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krazykiwi

I see that U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty has ordered NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and other leading federal officials in charge of the response to Covid to be deposed (testify under oath).

This relates to public officials pressuring social media companies to violate citizen’s free speech rights guaranteed under the 1st Amendment.

Fauci is donkey deep in this, and he’s slippery. When a written statement was required as part of discovery he “forgot” to sign it while it somehow managing to have it signed by an underling.
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October 25, 2022 8:05am
- Nickc2
  
  If found guilty, Biden’ll pardon em. Thats the American way eh?
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:09am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Fauci needs to be put in jail. Imo he is responsible for the ‘gain of function’ research in Wuhan, be guiding funds to the Lab.
  He is 81. Why does he do it? He is not short of a dollar. There is only one answer – population control like Bill Gates.
  It is plain stupid. Get a dangerous virus and make it stronger and stronger.
  Death penalty as we know it is too good. For what he has done he needs a slow and painful death.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:19am
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    Fauci needs a fair trial and, if found guilty, a long prison term.
    
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    October 25, 2022 8:36am
    - Opie
      
      What would a long prison term be for someone if they are responsible for the reation of the virus that killed (according to the narrative) 6.5 million people?
      
      Over here you would probably get 2 years prison, discounted to one year for pleading guilty and further discounted to 6 months home detention if you say that maoris know everything and take a te reo course.
      
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      October 25, 2022 8:53am
      - Bobba Fret
        
        With the right judge over here, probably home D.
        
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        October 25, 2022 12:47pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      He is 81. Long prison term is not enough.
      Waterboarding. Torture, for the torture he is responsible for.
      
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      October 25, 2022 10:41am
  - surfing
    
    “population control like Bill Gates”
    
    Naturally. But, did you know Bill Gates is also a lizard person. With laser eyes.
    
    Wifi is also carrying the covid signal that infects people with covid. Bill Gates engineered that too.
    
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    October 25, 2022 9:58am
    - Lance
      
      For once I agree with you (albeit your sarcasm).
      These daily unhinged rants by the conspiracy theorists are quite amusing.
      
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      October 25, 2022 10:35am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      So they have got to you as well?
      
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      October 25, 2022 10:54am
- Frank the tank
  
  He’ll be the first one that the GOP goes after should they as expected win the house and the senate come November.
  
  The old coot will be forced to defend him and when the evidence piles up again look like the cretin that he is.
  
  The ‘Feltch’ will likely be forced to take a plea bargain of some type.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:26am
Cassandra

Stabbing, ramraids, shop window breaking – all on one page in the Auckland paper yesterday. This is the new normal under Labour.
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October 25, 2022 8:10am
- backster
  
  Jacinda will do something about it…Shucks she has had to duck away to the Antarctic leaving it to the vacuum in leadership.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:36am
  - Paulus
    
    Grunter can hardly be called a vacuum – he may be piss and wind, but that is why what he does all smells.
    
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    October 25, 2022 1:09pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Soon it will compromise the whole paper unless the Govt wakes up and toughens up the woke Police and the whole woke Justice system. This lawlessness has to be nipped in the bud before we have two generations of arseholes.
  Customs need a shakeup as well. These jewels are going overseas, there is far too much for the NZ black market.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:48am
  - Prince
    
    Not going to happen. Useless Little created this situation through his ‘Justice Summit’ in 2018.
    https://www.justice.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Publications/hapaitia-summit-playback.pdf
    
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    October 25, 2022 11:03am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Soon the newspapers and Stuff will not be allowed to report the crimes. That’ll fix it.
    
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    October 25, 2022 12:51pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Free speech – only after Jaspinda has had it redacted.
      
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      October 25, 2022 1:11pm
- Its only I
  
  The new normal yes but not linked to Labour in any real way in the papers.
  Labour standing by our sides and every bit a victim just like us…..apparently.
  
  Personally I blame, nine years of neglect by National for this wave of crime, not 14.5 (average) years of neglect by the criminals parents.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:49am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I expect that the area around the Christchurch bus interchange will become a no go wasteland. So much for encouraging people to use public transport. 😅
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:31am
Tony Stuart

Bravo Kate McNamara from the NZ Herald. Has the smoking gun in the Mahuta Affair been found (Paywalled):

Government minister Nanaia Mahuta put her young relative Waimirirangi Ormsby on a list of candidates for a paid appointment to the working group that produced the He Puapua report, documents released to the Herald under the provisions of the OIA indicate.

A briefing document prepared by Te Puni Kōkiri (the Ministry of Maori Development) in 2019 states that early in the process of choosing appointees for the working group, Mahuta, then Māori Development Minister, identified potential candidates to her officials.

It also illuminates an appointment process whereby Mahuta selected the candidates to take to the Cabinet’s Appointments and Honours Committee for formal agreement.

Mahuta declared her conflict of interest in the appointment of Waimirirangi Ormsby (nee Koopu-Stone) to the Cabinet Committee, which was chaired by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. But the appointment remains contentious for several reasons.

Mahuta recently suggested to the media that decision-making for the appointments was made by officials. It’s also controversial because the Cabinet Manual – which guides Government Ministers in matters of conflict of interest including the appearance of a conflict – recommends, though the language is not absolute, that where a minister has a conflict of interest and also has ministerial responsibility, mitigation should go farther than a simple declaration of interest.

Last month, Mahuta told reporters that questions about the appointment of Waimirirangi Ormsby should be directed to the department: “That’s a matter for Te Puni Kōkiri, there were a number of names that were put up in relation to, I think, the working group you’re referring to, and that was last term. Yeah, so there were a number of names with a number of requisite skills and a number of considerations but the point at which I saw that, by recollection, was at the point where a shortlist was made and those decisions were made by the department.”

The briefing document of May 28, 2019, prepared for Mahuta, stated: “We ask that you consider the range of potential appointees, and select a total of five individuals, who you wish to put forward for appointment. When you have selected the individuals you wish to appoint, the next stage of the process is for us to confirm their availability and willingness to be appointed.”

It appears that a long-list of names was attached to the briefing but was redacted. The briefing also noted: “you have previously identified a number of potential appointees you would like to consider”.

Last week, Mahuta declined to answer questions about the discrepancy between her comments and the briefing.

A spokesperson said “there’s nothing further to add to previous comments to [the] NZ Herald on this question.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/minister-nanaia-mahutas-role-in-appointing-her-young-relation-to-government-work/QRWCDGKWR4H3W2JPTVIVWYMXAM/

There is a clear discrepancy between what Nanaia Mahuta told media a few months ago, and what Kate McNamara has disclosed. The PM should be getting her Minister in for a “please explain”, but of course she is off the grid for the next few days, headed to the ice. How convenient, that the PM won’t be around to answer questions in Parliament!

You can also read Thomas Cranmer’s take on this story here:

https://twitter.com/kehetauhauaga/status/1584618762959224834
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October 25, 2022 8:11am
- Nickc2
  
  Will Nania Mahuta be the next to join Materia Turei, sexual deviates, and Ministerial incompetents as lumps under Cindy’s Office carpet?
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:22am
- artemisia
  
  “…. by recollection …” is code for ‘my staff and officials are way too busy with to go looking for what I signed off on years ago’.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:27am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Not a bit of it. It’s code for “I remember culling the long list and putting my niece at the top of it, but I’m going to say I don’t remember nuffink and hope you’ll shut up.”
    
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    October 25, 2022 12:13pm
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    I figured ‘by recollection’ just meant she was telling a porky, and if/when she’s found out she can say “my bad, my pesky memory let me down”.
    I presume that most of what I hear from our leaders is lies and obfuscation The truth slips out by mistake from time to time.
    
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    October 25, 2022 1:26pm
- kowtow
  
  In the print edition it’s buried way back in the Business section.
  
  What business ?
  
  Funny business.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:29am
  - kowtow
    
    They could have put it in the Entertainment section.
    
    All in the family.
    
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    October 25, 2022 8:58am
- surfing
  
  She should be sacked, if it is proved she lied and is running around appointing family members.
  
  Discrepancies are never good.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:47am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “PM won’t be around to answer questions in Parliament”
  That is the plan, as if we did not know. She is heading for the hills at every chance.
  I wonder if she remembers Chairing that meeting, and give us a breakdown of what was said? There’s a challenge for you Jaspinda. Fill ya boots
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:52am
  - nathie
    
    That VIP 757 of hers is getting a good work out!
    
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    October 25, 2022 9:00am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I think she will be on a US Air Force plane.
      
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      October 25, 2022 10:52am
      - Dougal10
        
        A nz herc is going south at the moment. It looks like it a special mission for the jet setting pm not a tag along ride with the yanks.
        
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        October 25, 2022 11:36am
      - kowtow
        
        Just checked flight radar.
        
        KIW293 ex Chch
        
        RNZAF Lockheed C 130 H.
        
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        October 25, 2022 11:52am
      - kowtow
        
        Uh oh
        
        Now approaching Chch .
        
        It’s being tracked by a lot of people.
        
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        October 25, 2022 1:50pm
      - Ghost
        
        Canceled due to bad weather
        
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        October 25, 2022 1:53pm
      - Squeek
        
        The Hercules is on its way back. Didn’t make it to the destination, which has been a common theme with NZ planes lately. Perhaps they should have bumped a few more passengers off.
        
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        October 25, 2022 1:59pm
      - Ghost
        
        Just bad weather, nothing to do with the plane
        
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        October 25, 2022 2:01pm
    - GazzaW
      
      C’mon guys. Do you not know Jacinda yet? Right now there’s a Gulfair 60 executive jet midway between NZ and Antarctica and I’m picking that’s our PM. she wont be strapped up in the webbing on a Herc for hours on end.
      
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      October 25, 2022 1:48pm
      - Ghost
        
        https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300720422/prime-minister-jacinda-arderns-flight-to-antarctica-turned-around
        
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        October 25, 2022 1:50pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    And you can be damn sure that all the bureaucrats will be delaying any request to provide information about how Mahuta’s relatives got appointments or were awarded contracts.
    
    https://twitter.com/kehetauhauaga/status/1583229544500060161/photo/1
    
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    October 25, 2022 9:20am
- RockyJ
  
  This is also the minister who claimed that the Crown Law office wrote an opinion saying that Three Waters is a legitimate treaty claim for Maori. An opinion that she has not been able to produce when required by the OIA.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:13am
- Paulus
  
  Just imagine of she was a National Party Minister – the outcry from the media would be deafening followed by a resignation being screamed for until they got it. – but here no way she is one of the protected persons and her family.
  She has enough power in Government to do no wrong whatever.
  
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  October 25, 2022 1:33pm
krazykiwi

A cruise ship is berthed in Wellington. It’s been a while.
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October 25, 2022 8:12am
- MCōs
  
  Fresh southerlie & 9°
  Might be the last for awhile
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:16am
  - krazykiwi
    
    True. Bloody cold here today.
    
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    October 25, 2022 8:38am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Cold up here too. 15 degrees, but that breeze bites right in
      
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      October 25, 2022 8:54am
    - Opie
      
      Wellington weather is hardly aspirational but it’s been particularly bad this year.
      
      Late October and still getting frosts and single digit temperatures. A cold wet woke socialist shit hole.
      
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      October 25, 2022 9:36am
- Frank the tank
  
  Wait till they come ashore and take a trip past the homeless and hotel accommodation set…..
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:29am
- Scott
  
  Well I can right now recommend Fiji. Bula! 😁
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:54am
- Charmaine Hawke
  
  It is noted in the industry these early season cruises are for the very hardy the Tasman is not the most forgiving October-December.
  It is nice to see them back though.
  
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  October 25, 2022 10:18am
- kiwikidsnz
  
  News just in…a cruise ship with Covid cases on board
  
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  October 25, 2022 2:58pm
G152

Last night I was browsing Maori TV and came across a story of violence where a gang member gave his partner the bash for months until she died.
He got life which is more than 10 years and less than 20.
And the womans parents asked why and how.
Any chance we can get the death penalty back?
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October 25, 2022 8:12am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Good idea, but with crooked Police and crooked Justice system, it’s too easy to get the wrong man.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:56am
- rouppe
  
  Is this the one with the ad that asked:
  
  Why are Maori women overrepresented in these situations
  
  Because I would have thought the answer to that was “Maori men”.
  
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  October 25, 2022 12:28pm
Warren

How can you be sure that this Government will not start to minimize what sentences hardened criminal have to do, while I acknowledge that community service is the lower level of crime and Covid-19 was the cause of many hours 81,000 being remitted under the now-expired Epidemic Preparedness Notice because of difficulty with the restrictions making it difficult for sentences to be completed It seems the Minister is only to willing to make out they are only minor infringements and not worth making a fuss over.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/revealed-why-govt-wiped-tens-of-thousands-of-community-service-work-hours/H25L3IJLAJBMTPW7DPNX45LGBM/
Kelvin Davis is not the right person to be in charge of corrections because he is weak and inept , always making excuse for his own making as his excuse to the media about Simon O’Connor with ,yeah well,that’s National. That’s the sort of thing they will say in opposition.
” The reality is they’d have the same advice in Government that I received. ”
Another Minister that blames and lies his arse off to cover his weak ability on the portfolio’s he holds.
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October 25, 2022 8:16am
- Gravelroad
  
  @Warren-
  “Kelvin Davis is not the right person to be in charge of corrections because he is weak and inept.”
  Kelvin Davis is not the right person to be in charge of corrections because he does not have an open mind.
  His utterances and actions come from an entrenched position about crime and punishment – not based on balanced evidence- but influenced by personal, politicised agendas.
  He is a failure in the modern world.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:31am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Minister of Feelings
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:58am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Kelvin Davis is not the right person to be in charge of a cake stall at a school fair.
  
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  October 25, 2022 1:05pm
  - peterwn
    
    But he was successfully in charge of a whole school in his previous career.
    
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    October 25, 2022 1:58pm
krazykiwi

I suggest that anyone under the illusion that the UK is a functioning democracy reads this: WEF King to Appoint WEF Prime Minister
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October 25, 2022 8:18am
- Nukuleka
  
  The problem with seeing conspiracy theories in everything is that when true ‘conspiracy’ occurs folk will scoff. Just accept that Sunak is there because for anyone else the role of PM would be a poisoned chalice. He may just be the right man for the job. And isn’t it remarkable that in the UK, that bastion of ‘colonialism’ and alleged racism a person of Indian descent is now PM.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:31am
  - Nickc2
    
    Are you advocating Indians should be President/Prime Minister for all democratic Countries?
    Will India support a White person as their PM? I seriously doubt it. Without colonialism, where would India be today and why are so many Indians departing their so-called utopia for countries that colonialised them?
    
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    October 25, 2022 8:41am
    - Nukuleka
      
      What a silly response, Nickc2! You know perfectly well that that was not at all what I was suggesting!
      
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      October 25, 2022 9:00am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Will India support a White person as their PM?
      
      And why not. India nearly had Sonia Gandhi as their PM., but she refused to take up the head of Congress when her husband was assassinated.
      
      Sonia Gandhi was Leader of the Opposition for 4 years.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Gandhi
      
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      October 25, 2022 9:30am
      - Nickc2
        
        Assassinations’ll do it for ya every time eh?
        
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        October 25, 2022 9:42am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Those Conservatives, eh. First appointing a series of female leaders, now an Indian migrant descendant.
    
    Meanwhile, it’s axiomatic that to lead (UK) Labour you have to be male, middle aged-to-old, white and live in Islington.
    
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    October 25, 2022 8:46am
    - Paulus
      
      With Mallard going I understand we now have over 50% female Parliamentary Members for the first time ever.
      
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      October 25, 2022 1:36pm
  - MCōs
    
    Eight weeks ago Liz Truss was the right person for the job as decided by the Conservative Party membership.
    As I recall before those people had a chance to vote on the matter Mr Sunak was the preferred choice of the same people who installed him as leader this time too & nobody else stood against him.
    It’s obvious the 1922 Club tweaked the rules to ensure there was only one contender.
    I would suggest if Boris had got through to a vote of party members he would have won; no doubt about it.
    
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    October 25, 2022 9:06am
    - Nickc2
      
      Curried Cavier and Roti in No. 10?
      
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      October 25, 2022 9:12am
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    It’s not about race: Sunak has additional Establishment qualities that make him more acceptable; for eg he’s an ex Public School, ex Goldman Sachs tax avoiding multimillionaire.
    
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    October 25, 2022 9:43am
    - Black with a Vengeance
      
      It’s not about race…
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      It’s about culture. Sunak is a filthy rich corporate money lender and speculator.
      
      Perfect credentials for PM of any nation.
      
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      October 25, 2022 10:38am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Yes BwaV,
        because he worked hard, is a very intelligent man and earned his wealth legally – as far as we know. His race has nothing to do with it, as you say.
        
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        October 25, 2022 12:18pm
      - Paulus
        
        Sunak himself is rich but a mere bagatelle against his Wife’s wealth.
        Her jewels it is said could help pay the National Debt, and more.
        In the Billionaire class and more with her family.
        
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        October 25, 2022 1:39pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    No conspiracy per se. I just see incongruencies in way key people are elevated to high office, and preponderance of evidence connecting each of them with globalist rather than nationalist interests.
    
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    October 25, 2022 10:00am
  - wisteria
    
    Sunak was born in Southampton UK.
    
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    October 25, 2022 10:11am
- Michael J Baker
  
  What I cannot understand is how an otherwise intelligent (I assume) person – Mr Sunak – is so willing to drive his society into the maw of social destruction with the spectre of CBDCs. And seem so excited about it. Now, I do pause and wonder if I’m the one who is off-balance and wearing the tinfoil hat too tight. But then what of the centuries and centuries of human experience that demonstrate that government and elites almost always abuse their power? Has this just magically stopped? Then what of Sunak? Is he slightly sociopathic (he’s a politician after all)? Is he more of a specialist/technician (college, then finance, then politics) and isn’t that widely read/experienced (that would be an indictment on Oxford, Stamford, and his Fulbright scholarship)? Or perhaps he just lives in another world (his wife is one of the wealthiest in woman the UK; they are the 222nd wealthiest people in the UK according to wiki (I don’t get how the math works there)) and things operate differently there, and we don’t understand that? I have no issue with his wealth per se – the rights that secure his property and the same that secure mine. But then what explains the desire to go and mimic China? From a Brexiteer no less.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:20am
- Frank the tank
  
  I have a feeling that slowly but surely WEF economics will be exposed for the Keynesian socialist garbage that they are during the incoming recession.
  
  Good things take time though. Don’t expect it to be a swift revolution.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:35am
- mawm
  
  kk – who is PM will not make on whit of difference. The WEF has so many tentacles that it is impossible for any liberal democratic government not to toe the WEF line.
  With the prospect of a dirty bomb false flag in Ukraine and the 101 airborne sitting on the border of Ukraine expect an American invasion and all out war with Russia – all to save a unpopular senile old man in the WH.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:55am
Maggie Pie

A few of the girls from tennis are referring to Britain’s new PM as…Dishi Rishi
Even my partner’s mum said “He’s quite good looking, for an Indian”.

https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1584569148167753728
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October 25, 2022 8:33am
- Ruahine
  
  He does not wear glasses so he is looking good.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:42am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, lighten the skin on many Indians and you can see European features.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:43am
  - Jack5
    
    Ancient links between Europe and at least sections of India persist in language.
    
    According to Brittanica, almost three-quarters of people in India speak languages of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European group.
    
    These include Hindi, Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Konkani, Marathi, Nepali and Punjabi.
    
    Sanskrit, the ancient language of the Indian subcontinent, in grammar is similar to Ancient Greek and Latin, both also descended descended from some ancient Indo-European language.
    
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    October 25, 2022 1:40pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Rishi snagged a billionaire’s daughter, Maggie. I think the girls from tennis are going to have to set their caps in a different direction
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:48am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Gotta love when he said… “he doesn’t have any working-class friends”
    
    Rishi sounds like one of us 😀
    
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    October 25, 2022 9:01am
- MCōs
  
  Refer above.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:08am
- Frank the tank
  
  What they are attracted to a chocolate Lord Farquaad?
  
  They could put him in their bag along with the Scottish Tea Cup Terrier.
  
  Different strokes I guess…….
  
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  October 25, 2022 11:16am
NeverMindTheBollocks

First it was tomato soup & Van Gogh; then mashed potato & Monet; now chocolate cake & a wax work of Prince Charles.

Vegetarians, eh.
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October 25, 2022 8:36am
- Taieri
  
  now chocolate cake
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  Dairy-free I trust?
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:32am
- MCōs
  
  More outrage about someone chucking mash at the glass protecting a Monet than the widespread & wanton destruction by the Russians in Ukraine.
  
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  October 25, 2022 2:55pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Behrouz, the lying refugee (of course I won’t apply for asylum if you give me a temporary visa for a readers & writers festival) now seems to be repaying his sponsors.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/voices/audio/2018795607/we-see-a-process-of-decolonisation-in-new-zealand-behrouz-boochani
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October 25, 2022 8:41am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Yesterday Master Mariner mentioned the Doomsday Glacier. I have heard of this so started looking. It seems the glacier is part on land and part in the sea, although I could not find out how much. The part in the sea has already displaced it’s own weight, but the fruitloops are predicting a sea level rise of 3 meters if it all melts.
I find that hard to believe. 3 millimeters yes. The ocean is 70% of the planet. The glacier is big but the ocean is way bigger.
Any Greens out there to enlighten me? Or is this all just more scaremongering?
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October 25, 2022 8:42am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’m not a Green… but happy to enlighten you with one of the latest publications on Thwaites Glacier (aka ‘Doomsday Gl.”)
  
  It has been pulsing for the last 2 centuries (at least).
  
  Our results suggest that sustained pulses of rapid retreat have occurred at Thwaites Glacier in the past two centuries. Similar rapid retreat pulses are likely to occur in the near future when the grounding zone migrates back off stabilizing high points on the sea floor.
  
  Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01019-9
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:57am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Thanks. I will read it properly this arvo.
    So 3 meter sea level rise?
    
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    October 25, 2022 9:32am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Not according to some of the latest models for Antarctic melting
      
      Economic impacts of melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
      https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33406-6
      
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      October 25, 2022 10:07am
  - Ian Boag
    
    The paper doesn’t say anything – AFAICT – about pulses where the glacier advanced – the issue of course is that the glacier is the cork holding a lot of ice in the bottle.
    
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    October 25, 2022 10:02am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yep,
      and you get pulses of high melt each time the submerged foot of the glacier clears an anchoring point.
      
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      October 25, 2022 10:12am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  The issue is how much snow is falling on Antarctica not how much is breaking off its tips.
  
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  October 25, 2022 11:28am
Harry Knuts

Did Sharma gazump Cindy on her ultimate plan to resign around December/January hence she’s a little pissy he gets the by-election and not her?
After all Woods said Labour has always has funds saved in the war-chest for just in case by-elections.
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October 25, 2022 8:44am
- Yvette
  
  And how much has Jacinda’s condemnation of Sharma selfishly causing by-elecyion expenses, gazumpted her own possible exit and subsequent expenses and disruption, and lack of a replacement if she steps down.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:10am
  - Ehlana
    
    I was astounded to hear our PM talk about wasting taxpayers money (yes, taxpayers!) as if it were a bad thing. Have her overseas adventures perchance taken her by the road to Damascus?
    
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    October 25, 2022 10:02am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Yet a by-election in Rongotai wouldn’t have been a waste of money had Paul Eagle won the Wellington mayoralty. If you can work out the logic in that, you’re a better man than me Gunga Din!
      
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      October 25, 2022 12:15pm
      - riffer
        
        Here’s the logic. Paul Eagle would have left parliament.
        
        Sharma was looking to have a by election but intended to stay in parliament. He was already in parliament, so the by election is unnecessary as Labour had repeatedly said they were not trying to use the waka jumping law to kick him out.
        
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        October 25, 2022 2:13pm
      - R
        
        How quaint, Riffer, you believe everything that comes out of the PM’s mouth. The PM could simply hold the general election in April and there would be no need for a by election. Clearly the PM doesn’t give a toss about saving taxpayers’ money.
        
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        October 25, 2022 3:21pm
      - Matt Long
        
        Of course, now I understand; if he resigned and didn’t stand in the by-election no taxpayer funds would be spent on the by-election. Only government funds, it make perfect socialist sense.
        
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        October 25, 2022 7:59pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Possibly. There is momentum gathering for her to pull the pin and it was most unlike fan girl Jack Tame to speculate of the demise of the PM over the last week or so.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:36am
RoboRob

Watched Grant Robertson on the AM show this morning. If you believe him (and I don’t) they have put 40% more money into the health system since National was in power and have 20% more frontline staff. We also have 300 more nurses since end of covid (although I suspect this is just misleading, I thing 300 in and 100s out).

Now if this is true I think we need to immediately stop hiring and spending because if more staff and more money equals longer ques and less operations, clearly something else is the problem.
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October 25, 2022 9:00am
- nathie
  
  “They have put 40% more money into the health system” = presumably that includes hundred of millions or billions spent of restructuring (eg Health NZ etc)!
  
  “20% more frontline staff” = but less administrative staff, so frontline staff end up doing more admin and less looking after patients (IIRC health professionals ringing ZB Talkback exposing this)!
  
  “We also have 300 more nurses since end of covid (although I suspect this is just misleading, I think 300 in and 100s out” = fully agree that’s what it is (same when Labour say they are increasing Police numbers … they are losing them as fast as they can replace them)!
  
  Conclusion = Labour spins and tells porkies (and just can’t ever tell the truth)!
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:09am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Measuring results on the basis of how much money is spent is ridiculous.
    
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    October 25, 2022 9:38am
    - backster
      
      Well they put almost 2 billion into mental health but no-one knows who received it.
      
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      October 25, 2022 11:25am
      - RoboRob
        
        Actually I think the deal is that most of it remains unspent !
        
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        October 25, 2022 11:40am
  - Prince
    
    It is revealing though that Robertson can only recite ‘extra spending’ as an achievement. nothing about outcomes – wait times, operations, waiting lists.
    If we even take these measurements any more, they are kept in wraps well hidden from the people.
    
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    October 25, 2022 11:20am
  - Ghost
    
    20% more frontline staff, hmmm, I guess that doesn’t take in to account the staff fired for not getting the vaccine because all the hospitals are short staffed
    
    40% more into health, I guess that includes the money on changing all hospital signs and staff badges to include Māori.
    
    Just more of labours amazing ability of being able to increase spending while getting less back for it
    
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    October 25, 2022 11:23am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  The health services world wide are a proverbial money pit and Govts keep chucking money at them.
  
  They need a huge overhaul especially in the back room non medical area.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:28am
  - mawm
    
    There also needs to be a relook at the contracts SMO’s and Junior doctors sign. Nobody seems to want to work the hours required and feel the “me” time and recovery time should come out of the paid 40 hour week. Yet these same doctors will willingly work the required hours to get the job done in a fee for service environment.
    
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    October 25, 2022 10:20am
- Taieri
  
  they have put 40% more money into the health system since National was in power and have 20% more frontline staff. We also have 300 more nurses since end of covid
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  And increased waiting lists by how many?
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Robberson is a professional bullshitter. Same as Jaspinda, he lies by omission.
  Telling a little bit of truth with new troops and not mentioning how many have left.
  He should go into Politics.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:38am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  “All Labour has to show in their last five years of government is the removal of life saving targets, billions of dollars in extra spending for a bureaucratic health restructure instead of to the front line, and some of the worst health statistics ever recorded. New Zealand deserves better.”
  
  https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2210/S00174/emergency-department-wait-times-worst-on-record.htm
  
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  October 25, 2022 10:31am
- Hebe123
  
  Love to see where the 300 new nurses came from when they mandated out 400 who still cannot return to work. Oh 300 new ones after the 400 exited…?
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:22pm
Tony Stuart

Is the Australian netball time, the Diamonds, going to change its name because diamonds are extracted from the ground by mining?
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October 25, 2022 9:02am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Did you mean ‘team’?
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:07am
- Biscuit
  
  ‘diamonds are extracted from the ground by mining’?
  
  No longer true, Tony … these days the ‘in’ method to acquire a diamond or several is to get the local RamRaidersЯUs kids to knock off a Michael Hill store…
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:22am
- Ruahine
  
  Tony.
  Perhaps they could call themselves the Lithiums or the Cobalts. I doubt if it would be the Coppers though.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:34am
- Inandout
  
  TS, so there goes our favourite Diamond pasta brand.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:54am
- kowtow
  
  Made from carbon .
  
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  October 25, 2022 10:01am
RockyJ

Cogovernance just got real. Stuff report that a Hauraki Gulf iwi has bought three fisheries patrol boats and are setting up vigilante fisheries enforcement.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/130243979/auckland-iwi-take-the-helm-of-fisheries-enforcement

This will end very badly. Recreational fishermen are not going to tolerate having demands made to surrender their boats and catches for surrender. Testosterone filled guys with a few beers and sharp objects are not soy boy left wing softies.

It is a direct challenge to the government’s sole right to police and apply law. Will this government stand up and outlaw this or will it cave in and allow anarchy to rule?
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October 25, 2022 9:06am
- Nickc2
  
  Unless they have a sworn Fisheries Officer or Police Officer on board and on duty, I’m not stopping for them.
  This is shades of illegal Maori Malitia Road Blocks all over again and under the same Govt.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:33am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    John Hatfield involved?
    
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    October 25, 2022 9:46am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    They will be Honorary Fisheries Officers…
    
    When fully trained, they have similar powers to paid fishery officers, including the authority to search, question and seize.
    
    https://www.mpi.govt.nz/about-mpi/careers/working-mpi/roles-at-mpi/honorary-fishery-officers/
    
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    October 25, 2022 10:38am
    - alex Masterley
      
      My immediate question, if and when I come accross one of these chaps will be to ask them to prove their position before they set foot on the boat I am skippering.
      
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      October 25, 2022 10:41am
      - Nickc2
        
        Me too. They will have to provide proof of their being (Honorary or Sworn) before they’re allowed on my boat and I will video their demeanor and conversations throughout all activities.
        Any damage incurred to my boat will be invoiced to whoever they represent. A boat’s not like a car that sits still while people jump on and all over it.
        
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        October 25, 2022 11:33am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      A retired friend (who was a hunter|fisherman himself) was an Honarary Fisheries Officer down on the Kapiti Coast years ago. He gave up after being threatened with a knife, and later with a firearm by Maori fishermen.
      
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      October 25, 2022 11:04am
- All_on_Red
  
  As much as I despise overfishing and taking undersize stock, its interesting there was not one piece of information about what actual power they have.
  Apart from their ancestors using the Gulf- mine did too.
  Do they have Warrant Cards?
  No- then no one will stop for them.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:39am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Your question is rhetorical I assume? 😅
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:40am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Rods and reels too. They can already do that.
  Anyone fancy having a $2200 rod and a $3000 game fishing reel confiscated?
  They do go way more expensive. US$58000 for a reel known as ‘The holy Grail” of reels.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:45am
- Ehlana
  
  From the story, it doesn’t sound like this is actually an initiative between MPI and this iwi, it sounds more like they are taking matters into their own ends. Which is likely to be counter-productive, especially if they believe they have the legal right to stop, search and seize. Three blokes in a boat coming up to a family, or single person, out fishing will be intimidating.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:47am
- David Garrett
  
  Luckily for these vigilantes I fish on the Kaipara…and if any “iwi authority” there tries to check my catch it will not end well (I throw back anything that even looks like measure will be required)
  
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  October 25, 2022 10:32am
  - Its only I
    
    Parts of my family farmed around Ruawai many years ago and I remember a commercial boat specialised in fishing for shark. The fins went offshore and the meat went into fish’n’chip shops.
    I can’t remember if there was something wrong with the meat or not or if it stopped for some reason.
    Are there still boats working that quota?
    
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    October 25, 2022 12:04pm
- Its only I
  
  It will be fine.
  The major shift toward decolonisation will be gradual and with some humour.
  
  First the motors will be replaced with paddles, the iwi will call them Hoe.
  Then the hull will be replaced with a mighty hollowed out native tree and the iwi will call them Waka.
  
  At that point I’m sure not to many foshoes will we to worried about being chased down by a hollow tree propelled by a bunch of hoes.
  
  By the time the log and hoes has even turned around you will have had time to finish eating your tube steaks in a bun with a brew or two before cheesing it out of there.
  
  Will that many hoes even work together?
  
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  October 25, 2022 10:37am
- kowtow
  
  Without lawful authority if they stop vessels and try to detain folk for questioning or seizure of property surely then they’re engaging in piracy.
  
  We’ve had instances of modern slavery in the courts here , so why not modern piracy .
  
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  October 25, 2022 11:07am
- Westie Bob
  
  I assume it is just a way o get a free boat. Very little enforcing will be done. Much the sane as Northland Iwi needing motorhomes to visit outlying communities in the covid lockdowns. What are the motorhomes now being used for?
  
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  October 25, 2022 5:46pm
Maggie Pie

FACTOID

A quick bit of Googling suggests Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, Olof Scholz, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Tom Cruise are all 5’7.

Amazing eh?
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October 25, 2022 9:30am
- Taieri
  
  Hitler was 5’8 and Stalin 5’5. Poison dwarfs the lot…
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:36am
  - Black with a Vengeance
    
    Like ol mate Gimli from round these parts ?
    
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    October 25, 2022 10:44am
  - Paulus
    
    What about the hight of Winston Peters – he is a short arse too.
    
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    October 25, 2022 1:45pm
  - Jack5
    
    Napoleon 5ft 6in, Mussolini 5ft 7in, Churchill 5ft 6.5in, Horatio Nelson 5ft 5.5in.
    
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    October 25, 2022 10:02pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Was Sunak standing on a chair when the measurement took place?
  
  Of that list Cruise is the only one worth feeding.
  
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  October 25, 2022 9:39am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, Fauci is 5’7 which surprised me as I always thought he was height challenged (a midget) standing beside towering Trump.
  
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  October 25, 2022 10:00am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    They’re still all short-arses though.
    
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    October 25, 2022 10:08am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Bed is a great leveller, Maggie. The worry is what is in their heads not their shoes.
      
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      October 25, 2022 10:37am
- H. Upmann
  
  MP: While you on a height roll, how about Sanna Marin?
  
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  October 25, 2022 10:38am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    5’6.
    60kg
    36-27-38 inches
    34B bra cup
    
    Hope that helps?
    
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    October 25, 2022 11:05am
    - H. Upmann
      
      Excellent and thank you. She is pretty much as I have always imagined you to be in my mind’s eye.
      
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      October 25, 2022 11:14am
Chris2

It’s always good to browse fyi.org.nz.

Transport Minister Michael Wood recently claimed he was a regular user of public transport and someone used the OIA to ask if this was true.

In response Wood said he had used his AT Hop card 22 times in the last five months, so that’s about once a week.

I would consider that to be an ocassional user, rather than a regular user, as Wood claimed.

https://fyi.org.nz/request/20901-is-the-minister-a-genuine-fare-paying-regular-public-transport-user-as-he-claims?nocache=incoming-78724#incoming-78724
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October 25, 2022 10:19am
- Ruawai
  
  He probably gives his card to a neighbours kid to use so it looks like he is down with the people and zooming around on public transport.
  
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  October 25, 2022 2:43pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Yeah, nah. It’s a matter of semantics, really; or at least comparatives.
  
  I suspect 22 times in 5 months is much higher than the vast majority of his Cabinet colleagues.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:14pm
Bill Felt

The rumours of Arderns imminent resignation continue.
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October 25, 2022 10:50am
- riffer
  
  Rumours schroomers.
  
  Just because its spring and the smell of bullshit is everywhere doesn’t mean it’s a bumper season for roses.
  
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  October 25, 2022 2:19pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    But when Ardern’s bought and paid for media is reporting it?
    
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    October 25, 2022 2:29pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    It’s a fair bet though. Had two terms and facing a losing election time to hand over to a successor who has 12 months to prepare for it. Nothing to be gained by hanging on.
    
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    October 25, 2022 4:45pm
Benedict Yu

The Australian Greens are even crazier than their New Zealand brothers and sisters.

This Green Senator was a member of the joint parliamentary law enforcement committee, and so received criminal intelligence briefings from the Australian Federal Police on gang activities…..

…. while she was sleeping with a senior gang figure – the the ex-president of the Rebels outlaw gang, Dean Martin.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/21/lidia-thorpe-faces-senate-censure-and-two-investigations-over-relationship-with-ex-bikie

Of course, the only action she can take now is to resign from Parliament. Which of course she refuses to do. 🙂
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October 25, 2022 11:08am
- Benedict Yu
  
  BTW this is a photo of her about to be sworn into the Senate. You get the idea 🙂
  
  https://tinyurl.com/2f6ut3dw
  
  She was forced to repeat the Oath of Allegiance after calling the Queen a ‘coloniser’ and giving the Black Power salute.
  
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  October 25, 2022 11:12am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The mentality of those who voted for her???
    
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    October 25, 2022 11:20am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Mentally disturbed. Drugs I guess.
    
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    October 25, 2022 11:29am
Ghost

More beating of the drums from the media

Bryce Edwards: The increasing speculation about Jacinda Ardern quitting

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bryce-edwards-the-increasing-speculation-about-jacinda-ardern-quitting/U72FTQFMEJFADALEK5HKF4BXTY/
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October 25, 2022 11:18am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Her lies have mad her dig the hole so deep that she can’t get out.
  The shit she is in is of her own making. The blatant lies are now a joke – we expect them.
  
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  October 25, 2022 11:34am
- My
  
  That would be hilarious, wee can’t have a Mt Albert by-election, because they cost too much money. I guess she should bog out 5 months and 29 days before the election.
  Dr Sharma has out maneuvered JA on this one.
  
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  October 25, 2022 1:09pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    Gawd help us if JA resigned from Parliament. We would have every bloody lefty woman of a certain age -think Julie Fairey, Pippa Coomb, and Claire Szabo, trying to get picked as the next candidate for the seat.
    
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    October 25, 2022 2:35pm
- Paulus
  
  Just drums as expected from te so called media- want more money too I suspect.
  
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  October 25, 2022 1:47pm
Maggie Pie

UK TRENDING…..

Trans comedian Eddie Izzard running for Labour in next election.
My partner thought he had Cerebral Palsy as well?

https://twitter.com/EddieIzzardLab/status/1584636817856679936
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October 25, 2022 11:23am
Alan Wilkinson

I see the Herald’s resident Lefty nutter, Simon Wilson, is reduced to advocating for road cones today. He has a lot in common with them being red and obstructing commerce and progress of course.
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October 25, 2022 11:23am
Alex

Prepare for a DIRTY BOMB in Ukraine according to the Telegraph. Gen. Sergei Shoigu is warning the West that Zelensky is planning one. Which means the Russians will stage False Flag attack.
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October 25, 2022 11:38am
Maggie Pie

And you’d think convicted drug smuggler Karel Sroubek’s appeal against his deportation on ‘humanitarian grounds’ must be getting close.

According to Praha.eu Travel Guide, the Czech Republic is considered one of the safest countries in the world.

Wonder what the delay is?
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October 25, 2022 11:51am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/130268278/why-i-helped-to-block-transmission-gully
It hasn’t taken long for Stuff to give more free coverage to these attention-seekers.
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October 25, 2022 12:13pm
CAKE FACE1

I tried to post on the Daily Blog, where socialists such as the “Bomber” and Comrade Trotsky post.

My post never appeared. Fair enough, it’s their blog, they can do what they like.

However, their hypocrisy is interesting to me. Both of these characters make a huge song and dance about being socialists who support freedom of speech. Personally, I don’t trust them. Indeed, I don’t trust any authoritarian socialist with upholding people’s human rights. History is against them.

I might as well copy the post in question here, so that you can see what “Bomber” et al considers worthy of being banned:

Socialism is a love of huge government.

This is interesting. What mental illness would cause anyone to want huge bureaucracies bullying them?

The “Bomber” gives a clue in his postings. He supports huge transfers of “free” stuff from those who make things, to the looters, moochers and grifters. Note that none of the goods and services were “free” to produce – but they should be “free” to him, and other fellow moochers.

The basis of this sense of entitlement appears to be the deadly sin or envy, with a solid splash of greed on top. The deadly sin of foolish pride also has a role to play. The socialists’ pride says that the person who worked for the goods and services don’t deserve to keep them. They are inferior to the moocher, so deserve to be expropriated.

When you think about it, the love of bureaucrats is a peculiar tick. The problem is that the socialist is typically incapable of the self-reflection required to realise that their love of looting is not some kind of altruism.

The socialist claims that their entitlement and greed is actually some kind of kindness.

The socialist is consumed by envy, so such an extent that they wish to close down the productive members of society, such as farmers.

Alas, nothing will convince the socialist that they could be wrong. Empirical evidence of the complete failures of centralisation throughout history are met with the reply that “It will be different next time.”

It won’t. These “Bomber” theories would leave you digging the dirt for wild turnips with your bare hands to survive.

Ho hum.
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October 25, 2022 12:31pm
Jack5

Tonight on State TV1 at 8.30 comes a programme packaged as an expose of “white collar” crime, but to many of us on the Right it will look more like a State-media diversion from voter concern about soaring violent crime.

A preview of tonight TV’ documnetary, “ Crime – Need v. Greed,” was given in an RNZ interview of co-producer Tim McKinnel. You can listen to it at the link below.

McKinnel says in it : “White collar crime is often, if not exclusively, driven by greed, rather than more traditional types of crime which tend to be driven by desperation and poverty and helplessness – those sorts of things.”

Sympathetic Red Radio interviewer Emile Donovan mentions “Les Miserables” and calls the white-collar crime numbers used by McKinnel as “so large they are almost mind boggling.”

McKinnel, a former cop now a private detective specialising in fraud, is fuzzy on the “billions” that roll off the tongue.

He apparently lumps in the soaring internet confidence tricks and con’s into “white collar crime”.

“White collar” has connotations of rich and privileged, white-skinned people.

That doesn’t fit the Black con men of Nigeria who ruin naive, usually lonely internet users in far-off NZ, nor con-men in Pakistan who phone allegedly from Microsoft and try to get you to log on to their sucker web site.

McKinnel brings in the collapse of South Canterbury Finance when he claims white collar crime costs the country far more than tribal treaty settlements.

He seems unaware that at least one reputable financial analyst has argued that many or most of the losses at South Canterbury Finance were caused by bungling from the State-appointed receivers and managers as they unwound the knots.

McKinnel talks of how he arrived at 350,000 NZ unreported fraud and deception offences a year.

”We spoke to people who know a little about it, Matt Nippert’s an example.”

(Nippert is the NZ Herald’s “business investigations reporter”.)

McKinnel’s personal philosophy on crime and punished is reflected in:

”I think about low-hanging fruit.We’re going to get tough on people who look like criminals. We’re going to get tough on immediate baddies. But I’ve been in this game for 25 years, and I know what that generally mean is that the people who are going to be targeted have very little in their lives. We have a fantasy about how the gangs work in this country, and my friend Gilbert talks about it a lot … that there’s wealth within the gangs. There are little pockets of that, but it’s minimal.”

Presumably McKinnel was talking about Jarrod Gilbert, who is described on the web site of his employer, Canterbury University as the country’s leading authority on gangs. The site gives Gilbert’s job description as: “Director of Criminal Justice and Senior Lecturer above the Bar”. A Latin motto supplements the description: “Primum cogitare, dein bibamus”. It means something like, “First we think, then we drink.

McKinnel excepts white-collar criminals from his liberal argument against harsher penalties as a weapon against crime. They fear prison, he says.

Otherwise being tough on crime doesn’t help victims, he argues.

RNZ interview with McKinnel:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018863910
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October 25, 2022 12:43pm
- riffer
  
  This doesn’t make sense. Are you trying to suggest that until all violent crime is eliminated, there should be zero attention on white collar crime?
  
  Crime is crime.
  
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  October 25, 2022 2:22pm
  - Jack5
    
    What doesn’t make sense is State TV and State radio trying to divert citizen anger about gangs and crimes of violence.
    
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    October 25, 2022 3:37pm
    - Jack5
      
      I’ve just wasted an hour watching McKinnel’s White Collar Crime documentary.
      
      It was even worse than I expected when I listened to McKinnel being interviewed on Radio NZ yesterday.
      
      Boring, biased, blatantly Far Left, and finally, in effect arguing for the abolition of prisons.
      
      State media garbage.
      
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      October 25, 2022 9:39pm
      - Nickc2
        
        I couldn’t agree more! It’s ok to advocate for poverty reduction, but how? We haven’t learned that welfare doesn’t work. It only creates more demand.
        
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        October 26, 2022 1:50am
Maggy Wassilieff

And we wonder why females still get the bash

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130269062/boys-school-cancels-wife-beater-wednesday-at-11th-hour
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October 25, 2022 12:44pm
- Ghost
  
  Perhaps if companies didn’t accept the use of it, but alas it’s a name people have grown up with
  
  https://www.amazon.com/wife-beaters/s?k=wife+beaters
  
  https://www.etsy.com/nz/market/wife_beater_shirt
  
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  October 25, 2022 12:56pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Never heard of it. Must have led a sheltered life. Poor old St Bedes has earned itself a good kicking lately. Celibacy doesn’t seem to have been a winning strategy.
    
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    October 25, 2022 2:20pm
marcw

Most recent info from FlightRadar has KIW293 turned 180 degrees, now heading back towards it’s origin.
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October 25, 2022 1:13pm
- Nickc2
  
  Scuttle butt is that they left a Camera Crew behind.
  
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  October 25, 2022 1:25pm
- Muttonbird
  
  You follow the PM’s plane?
  
  I’ve heard of Jacindamania but that is next level.
  
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  October 25, 2022 1:56pm
  - kowtow
    
    At the moment its the most tracked plane in the world , on flight radar.
    
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    October 25, 2022 1:59pm
kevn

@marcw… Interesting. How far did the Herc get before the 180?
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October 25, 2022 1:23pm
- kowtow
  
  Check it out on flight radar .
  
  Got to parallel with Campbell Islands .
  
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  October 25, 2022 1:59pm
kevn

@marcw… CL60 flying out on a parallel course.
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October 25, 2022 1:28pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  What is that one? I saw it.
  
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  October 25, 2022 2:05pm
Alan Wilkinson

Another triumph for co-governance – only the special people’s history matters:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/mauao-authorities-apologise-after-adrian-shuens-memorial-seat-removed-without-his-familys-knowledge/BILTFE24NUM2ALUIGZXLOH4FNQ/
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October 25, 2022 2:03pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I just had a look at Flightradar 24. KIW293 seems to be back in Christchurch.
Turned around and came back?
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October 25, 2022 2:05pm
- Ghost
  
  Bad weather in Antarctica meant it wouldn’t be able to land
  
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  October 25, 2022 2:07pm
  - Blog-aholic
    
    A US Globemaster left before hers this morning an the same track. I thought she’d hitched a ride.
    The interesting thing is that, that plane never turned back so they must be made of the right stuff those yanks.
    
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    October 25, 2022 2:28pm
    - Ghost
      
      I wonder why she wasn’t invited on the USA flight, both Key and Clark flew down with the USA when they went
      
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      October 25, 2022 2:43pm
      - Hebe123
        
        The yanks didn’t want to have to do word salad with the vacuous liar for that many hours?
        
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        October 25, 2022 8:40pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    What a waste of fuel! The planet is dying, they say.
    Put on a parachute and some mittens, and good to go.
    
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    October 25, 2022 2:37pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sorry, did not read the recent comments about the 180. Someone will be fuming. May as well get your arse to Parliament
  
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  October 25, 2022 2:08pm
- Nickc2
  
  What’s the bet she blames the flight turnaround on Climate Change.
  I’m surprised the Met People at Scott Base didn’t advise the weather status before takeoff.
  
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  October 25, 2022 2:14pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    They are calling it a boomerang flight. Appropriate since all her policies boomerang too.
    
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    October 25, 2022 2:24pm
    - Warren
      
      Alan I’m wondering if Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister is becoming a poisoned chalice at the moment as every thing she touches or is involved in is turning to shit , maybe good sign for next year’s election.
      
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      October 25, 2022 2:35pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        “Everything she touches or is involved in is turning to shit”
        What about the things that we never hear about? Got to be double of what the media releases.
        
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        October 25, 2022 3:07pm
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    There’s a good chance you’re right, so I won’t take that bet. I am prepared to bet that whatever turned the plane around, it wasn’t because Antarctica was too hot, or that Thwaites glacier fell into the sea.
    I can’t believe how long this lie that “human CO2 emissions are burning the world!” has been able to keep its sinister head above the rising tide of evidence that shows their predictions are wrong (no, One News, the fact there is bad weather doesn’t prove we dunnit).
    
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    October 25, 2022 2:58pm
- alex Masterley
  
  Turnaround now confirmed in the Herald.
  Why she would want to fly any distance in the Hercules is beyond me.
  Those aircraft are noted for an absence of creature comforts.
  
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  October 25, 2022 2:47pm
  - kevn
    
    @alex… She is a “Well known Antarctic history buff”
    Shackleton would be thrilled.
    
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    October 25, 2022 2:55pm
    - alex Masterley
      
      Kevn, the “history buff” bit was news to me! As it is to many others I would expect.
      
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      October 25, 2022 3:09pm
      - kevn
        
        @alex… The herald reported it (amongst the flight return story), so ‘must’ be a fact.
        
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        October 25, 2022 3:15pm
  - cmm
    
    At least you can’t hear Cindy’s voice over the engine.
    
    I must say C130 is my favourite plane to fly on. I travelled on them a few times in the Army. Not too bad if you ignored the wounded guys on stretchers dripping body fluids on you.
    
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    October 25, 2022 5:22pm
kevn

@SteveO… CL60 has disappeared. Tracker turned off? Private jet type, Bombardier.
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October 25, 2022 2:23pm
Inandout

Back to work Jacinda, you know the pit where you are obliged to answer questions.
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October 25, 2022 2:40pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co Governance, Julian Batchelor.
I have been studying the Maori Party web site and their policies. In this blog, I am going to discuss some of what
I read.
I have no doubt that the Maori Party and the Maori caucus in the Labour Party are all working together to
achieve their goals. Let’s be clear.
Their overall goal is to take over New Zealand. Maori leader Ken Mair said “We will take back our country by any
means.” 1
Don’t be naive. The call by Maori for ‘co-governance’ and ‘partnership’ are just first steps towards this
goal.
As I have said all along, and keep saying, is that the key to defeating this is not to get bogged down in the detail,
and to argue tit for tat. Rather, the key is to keep on returning to what the Treaty of Waitangi actually said.
Here is the first Article of the Treaty. This article frames and put boundaries around the other two articles. In
other words, any interpretation of Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty must not, and cannot, contradict Article 1.

Part 2 is tomorrow.
I have been studying the Maori Party web site and their policies. In this blog, I am going to discuss some of what
I read.
I have no doubt that the Maori Party and the Maori caucus in the Labour Party are all working together to
achieve their goals. Let’s be clear.
Their overall goal is to take over New Zealand. Maori leader Ken Mair said “We will take back our country by any
means.” 1
Don’t be naive. The call by Maori for ‘co-governance’ and ‘partnership’ are just first steps towards this
goal.
As I have said all along, and keep saying, is that the key to defeating this is not to get bogged down in the detail,
and to argue tit for tat. Rather, the key is to keep on returning to what the Treaty of Waitangi actually said.
Here is the first Article of the Treaty. This article frames and put boundaries around the other two articles. In
other words, any interpretation of Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty must not, and cannot, contradict Article 1.
Part 2 is tomorrow.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Maori-Party-Web-site-part-1-name-changes-1.pdf
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October 25, 2022 2:40pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sorry about the formatting. Did not see until too late
  
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  October 25, 2022 2:41pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jesus, I messed that up real good. Pasted twice. Then had to go back and copy the link.
  Fuck, I have not even had a drink yet!
  
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  October 25, 2022 3:10pm
David Garrett

A large sperm whale has apparently washed up on the Coromandel. I find this Maori bullshit nauseating:

The whale was moved [to a different beach] so the iwi could ensure correct tikanga could be better followed

One of the saddest sights of my life was the sight of 100 or so pilot whales stranded on a beach north of Gisborne in 1968 (IIRC). Half the the town – including the Garrett family – went out to see them.

I recall being moved to tears at the sight of Maori men chainsawing the jawbones off whales that were clearly still alive, while their kids amused themselves pouring sand down the whales’ blow holes.

So much for ” correct tikanga” back then. At least this particular whale appears to be already dead, so won’t suffer when its jaw is chainsawed off.
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October 25, 2022 2:58pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Whalebone for carving on TradeMe. Make some huge fishhook pendants from that.
  Small short people get first dibs OK?
  
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  October 25, 2022 3:13pm
- Jack5
  
  Before the Treaty of Waitangi, Maori happily signed on as whaler crew men when New Zealand was a world hot spot in whaling.
  
  While we’re on whaling: the recovered 1820s New Zealand whaling shanty, “Wellerman”, is still featuring on You Tube, with “hits” now nearly half a billion.
  
  The Vienna Boys Choir version is at 1.7 million, the US Navy “chanters” at 5.9 million. The instigator of the enthusiasm, Scotsman Nathan Evans, still leads with about 200 million “hits”.
  
  There are various dance versions, including zumba, a children’s nursery song adaption, a cardio workout, and, from Germany, a symphonic version.
  
  Beyond Kiwiblog, “Wellerman” is rarely mentioned, so conscience-troubled about our forbears’ whaling are Green Kiwis.
  
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  October 25, 2022 4:01pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  I was walking the dog on the beach at Bland Bay about 25 years ago when we realized the sand was abnormally unstable and there was a very large chunk of dead whale under it. The dog was very keen on a sample for lunch but I was less keen on the smell. Eventually DoC and the self-important Maori elite heard about it and made the usual fuss about claiming their rights and got machinery in to dig it up and cart it off.
  
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  October 25, 2022 4:37pm
- cmm
  
  C’mon DG.
  
  You know perfectly well that the Dremel whanau has been practicing their trade for 15 generations.
  
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  October 25, 2022 5:19pm
Maggie Pie

A Pole goes to an Ophthalmologist.

The doctor shows him:
C Z J W I N O S T A W C Z

– “Can you read this?”

– “Read it. I know that guy!”

😎 😎 😎
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October 25, 2022 3:01pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It’s right there LOL
  
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  October 25, 2022 3:15pm
  - Jack5
    
    A good joke, Maggie, but it illustrates how Slavic languages, like Polish, are better suited to the Cyrillic alphabet rather than trying to Westernise them with the Roman alphabet.
    
    Once you’ve learned the Cyrillic letters, progress can be fairly fast.
    
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    October 25, 2022 4:13pm
    - Taieri
      
      All Western Slavic languages (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian, Kashubian and Silesian) use Latin alphabet and have been using it since at least XIII century in the case of Polish and Czech.
      Also some South Slavic languages such as Slovenian and Croatian use Latin alphabet.
      All due to the Roman Catholicism that is/was the predominant religion there.
      The oldest Slavic literary language was the Old Church Slavonic which was using Glagolitic alphabet.
      While all the above languages are related, they are not mutually intelligible. A fluent speaker of Polish will have absolutely no idea what a fluent speaker of Czech says. Kashubian and Silesian are even less intelligible to the people speaking other Slavic languages.
      
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      October 25, 2022 6:43pm
      - Jack5
        
        True, Taieri.
        
        Some of us find their shared Cyrillic alphabet facilitates transition from Russian to Ukrainian. Obvious cognates, and relationships, cement new words in memory. I hope Ukraine doesn’t switch alphabets because of the war.
        
        Polish in the Latin alphabet looks daunting. Polish nouns spoken sometimes spark a link in the mind with Russian, but Polish spelling is a hurdle.
        
        From what you say, Polish and Russian or Polish and Czech aren’t as close as, say, English and Norwegian, or English and Dutch.
        
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        October 25, 2022 7:33pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Here we go:
https://dailyheadlines.com/wait-what-did-the-pope-just-call-for-every-nation-to-turn-communist/?
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October 25, 2022 3:24pm
kowtow

I wonder how many sheep and beef farms were lost to pines in carbon indulgences to offset the aborted C130 virtue signal /photo op .

Seeing as how it’s her generations newclear moment and all dat.
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October 25, 2022 4:06pm
Inandout

Canterbury is a real whacko area.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/130216938/canterbury-museum-favourites-face-final-days-while-others-will-survive
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October 25, 2022 4:22pm
Surely Knott

Robertson’s speech . The country is economically munted. It’s going to get worse buckle up. But don’t worry we’ve reached gender equity in parliament. Yah! Is that gender equality achieved because Guarav Sharma quit? Ardern can’t be hear to tell us about the state of the economy because she’s in the Antarctic, except her plane turned around. But she’s not fronting it.

Also the health system: people are dying after long ED wait times including tragically a child. But Grant says, Labour have spent 40% more on the health system.

(Could the reporter give us a breakdown on that health spend claim. So 40% more on health. But isn’t that most likely to be the $11.1billion allocated to “overhauling the health system” eg merging it. And a mother load was spent on covid . eg vax buses, advertising, quarantine, lockdowns, location and tracking apps etc. What exactly is included in that 40% more claim, And how much if any has gone to core operations? )
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October 25, 2022 4:26pm
- cmm
  
  It’s not how much you spend. It’s HOW you spend.
  
  Once thing Labour have done is get rid of support staff in hospitals. Nobody sees porters and nurse aides.
  
  So now nurses are having to do the low end jobs like make beds. Porters etc cost $23/hr. Nurses $35/hr.
  
  Yup, no wonder they’re spending more … and achieving less!
  
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  October 25, 2022 5:05pm
Surely Knott

Auckland’s population has fallen. Who is going to live in the hundreds of thousands of townhouses with no garages and no outdoor areas currently under construction. Why are they leaving? Isn’t this what the left wanted.
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October 25, 2022 4:50pm
- kevn
  
  @Surely… Lots of people in Akld fancied themselves as developers and decided that no nothing format was was what the market wanted. With little research. Even KO won’t take them. Yet.
  Owner neighbours beware.
  
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  October 25, 2022 5:47pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Park not over my and many neighbor’s long driveway.
  Landcruiser – bullbar.
  
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  October 25, 2022 5:55pm
Nickc2

So Wayne Brown (Akld Mayor Elect) is to meet with Nanaia Mahuta and a bunch of her racist thieves to discuss 3Waters.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wayne-brown-to-meet-local-government-minister-nanaia-mahuta-to-raise-issues-over-three-waters/QMAZR2PR5BJYSDBAQ3MWFDKWTM/
Here’s something for nothing Wayne. If you back down on opposing 3Waters, there’s going to be a lot of Akld Ratepayers really, really pissed off. Many of us voted for you on your stance against 3Waters.
Just tell Mahuta and her bunch of racist thieves to piss off back to their Parliamentary Sanctum in Wgtn and leave Akld Ratepayers and their property (Water Infrastructure Assets) alone.
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October 25, 2022 5:11pm
cmm

“Ardern is a well-known Antarctic history buff, with explorer Ernest Shackleton one of her personal heroes.”

History buff?? Is there no end to this woman’s talents?

It seems Al Gore told her some porkies and there is still some ice down there.
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October 25, 2022 5:13pm
- Roberta
  
  She’s just trying to justify a free scenic flight to Antartica on us, before she quits.
  
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  October 25, 2022 8:15pm
- michael_s2
  
  Strange then that she hadn’t read the biography of Shackleton that she is pretending to be reading on the photo of her on board the plane to Antarctica.
  
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  October 25, 2022 10:08pm
Ghost

Hmmm, so ET turns up and wants to meet with a world leader, I wonder who it would be. I know jacinda will hope it will be her. I doubt they’d bother with Biden, couldn’t understand him. Trump they might think is too orange and from the planet Oompa Loompa.

A first-of-its-kind panel organized by NASA opened a study on Monday of what the government calls “unidentified aerial phenomena,” commonly termed UFOs, bringing together experts from scientific fields ranging from physics to astrobiology.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/10/major-ufo-inquiry-underway-nasa.html
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October 25, 2022 5:51pm
Ghost

Hmmm, I’m going to Antartica what book should I pretend to be reading for the photo op

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/10/photos-reveal-jacinda-ardern-on-unsuccessful-antarctica-flight-as-plan-made-for-another-trip.html
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October 25, 2022 8:32pm
Ghost

As much as I wish I could find sympathy for this story, I simply can’t. Kids dealing drugs to other kids, deal goes bad, friend gets killed.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/ugly-scenes-erupt-as-kiwi-teen-jailed-for-murder-of-boy-in-queensland-knife-fight/TJRRRX4IVZASZMMDLQ2GV5IGS4/

Explosive scenes have erupted outside a court after two teen thugs were jailed for fatally stabbing a 15-year-old as he tried to defend his mate in a robbery.
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October 25, 2022 10:41pm
Ghost

Andrew, do nothing Little blames National for how he has screwed up health

Btw Andrew, under National there were targets, people were being seen within 6 hours at ED, people were getting their operations within a timely manner. Very few strikes, you know strikes, seems you’ve had more in the past five years than I’ve seen in my life. So health was working and National had fixed the huge bloody mess Annette king had left behind, god knows how long it will take National to fix what you have done.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/10/health-minister-andrew-little-doing-lots-as-new-figures-reveal-one-in-four-waiting-over-six-hours-to-be-treated-at-ed.html

Health Minister Andrew Little ‘doing lots’ as new figures reveal one in four waiting over six hours to be treated at ED
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October 25, 2022 10:42pm
- Ghost
  
  I find the wording of this article disturbing, using the word “allegedly”. Are the media trying to murk up the hospital deaths
  
  Woman dies after allegedly waiting three hours to be seen in overcrowded ED
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/woman-dies-after-allegedly-waiting-three-hours-to-be-seen-in-overcrowded-ed/RAXTXZ2FIJ627YOHUJY6GAZSBE/
  
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