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Warren

A Turbulent Year : house prices fall by $90k nation wide more risks on the horizon.
The Question I want to ask is will rates and insurance be reduced by the same margin to match the fall, if so how are debt laden Councils going to survive.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/a-turbulent-year-house-prices-fall-90k-nationwide-more-risks-on-the-horizon/MBMMUZMOBRFQ3LYEIMFAK7EBXA/.
Although I believe this was orchestrated by the Government and the Reserve Bank Governor if this continues we will
return to the 1980s when we had the share market crash where our suicide rate increased and many families were left with nothing through this tragedy.
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December 5, 2022 8:01am
- peterwn
  
  It is a common misconception that rising property values means that a council’s rates take automatically increases. A council has to approve a total amount that will be levied as rates. This is of course a political decision although a council is between a rock and a hard place since there many items of expenditure that cannot be readily cut. Auckland’s new Mayor Wayne Brown is in the thick of this at present.
  Once the total rates amount is set it has to be divided among all ratepayers and a major portion of rates is divided up in proportion to property values. If a council sets the total rates same as last year and a new three yearly valuation has kicked in and property values have risen (or fallen) in unison by a certain percentage, then the rates bill will stay the same. However in practice the spread of value changes is uneven so some ratepayers would end with a higher rates bill and some with less.
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:06am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Excepting of course, that rates never seem to go down, even if your house has plunged in value while across town values might be steady or increase.
    
    The differential rating system means rates will almost never go down.
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:23am
  - Paulus
    
    Councils should start, if this is the case, by reduciug its total costs – possibly by expensive staff, of which there are many in most if not all Councils, reduction asap.
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:28am
    - MCōs
      
      I don’t think reducing wages of high income earners within a council will noticeable reduce the overall expenditure.
      
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      December 5, 2022 11:08am
      - Manu-Rau
        
        That might be true, but just knowing few dozen filthy lefties have been given the ass-card would sure assuage some of the pain caused by the rates bill.
        
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        December 5, 2022 9:08pm
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    Many Councils these days have moved to “targeted rate” items, some more enthusiastically than others. Just did a quick analysis of one rate bill I pay ( current year data, excludes RC component ).
    Of 11 line items, 2 have a Land Value base, 1 a CV base (targeted).
    $ value of LV based items $473.9,CV based $73.52 – a combined total representing 18.7% of the total rates. A $450 item is also labelled “Uniform Annual General Charge”, but not value LV/CV based, a “Separate Part, 1 unit value ” !
    Apart from having to do the triennial revaluation to meet statutory requirements it looks to me that the rates payers $’s used to pay for this exercise seems to serve no useful purpose. The supposedly intended purpose of creating a rateable value from which rates can be extrapolated is in this case a myth.
    
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    December 5, 2022 11:18am
- Ehlana
  
  Warren, rates are determined by how much the Council wants to spend, so are unlikely to go down. On the responsible side, all the non-spending on essential infrastructure in past years needs to be made up for and on the irresponsible side, Councillors will spend on whatever baubles will get them re-elected.
  
  Similarly, insurance will be driven by claim costs – and if materials and labour are going up, the cost of meeting claims won’t be going down.
  
  The government likes to boast of saving lives with its Covid response, and it probably did prevent some deaths from Covid. But other deaths were only delayed and yet others were hastened by lack of access to timely medical care, or by the effects of lockdowns on mental health, family violence, business failure, etc.
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:19am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    And some deaths caused by the vaccine itself. The numbers aren’t known because autopsies aren’t being carried out. It looks like Germany is taking a closer and the results aren’t good for the pro jab acolytes.
    Dr John Campbell pushes the limits of the “fact checkers” on Facebook.
    
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DdSMn55cA
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:48am
    - mawm
      
      Of 35 autopsies done on patients who died within 20 days of receiving a Covid vaccine 25 (71%) were determined to be vaccine related.
      
      Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination – https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-022-02129-5#Sec3
      
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      December 5, 2022 10:13am
      - Overworked
        
        However, from their conclusions:
        
        “Our study is limited by the relatively small cohort size and inherits the bias of an endpoint analysis. The nature of our autopsy study necessitates that the data are descriptive in quality and does not allow any epidemiological conclusions in terms of incidence or risk estimation. The reported incidence of (epi-)myocarditis after vaccination is low and the risks of hospitalization and death associated with COVID-19 are stated to be greater than the recorded risk associated with COVID-19 vaccination [29]. Importantly, infectious agents may also cause lymphocytic myocarditis with a similar immunophenotype, thus meticulous molecular analyses is required in all cases of potentially vaccination-associated myocarditis.”
        
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        December 5, 2022 10:58am
      - surfing
        
        Direct quote from your link….
        
        “myocarditis after vaccination is low and the risks of hospitalization and death associated with COVID-19 are stated to be greater than the recorded risk associated with COVID-19 vaccination”
        
        Another resounding win for the vaccine. Nice find.
        
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        December 5, 2022 11:04am
      - mawm
        
        I do not have the link at hand but there is conclusive evidence that Covid itself is rarely if ever responsible for the myocarditis. There is also clear evidence (another link not at hand) that there is subclinical myocarditis (ie symptom free but have the blood markers – troponin-T, showing an inflammatory response in the myocardium) following Covid vaccines in a significant number of recipients.
        The problem with any study of this nature is to get enough numbers to categorically state that there is a statistical result without bias is difficult as so few autopsies are being performed on patients who die after vaccine. The importance of studies like this to indicate that a far larger study needs to be done, most probably in multiple institutions. The NIH has recommended that autopsies are not done which in itself is an unusual recommendation.
        
        Surfing – you obviously don’t understand how hard it is to get a statistically significant study done on humans. I suggest that you read up on the Vioxx scandal where the drug company knew that it resulted in increased cardiac death but it took years and 10’s of 1000’s of deaths before there was a statistically significant study and the drug was withdrawn.
        
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        December 5, 2022 11:52am
      - surfing
        
        @mawm — probably didn’t think anyone would read your link.
        
        You got caught out, cherry picking and misquoting so as to deceive. It is modus operandi for many anti-vaxxers.
        
        You don’t seem to understand statistics yourself. Of course you don’t have your ‘other’ link at hand, you’d be exposed again.
        
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        December 5, 2022 12:37pm
      - mawm
        
        surfing – take a look at my first post. It follows Clan’s post where he references Germany, autopsies and covid vaccine deaths. I quote the findings (yes just the findings and conclusion the pathologists made) and I provided a link To A German Study and it’s title. Period. As Overworked pointed out the data is descriptive in quality.
        
        I did not cherry pick – essentially because there are no alternatives to those numbers provided. My reply was not about analysis of the stats. I understand enough stats to know what sort of numbers will be needed to get a statistically significant conclusion. This is more an observational study whereas what is needed is one with large numbers and a control arm. Pfizer knew before releasing the vaccine that a number of their vaccinated patients had raised treponin levels but did not follow up on this. They should have done the study required. Very dishonest. The FDA was supplied with all the test results and didn’t question it. It’s all there in their original release.
        
        There is NO misquote as you allege. Period. So there is NO deception.
        
        You want the links – it’s all in the talk given by Cardiologist Aseem Malhotra in the link below. Quite honestly I’m not interested in persuading you to alter your mind, it’s too closed, but if you really are interested you can listen to his talk and follow the links.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw7YXUZ1SL0
        
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        December 5, 2022 3:26pm
      - waikatosinger
        
        “the risks of hospitalization and death associated with COVID-19 are stated to be greater than the recorded risk associated with COVID-19 vaccination”
        
        Interesting wording. I note that “are stated to be” is not quite the same thing as “are”.
        
        This is very strongly age dependent. The risks of hospitalisation and death associated with COVID-19 are much higher among older people while the risk of adverse events associated with the vaccine appear to be much higher among young people for whom the risk of covid itself is essentially zero.
        
        The risks of the vaccine appear to outweigh the benefits for young people, which is why many countries recommend that the vaccine not be given to children.
        
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        December 5, 2022 3:51pm
  - Paulus
    
    A point overlooked in Insurance costs is that an Insurance Company takes in premiums, and invests until such time as money when needed to pay claims.
    Who would predict the reduction in investment earnings, which has been paramount in last few years, making marging ever more narrow.
    Let alone paying more and more claims – Weather for example.
    Overseas Wholesalers (Reinsurers) have upped their premiums due to large and many claims too.
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:33am
  - I remember when
    
    “and it probably did prevent some deaths from Covid.”
    Covid deaths were only prevented at a specific point in time.
    Later Covid deaths possibly included those saved at a previous date.
    What was a Covid death?
    What is the ‘official’ definition?
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:50am
    - Ehlana
      
      My understanding is that the claim for the Covid medication was that it decreased the incidence of getting Covid or getting it severely. On the basis that if you don’t get something, it can’t kill you, or if you get it mildly rather than severely it is less likely to kill you, it seems reasonable to say that some deaths were prevented.
      
      The official definition refers to be death within 28 days of testing positive. That figure, where Covid is considered the underlying cause, stands at 1380 people, with another 792 where it is considered a contributory cause. (https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-current-cases)
      
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      December 5, 2022 4:51pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        The simple truth is, the responses to the virus have caused far more death than any impact from the virus itself. We are being gaslit and lied to.
        End of story.
        
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        December 6, 2022 7:24pm
- Inandout
  
  Warren, yes idiots actually mortgaged their homes to buy shares and they laughed when their follies were pointed out. The crash actually happened after mortgage rates reached 23%, which I was forced for a while to pay. I think back then a house was priced around 4-5 times your annual income whereas now it is 10+ times. As our house buying immigrant numbers are reduced to a trickle then house prices will drop; supply and demand.
  
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  December 5, 2022 10:02am
- lemuzz
  
  ‘The Question I want to ask is will rates and insurance be reduced by the same margin to match the fall, if so how are debt laden Councils going to survive”.
  Probably not. Councils strike rates as to how much money they need to run and then divide the rateable value by the money they need, so come up with a percentage to charge. So the rates should stay similar as present. But only time will tell if this higher percentage remains when the valuations increase again, as they, (the valuations) surely will
  
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  December 5, 2022 11:56am
- Rusty
  
  @Warren.
  
  And the birth of the yuppies in the 80s who Douglas thought were going to help out the small business owners with their small fortunes but only BMW car dealers profited.
  
  Rogernomics finished off Labour in 1990 and 3 waters/ He Puapua will finish off this lot.
  
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  December 5, 2022 1:35pm
  - leoj
    
    Except they still have a year and the votes to pass anything they want.
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:10pm
Yvette

In passing – hopefully in the sense of passing as in death

Entrenchment, in this context, means setting a certain super-majority which in voting is more than the usual minimum majority of one side to be above a 50 / 50 decision
In this “3 Waters” case the super-major was set at 60 percent

[Willie Jackson] said contemporary democracy was not “the tyranny of the majority anymore” [1]

[1] https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/willie-jackson-says-democracy-has-changed-co-governance-is-good-act-leader-is-a-hypocrite/VZZAIF66LH76WWEXUXUXAZQ3XA/
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December 5, 2022 8:02am
Captain Mainwaring

There must be an election coming. Pharmac is finally going to fund the cystic fibrosis drug.
The timing is clever, as the costs will be borne by the incoming National Government, not that they wouldn’t have made the same decision.
And in an 8 minute lead story on TV3, the insufferable lefty prick Paddy Gower gets all the credit.
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December 5, 2022 8:03am
- cmm
  
  “The timing is clever, as the costs will be borne by the incoming National Government,”
  
  Nope, it will be borne by the taxpayer.
  
  The incoming government will be left with the headache of cleaning up the mess.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:09am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Same as those bastards Clark and Cullen did to NZ.
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:27am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Budget lifts 71 million May this year, 121 mill next year, the woman on Hosking this morning mentioned the funding for next year as part of the win, so you are correct in most of what you said
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:28am
    - Paulus
      
      Has an agreement actually been made with the Pharma Company ?
      I do not think so – discussions are still under way.
      A Political scoop.
      
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      December 5, 2022 10:37am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Not what the woman said this morning, she said the hold up has been signing with the pharma, she suggested that had been done
        
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        December 5, 2022 12:25pm
- Nickc2
  
  insufferable lefty prick Paddy Gower
  You’re being far too generous with your description Capt.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:09am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    More than that Nick2 , think there is something really really wrong with that guy ” …… Pharma rang ME ……”
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:52am
  - surfing
    
    Gower is a talentless clown.
    
    He showed he was an absolute fool when he interviewed the Canadian pair.
    
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    December 5, 2022 11:06am
    - Nickc2
      
      He’s exactly the type of Journo this Govt favours. Willie Jackson may even put him on the board of the new Media Entity he’s creating.
      
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      December 5, 2022 12:56pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Heard the pharmac woman with Hosking, they have been trying to get this drug since Oct last year, it wasn’t all about funding, but dealing with the company
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:14am
  - Phronesis
    
    This is a key point. Pharmac never pays retail, that is why it exists. If some idiot politician announces that a certain drug is to be purchased prior to these negotiations then that costs taxpayers a lot more.
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:11am
    - Deane Jessep
      
      *Usually never pays retail.
      We appear to have comparatively over paid for the Pfizer SARS-COV-2 therapeutic.
      
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      December 5, 2022 9:42am
      - burt
        
        You have to wonder why we paid for something that serves no purpose other than to give people myocarditis and other new and neurological disorders.
        
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        December 5, 2022 10:35am
- Blog-aholic
  
  That ‘news’ report was nothing but pure theatre. Sickening to watch.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:18am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    And yet you watched it, as most of you seem to do here at Kiwiblog.
    
    Kill them by not watching them. You’ll find all this out anyway via other sources and it will never surprise you.
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:22am
    - Deane Jessep
      
      *some
      
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      December 5, 2022 9:43am
    - ISeeRed
      
      That’s what I don’t get. If you think something is shit, don’t watch said shit.
      
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      December 5, 2022 6:53pm
- OlderChas
  
  I am amazed at the skills involved in airing an 8 minute story with only minutes of time to prepare it. The news announcer stated that “In Breaking News Pharmac has just announced…..” Wonderful work by the ‘journalists’ to get all those takes, including calls to Oz filmed, collated, edited and have Paddy dressed and into the studio in what must have been seconds after the news ‘broke” – on a Sunday evening! //
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:38am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Interesting.
  
  I’m heavily involved in the prostate cancer foundation.
  
  There are about 540 sufferers of Cystic Fibrosis nationwide.
  
  There are currently 42000 prostate cancer patients nationwide, with a further 3100 diagnosed annually.
  
  There are over 600 deaths from prostate cancer annually.
  
  Recently, Pharmac decided to stop funding Zolodex, a hormone inhibitor used in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer, and replaced it with a generic alternative that has been causing a number of issues
  
  Well done to the Cystic Fibrosis advocates, and I am in no way begrudging them the medication they so desperately need, but perhaps if Pharmac was adequately funded, these sorts of trade offs might not be needed.
  
  Instead, our Government does things like fund more bus stops for the busses that have no drivers to stop at.
  
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  December 5, 2022 10:31am
  - surfing
    
    One thing is for sure, I don’t envy Pharmac’s job.
    
    Deciding who lives or dies.
    
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    December 5, 2022 12:39pm
Yvette

Again, in passing – Relating to “3 Waters”

5 FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPT TE MANA O TE WAI
What is important for hapū and iwi to note, is that Te Mana o te Wai applies to the whole NPSFW [National Policy Statement for Freshwater], this is a “fundamental” concept, not something that only applies to high level strategy. It must apply to everyone who participates in the system, and there is an expectation that there should be a trickle-down effect which will apply in time, to all those who are participants in water use and management. This will include consent applicants, Māori landowners, current water and land users and existing resource consent holders.

Mauri [1] has been included in this section and hapū and iwi will need to consider how they want to ensure the cultural integrity of mauri, its use and how this may be protected in this framework. It will be essential for hapū and iwi to develop frameworks that are consistent with their own views of mauri to be incorporated where appropriate.

Mauri is a concept that comes from Te Aō Māori. It is not a concept that can be used or defined by those who are not the mana whenua of the waters themselves. We have seen examples of those who are not mana whenua ‘measuring’ mauri where they do not have the cultural knowledge or depth of understanding of mauri and how it fits in a wider Te Aō Māori paradigm.
As mauri is a central part of Te Mana o te Wai, local and central government will need to provide adequate resourcing to enable hapū and iwi to develop these tools appropriately.
https://ourlandandwater.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Te-Mana-o-te-Wai-Guidelines-for-Mana-Whenua.pdf – page 14
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{1] basic Google definition
mauri noun: (in Maori culture) life force or essence.
“removing the rats was a vital step to reviving the mauri of the island”
Mauri is the life spark or essence inherent in all living things that has been passed down from ancestors through whakapapa. Mauri affects and is affected by the surrounding environment.
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December 5, 2022 8:03am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Mauri is the life spark or essence inherent in all living things
  
  My understanding of the concept of Mauri is that it can also extend to inanimate objects… (rocks, mountains, pieces of wood, carvings, etc.)
  
  https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bes02Reli-t1-body-d2-d2.html
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:11am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Well, Maggy, they declared the Wanganui River to be a person, so I guess inanimate objects do have a “life spark or essence” providing you’re a believer in stone-age creation nonsense.
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:37am
    - Drone
      
      So central to the stone age culture that as quoted “As mauri is a central part of Te Mana o te Wai, local and central government will need to provide adequate resourcing to enable hapū and iwi to develop these tools appropriately.” they will need taxpayers funding to make it happen.
      
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      December 5, 2022 10:16am
      - Nickc2
        
        Don’t be sucked in FFS. We have been using NZ’s water since forever, without such stone age intervention.
        The game hasn’t started yet and they (Maori) want to move the Goal Posts. Gen involved, it’s going to be non-Maori paying for all this crap!
        
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        December 5, 2022 12:53pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  It’s animism. This is effectively the introduction of religion into public practice.
  
  Imagine the kerfuffle of Bill English decided all water required blessing by a Catholic priest, and that fees were given payable to the local bishop.
  
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  December 5, 2022 6:11pm
70andstilllearning

So the PM reckons we need a strong national communication provider (RNZ/TVNZ) to counter the misinformation that is threatening our national security. ( source a.m. Show 5/11/22).
Me think the only security being threatened is the PM/Labour ’s hold on power and they need a completely controlled Pravada styled organisation to peddle their misinformation.
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December 5, 2022 8:06am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Exactly right. 100% correct. The only source of lies and misinformation is directly from the liar on the 9th floor. Relayed by her overpaid shills and stenographers in the mainstream media.
  This isn’t a “communication provider”, it will be the Goebbelesque Ministry of Truth. Ardern is a very dangerous person, the damage she has already done to this country is incalculable and she is going to do much more before she goes. Incredible. Horrific.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:14am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    She is being caught out lying daily, Mahuta keeps throwing her under the bus, a Coo is imminent
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:30am
    - a3kidlady
      
      We can only hope you are right
      
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      December 5, 2022 8:50am
    - Random T Person
      
      If you want to be taken seriously please learn to spell basic words like ‘coup’, short for ‘coup d’état’. C’mon man.
      
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      December 5, 2022 8:52am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        You mistake G’s intention. I’m sure he meant Jacinda would have another baby imminently, following which her bought-and-paid-for MSM lapdogs will start to coo.
        
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        December 5, 2022 9:40am
      - Flossie
        
        To Random Person…We get what was meant by coo.
        
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        December 5, 2022 9:45am
      - Drone
        
        I thought he meant a pigeon “coo” /sarc
        
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        December 5, 2022 10:18am
  - Sacha
    
    Ardern doesn’t think up all this stuff by herself. She has teams of advisers and international contacts. And script writers.
    She is their mouthpiece. She is just the shiny skin of the rotten apple.
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:43am
    - surfing
      
      Noting her new tactic of socialising her lies.
      
      Systemic lying is somehow better?
      
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      December 5, 2022 11:08am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Poll says 22% only want this waste of billions, Tames interview with vile Willie yesterday was a must watch, Willie virtually threatened his job for not towing the Marxist regimes line
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:16am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Perhaps the support money paid to media outlets by the Labour Party for favourable coverage is running low?
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:51am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Yes, but I think the media outlets are anti this like the other 78% of NZers
      
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      December 5, 2022 8:56am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Interview here:
    
    https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/12/04/such-a-negative-interview-minister-and-jack-tame-spar-on-media-merger/
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:17am
  - DeepBlue
    
    Weirdly, The Daily Blog is crowing “This is one of Willie’s best interviews of the year. Calm, across the numbers and very funny.”
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:51am
    - lemuzz
      
      If this was Willies “best interview of the year” I would love to see his worst. (or maybe not)
      
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      December 5, 2022 12:12pm
  - leoj
    
    Why give Tame ANY credibility?
    He is part of the problem.
    A total soft cock, total Labour sycophant.
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:29am
  - alloytoo
    
    I’m sure Tame’s future Labour Lawyer will find that useful.
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:34am
- Yvette
  
  “… a strong national communication provider (RNZ/TVNZ) to counter the misinformation that is threatening our national security”
  
  Where was one single in-depth documentary on the covid vaccination, explaining how it worked, to offer the public an authoritative position on the vaccine for each person to make their own informed decision on whether to get it or not.
  It was a human right to decide on vaccination or not, but also a human right to sufficient information.
  
  I may have better knowledge though animation of how a Dyson inca blue rose gold stick vacuum cleaner works, than any animated explanation of the working of the conoid vaccine.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:25am
  - Ehlana
    
    Dyson can’t force you to buy their products; they have to persuade you that their offering is not only worth paying for, but actually better value than all the others.
    
    What Dyson won’t tell you, of course, is that in a future socialist eco-nirvana, you won’t need their vacuum cleaners. Your dirt floors will be adequately swept with a twig broom.
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:37am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Yvette – watch Dr John Campbell analyse peer reviewed scientific data from Germany. It’s the results of autopsies of 25 people found dead at home who “died suddenly”. It is proof that these “vaccines” are killing people.
    
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DdSMn55cA
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:56am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      This should be force fed to that prick Michael Baker.
      
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      December 5, 2022 10:13am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  That misinformation is the misinformation coming from Jaspinda.
  She is a liar and a fraud. Remember, some of those lies are lies by omission, we don’t know until it is too late.
  “not necessarily something I would be aware of” is a barefaced lie. She was ‘aware’ all the time.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:26am
  - Tricati
    
    Bit like not being aware of Karel Sroubek’s background, Labour Party youth camp pervert, reported sexual assault within her office, and now the BS over entrenchment SOP – The woman could lie straight in bed.
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:30am
    - Nickc2
      
      Couldn’t lie straight in bed???
      
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      December 5, 2022 9:08am
  - Nickc2
    
    Oh, the irony. We have a PM who travels the world preaching the need for the eradication of misinformation whilst simultaneously lying to the NZ population from her Podium of Truth about her knowledge of the 5Waters Entrenchment fiasco.
    To cite a quote used against Julia Gillard (one time Aust PM), “DITH THE WITCH”. Maybe I misheard the last word of the quote eh?
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:48am
  - Positan
    
    Someone might ask Ardern just exactly what population-effecting measures would “not necessarily be something she would be aware of.”
    
    Yet again, that paleface digs her hole even deeper. She’s now well recognised – but in no way adept – for her forked tongue utterances.
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:59am
    - herb1
      
      Would be far simpler and save a lot of wasted paper and column inches to ask her “ what serious political issues is she AWARE of”
      
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      December 5, 2022 9:38am
- Yvette
  
  Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson cites ‘no trust’ in defence of public media entity
  11:09 am on 29 September 2022
  Jackson has been repeatedly questioned at Parliament this week by the National Party over the proposal to fold TVNZ and RNZ into one entity.
  He defended the shake-up yesterday, saying it was necessary because the public’s view of the media had changed.
  “The reality is we want TVNZ to work in tandem with us – and they’re doing that – because New Zealand has changed. We have no longer a trust in national media – no longer is there a trust in what’s happening at a national media level,” he said.
  “We need a trusted public broadcaster because national identity is incredibly important and no longer do people trust New Zealand television or New Zealand radio.”
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/475707/broadcasting-minister-willie-jackson-cites-no-trust-in-defence-of-public-media-entity
  
  How does this Ardern Labour Government, in merging two untrusted broadcasters, reverse the population’s trust in the resulting entity.
  Surely: garbage in, garbage out
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:35am
  - Yvette
    
    Further –
    Did the same polls or research that informed Willie Jackson that TVNZ and RNZ are untrusted media, also inform him of any other entity, like perhaps politicians and even Government, that is untrusted, and so the basis for the TVNZ / RNZ merger is a misuse of information or just what Willie wants selectively to hear – so in itself misinformation, disinformation and so all merde?
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:46am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    The cognitive dissonance on display is awesome – but then politicians usually never notice what they say. To be fair that’s because the voters increasingly don’t take any notice of their word salads anyway.
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:48am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Effectively what Jackson is saying is, they don’t have ENOUGH control of the media.
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:10am
- Nickc2
  
  In the Jackson/Tame interview, where know everything about fuck all Jackson stated that the amalgamated structure will give more emphasis to Maori and Pacifica. Where have I heard that before?
  However, moving on, Jackson cited the ABC (Aust Broadcasting Corporation as an example of his view of the merged RNZ/TVNZ Corporation thus enhancing truth, responsibility, and accountability in Journalism. ABC Staff are renowned for turning on the Govt when they can’t get their own way which frequently happens.
  Willie, I don’t know what you’re on, but it can’t be good for you. Take a look at Aust’s ABC and look at the money the Govt has to pump into that to keep it afloat and look at they types of programs they produce.
  Currently, they’re pushing legislation for a separate Aboriginal Vice Parliamentary arrangement. Doesn’t that sound like our Maori Caucus’s push for Co-Governance?
  So Silly Willie’s all about pushing Co-Governance in the public arena using an NZ Broadcasting Corporation which is answerable to the Govt not only for pushing diversity in content but Govt (so long as it’s Labour) dictates.
  
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  December 5, 2022 11:18am
  - Paulus
    
    Interesting the way that people like Jackson talk of inclusive Pacifica. when in fact he means only Maori, but includes Pacifica, without their pemission or say to make up his numbers.
    Waiting to hear from Pacifica in their own rights, not Maori attachment, although their antecedants are the same.
    
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    December 5, 2022 1:19pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      although their antecedants are the same.
      
      Only the Polynesian component of NZ’s Pasifika…
      
      Most Fijians (incl Fijian Indians) and i-Kiribati are not Polynesians.
      
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      December 5, 2022 3:06pm
slightlyrighty

I wondered why the Government would announce the 3 Waters entrenchment backdown on a Sunday, and then I saw the Cystic Fibrosis Drug announcement.

I’m all in favour of the treatment, as nobody wants to suffer from this, or be related to someone who is.

But the timing of the 3 waters backdown, so that it’s buried in the newscycle, is so obvious!

It’s like “Yes, we made a mistake, but look at all the sick people we are helping!!”
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December 5, 2022 8:08am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  And Ardern prancing around on Maree apologising for stuff 170 years ago
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:58am
  - plc
    
    Who’s Maree? And why is the waste of space dancing on her?
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:14am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Haha I don’t know muldy
      
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      December 5, 2022 12:28pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Jacinda only ever apologises for bad stuff that she is not responsible for. She never apologises for anything she is responsible for.
    
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    December 5, 2022 6:17pm
- Jim
  
  Spun deliberately as a “protection against future privatisation”
  This government’s duplicitous BS is still going strong.
  
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  December 5, 2022 10:02am
Maggie Pie

Willy Jackson gives Jack Lame the message…. 😀

“Shape-up-or-ship-out-boy”

https://twitter.com/AgentSmith_NZ/status/1599235266312810496
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December 5, 2022 8:09am
- emmess
  
  I can totally see Willie Jackson as the future dictator of a tinpot third-world shithole country.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:16am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    Perhaps he could rule the little island somewhere that he wants to banish Jack to….
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:44am
    - peterwn
      
      Pitt Island although the locals probably would not want him. Mokopuna Island is another possibility being very close to Wellington but DOC is likely to object.
      
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      December 5, 2022 9:12am
      - Gravelroad
        
        DoC? The same outfit that apparently endorsed the destruction of huts used by trampers and hunters at the behest of certain “Special” people?
        I can’t see DoC having the integrity or will to object to any demands made by the Maori or Labour parties.
        
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        December 5, 2022 9:39am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    And latest polling shows only 22% in favor of the merger!
    
    Are they listening?
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:47am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Nope, but when they can it it will have been a mistake
      
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      December 5, 2022 8:59am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Jackson will be 2IC. Tuku Morgan will be number one after the Coup.
    My opinion anyway.
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:29am
- nathie
  
  Imagine if it was a National Minister threatening a journalist (like Willie was).
  
  That National Minister would be vilified and media questions to the National Prime Minister would solely be about whether that “chilling” Minister was fit to hold office and what will the PM do about it.
  
  However under the Jacindarella led fairy story Govt, the MSM will barely question both Willie Jackson and Jacinda Ardern (apart from the usual Soper/HDPA inquiring types) and if the rest of the MSM do ask a question, a quick “refute” by PM Ardern will see the rest of the MSM scarper back to their anti-National/Luxon storylines.
  
  Prove me wrong, MSM, by holding Willie Jackson to account … yeah/nah?
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:22am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Not just the MSM. Over at TDB, Bradbury has been attacking Labour recently over numerous issues, including 3-Waters and their general wokeness. In that he stands apart from The Standard – but that’s only because they haven’t been sufficiently Traditional Left for him and he’ll always support Labour as government even (or perhaps especially) because he’s now a Green Party man and hence lives in hope eternal.
    
    This this sickening take on the Tame-Jackson interview, Q A review: Jack, Grant & Willie all shine in final show of Year:
    
    This is one of Willie’s best interviews of the year. Calm, across the numbers and very funny.
    …
    “Thomas Coughlan’s po-faced review of Willie’s interview is surprisingly humourless and disappointingly pearl clutching. Willie was clearly joshing around with Jack, he did answer the questions and I don’t think Jack seriously thought his job was under any threat. Thomas seemed triggered.”
    
    I hope Martyn didn’t swallow the cum after that.
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:58am
- slightlyrighty
  
  There is a saying about biting the hand that feeds you. This is, however, the first time I’ve seen it in a symbiotic relationship!
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:55am
- Jim
  
  Everyone who watches our “Broadcasting Minister” and his gracious compelling justification, should be very afraid of NZ’s future under the Orwellian Ministry of Truth.
  
  IMHO everyone watching should see a flashing banner with:
  *********corrupt banana republic warning********
  
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  December 5, 2022 10:08am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  A slimy thug.
  
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  December 5, 2022 10:31am
mandk

Ardern is the great peddler of misinformation there is: “Safe and effective”, “Single source of truth”, “Not something I was necessarily aware of”.
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December 5, 2022 8:10am
- Bloody Dago
  
  Ardern is a clueless mouth piece. It’s her one eyed minions shoving buzz words, one liners of bullshit, disinformation, lies, obfuscation, lying by omission of the facts. Have I missed an relevant adjectives out?
  
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  December 5, 2022 10:58am
Maggy Wassilieff

Here’s 9 minutes of my listening life that has been wasted.

The Prime Minister was incapable of answering 2 questions, but managed to generate sound waves to compensate.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018869846/prime-minister-on-government-u-turn-on-three-waters-entrenchment

If the RNZ and TVNZ merger turns into disaster, then I’ll have little sympathy for RNZ folk… They’ve had 5 years to expose the fatuousness of Ardern, Willy Jackson & co.
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December 5, 2022 8:11am
- Swifty
  
  That woman clearly thinks we’re bloody thick.
  
  Giving the Maori-elite effective control over New Zealand’s water infrastructure not only has nothing whatsoever to do with effectively and efficiently fixing broken pipes, it will in fact make this critical function slower, less effective and vastly more expensive.
  
  If Ardern truly believes we don’t see this and that we’ll just swallow any old crap she spouts in support of this act of confiscation then the contempt with which she must regard us must be immense.
  
  I’d add too that she clearly doesn’t even think we’re worthy of honest answers when questioned on these matters.
  
  How have we sunk so low? To flock to vote for career politicians who regard us and treat us as ignorant, gullible dirt – fit only to be her ATM.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:41am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I have said for a while Māori caucus has taken over, look at Hipkins face when ever he is standing beside Ardern. He knows his dreams are gone
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:07am
  - ByGolly
    
    “That woman clearly thinks we’re bloody thick”
    
    A significant proportion of us are bloody thick.
    And she knows it.
    That’s the problem.
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:35am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Actually she doesn’t give a shit what we think.
      
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      December 5, 2022 10:14am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Corin/Ryan same basic question thrust – PM …… same deflecting word salad. Ta Maggy only wasted ~60 secs. 🙂
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:43am
- Jim
  
  Yep Maggy how anyone can genuinely defend Jackson’s aggressive bully boy character I’ll never know.
  
  You may find this refreshing: the same style of Ardern and Jackson’s ‘sophisticated (authoritarian) democracy’ was publicly exposed in (of all places) the Euro Parliament a few months back.
  
  https://youtu.be/UL1kMKgq1b0
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:46am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Jackson is a gift to all opposed
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:08am
- Local Miller
  
  Well that’s 9 minutes I didn’t waste.
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:09am
Southern Raider

Police must have had enough of the Labour justice policies.

The aggravated robbery on K’Rd over the weekend had the Police stating the two offenders were well known to them, they had been arrested recently for other assaults and dishonesty offences, but that the Justice system is complicated.

I take that as code for “we are doing our job, but the Courts are on a different planet”.
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December 5, 2022 8:13am
- All_on_Red
  
  I suspect much of the problem is Woke Prosecutors in Crown Prosecution Services don’t charge them with serious offences.
  That’s how it works overseas with the Soros supported Prosecutors.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:56am
- Its only I
  
  Catch and release.
  Labours prefered policing:
  You catch them you add to their file, you release them so they be caught again and something more can be added to their file, now here is the best bit, no, stop, hold on now, wait, are you ready? you release them again and more shit can be added to their file when you catch them again!
  
  A sarcastic reply from a long serving po-po mate of mine when asked how’s it going.
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:31am
  - Paulus
    
    Like listening to Aussie 501s – remember they have long criminal records in Aussie before they get a 501.
    
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    December 5, 2022 1:42pm
Ultima

“the insufferable lefty prick Paddy Gower ..”

I heard he’s also a journalist.
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December 5, 2022 8:14am
- RoboRob
  
  I think thats a nasty rumour 🙂
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:00am
Southern Raider

Polls must be really bad for Labour

The election bribes have started with some early Xmas presents for the sheep with more money for Pharmac and 400 new bus stops
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December 5, 2022 8:15am
- redeye
  
  Colmar Brunton tonight.
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:08am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I wouldn’t be surprised if one news has a poll tonight, usually Monday, and last couple the beginning of the month
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:10am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The Coup plans are sneaking up. Who is running this Country?
There are a lot of things that Jaspinda is “not necessarily aware of”
When she first became Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern declined to tell New Zealanders that she was embedding the socialist objectives of the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 into our legislative and regulatory framework. We only became aware of what was going on when she boasted about her achievements to a Bill Gates Foundation gathering in New York.
https://www.nzcpr.com/newsletter/
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December 5, 2022 8:15am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  She was thrown under the bus by Mahuta again over knowledge of entrenchment, she was openly being called a liar on radio this morning
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:18am
Close Hen Counters

Whoa news coverage last night – someone has seen bad polls!!! The queen of the special people in her birdy cloak schmoozing the gimme gimme Māoris, 350M on transport projects of which hardly dosh looks like it will help motorists and Pharmac covering CF drug – it was hard to not want to throw something at telly

Paddy Gower was slipping off his seat about trikafta but his breaking news story must have left NZ taxpayers wondering…. CF is a horrible disease even beyond the lung complications but like breast cancer, for trikafta to work, you have to have a certain genotype so it is not offered or available to every patient. Despite hundreds of young people with CF in NZ, he interviews a young women who has made a decision to move to and live in Australia (to get drug there? Wasn’t mentioned…). I’m not sure I would be happy for my tax to be spent on a drug for a New Zealander residing and contributing in another country – but thrilled so many people will be helped in NZ. Paddy couldn’t seem to get past the story bring all about him …..
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December 5, 2022 8:17am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  How long before we find out the 300 mill is a re announcement of a previous announcement? Surely they are not throwing new money at these bribes?
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:12am
  - DeepBlue
    
    The budget was old news, the announcement is simply Pharmac have concluded negotiations. It was an announcement, along with the transport spending, to try and knock the 3Waters backdown out of the news cycle. Another failure.
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:45am
- Ian Boag
  
  you have to have a certain genotype so it is not offered or available to every patient
  
  Just the ones where you expect it to be useful ….
  
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  December 5, 2022 10:50am
- rouppe
  
  Yes she did move there for access to the medication.
  
  I’m actually surprised Australia did it. Given the bad rap about access to services for kiwis on the SCV…
  
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  December 5, 2022 12:34pm
Matt Long

If we consider that one of the main factors in Labour continuing to be in a position to possibly win next year’s election, despite their obvious failings, is the impression of unity within the government, and that Ardern being rolled or leaving would expose both the lack of depth and internal hate in the government, the next question is how to send Ardern on her way.
One of the reasons Lange showed the white flag is the hatred shown to him in the late 80s, I recall a group of angry men rocking the car he was in perhaps opening his eyes to the damage he had caused. Being Prime Minister was no longer fun for him.
What are Ardern’s weak spots that could be exploited? She seems to lack the intelligence to feel discouraged by her government’s terrible performance but I’m sure like most politicians she has a strong desire to be worshipped.
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December 5, 2022 8:26am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Being a nacissist she cannot endure anything but worship.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:36am
- Gravelroad
  
  @Matt Long-
  I believe Ms Ardern is no longer as admired and doted on generally as she once was (apart from in the left wing media and on the celebrity circuit).
  But she won’t show the white flag.
  Money talks.
  She can buy back a lot more support in the coming months with subsidies, top-ups, increases in various benefit payments and by cynically undermining successful business people.
  More money will be printed and made available to the unthinking “most vulnerable” in exchange for their votes.
  It will work for her.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:37am
  - Thought Criminal
    
    Plus student loan forgiveness. Who wouldn’t vote for a 10k bribe, if she gets reelected?
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:43am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    ….. but,but,but – she said categorically on the a.m show this morning that ” …the government is cutting spending ” – ( doing their bit in solving the Cost of Living Crisis).
    She’s only got two modes of response to a question- a word salad or a lie.
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:12am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Bribes so far have only seen the go further down in the slippery polls
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:14am
- septic skeptic
  
  Maybe if we get enough kindy kids to hiss and boo when she visits…
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:38am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What are Ardern’s weak spots that could be exploited?
  
  Ardern has been protected from reality by her media mates.
  
  If the MSM continue keeping a protective and fawning bubble around her, then Ardern’s weak spots will continue to be hidden from general view.
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:41am
  - Paulus
    
    She would hate being laughed at in Parliament by National, quietly, when she speaks.
    
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    December 5, 2022 2:12pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Just wait until she gets to Primary School. With Neve, I mean. Jacinda will be expected to front up. She might find that the other mothers can be sooo mean.
    
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    December 5, 2022 6:26pm
- artemisia
  
  Still possible there will be a Labour/Green/MP government next. If that is the next government, and they have sold the family silver and more, they will have to deal with the consequences. No doubt that will be many more taxes, civil unrest and massive capital flight.
  
  We will of course see Budget 2023 before then, and updates before the election. All scrutinised in minute detail. Suggest there will be plenty of ‘show me the money’ moments. Popcorn time.
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:29am
SmokerGuy

Absolutely farcical interview this morning on the AM show by the PM where she continued to provide a response to Bridge’s question that did not answer it at all and then kept saying she had answered the question. It’s embarrassing to watch, New Zealand actually voted this women in!! Twice, wtf were people thinking???!!!
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December 5, 2022 8:43am
- Gravelroad
  
  @smoker-
  No, the first time, Mr Peters picked Ms Ardern to be Prime Minister because she was younger and prettier than Bill English, who allegedly had hurt Mr Peters’ feelings.
  In 2020, people voted for her and Labour because of the contrived and manipulated panic about covid.
  The people wanted to be looked after at any cost – and Ms Ardern and her “scientific advisors” promised to save them from certain illness and death.
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:01am
  - Sacha
    
    I remember her saying “Yes, this election IS all about the covid pandemic.”
    With the same smile as her “Yip,yip, that’s what it is.”
    I wonder what her team will pull out of the hat for next year?
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:58am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  She was never voted in the first time, she received one in three votes, we have a gnome to thank for that
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:16am
  - Ghost
    
    No. You have the people who voted Winston first to keep national honest and then voted labour’s to keep greens out that got her in
    
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    December 5, 2022 9:28am
- Wayne Mapp
  
  Yes, I saw the interview. I think she wanted to avoid saying, “Look Ryan, I simply wasn’t paying attention at that point of the caucus, so basically missed the discussion”.
  She wouldn’t be the first Prime Minister or Minister guilty of that, but not many would be prepared to admit they kinda just shut down when certain topics come up or particular people are speaking.
  
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  December 5, 2022 4:03pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6slxs7KrgVE
Reform UK is on the up!
This will be music to the ears of Nigel Farage and Richard Tice. Their party, Reform UK is rising in the polls.
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December 5, 2022 8:46am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JeSWK3NsNc
The Twitter Files… Massive Damage Control!
Elon just kneecapped the former management and the US political uniparty: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/15…
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December 5, 2022 8:47am
- kevn
  
  @curry… Twitter link no-go.
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:34am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
Something I just picked up on. I did not get an email to notify me.
From Meng Foon – the One Race Conciliator.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/four-good-reasons-why-meng-foon-must-go/
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Meng-Foon-Must-Go-4.pdf
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December 5, 2022 8:58am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Just picked this out of that post. In reference to my comments on Tuhoe yesterday.
  The first Article of Treaty1 says:
  “The chiefs of the confederation of united tribes, and the other chiefs who have not joined the confederation, cede to the Queen of England forever the entire sovereignty of their country.”
  This will include Tuhoe, who did not sign the Treaty
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:05am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Julian Batchelor just gave Meng Goon his arse on a plate.
  Meng Foon needs to read this, digest it, and apologise to the Kaipara District Council.
  
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  December 5, 2022 9:30am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He will say it boarders on racism
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:08am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yes it does. Racism from Pera Paniora.
      
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      December 5, 2022 11:04am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING…

Elon Musk agrees with labelling ALL media receiving funds from ANY government as ‘state-affiliated”, not just Russian sites.

Jacinda Ardern is going to hate this because the world is finally going to see they have no free press in New Zealand.

– Rebel News
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December 5, 2022 9:03am
Captain Mainwaring

So the smarmy bastard Wood is dishing out money for councils to spend on transport.
Cycleways, bus stops etc. but not one cent for roads that people actually drive on.
Business as usual then.
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December 5, 2022 9:05am
cas

An ode to the expansion of 3 Waters.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/an-ode-to-the-queen
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December 5, 2022 9:17am
Takere

So Wayne Brown wants to cash up $2b or 18% of Auckland ratepayers share of Auckland Airport to go on a spending spree!
Selling at the bottom of the cycle when the immigration changes and the tourism handbrake effects havent kicked in yet tells me that this is a mistake.
Share are at $8(ish) today and pre covid were at $10(ish).
There is a bounce coming so we should hold on a bit to realise that gain and then sell if the GB agree.
Lowballing the sale of shares will only benefit those with money to burn.
Will he do a John Key and finance the sale of the shares as he did with the sale of 49% of NZ’s power generators? Free loans and you can take a dividend without having to pay down any of the loan!

I smell a rat!
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December 5, 2022 9:21am
- Ra Henare
  
  The rat you smell is a bit of common sense.
  
  The Council CURRENTLY is paying 88 million PA to hold the non dividend paying shares.
  
  The Council is staring down a ??$300 mill deficit THIS coming year.
  
  So you want to wait until the shares go back up.??
  and when will that be with a recession predicted worldwide. and inflation janging around in the wings.
  
  The Brown thinking is a pragmatic solution
  
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  December 5, 2022 11:21am
  - marcw
    
    There is however no point in selling off the shares to retire debt if the current behaviour which has caused the present debt is not changed. All that will happen is the debt will return sooner, and with a vengeance, and now there is nothing left in the kitty to recover. We will all be worse off.
    
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    December 5, 2022 11:41am
  - Takere
    
    “Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown wants to sell the council’s $2 billion stake in Auckland International Airport to cut interest costs by $88 million per year and try to fill a $295 million budget ‘black hole’.
    
    But he is ignoring the annual losses of over $160m a year to run the council’s 13 golf courses, which have a combined value of well over $2.9b. He also has made no case for emergency asset sales to deal with some sort of fiscal ‘crisis’, given Auckland Council’s blue-chip-level AA credit rating is stable and its interest costs are forecast by Standard and Poor’s to be around 10% of revenues for the next three years.”
    He could also cancel the 100 year contract with the 800 members of Remuera Golf Club who get their membership fees paid for by Aucklands ratepayers at $12k per head!
    
    So it looks like to me he doesnt want to change anything ‘structural’. All that is wrong within Ak Council ffs!!
    
    He just wants to milk every last drop from Aucklanders FFS! Whilst pretending to doing everyone a favour by selling off the valuable assets that make/deliver a return!
    
    Asset Stripping isnt the way to go!
    
    He could save us all $125m by shutting down Panuku!
    
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    December 5, 2022 3:17pm
Maggie Pie

Prue from tennis tweets….

“Hope you’ve finished brekkie hon?”

https://twitter.com/Kermys_Returned/status/1599197900407705600

LOL!!
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December 5, 2022 9:27am
kevn

@Maggie… Revulsion from NZer’s seems to be the best description.
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December 5, 2022 9:32am
Maggie Pie

A bestie lives out at St Heliers. She was telling us they have now completed the Cycle-Lane from there thru to Mission Bay, where it magically turns into a T2-Lane all the way to Quay Street.

Max drives into the city after 10 most mornings. The entire journey is restricted to a single lane. Never once has she ever seen a Cyclist at that time, or a car with more than one person in it.

Just saying.
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December 5, 2022 9:58am
- Tom Hunter
  
  Truth. See it myself most days and the same in the evening. I’d love to know what the per-cyclist cost is.
  
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  December 5, 2022 10:50am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yes it’s absolutely ridiculous Tom!
    And we heard Brylcream Bonce Wood on ZB this morning telling Hosk…. they’re throwing another $350mil taxpayers money at even more cycle-lanes and bus stops 🙁
    
    I honestly have never met ANYONE who uses a bus or bikes anywhere.
    
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    December 5, 2022 11:20am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      Maggie,
      
      But we also know, based on your posts, that you have a rather limited social circle. Surely some of your friends must have bikes, even if they are high end carbon fibre electric bikes costing at least $15,000.
      
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      December 5, 2022 3:56pm
      - Ghost
        
        Oh Maggie rides bikes, I dug up this picture from her first bike ride
        
        https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c3/ee/5c/c3ee5c553cecc5fb6639e2d5c86c450f.jpg
        
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        December 5, 2022 4:07pm
WaynelSexton

It’s cheaper to euthanize someone, than it is to buy a wheelchair ramp.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/christine-gauthier-assisted-death-macaulay-1.6671721
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December 5, 2022 10:00am
- Inandout
  
  WS, does our ACT batchelor boy, he who promoted assisted dying, think this is plain wrong?
  
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  December 5, 2022 10:23am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Huh???
    This has nothing to do with our law. You do realise that you can agree with assisted dying for painful, terminal illness and disagree with that kind or stupidity right? They aren’t the same thing. Even a little bit.
    
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    December 5, 2022 10:48am
    - WaynelSexton
      
      They said the same stuff about gay marriage law, now we are teaching children that gender doesn’t exist in public schools.
      The slippery slope should be obvious to everyone at this point.
      
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      December 5, 2022 11:51am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        Yet stopping gay marriage etc has nothing to do with that. It is wrong to deny people their rights just because someone might take it further in the future. A rational person would look at each case as it comes up. Slippery slope people have zero credibility which certainly doesn’t help in these scenarios because their “I told you so”s are easily ignored.
        
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        December 5, 2022 2:25pm
kevn

@WayneS… trudeau modus operandi driven.
Another once great country.
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December 5, 2022 10:15am
Maggy Wassilieff

“And so its not ‘Five Waters’ its now “Six Waters” – drinking, waste, storm, thermal, coastal – and six – they are pissing down our backs and telling us its raining.”

– Rt Hon Winston Peters, Dec 4, 2022

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2212/S00028/cry-havoc-and-let-loose-the-dogs-of-separatism.htm
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December 5, 2022 10:42am
Surely Knott

This morning’s Herald top story “Victim Traumatised after Gunpoint ATM Robbery. ” NO DETAILS OF THE CRIMINAL. NO NAME or PHOTO GIVEN.

And the event happened in September in Sandringham but we are reporting it in December? The specific date of the incident is not reported and the gunman not named or photo shown. The report doesn’t say when he will be before the court. Or if he’s been arrested or convicted or what the charges are. I can’t find any report in September of the event. Did they report it? If we don’t give the name how do we know if the person was on parole, a 501, a first time offender, a gang member, which gang, the same offender that committed other serious crimes in Sandringham?

The Herald’s next story. The Henderson Gunman Motorway Chase. NO NAME GIVEN. “A man is in the hospital after an overnight pursuit ended dramatically with the person involved being hit by a police car.” “The man, described as a 37-year-old, suffered serious injuries and has been taken to Auckland City Hospital for treatment. He also remains under a Police guard.
Police have not revealed any charges at this stage, but say they anticipate those will be laid at some stage.”

Yesterday’s top story was a person who didn’t show a covid QR code during lockdown and didn’t have a food certificate. She is imprisoned, AND NAMED AND PHOTOGRAPH IN THE PAPER.

Fire and Fury named and shamed media personalise & individuals with opinions they didn’t like. And they weren’t criminals. Just people who opposed a draconian govt policy.

Who makes the policy that we don’t name criminals in the paper at the time of arrest. Because they almost never come back to the story and name them once they are convicted.
Do the police tell the reporters the names but the media chose not to print it. Or is it the law. Or is it the police witholding the names? Or is it a twitter type arrangement where the govt talks tot he media and tells them what to print. Could a new competing paper print the details? Is it important to have open justice?
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December 5, 2022 10:44am
- Ghost
  
  Since the victim can’t be named it sounds like the case has name suppression.
  
  Yesterdays case about not being registered for selling food had been through the courts and there was no name suppression.
  
  The motorway chase last I heard charges haven’t been laid yet.
  
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  December 5, 2022 10:57am
  - Surely Knott
    
    Name any of the ram raiders or robbers over the last two years. Virtually no one gets named.
    
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    December 5, 2022 11:18am
    - Ghost
      
      Because many of them are children, but adults have been named. Haimana Tuhakaraina 23
      
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      December 5, 2022 11:23am
Maggie Pie

Look at these stone-age bastards 🙁

https://twitter.com/NasimiShabnam/status/1598324324225662978
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December 5, 2022 10:53am
- Tom Hunter
  
  Sorry, but I saw all this in the late 1990’s and a little beyond, along with all the “We mustn’t turn a blind eye”.
  
  Of course the moment “we” (meaning the West) did stop turning a blind eye and started taking out these bastards with bullets and bombs, many of the same hand-wringing crowd immediately turned on a dime and started berating the West as the bad guys (with the US as Numerou Uno Bad Guy thanks to Bushhitler) because we hadn’t done it out of motives as pure and caring as theirs, not to mention our “awful, murderous, genocidal, ” methods and blah, blah, blah.
  
  So yeah, nah. Nothing practicable is going to be done. At this point the only help I’d provide would be to any group trying to smuggle woman and girls out of Afghanistan – and that probably wouldn’t work either.
  
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  December 5, 2022 11:03am
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… I read that Sonny Bill has got a new mosque happening in Sydney. Nice.
  
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  December 5, 2022 12:33pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    YIP YIP…. saw that Kev.
    Can only think Sydneysiders must have forgotten the Lindt Cafe siege already 🙁
    
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    December 5, 2022 1:13pm
- Nickc2
  
  Don’t forget, Biden pulled the Troops out of Afghanistan. I bet the troops are asking themselves WTF did we go there for? Others who lost loved ones there won’t be so courteous eh?
  
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  December 5, 2022 12:42pm
  - kevn
    
    @Nick2… Let’s not forget the total debacle of the US ‘ghan withdrawal.
    
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    December 5, 2022 1:33pm
- rjay
  
  From 2018 news report
  
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  December 5, 2022 1:48pm
I remember when

Last month, Jeff Currie, Goldman Sachs’ Head of Commodity Research, stated in an interview:
“At the end of last year, overall fossil fuels represented 81% of energy consumption.
10 years ago, they were at 82%…$3.8 trillion of investment in renewables, moved fossil fuels from 82% to 81% of overall energy consumption.
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December 5, 2022 11:04am
I remember when

Oxfordshire County Council have approved plans to lock their residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming.
If residents want to leave their zones they will need permission from the Council, be allowed to leave zone maximum of 100 days a year and will have to register their car details so councils can check their movements.
‘Trial’ to begin in 2024.

What could possibly go wrong?
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December 5, 2022 11:42am
- Inandout
  
  Irw, it seems most residents don’t leave their zone for anything like 100 times a year. Like most council laws there is a tendency to merely keep officers in jobs, hence such unworkable regulations. And if motorists refuse to pay fines or their number plates ‘fall off’?
  
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  December 5, 2022 12:20pm
Tom Hunter

The Banality of Good:

Desmet seeks to improve upon Arendt’s thesis with the argument that the “soft” totalitarianism she predicted would evolve after the horrors of Nazism and Stalinism is now a nightmare come true. Our current tyranny is not the menacing dictatorships of old, which were built on fear and operated by compliant functionaries practicing banalized evil, but by a subtler regime enforced by “dull bureaucrats and technocrats” convinced that they are advancing a greater good for humanity. The new agents of persecution are not jackbooted secret police thugs instilling fear, but almond milk latte-swigging university officials imposing unpleasant consensus. George Orwell’s vicious O’Brien has yielded to Ken Kesey’s passive-aggressive Nurse Ratched.

And of course Nurse Ratched’s ultimate solution to her biggest problem was to lobotomise it. Luckily for the Establishment that appears to have already been done to a lot of voters.
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December 5, 2022 11:42am
Maggie Pie

TWITTER TRENDING….

If you’ve got a spare few minutes while you’re eating lunch, have a read of the comments. What a HOOT 😀

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1599523578701287424
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December 5, 2022 12:02pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Those hollowed cheeks certainly are pointers to other pictures I have seen of the before and after states of folk that imbibe.
  
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  December 5, 2022 12:45pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Jeez…
  Someone needs a big plate of greasy boil-up and doughboys.
  
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  December 5, 2022 12:48pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Or a few fresh cream buns from Mr T’s Vietnamese Bakery in the Onehunga Mall.
    
    OMG – worth the trip 😛
    
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    December 5, 2022 1:17pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… We’re all sick of her and the continuum of lies, but she looks to be the sick one.
  I suppose knowing that everyone but the paid for sycophants are sick of you, it could be wearing.
  
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  December 5, 2022 1:37pm
Littletramp

Many will be pleased to see the US intelligence powers look to be laying the groundwork for Trump to be arrested.
They are hoping if they go after Biden’s son at the same time it will look like unbiased justice.
Grab the popcorn.
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December 5, 2022 12:20pm
- All_on_Red
  
  A citation would be useful
  What would Trump be arrested for?
  Bad hair
  Fake tan
  Rude tweets?
  
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  December 5, 2022 1:21pm
  - Littletramp
    
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/04/sunday-talks-former-ag-says-biden-administration-positioned-resources-to-absorb-the-violence-created-by-corrupt-political-indictment-of-president-trump-trade-arrest-of-hunter-biden-for-arrest-o/
    
    This source has been very accurate, and often months ahead, with interpreting the corrupt anti Trump political manouvering in the US.
    
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    December 5, 2022 1:46pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Am aware of Conservative Treehouse. They are very good.
      Holder is an Obama stooge who should be in Jail. I wouldn’t believe anything he said.
      Trump wont be charged with anything to do with the documents he kept at Mar a Lago.
      That’s turning out to be nothing.
      Remember Virtualmark going on about “Nuclear codes”- lol, good times.
      https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/11/16/shocker-wapo-sheepishly-admits-the-fbi-found-no-nuclear-secrets-or-anything-else-in-mar-a-lago-raid-n1646445
      But agree that the Govt is corrupt. Here’s Court Transcripts of the FBI admitting trying to bribe Steele over the infamous Steele Dossier
      https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/fbi-offered-bribe-to-bring-down-trump.php
      
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      December 5, 2022 2:11pm
WaynelSexton

Strep A, a relatively common bacteria which usually causes only mild symptoms such as a sore throat.
So what’s changed?

Could it be they were injected with something that has changed the immune response?
Will they even bother to look into it?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11499105/Thousands-children-miss-school-parents-vow-children-home-Strep-A.html
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December 5, 2022 12:35pm
- Ghost
  
  Strep only mild causing a swore throat? Heard of Rheumatic fever?
  
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  December 5, 2022 12:50pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Or a result of lockdowns, perhaps?
  
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  December 5, 2022 1:06pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Are car-jackings our new crime trend?

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2212/S00032/will-there-be-real-consequences-for-gillies-ave-car-jackers.htm
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December 5, 2022 12:51pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  SHEESH! To think this low-life scumbag will now be entitled to hundreds-of-thousands of taxpayers dollars in hospital care, ACC, free food & board, invalid benefits, and rent subsides for the rest of his useless life. He’s going to cost us millions!!
  
  Like my partner just said…why the f–k do we even bother?
  
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  December 5, 2022 1:26pm
Alan Wilkinson

Wuhan whistleblower:
https://www.thesun.ie/news/9841176/wuhan-lab-warning-covid-lab-leak/
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December 5, 2022 1:14pm
- rangitoto
  
  When it says the US government, they really mean Fauci and his collaborators.
  
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  December 5, 2022 2:36pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The world gets the virus. The US and China get the cover-up. We will probably never hear who knew what when or where the important bodies are buried.
    
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    December 5, 2022 4:33pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Not in our lifetime. Maybe in 100 years.
      
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      December 5, 2022 7:13pm
Ghost

The Chief Ombudsman has announced an investigation into claims Government agencies are too slow in responding to freedom of information requests.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/12/official-information-act-watchdog-announces-major-investigation-amid-concern-government-agencies-using-oia-to-stifle-flow-of-information.html
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December 5, 2022 1:32pm
- burt
  
  I’m picking they will release the report during the Xmax break when nobody is listening.
  
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  December 5, 2022 1:36pm
Prince

Incredible comments from Ardern on the Entrenchment efforts.
“The fact that you can put in an entrenchment provision with a lower threshold of this nature and that the limitations on where it can apply – this has been a relatively untested area – I think now has given rise to the view amongst a range of politicians that we do as a Parliament need to put some guardrails around entrenchment provisions.’

To translate the word soup, we tried to rort Parliament by sneaking through an anti-domocratic clause under urgency, but it didn’t work. This is an excellent outcome as it shows some people are watching us – well done to us.
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December 5, 2022 1:43pm
- mogg
  
  Even by discussing it we are part of theLabour spin/lies, they want us to think that this is a complex matter, something which could not have been foreseen or anticipated. Their whole story has been a pack of lies, remember this was all kept secret before and during the last election nobody has been given the chance to vote on it. They knew full well that it would be very unpopular. Everything about it stinks and they are backed up by a willing media. Democracy my arse.
  
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  December 5, 2022 2:26pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  More like – we tested something that lacked ethics and we got caught out – we think that everyone else is as unethical as we, so we’re going to put some laws around it because we can at the moment.
  
  I’m really hoping that ACT and National don’t support Labour’s deflection of this in the Standing Orders Committee. Better to make the explicit statement that it is not needed rather than imply you might have don’t the same if given an opportunity in the future. Labour’s going to politicize their stance either way.
  
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  December 5, 2022 2:53pm
  - Alwynn
    
    I would assume that if they wish to remove the “entrenched” clause from the bill they will have to get a 60% MP vote to do it. I wonder if the Green Party, who were of course in favour of entrenchment, will go along?
    Will they instead refuse to vote for the removal of the clause?
    National and ACT should simply abstain in the vote to remove the clause. They cannot then be accused of wanting to sell the assets. However it will leave Labour only being to get rid of it if the Greens vote to do so and leave the Green Party with a lot of power to demand anything they want to go along with Labour on the question, or else leave Labour looking stupid as, although they have an absolute majority in the House, they won’t be able to do something they promised to do.
    
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    December 5, 2022 3:35pm
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      Not quite sure of the mathematical logic there Alwynn but adding 65 Labour votes to the National/ACT votes already against “entrenchment” makes way more than 60% to me 🙂 The “privatisation” aspect was a simply Green/Labour red herring to rationalise their desire to “entrench”. I kinda get the drift of your arguement but not really pragmatic – the existing entrenchment would remain in place.
      
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      December 5, 2022 8:22pm
  - Prince
    
    I’m with you 70andstilllearning.
    Something along the lines of ‘no need to take this attempted subversion of our democracy to the SOC. Our Democracy has survived over 150 years, through two wars and countless ‘crises’, but only now do we have a Government that tries to overthrow the basic elements of our democracy through a warped sense of their own rectitude, and the belief that no one is watching.
    The people spoke up, and that was enough to hold them back.
    
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    December 5, 2022 4:54pm
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      Far better articulation of my clumsy attempt Prince 🙂
      
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      December 5, 2022 8:26pm
Maggie Pie

Interesting that Kim Dotcom actually turned down a Presidential Pardon from @realDonaldTrump, unless @Julian Assange and @Snowden were pardoned as well.

Just saying.
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December 5, 2022 2:10pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The Prime Minister of NZ is a fraud. Many things are now coming out in the open.
We can see some of what she has been planning for a long time.
https://www.nzcpr.com/newsletter/
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December 5, 2022 2:26pm
Chris Nisbet

When was the last time we had a headline like this from NZ’s MSM?
“NZ’s social cohesion is being torn apart”
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December 5, 2022 2:36pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  About 2 hours before we had one from the thedailyblog! – oh – and Flipflop referenced thedailyblog one about 15 before that – perhaps not so original maybe
  
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  December 5, 2022 3:08pm
Maggie Pie

And what about Cindy saying she hasn’t seen the Q&A interview with Willie and Jack.

Pants-on-fire!!
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December 5, 2022 2:42pm
- Ghost
  
  She knows he isn’t worth watching.
  
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  December 5, 2022 2:45pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… Must be un-empowering knowing you have hitched your wagon/horse to a rather racist clown like willie j.
  
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  December 5, 2022 3:02pm
- Prince
  
  Did she say that ?
  Or was it something like…
  “That is not something I necessarily have seen”
  
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  December 5, 2022 4:45pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “It is not something I would be aware of” or something.
  JA
  
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  December 5, 2022 6:42pm
  - Nickc2
    
    She was on TV tonight saying she had a word with Jackson about his interview.
    I call that a lie. Nobody has a word with Jackson! People listen to Jackson because there’s no option.
    
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    December 5, 2022 7:24pm
Maggie Pie

Very very pleasing to hear Mayor Wayne say “he intends keeping Auckland’s rate-rise to 4.99% ”

First time ever the increase will be below inflation!

Imagine if El Fresco had taken the reins where we’d be now 🙁
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December 5, 2022 3:21pm
- Ghost
  
  In the new porn movie “Efeso does Auckland”?
  
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  December 5, 2022 3:25pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    😛
    
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    December 5, 2022 3:35pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Tamaki Makaurau thankyou.
    
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    December 5, 2022 6:45pm
Tauhei Notts

I will be attending the Candidates’ Meeting in Hamilton at 7 p.m. this evening.
If you want a report give this an uptick.
If you think such a report would be waste of your time and mine; give it a downtick.
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December 5, 2022 3:29pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Report posted at 10.33 p.m.
  It would have been later but the casino does not allow $15 Blackjack players to split cards or double down. Only $20 or more players can do that. I do not know how the Casino Control Authority can sanction such chicanery.
  I think the Casino Control Authority would be another Wellington based outfit that knows so little. Just like the TAB management would not know the difference between a saltlick and a caslick.
  
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  December 5, 2022 10:38pm
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/130666978/watch-live-pm-jacinda-ardern-to-announce-inquiry-into-covid19-response
Things must be polling really badly inside the party if they are actually doing this !
On top of yesterday’s backdown it speaks volumes.
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December 5, 2022 3:52pm
- Gravelroad
  
  On the other hand, these people are supremely confident in their ability and the correctness of everything they say and do.
  They are so arrogant that they probably believe such a high level inquiry will vindicate and praise everything they did regarding the Covid19 response.
  After all, they saved all those lives and kept the fearful safe and cosy etc.
  This could turn out to be just another gold link in the 2023 re-election campaign chain for Labour.
  
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  December 5, 2022 4:32pm
  - kevn
    
    @Gravel… or the weak link that causes it all to fall apart.
    
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    December 5, 2022 6:23pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  Nah. This was always going to happen.
  She’s organised it close enough to the election that it won’t be released until after but far enough out that they can control the narrative the whole way through. A new National government won’t be able to do a proper one when they get in AND Labour won’t be held accountable. It’s perfect timing for Labour.
  
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  December 5, 2022 4:58pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  There’s a long list of exclusions
  
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  December 5, 2022 7:17pm
70andstilllearning

Looks like Morag McDowell is no better as a commissioner of something than Meng Foon.
Will we every again get Commissioners in this country that can look past the comfort zone of their pay packet, despite apparent commitments such as this?

“Morag is committed to promoting and protecting the rights of health and disability services consumers where the Code sets the benchmark for good practice, and opportunities for learning and quality improvement are embraced. She strongly values the importance of fair, timely, transparent, and culturally appropriate processes where people are engaged, and given the opportunity to be heard.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-doctor-sent-anti-vaccine-text-to-600-patients/H4XWTJGTWJCINOMSS3PIRVPXKE/

https://www.hdc.org.nz/about-us/our-people/
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December 5, 2022 3:57pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Oh, lefties, before you go off to the pub for your craft beer shandy:
Here are 62 things to boost your TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome)
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/62-things-trump-did-forgot-130004243.html
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December 5, 2022 4:16pm
- quarterpack
  
  Trump is yesterdays man, his only contribution to the betterment of the world was his work on The Apprentice
  
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  December 5, 2022 6:38pm
kevn

If m.baker is delighted, beware NZer’s.
Sounds ominous.
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December 5, 2022 4:33pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Course he would be – when the PM gives hints to the commissioners like this:
  “So far 75 reviews of New Zealand’s response had been carried out within Aotearoa since 2020, and internationally New Zealand had been named as having the fewest cases and deaths in the OECD for two years in a row, Ardern said.”
  
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  December 5, 2022 4:55pm
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    Wonderful! I guess that means we’d have a similar response inflicted on us again! Can’t wait.
    
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    December 5, 2022 5:31pm
Ghost

Is the PM being held hostage by the Māori Caucus, or is she just incompetent and pathetic on her own, or all of the above and more?

She said she had no plans to change the Local Government Minister following what had happened, saying any suggestion was “unfair speculation”.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/watch-live-jacinda-ardern-announces-next-steps-for-covid-19-inquiry/QZZBWCEEF5HFXH33B4NBD2LT6M/
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December 5, 2022 4:57pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  An Independent Covid inquiry led by Professor Tony Blakely….
  
  Now where have I heard that name before?
  
  Tony says he has met Helen Clark quite a few times since then and worked for many years in public health research with her husband Peter Davis.
  
  He was successful in getting New Zealand Health Research Council funding and stayed on at Otago University, mainly at the Wellington campus, until January 2019 directing various programmes including a health inequalities research programme.
  
  https://www.stpauls.school.nz/news/collegians/kiwi-professor-leading-voice-australias-covid-19-response
  
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  December 5, 2022 5:04pm
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    John Whitehead
    Between 1985 and 1992, he worked as an Economic Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office and David Lange’s government (1985–88), and as a Minister (Economic) at the New Zealand High Commission in London. After acting in the role, Whitehead was appointed as Treasury Secretary and chief executive on 8 April 2003[1] and served in that role until 31 May 2011
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whitehead_(public_servant)
    
    2 out of 3
    
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    December 5, 2022 5:15pm
    - Tony Stuart
      
      John Whitehead is a thoroughly professional operator who has worked for governments of both stripes. I have no concern over his appointment. However I would feel far happier if a retired High Court Judge was one of the Commissioners, given the likely complexity of the evidence given to the RC.
      
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      December 5, 2022 5:37pm
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        Good to hear Tony, a legal mind usually useful.
        I fail to see however how excluding the impact of RBNZ decisions can be brushed aside.
        “Ardern said monetary policy broadly was included in the review, but “what is excluded is the Reserve Bank’s independent monetary policy committee and those individual decisions that would have been made by that committee”.
        
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        December 5, 2022 5:46pm
    - Nickc2
      
      We weren’t going to have any sort of enquiry into the Govt’s response to Covid until Labour found themselves down in the Polls eh?
      Surprise, surprise, now this Labour Govt calls for a Royal Commission of Enquiry with a Labour Psychophant at its head with Terms of Reference set by the current Labour Govt.
      That’s not all folks, the Royal Commission won’t be reporting back until after the 2023 Elections.
      What’s that stench I smell emanating from the 9th floor of the Beehive?
      Didn’t we have problems with something called a 3/5Waters Bill before Parliament last Friday?
      
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      December 5, 2022 7:02pm
  - freemark
    
    Following some links however, back to the suspension of a couple of Drs who very sensibly advised against jabbing children & pregnant women, we find this quote “ Chairman of Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa (Medical Council of New Zealand) Dr Curtis Walker said the council welcomed the judge’s comments that there was indisputable evidence that those who were not vaccinated were more likely to spread Covid-19.”
    
    Some of us (the “conspiracy theorists”) knew way back that studies were showing no effect on transmission, and now of course everyone knows – but where were these public health quacks getting their info? From day one the whole Covifiasco stank. The jabs as they have been promoted stank from day one. Everything stinks. But we’re still surrounded by Covicultists, & criminals.
    
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    December 5, 2022 8:49pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  @ Ghost.
  Jaspinda is under the thumb of Mahuta now.
  Jaspinda is now desperate, so desperate that she can not take away the power that Mahuta has. Any other move that Jaspinda has will be branded “RACIST”
  This ‘racist’ thing will not come from Jaspinda, it will come from the left who despise her.
  Tell me I am wrong.
  
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  December 5, 2022 7:01pm
Tony Stuart

One News/Kantar poll out at 6pm. Was the PM being cynical by announcing the COVID Royal Commission this afternoon, knowing that it is likely to take at least some focus off the poll, which would normally be the lead story?
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December 5, 2022 5:39pm
kevn

@Tony… No doubt, someone on her PR team of dozens will have sorted that out. For her.
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December 5, 2022 5:46pm
Maggie Pie

Graffiti sprayed on wall in Parnell …..

FUKWIT WILLY

lol !!
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December 5, 2022 5:48pm
DimChappie

Hi folks, did any newspaper subscriber see the open letter about Three Waters mentioned by the NZ Initiative in this link: if so please cut and paste the text and post on here for wider distribution. It was “a full-page open letter from 42,576 signatories.”

https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/opinion/yet-more-government-contempt-for-new-zealands-democracy/
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December 5, 2022 5:58pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

According to the SCMP, Chynah has more than a hundred “secret-police-stations” situated in countries all around the world….. to keep an eye on it’s citizens!

There is one here in New Zealand 🙁
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December 5, 2022 6:07pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… Probably use a TradeMe trader account as a cover.
  
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  December 5, 2022 6:21pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yu never know what the CCP are up to kev. They’re sneaky little bastards.
    
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    December 5, 2022 6:47pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  There is one in Remers. It is next door to most in Remers.
  No cars or anything, they just walk around with that pretend dog, and go home after being secret in Remers.//
  
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  December 5, 2022 7:07pm
DimChappie

Found it, it is the Hobson’s Pledge letter which I had already supported and signed. Text below for the many who do not have access:

Open letter to the Prime Minister

Rt Hon JacindaArdern
Prime Minister
ParliamentBuildings
Wellington

Dear Prime Minister,

On election night 2020 you assured us that you would govern for all New Zealanders. Yet just one year later, you are pushing through your Three Waters confiscation despite the opposition of most New Zealanders.

We, undersigned, are especially worried about the iwi entitlement to governance of Three Waters. This is a major aspect of He Puapua, a plan for iwi-Crown co-governance by 2040. Your government has no mandate to overthrow our democracy.

Your Three Waters Plan will force councils to transfer all infrastructure for fresh, storm, and wastewater into four massive unwieldy zones. The Plan will give tribal appointees 50% of the 12-seat boards finally appointed to run these four monopolies. Given that Maori tribes represent a minority of NewZealanders, this alone is an abuse of our democracy.

Even worse, the requirement of a 75% majority for any decision, in effect, confers on tribal appointeesthe power to control every decision. This is totally outrageous in a democracy.

Moreover, it is a breach of theTreaty of Waitangi, which conferred equal rights of citizenship on all New Zealanders.

Your announcement on 27 October2021, that your Three Waters proposal is to be compulsory, triggered an outpouring of hostility. This anger will only increase. It is not going away.

We urge you to go back to the drawing board and find a democratic way to deal with any issues that exist with the management of fresh, storm, and waste water.

Please ensure that all NewZealanders have equal rights to control our water and its infrastructure, no matter their race or ethnicity.

Yours sincerely,
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December 5, 2022 6:10pm
Warren

If Jacinda Ardern thinks that this is just a lucky poll for National she only has to look at the pessimistic outlook from those polled with 64% giving their view on the economy getting worse inth coming year.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/12/05/poll-economic-pessimism-soars-to-10-year-high/
This will only get worse with Labours agenda set to test the population with their unpopular policies being rammed through Parliament by our Prime Minister who has no respect for those that are opposing their I’ll thought out breach of power.
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December 5, 2022 6:34pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It is not necessarily something she would be aware of.
  That thick she is not aware if it will be daylight in NZ tomorrow.
  
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  December 5, 2022 7:11pm
- kiwikidsnz
  
  …even The Standard is now getting worried & telling Labour to dump 3/5Waters & the TNZ/TV merger.
  https://thestandard.org.nz/daily-review-05-12-2022/#comments
  
  I know, go there & you can’t unsee it 🙂
  
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  December 5, 2022 7:22pm
- hullkiwi
  
  Yes, Warren and for those who didn’t see it. Jaspinda was interviewed telling viewers that she & her colleagues were working to solve the country’s problems & the opposition are not offering any solutions.
  
  How rich is that, coming from the mouth of Jaspinda, given:
  
  1. That many of the problems NZ now faces were created by Jaspinda’s incompetent government;
  2. That Jaspinda and her bunch of incompetents came to government they had no policy platform when they were made govt by the toxic one, so instead they bequeathed NZ with 300 odd working groups. The output from this groups have ended up providing ministers with glossy stacks of paper that have laid largely ignored over the past 4 years; and
  3. If the opposition had put up policy ideas the government would have gutted the best of the policies a year out from the election.
  
  Hence, the opposition are right to hold fire. Let Liebore & the Melons continue to dig themselves into the hole of their own making. Let Liebore do the lolly scramble with the budget in May. Then let the election fun really begin.
  
  Before then, we’ll see the govt attempt to buy voters with continuation of half priced PT fares, and reduced fuel tax excise (they have nothing else)!
  
  Bring on 2023!
  
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  December 5, 2022 7:39pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  The fact that the economic “hard data” and voting intention “hard data” in such polls, has for some time not been making logical sense, has bothered me. But maybe, courtesy of 1New/Kantar, it now does make sense.
  
  https://www.scribd.com/document/612313462/December-2022-1News-Kantar-Public-Poll
  
  Two excerpts:
  1) p2 “Note: Undecided voters, non-voters and those who refused to answer are excluded from the data on partysupport. The results are a snapshot in time of party support, and not a prediction.”
  2) p6
  Party vote
  “Firstly thinking about the Party Vote which is for a political party.
  Which political party would you vote for?”
  IF DON’T KNOW
  “Which one would you be most likely to vote for?”
  NOTE:
  Those who indicated the party they would be most likely to vote for have been included in the party
  support analysis, provided they said they would be ‘quite likely’ or ‘very likely’ to vote”
  
  So in one place Kanter say “it’s a snap shot, not a prediction” yet when they have the ‘if,’maybe’, ‘perhaps’ subjective data they dream up a subjective criteria that makes the created subjective data objective, then add it to the valid objective data.
  Over 5 odd decades of inferential data analysis I’ve developed some pretty good tools for assessing data point validity, but this methodology doesn’t gel with any of mine – I’m wondering if any of the other “analysts” that frequent these pages have a similar (or differing) view?
  
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  December 5, 2022 8:00pm
Ghost

Thanks labour, caring about kiwis since never

Newshub can reveal the number of nights funded for people to stay in mental health and addiction beds is dropping.

One treatment centre told Newshub people are dying waiting for a bed…

In 2017, 128,636 were funded, but over the last year only 88,048 were. That’s a 31 percent drop.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/12/number-of-nights-funded-for-people-to-stay-in-mental-health-addiction-beds-dropping.html
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December 5, 2022 8:40pm
freemark

Who knew, there IS going to be a Royal Commission into the Covid response. Kind of. This is quite a good article by Malpass

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/130671875/the-real-people-will-remain-invisible-in-this-royal-commission

Following some links however, back to the suspension of a couple of Drs who very sensibly advised against jabbing children & pregnant women, we find this quote “ Chairman of Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa (Medical Council of New Zealand) Dr Curtis Walker said the council welcomed the judge’s comments that there was indisputable evidence that those who were not vaccinated were more likely to spread Covid-19.”

Some of us (the “conspiracy theorists”) knew way back that studies were showing no effect on transmission, and know of course everyone knows – but where were these public health quacks getting their info? From day one the whole Covifiasco stank. The jabs as they have been promoted stank from day one. Everything stinks. But we’re still surrounded by Covicultists, & criminals.
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December 5, 2022 8:42pm
Tauhei Notts

Meet The Candidates-Hamilton West at Hamilton Casino Waikato Room, chaired by Martin Bradbury. Martin wears a hat indoors and complains that people are not tolerant of others’ cultures.
I was most impressed by Sharma. Sharma never mentioned the word “carpetbagger” as he was only one there who is not a carpetbagger. Sharma wants GST removed from food. He did not say whether he wanted food exempt from GST or food zero rated for GST. The difference is huge. He spoke about his time in parliament and gave me the impression that he is too honest to be in a Labour Party caucus.
The TOP woman spoke very well. I like her party’s policies but they have no appeal to people with an attention span of less than 140 characters. She was very well presented.
The National man spoke ok, but in a vague manner. I thought his opening speech was patronising. I’m in the Waikato electorate, so I rate him equally with Tim van der Molen.
The Labour Party woman; I felt so sorry for her. So much so that I wanted to give her hug. She reminded me of the 9 year old girl that nobody likes, dresses with no imagination nor thought of colour, and sits on the stage looking desolate. But give her marks; she could parrott off all the Labour talking points. She told us her Body Fit business employs 10 people. Others suggest that those sorts of places engage contractors rather than employ people on wages. If that is so then this woman exhibits a respect for the truth that we have come to expect from her Party’s leader. She is also a union official, but no mention of Fair Pay Agreements was made.
The Act man was good, but could have been better. He had a straight answer to a straight question; who will take his list place if he is elected. I am out of space,
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