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CJames

Regional and local councils have done sea level rise predictions to limit coastal development. People have queried where they get their data from. The answers seem to be NIWA, leading back to IPCC. Well, a scientific paper has now been done on the detail of what they are basing their predictions on. And guess what? Most if not all of the level rises use come from the upper end prediction of RCP8.5. That is an extreme modelling scenario which IPCC has been forced to admit can’t happen. That little inconvenient fact hasn’t stopped the zombies though. The sea level rises predicted had no connection to the long term data that comes from the long term tidal gauges. These don’t even show an acceleration. That is something the global alarmist advocates try to gaslight the public on.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00703-x?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

So the maps used and the draconian requirements that councils want to force on people has no basis in science. Remember that next time the councils try to force retreat from the coasts.
Hat tip to Roger Roger Pielke Jr
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April 15, 2023 8:01am
- Matt Long
  
  I would prefer that councils modelled an Ocean rise of 8 metres at a time frame of 800km per hour.
  No problem with people building in flood zones or tsunami zones, just so long as they don’t expect the rest of us to bail them out.
  
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  April 15, 2023 8:21am
  - G152
    
    Or pump them out
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:01am
  - judith8409121
    
    i would rather the councils and government stick to reality and stop playing cult games to model future scenarios. Stupid moronic modelling that pushed by idiots to pretend they have a solution when really its just an abuse scenario is not wanted
    
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    April 15, 2023 3:25pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  It is possible that the sea level could go up over a metre in a very short time and it has nothing to do with CO2. If one or more undersea volcanos near the coast of Antarctica erupted it could cause ice on the land to slide into the sea.
  
  Although this is possible according to such an expert as Dr Judith Curry, it would be very difficult to determine the probability,
  
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  April 15, 2023 8:37am
  - rouppe
    
    It is possible that an asteroid will collide with Earth and terminate all life.
    
    It would be difficult to determine that probability too, but I guess since it could happen then all this climate change expense is pointless and should be stopped
    
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    April 15, 2023 9:22am
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    I’m 100% confident that any/all Antarctic ice shelf melting will be blamed on ‘Climate change!!’, no matter the actual cause.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:17am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Sounds like your science is settled, Chris!
      
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      April 15, 2023 12:45pm
    - JohnRidd
      
      Nasa’s monthly sea ice extent data (from sattelite data) can be downloaded here
      
      https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/neptune/files/SH_IceArea_Monthly_1978-2017.txt
      
      If you pop it into a spreadsheet and graph it, it shows that antarctic sea ice extent is increasing.
      
      It only goes up to 2017. I haven’t been able to find more up to date data. I assume if the trend had reversed and now showed a fall in the sea ice extent, it would be Front page news.
      
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      April 15, 2023 3:20pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    You have to stop buying into “could happen”, “may happen”, “might happen.”
    
    Please provide the source data of how much ice would have to be uplifted from inner Antarctica to raise the sea level of the entire earth by 1 metre.
    
    Simple facts like:
    [1] Antarctic land ice area as a percentage of the rest of the earth.
    [2] Temperature required to melt the -80° C or greater at the ice rock/land interface. The energy required to do so.
    [3] Average angle of the land/rock from South Pole to sea.
    [4] Friction resisting force created by the uneven surface of the land and rock on its slide to the sea.
    [4] Rate of volcano heat dissipation to the earth’s seas, and air convection.
    [5] The thermal mass and temperature change lag times.
    [6] The heat transfer rate / losses associated with sea temperature being transferred to the rock/land at a distance big enough to ensure that the lowest land temperature is at least 0°C.
    [7] The temperature curve of inner land temperature (starting at 0°C and rising to say 50°C) vs the time required for the ice to start sliding.
    [8] The slide time in centuries.
    [9] How many decades or centuries will these volcanoes need to be spewing out hot lava to maintain the temperatures required.
    [10] Given the conservation of energy and the earth’s thermal mass, and all other things being equal, excess heating in one area will be accompanied by excess cooling in another area.
    [11] And perhaps links to scaled down physical experiments.
    
    If sea temperatures are to be maintained high enough for long enough to raise the inner land mass of Antarctica by at least 80°C, perhaps as high as 120° depending on the flatness of the land/rock as stated above, thermal mass and time required, then a 1 metre water level raise is the least of worries for your great great great grand children. And in any case 1 metre sea level rise is not as catastrophic as you might imagine.
    
    I suggest you prepare for the much greater possibility that a dozen 6ft 38-24-36 Amazonian blonds from Venus will land their spacecraft on your front lawn and look after you, cook for you, make love to you and look after your every need.
    
    Statistically however, you cannot predict the Earth being hit by an Asteroid, or get nuked in some inter-galactic / sector war between two of the many millions of advanced life forms that inhabit this universe.
    
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    April 15, 2023 12:01pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      You don’t have to melt it from the top. The basic physics of Antarctic ice loss is that when the ice shelves at the boundary go, this removes the cork and the rate of downhill slide accelerates. The equilibrium line – where the ice floats off the rock – moves inland. This is happening – look up Pine Island.
      
      In addition to this there are plenty of crevasses and water on top of the ice. The water goes down the cracks so you eventually get free water at the bottom and more of the glacier is floating ….
      
      So the “friction” and “melt from the top” arithmetic gets a bit hard. The melting would of course happen after the berg is in the sea ….
      
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      April 15, 2023 12:32pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        Nice try Ian, but you are ignoring the actual physics.
        Theory is no match for reality.
        
        You don’t have to melt it from the top. The basic physics of Antarctic ice loss is that when the ice shelves at the boundary go, this removes the cork and the rate of downhill slide accelerates. The equilibrium line – where the ice floats off the rock – moves inland.
        
        I never suggested that it happened from the top. Re-read my post.
        
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        April 15, 2023 12:46pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers drain about 40% of the West Antarctic ice sheet. In 2005 some scientists flew about 75000 ks back and forth over the glaciers using ice penetrating radar to see what it all looked like. They found large lakes of meltwater under the glaciers.
        
        I accept that nothing is going to happen next week, but the data seem to indicate that the ice sheets are being significantly nibbled from the edges and below. Global energy balances and the ice/rock coefficient of friction don’t tell the whole picture.
        
        Go figure
        
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        April 15, 2023 1:40pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ” KINGSTON, R.I. — June 22, 2018 — A researcher from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography and five other scientists have discovered an active volcanic heat source beneath the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
        The discovery and other findings, which are critical to understanding the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, of which the Pine Island Glacier is a part, are published in the paper, “Evidence of an active volcanic heat source beneath the Pine Island Glacier,” in the latest edition of Nature Communications.”
        ” Professor Karen Heywood, from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, the United Kingdom, and chief scientist for the expedition, said: “The discovery of volcanoes beneath the Antarctic ice sheet means that there is an additional source of heat to melt the ice, lubricate its passage toward the sea, and add to the melting from warm ocean waters. It will be important to include this in our efforts to estimate whether the Antarctic ice sheet might become unstable and further increase sea level rise.”
        https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/26/volcanic-heat-source-discovered-under-pine-island-glacier-the-poster-child-for-antarctic-melting/
        
        Volcanic Heat.
        How hilarious!
        (told ya to do that Research- this was easy to find)
        
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        April 15, 2023 2:19pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        @All_on_Red
        
        Yes, I read that article some time ago. It kind of destroys the argument that farting cows are to blame for Pine Island.
        
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        April 15, 2023 2:41pm
      - CJames
        
        Ian
        There are large lakes under all the big Antarctic glaciers. It is there because of pressure, not temperature. Google Lake Vostok.
        
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        April 15, 2023 4:54pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        @Red
        
        The discovery of volcanoes beneath the Antarctic ice sheet means that there is an additional source of heat to melt the ice, lubricate its passage toward the sea, and add to the melting from warm ocean waters.
        
        Pine Island ice shelf is thinning. Glacier has speeded up. Grounding line is moving inland at about 2km/year. Next door the (also big) Thwaites Glacier has doubled in width and maintained speed.
        
        I have no trouble with the notion that volcanic heat has something to do with these changes – except that the volcanic sources have presumably been there forever and the changes are recent ….
        
        Go figure
        
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        April 15, 2023 5:29pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        “except that the volcanic sources have presumably been there forever and the changes are recent ….”
        
        “presume” -lol
        Nice try and funny to see you wriggle as you try to save face due to your ignorance.
        Ice Extant, West Antarctica excepted due to FIFTY FUCKING + VOLCANOES EXCEPTED (lol) has decreased but has recovered and is not dramatically shrinking.
        Its notable you provide no data or sources to back up anything you say. Just vacuous comment.
        
        Why arent Hot spots being found in the Troposphere when we have been told ad nauseum thats what happens and thats where the heat is generated?
        https://wattsupwiththat.com/global-temperature/
        Not a lot of warming huh.
        One of the things I love about the Climate debate is how the morons amongst us get exposed by their shallow knowledge.
        
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        April 15, 2023 10:15pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      @Ian
      
      Water lakes under the ice are nothing new, it has been happening since the dawn of time. And so have sub-glacial lakes.
      
      It may have been a revelation to the scientists that discovered the sub ice lakes, just like a two year old discovering he has a willy, but to adult scientists or even smart high school students it is nothing unusual, because of Boyles law.
      
      If you were not sleeping in high school science, you would have learnt about Boyles Law, and other principles. Principles that are used every day in the real world. Ice under pressure can become liquid. And in low pressure (or release of high pressure) the reverse happens.
      
      Surely you remember all the high school experiments / studies with ice, water and gas?
      one of which was boiling water at 15° C, as one of many.
      
      Have you actually been engaged in science, physics and thermodynamics? Have you ever created experiments to test your theories. I have. I’ve spent a lifetime doing exactly that, across a wide range of science.
      
      [1] Your theory about the main continent would hold some possible validity, and I say some, if the Antarctic Continent was one flat 100ft thick piece of mirror finish stainless steel sitting at an angle of 45°.
      
      But if this was the case, the original snow that created the ice, that created the Antarctic ice shelf, would never accumulate.
      
      But in any case with a surface temperature of -80°C, the snow, water vapour and even gas will adhere to the source and start building up.
      
      [2] Even at 100ft thick, the stainless steel would buckle, twist and deform from the billions of tons of ice, resulting in hills, valleys and crevices. So may be 1000ft thick? But even the temperature gradients would crack and deform the stainless.
      
      The reality is that the surface of Antarctica under the ice is not mirror smooth. It is exceedingly rough terrain with mountains and rough terrain, all of which provide horizontal/vertical cohesion and friction, that even a fleet of 6000 Aircraft carriers couldn’t shift.
      
      [3] If your theory had any validity then glaciers around the world at high inclination angles would race down the mountains at close to the speed of running water.
      
      And ice is already melting in Antarctica, and has a been since the dawn of ice on the Antarctic continent, And it continually gets replaced. It is part of nature’s cycles.
      
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      April 15, 2023 2:33pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Have you … thermodynamics?
        I taught it to engineering students at university level for some years.
        
        high school science … Boyles Law
        p x v = constant for a compressible gas. Nothing to do with boiling/melting points.
        
        No way are the subsurface (water) lakes at -80 C. At that temperature, water is ice. Have a look at a phase diagram …
        
        During the summer, meltwater forms in pools on the glacier surface. A lot of then disappears down crevasses to end between the bedrock and the glacier.
        
        I agree that if the Antarctic was a sheet of stainless steel things might be different. I defer to your lifetime of scientific investigation.
        
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        April 15, 2023 5:10pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        @ Ian Boag
        
        The lakes under the Antarctic land ice are not caused by heat, but by pressure.
        
        p x v = constant for a compressible gas. Nothing to do with boiling/melting points.
        
        You state two components P and V (P x V).
        
        The three components of Boyles Law are:
        P V T
        Pressure
        Volume
        Temperature
        
        Boyle’s Law is a basic law in chemistry describing the behavior of a gas held at a constant temperature. The law, discovered by Robert A. Boyle in 1662, states that at a fixed temperature, the volume of gas is inversely proportional to the pressure exerted by the gas.
        
        If you change pressure for a set volume, temperature is altered. If you alter volume for set pressure, temperature is altered.
        
        The relationship between Pressure, Volume, and Temperature is what allows refrigerators, freezers, heat pumps, air conditioners, blast freezers, freeze dry machines etc etc to work.
        
        No way are the subsurface (water) lakes at -80 C. At that temperature, water is ice.
        
        I never said the subsurface (water) lakes were at -80. I said the rock / ice junction was at -80.
        
        However the freezing temperature of water drops when the water is under pressure. See my earlier notes on Boyles law.
        
        This is called supercooling. Under extreme pressure water remains as a liquid to very low temperatures. It does not convert to ice until the pressure is released.
        
        “Water under pressure is harder to freeze! Water below freezing point can still be liquid under pressure! Watch this video where a bottle of cola put in the freezer only turns to ice when the cap is removed releasing the pressure.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T68TvdoSbI
        
        As water pressure increases the freezing point of water goes down.
        
        This is very important in Antarctica where very deep water may be below freezing temperature. It is called supercooled water. Supercooled water is water that is still liquid even though it is below the freezing point.”
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/300497355/nz-scientists-lead-research-into-supercooled-water-below-antarctic-ice
        
        https://www.learnz.org.nz/antarctica154/bg-standard-f/freezing-and-melting-water
        
        https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/12/09/can-water-stay-liquid-below-zero-degrees-celsius/
        
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        April 15, 2023 7:11pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        @Jack
        
        Boyle’s Law is a special case (constant temperature) of the ideal gas equation PV=RT …
        
        You could also look at a phase diagram which shows how states (liquid/sold/vapour) vary with pressure and temperature. You don’t have to go to youtube ….
        
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        April 15, 2023 9:37pm
  - herb1
    
    A very simplified answer.
    I saw a study two years ago, can’t recall who wrote it but was a credible University, I think Harvard but would need to do a search.
    It highlights the issues with accurately predicting SLR.
    It gave a range of 1.1 to 1.8 m if the ice on land in Antarctica melted from the North shelf?
    But the kicker is that was minus 1.1 m to plus 1.8 m
    The reason being they’re not sure if the massive weight of ice melts wether the land rises more than the water melt . They referred to the possibility that the weight effect could go as far as the equator.
    
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    April 15, 2023 2:07pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  What clowns. Limit coastal development because of guesses made about sea levels, but then allowing development in flood plains inland (like Auckland for instance, where a decent rain storm floods chunks of the city, including state houses that were built 18 months ago. On a known flood plain). The genius is real with these bog morons.
  
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  April 15, 2023 8:40am
- Grunter
  
  Good post cjames.
  Almost all climate communists use the outcomes of the absurd RCP8.5 scenario to scare the siht out of people. It has been a deliberate scam from the start. The Green Party, and our current Govt still use it with no understanding of what they are saying. The MSM are any trained on RCP8.5 scenarios (and they don’t know what RCP8.5 even is).
  The entire climate narrative you read and watch in MSM is complete bollocks. Go and find the actual data and you get the real picture. Temp up 1.3 degrees since 1850’s and tracking at about 0.13 degrees per decade. Which makes the planet a warmer, safer place to live in. And the higher CO2 is the perfect environment for plant growth. That sounds a bit less scary than the Hollywood scenario RCP8.5
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:08am
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    Yep – warmer is better.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:18am
- Simon
  
  Chris Luxon – How dare you!
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:11am
- Planet B
  
  I had to put a flood warning on the title of a house to be built because of that modelling for the northland region. A few months later we got the biggest flooding g the area has seen in over 100 years. Our land was as dry as a bone. Just as well we spent the money to put a flood warning on the land
  
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  April 15, 2023 10:08am
- Burtland
  
  given RCP8.5 and RCP6 have been withdrawn by the IPCC, the sea level predictions now need to be revised
  
  – maybe NIWA need to be forced to swallow this bitter pill
  
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  April 15, 2023 12:15pm
  - judith8409121
    
    no maybe about it – the abusive action of the CCC against christchurch residents using the rcp8.5 was kicked to touch and the CCC had to remodel which showed that there was over 100 years before you even needed to think about what might happen. The council was also found to be hiding a ‘sand report’ that said the pegasus bay was acreating and hence the residents had more like 250 years before they had to even consider this BS. People who think the coastlines are risky should go look at where most insurance claims happen and its rivers, lakes, earthquake zones, rain events, landslips. The total BS about coast line is a manufactered FUD that should be put to bed. Its rubbish
    
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    April 15, 2023 3:28pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  I thought they’d dumped RCP 8.5? I recall arguing here a decade ago that yet another flaw with the climate models was that the major input into them, CO2 emissions, were themselves based on models – and economic -> energy usage models at that which would have even worse assumptions built into them.
  
  Even as long ago as 2000 it was obvious that the global emissions forecasts of RCP 8.5 for the 21st century were extremist as they were already diverging from reality.
  
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  April 15, 2023 1:16pm
  - CJames
    
    Tom – they were supposed to have officially dumped it. But as Roger Pielke and others have shown, it is still used as the major tool in their modelling. Brought to you by the miracles of climate science – keeping the zombie alive.
    
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    April 15, 2023 4:59pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I thought they’d dumped RCP 8.5?
    
    The IPCC is trying to distance itself from all the RCP scenarios…and in its latest offering (AR6) it offers up
    a new concept – SSP scenarios (Shared Socioeconomic Pathways)
    
    https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-the-high-emissions-rcp8-5-global-warming-scenario/
    
    Just another exercise in mad modelling with a new name.
    
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    April 15, 2023 5:50pm
- Sean Rush
  
  I raised some of these issues (and some more) in a recent Kapiti Coast District Council hearing. The Council’s engineers had used RCP 8.5 as per Ministry for Environment guidelines.
  
  As an expert reviewer for the IPCC with a masters in Climate Science and policy and an ex city councillor I showed how that approach was not appropriate anymore. Turns out the guidelines that should be used, from DoC, require using ‘likely’ scenarios, not ‘implausible’ ones.
  
  I have written to MfE about this ambiguity without response. Also the latest estimates of subsidence and its impact on relative sea level rise have not got through the peer review (submitted last June) and should not be utilised until it does.
  
  My evidence is online here https://www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/media/oh3auvrc/s119-coastal-ratepayers-united-sean-rush-statement-of-evidence-13-03-2023.pdf
  
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  April 16, 2023 7:24pm
Yvette

“WAT3RS”
During the pandemic lockdowns and other measures, when it was so bewailed that Maori were not being served by the Health system and that many kaumātua (elderly) could die along with those with underlying conditions, I wondered why the special knowledge to be dispersed by the then-new Maori Health Authority could not be applied, in principle, in advance, to save lives or reduce hospitalisations and serious illness.

Then 3 July 2022 I read –

The new Māori Health Authority has a budget of half a billion dollars and CEO Riana Manuel has allocated $100 million of that to support centuries-old treatments.
“Connecting people back to those spaces and places that have been long forgotten is certainly something that will be investing in,” Manuel said.
Just like they do with Matariki, Māori use maramataka as a way of reading the cosmos to prepare for what’s coming. [1]

There seemed to be no immediately useable helpful Maori Health Authority avenues for covid reach.
Otherwise the then-Minister of Health, Andrew Little, with most intelligence at his fingertips bring in the health changes, could have used them in the nation’s and Maori moment of need, wouldn’t he? [2]

Just as working back from the proposed Maori Health Authority to Maori covid needs
consider now Mana o te Wai Statements
Why are they a need, and now written into law?
What could they comprise?
Centuries-old kaitiakitanga (guardianship) or mātauranga MāorI (traditional knowledge)?
or more recent needs –

“While it is easy and convenient for Auckland Council and Watercare to keep increasing the water take from our Awa tupuna [river ancestor] to supply water to Taamaki Makaurau, it is not sustainable.” – Te Arataura (Tribal Executive) Chair Tukoroirangi Morgan, appointed Chair to the Entity A Iwi Regional Representative Group. Entity A covers 45 hapuu and iwi groups across Northland and Taamaki Makaurau

and also –
For hapū and iwi, ensuring that the hierarchy is applied will be a core activity to consider. Some of our iwi technicians highlighted their view that when making decisions for water, particularly around limit setting, users of water for commercial purposes should not be enabled to participate. Only those with the health of the water as their priority should be involved in the hierarchy at the top. This ensures that the health is first as is required in the policy.
– 6.1 Hierarchy Of Obligations, Te Mana O Te Wai Guidelines For Mana Whenua
https://ourlandandwater.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Te-Mana-o-te-Wai-Guidelines-for-Mana-Whenua.pdf

What are Mana o te Wai Statements for?
Can Chris Hipkins give an example of one?
Can Chris Luxon give an example of one? Or David Seymour?
Will Tukoroirangi Morgan give an example of one?
Can Meng Foon explain why such statements are Maori only?
How much Maori blood do you need, to make such a Mana o te Water Statement?

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optional bkgrnd bumf
[1] Rereata Makiha is … an expert on maramataka Māori, or the Māori lunar calendar, and forecasting based on the moon cycles, star systems, tides, and the environment.
“The maramataka helps you, helps us to predict when things are going to happen, to tell us when the fish are going to run, when the eels are going to run – all those sorts of things,” he said.
“It’s a way of rebuilding the body, your wairua, and rebuilding your energy and getting prepared for the high energy days ahead,” Makiha said.
“So it goes in waves like that and if people understand it and go back to that rather than rush, rush, rush every day, I think that’s what drives a lot of the ill-health.”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/07/how-maori-use-maramataka-to-care-for-mental-health-issues-and-how-the-practice-will-be-incorporated-into-treatment-by-maori-health-authority.html [random exemplar question –How do mass natural events help individuals?]

[2] 7 April 2020 – Statement from the Prime Minister on Dr David Clark
“Yesterday evening the Health Minister advised me of his trip to a beach during the lockdown and offered his resignation,” Jacinda Ardern said.
“Under normal conditions I would sack the Minister of Health. What he did was wrong, and there are no excuses.
“But right now, my priority is our collective fight against COVID-19. We cannot afford massive disruption in the health sector or to our response. For that reason, and that reason alone, Dr Clark will maintain his role.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/statement-prime-minister-dr-david-clark
This is Ardern telling the nation one man is too vitally important to dismiss, but Andrew Little can decommission 20 DHBs and totally restructure a Health Sector while it is crisis over staffing, funding and the covid pandemic and David Clark.
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April 15, 2023 8:02am
- Swifty
  
  Ardern just totally bullshitted us over Clark.
  
  Too important to dismiss – what a great load of crap.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:46am
  - stiff cheese
    
    David Clark is a Doctor of Theology…. I bet Jacinda thought it was a branch of Medicine, like Oncology.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:36am
- leoj
  
  $100 million to support centuries old maori treatments.
  
  Remind me again: What was the average life span of maori 150 years ago?
  
  It was less than half the average of today.
  
  Just another scam, perpetrated by this bastard government.
  
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  April 15, 2023 10:30am
  - Close Hen Counters
    
    Leo, it is just a wow just wow moment aye?? Hospitals already beyond capacity, waiting lists out of control, people waiting hours to be for ‘acute’ care in our hospitals and a cheeky hundy mill wasted on this bullshit that will do nothing to aid the up and coming winter clusterfuck that we will see … and to be a complete fun sponge, one of our useless hospital managers mentioned none of them were losing their jobs in the 1600 managerial shakeup either ……
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:22am
  - Yvette
    
    Average life expectancy was apparently 26 years
    Most problematic ailment for men may have been shoulder damage
    
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    April 15, 2023 12:25pm
- Ehlana
  
  “It’s a way of rebuilding the body, your wairua, and rebuilding your energy and getting prepared for the high energy days ahead,” Makiha said.
  
  In Judeo-Christian traditions, this is known as the Sabbath and it is a day of rest and restoration and a time for reflection and reconnection to God. It does indeed rebuild your energy for the busy weekdays ahead.
  
  I would hazard a guess that many other worldviews also incorporate regular times for doing less and refocusing – I believe that is part of the purpose of Ramadan, currently underway.
  
  So perhaps Maori traditional healthcare ends up looking a lot like the way your great-grandparents lived, no matter who they were?
  
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  April 15, 2023 10:57am
Tomtoddy

A new survey of coastal managers (including our Regional Councils) around the world, asked them what sea level rise scenarios they rely on for planning purposes. Unsurprisingly, but also incredibly troubling, 119 of the 253 coastal managers surveyed reported using sea level scenarios above the upper end (95th percentile) of the bounds of the RCP8.5 scenario. This is crazy and represents solid evidence that RCP8.5 underpins not just a seemingly endless stream of out-of-date science, but also is being used improperly is real-world policy settings. The result is massively increased costs for property owners and ratepayers.

For RCP8.5 to be a reality coal use would have to increase by 800% and the world population to hit 15 billion. That is never happening. Most scientific institutions have quietly dropped RCP8.5

Too many elected people in these authorities are ideologically driven, green fruitcakes which is serious enough but far more concerning is that many paid staff are members of extreme green organisations and make no secret of their bias and agenda. On so many fronts the world lacks leadership that has integrity.
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April 15, 2023 8:02am
- Grumpy Silver Haired Female
  
  Not to mention a decent/proper/adequate education. If Kiwis continue to elect ignorant idealogues we are stuffed.
  
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  April 15, 2023 8:10am
  - Ruawai
    
    The best prediction for the future sea levels is to look to the past 100 years.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:21am
  - Keith White
    
    So, we’re stuffed.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:31am
  - Jack5
    
    The world insurance industry (NZ companies plus world re-insurers) will have the most logical views of any extraordinary climate damage.
    
    Oh, that’s right, we have a State scheme in NZ, which will cover people regardless in any risky building zones.
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:24am
    - CJames
      
      The re-insurance industry is keen on RCP8.5 and all the disaster scenarios. It gives them cover for all the premium increases.
      
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      April 15, 2023 5:01pm
- peterwn
  
  Well, people keep voting for these “ideologically driven, green fruitcakes”. About the only significant exception is Wayne Brown.
  
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  April 15, 2023 8:18am
  - Swifty
    
    The more I see Brown speak the more I like him.
    
    He’s a straight-shooter and calls things as he sees them.
    
    Equally, the more I see his political opponents attacking him personally, the more I think he’s the right person for the challenges Auckland faces.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:02am
    - Close Hen Counters
      
      His recent appearance on TikTok greatly amused our 20year old son!!! Wayne needs to be cloned
      
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      April 15, 2023 11:24am
  - Gravelroad
    
    They didn’t “keep voting for ideologically driven, green fruitcakes” in the local body elections though- apart from the green fruitcake Wellington mayor.
    The National Party might do well to keep that in mind.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:09am
    - leoj
      
      Expecting such from the turquoise Nats is admirable but a folly.
      
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      April 15, 2023 10:31am
- Taieri
  
  This is crazy and represents solid evidence that RCP8.5 underpins not just a seemingly endless stream of out-of-date science
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  Out-of-date science? Was it ever a science? Or just computer model projections based on pre-determined scenarios?
  
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  April 15, 2023 8:33am
- Tom Hunter
  
  For RCP8.5 to be a reality coal use would have to increase by 800% and the world population to hit 15 billion.
  
  Which was obvious as long ago as 2000. It’s taken these “experts” twenty years to swallow the reality. FFS, the 15 billion population estimate alone was early 1990’s stuff and a decade later every demographer on the planet knew that we were looking 9-10 billion by 2050, tops.
  
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  April 15, 2023 1:24pm
  - JJ56
    
    In fairness the bloke who developed RCP8.5 was told to produce a scenario that would give 8.5W/m2 forcing, and that is what he did. He made it clear at the time.
    
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    April 15, 2023 2:00pm
Yvette

“WAT3RS”
A question remaining is that “co-governance” – 50/50 governance and Maori only Mana o te Wai statements – was in “3 Wat3rs” and is now written into law, long before Jacinda or Willie were going to talk about it – that was: have the “public conversation” promised by 2022 end –

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that public consultation on co-governance with Māori will begin later in 2022
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-confirms-public-consultation-on-m-ori-co-governance-will-happen-in-2022.html read all about it there

So why did Mahuta nor Jackson front up Thursday – no one in fact from the Maori Caucus, nor “Maoridom’s” thoughts on the matter – or is that because “co-governance” is all set in law now, don’t mention it, SLEEPING DOGS, and only the number of regional entities are being discussed by Government.

Anecdotal dialogue
Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?
Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill… Well, I suppose… we would have to discuss terms, of course…
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!
Churchill: Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.

While it is very unlikely, though not impossible, that this originated from Churchill. have we stopped talking about “co-governance” now, and are only haggling about the number of Advisory Councils Tuku Morgan can chair?

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Note: Probably the biggest entity – Entity A, Auckland / Northland – is not split up, and Tukoroirangi Morgan (out of his region) chairs that already.

Entity A iwi reaffirms support for Three Waters
Te Arataura (Tribal Executive) Chair Tukoroirangi Morgan has reaffirmed support for the Government’s Three Waters proposal at day three of the Iwi Chairs Forum in Taupoo. “As kaitiaki of Waikato Awa, we support all steps to protect the natural taonga that is our taiao,” says Tuku.
https://waikatotainui.com/news/entity-a-iwi-reaffirms-support-for-three-waters/

I’ll take my meds now
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April 15, 2023 8:16am
- pdm
  
  Yvette – the whole 3/5/All/Affordable Waters is a proper cock up run by the (so called) Maori Caucus.
  
  Taxpayers are going to pay a hefty price for this.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:34am
  - Ruawai
    
    Moari elite will be in charge of the one of the most important things for human survival, water.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:24am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    We don’t pay anything for our water in Dunedin, storm water sewerage and drinking water has been sorted, they are talking 6 grand a household, how could this not be costly to me?
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:27am
    - Ghost
      
      Yeah, ours are all in our rates and labour are claiming ours will go up to over $8 grand, this is despite our council has been renewing water, storm and sewage for years. Doing the work other councils seem too lazy to do
      
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      April 15, 2023 11:32am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It is all Christopher Luxon’s fault because he can’t tell us what Co-Governance means.
  
  But during an interview with Stuff on Friday, Luxon also refused to say what exactly he thought “co-governance” was.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/131774031/pm-chris-hipkins-says-cogovernance-isnt-a-part-of-three-waters-is-he-right
  
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  April 15, 2023 10:51am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Why should he, do you know that it means, snd Luxon has stated there will be no co governance in service, or separatist services
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:29am
    - leoj
      
      Yet he cannot define what co-governance is.
      
      He is not against maori wards.
      
      The guy is lost, as is National.
      
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      April 15, 2023 1:36pm
  - Philview
    
    There was a cartoon in the ODT today showing Chris Luxon and David Seymour fanning the flames of division with Co-Governance. Interesting how any criticism of this Government’s ideology is called divisive.
    
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    April 15, 2023 3:49pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I hope those local and regional councils did all of their homework.

There is the Doomsday Glacier (Thwaite’s Glacier) down in the Antarctic.
Sea levels could rise 10 feet! (see slide 7)
I don’t thinks these people realise that a lot of the glacier is on seawater, therefore displacing it’s own weight.
Just for a laugh:
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/undefined/the-doomsday-glacier-is-melting-scientists-are-worried-and-you-should-be-too/ss-AA19ETYK
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April 15, 2023 8:16am
- CJames
  
  The crack on the Thwaites glacier that was proof of how it was disintegrating took so long to break off that people forgot about it. There is next to no alarmist stories coming out now at the end of the Antarctic summer about the Thwaites that I suspect they have found it isn’t accelerating dangerously. Needs to go down thew memory hole. That and papers inconveniently showing melting for last two centuries
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01019-9#:~:text=Converted%20to%20retreat%20rate%2C%20this%20corresponds%20to%20an,from%202.12%E2%80%89km%20per%20year%20to%202.3%E2%80%89km%20per%20year.
  
  Just like the loss of the Larsen ice shelf that no-one talks about nowadays. Don’t worry, they will find an ice tongue breaking off somewhere (there are plenty to choose from) that the alarm will ramp up again.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:05am
Southern Raider

So the French sale a warship into our coastal waters and our Coastguard discover it by accident.

Do we not have a defence force anymore?
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April 15, 2023 8:26am
- Ghost
  
  The govt would have been advised they were coming
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:14am
- pdm
  
  SR – sale?
  
  Did the French bring it in to sell? lol.
  
  Sorry Macron Grunter has already squandered all of New Zealands money so no deal.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:36am
- Stephen
  
  The FNS Vendemiaire arrived in Auckland January 12 2023 and entered Devonport drydock for a refit. She left drydock 30 March and tied up at the training pier. She sailed 6 April for seatrials and returned for a day before sailing 8 April for Noumea.
  I don’t know why she is still hanging around in NZ waters.
  She comes down here every year for her annual survey at Devonport.
  
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  April 15, 2023 10:10am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Apparently it was going to dry dock
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:29am
Matt Long

Another large food facility in the US has been destroyed mysteriously.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-cow-farm-explosion-fire-b2319170.html
Did this stuff always happen and it’s suddenly getting more publicity?
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April 15, 2023 8:27am
- CJames
  
  That dairy facility (can’t be called a farm) had 18000 cows. They were all in pens. Imagine if NZ farmed that way. Take the wind out of the sails of all those river and land damage protesters.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:08am
- Its only I
  
  18000 cows producing methane in one building.
  
  They have recently deregulated the welfare standards that also included min air changes required for permanently housed animals, hard way to learn what was already known if that was a factor.
  
  I’m not sure how they shift the artificial feed around the farm, blowing that stuff around in pipes with some inevitably being ground to a high energy powder is extremely explosive.
  
  18000 cows though…in a holding pen waiting to be milked…car canal the scale of the operation…
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:24am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  There must have been people on this dairy farm, but only cows died, no people.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:30am
  - Its only I
    
    Hold my beer…Ok, so hear goes
    
    So Steve, your saying Hillary aka “Killary” blew up the farm so the MSN are distracted from Bidens overflowing nappy, the plans for this dastardly deed were on a certain laptop that needed repair… but mysteriously disappeared…If only Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson had received that laptop he claimed was being sent to him all this may have never happened…along with many other unrelated things…
    
    Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this text are way too ill-considered to be anything other than my own.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:01am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘Hold my beer’
      
      Bud Light , no doubt.
      
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      April 15, 2023 10:24am
      - Mike
        
        Please list all the products that one should boycott to teach the libs a lesson.
        
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        April 15, 2023 11:15am
      - Matt Long
        
        Gillette, Bud, Proctor and Gamble, Pfizer, everything except home grown ribs, grits and moonshine.
        
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        April 15, 2023 11:49am
      - kowtow
        
        Internet trolls.
        
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        April 15, 2023 12:07pm
      - Its only I
        
        Almost kowtow, almost.
        20% bud light, 80% lemon cool aid mix washing down a fruit mince pie.
        
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        April 15, 2023 1:07pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @ Mike.
        Boycott free speech!
        Oh wait, the left already did that
        
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        April 15, 2023 2:16pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Internet Trolls, and you only got 5 upticks since before lunch?
        
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        April 15, 2023 2:18pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yeah, they got to you too, didn’t they?
      
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      April 15, 2023 2:12pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

The headline storey is about an Afghan refugee living in poor conditions living in NZ. I feel sorry for the poor fellow – he’s obviously had a tough life.

But, it’s only when you’re well down the story that you learn he’s not a quota refugee. Which means he’s been brought in by some do-gooder group or other, who have then lacked the resources to provide for him properly – perhaps abandoned him altogether & switching their focus to the next refugee they want to ‘save’.

Someone should be telling these people that a puppy is for life, not just for Christmas. Perhaps a hefty bond, equivalent to a couple of years of the dole or similar, should be mandatory.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131732465/awful-to-be-there-former-refugees-struggle-in-notorious-emergency-housing
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April 15, 2023 8:31am
- Swifty
  
  Why didn’t he stay and fight the Taliban?
  
  Stay and fight for his family, his women, his country folk, his homeland and Afghanistan’s future?
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:39am
  - stiff cheese
    
    Why wasn’t he happy living among his co-religionists in Indonesia? Same God, same cultural strictures to live by, you’d think it would work….
    
    But his expectations weren’t met by having sanctuary in Indonesia as a refugee, so that’s all it takes to make us his next ‘port of call’, is it?
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:09am
  - Mike
    
    Why didn’t your ancestors stay home and fight for a better life rather than running away to NZ?
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:16am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Looks like the obvious has to be stated to you Mike, since you seem to always ignore it. Britain was not being invaded or taken over by internal forces when most immigrants left to come to NZ, a land that was claimed by the Crown, so those immigrants had no need to stay and fight anyone. Some years later though, they went back and fought, lots and lots of them. Your trolling is quite child like.
      
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      April 15, 2023 12:08pm
      - Swifty
        
        He didn’t put a lot of thought into that one.
        
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        April 15, 2023 12:46pm
    - Swifty
      
      So what you’re saying is women aren’t assertive enough and should be more disagreeable?
      
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      April 15, 2023 12:11pm
    - Che Guava
      
      That’s actually a good point Mike: British settlers came to New Zealand rather than “fixing” Britain. I think this is self-evident. They weren’t fleeing war, that is true, but they were, more broadly fleeing “social strife” which comes under the same category as war. So its the same principle – they left rather than fixing things.
      
      Have said this, I don’t really subscribe to the “immigrants should stay and fix their own countries” argument. My case against immigration is independent of that idea, and is that multi-culturalism weakens societies, thus it isn’t a good idea.
      
      Now, someone may say “that’s what Maori in the 19th century probably thought too.” To that I would say, Maori didn’t really have the ability to keep the British out, whereas we today have every ability to severely restrict immigration to our country, it’s just that restriction for reasons of social coherence isn’t the policy. If you can deliberately control who does and doesn’t come to your country, you should do it.
      
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      April 15, 2023 1:12pm
  - Che Guava
    
    The Taliban is an Islamist organisation in an Islamic country, i.e. Afghanistan. I don’t know where people get the idea from that Muslims in Afghanistan hate being ruled by the Taliban. They’re Muslims, so most of them probably prefer the Taliban to the recently -departed American invader/occupiers.
    
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    April 15, 2023 1:02pm
    - Swifty
      
      That’s an interesting question.
      
      From what I see large numbers of Afghani citizens protest Taliban policies (girl’s education, freedom of women, rules around attire, blasphemy laws, forced religious observance, lack of general freedoms etc) but how many would prefer civil government over religious government and would vote accordingly in free and fair elections is another question.
      
      I don’t discount however the fact that many Afghanis today say they are Muslim because they’ve got no choice.
      
      Just look how many lived pre-1980. Their university campuses and city offices looked like those any US city.
      
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      April 15, 2023 1:26pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There’s also a need for adult refugees to take a bit of a reality check on themselves.
  
  If this chap’s skills are limited to writing poetry or journalism articles, then he is probably going to struggle to find employment.
  
  If he wants to get out of his situation, he needs to widen his employment horizons…and he’d probably do better living away from an expensive city.
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:09am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Sounds like he was a bit braver than the average Stuff journalist. Perhaps he could tutor them on what speaking truth to power involves.
    
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    April 15, 2023 12:54pm
- Taieri
  
  who have then lacked the resources to provide for him properly – perhaps abandoned him altogether
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  What resources? What support?
  Abandoned?
  
  He’s a grown up man with right to work. Time he’s found some and took the responsibility for himself instead of bleating.
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:18am
- nathie
  
  Seems like a decent human being … anyway back to his journalism background why isn’t the likes of “woke ‘white’, urban liberal elite” managed media outlets like Radio NZ, Stuff or The Spinoff, especially with their $$$ tens of millions of taxpayer/PIJF funding employing this bloke?
  
  With his investigative reporting skills and diversity background surely he would be a perfect fit for them?
  
  Oh, unless surely it’s not because he is from the wrong diversity group? If so how racist of RNZ, Stuff, The Spinoff and the PIJF and Labour who created it.
  
  Add in too the Race Relations Office who also won’t intervene because, mumble wrong race or something … Race Relations show us their casual racism again (looks like Afghan refugees are considered “white”)?
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:55am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Perhaps he’s not as good looking as Boulas, or whatever that lying Iranian is called. No Green Lefty women throwing themselves at him.
    
    So face-ist.
    
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    April 15, 2023 12:57pm
Opie

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/tremain-the-pig

Sums up hipkins and 3 waters nicely
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April 15, 2023 8:31am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Lick the World:
https://redrightdaily.com/theres-more-concerning-talk-from-biden-in-ireland-watch/
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April 15, 2023 8:32am
- Inandout
  
  SO, the question being asked is where is Nurse Jill, and why has Hunter been assigned as carer?
  
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  April 15, 2023 8:39am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Hunter takes care of the money laundering?
    It is happening all the time, even in Ireland.
    
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    April 16, 2023 8:53am
- kowtow
  
  The idiot is shown visiting a Marian shrine ( Knock) in the west of Ireland and touching the stones of a wall where Mary , the Mother of God is said to have appeared in the 19 th C .
  
  Here we have the RC’s sucking up to , and he himself , the most hypocritical and most abortionist of fake Christian ( RC) Presidents in the history of the USA , making a publicity stunt out of a Marian , the most Roman Catholic of shrine.
  
  Astounding.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:25am
  - Matt Long
    
    If the current pope wasn’t one of their worst liberals publicly giving him the boot would do a lot of catholics, Joe included a lot of good.
    
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    April 15, 2023 9:56am
    - Mike
      
      kowtow is just pissed off that the US is trying to help revive the power-sharing agreement. He’d prefer the Brtish army to come back and crush the Papist terrorists.
      
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      April 15, 2023 11:39am
Yvette

“WAT3RS”
If all ratepayers own nothing through their councils but have very similar water needs can one family drink more per person really than the next – should not everyone in New Zealand pay the same for their water?
And can Maori drink more water, feel “closer” to it, need more to shower properly, clean their teeth, flush the toilet, have more right in any way because their ancestors were here first, or have a superior regarding what comes out of any tap?
Chris Hipkins is younger than I am, so I was here first.
Under the new “WAT3RS” legislation will the same people come to fix the bust pipe under the berm lawn just outside my front fence?
So who will supply my family with water, at what price and will it differ in any way to anyone else?
Apart from the volume I use?

And can 1 News stop screening that same footage – like again yesterday evening –of the main burst in Aro Street cos I have seen it 4 times now in more than eighteen months and it should be fixed by now.

I think I will vote for Winston Peters – surely it can do no harm.

Here, Yvette – here are your meds and a glass of wat3r. Now take all nine tablets – even although the last three are because you take the first three
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April 15, 2023 8:37am
- Albert_Ross
  
  No, it’s not at all obvious that all New Zealanders should pay the same for their water. If you choose to live in a place where water supply is scarce or large amounts of infrastructure and treatment are needed to get water to you in drinkable condition, there are more costs involved in providing you with water than there are for somebody who lives where water is plentiful and easily available. Somebody’s got to pay those additional costs. Why should it be anybody other than yourself?
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:57am
  - kevn
    
    @Albert… The supermarkets sell huge amounts of bottled water.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:34am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      They do, but so what? What’s your point?
      
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      April 15, 2023 11:04am
oldpark

Joke or quote of the week .Heard the wee man called Hipkins NZs unelected PM talking or lying about the dreaded “Three Waters”.
His words . “Its not co-goverance and it wasn’t co-goverance”
The joke and lies that keep giving.So lets get it straight.With 16%of NZs population on a shared 50/50 basis and with veto rights thrown in .
Why? oh why” is the wee man Hipkins running scared of the perception of 84% of NZs see the co-goverance of NZs water just a slippery slope to something a lot more sinister hiding a secret agenda.
We were all fooled once by Hipkins previous control freak seems he thinks he can say and do the same .Nuff Said.
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April 15, 2023 8:43am
- MCōs
  
  There’s no such thing as an elected PM in NZ. They are the leader of the governing party.
  A number of our PMs have not been thus at the time of an election.
  Bill English, Jenny Shipley, Michael Moore, Geoffrey Palmer, Bill Rowling, Peter Fraser
  Peter Fraser was the only one in recent times to win subsequent elections.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:41am
  - Mike
    
    You missed out Keith Holyoake and John Marshall, both sabotaged by leaders clinging to power too long.
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:41am
- Ruawai
  
  To be fair to Hipkins, he isn’t even sure what a women is, so probably wouldn’t understand what co-governance is either.
  
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  April 15, 2023 10:33am
  - pdm
    
    I think you summed up Hipkins very well there Ruawai.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:50am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Chippie boy does not have the support of H1.
  The destroying machine of New Zealand was begun 5 1/2 years ago, and now it is time to take that shovel ready shovel and ditch it into any of the waters that surround them.
  Hipkins will keep being a control freak but he will be busted. McAnulty will be the next control freak using Chippie.
  
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  April 15, 2023 2:26pm
tknorriss

Applying Occam’s razor and the KISS principle to the water infrastructure problem, wouldn’t a simpler solution be:

1. The government establishes an international line of credit for the purpose of renewing water infrastructure. Tax payers cover that through taxes, which is OK, because apparently we all will have to pay more one way or another.

2. Councils can receive money from the fund as a grant specifically for water infrastructure replacement. Hence, the council effectively gets free money to do the work. How could they argue with that.

As a result, the work gets done. Savings are made as a result. And councils keep control of their assets.
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April 15, 2023 9:00am
- Southern Raider
  
  Also it’s classic socialism where you have a couple of small issues and you bring out the sledgehammer and smash everyone.
  
  Let’s be clear here in general our water is very good and there is a few cluster fuck councils who are either too small, too incompetent or both aka Wellington Water. How about the Govt just focuses on those first and even brings in statutory management in the case of Wellington.
  
  But know the rest of Councils who do their actual jobs get smashed as well.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:06am
  - tknorriss
    
    Yes. What my suggestion above shows is that 3 Waters is nothing about saving money because there are much simpler ways of doing that. But it is really all about power and control.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:26am
    - leoj
      
      …..plus a huge money source for the maori elite.
      
      It’s a maori takeover – plain and simple.
      
      When will Luxon and Seymour have the guts to say so?
      
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      April 15, 2023 10:41am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Now if only Hastings City Council (incl. Havelock North) had chlorinated its water supply, we wouldn’t be having this reform.
    
    Why is the entire Water supply & disposal system of the nation being sold down the drain because one Council was lax in regulating its water delivery system?
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:17am
- Chuck Bird
  
  What you say makes sense. Something similar is done with regional roads. Sometimes the cost is shared.
  
  Labour is arguing cost savings can be made by economy of size. That worked good with 100,000 houses – not
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:07am
- Swifty
  
  Would never fly with the Maori elite-controlled Labour Party – in fact would be at the bottom of any list of options.
  
  For the simple fact that it doesn’t give elite Maori control of our water assets, doesn’t give them more opportunities for payola for consents – nor does it give them the ability to command water royalties down the track.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:12am
  - leoj
    
    Correction: The Affordable Water Act DOES give elite Maori control of our water assets, DOES give them more opportunities for payola for consents, DOES give them the ability to command water royalties down the track.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:45am
    - Swifty
      
      My reply to tknorriss was why his suggestion about directly funding councils for water infrastructure wouldn’t fly with those in power today.
      
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      April 15, 2023 12:04pm
- Nickc2
  
  IMO, the Govt should lend money to Councils whose water and associated infrastructure is sub-standard, monitor the planning and spending of the money, and ensure they repay the money plus interest.
  Race, greed, and elitism should not ever interfere with or be part of our water system! It’s an essential of life, nobody owns it, and nobody should be denied it.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:22am
- Ruawai
  
  tknorriss for minister of local government in the next government.
  
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  April 15, 2023 10:34am
- NothingLeft
  
  I think all council borrowing should be divided up and slapped on each individual property/ratepayer – with low interest rate that govt can borrow at, so that each ratepayer can chose to pay off their part of it on their own schedule (or let interest accrue). And any time a property is sold the council debt on that property should be settled up.
  
  Key thing is that ratepayers should be confronted immediately with size of council borrowing – and councils would receive much stronger push to not live beyond their means.
  
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  April 15, 2023 2:10pm
DeepBlue

The election is in 6 months. Assuming campaigning starts in early September there are only 39 sitting days left. Take out a week for the budget and reply, Chippy is running out of time to do anything this year other than to announce deferrals… eg Three Waters until 2026.
What a useless government!(Mind you I don’t want him to do any of Jacinda’s ambitious programme).
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April 15, 2023 9:03am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  What, 39 sitting days? They said at the beginning of the year there was only 42 days this cycle remaining, one week was canned for weak government over the storm, and they have sat about 15 days so far
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:57am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Thank God for Labour’s incompetence such they are unable to legislate to put their programme into effect.
  
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  April 15, 2023 6:52pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Another Candace Owens in the making?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEH3E1s7hQ0
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April 15, 2023 9:04am
Sparrow

Good Morning KBs, I have a question ? Living rural I have my own water supply from the sky into my tanks. So have not been overly interested in all the 3Waters or whatever its now called discussions as believing it has no impact on me. Am I correct ?
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April 15, 2023 9:15am
- Nickc2
  
  I think so, but don’t let the likes of Mahuta Corp, the Govt, and/or your local Council know who you are.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:27am
- MCōs
  
  Quite correct, which makes me wonder why anti 3 water signs can be seen out in the middle of nowhere.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:47am
  - CJames
    
    A lot of those were farms so would have a bore supplying their tanks. That well, if small, would be under general authorisation from regional council. If bigger (typically 15m3 per day round this way) it needs a specific consent.
    So the bores would come under 5 Waters
    
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    April 15, 2023 9:59am
    - Paulus
      
      Come now ! – I know it is Saturday but 5 Waters yesterday is 10 Waters today.
      Think 10 new bureacracies and who will run them, along with the 10 new Boards, 50% Maori, and 50% elected (but could be elected Maori too).
      Wow New Empires !
      
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      April 15, 2023 10:13am
      - CJames
        
        No Paulus, still 5 waters (storm, potable, waste, geothermal, coastal (and the extra for taking the piss)) but 10 boards. Be easier to give them half each.
        
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        April 15, 2023 1:23pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    @MCos-
    
    “why anti 3 water signs can be seen out in the middle of nowhere.”
    Because many well informed rural people, contrary to the urban view that we are just greedy farmers only out for ourselves, actually care about how these expensive, cumbersome and divisive schemes are going to impact the general population.
    I have seen the “Stop Three Waters” signs on several rural roadsides round here.
    Is that a problem? Are rural people allowed to make their voices heard ?
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:03am
  - Nickc2
    
    If you put em up in urban areas, the council pulls em down, and/or Labour voters deface em.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:13am
  - Burtland
    
    maybe they irrigate, maybe they have water races, maybe they have bores, maybe they are diary ghost farms
    
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    April 15, 2023 12:53pm
- Matt Long
  
  As long as you don’t rent your property out.
  
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  April 15, 2023 10:09am
- Ruawai
  
  Rural people often still pay rates for water and sewage even though we don’t use these services.
  
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  April 15, 2023 10:39am
- leoj
  
  According to the maori elite, all water is THEIR water so they will still clip the ticket while you collect the water.
  
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  April 15, 2023 10:50am
  - Close Hen Counters
    
    And I bet when something goes wrong with the water – flooding, pollution, tsunami…. They won’t be at all helpful
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:28am
- gravedodger
  
  Hi Sparrow, not sure about tanks but if a property owner creates a pond/dam/reservoir on their freehold land the stored water comes under the jurisdiction of the. Regional Council and subject to their use laws and rules. I am assuming that RC control will now be passed to Te Arowai whatever and Chair Tipa Mahuta will have Maori sticky fingers all over it.
  We desperately need New Zealand to wake up and stop the entire maorification of the staff of life.
  
  Alas it may already be too bloody late?
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:04am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  No,
  
  1.
  The Government will be sending around a Health & Safety rep to check your tanks and delivery pipes annually.
  
  (Service fee…)
  
  2. You will be required to submit samples of your drinking water at 3 monthly intervals to National Laboratories where they will be tested for chemical and microbiological contamination.
  
  (large fee/sample)
  
  3. You will be required to meet with mana whenua on occasions (at their convenience) to determine if your tanks are interrupting the wairua of the fluvial flow through the whenua.
  (koha)
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:26am
  - Gravelroad
    
    @MW-
    Will there be any inspections ,regulations, health and safety requirements, increased sampling, personal monetary fines etc around water contaminated by illegal drug use eg meth, heroin?
    If not, why not?
    As a non drug user, I don’t want my water contamination by meth waste – thanks all the same.
    
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    April 15, 2023 12:08pm
  - Sparrow
    
    Hi Maggy and others for your replies. Maggy I hope you are taking the piss with your reply. Although how things are going in NZ you could be correct.
    
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    April 15, 2023 1:42pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Yeah, it’s hard to satire this crowd.
      
      Labour, putting comedians out of work since forever.
      
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      April 15, 2023 6:55pm
Bridgenag

What’s Causing Adverse Health Effects? Today in New York, It’s Ozone
“The New York State Department of Health recommends that individuals consider limiting strenuous outdoors physical activity to reduce the risk of adverse health effects”

https://open.substack.com/pub/tessa/p/whats-causing-adverse-health-effects?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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April 15, 2023 9:24am
Yvette

Random question – before my last morning med: coffee

What portion of trees, planted to sequester carbon, end up as “slash” to be flood-stacked against bridges and so take them out along with other infrastructure, to litter farmland not eroded away through lack of other trees, and to litter river valleys, flood plains and plank beaches for kilometres, and to foul the ocean, rather than rotting on the forest floor to release their carbon, and in the case of pine, to kill the soil beneath them?
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April 15, 2023 9:30am
- Nickc2
  
  Good question Yvette.
  BTW, what’re Forestry Companies paying for the privilege of causing such destruction?
  I seriously doubt they are paying anything, there’re too many fingers in the pie and some egos could be further bruised (Green & Ex-Labour Ministers).
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:34am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The Forestry companies convicted for sending slash into our streams and rivers and beaches and farms and orchards have been fined a pittance to date.
    (in the order of a few hundred thousand dollars)
    They’ve not been instructed to clear up their sites.
    
    https://www.gdc.govt.nz/council/news/2022-news/ernslaw-to-pay-5th-forestry-company-fined
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/forestry-company-ordered-to-pay-100000-to-pair-for-terrifying-ordeal/7JWFIDDBVNFP3A3INCFK74A6NI/
    
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    April 15, 2023 4:23pm
- Piniwi
  
  But Y it might not be a problem for most as they are planting them on previously quality farm land. Only in a country that enjoys an abundance of food could such a dumb idea be born.
  
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  April 15, 2023 12:53pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What portion of trees, planted to sequester carbon, end up as “slash
  
  Anywhere from 30-50 % of a harvested tree.
  Poor quality trees will have been thinned to ground level (or left to die and fall).
  
  Pine litter doesn’t kill the soil… and definitely not on the soils developing on the young geology of most of NZ.
  Yes, pine litter is acidic, but so is the leaf litter of our native beeches, rimu, kauri etc….
  
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  April 15, 2023 2:05pm
Ghost

Damn, greedy people

A couple who initially wanted $50 million because their luxury car did not have a towbar, as advertised, have failed in their compensation bid.

They later reduced the claim to $100,000, but it was still rejected.

The dealer who sold the couple the car, Armstrong Prestige Auckland, has been ordered to install a towbar on the top-of-the-line SUV at its own cost.

Stuff
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April 15, 2023 9:40am
- Swifty
  
  Not sure about greedy, although I can’t discount it, more likely some sort of insanity.
  
  $50 million?
  
  Who do they think they are? Where do they think they are?
  
  They are on some sort of different planet.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:53am
  - Nickc2
    
    I saw a Rolls Royce SUV on Constellation Drive (Akld) the other day. Geez, if only I hadn’t pissed all my money up against the wall eh?
    Dream on Nick . . . . .
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:38am
    - Bridgenag
      
      Went in one owned by zillionaire in California….like a big tank…all the timber work inside cracking.. Awful electronics….
      
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      April 15, 2023 1:18pm
- gravedodger
  
  Come down to 1% of the original claim and it would still buy a lot of beer, even after the Lawyers cut?
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:07am
- Southern Raider
  
  Almost all late model Mercedes in Auckland are owned by Chinese. This would be the third media article about a Chinese couple having issues with an expensive Mercedes in last 2 months. You would think Armstrongs and Mercedes would learn to look after their target market.
  
  Just about got taken out by a brand new Bentley this week on Southern Motorway by a driver who was wearing a sun visor inside the car and gloves and a mask. No wonder they can’t seen where they are going
  
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  April 15, 2023 12:48pm
Ghost

On Monday America First Legal revealed that the Biden White House was involved in the unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.

The DOJ and Biden White House then lied about their efforts.

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April 15, 2023 9:44am
- Nickc2
  
  It’s also coming home to roost with the White House that the US blew up the Nord II Pipeline.
  Perhaps that’s why Hapless Joe fled to Ireland?
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:43am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This is going to be long. Some of the IT types my like this.
It was emailed to me. There is a rumble video link that I will dig out.

How they did the fiddle on the Brandon vote

“… there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known” (Mat 10:26).

And Democrats insist this was the most secure election in history.

Watch video of how simple it is to flip vote results and not be detected… (delete add)

Cybersecurity Expert Confirms SQL Software on Voting Machines and Manipulation of Votes on Dominion Machines – Rocci Stucci Show

In 2020 Democrats warned of the ability to cheat using the voting machines offered by Dominion and machines that are equipped with SQL software.

After President Trump set a new record for votes for a sitting president there were multiple late-night vote drops in swing states and in the end, they claimed Joe Biden received 81 million votes.

….Last week, cybersecurity expert Mark Cook proved how machines with SQL and Dominion voting machines could be manipulated to switch votes and add votes in order to undermine an election.

Moreover, he proved how this could be done without leaving a trace of the manipulation. On the Conservative Daily Podcast, Cook used an exact copy of the Dominion Voting software that was used in Mesa County, Colorado. He used that demonstration to prove two ways the election could be “fixed” in favor of Democrats.

The first issue demonstrated is that there is software that can manipulate the database used in elections using the SQL system which is not certified to be used in elections.

THE REPORT:

After the forensic examination of 16 Dominion Voting machines in Antrim, Co. MI, Allied Security Operations Group has concluded that the Dominion Voting machines were assigned a 68.05% error rate.

DePerno explained that when ballots are put through the machine, a whopping 68.05% error rate means that 68.05% of the ballots are sent for bulk adjudication, which means they collect the ballots in a folder. “The ballots are sent somewhere where people in another location can change the vote,” DePerno explained.

This software allows back-end access that bypasses any security and logging/tracking features that would and should exist in the application software itself.

… Cook only had to click on the software from the Start Menu of the Windows operating system, click the Connect button, then was allowed access to the voting system database without having to enter any special password. After a few more clicks and four key presses on the keyboard, Cook was able to flip the results of an election.

The second critical issue demonstrated is the existence of a second back-door program, a single file hidden among the over 416,000 files on the server. This program allows direct manipulation of the voting system database also in an un-traceable manner. … another critical issue, Cook shows how simply just plugging in a pre-programmed USB stick could leverage this utility to alter the results in the SQL database contained on the Election Management System.

….Below are two demonstrations Cook performed … In the first example, Cook is able to insert the USB stick. You then seen a command prompt appear and run the script to manipulate the database. …

….In the second demonstration below, Cook uses a smartphone to manipulate the database with relative ease. He states that he didn’t even put a password in to access the management software.

… ‘how on earth did someone set up a system that is this insecure? That the citizens think it’s actually secure. And the election officials are sitting there telling their friends and family and their citizens that they represent that the systems are secure when they are lying without even knowing it.”

And Democrats insist this was the most secure election in history. Russian history perhaps but not in American history.
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April 15, 2023 9:49am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The link did not work. It is here:
  https://roccistuccishow.com/cybersecurity-expert-confirms-sql-software-on-voting-machines-and-manipulation-of-votes-on-dominion-machines/
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:51am
  - leoj
    
    Will DPF have the courage to make this post a major topic for discussion.
    
    Also, when will this clip show on TV News in USA and the world?
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:36am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I may send it to DPF.
      
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      April 15, 2023 2:36pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  This means the 2020 Election was won by Trump?
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:54am
  - Paulus
    
    Was not won by Biden !
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:15am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yeah! With 81 million votes!
      Watch the video. The USB system means even an idiot like me could switch vote numbers!
      
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      April 15, 2023 10:22am
    - kowtow
      
      Was won by the tech billionaires who funded the far left unions who organised the ballot harvesters.
      
      This is all documented by Time Magazine.Only they don’t say it was stolen , they say it was saved.
      
      For who ?
      
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      April 15, 2023 2:20pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        For who? Soros!. When he dies there are many socialist Sons to carry on.
        
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        April 15, 2023 2:51pm
- RichardX
  
  Steve, Do you believe Fox will use “truth” as a defence in the billion dollar plus defamation suit being bought by Dominion?
  
  If not, why not?
  
  We will find out shortly.
  
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  April 15, 2023 9:57am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    There are quite a few on this blog that I don’t engage with. You are one.
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:04am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    “Being bought” – interesting. Freudian slip or statement of fact?
    
    🤡
    
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    April 15, 2023 10:13am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      That would be fact – it is how the left work.
      
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      April 15, 2023 10:23am
    - RichardX
      
      Yes…if you can’t argue with the reasoning, you can always point out a spelling mistake.
      
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      April 15, 2023 12:04pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        I wasn’t arguing about anything, I simply found the faux pas amusing due to the context of the comment.
        Take a chill pill. 😎
        
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        April 16, 2023 7:11am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @ Clan, see why I won’t engage with him?
        
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        April 16, 2023 8:56am
  - leoj
    
    All Fox has to do is show this clip to the judge.
    
    Case closed.
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:38am
    - RichardX
      
      What possible reason could Fox have for not using it?
      
      Maybe you should start considering that question.
      
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      April 15, 2023 12:05pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        [Mod – deleted, everyone is welcome here]
        
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        April 15, 2023 2:55pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I must have got that comment wrong
        
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        April 15, 2023 3:28pm
      - RichardX
        
        Steve Otto(North Shore)
        There are quite a few on this blog that I don’t engage with. You are one.
        
        APRIL 15, 2023 10:04AM
        
        You can’t even get that right.
        
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        April 15, 2023 10:37pm
BeaB

Total incompetence, reckless extravagance and absolute self-righteousness. What a ghastly combination and what a legacy we’ll live with for decades after this dreadful Labour government has long gone.
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April 15, 2023 10:22am
- Philview
  
  They aren’t gone yet, just imagine what life will be like with a coalition of Labour/Greens/TPM
  
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  April 15, 2023 3:56pm
Ghost

Lucky we are such a wealthy country. Oh wait, we aren’t.

For sale Auckland, going cheap prepared to throw in Wellington for free. Lucky bidder will also have ownership of those that live there

Taxpayers are forking out $1.2 million a week to keep the wheels turning on the Government’s $14.6 billion light rail project in Auckland.

Auckland Light Rail (ALR) is paying about $920,000 a week to two engineering companies to plan and design the central city-to-airport light rail project and a further $310,000 to its own contractors and consultants.

NZ Herald
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April 15, 2023 10:22am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Lolly scramble, fill yer boots
  
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  April 15, 2023 10:25am
- Jack5
  
  New Zealand must be the world’s best market for consultancy firms.
  
  However, it should make it easier for National-ACT to bring “the books” into balance after the election. No severance payments or employment hearings.
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:20am
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    Inflation should reduce when many of the consultants lose their jobs/income.
    
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    April 15, 2023 12:56pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “New Zealand must be the world’s best payed market for consultancy firms.
    
    FIFY
    
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    April 15, 2023 3:23pm
- Taieri
  
  All in the South are happy today. The Government reversed the $10 million cut to the new hospital budget.
  Hallelujah!
  
  So instead of an original $90 million cut we have only a $80 million one. Who said that our Government doesn’t care and doesn’t listen to the People?…
  
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  April 15, 2023 12:33pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/co-governance-is-simply-code-for-tribal-rebellion/
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April 15, 2023 10:30am
ClanMcleod

Professor Norman Fenton highlights the insanity of net zero by 2050.
Using a UK government funded project, (https://ukfires.org/absolute-zero/) he points out the realities involved in any attempt to actually achieve this insane target.

My twitter thread highlighted the eye-watering points that the strategy required:

All airports in the U.K. except Heathrow, Belfast and Glasgow to close by 2030.

No flying at all by 2050.

No new petrol or diesel cars by 2030.

By 2050 road use restricted to 60% of today’s level.

Food, heating and energy restricted to 60% of today’s level by 2050.

Beef and lamb to be phased out by 2050.

I said that, apart from the extreme limitations on personal freedom and travel, this means either a colder, hungrier population or massive depopulation.

Within less than 24 hours the tweet had amassed well over three million impressions (by far the highest I’ve ever achieved).

And, whereas three years solid work undertaking Covid data analysis and exposing the manipulation and flaws of the entire ‘official’ narrative had never led to a single mainstream media article or interview, I was invited on to Laura Ingraham’s popular Fox News show last night to speak about this.

So, although the FIRES report is not new it seems that finally people are waking up to the lunacy of the Government’s Net Zero target and why it is doomed to fail (as explained by Professor Michael Kelly).

At present, the amount of battery storage needed to contain the energy for a jumbo jet crossing the Atlantic is six times the maximum cargo that such a jet can carry today.
Since the total world effort in battery research has improved the energy density of storage by a factor of six since 1970, it would take another 50 years of equally successful research progress, at an historic pace, before a large electric jet could take off even without passengers or cargo!

The covid scam was the precursor to the climate scam. This is the big one. Covid was used to see what the public would tolerate when it came to fear based destruction of human rights. Sadly too many accepted an awful lot.
Here’s hoping enough saw through it to ensure this nonsense gets stopped in it’s tracks instantly.

As Professor Fenton says:

But it’s still a surprise that it is a surprise to so many. All of this is consistent with UN/WEF Agenda 21, the UN ‘World at 2050′ agenda, and the WEF Great Reset with its ‘Build Back Better’ in which you’ll “own nothing and be happy”, and eat bugs instead of meat. Of course ’15 minute cities’ now being pushed everywhere are key to all of this (everything that’s happening now in that respect and how it fits into Agenda 21 was explained in Rosa Koire’s 2011 book – https://www.behindthegreenmask.com/).

As I said in 2021, the Covid lockdowns were always going to be the precursor for climate lockdowns.

Not a conspiracy. It’s happening right now. It’s all connected.
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April 15, 2023 10:44am
- ClanMcleod
  
  As an addendum to that post, Professor Michael Kelly wrote a report for NZ re our “net zero 2050” ideological madness.
  
  http://www.bryanleyland.co.nz/uploads/2/9/7/1/29710909/kelly-nz-net-zero_2022.pdf
  
  Personal view
  
  I hope this report gives the bare facts about what is implied by committing New Zealand to a net-zero emissions economy for 2050. If I am correct, the goal is unattainable and will come at very great cost.
  We need, right now, a meaningful public conversation about the practical implications of trying to achieve net zero within 28 years. We need the Royal Society of New Zealand, Engineering New Zealand, economists, environmental scientists and public policy experts to participate in a serious, open-minded discussion of the engineering, financial and economic realities. The possibility of a renewed focus on adaptation, combined with a realistic
  emissions pathway, should at least be on the table for comparative analysis.
  I think that the hard facts will put a stop to mitigation and lead to a focus on adaptation.
  Mankind has adapted to the world over recent millennia and is better equipped than
  ever to adapt in the coming decades. The Dutch have been showing us for centuries how to deal with sea-level rise. Climate adaptation in the here and now is a much easier sell to the New Zealand citizenry than mitigation.
  There is a very strong case to repeal the net zero emissions legislation, replacing it with achievable goals and realistic timescales. The scope for mis-investment is great and the sums are enormous.
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:03am
  - Taieri
    
    Mankind has adapted to the world over recent millennia
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    Personkind.
    
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    April 15, 2023 12:34pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Apparently the people of the planet identified as men just for that day. Gender fluid and all that…..//
      
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      April 15, 2023 1:32pm
- Burtland
  
  theres also this report by Boston Consulting Group commissioned by the power companies that looks at the costs of electrification of NZ
  
  https://www.bcg.com/publications/2022/climate-change-in-new-zealand
  
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  April 15, 2023 1:05pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    4.5 million EVs by 2050. These people are delusional. There isn’t enough raw material on the whole planet to make the batteries alone, particularly if as seems to be happening, the whole western world is trying to do it at the same time. Then you need the power to charge them on demand.
    Crazy.
    
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    April 15, 2023 1:37pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  So we go de-evolution.
  No food? Guess what the food will be?
  
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  April 15, 2023 3:44pm
DeepBlue

I have covid. I tested because I wanted to know.
I am sick, Day 4. I am staying home because I am too unwell to go out. I would not be welcome anywhere.
I will not tell the government I am sick.
I do not need the government to tell me to stay home.
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April 15, 2023 11:00am
- Ghost
  
  It’s ok, you’ve told the internet, the government now knows you have COVID…….
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:06am
  - DeepBlue
    
    That’s OK. What I meant is I don’t see any reason to officially tell the government.
    
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    April 15, 2023 11:26am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  The only issue is that in the unlikely event you need to see a doctor your primary medical care will be free if you report your positive result. Otherwise you need to pay. Happened to a colleague.
  
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  April 15, 2023 1:40pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Talk about perverse incentives.
    
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    April 15, 2023 2:31pm
- MCōs
  
  Nobody is going to stand outside your front gate and make sure you don’t leave the property.
  
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  April 15, 2023 5:42pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Exactly, so why all the theatre and bullshit? It’s a total joke, every aspect of this regime that refuses to admit it fucked up badly.
    
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    April 15, 2023 8:44pm
Nickc2

FWIW, I saw John Tamahere on TV this morning stating that Maori owned water.
On the same program, the Minister of Local Govt and now I/C 3Waters (Kieran McAnulty) saying co-governance is not part of 3Waters.
What gives?
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April 15, 2023 11:20am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Confusion is a tool the left use. Remember Jaspinda?
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:37am
- Swifty
  
  What gives?
  
  You’re being lied to.
  
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  April 15, 2023 11:59am
Swifty

Here you go petrolheads:

https://www.sundaydrive.co.nz/vehicle/1970-Plymouth-Superbird/7896?s=1

Hmmmmmmm.
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April 15, 2023 12:37pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Good ad. Sorry, I am too old for muscle cars, but I had a few
  
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  April 15, 2023 3:53pm
Flossie

An online quiz this morning says that more than one quarter of Auckland’s population is of Asian descent – 28.2% in fact.
Interesting.
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April 15, 2023 12:42pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

This ship is anchored off Karaka Bay, which is the narrows as ships leave Wellington. There’s another container ship swinging at anchor in the harbour itself, not far from the container wharf. I can’t see any ferry traffic either.

It would appear that the entrance to Wellington harbour is corked.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/131780039/container-ship-breaks-down-in-wellington-harbour
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April 15, 2023 12:43pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Ships are now moving. May be uncorked.
  
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  April 15, 2023 12:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This came by email this morning from Taxpayer’s Union – Jordan Williams.
Link works?
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/taxpayers/mailings/1740/attachments/original/Chris_Bottles_It_-_Weekend_Herald_15_Apr_2023-compressed.pdf?1681507836
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April 15, 2023 12:47pm
Swifty

I notice the great ‘co-governance’ debate is playing out in Aussie as well – and with the same lies, mis-direction, misinformation etc as we see here in NZ.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUgJBK673cg&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D

And all gleefully applauded and supported by Aussie state media too.
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April 15, 2023 1:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Came to me by email.
What’s in the Pfizer Documents?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Y_W_30hsM
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April 15, 2023 1:18pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Norman v Crazy. OK, Sarah Sanders said it but here is Gym (just for you Mike) Jordan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99sri6oHaEk
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April 15, 2023 1:49pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  NORMAL!!!* ffs
  
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  April 15, 2023 1:54pm
ClanMcleod

Cranmer’s Substack addresses the problem with the National Party and their seeming drift from core voters.

The National Party and Conservative Values: A Clash of Interests?
Freedom of expression applies not only to members of the public but also to their elected representatives.

Truer words never spoken.

The National Party’s historic focus on business interests has served it well but in a time of rapid social change occurring at home and abroad it will either need to articulate clear positions on social issues or it will gradually lose support within its traditional base. Freedom of expression applies not only to members of the public but also to their elected representatives. Members of Parliament should be trusted to express personal views in a thoughtful manner even if they may vary from party policy. It may add to the workload of the party leadership and whips but it will demonstrate that the National Party is a broad church that can accommodate a range of views representative of New Zealand.

Somebody make sure Luxon reads this. As the first commenter points out, National should be leading Labour by ten percentage points right now, not struggling for parity.

https://cranmer.substack.com/p/the-national-party-and-conservative
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April 15, 2023 1:50pm
- Philview
  
  Luxon has brought National back in contention by sitting on the fence and the media still call him a right wing fascist. A hard line conservative would destroy National’s election chances.
  
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  April 15, 2023 4:00pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    “back in contention” – against the worst government in NZ history, who’s magic talisman was exposed as a vacuous fraud and did a runner, replaced by a simpering idiot who made a dick of himself and couldn’t define what a woman was…..
    
    Excuse me if I don’t get excited.
    
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    April 16, 2023 4:31am
ClanMcleod

Doubled Pregnancy Loss Rate, Raised Foetal Abnormality Rate and Concentration of Lipid Nanoparticles in Ovaries – How Could They Call This Vaccine ‘Safe’?

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/04/14/doubled-pregnancy-loss-rate-raised-foetal-abnormality-rate-and-concentration-of-lipid-nanoparticles-in-ovaries-how-could-they-call-this-vaccine-safe/

NZ still calls this poison “safe and effective” and still pushes it onto pregnant women.
It is criminal action pure and simple.
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April 15, 2023 1:56pm
ClanMcleod

Don Brash talking to Rodney Hide right now on Reality Check Radio. Talking sense instead of trash like we get on RNZ and the other outlets.

https://realitycheck.radio/
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April 15, 2023 2:59pm
ClanMcleod

Yet another comprehensive, independent study of the data finds conclusively that the COVID mRNA injection is net harmful in terms of mortality.

Once again, main stream media’s silence is conspicuous.

Once again, lack of acknowledgement, let alone forthright admission of abject failure and guilt is deafening on the part of the politicians.

Once again, the medical community is rightly called out for the part they played whilst the trained monkeys clapped and banged their pans in support.

Excellent post on the scope of the disaster we’ve been subjected to.

https://metatron.substack.com/p/forgotten-primum-non-nocere-and-increased
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April 15, 2023 3:18pm
- kevn
  
  @Clan… Guy Hatchard nails it again today. Runs along side your offering.
  
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  April 15, 2023 4:53pm
Ghost

Property developer Chris Meehan has just spent “tens of thousands” running a series of national newspaper ads attacking government “red tape”, and calling for a meeting with Prime Minister Chris Hipkins.

Winton chief executive Meehan is looking to build Sunfield, an eco-friendly, car-free, affordable housing development near Papakura in south Auckland.

Stuff
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April 15, 2023 3:58pm
- Swifty
  
  Just wait until the RMA replacement comes in, then we’ll be truly buggered.
  
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  April 15, 2023 4:15pm
- MCōs
  
  Five thousand car free homes?
  
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  April 15, 2023 4:59pm
Ghost

Hopefully other councils will join in

Community leaders in Canterbury say they are confident of gathering enough support in the regions for a legal challenge to Three Waters.

Both the Timaru and Waimakariri district councils have filed an application in the Court of Appeal after the High Court dismissed a claim on asset ownership declarations earlier this year.

Newshub
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April 15, 2023 5:25pm
info@cruzpro.com

The wife and I own two Nissan LEAF EV’s.

Absolutely love them, which is why we bought the second one.

I just read a concerning article in an IEEE magazine about a problem that mass adoption of EV’s could create.

Disregarding whether NZ could create enough electricity to power all the EV’s that might eventually require power, this article stated that the power transformers that lower the AC voltages to our homes to 220VAC rely on lower night time power usage to cool off. If EV adoption becomes too popular these power transformers will not have time to cool off since most EV’s are charged at night and will start to fail prematurely.

Not sure if this is BS. Perhaps someone who knows can answer.
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April 15, 2023 7:39pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  As per the post I put up earlier on the topic.
  
  This aspect is often overlooked. We know that in parts of Auckland and Wellington, and possibly elsewhere, the infrastructure for the local distribution of electricity is already at full capacity. Historically, a house has a 60-A (ampere) fuse, the standard being set many decades ago when a 13-A stove was the most demanding appliance. In the all-electric home of the future, heat pumps can draw 58 A at startup, while radiant hobs can draw 27 A. Meanwhile, fast (slow) chargers for electric vehicles draw 33 A (12 A), and electric showers draw 33 A. The mains fuses will therefore undoubtedly need upgrading, and the local substations will need to be greatly expanded too. In some configurations, the wiring in houses will need to be upgraded, and new transformers installed in the street to supply the extra currents. It has been estimated to cost £0.7 trillion to carry out this work on local distribution for the UK.7 On a pro-rata household basis, the New Zealand costs would be of order $140 billion: given the lower population density, however, the amount of new distribution will only apply to about half the population, so a reasonable estimate would be around $70 billion. Without this spending, city-dwellers would have to live with frequent power failures.
  
  The whole concept of a fully electrified vehicle fleet is ideological lunacy on steroids. Unless there is some miraculous discovery in the next 30 years that can overcome the laws of thermodynamics.
  
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