thought it extraordinary that the Chirstchrch Council permitted residential development in close proximity to the ponds.
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:41am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Before the Bromley sewage works was built largely due to my scientist father and a council engineer the untreated sewage discharges into the Avon Heathcote estuary produced acres of sea algae that rotted giving off so much foul sulphur gases that the white then lead-containing house paint turned black along the adjacent suburbs.
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:18pm
I remember when

Plos One: “Public understanding of climate change related sea-level rise: 9 Jul 2021:
“These findings will be valuable for scientists communicating about sea-level, communicators seeking to engage public on the issue of sea-level rise, and media reporting on sea-level rise.”
The study is part of the SeaRise Programme, a $7.1 million, five year (2018-2023) research programme funded by MBIE.
It is hosted by Victoria University and lead by Ass Prof Richard Levy and Prof Tim Naish.
TV1 Breakfast: 3 July 2019:
Professor Tim Naish told us the International Response to Climate Change needs to ramp up.
The Sheer Scale of the situation can be a hard one to swallow…..
Tim Naish, a Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 5th Assessment Report (2014).

Wonder what today’s report, following last night’s preview, will tell us.
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May 2, 2022 9:27am
Swifty

When the day comes that we prove that life on earth started through perfectly explainable natural processes, boy, there’ll be some on KB feeling like a right bunch of charlies won’t there?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/300575454/where-did-life-originally-come-from

Just imagine spending your whole life helping spread the false belief there is some creator being who willed us all into existence and in his/her own image no less!

(Not to mention that the creator being watches closely over human affairs, frequently intercedes in them, and is concerned with who you have sex with and how, how you perform your ablutions, how you must worship him/her etc)

And then finding out you couldn’t have been more wrong!

They’ll have some ‘splaining to do, yesiree.
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May 2, 2022 9:35am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Yeah. But where did the Universe come from, pre Big Bang?
  
  Answer me that one, Mr Smartipants.
  
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  May 2, 2022 7:13pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Exactly the same question can be asked of any creator showing that said creator has no explanatory content.
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:25pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    Swifty obviously agrees with the atheist theory that goes something like this:
    In the beginning there was absolutely nothing. The, before there were days, nothing made a big bang, and all of a sudden, nothing was something.
    – or something like that – which defies logic, the first law of physics – ‘matter cannot crate itself ‘, and the first law of thermodynamics – ‘energy cannot create itself’.
    So what happened ? there had to be a ‘Prime Mover’ – (not a Kenworth). That initial first cause needed to be intelligent, have tremendous power and a plan. That Intelligent all powerful cause is a being we call Almighty God.
    Science tells us that the world began about 4.5 billion years ago, and the theory which is supported by Einstein’s theory of relativity is known as the big bang theory – developed, BTW by a Catholic priest. About 400 million years ago there was an explosion of life. All human beings have a common female ancestor proven by mitocondrial DNA.
    I’ll leave it at that.
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:21pm
    - RichardX
      
      Nice little strawman you have constructed.
      Shame it does not reflect the current scientific thinking or offer any explanation, just assertions.
      
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      May 2, 2022 10:55pm
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  Swifty – it is all a matter of what you choose to put your faith in. Because these speculations on the origins of life and species are not truely science – they are theories ie The Theory of Evolution, The Big Bang Theory.
  
  The scientific discovery of knowledge is not in dispute eg I am sure the scientists are correct in stating that some of the building blocks of our living bodies have been found on a space rock. But when this is used to propose a theory that life on earth came about from space rocks mixing in primordial gloop for billions of years, that remains a theory. It cannot be proven. Alternative theories and arguments against the theory can also be proposed. So ultimately you subscription to these theories to explain your origins are philosophical, faith based, beliefs.
  
  Personally, I find it hard to comprehend how one can believe in life and the sheer complexity of life with so many codependent and interconnected pieces needing to have developed precisely and simultaneously for the system to be able to exist. This is very much counter to the science of the laws of thermodynamics that state, without energy everything moves into disorder/chaos. The evidence around me shows me it takes a lot of creative energy for us to progress. As such, my faith in God has a more scientific basis to me than your alternative. I agree that this God loving us deeply and caring about us all as individuals is quite hard to believe, but for me it is awe inspiring.
  
  I believe with God, that if you have an open mind, when you seek you will find, when you knock the door will be opened to you.
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:23pm
Maggie Pie

And what about Joe Biden’s appointment of Nina Jankowicz as ‘Minister-of-Truth’

She was the one who called Hunter’s laptop “Russian disinformation”

Although loved her Song & Dance Routine….my kinda gal 😛

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1520101471508967426
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May 2, 2022 9:40am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Dead link, but this works:
  https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com/
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:59am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Shit! This was a reply to colina below
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:01am
colina

Cactus Kate has some excellent advice for the Nats and Luxton
https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com/2022/05/why-scomo-and-libs-are-best-learnings.htm
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May 2, 2022 9:45am
- Yabster
  
  she should run for PM!
  
  Great article and agree all of the points – also learnt something about Winnie – he knew…..
  
  He Puapua was the quickest commissioned document Maori have ever produced. Why? Because it was produced years ago at the UN in New York. Winston Peters god daughter, Claire Charters wrote it with her equally privileged part-indigenous mates over drinks at 42nd and 1st Avenue in NYC. So either Winston wasn’t told and is the dumbest man on the planet conned by his own god daughter and he should be very angry, or he knew all along and is just taking the piss. You choose the likely outcome. Ask Winston why his own god daughter didn’t tell him what was up or he did not ever question what she was up to.
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:10am
  - MCōs
    
    In NZ one doesn’t “run for PM”.
    
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    May 2, 2022 1:39pm
- David Garrett
  
  the link doesn’t work “the page you are looking for does not exist”
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:42am
  - colina
    
    Sorry try again via the blog
    Cactus Kate has some excellent advice for the Nats and Luxton
    
    https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com
    
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    May 2, 2022 10:49am
  - rangitoto
    
    The link is missing the letter l from the end. Should end in .html
    
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    May 2, 2022 11:50am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Why would Cactus Cate offer advice to Jo Luxton in the Labour party?
  I can understand her offering advice to National.
  
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  May 2, 2022 11:16am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Luxton is the only MP in parliament, and she is the Rangitarta MP for a short time
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:06pm
Nickc2

Lianne Audrey Dalziel is leaving Chch something to remember her by. Labour Mayors are like that. Akld’s Mayor is leaving us with a massive debt. That stinks too!
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May 2, 2022 9:46am
- Nickc2
  
  My post above was in response to Nukuleka’s post @ 9:22AM.
  
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  May 2, 2022 10:19am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Sometimes the mods take their time
    
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    May 2, 2022 12:56pm
trout

The ‘3 Waters’ announcement on Friday was a confirmation of how the Maori caucus in the Labour party has the government by the balls. The Party is hypersensitive to the prospect that the Maori party, (by virtue of being more attractive to the separatist radicals) taking the Maori seats. The reality is that the strategists in Labour can see the election being lost on this issue alone but have had to submit to the squeeze.
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May 2, 2022 9:50am
- Nickc2
  
  The battle is not over! Any reference or inference to Maori owning water has to be removed from this nation once and for all!
  
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  May 2, 2022 2:09pm
cas

I know how we can solve two problems at the same time, those of climate change and homelessness. Let’s build social housing in Waiouru.
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May 2, 2022 9:58am
- Paulus
  
  Surely there are still plenty of empty houses in theCamp at Waiouru which could be used.
  
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  May 2, 2022 2:01pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Many have been sold & carted away. Quite a lot of grass where the houses used to be.
    
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    May 2, 2022 7:17pm
- Nickc2
  
  ….. and build a fucking great wall around the place.
  
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  May 2, 2022 2:10pm
I remember when

TV3 Newshub:
Napier’s brand new airport will be inundated.
My personal observations suggest that a 30cm rise in sea-level would still leave a reasonable safety level.
The estuary/lagoon area would seem likely to be able to cope with such a rise if it did happen.
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May 2, 2022 10:06am
- All_on_Red
  
  The Airport is 2 metres above Sea Level.
  At the current rate of Sea Level Rise of 2-3 mm per annum, a 30 cm rise will take 100-150 years to happen.
  I think we’re going to be ok
  
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  May 2, 2022 1:33pm
  - Ehlana
    
    And by then, your personal aero-drone will collect you from your lawn. Or roof deck, as applicable. Airports will be like steam train workshops today.
    
    Besides, won’t we all have moved to Mars?
    
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    May 2, 2022 5:15pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Shame. I think we should bring back Short Solents.
    
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    May 2, 2022 7:18pm
kowtow

Another day another NZME Herald cartoon attack on the Nats .

And they have the gall to claim they are holding power to account.

They are not the fourth estate , they are an extension of the PM’s office.
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May 2, 2022 10:12am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Their cartoonist is a demented Lefty loon.
  
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  May 2, 2022 8:29pm
Taieri

O tempora, o mores…

Even the fish and chips cooks have to be imported from overseas these days:

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/concern-sponsored-migrant-pay-rate
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May 2, 2022 10:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Best Anna Arndt ask an expert fish n chips person on what to do.
  Then again, maybe not
  
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  May 2, 2022 2:46pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Be fair. It’s Jaxxie’s one domain of subject matter expertise.
    
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    May 2, 2022 7:19pm
Maggie Pie

Don’t know if I should be unduly concerned or not….
my partner left his phone in the kitchen earlier while he was in the shower.
A quick look showed he’d been searching ‘Massey Ferguson’ and ‘Kubota’ 🙁
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May 2, 2022 10:55am
- Biscuit
  
  Look at the wheels on that Massey Ferguson, Maggie!
  
  Phwoar!
  
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  May 2, 2022 11:37am
  - rangitoto
    
    What about the John Deere “X” series combine harvesters.
    
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    May 2, 2022 11:53am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Very sexy harvester on Country Calendar last night.
      
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      May 2, 2022 12:26pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… ‘They’ do lawnmowers, your other half is only checking out tractors. You should be ok with that.
  
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  May 2, 2022 12:29pm
  - zulumonster
    
    kevn – checking out “tractors” didn’t work out too well for the British MP recently …
    
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    May 2, 2022 2:41pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, a bit late but I found it…
  ‘Porn MP’ Neil Parish was searching for ‘Dominator’ brand combine harvesters when he looked at explicit material in Parliament, his friends say’.
  
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  May 2, 2022 3:17pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Crikey! That’s my brand of garage door
    
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    May 2, 2022 7:23pm
skyblue

I asked Jan Tinetti to define a women. Reply below. Opens up a can of worms. I can go to a all ‘womens’ event as I can identify as a women.

Tēnā koe Peter,

On behalf of Hon Jan Tinetti, Minister for Women, thank you for your email dated 8 April 2022.
The Minister for Women and the Ministry for Women represents the interests and supports the rights of all women, including transgender and transsexual women, and recognises the rights of all people to self-identify.

Nāku noa, nā
Office of Hon Jan Tinetti
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May 2, 2022 11:17am
- kowtow
  
  Quite simply , that’s madness.
  
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  May 2, 2022 12:45pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Woke stupidity but the same thing.
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:31pm
All_on_Red

Oh Noes. Remember how the TDS Morons Virtualmark, Batman, Okahu and co have been telling us for months that the NY District Attorney will ‘finally get Trump’!
Well no.
‘A six-month grand jury convened to hear evidence in the investigation into the business dealings of former President Donald Trump has reportedly ended, and no charges are expected to be filed as the investigation appears to be waning.
Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg recently ceased sending evidence to jurors. Bragg inherited the investigation from his predecessor, Cyrus Vance.
Vance began the investigation following allegations Trump’s business lied about the value of its properties. It was alleged the Trump Organization did so for the purposes of leveraging tax breaks and receiving preferential loan treatment’
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/04/30/new-york-grand-jury-fishing-expedition-into-trumps-businesses-ending-without-charges-n466062
Hahahahahahahahah
What a bunch of dumb losers.
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May 2, 2022 11:36am
- Matt Long
  
  Please note Batman has moved on, he is now into DSDS, DeSantis Derangement Syndrome.
  
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  May 2, 2022 3:25pm
Maggie Pie

JUST IN….

Looks like Emmanuel is off to a good start 🙁

https://twitter.com/DagnyTaggart369/status/1520778280055578628

Wonder if this will be lead item tonite on 1EWES?
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May 2, 2022 11:40am
rangitoto

O’Sullivan leading Trump 12 – 5 in the final.
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May 2, 2022 11:48am
- Maggie Pie
  
  More TDS
  
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  May 2, 2022 12:18pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yes, I had to check – and I should know, our family played that
    
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    May 2, 2022 2:51pm
Nickc2

We can rest easy now, Biden’s mob are going to manage the Internet (in collaboration with other countries of course). Is this the Democrat’s way of shutting down Elon Musk’s Twitter organisation?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/biden-administrations-declaration-for-the-future-of-the-internet.html
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May 2, 2022 2:36pm
Niz

Jacinda will have to get rid of this mask wearing nonsense soon because it won’t be long before people wonder what the hell she’s talking about when she finally does it. I was down at Botany shops last night and loads of people (young and old) weren’t wearing them – not even to hold their chin up.
Same again today at Meadowlands shops – not so many, but compliance has always been pretty high down there in the past.
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May 2, 2022 3:08pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Just wait until she’s accused of denying wahine the right to display their chin heritage.
  
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  May 2, 2022 7:25pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Remember last week I posted the vid of ‘Pres Putin’ gripping the side of that ridiculously yuge Dining Table to stop himself from shaking?
No doubt he’s suffering from Parkinson’s.

The comparisons was inevitable…..

https://twitter.com/nocontextviral/status/1520620196016406531
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May 2, 2022 3:17pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Here is a thought – How long will it be before the NZ Media have more employees than listeners/watchers?
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May 2, 2022 4:06pm
Maggie Pie

And looks to me like someone might have just pumped the brakes on Twitter (?)

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted…
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May 2, 2022 4:11pm
Maggie Pie

One of Ma’s friends from the Village txts….

‘LABOUR VOTERS – PEOPLE WHO WANT EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EXCEPT YOUR JOB’

😀
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May 2, 2022 5:02pm
Tony Stuart

Excellent speech from Christopher Luxon this afternoon in the run-up to the Budget. The whol speech is worth a read, but this excerpt stands out:

While Government spending gets lots of attention at Budget time, there’s often little focus on the wider economic settings that actually drive prosperity.

It’s those settings I want to focus on today.

National talks a lot about business and the economy – but not for their own sakes.

We want a strong economy, because that is how we drive prosperity for all Kiwis.

A strong economy is how we lift wages, grow jobs, and create choices for families.

A strong economy, with incomes growing faster than prices, is how Kiwis get ahead, and how we – as a country – can invest in the things that matter to all of us.

Like delivering world-class healthcare, education that works for everyone, a police force that keeps our communities safe, or protecting our environment.

Labour’s economic approach isn’t working because they believe government, and in particular government spending, drives prosperity.

I utterly reject that view.

It’s the reason Labour haven’t been focused on the microeconomic reforms needed to grow our economy.

National knows our future will be built on the hard work of Kiwis and businesses in communities up and down this country.

So we’re focused on policies to support these Kiwis and make it easier to have a go – easier to invest, easier to innovate, easier to employ and easier to take a punt – policies that will grow the pie for us all.

So today I want to outline a bit more about how we can kick-start and enlarge the engine-room of our economy to drive prosperity – the broader economic approach that National will implement to deliver strong, sustainable growth over the rest of this decade and beyond.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/watch-and-read-christopher-luxon-s-full-pre-budget-speech.html

Great to see Luxon differentiate between productivity driven by private employers, innovation and job growth as opposed to Labour’s commitment to a bloated government spending our money for ius because they know best.
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May 2, 2022 5:31pm
- greybeard
  
  It would be a lot better if he ditched the word “kiwis” and used “New Zealanders”.
  There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a New Zealander.
  
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  May 2, 2022 5:43pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    A bestie from Tennis has an established business that manufactures and exports Possum-Fur apparel to Europe. Hats and Gloves mainly.
    She was telling us they’d considered changing their Tags & Labels from….. ‘Proudly-made-in-New-Zealand’ to say ‘AOTEAROA’.
    
    When she ran it by her German based distributor, they responded…..”best leave it as it is”.
    Apparently, when the client googled it, they were directed to a doco made by Ross Kemp…about the ‘Mighty-Mongrel-Mob’
    
    LOL!!
    
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    May 2, 2022 7:26pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yeah, but…
  
  Look how he was handled on Checkpoint this evening.
  
  Lisa Owen tried grilling him on exactly how many years of hard work would someone on $59,000/yr need to do to afford a house.
  
  Then after Luxon mentioned the need for folks in NZ to get a decent education and referenced our appalling attendance stats and low Maths/science /literacy results…Lisa Owen read out a comment from someone blaming NZ’s lousy educational standards on 9 years of National Government.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018840285/chris-luxon-defends-pre-budget-speech
  
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  May 2, 2022 7:06pm
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    I want National and Act to be the next government but it pains me to see Luxon not answer the question repeatedly put to him.
    
    Answer the F##%=/ing question! Then run off the mouth.
    
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    May 2, 2022 8:11pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      He answers most questions, but why should he be dictated to by paid rotten media
      
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      May 2, 2022 9:15pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Nats had states heading in the right direction, nothing to do with neglect, this rotten regime has made out comes worse and stopped collecting figures and having targets
    
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    May 2, 2022 9:17pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  All Labour know is throw money at it and job done, they have thrown 20 million at truancy today, what is the bet not one cent is checked on, and we will hear no more for a few months, where they will be stupid enough to give another 20 mill, throwing money at a problem never helps, its the spend, and this is what Luxon has been saying from day one, does he sound like a labour lite to you in this speech today?
  
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  May 2, 2022 9:14pm
Maggie Pie

WOW!
I see where another major Construction outfit in Wello….’Armstrong Downes’, has just gone into liquidation.
Leaving the poor old Subbies out of pocket again by the sound of it 🙁

Hopefully, it may mean we’ll be able to get some earlier action on the new roof for our Pergola, rather than having to wait until next October.

Fingers crossed, anyway.
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May 2, 2022 5:48pm
dad4justice

Anybody seen Redbaiter ?
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May 2, 2022 6:25pm
Maggie Pie

HDPA had an overweight sounding women on her show earlier.
She was telling Heather how much she objects to men calling her….. Hunny, or Sweetheart.
Finds it ‘offensive’ apparently 🙁

Silly bitch! I love it!!
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May 2, 2022 6:45pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/300578176/the-really-scary-thing-about-the-johnny-depp-and-amber-heard-court-case
Actually, I reckon the only scary thing about this lot of rubbish is that people accept it as the truth, and can’t see that it it is just another PR stunt.
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