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Yvette

Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson cites ‘no trust’ in defence of public media entity
Jackson has been repeatedly questioned at Parliament this week by the National Party over the proposal to fold TVNZ and RNZ into one entity.
He defended the shake-up yesterday, saying it was necessary because the public’s view of the media had changed.
“The reality is we want TVNZ to work in tandem with us – and they’re doing that – because New Zealand has changed. We have no longer a trust in national media
[No shit, Sherlock – who the hell did that with $55 million “for an observe the Treaty caveat”?] – no longer is there a trust in what’s happening at a national media level,” he said [so the funding was never “Covid relief” as initially but erroneously claimed].
“We need a trusted public broadcaster because national identity is incredibly important and no longer do people trust New Zealand television or New Zealand radio.“
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/475707/broadcasting-minister-willie-jackson-cites-no-trust-in-defence-of-public-media-entity

But following below is a Newsroom article link to Jackson’s “Plan B”, however placing the copied article into TextEdit and asking it to find the word “trust”, reveals zilch – nothing –

Jackson’s Plan B for public media
During question time in Parliament last week, when asked what more he was doing to strengthen public media, Jackson said he was going to “sit down with Simon and the National Party mates over there.” He was referring to TVNZ CEO, and former National Party minister, Simon Power.
Jackson said he wanted TVNZ to play a more active role in public broadcasting and, “we are going to traverse things with Simon in terms of a way forward.” …
[But …]
Power recently announced his resignation and will leave TVNZ in June. With many of the TVNZ board, including its influential chair, Andy Coupe, likely to retire or be replaced in the next month, Jackson will, in reality, be sitting down with a new board and CEO to discuss his public media ambitions for TVNZ.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/jacksons-planb-for-public-media

So orienting his first position around trust, but not mentioning it second time around, while Jackson was both times reported for what he said in Parliament, when he is not to lie or mislead, means perhaps you can now have less trust in state broadcasting – RNZ and TVNZ – and Jackson, than you did first up when Jackson insisted failing trust was a problem.
QED

And maybe “trust” is the wrong word, now that Labour hopes their state broadcasters in Election year will only print “trustworthy” issues about them, and perhaps there was enough flack with Plan A. that Willie Jackson now realises merging two entities he said were untrusted, would produce nothing but a larger entity to be less trusted?
Can Willie Jackson be trusted?
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April 11, 2023 8:01am
- graham
  
  “The reality is we want TVNZ to work in tandem with us – and they’re doing that – because New Zealand has changed. We have no longer a trust in national media – no longer is there a trust in what’s happening at a national media level,” he said.
  
  “We need a trusted public broadcaster because national identity is incredibly important and no longer do people trust New Zealand television or New Zealand radio.”
  
  News for you Willie … trust in the MSM has been falling worldwide for decades. Please don’t tell us you’ve only just realised that now?
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:53am
- pdm
  
  Yvette – to paraphrase Kipling (with apologies).
  
  `You would be a braver person than I Gunga Din’ to trust Willie Jackson re anything.
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:45am
  - Jack5
    
    Tsk, tsk, PDM, you’ll bring the wrath of the Woke down upon Kiwiblog and all of us.
    
    This is from the Kipling poem:
    
    An’ for all ’is dirty ’ide
    ’E was white, clear white, inside
    
    That will wind the Wokies up, and they’ll ignore:
    
    By the livin’ Gawd that made you,
    You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
    
    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46783/gunga-din
    
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    April 11, 2023 1:02pm
- Keith White
  
  Question: what is Willie smoking or drinking, and should someone stage an intervention in his best interests?
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:52am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Electric Puha
    
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    April 11, 2023 1:47pm
- Ehlana
  
  “we want TVNZ to work in tandem with us – and they’re doing that –”
  
  Who is “we”? Does he speak for the Labour Party here, or the New Zealand Government? Both interpretations are frightening.
  
  I, taxpayer and citizen, do not want the media to “work in tandem” with any political party or government. Not now, then or ever. I want them to report what is happening – to tell me what I cannot be there to see or hear myself. I do not need them to tell me what to think of it, or how to feel about it; I can think and feel for myself.
  
  The only condition under which taxpayers should be funding media is one of strict media neutrality. Not one of hidden agreement to promote a specific political agenda.
  
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  April 11, 2023 11:24am
  - david
    
    Unfortunately, handing over buckets of cash as funding with no oversight doesn’t work either. Witness the BBC who fiercely claimed independence and impartiality, only to be captured by the woke left and turn into everyone’s worst nightmare all on their own.
    
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    April 11, 2023 11:59am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He does not want them to have neutrality
    
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    April 11, 2023 1:47pm
  - Yvette
    
    Ehlana – Not one of hidden agreement to promote a specific political agenda.
    
    The “political agenda” at the moment is the Treaty of Waitangi, but that was a “slim few papers” in 1840, grew substantially in the 1970s – 90s, an now is a “bulging volume”, and still evolving as a “living document”, rather than the bloody badly worded real-estate agreement that it was.
    
    And what david and G the Giant say
    
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    April 11, 2023 3:14pm
- Prince
  
  Any takers for Tracey Martin taking over from Power ?
  – Labour fan.
  – Still on the payroll looking for a job after the RNZ/TVNZ Merger was scrapped.
  
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  April 11, 2023 11:34am
  - Paulus
    
    Martin is probably still being paid as will have had a cast iron contract should things not go well.
    
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    April 11, 2023 1:19pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Look for her to have a safe Labour seat, somehow I suspect that maybe hard to find
    
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    April 11, 2023 1:48pm
krazykiwi

“Conspiracy theorist!”

I was the recipient of this flaccid sledge many times throughout the blossoming and fading of Covid.

While reason and logic are robust responses, sometimes good old fashioned mockery at the manifold ignorance of the accuser is called for. This collection of memes does it well: Memes by Themes: Conspiracy Theorists. Which is your favourite?
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April 11, 2023 8:01am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  The only issue with thinking the current government are running a conspiracy means that you have to believe that this government are capable of doing anything at all.
  
  All current evidence clearly points to the contrary.
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:11am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    RoWiWoR – the only thing Ardern and her government were capable of is following instructions.
    
    The Jacinda Ardern Awards
    
    I have seen some voices in the alternate media express concern that the same woman who was the architect of New Zealand’s Ned Flanders Dystopia will now have some authority in global policies on both the environment and censorship.
    
    These fears are misplaced. Moving forward Ardern will have the same amount of functional power she ever had: none.
    
    She had no say in New Zealand’s lockdown policies, she was just the mascot. Believing otherwise is akin to blaming Ronald MacDonald for your burger being overdone.
    
    This is not a new job – or two new jobs – it’s just an important-sounding title and some kickback payments. A fancy gold hat for being a good little girl and always doing what she’s told.
    
    https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/10/this-easter-in-the-new-normal/
    
    Ardern fulfilled her role as a WEF global young leader and a driver of UN Agenda 2030. She never worked for NZ or the people who live here.
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:54am
  - Che Guava
    
    But the current government aren’t capable of running a conspiracy, because all except the most credulous people can see that’s exactly what they are/were doing.
    
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    April 11, 2023 11:22am
- krazykiwi
  
  Sorry all. I subscribe to Margaret Anna Alice and forgot that the memes were behind the paywall. I liked this one: “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it” – George Orwell
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:20am
- Rodney Hide
  
  Hi KK
  
  I have now read The New Puritans and Cynical Theories and understand what we are up against better.
  
  We were lucky: being called conspiracy theorist, nazi and white supremacist, etc. is at the polite beginning. We weren’t beaten, incacerated or killed.
  
  Kelly-Jay and her supporters were beaten by the mob simply for wanting to say they don’t want men in their changing rooms.
  
  Thirty years ago I thought Post Modernism was too glib and too stupid to worry about. One more thing I was wrong about!
  
  I doubt these monsters know the theory they spout, but there is no reasoning with them. Scott Adams suggests we just clap them and rate them on their performance, e.g. I thought Marama Davidson’s performance on cis white men was a 9 out of 10.
  
  Rodney Hide
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:22am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Rodney, thanks for exposing the medsafe report.
    
    Will Adern, Hipkins, Robertson, and Bloomfield now be investigated to ascertain their motivation for lying to and poisoning an entire nation?
    
    Can the aforementioned parties be prosecuted for lying to and poisoning an entire nation?
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:56am
    - Rodney Hide
      
      Thanks Mark but kudos goes to “Thomas Cranmer” on his substack. I just picked up on his work.
      
      It should be front page news. But, of course, it expsoes not just the politicians but the media too.
      
      It seems it is only news, and only true, if the media report it. They can solve their own problem.
      
      Rodney Hide
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:09am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        This should be of interest about the misinformation about the safety of the vaccine.
        
        https://www.oliviapierson.org/blog/silenced-a-documentary-for-new-zealand#comments
        
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        April 11, 2023 9:35am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Chuck – looking very much forward to watching that later. It looks compelling.
        
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        April 11, 2023 9:59am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Rodney.
        
        Thomas Crammer is an absolute legend. He needs a wealthy donor to get his messages out to the whole of NZ.
        
        I’m disappointed that our captains of industry have stood by and allowe the corruption of our media to continue unabated. Putting money towards A national media outlet which Tells the truth must surely be one of the most lucrative investments in NZ.
        
        Why won’t NZ politicians commit to investigating the lies and deceit of other NZ politicians? It looks feels and smells of corruption.
        
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        April 11, 2023 10:04am
      - mister nui
        
        Chuck, it is obvious that the contract between Pfizer and the government had clauses in it that stated that all messaging had to be in line with the “vaccine” being the only form of response.
        
        Someone needs to get hold of the contract. Somehow.
        
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        April 11, 2023 11:23am
      - mawm
        
        krazy and Chuck – A short video to complement the excellent “Silenced ” documentary.
        
        “Mistakes were not made” – narrated by Tess Lawrie. This seems to be open viewing.
        
        https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem-57a?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2FMargaret%2520Anna%2520Alice&utm_medium=reader2
        
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        April 11, 2023 1:43pm
    - Keith White
      
      Calling that quango “Medsafe” is like calling me “Weightwatcher Of The Year.”
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:53am
      - mawm
        
        I’ve been very hard on Medsafe as they are responsible for the safety of therapeutic agents for NZ residents. Thomas Cranmer has shown that they tried to stop the roll out of the vaccine on safety and efficacy issues. They could have tried harder but who would have broadcast their message?
        
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        April 11, 2023 1:49pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    For those wanting more on this topic.
    
    CITIZEN SCIENCE: Decline and Fall
    
    https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/citizen-science-decline-and-fall?postId=c15e89c8-b586-4b6b-9139-3dd96d247ae9&utm_campaign=afdc2892-66a9-43cc-9020-63e444a5e04f&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=6249dd8c-302d-47e1-85b8-a9aeec60d559&cid=5ad2ad14-ab55-4e15-92b1-7b9538cabd9b
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:32am
  - Zorba
    
    My weekends read. We must have been targeted by an algorithm that seeks out vulnerable cis white Alt right males. Critical theory and puritinism go together like peas and carrots. I’m forever thankful we have the ministry of truth AKA Kate Hannah and the Sri Lankan fraudster to protect us from conspiracy theories and ourselves. I also ate home made pie which is a most heinous sin punishable by death.
    
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    April 11, 2023 11:39am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Rodney I’ve listened through a lot of James Lindsay podcasts. It’s great material but I find his style of speaking pretty difficult to listen to. Are his books easier to digest?
    
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    April 11, 2023 2:57pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  kk – I think we’re definitely at that stage, the information war is over. Every aspect of the covid nonsense from masks to “vaccines” has been proven to be an abject failure.
  The propaganda war is a different matter. That is ongoing and those driving it have deep access to the taxpayer pocket. Hence Te Puna Matatini and ‘The Disinformation Project’ and the government controlled mainstream media.
  
  Memes are the best way to ridicule these people while getting the same information across. Exposing these charlatans.
  There are some stunners out there. I have a collection in special sub folder in my ‘covid’ collection.
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:26am
  - Keith White
    
    Unless the rust gets me first, then when I retire (which will be soon, thanks to Anno Domini) I think I will take up as a hobby in my fading years, seeking prosecution of the people who did this to us, knowing what they did.
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:54am
    - Bridgenag
      
      yes please
      
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      April 11, 2023 1:39pm
    - Mark Hanley
      
      Keith. I could support your cause.
      
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      April 12, 2023 7:54am
- RalphT
  
  Sorry kk, reported you by mistake. iPad screen jumped as I was about to hit on the link, directly above the report button.
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:31am
- Rusty
  
  @Krazy.. off the top of my head, I can think of these conspiracies at the beginning of covid that became a reality later.
  
  – Dr Fauci and his cronies admitted covid may have leaked from a Wuhan lab.
  
  – Covid vaccines don’t 100% prevent the virus.
  
  – Masks and lockdowns did not prevent the spread of the virus.
  
  – Ongoing annual boosters would be required for years to come.
  
  – Unvaxxed people will lose their jobs and treated as enemies of the state — remember Jacinda?
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:34am
  - Keith White
    
    I can remember as a very very junior medical-scut-monkey in training, having to read faxes from Fauci which told us that above all else, we should not absolutely never stop gay people from having promiscuous sex in bathhouses because that would be judgemental and would not solve the spread of AIDS.
    
    Within a few years, many many tens of thousands of people who were dependent on blood products – like haemophiliacs – died from AIDS, because we didn’t want to test gay people donating blood for carrying the virus, because that would be judgemental.
    
    Fauci is worse than Mengele. Go ahead, change my mind.
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:57am
Bridgenag

From Academic Research to News Headlines: The Disinformation Project’s Influence on New Zealand Media
The research group had a controversial role in the Covid-19 pandemic and has now entered the transgender debate by making a series of outlandish claims.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cranmer/p/from-academic-research-to-news-headlines?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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April 11, 2023 8:05am
- kowtow
  
  I love the bit in there ,from their briefing paper about overseas influences , esp American and what they describe as “anti mask” rhetoric .
  
  Here’s a quote from early March 2020 in the Herald from avery prominent , oft quoted , media darling NZ scientist , prior to the regime draconianism and lockdowns;
  
  “……the public didn’t need to be buying up large on face masks.Most people don’t know how to wear them.What tends to happen with people who aren’t used to wearing a mask is they fiddle with them and then you have a much higher chance of eventually infecting yourself………she warned that seeing people walking around with masks could be contributing to more hype.”
  
  Shocked I tells ya , shocked that Souixee Wiles ain’t on that list of the “name checked” along with Hosk and Brownlee , shocked .
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:03am
  - Keith White
    
    Models predict what they are instructed to predict.
    
    I predict that within some years, probably outliving me, Hendy and Bloomfield will be on trial for Peace Crimes.
    
    Wiles will not matter enough to prosecute.
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:58am
Exclamation Mark

Read this and weep, the Ministry of Education Relationship and Sexual Education Guide for years 1-8:

https://hpe.tki.org.nz/assets/healthpe/pdfs/RSE+Guide+y1-8.pdf

So much Treaty and trans propaganda rolled into one document and all primed and ready to indoctrinate your primary school aged kids with.

Does National or Act have a plan in place to get rid of this shit?
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April 11, 2023 8:08am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Exclamation Mark – it might require desperate measures. People take their kids out of school en masse. Don’t play the game or you enable marxist authoritarianism.
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:59am
  - Alwyn Poole
    
    See my post tomorrow.
    
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    April 11, 2023 10:26am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      I look forward to it Alwyn. The current system is not viable. It’s not education, it’s indoctrination.
      
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      April 11, 2023 12:05pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Clan, people already are. It is called home schooling. The levels of home schooling has been increasing in recent years in some areas at alarming rates.
    
    Reasons for it vary from poor teaching and curriculum subject teaching, to parents not giving a dam as to what level of education a child receives. While some children do receive a better level of education, many do not, and there is no standard of measurement until the child shows up at a tertiary institution or seks employment.
    
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    April 11, 2023 10:36am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      hullkiwi – we took our daughter out and homeschooled during covid, when the masks were being demanded in schools and pressure to vaccinate became unbearable. We will do it again without batting an eyelid.
      She just hit intermediate age and we really wanted that interaction with others her own age during these formative years. But we are keeping an eye on the curriculum and the messaging that is coming out of the school very, very closely.
      
      She’s a very bright kid and fully understands and agrees with the decisions we’ve made so far.
      
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      April 11, 2023 12:08pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Clan, our son (now Yr 9) was at a rural primary school. A disaster, despite the school being a decile 9, the school was poorly resourced, the teachers were generally poor, and discipline was a joke, our son was being bullied (as were other children) by a girl from a dysfunctional family. So, we took him out at the end of term 3 2019. Initially, we planned to home school, but he wanted to try another school, so he is now at a Christian Preference School at Snells Beach. He needs the social interaction also. However, 2020, brought the lockdowns (which have done more damage to children than the authorities have ever cared to discuss), our son by the end of 2021 was desperate for the school environment.
        
        What we’ve seen in terms of teaching, the curriculum, and the resources available to state schools in Rodney, it is no surprise that parents resort to home schooling. However, the big variable factors become the ability/capability of the parents to teach & whether the parents are taking the time to teach.
        
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        April 11, 2023 1:26pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Nats will have kids doing the basics, no room for kinky periods in the curriculum, or time to alter the history of this once proud nation
  
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  April 11, 2023 1:53pm
  - ISeeRed
    
    If the entire Ministry of Education is demolished and rebuilt and the teachers’ unions disbanded, sure. The Ministry’s 4,000+ woke zealots and hard-left unionists will otherwise fight National tooth and nail on every single reform, big and small, with their media sympathisers right on their side.
    
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    April 11, 2023 2:31pm
    - Tom Hunter
      
      I don’t think “G the giant” gets that sort of nuance. For him it’s National gets into government: good things happen. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
      
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      April 11, 2023 8:16pm
  - leoj
    
    The Nats history suggests otherwise.
    
    The unions won’t allow it.
    
    They’re too gutless, especially their leader.
    
    Be prepared to be disappointed.
    
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    April 11, 2023 3:10pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gcC5eEW3hU

China Just Made THIS Illegal – You Won’t Believe It.

China won’t stop banning stuff. China’s freedom index drops every year, and a lot of stupid stuff gets caught in the crosshairs of the party.
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April 11, 2023 8:09am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dte1Fng0yT8

“Play City?” – This is what Christchurch City Mayor Phil Mauger wants to Re Brand Christchurch as.

Is this really what Christchurch residents want Christchurch city to be known as? Has Phil got his priorities all messed up? Easy for life to be “All about play” for the rich and comfortable who can AFFORD to play, and pay for the big tickets at CHCH New multi-million dollar Stadium being built. Im sure Phil will enjoy his Box office seat, most likely… Phil, most Cantabrians want decent roads, a place to park at the hospital, rates bills that are manageable, health access, and their freedom and rights, to be represented not ignored for PC guano. This is what is the priority for those ‘at the top’ who have lost touch with the everyday person, their needs and wants. Play that cost $$$ is a luxury for those who are doing quite well thank you very much. They can afford the steak dinners, the tickets to the shows and events.
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April 11, 2023 8:10am
- hullkiwi
  
  Yes, and did you see the filler piece on the news last night about New Brighton?
  
  In short, 50 years ago New Brighton was the happening place in Chch, the only suburb with Saturday shopping etc. Then the 1980s happened & Saturday shopping everywhere, the 1990s extended shopping to 7 day shopping. Now New Brighton is a derelict dump with a concrete pier built in the 1990s. Fear not for New Brighton, the Councillors & the local business community have a plan. They will get grants (from everywhere including the post earthquake, rebuild Chch fund) and build a bright new city centre with a live stage etc at a cost of several $million. All New Brighton parties are singing the praises of the scheme.
  
  Sorry to be a nay sayer, and having seen many of these redevelopment schemes become a monumental waste of money, who am I to tell these people that they are going to waste public money for the benefit of a few shop keepers (for a while). I say this because these schemes always follow the same pattern.
  
  1. The town centre is dead and people don’t come to shop.
  2. Local businesses engage Councillors (who are all to eager to spend public money on redeveloment)
  3. Money is spent;
  4. People still don’t come.
  
  Why
  Because the general population have limited time on their hands, so,
  1. they prefer to shop in one place, where they can park the car etc. Hence the success of the greenfield shopping malls.
  2. There is limited time at weekends for all the family stuff that needs to be done;
  3. What is New Brighton’s unique selling point going to be? If you live in Ilam & the local area offers the same, why travel to New Brighton; and
  4. Finally, New Brighton has weather that for the large part of the year is, well sh*t.
  
  So, they can spend what ever money they like, but they are not going to change the habits of the citizens of Chch or the weather.
  
  My advice to New Brighton, find something better to spend the money on.
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:55am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yes, definitely went to New Brighton when in CHCH in the 70s for swimming comps, NB was a must because shops, now nobody ever talks about them, unbelievable aye, I remember at the same time corner dairies having produce covered by sheets, you were only allowed tgd basics like drinks ice cream milk and cream and the likes, veggies had to sit rotting under sheets
    
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    April 11, 2023 1:58pm
Gravelroad

@KK-
“Which is your favourite?”
Dunno.
I’m not going to pay a subscription to a dodgy looking outfit to find out.
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April 11, 2023 8:10am
- krazykiwi
  
  Sorry. I subscribe to Margaret Anna Alice (she’s an individual, not an outfit) and forgot that the memes were behind the paywall.
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:17am
  - Keith White
    
    For what it’s worth, I also subscribe to her. She has sensible reading material and analysis. Disclaimer: I do not know her from the proverbial bar of soap.
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:59am
- ClanMcleod
  
  It’s not dodgy, but I understand not wanting to have to pay.
  I have a budget for substack subscriptions equivalent to what I used to spend on newspapers a decade ago. Sadly it’s currently fully allocated.
  
  There are a number of others I would love to support and ‘Through the Looking Glass’ is one of them.
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:22am
  - Keith White
    
    Yes, we have gone from a lack of alternative sources, to an embarrassment of analytical richness. But it costs. But is often worth it.
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:59am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Keith White – I would go as far as to say it is essential. If nothing else, avoid mainstream media at all costs. Other than to check what the latest narrative is that’s being pushed.
      
      Forewarned is forearmed.
      
      I won’t even go to them for the weather due to the increasing use of Maori language in everything. I know when I am being manipulated and I detest it.
      
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      April 11, 2023 12:10pm
slightlyrighty

I wonder why we haven’t heard much from the Free Speech Union on the current trend from Net Based News Sites, such as NZ Herald Social and Stuff, to moderate their discussion threads, be that self hosted, or on social media such as Facebook.

It seems that they are willing to provokle discussions, only to shut it down as soon as they see it going in directions that they deem to be offensive.

The Herald, for example, shut down a Facebook discussion on Shaneel Lal’s opinion piece on, ironically, Free Speech.

While I respect the right of organisations to moderate content, and I fully understand that social media is the equvalent of a Human Zoo with no cages, for a national media organisation, the bar should be a lot higher, especially as the critera for being moderated does seem to be political.

Goodness knows we can’t ever start a discussion on Trans Rights!
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April 11, 2023 8:14am
- Rusty
  
  @slightly.. The irony with the free speech union is that they are obligated to defend the free speech of transgender people and at the same time the rights of people who have different views.
  
  I’m not trashing the free speech union who have done some good but they are stuck between a rock and a hard place defending some groups who become feral.
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:46am
- Keith White
  
  It’s been very easy since the government announced the hijacked taxpayer funding of the mass media, for me to identify what the Ferald wants to highlight and what it does not.
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:00am
- sirknz
  
  You can tell what the sentiment is on a particular subject is with the average person by how quickly $tuff shuts down the comments. If the comments are marginally in favour of what they espouse, the ones counter to it will appear below the [more comments] button, while the comments for it will be above the fold so to speak.
  
  If the comments are overwhelming against what they are pushing, the comments section will show, at most, a couple of comments that are pro their stance and be closed in less than two hours of being up.
  
  Can’t comment on their behaviour on other social media platforms as I either don’t use them or have actively blocked them.
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:07am
- thirteenstars
  
  Because it’s got nothing to do with free speech.
  
  The FSU has got enough on its plate without making social commentary on the policies of individual organisations exercising their free speech, which includes the right to moderate or disable comments.
  
  Kiwiblog moderates comments, thankfully with a light touch, but that is their right.
  
  The FSU is more concerned, properly in my opinion, with threats to speech from central and local government, and academic institutions.
  
  Keep in mind: it’s a real trade union. It has members. I’m one of those members. As are thousands of other Kiwis. If any of us as members have an issue with our free speech being curtailed we can contact our union and have them act on our behalf.
  
  But as a member I wouldn’t be so precious as to call them over having my comments moderated on a neo-Marxist website like Stuff or The Herald. As a matter of morality, what am I objecting to? That they are exercising their own free speech rights by refusing to listen (publish) to me? I have no such right to be published on their platform.
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:26am
  - sirknz
    
    When organisations like $tuff claim to be the arbiters of truth and then suspend you for pointing out the fallacies they or their reporters are using, facts that are independently verifiable which run counter to their (paid for by taxpayer funds) opinions, they allow comments that run counter to their policy on bullying & harassment from certain commenters who always pop up only on pieces about the government, there might be an issue given that the organisations are receiving taxpayer funds.
    
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    April 11, 2023 11:01am
    - thirteenstars
      
      I agree to the extent they are receiving public money.
      
      But this is the tangled web we weave. Which stories are paid for with taxes? Or is it the whole organisation that can be held accountable? And can it be held accountable the way a proper government organisation can?
      
      It’s such a fetid pool of murky transactions and loyalties. But this is what Kiwis want. Election after election they vote for public funding of this media and that art and that performance, on and on until public money is being used for specifically political ends. Hell, our political parties are publicly funded, supposedly in the interests of a robust democracy. And the calls are always there for parties to be totally tax-funded to avoid the need for private funding at all.
      
      This is actually the soft corruption that naïve Kiwis think we are immune to. Well, you don’t have to pay people off with big bags of cash delivered in dark alleyways to be corrupt. You simply pay it directly to people via an act of parliament. In NZ, corruption is legally sanctioned.
      
      We have dug these holes ourselves. We are to blame. The Public Interest Journalism Fund and $55 million in media support are just the latest manifestation of these corruptions in our culture.
      
      The only solution is to remove all funding for media, arts, everything. And to sell off all public media, TV, radio, everything.
      
      But ACT, let alone a centre-left party like National, won’t go anywhere near it. Well, ACT would certainly trim the excesses but racist poetry and ideologically-motivated television would still be funded by the taxpayer.
      
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      April 11, 2023 11:37am
krazykiwi

Cranmer is on target again:

The Disinformation Project has once again hit the news, this time by making the absurd claim that, in the aftermath of Kellie-Jay Keen’s visit to New Zealand, the trans-community has been subject to “genocidal” vitriol.
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April 11, 2023 8:15am
- Rich Prick
  
  I suppose that members of a “community” divorced from reality will see all sorts of imaginations as being real. Let’s not affirm their delusions any more than we have to.
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:21am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Yes and the police are urging trans people who feel threatened to phone 105. 🙄
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:24am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Who would have thought we would actually get to the point in society were 2 2=5 became a reality instead of a meme from a novel?
    
    On that note, 2 2=4 which is a mathematical fact, is apparently an indicator of “racism”. I kid you not.
    
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/22white-supremacy-how-woke-ideologues-corrupted-canadas-math-curriculum/
    
    It’s clear to me, 2 2 obviously equals 5 and I love Big Brother. //
    
    To paraphrase ‘The Disinformation Project’ and Jacinda Ardern with a classic scene from the classic Paul Newman movie ‘Cool Hand Luke’, when Luke doesn’t comply.
    
    What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it; well, he gets it. I don’t like it any more than you men.
    
    https://youtu.be/452XjnaHr1A
    
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    December 11, 2022 8:43am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Not sure why, but the plus symbol didn’t come out in the post, I’m sure you get the point though.
      
      [Mod – fixed]
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:04am
  - JerJer
    
    Maybe that is so they can come around and put a straight jacket on them and put them in a cushioned room with other people who have similar delusions.
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:31am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “Knock yourself out” brings up all sorts of images.
      
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      April 11, 2023 8:41am
    - artemisia
      
      Just call the cushioned room a safe space, with puppies, and there’ll be queues down the street.
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:12am
      - Keith White
        
        It’s actually very difficult to construct a space where a solitary person, therein confined, can’t damage themself.
        
        Decades ago I remember having to go and observe / take vital signs from someone who was really quite dangerous to himself and others, in the eponymous padded room. I have never forgot how the combination of space and kinetic energy could allow people to do serious damage to themselves.
        
        Straitjackets were invented for a reason, and the reason was to protect people from themselves. When we got rid of straitjackets, and when we got rid of lunatic asylums, we did the inhabitants thereof absolutely no favours at all.
        
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        April 11, 2023 10:03am
  - alloytoo
    
    Shouldn’t that be the action of anyone who feels threatened?
    
    ah yes, Women (including Lesbians) need not apply.
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:31am
  - Souvlaki
    
    Jesus wept!
    Next, ( as in UK) the plods will be serving search warrants for Golliwog dolls!🤪
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:33am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Well they can just leave my black nigger money box alone.
      
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      April 11, 2023 8:43am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Or 0800-FEELINGS.
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:34am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      That is Jaspinda’s private number.
      
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      April 11, 2023 8:46am
  - Gravelroad
    
    @ Widogast-
    So does that apply to all people who might feel threatened, or is this just a dedicated hotline to the police for special trans people?
    Lots of individuals in our increasingly lawless communities , especially those living alone, feel threatened and insecure from time to time.
    Can anyone phone 105 and expect a prompt visit from police people who will see how you are feeling etc?
    Genuine question.
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Probably have a transistor taking the calls (to be fair you know)
      
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      April 11, 2023 8:47am
    - sirknz
      
      Depending on where you live, 111 can have varying results. When we lived in one of the traditionally poor & brown suburbs in Auckland, they would turn up a few hours later to domestic violence incidents, in our current location, it’s less than 20 minutes.
      
      For the record, we’re the ones calling in the dv incidents.
      
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      April 11, 2023 11:12am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    ‘Your call is important to us. Please call again later’//
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:40am
    - Keith White
      
      “In the interests of quality, your call will be recorded. In the interests of deniability, we don’t really give a damn how long it takes to answer you and we certainly don’t care about your questions.”
      
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      April 11, 2023 10:04am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    Sorry I should have provided a link.
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/487640/police-urge-rainbow-community-to-report-threats-violence-in-wake-of-posie-parker-visit
    
    According to RNZ “anti Government” and “anti [COVID] mandate” folk are spreading hate against trans people.
    
    RNZ using the term “anti government” is quite sinister. It is reminiscint of USSSR media calling out “vrag naroda” (enemies of the people).
    
    I am sure of one thing. Come a National led government, RNZ will quit outing “anti government” activists. They will be celebrated. 😂
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:58am
    - Chris2
      
      WC – the curious thing about the Radio New Zealand story (and it is re-published in a few other far-left online sites) is the story attibutes a statement to the Police, without naming the Police employee who allegedly made the statement.
      
      With no atribution to a specific Police offical (or link to the Police’s own web site) we ought to assume this is a fictious statement entirely made up by a corrupt member of the media.
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:35am
    - Matt Long
      
      This suggests a charter is needed for publicly funded broadcasting in New Zealand where biased reporting or opinion as news results in funding being withdrawn or executives being fined.
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:41am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Executives being fined. Don’t you mean sacked?
        
        Any editor of a public funded media organisation that funds or allows biased and untrue messages or news to be broadcast are not fit for employment in the public sector or to be paid (ultimately) by the NZ taxpayer.
        
        TVNZ & NZ on Air have been guilty of producing documentaries for TV that have been nothing more than propaganda disinformation pieces aimed at diverting attention or promoting the governor’s narrative. Methods of broadcasting that would sit comfortably in a novel such as 1984.
        
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        April 11, 2023 11:08am
      - GJM
        
        Best way is sell it or give it away. If the luvvies want their radio station that much, I am sure they won’t mind dipping into their own pockets instead of mine to pay for it.
        National need to grow a spine and realise the media are the enemy. First thing you do in a war is remove support for your enemies, whcih in this cae means no funding, at all for any media. Any advertising has to be focused, specific to an identified problem and provide a solution, and approved individually by the minsiter.
        
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        April 11, 2023 11:40am
      - Tom Hunter
        
        National need to grow a spine and realise the media are the enemy.
        
        AHAHAHAHAHAAH……
        
        “I know some commenters here view TV1 as simply the propaganda arm of Labour, but I am not one of them.”
        
        That’s former National Cabinet Minister Wayne Mapp, and just in case you think he’s an outlier….
        
        You are right. There were (and are) a substantial number of National MP’s who would have similar views to myself.
        
        Nothing materially will change. In fact RNZ and the rest will crank up the attacks on National & ACT, Luxon and Seymour, once they get into government – and then piss themselves laughing at the whinging from their targets.
        
        Idiots.
        
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        April 11, 2023 8:47pm
    - Keith White
      
      Is the rainbow community anything like The Dark Side of the Moon? Asking for a Prism.
      
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      April 11, 2023 10:05am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Some members of The Rainbow community hold a wondrous optical device that can filter out frequencies from the middle of the visible spectrum and render them into white light.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_flag
        
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        April 11, 2023 11:21am
  - Janabelle
    
    That was misinformation from RNZ, the police did not say that at all – listen to Sean Plunket on The Platform [you’ll be able to listen to replay], he has the real story. Sean will be at PM’s stand up this arvo and Sean is going to question him on that misinformation – PM’s office already been notified of his question so they can pre formulate a response
    
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    April 11, 2023 10:34am
    - hullkiwi
      
      What, is Sean going soft? Last week was a classic.
      
      Mind you, on the matter of the Police, the researcher come minister has a problem over police statistics and whether the level of ram raids has been going down in recent months. May be they need to pre formulate another answer/excuse.
      
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      April 11, 2023 11:11am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        He made Hipkins vomit on himself, he is taking a breath before the next attack 😃👍🏻
        
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        April 11, 2023 2:01pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Janabelle – was the pre knowledge of the questions being asked a condition of being allowed at the press conference this afternoon?
      
      If so, it just shows how low our politicians have stooped that they can’t answer a question honestly without pre knowledge.
      
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      April 11, 2023 12:16pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    On The Platform this morning Sean Plunket, live on air, called the CEO of RNZ and left a message on his voicemail urging him to pull that story from the website because apparently the police did not say that trans people should call them, but they did say that anyone feeling threatened should contact them.
    
    RNZ apparently twisted that advice to suggest the police had specifically urged trans people to report anti-trans attacks. They didn’t.
    
    So that story is fake news.
    
    That said, the police behaved like cowards at the Posie Parker event at Albert Park. They should be be rightly nailed to the wall for their despicable behaviour, standing by, unwilling to listen to the pleas of women who were being violently assaulted.
    
    Shame on them.
    
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    April 11, 2023 10:36am
- Gravelroad
  
  @KK-
  Again, another source to which one must subscribe to read…….
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:29am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    In KK’s defence I don’t think he can see it is paywalled after he subscribed.
    I don’t remember who told me that, maybe Benedict Yu?
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:49am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      SO – that is correct. Some authors only make some content ‘subscriber only’ and it isn’t always clear which is ‘free’ and which isn’t.
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:06am
  - Ghost
    
    You don’t have to subscribe just hit continue reading, I just read it
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:09am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Continue reading is not on all.
      
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      April 11, 2023 10:38am
- graham
  
  The Disinformation Project no doubt has laudable intentions, but unfortunately seem to be rapidly succumbing to the primary danger that afflicts all such groups.
  
  Those people and groups who spend a significant amount of their time searching for conspiracy theories, disinformation, and extremist rhetoric online, will of course inevitably find it – because the sheer size of the Internet guarantees that if you look hard enough, you will find what you’re looking for. And once these “researchers” start finding the sort of stuff they’re searching for, it’s very easy to fall down the rabbit hole and become convinced that the Internet is awash with it, that the threats are real, that there are highly organised groups plotting the overthrow of the Government and who knows what else. Because they are spending a huge amount of time and energy searching for so-called “disinformation”, they become consumed and addicted to it, and inevitably they will lose perspective – as Cranmer quite rightly points out.
  
  The Disinformation Project appears to be succumbing to their very own conspiracy theories.
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:41am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘The Disinformation Project no doubt has laudable intentions’
    
    Really . I can’t help but get the feeling it was set up as a front for the regime .
    
    And continues to be .
    
    And it’s used as an “independent” source for the regime funded media to attack their chosen targets . Good example was Fisher’s massive hit piece in the Herald the other day.
    
    Nothing laudable at all.
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:16am
    - Keith White
      
      The so-called Disinformation Project is simply another Labour / Socialist (but I repeat myself) political vehicle to punish enemies and protect their friends. To be fair to them, they certainly have a lot of power to punish their enemies with Coster in their pocket and Hipkins as their boss.
      
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      April 11, 2023 10:06am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    graham – I’ve upticked you, but I totally disagree that they have “laudable intentions”.
    These groups have been enabled with a single focus, to ensure the government narrative dominates all discourse. Read the whole post again. It is obvious what is going on.
    
    They realise that if they do it via a government department it will be met with suspicion, so they try to circumnavigate this problem by funding and enabling “academics” to do the job for them.
    
    As Ardern clearly espoused.
    
    we will be your single source of truth
    
    This is state level propaganda and narrative control. There is zero attempt to dispute or counter what they claim is ‘mis or disinformation.’
    They simply throw the labels at people as a smear and a method of discrediting them. There is no rationale behind their rhetoric, not a shred. Pure propaganda.
    
    If you read the Cranmer post (highly recommended) it shows a disturbing and conscious effort being made by the government to subvert free speech.
    
    Gerry Brownlee gets a black mark for daring to question the effectiveness of masks.
    It has been proven beyond doubt that masks have practically zero ability to prevent transmission of an aerosol based virus. Yet they use his opposition to it as an attack on him. Brownlee changed position rapidly due to the flack, even though he was right to ask the question.
    
    That is government controlling narrative. That is extremely concerning.
    
    In another of their tables, they list what they perceive as dangerous “disinformation”.
    
    Lockdown ineffective
    
    Deaths overestimated or miscounted
    
    Herd immunity a better response
    
    Testing ineffective
    
    Vaccine is dangerous/will alter DNA
    
    Covid Plan B and Mike Hosking are listed as pushing these ideas therefore clearly “dangerous”.
    
    The problem for ‘The Disinformation Project’ is that other than possibly the DNA angle, every single one of the others is a verifiable fact. (The DNA part still isn’t fully understood and may well be true.)
    
    The thing is, they will NEVER engage in an open debate about these topics, because they know for a stone cold fact that they would be exposed as the liars and narrative controllers they actually are. They have NOTHING in the way of actual science. If they did, they would come to the debate and prove their side of the story.
    
    They can’t and never will.
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:25am
    - Matt Long
      
      I disagree, the disinformation project isn’t made up of government ideologues but regressive leftist ideologues, the kind who will go to their graves shouting orange man bad.
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:45am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Matt Long – maybe to clarify, they are directly or indirectly funded by government, therefore enabled by them. They wouldn’t get to the level of exposure they do without that support.
        
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        April 11, 2023 10:04am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Graham, where do you get the idea that the Disinformation Project was set up with laudable ideals?
    
    It wasn’t, a similar group was set up in the UK, with the exact same purpose. That is, to highlight and ridicule any person or group spreading information contrary to the government mandated line regarding management of the Covid pandemic.
    
    The problem for the respective governments, and associated disinformation projects, many of us were soon aware of from whom and from where disinformation was really emanating!
    
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    April 11, 2023 11:18am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      hullkiwi – I know I thought that calling themselves ‘The Disinformation Project’ was the biggest own goal ever, that’s exactly what they are, a disinformation project!!
      
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      April 11, 2023 12:20pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Quite.
        
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        April 11, 2023 1:30pm
  - sirknz
    
    If you pay someone to identify & get rid of something, they have a financial incentive to not get rid of something.
    
    This goes for any government task force or commission like race relations and human rights, as soon as they solve the problem they are unemployed and probably unemployable.
    
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    April 11, 2023 11:35am
  - pussycat
    
    The Disinformation Project = The Censorship Project.
    
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    April 11, 2023 12:57pm
- Nickc2
  
  Question without notice.
  What bought this Trans Worrier movement to international prominence?
  I had previously considered these people to be nothing more than cocks in frocks and as such, pay them no attention whatsoever.
  Now, they are an international movement who are not just vocal, but also capable of group violence as recently seen in NZ and currently in the US with their physical and verbal attacks on sports people who choose to compete among their biological equivalents.
  Are we approaching a time, when time must be spent experiencing life as both male and female before committing to a chosen gender with rights reserved to change gender without notice as a lead into a hermaphrodite era?
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:44am
  - Ghost
    
    Is it a trans movement? From what I see it is more a disruptive movement that has taken up trans as their latest cover and using some trans to push for equality. I get the feeling if you went behind some of this you would find the same people who financed blm and antifa. Also I think once there careers are over a few trans athletes will magically decide that they don’t want to transition and will return to being male.
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:48am
    - Nickc2
      
      I have no answer Ghost, hence the question.
      Let’s dig deeper. Is George Soros’s money involved?
      
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      April 11, 2023 8:54am
      - Ghost
        
        Yes, his NGO’s are involved
        
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        April 11, 2023 9:01am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      It is a movement fueled by hate. If you are not a transistor, there is something wrong with you. Mental Illness.
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:01am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Ghost – I think there can be no doubt now that there is malfeasance afoot in recent years with the sudden rise of these minority movements. I cannot imagine they would have the ability to get this level of attention without some organised and well financed support. Basically they are agent provocateurs.
      
      All of it seems to be deliberate policy to fracture society, because is the result every time. We are being transformed without our input being permitted. Our democracies are in serious danger.
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:35am
      - mawm
        
        There has to be a wink and a nod to governments in the countries that have these “rage” mobs as none of their foot soldiers ever seem to be punished for their destructive violence. They started with Occupy Wall Street during Obama’s “we are on their side” Presidency.
        
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        April 11, 2023 2:22pm
- sirknz
  
  Subject to? What I’ve seen, they seem to be the source of said vitriol.
  
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  April 11, 2023 11:02am
colina

Millions in taxpayer funding are being provided for Maori spirtual science

Applying Maori knowledge (and Govt funding) to the demystification of whale strandings and the heavens

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/applying-maori-knowledge-and-govt-funding-to-the-demystification-of-whale-strandings-and-the-heavens/#more-21319
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April 11, 2023 8:28am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Utterly stupid. AFAIK the causes of whale strandings are not fully understood. But they are not connected with heaven. 🙄
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:46am
  - Nickc2
    
    Too many in the pod and the weaker ones are driven out (ashore)?
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:03am
    - Matt Long
      
      White colonialist oppression, Christianity, and white cis males cause all whale strandings.
      Not that long ago a whale stranding would have been a gift of Kai Moana for tangaroa.
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:49am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Extremely loud or disturbing human signals in the water probably don’t help (seismic blasting, sub signals, offshore wind towers and the noises they generate etc etc).
    
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    April 11, 2023 3:02pm
Widogast Corwin

Just a quick follow up to DPF blogging yesterday on the shockingly low census turnout, heading to be on par with the 2018 debacle.

A few thoughts….

An inquiry into 2018 census was scathing on Stats NZ. I won’t repeat the findings here. You can easily find them. This was despite Jacinda Ardern initially blaming the previous National Government for all the problems at Stats NZ. 😂. The CE of Stats NZ resigned.

In 2018 the media were savage about the result. Will they react the same in 2023? Maybe not. This leads to the obvious we question. Did Stats NZ stuff up again? Maybe. However from what I observed they did just about everything they could have. My hypothesis is that 2018 was a Stats NZ stuff up. What we are seeing in 2023 is deep distrust and hatred of the government by people who were screwed over the COVID response. In the Maori population, you are seeing a significant minority of people in utter dysfunction. Wayne Mapp described this well in his comment on yesterday’s thread.

Which brings me to Wayne’s prediction that another census debacle will usher in the end of censuses in New Zealand. Maybe. However I cannot find any western country that does not conduct a regular census at least every 10 years. Also as I noted yesterday at least in the English speaking nations, the response rates have historically been extremely high. Over 95 percent and in most countries over 97 percent.

If this is really the end of the census it is a big deal.
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April 11, 2023 8:43am
- JerJer
  
  Unless it is organised and has relevant questions then it will be the end. I didn’t do it and most people I know lied about the answers just so they could say they completed it. I looked at the online version and saw I could choose a language and if I chose Chinese I got Chinese, same with Spanish and all the others, but if I chose English I got mostly Māori, so at that point I disengaged. I would quite happily fill it out if it was not so pathetic, woke, and in the language I choose to use.
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:00am
  - Nickc2
    
    IMO, they were seeking responses that would lead favourably to Maori outcomes in the future. This is evidenced by TV still advertising for Maori census forms to be returned. No such emphasis for others such as Chinese, Indian, Pacifica, etc.
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:13am
    - JerJer
      
      Well that’s working out well. The target audience has never had worse outcomes, and they aren’t answering the census anyway.
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:27am
  - sirknz
    
    Didn’t they trumpet the fact that they had more native language speakers than previous censuses?
    
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    April 11, 2023 12:38pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      So, what was that going to do? Given the true percentage speaking TeReo is small, and most of them learnt to speak, read, & write in English first? The flip side is if they are illiterate, they are illiterate irrespective of the language.
      
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      April 11, 2023 2:21pm
- kevn
  
  @Wido… Trust is long gone.
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:08am
  - Keith White
    
    We do not trust people who hate us, regardless of their stated reasons. In the census, whatever information they want will be used to damage our loved ones and ourselves. This is just one facet of the Ardern legacy. That woman’s reputation will live on, in infamy. One day saying someone is an Ardernite will have the same implications as saying someone is a Quisling. And for similar reasons.
    
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    April 11, 2023 10:19am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      While she has responsibility, her role seemed mostly to me to be a script reader and woke mascot for the regime.
      
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      April 11, 2023 4:14pm
- RoboRob
  
  From what you said, I am with Wayne on this one. I think if this census is a failure, and it seems it will be, at most there will be one more.
  
  Personally I think the 2018 Census badly damaged the public feelings towards the necessity of filling these in. Labour told us over and over that they could manufacture the results from other datasets. Why would we bother this time?
  
  I also think Stats have again stuffed this up again. There seems no consistency. I got personally delivered papers but most people I know never did. My father got something in the mail telling him they wouldn’t deliver papers and he had to do it online. Which was hard for him as he has no computer. Papers we delivered multiple times with multiple login codes. These allowed people to do the census online multiple times for the same address. These are just the issues I know of.
  
  Probably the only way they are going to get good enough turn out is to start enforcing the fines for non completion. That will go down like a bag of sick.
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:12am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    “Papers we delivered multiple times with multiple login codes. ”
    
    So bizarre. Stats NZ (and its ancestor departments) conducted these things successfully for more than a century. Now they fall to pieces.
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:50am
    - Ghost
      
      Previously stats would have people going door to door yo give you your papers or access code. This is the first time we have had them come in the mail, and we got it three times..
      
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      April 11, 2023 9:52am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Previously stats would have people going door to door
        
        I can think of at least 10 properties within a half of mile from me where I wouldn’t dare open the gate…and at least 2 places where I cross the road before I pass by.
        
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        April 11, 2023 11:31am
- kowtow
  
  There’s no way that any govt in NZ would ever admit that a certain “community” ( the one it is so disastrously ,expensively trying to engage ) is so utterly disengaged from mainstream New Zealand that it is pointless conducted something as basic and civil as a census.
  
  What you might get is a separate Census Dept , run for and by that “community” .
  You scoff ? Well we have it already in Health with other iterations in justice for example , so why not .
  
  Te Census Department. Makes sense . Innit.
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:13am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Widowgast – I believe you are 100% correct. The destruction of trust has had, and will continue to have an horrendously negative impact on all of our lives, some of which we haven’t even seen yet.
  
  Rebuilding that trust is an absolute priority for whoever the next government is. Without it, they will struggle to achieve anything. They need to take people with them.
  
  Ardern and her “team of 5 million” was a great idea, the problem is, for her it was a lie. Nothing more than a cheap marketing slogan that was exposed very quickly as such. Like all of her other “aspirations”.
  
  She was the epitome of a fraud and snakeoil saleswoman and is responsible for loss of trust and division in every area of society today. It’s a hard road ahead.
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:42am
  - Keith White
    
    Respectfully, ClanM – IMO trust cannot be rebuilt. Is has to be earned. I see no signs any of the present leadership either wants to, or is capable of, earning Kiwis’ trust again.
    
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    April 11, 2023 10:21am
    - Che Guava
      
      That would necessitate an admission of error and guilt from the political class and its PR arm the MSM. This will never happen. I hold them all in contempt.
      
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      April 11, 2023 12:09pm
  - david
    
    “saleswoman”? How can you be sure she is a woman? Please define “woman” for the purpose of this discussion, clearly, succinctly and in words of one syllable for the benefit of those whose understanding of the English Language is not so hot.
    thank you.
    
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    April 11, 2023 12:38pm
- Jethrod
  
  Do all those countries have the option to fill out online or have a hard copy delivered to the door? Online becomes like an option to comply or not. Also more chance to pervert the answers.
  It’s also become a bit like voting on line and it seems strange that both the census and voting online have taken a plunge in participation from around the same.
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:33am
Maggie Pie

OMG…what a wonderful Easter at the beach.
Every morning it was sooo calm we could have walked on the water.

Had to larf when I read where the Green’s were standing a Chinese Doctor against David Seymour in Epsom. A quik check on Wiki shows Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan holds a PhD in ‘Ancient History. LOL!!

https://twitter.com/lx_xunan/status/1643758116390182912

The only thing funnier, would be if they’d chosen to run a Mexican immigrant with a Projectionist’s License. Although I see HE’s thrown his sombrero in the ring for Mt Albert 😀
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April 11, 2023 8:50am
- krazykiwi
  
  Maggie, thought you might like this meme 🙂
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:18am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    And beautifully matched with the white silk Mitre. LOL!!
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:34am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  I doubt whether he’s thrown his hat anywhere Maggie. He’ll need it to be able showcase the characteristics of his nation, ie, lean against the wall of the Epsom library sitting under said hat, along with his blanket with a hole in it pretending to be a coat whilst being a lazy, feckless, flatulent oaf.
  Description from Richard Hammond (which seems in this case to be not unreasonable!)
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:02am
- Taieri
  
  So, what’s wrong with a PhD in Ancient History?
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:17am
  - MCōs
    
    It’s the Asian part that MP is ridiculing.
    Just a little racist thing she has going on.
    
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    April 11, 2023 10:36am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      What’s with this ‘racist’ shit Cossie?!
      I honestly thort you were better than that 🙁
      You’ve only got to look at how the guy dresses… Asian or not.
      
      SHEESH!!
      
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      April 11, 2023 12:46pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Feel like a laugh today? Telemarketers:

https://gopnewsfeed.com/heres-a-brilliant-way-to-scare-telemarketers-5/
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April 11, 2023 8:51am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Unfortunately the poor chumps making the calls are just trying to earn a living. It’s the industry leaders that need to be lined up and publicly flogged.
  
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  April 11, 2023 3:05pm
Yvette

I would IMHO recommend people read –
Brooke van Velden: Jacinda Ardern’s political ‘failure’ self-inflicted
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/brooke-van-velden-jacinda-arderns-political-failure-self-inflicted/72YX3OMI4ZGMVHSJYI5RMJOMVI/?dicbo=v2-NbRErnz&&ref=topbox

I, silly me, did not realise who Brooke van Velden was, other than an assumption she is a journalist, as I read this article and thinking “Right – I agree with that. And this, and more – and she is likely to loose her job over being so frank and outspoken”, until in the end, when I read Brooke van Velden is an Act MP and party deputy leader – and I thought “Of course she is, and this further adds to my intention to most likely vote Act later this year”
And it might be the editor who allowed this to be printed, who will loose their job.

Although Brooke van Velden does mention the Treaty (as NZ ON AIR’s edict on distributing the $55m exhorts) –
The division over race is far worse, and will be more difficult to turn around. One constant in Ardern’s legacy is the work of Labour’s Māori caucus to ensure everything the Government does divides people into tangata whenua – land people here by right, and Tangata Tiriti – Treaty people here by the grace of the Treaty.
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April 11, 2023 9:14am
Ghost

With all that is going on it is nice to just take a moment and read this letter

An open letter to the football fans of Aotearoa New Zealand

Becky Sauerbrunn is the captain of the US Women’s National Soccer Team. She submitted this letter to Stuff.

The 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup is almost upon us and I think the most appropriate way to start this letter is with gratitude to all the people in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia who have worked so hard for years to make this World Cup the best ever.

This tournament will not only showcase the supreme talent and skill of the world’s best female soccer players but will also demonstrate the value of empowerment and the growth of the women’s game.

I know I speak for my teammates when I say we are thrilled to be playing our group stage matches in New Zealand.

Stuff
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April 11, 2023 9:27am
- kowtow
  
  What’s nice about it ?
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:42am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    Yes that was my thought 🙂 It seems kind of boiler plate.
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:53am
    - Keith White
      
      Where is Aoteroastan? I have worked in most of the Trashcanistans during the last coupla decades on and off, and I recognise this ‘stan not. Who is its current dictator / dominatrix?
      
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      April 11, 2023 10:24am
- sirknz
  
  Is this the same Becky who is nearing the end of her international career and is one of the many signing up for the removal of biological women from sports?
  
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  April 11, 2023 12:47pm
  - Ghost
    
    No idea, never heard of her before
    
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    April 11, 2023 12:55pm
Maggie Pie

Watching this I thort to myself….painting stripes on a Cow doesn’t make it a Zebra. Just like putting makeup and a dress on a Man doesn’t make it a Woman.

https://twitter.com/CatchUpFeed/status/1645085232666939392
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April 11, 2023 9:28am
- ClanMcleod
  
  It’s a joke and needs to be treated as such.
  I know a genuine trans, female who transitioned to male but not for sporting reasons. Living their own life and accepted without prejudice in the community.
  They are horrified and embarrassed by what is happening.
  
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  April 11, 2023 9:53am
  - Taieri
    
    female who transitioned to male
    —————-
    
    Don’t corrupt the language. A female can’t “transition” to male. It’s not possible. She can only pretend to be a male.
    
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    April 11, 2023 10:20am
    - Che Guava
      
      Exactly. There are no “genuine” trans, because there are no trans full stop. Just thinking it is so doesn’t make it so.
      
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      April 11, 2023 12:21pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Taieri – what I mean is they’ve actually done the chemical and physical things to live the life they believe is what they should have been. I get your point. But they haven’t just woke up one morning and on a whim decided to be the opposite sex. They’ve been through much to try and live in a body they feel more comfortable in.
      
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      April 11, 2023 12:26pm
      - Ghost
        
        And unfortunately because of the actions of a very few all the hard work through the years done by genuine trans is being demolished.
        
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        April 11, 2023 12:35pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        Why “they” and not “he”? Sadly, she has the same body as before. It’s just been chemically and surgically altered to approximate a man’s cosmetically.
        
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        April 11, 2023 2:47pm
      - Taieri
        
        But they haven’t just woke up one morning and on a whim decided to be the opposite sex.
        —————–
        
        Does this apply to the “gender dysphoric” children as well? Some of a very tender age…
        
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        April 11, 2023 4:06pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      What about chopping off the middle finger and trasplant it?
      
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      April 11, 2023 4:38pm
  - Keith White
    
    I believe that most of us knew / have known some people like that over the course of our lives, and they were different but accepted – they were just different. They didn’t want anything more than to be part of our community, and so they were.
    
    The current crop: a plague upon all their genderhouses.
    
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    April 11, 2023 10:25am
    - Che Guava
      
      The trouble is Keith, if you accept one, you have to accept them all. Who are you to determine who is/isn’t “genuine”, having already accepted the underlying concept?
      
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      April 11, 2023 12:23pm
  - Nukuleka
    
    You can’t ‘transition’ from female to male. It’s a biological impossibility. She is a female living life as male and good on her if that’s what she wants to do but please don’t expect me to participate in her fantasy. I won’t ridicule or abuse her but I won’t deny biological fact just to indulge her.
    
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    April 11, 2023 11:05am
- Rich Prick
  
  What is with the infantile “girlhood” talk? I think those two have issues beyond gender.
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:25am
- Ghost
  
  It’s all about the followings, he’s made a few million being an “influencer”, Nike and bud are rumored to have paid around $150,000 to him.
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:36am
  - Keith White
    
    This reminds me of Winston Churchill’s observation that “We have established what you are—we are simply haggling about the price.”
    
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    April 11, 2023 10:53am
  - sirknz
    
    AB Inbev (the parent company of budweiser) has lost a lot of market share in the US this last week, after signing on Dylan Mulvaney. It’s exposed people who aren’t involved in culture war shenanigans, to this sort of thing and they are voting with their wallets. People in bars are being ridiculed and red pilled by their fellow patrons over their drink choices and why they should join the pile on.
    
    Footage of the ‘first female VP of marketing for bud lite’ has been doing the rounds and to say that she doesn’t understand her market is an understatement.
    
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    April 11, 2023 12:55pm
    - Ghost
      
      Yeah I saw a tweet but it didn’t have any shrouded they have lost a few hundred million. wasn’t hard to see that would happen
      
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      April 11, 2023 12:58pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Don’t know if you guys realise….butt Dylan is now also the face of TAMPAX!
      
      https://youtu.be/bUmRjfKQpXo
      
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      April 11, 2023 1:34pm
      - Ghost
        
        Had to Google to see if it was true, found this
        
        She clarified that she has never worked with the company and has never made a dollar off of feminine hygiene products. The only interaction she had with Tampax was when they reportedly sent her a box of tampons in April 2022 to give to women in need.
        
        https://holrmagazine.com/dylan-mulvaney-tampax/
        
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        April 11, 2023 1:52pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Ghost @1:52PM
        Don’t let the truth stand in the way of a good story eh?
        
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        April 11, 2023 1:54pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        Apart from a nose bleed, I suspect the only use that bloke would have for that product would be after too much Taco Bell listening to Joe Biden try to string a sentence together. And even then it would likely not perform as advertised.
        
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        April 11, 2023 10:53pm
- pussycat
  
  The one in black looks like a young Helen Clark!
  
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  April 11, 2023 3:47pm
ClanMcleod

Neil DeGrasse Tyson makes a complete and utter clown of himself. Sad to see. He’s a very intelligent man but here he tries to argue with Del Bigtree that science is what the consensus says, not what the science says.

https://twitter.com/HighWireTalk/status/1644174430757634048?s=20

Caperincus and Galileo come to mind.
I can’t believe someone of DeGrasse’s intellect fell into this dark hole.
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April 11, 2023 9:57am
- bco90
  
  A common assumption these days is that scientists are experts on science itself. They aren’t. They are experts in their particular field OF science. To be an expert on science itself is the role of the philosopher of science.
  
  NGT, and many other popular scientists, often wades in to areas he has no expertise in, but because they are scientists, people assume they must know everything they talk about.
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:19am
- Keith White
  
  You’ve got to admit, when someone does the full BeClowning as he does – that’s pretty much the summit of its achievements. He should just fade away.
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:26am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Strikes me as another big strutting narrative pusher like Bill Nye, Brian Cox, David Attenborough and Prince Charles. Basically hoping their “celebrity” status will somehow give the crap-filled narrative they worship some credibility.
  
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  April 11, 2023 3:35pm
Chuck Bird

I will post their replies if any.

Hi Damian & Micheal

The attack against women by biological men was appalling. You may like to comment on that as well but you are both spokespeople for sport so I am asking both of you a simple question that can be answered with a yes or no.

Should biological men be allowed to compete against women in sport?

Kind regards
Chuck
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April 11, 2023 10:04am
- Ghost
  
  Nothing really to do with them and never should be, should be up to the sporting bodies. Don’t want politicians getting involved in what sporting bodies should be doing.
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:15am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Act voted against the bill while National voted for it.
  
  Hi Chuck,
  
  The answer is no we don’t support Men competing in Women’s Sports; ACT voted against the Sport Integrity Bill as this Bill could open the door to the scenario you describe below.
  
  Keep in touch.
  Danien
  
  Damien
  
  Keep in touch.
  
  Damien
  
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  April 11, 2023 11:34am
Chuck Bird

Interesting reading.

Why Taiwan matters to the world

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-taiwan-matters-to-the-world/SCGYQ5PH3FFMXCQK74BW3I65U4/
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April 11, 2023 10:27am
- All_on_Red
  
  What does it say?
  Its behind a paywall.
  Did the simpletons at the Herald mention Semi conductors?
  Because that’s why the world needs Taiwan.
  
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  April 11, 2023 1:29pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    “Did the simpletons at the Herald mention Semi conductors?
    Because that’s why the world needs Taiwan.”
    
    Yes
    
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    April 11, 2023 1:59pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Thanks Chuck
      No wonder the Herald is fucked if they think they can charge money to give us a Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious…
      
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      April 11, 2023 2:11pm
  - Ghost
    
    If it’s not written by the herald, which this isn’t, you can usually find it on the web not behind a paywall
    
    https://www.ft.com/content/11b82a88-57ae-44b1-8368-864f42ffac7f
    
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    April 11, 2023 2:15pm
- Nickc2
  
  From the Herald article:
  Flying back from a visit to China last week, President Emmanuel Macron implied that France would not lift a finger to protect the island. Discussing Taiwan, he told Politico that the “great risk” for Europe is getting “caught up in crises that are not ours”.
  Macron is a ‘Surrendermonkey’.
  What would have happened during the First and Second World Wars if the Allies had adopted the same stance towards Europe and France in particular?
  The modern French diet would be Pork Knuckle and Sourkraut eh?
  
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  April 11, 2023 2:11pm
  - royce987
    
    According to Eric Garland, a lot of the media reports in English media of the Macron interviews are based on poor translations.
    
    https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645239508613431298
    
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    April 11, 2023 3:09pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/dr-john-robinson-slams-the-rationale-behind-co-governance-as-a-litany-of-lies-and-deception/

John Robinson:

Although the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi intended to create a nation of equal British citizens, a movement since 1975 towards separation by race with kotahitanga, separate Maori rule – eventually separate governments and sovereignty held by the many different hapu and iwi – has increasing divided New Zealanders. The accompanying propaganda, built on a comprehensive rewriting of history, with words taking on their very opposite original meaning, is believed by the government and many in the brainwashed public. This is unacceptable to all who desire to be one people, without division by race, living as equals in a representative democracy. A firmly based counter-revolution is sorely needed to turn back co-governance and the many other expressions of racial superiority .

Here we have ‘Propaganda’ ‘Racism’ ‘Blocking Free Speech’ ‘Blackmail’ and ‘Hypocrisy

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/John-Robinson-on-orchestrated-litany-of-lies.pdf
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April 11, 2023 10:31am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  New Zealand Lawyer Liz Lambert On Leaked Documents About Elite Maori Takeover.
  
  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-36twv-10436b9
  
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  April 11, 2023 10:35am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I checked it out. She is a bankrupt lawyer
    
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    April 11, 2023 10:47am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Chuck Bird: “I checked it out. She is a bankrupt lawyer.”
      
      And this proves what exactly?
      
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      April 11, 2023 2:54pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I will ask J. Batchelor, and see how he views her.
      
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      April 11, 2023 3:33pm
  - DimChappie
    
    Thanks for this; it is either fake or the end of the regime.
    
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    April 11, 2023 6:23pm
- ISeeRed
  
  Why does he make webpages into PDFs?
  
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  April 11, 2023 2:50pm
Maggie Pie

We threw a barbie for a few of the neighbors on Saturday night.
A really fab like-minded bunch of friends to have around.
When my partner just happened to say…. that given the opportunity he would deport sooo many people, not one of them disagreed.

Just saying.
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April 11, 2023 10:34am
- Gravelroad
  
  @MP-
  To where did you throw the barbie and how far did it travel?
  Did you take the sausages off it before throwing or did you have a sausage scramble?
  Was there sauce thrown too?
  
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  April 11, 2023 11:51am
  - sirknz
    
    Regarding the sauce, it was bbq, not an event for only biological women to talk about their experience.
    
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    April 11, 2023 1:00pm
TripeWryter

Every so often Verity Johnson, who is a Stuff columnist, writes something interesting.
Her effort published this morning was about the Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick and the ‘crybaby’ jab at her from Dr Elizabeth Kerekere.
Miss Johnson traversed jealousy for young, clever – and dare I say it, pretty – gels by older women and blokes.
Inexplicably she also cites approvingly the Swedish Goblin of Doom, Greta Thunberg, and the Duchess of Sussex …
I have to say I like Chlöe Swarbrick. It’s an entirely personal thing.
At a provincial airport before the 2017 General Election my older brother, our older sister and I asked Chlöe if she would mind taking my phone camera and photographing the three of us together. He was flying back to Auckland.
She smiled graciously, put aside her own phone, took a break from her texting, and did as we asked, and handed the phone back with a smile. Thank you, Chlöe.
The photos she took were of a brother, aged 72, before he began to decline mentally and two years before a crippling stroke disabled him. He died a year ago.
But the photos of the three of us remain precious. Thank you, Chlöe.
There was nothing in it for her. My sister might be a Green voter but she’s 81.
My brother used to be a union activist and a member of a Communist party aligned with Beijing.
A sponsored visit to the Workers Paradise in 1974 put an end to that. He came home shaken and disillusioned.
I disagree with just about everything Chlöe Swarbrick stands for.
She would fit in well as a commissar-apparatchik in some sort of soviet that told people what was good for them and how she knew better than them. She is a natural leader.
Young people looking for a leader would follow her.
Behind her warm smile and charismatic manner I would say lurks a calculating brain. Never underestimate Chlöe.
Verity Johnson might be right about Dr Kerekere and why she apparently dislikes the younger, prettier (am I allowed to say that?), sassier Chlöe.
Dr Kerekere (she/her) is a mid-50s artist from Gisborne – and part-Irish. The physical contrast is plain for everyone to see.
I’ve never understood why women and girls can be so nasty to each other. It was feminists of the Labour Left who mocked Naomi Lange’s pink cardies.
Feminist women mocked the mother of my children for preferring to stay home and be a mother. They used to call women like her ‘cabbages’.
She had a responsibility to support the aims of the Sisterhood by going out to work and ‘contributing’.
One of my daughters was bullied relentlessly – until she was about 15 – by the ‘cool girls’ because she was deemed different. Not ‘cool’.
They were dreadful. I committed the cardinal sin of phoning up parents and telling them what their daughters were saying to her.
The interesting thing was the reaction of the mothers. Some of them were well-known in Leftwing-feminist circles. One had a sister who was a Labour Party MP.
Complete indifference and dismissive. My daughter (and by implication me, too) was overdramatising it.
In the end she found her own way of dealing with the Mean Girls.
I know other girls, other women, all of whom have been bullied by Mean Girls.
My eldest granddaughter was bullied at her Australian primary school by Mean Girls. They made fun of her hair (ginger), her freckles, how she spoke (she was too articulate for them), and for going into puberty before them.
Fortunately she was at a school with an assertive principal and her last year or so was largely incident-free.
I have two other granddaughters, aged 10 and 6, who are pretty, confident, outspoken, and cuttingly bossy.
I have come to accept that part of my grandfather function in life is to be told off by them.
They’re getting better the more they practise on me.
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April 11, 2023 10:45am
- Keith White
  
  My daughter was different from the school clique. On her 16th birthday, I gifted her an assertiveness course run by two ex-IDF sergeants. Money well spent.
  
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  April 11, 2023 11:01am
  - TripeWryter
    
    Excellent call.
    
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    April 11, 2023 11:13am
  - ISeeRed
    
    What an awesome Dad! That will pay dividends her entire life.
    
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    April 11, 2023 2:52pm
  - Jack5
    
    Is IDF Israel Defence Force?
    
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    April 11, 2023 9:41pm
- Prince
  
  Verity Johnson should read some of the Twitter replies to Chris Bishop, Chis Luxon, Nicola Willis etc.
  If she thinks personal abuse, slander and hatred comes only to pretty young Green MP’s, she needs to widen her outlook.
  
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  April 11, 2023 11:53am
  - MCōs
    
    Politicians shouldn’t be on Twitter, whoever they are.
    There is a middling not particularly controversial radio personality in our whanau and apparently the online abuse she gets is truly vile.
    It comes by way of email, certainly not public social media where someone might figure out who they are.
    
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    April 11, 2023 12:30pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Most of the perps will be script kiddies or IT dummies. Many will have slipped up or just be naked on the internet and will be able to be identified. Whether the orgs running the services they use will follow through is a different matter.
      
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      April 11, 2023 3:41pm
      - MCōs
        
        There’s so many of them that the recipient doesn’t have the time/support staff to do much about it.
        
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        April 11, 2023 7:14pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Serious? Trump’s account, where he could get stuff out to his followers before the Media fucked with it. What did Twitter do???
      “Politicians shouldn’t be on Twitter” my left tit.
      The message gets through – right or left; before the rabid left media mess around and do selective editing.
      
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      April 11, 2023 4:26pm
mogg

This tells us more about this Labour govt than just Stuart Nash:https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/120627/prime-minister-gaslighting-us-stuart-nash-scandal
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April 11, 2023 10:57am
- Prince
  
  In any other country the Nash Affair would be a massive scandal.
  A Cabinet Minister shares privileged Cabinet material with donors to his Party.
  The PM’s Office becomes aware of it in 2021, and we are told the PM was not informed ! I don’t believe that, but even if true, why not ? What sort of ‘see no evil’ outfit is the PM’s Office ?
  But the media assure us ‘no one is suggesting any fraudulence here, just a cock-up by very busy people.’
  After all, Nash would be a good gym-buddy to the Beehive journalists, and they wouldn’t want to upset their Labour friends, would they ?
  
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  April 11, 2023 11:42am
  - mogg
    
    As you say it’s a major scandal, but what do we get;
    “we can do better” nothing to see here time to move on.
    
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    April 11, 2023 2:28pm
thirteenstars

Good to see the breaking of the long drought in the western United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbvK8Lc7Pdw

The winter has seen big rainfalls and massive snow dumps across vast areas of the West. The storage lakes are already full. In California’s Central Valley, a lake that was drained in the mid-1800s is now being used to accept the overflow, flooding huge areas of farmland and refreshing groundwater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2JITCiJ-3Q&t=21s
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April 11, 2023 11:20am
Warren

It seems nothing has changed in the Government apart from their being a New Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, but the Prime Minister and the Labour Party must behind in the polls as they have announced that they will not scrap Covid-19 as it will spread more if Government scraps remaining restrictions, Hipkins warns.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/04/covid-19-chris-hipkins-warns-virus-will-spread-more-around-new-zealand-if-government-scraps-remaining-restrictions.html
Is this scaremongering from our Prime Minister or is this a return to Jacinda Ardern’s policyto win the 2023 General Election.
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April 11, 2023 11:25am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There’s no way Labour will admit that all the theatre and restrictions around Covid was a waste of time, and money.
  
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  April 11, 2023 12:02pm
- Che Guava
  
  “It will spread more”? Covid couldn’t spread any more than it already has. It is already in every nook and cranny of the country, and you wouldn’t even know it, given how benign it is. The only thing that has changed since September last year when we went back to near-normal is that Covid isn’t front and centre in the news and in political discourse any longer, clearly demonstrating that, without such focus, nobody would have even known it existed. Think about that.
  
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  April 11, 2023 12:35pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Another wave according to Fauci. It comes in 4 year cycles.
  
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  April 11, 2023 4:28pm
ClanMcleod

mod – I reported mister nui’s comment at 11.23am by mistake. Apologies.

[Mod – don’t worry about it]
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April 11, 2023 12:03pm
graham

A bit up GD, Widogast Corwin linked to a RNZ story which stated that, in the wake of Posie Parker’s visit police had said trans people should call them if they felt threatened. Several commenters have pointed out that in fact the police did not specifically urge *trans* people to report anti-trans attacks; they had directed the statements at *ALL* people, and RNZ had apparently (deliberately?) twisted that to suggest the police had specifically urged trans people to report anti-trans attacks.

In other words, RNZ has blatantly propagated mis-information.

Well, that story has – very quietly – been updated at RNZ. The link Widogast Corwin provided, https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/487640/police-urge-rainbow-community-to-report-threats-violence-in-wake-of-posie-parker-visit still takes you to the story, but it has been “corrected”. The headline now reads:

Police urge anyone including the rainbow community to report threats, violence

But there is no note that an earlier version of the story was published. No retraction or apology. And even the hyperlink has been updated, although the original one still works and just redirects to it.

Let’s just say it again. RNZ has blatantly propagated mis-information, and, when caught, has ever so quietly changed their story. What if they hadn’t been caught?

AND THE MSM CRIES THAT WE DON’T TRUST THEM.
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April 11, 2023 12:05pm
Alex

Clan McCloud can’t find your post again but Alt. Guardian was hilarious about Ardern.
Really funny cartoon on those who got the “Science wrong”. Like Piers etc.
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April 11, 2023 12:08pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Alex – here’s the link.
  
  https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/10/this-easter-in-the-new-normal/
  
  The cartoon you refer to is from Bob Moran. An excellent UK political cartoonist, sacked from his job at one of the top NZ newspapers for not adhering to the covid narrative.
  His son suffered from severe autism I believe it was, not 100%. But he suffered badly during lockdown due to inability for his son to attend special classes etc.
  This is a wonderful, wonderful video documentary about his journey.
  
  https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/brilliantly-difficult-film
  
  His artwork is becoming collector’s items.
  I have this one framed at home and it takes pride of place, not an original, but a print purchased from his website.
  
  https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/other-work/smugglers-original-artwork
  
  The original will cost you $50,000.
  
  The one you refer to is his latest. The original will cost you the same $50,000.
  
  https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/other-work/out-of-eden-original-artwork
  
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  April 11, 2023 12:49pm
Ghost

Your answer as soon as you got the invitation should have been yes your majesty I will be there

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins won’t say yet whether he will be going to the coronation of King Charles, but says the event will be marked in this country by the planting of trees.

Asked on The AM Show on Tuesday whether he had received an invitation to the coronation, at Westminster Abbey in London in May, Hipkins confirmed he had been invited.

“I hope to be in a position fairly soon to indicate what my plans are around that,” he said.

“I’m not making that announcement today, but I have received the invitation, and I’m looking on it very favourably.”

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April 11, 2023 12:11pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  “I am looking on it favourably”
  
  In other words:
  
  “I will deign to give my reply to our Head of State, at my convenience”.
  
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  April 11, 2023 1:57pm
  - Ghost
    
    I think the problem is it may have included a plus one, so he is debating does he take grant with him, oh not that won’t look right, I better take a woman with me, oh shit what’s a woman,
    
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    April 11, 2023 2:01pm
- Bob
  
  As with all invitations for dignity events, the invite is to the incumbent head of state, not Hipkins himself.
  
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  April 11, 2023 2:21pm
  - Taieri
    
    As with all invitations for dignity events, the invite is to the incumbent head of state
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    The incumbent head of state is King Charles III. I suppose he can invite himself…
    
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    April 11, 2023 6:10pm
- AitchW
  
  Whose approval is he waiting for? Ms Clark? The CTU? The teachers unions? For goodness sake man, just say yes. Clueless ditherer.
  
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  April 11, 2023 5:11pm
Colville

So ACT is coming to Havelock North for a speaking event soon GREAT tho I have seen Seymour a couple of times.

So Luxon is coming to Napier soon for a speaking event (Bayleys hosting) GREAT I would like to see him speak ( I never have)

Why the FUCK are they on the same night???????

This is just total incompetence and doesn’t bode well.
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April 11, 2023 12:16pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  If you decide to see Luxon will you please ask him if he still thinks the attack on the woman as Albert Part was most peaceful and if he thought the police should protected the woman?
  
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  April 11, 2023 1:14pm
  - Colville
    
    I will see Luxon but I wont be asking him about that sideshow, IMHO Posie got the reaction she was looking for and has had the corresponding rise in attention for her (worthy) cause.
    Health, education, crime, housing will be on the list of topics I want to hear about from the big bald guy.
    
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    April 11, 2023 1:44pm
    - Ghost
      
      Completely agree, health, crime, cost of living, there are important topics I want to hear about.
      
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      April 11, 2023 1:56pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Do you think the other kiwi women got what they were looking for?
      
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      April 11, 2023 2:05pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        You could write them a letter and ask?
        
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        April 11, 2023 2:20pm
Swifty

Here’s a point that’s been bugging me of late.

It’s the tactic used by some New Zealanders to imply that because we’ve signed up to UNDRIP then co-governance MUST happen to give effect to our pledge. I’ve seen it repeatedly. One must automatically follow the other.

(Please note here I am referring to co-governance as suggested by some to mean a separate parliament, completely separate ministries, Maori veto rights over everything etc and not merely teaming up with the local Iwi to MANAGE a discreet water body etc).

As far as I’m aware it does no such thing.

Signatories are free to determine for themselves exactly how they will give effect to their pledge and setting up co-governance arrangements is merely one of many ways we could legitimately do so.

It’s up to us.

And, as we have seen, all sorts of countries are doing it in all sorts of ways.

To me it’s just one more example of the deceit and misdirection perpetrated by some in this debate. If co-governance is such a resoundingly great idea then let them convince the public of this in an open, honest and transparent manner.

To use deceit, hood-winking and lies by omission etc co-governance proponents cover themselves in eternal shame.

One further point, if I am wrong (and I don’t think I am) and it transpires that UNDRIP automatically requires co-governance then I would expect a responsible NZ government to unsign us from it by lunchtime.
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April 11, 2023 12:31pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  UNDRIP is only an aspirational policy of the UN.
  
  Signing up to it actually holds NZ to no account whatsoever and the UN do not expect anything of NZ either.
  
  It is being used as the fulcrum for the con-job in NZ that is so called co-governance which in effect is not co but Iwi governance.
  
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  April 11, 2023 12:37pm
Ghost

Another mass shooting.

A shooter at a bank in downtown Louisville Kentucky has killed at least four people – including two friends of the governor – and wounded at least nine others on Monday (local time), authorities said. The suspect also was dead.

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April 11, 2023 12:31pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Theres mass shootings most weeks in many American cities
  Chicago probably every week.
  
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  April 11, 2023 2:22pm
Ghost

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown promises to fix the city – Project Auckland watch live

Nz herald stream
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April 11, 2023 12:39pm
Swifty

The fox is now inside the hen house:

https://www.teaomaori.news/he-puapua-co-author-appointed-human-rights-commission-role

As I’ve said many times on here, our civil service and the HRC is just increasingly tax-payer funded lefty ideas factories and advocacy groups.

Further clue: when was the last time you heard Labour setting up a Milton Freidman School of Government or a Fred Hayek University or any body whatsoever which would advocate for a small government, the enlargement of free enterprise, maximising human freedom from the cold, clammy hands of government etc.

Never you say? Well you’d be right.
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April 11, 2023 12:49pm
Swifty

Yeah, let’s take even more money out of the pockets New Zealand families and, instead of looking after our sick or elderly or school our kids or maintain our critical infrastructure, let’s just piss it away ‘celebrating’ bloody pidgin.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/131687802/melanesian-languages-overlooked-in-new-zealands-pacific-language-week-series

If NZ pidgin speakers want to ‘celebrate’ something, anything, they can go right ahead. But just why do they insist on tapping taxpayers in order to do it? Could it be because the ringleaders want some sort of permanent gig out of it? A nice wad of cash to jaunt around the country big noting? To pay for overseas junkets on international pidgin conferences?

FFS.
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April 11, 2023 1:12pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Pidgin has a vocabulary of less than 1,000 words.
  
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  April 11, 2023 1:55pm
  - Diogenes
    
    Swifty: I happen to speak Vanuatu pidgin (Bislama) moderately fluently, having worked there for two years. While the vocabulary is still a bit limited, it is being added to all the time. I’m not suggesting that New Zealand should celebrate pidgin, but the group of languages (and there are many pidgins around the world), provide a vital communication in places where there are multiple languages, often spoken by only a small population, most of them unintelligible to other speakers.
    I have a high respect for the Vanuatu people, and they do not come across as wanting to ride a gravy train, or push an agenda. Please don’t generalise if you don’t have a closer understanding of the situation.
    
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    April 11, 2023 4:18pm
    - Swifty
      
      I’m sorry, I don’t understand your point.
      
      There are all sorts of people living in NZ who’s native language is not English – are you saying that the NZ taxpayer has an obligation to pay for the ‘celebrating’ of all these languages? And at the expense of many, many other more valuable uses of that money?
      
      If so, please tell me why. And to what degree?
      
      Again, if people wish to celebrate pidgin they are absolutely free to do so. But for what reason does this require some sort of government involvement and taxpayer subsidy?
      
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      April 11, 2023 4:40pm
    - Jack5
      
      A genuine Pacific languages week would include, as well as Polynesian, not only some of the Melanesian languages, but at least Indonesian (Malay), Filipino (from Tagalog), Japanese, Spanish, Russian, and many more …
      
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      April 11, 2023 4:45pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      A friend of my partner was manager for an Australian logging outfit in New Guinea some years back. He has some great stories.
      One of his jobs was to teach the local lads how to handle a yuge ‘two-man saw’.
      Apparently when it came to telling them what to do in pidgin, it was….”You pulla me come. I pusha you go”. Worked a treat he reckons.
      
      God we larfed 😀
      
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      April 11, 2023 5:09pm
ClanMcleod

So – in the rest of the sane world.

The US has ended the Covid 19 Emergency.

https://usmortality.substack.com/p/us-ends-covid-19-emergency

Switzerland has dropped all vaccine recommendations and doctors now have to assume liability for any vaccine injury.

https://metatron.substack.com/p/switzerland-withdraws-all-covid-vaccination

Everywhere around the world this insanity is being quietly ditched. But not NZ. We have the purple haired lunatic narcissist still pushing this poison.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131721291/siouxsie-wiles-bivalent-covid19-booster-gives-added-protection

Michael Baker still shilling for big pharma like the purple one.

https://twitter.com/1NewsNZ/status/1641523720844980224?s=20

The comments in the twitter thread are gold.

This pair should both eventually serve a long time in prison for malfeasance. The opportunity to admit you were wrong and apologise is long past for these two.
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April 11, 2023 1:23pm
- Grunter
  
  I agree.
  There is enough data now freely available that everyone can make up their own mind on the jabs. I just tell my family/friends that I’m not getting any jabs and that you’d have to have rocks in your head if you decide to get more. I then happily give them some sources to read if they want it.
  
  I’m sick of arguing. Blind Betty can see what the actual data shows – it doesn’t work and it is dangerous.
  
  So if any of you want to get more jabs without doing some proper reading on it then good luck to you.
  
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  April 11, 2023 2:20pm
- Widogast Corwin
  
  I was just in the car listening to ZB – ads targeted at Maori “get boosted to protect your whanau” 🙁
  
  Utterly bizarre. The tiny numbers of Maori who got a third or fourth shot will line up for another shot without being urged to do so. On the other hand, Maori folk who were not vaccinated, or who only got the first two shots to get their ‘vaccine pass’, will NEVER get this new booster, no matter how many radio ads are run.
  
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  April 11, 2023 3:26pm
  - Hollyfield
    
    But the government won’t be measuring how many people get vaccinated, they will only measure how much money they’ve spent and on that basis the campaign will be a success.
    
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    April 11, 2023 5:21pm
    - Colville
      
      The advertisement is the payoff to the media to keep to the song sheet.
      Say anything bad and the advertising budget goes to the competition.
      
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      April 11, 2023 8:10pm
- Dougal10
  
  Hipkins has listened to the terror and kept all current masking and isolation in place.
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:01pm
Maggie Pie

And can’t help but notice this meme, “It’s-Always-Them-Boo Boo”
seems to be gaining a lot of traction among the US Twitterati these days….

https://twitter.com/brotherlouie22/status/1644447168231505924
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April 11, 2023 1:26pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, repeat after me..’diversity is wonderful’.
  
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  April 11, 2023 2:32pm
Swifty

Anti-worker, anti-freedom, anti-competition, anti-young, anti-Maori and Pacific, anti-getting people on the employment ladder, anti-business, anti-freedom of association, anti-human rights – but gleefully forced on us by the NZ Labour Party and their union paymasters:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/487718/union-launches-bid-for-fair-pay-agreement-on-behalf-of-cleaners
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April 11, 2023 2:16pm
Maggie Pie

Must admit I find it very hard to have sympathy for ANYONE who chose to stay in a ‘Motorcamp’…..no matter how disgusting they found it!

But to actually stay at one in a place like GORE, they deserve all they get.
LOL!!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/131692324/pretty-disgusting-couple-who-stayed-at-gore-motor-camp-say-theyll-never-return

As my partner said…even the Concierge looks like he might be a bit of a worry 🙁
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April 11, 2023 2:42pm
- Diogenes
  
  A bit unfair to generalise about motorcamps, Maggie. My wife and I stayed at one in Blenheim a month or so ago, and it was clean, well-appointed, and reasonable in price. Managed by a young Chinese couple, who were very friendly, and even loaned us something we had forgotten to take on our trip. We were very impressed.
  
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  April 11, 2023 4:06pm
- greybeard
  
  I agree. There is no way I would let my grandkids come within 100m of this person.
  Something very wrong here.
  
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  April 11, 2023 4:38pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Dutch gynecologist association NVOG raised a warning about Meijer back in 2017 after he fathered more than 102 children. They were worried he would cause incest among the next generation of children in Europe.
Looks like too many wankers around. Donate, sure. But continue? Must think he is the ‘superdonor’
https://independentminute.com/2023/04/07/wait-what-a-sperm-donor-has-been-sued-because-he-fathered-too-many-children/
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April 11, 2023 3:10pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  And here’s something you may not know SteveO –
  the scientific name for VIAGRA is…..Mycoxafloppin
  
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  April 11, 2023 3:51pm
  - Colville
    
    Shouldn’t that be…
    
    Mycoxwasafloppin..?
    
    Personally I think of them as pole vaulting pills!
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:13pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    They don’t work for me. I am on a heavy dose of Gabapentin for nerves in both elbows.
    Cubtal Tunnel is no joke. Sometimes ok, sometimes even want to scream. The fingers go numb but the palms burn. Thing is Gabapentin does not just affect elbow nerves.
    Left side surgery is in 8 days
    
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    April 12, 2023 7:54am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Well this comes too late for Jaspinda, and Chippie, and Labour.

The World will suffer in 4 year cycles, with the midterms from Covid related pandemics?
Notice that as this came out, the Professor Michael Baker pokes his head up in the NEWS!!
Dr Fauci is a Democrat plant – highest paid in the US.

https://thedailymojo.com/dr-fauci-fearmongering-again-claims-another-pandemic-could-come-next-year/
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April 11, 2023 3:22pm
MCōs

Black guy gets expelled from the Tennessee assembly for creating a fuss.
A couple of days later he’s back
https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1645563847552663552?s=61&t=yFkzCNMWRCaVt1p5eRxUog
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April 11, 2023 3:44pm
- All_on_Red
  
  A bit more than ‘creating a fuss’.
  That aside, how is his colour relevant?
  
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  April 11, 2023 4:02pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Cossie has a problem with Blavk guys.
    Just a little ‘racist’ thing he has going on.
    
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    April 11, 2023 4:10pm
- Mike
  
  I did see where three representatives broke the rules, but only the two black ones were expelled. Soon to be reinstated though.
  
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  April 11, 2023 5:55pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Insurrection!!!
    Off to solitary while you await trial which will happen in a year.
    Say, of the three, how many were undercover FBI agents?
    Three?
    lol
    
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    April 11, 2023 7:52pm
Maggie Pie

A bestie retweets…

“Twitter friend went to Italy for Easter. Not what she expected” 😀

https://twitter.com/UnexpectedClips/status/1645007330793123844
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April 11, 2023 4:05pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, Christian tradition at its finest, nothing like Biden’s KKK when he was mates with the head sherang.
  
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  April 11, 2023 4:17pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    YIP – even had ME doing a bit of research.
    That pointy hat they’re wearing in the vid is called a ‘Capirote’…. worn by Catholic Priests waaay before the KKK even existed!
    Looks like they appropriated it.
    
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    April 11, 2023 4:47pm
thirteenstars

“[womanhood] is not cosplay for men.”

This in regards to the crossdressing Dylan Mulvaney ruckus over his use by Nike to promote women’s clothing:

Give it sixty seconds. The blonde woman nails it very quickly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjEoSWRyEoE
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April 11, 2023 4:29pm
thirteenstars

This is the kind of policing we can expect in NZ if hate speech laws get passed.

British police send five officers to confiscate 15 golliwog dolls from a pub over accusations of a hate crime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g0V-K_Cy5c

Not quite as bad as the NZ Police standing by and refusing to do their duty while New Zealand women are violently assaulted at Albert park on 25/3, but it reveals the ideological and operational priorities of British police.

“It’s almost impossible to satirise it.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4l5Iv-Q70o
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April 11, 2023 4:37pm
Chuck Bird

I heard a very interesting interview with Sean Plunker interviewing Ian Wishart about volcanoes under Antarctic ice.

If one of those volcanoes goes off there could be a huge sea level rise. Ian is not a scientist but he is going on what climate scientists like Dr Judith Curry said.

Too much CO2 could raise the sea level, mm’s whereas an underwater volcanic eruption under Antarctic ice could raise the sea level meters.
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April 11, 2023 4:42pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  We really love Ian. Got dozens of copies of ‘Investigate Magazine’ laying around somewhere.
  Think I vaguely remember him saying once that he would love to own a beachfront-house close to Auckland. I wonder if he may have an agenda?
  
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  April 11, 2023 5:20pm
- kowtow
  
  Plunker
  
  Where’s Capts Mainwarrings when you needs ‘im.
  
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  April 11, 2023 5:22pm
- marcw
  
  If the underwater volcano causes sea ice to melt, the water level will not rise at all. (Ice melting in a glass of water does not cause the water to overflow the glass). If the snow and ice on the land mass of Antarctica melts, then yes, sea level will rise, the extent of the rise worldwide will be subject to scientific study.
  
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  April 11, 2023 7:11pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    The ring of underwater Volcanoes in West Antarctica has been well known for some time.
    There’s quite a lot of them and most are active.
    The heat they generate warms the water but its not major and isnt causing Ice melt which we should be concerned about in Antartica.
    Its been like that for a while…
    https://volcanofoundation.org/world-largest-volcanic-region-dicovered-antarctica/
    
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    April 11, 2023 7:57pm
Ghost

Strange article because to have a cabinet that is half woman wouldn’t you first have to know what a woman is?

Would rather we focus on having a cabinet that is full of people capable of doing their job than hitting quotas. But this is labour so there isn’t really anyone there capable of doing the job

For the first time, half the number of people sitting around New Zealand’s Cabinet table are women.

It comes as Northland MP Willow-Jean Prime moves into Cabinet, filling the gap left by outgoing MP Stuart Nash.

Stuff

Special Song for the PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT8XvzIfi4U
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April 11, 2023 5:23pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  When you prioritise diversity over everything else then by definition competence, integrity, energy etc are deprioritised.
  
  Hence, Willow-Jean Prime.
  
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  April 11, 2023 7:14pm
  - Colville
    
    But half the blokes in Labour don’t have the IQ to tie their own shoe laces so a WGP is allowable on the female (am I allowed to say that?) side of the ledger.
    
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    April 11, 2023 8:17pm
Swifty

The New Zealand Labour Party proves you can absolutely roger a country with a cabinet stacked with women just as easily as one with men.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131739191/northland-mp-willowjean-prime-moves-into-cabinet-as-part-of-reshuffle

Labour’s cabinet now half women.
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April 11, 2023 5:34pm
- Hugh Jarse
  
  How do we know it’s 50% female, what definition was the PM applying ?. There may be less than 50% of apparent male Ministers already identifying as female. A good question for Jenna to ask at the next press briefing ?
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:02pm
ngatimozart

I see that our illustrious (not) leader has committed to Jacindarella’s light rail for the North Shore. Not the brightest boy on the block that one.

We have a heavy rail infrastructure in NZ that’s grossly under utilised and is no longer fit for purpose because of decades of under investment. If rail was used correctly we would be able to reduce the transport carbon outputs.

I have been watching train cab videos from Europe and one thing that stuck out is the primitiveness of our rail infrastructure and system compared to theirs. I have also travelled on regional and commuter trains in Australia. The common theme is the gauge and speed. They all use the standard gauge (1.415m) whilst we have a narrow gauge (1.014m) system. Th reason for the narrow gauge here is the geography, but modern technologies can mitigate that.

Maybe it’s time that our rail network and gauge is comprehensively reassessed with an investigation into moving to the standard gauge. Of course it will be expensive, but over time it would pay for itself in greater productivity and better regional and commuter passenger systems. It would mean that our good s and people move to destinations quicker than at present.

In Switzerland in one place they run standard gauge and narrow gauge trains on the same track. They achieve this by having three rails on the track; rail one is the base rail, rail two at the narrow gauge width and the third at standard gauge width. The switching points and crossovers are the same. If we were to move to standard gauge here, we could gradually undertake the transition by doing the same. All that would be required is wider (longer) concrete sleepers and the third rail. Of course tunnels and bridges would have to be widened. Kiwi Rail already have experience at increasing tunnel depth after they deepend the tunnels between Palmerston North and Wellington in order to take high cube containers. Of course widening the tunnels is a different skill and there are companies in Switzerland and Germany that have quite a lot of experience in that.

I mentioned the speed advantage of standard tracks earlier. In Europe freight trains with a tonnage of 2,200 tonnes and length of 600m are travelling at a median speed of +100 kmh even in the European Alps. They move a terrific amount of freight. Passenger trains are travelling at speeds up to 160 kmh and their high speed trains 200 – 300 kmh. Meanwhile here in NZ our trains reaching 100 kmh is rare and that’s because of the narrow gauge.

A change of gauge doesn’t mean that we have to acquire new sets of locomotives and rolling stock. We just increase the width of the bogies on our current locos and rolling stock to the 1.435m standard gauge. However we should seriously consider electrifying the entire rail network over time. That would require far more electricity generation than what we have at the moment and maybe thorium salt reactors could be a possibility. Thorium salt reactors are far safer than uranium reactors.

Imagine, if you will, being able to take a four hour train trip from Auckland to Wellington that’s almost as quick as flying, but takes you to the city centre from the city centre. The last time I did an Auckland Wellington train trip it was about 10 hours duration. Hamilton to Auckland in just over an hour; Masterton to Wellington Central in around an hour; Picton to Christchurch 2 – 3 hours etc.

Returning to Auckland, most of the heavy rail infrastructure is already present and an obvious choice would be to extend a heavy rail track from Henderson to the North Shore and then via a bridge or tunnel, back the Auckland Central. That way you would have a commuter train loop right around the city. At the same time build a track to the airport from Otahuhu and continue that to link with the Auckland City – Henderson line. You then have rail access to the airport from the south and the west. The rail stations on these lines serve as hubs for local bus services and you ensure plenty of park and ride capability at each station.

Just my halfpenny’s worth.
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April 11, 2023 6:24pm
- Mike
  
  Not a rail enthusiast here, but I do believe more investment is needed after the disastrous privatization. I doubt the gauge could be changed without massive expenditure on tunnels, etc. If the main reason to do so is to promote passenger services, rather than freight efficiency, I doubt it stacks up.
  
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  April 11, 2023 6:52pm
  - ngatimozart
    
    From hat I understand most railways core earner is freight and here it is the same. The suggested gauge change should significantly improve freight capacity and quicken delivery.
    
    I am not sure if the tunnels would have to be widened. All rail wagons here are 2.4m (8ft) wide which is the width of a 20ft TEU container, and depending on the wagon 15m long. Over width loads have been carried by rail, but there are strict requirements as to how wide and where they could travel. Over length loads are routinely carried with an empty wagon either end, or at the overlength end of the load. The longest load I can remember is 23m concrete electricity poles.
    
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    April 12, 2023 4:14pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Trains don’t have a future outside of some special bulk-haulage cases on existing infrastructure. The extra handling costs to get freight on and off trains make it mostly uneconomic in a small country like NZ. And the huge cost of maintaining poorly utilised rail infrastructure means that most of it should be done away with.
  
  Check out latest videos of Teslas self driving. Lots of people now able to do trips of an hour around town without needing to intervene. Many more hours without intervention on highway.
  
  It’s nearly ready to start taking over from public transport. Inflexible slow buses and trains will become a thing of the past outside of a few existing systems (sunk cost). In a decade it will probably make sense to convert passenger rail lines to extra car lanes.
  
  Autonomous robo trucking will be able to work at night replacing a lot of trains without adding to daytime traffic.
  
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  April 11, 2023 8:35pm
  - ngatimozart
    
    The thing about trains is they can carry far more cheaper than trucks can, especially over long distances. Just look at the lengths of American trains with some being up to 2 km in length. Boeing freight Boeing 737 fuselages half way across the country by train to their assembly facility in Redmond, Washington. Europe has an integrated rail service which means freight travels by train across borders and the continent with only locomotive and crew changes. For example there’s a very regular freight service from Italy to Germany that travels through Switzerland and generally uses the Gotthard Base Tunnel unless the train is carrying dangerous goods such as hydrocarbon fuels, inflammable gases etc. I have seen video evidence of a Swiss Federal Railways engine pulling a freight train through the Netherlands towards Rotterdam. Freight in Europe has quicker transit times on rail than by road.
    
    WRT to autonomous trucking in NZ, a lot of freight carted by single crewed trucks at night anyway, and they do damage the roading network. Trucks ar also generally limited to a max gross weight of 44 tonnes and that includes the trailer. Our roading networks aren’t anywhere near the quality of American or European ones where trucks and trailers can do 110 kph, dependinging upon the country. Here they are stuck to 90 kmh on substandard roads.
    
    Rail is much like tanks; reports of their imminent demise is premature.
    
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    April 12, 2023 4:29pm
Maggie Pie

Just witing for my partner to get home with the Thai duck curry.
Watshed chippie being interveiwed on 3Ewes.
OMG he is sooo naieve!!
I can tell yu now…Narnia has got him well and truly suked in with three-waters!!
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April 11, 2023 6:45pm
- Ghost
  
  Narnia? I didn’t realise hipkins was in that, what character did he play? I’m guessing the whimpering fool eaten by the lion?
  
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  April 11, 2023 6:58pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Let’s not try and guess the identity of the White Witch.
    
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    April 11, 2023 7:33pm
Ghost

Covid vaccine booster now does more harm than good, says Prof ANGUS DALGLEISH

Professor Angus Dalgleish is Professor of Oncology at St Georges Hospital Medical School London. He is renowned for his ground-breaking work into HIV/AIDS. His conclusions on the Covid virus confound the Government line. We invite you to make up your own mind.

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April 11, 2023 6:51pm
Ghost

No, Jacinda Ardern isn’t joining the paid speaker circuit

Ardern’s office told The Spinoff that the listing is fake – and Ardern herself had no idea it existed. “Ms Ardern was not aware of this website page before now, and the listing is certainly not authorised by her,” a government spokesperson said.

Despite this, Sean Plunket’s media outlet The Platform has pushed the idea that Ardern has been hiding her new speaking engagement from the public. A post on The Platform’s Facebook yesterday teased “the new job Ardern doesn’t want you to know about” and said that Plunket would be revealing the “untold truth” on Tuesday morning. “A truth legacy media kept secret or didn’t want to ask about,” the post continued. The claims were shared by users on Twitter.

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April 11, 2023 8:32pm
- Mike
  
  The Spinoff teaches Plunket a(nother) lesson about actual journalism.
  
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  April 12, 2023 6:31am
Dougal10

I see labour is still handing out 7 day holidays willy nilly to those who may or may not have a positive rat test . This policy is crippling businesses as some are catching covid 19 regularly every few months that may or may not happen when there are school holidays.
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