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Captain Mainwaring

Apparently Transmission Gully is causing a few problems for dopey EV drivers who neglect to give their batteries a decent charge before attempting the steep climb at the northern end of the route.
All I can say is: Har Har bloody Har. Serves you right for being a Greenie twit.
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August 27, 2022 8:01am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  I r(epre)sent that!
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:17am
- blue collar
  
  A cardigan wearing , tree tugging , turtle tea-bagging , whale wanking , climate cunnilingist with sandals and knee high socks ….. greenie / EV driver captain !
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:27am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Blame the road designers for making it so steep without thinking about EVs and the drivers//
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:01am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Blame the EV makers for making cars which can’t handle a hill without grinding to a halt.
    
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    August 27, 2022 9:13am
    - kowtow
      
      Blame the idiot politicians who have either pushed or bought into the neo religious Gaia movement who’re destroying our economies , way of life indeed our civilisation and freedoms for pushing a ridiculous cult of anti science net zero carbon by ( insert chosen year).
      
      Meanwhile energy prices go through the roof , jobs are lost , people will suffer and the coming recession will be all the deeper .
      
      Red, blue , green or yellow ; they’re all queuing up at the Kool Aid stall.
      
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      August 27, 2022 9:48am
    - igm
      
      Blame the fuckwits that buy them. Maybe RUCs should be introduced, then we would see a change in attitudes.
      
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      August 27, 2022 10:24am
      - Gravelroad
        
        @ img-
        Why aren’t electric cars subject to RUC now?
        Don’t these cars use the roads in the same way as others of a similar size/weight?
        Or is it a prize for so willingly embracing Labour Party/Green policy?
        
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        August 27, 2022 10:51am
      - pdm
        
        gravel – heavier aren’t they? So more damage to already poorly maintained roads.
        
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        August 27, 2022 10:55am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        They are exempt from RUC to encourage sales. Which is a terrible policy.
        
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        August 27, 2022 11:01am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Bit like cyclists. They don’t wear the road out, but they don’t mind their ‘free’ cycle lanes.
        
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        August 27, 2022 11:38am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      EV is rubbish. It may change in the future, but how am I going to tow my boat or caravan with one of those shitboxes?
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:36am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Not all of them are shit boxes. But you need deep pockets.
        
        I spotted one of these in a car park the other day. Towing capacity of 2,000 kg.
        
        https://www.audi.co.nz/nz/web/en/models/tron/audi-e-tron.html
        
        Bring $160,000 to the dealer, go on the waiting list and you are good to go.
        
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        August 27, 2022 11:59am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        The downside is that towing 2,000 kg, it would have a range of about 250 km max. There are not many customers for such a vehicle at $160,000 for the base model.
        
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        August 27, 2022 12:01pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Need to tow 3500 kg BY
        
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        August 28, 2022 8:28am
  - rouppe
    
    What? The same thing would happen if someone attempted that route with a near empty petrol tank.
    
    Just know your vehicle ffs
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:26am
    - info@cruzpro.com
      
      Absolutely right. Anyone driving an EV for more than a few weeks has got this figured out. If anything, a new EV owner is probably going to be extra careful about driving range (called range anxiety).
      
      Only a careless person is going to let themselves run out of charge or petrol.
      
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      August 27, 2022 5:58pm
- Stellaboxer
  
  I have an electric car and I’m certainly no greenie. I charge it off of my solar array so added to the fact I don’t have to pay road users I’m driving for zero dollars. Does that make me a twit?
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:10am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    How long does it take to charge the car if powered entirely off your solar array? What kind of set up do you have? Genuine questions. Tx
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:31am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      NMTB. It’s a grid tied system consisting of
      16 panels . Together with a low night rate I charge the car at night between 11pm and 7am. Because of the over capacity I export much more electricity than I import which means in effect I Am Getting power at no cost between those hours and subsidising the usage during the rest of the day. Our largest bill is generally in July and is under $300. We run a central heating heat pump ducted system set at 19 c that we turn on around April and off September. LED lights through out the house and a timer on the hot water cylinder. In the summer of course the system works as aircon and is at no cost, in fact we get credits in high summer. I looked at the whole thing as an investment for retirement double glazed the house and planted 300 firewood trees to fill the wood burner which is on wet back. I wanted to deliver ourselves out of the hands of as many outgoings as possible before the fixed income kicks in. So the whole investment was done from a purely financial point of view rather than environmental concerns. It’s paying larger dividends than I with my limited financial literacy could have done otherwise. Thanks for asking
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:41am
      - Hebe123
        
        $300 is a big power bill. Is this a big house or whole family?
        
        We are only 2 in the house but our winter bill tops out at about $220-240 in chch, and about $110 in summer. House is partially double glazed fraemohs.
        
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        August 27, 2022 4:22pm
    - info@cruzpro.com
      
      That depends on the size of the battery, the size of the solar array and how much sunlight is available.
      
      A 24 Kw Nissan LEAF would take approximately about 7 hours to charge from empty to full if you have a 5Kw solar array and the sun shines constantly.
      
      The LEAF charges at about 3.5Kw/hr and the 5Kw array will not put out 5Kw all the time. It starts slowly in the morning, peaks near noon and then declines till evening.
      
      You rarely let the car get to zero or charge to 100%. 20% to 80% is more reasonable and better for the battery.
      
      Also, since many power companies have lower rates during non-peak times (nighttime rate), it is almost better to charge the car off the grid at night and use the solar power during the day for your home when power is more expensive.
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:46am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    The day will come when you DO have to pay RUCs and you won’t be driving for zero dollars. Will you still be an enthusiast then?
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:35am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      He/she is not driving for zero dollars now, and if they think they are, they’re even more of a twit.
      
      Did that solar array fall out of the sky and land precisely, and softly, on your roof or lawn? Did your EV fall off the back of a truck (probably on its way to the landfill)? Is the insurance free on your EV? No wear and tear on tyres? No servicing, ever? How about those batteries – free to replace? Free to dispose of?
      
      Zero dollars – good Tui ad.
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:10am
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        yup, these people also advise on policy.
        
        Never been troubled by a spreadsheet in their lives, and wouldn’t know a Benefit Cost Ratio if it jumped out and bit them.
        
        This is also why the cycle lobby will never admit that the reason we drive cars is because we receive benefits from doing so – like getting to work, staying dry, convenience, safety, shopping, taking the kids to sport, looking after the needs of sick people or old people or disabled people.
        
        I guess if you are 26, university educated, like drinking latte in big towns, bike for leisure, and have a nice government job, everybody looks just like you, and EVs drive for “free”.
        
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        August 27, 2022 11:13am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “No servicing, ever?”
        
        Actually the servicing required is almost NIL. Maybe you will need new brake pads some day.
        
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        August 27, 2022 12:04pm
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Yup. EVs are a RUCable class of vehicle. Currently the RUC is set at zero- to “encourage” adoption.
      
      RUC is coming, and about time too, EVs are contributing nothing to the maintenance of the roads.
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:10am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      Yes captain because I won’t be paying $3.00 a litre on top. Neither will I be servicing it twice a year buying an oil and filter or filling it with oil. It’s about the economy of it. I don’t care what cars people drive and find it puzzling that anyone would be bothered by what I drive.
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:50am
    - Happy1
      
      Captain, blind Freddy can see that when they start charging RUC. they will reinstate the fuel tax and probably a lot more.
      
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      August 27, 2022 4:08pm
  - AitchW
    
    I’m reminded of a South Park episode where California is enveloped by suffocating clouds of smug emitted by ev owners……
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:37am
    - MCōs
      
      South Park?
      Isn’t that a satirical cartoon series on TV?
      It’s not a documentary.
      
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      August 27, 2022 10:51am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        Some of those satirical cartoon series are uncomfortably close to the mark though – witness the long series of predictions made on the Simpsons that have come to pass. President Trump, anyone?
        
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        August 27, 2022 11:11am
    - pussycat
      
      With the power prices in Europe, EV drivers are probably having second thoughts. Will happen here
      at some time.
      
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      August 27, 2022 12:25pm
  - wilderbeast
    
    If it works for you good on you. My lifestyle is unsupportable with an EV. What you’re missing though is that EVs and solar are only made “economic” through grants and subsidies paid for by the taxpayer / purchasers of non EVs. To that end fine if it works for you at a personal level, but ultimately the ponzy scheme will collapse.
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:44am
  - kowtow
    
    With respect ; it can’t be zero dollars if you factor in the cost of the solar array, plus installation also the vehicle outlay , not to mention that tax payers presumably subsidised your purchase .
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:44am
    - marcw
      
      There’s also the $10 – 20 value taken out of the battery every time it is charged, and the as yet unannounced levy for disposal or recycling of it when it reaches end of life. Let’s not mention the fact too that other hard working taxpayers get up each day to provide the road infrastructure for free to EV drivers. Still, good on Stellaboxer recognising that driving an EV today is absolutely personally a sensible one economically. If I could afford a second car for round town, I would too.
      
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      August 27, 2022 10:58am
      - rouppe
        
        End of vehicle life is not end of life.
        
        They can slot it into their home solar system
        
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        August 27, 2022 11:30am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Of course not. We should all be allowed to drive whatever car we like. All cars should be subject to the same RUC. Fuel excise should be abolished. All RUC revenue should be allocated to roads. The “clean car discount” boondoggle should be binned.
    
    Will such rational policies be introduced by any government? Not by National. Maybe if ACT ends up with 20 percent of the vote it might have sufficient leverage to promote efficient, non regressive policies.
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:06am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Sadly, if you bought it for any other reason than being a greenie, it does indeed make you a twit.
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:07am
    - info@cruzpro.com
      
      In the last seven years of driving an EV we’ve watched the price of petrol go up tremendously.
      
      In those seven years we’ve had to purchase 2 new tyres and a few bottles of windshield wiper fluid. No other maintenance costs.
      
      Still have to pay for WOF, rego and insurance though and eventually RUC.
      
      Still is a pretty good deal financially and fun to drive a really quiet car.
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:59am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    but most EV’s cost $60k+ and petrol for a good 2nd hand $20k jap import costs ~$2k a year. EVs cost far more than their supposed cost savings justify.
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:57am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      Funny mine cost $ 25k 5 years ago
      
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      August 27, 2022 3:24pm
  - lemuzz
    
    If there are 2 or more cars in one family one or more can’t charge their car. Any way I wouldn’t skite that you don’t pay Road users. Other Petrol and diesel vehicle owners are paying them for you.
    
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    August 27, 2022 1:10pm
    - slightlyrighty
      
      You are correct that two cars can’t charge from a single charger at the same time. In the same way that one petrol pump can’t fill 2 cars at once. You don’t charge every car every night.
      
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      August 27, 2022 4:16pm
  - Lee C
    
    No, but it does smack of sounding quite entitled.
    
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    August 27, 2022 1:49pm
- KH
  
  Every change has a few new tricks to learn.
  In the early days of petrol cars, from bad experience, most learned not to smoke while filling up. Still some few haven’t learned yet.
  Stupid twit petrolheads.
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:30am
- kevn
  
  @Captn… They must have had their air-con, wiper and lights on. Don’t even think about towing in a headwind.
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:30am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I’m skeptical. Even the low end EVS have a range of about 400 km. The higher end EVs much further. I got raced off at the lights last week by a Tesla. It took off like a rocket.
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:08am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Worn out used import Nissan Leafs have a range of about 70 km (on the flat). One climb southbound up
      Transmission Gully would probably drain the battery.
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:45am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “Worn out used import Nissan Leafs have a range of about 70 km”
        
        Really? Why would anyone by a car with a range of 70km?
        
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        August 27, 2022 11:54am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        a lot of elderly will only drive in a 10-20km radius from their homes, and a lot of other cars will be used 99% of time within that distance from home. Fine if you have another car for longer range trips (as most couples will)
        
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        August 27, 2022 12:00pm
      - kowtow
        
        BY
        
        ‘Really? Why would anyone by a car with a range of 70km?’
        
        Cos they liked the packaging , a bit like Labour under Ardern.
        
        All nice , lovely ideas but no delivery , in fact the opposite , a disaster costing the country a fortune finanacially and socially.
        
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        August 27, 2022 12:18pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Why indeed, but they do.
        
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        August 27, 2022 12:24pm
      - Happy1
        
        Have 2 daughters with much maligned Nissan leafs. Funnily enough they love them. One daughter is a one car family and she commutes 50 k each way. To get around the range problem for the occasional long trip people have a buddy system. We are their buddy so they bring the leaf to us and pick up our ICE. They are happy and I doubt they care what the Luddites think
        
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        August 27, 2022 1:09pm
      - KH
        
        Young woman I know has a $7K leaf. So an oldie, Travels all over the South Island (it’s bigger than the North) No issues at all.
        She is not in a hurry of course with the recharge, but that’s no problem in practice.
        
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        August 27, 2022 4:00pm
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Nope, old EVs are like old laptops.
      
      NZers are used to buying 10 year old cars, and expecting them to be near fully functional. A 10year old Leaf, is likely on its last legs.
      
      OK if you are driving 10kms each way on the flat to work or the supermarket. But you will get to enjoy range anxiety good and hard climbing Transmission Gully!
      
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      August 27, 2022 12:00pm
- Paulus
  
  There were no EVs in New Zealand when Transmission Gully was designed or even started.
  
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  August 27, 2022 1:17pm
  - Batman
    
    And there were no motor carriages in NZ when the track over the Bombay’s was designed or even started 😉
    
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    August 27, 2022 1:20pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Nice to have money isn’t it Peasants? This prick had trouble standing up (video)
https://leadpatriot.com/judge-offers-nancy-pelosis-husband-the-deal-of-a-freaking-lifetime/18638/
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August 27, 2022 8:05am
- peterwn
  
  Hope the victims got a decent multi million payout but not that would be able to return things ti the status quo.
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:21am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Don’t know about injuries, I thought Pelosi blew a Stop sign and was hit by a Jeep
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:46am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Just watched again. Jesus, I drink and I don’t get that snackered
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:06am
  - pussycat
    
    You’re not married to Nancy Pelosi!
    
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    August 27, 2022 12:35pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      No comment – the speaker of the house might see it!
      
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      August 27, 2022 3:40pm
Cassandra

Prince Harry fancies himself as the Saviour of the World. We must save ourselves from human induced climate change. Apparently you can do so by flying from LA to Denver (1,300 km) and back to play polo. And drive to the airport in an EV but your kit follows in a Range Rover. I don’t have an EV or a Range Rover but I’ll certainly try to do my bit to save the planet.
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August 27, 2022 8:05am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Does Harry need Greta to tell him that polo really isn’t a sport that he should be playing?
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:36am
  - rouppe
    
    Those poor animals, being made to run around for the Duke’s pleasure.
    
    He’s a hypocrite. Ignore him
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:33am
Yvette

“3 Waters” – still I dribble on …
Usually when “3 Waters” is mentioned by state television, 1 News, they show us footage of water rocketing in a vast fountain in Te Aro, Wellington, somewhere – three times I have seen the same footage already – a burst pipe that should be fixed by now, but how would it be repaired under “3 Waters”?
By the same contractors as used now or in some new mystical way, that somehow will be cheaper?

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirms public consultation on Māori co-governance will happen in 2022
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-confirms-public-consultation-on-m-ori-co-governance-will-happen-in-2022.html

“3 Waters” legislation is passing through Parliament now – submissions were heard, I understand, for the entire motu (ha, whole damn nation) by two hearing teams just August 15 to 17, a few days ago – so where is the “public consultation”?

And when Jacinda gets around to it – after announcement of announcements, or was August 15 – 17 it? – will someone explain how the Te Aro pipe will get fixed more efficiently and cheaper?

The rough answer, if I understand Grant Robertson correctly, is that the larger entities will be able to borrow bigger loans better – which must crystallise the ownership of assets to being the Entity as borrower – but what happens then if an Entity fucks up? And, under this Ardern Labour Non-Delivery Government, one is bound to. Do those assets then transfer in ownership to the Lender, probably an International? Explain that one please –
– as well as the cost of fixing the pipe in Te Aro
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August 27, 2022 8:09am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Do those assets then transfer in ownership to the Lender, probably an International?
  
  Yes,
  It would save time and Angst if we just invited the People’s Republic of China now to take over running our infrastructure.
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:13am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Why did Ardern visit Blackrock?
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:24am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Because they are also invested in the W.E.F.
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:07am
    - Master Mariner
      
      Roupe.
      Strap to side of house. Until Insurers premiums kick in.
      Herein lies the problem
      
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      August 27, 2022 2:06pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Would be interesting if Maori-owned water assets are regarded by international banks in the same way as Maori-owned land, i.e. inalienable & therefore unsuitable as loan collateral.
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:34am
  - peterwn
    
    Good point. The way round this would be to allow the lenders to the 3 waters authorities to secure the loan by the ability to levy rates on land covered by the area of authority which is essentially how council loans for 3 waters projects (or at least water supply and sewage) are currently secured.
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:48am
- nathie
  
  What’s the bet the cost to fix a burst pipe (under 3 waters) will rapidly escalate?
  
  Gone will be many of the local planners and those local contractors with decades of institutional knowledge (and of the local idiosyncrasies eg in some places to accommodate other underground infrastructure “challenges”) based through-out the country …. as along comes Labour’s 3-Waters shiny new Head Office bureaucrats in the main metropolitan centres and the new single entity contractors that will need to travel to the regions and beyond into the “wop-wops” (and potentially be accommodated overnight – more $$$ – if the problem can’t be fixed within a day).
  
  3-Waters, perhaps something those “neo-liberal ideological right-wing nut jobs” might have dreamed up … but no it comes forced on us all courtesy of the “neo-socialist ideological left-wing nut jobs” of the Labour Party!
  
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  August 27, 2022 11:43am
- C-Town
  
  All the money that the Government has spent on advertising/consultants/bribes to councils etc could have been used to fix all the leaky pipes by now.
  
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  August 27, 2022 2:18pm
RockyJ

Tensions must be rising within the Labour camp. In March this year Jacinda announced that the consultation with Maori representatives over cogovernance had been completed and that the public consultation would start this year. Well, it’s almost September and no sign of this happening.

My guess is that the Maori response was so radical even Ardern is waking up to how the public will respond.

Slick Willie and Mahuta must be getting a bit fed up by now. How will they jump? Will they do a Sharma and make a public fuss? Will they shut up and keep gathering the fruits of the highest paid jobs they will ever get? Will the radicals wait?

It’s going to boil up to the surface somehow.
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August 27, 2022 8:11am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Perhaps Jacinda is already working on her exit plan.
  
  “If Jacinda Ardern still thinks it is appropriate for Mallard to be appointed Ambassador to Ireland, perhaps she should consider her own future. Or maybe she already has and is just divvying up the loot to her friends on her way out.
  
  https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2208/S00215/mallard-costs-to-taxpayers-continue-past-resignation.htm
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:15am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    There’s family history with the High Commission on Niue
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:35am
    - Flossie
      
      Perhaps Tuvalu?
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:02am
    - Paulus
      
      No longer in Nuie – her father is back in Auckland having been replaced I understand.
      
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      August 27, 2022 1:20pm
Chris Nisbet

Newshub headline: “Luxon gives NZ’s populist right a sniff of credibility by refusing to rule out Brian Tamaki 1 hour ago”
In the story itself you can almost taste the desire of the writer to brand Tamaki as a white supremacist.
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August 27, 2022 8:16am
- Tricati
  
  Isn’t it a pathetic ‘hit piece’ that is best described as dribble.
  If Luxon gets asked about it again he should say, ‘ I saw some low rate dribble headline the other day and thought must be a slow news day’.
  If Luxon needs to keep justify himself, then maybe the same ‘opinion’ writers could ask Ardern to justify Mallards appointment to Ireland.
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:22am
  - Ruawai
    
    Should Luxon have to decide now if he is to side with the legalise cannabis party etc
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:22am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Or the legalise cannibalism party
      
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      August 27, 2022 10:36am
  - alloytoo
    
    Luxon needs to watch Ron DeSantos handle the hostile media.
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:37am
- Yvette
  
  Would Tamaki be a “white supremest’ or a “brown supremest”?
  Has anyone heard Brian Tamaki say anything about “co-governance”?
  Simple enough question in the life of Brian
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:31am
- kowtow
  
  Does the story mention which particular reporter asked him such a stupid question , in order to create yet another political /media party beatup against the Nats .
  
  That’s the real story .
  
  The Media party agenda .
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:01am
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    Tova.
    https://www.todayfm.co.nz/home/politics/2022/08/far-too-early-for-christopher-luxon-to-rule-out-working-with-brian-tamaki.html
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:21am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Isn’t the answer simple? “The chances of that guy getting 5 percent are negligible. But if it happened, 1 in 20 people want him in Parliament. Of course I would need to include his Party in negotiations. That is the nature of MMP. I didn’t invent the system but I need to deal with what it throws up. “
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:15am
      - Matt Long
        
        The media party are running a campaign against people who were against Covid “Vaccination” mandates, including all local body candidates, trying to smear and bully them while making them out as unfit for governance.
        They’ll go into overdrive with candidates for parliament, making people untouchable undesirables like they did with the Exclusive Brethren.
        
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        August 27, 2022 12:07pm
    - kowtow
      
      TY
      
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      August 27, 2022 12:20pm
  - Ghost
    
    Not really the media, yes they are running it, but it is a professor from Massey University that has penned it.
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:22am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Has the msm questioned Jacinda on what she would do in the event that she needed Tamaki to form a government…?
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:01am
- dubya
  
  Yeah, super weird given Newshub have given the populist left (anti-immigrant, closed borders/economy Labour) a free propaganda ride the last five years…
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:22am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Chris, there is virtually no media in the world that do not describe the right and right leaning leaders as “populist”. I would have thought that it is the left, with all their promises of free stuff, social welfare, education, health etc that are the populists. How can anyone say that personal responsibility and the power of the market are populist?
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:36am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  This is how you talk to media as an aspiring politician (1min, funny): https://youtu.be/JmIyiRIa1fw
  
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  August 27, 2022 5:09pm
Maggie Pie

A worrying development…

Particularly for New Zealand and it’s ‘Five-Eyes-Partners’.
The Solomon Islands have excluded our Military Vessels from their waters as they fall further under the thumb of Chy-nah!

https://twitter.com/seawaves_mag/status/1562280619325161472

How many more millions of NZ taxpayers dollars are we going to throw at this outpost of the CCP?
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August 27, 2022 8:16am
- blue collar
  
  Send the $ to Nelson ….. oh , and TARANAKI roads please
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:29am
  - Matt Long
    
    Roads are immoral as they’re used by cars, used by “common” people who should be using bicycles in order to offset private jet emissions.
    
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    August 27, 2022 12:10pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Well that didn’t go as planned. When is the next instalment of bribe cash from NZ due?
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:36am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    China is giving the PM of the Solomon Islands cash. Millions. Instead of paying down debt or spending it on development projects, he is literally dividing it up and paying it to each of his 39 MPs.
    
    https://news.yahoo.com/distribution-chinese-funds-solomon-islands-083322969.html
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:19am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Plus 10% for the ‘Big Guy?’
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:50am
- Andrew Worth
  
  I’d like to be able to confidentiality point out that it wasn’t a New Zealand ship involved and the US coastguard ship wasn’t specifically excluded, they didn’t get a reply to their request for permission to dock.
  But in reality the government of the Solomon’s has solid the country to China and Solomon Islanders shouldn’t expect to see any honest elections before a bloody revolution which will include taking on the people’s army.
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:43am
  - Andrew Worth
    
    That’s the Chinese People’s Army.
    
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    August 27, 2022 8:44am
    - kowtow
      
      People’s “Liberation” Army .
      
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      August 27, 2022 8:53am
  - Hugh Jarse
    
    Yes and I feel sorry for the poor old Solomon islander who is going to suffer as usual while the wontok elite get richer and fatter. The politicians in the Solomon’s have no idea what they have unleashed by allowing Sogavare to sell out. It won’t end well.
    
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    August 27, 2022 2:58pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      Hugh, no different with the wonton pollies to the north west in PNG. They perfected the 3 Cs (crime, corruption & compensation), particularly when foreign aid money was involved.
      
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      August 27, 2022 8:55pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Just wait until the good people of Malaita start demonstrating against the S Is Govt and the S Is Govt asks the PRC for help!!!
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:48am
- Maggie Pie
  
  My partner reckons this will be a case of PM Sogavare acting on the orders of his Chinese advisers.
  
  Sad times coming for the Solomons 🙁
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:50am
- Simon
  
  Send in more woke gender diversity personal.
  
  Labo types think they are gifts for humanity but when the choice is between dripping wet woke left climate zealots and new infrastructure the island people will always go with the CCP.
  
  The Solomons cant be held. Clown World cant hold onto it.
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:52am
- RockyJ
  
  I heard an interview on the radio with some Pacific Island leaders on the difference between the Aust/NZ approach to aid and the China approach.
  
  The leaders were critical of Australia and New Zealand as our government tends to have ultimate control over how the money is spent. They said the Chinese tend to be better at listening to what the recipients want.
  
  Later in the interview one of the leaders mentioned that China had provided limousines for the politicians in Niue. Nice.
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:08am
  - Hugh Jarse
    
    I worked on Pacific Development projects a few years ago. We provided training and equipment, we did not provide money or funding for very good reasons. It’s not about control it’s about ensuring the funding goes into the right area and there are good outcomes, otherwise it will disappear. Family ties, tribal or village ties and wontok will override proper governance every time. And to be fair proper management of funding avoids the recipients being leaned on by the said family, village or wontoks depending on the Island group.
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:31am
    - plc
      
      Sounds like Mahutacorp
      
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      August 27, 2022 1:28pm
      - Sarkozygroupie
        
        It’s exactly like Mahuta Corp. I’ve worked in the Pacific and seen it first hand.
        
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        August 27, 2022 8:46pm
- pdm
  
  I think we still have a contingent of Police in the Solomans.
  
  Time to bring them home before things really turn to custard.
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:19am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Looks like Luisa Wall is missing her KPIs
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:38am
  - pdm
    
    Bollocks – why would Luisa Wall try too hard after they way Ardern and her minions treated her.
    
    Probably giving them the two fingered salute.
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:03am
- Master Mariner
  
  CCP are after Bouganville and Bauxite.
  I have mentioned before .
  How is NZ going patrol its UNCLOS nav area if Chinese
  Do not allow?
  Interesting.
  
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  August 27, 2022 2:10pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://dailypoliticalnewswire.com/moderna-sues-pfizer-over-covid-vaccine/
Someone copying someone else’s product, really?
I would have though these so called vaccines that don’t work would all have similar content.
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August 27, 2022 8:23am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Excellent! All sorts of details might well emerge, like the outcome of trials, contract details etc.
  
  Pass the popcorn!
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:30am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Go get a kleensack full – I need mine.
    The big hoax could be like picking off a scab and exposing a festering pusy sore
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:52am
- Max Mansplain
  
  It’s a bit like copying your friend’s answer in a test and then finding out they had the wrong answer..
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:35am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You may have hit the nail on the head
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:53am
  - Colville
    
    Why would they care?
    They have banked billion$$
    
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    August 27, 2022 12:06pm
kiwikidsnz

I might have missed it however I didn’t see this extraordinary crim monitoring proposal published in the NZ MSM

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-26/sending-suspect-to-china-could-cost-new-zealand-millions/101378692

if convicted, Mr Kim would likely spend more than a decade in prison and that for New Zealand officials to be able to visit him every two days during his trial and every 15 days thereafter would have “long-term resource implications”.

They said they’d need to post an extra senior consular official to Shanghai to monitor Mr Kim.

The cost for the first year has been estimated at $NZ377,000 ($335,500), which would cover relocation costs as well as a salary.
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August 27, 2022 8:27am
- Ghost
  
  Mahuta’s husband can be the diplomat that goes with him. All sorted.
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:24am
  - dubya
    
    *cuzband
    
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    August 27, 2022 1:59pm
- peterwn
  
  No need for all this bother. Even the Chinese would understand that any breach of extradition undertakings will have serious consequences – no more exraditions from Western nations to China and loss of ability for Chinese people and companies to enforce valid debts in foreign courts (a Chinese company recently successfully enforced a debt in a NZ court). Allowing the extradition would facilitate the Mainzeal liquidators to enforce the judgment against My Yan in Chinese courts.
  
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  August 27, 2022 11:59am
- rouppe
  
  Monitor during the trial, sure.
  
  But if convicted, no longer our problem!
  
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  August 27, 2022 12:05pm
blue collar

I week to go to whitebait season !!

Bloody govt stole a month off the season , 2 weeks both ends , is there no end to their interfering fuckwittedness ??
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August 27, 2022 8:30am
blue collar

Next year will be a ripper .
All the parties will start ripping into labour . Co governance etc , it’s gonna be brilliant .
Payback is always sweet .
There’s so much ammo
And labour hvnt finished trashing their brand yet
Roll on election year !!
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August 27, 2022 8:32am
- kowtow
  
  One party won’t , the paid for Media Pardy .
  
  The party the mask wearers subscribe to.
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:53am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Monkeypox vaccine. Coming to NZ? Wait, NZ is getting a medication that treats the symptoms, no shit! I thought a vaccine was to prevent the disease, not just symptoms. Wait, I have heard this bullshit before from the Ministry of Health at the Podium of Truth.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/govt-secures-monkeypox-medicine-pharmac-working-on-getting-vaccines/ar-AA116SR3
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August 27, 2022 8:33am
- emmess
  
  The vaccine is already available
  It called ‘not participating in gay orgies’
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:43am
  - rouppe
    
    One has to wonder what this guy did
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/italian-man-tests-positive-for-covid-monkeypox-and-hiv-at-same-time/XPU7RMDZLJLKAHCBL6PRHVSASQ/
    
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    August 27, 2022 12:08pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  The linked article makes very clear the distinction between medicine and vaccine. The confusion/conflation is yours, not Newshub’s.
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:49am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “The Government has secured monkeypox (MPX) medicine which is expected to be available in New Zealand from late September.”
    “We are also working hard to secure access to a vaccine, but there is limited global supply and distribution is being prioritised to those countries experiencing outbreaks, which we currently aren’t.”
    
    So there is the distinction.
    Why do you think I am confused/conflated? Genuine question.
    I compared this medicine then vaccine to how the Govt acted with Covid.
    
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    August 27, 2022 12:11pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  There is a very easy, non medical, free and guaranteed-to-work solution to monkeypox. All gay men need to do is refrain from promiscuity for a month.
  
  Which is why monkeypox is spreading virulently.
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:23am
Philview

Once Co-Governance is established we too could have large amounts of CCP money being used to buy tribal political influence and block political decisions. The CCP will try it on no doubt about it.
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August 27, 2022 8:34am
- Ghost
  
  What, you mean different from the CCP giving donations to political parties already….
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:26am
  - kowtow
    
    That’s velly velly naughty .
    
    Aren’t we all meant to poritry ignore the erephant in the loom.
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:55am
lastmanstanding

Yesterday I had a minor medical procedure at Southern Cross Hospital. In conversation with a group of nurses and unpromted by me they raised the issue of Maori matters in their employment and that they had to use Maori in emails etc and also indicate their pronouns. I guess as a 70 yo white male they felt comfortable raising these issues.
I told them my corporate clients expected me to do the same. To their amusment I said I continue to use Hi (name) and Kind Regards/Regards/Cheers in my emails and when asked for my pronouns say it depends on who I feel I am that day. They asked if this had impacted my work. I said far from it a number had told me verbally they liked the push back and wish they could do the same but would be fired if they did.
This is yet another example of Bullying Intimidation and Thuggery that exists in our society. We are further down the Communist road than most citizens realise.
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August 27, 2022 8:40am
- NK
  
  Yes. And it’s a no exit street.
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:42am
  - Nickc2
    
    Their answer will be: “well, you voted for it”. Yes, some did but it wasn’t even hinted at in their election manifesto. Matter of fact, they didn’t even have an election manifesto. Our sick puppy public elected the dopy …….. on hugz and feelz and that damned scam called Covid-19 eh?
    
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    August 27, 2022 9:34am
- RockyJ
  
  When people blather on to me in Te Reo I reply in Latin. Another dead language used only for ceremonial purposes.
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:45am
  - alloytoo
    
    I do wish I had some aptitude for it, but alas I failed it spectacularly.
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:42am
  - kowtow
    
    Not entirely dead .
    
    Still used on a daily basis in law , science ( particularly botany) and funnily enough on TV , movie and series dates .
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:24am
- emmess
  
  When saying ‘hi’ becomes hate speech …
  
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  August 27, 2022 8:45am
  - Sarkozygroupie
    
    That is exactly what it feels like at my work. I am constantly bombarded by white people speaking to me in Maori and it’s really bizarre when I think about two white people conversing in someone else’s language. I never respond in Maori but my white manager constantly bombards me with it. It makes me very uncomfortable and I resent being bullied into having to use someone else’s language so I steadfastly refuse and always respond in English. I would feel the same way if I had to speak in say Flemish or Icelandic or Xhosa.
    
    There is now an ‘us’ and ‘them’ division based on whether people use Maori or English to open and close their emails, and everyone is identifiable.
    
    You can tell the really ambitious ones who have carefully learned to recite Maori prayers to open and close every meeting (the rest of us are also forced to read and recite a Maori Christian prayer (karakia)-whether we are religious or not, or it’s our religion or not), and their “pepeha” which is a potted ancestral history. These can take several minutes of recitation in Maori. For some reason they have stopped making us sing Maori songs in meetings at least. I am not about to ask why. Let sleeping dogs lie.
    
    Now this usage seems to have become a de facto employment competency and those who partake of their own volition are looked upon favourably. I never signed up to any of this in my employment contract and wonder if my rights are being impinged upon either under the BORA or under employment law? It certainly feels like it.
    
    I saw a lawyer on here make a comment the other day that some lawyers are fighting back about this encroachment but it’s a tough and lonely place to be.
    
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    August 27, 2022 8:33pm
- PeeJay
  
  One of the guys I work with has a rather unusual greeting in his emails and project minutes. Rather than Kia Ora, he has a rather long greeting which includes “Hi”, “Kia Ora”, “Bula”, and three or four other salutations in various languages. He also has the regards at the end in the same way. He did this because he was under pressure from one PC nitwit to use Maori greetings. He felt this was a bit racist and pathetic (his words not mine) so pushed back with his ironic greeting. I find it all quite funny – fair few PC folks get annoyed at it though (even more funny). So far so good but now for the best bit. The best part of course is that this guy is actually Maori and he finds the whole thing ridiculous. He actually thinks he gets away with this because he’s Maori, which is even more ironic.
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:01am
- Tom Hunter
  
  Although this issue is specifically about Maori language, the ideology behind it is not. It’s more generic and can best be described as a “Civil Rights Culture” where:
  
  Yet the assumption of our diversity bureaucrats is that any statistical disparity is per se evidence of discrimination, as celebrity author Ibram X. Kendi famously insists. When the statistics fail to align with this (impossible) expectation, the only acceptable explanation is that something nefarious is going on. The solution is to ratchet up the enforcement and scope of “bias training” and “anti-racist” education in our schools. Yet these very things probably make the problem worse, reinforcing rather than weakening racial bias.
  
  Read the whole thing, even if it is about the USA and the growing fallout from this “culture”. I did laugh at this example:
  
  Civil rights culture, having no means of weighing competing claims of oppression against each other, can only sweep such concerns aside. The economic trajectory of immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, and the rest of the world is similar to that of previous waves of immigrants (with similar diversity among groups). But our civil rights bureaucracy wants to address the case of such immigrants (with the exception of Asians, of course) with the law and methods we created to combat Jim Crow.
  
  To illustrate the absurdity of this practice, consider an extreme but entirely possible hypothetical: according to the official rubric, the great-grandson of an S.S. officer who fled to Argentina, and whose grandchildren moved to the U.S., would be listed as “Hispanic” and benefit from affirmative action. But the great-granddaughter of a Jew he had killed would not. That is, frankly, meshuganah.
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:07am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You WILL learn this language or else.
  Moari pushing it by stealth.
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:11am
  - kowtow
    
    I don’t think it’s entirely Maori pushing it .
    
    It’s very much the Establishment , now taken up with gusto by the bought and paid for Media Pardy .
    
    I reckon there’s also a link to the American extreme far left , violent BLM summer of riots as the Regime here saw a chance to further promote their race division agenda on the back of the western media’s decision to promote anti Trump rhetoric through race baiting .
    
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    August 27, 2022 9:20am
  - PeeJay
    
    The thing is Steve, it’s not really Maori pushing it though is it? Sure, there will be some Maori like Jackson, Mahuta etc that are aggressively pushing this for all it’s worth, but I work with several Maori and they all role their eyes at this crap – a lot of them are either ambivalent about this or actually think this is dark ages stuff.
    
    The real “pushers” in this case are the liberal leftie white media trying to be “with it”, usually to try and absolve themselves of post-colonial guilt.
    
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    August 27, 2022 9:36am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The Moari elite, and of course the Public Sector employees. They have their ‘hands on’ approach.
      
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      August 27, 2022 12:16pm
    - Sarkozygroupie
      
      I think it depends who you work with. I work with a number of Maori and PI ranging from 20’s to 50’s. All of them push the language on the rest of us every chance they get. And every second question is ‘how is this meeting Treaty obligations?’ But they are constantly encouraged, aided and abetted to do so by white leftie managers. Not that they need them, and I suspect the white lefty managers would be overcome with grief and disbelief if they knew they are seen and laughed at as useful idiots.
      
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      August 27, 2022 9:16pm
  - MDQ
    
    Nothing stealthy about it. The tactic is constant bombardment in all government, media and advertising outlets, to be as in your face as is possible and to give you no respite or refuge from it. The mind boggles how it is going to be stepped up even more for Maori language week this year – but a way will be found.
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:33am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    There are a small number of bureaucrats and political operatives who see (correctly) Maori language and culture as a means to increase their personal power/income. The problem is that we have created an environment where it works. All we have to do is vote in a govt that will say no to indulging the racism of Maori wonderfulness enablement and it will all end.
    
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    August 27, 2022 12:08pm
- MCōs
  
  Good news for those who fret over such things.
  I have a letter in my hand from Counties Manukau Health and the only words in NZ’s alternate official written language are place names.
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:44am
  - graham
    
    On the other hand, I downloaded the AT app for checking bus timetables during the week (I very rarely have to catch the bus, luckily) and EVERY phrase and word is in both English and Maori.
    
    Where to? / Ki hea?
    Choose destination / Kimi haerenga
    Leave / Timatanga
    
    There is no option to disable this. You cannot choose to have English or Maori; you MUST have both.
    
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    August 27, 2022 10:15am
    - alloytoo
      
      Clearly the option is not to use the bus service.
      
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      August 27, 2022 10:44am
    - MCōs
      
      What’s your problem, graham / Kereama
      
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      August 27, 2022 10:58am
      - graham
        
        I don’t recall saying that I had a problem.
        
        I do, however, strongly object to you mis-naming me. My handle on this blog is graham and frankly it’s bloody rude of you to alter it in any way.
        
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        August 27, 2022 1:19pm
      - Ghost
        
        Someone’s trigger points got pushed, lol. You might want to go into your safe space
        
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        August 27, 2022 2:01pm
- rouppe
  
  What’s Southern Cross going to do? Fire them?
  
  That’s a laugh. NZ is 4000 nurses short.
  
  NOW is the time for push back.
  
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  August 27, 2022 12:11pm
- cjn
  
  To be fair it’s not the communists who are into woke pronouns. Fascists maybe.
  
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  August 27, 2022 4:37pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  That’s the impact of woke-nazi HR depts. Get rid of them – for the sake of sanity and productivity.
  
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  August 27, 2022 5:14pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiS-tNNVuuw
Official Counterspin Media Release. [3:39]
There is a document which you can save, and magnify so you can read it easily. I’m sure the ‘team of $55 million’ will release it in time for the Sux O’Clock News’. // sarc
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August 27, 2022 8:43am
curry4me

https://theconversation.com/refusing-to-rule-out-working-with-brian-tamaki-luxon-gives-nzs-populist-right-a-sniff-of-credibility-189368
Refusing to rule out working with Brian Tamaki, Luxon gives NZ’s populist right a ‘sniff of credibility’.
The final act in this week’s protest on the lawns of parliament was the announcement by Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki of a new political party. Perhaps this was the whole point of the event, as it was never entirely clear what the protest was actually against in the first place.
According to Tamaki, the proposed Freedoms NZ party (which has yet to be formally registered) would be a coalition of three existing fringe parties: the New Nation Party (which is keen to leave the United Nations), Vision NZ (which promotes the idea “Kiwis will once again be First, no longer playing the runner up to immigrants or refugees”), and the anti-5G Outdoors and Freedom Party.
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August 27, 2022 8:44am
Tom Hunter

So it’s been no secret since late 2020 that Facebook suppressed the New York Post stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop with all its information about his family’s corruption. In this Facebook was little different to the MSM, Twitter and others, claiming that the laptop was “Russian disinformation”. It took almost two years before the same people admitted that the laptop and its data was real.

But yesterday, appropriately enough on the Joe Rogan show, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed how this was at the direct request of the FBI, who came to Facebook and told them about an “upcoming dump of Russian disinformation”, which turned out to be the laptop story. Even though the FBI had had the damned machine/s for almost a year at that stage and knew they were real.

Talk about putting your thumb on the election scale.
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August 27, 2022 8:50am
- kowtow
  
  Anyone notice how our Media report the occasional attack on FBI offices , which in the general run of the mill of events are relatively minor , but always linked to Trump themes .
  
  But attacks on police , innocent folk , daily out of control gun crime in Dem cities , attacks on churches , well…….. not so much .
  
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  August 27, 2022 11:29am
KH

We see such a lot of information rubbish about the nuclear power plant in Ukraine. We see claims the Russians are shelling it. (claims bad Russians are shelling it)
But if you look at the map in this link I really can’t see any reason for them to do so. They control it entirely. It’s tens of kilometers by land to Ukraine territory. It’s an incrediible asset to the Russians. No way would they shell it.
LINK
https://liveuamap.com/ (you might have to muck about a bit to get the map)
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August 27, 2022 8:57am
- kevn
  
  @KH…. I thought it was the Ukrainians shelling their own power plant. Trying to create a damaged loss.
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:35am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Russians are stationing a lot of military equipment around it knowing it will prevent them being shelled.
  
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  August 27, 2022 12:12pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Almost 100% of information reported in NZ media is sourced from Ukraine and Western Defence/political agencies.
  
  I call it propaganda not news.
  
  Its bloody hard to find out whats actually going on.
  
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  August 27, 2022 4:02pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The Republicans are not going to let Fauci just walk away. “”You don’t get to say whether you go. You get a congressional subpoena, you show up, or you get the Steve Bannon treatment…”
https://dailypatriotreport.com/watch-megyn-kelly-drops-f-bomb-during-rant-about-dr-fauci/
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August 27, 2022 8:58am
- Scott
  
  Thanks for posting that link Steve. If you go down a little bit further you will see Ron Desantis talk about Dr Fauci as well – “someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac!” Absolutely priceless.
  
  I think that about Fauci, about Ashley, about Baker, about Siouxse, about all those “experts” that locked us down, that made us get the vaccine and to this day still make us wear masks. They gave the okay, they gave the permission for the labour government to unleash their guiding underlying maxim – when in doubt control everything and everybody. Socialism is the answer. We will tell you when you can go out, we will tell you when you can go to work, we will absolutely ban you from going to church and even going and having a cup of coffee in a café.
  
  And where were all these human rights activists? Where have they been hiding these last three years? That’s right, it’s Jacinda, she’s kind, she is a fellow socialist left-wing progressive, so it’s all good. Human rights activists will take off their masks and come out from under their beds only when a National government is returned to power.
  
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  August 27, 2022 9:43am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yes, I read it. “little elf” suits him down to a T.
    De Santis popularity is skyrocketing. I hope he stays in Florida in 2024, and has a run for POTUS in 2028.
    De Santis running in 2024 could mean a split vote for the GOP. Does the US really want more of the crooked Dems?
    The following is from 2016. Trump has much more popularity now than he did in 2016.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S63MW41dP58
    
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    August 27, 2022 12:27pm
Yvette

Optimum population: Govt immigration statement should allow 4m more people
As the new minister decides on a Government Policy Statement on Immigration, the Reserve Bank reveals there are now two job vacancies for every unemployed person. There’s only one way to fill them.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/optimum-population-govt-immigration-statement-should-allow-4-million-more-people?utm_source=Friends of the Newsroom&utm_campaign=6a7fd3de5e-Week In Review 27.08.2022&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71de5c4b35-6a7fd3de5e-97987242

New Zealand’s estimated Māori ethnic population was 875,300 (17.1 percent of national population)
https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/maori-population-estimates-at-30-june-2021

At 30 June 2022: New Zealand’s estimated resident population was provisionally 5,124,100 – same source as above

So an additional 4 million plus the present 5,124,100 would total 9,124,000 New Zealand population
And the Maori population portion would be about 9.6 percent
Just saying

Besides, with 4 million more people, Labour would need to get their krap together and build a few more houses and a bit of infrastructure
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August 27, 2022 9:38am
- oldfella
  
  Yvette:
  
  And the Maori population portion would be about 9.6 percent
  
  So under co-governance, that reduced Maori percentage (9.6%) would still own 50% of the country, while the 90.4% non-Maori – the rest of us – would still own the other 50%. All sounds ka pai to me, bro… //
  
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  August 27, 2022 12:04pm
  - than
    
    Not 50 percent even, ordinary Maori living their lives won’t control anything just a very small unelected tribal elite.
    
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    August 27, 2022 5:54pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

An Irishman and an American were sitting in the bar at Shannon Airport.
“I’ve come to meet my brother,” said the Irishman. “He’s due to fly in from America in an hour’s time. It’s his first trip home in forty years.”
“Will you be able to recognize him?” asked the American.
“I’m sure I won’t,” said the Irishman, “after all, he’s been away for a long time.”
“I wonder if he’ll recognize you?” said the American.
“Of course he will,” said the Irishman. “Sure, an’ I haven’t been away at all.”
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August 27, 2022 9:50am
- Tempist
  
  A priest, a vicar, and a rabbit walk into a bar…
  And the rabbit says ‘I think I must be a typo’
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:02am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    A priest, a vicar, and a rabbit walk into a ~~bar…~~ blood donation office
    And the rabbit says ‘I think I must be a ~~typo~~ type-o’
    
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    August 27, 2022 12:16pm
Ghost

Not sure what this lady thinks she is trying to achieve by bitching she can’t walk through a private property, then to go for sympathy by including her friend just passed.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/129648671/woman-shocked-to-lose-forest-sanctuary-after-new-owner-cuts-access-to-trespassers

A Dunedin resident is lamenting the loss of an unofficial bush walkway, after the new owner closed access to “trespassers” and cleared some vegetation.
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August 27, 2022 9:54am
- Pavel
  
  I couldn’t work out what she was moaning about either. It’s private property ffs.
  
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  August 27, 2022 11:07am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Saw that. Someone deeply entitled to someone else’s property.
  
  Then had the temerity to complain to the Council about the owner removing invasive species from his own land.
  
  But apparently she is sad, so this gives her moral authority?
  
  The pink hair and the necklace were dead giveaways – I expect she is a teacher – and from the green subspecies of the Karen Genus.
  
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  August 27, 2022 11:26am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    bingo! 30 seconds on Dr Google, yes a teacher.
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:27am
    - Ghost
      
      Also a former journalist
      
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      August 27, 2022 1:23pm
- artemisia
  
  Did Amber Fraser-Smith have a marvellous opportunity to make a winning bid when the property came up for sale recently?
  
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  August 27, 2022 11:26am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Another moaning freeloader. She has used it free for years. Private property is private property. What is her problem? Free stuff being taken away? so what?
  
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  August 27, 2022 12:35pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I figure it’s just a quiet little dig at the evils of property rights.
  
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  August 27, 2022 1:50pm
- JJ56
  
  There is an interesting sidelight on Stuff’s editorial behaviour here. The author of the piece Hamish McNeilly also runs a news feed The Mish where he published a fuller version: https://themish.substack.com/p/i-lost-a-friend-and-i-lost-a-forest
  
  The fuller version ends, referring to the owner and Fraser-Smith, “Polar opposites, but a shared love of the same place”. This was cut by Stuff and in the process rather changing the whole slant of the piece.
  
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  August 27, 2022 6:22pm
cas

Kim Hill’s interview with Trevor Mallard this morning was excruciating and illuminating. Kim went soft on him but he divulged that he asked specifically for the Ambassadorship to Ireland and that he has 3 or 4 grandchildren there. Quite open about it. Also he will take a knighthood and obviously expects to be given one. He was trying to redeem himself but sounded narcissistic to me.
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August 27, 2022 10:00am
- AitchW
  
  Another nail in the coffin of the credibility of knighthoods.
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:45am
- Cassandra
  
  Fair enough. The rest of the Labour Party are in it for what they can get out of it, so why not Mallard too? “My grandchildren are in Ireland so I’d like to be the Ambassador there”. Usually the succeeding government allows political appointments to serve out their term – NACT should make an exception/example this time.
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:45am
- Gravelroad
  
  I thought socialists did not approve of special titles bestowed by a ruler (aka monarch) in a far away country who/which has nothing to do with us.
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:46am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Socialists do not approve for others, but when it is them it is very different. Word for that, starts with H
    
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    August 27, 2022 12:37pm
  - Paulus
    
    Helen Clark got rid of Titles in New Zealand, but when National reinstated them Cullen rushed to get his Sir Title – which he did not deserve either.
    Labour hypocrisy, and Mallard too !
    
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    August 27, 2022 1:33pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You would think someone sporting a knighthood associated with the British Crown would go down like a lead balloon in Ireland.
    
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    August 27, 2022 5:12pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  His gutless decision to get Adrian Rurawhe to make the Speaker’s apology to Winston Peters for an action Mallard took unilaterally should be the final straw for a knighthood. But if the PM rolled over and meekly gave in to his demands to be send to Ireland, she’s hardly going to block that.
  
  The whole Mallard tenure as Speaker has been a disgrace, from the moment Chris Hipkins got the numbers wrong in 2017. He should never have been appointed Speaker, given his hair-trigger temper and his long history of unparliamentary behaviour. Leopard, spots and all that.
  
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  August 27, 2022 10:54am
  - MCōs
    
    “apology to Winston Peters”
    Everything isn’t how it seemed. It never has been with Peters.
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:12am
  - cas
    
    Mallard reckoned in the interview that he was going to apologise but blamed delays on Winston’s lawyers and that is why it ended up being Rurawhe not him!!!!!
    
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    August 27, 2022 11:22am
    - MCōs
      
      You’d have to be a new follower of NZ politics not to believe that’s not absolutely typical Winston Peters.
      
      The old codger a few years ago was acting PM.
      Now he’s arguing with another old codger.
      
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      August 27, 2022 11:45am
- BeaB
  
  I am sorry to see Kim has taken the Dane geld.
  
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  August 27, 2022 12:44pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    When you’re a priest you don’t criticise the holy see.
    
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    August 27, 2022 5:17pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Well, Annette King went to Canberra where, just quietly, she had grandchildren
  
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  August 27, 2022 6:40pm
kevn

@cas… Severe case of entitleitis.
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August 27, 2022 10:37am
oldfella

Pacific and Māori communities gather to mark Dawn Raids apology anniversary
I’m sure this will become an annual event, organised – for a decent dollop of koha – by MahutaCorp. //
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/129677916/pacific-and-mori-communities-gather-to-mark-dawn-raids-apology-anniversary
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August 27, 2022 10:39am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Dawn raids focussing on overstayers? Illegal residents? Why the f*ck should we apologise for upholding the law?
  
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  August 27, 2022 6:41pm
ClanMcleod

Germany going full on fascist. Just ahead of NZ in this race to be number one in the covidiot stakes.

For example, Karl Lauterbach (who is still for some reason the official Minister of Health of Germany, despite the fact that he has been lying to the public and fomenting hatred of “the Unvaccinated” like the reanimated corpse of Joseph Goebbels on a daily basis for over two years) explained why Germany is pushing ahead with its plan to coercively “vaccinate” the entire population, over and over. According to Lauterbach, the “vaccines” cause “multiply-vaccinated” persons to develop symptoms of the illness their multiple “vaccinations” were designed to keep them from being infected with more quickly than “the Unvaccinated,” so they stay home, and thus help to “limit the pandemic,” whereas “the Unvaccinated,” being “asymptomatic,” go around heedlessly infecting “the Vaccinated,” which they wouldn’t be doing if they had been “multiply-vaccinated,” as they would be home suffering the flu-like symptoms they were assured the “vaccines” would protect them from suffering but which actually caused them to suffer more quickly.

You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.

https://off-guardian.org/2022/08/09/the-unvaccinated-question-revisited/
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August 27, 2022 10:55am
cmm

Socialists understand nothing about creating – only about destroying.

Take a look at what they’re pushing for in Christchurch. Practically nobody uses public transport. They are already massively subsidised, but that’s not enough. They have halved the cost of bus tickets, but still nobody buys them. Most buses are empty or have one or two passengers. During peak times you might be lucky to see 5 to 10 passengers on the odd bus here or there. Average is 3 or less.

So what’s the “solution”? Chch want to make car usage so expensive and unpleasant that it will force people going to the CBD to use public transport. They want to do so through a combination of “congestion charges” (yeah right, what congestion), making parking harder and more expensive, reducing speed limits and no doubt also adding more one ways and no-car roads.

Of course this is not really going to work. People already avoid the dying CBD. They will just avoid it more. The only reasons to go are the hospital and the courts. This is not going to encourage bus use. It will be a final nail in the coffin of the CBD.

The socialists seem to think they are control, but forget that people still have some choices and will sake them.

If these people ran a breakfast food company they would make gruel with weevils in it. Everyone would buy Weetbix instead. Instead of fixing their awful gruel, they’d sabotage the Weetbix factory expecting people to switch to the gruel. But instead people would just skip breakfast entirely.

Competition in the private sector drives product improvement. Socialist governments do not play in that space, so they don’t improve.
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August 27, 2022 12:01pm
- kowtow
  
  Once again , literally and metaphorically , the lamps are going out all across Europe ( and the rest of the west) .
  
  This driven by the idiots in charge , and it matters not whether they are the blue or red team , they’ve adopted the neo communist ‘green’ ideology .
  
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  August 27, 2022 12:29pm
  - Taieri
    
    This driven by the idiots in charge
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    And where do these idiots come from?
    They are the reflection of the society. Our reflection. Because we elect them.
    
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    August 27, 2022 2:01pm
  - IndividualResponsibility
    
    I read recently that Russia has been, for years, funding green activists in the West, to promote the Clean & Green agenda, in the sure knowledge that electricity generation, traditionally reliant on Nuclear and/or Coal fired generating plants, would be best shut down in the name of being “clean & green”.
    Thus leaving much of Western Europe heavily reliant on Russian gas, which Russia has now weaponised, to the chagrin of France, Germany, and probably a number of other EU countries sucked in to the same thinking.
    Talk about hoist by your own petard.
    Watch this space.
    
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    August 27, 2022 3:00pm
    - cjn
      
      This sounds very complicated. Did your source mention that the Russian Federation would invade Ukraine and that the EU would impose sanctions against Russian oil, gas, fertilisers etc And that the UK, the USA , NATO, Australia and New Zealand would leap to the defence of Ukraine and send arms and men? And that Greenie women would take of their shirts to confront Scholt with their bare breasts in order to shame him into completely shutting down the 20% of gas flowing into Germany in August 2022? Amazing!! I’d like to read your source. Do tell.
      
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      August 27, 2022 7:46pm
Jack5

Anyone know how NZ carbon dioxide supplies are holding up?

A shortage in the United States threatens food production and beer brewing, reports the Wall Street Journal.

It says American supplies have been hit by two main causes.

Less car driving because of the Covid pandemic, has hit demand – and production – of ethanol. Carbon dioxide is a major by-product in making ethanol.

There have also been production problems at Jackson Dome, which has natural supplies of carbon dioxide

Nearly three-quarters of carbon-dioxied used in NZ came from the Marsden Point refinery, now closed.

Kapuni, the supplier of most of the rest for the NZ market, was down with maintenance work over winter. Last month there were reports of rationing of the gas.
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August 27, 2022 12:50pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Looks like maintenance at Kapuni is still on-going.
  
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/well-known-kiwi-energy-drink-v-regains-fizz-after-closure-of-big-gas-plants
  
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  August 27, 2022 1:19pm
- kowtow
  
  UK problems too.
  
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  August 27, 2022 2:45pm
Bridgenag

Please keep the shootings and Ram raids up to date
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August 27, 2022 1:03pm
Swifty

The serial and proven liar and charlatan, Elizabeth Warren, descends to new lows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suXfvVZXtMY
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August 27, 2022 1:03pm
- Batman
  
  Yes that bastion of the historical record, “Potato Event” 🤣
  
  Incredibly reliable and honest I’m sure
  
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  August 27, 2022 1:18pm
  - Swifty
    
    Pathetic.
    
    Can you not see and hear? Did you even watch the video?
    
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    August 27, 2022 1:35pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Probably more honest than the New York Times
      Have they given their Pulitzer Prizes back now that their Russia/Trump stories have been proved to be wrong?
      Thought not.
      
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      August 27, 2022 3:21pm
      - Swifty
        
        It was a tactic Stephieboy used to use – completely disregard the content and attempt to pillory the messenger.
        
        Then run off claiming victory!
        
        And we all know what he ended us being described as now don’t we.
        
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        August 27, 2022 3:40pm
      - virtualmark
        
        That would be the Pulitzers that Trump formally complained about?
        
        Following which the Pulitzer board commissioned two independent reviews of the news pieces, and both reviews found they were fair and truthful, and so decided the awards would stand?
        
        That must tear your nightie Red.
        
        Console yourself. Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election. You can get to it at https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures
        
        Spoiler: You won’t like the (bipartisan) conclusions.
        
        You probably also won’t like Paul Manafort’s recent confession that yes, he did pass on information to Konstantin Kilimnik (a GRU officer). Easy for him to say that now he’s had a pardon. From Trump. Really. I mean why would Trump do that do you think?
        
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        August 27, 2022 5:41pm
      - Tom Hunter
        
        Oh god. Virtualmark still believes in the Trump-Russia collusion story.
        
        But then he also still believes in the integrity of the Pulitzer Prize for journalism, that Kavanaugh is an inadequate jurist, that Christine Blasey Ford is credible but Tara Reade is not… and on and on and on.
        
        For all the projection about “Fox News” it’s clear that for VM and Batman it’s the WaPo, NYT, Guardian etc that are entirely credible sources of news and journalism.
        
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        August 27, 2022 8:31pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Tom,
        
        Read the Senate Intelligence Committee report I linked to and then come back to me.
        
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        August 28, 2022 10:09am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      It’s what you get when people can’t address the content. Ad hominem. Smear the source. Classic tactics. Ignore.
      
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      August 27, 2022 7:25pm
Surely Knott

Newshub interviews Byron Clarke who they introduce as a “disinformation researcher”. to talk about recent events and has been doing uni talks on the “alt-right”

But he doesn’t appear to be an academic or expert but a self proclaimed activist at the centre of Occupy Christchurch which he wrote a book on and runs the occupy chch web page. He writes a series of amateur blogs but It’s not clear what his real job is or who funds him.

It’s a new use of the word researcher which usually implies a professional academic researching the subject.

Newshub says in his profile page that he’s a “Byron Clark is a video essayist whose work focuses on New Zealand’s far-right and conspiracy theory scene.” Here are his video essays on you tube. Just start by looking at the titles and imagery to decide if this is a credible source or fringe far left.
https://www.youtube.com/lossenelin

They call him a video essayist but what are his credentials. Is he simply a leftist activist and blogger. What is his academic background. Who funds him?

It’s not just newshub he is on stuff and doing talks on the far right at Massey University. It would be great if we could get real clarity on who these experts of the truth are.

Byron’s page occupy christchurch.
https://www.occupychristchurch.nz/about.html

https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/events/byron-clark-new-zealands-alt-right/

https://byron.geek.nz/
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August 27, 2022 1:09pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Back in 2007 he was the “Workers’ Party” candidate for the Chch mayoralty.
  
  https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0709/S00288/mayoral-candidate-slams-council-over-boy-racers.htm
  
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  August 27, 2022 1:29pm
Surely Knott

Holey Moley. From Muriel Newman…on Labour in Local Elections

““The answer is pretty straight-forward. In 2019 Cr Campbell Barry campaigned for the Hutt City mayoralty under a Labour ticket. What the public were never told is that the Labour Party exacts a high price from candidates who use their trademark.”

“The rewards for this abdication of local loyalty are political career opportunities and campaign assistance – databases, email systems, door knocking volunteers, billboard teams and social media support. One recent bauble was Mayor Barry’s appointment to the Labour Government’s Three Waters review taskforce, a body that reported back very recently with, you guessed it, no substantial changes to the policy opposed by the majority of Lower Hutt’s residents.”

“It will surprise most people to learn that the Labour Party requires that candidates using the Labour logo sign a pledge to support and implement Labour policy irrespective of the views of local residents. Further, all Labour candidates pledge to block vote on issues of Labour policy.

https://www.nzcpr.com/local-body-election-expose/#more-37035
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August 27, 2022 1:14pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Anybody identifying as Labour on the council ticket will not be getting my vote.
  
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  August 27, 2022 4:20pm
  - Sarkozygroupie
    
    You should also look out for ‘Independents’ who keep their political endorsement quiet. Labour endorsed Independents aren’t ever going to be highlighted by the media.
    
    Paul Eagle in Wellington is one.
    
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    August 27, 2022 9:59pm
- kowtow
  
  Party first !
  
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  August 27, 2022 4:31pm
Master Mariner

Fdata centers for Microsoft cancelled for Ireland due to uncertainty of power.
So a couple of questions,
What deal has google and microsoft been given for certainty of power ?
And do they preferential treatment during shortages?
Any one know .

https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-and-amazon-have-had-to-cancel-several-new-data-centers
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August 27, 2022 1:16pm
- Ghost
  
  Likely no difference than New Zealand businesses. Where I live the lines also feed the frontera factory, so in a power cut it’s a priority area to be reconnected.
  
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  August 27, 2022 3:47pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

BBC were reporting on a fab new piece of real time Software that changes ‘hard-to-understand’ accents into proper English sounding voices.
They played an example, where you got put thru to an answering-service in Mumbai and it actually changed the Indian guy’s voice to sound a little bit like Prince Andrew.
You can get it adapted to whatever county you are in.

Absolutely amazeballs!

https://youtu.be/ZTZ1T9VBa-Y

(My partner suggested i should send the link to Jason Paris @ Vodaphone)

My partner suggested I send the link to Jason Paris at Vodaphone.
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August 27, 2022 1:23pm
Swifty

There are jackals amongst us:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/two-men-sentenced-to-home-detention-after-robbing-95-year-old-on-christmas-eve/WM3W45TLR2KIQNTZWGRV2FZ2P4/2

Hyenas.
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August 27, 2022 1:32pm
Ghost

It is time to start sending messages, not wet bus tickets. This should not be home detention

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/two-men-sentenced-to-home-detention-after-robbing-95-year-old-on-christmas-eve/WM3W45TLR2KIQNTZWGRV2FZ2P4/

Two men sentenced to home detention after robbing 95-year-old on Christmas Eve
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August 27, 2022 1:36pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  There should be some sort of board that reviews judges and their decisions, and takes action against judges that constantly give bad decisions.
  
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  August 28, 2022 8:15am
kiwikidsnz

Another example of why the NZ judiciary are held in contempt by Kiwis. A 5 year sentence for a crime “as bad as it gets” reduced to home detention

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/two-men-sentenced-to-home-detention-after-robbing-95-year-old-on-christmas-eve/WM3W45TLR2KIQNTZWGRV2FZ2P4/
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August 27, 2022 2:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Don Jr. Posts ‘Dick Pic’ Of Dad After Affidavit Release: ‘Redact This!’
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/don-jr-posts-dick-pic-031340619.html
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August 27, 2022 3:52pm
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  Looks more like a pic covering up someone pissing their pants
  
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  August 27, 2022 5:36pm
artemisia

Most interesting, appreciate you taking the time. Moving towards self sufficiency, even a bit, is the way households used to be. Even if just a garden and a couple of fruit trees. Not so much these days.

You mentioned financial literacy. That is the main path to self sufficiency I have taken, along with development of critical thinking and useful skills, and drummed into the family. So far, so very good!
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August 27, 2022 4:44pm
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  That was supposed to be a response to stellaboxer.
  
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  August 27, 2022 6:48pm
Alex

Never thought I would say it but TOVA did good interview with Zelensky.
NZ only gave them a measly $7.5 million.
We can do better.
Extend visa so wider family members can come to NZ. Poland has taken in one million.
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August 27, 2022 9:42pm
Tauhei Notts

I have enjoyed most comments on rugby union on this blog. It is away from politics, but it gives me a fresh viewpoint from people who know much more about the game than I will ever do. The rugby pundits on here are not poncing about looking for a lucrative contract with N.Z. Rugby.
I hope they are all on here tomorrow.
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