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Scooter

What a great time to be back in NZ, the weather has been fantastic, places outside Auckland gorgeous and looks like the Liebour ship is slowly sinking.
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March 31, 2023 8:03am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  NZ will be great again, with lying Labour out for 12 years I hope.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:11am
  - RoboRob
    
    It will take at least that long to clean up the damage caused by Jacinda and her hench persons. Let alone the damage to the integrity of our systems caused by being the ‘most open and transparent government ever’.
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:23am
    - septic skeptic
      
      I’m not confident that a reset will work. Labour will have 9 long years to plan a different angle to the “two hats” strategy that has worked so well for 5 years. Labour will still be a gaggle of union hacks and career politicians.
      All National and ACT can do is choose to act honorably whilst they are in government. Sadly, that might not be a winning strategy.
      
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      March 31, 2023 9:50am
      - mawm
        
        Responsible fiscal policy is never popular especially as we now have a population expecting government handouts and spending on attractive vanity projects.
        
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        March 31, 2023 10:05am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        They completely wasted their last 9 years, as evidenced by the shocked look on their faces when the Great Charlatan installed Ardern, and the complete dearth of policy or legislation for a good 6 months. And it was a good 6 months, before they started their destruction of New Zealand from the inside.
        
        So I wouldn’t worry too much about Labour coming up with anything remotely electable in 9 years.
        
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        March 31, 2023 10:12am
      - septic skeptic
        
        Loddenthinks, Labour won’t need electable sensible policy. Just a tired looking government and a fresh face in opposition.
        
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        March 31, 2023 10:24am
      - Stellaboxer
        
        Union hacks and career politicians are not the problem it’s the true believers, the neo Marxist post modernist authoritarians that have taken over the left that are the problem.
        
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        March 31, 2023 3:41pm
      - Burtland
        
        Student Union Pollies are true evil – its great how theyve got fabricated “working class” nick names like “Chippy” to cover the fact that theyve never done anything.
        
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        March 31, 2023 4:53pm
      - Clownworld
        
        A reset is exactly what will happen, a global reset pushed by WEF and National, Act, Labour and the Greens are all signed up.
        
        NZ is a special case experiment.
        These are generalisations but do describe at least 40 to 60 % of the population –
        Compliant people, easy to manipulate, high adopters of new tech (without healthy skepticism), low critical thinking and underskilled in the majority.
        Anti- western, apathetic, virtue signallers, believe what they are told by the mainstream media, materialistic and narcissistic.
        Govts churning out egregious bureaucratic red tape and unnecessary rules that cost the people they are meant to be serving.
        
        Having said that NZ was (and in pockets still is) innovative, entrepreneurial, family-first, people centric, helpful, willing to lend known neighbours and unknown strangers the shirt off their backs. Non-compliant for stupid rules (like crime scene tape on playgrounds) or just getting things done (ask for forgiveness if wrong) not waiting for the authority for permission.
        A NZ society where people loved their neighbours as themselves, where the judaeo-christain laws and moral codes were generally agreed and lived upon. A common culture anchor.
        
        There is no doubt the existential threat to NZ is from within , where now everyone does as they see fit. Sounds good until you consider that includes the criminal gangs, individual criminals and the new wokist crowd.
        
        If ” Everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial” then when anything goes we enter the ideological death known as nihilism. Everything is meaningless.
        
        We can and must be better than this. New Zealand can be much better, but it will require a revolution in the hearts and minds of many people.
        
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        April 1, 2023 2:19am
  - leoj
    
    Replaced with what, exactly?
    
    If you believe that woke National and ultra woke Luxon are the answer, be prepared for some major disappointments.
    
    Luxon is a disciple of WEF’s Schwab (just like Jacinda) so nothing much will change.
    
    Don’t be apathetic or duped. The Nats are lost.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:48am
    - Jimmy Brown
      
      2 ticks ACT.
      
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      March 31, 2023 12:14pm
      - Paulus
        
        2 Ticks ACT will only dilute any non left wing votes and as such, and let LabourGreensMaori a working number.
        
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        March 31, 2023 1:25pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        2 ticks ACT only makes sense if you live in Epsom.
        
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        March 31, 2023 2:59pm
      - Stellaboxer
        
        Party vote act local candidate National.
        
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        March 31, 2023 3:44pm
- Mark Hanley
  
  Adding to the positive message, here is Bob Jones feedback on Chris Luxon.
  
  https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/03/bob-jones-chris-luxon.html
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:25am
  - Simon
    
    Here Luxon sounds like a neo-racist clown.
    
    Christopher Luxon commits to scrapping Māori Health Authority, reallocating $170 million funding to iwi
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/01/christopher-luxon-commits-to-scrapping-m-ori-health-authority-reallocating-170-million-funding-to-iwi.html
    
    $170 million. Is that pa? It will a billion pa inside of 5 yrs. Has there been any detail released around National party’s racism?
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:34am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      The refunding to Iwi is not a hand out, it’s if a community business can show they have a way forward to be helpful to Māori, thus bring down costs to health of Māori, if you can get them to go to the doctor it will help greatly.
      
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      March 31, 2023 10:25am
      - Random T Person
        
        Whay are Maori not the same as any other New Zealander?
        
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        March 31, 2023 10:30am
      - Paulus
        
        But there are not enough Maori Doctors or Nurses, so where are the healers coming from ?
        
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        March 31, 2023 1:27pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Maori Health. Maori this, Maori that, Maori something else.
        I don’t get Steve Health. Steve this, Steve that, Steve something else.
        Why am I losing out, yet paying for others through my Taxes?
        
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        March 31, 2023 2:14pm
    - Mark Hanley
      
      It is good to see the $millions of our money labour are spending on spin doctors being used to good effect.
      
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      March 31, 2023 10:28am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Neo-racist clown Simon? Sounds like you have no idea what a racist is. Creating separate systems that treat people differently based on the colour of their skin sounds pretty racist to me. And who would be proposing that? You might, if you have any knowledge of Maori history, realise that Maori welcomed European health systems as it prevented their witch doctors killing their children. But witch doctory and mythical fairy tales masquerading as science seem de rigueur in Labour and Maori circles. Way to make outcomes for Maori even worse than they already are.
      
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      March 31, 2023 11:28am
      - Hollyfield
        
        A Maori woman I used to work with told me about her mother growing up on the shores of a lake in Rotorua. The little girl became sick and her grandmother took her to the local healer. The healer said this is a Pakeha sickness, you need to take her to a Pakeha doctor. The grandmother did, and it turned out the little girl had polio.
        I was told this about 10 years ago and it’s stuck with me. I always think well done to the healer who recognised something that was beyond his capabilities, and who wasn’t too afraid or too arrogant to refer his patient elsewhere.
        
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        March 31, 2023 5:41pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Who’s paying this fuckin $170m? NZ Taxpayers of course.
      So why are NZ Taxpayers paying $170m to those who claim to be Maori and for what purpose?
      I’ve voted National all my voting life, but it’s getting really hard to do it again.
      
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      March 31, 2023 11:52am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        That $170 mill is only a possibility. it will only happen if a community-based business can deliver out comes for Maori, if not there is no bloody money for them, it probably will not ever happen
        
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        March 31, 2023 8:38pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      Simon, your continual slanging at Luxon, and Act/National is getting as tiresome as Mikey. Please find a constructive drum to beat or expect the feedback you’ll get as we get closer to October.
      
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      March 31, 2023 12:36pm
- Cassandra
  
  It’ll take years to undo the damage to race relations. I now view every Maori as on the take and that’s awful. Every time I see a Maori on TV or read what one says I get the impression that he or she wants more of my money. Every statistic about Maoris shows poor performance. Their health problems seem to be lifestyle related and my anecdotal evidence is the fast food and enormous hips I see on the street in the Bay of Plenty. And as for crime……..
  It’s unfair I know, because many Maori are not at all like this. But it just seems to be getting worse the longer Labour is in power. Let’s get rid of them forever.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:55am
  - Random T Person
    
    You’re not wrong Cassandra. Divisive policies cause division.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:31am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    The principal maori beneficiaries are the kings family and the gangs.
    
    Given the Nash revelations it is now more vital we find out what relationship the Labour hierarchy have with these two organizations and why the labour hierarchy are funneling billions into these organisation’s using supportive legislation.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:33am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “shows poor performance”
    Lovely way of saying ‘lazy’ because that’s what it is.
    
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    March 31, 2023 2:16pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Love the Patriotic fervor.
  
  Have just left the Country of excessive road cones, daft road signs and over zealous police or police wannabees. (People telling you off for “things””.)
  
  The overnight temperatures are a trigger for me to head to the tropics until the erection.
  Interesting observations from a Cambodia friend visiting NZ for the first time.
  Not much traffic, where are all the people(they must be hiding in houses), houses here have lots of doors(internal) and lots of windows.
  Food(except chocolate) is very expensive.
  
  A question that made me laugh. Does the PM or Minister of Transport own the cone making business!!
  
  Yes, I am retired and yes I am going for more than 26 weeks (Check out section 26 of the Superannuation ACT-extended travel)
  
  And while I am on the subject the Government did NOT give a significant increase to benefits!!! It is determined by Legislation based on CPI which labour forced up by 7.2% last year.
  
  Bloody spin doctors and useless MSM.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:59am
  - leoj
    
    Interesting that the Super payment can be extended beyond 26 weeks. Good info.
    
    As for the payment, it is not a benefit. We taxpayers have paid for it whereas a huge majority beneficiaries have not contributed to theirs.
    
    Super is an entitlement because we have earned it.
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:07am
    - Ra Henare
      
      Thank the John Key National Governments amendment to the Act in 2009 which introduced the extended travel Clause 26
      
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      March 31, 2023 2:30pm
    - ISeeRed
      
      Nope. For most people, what they receive in pensions, healthcare and rest home subsidies today will dwarf what taxes they’ve “paid” during their working lives in the past. Most Kiwis aren’t net taxpayers and pensions are just another form of wealth transfer, like a benefit. With this parasitic dynamic and current demographic trends, nothing will be left for current workers in 2040 or 2050. By that time, robots and AI will do most of the work in the economy and machines don’t pay taxes.
      
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      March 31, 2023 6:33pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        #makerobotspaytax
        
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        March 31, 2023 7:59pm
      - Ra Henare
        
        IseeRed.
        I am sorry you don’t understand the NZ Superscheme. We paid for our parents super.
        Those coming after us pay our Super.
        
        So yes, we paid our super contributions and more, so that the current generations have hospitals, police schools etc.
        Unfortunately we have also funded Idiot Governments to spend way to much on frivolous things that have put the country in debt.
        
        Yes it is wealth transfer, from one generation to another. Following generations contribute to the wealth created by previous generations.
        
        I presume you must be a selfish we soul only interested in you and not understanding the multi generational aspect of government funding.
        
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        March 31, 2023 8:15pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Super is an entitlement because we have earned it.
      
      And our kids can just suck it up and pay us ….
      
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      March 31, 2023 8:19pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Scooter – are you electric or run on fossil fuel?
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:14am
  - Scooter
    
    125cc and runs on the smell of an oily rag.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:37am
- PeeJay
  
  Can only hope that Labour is ousted.
  
  Will be interesting to see if the next set of polls show a collapse or fall in Labour / Green voting intentions. I would have though that, surely, folks would start to tire of the Labour / Greens shitshow, but we will see.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:31am
  - Paulus
    
    53% of the electorate voted LabourGreens and many will do so again remember for no other reason that…..Chippie is a lovely boy !
    And Luxon is bald.
    
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    March 31, 2023 2:09pm
- Stellaboxer
  
  What’s even better is watching Tova with a face like a slapt arse losing her job. Karma is a bitch.
  
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  March 31, 2023 4:01pm
Stuart

Judge Peter Winter should be thrown in jail.
Jailing people for peaceful protest against egregious breaches of human rights by the government.
How can NZ have fallen so far.
He is absolute scum.
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March 31, 2023 8:06am
- Random T Person
  
  Surely the convicted can appeal if not only on the basis that the first 9 days of the lockdown were deemed illegal?
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:42am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    It was the August ’21 lockdown that people are being jailed for. However, I know that lockdown was not lifted until the vax pass system was ready. Had it not been ready, the lockdown would have continued for Auckland. It was to get people jabbed.
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:31am
    - Clownworld
      
      Every action, every reward or punishment, every media message on tv, radio, internet and text was underlined, shouted and repeated ad nauseum – get vaccinated.
      
      Why?
      
      And still in NZ and a few brainwashed countries they still maintain get vaccinated for something that is endemic with super low mortality.
      
      There needs to be a full independent inquiry and people need to be held accountable for the lies upon lies, the wrecked jobs, destroyed livelihoods, injuries from an unnecessary rushed experimental useless , ineffective and unsafe “cup of tea”.
      
      As for lockdowns that don’t work, masks that are ineffective and all the plethora of stupid insane rules, people need to be held accountable.
      
      Also last but most importantly the historic excess mortality in NZ – where is the research? WHo is accountable? What happened to cause more people to die then ever in our history barring World Wars?
      
      Who is accountable?
      Where are they hiding?
      
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      April 1, 2023 2:47am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    RTP – he’s been released pending an appeal I believe.
    What an abomination this country is becoming. I cannot believe what has happened to what I used to think was the best country in the world.
    Under Ardern in particular, but carried on with Hipkins, it has become one of the worst.
    It will take a long time to repair the damage.
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:41am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  How can this be when rapists are let out for home D
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:26am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    G – it’s a punishment for daring challenge the government narrative. It has nothing to do with “justice” which is rapidly becoming a joke in NZ.
    
    Whatever you think of BTK, the fact he is jailed for opposing lockdowns, which we now know with certainty was ludicrous policy, while a trans activist who actively shuts down free speech and supports violence is votedYoung NZer of the year, just shows how far down the toilet this country has gone.
    
    The place is becoming a laughing stock around the globe.
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:52am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      That is straight out corruption, they wont jail anyone, but they jail two guys for protesting, a protest that took place in an illegal lockdown
      
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      March 31, 2023 8:41pm
- coge
  
  This will be deeply troubling. And very last year. To the hundreds of thousands of NZers. Who were dehumanized, segregated and persecuted under the Ardern doctrine.
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:45am
igm

Why are MSM closing ranks on EV fires.
Is this another condition of government (taxpayers’) financial support for their unviable businesses?
Maybe New Zealand public are entitled to better treatment than this, there being many of these current incidents going unreported, supposedly one with a death in Auckland recently, also last night, the Tesla SUV that went up in smoke on the Harbour Bridge.
These “Green” vehicles are evidently extremely volatile whilst charging and insurance companies may be the next to move.
Time also, they started paying for the roads they use, maybe RUC are well overdue.
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March 31, 2023 8:06am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Yep, can’t hide a car on fire when it’s on the Harbour Bridge
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:02pm
Tricati

If part of the reason for setting up Today FM was to give Ardern a Radio platform after Ardern refused to appear regularly with Mike Hosking, and if Mediaworks thought that bringing Tova on as a competitor to Hosking would drive up their ratings by having Ardern on air with her regularly, then they have failed badly.
When Ardern resigned it removed the station’s key reason for its existence, and coupled with its biased opinion pieces from the likes of O’Brien, Garner and Burr, those businesses seeing their marketing spend going to waste by advertising with Today FM, pulled the plug.
The whole Today FM has been fraught with Tova issues from the start, with her not accepting a Restraint of Trade clause in her previous employment agreement (I’m Tova so rules don’t apply); and she got into a huff as the advertising and start date was out but it had to be delayed.
Various media articles since the announcement to close Today FM focus on O’Brien and Garner’s star power and how they have been mis-treated. If they actually had ‘star power’, then maybe more people would have tuned in with a corresponding lift in revenue – But no, they are self-appreciating muppets, only too quick to denigrate anyone with an opposing view, or heaven forbit, are a National Party supporter.
No amount of cursing and swearing on air is going to change the fact Today FM, was a ratings and advertising failure, so suck it up sweety and start looking for another job.
As the saying goes, ‘go woke – go broke’. Never has a better example been supplied by a group whose egos are much bigger than their talent.
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March 31, 2023 8:07am
- RoboRob
  
  1) I think the handling of the situation by management was terrible.
  2) Tova didn’t cover herself in any glory by behaving like a child.
  3) There was no ‘star power’. Duncan was removed from the AM show, you don’t do that when a person is a star and draws an audience. His replacement Ryan is ten times better than Duncan was at his best.
  4) The name ‘Today FM’ always implied a music station which I am sure hasn’t helped.
  
  I never listened to Today FM. I grew to dislike Duncan on the AM show. He would do little speeches on issues but the next week would do a speech saying the opposite. I struggle with people with no integrity.
  Why is Tova even a thing? She was the lead political report for TV3 (supposedly) but appeared to have been selected on ‘attributes’, like age, sex and looks. Not trying to be ageist but I think pollical reporters (especial head reporters) need a lot of experience to understand the minutia of politics and reference historical analogies. Her takes always seemed ‘off’ and then there came the COVID experience where Tova was always first or second to get questions and they were always ‘soft’. I am not surprised to hear that she was a friend of JA and here lefty colours came to display on today FM. How can someone be a personal friend of the PM and pretend to give unbiased political opinion as senior pollical reporter for TV3. No Integrity at all.
  
  Farewell TodayFM Seems like I didn’t miss much 😊
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:44am
  - Matt Long
    
    Still perhaps there’s a job there as athe nanny.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:38am
  - Opie
    
    But how will we listen to the cricket?
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:58am
  - stiff cheese
    
    I change stations during boring bits so — completely by fluke — I heard the moment when Tova and “tearful staff” entered the studio while Garner was ‘on air’. She told him they were losing their jobs. She said they were being “scapegoated” by MediaWorks (I think for failures of the wider organization). And here’s a juicy tidbit: she said “someone in this building is leaking against us” .. So is that a mole? A snitch? What was the leak?
    
    BTW she was at the Albert Park protest-cum-riot with colleague Lloyd Burr, and wrote about it at todayfm.co.nz .. Burr wrote a piece too. (And for the opposing view, there’s an essay by Rachel Smalley who sounds pretty reasonable).
    
    I didn’t hear Tova’s show in the leadup to the riot, so I don’t know to what degree she was stirring up the anger and outrage that vented itself in Albert Park, but if her essays are any indication…
    
    What are the chances she was mingling with the very people she had ginned up in the first place?
    
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    March 31, 2023 12:29pm
    - Alex
      
      Stiff Cheese,
      It sounds like Tova got the Room 101 treatment from the novel “1984”.
      Worst nightmare came true!
      
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      March 31, 2023 2:59pm
    - Grizz
      
      You not hearing Tova’s show is not unique. It does not sound like many were listening.
      
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      March 31, 2023 8:49pm
  - Paulus
    
    Was told that Tova was one, if not the highest paid in the busines, to join the station.
    But did not perform to Owners requirements and expectations so Adios asap.
    
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    March 31, 2023 2:17pm
    - Alex
      
      Paulus people would not buy into what Tova was saying.She was-joined at the hip with the other harridan Ardern.
      
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      March 31, 2023 2:47pm
  - Alex
    
    Rob it was always TOVA Jessica, for Jacinda’s question time.
    TOVA nailed her colours to the wrong mast.
    
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    March 31, 2023 2:38pm
- Random T Person
  
  Those ‘stars’ just found out that they were ‘stars’ thanks to the platform they were previously afforded. Without that platform, they aren’t anything more spectacular than the average man in the street.
  
  Bummer, dudes.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:44am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Yep Random, it has been lovely to see the poor wee petals squealing. As if no business has ever been closed (for non-performance) or no other person has been made redundant (in this case, because the main players couldn’t generate any income for their radio station – LOL!!!) before.
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:32am
- septic skeptic
  
  It’s a shame Mark and Leah lost their jobs as well.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:58am
  - Alex
    
    Skeptic,
    At least Mark and Leah were funny!
    
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    March 31, 2023 2:40pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Tricati – Karma is a bitch. Tova would have understood this by now.
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:16am
  - Alex
    
    Sir Cullen,
    Not sure of spelling but a bit of schadenfroid going on here.
    
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    March 31, 2023 2:53pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yes, Ardern was actually hated by the time she resigned, do Tova having her talking crap would have sickened the level headed voter
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:13am
- Alex
  
  Tricati OBrien was the ogre you met in Orwell’s 1984.
  In Room .101 after you confessed to your worst nightmare, it happened to you.
  In “1984” it was rats running over your face and gnawing at you.
  Just like it is happening now.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:55am
- GJM
  
  “learn to code”. Isn’t that how it goes?
  
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  March 31, 2023 4:16pm
- Grizz
  
  The socio-political view of the MSM is very narrow – essentially they are all woke. I think Today FM and the presenters failed to read their Audience. People listened to their previous incarnation as they offered something different. Half the population are currently sick of the narrative and have switched off. They were chasing a diminishing audience for a product in an already saturated market. Jacinda just was not drawing in new listeners.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:55pm
Maggie Pie

A bestie tweets…

Transgender Colombian Chemist Eli Rubashkyn has deleted his account, but here’s the clip of him admitting to smuggling American weed into Oz after his visit to the UN.

Also, apparently not a ‘pharmacist’ either……

Nga-mihi-nui.

https://twitter.com/FadicalNem/status/1641078419193569281
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March 31, 2023 8:08am
- Scott
  
  With all the trans controversy and violence going on recently I found some useful information to help us understand this phenomenon from Brietbart –
  “Meanwhile, a 2011 study in Sweden found that “female-to-males had higher crime rates than female controls … [and] did not differ from male controls. This indicates … that sex reassignment is coupled to increased crime rate in female-to-males. The same was true regarding violent crime.”
  
  https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/03/28/study-transgender-youth-highest-risk-violent-radicalization/
  
  Audrey Hale murdered 6 people recently in Nashville, including 3 children . Female mass shooters are very rare. But here’s the thing – what if telling young women they are the wrong sex and allowing them to be pumped full of male hormones so they can try to be men, is a very bad idea? What if it makes them very aggressive and much more unbalanced than they were before those procedures?
  
  Young women are generally not prone to violence and murder. Thanks to trans their basic nature is being altered and not for the better.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:46am
  - Ghost
    
    She was under care for emotional problems, was struggling with the death of her partner, sent a message to a friend that she didnkt want to live any more, but all people notice is she was transgender
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:14am
    - Scott
      
      Ghost – lots of women have emotional problems and real struggles. One only has to go on tick-tock to see women baring their souls about how sad they are. However it is very rare for a woman to resort to getting some guns and murdering people. That is a level of aggression that is normally not found in women. Could her aggression be related to injection of male hormones in a futile attempt to change a woman to a man?
      
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      March 31, 2023 9:27am
      - Ghost
        
        Ever been in a place you cannot get out of Scott?
        
        I buried my bestfriend/little brother when he was 19. It took me to a place that took me a while to get out of. But when I was there I saw no hope, no reason, no way out. Everywhere I went I was looking at an exit plan. In a car if I jump out the door, no I could survive. Jump in front of a truck on the road, what if I survived with bad injuries. I even researched which pills I could get, but didn’t want to hurt those who’d find my body. Those who I’m close with have said and I agree, if I had access to a gun I would have committed suicide by cop.
        
        From what we know of this case she was struggling with the death of a loved one, had little family support, was suicidal, getting support for emotional problems. Told her friend she didn’t want to live anymore.
        
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        March 31, 2023 10:50am
    - Media hater
      
      I noticed that she murdered many people whilst being a woman. She did at least achieve her goal of being noticed.
      
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      March 31, 2023 9:39am
    - Random T Person
      
      I’m with you on this Ghost. Just because we find trannies…well, I dunno, disturbing? Doesn’t mean we should shoehorn this one crazed loon into our preconceived notions.
      
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      March 31, 2023 9:45am
    - Local Miller
      
      So why is no one being given access to her manifesto? What’s in it that explains why she started killing? Note that it’s the trans community that’s putting pressure on law & order to not release this.
      If you don’t want to live any more you commit suicide, you don’t go out and kill a bunch of people.
      
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      March 31, 2023 9:48am
      - Ghost
        
        Do you need access to it? If you fo police are releasing it soon Police and fbi have got it and last I read they still couldn’t work out a motive for the killing. Someone that knew her said she would send suicidal notes, she contacted the police over them
        
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        March 31, 2023 10:37am
    - Ruahine
      
      I noticed that this person shot to death three children.
      
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      March 31, 2023 10:01am
      - Local Miller
        
        At a Christian School
        
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        March 31, 2023 11:17am
      - Ghost
        
        Actually she killed 6 people.
        
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        March 31, 2023 11:29am
- kowtow
  
  “Works” for the UN , wonders if he has a diplomatic passport .
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:48am
- Swifty
  
  Unbelievable.
  
  Who talks like that?
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:52am
- Random T Person
  
  I like how he talks up speaking ’10 languages’ and how smarter than you she is. Well, broken English is one of those languages, apparently, and according to his Wiki bio, it is 5 languages. Probably goes up with each retelling.
  Fantasist, and a dangerous one at that. Apparently also not a registered pharmacist.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:02am
  - kowtow
    
    According to his wiki , it was pharmacuticals that made him look female .
    Maybe that’s the “pharma” he’s involved in.
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:24am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Wouldn’t it be hilarious if he had to escape to NZ to avoid being arrested by the Australians?
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:34am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

NZ needs to do this. Tarrif on Chinese steel.
We had a steel mill – Glenbrook. Last I head they were doing sheet only.
Australian or Japanese steel is fine. Chinese steel is shit. It is brittle because not enough new steel is put into recycled steel. I know this, being a fabricator and welder.
I can tell Chinese steel in the first 20mm bead of weld. It is shit, the weld splatters.
It is brittle, bad news for trailer drawbars. I have had to replace cracked drawbars on 3500kg trailers, under company warranty.
https://pjnewsletter.com/supreme-court-rules-on-major-trump-case/?utm_source=actengage&utm_medium=email
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March 31, 2023 8:10am
- Grizz
  
  I think that has been an issue in buildings. Substandard reinforcing steel for concrete has been rusting causing serious concerns.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:17am
- CJames
  
  Some Chinese steel is good – other stuff is absolute rubbish. Many of their manufactures don’t clean up the melts, having sulphur and phosphorus right at the limit – or even higher but rely on dodgy metal certificates.
  Fletchers got caught out by dodgy rebar on their part of motorway builds from memory. The Chinese steel was too brittle. But people continue to buy it, and you get what you pay for.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:17am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The sheet steel was rubbish.
    As many will know, I work at the same company for 50 years making trailers.
    So I drag out a sheet, cut it in the guillotine, bend it in the pressbrake and then start welding it to a frame. Bang, the weld blows straight through.
    So I get the forklift and take the 40 sheets outside and ring the steel merchant and tell them they now own it.
    Bring 40 sheets of not chinese steel and bring it now! They had been told no chinese steel for us. There must have been some ID when it was delivered but someone missed it.
    Rant over 🙂
    
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    March 31, 2023 8:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Add. You get what you pay for? Chinese steel is on a par with other manufacturers. We need a tariff added.
    Very hard to keep up with prices and company costings. Last year, steel was increasing about 13% every month. Not keeping up means selling product sometimes at a loss.
    I was involved at all levels from fabricating, customer service, repairs, advice, right up to product costing. I know it all.
    
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    March 31, 2023 8:49am
    - Ehlana
      
      Steve, if the steel is bad, what is the point of adding a tariff? That won’t improve the quality of the steel. If the quality is so poor as to be unsafe to use, it needs to be off the market altogether.
      
      Is there an industry system for identifying product quality? Surely what is needed is for customers to be able to specify the standard they require and be confident they will receive it.
      
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      March 31, 2023 9:16am
    - Burtland
      
      The problem you have isnt Chinese Steel – its the NZ Importer buying shit, having no Quality Control & selling it fraudulently. MBIE doesnt police the standards.
      
      The importer will have a boat in Westhaven.
      
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      March 31, 2023 5:55pm
- Widogast Corwin
  
  If it is shit why so customers in New Zealand buy it?
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:35am
  - CJames
    
    Because for a lot of jobs, it is perfectly satisfactory. There are so many places where the factor of safety is so large that being below standard makes no real difference.
    
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    March 31, 2023 8:43am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    It’s the cheapest.
    
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    March 31, 2023 8:45am
    - mawm
      
      I’m sure you know about the Kiwi designed and made Rocna which moved its manufacturing to China. They destroyed their brand by doing so and other competitors moved in and have taken the market.
      
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      March 31, 2023 10:17am
  - kowtow
    
    Because “customers” rely on suppliers to do the right thing . And are not in the picture of what’s going on in the background .
    
    In other words they’re being cheated .
    
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    March 31, 2023 8:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Why buy it? Shortages. But we would rather not make a product rather than send it out knowing that it may come back. You can’t run a business like that.
    The Company has photos of trailer axles fractured.
    Axle breaks, wheel comes off, smashes the windscreen of the car behind and kills people.
    
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    March 31, 2023 8:53am
  - Caine9
    
    Because it’s cheap. One this that too often characterises the New Zealand attitude is that cheapest is the way to go and the endless search for a bargain is what drives too many of us.
    It’s great to see contributors refusing to accept it, but too many people do.
    Tax it or ban it don’t care which.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:03am
- Maggie Pie
  
  That could be a real worry actually SteveO.
  Is there any way of knowing the source of the steel used in some of our high-rise Apartment Towers built by Chinese construction companies?
  
  I’m thinking of one in particular where friends paid over 4m off the plans and since moving in are experiencing a number of probs 🙁
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:42am
  - CJames
    
    You are relying on the QA of the inspectors and the construction company. Often, they either don’t know what they are looking for nor do they care.
    Problems may arise if so Auckland is hit by an earthquake. However, it is very very likely that the building will never need the strength in its steel. It will go right through its life without it ever being an issue.
    
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    March 31, 2023 8:48am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Fifty-floors up the views are to dye for. Spent over a mill with the fitout.
      But hve already had probs with the plumbing and the lifts.
      They’ve been told not to say anything while things get sorted.
      Wouldn’t be for me I’m afraid.
      
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      March 31, 2023 9:21am
      - Colville
        
        You are assuming they didn’t remove the reinforcing after the inspector had signed it off?
        That is “brave”
        There is a reason Chinese built housing is cheaper…
        
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        March 31, 2023 9:52am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    There should be mill test certificates for the building inspectors, but hey, we are talking China here.
    Some Chinese products are good. They are now on the world stage. Think of Japan after WW2. It was jap crap. It is not jap crap anymore – ever driven a Lexus?
    
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    March 31, 2023 8:58am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      NOPE. Always been a euro gal.
      
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      March 31, 2023 9:13am
      - leoj
        
        You must enjoy the unreliability plus the huge maintenance and repair costs, if you can get parts.
        
        Euro stuff is not a patch on Japanese-made cars.
        
        And Steve is correct. Buy a Lexus and be done with it. You won’t regret it.
        
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        March 31, 2023 11:20am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        A rugged Lada Maggie? Stylish Trabant? Cheeky Fiat?
        
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        March 31, 2023 11:39am
- Ra Henare
  
  LIke all things. Chinese produce good quality and bad quality.
  Buy on price get poor quality. Good quality pay more.
  This based on 5 years buying product in China (annual/bi annual trips).
  
  NZ has been fed 2 myths
  China produces cheap crap
  China doesnt produce quality
  Suggest your steel supplier bought on price.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:49am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    yes and no. Chinese firms can and will build to whatever quality standard you want. They can do first class work.
    
    But, the culture of cheating is real.
    
    So unless you watch them like hawks, and test regularly, they will substitute shit for the stuff you specified every time they think they will get away with it.
    
    The certificates will say whatever you pay them to say.
    
    Remember Melamine in baby formula – it pushes the protein level up when the product is tested. Shame it kills the kids though.
    
    That is the mentality you are dealing with. Cheating is not a “maybe”thing, its a “when”thing. I have heard of entire commercial buildings in Auckland having to be recabled because the “certified”cable had faked code certification.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:34am
    - Ra Henare
      
      Not my experience(cheating whenever they can).
      This is after dealing with a score of suppliers over a number of years.
      
      Our “secret” was to developed relationships with suppliers. Hence the visits. They wouldn’t cheat us as that would mean losing face.
      
      Ordering remotely/via Catalog etc puts you in the idiot/able to be cheated category.
      I suspect some NZ steel suppliers/importers will fall in to that latter category
      
      PS. One of our customers Woolworhs Australia had a cunning strategy. They used a Hong Kong based quality control company.
      Cantonese Hong Kongers were ruthlessly pedantic that the Mainland(Mandarin) Chinese meet the standards. They just had to make sure their staff spoke/understood Mandarin!! 🙂
      
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      March 31, 2023 11:53am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Not all can be steely like Chris Hipkins. Cut some slack.
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:18am
Chuck Bird

Is this sick?

‘Theybies’: Parents speak out about letting young children choose their own gender

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/theybies-parents-speak-out-about-letting-young-children-choose-their-own-gender/BTKYY26M7BAOXNHM7DOQ6D5X3I/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nzh_fb&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1680162408
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March 31, 2023 8:16am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Yes it is insane but here we are.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:37am
- Random T Person
  
  Frankly I don’t really care what other mad parents do. I’m bringing up my lads old skool. The teachers love it, because they get interested, engaged, enthusiastic boys in their classes. ‘Keep doing what you’re doing’, the younger lad’s teach said.
  Proud to say both lads are top of their class. I’ve taught them that being diligent is far more important than being clever … ;-).
  Sorry bit of a sideways rant.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:56am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    “Frankly I don’t really care what other mad parents do. ”
    
    I care to an extent because the children get no choice. They then grow up to be messed up adults which affects us all.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:13am
    - Random T Person
      
      I hear you, but I like to focus my worries on things I can do something about…
      
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      March 31, 2023 10:34am
    - leoj
      
      They grow up to be Labour/Green voters.
      
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      March 31, 2023 11:23am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  This gender crap and pronoun crap is coming from mentally ill people.
  I don’t think it will ever get back to what we call ‘normal.’
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:01am
  - kowtow
    
    No , the people pushing it are clever Marxists , the parents and others buying it are the idiots ( including “leaders” in the corporate world who crave some sort of “diversity” tick on their CV’s). Useful idiots , Lenin called them.
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:29am
- Rich Prick
  
  We used to call that sort of thing parental neglect. Now the trans crowd and the media expect us to celebrate it. I certainly won’t.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:04am
  - kowtow
    
    Worse than “neglect” , it is active abuse .
    
    In fact in some jurisdictions it could be a domestic violence crime as it involves mental control behaviour.
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:30am
  - leoj
    
    A tiny minority trying to convince us that weird is normal.
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:25am
- I remember when
  
  Theybies; Okay children who wants to stand up and who wants to sit down.
  Don’t forget, often shorter queues for the males.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:13am
  - kowtow
    
    If it wasn’t so tragic it would be funny .
    But it’s not funny .
    It’s serious child abuse .
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:32am
Maggie Pie

And have you closed your KiwiBank accounts yet?

One of the judges on the panel for ‘Young-New-Zealander-of-the-Year’ was….

Steve Jerkovich, CEO, KiwiBank.

LOLOL!!
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March 31, 2023 8:17am
- Yabster
  
  yep- kiwibank woke of the woke- that “person” is an angry, perverted socialist – perfect for the award…
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:26am
- Yabster
  
  Anyone like to guess what % of the population are transgender?- as with most minorities it is vastly over-estimated. According to a newshub article (lets face if anything they would over estimate the % if they could) it is 0.8% and of that 28.3% are transgender men- so all this fucking attention, media, violence- is for 0.226% of the population- ffs how pathetic is this country becoming?
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:36am
  - Clownworld
    
    Don’t worry the census will come out with surprisingly high numbers of all sorts of genders.
    
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    April 1, 2023 3:00am
- Frank the tank
  
  In fairness he would have been on ‘instructions’ from Wokeborg.
  
  NZ of the year going the way of the oscars – woke and irrelevant.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:40am
- Pavel
  
  Kiwibank New Zealander of the year 2021 Siouxsie Wiles lol.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:21am
- Local Miller
  
  Not yet, but I’ve just sold the house on my subdivision, settlement is the 6th April and I’ll be mortgage free and ready to make some changes WRT my banking.
  Since I don’t like the Australian owned banks, and just had a really bad experience with ASB and their Global Finance department that cost me 3 days of work, there aren’t a lot of options. Where to go: TSB, Heartland, Co-Operative? What other choices are there?
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:19am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    HSBC are very good. Very very good. Mention my name.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:46am
    - kisekiman
      
      The preferred bank for Mexican drug cartels…
      
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      March 31, 2023 10:45pm
  - Matt Long
    
    No mortgage, how about cash? Then no bank involved. No tracking your spending and movements.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:49am
    - Local Miller
      
      Yes, cash, gold and silver, I like that, but I still have to have an account for my salary to go into. IRD frowns on people who get paid cash under the table.
      
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      March 31, 2023 10:51am
      - Matt Long
        
        I think if you ask for it your employers still have to pay you cash.
        Online shopping gets a bit hard though.
        
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        March 31, 2023 12:34pm
      - Pavel
        
        I had my kiwibank account frozen on new years eve for sending $300 to Oz at Xmas for my niece. Had to go into a branch and explain it away like a child does with their mother. I ditched them on the spot and went with anz.
        Being freehold and a tradesman I now demand most payments in cash and let the odd customer pay via the bank so I can pay my gst. So long as your books are right and you declare everything it is not illegal to trade in cash regardless of how many frowny faces the ird might pull, just be sure to have a chartered accountant do your tax returns. If you’re at the stage in life where you don’t need the banks then ditch the them. As for online shopping get a prezzy card.
        
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        March 31, 2023 12:55pm
  - Bridgenag
    
    Heartland are very good and you get you speak to a person……
    
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    March 31, 2023 1:29pm
  - gander
    
    SBS. And if you want multi-currency capability and want to minimise the fees and exchange penalties, Wise (wise.com).
    
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    March 31, 2023 7:38pm
alloytoo

While the scandal regard Stuart Nash would sink a better government, we must remember that this Labour Government is one without shame.

To make things worse they are using this debacle to distract people from the fact that an act of domestic terror occurred in Albert Park, Auckland (Our largest city) on Saturday 25 March where ideologically driven persons used violence and the threat of violence to silence women (a legal visitor as well as New Zealand Citizens) in New Zealand. (They further attempted the same with a religious gathering in Aotea Square, but were dissuaded by the fact that big men on Motor cycles are less easily subject to physical threats)

Police appear to have been instructed not to protect law abiding people exercising their right to free speech.

Further, Ministers of the crown were present in support of the terrorists.

Why has the Prime Minister not condemned the event and lack of police action on the day?

Why have the organizers not been arrested for incitement to violence?

Why has our government not issued a formal apology to the people whose rights were denied them?

Will National and Act commit to a Royal commission of enquiry into this event which has resulted in threats of Tourism and Trade boycotts against out country. (The enquiry should also examine the part if mainstream media in fostering the violent terrorism and failing to report on it)
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March 31, 2023 8:25am
- Waipuk
  
  This link is Sean plunket talking to a woman who acted as police liaison for the “event” at Albert Park.
  
  Had assurances from police for weeks before the event but on the day police ghosted her. Plus on the day was told by the police “we are not here to help you”.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ9FqiNcV80
  
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  March 31, 2023 12:16pm
- stiff cheese
  
  Q: “Why has the Prime Minister not condemned the event and lack of police action on the day?”
  
  Luxon missing in action too.. Seymour? Winston? Anything to say?
  
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  March 31, 2023 1:06pm
  - alloytoo
    
    Seymour and Winston have issued substantive condemnations.
    
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    March 31, 2023 3:00pm
Nickc2

Ardern, Hipkins, and probably Bloomfield should be hung, drawn, and quartered for lying to us about the Pfizer Elixer. Have a read of this. Rodney Hyde tells it like it is.
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/thomas-cranmer-pfizer-vaccine-approval-in-nz-under-scrutiny-a-retrospective-analysis
Where’s our MSM on this? Oh, that’s right, they’re too busy trying to defend Stuart Nash and Cindy’s Office staff in accordance with Hipkins’ directives eh?
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March 31, 2023 8:31am
Ehlana

So the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year awards were announced last night. And the University of Canterbury Young New Zealander of the Year was Shaneel Lal.
Apparently, these awards are for the leaders of tomorrow, “brimming with the potential to build a bright future for Aotearoa, … striving to improve themselves, their communities and their nation.”

A bright future in which those who disagree with Shaneel will not have a right of peaceful public assembly or to express opinions he does not agree with. It seems to me that alone guarantees no chance whatsoever for improving anyone, any community or this nation.

The voting was no doubt done before last Saturday’s disgraceful scenes. I wonder if it would have made any difference.
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March 31, 2023 8:31am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Yes it is a disgrace. These “awards” are utterly corrupted.
  
  I would expect a young New Zealander of the year to be a PhD in science doing groundbreaking research while mentoring young children. Or something. You get the picture. Instead we get a gender activist who incited a Lynch mob.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:42am
  - I remember when
    
    Once again the concept of a New Zealander of the Year award is shown to be impossible.
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:08am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Widogast-
    Makes me relieved that I am not a Kiwibank customer.
    Saves me the hassle changing banks.
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:11am
    - Bridgenag
      
      Move the most to Heartland and leave the bills etc with Kiwibank….b
      
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      March 31, 2023 1:31pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It’s the woke phenomenon we are witnessing around the planet. Many companies are quickly learning “go woke, go broke”. I’m guessing the fact that Kiwibank is owned by the NZ Government is the reason for this virtue signaling, nonsensical award being given to one of the least deserving people in the country.
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:20am
    - septic skeptic
      
      Berkshire Hathaway are still old school. Warren Buffet explains that they pick board members on 3 criteria:
      Business savvy
      Shareholder focused
      Passionate about Berkshire
      
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      March 31, 2023 10:09am
- Frank the tank
  
  No it would not – most of the panel would have been silently supporting the scenes last Saturday. Corporate NZ has been utterly swallowed up by Wokeborg.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:42am
  - hullkiwi
    
    It is because very little of corporate NZ is owned solely by NZ shareholders. Most companies are part of multinational conglomerates. If the company has foreign ownership, they also tend to demonstrate woke. Then there are the govt owned entries. After that there is not much in the way of large public owned NZ companies.
    
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    March 31, 2023 12:48pm
- Gravelroad
  
  @Ehlana-
  Yes, well, the “judges” and Kiwibank connections are having a laugh at our expense.
  That’s the way it is in New Zealand now.
  Mainstream, the law abiding and ordinary people trying to make a living by working are the idiots here.
  It is the self obsessed, flamboyant ,minority activists who are in charge.
  “Look at me, look at me, look at me. I am special and you are not” snigger.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:43am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Lal will be along to reprogram you shortly.
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:06am
  - BeaB
    
    As a person who no longer menstruates I don’t know whether I should be Arthur or Martha.
    However I do know that the preening, capering ringleader of the disgraceful howling down of Posie Parker is not fit to be Young NZer of the Year.
    It makes a mockery of what was already a dubious award and is a slap in the face of every woman in NZ
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:39am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      You don’t stop being a woman just because your body stops producing eggs…
      
      Time to ponder if you’re a not a woman is when you start producing spermatoza.
      
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      March 31, 2023 11:14am
- graham
  
  Well said Ehlana. I fail to see how someone who insults and ridicules people who disagree with him, who calls people he doesn’t like “Nazis” and “Terfs”, and demands that people MUST adhere to his particular view of the world, is ever going to “build a bright future” for New Zealand.
  
  Read Shaneel’s Tweet, and the subsequent replies to it. I think there will be quite a few people looking at the Kiwibank “New Zealander of the Year” awards in a new – and not very positive – light, when they celebrate someone like this as “striving to improve themselves, their communities and their nation.”
  
  You ran away, you coward TERF. Don’t mess with us ever again
  
  https://mobile.twitter.com/shaneellall/status/1639401416044449792
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:55am
  - Swifty
    
    I’ve seen tweets from him far, far worse…..
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:19am
  - Ehlana
    
    The sad thing is, it takes the gloss off previous winners. Like EzraA Hirawani last year, who set up a power company “delivering affordable, “always-on” power after discovering how many families lived in power poverty.” They focus on building relationships with customers, don’t do credit checks or disconnect, have steady weekly payments and “one of the industry’s lowest debt rates”. He saw a problem among the community (specifically, poor Maori) and came up with a solution.
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:21am
    - Taieri
      
      The sad thing is, it takes the gloss off previous winners.
      ————-
      
      Such as Ass Professor “Siouxsie” Wiles. Plenty of gloss there…
      
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      March 31, 2023 12:04pm
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    “Don’t mess with us ever again”
    
    Literally the new mafia.
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:49am
- Ghost
  
  They were always going to win, it didn’t matter who they were up against, the award was just to be woke and say look a trans person has won. Be interesting to see if police complaints have been made against them and they are charged what will happen.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:27am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  It’s an outrage alright! Why didn’t Lizzie Marvelly get it?!?
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:47am
Paulus

The prize this year I understand is the Maori Scientist who “found Matariki”.
Perhaps this is not the right interpretion, but I always thought that the recently so called Matariki, was in fact, in English, it is called the Pleiades (its ancient Greek name) or the Seven Sisters. The Hawaiian name is Makali’i, or ‘eyes of royalty’, and in Japan it is Subaru, meaning ‘gathered together’.
Umm !!
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March 31, 2023 8:32am
- Ehlana
  
  I think it was more about reinvigorating Maori astronomy and promoting Matariki.
  
  Given that Matariki is a cluster of stars, presumably orbited by planets which may be inhabited by intelligent life, it would be extraordinarily colonialist to claim anyone on Earth had “found” them!
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:23am
  - BeaB
    
    I’d rather be a cis than a cissie.
    
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    March 31, 2023 12:14pm
Southern Raider

Media doesn’t seem interested in picking it up but all business confidence and economic indicators pointing to a big correction about to hit NZ and most people are oblivious.

One building industry company a day collapsing and this will accelerate and have flow on impacts.

Just hope the peak hits before October election and Labour doesn’t go early. People still thinking Labour is the solution need to feel real pain and face reality
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March 31, 2023 8:35am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  The shit will hit the fan once folk with their million dollar mortgages are reset at 6.9 percent up from 2.5 percent in the next 2 months.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:55am
  - PeeJay
    
    I see a lot of house and land packages being put up for sale almost as soon as the code compliance certificate has been issued and the landscaping is still going in! A lot of these would have been negotiated / bought around the peak and the owners are now in the horrible quandary where the valuation is less than the purchase price, interest rates are jumping and their existing property price has dropped like a stone.
    
    I suspect there could soon be a very painful correction just around the corner.
    
    If the proverbial does hit the fan, and the labour-green-maori clown show gets in this October, then NZ will truly deserve everything it gets and will be well on the way to banana republic.
    
    Can only hope enough people see sense later this year to end this government and give National / ACT a chance to sort this shit out.
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:43am
- PeeJay
  
  Working in construction and property development, I’m starting to see similar trends to just prior to the GFC. Certain demands stats are still high though, so it’s bloody odd out there. Still, seeing main contractors starting to be keen to tender (previously hard to even get them to negotiate directly) with margins dropping.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:38am
lastmanstanding

Co-governance is a breach of the UN Declaration of Human Rights
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
I refer to Article 7.
All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

There is a breach of the Article in our health system. The Maori Health Authority has a right of veto of funding over the Non-Maori Health Authority.
Only the perverse would not agree this is to allow Maori to receive a different level of funding from Non-Maori.
The lawyer class have been silent. I say because they fear raising the matter will see them accused of racism. I do not have that fear.
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March 31, 2023 8:41am
- Random T Person
  
  Yeah this is the same UN with UNDRIP. I’m not taking any succour from any of its proclamations on human rights.
  
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  March 31, 2023 8:57am
Captain Mainwaring

Sharon Murdoch this morning. Words fail me. Can’t even find anything to say about Nash , piles into Luxon again.
Pathetic, biased excuse for a ‘cartoonist’.
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March 31, 2023 8:42am
- sirknz
  
  Don’t you mean “pathetic, biased excuse for an award winning cartoonist”?
  
  Her style is very lefty as in they always feel the need to explain everything. Twenty words where two will do. That collectivist mindset is truly a horror…
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:10am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    She’d never get an award from me. Those who chose her for that must be of the same deranged mindset.
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:17am
Im Right

I eagerly await the ‘scandal’ that will be leaked to our lefty compliant media concerning a National MP in the next few days as the Nash ‘problem’ gathers momentum and now implicating the highest echelons of the Labour party….

We all know it’s coming, Labour have been doing it for decades.
Wonder who will be in their firing line to take the heat and attention off Nash??
Any guesses…..
I will go for some nobody that no one has heard of, a back bencher…if Labour had good dirt on a senior National MP they would have leaked the info by now before Ardern left.
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March 31, 2023 8:42am
- RoboRob
  
  The new harbour crossing is the first attempt to distract. If that doesn’t work, and it shouldn’t, you are right we will have a ‘rumour’ about leadership change or other issues within National.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:52am
  - Hollyfield
    
    The harbour crossing didn’t work – virtually everyone yesterday dismissed it as “never happening” amid comparisons to Kiwibuild and the light rail down Dominion Road that was supposed to open this year. I hunted for information about it on the Herald website this morning and it was nowhere to be found….
    
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    March 31, 2023 5:54pm
Frank the tank

So is the Chipster going to be ground to sawdust due to the nefarious actions and behaviour of his predecessor and the pure incompetence of his ministers.

Discuss.
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March 31, 2023 8:44am
- RoboRob
  
  The issue for Chippie is that Labour ha an inner circle: JA, Robertson and Chippie. We know this as they are the three that admit to meeting before Christamas to organise Jacindas departure.
  
  It defies belief that a major political issue would arrive at the PMs office (the email) and that she wouldn’t discuss what to do about it with them.
  
  This means Chippie was part of problem and has lied (again) about knowing nothing until Wednesday.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:55am
  - PeeJay
    
    I’ve been wondering about this.
    
    Not sure but I suppose you could argue that the reason he held off in originally firing Nash over the police issue was that Chippie new all about the lobbyist briefing and was hoping he could avoid the lobbyist thing coming out. If Nash was fired then, he could have done a ‘I’m taking you all down with me’ strop, so Chippie was hoping to muddle through (helps when you have a compliant and tame MSM I suppose).
    
    When the lobbyist issue broke (and got to wonder who leaked it and why the bought and paid for MSM reported on it), he acted bloody quickly. Almost like he was trying to head off any further discussion so as to avoid him, Grunter and Ardern being dragged into it. When that didn’t work, harbour crossings as a diversion.
    
    Just a suspicion really.
    
    Guess we’ll have to hope for a change of government later this year and an open enquiry into all this OIA stuff. As other commenters have stated – it would be more than reasonable to assume that this isn’t the only OIA dodge they’ve done in the last 6 years!
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:51am
Bridgenag

From The Spectator

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/fear-and-loathing-in-new-zealand/
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March 31, 2023 8:58am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Bridgenag – this country is becoming an abomination and an embarrassment. This has all happened in the last 5 years. Jacinda Ardern enabled and led this disaster.
  
  “Most open and transparent government ever”
  
  “Kind and caring”
  
  “Safe and effective”
  
  “Two classes of people, that’s what it is, yip, yip”
  
  The level of physical, financial, psychological and societal destruction she has overseen is breathtaking. This country is unraveling at the seams. National need to be bold and decisive. I’m not sure if Luxon is the man for the job, if he is, he needs to step up soon. Very soon.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:41am
  - Nukuleka
    
    Don’t count on Chris Luxon, who is on record as giving greater priority to the protesters than to Kellie- Jay Keen. We are living in a sad little backwater where the a vile hate- filled creature called Shaneel Lal, a prime mover in the shameful anti- women scenes at Albert Park, is heralded as Young New Zealander of the Year.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:39am
  - leoj
    
    It’s too late for the Nats to change their leader.
    We are stuck with him.
    Nothing much will change.
    We will have a faded blue wash over what Labour have already implemented.
    Luxon will sleep walk into the PM’s job and because they have not had to announce any major changes to Labour’s policies, they won’t have to answer to us.
    Govt by default by doing nothing.
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:40am
    - lifesgood
      
      Go to Bob Jones blog nopunchespulled to get a proper view on Luxon, not the one the MSM feeds us. You might change your mind.
      
      [Mod – link added]
      
      Bob Jones
      
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      March 31, 2023 12:33pm
    - septic skeptic
      
      Why is it too late? How long was Ardern leader of the opposition?
      
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      March 31, 2023 1:20pm
Maggie Pie

You’d have to wonder what Chippie has said to his Maori Caucus?
Haven’t really heard from ANY of them since Cindy packed it in.

My partner reckons Chippie must have told them…. if Labor are to have any chance whatsoever of being re-elected, they ALL need to pull their ugly heads in until after the election.

Then watch out! Nania like to be Deputy PM. It’ll all be on again 🙁
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March 31, 2023 9:00am
- Blog-aholic
  
  It has not gone away by a long shot.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:20am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It looks like Marama Davidson (Greens) and the Maori Party are picking up the slack.
  
  Poor old Marama Davidson isn’t really comfortable in the company of non-Maori folks, it seems…..
  
  after the week I’ve had, it’s quite good to be in a room with hundreds of Māori ”.
  
  She also doesn’t seem to realise that as Associate Minister of Housing, she is part of the problem of the Government that needs to “Get out of the way”.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/131650986/get-out-of-the-way-the-ministerial-message-on-governments-role-to-help-solve-mori-housing-crisis
  
  But at least Labour MPs are confident that they have Maori Party and Green Party support…and so can sit back for the next few months developing their race-based election strategy:
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/minister-peeni-henare-likes-the-look-of-a-labour-green-te-pati-maori-coalition/XWRK2ZC5AJBYVHQKDAR5CJ7774/
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:38am
  - Colville
    
    She wants government to get out of the way unless they are standing there signing a chq.!
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:53am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Describes her perfectly.
      Get out- get out – get out. Oh, thankyou very much.
      
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      March 31, 2023 10:04am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Found this….
    
    “We can have a democratic form of government,
    or we can have indigenous sovereignty.
    
    They can’t coexist and we can’t have them both”
    
    – David Lange
    
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    March 31, 2023 9:54am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Todays’ brainwashed so called indigenous will not have a bar of that.
      Did Lange say that before 1975, or after the 1975 Waitangi Tribunal?
      
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      March 31, 2023 10:16am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        I’m not sure when it was. All ma said it was after his stomach-staple.
        
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        March 31, 2023 10:43am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Marama not comfortable in the company of non Maori?
    
    I wonder what her husband thinks about that.
    
    [Mod – fixed for you]
    
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    March 31, 2023 8:21pm
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Nania has been overseas for weeks. She is currently in Vanuatu. She tweets:
  
  “Tankiu tumas, nga mihi ki 🇻🇺 Acting PM Sato Kilman for opportunity to korero this morning & discuss recent developments in Vanuatu & across our #BluePacificContinent — NZ is committed to working together as a region w all of our Pacific whanau…”
  
  https://twitter.com/NanaiaMahuta?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
  
  Now whatever that means, that is another matter 🙂
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:59am
- Piniwi
  
  Perhaps that is the plan Maggie but it is notable that the 3 females surrounding Chippy at his Live stand-up this morning were POC. Looked funny as they seemed to be little, large and medium. Many are already looking hard to count the real truthful utterances from Chippy but he is proving as hard for many to listen to as Cindy .
  
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  March 31, 2023 4:19pm
Bridgenag

WHO controls the world
or will do if you let it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hughmccarthy/p/who-controls-the-world?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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March 31, 2023 9:02am
I remember when

New NCEA tests poorly designed for Maori and Pacific students – report: RNZ.
Consultants said “the achievement gaps for Maori and Pacific students and teens from poor communities..”

Or, the headline could have said –
Lower decile students fail to improve in new NCEA tests.
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March 31, 2023 9:02am
- PeeJay
  
  This is the kind of thing that really annoys me.
  
  Do they never realise how condescending this crap is? It’s almost like they are saying it’s not Maori / Pacific students fault – it’s so racist to expect them to be smarter.
  
  I have met folks of many races in NZ – race is the single, most useless guide to how smart someone is. I’ve met east asian folks that vary between genius and thick. I’ve met Maori that make me feel thick and others that make me feel like I’m Einstein. Same goes for pretty much ever race or nationality I’ve met in NZ.
  
  This constant ‘it’s not your fault because of racism / colonisation’ crap is so condescending! Can they honestly not see this?
  
  How about rather than making the tests easier, they actually focus on how they can lift performance for these kids?
  
  I came from a bloody poor area. I got ahead because I put the work in, and most importantly, had three amazing teachers that made it their personal goal to lift all their students up to the highest they could be – homework was checked, help was given, standards were to be met. They didn’t say the tests and exams were unfair because I came from a shitty no-hoper family. They never saw the issue as the bar needed to be lowered – their jobs was to help kids get over the bar. And I wasn’t the only kid they helped.
  
  But I suppose it’s just so much easier to scream racism. And NZ continues the gradual but continual decline.
  
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  March 31, 2023 12:10pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep..
    
    It’s an admission from Teachers of today that
    1. they have no idea how to educate children from poor families, and
    2. They don’t really give a stuff…..
    
    Otherwise they would have tackled the problem of low-achieving children and schools decades ago.
    
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    March 31, 2023 1:04pm
BeaB

Claire Trevett, the Herald political editor, said this morning on RNZ she can’t remember the beginning of the week and what has happened. She needs some medical attention! No wonder political reporting in the Herald is so poor. Someone with memory problems of that gravity should be getting treatment.
However she did make the astonishing claim that the Deputy Chief of Staff in the PM’s office isn’t Machiavellian in any way. Really? Surely someone in this role should have a firm grasp on political machinations and implications. Perhaps her innocence of such matters is why she approved the the concealment of the email that got Nash sacked.
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March 31, 2023 9:03am
- CAKE FACE1
  
  Claire “The Communist” Trevett is a Labour Party lickspittle, who appears to part of the propaganda arm of this government.
  
  Simon Wilson, who is a Neo-Marxist, openly states his extreme left wing ideology, which he is entitled to do. All power to him. As long as the Herald has commentators from the opposite viewpoint, I have no problem with it.
  
  Claire Trevett pretends to be a neutral, and she is extreme left wing fanatic. This is unacceptable, in my view. She is trying to deceive the reader. All her articles are therefore disinformation.
  
  The Herald should publish a disclaimer on all of Claire Trevett articles. They should admit that this lady is not a neutral commentator – she is in fact a collaborator for extreme left wing ideology.
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:25am
- Random T Person
  
  She put up quite a defence for Holly Donald, too.
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:40am
- Burtland
  
  Trevett condoned Davidson’s racist cis rant- any decent citizen would be calling it out.
  
  Then she states Donald wasnt Machiavellian – yet Donald ran Labour’s OIA avoidance courses for new MPs.
  
  Trevett is a tool for the left – a useful idiot.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:36pm
BeaB

You have to feel sorry for the media this week. Not only are they finding it desperately hard to continue to be one-eyed cheerleaders for the inept Labour government, they are even facing the loss of their jobs.
Where to next for Tova? Starbucks?
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March 31, 2023 9:05am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  I’m sure her friend Jami-Lee could find a job for her.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:19am
- kowtow
  
  When a radio station with basically no listeners goes under and makes the front page of the country’s largest circulating paper ;
  
  you know you live in a kumara republic.
  
  It’s not even made out to be a “media” story , it’s been turned into a celebrity issue about their “stars”.
  
  Pathetic . The lotta them.
  
  The real story is how they cancelled some decent jocks for a woke new look and then went down the shitter faster than the morning after’s late night dodgy takeaway .
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:40am
- ClanMcleod
  
  BeaB – the demise of the mainstream media in this country due to their one eyed and incompetent performances over the last 3 years was as inevitable as it is welcome.
  You cannot do what they have done and not expect serious blowback. Tova and Duncan are just the beginning of things to come. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
  
  Tova saying “they have fucked us” has to be the most ironic statement of the year. She was one of the biggest promoters of vicious attacks on so called “anti vaxxers” over the last 3 years. She helped “fuck” tens of thousands of peoples’ lives and personal relationships. So did Garner.
  
  You reap what you sow.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:50am
Nickc2

OMG, Luxon’s shot himself in the foot again!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/watch-live-national-leader-christopher-luxon-announces-climate-policy/WCIUQIJAUVGGTNRXN3NNHHQDNA/
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March 31, 2023 9:12am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Or we could just have the ETS. Allow energy companies to make decisions about generation. Allow consumers to make decisions on transport. Provided the ETS cap is equal to whatever international obligations New Zealand has, problem solved.
  
  TBH this announced policy is really no different in substance to the Government’s policies. And just as stupid.
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:04am
- alloytoo
  
  any policy which leans into Solar and Wind is crap, Ask the Germans.
  
  Any policy which like you electrify the vehicle fleet is crap just ask anyone with common sense.
  
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  March 31, 2023 3:07pm
Random T Person

Hey Team, you should check out the daily blog again. A lot of the commentary (and articles from none other than Bomber) are firmly against the Marama Davidson racism, and even the Nash corruption scandal. Whoda thunk.
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March 31, 2023 9:15am
- ClanMcleod
  
  RTP – people can only deny reality for so long. This includes a dyed in the wool leftie like Bradbury. To keep pretending things aren’t falling apart isn’t good for your sanity.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:53am
  - Random T Person
    
    I think Bradbury will be a conservative within a few years. Read some of his latest output – it is more conservative than most of what National’s been serving up lately…
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:01am
- stiff cheese
  
  Any Auckland locals down for some detective work? A bit of ‘fact checking’.
  
  Some people have suggested Marama’s rant on video blaming white men for violence, might have been shot earlier/later than claimed.
  I caught a glimpse of the video last night and noted there was a bright, sunlit patch of footpath behind her between dark shadows. If someone in Auckland recognises the street, they could go down there on the next clear day and note the time the shadows are in the same position as the video. A week won’t have made much difference — should be accurate to within 15 mins. Take photos.
  
  Help to confirm the REAL order of events: was it “bumped by a motorcycle” -> the rant -> hospital treatment, .. or something different?
  
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  March 31, 2023 2:33pm
  - Burtland
    
    there could be time stamps in the videos which would tell all
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:40pm
Rusty

Regardless if one didn’t even like Today FM, it is still sad that staff have been shafted at the last minute and lost their jobs.

I think there is room in Auckland and the rest of the country for another talkback station to compete with Newstalk ZB.

Today FM was a woke station but most of Newstalk ZB is also like that apart from Hoskings.
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March 31, 2023 9:17am
- Nickc2
  
  Today FM started out to be contemptuous of the public, other radio stations, and lickspittles of the current Govt.
  IMO, that’s why their advertisers slowly withdrew their revenue to the point where the station was no longer financially viable and their owners pulled the pin.
  To O’Brien and Garner, you lost your jobs, so what? So too, many others not in the Ego Industry.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:37am
  - Matt Long
    
    How many people lost jobs or businesses due to covid mandates that Tova and Duncan thought were the bee’s knees?
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:03am
    - leoj
      
      Only one uptick. Should be 100.
      
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      March 31, 2023 11:44am
  - david
    
    It is inconceivable that anyone with a modicum of intelligence would not have seen a problem coming down the pike for some time and from what I see, the “stars” of Today FM poses only a modicum of intelligence.
    Radio stations live and die on their statistics, Listener numbers, market share etc are the meat and drink to a talk show host so unless they were totally incompetent (possible), very very stupid (also possible) or are now lying their asses off about it being a shock and surprise (also possible), O’Brian and Garner must have seen the writing on the wall.
    What troubles me is how they survived in such an industry for so long in leadership roles. Is the management at TVNZ that bad?
    
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    March 31, 2023 12:32pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  My partner’s mum reckons ZB need to get rid of that woke ‘Rowman’ dweeb. All he ever does is play crap music, cuts off people if they praise National, or talks about his ex-wife & kids.
  Like ma said….who could give a fcuk?
  Whenever he comes on now she tunes in to BBC.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:37am
  - Clyde
    
    Agree Maggie. I’ve heard him a couple of times and switched off within minutes. He’s like Tova with trousers.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:38am
  - leoj
    
    I really miss Bruce Russell.
    Lush and Travis are totally unlistenable.
    Click! – goes the off switch…..
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:47am
- kowtow
  
  Plenty of jobs in the tourism industry .
  Which te media industry helped destroy with their strong support of the irrational lockdown policy.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:42am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Hosking
  
  Honestly I have never seen someone have his name misspelt so often 🙂
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:05am
  - Nookin
    
    Honestly I have never seen someone have his name misspelt so often
    
    Really?
    What about that Keys guy who comes out of the woodwork from time to time?
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:13am
- PeeJay
  
  I think the problem there is in your last sentence.
  
  Newstalk ZB is actually pretty ‘woke’ during the day. It’s bookended with Hosking in the mornings (right / centre-right……or just sensible as I see it!) and HDPA on drivetime in the afternoon / early evening slot (centrist maybe left sometimes).
  
  They can’t compete during the morning / evening slots as RNZ probably provides the woke alternative during this time, which meant Today FM was retty much offering the same as Newstalk ZB during the day.
  
  Really wasn’t a compelling reason for listeners to switch loyalties. Advertisers follow the audience, therefore not really a great surprise. Therefore, you’d have to say it was a bad strategy from the start and this was probably inevitable. Certainly my thoughts.
  
  Feel for the staff though – even Tova – never good when someone gets sacked. You can disagree with someone’s views without wishing them ill.
  
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  March 31, 2023 12:19pm
  - JimBobJoe
    
    No sympathy for Tova OBrien. She and shock journos like her hound people out of jobs so yeah, nah – its good she is gone in my view
    
    Example: The hatchet job she did on JLR to try and get at Bridges and the rest of the National leadership – faux sympathy but with an intent to metaphorically knife someone.
    
    Live by the Sowrd…. and all that
    
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    March 31, 2023 1:11pm
cas

I wonder if anyone does any count of the number of cyclists who use these cycle ways. then we could have a good debate about the cost per cyclist versus say free buses.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/wellington/131615017/wellington-cycle-lane-obsession-taking-a-toll-fedup-shop-owner-says
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March 31, 2023 9:19am
- sirknz
  
  Along Tamaki Drive in Auckland, there is a dedicated cycle lane along most of the length, put in at great expese to ratepayers and with much disruption to daily drivers, and yet we still see these lycra clad loons holding up traffic in the car lanes.
  
  The few times we head there for family fun (ice creams for all of us that Kapiti stuff does taste quite nice), we have never seen any cyclists in these lanes. Weekday, weekend, day or night.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:35am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    That’s what bugs me. Those assholes ignore the bike lanes built for them and stick to the traffic lanes. It seems to be the ones that look like serious cyclists; the casual ones are on the bike lanes (mostly), and they’re few and far between even on weekends.
    
    What I’ve really grown to love are the new crossing lights on Tamaki Drive – just 200m from the existing crossing lights at the Ngapipi road intersection.
    
    And judging from the number of traffic cops I now see on Tamaki Drive – especially on weekends – I’m guessing it’s a full court press to force people to accept the new changes.
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:57am
  - mawm
    
    SirK – That bike lane is not fit for purpose – it is uneven, runs adjacent to passenger doors and is usually filled with women pushing babies in prams. The new bit in Mission bay has no entry point for riders coming into town! The whole thing is so poorly designed that a serious cyclist needs to ride on the road. Fortunately most drivers are courteous and aware of the dangers riders face from irate, boorish drivers.
    
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    March 31, 2023 6:58pm
- Widogast Corwin
  
  There is a “counter’ on the cycleway near Hagley Park. It is up to about 30,000 for the year. However many of the cyclists there are doing it for recreation and exercise (including me). As at the last census there were fewer people commuting by bike than in 1990. Will be interesting to see the results of the 2023 census.
  
  The real boom in cycling is recreational cycling – mountain bikes. Have you seen 4 x $9,000 bikes strapped to the back of the huge SUV on the weekend going to or from the mountain bike park?
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:09am
Libertarians are right

Jacob Chansley (Q-Anon Shaman) has been released from jail into a half-way house and will be fully released in May. Well short of the minimum prison sentence for his “crimes”.

Turns out that the deliberately withheld video evidence of him being effectively shown around by Capital Police (i.e. a Brady Violation) would have been a mitigating factor in his sentencing.
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March 31, 2023 9:20am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Thanks to Tucker Carlson showing those videos on his Youtube channel.
  
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  March 31, 2023 1:08pm
Frank the tank

The meltdown over the collapse of TodayFM has been truly enlightening in terms of how the corporate class under the age of 40 don’t understand basic economics.

Their whole argument on continuing has been on the basis that in due course people will ‘consume’ their product. Thankfully their US owners understand economics 101 and the concept of pouring good money after bad.

The MSM response has been one of denial as opposed to understanding that TodayFM was a poor product that nobody wanted to consume.

Interestingly as my 2 children traverse yrs 8-12 in NZ schooling I am dumbfounded in the lack of teaching of basic economic concepts. Gone are the fundamentals of supply and demand replaced by marketing and other non essential economic concepts.

A coincidence? Perhaps not.
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March 31, 2023 9:21am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  lack of teaching of basic economic concepts
  
  I think it depends on the subjects you take at school.
  
  I was never exposed to anything connected to bookkeeping/accounting/economics in my education.
  
  I was aware of some realities:
  …. That I needed to work in Summer Hols to afford Uni;
  
  that I couldn’t afford to fail any exam;
  
  that there was no guarantee that anyone would employ me for 40 years as a Forest Ecologist based in Wellington.
  
  I don’t think my daughters had any exposure to economics either, in their secondary schooling… though aspects of budgeting/cost controls were covered in Chef daughter’s training at Polytech.
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:01am
sirknz

Anybody else feel sorry for the Today FM crew and want to get in on the media pity party for them?

No?

Me too.
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March 31, 2023 9:27am
- kowtow
  
  They should sign up to the Mega Poly and ………learn to code.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:17am
- Bobba Fret
  
  I feel sorry for Mark Richardson and Leah Panapa the afternoon show. I listened to them sometimes.
  
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  March 31, 2023 3:45pm
Its only I

Its incredible how many people are on the edge of criminal behaviour every single day in and around Labour.

Its incredible how New Zealand’s Alt-Left have normalised being on the edge of criminal behaviour every hour of every day.

If there is a change of gov I sincerely hope there is enough interest in a total, no holds barred, every rock turned enquiry into Labours term. I hope the results are made public with ZERO redactions.
Including media and the messaging money trails…

Then maybe something could be developed that would prevent any toxic shit personality from from thriving, prospering and recruiting more toxic shit personalities within the walls of the beehive, as they do today.

How hard is it just to be F’ing honest…there is much less workload for a start!
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March 31, 2023 9:27am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/live-debate-between-julian-batchelor-and-activist-leaders-on-the-platform-with-sean-plunket-moderating-you-decide-who-the-winners-and-losers-were/

There is now a permanent venue for meetings in Auckland.
“We will only be releasing the venue location 24 hours out from the event from now on. This applies to all our venues all over New Zealand. ”

This is good. It stops ratbags like Claudia Wyss from Auckland Council pulling the plug on venues. Having 24 hours of the venue location applies for the whole NZ road tour.
Any other Council people trying any nonsense will be stopped. Remember the Meetings are now “Private Functions” Activists will not be let in. No more repugnant protests such as at Orewa.
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March 31, 2023 9:30am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I listened to Sean Plunket from the link in Stop Co-Governance.
  Someone mentioned ‘Free Speech’ Fine, until they said “Our Free Speech”
  What is the difference? One free speech or a separate our free speech that overrules the first free speech? This is the sort of crap people have to put up with.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:35am
  - rockape
    
    A bit like saying “ my truth. “
    
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    March 31, 2023 10:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The Tuesday evening event at Mt Albert was cancelled by Claudia Wyss of Auckland Council. Fine. But hang on. There was another meeting held from a speech by activist Samah. Free vegan pizzas!
  This was on the lawn, so on Council Property (Owned by Ratepayers!)
  Claudia Wyss did not shut this one down. Why not?
  I see a clear double standard here from ratbag Claudia Wyss.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:44am
I remember when

BBC News: Number of UK homes available down by a third.
The number of available rentals has fallen by a third over the past 18 months.The sharp drop has helped drive rents up for new tenants by 11%.
Lettijng agencies typically have 10 rentals compared to over 16 before September 2021.
The number of rental properties haven’t fallen, they have barely moved since 2016.

Compliance costs, both to date and those suggested for the future, starting to have a serious outcome.
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March 31, 2023 9:31am
Chuck Bird

This is by Rodney Hide. It is show how Ardern knowing lied about the safety of the vacine.

They All Told Us It Was Safe & Effective, But The Medsafe Report Tells A Very Different

https://rumble.com/v2emup6-they-all-told-us-it-safe-and-effective-but-the-medsafe-report-tells-a-very-.html
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March 31, 2023 9:58am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Chuck – further to that, here are 2 links to NZDSOS confirming with evidence, that we were lied to regarding the safety and effectiveness of the jabs.
  
  https://nzdsos.com/2023/03/29/bloomfield-lockdown-update/
  
  This post proves that Bloomfield is lying when he claimed a few days ago that NZ all cause mortality had reduced over the last 3 years and this “proves” that the “vaccines” work.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/486666/negative-excess-mortality-sign-nz-got-it-right-with-covid-19-response-sir-ashley-bloomfield
  
  In a September 2022 article (Best in Show) for the New Zealand Centre for Political Research, Professor John Gibson offers an explanation of further data dishonesty. He provides evidence that across all age groups between 2008-2019, annual death rates in New Zealand declined steadily and sharply. Using an average of annual death rates from 2008 to 2019 as the denominator in calculating expected number of deaths belies this decline, making the denominator higher than it should be and therefore hiding a much starker difference between deaths in recent and current years.
  
  Professor Gibson also discusses other concerns with the data presented to New Zealanders, such as the way that vaccination status is determined. Death certificates do not include NHI numbers, which are needed to link vaccination status, and he suggests other possible counting errors.
  
  Here is evidence that the government lied when they told us the “vaccine” was safe and effective. It is and was neither.
  
  https://nzdsos.com/2023/03/29/who-are-the-lying-anti-vaxxers/
  
  Medsafe did not deem Comirnaty “safe and effective” and advised against its authorisation. Does urging caution, not make Medsafe anti-vaxxers? Indeed, for highlighting the same concerns, NZDSOS have been labelled anti-vaxxers.
  
  We encourage you to read the full substack outlining the sequence of events and correspondence between Mr Chris James, the Group Dr. Manager of Medsafe, Ashley Bloomfield, the then Director-General of Health, Pfizer Australia and the anonymous Medicines Assessment Advisory Committee (MAAC).
  
  A brief summary for those who need bullet-points
  
  Medsafe declined to approve Comirnaty and sent the application to MAAC.
  
  MAAC then instructed Mr James of Medsafe to provisionally approve Comirnaty – “you are therefore asked to sign the attached letter to the applicant company to advise them of the outcome of the MAAC recommendation.”
  
  Medsafe advised Pfizer that its product was provisionally approved
  
  Cabinet approved the start of the immunisation program
  
  Dr Bloomfield advised against mandatory vaccination
  
  The government mandated “vaccination”
  Mr Grant Robertson, who authorised payment to Pfizer, stated that “Medsafe provides independent advice to the Government” and “that the Pfizer vaccine has been tested and was safe and effective”
  
  Mr James later stated that “Medsafe did not provide any briefings to the Hon Grant Robertson on Covid-19 vaccines”
  
  Chuck, not sure if you have inside information or contacts, but at what point is David Seymour going to realise that he was duped and acknowledge that he got this wrong?
  
  Apart from it being the right thing to do, it will get him much support from the hundreds of thousands of NZers who were the subject of so much abuse in the last few years. It should also get him support from any rational, sane person with a functioning moral compass.
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:49am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I am voting for Act but am not a member. I suggest the appropriate spokesperson. I would think that would be Health.
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:17am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Thanks Chuck – I’ll give it a go.
      
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      March 31, 2023 11:54am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jaspinda tells lies by omission. She has it in an art form, clever.
  But also hidden in there is the blackmail. “Get the jab today, so you and your community don’t have to move to level 3”
  Sorry, that is indiscriminate blackmail. It has all caught up with her, so she ran!
  
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  March 31, 2023 12:32pm
Maggy Wassilieff

What crime did these 2 chaps commit?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/covid-19-lockdown-breach-conspiracy-theorists-billy-te-kahika-vincent-eastwood-sentenced-to-prison/7OJ73C2SKJDF7FX3AWZITGBIL4/
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March 31, 2023 10:06am
- Cinematic
  
  Curious decision. Wasn’t the lockdown unlawful in of itself?
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:11am
- kowtow
  
  Extraordinary .
  
  We know the judiciary goes out of its way not to send people to prison .
  
  Yet here they do . For an offense that involved no violence or loss .
  
  This is not what should happen in a liberal democracy .
  
  It’s what happens in an authoritarian third world regime .
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:15am
ClanMcleod

The covid narrative is in retreat, except in NZ. The Labour government are, with the help of an increasingly irrelevant mainstream media, clinging desperately to their rapidly sinking ship.

Worth reading in full. Some highlights.

The Lockdown Files have dished up a curious exchange among Britain’s top policy advisers in early 2020. On February 29th, responding to a WhatsApp message from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Chief Adviser Dominic Cummings that Israeli scientists were just weeks away from developing a Covid vaccine and if this was credible, Chief Scientist Sir Patrick Vallance replied “Short answer is no”.

Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty explained: “For a disease with a low (for the sake of argument 1%) mortality a vaccine has to be very safe so the safety studies can’t be shortcut. So important for the long run.” England’s highest mortality rate was in April 2020 at 0.6%, falling to 0.55% in January 2021 and 0.04% by January 2023.

Thomas Buckley summarises it succinctly:

Tetanus boosters are not scheduled every four months… and polio is an awful memory of the past.

Covid is still around and, most likely, will be forever, as will the growing list of health problems associated with the shot itself…

From two weeks to stop the spread to get a not-vaccine shot every four months, the pandemic response has been full of lies and suffering for the general public and money and power for the autocrats and oligarchs and their clerisy.

Read the full post to comprehend the astonishing level of lies and deceptions that were used to enable this ludicrous narrative and the subsequent horrors inflicted on us all, but particularly those who dared oppose this insanity.

Yet NZ politicians and mainstream media continue to pretend that there’s “nothing to see here” and continue to push this “vaccine”. Presumably they are terrified of what will happen if they admit the truth. Well the sooner they do so the better for everyone concerned.

Until that happens, this country will never be able to move forward.

This was one of my favourite paragraphs in the post.

The malfeasance was compounded by the cowardice of political leaders hiding behind ‘follow the Science’ that mistook a slogan for policy and let loose upon democratic societies previously unimaginable acts and scenes of censorship, coercion and brutality that have eroded trust in authorities and institutions.

That sums the current situation up perfectly.

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/03/29/the-narrative-in-retreat/

I’ll stop posting anything related to covid the day we have the much needed, open and honest conversation and inquiry into what happened, how, why, and those responsible are held to account.
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March 31, 2023 10:13am
Captain Mainwaring

Transmission Gully celebrates a year of opening without a single death or serious injury. Contrast that with the old road. Not to mention Cambridge-Piarere, Puhoi-Whangarei or Tauranga-Katikati, all of which continue to produce deaths and anti-car Labour have cancelled National’s plans to turn them into four-lane highways.
They have blood on their hands.
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March 31, 2023 10:18am
- mandk
  
  Out of interest, has anyone compared the fuel consumption on the new highway from Linden to Mackay’s Crossing with the consumption on the old route?
  
  Presumably, the consumption on the old route would need to be adjusted to allow for the fact that it is now more free-flowing than it used to be.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:02am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

There is a “Stop Co-Governance” Free Speech petition for those who wish to read it.
Sign if you wish as well.

https://www.change.org/p/support-julian-batchelor-s-right-to-free-speech-and-to-hold-public-meetings
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March 31, 2023 10:22am
Andy

With National releasing policy about electrification this morning I hope they have done some form of electricity budget. How much is produced and how much required nationally. Christchurch was on the verge of brown outs earlier in the week when the cold snap hit. I would guess that without gas and coal generation going flat out we won’t be able to produce enough.
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March 31, 2023 10:27am
- Bullion
  
  The electricity sector (gentailers, distributors and possibly even regulators) got Boston Consulting Group to produce a report on the 100% renewable goal by 2030.
  https://www.bcg.com/publications/2022/climate-change-in-new-zealand
  
  The sector reckons they can achieve up to 98% renewable fairly comfortably in that time frame (even taking into account electrification of industry and transport). There are also significant investments required into the network as well as generation.
  
  It is interesting seeing National include biomass as one the energy types that will get special consenting, Genesis recent trial with a specific type of biomass was successful at Huntly and according to them emit 10% of the GHG emissions that coal does, however there is no major supplier of this type of biomass worldwide, I think I read somewhere that Genesis would require more biomass than is currently generated wordwide to switch off coal. Fonterra and Genesis have partnered together to look into local supply, as it would be good to replace coal in all thermal applications.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:10am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I keep telling myself to go and buy a generator to use when the power goes out, but must admit I still have trouble with the idea that people really do want to wreck our national supply.
  I wonder if this will be the year I kick myself for putting the purchase off too long. I gather that we’ve come pretty close to widespread blackouts over the last couple of years.
  
  Re: the biomass idea, I read that one briefing from 2022 had this to say…
  “In June 2022, a briefing on the biomass conversion trial called the plan “highly unrealistic”. While being technically feasible, the transition would be costly and unsustainable.[”
  https://www.gem.wiki/Huntly_power_station
  
  I guess that means we’ll dive right on in.
  
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  March 31, 2023 1:02pm
cmm

Oh, some people just get all the bad luck…

Mikaere Puata-Chaney, victim of colonisation, was out on bail for one shooting and ends up murdering two more people.

What are the odds of that? What terrible luck. Most of us go through our whole lives never murdering anyone and here’s a poor guy having three murders on his plate.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/glendene-double-murder-head-hunter-mikaere-puata-chaney-pleads-guilty-to-killing-eliza-and-geoffrey-trubuhovich/5W5R637GTZBUHNMKEI7X4DJD4M/
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March 31, 2023 10:29am
- Bobba Fret
  
  [Mod – deleted, don’t try again]
  
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  March 31, 2023 1:11pm
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Sorry didn’t realise it was offensive or against rules.
    My apologies!
    
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    March 31, 2023 3:43pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Tennessee.
Anti-Gun Insurrectionists Storm Tennessee Capitol And Assault Police, Biden Silent.

https://valiantnews.com/2023/03/breaking-anti-gun-insurrectionists-storm-tennessee-capitol-and-assault-police-biden-silent/

https://twitter.com/Emme0703/status/1641483517858140162
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March 31, 2023 10:32am
Maggy Wassilieff

Forgotten who won NZer of year, already?

How about NZ Fish of the Year?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018884084/what-is-new-zealand-s-fish-of-the-year

if it’s for eating, I can’t go beyond fresh John Dory…
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March 31, 2023 10:32am
- rockape
  
  Fresh caught sea trout as long as it hasn’t been too long in the river.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:10am
thirteenstars

Trump indicted.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-indicted-manhattan-da-probe-stormy-daniels-hush-money-payment

TDS sufferers will get their mugshot. Expect a breathless post from DPF.

Now back to reality, folks.
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March 31, 2023 10:39am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Trump had his lawyer pay a hooker to fuck off. The hooker probably asked Trump if he would like a bit on the side. He was married to Melania then. Trump said NO and she straight away turned into a bitch, and made things public. That is my opinion anyway.
  In another case the hooker had to pay Trump’s legal fees. Now she is a double bitch.
  
  Nice 3D Chess game Trump is playing. Campaigning.
  
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  March 31, 2023 12:45pm
I remember when

Council reviewing tree management: Stuff.
Horizons Regional Council is looking at its management of willow trees.
Multiple people across the region spoke to Stuff concerned about the effects of Horizons spraying trees as part of its tree management scheme.
They say it leads to trees going into waterways during floods and causing damage.
Akitio Beach was covered with logs after the flood, as was Manawatu Estuary at the mouth of the Manawatu River.

Was this a possible contributing factor with the Tutaekuri River?
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March 31, 2023 10:48am
MCōs

I see Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in America.
Couldn’t have come at a better time for anyone struggling under an unwanted spotlight.
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March 31, 2023 10:50am
- Ghost
  
  I’ve been wanting to know if the orange jumpsuit will match the fake orange tan
  
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  March 31, 2023 10:53am
- kowtow
  
  ‘Unwanted spotlight’ = post modern , cultural marxist term for “political show trial”.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:05am
  - MCōs
    
    I’ll put it a different way.
    Trump’s arrest will be a huge distraction from whatever else is going on which will be a relief for some people.
    
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    March 31, 2023 11:26am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Good 3D game he is playing. Campaigning for 2024.
  
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  March 31, 2023 12:47pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  Yeah, Nash, Hipkins, Davidson will be happy.
  Luxon may even not be the target of Stuff cartoon smears for a few days.
  
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  March 31, 2023 12:49pm
Maggie Pie

HOLY SHIT!!

Only just sat saw this…Tesla bursts into flames on Harbor Bridge 🙁

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1641492517521637377
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March 31, 2023 10:52am
- ClanMcleod
  
  There was a car burst into flames on Quay St a week or so ago, someone died, not sure what the cause was but wondered at the time if it might be an electric vehicle. There’s a photo here but I can’t identify the make or model.
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/one-dead-car-bursts-flames-central-auckland
  
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  March 31, 2023 12:01pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner has an office close by. Rumor is the sole occupant of the car doused the interior with petrol then set himself alight. Not an EV.
    
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    March 31, 2023 12:08pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Cheers for the update Maggie.
      
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      March 31, 2023 12:32pm
Chuck Bird

The Platform – SeanPlunket

Kellie-Jay Keen – Posie Parker promises to lay charges over Albert Park protest assault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNp4XYaFK98
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March 31, 2023 10:54am
rockape

I remember posting similar to this two weeks ago. Is Trotter reading this blog?
VOTER ABSTENTION should now be Labour’s and the Greens’ biggest fear. That tens-of-thousands of New Zealanders, normally supportive of these two parties, may simply choose to stay home on the 14 October and abstain from participating in the General Election altogether. Asked why they are considering this drastic course of action: why they are opting-out; the most common reply is: “Because there’s no one I can bring myself to vote for.”
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March 31, 2023 11:07am
mawm

Luxon has nailed his colours to the mast. He’s going all out on “renewables”. They are expensive inefficient ways to generate insufficient electricity. Ask Australia what has happened to their cost of electricity and their capacity.

I have been critical of Luxon for not having policy and not using his opportunities handed on a plate by Labour, but this is absolute madness at a time when we need everything possible to get the economy to expand and the cost of living to go down. He will not be getting my vote.
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March 31, 2023 11:13am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Good. Vote Act.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:20am
  - mawm
    
    Seymour is the best of the lot. All he needs to do now is review his support for vaccines, mandates, lockdowns and vaccine passports. Perhaps even exposing the harm, the fraud, the deaths and injuries caused by the vax, and suggest helping those injured and their families.
    
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    March 31, 2023 12:20pm
    - Ghost
      
      Which he won’t ever do because he strongly supports and believes in the vax
      
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      March 31, 2023 12:23pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Ghost -then he’s a complete moron. There is now so much evidence to disprove all of the nonsense spouted about this thing that he can’t even use the defence – “I didn’t know”. He would be lying if he tried.
        It’s the one weak link that will stop him getting up to 20% at the election.
        
        His people need to advise him better.
        
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        March 31, 2023 12:29pm
      - mawm
        
        Ghost – I used the word “review” purposefully as I know his support for the vax. In a private communication he equated Covid to Yellow fever and the carrying of vaccine certification for it, but it is now apparent to even the slowest that there is no comparison, ie yellow fever has an infection fatality rate of 20% as compared to Covid of <1%, there is no YF in NZ but covid is here and finally the YF vaccine actually works! Being able to relook at one's opinions as new facts emerge is essential, and he now needs to do so.
        
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        March 31, 2023 12:50pm
- thirteenstars
  
  Yeah, this will create higher prices for power, which are already causing great distress for people, and National says it’ll get NZ just a third of the way to the Net Zero target.
  
  But no price is too high, apparently, to stop those manmade killer cyclones from coming after innocent Kiwis.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:42am
- leoj
  
  When will people wake up?
  
  National is Labour. Labour is National.
  
  Just as woke as each other.
  
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  March 31, 2023 11:54am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Maybe it’s irrelevant, but how much difference will all those renewables make to the climate?
  Wouldn’t it be better to invest all that money in something useful?
  
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  March 31, 2023 12:41pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Up to a certain point PV is now cheapest non-legacy-hydro electricity there is. In midwest USA it costs about NZ$0.05/kWh, which is well below NZ’s typical $0.08-0.1/kWh wholesale price.
  
  But if you get too much – to the point where you can’t easily manage cloudy days etc, then it starts to add cost through extra reserve electricity capacity that must be maintained.
  
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  March 31, 2023 3:11pm
Ghost

There was no reason for Guy to delete this, a valid point from someone that was once admired for his drag Queen roll. Hmmm, wonder if there was a sequel if they would ever allow him in it.

Guy Pearce has apologised for making a controversial statement about transgender actors.

Earlier this week, the Australian actor took to Twitter to share a message in which he questioned the roles “trans folk” can play.

“A question – if the only people allowed to play trans characters are trans folk, then are we also suggesting the only people trans folk can play are trans characters?” he asked.

“Surely that will limit your career as an actor? Isn’t the point of an actor to be able play anyone outside your own world?”

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March 31, 2023 11:36am
- Swifty
  
  I though his initial post raised quite legitimate questions, why he fees compelled to apologise for it escapes me.
  
  If some took to him for asking the questions then it is to their eternal shame.
  
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  March 31, 2023 3:05pm
Nickc2

Will all the information we provided in order to obtain a Vaccination Pass be destroyed, held for use by Govt Depts, or onsold to an interested party?
Where are all those people jumping up and down about the security of personal data?
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March 31, 2023 11:36am
- mawm
  
  I assume that it has already been passed on.
  
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  March 31, 2023 12:21pm
  - mandk
    
    Your assumption is correct, mawm.
    
    My friend who works for the Chinese government (the one I told Maggie Pie about the other day) tells me that the health records of all NZ citizens and residents is stored along with all their tax, education and other records in a data storage facility in Guangdong.
    
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    March 31, 2023 12:48pm
- Ehlana
  
  The vaccinations you received should be part of your health record.
  
  Generally in NZ you can only use personal information for the reason for which you collected it, so the answer should be no, it can be passed on to other government departments or sold. I’m not sure it would have much value, since the pass only says whether or not you were vaccinated back when they were in use. By now that information would be out of date.
  
  If your pass was only sighted and not scanned, there is no record for a business to destroy. It’s an interesting question as to what businesses were told about retaining and then destroying scanned records back then.
  
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  March 31, 2023 1:16pm
Prince

I see there are new traffic lights erected on Wakefield St between Tory and Taranaki Streets.
This will mean there are 3 sets of traffic lights along a 50 metre stretch.
I suspect someone had a budget to spend before the end of the financial year.
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March 31, 2023 12:17pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  So people can get to the convention centre?? Seems over kill..
  
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  March 31, 2023 1:18pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Especially when there’s no parking at the new Convention Centre because reasons.
    
    Presumably the lights are there so that people can hop off the bus in Courtenay Pl, take the sneaky shortcut through Reading & its carpark & cross Wakefield St from there.
    
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    March 31, 2023 8:55pm
BeaB

If you don’t vote National you must brace yourself for another 3 years of Labour.
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March 31, 2023 12:35pm
- mawm
  
  Will there be any difference other than efficiently turning us into a failed state?
  
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  March 31, 2023 12:52pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  Or Act.
  
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  March 31, 2023 1:09pm
- rockape
  
  What’s worse is a Government with Labour Greens and Maori. That is the likely outcome if Labour are to Govern.
  
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  March 31, 2023 1:22pm
Stu2

Very clear article on the massive cost and uncertainties of Lake Onslow on Stuff.

It is by Josie Pagani, which adds to its cred seeing she has written it despite her labour links.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300843117/josie-pagani-is-there-a-cheaper-power-project-option-rather-than-writing-a–157b-iou
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March 31, 2023 12:52pm
Maggie Pie

Just look at this. Makes my skin crawl…..
An absolute insult to every young New Zealander 🙁

You’d think they could have at least given the Award to a normal person who was actually BORN here and had at least contributed something positive to the country.

https://twitter.com/shaneellall/status/1641340779254923266
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March 31, 2023 1:36pm
- Ghost
  
  Award looks like firewood
  
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  March 31, 2023 1:40pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  What it the hand signal being displayed….that is not natural so what is it?
  
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  March 31, 2023 1:47pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Have you even tried DOING that?
    
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    March 31, 2023 1:59pm
  - Swifty
    
    I really do wonder if the people associated with the award have taken the time to look at his historic Twitter postings or have they, but overlooked them in their rush to look virtuous.
    
    A number of the tweets are vile and abusive.
    
    He abuses and labels with foul names people who speak against him and his ideology.
    
    I wonder if this will all blow up in their faces down the track. The gentleman seems unhinged and seems too quick to slur and slander.
    
    Not my cup of tea.
    
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    March 31, 2023 3:01pm
- Ehlana
  
  Twitter comments seem to agree with you. Funny, that.
  
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  March 31, 2023 4:38pm
Ghost

O’Keefe Media Group Uncovers Potential MASSIVE Money Laundering into Political Campaigns

https://twitter.com/BlackHannity/status/1640901806455750658
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March 31, 2023 1:39pm
- Inandout
  
  Ghost, the Trump thingy was timed to co-incide.
  
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  March 31, 2023 4:12pm
Ghost

Hmmm, so how is that wrap around well being support going

A 9-year-old is believed to be involved in one of many groups of youth offenders behind a series of car thefts and burglaries in Christchurch.

Early Thursday morning a group of youths allegedly stole about $3000 worth of alcohol from a store in Christchurch before fleeing in a stolen car.

Police were called and observed the car before deploying road spikes which brought the car, with six youths inside, to a stop.

A police spokesperson said six youths were taken into custody. The Herald understands one of the youths had allegedly cut off their electronically-monitored bail bracelet.

Nz herald
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March 31, 2023 1:58pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING…..

2 in 5 Maoris have still not completed or returned their Census forms.

– 1ZBNews @2pn.
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March 31, 2023 2:06pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Isnt that then 4 in 10? 40%? Maybe it is a definitional thing?
  
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  March 31, 2023 2:25pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  No surprise there.
  
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  March 31, 2023 3:05pm
- Prince
  
  How do they know ?
  Perhaps multiple benefits being claimed ??
  
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  March 31, 2023 3:05pm
- mandk
  
  That’s OK.
  
  We can just reduce the number of Maori seats in Parliament because they weren’t counted.
  
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  March 31, 2023 3:26pm
- Nickc2
  
  Perhaps they want to be paid for doing so.
  
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  March 31, 2023 3:41pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, this would explain the census radio guy having a slight bro accent.
  
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  March 31, 2023 4:14pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Does this mean that all the money spent on Maori will decrease. The number of Maori Seats will decrease etc etc??
  
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  March 31, 2023 4:17pm
  - Ehlana
    
    In theory, yes. The census tells us how many people there are and where. It used to be followed by the Maori roll option. After which, the number of seats was determined – the South Island has a set number of general roll seats, which gives you the electorate size. The north island general roll is divided by that number to determine how many seats it has and the Maori roll similarly.
    
    Then you get on to setting the boundaries for each electorate.
    
    What I don’t understand is why so many Maori, despite all the publicity and effort made to engage them supposedly are not engaging.
    
    Is the real Maori population that much smaller than thought? Is there a similar level of disengagement among other ethnic groups?
    
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    March 31, 2023 5:25pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      We saw a lot of Maoris in Sydney when we were across there earlier this month. Maybe just like us …..and went for a shopping trip on the 7th?
      
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      March 31, 2023 7:49pm
mogg

Spectator TV, K-JK again but well worth listening to, see the way she describes what’s happening in NZ between 9 – 11 mins.

https://youtu.be/MJGS4bhuYhw

State sponsored media supporting state sponsored thuggery, and being well paid to do it.
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March 31, 2023 2:55pm
Prince

Coming to your house in three or four years time.
“A high risk of reoffending”.
Thanks Judge Hobbs.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/131657675/rapist-returned-night-after-night-to-terrorise-a-flat-full-of-students
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March 31, 2023 3:04pm
PeeJay

Thought I’d share this nugget on Kainga Ora that I became aware of this week.

One of the engineering consultancy firms I work with is struggling with staff retention. Despite things being a bit quieter, they are still pretty busy in the geotechnical and civil engineering space.

From what I’ve heard (and heard this from other sources also) is that their staff are now being poached by other firms who have Kainga Ora contracts on the Project Velocity workstream – latest greatest best thing ever that’s totally going to result in loads of houses being delivered…..maybe…..

Anyway, the KO work is an absolute goldmine for those consultants who have managed to get in on the action. They get to hire loads of staff, charge them out at astronomical rates, and Kainga Ora pays for them full time and then some – heard there are loads of additional add ons for the consultant firms. The best part for these firms lucky enough to be in on the trough is that they don’t have to do the things that a normal firm has to – you know, pesky things like manage these staff, ensure work is done, ensure they have work going forward, they don’t pay overheads, IT, management, none of the back office costs that normally get added in. They literally find and hire the staff, dump them into Kainga Ora and watch the money come rolling in. As one source told me, it’s the ultimate ticket clipping gig.

What this means is that these firms who have the KO contracts simple do not care about the market rates. It is all about volume – they don’t care if the engineer is good or bad, they get paid regardless. Therefore, they are starting to poach rival firms staff and making stupid offers – fantastic for those lucky enough because they get to make a fortune, all while undermining their competitors!!

The consultants I know have had staff come up to them and say match or better this offer or I am off. They have had to match two offers but couldn’t match the others so have lost some pretty decent team members.

What pisses me off is this is tax payers money, being pissed against a wall, by an organisation, KO, that simply couldn’t deliver jack shit on time or on budget, but are now forcing consultant firms to increase wages to retain staff, thus adding to the inflationary cycle.

And Grunter then denies that Labour have anything to do with inflation and it’s all imported.

Unbelievable.
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March 31, 2023 3:20pm
- Inthe09
  
  Similar situation in IT – 3 waters etc paying way over market rate – but who cares, its just (net) tax payers money.
  
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  March 31, 2023 5:56pm
Swifty

If our Accident Compensation Corporation are funding Maori magic and spiritualism for New Zealanders recovering from injury or sickness I would like to see exactly how they measure the efficacy of these treatments and as against recognised medical therapies:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/local-focus-how-hair-and-makeup-fashioned-a-journey-of-healing/QVB6CZ3MEZABTEKXKK6WBX3KPA/

And if efficacy is not being measured, if ACC is funding treatments wholly unproven as effective, other than as a trial to measure effectiveness, is this not a scandalous waste of taxpayer money? Should heads not roll? What if these ‘treatments’ end up causing harm to people? What if mainstream treatment would have proven far more effective?

I’m sorry, I just can’t understand this other than in the context of political-driven handouts to special interests.

I should add, if the proof is there that these treatments are effective and cost-efficient compared to alternatives then great. But show us the damn proof!
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March 31, 2023 3:25pm
- cmm
  
  A couple of days ago I was driving along Bealey Ave in Chch. Within 1km I saw no less than 5 vehicles from 5 different Maori health/wellbeing NGOs.
  
  It’s a massive rort. Nobody wants to raise the “A”-word (accountable), because that would be racist.
  
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  March 31, 2023 4:20pm
  - kevn
    
    @cmm… Try the sunny BOP. One, a maori health provider employs many hundreds I gather.
    Lots of new cars/utes buzzing around, all black in colour with the logo proudly displayed, Te Puna Mataatua. Plenty of other trust type outfits as well.
    
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    March 31, 2023 5:45pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  He Kaupare. He Manaaki. He Whakaora translated as It’s a business. A treat. It’s Healing, or better known as the ACC (Accident Compensation Commission) are paying for these as a politically driven handout with no audit of the efficacy of result.
  
  Unlike Stuart Nash’s emails you can take that statement to the bank.
  
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  March 31, 2023 4:26pm
Maggie Pie

Just been chatting with my doubles-partner.
Prue asked if I knew what had happened to Rodney Hide from Act?
We haven’t seen him for ages. He would often stop and talk to us girls when we were having lunch outside the Remuera deli. Had the cutest yellow jacket.

Anyone know what he’s up to these days?
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March 31, 2023 4:31pm
- Ghost
  
  https://realitycheck.radio/shows/
  
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  March 31, 2023 4:35pm
Maggie Pie

Put it in the Diary…..

Next Wednesday, Jacinda will give her valedictory speech to parliament.
Apparently she’s rejected the opportunity to sit down with any respected political journalists, choosing instead to do just TWO interviews…..one with that arse licking little creep John Campbell, and one with the woke Samantha Hayes from TV3.

By all accounts, Barry Soper has really got his nose out of joint.

Just saying.
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March 31, 2023 5:05pm
- Swifty
  
  Let’s try to predict those interviews.
  
  “It was a privilege. Look at all we’ve done. These are the things I’m most proud of. I led a great team. I might now do one or two things differently but let’s not dwell on those. I’m just so proud of New Zealanders. Be kind. Vote Labour again in Oct.”
  
  What have I missed?
  
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  March 31, 2023 6:10pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Put it in the Diary…..
  
  Oh no… It’ll clash with my Yogic flying practice.
  
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  March 31, 2023 6:16pm
  - Swifty
    
    Heh.
    
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    March 31, 2023 6:29pm
- Ghost
  
  Who’s Jacinda? Oh is it her son that is the current PM?
  
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  March 31, 2023 6:21pm
CAKE FACE1

Stuff has a feature, where you can push a button indicating ‘How does this story make you feel?’

Generally, I don’t even bother reading the article.

I simply hit “Angry”. You can send Stuff a message of 150 characters, which of course I do.

My last comment about a hitjob by Stuff on Mediaworks went as follows:

‘Entitlement. These clowns were almost as unprofitable as Stuff. Go Woke Go Broke! Business shouldn’t have to subsidise you lefty shirkers for life!’

I don’t know if any one reads my one sentence reviews of the extreme left wing propaganda that is Stuff, but it feels therapeutic to give these Neo-Marxists a piece of my mind.

It’s a recommend from me.
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March 31, 2023 5:26pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Thank you for your efforts.
  
  If enough people do as you did then Stuff might actually start to think about what they publish.
  
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  March 31, 2023 7:04pm
Widogast Corwin

“Low staff morale and hundreds of job losses but Te Pūkenga boss adamant polytech merger was the right move”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/131660369/low-staff-morale-and-hundreds-of-job-losses-but-te-pkenga-boss-adamant-polytech-merger-was-the-right-move

The delusion is amazing. In what world could the mega polytech be “the right move” given its current dire situation. What would the ‘wrong move’ have looked like?

The thing with these folk is there are no consequences. Look at Today FM. OK they tried to set up a new station. It failed. Now it is off air. The CE resigned and all the staff have lost their jobs.

But this piece of work – “It was the right move”. Hell there should be bloodletting if there is a National-ACT government.
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March 31, 2023 5:57pm
Swifty

We were a better country once:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/mongrel-mob-member-jailed-for-entering-strangers-taranaki-home-forcing-oral-sex/NF6J55CO4BGEVJSXQAWRZDJEWM/

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/131657675/rapist-returned-night-after-night-to-terrorise-a-flat-full-of-students

I will bet anyone $1,000 if you go back 2,3,4 generations these offenders had grandparents or great-grandparents etc who were married, hard-working, law-abiding New Zealanders who would be appalled at this conduct from their descendants.

This talk about colonisation being the root cause is an outright lie and is used to shift the focus from the real causes – cultural failure, shitty parenting, an abandonment of values, the perverse incentives of the welfare state and the infantilisation of the population.

That’s enough internet for me today.
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March 31, 2023 5:59pm
Andy

I hope the opposition parties do not join in the standing ovation that Labour MPs will give her. How can you even clap for her? Given the damage done to New Zealand by her.
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March 31, 2023 6:02pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’ll be hugs and tears……
  
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  March 31, 2023 6:10pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I’m tempted to turn up & boo
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:05pm
Ghost

Hmmm, what I’ve come to see the past few days is you lie and make shit up. If you were beaten in the head you would have run to the police and laid a complaint.

A transgender activist who doused Posie Parker at a rally over the weekend has spoken out against their recent assault charge and claimed they were beaten and spat on by Parker supporters.

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March 31, 2023 6:15pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  If he/she wants to come back to New Zealand he/she can lay a complaint and present her/his evidence.
  
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  March 31, 2023 6:56pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Grief….

Now we learn that the Dangerous elderly Woman the cops are looking for in South Auckland was once a man…

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wanted-south-auckland-74-year-old-bronwyn-warwick-convicted-of-murder-kidnap-robbery-in-past-30-years/Z6XRGG662JA5BLZSQVCX5THT2E/

You wouldn’t read about it…..
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March 31, 2023 9:08pm
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  Damn, 132 convictions by 2010
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:11pm
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  Was, and still is, a man.
  
  But identifies as a woman.
  
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  March 31, 2023 9:57pm

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