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Prince

One of the great bastions of democracy is having the freedom to mock, satirise and ridicule the Government of the day.
In the UK there are numerous dailies and TV programmes that fulfill this function.
The US also have a free press and programs like South Park ever ready to prick the inflated balloon of the Government.
NZ used to have a media capable of nurturing this – A Week of it, McPhail & Gadsby, Tom Scott, daily newspaper cartoonists mocking Muldoon, Lange, Bolger, Clarke, Key.
Now we have…well, sorry but we have a large media entity called Stuff, who’s stable of cartoonists are unable to find anything worth satirising in the Government, but who continue to attack the Opposition on a daily basis.
You would think Stuff would be embarrassed and employ a broader range of cartoonists to display a diversity of opinion. Instead, they claim there is no inherent bias in their cartoons.

It is a worrying trend – one that would be very comfortable in Russia and North Korea.
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February 27, 2023 8:01am
- Matt Long
  
  In a worrying trend nearly 26% of people in the us have confidence in the media, Americans are commonly thought of as culturally gullible, but imagine if the same situation arose here?
  https://babylonbee.com/news/disturbing-poll-reveals-26-of-americans-still-trust-the-media
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:50am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Matt Long – sadly that isn’t even satire, it’s frightening that so many are still so gullible as to believe half the shit that is put out by the Whoreald and TVNZ and co.
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:17am
- Gravelroad
  
  Not to worry, I am sure that if National wins the election this year, $tuff will find any amount of amateur cartoonists who will be only too pleased to satirise the new Government.
  And nothing on which to attack the Opposition daily.
  $tuff’s cartooning platoon is hopelessly biased.
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:50am
  - RoboRob
    
    Yup. Went to check todays cartoon and, yes it is an attack on Luxon / National.
    
    I dont go to stuff every day, but I always check the cartoon. Haven’t seen an anti Labour for at least 5 years. It used to be that cartoons poked fun at the ruling party but apparently thats only true if they are not your friends.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:08am
    - I remember when
      
      As Sergeant Schultz used to say –
      “Dis information is not correct.”
      
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      February 27, 2023 9:26am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Unfortunately the Herald isn’t any better than Stuff. (See link below) In fact the Herald’s subterfuge could make it more insidious than overtly Labour supporting stuff.
        
        NZ media should be ashamed their despicable one sided reporting is providing cover for the inept Labour Government and is costing our country billions.
        
        Where are our captains of industry who should be setting up and supporting a factual centre right media outlet? Another term of labour will surely cost them much more than the creation and operation of an online media outlet.
        https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/the-nz-herald-published-my-economics-critique-of-national-and-refused-to-publish-the-one-of-labour
        
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        February 27, 2023 10:09am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Clearly they are worried for the pay masters
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:38am
  - mandk
    
    On top of that, they are devoid of talent for cartooning.
    
    Not one of them is genuinely satirical, droll or even quirky.
    
    But, if you want snide, banal and trite, they can’t be beaten.
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:15am
  - Caine9
    
    Indeed, in line with the rest of their editorial policy.
    I don’t use the term “journalism” when it comes to Stuff, as they’re an undisguised Labour mouthpiece.
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:39am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Totally agree, the orders are coming from afar
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:53am
- kowtow
  
  Dilbert cancelled by many US agencies.
  
  Ian Fleming works being re written too .
  
  I love Big Brother .
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:54am
  - RoboRob
    
    Didn’t know about Dilbert. Used to ‘read’ his cartoons daily. This morning on my Insta feed a got a ‘mock’ dilbert cartoon saying ‘Sales of my 90s cartoon are down so now I am going full racist’. All the comments agreeing that Scott Adams has gone hard right and is now, therefore, a racist.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:11am
    - Matt Long
      
      They’re up on his website, you don’t have to go through all the dross in a newspaper to get to the cartoons any more.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:33am
      - Colville
        
        My (2 minute study) understanding of the situation is that he said Blacks are racist based on 26% of blacks answering a survey question with NO for a question of “is it ok to be White?”
        
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        February 27, 2023 10:48am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        Colville, the poll was by Rasmussen and 47% of respondents responded that they were unable to say that it was OK to be white. Scott Adams then joked that he had been identifying as black lately, but had accidentally joined a hate group. He also made comments about treating people as individuals, and staying away from a group that does not respect you (black americans) and then this “Is it racist to avoid racists who are the same race as each other? Or is it only racist if the racists you are avoiding are white?”. Which elicited the usual crap from the woke-ist’s. The best response however was some guy with “Thanks to Scott Adams, today I learned that it’s not racist for half of black people to dislike white people, but it is racist to point it out.” Bah hah!
        
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        February 27, 2023 11:11am
  - peterwn
    
    And ‘Alex’ (originally published in UK ‘Daily Telegraph’) no longer carried by Herald or Stuff because it upset Gays (eg one where a manager and HR had to take extra care with the appointments process because an internal applicant was Gay and could easily claim discrimination if unsuccessful).
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:53am
    - krazykiwi
      
      ‘Alex’ is routinely brilliant
      
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      February 27, 2023 12:18pm
  - Ghost
    
    Just for a bit of fun
    
    Angela Davis, former member of Black Panthers and wanting reparations finds out her ancestors were white.
    
    https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1628492199322177536
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:55am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      And better still Ghost, white slave owners!! Absolutely beautiful.
      
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      February 27, 2023 11:13am
- Chuck Bird
  
  The Herald is better than Stuff but could be much better, especially on climate change. I have made an official complaint. It goes first to the Herald. If not satisfactory I will go further.
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:56am
  - Taieri
    
    The Herald is better than Stuff but could be much better, especially on climate change.
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    Nobody can beat the Stuff on climate change. They are the bestest!
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:11am
- backster
  
  They are terrified of being Cancelled or condemned by the Dis information Commission.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:05am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  If $tuff did that there would be in office punchups.
  Now that would be good reporting.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:13am
- Raphael
  
  Tremain still does political cartoons that pokes fun at all politicians.
  https://garricktremain.nz/cartoons
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:16am
  - riffer
    
    Exactly Raphael.
    
    What I like about Tremain is that he can offend everybody. Some of his stuff is really quite offensive.
    And good at the same time.
    
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    February 27, 2023 12:48pm
    - kevn
      
      @riff… Tremain ‘reads the room’ well. As many of the great cartoonists. Moran is another.
      
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      February 27, 2023 1:26pm
  - JJ56
    
    Great one today on the Owl, the Pussy Cat, and the big rubber ring. Via Bassett,Brash&Hide https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/tremain-owl
    
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    February 27, 2023 3:00pm
    - Bridgenag
      
      You can email Tremain and get all his cartoons direct
      
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      February 27, 2023 4:06pm
- Philview
  
  I have also been thinking about this today. Does Stuff have some kind of fascist leaning? 1. The anti democratic nature of cartoons that demonise opposition parties. 2. The elevation of a particular race. 3. The number of articles supporting state centralised control of the country and economy. 4. Under Jacinda Ardern premiership it was intolerant of any criticism of the leader. 5. It leans into an ideology and will not allow comments criticising that ideology.
  
  It is a free country and Stuff can take this stance but the tone is disturbing.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:18am
  - Raphael
    
    Stuff made it clear when they were bought by staff for $1 that they intended to be a far-left eco-fascist publication.
    
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    February 27, 2023 12:00pm
    - riffer
      
      So, if they have declared their political leaning, why are people so upset when their reporting follows that path?
      
      Are we not supporters of free speech?
      
      Or is it just free speech for those we agree with?
      
      Can’t have it both ways, surely?
      
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      February 27, 2023 12:50pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        You are correct in what you say, but one does not have to like it, & with the equal right to free speech, condemn what they vomit.
        
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        February 27, 2023 12:55pm
      - RoboRob
        
        The issue always is ‘who knows the political leaning’. We here know that ‘Fox news’ is a right leaning news source. Many in NZ deride them for that and none (AFAIK) of our news outlets source / run stories from Fox.
        
        CNN is the opposite of Fox, a left wing site. It surprises me the number of people here (and around the world) that consider CNN as a good non biased source of news. Most (all) of our news outlets regurlay source stories from CNN and oftern interview CNN journalists for opinion on US current affairs.
        
        We might ‘know’ Stuff is a hard left publication but I gaurantee a large part of NZ society does not.
        
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        February 27, 2023 1:15pm
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        wouldn’t care if they weren’t sucking on the taxpayers teat, but they are, so one would expect at least a pretence at balance.
        
        Unfortunately Luxon and the supine Nats are so afraid of the media, that they will never dare to point out the bullshit.
        
        And we therefore get the government we deserve. Fortunately when the PLA liberate us, this crap will be over, and the woke will be off to the gulags.
        
        Bwuhahaha!
        
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        February 27, 2023 9:20pm
  - Jim
    
    Agree, perhaps we dodged a bullet…..as (the way things were going yip yip) we were likely to be issued with a “Kind Jacinda best PM Ever” badge to celebrate our tenth compulsory vaccine booster.
    
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    February 27, 2023 1:32pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Not all rosy in the US though, the hilarious and based Scott Adams is being cancelled as we speak, for pointing out his fellow white citizens should avid groups where a significant percentage answered NO to the question: Is it OK to be white?
  
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  February 27, 2023 11:37am
  - riffer
    
    Cancel, schmancel.
    
    Who gives a flying fuck what some idiots think? People give this whole cancel bullshit far too much air.
    
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    February 27, 2023 12:51pm
    - RoboRob
      
      Easy to say until your the one getting cancelled. Its also harmful to society when those with opposing views feel the need to hide them for fear of losing their livelyhood.
      
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      February 27, 2023 1:16pm
- Jim
  
  Because as you know already Prince, today there is ‘only the approved narrative’ of what constitutes …….sex, gender, climate, race, religion, crime……even once libertarian centre right views have somehow slid to the far right.
  
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  February 27, 2023 1:25pm
Yvette

The media edited out Maureen Pugh‘s reference to Shaw not providing answers to local Council questions asked of Shaw about climate change. It was the “evidence” for the local council before they impacted ratepayers, that Pugh referred to in an amateurish attempted hit job on Shaw – she should have left that to more competent National people – if they have them.

The media committed a classic act of Misinformation
Luxon’s response cemmented in the media’s Misinformation.

Pugh herself didn’t deny climate change, but her statement was deliberately twisted by the media to incite contempt for the National Party.
And the National Party’s Leader actually helped the media in their dirty politics.

Jacinda Ardern said “when you see it, you know it”, but when National Party Leader Luxon doesn’t even see it, how will your average voter know it?

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” – John Stuart Mill
Or worse, do what Luxon did.

He should have told the media, “Pugh was trying to hit up Shaw for being slack. But the media misquoted her, or didn’t actually quote her fully. Of course she herself believes humans contribute to climate change.”
End of story
But it isn’t

Luxon should be announcing he will root out the “3 Waters” Maori Advisory Council to Taumata Arowai instead of being rear-gunner on a milk truck for Maureen Pugh.
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February 27, 2023 8:01am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I remember when Luxon was asked about this, he said I am not aware of her comment, he possibly should have left it there
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:55am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    OR ““not necessarily something I would be aware of”
    JA. She chaired the meeting!
    That would have been a better answer from Luxon.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:19am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Do we want him to be conniving like her? He obviously didn’t know what the media were talking about.
      
      Something I did notice was Maureen was very happy in her self when Luxon was savaging Labours poor performance, I am not so sure she received a bollocking like done suggest, for what it is worth
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:42am
  - leoj
    
    G: You are a very loyal National/Luxon guy. Nothing wrong with that. Admirable.
    Many on here are former National supporters but who have figured out that National and particularly Luxon, are no longer the conservatives that we we formerly supported.
    The best recent description is that National has become “socialism with a blue tie”. Even Seymour has it right. The National party is merely Labour with a blue wash.
    The Nats have lost it. They have become infected by the left. That’s why we are heading ACT’s way. Not perfect, by any stretch but National has left us with one choice.
    We will never vote Labour or Greens but National’s desire to move to the middle actually has them moving left and the left disgust us.
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:47am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Look, there are two options for PM, Hipkins, or Luxon , i think Hikpins is a lying bullshiting smuck, i know that only Nats will be a higher vote than Labour , Act will not, i use to vote Act for the party vote for years, so don’t you bother trying to dictate your act bullshit to me , i have voted them for a long time , you fresh Act voters are a joke
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:13pm
- Its only I
  
  Luxon showed he is going to be pandering to the MSN over his term as PM should he win.
  
  MSN will say “Will you jump Mr Luxon?”
  
  The Lux-
  “Yes”
  “look how high, wait, hold on….look, look, I went higher, I’m going to practice jumping so I can be a good jumper, look I’m still jumping!”
  
  The MSN to themselves- “OMG, did you see that, this is going to be easy, did you see what we made him do?”
  
  Pity Mr Luxon used Maureen Pugh as a trampoline.
  
  No spine with his actions influenced by the MSN.
  No support for his own team so even less for kiwis.
  No vote of confidence from me
  
  Only ACT left…
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:00am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Don’t fall for media hit jobs
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:43am
    - Its only I
      
      I didn’t, the Leader of the National party did.
      
      Sadly
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:46am
      - thirteenstars
        
        Bingo, and in the process they accomplished something more significant than just a momentary victory.
        
        What they got was Luxon to go all in on AGW, man-made killer cyclones hunting innocent Kiwis, and unequivocal commitment to Net Zero, Paris, and all the other “good global citizen” suicide-pact mechanisms, all tied up in a few nicely quotable soundbites with no wiggle room.
        
        In short, they got him to admit to Labour and Green ideological imperatives.
        
        Co-governance is next because the media seem to know that Luxon is not as staunch on that as the party faithful seem to think he is.
        
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        February 27, 2023 11:38am
      - Its only I
        
        Fat fingers mods. Thirteenstars was not supposed to be reported, infact I dont think I would ever use that option.
        
        Perhaps I would be better logging out when just reading.
        
        [Mod – don’t worry about it, even mods have fat fingers]
        
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        February 27, 2023 1:44pm
      - thirteenstars
        
        “Thirteenstars was not supposed to be reported”
        
        That might explain the cop car outside my gate.
        
        😉
        
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        February 27, 2023 1:57pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        I am talking about Pugh, that was a hitjob
        
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        February 27, 2023 10:18pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  I was astonished and very pleasantly surprised yesterday, to read this from Damien Grant in $1uffed: https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131328117/damien-grant-why-we-need-to-stand-up-for-the-maureen-pughs-of-the-world
  
  I wasn’t surprised that he wrote it, but that $1uffed would allow such heresy to be accessed on their website.
  
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  February 27, 2023 11:38am
  - riffer
    
    Not really. Damien is their most right-leaning (and liberal) columnist.
    
    I don’t believe Stuff censor their reporters. I just think they have a majority of left-leaning ones.
    
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    February 27, 2023 12:53pm
amospicton

Rob Campbell is Chair of Te Whatu Ora – Health NZ. He posted a completely partisan post on linked in yesterday mocking National’s 3 Waters policy. Here’s some of it:
“What on earth would make anyone think this was a sensible idea for debt raising alone, let alone the managment and delivery of the tasks.
Geographic and social inequities deepening while the infrastructure rots.
I can only think that this is a thin disguise for the dog whistle on “co-governance”.
In his role he needs to be above politics – ordinarily he’ll be working for the Nats later this year, unless he intends to do the honorable thing and resign.
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February 27, 2023 8:10am
- Blog-aholic
  
  He is just another co-governance accolyte. He gets well paid also…
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:44am
- Don Beckett
  
  Campbell should stick to his knitting and sort out the shambles that is the NZ Health Service – not sure, but isn’t that what Te Whatu Ora is ?
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:45am
- Cassandra
  
  Mr Campbell is a champagne lefty. His new ACT minister will sack him.
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:48am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    What act minister?
    
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    February 27, 2023 8:57am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    Would that be the same Rob Campbell who was a Trade Unionist back in the 1980s and caused considerable disruption to the economy and society.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:25am
    - kiwikidsnz
      
      Yes, however he was enlightened compared to the average union rep at the time & has had a very long & credible corporate governance career since
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:07am
- Paulus
  
  Remember where Rob Campbell comes from being a Union Organiser for the Distribution Union then he became a l0ve member in jobs he got through his Union and Labour Party Affiliations.
  He is a pure left wing Political appointment.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:00am
- Caine9
  
  He’s a public servant, not a politician. He should pull his head in and focus on fixing health.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:45am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  yes, Rob is an enormous disappointment, he thinks his role is to gatekeep for the government. Does him no credit at all. Perhaps he could focus on getting his own house in order.
  
  Guess he will the first fired when the government changes?
  
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  February 27, 2023 11:04am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Its the same dirty filthy work the government are trying with smearing public and opposition parties
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:19pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  He needs to fall quickly on his sword, Rob has started to *(heh has done it for years) believe his own bullshit.
  
  He needs to stop jockstrap sniffing and get back to his day job. Making political statements is all well and good for pollies and their mates, but not OK for chairs of Crown entities, who are explicitly bound by a code of conduct to be politically neutral.
  
  Rob has now demonstrated he is a partisan fool, so if he had any integrity he would resign. (he won’t of course)
  
  what is funnier is that Hipkins stated that this was a breach of the code, and Campbell told him to go fuck himself.
  
  Oooer.
  
  This will be fun. Hipkins needs to sack him now, or prove himself to be a party hack put in by the people who are really in charge.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:25pm
Simon

About 2 to 3 months into the National led govt Luxon & co will get blamed for every social ill imaginable. So much shit will be heaped upon National, by Labo/Gween, left wing, MSM & those mostly useless “charity” NGOs.

National will get blamed for everything, housing, mental health, displaced persons, poverty. Across any social measure National will get blamed.

Does National have a research unit? They could document now all the social problems racing NZ and widely release this information. In one document. Attempt to head off what will otherwise be a constant commie struggle session, Luxon will not be able to cope with the pressure. Everyone can see.
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February 27, 2023 8:14am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Oh I think the level headed voter will see right through That bullshittery
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:59am
  - kowtow
    
    Ah yes like the ones who handed St Jax of the Vax an absolude majoridy during the scamdemic.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:16am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Yes but the woke up quickly
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:44am
  - Its only I
    
    The level headed voter will G from D but National the party will not.
    
    National is suffering from political long covid.
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:44am
- kiwikidsnz
  
  Nationals new water policy may have gazumped Labour
  https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/120078/chris-hipkins-and-labour-state-highway-october-has-been-rendered-impassable
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:08am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    His simple change of name with a Māori handle won’t foot it, this was well planned timing wise, because if they had been working on a change too three waters, it may well have to be scuppered fully, Luxon stated last week policy will begin to be delivered in the next three weeks, but this particular one came early, you would almost think they have an ear in Labour’s cabinet room, I have heard that Nash often leaks to the Nats
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:47am
    - Simon
      
      The gas lighting misinformation from the woke left will overwhelm your boy Luxon. Can see it a mile away. The constant MSM stories about social inequalities. (it really is a mess out there and it will get blamed on National) Luxon will face daily commie struggle sessions. NGMI.
      
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      February 27, 2023 11:36am
  - riffer
    
    I don’t believe so. It doesn’t take much to see this policy will offload huge debts on to councils, whose rules don’t allow it.
    
    It’s a clusterfuck waiting to happen. Won’t fly.
    
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    February 27, 2023 12:55pm
Chris Nisbet

I was interested to read a story about traffic congestion in Auckland this morning.
All sorts of reasons were given as contributing factors, but the lowering of speed limits (which necessarily means that cars are on the roads for longer periods of time) was not part of the list.
Yes, I know, you’re often not doing the speed limit when the roads are busy, but lowering the limits has made more roads busier, and so this must add to congestion.
Another thing I’ve observed is that there’s been this drive to putting speed humps at pedestrian crossings. This results in many drivers slowing to a crawl as they pass over them. The fairly new one down the road from me has resulted in traffic backing up for hundreds of metres down the road in both directions. The actual pedestrian crossing signal hasn’t even been activated# so it’s not like drivers are being stopped to let pedestrians cross – it’s simply the hump that’s causing the congestion.
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February 27, 2023 8:19am
- kowtow
  
  War on cars.
  
  Which is actually just another front in the war on freedom .
  
  btw notice how much smoother traffic is during school holidays when the hysterical girls of the school climate strikes aren’t being driven to school by mummy.
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:30am
- Matt Long
  
  Whangarei district council hasn’t the resources to resurface dangerous arterial roads but fortunately they can put three speed bumps across the main road in Kamo causing the traffic to back up for miles.
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:56am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Cars on the roads longer would not even have been thought of.
  Waka Coathanger and Auckland shitty council are really not that bright you know.
  In the Private Sector they would be gone by lunchtime.
  Many employed on those two entities will be reading this. Hey!! Get off Kiwiblog and do the work that you are being paid for!
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:30am
- MCōs
  
  If the traffic is reduced to a crawl because the the roads are clogged with too many cars it doesn’t matter what the speed limit is.
  I see some fool drove a vehicle into the Waterview Tunnel that was too high.
  That most certainly won’t help the congestion problem.
  I wouldn’t mind a speed hump outside my house, but those days are long gone.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:32am
- Paulus
  
  They put speed limit on a good quiet suburban road crossing which created a problem as everything, for example a half hour bus, went over a few houses shook as though it was an earthquake.
  They have redone what was not necessary for the third time.
  We wait !
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:05am
Cassandra

The defence of the realm has never featured highly in NZ elections or indeed in our politics (it’s noteworthy that Luxon’s Defence spokesman is unranked ie not in his top 20; Labor Australia’s is the Deputy PM) and Gabriel has rightly focussed the nation’s mind recently. But we should not lose sight of the big picture: China is rearming massively, developing hypersonic rockets and establishing bases in our sphere. We cannot avoid a substantial increase in defence investment, to at least 2% of GDP, after decades of neglect by both parties.
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February 27, 2023 8:24am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Russia is apparently seeking aid from China in the form of military hardware.
  How much use is this going to be when the Russian operators can’t read the Chinese instructions?
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:48am
  - Ehlana
    
    That’s what Google translate is for.
    
    Also, Russia and China are neighbours and have had similar political systems for so long, so there’s probably quite a lot of people fluent in both languages who will be able to translate.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:05am
  - Littletramp
    
    They should be a good match for the German tanks being supplied to the Ukraine, that they stopped making ammo for 50 years ago – ironically about the time Dad’s Army finished filming Captain Mainwaring.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:13am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Nat’s defence spokesman is Tim van de Molen. He is one of the better Nat’s MPs. He will get my electorate vote but not my party vote.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:03am
  - Cassandra
    
    He’s not one of their better MPs according to Luxon, not in the top 20.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:39am
    - Dougal10
      
      He mustn’t be a nat in name only like luxons top 5
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:23am
- Phronesis
  
  Our military will never slow the Chinese down by more than a few hours. What Ukraine has shown yet again is that an armed and willing population can make things very difficult for even a far superior invader.
  
  So of course this Government made it illegal for NZer’s to own such weapons. They actually spent money on making us more vulnerable.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:44am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Did Luxon’s reshuffle not say that rankings were more senior or something like that, did he not suggest people outside the 20 were equal of others? Not sure but if defense is still Mark Mitchell then is he not reasonably high on the list?
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:53am
Scott

An interesting story emerging today that the “U.S. Department of Energy has issued a classified intelligence report based on new information that concludes COVID originated from a lab leak at China’s Wuhan virology research center”.
Well who knew? The whole Chinese Wuhan Bat wet market thing was not true?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/breaking-biden-administration-ratifies-covid-lab-leak-hypothesis.php

The problem is that we are so beholden to China that we won’t take a stand on the behaviour of the Chinese government that directly affected New Zealand and the entire world. Our country was locked down, several thousand people have died, people were confined to their homes, people died alone without the comfort of their relatives and our economy was shut down costing billions of dollars.

What if it is all true? That the virus, which was weaponised by the Wuhan laboratory, escaped from the lab and infected people around Wuhan. That the Chinese shut down Wuhan but allowed people to go overseas. That the Chinese did this deliberately so that other economies would be affected, not just their own?

You would think that the West would be more concerned about the Chinese government’s behaviour than they appear to be? Surely this is very close to an act of war?
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February 27, 2023 8:26am
- Don Beckett
  
  Of course we all knew this back in Dec.’19 – Feb ’20, but it was DISINFORMATION—CONSPIRACY THEORY etc. etc. and the governments dutifully closed ranks and jailed those who would not shut up.
  Well tickle ‘me arse with a feather – it was all TRUE.
  No Shit Sherlock.
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:52am
- Matt Long
  
  An act of war by whom? The gain of function lab work was allegedly fuunded by Fauci. I believe Rand Paul was asking some pointed questions even two years ago.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:02am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It was funded by Fauci via the NIH. Rand Paul skewered Fauci a number of times during questioning, I believe it would be one of the reasons for Fauci retiring.
    
    Like Bloomfield and Ardern, he knew when to get out before it’s too late. Notice how quiet the bevy of NZ “experts” have been lately? Eerie.
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:27am
    - Tommo
      
      “Notice how quiet the bevy of NZ “experts” have been lately?”
      
      Not so, there’s an opinion piece in $tuff today from the the pink-haired expert in everything science (except morbid obesity it seems)
      
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      February 27, 2023 1:37pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Must admit to avoiding Stuff like the plague.
        
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        February 27, 2023 8:43pm
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        Sadly I saw it, the pink haired lunatic still believes in covid, and believes that ivermectin doesn’t work, despite the ample evidence that it is quite effective.
        
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        February 27, 2023 9:29pm
  - Scott
    
    Matt Long – the act of war would be China closing its internal borders while allowing people from Wuhan to go out to Milan and New York and London with the intention of deliberately infecting the populations there. This was so that not only would China suffer but the rest of the world would suffer and not get ahead of China.
    If this is true then the deliberate spreading of disease to foreign countries would certainly be very close to an act of war.
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:50am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Agreed Scott. It is a form of biological warfare – infect your enemies with a bug so they are incapacitated.
      
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      February 27, 2023 11:13am
- backster
  
  Helen Clark headed a UN investigation and found them Not Guilty.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:15am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    oh well, if helen said so, it must be true!
    
    Bwuhahahaha
    
    so, who is funding her “foundation” anyway?
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:30pm
Rusty

Heard a news report on the radio this morning saying if you don’t have to be on the roads this morning then don’t because of the March road madness.

It’s more of this telling Nzers what they can and can’t do for the so-called greater good.

Everyone who owns a car has a right to be on the roads no matter what the reason is.
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February 27, 2023 8:30am
- Ruawai
  
  Strange my calendar is saying it is February, must ne an alternate reality AT live in.
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:44am
- Yabster
  
  never heard of this March Madness? I assume it due to school and Uni starting?
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:55am
  - Ehlana
    
    Yes, Yabster. It is. It’s a bit earlier than usual this year – Auckland Uni start their classes today. And it’s made worse by a couple of factors: first, the railway beds are being rebuilt, so buses are replacing trains on some routes. Which means those buses can’t be used to run additional services elsewhere in Auckland.
    And second, at the end of last year operators were short about 500 bus drivers. Now its down to only 400, but it takes time to train the new drivers and without drivers, it really doesn’t matter whether or not you have buses.
    
    Hence the advice from Auckland Transport that if you can change your travel time, it might be a good idea to do so.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:15am
  - rangitoto
    
    Lots of bus services around Auckland cancelled due to lack of drivers.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:55am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Yabster – it’s a new term for the “narrative control dictionary” currently being compiled by the loony left.
    “climate change”, “conspiracy theory”, “march madness”, “misinformation”, “disinformation”, “vaccine” – all bullshit that you will be indoctrinated into accepting as part of normal discourse.
    
    We are all like Maureen Pugh, we are being re educated.
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:30am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Ironically, I had a much better drive to work than last week with Abbotts Way near Remuera golf course being free flowing. last week traffic was backed up the length of it.
  I think some one may have changed or fixed traffic lights timing.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:01am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  What the hell is March madness on the roads?
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:54am
  - Ghost
    
    Looks like an Auckland thing
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/march-madness-kicks-off/QAOXAWNHXQLK5MVX7IOEKB72WQ/
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:58am
Maggie Pie

Thort this worth sharing with the fam.

AMAZING STATS……

Maori population in 1890 was just 42,000

TODAY in excess of 900,000 !

– Dr Rawiri Taonui
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February 27, 2023 8:30am
- Cassandra
  
  And his definition of “Maori” is? Presumable anyone with a %age of Maori genes. I think “ne the Maori roll” would be best ie about 200,000.
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:46am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I think the Maori roll is about half of those who identify as Maori.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:11am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Could they be called “Trans – Maoris” ? 😆
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:05am
  - Paulus
    
    Winston said in a recent speech that to be on the Maori Roll the ratio was 1/512.
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:07am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, a great proportion of the 42,000 would have been 100% Maori as opposed to the 900,000 which have none.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:08am
  - Ehlana
    
    No, Inandout, it’s not 900,000 “which have none”. It’s 900,000 who have some Maori descent that they know about. And of those registered to vote, about half have chosen the Maori roll.
    
    Which makes sense, since the 900,000 would range from people who know they have a Maori ancestor to people who may have only one fully non-Maori ancestor. It would also range from people who pay no attention to their Maori heritage, except for ticking the box when asked, to people who are deeply involved – and the two ranges don’t necessarily correlate. You can have very little Maori heritage but be deeply involved in it, or you can have a lot but no daily connection with it.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:41am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Correct – like a number of my cuzzies.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:07am
    - Paulus
      
      Look, I have looked at the Census requirements, and have to decide whether I will register as a Maori, as I could feel like one somtimes, but in the census I have there are 152 separate Iwi listed, and before I possibly wish to become a Maori I want to know which Iwi has the most money.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:12am
      - Ehlana
        
        Unfortunately, registering as a Maori with the census won’t give you access to Iwi money – I think you’ll find the Iwi know who their members are and won’t add you to the roll without proof you really belong.
        
        Try https://www.ancestry.com.au/ and maybe you’ll find those ancestors you seek.
        
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        February 27, 2023 10:36am
      - Don Beckett
        
        My wife & kids & grandies have Maori ancestry, but I’m just a pale male WASP. They know their Iwi – a subtribe of Te Arawa.
        I could possibly join up with Tuhoe as I am an honorary member of Tuhoe through much intermarriage back in the late 1800’s.
        We’ll see.
        
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        February 27, 2023 11:17am
  - Paulus
    
    Gentically there are no pure Maori and have not been for many years.
    
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    February 27, 2023 1:18pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… Still less than our Asian population.
  
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  February 27, 2023 1:42pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  there is good money, and lots of jobs in being Maori these days, you would be stupid not to cash in if you can hold a tan!
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:31pm
Tony Stuart

An early test for new Health Minister, Dr Ayesha Verrall.

https://twitter.com/gwynncompton/status/1629671417674596352

Will she have the resolve to sack Te Whatu Ora chairman and former trade unionist Rob Campbell for his blatantly political comments about National’s Three Waters proposald over the weekend? He is clearly in breach of Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission’s Code of Conduct, which expressly states:

We are politically impartial
We act in a politically impartial manner. Irrespective of our political interests, we conduct ourselves in a way that enables us to act effectively under current and future governments. We do not make political statements or engage in political activity in relation to the functions of the company.

When acting in our private capacity, we avoid any political activity that could jeopardise our ability to perform our role or which could erode the public’s trust in the company. We discuss with the Chair any proposal to make political comment or to undertake any significant political activity.

Accusing the Leader of the Opposition for promoting a policy that “is a thin disguise for the dog-whistle on co-governance” is blatant political hackery, especially in an election year. Dr Verrall needs to act strongly to avoid any perception that Te Whatu Ora is a puppet of her Labour government.
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February 27, 2023 8:31am
- Gravelroad
  
  People who work hand-in-glove for/with the Labour Party government are untouchable as different standards of integrity apply.
  End of story.
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:37am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    That may be the practical reality, but it’s not as it should be. At least Campbell has marked himself as someone an incoming government should terminate immediately, on the basis they have no confidence in him. The Code of Conduct requires him to act in a manner that “enables us to act effectively under current and future governments”.
    
    He’s now hoist by his own petard.
    
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    February 27, 2023 8:51am
    - Paulus
      
      Campbell is on so many Government Boards it will take a long time to disestablish him.
      As an former Unionist he knows how to play the system, as he has been doing so for a long time.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:14am
      - JJ56
        
        He serves at his Minister’s pleasure, I don’t know where Hipkin’s natural justice stuff comes from, he can’t stay for the same reason Pugh got a telling off.
        
        The interesting thing he knew that and yet he doubled down, perhaps he now sees the health thing will be a shambles and wants out.
        
        People have focused on the health job, but in some ways EPA chair is closer to 3 waters, and I assume even things like his chairmanship of Ara Ake (major government funded) will be hard to sustain.
        
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        February 27, 2023 7:54pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He knows that the Māori health authority is next on the chopping block
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:02am
- Opie
  
  Are you talking about the same Ayesha verral who carried out an “impartial” assessment of the governments contact tracing ability during the first Covid lockdown and found it to be of a gold standard, whatever that means?
  
  Then magically found herself on the labour list a couple of months later? Then got into parliament and was there to witness the same system fail with something like 100 cases a day (maybe it was 1000, the number was miniscule and irelevant)
  
  Then served an apprenticeship under angry little, the most ineffective human in the world, before being gifted the minister of health role after being in parliament for only 2 years?
  
  She probably told the guy to say it, there is no chance she will do anything about it.
  
  Her boss can mislead parliament, who cares what this guy does.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:10am
  - softail 1450
    
    [Personal observations on MP’s appearance not welcome here. mod.]
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:04am
- RoboRob
  
  Well done. Seem clear cut. Does this guy report to a board or is it just the Minister. If it is to a board a compaint to the board (as above) would be hard for them to avoid taking action. If to the minister, hmmmm good luck.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:16am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Campbell is Chairman of the board of Te Whatu Ora. He was appointed to the role by fellow former trade unionist, Andrew Little. I would imagine the chairman of a significant Crown entity such as TWO would report to the Minister.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:25am
Swifty

No, no, no, no, no!

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/131328002/cheat-sheet-what-is-a-national-food-plan-and-how-would-it-help-our-food-security

A disaster about to unfold – gleefully led by ivory-tower academics, Maori radicals, failed socialist politicians and assorted do-gooders with absolutely no skin in the game.

We have an excellent food industry which has delivered and continues to deliver cheap nutritious food in abundance – as I’ve said before at levels our ancestors could only have dreamed of.

I confidently predict that this will lead to nothing but bungling, inefficiency, waste and the taxpayer being bled dry to pay for unnecessary schemes, working groups, rorts and new organisations and important-sounding jobs for the luvvies. Outcomes will be either non-existent or negative.

As such, I fully expect to see it championed by Labour and the Greens with their usual righteousness, pomposity and deceit.
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February 27, 2023 8:43am
- Taieri
  
  “Iain Lees-Galloway of Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance (AFRA) said ideally a food plan would be developed by all stakeholders including producers, manufacturers, retailers, food rescue and relief organisations, welfare organisations, environmental organisations, and others.”
  
  Iain is like a cat. Always falls on all four paws. Once a trougher, always a trougher…
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:50am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    It is just shocking. What delivers food in abundance? Functioning markets and farmers not brow beaten by the government.
    
    Government wrecks country. Price of food goes up. Solution.. A “food plan”. Next they will be calling it the Great Leap Forward.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:00am
    - Matt Long
      
      Commissars and Kulaks, of course they would be disappointed in New Zealand by the number of people they could starve to death, couldn’t go over 5 million.
      
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      February 27, 2023 9:08am
  - Paulus
    
    Thought Lees Galloway was dead and buried when he (resigned) got the DCM but obviously still has his fingers in the pie.
    Good Labour Tactics still.
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:17am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  “confidently predict that this will lead to nothing but bungling, inefficiency, waste and the taxpayer being bled dry to pay for unnecessary schemes,….”
  
  No man, it worked in China in 1969… Oh that’s right it failed and people starved. 🙁
  
  But it worked in Cambodia in 1979. Oh that’s right it failed and people starved. 🙁
  
  But it worked in Sri Lanka in 2022.. Oh that’s right it failed and people starved. 🙁
  
  But it will work this time.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:06am
  - RalphT
    
    But, but this time it will work! You see, it is going to embrace our treaty obligations and reflect te ao Māori. What could possibly go wrong.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:15am
  - Swifty
    
    They quite an example of broccoli being available one week but not the next.
    
    Can you just imagine the efforts hundreds of broccoli growers expend daily getting their products to markets? Don’t we think that the last thing they want is for customers to find their shop shelves empty of broccoli? Is it a safe assumption that when there is no broccoli available that circumstances must have been dire for that to have occurred and that it will be despite the growers and wholesalers best efforts? No one is more motivated than he or she who’s livelihood is on the line.
    
    And ivory tower academics and failed socialists think they have the remedy for no broccoli this week? How? What is their remedy? What will it cost? How will it resolve matters? How does that cost compare with just eliminating to the highest degree possible cost, burden and effort by growers to comply with unnecessary or inefficient regulatory compliance activities? And, just as importantly, what costly and wasteful unintended consequences and market distortions will result from this totally unnecessary government intervention?
    
    This is a disaster in the making. New Zealanders with any sense will do all they can to stop it, as they will be the ones who will pay.
    
    This government couldn’t organise a loss ip in a brewery – all around us we see the evidence of their incompetence whether it be health, schooling, infrastructure – the list just goes on and on. And they want us to think they will magically transform our food industry into a nirvana with the streets covered in milk and honey? Give me a break.
    
    Oh, and by the way, who the hell cares if there’s no broccoli in the shops this week? Just buy something else. And in the full knowledge and certainty that broccoli will be back next week just as good and as cheap as ever. Just like it always is.
    
    This whole thing is a solution looking for a problem. People with nothing better to do, inventing a crisis to give themselves tax-payer funded work to solve it. It’s a rort.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:35am
    - Gravelroad
      
      @swifty-
      Yes. If I am in desperate need of broccoli and there is none to be seen on the vegetable shelves at the supermarket, I go round to the frozens and get a packet there.
      Isn’t that why housewives back in the day were so thrilled to get their own home freezers?
      So that they could harvest and freeze excess seasonal food for eating at a later date?
      Why are the socialists being so dumb about this?
      Most vegetables and fruits are grown seasonally.
      Want peas in winter? Buy a packet of frozen ones. Or even a can of them.
      Easy.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:05am
      - Paulus
        
        If it is not there, or too expensive, I go without.
        I am a WW11 baby and remember the Sunday that sweets came off rationing – in fact they were not available either.
        We went without !
        
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        February 27, 2023 10:19am
      - Swifty
        
        Exactly.
        
        This is fear porn.
        
        Once upon a time I would have been confident our politicians would give these sorts of ideas the quick heave-ho.
        
        But not now.
        
        Now our politicians positively thrive and revel in manufacturing crises – so that they can be seen to be the cavalry coming to our rescue.
        
        Our political system is corrupt and it’s getting worse as every year goes by.
        
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        February 27, 2023 10:29am
      - rockape
        
        I am embarrassed to say I have 4 freezers and two fridge freezers and a small fridge for cheese we do grow all our own berries fruit and most veg and make our own cheese. Plus we have ducks ,chickens and beefies
        
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        February 27, 2023 12:24pm
    - Prince
      
      I think this is a wonderful progressive initiative.
      I can’t find fresh asparagus for love nor money. Nor fresh bluff oysters, brussel sprouts, swedes. What is going on ?
      Also, the price of tomatoes, lettuces and sweet corn seems to have dropped. There is no certainty in the market. What is going on ?
      The Govt must step in and regulate this wild west show.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:23am
      - Swifty
        
        Heh.
        
        Nice.
        
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        February 27, 2023 10:30am
- zulumonster
  
  And in a move that should surprise no-one – Wellington City Council is all in on this as well … How’s this for one of the Action Plan statements .. “Mana Whenua and Māori are activating kai and soil sovereignty in relation to the cultural landscapes.”
  As a long suffering ratepayer I despair (again!) but I suppose for such a worthy cause I must accept a 13% rates rise.
  
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  February 27, 2023 1:29pm
Taieri

“We all need to own the emergency with less air travel, more plant-based food, less cars in garages, more public transport and a whole lot more (and less). The fate of the planet depends on it.”

Says one Alan McCulloch, a Dunedin software engineer.

More wisdom from Alan can be found here:

https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/offsets-not-enough-emergency

What did they use to say about sticking to yur knitting?…
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February 27, 2023 8:47am
- Don Beckett
  
  “……. more plant-based food,”
  
  What does the idiot think meat is ? Animals eat the grass and convert it into more efficient food – protein & carbs & essential fats also.
  Another university educated clown with no life experience ?
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:01am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Perhaps he can borrow some of the buses driving around Chistchurch with no passengers. 🙄
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:01am
  - Taieri
    
    Plenty of buses with no passengers in Dunedin.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:05am
  - Ghost
    
    They got rid of the busses in Timaru, now just mini vans driving around with one or two passengers but apparently so busy they claim the wait time is 30 minutes. Strange always passing empty ones.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:11am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Views on climate change may not be related to IQ. For many climate change is a religion.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:46am
Cassandra

National will dump the 3 Waters Entities “within 100 days”. Why will it take three months? 5 minutes is 4 more than necessary.
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February 27, 2023 8:52am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Need to repeal the Act.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:02am
  - Cassandra
    
    Call it by another name (for obvious reasons) but an enabling act will take a day at most.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:42am
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      It needs to go to Cabinet.
      
      Then the Bill needs to be drafted.
      
      Then it needs to go to Legislation Committee.
      
      Then back to Cabinet.
      
      Then it needs a Regulatory Impact Statement.
      
      Then to Parliament for a First Reading
      
      Then to Select Committee.
      
      Then to the Committee of the Whole House.
      
      Then to Parliament for the Second Reading Debate.
      
      Then the Third Reading
      
      Then Royal Ascent.
      
      …..
      
      That is what it will take to repeal 3 waters and replace it with something sensible.
      
      If they do that in 100 days I will be amazed.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:03am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        I guess it will be started well before the 100 days, if the process is well on its way then surely that’s what we want, I am pretty sure 3 waters does not start till later next year, do it probably can be delayed as well
        
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        February 27, 2023 11:00am
      - Colville
        
        As you say…the repeal is easy.
        Its the replacement that will take a LOT of time.
        
        If they *uck up the replacement then all land development STOPS… because there is not an answer to a question that needs to be answered for a resource consent application to be approved.
        
        If the rule says “ask this iwi group for comment” and that group no longer exists… you are stuck. Council will refuse (rightly) as you cant tick the box.
        
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        February 27, 2023 11:04am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      No enabling act will not take a day at all ffs, they have to go through the correct process, all we need is a court case with these rotten lefties then being told try again
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:58am
  - GJM
    
    History has shwon that it takes 7 minutes to pass an Act thro-ugh parliemtn. Of course, that was the politicians pay packet at stake there, so provided a bit more urgency…
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:12am
  - artemisia
    
    Yes, but a new government could press pause in the meantime. Might have to continue to pay a lot of highly paid thumb twiddlers for a while, but sensible ones will work with the new regime. If they don’t their taxpayer funded career will be short.
    
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    February 27, 2023 1:32pm
- Don Beckett
  
  I think the problem is that there is such a mounting schedule of idiotic regulation & legislation they’ll be lucky to get rid of it in any shorter time.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:03am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I guess it has to go through parliamentary process, we don’t want the new government corrupt like this present one go we ?
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:05am
- Sideoiler
  
  National will dump the 3 Waters Entities “within 100 days”. Why will it take three months? 5 minutes is 4 more than necessary.
  
  Already moved from “we will repeal 3 waters”to we will replace it!
  Incompetent twat, and he’s not even in power yet.
  Still think the national party is the answer? Maaaaaate you’re dreaming.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:10am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Are you for real? You are not that [Mod – tone it down] to realise they have to go through parliamentary process are you? Act won’t make any difference, we want rid of the corruption.
    
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    February 27, 2023 11:02am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I don’t know if you’ve seen the signs around the place Sideoiler, but they say “National will repeal AND REPLACE Three Waters”.
    
    Replacement has always been on the table. The status quo is not an option. National’s challenge was to come up with a solution which would allow councils and local communities to retain the ownership of their water assets, whilst providing a mechanism for substandard water infrastructure to be upgraded. The general feeling seems to be that by working closely with the 30-odd councils who formed Communities 4 Local Democracy, National has come up with a very sound model.
    
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    February 27, 2023 8:17pm
- Inandout
  
  Cass, the recently employed 3 water people will need terminating with a decent golden parachute.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:11am
  - artemisia
    
    Exactly, and more like platinum parachutes set in concrete in case of a change of government. *
    
    Then there are all the other contracts to be terminated or changed, property, consultants and more, hopefully without bankrupting the country.
    
    A new government will have to follow the law of course, but ways and means. Maybe personnel contracts can be onsold / reassigned to a different entity, like a council just for laughs, but with extremely close scrutiny of contracted performance, outcomes and budgets.
    
    * parachute and concrete in the same sentence is not felicitous.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:42am
  - Cassandra
    
    No they won’t, they’ve had plenty of warning. Phuque ‘em.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:43am
  - Paulus
    
    Am sure they all have a great Redundency Clauses in their contracts.
    Rememeber these are the top people also with good and expensive offices leases already under way.
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:22am
- MCōs
  
  I guessing for all their bluster they won’t get rid of it at all.
  They have to have something ready to take it’s place and what’s proposed sounds too much like the status quo.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:08am
Maggie Pie

Chatting with one of the neighbors earlier up at the dog park.
She was telling me one of her daughters friends used to work for Watercare.
What I did find a bit concerning, was she reckoned Aucklands water-meters are calibrated to read somewhere between 5 and 10 percent above the actual usage.
Now multiply that by every household in the city for both Incoming & Wastewater charges, it’s yuge!

When I just told my partner about it, he said he can’t understand why their Meters aren’t required to be checked and monitored on an annual basis by the Department-of-Trading-Standards.
The same as Petrol Pumps have to be before being issued with a ‘Certificate-of-Accuracy’

Not silly.
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February 27, 2023 9:04am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  It is possible they will give a 10% spillage, meaning you are paying for 100% not 110
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:25am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Link?
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:59am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      If that is for me, then I wasn’t staying a fact, it’s a possibility, often fluids are sold with a wastage, I remember when beer was transported and stored in tanks at pubs, it use to have 10% spillage built into it
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:32am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Same as scales in the supermarket. Checking things like a 1kg block of cheese is 1kg. Packed meat weight is checked.
  If Auckland water meters are reading wrong it needs to be stopped.
  I guess if I tried to do that Watercare would trespass me. A few years ago the water meter was moved about 1 meter from my property to Council property. This will be one reason why. They also own the meter.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:52am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    A couple of years ago we queried our Watercare bill because it’s always about twice what our neighbors is.
    They suggested we should get someone to check for leaks – which we did but they found nothing.
    Next thing, Watercare informs us our meter was about 30 years old and suggested they should install a new one.
    Worst thing we ever f**ing did….now we’re paying nearly 3 times what our neighbors do 🙁
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:18am
    - Ghost
      
      Water meter. Must be an Auckland word 🤔
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:23am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        It’s coming to you via 3 waters, unless 3 waters is stopped.
        
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        February 27, 2023 10:34am
      - Don Beckett
        
        We have meters in Tauranga – I think its a good thing. You’re not subsiding you neighbor’s pool water.
        
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        February 27, 2023 11:24am
    - Prince
      
      You may want to check your neighbour’s water source !
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:29am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Hahaha, the neighbour might be getting water from her
        
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        February 27, 2023 11:03am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I know someone with a standpipe and hose. Works good for pools.
        
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        February 27, 2023 12:32pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    As I said below they maybe giving a 10% wastage
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:30am
- MCōs
  
  It wouldn’t matter if they were 100% over the top as long as it applied to everyone.
  It’s only a number. It not like there’s a fine for using too much.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:13am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Probably not a lot to be concerned about then in your hood Cossie 😀
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:27am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

More bullshit and lies. Seems a bit of Antarctica has broken off. Thwaite’s Glacier.
” global sea levels could rise by more than 30 cm. Collapsing, in addition, there would be a risk that this glacier would also drag glaciers in the surrounding area with it, adding an additional three meters to the rise of the seas.”
30cm is 12 inches. With other glaciers 3 meters rise.
Does anyone believe this crap? Panic panic panic.
Project MELT studies:https://thwaitesglacier.org/projects/melt

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/antarctica-alert-the-doomsday-glacier-is-melting-too-fast/ss-AA17WBQk
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February 27, 2023 9:10am
- Taieri
  
  global sea levels could rise by more than 30 cm.
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  No, they couldn’t. If this broken off chunk of ice is floating its melting will have absolutely no effect on sea levels.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:17am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No effect of course. The ice displaces water – unless it was on Antarctica land.
    Why is the MELT outfit not being asked for proof.
    Why do they lie? 20cm my left tit. With other glaciers dragged they are talking 3 meters rise. Utter, utter wholesale rubbish, all on Taxpayer dollars.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:56am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      30cm* typo.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:06am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Of course, ice floats on water & displaces its own weight. As the ice melts, the sea-level would actually drop. Different of course if the ice is supported by land & not floating, although the land would rise slightly, being relieved of the weight.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:17am
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      “unless it was on Antarctica land”
      
      If it is a glacier it will be.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:32am
      - Don Beckett
        
        True Wido, but a number of the Antarctic glaciers are projected from the land out into the sea & so are supported by water – that is why they break off into icebergs.
        
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        February 27, 2023 11:26am
    - westernScientist
      
      ice has a stiffness of about 10gpa…. it is no where near as simple as it is floating or it is on land. Ice for about 10km out to see from the grounding line will be effected by the upward support of the glacier which is still sitting on land.
      
      Also because of the shape of the land underneath the glacier – the ice has to go over a rise in the landform – there is support to slow the flow of the glacier into the ocean. As the ice is eroded by the water and the grounding line moves inland and down that support diminishes, and the flow over the rise in the landform is lubricated by water, increasing the travel speed of the glacier from being supported by the land to being in the ocean displacing its own mass which is greater than the displacement it was causing when partially supported by land.
      
      It is proper science these teams are doing and if you actually go an read their reports you will see a lot of things being reported are not what the scientists are saying. See Surfings comment below, their work is being taken out of context and you are propagating it.
      
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      February 27, 2023 12:38pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        A very good explanation of my (poor) layman’s very basic attempt to explain the same thing. (learned in basic science ablout 65 years ago 🙂 )
        
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        February 27, 2023 2:27pm
  - Sacha
    
    I would have thought that sea water will fill the ‘gap’ left by the ice –
    Wouldn’t it?
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:58am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yep, As simple a Ice in a Rum and coke and melting.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:59am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Whiskey thanks. I have mine is a stemmed sherry glass with one cube of ice.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:41am
      - Don Beckett
        
        MM – I’ll join you with the rum, with a dash of cloves. 🙂
        
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        February 27, 2023 11:28am
  - rangitoto
    
    Archimedes worked that out over two thousand years ago. The alarmists haven’t caught up.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:59am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Oh I think they have caught up, but they like the money for spreading rubbish.
      None could actually get a real job.
      
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      February 27, 2023 10:43am
- surfing
  
  Frankly you’re the sucker that MSN are looking for. The MSN article is clickbait, can’t you tell? It doesn’t even come from MSN.
  
  Project MELT is legit, but, I can’t find any of your ‘quotes’ in their research. Your language is sloppy and imprecise, you don’t attribute which quote applies to which site.
  
  The MELT research says (direct quote)….
  “If Thwaites Glacier continues to accelerate, retreat, and widen at rates consistent with recent changes, it could contribute several cm to sea-level rise by the end of the century”
  
  So the real science says ‘maybe’ a couple of cm sea level rise by the END OF THE CENTURY…. hardly disastrous and completely manageable. Yet, you prefer to peddle the chicken little alarmists as opposed the real scientists.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:29am
  - cmm
    
    ““If Thwaites Glacier continues to accelerate, retreat, and widen at rates consistent with recent changes”
    
    … but it never does.
    
    Almost nothing in nature continues to progress at a constant rate.
    
    Most changes in nature are seasonal or in steps and waves.
    
    If you measured at the start and end of the tide coming in, then projected that into the future then One Tree Hill would be underwater by the end of the week.
    
    Watch Maggy Pie accelerating her Porsche from the traffic lights for 10 seconds and project that into the future. In 10 minutes she will be going twice the speed of sound.
    
    The end part of a glacier is typically already floating on the water and thus displacing water already. When it breaks off and melts there is very little change to the water level (ie. no difference to the ice melting in you glass).
    
    The only time it makes a difference is with the part of a glacier that is held up by land sliding out over the water.
    
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    February 27, 2023 12:21pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Was that glacier not the one close to that under water volcano that went off for months kept quiet but we were told the ice was melting in a large circle, but further to the east ice was actually building up
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:35am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Just did a quick Google search. Is this what they’re talking about?
  “A massive iceberg that has been stuck on the seafloor in front of the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica for two decades and helped protect it is now floating away”
  Reading that, it doesn’t seem that there’s too much to worry about. Why? 2 decades ago this iceberg wasn’t there and Thwaites didn’t flow into the sea and drown us all.
  
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  February 27, 2023 11:18am
- All_on_Red
  
  There are 138 Undersea Active Volcanoes in West Antarctica
  No wonder the temp is warmer there.
  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/14/scientists-discover-91-volcanoes-below-antarctic-ice-sheet/
  
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  February 27, 2023 12:48pm
  - Ignoranus
    
    How do volcanoes account for the 1.1K surface warming – have they just arisen?
    
    Was it you who alluded to NOAA re hurricanes – if so you have a comprehension problem. Here is the published NOAA expert opinion based on the evidence – such as it is:
    
    https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
    Tropical cyclone intensities globally are projected to increase (medium to high confidence) on average (by 1 to 10% according to model projections for a 2 degree Celsius global warming). This change would imply an even larger percentage increase in the destructive potential per storm, assuming no reduction in storm size. Storm size responses to anthropogenic warming are uncertain.
    The global proportion of tropical cyclones that reach very intense (Category 4 and 5) levels is projected to increase (medium to high confidence) due to anthropogenic warming over the 21st century. There is less confidence in future projections of the global number of Category 4 and 5 storms, since most modeling studies project a decrease (or little change) in the global frequency of all tropical cyclones combined.
    
    Just to add, storms with serious dumps of water can be more damaging than high winds.
    
    Have you ever tried your hand making cherry jam – you certainly know how to pick them!
    
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    February 27, 2023 1:22pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Are there Undersea Volcanoes in West Antarctica or not?
      Yes or no
      Will the heat from them warm the water?
      Yes or no
      As for the rest of your rubbish
      ‘projected to increase’ ‘this change would imply’ ‘storm rise responses are.. uncertain’.
      etc etc
      These are projections and predictions you ignoranus.
      You have the nerve to accuse me of comprehension issues when you cant distinguish between a prediction and actual observed data.
      Have a look at some actual observations.
      Yes actual data.
      ‘[D]ata for all year 2022 tropical storms shows that global wide, storms were at their lowest strength levels in the last 42 years (since 1981) as shown by the ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy reflecting the combined frequency, intensity and duration of all storms) data below from Colorado State University’s Department of Atmospheric Science which tracks NOAA’s National Hurricane Center tropical storm data.'”
      LOWEST STRENGTH IN THE LAST 42 YEARS,
      NO INCREASE IN HURRICANE ACTIVITY,
      TORNADOES,LIKE HURRICANES ARE TRENDING DOWNWARDS.
      https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/extreme-weather-events-declining.php
      
      You’re just another science denying alarmist.
      
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      February 27, 2023 2:09pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        More actual data here
        Read it and learn something.
        ‘The year 2022 global wide ACE data outcome is about 29% lower than the average over the 30 year-long (1991 through 2020) climatology period tracked by Colorado State University’s Tropical Meteorology Project data base.
        
        This decades long measured global wide tropical storm declining strength data trend outcome contradicts the data deficient and unsupported climate alarmist claims that tropical storms and hurricanes are growing ever stronger because of “climate change”…
        
        Additionally, NOAA’s science measured tropical storm data through year 2022 clearly demonstrates that global hurricanes are not trending stronger in numbers, duration or intensity in the Northern Hemisphere Oceans, Southern Hemisphere Oceans and North Atlantic Ocean (as shown by ACE data graphs for these ocean regions below) despite the alarmist media concealment of this science data from public view.’
        https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/05/2022-global-wide-hurricane-season-ends-with-weakest-storm-levels-of-the-last-42-years/
        
        You guys are so funny with your heads in the sand
        
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        February 27, 2023 2:14pm
Ghost

Scientists are poised to push the button on a global bird-flu vaccination drive if a cluster of potential cases in Cambodia prove that significant human-to-human transmission is taking place.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/health-chiefs-ramp-up-plan-for-global-bird-flu-vaccine-drive-if-cases-spread/ar-AA17VRQa
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February 27, 2023 9:13am
- Opie
  
  No thanks
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:16am
  - surfing
    
    You do realise bird flu has around 60% mortality rate in the past?
    
    If it does become contagious within humans , you would prefer to take the 60% chance of dying over a vaccine?
    
    Your mind is predetermined before you know facts. Interesting.
    
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    February 27, 2023 11:42am
    - cmm
      
      The 60% number is only for one specific strain of bird flu: H5N1.
      
      So let’s see what those Nervous Nelly CDC people say:
      The CDC says that this specific clade is not infecting many humans and there are no recorded human to human infections, only people getting directly infected when working with sick birds.
      
      “A small number of sporadic human infections with H5N1 virus does not change the risk to the general public, which CDC currently considers to be low.”
      
      Sure, it could all change, but unlikely.
      
      https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlights/2022-2023/avian-flu-updated.htm
      
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      February 27, 2023 12:32pm
      - surfing
        
        I don’t get your point, and you don’t address what I said. I actually agree with you.
        
        ‘Opie’ rejects vaccination in the hypothetical scenario of a H5N1 (in the link) pandemic – I’m just saying it is unwise.
        
        Opie’s position is symptomatic of a rigid and close minded thought process where pre-determined beliefs trump science.
        
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        February 27, 2023 1:52pm
    - Opie
      
      Yes, I would rather die than live in a world where know it alls like you can force me into being vaccinated with untested rubbish that doesn’t work.
      
      As always, this is panic before anything has actually happened.
      
      Speaking of which, did your monkey pox clear up?
      
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      February 27, 2023 12:44pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      Ah the ‘facts’, surfing. Like the ‘facts’ that you drank so enthusiastically (and uncritically) from the FDA, CDC and WHO fire hose?
      
      Here’s a fact I work with: Everything published by those agencies, and by their pharma paymasters is a LIE until I can verify it otherwise.
      
      While you’re disagreeing with me, go and have another boosteer.
      
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      February 27, 2023 12:46pm
      - surfing
        
        You jumped the shark a long time ago. You’ll never ‘verify otherwise’, because you think there is some big conspiracy against you.
        
        You’d have fitted in well with the 1802 smallpox anti-vaxxers who claimed that vaccinated would sprout cow heads.
        
        A few people today even believe the earth is flat. You’re not much different really.
        
        Don’t let your ivermectin expire!
        
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        February 27, 2023 2:40pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Vaccination, then how many boosters? Boosters for life?
  Is the lying Fauci involved?
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:58am
  - cmm
    
    Not even the CDC can spin this into something to be worried about:
    “Human-to-human transmission of avian influenza A viruses is rare. Probable limited, non-sustained, human-to-human transmission has been reported in a small number of people without poultry exposures who had close unprotected exposure to a symptomatic index case of HPAI A(H5N1) virus infection, HPAI A(H7N7) virus infection, or LPAI A(H7N9) virus infection”
    
    https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/reported-human-infections.htm
    
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    February 27, 2023 12:35pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Not here, not in this house. No matter how many police they send round. Nope. Never again.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:39am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Vaccinate all the birds first. No
  
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  February 27, 2023 11:50am
Taieri

Shouldn’t we be happy that our Government hasn’t got a monopoly on cretinism?

“(…)the environment and food secretary, Thérèse Coffey, encouraged Britons to substitute their salad vegetables with turnips(…)”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/uk/300816942/let-them-eat-turnips-uk-ministers-sage-advice-as-salad-shortage-bites
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February 27, 2023 9:15am
Ghost

Hmmm, I think I might have to correct this article

Te Whatu Ora chief clinical officer Pete Watson admits the health system is still struggling to work through a backlog of patients which has been building since ~~COVID-19 started running rampant in the community.~~ Andrew Little screwed up the health system and shut down hospitals for no reason and had perfectly healthy staff fired.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/02/ed-wait-times-have-deteriorated-since-july-te-whatu-ora-health-new-zealand-chief-admits.html
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February 27, 2023 9:17am
- Prince
  
  But Labour shut down the country for 18 months and borrowed $50B to shore up our Health system so it could cope with the Covid influx.
  Andrew, where did all that money go ?
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:34am
  - Ghost
    
    Perhaps the same place the mental health funding went….
    
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    February 27, 2023 11:00am
Maggie Pie

Looks like ‘Gabby’ is about to inflict an even greater toll on the country.
Just shot up to the supermarket to get a few more cans of Watties-Asparagus-Spears. OUT OF STOCK! 🙁

According to the girl stacking the shelves, most of Wattie’s 30+ brands will be in short supply for the foreseeable future.
That’s until they get their cyclone devastated manufacturing plant back into operation.
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February 27, 2023 9:50am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Best change to Heinz then.//
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:03am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Bugger, Maggie.
    You’ll just have to resort to good ‘ol Watties Baked Beans. (Pfffhheeewww). Beware the dutch ovens. 😆
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:21am
- rangitoto
  
  But the asparagus was harvested and canned last year?
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:08am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    People have been stocking up in anticipation silly!!
    Don’t you watch telly? Hasting growers are f***d 🙁
    
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    February 27, 2023 10:39am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  There is plenty of Chinese canned asparagus at Pak n Save. I bought some yesterday.
  
  https://www.paknsave.co.nz/shop/product/5030193_ea_000pns?name=asparagus-spears
  
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  February 27, 2023 11:45am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Sorry Wido, but after seeing the Wuhan Markets I would never buy food-products out of Chynah ever again.
    
    Then today, there’s this……they’re a f**ing odd bunch 🙁
    
    https://twitter.com/DougIsMyGov/status/1629943319806476296
    
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    February 27, 2023 1:20pm
I remember when

Mitigation:
Is it worthwhile looking at the Hawke’s Bay District Council/Catchment Board works over the last few years.
Minimisation of extraction of gravel from both the Esk and Tutaekuri rivers, as they were considered overextracted.
Ruataniwha Dam.
Arranging extraction of excess gravel from upper and middle Tukituki River catchments.
Irrigation take from rivers, especially the Ngaruroro.
TANK (Tutaekuri, Ahuriri, Ngaruroro and Karamu) an attempt to get local and iwi agreement on issues relating to rivers, eventually replaced by 3 Waters.
Maori partnership and ownership issues.
Nitrification and stock control measures.
Havelock North contaminated water.
Conservation and habitat preservation.
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February 27, 2023 9:55am
Suze Wainwright

So there’s ‘concern’ for Liz Gunn as she descends into conspiracy depths.

Maybe shrill, female-identifying, government hugging, pakeha journos need to be reminded that at one point, Erin Brokovich would have been considered a ‘conspiracy theorist’ before being uplifted to the status of saintly whistleblower…
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February 27, 2023 9:59am
- I remember when
  
  The only way to prevent becoming a conspiracy theorist is to have your status ‘peer review.’
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:20am
- Swifty
  
  If National was in power these last five years Liz Gunn would be praised as a saint by those same lefties.
  
  It’s all political.
  
  On another matter, what about those screaming loonies who wanted Sir Bob Jones knighthood taken from him for the article he wrote calling for Maori to give their pakeha neighbours breakfast in bed in reward for all their efforts.
  
  Are those same lefties screaming for that Pacific woman poet who wants to stick a knife in James Cook and Amy whites like him to lose her member of the Order of New Zealand gong?
  
  No, didn’t think so.
  
  It’s all political.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:22am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Suze Wainwright – it’s a hate filled smear and hit piece on Gunn, nothing else. No mention whatsoever about the reason she was there, a family from Tokelau who had been locked up at home for refusing the experimental chemical injection.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:41am
Opie

Another one bites the dust.

Im sure a lot of people here will appreciate the humor of the Dilbert cartoons.

Not for long it seems…

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2023/02/dilbert-cartoon-axed-from-several-newspapers-after-racist-rant-by-creator-scott-adams.html

So he has responded to the results of a survey where some black people said it’s not OK to be white by saying white people should get away from people like this. Seems like a good idea, for safety alone.

Now he is being cancelled for being a racist and uttering hate speech. A racist rant they are calling it.

What is he supposed to do? Agree and say it’s not OK to be white?

You morons, he isn’t the racist – you are.

If a survey asked white people if it was OK to be black, imagine if the results mirrored these responses? There would be world wide rioting. Again.

Up is down, society in full collapse.
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February 27, 2023 10:03am
- RoboRob
  
  Amazing that responding to a survey where a disturbing number of black people are not OK with white people is Racist but nobody is saying ‘WTF is going wrong where a large potion of the population is making judgements on people based on race’.
  
  Yes Adams seems to have taken it to far but it is not unreasonable to be concerned a a large minority might have it out for you just becuase of your skin colour. If 20% of whites were not OK with Black people we would be talking about interventions, cultural awareness training and naming and shaming.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:22am
I remember when

Just reading a school newsletter which states they are experiencing a covid outbreak.
Children who test positive, or have symptoms, to stay home.
Rest of the family to attend as usual.
School will remain open unless number of teachers with covid endangers staffing levels.

How many years until we get to the ‘stay home if you have the flu or covid?’
We could say it is like forestry – all about the money.
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February 27, 2023 10:17am
- burt
  
  This is surely a joke, the teachers all had the vaccine effective enough to mandate so there is no way any of them will be catching covid.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:46am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  All part of dumbing NZ down. Keep them dumb, poor, and welfare dependent – and they will vote Labour.
  
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  February 27, 2023 12:02pm
Nickc2

I saw some [Mod – deleted] on that TVNZ propaganda Breakfast show this morning calling for all personal owed debt to MSD to be wiped.
Wouldn’t it be great to live in a country like that where money was handed out with gay abandon and not required to be repaid?
Just a minute, we do. That country’s just changed it’s name from New Zealand to Aotearoa in line with the utopia it has just become for thieves, vagrants, and a certain minority race of its population.
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February 27, 2023 10:22am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Nickc2 – of course the vast majority of the recipients of that largesse wouldn’t be the voter base of the party giving the taxpayer money away now, would it? That would be nepotism at the very least, borderline bribery in reality. Surely the media would recognise this and call it out instantly?
  
  Rhetorical question obviously.
  
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  February 27, 2023 10:45am
ClanMcleod

The pivot from covid to climate was predicted by prescient people a couple of years ago. They were spot on the money.

How Covid Paves the Way for Full Climate Emergency Restrictions

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/25/how-covid-paves-the-way-for-full-climate-emergency-restrictions/

The Australian geologist Dr. Ian Plimer is another big fan of the life-giving properties of CO2. He suggested that you could count on the hand of a sawmill worker the number of geologists who believe in human-caused climate change. Plimer takes the long view and notes that we are living in boring climatic times. “Climate change is very normal, most of the time it has been warmer and sea levels have been higher,” he added. Over time, the planet’s atmospheric CO2 level has been declining. “It is not a climate crisis, it is a crisis of common sense.” We need more CO2 in the atmosphere, not less, he argued. Life on Earth is expanding, he continued, and we are gaining more species than we are losing. We are not in an extinction event, rather a period of normal species turnover.

The climate scam is bigger and more deranged than the covid scam, and more difficult to counter. We are in the middle of a battle of epic proportions, we need to work hard to counter the lunatics who are going to bring about the end of human civilisation of they are not stopped.

No joking at all. These people are mentally deranged.
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February 27, 2023 10:50am
- Blog-aholic
  
  This was raised a while back and was posted on another blog:
  https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/global-warming-as-the-new-covid/
  and
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00756-w
  
  I remember listening to a Leighton Smith podcast with someone oppining these issues.
  
  I also felt that when the Covid Pass came into being it was a test run for the compliance for the likes of personal carbon allowances etc.
  
  When you have the WEF working their agenda, the WHO wrangling their pandemic governance controls and complicit or weak soveriegn governments you are holding a lit stick of dynamite in your hand.
  
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  February 27, 2023 11:08am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    “I also felt that when the Covid Pass came into being it was a test run for the compliance for the likes of personal carbon allowances etc.”
    
    Correct. The “15 minute city”. Exceed your driving allowance and your car sends a message to the authorities. Don’t say that could not happen within the next 3 years. The technology is there and the Greens would love it.
    
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    February 27, 2023 11:42am
    - Nickc2
      
      … and Political Parties that team with the Greens would also love it.
      Let’s face it, the NZ Labour movement would do anything to turn this once beautiful and prosperous country into a Communist backwater Cesspit with them exercising control over all means of productivity, governance, and judicial control.
      If you thought this Govt’s so-called Co-Governance model was anti-middle-class white peasant, you aint seen nothing yet.
      IMO, Covid-19 was just a trial run.
      
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      February 27, 2023 3:11pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Mentally deranged – take AOC for example.
  
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  February 27, 2023 12:06pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Yup. Totally nuts.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8owyju11w-M
    
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    February 27, 2023 1:10pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      And there is a barmaid that should never drink!
      
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      February 27, 2023 3:03pm
dave_c_

I noticed this am., the Wellington mayor, confirming that the Wellington City council is still committed to the provision of walkways and cycle ways, at the expense of losing parking spaces.
I challenge her to explain how she could manage getting her $150 grocery purchase home by either walking it, or cycling it home !
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February 27, 2023 10:52am
- Gravelroad
  
  Perhaps you are assuming she does only one grocery shop per week?
  That ain’t necessarily so.
  Lots of exclusive and expensive inner city supermarkets in central Wgn.
  Probably goes every lunchtime (got to fill time in somehow) and buys a few leafy items at a time.
  One whole lunchtime shop would have to be wine only though – as bag heavy on a bike.
  
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  February 27, 2023 11:17am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  I will continue to love my car.
  
  However, I realised that driving 1.5 km to do my shopping was a waste of petrol. So I bought a second hand bike a few weeks back. I fitted it with carry bags that hold quite a lot of stuff. Plus it gives me a bit of exercise.
  
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  February 27, 2023 11:40am
ClanMcleod

Woody Harrelson does the unthinkable and brings up the covid scam during his narrative on Saturday Night Live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_5PFcTiUg0

How do we know he was smack bang over the target? The wailing of the mainstream media in response to his completely accurate assertions. Way to go Woody!
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February 27, 2023 11:36am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Who is going to believe that crazy idea?
  Some took it hook, line, sinker, and most of the arm.
  
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  February 27, 2023 12:15pm
MCōs

The dreaded slash is the unwanted leftovers after the forestry companies have extracted the good bits.
From my understanding these companies are foreign owned and what whatever their Kiwi representative might say probably don’t give a toss about NZ.
Does Fonterra give a toss about human rights in China, just so long as the money rolls in?
Doesn’t matter who’s in power NZ is still a variation on of a colony.
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February 27, 2023 11:49am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  But Fonterra doesn’t do harm in China that I am aware of. The slash does a lot of harm.
  
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  February 27, 2023 12:51pm
  - MCōs
    
    Of course they don’t
    They wouldn’t dare. In fact some of our leaders, both political & otherwise, are falling over themselves to say how marvelous the CCP is.
    
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    February 27, 2023 3:35pm
Jack5

Interesting people in Canada — Ukrainians and Sikhs …

Reading about Ukrainians’ century-old tradition of migrating to Canada (mentioned in Kiwiblog yesterday), I found the country also has a higher proportion of Sikhs in its population than India does.

Canada has 700,000 or 800,000 Sikhs, of the world population of about 25 million.
They have settled mainly in Ontario, with small numbers in British Columbia and Alberta.

Ukrainians over more than a century have settled mainly in Canada’s prairie provinces. Canada has about 1.36 million people of Ukrainian descent. Canada also has about 625,000 people of Russian descent. They, too, have settled mainly in the prairie provinces.

Perhaps the Great Northern Plains of Canada and the stark winters are less daunting to Slavs.

Canada has announced new “immigration streams” for Ukrainians, both for permanent and temporary entry. It has created emergency provisions for those fleeing Ukraine, without limit for those who can apply.

The prairie provinces of Canada – Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan – contain a total of about 6.7 million people. The three provinces have about 575,000 indigenous people.
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February 27, 2023 11:53am
- kowtow
  
  The bombing of Air India flight 182 with the loss of all 329 people on board over the Atlantic off Ireland in June 1985 was a Canadian Sikh outrage.
  
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  February 27, 2023 12:04pm
- cmm
  
  If they get an influx of Ukrainian farmers that might help reinvigorate their farming industry.
  
  But if they get Ukrainian city dwellers then likely their corruption will just go through the roof instead.
  
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  February 27, 2023 12:39pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Obviously the wrong “type” of Ukrainians were in the crowd when Trudeau decided to “celebrate” the one year war anniversary……
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nagoqo90XXQ
  
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  February 27, 2023 1:13pm
  - Jack5
    
    Much as I don’t like Trudeau, I think the interjections in ClanMcleod’s link have been doctored, lightly or heavily, with something like the program Audacity.
    
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    February 27, 2023 3:11pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Jack5 – you”think”.
      That’s settled then. 😂
      
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      February 27, 2023 8:47pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Jack5 – I found it elsewhere, including CNN. Trudeau did a big angry rant in response to the heckling. Then some Ukrainian supporters removed the offending heckler.
      
      It was legitimate.
      
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      February 28, 2023 8:40am
Ghost

Sigh

Superspy James Bond has become the latest target of “sensitivity readers”, with racist and sexist language set to be removed from the original novels.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2023/02/james-bond-books-edited-to-remove-racist-sexist-language.html
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February 27, 2023 12:02pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Annette Henderson is stark raving mad.
  Go and get a job that helps the Country, not destroys it.
  Who is paying for this shit?
  
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  February 27, 2023 12:21pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  Linked article says they’ll be republishing the originals at the same time, so readers get the choice whether to read the racist, sexist versions or not. If it turns out that readers prefer the ones with the racism and sexism, the publisher will lose money on the bowdlerised versions.
  
  As such this is an improvement on the publisher of the Roald Dahl books, whose approach was to withhold the originals altogether and so not give readers any choice. I believe though, that they’ve now changed that.
  
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  February 27, 2023 1:21pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  PS: Bond isn’t a “superspy”. He’s actually quite terrible at his job
  
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  February 27, 2023 1:23pm
  - Ghost
    
    Not as bad as Johnny English
    
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    February 27, 2023 1:54pm
Maggie Pie

WATCH

Further confirmation (as if it were needed)……

“When I was blonde it was the most male attention that I’ve ever got”

https://trib.al/fJ0eoX3
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February 27, 2023 12:04pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Aren’t blondes supposed to be ‘dumb’, so a bit of a push-over?
  Well – not in my family – 3 of my grand-daughters are beautiful blondes, very bright (2 going through Otago university & one doing Psychology,philosophy & languages next year).
  And feisty ?? It’s hard to win an argument with them. 🙂
  
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  February 27, 2023 12:33pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Look, even I’ve been described as many things. A caring friend. Potty mouth. Smart arse. Kind. Sinner. Humble. A good heart.
    I’ve never said I was perfect.
    
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    February 27, 2023 12:54pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      You’re starting to sound a bit like Trump Maggy. 😆
      Yes, as we hear from our Divine Leader, ” True Charity (love) covers a multitude of sins.”
      
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      February 27, 2023 1:06pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        LOL!!
        
        Like my partner said to me….”You might not be the silliest bitch in the world, but you better hope she doesn’t die” 😀
        
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        February 27, 2023 1:25pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        Bwahaha 😆 😆
        
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        February 27, 2023 2:36pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… The trout pout is quite pronounced. Like she has kissed a redhot pot belly. Blistered.
  
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  February 27, 2023 1:53pm
MDQ

Watching the cricket on Spark Sport this morning. The entire commentary is in English – even the greetings and segment openings. What a refreshing change. Sadly that will well and truely change once TVNZ get the broadcast rights.
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February 27, 2023 12:17pm
- mandk
  
  That’s an interesting idea.
  
  I wonder what the te reo is for silly midwicket, short fine leg and left arm over are?
  
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  February 27, 2023 1:43pm
  - MDQ
    
    TVNZ needs a few months to fabricate the translations.
    Overall it would be nice if TVNZ openly declared their policy generally. It might read as follows:
    “(1) TVNZ has a mandatory requirement that each segment of programming/new presenter must be introduced and or say a sentence or two in the Maori language.(2) The word Aotearoa shall be used at least once in each segment/story even if it has to be inappropriately shoehorned in as is done in many advertisements. (3) Certain English words and phrases are completely banned from local programming eg good evening, hello, family, woman, children, country, work (not exhaustive). The reason we have chosen to ban these particular words/phrases is (?). The reason we have implemented this policy is because (?) and the reasons we believe why these steps will best achieve our desired policy outcome is (?)”
    If they could be open about their policy – rather than just sneakily forcing it and could fill in the ? points above ( I sure can’t) they may get greater support.
    
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    February 27, 2023 2:37pm
Nothelen

At 10am the electrical generation from wind was 31 MW.
The country has over 1000 MW of wind turbines.
The generation from coal at the same time was 174 MW.
Are we getting the whole story from the politicians and media ?
**Edit**
At 10.30 it was even worse.
Just 9 MW
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February 27, 2023 12:47pm
- Ignoranus
  
  What’s your point? Wind is intermittent? So what’s the answer?
  
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  February 27, 2023 1:27pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Hydro and Gas
    
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    February 27, 2023 1:59pm
    - Nickc2
      
      ….. and small Nuclear Power generating modules.
      
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      February 27, 2023 3:32pm
    - kowtow
      
      Coal .
      
      Cheap , local , plentiful and as former organisms a biofuel.
      
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      February 27, 2023 5:50pm
  - Nothelen
    
    The wind has been poor for over a month. I have been monitoring the coal burnt and they have been burning every day and often all day. I think it would be close between wind and coal over the past 4 weeks, indeed coal may have produced more. The point is that Huntly is keeping the country going. It cannot be phased out and what new projects are in the pipeline ?
    
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    February 27, 2023 4:25pm
Colville

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300817186/covid19-likely-emerged-from-laboratory-leak-us-energy-department-says

It leaked out of a lab? In Wuhan? OMG I am shocked I tell you!
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February 27, 2023 1:15pm
I remember when

Does the Maureen Pugh episode highlight one of the real problems of politics now.
How do you great depth of opinion on any subject.
If both Labour and National say they are going to legislate to prevent ‘climate change’, where do any candidates with differing opinions go?
“Climate Change’ politics have become a one, and only one, view subject.
It is fine to say that dissenting voices will have their say at the Cabinet level, but how representative will they be – will there be any.
How does anyone wanting to access sites on the net that present both pro and anti arguments, even begin to find out where to start.
Too much of the net is about ‘over powering’ information by algorithm manipulation.
There must be wide ranging argument, and freedom of thought, in the debating chamber.
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February 27, 2023 1:23pm
ClanMcleod

Jeffrey A Tucker does an excellent post in The Brownstone Institute. Regarding the actions of some and inaction of others during the covid assault. (Still ongoing here in NZ)

A Contagion of Cowardice

I titled this article a contagion of cowardice. It might be too severe to call it that. Many people went along for entirely rational reasons. Another point to consider is that moral teaching in the great religions has not typically required absolute heroism. What it does require is not doing evil. And those really are different things. Staying quiet might not be evil; it’s only the absence of being heroic. St. Thomas even writes this in his treatise on moral theology: the faith celebrates but never requires martyrdom.

And yet it is also true that heroism in our times is absolutely necessary for the preservation of civilization when it is so brutally under attack. If everyone chooses the safe path, and crafts one’s decisions around the principle of risk aversion, the bad guys truly do win. And where does this land and how far can we slide into the abyss under those conditions? The history of despotism and death by government reveal where this ends up.

The best case for heroism over careerism and cowardice is to look back over these three years and observe just how much difference a few can make when they are willing to stand up for truth even when there is a big price to be paid for doing so. Such people can change everything. This is because ideas are more powerful than armies and all the propaganda that a machinery of power can muster. One statement, one study, one sentence, one small effort to puncture the wall of lies can bring down the whole system.

And then the contagion of cowardice comes to be replaced by a contagion of truth. Those who stood up for that form of contagion deserve our respect and gratitude. They also deserve to survive and thrive in the new renaissance that so many today are working to build.

https://brownstone.org/articles/a-contagion-of-cowardice/
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February 27, 2023 1:23pm
- Ignoranus
  
  Professor Sir Chris Whitty and Professor Sir Patrick Vallance proposed the UK should face SARs-CoV-2 with naturally acquired immunity in the population – until they saw the horrors in Italy for example.
  
  The vaccines have saved millions from serious disease and death.
  
  Unfortunately the presence of [Mod – unnecessary], so we are still vulnerable to madness.
  
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  December 27, 2022 1:41pm
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    Now do James Shaw and The Greens with their moronic and ignorant Climate Catastrophism.
    Its so funny people are believing ‘predictions’ when actual observed Data contradicts those predictions.
    Just dumb.
    
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    February 27, 2023 1:57pm
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    What Italian horrors.
    
    Were young healthy people dying ?
    
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    February 27, 2023 3:21pm
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    Ignoranus – excellent choice of name. 😊
    
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    February 27, 2023 8:50pm
Loddenthinks

Well, this is awkward – the WuFlu really did originate from the laboratory that Fauci was funding gain-of-function research at.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300817186/covid19-likely-emerged-from-laboratory-leak-us-energy-department-says
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February 27, 2023 1:40pm
- Ignoranus
  
  Reads: The conclusion is due to new intelligence, but the department made its judgment with “low confidence”
  
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  February 27, 2023 1:46pm
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    Changes statement to more apt:
    
    The conclusion is due to new confidence, but the department made its judgment with “low intelligence”.
    
    There, fixed it.
    
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    February 28, 2023 8:47am
- emmess
  
  I thought that was a conspiracy theory that we weren’t allowed to talk about
  
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  February 27, 2023 1:49pm
- cmm
  
  To think otherwise is absurd.
  
  There are maybe 10,000 wet markets dotted all around China.
  The one where the Wuflu emerged is 300 metres from this virus research centre.
  
  Talk about bad luck eh…
  
  2019 was the Year of the Pig. Good fortune in business, but bad fortune in health.
  
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  February 27, 2023 2:55pm
- Grunter
  
  Fauci is crooked.
  
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  February 27, 2023 2:56pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Trumpy likes the new information.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPsDc6d2pis
  
  lol
  
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  February 28, 2023 8:45am
Tauhei Notts

I note that Australia’s foreign minister has got all of those hostages released by the Papua New Guinea terrorists.
I get the impression that Aussie’s foreign minister would only be one quarter as good if she had a QR code on her chin.
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February 27, 2023 1:44pm
slightlyrighty

https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/300817151/former-national-mp-chester-borrows-dies-with-family-at-bedside
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February 27, 2023 1:46pm
- David Garrett
  
  [Deleted – Mod. If you don’t have anything decent to say, say nothing]
  
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  December 27, 2022 2:05pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Google seach shows todays Minister is ……Kiri Allen
    
    LOL!!
    
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    February 27, 2023 2:17pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Maggie: Yes, but she is also the Justice Minister, and that’s a “real” portfolio – in fact one of the most important.
      
      Old Chester could only manage courts, which to a considerable extent run themselves. As I said, it is a way to give an also run a bigger salary and a bit of prestige. I think he was preceded by Georgina Te Heu Heu, and intellectual lightweight.
      
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      February 27, 2023 2:30pm
mogg

Plunket going to town on stats nz gender/sex question. What he doesn’t say is that they are trying to destroy the traditional family.
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February 27, 2023 1:46pm
mogg

The. missing link above, https://m.youtube.com/@theplatformnz
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February 27, 2023 1:49pm
thirteenstars

From The Platform: Sean Plunket talks to Stats NZ spokesperson Jason Attewell about the 2023 Census questions on gender identity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8qdIwI1qcQ

Sean was ruthless in the nicest possible way. He went straight to the presumptions and worldview of the woke bureaucracy that rule over us.

The bureaucrat in this case, Jason, betrayed his programming like a wind-up doll.

Fact is, most folks will blindly answer the gender identity question not realising that they’re buying into the ideological position that sex and gender are different.

The point is made that if you can be a religious atheist–which is not the same as preferring not to specify your religion, the two are quite different–which is the option you don’t have when answering the gender question.

Sean also interviews Suzanne Levy from Speak Up For Women who makes the crucial point that the government–all government–is moving towards using only gender as an identifier. Your sex will be immaterial, perhaps not even listed on databases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D79g0xsATI

You will, citizen, be assigned a gender whether you like it or not.
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February 27, 2023 1:53pm
- thirteenstars
  
  Here’s hoping Maureen Pugh is not a gender denier as well or she’s going to have another rough week, and a lot of extra reading to do.
  
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  February 27, 2023 2:02pm
- alex Masterley
  
  I will put a neat line through the Gender question.
  
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  February 27, 2023 2:20pm
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    Fair enough but the census fella gives the distinct impression your sex will then be assigned as your gender.
    
    Which is kind of the point. There’s no way out.
    
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    February 27, 2023 3:03pm
Maggie Pie

ALL FIRST HOME BUYERS NEED TO CHECK THIS OUT!

Anyone looking to pick up a bargain in Auckland, this is what $1.23 mill will get ya in the ‘river-of-filth’ electorate…. Mt Roskill 😀

https://twitter.com/radionz/status/1630008814727729153
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February 27, 2023 2:09pm
Prince

40 More deaths from Covid last week.
What the hell was that year-and-a-half lockdown, $50B increased Govt debt, public sector witch hunt and ‘rivers of filth’ division for ?
Where is the increased health facilities we were supposed to be building ?
Was there ever a plan, or just an election strategy ?
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February 27, 2023 2:10pm
- kevn
  
  @Prince… Deaths (sadly) of covid or with covid? Either way, jabbed for sure.
  I’m not sure any of the jigged stats are believable anyway.
  
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  February 27, 2023 3:15pm
Prince

Thursday is looming as a red letter day for our glorious Government, literally.
Government debt will tip over $150 BILLION this Thursday – some $100B more than when they took office 5 1/2 years ago.
Where has the money gone:
a) Battling Covid. 40 more deaths last week. Health system in disarray.
b) Building infrastructure. No new roads other than National’s Transmission Gully.
c) Building back public sector capacity. Consultants having a field day.
d) Restructuring financial fundamentals. Tax workgroup recommendations shelved.
e) Rebuilding Education. Successful Charter Schools canned, truancy rife. Curriculum and standards lowered.

So, where HAS all the money gone ?

Last chance to stop all this by voting National or Act in October.
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February 27, 2023 2:25pm
- Grunter
  
  Let’s be generous and say it was $100 billion all on COVID. The opportunity cost analysis on that alone is mind-boggling. It’s about 75 years of Pharmac funding for life-saving drugs. Based on Pharmac’s own numbers, that’s about 2.4 million lives saved over the 75 years if it was spent by Pharmac. Just shows how absurd the entire COVID response was (and is).
  
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  February 27, 2023 2:39pm
  - Blog-aholic
    
    Quite a great deal went into advertising revunues for the MSM for advertising Covid……..
    
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    February 27, 2023 3:02pm
  - cmm
    
    But at least they cared etc etc.
    
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    February 27, 2023 5:39pm
Maggie Pie

And it’s almost unbelievable that the authorities still maintain they’ve got no idea what’s happened to ‘Marokopa-Man’ and his 3 kids 🙁

Like my partner said…..he’s been working for the guys family for the last nine years. Maybe he should apply for a tax refund?
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February 27, 2023 3:14pm
cmm

For those that think rational disciplines like engineering can escape wokeness, think again.
In electronics we have:
* Master and Slave interfaces on computer buses and inside chips etc. We’re getting told these names must change. I don’t know how that’s going to work.
* The major branch for a software storage repository was called the master branch. Banned. Now it’s the “main” branch.
* Male and female connectors? Nope! Bad!
* White noise/interference. No problem with that. But there is also non-white noise/interference. Can’t have that!
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February 27, 2023 3:21pm
- rouppe
  
  Our organisation got pinged awhile ago because we had defined in our browser a “white list” and a “black list” which have been common in computing for some time.
  
  But chrome changed them to “allowed list” and “denied list” or something and it caught our admins out…
  
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  February 27, 2023 4:45pm
Opie

Hey Greybeard

Are you still calling for Williamsons head?

I have just seen him score his 26th test century and become our highest ever run scorer.

Can you now accept he is our greatest, both in terms of stats as well as doing it when it counts, under the highest of pressure not just a flat track easy condition bully.

He has earned the right to retire whenever he wants. Not pressured out after a handful of bad scores.

It’s been 5 innings since he scored a hundred so I can see why you thought he should be dropped….

I’m still interested in who you would have replace him?
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February 27, 2023 3:24pm
- MCōs
  
  Two wickets lost up to teatime and the Gentleman of England have been in the field since the earlier on on day 2.
  Suddenly catches are going down.
  Nevertheless
  NZ needs a lead of three hundred min and that ain’t no guarantee of anything.
  
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  February 27, 2023 3:54pm
  - Prince
    
    Bracewell, Southee. Dumb cricket.
    Feel sorry for Williamson/Blundell/Mitchell/Latham/Conway. They deserved better.
    
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    February 27, 2023 5:43pm
Ghost

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has announced a special fundraising appeal and a special Lotto draw on March 18.

It was based on the Christchurch earthquake appeal – which had raised about $100 million.

The announcement came after the new Extreme Weather Response Committee met for the first time this afternoon.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pm-chris-hipkins-set-to-announce-next-steps-in-cyclone-gabrielle-response/OOSZAF522RDDBAVXOVFGD7QFQU/
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February 27, 2023 3:40pm
Ghost

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says comments by the chair of Te Whatu Ora about a National Party policy were “inappropriate” for someone in his role.

He said at a press conference on Monday that Rob Campbell’s comments “fall well outside” of the code of conduct for board members of Crown entities.

Asked to comment further, Hipkins said there is a “natural justice issue”.

But he reiterated that Campbell’s comments “steps well outside of the politically neutral stance” expected of a Crown entity board chair.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/02/prime-minister-chris-hipkins-calls-comments-by-health-nz-chair-rob-campbell-about-national-policy-inappropriate.html
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February 27, 2023 3:42pm
- Gravelroad
  
  So will there be any consequences for Mr Campbell?
  What does “there is a natural justice issue” mean?-
  does it mean “I’m an important person in the Labour Party, so rules do not apply to me”?
  
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  February 27, 2023 4:15pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    Sorry for double up. Conditions affecting the internet here today – fog/drizzle.
    
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    February 27, 2023 4:23pm
- Ghost
  
  The chair of Health NZ is unrepentant for political comments he made on social media about a National Party policy announcement that’s led to a call for him to “pull his head in or resign”.
  
  “Nothing to apologise for and nobody I need to apologise to,” he told Newshub. “Has someone asked for an apology? If so I have not seen it.”
  
  Newshub asked Campbell if he believed his comments were consistent with the code of conduct.
  
  “Absolutely. Of course I am aware of and adhere to the Code. That Code enjoins me to be ‘honest and open’,” Campbell said
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/02/te-whatu-ora-health-nz-chair-rob-campbell-unrepentant-after-claims-comments-breached-political-impartiality.html
  
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  February 27, 2023 6:40pm
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    so, bigger than the job, and bigger than the Prime Minister. Interesting.
    
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    February 27, 2023 9:44pm
SmokerGuy

Despicable behaviour by Rob Campbell, health NZ chair. This shows the challenges National would face, the public service is so openly left that unwinding it will be extremely difficult. This guy is digging in to as he knows this weak government agree with what he says and even if they thought it was inappropriate, are too cowardly to do anything about it.
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February 27, 2023 3:55pm
Tony Stuart

Unlike David Garrett, I will miss Chester Borrows terribly. My wife and I regard he and Ella as friends, and are proud of that.

Chester and I didn’t always agree on issues, especially crime and justice, but we had enough respect for one another to agree to disagree. Up until I read David’s comment earlier, I would have said Chester was universally respected within Parliament, but I guess you can’t please everyone.

Chester was always supportive of us personally and professionally, and I was especially grateful for his support when Nicky Hager published THAT book, in which I had a bit part. He was loyal to a fault, and his advice was always appreciated and well received.

I send my most sincere condolences to Ella, to the Borrows whanau, and to his many friends and colleagues. I feel terribly sad that he and Ella did not get to enjoy retirement. Moe mai ra Chester.
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February 27, 2023 4:18pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This is where we are headed with the nutbars. The Parents are not qualified to decide what the kids are taught, but the Teachers are. Coming to a place near you soon. What? It is here now?
A Master’s degree overrides the parent wishes? Get stuffed.
https://finishtherace.com/eric/az-teacher-mocks-parental-involvement-in-curriculum-i-have-a-masters-degree/
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February 27, 2023 4:46pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump at East Palestine, Ohio. Giving away free shit.
https://finishtherace.com/eric/trump-visits-east-palestine-while-biden-visits-ukraine/
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February 27, 2023 4:52pm
- MCōs
  
  Paper towels again?
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:24pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Nancy Pelosi planned this:
https://billingsreport.com/first-evidence-comes-out-from-41000-hours-of-video-of-j6-new-j6-footage-shows-officer-saying-they-set-us-up/

https://billingsreport.com/first-evidence-comes-out-from-41000-hours-of-video-of-j6-new-j6-footage-shows-officer-saying-they-set-us-up/

That Woman is so evil.
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February 27, 2023 5:01pm
Maggie Pie

Why on earth does HDPA insist on having that woke lefty dweeb Simon Wilson on her show?

What a turn-off!!
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February 27, 2023 5:52pm
- H. Upmann
  
  NZME family. No getting around it, orders from the top floor.
  Same with Hosking and that American insufferable lunatic Richard Arnold; in contract with NZME.
  
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  February 27, 2023 7:13pm
- Albie
  
  Just his sanctimonious voice is enough to give me the stitch! He was even a guest on Bomber Bradbury’s Working Group last week. I suppose debate requires dissenting point of views, no matter how irritating.
  
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  February 27, 2023 8:03pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Wilson has destroyed every publication he has been involved with. Insufferable lefty, and totally smug with it, it is remarkable someone is still willing to pay him a salary for his crap.
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:46pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Different when the left do it:
https://rightwingnewshour.com/pelosi-reversal-shes-been-exposed-3/
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February 27, 2023 6:05pm
Ghost

Ummm, you’re not in class to listen to music, TikTok, etc etc,

A Christchurch private school has been criticised for banning headphones in class, but the move is in keeping with many other high schools across the city.

Christ’s College has told students they can no longer listen to music during lessons as it is too distracting and research showed it can be detrimental to learning.

One student, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the decision “has further stripped away our individualism and hasn’t taken into account how the students feel”.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/131331802/christchurch-private-schools-headphone-ban-strips-away-our-individualism
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February 27, 2023 6:06pm
- H. Upmann
  
  Oh the poor wee diddums.
  And one day these people will be in parliament…….
  
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  February 27, 2023 7:08pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  who cares about a student’s feelings.
  
  This is why we should never have abandoned corporal punishment!
  
  I would suggest the first recipients should be the journalist who thought this was a story, and the second should be their editor!
  
  remarkable that any rational human being would think that tuning out a lesson would be any sort of contribution to their education. But I guess its only their parents paying the fees, so why should they care, its only $25k a year.
  
  perhaps the little snowflake would be happier in a state school where noone cares if they learn anything or not?
  
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  February 27, 2023 9:49pm
sirknz

Damned far right, extremist, white supremacist, colonialism again:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300817500/pair-wanted-in-connection-with-bus-driver-attack-in-central-auckland
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February 27, 2023 6:25pm
- Ghost
  
  Huh, 2 months to release their photos.
  
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  February 27, 2023 6:38pm
  - kevn
    
    @Ghost… Clearly got nowhere in finding the perps.
    Also, I would have expected the police in HB, to have trumpeted their success in finding all the stolen generators with GPS locators by now.
    
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    February 27, 2023 7:14pm
- Swifty
  
  They’re Welsh!
  
  I knew it would be. Those damn Welshies, always up to no good, what with their bloody singing and damn leeks.
  
  //
  
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  February 27, 2023 7:12pm
Chris Nisbet

Yikes. Remember that plane that went down recently in Nepal? Seems that the pilot powered off the engines when he was meant to be lowering flaps.
I haven’t watched the full vid yet, but I think that’s the gist of it.

https://youtu.be/wIlO-TBDyaw
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February 27, 2023 6:28pm
Warren

How can less than 30% of New Zealands population run up a debt of two billion dollars from our Welfare System and then expect the Government to wipe the debt.
What responsible Government would allow people to run up debts of over $20,000 knowing that they would never be able to pay back when the taxpayer is has worked hard and it’s their money that is the main contributor in tax to this fund.
This Government is out of control and needs to be held to account.
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February 27, 2023 7:06pm
- Warren
  
  https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/02/27/very-stressful-beneficiary-says-he-cant-afford-msd-debt/
  
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  February 27, 2023 7:26pm
NZer In Exile

Childish Beliefs Drive Lethal Energy and Agricultural Agendas:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/26/childish-beliefs-drive-lethal-energy-and-agricultural-agendas/

Paul Driessen is a senior fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs.
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February 27, 2023 11:27pm
NZer In Exile

What Scott Adams (Dilbert creator) actually said:

https://rumble.com/v2ai6yc-episode-2027-scott-adams-ai-goes-woke-i-accidentally-joined-a-hate-group-tr.html

Make what you will of this (do listen carefully though, those that love snarky staw-man comments).
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February 27, 2023 11:59pm
Observer of Life

I’ve just seen a pic of Luxon holding a bloody bumper sticker saying “Live, Laugh, Luxon”.
WTaF…. Whoever came up with that is an idiot.
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February 28, 2023 1:17pm
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  nice bit of humour from Young Nats, i like it. Can’t please everyone
  
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  February 28, 2023 1:29pm
- RdM
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/11d41hy/whats_worse_than_live_laugh_love_live_laugh_luxon/
  
  Lux, light.
  Is it really on, or off.
  
  With the ‘climate change’ cult beliefs – will he read any new articles books or essays if they are presented to him?
  
  And instead of erudite folk posting links to alternative views just here, has anyone actually sent such in a polite informative email to him?
  
  Might have results?
  Worth a punt?
  
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