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Benedict Yu

School in Canada employs a trans teacher with gigantic prosthetic breasts. Wants a “safe and inclusive” environment for the children. 😳

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/18/woke-high-school-defends-trans-teacher-with-prosthetic-breasts-in-name-of-creating-safe-and-inclusive-environment/

Meanwhile….

The headmistress of the most successful state funded school in the UK invites Jordan Peterson to visit the school. Headmistress accused of “hate crime”. Police called. ☹️

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11227673/Katharine-Birbalsingh-reported-hate-crime-inviting-professor-Jordan-Peterson.html
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September 30, 2022 8:00am
- Inandout
  
  BY, as for the Canadian teacher I think it has been said she is lampooning the trans world.
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:08am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    I missed yesterdays post around the merger of TVNZ and Red Radio. According to a spokesperson for the Minister of Finance the combined entitites will have a value of $734 million so is justified.
    
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    September 30, 2022 8:40am
    - Yvette
      
      Lastmanstanding, from Kiwiblog host David Farrar’s post yesterday 11am –
      heading – “Labour spending $368 million to merge two companies worth $366 million!!”
      
      $368 + $366 = $734
      
      I hope this spokesperson for the Minister of Finance was not involved in the estimate figures $120–185 billion in the argument for “3 Waters”
      
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      September 30, 2022 8:55am
      - riffer
        
        $368 million is the operating expenses for three years of the combined entity, not the cost of the merger.
        
        I can’t believe I am still having to say this.
        
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        September 30, 2022 12:23pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      They are adding the two entities values together, but infact the value of both together is only half the value when seperate
      
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      September 30, 2022 8:56am
    - alloytoo
      
      In the real world a merger cost of about 50% would have to be internally funded and the idea instantly rejected as insane.
      
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      September 30, 2022 9:12am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        It’s not a merger cost of 50% though – it’s a merger cost of just under 100%.
        
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        September 30, 2022 10:18am
      - riffer
        
        No, it’s an operating cost, not a merger cost.
        
        Stop telling lies.
        
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        September 30, 2022 3:11pm
    - Local Miller
      
      LOL, this is socialist accounting for you. Spend $368 million to merge 2 companies currently worth $366 million. 368 + 366 = 734, so you can now tell people the companies are worth $734 million because you just invested all that money in them.
      Also called BS Accounting!
      
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      September 30, 2022 9:22am
      - Paulus
        
        No, no, not BS Accountimng – Creative Accounting as more commonly used by this Government.
        
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        September 30, 2022 10:41am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Ha! Sell it and let’s see what market thinks it’s worth then. it only has commercial value to politicians as a govt propaganda outlet.
      
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      September 30, 2022 9:27am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      TVNZ and Red Radio, and a bloke’s oversized tits?
      
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      September 30, 2022 5:11pm
- mandk
  
  Katherine Birbalsingh is the epitome of real correctness in teaching children.
  
  Apply high standards of behaviour.
  
  Have high expectations of them.
  
  Show them approval when they do well.
  
  Love them always.
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:16am
- slightlyrighty
  
  I Note Katharine Birbalsingh is actually a Kiwi! Can we get her here to run our schools?
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:50am
  - Ra Henare
    
    By birth. Left when she was 1 yo.
    Father was doing a 2 year stint at Auckland Uni.
    
    Yea, pendantic of me I know.
    
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    September 30, 2022 5:44pm
- kowtow
  
  Seen the one about the Sussex police saying ,’Hi Sussex Police do not tolerate any hateful comments towards their gender identity regardless of crimes committed.”
  
  This because people were referring to a child abuser in a “misgendering” way .
  
  https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/fury-sussex-police-defend-trans-paedophile-who-was-jailed-for-sexually-abusin/
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:51am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  There was a video. Woodwork teacher.
  Seriously I think he is taking the piss
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:38am
  - mogg
    
    He is taking the piss, he was in trouble for being too masculine,so he now wears a fake pair of Bristols and becomes a trans hero. He wants to be sacked so he can sue for wrongful dismissal.
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Makes sense, he has a mental health issue.
      
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      September 30, 2022 10:56am
      - Colville
        
        Sounds to me like he is taking a stand on something he believes in and is willing to cause a fuss to make a point.
        
        I bet a few whiskies were involved and his mates dared him!
        
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        September 30, 2022 11:36am
    - andrewcarrot
      
      He possibly got the idea from South Park. Mr. Garrison tried everything (and I mean everything) to get fired for being gay so he could sue the school for millions of dollars. However, he was unable to as the rest of the faculty and the children’s parents were desperate to appear tolerant of his homosexuality.
      
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      September 30, 2022 12:44pm
      - kowtow
        
        Shades of Klinger in mash or wot’s is name in Catch 22.
        
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        September 30, 2022 5:58pm
- rouppe
  
  From that latter article:
  
  Today, the Met Police said it had ‘no knowledge’ of any crime reports concerning Ms Birbalsingh.
  
  Both of them can’t be right…
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:06am
- Loddenthinks
  
  And the Daily Mail rag libels Peterson by calling him “right-wing” and trivialises or negates many of his points, most of which are 100% correct. Such as “he claimed that the gender pay gap was not ‘only due to sex'” which it isn’t.
  
  His defence of free speech in Canada regarding compelled use of pronouns under threat of prosecution was a brave and principled move, and a host of other things under the heading: “Peterson’s past scandals on gender, race and masculinity”
  
  It’s hilarious, but only because nobody with half a brain pays attention to the Daily Mail.
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:22am
- All_on_Red
  
  The guy is making them play by their own Rules. Before he did this, he had been complaining about all the woke Rules and they ignored him.
  So he did this. And now they don’t know what to do.
  By their own rules they cant sack him or tell him off.
  Its delicious and he has exposed them to ridicule all over the world.
  Brilliant on his part.
  
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  September 30, 2022 1:13pm
bravefart

“Freedom of speech is in peril. And it isn’t only threatened by obvious strongmen – like the corrupt rulers of Nigeria or the theocratic tyrants of Iran – but also by a smiling PC woman who is feverishly fawned over by virtue-signallers the world over. Ms Ardern’s UN speech exposed the iron fist of authoritarianism that lurks within the velvet glove of wokeness.”

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/29/jacinda-ardern-and-the-woke-war-on-free-speech/
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September 30, 2022 8:01am
- Benedict Yu
  
  “….imagine Jacinda Ardern putting her arm around your shoulder and telling you with a toothy smile that you’re going to have to sacrifice your liberty to save the world from chaos.”
  
  It will be the same if (when?) the lights go out in winter.
  
  “We understand it is cold and dark but we must make sacrifices for the climate crisis.”
  
  I challenge anyone to tell me that could never happen in New Zealand.
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:47am
  - cmm
    
    We in the southern hemisphere are slightly protected. We do not have the wide temperature swings that the northern hemisphere does.
    
    But keeping warm in winter is only a tiny part of the battle. NZ has always been a trading nation. If our trading partners are in turmoil then we cop it too.
    
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    September 30, 2022 8:50am
    - Paulus
      
      Whilst we are a Trading Nation in fact we are and have been for some time an Importing Country which is why we are bust as well.
      We pay for many more imports that we sell overseas.
      
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      September 30, 2022 10:43am
  - mandk
    
    ….imagine Jacinda Ardern putting her arm around your shoulder and telling you with a toothy smile …
    
    That bit alone makes me shudder.
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:37am
    - Keith White
      
      I’m good, I’ve had pre-exposure rabies prophylaxis plus yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis B, cholera and typhoid vaccines as well as the more regular ones.
      
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      October 1, 2022 12:13am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Had a power ‘outage’ last week.
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:46am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    We had a power cut in Auckland last night but only lasted for around 5 -10 minutes just around midnight. Pain in the arse having to reset clocks (again) and computer etc.
    
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    September 30, 2022 11:00am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Last time the worst pm in our history was standing at the podium in the UN spouting the world is a borderless planet, what utter bullshittery from a bullshitter in chief
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:28am
- cjn
  
  There is also a meme on Youtube of Ardern’s UN speech which is called a Speech to make Mao Proud. It has Joseph Stalin, Mao and George Orwell making contributions to her arguments. Some good comments underneath too with someone asking how New Zealanders could have elected such a person. Not that New Zealanders are the only ones to have been saddled by a globalist.
  
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  September 30, 2022 7:35pm
Benedict Yu

So a guy is released on parole after serving 7 years for a violent rape. He is assessed as “high risk of violent reoffending”.

He is housed next door to a young, beautiful woman living alone. She is aware that he is watching her. She is scared. However she has not been notified that he is a convicted rapist. 🙄🙄

Within a few weeks she is dead in a horrific attack.

“…. chief probation officer Darius Fagan said Corrections would review its existing notification policy “to ensure it continues to support public safety”.” 😳 😰

Why am I not reassured? ☹️

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/130028218/corrections-reviewing-notification-policy-after-neighbour-on-parole-commits-murder

He will be sentenced in December.
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September 30, 2022 8:01am
- alex Masterley
  
  This offending is so egregious that Probation Services need to be held to account. I hope Darius Fagan is going to explain to the young womans family what changes will be made to it’s policies so its mistakes are not repeated.
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:05am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    According to the report, the young woman was aware the guy was watching her. If she had been aware he was a convicted rapist she could have run for the hills.
    
    I also wonder what someone does when they get told “just a heads up, there is a convicted rapist next door to you and he is at high risk of reoffending” 😳. There is no appropriate mitigation apart from immediately relocating.
    
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    September 30, 2022 8:12am
  - jp_1983
    
    I’m sure Darius will come up with some newspeak about the victims needing to cross the bridge and come across to a different way of thinking and viewing the world.
    
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    September 30, 2022 8:13am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Well she certainly did cross the Bridge didn’t she.
      
      I expect the rapist had a troubled childhood, and is possibly suffering post-colonial trauma, so clearly the young lady was asking for it and Benedict is clearly victim shaming! (the true victim that is, the rapist)
      
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      September 30, 2022 8:46am
- Nickc2
  
  I hope the Parole Board and whoever appointed them have sleepless nights forever.
  This is outrageous!
  BTW, who appoints the Parole Board?
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:21am
  - Nickc2
    
    Found it:
    Appointments are made by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Attorney-General.
    David Parker, you’ve fucked up again! Resign!!
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:25am
    - riffer
      
      Your opinion only works IF the parole board were all employed post 2017. It is just as possible that they were employed under Chris Finlayson’s watch.
      
      Do you have any proof that they were all employed post 2017?
      
      Also, do you have any proof that the AG directed the parole board to make any decisions?
      
      Or that the Labour government changed the law to make the parole board make a different decision to what they would have made under the previous government?
      
      Or are you just looking for somebody to take the fall for something awful that happened? That would be understandable, but not really the right thing.
      
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      September 30, 2022 12:28pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Five board members were appointed during David Parker’s reign.
        https://www.paroleboard.govt.nz/about_us/who
        
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        September 30, 2022 12:43pm
      - riffer
        
        Out of 16? That’s hardly an indication of political interference.
        
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        September 30, 2022 3:12pm
      - Nickc2
        
        riffer @ 3:12PM
        David Parker had the power to sack the lot of them but IMO, he chose not to because they were probably sympathetic to the Labour cause.
        
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        September 30, 2022 7:43pm
- CJames
  
  The fact that he served nearly his full sentence for his original offence (remember Labour’s promise to empty the prisons) indicates that the system considered him very dangerous. In the press report from the time of his rape conviction, there is no mention of whether he had strikes recorded against him or his previous offences (if any)
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/10275482/Jailed-for-brutal-and-degrading-rape
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:32am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    This is the account of the 2014 attack:
    
    “He punched her on the head and body several times and when she tried to fight back, the defendant bound her hands. He then put his hands around the victim’s throat. Brider placed the victim in the passenger seat and drove to Waverley, where he stopped again and resumed his violent assault on the victim…..
    
    The victim suffered numerous injuries from the assault, including burst blood vessels in her eyes, bruising to the throat, injuries to her lower body and swelling and bruising to her left shoulder and arm.”
    
    Serving 7 years in prison for that seems kind of light.
    
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    September 30, 2022 8:50am
  - kowtow
    
    I see that rape carries a 20 year max.
    
    He got no where near that.
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:00am
    - riffer
      
      Yes, that one sits on the judge. And that sentence was in 2014, under a National government. I don’t see anyone demanding the resignation of any National MPs for that one. Hmmm…
      
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      September 30, 2022 12:29pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        We all know that Labour LOVES crims. There is no way under a Labour Govt that they would allow neighbours of a Parolee to be told about him.
        Just not going to happen.
        
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        September 30, 2022 1:26pm
      - riffer
        
        Unsubstantiated allegation.
        
        Can you point to any legislative changes which would indicate that the Labour government changed the laws since 2017 to ensure that neighbours of a parolee could not be informed?
        
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        September 30, 2022 3:13pm
- kowtow
  
  Ardern galavanting around the world talking about draconian authoritarian control of free speech on the internet and yet in New Zealand women are unsafe from extremely dangerous men who are supposed to be under the control of her agents .
  
  Worse, her regime wants to empty the prisons and refuses to take proper measures against these very dangerous criminals , 3 strikes .
  
  And yet her strongest constituency is women .
  
  Unbelievable.
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:42am
  - Sacha
    
    Ardern is creating a lawless society interest, using the police as useful idiots – except when she wants to enforce the Power of the State when she will bring them out in full force ie: Parliament.
    There will be a tipping point –
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:12am
    - kowtow
      
      Even before the disgraceful parliament clearout the police were raiding people’s houses based on innocuous facebook posts etc asking their political opinions about Trump , Ardern etc
      
      An awful lot of NZers don’t realise how politicised the police are .( or worse maybe don’t care)
      
      They and the govt were very comfortable with race based road blocks which are a crime under common law .
      
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      September 30, 2022 11:28am
  - Gravelroad
    
    @ kowtow-
    Not unbelievable.
    Yes, many women support and admire Jacinda.
    But they do not see any direct link between their friend Jacinda and her government.
    So why would she be blamed for what criminals do?
    She is the president of a fan club not the leader of a government.
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:22am
- Surely Knott
  
  It’s interesting that Ardern is calling for surveillance with her Christchurch call so she can have more information to stop extremism.
  
  But even when they know of extremism and it’s in plain sight, like the New Lynn terrorist, who they knew was making violent threats and likely to act on them, and this rapist they don’t use the information to stop further attacks.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:03am
  - riffer
    
    Yes I find this one somewhat disquieting too. If they cannot use the laws they currently have, what possible use could extending their power have, other than to possibly criminalise innocent people as well.
    
    I too fear that free speech may become hate speech.
    
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    September 30, 2022 12:31pm
- Scott
  
  This whole story is a microcosm of the plight that New Zealand is in right now. The anodyne headline – “corrections reviewing policy”. As if there was some minor stuff up. That’s right, the media only gets outraged when national MPs do something wrong e.g. Uffindell.
  
  He was placed in a halfway house next to a beautiful woman living on her own? What’s with that? How can that make any sense? He goes to a dance class where there are lots of women. How can that be a good idea?
  
  Now that he has killed her, what should happen to him? I would argue for the death penalty. I think the death penalty would wonderfully concentrate the criminal mind and the number of murders in this country would plummet.
  
  As it says very early in the Bible in Genesis 9:5-6 “And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.”
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:13am
  - rouppe
    
    It’s more a case of convicted rapist (i.e. violent offender) is paroled despite being at a “high risk of re-offending”.
    
    Here’s an idea. Develop a small housing estate. One house for each Parole Board member in which they and their family must live. Add in 4 extra interspersed properties where the people they parole spend the first 6 months.
    
    That might distil their thinking a bit.
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:15am
    - Keith White
      
      There’s some undeveloped and unoccupied land on White Island where this murderer should be left to fend for himself.
      
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      October 1, 2022 12:16am
  - Swifty
    
    Hey Scott, could you explain this for me please?
    
    “…..for in the image of God has God made man.”
    
    Exactly what is meant by that?
    
    Genuine question.
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:28am
    - Scott
      
      Sure swiftly. We are made in the image of God which means that we share something of the likeness of God, we have a soul, we have dignity and worth because we share something of God’s essence. That does not mean that we are gods ourselves.
      
      Our image of God has been tarnished by sin, which is recorded in Genesis 3. That sin has been redeemed by Jesus, who was both fully God and fully man. He shows us what God is like. He also was the only man who did not sin.
      
      The dignity and worth of human beings created in the image of God means that we take seriously murder. We don’t take innocent human life. The sense is that human life is sacred. We also build hospitals to look after sick people. We have laws to protect people. Indeed we could argue that human rights makes sense because we are created in God’s image, we have intrinsic dignity and worth because of that.
      
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      September 30, 2022 10:51am
      - Swifty
        
        Thanks.
        
        So just to be clear, it is not meant that God looks human.
        
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        September 30, 2022 11:01am
      - riffer
        
        That is the common interpretation, that image does not mean likeness. It means “alike” in behaviour.
        
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        September 30, 2022 12:32pm
      - Scott
        
        Swifty – that’s right. We don’t know what God looks like. We know Jesus as the son of God who was both human and divine. The Bible features angels which are human in appearance.
        On the other hand we have the divine creatures for example in Isaiah 6 that have six wings and the four beasts in Daniel 7 that are definitely not human in appearance.
        
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        September 30, 2022 12:39pm
      - Rusty
        
        Scott – I enjoy reading your biblical messages on this blog even though this is a secular blog.
        
        Christianity is under attack in this country and its been led by this govt.
        
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        September 30, 2022 6:04pm
      - Swifty
        
        Thanks all.
        
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        September 30, 2022 7:03pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  The chief probation officer? Good job. Oh, you mean the violent rapist…..damn. The chief probation officer should be in the dock also on charges of aiding and abetting.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:20am
- JJ56
  
  Apposite Garrick Tremain cartoon at Bassett,Brash&Hide today https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/cartoon-of-the-day-161
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:22am
- surfing
  
  Didn’t seem to be much reporting over this horrific crime … yet, in my view this was as bad as the Sophie Elliott murder .
  
  People are literally dying because these soft leftie wokes who think they can rehabilitate every criminal.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:24am
- Local Miller
  
  How the hell can someone who is assessed as a “high risk of reoffending” be released on parole? That’s just BS. If his is high risk he should be kept in prison to the end of his sentence.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:28am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Or better still, to the end of his life.
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:38am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Think of the cost, compared to a 9mm
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:49am
    - riffer
      
      Well that’s all very well, but if you execute an innocent person then everybody involved in the execution of that person, right down the line, should also be executed.
      
      At that rate, we’ll be so busy executing everybody there’ll be no time to arrest anybody.
      
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      September 30, 2022 12:34pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Yes, just like the covid fiasco, everyone involved in selling this lie should be charged. The jabbers, the media, the “experts”, the compliant politicians. We don’t have enough jail space for the number of criminals involved in this.
        
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        September 30, 2022 12:58pm
      - riffer
        
        First you need to prove that your opinion is correct. Then I guess you will need to create your army of brownshirts to round up all those who do not share your opinion so that Steve’s mates can run their courts and execute them.
        
        Sounds nothing at all like our current “fascist government.”
        
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        September 30, 2022 3:16pm
      - Swifty
        
        riffer is right, but for the wrong reasons.
        
        We should under no circumstances hand any government, and particularly Labour governments, the mandate or ability to murder the citizenry – for any reason.
        
        In Labour’s case they will of course fuck it up and start murdering the innocent – just like they fuck up everything else they touch.
        
        They can’t even get the basics right, they cant even organise the immunisation of our kids to the level that the Nats achieved – the crew they lambast as ‘rich’, out of touch and uncaring.
        
        There’s no way in hell we should ever trust them with a capital punishment regime – they’d be murdering innocent little old grannies by lunchtime – and then you’d get the responsible Minister, say Sepuloni, Poto or Kelvin when questioned in Parliament saying “I can’t comment on that – it’s an operational matter!”
        
        The clowns couldn’t run a bath.
        
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        September 30, 2022 7:14pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sentence the person who signed the parole papers as well. They failed at their job, and someone is dead.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:47am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    The problem in this case is that he was sentenced to 7 years 9 months in prison. He was released on parole after 7 years. So he could have been kept in prison for only another 9 months. Then they would have been required to release him. No doubt he would have killed someone else in some other place, only 9 months later.
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:02am
  - kowtow
    
    1$tuffed happy to name and shame locla govt candidates who they deem to be secret anti vaxxers .
    
    Nothing stopping them from an expose of who is setting these mongrels free to prey on women.
    
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    September 30, 2022 11:31am
    - riffer
      
      Well, there probably isn’t.
      
      Other than the possibility that some crazy might take it upon themselves to deal to those people.
      
      And Stuff would find themselves in the dock having to justify incitement of violence and harm.
      
      That’s probably why they don’t do it.
      
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      September 30, 2022 12:36pm
- Nukuleka
  
  Bring back the death penalty.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:15am
  - kowtow
    
    As the man said ;
    
    Six for you at dawn .
    
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    September 30, 2022 11:31am
  - riffer
    
    Three problems with the death penalty.
    
    1. The burden of proof is incredibly high. You would end up with many guilty found not guilty.
    2. The cost of incarceration while we wind down the clock on appeals goes through the roof.
    3. We still execute innocent people.
    
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    September 30, 2022 3:18pm
- GJM
  
  Shame self defence is illegal in NZ. Could have saved a lot of grief all around.
  Ofcourse, why was he out if he was”highly likley to offend”. On parole, but highly likely to offend, should mean no parole in the first place.
  People like this should be released nexxt to or stay with politicians, judges and parole boardmembers.
  
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  September 30, 2022 6:56pm
Bridgenag

Happened to flick passed 1 & 3 repeats of the same photos about the Florida floods and the 1mews announcer finished [I think finished because I left immediately] by saying it was as a result of the “climate crisis” …….. at least the 3 mews did not editorialise……….propaganda………..some of the Blokes at Bowls still watch and believe……………sigh
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September 30, 2022 8:15am
- Benedict Yu
  
  AFAIK there is no good evidence that hurricanes in that part of the world are getting worse. These are the strongest hurricanes on record, measured by intensity. Only three out of the ten are post 1992, when climate change was recognised as an issue.
  
  Florida (Keys) – 1935, 892 mb
  
  2. Camille (Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia) – 1965, 900 mb
  
  3. Michael (Florida) – 2018, 919 mb
  
  4. Katrina (Louisiana) – 2005, 920 mb
  
  5. Andrew (Florida, Louisiana) – 1992, 922 mb
  
  6. Texas (Indianola) – 1884, 925 mb
  
  7. Florida (Keys) – 1919, 927 mb
  
  8. Florida (Lake Okeechobee) – 1928, 929 mb
  
  9. Donna (Florida) – 1960, 930 mb
  
  10. Carla (Texas) – 1961, 931 mbData is current through 2021
  
  https://abcnews.go.com/US/strongest-hurricanes-hit-us-mainland-tropical-cyclone-records/story?id=65277296
  
  The other thing that the doom merchants never mention is that both property damage and, critically, deaths and injuries from weather events are less severe now than last century. Buildings are higher standard, and weather forecasts are orders of magnitude better. Folk can get out of harm’s way. 100 years ago hurricanes killed hundreds and sometimes thousands of people in that part of the USA.
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:58am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘Eleven treasure-laden ships that made up the 1715 Fleet were heading to Spain from Havana on 31 July 1715, when they encountered a hurricane off Florida’s central coast. The winds and waves smashed the ships onto reefs, claiming as many as 1,000 lives in one of colonial Spain’s biggest maritime disasters off Florida.’
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/20/sunken-1715-spanish-fleet-gold-coins
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:38am
    - Don Beckett
      
      The hurricane was Category 4 – not quite stro g enough for Category 5. The problem was it’s size, which sustained storm surges etc.
      
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      September 30, 2022 11:44am
      - Nickc2
        
        The current storm has been labeled by Floridians as a once in 500 years weather event. Therefore, it stands to reason that storms of this strength are not new to Florida.
        So much for Global Warming eh?
        
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        September 30, 2022 11:57am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Not to mention the population now is about 10 times what it was 100 years ago.
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:41am
    - riffer
      
      That’s the primary reason why things are getting worse. Not so much climate change, but population density and people having to live in places that aren’t really that suitable for human habitation due to the propensity of bad events.
      
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      September 30, 2022 12:38pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    According to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (Part of NOAA)- who measure all the Hurricanes and Typhoon over the past 70 years the frequency of intense weather events has DECREASED
    This latest Hurricane is the first of the current season. For July and August they had NONE.
    3rd time in 60 years this has happened.
    Lastly, the number of people dying from these things has deceased also.
    Wheres the ‘crisis’?
    
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    September 30, 2022 1:41pm
  - jon
    
    Just another inconvenient truth, the largely left driven climate change set, would rather you not know about.
    
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    September 30, 2022 2:52pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Well the announcer was sort of correct. Climate crisis and the se level rose
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    sea level*
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:03am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Not to worry, President Biden (closely reading off a monitor) has advised that “the vital way for people to prepare for the hurricane season is to get vaccinated”.
      Despite visiting a car show recently and announcing that the Covid “pandemic is over”.
      Maybe someone has created a new vaccination for a hurricane pandemic?
      
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      September 30, 2022 11:07am
      - riffer
        
        Nah, I see it more like “daylight saving – time to change your smoke alarm batteries”.
        
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        September 30, 2022 12:39pm
G152

Two small news and not news items.
Evidently a racist sexist rant in Parliament from liebors hue doesnt reach the heights required to be reported in Waikato Times or the Dom Post.
And that paragon of all sea going vessels in Wellington Harbour ran out of electrons and the Police launch had to rescue them.
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September 30, 2022 8:16am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Now tell me the government’s push to make Air nz fully electrification is not dumb
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:59am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Well the grid is not big enough to charge all of the Air NZ electric fleet, so I guess 50 diesel generators could do it
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:54am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      That would be their mentality
      
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      September 30, 2022 10:30am
    - Ehlana
      
      Ah, but Steve, how many electric planes will Air NZ need when only the elite are allowed to travel by air?
      
      We of the hoi polloi will be travelling by Shank’s pony, as PETA will find travel by actual pony to be animal abuse, unless the rider sees the world through the proper Te Ao Maori lens.
      
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      September 30, 2022 11:20am
Tony Stuart

A perfect four out of four for government departments investigating contracts awarded to William Gannin Ormsby and companies he is associated with.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/te-puni-kokiri-now-reviewing-contract-to-nanaia-mahutas-husbands-firm/C6PHIEMNQXA4YUQVSKKFUFQHTU/

In addition, the Public Service Commissioner is having a preliminary look before deciding whether or not to upgrade to a formal investigation. I understand that the Auditor-General is also keeping a close eye on developments and may intervene.

Then you have Christopher Penk’s final supplementary question from the House yesterday:

Chris Penk: Is the Minister aware of any of the full-time staff employed with the Criminal Cases Review Commission having prior criminal convictions, and, if so, does this seem an appropriate way to arrange its affairs given the need for public confidence in the system?

Hon DAVID PARKER: On behalf of the Minister, I’m not aware of whether or not that is the case. Obviously, it would depend on the nature and age of the conviction.

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/HansS_20220929_051120000/8-question-no-8-justice

This of course refers to Ormsby’s 2003 conviction for assault on a female, which could be a bit of a red flag for the Criminal Cases Review Committee, where Ormsby has been employed fulltime since early 2021. Is there no limit to what this man can do?
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September 30, 2022 8:17am
- Simon
  
  They printed too much money.
  
  Best advertisement for wide ranging tax cuts is the govt waste of the last 2 years. The billions printed by RBNZ to pay for govt bonds just pissed away. Aside from the corruption the money printed created.
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:20am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They are trying to blame the ministry’s yet Nahuta has all her is dotted and ts crossed
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:00am
  - amospicton
    
    It’s interesting isn’t it that Mahuta was so meticulous in this respect given that her reputation throughout her hitherto undistinguished parliamentary career is that she is lazy! Has she been meticulous about anything else, ever? If she has indeed been meticulous it is proof that she knew she needed to cover her tracks.
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:43am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And what of the appointment of Nania Mahuta’s sister to the Chair of Te Puna – (3 Waters)?
  
  The appointment of Tipa Mahuta to the role of Chair of Te Puna, and the on-going conflict that exists by virtue of the fact that both sisters now occupy these two key roles does not form part of the review currently being undertaken by the Public Service Commissioner. For any investigation to be comprehensive and conclusive, this appointment should also be examined.
  
  https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2022/09/29/thomas-cranmer-three-waters-taumata-arowai-and-the-scantly-diluted-powers-of-minister-mahutas-sister/
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:01am
  - I remember when
    
    3 Waters:
    Tararua District Council has a population of 19,050, an area of 4364.65 km2 and stretches from the top of the Ruahine Range to the Pacific Coast.
    It includes the townships of Norsewood, Dannevirke, Woodville, Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Herbertville, Weber, Akitio and Alfredton.
    By its very nature it represents small town rural New Zealand.
    At an election meeting attention was drawn to the fact that Tararua District Council is responsible for seven drinking and waste water schemes.
    Of course the residents will have trouble managing to finance and maintain these facilities but will 3 Waters provide a better service.
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:39am
    - I remember when
      
      Whoops. Missed Pongaroa.
      
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      September 30, 2022 11:32am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        As do most of us when driving around the northern Wairarapa.
        
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        September 30, 2022 12:16pm
- Brian McDonald
  
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  Don’t bother trying to be consistent Tony. I can’t recall you ever being upset that the convicted heroin dealer Greg Newbold became a Professor of Criminology at Canterbury. In fact his position was supported by the SST.
  While I know Greg I don’t know Ormsby but I doubt the CCRC is unaware of his conviction and already decided it would not prejudice its credibility. On the other hand, the general situation with Ormsby does need sunlight.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:26am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I believe in giving folks a second or even a 3rd chance, Brian.
    
    However, I’m not so happy about folks who fudge the facts or hide their crimes behind smoke-screens.
    
    Ormsby has a conviction for assaulting a female.
    He pleaded guilty to that one charge…
    The Crown withdrew charges of indecent assault, sexual violation and assault with intent to commit sexual violation relating to another woman.
    
    Those withdrawn charges leave me uneasy…
    
    Perhaps Ormsby is just the man to be working at the Criminal Case Review Commission… but perhaps he isn’t.
    
    We do seem to have a history in NZ for employing folks without checking their backgrounds thoroughly.
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:54am
Simon

In a properly functioning country RNZ would be closed down, saving the tax payer hundreds of millions, with the former RNZ employees free to take up fruit picking jobs.
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September 30, 2022 8:17am
- Ian Boag
  
  I think (correct me please) that most western countries have a government-owned broadcaster. Not the US of course.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:47am
  - Nukuleka
    
    And the question has to be asked, Ian, why do most governments need to own a broadcasting service?
    
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    September 30, 2022 11:20am
    - Ian Boag
      
      I don’t know. You would have to ask some of them.
      
      But they do …. obviously the woke conspiracy to brainwash listeners is a worldwide phenomenon. Probably masterminded by Gates or Soros or whoever stole the US presidential election … 🙂
      
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      December 30, 2021 11:58am
    - Paulus
      
      Propaganda of course !
      And many jobs for the girls and some boys too !
      
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      September 30, 2022 1:19pm
    - Jack5
      
      National broadcasting services exist for historical reasons. In the beginning, radio stations were expensive to set up and had short range, so many transmitters were needed.
      
      With the progress of electronics, it’s now far, far cheaper to set up, say, a regional radio station than it would cost to set up a comparable regional newspaper with printing plant. Free enterprise can be relied on to provide radio services.
      
      Second, Government owned radio has been used for propaganda from the beginning of the technology. Even the United States has the Government-owned Voice of America to project the American viewpoint overseas.
      
      With the Internet, and access to it ever easier and cheaper, State international radio propaganda is less useful.
      
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      September 30, 2022 5:05pm
  - riffer
    
    Do PBS in the USA not count?
    
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    September 30, 2022 12:41pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Yes it does
      They are all Democrats though!
      
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      September 30, 2022 1:47pm
    - Jack5
      
      PBS isn’t directly Government owned.
      
      It is owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This a non-profit corporation. Though set up by the US Government, is not an agency or establishment of the Government.
      
      The corporation describes itself as the steward of the Federal Government’s investment in public broadcasting and the largest single source of funding for American public radio, television, and related online and mobile services.
      
      Could Wily Willie Jackson be looking at this model for an NZ merged State TV and State radio?
      
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      September 30, 2022 8:17pm
fernglas

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/1700-days-too-long-man-who-kissed-stranger-gets-450000-for-grossly-disproportionate-jail-term/
David Garrett will be pleased!!
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September 30, 2022 8:19am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Kiss a stranger, get 4 and a half years. Rape 4 teenagers and get 9 months Home Detention.
  
  This country is broken.
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:53am
  - riffer
    
    The first case was a third strike. The second case was a first strike.
    
    Quite clearly shows why three strikes law was inequitous.
    
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    September 30, 2022 12:42pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Link is broken. Fixed:
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/1700-days-too-long-man-who-kissed-stranger-gets-450000-for-grossly-disproportionate-jail-term/AW6GLIW3TPEGTBSVWP7WKKDOUQ/
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:02am
  - Colville
    
    IMHO the guy should have been (and should still be) in a looney bin not in prison.
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:10am
  - Brian McDonald
    
    About time attention was given to the mentally unwell that get caught up in the criminal justice system, particularly for behaviour they may have no control over. A good precedent following the morbid Garrett comments “that there was nowhere else for them” other than in prison adding to his hypocrisy given his admissions about his own mental health and hidden criminal offending when entering Parliament. Oh, that’s right he claimed that he told “Garth and Rodney,” old style “narking” instead of going down with the ship. Schizo’s these days.
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:35am
    - riffer
      
      True. The amount of mentally ill in prison is high. Likewise those who are vastly uneducated.
      
      Was our society a better place when we locked up all the mentally ill away from society in special hospitals? Seems we have got rid of those hospitals and replaced them with prisons to me.
      
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      September 30, 2022 12:44pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        Yes, I think the institutions were much better for mentally ill people. They were not criminalised, and were not necessarily there permanently because they were receiving treatment, and to them, their place was among people much like themselves, so to them a ‘normal’ environment.
        After Helen Clarke closed them all down, we have those people now in many cases left to their own devices, constantly under stress because the world is to them not ‘normal’, and find themselves homeless, can’t fit into society, drug dependent, and committing crime.
        
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        September 30, 2022 2:26pm
- I remember when
  
  On the credit side it may have saved $450,000 of the police’s time.
  The reality is that he should probably have been under medical supervision before the offences occurred.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:18am
  - I remember when
    
    Incidentally, something similar is occuring in the education system.
    Much of the problem with teaching is the result of a lack of support for ‘problem’ pupils.
    In this context ‘problem’ includes the many syndromes that add to the complexity of teaching.
    There is far too little support in the classroom and that means that the disruptive pupils take up too much of the available time.
    Most cures of adult behaviours are best applied as early in childhood as possible.
    
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    September 30, 2022 11:27am
grumpy

The $NZ continues to plummet against all major currencies . Are we merely the testing ground for the destruction of Western Civilisation?
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September 30, 2022 8:21am
- virtualmark
  
  Or … inflation in New Zealand is lower than in the other major Western economies, so our interest rates aren’t forecast to rise as high as needed in those economies, and so our currency is weakening relative to the currencies of those other economies.
  
  No conspiracy. No apocalypse. Just economics 101.
  
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  September 30, 2022 8:40am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Overtly simplistic Liam Dann level analysis there.
    
    If that was the case there would be a linear relationship between a country’s interest rates and it’s currency. There isn’t.
    
    The simple answer is it’s a range of things (both economic and political) that includes other countries inflation/interest rates amongst other things.
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:51am
    - virtualmark
      
      Frank, I’ll stack my finance background against yours any day.
      
      Happy to go into a deeper discussion about national accounts, risk premiums, default risk etc. But my earlier comment is an accurate but straightforward account for why our exchange rate has weakened in recent months.
      
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      September 30, 2022 10:00am
      - Frank the tank
        
        Yawn – the mine’s bigger than yours argument.
        
        I’ll pass.
        
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        September 30, 2022 12:39pm
      - riffer
        
        virtualmark is correct in his limited analysis. I would add that the reason there isn’t a linear relationship between a country’s interest rates and it’s currency is because humans, especially collectively, don’t work in a linear, predictable way.
        
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        September 30, 2022 12:45pm
      - mogg
        
        The biggest influence on the strength of $US at the moment is the global risk factor. The potential of Putin’s escalation in Ukraine and the talk of recession causes a ‘flight to safety’. You must know something the bond markets don’t know because right now I can buy 10 yr $ US treasury bonds at 3.782% yield while the govt $NZ 10 yr bond is yielding 4.24%. According to your argument the $NZ should be rising against the $US not falling.
        
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        September 30, 2022 1:31pm
  - grumpy
    
    $NZ is over susceptible to “News”. If the world farts, NZ gets indigestion. Our currency is one of the most volatile in the world stupid policies and low business confidence hammers us very hard. Your 50 year old Samuelson does not apply.
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:23am
- MCōs
  
  You should change your nom de plume from grumpy to sad sack.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/the-crumbling-kiwi-travel-winners-and-losers-from-the-dollars-dive/TSGOVZIHTRDL3N4ORIEHBSWNHI/
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:06am
  - surfing
    
    There is nothing good about a weak currency.
    
    I’d pick a strong currency any time… it signals an economy with high per capita GDP growth … it signals your nation’s goods and services are in demand. Tourism may decline, which, doesn’t matter if your economy is otherwise healthy. Tourism will just go more upmarket.
    
    Selling commodities and you’ll always be at the mercy of the price of beans!
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:38am
    - Frank the tank
      
      A weak currency does help exporters IF inflation isn’t out of control which it isn’t so a moot point.
      
      What a weakening currency will do is SUPERCHARGE inflation.
      
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      September 30, 2022 9:53am
      - grumpy
        
        A weak $NZ only gives the illusion of increasing export income. Nobody wins with a low exchange rate, we go backwards in the world.
        
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        September 30, 2022 10:10am
      - surfing
        
        The floating exchange rate signals our value to the world, and the quality of our products and services.
        
        I’d rather have exporters selling in-demand technology and high value services at huge profit margins…. thus maintaining a high dollar and strong purchasing power for consumers.
        
        As opposed to reality, selling milk and veges at the whim of chinese officials. Not great.
        
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        September 30, 2022 10:40am
  - grumpy
    
    A “team of $55 million” bought and paid for MSM shill, teenybopper written PoS.
    Who is a “winner” from a falling exchange rate?
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:26am
    - Ian Boag
      
      Who is a “winner” from a falling exchange rate?
      
      Ask any dairy farmer. Debt in NZD, income in USD. What’s not to like?
      
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      September 30, 2022 12:00pm
      - Frank the tank
        
        The only problem is they indirectly purchase farm inputs (i.e. fertilizer, machinery) largely in US dollars therefore while income goes up so does farm costs.
        
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        September 30, 2022 12:45pm
      - Matt Long
        
        Primary producers get the last cut of in the value supply chain, so once, processors, transporters, wholesalers, governments and retailers have taken their cut which normally gives them a minimum 15% ROI, the primary producers get what is left. Over time they can normally expect a 2-5% ROI.
        Small currency movements cause large swings in profitability for primary producers that are export orientated as the thin margins at the end of the chain swing more on a percentage basis than for those who are able to set prices or pass costs on.
        
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        September 30, 2022 8:23pm
Maggie Pie

TWEET OF THE WEEK 😀

“If Justin Trudeau was a man, he’d be Jacinda Ardern”

https://twitter.com/QuiltNutOne/status/1575182426833584128
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September 30, 2022 8:23am
- oldfella
  
  Maggie: and if Jacinda Ardern was a man she’d be… Joseph Stalin. (???)
  Feel free to add your own suggestions.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:20am
  - riffer
    
    Hardly. Stalin was responsible for:
    – The GULAG System
    – Collectivisation, Dekulakisation and Special Settlements
    – The Great Famine
    – The Great Purge
    – Order No. 227
    – Punishing Prisoners of War
    – Giving a Pass to War Crimes
    
    How are the two even comparable?
    
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    September 30, 2022 12:49pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Ardern at this point is aspirational, maybe you could ask Sri Lankans how real it is, or those paying power bills in the UK.
      
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      September 30, 2022 8:26pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Chris Trotter deconstructs Kelvin Davis’ cultural belief system (aka world-view)

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/09/29/reality-bites/
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September 30, 2022 8:33am
- Tomtoddy
  
  Great response from Karen Chhour in today’s Ferald. What a useless, hopeless waste of space Davis is. Knows just enough to be a dangerous, ridiculous idiot.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:14am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Premium (like all the best or Government-sceptical content it seems) but here is the link, and worth reading:
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/karen-chhour-why-im-calling-time-on-a-racist-oranga-tamariki-policy/K7AVXHPIC6MAK4RC6CS4PRATOE/
    
    And in a contrast around having some personal class; Chhour actually focuses on the ball, not the man, in highlighting why she is a critic of the doctrinal racism of OT.
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:59am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Did Willie get a talking to after gloating and laughing while special K was making a racist statement?
  While on that subject, Jaspinda leaves special K in his position. Willie Jackson has Jaspinda under the thumb.
  Meanwhile Sharma gets his arse licked out of caucus for daring to mention bullying.
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:12am
  - Sacha
    
    Willie probably tells her that if she doesn’t do what he says, he’ll escalate the bros activities.
    He has her between a rock and a hard place.
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:26am
- Harry Knuts
  
  that’s great read Maggy. Well summarised by Trotter.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:37am
MCōs

Cute Chevron ad
https://youtu.be/S2XTGteritE
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September 30, 2022 8:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Why the four downticks? Looks like we are going to have a day full of non humorous fucks.
  I thought it was quite good – exposing how sheep can be brainwashed. Vote Labour///
  Uptick for you MCos
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:17am
  - riffer
    
    I tend to agree with you Steve. Although I would add that all political parties are just as bad with how they brainwash those who vote for them. But yeah, lighten up you downtickers. The ad was great.
    
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    September 30, 2022 12:52pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Jesus Christ, I upticked you. What is the matter with me?
      
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      September 30, 2022 1:44pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I suspect people down ticked because of the lack of awareness the parody has about how oil is not just gasoline but is essential for creating pretty much most of what our lifestyle has.
        That and all the observed evidence that the climate isnt changing that significantly either, so saying Oil Companies are murdering people is just an epic level of ignorance and science denial.
        
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        September 30, 2022 2:15pm
CJames

According to Daily Sceptic, Shingles is now a recognised side-effect of the Pfizer vaccine shots. If this is true, is that why there is a campaign to get older people vaccinated with the new drug?
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/29/is-the-real-covid-pharmaceutical-bonanza-just-getting-started/
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September 30, 2022 8:41am
- I remember when
  
  Add to the “Around the world there have been excess deaths, declining fertility and increased still births.”
  
  Dr. Aseem Malhotra on calling for vaccine data transparency. GB News Live.
  
  Followed by: –
  Covid-19 Vaccines: Get the latest information from the New Zealand Ministry of Health.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:10am
- surfing
  
  You should get Shingrix … it is a really good preventative treatment for shingles and it is no surprise that sales are growing. My partner’s sister had shingles several years back, and it was awful. Problem is that it does cost a bit.
  
  Even disregarding your covid conspiracy nonsense.
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Had no idea how expensive Shingrix is. My Doctor gave me that (or similar) many years ago. I had chickenpox as a kid, along with all the other things that were not vaccinated against back then.
  Doctor just said, oh while you are here we’ll give you this.
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:25am
- Paulus
  
  Then why have I had Shingles some years before the Virus vaccine ?
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:52am
  - Ghost
    
    Its a known rare side effect
    
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    September 30, 2022 11:02am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Shingles is adult chickenpox. The stored virus in your body is re-activated.
    
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    September 30, 2022 11:09am
  - Matt Long
    
    Believe it or not people got myocarditis before the jab too.
    
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    September 30, 2022 8:29pm
Frank the tank

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-zealand-prime-minister-condemned-calling-regulate-free-speech-weapon-war-un

No words necessary.
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September 30, 2022 8:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jaspinda is starting to show her true agenda. NZ sheep are just an experiment before the United Nations. Danger, danger!
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:28am
- I remember when
  
  Is any information misinformation or disinformation in the wrong hands?
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:48am
  - Clownworld
    
    Only with those with wrongthink. Any free alternative thoughts to the accredited media-corporate communist globalist group think is of course , let me make this absolutely clear – wrong think.
    
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    September 30, 2022 9:44pm
herb1

Now that questions are finally being asked about the corruption and nepotism of all the Mahuta family appointments, maybe it’s time for questions about the Sroubek affair.
Arden was implicated in the bypassing of immigration regulations to get a convicted drug dealer and passport fraudster , New Zealand Residence.
We know this because Arden was publically thanked for her intervention by Srobeks , mate and business partner Richie Hardcore.
Arderns only excuse was that anyone could send her a text, although I’m yet to find anyone who has her cell number.
Clearly Hardcore has info on Ardern that wouldn’t go well with the public.
Why then did he get appointed to a Government committee.
A payoff to keep him quiet.?
On top of this the Minister of Immigration at the time , Leigh’s – Galloway got sacked and is out of parliament.
Questions need to be asked .
Is Ardern covering her dirty, sordid tracks?
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September 30, 2022 8:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I had a reply to this, but it seems to be removed.
  That tells me much more than my original reply.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:14am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Not finished, I will paraphrase tomorrow, the “questions need to be asked”
    Herb1 is the key.
    
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    September 30, 2022 6:44pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Sroubek is still working through the Appeal process.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/473423/karel-sroubek-suffers-setback-in-appeal-against-deportation
  
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  September 30, 2022 12:48pm
Maggie Pie

$TUFF reports on Costco’s Opening Day

‘Rotissere Chickens and Home Brand Toilet Paper flew off the shelves.
But not all people looked happy……’

https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/1575350562530689024

😀 😀 😀
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September 30, 2022 8:50am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  In two weeks they will be back at the foodbank, no more money
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:34am
- Harry Knuts
  
  thought there was a cost of living crisis?
  seems folks have time to take the day off work and queue for hours to shop.. no thanks.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:48am
I remember when

World Government:
Of course we want it.
Great that we have already had the benefit of the United Nations to show how well it will work.
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September 30, 2022 9:02am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  UN needs to be dismantled. It is the pyramid of corruption.
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:37am
- MCōs
  
  The chances of a world government, as you know, are less than absolute zero.
  The chances of world even cooperating on anything are zero.
  
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  September 30, 2022 12:34pm
- Clownworld
  
  Yes smurfheads worked so well in all those countries they helped themselves to.
  
  Ineffective and not safe should be the UN peacekeepers motto.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:47pm
Simon

Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 54% (+9)
CON: 21% (-7)
LDM: 7% (-2)
GRN: 6% (-1)
RFM: 4% (+1)

THIRTY THREE POINT LEAD.

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1575523247889829895?cxt=HHwWjsC-3fyCsd0rAAAA
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September 30, 2022 9:13am
- MCōs
  
  “Liz Truss has finally broken her long painful silence with a series of short painful silences.”
  Angela Rayner – Deputy Leader Labour Party
  In response to the PM’s morning media interviews
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:34am
- All_on_Red
  
  Lol
  The Establishment dont like her moving away from Tax and Spend and especially enabling Fracking.
  She shouldnt worry. As soon as that gas flows, the people will tell the elites in the Establishment to fuck off- again.
  
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  September 30, 2022 2:18pm
Swifty

Who would bet against this person being a senior member of the Maori Party?

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/130030373/mans-tikanga-driving-charge-appeal-tossed-out-by-judge

This sort of demented behaviour is becoming more widespread in New Zealand.
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September 30, 2022 9:15am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  If I should ever get offside with the Law, I am going to identify as Moari
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:41am
  - Paulus
    
    You only need to be 1/412 to be on the Maori Register according to W Peters excellent speech the other day.
    Easy ain’it !
    
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    September 30, 2022 1:25pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      How do you et 1/412? Typo I guess, sorry.
      1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, (Pocahontas)
      
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      September 30, 2022 1:51pm
Warren

Ram raid: Merivale shops hit in a early morning raid.
A camera shop in the upmarket suburb of Merivale was the target of a ram raid early this morning. Police were called to Papanui Road about 5.00 am.
The store is upstairs in Melvile Mall on Papanui Road.
Manager of Photo and Video International Greg Bramwell said a black wagon was driven straight through the front glass doors and a second set of doors.
Bramwell said it was the forth time his store had been ram raided in 30 years.
” The other 3 times were in the ’90s 93 or 95.
We thought we were pretty immune now as peoplesteal other stuff, they don’t steal camera’s.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/merivale-shops-hit-in-early-morning-christchurch-ram-raid/DC2P2N4OOAOWBHHR5V3LRNEFCM/
So it seems it does not mater where you live North or South Island ram raids are the thing and it’s not only perpetratored by young people a 33 year old man was arrested at the scene of this one.
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September 30, 2022 9:35am
- LauraNorda
  
  Warren, when you say “and it’s not only perpetratored by young people a 33 year old man was arrested at the scene of this one.” are you claiming that this suspected perp is not “Youth Adjacent”.
  
  The 42 year old Prime Minister of this country claims at her age, to be “Youth Adjacent” so this critter at 33, must be the same, therefore considered a young person.
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:14am
  - MCōs
    
    If the perpetrator is 33yo he’s certainly ‘youth adjacent’ as far as I’m concerned no matter whether it’s the North or South Island.
    
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    September 30, 2022 11:44am
Maggie Pie

The epitome of….. ‘batting for the other side’ 😛

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1575553251264471040
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September 30, 2022 9:46am
- Harry Knuts
  
  treason by a cock in a frock. Must be a Russian kinky favourite hahaha 🙂
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:52am
- oldfella
  
  Maggie: the Babylon Bee is all over the story… 😉
  Russian Spy Awarded Presidential Medal Of Freedom For Being First Openly Transgender Traitor To Country
  https://babylonbee.com/news/russian-spy-awarded-presidential-medal-of-freedom-for-being-first-openly-transgender-traitor-to-country
  
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  September 30, 2022 12:10pm
Yvette

Chinese Language Week
… Until recently, most Chinese language speakers here spoke Cantonese – this is changing rapidly with a new wave of migrants.
“It’s a slap in the face,” says Wellington publisher Jack Yan about the heavily Mandarin-centred cultural week.
“It steps on 180 years of the mahi of Chinese New Zealanders.”
Another reason behind the discomfort is the efforts of the PRC to force Mandarin on all its citizens, in particular in Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong, where there have been protests over those moves and children have been punished at school for speaking their own language.
“It’s kind of this Beijing hegemonic colonial project that’s playing out in Hong Kong – and we seem to be repeating it here. Here’s this Chinese language trust run by Pākehā – we’re being told what is Chinese and which is the right Chinese language.”
Yan has blogged about the frustration of “randoms” coming up to non-Mandarin speaking Chinese, and saying ‘ni-hao’.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018860669/why-chinese-language-week-is-causing-angst

Déjà vu (sorry), Groundhog Week – we understand the problem
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September 30, 2022 9:51am
Rusty

Thinking about Kelvin Davis, is the grumpy middle aged white man with the suit and tie being replaced by the grumpy middle aged Maori man with the suit and tie in this country?
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September 30, 2022 9:54am
- Philview
  
  I saw Sam Uffindell sitting in parliament while this was going on. He was probably thinking how come he has been blasted for being a bully as a school kid but the media isn’t bothered by this nasty bullying conducted by a senior Minister in full view of the country.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:42am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    Media been paid protection money by the 55mil.
    
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    September 30, 2022 11:53am
I remember when

“Listening and not being dismissive of others,” Phil Goff in relation to Mike Brown.
Of course he was very careful to ensure that he wasn’t suggesting who should replace him.
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September 30, 2022 10:02am
- MCōs
  
  I expect you mean Wayne Brown.
  
  My prediction is that whoever becomes mayor of Auckland will be derided as a waste of space within a couple of years.
  Neither of them will be able to do the stuff they promise.
  
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  September 30, 2022 12:00pm
  - Frank the tank
    
    Depends on the make up of council – but yes the way the Super city is structured I’m led to believe means the mayor has very little control or input over agencies such as AT.
    
    So Cosy you are highly likely to be proven correct.
    
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    September 30, 2022 12:50pm
Ghost

Wouldn’t it be great if we celebrate woman this woman’s rugby World Cup

Nope, not allowed, we can’t have a woman fronting the it’s poi time advert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep_sF7IfJoo
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September 30, 2022 10:23am
- oldfella
  
  Yep, yep, Ghost, I saw that add this morning and did a double take. Woman can do anything, apparently, except promote their own sport. Embarrassing. //
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:30am
- alex Masterley
  
  For me having the chap front the advert demeans the whole event.
  
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  September 30, 2022 3:15pm
I remember when

One way to reduce the homeless:
Young woman with partner, children aged 7 and two pre-schoolers, and she’s pregnant, living in a one bed unit with her uncle and his partner.
And, it’s better than the alternatives she has been offered.
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September 30, 2022 10:23am
- Ian Boag
  
  I bet you have a better solution ….. along the lines of “we don’t owe anything to people like this”
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:43am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Condoms are free from a Family Planning clinic.
    
    While some people do ‘fall on tough times’ the issue is with Government sponsored & unrestricted breeders: it is no good for anyone long term.
    
    Intergenerational welfare means a violent and crime-ridden version of the Idiocracy scenario in Aotearoa-NZ.
    
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    September 30, 2022 11:28am
  - I remember when
    
    Ian Boag:
    One would be if woman, partner and children were found a three bedroom property.
    Understand the 7 year old is at school and enjoying it.
    Downside is that being rehoused might result in a new school having to be found.
    This is where many of the workforce of the future are having to start.
    
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    September 30, 2022 2:55pm
Ghost

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/pike-river-shock-police-announce-more-drilling-as-search-for-clues-continue/VRVP76BSVWLAB7WY7QCR5664PM/

Police have today advised the families of the 29 Pike River mine explosion victims that planning is under way to drill a further 10 boreholes – months after the years-long operation was officially concluded.
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September 30, 2022 10:24am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  WHY?
  
  he aha?
  
  为什么？
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:44am
  - kevn
    
    @Maggy… Smoke screen time.
    
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    September 30, 2022 11:02am
- Ian Boag
  
  When will we just let this go?
  
  It’s not as if the police are short of current matters to investigate and prosecute.
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:45am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    They could cut all the crap and just arrest Helen Clark for insisting on the building of an unsafe uphill mine with inadequate ventilation shafts.
    
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    September 30, 2022 10:50am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Followed by Andrew Little for not following up on union member’s safety concerns.
      
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      September 30, 2022 12:51pm
  - Warren
    
    Have you ever though that Jacinda Ardern and Andrew Little don’t want this story to go away because of the bad press they are receiving at present with the ram raids, the cost of living , inflation and the economy.
    The funny thing about it all the Police don’t have the time to do their job of policing but have plenty of time to run after Jacinda Ardern and Andrew Little.
    
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    September 30, 2022 6:15pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It is a coal mine. Open cast it. I think that was the original plan but the interfering Greens came along. Only one vet was made when I think 4 were needed.
  Fucking Greens are never responsible for their actions.
  
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  September 30, 2022 10:53am
- Nickc2
  
  Here we go again. This’ll cost the taxpayer heaps as compensation will again be required for those dependants who will once more become aggrieved.
  I thought Andrew Little had drawn a line in the sand post the last Police investigation.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:47am
BeaB

It was disturbing to watch Karen Chhour’s evident distress after that appalling and unprovoked personal attack from Kelvin Davis. Disturbing too to watch Willie Jackson literally licking his lips in gleeful support.
And then Kelvin Davis and his hollow apology which he managed to make all about him before turning away with a smirk on his face.
Racism. Misogyny. Bullying. Elitism. Arrogance.
A deeply shocking episode that Arden virtually brushed aside.
I am trying not to over-react but it seems to me like a terrifying glimpse into the race-based dystopia looming over us.
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September 30, 2022 11:03am
- Gravelroad
  
  Yes, both Ministers Davies and Jackson arrogantly tried to put a woman “in her place” with old fashioned patronising and sexist paternalism.
  That the allegedly feminist supporting Ms Ardern is comfortable with having this calibre of men sitting round her cabinet table just reveals what sort of person she is – one for whom retaining power is the main thing.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:21am
- Nickc2
  
  We all have to get used to this stuff, it ain’t going away anytime soon. It’s showing a glimpse of what CoGovernance will look like in the not-too-distant future.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:27am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Ardern can’t control the Maori caucus – they control her.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:56am
  - kowtow
    
    She can’t control a few nasty MPs ?
    
    How the hell does she think she can control the weather then .
    
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    September 30, 2022 2:51pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Oh, but look….
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/09/kelvin-davis-says-he-grew-up-with-experience-of-having-his-m-ori-whakapapa-questioned.html
  
  It’s all about Kelvin, now.
  
  He has been subjected to bullying about his “Maoriness”.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:58am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    it’s called divert.. divert.. he’s trying to be the victim now. Doesn’t wash with me.
    Let’s remind Kelvin that if he had the answers to the questions, he wouldn’t have to play dirty bitchy politics. Perhaps he needs to spend more time working and then he will feel confident have the right answers at question time.
    
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    September 30, 2022 12:54pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      @Harry Knuts-
      Wasn’t Mr Davis a school teacher? A school principal even?
      When you say “he needs to spend more time working” I hope you don’t mean going back teaching.
      I sure as hell wouldn’t want the likes of him having anything to do with my grandkids education.
      They are nice boys, growing up to so far respect the girls in their classes whatever skin colour and backgrounds they have.
      
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      September 30, 2022 1:23pm
  - kowtow
    
    Makes it all the worse then if he then bullies a woman , having had the same experience.
    
    He’s a bully !
    
    Where’s the Media Pardy outrage a la Uffindell .
    
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    September 30, 2022 2:50pm
- Nickc2
  
  Oh, diddums, Kelvin. If you throw shit and someone, expect to get some back. This time though, the spade will be left in it.
  IMO, Kelvin Davis is beneath contemptible!
  
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  September 30, 2022 12:06pm
  - oldfella
    
    Was Special K any good as a school principal, because he’s crap at his current job?
    
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    September 30, 2022 12:18pm
    - Nickc2
      
      There’s an old saying oldfella:
      
      Them that can, do,
      Them that can’t, teach.
      
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      September 30, 2022 12:59pm
Prince

Still more money to be tipped down a hole.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/west-coast/130020539/new-boreholes-to-be-drilled-into-pike-river-mine-as-police-investigation-continues

Noticeable that there are only three families left applauding this.
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September 30, 2022 11:23am
kevn

@Prince… labour party strategists are demanding this action at Pike River. The dead rats are piling up.
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September 30, 2022 11:31am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Nordstrom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zvcvCvFng
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September 30, 2022 11:36am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Joe is destroying America. Selling American oil reserves. He is crazy.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/running-on-empty-petroleum-reserve-hits-low-point-gas-prices-begin-to-rise-again/?
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September 30, 2022 11:41am
BeaB

Can I dare hope our small army of women writers like Alison Mau who avidly leap on any National misdemeanour might turn their attention to the elitism, arrogance and cruelty of senior Labour cabinet ministers?
The verbal attack on Karen Chhour was appalling. I find it almost impossible to express how deeply it has affected me.
I hope Mau and others will apply their writing skills to help ensure this never happens again.
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September 30, 2022 11:47am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There’ll be crickets…..
  
  Just as there was from the Labour, Greens & Maori Party Women all Wednesday afternoon and Evening, until it became clear that the worm had turned.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:56am
- kevn
  
  @Bea… Stupid comment coming from a fool like special k dampens it somewhat. He is just thick and feels privileged.
  Thinking NZer’s mock him.
  Sorry Chhour had to endure it all the same.
  
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  September 30, 2022 11:58am
- oldfella
  
  I hope Mau and others will apply their writing skills to help ensure this never happens again.
  
  Bea, a bloke did what Mau and co will never do.
  https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/09/30/kelvin-davis-how-identity-politics-bit-him-in-the-arse/
  
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  September 30, 2022 12:23pm
- Gravelroad
  
  @BeaB-
  In answer to your first sentence-
  No.
  
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  September 30, 2022 1:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Did US sabotage the pipeline?
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/did-the-u-s-attack-the-nord-stream-pipeline-polands-former-foreign-minister-thinks-so/?f
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September 30, 2022 11:50am
- All_on_Red
  
  Cui Bono?
  Israel and Greece with their competing pipeline- the one Joe Biden wanted to stop, whilst he approved the Nordstream one…
  Hunter probably doesnt have connections in Israel and Greece.
  
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  September 30, 2022 2:24pm
- kowtow
  
  The other day the Polish govt was saying it was Russian sabotage .
  
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  September 30, 2022 2:46pm
  - kevn
    
    @kowtow… biden said he would and did it.
    
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    September 30, 2022 4:53pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Jacinda Ardern and her Bully-boy mates.

“The Prime Minister has a big problem with culture in her party and it’s time she confronts it, instead of sweeping it under the carpet,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.

“Whether it’s Stuart Nash calling Nicole McKee a “nutter”, Kelvin Davis racially attacking Karen Chhour or Willie Jackson calling me a “useless Māori.” Her Climate Minister, James Shaw, said that Groundswell are just “Pakeha Farmers.” So it goes on.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2209/S00177/labours-problem-with-culture.htm
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September 30, 2022 12:28pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  I would suspect that Ardern is only in the top job still as she is still polling as preferred PM and that alone. The rest of it she has no control over hence out of control MP’s as they know they are in control and not her. I suspect Ardern avoids conflict at any cost within her own party too.
  
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  September 30, 2022 12:58pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Yes, the much supported Labour/Greens/Maori coalition has turned out to be the most boldly racist and misogynistic government I have ever seen.
  
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  September 30, 2022 1:35pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  As I said the other day, it’s LeninThink:
  
  In Lenin’s view, a true revolutionary did not establish the correctness of his beliefs by appealing to evidence or logic, as if there were some standards of truthfulness above social classes. Rather, one engaged in “blackening an opponent’s mug so well it takes him ages to get it clean again.” Nikolay Valentinov, a Bolshevik who knew Lenin well before becoming disillusioned, reports him saying: “There is only one answer to revisionism: smash its face in!”
  
  When Mensheviks objected to Lenin’s personal attacks, he replied frankly that his purpose was not to convince but to destroy his opponent.
  
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  September 30, 2022 5:44pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Last one out, turn off the lights!!!!!!!

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2209/S00175/the-lights-are-on-but-nobodys-home.htm
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September 30, 2022 12:51pm
oldfella

Just spotted this excellent article from Karl du Fresne. Well worth the read:
When political journalism morphs into crude emotional blackmail
Broadcaster Sean Plunket might have been taken aback to discover he was the subject of the second item on Newshub’s 6pm news bulletin a few nights ago. Then again maybe it was no surprise, given that few people are more keenly aware than Plunket of the mainstream media’s eagerness to marginalise – even demonise – anyone who challenges ideological orthodoxy.
http://karldufresne.blogspot.com/2022/09/when-political-journalism-morphs-into.html
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September 30, 2022 12:52pm
Benedict Yu

So the police are lobbying for all open road speed limits to be reduced to 80 kmh.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/129995590/prepare-to-slow-drastic-speed-cuts-across-nz-needed-on-the-road-to-zero

How about they do their job rather than lobbying?

Can you bloody imagine driving on long straight roads in Canterbury at 80 kmh? 🙁

Targeted reductions where justified? No problem. Last weekend I drove to Akaroa. The 100 limits have been reduced to 80 and in some cases 60. I surprised myself in that I agreed with the changes. There was carnage on that road over the last few years.

But across the country? If the Government goes there just watch them justify it because of the “climate crisis”.
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September 30, 2022 1:10pm
- kevn
  
  @BY…. Gives one more time to dodge the potholes.
  I was talking to a mature bloke yday, his ute hit a big pothole and ruined a wheel. So one wheel and major alignment later. Very unhappy.
  
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  September 30, 2022 4:56pm
- MCōs
  
  I took a spin one day with my sister over to Lyttelton. and thence on to Governor’s Bay.
  We laughed when we saw a sign inviting us to drive at 100kph.
  That road is barely safe at fifty.
  
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  September 30, 2022 5:36pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Rand Paul. The distribution of money. We are ruled by Traitors. They give away money that is not theirs. When Senate was asked to give away one weeks salary, it did not happen. Covers many examples.
This should be asked of the NZ Parliament. (17.32)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ASj3dqS84
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September 30, 2022 1:23pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jim Jordan at 14.00.
  
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  September 30, 2022 1:30pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The View in Hurricanes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIbmInrrBHc
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September 30, 2022 1:33pm
Ghost

Another week, more union action for a union friendly government….

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/09/nz-nurses-organisation-calls-on-members-to-refuse-extra-shifts-doctors-expect-widespread-disruption.html

Doctors are expecting widespread disruption at hospitals if nurses refuse extra shifts next week.

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is calling on its 35,000 members who work in hospitals to turn down requests to work extra shifts next week because of a dispute over how they are compensated for them.
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September 30, 2022 1:41pm
- kevn
  
  @Ghost… Our daughter is a jab mandated, hardworking, do all shifts ED nurse. After doing her weeks worth, she is exhausted. Extra shifts would wipe her out.
  Useless DO-LITTLE. Thanks for nothing.
  
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  September 30, 2022 4:59pm
  - Ghost
    
    And your daughter will be like the ED nurses here, run the place while the doctors sit at their computers most of the time…
    
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    September 30, 2022 5:10pm
    - kevn
      
      @Ghost… No, never heard her complain about that. They have a great team I gather, but sooo busy.
      
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      September 30, 2022 5:24pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Well that didn’t take long.
Btw, where are the Feminists? Very quiet.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/big-tech-already-trying-to-censor-incoming-italian-pm-giorgia-meloni/?
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September 30, 2022 2:07pm
Maggie Pie

One of the gurls from tennis raised an interesting question.

She was wondering which would be the most difficult language to learn……Maori or Arabic?

https://twitter.com/chrisjackson193/status/1575070579392073728
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September 30, 2022 2:08pm
- WaynelSexton
  
  But the boomers told me that the magic dirt of London would turn them into fine English men.
  
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  September 30, 2022 2:25pm
- Frank the tank
  
  The real question is which language would be more useful to learn.
  
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  September 30, 2022 3:43pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Over 300 Million folk can speak Arabic.
    5th most-spoken language in the World.
    It’s an official/National language in at least 31 countries.
    
    Less than 0.1M speak Te Reo Maori.
    It’s an official language of 1 country.
    
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    September 30, 2022 4:07pm
    - surfing
      
      I look at the Icelandic language… 400k people speak it, really, not that many.
      
      But, television and movies, and business etc are causing Icelanders to use english more and more. It makes me wonder if Icelandic will one day just disappear. They do have a department of Icelandic language that invents new words in iceland to match new english words, but, maybe, just delaying the inevitable?
      
      Once the current generation of old people pass, pretty much everyone in Iceland will speak english as a second language .
      
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      September 30, 2022 4:34pm
      - fightingtemeraire
        
        L’Academie Francaise is fighting a rearguard action against the invasion of Anglais into the French Language. ie Le Weekend, Le Hamburger, Le Maccas
        
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        September 30, 2022 4:40pm
      - MCōs
        
        There are numerous languages throughout Europe that are useless elsewhere.
        How many countries speak Flemish, Danish, Dutch, Welsh,
        Why don’t they all speak English?
        Because it’s not part of their culture.
        I know Kiwis & Aussies who have lived in Thailand for decades and speak fluent Thai, but when they talk to each other they use English because there’s something about your own language that doesn’t translate.
        
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        September 30, 2022 4:59pm
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      Maori will only be kept alive if Maori People speak it at home.
      
      Billions have been spent on keeping the Language alive with Kura, Raio and TV Channels and still the number of speakers decline.
      
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      September 30, 2022 4:42pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Yeah but … a quote from someplace
      
      To learn Arabic, you have to learn a new alphabet, and get used to reading from right to left. A lot of the sounds in the language are difficult for English speakers to master, and the grammar is packed with irregular verbs. Even if you manage to overcome all of that, it is also a language with many, many dialects that vary widely. So, you might be able to get by in Jordan, but have a hard time in Kuwait.
      
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      September 30, 2022 4:53pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Spanish. Spoken in all S America apart from Brazil and in Central America and large areas of the US.
    
    Spoken in the Philippines as well.
    
    Because it is a ” Romance” Language you can make yourself understood in French and Italian.
    
    I was in Argentina, Uruguay and S Brazil and I had a good understanding of French. If they spoke slowly or wrote it down, I could understand what they were saying. I was the Cargo Officer on a reefer ship at the time.
    
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    September 30, 2022 4:38pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… From the stab capital of Europe. London.
  
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  September 30, 2022 5:01pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Here is a go—-
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw6TWk00HgU
  
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  September 30, 2022 5:29pm
Maggie Pie

What a fiasco the Local-Body-Election has become!

With just a week to go, only 8% of Aucklanders have bothered to vote. (And most of THEM have probably voted twice). They’re expecting the final turnout will be nothing short of….. ‘abysmal’.

Although I see Retardo is doing his best to get the Green vote recognized….

https://twitter.com/RMarchNZ/status/1575582311638503426
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September 30, 2022 2:56pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  I agree with the Member for Tijuana. The elections should be run by the Electoral Commission not by private companies
  
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  September 30, 2022 2:59pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Why did the Member-for-Tijuana sign up for Grindr?
    
    For a Juan night stand.
    
    😀 😀 😀
    
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    September 30, 2022 3:30pm
  - Swifty
    
    What’s your thinking there, fighting?
    
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    September 30, 2022 5:49pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Twice? 6 times! confiscated those at home and asked the non voting neighbours for theirs.
  Is that legal?//
  All go in America LOL
  
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  September 30, 2022 5:32pm
- greybeard
  
  Apparently many people have not yet received their voting papers.
  I leave it you to establish why voting papers have disappeared.
  Next time: let us return to physical voting booths and the marking of one’s preferences on a bit of paper which must then be secured and checked.
  
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  September 30, 2022 6:43pm
- Prince
  
  Quelle Surprise. We have a Local Govt minister responsible who hasn’t got her voting papers yet and doesn’t know why.
  The same minister of Foreign Affairs minister but doesn’t like to travel.
  I mustn’t criticise – that would be racist.
  
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  September 30, 2022 9:08pm
Ghost

The Wellington council wants to encourage youth to vote with a middle aged man singing

She wanna go viral (Viral), keep fucking for hours (Hours)
That pussy got power, that pussy got power

Have they edited fucking for hours out I can’t tell listening to it

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington-city-councils-racy-tiktok-encourages-young-people-to-vote/C3OHQEL3SVV4KL5QV7DY55QFK4/
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September 30, 2022 3:53pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Who would want to listen to it. Totally degrading – a part of the “modern Kulcha”
  
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  September 30, 2022 5:24pm
  - Swifty
    
    Don’t give me that culture Don…
    
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n8frPD7DgqI
    
    😄
    
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    September 30, 2022 5:48pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

OK peasants, before you go to the pub to have a craft beer shandy:
Radical Maori Seize Upon Queen’s Death To Further Co-Governance.
Julian Batchelor. stopcogovernance.com.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/from-Monarchy-to-Republic.pdf
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September 30, 2022 4:39pm
- Ghost
  
  Pass, I think he is a bit of a tosser, hope no one donates money to this evangelist
  
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  September 30, 2022 4:43pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Your choice Ghost. Do you really want what David Round is suggesting?
    This is just the foot in the door while talking thing.
    Infiltrate!
    
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    September 30, 2022 5:37pm
    - Ghost
      
      When he popped up I did some research on this tosser and I wouldn’t trust him
      
      Here’s some things to read up on him
      
      https://julianbatchelorokebay.blogspot.com/
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/stoush-over-millionaire-evangelists-3m-wall/IMXS3HQQJEBLAGHM7YYQVWLCCU/
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/long-running-northland-retaining-wall-saga-resolved/77FP4ILFMUVE472G6MEWWIATAQ/
      
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      September 30, 2022 6:31pm
  - DimChappie
    
    He is committed to saving us from a co-governed future. I have donated my time and some money and would encourage everyone to visit the site and decide for themselves. His religious background is a big plus in my opinion. If you want a co-governed NZ, do nothing and watch Kelvin, Willie and co destroy your country.
    
    https://www.stopcogvernane.kiwi/
    
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    September 30, 2022 6:27pm
    - Ghost
      
      And I’d suggest you red the links above that show how he has lied and manipulated people, some Christian
      
      An fool and their money are easily parted
      
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      October 1, 2022 3:06am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  p.2…. refers to Marama Davidson…as the female pictured (right)… but the female pictured is Dr Elizabeth Kerekere.
  
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  September 30, 2022 7:06pm
Swifty

Jean Edwards from RNZ does NZ’ers a great disservice by referring, repeatedly, to ‘government money’.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475818/gloriavale-received-nearly-5m-of-govt-money-in-2021-court-hears

There is no such thing as ‘government money’ Jean, it’s all taxpayers’s money. It has come from the pockets of NZ families – or has been borrowed by Labour and will have to be repaid by NZ families.

Someone should have a quiet word with Jean – or perhaps they already have?

(“Never refer to ‘taxpayer money’ Jean – always refer to it as ‘government money’ to help us create and maintain the illusion that governments can just conjure it out of thin air….and it never has to be paid back.”)
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September 30, 2022 5:21pm
Inthe09

I note the poll the NZ Herald had in their story following the debate between Brown and Collins earlier today (showing Brown in front 2-1) has since disappeared from the article.
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September 30, 2022 5:54pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Tucker Carlson on pipes. Interesting. Lefties, go get the keys to the basement from Mum.
https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-leadership-weak-trump-offers-jump-help-strike-peace-deal-entire-world-stake/?
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September 30, 2022 6:33pm
Ghost

Ouch, looks like Christchurch City Holdings Ltd will hire anyone…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/130033254/disgraced-chief-executive-on-430000-salary-walks-away-with-settlement

A disgraced council company boss wanted in the United States is departing his $430,000 job earlier than expected – and will do so with an undisclosed settlement.….

They also had no idea Boyd previously faced several civil lawsuits over fraud and unpaid money in the US, where he was ordered to pay more than $30 million in damages. Most of it remains unpaid.
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September 30, 2022 7:01pm
surfing

State of our roads around the bay of plenty is a disgrace. Tauranga to Taupo drive the other month was dodging potholes all the way.

And tonight…check out all the cars with blown tyres…third world country with donkey tracks…

https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/303912-traffic-congestion-reported-on-sh29.html
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