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krazykiwi

More evidence that the pharmaceutical industry funded CDC is unfit for purpose: The CDC has quietly added Covid shots to the pediatric immunization schedule.

The CDC has officially taken the recommendation of its vaccine panel and added a triple dose of the COVID shot to its list of recommended vaccinations for American kids, toddlers, and babies – a list used by many public school systems to determine which shots a child must have in order to start school.

Per the updated guidelines, healthy kids 6 months old and up should receive a two doses of either the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech monovalent COVID-19 vaccine followed by a bivalent vaccine or booster.

This amounts to deleterious vaccine mandates for kids who can’t push back by protesting or by mounting legal challenges.

Pfizer et al will profit. Kids will die. No one will be held accountable.
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February 12, 2023 8:00am
- RightNow
  
  Depopulation is progressing according to plan. You must appreciate the best thing for the planet is less humans.
  
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  February 12, 2023 8:31am
  - Mike
    
    Where can I read this plan?
    
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    February 12, 2023 9:26am
    - Matt Long
      
      It’s the enhanced Darwinian Awards, those who are stupid enough to believe the governments will have their genes removed from the pool.
      
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      February 12, 2023 10:24am
    - RightNow
      
      If you don’t know who the mark is, it’s you
      
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      February 12, 2023 10:40am
      - Mike
        
        Wake up, sheeple!
        I guess the plan must be so secret that only you woke people have gotten wise to it.
        
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        February 12, 2023 10:57am
      - RightNow
        
        I’ve come to embrace depopulation as a good thing, overpopulation is the root cause of many problems.
        If I was in a group of the most powerful people in the world trying to figure out solutions on a planetary scale I’d absolutely be on board.
        I’m not a member of such a group, but having reflected on this for a while I actually think it’s for the overall good to shrink the population within the next 2 or 3 generations.
        Anyway it’s just my opinion and I respect your right to hold your own opinion.
        
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        February 12, 2023 11:20am
    - emmess
      
      You used to be able to read it on the Georgia Guidestones.
      
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      February 12, 2023 12:34pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      Try “Limits to Growth” a tasty Malthusian wet-dream advanced by The Club of Rome in 1972. Follow up with a main course of eugenics and eugenicists who are very active today. You’re welcome.
      
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      February 12, 2023 12:43pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Pretty sure Mike has his fingers in his ears and is squeezing his eyes shut real tight on that one KK.
        
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        February 12, 2023 2:02pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Ask your mate Bill Gates.
      
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      February 12, 2023 2:07pm
    - Mickey
      
      Hey ‘Mikey’, watch this video.
      
      https://youtu.be/DtkfWaCzsas
      
      PS: I am interested in your response if that was Trump in the video!
      
      You’re welcome!
      
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      February 13, 2023 11:10am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    RightNow – looking at the downticks, it’s nice to know that four people don’t like the idea of depopulation……lol
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:06am
    - RightNow
      
      Sorry Clan, I’m onboard with depopulation. Obviously not for me and my loved ones, but certainly for anyone who called me an anti-vaxer, they can totally get boosted.
      
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      February 12, 2023 11:35am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        RightNow – the Darwinian process will do it’s thing.
        
        I’ve been reading many reports that we are actually peaking naturally and that “depopulation” was happening anyway as a natural process? Who would know!
        
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        February 12, 2023 11:51am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @Clan,
        Growing crops for biofuel, and no crops left for food?
        I am sure that’s what the flaky Greens want.
        
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        February 12, 2023 2:11pm
      - Mickey
        
        The world is not running out of humans!
        
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        February 13, 2023 11:37am
  - krazykiwi
    
    “You must appreciate the best thing for the planet is less humans”
    
    Nope. Humans are the planet’s greatest resource. We need more, not fewer.
    
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    February 12, 2023 12:35pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      KK – but can we have less “greenies”? They are utterly delusional ideologues.
      
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      February 12, 2023 5:15pm
      - Mickey
        
        No!, I LOVE greenies, next to my steak and mashed potatoes!
        
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        February 13, 2023 11:39am
- mawm
  
  Essentially those who have educated themselves will no longer get their kids immunised.
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:36am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Doesn’t fizzer effectiveness wane pretty quickly (hence the need for never ending boosters at short intervals)?
    
    If that is so, how the hell does it “protect” children who are incredibly unlikely to be harmed by this virus in the first place???
    
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    February 12, 2023 2:04pm
    - Mickey
      
      A person cured is a customer lost – Big Pharma
      
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      February 13, 2023 11:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Worked for me as a kid. We lived in the sticks so no Doctor just down the road to run to. I had mumps, chickenpox, English measles, German measles and whatever else. All with no vaccine. I like it that way, I have my own natural antibodies.
    I did of course had vaccines for polio, tetanus etc.
    
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    February 12, 2023 2:18pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Someone or something must be able to stop this. The CDC is using schools to blackmail parents to get the vaccines or no school. The normal run of vaccines yes, by all means, but Covid vaccines and boosters are out.
  Many more children will be home schooled.
  
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  February 12, 2023 10:53am
Mike

Happy Darwin Day!
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February 12, 2023 8:00am
- RightNow
  
  Truly a praiseworthy day, and may you receive an award for your service.
  
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  February 12, 2023 11:29am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Absolutely, hopefully you are all up to date with your boosters Mike.
  
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  February 12, 2023 5:19pm
  - Alex
    
    Ov
    
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    February 12, 2023 6:06pm
- Mickey
  
  [Mod – stop with the personal attacks]
  
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  February 13, 2023 11:43am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Random question: why did Cyclone Hale come before Cyclone Gabrielle?

H coming after G in the alphabet.

Has the rot in the education system got this bad?
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February 12, 2023 8:02am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It depends where the Cyclone develops:
  Cyclone Hale was named by the Fiji Met Service
  
  Cyclone Gabrielle by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323_South_Pacific_cyclone_season#Current_storm_information
  
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  February 12, 2023 8:50am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Fat too prosaic, Maggy. I prefer my answer.
    
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    February 12, 2023 1:42pm
- DeepBlue
  
  All good here.
  The alphabetic system is per the marine area in which each cyclone forms and thus naming rights are awarded.
  Hale was only a depression in Australia waters and didn’t turn into a cyclone until named by Fiji, who were up to H.
  Australia are were onto G when Gabrielle formed.
  So for example Fiji Met Service area has had cyclones Hale, Irene (which we didn’t hear about) and now Gabrielle pass through.
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:11am
Captain Mainwaring

Why has Desley Simpson taken charge of the Cyclone response while Wayne Brown seems to have disappeared?
Probably a rhetorical question.
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February 12, 2023 8:11am
- RockyJ
  
  I think they are using Desley as the spokesperson. The lefties see this as a weakness but it shows Wayne Brown’s strength. He knows she is better with the media. His ego can tolerate him stepping aside. Also he is a one term mayor and it is great experience for Desley who has the capability to be his successor.
  
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  February 12, 2023 8:19am
- Simon
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Brown had been reduced to a gibberish wreck by vicious attack by MSM and the hateful left. It was so bad he started to go on about partnership with local iwi and climate change. Of course Brown received no support from National as Labo appointed a minister of Auckland to help cancel out a democratically elected mayor. What a hatchet job. National were as fucking useless as ever.
  
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  February 12, 2023 8:20am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    I’m starting to think you might not like National very much
    
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    February 12, 2023 9:19am
- Cinematic
  
  Ahhh after Jacinda and Labour’s relentless podium performances, you now confuse talking with working. Wayne is working from what I’ve heard.
  
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  February 12, 2023 8:22am
  - Mike
    
    TVNZ showed him out and about with the clean up crew yesterday, wearing a naval cap.
    
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    February 12, 2023 8:41am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Was he wearing anything else?
      Is the cap being “naval” of significance?
      Would it have been more appropriate if he was wearing a tennis club hat?
      Not sure of the relevance of the cap.
      
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      February 12, 2023 9:34am
      - fightingtemeraire
        
        Cap was Royal NZ Yacht Squadron!!!
        
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        February 12, 2023 9:36am
      - Mike
        
        Sorry, it was an RNZNVR cap, probably in solidarity with some of the military personnel helping out. you know how politicians (probably prompted by their comms advisors) love to dress up.
        
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        February 12, 2023 9:43am
    - Nickc2
      
      I doubt he would wear a Communist Chinese or Russian cap eh?
      FFS Mike, he’s wearing a Yacht Squadron cap!
      If you’re deliberately stirring up crap, you are far more capable than that?
      
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      February 12, 2023 12:34pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I think it’s going to be one of ‘those’ days with Mike.
        Just being an annoying little shit.
        
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        February 12, 2023 12:47pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Cinematic – he’s doing the right thing. Ignoring the idiot media and focusing on the job rather than wasting energy squabbling with a partisan group of bought and paid for hacks.
    No point in his engaging them. No matter what he says or does will be portrayed negatively.
    
    I knew nothing about him prior to his being elected, but from what I have witnessed in a couple of months I am impressed. It’s real politics. Not the fraudulent PR and nauseating spin we’ve been forced to endure for too many years.
    
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    February 12, 2023 9:23am
    - leoj
      
      Yup, if people gave up TV and The Herald, they would have an entirely different view of mayor Brown.
      Our media is a left-wing, communist/socialist haven.
      
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      February 12, 2023 10:28am
    - Alex
      
      McLeod Speccy was good. Glad some media know the real Cindy!
      
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      February 12, 2023 6:09pm
- Nickc2
  
  She has a face for TV. Wayne, not so much. Besides, the MSM is infested with women who very rarely turn on each other. Men in the MSM invariably try to make themselves the story.
  Good thinking Wayne!
  
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  February 12, 2023 8:51am
  - Mike
    
    ‘infested’
    
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    February 12, 2023 9:27am
    - Nickc2
      
      Yea, downtick me. I guess impregnated would have been a better description eh?
      
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      February 12, 2023 11:15am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Give me a cranky old male who gets things done any day!
    
    So sick of posers and/or imbeciles! Be gone with you all!
    
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    February 12, 2023 2:09pm
- Paulus
  
  Desley Simpson is doing the front end of the Auckland part of the Cyclone so it will upset the media.
  She has been around some time and is very well prepared professional – that will upset them too, as Brown is doing what Luxon is doing delegating as any good manager should.
  Not that the media would understand.
  
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  February 12, 2023 10:28am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  To me it means Councillors can do what they are meant to be doing instead of trying to find things to piss Wayne Brown off.
  Get to work you fucking slackers!
  
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  February 12, 2023 11:01am
Tomtoddy

South Auckland at 8:15 am – no wind, occasional light rain. Is it still coming or has it been another “scare them witless” job?
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February 12, 2023 8:22am
- Cinematic
  
  If you’re waiting for the STORM OF THE CENTURY, give up now.
  
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  February 12, 2023 8:25am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    Do you feel kind of stupid right now?
    
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    February 15, 2023 7:13pm
- Wayne Mapp
  
  Well, it is no longer just occasional light rain and no wind in Bayswater. It has been building all morning.
  
  If you care to look at the track of the Cyclone (of course that means going to the dreaded MSM and official sites like Metservice) then you can see that we are very obviously in for a severe weather event. Just how severe is not yet clear. But to put it mildly, it would be foolish to make no preparations.
  
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  February 12, 2023 8:31am
  - alex Masterley
    
    The commercial weather sites such as Predict Wind are saying much the same thing as Metservice etc so it will happen.
    Whether or not it will be as intense as forcast is another matter. I am interested to see.
    
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    February 12, 2023 8:38am
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      BOM show something similar to PW if you follow the MSP forecast but their “track” now quite different. MetService “track” (Issued: 11:59am Sat, 11 Feb) whereas Meteye actual/forecast (Updated 12 Feb 2023, 2:39 AM AEDT).
      One might of thought, given the concern, that MetService could be a bit more diligent in their update schedule perhaps? Guess not seeing the next update will be: (The next bulletin will be issued by 1pm Sun, 12 Feb ).
      
      https://www.metservice.com/warnings/tropical-cyclone-activity
      
      http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/
      
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      February 12, 2023 9:01am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      Predict Wind gets its information from Metservice, which is the only entity to have actual weather stations right through New Zealand. One of them in a Bayswater park.
      
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      February 12, 2023 9:58am
      - Ra Henare
        
        I know its a new fangled thing Wayne
        
        But have you heard about weather satellites and super computers, used for weather predictions.
        
        Local weather stations are really really good at advising the actual weather at Bayswater park.
        
        Rain radar is also another new fangled invention which also plots actual weather.
        
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        February 12, 2023 10:48am
      - Doc Holliday
        
        metvuw.com
        Weather data from US National Weather Service
        Satellite data from Japanese Meteorological Agency
        
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        February 12, 2023 2:00pm
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        Ra,
        
        It may come as a surprise, but yes, I am fully aware of this. And of course I know a lot of weather forecasting is done by computer simulations. However, simulations and satellite readings will not tell you the actual wind gust strength, the actual volume of rain, etc in specific locations.
        Which, as I am sure you are aware, is why there is an extensive network of met stations throughout New Zealand. It is why earlier this morning MetService was able to say there was a gust of 133 kph at Cape Reinga (which must surely have been exceeded by now).
        
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        February 12, 2023 2:38pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Here’s the latest from windy.com
      I find it a very useful app. Gives a good graphical portrayal and it’s normally as accurate or more than most.
      
      https://www.windy.com/?-34.895,174.287,6
      
      We have the tail of the cyclone currently ripping east to west across Northland down to the top of the Coromandel. Winds up north potentially hitting 50kts right now. Auckland not quite as bad. But it will increase as the day goes on, up to 60kts for sustained periods.
      
      The prediction is that the eye will move down the east coast out to sea a fair bit but it will be close.
      Certainly worth being prepared for. These things can change suddenly. Not as much rain yet, possibly late tomorrow.
      
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      February 12, 2023 9:59am
      - Master Mariner
        
        Yep, Follow the Jet streams for direction,
        If using Windy then “slide” the pressure up to 300 Hpa.
        It is going to be close but could quite easily slide to the West of the Cape.
        Current 962 Hpa and not weakening.
        Still a hell of a lot of energy in this.
        Be prepared for Monday Afternoon onwards.
        Constant monitoring will be required.
        Be warned.
        
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        February 12, 2023 10:13am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        MM – thanks for that. My “weather station” is reading 997.
        
        I’ve only recently subscribed to the Premium Windy, where do I change the Hpa? Cheers.
        
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        February 12, 2023 11:48am
      - Master Mariner
        
        Hi Clan. Go too pressure and another drop down
        Menu in orange has a slider.
        Default is surface pressure.
        Slide it up to 300hpa and then you get direction of low.
        Otherwise google jet stream.
        Plenty of interactive live maps.
        997 Hpa. Should be falling rapidly soon.
        
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        February 12, 2023 2:05pm
      - Countrygirl
        
        I find these guys are as accurate as anyone.
        https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/daily-table/2-2186223/New%20Zealand/New%20Zealand
        
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        February 12, 2023 6:43pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      We’re on the Warkworth latitude and getting 30kts gusting up to 40. Predicted to get up this afternoon with gusts up to 60kt. Little rain at this stage so golf is on the cards this afternoon.
      
      The umbrella will be staying at home…….
      
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      February 12, 2023 10:05am
  - Cinematic
    
    In Remuera I can confirm the weather is a bit rainy and a bit windy. Not yet, THE STORM OF THE CENTURY. Let us know when it hits Bayswater Wayne.
    
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    February 12, 2023 8:41am
    - All_on_Red
      
      In Devonport its not raining but it is windy. We can see Bayswater from our window. Looks the same.
      
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      February 12, 2023 9:29am
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      Yes that is because the weather system is still about 500 km north of Auckland. This animation will show you the system in real time headed south. That might make you less cynical.
      
      https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-186.89,-30.00,1419
      
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      February 12, 2023 9:37am
      - Cinematic
        
        Less cynical about what say you? I’m aware of the operation of storm centers and the Gabrielle Low’s location. Tomorrow will be interesting depending on the track, today however is an average stormy Auckland day.
        
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        February 12, 2023 10:14am
    - kevn
      
      @Cine… Storm of ‘this century’ maybe as in the last 22 years.
      
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      February 12, 2023 10:05am
      - Cinematic
        
        Either way it’s absurd hyperbole. Particularly given it was broadcast several days ago.
        
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        February 12, 2023 10:16am
  - leoj
    
    According to Metservice, it is Aotearoa that is being pummelled. No mention of New Zealand.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:33am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Staff will be required to fall into line with woke idiocy of the day, otherwise, no job.
      
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      February 12, 2023 2:16pm
  - Joe Banana
    
    Going to the MSM to track this is not necessary.
    Apps like Windy and Ventusky are far more accurate with Ventusky running live.
    Here in Hillcrest North Shore rain stopped at 9.00, some wind and temperature at 19.5.
    So all in all an ok day.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:34am
    - Nickc2
      
      Birkenhead – same same!
      
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      February 12, 2023 11:08am
  - emmess
    
    No you don’t have to go to the MSM for a decent weather update.
    https://www.youtube.com/@WeatherWatchTV
    Bonus, apart from a quick ‘Kia Ora’ at the start, itis all in a language we can understand.
    
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    February 12, 2023 12:38pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    No it doesn’t: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-187.88,-40.00,1613/
    
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    February 12, 2023 12:40pm
- alex Masterley
  
  I think the cyclone will hit us tomorrow through to Tuesday morning. The fun and games will start later tomorrow.
  Its quiet in the city at the moment as there is a southeasterly which only really shows itself in the outer Hauraki gulf.
  Having said all that the fear & disaster porn being pumped out is astonishing. This has led to supermarkets with product stripped from the shelves. The supply chain is creaking as a consequence
  
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  February 12, 2023 8:36am
  - Cinematic
    
    MetService is forecasting 80mm of rain for Auckland in 2 hours Monday night. If that does occur it’s gonna get messy.
    
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    February 12, 2023 8:47am
- MCōs
  
  Personally I, and I suspect 99% of people hereabouts would be quite happy if it took a sharp left and buggered off somewhere else and didn’t molest NZ to any great degree.
  The other 1% would be outraged, because they were told something else would happen.
  
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  February 12, 2023 8:44am
- crackle
  
  The updated track on Windy this morning has it coming into the gulf and slowing right down.
  Previous it was staying further out, very likely to cause a few problems now especially if we get strong wind.
  
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  February 12, 2023 8:58am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Yup, the eye looks like it’s coming straight down the gulf and through Auckland and the outer islands. That will be weird because the wind will practically stop for a spell.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:15am
    - Master Mariner
      
      The clue is the eye.
      If lucky / unlucky enough you may see the blue sky.
      
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      February 12, 2023 2:18pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        yup, the eye of the storm. Keep the boat on the hard.
        The ocean will not be kind to you.
        
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        February 12, 2023 6:04pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      It will come into the Hauraki Gulf and go east.
      The Coromandel should be watching.
      Then, the scaremongers can go home and have a craft beer shandy.
      Phark, the speaker of the house is on play school TV1. Time for a lay down.
      
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      February 12, 2023 6:02pm
- Widogast Corwin
  
  The now ex tropical cyclone is still about 500 km north of Auckland. I suggest that you look at the tracking maps.
  
  https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-186.89,-30.00,1419
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:34am
  - emmess
    
    That’s a pretty cool map
    
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    February 12, 2023 12:43pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Very pretty. The cyclone “looks” brutal.
    
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    February 12, 2023 2:19pm
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      Yes well it was brutal. The silly folk here last Sunday who said it would be nothing should have a long look at their analytical abilities.
      
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      February 15, 2023 7:18pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It pissed down about 4am in Bayview. Now, it has stopped – nothing.
  According to http://www.windy.com Monday the center will be close to Auckland. Nice cool and calm. Pity about the swell and waves – no boating, stay on the hard.
  
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  February 12, 2023 11:06am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Agh no – it was still coming and the 37 folk who agreed with you are dumb as fuck.
  
  The models were consistent going back a week before it arrived. I just despair that people cannot analyse data, readily available.
  
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  February 15, 2023 7:16pm
Bridgenag

Why there isn’t going to be a covid vaccine
vaccines aren’t magic and why boosters are a sucker bet 
https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/why-there-isnt-going-to-be-a-covid?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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February 12, 2023 8:27am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Bridgenang – as we knew from the failed attempts to chase a flu vaccine for many years. The mRNA “vaccines” in particular are a complete disaster.
  
  People need to read that article and understand the difference between what can be stopped with a sterilising vaccine and what gets made worse by chasing the impossible.
  All of these outcomes like Original Antigenic Sin and Vaccine-associated enhanced disease (VAED), including Vaccine associated enhanced respiratory disease (VAERD) were warned about.
  
  The last two are even listed in the Medsafe Risk Management Plan as potential risks.
  
  https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/Comirnaty-RMP.pdf
  
  It’s not like this stuff isn’t known about, but profit has overridden common sense and our governments have either been inept or they are complicit in this disaster. Either way, they need held to account. Particularly Hipkins who was the minister in charge. There are a long list of others including Ardern who are similarly guilty of malfeasance.
  
  As per the post:
  
  if your body could not, all by itself, get a disease, recover from it, then never get it again due to acquired immunity, the idea that a vaccine using any currently known modality can allow you to do so is deeply implausible, probably impossible.
  
  Vaccinating during a pandemic is the worst possible thing you can do, it was warned about, yet the whole world adopted this madness with disgusting enthusiasm while simultaneously killing and injuring people, destroying lives and economies and demolishing basic human rights.
  
  People want to “move on”. The world will never be able to “move on” until this disaster has been reconciled and those responsible are adequately dealt with. Otherwise it will happen again, and again, and again.
  It is the worst medical disaster in history and the next one will be worse if the profit driven pharmaceutical industrial complex is not destroyed and rebuilt with the necessary regulatory oversight.
  
  Currently there is none. Medsafe are a joke, as is the CDC and their equivalents around the world. Every one of them in the pockets of big pharma.
  
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  February 12, 2023 10:58am
  - Grunter
    
    ClanMcLeod – well written, 100% agree
    
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    February 12, 2023 11:22am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Vaccines can certainly protect from getting diseases that could kill or seriously injure you so I am not sure that claim is rigorously expressed.
    
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    February 12, 2023 12:53pm
    - Local Miller
      
      You’re putting up a straw man here Alan. While its true that some people die from diseases that we now have vaccines for, not everyone dies from these diseases. The article essentially claims that if there’s a vaccine, its because there is the ability to develop natural immunity.
      While I’ve not seen a detailed list of vaccines and wether this is 100% true, the science behind the claim makes sense. Put simply, vaccines are based on the “technology” that our bodies use to develop immunity. If your body can’t do it, then science can’t do it.
      
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      February 12, 2023 5:18pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Alan – read the article fully. I may be wrong, but it seems to make perfect sense to me. If you can identify errors then please let me know what they are.
      Some diseases like smallpox, may well have an “end point” and it appears that particular disease has been eradicated. Not so much for polio as people seem to believe, though much of that may be due to interference by “science”.
      We know that there have been increases in outbreaks of polio in Africa, not from the wild virus, but driven by the vaccines. This is just one example. You won’t read or hear about it in NZ media.
      
      https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-middle-east-africa-united-nations-619efb65b9eeec5650f011b960a152e9
      
      True science is a wonderful thing, but the apparent drive to “play God” in everything from weather, to health, to conservation, is doing more harm than good, and playing with viruses and doing “gain of function” research is utter madness.
      
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      February 12, 2023 5:46pm
info@cruzpro.com

35mm in the last 24 hours in Whangarei. Raining steadily but no great downpours.
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February 12, 2023 8:32am
Scooter

A great summation of Jacinda’s time as PM of NZ, no fairy dust or comparisons to devine entities.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/02/saint-jacindas-fall/
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February 12, 2023 8:32am
- mawm
  
  That last sentence about Hipkins is very telling.
  
  “Perhaps the biggest factor in his favour is that his National opponent, former Air New Zealand CEO Christopher Luxon, is still on training wheels and has yet to show New Zealanders any reason why they should vote for him.”
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:50am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Scooter – this one is equally honest.
  
  Jacinda Ardern: Saint or Psychopath?
  
  https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/07/jacinda-ardern-saint-or-psychopath/
  
  In the free speech vacuum that is New Zealand today, I shall devote much of what follows to giving some reasons why the anger against Ardern and her then government is more than justified. Her transgressions can be characterised as:
  
  broken promises
  
  malfeasance
  
  cruelty
  
  malice
  
  divisiveness
  
  Worth reading the whole thing, it is a damning but truthful summary of her reign.
  
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  February 12, 2023 11:06am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The comments are strong!
    They really don’t like her.
    
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    February 12, 2023 1:30pm
  - mawm
    
    One uses descriptions like kindness, empathy and compassion when talking about a favourite nursery schoolteacher, not a country’s premier. This is primarily because she has no positive characteristics needed to lead a country. She was well out of her depth.
    
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    February 12, 2023 2:46pm
- Alex
  
  Yes I agree very good article. Scooter , just as well Clan onto it.
  
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  February 12, 2023 6:16pm
Maggy Wassilieff

So James Shaw has finally seen the light about biofuels.

Climate Minister and Greens co-leader James Shaw told 1News that there are “real problems with biofuels.”

“It’s really hard to guarantee that biofuels would not come from deforestation or food production being swapped out for biofuel production.”

Most of our biofuels would have been imported, and the climate policy would not necessarily have reduced overall emissions, according to some advocates.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/02/12/benefits-unclear-for-now-scrapped-biofuel-mandate/

Folks have been warning for decades about the dire effects on ecosystems if biofuels are used to power a nation’s transport fleet or heating/electricity needs.

https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/ECOS-6-5.pdf

It shouldn’t have taken this long for the penny to have dropped.

It’s as if Greens are unaware that actions have consequences… and a change in land-use on a
massive scale will have impacts.
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February 12, 2023 9:04am
- Don Beckett
  
  I’m waiting for him to come out & say that global warming/climate change is not Anthropogenic after all.
  ………crickets…………..
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:08am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  I saw that. Why the hell didn’t he speak up when the policy was mandates? When Megan Woods was telling us all that the policy was fantastic. Before the fuel companies spent millions preparing to comply.
  
  How can we trust anything these people say?
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:41am
  - Matt Long
    
    Ummm, trust what politicians say? Why would you want to do that?
    Politicians are basically uninformed sociopaths who if they did know the truth would lie anyway.
    Like lawyers it is the 99% of politicians that give the other 1% a bad name.
    
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    February 12, 2023 9:47am
  - Nickc2
    
    Do you think the fact that car manufacturers had said the use of biofuels in their engines will nullify the warranties may have had something to do with Shaw’s about-face?
    As for egg on Megan Woods’ face, who would notice it among all the pies?
    
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    February 12, 2023 9:54am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Why would James Shaw care about what the manufacturers of ICE cars say or do?
      
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      February 12, 2023 1:50pm
      - Nickc2
        
        It’s an election year and even the biggest idiots are desperate for votes eh?
        Even if he changes his mind if elected, who’ll care/remember? All Green voters and died-in-the-wool idiots?
        
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        February 12, 2023 2:47pm
  - emmess
    
    Speak up
    Shaw, as if
    He is the biggest coward in politics.
    
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    February 12, 2023 12:51pm
  - Alex
    
    We’ve learnt our lesson now dont trust them!
    
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    February 12, 2023 6:18pm
- Grunter
  
  And now they need to admit that EV’s, solar panels and wind mills are an even bigger environmental disaster. Go search on rare earth mining (China) Colbalt mining (Africa) etc. Even nuttier, NZ sells coal to Chile to run their copper mines then we import different coal from Indonesia to run Huntly.
  
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  February 12, 2023 11:27am
- Tom Hunter
  
  It shouldn’t have taken this long for the penny to have dropped.
  
  It can take a long time to learn anything when all your braincells are devoted to screaming CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER at your opponents.
  
  Opponents like the ones who have been pointing out the stupidities of biofuels for twenty years plus in the face of Warmists like Shaw.
  
  Sadly this won’t cause them to listen to us when we make the same critiques of renewable energy, not to mention their myriad scientific problems with climate change models, assumptions and measurements.
  
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  February 12, 2023 12:41pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Our Foreign Minister returns to NZ today.

Anyone know what she was discussing whilst in India?
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February 12, 2023 9:08am
- Don Beckett
  
  Offering free mokos/chin ink ?
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:09am
- kevn
  
  @Maggy…. I can imagine completely underwhelmed Indian govt hosts.
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:12am
- Inandout
  
  Maggy, pure coincidence I am sure.
  ‘Hillary Clinton launches global climate fund in India’.
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:19am
- Mike
  
  Looked this up in case Maggy Wassilief [Mod – Removed unnecessary trolling]
  https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/advancing-our-relationship-india
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:31am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    That was a press release from a week ago before she had arrived in India.
    
    I specifically wanted to know whether folks here in NZ had seen or heard anything (in our media) about her meetings whilst in India.
    
    I’m quite capable of checking Indian media for news…
    
    https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/we-see-india-as-counterbalance-to-superpower-contest-new-zealand-minister-101675860097063.html
    
    and wonder when NZ started promoting this “counterbalance” view…..about the superpower contest in our region.
    
    And why is she talking about the QUAD?
    https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/interview/story/20230220-new-zealand-foreign-minister-nanaia-mahuta-we-can-take-india-new-zealand-ties-to-the-next-level-now-2332998-2023-02-10
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:33am
    - Mike
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Very odd, our foreign minister talking about international issues.
      Do you really expect NZ media to provide coverage of routine overseas travel by our cabinet ministers? And if they did, most Kiwibloggers would probably regard it as government propaganda paid for by taxpayers’ subsidies.
      
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      February 12, 2023 10:40am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Do you really expect NZ media to provide coverage of routine overseas travel by our cabinet ministers?
        
        Too bloody right I do.
        
        Especially when we have such an inexperienced Foreign Minister talking about issues that have direct bearing on our economy and relationships with trading partners.
        
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        February 12, 2023 10:58am
      - Ghost
        
        That is the media’s job
        
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        February 12, 2023 10:59am
      - RightNow
        
        Maybe in between reporting what happens on twitter they could slot in a news item or two.
        
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        February 12, 2023 11:49am
      - JimBobJoe
        
        Oh look, a leftie troll deflecting from a Labour Minister promoting a Beijing friendly ‘counter balance’ policy aimed at pulling India away from any containment policy aimed at holding China out of the Greater Pacific and the Indian ocean.
        
        Truly Mike I think you are either a true believer in hard core socialism or maybe just a useful idiot trolling Fraser House cover lines for some type of benefit to you personally.
        
        If you think the CCP doesn’t need containment you are not thinking very hard…
        
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        February 12, 2023 12:45pm
      - Mike
        
        Oh Maggy, it’s another classic: expect the media to report what you want to hear about but decry their bias if they do report on government ministers and, worse, use taxpayers’ money to do so.
        And JimBob, I can’t imagine why you’re only upset with Mahuta when we have prominent national party figures making post-politics careers as apologists for their mates in Beijing. Spread the blame evenly – both our major parties are addicted to easy fundraising from those connected to the Chinese dictatorship.
        
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        February 12, 2023 1:37pm
      - graham
        
        Look like Steve Otto’s comment at 12:47 was bang on.
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2023/02/general_debate_12_february_2023.html#comment-3319894
        
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        February 12, 2023 4:02pm
- Nickc2
  
  I don’t believe she was there to discuss anything. It was a ploy to get her out of the country whilst this Labour Govt decided how best they could unpick the outright theft, racism, and through life support for Maori she had built into #Waters Legislation.
  This is still a Work-in-Progress AFIK.
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:36am
- Maggie Pie
  
  I see yesterday, Nanaia posted a big thankyou to the Indian-State-Minister-of-Tribal-Affairs for…. “showing her interest in Maori progress”
  
  YIP. YIP.
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:48am
  - Nickc2
    
    I’m surprised she didn’t sign India up as a ToW Partner.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:02am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Here we go….she obviously decided to dress-down for the event 😀
      
      https://twitter.com/NanaiaMahuta/status/1624082916283412482
      
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      February 12, 2023 10:14am
      - Nickc2
        
        Looks like she’s presenting them with one of her Painting-by-Numbers creations?
        
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        February 12, 2023 11:21am
  - cas
    
    I see she’s into mahi-tahi
    
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    February 12, 2023 11:13am
- kowtow
  
  India has an ethno/religious nationalist govt , so there’ll have been some common ground.
  
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  February 12, 2023 10:10am
  - Mike
    
    On the plus side, many Kiwibloggers will be glad to know that government is picking on the ‘right’ victims – Muslims.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:41am
    - Clownworld
      
      Like China?
      
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      February 12, 2023 11:47am
      - Mike
        
        Yes, there are plenty of people prepared to accept the Beijing story that they are just fighting ‘terrorism’ in Xinjiang because any Muslims make convenient bad guys.
        
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        February 12, 2023 1:40pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Secret meeting of socialists? Audience with Killary?
  
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  February 12, 2023 1:33pm
- Ohm my
  
  Trying to drum up business whilst explaining Aoteroa is NOT racist against law abiding and hard working dairy owners/workers by going soft on ram raiders, thieves, dairy worker killers, and dairy owner hand choppers.
  
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  February 12, 2023 3:10pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Chris Trotter writes of our Revolution:

SUPPOSE THEY MADE A REVOLUTION, and nobody noticed. Suppose the “Cabinet Office” ordered the nation’s public servants to implement an unmandated revolutionary transformation of New Zealand, and they complied. Suppose one of the leading authorities on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Dame Claudia Orange, confirmed that this revolution was, in fact, a done deal.

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2023/02/11/chris-trotter-a-real-revolution/#more-20335
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February 12, 2023 9:11am
- Prince
  
  The comparison to the Douglas/Prebble revolution of the 1980’s has one crucial missing ingredient.
  The media provided critical debate of Rogernomics, despite the ‘TINA’ narrative from the Government.
  In the 2020’s, the media is paid by the Government to convey their interpretation of the TOW. Any critical analysis of this interpretation would result in funding withdrawal.
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:42am
- Gravelroad
  
  Surely there are too many “right wing extremists, old white men, conspiracy fanatics, colonial racists and river of filth dwellers” in NZ for that to happen – or do they only live in North Canterbury as claimed by $uff reporter, Martin Van Beynen?
  From past knowledge, the ChCh Press used to have a lot of loyal subscribers in Nth Canterbury. Perhaps now though, not so many.
  PS – is Dame Claudia Orange an example of a conspiracy theorist with extreme views?
  
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  February 12, 2023 10:00am
  - sirknz
    
    There is this guy who is a leading researcher into the alt-right extremists: https://archive.fo/f1Vvv (archived off of $tuff so they don’t get the traffic)
    
    I find it interesting that this guy equates wanting to be physically fit and not using porn is considered to be both far right and anti-Semitic.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:45am
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Those on the path of cyclone Gabrielle please take care and stay safe. Hopefully by the grace of Jacinda we are all saved.

After Chippy has become the king of NZ, every single opinion poll is pointing to Labour-Green-Maori gummit. National and ACT will be spending another 3 years in opposition. Like I said before, Nice Nicola will be the next National PM. Luxon won’t see the light of the day.
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February 12, 2023 9:16am
Gravelroad

Where is Benedict Yu?
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February 12, 2023 9:36am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Benedict Yu tells me that he was doxxed. Someone discovered his identity. His extended family was contacted warning that he held extreme right views.
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:45am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    That is a pity as Benedict’s carefully crafted comments on this site were a delight.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:01am
  - Gravelroad
    
    And allegedly having right wing views is a problem because…….?
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:12am
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      Depends how it is portrayed and then received and passed on to others. Next minute friends, family and clients can be told that someone is an extremist and specifically a racist.
      
      Welcome to cancel culture in action.
      
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      February 12, 2023 10:20am
    - graham
      
      I dislike “labels” – where people are “labelled” as being right-wing, left-wing, pro-choice, pro-life, homophobic, whatever – at the best of times, because such labels tend to be used as a very broad descriptor, and people form views on people based on such labels which are invariably inaccurate.
      
      “Labels” imply all sorts of things to those that use them, and those that hear them. When somebody is labelled as “pro-life” for example (to pick a “label” at random), people immediately make assumptions about their world-views, what sort of person they are, where they stand on certain topics, their religious views, their political views. Which is utterly nonsensical, because as we all know you can’t just group people together based on a particular viewpoint they may have in common and make wide-ranging assumptions about them. It’s daft; yet people continue to do this based on “labels”.
      
      And so it is with the “extreme right-wing” label. People immediately form a view point of what sort of person goes with that label, even if they have never met them. And to label Benedict as “extreme right-wing” is quite bizarre. I cannot see how anybody who has read his intelligent and insightful comments on this site could possibly think of him as “extreme”.
      
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      February 12, 2023 10:34am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    For those unfamiliar with doxxing.
    
    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dox
    
    The person responsible contacted Benedict’s partner. He claimed that he employs someone to monitor Kiwiblog and other political blogs to track people who post right wing views and where possible to expose them.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:17am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      Horrifying. Is there a crime anywhere in this?
      
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      February 12, 2023 10:20am
      - sirknz
        
        Only if you are doxxing the left.
        
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        February 12, 2023 10:47am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Probably not if it was just a one-off contact.
        
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        February 12, 2023 12:49pm
    - Ghost
      
      That is sad because they would have used the story of his father in laws death to track him. It will be a member of the blog
      
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      February 12, 2023 11:01am
      - Mike
        
        Not necessarily – anyone can read the comments.
        
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        February 12, 2023 11:04am
      - Widogast Corwin
        
        Correct but not a member of the blog.
        
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        February 12, 2023 11:30am
    - kowtow
      
      Who is this “person responsible” who’s acting as the latter day Gestapo . Does our host know.
      
      Would it be worth a post all of its own .
      
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      February 12, 2023 12:28pm
      - nathie
        
        It’s the old story isn’t it, suspicion then falls upon other presumably “innocent” people. I can think of a certain NZ Herald reporter and I can think of a certain former TV3 reporter who take great delight in exposing people for cancelling. But it probably wasn’t them (and most probably not the former – but the latter hmmm?) but see what I mean by suspicion then unfairly falls on the likes of people who have had past form?
        
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        February 12, 2023 1:13pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Funny, he hasn’t tried to expose me. He’d be getting short shrift and worse
      
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      February 12, 2023 12:43pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Perhaps the doxxer has already checked you out and realised what he’d be up against.
        
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        February 12, 2023 12:50pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Of course the doxxer may be a racist and targeted an Asian voice on this blog.
        
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        February 12, 2023 1:03pm
      - Pavel
        
        You’ve posted links to articles your brother has written.
        
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        February 12, 2023 4:14pm
    - Tom Hunter
      
      Hopefully that person in turn will be identified and get subjected to the same treatment. Odds are they won’t be a “Moderate Lefty” themselves.
      
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      February 12, 2023 1:22pm
  - SpencerArnold
    
    IIRC he also reported from behind the “public service curtain” about housing NZ, which would mean his contacts there would also be in jeopardy.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:22am
  - Inandout
    
    WC, whichever way you look at it giving out too much information on social media, be it your real name or occupation, has its dangers.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:23am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I hate to say this….but the timing seems to coincide with when I exposed the existence of a Chinese-Secret-Police-Station located somewhere in Parnell 🙁
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:23am
  - oldfella
    
    Wido: is that for real? Bugger. I always enjoyed Benedict’s input.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:24am
  - alex Masterley
    
    Thats sad to hear.
    His comments were always measured. He played the ball not the man.
    
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    February 12, 2023 10:34am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Exactly. Benedict is far from the most spray-it-around poster on this site (I include myself in the latter group).
      
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      February 12, 2023 1:57pm
    - Observer of Life
      
      Very disappointing. I was wondering why he’d not posted for awhile. We will miss your commentary Benedict. ☹️
      
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      February 12, 2023 4:34pm
  - Swifty
    
    Anyone who adjudges Benedict as ‘extreme right’ is clearly deranged.
    
    Demented.
    
    And in doing so also slurs a good 50% of New Zealanders with the same label as Benedict’s views represented at least that many.
    
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    February 12, 2023 11:02am
    - Tom Hunter
      
      And in doing so also slurs a good 50% of New Zealanders with the same label as Benedict’s views represented at least that many.
      
      That’s the whole idea, same as Biden’s little Riefenstahl production of Ultra Mega MAGA Republicans a few months ago.
      
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      February 12, 2023 1:10pm
  - Mike
    
    I warned him several times that Kwiblog is not a safe space to share personal information.
    
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    February 12, 2023 11:02am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    There is a very murky element among the socialists in this country. Far more dangerous than “pale, stale males.”
    This is what Ardern has helped turn this country into, the most divisive point in history.
    
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    February 12, 2023 11:21am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      The Left are abusive, hateful slimeballs. Nothing new in that. Given absolute power they murder millions.
      
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      February 12, 2023 12:47pm
  - Pavel
    
    How exactly was he doxxed? He didn’t exactly hide his identity. A couple of times he put links in his comments to his own personal website that told us everything about him.
    
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    February 12, 2023 11:22am
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      No he did not
      
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      February 12, 2023 11:35am
      - Pavel
        
        I’ve seen his website at least twice and both times were through links to it here that he had pasted into his comments. I remember him doing it and proudly proclaiming he backs up what he says and isn’t hiding behind a fake name. Sorry but he has definatly posted links to his site into his past comments.
        
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        February 12, 2023 3:53pm
      - Ghost
        
        I’m sure if you’ve seen his website then you can prove it?
        
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        February 12, 2023 8:05pm
      - Widogast Corwin
        
        Pavel I can assure you that Benedict Yu does not have a website. And of course Benedict Yu is not his real name. He is not an idiot.
        
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        February 13, 2023 9:10am
      - Widogast Corwin
        
        “I remember him doing it and proudly proclaiming he backs up what he says and isn’t hiding behind a fake name. ”
        
        I can assure you that you are mistaken.
        
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        February 13, 2023 9:11am
  - david
    
    Was he able to identify the doxxer?
    
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    February 12, 2023 12:01pm
  - nathie
    
    His extended family was contacted warning that he held extreme right views.
    
    We all know that BY didn’t hold “extreme right views” … if anything he was a whistle-blower.
    
    What has this nation come to when whistle-blowers are now being painted as “extreme right”?
    
    Surely the Doxxer would welcome Govt incompetence hurting real/everyday/disadvantaged/poor Kiwi’s being revealed in order to rectify eg problematic housing situations when gang members are threatening people?
    
    What sort of doxxer weasel would allow that to happen to disadvantaged Kiwis? Are they Labour Party sycophants or something? Party allegiance comes first?
    
    Anyway BY’s extended family would surely smell a rat – the doxxer that is – because presumably they would be well aware of disinformation campaigns by the likes of the CCP painting people to be something other than they really are. Did the doxxer not stop to think about the angst their actions would cause to people that are under the CCP’s shadow? Being threatened by invasion, death and destruction?
    
    Anyway hope BY and family and extended family are doing well. Hope he resurfaces again in the future.
    
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    February 12, 2023 12:56pm
    - NoCash
      
      Why do you think the CCP is involved? Just because BY is from Taiwan (my guess)?
      
      FFS, are you Anne-Marie Brady in disguise?
      
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      February 12, 2023 4:01pm
      - nathie
        
        No and no!
        
        I was likening the doxxers actions to that of, for example, the CCP (or any other totalitarian or thug for that matter) by smearing people’s reputations and in order to produce fear (or shame and so on) for their wider family members etc.
        
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        February 12, 2023 7:37pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I don’t find his views as extreme right at all.
    Benedict Yu is sensible and straight up, explains everything well.
    Best he come back using a pseudonym, but his writing style would be obvious.
    Dam good commenter. Hope he does come back.
    
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    February 12, 2023 1:45pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Re Benedict.
    
    Why should I believe you????????????
    
    Interesting to see so many Kiwblogers accepting your comment at face value.
    
    If indeed Benedict had been doxed, surely he would have posted that he had been doxed and was no longer posting.
    
    “”Something is rotten in the state of Denmark “” spring to mind. (Hamlet)
    
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    February 12, 2023 5:02pm
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      Your comment is incomprehensible.
      
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      February 12, 2023 7:31pm
  - rouppe
    
    And his extended family believe this anonymous person over their relative?
    
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    February 14, 2023 4:21pm
- graham
  
  Oh, and all those people who muse and wonder out loud why many people don’t use their real names and “hide” behind a pseudonym? Now you know.
  
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  February 12, 2023 10:57am
  - Swifty
    
    Ian Boag, Brain McD are you reading this?
    
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    February 12, 2023 11:05am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      And me. But I don’t give a shit. It is not hard to find me. I won’t say how.
      
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      February 12, 2023 1:47pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Add:
        If some undesirable comes to my door to annoy me, just remember that 20mm stainless steel curtain rod.
        
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        February 12, 2023 1:56pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep,
    
    This site is not a safe site … and there are folks who will use any information to try and close down a commenter.
    
    Clearly those of us who use our own names have thought matters through and have either no reputation to lose, or couldn’t give a toss…. but it shows the depths the doxxers will descend to when they try and link partners/family members/friends to comments on this blog.
    
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    February 12, 2023 11:20am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Maggy – as we now know, true free speech is a thing of the past in Ardern’s version of New Zealand.
      
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      February 12, 2023 11:23am
    - graham
      
      Even people who don’t use their real names can sometimes be identified. I’ve posted before that I was able to work out the identities of two posters here simply by “joining the dots” between some of their posts and other posts on a Facebook community group that I belong to. And I wasn’t even trying.
      
      You have to be very careful with just how much personal information you choose to reveal. If you post on any other social media sites, have a LinkedIn profile, whatever, you increase the chances that someone will be able to identify you.
      
      It saddens me that I even have to write this – but in the current environment, people need to be aware.
      
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      February 12, 2023 12:47pm
    - Souvlaki
      
      All very ‘Stasi-ish’ in reality… just as portrayed in that great film the Lives of others :
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others
      We can safely speculate this doxxer of Benedict will be well up in the echelons of Labour or the Greens !
      
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      February 12, 2023 12:49pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Doxxers are arseholes. Born an arsehole and will die as an Arsehole.
      
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      February 12, 2023 1:53pm
- nathie
  
  Glad you asked, as I also thinking the same for the last week or so and was thinking of asking hoping to hear the response was “oh he said he was going to take a holiday a while back”, but being doxxed and canceled also crossed my mind.
  
  “Aotearoa NZ” is becoming synonymous with authoritarianism i.e. if you don’t subscribe and swear allegiance to the new, radical, far-left agenda to transform this nation (in all sorts of areas) then you are to be exposed/doxxed/cancelled.
  
  This new radical form of “left-wing fascism” is leading the divisiveness and bitterness that is pitting people and communities against each other. And this is just at the beginning stage.
  
  It needs to stop and a change of Govt needs to examine this by bringing everything into the open and have open discussions on a more respectful way forward.
  
  It also needs to defund the “stirrers” (that are on the taxpayer payroll) and have it acknowledged that their views are extreme minority views (and while their views may have a place, they cannot be imposed on the majority).
  
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  February 12, 2023 11:36am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Benedict Yu bro gone by lunch time. Not sure where.
  
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  February 12, 2023 3:27pm
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    Yes we know you are the residing clown show.
    
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    February 12, 2023 7:32pm
- Thought Criminal
  
  BY. If you are reading this, I loved your posts. I thought you added a lot of knowledge and reason to the debates. I learned a lot from you.
  
  Don’t let the haters scare you away, if that is what has happened.
  
  Consider coming back under a new pseudonym and a slightly changed style and keep contributing.
  
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  March 12, 2023 12:31pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Met Office is predicting a rainy week ahead of us here in Gisborne…

Fortunately I have a thick book on hand – Lady Joker – Vol 2

Last year I took L.J. Vol 1 out of the Library and was hooked.. but when I went looking for Vol 2 discovered that Vol 2 (English Translation) had not yet been printed!!!!!

So after a 6 month wait I’m back into the underbelly of Corporate life in Japan.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/15/books/kaoru-takamura-lady-joker-volume-two/
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February 12, 2023 9:38am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

The meeting at sport Northland/McKay Stadium is on. Don’t remember what time but Civil Defence do not need it.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/our-first-even-is-today/

Booklet:

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Blog-template-5-2-23-plus-laptop.pdf
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February 12, 2023 9:49am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  I believe it is supposed to be at 3:00 pm.
  
  It is very windy and raining heavily now. Had 35mm at 8:30, now have 91mm at 2:25 (56 mm in six hours).
  
  That will keep a lot of people away.
  
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  February 12, 2023 2:29pm
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Even it it was not raining only five people were planning to attend the meeting. So move on.
    
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    February 12, 2023 3:29pm
Maggie Pie

God only knows how many viewers Netflix must have lost since they stamped down on password-sharing.
Turns out Prue had shared hers with at least 30 others at the Club.

And I’m hearing DISNEY is also haemorrhaging subscribers!

Can’t imagine why…..

https://twitter.com/GalaGuyXD21/status/1621348208470368258
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February 12, 2023 9:57am
- oldfella
  
  maggie: soon the only magic left in the ‘Magic Kingdom’, will be the mushrooms the current Disney management consume as they steer Walt’s once-great empire over a woke cliff.
  
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  February 12, 2023 10:30am
- Mike
  
  I had absolutely no idea so many people liked Netflix but only if someone else paid for it. Gaddam commies!
  
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  February 12, 2023 11:06am
- RightNow
  
  I’ve been letting my ex-wife share my Netflix for a few years… it will piss her off if she has to pay for her own subscription. This news really made my Sunday 🙂
  
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  February 12, 2023 12:06pm
ecco

Anyone know why the Ferald is now putting Steven Joyce’s article down in the business section of their site where it’s literally buried and out of sight. Has happened since Hipkins got anointed by labour as pm.
Paula Bennett’s article today has disappeared from the front page of the site by 10am?
Why are the articles attacking Wayne Brown always not hidden behind their paywall.
Why are the articles by that odious journo Simon Wilson always front and centre for the whole day?
Just examples of the Ferald s left wing bias or else complying with the covid slush fund rules. Still.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/paula-bennett-labour-mothballs-rnztvnz-merger-social-unemployment-insurance-to-gain-popularity/FD6KIDPGFJFCVNVYEQIDYUXQ64/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/steven-joyce-tech-from-the-future-bureaucracy-from-the-past/VIYXSR7NWREJHEPB6FGFVCYEY4/
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February 12, 2023 10:25am
- emmess
  
  Because they want to provide a perception that they are providing balance.
  But in reality, they think articles critical of the government are none of your business.
  
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  February 12, 2023 1:04pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Why are you still paying attention to them? I’d like to think it’s only because you’re using your knowledge to persuade others to ignore the Horrid.
  
  Always remember, Die MSM, Die.
  
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  February 12, 2023 1:17pm
Yvette

The Unbridled Power of Te Mana o te Wai statements –
If you know what these statements are please scroll on past
If you don’t please read –
Thomas Cranmer article – end paragraphs:

[In Te Mana o te Wai statements]… anything and everything can be included without limit. These statements can of course be issued [only] by mana whenua – defined by the Bill as being the iwi or hapū holding and exercising, in accordance with tikanga, authority or other customary rights or interests in that area.

When Taumata Arowai, the new water regulator, was asked if they maintained a list of mana whenua they responded that they did not but instead pointed to a register of iwi and hapū maintained by Te Puni Kokiri. That list includes over 1200 iwi and hapū – each with a statutory right to issue a Te Mana o te Wai statement to the relevant water services entity.
To cap it off, section 91 of the Bill requires that the water services entities pay the remuneration, expenses and costs of mana whenua for exercising their duties, functions and powers under the Act. On the face of the Bill, this suggests that the water services entities will pay each iwi and hapū to prepare their Te Mana o te Wai statements. To confirm my understanding, I asked the Government, and a Department of Internal Affairs spokesperson confirmed that this is indeed the case with the following statement:

Under the Water Services Entities Act (currently the Water Services Entities Bill) the water services entities will be required to provide funding to their regional representative group and a regional advisory panel for that group or, as the case requires, to its territorial authority owners and to mana whenua, for remuneration, expenses, or costs.

These costs and expenses may include but are not limited to those associated with the preparation of Te Mana o te Wai statements.

The sheer number of these statements and their potential size and scope is mind-boggling. How much time, money and resource from the water services entities will be required to analyse each statement and respond with an implementation plan which is consistent with all of the other statements? How will statements that conflict with each other be reconciled? How will implementation of these statements be prioritised and how will they work alongside the requirements of the water infrastructure upgrade? Could these statements be used by an iwi to exert leverage over another iwi that it is in dispute with over another issue? Could an iwi use a statement to enhance a commercial interest of that iwi at the expense of a commercial competitor?

This unbridled expression of kaitiakitanga given to every iwi and hapū in the country and funded by ratepayers threatens to totally overwhelm the water services entities. And of course this is all completely untested. No-one has any idea whether this is workable until the system is implemented – at which time it will affect New Zealand’s entire water infrastructure.
Enough however is known now to suggest that this would be a monumental disaster for the country were this ever to be attempted.
Spread the Truth
https://www.thedailyexaminer.co.nz/the-unbridled-power-of-te-mana-o-te-wai/

Te Mana o te Wai statements are now passed into Parliamentary law
Not only should the Water Services Entities Bill be repealed, but the Māori Advisory Council to Tuamata Arowai be removed, and related Maori elements be cancelled in Tuamata Arowai itself, including the power to issue Te Mana o te Wai statements.
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February 12, 2023 10:29am
- Mike
  
  This Thomas Cranmer fellow sounds dangerous. Perhaps the king should have his head chopped off.
  
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  February 12, 2023 11:07am
  - CJames
    
    I am quite happy to uptick you as I do know enough history to get your reference – probably why the blogger chose that name.
    https://englishhistory.net/tudor/thomas-cranmer-death/
    I just wish a lot more of your posts were in this vein.
    
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    February 12, 2023 4:51pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  How each hapu/iwi determines the Mauri of each waterbody in its district (rohe) will be a feat beyond the scope of those brought up in the Western Paradigm of thought.
  
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  February 12, 2023 11:33am
  - Cassandra
    
    Mafia tahi: extorting together.
    
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    February 12, 2023 12:05pm
Ra Henare

The Herald shows its true colours!

On their facebook page they reprinted an article
The class of 2022 graduate from Te Rito Journalism programme,

With a Photo of said class.

A commenter said.
Cant see any white males….

Heralds Response.
I can assure you our newsroom has enough of those already.

This unleashed the predictable response(Racist etc etc)

So Herald promptly closed comments.

Hilarious really. Guess they have a newly graduated student on the facebook page duty.
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February 12, 2023 11:09am
- graham
  
  I have a vague feeling that someone once said, “If you’re unsure whether something is racist/sexist/something else, try simply replacing one or two key words. Then ask yourself if it’s still acceptable.”
  
  Applying that to the above, we end up with this:
  
  A commenter said.
  Cant see any Maori people….
  
  Heralds Response.
  I can assure you our newsroom has enough of those already.
  
  What do you think, NZ Herald? How do you think that would sound?
  
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  February 12, 2023 11:58am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Wonder if this will work?
Candace Owens and Dr Malone on Covid.
Covid has become a religion for some.

https://www.facebook.com/realCandaceOwens/videos/956590958622321/
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February 12, 2023 11:20am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

We never see this happening in NZ:
https://rumble.com/vupht5-reporter-stunned-when-protester-walks-up-and-says-most-unexpected-thing.html
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February 12, 2023 11:38am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The Canadian Truckers fundraiser frozen. Lucky it was based in the US.
Trudeau tried to stop it. This is the sort of shit Jaspinda would do. Fucking socialists.
https://uniteamericafirst.com/ontario-government-freezes-givesendgo-fundraiser-for-trucker-convoy-by-court-order-givesendgo-lowers-the-boom/
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February 12, 2023 11:43am
- kowtow
  
  Just thnk how much power the state will have under central bank issued digital currency.
  
  Their digits ‘ll be so far up us……..
  
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  February 12, 2023 12:19pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Not a place I want to go. The state will have total control.
    
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    February 12, 2023 2:00pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION….

Who would make the best ‘Wartime Prime Minister’?

>>CHIPPY
or
>>CHRIS

Asking for one of the guys from Mass this morning.
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February 12, 2023 11:50am
- Ghost
  
  Trevor, we could send him off to fight and he can get some of his anger out
  
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  February 12, 2023 12:03pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Neither
  
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  February 12, 2023 12:14pm
  - peterwn
    
    Chris L – track record of getting things done as evidenced by his previous jobs. Chris H – previously part of a government with a track record of not getting things done despite being in office for 5 years.
    
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    February 12, 2023 1:41pm
- kiwikidsnz
  
  Chris has extensive experience managing in a successful multicultural global organisation that has survived >100 years so far (Unilever).
  
  Chippie has demonstrated that he can develop flawed policies, fail to implement them & then sounded retreat…
  
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  February 12, 2023 2:18pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Neither.
  Both wets.
  Need somebody with “balls””
  
  Try Wayne Brown!!
  
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  February 12, 2023 4:40pm
- MCōs
  
  Worry about it when it happens, which it won’t.
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:18pm
Ghost

How strange, both governments that got flak over the weather balloon have now shot their own mystery object down.

An unidentified object has been shot down over North American airspace, Canadian President Justin Trudeau has disclosed.

The incident comes a week after a balloon of Chinese origin which flew over US airspace was shot down.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/11/new-unidentified-object-shot-down-over-canada-says-trudeau
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February 12, 2023 12:00pm
- OTGO
  
  My question is, if one of these things was hovering over NZ’s airspace, could we, would we shoot it down?
  
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  February 12, 2023 2:16pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Where would it be launched from??? Aus or the middle of the S Ocean???
    
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    February 12, 2023 4:26pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Couldn’t. That needs a high flying fighter I think.
    
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    February 12, 2023 5:38pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

If I had a dollar for every gender there is, I’d have two dollars and a bunch of counterfeits.
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February 12, 2023 12:01pm
- Cassandra
  
  There are a few mistakes from time to time, Steve, nature doesn’t always get it right. But few and far between – and should involve specialist medical help.
  
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  February 12, 2023 12:09pm
  - emmess
    
    About the same as the printing press messing up the printing of the dollar.
    
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    February 12, 2023 1:06pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I know there are a few exceptions, but the idiot lefties rabbiting on about 53 genders is plain stupid. They have a mental condition.
    
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    February 12, 2023 2:05pm
- JJ56
  
  I’ve worked out what my initials are:
  
  Me/Mine
  
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  February 12, 2023 7:14pm
nathie

Interesting, in Sir Apirana Ngata’s “The Treaty of Waitangi – An Explanation”, he affirms the name “Aotearoa” refers to the North Island only.
https://www.nzcpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/TreatyOfWaitangiBySirApiranaNgata.pdf

The laws made by Parliament affect all the people living on the face of this land, the land properly delineated and known as Aotearoa, the South Island and adjacent islands.

That was from page 15, note how Sir Apirana Ngata describes the land we know as NZ – “Aotearoa” as the North Island, then the “South Island” and “adjacent islands” to describe the hundreds of other smaller islands.

Now having established under this article of the Treaty the rights of the Maori, the law poses a question to the Maori, “Now, to whom does this land belong?” The reply would be noisy, there would be calls from this one, calls from that one. Blood would be spilt, that was Waitara, the repercussions spread to Waikato, and the fire spread to the far ends of Aotearoa (North Island).

This is from page 23 and Sir Apirana Ngata is clear that “Aotearoa” is referring to the “North Island”.

As Sir Apirana Ngata was born in 1874 (and had his book published in 1922) he was only a couple of generations away from the signing of the Treaty in 1840 and being Maori having an understanding of one’s history is of utmost importance. So if Sir Apirana Ngata says “Aotearoa” refers to the North Island then his words are authoritative.

Now this all fits other information in the public domain that is conveniently overlooked by the Govt, activists and the MSM 99% of the time. Back in 2021 Ngāi Tahu raised the fact that “Aotearoa” originally referred to the North Island.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/452781/ngai-tahu-leader-let-s-not-rush-name-change

So this issue needs re-examining (and as Ngāi Tahu’s Edward Ellison says in the article “It’s a bit slower, but they do it when the people are ready.”

In other words there is no need to rush to rename NZ as “Aotearoa” and basically it should be up to the people, when they are ready, whenever that may be and after considerable discussion and consensus ….. so not the Govt/Politicians and certainly not the MSM forcing it down people’s throats right now – take heed!

And if one thinks about it, this Govt/Political/MSM rush to rename NZ as “Aotearoa” (wrong as it is) is rather disrespectful to the Maori Chiefs that signed the 1840 Treaty in which the Maori translation of NZ was “Nu Tireni”.

If modern day Politicians, activists and MSM want to disrespect the Maori Chiefs and Elders … then that is on them and all that it entails ….
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February 12, 2023 12:10pm
- H. Upmann
  
  The ToW refers to the country as Nu Tirani.
  
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  February 12, 2023 12:47pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Sir Apirana had more MAN in his Left Little Toe than all the Maori MPs in today’s Parliament have added together.
  
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  February 12, 2023 4:25pm
Maggie Pie

Just taking lunch and watching ‘THE OUTSIDERS’ on Sky News.

Banner headline…..

“NZ’s new Prime Minister calls a halt to Jacinda Ardern’s ‘woke’ agenda”

And did the panel enjoy getting stuck in! LOL!!
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February 12, 2023 12:48pm
kevn

@Maggie… cindy who?
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February 12, 2023 1:31pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  You’re sure as heck right about that Kev!
  Yet it’s amazing the number of twitterati that would lov to see her back 🙁
  
  Like my partner’s mum said, “She’d be as welcome as a pig in Tehran”
  
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  February 12, 2023 1:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Just had a blast on my cellphone. There is going to be strong winds and rain.
But I already know that. Who is making themselves feel important by doing this?
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February 12, 2023 2:25pm
- Paul Marsden
  
  Some immigrant I’m picking.
  
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  February 12, 2023 2:27pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Is there a way to disable it? I don’t want the thing blaring at me every time it gets a bit wet/windy. We live in NZ after all.
  It’d be OK if it was reserved for emergencies, but it appears that it’s going to be a regular thing now.
  I couldn’t find any way to disable it in my settings.
  
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  February 12, 2023 7:36pm
  - RdM
    
    On my iPhone 7, iOS 15.7.3, found in Settings>Notifications, scroll to end, Emergency Alerts, turn off.
    
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    February 12, 2023 9:26pm
    - Chris Nisbet
      
      I eventually found the setting, but the switch to turn it off is greyed out – so can’t turn it off.
      
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      February 13, 2023 4:32am
Maggie Pie

It’s sooo boring being stuck inside with this weather.
My partner has been watching the UFC-Prelims for the last two hours.
I suggested earlier we should go for a drive over to Mt Roskill and have a look at all the Wheelie-Bins blowing around the streets. He didn’t seem that interested.

Men, eh 🙁
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February 12, 2023 3:28pm
- MCōs
  
  Why are you stuck inside?
  My son took his kids to the local park.
  He said it was windy, but no rain.
  That was Onehunga.
  We’re down in Paraparaumu so I’m taking his word.
  
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  February 12, 2023 9:14pm
Swifty

A question from the new maths curriculum:

“If you divide 123 genders by white supremacy how much climate change do you get?”
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February 12, 2023 3:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The balloon. Biden admin knew 1 week before it was shot down. Only shot down because balloon sightings made the news. Joe knew basically when it went over the Aleutian Islands. Do not buy used cars from this man.

https://thepatriotchronicles.com/news-for-you/ted-cruz-breaks-down-bidens-dangerous-gamble-with-communist-china/
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February 12, 2023 4:54pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  I tell you wot too SteveO…. there is a lot of chat happening on twitter with people saying they have retrieved parts of the ‘unidentified-object’ shot down over Alaska yesterday and NORAD has ordered it be taken to a place called Groom Lake in Navada for evaluation.
  
  God only knows whats happening out there 🙁
  
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  February 12, 2023 5:11pm
  - kevn
    
    @Maggie… eBay opportunities for the finders are keepers?
    
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    February 12, 2023 5:16pm
NothingLeft

2 month old pulled from earthquake rubble alive after 5 days. Well done to rescuers.

What I find jarring is all people in this twitter thread thanking god for its survival. If god then shouldn’t we be be cursing the evil bastard that killed 20-30k mostly lovely people in this earthquake – with so many of them dying long slow agonizing deaths? Religious belief is so utterly bizarre.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1624525970236375045
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February 12, 2023 4:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Joe is not the ‘Big Guy’ taking 10%. Really?
https://redrightdaily.com/its-going-to-be-an-all-out-war-over-hunter/
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February 12, 2023 5:01pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Must be Labour voters, although some in National look a bit strange. No hints sorry.
The Whitehouse? Fuck!!!
https://redrightdaily.com/biden-invited-a-drag-queen-for-kids-to-the-white-house-watch/
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February 12, 2023 5:07pm
Alan Wilkinson

Been a bit breezy up here today and a bit of rain – 50ml in the gauge since yesterday. Main issue is the power going off for about 5 secs every 5-10 minutes. Town is very quiet except for the Duke of Marlborough’s generator. I haven’t bothered to fire up ours.

Tomorrow should be less wind and more rain.
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February 12, 2023 5:36pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  I see the nullschool map predicting the eye of the storm will be nearly over us here about 4pm tomorrow.
  
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  February 12, 2023 5:47pm
greybeard

Jacinda was so lucky: she got Covid.
Now Hipkins gets a devastating cyclone.
How the hell do they do it ?
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February 12, 2023 6:35pm
- Mike
  
  Previous government was only ‘lucky’ enough to have the GFC and the Christchurch earthquake to help it.
  
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  February 12, 2023 6:43pm
Surely Knott

Serious piece of investigative journalism. Hersh reckons USA blew up Nordstream and has all the details of who and how.

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
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February 12, 2023 7:27pm
Alex

There is another Alex on here so I will have a to change my moniker!
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