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Souvlaki

And…..Kelvin involved again!
Maori caucus needs no pakeha
standards- it just a law unto self.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/07/03/exclusive-matthew-tukakis-job-history-not-checked-before-govt-role/
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July 4, 2022 8:03am
- alex Masterley
  
  So will the Herald be all over this story in the same way they did over the brekfast host on TV1?
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:05am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    “did over” a sex pest?
    
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    July 4, 2022 8:06am
    - bartybart
      
      a couple of emails from someone that pissed off labour lovie Campbell and now you’re a sex pest. but you get handsy at the labour youth camp and you get permanent name suppression and a hush up.
      
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      July 4, 2022 8:24am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I wood not now about that
        
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        July 4, 2022 8:53am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        *would
        
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        July 4, 2022 8:54am
      - pdm
        
        Steve and here I was thinking it was a play on words.
        
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        July 4, 2022 10:56am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      🤡
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:02am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Time for another Te Reo Luxon turning New Zimbabwe into Gloriavale story then Mikey?
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:35am
  - Paulus
    
    Nah it only happens to any National Party appointements and never to Maori.
    Will get worse with so many Maori fighting for the plumb to paid jobs in the new Maori Society.
    
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    July 4, 2022 10:30am
  - Humai
    
    Or will he go to jail for 3 months like Canadian John Davy did?
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:48am
- EssenX
  
  Tukaki embellishing his CV is nothing new. In fact, I’m sure I read about it here. My question, then, is what has he done to upset Yvonne Tahana and One News? Lead story last night!?
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:14am
  - coge
    
    Goodness, how was this story ever allowed to see the light of day? Clearly a case of trough envy.
    
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    July 4, 2022 8:44am
  - amospicton
    
    My thoughts exactly EssenX – I would have thought their inclination would have been to bury the story rather than lead with it. There’s more to the story I think.
    
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    July 4, 2022 8:48am
  - Thought Criminal
    
    Golriz Ghahraman anyone?
    
    It’s different when the left do it.
    
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    July 4, 2022 10:33am
  - oldfella
    
    EssenX: anyone seen Mr William Gannin Ormsby’s CV? I’m sure someone checked first to ensure Mr Mahuta was qualified for all his appointments. //
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:07am
  - Frank the tank
    
    It is a red-on-red hitjob. It has someone’s fat little fingers all over it.
    
    When the cat’s away the mice will play.
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:53am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Chubby fingers Robertson? This Tukaki has been called into question before, yet let’s give him the job without checking anything
      
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      July 4, 2022 1:16pm
    - alloytoo
      
      By definition a victimless crime.
      
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      July 4, 2022 1:18pm
- pdm
  
  I asked this last evening – who was it that said:
  
  `Never trust a Maori with a briefcase.’
  
  Tukaki seems to fit that perfectly and my thoughts are it was either Winston Peters or Sir Apirana Ngata.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:18am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    Coz racist jokes are fine if you can attribute them to a Maori.
    
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    July 4, 2022 8:52am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Bit early to get the pricka with everyone isn’t it.
      Did you miss out last night?
      
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      July 4, 2022 8:57am
      - All_on_Red
        
        He’s an Incel. He always misses out.
        
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        July 4, 2022 9:04am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Savage AoR
        
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        July 4, 2022 9:18am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Had to google that word Incel.
        Certainly fits though.
        
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        July 4, 2022 9:53am
    - pdm
      
      Mikey – I am prepared to be proven wrong but my recollection is that was a statement made in the Parliamentary Chamber.
      
      The questions are when and by whom.
      
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      July 4, 2022 9:00am
    - Nukuleka
      
      You mean the kind of jokes Billy T James used to tell against himself and made him such a beloved kiwi character? We tell jokes against ourselves whatever our race and we tell jokes about other races. It’s comedy. Men tell jokes both about men and women -and vice versa. Hairy men tell jokes about bald men and bald men can tell jokes about the hairy. It’s life. Get a sense of humour Mike/ Ross. Live in the real world.
      
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      July 4, 2022 9:02am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        I remember when McPhail & Gadsby poked fun in one series about who had had been using Ann Hercus’s shower in her Parliamentary accommodation – and who should appear in the final episode of that series (having a bit of a laugh at herself) but Ann Hercus.
        
        In another series, McPhail provided an over the top rendition of David Hartnell giving flamboyant camp gossip about NZ political figures – and who should appear in the final episode of that series (laughing at himself) but David Hartnell.
        
        Just wouldn’t happen in contemporary aotearoa…
        
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        July 4, 2022 9:14am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Lefties are born without a sense of humour, and it can not be installed.
        
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        July 4, 2022 9:23am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        It’s every libtard’s right to be offended by anything and everything. That’s another of Brenda’s “achievements”. lol
        
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        July 4, 2022 10:07am
    - RoboRob
      
      Your assuming that PDM is not a Maori. As you will know it is impossible to be racist if you are a minority. Two major errors there Mike, back to inclusing training for you.
      
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      July 4, 2022 9:10am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Yes, just like Irish jokes are fine if you can attribute them to an Irishman, or elephant jokes are fine……..
      
      You get the drift. Poor elephants don’t even have an advocate like you for them milkey! How unfair.
      Take a concrete pill.
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:05am
      - mikenmildagain
        
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        It’s only kowtow that gets offended by the Irish jokes here. As for the Scots, who really cares what they think?
        
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        July 4, 2022 11:34am
      - kowtow
        
        Begob and begorrah.
        
        De Paddies aren’t to be outdone by all dem blast offs from mahia .
        
        Dey’ve announced a manned flight to the sun.
        
        Asked how they’d overcome the heat problem their top scientist said ;
        
        Dat’s easy .We’re landin’ at noight.
        
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        July 4, 2022 12:22pm
      - david
        
        Control Tower: Aer Lingus flight 546 please give me your height and position.
        
        pilot of AL546: oim 5 foot six and sittin’ op te front.
        
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        July 4, 2022 2:28pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  The guy is one of those voices that the media (print, radio, TV) loves to roll out for opinion/perspective.
  Like Morgan Godfrey or Gannin Ormsby, the CV and self-bio doesn’t always stack up for the degree of gravitis or expertise they are credited with.
  
  But misrepresenting, race-huckstering, scamming, and troughing, are a talent of sorts.
  Here’s a case where it appears Tutaki moved on from a role again, but made sure to move the funds out when he left as well (ballpark $1 million):
  “Questions over transfer of $1m public funding”.
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/authority-of-government-contract-questioned
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:56am
Scott

TV3 news led their bulletin with record number of covid cases, Michael Baker saying we need to move back in to red and essentially a call from the news broadcasters for tightening us back into the red setting. They did interview people on the street who all said, “no, we are over it!”

But the thing is TV3 news would not lead with this independently. They are shills of the government. So there is pressure in the government for us to go back into red. Because of flu, because of covid, they want to restrict us again, they want to lock us down again. As I have said before, once a government knows they can lock you down they will remember it. Power is not just a means to an end. Power is an end in itself. Once a government has so much power and control they are reluctant to lose it.

Sadly Scott predicts there will be pressure for us to lock down again in some sort of modified red setting. One cannot reconcile these sentiments with the Prime Minister talking to Boris Johnson and assuring him that New Zealand is open for business and open for tourism. However this government, which in my opinion is the worst in our entire New Zealand history, is capable of anything.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/07/covid-19-researcher-warns-case-numbers-could-reach-25-000-a-day-put-new-zealand-back-in-red.html
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July 4, 2022 8:03am
- pdm
  
  Baker will be pissed off with Tukaki.
  
  He (Baker) would have wanted to be on both News channels.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:20am
- Simon
  
  Cindy claims to follow the science.
  
  Is Michael Baker science? Or is he no longer science?
  
  The science of course always follows the politics.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:33am
  - pdm
    
    Simon – for the last two and a bit years Baker has been an out and out self promoter. Show him a camera and microphone and he will be front and center waffling on about his gravy train.
    
    A huge turn off.
    
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    July 4, 2022 8:45am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Baker is a pandemicist. As Eugyppius stated in their blog post from 7 months ago:
      
      “Corona has vastly expanded the ranks of pandemic planners and public health botherers. Unless something is done, these people will destroy all of society in their radical pursuit of a few viruses.
      
      The Pandemicists MUST BE STOPPED”
      
      Well worth reading the whole piece, but these people must be stopped and never given prominence again.
      
      https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-pandemicists-must-be-stopped
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:38am
    - RoboRob
      
      When I started reading your comment I thought you were going to say…
      
      ‘Simon – for the last two and a bit years Baker has been out and out wrong on every forecast and piece of policy advice’
      
      Also very true. Baker is by far and away the worst (non Labour) problem with our covid response.
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:40am
    - Biscuit
      
      Agreed, pdm…
      
      You wonder if these public figures ever watch their own tapes and think ‘Maybe, just maybe, my exuberant earnestness re my cause is actually turning people OFF my cause.’
      
      Baker, of course, would top that list … but I also include folk like the ONE Weatherman who orgasms over an incoming cold front, David Attenborough and his breathless ‘and here we have a rare spotted…’, the Swarbrick Greenie lady whose eyes light up as if she on the stuff she wants legalised…
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:59am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Science can’t be followed.
    
    Science just is.
    
    Science sits there waiting for interpretations, and it is the most forcefully applied interpretation end up being followed, and to hell with other interpretations.
    
    This explains how junk science applied by statutory force is interpreted as ‘following The Science™’
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:39am
    - Thought Criminal
      
      I reckon the science she followed was Labour’s internal polls. We were terrified by covid and begged her to save us. Look at the last election result.
      
      We’ve all had it now amd lived except for some of the very old.
      
      The polls will say differently this time. And therefore so will “the science”.
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:40am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      The key thing to understand is that most women and a smaller proportional of men have a strong desire to fit in with the crowd, what psychologists refer to as “trait agreeableness” – they tend to follow fashions in thought and behaviour, however irrational, in order to garner acceptance with their peer group, regardless of whether they are Fundamentalist Muslims, Nazis, Greens, Sociology students or any other ethically or morally bankrupt belief system. As such they are terribly susceptible to the pervasive propagandising predations of social media influencing – and easily exploited by politicians who focus on that weakness.
      
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      July 4, 2022 12:15pm
- Nickc2
  
  If a return to Red and lockdowns brings about riots and a change of Govt, I say “bring it on!”
  For that very reason, she won’t do it. It’ll spell the end to any UN aspirations she may harbour.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:35am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    But going back to full on red means she shows her control?
    
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    July 4, 2022 8:41am
    - Frank the tank
      
      I’m thinking a female version of Cartman screaming
      “Respect my Authorita”
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:37am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Not this time. The only lockdown I’ll be having is at the government’s expense in a jail cell.
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:40am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      What if people resist?
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:45am
  - coge
    
    Let’s say “visitor numbers” to Wellington would be at all time record levels.
    
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    July 4, 2022 8:47am
  - coge
    
    Goodness, how was this story ever allowed to see the light of day? Clearly a case of trough envy.
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:01am
  - krazykiwi
    
    I agree. There will be civil unrest if she tries to get her podium of truth, dictator vibe on again.
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:44am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Remember Krazy there is still 25% of this country that believe the mild 2-day pox is the second coming of the black death.
      
      These cultists would like nothing more than New Zimbabwe to plunge into another lockdown.
      
      Remember that.
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:39am
      - mawm
        
        Probably 40%. The fear instilled cannot be uninstalled.
        
        Every_single_measure demanded by the Fauci/Gates/WEF/WHO alliance to control this pandemic did not work. Not one. Perhaps we should go back to the sane and sober, evidence based, tried and tested pandemic plans each government already had and discarded at the whim of the above.
        
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        July 4, 2022 11:23am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  When will somebody gag the lying prick Baker?
  He is instructed to lie in my opinion.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:40am
  - kowtow
    
    The “Noble Lie” is part of the strategy. Just one of many tools the authoritarian state uses to get our conformity to their will.
    
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    July 4, 2022 8:46am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    https://waikanaewatch.org/2022/05/09/michael-baker-finally-admits-deaths-because-of-covid-are-being-overstated-in-nz/
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:27am
  - cmm
    
    Well he’s highly incentivised to lie.
    
    The more fear there is of his wee viruses, the more influence and funding he gets.
    
    I want to know whether he still stands by his claims that a quarter of all NZers get flu every year and 30% of all deaths in NZ are flu related.
    
    And if so, how does that relative to other risks such as CV19, obesity etc.
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:45am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Nobody should be gagged. Sunshine is the best disinfectant and by Baker spouting nonsense that’s invariably proven to be wrong we can all have a good laugh.
    
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    July 4, 2022 12:14pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Shine the sunshine up his arse – that is where his shit comes from
      
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      July 4, 2022 1:44pm
- kowtow
  
  The Media Pardy / Regime are doing their best to stoke a mental health crisis by trying to scare everyone witless ; first climate catastrophe then covid and now back to climate catastrophe with a dose of seasonal ‘flu / covid variants.
  Then they throw in a dose of anti American racist scare mongering to stoke the other front in the Culture War.
  
  At the same time they then go on about how important it is to deal with anxiety / mental health issues.
  
  Voters/ subscribers need to wake up to how they’re being played by these far left , control freak extremists.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Anxiety / mental health issues. These clowns are fucking with people’s heads. Trying to convince them that something is wrong with themselves.
    All part of the scare/fear tactics. Anyone who is mentally strong can see right through the clowns.
    
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    July 4, 2022 12:42pm
- mogg
  
  No chance, in the past lockdown was a vote winner, now it’s a vote loser, and they know it.
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  July 4, 2022 9:39am
  - pdm
    
    mogg – they know it but, do they understand the consequences?
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:03am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Baker is certifiable. He is seriously deranged.
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:16am
- Mummy
  
  The soon-to-be introduced unemployment insurance scheme is a tax for future lockdowns. Of course there will be more lockdowns. If not for covid, then for something else.
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:57am
- k1w1
  
  Baker is dangerous, imo. If a red setting was reimposed, does this include a reclosing of the borders and a warning to all NZ’ers abroad to get your arses home asap? That’ll cause much unhappiness and gnashing of teeth. Mine incl.
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:57am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    25000 a day? This is what the mind control freaks want, especially the Labour Govt – so they can save us again.
    https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/beginning-of-another-big-wave-covid-19-researcher-warns-case-numbers-could-reach-25000-a-day-put-nz-back-in-red/ar-AAZ8hbJ
    
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    July 4, 2022 12:54pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  How are these record numbers ffs, when we went Into orange we were well above 10000 a day
  
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  July 4, 2022 1:18pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Following revelations his job history was not checked, Matthew Tukaki made to feel right tit….

https://twitter.com/Coltheman1/status/1543496160425709568
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July 4, 2022 8:09am
- nathie
  
  Woah please tell me that is Photoshopped …. otherwise the zilch personal space between them could be taken as “rather suggestive” … is he pressing his arm into her body or vice-versa?
  
  Clearly Tukaki is popular with a number of Labour politicians!
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:27am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Maggie – Very good even by your high standards! I spat out some coffee……lol
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:22am
- Frank the tank
  
  Mags – Sir Cullen… will be positively orgasmic over that picture. DON’T ENCOURAGE HIM!
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:40am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  As Napoleon said after the Battle of Waterloo ….
  
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  July 4, 2022 3:28pm
Frank the tank

We are being softened up for another period at Traffic Light Red:

-Baker and useful idiots back on our screens
-A Health sector collapsed
-No move to Green even though Kung Flu cases steadily decreasing on a long run average
-Masks being given out to schools

My gut feeling is mid-to-late August.

Convince me otherwise.
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July 4, 2022 8:17am
- kowtow
  
  The only thing stopping them is they’d lose another 10 % in the polls .
  But we know they’d do it if they thought it would do their polling any good.
  
  That’s wot it’s been about from the start . And it worked, for a while .
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:48am
  - cmm
    
    Yup, pretty much all the lefties I know feel we were sold a pack of lies over CV19.
    
    They believed all the bullshit about it killing them and their kids. Then they get it and nothing much happens.
    
    They have seen the boogeyman under the bed and know it is cardboard. Their houses and investments have lost value while their mortgages have gone up.
    
    Nobody is going to buy another 6 month lockdown.
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:50am
- Inandout
  
  Frank, only an idiot would throw NZ back into lockdown insanity with even more businesses closing. Academics like Baker should go back to their staff rooms and eat muffins.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:51am
  - cmm
    
    Baker is playing Bad Cop so that whatever Cindy offers looks like Good Cop.
    
    Baker: Lock them down for 6 months.
    Cindy: Hey, I’m reasonable, I’m nice. I say lets just lock y’all up for 2 months. (PS will not apply while I’m travelling).
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:53am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      A short lockdown to flatten the curve and avoid too much pressure on our poor over-worked health workers. Be kind.
      
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      July 4, 2022 12:15pm
  - Frank the tank
    
    Have you seen the state of our government and civil service – it is easier not to spot the idiot…..
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:59am
- wisteria
  
  It may be time for some civil disobedience. masks should be dispensed with immediately. I see people wearing well used and slightly grubby and others wearing them under their chin. I have not worn one for about 2 months now and have been at some very large gatherings and some smaller ones. Supermarkets do not make an issue of this anymore. So stop wearing them.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:22am
  - k1w1
    
    Was up in the Far North over the weekend. The people up there were really on the bandwagon with their anti-Auckland stance and solid mask-wearing. Not any longer. Even cafe staff not bothering. Good to see the scaredy-cat province coming out of the craziness quickly.
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:58am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Wisteria – exactly right. It’s that simple.
    
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    July 5, 2022 12:20am
  - JohnRidd
    
    I went into a Countdown in Hamilton today sans mask.
    
    A Countdown employee came up to me while I was getting some mushrooms and offered me a mask.
    
    I just said “No, thank you” and he just went away without a word.
    
    I haven’t worn a mask for weeks.
    
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    July 5, 2022 4:26pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  We just need enough of us to grow a spine and refuse point blank to play this moronic game. How can Brenda grandstand around the world telling everyone NZ is “open for business” while Baker is telling everyone we have to shut down? She needs to tell him to shut up.
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:24am
  - Frank the tank
    
    She won’t and he’ll be being wheeled out by her team. Keep the locals subdued.
    
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    July 4, 2022 10:44am
  - Nickc2
    
    A pox on them both!
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:21am
- Mummy
  
  And they have provided each primary school child with 50 face masks to last until the end of the year. Go figure.
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:59am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    That is child abuse.
    
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    July 5, 2022 12:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  This means Jaspinda will have to stay home and not travel the World telling them how fantastic she is.
  Maybe special dispensation. What about for Jethro, or does he like staying home anyway?
  
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  July 4, 2022 12:59pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They can take a fucken hike, they told us there would be no more lockdowns, bugger these rotten cretins.
  
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  July 4, 2022 1:20pm
TripeWryter

I’ve always thought that Matthew Tukaki was a blowharding loudmouth.
He knows how to fashion a catchy sentence. It was easy to see why NewstalkZB would run to him for a quote or two or get him on Heather’s huddle – until this morning, according to Michael Hosking.
But the real question, I believe, in this current fix he’s in, is: who is – or are – the Maoris behind it?
I believe he has already made lots of enemies among tangata whenua.
A televisual shafting …
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July 4, 2022 8:20am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Oddly enough, he’s not answering his phone today when the media ring up for a chat…
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:37am
  - kowtow
    
    Phones are a manifestation of colonial oppression .
    
    Like “Royal” .
    
    “A Christchurch GP is proposing that the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners drop the Royal from its name.
    
    “Within health care in general there is an increasing awareness of the effects of colonialism on the health service and the effects of racism on the health service and we should be taking every step that we can to reduce that.”
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-christchurch/gp-wants-name-revision-medical-body
    
    I reckon if he don’t like it he should simply FIFO.
    
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    July 4, 2022 8:53am
    - Flossie
      
      But isn’t there a Maori king? And ergo a Maori Royal Family….Mahuta is in it isn’t she?
      
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      July 4, 2022 11:47am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      That’s hardly the attitude in the brave new world of Health NZ, where co-governance and Maori wonderfulness are embedded in everything we see, hear, say and do. Wait a bit for the hate speech laws to come in and you’ll be getting a visit from the Thought Police. be kind 🙂
      
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      July 4, 2022 12:21pm
    - alloytoo
      
      I wasn’t aware there was a health service before colonialism…..
      
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      July 4, 2022 1:27pm
pdm

Saw this over at Homepaddock but it first appeared on NZ Farmings facebook page.

`A post on the NZ Farming Facebook page:

So I’m listening to the news about Jacinda Ardern in the UK promoting tourism to NZ. Saying we’re open for business and want y’all to come on over. Great stuff, I’m all for tourism, its a fantastic industry. But it occurs to me she is promoting one of the most polluting, inefficient, carbon spewing, unsustainable industries there is, while heaping tax and misery on the farmers of NZ, – recognised as having some of the most sustainable, clean, green farming in the world!

Something of a hypocrisy wouldn’t you say??’
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July 4, 2022 8:23am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes. I have commented before along these lines. Encouraging tourists to travel long haul to New Zealand is very bad for emissions. The key is that international flight emissions are not ‘counted’ against New Zealand’s targets. (So the Government does not care. It is all about PR.)
  
  The most efficient long haul plane (or one of them) is the 787-9. It consumes 120,000 litres of Jet A1 to travel from Europe to New Zealand with one stop.
  
  A couple of other things that will stop tourists coming:
  
  1. Masks. Forget it. Many will find out about the mask mandates and simply go to Australia instead.
  
  2. Petrol and dining out prices. This will not so much deter Europeans, but Americans and Australians who want to hire a campervan will totally freak out when they see the price of fuel here.
  
  Tourism may simply never get back to its pre COVID levels.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:37am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Long haul emissions are the traveler’s footprint problem, not a NZ problem//
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:01am
  - wisteria
    
    Get rid of the masks NOW.
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:24am
    - mawm
      
      and QR codes!
      
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      July 4, 2022 11:31am
      - Nickc2
        
        Ah, but will the police permanently erase all references to them from their database?
        Who’s the Police Minister these days? Oh, that’s right, it’s Hipkins. Suffice to say, only expect waffle and BS and nothing else eh?
        
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        July 4, 2022 12:04pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Just alter the QR codes with a black sharpie
        
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        July 4, 2022 1:02pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Nick, Hipkins is another liar. Take his words with a 20 foot container of salt.
        
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        July 4, 2022 1:04pm
      - mawm
        
        Steve – It’s late and I doubt you’ll read this. The QR codes contain all your info in the bottom right 1/4 or so but there is backup spread out over almost all the rest. It’s no so simple. One could probably get some effect by moving the alignment markers which are top and bottom left and top right. Don’t ask me how I know this.
        
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        July 4, 2022 8:03pm
  - Charmaine Hawke
    
    Benedict the Tourism Export council was saying in April they think it will be 2025 before we see anything like 2019 levels.
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:47am
    - Nickc2
      
      They better speed it up a bit because if we’re not at war with ourselves by 2025, we’ll most likely be at war with the Chinese eh?
      
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      July 4, 2022 11:29am
- Matt Long
  
  Carbon dioxide from burning jet fuel doesn’t effect climate as the speed jets travel causes their exhaust emissions to drop off the side of the world edge of the world. //
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:42am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Jesus, what is that going to do to those rabid foaming at the mouth lefties on the edge of the flat earth?
    
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    July 4, 2022 8:47am
  - alloytoo
    
    And that makes it’s the elephants problem.
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:30pm
- kowtow
  
  ODT has a hit piece on ag again.
  
  ‘Half of New Zealand’s CO2-equivalent emissions come from rearing animals and growing crops. The bulk of it is methane from ruminants — cattle, sheep, deer.’
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/bursting-hydrogen-bubble
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:56am
  - cmm
    
    It is not reality. It is an accounting exercise.
    
    The reality is that ALL agricultural output in NZ depends on photosynthesis. Photosynthesis takes CO2 out of the air and converts it into food.
    
    Every carbon atom in a loaf of bread or slice of beef is harvested CO2.
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:57am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Vicious cycle. Eat the bread, then fart, and it all starts again.
      
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      July 4, 2022 1:07pm
  - alloytoo
    
    If we get Carbon charged for the petrol we burn here, surely our export markets should be Carbon charged for the 80% of the food we export.
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:31pm
- pdm
  
  A comment when I put this on my facebook page:
  
  `Yeah Right – our own propaganda! We have the potential to be, Don, but not according to many of our soil scientists, fresh water ecologists etc. How do you explain the state of the Canterbury plains and the state of our rivers which are going to require billions of investment and even more decades to clean up?’
  
  This person runs The Green Party in Hastings and strangely (opposites attract for want of a better description) is a good friend of mrspdm and I.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:08am
  - alloytoo
    
    Is carbon gunging up the river?
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:32pm
Tony Stuart

Matthew Tukaki, in an interview with E-Tangata in 2019, might have inadvertently let us in on his secret:

I had no job to go to in Australia, but I knew something about recruitment, so I rang a recruitment agent in Australia, a guy named Justin, and I put on this thick Australian accent. The one thing I knew about recruitment agents is that they all go to the pub on a Friday. So, I’m like: “G’day mate. I met you at the pub last Friday.”

I mean, I’d never been out of the country before. I hadn’t met him at the pub on Friday. I was calling him from New Zealand before I even had my passport in my hands. He said: “Oh, yeah, yeah.” Recruiters — they love to lie. He said to me: “What job are you looking for again, Matt?” I said: “Anything in sales and business development.” He said: “I’ve got something for you.”

A week after I landed, I had my first job interview and got my first job in business development, selling software education training. And it was magical because the insecurity I had about my financial situation was all of a sudden gone.

Here I am, earning this magical number of $65,000, plus superannuation. When I was in New Zealand, I was on $25k per year. All of a sudden, I had this amazing job gifted to me because I used the same technique that Māori have used for a long time, which is the art of storytelling. I told a story to get myself into a job that I had no skills or qualifications to do.

https://e-tangata.co.nz/korero/matthew-tukaki-making-it-up-every-day/

So we know the guy is a bit of a storyteller. I guess that’s why you’d embellish your CV to talk about being appointed to a job by Ban Ki Moon. But I suspect Mr Tukaki let on a little bit more in that interview than he may have intended!
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July 4, 2022 8:23am
- Yabster
  
  storyteller – no he lied.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:28am
  - Matt Long
    
    Fraud is a White Colonialist Oppressor construct, it sounds like someone needs some cultural sensitivity training.
    
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    July 4, 2022 8:45am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Willie Jackson will be along shortly to give you some training on that. He is highly qualified you know.
      
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      July 4, 2022 9:03am
      - G152
        
        FAMILYTRAINING
        
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        July 4, 2022 11:22am
- Ehlana
  
  Many employment offers and contracts specify that if a person does not have the qualifications and experience which they have claimed to have in applying for the job, they will lose it.
  
  Can this provision now only be enforced against non-Maori?
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:29am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Storytellers, is that where all of those made up Moari names come from?
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:50am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  He’s either a fraudster or cheekily talented, depending on whether you like him or not.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:56am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    So where do you stand Mike?
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:04am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Depends on where I’m sitting.
      
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      July 4, 2022 11:36am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    He lied for monetary gain = fraud.
    
    You could also argue that he is cheekily talented as well but that doesn’t change the fact of fraud.
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:48am
    - All_on_Red
      
      This guy is ‘cheekily talented’ but he still served seven years…
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIYtKR24LQs
      Liars like Tukaki should at a minimum be sacked and banned from any Govt position or anything to do with funding.
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:59am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I think it unlikely he will be charged with fraud, let alone convicted. Bullshitting about one’s experience is usually rewarded: “fake it till you make it”. etc.
      
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      July 4, 2022 11:38am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        There’s zero chance he’ll be charged but that’s irrelevant. Fraud is still fraud.
        And yes, fraud is usually rewarded – it’s literally why people commit it.
        
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        July 4, 2022 11:47am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        You just described you leader Jaspinda to a Tee, Mike.
        
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        July 4, 2022 1:10pm
- Tomtoddy
  
  The $1,000 a day to a fraudster is bad eough, the lies and deception should rule Tutaki out of any role, the covering by Davis is a form of corruption but the real losers in all of this are actually Maori.
  
  When you fawn over people who think breaking the law and playing fast and loose with the truth is OK, when you turn a blind eye to nepotism, dish out taxpayer’s millions for spiritual healing, when you cram Maori language down everyone’s throat the poeple who are ultimately are hurt by that are Maori.
  
  Eventually the rest of us will see the rort, the negative outcomes, the plasticity of it all and reject it. Even Maori will see it themselves. See they are being derided, treated like kids, playthings, despised and patronised. They will want reality and fidelity too. It just may take many years, many billions of handouts, many Tutaki deceptions, many family appointments, before normal emerges.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:04am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Special K had to get in there and make himself known before Jaspinda gets home.
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:06am
    - pdm
      
      With Jacinda in Aus and Grunter down with covid is Klueless Kelvin in charge of New Zealand at present?
      
      Scary thought.
      
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      July 4, 2022 11:08am
      - fightingtemeraire
        
        Grunter is off to Oz
        
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        July 4, 2022 12:00pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Grunter is remote controlling, but going to Oz.
        I guess that leaves special K in control. Fuck.
        
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        July 4, 2022 1:16pm
  - trout
    
    Good to see that Tutaki is getting his comeuppance. When he was with the NZ Maori Council he promoted himself as their spokesman and used their mana to espouse his personal views. He was deselected and sacked but would not accept the decision. He then moved on the the ‘National Maori Authority’ (taking Govt. funded projects with him without consent); a tiny organization seemingly set up to give Tutaki some authenticity, and access to Govt. funding. The media (RNZ, and Newstalk) love him because he is verbose, opinionated, and Maori.
    This Government has favoured appointments of Maori in any role regardless of suitability or merit (forget CV’s); this is just one of many examples.
    
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    July 4, 2022 10:31am
- Cassandra
  
  Serial con man, one of several hundred, all with similar background. Conning the majority is one thing but it takes special ability to con your own community. Makes all Labour appointments look doubtful when I bet it’s only 75%.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:37am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Yes but apparently, conning this useless-as-tits-on-a-bull government is a piece of cake.
    
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    July 4, 2022 12:31pm
Blog-aholic

The TV3 News item about the new MHA and the funding being channeled to help Maori Mental Health using traditional healing with lunar cycles etc, etc,
Any one see it?

It was an eye openingly incredible sychophantic ideologically driven piece I have every seen on TV News.

There is absolutely no issue of using traditional healing if one wants it.

BUT we now have it IMBEDDED in our health system, fully funded with taxpayers cash, without need for accountability of outcomes……
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July 4, 2022 8:23am
- kowtow
  
  Filmed is a school yard with a background of youngsters twirling things and fighting sticks with tongues poking etc
  
  Not a maths equation or bunson burner in sight.
  
  New Zealand’s future is being blighted by this new found race bigotry and Maoris are condemning their own children to a hopeless life of state dependency.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:03am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Maths is racist and science is learned from the internet, no need to bother the schools and more importantly you can’t measure it so everyone gets a pass.
    
    Well, until they leave school, that is.
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:27pm
- Nickc2
  
  That was on day three of commissioning the MHA. Remember, they have about another eighteen months to dream up such crap and demand funding for doing so.
  Wake up NZ, we’ve been snookered by Maori academics and a Govt that knows no bounds when it comes to lust for power and other people’s money.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:04am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It will be forced down your throat whether you like it or not. Compulsory education.
  Only one way to avoid it – fuck off to Oz
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:08am
- Tricati
  
  My wife, who is a Clinical Psychologist with over 30 years’ experience, saw the article and let rip. As she said, when they have tried this hocus pocus, and buggered up the person or their family, then some over-worked clinician is going to have to try a piece it together again, or worse still, the coroner will have to deal with it.
  As the wife said, if the government hadn’t canned the funding for Clinical Psychology students’ final year placements, then we would be better off, but they spend on crap like this.
  After I made her a cup of tea to calm her down, she suddenly reared up for round two – As also having a degree in Health Economics, she really let rip of the health body changes and said it was bloody stupid to do in the middle of a pandemic, let alone at a time most hospitals and clinicians are under the pump – She has no available appointments for 9 weeks, and is working extra hours a week to assist first responder demand here in Christchurch so maybe a little tired, but on point.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:23am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    A friend of the family has a case load of 30 children she is expected to care for despite all entire Mondays dedicated to staff meetings and a mountain of paperwork required by the bureaucracy. Government is here to help (itself).
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:48pm
  - blue collar
    
    The suffering this regime creates is criminal . They are trying to break us , to destroy us , we must endure , this too will pass …. Society needs us all to weather this storm , we are all stressed and at breaking point .
    We will do it despite everything , things will change after the next election , these labour bastards destroying democracy and life as we know it will not win . We will hold society together as it comes apart at the seams and stitch it back up , and we will NEVER FORGET the damage a left wing majority can do .
    It will NEVER be repeated .
    Our nation needs us , fuck running away to oz or anywhere else , let’s tough it out and throw these filthy mongrels out. 14 months to go . Together we’ve got this 👊👌
    
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    July 4, 2022 4:05pm
- Yvette
  
  Blog-aholic – BUT we now have it IMBEDDED in our health system, fully funded with taxpayers cash, without need for accountability of outcomes …
  
  How Māori use maramataka to care for mental health issues and how the practice will be incorporated into treatment by Māori Health Authority
  … The new Māori Health Authority has a budget of half a billion dollars and CEO Riana Manuel has allocated $100 million of that to support centuries-old treatments.
  
  “Connecting people back to those spaces and places that have been long forgotten is certainly something that will be investing in,” Manuel said.
  Just like they do with Matariki, Māori use maramataka as a way of reading the cosmos to prepare for what’s coming.
  “It’s a way of rebuilding the body, your wairua, and rebuilding your energy and getting prepared for the high energy days ahead,” Makiha said.
  “So it goes in waves like that and if people understand it and go back to that rather than rush, rush, rush every day, I think that’s what drives a lot of the ill-health.”
  This article is part of Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/07/how-maori-use-maramataka-to-care-for-mental-health-issues-and-how-the-practice-will-be-incorporated-into-treatment-by-maori-health-authority.html
  
  “Maramataka” must be valid. We now have a public holiday to commemorate and celebrate star worship.
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:02am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    $100m. Let’s watch where those dollars go.
    
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    July 4, 2022 4:09pm
Maggie Pie

A bestie asks….

Does Jacinda’s stylist secretly hate her?
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July 4, 2022 8:25am
- MCōs
  
  Does your friend prefer the Dolly Parton look or maybe Margaret Thatcher. Or Tina Turner.
  There’s always the Nude Nut style similar to Sinéad O’Connor.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:32am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    And what about your missus Cossie?
    Does she still rock those hot-pants & heels?
    😛
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:44am
    - MCōs
      
      Times have changed since your time, Maggie.
      
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      July 4, 2022 11:21am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Maggie’s costume is probably still current at FreshChoice Otahuhu.
        
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        July 4, 2022 11:30am
- Flossie
  
  Does she actually have a stylist? I’d be keeping it a secret too if I were her stylist.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:35am
  - alloytoo
    
    Perhaps her stylist is secretly a patriot, or just getting revenge for the Lockdowns.
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:37pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Well she’s no Kristi Noem.
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:53am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  That white outfit seemed to have excess fabric. Just saying.
  
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  July 4, 2022 4:10pm
igm

Where is this going to finish?
https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/07/04/nothing-like-a-bit-of-cv-padding-to-score-the-big-jobs/
Every day yet another waste of taxpayers’ money on devious employment.
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July 4, 2022 8:30am
- Swifty
  
  It does raise the question, who will give him work now?
  
  I think his goose is cooked.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:27am
  - Frank the tank
    
    One can only hope
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:13am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Man with the lollipop sign at roadworks?
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:23pm
Maggie Pie

INVESTIGATION…..
Family’s search for answers over man killed by police…

‘Kaoss Price wasn’t a bad kid’

– David Fisher (Senior Writer. NZ Horrid)

https://nzherald.co.nz/author/david-fisher/
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July 4, 2022 8:46am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  He was a good boy
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:12am
  - Tricati
    
    They always are.
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:43am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Fisher is propagandist in chief at the Whoreald.
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:29am
  - David Garrett
    
    Clan: Yes…I burst out laughing when I followed that link – really just curious to see how bad the piece was – and discovered I’d actually have to pay to read about poor sad Kaos.
    
    The person largely responsible for poor Kaos’s death is his father – the facially tattooed git whose photo appears beside that of his son. With a role model like that, Kaos was seriously handicapped from the very beginning.
    
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    July 4, 2022 10:51am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  That article is disgusting.
  There is no mystery at all.
  The family even says ‘he lived up to his name’ (Chaos).
  A series of poor choices (even father has facial tattoos – role model much?), and some very bad choices with vehicles and firearms, a pattern of reckless and violent behaviour, meant that the police had to put him down in a life or death situation.
  I feel sorry for the police.
  
  Family should take a good look at themselves, and done something a long time ago.
  The pics favored by the Herald of the nice young boy with a tie on (“how could this tragedy happen?”), but then the family show their true nature again by posing with a picture of Khaos with facial tattoos and giving both fingers.
  Well, I give the family both fingers back.
  Good bloody job.
  The attitude of the family suggests to me that they bear much of the blame for Khaos’ death, and not the people who crossed paths with him.
  
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  July 4, 2022 11:02am
- Frank the tank
  
  Just like Steven Wallace.
  
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  July 4, 2022 11:13am
Gravelroad

On Te News last night our fairy Princess was pictured meeting with a handsome Prince, in a great castle/palace/stately home full of costly furniture and extravagant fittings.
It was stated that our Princess is a friend of the Prince going back to the dark days of the ChCh mosque attack,
They looked happy and supportive together.
Our Princess gave the Prince a suitably correct book about a potato for his white privileged children (might have been a brown potato – or pink – don’t know).
Funny thing is, when she comes back home to her own palace of royalty in Wellington, will she resume her stated campaign of pressing for NZ to become a republic?
When the Prince’s beloved Grandma (and leader of the Commonwealth) is no more – of course she will.
Our Princess is an opportunist hypocrite, but the Woman’s Weekly will love the pics.
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July 4, 2022 8:48am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  The only principled thing for a republican to do is to shun our current head of state (and her assorted hangers-on) no matter what effect that might have on our relationship with Mrs Mountbatten-Windsor’s other realms.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:58am
  - Cassandra
    
    Nonsense, mike, you’re saying an elected Prime Minister who has taken the oath of allegiance should boycott the heir to the throne?
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:40am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Not what I wrote. It would be relatively easy for our PM to avoid personal communication with the sovereign, let alone the heir and deputy-heir.
      But as with all things political, it’s relatively easy to have a bob each way: advocate for a republic when it suits and hobnob with born-to-reign celebrities when that suits as well.
      
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      July 4, 2022 11:43am
      - David Garrett
        
        But as with all things political, it’s relatively easy to have a bob each way: advocate for a republic when it suits and hobnob with born-to-reign celebrities when that suits as well
        
        Can’t argue with that Milky…an extremely rare – as rare as rocking-horse shit – uptick from me. Cherish it!
        
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        July 4, 2022 12:32pm
- Frank the tank
  
  All depends when her Master, Emperor Clark wants the job. At that stage Darth Disinformation will begin the preparations……..
  
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  July 4, 2022 11:16am
- oldfella
  
  Gravelroad: meanwhile Aussie’s leader makes times for something of real significance.
  Albanese promises Zelensky new $100m aid package during Kyiv meeting
  https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/albanese-promises-zelensky-new-100-million-aid-package-during-kyiv-meeting-20220704-p5ayrj.html
  
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  July 4, 2022 11:23am
- hullkiwi
  
  Latest update….
  
  In addition to meeting The “in touch with his feelings” Prince of the UK realm, the PriNZess from Downunder had a pressing appointment with the current short term resident of 10 Downing Street.
  
  But the PriNZess from Downunder exclaimed in horror to the Prince of the UK realm, that alas I have nothing to wear to such an important appointment. The Prince took it all in, in thoughtful pose with his head tilted, he drew breath and then replied with the utmost sincerity and empathy…..
  
  “…don’t worry dear PriNZess Downunder, I’ll just call in my wife, the People’s Princess to help you. ‘ In no time at all, and $3,000 later PriNZess had a cool Coco Chanel business dress and new hair do (looking much like the People’s Princess.
  
  So, with no fuss at all PriNZess Downunder had her meeting with the Temporary Resident of Downing Street, and a photo shoot for the NZ press to consume.
  
  All this to remind us mere mortals in New Zealand, that there is no cost of living criss here in NZ, especially when you are on a taxpayer funded junket to promote your own personal image abroad! (There again you could just lie about your CV, like her friends do).
  
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  July 4, 2022 1:45pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Somebody has to do it.
May the fourth be with you
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July 4, 2022 8:52am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Only three months late, Steve.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:59am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    First
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:13am
  - Flossie
    
    Maybe two months.
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:42am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Sorry. What a chapter of errors. Now I’ll have to watch The Empire Strikes Back until I can calm down.
      
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      July 4, 2022 11:46am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Only got 1 bite 🙁
  
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  July 4, 2022 11:01am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    But it was a good one!! woop woop woop
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:26pm
Maggie Pie

I was watching 3News last night and it occurred to me that not ONE of my girlfriends from Tennis (and I’m talking dozens of them) has a Tattoo.

Not even a traditional Moko Kauae.

Just saying.
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July 4, 2022 9:14am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  I met a woman who had a small tattoo. It was about 3cm across. She also had a Brazilian. Without the Brazilian the the deftly placed tattoo would have remained hidden.
  Sometimes one must search to find a tattoo.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:29am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    There’s no secrets in the girls locker-room Tau!
    Although TBH, the Brazilian is sooo yesterday.
    This summer I’ll be rocking ‘The Hollywood’ 😛
    
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    July 4, 2022 9:39am
    - Cassandra
      
      Link please.
      
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      July 4, 2022 9:41am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        My stylist was describing it to me Cass.
        So for those unfamiliar with ‘The Hollywood’, it’s effectively a buzz-cut for your beaver, making you as bare as you can be at both the front and back. No where near as painful as a wax.
        
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        July 4, 2022 11:01am
    - mogg
      
      Too much information.
      ‘A girls greatest asset is a man’s imagination’
      
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      July 4, 2022 9:56am
    - Ra Henare
      
      https://slangdefine.org/t/the-hollywood-4c60.html
      
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      July 4, 2022 10:01am
      - David Garrett
        
        Ra: I’m fairly sure that’s not the kind of “Hollywood” Maggie has in mind…
        
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        July 4, 2022 10:57am
- MCōs
  
  Friend of mine had his girlfriend’s name tattooed on his arm when he was fired up with alcohol and lust.
  Time went by. About a month. And the fire dissipated, but not the tattoo.
  Unfortunately his wife has a different name.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:47am
  - David Garrett
    
    MCos: A guy I worked with in the North Sea 100 years ago had a heart with a scroll beneath it with “Daphne” tattooed in it – crossed out! Beneath that was another scroll with a different name – what the name was escapes me after all this time – and that was crossed out too!
    
    I kid you not; that man was Jim Henderson, a roughneck from Dundee.
    
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    July 4, 2022 10:56am
  - Manu-Rau
    
    I remember a guy in Waikeria Prison* tattooing ‘FUCK PIGS’ onto his forehead in about 1981. He did it while he was looking into a mirror, so it came out back-to-front.
    
    (* I wasn’t in Waikeria myself. My father was Deputy Superintendent.)
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:00am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Well, looking as he must have, that may have been his only realistic option for coitus.
      
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      July 4, 2022 12:23pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Manu : I think that particular bit of idiocy was once fairly common…I remember Newbold telling me about one such, although in that particular case the
      back to fron tatt was FUCK JUSTICE
      
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      July 4, 2022 12:37pm
  - pdm
    
    Last year we caught up with long time family friends of mrspdm who she had not seen for over 50 years and I had never met them.
    
    Our host for the day in his mid 60’s had remarried and obviously being a very canny man both his first and second wives had the same Christian name.
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:28am
    - Taieri
      
      both his first and second wives had the same Christian name.
      ———–
      
      I share the same experience. Makes life much easier:)
      
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      July 4, 2022 12:28pm
    - MCōs
      
      Jerry Lee Lewis has thus far been married seven times, usually to one of the cuzzies, some of them at the same time and he’s always had the same in laws.
      
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      July 4, 2022 12:51pm
    - alloytoo
      
      My wife and two cousins from different sides of the family share a name.
      
      It’s useful at mealtimes.
      
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      July 4, 2022 1:41pm
- rangitoto
  
  Why would anyone put toxic substances in their skin?
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:04am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Silly things you do when you are 16. I have the “Playboy” logo on my right arm.
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:28pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Add: his bow tie has gone now
      
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      July 4, 2022 1:29pm
gump

I see three Policemen and a Police dog were killed by a gunman in Kentucky yesterday:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/us/kentucky-man-shoots-6-officers-killing-2-police-say.html

Stories like this make me glad that I don’t have to live in a country that worships guns.
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July 4, 2022 9:18am
- Tom Hunter
  
  Hey Jack Ass: Illustrating Chicago’s Values
  
  July to date (July 4)
  Shot & Killed: 12
  Shot & Wounded: 40
  Total Shot: 52
  Total Homicides: 12
  
  This despite people in Chicago not worshiping guns, but really hating them. So much so that they never vote for anything but gun-controlling Democrats.
  
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  July 4, 2022 9:26pm
kevn

@Maggie… So long as the carpet matches the curtains.
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July 4, 2022 9:49am
- David Garrett
  
  Kevn: at the risk of TMI…I have always much preferred at least some carpet…never been a big fan of the plucked chicken look.
  
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  July 4, 2022 10:58am
  - Flossie
    
    Yep – definitely TMI
    
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    July 4, 2022 11:53am
rangitoto

Government spending $100 million on witch doctors.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/07/how-maori-use-maramataka-to-care-for-mental-health-issues-and-how-the-practice-will-be-incorporated-into-treatment-by-maori-health-authority.html
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July 4, 2022 10:07am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  maakuta makutu
  
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  July 4, 2022 11:09am
- alloytoo
  
  Well……so long as the treatment is restricted to MHA.
  
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  July 4, 2022 1:43pm
ClanMcleod

A bit of excellent humour by El gato malo re the skewering of former US surgeon general Jerome Adams.

“….he’s been blown out of the water more times than a fish that lives in a grenade testing pond.”

Another wonderful turn of phrase!!

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/jerome-adams-takes-on-twitter-for?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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July 4, 2022 10:47am
BeaB

How do we deal with the misinformation coming from the MSM? Paddy Gower so forthright in denouncing Luxon. Paddy Gower so forthright in blaming Luxon for voting against the changes to the abortion laws. Paddy Gower ignorant of the fact that Luxon was not an MP at the time. No correction by the host or anyone else. No apology or correction afterwards when crew had had the time to check.
A disgraceful episode and further proof we would be led right up Labour’s lucrative garden path if we didn’t have blogs like this one and Twitter to keep us properly informed.
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July 4, 2022 10:53am
- David Garrett
  
  BeaB: Has anyone else noticed that Gower doesn’t look so much like a potato as he once did? Plastic surgery or “dermal fillers” at the very least methinks.
  
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  July 4, 2022 12:39pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://babylonbee.com/news/jan-6-committee-says-cassidy-hutchinson-told-them-that-she-heard-mark-meadows-say-that-a-secret-service-agents-friends-cousins-husband-once-heard-that-one-of-trumps-other-aides-said-she-think
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July 4, 2022 11:05am
- All_on_Red
  
  My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who is going with the girl who saw Trump say some things which Liz Cheney thought were bad. So it must be serious.
  
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  July 4, 2022 11:39am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://babylonbee.com/news/universal-pictures-announces-donald-trump-to-star-in-fast-and-furious-10-capitol-riot
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July 4, 2022 11:11am
Maggie Pie

Had to larf….

My partner’s mum txt to tell me how everybody at the Village enjoyed my Matthew Tukaki / Jacinda post here this morning. LOL!!

She just sent this link…..
‘Maori’s will remember this one as well ”

https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31187/john-davy-fraudster
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July 4, 2022 11:18am
- Don Beckett
  
  Matthew Tukaki’s role model ?
  
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  July 4, 2022 11:50am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  I know that any jobs I applied for I had to give my CV plus referees plus copies of all certificates and qualifications held.
  
  Then if I got to the long short list the referees would be phoned up.
  
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  July 4, 2022 11:54am
Fuzzysnuggleduck

Rotorua:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/former-mp-ron-mark-witness-in-rotorua-stabbing-locals-tell-of-half-naked-mans-actions-hours-before-stabbing/MKZKO5KOBLP3NLBSJXCP5OIQAQ/

Witness expresses a desire to move away.
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July 4, 2022 11:20am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Does anyone know what is really going on with the White Lady? Did a Council Member have a snack and did not like it?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-drink/129059153/the-white-lady-long-an-auckland-icon-could-be-shut-down-by-council-regulations?
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July 4, 2022 12:16pm
- Nickc2
  
  They don’t serve Hangi Food.
  
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  July 4, 2022 12:39pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  4 downticks, must be some Council officials on this Blog.
  Get back to work you useless people
  
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  July 4, 2022 1:50pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Like a number of people at AT and Auckland Council, they will not be born & bred Aucklanders/ New Zealanders. They do have cherished memories of the White Lady or the Broadway Diner of old. These people have come to Auckland/New Zealand and are all to keen for Auckland to reflect the places they left, and that means destroying Auckland’s heritage.
    
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    July 4, 2022 2:00pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I can just see a lot of Council people looking around to see if anyone was watching their monitor LOL!
    
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    July 4, 2022 3:25pm
Maggie Pie

TV3 Sunday @8pm

Patrick Gower: On being a Phuqwit.
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July 4, 2022 12:26pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Is that his new addiction/crusade?
  
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  July 4, 2022 12:28pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    No, it’s a social disease picked up at university or in early adulthood, and sadly frequently incurable.
    
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    July 4, 2022 3:34pm
krazykiwi

Love this quote:

3 years ago, everyone knew big pharma were nasty, self-serving, dishonest, rapacious entities.

this was triple true on the left. and now they are the darlings and the saviors, they who must be trusted, they to whom we must defer. cuz, science.

this is like watching baby mice demanding to be babysat by malayan pit vipers.
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July 4, 2022 12:45pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Because it’s obviously impossible for any company, government, church, or any organization to do good things as well as bad things. A position often taken by Kiwiblog commenters, as life is simpler if something is completely black or completely white: shades of grey are much too complicated.
  
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  July 4, 2022 1:21pm
  - Blog-aholic
    
    Well spotted.
    
    BUT in big pharma’s case they are more likely to be 99.9% nasty, self-serving, dishonest, rapacious entities driven to profit and rotten to the core than they are to me saviours of the universe.
    
    Perception (like in the cabinet manual) forms as much a part of what people will believe or trust and when the pharma spend their time being the 99.9% that people expect them to be then that is what they can expect.
    
    Sadly we have had a curve ball thrown at us and it hit us between the eyes to distract us from our well held views of big pharma…..that curve was thrown by Miss Information and her lackies.
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:28pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Here’s a bit of liberal/democrat/progressive polarisation for you, milky: Wokester’s attitudes to corporates
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:44pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    You know that’s KrazyKiwi’s position right? That the Leftist activists are “you’re evil” or “you’re wonderful” with nothing in between. It’s a hilarious habit they have which often results in them eating their own (because no-body’s perfect).
    
    Most Kiwiblog commenters are pretty decent at seeing shades of grey (Trump/the Republicans are perfect examples – they really suck in some respects but do good work in others). Maybe you just see people you disagree with and immediately assign them negative characteristics?
    
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    July 4, 2022 1:48pm
krazykiwi

Another:

Remember, if someone young and healthy dies unexpectedly, it is improper to ask about their vaccination status. That question is only for important occasions, like entry to restaurants …

… or Qantas aircraft.
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July 4, 2022 1:32pm
Maggie Pie

My partner retweets….

Have you ever seen such a shit-eating grin in your life 😀

https://twitter.com/Mattmateymate/status/1543517228808929280/photo/1
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July 4, 2022 1:44pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Well done – Tukaki has a mate. Better hope the mask does not fall off.
  
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  July 4, 2022 1:55pm
- graham
  
  Ha … Matthew Tukaki talking up Clarke Gayford and Jacinda Ardern, and telling all us “huas” to lay off the conspiracy theories, there’s nothing to see here …
  
  … on April Fools Day!
  
  How appropriate.
  
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  July 4, 2022 2:18pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Indeed. A social media bully seems the ideal type to be Director of the Suicide Prevention Office!
    
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    July 4, 2022 2:19pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I missed that date. The fool bit is correct for them.
    
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    July 4, 2022 3:28pm
Bobba Fret

NZ is open for business. However, not Wellington between 1am and 6am! I always thought Wellington was an international airport (in fact I thought it was our second airport behind Auckland for international….seems like Christchurch maybe now). No wonder Auckland grows faster than any other NZ city when others cant even have a 24 hour airport, and some cant even re-build a stadium (or a cathedral) after a disaster….I guess its only been 11 years.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/qantas-passengers-dumped-at-christchurch-airport-overnight-after-flight-diverted/D4ZNAUOATQ5YYE6HDK2VLP3PNQ/
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July 4, 2022 2:24pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Wrong link. Images yes, context —- nope.
  
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  July 4, 2022 4:58pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

You’ll excuse me if I sound slightly p*ssed off…..
but I just shot up to the Indian dairy for a tin of Ghee.
Raj was telling me he heard on the news that Queen Street has been CLOSED TO SHOPPERS as from today!

Well I knew nothing about it….but sure enough, he just sent me the link.

https://indiannewslink.co.nz/queen-street-in-auckland-cbd-will-be-no-zone-for-private-vehicles/

I was going to take my partner’s mum for a look thru Van Cleef & Arpels new store tomorrow. Not now I wont be.

QUEEN ST RETAIL : R.I.P.
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July 4, 2022 2:39pm
- graham
  
  More details here:
  
  https://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/news/2022/06/new-zealand-s-first-essential-vehicle-area-coming-to-queen-street/
  
  Initially it only applies to a section of Queen Street between Wellesley and Wakefield Streets, but as we all know the council has been trying to turn Queen Street into a no-go zone for private vehicles for years. So this is just the first part of the slippery slope, I guess.
  
  Using a new type of vehicle-zone called an Essential Vehicle Area (EVA), only buses, motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles, goods vehicles and emergency service vehicles will be allowed to use Queen Street between Wellesley and Wakefield streets from 3 July 2022.
  
  The surrounding shopping malls will be rubbing their hands together in glee as people vote with their feet – or cars – and abandon Queen Street to the beggars and the drunks.
  
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  July 4, 2022 3:08pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Who is going to Police this? 20 goofs from Auckland Transport?
  Anyway: Auckland Council Planning Committee Chairman Chris Darby.
  There is the problem!
  
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  July 4, 2022 3:33pm
- hullkiwi
  
  Incorrect MP it closed off from midnight Saturday. Only emergency vehicles and buses can use Queen Street from Wakefield St downwards.
  
  It is part of Derby’s, Auckland Council and AT’ City Centre Master Plan to create a Pedestrian Shopping Utopia.
  
  Or
  
  To the rest of us, a Dead Zone.
  
  We’ve been there before in the 1980s, when it was also a stunning failure.
  
  This is what you get when people with dogma and a bunch of foreign imports impose themselves with their dim witted ideas!
  
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  July 4, 2022 3:58pm
- Ehlana
  
  I didn’t think you could park on Queen Street anymore anyway. I thought you had to use one of the parking buildings and walk?
  
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  July 4, 2022 4:06pm
- MCōs
  
  Queen St is the most overrated, underwhelming Main Street of the two major cities in NZ and has been for a long time.
  
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  July 4, 2022 8:37pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    You’re right, though Palmerston North is only slightly better.
    
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    July 5, 2022 12:50am
LB

I think people are being a bit unfair on the current govt, the ‘health crisis that isn’t a health crisis’ was being dealt with but due to a clerical error they let in DJs instead of DRs, easy mistake to make.
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July 4, 2022 3:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

From my email, of all places:
“When you see that in order to produce you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing.
When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favours. (government contracts, handouts, bailouts, etc.)
When you see men get richer by graft and by pull, than by work, and your laws don’t protect you, they protect them against you.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice.
You may know that your society is doomed.”

From “Atlas Shrugged”, Ayn Rand, 1957

Note that whilst she used the term ‘men’, it is in this instance all-encompassing, so includes the current generation of corrupt women, of which there are plenty of examples.
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July 4, 2022 3:39pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Something is burning, I think it may be my ears.
  
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  July 4, 2022 3:40pm
Maggie Pie

PUBIC FIGURE
Remember I posted this tweet from Matthew a few weeks back…

Well in case you missed it 🙁

https://twitter.com/truereckons1/status/1525616588363206656
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July 4, 2022 3:54pm
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  And he’s been appointed director of the Suicide Prevention Office???
  
  Looks like, not only did they not check his CV, they didn’t vet his social media posts either.
  
  Honestly, you couldn’t make this up.
  
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  July 4, 2022 4:34pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Well that’s just it….
    if someone spoke to me like that I’d probably think of hanging myself 🙁
    
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    July 4, 2022 4:55pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Joe’s gas prices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdWfWJx57xo
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July 4, 2022 3:59pm
Alan Wilkinson

Interesting and relevant observations on the Spectator UK:

Physiocrat:

Western countries destroyed their own manufacturing base through their dysfunctional tax systems. In Sweden, labour costs are 230% of the real purchasing power of net wages.

Brisbane Calling:

“In Sweden, labour costs are 230% of the real purchasing power of net wages.” I don’t know what that means.
I do know that Germany is both a high-wage and a high-tax economy.
The article’s analysis of Germany’s economic problems makes no reference to tax.

Physiocrat:

Real purchasing power of wages- 100 kr
Price of 100 kr goods and service = 125 kr (100 kr + sales tax)
Gross pay to provide net pay of 125 kr = 178 kr.
Plus payroll tax 31% = (178 + 53) = 231 kr
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Labour cost to employer = 231 kr
Real purchasing power of above amount 100 kr

The article ought to have referred to tax. It is, after all, rather an important factor.

Brisbane Calling:

So the sales tax is 25 kr, the income tax is 53 kr, and the payroll tax is another 53 kr?
Fair enough, but isn’t that tax used to provide services?
So it’s a high-tax economy, as I said about Germany. The real question is: Does it work? And can’t we answer that question only by including other factors, such as GDP and budget deficit and cost of living and quality of government services and so on?

Physiocrat:

It does not work. It is a high-tax economy which is imploding. Income from crime is tax free. Unskilled workers, in particular migrants, cannot produce enough added value to cover the cost of employing them. They are locked out of legal, gainful employment. In this situation the tax is not used to provide services but to mitigate the damage done by the tax system itself. The result is persistent high unemployment and an intractable problem of growing criminality.

If you are from Brisbane, you might be interested to know that your council commissioned an excellent report by Sir Gordon Chalk, published in 1986, which went into the problems caused by taxation of wages, goods and services.
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