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Warren

What have the Government and Prime Minister achieved with the change of name from Three Waters Legislation to New Affordable Waters.
Well the answer is nothing it’s still the same turd with the same stench of corruption with more lies and gaslighting from the Minister Kieran McNulty and Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, so how can the Local Government Minister distance himself from the New Affordable Waters reforms from Co Governance, especially when Waikato-Tainui Chair reveals the Co Governance aspect of the New Affordable Waters Reform will remain.
So who is lying here when you have Q&A Host Jack Tame saying keeping Co Governance is very bold, then you have Waikato-Tainui Chair Tuku Morgan who is to be part of the Northland Auckland Entitysaying he is over the moon being
part of it.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/04/kieran-mcanulty-defends-not-ditching-three-waters-earlier-says-that-d-be-dumping-our-duty.html
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April 14, 2023 8:02am
- Janabelle
  
  When Tuku Morgan is ‘over the moon’ about new legislation we all need to be very worried
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:20am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “cunning” is the word.
    I have met Tuku. You know when you shake someone’s hand and you get the feeling that the person is not genuine? That is what happened to me.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:45am
    - Jethrod
      
      Did you count your fingers afterwards?
      
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      April 14, 2023 10:08am
      - graham
        
        Do you wear any rings? Or should I say, DID you?
        
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        April 14, 2023 10:35am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yep, but the handshake was like a wet fish
        
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        April 14, 2023 10:39am
- oldpark
  
  @Warren 8.02 am
  
  To answer the lying rhetoric of Ardern/Hipkins unelected PM plus an ex bookie from another life .
  Question still be answered.Why does 16% of NZs population have a 50/50 say co-Goverment control with veto rights on who what when how people get selected to say who gets on the 3 Waters gravy train .Asking for many concerned Ratepayers .
  Fear is there is something very sinister in putting the 16% in charge of Water Control is just the beginning of a defacto type of Government running alongside so called Elected Government.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:40am
  - nathie
    
    About these 50/50 boards.
    
    Surely if Labour was being true to Te Tiriti …. Maori would only be allowed on the Maori board?
    
    Which surely means Labour needs to implement a racist/apartheid law of banning Maori/part Maori for standing for the “Crown” side (i.e. the other part of the 50% equation).
    
    Surely this applies to eg Council/Regional Council elections (i.e. wherever there are Maori wards). Because currently Maori can stand for both sides of the equation. Isn’t favoring one race … racist?
    
    Anyway clearly Labour have no idea of the unintended consequences they are unleashing with their radical ideas and policy. And why should the co-governance test-case be something significant as 3 Waters? Why not something simple? which means what is the real agenda here? Further co-governance for critical industries and entities?
    
    Thank goodness both National and ACT are against Labour’s policy and will ensure there are no racist/apartheid aspects to 3 Waters.
    
    Labour, hang your heads in shame for enabling racist/apartheid thinking in modern day NZ!
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:29am
- rouppe
  
  Anyone else notice how Hipkins smirked and winked when he announced the name change?
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:04am
- Si334
  
  Also interested to see what happens to the four CEOs of the Water Entities -that have already been appointed. A nice little payout for a job the were still a year away from starting?
  https://www.waterservicesreform.govt.nz/news/chief-executives-for-water-services-entities-confirmed/
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:58am
  - Nickc2
    
    Kick-off is in 2026 as handed down by Hipkins-Of-The-Podium yesterday. There’s still plenty of time to terminate the rort.
    
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    April 14, 2023 11:52am
  - Matt Long
    
    Same pay, smaller responsibilities.
    
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    April 14, 2023 12:16pm
- Piniwi
  
  Thanks Warren for prompting my second chuckle for today, Boomslang on BFD took first place with his comedic view of the big staged performance. Everybody hates those floater especially those bespectacled ones.
  
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  April 14, 2023 12:43pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Gaia declares war on asthmatics.

Apparently, a single puff on an inhaler equates to driving from Auckland to Taupo. Seems unlikely, but if true then asthmatics are climate criminals.

Given the number of asthmatics in NZ, I’d say we could eliminate our $24B carbon credit bill by getting rid of every asthmatic. Unless, this item is not included in our carbon credit tally. In which case, the bill will shoot up. Uh-oh.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/131748164/by-switching-inhalers-you-could-reduce-your-planetary-impact
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April 14, 2023 8:02am
- Eugene the Chemist
  
  OMG this is getting out of hand
  
  I suspect those families that use Soda Streams will be next to be accused of increasing carbon emissions, then people who use spray deodorants etc
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:48am
  - Tommo
    
    Especially being an Israeli company
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:01am
  - krazykiwi
    
    It’s not out of hand. It is all going to plan. The UN’s lying-in-plain-sight-global governance ambitions demand a dismantling of national sovereignty, and Climate Change™ and WHO pandemic regulations are a key drivers of this objective.
    
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    April 14, 2023 12:01pm
    - Jim
      
      Agree, the good old benevolent creation of the League of Nations!
      It should be obvious to all that nationalism, cultural identity, free democracy and state sovereignty have been under UN/WEF attack for decades, every facet, ideological, societal, cultural, education, biology etc. Yet many refuse to even consider the possibility of being ever more subjugated by the expanding control of a financial (and now allied tech) elite with multinational power interests.
      
      As you (no doubt) appreciate kk, the signals are all around us, especially as our lives become ever more constrained by decisions and actions of unelected people (yep the WHO will likely mandate our next NZ lockdown and compulsory medical intervention).
      
      Other examples include the WEF ambassador King Charles who has campaigned on organic farming since the 1970s, now conceding to give Royal Assent to Genetically Modified Crops last year!
      
      Take Elon Musk being constantly criticised by the corporate media, clearly he doesn’t fit the elite billionaire peer group, especially when he recently advocated for State Sovereignty over Globalist Governance, or even had the temerity to discuss Russia/Ukraine peace options.
      
      Every MSM news cycle offers ‘narrative contradictions’ which are easy to spot……it’s just a matter of applying some degree of critical thinking.
      
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      April 14, 2023 2:10pm
- graham
  
  I’m not going to click on the link, sorry, as I refuse to read Stuff, but from the headline are they trying to lay a guilt trip on asthmatics for using the wrong inhaler?
  
  That’s called “victim blaming”, Stuff, and I just can’t believe you would do that …
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:37am
  - G152
    
    Stuff is stuffed
    
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    April 14, 2023 12:58pm
- ByGolly
  
  Best give them all another booster.
  
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  April 14, 2023 3:39pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

So much for doing a roadie in Europe.

A foreign domiciled car needs to separately register in any of 200 cities across Europe that it visits, otherwise it is automatically deemed to be non ULEZ compliant. Fines are up to GBP 1,857 per day (Vienna).

Naturally, there is not a single point or method of registration.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/13/eu-motorist-fined-almost-11000-after-visit-to-london-falls-foul-of-ulez-rule-french-hire-car
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April 14, 2023 8:02am
NeverMindTheBollocks

More woke-ism. But, it’s surprising that, since they claim to be evolving with their community, that they have not gifted themselves a Maori name.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300853294/evolving-with-its-community-new-name-for-the-dominion-post
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April 14, 2023 8:03am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Just like with Three Waters, you can roll a turd in glitter but it’s still a turd.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:28am
  - Jethrod
    
    …..ahhh, but it’s the polish you put on it!
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:11am
    - G152
      
      It is still the same colour
      
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      April 14, 2023 12:59pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        And the longer it hangs around the stronger the stench.
        
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        April 14, 2023 2:58pm
- Ruawai
  
  They can’t give it a Maori name least it remind people of the co-governance!
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:31am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Apparently, indigenous people suffer more from the ‘flu.

The lazy headline hides the fact that the story does not explain the methodology by which all non-indigeniety factors were controlled for. Without that, the study proves nothing.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/131745943/indigenous-people-at-higher-risk-of-hospitalisation-death-from-flu–study
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April 14, 2023 8:03am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I think if the researchers involved understood the concept of a Venn diagram they might find that poverty and lifestyle are the key reasons for poorer health outcomes. Race isn’t the cause. It’s a side note.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:18am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    I think if the researchers understood the meaning of the word indigenous they’d stop using it incorrectly like they are here.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:56am
Tomtoddy

If you under 60 years or so you are going to experience civil war in our beloved country. Please tell me I am wrong. It is becoming inevitable. Forcing racial division in important decision making bodies without even a smell of democratic process is exceedingly dangerous and is a significant step on a rapidly descending slope toward anarchy. The elitists, the totalitarians, the socialist manipulators are gaining boldness. The Fourth Estate are toothless, bought and paid for, infiltrated by juvenile lightweights, not even an apology for a journalist.

It will get worse. The agenda aided by Covid claptrap and the puerility of climate change is control and submersion of citizens and their rights.

Join a gun club. Get some practise. You younger ones are going to have to regain democracy, one law for all, racial colour blindness with a lot more than a ballot box.
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April 14, 2023 8:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  First step of Socialism – disarm the people!
  
  Throughout History – every bloody time, take away the guns!
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:12am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Don’t panic. 3 waters is not a deep seated socialist plot. Nor are any of the other actions and policies implemented by Labour.
    
    Jacinda Adern, Nanaia Mahuta chris hipkins. and Grant Robertson aren’t clever enough to run a clandestine socialist takeover and there really is no personal benefit for the aforementioned labour hierarchy.
    
    5 waters and the covid Response are a Labour hierarchy gravy train, and a huge one at that.
    
    Get out and support National or ACT or both. Christopher Luxon doesn’t need a gravy train, he gave up huge earnings to become a politician. National and Act will end the gravy train quick smart.
    
    Then we must insist on an investigation as to what benefit Jacinda Adern derived from lying to us all about the safety and efficacy of the covid jab.
    
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    April 14, 2023 8:49am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      3 waters is not a deep seated socialist plot.
      
      Maori control of water has been a focus of some groups of people for 30 years or so.
      
      https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/uploads/public/researchpubs/OPNS_Legal_Voice_of_Maori.pdf
      
      This is not an issue that will disappear if Nats-Act win the election this year.
      
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      April 14, 2023 9:37am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        The issue won’t disappear but the huge tax dollars channelled into the Maori Kings family in the name of 3 water will disappear.
        
        Acts TOW referendum is the only way to stop the nonsense.
        
        Our support for National and ACT becomes more important because the referendum results need to be entrenched to be meaningful.
        
        Unfortunately the next Labour hierarchy will find another cause to rort our tax dollar but hopefully the societal divisness will be less.
        
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        April 14, 2023 9:49am
      - Jack5
        
        For years, Maori activists have been using for their own goals resources of the State supposedly for scientific research.
        
        Funding for the research Maggy Wassilieff links to came from the Foundation for Research Science and Technology, which through mergers, is now part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
        
        MBIE’s assigned role is to deliver policy, services, advice and regulation “which contribute to New Zealand’s economic productivity and business growth”.
        
        Other examples are the State’s Marsden Fund grants, administered by the Royal Society of NZ (increasingly using the title Te Aparangi).
        
        Take these from the 2022 Marsden Fund grants:
        
        – $870,000 to Professor L.E. Pihama, of Maori and Indigenous Analysis Ltd for: “Nga Kare-a-roto: The Ripples Within – Maori Understandings and Expressions of Emotions”. Maori and Indigenous Analysis Ltd is a company based in Ngaruawahia, and owned by Leonie Eileen Pihama.
        
        – $647,000 to Dr A.S. Calude, of Waikato University for: “Two languages in my kete – a developmental sociolinguistics approach to cultural nuance and social identity in everyday kiwi words”.
        
        – $575,000 to S.C. Lilley, of Victoria University, for: “Empowering Indigenous knowledge: Decolonisation and Indigenisation of Gallery, Library, Archival, Museum and Records (GLAMR) institutions”.
        
        The Lilley grant is relevant given the bureaucrats’ great cull of the State’s national book collection.
        
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        April 14, 2023 10:18am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Clan. The end of life and Marijuana legalization referenda were both honoured and (in my humble opinion) both came up with the right answers.
        
        Act and National will need a referendum to eliminate race based policies otherwise they will have no counter to the shrill racism calls from our despicable media.
        
        Regarding the lack of opposition to the covid strategy, over 50% of voters supported Jacinda Adern despite her runnng the most expensive covid response in the developed world.
        
        Any politician would have got a pasting if they opposed the strategy whilst the Stockholm syndrome and the despicable NZ media were in full flight.
        
        That said I believe an ethical and honest politician should have stood up and opposed the syrategy (as i was doing on a few prominent blog sites).
        
        My solution is an investigation into why Jacinda ignored and hid medsafe advice the vaccine was neither safe nor effective. Then went on to poisin a nation (including me and my children).
        
        Ensuring there are consequences for politicians who use their position to enrich themselves, will hopefully discourage future politicians from doing the same.
        
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        April 14, 2023 1:36pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Mark Hanley – what is the point in a referendum when the results of all previous CIRs were completely ignored by the politicians. Even those with over 80% support? Like the one to reduce the number of MPs to 100, or the “anti smacking” referendums? Can they be compelled to act on the result?
      
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      April 14, 2023 10:15am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Clan. We can devise and advocate sensible solutions, then we are at the mercy of elected officials to listen and implement them. That is the imperfect system we have to work with.
        
        History shows that our political system is the best there is.
        
        It will be a much worse result if we simply whinge about everything, or spend our time throwing abuse at politicians we need to achieve change in the naive belief it will help the politicians we support, or if we give up and do nothing.
        
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        April 14, 2023 10:43am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Mark – I appreciate what you say, but after over 30 years of watching 5 CIRs utterly ignored by politicians, and their broken promises while electioneering, t is hard not to “whinge”.
        
        These referenda took a massive amount of time, and energy to put together.
        
        Just to remember, these were:
        
        maintaining ‘the number of professional firefighters employed full time in New Zealand’
        
        reducing ‘the size of the House of Representatives’
        
        reforming the criminal justice system by ‘imposing minimum sentences and hard labour’
        
        whether corporal punishment ‘as a part of good parental correction [should] be a criminal offence in New Zealand’
        
        support for sale of government assets.
        
        The first four received overwhelming support for their propositions – 87.8%, 81.5%, 91.8% and 87.9%, respectively. They were all ignored. Why are politicians ignoring the will of the people they are elected by and paid by to represent?
        
        At what point will they actually do the bidding of the people who elect them?
        
        As for ACT, I ask the question repeatedly of both them and National. At what point will they acknowledge that their support for, and talk of harder policies against people who dared oppose the utterly flawed covid policies was wrong?
        Or do you think it’s acceptable for them to ignore this total abuse and hope it goes away? Is that a valid strategy?
        If that’s a “whinge” then so be it.
        
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        April 14, 2023 11:10am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Clan ls see my referendum reply above. Hit reply on the wrong comment.
        
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        April 14, 2023 6:00pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Willie Jackson: ”When we have control of the water we have total control of Aotearoa”
      From stop co-governance last November.
      
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      April 14, 2023 10:43am
    - Piniwi
      
      Spot on Mark H they never think past their ideology or never consider the consequences of their grand plans on the voters financial, physical or mental “wellbeing”. They continue to pay lips service to every problem simmering away while all keep dipping in the pot of prosperity and funny money.
      
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      April 14, 2023 12:57pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Mark Hanley, you missed the // after that comment.
      “not a deep seated socialist plot” my left tit. This is all part of the “Coup”
      What’s that? No Coup? Wake up sonny boy.
      
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      April 14, 2023 1:28pm
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Steve. If Adern’s goal was to implement an enduring coup (not sure what you mean by coup), why did she resign? History shows us that zealots fight to the bitter end.
        
        Follow Aderns bank account and you will discover her actions had nothing to do with socialist ideology, she absolutely shafted the poor with inflation, house prices, and rents whilst enriching herself.
        
        Aderns techniques were eerily similar to Helen Clark’s, who I’m lead to believe was Aderns mentor.
        
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        April 14, 2023 1:45pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @Mark.
        Go to http://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi
        
        Have a look around in here. Find daily Posts by Julian Batchelor by clicking ‘blog.
        
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        April 15, 2023 7:42am
- Its only I
  
  Kiwis don’t want a kerfuffle.
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:13am
  - 7kiwi11
    
    I think you’re right. I think the fact that most of the country rolled over and had their civil liberties taken away during 2020/2021 proved that. Too many have been brainwashed by the media, any dissent from what they preach means you are racist, sexist, a TERF or a conspiracy theorist, and I don’t think Kiwis want to be labeled as such. So it is better to keep your opinions to yourself.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:42am
    - thirteenstars
      
      I’ve read a great deal on the Holocaust and one of the themes that assumes importance within the Jewish survivor community is: how did we let it happen to us?
      
      Centuries of conditioning to keep quiet, don’t bring attention to yourself, don’t rock the boat. And the idea, which is common, that your enemy can’t really be serious about what they propose. You don’t really want it to be true, and you go on to convince yourself that it isn’t.
      
      And even when the end is getting close, you form alternative theories to explain your predicament, your inaction, your tolerance of mistreatment.
      
      Just one more day of peace. One more hour. Leave me alone. But they won’t. They’ll come for you eventually.
      
      As a nation we’re slow-walking through the camp gates, and when the time comes, given the New Zealand mindset of compliance as a powerful social virtue, we’ll throw the Zyklon-B into the vent and shut ourselves into the death chamber.
      
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      April 14, 2023 10:19am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Covid was a tool for division and destruction of society. It was the advance guard. Race and gender are the next set of shock troops to further shred any semblance of societal cohesion.
  All of these things are being either driven or enabled by every politician in parliament.
  
  The question is, how many are doing this with total awareness of the potential outcome and how many are useful idiots? More importantly, how many are aware of the dangers of all of these policies but are too cowardly to speak out in opposition?
  I share your concerns, the erosion of democracy is well under way. We probably have one more election to stop this spiral. I hope it is National and Act who get the chance to fix this, but I must admit to having little confidence that they will, based on what I’ve seen so far.
  I really do hope to be proven wrong and I promise to put a full apology here if in 2 years, things are substantially better.
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:15am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    A tool for division – who knew that and jumped on it immediately?
    H1 and Jaspinda!!
    
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    April 14, 2023 8:21am
  - Frank the tank
    
    We aren’t alone it is happening in every single Western country at the moment.
    
    Outside of the right of the GOP, some fringes of the conservative and liberal parties of the UK and Australia very few get it.
    
    The problem is the 1% and their corporate interests (i.e. Davos elites) can see the $ of going down this avenue having their lives unaffected while the rest of us suffer. They are very powerful and control A LOT of politicians on both sides as well as the media and increasingly public institutions. A lot of powerful people are unwilling to speak up after seeing how they have gone after Trump, and to a lesser extent Musk.
    
    The only way to change this is to change our consumer habits. Like what consumers in the US did with Budlight. We should be undertaking similar campaigns with the like of Kiwibank but again that takes time, resources and money. It’s not an easy task to stop the rot.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:04am
    - Yabster
      
      Great point- vote with your head and your wallet!!
      
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      April 14, 2023 9:09am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      FtT – I’ve been down the consumer habit path for quite a few years. My family are more fortunate than most in that we are pretty much fully self sufficient. Certainly for power and water.
      You are correct though. It is up to as many of us as possible to change habits. Stop supporting those things we oppose. Do not comply with madness.
      
      It doesn’t take all that many to do this and the edifice of shit crumbles.
      
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      April 14, 2023 9:14am
    - Nickc2
      
      The Dems in America dare not go after Musk, he has the dirt on many if not all of them.
      
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      April 14, 2023 11:26am
- Chuck Bird
  
  “Please tell me I am wrong”
  
  You are wrong.
  
  The average Maori gets bugger all of the settlements. The money goes to the brown elite.
  
  I know plenty of Maori voting Act or National – mainly Act.
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:19am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The Elite Maori who are slowly taking over New Zealand.
    A COUP! Right under our noses. We will lose ‘Democracy’ and end up being controlled by Tribal Elite. The word is ‘Tyranny.’
    
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    April 14, 2023 8:24am
    - Piniwi
      
      Yep yep that right. Thanks Steve but think about this fact. The Maori blood lines are rapidly being thinned out and they may already have reached a critical point as they race down the same path as the Moa. Who would ever have thought that it would be Labour who dropped their drawers and bent over for them. Sadly it is NZ the is ending up whuked. Is that how the natives spell it?
      
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      April 14, 2023 1:21pm
    - Piniwi
      
      But Steve we must wonder if the average Maori who we mostly see have decided to deprive the chiefs of any more power by declining to take part in census. We know the Maori caucus were banking on more racial cross pollination increasing the count and gaining more seats.
      
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      April 14, 2023 1:26pm
  - rouppe
    
    Are they on the Maori roll?
    
    Are there enough in any given Maori seat to throw out both the Maori Party and Labour?
    
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    April 14, 2023 8:25am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      The numbers on the Maori roll will spike sharply at certain times, and drop off prior to the election, as the gerrymandering promoted by the recent law change allows them to change rolls with impunity.
      
      Get the numbers up to get more Maori electorates, which is based on roll numbers, and then switch back to the General Roll to vote for your preferred lefty party. Simples.
      
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      April 14, 2023 10:06am
      - alwyn.a
        
        If all you are worried about is voting for the party you prefer why on earth would you bother to switch back to the General Roll?
        Surely, after the nearly 27 years that we have had MMP, you have discovered that both the people on the General Roll and people on the Maori Roll get a Party vote as well as an Electorate vote?
        
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        April 14, 2023 12:31pm
    - Paulus
      
      We still, and perhaps, will never know how many so called people are registered via recent census as Maori, because the Maori return numbers are still so low that they will have to be modified to get the numbers they want – like School Cert or wharever it is now to get the results required, not what happened.
      
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  - ClanMcleod
    
    Chuck Bird – how do we stop this deliberate division in society? We know that people divided are easier controlled. I have no doubt this is deliberate policy, but how do we reverse it?
    
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    April 14, 2023 8:28am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “You can vote Socialism in, but you have to fight your way out.”
      I don’t know who said this.
      
      “If you lose this place you have no place to go”
      Maximo Alvarez.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ybQWwLl4s
      See 10.40.
      
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      April 14, 2023 9:23am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        The whole speech is worth a listen. Sure, Trump is there, but he listened for over 11 minute without interjecting – such is the story of Maximo Alvarez.
        
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        April 14, 2023 9:30am
  - Eugene the Chemist
    
    I really hope you are correct CB
    Will we see a serious swing to the right at the election?
    
    Are the polls actually quite incorrect and they reflect peoples current attitude of – Don’t speak out because you will be labelled & I don’t want that for me or my family” BUT come the election, those ex-National, “let’s give this Jacinda lady a go”, “fuck what a mistake that was” voters return to National & some Centre Labour voters say, “nope, not getting my vote this time” and even then those center / right voters say “National is not giving me comfort that they are enough different to Labour, I’m going Act this time”?
    All resulting in a 60/40 Right / Left outcome?
    
    I fucking hope so – ’cause I’m seriously over this divisive shite
    
    I’m going Act because I’m concerned Luxon is a bit too woke for me. Gut feel is he’s so middle of the road, not want to upset too many people, that he will need to be kept honest with a strong Act representation.
    
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    April 14, 2023 8:36am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Luxon is not middle of the road, he is center left.
      Labour is extreme left. Luxon thinks gaining the center left will get him elected.
      I think he is wrong – deserting his center right voters.
      Luxon needs to wake up, this is real, not an Air NZ Board meeting.
      
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      April 14, 2023 9:34am
      - leoj
        
        We (former Nat supporters) just need to vote two ticks ACT and send leftie Luxon a message.
        
        Luxon is no conservative. Neither is his deputy. The Nats are officially lost.
        
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        April 14, 2023 1:46pm
    - blue collar
      
      GONNA BE A LANDSLIDE TO ACT/NAT BROTHER EUGE ….RELAX
      
      Carn Seymour , let’s vote him in as PM 😎
      
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      April 14, 2023 5:09pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Two mates at pub , both part Nga Tahu, they get something like $150 every 6 months, they are anti Māori seats, anti co governance, anti the re wording of the treaty, the elites get the rest
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:07am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      BOOM! You got it!
      Not even sure about the $150. $50 is closer.
      
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      April 14, 2023 9:36am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I will add to that.
        Many years ago my Mother and Father had a business in Hamilton. A Snooker Saloon.
        I was you (about 13) and I remember the Maori boys coming in with cheques from Maori Affairs. Amounts? 1 shilling to 2 shillings. That was their cut of the funds, every 6 months.
        
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        April 14, 2023 9:40am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Ngai Tahu has assets of $2.28Billion.
      There are about 80,000 folk who affiliate to Ngai Tahu.
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ten-post-settlement-iwi-have-81b-assets-new-report/TA6KCJMRQVGY7CQ6S4RZVPQNMQ/
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/the-maori-economy-is-booming-and-will-be-worth-100-billion-by-2030/L73MCPZMUFGRVEXWQTXL7XC62Q/
      
      In a generation or so there might be 150,000 members… if the Iwi leaders mismanage their businesses, then there’ll be quite a few disappointed members, I suspect.
      
      We are seeing the first generation of tribes managing their Waitangi settlements…
      
      In a couple of generations the tribes’ populations will have grown, but if the income paid out to the tribal beneficiaries fails to increase proportionally then there’ll be ructions within the tribes. (this has happened to a certain degree within some tribes already).
      
      The tribal elites are often quick to ring-fence their hand-outs.
      
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      April 14, 2023 10:00am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        I’m trying to affiliate with Ngai Tahu at the mo but am having a spot of bother. They won’t accept my families oral history regarding my lineage. In not so many words, they say it is mickey mouse. I cannot believe they want written evidence that what I say is true and not made up!
        
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        April 14, 2023 12:38pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Ring-fence, and there is no teat in that ring to suck on.
        You will get what we say – one day.
        
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        April 14, 2023 3:14pm
    - Burtland
      
      Ngai Tahu $1.9B Assets, Charitable Trust
      75,416 members
      $69.5M TRoNT distributions
      $921/member
      
      https://ngaitahu.iwi.nz/investment/ngai-tahu-annual-reports/2022-annual-report/
      
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      April 14, 2023 10:17am
      - Nickc2
        
        Don’t forget, it’s all tax-free!
        
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        April 14, 2023 11:10am
      - Colville
        
        Nick.
        Is it?
        NT dont pay it but the members would have to declare the dividend?
        
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        April 14, 2023 11:55am
      - Nickc2
        
        Colville @11:55AM
        True, if recipients declare what they are given (their legal obligation).
        BTW, wasn’t the Census compulsory? The authorities are still advertising for Maori to complete their legal obligation eh.
        https://www.census.govt.nz/about-the-census/who-does-the-census/
        
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        April 14, 2023 12:07pm
  - Ruawai
    
    Then the activist Maori stay on the Maori roll and get their seats, National/Act need to find some quality candidates to stand in the Maroi seats.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:35am
- Nickc2
  
  I couldn’t agree more.
  In the meantime, Ardern and Peters will sit back and watch what they caused.
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:24am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    They are laughing at us, aren’t they?
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:41am
- mawm
  
  Tom – I fear that we are going to be drawn into America’s unwinnable war with Russia. Why are we suddenly being courted by NATO other than to join the coalition in support of a a dying empire? The great cleaving has begun and it can only be in our interest of survival to either align with our major trading partner and the other BRICS, or to remain truly neutral.
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:44am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I fear that we are going to be drawn into America’s unwinnable war with Russia.
    
    Too late… we’re already in it.
    
    https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/assistance-ukraine-extended-and-enhanced
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:13am
    - mawm
      
      This time they want our soldiers. Ukraine has run out of men to conscript.
      
      What are our defence commitments? We don’t belong to NATO and we do not have an ANZUS alliance. Is it part of belonging to Five Eyes? If so is Five Eyes fighting a war with Putin? Or is it the UN? Are they fighting a war against Russia? Quite honestly I do not see where this has become our fight.
      
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      April 14, 2023 11:06am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        This is more of the damage Jaspinda has left NZ in. It became our fight so Jaspinda can blow her arse to United Nations, and get a pseudo life log job!
        
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        April 14, 2023 3:30pm
      - blue collar
        
        Fuck Ukraine .
        They caused their own problems .
        Shouldn’t be ours
        
        They can negotiate to stop the killing any time by the way .
        
        Again , fuck em , their leadership and russias want death , let ‘em have it . Not our fight .
        
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        April 14, 2023 5:42pm
  - Nickc2
    
    We can’t remain neutral, we are too reliant on others for our existence eg:
    * If China didn’t buy our goods, we’re fucked and
    * If someone didn’t supply us with petroleum products, we’re fucked.
    Don’t forget, we’re at the bottom of the World with a fickle Govt and racially divided population, who’d want or care about us?
    IMO, if we could retard time six years, things for NZ would be far better.
    
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    April 14, 2023 11:43am
    - mawm
      
      So choose who you want to piss off – China (BRICS) or the US/UK/EU alliance. Or remain neutral and trade with all? The Swiss model works – nobody expects them to side with anybody and they reap the benefits.
      
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      April 14, 2023 3:27pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Nice and simple. What NZ buys from the World is only paid for by what we sell to the World.
      So let’s stop cow farts by reducing herd size.
      20% less exported powdered milk, 20% less cheese, beef, lamb, wool, fuck, where does it end?
      Your current lifestyle will be downgraded 20%
      Do Labour actually know what “BANKRUPT” is. We are in the ditch!
      
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      April 14, 2023 3:38pm
      - Drone
        
        @Steve, the question is what do we need to purchase from the rest of the world. What are the people prepared to do without. If we ceased trading today as in finito benito, nothing in nothing out what would be the consequence. Everybodies Tv, radio, cellphones, washing machine, dishwasher, microwave would continue to work (at least for a while). Electricity would still be generated, there would be occasional power cuts as we ran out of wind power, we could chose to dig and burn coal. Petrol/diesel would be an issue as we haven’t migrated to EVs in serious numbers yet. Life would not be idyllic and most would not want to live it, but it could be done. What I’m trying to say is that if we slashed herds by 20% we would be 20% poorer but still richer than many other third world countries. Much of the issue we face today is that after many years of thinking ourselves to be wealthy, with the selling of of national assets (electricity, communications etc) there are a number of companies/individuals who made and are still making a killing and expect to continue making a killing whilst the country gets poorer. They don’t want to give up their wealth..
        
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        April 14, 2023 4:02pm
    - blue collar
      
      Exactly what trump said about Germany . You don’t mix up trade and energy .
      A lot of politicians do .
      Trade with whoever you like , enemies / mates ….. but your energy has to be guaranteed. Too easy to be held hostage at a whim .
      Provide it yourself or via a deadset mate with untouchable supply lines .
      
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      April 14, 2023 5:49pm
- Stellaboxer
  
  Tomtoddy. Couldn’t agree more. What I would add however is that I believe the political theories behind this madness are emanating from hostile foreign powers intent on destabilising the western powers especially the anglophone ones. Being asked to accept something as ridiculous as a man can become pregnant is straight out of the communist rule book. To have people mouth what they know to be untrue is very demoralising. Equally take note of the countries that are never criticised by these radicals the ones that actually do have slavery, concentration camps and state sanctioned racism, no not a peep just a constant chewing away at those that have the strongest traditions of democracy justice and the rule of law. Funny that.
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:49am
  - mawm
    
    Stella – this Communist destabilisation of the Western world is coming from within. Further one cannot claim that the US is a practicing democracy any longer and has forgotten what the rule of law is under the Biden Administration.
    
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    April 14, 2023 11:09am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      Mawm Agreed with your point on the Biden administration but I believe the rot started a good while back with American corporations love affair with China . The CCP worked out pretty rapidly that the west had become lazy and complacent since the collapse of the Soviet block and imagining it had defeated communism. It’s primary drive now being the making of fortunes the Chinese recognised an opportunity that it leapt on. Their infiltration of academia was the start of everything we now endure. So yes it’s coming from within but is fed from our beloved trading partner. IMHO.
      
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      April 14, 2023 2:13pm
      - blue collar
        
        Bang on brother Stella .
        Control the narrative from within .
        China coercing us to tear ourselves apart
        Doesn’t help with the wef / un / big tech all destabilising for the one world project either .
        It will all ultimately fail , the day we lose sovereignty of nations is the end .
        One country can be tyrannical , hell 50 can be , still 150 odd that won’t be .
        One world govt only takes one psycho n that’s it . Whole world subjugated .
        
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        April 14, 2023 5:55pm
- WaynelSexton
  
  Boomers should of had kids
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    We did.
    But some had enough kids to keep them dependent on Labour, and the kids on welfare.
    You got an uptick for being honest.
    
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    April 14, 2023 3:42pm
- Philview
  
  The country will rollover and take it, there will be no civil war.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Take it? ‘Rectum’ or fucking near ‘killed em?’
    
    Yes NZ, we are being shafted, right now – shafted!
    
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    April 14, 2023 3:44pm
    - blue collar
      
      Right now steveo but Seymour will sort it .
      What we the whites / Indians / Chinese / japs whoever hv to do is get off our asses n best then at their own game .
      If the Māori or trans mob mass protest something of ours eg ihumatao ( private land is private land ) posie Parker ( right to free speech without thuggery ). Then we need to counter the hundreds with thousands . Get in their face and show the politicians we too give a fuck and won’t be discounted .
      At the moment its squeaky hinge gets the most oil , n all us are either too damn busy working or too bloody complacent .
      
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      April 14, 2023 6:00pm
- Tomtoddy
  
  @Tomtoddy 8.06am. Always happy to have opposition/criticism etc and I am genuinely wondering what caused 5 downticks. Any responses?
  
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  April 14, 2023 11:11am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

♪I’m gonna gaslight everyone, do da, do da ♪
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April 14, 2023 8:10am
Souvlaki

Like Michael Bassett, I am over the totally B S narrative of ” Maori wonderfulness”…when by any objective assessment the exact opposite is true!
One can only speculate at the dysfunction awaiting their effective oversight of our water.
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/michael-bassett-the-crisis-in-maori-society
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April 14, 2023 8:10am
- kevn
  
  @Souvlaki… So spoon feeding hasn’t been enough?
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:39am
KH

You just gotta love grandma.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/131758800/right-this-is-not-happening–grandma-crashes-into-ramraiders-getaway-car
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April 14, 2023 8:13am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Grandma – doing what the police can’t/won’t.
  
  Unbelievable.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Scared of – lest the Police get an assault charge.
    Nobody gets taken out behind the woodshed anymore.
    
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    April 14, 2023 3:54pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  If Grandmas insurance wont cough up Spark should pay for the damage to her car. It would buy Spark a huge amount of goodwill and probably a lot of business. Time to stand up against these thugs and crims. The Cops wont.
  
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  April 14, 2023 11:14am
  - blue collar
    
    Hear hear !
    
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    April 14, 2023 6:03pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Who are the contractors/consultants collecting all the $$$$ being handed out to the Maori Health Authority?

“Written Parliamentary Questions released to ACT show that the organisation has spent $9.2 million on contractors and consultants in only eight months. With $3.9 million allocated towards recruitment agencies focussed on policy advisors, communications staff and administration staff.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2304/S00074/maori-health-authority-spends-millions-hiring-bureaucrats.htm
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April 14, 2023 8:26am
- Burtland
  
  Niche Consulting Group ($1.24m),
  Inside Recruitment ($597,284),
  Robert Walters New Zealand ($543,189),
  The Johnson Group ($539,406),
  H2R Consulting ($513,200)
  JacksonStone & Partners ($336,112).
  Te Amokura Consultants ($612,580).
  PricewaterhouseCoopers ($1m)
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new-maori-health-authority-spending-over-a-million-dollars-a-month-on-consultants-and-contractors/4EAMSWSAIVHFJIQUFLL26NM4JQ/
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:48am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Cheers
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:03am
- Piniwi
  
  But Maggy surely you know why they HAVE to do that. They have a bunch of ethnic wannabees at the native ratio of two to do the work on one and as usual they know sweet FA about the task. I am 6000 odd miles away and I can see it from here. Honestly after Labour have made waiting lists their biggest growth industry second only to yoof crime the people must catch on soon.
  
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  April 14, 2023 1:47pm
Tomtoddy

There are a myriad of problems with 3 waters or whatever childish iteration is being used to describe it today. One matter usually overlooked is that we all want First World outcomes but only have Second or soon-to-be a Third World status income to pay for it.

We over engineer much of this type of infrastructure, pay consultants a heap to avoid elected people taking blame, are too small a country to get enough competition and scale benefits and have contractors who know how to gouge with overruns.
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April 14, 2023 8:31am
- artemisia
  
  If there are contractor overruns, look first at the central and local government managers. Did they get requirements and contracts wrong, or have they been “too busy” to ask questions and manage project scope. Either way, incompetent.
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:38am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    artemisia – I’ve often asked, if “consultants” are doing the actual work then why do we need to employ the bureaucrats? Let’s cut out the middle men. Save a fortune.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:30am
  - blue collar
    
    There’s no contractor over runs , margins are very tight . One mistake and you’re losing money . The over runs are from all the hold ups due to ecologists , iwi , hapu, council , regional council , archaeologists , and by the far the worst , bloody incompetent designers/engineers/consultants .
    
    The time lost waiting on a design tweak once you’ve proved the original doesn’t work or there’s not enough detail on plans is horrendous . The trick is to suggest what they could do and let them take it as their idea . You still hv to wait days/weeks for written permission to carry on . It’s called a variation and that’s where the cost comes from .
    It’s not the contractors fault st all .
    Some are good and can make an on the spot call and the works go on . Typically the boomer generation . They know their shit and hv the balls to make a call . Sadly a lot are retiring and the newer ones are quite frankly crap.
    
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    April 14, 2023 6:12pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  This is the real issue. Our ability to fund first world solutions has been squandered. Our per capita GDP is 25% lower compared to the rest of the OECD than it was in 1980, when we were still a rich country.
  
  Now we are a poor country, but we still want to add regulatory impediments and burdens. Making it harder to produce things, make money and prosper means that we will increasingly not be able to pay for the things our citizens want – roads, healthcare, education!
  
  Having a rich neighbour where a single plane ticket increases your earnings 30% and your standard of living by quite a lot more, is only exacerbating the problem.
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:38am
- Burtland
  
  Councils Engineering Depts have been gutted – they struggle to employ professional staff. Gary Moore, ex-Christchurch Mayor, wrote about it.
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-christchurch/former-mayor-garry-moore-slams-christchurch-city-council-restructure
  
  The head of 3 Waters in Christchurch is a environmental scientist.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:16am
KH

Evidence free propaganda from ‘academics’
There are three actual causes for different health outcomes for Maori.
1. Genetics 2. Different behaviours and attitudes – which are what defines a culture. 3. The system.
Clearly 2 is the important one – but never mentioned by these characters. Odd omission.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/131745943/indigenous-people-at-higher-risk-of-hospitalisation-death-from-flu–study
But it’s not odd when you see their solution, as always, is more money for their organisations, and jobs for them
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April 14, 2023 8:35am
- mandk
  
  I think the following results from the 2021-22 NZ Health Survey probably explain most of the health disparities between Maori and non-Maori.
  (All numbers are M vs n-M prevalence ratios)
  
  Smokers 3.39
  Amphetamine use 2.81
  Cannabis use 2.16
  Hazardous drinking 1.89
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:04am
  - mandk
    
    Am I racist for pointing out the above?
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:10am
    - KH
      
      Providing actual evidence that contradicts ‘marketing’ is racist in this era.
      
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      April 14, 2023 11:07am
Maggy Wassilieff

It’s rebranding time, folks.

The Dominion Post (who remembers buying “The Dominion” in the morning and “The Evening Post” in the late afternoon?) is to become “The Post”

……something to do with evolution….
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300853294/evolving-with-its-community-new-name-for-the-dominion-post
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April 14, 2023 8:39am
- Mike
  
  I never much liked the merged name. ‘The Post’ is a bit anodyne – something distinct for Whanganui-a-Tara would be better – but marketing people seem to prefer blandness.
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:45am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Whanganui-a-Tara. Is that near Eketahuna? Sounds like a shit hole.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:33am
    - Eugene the Chemist
      
      It is a shit hole and I live there
      
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      April 14, 2023 9:54am
      - thirteenstars
        
        Well, do your best.
        
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        April 14, 2023 11:19am
  - Taieri
    
    something distinct for Whanganui-a-Tara would be better
    ————–
    
    Does The Whanganui-a-Tara Beobachter sound better?…
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:04am
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      Taieri- a hundred upticks.
      
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      April 14, 2023 11:08am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  It is a sign of an unstable society. Seriously.
  
  In the UK The Times, The Economist and many other newspapers have been around for decades and in some cases well over a century.
  
  Even in Australia the Sydney Morning Herald is nearly 200 years old.
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:45am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    The Times reported on the victory at Trafalgar and Waterloo.
    
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    April 14, 2023 8:52am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      The Times was known as The Thunderer.
      
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      April 14, 2023 10:04am
- Matt Long
  
  That’s great, they’re decolonising the paper. Quality and circulation sure to rise exponentially.
  Perhaps they meant someone is to play the Last Post
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:47am
  - artemisia
    
    Think of the ink savings. The paper is planning ahead for when income will be chopped.
    
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    April 14, 2023 8:57am
  - MCōs
    
    NZ was not a colony when it was a Dominion.
    The newspaper was relatively young. Started in 1907; far later than the Evening Post in 1865.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:41am
- Colville
  
  Some of us remember delivering the Post on our bikes after school!
  
  Hall Cres in Epuni… !
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:49am
  - Mike
    
    And the cry of the paper boys on the Wellington street corners.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:12am
  - 103PapPap
    
    Yes, we would get to the distribution centre and the first question was “how many today” meaning how many pages in todays edition. The more pages (it’s a 96) the harder they were to roll up.
    My area was Naenae around Rata St and Strand Cres.
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:40am
    - G152
      
      Spent 10 years in the Evening Post press room with Gordie, Danny, Jackie and John.
      Great people and a great job
      
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      April 14, 2023 1:07pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Didn’t MagicTalk undertake a similar name change?
  
  Don’t think it worked out too well……….
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:06am
- Bobba Fret
  
  They should employ the Bud Light marketing team to consult on the re-branding.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:09am
- Inandout
  
  Maggy, I would think of that paper as’ The Last Post’ given its terrible circulation figures.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:11am
- virtualmark
  
  It was embarrassing to see the editor of the Dominion Past saying that we ceased to be a dominion when we joined the UN. “New Zealand’s status as a dominion ended in 1945 when we joined the United Nations”.
  
  What???
  
  No mention of the Statute of Westminster in 1931. Which we adopted in 1947. And how, technically, our status as a dominion has never been revoked. And WTF has the UN got to do with any of that?
  
  So. Much. Stupid.
  
  (I expect she’s going to receive a lot of letters to the editor, and it will be interesting if she apologies for such a stupid error).
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:34am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    TBH I am surprised it has not been given a Maori name.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:43am
    - nathie
      
      Exactly, how racist of those pakeha managers of the DomPost!
      
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      April 14, 2023 10:04am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Lol Maggy, the Dominon Post is owned by Stuff. Dunno why they’d bother rebranding given their perilous financial position. Last I heard was they are looking to paywall their opinions. So I guess the proof of any success will be in the eating of that pudding. I reckon they will be bust in the next year or so. And if so, they won’t be missed.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:58am
- nathie
  
  How ridiculous (and obscene) of the DomPost management!
  
  Obscene as in discarding their heritage – clearly the woke management of the DomPost are not following Te Tiriti principles and acknowledging their hītōria (history). Therefore their kaupapa (principles) are flawed. Shame on them!
  
  Anyway if this is their chosen path why didn’t they have the courage to completely rebrand, preferably with a Māori name? Cowards!
  
  So they are shameful cowards! Who would want to work there!
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:12am
- thirteenstars
  
  Oh, can’t use a colonialist word like Dominion.
  
  And I hope that Post ain’t tanalised. Not good for the environment.
  
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  April 14, 2023 11:22am
- Hard Cheese
  
  As in “thick as a post”?
  
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  April 14, 2023 5:28pm
Maggie Pie

Where would you go to make a complaint of ‘Religious-Hate-Speech’?

https://twitter.com/JulieAnneGenter/status/1646268081902321664

JAG has always come across as a bit cray cray to me 🙁

Just saying.
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April 14, 2023 8:40am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Just “a bit”? 😂
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:46am
  - Swifty
    
    Aside from her clearly extremist views and harmful prescriptions and policies, I think she has a real problem controlling her temper.
    
    I’ve seen it numerous times now.
    
    It’s not a good look.
    
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    April 14, 2023 11:02am
    - graham
      
      Yes, I would agree.
      
      Just one instance that springs to mind is when the whole ugly Metiria Turei saga was unfolding in 2017, and Ms Turei finally bowed to the inevitable and quit.
      
      Barry Soper reported that Julie-Anne Genter scowled and snapped at him, “Feeling vindicated” as they passed each other. He replied “No”, which saw her raising her frustrated hand in the air before declaring “it worked.”
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/barry-soper-how-the-greens-imploded-over-metiria-turei-saga/VAEJMGR24FAZCV5HT3AIL4TS2Q/
      
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      April 14, 2023 1:15pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Pardon W? Does she like a bit? We she must do as she has two children and we understand she is working on bike parks/stands to go with the new cycleways. She is a parking consultant after all.
    
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    April 14, 2023 1:58pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  JAG is off her trolley.
  
  On yer bike!
  
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  April 14, 2023 8:49am
- Frank the tank
  
  If the next Government is Labour + Greens + Maori then Jules is likely to be your next Minister for Women’s affairs.
  
  Her or the Member for Tijuana…….
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:08am
  - Matt Long
    
    Maybe the greens can get Shaneel on their list and give him woman’s affairs.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:42am
    - thirteenstars
      
      Nice.
      
      Or perhaps something in transport.
      
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      April 14, 2023 11:24am
- graham
  
  Checking out the replies, it seems most people are unimpressed with Julie Anne Genter labelling anybody who raises concerns about some of the genuine societal issues around trans people as a “radical right wing Christian fascist”.
  
  Hey ho, another day, another tweet by a Green MP that isn’t going to age very well.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:16am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Playing to her supporters
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:27am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    She is a fool. Many of the supporters of Kellie Jay Keen are atheist left wing lesbians.
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:45am
    - thirteenstars
      
      Oh, hell, yeah. The gays and lesbians love her because they realise the woke first came for men, then women, and then gays and lesbians who have been locked out of the LGBTQ thingy because to be gay or lesbian you first have to acknowledge that man is man and woman is woman or hooking up with someone of the same sex becomes a bit tricky.
      
      Particularly for lesbians–and this is the delicious part–a bunch of blokes dressed up as women is a psychological and physical threat, and in a very real sense. They have zero in common with trans women.
      
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      April 14, 2023 11:28am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    Raising concerns about teenagers being medically and surgically maimed does not make you a fascist. People who raise these concerns are being gaslit. Accused of ‘denying vulnerable teenagers gender affirming medical care’.
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:10am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    My final word on this for today. Julie Ann Genter has me wound up. ☹️
    
    I have watched maybe ten hours of events led by Kellie Jay Keen. (I have insomnia ☹️)
    
    She attracts women of all ethnicities. Aged from teenagers to grandmothers. Socialists and conservatives. Straight women and lesbians.
    
    Julie Ann Genter is a champion of identity politics. She cannot use reason. So she labels these women.
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:15am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Could you be a radical left-wing Christian fascist?
    
    (Asking for some of my Christian social-justice warrior mates)
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:37am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Batshit crazy woman. The comments were worth the visit though. Looks like her “supporters” haven’t woke up yet…..
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:37am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

Early today.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/colonialism-was-a-lotto-win-for-maori/

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/colonialism-and-bruce-moon-on-definition-of-a-racist.pdf

Media are being forced to show their true colours.
Hibiscus Matters:
Hibiscus Coast Local Rag Reject Brilliant Letter To The Editor
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Phils-letter-I-attended-the-stop-co-governance-meeting-out-of-curiosity-and-to-compare-the-reality-of-the-meeting-with-often-criticized.pdf
Thread of emails with the Editor:

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Email-string-Hibiscus-coast.pdf

Northern Advocate Rejects Our Iceberg Advert!
This is the clearest example of the suppression of free speech you’ll ever see.

The Advocate is deciding what the public should see and know, making decisions on their behalf.
Welcome to co-governance.
Thread:
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Classified-enquiry-from-Northern-Advocate-website-1.pdf

The Tauranga Events, Both Of Them, Are Not Cancelled!
The Historic Village Hall is cancelled because of unrealistic demands.
Another venue has been found. People will be redirected to the new venue.

Things are really hotting up. Media and protesters are trying anything and everything to disrupt or cancel things.
Free speech is being censored.

Welcome to Co-Governance!
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April 14, 2023 8:48am
- thirteenstars
  
  Keep it up.
  
  God knows what kind of pressure Batchelor is under, both personally and security-wise.
  
  Hey, you! Yes, YOU. Head over to their site and donate:
  
  https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/donations/donate-now/
  
  What good are those tax-free capital gains going to do you when your country’s been take over by thugs and extortionists? Give. It won’t hurt if you do it quickly.
  
  I see a total on the donate page of $37k from 412 donors which is $90 per donation. Good for them but considering this organisation is literally standing on the front line taking all kinds of shit to save this country, it’s also a rather poor show.
  
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  April 14, 2023 11:53am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Somewhere in the blog he describes his day.
    Up at 3am, then it is emails and the next blog post. All sorts to do during the day, then back to emails and posts. Lights rarely go out before 9pm.
    I met his and had a chat at Orewa. That handshake thing with Tuku I mentioned elsewhere. This man is genuine. Sure he is an Evangelist, a Minister but he is on a mission.
    I asked him how he did those hours. Answer “I am committed”
    
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    April 14, 2023 12:09pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The rather poor show is getting traction. Advertising is restricted as is news.
    NZ media are obstructing.
    
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    April 14, 2023 12:11pm
Rusty

I hope come election time the people of this country will not fall for Hipkins sneaky re-branding of 3 waters as affordable water.

Labour cannot be trusted to keep their word that no Maori co-governance will play a part in this new water scheme if they are re-elected.

Also I pray and hope if Luxon and National are the new govt that they wont fall for this victimisation guilt trip aimed at them by the minority bitter Maori elite.
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April 14, 2023 9:06am
- DimChappie
  
  Rusty, all the co-governance stuff is still there: the 50/50 boards, and the Te Mana o Te Wai statements which require any extreme demands to be followed by the water entities. It is not a relaunch it is a great big racist pack of lies and it will be the end of them.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:39am
  - Rusty
    
    @Dim – spot on
    
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    April 14, 2023 1:31pm
Maggie Pie

COULD THIS BE REAL?

As my partner just said…you need to remember AI has advanced things exponentially since the early days of blow-up dolls.

https://twitter.com/Xx17965797N/status/1646394536640278530

and OMG – the comments!)
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April 14, 2023 9:11am
greenfinger

Hipkins is just embarrassing. Standing up there telling bare teeth lie. What was 3 Waters became 5 Waters is now 10 Waters. As for co governance, looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. He is still trying to sell snake oil, just like his predecessor, Jacinda. Won’t be long though. Bring on election day.
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April 14, 2023 9:12am
- peterwn
  
  Labour might just get away with it. They have ‘rebranded’ it and thus has removed the albatross from round their necks. National is being forced to dis-credit it from the beginning again.
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:16am
Biscuit

I see U.S. President Joe Biden has been caught speeding along Dementia Road yet again.

That President couldn’t, I swear, plan a sh*t in a toilet…

In his latest ‘Grandpa Simpson’ impression, Biden – visiting Ireland at present – referenced Ireland’s 2016 first-ever win over the All Blacks as being the day that Ireland ‘beat the hell out of the Black and Tans’…

The Black and Tans, of course, were a notorious group of British reserve troops infamous for attacks on civilians, extrajudicial murders, arson and looting between 1920-22. Their actions further swayed Irish public opinion against British rule and drew condemnation in Britain.

New Zealand’s Ambassador to Ireland, Trevor Bovverboy Mallard, should be sprung into action, I reckon.
Reprising his role in those protests that disrupted Parliament here last year, like.
A bit of training sprinklers on a couple of Biden speeches on his visit and maybe the tannoy blasting of some horrifically-annoying music is called for, no?
New Zealand’s other Labour Party diplomatic ‘plant’, Phil Goff, Ambassador to the USofA, should be told to boycott a Washington D.C. buffet or two, too.
And if that doesn’t signal this country’s displeasure at our sainted Men In Black having their brand sullied, we might then to go full nuclear and send Nanaia Mahuta and her moku kauae to force an apology…
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April 14, 2023 9:13am
- virtualmark
  
  That’s not dementia, that’s just someone who doesn’t know rugby (aka most Americans, but passing mention to Bill Clinton who played rugby at Oxford).
  
  Dementia isn’t so much forgetting the name of something, it’s forgetting what it’s for. The example a specialist gave our family was “It’s not forgetting where the car keys are, it’s forgetting what the car keys are for”.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:26am
  - Biscuit
    
    Ah, I stand corrected, vm!
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:40am
  - virtualmark
    
    That said, I also think Biden is too old for the job. So is Trump.
    
    And there’s a big group of Senators who are too old for their jobs too. Feinstein being a good example of that just this week. But Chuck Grassley and Orin Hatch are well past it too.
    
    I’m a fan of term limits. And I think there should also be age limits too.
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:15am
    - MCōs
      
      When FDR died in office he was 63.
      Our most ineffectual PM in recent times was probably Walter Nash who was 78 when he was replaced by Keith Holyoake.
      He had had a very long successful political career, but he wasn’t cut out to be PM.
      
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      April 14, 2023 10:56am
- Rusty
  
  @Biscuit. That is so offensive calling the All Blacks the Black and Tans.
  
  Is our govt or the NZRU going to ask for an apology from Biden — doubt it.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:47am
  - Ghost
    
    he got black right, I mean you’re lucky he didn’t call them black and trans
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:49am
Ghost

Hmmm, so the pentagon leaks have come from a national air guardsman…..

The FBI said on Thursday it has “made an arrest and is continuing to conduct authorised law enforcement activity at a residence in North Dighton, Massachusetts”, amid a media report a suspect in the leak of classified has been identified.

In a report on Wednesday, citing fellow members of an online chat group, The Washington Post said the person who leaked US classified documents prompting a national security investigation is a gun enthusiast in his 20s who worked on a military base.

Newshub
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April 14, 2023 9:14am
- virtualmark
  
  It was interesting to see both the NY Times and Washington Post found him before the FBI did. Both papers had big articles yesterday that laid out the story, and both had photographers at his house when the FBI turned up to arrest him. Not a good look for the FBI.
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:27am
  - virtualmark
    
    ^^ Sorry, this was meant to be a reply/follow-on to my comment about dementia above.
    
    [Mod – if you want to repost it I will delete this]
    
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    April 14, 2023 9:53am
    - Biscuit
      
      Exactly. vm.
      
      I’d restrict our MP s to 4 three-year-terms.
      
      The way our elections go, if you were there 12 years you’d have had a ‘go’ at governing anyway.
      
      New blood is vital for a functioning democracy.
      
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      April 14, 2023 10:09am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    The FBI leak like a sieve.
    It’s entirely possible that while the FBI were still dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s, someone leaked the info to those two FBI affiliated news agencies (NY Times especially get a lot of FBI “leaks”).
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:23am
    - Che Guava
      
      The intelligence agencies and the corporate news media have always worked hand-in-glove. I see no reason to think that this instance would be an exception.
      
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      April 14, 2023 2:23pm
  - Che Guava
    
    There isn’t really any genuine distinction between the NY Times, the Washington Post and the FBI or any of the other three letter agencies. They are all part of the same monolithic power apparatus. The much better and more likely explanation is that they coordinated in order to make the arrest the best media event it could be.
    
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    April 14, 2023 2:21pm
MCōs

An interesting opinion piece by Matthew Hooten in the NZHerald re China.
Federated Farmers must be nervous at the prospect that one day down the line China goes too far and forces us to take sides.
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April 14, 2023 9:16am
- Ghost
  
  It would have been easier if labour had of pushed for a better trade agreement with the EU, now we’re screwed when china forces NZ to side against them
  
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  April 14, 2023 9:23am
Maggie Pie

The left’s agenda.

‘Water is not a human right”

– Klaus Schwab (WEF)

The ‘elites’ have long set their sights on control of the water supply….

https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/water-is-not-a-human-right-wef-orders-govts-to-begin-rationing-water-into-homes/

Jacinda is still in the wings of course 🙁
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April 14, 2023 9:42am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Water isn’t a “human right” Maggie. But controlling it “for the good of the people”, yeah right. As we’ve seen in NZ for the last 5 years, Governments will give water to those who say and do the “right” things.
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:13am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The energy crisis (oil/gas/renewables) is taking much too long for the ageing elites.
  
  Water is critical.. adult humans can’t survive much longer than 3 days without water.
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:52am
  - Rusty
    
    @Maggie, the WEF/elites goal is to control all the world’s water, food, and energy supplies.
    
    They have their servants/useful fools in every western country pushing this agenda through marxist policies disguised as human and indigenous rights.
    
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    April 14, 2023 1:43pm
    - blue collar
      
      When did people get so gullible eh rusty . I mean it’s so obvious yet to most it’s …. Kardashians and til tok
      
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      April 14, 2023 6:17pm
- Piniwi
  
  Aljazeera did a bit of a series on water but it was nothing more than emotive propaganda and hand picked illustrations hinting at pending doom. Savvy people know it is just pushing somebodies agenda and flick the remote after a very short exposure.
  
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  April 14, 2023 2:13pm
Ghost

Dear china, I don’t mind you paying me millions. In return I’ll give you a special white book with peoples names, addresses and phone numbers in.

China fired a warning shot at President Biden when a Chinese-American bank supplied Senate Republicans with records showing millions of dollars flowing from Chinese companies to Mr. Biden’s son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden, said a lawmaker spearheading an investigation of the first family.

Cathay Bank, which is based in Los Angeles but has offices in China, voluntarily turned over bank records requested by Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Charles E. Grassley of Iowa. Every other American bank denied the two Republicans’ requests for financial records.

Article
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April 14, 2023 10:03am
ClanMcleod

Norman E. Fenton (born 1956) is a British mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Professor of Risk Information Management in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London.

His conclusion in his post about suppression and censorship of any evidence or commentary opposing the “official” covid narrative is a wonderfully accurate, but tragic summary of what the last 3 years have led us to.

For many the covid era has destroyed the trust in many if not all institutions – the government, the pharma industry, the social media giants, and the mainstream media generally. In saner times we would have at least expected academia to rise above the lies and corruption and, especially, the censorship. Yet, academia has spearheaded the censorship of dissenting voices and, by censoring research based on who wrote it or who they are associated with, rather than on its quality and accuracy, any respect for the notion of ‘peer review’ has been destroyed and may never recover.

https://open.substack.com/pub/wherearethenumbers/p/retrospective-censorship-the-new

Trust that took centuries to build up. Destroyed in a couple of years by ideologically driven morons using fear and psychology to enable the installation of medically useless, draconian, tyrannical policies, for a respiratory illness of no consequence. Certainly no worse than those we have every 4 or 5 years.

How do National and ACT intend to rebuild this trust?
I contend that they will never be able to do so until they first admit the mistakes made, the physical, mental and financial damage done – and the horrific abuses of human rights which they supported.
Surely at some level, Luxon and Seymour realise this? Surely there are conversations being held to come up with a way to address this major obstacle to moving forward? Surely they can’t believe that if they ignore this elephant in the room it will eventually go away? They cannot be that stupid.

Can they?
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April 14, 2023 10:07am
Widogast Corwin

Something I missed…

Last year Pfizer applied for approval for the covid vaccine for infants aged 6 months to 4 years. General approval has been declined. It is only available for infants with serious medical conditions such as compromised immune systems.

https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines/covid-19-vaccine-ages-6-months-4-years-old

It will make Julie Ann Genter unhappy. She expressed public displeasure at not being able to vaccinate her young children.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JulieAnneGenter/status/1580375824557301760

The Government has made the right decision. AFAIK the USA is the only country that has approved the Covid vaccine for all infants. After about 9 months, the vaccination rate for infants there is around 6 percent.
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April 14, 2023 10:07am
- virtualmark
  
  To be honest there’s little medical benefit in giving under-30s the Covid vaccine, unless they have clear complicating factors like asthma, obesity etc.
  
  That was said-but-not-said with the way the vaccines were rolled out by age group.
  
  I suspect the messaging was easier and less confusing if you just said “Everyone get vaccinated” rather than “Everyone over 40, and then you, and you, and you, but not you or you”. I suspect the advertising people wanted a single simple message.
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:23am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The only message that was needed was to notify the population that a vaccine was available for those who wanted it.
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:56am
    - JohnRidd
      
      While also mentioning that the vaccine would not prevent you catching the disease nor passing it on. They possibly also should mention the adverse events like paralysis, heart attacks and death ( to name a few) are more common with this vaccine than with any previous vaccine.
      
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      April 14, 2023 2:00pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    How many children were harmed by this single simple message?
    The ridiculous thing is that you can’t even use official numbers because unless it was a direct and immediate response to the vaccine it doesn’t usually count in their numbers.
    
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    April 14, 2023 11:23am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    virtualmark – the messaging and the policies were totally deliberate and for a single purpose, to force or bribe or compel or gaslight as many people as possible into getting the experimental jab. None of it was accidental.
    
    This was political, it had nothing to do with concern for health. We know that, especially when we now know they deliberately removed information showing their was risk, in particular to young males. Why would you hide this information from people?
    
    Also, the jabs increase your risk of getting covid, the jabs don’t stop transmission or infection. Ergo, if you are at risk from covid (or any other respiratory illness) due to other underlying health issues, you are putting yourself at greater risk by having the jab.
    
    Any efficacy is very short lived. A matter of maybe 3 months. Then efficacy becomes negative.
    
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    April 14, 2023 11:27am
- ClanMcleod
  
  There is zero rationale for recommending this experimental jab to anyone under the age of 70. The younger you go, the more insane the whole idea is.
  
  There are serious concerns that the jabs negatively impact your innate immune system. Probably not the best idea then to give them to people who are already compromised I would have thought.
  
  I’m not a doctor, this isn’t medical advice. But I can see nothing positive about these jabs. Nothing.
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:27am
Swifty

Hipkins, upon taking up the reins, said he is to return Labour to a focus on ‘bread and butter’ matters.

(A damnable admission that they had not been focussed on that for nearly five and a half years.)

But now we see the retention of the racially discriminatory elements of Three Waters. The creation of two classes of citizenship.

Hardly ‘bread and butter’ – in fact quite the opposite.

More bullshit from Hipkins.

The current membership of the New Zealand Labour Party are openly lying to us.
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April 14, 2023 10:16am
- MCōs
  
  What’s more bread and butter than storm water, sewerage and fresh water reticulation?
  Both major parties know there are problems in those traditional local body areas. The issue is how to handle the problems.
  They have built up over the years because the various councils, quite frankly, haven’t wanted to spend the money.
  One day, if nobody can agree, water will be privatized like electricity and then we’ll see the public wail at the cost.
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:41am
  - Ghost
    
    Some councils have been doing their job, and are being punished for it, just as some dhb’s were doing their job
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:45am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Exactly..
      
      I paid rates for over 30 years in Wellington and as far as I can see, that money was pissed away on white elephants, cycle pathways to nowhere, vanity projects and self-destructing street lamps.
      
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      April 14, 2023 11:00am
      - MCōs
        
        The amount of money Wellington Council has spent on the cycleways, rainbow pedestrian crossings, faulty street lighting would be absolutely peanuts to that which it should have spent on water infrastructure.
        
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        April 14, 2023 3:41pm
  - Swifty
    
    You a bit slow this morning MCos?
    
    “What’s more bread and butter than storm water, sewerage and fresh water reticulation?”
    
    You seem to have overlooked that my point was PURELY about the ‘co-governance’ elements nested within the Three Waters legislation. You know, the racial discrimination stuff.
    
    Must do better MCos.
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:58am
    - Yabster
      
      only this morning..?
      
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      April 14, 2023 11:43am
      - MCōs
        
        Every morning, noon & night
        
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        April 14, 2023 12:36pm
Littletramp

The financial markets have picked up overnight because they “smell” a pivot in US foreign policy.
Not in the Fed policy, but in the Ukraine war support narrative.
The US intelligence agencies have used a leaked documents story as air cover to allow us to see that Ukraine/US/UK is actually losing the war in Ukraine. They are getting little buy in from Europe, and running out of hardware to fly in. You can’t fire US $$$cash out of a cannon or tank.
The sanctions policy against Russia has adversely affected the US dollar hedgemony and now we will see the first moves to try and save face.
We, NZ, need to make sure we stay on the right side of history here – i.e. on the fence.
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April 14, 2023 10:18am
- virtualmark
  
  Financial markets picked up overnight because the US PPI fell 0.5% in March. Also got a little boost from US unemployment claims rising (speaks to heat being taken out of the labour market).
  
  I didn’t see anything to do with Ukraine moving markets overnight.
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:26am
  - Littletramp
    
    Different folks, different strokes.
    
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    April 14, 2023 10:54am
Allan

These 3 postings on Breaking Views site this morning are all an excellent read. Would really recommend taking the time to look at them.

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-cranmer-national-party-and.html

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/04/michael-bassett-crisis-in-maori-society.html

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/04/cam-slater-new-three-waters-same-same.html
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April 14, 2023 10:22am
lifesgood

Walked along Downtown Auckland waterfront this morning. What a disgrace, homeless people lying around all over the place with their mountains of blankets etc, piles of litter overflowing bins, and beggars openly asking for money, which I thought was illegal. Makes me so ashamed of my city. This is the area cruise ships come into and tourists from surrounding hotels stroll. Surely this is not the image the city wants to present to the world. Why is something not done about cleaning it up. Millions have been spent on rejuvenating the area and now this.
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April 14, 2023 10:28am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Yes, was in the CBD recently and thought it was shameful. At least 2 clearly mentally ill people standing in the road acting out or shouting at the air. Fat homeless people spread on the path. Small group drinking on the footpath despite the liquor ban.
  Some good eateries and bars have closed. The roads are torn up.
  Yuck.
  Felt better at night after it had rained and under electric light – during the day was shabby and seedy-feeling.
  
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  April 14, 2023 1:12pm
Taieri

Welcome to the wonderful future:

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/299414/REP_Absolute_Zero_V3_20200505.pdf?sequence=9&isAllowed=y
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April 14, 2023 10:34am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Enjoy your lamb roasts and beef stews whilst you can…
  
  and if you’re planning on travelling to the UK … make it within the next few years…
  or be prepared to stand in queues for days at Heathrow/Glasgow/Belfast airport.
  
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  April 14, 2023 11:07am
Handyman

Many people believe that 3 waters means that the water system will be fixed and the rates will go down.
Here’s what will really happen based on the “Super City” experience.
When the super city was proposed it was with the promise of improved infrastructure and lower rates. Sound familiar yet?
All rates were collected centrally and distributed centrally. A new rates model meant Orakei rates went up 40% (for equity”) but has not received any of the “local board projects” fund (for pools etc) which was decided centrally.

The 3 waters will be the same mechanism.
1. All water users will pay for water (with rebates for special cases eg marae). Once the taxing mechanism is in place it will increase to pay for water projects. There will be announcements of multiyear projects to solve “complex problems”, and a sneaky royalty payment to iwi. The water tax rate will be tweaked for “water justice”.
2. General taxes may need to be increased. There may be a dedicated tax similar to road user charges.
3. Each water authority (4, 10, 100 it doesn’t matter) will be starved of cash and have to apply to funding from the central body.
4. The central body is a political entity and allocate based on politics (same as state highway funding. Remember Labour cancelled major roading project in National electorates once elected in 2017).
5. Regional water projects quickly become regional employment projects. With payments funneled through iwi, what could possibly go wrong?
6. Rates do not decrease.

Years later the water situation will have reached the same stage as state housing and hospitals. The queues are massive but people keep voting Labour because Labour promise to spend more than anyone else to fix the “years of underinvestment”.
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April 14, 2023 10:45am
- Swifty
  
  You’ve got it.
  
  Yes, I’d put money on it.
  
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  April 14, 2023 10:53am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    You will, Swifty, you will.
    
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    April 14, 2023 11:46pm
- nathie
  
  Oh dear Labour’s “Affordable Water Reforms” will be dubbed by the people as the “Unaffordable Water Reforms” as the people Vote Labour Out at the election!
  
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  April 14, 2023 11:24am
ClanMcleod

The jab has killed more than 50% more people than “COVID” itself.

Anyone disputing the content, go for your life. DON’T attack the source! That silly strategy was done to death. Don’t bother. It makes you look like a total twat. Address the content.

Exhibit 1: there was no unexpected or unusual death in Korea for the first 18 months of the global, ahem, “pandemic” – not until almost the entire country was jabbed at any rate, near enough 100% of the adult population. Weird that.

Exhibit 2: as a matter of fact, Korea experienced less mortality than expected for the first 18 months of the “pandemic”, including a rather meagre 3,000 “COVID” deaths. Post-vaccination, excess deaths soared. COVID deaths really took off too but nowhere near as much as overall excess deaths. The most recent data (to Jan-23) shows just over 33,000 COVID deaths and more than twice as many excess deaths at almost 70,000.

NZ is also seeing unprecedented excess mortality, but it isn’t acknowledged by msm or health authorities. The data is there, they just refuse to talk about it.
Anyway, Mr Smalley’s conclusion.

I consider the COVID deaths to be jab deaths, as well as all the other excess deaths – unless you really think that “lockdown” deaths only coincidentally occur after jabs, naturally…).

So, that’s roughly 70,000 jab deaths on a vaccinated population of around 38.7 million. In other words, a jab fatality rate of 0.18% which is pretty consistent with quite a few other studies, including the infamous Skidmore one retracted involuntarily.

Worth reading in full.

https://metatron.substack.com/p/the-jab-has-killed-more-than-50-more
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April 14, 2023 10:46am
103PapPap

Has anyone else noticed that while the governments ideology is to centralise (think Health, Polytechs), their thinking on water infrastructure is to now de-centralise.
Consistency anyone?
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April 14, 2023 10:46am
- rouppe
  
  You’re missing the centralising aspect of concentrating power in the Maori oligarchy
  
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  April 14, 2023 12:20pm
mandk

More genius satire from The Babylon Bee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsIhLdbteO0

Girl Too Young For Tattoo Offered Irreversible Gender Surgery

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April 14, 2023 10:54am
- ClanMcleod
  
  mandk – it’s brilliant satire.
  
  No you can’t get a tattoo, you’re too young.
  
  “Can I just get, I don’t know, irreversible gender surgery??” Sure! No problem!
  
  🤡🤡🤡
  
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  April 14, 2023 11:16am
  - Flossie
    
    Puts me in mind of a few years back when partner’s child was 14. He received an account from doctor’s surgery requiring him to pay for her consultation. He went there and asked why she’d attended but of course got the “patient confidentiality” speech. And told yes, he was responsible for the debt.
    
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    April 14, 2023 11:21am
Flossie

Just looked at an overseas online news site and a little video popped up in the corner. It was that Harry ex of the Royal family and what a boring horrible person he is. His message is constantly “poor me I’ve had such a hard life” despite declaring himself to be so “happy and fulfilled”.
Of particular note is his droning voice. And imo if he didn’t come complete with a title he’d be pushed to attract a female.
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April 14, 2023 11:08am
Maggie Pie

Just been polishing the Georgian Sterling Silver Tea Service and listening to ZB.

Now who would you rather believe, the Fat-Controller’s ‘optimistic outlook’ for the country’s economy, or Professor-of-Economics & Finance Robert McCollach from Auckland Uni, who told Kerry Woodham….. Labor’s policies over the last 2 years have dropped New Zealand so deep in the shit we are now worse than Greece.
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April 14, 2023 11:09am
- mandk
  
  Everything he says is sure to unravel – sometimes quite quickly.
  
  Remember him telling us that he thought the banks had already factored-in the 50bp increase in the OCR when the RBNZ raised the rate only 9 days ago?
  
  Well, NZ’s largest mortgage lender, ANZ, increased its floating rate by 40bp yesterday.
  
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  April 14, 2023 11:25am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    On the upside, they are offering 5.70% on TD’s for 1 year.
    
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    April 14, 2023 11:33am
    - Bridgenag
      
      Heartland 6%
      
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      April 14, 2023 1:39pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        No branch in Remuera tho. Ma likes going in to the local ANZ and asking for the balance on her accounts …just to watch the look on the tellers face. LOL!!
        
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        April 14, 2023 4:05pm
BeaB

Any system as complex as Three Waters is going to become an expensive bureaucratic monster.
What’s wrong with a national water team to do a survey of the country, identify local needs and costs and then use centrally borrowed money for local councils to get the work done? A few expert water engineers, perhaps co-opted from successful councils, could get the job done in no time, especially as most councils have their plans but lack the funding.
Any plan that means more offices, cars, bureaucrats just about always ends up with huge sums wasted and very little of the work getting done.
And with this bunch of incompetents nothing would get done.
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April 14, 2023 11:29am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Basically because is is not and never has been about water quality or infrastructure, it is about Iwi owning and having ‘rights’ to all water……all cash and care but no resposibility.
  
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  April 14, 2023 12:06pm
- rouppe
  
  There is nothing wrong with that approach, and is certainly a more targeted and efficient way of going about it.
  
  Combine that with some compulsion on the council concerned to run their finances better, and serious progress could be made
  
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  April 14, 2023 12:18pm
BeaB

And for some reason we are all meant to get as excited as our childish media because someone speaks like an ordinary bloke.
You have to be cautious though when the bloke has such meticulous manscaping of his facial hair.
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April 14, 2023 11:33am
- Swifty
  
  It’s pathetic isn’t it?
  
  My god we’ve got low expectations for our politicians in New Zealand.
  
  Crime is rampant in our poorer communities, they receive very poor educational achievement in our state-run education system, the government prices large numbers of them out of the job market – but we laud and celebrate our politicians if they throw a few of our tax dollars at ‘celebrating diversity’ or some other sideshow.
  
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  April 14, 2023 12:04pm
Ghost

Ouch doesn’t seem to cover this

Hmmmm, maybe Ha-ha! compilation

Bud Light’s parent company has lost more than $6billion in market capitalization since announcing its partnership with a polarizing transgender internet personality.

Article
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April 14, 2023 11:37am
- Cinematic
  
  How to sell less beer 101.
  
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  April 14, 2023 4:01pm
Swifty

We really are crap at racism in New Zealand.

We bugger it up time and time again.

Here we are having invested billions of dollars and decades of effort into setting up systems and structures designed to keep whitey on top and brown folk at the bottom – and then we see this person pop up:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/487928/greens-co-leader-marama-davidson-pulls-out-of-electorate-race

Darleen Tana Hoff-Nielsen says “it was time to ensure the government “…..removes the shackles of a system that is designed to keep us poor, without means, or on a fast track to jail”.

Meanwhile Darleen is described; “Tana Hoff-Nielsen has degrees in chemical technology and business administration, and has previously worked in corporate telecommunications; as an environmental scientist; and set up an e-bike hire business.”

Well, who has let the side down? Which whitey is going to put their hand up and say they let this one through the drafting gates? How can we possibly call ourselves competent racists when we slip up like this constantly?

But, on the other hand, maybe Darleen is just talking bullshit, continuing the Maori victim narrative and she, herself, is a living testament to Maori doing just as good as anyone else in this country should they have a mind to do it.
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April 14, 2023 11:52am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Too hot in the kitchen?
  
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  April 14, 2023 1:16pm
Maggie Pie

And while we’re on the case of @JulieAnneGenter….

check this out from one of my fave comedians, 1/32 Maori, Jemaine Clement 😀

https://twitter.com/JemaineClement5/status/1646600530628694034
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April 14, 2023 11:54am
- Ghost
  
  That’s not fair, we have more than an idiot mp, an idiot Pm, and idiot finance minister, an idiot deputy pm, oh hell we just have an idiot government
  
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  April 14, 2023 12:18pm
thirteenstars

Rishi Sunak seems to understand the issue, saying 100% of women don’t have penises:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11969653/Rishi-Sunak-says-100-women-dont-penises.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-s5ZBtcUYk

ACT Deputy Leader, Brooke van Velden and Taupo Councillor, Christine Rankin, when asked on The Platform this morning what is a woman, both answered: adult human female.

Which is interesting because that definition while obvious comes from only one place, and that’s Posie Parker, and it’s become like a modern Liberty Cap, a Bonnet Rouge, a clear indicator of one’s position on the matter.

The woke would call it a dog whistle. Fuck ’em. Here, boy! Here, boy!
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April 14, 2023 12:10pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Posie Parker didn’t coin that phrase, in fact it was coined centuries ago and has been used by many including JK Rowling to describe a woman. Paradoxically, it has not been uttered by any public servant from the department of the Bleeding Obvious, which you’d expect them to be all over like a rash.
  
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  April 14, 2023 3:37pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Another disinformation headline from $1uffed on the matter: “UK PM defines a woman, taking a different approach to Chris Hipkins”
  
  While it’s true he took a different approach and had clearly rehearsed the answer, he did not in fact define a woman. He didn’t even come close.
  
  Stating what women don’t have – a penis, for one (and an Adam’s Apple, for two) – does nothing to define them. Sunak is suggesting that if a mentally-ill gender-dysphoric man cut his penis off, there are now no barriers to him becoming a woman – what nonsense!
  
  Here’s the definition for Mr Sunak and the 18-year-old pimple-faced $1uffed sub-editor, newly decolonised: an adult female human. That is all.
  
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  April 14, 2023 3:42pm
Ghost

An article about the stage show The Savage Coloniser published on Stuff earlier this year, which contained a poem complainants said incited “racial violence”, has been labelled “not a breach of professional standards” by the Media Council.

Newshub
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April 14, 2023 12:17pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Media Council are like the IPCA?
  
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  April 14, 2023 12:20pm
thirteenstars

In a world where women can have prostate cancer, and where men can get cervical cancer, in Scotland a man is not allowed to give blood because he refuses to confirm he is not pregnant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGip_esbb2k

Reminds me of the gender question in the 2023 census. Was I really so wrong to answer that with, “fuck off”?
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April 14, 2023 12:45pm
- Ghost
  
  Not the first time
  
  https://www.foxnews.com/world/british-man-blood-question-pregnant
  
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  April 14, 2023 12:48pm
Maggie Pie

TWITTER TRENDING

Serial Robber with Violent-Criminal-Past on the run in Canterbury….

https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/1646626841539805184

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“Is it them again Yogi?”
“It’s always them Boo Boo” 🙁
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April 14, 2023 12:47pm
Maggy Wassilieff

It is so reassuring to know what is racism and what isn’t.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2304/S00077/media-council-racism-against-white-people-not-possible.htm
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April 14, 2023 1:48pm
- nathie
  
  Double standards and hypocrisy should not be tolerated.
  
  So the Media Council is WRONG.
  
  And the MSM is WRONG for enabling and supporting this.
  
  They are enabling division in society by changing the rules to suit their woke agenda.
  
  We need to call them out … and keep calling them out until they acknowledge that they are wrong!
  
  (Who would have thought – the Media Council go full 1984 Orwellian)!
  
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  April 14, 2023 2:11pm
- James Stephenson
  
  I’d really like to hear DPF’s take, as an associate member of the media council, on their finding that it’s not possible to be racist against white people in general and white men, in particular.
  
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  April 14, 2023 2:39pm
- Che Guava
  
  When someone is telling you what they are all about and what they are thinking, it pays to listen to them. It seems to be the height of stupidity to assume they mean something else.
  
  Let’s put aside the clear contradiction that is, on one hand, ‘racism’ requires “punching down” from a position of power, yet Whites obviously don’t have that much power, given the uniquely open hostility they are subjected to (which they wouldn’t allow if they really had the power to prevent open hostility). On the contrary, it is those who cannot be criticised that have the actual power. This is self-evidently the case.
  
  Racism is not a universally applicable designation, so when White people assert that they are against racism, they don’t seem to understand that they are against themselves, which is clearly a losing strategy. Many non-White people are anti-White, but by definition, they aren’t racist. Therefore, call them what they are, not what you think they are.
  
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  April 14, 2023 2:50pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Never give in to that attempt to redefine language. Always call the identitarian left racists when they say and do racist things. Hammering them relentlessly is the best way to highlight their hypocrisy and resist their hateful attempts to drag the world into injustice and darkness.
  
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  April 14, 2023 3:48pm
- Cinematic
  
  So, only white people can be racist. Good to know. I better get around in black face.
  
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  April 14, 2023 3:59pm
rangitoto

Seen on twitter:

Ladies only
No Toms
No Harrys
No Dicks
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April 14, 2023 2:04pm
Rumblestrip

I see Labour just triumphally announced they found an extra $10m for Dunedin Hospital.

As if they hadn’t already slashed $90m from the building.

They must think the voters are stupid. (They may be right.)
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April 14, 2023 2:25pm
- MCōs
  
  Whatever the cost of the project is projected to be now, throw it out the window and be prepared for an profound escalation.
  It won’t matter who the government is and what they’ve promised. That’s the way of the world.
  
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  April 14, 2023 7:25pm
  - Rumblestrip
    
    Indeed. And our out of control inflation is only going to make things even worse
    
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    April 14, 2023 8:17pm
Maggie Pie

My partner’s mum called by for a bite earlier.

She was a wee bit sad today to hear that fashion icon Mary Quant had died. Had been a big fan of hers back-in-the-day apparently.
Even brought an old clipping from the Horrid to show me…. it was Ma in 1968 boarding the Devonport Ferry wearing a Mini-Skirt and knee-length boots.
Unlike now, you could certainly tell she was nooo trannie 😛
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April 14, 2023 2:27pm
- Ghost
  
  My partner’s mum called by for a bite earlier.
  
  Is she a vampire?
  
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  April 14, 2023 2:28pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    YIP.
    When she comes for lunch I make her a cuppa tea with a used tampon 😀
    
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    April 14, 2023 2:57pm
    - Ghost
      
      https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-tampon-vampire-cosmetic-teabags/dp/B07TD1PFPR
      
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      April 14, 2023 3:00pm
Ghost

What about a politician that has no balls, we have plenty of them here?

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak exploited Labour’s divisions on transgender rights on Thursday as he declared that no one with a penis could be considered a woman.

Contrasting his views with those of Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister told Tory activists that “biological sex” was “fundamentally important” when drawing up the UK’s equality laws.

Stuff
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April 14, 2023 2:43pm
Ghost

Labour and National are tied in the latest Talbot-Mills corporate poll, sitting on 36 per cent each.

Labour is down one point from last month’s poll, and National is up two points.

The Act Party is on 10 per cent, down two points, while the Greens are on 9 per cent, up one point.

NZ First was on 3.9 per cent, with Te Pāti Māori and TOP on 1.9 per cent and 0.8 per cent respectively.

Nz herald
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April 14, 2023 2:50pm
- nathie
  
  Talbot-Mills as in Labour’s pollsters?
  
  So Greens in the headlines (Marama Davidson & Elizabeth Kerekere offending people) and their support goes up? Yeah right!
  
  ACT on message but goes down? Yeah right!
  
  Labour fiasco after fiasco (Stuart Nash, Health in crisis but minister says nothing to see here) but somehow nipping at on-message National’s heals? Yeah right!
  
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  April 14, 2023 3:42pm
mogg

Just had good fun in Central Park on Lambton Quay arguing with the ‘ban ‘Fonterra’ protesters. Took great pleasure in telling them that their electric bikes, clothing, footwear, phones, computers, tv’s ,
Stylised spectacles, were all made in China and paid for with Fonterra’s overseas earnings, and that they were gold plated hypocrites. They told me to ‘fuck off’, I said thanks for proving me right.
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April 14, 2023 3:14pm
- Swifty
  
  Stinking hypocrites.
  
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  April 14, 2023 3:39pm
Chuck Bird

I thought Luxon had all but ruled out the Maori Party. Has anything changed?

Political poll: Labour and National in dead heat in Talbot-Mills poll

This means National leader Christopher Luxon was wise to swiftly reverse his stance on Te Pāti Māori this week, having earlier ruled them out. He would need them to govern.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/national-and-labour-dead-heat-latest-poll/RCYYMUVFJNDZPI6MY34BZ5KNOA/
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April 14, 2023 3:30pm
- Swifty
  
  Bloody hell Chuck.
  
  Ignore this crap, the Maori Party themselves have said they will never work with ACT so it’s all just babble designed to make Luxon look indecisive.
  
  I don’t know why you read that stuff.
  
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  April 14, 2023 3:37pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  National might just win a few more votes than they’d lose if they were to declare that they’re not prepared to work with a bunch of (genetically superior, according to them) racists.
  
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  April 14, 2023 4:25pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Good point. Luxon hinted he would not work with them. He should be more decisive.
    
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    April 14, 2023 5:34pm
Swifty

Hipkins shown to be the little weasel he is:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/world/uk/300853806/uk-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-says-that-no-one-with-a-penis-could-be-considered-a-woman

Can you just imagine what our forebears would think about us even having this conversation.

“I am 6 foot 2, bearded and with meat and two veg but I demand you refer to me as a woman and that I have access women’s-only spaces, jobs, sport and scholarships and awards etc.

And if you resist me, or suggest I am misguided, you are a bigot, you are hateful and you want to exterminate me and people like me.

Nazi.”

They would look at us like we had lost our minds. And they’d be right.
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April 14, 2023 3:35pm
graham

Stock up on popcorn. Seems like there are “at least” 20 former staff of Today FM planning group legal action against MediaWorks.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/today-fm-closure-set-to-get-a-whole-lot-messier-for-mediaworks-top-lawyer-called-in-confidential-documents-reveal-more-job-losses-the-platforms-rich-list-owner-speaks-out-voyager-media-awards-finalists-announced-stuffs-post-plan-media-insider-with-shayne-currie/4G564NCUVBGNXBH5BXOWQOP3VA/

(Paywalled)
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April 14, 2023 3:50pm
Maggie Pie

$10K A DAY….courtesy of the taxpayer. Nice work if you can get it 😎

https://twitter.com/gwynncompton/status/1646412226411249664
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April 14, 2023 3:54pm
Warren

But Chuck has the rot finally set in for Chris Hipkins our Prime Minister with his drop of 3points as preferred Prime Minister and Chris Luxon up 1 point in the same poll.
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April 14, 2023 3:59pm
Loddenthinks

I see the sacked Today FM employees have discovered some money in their bank accounts that they’d like to set fire to by suing mediaWorks, and have guaranteed they’ll lose by hiring the same lawyer that lost Tova her lawsuit – ironically trying to start work at Today FM earlier than the legal contract she signed permitted her to do.

The article doesn’t state if O’Brien is a party to the suit, but if she is stupid enough to throw yet more money away then the old saying applies: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/300852958/sacked-today-fm-employees-planning-legal-action-against-mediaworks
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April 14, 2023 4:10pm
- Ghost
  
  If they believed so much in this station that was failing then they are free to start it up again at their own expenses and relaunch
  
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  April 14, 2023 4:30pm
Swifty

Ooof!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AOgA-29LkV0

Michael Knowles on the transgenderism nonsense.
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April 14, 2023 6:46pm
Ghost

‘What Percent Of Our Atmosphere Is CO2?’: Doug LaMalfa Stumps Entire Panel With Climate Questions
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April 14, 2023 7:17pm
alphabeatrium

Something I don’t understand about the “mana whenua” appointees. From where do they get their authority? Do iwi members vote for who represents them? Is it possible to split, merge, or dissolve an iwi or are we permanently stuck with how they were arranged in 1840? What exactly _are_ they except old boys societies for Maori?
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