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Luke Piewalker

Message to Labour…

No amount of attempted take downs/hit jobs will work to keep you in power.

You have lost the room.
You have lost New Zealand.

Your legacy will be making New Zealand the most divided racist and broke in our history.

You will lose in a landslide next election.

Signed New Zealand.
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July 29, 2022 8:02am
- All_on_Red
  
  A Recession is when your neighbour loses their job
  A Depression is when you lose yours
  Recovery is when Jacinda Ardern loses hers.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:11am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That needs 100 upticks. Your goose is cooked Jaspinda. Get your Airline ticket to UN now, and leave.
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:44am
    - Paulus
      
      Are you sure the UN will take her – am not sure she would fit in despite her open mouth not always appreciated in such organisationand the DG is not leaving yet.
      
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      July 29, 2022 10:15am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        UN is full of dishonest, corrupt, and lying people. It’s a prerequisite – Jaspinda will be welcomed with open arms.
        
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        July 29, 2022 12:30pm
      - mawm
        
        Steve – you left out communist.
        
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        July 29, 2022 1:12pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Sorry mawm. I thought NZ knew that.
        
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        July 29, 2022 4:23pm
    - H. Upmann
      
      The UN has enough corrupt totalitarians that we pay for through NZ membership subscriptions already. Without doubt though, she will find a trough somewhere to sup on for the rest of her life.
      
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      July 29, 2022 10:53am
  - Paulus
    
    It has been said that she is on her farewell tax paid holiday overseas in Samoa.
    Thence to China I believe
    – then DCM.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:14am
    - a3kidlady
      
      Please may it be true.
      
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      July 29, 2022 2:25pm
  - glowworm
    
    May the Pies be with you Luke.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:15am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Labour knows it wont be the next Government. Its agenda is to embed socialist and Maorification legislation and regulation to make it difficult for a Nat/ACT Government to unwind.
  It is a scorched earth policy. It knows that a vast majority of citizens dont agree but with a majority in the House it can force through these laws.
  Labour Green and Maori Party are treasonous and traitors to the majority of citizens.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:19am
  - Jack5
    
    Not only that, Lastmanstanding, but economic devastation that means recovery will take years of financial hardship for citizens.
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:45am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Labour’s agenda is to leave NZ in such a mess that an incoming Party can not fix in 3 years ; so they may have a chance in 2026.
    Remember what Cullen and Clark did? Cupboard was empty, large debt, and then the chicken arsed shits resigned on Election night!
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:48am
    - Nickc2
      
      and Cullen couldn’t keep his hands out of the Till. He kept coming back as a consultant for more financial top-ups.
      Then, to top it off, he was offered and accepted a Knighthood. Fucking Marxist hypocrite!
      
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      July 29, 2022 9:59am
  - Clyde
    
    Nats and ACT need to be working hard now on the methodology to wind back this racist shit. Have replacements ready and waiting for all the Boards and controlling bodies from Health to Royal Society including Broadcasting etc. There won’t be any time to celebrate a victory – it will take some unpicking.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:31am
    - andrewcarrot
      
      I think you’ll find ACT has been very vocal on the co-governance issue, Luxon a lot lot less so. In fact, as we all know, he stuttered big time when faced with the co-governance issue (in contrast, Seymour was threatened with poison once the bro-eaucracy worked out he was getting traction). And that was it, nothing of any substance from Luxon since then! I suspect he’s still trying to erase the links to the rubbish he spouted when he was at Air NZ before he issues his game-changing (for National) edict.
      
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      July 29, 2022 11:11am
      - graham
        
        “These are karaka berries and they’ve still got the poison in them. So next time I go into Parliament this is what I’m going to do. When David Seymour’s not looking, I’m going to go like this into his water,” Waititi said.
        
        He then tapped a seed pod over an imaginary glass. “There you are, re-indigenise yourself with some native seeds.”
        
        https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/07/act-leader-david-seymour-slams-te-p-ti-m-ori-for-threatening-violence-in-jokes-about-him.html
        
        It almost defies belief that the leader of a political party can get away with this. It is utterly chilling that nobody in authority has held Mr Waititi to account, or even issued some sort of warning.
        
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        July 29, 2022 1:12pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It shows you how far NZ has descended into the pits for a Leader of a Political Party to joke about poisoning or spiking the drink of a rival leader of a Political Party and no-one in authority gives a stuff.
        
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        July 29, 2022 2:25pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I just wonder how many will throw their toys when they see their tax ho up 10% of what they are paying now, all to fund their own file they may never need
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:41am
- Monty
  
  very true – talking to my friend in Auckland this morning – she told me how in talking to the Pacific Islanders in their factory and office – they hate Jacinda – – were staunch supporters of Labour their whole life – but that has turned – on the basis that life is harder than ever, the lockdowns, the kids not going to school, the crime in their community, MIQ.
  
  All Labour have left is attack Luxon and maintain the fear and control. The have no successes to defend. Once Labour lose Auckland and especially the PI community, they have lost.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:51am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Let’s hope the PI community are not left brainwashed into voting the greens then.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:43am
  - surfing
    
    So many are saying New Zealand is the worst it has been …. I don’t recall times this bad. Health, education , justice, crime, race relations, infrastructure … times are seriously bad.
    
    The maorification of New Zealand has something to do with it, labour forgot that 84% of people are not maori.
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:05am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Yeah Monty bro – a frirnd of my friend’s neighbour’s cousin’s friend told me that they won’t be voting Labour anymore. Just remember one fact. PI and Maori bros will ALWAYS, repeat, ALWAYS vote Labour. No matter what. Even if they have to pay $20 for a litre of milk, they will vote Labour.
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:36am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Well this is not the first time South Auckland PI have stated they won’t vote no Howe Labour again
      
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      July 29, 2022 12:11pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Now ya talking, the pomposity of Robertson is there for all you to see, Ardern is hated by level headed voters, and no bum feeding by Robertson will help Cindy regain the hatred of the silent majority
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:36am
Warren

Health Minister Andrew Little stands firm on DHB ‘Crisis’ letter.
This after National Party Health Spokesman Shane Reti released a letter he recieved under Official Information Act from a request from the Executives of every DHB in June 2021.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129412395/health-minister-andrew-little-stands-firm-on-dhb-crisis-letter-timing
Let’s face itthe Health Minister is no different from any other person from the Government or Labour including the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as the only thing they have achieved in nearly 5 years is failure of just about everything they have touched apart from the ability to lie and decieve which they achieved a ‘A’ with flying colours.
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July 29, 2022 8:02am
- artemisia
  
  Riposte to 9 years of neglect, when the time is right? Worse than so-called neglect is a Fail, esp a failed promise. So, for example –
  
  The Kiwibuild Promise. That’s a Fail.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:10am
  - Spring Bank Westie
    
    Five Years of Fail!
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:49am
- Jimbob
  
  I have talked to Doctors about Little, they just laugh. They say he is such a joke.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:27am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Ask nurses about him, he is hated with a passion
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:44am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Dr Do-Little
      
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      July 29, 2022 2:30pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Media: “Prime Minister, what is your favorite lie?”
  PM: “I don’t tell lies”
  Media: “Yes, that’s the one!”
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:41am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    In what universe would the media be asking those questions?
    
    BTW, when I saw it a few weeks ago, the correct answer was: “Yes, that’s my favourite too” which makes a bit more sense.
    
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    July 29, 2022 2:33pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yeah, forgot. Her questions are pre scripted and so are the answers.
      $55M does wonders you know.
      
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      July 29, 2022 4:26pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Yep, can’t tell that one often enough
    
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    July 29, 2022 6:29pm
  - Bluegrass
    
    That’s a good question.
    
    Now let me ask you one.
    
    [with apologies to Yes Minister].
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:28pm
- surfing
  
  Three waters looks to be a government success. Nothing appears to be capable of stopping that Mahuta juggernaut.
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:06am
  - Charmaine Hawke
    
    surfing you may not want to gloat over that as the Mahuta juggernaut is not going to be good for anyone not names Mahuta.
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:34am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    I beg to differ. A well-positioned pie cart would at least slow her down.
    
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    July 29, 2022 2:34pm
  - blue collar
    
    The people don’t want 3 waters , politics 101 , you can’t beat the people .
    It may come but it will soon be gone .
    It’s an election swinger , those that say they will repeal it will win , the people will make sure they do
    
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    July 29, 2022 5:29pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  People prefer to trust Handy Andy than Shane Reti.
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:37am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    No they do not
    
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    July 29, 2022 12:12pm
Maggy Wassilieff

How often can folks forget matters when they were out to dinner with our Dear PM and trying to jolly up some cash from rich folks?

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/two-dinners-a-90000-imperial-robe-and-a-hall-full-of-evidence
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July 29, 2022 8:05am
- Philview
  
  The TVNZ news report a couple of nights back was careful not to mention much about the Labour case. They did say because of the National Party fraud issue Labour looked at their systems. This made it sound like Labour’s issue were uncovered by internal audit which is obviously trying to make them sound good but is it true.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:30am
  - Nickc2
    
    They learned their tricks from Helen Clark’s Art Forgery fiasco.
    Another criminal case not bought before the Courts eh?
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:05am
    - skyblue
      
      What’s the difference between Helen Clark and Adolf Hitler?
      At least Adolf signed his own paintings.
      
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      July 29, 2022 10:25am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    The problem is, Nats donations were declared whether there was known deception outside JLR or not (one charge is for deceiving the Nat party) but the money for the paintings or the other Labour donation were never declared, no names required under 15 k , but Nats weee still declared as donations
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:50am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Only because the Nat donors spoke publicly and stated they donated the same money to Labour
    
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    July 29, 2022 12:13pm
- pdm
  
  Looks like Labour were exploiting Michael Cullens nemeses – The Rich Pricks.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:41am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Cullen died one of the wealthiest people in the country, he owned 30 plus investment properties along with huge government and self funded pension plans, those 30 investment properties will have been worth 20 million minimum, many were in Tauranga and the Mt and some in Auckland
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:53am
    - wally
      
      He was a scholarship boy at Christ’s College. His main achievement was being head librarian. He was given shit by the farmers’ sons borders. That is where his hatred of rich pricks came from.
      
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      July 29, 2022 10:54pm
      - Sponge
        
        I can’t confirm if he was head librarian or not but yes he want to College on a scholarship. Ungrateful shit.
        
        A bloody milksop like him probably was almost certainly given shit by boarders too. In the 50’s & 60’s that is just what happened. It is not right or wrong – it is just a fact of how it was back then and not just at College.
        
        That he thew in the face the scholarship he was given and wanted to destroy the very people who gave him a hand up is the mark of the “man” and that is one, of several, reasons I despise him.
        
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        July 29, 2022 11:43pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggy… Kirton is just part of the bunch of labour liars. Read his words, just evasive answers.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:41am
  - All_on_Red
    
    I reckon. Talk about a dodgy witness.
    These people are just corrupt.
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:12am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Got the heave ho from Labour, then a nice job at Air NZ and his wife is a Labour List MP
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:36am
- Surely Knott
  
  I notice they show the jacket. But don’t show or name the artworks.
  
  That is consistent with our local art house trust which is a council funded building which offers well known artists residencies in exchange the artists give artworks.
  
  The public accounts say this “The Trust holds for sale limited edition art works created by the residents as part of the residency agreement. These have been provided to the Trust at no cost, and in accordance with accounting policy are carried at the lower of the net realisable value which is nil. These artworks have an approximate market value of $840,000”
  
  But because they record the value as nil there is no asset list in their accounts of the artworks. It essentially creates an untraceable tradeable cash asset.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:45am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  And here’s me thinking that Labour are no good with numbers. Seems a few of the more dodgy ones know exactly what they are doing.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:02am
  - Surely Knott
    
    Art the bitcoin of the elites.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:59am
- crikey
  
  Maggy: whenever it’s convenient to do so.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:10am
- Loddenthinks
  
  “The man who ran the Labour Party machine as Jacinda Ardern swept into power in 2017…”
  
  I’m not certain that being a very poor second to National in the 2017 election and being thrown over the line by a vindictive charlatan could fairly be characterised as “sweeping into power”.
  
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  July 29, 2022 2:41pm
Frank the tank

You have to laugh at the feckless. This morning:

1). No talk that our Finance Minister is taking a 2-week holiday over in Birmingham to watch the comm. games while the economy burns
2). No articles confirming the US is indeed in a recession. In fairness FakeNewshub did mention the US is on the cusp of recession.

When we do go into recession look for the same poor man’s Jedi mind tricks around recession definitions here and watch the feckless swallow it up. Also watch for Grunter’s surrogates like Liam Dann to argue this (a recession) is a good thing and New Zimbabwe’s economy is well placed.
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July 29, 2022 8:07am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Re the Finance Minister’s holiday, is he taking the bus driver with him?
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:18am
  - Paulus
    
    On a freebee of course, that is why the Wellington buses are late currently.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:19am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Has Grunter got a video made so attention is diverted by the media – just like the media did with Luxon?
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:05am
- Nickc2
  
  The MSM will spruik it as the ‘Recession we Had to Have’.
  (Aust PM Paul Keating)
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:12am
CJames

The Road to Zero has to be added to the list of Labour failures. They are trying to spin the increase in fatalities as “on track”.
In Taupo its bean an absolute failure – two fatalities on the SH! section around town. There is an informal speed limit on it. The potholes are so bad that going over 80 is dangerous. And they have the cable divided highway starting on a LH bend. There are so many white lines on the road, drivers in the wet don’t know what to follow so three vehicles so far have gone up over the start of the cables. Looks like they are going to do the same with the Maroa stretch of the road, rather than fix those potholes. But building goldplated cycleways is a lot better use for the road users charge’s money. Yeah right!
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July 29, 2022 8:09am
- I remember when
  
  CJames:
  Yes I am surprised that the effect of multiple overpainted white and yellow lines isn’t referred to more often.
  As you say on a dark, wet night it often resembles a maze.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:29am
- Jim
  
  As an EV owner it pains me to say that you often need a trusty 4WD/SUV in order to cope with the huge potholes, slips and flooding all across NZ.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:20am
  - Paulus
    
    But no Tarmac as we no longer produce any at Marsden Point and all has to be imported to the “sole” consignee the Roads people or whatever they are called.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:21am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      That’s not the excuse for not maintaining the roads with the fuel tax. The two large road builders have got supplies of bitumen, they get it in bulk and can store it, it’s simple bloody neglect to appease the bloody greens.
      #votenatstokeepthegreensout
      
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      July 29, 2022 11:13am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I need my Landcruiser to tow my boat and caravan.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:35am
  - Nickc2
    
    I ran into one yesterday and needed my lights to find my way out.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:38am
    - stewmar
      
      We used to live in hole in road. We used to lick road clean with tongue……..
      
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      July 29, 2022 12:03pm
      - Flossie
        
        Well the good news is that there are plenty of holes in roads to chose from!
        
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        July 29, 2022 12:46pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        Luxury Stew.. sheer bloody luxury.
        
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        July 29, 2022 3:45pm
Thought Criminal

https://battlegroundmelbourne.com/

This is a really good watch if you want to see how Dan Andrews turned the full force of the state, including extreme police violence, on his own population in Melbourne. All so he could control the uncontrollable.
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July 29, 2022 8:09am
- Littletramp
  
  Seen on twitter today – a reminder:
  The Holocaust was legal – people who hid Jews were criminals.
  Slavery was legal, people who freed slaves were criminals.
  Segregation was legal, people who stood for equality were criminal.
  Governments and laws are not always a guide for human decency and morality.
  Covid mandates?
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:40am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I’m going to drop that on FB to see what the fact checkers say. I might even get 30 days in FB jail!
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:11am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Sounds like Brenda and the Wellington Freedom Village.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:59am
- glowworm
  
  Thanks TC, just started watching, 20 mins in, OMG.
  
  I reckon Daniel Andrews wins top spot on the tyrants podium. Following very closely by Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Ardern.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:53am
Mike

Happy International Tiger Day!
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July 29, 2022 8:09am
- All_on_Red
  
  Indeed- who can forget the inimitable Sean Lock’s story ‘The Tiger who came for a Pint’
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Zl1TRDJs0
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:42am
  - yossarian
    
    “Very naughty Tiger!”
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:38am
Tomtoddy

It is not hard to visualise the virtual meeting between sleepy Joe and Xi Jinping. Scanning the reports indicates poor ole Joe got demolished and Xi rode all over the top of him.

China will be embolded by Biden’s weakness and their plans to annexe Taiwan will be speeded up. It should be a sobering warning to all democratic countries in the Pacific.

Biden and his cackling offsider are puppets. The administration is run by dangerous officials running rampage through America’s institutions forcing communists and woke idiots into multiple position of influence even if they have no ability. America is being gutted and that leaves the West exposed. Trouble looms.
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July 29, 2022 8:10am
- kowtow
  
  Mr 10 per cent meets Mr 90 per cent.
  
  This time arranged by the State Dept , not Hunter Laptop Biden.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:27am
  - mawm
    
    Talking of State department, from Reuters – “Russian foreign minister Lavrov will address the US request for a call with secretary of state Blinken when he has time, his schedule now is busy.”
    
    They have become toothless bulldogs (with an emphasis on bull).
    
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    July 29, 2022 1:31pm
- NoCash
  
  https://youtu.be/P3bKRl813Ek
  A Kiwi explaining the situation regarding Taiwan and the possible visit by Pelosi.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:29am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Democrats are very good at starting up military action. Her trip is purely to provoke China.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:29am
    - blue collar
      
      Totally steveo ! I’m amazed the dems hvnt started a war yet , they all do . Still … 2 years to go .
      I’m Not counting the war they are waging on their own people .
      The military industrial complex will want $ that trump denied them . Selling arms around the world ain’t the same return as exploding huge quantities of expensive ordinance themselves on some poor bastard , plus the uniforms , n food , etc etc , war is big business
      It’s sleepy joes get out of jail card , start a war , every us prez in crisis does it , takes the focus off home affairs ,
      Bigger the war the better , lookout China . Nah , they’re pussies , lookout Solomon Islands !
      
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      July 29, 2022 5:43pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Remember who has the guns. Democrats (the honest ones – haha) handed their guns in – just like in NZ!
        
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        July 29, 2022 6:30pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Taiwan will now be wishing that Trump was still POTUS.
  This shit and Ukraine would never have happened under him.
  One of his sayings paraphrased: “You don’t have to like someone to respect them, and with that respect you get respect back” or something similar.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:19am
  - Nickc2
    
    Biden’s compromised!
    The Chinese only need to make known where Biden senior stood in relation to the going’s on revealed on Hunter Biden’s Laptop (10% for the Big Guy) Chinese deals and father and son will, along with Hillary baby be fitted out with chartreuse overalls after the Mid Term Elections.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:29am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      China is donkey deep into both Bidens.
      
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      July 29, 2022 4:30pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        Other way round. Bidens are donkey deep into China.
        
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        July 29, 2022 4:54pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Depends which way you look at the picture Don!
        Starting to get images in my head from both donkeys
        
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        July 29, 2022 6:33pm
  - Bluegrass
    
    Trump was a NY real estate thug [this is a compliment, btw]
    
    He knew how to deal with thugs.
    
    And he knew that re the Chicoms, it takes a thug to deal with a thug. No ROE, no Queensberry Rules. Those days are gone.
    
    Biden? He’s the poodle behind the gate yapping at the big dogs in the street. When they bark back at him he turns tail and leaps into the arms of his Communist handlers, pissing en route.
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:37pm
Frank the tank

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/world-economic-forum-calls-reduce-private-vehicles-by-eliminating-ownership

“You will own nothing and be happy”

It’s not a conspiracy if it is out in the open.
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July 29, 2022 8:10am
- kowtow
  
  Larry Fink , CEO of Blackrock , is on the WEF board.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:47am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Incredible how many people in positions of power and influence are in the WEF web. I knew about Ardern and Turdeau (sic) – there are plenty of others. As Schwab publicly declared, the WEF has more than half the Canadian parliament in their pocket. I found out yesterday that Liz Truss, the favourite for the leadership of the UK Conservatives is also a WEF shill. I’m no longer shocked when this information comes to light.
    
    It’s all coming out in plain sight. Now the next stage is what we do about it.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:29am
    - kowtow
      
      From wiki
      
      “Fink’s longstanding relationships with senior government officials have led to questions about potential conflict of interest regarding government contracts awarded without competitive bidding.[3] BlackRock’s contract allowed Fink to cultivate relationships with Obama’s first Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and additional members of the Obama economic recovery team.[18] In 2016 Fink hoped to become part of the federal government himself as Hillary Clinton’s Treasury Secretary.[19] At the same time, Blackrock hired many former executive branch appointees to its firm including Cheryl Mills, Christopher Meade, Katheryn Rosen, Michael Pyle, Coryann Stefansson, Gary Reeder, and Ken Wilson.[20] This move strengthened BlackRock’s revolving door with the federal government.[“
      
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      July 29, 2022 11:07am
      - Nickc2
        
        Remind me again who traveled halfway around the world to pay a visit to BlackRock. Oh, don’t bother, I just remembered, it’s none other than our own Cindy Ardern eh?
        
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        July 29, 2022 12:17pm
      - mawm
        
        There are lots of “ex” Blackrock employees in senior positions in the Biden administration.
        
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        July 29, 2022 1:36pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  You do know that Labour have literally brought this in with their new plans re buying clunkers and leasing back electric vehicles based on their determination of your needs right?
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:58am
- mawm
  
  Frank – I’ll think about complying when all the WEF grandees sell their private jets, yachts and their expensive cars and turn up at Davos on commercial airlines (cattle class) and a rented Avis Carolla. Until then they’ll have to drag me screaming and fighting from my ICE.
  
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  July 29, 2022 1:41pm
Yabster

It was posted yesterday Grant Robertson admitted to making a $8.5 billion dollar mistake – he basically bet interst rates would remain low and so would Government bonds coupon rates- as those bonds have a Government indemnity -the taxpayer is now picking up the shortfall- ie we are paying the difference between the coupon rate and what investors could get now.

Think about it $8.5 Billion – who stays in their job after such a large balls up?

How many, hospitals, houses, nurses, cops, pot holes fixed could you get for $8.5 billion?

Wheres the MSM on this massive cock up?

I compared Grunter to Bozo the clown- but that is not fair on Bozo- even Bozo would realise spending $54 billion will drive up inflation and so forcing the Reserve Bank to increase the OCR – Never mind Captain Hindsight- how about Private “No Foresight”.
Incompetent doesn’t even cover it with this mob – bloody hopeless- who would vote for this idiot? You and I would do a better job as Finance Minister even Bozo would be a better option…
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July 29, 2022 8:12am
- glowworm
  
  My limited understanding from the comments yesterday is that this is a mark-to-market loss and so looking forward, if interest rates drop this M2M loss could reduce, or get worse if interest rates increase. Is that correct?
  
  But agreed, it definitely sounds like a major cock up with lack of hedging.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:59am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Interest rates are only going one way, they will not stop until inflation is finished off
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:20am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  That is a dead give away that he was controlling Orr, at one stage Orr publicly told the government to rein it in, it’s not just the mistake by Robertson, it’s the arrogance of his non understanding that every tax dollar spen is the same as every consumption dollar spent, it’s bloody inflationary, snd only on way to cool it, and that is slam the sheep with much higher interest costs
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:18am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Bozo for PM!
  
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  July 29, 2022 7:02pm
Tony Stuart

The Herald had a post on behalf of the Police yesterday with eight photographs of individuals from the protest at Parliament they wish to locate:

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1552170776803115009

Maybe it’s my ageing eyes, but the photos don’t exactly support contentions that the protest had been taken over by white supremacists; just sayin’…
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July 29, 2022 8:14am
- CJames
  
  A lot of the recent protests have had Destiny Church behind them. They aren’t exactly a white neo-nazi organisation either.
  Though I think that expression is the white equivalent of “Reds under the bed”.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:19am
- Philview
  
  Some elements in the media are trying to tie this to the ‘insurrection’ in the USA. Our democracy is under attack etc No doubt brave Jacinda faced them down and saved our Democracy.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:35am
- Ross Campbell
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Tony I realise your comment is written with the bias of the target audience in mind but in reality I don’t think anybody ever claimed that the protest was taken over by white supremacists.
  The claim was made that they comprised elements of the protest which is true even though it suits some to try and even deny this much.
  Facts around this protest are about as grounded in reality as the participants beliefs about Covid.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:56am
  - glowworm
    
    Phew! Not me… and I don’t recognise any of them. Likely they turned up on that last day. Nevermind that the protest was about the mandates but I’m genuinely curious to know what your beliefs surrounding COVID are Ross Campbell? Please enlighten us.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:05am
  - Opie
    
    Any article on bad parts of the protest was because of “white supremacists” to suit the current narrative. This is pretty obvious when you read the sort of nonsense that was published at the time like this gem by government fan boy Morgan Godfrey. He is so far out of his depth, he even states ivermectin is a horse tranquilizer then edited to say dewormer, which of course was not the reason it was developed originally, regardless of whether or not it helps covid symptoms.
    
    https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300520915/the-real-dangers-lurking-in-the-freedom-convoy-protests
    
    Remember- far right bad, far left good.
    
    Threatening to kill John Key and rape his daughter – good.
    
    Turning up to parliament to protest compulsory injection of a substance that may or may not reduce the symptoms of a 2 day cold – bad.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:06am
- Thought Criminal
  
  See my post above about Battleground Melbourne. Dan Andrews, Labour Premier, also slandered the anti mandate protests in Melbourne as Nazis etc. The media happily went along with it.
  
  The Authoritarian left are not your friends. Their media enablers are not your friends either.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:04am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Trudeau also used the Nazi line against the Canadian truckers and Labour’s Michael Wood did similar here.
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:08am
    - Biscuit
      
      Clan, that nice Vlad Putin over in Яussiд is using the same line to justify his Ukrainian Special Military Operation…
      
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      July 29, 2022 9:26am
      - Master Mariner
        
        Rather ironic Biscuit don’t you think.
        
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        July 29, 2022 9:34am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Biscuit – there is a glaring difference. Ukraine actually has real, defined, photographed and recorded Nazis running their government. The claims in Canada and NZ were slanderous constructs to smear legitimate protesters.
        Or are you claiming there are no Nazis in Ukraine?
        
        Let me know, I’ve got a bit of spare time for that debate.
        Once again, for the trolls who will accuse me of being a “Putin fan”. I’m not. I’m observing what I see as the reality of the situation. If I’ve said something that is provably wrong then prove it wrong and I’ll apologise and retract. That’s what debate is meant to be. Not calling somebody names because you don’t like their point of view.
        
        I’m trying to find out the truth, just like with covid. I don’t “like” Putin. Nor do I dislike him. I don’t “dislike” Zelensky. I’m looking in from the outside and trying to figure out what is going on. The only thing I’m sure of is that just like with covid, the “official” narrative being pushed on us is bullshit.
        
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        July 29, 2022 10:36am
      - Biscuit
        
        (Replying to Clan of 10.36 am)
        
        Oh, agreed, neither Putin nor Zelensky are eminently likeable … and their policies are even less so.
        
        That said, I think Vlad’s actions have been a bit over the top … in seeking to have a ‘buffer’ between him and the West he has actually managed to unify the West and to bring NATO forces closer to Mother Russia.
        
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        July 29, 2022 11:49am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Biscuit – your opinion of Vlad and Zelensky is totally valid, as is your opinion that Putin’s actions are “over the top”.
        I agree, but I then attempt to work why he took these actions. To do this you need to look at all the actors and actions involved.
        
        It’s why my OPINION is that it is happening due to the actions of outside actors, particularly the US in fomenting and funding the coup in 2014, NATO arming and training tens of thousands of Ukrainians in the last 10 years and the current ongoing supplying of increasingly advanced military equipment to Ukraine.
        It is also (IMO) happening due to the actions of internal actors in Ukraine. The neo Nazis who effectively control Zelensky. This will be truly apparent when he is “disappeared” when things become untenable as I believe they rapidly are.
        
        I may or may not be right about my opinions. We might find out over time.
        Again, it’s my observation that if any outside actor attempted similar actions on the border of the US then we would likely be in a nuclear winter right now. We have historical context for this pov. The Cuban Missile Crisis.
        
        Observing and commenting on a situation in an accurate manner doesn’t make you a “fan” of one person or the other. It’s simply trying to get an understanding of a complex situation so as to better conduct my own life and to help pass on knowledge to my kids.
        
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        July 29, 2022 12:13pm
    - Warren
      
      And if a National MP had called those protesters the river of filth like Michael Wood did the media would still hounding them now.
      It shows you how corrupt our media have become.
      
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      July 29, 2022 9:34am
      - Paulus
        
        Wood setting up his future role as next Leader of the Labour Party !
        Could be sooner than expected.
        
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        July 29, 2022 10:24am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Warren – just remind yourself what Wood said and the reality of what was happening.
        
        https://odysee.com/@voicesforfreedom:6/freedom-village-parliament:2
        
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        July 29, 2022 10:46am
      - jon
        
        I hear Michael Wood has a liking for his nickname round Parliament ie NAPOLEON, which is quite apt, given the former is of similar height to the latter ie 5ft 5.
        
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        July 29, 2022 1:04pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  the NZ police really need to give this witch hunt up. They just look bitter now and with jabcinda and Mallard in their ears to be doing something. NZ police your time is better spent protecting our hoods from crimes that are happening pretty on a daily basis – not something that happened 6mths ago and is now a non-event.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:56am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Infiltrators, same as Jan 6th at the Capitol.
  Troublemakers, just want a tangle with the Police.
  Scum.
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:03am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  From what I could see was most appeared to be Māori, many were lunatics from Tamikis out fit
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:23am
  - Surely Knott
    
    Looks to me like Tamaki is on the right side of history, for organising a number of protests , which were safe and supported by police who provided escort to his marches. He stood against authoritarian state over reach and forced medical treatment of a vaccine that didn’t work and in some cases caused serious harm and death. It’s not who I usually align with. We can only ask why more who claim to be liberals and protectors of freedom didn’t see it.
    
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    July 29, 2022 1:03pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I don’t think Bishop Tamaki condones violence…
    Some of the Maori Protestors were probably affiliated with other groups/causes.
    
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    July 29, 2022 2:31pm
Maggy Wassilieff

The Herald informs us that a man has been held in prison since December for “sabotage” and has been unable to see his wife.
He will not come up for trial until the end of 2023.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/taupo-man-graham-philip-charged-with-sabotage-believed-to-be-first-in-new-zealand-history/ZHOBLOZT5JG5HI4UGXGUQUUHJ4/
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July 29, 2022 8:22am
- I remember when
  
  President Xi Jinping said,
  “It looks alright to me!”
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:41am
- kevn
  
  @Maggy… Clearly ‘they’ are trying to break him.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:43am
- colinm
  
  Hi Maggy. The sabotage occurred in our area. It was definitely something that shouldn’t be broadcast far and wide. Emergency services were required and the infrastructure had to be repaired. And many days of continuous inspections found other attempts. I wonder what was driving his actions?
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:48am
  - Hebe123
    
    Agreed. I know something of the situation. This guy is a criminal.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:45am
    - kowtow
      
      Not a lawyer but until he’s convicted in a court of law , he ‘s innocent.
      
      That’s what our system is all about.
      
      ps Surprised that got past the mods.
      
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      July 29, 2022 11:33am
      - MCōs
        
        Many people who have never been convicted have been labeled criminals on this forum.
        
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        July 29, 2022 3:01pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Possibly he has previous CV convictions? In which case, it would be truthful to describe him as a criminal. If not, not.
        
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        July 29, 2022 7:08pm
      - Hebe123
        
        Fair call kowtow. Happy for Mods to remove my comment.
        Obviously he is innocent till proven guilty in the appropriate manner. It was a loose comment for which I apologise as obviously I do not know this.
        
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        July 29, 2022 8:17pm
    - Libertarians are right
      
      From what I can tell, there is very good reason for him to be denied bail (he’s a prepper).
      
      The issue any reasonable person should have is that 18 months jail is a denial of due process. It sounds like he should definitely be in jail and the courtcase is open and shut so they should give him a timely trial as is his right. 18 months is not timely.
      
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      July 29, 2022 3:23pm
  - Lenticular
    
    Then they shouldn’t be using a WW2 era sabotage charge. Either suppress details OR charge a guy with a novel charge with a giant maximum sentence. This ‘we won’t tell you what he did but we’ll treat him like an actual war saboteur’ is fascist bullshit.
    
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    July 29, 2022 5:52pm
- Stellaboxer
  
  One of Stalins favourite charges.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:49am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Yes interesting that Police prosecution want to be so “transparent” concerning the detail because of feare of “copy catting”. But on a side note, I noticed when flicking to another story ( pay walled) that the Herald is nicely in lockstep with the government to get inflation into double digits ASAP. Subs now $4.99 for 2 months vs previous $1.99 a month – 25% increase – sheeesh!!!!!!
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:55am
  - GJM
    
    Bypass Paywalls and Firefox. Just saying…
    
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    July 29, 2022 6:44pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Did he steal Brenda’s toothbrush?
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:01am
  - blue collar
    
    Nah brother clan , defaced a Brenda billboard !
    
    Must be something to do with endangering public . That anyone could do if they knew how/what
    
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    July 29, 2022 5:50pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There’s a facebook site…
  
  https://www.facebook.com/FreeGrahamPhilip
  
  I can’t say that I’m any the wiser as to why this chap is in custody and being prevented from having contact with his family.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:03am
  - Jack5
    
    Some sort of activist is held in seclusion in prison charged with a secret offence.
    
    Meanwhile gun-toting gangs terrorise Auckland and Ardern drains the prisons by moving convicts into motels.
    
    In the Stalinist Soviet Union, criminals got preferential treatment in the gulag, and were used by guards to terrorise political prisoners.
    
    Mmm.
    
    Ardern seems set on a United Nations type career after voters dump her next year. Pity this is another NZ breach of the Nelson Mandela rules on holding prisoners. The rules are endorsed by the UN.
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:38am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      I have no information whatsoever about this person or the case against them, but what sounds like detention without trial for a prolonged period seems very strange and very undemocratic. It really is the stuff we heard about in the old Soviet Union, CCP and North Korea etc.
      It’s an accurate statement that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”. I have no idea which one this man is. Time will tell hopefully.
      
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      July 29, 2022 10:50am
      - MCōs
        
        Happens all the time.
        A very big proportion of prisoners in our jails are on remand. I was reading earlier about the South African woman charged with murdering her kids in Timaru. Her trial may not take place until 2024.
        BTW
        Two Uighur were put on trial in 2016 for a bombing in Bangkok the previous year. As far as I’m aware the trial was adjourned because interpreters couldn’t be found and it’s still adjourned six years later.
        
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        July 29, 2022 3:17pm
      - Lenticular
        
        The woman in Timaru isn’t facing some completely novel legal charge, is she?
        
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        July 29, 2022 5:54pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I can see a dodgy Court case, freedom granted, and a huge payout.
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:13am
  - Lenticular
    
    I see a precedent that marks the effective end of our system of justice.
    
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    July 29, 2022 5:55pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yes Len. Sue me, no you sue me, no you sue me, no you sue me.
      Who wins? You know who…
      
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      July 29, 2022 6:38pm
nathie

Wonder what dirty messaging Labour are conjuring up about National over the weekend to feed to the news editors on Monday via their weekly Zoom call?

Who knows but perhaps we need to send a message back to Labour (h/t The BFD)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vZTd4MHUKo
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July 29, 2022 8:23am
- Raphael
  
  Trump used to own an airline. Luxon was CEO of an airline. Therefore it is plain that Luxon is a far right-wing activist who wants to throw women out of planes
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:19am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Bugger the BFD, they were slating Luxon gorvhoing yo Hawaii yesterday, they are as bad as the lunatic media
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:28am
  - nathie
    
    I agree but the video link is from YouTube not BFD (it’s just they mentioned it), have a squizz, turn it up loud and join in, and if you are thinking about Labour (and their pantomime performances) it’ll make you feel happier, guaranteed, G!
    
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    July 29, 2022 4:23pm
Maggie Pie

FOX TRENDING…

“If the woke people insist on changing the name of Monkeypox, they should change it to Schlong Covid”

– Tucker Carlson.

LMAOOOO 😛
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July 29, 2022 8:27am
- MCōs
  
  Fox pox
  
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  July 29, 2022 3:19pm
Tauhei Notts

Nostalgia.
Fifty years ago today was the largest Jackpot at a race meeting. The $830,000 jackpot was struck at the Te Awamutu races.
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July 29, 2022 8:34am
- pdm
  
  Taumarunui Cup day – back then the Taumarunui Cup was one of the feature Winter Races in New Zealand. Now it seems to relegated in stature to just another race.
  
  BTW `Uncle’ Joe Moran was the man who won the jackpot. He bought the very good 3 year old Panzer Chief soon after.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:46am
  - Biscuit
    
    Ah, the good old days…
    
    I went to a ‘Jackpot’ meeting in the Central Districts once. Can’t remember where – but not Awapuni. One of the few days – feature meetings aside – when you had to queue for everything…
    
    These days, I swear, I could play Maggie at Tennis in front of the Wellington Racing Club grandstand and be in no danger of hitting anyone for miles…
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:32am
    - I remember when
      
      The ‘big’ Jackpot meeting at Awapuni was a memorable occasion with a very big crowd.
      
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      July 29, 2022 9:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I was there, did not win.
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:17am
  - Biscuit
    
    I was in the same ‘DO NOT PAY OUT’ queue you were, Steve!
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:58am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      There were a LOT of people there
      
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      July 29, 2022 12:35pm
Tomtoddy

Stuff going nuts with Te Reo. An article about Maori blocking development is in English and Maori – 50/50. All 1.4% of Maori speakers will be pleased but even they may understand the English version..

Keeps the taxpayers dollars rolling in, though.
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July 29, 2022 8:36am
- graham
  
  Yep, this was mentioned in yesterday’s GD.
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2022/07/general_debate_28_july_2022.html#comment-3216857
  
  I had a look at one story and just shook my head.
  
  As I have said before, I have no objection to people speaking Maori, or the use of Maori; what I object to is the inappropriate use of Maori. And Stuff’s habit of writing one paragraph in English, then one paragraph in Maori, then the next paragraph in English, and then in Maori … throughout the entire article, is just stupid. It utterly destroys the readability of the article, as you are constantly having to skip over every alternate paragraph.
  
  And the idiocy of this is that it is so easy to fix. If Stuff want to have a Maori translation of an article, simply add the ENTIRE translation before or after the English. Have the Maori version first, then the English. Or the other way around. Simple. It achieves the aim, while retaining the readability of the article.
  
  But Stuff seem to be so concerned with using the Maori language that they have sacrificed what should be one of the most important considerations for ANY news website – the clear communication of important issues. One News is just as bad – I’ll be listening to a story and suddenly some random Maori words are inserted and bang! I’ve completely lost the thread of the story because I quite simply have no idea what they’ve just said. And by the time I’ve live paused, looked the word up, grasped the meaning of that word, then returned to the story, I’ve lost interest. I find myself watching less and less of the TV News because I quite simply cannot understand it.
  
  So that was my occasional check-in to Stuff to see if it’s worth adding back into my browser bookmarks. But, much as I like to get my news from various sources, if one of those sources is becoming increasingly difficult to actually understand, because of how they have written the articles, then what’s the point? I may revisit Stuff again in another few months to see if they’ve improved, but I’m in no rush. There’s plenty of other news sites out there that write articles in a clear manner that I can read and comprehend without difficulty. And I’m perfectly willing to pay for quality – which is why Stuff won’t be seeing any of my hard-earned money any time soon.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:05am
- Opie
  
  Even my bullshit mask exemption has more Maori words than English on it. Not only that, the Maori words are in bold text and the English in normal text.
  
  It’s hard to actually understand what it is.
  
  I don’t know why the need to add the virtue signaling words, given that the only people that actually ask whether you have an exemption are hysterical white women.
  
  Now when you ring Vodafone you get some Indian with a thick accent in a Pune call centre trying to fart out a few Maori words as well. That part seems more important now than helping.
  
  It’s a disgrace.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:06am
  - Jack5
    
    Opie is “Pune call” a typo for “phone” or do you mean Vodafone has a call centre in Pune, India’s 7th biggest city?
    
    It’s not only Vodafone’s phone call centre. Try a Vodafone online inquiry and you will likely be chatting with someone with a multi-syllable Hindi name. Better to type the first letter and a fullstop rather than insult the person by mis-spelling their name.
    
    To be fair, Indians usually have a good grasp of written English, and they are usually polite and helpful. It’s the accent that can trip you, just as our accent can test folk when we make a phone inquiry to, say, America.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:01am
    - Opie
      
      I meant Pune as in Indias 7th largest city.
      
      Because I am rascist I assume all call centres are in Pune after I saw 250 kiwis lose their jobs to one a few years back.
      
      Interestingly those 250 staff had an average salary back then of $50k each. The equivalent cost of the offshore call centre was $5K US per person per year. A great saving for the business and the best bit about it was the service was so bad the customers stopped ringing.
      
      The call centre’s are polite, yes. Helpful, no. Stick to the script, avoid responsibility and transfer you to another department. They would make great politicians.
      
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      July 29, 2022 3:03pm
- artemisia
  
  Assume you are referring to the Ohau golf course proposal, Tomtoddy. That would have been $50million spent to develop one of probably the top 100 courses in the world, plus all the spending flowing into the the area for decades. The iwi said a 9 hole course would be Ok. Like that’s going to happen.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:29am
Maggy Wassilieff

Whew…

relax folks… Our climate emergency isn’t sufficiently severe enough to stop looking for new fossil fuels.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/28/climate-crisis-insufficient-to-halt-oil-and-gas-exploration-says-new-zealand-government

I mean, is it an emergency, or isn’t it?……..

Can you really have an insufficient emergency?
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July 29, 2022 8:43am
- CJames
  
  When the lights go out in Europe and people go poor trying to pay for what heat they can, I wonder how much support there will be for Net Zero and no fossil fuels? I think the pitchfork brigade will then be after the politicians. The popularist parties (anti-EU) will get a massive boost. That and people will emigrate to places like Poland where they have kept mining coal.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:51am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Looks like its cold showers in Hamburg at present
    
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62335911
    
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    July 29, 2022 8:54am
    - Bluegrass
      
      It think it said Hanover.
      
      Hopefully not Hamburg. Heading back there for a few months in Sep.
      
      But ja, the Greens suck and Germany is going back to coal, then kick-starting its nuclear plants.
      
      President Trump – er hat schließlich doch Recht behalten [he was proved right in the end].
      
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      July 29, 2022 8:55pm
  - Frank the tank
    
    It is going to be a huge problem for the entire world. The WEF-dictated climate garbage will impoverish the West country-by-country. New Zimbabwe won’t be spared.
    
    Russia is slowly turning up the pressure and it’s a safe bet Nordstrom One will be completely turned off sometime in December especially if it is a cold winter.
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:03am
    - Phronesis
      
      Oh I hope it’s a cold winter. The sooner people wake up the better.
      
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      July 29, 2022 9:23am
      - mawm
        
        They’ll be fine; remember it’s the global warming that’s going to kill them, not the cold. //s
        
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        July 29, 2022 1:57pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Any comments from Chloe?
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:54am
  - Frank the tank
    
    “Gunna” Swarbrick has been keeping a low profile after her attempted coup of BMW Jimmy.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:14am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It’s becoming clear that Chloe doesn’t comment, she pontificates. I’m still waiting for a reply regarding her position on muzzling children in schools.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:54am
    - Greenheart
      
      Rather like your contribution at 10.36am
      
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      July 29, 2022 12:02pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Greenheart – thanks for reading it. Feel free to tell me what part of what I said was “pontificating” and why. I’m more than happy to discuss it.
        
        Or are you just another snowflake who gets “hurt” reading something that doesn’t fit with their perception of how the world should be rather than how it really is? As I said to biscuit, I’m always open to discussion and I have no issues admitting it when I am wrong. Feel free to contribute rather than snipe from the sidelines.
        
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        July 29, 2022 1:26pm
- Master Mariner
  
  As the world scrambles for Energy security as the realisation that the “Green Transition” is nothing but a dream due to limited resources and High energy costs to install, maintain and build .
  So what do they do ? Well declare Nuclear and Gas a “green” source of energy.
  As far as NZ goes, What a SNAFU. However the damage is done regarding NZ as too politically unstable to spend 100’s of millions searching for Hydrocarbons. You can not turn the tap on and off.
  Sad when you have to get UK news for reporting in NZ ?
  
  Hopefully people can see this “Nuclear Moment” for what it really is and the damage to be done to NZ.
  
  Talk about “Un intended consequences”, More fossil fuel is being used due to not understanding the true energy cycle and believing in a “Transitionary” phase into a Green Energy can be turned on at a whim.
  https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/IEA-Global-Coal-Demand-On-Track-To-Match-Record.html
  
  How is NZ Co2 tracking?
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:19am
kevn

Great pic of one J Pakes in the Rotorua Daily Post this morning. Nice to put a face to the name and his blog comments.
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July 29, 2022 8:52am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Do you know something kev…
  that’s exactly how I imagined Milkey & Ross would look.
  
  LOL!!
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:02am
  - plc
    
    Yep….funny how art mimics life
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:21am
  - Ross Campbell
    
    As opposed to the look of someone pretending to be a Remuera socialite but the reality is the dress is from The Warehouse and their means of transport is a bus pass.
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:25am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      TRIGGERED!
      
      Silly old coot. 😀 😀 😀
      
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      July 29, 2022 10:30am
      - blue collar
        
        I’m picking young coot … way too naieve ,
        
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        July 29, 2022 6:17pm
  - kevn
    
    @Maggie… Yes, I have always thought you might be a ‘seer’.
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:41am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    Come on Milky will be much more groomed than that picture of Mr Pakes …… after all as a retired public servant or current public servant, Milky has lots of time for the Interweb and grooming
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:59am
    - Yabster
      
      lol yes grooming would be right up his “alley”
      
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      July 29, 2022 10:33am
      - Ross Campbell
        
        Accusing someone of being a paedophile.
        Your all class.
        
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        July 29, 2022 12:35pm
- Observer of Life
  
  OMG.. it is exactly how I imagined the old coot. 😆
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:34am
- Biscuit
  
  Aw, be fair, you lot…
  
  If that chap is indeed ‘our’ J Pakes, he makes some very valid points in his submissions…
  
  Nobody is wrong ALL the time, right?
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:47am
  - All_on_Red
    
    He is misguided though. You don’t infill your green areas in your city.
    By decreasing that amenity you destroy the living environment and increase social problems.
    Better to create a new suburb somewhere else.
    Its not as if the residents need to be close to work.
    //
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:29am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Correct Biscuit – even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
      
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      July 29, 2022 11:43am
  - kevn
    
    @Biscuit… Bob Jones has a very good take with this housing caper on his blog.
    nopunchespulled.com
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:33am
    - Biscuit
      
      Ah, Sir Bob’s blog is one of quite a few I retain under ‘Faves’.
      
      I am waitng to hear of our friendly knight’s take on that insane Rent Action woman who demands:
      
      All rent prices are permanently lowered to 25 percent of the lowest benefit.
      
      Landlords must provide evidence they’re addressing repairs, including accessibility issues, within one week of being notified by tenants.
      
      Tenants in substandard housing must be appropriately relocated at the landlord’s expense during major repairs or renovations.
      
      Minimum tenancy length is five years. Tenants may exit at will.
      
      A permanent end to evictions during cold weather months (May to September), holiday periods, and emergencies such as natural disasters or pandemics.
      
      Abolish bond and all substitutes. Hand back all bonds from landlord to tenant regardless of contract. Costs of repairing any damages will be covered by existing rent payments.
      
      Pets are allowed in all flats, including dogs.
      
      No entering the property uninvited AT ALL. Flat inspections are abolished.
      
      Landlords cannot ask prospective tenants for credit checks, employment history or any other references.
      
      Landlords must provide 365 days’ notice before selling or reoccupying the house.
      
      I am thinking he just may have a contrary opinion!
      
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      July 29, 2022 11:32am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Sir Bob thinks residential property is for mugs. This sort of thing just proves him right.
        
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        July 29, 2022 7:18pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Clock is correct twice a day
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:36am
- Opie
  
  I like the neck mask
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:27am
- MCōs
  
  I wonder why people use non de plumes on this forum, said nobody ever.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:44am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Maybe because they’ve repeatedly witnessed how anyone speaking up against an official narrative, and often their families, can be attacked and smeared. Often causing loss of income or in other ways negatively impacting on their whole way of life?
    
    Simon Thornley from Auckland University was mercilessly attacked at the very beginning of the covid circus. It was disgusting and unforgiveable. His only crime was to state the obvious and now that we have access to reliable data, he is being vindicated on an almost daily basis.
    
    It is deliberate bullying to deter others from speaking out. Julian Assange is the primary example in the world today. His treatment has been abhorrent.
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:06am
    - Ross Campbell
      
      It maybe as you say Clan but alternatively it might also be because it gives them more latitude to be racist, homophobic, spread lies, and basically talk crap that they would be too cowardly to put their real name too.
      
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      July 29, 2022 12:32pm
      - Yabster
        
        On the other hand giving your supposedly full name hasn’t stopped campell and co from doing the above especially the talking crap part lol
        
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        July 29, 2022 1:26pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Well as the holder of multiple nom de plumes Ross, you’re probably well qualified to tell us why.
        
        As Michael Wood, Ardern, Turdeau (sic) and others have clearly demonstrated, using your own name is apparently no deterrent to slandering and abusing innocent people. Or is that one of those “parliamentary privilege” things? It certainly appears that people in positions of power and the media can get away with atrocious crap talking and slanderous commentary, unlike the average pleb.
        Maybe that’s another reason why many post under pseudonyms? Let me know why you have multiple. Is it so you can downtick more often? Is it a personality disorder? If it is I won’t “offend” you by bringing it up again.
        
        As usual, feel free to give us examples of people on this blog being “racist, homophobic” or whatever else it is you seem to be offended by.
        
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        July 29, 2022 1:34pm
      - Ross Campbell
        
        Clan, feel free to offer even one piece of actual evidence that I operate more than one log on or does telling lies come so naturally to you that you don’t even think about it anymore.
        
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        July 29, 2022 2:38pm
kevn

..giving the local council his opinion.
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July 29, 2022 8:53am
I remember when

Council’s call for water reform pause: Northern Outlook.
Kaikoura mayor said the information provided by the department for the future investment of Kaikoura’s Three Waters infrastructure was “fundamentally flawed and frankly ludicrous.”
Using the Water Industry Commission of Scotland (WICS) as a model, the department estimated $280 million would need to be spent over next 30-50 years.
This was based on modelling of a cap of $70,000 per connected citizen.
Their population is about 4260.
The council’s own estimate for the next three decades was just $27.2m.
One the face of it we could, using WICS numbers, replace of existing Three Waters network 5 times in the next three decades.
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July 29, 2022 8:53am
Maggie Pie

TOVA…. complete fruitcake, or useful idiot?

https://twitter.com/TodayFM_nz/status/1552086941067161600
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July 29, 2022 8:54am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Both. But probably not that useful now.
  
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  July 29, 2022 8:57am
- Scooter
  
  Wow she’s got Cindy’s cantsitstillitis.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:11am
- Frank the tank
  
  LOL. On instructions.
  
  Disinformation minister. FFS.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:13am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It would be good if they could actually tell us what is “disinformation”. We know we got plenty of examples from Ardern and others at her “odium of truth”. But really, a bit less ambiguity would be nice. Then again, Ardern and co really are ambiguity specialists.
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:12am
- nathie
  
  Wow imagine if she said that a few years ago when John Key was PM and the Left/MSM/Andrea Vance/Nicky Haggared went nuts about Govt surveillance over-reach – they would have “cancelled” her!
  
  Fast-forward to today’s Jacinda Ardern led Labour Govt and the left-wing narrative has done a 180 degree flip-flop – give us more censorship & govt control!
  
  In all seriousness that rant reflects badly on Tova, it highlights she only has a shallow understanding of the issues and for someone of her supposed caliber and position, willing to be suckered in by Labour spin, that is quite concerning …
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:31am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Tova herself is donkey deep down the conspiracy rabbit hole.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:05am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Edited, took out the bad bits?
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:41am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Minister of Misinformation?
  
  I think Tova’s making a play for the job.
  
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  July 29, 2022 7:23pm
tknorriss

For his parting gesture I see Ashley Bloomfield is going on a crusade to force councils to start mass-mass-medicating by fluoridating drinking water.

He obviously isn’t aware of this Harvard study:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluoridated-drinking-water/

Turns out that when countries that haven’t fluoridated water are compared with countries that have, the drop in tooth decay is very similar. Mainly due to the introduction of fluoridated toothpaste and improvements in dental hygiene generally.

I think fluoridating the water is a complete waste of time and forcing most people, who already get enough fluoride through toothpaste to get more than they need.

Also, the reason that those who have tooth decay from a young age is largely to do with the fact that they tend to drink fizzy drinks instead of water. So, adding fluoride to the water supply is going to completely miss the target it is trying to hit.

Better to add fluoride to fizzy drinks.
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July 29, 2022 9:05am
- Blog-aholic
  
  We make the assumption that the people (children) who are vulnerable actually use toothpaste and or clean their teeth regularly. As far as I know from people who have worked with children in places like South Auckland in dentisrty you find that a toothbrush itself is unheard of in the first place. So may floride in the water is better than nothing?
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:10am
  - tknorriss
    
    But, as I pointed out, people in that situation also tend to drink high amounts of fizzy drinks.
    
    So, adding fluoride to the fizzy drinks would be more effective, along with education on dental hygiene.
    
    As the article points out, there are risks of harm with too much fluoride. In itself, I don’t think the concentration of fluoride in fluoridated water is problematic. But maybe it could be for the majority of people who end up getting both fluoride from their water supply and from toothpaste.
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:22am
    - Jack5
      
      Back in the day, Christchurch had two councils, Christchurch City and Waimairi,
      
      Waimairi water was fluoridated, Christchurch City water was not.
      
      My dentist (in the city centre) reckoned he could tell which part of Christchurch kids lived from the state of their teeth, and Waimairi kids had the better ones.
      
      In the early days of the Tiwai aluminium smelter at Bluff, some folk reckoned there was fluorine in the air from the process, but there was never any proof of health problems for Bluffies.
      
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      July 29, 2022 9:49am
      - tknorriss
        
        Yes, Waimairi had fluoridated water between 1965 and 1986 (see below).
        
        But I wonder if that there would still be a noticeable difference today in the general (tooth cleaning) population due to the impact of fluoridated toothpaste on those who have good dental hygiene.
        
        As I said in my first post, fluoridated water won’t help target populations if they drink fizzy rather than water anyway.
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/78893059/editorial-fluorides-benefits-beyond-doubt-but-governments-approach-weakkneed
        
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        July 29, 2022 10:49am
    - Inandout
      
      tk, as many fizzy drinks are bottled at the Oasis in Auckland I suspect their water source is flurodated anyway.
      
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      July 29, 2022 10:08am
      - tknorriss
        
        So, if the at-risk kids are getting fluoride anyway, through fizzy drink, then maybe lack of fluoride isn’t the issue.
        
        Perhaps the issue that will have the greatest effect is improving dental hygiene.
        
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        July 29, 2022 10:43am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Why should everyone be force medicated because some don’t do what they need to protect themselves? The same happened a couple of years ago with folic acid I believe? The only benefit is to pregnant women who can very easily take it themselves, as my wife did. But if it went ahead as I believe it it was put into bread. Anyone eating store bought bread was getting folic acid whether they wanted it or not.
    It’s government overreach. Give those who need and want that help access to it.
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:18am
- kevn
  
  @tknorris… Flouride, just another string in Pfizer bow. One of the companies subsidiaries.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:27am
- I remember when
  
  It was interesting timing.
  Is it meant to remove the need for another official to have to make what could be considered an unpopular announcement.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:35am
- Harry Knuts
  
  they’re saying this is St Ash’s legacy – he should have stopped at Covid lockdowns & mandates – that was enough to ruin his credibility.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:07am
I remember when

Newshub item last night on infestation of passenger luggage at Dublin airport.
Discarded after being infested by vermin – rats and ‘creepy crawlies.’
‘Creepy Crawlies.’
It’s the News, not the kindergarten playground.
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July 29, 2022 9:07am
- Flossie
  
  “The News” on TV has become more and more just a couple of lines of actual news, partly in another language that most of us cannot understand, then drifts off into magazine style articles. Where is the grown up news these days?
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:47am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Flossie – I would recommend UK Column News. I’ve been following them for almost 2 years. They were mostly focused on covid for a while (as everyone was). But they also cover other major world events. Their main website is here.
    
    https://www.ukcolumn.org/
    
    They are UK focused but much of their work has relevance, particularly here in NZ as our governance system evolved from there.
    They have an excellent section on democracy and the law and how it has evolved. How it currently seems to be under threat. It’s a section titled “A Dissident’s Guide to the Constitution”.
    
    https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/dissidents-guide-constitution-episode-1
    
    It’s long and involved, not for the faint hearted. But it is an extremely interesting examination for those interested in these things.
    
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    July 29, 2022 12:31pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  I presume they are catering to the average IQ of what remains of their audience which I presume consists of Labour voters who swallow their crap blindly.
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:11am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I remember when – apologies but I think you’re wrong. Based on our “news” over the last 3 years it IS the kindergarten playground. Well it certainly isn’t real news!
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:22am
In Vino Veritas

So Steve Hansen has a fairly pointed stab at the NZRFU Board when defending Fossie. Perhaps he is justified, but I guess the questions that need to be asked are (1) didn’t Hansen have his finger solidly in Fosters pie with regard to him getting the job? and perhaps more importantly, (2) after his outburst, what is in it for Steve Hansen? Are there rugby political machinations afoot?
I’d also make the point that Hansen’s comparison of Cane to Carter with regard to results after injuries, is tenuous at best, as Carter was still by far the best five eighth in NZ even when he wasn’t on top of his game. I would suggest there is evidence that says Cane isn’t the best open-side when he is on top of his game (and comparing Cane to McCaw is imo slightly out there).
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July 29, 2022 9:08am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Just a little lube to ensure that the poopies dont stick too long.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:22am
  - MCōs
    
    Not an expression I’m familiar with.
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:49am
Maggy Wassilieff

Andrew Little won’t front to a Debate with Shane Reti on our Health system.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/129417153/life-support-the-health-debate-that-could-have-been
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July 29, 2022 9:10am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  What a surprise!
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:28am
- Inandout
  
  Run Angry, run..oh you can keep your salary though.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:03am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He then lied and said there was no firm date when there was, now he is rubbishing the Nats gor wanting more of the old, Nats have never bloody said that, they still want regional input, but they have not declared their policy yet.
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:40am
- rangitoto
  
  Living up to his Chicken Little nickname
  
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  July 29, 2022 1:26pm
kevn

@Maggy… do-little. By name and actions, or lack of.
Ask any nurse. They wouldn’t scrape him off their shoes.
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July 29, 2022 9:25am
- Ehlana
  
  Probably best to burn the shoes, I would think. Some stains don’t come out.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:28am
Maggie Pie

No wonder Auckland is phuked 🙁

Since when has THE TRUTH been considered …
‘dirty-politics’?

https://twitter.com/RReidFU/status/1552743017349795840

Tweeted by: Robert Reid – socialist, unionist, proletarian director.

SAY NO MORE!
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July 29, 2022 9:25am
- Nickc2
  
  Labour to the core eh?
  Party backing for a true Comrade.
  
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  July 29, 2022 9:43am
- Harry Knuts
  
  when journo’s improperly use the english language with such words as dirty politics when as the add was purely publishing the truth then we know the journo has ulterior motives.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:10am
- artemisia
  
  Interesting twitter handle.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:18am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    FU = First Union
    
    I initially thort the same 😀
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:19am
BeaB

Herald has photo of Luxon to show how much he looks like Muldoon.
Can we run a competition to see who we think Ardern looks like?
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July 29, 2022 9:40am
- Harry Knuts
  
  nieggghhhhh…
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:11am
- Frank the tank
  
  Phar Lap?
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:17am
  - Sponge
    
    Blossom Lady?
    
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    July 29, 2022 10:31pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Mr Ed?
    
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    July 29, 2022 11:05pm
- kevn
  
  @Bea… Neigh, unfair. Too easy.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:22am
- crikey
  
  Black Caviar or Winx, although not as pretty as either.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:33am
- graham
  
  And yet … virtually any time somebody makes a remark about the looks of a female politician, it’s loudly decried as “sexist”, with accompanying outrage that “you wouldn’t comment on the looks of a MALE politician” …
  
  … hypocrisy, much?
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:23am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Nah, too easy. Almost as bad an idea as the Irish Times decision to run a $10,000 crossword puzzle competition. Under the entry information was the byline, “for those who want to do it for fun, the answers are on page 5……..”
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:33am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFxnCssrvl0
“China Wants to Kill Pelosi”.

We tried to please dictators in the 30s, just see how long that “peace in our time” was. West cannot stop these dictatorships that flirt with ultra-nationalism from doing something stupid, but we sure can discourage it and make sure they pay massively for their actions. Seeming weak and not standing up for our democratic allies is the worst thing we can do, and such short sighted actions would melt the foundations of our own security. [There are so many red lines; even the ‘experts’ are losing count of them. 13:01]
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July 29, 2022 9:42am
- ClanMcleod
  
  There are probably quite a few Americans who are in the same boat……
  Tongue in cheek obviously, I don’t advocate violence against anyone except in self defense. Just in case the new “hate speech” laws came in when I wasn’t paying attention.
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:35am
nathie

Don’t think this was posted by anyone before but if you want to end the week listening to someone concisely articulate what the issues are with the Reserve Bank, the Labour Party and inflation (rather than Grant Robertson’s pantomime performances and Sargent Schultz impersonations), have a listen to Steven Joyce being interviewed by Kerre Woodham on Wednesday.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/kerre-woodham-mornings/audio/steven-joyce-former-finance-minister-on-calls-for-review-of-rbnzs-response-to-inflation/
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July 29, 2022 9:42am
- alloytoo
  
  “Common sense, we’ve missed it.”
  
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  July 29, 2022 12:32pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur1sspmOUlc
European nations abandon Germany.

How stupid to shut down your own energy and buy from the old cold war enemies. Yet the German people voted for it happily. Every country deserves its leaders. Meanwhile; other Fourth Reich members are either unaffected, have their own supplies of gas, or are deciding to put [insert name of country here] first. That’d be a change. [5:35]
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July 29, 2022 9:43am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Trump is on record warning about this.
  
  https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/mailbag/letter-trump-warned-against-dependence-on-foreign-energy/article_622f76c1-d013-5d74-9b32-8b3638a06d13.html
  
  But it isn’t rocket science. Now about Marsden Point…..
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:40am
  - curry4me
    
    Yes, he warned them while he was at the UN. Thery were laughing then. Now, not so much. Maybe there will be a wool boom as Fourth Reich citizens order winter woolies. It’d be a shame for NZ farmers to let a crisis go to waste.
    
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    July 29, 2022 5:42pm
DimChappie

The Three Waters select committee will travel the country hearing submissions, as suggested by the Taxpayers Union. So the government can say we have been heard, then pass their racist shite: https://twitter.com/kehetauhauaga/status/1552749769075806209/photo/1
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July 29, 2022 10:11am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And already the top jobs for 3-Waters are being advertised…. even tho’ public submissions on the 3-waters have not been heard.
  
  From Parliament QT yesterday:
  
  Simon Watts: Why has advertising for executive positions in the water services entities already begun before a single submission on the bill has been heard?
  
  Hon NANAIA MAHUTA: Because momentum is taking place and councils want certainty that there is a transition plan to successfully ensure that once the water service entities are stood up, there is movement already in place to ensure successful implementation.
  
  Simon Watts: So what does she say to the people who submitted on three waters, expecting their voices to be heard, only to see decisions like appointing executives are already being made?
  
  Hon NANAIA MAHUTA: That there is a plan in place and that’s it really important to ensure successful transition towards the water reform that we are proposing.
  
  https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20220728_20220728_16/tab/video?page=2&mode=form
  
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  July 29, 2022 12:22pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Mahuta thinks that no one will notice, or care.
    
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    July 29, 2022 7:39pm
I remember when

Napier City Council CEO the latest in a string of executives to resign: HB Today.
Napier City Council has been accused of having a ‘serious culture issue’ after four executives quit their jobs in quick succession (April,May,June,July).
The leadership, team lead a staff of 500-plus.
Earlier this year the executive leadership team (ELT) underwent a realignment process which took it from nine directors and managers to five executive directors plus a CEO.
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July 29, 2022 10:21am
Maggie Pie

I see TVNZ is blaming the drastic drop in ratings for their ‘Breakfast Show’ ….on the Kamal Santamaria fiasco.

No mention of that Maaty McLean or John Campbell.

SHEESH!!
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July 29, 2022 10:22am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  TV media in NZ are disappearing, ouroboros style, up their own fundaments. Lying, misleading, lecturing and scolding and putting off ever more of the population, as they stride off into the intellectual wastelands of the academic left rapidly shedding all viewersship to the right of them.
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:30am
- All_on_Red
  
  What did the guy actually do?
  Didnt he just say how nice someone looked in a dress?
  
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  July 29, 2022 10:38am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  I don’t watch it. What with an “Up Themselves” line up of Socialist Campbell that used get get all orgasmic about people sleeping in cars and is now v quiet on 25k people on the housing list.
  
  And smarmy Matty whatsit the resident rep of the LGBTQ and whatever mob
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:31am
- Flossie
  
  Not terribly fond of the two women either.
  
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  July 29, 2022 1:03pm
- Frank the tank
  
  No mention either that their female presenters are now collected at the bottom of the ugly tree after hitting every branch either.
  
  Compare them to the ladies on Fox News…..
  
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  July 29, 2022 1:07pm
iMP

THERE IS HOPE. While many youth examples sitting at the current Youth Parliament show the factional politics and leftist intolerance of their parents, one mp provides hope, Nicola Willis’ choice for her youth mp. Stuff carries his contribution.

A quote… “ The two days of the Youth Parliament and what followed proves to me that some need to practise what they preach. Many who spoke passionately about the need for their voice to be heard and for compulsory civics education showed an uncivil intolerance for our democracy.”

I’d vote for him.
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July 29, 2022 10:22am
- kowtow
  
  Matthew Fisken , one of the Act Youth MP’s would get my vote .
  
  The 4 th Estate should draw up a list of the walk outs. They need to be watched out for.
  
  https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/07/20/mass-walkout-at-youth-parliament-after-firearms-speech/
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:18am
Ehlana

For those who need to get their blood pressure up today, this article covers the interview with Anne Campbell from Tenants Action Wellington on TV3’s AM show Thursday morning. Scroll to the bottom for a list of demands that are out of this world: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/07/am-hosts-slam-renters-group-s-list-of-demands-including-drastic-rent-reductions-winter-eviction-ban.html
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July 29, 2022 10:26am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I read that yesterday. If it ever looks like flying, landlords will just sell up – even at a loss.
  What a bunch of tossers
  
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  July 29, 2022 12:08pm
- I remember when
  
  Not a lot of thought put into them.
  The use of Rule # 4 would seem to be surpassed by immediate use of Rule # 10.
  
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  July 29, 2022 2:59pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  and… this is the reason why i’m not a landlord anymore. Entitled tenants.
  
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  July 29, 2022 3:45pm
Swifty

With all this Maori-wonderfulness about and the idea that there’s nothing a good bit of Te Ao Maori won’t fix a good mate writes to me about the recent revelations that blood-moons are caused by the lord of darkness, Whiro, who is at was with the moon…..

“I wonder what the evidence for the existence of Whiro looks like. I wonder who was the last scientist to make a breakthrough in Whiro studies. I wonder what sort of Whiro research projects are currently underway. I wonder if the Large Hadron Collider has any plans to smash any bosons into Whiro.”

All good questions I would have thought. 🙂
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July 29, 2022 10:30am
- Swifty
  
  *at war with the moon…
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:02am
- Blog-aholic
  
  You meant of course Ko te Hadron Collider nui?//
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:06am
Yvette

Marsden Point Pipes Being Filled With Concrete – Blatant Economic Treason
Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 10:34 am
Press Release: New Zealand First Party

“The revelation that the government is allowing the Marsden Point Oil Refinery pipes to be filled with concrete shows an astonishing level of economic ignorance,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First.
“At a time when we have massive shortages of supply, a looming economic crisis, and prices of oil and other essential materials going through the roof, Labour is allowing this kind of short-sighted jingoistic behaviour to occur by a foreign company on kiwi soil.”
“The simple fact is New Zealand needs to be open to looking at all options moving into the future that could give us economic flexibility and certainty to achieve a degree of self-sufficiency.”
“This removal of any future use of these pipes at Marsden Point is not a part of the decommissioning process – it is a private company being allowed to commit blatant economic treason,” says Mr Peters.
“The Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods needs to explain how this can be occurring under her nose at such an important and economically fragile time in our country.”
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2203/S00187/marsden-point-pipes-being-filled-with-concrete-blatant-economic-treason.htm

Winston would like Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods needs to explain.
I would like Prime Minister Jacinda Adern to explain.
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July 29, 2022 10:57am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  My view is Labour are allowing this so the Refinery can not be purchased by National, to get is up and running.
  Similar to Cullen emptying the cupboard when he knew he was being railroaded.
  
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  July 29, 2022 12:15pm
  - Nickc2
    
    It’s since been revealed as fake news. No concrete-filled pipes AFIK.
    However, I did read this morning that the Govt is trying to speed up Oil & Gas Exploration onshore around Taranaki.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/28/climate-crisis-insufficient-to-halt-oil-and-gas-exploration-says-new-zealand-government
    If true, they will need an onshore refinery.
    
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    July 29, 2022 12:30pm
krazykiwi

Here’s a 1970 chart showing the reduction is Measles deaths over the preceding 100 years. The analysis by Dr Edward H Kass, the founder of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, concluded that better nutrition, increased wealth and higher quality housing made significantly more impact that did the advent of vaccines.
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July 29, 2022 10:57am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Vaccinations served to stop it being a common disease though. In unvaccinated population it appears to be about as serious as Delta was.
  
  It does illustrate how nutritionally impoverished people were 100 years back. That can be seen also in the rapid rise in average height – a gain of over 15cm in many countries from 1880’s to 1980’s, and possibly that is also the explanation for most of the Flynn effect (increase in average IQ)
  
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  July 29, 2022 1:08pm
Alan Wilkinson

What’s going on in the Law Society? Herald has a paywalled article about complaints about the President.
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July 29, 2022 11:05am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Having read it you know as much as I do. Just another gap filler at this stage.
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:08am
- BeaB
  
  I suspect new broom tried to sweep clean but dust balls dozing at their desks don’t like being disturbed.
  
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  July 29, 2022 11:53am
Raphael

From the Babylon Bee. Words redefined by the Biden Administration: https://babylonbee.com/news/infographic-words-redefined-by-the-biden-administration/

WORDS REDEFINED
BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION

RECESSION = RECOVERY

HISPANICS = BREAKFAST TACOS

WOMAN = ???

MONKEYPOX = VIRUS THAT DEFINITELY INFECTS EVERYONE EQUALLY REGARDLESS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION

HORSE REINS = WHIP OF DEATH

INFLATION = SAVINGS OF 2c

BABY YODA = GROGU

??? = TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE

MURDER = HEALTHCARE

NOT HANDCUFFED = HANDCUFFED

GROOMER = VALUED PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER

TRUTH = MISINFORMATION
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July 29, 2022 11:12am
Yvette

Some commenting here have mentioned stuff’s use of Maori in bullet [sick] subheadlines –

Police are investigating threats against 13 schools across New Zealand
Some schools went into lockdown with students under desks, others evacuated
Police do not believe there is any safety risk at this stage
Several schools have been the target of bomb threats in recent days

the Maori –

E whakatewhatewha ana ngā pirihimana i ngā kapatau ki ngā kura 13, i te mōkito, puta noa i Aotearoa
I whakaherea ētahi kura me ngā tauira ki raro i ngā tēpu, me ētahi anō ki waho
Kāore ngā pirihimana e whakpae nei he tūraru haumarutanga i tēnei wā tonu
Kua pāngia ētahi kura e ngā kapatau pahū nō ngā rangi tata nei
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/129405839/origin-of-phone-threats-made-against-13-schools-still-unknown-police-cybercrime-unit-joins-investigation

Google translate –

Police are investigating robberies at a total of 13 schools across New Zealand.
Some schools and students were offered under the tables, and others outside
Police are not alleging a security threat at this time
Some schools have been hit by explosives in recent days

Google Translate invites more accurate translations to be submitted to improve the system.
Apparently not enough fluent users do that.
Despite an estimated $600 million spend a year on Te Reo, it is indeed a dying language
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July 29, 2022 11:20am
Littletramp

Some writers have a special gift for putting down on paper that which we know, but have trouble expressing.
Here is an outstanding 10 minute read defining & exposing the real threat of the “woke” crowd.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/are_the_woke_morally_superior.html
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July 29, 2022 12:17pm
greybeard

Is this “3 Waters” plan already in action?

This morning on the Kate Hawkesby show a reporter from Christchurch referred to some plan for stormwater disposal, and she quoted the Christchurch City Council “Head of 3-Waters, Helen Beaumont”.

Listen to it on NewstalkZB Week-on-Demand, 5:30am slot, skip to 10mins 50secs.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-demand/week-on-demand/
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July 29, 2022 12:24pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It looks like it is all go….
  
  see my comment above:
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2022/07/general_debate_29_july_2022.html/comment-page-1#comment-3217407
  
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  July 29, 2022 12:32pm
  - greybeard
    
    Thanks.
    Quite unbelievable.
    
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    July 29, 2022 12:35pm
    - blue collar
      
      It’s most likely coming , but I am supervisor of 3 waters for a company , it’s a term all councils and companies use before mahuta
      
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      July 29, 2022 6:37pm
- marcw
  
  The “Three Waters” referred to by Kate Hawkesby is a department established at CCC, and has been for some years. This has nothing to do with Mahuta’s proposed bill. Helen Beaumont is a very competent senior manager who has overseen this department, and, though not without fault, Christchurch is reasonably well served in this area.
  
  My point is, Mahuta’s 3-waters and CCC 3-waters are not the same thing.
  
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  July 29, 2022 12:49pm
  - herb1
    
    Helen Beaumont competent?
    I sat in the Council chief executives office with Beaumont and raised unexpected issues with planning issues around a new policy she was pushing.
    I advised her she was wrong and she chortled at me. I then advised her my advice came from the most respected Planning lawyer in Chch as well two other planning lawyers. She still chortled. I then advised her I got the same advice from the biggest Architectural practise in Nz and probably the most senior planner in Chch. Still more chortled. So I hit her with “ And one of your own senior planners in your own office. Silence this time and Council CEO covering her face with her hands. End result policy thrown out
    Beaumonts just another failed beauty rat who thinks her ideology trumps common sense
    
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    July 29, 2022 1:33pm
Maggy Wassilieff

it is indeed a dying language

It is a very confusing and imprecise language, which is why most Maori decided to communicate with their children in English some generations back.
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July 29, 2022 12:29pm
ClanMcleod

Oh look, the WHO has finally admitted that monkeypox, which they declared a “global emergency” is almost exclusively the domain of men who have anal sex with other men. Something that to date they refused to do. They also refuse to advocate the same policies for this group as they did for the covid circus.

“WHO Director Tedros throws in towel, tepidly suggests gay men should maybe think about reconsidering anonymous sex orgies after all, perhaps, if it suits them, possibly….”

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/who-director-tedros-throws-in-towel

This retort is on the money.

“But nothing illustrates so plainly that containment and mitigation policies are political, as the incredible hypocrisy that the pandemicists are guilty of here. A central doctrine, forged and promoted within the public health establishment itself, is that the promiscuous behaviour characteristic of certain sexual subcultures is only dangerous because of unjust heteronormative stigma; and that in a perfectly tolerant world, there is nothing wrong with weekly anonymous fetish orgies. The very same offices which dreamed up these doctrines, also decided that house-arresting billions of people to stop a novel respiratory virus was a good idea. That was also a political decision, and one which we must never let them forget, however much they want to.”

Superb analysis as always. I will never forgive Ardern, Bloomfield, Baker, Wiles, Hendy, Plank, Verral, Petousis-Harris, Jackson and the others who promoted and continue to promote this complete and utter circus. A circus that has destroyed so much that was so good about this country. I will never forget what they did, or those who enabled them.
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July 29, 2022 12:47pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Correct.
  
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  July 29, 2022 1:08pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Yip no requirement to scan in for tinder or anonymous orgies so you can be traced. That was just for the covid cold. The WHO director says, “ The stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus…” yet during covid , discrimination and stigma were seen as a government tool , deliberately developed by govt behavioural psychology teams , and deployed and amplified by the msm, businesses and govt departments. 2 classes of people yip yip. The unvaccinated may not be allowed to leave Auckland. Now apparently we’ve gone back to discrimination being something that is not ok.
  
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  July 29, 2022 1:13pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Surely Knott – “now we’ve gone back to discrimination being something that is not ok.”
    
    That’s exactly what it is, yip, yip.
    
    I can see that phrase becoming common terminology. Brenda will be remembered for so many positive things won’t she!?
    
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    July 29, 2022 2:06pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The House Drinker. If something happens to Biden and Harris, this train wreck becomes POTUS.
She wants to go to Taiwan to provoke China, seriously?
https://rumble.com/v1dyo9v-pelosi-struggles-to-form-sentences-in-bizarre-slurring-speech.html?
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July 29, 2022 1:35pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Poor old Nancy has been injecting the vodka and drinking the botox lately.
  
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  July 29, 2022 2:52pm
- riffer
  
  Meh. Fuck China. Why should the USA bow to their ridiculous wishes?
  
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  July 29, 2022 7:18pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Maxwell – lower security.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kIxDao3ku4
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July 29, 2022 1:38pm
Maggie Pie

It’s been a while since we’ve had a ‘DARWIN AWARD’ 😀

A bestie from tennis tweets…..

https://twitter.com/MilManerasDeCag/status/1515859790337032193
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July 29, 2022 1:48pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  WTF was she thinking?
  
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  July 29, 2022 2:57pm
  - mandk
    
    Where does thinking come into it?
    
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    July 29, 2022 2:59pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… Hope the water was freezing to dull the pain. Of being a bit dumb and clumsy.
  
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  July 29, 2022 4:27pm
  - riffer
    
    Looked more scared at first to me. That happens when scared people don’t commit to things properly… never works out well. I hope she was okay. That looked nasty.
    
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    July 29, 2022 7:17pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Seems it is a done thing there. A rope ladder to get back up and do it all again!
  I have done this, not sure where now. Somewhere in the King Country I think.
  
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  July 29, 2022 4:36pm
ClanMcleod

Running a book on whose pants will spontaneously combust first. It could be close run thing.

Fauci denying he ever wanted lockdowns?

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1551944711060987907?s=20&t=m1fsn9RsKD_ocERI66W1HA

Baker denying he ever said masks don’t work?

https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ymw1YXbi1YVZ/

Bloomfield using falsified data pushing boosters?

https://www.bitchute.com/video/gzSPK98EBL5h/

It’s a tough one. Maybe all three will go in a spectacular, coordinated display.
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July 29, 2022 1:58pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  I like the one where Jabcinda said she wouldn’t do regional lockdowns – that was in 2020. Back tracked on that promise throughout 2021. IMO that was the start of a divisive NZ and it all just snowballed from there.
  
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  July 29, 2022 2:36pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    I had forgotten about that one. I guess when you’re spinning such a large web of bullshit it’s hard to keep track of it all.
    Unraveling like a ball of wool in a litter of kittens.
    
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    July 29, 2022 3:07pm
    - Harry Knuts
      
      i live in akld, daughter had online school from home for 3mths, banned from going out of my own city for months on end, being treated by the rest of NZ as the lepers of NZ – i remember it well!
      
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      July 29, 2022 3:51pm
  - riffer
    
    I fnd it interesting that you think that a politician should never change their mind when faced with new facts… “there is no alternative”, “the woman is not for turning”.
    
    Personally, I think that never changing your point of view in the face of new and changing scientific information is an excellent way to deal with overpopulation and the housing crisis.
    
    I also read with interest how vaccination for measles in children has dropped off a cliff. IMO there is nothing better than dead children for educating a population and dealing with a dropping population IQ.
    
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    July 29, 2022 7:15pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      riffer – you can’t have watched the videos.
      
      Nobody said anything about “changing your mind.” Of course you can change your mind when presented with new information.
      Baker was asked if he had ever said masks don’t work. He didn’t say anything about “changing his mind”. He lied and said “no, never”. The evidence is in the video.
      
      Fauci stated he never advocated for lockdowns. The video from 2 years ago shows him clearly saying exactly that. He lied.
      
      The Bloomfield video explains itself. Bloomfield is lying. If you want to know why then watch it. If you disagree then explain why with some evidence.
      
      Re your comments on measles vaccination, I have no idea if that is true or not. Give me some links that resemble evidence to support your claim. If there is a reduction in uptake of measles vaccination then maybe they shouldn’t destroy trust in the health sector. It has been one of the greatest “successes” of Ardern and her experts in the last 2 years.
      Also, people have struggled to get access to many normal medical services due to the crisis which is completely the responsibility of these people.
      Anyway, let me know when the bodies start dropping in the streets.
      
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      July 29, 2022 7:55pm
Flossie

Just had an email advising that it’s time for my second covid booster!!!
No way – NOT happening!

(It’s still not illegal to refuse? So far anyway??)
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July 29, 2022 2:04pm
- riffer
  
  Second booster isn’t a legal or mandated requirement. Go for it. Personally I don’t think it’s that effective on the mutated virus anyway.
  
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  July 29, 2022 7:12pm
ClanMcleod

What with the apparent epidemic (pun intended) of people who “died suddenly” and the normalising of fit, healthy young people collapsing for no apparent reason, I thought I should repost this.

https://youtu.be/P6JLnGd5MTo

Liz Truss craps her pants, when I posted it the other day it was as a trite observation that the wannabe warmonger almost needed toilet paper because of a loud noise.
Turns out it was the presenter, Kate McCann, collapsing on live television during a debate between Truss and Sunak.
Nothing to do with the jab of course, same as all the others. Climate change or something no doubt.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11050743/Liz-Truss-Rishi-Sunak-head-head-Tory-leadership-hopefuls-face-TV-clash.html
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July 29, 2022 2:29pm
ClanMcleod

Didn’t Brenda tell us the vaccine would make covid just like measles? It would protect you from infection? Turns out she was in good company.

One of the best videos you’ll watch today.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgZu9rvl1Y0/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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July 29, 2022 2:33pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  having covid 3 times now and with 2 shots – i would be living proof that the vaxx was a lie.
  
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  July 29, 2022 2:37pm
- mandk
  
  Not safe, not effective.
  
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  July 29, 2022 2:54pm
- riffer
  
  It’s a coronavirus. It’s mutating. The virus [vaccine?] is designed for the original virus, which is long gone. It’s the same problem as with the flu.
  
  Jesus, some of you guys wouldn’t understand science if it stared you in the face.
  
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  July 29, 2022 7:11pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I do understand English though, and
    
    The virus is designed for the original virus, is gobbledygook.
    
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    July 29, 2022 7:28pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    riffer – I’m pleased you obviously have such great understanding of “science”. About as much as Baker and Fauci by the sounds of it.
    
    Covid is indeed mutating. All viruses do. This was widely known. So what was the point of creating a “vaccine” that can only target the original virus? That is unable to do anything to deal with the predicted and numerous variants?
    
    The problem is:
    
    “…….our vaccines may permanently compromise immunity to SARS-2, via Original Antigenic Sin — the phenomenon, long observed in the antibody response to influenza infections, that initial exposure to a pathogen (or a spike protein) shapes all subsequent immune responses to mutated, recombined or reassorted instances of that pathogen.”
    
    This was warned about many months ago.
    
    “Mass vaccination may permanently attenuate population-wide immunity to SARS-2”
    
    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/mass-vaccination-may-permanently
    
    “Original Antigenic Sin is a Real and Very Serious Reason to Stop Vaccinating Everyone”
    
    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/original-antigenic-sin-is-a-real
    
    To put it simply:
    
    “……you have locked your immune system into one set of responses and it is not learning new ones when faced with novel pathogen variants.”
    
    Up to you if you want to read any of the above. Most of it will be over your head. I’m not being facetious. It is mostly over mine too. But I get the gist of it.
    
    The nub of it is, the more you vaccinate, the bigger the problem. Worse, it damages your innate immune system making it less able to fight disease. It can be hard to get your head around, but as Eugyppius says:
    
    “It is hard to imagine a worse strategy than universal vaccination against a single, obsolete virus protein. Every booster dose just further ingrains this off-target immunity, ultimately assisting Omicron in its spread.
    
    All of the other endemic coronaviruses that regularly infect us work in much the same way. They are pervasive, they cause very mild illness, and they commonly reinfect their hosts every 1 to 3 years. We are not on the verge of the endemic phase, we are in it. There will be seasonal SARS-2 infection spikes probably for as long as humans walk the earth. The vaccinators, unless they are stopped, will only make these spikes more dramatic and disruptive.”
    
    That’s the science riffer. Now have a look in the mirror and see what is staring YOU in the face. The clown show is just beginning. The negative impacts of this vaccine campaign are already huge and the more Ardern and co double down, the worse this shit is going to get.
    
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    July 29, 2022 9:16pm
Maggie Pie

It’s my partner’s birthday Sunday.
I went up to Gun City after lunch to have a look for something different.
Trawling thru the racks of camo-gear and this guy comes up and asks if I’d like some help? Told him everything’s good….just having a bit of a browse.
Then he says, “You don’t look like the usual hunting fishing type”

Wanker.
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July 29, 2022 2:53pm
- Ross Campbell
  
  Don’t judge the guy too harshly Maggie as it was just a polite way of saying I don’t think you can afford anything in our shop.
  
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  July 29, 2022 2:58pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Guess you don’t hold a Firearms License milkey?
    
    You wouldn’t have enuff room in your digs for a Gun Safe 😀
    
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    July 29, 2022 6:31pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  What were you wearing, Maggie?
  
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  July 29, 2022 2:59pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  I went in there a few weeks ago looking for some camo gear. I couldn’t find any. That shop has all the best stuff……..
  
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  July 29, 2022 3:10pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    😎
    
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    July 29, 2022 3:29pm
- Biscuit
  
  You missed your chance, Maggie:
  
  “Look here, you, I identify as a 2 m. tall, 125 kg, hair growing out of everywhere butch type. You know, the sort that you aspire towards but, heh, look like you’ll never achieve. Go get another soy latte for yourself and leave me to browse in peace…”
  
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  July 29, 2022 3:20pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  take it as a compliment. he’s probably used to his customers with a few teeth missing and gang tattoos
  
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  July 29, 2022 3:53pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Should have said to him “It’s amazing what you see when you haven’t got a gun”
  Watch the jaw drop then!
  
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  July 29, 2022 4:43pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

‘Confidential amount paid to Clarke Gayford after untrue comments were made about him on podcast’

– 1ZBNEWS @ 3.30

Hmmm….
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July 29, 2022 3:36pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  Gayford is an easy target cause on an normal day he’s such a twat. Snowflake v1.
  
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  July 29, 2022 3:56pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Still does not change what most know. Hmmmm….
  
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  July 29, 2022 4:47pm
  - kiwiracer
    
    Very true.
    
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    July 29, 2022 5:20pm
    - riffer
      
      Actually, the fact that NZME ended up paying out means that it is not true.
      
      You are letting your political bias cloud your ability to understand reality.
      
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      July 29, 2022 7:05pm
      - kiwiracer
        
        Idiot, I was replying to Steve’s post, his comment is very true.
        
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        July 29, 2022 7:11pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        riffer – you don’t understand how the world works do you? It means they couldn’t prove it, not that it wasn’t true. Like the AJ Simpson case.
        It happens. Not enough evidence, but everyone knows what really happened.
        
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        July 29, 2022 7:38pm
Harry Knuts

Geez – the chinese love their lockdowns! Wuhan under lockdown again…
Prepare for more constraints on products and delays getting orders to NZ.
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July 29, 2022 4:06pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Heck Maggie Pie,

I didn’t realise things were so desperate in your neck of the woods….

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/300648862/fridge-sinks-into-kitchen-floor-after-landlord-fails-to-fix-leak-for-months

If you’ve got rotten boards in your kitchen, just pull them up and go with an earthen floor….great for using up your excess manure.

https://inspirationalvillage.me/2012/01/21/the-earthen-floor/
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July 29, 2022 4:46pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  No surprises there Maggz.
  Like my partner has always said, “Never buy a house that’s below the road… and NEVER EVER get involved in Residential renting”.
  It’s a mugs game.
  
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  July 29, 2022 5:11pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This idiot blames the Govt for him not keeping his dick out of the wrong places.
https://redrightvideos.com/soros-open-society-foundation-employee-brags-about-promiscuity-with-men-at-pride-event-then-blames-government-after-catching-monkeypox-and-gonorrhea/
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July 29, 2022 4:52pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Article in the Guardian about this in all its gory detail. And I mean gory
  
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  July 29, 2022 7:08pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Miss mean tweets and $1.87 Gas?
https://dailypoliticalnewswire.com/click-here-if-you-miss-mean-tweets-and-1-87-gas/
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July 29, 2022 4:54pm
Maggie Pie

And I just heard Barry telling HDPA….
that the fat little prick is in Birmingham for the Comm Games.

All on the taxpayers dime no doubt 🙁

SHEESH!
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July 29, 2022 5:00pm
- MCōs
  
  I thought you said he was at Gun City
  
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  July 29, 2022 5:36pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    😀
    
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    July 29, 2022 5:46pm
graham

Lol … who would have thought?

New Zealand Ford Ranger customers have spoken with their chequebooks about Clean Car Discount/fees: they just don’t care.

As it launched the next-generation Ranger to media this week, Ford NZ was holding 5055 orders for the next-generation ute, 50 per cent of them powerful new V6 models: the turbo-diesel Sport and twin-turbo petrol Raptor, which attract Clean Car fines of $3910 right up to the maximum $5175.

Fancy that … Ford Ranger buyers are basically saying, “Government fines? Meh.” The Greenies are no doubt apoplectic, screaming, “BUT YOU’RE KILLING THE PLANET!!!“, and the Ranger buyers are simply replying, “Okay, doomer”.
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July 29, 2022 5:16pm
- Batman
  
  It’s probably not surprising that people who buy utes are still buying utes. They ultimately serve a purpose for many people and the fee won’t change that. Hopefully some business managers and accountants will decide they don’t need a Raptor for carting about their laptop and takeaway coffee!
  
  It has resulted in a big influx of hybrid vehicles to be driven by middle NZ on the school run, which is probably a far bigger pollution benefit for us all!
  
  Weirdly, the shitbox Tesla Model 3 is still very popular but the two Mitsi soft-roader Hydrids are doing very decent numbers and have passed the Tesla now.
  
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  July 29, 2022 5:56pm
- blue collar
  
  Okay , doomer !!! 😅😅😅👌👌👌 bloody brilliant graham !
  That’s the retort for all the young climate alarmists right there .
  Get that up ya Chloe n Greta et al 😁pure gold
  
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  July 29, 2022 7:13pm
Inandout

If you don’t write what is required then you fail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11059579/Jewish-student-sues-Leeds-University-given-fail-essay-not-criticising-Israel.html
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July 29, 2022 5:52pm
kiwikidsnz

The NZ judiciary takes crime & punishment seriously again – yeah nah

https://i.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/129418169/widow-to-death-crash-meth-driver-you-might-as-well-have-ripped-my-heart-out
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July 29, 2022 6:04pm
- H. Upmann
  
  And the drug pig gets Home D.
  
  Speechless….He killed a man for goodness sake.
  
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