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Warren

Here is good reason to refute the media’s push on our Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern being kind and caring, with more evidence suggesting lies and deciet played a decisive roll in what she told New Zealander’s.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/
Three Waters entrenchment papers reveal months of planning to entrenchment provision, and hidden meetings with the Green’s.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/three-teen-killers-have-life-prison-sentences-quashed-and-non-parole-terms-reduced/GBBF2NQPXFGLZLDBJ6EPZTQIIM/
Then we have a Judge in our Justice system that quashed three teen killer prison sentences and reduced non parole terms.
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January 28, 2023 8:01am
- Gravelroad
  
  Saw a woman on TV news (only caught the end of it) stating that no teenager or young person should ever be incarcerated.
  Yet lowering the voting age to 16 is being advocated.
  Why have laws if we are going to pick and choose to whom they apply?
  There has to be some accountability for criminal activity in order to set an example to others who think they are special and laws don’t apply to them.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:14am
  - PeeJay
    
    The judiciary never really seem to care that the act of murder or crime against the victim was manifestly unjust! We’ve seen the same reluctance to impose mandatory sentences for a while now – this is by no means an isolated case and shows an increasingly activist judiciary in my opinion.
    
    While there is always some tension in any system between the lawmakers, parliament, and the judiciary, who I agree need to be independent, I do feel the current situation where judges routinely use avenues such as the ‘manifestly unjust’ argument to avoid handing out sentences they disagree with, one has to wonder if we’ve reached the point at which the judiciary is taking the ‘independent judiciary’ argument a tad too far?
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:31am
  - kowtow
    
    If these “young”people don’t do serious time how many other lives will they destroy while not incarcerated .
    Prison was once a place to keep dangerous people away from and to protect decent , law abiding citizens .
    
    Judges don’t seem to think the public have a right to protection from dangerous criminals .
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:33am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Lower the age to vote and lift the age of criminal responsibility it’s the Labour/Green way. I used to believe it highlighted their contradictions but it actually highlights their cunning.
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:37am
  - Prince
    
    The argument is that young peoples’ brains are not fully formed, hence they should not be responsible for murders, etc.
    Along the same lines, we should reduce the voting age as these people are clearly potential Labour voters.
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:15am
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      I think the Green Party of Aotearoa/New Zealand are the biggest advocates…
      
      Helps with maintaining the McGillicuddy Serious persona
      
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      January 28, 2023 10:34am
    - TS Child
      
      I think brains are fully formed around 25 years old. Suggest increasing age for everything until then. No one goes to prison or drinks alcohol or votes or drives a car or is eligible for a benefit.. 😀
      
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      January 28, 2023 1:43pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        Absolutely this. Sadly, it will never happen.
        
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        January 28, 2023 2:17pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Govts typically need youth who labour under the belief that they are bullet proof and going to live forever as canon fodder for wars.
        
        Perhaps those leaders who want to send the young to their deaths in wartime should first do front-line infantry duties as a regular soldier with no special treatment.
        
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        January 28, 2023 4:52pm
  - Ronin
    
    They also want to ban smoking, yet legalize pot.
    
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    January 28, 2023 12:56pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Sounds like a very stupid woman!
    
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    January 28, 2023 6:00pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Herald also did a puff piece on Chippy
  
  It’s not going well based on the comments. Seems there is some hope for our general public with people remembering all Chippies stuff ups, inability to deliver, core role in lockdowns and stealing RAT tests etc
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:44am
  - cmm
    
    They’re stuck between a rock and a hard place, cuased by Cindy hanging on too long and only bailing out when she got negative popularity.
    
    If they’re trying to sell Chippy as a fresh new face, then they are implying Cindy was useless. ie. All the Bad Old Labour that has tanked in the polls was Cindy’s fault and goes down the pan with Cindy.
    
    If Cindy had quit when she was at the top of her popularity then they could have got away with it: Cindy has to quit because she has nothing left in the tank from being so awesome, she’s handing over the reigns to the equally competent Chippy.
    
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    January 28, 2023 3:42pm
    - kiwikidsnz
      
      Had a thought as I drove Auckland Waihi Wgtn today. While the media apparently had weeks to schedule their hagiographic misogyny narrative to deflect attention from a woman who ultimately couldn’t have it all, most of us (male & female) have some historical experience with jilted exes who will say anything to avoid looking in the mirror…
      
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      January 28, 2023 8:10pm
- backster
  
  These Appeal Judges are criminals and party to the crimes these three will commit when released. They show and state no sympathy for the young people killed at all. They mete out injustice…Why do we pay them so much?
  
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  January 28, 2023 1:30pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Months of planning and hidden meetings.
  I wonder how often the government has passed legislation that needed to be kept out of official records, needed secret meetings, not campaigned on, kept away from coalition partners (NZ First), that eventually turned out to be good for the country.
  The sooner we’re shot of this vile bunch the better.
  
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  January 28, 2023 6:31pm
mikenmildagain

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Happy Data Privacy Day!
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January 28, 2023 8:02am
- blue collar
  
  Hailed by all rabid porn fiends ….. eh Mikey
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:09am
  - RichardX
    
    Is that why you post using a pseudonym?
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:26am
    - Don Beckett
      
      It’s much better to celebrate ‘Happy Feast Day’ for St. Thomas Aquinas, the 13th. century philosopher & theologian who even today is recognised as the greatest theologian of all time. 🙂
      
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      January 28, 2023 9:44am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        The two greatest religious figures of all time sorted this out at the pub:
        https://www.jesusandmo.net/comic/iron/
        
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        January 28, 2023 10:32am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        His logic was as leaky as a sieve, though.
        
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        January 28, 2023 2:28pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        I think Steven Crowder did an interesting take on this theme.
        
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        January 28, 2023 4:54pm
- Mike H S
  
  I thought, for once, you might have a sympathetic mention for the people of Auckland who have suffered overnight rather than continue mindlessly with your mindless “day of…”
  
  It is no wonder that people down tick you automatically.
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:14am
  - Ghost
    
    You can have sympathy for Auckland and still talk of other things.
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:30am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I was particularly moved by Maggie Pie’s plight: her imaginary swimming pool has overflowed.
      
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      January 28, 2023 10:33am
Simon

Rain in Auckland useful reminder that a lot of Auckland CBD is reclaimed land and was sea in the 19 th century. Billions investment in Auckland CBD by those who know climate change is fraud. People generally know climate change is fake but go along with it because it’s the system. While the fools in govt are all in on the fraud.
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January 28, 2023 8:08am
- kevn
  
  @Simon… But but all the cycle ways. Never mind about the (blocked) stormwater stuff underground.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:05am
  - TS Child
    
    If we put concrete sides on the cycle ways, then they could be used for bikes or boats, depending on weather …
    
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    January 28, 2023 1:44pm
    - mawm
      
      I got a reminder from Waka something-or-other to renew my licence. I don’t have a waka but fortunately I had renewed it even although I did not need my non existent waka to brave the flood waters yesterday. This government is really on the ball. If only Auckland’s Mayor was as on the ball he might have declared his emergency a couple of days before….
      
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      January 28, 2023 3:06pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  So as someone from south of the Bombays, what is it with this West Akld flood? I mean, Akld is a rainy place. Is it exceptionally heavy rain? Blocked drains? Too much concrete & building on flood plains? There’s no insight from MSM reporting, just disaster porn.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:19am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    There was substantial reporting on the volume of rain compared to the previous times. If this was not the very worst in terms of volume, then it was certainly close. I don’t recall having rain like that in the past. Not in such a sustained way.
    Of course for some commenters here, they are absolutely convinced there iss no such thing as human induced climate change, and any measures to combat it are nothing more than a WEF/Davos socialist plot. Interesting in that the Davos crowd are mostly billionaires. Maybe their plan is socialism for everyone else, but not for them.🤔
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:15am
    - Southern Raider
      
      Wayne there was substantial reporting after the fact, but there was not substantial warnings.
      
      MetService, NIWA, Waka Kotahi, Auckland Transport and Auckland Emergency Management have a lot to answer for.
      
      The volume of rain yesterday was biblical and none of the above had any idea what was coming and what to do when it did. Hell Waka Kotahi and Auckland Council all logged of work and went home in the middle of a disaster
      
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      January 28, 2023 10:31am
      - Ghost
        
        If you look at metservice Facebook, they were issuing warnings
        
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        January 28, 2023 10:35am
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        I agree. This whole event shows that in Auckland we need to do a lot more about storm water control. The West and Wairau are always flooding, and now there are 4 deaths.
        
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        January 28, 2023 11:41am
    - herb1
      
      Of course Wayne the volume of rain could have something to do with the extra 20% of water vapour in the atmosphere due to the Tongan earthquake, but of course that’s only the opinion of a few highly qualified scientists.
      My experience , having dealt very closely with politicians, including your Nick Smith( who was very knowledgeable and smart) , is that most of them know very little of climate change science, nor do they seem to care.
      Mostly , as in Christchurch, they just shriek 2m SLR, and can never quote any scientific papers where they got this from.
      We need to listen to the science , not just the science that politicians and media find that suits there bias.
      Unfortunately it’s a difficult job as politicians and media are some of the highest paid jobs relevant to qualifications and intellect. This I’m sure you’re well aware of Wayne
      
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      January 28, 2023 1:06pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      WM: “I don’t recall having rain like that in the past.”
      
      It’s settled then. Wayne doesn’t remember rain like this. Ignore millions of years of geological proxy evidence to the contrary. IT’S REALLY SCARY! WE’RE DOOMED. 😄
      
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      January 28, 2023 4:58pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Our rain guage measured 230mm yesterday. Most of it would been from 3pm to 7pm. Most rain in a short period I’ve seen on the shore. Some water got into the garage but not major. Different story for some low lying parts.
    
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    January 28, 2023 12:23pm
- Lance
  
  The areas flooding in Ranui are all modern houses…. because no one was dumb enough to build in creek valleys until recently.
  Aided and abetted by huge housing intensification which removes vast amounts of permeable ground.
  Well…. colour me shocked, flooding happens
  
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  January 28, 2023 1:50pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    I learned something today. Wairau Valley means valley of many waters.
    
    Explains a lot.
    
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    January 28, 2023 6:39pm
Captain Mainwaring

Happy Idiots Seeking Attention Day!
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January 28, 2023 8:14am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  [Mod – cut the personal attacks out]
  
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  December 28, 2022 8:27am
  - Mags
    
    You just can’t help yourself can you? Always with the snark. I know I’m feeding the troll, but a lot of your comments just detract and add unnecessary noise. Which is a shame because you have contributed interesting and thoughtful pieces, only to be offset by these cheap shots.
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:26am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I’m relaxed about the Captain’s personal attack on me.
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:34am
Biscuit

Three Waters?

Three Waters?

From where I sit it looks like those bloody Tāmaki Makaurauians have taken ALL the waters…

[Seriously, though, hope all is well with Kiwiblog’s Super Sh*tty residents……]
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January 28, 2023 8:17am
- Simon
  
  National under Key let hundreds of thousands pour into Auckland from overseas without regards to infrastructure. That was going to be someone else’s problem. Labo under Cindy said pause on immigration until infrastructure upgraded. However of course NZ was to be blackmail or tricked into accepting Maori control over infrastructure before anything could be done.
  
  National and Labo are the axis of cretin govt. Time for regime change. Vote ACT.
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:37am
  - Cassandra
    
    I agree vote ACT Simon but National will be a partner in government and insulting them is no way to ensure a good relationship. Save your insults for the Red Puddle. Red + Green + Brown = mud-coloured?
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:17am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Exactly, snd that’s why I say many act voters are arrogant, Seymour is still saying doesn’t really want to be a minister, what a saviour
      
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      January 28, 2023 8:01pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    ACT’s policy is to reduce immigration?
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:41am
  - crikey
    
    Simon: So you think ACT is not going to want to stimulate growth and increased productivity? In the current state of NZ’s workforce, that will not happen without increased immigration of suitably qualified people.
    
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    January 28, 2023 11:30am
    - ISeeRed
      
      If only the mass migration of the last 15-20 years had been only “suitably qualified people”.
      
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      January 28, 2023 2:23pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Just shows they don’t think about the result of their policies
      
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      January 28, 2023 8:02pm
  - cmm
    
    Over the last 30 years it has become much more difficult for quality immigrants to enter NZ.
    
    With all the other options out there, why should people with options put up with the shit they have to endure to get into NZ?
    
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    January 28, 2023 3:46pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  A vale of tears for Jacinda (delayed for the first available weekend).
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:52am
- pdm
  
  `Tāmaki Makaurauians have taken ALL the waters…’
  
  They are going to get a bloody big bill from Tuku Morgan and the Mahuta lot if they have.
  
  On the keyboard ealy this morning Biscuit, is there no Liverpool game or are you going to Trentham in the Limo with PM Chippy?
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:25am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Some of us were smart enough to build on the side of a small incline.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:38am
Simon

A lot of areas that flooded in Auckland have had decades long infrastructure under investment. Henderson well known drainage and water infrastructure issues. It’s a poorer area so govt says fuck it we need a Grey Lynn to Airport rail link for wankers. Wairau valley area into Forest Hill well known for flooding for years.

All the flooding made worst by appalling infill housing is using sewage systems from the 1950s. All the mistakes by govt cretins on full display. There is a long list of govt fuck ups. And just watch them over react next time when there is a little rain. But again these same people jaxxed everyone. It doesn’t really matter. Govt cretins.
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January 28, 2023 8:22am
- Lance
  
  To clarify matters.
  Henderson is fucked over by all in power, especially local government, when lefties are in, they only favour South Auckland, when righties are in they ignore West Auckland.
  In fact Henderson area is a fucking disgrace of under investment. The hospital is at best a half built clinic, nearly all serious treatment means an ambulance ride to Takapuna FFS. Lincoln road is NZ’s busiest and most clogged etc. The kicker is Henderson is a working-class area, a shit load of money flows around here, many businesses are surprised that their Henderson branch is their highest turnover. And yet all this taxed income is stollen and used elsewhere.
  Wayne Brown had to flee a meeting in Henderson due to a hostile crowd.
  So it doesn’t surprise me that there is heavy flooding due to piss poor resourcing and half arsed bureaucracy.
  
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  January 28, 2023 2:01pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Successive Labour Mayors preceded Mayor Wayne Brown. Why not blame them for the shit hole they turned Akld into?
    PS: South Akld is a ‘soak hole’ for ratepayer spending and resource wastage with nothing whatsoever in return.
    
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    January 28, 2023 2:22pm
  - Lance
    
    Bugger…. I meant to write mayor Len (pants down) Brown had to flee.
    Apologies to Wayne Brown
    
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    January 28, 2023 3:39pm
- cmm
  
  Making Auckland into a “SuperCity” diverted resources on a massive scale.
  
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  January 28, 2023 3:48pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Why? Job is not done if services drop, why then will you be happy to see Labour centralise services and create the same shambles like in health
    
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    January 28, 2023 8:05pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Thanks Jacinda and Chris .

Keeping us all safe in our little bubble.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/300793973/devastated-uk-grandmother-denied-boarding-en-route-to-nz-after-nzeta-approval
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January 28, 2023 8:22am
- peterwn
  
  One of the first things National should do is give that system the boot.
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:45am
- kowtow
  
  Nope , according toJohn Roughan in today’s Whoreald she was genuinely nice and good .
  
  Oh and btw according to Claire Trevett in the battle of the 2 Chris’s this week Young Snotty’s accession meant Luxon ‘was almost invisible all week’.
  
  Despite that patently false and obvious bit of disinformation their own editorial manages to distort Luxon’s attendance at Ratana as ” an unusually politically charged criticism of co governance” which was aimed at “the right wing constituency”
  
  Well that ‘s more dis/misinformation from the regime funded te media pardy , he was replying to a politically charged speech from some character at the place , and here was me thinking Ratana , as presented by te media pardy was somesort of religious festival , not politics.
  
  As to the editor ; since when is democracy “right wing” , I thought it was universal.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:04am
  - Prince
    
    To sum up.
    We have written adulatory articles about Hipkins all week.
    Luxon has been invisible. Odd that.
    Hipkins speaks about how great co governance is. Great speech. Good boy.
    Luxon not keen on co governance. Must be speaking to right wingers. Bad Luxon.
    My team won, according to my reckons.
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:24am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yes, and Luxon was in Gore and Invercargill on Friday, Mp sign of the Marxists
    
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    January 28, 2023 8:07pm
- Cassandra
  
  The officials have apologised – I hope they compensate her 2,000 dollars.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:18am
krazykiwi

Governments that coerced their people into taking the experimental mRNA genetic injections now have an enormous pachyderm reclining on the chaise lounge. Their problem is excess deaths, which appear to be soaring.

By way of example, Australia. Their governments, supported by an apparently compliant media don’t say much about excess deaths, but they do continue to give these data to the OECD who subsequently publish it.

The latest drop shows that 2022 excess deaths at a 5000% increase over 2020 when the pandemic was front and centre of every news outlet 24×7. Here is the alarming chart taken from the OECD data.

The defense of ‘correlation is not causation’ only exists because those guilty of this cull are the ones needed to authorise the investigation.

Suffice to say that the net life expectancy of my vaccination friends and family is now lower than it was two years ago. I’m NOT OK with that.
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January 28, 2023 8:23am
- Jimbob
  
  This is eventuality going to finally weed out these big reset perpetrators. Hopefully there is a silver lining to all this.
  Thanks KK for the links.
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:52am
- ClanMcleod
  
  The mammoth in the room seems to be doubling in size every few days but the government, opposition, experts, and mainstream media in NZ apparently can’t see it. That is some feat.
  
  When it finally explodes it is going to create one hell of a mess. It will make the Auckland flooding look like a light shower on an otherwise sunny day.
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:57am
  - krazykiwi
    
    I’ll ask Chris “Get Boosted” Bishop to intervene //
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:14am
    - waikatosinger
      
      Why is the government still pushing for kids and young people to be vaccinated. That advice needs to be reviewed urgently.
      
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      January 28, 2023 2:12pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Mr Bishop responded to me when I chastised him for supporting sticking this experimental garbage into the arms of children. His response was, “well we give them lots of other injections so why not?”
        Not verbatim but that’s what he said. He clearly has no ability whatsoever.
        
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        January 28, 2023 3:38pm
      - cmm
        
        Clan, that response is astounding even for “Light up a Lucky” Bishop.
        
        All the other juices we put into kids’ arms get exhaustive testing before they are deployed in mass inoculation programmes.
        
        The cavalier approach for the vax really shows how damn clueless he is.
        
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        January 28, 2023 3:52pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        cmm – I have quite a large folder of equally inane responses from various politicians, “experts” and journalists. One day they’ll be made public.
        
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        January 28, 2023 4:14pm
- MythBuster
  
  What a great day it will be when people finally learn to distinguish between information that comes from credible sources (ie “from people who actually know what they’re talking about”) vs sources who continually seek to mislead the gullible to serve their own purposes (ie “the ones you continually reference”).
  
  Case-in-point: Here’s a link to such a source that explains why your “vaccines are causing excess deaths” assertions are complete & utter nonsense:
  
  https://healthfeedback.org/what-can-explain-the-excess-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-europe-in-2022/
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:09am
  - Mike H S
    
    Thaks for the link. A good read.
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:34am
  - WaynelSexton
    
    Mythbuster they’re the same people who were wrong about lockdowns, wrong about masks, and wrong about the effectiveness of vaccines.
    Why would anyone still listen to known liars?
    
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    January 28, 2023 11:37am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Why? Because ignorance really is bliss. No need to think, ask questions, or to risk standing out from the rest of the blissfully ignorant crowd. It is just too hard to think, and too comfortable to be swept along.
      
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      January 28, 2023 3:06pm
      - mawm
        
        I think there is a lot of denial by those who got vaccinated. Also it is far easier to deceive someone than to convince them that they have been victims of the deception.
        
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        January 28, 2023 3:23pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    😂😂😂😂😂
    
    They left out the cold snaps and the excessive gardening.
    Have a read of someone who understands the actual science.
    
    https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/uk-age-stratified-all-cause-death
    
    There are numerous contributing factors, in particular missed diagnose due to moronic lockdowns, but there is an unavoidable correlation between the jab rollout and increased all cause mortality.
    These things cause injury, sudden, and premature death.
    They put you at more risk of catching covid and they make you prone to worse outcomes from other ailments because they damage your innate immune system. Are you up to date with your boosters? If you are, good luck.
    
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    January 28, 2023 4:02pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Did deaths in 2020 not drop dramatically because of lockdowns?
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:10pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    G – yes, they did. But that was a short term outcome. Obviously if people aren’t moving around or doing things there are fewer ways to kill yourself in accidents either at home, work, outdoor activity or on the roads.
    
    It’s why the deceitful authorities in NZ used the data over the 3 years from 2020 to end of 2022 to claim reduced numbers of death compared to prior years.
    Almost as deceptive as Pfizer’s claim that their “vaccine” was 95% effective by only referencing the relative risk reduction. A meaningless number unless you include the absolute risk reduction. That number was 0.84%. Not quite as compelling when trying to sell a dodgy product to people.
    
    As for deaths, the numbers of excess deaths over normal in the last 9 months or so is very high.
    
    This correlates almost perfectly with the rollout of the vaccine and the boosters.
    No, not all excess deaths can be attributed to the vaccines, but there are more than enough alarms sounding to see this programme halted immediately while a full investigation takes place. The rest of the world is waking up and stopping jabbing, particularly those under 50. NZ is in complete denial.
    
    The negative impacts of lockdowns were always going to take a while to manifest, they are doing so now with bells on.
    The negative impacts of mandates and the crushing of small businesses, likewise. All coming home to roost as predicted.
    The worries of many around negative impacts of the vaccine were always going to take time to appear. There is a massive elephant in the room and we can’t ignore it for much longer.
    
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    January 29, 2023 7:33am
TP4Shore

Last night was a systemic failure of all major services in Auckland due to a lack of leadership and coordination. I was in the Elton John concert on the field. Water was ankle deep on the field.

The promoter obviously was looking for advice from
Emergency Services and MetService. The fact they cancelled at 7.15 was incredulous. This call should have been made at 5pm.

Then it took me 4 hours to get home to Takapuna. Waka Kotahi and all emergency information shut down. I got my information from Marcus Lush on Newstalk ZB due to members of the public ringing talkback and sharing information.

The state of emergency call came too late from Wayne Brown. Do we even have to mention Auckland Transport and their disgusting failure?

This was a monumental screw up which has cost one person a life, ruined multiple businesses and cost many people their livelihoods in a time when we are already in crisis.

I am absolutely disgusted with the incompetence across multiple agencies, councils and weather forecasters who were asleep at the wheel last night leaving Aucklands to fend for themselves.

A night of shame indeed.
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January 28, 2023 8:25am
- Gravelroad
  
  @TP-
  But surely, doesn’t Waka Kotahi have a small army of well paid media and PR people trained up in comms to share info to the masses?
  Likewise Auckland Council?
  What are they for then?
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:07am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Gravelroad – like Ardern’s crew, they are there solely to write fluffy spin about how wonderful they are and to deflect any criticism anywhere except where it belongs.
    The poor buggers are working their arses off right now trying to come up with something plausible for the news later today.
    They work very hard to earn their money. You have to feel sorry for them. //
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:18am
    - DeepBlue
      
      They pushed go too early at 7am this morning.
      On RNZ Web there is a heading ‘Judging Jacinda Ardern on her seven biggest projects’ with …more to come as text. And what looks like an expensive production going by the photo.
      
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      January 28, 2023 10:21am
      - kowtow
        
        Is that the one that syas she’s such a great crisis manager,
        
        exactly what did she do at White Island , or indeed any other of those “crisese”.
        
        Princess Dressup . Nothing more.
        
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        January 28, 2023 11:21am
      - nathie
        
        exactly what did she do at White Island , or indeed any other of those “crisese”.
        
        Unlike Goff turning up at the Rena disaster to shovel sand whilst wearing a suit for the photo op …. Ardern “learnt” that lesson and instead gave people hugs. MSM laud that achievement as exemplifying world class leadership!
        
        (Sheesh at least Goff contributed 0.00000001% to the Rena recovery effort … whilst Ardern contributed 0.00000000% to the White Is. recovery effort! Not fair sez Goff! Must have been misandry and gendered (anti-pale/stale/male) reporting by the MSM)! //
        
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        January 28, 2023 12:47pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Who would even read that shit now, even the deluded
        
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        January 28, 2023 8:15pm
  - Cassandra
    
    Twas after 4.30 pm on a Friday. This isn’t the gulag, you know. Being on duty when you’re needed is only for nurses and soldiers. Labour (party) Day celebrates 8 to 5. Or 9.30 to about 3 pm actually.
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:28am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Hey, long weekend…(Auckland Anniversary )
      
      You’d leave work by Fri lunchtime to get to your bach /camp site by Fri night.
      
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      January 28, 2023 9:42am
- Southern Raider
  
  WK didn’t shut down. They just went home as they don’t work overtime even in emergencies
  
  Also what is the point of Metservice and NIWA? Two weeks ago they sent our massive warnings about a Cyclone hitting Auckland that did nothing. Last night there was just a general rain warning and no Red alert. Also Metservice kept predicting small rain and then reactively updating it to massive rain after it happened
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:08am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘Also what is the point of Metservice and NIWA’
    
    These are the people who tell us the sea’s rising cos rich people fly away on holidays and they can tell you what the temperature will be in 20 years time if you keep eating beef.
    
    But they can’t get the next day right .
    
    And yet the great and the good queue up for pickies with a Swedish wunderkind and St Jax says ( on the back of false science) that this is the challenge of a generation , in so saying she was turned into an “international political icon” by te media pardy .
    
    It’s literally all a con job. Say goodbye to your freedoms and standard of living .So hard fought for.
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:45am
  - Southern Raider
    
    Of interest is when was the last similar rain event in Auckland of this magnitude?
    
    With climate change, Green Party terrorising the public etc you would think 6 months ago, 12 months ago, surely must have been in the last 3 years as the planet is dying?
    
    No was 1986 nearly 40 years ago!
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:04am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Did you see that, Wayne ? Your assertion of ‘unprecedented’ and Anthropogenic Climate Change appears to be a big ‘porky’.
      
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      January 28, 2023 11:43am
- kowtow
  
  Bit early to say but perhaps this is a very good lesson that humans can’t control the weather let alone the climate.
  
  What we con do is build infrastructure that can cope with heavy rain , not build houses in areas that are liable to flooding and last but not least , if adverse weather is forecast plan accordingly.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:13am
  - PeeJay
    
    Being in construction, I read a bit now and again on the climate change industry as it relates to infrastructure.
    
    There are a few brave souls who venture a contrary opinion that should climate change be man made, rather than destroying western economies in an attempt to stop emissions, considering that the likes of China and India will continue to build coal power plants and the like and emissions will continue to rise regardless of what the western world does, the few contrarians have argued that shouldn’t investment be made in resilient infrastructure, coastal defence and, in extreme cases, coastal retreat?
    
    They argue that this adaption and resilience approach would be a far more pragmatic avenue to explore rather.
    
    Without exception, these individuals are hounded and attacked for daring to have a different opinion.
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:48am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Too much common sense, Peejay. Many have been advocating for what you suggest for – that I can recall – at least 20 years.
      But no, the CLIMATE CRISIS porn proceeds unerringly. Sad isn’t it – the people I mean, who believe modelling predictions and don’t consult anedotal historic events.
      
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      January 28, 2023 11:47am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  But, but but – isn’t Jason in Auckland? Aquaman to the rescue!
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:23am
- Ghost
  
  So you were standing ankle deep in water waiting for it to be cancelled? Didn’t it once cross your mind that ok I’m ankle deep in water I’m out of here or did you just think with flooding it would go ahead? Maybe it’s Aucklanders but down here we know when there is surface flooding or the rivers are up to stay home. You need to monitor what is happening around you and take some of the blame for walking through surface flooding and standing in ankle deep water.
  
  Listening to Brown he called the emergency when those in the field asked for it.
  
  And if you go to metservice Facebook page you can see they were issuing warnings.
  
  https://www.facebook.com/MetService/
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:52am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    For snowflakes, it’s always someone else’s fault.
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:03am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yea and apparently many hours sooner than the vile left suggested
    
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    January 28, 2023 8:16pm
- Southern Raider
  
  TP4 are you surprised
  
  If you have ever dealt with local and central Govt officials and senior managers you quickly work out they had no other employment options and they make Dad’s Army look energised and competent
  
  The calibre of the officials is so bad they can’t actually deal with real time decision making. They rely on briefing papers, workshops, consultants, public feedback sessions and months of lead up to a dreaded decision point.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:57am
  - kowtow
    
    No doubt there’s a “consultation with local iwi” in there too.
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:14am
- Handyman
  
  The CCO of Watercare and Auckland Transport were supposedly to protect them from political interference. Actually they were created to protect the politicians from the public.
  There was an Auckland Council councilor on the news yesterday, basically saying the latest debacle was nothing to do with her and the council but she would be asking questions of AT.
  Logically, funds from the tram to airport should be diverted to sort out the city’s water issues so people are not trapped at the airport due to road flooding.
  They would rather spend money on underground trains, not underground pipes.
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:13am
- TS Child
  
  West Auckland was flooding by 6pm with no sight of an end to the torrential rain. Given it was a long weekend and how long it takes to get everyone to get off the road safely at that hour, it seems extraordinary they didn’t act with a bit more caution. It’s going to be very interesting when the review comes out.
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:31am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    State of emergency was devalued several hours earlier than the vulgar left suggested
    
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    January 28, 2023 8:18pm
Scooter

I saw this gem of reporting in Newstalk, somehow I don’t think there could be any worse outcome than dying in the flood.

“In potentially the most serious incident, police were told just before 7.25pm that a body had been seen by a member of the public near Target Rd, Wairau Valley.”
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January 28, 2023 8:29am
- DeepBlue
  
  To note there has been a further death and 2 missing. Bless them.
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:26am
blue collar

The election is in the bag , best place to be is at the bottom of the labour list , you know you’re gone , may aswell hit the piss n party for 10 months , make the most of it .
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January 28, 2023 8:38am
- DeepBlue
  
  Business as usual then for the low-listers
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:02am
- Cassandra
  
  Labour MPs have the best paid job they will ever have. They’ll now be working out how to pay the mortgage. Why do you think they lifted the minimum wage?
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:31am
Southern Raider

All the Labour supporting idiots like Morgan Godfrey on twitter boasting the Auckland floods justify why National needs to support 5 waters. FFS it’s been biblical proportions of rain up here. No size of pipes would cope

And Greenpeace and Green Party also lecturing from the side lines about how we are reaping climate change and we need to kill farm animals to save ourselves
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January 28, 2023 8:44am
- kowtow
  
  What they really believe is “farm animals” as a euphemism for people .
  They just can’t come out with it as it would show them up for the authoritarian loons they actually are .
  
  How often do we here them talk about the ‘unsustainablity’ of the size of our global population.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:25am
  - kowtow
    
    hear . arg.
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:46am
- nathie
  
  We know the 2022 Tongan volcano eruption put a massive amount of water in the atmosphere (according to one or two NASA(?) articles people have posted here previously), so presumably this summers’ high rainfall for the North Island and last night’s massive downpours around the wider Auckland region are linked?
  
  If so expect more unusual rain patterns over the next few months/one or two years?
  
  Would like to see some effort from NZ’s weather and volcanology experts to better explain this phenomena to the public.
  
  And if the likes of the Green Party and Greenpeace keep rabbiting on about “climate change” then credibility wise they are only doing damage to their own brand, surely.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:28am
  - kowtow
    
    There was a story the other day that some scientists in Peking think the earth’s core has stopped spinning /about to reverse . Apparently it works on some sort of 70 year cycle but they don’t really know.
    
    Two thoughts.
    
    Our “science” curriculum is going to tell pupils that science is a western concept , so what business is this of two Chinese scientists ( //) and
    
    science knows so relatively very little about the basic structures and processes of our tiny bit of space rock . But we’re always learning , adding to that body of knowledge ( but oh so westernly)
    
    The real problem with “science” and education is the Commies have got involved with their dangerous agenda .
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:53am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      It was about a 70-year cycle of a slight change in the rotational speed of the core. Nothing to do with stopping or reversing. Please read the news a little more carefully and apply some critical thinking.
      
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      January 28, 2023 10:10am
      - graham
        
        Headline:
        
        “Earth’s inner core may have stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests”
        
        https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html
        
        And if you don’t like CNN, just search for “earth’s core” on your favourite search engine and select another source. You’ll find plenty to choose from.
        
        Please, feel free to “read the news a little more carefully” from a selection of these sources and report back on what the general consensus is among actual scientists.
        
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        January 28, 2023 10:27am
      - kowtow
        
        graham
        
        He’s very very good at telling others what to do .
        Needs to follow his own advise . But then that’s not his purpose here , a troll is a troll is a troll.
        
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        January 28, 2023 11:27am
      - NothingLeft
        
        Journalists as a tribe are massively ignorant with respect to basic science. Millions of people with high school physics groaned when they saw that headline
        
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        January 28, 2023 11:43am
      - Ghost
        
        “The inner core doesn’t come to a full stop,” he said. The study’s finding, he said, “means that the inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.”
        
        https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html
        
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        January 28, 2023 11:44am
      - graham
        
        @ Ghost: Nice to know somebody read the article!
        
        One of the takeaways from it is that sometimes, it’s a bit hard to just blithely say “the science is settled” when the scientists actually can’t agree. Who’s to say which scientists are correct, and which aren’t? This of course is one of the issues when the media decide to blindly accept one body of opinion in ANY area (*cough* climate change *cough*) even when there are other respected scientists saying something different.
        
        In research published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Monday, Yi Yang, associate research scientist at Peking University, and Xiaodong Song, Peking University chair professor, studied seismic waves from earthquakes that have passed through the Earth’s inner core along similar paths since the 1960s to infer how fast the inner core is spinning.
        
        What they found was unexpected, they said. Since 2009, seismic records, which previously changed over time, showed little difference. This, they said, suggested that the inner core rotation had paused.
        
        “We show surprising observations that indicate the inner core has nearly ceased its rotation in the recent decade and may be experiencing a turning-back,” they wrote in the study.
        
        So this associate research scientist and professor have interpreted the data in one way. However …
        
        However, the speed of this rotation, and whether it varies, is debated, said Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at the Australian National University, who was not involved in the study,
        
        “The inner core doesn’t come to a full stop,” he said.
        
        And this geophysicist has a different way of interpreting the data.
        
        I’m no scientist, so far be it from me to say who’s right and wrong. But isn’t it interesting that two different scientists can look at studies and data and come to two different conclusions?
        
        I do hope that Stuff and other MSM outlets take note …
        
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        January 28, 2023 12:25pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        slight change in the rotational speed of the core. Nothing to do with stopping or reversing.
        
        The Abstract of the paper says otherwise:
        
        This globally consistent pattern suggests that inner-core rotation has recently paused. We compared this recent pattern to the Alaskan seismic records of South Sandwich Islands doublets going back to 1964 and it seems to be associated with a gradual turning-back of the inner core as a part of an approximately seven-decade oscillation, with another turning point in the early 1970s.
        
        https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01112-z#Sec2
        
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        January 28, 2023 2:12pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Whoops. How’s the burn milkey…
        
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        January 28, 2023 4:12pm
      - Ghost
        
        Argh, my eyes are blury with histamine I thought you were asking how his bum is 🤣
        
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        January 28, 2023 4:21pm
  - DeepBlue
    
    Tongan eruption and impact on rainfall.
    
    https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/opinion/up-the-creek-but-not-without-a-paddleboat/
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:29am
- emmess
  
  This is the cause of the flooding.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZtRKbTdQVw&t=3s
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:32am
  - Don Beckett
    
    That was excellent & explains why it is an unusual event.
    
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    January 28, 2023 12:08pm
  - nathie
    
    Thanks DeepBlue and Emmess. So perhaps the priority for Councils (and Govt) should be to fix-up existing stormwater systems, start building new ones and come up with other measures to protect housing, CBD’s etc (eg start raising stop banks or providing new channels for water to overflow etc)?
    
    This would seem to be a practical and smart to deal with the so-called “climate emergency” … rather than diverting $millions to “green measures” like altering city streets to cater for cycleways, putting in speedbumps, slowing down the speed limit, spending up on Council/Ministry electric car fleets, Ute taxes to fund EV’s for the wealthy etc!
    
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    January 28, 2023 1:07pm
Gravelroad

Thank goodness for all the $m’s of investment in Auckland’s cycle ways.
I suppose many will have been able to escape the flooding by using them?
Storm water drainage? What’s that for?
Not to worry, 3/5 waters will fix it……..
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January 28, 2023 9:01am
- oldfella
  
  Gravelroad: I’m sure people with EV’s felt super happy with their choice. Nothing like an electric vehicle in a flood. //
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:27am
  - Ghost
    
    I’m sure they would, Tesla seems to be alright in floods
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSR6Y2gNeI0
    
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    January 28, 2023 11:41am
    - All_on_Red
      
      ‘Electric vehicles that were flooded and damaged by the storm have been catching fire without warning in incidents throughout the hardest hit areas in the state, according to State Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis, who told ABC News his team has counted at least nine such incidents. In some cases, the EVs would burst into flames, stay on fire, then reignite hours later.’
      https://abcnews.go.com/US/hurricane-ian-flood-damage-evs-creating-ticking-time/story?id=91795016
      
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      January 28, 2023 11:56am
      - Ghost
        
        Tesla driver was rescuing people from their flooded cars
        
        https://twitter.com/ray4tesla/status/1418444339689103365
        
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        January 28, 2023 12:03pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Good for him
        But, wait…
        ‘Teslas flooded by Hurricane Ian have spontaneously ignited more than a week after the storm, according to Florida fire authorities interviewed by News Nation.
        “Anytime you mix electrical components and salt water together, it is a recipe for disaster,” Stephen Gollan, of Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, told News Nation.’
        https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a41573015/teslas-flooded-during-hurricane-ian-are-spontaneously-igniting-in-its-aftermath/
        lol
        
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        January 28, 2023 1:06pm
      - Ghost
        
        Yeah Ian brought a huge surge of ocean water on to the land, unlike Auckland’s flooding
        
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        January 28, 2023 1:14pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        You don’t think water fuses electrical circuits?
        Ok, got it
        I think the evidence is quite clear that Tesla’s aren’t so good in “floods”.
        
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        January 28, 2023 4:55pm
      - Ghost
        
        Have I said that? All I’ve shown is some Tesla that do rather well driving through floods
        
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        January 28, 2023 5:24pm
ClanMcleod

Here’s the video of the Pfizer executive caught in a sting by Project Veritas. Apparently he claims he was lying to impress a date when he claimed they were modifying viruses so they could preempt them, have a “vaccine” available, and make a few dollars…….

Wow, I thought I was pushing it when I wore my flares and combed my hair in a middle shade to impress potential dates. That dude is next level in making up stories!!

Well his reaction to being caught seems a bit extreme if that’s all he was doing. Judge for yourself.

https://rumble.com/v27ccgk-pfizer-liar-erupts-watch-exposed-official-attack-projet-veritas-destroys-ip.html

Looks pretty sus to me……
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January 28, 2023 9:03am
- Gravelroad
  
  @Clan-
  The guy is described as “Director, Worldwide R&D Strategic Ops and mRNA Strategic Planning.”
  For Pfizer.
  He says he is a liar trying to impress a date.
  Either way that’s creepy.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:25am
  - Surely Knott
    
    I can’t see why telling a date you were manipulating the virus to make it more potent would help you be impress a date! Clearly told the truth now is donkey deep in problems. Getting dates as a Pfizer exec must be a tough gig these days lol. These are the science geniuses on team vaccine.
    
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    January 28, 2023 3:33pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      He understands the potential ramifications of spilling the beans. Possible only saving grace is Hillary Clinton isn’t one of his bosses, though she likely has shares in the company.
      
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      January 28, 2023 5:30pm
- Inandout
  
  A very effeminate executive there, but mind it has been a while since I was an executive.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:26am
  - Phronesis
    
    The “date” he was set up on wasn’t with a woman….
    
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    January 28, 2023 1:14pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It was a couple of chaps, though I don’t know what they “identified” as.
    
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    January 28, 2023 4:20pm
Southern Raider

Waka Kotahi’s 500 person social media team signed off at 7pm last night in the middle of the biggest disaster on a state highway network in last few years. Cars blocked/stuck on flooded motorways and the team of kindergarten kids obviously needed to get to some bars in Wellington instead of doing their jobs

Hat tip to Michael Wood who apparently called up WK management and clearly directed them to get back to work

Need an investigation into WK as well. There job isn’t just making stupid adverts
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January 28, 2023 9:04am
- kowtow
  
  Wata Katastrophe.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:55am
kevn

@Clan… Rapidly becoming a most toxic brand.
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January 28, 2023 9:08am
DimChappie

PM Chris Hipkins spoke to the Herald’s Claire Trevett about his plans for Three/5 Waters. He speaks of a reset and bringing everyone along, so is he planning a great big consultation/delay? Here is a transcript of the relevant part:

Q: Do you think that Three Waters has become something emblematic of that (feeling of too many reforms at once)? Opposition to that has now become so entrenched – more entrenched and widespread than you would think for what amounts to basically rejigging the way water infrastructure is funded and trying to make it cheaper more economical?

Hipkins: So look we acknowledge there is some baggage with that. Some of that came bcause you know it collided with the local government election and people were looking for a platform for the local government campaign.
The issues around co-governance I think have been poorly understood and that has created some anxiety as well.
But the case for change remains incredibly strong. If you look at the scale of infrastructure investment that is required and the potential effect that’s going to have on household budgets as a result of rates increases, I think government does need to take that seriously. I don’t think we can wash our hands and say this is a problem for local government to deal with. They don’t have the size, the scale or the funding to be able to do that.
So you know our water infrastructure is really poor. Look at the amount of water that is being lost in the Wellington region on a daily basis because of leaks in the pipes at a time we are also saying to people you can’t water your garden or wash your car because we don’t have enough water. And yet we are pouring water literally into nothing.

Q: But is the (final) change the one you guys are now doing?

Hipkins: We are going to look closely at the Three Waters program. There is no question there has to be change. I don’ think we can sit back and say this is not our problem, it’s a council problem. I don’t think that would be responsible. I don’t think a responsible government would do that.
But we also need to bring people along with us in what we are doing. So I think we will need to reset our work around Three Waters. I don’t want to speculate on what that might look like but I absolutely acknowledge that there is anxiety about it out there and we need to make sure that we are communicating exactly what we are doing and why we are doing it.
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January 28, 2023 9:11am
- Ruahine
  
  Weasel words on display.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:33am
- Inthe09
  
  God just what we need – more patronising ads about why we ‘need’ 3 waters – at great expense to us.
  
  Pro tip – you can upgrade waste and water assets without changing the ownership model.
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:32am
  - PeeJay
    
    Crazy idea I know, but how about local authorities actually spend ratepayers money on the infrastructure rather than cycle lanes, rainbow crossings, useless PR and comm’s teams, numerous festivals etc.
    
    I know, I know, completely insane idea, what was I thinking…..
    
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    January 28, 2023 11:09am
    - TS Child
      
      @PJ: You could go a step further into crazy and suggest that one way of making sure poor people live in warm, dry homes would be to spend money protecting those areas from flooding. But of course that old be a lot less sexy than, say, light rail to the airport. Because when all’s said and done, the poorer areas only flood sometimes and the increase in the minimum wage should sort that out, mmm?
      
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      January 28, 2023 11:38am
    - NothingLeft
      
      But infrastructure maintenance is boring and doesn’t get your name into print
      
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      January 28, 2023 11:48am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Exactly. I mean, the Phil Goff Main Drain has a certain ring to it, but I suspect he’d prefer the Phil Goff Underground Loop Railway or some such.
        
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        January 28, 2023 1:06pm
- Prince
  
  There is a simple fix to Wgton’s water leaks – introduce charging meters and charging, with equal reduction to rates. Kapiti did it years ago andwater use fropped as people saw a return for fixing leaks etc.
  The market is the best solution to this, but don’t expect the usual Wgton Socialists to understand that.
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:33am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Nope. First, the Council should fix its own leaks. Only then can we see whether there’s actually a private property leak problem.
    
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    January 28, 2023 1:07pm
Surely Knott

It seems the Govt/Media Nudge Unit wants you to pay your school donations and are going to shame label and divide anyone who doesn’t. Rinse and repeat it is the same methods they use to get us to comply with the vaccines.

Household budgets are going to be tiiiiiiiight as inflation and mortgage rates sky rocket and i would imagine that donations will be further down the priority list.

The nudge unit appears to be front footing it with an article entitled “Fear and loating of free – riding families who don’t pay school donations”.

I pay my school donations and am in a position to do so but what struck me was the venom, name calling and hate int he headline.

Just like “anti vax” they’ve created a label for people to think about you if you don’t pay – you’re now a “free-loading family”. It’s not disappointing or problematic for the schools, people are being encouraged to “fear and hate” you!

This is a disgusting headline and we’re not falling for it. It is ultimately a ‘DONATION” . Not a fee. If you can’t pay your mortgage, your tax, put food on the table then you might be rethinking the donation. I won’t be name calling you or excluding you.

The govt funded media’s abuse is more powerful, has greater reach, than anything coming from social media and boy do they like to whip up hate and divide.

The media/govt no longer write articles convincing you in a positive manner why you should pay your donation they use hard core social division and military style group coercion tactics. It’s not ok.
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January 28, 2023 9:15am
- Gravelroad
  
  @Surely-
  $tuff just love to select, investigate and “out” people of whom we should not approve -especially when they are being funded by the Labour Party to do it.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:29am
- Ruahine
  
  A very good post. Gov’t Disinformation for all to see.
  MSM at its most deceitful.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:32am
- Hollyfield
  
  Stuff must have misfiled the memo. In 2017 the Labour Party policy was “a $70 million plan to end ‘voluntary’ school donations” According to the Labour Party website today, the government has “funded the removal of school donations”.
  
  This from 2017: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/school-donations
  And this on their website as of right now (scroll down almost half way) https://www.labour.org.nz/children
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:16am
Jack5

Janet Wilson, a recent arrival to the anti-Woke brigade, in her Stuff column today, pins temporary Prime Minister Hipkins when he weasily tried to re-define, or was it define, “co-governance”. Wilson writes:

“In an environment of misunderstanding and uncertainty, it is easy for fear to be cultivated,” he [Hipkins] said, neatly avoiding the point that that misunderstanding and fear was given fertile ground because his government had failed to explain what co-governance was in the first place.

The Ardern-Hipkins-Maori activism mob know exactly what they want : a Maori version of apartheid.

The “co”, as typified in commercial “company,” doesn’t require pro rata (per head of population) control; nor 50-50 control.
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January 28, 2023 9:16am
- Inandout
  
  Jack5, one hopes Chippy doesn’t become as evasive as Komical Karene, the WH explainer.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:29am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  He suggests that a decent explanation of co-governance will make us more accepting of it.
  I doubt it.
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:44am
  - Hollyfield
    
    “A decent explanation of co-governance will make us more accepting of it” fully explains why they haven’t given us a decent explanation. //
    
    Chris Hipkins was questioned in Parliament a couple of days ago and he waffled around umming and ahhing, restarting his sentence several times, and eventually just said very confidently that Christopher Luxon doesn’t know what co-governance is either. So it’s Christopher Luxon’s fault that Labour hasn’t told us what they mean by co-governance.
    
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    January 28, 2023 11:19am
Rusty

Its man made global warming when its extremely hot temps but when its extremely cold and wet temps its man made climate change.

The doom and gloom alarmists have all their bases covered here.

In the herald a couple of weeks ago they reported the climate in NZ last year was the hottest on record.

Yeah right who believes that other than the alarmists?

And how come Auckland for example didn’t have a water or power shortage crisis last year if it was the hottest ever?
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January 28, 2023 9:18am
- Inandout
  
  Rusty, I lost sympathy for Auckland when they meekly rolled over and closed down for 100 days on a Jacinda whim.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:31am
  - Rusty
    
    @Inaandout.
    
    Me to.
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:35am
  - Surely Knott
    
    People who didn’t comply were imprisoned and their businesses closed down. They paid a heck of a cost.
    
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    January 28, 2023 6:54pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    For one case
    
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    January 28, 2023 8:27pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  To butcher a similar statement about polar bears, a few years ago climate change caused Auckland’s resevoirs to be only 35% full. Now after more climate change they’ve been 100% full for 7 months straight.
  Seriously though, imagine if we’d been on a mission to increase resevoir capacity – we’d have more water stored up than we knew what to do with.
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:39am
  - NothingLeft
    
    With Waikato River on tap Auckland water storage is unnecessary.
    
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    January 28, 2023 3:13pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Would anybody have noticed that it was the ‘hottest year evah!’ if we didn’t have some expert making the claim?
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:41am
- rangitoto
  
  Regarding the warmest on record. Last year appeared to be the cloudiest I have noticed for a long time. Cloud at night means warmer night temperature. I suspect the mean daily high wasn’t unusual. Must remember to check that.
  
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  January 28, 2023 6:45pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

On the upside, the Auckland Dam app reports that levels are 99.99% of capacity.

With an average better than Bradman’s, you know that at least the CEO of Auckland Water is a happy camper.
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January 28, 2023 9:27am
Maggie Pie

Morning everyone! Only just got up.
Sounds like things were quite bad in the city overnight.
My partner’s already been out to lower the level in the pool.
Just came in and said it was completely overflowing at the shallow end.
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January 28, 2023 9:34am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie my pool as well, so the sheep grazing on the neighbouring farm will be awash with chlorine.
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:32am
- Gravelroad
  
  Where is SteveO – North Shore??
  Usually several comments on here by now.
  Hope not washed away?
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Bit sick today – tummy bug.
    
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    January 28, 2023 12:16pm
Yvette

Willie Jackson’s Pravaganda RNZ-TVNZ merger
Auckland University academic Sir Peter Gluckman, who previously served as the Government’s chief science adviser, has given the planned merger of TVNZ and RNZ a fail.
…Gluckman said it was disappointing that [a select committee recommended] law change would still establish the new entity as an “autonomous Crown entity”, which is a type of entity that must have regard to government policy when directed by its responsible minister. – Stuff

Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson cited “restoring trust in the media” as being the reason for merging RNZ and TVNZ, but –

“If the public is to place their trust in the entity that will replace TVNZ and RNZ, they need to be in no doubt that it is independent from any potential political interference.
“The bill still has a long way to go before that is achieved,” [Gluckman] said.

This will be the first policy ditched by a desperate Chris Hipkins, in a bid to stem the tide of discontent with his Government.
We will see more reverse ferrets coming thick and fast. They think we are stupid and, after a few quick reversals, will forget what they have done. We must not let them trick us.
Chris Hipkins is going to be very familiar with ferrets up his trousers. – Cameron Slater

• In the media world a reverse ferret is a sudden reversal of an organisation’s editorial or political line on a certain issue.
https://thebfd.co.nz/2023/01/28/the-reverse-ferrets-have-started/

Cameron Slater – perhaps do not shoot the messenger … this time – Yvette
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January 28, 2023 9:34am
- Taieri
  
  Auckland University academic Sir Peter Gluckman, who previously served as the Government’s chief science adviser, has given the planned merger of TVNZ and RNZ a fail.
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  Fair enough. This merger is going to be a costly nonsense. But…because there’s always a “but”…why does it need to be emphasised that Sir Peter Gluckman was previously the Chief Science Adviser? As he is a paediatrician by training, does it give him a special insight into broadcasting? Why?
  
  Another prominent person, Dame Anne Salmond has recently, in her capacity as an anthropologist no doubt, strongly criticized “this country’s strategy to use pine forests and overseas offsets to help wish away our climate emissions”. Is cultural anthropologist’s expertise now also extending to the emissions and carbon credits? Once again, why?
  
  Are we to expect that the famous epidemiologist, Professor Michael Baker, for example, will share with us his pearls-of-wisdom insight on the proposed Lake Onslow project?
  
  Or will another famous expert-on everything Dr Wiles advise us on the best financial investments?
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:56am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    I trust Sir Peter Gluckman more than Willie Jackson.
    
    That said.your point is a good one.
    
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    January 28, 2023 1:37pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Is Cameron Slater trying to resuscitate his career? I thought he had gone away for good after the defamation suits and personal and health catastrophes.
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:15am
  - Inandout
    
    m&m, you are still here.
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:34am
Tony Stuart

Once again Thomas Cranmer has excelled himself with this thread:

https://twitter.com/kehetauhauaga/status/1619057138902667264

Nanaia Mahuta deliberately omitted a meeting with Green MP from her ministerial diary, because the topic being discussed was the entrenchment of the Three Waters legislation. This was explained away at the time as a mistake, when it is clearly anything but, and is part of a pattern of Mahuta picking and choosing which meetings she discloses.

Cranmer concludes by saying:

These diary omissions are not inconsequential or isolated oversights. They are deliberate actions designed to frustrate the good governance of ministers and officials. Mahuta is dishonest and entitled. She should be sacked without hesitation.

Chris Hipkins has a decision to make. Will he do what is right and proper, and run the risk of being one of New Zealand’s shortest-ever tenured Prime Minister? Or will he, like Jacinda Ardern before him. take the path of least resistance? It is a decision which could define his political career.
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January 28, 2023 9:38am
- DimChappie
  
  Sacking her would send a geat signal that the awful Maori caucus was finished. I might vote for him.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:51am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Even Ian Wishart is saying the only way Chippy can gain ant credibility for himself is to give her the sack!
  
  https://twitter.com/investigatemag/status/1619043790190444544
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:53am
- Yvette
  
  Shane Jones on the resignation of Jacinda Ardern and Three Waters –
  video 2:57 – Importantly she [Jacinda] lost control of her own team. She was unable to control Nanaia Mahuta [who] has proven to be one of New Zealand’s most divisive politicians that God ever put breath into. What was initially an attempt to pick some drinking water has turned into a highly divisive and polarizing social experiment got nothing to do with pipes and infrastructure now it’s got everything to do as to whether or not ribes should have a superior right – 3:29
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtBVdqc1Eto
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:59am
- kowtow
  
  Yet another “most open and transparent” moment.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:59am
- Swifty
  
  Wasn’t being clever with diary entries what brought down that intellectual titan Clare Curran?
  
  It’s funny you know, it’s always the ‘sensitive’ meetings which were ‘mistakenly not recorded’ – never the meetings where stationery supplies are discussed.
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:51am
- Gravelroad
  
  @Tony S-
  If Mr Hipkins really has a decision to make re Ms Mahuta, from which area of influence should she be sacked?
  If he had a brain, he would set aside all the 3/5 waters manipulating and review her performances as
  Foreign Minister and any other outward facing portfolios she was gifted.
  Then sack her from those if possible
  No fuel left in her tank.
  Has done a wonderful job in testing times, but now needs a rest as she has become too personally involved trying to please all sectors etc……
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:57am
Taieri

A few months ago the Learned Justices of the NZ Supreme Court spoke in favour of lowering the voting age in NZ to 16 years. The Green Party of Aotearoa has called for an immediate action of this issue, which was also strongly supported by the Greatest Prime Minister in NZ history.
Fair enough, their inalienable human rights take supreme precedence, apart from which… “I was 16 in 2020, which was probably one of the most consequential elections in our lifetime – and issues that mattered to me about mental health, climate change and the state of our democracy were things that I was not able to have a say in,” as one of so affected human rights campaigners and “Make it 16’s”co-founder, one Sanat Singh publicly stated.

But…someone has just thrown a proverbial spanner into the works. That someone is another Learned Trio, this time from the NZ Court of Appeal. The Learned Justices from that Temple of Themis decided that the life sentences given to three teenage murderers are to be quashed as unjust. One of the reasons given for this by the said August Body, was as follows:
“The ruling stated sentences could be deemed manifestly unjust not only because of an offender’s youth and lack of brain development(…)”.

Youth and lack of brain developments. Hmmm…me says…
Perhaps not only the “youth” suffer from the latter affliction?

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/southland/life-sentences-found-be-unjust-court-appeal
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January 28, 2023 9:43am
- Yvette
  
  Youth and lack of brain developments. Hmmm…me says…
  Perhaps not only the “youth” suffer from the latter affliction?
  
  Taieri, you did not quite go with this where I thought you may be going –
  
  Youth and lack of brain developments. Hmmm…me says…
  What of “the Learned Justices of the NZ Supreme Court spoke in favour of lowering the voting age in NZ to 16 years”?
  
  Isn’t it?
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:12am
  - Taieri
    
    One follows the other, doesn’t it?
    
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    January 28, 2023 10:19am
- All_on_Red
  
  #Makeit25
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:19am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Perhaps I can help you, Taieri.
  Human development is a complicated process. Children mature at different rates and in different stages. ‘Adolescent’ is a term for a fairly mature child not yet accorded full status as an adult.
  There is no magic moment at which a person can be regarded as an adult. Possibly reflecting this, our laws recognize different ages for different types of responsibilities and privileges. Understanding this, perhaps you could also understand why a threshold for eligibility to vote might sometimes not be the same as the threshold for suffering the severest sanctions of the criminal law.
  A few other examples might help – such as comparing ages for compulsory schooling, eligibility to join the armed forces, etc – but we needn’t get into too complicated a discussion.
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:26am
  - Taieri
    
    Human development is a complicated process. Children mature at different rates and in different stages
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    Thank you so much for this explanation. I was completely unaware that children mature at different rates and in different stages. It is very good to know that they are mature enough to elect a government but not mature enough to know that it is wrong to murder someone. Now I can again look into the future with hope and happiness.
    
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    January 28, 2023 12:45pm
    - Steve Todd
      
      From your link, I note that two of the three teenagers were 18 and 19 at the time they committed their crimes. I further note that your extract from the ODT article was truncated, leaving out, of course, the bit that didn’t suit your narrative.
      
      I would also point out that no-one in New Zealand’s history has ever “elected a government”. These days, the best any of us can do is cast one vote for one Party and / or for one Electorate candidate.
      
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      January 28, 2023 1:20pm
      - Taieri
        
        In case you didn’t notice there’s a link to the relevant article at the bottom of my post…
        
        As for “electing a government”, obviously an explanation is required. As you, yourself have observed: “the best any of us can do is cast one vote for one Party and / or for one Electorate candidate”.
        I call it “electing a government”, unless a government elects itself of course. Yes, I know, the Governor General appoints the Government and all that. So please, stop nit picking, because the GG doesn’t appoint the Government according to his/her/undecided whim, but is obliged to accept the wishes of the majority of the electorate.
        
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        January 28, 2023 2:34pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Yes, that’s the link (at the bottom of your 9:43AM comment) that I referred to. Your extract from that link was truncated to suit your purposes, but my point was, that the whole premise of your comment applied only to one of the three teenagers, a point you conveniently overlooked.
        
        My second paragraph was simply a reaction to your loose use of language. Electing a government is a collective activity, not a singular one. In your agitated state, you clearly did not read my comment properly (or, it would seem, refer back to what you said), and, as a consequence, you quite over-reacted.
        
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        January 28, 2023 3:17pm
      - Taieri
        
        my point was, that the whole premise of your comment applied only to one of the three teenagers, a point you conveniently overlooked.
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        My comment applied to ALL teenagers mentioned. But, even more so to the “older” ones. If 18 and 19 years olds are to be given leeway in their responsibility for the most serious crimes known due to their not-fully developed brains, the demands for lowering voting age to 16 are ridiculous to put it mildly. Amazingly two most senior courts don’t seem to appreciate that.
        
        In your agitated state
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        Too long in the tooth to reach the blissful state of agitated Nirvana, so spare me this kind of BS please.
        
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        January 28, 2023 3:48pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Then perhaps you should have made the point that lowering the voting age from 21 (or from 20), fifty years ago, was, in your view, a mistake.
        
        I was entitled to observe that you wrote your previous response to me in a state of agitation. There was no BS about it.
        
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        January 28, 2023 4:03pm
Yvette

UNDRIP should be dropped
If Jacinda, Hipkins and Mahuta had not concentrated so much on fixing “co-governance” in place, but fixed a few storm water drains …
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January 28, 2023 9:50am
- I remember when
  
  Perhaps changed to DRIPUN.
  
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  January 28, 2023 12:19pm
Scooter

Where is Jacinda when you need her? Although I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s wondering if her resignation was a bit premature?
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January 28, 2023 9:58am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  No pics of her in public at the beaches in Wellington
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:31pm
Ghost

A mother who believes a pothole caused her son’s death wants the country’s roads improved before anyone else loses a loved one as she has.

Steph Pukepuke’s son Thomas died in October on the Kaimai Ranges, driving home after helping family shift furniture.

Hamilton-based Pukepuke said police told her it appeared his car blew a tyre in a pothole, making him lose control, cross the centreline and crash into another vehicle.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130989961/fix-the-roads–pothole-link-in-fatal-crash-prompts-plea-from-grieving-mum
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January 28, 2023 10:12am
- All_on_Red
  
  Any comment from Julie-Anne Genter?
  Perhaps road to zero could include well maintained safe roads.
  Who knows, it might work
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  January 28, 2023 10:21am
  - I remember when
    
    Who knew that ‘road to zero’ applied to the speed limits.
    
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    January 28, 2023 12:17pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  If the speed limits get reduced any further it will take an eternity to get to the nearest pothole, making them a non-problem.
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:31am
  - I remember when
    
    They will need signs saying change down for up hill gradient.
    
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    January 28, 2023 12:16pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Stop buying cars with low profile tires. They’re more expensive, less safe/damage prone and no better performance
  
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  January 28, 2023 12:02pm
CAKE FACE1

Cindy Ardern halted the volcano.

What impact would her hugs have had on a mere flood?

She could have played dress-up, and hugged her way to victory over yet another crisis. Her gurning face could have been in overdrive.

What a missed opportunity!

Chipkins doesn’t have a rubbery face. His efforts will fall short. It’s not fair.
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January 28, 2023 10:18am
- Scooter
  
  Some think she’s the Messiah, she could part the waters for a start.
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:23am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    No need, she walks on them.
    
    Ok for her, not so good for the rest of us.
    
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    January 28, 2023 1:14pm
    - sirknz
      
      She walks on them…
      
      The water or the poor?
      
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      January 28, 2023 4:13pm
Chris Nisbet

I’ve read it a couple of times now that Damien O’Connor will ensure that the emissions level on farmers will be as low as possible.
The lowest possible levy is zero, so farmers will be rapt if that’s what happens.
I think O’Connor doesn’t actually mean what he says.
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January 28, 2023 10:29am
Diogenes

I’m pondering the parade of politicians to the annual Ratana festival. This has been going on for yonks, and so I suppose it has some semblance of tradition now. And, of course, tradition makes it all okay. And, of course, representatives of all political hues make sure they’re in at the fest.
But I’m also thinking of the time that Don Brash was excoriated for spending some time chatting to the Brethren.
Hmmm. Ratana okay; Brethren not okay. (Don, perhaps you should have invited the other parties to be in on the discussion too.) Actually, why is Ratana okay when government doesn’t front up en masse to any other religious gathering?
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January 28, 2023 10:43am
- Nickc2
  
  Actually, why is Ratana okay when government doesn’t front up en masse to any other religious gathering?
  Vote buying without Muslim Attire eh?
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:12am
- PeeJay
  
  I’ve personally never understood why National or ACT ever give a stuff about attending Ratana or Waitangi.
  
  They are dealing with a hostile audience that don’t want them there, borderline hate them and are never, ever going to listen to them or ever consider voting for them. Most importantly the attendees are mostly out-of-touch elites, middle class luvvies or rent-a-mob protesters with little in common with most Kiwi’s. Why bother going?
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:33am
  - NothingLeft
    
    There are TV cameras there, politicians require the oxygen of publicity
    
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    January 28, 2023 12:05pm
    - PeeJay
      
      I see your point but I personally think that if either ACT or National had the balls to refuse to engage with this crap, they actually get more publicity not less, and would probably gain a few more votes from shy conservative types that are over this whole post-colonial-guilt circus.
      
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      January 28, 2023 12:49pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Ratana people seem a little more receptive or at least are better mannered than the crowd at Waitangi. But, yes, you don’t see the politicos turning up in a public capacity to Midnight Mass.
    
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    January 28, 2023 1:18pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Don’t think Seymour was there, diplomacy is for the right, racism is for the left
    
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    January 28, 2023 8:33pm
- I remember when
  
  They have better bands.
  At least there is something to listen to while you are there.
  
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  January 28, 2023 12:13pm
TT500

Advice to Aucklanders regarding the flooding
from Chippy.
Be Kind.
Mothers little helper.
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January 28, 2023 10:48am
- fernglas
  
  Isn’t he a patronising [Mod – deleted] As if people need to be told by politicians that they need to look out for each other in times of crisis. They always do, no credit to the politicians for that.
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:03am
- Gravelroad
  
  “Mother’s little helper”?
  In olden times that referred to drinking more gin.
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:48am
  - Swifty
    
    Gravelroad, I thought that, the grog, was ‘what killed Aunty’.
    
    ‘Mother’s little helper’ was tranquillisers e.g. Valium etc
    
    But maybe we had it wrong.
    
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    January 28, 2023 12:04pm
    - Tony Stuart
      
      In my youth, gin was known as “Mother’s ruin”.
      
      As for Mother’s Little Helper, the Rolling Stones wrote a song about it:
      
      Mother’s Little Helper
      /
      Lyrics
      What a drag it is getting old
      “Kids are different today, ” I hear every mother say
      Mother needs something today to calm her down
      And though she’s not really ill, there’s a little yellow pill
      She goes running for the shelter of her mother’s little helper
      And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day
      “Things are different today, ” I hear every mother say
      Cooking fresh food for her husband’s just a drag
      So she buys an instant cake, and she burns a frozen steak
      And goes running for the shelter of her mother’s little helper
      And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day
      Doctor, please, some more of these
      Outside the door, she took four more
      What a drag it is getting old
      
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      January 28, 2023 12:43pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Advice to Hipkins, keep ya nose out of our lives snd fix ya mess
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:34pm
krazykiwi

Quote re the flooding from friend who works at Auckland zoo: “The crocodiles are fine. Well, those that we can find” 🙂
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January 28, 2023 10:54am
- blue collar
  
  Saw a couple on a wowser this morning , he was ordering a soy latte in the naki 🐊
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:27am
DeepBlue

Thank goodness this flood didn’t happen while Jacinda was looking to fill her tank.
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January 28, 2023 11:18am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I hope she went home to Auckland and was hammered like a normal pleb
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:36pm
Warren

Claire Trevett has obviously nailed her colours to Labour with a statement like this.
Can Hipkins win back a angry Auckland?
The only question Hipkins should ask in his reset is will this win us the Election.
Many in the media have taken the choice to solely get behind the Labour Party new Leader Chris Hipkins to voice their support to him and the Labour Party and starve the National Leader of air in the early race for the vote to become the Government at the Election later in the year.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/claire-trevett-chris-hipkins-starts-to-wrestle-labours-problems-can-he-win-back-an-angry-auckland/Z5U2HUXTBVGPZIABWAOCEVH7SA/
As this is under the paywall so you I will warn you in advance, but in my view the media are giving Hipkins a advantage and starving the National Party Leader of getting the same equal amount of stories in the media.
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January 28, 2023 11:21am
- Ghost
  
  Luxon has been getting a lot of coverage. Past few days he has been talking up supporting farmers, Māori seats, Māori health.
  
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  January 28, 2023 11:24am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yes, spent Friday in Gore and Invercargill, two large cross, and much appreciated
    
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    January 28, 2023 8:39pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Behind the paywall, where plenty of voters won’t see it.
  
  A bit of an own goal there, Claire
  
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  January 28, 2023 1:23pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Haha, Jessica not so much was asked mid week about how Hipkins was seen in the public when out and about, surprisingly she said not do good, seen as a bit boring
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:38pm
  - Nickc2
    
    The Media Party doesn’t give up – based bastards!
    Did anyone else notice the Snow Job they tried to pull on Akld Mayor Wayne Brown in the News at Six programme tonight whereby they intimated Brown was too late in declaring a State of Emergency with regards to the flooding and swing the interview in favour of Chipkins?
    Luckily, Brown had his Civil Defence advisor at the fiasco and when Brown asked him if he had timely advice, the adviser stated that as soon as he had advised the Mayor, a State of Emergency was declared.
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:00pm
Ghost

Hmm, what are the WHO up to now. Best advice I’ve seen on how to survive a nuclear blast came from a Naturopath. If you see a nuclear bomb blast run towards it, you really don’t want to survive it, lol

The World Health Organization (WHO) today updated its list of medicines that should be stockpiled for radiological and nuclear emergencies, along with policy advice for their appropriate management. These stockpiles include medicines that either prevent or reduce exposure to radiation, or treat injuries once exposure has occurred.

https://www.who.int/news/item/27-01-2023-who-updates-critical-medicines-list-for-radiation-and-nuclear-emergencies
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January 28, 2023 11:30am
Swifty

I wrote about the high price of lemons the other day.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/131079449/lemon-supplies-in-supermarkets-have-been-squeezed-over-summer
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January 28, 2023 11:59am
- Inandout
  
  Swifty, our lemon tree is loaded but can’t give them away so the sheep over the back gobble them.
  
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  January 28, 2023 12:28pm
  - Taieri
    
    the sheep over the back gobble them
    ———–
    
    No need for the mint sauce with the roast then?
    
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    January 28, 2023 12:49pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Not do long ago they said the poor would not be able to afford chips, well, all spuds washed away in pukekoe
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:40pm
I remember when

Dr John Campbell latest.
The BMJ: Regulator funding:
“Industry money saturates the globe’s leading regulators.
Proportion of Budget derived from industry.
(Followed by Proportion of Covid-19 vaccine Committee that declared financial COI’s)
Australia 96%. 50%.
Europe 89%. 3%.
UK 86%. 32%.
Japan 85%. 75%.
USA 65%. <10%.
Canada 50.5%. 0%. "

As they say – 'There's nothing like neutrality."
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January 28, 2023 12:06pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/the-perfect-storm-full-interview-with-sean-plunket-on-the-platform-plus-free-speech-union-taking-sport-northland-to-court/

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Sean-Plunket-interview-blog.pdf
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January 28, 2023 12:21pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

How much interference will Chippie get from H1?
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January 28, 2023 12:31pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Who cares, the more push back he f gets the better
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:41pm
Gravelroad

Does anyone think that this flood in Auckland (awful as it is) could provide a handy opportunity for Mr Hipkins to display Ardern-style heroics and wonderfulness of leadership?
Will he be touring round suburbs in gum boots, hi-viz jacket, looking at damage, hugging folk, patting dogs and offering financial help?
Come election time, the media will be praising his “empathy and kindness during a time of crisis” just like Jacinda-our-Saviour.
Or am I being unduly cynical?
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January 28, 2023 12:59pm
- Ghost
  
  Hipkins is travelling to Auckland I think he said Monday. I’d expect him to do exactly what all pm’s before him have done.
  
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  January 28, 2023 1:00pm
  - Ghost
    
    Scrub that, he has arrived there now
    
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    January 28, 2023 1:23pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Arrived here now for the Elton John Concert?
      Wonder if the cheeky prick could be muscling in for a stage appearance to announce something?
      
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      January 28, 2023 3:03pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    Yes, but not all have been elevated to sainthood for it.
    
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    January 28, 2023 1:40pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Visit Kindies?
    
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    January 28, 2023 2:20pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  I do believe from viewing a couple of MSM sources photo oops ( damn – I mean site visits ) are planned during his 3 hr visit. Did see a photo taken in the “bunker” earlier with his NCDEM jacket on ………
  
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  January 28, 2023 3:00pm
Maggie Pie

Thort this worth sharing with the group.

Just been forwarded the full Paul Pelosi bodycam footage……

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1619020098894979072

(WARNING: contains images of naked-male-butts)
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January 28, 2023 1:32pm
- Ghost
  
  Oh the poor officer, hope he decontaminated his hands😳
  
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  January 28, 2023 1:37pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    The whole thing is all a bit weird don’t you think?
    
    Just got back from NW and re-watched the vid again.
    Bet if Nancy had been home at the time she would of have at least held Paul’s drink while he got hammered by the homo. LOL!!
    
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    January 28, 2023 3:15pm
    - MCōs
      
      Who says who is ‘homo’?
      When the police opened the door the offender is holding Pelosi and has a hammer that he hits him with before the police have a chance to grab him.
      It transpires the guy is a crazy MAGA type who wanted to kill Nancy Pelosi.
      He went around to their house, busted in and in her absence attacked him instead.
      He managed to ring 999.
      Pretty straightforward really.
      Typically a bunch of hard core republicans made a meal out of the story for political gain.
      https://twitter.com/adamkinzinger/status/1619118780805976064?s=61&t=CThq8_J4894M40ReyyrU-w
      
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      January 28, 2023 8:52pm
Ghost

Ok this Pfizer guy that project Veritas got the other day is making me laugh in the follow up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5n7RRKgDog
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January 28, 2023 2:06pm
kevn

@Maggie… You will have noted hipkins very fake (everything is just fine) media smile?
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January 28, 2023 2:07pm
alex Masterley

I was out an about in last nights deluge.
A pizza run around the back of no tree hill to feed people at a staff function, and then the trip home via the office as we had a bit of a flood due to road run-off making its way into our office building.
Lakes in places i expected to see ponding, Ponding in places i didnt expect to see ponding – Manukau Road, the upper reaches of Greenlane west, run off pouring out of walls driveways and cross streets. Eden park no2 underwater, The local rugby club ground the same. Cars abandoned and underwater.
My car managed to keep on going when others didnt, although in a couple places there was some sideways action in cross currents.
Spent the morning clearing out the water from the office and going back tomorrow to repeat the process. even once the bulk of the water is removed it will be a bastard to dry the place completely. and we are only a small office.
Thousands of others in the same boat. not a good start to the weekend.
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January 28, 2023 2:19pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  My stepson in Greenlane East spent last evening trying to divert the water destroying the back fence and flooding the ground floor units on its way down to the road. Going to make insurance more expensive.
  
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  January 28, 2023 3:09pm
I remember when

Auckland flooding.
While the systems are coping there is no problem.
Once they reach their maximum capacity all extra water becomes excess.
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January 28, 2023 2:30pm
Alan Wilkinson

A small irony – best sellers in Russell today were sunhats and sunnies – to the Aucklanders who forgot theirs while escaping the deluge.
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January 28, 2023 3:05pm
Swifty

The facts don’t lie.

Under this Labour/Green government homelessness has exploded, the priority housing waiting lists have quadrupled, rents and house prices have skyrocketed – house prices 50% in just five years.

But look, what’s this?

Twyford and Marama Davidson, ably championed by Martin Bradbury, slam National in 2016 over housing issues and how they’d be far more capable in solving these issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap7pePsuAxI

I note that Twyford tells Bradbury all the things that he’d do to fix housing – none of which he did subsequently as Minister.

Snigger.

I note too Twyford calling for Paula Bennett’s sacking for the leaking of personal details – but strangely I didn’t hear him calling for the sacking of our current PM, Hipkins, when he did the very same thing!
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January 28, 2023 3:12pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/131089411/economic-impact-of-auckland-floods-will-be-many-millions-business-leaders-say

“ “Business New Zealand chief executive Kirk Hope said there would undoubtedly be millions of dollars worth of damage”.
The damage will certainly be in the millions.”
Millions? Try Billions!

“ “Economist Shamubeel Eaqub said the immediate impact of the floods was through the loss of property, life and livelihoods.
“Much of this will be insured,” he said.
But those who are uninsured, may face severe consequences. This mainly affected poorer households, who were less likely to be insured than the rich.
Why “rich”? Why not “sensible”, or “practical” ?

I do feel for people who never insured their houses or contents.
The cost to them and the country is enormous, and perhaps some sort of compulsory insurance cover built into rents and mortgages is required. Maybe there is already, I am a bit out of touch.
Like there used to be compulsory 3rd-party insurance for motor vehicles.
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January 28, 2023 3:17pm
- Ghost
  
  Why insure yourself when with the Christchurch earthquake those who didn’t have insurance still got a pay out….
  
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  January 28, 2023 3:28pm
  - greybeard
    
    Because I subscribe to the idea that people should take responsibility for themselves and not rely on someone else coming to their rescue all the time.
    You do not buy a house ( or rent a house ) and fill it with stuff without considering that something bad could happen.
    Everyone has heard about insurance.
    Basic cover is not expensive.
    It is time for everyone in this country to front up to their responsibilities and stop sucking on the welfare tit.
    
    In a 1959 speech, party leader and Prime Minister Keith Holyoake encapsulated the conservative and liberal principles of the National Party:
    
    “We believe in the maximum degree of personal freedom and the maximum degree of individual choice for our people. We believe in the least interference necessary with individual rights, and the least possible degree of state interference. ”
    He perhaps should have added ” and the least possible dependence on the state” to that last sentence.
    
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    January 28, 2023 4:40pm
    - Ghost
      
      That’s so last century, now people just go on give a little and ask for others to pay for what they lost in a fire or burglary.
      
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      January 28, 2023 4:46pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The World has gone stupid, idiots are getting worse. I don’t know why.
https://dailyallegiant.com/a-man-has-sued-lowes-after-his-trip-to-the-store-ended-up-in-a-sickening-amputation-3/
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January 28, 2023 3:29pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Because they are having children? Also extreme risk aversion has halted natural selection and we are keeping idiots alive?
  
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  January 28, 2023 5:09pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yep, because they have children. Quote from an employer I had at the same company in the 80s.
    “Fuckwits breed fuckwits, and the whole World is going to be taken over by fuckwits”
    How far have we come since the 80s, and how long before Russel was right?
    
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    January 28, 2023 7:21pm
Swifty

Five lefties including Clare Curran mount a case why great buckets of money should be taken from the pockets of New Zealand families to fund left-dominated public broadcasting entities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1cdR3Q-Z0

While failing to mention that the vast majority of New Zealand families don’t watch nor listen to those public broadcasters.

No single mention of whether vastly funded public broadcasters actually crowd out of the market private broadcasters who would offer alternatives.

No single mention that NZ public broadcasters resoundingly support Labour/Green governments – and that it shows.

You think about this for too long and you start to feel nauseous.
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January 28, 2023 3:30pm
- Swifty
  
  My god.
  
  Clare Curran, ably-supported by assorted screaming howler monkeys, called for contestable public interest journalism funding ‘to ensure a better informed public, hearing a multitude of opinions and views’ but then when in office put in a whole bunch of fishhooks that you had to support Labour Party policies in order to get the funding!!!
  
  This is openly corrupt – using public money for personal or political gain.
  
  Let’s have a debate about that Labour! Let’s hear a multitude of views about your corrupt practices!
  
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  January 28, 2023 3:46pm
BeaB

Why is the prime minster addressing the nation giving us the kind of info a low-level civil defence functionary could deliver? He sounds ridiculous.
He sounds like a cross between a weather forecaster, a minor bureaucrat and a feeble cheerleader. Stating the obvious, talking to us like children (the Labour way) and burbling on about very little.
Much prefer crusty old Wayne Brown who at least sounds like a human being instead of a wind-up doll.
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January 28, 2023 3:45pm
- Hugh Jarse
  
  Because he learnt at the knee of his predecessor, that’s what she did to gain maximum personal exposure.
  
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  January 28, 2023 4:03pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Wonder why the PM just sorta left Minister McNulty standing in the background at the press conference this afternoon. Seems that this morning the Minister was a touch miffed that those “on the ground” didn’t do Facebook posts, etc that he “specifically” wanted!
  “McAnulty told RNZ he was concerned about the lack of communication.
  “It’s important that people get the information they need.”
  “McAnulty said he had specifically asked for the social media channels and websites to have half-hour updates.
  Even if there was nothing to update, it would be reassuring for affected people to look at the channels and know that the situation was not deteriorating, he said.” ”
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483251/auckland-thunderstorm-civil-defence-texts-not-sent
  
  Transpires that “those on the ground” had a greater interest:
  “Emergency Management controller Andrew Clark said the event was beyond anything we’ve ever seen.
  Priority was rescuing people and getting shelter for people who were displaced.
  “We had a crisis within a crisis.”
  A number of evacuation centres were not safe, so they had to find new ones, Clark said.
  “We don’t make any apologies for focusing on those two things.” ”
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/300794223/live-pm-speaks-as-third-person-confirmed-dead-in-auckland-floods
  
  Good to know the EM controller knows what’s important even if the Minister doesn’t!
  
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  January 28, 2023 5:14pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Because as we know from painful previous experience, this government focuses on appearance, not substance.
    
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    January 28, 2023 6:24pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

That man has a hole.
Megyn Kelly nutting off.
https://leadpatriot.com/watch-megyn-kelly-go-off-after-male-argues-to-be-in-girls-locker-room-at-ymca/21297/
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January 28, 2023 3:47pm
CAKE FACE1

In an act that could be best described as sabotage, Cindy vandalised Auckland maliciously during the Covid hoax. It was cruel.

I suspect that this was part of the socialist grand plan to turn New Zealand into the the Socialist Republic of Aotearoa.

Obviously, the centrepiece of such a socialist State needs to be a dreary hellhole called the “socialist model city”. Auckland, a city in crisis, seems to have been chosen by Cindy and friends for special treatment – although admittedly every city in NZ is a mess.

Sadly, these floods come on top of the Covid vandalism. There was always going to be short and long term consequences from hysterically destroying society and the economy during the Covid hoax.

I underestimated how much damage Cindy and her collaborators could do to NZ in a few short years. Our economy and society have been burnt to the ground. It is sad to see.

I fear for New Zealand’s future. The Team of $55 million are furiously trying to get these vandals re-elected. Even if they fail, National / ACT will face a desolate country, if and when they win power.

The Ginger Hipster failed to fix anything when the going was good. The storm clouds will continue, at least in a metaphorical sense, over our country for years to come…

Things will get worse before they get better…
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January 28, 2023 3:50pm
- kevn
  
  @Cake… I often wonder how much NZ better off NZ would have been, if labour had stayed in bed and done nothing over the last 5 years. The BILLIONS spent/wasted is unbelievable.
  No one seems to be able point to even one successful planned and executed policy.
  I have asked here and generally asked around. No responses.
  
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  January 28, 2023 4:23pm
  - CAKE FACE1
    
    Agreed.
    
    Alas, the socialists are ideological fanatics, who believe that they know better, irrespective of the evidence that you show them.
    
    National / ACT have to fight the most left-wing and hostile media in the Western world.
    
    It is not easy…
    
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    January 28, 2023 4:37pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Just one: the month-long secretly planned and executed policy to replace Jacinda with Chris
    
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    January 28, 2023 6:51pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “Cindy vandalised Auckland maliciously”
  Because she thinks she owns us!
  
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  January 28, 2023 7:16pm
Swifty

Twyford on record saying that in respect to new KiwiBuild housing New Zealanders can expect ‘hundreds in the first year, thousands in the second year and from the end of the third year 10,000 new, affordable houses per year’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvT25uYg8fI

Was Twyford and Labour lying to New Zealanders, or was he/they just mind-blowingly incompetent?
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January 28, 2023 3:55pm
- Swifty
  
  Willie Jackson’s Waatea News gets close to $1,000,000 of public money through the public interest journalism funding to push their far-left pro-Labour and pro-Maori Party policies:
  
  https://www.nzonair.govt.nz/news/significant-funding-injection-to-boost-māori-journalism/
  
  The very same Willie Jackson who is now a Minister in this Labour Government! The very same Willie Jackson who is now Minister of Broadcasting!
  
  Meanwhile, voices from the other side, who might offer some alternative views won’t qualify for a cent of funding because they will be ineligible as they oppose Labour Party policies!
  
  This is Zimbabwe stuff! Why has no-one been arrested?
  
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  January 28, 2023 4:02pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Rhetorical question obviously. 🙄😂
  
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  January 28, 2023 4:22pm
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    Obviously.
    
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    January 28, 2023 4:26pm
- Swifty
  
  And, please note, that in all these Waatea News videos I’ve posted today and which feature Green and Labour politicians and assorted lefty commentators and special interests, including the presenter(!), not a single one has anyone from the other side.
  
  Not a single one features either a Nat or ACT politician.
  
  Not a single one features someone pointing out the unfeasibility of Labour’s proposals – or the economic incoherence of them.
  
  All of them are completely stacked with pro-left, pro-Labour, pro-Green special interests.
  
  Alternative views get no single look in. Not one.
  
  No fairness. No balance. No impartiality.
  
  But it’s New Zealand families FORCED to pay for it all.
  
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  January 28, 2023 4:25pm
New Zealander

I’ve just watched the press conference with Chris Hipkins and Wayne Brown.

The media basically turned the entire conference into a witch hunt over why Wayne Brown didn’t start engaging on social media while he was trying to co-ordinate his council and emergency services to save lives during an unprecedented natural disaster in this country’s largest city.

These people are completely mental.
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January 28, 2023 4:04pm
- Ghost
  
  That’s what I thought. They ignored the experts saying we got the declaration when we wanted and trying to take Brown down, question is this set up just from the media or the govt as well
  
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  January 28, 2023 4:24pm
  - kevn
    
    @Ghost… Current Govt/media = same thing. They drive each other.
    
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    January 28, 2023 5:13pm
  - Colville
    
    Ha. Just watched it too.
    
    My immediate thought was ” is there a man in the Labour Party taller than 5 foot 4 inches?”
    
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    January 28, 2023 9:37pm
    - Ghost
      
      It felt like mayor brown had taken his young son chippie to work.
      
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      January 28, 2023 10:19pm
- Swifty
  
  Simon Wilson’s column today in the Herald – predictably an attack on Brown.
  
  It’s co-ordinated.
  
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  January 28, 2023 4:34pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Corrupt. They know exactly what they are doing and why.
  
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  January 28, 2023 5:13pm
NothingLeft

How many people are going to die as a result of rioting due to video of (black) cops beating (black) Tyre Nichols to death? How many 100’s of millions in damages?

What is the right way to deal with it to minimize harm? Personally I think put draconian response measures in place now, smash the shit out of any rioters, and allow highly policed daytime protests this weekend.
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January 28, 2023 5:08pm
- Inandout
  
  NL. wouldn’t it be humourous if Antifa whites rioted?
  
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  January 28, 2023 5:55pm
- Ghost
  
  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/georgia-governor-declares-state-emergency-over-atlanta-protests-mobilizes-1000-national
  
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  January 28, 2023 6:23pm
- kowtow
  
  tv3 repeater from USA claiming it “maybe hard for them to remain peaceful”
  
  Really , where does the lack of self control come from.
  As to te media , they say it as if to justify the rioting that’s about to occur but when did they ever give the peaceful protesters at parliament the same reasoning ?
  
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  January 28, 2023 7:25pm
CAKE FACE1

This is one of CAKE’s sporting heroes – Anne Woods (UK), who won the female gurning world championship an astonishing 27 times:

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/gurning-world-championships-female-most-wins-

Of course, in some ways this is like watching athletes from the past, and realising what was head and shoulders the elite performers back in the day, are no longer top of the tree today. Better diets, training methodologies and so forth mean that modern athletes are often faster, stronger and better than their equivalents from times gone by.

So it is with the sport of gurning. In my opinion, as great as Anne Woods was in her time, for me, she has been overshadowed by Aotearoa’s own great gurner.

Now that Cindy has resigned, I think that it is only right that we discuss her legacy. In one respect, Cindy is amongst the very best in the world.

When I asked women over the past five years why they joined the Cindy cult, they explained that they did this because Cindy was so empathetic. I replied to them with a long list of examples of Cindy’s cruelty, thinking that this would show them that their claim was false. They eventually explained that in judging the empathy of Cindy, actual actions were completely unimportant. After the volcano killed those people, or after the terrorist attack, Cindy showed her empathy, by her expressions. Cindy’s face was so sad. They knew that she was really sad, because of the extreme face pulling Cindy performed.

This had me confused. Sure, Cindy dressed in the hajib, and slo-mo hugged people, and came up with some catchy phrases. Did this tragedy theatre really amount to empathy?

I closely watched some of Cindy’s performances. Sure enough, she was amazing. Her forehead was simply incredible. Cindy frowned, with a spectacle that reminded me of the famous waves at that Hawaiian surfing beach. Skyscraper sized waves rolled across over her forehead, threatening to consume her, in quite remarkable fashion. Cindy’s lips have a life of their own. Most people’s lips are connected, but Jacinda seems to be able to move different sections of her lips independently, both vertically and horizontally, in a surreal but interesting dance. She can angle her lips sharply down, producing the saddest face I’ve ever seen.

Cindy’s head also rocks, one way, then the other. Watching her, sometimes I had to grab the armrests for support. My head starts to tip the same way as Cindy, so I can keep my equilibrium. Then Cindy’s head moves again – ducking and diving, bobbing and weaving, like a young Joe Frazier. The effect is like being in a small boat, in choppy water. Most of all, Cindy Ardern has quite extraordinary control and flexibility of her rubbery face, which she can contort into almost any shape.

Cindy has now resigned, and the Ginger Hipster is now in charge of the tragedy theatre. He has huge shoes to fill.

So far, I’m afraid, he’s not doing so well. His expressions are a bit vanilla. His gurning is not even close to Cindy’s exceptional standard. Cindy is from Venus, Hippy is from Upper Hutt. It’s not going well for him.

Perhaps he needs to compensate by using some catchphrases. What about copying “They are us”. Maybe adapt the phrase slightly, after vandalising Auckland during the Rona. “They are us, except when they might be carrying the plague, and then they are locked away for three months”. Okay, its not as catchy as Cindy’s original version…

Look, I don’t want to be over critical of Hippy, but there’s also the clothes he wears. Cindy always came with the correct attire to a tragedy. In this case, she might come in a scuba outfit, or an emergency services outfit, or some such thing. Cindy’s wardrobe was flexible, like her face. Hippy was wearing a business suit…

Perhaps Labour should beg Cindy to come back? All is now forgiven?
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January 28, 2023 5:49pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You need to submit these literary gems earlier in the day to ensure they are read by a large audience.
  
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  January 28, 2023 7:14pm
Ghost

The Interislander ferry has reportedly lost power on the Cook Strait and an emergency has been declared according to a Stuff reporter on board the ferry.

The ferry lost power about 5pm and staff were handing out lifejackets.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/131090968/passenger-says-emergency-declared-onboard-interislander-after-ferry-loses-power-in-cook-strait
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January 28, 2023 5:54pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/131090114/aucklands-state-of-emergency-was-too-slow-says-nationals-christopher-luxon
Wayne Brown’s response was not at fault.
Every local body has an Emergency Manager, and they are the ones who decide the level of response, the degree of emergency and the times of response.
Give the guy a break, lefties, after all you are the overwhelming numbers of employees in local bodies.
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January 28, 2023 6:33pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Luxon blames climate change rather than inadequate infrastructure. Which does he intend to fix?
  
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  January 28, 2023 6:44pm
  - kowtow
    
    If that’s what Luxon thinks then he’s an idiot .
    
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    January 28, 2023 7:26pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Never heard him say that at all, climate has changed, but it’s not man made
    
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    January 28, 2023 8:50pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

29 degrees in Westport today, hottest day eva!
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January 28, 2023 6:34pm
Maggie Pie

Chippie has just announced $100k for the Auckland-Mayoral-Relief-Fund!

WTF??

I wouldn’t even get out of bed for that!!
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January 28, 2023 6:45pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  That is typical lab, even worse than us, they will add a mill on Monday as outrage kicks in
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:51pm
- fernglas
  
  That’s enough to repair one house. What about all the others?
  
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  January 28, 2023 8:57pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Who can remember the media hounds subjecting Jacinda Ardern to such a public grilling?

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/01/28/wayne-brown-pulled-away-from-testy-auckland-flood-conference/
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January 28, 2023 6:58pm
- Swifty
  
  Efeso Collins would have gotten nothing but kid gloves.
  
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  January 28, 2023 7:04pm
- Swifty
  
  The Auckland Council has existed for 12 years – with a Labour Mayor for the entire time.
  
  Any deficiencies in Council performance and Wayne Brown should do what Labour have done – scream and bray “12 Years of Neglect!!!!”
  
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  January 28, 2023 7:32pm
  - Swifty
    
    *well it’s bloody worked for Labour for the last five years.
    
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    January 28, 2023 7:36pm
- Muttonbird
  
  Jacinda Ardern wasn’t a useless, walking skeleton.
  
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  January 28, 2023 7:41pm
  - Swifty
    
    He hasn’t despoiled the meeting table in the Ngati Whatua Room though, or taken freebies from Sky City to conduct his sordid sexual affairs away from his wife and kids.
    
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fP0xyYfMQ0k
    
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    January 28, 2023 8:08pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Not a skeleon but gaunt and certainly useless.
    
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    January 28, 2023 8:10pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No spine.
    
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    January 28, 2023 8:12pm
Scooter

“Stop climate from changing” a Victoria Uni scientist says in Newstalk ZB. Hmm how prey tell does little old NZ do that? This was a weather event, probably made worse by infrastructure issues, etc.

Victoria University climate scientist Professor James Renwick said.
“But we’re going to see more of these events, unless we can get on top of emissions and stop the climate from changing.

I saw this quote, sums it up…

“Though they are closely related, weather and climate aren’t the same thing. Climate is what you expect. Weather is what actually happens.”
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/weather-vs-climate#:~:text=Whereas%20weather%20refers%20to%20short,regions%20can%20have%20different%20climates.
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January 28, 2023 8:32pm
fernglas

It is impossible to find any hard facts about the extent of the damage to Auckland; where it is, how it affects eg getting to hospital or work, but there seem to be plenty of human interest stories and political hit-jobs. Have journalists lost the ability to report facts?
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January 28, 2023 8:56pm
MCōs

Mr Wayne Brown is the mayor of Auckland.
He has his own style of leadership in a crises which involves having no communication with the public at large and on the ground.
Some councilors and local MPs have been out there organizing and helping people in strife.
It wasn’t until later on last night that the Mayor surfaced and declared a state of emergency.
Even Chris Luxon said the state of emergency was much too late and he backs an inquiry to the response.
If a left winger had acted in this manner they would have been roasted alive on this forum.
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January 28, 2023 9:25pm
- than
  
  Wayne Brown had the Civil Defence advisor at the fiasco and when Brown asked him if he had timely advice, the adviser stated that as soon as he had advised the Mayor, a State of Emergency was declared.
  
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  January 28, 2023 9:56pm
- Ghost
  
  So the question is Mcos, would you ignore offical advice and call a state of emergency early, or would you follow offical advice and call it when those on the ground doing the work ask for it to be called?
  
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  January 28, 2023 10:21pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  What do you bet that the bureaucrats deciding on making the call are not Labour voters?
  
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