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Today is the centenary of Norman Kirk’s birth.
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January 6, 2023 8:03am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Who gives a flying f#ck? Just another failed Labour PM.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:06am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    Only people replying to the comments would seem to care. But haven’t you got a bank to manage somewhere, Mainwaring?
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:17am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    A man of his times, like all of us.
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:40am
  - Cassandra
    
    Nonsense, Captain, he was far from a failure. We are still greatly affected by his policies. Wrong in your eyes, and mine, but the vast majority of voters agreed with him then and now.
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:46am
    - Inandout
      
      Cass, he was the closest NZ had to a Savage type, revered by old Labour because of his humble beginnings on the ferries. I was not a Labour voter at the time but I was saddened to hear of his death. I learnt years later from an Air Force guy on Kirk’s last fatefull flight to Wellington that Norm was visibly a very ill man. The toll of high office showed on a man who at heart was a simple person, but with high ideals. CT’s abound about his ideas regarding our fuel supplies and Big Oil perhaps poisoning him but I think the stresses of office simply led to his health declining.
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:25am
      - Don Beckett
        
        I understood that he had just returned from a trip to India, and caught some strange bug over there which caused his declining health, and failed to respond to treatment, and so his death.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:12am
      - Manu-Rau
        
        He had long-standing health issues before becoming PM, which almost certainly were exacerbated by the stress of the role. It is also likely, however, that aspects of his personal life brought additional stress of their own.
        
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        January 6, 2023 1:30pm
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Captain – What say you about Right Honourable Jacinda Ardern? Didn’t she save your life and hence a successful Labour PM? Sheeple think so….
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:39am
- Cassandra
  
  An important figure in NZ history. I met him in 1970, in Vietnam. He was quite subdued, possibly the heat and he was overweight.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:44am
- blue collar
  
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  First Nz prime minister to be assassinated .
  
  They used 1080 .
  
  Untraceable
  
  Heart attack right ?
  
  Why ? Pretty obvious .
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:49am
  - blue collar
    
    Sodium morphate
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:04am
  - Dr John
    
    I concluded he died from obstructive sleep apnoea.
    Seriously overweight. Therefore a snorer and OSA.
    He was in Wellington while his wife was in Christchurch – so she wasn’t available with the instrument used to wake him from his snoring – her elbow.
    If you have OSA, research indicates you will loose up to 10 years of your life expectancy.
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:11am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Indeed. The idea he was assassinated come literally from a novel – Museum Street.
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:23am
      - blue collar
        
        No . It’s pretty obvious . Kirk and Whitlam
        both took on the big boys. Trying to rape their countries and rip their people off .
        Kirk was murdered , Whitlam was screwed when the Governor General( Kerr ) was paid to sack him , the first instalment to John kerr ( who joined ray clines payroll. ) was $200,000 nov 74.
        The trouble was Kirk had introduced a tough anti monopoly bill designed to redistribute wealth to workers through wages and price regulation
        He also was doing the petroleum amendment bill designed to give more control to the people of oil resources as he had just got wind of the great southern basin discovery . Everyone hushed this up but Kirk was going to run with it and it would crash the world oil price and ruin Onassis and opecs plans for the arabs .
        They preferred to hush it up and exploit at a later date .
        The cia talk is that the shah of Iran was disposed of the same way as Kirk once he touched down in the US
        ROWLING THE TRAITOR first move as pm was to withdraw kirks anti monopoly bill , and also his petroleum bill .
        Rowling was later rewarded with the American ambassadorship
        But not until Rowling had set up a commerce bill that aided monopolisation . No rules no restrictions no public interest , a complete sell out to big business
        
        Whitlam refused to waive restrictions on overseas borrowing for alwest aluminium (Rupert Murdoch, bhp, r j Reynolds ) , blocked uranium Mining , and wanted more control of USA spy bases eg pine gap
        It was ray clines job to implement William Colby’s plan to oust the Ozzie prime minister.
        They started paying off pro USA Ozzie politicians eg Malcolm Fraser through the nugan hand bank . And set up eaves dropping operations
        Murdoch did his bit and hammered news papers , tv radio with dis and misinformation . Whitlam
        also wanted all Ozzie companies to be 50% Ozzie owned .
        He’s lucky the GG was on the take
        
        Who’s behind all this ? Why the big boy mafia of course . Plenty of Nz actors in our sphere think brierly , jones , Goodman , Holmes a court , Papps , fletcher .
        
        They were all trilateralists money means more than being patriotic
        
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        January 6, 2023 4:57pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        ‘Gemstone File – We Know’ was painted on one of the reservoirs on Haywards Hill for many years. I think this alleged file contained many of those feverish claims.
        
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        January 7, 2023 6:16am
    - Manu-Rau
      
      No, they were not in different cities. He died in the Home of Compassion in Island Bay. His wife was in the rented family home in Forres Street, Seaton.
      
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      January 6, 2023 1:21pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Does Gerry know about this?
      
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      January 6, 2023 1:44pm
- hookerphil
  
  A famous son of Waimate.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:53am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Kirk is probably more responsible for NZers’ standard of living being lower than it could be, than any other individual.
  
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  January 6, 2023 10:40am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Bold claim, to say the very least.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:14am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    And he started the dawn raids that Cindy apologised for because she thought Muldoon started them, she is so bloody dopey
    
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    January 6, 2023 3:46pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  A one term Labour government
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:59am
  - Mike
    
    Possibly mostly due to Kirk’s demise, although the Yom Kippur war didn’t help either.
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:57pm
krazykiwi

Japan has launched an official investigation into the unprecedented numbers of people dying after receiving the Covid-19 vaccination.

Kyoto Univerisity Prof. Emeritus Dr. Masanori Fukushima slammed Japan’s Ministry of Health for refusing to halt its Covid vaccination program

“People are already doing research all over the world,” Fukushima told health ministers during a conference earlier this month. “Japan’s prestige is at stake. You have vaccinated so many people. And yet, only 10% of the members of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, who are leading members of the vaccine campaign have been vaccinated. Is this a fucking joke?”

As at Dec 31, 2022, Japan had plunged 299 needles into every 100 arms, one of the highest ‘vaccination’ rates in the world. Looks like they are waking up.

Come on Ardern. Halt the damage you’re continuing to do, or resign.

I’d settle for both.
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January 6, 2023 8:03am
- rouppe
  
  That would be an interesting oia.
  
  What percentage of Labour MP’S have had their full complement of COVID-19 injections, being two initial doses and at least one booster?
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:39am
  - Ian Boag
    
    That would be an interesting oia.
    
    I bet. I doubt that the information exists in a readily extractable form. Besides, one could then oia how many Nat MPs have done the same… As in legal cross-examintaion better to not ask “damning”questions unless you already know the answer.
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:47pm
    - rouppe
      
      Except it was Labour MP’s who imposed mandatory* vaccination.
      
      *If you wanted to keep your job
      
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      January 6, 2023 5:10pm
  - Sarkozygroupie
    
    Were politicians mandated?
    
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    January 9, 2023 1:09am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  “Is this a fucking joke?”
  
  Wow – that’s unJapanese in its directness.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:42am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Yes, I thought the same thing.
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:03am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    No. It’s the translator.
    Prof. Emeritus Dr. Masanori Fukushima probably literally said “that’s really stupid” and the translator localized this harsh language for the English reader.
    
    You can’t swear in Japanese like you can in English (sex and bodily fluids don’t come into it).
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:17am
    - ISeeRed
      
      Would love to know the original Japanese phrasing with its English breakdown. Also, original source.
      
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      January 6, 2023 1:56pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I’m going there in May. To get in I’ll need another jab (to bring the total up to 3), or provide a -ve PCR taken within 3 days of leaving, which is nigh on impossible given I’m leaving on a Tuesday (and also a bit risky).
  Wondering if their dopey rules will change before I go.
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:06am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Options:
    1. Organise PCR.
    2. Change departure date.
    3. Change destination.
    4. Cancel trip.
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    999. Get a third jab
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:11am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Chris Nisbet – think long and hard about taking another jab. Have a watch of this analysis from Dr John Campbell of the Cleveland Clinic Health System employees. Over 51,000 of them.
    
    One jab you are 1.7 times more likely to get covid.
    
    2 jabs – 2.63 times increase in risk
    3 jabs – 3.1 times
    4 jabs – 3.8 times
    
    https://rumble.com/v23x33u-more-vaccines-causes-more-infections.html
    
    Maybe you think it reduces your risk of serious illness or death? The data to date is not showing that.
    You might need to do it for work reasons? That’s one of the reasons I am so angry with this government and our health authorities. They are forcing this on people.
    
    The risk of having a serious problem may still be relatively low, obviously this is your call. But KK’s list of possible options would be the one I would go for.
    Make every effort to get the PCR test. Good luck.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:22am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Could you post a source for this please KK I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Mrs Stellaboxer is very keen to read up
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:41am
  - Pavel
    
    If you highlight the paragraph of what the professor says and then click web search it comes up in many sites, the main one being infowars.
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:04am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Some commentary here: https://twitter.com/_aussie17/status/1607008929430769665. Prof Fukushima made these statements a few weeks ago. Since then other well credentialed Japanese doctors have joined the call for an immediate halt to these experimental genetic injectables.
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:23am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I think ClanMcleod had a post about this Professor the other day.
  Sooner or later the World will need to have Nuremberg 2.0. Some heavy prosecutions and heavy sentences. Not just fines, jail right through to pricks like Fauci. Rand Paul has got him by the short and curly.
  These prosecutions must come right through to NZ. The MOH, the PM, the deliberate lies. Time to be accountable.
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:50am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It is here. Well worth repeating his post.
    ClanMcleod
    “Unprecedented Vaccine Disaster”: An Interview with Professor Masanori Fukushima
    
    On November 25th there occurred a singularly rare event in the ongoing COVID-19 saga – truth was spoken to power. A distinguished medical doctor and infectious disease expert was given free rein to interrogate a government official, unmediated and without apparent time restraint. The doctor in question was the distinguished oncologist, professor emeritus at Kyoto University and Representative of the Learning Health Society Institute (LHSI) Masanori Fukushima. His rigorous and passionate berating of an official from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) on COVID-19 vaccine safety and government transparency made for gripping viewing.
    
    https://rumble.com/v1zahpo-you-are-ignoring-science-its-a-disaster-dr-masanori-fukushima-of-kyoto-univ.html
    
    It’s a discussion that is forbidden in NZ where we have a “single source of truth.”
    
    About Professor Masanori.
    
    Masanori Fukushima: I majored [in] biochemistry at Kyoto University post graduate school and actually I am the eldest medical oncologist in our country. I opened in the academic sector the first out-patient clinic for cancer patients in 2003 when I was Professor at Kyoto University. I [became involved in] pharmaco-epidemiology in 2000. This is the study of stop[ping] drug disaster[s]. That’s the mission, the raison d’etre. That’s why I’m involved with the COVID-19 vaccine problem. Because no scientists and only a few physicians have spoken out about the problem of vaccines.
    
    So no, he’s not a fringe “conspiracy theorist.”
    Here are some key comments from his interview on the 28th December. It is a startling interview.
    
    ….when I heard that Government and EU and USA started the messenger RNA program my first impression was this is so stupid. Because messenger RNA is evolutionary, and the cell system is degraded always in a very short time. Messenger RNA is fragile and should be degraded promptly in the body. But this vaccine is modified and manipulated to be stable and to be incorporated in nanoparticles.
    
    ……But it has became a kind of religion. Still, they believe in the effectiveness of the vaccine – it’s like a Messiah.
    
    …….The cases (vaccine damage) are accumulating but the Government has denied causality even for the autopsied cases, in which the pathologist has pointed out the causality. There is clear evidence of a significant increase in heart problems and vascular problems such as strokes and pneumonia-like symptoms and others.
    
    ……I asked the government to disclose the COVID-19 mortality in vaccinated and non-vaccinated people. This statistic is critical. If there is no difference, then the vaccine induced deaths do not justify the use of the vaccines. I officially requested this information with my attorney on August 1st. And the first answer was “wait two months”. And then the final answer was “no, we do not disclose”. So, the next step is to sue the Government.
    
    ……There are so many deaths. It is an unprecedented vaccine disaster. I can’t imagine how many people have really died. 2,000 is the minimum, the tip of the iceberg.
    
    Finally, to endorse Krazykiwi’s earlier post re vaccines fueling variants (as predicted by many.)
    
    PP: Finally, in your reports you said, perhaps particularly the booster shots, are damaging people’s immune systems, opening them up to all kinds of problems?
    
    MF: Yes, this has been known from the early days of the vaccine, that it may trigger ADE which is when the antibody accelerates cellular infections. And if you are repeatedly dosed this can lead to original antigen sin. The first-generation vaccine was designed to attack the first variant and second Delta. This was already clearly demonstrated by Catherine Reynolds’ report. So, vaccinated people do not produce appropriate anti-bodies for Omicron. The vaccines can shut down the innate immune system due to the first design of the vaccine.
    
    Link to the full interview.
    
    https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/01/unprecedented-vaccine-disaster-an-interview-with-professor-masanori-fukushima/
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:02am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “delusional to think a vaccine would fix the pandemic”
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:08am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  She gets the sack this coming November.
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:51am
  - Flossie
    
    That’s an unfortunately long notice period.
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:57am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Time to let it sink in. She is a gone-burger.
      
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      January 6, 2023 12:32pm
slightlyrighty

The GOP needs to ask themselves, “Are they Republicans, or Republicants.”
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January 6, 2023 8:06am
- mikenmildagain
  
  They need to ask themselves why 222 republican representatives cannot agree who should lead them.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:38am
  - Cassandra
    
    They know the answer – 20 Congressmen are making a point.
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:48am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Yes, they want to wave a scalp in the air, pat themselves on their backs and get down to some serious legislating. Just kidding, they don’t want to pass any legislation.
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:03am
      - All_on_Red
        
        https://babylonbee.com/news/republican-approval-ratings-at-record-high-after-bringing-congress-to-grinding-halt
        ‘ WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an unexpected turn of events, congressional Republicans saw their approval ratings soar to an all-time high after bringing Congress to a grinding halt while the battle to determine the Speaker of the House dragged on.’
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:26am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Yes, one of the prime objectives of the hold outs is to prevent any government functioning. They were elected on the premise of going to Washington to ~~fix~~ break everything.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:34am
      - All_on_Red
        
        I see you are making a good start to retain your Crown as Kiwiblogs Biggest Liar MM.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:26am
- mikenmildagain
  
  And a seventh vote passes with further humiliation for McCarthy and his party.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:56am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    And an eighth. Matt Gaetz is showing the way by nominating and voting for Donald Trump.
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:01am
    - I remember when
      
      Did Kiwiblog just become an echo chamber!
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:59am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yes. Especially for anti-Americans.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:10am
      - Ian Boag
        
        just become an echo chamber
        
        You could always call it a “chanting circle” ….
        
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        January 6, 2023 1:51pm
- Scott
  
  I think the difficulty is that Kevin McCarthy is a very moderate Republican. He speaks nicely, he looks nice, he seems like a nice guy. However the grassroots of the Republican Party is very unhappy with the direction of the country. There are cultural issues like highly sexualised drag queens reading stories to small children in libraries, biological males destroying women’s sports and the general craziness of far leftist intersectionality. Then there are economic issues like the huge debt, out-of-control government spending and massive inflation. There is the general decline of America’s standing in the world, the humiliating retreat from Afghanistan and the open border across which 5 million illegal aliens have past. There is out-of-control crime and security guards and police appear powerless to intervene when gangs of criminals rob stores in broad daylight.
  
  What the Republican base wants is a Speaker who will fight for their interests and will fight to save the country from far left Socialist governance. They want investigations done and they want to see people go to jail for criminal corruption. That’s what the fight is about.
  
  As we can tell these kind of issues are also very relevant to a small country we know well in the South Pacific.
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:36am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    No one from the little clique voting against McCarthy is going to magically become speaker. Your talking points are fantasies that appeal to a small fringe of US voters.
    To take just one example – debt. These guys will vote against anyone who might support raising the debt ceiling. As there is literally zero chance of the HoR proposing a package of raised taxes and lowered expenditure that could, in theory, address the problem, in effect they want the US to start defaulting on debt.
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:46am
    - Scott
      
      Thanks for your comments Mikey. “Your talking points are fantasies that appeal to a small fringe of US voters.”
      
      You think parents are not incensed by the highly sexualised curriculum they are bringing into primary schools? I have seen video of literally hundreds of parents at school board meetings protesting the sexualisation of their children and the destruction of their innocence. This is not a fringe issue.
      
      5 million illegal aliens crossing the border during Bidens presidency. It is the whole population of New Zealand. Democrats get incensed when 50 illegal aliens are sent to Martha’s Vineyard. What about the border towns that have to deal with thousands and thousands of illegal aliens? You think that is a fringe issue?
      
      Out-of-control crime is not a fringe issue. Here in New Zealand one of the reasons for the massive decline in popularity of Adern is that the labour government is soft on crime. We are having 500 ram raids a year! That is not a fringe issue. Not here and not in America.
      
      The debt has exploded to trillions of dollars. That is not a fringe issue. The Republican base wants a fighter, not a run-of-the-mill milquetoast politician as speaker of the house. And they have every right to expect one.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:04am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Martha’s Vineyard. Can’t have that filth where the elite, rabid Dems are. Get them out!
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:16am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Mikey is dissembling again- of course.
        They want no more Omnibus Bills pushed through without examination. Giving 2 days to review a 1.7 Trillion spend is ridiculous.
        They also want the ability to recall the Speaker tightened up.
        These are reasonable reforms.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:33am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I didn’t say that debt was a fringe issue. It is just one on which some representatives would rather see the debt payments in default rather than have to compromise over revenue and expenditure.
        On your other examples, perhaps you agree with Jordan, Donalds, Boebert etc, that it is much better to have no functioning legislature than one that might not provide all that they demand.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:39am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        AoR. If those are such reasonable demands, it seems remarkable that McCarthy and the vast majority of the GOP representatives prefer this ritual humiliation instead. I guess their key demand is for someone other than McCarthy (doesn’t really matter who, but won’t be one of their own fringe) so that they can claim a scalp.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:42am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Mikey still lying- sad.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:27am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Please don’t make me feel sorry for you, Reddy.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:50am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Well if McCarthy is too moderate and too nice, then Mike may be right.
    Jim Jordan has the balls.
    There ya go Mike
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:14am
    - Nickc2
      
      Jim Jordan would be wasted as Speaker. IMO, he’s more suited as the lead attack dog Prosecutor. There’s going to be heaps of work for him there. He may even be successful in getting Biden impeached eh?
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:25am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I was thinking of that the other day. Jordan has very quick recall – runs rings around many.
        
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        January 6, 2023 12:40pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Gym Jordan will never get a majority of the house to vote for him.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:43am
      - Nickc2
        
        Jordan says he doesn’t want the job and reaffirms for Mccarthy.
        https://thehill.com/homenews/3797377-jordan-says-no-chance-hell-be-speaker-despite-peeling-off-mccarthys-support/
        
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        January 6, 2023 1:42pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Didn’t stop the crazies from nominating him and voting for him in the first three votes. He wants to be a committee chair so that no one can shut him up ever again.
        
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        January 6, 2023 7:03pm
  - curry4me
    
    I understand the MAGA republicans have the goal of making McCarthy their sock puppet by setting tight rules. Good for them.
    
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    January 6, 2023 7:20pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Had 11 votes now with no sign of sanity prevailing. I think it now means they take the weekend off and think for a few days about whether it’s worth having a speaker at all. That suits some of them fine, as they don’t believe in any legislation that would need to pass a democratic sente or be signed by Biden, but most of them will want to get on with more important business like investigating political enemies and holding hearings on whether children should be allowed to learn about slavery, etc.
  
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  January 6, 2023 2:17pm
  - Flossie
    
    The person with the gavel instructed them to reconvene tomorrow at noon i.e. Friday over there so no weekend off to think about it.
    
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    January 6, 2023 3:53pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Thanks for the correction. Friday there, although starting later to mark two years since the attempted insurrection
      
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      January 6, 2023 7:04pm
Tony Stuart

Glengarry’s Mt Eden store has been done over twice in the space of five days, seemingly by the same group of young offenders. In both cases, the alleged offenders were arrested by Police.

Labour launched a Youth Crime initiative less than a month ago, which was going to see “children who commit serious crimes will be dealt with immediately and receive the support they need to stop them offending again.” Has this policy actually been rolled out, or have Ministers and officials delayed it until after the holidays? After all, crims have holidays too, don’t they?

https://www.labour.org.nz/news-action_on_crime_safety

The one saving grace of the Glengarry offences is that they occurred in the early hours of the morning, when stores were closed. But just yesterday a Hamilton shopkeeper was robbed at gunpoint, and it seems only a matter of time before another worker or business owner is seriously injured or killed during a robbery. The Labour government is soft on crime.
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January 6, 2023 8:17am
- Cinematic
  
  So many terrible aspects to this government but possibly soft on crime is the worst? Rampant wanton criminal activity is shredding their support.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:26am
- krazykiwi
  
  “children who commit serious crimes will be dealt with immediately and receive the support they need to stop them offending again.”
  
  These little scrotes don’t need ‘support’. They need their reality reframed by a few weeks breaking rocks on some God forsaken prison island. And their gang ‘handlers’ can join them.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:27am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    kk – maybe they could be sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo for 6 months to break rocks while mining for cobalt?
    That would undoubtedly get the full support of the Green Party and the environmentalists. It’s a win-win too good to pass up I believe……..
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:41am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Send them to Auckland. Islands. Not Waiheke.
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:44am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Not sure why you want to destroy a unique ecosystem when we have spent billions on new prisons over the past 20 years.
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:05am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Which unique ecosystem are you referring to and who is destroying it?
        
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        January 6, 2023 9:41am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        The Auckland Islands. It is an occasional suggestion from people who have no idea of the impracticality, unaffordability or environmental impact of such a scheme.
        
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        January 6, 2023 9:50am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Special K would just let them out.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:27am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Pitt island. Existing transport mechanisms. Bloody cold and windswept. 2 week stints ‘landscaping’. 4 weeks on any second visit.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:30am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Another ‘fantasy island’ scenario. We’ve had prisons on small islands before. It didn’t magically make them better prisons any more than other fantasies about tough prison camps in remoter areas of the two main islands.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    They need a size 9 regulation working boot right up the arse.
    Duck Steve, here come all the namby pambies
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:25am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Size 9 would you like to borrow my size 12’s ?
      
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      January 6, 2023 12:05pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Too slow, small and quick is better!
        
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        January 7, 2023 9:23am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      No, a good caning as they would have got for far less offending at school in my day. Followed by a debt for all the damage caused.
      
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      January 6, 2023 2:16pm
  - Paulus
    
    These 14 year olds had been apprehended sucessfully by the Police a week earlier.
    The same scrotes were caught again by the Police very promptly.
    No Consequences.
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:55am
  - Alex
    
    [Mod- stay on topic, this discussion has nothing to do with ukraine]
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:17am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Funny Mod [ Mod : We don’t do arguments. If you want to start an argument with the mods, take a deep breath because you are looking at a holiday … ]
      
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      December 6, 2021 12:17pm
      - Bridgenag
        
        Think Batman is back today
        
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        January 6, 2023 1:09pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      What ? I thought it was an open forum on this thread?
      
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      January 6, 2023 12:07pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    their gang ‘handlers’
    
    Maybe not the best idea. Said handlers would point out the employment opportunities available on release ….
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:54pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The wrap-around unwraps.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  How does it help the young crims/thugs to remain in the very environment that raised them to be thieves and violent?
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:35am
- Bloody Dago
  
  This is a deliberate and divisive strategy by this clown government not to police this crime wave with the pre 2017 process of lock them up first, ask questions later. The retail business’s and NZ taxpayer cop it every time in every sense of the word.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:59am
  - Ghost
    
    Police are doing their jobs, it’s the courts and the govts wrap around well being that is letting people down. Know of a cop who quit the job, saw no point in catching people to have them slapped on the wrist and out committing crimes again.
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:20am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Police are doing their job, where their bosses allow them to.
      
      Fixed it for you.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:22am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Many of the young have not been charged by police, that policy change can only come from this weak woke government, a woke Ardern chosen puppet can not surely be able to soften the once proud NZ police force
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:09pm
- Thought Criminal
  
  It’s not that Labour is soft on crime, Labour is actually pro criminal.
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:13am
  - Ruahine
    
    It is certainly pro – Maori criminal.
    It is is it not Kelvin Davis and Andrew Little?.
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:38am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    The media said yesterday police are refusing to charge many of these young criminals
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:10pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Tony S – All Labour will do is catch the criminal, get Right Honourable Megan Woods to sing Kumbaya and then release them. Sheeple appreciate this approach.
  
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  January 6, 2023 10:17am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Posted by Labour Voices. What a load of leftist crap that was. Funding Councils where this kind of crime is more prevalent?
  Councils will love that. They like free money.
  
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  January 6, 2023 10:23am
  - Matt Long
    
    They’ll be able to employ crime prevention officers, then rent building space for them, buy them cars, rent them office space, organiser huis.
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:54pm
- Squeek
  
  Clearly the Police has a ‘catch and release’ policy with young criminals. If that’s the case then some more use of the dogs on them wouldn’t go astray. And teach the dogs to bite hard.
  
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  January 6, 2023 12:57pm
The Redbaiter

“failing to vote ACT or National is as good as a vote for Labour”

So said one of the Labour plants who infest Kiwiblog and have been saying similar things now for three or four elections. So each election we dutifully vote for the Nats and the country continues to slide to the left. Electing a National govt is not going to reverse NZ’s slide into a Venezuelan/ Zimbabwean style socialist sewer, and with the far left Luxon/ Willis combination leading the party, the above commenter should have just kept it short and said “a vote for National is the same as a vote for Labour.”

How do we know this? Luxon and Willis have both told us how far left they are. Luxon in his maiden speech to parliament where he boasted endlessly about his work at Air NZ, where he turned the company into his own little woke empire, with staff appointments made on a gender or race basis, and forced to learn the utterly useless dialect that is described as the “Maori” language. He said his proudest achievement there was converting the vehicle fleet to electric.

His commitment to Zero Carbon 2050 means he is locked into the same tyrannical govt policies as Labour, and waffle about achieving these targets by means of technology just doesn’t bear scrutiny. He should be saying its impossible, its unnecessary and its going to destroy NZ’s economy, but he wont, because the truth is he’s just Jacinda Ardern with a shaved head. (and that’s another issue- what kind of man shaves his head in preference to be seen to be a ginger? There’s some weird psychology going on there.)

Willis, one of the first in the party to learn to speak Maori, has been a “progressive” cancer on the party for a decade now. A leading figure in the clique that replaced Bridges with the buffoon Muller, thereby guaranteeing Jacinda Ardern a record win. She was also behind Luxon’s replacement of Collins. Its no secret around parliament that she has her eye on the main prize. She would be twice the disaster as a leader that Luxon, and praised Ardern’s speech at Harvard where the PM boasted of the progressive policies she had implemented.

NZ is desperate to free itself of the grip of the Ardern regime, and in this desperation is going to elect not the real National party, not a Ron DeSantis clone, not a conviction politician, but a gang of weak vacillating imposters who are really the Green Left, and who will take the party further from its founding principles as it has ever been. Luxon has frequently expressed his personal regard for Jimmy Shaw, and even expressed a willingness to collaborate with the Greens. Its not beyond belief that he he would make the Greens a coalition partner.

Luxon says he won’t release policy least Labour get the jump on it. Really, he’s holding it back because he doesn’t want you to twig that its basically the same as Labour.

Sid Holland is spinning in his grave. His party is gone. Vote for Nats if you must, but make sure you make full use of NZ’s MMP system by electing other parties that may amount to at least half of an opposition. ACT, Matt King in Northland would make a big difference. Just don’t give untrammeled power to Luxon/ Willis. I predict that for their betrayal of the man in the streets expectations, and just like Ardern, they will be the most hated people in NZ in two years time.
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January 6, 2023 8:21am
- krazykiwi
  
  Awww, Red. You’ll be giving all those career tribal Nats nasty, hurty feelings.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:39am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    I’ll bite kk – 593 words to say SFA – but good to see that you recognise crap when you see it …. 🙂
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:47am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Yes, lots of words. I can shorten it a tad: A vote for National is a vote for Labour-lite.
      
      Tribal Nats need to be honest enough with themselves to acknowledge this.
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:00am
      - kowtow
        
        Tribal Nats need to read that J Key article in the Ferald where he insists our future is selling lamb chops to China .
        
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        January 6, 2023 9:07am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I am back in the undecided camp between Act and Labour-lite.
        Starting to think even Labour-lite will be better than the Tyrant we have now.
        Jaspinda MUST go!
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:37am
      - Matt Long
        
        Nooo, noo, Not six, I said SEVEN!!!
        Say all the tribal Nats.
        (The hitchhiker with the body in his baggage from Something about Mary for those who didn’t catch the reference.)
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:56am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        So who the fuck do we vote for ? We want rid of the dictator ffs
        
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        January 6, 2023 12:15pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        G, you’ll need to think long and hard about that. I’d suggest a party vote for National is a vote for more socialism, and more apartheid under a nice, blue banner.
        
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        January 6, 2023 6:40pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    We don’t get hurty feelings, we scoff at the idiots who think some foreign party will sweep to power. Only an idiot does not understand it’s a two horse race
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:14pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      And only an idiot, or a tribal Nat (aka Labour-lite supporter), would not give their party vote to ACT
      
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      January 6, 2023 6:38pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        I have no problem with people giving their party vote to Act, but I can not understand how this does not change the fact it will be a Nat lead government
        
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        January 6, 2023 7:17pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        Who ‘leads’ a changed government is irrelevant. It is a question of degrees of influence. In the absence of strong ACT electorate potential, if you vote National for electorate and party then you support more socialism, more and more apartheid. Based on where you live, I’d say that’s you, G.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:22pm
- peterwn
  
  “failing to vote ACT or National is as good as a vote for Labour” So said one of the Labour plants who infest Kiwiblog………
  
  Me – a Labour plant? What planet are you on?
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:40am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    To Redbaiter, anyone who isn’t to the right of Genghis Khan is a “Labour plant”.
    
    Even Act has realised that being hardcore right wing is electorally unsustainable. We may not like it, but that’s the reality. Ideological puritans such as Redbaiter (or for that matter hardcore leftists) exist in such sparse numbers that they have a diminishing influence on elections.
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:27am
    - The Redbaiter
      
      People should consider very carefully before they take the advice of some one who calls his own party’s founding principles an extreme position.
      
      ““To promote good citizenship and self-reliance; to combat communism and socialism; to maintain freedom of contract; to encourage private enterprise; to safeguard individual rights and the privilege of ownership; to oppose interference by the State in business, and State control of industry”.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:42am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Dear old Sid Holland couldn’t even live up to those principles in the first national government.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:30am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Ah, it’s the same Redbaiter who was starting a ‘movement’ some years ago?
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:46am
    - peterwn
      
      Yes – Chris, Nicola, Bish etc are all Labour plants.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:49am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I’m convinced it is true. I have even seen some of them smile and shake hands with labour MPs.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:31am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    It’s the kind of shit the Labour foot soldiers are spouting on social media, they appear to be saying it to solidify Labour’s dying support
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:17pm
- Mark Hanley
  
  Politics is a tricky balancing act. Extreme positions which counter common social themes may appease you but won’t win over 50% of voters.
  
  Let’s compare Christopher Luxon to Adern. Luxon has a commerce degree and worked his way up to CEO of Air NZ. Adern has a communication degree and worked her way up to fish and chip worker. Luxon is wealthy and can easily earn multiples more than the primeminister’s remuneration in the private sector. Adern was a fish and chip worker.
  
  Luxon has managed large corporate businesses successfully. Adern was elected President of International Union of Socialist Youth.
  
  I’ll put my trust and vote into Luxon.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:44am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Mark Hanley – much as she tries to downplay her role, Ardern did work as a Policy Analyst for Tony Blair. The deviant war criminal who destroyed the UK Labour Party.
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:05am
    - Sacha
      
      But haven’t we been told that she never actually met Blair, and the job was in an office well away from Parliament and the Party Head offices?
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:06am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Sacha – we’ve been told lots of things by and about Ardern. She’s a proven liar and a con artist. Unless there is verifiable proof I disbelieve everything she and her team of spin doctors say about her.
        
        I’ve said before, my loss of trust in government, media and various other institutions has only happened due to events during covid. I was happily cruising in my life prior to this.
        
        Saying that, I prefer to be awake and pissed off than sedated and trusting of liars and frauds.
        
        It’s been an eye opening few years. They shouldn’t have pushed so hard.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:33am
      - Colville
        
        Clan.
        Jacinda simply isn’t smart enough to be an analyst.
        
        Look at her record as an MP prior to ’17. It’s a blank sheet.
        
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        January 6, 2023 2:23pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      That is where her ‘warmonger’ thoughts come from. What War?
      Wait and see where 2 waters/ Co-Governance is going. Jaspinda will of course be long gone – spreading her rot at UN.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:41am
    - Paulus
      
      But remember she never met Blair – she was one of something like 2,000 of his staff in London, as arranged by Helen Clark.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:58am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        So Clark sent her there to get ‘programed?’
        
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        January 6, 2023 12:43pm
      - Colville
        
        Steve.
        It would have been a well paid gig in a fun city close to lots of fun stuff to do. She would have been mid 20’s? What’s not to like?
        But a serious political job? Not a chance.
        
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        January 6, 2023 2:26pm
      - virtualmark
        
        No, Clark sent her there so her CV would have the “right” contents for a senior Labour Party role.
        
        But really no different from Nicola Willis being placed in a soft role at Fonterra. Nicola and Ardern are both political animals, whose first priority is political advancement, but who know they have to have the right CV to appeal to their voter bases.
        
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        January 6, 2023 3:58pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        virtualmark
        Bishop selling fags for a while, any of a dozen labour MPs working for unions. Plenty of politicos start out in high school debate clubs and look for a career in politics.
        
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        January 6, 2023 7:07pm
  - rouppe
    
    You can put your trust in Luxon, but still vote in such a way that he has to be taken some way out of his comfort zone.
    
    The Left have no qualms with strategic voting. There’s no reason the Right can’t do the same.
    
    I’ll vote for the National candidate in Mana because they will have more (though still unlikely) chance of unseating Labour. But I’ll probably party vote ACT to give them some heft in Parliament.
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:32am
    - Mark Hanley
      
      Rouppe. I agree. Whilst I initially had no problem with the full and final settlement of Maori treaty grievances (you need to invest money to solve the many Maori problems and treaty settlements killed two birds with one stone), the ongoing treaty industry is now nothing more than a farce.
      
      ACT’s policy of a TOW referendum could put the issue to bed and help us all move on to solving real problems with effective proven methods, e.g., Improving outcomes by providing rewards for learning to read/write; wrap around services to pull inter-generational criminals out of the mire; and early identification and intervention of troubled youths (the Dunedin study discovered that effective early intervention improves youth outcomes).
      
      Studies show that EFFECTIVELY investing money in solving the problems of the lower echelons, lifts the living standards of the whole country.
      
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      January 6, 2023 11:58am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Wrapping chips at the local takeaway beats flipping burgers for the multinational hands down in my book. 1-0 to Cindy at that stage.
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:40am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Time for a better book.
      
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      January 6, 2023 11:36am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      He was re living his first job, Cindy only ever had one, failed fish and chip flipper, I hope she wasn’t near the bloody till with her not for profit ideology
      
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      January 6, 2023 12:21pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Isn’t it sad these fools are prepared to waste their vote
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:18pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Is that you, BlueBaiter?
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:45am
- rouppe
  
  I don’t know about most hated, but certainly very disappointed.
  
  I agree, there needs to be a right of center party with good numbers in order to force some significant change to policy direction.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:47am
  - peterwn
    
    There already is – the ACT Party. Remember however that many Kiwis have a social conscience and would be reluctant to vote for a party or potential coalition that swings too hard to the right. Their votes would go to Labour, Greens, NZ First, minor parties or they would not bother voting (ie effectively half a vote for Labour/ Greens).
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:56am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Do we even know what “hard right” means in this country?
      (I suspect it means supporting freedom of speech, personal responsibility, and a smaller government…)
      
      What does “far right” or “hard right” mean to you?
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:20am
      - rouppe
        
        Yes essentially what I was going to ask. Playing word association by saying ACT and “hard right” in the same breath is a tactic commonly used. Bit cynically, usually
        
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        January 6, 2023 9:38am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        And has alt-right disappeared from the lexicon.
        
        I don’t seem to see it being bandied about these days.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:02am
      - peterwn
        
        I did not say ‘hard right’. I said – ‘too hard to the right’. While I have some sympathy for those who want to see National swing significantly more to the right than at present, the support for that among voters is just not there. Jacinda and Robbo would just love to see National to swing significantly to the right because it means less votes for National and more votes for Labour/Green.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:24am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        ‘alt-right’ was just a fancy term for white male supremacy. Don’t see it used much today. These fashions change, like using (((…))) as a ‘code’ for Jews.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:50am
      - The Redbaiter
        
        What the critics of a more right wing approach are saying is-
        
        “fine, you can put a National party in power for a few years, but just make sure they don’t do anything to rock the boat or disturb the overall left wing trajectory that the country is headed on”
        
        ..and that’s what has been happening for a few decades now. The National party as it once was has been converted into a party that basically exists to enable the dominance of the hard left Labour party.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:15am
    - kowtow
      
      If one really had a social concsience one would be appalled at the vast waste of scarce resources spent by mainstream parties pretending to have a social conscience , just to keep te media pardy off their backs.
      
      Resources that could be better spent elsewhere .
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:42am
      - Ian Boag
        
        Resources that could be better spent elsewhere
        
        Absolutely. We could start by putting money back into the pockets of the 180k+ folk. Generate another data point for the “does trickle-down economics work?” question …..
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:03am
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        @IB, if you can’t see the Amazon-size flow already paying for socialism you are obviously not looking. However the eternal failure of socialists to be grateful to capitalists for paying for their inanities unfortunately comes as no surprise.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:32am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        That’s one option, Ian. Or we could make enough savings to lower GST to 10% quite easily, and I think those earning more than $180k would agree a tax cut for everyone would be fairer than income tax cuts for fewer people.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:35am
      - ISeeRed
        
        @Ian Boag, 180,000 would be about the number of net taxpayers in New Zealand. So yes, let them keep more of their hard-earned dollars and convert more Kiwis to net taxpayer status too.
        
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        January 6, 2023 2:25pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Exactly, to win an MMP election you must straddle the centre, why these so called intelligent hard right fools can’t work that out is beyond comprehension
      
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      January 6, 2023 12:23pm
  - Stellaboxer
    
    The Uk is drowning in a sea of wokeness with the social justice purity cult infecting every institution from the Police to the universities the Armed forces to the justice system. All happened under a centre right conservative government because career politicians believe Twitter mobs represent public opinion and are more concerned with their careers then they are with principles. Only when our politicians wake up to the fact that wokeness is a very small minority belief system ridiculed and despised by the vast majority of people will this slide into clown world end. Don’t hold your breath.
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:35am
    - Paulus
      
      Still at least 2 more years before next election in UK.
      
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      January 6, 2023 11:00am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        I think their term is 5 years, Boris had a snap election which was not do long ago
        
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        January 6, 2023 12:24pm
      - Stellaboxer
        
        And who do the good people of Britain vote for next Labour? My point is as with here it doesn’t matter who you vote for you’ll get woke policies because of the pandering to the digital mob, the fear of woke academics and the misunderstanding on the part of politicians and media players that it’s the will of the majority.
        
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        January 6, 2023 12:56pm
    - ISeeRed
      
      The Brits better vote Conservative next election. They’ll put a stop to it.
      
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      January 6, 2023 2:26pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  As a non political animal I thank you for voicing my thoughts in a manner that I couldn’t manage to do.
  Well said.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:47am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Agree
  
  Want competent Labour? Vote National.
  
  Want change? Vote Act.
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:16am
  - Colville
    
    I wish I could disagree with you.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:04am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    What with Seymour still saying he doesn’t really want a ministry, bwhshahahaha
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:26pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Don’t forget Mr Luxon flip-flopped on the 39% envy tax removal. Me and my extended family are switching our vote to ACT.
  
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  January 6, 2023 10:23am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    No he did not at all, he said it no longer will happen in the first term, two very different things, something the anti Luxon fools should take note of
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:27pm
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      Giant – He knows pretty sure he will be a one term wonder. So he is boldy saying it won’t happen in the first term. Any National Leader who can’t cut the envy tax is not worth contesting the election in my view. I may as well vote for Labour as there is not going to be any difference between Labour and National’s tax policies. Both are going to fleece NZ public. Right Honourable Grant Anderson will be adjusting the tax thresholds in 2023 budget and then what tax policy National will take to the election?
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:03pm
  - Bridgenag
    
    Don’t forget he never went and spoke to The Mums and Dads and disenfranchised at
    Wellington… “river of fifth”……………..hid behind Cindy’s skirts
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:17pm
kevn

@Tony… Just waiting for a dairy owner to ‘take one for the team’ and opt for a jury trial.
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January 6, 2023 8:24am
- MCōs
  
  Shouldn’t that be one of the ten or twelve year old robbers take one for the team?
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:33am
  - CJames
    
    I believe Kevn means one dairy owner who whacks one of the miscreants with a hockey stick or like. Whether police would charge the owner with assault, or another crime would be interesting.
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:38am
    - MCōs
      
      I believe dairy owners have often defended themselves with hockey sticks or whatever.
      One of these days it’ll go further than that . . . .
      
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      January 6, 2023 8:46am
      - Cassandra
        
        Hope so. While the death penalty for shop lifting is perhaps a step too far, it might wake a few folk up.
        
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        January 6, 2023 8:52am
      - Colville
        
        Sooner or later a dairy owner is going to pull a machete out from under the counter and trim someone down to size.
        Hard for police to argue that they didn’t have reason to be in fear for their life.
        
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        January 6, 2023 9:11am
      - rouppe
        
        @Colville yes, but by having it under the counter the prosecution will say “intent”, and (from my experience being on juries) most folks will go “oh well, I have no choice, have to vote guilty”.
        
        You need two dissenting voices (there is a drift to allowing conviction on 11-1) to prevent conviction.
        
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        January 6, 2023 9:43am
      - Sacha
        
        What ever happened to big dogs with big teeth and a strong bite?
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:09am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Crims have the guns, the good guys handed their guns to Jaspinda.
        First they came for your guns. Where does that lead to?
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:50am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @ Sacha.
        The doggies got woke.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:51am
      - Colville
        
        rouppe.
        Shopowner would be very careful to state to his staff that the machete was purchased for opening cartons…and was kept under the counter to keep it away from children who may play with it if it was in the back of the store…
        
        Safety first 🙂
        
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        January 6, 2023 1:14pm
    - kowtow
      
      You can be damn sure te Media Pardy will go all George Floyd and the little shit would be turned into a Little Saint .
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:00am
      - Stellaboxer
        
        Cassandra it’s not shop lifting it’s aggravated robbery. Worth at least five years, or it should be.
        
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        January 6, 2023 9:38am
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      CJames – That dairy owner who whacks the crim will be immediately arrested, prosecuted and put in jail swiftly.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:24am
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        Not if there is a jury.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:27am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        That’s what they mean taking one for the team
        
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        January 6, 2023 12:29pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        And perhaps deported, since many dairy workers are here on visas
        
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        January 6, 2023 6:22pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Indeed, the only lesson in life that ever needs to be learned is “consequences for actions.”
  In NZ, criminals are actively encouraged to commit crime due to the soft responses from the justice system.
  This is all the responsibility of Labour and the Greens.
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:09am
slightlyrighty

Given the ructions in the US over the simple act of appointing a speaker, (Although it’s more complex over there given the rules on Presidential Sucession in that the Speaker becomes President if the President and Vice President cannot fulfill the office), Given that we will most likely see a change in Government this year, who would Kiwibloggers like to see as speaker?

The obvious candidate is Gerry Brownlee, but I wonder how someone like Judith Collins might perform in the role?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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January 6, 2023 8:25am
- CJames
  
  Though Gerry is almost certain to get the job, Judith as speaker could be interesting. I think it would make life very difficult for the opposition, especially those who had previously taunted her.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:36am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    If appointed, I would hope that Judith would recognise that the Office of the Speaker requires impartiality & rise above all that. We’ve just survived a red political hack; a blue political hack would be no improvement.
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:48am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Best to get someone harmless, like Lockwood Smith or Peter Tapsell.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:52am
    - septic skeptic
      
      I’m not certain I agree with that. Maybe it’s time to get even. The previous Labour government ran with an awful speaker as well (Wilson). I think National should adapt to the new game.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:59am
      - septic skeptic
        
        Downtick away folks. The system at present is that we have impartial speakers when National is in, party hacks when Labour is in. Similar in a way to how the MSM operate.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:54am
      - Matt Long
        
        David Carter.
        
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        January 6, 2023 4:39pm
- Bridgenag
  
  Judith Collins perfect IMO
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:38am
  - Colville
    
    I would have thought Collins would be perfect for Local government /RMA.
    
    That is a role that will need someone with a brain and dosent mind being disliked.
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:47am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      So we’re wanting a Speaker who will make life difficult for one side of the House and allow her judgement to be affected by thoughts of personal vengeance?
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:04am
      - Ghost
        
        What? People want Trevor back
        
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        January 6, 2023 9:17am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        To be clear, I actually agree that Judith would be a good choice. But I strongly disagree with the line of reasoning that says she would be a good choice because she’d be just as biased, partisan and petty as Trevor was.
        
        We should be looking for a candidate who would be better than Trevor, not one who would be equally but oppositely bad.
        
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        January 6, 2023 10:24am
      - septic skeptic
        
        See my reply above. If National appoint an impartial speaker this term, do you expect Labour to reciprocate or go with another Wilson or Mallard?
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:03am
    - Jack5
      
      Colville’s …I would have thought Collins would be perfect for Local government /RMA.
      
      Hell! Collins agreed with Labour, and aligned National with its policy, on housing intensification.
      
      That’s led to multi-storey blocks on tiny sections with no off-street parking, and sometimes with difficult emergency access. No place for home EV recharging.
      
      If the national car fleet is overwhelmingly electrified, the policy Collins agreed to will cause chaos.
      
      It was a stupid move, and shielded Labour from blame for likely coming urban chaos from severe intensification.
      
      The intelligent thing would have been to stay quiet and watch.
      
      After that fuck-up, Collins shouldn’t be in Parliament.
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:37am
      - The Redbaiter
        
        This is all quite true, although to be fair to Collins, I think she was acting on the instructions of her bosses.
        
        Willis in particular was a big fan of intensified housing. She must have known it is something that would annoy conservatives and also provide electoral advantage to the Labour party.
        
        So why was she so enthusiastically for it?
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:45am
      - Bridgenag
        
        Heard her on that obnoxious RNZ when she held it together when they over talked by turning the sound down on her mic etc. Amazing control.
        
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        January 6, 2023 1:20pm
      - Colville
        
        Jack5.
        Collins probably supported housing intensification because its the right thing to do.
        Further sprawl just causes more traffic chaos and the productivity losses that causes.
        I personally dont agree with the no parking thing for 1 and 2 bedders in the tier one councils but I understand the economics of it.
        As for EV parking that will sort itself out in time. There is going to have to be MASSIVE works done IF our fleet does go electric but I think its a fair chance that autonomous/shared cars will be a thing for inner city dwellers and a lot of people just wont bother to own.
        
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        January 6, 2023 1:25pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      I have said previously, my choice of portfolios for ACT include Environment and Education. Fixing resource management and education are the most pressing issues facing New Zealand. Of course there are 20 other pressing issues. But those two are the most broken and the consequences the most damaging.
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:48am
      - septic skeptic
        
        TOW is by far the biggest single issue that will result in the most damage long term. Fixing that would sort some of the education and environment issues automatically.
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:08am
      - PeeJay
        
        Problem is BY that almost every aspect of government is broken in some way. Forget our issues with crime, education, local government and the ongoing shame of Oranga Tamariki, the mounting debt burden (mostly hidden) of Kainga Ora (truly scary), government debt generally, even usually boring-safe departments like Treasury, MFAT etc are struggling under this current government!
        
        If one were to construct a list of pressing issues, I think you’d struggle to keep it under 20!
        
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        January 6, 2023 11:28am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        I think Erica Stanford will get the education portfolio
        
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        January 6, 2023 12:36pm
    - Tony Stuart
      
      I agree. And in the first term of the Ardern government, Collins did a massive amount of work in the RMA space to come up with an alternative.
      
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      January 6, 2023 10:30am
    - Taieri
      
      I would have thought Collins would be perfect for Local government /RMA.
      —————–
      
      She would be perfect for retirement. Didn’t show much potential as a leader, but would make an excellent Mitre10 garden centre part timer.
      
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      January 6, 2023 12:55pm
- MCōs
  
  The Speaker over there is more akin to our Leader of the House with a lot more power.
  The chances of becoming President is virtually nil.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:39am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Not so, speaker in the states is third in line to prez, Biden and Harris a dribbling messes, Pelosi was being mentioned as prez if Biden dropped dead not do long ago
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:39pm
  - virtualmark
    
    The Speaker of the House is second in the line of succession. President, then Vice President, then Speaker.
    
    But yes, in practical terms, its hard to see a credible path to the Speaker being promoted to the Presidency … at least before the Vice President could be promoted and a new Vice President appointed.
    
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    January 6, 2023 4:06pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Gerry Brownlee will be 67 this year…
  Judith Collins will be 64 next month.
  
  I think Judith would be a wiser choice.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:40am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  slightlyrightly – You mean change in gummit in 2035?
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:41am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  It’s already been decided, Brownlie has gone list only, Collins has not, that’s a dead giveaway
  
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  January 6, 2023 12:31pm
Mark Hanley

Whilt I understand the angst surrounding Jacinda Adern’s dismal performance as Prime Minister, any assertion that Jacinda is running a clandestine marxist transformation project, or that Adern is secretly implementing the UN’s doctrines allots Adern more credit than she is capable of.

Jacinda Adern only has one goal (shared by many reading this blog) and that is to enrich herself. The difference between Adern and most of you is that Adern is willing to ruin the lives of millions of NZ Citizens to achieve her self enrichment (ironically the people who voted for her are most likely to be hit the hardest)..

The enrichment of the Maori King’s family at the expense of the NZ taxpayer is a perfect example. Enriching the Maori King’s family doesn’t help ordinary Maori.

The horrific Maori crime, poverty, ill health, suicide, child abuse, statistics will not have improved one bit (although Adern and her colleagues are busy skewing the statistics via cultural reports influencing charging and sentencing, reclassifying suicide as accidental death, and I even read police have to ring head office to seek permission to arrest a Maori).

None of these policies will aid Adern’s re-election – which is the typical goal of a politician.

The reason for the Maori King family’s good fortune will only be revealed with a forensic analysis of Maori and government accounts to discover where the billions of taxpayer money spent/wasted by Labour ends up. The audit may take the auditors to Tokelau.
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- Cassandra
  
  Do tell, Mark. Your post has a whiff of the insider.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:55am
- kowtow
  
  ‘allots Adern more credit than she is capable of.’
  
  While she is personally incapable that doesn’t mean she and indeed so many leftists don’t actually believe the ideology they’ve signed up to.
  
  That’s why they join left parties , often as students.
  
  I suspect many politicians don’t get into the game for personal enrichment , but once there realise that it’s not a bad game to be in.
  
  Recall this woman is an accidental PM . Got the job out of the blue due to Little’s unpopularity , then enthroned by Peters.
  
  The rest is history.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:58am
- Taieri
  
  Jacinda Adern only has one goal (shared by many reading this blog) and that is to enrich herself.
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  I’d disagree.
  The prime goal of a politician is self aggrandization. A very common trait in all politicians, regardless of the level, where trappings of power make everything else secondary. In case of our Prime Sinister this has (as still is to a degree) been augmented by a widespread idealization or should I say idolization of the said persona…
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:23am
  - septic skeptic
    
    A poor politician is a poor politician.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:12am
- Loddenthinks
  
  “…police have to ring head office to seek permission to arrest a Maori”
  
  Why do you have to spoil what is a reasonably well-made opinion piece (I disagree with some points and agree with others, but that’s not the point) with nonsense such as that?
  
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  January 6, 2023 10:32am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Because many commenters would believe it?
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:54am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Loddenthinks, I can point out flaws or non-referenced opinions for every comment and indeed article on kiwiblog but what will that achieve? I’m basing my opinions on information I garner through reasonably extensive reading from many reputable sources but certainly do not have time to verify it all (just as you haven’t provided proof my comment is not true).
    
    However, the huge increase in the severity and occurrence of reported crime (think gun crime as an example) and the huge reduction in the prison population (traditionally over 50% of the prison population are Maori) suggests that my assertations aren’t too far off the mark.
    
    The reason I don’t nitpick is that I’m more interested in the over-arching themes and the solutions. e.g., the promise of a full published audit of public expenditure (including all organisations which received tax money over the last 5 years) could curtail largess and perhaps corruption over the next 12 months.
    
    Perhaps we can all work to improve the discourse by identifying problems then coming up with solutions rather than sniping?
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:18pm
yossarian

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/130902878/popular-beach-deemed-too-dirty-to-swim-in-is-safe-says-local-who-paid-for-own-water-test

So the poo in the water promoted by the media is a false flag hey? Any coincidence that we’re getting all these stories about unsafe swimming locations and the govt ramming through 3/5 Waters?

Actually I can’t believe Stuff published this
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- ClanMcleod
  
  I thought that when I read that story the other day. It made no sense. There is only a sewage problem after heavy rain.
  It was the same when they said the similar regarding the lack of lifeguards. It’s probably the safest beach in NZ ffs.
  There is an ulterior motive, no doubt about it.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:55am
  - MCōs
    
    There’s always an ulterior motive in your mind.
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:57am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      MCōs – I know, I hate the fact that the lies and deceit of a politician have caused me to become so cynical. My life was a lot happier before this sociopath came to power.
      I’m getting back to that state, though much wiser. I’m glad I have passed out of the utter disbelief stage and have become a realist.
      
      One day I might even be thankful to her for being the catalyst for this Damascene moment. One day……Might…….
      
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      January 6, 2023 12:01pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Oh, and there was an ulterior motive, the water tested fine. Or maybe it was a false negative………who knows what or who to trust these days eh? 😉
      
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      January 6, 2023 12:05pm
  - Ghost
    
    I saw the news story where one swimmer was saying the water smelled like a toilet.
    
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    January 6, 2023 9:59am
    - Matt Long
      
      The time, tide and location on the beach will all effect water quality readings.
      All water quality trends need to be taken with a grain of salt as weather, water flow, temperature etc. change water quality markedly.
      
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      January 6, 2023 11:09am
  - Nickc2
    
    Perhaps some developer wants to build High-Rise apartments along the foreshore?
    What better than to bribe a scandal rag like Stuff to promote an adverse environment until these apartments are built and then claim the problem’s fixed.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:54am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    “There is an ulterior motive, no doubt about it” Yes its called political manipulation. If it can be proved, and it would be if we had any decent journos, then certain political activists should be heading to the clink.
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:47pm
- I remember when
  
  Does this fit in with the Police and Hospitals helping to reduce Maori crime and health statistics.
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:34am
- Nickc2
  
  Anything published by the Herald and/or Stuff must be treated as what it is: light entertainment, political propaganda, and lies. Even their advertising should be viewed as being suspect.
  Their journalists are with very few exceptions, not seasoned ‘Hacks’ but rather very junior left-wing political activists.
  But hey, let’s extend this to their owners and CEOs where they have a proven record of accepting taxpayer dollars from a corrupt Govt in return for favourable comment and deliberately biased reporting.
  What will a Nat/Act Govt do about this situation?
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:41am
  - Ian Boag
    
    KB hs no journalists other than DPF. A “journo” who generates his copy by scouting round what other journos (and a few guest posts) have to say. He even occasionally starts with stuff from Stuff. That plus hard workers like kk and Clan who scour the Net for stuff that supports their views.
    
    I suppose what you want could be called “The Right Stuff” (apologies to the author of the book). Funded from the public purse because if there was enough demand (and advertising $$) for a privately funded version it would already be there ….
    
    Go figure.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:22am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Ian – this is why NZ mainstream media is on its knees, even with massive funding from the government (taxpayer) via the PIJ and millions in advertising dollars (taxpayer dollars) to try and control the narrative, people are leaving in droves.
      
      It is why the government created and funded the ironically named “Disinformation Project.”
      
      You know what is astonishing? That even with all of these resources, unpaid citizens can research and present truthful and accurate data and information better than those overpaid parasites.
      
      If you follow Kiwiblog closely, you’ll find that the mainstream and their supporters rarely try and counter the information presented by these amateurs.
      When they do try it can be quite embarrassing. They are invariably destroyed in the ensuing debates which rarely last more than a couple of exchanges.
      That’s quite astonishing when, according to you, these amateurs are only posting “stuff that supports their views.”
      Surely those resourced with millions of dollars would be able to prove these people charlatans in very short order? Or are they totally incompetent?
      
      The best they have managed to come up with so far is smears, ad hominem and accusations of “mis/disinformation” without EVER explaining what exactly these things are.
      
      No, alt media is doing an extremely good job of destroying the fourth estate which long ago lost their way.
      The once proud field of journalism (with very few exceptions) has become an absolute joke. Journalists are now little more than poodles being spoon fed to produce whatever they are told to.
      
      There is no “rise in mis and disinformation.” It is simply the truth being told, and the one thing that narrative controllers cannot cope with is the disinfectant of sunlight exposing their lies and bullshit.
      
      There is no need for a publication called “The Right Stuff.” The alt media are doing the job very well.
      
      Why would anyone try and compete against the government (taxpayer) funded mainstream media in the spaces they control? They are imploding without the need for anyone to try and compete in a ludicrously distorted playing field.
      
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      January 6, 2023 12:45pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Well said Mc!
        
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        January 6, 2023 1:10pm
- marcw
  
  The other take from this is how ECAN, after a failed safety check on 29/12 can’t organise a daily test follow up. Their next check was on 4/1 (according to the news report) – a week later. What would they care, it’s only the most popular time of the year for outdoor recreation! All their testing facilities are closed for Christmas – too bad for all the people who pay their rates and expect a service. It’s a pitiful response, and sackings should start from the top.
  
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  January 6, 2023 10:02am
- Paulus
  
  Remember it is all those Cow Farms in Auckland that cause the poo in the waters.
  
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  January 6, 2023 1:27pm
Bridgenag

Garrick Tremain emailed “A break is being taken. Whether the cartoons will resume is being decided.”
Please encourage him to continue. You can ask the cartoons be sent to you at Garrick Tremain
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January 6, 2023 8:35am
pdm

Judith Collins would be very good as Speaker but I think she would provide better value as Justice Minister or Attorney General. Maybe in tandem with Chris Penk – ie one Justice and one AG.
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January 6, 2023 8:37am
- slightlyrighty
  
  I just had an evil thought….
  
  I hope it doesn’t happen, but imagine if NZ first gets 5%, and National make Winston the speaker!
  
  It’d be a train wreck as the old befuddled warhorse finally fails spectacularly!
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:46am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    That would be too much like hard work and a regular job for Winston. Foreign Affairs suits him just fine.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:24am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Speaker is high prestige but not necessarily hard work.
      
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      January 6, 2023 11:38am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Evil? The reason this swine must not get above 5%
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:44pm
- Cassandra
  
  Brownlee for Speaker.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:56am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I agree. Brownlee will be an excellent Speaker. He respects the institution of Parliament, a prerequisite for Speaker, and has a very good knowledge and understanding of Standing Orders. He also has a wicked sense of humour, and can laugh at himself; something Mallard lacked, in spades.
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:40am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      He’s not afraid of a brawl either. Parliamentarians will respect his physique and toughness.
      
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      January 6, 2023 11:00am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        When Jerry gets speaker, I wish they would bring the wigs back, man he would look the part, Bwhaha
        
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        January 6, 2023 12:46pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Agreed. Collins for justice.
  
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  January 6, 2023 10:10am
  - Matt Long
    
    After Collin’s kamikaze attack on Bridges, her dismissal of firearm owner’s concerns and a bunch of other stuff, I’m hoping she along with Muller will announce their retirement soon.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:14am
- Paulus
  
  Some of Penk’s writing are made from a very good mind – he will mak a good Minister
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:05am
Frank the tank

Flying back into the country last night was like flying into a 3rd world country. It took 2 hours to clear customs and fuck me dead there are still free……fucking…..RAT tests.

How many non critical operations could be funded instead of virtue signalling to the UN, WEF and WHO.

Oh and I can see why we aren’t testing the Chinese – they are flocking back in great numbers. Perhaps that is how the government believes they are going to save the economy.

How ironic.
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January 6, 2023 8:43am
- ClanMcleod
  
  FtT – I’m presuming the RAT wasn’t mandatory????
  
  As you say, virtue signaling bullshit. They are less than 50% effective.
  
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  January 6, 2023 8:57am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Has the Chinese government actually given their people the right to leave the country yet? Because last weekend when mentioning testing they still hadn’t got the right to leave
  
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  January 6, 2023 12:48pm
Captain Mainwaring

“Democratic Republic of Congo”.
What the Hell is democratic about that God-forsaken place?
Time Helen Clark’s beloved United Nations brought a case of false advertising at the very least.
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January 6, 2023 9:08am
- kowtow
  
  When countries put that in their title they’re anything but .
  
  DPRK and the old East Germany GDR come to mind .
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:39am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    PRC
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:41am
    - Matt Long
      
      Corea?
      
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      January 6, 2023 11:15am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        “Chyna”
        
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        January 6, 2023 1:18pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hu4ccSx10M

South Korea: West’s New Military Megafactory Against China and Russia?

South #Korea is about to become the world’s fourth largest exporter of arms and military equipment, overtaking #China itself. It will be surpassed only by the United States, #Russia and France. Countries such as Poland are already betting big on South Korean equipment. The question is, why South Korea? Why are more and more countries like Poland betting so heavily on this market? Is it simply a question of timing or price? What could all this mean for capitalist South Korea and the control of Asia Pacific? In this video we tell you all the details. [20:16]
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January 6, 2023 9:11am
- Alex
  
  Curry,
  France are supplying Ukraine with armoured vehicles the AMX-10. This is the first time Western Vehicles used. Not supplying tanks though.
  
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  January 6, 2023 10:58am
  - kowtow
    
    Yer but how many .
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:17pm
  - curry4me
    
    The ROK is pretty competitive on price, and timeliness of supply when it comes to advanced weapons. Do the AMX 10s come with a white flag? -;)
    
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    January 6, 2023 7:37pm
- Ian Boag
  
  SK has to get on with things I guess.
  
  At their reproduction rate of about 0.6 they will run out of working age people even before other slowcoaches like Japan …
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:26am
- virtualmark
  
  Acceptable enough quality at a very good price.
  
  And you don’t have to deal with American ITAR regulations.
  
  And Korea will allow more technology transfer to your local industry than the Americans will.
  
  Note that Poland is buying top-end American kit in quite significant numbers, then augmenting it with slightly less capable Korean kit in quite large numbers.
  
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  January 6, 2023 4:10pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3kxIjo5SQ4

Why TikTok Should Be Banned.

The US has banned TikTok from government and military devices. India has banned TikTok entirely. In this episode of China Uncensored, we look at the ridiculous amount of data that TikTok collects, TikTok’s history of censoring for the Chinese Communist Party, and how TikTok’s Chinese parent company could be using your data against you.
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January 6, 2023 9:12am
103PapPap

With all the hoohaa over potholes in roads and who is responsible for causing them, heavy vehicles are taking most of the blame (along with poor road management, inferior quality asphalt and lack of speedy response).
So it is worth noting that the average electric car is 200 to 300 Kg heavier than its internal combustion engine equivalent. This is because of the weight of the lithium battery, and the fact that the car underpinning has to be stronger (and therefore heavier) to cope with this additional battery weight.
I haven’t done a detailed analysis, but the NZ Car magazine car review summaries include vehicle weight, and when you scan them you will see the extra weight of the electric cars stand out.
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January 6, 2023 9:12am
- Ian Boag
  
  Conventional wisdom is that the relationship between axle weight and road damage is that damage is related to the 4th (!) power of axle weight. Twice the axle weight = 16x the road damage ….
  
  If you think this is bollocks, read this …
  
  https://www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/resources/603/RR-603-The-relationship-between-vehicle-axle-loadings-and-pavement-wear2.pdf
  
  They even did some experiments with typical NZ style of pavements.
  
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  December 6, 2022 12:03pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    The extra heavy trucks carry an extra axle
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:53pm
  - cmm
    
    Let’s compare a Nissan Leaf (1600kg) to a similarly sized Honda Jazz (1042kg).
    
    The Nissan Leaf has over 50% more mass than the Honda Jazz.
    
    Using the 4th power model, the Nissan Leaf damages the road 5.5 times as much as the Honda Jazz.
    
    If so, the EVs should be paying at least 5x the RUC than equivalent sized carbon burners should. Currently they’re still getting a free pass!
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:10pm
    - Colville
      
      a Tesla 3 is 1750 Kg without people.
      
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      January 6, 2023 1:30pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Yes Pap Pap, they are wearing out the roads faster and still get a free ride on Road User Charges.
  
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  January 6, 2023 9:28am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Typical Lab/Green fuckwittery. That bulldozing cluelessness is how they wreck everything. And the infantile idiots that vote for them just blow my mind. The mindless stupidity of our education and welfare systems is destroying the country.
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:20am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They do not get a free ride on ruc at all
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:54pm
    - GJM
      
      Electric cars don’t pay road tax. Sounds like a free ride to me. With RUC, running costs will be similar to an economical diesel. Mid 2024 is when they are supposed to start paying, if it is not delayed again.
      
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      January 6, 2023 9:15pm
- Inandout
  
  103, regardless, a friend travelled from PNorth to Napier and said the roads were good. Where exactly are these roads from hell people speak of?
  
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  January 6, 2023 12:27pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The roads to Hamilton and Tauranga were crap last time I drove them. Many crappy stretches in Northland as well as gross and intolerable queueing.
    
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    January 6, 2023 8:12pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  The heavy vehicle thing is bullshit, or should I say the lift in vehicle weights, when 50 ton vehicles came in, the trucks and the trailers were required to have an extra axle, that axle takes the extra 6 tonnes of weight equally
  
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  January 6, 2023 12:52pm
- Individual Responsibility
  
  103PapPap
  Note that the H (heavy) permitted 50 tonne capacity combination truck & trailer operating in NZ (still less than Australia/EU/USA/UK) requires (if I recall correctly) a 4 axle truck pulling 5 axle trailer totalling 32 wheels, or B train 3 axle tractor towing 2 x 3 axle trailers totalling 34 wheels, all fitted with anti-lock-brakes.
  That calculates as approx 1.6 tonnes per wheel.
  Also, H permitted vehicles are confined (again, as I recall) to specific roads, most (if not all) being designated SH1. This caters for bridge loadings.
  Someone (a Reg Civil Engineer) may be able to advise the min specs for SH1 load carrying capacity in foundation/base/top coarse/seal but I’d be surprised if it’s not at least 50% more than 1.6 tonnes per wheel over 9 axles.
  
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  January 6, 2023 3:12pm
I remember when

Tesla mobile Supercharger in Baker, California, burns to the ground on New Year’s Day.
The mega pack, on the back of a trailer, with multiple supercharging outlets attached, took down half of Baker station’s 40 stalls with it.

As it was put there to relieve a Tesla charging bottleneck – an unfortunate outcome.
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January 6, 2023 9:22am
- curry4me
  
  Oh dear the sound you can hear is me laughing my tits off. I’m glad nobody was killed, or injured.
  
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  January 6, 2023 7:40pm
I remember when

Is it only a matter of time before the Government win a “Creative Writing” award for one of their Treaty interpretations.
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January 6, 2023 9:31am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Well, they are winning them with the new History curriculum. Filled with creativity in history as it never happened.
  
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  January 6, 2023 10:05am
  - Mike
    
    Oh, yoy have read the curriculum?
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:11pm
The Redbaiter

Re Labour party plants on Kiwiblog and in the National Party-

Way back in the US, when the Communist party decided they would no longer compete in elections, they said (quite openly) their revised strategy would be to infiltrate the Democrat party fully and the Republican party as far as possible. I’m convinced they’ve succeeded in this ambition beyond their wildest dreams.

I’m also convinced the left in general has adopted similar tactics on a global basis, and NZ is no exception. We already know the Labour party has been infiltrated by the extreme left. This claim is quantified by the fact Ardern was a member of and led a defacto global communist group for ten years.

Helen Clark was a member of a similar group (The Internationale Socialist). Clark and speaker Margaret Wilson sang “The Internationale”, the one world government communist anthem on the parliament house piano the night she won govt in 1999.

I believe the National party has been likewise infiltrated, and although I used the term “plant”, “mole” is probably more accurate. Constantly hectoring about moving the party to the “far right, the extreme right”, or encouraging an appeal to the center is something such a mole would do.

DeSantis who won Florida with a record 20% margin never appealed “to the center”. Locally, Wayne Brown likewise won the Auckland mayoralty by an unassailable margin by being unfriendly to the woke media and rejecting progressive ideology.

As for Luxon and Willis (she stood on the steps of parliament with Grant Robertson and Jimmy Shaw and encouraged school kids to strike for climate justice) I’m only the messenger. They are convicted by their own words, and you can find them on my blog (especially the article “Willis is No Margaret Thatcher”) or on my Youtube channel. By their words you shall know them.
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January 6, 2023 10:12am
- Tom Barker
  
  Welcome back, ‘Baiter. Always a delight to read your utter nonsense. But wouldn’t you be more effective just standing on a street corner with a sign reading “The End of the World is at Hand”?
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:46am
  - kowtow
    
    “The End of the World is at Hand”
    
    No, we had Jabcinda , Baker , te Media Pardy to tell us that in March 2020 .
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:16pm
  - Mike
    
    Age has not wearied him
    Nor the downticks condemned
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:12pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    A bit of a lack of self awareness there, Tom.
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:20pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    If we keep following Green Party Policies then it will be the end of the world we know.
    But the Greens know that eh.
    That’s what they want.
    How are power prices in Germany and the UK these days?
    Lol
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:25pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Barker, Redbaiter made sense there on many points. Your response on the other hand was just empty tribal shit posting.
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:57pm
I remember when

“Climate Change:”
The perceived wisdom in Climate Change circles is that Hurricanes are becoming more frequent and stronger.
Which would seem to beg the question, why is Florida’s population growth the highest, or at least one of the highest, in the United States.
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January 6, 2023 10:19am
- All_on_Red
  
  But Hurricanes aren’t becoming more frequent and stronger.
  
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  January 6, 2023 10:38am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Indeed…
    
    https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-decline-in-landfalling
    
    https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/historical-atlantic-hurricane-and-tropical-storm-records/
    
    etc, etc
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:27am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yes, the last hurricane season was very light even though the Cat 4 was so damaging in Florida, they only got up to about i of k or something in the names of the storm, the year before they went right through the alphabet and half way through the Greek alphabet, out of the names storms this year only two were hurricane force as I remember
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:58pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    To add;
    ‘After nearly 4 decades of … contrived climate alarmist propaganda claims of worsening global climate impacts NOAA’s measured worldwide hurricane season science data for all year 2022 tropical storms shows that global wide storms were at their lowest strength levels in the last 42 years (since 1981) as shown by the ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy reflecting the combined frequency, intensity and duration of all storms) data below from Colorado State University’s Department of Atmospheric Science which tracks NOAA’s National Hurricane Center tropical storm data.’
    ‘Additionally, NOAA’s science measured tropical storm data through year 2022 clearly demonstrates that global hurricanes are not trending stronger in numbers, duration or intensity in the Northern Hemisphere Oceans, Southern Hemisphere Oceans and North Atlantic Ocean (as shown by ACE data graphs for these ocean regions below’
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/05/2022-global-wide-hurricane-season-ends-with-weakest-storm-levels-of-the-last-42-years/
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:15pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Could the dipshits down ticking this please explain themselves? Many Thanks 🙂
      
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      January 6, 2023 11:25pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    But but but the news media must be right?? How dare you question “The Science” you you you far right oil shill!!!
    
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    January 6, 2023 10:59pm
- virtualmark
  
  I would love for the Hurricanes to become stronger. But every year they seem to do all right in the round robin games but don’t have enough physicality for the semis and finals.
  
  Maybe climate change could make the Crusaders weaker instead?
  
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  January 6, 2023 4:12pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Keen on bugs?

https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/
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January 6, 2023 10:20am
- mikenmildagain
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/collections/critter-of-the-week
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:40am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Is Mikey up for a reward?
  
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  January 6, 2023 1:24pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Dragonflies are very cool!
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:28pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Has our summer disappeared?

I’m wearing 2 layers of thermal tops and haven’t been out in the garden all week…..
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January 6, 2023 10:24am
- Don Beckett
  
  Agree. I told my wife last night that if it gets any colder, I’m going to light the fire.
  Interestingly, when we lived in Oz – Wollongong – we had the fire going for 5 nights the week before Christmas – so it happens in the land of sunburn & mosquitoes as well. 🙂
  
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  January 6, 2023 10:49am
  - Don Beckett
    
    That was in 1984.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:19am
  - Taieri
    
    I was camping at Lake Mahinerangi in the mid 1980’s around Xmas, to wake up to a big snow. It’s only about 380 m above the sea level but can get real cold any time of the year up there.
    
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    January 6, 2023 2:38pm
- Ghost
  
  Still snow clinging on the top of the mountains behind us. The odd warm day, but still people using fires at night at times. Vegetable garden wise pumpkin haven’t grown much, tomatoes dying off from the cold. Seems to be the norm the past several years but it’s OK the media will say it’s record breaking warmth again.
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:18am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Yes, like the breathless TV weather reporter claiming last week of record breaking temperatures in Christchurch of 30C. (thats THIRTY deg.celcius)
    What a crock of shit. Back in the 1950’s & ’60’s I can recall they were having to close schools in Chch because the temperature had hit 100 deg. F – 38 deg.C. The I saw that their temperature recording only went back to 1978 when satellites started recording temperatures – but even then it was way wrong.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:24am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      CHCH use to have days into and above thirty from Labour weekend and before, I remember most trotting cup days in CHCH into the thirties
      
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      January 6, 2023 1:02pm
- Taieri
  
  Lovely and warm down South, although a bit misty.
  
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  January 6, 2023 12:46pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Ditto Wellington
    
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    January 6, 2023 6:29pm
Alan Wilkinson

Another dismal drizzly wet day. Labour have even fucked up the weather.
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January 6, 2023 10:24am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/raising-25k-for-the-stop-co-governance-nz-road-tour-update-5th-january-2023-2/
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/5-things-you-can-do-1.pdf
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January 6, 2023 10:32am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Over 2 million 1 way U-Haul truck transactions.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/texas-florida-top-destinations-in-one-way-u-haul-rentals-in-2022/
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January 6, 2023 11:28am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Interesting comments on this article:
  https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/been-year-since-left-new-york-florida-what-learned
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:49am
- ClanMcleod
  
  The Babylon Bee series of videos about the California couple, Steven and Timpani who move to Texas is brilliant. Here’s a link to the whole series. Great satire.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf0ejejfF_wYRhBwtSwvNBPGyA95Ll7mt
  
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  January 6, 2023 2:58pm
- virtualmark
  
  Migration to Texas has been talked of as a big reason why Texas is becoming more purple.
  
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  January 6, 2023 4:15pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    But very firmly gerrymandered to stay red.
    
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    January 6, 2023 7:12pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Explain?
      
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      January 6, 2023 11:32pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Partisan voter registrations in Texas are evenly divided, but 25 of the 38 congressional representatives are republicans. The 2020 presidential vote there was 5.3 million Biden and 5.9 million Trump.
        
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        January 7, 2023 7:58am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Donald Trump should be Speaker of the House.
Then he impeaches Biden and Harris, and becomes President!
Simple.
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January 6, 2023 11:31am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Has someone been letting you watch House of Cards again?
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    1 – 0
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:24pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  BTW, your scenario is impossible because:
  1. No majority of the HoR would vote for Trump as speaker. One of the crazies has so far, that’s all.
  2. If elected speaker, Trump might not want to serve. he has a job already – running for president.
  3. Even if he agreed to serve as speaker, Trump would have no power to impeach anyone. The house could vote for impeachment, but the senate would not vote to convict.
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:46am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    2 – 0
    
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    January 6, 2023 12:24pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Does speaker not have to come from the house? Asking for a friend
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:05pm
  - virtualmark
    
    4. Even if Biden is impeached then Harris becomes President, and appoints a new VP. As seen when Ford replaced Nixon and Rockefeller became VP.
    
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    January 6, 2023 4:16pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Ok, how about this:
      Trump becomes speaker and the house impeaches Biden and Harris in the same set of articles. Trump’s oratory persuades the senate to convict them so he gets the top job again and chooses Ivanka as the new VP.
      
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      January 6, 2023 7:16pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Ivanka is a closet Democrat.
        
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        January 7, 2023 9:35am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I just wonder if this non vote thing is coming from Trump, I note all 20 hold outs were all Trump endorsed
  
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  January 6, 2023 1:03pm
- Vory v zakone
  
  Chess moves.
  #thebestisyettocome
  
  https://fb.watch/hTgzm4cmlo/
  
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  January 6, 2023 5:26pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Bribes are coming….my sources are confirming…. You haven’t seen anything yet….
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January 6, 2023 11:42am
- ClanMcleod
  
  SCS – I did see something the other day, noises about beneficiary debt for dental treatment being wiped?
  
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  January 6, 2023 12:56pm
  - Mike
    
    How about canceling all debt owed by individual citizens and revaluing our assets to make the books still balance?
    
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    January 6, 2023 1:17pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Sounds creative, Mikey. Grant should be up for that.
      
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      January 6, 2023 6:30pm
  - greybeard
    
    $110m ?
    
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    January 6, 2023 2:07pm
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Yes ClanMcleod – That is coming. Just to make your day watch this TV advertisement.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_kycR6u0Tg
    
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    January 6, 2023 2:07pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      The comments were encouraging.
      
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      January 7, 2023 8:17am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      She’s done all that, what now?
      I know, fuck it all up because she is going to be plastered to the floor.
      
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      January 7, 2023 9:41am
- NZer In Exile
  
  That’s all they’ve got left. Massive pork barreling on other people’s maxed out national credit card.
  
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  January 6, 2023 11:06pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Wellington cuzzie’s ram raid goes wrong …

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/01/vehicle-slams-into-new-world-in-wellington.html
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January 6, 2023 12:12pm
Nickc2

Albanese’s (Aust PM) renewable energy plans go up in smoke (wind turbine fire). It’s a good thing they didn’t build this thing in the vicinity of the bush eh?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/smoking-ceremony-at-the-local-wind-farm.html
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January 6, 2023 12:39pm
rangitoto

Just saw a video taken inside the helicopter that landed ok. Passenger saw what was about to happen before the pilot.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1610952818030149635
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January 6, 2023 12:46pm
Benedict Yu

South Africa v Australia Cricket Test starting today. South Africa paying $74 at TAB.
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January 6, 2023 1:04pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Oops it is day 3 and raining. 😅
  
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  January 6, 2023 1:06pm
- Mike
  
  NZ to win v Pakistan = 2.27
  
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  January 6, 2023 1:23pm
Rusty

Did Maori keep records of irregular weather patterns in this country in pre-colonial times?

Yes I know they had no written alphabet but oral and even pictorial history could have preserved some accounts of catastrophic weather events in NZ.

But I suppose we are never going to know because it doesn’t fit the woke narrative that the industrial revolution is to blame for global warming/ climate change.
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January 6, 2023 1:12pm
- greybeard
  
  No written language.
  No metallurgy.
  No knowledge of the wheel.
  No concept of the global world.
  No ceramics.
  No science.
  Nothing much else.
  
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  January 6, 2023 6:29pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Now at I know there are oral traditions that relate to earthquakes and landslides, etc. Very difficult to date accurately though.
  
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  January 6, 2023 7:19pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    I wonder why the term “chinese whispers” was created.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:35pm
Philview

I don’t know if any Kiwibloggers have been following the Transgender debate in Scotland and the UK. Scotland is in the process of passing a self identity law that is slightly less extreme than the NZ model. In Scotland there will be a 3 month holding period before you can change gender whereas I think in NZ you just need an internet connection. The debate is fierce with the UK Government threatening to pass a law that will the stop the Scottish law change. I was in discussion with a couple of people recently and they had no idea that someone in NZ can now change their sex with a simple online declaration. The NZ Government shut down the debate effectively so that I am sure many people in NZ are unaware of this extreme law change.
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January 6, 2023 1:25pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Oh what a precious petal we have here. 8 1/2 hours is too much to work? Not much older than this wimp, I was doing 16 to 18 hours a day.
This is the future of these kids. Fuck!
https://thepatriotnation.net/this-starbucks-whiner-complained-about-working-for-eight-hours-and-people-are-roasting-him-like/
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January 6, 2023 2:52pm
- Mike
  
  “Tell that to the young folk today; they won’t believe you”
  
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  January 6, 2023 3:03pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The 18 hours, Mike?
    I did, that is why I have a house in a Trust, two motor vehicles, two boats, paid off my ex Wife, some investments, and 2 holidays to Hawaii/Alaska. Some $50K on those holidays – we stayed in Lodges/Suites. All with no Credit Card (except for Hotel Bonds)
    Most places did not require is as the whole itinerary was pre paid through Flight Center.
    
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    January 7, 2023 9:48am
Maggy Wassilieff

More thuggish violence in the Waikato.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130916711/meterreader-critically-injured-vehicle-stolen-in-waikato-street
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January 6, 2023 3:32pm
ClanMcleod

So according to the CDC, the latest variant of concern, XBB.1.5 is apparently responsible for more than 40% or more of new infections.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions

As far as I am aware, we are vaccinating with something that was designed for Delta. Happy to be proven wrong on that. But even the updated “vaccines” are for up to variant BA.5

Variant BA.5 is only responsible for 3.7% of infections according to the CDC.

Delta up to BA.4 are credited with ZERO infections.

Even the Wall Street Journal is starting to ask questions regarding the role of “leaky” vaccines in driving more virulent and potentially deadly variants.

<Are Vaccines Fueling New Covid Variants?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-vaccines-fueling-new-covid-variants-xbb-northeast-antibodies-mutation-strain-immune-imprinting-11672483618

We know that the current strains are not very deadly. Why is this government continuing to play with peoples’ lives? Particularly the young?
Why not stop the jabbing while we take a breath and do some investigating into the concerning signals arising everywhere in the world?
Why the insane belief that we need to keep sticking this experimental concoction into people???
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January 6, 2023 3:34pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘Why the insane belief that we need to keep sticking this experimental concoction into people???”
  Control. We all know it is control!
  
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  January 6, 2023 4:18pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Basically the idiocracy’s narrative ecosystem is the reason. Neomarxist infested institutions declare a narrative as gospel truth then the infested institutions get to work on censoring and smearing anything that threatens their world view. Those on the gravy train pay homage to the narrative/s on pain of career and reputation cancellation.
    
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    January 6, 2023 11:43pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  Geerd Van Den Bosche warned about driving variants via leaky COVID 19 ‘vaccines’ – his big fear was the low probability of generating a highly deadly variant.
  
  Thankfully while he was right that variants would proliferate his fear of a deadly variant hasn’t come to pass so far.
  
  Time to stop with the Covid vaccine mania before a poor situation is turned into a deadly one. Vaccinating into a live pandemic is a stupid move with an unproven therapy
  
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  January 6, 2023 7:47pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

And we all thought the FBI were the good guys. Hope Musk is watching his back!
https://patriotunitednews.com/fbi-subpoenas-announced-its-happening-2/
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January 6, 2023 3:41pm
- Inandout
  
  SO, Musk has one advantage..he is extremely wealthy and even J Hoover would have hesitated at touching him. Although Hoover would have probably dug up something to use against Musk the old boy was more used to blackmailing politicians who are a veritable treasure chest of sins.
  
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  January 6, 2023 4:02pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

18 minutes to go. What will the Govt drop on us today, that does not have time to make play school TV1 yews?
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January 6, 2023 3:44pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  When your target audience are sheep the correct spelling is “ewes”.
  
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  January 6, 2023 5:36pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yews – your fellas
    
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    January 7, 2023 9:53am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

So I guess taking brass knuckles to a gun is not a good thing.
I am failing to understand why these stupid people do this!
3 boys dead.
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January 6, 2023 4:40pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/130918760/clearly-not-worth-it-five-youth-caught-on-camera-ramraiding-supermarket-steal-coins-and-candy
Candy ? What the hell is “candy”?
Is that the same stuff we know as”lollies” or “sweets” in New Zealand ?
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January 6, 2023 6:36pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  In English since 1600s from earlier term ‘sugar-candy’.
  You might be old enough to have candy-floss bought for you, for example.
  
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  January 6, 2023 7:23pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yes,
  
  https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/40319/new-zealand-lollies#:~:text='Lolly'%20is%20a%20New%20Zealand,block%20('ice%20lolly‘).
  
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  January 6, 2023 7:30pm

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