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Luke Piewalker

Welcome to Jacinda’s kind caring New Zealand …

My daughter had her baby in Tauranga hospital 5pm Sunday evening

… and was sent home 7pm that night.

TWO HOURS after giving birth.

You really have wrecked the place haven’t you Jacinda.
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May 25, 2022 8:00am
- Frank the tank
  
  Be Kind.
  
  TBH in a couple of years you won’t even get 2 hours in a hospital unless you are of a certain ethnicity.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:19am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Congratulations..
  
  But I do hope there are a few folks on hand to:
  
  do the washing for mum & babe
  cook some nice meals for new mum
  clean the house for mum
  fend off visitors who stay too long
  stock the cupboards and fridge
  etc
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:20am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Congratulations.
  
  I’m guessing your wife will get better care at home. Shortage of medical staff no doubt forced this situation.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:24am
- Tricati
  
  Congratulations grand dad. Hope mum and baby doing well.
  It does feel like every aspect of our way of life has gone backwards under this Labour government, and unfortunately, it’s only going to get worse.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:27am
  - curry4me
    
    Congratulations are due. I guess this underlines the fact that anything with ‘public’ in the title is second, or third rate.
    
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    May 25, 2022 11:54am
- peterwn
  
  Things may only get worse. With the Hutt Hospital woes, Hutt Valley babies could literally be ‘born in a tent’ MASH style while a nearby birthing unit remains closed for political face saving reasons.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:46am
- krazykiwi
  
  Congrats Luke. Your first grandchild?
  
  Your daughter’s rapid hospital discharge is disgraceful. As Maggy has noted, I hope there’s plenty of support for her at this important time.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:57am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Daughter also misses the chance to talk and bond with other Women. It is important, especially her talking with Women who have birthed before.
    My first wife made many friends that she still has today.
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:03am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  She surely has. She lost my ear when she called the school girl that worked at KFC a liar over COVID scare when Min of health suggested it was Ardern lying, and the no bloody apology
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:27am
- Raphael
  
  IF there are no complications this is not abnormal.
  
  When my youngest was born 10 years ago, we were transferred from the Thames Birthing Centre down to Waikato hospital (an ambulance trip for my wife) as there were potential complications. after she was born (no actual complications) in the wee hours of the morning, they discharged us from Waikato hospital after about 2 hours and we had to drive back to the birthing centre in the Thames at about 3am (no ambulance this time).
  
  (both the Waikato hospital staff and Thames Birthing Centre staff were great)
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:44am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They usually make first time mums stay 24 hours dont they?
    
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    May 25, 2022 2:37pm
    - Observer of Life
      
      Congrats Luke!
      Back in 2001 it was 72 hours (AKL). You could stay longer but at your own cost. And that wasn’t enough for a first time Mum. Two hours is shameful. Thanks again Cindy. Another wreckage left behind.
      
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      May 25, 2022 3:38pm
- Sacha
  
  To be fair: back in 2000, when I was doing a stint at a very small rural hospital mothers would often go straight home after the delivery of the baby. They would be checked over by their midwife, and be visited every day for a week or so until they were settled.
  Back then, home deliveries were the thing, along with water births.
  
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  May 25, 2022 11:02am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Nobody, but nobody prepared me for the volume and duration of lochia…
    
    Bloody weeks of bloody blood, uterine discharge and mucus and goodness only knows what else.
    
    Poor old hubby having to cart filthy, bloody knickers, nightgowns, dressing gowns, etc home to wash each day for the week I got in hospital with my 2 babes 30+ years ago.
    
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    May 25, 2022 12:43pm
- Bullion
  
  I agree we should be taxing and spending more healthcare.
  
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  May 25, 2022 3:09pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  congrat’s grandpa.
  Bet Cinderella got more than 2hrs in hospital.
  
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  May 25, 2022 4:49pm
- wilderbeast
  
  I real do feel for you, that’s horrendous. And to think the nurses who could have been there providing an appropriate level of care are probably waiting to find out if they passed the compulsory Te Tiriti course.
  
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  May 25, 2022 6:14pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Why the left don’t want Elon Musk to buy Twitter.
Musk has more money than the Clinton Foundation will ever have. Remember what Killary said: “If I go down, I will take half of DC with me” That is blackmail, forcing the left to stay with her.
https://trendingpolitics.com/boom-elon-musk-goes-directly-after-hillary-clinton-and-her-2016-campaign-hoax-sabel/?
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May 25, 2022 8:04am
- lastmanstanding
  
  I hope that Nats take “learnings” from the Liberals defeat. IMHO apart from being the encumbent the Libs lost because they tried to be like Labor but said they would do it better. A portion of the voters didnt like Labors climate change policy but voted for them anyway.
  The Nats have got to attack climate change by pointing out how much it will cost an individual and a household each week and that NZ is two drops in a 2 litre bottle of milk as regards the global situation and in any case climate change is a scam and hoax designed to take money out of citizens pockets and put it into governments elites academics and consultants pockets.
  Its a rort and will be proved so. Its become a religion where to offer an alternative opinion is to invite personal attack like no other.
  In addition the Nats have to show how their policies will put more money in taxpayers pockets without increasing inflation……………………tax cuts.
  They also need to show how they will spend taxes. Alas all political parties crow about spending More but none talk about spending Wisely. Where is the evidenec of careful prudent financial management they type households demonstrate every day of the week. I dont and have never seen it. Just ‘we will spend $X more than them”.
  Pathetic.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:23am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    You are listening too much to Slater. It took to long for him to suggest the he had to address climate change, you do realise the teals and greens have won support because of Libs anti climate change stance, Luxon has addressed it, centre voters with a teal stance will know it’s been addressed, if you want Nats going alt tight, then that’s your opinion, but they will never ever win an election, that’s why ACT was set up, to chase the s as lt right, they have not stuck to their lane, so for act they lose my long term party vote
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:53am
    - Philview
      
      I agree that Luxon’s strategy is working. Go for the centre and leave ACT on the right.
      
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      May 25, 2022 11:05am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        That is what they are supposed to do, Act were supposed to push for the party vote only , but they think they are smart now, and are trying to suggest they will win other electorates, they will not, what the hell are they standing in the by-election for? they have not got a shit show, but could well split the vote letting the rotten Labour party sneak in
        
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        May 25, 2022 2:41pm
      - Jimbob
        
        New Zealanders should be very grateful to have ACT to steer the country away from all the communist crap. I would put all this climate crap into that category.
        
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        May 25, 2022 4:14pm
    - kowtow
      
      Right block won more preference than left block.
      
      ‘Teal” and Green is an inner city rich white women’s issue , not a bread and butter one , which with the coming recession and inflation we already have , is not the way to win over broad swathes of the electorate in struggle street.
      
      The more one buggers about with carbon crap policy the more energy prices will go up.
      
      Then any party “embracing” climate change can kiss their arse good bye , and good riddance.
      
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      May 25, 2022 11:20am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Luxon has stated that only science should be used to drop emissions , and he is right , he does not one more cent forced on people or businesses
        
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        May 25, 2022 2:42pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        G the Giant.. are you actually Christopher Luxon in disguise? 😉
        
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        May 25, 2022 3:53pm
  - Positan
    
    The greatest nonsense about NZ’s heavy economic commitment to “climate change” is that our emissions are but 0.16% of global emissions. In other words, only 16 thousandths of total global emissions.
    
    We could double, treble or go 10 times as much emissions without really affecting the scale, so why do we have the crazy idea that any efforts we make to reduce emissions EVEN REGISTER on the global scale – so why are we wasting money and stymieing so much in farming and industry?
    
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    May 25, 2022 11:05am
    - Batman
      
      If 30 countries like ours all do similar, that’s a few percent. Then add more and more countries and suddenly you’re actively reducing emissions and pollution by noticeable volumes.
      
      The argument that small places should do nothing is the lazy argument against it.
      
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      May 25, 2022 11:41am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        I’m sure Batman, that you are entirely au fait with the follow on arguments from Positans post. Sure it’s lazy, but then so is your response. The issue is that if you want to flesh it out and explain literally everything you know on the subject (so as to not get accused of being lazy), you get tldr comments.
        
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        May 25, 2022 12:12pm
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        I don’t often agree with you but you are right in saying that all countries, no matter how small, need to do their part.
        
        Moving the problem overseas is not the solution. We need to actually reduce emmissions but in an intelligent manner than doesn’t bankrupt the country.
        
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        May 25, 2022 1:18pm
      - I remember when
        
        Regardless of your view almost all of climate change is a lazy argument.
        
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        May 25, 2022 2:14pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Then one volcano like Tonga comes along and wipes out a whole years savings in one puff, dont say no , because its fact
        
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        May 25, 2022 2:44pm
      - namron
        
        Batman, be realistic and realise all NZ’s contributions are NOTHING.
        As other contributors [like positan, kowtow etc] have said a wider perspective would show that the 81 cities in the world with populations greater than our country’s makes our country’s position a
        and efforts a bit clearer.
        With Tokyo having 37,435, 191 people, [7 times NZ’s pop.]
        but also Delhi with 29,399,141,
        Shanghai 26,399,104,
        Sao Paulo 21,671,908 etc I wonder what efforts they are making!!
        
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        May 25, 2022 3:29pm
      - Batman
        
        Maybe you should stop wondering aloud and actually go and look?
        
        Doing nothing is just being that guy in the flat who refuses to clean common areas. A selfish asshole, in other words.
        
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        May 25, 2022 6:32pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “If 30 countries like ours all do similar, that’s a few percent.”
        
        All massively swamped by the output of China, India and the other developing nations for decades to come.
        
        A pointless and deeply painful mission of economic suicide.
        
        And all this distraction and waste for the reality that there is not a climate “crisis”. There is overwhelmingly natural climate change which we can only adapt to (try doing that without fossil fuels and you will face increasing deaths from storms/fires/floods etc etc. Fossil fuels provide resilience against the blows nature delivers!)
        The IR bands that Co2 “absorb” are now mostly saturated (providing just enough insulation to stop earth going fully frigid). From here on in you get about 1C increase in global temp per DOUBLING of Co2 in the atmosphere (alarmist cultists have fluffed that up to 3C upon discovering this massive flaw in their chicken little hypothesis). 97% of the Co2 in the atmosphere is NOT from human endeavours. Currently ALL Co2 in the atmosphere accounts for 0.04% of the total atmosphere. Put all this together and there is no good reason go on an economic and social suicide mission. People in the west are going to suffer horribly if they keep chasing this over-hyped fool’s errand.
        
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        May 25, 2022 5:20pm
      - Batman
        
        China signed up to Paris too.
        
        Yes of course there are issues with China continuing to expand coal plants etc.
        
        That is not an excuse.
        
        If the British Army can see the benefits of leading on green energy sources which are less vulnerable, surely we can too.
        
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        May 25, 2022 6:50pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Batman: “China signed up to Paris too.”
        
        You realise it’s “commitment” is to peak its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions “before 2030” and to reach net zero by *2060*?
        
        So let’s say China and India PEAK their emissions in 2030 or later (which is likely when you look at the achievements of most western countries on this stuff).
        
        To use your crappy flatmate that doesn’t do her share of chores analogy; You are pointing fingers and going off at the slack flatmate while there’s another guy emptying the the contents of a poo pumping truck into the lounge window every day!!! Is your finger wagging at the no-chores chick going to help the overall state of the house in that scenario?
        
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        May 26, 2022 12:23am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Batman re the Brit Army supposedly endorsing woke green ideology, it will be getting orders to repeat woke green stuff from the govt of the day. If the govt is lost in space the army will, tragically, have to be seen to be endorsing whatever it’s told to endorse. That tells me nothing about the sanity of the stuff being endorsed.
        
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        May 26, 2022 12:31am
  - WellingtonBFF
    
    I’m not sure the analysis on the defeat by some people is particularly sound. Many National voters ‘get’ issues like managing the economy and understand logic over ‘feelz’. Unfortunately, many middle voters do not. Many (women 30-50 in particular) voted against the libs simply because they hate Morrison.
    
    A friend told me she overheard a woman at her work saying she was going to vote Jacinda in 2020 simply because she ‘loves her hair’. Luxon needs to win the middle and he is heading in the right direction. Some of it is not ‘logical’ to us but it needs to be done. Note how often Ardern uses emotive language – it attracts a special kind of voter. Logic and business sense alone will not an election win.
    
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    May 25, 2022 1:23pm
    - kowtow
      
      You’re not suggesting that policy be made to appeal to retards are you ?
      
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      May 25, 2022 2:45pm
      - WellingtonBFF
        
        Not at all -I’m saying you need to also harvest ‘feelz’ and appeal to the middle with centrist policies. Labour presented no policies for the (let’s not make it political) Covid election and won. Albanese also presented virtually no policies. Logical and better policies will not win – especially if they cannot be advertised by a hostile media. Kiwibloggers are interested in policies – most people are not, nor do they research them.
        
        Remember that National only has 4 Press secretaries in total. The PM has more than that alone, and each Minister gets one as well. The public service has grown to over 500 ‘PR spinners’ (public sector communications roles -more than there are journalists). National are also fighting the media party who are hell bent on holding the opposition to account not the government!!
        
        National must choose which battles to fight, which can be neutralised and when not to interfere when an enemy is making mistakes.
        
        At least the finance minister has an inkling of who will be the next government. He has pre-spent $2B from budget 2023 and $.4B on top of the extra $6B operating expenditure uplift!!. He’s robbing the future cupboards!! Only smart of the opposition will be in power!!
        
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        May 25, 2022 4:00pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Agreed, thats what annoys me when people say not voting Nats, they do not even know their policies yet, it is absolutely pathetic to think this way, we have stuffed up the last 2 elections , and people are readying to make the same bloody mistake
      
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      May 25, 2022 2:46pm
    - cjn
      
      Well, the woman or women who vote for Jacinda because of her hair (stylist) certainly won’t be voting for Luxon.
      
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      May 25, 2022 5:22pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      I do sometimes wonder if Islam is right about women when I read depressing stuff like that! To be fair, just before the Aus election I asked a grizzled 60 year ocker male blue collar worker what he thought the outcome of the election would be. He instantly went off on a spit feckled rant about how he hated Scomo and would leave the country if he got voted back in (didn’t give any reasons for that). Mind you, urban Victoria is generally very left wing.
      
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      May 25, 2022 5:56pm
    - Observer of Life
      
      Welly: Maybe Luxon needs a wig?
      
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      May 25, 2022 10:18pm
  - Prince
    
    The Libs lost because they’d had 10 years in power and people said ‘enough, time to give the other bloke a chance.’
    
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    May 25, 2022 3:08pm
- curry4me
  
  Good for Elon Musk. I see the WSJ have had a go at her too.
  
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  May 25, 2022 11:59am
Scott

John Durham is doing good work exposing the fact that Hillary Clinton directed the whole Trump/ Russia fiasco to tarnish him and to distract from her own email scandal. Cross examination of Hillary advisor Robbie Mook proves that Clinton lied all along. That many who pushed the narrative such as John Brennan knew about it and amplified the lie anyway. It is inconceivable the mainstream media did not know it was all a lie.

The main story of 2016 to 2019, that Trump was a Russian agent, was a compete fabrication. The elites knew about it and lied for 4 years that the story was true. Never trust the Liberal elites, never trust the mainstream media. They are leakers and liars.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/hillary-factor-evidence-now-shows-russia-collusion-lie

How much of what we are being fed today is a lie? Here’s some possible examples :
– Joe Biden is mentally competent to be president of the United States
– The 2020 presidential election was totally fine and Joe Biden really got 81 million votes.
– The covid vaccine is completely safe
– The end of the world is nigh unless we drastically cut back on greenhouse gases.
How much of what we are being fed today is leftist ideology and fake news?
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May 25, 2022 8:04am
- kowtow
  
  Very heavily reported in our media ………..not.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:20am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The rabid left live in a different World to us.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:06am
  - peterwn
    
    You mean like your namesake Gerald Otto (Daily Blog).
    
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    May 25, 2022 1:39pm
- Littletramp
  
  Those who have been watching US politics closely, have seen the lies years before they emerge in media. Just watch the Senate and Congress hearings and White House confirmations live and in full to have your eyes opened & understand where the truth lies.
  Think back to the attempted impeachment of Trump over the Ukraine phone call and the phony witnesses bought in one after another. This is what the cry for support for Ukraine is all about, covering up the huge recent corruption by US elites through money laundering, arms deals, energy deals, political interference etc, all at the expense of the US taxpayers.
  You know why Mahuta never spoke to the NZ Russian ambassador before we sent funds to support Ukraine – she already knew the whole thing was a US construct and facts were of no consequence to us – i.e. no point.
  The reason why there is no balance of perspective is the modern journalists. This generation of journalists have lost their audience, they see themselves and everyone else as oppressed minorities, and they are now simply manipulated political activists.
  You have to search blogs, podcasts, etc for real journalism – hint, the good ones are typically over 50 yrs of age.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:35am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Killary should be in jail. She has lied under Oath many times.
  If Musk and Trump lawyer up, there will be a lot of very juicy things happening to the Democrat ELITE!!
  Let it happen, for too long the elite have protected them selves, and not Americans.
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:00am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Nope!
    
    As much as I agree with the above Hillary and company will never suffer any consequences and even the minions won’t be too badly punished, as we’ve seen with FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who falsified a CIA email saying that Carter Page was a source they used against the Russians.
    
    It’s an incredibly convoluted story, which also aids the chances of them getting away with it, but I’ve tried to summarise it here, Jail Time for the attempted coup?
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:25am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Not so sure about that, many high ranking Yanks have gone down over this type of thing over the years, and they get long jail terms for stuff that is let slip here in this country, and they say we are one of the least corrupt . Bwhahahahahaha
      
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      May 25, 2022 2:50pm
  - cmm
    
    These people think they are completely above the law and the norms of civilised society.
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:35am
    - Paulus
      
      Like Jacinda !
      
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      May 25, 2022 11:01am
    - mawm
      
      They don’t think it, they know it. What happened to Hillary for destroying evidence after there had been a court order to retain it? Why was she not interviewed under oath by Comey… and with her lawyer, a co-conspirator, present? Why were they allowed by the FBI to destroy their laptops without them being looked at? But wander through the halls of the Capitol on Jan 6th and you’ll be in gaol and be exposed sadistic treatment by the warders.
      
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      May 25, 2022 11:05am
      - Batman
        
        Ahhh yes, email crimes are terrible yet a violent riot causing property damage and human death and injury is totally innocent.
        
        Partisan much?
        
        I look forward to your calls for Trump to be immediately tried for treason for removing dozens of boxes of classified material from the WH to his private home.
        
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        May 25, 2022 11:43am
      - bjools
        
        Batman finally admitting BLM are criminals.
        
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        May 25, 2022 11:54am
      - leoj
        
        …but the BLM riots are okay Batman?
        
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        May 25, 2022 2:26pm
      - cjn
        
        Remy nailed it. A Love Song.
        
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        May 25, 2022 5:30pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Batman why to do you trivialise a secretary of state destroying subpoenaed emails? If a lesser mortal in the chain of command did that they’d be locked up for a very long time.
        
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        May 25, 2022 6:04pm
      - mawm
        
        Batman – as usual you are distorting fact. The only people killed (2) on Jan 6 in DC were killed by the Capitol police. That is not partisan but the fact that you are trying to make it something else says a lot about you.
        
        The boxes of classified material had been declassified prior to his taking them home. You won’t read that in the MSM that you so slavishly parrot. Just like everything else the Democrats have tried to pin on Trump it will be nothing. He must be the cleanest man in America! How many investigations and breathless accusations made about him have proven to be nothing? TDS much?
        
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        May 25, 2022 9:04pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Trump said it here.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S63MW41dP58
    
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    May 25, 2022 11:01am
- Harry Knuts
  
  went to watch Hills when she was here before Cindy got to be PM – pretty much just after she lost the election. She was a total bore. Bitched the whole time how Trump is a woman-hater and he and the russians rigged the election.
  the show she put on was such a disappointment.
  
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  May 25, 2022 4:51pm
Tony Stuart

Does Poto Williams still reject the premise of the question that the public is getting concerned about rising gang tensions in Auckland and around New Zealand?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-shootings-police-called-to-seven-suburbs-around-the-city-overnight/SDZV5GPQUAMO5XUO6MXRN7ETZM/

With multiple drive-by shootings in Auckland over the last 48 hours as the Tribesmen and the Killer Beez go to war with one another, it’s only a matter of time before we’re dealing with another Jhia Te Tua.

https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/28257/jhia-te-tuas-death
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May 25, 2022 8:05am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Poto Williams is way out of her intellectual depth in the position she is in Tony (like pretty much all of the Labour Cabinet Ministers). She has a limited idea of what is going on, no idea how to fix any problems that might come her way, and not enough horsepower in intelligence wise to find her way through the myriad of papers crossing her desk that encapsulate the issues and suggest interventions and solutions. She might as well be a children’s toy.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:19am
  - pdm
    
    Poto is In the same class as Klueless Kelvin who won’t do interviews about the Sanitiser drinking prisoners at Waikeria.
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:01am
  - cmm
    
    Poto Williams would be out of her intellectual depth mopping the floor.
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:36am
    - slijmbal
      
      A British relative of mine on seeing her picture named her Prisoner from Cell Block H. Hilarious and to point.
      
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      May 25, 2022 1:39pm
  - wilderbeast
    
    It’s a good point – her lack of basic intelligence, let alone that required of a minister. But it is useful to the Labour Party, the scope for plausible deniability is limitless when you’re so stupid – you don’t even have to lie, although that’s always on the menu for the Labour Party
    
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    May 25, 2022 6:17pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Oh, I’m sure it is “just a spike, not a trend”….
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:23am
  - H. Upmann
    
    According to Fool Goff this morning, Auckland gun violence is just a perception.
    
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    May 25, 2022 8:26am
    - Ehlana
      
      Perhaps we could ask the gangs to do their “perceiving” at just his house in future?
      
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      May 25, 2022 9:41am
      - Nickc2
        
        As was pointed out yesterday, Mayors using the Labour brand are duty-bound to promote Govt thinking/propaganda.
        
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        May 25, 2022 9:45am
      - JimBobJoe
        
        He doesn’t live in Auckland City – he has a Clevedon lifestyle block miles from the problem areas in the suburban South and West of Auckland.
        
        As I always say – these career Pollies, Academics and Government workers who write and control policy are rarely affected by the nitty gritty on the streets.
        
        One plus for me is the 501 lead Comancheros are moving into the nice suburbs of Kohi and St Heliers…. The more damage they do in those neighbourhoods the sooner the problem will be address with forceful and coherent action…
        
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        May 25, 2022 3:18pm
    - bjools
      
      OOOHHH…that’s great phil….if it is just a perception ….you won’t mind standing in front of the next target house.
      
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      May 25, 2022 9:49am
    - Harry Knuts
      
      ohh FFS did he really? can’t wait for him to go – completely and utterly useless – typical labour – only good for raising or creating new taxes which is the only thing he has achieved in his terms.
      Guess the run reform laws worked aye? not… (sarc)
      took the guns off law abiding citizens and the crims keep all theirs. ya think they’re gonna walk in and hand them over? nah.. never.
      
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      May 25, 2022 4:54pm
  - Tricati
    
    According to Phil Goff, the violence in Auckland is ‘just a perception’. What a tosser.
    
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    May 25, 2022 8:30am
  - RoboRob
    
    The narrative has changed from ‘their is no issue’ to ‘we have know about the problem for some time and thats why the budget features addtional funding for police’.
    
    Heard Megan Woods say they issue is all around funding of police and that National underfunded. This is just so wrong and the problem with most labour policy. If funding by itself fixed things, than our hospital wait lists would be reducing rather than increasing, for example.
    
    The problem with gangs is not the funding of police but the narrative from the govt and police around crime and the policy framework. Why else would violent crime be rising so fast under labours ‘funded police’ vs the previous National ‘un funded police’
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:41am
    - gravedodger
      
      A Government could double the police budget and achieve zero as the whole culture is to ignore Gang offending, minimise arrest of bad buggers, and generally just maintain a funding stream by attending to those with means and money to enable fines for income for the coffers.
      Constable Joe Citizen is as upset and confused at what Coster’s hierarchy is implementing but goes to work to keep a job?
      
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      May 25, 2022 1:05pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      Heard Ms Woods gabbling on Hosking’s show this morning.
      “nine years of neglect” featuring strongly and National’s fault because they sold off the housing stock to private investors.
      She just raved on and on and was utterly boring.
      Can see her as the next leader of the Labour Party.
      
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      May 25, 2022 2:03pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        She is so full of shit, the state houses sold of by Nats were retained in the state housing stock, it is an absolute lie to say otherwise, yet Labour have sold a large amount of houses, and they say thats okay because they need to make way for better locations for houses FFS
        
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        May 25, 2022 2:54pm
    - Prince
      
      Lack of prison space and a kind judiciary = ‘home detention and community service (seldom fulfilled) =no consequences = more crime = disillusioned police = where we are now.
      
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      May 25, 2022 3:13pm
Yvette

Buffalo shooting suspect wrote of plans 5 months ago, messages show
… A review of more than 600 pages of messages by The Washington Post found that Gendron resolved in December to kill those he slurred as “replacers,” and decided in February to target Buffalo’s Tops grocery store based on its local African American population …
… The shootings were streamed live online. In a separate 180-page document published two days before Saturday’s shooting, Gendron cited a racist theory that non-Whites were brought to the United States to replace White people for political purposes …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/16/buffalo-shooting-previous-supermarket-confrontation/

1 – It is possible Ardern’s “Christchurch Call” may reduce some media interactions during or after an event, but it seems to do little to detect crucial messages before a tragedy – in this Buffalo slaughter: apparently months of clues and a “180-page document published two days before Saturday’s shooting”.

2 – In view of Ardern’s “Christchurch Call”, why did state-owned broadcaster TVNZ 1-News screen a portion of Gendron’s live video-upload in a 6pm bulletin? The portion shown – car-park footage until the shooter exits the vehicle – likely “normalises” the crime to some extent, but, along with the manifesto, the video is now banned by the New Zealand Censor’s Office.

Ardern’s “Christchurch Call” is more like “redial”

And then is there a sector of the community who don’t write manifestoes or upload anything – they are too busy pulling triggers –
Police have responded to seven reported shooting incidents across Auckland overnight.
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May 25, 2022 8:05am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Her CHCH bullshit has failed, it was supposed to stop live streaming of these events, it did not, it was up for more than 2 mins, once it was up, it’s out there for ever
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:56am
  - Tricati
    
    Another failure just like her gun buy-back scheme was going to reduce gun violence. Ask the folks in Auckland how that is going.
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:09am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    more virtually signaling from Cindy – that’s one thing she’s pretty good at.
    
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    May 25, 2022 4:56pm
- cmm
  
  Never forget that the primary reason to have the Christchurch Call was to promote Brand Jacinda. And that has worked. It’s a part of why there’s going to be a Dr Cindy in a few weeks.
  
  Whether or not it achieves less dead bodies is really of no consequence.
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:41am
kowtow

Seven shootings across Auckland overnight.

How’s that gun confiscation thingy making everyone safer ?

Oh and as Andy Wokester is so fond of the Peel principles , how’s “Whether the police are effective is not measured on the number of arrests, but on the lack of crime” goin’.
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May 25, 2022 8:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  They confiscated about 87 sawn off barrels, that was a start//
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:11am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Luxon this morning saying police need a dedicated gang unit, and all the rotten media could do is say is Luxon is going to bring back task force raptor, FFS this rotten media need dealt to
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:58am
  - coge
    
    Who’s going to listen to Luxon? He keenly endorsed and supported the removal of half of the NZ Bill of rights in favor of segregation of the NZ public. An unlawful position to take.
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:42am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Only an idiot would not listen to him FFS, we have two choices next year, a vote for the vulgar Ardern who did unlawfully break you’re rights, or Luxon who wisely did not get involved with the protest, i take it you want the tyrant to continue , dont post that crap to me , i want the witch gone , i dont care if Cindy made your life hell for a few months
      
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      May 25, 2022 2:57pm
  - curry4me
    
    What can you expect from the team of 55 million? Bringing in Task Force Raptor would be a great move for Chris Luxon. He also needs to make all sentences consecutive. And delete the law that cuts some of them in half.
    
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    May 25, 2022 12:06pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Yes, and i noticed three times yesterday that they were talking about election fraud cases, only too happy to say NZF and Nats are tided up in court cases , not even attempting to remind the peasents that Labour have one as well who was forced to resign last term involved with their case
      
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      May 25, 2022 2:59pm
  - wilderbeast
    
    What’s wrong with task force raptor anyway? Speaks volumes that the sold out media use it as a smear. When did we turn into a country where being tough on violent, guntoting, P peddling scumbags was a bad thing?
    
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    May 25, 2022 8:36pm
Benedict Yu

I recall a few years back, Victoria University spent hundreds of thousands lobbying to change its name to the University of Wellington. It was turned down.

So instead they have branded the university .

Victoria
(small typeface

WELLINGTON
(large typeface capitalised)

Herenga Waka
(large typeface)

And they changed their Web address to “Wellington”.

https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/

How they are allowed to get away with this is beyond me.
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May 25, 2022 8:09am
- kowtow
  
  It’s a bit like EU referenda .
  
  If we don’t get the result we want the first time we’ll just keep going till we do.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:22am
- Nickc2
  
  Why do we have AOTEAROA New Zealand on Local and National Govt documentation? The answer is simple really, it’s because a leftist Govt cedes to the same core of radicals as they draw their members from.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:29am
  - Jim
    
    Copying the criminal gang jackets Nickc2. Offering an unfortunate indigenous cultural connection to our new and returning international tourists, as they are intimidated by 200 bikies on the SH.
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:15am
    - Nickc2
      
      Dunno what you’re on Jim but it doesn’t work for me eh?
      
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      May 25, 2022 11:00am
      - Jim
        
        I’m agreeing with you, and relating how tourists will observe the net outcome of left ceding to the same core of radicals. Gang warfare and rampant criminality, welcome to Aotearoa!
        
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        May 25, 2022 6:44pm
- Frank the tank
  
  It’s a colonial name Ben. There is an ongoing strategy to get rid of all white names in New Zimbabwe – heard something about it while scrolling through the radio stations when the 5 seconds of Toxic were on.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:30am
- Cassandra
  
  Harenga Weka will look good on a cv.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:31am
- septic skeptic
  
  I think that within 10 years universities will become a lot less popular. Aside from some professional courses I doubt that a university graduate will be looked on at all favorably by prospective employers compared with someone who has just left school.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:58am
  - Sacha
    
    Considering that it is reported that some school leavers (or was it university grads?) can’t read a clock dial to tell the time, I wonder if employers will have to start educating their new employees . . . . .
    
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    May 25, 2022 11:11am
  - Hebe123
    
    I’ve considered doing another degree, a masters or PhD. But the last few years has made me realise I’m going to learn way more reading Substack!!! Without all the politically correct woke BS.
    
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    May 25, 2022 11:48am
- RalphT
  
  Now, now, Benedict you must know by now that this government is set on eradicating references to our colonial past in favour of anything that reflects the superiority of the 15%.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:07am
- Chris R
  
  Yes indeed. When I contacted the Vice-Chancellor to question his drive for a name change the answers he gave were vacuous and piddling. This was a pro-anticolonialist move and nothing of use at all.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:14am
- Scott
  
  Benedict – quite agree. It seems the modern academic is ashamed of colonialism and hence Queen Victoria is to be minimised. They want to call themselves Wellington, which itself comes from the Duke of Wellington, so still colonial I would have said. But I suspect they really really want to call themselves the Maori name they have made up for themselves, Te Herenga Waka, which is translated as “mooring place of canoes”.
  
  I think it’s a shame that modern academics don’t really like Western civilisation and really really like Maori civilisation, such as it was. The concept of the University comes from Western civilisation. Maori society had no such concepts. Indeed their knowledge was passed on orally as they had no written language.
  
  Personally I hope that the modern academic does not get away with it and a future government directs them to use Victoria University as their only name. While we’re at it I would like the Ministry of transport to return to being the Ministry of transport and housing New Zealand to return to being Housing New Zealand. But that’s just me. I like things simple and understandable. By everyone.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:38am
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    Ah, Victoria. I well remember the maps on the wall in my NZ primary school with half the world coloured pink to acknowledge the days when the so called racist colonials led the rest of the world out of murderous barbarity into the enlightenment of Magna Carta, democracy, sanitary plumbing, civil structure & the rule of law.
    
    When the British Empire meant what it said if it’s citizens were oppressed across the globe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_expedition_to_Abyssinia
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:19am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Scott, it wouldn’t be a bad thing if the University in Wellington ceased to exist. Even when I was at Uni all those years ago, it was well known that anyone who came out of there wore a cloth cap and great coat, and called people comrade.
    
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    May 25, 2022 12:16pm
- Zero Kindness
  
  Globalists can get away with quite a bit these days, even the capital thinking, globally minded ones apparently.
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:21am
- Paulus
  
  As usual they just do it and put their fingers in their ears so that they hear nothing.
  Become the prevalent position with Government and Local Government.
  We ask you what you want but we have already decided what you want which is the same as we do.
  
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  May 25, 2022 11:08am
- wilderbeast
  
  Would have been more successful if they asked for “Wananga Te Whanganui a Tara”. Air NZ uses the Maori name every time you enter the landing pattern over Cook Strait. “Welcome to Te Whanganui a Tara everyone”. Was especially amusing pre covid when there was a smattering of tourists on every flight. It was writ large on their faces “I thought I’d paid to fly to WELLINGTON!”
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:39pm
  - graham
    
    Yep, Simon Sallow frequently uses that on One News – signing off after talking to a reporter: “In Te Whanganui a Tara …”. The effect is then completely spoiled as he adds “… WELLINGTON …”, because he knows full well that nobody will know what he’s talking about otherwise.
    
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    May 26, 2022 7:22am
MCōs

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Today is the forty fourth anniversary of the eviction of Ngāti Whātua from Bastion Point.
Everyone knows the story and the background to the occupation.
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May 25, 2022 8:23am
- Im Right
  
  Yes , but who cares!!
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:26am
- Ehlana
  
  Unless you’re under sixty, MCos, in which case you were either not born yet, or too young to be paying attention.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:48am
Ehlana

A government incompetence story from a few days ago: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/sir-ian-taylor-five-months-on-still-no-decision-whats-going-on-with-lucira/

Lucira is a “Covid test that gives you a PCR equivalent result in less than 30 minutes, with a far higher degree of accuracy than a rapid antigen test.” If you’re outside NZ and need to prove you’re Covid free to fly here, you can use the Lucira. It’s FDA approved and used elsewhere in the world, and it can detect flu as well as Covid.

Sir Ian Taylor wants to bring them into NZ and use them at work “to look after [his] staff in a way that [he] believe meets [his] responsibilities under the Health & Safety Act.”

Is anyone surprised to learn that, five months after he told Ministers about these tests, Customs has confiscated them at the border and the government is only just beginning “testing”?

Or that our Human Rights Commissioner had to wait 100 days to meet the Prime Minister after expressing concern about the traffic light system? (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/human-rights-commissioner-made-to-wait-100-days-after-urgent-request-to-discuss-traffic-light-settings/).

So that’s another day ending in y and more astounding ineptitude and arrogance from Labour.
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May 25, 2022 8:26am
- Cinematic
  
  Remember the days when tests were something you did at school or to get a licence?
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:38am
- Joely Doe
  
  Here are the working links:
  Sir Ian Taylor: Five months on still no decision – what’s going on with Lucira?
  Sir Ian is always a good read. Doesn’t appear happy with his last voting choice…
  
  Human Rights Commissioner made to wait 100 days after ‘urgent’ request to discuss traffic light settings
  
  **Herald articles require the /JKH5JTU6SYIO3WIUINSYTFV to be included in the hyperlink…
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:27am
  - Ehlana
    
    Thanks for the correction and the information Joely.
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:43am
Maggie Pie

The highlight of the PM’s trip to Amerika, will be getting all glammed-up tonite for her appearance with comedian Stephen Colbert 😀

You do have to larf though….Cindy says she’s there to drum up business and promote New Zealand as a Tourist destination.
As my partner said, “What a waste of time! One look at the US-Debt-Clock and you can see where America’s heading” LOL!!

https://usdebtclock.org
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May 25, 2022 8:26am
- Frank the tank
  
  When you have to borrow from China to sell guns to Ukraine to fight Russia you know your fooked!!!!
  
  Mags – you and I both know it’s a holiday for our Glorious Leader and the pre-selected feckless delegation that accompanied her.
  
  I wonder which one of the feckless will contract Monkeypox – easy way to ‘out’ yourself……
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:34am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    It would be Robertson if he was there
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:01am
  - Zero Kindness
    
    Not sure about a holiday, but the SLG certainly can’t wander around NZ anymore.
    Best for all of us if she just remains a foreigner to our shores.
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:24am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Note she never once went to Tauranga to support Tanetti
      
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      May 25, 2022 3:05pm
- Cinematic
  
  Oh yeah? Do tell. Where is the USA heading?
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:38am
  - bjools
    
    Recession, perhaps depression.
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:55am
    - Nickc2
      
      Where the US goes, we go eh? Who said that?
      
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      May 25, 2022 11:08am
  - mawm
    
    Rampant inflation, shortages of food and fuel.
    
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    May 25, 2022 12:02pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      “Rampant inflation, shortages of food and fuel.”
      
      Yeah but the far left are in charge now so it will be happiness and smiles ahead right? 🫣
      
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      May 25, 2022 6:12pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  If she was serious about climate change she would tell the audience “Be responsible. Vacation in Canada.”
  
  A Boeing 787-9 burns about 120,000 litres of fuel flying from the USA to New Zealand. And she is encouraging more of it.
  
  Of course none of this counts against New Zealand’s ‘targets’ so it is of no concern to her.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:48am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Canada should be an easy sell:
    Higher mountains
    Bigger lakes
    Bigger waterfalls
    Better wildlife
    More interesting indigenous culture
    Better value for money
    And a PM just as **** as our own 🤣
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:08am
- plc
  
  Climate emergency?
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:49am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Even if climate alarmism is misplaced/fraudulent, if we go on an economic suicide mission by inducing energy poverty, we can make the planet a kinder and nicer place, seems to be the thinking. Insane.
    
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    May 25, 2022 6:15pm
- Close Hen Counters
  
  She makes my blood boil – as I drive to work passing patrol stations where 91 now well over three dollars a litre, supermarket delivery today well over four hundred dollars for fuck all, wondering if I may get shot at as I work in west Auckland … and that woman in the US with her partner promoting New Zealand or is it no longer aoteroa? Flying to both sides of the US with not a fucking care in the world about carbon footprint, climate change, carnage in her own country
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:10am
  - Biscuit
    
    Talking of which, I see Davos is on again and 8956947356920567209754602 private jets are presently flying the great and the glamorous in to tell us underlings to reduce our carbon footprints.
    
    Did our Minister of Climate Change get his freebie this year?
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:43am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Don’t be fooled by Gayford being there, he maybe, but that pic of him snd her walking in Manhattan is old, they are pushing a pram, so it’s 3 years old at least
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:04am
    - Nickc2
      
      Fascinating if true? It could even prompt a change of leader eh?
      Then again, maybe not. However, it could prompt a string of lockdowns eh?
      
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      May 25, 2022 1:12pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Good spotting detective G!
      
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      May 25, 2022 6:26pm
  - Jim
    
    And Ardern in the US described as encouraging tourism, well Jacinda what happened to the CLIMATE EMERGENCY? Absolute BS.
    
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    May 25, 2022 6:33pm
- pdm
  
  Maggy – probably more glammed up when she handed her CV to the big chief at the UN earlier.
  
  After all a UN position in Ivory Coast or Cameroon is not to be sniffed at.
  
  Especially when it will be to New Zealands benefit.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:32am
  - Jinky
    
    Yes she is definitely interviewing for a job with UN.
    
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    May 25, 2022 1:11pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  All the stupid bint can say is NZ is open for business, something Key said once when going to China, but that is all she can say, she hasn’t got a bloody clue
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:00am
- RoboRob
  
  Our media spin around this whole visit is sickening…
  
  ‘First meeting with an American president since, John Key met Obama’, clearly meant to imply an ‘historic’ visit. That’s just ridiculous, John key was the most recent PM before JA so its hardly a long time. JK met Obama, a man on the opposite side of politics, JA refused to meet with Trump and publicly insulted him. Childish behaviour. Could have been written ‘JA finally likes the politics of an American President enough to meet with him’.
  
  The idea that NZ gets ANY tourism or promotion through our PM visiting a country is a joke. When the Indian PM visits NZ do we all think, I must visit India or I must buy some Indian products?
  
  The whole thing is even more of a joke because Labour took so long to even partially open our borders and we are still one of the most difficult countries to visit because of our antiquated COVID measures.
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:00am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    I’d imagine she’ll be thrilled to meet Biden Rob, after all, he’s probably the only world leader that she will be able to claim is her intellectual equal. Not that he will remember her the following day……
    
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    May 25, 2022 12:21pm
Frank the tank

Everyone else watching our Glorious Leader’s New York holiday with amusement. Luke Malpass had a good puff piece this morning – soooooooooo her day involves:

-Meeting with Woke Blackrock
-Attending some business lunch with SilverFarms
-Talk Show with Bestie Colbert

Compare it with the World’s most boring PM’s (Albo) first trip – meeting with the quad and making joint statements on China and a solid one-on-one with the old coot.

It is hard to take her seriously and judging by the difficulty in getting a sit down with the old coot not many in the world now are.

And then there is her picture of walking in Times Square in a face nappy. Love, you just had covid – you can’t fucking catch it for another 3 months (if at fucking all)
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May 25, 2022 8:27am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  She shouldn’t be meeting the rotten black rock at all
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:05am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Biden “jacinda who?”
  
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  May 25, 2022 5:01pm
Cassandra

For a monarchy there’s been precious little from the NZ government, local government or the media on the 70th anniversary of the Queen’s accession. My community in Tauranga is having a street party on 5 June.
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May 25, 2022 8:29am
- graham
  
  There was a three hour program on TV a few days ago – the platinum celebration featuring some amazing performances – but I don’t recall even seeing it advertised. I happened on it purely by chance.
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:06am
- MCōs
  
  Even in the UK support for a monarchy is fading away.
  Expect it to plummet upon the death of QEII.
  https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/05/21/young-britons-are-turning-their-backs-monarchy
  
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  May 25, 2022 4:07pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

CBS reporting another school shooting in Texas…
fears at least 15 kids dead and many wounded.
Man in custody
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May 25, 2022 8:39am
- Prince
  
  They’re gonna need a bigger clock.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:40am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Shooter dead…identified as 18yo Salvador Ramos
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:09am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Be interesting whether he is an illegal resident or part of the dreamer brigade.
    
    Given the ethnicity expect the old coot’s minders to ignore this as they cannot link it to white supremacy.
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:33am
    - MCōs
      
      I don’t care what the guy’s ethnicity was, whenever I hear about one of these massacres by some mentally unstable and callous male I think about my grandchildren in similar schools here in Auckland where that sort of thing doesn’t happen.
      
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      May 25, 2022 12:38pm
      - Frank the tank
        
        No but one of them could be caught in gang cross fire very soon.
        
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        May 25, 2022 2:04pm
      - MCōs
        
        Neither of their families has any gang connections whatsoever, Frank, if that’s what you’re insinuating.
        Furthermore
        Reprehensible and all that the gangs behaviour might be they don’t go round shooting up primary schools.
        
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        May 25, 2022 3:59pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  In another ‘Gun Free Zone’ ?? If the shooter is in custody and not dead, it will be a gun free zone. They are cowards.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:19am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Note, Texas has open carry
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:21am
- krazykiwi
  
  So tragic. I can’t imagine what motivates a person to kill anyone, let alone kids.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:26am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  2 dead 15 injured at this stage
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:05am
  - MCōs
    
    Twenty one dead at the moment including eighteen wee kiddies.
    
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    May 25, 2022 12:39pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Our PM is to meet with Blackrock – the World’s biggest investment Fund.

WHY?
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May 25, 2022 8:42am
- Ehlana
  
  Maybe they have an outreach program promoting economic literacy?
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:46am
  - kowtow
    
    Yeah right.
    
    Just looked them up , they’re one of the ESG crowd,
    
    environment social corporate governance crowd.
    
    ie virtue signalling , skew the market crowd.
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:08am
    - mawm
      
      I thought they had announced that they were no longer doing ESG. They must think the markets in fossil fuels is about to explode.
      
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      May 25, 2022 12:11pm
      - kowtow
        
        Sorry don’t know anything ’bout Blackrock , had to look it up when MWposted.
        
        Oil cos doing very well , in the business pages recently an article saying they’re cashed up to the eyeballs , have lots to invest and are good value for investors at the mo.
        
        Yee har .
        
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        May 25, 2022 2:55pm
      - Jack5
        
        What if Blackrock has been buying up NZ overseas debt, and told Jacindarella: Mmm, we think you’d better call in for a chat about these loans?
        
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        May 25, 2022 8:41pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Will not work – she is too thick.
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:30am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Numbers are not her thing, her words
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:32am
- Nickc2
  
  No doubt she has her begging bowl with her? She has to buy another election FFS.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:50am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Maybe its because she cannot see Biden because he isnt even in the USA….
  
  https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-05-22/new-zealand-pm-ardern-to-visit-u-s-to-boost-exports-lure-tourists
  
  “Ardern’s visit comes as U.S. President Joe Biden is on a five-day trip to South Korea and Japan. Her public agenda does not include a meeting with Biden, who is expected to return to Washington on Tuesday.”
  
  Interesting scenario because our MSM was saying it was on, if only she had not got the Rona…..
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:51am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He lands in Alaska tonight, he would not be available till Thursday, when she is in the other side of country
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:34am
- krazykiwi
  
  Blackrock is more powerful than most countries. Ardern will be going to receive instructions.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:11am
  - Ross
    
    This is a sinister development, what is she doing at Blackrock?.
    What is she selling, ACC, NZ Super Fund or all the residential mortages which are coming up as people default due to the rising interest rates.
    This is much more concerning than Judith’s visit to Orvida on the way to the airport
    
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    May 25, 2022 11:16am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Except that, as far as we know, the PM doesn’t have a family member on the board of Blackrock.
      
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      May 25, 2022 11:40am
- burt
  
  Keeping the lawnmower shop stocked takes substantive capital.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:21am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Second Mortgage?
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:22am
  - krazykiwi
    
    With more than $US20 trillion under management, less than 1% of that would settle our sovereign debt. Perhaps she’ll ask for a small donation.
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:29am
- Frank the tank
  
  Why – they are a cornerstone of the woke corporate elite. Don’t laugh – Poor Man’s Gordon Brown probably arranged the meeting as they seek a financial partner in 3 waters.
  
  That would be one way to make it impossible for Te Reo to dismantle it post 2023.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:37am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Why Maggy? Because they pretty much own everything.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:46am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Exactly, snd they control a huge amount of our super fund and probably ACC money, very dangerous indeed
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:31am
- Hebe123
  
  Aren’t they a major shareholder in Fizzer?
  Which we are helping prop up with our second boosters.
  
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  May 25, 2022 11:53am
- mawm
  
  Maggy – As the largest investment firm in the world they are amongst those who have power at the WEF and are promoting the WEF/Globalist agenda. They have hands in many pies.
  
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  May 25, 2022 12:09pm
kowtow

I see Ferald cartoon doing a very nasty one of Albanese putting Scomo out as rubbish.

Other commentary going on about how Scomo was hated , wimmin coming into their own , it’s all about the climate.

Albanese on the podium saying he’s going to unite , Australia’s back .

Oh dear , plagiarise Biden at your peril. BTW this guy touted himself as ‘the only guy with a non Annglo Celtic name” how’s that forpromoting unity.

I see that labor polled its lowest since the war , how’s that for a ringing endorsement.

The right block combined won more first preference votes than the left block combined .

Now that’s a very pertinent fact .

Other commentary keeps banging on about the so called independent wimmin teals , but fails to mention their fabulously wealthy white male backer.

Anyway they’re about to get smashed by inflation and power shortages , along with a nasty dose of race politics.
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May 25, 2022 8:45am
- RoboRob
  
  You can really see the neutral nature of NZ reporters around this.
  
  Interestingly Albanese is keeping the tax cuts planned by ScoMo (unlike our glorious leader did when Key came in). As a result now not only will AU have significantly higher pay packets but it will be taxed at a lower tax rate than NZ too.
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:30am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Ardern said urge sans bloody thing, govern for all NZers
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:54am
Maggie Pie

Call me old fashioned…but I’m glad my mum was a woman 😀
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May 25, 2022 8:48am
- RalphT
  
  But what about your dad? Was he also a woman, or a boring, old fashioned man?
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:09am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Pretty sure he would have been glad she was a woman as well 😛
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:36am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  https://twitter.com/brokebackUSA/status/1449861511141380099?
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:27am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Wonder if Tamati Koffey has got one of those? 😀
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:33am
    - Frank the tank
      
      I fairness I wouldn’t think those things come in XXXXL for poor Tamati who appears to have swallowed a sheep over the past couple of years.
      
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      May 25, 2022 9:39am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      And Robertson, Alf doesn’t sound like a woman’s name
      
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      May 25, 2022 10:55am
- mogg
  
  Top comment for today.
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:05am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    MOGGY, have a cider on me 🙂
    
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    May 25, 2022 3:09pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I see Sharon Murdoch’s cartoon in Stuff today repeats Yesterday’s message that Climate Change was responsible for the death of 40 penguins on Northland’s beaches.

It is such a pity that folks know so little of NZ’s natural history that they leap to “Climate change” as the explanation for natural events.

Here’s an article on penguin Deaths on Northland Beaches in 1973 (published in 1975)
https://www.birdsnz.org.nz/publications/northern-little-blue-penguin-mortality-in-northland/

And WRB Oliver reported mass penguin deaths in Northland during Jan-Feb 1943.
(Birds of NZ 1955)
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May 25, 2022 9:00am
- kowtow
  
  Climate change = Fake news.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:09am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Nothing that has happened in the last 100 or so years (allegedly when Co2 produced by human endeavours could in any way influence the climate) is “unprecedented”. Not sea level rise, not floods, not fires, not droughts and not storms, not temperature increase and not the rate of increase. This is easily proven by ice core records (both Greenland and Antarctica) going back hundreds of thousands of years, lake bed sediments, sea floor sediments and the geological record. All they’ve got is Co2 level rise is “unprecedented” in x thousands of years. But Co2 can only insulate the planet significantly up to a certain point. Beyond that point it’s effect declines in logarithmic fashion (it’s effect is approx 1C average global temp increase per DOUBLING of total Co2 in the atmosphere). It’s not a biggy and certainly not worth destroying national economies for! The climate will do what it wants. Co2 is not the master control knob (nor even a significant one).
    
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    May 25, 2022 6:37pm
    - alloytoo
      
      Not fair to say nothing, there has been significant greening of the planet.
      
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      May 25, 2022 7:33pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  I hope you weren’t expecting something intelligent from the hopeless Sharon Murdoch.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:25am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Not at all..
    
    I just put the post up because yesterday someone on KB was arguing that an article about the Penguin deaths was not blaming climate change.
    
    It definitely is the angle our MSM is pushing.
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:37am
    - kowtow
      
      Yes that argument was “bat” shit crazy.
      
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      May 25, 2022 11:25am
      - Batman
        
        Ahhh very droll.
        
        I wouldn’t call it arguing so much as amused exasperation at the remaining few die hards who are insisting that climate change is a fiction, and love a good media conspiracy plot.
        
        Sure, the Wellington/Dompost climate reporters are fairly insufferable but that doesn’t make it some sort of false narrative elsewhere.
        
        It is perfectly factually correct to say it’s a concern that if sea temps rise then food species will change or die and other species will suffer as a result.
        
        As if coral bleaching in Fiordland and massive scale bleeching on the Great Barrier Reef wasn’t impartial proof of warmer temps… The coral don’t have a political agenda, just a temperature based response.
        
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        May 25, 2022 11:37am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I think you will find that the reported “bleaching” at Fiordland was in sponges…. not corals.
        
        I think you will also find that worldwide observations of sponge bleaching have only been reported in the last few years, and the episodes are not necessarily connected with sea temperature changes.
        
        Disease could well be a factor.
        
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        May 25, 2022 12:29pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        So the Great Barrier coral recovery of the last couple of years is due to the climate getting colder?
        
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        May 25, 2022 12:41pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Batman “climate change” isn’t fiction. The alarmist hypothesis is though. Climate change is overwhelmingly natural and humans can not influence it in a major way by endeavours resulting in Co2 output. So turning economies upside down for it IS “batshit crazy” and will hurt a hell of a lot of more people than any influence on the climate humans can have. But you go ahead and believe the cancel-culture “scientists”, their enabling politicians and the (overwhelmingly loony left) media driven hype.
        
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        May 25, 2022 6:50pm
      - Batman
        
        Ok sure thing.
        
        What’s your stance on pollution and smog that kills and causes illness?
        
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        May 25, 2022 6:53pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Batman: “What’s your stance on pollution and smog that kills and causes illness?”
        
        It’s highly desirable to resolve it and it can be resolved without destroying economies (unlike the proposed wholesale switch to low density unreliable generation methods advocated by climate alarmists). As I understand it, most of the deaths in the world from that are due to indoor pollution (poor people burning dung or garbage indoors on open fires). Remember Britain had “pea soup” smog as late as the 1960s and the US major cities had major smog problems up until the 1970s. That was fixed at relatively low cost by using scrubbers on power plant chimney’s and installing catalytic converters on cars. I believe China and India are getting around to cleaning up the particulates from their coal plants.
        
        You won’t resolve that stuff in the developing world by trying to force unaffordable energy (IE intermittent wind and solar with it’s need for additional expensive hydro/nuke/fossil fuel backup and storage) on them. Installing an affordable (gas, coal with scrubbers, or hydro) electric power grid will. This will enable more productive and efficient industries to grow there so people can earn more money and afford much cleaner cooking and lighting appliances.
        
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        May 25, 2022 9:52pm
Ra Henare

My own conspiracy theory 🙂

Recently took the opportunity to ask the Government for all that information they have relating to me. (Privacy Act)

A Large box of papers was delivered.
On questioning the absence of some things.

Was informed.
Information older than 10 years are in “”bulk storage”” (My words)
Paper forms/notes/reports have only been scanned in to the system since 2013…..

Recordings of telephone calls are only held for 90 days.

My conspiracy theory.
Especially with MSD..(re my pension)
they strongly promote – phone us for advice etc etc.

Huh! Means they are off the hook for anything they say after 90 days……

Of course in reverse. They cant deny anything they said after 90 days.

Ie I was advised 6 months ago that blah blah blah.
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May 25, 2022 9:05am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  1. Inform MSD that your preferred means of communication is via paper/emails (etc).
  
  2. If they insist on phone communication, inform them that you will be keeping a permanent record of all the calls.
  
  Imagine if you have hearing/speech difficulties..
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:42am
  - Ra Henare
    
    I already told them- emails-hearing impaired.
    Was more interested in the file notes….haha
    
    But choosing email means painfully slow responses.
    ie simple question 2 weeks plus to get reply by email.
    20 seconds with phone call>
    
    I call it punishment by Administration 🙂
    
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    May 25, 2022 11:12am
Maggie Pie

OMG…Ricky Gervais at his best 😀 😀 😀

https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1529035780131278848

(full screen/sound up)
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May 25, 2022 9:16am
- burt
  
  It’s hilarious!
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:22am
  - Colville
    
    …..its HER penis you bigot!
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:35am
- krazykiwi
  
  “The ‘new’ women. Yeah? I love the ‘new’ women we’ve been seeing lately. You know…. the ones with beards and cocks.”
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:31am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    “Good as gold”
    
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    May 25, 2022 9:48am
- curry4me
  
  That clip was priceless. Thanks for posting it.
  
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  May 25, 2022 12:33pm
Give a Man a Fish

Mahuta
wants Co-governance fees
for every glass of water you drink,
for every glass of water your children drink and for every glass of water your grandchildren drink and from all future children.

Makes a lot of sense that Mahuta & Co get rich from co-governance fees from water that falls freely from the sky.
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May 25, 2022 9:22am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  and for every time you and your loved ones flush the loo.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:49am
- Ehlana
  
  You will, of course, continue to give the men, women, and other identities, their daily fish.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:55am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  And if you have a leak you don’t know about
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:58am
- Paulus
  
  And in the South Island under her scheme Ngai Tahu are in control of all the rivers,lakes and dams and of all the power generators for most of the whole country.
  Then you pay to drink the water everywhere.
  
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  May 25, 2022 1:22pm
I remember when

Is now the time to scientifically (ish) consider the benefits of our covid lockdown policy.
On 25 March 2020 at 11.59pm NZ moved the entire nation into self-isolation.
26 March 2020, total recorded cases 368, deaths 0.
17 August 2021, all of NZ moves to Alert Level 4 at 11.59pm.
18 August 2021, Cases to date 2938, deaths 31.
28 February 2022, Cases to date 100,821.
24 May 2022, Cases to date approx 1,109,714.
So in the last three months approx 1,008,893 people have been infected.
Dept of Health figures suggest 96% first doses, second doses 95% and boosters 73%.
David Farrar has stats suggesting otherwise.
Credible research suggests that the time successive vaccinations are effective is reducing sharply.
So would be have acted as we did if we had these facts at the time.
Is there any proof that outcomes would have been that much worse if we had take personal responsibility.
What did we get for our 39 changes to Alert Levels and subsequent Traffic Lights. At what cost.
Did we simply change when the epidemic most affected us.
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May 25, 2022 9:29am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  We are now one of the worst countries in the world for cases, and deaths per capita
  
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  May 25, 2022 3:11pm
I remember when

That Parts of New Zealand coastline is about to be inundated by the sea thingy went well –
time to move on to Antarctica is melting.
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May 25, 2022 9:50am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  We have had a huge storm down south, and we are coping it again , but its bloody nature, yes the tides and swell have been high, just like it has my entire 60 years
  
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  May 25, 2022 3:13pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Unfortunately Antarctica isn’t cooperating with the narrative. Still they keep trying it on though.
  
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  May 25, 2022 9:59pm
krazykiwi

Mask no longer required in clinical settings in the UK. But apparently it is reckless and dangerous for me to pop into the supermarket without one.
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May 25, 2022 9:54am
- Ehlana
  
  There’s an ad I saw over the weekend featuring someone who can’t wear a mask herself for medical reasons exhorting the rest of us to do so, because if she gets Covid, she could end up in hospital.
  
  I felt like it was a bit of emotional blackmail really. How much can you actually demand that other people make changes to prevent the possibility of you getting sick? How many people are there actually like her?
  
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  May 25, 2022 11:05am
  - krazykiwi
    
    That’s not an ad.
    
    That’s propaganda.
    
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    May 25, 2022 11:08am
    - kowtow
      
      The whole thing’s been propaganda .
      
      All an appeal to the emotions and no science .
      
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      May 25, 2022 11:29am
  - graham
    
    I haven’t seen the ad, but I can’t help wondering if this woman who could end up in hospital if she gets Covid, would also end up there if she caught, say, the flu.
    
    Just curious how she’s coped with all the other germs flying around in the air for years, but all of a sudden Covid comes along and everything changes and we all have to wear masks to protect her. When we didn’t have to wear masks to protect her from colds and the flu …
    
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    May 25, 2022 12:02pm
Maggie Pie

DEPP v HEARD – watch

Amber’s attorney calls her Psychiatrist to the stand to testify as an….. “expert-witness” (and the comments. LOL!!)

https://twitter.com/jdeppfxnn/status/1528776928521555969
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May 25, 2022 9:55am
kevn

Is arden dropping into Davos?
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May 25, 2022 10:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yesterday someone said H1 was there, or going there.
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:30am
  - cas
    
    last night we were watching a programme on 1000 years of History – Russia- and several interviewees were from Chatham House. While we had heard of the Chatham House rule, we hadn’t heard of Chatham House so looked it up. It is an independent policy institute to provide authoritative commentary on world events and offer solutions to global problems. And lo and behold one of its 3 Presidents is out dear H1 Helen Clark. Sadly can’t see Jacinda rising to such heights.
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:44am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Clark is there in NZs behalf, only problem is there was no invite for Ardern or any other NZer, I see Nikki Kaye posted on FB she was going to Europe for a holiday, said she was dropping into Davos, I suggest the rotten Clark knew she was going to Europe so invited her to say but Nats had people there
    
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    May 25, 2022 11:01am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  No Politico from NZ got on the Invite list
  
  https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AM22_List_of_confirmed_PFs.pdf
  
  I think Our Dear Leader is yesterday’s news.
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:36am
  - kevn
    
    @Maggy… Davos attendees, Liechtenstein, population less than 40,000, have 2 representatives there.
    How unfair is that.
    UN beckons…
    
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    May 25, 2022 10:46am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    That’s right, but Clark is there on NZs behalf, I just wonder if she is getting paid to go
    
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    May 25, 2022 11:02am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Oh, she always drops in… not sure that anyone notices now, though.
      
      She’s not there (officially) on behalf of the NZ Government, tho’
      
      Helen E. Clark Board Chair, Partnership for
      Maternal, Newborn & Child Health,
      World Health Organization (WHO),
      Switzerland
      
      https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AM22_Official_List_of_Participants.pdf (p.11)
      
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      May 25, 2022 12:15pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Hmm
        
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        May 25, 2022 3:15pm
krazykiwi

Anyone been following the train wreck that is Sri Lanka?

A single eco-diktat from a year ago has unleashed hell.

This is what happens when ideologically blinkered, consequence insulated leaders choose to drink deeply from the hubris cup.
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May 25, 2022 10:13am
- Zero Kindness
  
  Sri Lanka is a warning to the world. Go woke, go broke, go hungry.
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:34am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I have.
  
  I can’t understand why our Government hasn’t been rushing out to help our Commonwealth cousins with food and Agricultural advice.
  
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  May 25, 2022 10:40am
  - krazykiwi
    
    India is doing this. Sending cash and urea, despite their own ban on urea exports.
    
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    May 25, 2022 11:13am
- Ross Campbell
  
  “Anyone been following the train wreck that is Sri Lanka?”.
  Obviously not you if you believe an agenda driven article like that blaming all the problems on organic farming.
  Sri Lanka’s problems are far more complexed and long standing ranging from the corrupt political dynasty of the Rajapaksa family, massive infrastructure projects undertaken with borrowed Chinese money which was always going to push the country to repay through to Covid devastating a tourism and foreign remittance driven economy.
  Wonder why the Daily Sceptic didn’t mention all this?.
  
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  May 25, 2022 11:40am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Yes. Sri Lanka can’t afford to buy food so they are relying solely on their own production.
    
    Why can’t they produce their own food?
    
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    May 25, 2022 12:02pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    The societal issues are almost exclusively related to food shortages. Two years ago most small communities had sufficient food, a majority of which was locally grown. Not so today. Crop yields have been decimated by the organic-only eco diktat. The issues related to debt are real, but not the cause of the turmoil.
    
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    May 25, 2022 1:09pm
    - Ross Campbell
      
      The country has basically run out of foreign exchange so cannot import anything with the worst affected being fuel, cooking gas and medicine.
      All the food in the world is useless if you have nothing to cook it with.
      Hence people riot.
      
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      May 25, 2022 1:45pm
- NoFax
  
  It is more likely Sri Lanka banned the import of fertilizer because they didn’t have any foreign currency to pay for it and dressed it up as a “green” thing.
  However, it still shows what happens if there is not fertilizer – 50% drop in production.
  
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  May 25, 2022 12:46pm
Maggie Pie

One of the girls from tennis reckons this country is soo full of thicko’s!
Sometimes the solution to their problems is staring them right in the face.
If you’re homeless….buy a f***ing house!!
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May 25, 2022 11:26am
- Ross Campbell
  
  Someone who says something as stupid as that should not be trusted to even play tennis.
  Picking up balls or washing after afterwards would be more suitable.
  
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  May 25, 2022 12:01pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Do you wash your balls afterwards, milkey?
    
    Asking for a friend.
    
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    May 25, 2022 4:54pm
G the giant from Dunedin

Happy NZ wool day
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May 25, 2022 11:43am
Maggie Pie

Was trying to think where I’d heard the name ‘Gannin Ormsby’ before….

https://twitter.com/kehetauhauaga/status/1529244419513192449
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May 25, 2022 11:49am
curry4me

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/24/indiana-lawmakers-override-governors-veto-to-enact-law-banning-males-from-girls-sports/
Governor’s Veto Fails in Indiana.

Indiana joins at least a dozen other U.S. states in enacting similar laws.
“State senators voted 32-15 in favor of overriding Gov. Eric Holcomb following the same action in a 67-28 vote by the House earlier in the day,” the Associated Press reports. “Holcomb had said in his veto message that bill did not provide a consistent policy for what he called “fairness in K-12 sports” when he unexpectedly vetoed it in March.”
Dozens of pro-trans activists protested at the state capitol but to no avail.
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May 25, 2022 11:52am
curry4me

https://www.bitchute.com/video/aOGSq-36WQ0/

Kissinger Bombshell! Zelensky Should Surrender Eastern Ukraine!

Well, gang, it didn’t take long for the media’s narrative on Ukraine to crumble! Henry Kissinger dropped a bombshell at Davos telling Zelensky’s faithful that he needed to sign a peace deal and accept the loss of Eastern Ukraine to Russia! We’re going to take a look at what Kissinger had to say, we’re going to compare it with what’s REALLY happening in Ukraine, and stick with me to the very end of this video when we’re going to see how scholars predicted precisely what’s happening as we speak. [I guess a Pyrric victory counts as winning. 13:09]
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May 25, 2022 11:52am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Joe got 80 million votes.
https://www.facebook.com/ben.stolen.7906/videos/400868018593824/
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May 25, 2022 12:44pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

So that’s what happened?
https://www.facebook.com/mark.lott.50/videos/740721903563506/
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May 25, 2022 12:45pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Taxpayer’s Union on my FB:
https://theplatform.kiwi/opinions/co-governance-the-crown-and-the-mahuta-dynasty?
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May 25, 2022 1:01pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

From his FB posts, appears Texas mass-shooter 18yo ‘Salvador Ramos’ was Trans….

https://twitter.com/PhilmoreRobert/status/1529242957693431813
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May 25, 2022 1:08pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Build the wall, close the border.
  
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  May 25, 2022 1:21pm
  - Batman
    
    Doesn’t stop the white boys killing black people, or Jews, or Muslims, does it?
    
    Also, it was a lie. So perhaps engage your brain before typing as you clearly are smarter than this!
    
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    May 25, 2022 6:20pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Have we underestimated just how triggering trans queer climate poverty really is…?
  
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  May 25, 2022 1:47pm
- MCōs
  
  This may/may not interest you
  https://twitter.com/molly0xfff/status/1529286598130532352?s=21&t=RDd4PIe_IwB5SFwSfb65sQ
  
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  May 25, 2022 5:01pm
- Batman
  
  Maggie, that is a lie.
  
  Not worth removing it now but please think before you post tweets in situations like this.
  
  https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-shooting-uvalde-paul-gosar-touts-false-claim-transgender-woman-2022-5
  
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  May 25, 2022 6:18pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    In my own defence Batz i did say “…..appears to be”
    
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    May 25, 2022 7:04pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

It’s been over 100 days since Biden has done a media interview… and there’s no question as to why.
Will Biden defend Taiwan? He is not a well man.
https://rumble.com/v15tttr-white-house-scrambles-to-walk-back-bidens-latest-gaffe.html?
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May 25, 2022 1:19pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

America has it’s own line of Oligarchs.
https://rumble.com/v15turn-mark-levin-democrats-are-operating-like-oligarchs.html?
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May 25, 2022 1:36pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Candace Owens making a documentary on BLM.
On a separate matter, Brenton Tarrant said Candace was one of his influences??? Strange.
Anyway, here is Candace wanting to chat with a BLM founder.
https://rumble.com/v15yc4t-shes-terrified-candace-owens-talks-about-confronting-blms-co-founder.html?
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May 25, 2022 1:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Taxpayer’s Union on my FB. Mahuta explains 3 waters. Really?
https://www.facebook.com/TaxpayersUnion/posts/4797465840357398
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May 25, 2022 2:08pm
Maggie Pie

JUST IN….

OCR increases by another 5bps as I predicted here Monday.

My partner’s mum overjoyed her TD’s are back on the ^
😀
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May 25, 2022 2:28pm
- kowtow
  
  Ha , watch the banksters jack up the mortgage rates quick sharp , while they dither on TD rate rises .
  
  Meanwhile with inflatio at the official 6.9 continues to steal from savers at an alarming rate .
  
  When regimes spend opm like there’s no tomorrow the prudent saver ( often the elderly ) get hammered by the consequences . A double whammy . They take our money in taxes and then devalue what’s left with inflation.
  
  Barstards.
  
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  May 25, 2022 2:39pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  I think you mean 50bps
  
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  May 25, 2022 3:05pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Ah, you didnt have to be too brave to predict what had been signalled for some time , they will go back to 25 base point each month for the rest of the year.
  
  They will not stop until possibly 3.25% or 3.5% to try and cool this market, but if the predictions at budget are right , we still stay out of the RBNZ’s band until 2025
  
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  May 25, 2022 3:21pm
mogg

https://www.bbc.com/news/world/asia/china

Interesting news from our main trading partner
and their persistent lying on human rights.
Ardern will say nothing and Mahuta will talk about
the Taniwha.
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May 25, 2022 2:46pm
Maggie Pie

Shot up to Bakers-Delight earlier to get a couple of Chive & Garlic Twists.
They had a sign in the window…. ‘STAFF WANTED’
I asked the girl behind the counter what they were looking for?
She said they had a number of rolls to fill.
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May 25, 2022 2:55pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Bwhahahahahahaha, you can tell that to the girls at tennis while having a chardonnay tomorrow.
  
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  May 25, 2022 3:23pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… We know someone who does (word) soup. Not palatable though.
  
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  May 25, 2022 3:29pm
Yvette

Texas
Gutierrez offered more harrowing details from the attack: the suspect, 18-year-old Salvador Romas, shot his grandmother at her home in the morning and fled the scene by car before wrecking his vehicle outside the elementary school. He ran into the school and began shooting, Gutierrez said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/may/24/texas-elementary-school-shooting-uvalde-latest
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May 25, 2022 3:11pm
Prince

Ardern will be practising her sad face for Colbert show as she lectures America on how to avoid mass shootings.
The irony of it all.
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May 25, 2022 3:18pm
Captain Mainwaring

I see the clown Michael Wood is talking about throwing heaps of money at coastal shipping.
Has anyone told him what happens to all the stuff on the ships when it arrives at the destination port?That’s right, trucks are needed to carry it to the final destination, trucks which could have taken it the whole way in a fraction of the time.
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May 25, 2022 4:16pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Coastal Shipping will get cargo to/from Akl to ChCh in 2 days, Dunedin in 3 and move 1k containers at a fraction of the cost of 1000 trucks or 10 trains
  
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  May 25, 2022 7:22pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    And how much more to get the stuff to where it’s actually needed?
    
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    May 25, 2022 8:49pm
Dave

A fascinating look at the impracticality of green energy and zero carbon at not pc:

http://pc.blogspot.com/2022/05/41-inconvenient-truths-on-new-energy.html
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May 25, 2022 4:28pm
Maggie Pie

O.M.G.
Just watched Cindy make her grand entrance on the ‘Late Show’.
That walk, the wave, those facial expressions, the voice……it was like the second-coming of Helen Clarke 🙁
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May 25, 2022 4:34pm
- Spring Bank Westie
  
  …and the second coming of my lunch
  
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  May 25, 2022 4:52pm
Niz

I think I’ve got reporting of mass shootings sussed.
Shooter is white – white supremacy.
Shooter is not white – incomprehensible.
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May 25, 2022 5:30pm
- Batman
  
  Shooter is white and targets black people, Jews, Muslims, Hispanics, and leaves a manifesto online saying they’re a white supremacist = white supremacist.
  
  Shooter doesn’t do the above = need to wait for the investigation.
  
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  May 25, 2022 6:47pm
Niz

How dumb are the Chinese, moving into Kiribati?
Don’t they know those islands will be under water within, what is it nowadays, weeks?
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May 25, 2022 6:27pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  And did you see Cindy on the news chiding them about it?
  Talk about embarrassing!
  Like my partner said….”why would you send a SLG on a man’s errand?”
  
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  May 25, 2022 7:09pm
Maggie Pie

Psalm-0f-David 28:2

Please God…. give me STRENGTH!

https://twitter.com/mediaspotnz/status/1529322616322166785

(full screen/vol up)
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May 25, 2022 8:09pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Her forced smile whilst talking about the shootings is creepy… It looks like she’s laughing.
  
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  May 25, 2022 8:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Guns are out again tonight in Auckland

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300597522/auckland-shootings-reports-of-shots-fired-in-massey-night-after-seven-incidents
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