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CJames

As is already happening, the East Coast floods are being blamed on climate change. Are they worse than Bola? How about the 1938 event? In the latter event, the river returned to its original channel along Petane River through Bayview into the dried out Ahuriri lagoon. https://hwe.niwa.co.nz/event/February_1938_Eastern_North_Island_Flooding
The photos of flooding in the Esk Valley then look more than the current event. In another catchment, 21 workers died when their camp got washed away. More forgotten deaths.
And note that two months after that, there was bad flooding in Taranaki, Manawatu, Marlborough, Canterbury https://hwe.niwa.co.nz/event/April_1938_New_Zealand_Flooding
Lucky there were no SUVs then.
New Zealand regularly gets very heavy rain events. This may be the biggest one in almost everyone’s memory, but it wasn’t unprecedented (I’m looking at you, James Shaw). They kill people. And we don’t spend enough money hardening our infrastructure or maintaining our river systems to minimise flooding damage. Instead it is spent on fripperies. Until that attitude changes, we will continue to have these bad consequences. Blaming climate change is just a shirking of responsibilities. Building more windmills will never stop flooding.
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February 19, 2023 8:01am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Bringing Tamatha Paul into aotearoa’s Parliament will solve all this
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:15am
  - pdm
    
    Suze – glad she is going to Aotearoa because I don’t think she will add anything positive or worthwhile to New Zealands Parliament.
    
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    February 19, 2023 8:40am
- Morry45
  
  Have a look at this. The historical flood in 1938…. was 19 February… TODAY!!
  
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/21-people-drowned-after-cloudburst-at-kopuawhara
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:15am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Morry45 – was that when climate change started? Asking for a greenie friend…….
    
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    February 19, 2023 8:53am
    - Master Mariner
      
      I always like listening to Sen Kennedy’s line of questioning.
      A fantastic Legal brain.
      Here’s a great example and relevant to NZ 2050 Carbon neutral agenda.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U72NwQhlVQ
      
      We need to be asking the same questions,
      highlights 50 Trillion $ to be carbon neutral and no ones knows if it will lower temperatures, So in that vein, What exactly is NZ “Road map” too 2050 Carbon neutral and costs associated ?
      
      I can only find “word soup” in regards to how its achievable.
      Here’s another good link about energy security.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNI4Vd7pKh4
      Thoughts ?
      
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      February 19, 2023 11:10am
      - Chris Nisbet
        
        I’m sure that people have this idea that going ‘carbon neutral’ is maybe a bit expensive, but achievable, and we’ll all be living similar lives to what we do now. Nirvana!
        This will not be what happens if we start making serious attempts to go carbon neutral.
        We are already seeing policies being put in place to restrict our movement – flights being cancelled, 15 minute cities, ULEZ zones in London, restrictions on the types of vehicles we can buy, restrictions on the types of fuel we can use to generate electricity. People are already going cold in places like UK and Germany. Cheap renewable electricity is resulting in massive energy price increases. Taxpayer money wasted on virtue signalling that could be better spent on making our lives better.
        Life will not be as pleasant, or as free, as what we enjoy now.
        The f#ckers pushing this upon us freely admit that they have no idea what effect it will have on the climate. I suspect it’s worse than that and they know it will have an immeasurable effect (at best) on the climate.
        
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        February 19, 2023 12:02pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        It’s quite possible the world could go into a long period of significant cooling (like for decades or even centuries). It’s happened before. The climate cultists will keep denying with their spin machine, until the frozen granny bodies pile up every winter and absolutely nobody can deny it. Then all that bloody idiotic piss weak and stupidly expensive renewables crap will have to be abandoned and even more money will have to be spent suddenly digging up coal, fracking for gas and building nuclear plants.
        
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        February 19, 2023 2:55pm
      - Taieri
        
        we’ll all be living similar lives to what we do now
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        Yes, we will.
        
        The scenario has already been written. It is here:
        
        https://www.arup.com/perspectives/publications/research/section/the-future-of-urban-consumption-in-a-1-5c-world
        
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        February 19, 2023 3:31pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Back in the day they didn’t bother making up stupid names such as anthropogenic climate change. They just called it what it was – a cloud-burst.
    
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    February 19, 2023 10:42pm
- Simon
  
  Govt.nz is now mostly fake garbage. They human shield behind nurses, teachers & police but most of the rest is just garbage.
  
  Govt.nz used to just be shit weight but increasingly as they cant fix basic problems anymore, and its now mostly fake shit weight.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:27am
- Jim
  
  Bravo well said CJames. I’m so tired of the myopic climate change alarmism from politicians and the corporate media, without offering a balanced view by considering history and the influence of known significant weather patterns.
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64192508
  
  NZ is not alone in the insanity of building infrastructure in unsuitable areas, with known natural risk factors (e.g. especially regular seasonal slippage and flooding).
  
  Until our politicians, councils and developers take a more pragmatic view of the world, the same misery to everyday people will just continue.
  
  I also find the hypocrisy of our current government’s world view quite astounding. On one hand they incentivise EVs whilst offering disincentives to vehicles like UTEs (try getting around Hawkes Bay in a Tesla now), but don’t offer any incentives for installing domestic solar generation. Why?
  
  At the same time our authorities offer ridiculous approvals to build vast new residential developments (including State housing) on known flood risk areas. Best example recently being in South Auckland where this council mapping shows the true flood risks. Our media then reports people swimming in 2-3m of water in their driveway, and cries “climate change”
  https://data-aucklandcouncil.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/0d50200579364e0bb6cda2be0893fc8b
  
  Here’s a media report, try putting “Clover Drive” in the map search tool, and the observed flooding becomes less of a surprise and more of a certainty.
  
  https://theglobalherald.com/news/auckland-flood-victims-wade-through-streets-to-safety/
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:37am
- Cassandra
  
  I lived in Malaya. We got heavy rain frequently. The drain beside my quarters was 4 feet deep. No flooding, ever. In NZ we have antiquated drains, build beside rivers and on flood plains and wonder why disaster strikes.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:51am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Did they have 3/5 waters there Cassandra?
    I am fully expecting that in the near future, when we have such a regulated and efficient system here, all these current problems and events will be sorted.
    And there will be no more floods, eh.
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:25am
    - Cassandra
      
      Actually Malaya morphed into Malaysia and is very much into 3 Waters – Malays get preference for all sorts of things. But that hasn’t stopped them using common sense (and Chinese and Indian engineers) to ensure that the monsoon is respected.
      
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      February 19, 2023 9:29am
      - Jack5
        
        Cassandra’s …Malays get preference for all sorts of things.
        
        Agreed. Malaysia favours ethnic Malays over the sizeable ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian minorities.
        
        Non-Malays must attain grades on average two or three times better than a Malay student to gain access to a Malaysian university or to obtain a scholarship.
        
        Race-based entry preferences to Otago University Medical School are perhaps an indication of what New Zealand might be like if Maori were the same proportion of the population as ethnic Malays are of Malaysia.
        
        Malaysia is 62.5 per cent Malays and small groups of indigenous peoples; Chinese 20.6 per cent; and Indian 6.2 per cent.
        
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        February 19, 2023 2:27pm
      - Matt Long
        
        The quality of roading engineering in NZ isn’t good. WDC contractors we’re widening our local road and put a dish drain down the side that wouldn’t hold a shower.
        That won’t work I said, whatever said the crew. A few months later after the side of the road ripped out, the ask me if I can take the remains of the dish drain.
        Even now the culvert design on the road means they are blocked off before the heaviest rain hits.
        
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        February 19, 2023 2:46pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Exactly, went to Hong Kong in 2006, 10 inches of rain in 2 hours, no sign of flop, not even surface flooding, so infrastructure can be built up to cope
    
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    February 19, 2023 10:57am
  - Master Mariner
    
    I feel in the drains in Penang years ago, You cant see them in the torrential rain, And even more so if a “Bit half cut”.
    They are also sewage
    Up to my waist in shit water.
    
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    February 19, 2023 11:14am
    - Nickc2
      
      Nothing like sitting in a Stormdrain eating an Egg Banjo or a bag of King Prawns whilst fully pissed until you wake up in the morning and check where you left your clothes eh?
      
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      February 19, 2023 11:48am
  - pdm
    
    We were in Suva 1974 to 77
    
    Sometimes you could hear the rain coming. We used to watch the school grounds across the road from us go under water in 10/15 minutes at times.
    
    One day I had to take my shoes and socks off and wade about 30 yards through knee deep water in Central Suva to get back to work after lunch. Just drizzle when I left an hour before and all gone about an hour later.
    
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    February 19, 2023 11:15am
    - Nickc2
      
      Yea, all the water drains into Nabukalou Creek which drains into the sea and keeps downtown Suva pretty dry. There’s also a bloody big storm drain next to the Grand Pacific Hotel that takes all the stormwater from Govt House Grounds and drains into the sea.
      
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      February 19, 2023 11:39am
    - Paulus
      
      Bermuda where I worked many years ago had pavements about 4 foot above the road and at 4pm you knew why for an hour.
      
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      February 19, 2023 2:02pm
- Inandout
  
  When you take your car to a mechanic he will generally try and find the source of the problem. With weather events instead of mouthing ‘climate change’ why not look further at recent volcanoes or the other biggie, the closeness of the moon?
  https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/closest-new-moon-2023
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:28am
- CJames
  
  Sorry, the link I initially gave was only to the “minor” February flood. They had a lot bigger one in April that year
  https://hwe.niwa.co.nz/event/April_1938_Gisborne_and_Hawkes_Bay_Flooding
  This was two weeks after the Central New Zealand floods.
  
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  February 19, 2023 1:03pm
- Doc Holliday
  
  There are two issues, mitigation and adaptation. James Shaw is aware of this, as is everyone else compos mentis.
  
  Both problems are bigger now as a result of climate denialism.
  
  We might have started reducing GHG emissions 40 years ago – the oil company scientists had been reporting the consequences of burning fossil carbon for years – had the oil companies not succeeded in duping the public.
  
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  February 19, 2023 3:48pm
  - CJames
    
    Ok Doc, If Gabrielle was caused by climate change/ variability/ catastrophe because of increased concentration of greenhouse gases, what was Bola? Why were there three big floods in 1938? Why was the biggest recorded flood on in the Buller in the 1920s (when they had 3 massive floods in 4 years)?
    That is why James Shaw and fellow travellers like you are not very clever. There is one answer, no matter what the situation or the contrary facts. Go back to Popper or Feynmann defining theories vrs results. Greenhouse gas concentrations being the major cause of the current extreme weather events are a fail.
    
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    December 19, 2022 5:05pm
    - Doc Holliday
      
      [Mod – learn to reply without the insults]
      
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      February 19, 2023 6:03pm
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    Bigger? How much bigger? How would Gabrielle have been different without ‘climate change’. Show your working.
    Climate denialism? What’s that?
    One thing’s for certain, I hope my taxes don’t pay your wages.
    
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    February 19, 2023 4:10pm
    - Ghost
      
      Perhaps the real question is how different would Gabrielle be without the forestry slash
      
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      February 19, 2023 4:22pm
- Colville
  
  Flood levels recorded as 800mm above Bola which was meant to be a one in 500 year event.
  
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  February 19, 2023 4:51pm
  - CJames
    
    Flood levels where on what river? The Hawkes Bay Catchment Board 1988 report on Bola states the flooded rivers as 1 in 5 to one in 30 year events. The report actually has the water gauge readings in it for all the rivers
    
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    February 19, 2023 5:12pm
  - Simon Arnold
    
    https://hwe.niwa.co.nz/event/March_1988_North_Island_Ex-tropical_Cyclone_Bola will help. Search the page for “return period”. Remember the odds against two 150 year events 35 years apart are not extraordinary (although I’m not sure what the estimate is for Gabrielle on the east coast).
    
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    February 19, 2023 8:08pm
    - CJames
      
      The Esk , Whanawhana, Clive and Fernhill sites show floods with return periods of 15 to 30 years during Bola – Same as what the old Drainage Board Report says
      
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      February 19, 2023 8:21pm
Yvette

In passing …
Massey University adopts tiriti-centric focus in curriculum
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/02/08/massey-university-adopts-tiriti-centric-focus-in-curriculum/

Modern 2023 University adopts 1840 view of everything?
… in the past
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February 19, 2023 8:03am
- Simon
  
  Roald Dahl’s children’s books are being rewritten to remove language deemed offensive by the publisher Puffin. Puffin has hired sensitivity readers to rewrite chunks of the author’s text to make sure the books “can continue to be enjoyed by all today”, resulting in extensive changes across Dahl’s work.
  
  From the UK guardian.
  
  Everything will be re-written.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:31am
  - Ghost
    
    Is it april fools day already…. Stupid
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:17am
  - Jack5
    
    It’s not just the Woke – and in NZ also the Maorificationists- who are censoring our knowledge and information.
    
    Printing has been cheap in China, and many publishers have been getting books manufactured there.
    
    British publishers have been censoring books to suit the Communist Chinese Government. The most obvious case has been removing references to Taiwan or Taiwanese.
    
    Chinese printers have also warned publishers in Britain and America about books containing references to Xinjiang (land of the Uighurs) or to Covid-19 originating in China.
    
    This link is to a Financial Times article last year. You will likely be able to read it as a one-off:
    
    https://www.ft.com/content/63cbf209-656f-4f99-9ee3-722755c228ed
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:40am
    - Inandout
      
      Jack, from a stone age race this Maori science is mind blowing.
      
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      February 19, 2023 10:30am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Perhaps, rather than rewriting Dahl, they should be reading Orwell?
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:54am
    - kowtow
      
      They are , but contrary to Orwell’s intention as a warning they use it ad a training manual .
      
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      February 19, 2023 11:02am
      - Tom Hunter
        
        Hell, they’re probably re-writing that book to make Big Brother the hero.
        
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        February 19, 2023 1:24pm
  - Clyde
    
    “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the Truth”. Orwell, 1984.
    
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    February 19, 2023 12:33pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    If they try rewriting 1984, there won’t be much left.
    
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    February 19, 2023 2:06pm
- pdm
  
  Yvette
  
  What utter crap from Massey..
  
  Living in the past is no good to anyone – we must always look ahead.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:42am
  - Jack5
    
    Once a university known internationally for science and agricultural expertise, Massey is now notorious as a hive of Woke, Leftist, and indigenous-claims activists.
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:43am
    - David Lenny
      
      How is the Treaty relevant?
      
      Where else but tiriti-centric Massey can a vet learn the karakias for healing a moa – oh precious taonga – shot by a settler colonist or stunned by a collision with a motor car?
      
      Edit: should have a reply to Widogast.
      
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      February 19, 2023 10:50am
      - David Lenny
        
        …have been a…
        
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        February 19, 2023 10:57am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Upskilling staff, what is that?
    Good video, what did he say?
    
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    February 19, 2023 10:20am
  - Flossie
    
    We should though learn from the mistakes of the past.
    
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    February 19, 2023 12:08pm
- Nickc2
  
  Massey University, another Bolthole for Maori Radicals and other lunatics seeking to remold NZ into a Marxist state with a Maori Dictator in charge.
  I’m informed John Tamahere and Willie Jackson have their hands up for the job. Other contenders are still fighting among themselves.
  
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  February 19, 2023 9:18am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Maori Dictators*
    The Tyrannical Elite Maori are a large group. Think money gatherers.
    Maori guy on the street gets nothing, not even underpants.
    
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    February 19, 2023 10:23am
  - Paulus
    
    You are perhaps missing Waikato University in the similar context to what you say about Massey (whose name needs to be Maorified).
    
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    February 19, 2023 10:30am
    - Nickc2
      
      Correct Paulus, but I did use the word ANOTHER when mentioning Bolthole.
      IMO, Universities in NZ have become dens of iniquity for Maori Radicals wishing to spread their bile and foster Racial Superiority.
      
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      February 19, 2023 11:14am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  What does it actually mean? For example Massey is the only Vet school in New Zealand. How is the Treaty relevant to training to be a a world class competent vet?
  
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  February 19, 2023 9:55am
  - Jack5
    
    The vice-chancellor of Massey, Jan Thomas, is an Aussie veterinarian.
    
    It’s surprising that Massey’s slide into social “sciences” and Maorification has sped up under a leader with an academic background in real science.
    
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    February 19, 2023 11:43am
    - NothingLeft
      
      It is well established that she is a toxic far-leftie. Banning non-woke speakers from campus events, another owellian thug.
      
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      February 19, 2023 1:46pm
- nathie
  
  Did the students ask for this? Is it helping with their enrollments?
  
  Or is it more box ticking for senior management to ingratiate themselves with the Ministry of Education (and the Labour Govt), furthering funding and furthering career prospects?
  
  If it’s the former, then sure, great.
  
  If it’s the latter, what are the opportunity costs? What’s in it for the wider student cohort (and the sole reason why such institutions exist) and the successful teaching of their studies?
  
  Thing is, this will be coming to educational (and health and justice etc) entities everywhere.
  
  All under a Labour Govt (so expect a lot more if election 2023 sees a Labour/Greens/Maori Party govt).
  
  Does ACT and National have the same or different views?
  
  Particularly on Govt Ministries and institutions re-interpreting historical aspects of the Treaty into today’s world. Can only be happening because it is sanctioned by the Ministries, which are controlled by the Govt.
  
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  February 19, 2023 12:00pm
Dougal10

Those people who are blaming this flooding , on climate change more than likely pick up their pay cheque from the public purse. They are just dodging responsibility for poor decisions.
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February 19, 2023 8:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Public purse, yep. They go to work? to eat their lunch.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:35am
- pdm
  
  Climate change is the excuse of convenience Dougal10.
  
  Have you seen this:
  `New study will look at link between Tongan eruption and Cyclone Gabrielle.’
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/131248166/new-study-will-look-at-link-between-tongan-eruption-and-cyclone-gabrielle.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:53am
  - Mike H S
    
    It is a very important read. It is a surprise that it is in Stuff.
    
    The important part of the read is that this particular volcano was under water so what was spewed out into the atmosphere was water and water vapour. ALL scientists agree that water vapour is a greenhouse gas. It is stated that there is a possibility that the earth’s surface temperature will rise by 0.1 of a degree C.
    
    What happens with your normal volcanoes (Ruapehu, Pinutabo, Krakatoa etc) is dust particles are fired up into the atmosphere and this shields the earth from heat from the sun and so the Earth’s temperature will drop.
    
    Understanding is everything.
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:13am
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    Well, climate change causes earthquakes don’t you know…
    https://www.greenmatters.com/weather-and-global-warming/does-global-warming-cause-earthquakes
    so it’s no great stretch to think that climate change also caused the tongan eruption.
    It’s the science!
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:40am
Gravelroad

It is rather depressing, but predictable, that $tuff has been unable to resist linking the cyclone to Covid19 deniers and anti vaxxers
And as for the “cartoon” there today – it is pure politicking and totally uncalled for under today’s circumstances.
Shame on you $tuff for seeking to take political advantage out of a tragedy. Even I thought better of you than that.
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February 19, 2023 8:13am
- Its only I
  
  Stuff, Yellow journalism at its worse.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:18am
- kevn
  
  @Gravel… I have yet to meet one of the mythical ‘anti-vaxxers’ they (and others) often refer to.
  Plenty of anti mandate c19 jab folk out there.
  Anti-vax? No
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:23am
  - mandk
    
    Quite so, kevn.
    
    It was an anti-mandate protest.
    
    I was there for 8 days, and I don’t recall meeting any anti-vaxxers
    
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    February 19, 2023 8:49am
    - kevn
      
      @mk… The anti-mandate protest. Was only 12 months ago. How right the attendees were.
      
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      February 19, 2023 9:21am
- Tricati
  
  Stuff is just an extension of the Labour Party comms group – They have no sense of objectivity and are a disgrace to journalism. Save yourself some stress, and don’t look at the crap.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:24am
  - Paulus
    
    We can assume that Stuff are waiting to get ahead on when Labour call a General Election in about April, as this will be the ebst time Hipkins has thanks to the Cyclone.
    Remember Ardern won on the Virus, and Chippie cannot bet on another one before October.
    
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    February 19, 2023 10:34am
    - Ghost
      
      No it won’t. Talking to an aunt up north who just hot power yesterday there is anger in their town and how the government has ignored them before and after the storm.
      
      Covid was a completely different ballgame to this storm
      
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      February 19, 2023 10:37am
      - Paulus
        
        Sad to hear Ghost but the paid media perception remains that the image of Ardern still reigns through Chippy and his kindness.
        And it is what the floating voter women like it.
        
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        February 19, 2023 2:06pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      I think he may fall on his face if he tries that, people voted Labour with a full majority, they will see how cynical that move would be, Hipkins has looked like a possum in the headlights on the ground in HB daily, I note people are suffering in 5 other areas in this country, but they appear to have been left to their own, sadly it probably means Nash if he stands and that bully from Wairarapa will probably retain their seats
      
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      February 19, 2023 11:06am
      - jon
        
        G time marching on and we in the Wairarapa still dont have an announcement of who will be the Nat candidate for the seat. In 2020 we had a candidate also selected at the 11th hour despite Nat MP Allistair Scott indicating his intention to retire at least 15 months before that election. The *bully* will be rubbing his hands with glee!
        
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        February 19, 2023 4:39pm
- kowtow
  
  $t1ffed is no longer a news outlet .
  It is a regime funded propaganda agency.
  
  Interesting though how the year started with the legacy media trying to frame the debate around how the freedom folk were a dangerous and destabalising force in the country when the real and present danger was govt ,local and national political priorities that saw a lack of investment in proper infrastructure or regulation around protecting river catchments from forest slash and indeed sub standard stop banks . I don’t see cows destroying stop banks or bridges . But that’s all we’ve ever heard from the climate brigands .
  
  Meanwhile the soft on crime Elites have struck again where criminals have the run of the place and citizens are forced to take the law into their own hands while the state is literally absent at a time of great need. The state whose negligence ( crap stop banks) contributes to flood disasters and whose absence makes the after effects worse.
  
  So instead of focusing so much energy and massive resources on alleged past grievances and re imaging the state into some sort of indigenous nirvana , how about today’s real grievances and fixes . For all New Zealanders.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:30am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    I would direct you to the latest episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, and his panel discussion of the partisan state of the Mainstream media, and how the focus has gone from reporting to cheering for your own team.
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:58am
    - oldfella
      
      SR: it’s no wonder the majority of Americans don’t trust their media.
      Fifty percent of Americans believe that the news media lies in order to promote a narrative.
      Only 25% actually believe this isn’t true. The rest are skeptical, unsure of what to think.
      https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/02/17/only-25-of-americans-believe-the-news-media-n531401
      
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      February 19, 2023 11:38am
- Simon
  
  Stuff is mental illness. Read something else.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:34am
- ClanMcleod
  
  $tuff have been an embarrassment since they were bought for a dollar. Whoever paid it was ripped off.
  
  No wonder they are living off the taxpayer via the PIJ fund. Bought and paid for shills, every last one of them.
  
  Trying to link the cyclone to those who opposed the draconian covid measures imposed by Ardern and co is truly scraping the barrel. The good news is, with each article they write, these pond scum are exposing themselves more for what they truly are.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:50am
  - Colville
    
    Clan. Wake the fuck up!
    It was the buy of the century!
    She paid a dollar and has had “just ” a hundred million poured in by Labour?
    She will have siphoned off a cool twenty to the caymans and will shed crocodile tears when it folds.
    Poverdy is for losers.
    
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    February 19, 2023 7:51pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Left-wing news outlet, carries water for left wing govt that finances tgem. What a surprise.
  
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  February 19, 2023 1:53pm
ClanMcleod

Welt (German television station) report uncovers evidence of serious irregularities in the Pfizer phase 3 Comirnaty trial, suggesting systematic attempts to cover up adverse events at the Argentine clinical site

Yesterday, Welt reporter Elke Bodderas published a report shedding further light on what appear to be systematic efforts to cover up or reclassify adverse events among trial participants.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/welt-report-uncovers-evidence-of

It is clear that the trials were a sham. That the whole “vaccine” rollout was a sham. That everything done in this country to force people into taking this disastrous product was a sham and a disgrace, and all of those responsible must be held to account.
If they are not, democracy is dead in this country and the rot begun by Jacinda Ardern and her toxic government will continue to shred the social fabric to the detriment of us all.

Where are the honest politicians? Where are the honest journalists? Where are the “experts”?
Where are all those people who so enthusiastically led the insane charge down this path? Why are they not speaking out?
They had plenty to scream about for 2 and a half years. Now? Tumbleweed.

Cowards. Every last one.
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February 19, 2023 8:20am
- Brian McDonald
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:42am
  - RightNow
    
    Hope you’re keeping up with your booster shots Brian. With love ❤️
    
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    February 19, 2023 8:49am
    - kevn
      
      @RightNow… A year or two ago people like brain could almost be excused. But now, with so much factual data from multiple sources, he is clearly blinkered and seems incapable of absorbing the new information. Just stuck in the dark ages of 2020/21.
      
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      February 19, 2023 9:28am
    - plc
      
      Wouldn’t want Brian taking any random shots
      
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      February 19, 2023 9:35am
      - Jimmy Brown
        
        😅
        
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        February 19, 2023 10:25am
      - Opie
        
        Safer to be the actual target
        
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        February 19, 2023 10:43am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Being concerned that a pharmaceutical company deliberately covered up evidence of adverse events and deaths occurring during their trials used to tell us their concoction was “safe and effective” is “bleating”?
    
    Oh well, you’ll be fine Brian, I’m sure you’re all up to date with yours. Best wishes.
    
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    February 19, 2023 8:58am
    - Brian McDonald
      
      Yes, I am fine thanks. Off to work shortly.
      
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      February 19, 2023 9:02am
    - Ghost
      
      If only the pharmaceutical companies had a history of being open, honest, and upfront and hadn’t already paid out billions for their behaviour and issues with drugs.
      
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      February 19, 2023 9:08am
      - Bridgenag
        
        Dr Jessica Rose tells us about the COVID injection adverse events reported to the official US reporting system – VAERS.
        https://open.substack.com/pub/metatron/p/necessary-safe-and-effective-expert?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
        
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        February 19, 2023 9:21am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Ghost – it’s one of those astonishing things to me. How people had blind faith in this thing.
        
        When the covid narrative began I was curious as to how they would manage to rush a new “vaccine through”. I’d had all previous shots up to then in my life, including an updated tetanus in the year before the circus began. But I had a bit of a nagging doubt about what appeared undue haste.
        
        While doing a bit of research I came across the story about Pfizer and their world record fine for fraud and lying about their products. That alarmed me and I dug further. It was this process that led me to become vehemently opposed to THIS “vaccine” and of course, all of the associated attacks on freedom and human rights.
        
        I am thankful I looked. I tried to make friends and relatives aware of the horrific record of these pharmaceutical companies but the vast majority didn’t seem to see a problem.
        
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        February 19, 2023 9:28am
      - Ghost
        
        Yeah, I researched it, took what I found into my gp and he looked into it and agreed with my decision to not take it.
        
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        February 19, 2023 9:46am
greybeard

Stuff’s assessment of day 3 of the test contains this gem:

“With the prolific Conway already back in the hutch, the home side needed a long stay and a big score from a player close to becoming the country’s highest run-scorer in test history.
But Williamson lasted just five deliveries and left without adding to his 7645 runs in the format and England were away laughing.”
As I asked on GD two days ago, why is Williamson in this team?
He is currently just a placeholder and should be dropped in favour of some younger blood.
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February 19, 2023 8:23am
- Morry45
  
  Form is temporary…..class is permanent.
  
  He is an excellent batsman. I think something rotten is going on in management, and it’s bringing the team down. Just look at the selections….
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:32am
- amospicton
  
  Can you give us one player not in the team who’s better than Kane? There has probably been only one player in our history (MD Crowe) as good. He’ll fail sometimes, just like Steve Smith’s last innings was also a duck, but ask England whether they’d like Williamson in the team or not.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:47am
- Prince
  
  Nonsense.
  Williamson is our best batsman. But cricket isn’t like rugby – one mistake and you could be back in the pavilion. It’s why the game is so damn difficult and compelling.
  One thing that annoyed me about that writeup. No mention of Mitchell and Bracewell’s stoic partnership in the face of the usual pommie abuse and nastiness. It’s a small thing, and a small partnership so far, but give the lads some credit.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:51am
  - Mike
    
    greybeard has been banging this drum for a while now. The Kiwi clobbering machine always happy to take aim at our best.
    
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    February 19, 2023 10:48am
- kevn
  
  @Clan… I remember having a debate with an old retired nurse ‘friend’ back in mid 2020 and telling her the Pfizzer jab was not an actual vaccine. She didn’t get the drift. Her theory was that if it’s in a needle it must be a vaccine. It was being ‘sold’ as that.
  
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  February 19, 2023 9:35am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    kevn – of course the WHO changed the definition of a vaccine TWICE to allow this garbage to be classified as a “vaccine”. It never was and never will be.
    
    This is a link to an absolutely superb reference re the whole circus. Sometimes we forget parts of the madness. It’s a timeline of events, part 1. Looking forward to part 2.
    
    Bookmark this, it’s a handy reminder. I can’t recommend it enough. The explanation about how useless the PCR test was is spectacular on it’s own.
    
    During an interview by Julia Hartley-Brewer, Matt Hancock firmly stated that the PCR tests were exceptionally accurate and had a false positive rate of 1% or less, which he then incorrectly described as meaning that if 200,000 tests are performed each day and 2,000 people test positive, that this means only 20 will be false positives. His error was to infer false positives are a percentage of the positive test results when they are actually a percentage of the overall number of tests performed. As one professor pointed out in written evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Data Transparency and Accountability panel, if 200,000 tests are performed with a test that produces 1% false positives, that would mean 2,000 false positives would be produced – an amount equal to the 1% of the population at the time that were known to have Covid-19. Therefore in Matt’s example, 4,000 people in total would test positive and 50% of those would be false positives.
    
    What all this means, and as prominent academics have also pointed out using published data from a 2020-2021 Cambridge University study of asymptomatics, is that where an individual received a positive test result for Covid-19 there was at best only a 20.5% chance that they actually had the virus. When compared and contrasted to the official UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimate that 1 in every 141 people in Cambridge had the virus, the Cambridge University data showed that in fact only 1 in every 4,967 asymptomatic people tested in Cambridge was confirmed positive. UK Government representatives like Matt Hancock had not only exaggerated the accuracy of PCR tests beyond credibility, they were also inflating the ‘case’ numbers of infected people. The punch line was that the Cambridge University study had unintentionally shown through confirmatory testing that a significantly higher 84% of positive test results were false positives.
    
    https://lawhealthandtech.substack.com/p/covid-timeline-part-1
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:55am
  - emmess
    
    LOL
    Therefore heroin must be a vaccine to protect people from living
    
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    February 19, 2023 10:35am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Hahahaha, did he not score a double century in his previous test agains Pakistan? Maybe the game before
  
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  February 19, 2023 11:09am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Just checked NZs previous series late 2022 Williamson scored 277 runs in 3 innings 200 not out, and 36 and 41 in the next test, hardly a failure 138.5 average
  
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  February 19, 2023 11:23am
- oldfella
  
  I think it’s time for a new Black Caps coach. Any suggestions?
  
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  February 19, 2023 11:42am
Pineapple Lumps

When our national anthem calls on God to defend us, what does it mean when:
– the country has been economically trashed
– we have dramatically increasing poverty and hardship
– a big part of our food bowl – domestic and export – has been destroyed
– big storm causes flooding in Auckland
– Cyclone Gabrielle devastates the East Coast

Unfortunately like Pharaoh in the time of Moses, I suspect NZers will just ignore the rebuke, harden their hearts and carry on in their defiance of God.
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February 19, 2023 8:33am
- Mike
  
  Don’t forget you are already defying thousands of gods, but weirdly reserving your devotion for the one adored by Jews, Christians and Muslims.
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:49am
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    Happy to defy the idols Mike.
    
    A man cuts down a tree, with one part he carves a god to worship, with the other he cooks his dinner. Another man forms a god from silver and gold.
    
    God is not limited by mans imagination or what we can craft with our hands. Worship the Creator not the created.
    
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    February 19, 2023 12:06pm
crackle

Wheels are turning slowly… https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2023/02/20230215-updated-health-alert.pr.html
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February 19, 2023 8:39am
Cassandra

US polls this morning: Biden narrowly beats Trump in 2/3; DiSantis beats Biden, also narrowly. An interesting 3 way poll has Trump 39, Biden 32, Cheney (Liz) 15. Early days.
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February 19, 2023 8:46am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Woman on the Countdown checkout yesterday. She mentioned NZ infrastructure in a bad way. So I mentioned electricity. Nothing is being built to cater for all of the EVs.
She agreed. Then I told her there is only one way. clean efficient Nuclear. Shit she nearly fell over. She is stuck in the Chernobyl days. Tried to explain heating units the size of 4 kitchen fridges. When it is spent it goes for refining and a new one takes its place. The steam turbine and generator stay.
Nope, she was not having a bar of it. “Next year you are buying an EV right” Good luck charging it on your carless days”
I think I planted a seed for her to think about.
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February 19, 2023 8:47am
- amospicton
  
  The major problem with nuclear isn’t safety, it’s that the capital cost is enormous, largely to ensure that safety. It’s a fantastic source of energy but it does not provide cheap electricity.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:50am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    When the fuel is spent the unit is replaced. Same as changing the LPG bottle on a fork hoist. The capital will be unavoidable soon. There is no forward thinking from National or Labour.
    The real problem is the idiots in the corner, quivering, and waving their umbrellas with skeletons painted on it. Train Wrecks the lot of them.
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:34am
    - Tom Hunter
      
      Steve is referring to Small Modular Reactors, of which one, NuCor, has just been approved by the NRC:
      
      Small modular reactors have been promoted as avoiding many of the problems that have made large nuclear plants exceedingly expensive to build. They’re small enough that they can be assembled on a factory floor and then shipped to the site where they will operate, eliminating many of the challenges of custom on-site construction. In addition, they’re structured in a way to allow passive safety, where no operator actions are necessary to shut the reactor down if problems occur.
      
      What’s not mentioned in that article is that when they’ve used up their nuclear fuel the entire SMR is pulled out and sent back to the same factory for disassembly, refurbishment and refueling.
      
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      February 19, 2023 2:18pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yes Tom, that is the thing I was talking about, but a different one. The unit was stored in an underground square, with concrete lids to keep the undesirables out.
        They are quite mad you know.
        
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        February 19, 2023 2:57pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    amsopicton – there is no such thing as a free lunch, but apparently the green loons think there is. We can get “free” energy from the sun and the wind and the ocean. A spectacular Tui advert in the making.
    
    I live off grid. It gives us security of supply and the comfort of independence. But it wasn’t cheap. Over the life of the system it will certainly be cheaper than connection to the grid, but it’s not free.
    My father told me decades ago. “You get nothing for nothing.”
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:38am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      ‘And precious little for sixpence’
      
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      February 19, 2023 2:14pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Money for nothing, and your chicks for free
      
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      February 19, 2023 3:14pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        That ain’t working…
        
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        February 19, 2023 10:10pm
  - Paulus
    
    Understand that the UK – Rolls Royce Engineering are building some 27 mini Nuclear plants currently.
    Way to go !
    
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    February 19, 2023 10:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yeah, everything coming together now.
      SNRs and Rolls Royce.
      
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      February 19, 2023 3:15pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    Yeah? Then why do the French pay about the same for their power compared with NZ and yet 70% of their production is from nuclear?
    
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-prices-in-selected-countries/
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country
    
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    February 19, 2023 11:18am
    - amospicton
      
      Because they’ve effectively written off the initial capital cost. If you do that it produces very cheap electricity.
      
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      February 19, 2023 11:32am
      - thirteenstars
        
        Oh, come on.
        
        Almost every power project in NZ has had its capital cost “written off” insofar as it’s been paid for by the taxpayer.
        
        Yet we still have power companies wanting to build generation. What do they know that you don’t? Obviously they won’t be able to magically write it off and the capital expenditure will have to be paid off through income generated from that investment.
        
        Trouble is, they are not allowed to build such capacity due to the expensive and usually insurmountable environmental regulations that year upon year keep supply steady while demand increases resulting in inflated electricity prices.
        
        Get the Greens (and the National Party Teals) out of the way and nuclear power would not even be under discussion. The irony is the more inflated our power prices become the more viable a nuclear plant becomes.
        
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        February 19, 2023 12:25pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I don’t know how long before it needs to be replaced.
    I would think 10 years? Depends on use I guess.
    Must research.
    
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    February 19, 2023 11:37am
- Mike H S
  
  I think the biggest problem with Nuclear power is educating the populace as your checkout woman demonstrated.
  
  It really is the cheapest way to go and without cheap affordable electricity, technology and mankind do not progress as fast as they might.
  
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  February 19, 2023 9:24am
  - Nickc2
    
    Who turned NZers against Nuclear Power and why?
    IMO, Labour and Green Politicians and like-minded University Faculties used a fear of Nuclear Power and Munitions as a weapon against the United States and in support of NZ becoming a Communist South Pacific Nation.
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:39am
    - Mike
      
      Nuclear power was studied for decades by the ministry of works but has never been shown to be viable in NZ. Especially if viability takes into account physical risk factors in location of a plant and storage of waste.
      
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      February 19, 2023 10:53am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Mike, we don’t store waste. When the unit )the size of 4 fridges) is spent, it is exchanged. It is all sealed up. Do yourself a favour and go on the Google Machine.
        They are available but I don’t remember the name of the unit.
        I enjoy looking at this stuff to see how far we have come since 1986.
        Not being a smartarse, but if you research and come back with answers, I will be interested.
        
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        February 19, 2023 11:59am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Ministry of Works, Mike? NZ’s population has doubled since MoW was privatised, and the tech has moved a long way forward. Whether it’s moved far enough is a moot point, but relying on MoW studies as to whether nuclear is viable in NZ is akin to relying on the Greens for an accurate prediction of the public appetite for private car use.
        
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        February 19, 2023 2:20pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Remember David Lange?
      “I can smell the uranium on your breath” Yes, that David Lange.
      Nuclear hater, American hater.
      NZ has uranium but only small samples. Found in the South Island by tow piss pot prospectors. Most rocks or minerals are radioactive. I have a lot of rocks. Cut them up or carve them and polish them. When I go outside at night and touch something that is earthed, I light up shiny green.
      Australia have shitloads, but they have no reactors. Same as NZ, the weirdos come out.
      Chernobyl was 1986, that was 37 years ago. It will take another two generations before we wake up that we have power rationed.
      
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      February 19, 2023 11:54am
      - Nickc2
        
        Sydney has a Nuclear Reactor at Lucas Heights.
        NZ uses radioactive isotopes for medical purposes at four major hospitals.
        
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        February 19, 2023 12:01pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @Nick. What is the reactor in Sydney used for?
        The medical stuff is chemo. I remember seeing a photo of what is used. Bit bigger than a 10 cent coin?
        
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        February 19, 2023 1:05pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Steve Otto @ 1:05PM
        The Lucas Heights reactor is one of only 70 reactors worldwide that are capable of producing much-needed medical radioisotopes. It also produces material or carries out analyses for the mining industry, for forensic purposes and for research.
        Courtesy Google
        Radio active isotopes are used in treating cancer and are separate from Chemo. I’m currently undergoing Chemo but not Radiation.
        
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        February 19, 2023 1:39pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        Good luck with your treatment Nick2.
        
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        February 19, 2023 10:14pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Biggest problem is safe disposal of radioactive material
    
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    February 19, 2023 2:17pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Everything we have came out of the ground. Think about that, out of the ground. What is the problem with it going back into the ground?
      Oil change – waste oil goes on the neighbour’s gorse!
      
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      February 19, 2023 3:35pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Haven’t we got plenty of coal we could use to make electricity? As well as being really convenient and reliable, some people think it might make the planet a little bit warmer. Benefits all around.
  
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  February 19, 2023 9:45am
  - kowtow
    
    Can also make petroleum etc
    
    Self sufficiency , cheap, local , sustainable.
    
    And as it was once a living thing it can be classified as a biofuel.
    
    Just like the Brits are getting ready to declare nuke to be “green”.
    
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    February 19, 2023 11:29am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I do believe we have a power station built on coalfields for that very purpose.
    Can’t remember the name. Best ask Jaspinda, she will know.
    
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    February 19, 2023 12:02pm
    - Chris Nisbet
      
      Imagine if we built a couple more… maybe one in the SI and one in the north. Cook Strait DC link could be shut down while they fixed/replaced it. Cheap, reliable energy for the foreseeable future.
      We might even be able to afford to develop some industry and make the country a wealthier place with it – it’s what China is doing.
      
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      February 19, 2023 1:24pm
      - Nickc2
        
        You’re not allowed to make sense Chris. This is NZ oops, sorry, Aotearoa after all and we’re only allowed to believe what the Govt tells us to believe. Remember, Cindy said so when she dictated that we were only to believe what came from the Podium of Truth.
        
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        February 19, 2023 1:33pm
      - Paulus
        
        Under the 3/5 Water Scheme Ngai Tahu will control the South Island generation water and will therefore control the flow of electricity to the North Island – at their price.
        
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        February 19, 2023 2:10pm
      - Chris Nisbet
        
        @Paulus – just one more reason to build a couple of coal-fired stations
        
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        February 19, 2023 2:24pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Cook Straight Cable needed to be replaced years ago. Oil leaks.
        Oil used for cooling.
        
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        February 19, 2023 3:20pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Wealth? Nope, the Socialists don’t like Wealth!
        
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        February 19, 2023 3:41pm
      - kowtow
        
        Paulus
        “Under the 3/5 Water Scheme Ngai Tahu will control the South Island generation water and will therefore control the flow of electricity to the North Island – at their price.”
        
        And why shouldn’t they . They invented hydro electrcity , built the dams , the networks and have maintained them these past 100 years ……….
        
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        February 19, 2023 4:42pm
- Simon Arnold
  
  NZ won’t need nuclear for the foreseeable future. Geothermal and wind should do us even if all petrol vehicles go EV.
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:17pm
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Nothing like understanding what happened with a problem in order to sort it out. I don’t know how old this gentleman is but the work he has quickly done would normally have perhaps taken years and cost millions.
Kopu Hikuai Slip 2023 – Why? – YouTube
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February 19, 2023 8:48am
- RightNow
  
  Great work Brian, I’m in awe of your stunning intelligence
  
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  February 19, 2023 8:50am
- Brian McDonald
  
  I’d down tick the old fella too if I couldn’t stand people who can work out problems quickly.
  
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  February 19, 2023 9:04am
  - RightNow
    
    Lol
    
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    February 19, 2023 9:08am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  What does that even mean?
  
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  February 19, 2023 9:59am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

World Government Summit. Elon Musk. Video.
https://finishtherace.com/eric/elon-musk-warns-world-government-could-lead-to-civilizational-collapse/
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February 19, 2023 8:48am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Experts Admit Vaccine Increases Risk of Heart Trouble.
Myocarditis is more common after the COVID infection rather than after the vaccine?
https://patriotnewsfeed.com/experts-admit-vaccine-increases-risk-of-heart-trouble/?seyid=49668
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February 19, 2023 9:00am
oldpark

After reading a column in the far left NZ Herald written by one of Ms/Arderns’ greatest critics named Heather Du Plessis-Allan seems she has had an Epiphany on the guy who almost daily carried out the wishes and agreement and direction of Ms/Ardern on Covid,Education. Plus the closing of Charter Schools just a few mentioned all turned out to be virtually a disaster or at least debatable, not also forgetting the demonic so called Three /Five Waters ambush with 50/50 control by 16% of population known as
Co – Government .All greed to by Arderns’replacement
Mr Hipkins .
To read the fawning words of Ms/Arderns’ once verbal critic and her Epiphany on Hipkins beggars belief.What a bloody turn-around.
The only explanation as a perception ,her employer the far left NZ Herald which masquerades as good guys have realised that the $55 million dollars afforded to NZs so called Main Stream Media in the past by the then Ardern Government needs topping up. Surely not?Yeah! Right!.
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February 19, 2023 9:03am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  People keep saying Hipkins has done wonderful in this disaster, he flies into HB daily, gets photos in gumboots and NEMA clothing, tells us it’s bad, tells us the roads are in the wrong place then flies off, there are 5 other parts of the country that are suffering bad, Northland is cut off snd parts have no comma, not a dicky bird.
  
  What has he done? No delivery apart from 2 million dollars, as per usual with Labour it’s easy to hand out money, no plan, and nothing that give the people hope, I am starting to see people getting angry because there is no leadership in their communities.
  
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  February 19, 2023 11:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    He has gone to form a working group to get some answers.
    Be careful of his answers, he is a known liar.
    
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    February 19, 2023 12:06pm
thetiedarch

Wordle today was a bit rough. At least my usual guess pattern didn’t use a critical letter.
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February 19, 2023 9:04am
- Mike H S
  
  Tell me what the word is and then I’ll understand your problem.
  
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  February 19, 2023 9:28am
  - Dougal10
    
    The double use of a letter normally only used once occasionally was the issue for those with a regimented method of doing it .
    
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    February 19, 2023 10:56am
Maggie Pie

A TIMELY WARNING 🙁

How precarious is life?

Watch what happens to these 4 guys standing under the tree….

https://twitter.com/Nature1sScary/status/1626536497565548545
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February 19, 2023 9:10am
Bridgenag

Steve Kirch still trying to get the FAA to investigate pilot injuries and deaths

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/my-secret-plan-to-get-the-faa-to?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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February 19, 2023 9:18am
ClanMcleod

The NFL player, Damar Hamlin who collapsed and almost died during a game on live TV was asked about it.

In his first interview since the incident, Hamlin discussed his collapse during a Jan. 2 “Monday Night Football” game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Hamlin spent more than a week in the hospital.

“You’re 24. Peak physical condition [that] could run circles around me right now. How did the doctors describe what happened to you?” ABC News’ “Good Morning America” host Michael Strahan, himself a former NFL player, asked Hamlin during an interview published this week.

Strahan: “How did doctors describe what happened to you?”

Damar Hamlin: “Umm… That’s something I want to stay away from.”

Yeah, yeah. Correlation is not causation……//

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/damar-hamlin-asked-about-why-his-heart-stopped-something-i-want-stay-away
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February 19, 2023 9:42am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/giving-northland-back-to-maori-exposed-as-nothing-less-than-fraud/
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/john-robinson-destroying-new-zealand-the-sovereignty-of-ngapuhi-hapu?

Scroll way down for comments.

See how this Coup is working? Give the land to Ngapuhi?
Happening right under our noses. Wake up you morons.
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February 19, 2023 9:52am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  1/ New Zealand is a sovereign nation with one democratically elected House of Parliament; the sovereignty of New Zealand is in the hands of ALL the people of New Zealand. Public goods, including Crown land, cannot be given away.
  
  2/ All New Zealanders are born equal and live as equals. Equal in rights and duties. Equal in selecting every level of government. Equal in all legislation. Equal before the law.
  
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  February 19, 2023 9:55am
Master Mariner

Having worked extensively in the Indian Ocean, Before satellite based warning systems, You needed to have a good understanding of Meteorology.

Information was mostly relayed by vessels transiting and forcasting was really left to the ship. This left a lot of holes in recording in weather forcasts where ships were infrequently sailed.

More so in Stn Hemisphere where I have found myself in quite a few times in the way of a Tropical Revolving Storm that was un announced.

So with this in mind, I find this fascinating,

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/tropical-cyclone-freddy-could-be-headed-for-the-record-books/1104145
On another note, There is every likelyhood of another Cyclone before end of April ( Cyclone season in Stn Hemisphere and our Longitude).

All the conditions are ripe for another powerful event.
The next 6 weeks will require constant monitoring.

So be warned, Its not over yet.

Good news is the La Nina event is reverting. Time to get Meteorologists reporting the Weather on News and put pressure charts back, ( Not seas of red) etc.
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February 19, 2023 9:59am
- kevn
  
  @MM… You are always a good read, thank you.
  
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  February 19, 2023 12:34pm
  - Jack5
    
    Agreed. Master Mariner is an asset to Kiwiblog.
    
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    February 19, 2023 2:03pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

People born before 1991….
what trivial skills do you possess that no one uses anymore?
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February 19, 2023 10:05am
- Its only I
  
  https://youtu.be/WVUI6K7tdsk
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:15am
- Ghost
  
  Common sense
  Ability to think for yourself
  Ability to exist in a power cut or internet outage
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:20am
- mogg
  
  I can read, write add up and take away.
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:41am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Admit a mistake and apologise if it affected others
    
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    February 19, 2023 11:55am
  - Sacha
    
    lol – you had to be there. My 3 kids were brought up on that requirement too. Everything else was extra –
    
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    February 19, 2023 6:21pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Being able to think for myself.
  
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  February 19, 2023 1:08pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Do an oil service on a car. Change a tap washer, fix a cistern, use a hand hacksaw or wood saw or file with speed and accuracy. Basic sewing.
  
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  February 19, 2023 2:05pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Use a fax machine
  
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  February 19, 2023 2:24pm
  - Colville
    
    Clan. Wake the fuck up!
    It was the buy of the century!
    She paid a dollar and has had “just ” a hundred million poured in by Labour?
    She will have siphoned off a cool twenty to the caymans and will shed crocodile tears when it folds.
    Poverdy is for losers.
    
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    February 19, 2023 8:22pm
- rangitoto
  
  IBM S/360/370 assembly language maybe.
  
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  February 19, 2023 2:55pm
- Matt Long
  
  Tell the difference between a bull and cow.
  
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  February 19, 2023 3:20pm
- JohnRidd
  
  How to use a slide rule and log tables.
  
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  February 19, 2023 4:04pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    And the last time you did this was when?
    
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    February 19, 2023 8:46pm
- Humai
  
  Setting the points gap and adjusting the timing.
  
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  February 19, 2023 7:40pm
Rusty

In my view the reason for a lot of the carnage on the East Coast/ Hawkes bay is not due to climate change but infrastructure neglect.

I know its not much consolation for the thousands of people who have lost their homes, lively hoods, and even loved ones but could better roads, bridges, and drainage have reduced the impact of the floods?

Ardern and the Greens for the last 5 years have simply been all talk about the dangers of ‘future’ climate change and done little in the ‘present’ to deal with it.

Of course I do not subscribe to man made climate change theory but do believe in ‘natural’ extreme weather events which we have experienced recently.
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February 19, 2023 10:10am
- Stu2
  
  The volume of the water in the Esk Valley and Puketapu meant there was no way to stop it. And there was too much water to funnel it anywhere. All that could have been done was a mass evacuation sooner.
  
  The issue is building on flood plains. Wonderfully productive land but it comes with risk.
  
  It looks like a lot of the destroyed bridges on the east coast might have survived if there hadn’t been vast volumes of slash stuck against them. And with them went the Gisborne water supply, east coast fibre optic cables and highway access. Operational practices will be in the spot light.
  
  The obvious infrastructure shortcoming was the Napier substation. Transpower was working towards better protecting it. Hopefully now they will move it, rather than improve it. I don’t have much faith in the 1 in 250 year storm it was designed for, as I expect major storms will become more frequent, more energetic and carry more rain.
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:49am
  - Peter S
    
    Good points.
    
    I think you have have given a pretty good overview.
    While the forestry slash undoubtedly has had a big impact, and is front and centre as the perceived cause of much of the damage, I think that time will show that the truth is a bit more complex.
    The vast bulk of slash is made up of small pieces. Stuff that would flush through without causing tructural damage. The problem is the large bits that catch on a structure and then catch the smaller bits, building up the weight.
    
    There are definitely larger cut logs in the debris, but even these are relatively hard to catch. The stuff that often starts the problem is trees with branches that catch easily. Branched trees tend not to be commercial forestry waste but either natives or willows and poplars growing on the river banks.
    
    A complete solution is going to need to look at all aspects, including the concept of managing riparian and erosion plantings.
    
    It is worth remembering that forestry was the solution to the damage caused by cyclone Bolar. With that it was the erosion and silt that was the big issue.
    
    Silt is probably going to be a bigger issue in the mid term than the slash/bridge one (though that is the immediate big problem).
    
    There is going to be an opportunity to compare the impacts of Bolar with this event to see whether the forests have reduced or worsened things overall. It is entirely possible that it is a mixed result. My guese is worse for infrastructure (bridges) and in the flood plains, but better in the wider catchments.
    
    Hopefully an educated plan will be the result
    
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    February 19, 2023 12:22pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Fewer pine trees. More bush.
      
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      February 19, 2023 2:26pm
      - Peter S
        
        That is a great example of the opposite of an educated plan.
        
        Native bush gets knocked over by storms and slips in to waterways too when it gets to mature tree levels. It is not usually a big news item as it has tended to be in remoter areas and not income generating land, but replace the pines with Bush in these areas and you will eventually end up with a different type of still destructive debris washing down.
        
        The real issue is that the underlying geology means that you will always be having issues regardless of whether it is pasture, Bush, commercial forest or commercial manuka/kanuka. Put enough rain on and, once it penetrates to the underlying papa you will get slips.
        
        In the gfc it was the forestry industry that was one of the few export types that kept performing consistently (and do helped keep the economy afloat).
        
        The same industry has roading machinery that is already being offered (and used) in the recovery- so part of the problem but also part of the solution. Available machinery is going to be one of the big parts of the recovery process.
        
        After Bola the farming industry was the target of all the negative emotion because of the historical clearance of steep land.
        
        Hopefully we can get past that type of over simplistic, emotion based mind set this time.
        
        Yes, slash is an issue, but silt has damaged much bigger areas and will have the larger long term impact (chronic to the slash acute). Some of the silt will be from cutover sites for sure, but it would be a brave prediction to say that high country pasture areas and native bush have not also been sources of much silt as in previous incidents.
        
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        February 19, 2023 4:14pm
      - Peter S
        
        Hey, Apologies NMTB, I was harsh in my first comment.
        
        Native bush does form part of a sensible solution, as may either a reduction or a re-think on location of pines.
        
        What I really should have said is that the solution needs to be more comprehensive than that.
        
        Pines have their place. They helped save the remains of the native forest by providing an alternate timber source in the past, and they currently generate export earnings that will be much needed in the recovery phase. The industry also employs a lot of people, so it is not all bad.
        
        Problems to be sure, but I am keen to avoid throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.
        
        One thing to consider is what the damage to the back country catchment area would have been if it was still unforested like with Bola. I flew over that Gisborne area 12 months later, it was a memory of grey slips with a few patches of grass for mile after mile.
        It may be that the forest has either made it worse, not helped or helped, but we don’t have that picture yet.
        
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        February 19, 2023 4:42pm
      - Colville
        
        Pines earn and natives dont.
        We are going to need money money and more money to fix this and work towards the future.
        Industries that earn are GOOD but that dosent mean that forestry should be allowed to leave slash in vulnerable situations.
        Change practices, burn it, pulp it, use it for co-gen at mills. But dont leave it on the side of the hill!!
        
        It may be that a few dozen trees left alive (per skid site) as a barrier/retaining wall is the answer. Talking to a logger today he thought that was the cheapest way to do it.
        Leave the trees alive for 10 years then poison them after the slash was rotted down.
        
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        February 19, 2023 6:11pm
  - kowtow
    
    You are being rational .
    
    We must concentrate on cliamte change and spend tens of billions on lowering the temp .
    
    Once we’ve budgetted for and spent that then what’ll be left for decent bridges , stop banks etc
    
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    February 19, 2023 1:01pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yes, and Nash was asked after the floods before Christmas is he going to do something about slash, his answer absolutely not, now it’s oh we have to do something about slash Grrrrrrr
  
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  February 19, 2023 11:47am
Chris2

Kieran McAnulty was interviewed on the TV3 news last night in his capacity as Minister of Emergency Management and was swiftly criticised for having a huge Labour Party sign next to him.

He promptly apologise, said he should have noticed it (he was filmed in his Electorate office), adding that the TV camera was already set up when he arrived.

Good on him for his quick apology, but it raises the issue of the media (the cameraman and the reporter) and their failure to see the inappropriateness of setting up the camera to deliberatly include the large Labour Party signage in first place.

As we approach an election period I would like a committment from TV3 that they are not going to pull a stunt like this again. And that the staff involved in this episode have been formally warned about their partisan behaviour.
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February 19, 2023 10:11am
- Paulus
  
  Election could well be closer than you think as Hipkins may not have a better time to call one with the Cyclone/Virus being overiding prominently in all things by the paid media.
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:41am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    I doubt it. Labour have an absolute majority & they ain’t getting another one. Most likely Chippy & co will be out on their arses on election night. None of them will ever be as well paid again. Turkeys don’t vote for Thanksgiving.
    
    Nope, my view is that they will squeeze every last payday & will use their majority to wreak the most havoc that they can, Michael Cullen-style.
    
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    February 19, 2023 2:30pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  “failure to see”
  You give them too much credit. I presume it’s intentional.
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:46am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They find it easy to apologise when the crime has been done, how many times have we seen Labour flout election law and say sorry I didn’t realise
  
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  February 19, 2023 11:48am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

DEMOCRACY
A Maori and a non-Maori co-own a $1000 car.

With democracy, they put in $500 each to make the purchase.

They wash the car together, pay for the registration, warrant, and maintenance together, and have equal time driving it.

They also have 50/50 ownership of a car park. All the expenses connected with the car park are shared equally.

Then the Maori moves up the ladder and becomes a tribal representative.

He wants to change how things are done with the car and the carpark.

He wants to change from democracy to co-governance.

CO-GOVERNANCE

With co-governance, the tribal representative claims 100% ownership of the car and the carpark. He insists the non-Maori continues to wash the car, pay for the registration, maintenance and warrant.

The tribal representative gets to drive the car whenever he wants. The non-Maori only gets to drive it when the tribal representative is not driving it and pays the tribal representative a fee every time he uses it.

He also charges the non-Maori an on-going fee for parking the car on the car park. When the car is sold, the tribal representative takes all the money.

If the 99.5% NZ sheeple (i.e. the non-tribal representative population of New Zealand) are ready to cede rights and submit to the ultimate authority of a .5% tribal representative minority, being pushed through illegally, they should at least do so after studying a clear explanation.
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February 19, 2023 10:12am
- MCōs
  
  Let’s get back to basics before I continue reading.
  How many people do you know co-own a thousand dollar car? Let alone wash the piece of shit?
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:20am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Don’t you guys live out Mangere way, Cossie?
    
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    February 19, 2023 10:26am
    - MCōs
      
      What do you know about Mangere?
      
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      February 19, 2023 10:46am
      - Nickc2
        
        It used to be a place one could visit back in the 1960s. No longer, if one wants to live to see another day.
        
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        February 19, 2023 11:07am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Willie Jackson lives there for a start 🙁
        
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        February 19, 2023 11:21am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        They have a pub under the bridge hahaha
        
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        February 19, 2023 11:49am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Lances ex wife still lives there
        
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        February 19, 2023 11:50am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yes MCos. You live somewhere in Mangere Bridge.
        Have a manned roadblock to keep out undersirables?
        
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        February 19, 2023 3:28pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    My Daughter has a 1993 Subaru Impreza, 1600 cc.
    Less than 170K on the clock. No rust, and garaged all it’s life. It belonged to my Partner’s Mother.
    We keep it for sentimental reasons really. Good runner and I maintain it.
    Value? $800?
    
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    February 19, 2023 12:16pm
    - Colville
      
      If it was a Toyota Corrola it would be four grand and go for another 200,000 kms
      
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      February 19, 2023 8:27pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Seems reasonable to me – I mean, their ancestors were here first. What better reason do we need to let them have total control?
  /s
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:43am
Jack5

For those who buy cars for Cabinet Ministers and bureaucrats…

The pressure is on for electric vehicles. If the fleet is Telstra, the radios are FM only and the occupants won’t be able to listen to Parliamentary debate as the cars whisk them around.

But! If they want AM radio as well as FM as they are driven silently, so in the car they can hear MPs debating, there seems to be a solution.

The Guild of NZ Motoring Reporters has named the Chinese made, electric BYD Atto 3 its “car of the year” for 2023. A check with a dealer brought a response, “Yes, it has AM radio”.

Parliament is broadcast on the AM network in a deal between the Government and a religious broadcaster which has frequencies and broadcast facilities.

In America, where there are thousands of AM radio stations, there has been publicity about Musk leaving AM out of Tesla electric cars. Circuitry is needed to control interference from the motor.

BYD is China’s and the world’s biggest electric-vehicle maker. Berkshire Hathaway, the company of famed investor Warren Buffett, bought into BYD at a bargain price 14 years ago, but last year began selling at BYD’s now far, far higher share price. Buffett’s right hand man, Charlie Munger, says his 2008 decision to buy into BYD was the best investment he ever made.
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February 19, 2023 10:17am
- emmess
  
  There is no way in hell I’d ever buy a Chinese made car as long as the CCP are in power.
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:48am
  - Ian Boag
    
    What you makes you believe that Chinese engineers are not as clever as American/European ones?
    
    The Japanese got through all that …. made cars that run well and last forever.
    
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    December 19, 2022 8:51pm
  - Jack5
    
    I remember old folk saying they would never buy a Japanese car …
    
    Let’s hope that rising living standards eventually lead Chinese to drop communism, but politics didn’t stop Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway from investing in the company.
    
    In the meantime, globalism has led to big shifts in national industrial power.
    
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    February 19, 2023 11:27am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      It’s not the quality of the car that concerns emmess, methinks
      
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      February 19, 2023 2:32pm
      - emmess
        
        Both actually
        The quality is likely to be poor due to corruption within the Chinese system, nobody is willing to tell the truth about what may be wrong with a component to keep the higher ups happy. If anyone has seen the Chernobyl mini-series, they will know what I mean.
        
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        February 19, 2023 2:47pm
      - Colville
        
        Japanese cars, Korean cars, Chinese cars… Approx 25 year steps.
        
        Hyundai are now faultless cars at the price point.
        
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        February 19, 2023 8:32pm
    - MCōs
      
      I think you’ll find the the main reason the current system is so strongly entrenched in China is because it pulled the general population out of poverty.
      
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      February 19, 2023 4:31pm
- kevn
  
  @Jack… Diesel 4×4 be the favourite vehicles in some parts of NZ right now. You won’t see an EV.
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:58am
- Handyman
  
  A car owner in the US recently found he could listen to conversations taking place in his Chinese car while he was at home. He found there was invisible (and undeclared) microphone in Chinese cars which could be accessed via the internet. It did not need any particular password.
  
  Imagine if the CCP could listen to conversations in ministerial cars!
  Also imagine all Chinese cars starting to have “technical difficulties” if New Zealand offended the CCP in some way, or in a trade dispute.
  
  What is good for Buffett is not necessarily good for New Zealand.
  
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  February 19, 2023 12:09pm
  - kowtow
    
    Recall they were “funding” candidates for our sovereign parliament .
    
    Both major parties involved .
    
    The legacy media has very little to say on this subject of grave national security concern.
    
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    February 19, 2023 1:41pm
  - Jack5
    
    Handyman, drive in a spouse’s car (or anyone-else’s) with their cellphone co-ordinated with the car system so they can talk while driving.
    
    Let’s say they are at home, inside, and talking on their cellphone. As you approach the house, suddenly their conversation fills the car.
    
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    February 19, 2023 7:27pm
Surely Knott

WEF are misleading us on the data re the Ozone hole so why would we believe them on climate change?

99% of CFC’s have been eliminated in a global mandate to ban cfc’s in 1994.

WEF says the hole in the ozone is shrinking.

They say , “In the final quarter of 2022, scientists from NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the hole in the ozone layer is continuing to shrink. The hole lies above Antarctica, and between 7 September and 13 October 2022, it spanned an average area of 23.2 million square kilometres.

This is well below the average in 2006, when the hole’s size peaked at 27.5 million square kilometres.”

But when you look at the data they have cherry picked 2006 because it is the highest data point. In 1994, and 1996 it was only 19 and 12 respectively. The ozone hole numbers haven’t steadily decreased since the ban of cfc’s in 1994.

Climate change, Covid, Covid Vaccines and Ozone predictive modelling is a best informed guess. But with the ozone (and covid and vaxxes) we can now see how the modelling tracked against reality. And for ozone for example it didn’t work.

The average ozone area size from 1994 to 2022 is 21.95 But for the last 3 years it’s been 23.

Data below.
https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/statistics/annual_data.html
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February 19, 2023 10:37am
BeaB

Far too many pale, stale males amongst all those engineers, road workers, helicopter pilots, defence personnel, emergency workers etc we are seeing constantly on our screens rescuing people, rebuilding roads and communications, and cleaning up. What message are we sending our kids? Where is the diversity?
Or doesn’t it matter when our lives are at risk and we don’t mind at all that it’s a colonial descendant coming to save us?
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February 19, 2023 10:38am
MCōs

I watched the news last night and saw all the destruction and distraught people over on the East of NZ.
It’s a thin line between news and entertainment, I thought.
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February 19, 2023 10:43am
- Ghost
  
  Yeah and new Zealand are very lucky. Just heard the death toll in turkey is now over 40,000
  
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  February 19, 2023 10:46am
  - kowtow
    
    Massive corruption in Turkish building industry with regime connivance.
    
    Nothing to do with luck .
    
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    February 19, 2023 11:52am
OlderChas

Comments from a friend in another site. (His spelling and punctuation!) :

interesting isnt it…a gov’t and the green’s wanting to get rid of diesel, petrol, gas,, guess what most of the devastated areas on the east coast are using to survive. u got it, diesel/petrol for generators to supply electricity.. gas to do cooking with. But do you hear anything from the msm about any of this or for that matter anything from the gov’t about their use…
This would have to be the biggest “up yours,” re, winding down the use of gas and petroleum products, will these numbties ever learn.
oh, and have you seen any ev’s running around doing deliveries, pushing there way thru knee deep water, or have you seen diesel/petrol utes and suv’s doing the hard yards, or anyone euligizing about their supply of electricity via a wind farm or those plastic things on the roof..jeezus wept…
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February 19, 2023 11:10am
Maggie Pie

I’ll tell you what I haven’t seen reported…. how our Race-Relations-Commissioner’s business ‘MENG’S PLACE’ has fared after the devastation that struck Gizzie 🙁

Pretty sure I can recall reading he operated a well known Pokie-Bar in the deprived suburb of Kaiti.
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February 19, 2023 11:36am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Hang on, Maggy W. lives in Kaiti. She probably doesn’t regard it as deprived.
  Be kind.
  
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  February 19, 2023 12:17pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    TBF tho Cap, Maggs lives @ Kaiti HILL.
    That’s like Cossie living at Mangere Heights.
    Entirely different Post Codes.
    
    Actually, just found this in my Twitter archives…..
    
    https://twitter.com/stevekilgallon1/status/1404904387487559680
    
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    February 19, 2023 12:38pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      That’s a shocker. It’s almost as if Meng Foon doesn’t mind exploiting the poor.
      
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      February 19, 2023 2:35pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        The “poor” are there for votes. “we promise blah blah blah”
        
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        February 19, 2023 3:47pm
thirteenstars

Over at Breaking Views, on Willie Jackson, co-governance:

Whilst Jackson believes that most New Zealanders understand co-governance from a Treaty of Waitangi and rights perspective, such as the settlements negotiated with iwi, Jackson says there’s a second type – social equity co-governance – that has been misunderstood.

Jackson clearly either does not fully grasp the mood of the public or he is deliberately underplaying it for his audience. Social equity co-governance has been utterly rejected by the electorate and cannot be resuscitated by a superficial re-branding.

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/02/thomas-cranmer-tuhoe-co-governance-is.html

Which is what worries me so much a Luxon, Willis and the other senior managers and ESG disciples at National’s head office, that they simply won’t have the desire and/or wherewithal to take on Maori intellectuals (who would run rings around them) to reject, and totally, the notion of co-governance and root it out of the civil service, but will seek to rebrand it so as to sell it to both Maori (wink, wink) and the electorate at large, all for wont of courage to face the most pressing issue of our time.

The rest of the article is instructive about what the future holds for co-managed or exclusively tribal-managed resources.

Finally, in the comments section there, this:

The area [Urewera] has effectively been gifted to maori. This was explained by Finlayson, the perpetrator, in recent RNZ programme. He said it is the way of the future and we should all learn to suck it up, or words to that effect. Deer, possum, rat numbers, noxious plants will run away in the area, and spread to others. Kereru numbers will not increase. A magnificent wild area is effectively lost to outsiders and ordinary NZers. It seems that for a fee visits may later be made available, accompanied by some maori propagandist. Not my idea of recreation.

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/02/thomas-cranmer-tuhoe-co-governance-is.html?showComment=1676755326772#c6455315000755174167

Apropos considering Finlayson could be one of those voices the National leadership heeds for guidance in these matters.
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February 19, 2023 12:14pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I have to say that following recent events in the Ureweras, I don’t feel that providing emergency relief in Ruatahuna should be a priority.
  
  Which is unworthy & mean spirited of me, but that’s kind of what happens when people are divided one from another by activists pushing a barrow.
  
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  February 19, 2023 2:39pm
- thirteenstars
  
  Indeed, and it’s a perfectly natural human reaction. Where once goodwill or at least tolerance existed, now we have antipathy at best and open hostility at worst.
  
  But that’s the goal of the game that’s currently being played, and it saddens and depresses me that so few are aware of the bigger picture. As with all wokeness, and the call for “diversity, inclusion and equity”, the endgame is conflict between various groups divided by race, gender, sexual orientation, age (especially) and any other aspect of our humanity that can be used to drive a wedge.
  
  This is all the result of Marxism, laid out in the middle of the 19th century, the ideology which enslaved hundreds of millions in the 20th century justified upon class lines, and reworked for the post-WWII world to divide us along every other line, grown to fullness in the universities and schools, finally infecting the private sector, and now coming to fruition, and what a toxic fruit it is.
  
  They’re winning, and they know it.
  
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  February 19, 2023 3:40pm
Muttonbird

Mediawatch takes the diseased 1ZB out the back and shoots it:

In a storm that killed people and destroyed homes, some front rank hosts in key time slots at our most popular national talk radio network obsessed about a missed day of school.

Education is a wonderful thing. But perhaps it’s not our students who most need to sit down and take on board some information from people better informed than they are.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018878253/radio-hosts-fixate-on-schools-closing-as-gabrielle-closes-in
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February 19, 2023 1:04pm
- Surely Knott
  
  How Orwellian for our govt funded national news channel on rnz to have a section called “mediawatch” specifically to call out other media who don’t tow the govt line?!? No thx.
  Media watch, and The disinformation project. Are Nz govt’s very own department’s of truth.
  
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  February 19, 2023 3:21pm
  - kowtow
    
    Yep , I think it is long past time for the legacy media to “obsess” about the education emergency the country is facing.
    
    It’s already blighting at least one generation , costing millions and will cost billions in prison , police and welfare .
    
    The regime funded and friendly media are now trying to discredit the few independent voices left .
    
    Oh and they’re not students , they’re pupils , those legacy media fools need to get back to school themselves , they could do some basic science too .
    
    Storms happen , always have, always will . No matter how many utes and cows there are or aren’t.
    
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    February 19, 2023 3:51pm
  - Swifty
    
    It is a good thing to ensure every child misses not a day of school if it can possibly be helped.
    
    It’s certainly infinitely more preferable than using them as political pawns as some teachers, the education unions and Labour politicians do – routinely.
    
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    February 19, 2023 4:30pm
- Swifty
  
  “Mediawatch takes the diseased 1ZB out the back and shoots it:”
  
  Good grief.
  
  Let the hate flow through you Mutton.
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3AhLaKxDb40
  
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  February 19, 2023 4:27pm
- NothingLeft
  
  ~~Mediawatch~~ far-left propaganda organisation
  
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  February 19, 2023 11:12pm
Bridgenag

Hard raw data: There never was a Covid Pandemic in Australia in 2020
https://open.substack.com/pub/metatron/p/hard-raw-data-there-never-was-a-covid?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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February 19, 2023 1:05pm
Maggie Pie

A bestie retweets…

Amazing really 🙁
After 5 years and with the country now $140 billion in debt, completely divided on racial grounds and crime rampant everywhere, Cindy tells us….. “her tanks empty”, then just walks off into the sunset.

No consequences.
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February 19, 2023 1:37pm
- Keith White
  
  No immediate consequences. Yet.
  
  “… a dish best served cold.”
  
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  February 19, 2023 1:55pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  OK… that’s milkey, mike & ross out of the way 😀
  
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  February 19, 2023 2:15pm
Swifty

Have a listen to Neil Oliver but swap out Sturgeon/Scotland and swap in Ardern/NZ.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rsRJ5Mswi0U

Still ring true?
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February 19, 2023 2:48pm
Maggie Pie

Look…first to admit I know sweet-fanny about Cricket.
But not hearing a lot of love out there for new player Scott Cougarline.

One commentator even describing his selection as…. “morally reprehensible”

WTF?
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February 19, 2023 3:10pm
- Swifty
  
  We’ve just seen the beatification of convicted basher and thief Titewhai and I see today John Tamihere is to give his legal counsel role to the lawyer who married and smuggled into prison contraband for her murderous, rapist, husband – should she be reinstated to the profession.
  
  Seems to be a different standard for whitey though. Just look at the pasting Aaron Gilmour is continually given by Stuff.
  
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  February 19, 2023 3:37pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Aaron WHO?
    
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    February 19, 2023 3:41pm
    - Swifty
      
      Don’t you know who he is?
      
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      February 19, 2023 5:05pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        I know he won ‘Dancing-With-The-Stars’ when he teamed up with Insta bestie Sam Hayes a couple of years or so back.
        
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        February 19, 2023 5:20pm
Stu2

We’ve heard a lot about the loss of the Redclyffe Substation in Napier, but there hasn’t been much mention that the same thing happened to the Whirinaki substation just to the north of Napier as well.

The cost of the disruption in Napier this week would have paid to move a clump of the vulnerable substations to better locations.

I hope Transpower is told to get on and tackle it’s list of the worst ones, and to do substantial fixes (like moving to higher ground) rather than protective works.
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February 19, 2023 3:26pm
- Mike
  
  Does the government directly inject capital into Transpower? Seems more likely thatt your power bills will need to increase significantly to fund the resilience you demand.
  
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  February 19, 2023 3:37pm
  - Stu2
    
    More that the govt should stop taking a dividend from Transpower for a while. More investment in the network is in order.
    
    Napier would have been a lot different with the power on, and cell phones and EFTPOS working.
    
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    February 19, 2023 4:05pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://nz.yahoo.com/news/vladimir-putin-likely-poisoned-claims-former-kgb-spy-230904950.html
Morse Code?
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1626628669476114432
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February 19, 2023 4:04pm
Maggie Pie

What’s happened to Judith these days?

My partner still has a signed photo of her on the wall of his gun-room…. holding a pistol with both hands looking like Cath Willows from CSI 😀

Now look –

https://twitter.com/JudithCollinsMP/status/1627066755230072832

Should we be concerned??
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February 19, 2023 4:14pm
- kowtow
  
  She kicked gun owners in the nads .
  
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  February 19, 2023 6:09pm
rangitoto

Even though I’m a city slicker, I just made a donation to Federated Farmers flood appeal. I reckon they will know where the highest need is. I don’t trust the others as much.
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February 19, 2023 4:37pm
Chris Nisbet

SWMBO asked if orchardists would be insured against weather events like this, or are acts of God not covered.
I said hang on, this was no act of God – we’ve had all sorts of people in power pointing out that this was ‘climate change’ (meaning caused by humans) in action, and there’s no denying it.
Do insurance companies deny the science, or do they accept that humans are responsible for the carnage?
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February 19, 2023 5:52pm
leoj

Chippie says we haven’t invested in infrastructure.
What about the countless millions spent on bike lanes?
Surely, all the bike usage has thwarted floods?
What about directing ALL the road user charges plus petrol taxes towards actually fixing the roads?
Now, he tells us…….
Plus, the media will never call him out.
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February 19, 2023 6:18pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  And let’s not forget the ‘Rainbow Crossings’!
  
  One of the girls from tennis was telling us about an article she read in ‘PinkNews’, where it was estimated that since 2018, Labor had invested someting like $240mill installing them in various cities all round the country.
  
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  February 19, 2023 7:09pm
  - Ghost
    
    Why would the government be paying for local councils crossings?
    
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    February 19, 2023 7:22pm
    - Mike
      
      Because Maggie Pie is wrong, as usual?
      
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      February 19, 2023 7:43pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      The thing is Ghost, Max was quoting from a UK publication. It may well have said…. Labor-led councils.
      
      I’m seeing her on Tues so will check.
      
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      February 19, 2023 7:53pm
      - Mike
        
        Perhap she is out by a factor of 10 and the amount is $2.4 billion.
        
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        February 19, 2023 8:02pm
- Drone
  
  Has nobody asked him where the money went if not infrastructure. Politicians are sound bite experts, never answer a question not held to account in parliament and selling out the country. The problem is the Labour party can drag the flooding out until mid year when we fall into the election cycle, and they will have dominated the MSM with their kindness and generosity in bailing out the stricken regions (and yes they are stricken, not to be minimised) but that’s what we have government agencies for, not one single Labour MP will be out there shovelling mud out of a wrecked house. Stuart Nash is once again “going to deal” to slash yeah right..
  
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  February 19, 2023 9:46pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Cell phone coverage also a big issue for rural.
  Organisations I have been involved with for years have advocated for this and every politician I have ever spoken with about it has just shrugged his/her/their shoulders and said there was nothing they could do.
  Telcos still too busy scrapping amongst themselves over market share to bother about rural customers and politicians just do not care.
  
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  February 20, 2023 2:30pm
Ghost

Network company Unison said it will be months before power is restored in some rural Hawke’s Bay communities.

At the flood-ravaged Redclyffe substation outside Taradale, chief executive Ken Sutherland said Unison was throwing “everything” at the effort to restore power in the region.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/02/cyclone-gabrielle-rural-hawke-s-bay-communities-could-face-months-without-power.html
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