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Has Michael ‘river of filth’ Wood been the government MP that has overseen changes that drive inflation/cost of living the most. From his refusal to spend on roads and dropping speed limits driving up delivery costs, to (un) Fair Pay Agreements that will drive wage rises across low margin operators resulting to cost increases to customers, to restricting immigration to drive up local wages with operators lifting their prices to cover.
The most anti-democratic minister (Local Government) surely goes to Nanaia Mahuta, with her removal of local councils able to hold referendums on Māori Wards, the Canterbury Ngai Tahu bill placing unelected counsellors on ECAN, the Rotorua Electoral Bill to over-ride the Local Electoral Act 2001, the grossly unpopular 3 waters bill and its associated entrenchment of privatisation element.
Is it any wonder people are waking up and getting pissed off.
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December 1, 2022 8:08am
- kowtow
  
  ‘Is it any wonder people are waking up and getting pissed off.’
  
  What took them so long .
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:45am
  - Paulus
    
    Sadly still along way to waking up to go for these lovely people – they will not anyway as it does not suit their feeble mentality.
    
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    December 1, 2022 1:24pm
  - leoj
    
    We are still a very long way from that.
    
    Look at the polls.
    
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    December 1, 2022 2:25pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  “….. to (un) Fair Pay Agreements that will drive wage rises across low margin operators resulting to cost increases to customers,… ”
  No, the businesses will go bust, and with them the jobs. The “customers” are not going to have the money to spend.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:32am
- Frank the tank
  
  I’ve said for a while he is the most odorous of all the ministers and appears to get quite a kick out of dictating.
  
  Self styled Napoléon that acts and looks more like PeeWee Herman.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:45am
- lastmanstanding
  
  IMHO the so called liberal Left are illiberal and intolerant. They lack the capacity and capability to debate issues in a rational reasonable mature manner.
  Take co-governance. Anyone asking why this is necessary is called a racist red neck. The left are relying on a document nearly 200 years old and importing words and meaning that are included in that document.
  They are like the character in Alice in Wonderland who said words mean what I want them to mean.
  Thankfully many citizens are seeing through them for what they are.
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:00am
  - ISeeRed
    
    I assume you mean “…and importing words and meaning that are NOT included in that document”.
    
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    December 1, 2022 11:09am
    - lastmanstanding
      
      Yes ISeeRed. Apologies.
      
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      December 1, 2022 2:41pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Mahuta is part of the planned Coup. Not holding referendums in Maori Wards is all part of it.
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:20am
MCōs

If the parents of the poor wee baby want the best for their kid they should sack their lawyer, Sue Grey, and find someone with their interests in mind.
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December 1, 2022 8:13am
- Random T Person
  
  I do not often agree with you Mcos, but while I see their principle, they are weaponizing their child. Awful story.
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:18am
  - I remember when
    
    If there is any Covid vaccine connection with the excess deaths being experienced, and it is an if, perhaps their request has some validity.
    
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    December 1, 2022 8:58am
    - Bullion
      
      No. There is covid in the community:
      https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-economist-single-entity?country=~NZL
      
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      December 1, 2022 11:00am
    - mawm
      
      There are several issues. The first is that the spike protein is toxic. This has been shown in a number of studies. The nature of a mRNA vaccine is to use one’s own cells to produce the spike – and this occurs in large numbers. The second is that there are several untruths being used. Professor Nikki Turner from Auckland University’s Immunisation Centre is grossly misleading with her comment about antibodies in almost all blood when specifically not addressing the presence of the spike in vaccinated people. The other is that the NZBTS says all traces of the mRNA vaccine have disappeared by 14 days. This is untrue and proper testing has shown it to be present in blood after 4 months (might be longer but it is when the testing was stopped).
      
      Blood transfusion services worldwide offer a “nominated” donors service. This was something that was the result of the AIDS epidemic. It really is not hard to do and practically well within the capabilities of the NZBTS.
      
      The longer this child’s surgery is delayed the greater the lung damage and the poorer the outcome. This child needs its surgery and the Covid narrative needs to be cast aside for the good of the child.
      
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      December 1, 2022 11:12am
      - mawm
        
        I probably should post this for the nay sayers to repudiate. https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article/207/10/2405/234284/Cutting-Edge-Circulating-Exosomes-with-COVID-Spike
        
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        December 1, 2022 11:35am
      - stiff cheese
        
        I’m with you, mawm. I heard her comments on the News: Nikki Turner tried to present the issue as a quibble over the presence of antibodies in the blood, and whether they came from a ‘natural infection’ or vaccination .. I don’t believe that’s the real issue.
        
        Nikki Turner should tell us if she can GUARANTEE there are NO Pfizer-designed Spike Proteins AND no synthetic mRNA, in the donor blood.. if she can’t do that — and I don’t think she can — she should back off trying to lecture these parents.
        
        If she DOES want to give that guarantee, she should cite some studies.
        
        Unfortunately — outside of communist countries and the 3rd world — we live in the World Centre of ‘one size fits all’ Nanny Statism’ .. so NZ’s deep state will close ranks on this.
        
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        December 1, 2022 1:37pm
  - mandk
    
    I completely disagree.
    
    The parents’ request for the use of blood not contaminated with mRNA proteins is reasonable, and they had 20+ suitable donors lined up.
    
    The doctors and health authorities are being intransigent and haven’t offered any reasons why the parents’ wishes could not be accommodated.
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:24am
    - Random T Person
      
      Sorry I didn’t have that detail mandk; in this case, then, I retract what I said above. My (misinformed) view was there was no alt, or no way of knowing where the blood products came from (ie everyone gets what they get).
      If they had alts available, then…I’m with the parents.
      
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      December 1, 2022 9:36am
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      They don’t want to set a precedent. It is the same logic used for vaccinating a population so a failing “health system” wouldn’t get overwhelmed. The politico/medico group simply place their wellbeing first, and it is nothing new.
      
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      December 1, 2022 9:40am
      - mandk
        
        The only reason I have heard as to why the doctors/hospital might not want to accommodate the parents’ wishes is, in effect, that it might be a bit of a bother keeping the blood separate.
        
        Like they mix A, B, AB and O blood now?
        
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        December 1, 2022 1:55pm
  - Sacha
    
    @ Mcos: We don’t know the back story. The child is 4 months old and its problems would have been identified shortly after birth.
    I suspect that the first requests would have been made after the parents had done their research , and were perfectly civil until the doctors rejected their concerns, after which the parents became desperate
    I think that Sue Grey may well have been the only person who would support them, as most lawyers seem to have been captured by government dictates.
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:49am
    - stiff cheese
      
      The anxieties of the parents are real .. but NZ bureaucrats are stubborn as mules.
      
      I think the medical establishment will dig their heels in rather than budge an inch to accommodate a solution that is readily available overseas.
      
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      December 1, 2022 1:50pm
    - leoj
      
      …and HDPA’s unwillingness to “go down that road” with Grey Wednesday afternoon, proves that she is a willing partner in the government’s stance.
      
      The vaccine is the crux of the matter. We were duped. The vaccine does nothing and there are more deaths (%) among the double vaxxed and boosted than there are among the non-vaxxed.
      
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      December 1, 2022 2:33pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      There’s never a shortage of lawyers to take whatever side pays enough
      
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      December 1, 2022 9:44pm
- Close Hen Counters
  
  That dear wee baby is cyanotic (you can see his wee blue lips) ….whatever outcome needs to be quicker than how it feels
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:23am
- Warren
  
  Who are you to give advice MCos, just like Andrew Little a expert at everything but master of none. What is the difference with Andrew Little refusing to Listen to Doctors and Nurses when they said if the working conditions don’t change in our Wards and Hospitals there will be deaths from understaffing.
  To be quite honest how could anyone be sure the Health Sector is right with their opinion after what happened over Covid-19 and the lies that were told with that.
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:31am
  - peterwn
    
    There is a broader issue here. The NZ Blood Service just could not function if it had to meet the wishes of individual recipients. Although in this instance it could possibly meet the parents’ wishes at great inconvenience and expense, as a general case it would impose enormous financial and other burdens on the organisation. For example presumably the parents if they thought about it would prefer that the blood came from people who had no immunisations at all. There is also donor issues – it is hard enough finding donors as it is. Odds on the parents are not regular blood donors anyway. If the service becomes politicised, people would be less inclined to be donors.
    It is extremely doubtful that the Court could make the child a temporary state ward with a condition concerning blood source. If it did it would put the team responsible for the child’s health in an impossible situation. If the Court declines to make the order it lets the medical team off the hook but potentially exposes the parents to a manslaughter charge.
    For all the things said about Andrew Little, he has the right perspective on this one – with the support of what he learned at Law School.
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:11am
    - Sacha
      
      @ peterwn: The Blood Service could process the collected blood the same way it does for any major surgery. It would be no more expensive, and any not used could be used to the benefit of others.
      The mother is a midwife. Do you really think the she has not ‘thought about it’? She will understand the difference between a vaccine which has been used for generations vs the new ‘safe and effective’ product which is proving to be definitely not so. She is fighting for her child’s future, and not willing to compromise.
      Oh that all parents were as protective of their children.
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:11am
      - peterwn
        
        Any splitting of system processes will invariably lead to greater costs and other issues. As has been commented, the Covid vaccine as such would have been flushed out of the blood stream and any Covid related substances in the blood would be there whether the donor had been vaccinated or not. So frankly it is a big fuss about nothing.
        
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        December 1, 2022 7:43pm
    - Local Miller
      
      Why can’t the Blood Services meet the request to have CVD Jab free blood? They do extensive testing on blood to ensure the blood type matches, etc. That’s why they pull your unit plus the 2 extra tubes for testing. And they can add one question to all donors “Have you been Vaccinated?” I’ve not donated for a while, but I’d be surprised if they aren’t already asking this. Adding a CVD Jabbed/not Jabbed tag would add little and could be important given the now UNDISPUTED excess all cause (excluding CVD) mortality in many countries, including NZ.
      Also what does the parents donation status have to do with it? You assume they aren’t donors an what ground? The fact that they were able to get Jab free donors lined up implies they knew enough or were potentially donors themselves to be able to organize this.
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:18am
      - glowworm
        
        I’m a regular platelet donor, at least once a month recently. They do not ask about the COVID vaccine specifically.
        
        Would it be possible to go private and negate all of this?
        
        I’ve noticed that, according to the NZBlood app my platelets have been used consistently this year. A lot more compared with previous years anyway.
        
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        December 1, 2022 4:55pm
      - peterwn
        
        Because the Service will start receiving all sorts of requests which would make the system quite unwieldley. If covid immunisation-free blood was offered as a separate ‘product’ then there would be demands for blood that comes from donors who have never had immunisations.
        Another problem in this case – time is almost of the essence. Even if the Blood Service could identify sufficient donors of the required blood group and who have not been vaccinated, it is still going to take time to obtain, test and process the blood. By that time, the blood will probably not be needed.
        
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        December 1, 2022 7:38pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Can the babys Father not be the donor?
      Am I missing something? Is the child adopted? If not the Father’s blood type will be the same as the baby.
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:33am
      - mawm
        
        The child’s blood group is not necessarily the same as the fathers.
        
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        December 1, 2022 11:15am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @mawm.
        There are combinations I know, but it would be a good idea to find if the parents blood types can be used.
        Then again, both parents may be vaccinated??
        
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        December 1, 2022 11:34am
      - The Housekeeper
        
        Nope, not true Steve. One of our kids is O- and neither of us are. Because his blood is so sought after he donates once a month. Before he had surgery, they took 8 pints from him (in the US) in case he needed a transfusion. He can only receive ) O- blood and none of his immediate family are a match.
        
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        December 1, 2022 12:18pm
      - Flossie
        
        My children’s father and I are both O+ but both kids are O-. As already said they are very sought after donors.
        
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        December 1, 2022 12:49pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @Housekeeper.
        That is why I said there are combinations.
        Lucky I am A, and so was my Father, and so is my Son and Grandson.
        My Partner is O
        
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        December 1, 2022 12:51pm
      - MCōs
        
        The Blood Service has a number of criteria for donors apart from blood type.
        Recent illness, covid-19, this and that, which disqualifies a prospective donor.
        
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        December 1, 2022 1:07pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Living in the UK in the late 90s & early 2000s is a disqustifier for mad cow reasons
        
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        December 1, 2022 9:48pm
    - leoj
      
      You have been duped.
      
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      December 1, 2022 2:35pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I see the vulgar Peters there in support
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:31am
- Chris R
  
  Why? I heard her being interviewed last night on ZB and thought she was on top of the issues. It is a difficult file for any lawyer to tread through. She expressed compassion for the child and the distraught parents. All parties are in an unenviable position.
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:43am
  - kevn
    
    @ChrisR… Yes, trust is long gone.
    Just look back at what NZer’s have been told over the last 2+ years… “safe and effective”, yeah right.
    NZDSOS have very good comment on the issue at dailytelegraph.co.nz
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:28am
  - Matt Long
    
    The child and parents are in an unenviable position.
    Te Whata Ora is continuing with the “our vaccine is great and you plebs aren’t allowed mRNA free blood from all the donors lining up to give it” line.
    I was talking to an American friend yesterday and he said during the 80s AIDS scare you could specify blood from relatives or even your own for operations.
    The only difference is in this case Te Whata Ora says there’s no proof mud blood is harmful, probably true, but also no proof it isn’t, and one of the leading mRNA side effects is heart issues.
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:57am
    - Matt Long
      
      For myself I would be slightly uncomfortable with mud blood, for my children even more so.
      Apart from various sources suggesting mRNA tainted blood would be harmful, the Odious Podium of Disinformation hosted by the worst liars I’ve seen in recent years makes me very suspicious.
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:10am
      - MCōs
        
        Get a grip.
        If you were hit by a bus an required blood would you prefer to die?
        
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        December 1, 2022 10:26am
      - Matt Long
        
        “Slightly uncomfortable” means refusing blood in your world Cossie? 🤡🤡🤡🤡
        
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        December 1, 2022 10:38am
      - cmm
        
        MCos that is a ridiculous position.
        
        It is not a life and death choice. The parents have been offered unvaxxed blood.
        
        But no, the MoH wants to force them to use vaxxed blood.
        
        This is pure power play.
        
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        December 1, 2022 10:45am
      - mawm
        
        Cos – it is a balance of risks. That’s how things work.
        
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        December 1, 2022 10:52am
    - mawm
      
      Matt – there is no proof that it is harmful just as there is no proof that it is not harmful. There is spike protein in the vaccinated blood for months afterwards (see my post above) and the spike is toxic.
      
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      December 1, 2022 11:19am
- cmm
  
  What is really shocking here is that it is being run through the media.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:45am
- Paulus
  
  Sue Gray is never far away from being a me people seeker.
  
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  December 1, 2022 1:26pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  The problem is if the Courts agree then I could demand blood only from a person born in Outer Mongolia. This is about pragmatisim and precident. I sympathise with the parents and their principle but the Blood Service would collapse if many people demanded their blood reference. People would die whilst their request was being processed.
  
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  December 1, 2022 2:46pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    I don’t see that’s the case at all. The parents have 20+ people lined up to be donors, so acquiescing to their real and valid concerns would not be difficult in a practical sense.
    
    The reason the health authorities don’t wish to do this is IMO for reasons of control and keeping the narrative going.
    
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    December 1, 2022 3:15pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    This Bay of plenty pamphlet already details the blood accomodations they make for jehovahs witnesses. “Cell salvage – Many Jehovah’s Witnesses will allow reinfusion of their own blood collected at surgery by cell salvage. Usually they will not wish the blood to leave the room and for it to be returned as soon as possible. Cell salvage should be available in theatre for Jehovah’s Witnesses, who consent to its use, having a surgical or obstetric procedure and who are at risk of significant blood loss. The procedure should be explained in advance to the patient for elective procedures. Some patients may have principles regarding how long the blood can be held before being reinfused, what the priming solution is, and the planned process. It is sensible to reach agreement on this with the patient in advance in the elective setting.”
    
    So there is already documented policy , based on law and medical ethics, recognising peoples alternate believes and accommodating them re blood transfusion. This is just another example of the tossing out of our bill of rights and medical ethics to force the still not fully approved gene vax.
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:54pm
DimChappie

Kaipara mayor Craig Jepson takes a brave stand against Maorification, refusing to let woman recite karakia. Later a Maori male stands over a female councillor, intimidating her as he chants.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/new-kaipara-mayor-shuts-down-karakia-at-first-council-hui/CFDCR422NJBHLM6VVEVDOOXCDE/
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December 1, 2022 8:16am
- alex Masterley
  
  I was at a community meeting yesterday.
  We were karakiaed at the begining. And at the end. That seemed to be the sole purpose of the presence of the person who lead the karakia as from what I could see the person made no other substantive contribution to technical discussions about engineering and urban planning.
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:48am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Ah, a taxpayer funded Zampolit; (a supervisory officer responsible for the indoctrination and above all compliance with the regime’s dogma)
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:04am
    - Random T Person
      
      And also a handy little earner for every man in a skirt bar the Scots.
      
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      December 1, 2022 9:21am
  - Yabster
    
    most Karakia is literally an english to maori trnslation of a prayer to god- so how is that traditional/Tikanga?- Christianity surely is due to colonisation in NZ.
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:19am
    - alex Masterley
      
      I am a firm believer in separation of church/faith from the state.
      I see these “compulsorary” karakia as a state sponsored attempt to join the two.
      My personal view follows that of the great Dave Allen who said (and I paraphrase here) that I will follow my god and you can follow yours.
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:31am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        All part of the creeping Coup cancer.
        
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        December 1, 2022 10:41am
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        It is a little odd, that in such a vehemently secular world, we now have a compulsory Christian prayer at the start and end of all meetings, and at morning and afternoon tea.
        
        Quite warms the cockles of this old Deity’s heart eh!
        
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        December 1, 2022 11:09am
  - krazykiwi
    
    I friend of mine is a secondary school teacher at a prestigious Auckland school. She has recently quit, and one of the reasons cited was a new requirement to do a Maori prayer at the beginning and end of every lesson. Her comment: “I’m not an atheist, but that would have made me one”
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:25am
    - Nickc2
      
      Enforced Paganism?
      When Muslims account for 16% of our population, will we have to submit to one or more of their prayers at every meeting, school lesson, and commencement and cessation of daily work?
      
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      December 1, 2022 9:44am
- Paulus
  
  Told the cameras were there by invitation as she had already been told she would not be able to wail at the Council meeting.
  
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  December 1, 2022 1:28pm
  - DimChappie
    
    Anyone who wants to congratulate the Kapara mayor for taking this stand can email him at mayor@kaipara.govt.nz
    No doubt he is being called racist by Labour scumbags.
    
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    December 1, 2022 4:50pm
Maggie Pie

Anyone else think that was a patsy-question thrown at Cindy and Sanna yesterday?

Asking for a friend.
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December 1, 2022 8:16am
- Tony Stuart
  
  It certainly seemed to be a well-rehearsed answer…
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:19am
  - rouppe
    
    Initially I thought it was fair enough, although the reference to Key and Obama was a little weird.
    
    Then I heard Hosking this morning. The USA is a significant trading partner. We are in ANZUS and Five Eyes with them. So meetings aren’t that surprising.
    
    What do we have with Finland? Nothing, really.
    
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    December 1, 2022 8:26am
    - kevn
      
      @rouppe… Nokia back then but not so much now.
      
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      December 1, 2022 9:30am
    - crikey
      
      Ardern is obsessed with overseas coverage by the media which seems, to me, to clearly dominate anything to do with domestic NZ matters. Now why would that be?
      
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      December 1, 2022 9:45am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        She wants to control what info the overseas media get.
        Some of them have seen right through her. She is not on the Xmas card list with some.
        Notice that we can get better NZ Govt news better from overseas sources than the NZ media?
        
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        December 1, 2022 10:46am
- Nickc2
  
  Who asked the question: Tova? Jessica? Katie? another suitably briefed media plant?
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:23am
  - Bullion
    
    Newstalk ZB journo.
    
    I reckon they were put up to asking the question by Soper.
    
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    December 1, 2022 11:13am
- kiwikidsnz
  
  Yep. Went straight to front page on BBC World
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:25am
  - kowtow
    
    What does that tell us about BBC world .
    
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    December 1, 2022 8:47am
- krazykiwi
  
  What was the exchange? Unrelated, I have several Finish friends. Lovely people, all of them. Have not yet visited Finland but it is on the list.
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:27am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Here’s a good read about the Fins, and their national character: Finland – Be afraid… Be VERY Afraid
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:33am
- RockyJ
  
  Jacinda’s reply was appropriate. Nonetheless she has no problem pimping her feminity and motherhood on the cover of Woman’s Weekly.
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:56am
  - MCōs
    
    Which PM hasn’t appeared on the front of Women’s Weekly?
    John Key also fronted Rugby News in 2014 in AB garb with Richie, Kieron and a couple of others as if he were the captain.
    These people can do what they like to project what their team perceives is a favourable image.
    
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    December 1, 2022 11:04am
    - Ghost
      
      Yeah, even Luxon makes the cover
      
      https://www.magzter.com/stories/Womens-Interest/New-Zealand-Womans-Weekly/Family-man-Christopher-LOVE-IS-MY-GREATEST-ACHIEVEMENT
      
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      December 1, 2022 11:11am
- Ghost
  
  Yeah, it was. Huge set up to give her positive media.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:19am
- Local Miller
  
  It would be good if you included a link with comments like this. Some of us have full time jobs and don’t catch all the press meetings, etc. so don’t know what this references.
  
  Thanks
  LM
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:23am
  - Ghost
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/130623392/the-notsosubtle-sexism-that-followed-finlands-sanna-marin-from-helsinki-to-auckland
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:29am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Thanks for that link.
      What a load of sickly patronising bullshit by both.
      Tell me that this was not scripted for both.
      And please pass the bucket.
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:52am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      So why is she here?
      
      It’s a long way from Helsinki and there are virtually no economic, political or trading relationships between us, and nor will there be – there is no economic or geopolitical logic in this visit.
      
      So is this any more than Gurrl Power? Seems a reasonable question.
      
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      December 1, 2022 11:21am
      - Ghost
        
        I’d say this was the reason to come here
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/finland-talks-up-need-to-arm-ukraine-in-meeting-with-jacinda-ardern/47UD676PDZG5BKJQRANTTVCVN4/
        
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        December 1, 2022 11:24am
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        Seem Ghost’s response – so we desperately need to discuss sending arms to Ukraine?
        
        We don’t have anything that Ukraine uses. We didn’t have any before she came, and we still don’t have any. So what did the trip achieve? and what could it have possibly achieved?
        
        Then there is the interesting question: Is Finland at war with Russia? Are we? Why do we want to become a belligerent in someone else’s war?
        
        Seems a rather weak an foolish reason for a trip of 17,ooo kms. Have neither of them heard of Zoom?
        
        Maybe they could talk about the importance of climate footprints while they are at it?
        
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        December 1, 2022 11:46am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I guess NZ will send more money – which will get trousered on the way through NATO.
        
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        December 1, 2022 12:07pm
      - crikey
        
        Each of them using the meeting for their own political purposes papered over by some sort of bonhomie.
        
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        December 1, 2022 3:50pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      They criticise the “not so subtle sexism” and yet NewsHub introduced her as “the party Prime Minister”. That was literally the first thing they said about her, and referred to it several times throughout the piece, even dredging up old footage of Jacinda DJ’ing somewhere years ago.
      
      It’s almost as if the MSM have some kind of double standard thing going…
      
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      December 1, 2022 3:38pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      So for two caring PM mothers (we were always told that women would make better leaders- bah humbug) wartalk.
      
      Nothing about getting a peace accord to help Ukrainian families survive a bitter winter.
      
      No they just want to prolong their anguish by promoting… more arms.
      
      Warmongers the both of them.
      
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      December 1, 2022 3:51pm
- Philview
  
  Perhaps a more intelligent journalist could have asked something like “You are both alumni of the WEF Young Leaders Programme, please explain what shared goals you have developed because of that common history.”
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:58am
- Bullion
  
  I know its tough for some on here to grasp, but the PM is generally very good at answering questions.
  
  *puts on tin foil hat*
  maybe ALL the media are given a list of questions the PM has rehearsed *takes off tin foil hat*
  
  John Key, when he wasn’t plagued by convenient memory loss, was also very good (maybe not quite as good JA but much better than any Nat leader since and Lab leader since he was PM except for JA).
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:22am
Close Hen Counters

5/200 farmers at the field days would vote for labour ….. hello December and welcome god!!!!!
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December 1, 2022 8:26am
- kowtow
  
  That many !
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:48am
- Nickc2
  
  No doubt those 2 were 16 or 17 Year old females?
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:50am
  - Nickc2
    
    WRT above, read 5, not 2.
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:14am
- zulumonster
  
  Those 5 must have been plants (pun intended)
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jaspinda was happy with that result.
  Let’s hope the next Election will get the same result of 2.5%
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:55am
- MCōs
  
  200 farmers at the field days?
  Whilst an adverse reaction to the Labour Government, any Labour Government is to be expected from the agrarian sector how come out of the thousands of attendees only two hundred were canvased?
  I note the PM was there.
  
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  December 1, 2022 1:33pm
G152

Do the ‘reporters’ attend a briefing before the PM does the stand up ??????
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December 1, 2022 8:28am
- kowtow
  
  Probably all covered via that weekly conference her office has with the editors .
  
  Now there’s something for the fourth estate to get its teeth into …….oh wait.
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:50am
- peterwn
  
  Maybe not. But they know what is expected of them, especially if they work for the DomPost / Stuff.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:13am
krazykiwi

Wellington. 1st day of summer. I have the central heating on.
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December 1, 2022 8:30am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  You are able to heat your home? You must be a rich prick. Are you paying enough taxes?
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:34am
  - krazykiwi
    
    I have paid eye watering taxes over the years. Many, many millions.
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:29am
    - Ian Boag
      
      Generally that means you have made eye-watering amounts of money …. good on you.
      
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      December 1, 2022 9:45am
      - krazykiwi
        
        I’m not opposed to paying tax.
        
        What I am bitterly opposed to is being forced to hand my money to increasingly unaccountable, protection-racket thugs posing as democratically elected leaders.
        
        So me leaders with accountability, integrity and wisdom and I’ll show you a happy face at tax time.
        
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        December 1, 2022 9:55am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hubby bought me an electric blanket for our first Christmas in Island Bay.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:03am
- pdm
  
  Not exactly tropical in Hastings either.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:17am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  17 deg on the Shore now, but that rain about 6am was bloody cold.
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:01am
- coge
  
  Doubtless an ill omen. Of the coming vast climate apocalypse.
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:13am
- MCōs
  
  When I was made redundant from my job in Bangkok I told my wife we’d have to return to NZ.
  She said fine, but we’re not going back to the bloody Wellington weather.
  Sold the house and moved north.
  
  Years before we’d bought a heat pump for our Ngaio house.
  I looked at the instructions.
  Look, it says it can also be used as an air con.
  Well, she said, we’re never going to need that . . . .
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:24am
- Ra Henare
  
  Summer everyday in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
  Cooler temperatures tho range 24-30.
  
  An electricity is same price today as it was before covid.
  
  electric bill still sub $100 NZD per month.
  Did I mention my weekly rent is approx $87 NZD for a furnished and serviced(cleaning lady once a week) one bedroom modern apartment..
  
  Have put off coming back to NZ until March, the end of Xmas crazys and after school holidays.
  and still Sunny
  
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  December 1, 2022 3:57pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  That’ll be the global warming
  
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  December 1, 2022 4:01pm
All_on_Red

Under the “We told ya so-lol” banner today we see this;
‘Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schafer says high energy prices in Europe may make having vehicle battery factories in that region “practically unviable.”
“Unless we manage to reduce energy prices in Germany and Europe quickly and reliably, investments in energy-intensive production or new battery cell factories in Germany and the EU will be practically unviable,” Schafer wrote Monday on LinkedIn.”
So much for VW being 100% EV Production by 2035.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/volkswagen-says-ev-battery-plant-investments-may-be-practically-unviable-due
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December 1, 2022 8:32am
- Random T Person
  
  LOL someone forgot to take a systemic view of this new green economy.
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:40am
  - peterwn
    
    Happens all the time! There is a lot of excitement about exporting hydrogen from New Zealand! And guess what – it is like exporting water and energy. There is a big enough stink over proposals to export bottled water, and yet exporting hydrogen would be effectively exporting vastly greater quantities of water than for proposed bottled water exports. Also NZ is a net importer of energy so it makes no sense to try and export energy (which is what hydrogen is all about).
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:20am
    - cmm
      
      Essentially the aluminium smelter at Bluff is exporting energy too. Aluminium is basically the result of bauxite (the ore) + a whole lot of electricity.
      
      There is some strange notion that hygrogen is “clean” and a fuel source. Nope. It is pretty much very inefficiently converted energy. Taking an energy source and transforming it into hydrogen for later burning in an ICE or fuel cell is about as wasteful as it gets.
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:25am
      - virtualmark
        
        Aluminium is just congealed electricity.
        
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        December 1, 2022 11:49am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Yes, Europe is de-industrialising voluntarily. Just as they are voluntarily disarming by sending all their weapons and munitions to Ukraine to be destroyed and/or sold on the black market.
  
  If Putin keeps this up over winter, the Russian Army will be able stroll into Berlin by April, if it could be bothered to.
  
  They may be treated like liberators!
  
  Nevertheless this is good for NZ – we have a green aluminium smelter, and are still allowed to grow and sell food. Europes self-inflicted economic catastrophe is our opportunity, lets hope we take it
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:26am
  - virtualmark
    
    So the Russia that would stroll into Berlin is the same Russia that is being dismantled by the Ukrainians?
    
    Laugh! Did we nearly!
    
    The NATO powers have managed to dismember the Russian military at the cost of no NATO lives and for what is pretty much a rounding error in their collective defence spend. The Russian Army has as much chance of “strolling into Berlin” as you have of finding a diamond mine in your backyard.
    
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    December 1, 2022 12:25pm
    - Frank the tank
      
      But they can nuke the place so your point is as irrelevant is projecting US military power onto North Korea.
      
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      December 1, 2022 12:43pm
    - Ghost
      
      People keep saying how ~~ukraine~~ nato are dismantling Russia. Yet it’s the Ukraine that is now learning to live without power, water, heating. Its the US and NATO whose military stocks, most likely to the joy of china watching Taiwan, are being depleted.
      
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      December 1, 2022 12:53pm
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Really? the lights are on in Moscow, not so much in Kiev.
      
      Russia has around 400,000 troops on the border and not committed, and Ukraine has no power, no food and is running out of ammunition.
      
      If that is dismantling Russia, what would losing to them look like? – how would it be different from having your entire army and airforce chewed up and annihilated, and your national grid systematically destroyed?
      
      The only reason Ukraine hasn’t collapsed is that the US don’t want them to yet.
      
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      December 1, 2022 8:28pm
- K
  
  So it takes a lot of energy to produce battery cells for the “zero emission” vehicles that the NZ government subsidises for the upper middle class? This is not a story that will make it past the Stuff editorial team.
  
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  December 1, 2022 12:54pm
- Doc Holliday
  
  On your bike!
  
  If denialism worked we wouldn’t have warming, eh.
  
  Look at all the datasets and breathe…
  
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  December 1, 2022 2:07pm
I remember when

Imagine if your PM visited every country that received $74m of your exports.
And was nearly 17,000 kms away.
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December 1, 2022 8:35am
- cmm
  
  I bet they made a pinky promise to solve climate change too…
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:26am
Maggie Pie

And remember I posted about this earlier in the week? Well….

https://twitter.com/PureBloodKiwi/status/1597684604768759809

There are some truly sick puppies out there 🙁
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December 1, 2022 8:36am
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Out of 200 traitors polled by Newshub in Fielddays yesterday, 5 are planning to still vote Cindy, 6 don’t know and the rest of the traitors won’t go anywhere near her party.
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December 1, 2022 8:36am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Same result next Election. Labour gets 2.5% so they are out for not getting 5%
  No Electorates, no list seats. Sounds good to me.
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:10am
Tony Stuart

The Fair Pay Agreement law kicks in today, and already Unite Union is going to fill out the paperwork to apply:

Hospitality workers are expected to be the first group to apply to start negotiating a Fair Pay Agreement (FPA) with their employers.

Unite Union plans to submit paperwork with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) today to get approval to start bargaining on behalf of hospitality workers.

The FPA Act, which also takes effect today, outlines a process for employers and employees to follow to negotiate baseline pay and working conditions.

Negotiations can only begin if the chief executive of MBIE is satisfied a minimum number (1000) or portion (10 per cent) of workers in an industry or occupation want to go to the bargaining table, or if a “public interest” test is met.

All employers and employees will fall under the agreement, including those who don’t want to be involved and those who aren’t union members.

Unite Union national secretary John Crocker said he had signatures from more than 1500 hospitality workers supportive of initiating an FPA.

Hospitality workers include those who work at restaurants, cafes, bars, accommodation providers, cinemas and theatres.

Crocker estimated that around 80,000 to 100,000 people could be included in the FPA

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/fair-pay-agreements-hospitality-workers-to-make-first-application-to-start-negotiations/HO5TWTF7XRC27DSOIHRNGZHSOE/

Several points arise here; how can 1500 people, less than 2% of the estimated hospo workforce, trigger a Fair Pay Agreement affecting everyone in the industry? It seems that employers’ fears, expressed as the law was making its way through the parliamentary process were well founded.

And why should FPA’s apply to everyone in a given industry, right across the country? Given that FPA’s are likely by sheer weight of numbers to be Auckland-centric, why should provincial employers have to pay Auckland wages when the cost of living in their region is significantly less?

Forcing provincial employers to pay wages out of proportion to the cost of living in their areas will be the death of dozens of small hospitality businesses in the first instance, and other businesses later as more FPA’s follow. Does the government not realise how many businesses are hanging on by their fingernails, or by returning to 1970’s style unionism, do they even care?
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December 1, 2022 8:38am
- alex Masterley
  
  Tony, who appointed Unite to represent all Hospo workers. where is their mandate.
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:49am
  - mandk
    
    Michael Wood and all the other Stalinists in the Labour party.
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:44am
    - alex Masterley
      
      Michael Wood? THe only man I know who thinks gruel is Haute Quisine!
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:33am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Unite claims to have signed up 1500 hospo workers to negotiate on their behalf. I guess MBIE will soon decide if their claim is legitimate.
    
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    December 1, 2022 11:25am
- pdm
  
  Labour through Michael Wood, plus the Unite Union going through the processes to close as many businesses down as fast as they can.
  
  Idiots.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:22am
- Nickc2
  
  National has said FPA Legislation will be repealed should they become the Govt.
  Meanwhile, Mahuta and Sage are setting about Entrenching it.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:23am
- Swifty
  
  State-sponsored extortion – nothing ‘fair’ about it.
  
  I despair for those who lose their jobs as a result and let’s not forget those who are currently without work and who will find their job search now even harder, if not impossible, as their cost is now even more than the market will bear.
  
  As an aside, why don’t we as a country just dump this charade we operate within, that of private enterprise and individual choice, and just hand over to Labour all hiring decisions, goods and services price levels, wage and salary levels – the whole shebang.
  
  This is of course where we’re heading, this is what Labour ultimately want, with the grocery commission, energy and petrol companies regulation, Labour seemingly intent of taking over the housing market and setting rents etc – so let’s just give up now and save ourselves a whole lot of angst and wasted worry trying to fight it.
  
  Let the state organise and run the whole economy, employ everyone and set the levels of all costs and prices etc.
  
  I’m sure Nirvana will soon follow.
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:07am
  - Swifty
    
    A little tidbit if of interest – I read recently that at the end of the Soviet system they were managing and setting the prices of 28,000,000 individual goods and services – and with the real kicker of attempting to maintain the price relativity between all 28 million items.
    
    An impossible task which they failed miserably at.
    
    No doubt some nimrods in Labour Youth will wish to give it a go though. Computers will do it, or something.
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:29am
- Richard
  
  I stopped buying coffee when I was charged $6.90 for a flat white in Wellingon earlier this year. We purchased a barista machine for home and haven’t looked back. These FPA’s will drive the costs up further and soon they won’t have a job. Funny how these things work.
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:21am
  - Local Miller
    
    Similar. I used to buy 2 coffees a day, Monday to Friday. Since CVD I’ve not bought more than 20 coffees total, and that includes buying for friends.
    My Nespreso costs me about $1.50, of which 50c is the milk.
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:41am
- a3kidlady
  
  This could be viewed as good news by some employers – just saying but as an employer who likes to pay in the upper quartile, pay equity for care givers in aged care has been a real bonus as they now have legislated pay rates we can point to. Call me cynical but bring it on, this will resolve some issues for me with our kitchen hands.
  
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  December 1, 2022 12:03pm
- Roberta
  
  Look, Jacinda knows all about business, her experience at the front line in Morrinsville fish and chip shop showed her how much money comes through the till. She thought she could change the world with all that money, and so she thought she’d try politics. She even ‘worked’ at an NGO!
  
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  December 1, 2022 7:08pm
I remember when

The Conservative Woman:
Professor Angus Dalgeish, a consultant medical oncologist at St Georges, University of London.
Has called for an urgent halt to all Covid vaccine programmes.
“Not needed, doing significant harm and not just in regards to blood clots and cardiac problems.”
The boosters are having a devastating impact on his cancer patients.
“Covid no longer needs a vaccine programme given the average age of death from Covid is 82 and from all other causes 81, and falling.”
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December 1, 2022 8:47am
Maggie Pie

People quite often ask me where I’m from.
I would never see that as racism.

Just thort I’d put it out there.
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December 1, 2022 8:47am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yeah,
  but where are you Really from?
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:50am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1597966338873782273
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:10am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Well, magpies are from Australia & live in gum trees.
      So Maggie Pie is a gum tree-hugging Aussie bird. 😆
      
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      December 1, 2022 2:22pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Ah… but is she an Australian magpie or an Eurasian magpie or an Oriental magpie?
        
        They’re completely unrelated birds….
        
        and if she’s an Aussie bird is she white-backed or black-backed?
        
        and if she’s an Eurasian magpie is she black-rumped or white-rumped?
        
        and if she’s an Oriental magpie, is she a Taiwanese blue or a Javanese green?
        
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        December 1, 2022 3:17pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        I wouldn’t want to comment on her rump, Maggy. Whether it is black or white depends on her BDM proclivities. 😆
        
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        December 1, 2022 4:04pm
  - Ghost
    
    Well one night her mummy and daddy got drunk and did a magical dance. 9 months later she appeared.
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:17am
  - cmm
    
    Asking somewhere where they are from is celebrating diversity. I do it all the time.
    
    It isn’t racist.
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:53am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Outer space, baby!
    
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    December 1, 2022 9:59pm
- hmmokrightitis
  
  Funny, same with me Maggie. That said, if the person questioned doesn’t respond directly, they shouldn’t be hounded, which is what the media are saying happened. If it did, that’s a bit shit.
  
  When I’m in Europe and the US people often ask based on my skin colour and accent where I’m from. I respond and don’t bother getting offended.
  
  Why would I?
  
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  December 1, 2022 8:58am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Same here in Hawaii and Alaska. When they ask, I say “guess”
    A lot said Australia. I say “close” and they get a big smile and say “Ah, you’re a KIWI!”
    
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    December 1, 2022 11:19am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Badly worded. Same for me when* we are in Hawaii and Alaska.
      
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      December 1, 2022 12:54pm
- Random T Person
  
  To be fair as someone from Africa, when I see someone who is plainly African, I always, always, ALWAYS resist asking them where they are from, or even bursting unexpectedly into isiZulu.
  Which is sort of a shame, as I love talking to black people. But I know they generally have extremely thin skins.
  The Uber driver I got in Christchurch a while ago though, he was awesome. Had a full on convo in Zulu. Ngyabonga mfowetu.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:25am
  - cmm
    
    I always just ask them and say I’m from Africa too.
    But then I do that with everyone, regardless of race, so nobody can accuse me of racism.
    
    I have generally found African-born Africans to be a bit homesick and want to talk to anyone else from Africa even if from the other end of Africa (eg. the Kenyan nurse who looked after me in hospital a few years ago).
    
    I think the touchy ones are those that have been away from Africa for a few generations (eg. African Americans) who are African in name only and make a huge song and dance about it.
    
    The biggest problem with asking “uyasikhuluma isiZulu” is that the Uber driver might be Xhosa and kick you out!
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:04am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      With a Safa wife I’m often amused I have to tell her she was just talking to another Safa as the accent doesn’t register with her as it does for a Kiwi. But for Black languages I’m out of her game entirely
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:51am
Maggy Wassilieff

Is Nanaia Mahuta untouchable?

So whilst Ardern, Hipkins and others were not present in the debating chambers, they had entrusted their votes to one of their colleagues, to be applied as he or she saw fit.

Shockingly, however, Mahuta did not even think it was necessary to give her Prime Minister or the Leader of the House a heads-up that a matter with constitutional implications would be voted on, if only as a courtesy.

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2022/11/30/thomas-cranmer-mahuta-ditches-the-no-surprises-policy/
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December 1, 2022 8:49am
- RoboRob
  
  That story is only true if you believe Jacinda when she says she had no idea. By the way I have a bridge for sale.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:03am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Maggy,
  The answer to your question is yes.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:09am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Maggy,
  The answer to your question is yes.
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:09am
- Gravelroad
  
  @MW-
  Co-governance in action.
  Why would Ms Mahuta and her Maori caucus feel the need to consult with the co-Prime Minister when she is already on the same level of authority as Ms Ardern?
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:14am
- cmm
  
  A more likely theory.
  
  Cindy knew, but she left herself a “plausible deniability” escape hole.
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:05am
  - Nickc2
    
    I think that Mahuta still being there and in receipt of all her Portfolios speaks heaps about sneaky conniving within this Govt and 5Waters Legislation in particular.
    Hipkins and Cindy tell so many lies, it’s impossible to know when they are telling the truth. As for their denying any knowledge of the Entrenchment SOP, I say they’re lying as usual.
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:17am
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      My base starting point now for evaluating any comment made by a current government Minister/MP – it’s a lie.
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:35am
    - cmm
      
      Mahuta has huge power because she undoubtedly knows where a lot of Cindy’s bodies are buried.
      
      She, and the rest of the Maori caucus, also know that Cindy has made a huge Maori play. With one little flick of her finger Mahuta can send Cindy flying and bring Labour down.
      
      And they all know she would do it.
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:49am
- virtualmark
  
  You’ve got to understand that Nanaia is royalty. Really, that’s how the Mahuta family view themselves.
  
  They may be truck drivers, or the most useless Minister of Foreign Affairs NZ has had in the last 50 years. But they’re *royal* truck drivers and useless Cabinet ministers so you, and even Jacinda, need to know your own place and stay quiet.
  
  The sense of entitlement is very strong in that family.
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:52am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Look on the bright side.
  
  If you needed to pull a David Lange, and pull the whole house down, this seems a pretty good reason to do it. Particularly if the economy was being crashed by your Party’s incompetence and ideological inflexibility…
  
  St Cindy could sacrifice her political career because middle NZ was uncomfortable with the pace of constitutional reform, and it was time for a cup of tea and a sit down about things.
  
  Coincidentally, and I am sure it is purely a coincidence, there is a vacancy for a new Secretary-General at the Commonwealth coming up next year.
  
  What a remarkably alignment of the planets that would be. Keep your sainthood burnished for ever, and helicopter out into a new job, all in one go.
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:58am
  - cmm
    
    Commonwealth? Isn’t that a bit colonial for our Cindy? She can probably just go straight to the UN.
    
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    December 1, 2022 12:39pm
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Beggars can’t be choosers, do you really think she has the a work ethic sufficient for a UN gig? the S-G of the Commonwealth only has to smile and wave.
      
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      December 1, 2022 8:33pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Wot? Secretary-General at the Commonwealth? You have to be joking! A Commonwealth Country is a country that has the King as its Monarch and Cindy hates anything to do with Kings and Queens etc unless it’s attending any of their piss-ups.
    Besides, an unmarried mother with a part time live in lover would hardly go down well as Secretary-General among most countries that currently comprise the Commonwealth. They have their standards eh?
    
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    December 1, 2022 12:55pm
    - Ghost
      
      An unmarried mother with a fiancé, I guess you have an issue with that, speaks way more of you than anything about her
      
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      December 1, 2022 1:42pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Opinions are like arse holes, everyone has one.
        
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        December 1, 2022 1:49pm
zubrick

queensland senator malcolm roberts questioning the infiltration of australian governments by schwab’s WEF

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/wef/queensland-senator-demands-national-security-alert-over-wef-domination/
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December 1, 2022 9:06am
- krazykiwi
  
  This glacial coup has been underway since 1993, yet there are still idiots who bleat “Conspiracy theory!” at every opportunity.
  
  Some are awake, thought. I do like DeSantis’s recent statement: ” The WEF’s policies are dead on arrival in the state of Florida”
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:50am
  - Nickc2
    
    ” The WEF’s policies are dead on arrival in the state of Florida”
    Will the leader of a Nat/Act Govt echo the same sentiments WRT NZ should they take over the Treasury Benches next election?
    I sure as hell hope so!
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:04am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Luxon was asked this on radio the other day, he said he has heard of it, but does not know the inns and outs of the so called 2030. He says this country will not be ruled by foreign entities
      
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      December 1, 2022 10:22am
      - krazykiwi
        
        “heard of it, but does not know the inns and outs of the so called 2030”
        
        Then he is more of a numpty than I’d previously thought.
        
        As for “will not be ruled”, pffffft. Previous government – including National led governments – have quietly ceded sovereignty to supranational bodies like the UN, WHO, IPCC et al for ages now. The National Party, like Labour, have form in taking money from CCP-affiliated people in order to advance their aspirations.
        
        Your knight in shining armour needs to get more wise, and more honest.
        
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        December 1, 2022 10:46am
      - mawm
        
        That is a very weak denial/non denial from Luxon. I want a strong statement from him as to whether the WEF and he have been in contact AND that he has sent them packing.
        
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        December 1, 2022 5:53pm
      - Surely Knott
        
        ““heard of it, but does not know the inns and outs of the so called 2030” Rubbish. Of course he knows exactly what it is and what they are doing. Won’t talk about it as afraid of being labelled.
        
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        December 2, 2022 9:53am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Please, please Ron run in 2024.
    
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    December 1, 2022 12:45pm
- Nickc2
  
  Yes, Albanese and his Energy Minister (Chris Bowen) are most definitely tarred with the Schwab WEF brush IMO.
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:28am
cas

Apologies if I post this twice. the first comment just disappeared.
Mike Hosking referred to this story this morning. Arts on Tour which goes to loads of smal towns has had its funding cut because they want to fund more woke stuff.

Carmel Sepulonis husband, who has been on Arts on Tour, has received a large grant to cut off his dreadlocks and display them as a wig.

All this stuff about performing to grey, white old audiences is a load of crap. In my town you get a diversity of white and brown, old and young, men and women.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/news/grey-and-in-the-way

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/top-marks-for-ageism-and-sexism
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December 1, 2022 9:16am
- Swifty
  
  For generations New Zealanders organised and paid for these sorts of cultural events themselves.
  
  We were better then. More resourceful, resilient, independent and philanthropic.
  
  Now the malignant state has decided to tax us more and take over the funding of these events and of course who to fund, rather than Kiwis voting with their wallets.
  
  Scrap Creative NZ, let Kiwis keep their money and get the state’s corrupting influence out of this area of our lives.
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:21am
  - cmm
    
    Well that’s pretty much been the approach with everything.
    
    Before the welfare state there was charity providing the same service. Then the state took over to make it more efficient etc, but all that really happened is that it turned into a trough for activists.
    
    Whenever you accept funding you also accept the oversight/activism of the people holding the purse strings. In general these are now overwhelmingly wokesters.
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:52am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This is one of those ‘hope this works things.
Party game with mousetraps. Funny as hell.
https://www.facebook.com/kellimcwilliams/videos/10214260535417657/
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December 1, 2022 9:32am
Maggie Pie

Just appeared on my twitter feed.

LIVE: Biden’s Amerika. Philly on a good day…..

https://twitter.com/CTPOLICELIVE/status/1597809720152449024

Don’t want to sound over dramatic – but there’s parts of Auckland heading this way 🙁
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December 1, 2022 9:35am
- MCōs
  
  Which parts?
  I’ve seen stuff like that, but not in this country or anywhere I’ve been in SE Asia.
  The worst places I’ve seen have been in the US.
  Furthermore
  Every city over there people said don’t go to some area or other, it’s too dangerous.
  
  I remember going to Sydney with my daughter when she was about 12 and as we walked down some inner city street in the middle of the day some weather beaten hussy hollered out ‘Do you wanna go?’
  
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  December 1, 2022 12:37pm
  - Ghost
    
    I’ve heard it’s like that in Remuera, Maggie herself has said that on Halloween she was so scared of little children she had to lock the gate and hide away in her house…..
    
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    December 1, 2022 12:45pm
  - Frank the tank
    
    Umm……How about the king hit down in Christchurch or the dog walker murder or the dairy owner murder…..The list is never ending nowadays.
    
    If the human garbage that commit these crimes had access to guns they would have certainly used them
    
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    December 1, 2022 12:48pm
    - MCōs
      
      That’s two people.
      There’s always been the odd rotter in our streets, not streets full of them 24/7.
      
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      December 1, 2022 1:39pm
Ghost

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Whistleblower Reveals ‘Tax Dollars’ Spent to ‘Put Children in the Hands of Criminals’; Says Gov’t Complicit Because ‘We Don’t Get Sued by Traffickers’ … Migrant Child: My Female Sponsor ‘Would Pimp Me to Men’

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/u-s-department-of-health-and-human-services-whistleblower-reveals-tax/
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December 1, 2022 9:39am
krazykiwi

CNN, then and now:

“Europe’s loud, rule-breaking unvaccinated minority are falling out of society”
— CNN 16th Jan, 2022

“At the heart of China’s protests against zero-Covid, young people cry for freedom”
— CNN 28th Nov, 2022
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December 1, 2022 9:45am
wisteria

Yesterday at the Fieldays I overheard a group of young men in farm gear and red bans gumboots walking along chanting “Jacinda go home, Jacinda go home.
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December 1, 2022 10:01am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
It is getting closer people. Time to wake up. Cam Slater says it’s serious.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-coup-how-elite-maori-have-got-so-far-in-their-attempt-to-take-over-the-country/
1989 Geoffrey Palmer gave the Maori activists the power to make the Treaty mean whatever they wanted it to mean. This is why Palmer must be kept out of it today.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Anatomy-of-a-coup-2.pdf
Ardern gets raked over the coals here. Her true colours are exposed.
Wonder what the reactions would be if someone posted this on The Strandard? I can’t.
Heads explode?
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December 1, 2022 10:09am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Downticker, can you please copy and paste to The Strandard for me? Please, pretty please.
  
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  December 1, 2022 2:30pm
Ghost

What a dick

Graham Philip, the first person in New Zealand history to be charged with and plead guilty to sabotage, attempted to bring down the power grid across the entire North Island in protest against the Covid-19 restrictions and vaccine mandate.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130623195/saboteur-graham-philip-jailed-for-trying-to-cut-power-to-entire-north-island
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December 1, 2022 10:10am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I think if he’d just waited a little bit our government would do it for him.
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:21am
cmm

People are moving out of their own houses into campervans to get away from KO scum.

Is this really a KO problem or is this really a police matter? Society is screwed when decent people have to live in fear because the cops can’t do their job.

The government have been given the job of protecting the citizens. When the government refuses to do their job then it is time for the citizens to take back this function.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300753680/homeowners-turn-to-motorhomes-to-avoid-unruly-kinga-ora-tenants
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December 1, 2022 10:11am
- Matt Long
  
  It’s only a police matter when they have a complaint they can legally act on, such as a tenant refusing to be evicted.
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:32am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    KO has a close relationship with the police. In practice, tenants are “risk rated”. There may be circumstances where KO would ask police to accompany a tenancy manager who is simply doing a routine property inspection. At any one time there will be many properties that are classified as so dangerous that they are out of bounds to any KO staff without being accompanied by the police.
    
    Yes this is New Zealand 🙁
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:53am
  - cmm
    
    Threatening is a police matter.
    
    Unfortunately the cops are no longer interested in things that would have been considered police matters 20 years ago such as finding out who has been vandalising property etc.
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:56am
    - mawm
      
      This is how vigilante “justice” begins. The social contract is broken; we pay our taxes and expect certain returns for allowing our government to run the country……and protection from low-lifes like these is one.
      
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      December 1, 2022 6:03pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  “Is this really a KO problem or is this really a police matter? ”
  
  A bit of both.
  
  A landlord can evict a tenant who repeatedly behaves like an idiot and disturbs the neighbours. (e.g gets drunk and makes a racket late at night, throws beer bottles over the fence). Private landlords frequently evict them. KO in theory can evict them after “3 strikes”, the policy that was introduced early in 2022. However, I am informed that no tenants have been evicted using this new policy.
  
  If the activity of the tenants escalates to criminal offending (e.g punching the neighbour), that is a police matter. If approached, KO will advise the victim to go to the police immediately. However, frequently, the victims are fearful of reprisals.
  
  In summary, KO has all the powers to evict that are possessed by private landlords. The most common grounds for eviction are:
  
  – not paying rent
  – damage to the property
  – anti social behaviour
  
  KO does not, as a matter of policy evict tenants on any of those three grounds. Their policy is to not apply the law.
  
  I hope that helps 🙂
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:49am
Maggie Pie

FINALLY….

A family pic of Archie!!
What a cute little guy. Looks sooo much like Harry.
And OMG – those curls 😀

https://twitter.com/Thislilbirdies1/status/1597965765373612033
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December 1, 2022 10:13am
- cmm
  
  Not looking like your father seems to be a hereditary trait in that family.
  Harry looks nothing like his “father” either.
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:56am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Looks like a hostage pic to me, has that kid been kidnapped?
  
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  December 1, 2022 12:09pm
Jack5

India’s Reserve Bank begins a trial of central bank digital currency today.

In four cities, four commercial banks will provide “digital wallets” through which retail customers and merchants in a closed user group will be able to make transactions of digital rupees.

The trial begins in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, and Bhubaneswar. It will later be extended to banks in Ahmedabad, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kochi, Lucknow, Patna and Shimla.

A central bank digital currency differs from cryptocurrencies in that it is a digital form of a country’s fiat (normal, physical) currency.
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December 1, 2022 10:37am
- krazykiwi
  
  It’s a little more different than “a digital form of a country’s fiat (normal, physical) currency”, Jack.
  
  CBDCs are best described as tokens that are loaned to you by the state.
  
  They can expire if not spent. You can be fined for spending on ‘unapproved’ things. You can be denied (or permitted) particular spending (eg travel). You can be forbidden from spending outside the area you live (eg lockdown, imprisonment).
  
  CBDC’s represent the most significant enslavement of humankind in history.
  
  Of course they’ll be introduced gently, and ‘kindly’. But once our closet tyrants get their hands on the levers you can expect freedom and liberty to become forgotten concepts.
  
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  December 1, 2022 10:56am
Alan Wilkinson

I am still on a mission to find a workable Android ad blocker to make posting less frustrating while google steals cpu and bandwidth with incessant advt swaps.

I’ve tried Adblock add-in which was slow, didn’t stop the culprit ads, blocked links and left pages permanently trying to complete.

Then Adblock Plus browser stopped the ads but won’t resize or rotate, has no tabs or refresh and blocked my password manager.

Anyone found something better?
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December 1, 2022 10:39am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Adblock Plus works fine on my Samsung Android phone.
  Clear the cache.
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:42am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Am trying the FAB Adblocker browser. Seems much better featured so far but still blocks my pw manager.
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:44pm
- cmm
  
  Brave browser
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:48am
- Yabster
  
  install duck duck go-
  
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  December 1, 2022 11:50am
  - Diogenes
    
    I use DuckDuckGo on my Android, and Vivaldi on my desktop.
    
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    December 1, 2022 1:54pm
    - Drone
      
      Sadly Duck Duck Go is a poor cousin of Google as a search engine.
      
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      December 1, 2022 6:26pm
I remember when

Out of the blue are threat level from terrorist attack has been lowered.
Does anyone know why this has happened?
As we don’t know what is meant by a “terrorist” can we now feel safer?
Are 501’s terrorists, have ‘white-power’ groups debanded, motor cycle gangs?
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December 1, 2022 10:56am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Needs to reduced now so that it can be reinstated circa September ’23 due to the threat level of an “election”.
  
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  December 1, 2022 1:08pm
oldfella

This will make a few heads explode. Disclaimer: I recently tried the legal variety without success.
Is medical marijuana a myth in some cases? Using cannabis no better than placebo for treating pain, study shows
SOLNA, Sweden — Marijuana appears to have the same pain-relieving effect as a placebo — or fake pill. However, researchers say media outlets continue to cover these medical trials about cannabis-based therapies positively, regardless of the outcomes.
https://studyfinds.org/medical-marijuana-myth-cannabis-placebo-pain/
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December 1, 2022 11:10am
Maggie Pie

What chance do the kids of today have with perverts like this on the loose?

A bestie tweets….

https://twitter.com/maz_righthand/status/1597655006832128000

Good to see where our taxes are going.
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December 1, 2022 11:40am
surfing

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/oliver-hartwich-democracy-needs-a-constitutional-spirit/X7ZE7B7Z65AOFBXPLPFN6FNNKI/

This article articulates the fragility of our democracy and the ease of which it can be destroyed by baby steps.

The deeper foundation of our democracy is based on informal agreements between people to adhere to the ‘spirit’ of democracy. But that deeper foundation is being chipped away, by the likes of Willie Jackson, Mahuta, Eugenie Sage and Jacinda Ardern. It’s the boiling frog analogy, we don’t realise the trouble we are in until too late.
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December 1, 2022 11:47am
- Diogenes
  
  I hate to spoil a good story, but there are many articles on the web pointing out that frogs have more sense than to stick around when their water starts heating up. Wikipedia for a start (but there are many others): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
  A great pity that we seem to have less sense than frogs!
  
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  December 1, 2022 1:57pm
  - surfing
    
    Haha good science
    
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    December 1, 2022 5:07pm
Opie

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/12/graham-philip-first-person-convicted-of-sabotage-in-new-zealand-jailed-for-three-years.html

NZ, where you get 3 years in jail for damaging a pylon but only 9 months home detention for raping 4 girls.

I’m guessing he got 3 years for challenging the covid narrative, the damage to the pylon was consequential.
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December 1, 2022 12:04pm
krazykiwi

The Prediction in May 2022:

U.K. Met Office said the season was “most likely” to be above average. “What is interesting this year is that the forecasts issued by many different agencies are all indicating an above-average season. As they are all pointing in the same direction, this gives us a higher degree of confidence,” noted Julian Heming, said to be the Met Office’s expert on tropical cyclones

The Result in Nov 2022:

The U.S. Weather Channel notes that none of the 2022 hurricane figures stand out, given that the entire hurricane name list was used up in 2021, and 2020 had more than double the storms of 2022.
:::
According to Phil Klotzbach’s work at Colorado State, the ACE index was about 22% below average. ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) compiles data on the number of storms, their intensity and how long they last. Klotzbach noted that for the first time in 25 years, and only the third time since 1950, no storms formed in the Atlantic basin in August. Measured by ACE, it was said to be the least active hurricane season through to the end of August since 1988.
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December 1, 2022 12:09pm
Ghost

I’d go further. I would include drink driving, after your second or third disqualification you lose your license and after how ever long you are disqualified from driving you have to start from scratch again on a leaners license.

The Government is increasing penalties for motorists who fail to stop for police or refuse to help officers with identifying the driver of a fleeing vehicle. It believes the new enforcement tools will help police deal with dangerous and reckless driving on New Zealand roads.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/12/government-unveils-new-law-change-targeting-drivers-who-flee-from-police.html
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December 1, 2022 12:23pm
- krazykiwi
  
  “The Government is increasing penalties for motorists … refuse to help officers with identifying the driver of a fleeing vehicle”
  
  How, precisely? Thumbscrews? The rack?
  
  Isn’t there a presumed right to silence?
  
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  December 1, 2022 12:27pm
  - Ghost
    
    Impounding their car, which, I hope they can prove the person just didn’t make a mistake in what they told the police. That part sounds a bit iffy.
    
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    December 1, 2022 12:33pm
  - cmm
    
    Throwing pureed bus tickets at them?
    
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    December 1, 2022 12:54pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  It is a truly pathetic response, in the context of the issues being faced today.
  The cars being used and almost exclusively stolen for the purpose, being Aquas and Demios which are easily taken/do not have immobilisers as standard.
  
  So how is disqualifying a driver, or impounding a car, going to affect car stealing ram-raiders, or the aggravated robbery smash & grabbers?
  
  These people are completely useless willful morons.
  Ordinary people are saying that lack of consequences are a key failure here, and these are NOT consequences for these type of offenders.
  Underwhelming is far too charitable.
  
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  December 1, 2022 1:48pm
  - Warren
    
    They will be laughing at the Government because most them are probably already disqualified or driving without a license and they will just get smarter with what they do.
    Ha ha this just confirms Jacinda Ardern is soft on Crime and has no idea how to stop the young criminals that are laughing at her and her Government.
    
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    December 1, 2022 4:01pm
Maggie Pie

This brightened up my day 😀 😀 😀

The partner’s mum retweets….

‘Shakin Stevens-Comeback-Tour-2022’

https://twitter.com/Daz1072293/status/1598014887481184257
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December 1, 2022 12:53pm
Ghost

Doing a Talbot mills survey, guess the govt are looking at new taxes

Would you be willing to pay about ten percent more for petrol and electricity in order to help the Government do more to deal with climate change?
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December 1, 2022 1:04pm
- Ghost
  
  so we abandon places because a storm could cause road damage.
  
  Which of the following is closer to your own views even if not quite right?
  
  Hard decisions need to be made to abandon some areas with smaller populations if they are regularly cut off by road.
  OR
  
  The government should make every effort to keep roads open to all communities even if they are wiped out every few years or more.
  
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  December 1, 2022 1:09pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Not only savings on the road repairs, but cost savings in relocation of the isolated people if they were to use artillery strikes or strafing from the air to eliminate the community completely.
    Hard decisions, but for the greater good, comrade //.
    
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    December 1, 2022 1:54pm
  - cmm
    
    This is a false dichotomy used to create a false premise for discussing the impact of ficticious sea level rise etc.
    
    So what if places are semi-regularly cut off by road? That happens to many places and the roads are often reopened quickly. For example it is quite common for the Haast Pass to be closed by a mudslide and reopened within a day.
    
    What does “every effort to keep roads open” mean?
    No government makes “every effort” for any policy.
    Seldom do roads actually get “wiped out”.
    
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    December 1, 2022 2:24pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    Lol Most of those small rural roads were built one hundred+ years ago by hand. Now with millions more people paying rates and taxes and modern machinery we can’t keep the same roads open and paved to a high standard ? Bullshit. This is ideological to push us into high density cities.
    
    Ps. Rural roads might lead to low density towns but they also lead to our most popular holiday and scenic destinations. The rural roads and townships are manned by volunteer firefighters, volunteer coastguards, and volunteer surf lifesavers often from those same rural towns.
    
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    December 2, 2022 9:51am
- Diogenes
  
  Short answer: No. How about we deal with the reality hitting us in the face every day, rather than fantasy.
  
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  December 1, 2022 1:50pm
krazykiwi

Thai temple left without any monks after they all fail drug tests

Temple for sale. Four careful owners. Built 1392. Drugs not included. DIY dream 🙂
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December 1, 2022 1:08pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Is this the one where they are all meth heads?
  
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  December 1, 2022 2:35pm
mawm

I don’t know if anybody has posted a link to this excellent and informative talk by British cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra “Has Big Pharma Hijacked Evidence Based Medicine?” Dr Malhotra has been an activist in trying to reform the NHS and is a campaigner for healthy diet in addition to0 being a published cardiologist.

After his father died as a result of the mRNA vaccine he campaigned against the NHS vaccine mandates and is now calling for cessation of the vaccine use until further research has been done.

It is particularly informative in this age of Pharma misconduct and misleading claims especially over mRNA vaccines. It is worth the 1hour 10min of your time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw7YXUZ1SL0
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December 1, 2022 2:17pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Watched the first 3 min to see where it is going. Saved it and will watch at a later date (weekend)
  Thankyou.
  
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  December 1, 2022 3:16pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Malhotra is a great example of someone of influence recognising that they’d been wrong, and having the courage to both admit it, and to set about fixing it.
  
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  December 1, 2022 3:36pm
Warren

“Co Governance work to be put on hold”.
Willie Jackson says he is leading towards putting the Government’s Co- Governance on hold next year Political Editor Jo Moir reports.
It looks and sounds like Willie Jackson and the Maori Caucus have got cold feet over the Polls that have Labour losing the 2023 General Election.
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December 1, 2022 3:14pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Pressure from Wille that far too many know of this plan now, and it is against Labour winning the Election 2023.
  I keep on mentioning the Elite Maori Coup.
  http://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi
  Yes Willie Jackson , NZ now know what the Elite are up to.
  Putting things on hold, means nothing more than waiting to the next Parliament is in session, and sneak it through. After the Xmas holidays people will have forgotten, then wham!
  The Coup is happening unless we stop it.
  
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  December 1, 2022 4:57pm
Gravelroad

Regarding the report about the abused and murdered child Malachi:
So a woman going to prison asked her pal to look after her kid (and presumably was paid by the state to so do).
But surely some welfare outfit would have made a few enquiries about the so-called care giver?
Or is this common place with the handing over of children to your friend- with no checks or questions asked?
And when family members of the child started asking – they were turned away.
What the heck do people at OT do all day?
I would have thought background checks and monitoring would have been mandatory in such a situation?
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December 1, 2022 3:48pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Memorial to U-Boat in Gisborne Harbour

https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/frontpage-featured/20221130/telling-our-stories/
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December 1, 2022 3:53pm
- kowtow
  
  I wonder what the Gisbourne bods responsible think there is to “commemorate” .
  
  The jolly japes of a Nazi vessel that was possibly in search of targets .
  
  Like the 7 Allied ships it sank with the loss of around 211 lives . 5 cargo ships and 2 Liberty ships. 4 British and 3 American.
  
  Too bad the u boat wasn’t lost with all hands at the start of its patrol.
  
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  December 1, 2022 5:14pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Fauci on Fox and Tucker Carlson clip.
Fauci is heading for the hills, leaving more lies behind.
https://leadpatriot.com/tucker-carlson-tore-into-fauci-over-renewed-claims-this-is-insane-this-is-not-science-video/20013/
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December 1, 2022 3:56pm
Jack5

Elon Musk in this video clip goes all out on artificial intelligence, specifically digital super intelligence.

He opines: Everybody is already a cyborg, the limitation is output bandwidth.

We just need a “high bandwidth interface” with our (cerebral) cortex.

“I’m still pro-humanity,” says Elon Musk.

https://youtu.be/OkP9cwsEx0o
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December 1, 2022 4:20pm
Ghost

Imagine renting five cars and they all burst into flames….. someone sending a message to Biden..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhSQ5spZlao
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December 1, 2022 4:28pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Battery? //
  
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  December 1, 2022 5:02pm
  - Ghost
    
    lol, circuit board, recall in may
    
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    December 1, 2022 5:16pm
- virtualmark
  
  Or … the five rental cars were parked closely together, and one of the five hadn’t been in for a compulsory recall to fix a battery fault.
  
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  December 1, 2022 5:05pm
Maggie Pie

OIA TRENDING….

Ever posted anything critical of Cindy on FB?

Here’s something you may not be aware of….

https://twitter.com/foo_4_thought/status/1598127575091785729
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December 1, 2022 4:39pm
cmm

Is there some deliberate undermining of Cindy going on.

There is now apparently a “constitutional spat” over 3W and Cindy is saying there is “confusion”.

There should be neither of these. She’s the PM and this is the most important legislation in her whole time as PM. She should be on top of this.

Instead she’s out having “girl time” with the Finnish PM!

It looks to me like she is being deliberately hung out to dry and is being strong-armed by the Maori caucus.
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December 1, 2022 4:48pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Confusion?
  Saw my bloody cock off.
  
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  December 1, 2022 5:06pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    That would be a contusion, Steve 🙂
    
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    December 1, 2022 5:49pm
Ghost

“Died Suddenly” update: Stew Peters lost all credibility for including footage from a heart surgery that happened in 2019

https://thecovidblog.com/2022/11/30/died-suddenly-update-stew-peters-lost-all-credibility-for-including-footage-from-a-heart-surgery-that-happened-in-2019/
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December 1, 2022 5:46pm
Maggie Pie

Just heard Kerry Allen interview with HDPA about car-confiscation.

Don’t know that the Justice Minister was on…but I want some!!
😀 😀 😀
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December 1, 2022 5:52pm
kevn

@Maggie… Gobblydegook word soup by the sounds of it. Sounds toxic.
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December 1, 2022 5:58pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  yip yip….high as a kite by the sound of it. LOL!!
  
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  December 1, 2022 6:04pm
  - mandk
    
    She must be on something.
    
    She seemed to think that kids driving car they have stolen would be discouraged by the idea of cops chasing them.
    
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    December 1, 2022 6:53pm
Surely Knott

Re : The horrific story of abuse and failed intervention of the little boy who died Malaki.

Are government workers or organisations ever held to account or named.

The independent review is out and there was an article saying everyone needs to work together better and other non specific comments.

But my quesion is why isn’t Malaki’s social work team named. His family rang Oranga Tamariki and complained and raised concerns…..so what happened to those reports. Who specifically failed to act? Or chose not to act. Surely this is a critical flaw that should see you lose your job. If it was a private company and a boss’s negligence resulted in death they would be fined thousands and possibly go to jail. I know the mother went to jail and placed him with her friend, but surely he had assigned social workers – who were they. And Who was their head of department.

What are Oranga Tamariki’s KPI’s. When a child goes to a new carer, how often do they ring. How often do they visit. When a person complains what is their policy. How many hours until their is a home visit.

And the doctor that didn’t do a full medical and look under his shirt and see the burns, was he given any professional reprimand.

And the family who were told by the daughter that she hated the child and wanted to murder him, were they charged as accessories. Or named. They literally lived on the front property.

I compare this to the farmers I heard ringing Newstalk Zb today saying they have bureacrats visit them for a shed check and they have been failed for the wrong type of thermometer and expired sunblock.

We check the pugging for cattle but don’t do the most rudimentary checks of children with brand new carers. Surely in the first month of new untested carer you would ring every day. You would ring the home, do a zoom call, zoom with the daycare, visit the home, visit the kid at daycare. And their should be a regulars doctors visit . And do social welfare not check in on the people who they pay to deliver foster care?

But when their is family complaints of harm to Oranga Tamariki and no action, why isn’t that criminally negligent.
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December 1, 2022 6:18pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  If you have a strong stomach, read the review of what the Tauranga West office of OT did (& failed to do):
  
  https://www.orangatamariki.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/About-us/Performance-and-monitoring/Reviews-and-Inquiries/Practice-review-Malachi-Subecz-and-whanau/Ko-te-huarahi-pono-ka-watea-kia-whakamana-kia-whakatika.pdf
  
  In summary:
  
  *Had a trainee social worker on Duty who carried out the initial assessment of Malachi’s case.
  
  * A dysfunctional OT office
  
  * Malachi never visited by an OT social worker
  
  * Some of the report is blanked out —– information concerning Malachi’s mother’s crimes and relationships to other people.
  
  * There are repeated hints that Malachi was being used as a blackmail tool by the Barriballs.
  
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  December 1, 2022 7:34pm
Warren

If the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the Leader of the House Chris Hipkins continue to claim they didnt know about the 60% entrenchment clause that was inserted in the Three Waters Legislation they should sack Naiana Muhuta as Minister or resign themselves.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/479745/power-play-three-waters-anti-privatisation-blunder-adds-to-storm-of-controversy
The more information that’s comes out the more it seems and sounds like the Prime Minister is trying to cover her arse with more and more lies.
How can the voter trust Labour anymore with this mess and the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister grab from the Covid-19 fund or 2.1 billion to his budget to make his figures look good and balance the books.
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December 1, 2022 6:44pm
- Ghost
  
  I would hope that it also means everything Muhuta has been involved with is now being checked by national and act
  
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  December 1, 2022 6:47pm
- mandk
  
  Queen Jacinda is able to lie all she likes, and her Labour toadies will rally round to protect her.
  
  If she stepped down, Labour support would plunge into the low 20s.
  
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  December 1, 2022 6:49pm
Maggie Pie

Pray tell…why would you want a washing-line tattooed across your face?

https://twitter.com/1NewsNZ/status/1598135424026906624

His besties don’t call him ‘goon’ for nuffin 😀 😀 😀
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December 1, 2022 7:03pm
- Ghost
  
  Poor guy, looks like he has snot running down his face
  
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  December 1, 2022 7:07pm
Ghost

But we are going to take 150 refugees from Australia a year.

An extremely hardworking Hungarian family, contributing a lot to the Kāpiti community, is devastated after having their residency visa application declined.

Couple Ivett Kerekes and Andras Laszlo and their sons Andor, Szilard and Gergo arrived in New Zealand from Hungary six years ago under an entrepreneur’s visa.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/family-in-shock-after-residency-visa-application-rejected/SH4XVWME5JHBRHNZ63DJOMI62A/
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December 1, 2022 9:21pm
- mandk
  
  Aren’t the ones from Aus economic migrants, not refugees?
  
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  December 1, 2022 9:54pm
  - Ghost
    
    No, we are taking 150 refugees from their refugees centres a year
    
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    December 1, 2022 10:21pm
Ghost

Whoopsie

A key New Zealander installer of fog cannons, bollards and roller doors is pulling out of his Government contract to bolster security, saying there are no clear plans in place.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/12/fog-cannon-installer-ditches-government-contract-saying-there-s-no-plan-in-place.html
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