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Warren

It doesn’t mater how long you have to wait but the truth should overcome the lies that have been told and the day of reckoning is not far away according to the results of the latest Roy Morgan Political Poll.
Then in today’s Herald we have the headlines ” Covid Bloodbath expected as Government opens books today.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/covid-bloodbath-expected-as-government-opens-books-today/ZUB72V4TJZ5P7VWNDD63GDTKTM/
The question I would like to ask is now we are moving a head in the polls will the media start to stop playing favorites and start telling the truth and could it start with the opening of the books today.
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October 5, 2022 8:01am
- kowtow
  
  A month or so ago Claire Trevett , I think, had an item in the Ferald abot the declining polls , and in it she did refer to politicians getting into a ‘death spiral’ fromwhich they can’t recover .
  
  I believe we’ve reached that point , and I expect to see the media now to wake up to the fact that their pardy is over .
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:17am
  - rockape
    
    Talbot Mills poll should be out soon. As that is run by two former Labour lackies it should give a better result for Labour !
    Edit spelling.
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:14am
    - rockape
      
      Talbot Mills
      David Talbot
      
      Legally qualified, with a background in political and corporate research, communications, and campaigning, David brings a wide range of skills to all projects. As well as working with many of New Zealand’s leading decision makers and corporates, he manages the research programme of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
      
      Stephen Mills
      
      Stephen has extensive experience working at the top level in politics both sides of the Tasman and involvement in many landmark issue management and political campaigns.
      
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      October 5, 2022 10:48am
    - jon
      
      Well if we dont sight a Talbot Mills poll, in the next couple of weeks, we can assume it contains an inconvenient truth.
      
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      October 5, 2022 2:58pm
- Yabster
  
  hopefully the poll shuts “Sir Cullen” from his dribble he spouts on about Labour 2035 and he mentioned the Roll Morgan poll the other day saying it would be a get result for Labour (like he had some insight) – mainly to wind up BYU – enough mate.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:46am
  - zulumonster
    
    I think you need to take a closer look at Sir Cullen’s posts. He / she / it is clearly satirical … and their true colours are occasionally shown with serious posts about how inept / incompetent this govt have been.
    It can seem a bit repetitive and tedious at times, sometimes the funniest part about it is the reactions from people who take it seriously.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:05am
    - Philview
      
      I agree Sir C.. seems to come from a perspective that he/she is fed up with the media backing this Government and manipulating the public. I have a mate who has a glass half empty world view and also assumes the public will back this Government for 9 years like it is a honour contract.
      
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      October 5, 2022 9:30am
    - Yabster
      
      I do realise its “attempted satire”- but tedious is and understatement- if its just to get a reaction thats pathetic – skip to the next post from now on….
      
      Hard to work out the satire in this post though:
      
      Stop Mr Yu. ACT will do nothing. They have started going backwards in polls. Roy-Morgan poll will be out on Friday and you will see Labour/Greens overtaking NAT/ACT combination and will be in a position to form government with Maori party.
      
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      October 5, 2022 9:41am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Yabster old chap,
        Morgan poll was actually out yesterday and was the opposite of what you predict.
        Where have you been?
        
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        October 5, 2022 10:05am
      - kowtow
        
        A strong ACT will ensure the coming coaltion shows some backbone .
        
        3 strikes was a great example of that.
        
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        October 5, 2022 10:26am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        Freedom of expression means you’re free to complain about freedom of expression, as it relates to somebody posting things you don’t like.
        
        Ain’t freedom of expression grand?
        
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        October 5, 2022 10:52pm
  - Yabster
    
    Captain very old chap that was a quote from Sir Cullen – where have you been?
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:53am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “Sir Cullen” trolls – and waits for the bites. Some take it hook, line, sinker, and most of the arm.
    Hilarious sometimes 🙂
    
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    October 5, 2022 11:42am
- nathie
  
  Talking about other covid related bloodbaths, does anyone know when the Independent Police Conduct Authority report back on the hundreds of complaints laid against instances of Police thuggery at the Parliament Protests?
  
  Is this one of the reasons why Speaker Mallard, the person who gave Police permission to use excessive force on (and near) Parliamentary grounds, is being moved to Ireland, so he can’t be held accountable?
  
  Or so the PM can say they have removed him from his position, and that the new Speaker cannot comment …. therefore no further comment from the Labour Party?
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:51am
  - kowtow
    
    I recall one of our bigger “news” agencies reported how on the morning of the big clear out some Sgt or other had ( allegedly) ordered a press photographer to delete his photos off his camera , and complied. This was of the big mobilisation in the early hours.
    
    I wonder if they put in a complaint .
    
    I wonder by what authority the particular police officer was acting under.
    
    That sort of behaviour is more reminiscent of some sort of fascist military dictatorship than of a liberal democratic Westminster tradition free society or indeed of the Commissioners much touted “policing by consent”.
    
    Cough cough.
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:34am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I’m just happy the miserable Mallard is gone. NZ is much better without his protection nonsense in The House.
    
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    October 5, 2022 11:46am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    The Speaker is the Speaker regardless of who the Speaker actually is. This is why Adrian Rurawhe was the person that apologised to Winston Peters for illegally trespassing him from Parliament, the day after Mallard stepped down.
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:57pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Cyclist moans that Govt does not give him free stuff. Looks like he’s already taking the cycle lanes for granted.

Cry me a river.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130010174/lack-of-rebates-for-ebikes-outrageous-cyclist
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October 5, 2022 8:02am
- Observer of Life
  
  NMTB: But look at the state of him … say no more.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:15am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    I think that’s quite unfair. He’s in perfectly good condition for a man his age – 22.
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:59pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  It is called ‘entitlement’ and most alot of humans now suffer from it. It is the new pandemic.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:19am
- G152
  
  Cyclists should have to pay a fee to use the roads and pay a toll on their use of cycle lanes
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:31am
  - kaykaybee
    
    Absolutely these bike riders, people-powered or electric, need to pay both:
    
    *vehicle registration
    *road user charges
    
    No idea why such a bunch of proportionally rowdy ingrates, who receive so much of the public reading purse, get away with paying nothing towards it.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:55am
- Random T Person
  
  I’m a lifelong cyclist and can’t stand the ingrates among us. I don’t want cycle lanes, rebates or any other special treatment, I just want to be hated by everyone in a car like a normal person.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:38am
  - General
    
    Great work sir! The man in the article is brain dead (like 40% of our population at least)
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:01am
  - RoboRob
    
    Im a cyclist too. Cant stand most of the cycle lanes, often makes things more dangerous. I wish the ‘crazy’ section of the cyclist community would f off. The world would be a better place 🙂
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:02am
  - mawm
    
    RTP – the same, but I quite like angry drivers using their cars to cut me off or nudge me off the road. It what I deserve as I don’t pay user charges to repair the damage my bike does to the roads.
    
    Can we give this cyclist hatred a break. Some of us do it for exercise because we can’t run or play any other active sports. We have a vested interest in keeping out of the way of cars, and I know that as we filter through the traffic in the morning seeing us pass you as you sit stuck behind the other cars makes you fume. It’s life. Chill, you’ll live longer.
    
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    October 5, 2022 3:33pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Feel free to exercise in the comfort of your own home. Take on the challenges of the Tour and the Giro – get yourself one of those fixed position bikes in front of a big screen. You too can compete for the yellow jersey. In the meantime, the rest of us can get on with our day.
      
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      October 5, 2022 8:12pm
      - mawm
        
        I’m also free to legally use the road while biking and choose to do so. I promise you that nobody is deliberately stopping you from “getting on with your day” and if cyclists are a red rag to you, you probably need some help before you kill or cause a life altering injury to somebody just like you. As I said chill and be considerate to other road users.
        
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        October 5, 2022 9:20pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    I often wonder how many of the f-wits texting while driving SUVs, Ford Rangers and other assorted gas-guzzling and lethal urban wank-wagons claim to be onboard with the “climate emergency”??
    
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    October 6, 2022 1:43pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Someone should send him Eric Crampton’s analysis that shows that the emissions reductions from the EV subsidy cost $100,000 per ton, when the current carbon price is $80.
  
  Worse policy ever. Well not quite but it is in the top 10 of stupidity for the last 5 years.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:39am
  - RoboRob
    
    While we are talking about stupid, what about every councils roading plan.
    
    Physics tells us that stop / start traffic is the least efficient from an energy perspective yet the councils are all trying to save the planet by making drivers routes less efficient. Less efficient equals more polluting.
    
    Even if one was to excuse this as short term pain while we transition away for petrol vehicles that makes no sense either. The thing we are transitioning too is electric cars (trains aren’t going to work in our tiny cities), electric vehicles need roads and are more efficient without stop starting too.
    
    Its time for people to step back from the ideas promoted by the looney green community and look at ‘the science’. To reduce CO2 pollution in NZ the obvious steps are, improving traffic flows and decommissioning our coal power stations and replacing with Nuclear.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:14am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      We are going in the opposite direction in Christchurch. The Council wants people out of cars (of any sort) and on to bikes.
      
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      October 5, 2022 9:28am
      - Joely Doe
        
        We are going in the opposite direction in Christchurch. The Council wants people out of cars (of any sort) and on to bikes.
        
        Anyone at CCC had a look outside at the weather (Climate Change) today?
        
        Yeah, nah.
        That ain’t happening.
        
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        October 5, 2022 9:31am
      - Yabster
        
        as you say that a polr blast has hit Chch- freezing, driving ran- not a bike in sight… esp the dickhead councillors and staff…
        
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        October 5, 2022 9:43am
      - RoboRob
        
        Hi Benedict
        
        I live in CHCH, and biked to work today. I am totally aware of the madness of our coucil.
        
        CHCH like all other councils believes that the future is biking, walking and public transport. Thats just a pipe dream because NZ doesn’t have the population density for it to work. Councils, such as AKL have tried to increase density by restricting land supply. That leads to massive price increases for housing, and we still dont have the population.
        
        The future for most of NZ is efficient vehicle transport, the greenies and dreamers need to face reality.
        
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        October 5, 2022 10:32am
      - rouppe
        
        I flew Wellington to Auckland yesterday en route to rarotonga for a holiday with my son.
        
        Who was on the plane with me? James Shaw. I was tempted to ask why he wasn’t taking the train…
        
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        October 5, 2022 12:35pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        @ Rouppe – sometimes, the right thing to do is to succumb to temptation
        
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        October 5, 2022 2:40pm
    - pussycat
      
      Co2 is not a pollutant.
      
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      October 5, 2022 10:31am
      - kowtow
        
        How the “zero carbon” mongs aren’t relentlessly mocked is beyond me.
        
        Plants and humans need it to live .
        
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        October 5, 2022 12:50pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Well, it is a pollutant above a certain level. I believe people in submarines can tolerate up to 5000 ppm.
        
        I heard one “geo-engineering” suggestion of allowing Co2 gobbling genetically engineered algae to be released into the oceans so that it can be scooped up and converted to oil. You burn the algae derived oil products as they are carbon-neutral, as they get soaked up by this same ocean algae. Imagine if that went horribly wrong and sucked too much Co2 out of the atmosphere! Plants would die and therefore so would all terrestrial life!
        
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        October 6, 2022 1:36pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        According to the yank OSHA: “CO2 levels as high as 80,000 ppm can be lethal. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has established a CO2 acceptable exposure limit (PEL) of 5,000 ppm over an eight-hour period and 30,000 ppm over a ten-minute period as a guideline.
        
        Current atmospheric Co2 levels are around 400ppm (or 0.04% of the total atmosphere). Plants (and therefore all terrestrial life) dies, if atmospheric Co2 gets below 150ppm. During long ice ages the atmosphere has come close to this. Cold oceans absorb more Co2. Oceans hold a LOT more Co2 than the atmosphere.
        
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        October 6, 2022 2:45pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  What is it with “bike people?” They always want everything free! They are that special kind of stupid. Nothing is free. Anything free was taken from someone else.
  
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  October 5, 2022 11:55am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    ECON 101 first day lecture: the possibly apocryphal story of the grad student who was asked to summarise the Introduction to Economics textbook.
    
    He read all 300+ pages and, very pleased with himself, came back with a 10 page précis.
    
    Too long said the lecturer; try again.
    
    He had a second attempt & got it down to 3 pages.
    
    Still too long said the lecturer; try again
    
    After much angst, he came back with the immortal line –
    
    There’s no such thing as a free lunch
    
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    October 5, 2022 2:46pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      That is exactly it. Those who want to confuse things, are doing it for their benefit and nobody elses
      
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      October 5, 2022 4:09pm
Scott

The news of the robbery of a liquor store by a gang of thugs continues the story of the wave of brazen criminality that has swept across our country. Customers walked away with their hands up. The owner shut the roller door to try and lock the thieves in but they escaped out the back door. As usual the police arrived too late.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-crime-masked-thieves-force-liquor-store-shutdown-in-brazen-late-night-robbery/WQHRQRNLYII4Y7Z5IY4ZVZKXZU/

What’s to be done? First we need a change of government. Nothing will change under Labour who appear to have an ideological aversion to enforcing the law around property and theft.

Secondly a new government needs to instruct the police to take all measures to stop this crime wave. Including police chasing offenders.

Thirdly the laws need to be changed. Youth crime needs to incur a severe punishment.

Fourthly property owners must be allowed to defend themselves. Self defence must be given precedence in the law. Security guards must be empowered to defend the stores and the malls from robbers.

This will never happen under this government. A vote for them is a vote for the continued descent of our once law abiding nation into anarchy and despair.
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October 5, 2022 8:02am
- kowtow
  
  Rational , reasonable folk know what needs to be done. The media and other left activists will cry “racism”.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:19am
- cmm
  
  It really should be simple: armed robbery allows an armed response.
  People should be entitled to use force to deal with an illegal threats of violence.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:27am
- Tony Stuart
  
  And overnight, the Michael Hill Jeweller shop in Takapuna has been ransacked for the third time in a few months. The first two times were brazen daylight robberies, and last night’s was a ram raid.
  
  How many more robberies can one chain sustain before insurance premiums make the business of bricks and mortar stores unsustainable, and they go 100% online?
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:28am
  - Paulus
    
    Must be a market for these thefts ?
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:20am
    - rangitoto
      
      They are using it for drug shipment payments. All gang organised.
      
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      October 5, 2022 10:22am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yep, the jewelry is going overseas and coke and fentanyl sent back.
      
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      October 5, 2022 12:42pm
  - Jimbo666
    
    Don’t forget insurance is averaged out over all policy holders, so if you’re insured you’re paying your share too!
    
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    October 5, 2022 11:16am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Who was that Labour prick that had a NZ$3000 suit lost every time he went overseas?
      
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      October 5, 2022 4:12pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  I believe it was Michael Hill in Takapuna’s turn last night to be ram raided. His stores are really being targeted. He really needs to do something as he will have trouble keeping staff soon.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:54am
  - Nickc2
    
    What do you mean that he should do something? IMO, the Police and Politicians are the ones that should be doing something. They should be making/changing laws that will make these activities much less attractive to criminal wannabes.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:04am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    MHJ stores are designed with big wide-open entrances making is easier for a group of them to quickly come in and exit. They don’t seem to do the same with other jewellers as their stores have 1 single door in and out. Also MHJ in Albany is right by the mall entrance/exit which probably also adds to the attraction of daylight robberies.
    
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    October 5, 2022 12:19pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Time for a Q-ship style trap, methinks
      
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      October 5, 2022 2:48pm
      - artemisia
        
        Maybe a few ‘Q-ships’ out there. There are some smart, and worried, retailers …
        
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        October 5, 2022 3:13pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Nice term, but it will lead to trouble and the crim will laugh while planning his next one, even if the Q-ship worked as planned.
        
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        October 5, 2022 4:17pm
- Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
  
  Labour are soft on crime.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:58am
  - coge
    
    Everyone knows that.
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:35am
  - Parnell Gun Club
    
    It’s worse than that. Labour are in partnership with the criminals.
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:42am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Never!//
      
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      October 5, 2022 12:39pm
- thetiedarch
  
  That fourth one is critical. I see today in the news, an article about a gang of kids (known to police) entering properties and back yards in broad daylight in Christchurch.
  
  We all know (and the kids know!) that if you even touch one of them, you’d be in a world of hurt from the cops.
  
  This needs to change.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:01am
  - Inandout
    
    thet, was that suburb Fendalton?
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:25am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Said it before. Nothing deters a crim thug more than a fully trained Security Force with firearms. Yes it will never happen under kind feel good Labour.
  It is time for NZ to HTFU.
  Argue away – I will listen.
  
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  October 5, 2022 12:38pm
- Stellaboxer
  
  What needs to done ? Guns. How long would you pay the mafia to protect your business if they were performing like our police ? You wouldn’t. The police and justice system are a joke and should be ignored.
  
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  October 5, 2022 6:32pm
artemisia

Ms Ardern’s campaign against misinformation as weapons of war is a legit election battleground. Each instance of misinformation from her or her Ministers can be relentlessly challenged with the question – is it a weapon of war? MSM will pop heads back in the sand, but social media is the goto for an increasing number of voters.
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October 5, 2022 8:03am
- kowtow
  
  Woods’ ‘river of filth’ speech was a good example of outright misinformation where he claimed there was anti semitism , Islamophobia and fascism at the freedom folk’s protest .
  
  And did the labour pardy’s pr team aka the msm fact check him ?
  
  Did they f@#k.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:22am
- Random T Person
  
  Social media is nothing but an aggressive echo chamber. Nobody engages, nobody debates and most assuredly, nobody’s narrow opinion becomes broadened on ‘social media’.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:40am
  - artemisia
    
    Social media is not just TikTok. Heck it might even include blog sites.
    
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    October 5, 2022 11:33am
    - Random T Person
      
      It does not include blog sites. SM is Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, SnapChat, etc. But what would I know, I have only worked 20 years producing content for these platforms.
      
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      October 5, 2022 1:44pm
      - artemisia
        
        I guess that means blog sites are MSM then. Who knew?
        
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        October 5, 2022 2:13pm
      - artemisia
        
        Perhaps the definition of social media has changed in 20 years.
        
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        October 5, 2022 2:26pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Social media has morphed to be anti social media
    
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    October 5, 2022 2:50pm
david

Time for some honesty from the media?
Yeah / Nah.
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October 5, 2022 8:04am
artemisia

Family member of one of the vicious and brutal Pukekohe girls (Herald). Pretty much this >> She’s a good girl really, we had no idea. We’ll get Oranga Tamariki and the police involved (police at least are already of course) – and because we said sorry we’ll be happy with the damp bus ticket. But we raised her right so it’s not our fault.

OK might not be completely fair on the family, but if they really didn’t know about their nasty vicious girl they were not paying attention. Time for caregivers to be called to account for the actions of their minor offspring. Big payments to victims please – inadequate but a start by hitting family in the pocket.
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October 5, 2022 8:04am
- cmm
  
  Family would just go to WINZ, taxpayer ends up paying the fine.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:28am
- Exclamation Mark
  
  You know exactly what sort of family life the attacking girls have had: straight out of Once Were Warriors. If their parent(s) (let’s face it, dad is probably not on the scene) give a shit at all they are probably proud of how staunch their girls are for not taking any shit and dishing out a good hiding at some perceived slight.
  
  Looking at the concerned aunty here, there is a pretty good chance these small 11 year old girls are white too. But the faces are blurred so the media can conveniently ignore what is very likely to be a racial element to this disgusting attack.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:31am
  - Black with a Vengeance
    
    You know exactly what sort of family life the attacking girls have had: straight out of Once Were Warriors. If their parent(s) (let’s face it, dad is probably not on the scene)…
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    To be fair…
    
    You know exactly fuck all about what sort of family life the attacking girls have had or if Dad is on the scene or not.
    
    But don’t let that stop you from airing your world class bigotry.
    
    Lemme guess, you’re a stale pale male yeah ?
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:33am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Whose displaying bigotry/racism now?
      
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      October 5, 2022 12:31pm
      - Ghost
        
        He’s only replying to the racist attitude in the above post
        
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        October 5, 2022 12:39pm
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      Yes, it is presumptuous – but c’mon. No bullshit.
      I grew up in South Auckland, and live amongst mainly state houses now.
      Those girls have been working out on boxing bags, and now using little girls of flesh and blood to get their jollies.
      
      Yes, dollars to donuts it is a Once Were Warriors broken family and violent upbringing. This sickness is not something that happens without years of background to it.
      Looks like the one shown has either learned some practical boxing in the backyard hitting a bag, or via a gym. Seen enough newbies to be able to tell the difference when someone knows how to throw.
      She even leads with a left (!), which the uninitiated (and mostly) right handed will not do, before 1-2 circular strikes.
      Fully loading the punches too. Sick POS.
      Most likely a ‘competent’ family-instruction rather than a gym though, as from my experience people who train at combat sports in gyms don’t need to prove themselves by picking fights like this.
      Because you gain nothing from using an unskilled person as a punch-bag. You learn nothing, and they learn nothing.
      This is purely down to being a psychologically sick person, and the families should be being looked at closely: (regardless of their race, but C’mon Dude. Really.)
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/10/aunt-of-11yo-victim-viciously-assaulted-in-pukekohe-says-niece-too-traumatised-to-go-out.html
      
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      October 5, 2022 12:53pm
      - Black with a Vengeance
        
        I can’t believe you watched it, dissected it and gave a running commentary.
        
        I remember my flattie during the live mosque attacks trying to show me and I went off at him saying ‘what is wrong with you, I don’t want to see that. It’s bad enough knowing it happens without seeing it happen’
        
        Just curious if you did the same for that event and perhaps a breakdown on the radicalising of young stale pale males along with the not even subtle Islamophobia still prevalent on this site ?
        
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        October 5, 2022 1:33pm
    - Exclamation Mark
      
      Did I trigger you? Funny that you only poke your nose into the debate when someone points out that the attackers aren’t white – you’d be the first to jump in claiming racism and white supremacy if the attackers were white.
      
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      October 5, 2022 2:48pm
      - Black with a Vengeance
        
        Irrespective of what ‘race’ you think they are, these are kiwi kids waling on other kiwi kids.
        
        That makes it a kiwi problem. You can make it a Pasifikan inclusive of Maori problem but it’s not going away by you being a bigoted loudmouth on the internet.
        
        So lemme guess, your solution is to throw the deadbeat non existent father in jail, cut the benny for the mum and sterilize her, then put the kid into state care to be drugged, given electro shock therapy and gang raped by a psychologist a nurse and a do-gooder priest.
        
        Maybe you can spam their socials and see if they can be goaded into killing themselves for shits and giggles too ?
        
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        October 5, 2022 4:31pm
      - Exclamation Mark
        
        Nice of you to finally acknowledge the victims of this crime at last.
        
        but it’s not going away by you being a bigoted loudmouth on the internet.
        
        Oh the irony…
        
        So what’s your answer? Let them off with a warning or no punishment at all? Blame it all on colonisation and whitey and racism like you frequently do? Call for more “resources” and “wrap around support” from the same faceless government agencies that stood by while Malachi Subecz was murdered?
        
        No accountability for the attackers mentioned by you at all, what a surprise!
        
        What do I think? Put the three of them in Whakatakapokai in Wheymouth (or some where similar, best to split them up) for a few months and away from scumbag environment that produced them in the first place and then get them into some heavily supervised vocational training seeing as school would be wasted on them at this stage.
        
        And I would name their families too – a little bit of shame might get them to pull their stupid heads in and sort their shit out, or at least allow the rest of the community to steer clear of them. They might even find some of the good people of Pukekohe start keeping an eye on them and mentoring them so they straighten themselves out.
        
        And as for their “socials” – I don’t think I need to spam them, they’ve done a a great job at making their content go viral all by themselves.
        
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        October 5, 2022 8:53pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      BWAV, please get a clue on this. It’s well known that statistically parents in these cases will either be ferals themselves and/or will come from extremely dysfunctional family backgrounds. Try not to be a bigoted twat.
      
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      October 6, 2022 1:39pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Yes there are exceptions. It’s the trend that matters.
        
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        October 6, 2022 1:41pm
  - Ghost
    
    you don’t know the kind of upbringing the kids have had. When I look back on my life the people I’ve known who had shit patents and an abusive childhood, went on to work bloody hard and make something of themselves. The only friends I’ve had who would get into physical fights had great family lives but were breaking out from the over religious, over protective parents.
    
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    October 5, 2022 12:09pm
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      Yeah, you’re right these three girls dishing out the beatings here were probably on their way home from a youth group meeting…
      
      Sarcasm aside: I do know what sort of upbringing these kids have, I have family in Pukekohe with kids around this age, everyone in there knows who these girls are and what their background is.
      
      Pukekohe North is every bit as rough as anywhere else in South Auckland, Alan Duff mentioned it a few times in the same breath as Ford Block.
      
      You can throw the racism card at me if it makes you feel better, IDGAF, if this was white kids bashing any other ethnicity it would be front page news for a week and we’d have Adern and every left wing pundit wringing their hands about white supremacy and telling us we need some new crackdown and restriction of some sort. When it’s brown kids doing the beating? Not a word from Ardern and the best that the hand wringers can come up with is that this is all the fault of poverty.
      
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      October 5, 2022 1:49pm
      - Ghost
        
        How strange now you claim you have family in there and everyone knows who they are, yet you also claim to the dad is probably not on the scene which shows you really don’t know anything about their family
        
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        October 5, 2022 2:07pm
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        @ Ghost: Strange that I didn’t come right out and dox the girls?
        
        I let artemisia know that no, its not a matter of these girls families just not being aware of what the girls were up to and that the usual stereotypes for the attackers probably do apply. But if you want to believe that the three attacking thugs are really just good, church going kids rebelling against their upbringing, please be my guest, I’m sure they were taught those boxing skills at Sunday school.
        
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        October 5, 2022 2:45pm
      - Ghost
        
        Right because saying you know they don’t have a father would be doxing them, rubbish, you got caught in your lie of pretending to know
        
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        October 5, 2022 2:59pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    See Candace Owens book “Blackout” about fatherless homes. Here is another link. This is how the left keep power, they want families to be fatherless and poor.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYdIz2Mqlxw
    
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    October 5, 2022 12:51pm
    - Black with a Vengeance
      
      You do realise the ‘left’ and ‘right’ are just flip sides of the same stale pale male coin ?
      
      Getting the great unwashed to choose which side of the white male power structure they’re on and then to vociferously defend it maintains the status quo.
      
      The blame game stays the same only the names change…
      
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      October 5, 2022 1:38pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “just flip sides of the same stale pale male coin”
        
        Would “just flip sides of the same stale brown female coin?” be acceptable with the mods on here?
        
        Boiled frog syndrome with the NZ racism scene?
        
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        October 6, 2022 2:50pm
    - MCōs
      
      “This is how the left keep power, they want families to be fatherless and poor.”
      Never heard such rubbish I my life.
      
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      October 5, 2022 6:42pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        MCōs you fail to show how the claim is “rubbish”.
        
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        October 6, 2022 2:52pm
- Colville
  
  big payments? money to come from where? $5/week deducted from the dole/dpb ?
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:32am
- G152
  
  Time to name and shame.
  And bring back corporal punishment
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:35am
  - MCōs
    
    When I went to school corporal punishment was in vogue.
    Guys used to get whacked across the bum by the priests until they bled.
    It was always the same kids that got caned. Didn’t do much to straighten them out and I suspect if you start thrashing these kids who steal cars and go ram raiding it’ll be like water off a duck’s back.
    One teacher who taught French used to hit boys on the head if they struggled with their homework. Didn’t make them any more intelligent.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:01am
    - zulumonster
      
      Let me guess … you got punished by the French teacher a lot?
      
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      October 5, 2022 9:11am
    - RoboRob
      
      Soooo, when were tougher on crime and kids were punished for bad behaviour we had lower crime levels. Now we don’t do that, crime levels are FAR worse. Your theory is that hard punishments didn’t work based on anecdotal evidence. How do you know that the kids that ‘weren’t straightened out’ wouldn’t have been far worse without the punishment.
      
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      October 5, 2022 9:20am
      - General
        
        He’s part of the 40% I mentioned.
        
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        October 5, 2022 9:30am
      - MCōs
        
        Corporal not hard punishment.
        Back in those days delinquent kids were sent to borstals, which one could classify as hard punishment.
        They emerged as hard older kids.
        They were abolished forty years ago.
        
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        October 5, 2022 10:37am
    - Taieri
      
      I suspect if you start thrashing these kids who steal cars and go ram raiding it’ll be like water off a duck’s back
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      Exactly! That’s why there’s an ever growing crime rate in Singapore. Car stealing and ram raids are an every day occurrence there and people are afraid to leave their homes even during the day for the fear of feral kids attacking them.
      
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      October 5, 2022 10:53am
      - Ra Henare
        
        Mmmmm not what the stats say
        https://www.statista.com/topics/5214/crime-in-singapore/#dossierContents__outerWrapper
        
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        October 5, 2022 2:40pm
      - MCōs
        
        We don’t live in Singapore. It’s an entirely different culture over there, which is entirely different to NZ and to the rest of SE Asia for that matter.
        For every example of a country such as Singapore there’s another one that can be used to ‘prove’ the opposite.
        
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        October 5, 2022 4:19pm
    - Matt Long
      
      You had the mental cases that a caning made no difference to, then all the kids who were watching and learning.
      Now the kids watch and learn there are no consequences to theft, burglary and violent behavior so let’s all do it.
      
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      October 5, 2022 11:34am
- nathie
  
  According to this Newshub report yesterday 100 troublesome kids in Pukekohe have been identified and they are “outside the school system”.
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/10/aunt-of-11yo-victim-viciously-assaulted-in-pukekohe-says-niece-too-traumatised-to-go-out.html
  
  Who are the families of these troublemaking kids that are not sending their children to school? What is the Govt doing about this?
  
  Also these violent incidents are happening because the perps are wanting to post their violence onto Social Media (like Tick Tock).
  
  So what is the PM doing about this aspect of misuse of Social Media (seeing this is now her “thing”)? Nothing? Just grandstanding when it comes to the “Christchurch Call”? Has she taken this up with the Chinese developers of Tick Tock?
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:03am
- Clyde
  
  The family of this vicious female thug are responsible for her upbringing – but it only is a continuation of the tribal way of life. Physical confrontation is the norm in tribes – whether it is a conventional maori tribe or an urbanised tribe. Unless that is recognised and acknowledged (and it won’t be by the Liemore Party), nothing will happen to change things. Solution right now? Harsh penalties for the family and even harsher penalty for the perpetrator. Starting point would be for her to work after school and all her earnings to go to the victim. If she is not going to school, as I’m sure she isn’t, then she goes full time work with all earnings to victim. Lawn mowing for Council could be a start.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:24am
  - Black with a Vengeance
    
    Perhaps their tribes in question were left/right sides of the political spectrum resorting to violence.
    
    The Liemore party line betrays your tribe. How far would you go to defend it or attack the ‘other’ ?
    
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    October 5, 2022 1:41pm
- nathie
  
  Also what on-going assistance is being given to the victims? Apart from (hopefully) receiving treatment for their injuries, do they get ongoing help and counseling (or do the victims deal with on-going anxiety and mental health issues on their own)?
  
  How about a community support service where other volunteer youngsters and young adults take them “under their wing” and restore their confidence by accompanying them around town or such like? Maybe attend some self-defence courses with them so they don’t feel vulnerable if they encounter those roaming thugs again?
  
  I’m sure there are $ millions for “do nothing wrap around services” than can be siphoned off from these thugs to better support victims (and penalise the thugs’ parents with some fines perhaps)?
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:25am
- Ruawai
  
  These girls are not enrolled in school so good chance the family are not closely looking after them and giving them love and support.
  
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  October 5, 2022 4:59pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEThJT-JHo0

Local Council Candidates Catchup – Gail Oats, Dave Diack & Jaspreet Bopari

We get together LIVE with some more South Island Candidates for a yarn as we head into the final week of their campaign. [24:47]
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October 5, 2022 8:05am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b6zdax6Oxw

Documentary Review: Safe and Effective, A Second Opinion

Documentary Review: Safe and Effective, A Second Opinion *Spoiler alert* – there are some figures and footage from the film in this video review. Widely anticipated, this is one of a number of investigative films due to release that take a closer look at the Pandemic response and Vaccine rollout and all that surrounds it. Based in the UK, this gives a great insight into goings on in a country that had a similar response to ours (at a far larger scale) – Enjoy! [13:16]
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October 5, 2022 8:06am
Tony Stuart

Herald political reporter Thomas Coughlan on Twitter yesterday:

Thomas Coughlan @coughlthom
Incredibly busy recess week – all committee rooms booked

https://twitter.com/coughlthom/status/1577086938003124224

That, of course, was Nanaia Mahuta’s reason for hosting the anti-gay Solomons Islands delegation in Parliament’s Rainbow Room yesterday.

Now, before you think Coughlan is simply shilling for Mahuta, he’s not. He’s posted photos of no fewer than SIX empty committee rooms at Parliament yesterday, empty because Parliament is in the two-week school holiday recess, and there’s no one much in Wellington having meetings.

Kudos to Coughlan for calling Mahuta out on what was a blatant lie. Between that and her “queer/clear” slip of the tongue, was Mahuta yesterday actually deliberately disrespecting her guests because of their country’s views on homosexuality?
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October 5, 2022 8:12am
- artemisia
  
  Misinformation is the polite term. But all the same better let Ms Ardern know there’s another weapon of war in her back yard.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:15am
- Blog-aholic
  
  IMO it was a deliberate insult. Diplomacy? Not on her watch. She has bigger fish to fry (like Mahuta Corp etc.)
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:22am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I tend to agree. Maybe there was also an element of utu for the Solomons cosying up to China instead of their traditional friends.
    
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    October 5, 2022 8:30am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Hold on a minute Tony, wasn’t it Mahuta that claimed that the Chinese and Maori have much in common? The Dragon and the Taniwha?
      
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      October 5, 2022 8:48am
  - Ra Henare
    
    I watched this Foreign Minister in an International Press conference and mused as to how Ms Mahuta would compare.
    
    He is the consummate professional politician.
    No taniwhas here
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjysSk7Z8_E
    
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    October 5, 2022 2:45pm
- kowtow
  
  With all the “emergencies” and crises we have on at the moment you’d think they’d be doing some work instead of ‘recessing”.
  
  Some are even flying off on yet another junket , this time to South America , including Mexico , where surprise surprise our climate/ poverty warrior Ricardo gets to visit on the back of us tax payers doing it hard with inflation crisis prices .
  
  And Trev the Muss has been on a parliamentary junket at our expense to Ireland .
  
  Drain the swamp.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:40am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    One of the objectives of the trip is to ‘foster parliamentary cooperation with Argentina’.
    
    Why? Firstly, apart from the Mexican MP, I doubt any New Zealand MPs are fluent in Spanish. That makes it kind of difficult.
    
    Secondly, Argentina is always in economic and social chaos. As a model, we should stay as far away as possible.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:36am
    - kowtow
      
      The way the Greens especially and Labour to a lesser extent view economic policy then perhaps there is a point to their studying Argentina as a model .I’m surprised Bolivia and Cuba aren’t on the itinerary.
      
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      October 5, 2022 10:41am
    - NoFax
      
      Argentina is our future – a once wealthy country that faded.
      
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      October 5, 2022 4:23pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        That with a general dose of South African reverse apartheid.
        
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        October 5, 2022 4:45pm
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      And we dont really trade with South America – they have enormous tariff barriers on manufactured goods, and don’t buy dairy or meat from us.
      
      Total dead end economically, probably 50th or below on trade priorities.
      
      Someone in Parliament wants a trip.
      
      Plus, why didnt they go to Chile, which NZ does in fact have a relationship with?
      
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      October 5, 2022 6:32pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Next stop, Zimbabwe, then North Korea?
      
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      October 6, 2022 1:51pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  There is something not right about a parliament having a ‘rainbow room’ with portraits of gay MPs. Why can’t we focus on ability, competence, and the will to make New Zealand a better place, regardless of sexuality and ethnicity?
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:02am
  - Random T Person
    
    Yeah well forget what I said about two-wheeled ingrates up above, I have now decided we should also have a Cyclists Room with Trevor’s portrait given pride of place.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:19am
    - Matt Long
      
      Pride of place to cyclists who go 4 abreast to obstruct both lanes and never let a car past.
      
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      October 5, 2022 11:37am
  - RoboRob
    
    If we focused on competance none of the current Labour MPs would have a picture on the wall. The gay room is the only way they could get their pictures up 🙂
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:23am
  - Flossie
    
    Absolutely right Benedict.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:27am
  - General
    
    Figure it out already man, you’re bright and a very honest/good faith person but you take awhile to piece together glaringly obvious connections
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:33am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    “Why can’t we focus on ability, competence, and the will to make New Zealand a better place, regardless of sexuality and ethnicity?”
    Because at the moment it’s all about diversity, nothing to do with competence. This circus will go on as long as there is a quota.
    Way to woke, now we’re going broke.
    
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    October 5, 2022 12:23pm
  - rouppe
    
    Oh it’s everywhere…
    
    Most corporates have some version of “women of influence” and “rainbow”.
    
    My workplace recently started a “diversity and inclusion group”, DIG for short. Trying to pretend to be a social club type group, will see how long before the real agenda surfaces
    
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    October 5, 2022 12:53pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Diversity and Inclusion’s not quite right.
      
      How about Diversity or Inclusion?
      
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      October 5, 2022 2:55pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I thought Parliament had something to do with running the Country?
    Silly me.
    
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    October 5, 2022 1:10pm
- Ruawai
  
  And Mahuta when asked about the missile strike basically said it was a nuclear missile and that was concerning. Understatement if it was nuclear which it wasn’t.
  
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  October 5, 2022 4:55pm
Warren

Wow it looks like we have a Police Force that has run out of ideas on how to stop crime and bring people that are responsible to justice.
Another ram raid in Takapuna over night and the same Micheal Hill Jewellers hit for the third time this year.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-ram-raids-thieves-target-jewellery-store-for-the-third-time-this-year/PSCOBHKCPHOCZQ6GLSGEICAFD4/
This is because of our Government’s Policy and the sooner they realize that it’s their soft approach to crime is the cause thebetter it will be for New Zealander’s.
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October 5, 2022 8:13am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Warren – we haven’t had a “police force” for some years now, because the word “force” implies the use of violence. It’s “police service”…
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:31am
  - G152
    
    And the public are being ‘serviced’ by the police
    
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    October 5, 2022 8:37am
  - kowtow
    
    Around the Anglo world police “managers” have forsworn the use of the title “force” in favour of service , for quite some time .
    
    Wokery has been about for a while .
    
    NZ police have officially been a “service” for long time.
    
    Funny thing is their latest jargon peccadillo is to refer to themselves , police, in the singular .
    
    Really weird the things they come up with.
    
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    October 5, 2022 8:45am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    yes Tony, and for many years, prisoners in jails have been referred to as “clients”. Go figure that.
    
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    October 5, 2022 8:47am
    - kowtow
      
      A wee bit off topic but anyone notice how Air NZ calls its passengers “customers” now .
      
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      October 5, 2022 10:07am
    - Harry Knuts
      
      reminds me of an old saying. Prostitutes have clients and lawyers have customers.
      
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      October 5, 2022 12:25pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        I thought customers were for purchasers of goods and clients services? I could very well be wrong. I’ll tell you one thing: beneficiaries are not “clients”. They aren’t purchasing any services with their own money.
        
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        October 5, 2022 6:03pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Police Farce
    
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    October 5, 2022 8:19pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Not intended as a smart Alec question, but – what do the criminals do with the goods they thieve from Michael Hill Jewellers?
  How do they make a profit out of this?
  It is not as though it is top of the range jewellery generally.
  And you can only give so much away to Mum, Aunty and girl friend/s, boy friend/s.
  Who buys this stuff in a small market? I imagine online marketing is monitored.
  Also, re pepper spray and tasers: can shop owners/staff get access to these? And is it legal to use them on criminal ram raiders?
  Or will Police arrest them?
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:47am
  - crackle
    
    Basically wear it as ‘bling’… street cred etc. Some of it gets melted down, home forges are pretty easy to sort.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:08am
  - MikeMan
    
    Pawn shops and Facebook Marketplace I would guess.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:18am
  - rockape
    
    Pass it on to your drug dealer who will break it up or flog it down the pub.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:23am
    - kowtow
      
      Yep , the notion that this crime “emergency” is some sort of passing juvenile delinquent fad is beyond ridiculous .
      
      Even Blind Freddy could see it’s organised and there’ll be some Fagans , no doubt the gangs behind a lot of it.
      
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      October 5, 2022 10:45am
  - rangitoto
    
    The whole thing is gang organised. They use for drug payments.
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:32am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    Jewellery is easy is break down. Sell off the gold – great rate per ounce. Sell the stones/jewels as is. Untraceable.
    The rest as someone else says facebook, snapchat.
    
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    October 5, 2022 12:27pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It is sort of “exported” In return, something is “imported” Say coke and fentanyl?
    
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    October 5, 2022 1:13pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Ad. On the local scene the stolen jewelry is traded for the same drugs. When Mr Dealer has enough he “exports” the jewels.
      
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      October 5, 2022 1:15pm
Alex

Ardern is an embarrassment to this country.
Times editorial said her “Free Speech” was Unfree
Re her UN Gaffe Speech.
This is Ardern’s Woke War , we’ve had it here now she wants to spread it further.
Print press in NZ are so embarrassed by Speech at UN they are keeping “stum” about it.
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October 5, 2022 8:16am
- kowtow
  
  Any chance of a link to the editorial.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:46am
Tauhei Notts

I have heard much concern about the awfully low turn out for local body elections. Commentators are wringing their hands asking; “Why?”
Please look to Chris Trotter’s most informative and thought provoking essay dated 29th September. He labelled it;
“They call it democracy- but they’re lying”.
In an erudite manner he has pin pointed why the turn out is so low. It is possibly one of his best essays. I regret that my information technology skills are inadequate, so I am unable to link to it.
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October 5, 2022 8:18am
- Exclamation Mark
  
  Here’s the link: https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2022/09/they-call-it-democracy-but-theyre-lying.html
  
  It is a good article, Trotter is producing some great stuff at the moment
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:35am
- redeye
  
  Here we go Tauhei.
  https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/chris-trotter-they-call-it-democracy-but-they-re-lying
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:39am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Over at the Standard website, they have now really turned on Trotter and hate him. So funny to see them eat their own.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:06am
  - Random T Person
    
    They always eat their own. Hayek (I think) pointed that out a while ago, because socialism depends on hegemony.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:20am
  - MikeMan
    
    Well Chris Trotter has not been the mindless fan of the hard left that they thought he was. He actually has a opinion and it is not the same as Dear Leader would like so he is on the outer.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:26am
    - kowtow
      
      Trotsky is hard left .
      
      He has a go at Ardern and Co because from his point of view they are not left enough.
      
      Trots is just a differnt brand of socialism from Ardern and cos.
      
      And yes it’s nice to see them infighting.
      
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      October 5, 2022 10:48am
      - rouppe
        
        Trotter once tried to tell me that the German fascists weren’t socialist because they hated the communists.
        
        Now he’s seen as ~~a different kind of~~not socialist enough? I hope that’s instructive.
        
        Speaking of which…
        https://mises.org/library/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-socialism-totalitarian
        
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        October 5, 2022 1:00pm
- Gravelroad
  
  $tuff and the Herald must be very pleased with the success of their pre-election campaign of outing “dangerous candidates for whom we must not vote”.
  It has been a big turn-off for a lot of voters who lost confidence in the democratic process and didn’t want to be involved in dirty politics in case it was used against them somehow.
  Look out for a similar performance next year prior to the general election.
  Money can’t buy you love but it can buy media influence.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:50am
  - oldfella
    
    Gravel: Lorde says she’s voting for Efeso and gets a reprimand. Cindy publicly backs the same candidate and … crickets.
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130067176/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-endorses-efeso-collins-for-auckland-mayoralty
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:58am
    - Nickc2
      
      How true! I notice the propaganda wing of the Labour Party (TVNZ) also broadcast Cindy’s endorsement of him. Don’t hold your breath for the Electoral Commission to make a statement and/or refer these instances to the Police eh?
      
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      October 5, 2022 11:27am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        The key difference is that the PM did not publish a photograph of her completed ballot paper. That has been an offence under the Electoral Act for quite a while.
        
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        October 5, 2022 12:09pm
Hebe123

Out hiking I bumped into a couple of millennials in NZ on work visas, one from Boston, the other Swedish.
Interesting conversation. They had been in QT, we got on to how they were travelling / how were the roads. The girl said “they are fine, potholes are not that bad, in the US local authorities are digging up smaller tarmac roads and replacing them with gravel as they can’t afford to maintain them. (I looked for this online – can’t find any evidence, anyone know?)

I asked the boy about Sweden and all the crime we are hearing about. He said “well it’s going to be so much worse now we have this far right party in government” and when I questioned how far right they are he said they were established by Nazis. I said “but they are saying that (except fascists) about the new Italian PM too and it’s not true there…” and he assured me that she def a “far right fascist” and “very dangerous “.

So interesting to hear these perspectives. The views of millennials brought up with all the socialist propaganda are probably similar the world over.
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October 5, 2022 8:20am
- Yabster
  
  You should have asked him:
  
  What do you think a facist is- because most don’t actually know.
  
  and
  
  What would you do about the Muslim gang issue? -again he would probably have no idea.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:44am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Hebe, my wife and I have very good Swedish friends, and as far back as 2000, the husband was telling me things were going pear shaped there. Last conversation I had was a month ago, and his view was things are not well in his country. The problem is that the youngsters of today, have never seen Sweden like it was 30 years ago. So disturbingly, bombings are normal for them.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:46am
- kowtow
  
  People like them ( upper middle class professionals from “edgy” but nice inner city redeveloping apartment area) aren’t immediately effected by the massive social and economic pain brought about by the Establishment’s internationalist agenda .
  
  Had you pressed them further you’d have discovered they are very disturbed indeed anxious by the increasing amount of trace gas CO2 in the air, the retreating glaciers and sea level rise , while they contemplate the next leg of their world wide travels .
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:53am
- Benedict Yu
  
  “… in the US local authorities are digging up smaller tarmac roads and replacing them with gravel as they can’t afford to maintain them. ”
  
  Looks like it is correct.
  
  https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/7/26/the-un-paving-of-american-roads
  
  I hope the Greens don’t see this, or the Christchurch Council.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:05am
  - DeepBlue
    
    A few months ago speaking with a geotech engineer he said this exact problem existed in NZ I.e. a few years back many gravel, low usage roads were tarsealed, but no thought had been given to the extra cost of maintaining the tar seal.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:46am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Not all bad on the gravel road!
    Wouldn’t recommend electric cars though unless they are 4 wheel drive and there is a permanent grader on stand-by.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:55am
- General
  
  Infuriating and disheartening. My stomach turns every day at how successfully smug and brainwashed growing numbers of people have become. We all suffer due to their ignorance and it truly delights these freaks who get off on controlling other people and extracting as much as they can for themselves.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:24am
- kowtow
  
  The other thing that people need to remember when we hear disinformation about the roots of modern “populist” parties is that the Nazis and the Italian fascists had their roots , not in classical liberalism , but in socialism .
  
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  October 5, 2022 10:05am
Gordon Shumway

It seems that the Council-owned/funded bus companies might soon get dispensations around immigration settings because they can’t find enough bus drivers: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-transport-asks-government-to-urgently-review-immigration-settings-as-bus-driver-shortage-bites/3V32MQKV7HXVCDCXA2NIJ7HMVU/

Meanwhile, privately-owned restaurants, bars and accommodation providers still can’t find chefs and cleaners in places like Queenstown, despite telling government about the problem for 2 years and counting.

Different rules for “in favour”’sectors like public transport, I guess…
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October 5, 2022 8:25am
- cmm
  
  The “bus driver shortage” is rather bizarre.
  Here in Chch there is more of a passenger shortage.
  Most buses will have 2 or less passengers and there are heaps of buses.
  We could cut back to half the buses and nobody would tell the difference.
  Even better would be to get rid of the buses completely (except maybe at peak times).
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:40am
  - Gordon Shumway
    
    The NZ Herald talks about the councils paying a base rate of $27. Not much chance for earning tips as a bus driver, either. But on the other hand, hours would be predictable and easy.
    
    The restaurants and bars are repeatedly told by government that they simply need to pay more to attract people. Stupid visa rules are stopping them bringing in chefs because overseas-trained candidates need to have their qualifications checked against NZ course standards by a bureaucrat – rather than doing the obvious thing and letting employers do their own quality assurance.
    
    It’s interference and picking winners throughout the economy.
    
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    October 5, 2022 8:58am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    We need PT. There are old folks and other people who do not have cars. Or bikes. But in Christchurch it is clearly not fit for purpose. I agree – I drive around the city every day. 10 people on a bus is unusual outside peak travel times. I would like to see a business case for an ‘uber’ like system using minibuses. Of course it will never happen.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:15am
    - cmm
      
      “We need PT.”
      
      Rubbish. There are many other ways of ferrying these people around – from taxis to private buses.
      
      A bus costs a lot to run:
      * $30/hr or whatever for the driver. At 30km/hr average that’s $1 per km.
      * Other management costs etc: $2/km
      * Diesel 30l/100km = 75 cents per km.
      * Depreciation: $2/km
      * Other expenses (servicing, insurance, tyres, …): $2 per km.
      So call that $8/km.
      
      It would be way cheaper to run old people around in “free” taxis!
      
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      October 5, 2022 1:50pm
  - rockape
    
    I have often said we want ‘pickup taxied’ aka minibuses on lots of different runs and you wouldn’t need other than a car license to run them. They work so well in the islands. Hundreds of different routes and even out of the way places getting service.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:28am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Exactly. The drivers and owners of these minibuses become experts in how to design routes and times to maximise their profits from the fares. The drivers of the giant buses in Christchurch are happy if there are no passengers. It makes their job easier.
      
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      October 5, 2022 9:47am
      - rockape
        
        Yes with diesel buses costing around $500k you could buy quite a few minibuses for that and have far more flexibility. In rural areas you could have many more runs per day for the same cost. Privatise and franchise and you would serve the public better.
        
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        October 5, 2022 11:56am
      - kowtow
        
        rockape
        
        Just wait till they “invest” in $ million + “clean”
        hydrogen buses.
        
        Rates will have us underwater long before the rising seas do .
        
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        October 5, 2022 1:03pm
    - cmm
      
      The minibus taxi is one of the successes of Africa (if you can distance it from the taxi violence/mafia).
      
      The key to making them work is deregularion (or in the case of Africa, having regulations which everyone ignores).
      
      As already pointed out, being market driven they put on services where they are needed and where they will find customers. That is very different to NZ buses that ride empty because that’s what the schedule and the union says..
      
      In Cape Town in the early 1990s we had a friend of 75 (a frail old bird who lived alone) who rode the minibus taxis all the time even though her friends offered to take her anywhere/any time. They were cheap and effective. Her being the only white person on a taxi full of coloureds and blacks never bothered anyone.
      
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      October 5, 2022 1:57pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        True in Mexico City. Collectivos were privately owned & operated minivans that ran a known route. Flag down anywhere on the route. Plentiful, great fun & cheap as chips.
        
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        October 5, 2022 3:02pm
    - Roberta
      
      They have something like this in Timaru. It seems a good way of providing the service required by some people, to a small population.
      
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      October 5, 2022 7:36pm
      - Ghost
        
        They always seem to be a waste of money, driving around with either no one in them or one person when I’ve seen them.
        
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        October 5, 2022 8:45pm
- ISeeRed
  
  Right. Because we have zero unemployed on Job Seeker. Zero solo parents with all the kids at school. No one left in the entire country to work. Covid got them all. We must import more people. 500,000 immigrants in 10 years wasn’t enough.
  
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  October 5, 2022 4:55pm
krazykiwi

Remember all those reports showing negative vaccine efficiency? You know, attenuated protection eventually leading to increased risk of infection and illness?

Well you know the concept is mainstream when companies like Moderna start saying the same thing. This paper was funded by Moderna. To wit:-

This study was funded by Moderna, Inc. Employees of Moderna participated in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication

The study shows that three doses of the Moderna Covid vaccine increase your risk of Omicron infection by up to 25% after 150 days. More here.

Apparently, getting a few shots of Moderna’s shiny, new Bivalent product is the answer.

Yes, the last stuff didn’t work so well. But the next potion is just what you need.
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October 5, 2022 8:30am
Maggie Pie

INCOMING…

My partner just txt that word down the Viaduct is Twitter set to close deal with Elon @ $54.20 per share.
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October 5, 2022 8:41am
- Maggie Pie
  
  This…. 😀
  
  https://twitter.com/kordakin/status/1577381819196006400
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:51am
  - Ghost
    
    Those heads sure can blow a lot of bs gas out the back of them
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:02am
- All_on_Red
  
  Ahh the Viaduct.
  Does it still smell like a toilet at low tide?
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:01am
In Vino Veritas

From my point of view, the biggest surprise in yesterdays Roy Morgan poll was that the Communists managed to increase their party vote 3.5% to 12.5%. Are there really that many people that believe the most murderous and destructive ideology in the history of mankind would be good for NZ?
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October 5, 2022 8:43am
- Random T Person
  
  Yes. A lot of New Zealanders are parochial, narrow minded zealots. Everyone, that is, with the possible exception of my own good self.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:22am
- Paulus
  
  Looks as though the Labour voters have gone to the Greens.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:27am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Covid vaccine reactions. Here is a woman who drank the cool-aid, suffered Bell’s palsy and says she would do it all again because it’s what we have to do.
I wonder how many in NZ are so far brainwashed and end up with Pfizer smile?
https://steadfastclash.com/the-latest/brainwashed-actress-suffers-from-pfizer-smile-weeks-after-getting-vaccine-says-shed-do-it-again/
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October 5, 2022 8:47am
Yvette

National pledges to repeal three waters legislation if elected
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/464935/national-pledges-to-repeal-three-waters-legislation-if-elected

But will National abolish the Maori Advisory Council, chaired by Tipa Mahuta, which currently controls Taumata Arowai, the Water Regulator, already established to control “3 Waters”?
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October 5, 2022 8:47am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Guess whose personal wealth almost doubled because of Covid? Fauci. I wonder how Bloomfield’s bank account is??
https://redrightvideos.com/guess-whose-personal-wealth-nearly-doubled-during-the-pandemic/
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October 5, 2022 8:50am
- Paulus
  
  According to public information Bloomfield as a senior Public Servant was paid $568,000 as last available information.
  
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  October 5, 2022 1:18pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Who cares about his salary? I was thinking possible kickbacks as Fauci, who refuses to answer questions from Rand Paul. Fauci will be subpoenaed to answer, but he has lied under oath before.
    Anyway, why is Bloomfield moving on? Hot in the lie cooking up kitchen? We will possibly never get answers from the corrupt NZ Media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NvBMUq0Xuo
    
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    October 5, 2022 4:29pm
TripeWryter

I was listening to Tim Dower interviewing the head of the post-primary teachers’ union on ZB this morning.
They want to ban streaming.
Because it is ‘harmful to students and doesn’t work’.
First of all, I agree with Joe Bennett, the stuff columnist, that schoolchildren are pupils and not students.
Anyway …
I come from an era of streaming – the 50s and 60s.
I had two years in standard 2. When I went to our rural, small-town college I was not anywhere near 3A, which was for the bright kids – some of them later became lawyers, businesspeople (including the rabid communist who was a multi-millionaire by 30), accountants, farmers, teachers.
Most of them did well. Others never realised their potential, and some of them were a surprise that they didn’t.
On the other hand there was the kid who started in 3E (expected to leave on the 15th birthday) who climbed through the streams, got his university entrance, and later became a well-known principal of a rather large high school.
I had two goes at school certificate and two at UE.
Here’s the thing I learned: if you want to feel as if you’re a failure you will be.
My parents and older siblings never let me feel a failure. They never told me I was a failure. They said over and over again that I was not and that I had worth and that I should always keep trying to do my best.
It’s a message I hammered with my own children.
It’s a matter of attitude. You can feel a failure if you wish.
In 1988 my son started school. I had sent him along knowing his alphabet, how to write his name (first and surnames), basic arithmetic. He was a keen reader; he could pick out and say words.
Six months later I noticed he had gone backwards. All of the above was all but erased. His speech had become slovenly.
I raised this with his teacher. She airily told me that they’d had to ‘put a brake on him’ because he was so far ahead of the other children that they worried about his socialisation.
I hit the roof (cliche, sorry). My children came from a solo parent, DPB home. The only thing that offered a promise of a better life for them was an education.
I went to the principal, who was 67, and old-school.
‘Leave it with me,’ he said.
My boy picked up and another, old-school woman teacher was assigned to help the young teacher in her classes.
My children progressed through the school system. Despite what the PPTA might think schoolkids know who are the braniacs and who aren’t – and the kids are quite blunt about it. They always have been.
What I heard from Melanie Webber of the PPTA this morning was an attempt at social meddling and engineering.
Maori, Pacific Island, ‘dumb’ kids do not need grown-ups coddling them and telling them that it’s all right to feel a failure and ‘stink’.
They need to be told ‘don’t give up’ and ‘you can do it if you try’.
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October 5, 2022 8:51am
- iMP
  
  I totally agree with you. As a high school teacher, I denounce my own PPTA position that streaming somehow necessarily disadvantages Maori or Pasifika. This is rubbish. It assumes in an Uncle Tom way they are all dumb. They are not.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:08am
  - Sacha
    
    I remember when ‘social progression’ was introduced to primary schools.
    In stead of moving up levels as they learnt to read/write/ do sums, kids were advanced by age to stay within their peer group.
    So when you turned 6, you moved up a level. It didn’t matter if you hadn’t learnt your alphabet, or count to 100 – you would learn this as you matured along with your friends.
    Before this advance in educational thinking you’d stay in the primers until you could read simple sentences and chant the times tables. Being left behind acted as an incentive to try harder.
    As Trypewriter says, kids know who are the clever ones, or the lazy ones or the simply ‘slow’ ones. And most people understand that the slow learner at 6 can be the teenage whizzkid – and vice versa.
    In my opinion there’s great incentive in recognising progress at a young age, and rewarding it by promoting effort.
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:35am
- iMP
  
  Putting this ideology into practice. In Christchurch, Chisnalwood intermediate is a good school, parents choose to send their kids there. Schools around it are not as good, parents do not choose to send their kids there.
  
  answer: Jacinda and her cronies elect to reduce the Chisnalwood roll by 200 and force some children into the other schools to hide the lack of achievement by smoothing out the bumps.
  
  Corollary: the headmaster is suing education department to try and avoid being forced to lay off his staff by reducing his role by 200 by government edict.
  
  This is discrimination.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:13am
  - kevn
    
    @iMP… Another hipkins effort.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:50am
  - TripeWryter
    
    iMP:
    What has long bothered me is teachers’ (or teacher unions) propensity to want to dumb down and make thing easier for pupils so they will never fail.
    Sometimes you have to fail. Sometimes you have to fight. That’s how you become resilient.
    And that can be the best thing for you.
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:57am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It’s called learning from your mistakes.
      
      Must admit, it’s one of my best learning techniques.
      
      I’m less likely to forget how to do or remember something if I ballsed-it up first time around, and then someone showed me where I’d gone wrong.
      
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      October 5, 2022 12:18pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Yep. By this measure, I’m approaching genius
        
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        October 5, 2022 3:05pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  I am not an expert on ‘streaming’ but I am skeptical of anything the teacher unions suggest, especially when it comes with an “.. and it is racist!” tag.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:25am
  - BeaB
    
    Streaming seems a non-issue these days. Kids stream themselves by their subject choices, especially where it matters in the senior high school levels. Kids who muck around with low-level credits generally don’t end up in Y13 physics classes.
    The virtue of streaming in my view is that those teachers who still want to stretch their kids and not cater to the lowest common denominator can do so.
    Mixed classes are just about always dumbed-down classes whatever teachers say about differentiation.
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:56am
  - Ian Boag
    
    I am skeptical of anything the teacher unions suggest
    
    Fair enough. Free country and all that. OTOH teachers have all put a fair amount of time and effort into getting their professional qualifications. I think they are pretty unique among the professions in that they have to put up with a lot of criticism from people who
    (a) figure they know how it should really be done (b) do not have their professional qualifications.
    And of course these people are free to express their opinions too.
    
    So if there is a majority opinion against streaming in the profession we really can’t just dismiss it out of hand. On the whole, teachers know more about teaching than non-teachers do. Just like doctors, nurses, engineers and electricians.
    
    FWIW if you google round a bit about high school streaming in other countries you will find anti- sentiments in a number of them. Go figure.
    
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    October 5, 2022 4:55pm
- Philview
  
  I turned the radio this morning and caught that story as the lead item on the news. That got me into a bad mood quickly. Pure Marxism and and yet more evidence that this Government has to go next year and this ideology has to be smashed in schools.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:38am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  You have to laugh Tripe, teachers unions and teachers have been telling everyone how education should work for decades. And have been wrong every time.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:54am
  - TripeWryter
    
    In Vino:
    This time nine years ago at my local library I was running informal classes in basic English for kids who’d been allowed to progress through the school system.
    They were, for the most part, illiterate.
    Now as adults they’d come to the screeching realisation that being illiterate wasn’t cool any more.
    But you have to ask: how come their teachers over more than a decade had allowed them to progress?
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:52am
- Gravelroad
  
  I was a average, mid- stream student at high school in the 1960’s.
  This high school thought of itself as pretty damn good. But only students who excelled at sports, drama/music/art and academic subjects (in that order) were admired or even noticed.
  I decided to leave before the 7th form. To do that I had to be interviewed by the principal who wanted to know what were my future plans.
  When told, the principal laughed and said I had no show and should look to find something more realistic.
  This was the first time in my 6 year attendance at this school (including the intermediate section) that the principal had spoken to me in an individual setting. Didn’t even know my name.
  I did leave and achieved the career I had planned.
  I didn’t think streaming was a bad idea. It incentivised some students to do better and look to move up to the A stream next time – which is what I found mirrored in the workplace.
  
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  October 5, 2022 10:30am
- cmm
  
  Streaming is the only way to do things.
  
  Do we just have one league for sports players? Nope: we have pub grade, various club levels and elite. We have grades for women and people with one leg.
  
  This allows everyone a good balance of development and competition.
  
  Streaming is somewhat similar. If thick Johnnie is in with a bunch of clever kids then either, or both, of the following happen:
  * The whole class is held up waiting for Thick Johnnie to understand. It is thus a complete waste of time for the others.
  * Thick Johnnie eventually feels embarrassed about wsasting everyone elses’ time and withdraws – falling out of the system.
  
  Streaming makes the maximum usage of school time to develop the kids and make their resources available to the world.
  
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  October 5, 2022 12:22pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Here’s a great headline, which screams ‘racism of low expectations’, similar to how commentary often lumps ‘Maori, Pacifica and Disabled’ needs into a cringeworthy association:
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/teachers-union-calls-for-an-end-to-racist-practice-of-grouping-students-by-ability/I4GAZFAJWHUK3GWOAQS2NNIGUY/
  
  So race defines ability?
  There are none more racist than the single-minded ‘anti-racists’ out there.
  
  A bit like the Ali G interview-skit where the joke was when the FBI spokesperson says that ‘…only intelligent people are employed here’, and the Ali G character with deliberate irony says: “Isn’t dat a bit racialistic?”{racist}.
  
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  October 5, 2022 1:34pm
- artemisia
  
  Thought I’d mention my experience of streaming, big school. It was simply a revelation. I had almost no idea I was smart enough to be in the top stream, coming from a highly dysfunctional family. Once I realised, I put in some extra effort and stayed near the top of the class, sometimes top in subjects. No parent at prizegivings.
  
  There was pressure to leave early but I just ignored it and stayed till 7th form. A small class by that point, and I was the only one to go straight out to work.
  
  Only saying because I don’t see others with a similar story in the media, only the MoE and teacher positions.
  
  (PS wealthy now, hard times make etc …)
  
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  October 5, 2022 2:42pm
- AndyW
  
  If streaming is inherently racist (remember, white people bad and suppress other cultures) then please explain the academic success of Asians (Indian, Chinese, Filipino…) in our ‘racist’ system. The truth is it’s all about culture and values (and not having seven or eight kids)
  
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  October 5, 2022 4:34pm
- cjn
  
  John Anderson’s recent interview is with Katherine Birbalsingh (“Britain’s strictest teacher”). She is the Headmistress of a school in Wembley, London and she has firm views on the value of discipline, motivation to succeed, rewards for success and pride in uniform. Her school’s results are outstanding. She has been made the Chair of the Social Mobility Commission whose aims include raising and inspiring children from deprived backgrounds to educational excellence. Well worth a listen. When I was teaching in the Hutt Valley in the 1960’s colleagues wanted to ban Shakespeare from the curriculum as irrelevant for children from state houses.
  
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  October 5, 2022 5:13pm
Aunty

Questions.

1. Will Kiev march on Moscow?

2. Will the last remnants of the Imperial Russian Empire collapse and the country break up?

3. Will China move to retake the territory taken from it in the Far East and Central Asia by the Czars in the 17th and 18th centuries?
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October 5, 2022 9:01am
- iMP
  
  No Aunty. There is a well-worn adage amongst surveyors of history. “Never March on Moscow.” I expect the Ukrainians will stop at their UN recognised border (after retaking their annexed 2014 Crimea), consolidate, and perhaps offer Russia a sea port on the Crimea to be managed together. A peace offering. Russia us a big neighbour and have to be lived with. They may also offer citizens of Donetsk an opportunity to emigrate east if they wish.
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:17am
  - Random T Person
    
    There’s that amazing flow chart by Minard of what happened when the French gave Moscow a tilt. Didn’t go too well for the Jerries a hundred and 30 years or so later either:
    https://ageofrevolution.org/200-object/flow-map-of-napoleons-invasion-of-russia/
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:26am
  - All_on_Red
    
    If the Ukes don’t want to be Nuked they should leave Crimea alone and not turn off the Water Supply
    I bet the US will make them compromise or cut off their weapons
    Real politik is needed to end this, not more aggression
    
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    October 5, 2022 9:32am
    - rangitoto
      
      “Not more aggression”
      
      Yes. The orcs should return to Mordor.
      
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      October 5, 2022 10:40am
    - kowtow
      
      An army coup in Moscow is what’s needed .
      
      Article in yesterday’s UK DT based on interviews with Ruskie high fliers is that the “special military op” is not popular at all ,that they want to get out of Russia but have nowhere to go and could only bring limited funds anyway , that Putin is increasingly isolated and making all manner of decisions political , economic and esp military without reference to his own advisors .
      
      What astounds me is how our world “leaders” and the great and the good are still obsessing about the weather while we literally are on the brink of nuclear oblivion.
      
      If only they had spent their capital on developing civil society in all these shit holes instead of us making them powerful through trade . And the Russkies aren’t the only ones in that category either .
      
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      October 5, 2022 11:04am
    - rangitoto
      
      Ukranian soldier defending the town of Bakhmut answers Elon Musk
      
      https://twitter.com/den_kazansky/status/1577276765705469952
      
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      October 5, 2022 12:38pm
  - Aunty
    
    No Aunty. There is a well-worn adage amongst surveyors of history. “Never March on Moscow.”
    
    lol, Try telling that to the Mongols.
    
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    October 5, 2022 11:14am
    - Jack5
      
      The vastly outnumbered Mongols, and their cousins, the Manchu, trashed China, too, a number of times, and ruled it for many centuries.
      
      Russia’s Red Army prevented (outer) Mongolia from being subsumed into China in the 1920s and 1930s.
      
      About 78 per cent of the people of Russia are ethnic European-type Russians.
      
      Russia’s Tatars, Buryats, and Kalmyks are Mongolian-type ethnicities that, in total, probably outnumber the Golden Horde of Mongols who invaded, and at times, controlled, much of Russia.
      
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      October 5, 2022 12:34pm
  - Jack5
    
    Aunty’s ….Will China move to retake the territory taken from it in the Far East and Central Asia by the Czars in the 17th and 18th centuries?
    
    From Colin Thubron’s book on the Amur River:
    
    “The three Russian provinces along the Amur have a declining population of barely two million. The three Chinese provinces opposite hold almost 110 million.”
    
    Only nuclear weapons would beat the Chinese in a war between Russia and China.
    
    Densely populated countries are more vulnerable in nuclear war, just as Indonesia would be in a nuclear war with Australia.
    
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    October 5, 2022 11:18am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  No 3 more than likely
  
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  October 5, 2022 11:05am
- Frank the tank
  
  Any incursion into Russian territory (including Crimea) will likely result in tactical nuclear weapons being employed on a battlefield for the first time.
  
  So glad we have Biden poised over the red button on the other side……..
  
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  October 5, 2022 11:21am
- Aunty
  
  To answer my own questions.
  
  1. No. There would be no international support for the Ukraine to do that. The Ukraine is totally dependent on international support particularly from the US and Europe for the foreseeable future, for both prosecuting the war and for the reconstruction that will be required afterwards. They cannot afford to alienate that support. They will stop at the border.
  
  2. It might. A military defeat for Moscow will have catastrophic consequences for it.
  
  3. In the short term no. In the long term, highly likely. It will depend on the outcome of 2.
  
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  October 5, 2022 12:14pm
iMP

The irony of Alec Baldwin constantly lampooning and mocking Trump, now on manslaughter charges.
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October 5, 2022 9:04am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump the mediator. This I see as a possibility. Let’s face it, Trump knows how to negotiate. I will again repeat Trump’s words: “You don’t have to like someone to respect them, and with that respect you gain respect back”
I see Elon Musk is also offering similar – these men are thinkers, they know the end consequences if things do not work out.
https://redrightvideos.com/president-trump-offers-to-help-save-america-and-the-world-from-a-global-catastrophe/?
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October 5, 2022 9:04am
Warren

Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister has found a new catch phrase on tax this after being found out on the payout to New Zealander’s to help them over rising costs and high inflation, but it all went wrong with payouts to the wealthy living overseas and even those that had died.
So Jacinda Ardern’s new catch phrase is
” Nat’s tax will arode savings and will boost inflation.” So isn’t this the pot calling the kettle, especially from someone that has paid out millions to people that weren’t illegible for the three payments.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jacinda-ardern-warns-national-party-tax-policy-will-boost-inflation-nicola-willis-says-laughable-attack-was-political-mischief-making/4PKHQFFQ6CPL7SCE3DRQJ7QSY4/
Maybe our Prime Minister should look back on them payments ,then see at the next election what the voter says about her blatant bribesand inability to understand the tax system.
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October 5, 2022 9:06am
- mandk
  
  Ardern is a complete ignoramus, when it comes to economics.
  
  Labour’s three part give away to people earning less than $70k has had exactly the same effect on inflation and savings as a tax reduction.
  
  And their proposed jobs tax will also reduce savings.
  
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  October 5, 2022 10:02am
  - gravedodger
    
    “Ardern is a complete ignoramus”, nuff said!
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:59am
  - kowtow
    
    Ardern is a complete ignoramus. Full stop.
    
    On her first day on the campaign trail after rolling Angry , she was asked her opinion of the Reserve Bank interest rate meeting that day .
    
    She didn’t know it was on .
    
    The Media gave her a Get out of Gaol card and didn’t press her or make an issue of it .
    
    Now had that been a “centre right” polly there’d have been auto da fe .
    
    Similarly she was ambush questioned once ” What are the 3 articles of the treaty”
    
    She fluffed and there was Wily E Willy Jackson behind her , like the sock puppet she is , prompting her .
    
    Again if the Media Pardy weren’t the die in the ditch cultural marxists that they are , that would have been one of the greatest political lampoons , played over and over ,in the manner they constantly covered all things Trump. and she’d be nothing but chump .
    
    Now not knowing your articles in and of itself is no big deal ; but it is when you make such a virtue , and take such public pride in making teaching NZ history such a great personal/political achievement.
    
    She is nothing but a front who liderally plays dress up for the photo op and the media pardy consumes it avidly as does her stupid swing voter , the people you see still wearing their masks in the public.
    
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    October 5, 2022 11:38am
Maggy Wassilieff

When did it become fashionable to try and close down free and open speech?

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/how-to-argue-in-a-free-and-open-society
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October 5, 2022 9:14am
- Random T Person
  
  Ask the Brave New World PM
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:58am
  - Nickc2
    
    The Aust media (Sky News Aust) are predicting she won’t be standing for election next year. They were intermating that her speech to the UN was all about getting her new job there established where she will be responsible for a department controlling misinformation and hate speech.
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:10am
Paulus

Of course nobody on the roads problems says that all EV’s and particularly Busses which many are now EV are much heavuer than an ordinary vehicle.
No wonder the road surfaces are failing more.
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October 5, 2022 9:19am
- Yvette
  
  America’s new weight problem: Electric cars
  While green at first blush, moving all that battery lard around poses challenges for EV proliferation.
  EVs have plenty of challenges: usable range, cost, availability, depreciation and model choice. But on top of all those is their weight.
  EVs tend to weigh a lot more than internal combustion engine cars: A Tesla Model 3 Performance with AWD weighs 4,065 pounds — 379 pounds more than a BMW 330i XDrive. A Tesla Model S Long Range weighs 4,560 pounds — 510 pounds more than a BMW 540i XDrive, which is no lightweight.
  https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/americas-new-weight-problem-electric-cars/
  
  And in answer to a question that occurs to me – What implications are there for EV or Hybrid car smashes? –
  
  Hybrids also have added weight from batteries as well as an engine under the hood. So the difference seems largely attributable to sheer mass. But that extra weight can be bad news for people who get hit by electric vehicles, as the added impact force gets transferred to the other, lighter vehicle.
  
  So will insurance increase for the crasher or crashee – or both?
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:42am
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘Electric cars’ impact on air pollution isn’t as straightforward as you might think. The vehicles themselves pollute only slightly less than a gasoline car because their massive batteries and consequent weight leads to more particulate pollution from greater wear on brakes, tires and roads. On top of that, the additional electricity they require can throw up large amounts of air pollution depending on how it’s generated. One recent study found that electric cars put out more of the most dangerous particulate air pollution than gasoline-powered cars in 70% of U.S. states. An American Economic Association study found that rather than lowering air pollution, on average each additional electric car in the U.S. causes additional air-pollution damage worth $1,100 over its lifetime.’
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/down-with-electric-vehicles.php
    
    And there’s this;
    ‘If every country achieved its stated ambitious electric-vehicle targets by 2030, the world would save 231 million tons of CO2 emissions. Plugging these savings into the standard United Nations Climate Panel model, that comes to a reduction of 0.0002 degree Fahrenheit by the end of the century.’
    EVs are a good solution for small local trips but to say they are a solution to the ‘Klimate Krisis’ is just not true.
    
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    October 5, 2022 10:22am
    - rangitoto
      
      Given most EVs are powered by coal, the 231 millions tons savings figure is highly doubtful.
      
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      October 5, 2022 10:42am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  The most popular EV is the Nissan LEAF. A 2020 Leaf (40 kWh) weighs 1588 kg (3501 lbs).
  
  A 2020 Toyota Corolla is 3060 lbs (441 lbs more, or 13% more). And a Corrolla is a small car, most ICE cars are much heavier.
  
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  October 5, 2022 5:55pm
Rusty

My take on why youth crime and a host of other problems like health and housing are getting out of hand in this country.

It is because our PM is obsessed with climate change/ global warming.

This pet project of hers takes precedence over every other issue facing Nzers.

Don’t be surprised if she gives another nonsense speech blaming climate change for all the problems in our society.
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October 5, 2022 9:30am
- All_on_Red
  
  Our PM is obsessed with Censorship and suppression of Free Speech.
  Nasty little Authoritarian that she is.
  
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  October 5, 2022 10:37am
Harry Knuts

I suggested about a month ago Home Invasions will be next on the list for yoof, probably once they get bored of late night ram-raids/robberies – https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/fence-jumping-youths-starting-to-enter-christchurch-houses/R7YCRT5CQQLVEYPHPEXUNAEVWY/
Let’s hope the kids don’t go down this path, usually ends in violence.
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October 5, 2022 9:33am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The useless bureaucracy in NZ has to stop. The swamp needs to be drained. The whole Public Sector is full of useless bastards being useless bastards.
A popular multi-use trail in Fiordland is incomplete and the trust that created it in limbo as it waits for the Department of Conservation (DoC) to review plans that are years overdue. A 2km section falls within Fiordland National Park. No bikes in parks is ridiculous. Stupidity at it’s best.
Remember girls and boys, we are paying their salaries, and for what???? Red tape creates red tape.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/travel/news/trail-bogged-down-in-bureaucracy/ar-AA12ufAD?
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October 5, 2022 9:44am
surfing

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11277893/Lorde-forced-delete-Instagram-post-accidentally-breaking-election-law.html

I think she should be prosecuted. Perhaps the newspapers too for publicising her endorsement. Lorde has a lot of influence like it or not, this could change the election result.
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October 5, 2022 9:45am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Dirty, stinking, One News told us about this last night, making a point of telling everybody who she voted for. They tossed in some comment about how Jacinda had joined the list of high profile people who support Collins (clearly trying to make out there lots of support for him).
  Pretty scummy tactic.
  
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  October 5, 2022 1:55pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

There are about as many Buddhists as Muslims in USA.
Since we’re all equal, and all commit crime at the same rates, it is quite remarkable how well the MSM are hiding all the Buddhist attacks on malls.
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October 5, 2022 9:54am
BeaB

My worry is once the police get on top of ram raids of shops, our homes will become the next target. And there’s often a lot better jewellery than the 9 carat rubbish you’ll find in mall stores.
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October 5, 2022 9:57am
- Ghost
  
  I don’t think it will, these kids are stealing to order
  
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  October 5, 2022 9:59am
Maggie Pie

Here’s something I actually didn’t know –

Parliament’s Speaker ruled it unparliamentary & insulting to use the phrase…

“energy of a tired snail returning home from a funeral”

(Among others)

https://twitter.com/_femb0t/status/1577075797197656064
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October 5, 2022 9:59am
All_on_Red

Occasionally I take a look at some of the Blogs on DPFs sidebar.
That ‘Inside Wellington’ one seems to be run by a cycling ‘sea level rise will kill us’ zealot.
His latest interview is with a fellow nutter who doesnt want Shelly Bay to go ahead for a number of dumb reasons but especially Sea Level Rise.
Of course when challenged they all talk about predictions whilst blithely ignoring real observed data.
From 1944 to 2018 the rise in Wellington has been 2.7 mm pa- within the Global Average of 2-3 mm pa. And its NOT accelerating.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=690-011
Their beliefs are costing us millions and millions.
Bloody bunch of Science Deniers.
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October 5, 2022 10:34am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Twitter is sold. Good punch at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfxt-3ZBxt4
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October 5, 2022 10:34am
Maggy Wassilieff

What will Labour and the MSM make of this judgement?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/129949297/jamilee-ross-not-guilty-in-political-donations-case-businessmen-found-guilty
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October 5, 2022 10:50am
- Nickc2
  
  National will say they had every right sack JLR (which they did) and Cindy will do a Helen Clark and try to change the law so Chinese Donations are not subject to electoral law. That’ll suit National as well.
  
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  October 5, 2022 11:44am
surfing

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/oranga-tamariki-did-bare-minimum-to-help-abused-5-year-old-malachi-subecz-before-death/DRA7NB6DOY5IUIYC65XUO5O2LQ/

It’s an absolutely horrific case of child abuse.

Oranga Tamariki not doing so well under their new name and maori focused approach.

Maybe another name change is required to fix their problems. They could go back to CYF’s?

It is a complete systemic failure – from the daycare who photographed his injuries but did not report them, through to the hospital admission raising no concern, through to the uncle being ignored and told to go away.
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October 5, 2022 11:14am
- Blog-aholic
  
  “It’s an absolutely horrific case of child abuse.
  Oranga Tamariki not doing so well under their new name and maori focused approach.”
  
  Understatement right there. Sad, sad, sad for the poor wee man.
  
  What is sadser is there will be no change and it will happen again and again.
  
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  October 5, 2022 11:26am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And all the time that this dreadful saga played out, staff at OT were being paid big $$$$ of taxpayers’ dough.
  
  Time and time again, it appears that OT staff are too damn lazy to carry out their core duties.
  
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  October 5, 2022 11:48am
  - Nickc2
    
    Do they have duties? I thought they employed Consultants to their own Consultants all via Mahuta Corp to do the work. OT or whatever it’s called in today’s woke world is just there to take the Taxpayer’s cash and dish some of it out (to relatives of course).
    
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    October 5, 2022 11:53am
  - Countrygirl
    
    And they are going on strike soon to get a wage rise because they deal with difficult people.
    
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    October 5, 2022 8:39pm
- oldfella
  
  surfing: was talking to a local Maori mum the other day and she said she hated the name Oranga Tamariki. Thought Child Youth and Family made more sense and was more inclusive.
  
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  October 5, 2022 12:25pm
krazykiwi

Made me smile

[Queue mournful music]
“Every single hour in America a college student earns a useless degree the doesn’t lead to employment. For the low cost of $10,000 you can prevent Jimmy from having to get a real job to pay for his worthless degree. Melissa is a social media influencer with a bachelors in mass communication. Without your aide she’ll have to give up eating at her favourite sushi restaurant four times a week”
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October 5, 2022 12:08pm
thirteenstars

Caroline Farrow, 48, mother of four, arrested while cooking dinner for her family merely because UK police received an *allegation* of offensive Twitter posting.

Police entered her home and seized property without a warrant merely upon the basis of an allegation.

Here’s the story:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11279745/Devout-Catholic-mother-arrested-series-malicious-posts-uploaded-chat-forum-KiwiFarms.html

And here’s her interview with Mark Steyn on GB News:

https://youtu.be/yOC4TqdXed8?t=601
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October 5, 2022 12:38pm
- Inandout
  
  thirteen, is this what we have to look forward to? What sort of creatures order these cops to do such things?
  
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  October 5, 2022 1:42pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    I’m sure NZ cops have some of these powers already. Many people were paid visits during COVID for reasons, supposedly, of incitement.
    
    The recently-shelved hate speech law was only the first battle of the war. It’s clear the government has gone away and rethought their strategy, and Ardern’s UN speech about shutting down dissent is a clear statement of intent about future laws.
    
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    October 5, 2022 2:01pm
    - kowtow
      
      I reckon it was their focus group polling telling them it was a battle not worth fighting , esp with all the other controversial race stuff they desperately are pushing through.
      
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      October 5, 2022 3:12pm
Maggie Pie

The Horrid reporting(paywalled)….
Auckland is 471 Bus Drivers short which has resulted in nearly a thousand-routes-a-day being cancelled. LOL!!

Yet as my partner pointed out…. A.T. still have those nasty little pr*cks with their cameras standing in Quay Street every morning pinging taxpayers driving in bus lanes heading into their offices.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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October 5, 2022 12:39pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “…those nasty little pr*cks with their cameras standing in Quay Street every morning pinging taxpayers driving in bus lanes…”
  
  What percentage of those camera guys would be immigrants? (Or are New Zealanders happy to work for the State snitching on their countrymen?)
  
  (If the learning from Covid is anything to go by, then the answer is probably “yes.”)
  
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  October 5, 2022 1:08pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Definitely all be immigrants, Sensei.
    My partner was saying they obviously don’t understand English.
    The other day as he drove past one, he put the passenger window down, lent over and fliked him the middle-finger. The guy just nodded, smiled, and gave my partner a ‘thumbs up’
    
    Thick as 😀
    
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    October 5, 2022 2:33pm
- Ruawai
  
  If they take all the drivers off the routes where no passengers are on the bus especially in Pukekohe they will have enough drivers for the routes that are popular.
  
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  October 5, 2022 4:48pm
Jack5

Vladimir’s been busy out at the beach with a net, and perhaps a fish spear, too.

Stuff headline:

Floundering Putin gives fish
to families of Army recruits

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300705013/floundering-putin-gives-fish-to-families-of-army-recruits
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October 5, 2022 12:43pm
- DeepBlue
  
  Or these are the floaters after Nord Stream 2.
  
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  October 5, 2022 1:48pm
thirteenstars

Neil Oliver on GB News analyses Ardern’s latest attack on free speech in her recent UN speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_57hGaTsEQ

“How do you tackle climate change when others don’t believe it exists?” says Ardern as she clearly describes the role the state and censorship have in limiting opinion that is considered “misinformation”.

This speech is more than an unguarded moment; in fact it’s a sign of the confidence and the arrogance the forces of repression have assumed when at the UN the NZ PM can get up and outline the justifications for censorship of mere opinion.

Don’t say you weren’t warned. Don’t say they didn’t spell it out for all to hear. They mean it and they’re coming after you.
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October 5, 2022 12:46pm
- Prince
  
  Given that Ardern consistently claims her Govt has addressed Child Poverty, Crime and Homelessness, I would ask the same question of her. How can she solve these when she denies they exist.
  
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  October 5, 2022 12:58pm
Nickc2

Trump suing CNN and others over misinformation and lies.
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02acc60e8066200b-pi
If only, if only, we had someone with the ballz in this country to do likewise to the Govt’s Propaganda wing.
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October 5, 2022 1:04pm
- All_on_Red
  
  He has no show. He’s a Public and Political Figure.
  Besides, look at the things he says!
  
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  October 5, 2022 2:17pm
- riffer
  
  LOL. The words vexatious and ridiculous come to mind. The man is a grifter with no credibility.
  
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  October 5, 2022 3:01pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    74 million people disagree and you cant argue with how he made the economy hum. And wasn’t he right about that pipeline…
    And Nato countries underspending on defence.
    
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    October 5, 2022 3:58pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Lastly, Ardern is the biggest lying grifter I have ever seen in politics. She lies more than Trump!
      And most of her colleagues in the Nasty Party are the same.
      
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      October 5, 2022 4:00pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Ngapuhi Reveal Plans To Take Control Of Vast Marine Area.
https://stopcogovernance.site/blog/f/ngapuhi-reveal-plans-to-take-control-vast-marine-area
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Email-from-Tane.pdf
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/sea-change-tai-timu-tai-pari-hauraki-gulf-marine-spatial-plan-intro-overview-may-2017.pdf
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October 5, 2022 1:21pm
- Yabster
  
  racist disgrace – “driven by two Blonde immigrants that have mokos and call themselves Maori”- ffs
  
  Imagine being told you can’t beach a boat etc- fucking lunatics.
  
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  October 5, 2022 2:05pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I like going to the ‘Mokes’ in my boat
    
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    October 5, 2022 5:17pm
Ghost

Bloody he’ll, just picked up my monthly acid reflux pills, gone from $23 a month to $45. Thanks labour
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October 5, 2022 1:41pm
- Inandout
  
  Ghost, had a mate who used to suffer reflux and he cured it by not eating between meals.
  
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  October 5, 2022 1:44pm
  - Ghost
    
    Yeah I only eat lunch and dinner, my acid comes from histamine intolerance.
    
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    October 5, 2022 1:50pm
- MCōs
  
  Get a prescription from the GP.
  $5 for three months
  
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  October 5, 2022 4:44pm
  - Ghost
    
    It is prescription, but I can’t take the subsidised generic
    
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    October 5, 2022 4:53pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Drink some Jack Daniels, like a 1L bottle a week. Also some Crown Royal, 1 bottle a week. Works for me. I have not felt acid reflux or throwing up for years.
  
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  October 5, 2022 5:21pm
riffer

I note with interest that, despite all the negativity about the books of late, they appear to be nowhere as bad as expected.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/130076542/government-books-healthier-than-expected-as-emergency-economic-covid-response-ends

I guess they will be frantic at 41 Pipitea St trying to find a way to spin this as an example of how we are all horribly overtaxed.
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October 5, 2022 1:54pm
- rangitoto
  
  How much of the deficit has been transferred to SOE’s?
  
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  October 5, 2022 2:16pm
  - riffer
    
    Not sure where to find that but our debt to GDP ration is ridiculously low compared to other 1st World nations.
    
    https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/debt-to-gdp-ratio-by-country
    
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    October 5, 2022 2:59pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Not sure comparing us to other Countries debt to GDP is a winning argument.
      The real problem here is that they have wasted all that money with little to show for it. Unless you call inflation and rising interest rates a success.
      
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      October 5, 2022 3:45pm
      - riffer
        
        I can guarantee you, had they not done it, National would be crucifying them over how many businesses went to the wall.
        
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        October 5, 2022 6:14pm
- All_on_Red
  
  They took $5.8B in Tax they didn’t expect (so overtaxed us) and because they are so useless at delivery they didn’t spend the money they had allocated.
  This lack of delivery is being shown up in all the stats as NZers situation worsens.
  Tried to get a Hip operation lately?
  
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  October 5, 2022 2:16pm
  - riffer
    
    As a matter of fact I have a knee replacement tomorrow. But no, haven’t tried to get a hip operation.
    
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    October 5, 2022 2:52pm
    - kowtow
      
      How long were you on the waiting list?
      
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      October 5, 2022 3:08pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Good luck with the knee.
      
      Do tell us – public or private? If the former, how long since first diagnosis/ advice that an op is necessary?
      
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      October 5, 2022 3:14pm
      - Ghost
        
        It is disgusting how long people are being made to wait for hip and knee replacements in unmanageable pain
        
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        October 5, 2022 3:29pm
      - riffer
        
        Private through ACC. Motorcycle accident 11/9/2017 (not my fault). Broke a bunch of bones, nerve damage (brachial plexus injuries required nerve reconstruction and grafting to reverse upper arm paralysis). Nobody bothered to MRI the knee or else they would have discovered I retore my ACL and ripped the cartilage out. Walked on it for 3 years after the bones healed until in December 2020 I tripped in a pothole and the knee swelled up hugely and didn’t get better. Went to the GP in December 2020, sent to specialist February 2021. The specialist put in the claim to ACC in March 2022. So 15 months to get to the point where a surgeon had a good case with ACC and six months to assess it. Once approved three weeks wait before surgery. Hasn’t cost me a cent though, and I am fairly young (55) and can handle pain so I’m not complaining. From Scottish and Latvian stock so I have been taught not to kick up a fuss and get on with it.
        
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        October 5, 2022 3:35pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        @Ghost
        A friend who is a Surgeon says its over 9 months and more likely a year.
        They stopped doing operations for 9 months last year. Nothing was done. He said they could easily have kept doing operations during Covid. And now they are trying to deal with it.
        Funnily enough he said Akld DHB wont contract the work to private clinics whereas every other DHB does.
        
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        October 5, 2022 3:49pm
      - Ghost
        
        Yeah. Relative needed a hip replacement last year. Had it done this August and only then after a complete collapse of the hip, the last 6 weeks before it was dine he was on morphine hourly to try control the pain. Gp said once it was done he was surprised the pain hadn’t caused a heart attack
        
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        October 5, 2022 3:54pm
      - riffer
        
        I would agree with that All_on_Red based on my sample set on exactly one.
        
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        October 5, 2022 3:51pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        My sympathy for you riffer – Knee/knee joint replacement is very painful. Had my right knee done 10 years ago and was supposed to have the left one done a few months later, but though without any cartelege, I had no pain, so canned it & its still ok. But the post op. pain was pretty intense. Was supposed to be out of action for at least 6 weeks, but like you I have a high pain threshold, so was back walking & driving in 3 weeks. Pain subsided after 6 weeks, but on pain killers for that time.
        Good luck.
        
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        October 5, 2022 5:16pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  NZ Herald headline a bit different, both in the source of the extra $$ and the fact it was a pleasant surprise (not a masterclass in strategy):
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/corporate-profits-give-grant-robertson-a-93b-surprise-as-government-books-inch-closer-to-surplus/JRLR66PD5Z47BMWU2T4OAT26HQ/
  
  It has already been noted that with inflation growing that we can expect the government tax take to grow, say GST, but that doesn’t mean the Government done anything praiseworthy as a given or that it is ‘good’.
  
  More than half of this current ‘corporate’ windfall is from the rising of worker’s wages, meaning more PAYE for Robbo.
  More $$ for him to piss up the wall.
  
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  October 5, 2022 3:45pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I had to stop the lies at 2 minutes. Saying what other Countries are doing, and what inflation is in those Countries, IS JUST ANOTHER DIVERSION.
  We don’t care. What we care about is say 500 gm of butter is knocking on the door of $7. Not so long ago (5 years) it was under $5.
  Robertson, the place you are Deputy Prime Minister of is NEW ZEALAND. Seems like the economy outside NZ is more important to you!
  
  riffer, thanks for giving me the opportunity to expose Roberson’s lies
  
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  October 5, 2022 5:34pm
- Nickc2
  
  Crearive accounting at work again?
  
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  October 5, 2022 7:09pm
slightlyrighty

So if your tax models are based on a 19 billion dollar deficit, and your government is responsible for the HIGHEST AMOUNT of Tax Revenue in NZ History, and your calculations are out by 10 BILLION dollars, where is the justification for not providing tax relief?
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October 5, 2022 2:05pm
- riffer
  
  Well, if we look at the UK example, because it will cause disaster in the financial markets, and be extremely politically unpopular.
  
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  October 5, 2022 2:53pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Truss should have stuck to her guns. The Political and Establishment Class are wrong. But didn’t they cause a ruckus.
    40% Tax is too high anyway, let alone 45.
    She will cut it next year.
    They have a self inflicted energy krisis to work through but at least Truss is now opening up Fracking.
    That will save their economy- not like Germany who are facing a reduction in manufacturing as companies save power- lol, no choice as there isn’t any power!
    
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    October 5, 2022 3:40pm
    - MCōs
      
      “Truss should have stuck to her guns”
      One is reminded of the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
      The Charge of the Light Brigade
      
      Into the jaws of Death
      Into the mouth of Hell
      
      All rather heroic & terribly British, of course, but ultimately stupid.
      
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      October 5, 2022 4:38pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Specious comparison
        
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        October 5, 2022 5:20pm
      - MCōs
        
        It may be an exaggeration, but it’s obvious if the government had pressed on the way they going the consensus is not only were the conservatives in the shit, but so too was the country.
        
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        October 5, 2022 6:07pm
- riffer
  
  Additionally, the reason for the highest amount of tax revenue in New Zealand history is because of the highest amount of business profit in New Zealand history.
  
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  October 5, 2022 3:36pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  This government is so useless that they can’t even spend all the money they lifted from our pockets. They can’t even give it away, though God knows they have tried.
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:31pm
graham

My, I’m glad we live in a thoroughly modern society that “follows the science”.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/creepy-four-star-signs-shared-by-the-worlds-worst-criminals/OYFTQF2C2GBJV7WRES4POPK44U/

If you are one of these four star signs, you might just be a serial killer in the making.

Astrology believers around the world are losing their minds over this list, which features the names of some of history’s most feared and famous criminals next to their zodiac signs.

People with Pisces, Sagittarius, Gemini or Virgo star signs appear to be more likely than the general population to become a serial killer.

“These are the zodiac signs of the most famous serial killers,” TikTok user Lauren Skirvin, who made a now viral video about the subject, explained.

“For those of you that don’t believe in astrology, how can you explain how there is only four signs included in this long list.”

Yes, the NZ Herald sees fit to run an article around the “science” of astrology, where apparently if you are unlucky enough to be born on a certain date you’re virtually doomed to turn into a rabid serial killer.

Sigh …
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October 5, 2022 2:33pm
- Ghost
  
  Nz herald and a lot of other nz papers always have done astrology, it’s in lifestyle section
  
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  October 5, 2022 2:38pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    So I’m a Gemini – and haven’t killed anyone yet. And shit – I’m 80 y/o – so I’d better get my arse into gear.
    Anyone out there want to die anytime soon ?
    Thought not. 😆
    
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    October 5, 2022 5:20pm
    - Ghost
      
      Good news, you share a star sign with Xi Jinping, I’m sure he’s taking up your quota. I wonder as a Pisces if someone is taking up my quota
      
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      October 5, 2022 5:25pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yeah, I am ready to die, but only 70.
      I will try not to kill anyone – push me and find out. Anyway, that silly bitch makes a living off her crap? The World today is a stranger world than when I was born.
      
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      October 5, 2022 5:43pm
- riffer
  
  34 people. That is one alarmingly small sample set.
  
  Science doesn’t even come into it. This is pure clickbait bullshit.
  
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  October 5, 2022 2:55pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You clicked —–
    
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    October 5, 2022 5:59pm
mogg

Robbo’s determination to keep increasing the tax burden on families by not adjusting for inflation, and
I see that he is saying that ‘now is not the time to
fritter money away on tax cuts’. In a dig at National .
Given the opportunity to keep their own money by adjusting the tax brackets upwards for inflation, families would be able to fritter their money away on luxuries likes bread, milk, butter, cheese and maybe the occasional steak . Robbo is just rent a gob on steroids, it’s about time somebody reminded him of his $10 billion loss on Covid QE bonds.
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October 5, 2022 3:11pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Worst Political Ad Ever. I think it is quite good. Puts Whitmer on the ground and Trump endorsed Dixon in the light.
https://nz.yahoo.com/news/worst-political-ad-ever-video-091009420.html
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October 5, 2022 3:39pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This is going to happen. It will be a cleanup. Fauci is number 6 on the list. 11, 12 and 13 will be great. Inflation at 20 will come right after the others get into gear.
https://nz.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-hit-list-republicans-212449006.html
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October 5, 2022 3:51pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  A lot of other things need fixing. This shows (not all) of what the Elite Democrats have done to America. They are desperately desperate to hold power and whitewash all of it.
  https://nz.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-hit-list-republicans-212449006.html
  
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  October 5, 2022 3:54pm
Chris Nisbet

I’m a bit surprised that Bunnings are denying the use of facial recognition in their stores. I assumed that it was widespread nowadays in retail malls and larger shops. In fact, I thought it went well beyond basic facial recognition, using it to help design shop/thoroughfare layout etc.
I work on the basis that they know when I arrive, know where I go, know which shops I enter, and know what I buy.
At least.
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October 5, 2022 5:02pm
- MCōs
  
  If you think Bunnings, or anyone else, is gathering such info they must tell you as I understand this web page.
  https://privacy.org.nz/tools/knowledge-base/view/485?t=120522_168918
  
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  October 5, 2022 5:59pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Uptick. But how do they use this facial recognition when Jaspinda enforced wearing masks? Staying inside, and do not even talk to your neighbour?
    You know dam well that is what Jaspinda said.
    Baaaaaa!
    
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    October 5, 2022 6:06pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Probably just tracking your phone movement
  
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  October 5, 2022 8:33pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Prime News has just informed us that an ARCTIC blast is moving up the country.

It must be lost.
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October 5, 2022 5:36pm
- Ghost
  
  AWww, well points for getting it half right
  
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  October 5, 2022 5:39pm
- Jack5
  
  Shouldn’t Prime and other news media be using the Te Reo name the Maori discoverer “gifted” to Antarctica?
  
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  October 5, 2022 5:56pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It is over there >>>>>>>>>>
  
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  October 5, 2022 6:09pm
  - Ghost
    
    Can we give them credit that they haven’t thought it is part of hurricane ian?
    
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    October 5, 2022 6:12pm
- kowtow
  
  yeah their teammates on 3 asked where’s spring gone .
  
  idiots.
  
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  October 5, 2022 7:19pm
Jack5

Can the US control this?

Saudi Arabia, Russia, and other oil producers are believed to be poised to announce deep cuts in output. The cuts are expected to be announced at a meeting of “OPEC Plus” tonight (NZ time) in Vienna, reports the Financial Times.

Saudi Arabia and Russia are pushing for reductions of one million to two million barrels per day, though this might be phased in over months.

Analysts say this will likely trigger counter-measures by the US.

Oil prices have fallen from about $US120 a barrel in early June. Brent crude, $US91.50 today, is up 8 per cent on last week.

Russia is not a member of OPEC, but is part of the broader group, “OPEC Plus”.

The United Arab Emirates Energy and Infrastructure Minister, Suhail Al Mazrouei, a former president of OPEC, said on CNBC earlier this year that no other country could match Russia’s energy output.

When energy importers spoke to OPEC Plus, “they need to speak to us including Russia, ” the Minister said.
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October 5, 2022 5:47pm
Countrygirl

I note on the news tonight about police using an undercover cop to catch people using their cell phones while driving. It wasn’t that which was concerning me, it was that the name of the high up cop defending it was not Coster. Where is that guy? He seems to have been completely off the scene since the parliamentary protestors
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October 5, 2022 6:34pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/warriors/130082386/warriors-star-josh-curran-reportedly-in-group-removed-from-nightclub
Obviously at some time in the recent past the term “Star” has been redefined: or perhaps ( in the current and popular vernacular ) “re-imagined”.
Sports people who are known as “stars” are those such as the Williams sisters, Nadal, Federer, Shane Warne, Ponting, Woods, SVG, Brock, etc etc
Who the hell has ever heard of this twit ?
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