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krazykiwi

Some elected representatives are at last waking up to the WHO’s relentless campaign to annex national sovereignty.

To wit: UK Government Ministers “Alarmed” that the WHO Could Gain Powers to Impose Lockdown on U.K., to demand that 5% of Vote Health is spent ‘preparing for the next pandemic’ (which the WHO can arbitrarily declare), and to allow the WHO to mandate of mask, distancing and vaccines.

Dr Diana Sarfati, our Director General of health is currently in Geneva at the 76th World Health Congress, and based on past performance will be acquiescing to the WHO’s plans.

Labour has lazily endorsed this on behalf of New Zealanders, people who gave them no mandate to do so, and our option to withdraw before these treaty condition become binding expires in November 2023.

The only way we escape the WHO’s nefarious plan is to have an incoming government withdraw IMMEDIATELY on taking office, yet I’ve heard nothing from Luxon or Reti on the matter leading me to believe they have no idea what is going on.
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May 27, 2023 8:02am
- Swifty
  
  The left were up in arms at National’s TPPA, saying it ‘took away our sovereignty!’
  
  But it’s fine when they do it.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:18am
- Jim
  
  Noting the incredible percentage of private funding (and therefore influence e.g. B&MGF and big pharmaceutical industry) received by the WHO, every world citizen should be alarmed by such potential global power; especially those who have financial risks tied to private sector businesses (notably tourism and hospitality).
  
  The international credibility of the WHO should be in tatters following its appalling performance over the past three years, with various proven scandals (Wuhan Institute sham investigations) and scientific oscillations concerning even medical basics (e.g. face mask efficacy and vaccine safety). Sadly kk, only those paying attention will understand what I’m referring to. Mankind seems to be sleep walking into a Brave New World.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:23am
- Simon
  
  The only escape is a second passport. Have you not seen how chicken shit National are? National like Labo would be glad to hand as much governance as possible to international global bodies.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:25am
  - Che Guava
    
    And use your second passport to go and live where? Another country under the grip of the oligarchs who use organisatons like the WHO as legitimising fronts?
    
    While citing Yuri Bezmenov is a bit passé: “This is it … you will have nowhere left to defect to.”
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:24am
    - Ra Henare
      
      Simply look thru the list of countries with backbones who
      a) didnnt sign up to that
      b) historically ignore UN rules etc
      mmmmm that would of course include the USA
      
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      May 27, 2023 12:59pm
- Stuart
  
  It is never binding, any NZ govt can tell the WHO where to stick it at any time. But that aside we should still never sign up in the first place, and cut all funding and ties to the corrupt WHO.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:27am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    As long as enough citizens are prepared to refuse to comply with any such mandates, the whole thing will collapse rapidly. But it needs numbers.
    You cannot comply your way out of tyranny, ever.
    But in saying that, it might restore a little bit of trust in our system of government if National were to undertaker to immediately remove us from this sham. I’m fact, that could be enough to guarantee 2 votes from me.
    
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    May 27, 2023 9:55am
    - Che Guava
      
      The reason they had to back off with Covid (remember Covid?) was the higher-than-anticipated levels of resistance. They had to quietly drop it, even though nothing in terms of the virus had changed – its still out there infecting people, but it just isn’t talked about. That is all that changed, which should give people pause to consider how fake and concocted Covidmania actually was.
      
      The Parliament protest and the surrounding sentiments are what ended vax passports, as did similar acts of defiance around the world. The masses saying “no” works, even if it is harder and more inconvenient than meek compliance through cowardice.
      
      They will roll out another “killer” virus again when people have forgotten about 2020-22, so we all have to start deciding now what we are going to do then. I am going to say an emphatic “NO”, just like I did the last time. But with full hindsight, this should be the option any thinking person should also adopt.
      
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      May 27, 2023 10:32am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Che – I hear you, but I believe it was securit actually quite small but very vocal numbers that made the noise. Certainly in my community we were a small minority. To the point when I was leaving to go to the protest, a further good friend said quite seriously to me, “don’t bring anything back”.
        
        I despise what the people in Parliament did to this country, and it wasn’t just Labour.
        
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        May 27, 2023 12:10pm
      - kisekiman
        
        A little reminder of the massive pysop that was perpetrated against all of us. Never forget and never forgive.
        
        https://youtu.be/zI3yU5Z2adI
        
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        May 27, 2023 7:11pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      It always amuses me when people say 2 votes, or 2 ticks etc from me.
      I suspect they have no idea how MMP works and want to do a bit of “”look at me”” posturing.
      
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      May 27, 2023 1:02pm
- redeye
  
  Leighton Smith’s podcast this week had Dr David Bell talking about this very subject. WHO are not a democratic organisation by any stretch of the definition.
  It’s well worth a listen if you haven’t already.
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/podcasts/the-leighton-smith-podcast/leighton-smith-podcast-episode-197-may-24th-2023/
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:31am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Their second biggest funder after the US is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Tells you all you need to know really.
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:00am
    - Ghost
      
      Gates foundation, hmmm, same foundation that is funding Chelsea Clinton’s campaign to get all children vaccinated.
      
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      May 27, 2023 10:09am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Same Foundatio along with the WHO that brought polio back to Africa via vaccine derived infection.
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/02/vaccine-derived-polio-spreads-in-africa-after-defeat-of-wild-virus
        
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        May 27, 2023 10:19am
    - Ra Henare
      
      How about some facts.
      
      https://www.who.int/about/funding
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedros_Adhanom_Ghebreyesus
      
      Sheesh comments here are approaching the mis information/dis information one expects from STUFF.com
      
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      May 27, 2023 1:10pm
      - Ghost
        
        https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/02/03/how-is-the-world-health-organization-funded-and-why-does-it-rely-so-much-on-bill-gates
        
        The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – which still stands strong despite its two co-founders splitting up after 27 years of marriage – said last month it was “not right” for the charity to take on such a big role in funding the World Health Organization (WHO).
        
        Over the years, the billionaire philanthropists have become the WHO’s second biggest donor, making the health agency heavily dependent on their support to keep functioning.
        
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        May 27, 2023 1:20pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Ra – you’re wrong. I highly recommend not looking at Wikipedia for anything other than sports info or pop music. There is plenty of places you can find out about the good “doctor”.
        As for going to the WHO for information. You’re joking aren’t you?
        
        I see ghost had found the relevant information for you.
        I know it’s difficult coming to terms with how much we’ve been lied to in recent years, it’s much worse then you can imagine. Clearly.
        
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        May 27, 2023 8:10pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2020-05-29/gates-foundation-donations-to-who-nearly-match-those-from-us-government
        
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        May 27, 2023 10:31pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/10/5-shocking-facts-about-who-chief-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus/
        
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        May 27, 2023 10:35pm
  - sirknz
    
    Isn’t the current top guy at the WHO a former communist ‘freedom fighter’?
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:01am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.
      I’ll go with the latter.
      
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      May 27, 2023 10:20am
    - mawm
      
      He is not a doctor either.
      
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      May 27, 2023 2:54pm
  - gravedodger
    
    The WHO is as democratic as Co Governance will turn out to be.,
    
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    May 27, 2023 1:32pm
- Che Guava
  
  Luxon will be well aware of the WHO treaty, and if he isn’t, then he is completely incompetent. He just doesn’t want to talk about it, because to talk about it is to reveal it to a wider public.
  
  Make no mistake: a National/ACT government will mask you up, lock you down, and vax you up on the say-so of the WHO, just as readily as a Labour government did. To think otherwise is to be willfully clueless and ignorant of the nature of how global governance affects countries like New Zealand who have no real power to say “no.”
  
  The only group who can say “no” is the citizens of countries who have experienced it all once before, and now should know that it was all about taking away autonomy and imposing/mandating arbitrary behaviour that had nothing to do with virology or medicine or science.
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:13am
  - sirknz
    
    Left wing or right, it’s still the same bird.
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:55am
    - Che Guava
      
      Exactly. To control the opposition, become the opposition. As long as people think that voting within the current paradigm has any real effect, they’ll keep doing it and think that they have popular sovereignty. That is the intention, but the reality is that, to give an analogy, whether you support the Highlanders or the Hurricanes, it doesn’t really matter: they both work for the NZRU. The problem is the NZRU, not the franchises.
      
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      May 27, 2023 11:24am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Here we go.
    
    Now we see the results of Luxon’s intelligence, leadership, and strategic methodology reflected in the polls (including a rise in his personal rating); Labour activists and deluded ACT supporters open new lines of attack.
    
    Luxon will lead the National Party to a landslide victory.
    
    Luxon has:
    – devised a strategy to win the election and fix NZ,
    – cleverly tiptoed through the despicable NZ media minefield by focusing on a few Labour shortfalls most people understand and agree with, limiting the media’s opportunity to attack him,
    – ignored the barbs being fired by his political opponents, the despicable NZ media, the deluded ACT supporters and continued with a strategy he believes will deliver a decisive electoral victory,
    – overseen the creation, tidying up, and presentation of sensible National Party policies which the public is buying into
    – limited his attacks on Labour to a very few salient and undeniable points the public can understand and which are difficult for the despicable NZ media to attack,
    – armed his ministers with a short list of goals National have set for their next term in government which his ministers are repeating at every interview.
    
    If Luxon genuinely has a goal of fixing NZ, he has the pedigree to be one of our greatest prime ministers.
    
    Even if Luxon follows Key’s strategy of maintaining popularity whilst focusing on a few big infrastructure projects and improving productivity in the public service, we will be a lot better off than we are now.
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:56am
    - Sparrow
      
      You are dreaming !!
      
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      May 27, 2023 11:32am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        The anti National and Luxon brigade continue to fail to put forward evidenced reasons for their hatred!
        
        Then, when asked for a superior alternative for us to vote for and why, fail to answer.
        
        NZ voters have learnt from their support of Adern, that voters need to understand political party leader’s abilities to implement change in large organizations, as well as the changes those leaders are promising to implement; before they cast their vote.
        
        Nonsensical arguments like ‘you’re dreaming’ won’t cut the mustard this time.
        
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        May 27, 2023 12:13pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Mark Hanley – their complete and utterly spineless refusal to admit the horrific mistakes during the covid even if more then enough to see them struggle to beat Labour. The diehards, like their politicians, are wilfully avoiding the obvious.
        
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        May 27, 2023 12:26pm
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Clan, picking your fights is an important part of any election campaign.
        
        Not only is the disastrous Labour Party covid response now confined to history, but over 50% of NZ voters thought Labour and Adern did a good covid job.
        
        That said, People like you and I should never forget and should continue to fight for Adern, Bloomfield, et al to face prosecution for financially ruining and poisoning our country in their single minded pursuit of self enrichment.
        
        I have plans post this election to pursue the aforementioned criminals. I’ll need help.
        
        After receiving another email from NZDSOS explaining the tyranny of the lockdowns / covid jab; I emailed back thanking them for the information and asked what they will do about it.
        
        I now see they are advocating holding the perpetrators to account.
        
        Whilst complaining on KB serves an important role, it is useless if KBers don’t look for then actively support solutions.
        
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        May 27, 2023 12:56pm
      - mawm
        
        Mark – it is not confined to history. There are just too many people smarting at the response to covid whether it is a vaccine injury, the loss of a family member or a business, or the attack on individual sovereignty. It will not go away. Luxon could at the very least engage in a conversation and find out what is hurting people, but he just will not. The 50% who supported Ardern’s response will to a very large extent be Labour voters – they voted her in with a simple majority. What percentage of non-Labour voters support the response? That is where Luxon is bleeding support.
        
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        May 27, 2023 3:08pm
      - Mark Hanley
        
        MAWN. I agree with you from a practical point of view which is why I state:
        
        “People like you and I should never forget and should continue to fight for Adern, Bloomfield, et al to face prosecution for financially ruining and poisoning our country in their single minded pursuit of self enrichment.”
        
        However, from a political (electoral) point of view most people have moved on from covid and simply don’t care, or they are too stupid to realize the enormous damage Adern’s covid response caused.
        
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        May 27, 2023 3:25pm
      - Mark Hanley
        
        PS MAWN, I have a $10 bet with Sparrow that I collect if Luxon/National/ACT have a resounding electoral win.
        
        Care to have a wager?
        
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        May 27, 2023 4:42pm
      - mawm
        
        MARK – why would I want a wager. I don’t bet on uncertainties.
        
        BTW I do not like being referred to as a Luxon hater; I do not dislike the man but I’m just a National voter who no longer wants to vote for them because they are not what I want from a Conservative Party. They moved, not me.
        
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        May 27, 2023 7:32pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Mark – there are probably tens of thousands in NZ who will never move on from this betrayal. Are you saying that National are just avoiding this as an election trip wire and at some point in the future they will address it?
        Or are you like so many others wanting us to harden up and take one for the team? Because the problem for most of us is, we may want rid of this government, but at this point in our lives we have no ‘team’.
        Nobody apparently gives a shit about us. Didn’t during the covid shit and don’t now.
        
        That’s all good, I’ve got my big boy pants on. I’ll survive, but I’ll need a better reason than “you have to vote for National or Labour might win.” Because in all reality, I can’t see any difference in any of them.
        Bitter? You have no idea what they all collectively did to so many good people.
        
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        May 27, 2023 9:54pm
      - Ghost
        
        Which is the fight to pick.
        
        Labour, Greens, National, Act. Democrats, Republicans. They are a perception that you are voting for a different party, that you are electing a government. But it’s all part of the scheme. The Covid scam is ending, new governments will get in around the west, the Covid leaders and governments will disappear to make way for the climate scam.
        
        It doesn’t matter who you vote for, the agenda is set, your freedom is an illusion.
        
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        May 27, 2023 10:17pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      And I don’t hate Luxon. I hate that they are so callous about so many peoples lives being destroyed.
      Yeah, I know. ‘greater good” and all that.
      I’ll save my greater good and time and energy for the friends and family who stood by me and mine.
      
      How hard could it possibly be for one of these politicians to simply acknowledge the harm done to so many and express a little sympathy. Instead they carry on with this facade that it was all good and NZ was amazing in the response.
      
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      May 27, 2023 10:02pm
- Paulus
  
  Believe that Ardern is there too, lecturing the World as usual as how clever she is !
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:39am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    She is, along with Andrew Old and the current, mostly invisible DG of Health. Yes, she already gave an inane speech about how amazeballs the WHO are.
    
    It’s so predictable, but so many can’t or won’t see it.
    
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    May 27, 2023 12:23pm
Tomtoddy

Hippie says a Nat/ACT govt will make us all $100K poorer. He ought to know. He’s specialised in making us poor for six years.
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May 27, 2023 8:05am
- slightlyrighty
  
  If he believes this, then he’s an idiot. If he doesn’t believe this, he’s campaigning for the idiot vote.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:12am
  - kowtow
    
    The 2020 election proved it’s worth going for .
    
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    May 27, 2023 8:49am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    The flock of idiots is large, and growing. So it is worth pandering to.
    
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    May 27, 2023 9:52am
  - Paulus
    
    Actually he is only campaigning for the Women’s vote like last time.
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:41am
  - Colville
    
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    Chippie is a liar and happy to lie to morons, of which there are plenty.
    
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    May 27, 2023 2:31pm
- Tricati
  
  It looks like labour haven’t factored in Nationals policy to index tax rates to inflation, so in fact, people are likely to be better off.
  Sepuloni isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed so will struggle when challenged over her claims so may be of an actual benefit to National/ACT. The test will be how Luxon/Wllis use this to their advantage given the amount of debt/borrowing Labour are currently wedded too.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:16am
  - artemisia
    
    And also those who don’t work in those two years and need an income will get some sort of welfare.
    
    Reckon National and Act should ignore the $100k headline apart from show me the money opportunities.
    
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    May 27, 2023 8:38am
  - Prince
    
    Under Labour, allowing people to keep money they earned doesn’t make them better off. The State is so much more efficient at supplying all our needs.
    That’s why our Health/Education systems are so much better than six years ago.
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:40am
    - Piniwi
      
      That sounds like it came straight out of the briefing notes provided to compliant editors every Monday. “That’s why our Health/Education systems are so much better than six years ago.” That is sarcasm right? If not you must have been out of the room when the grown ups have been discussing the failures of Health/Education since 2017. Including the letter sent to 30,000 patients on the waiting list for elective surgery asking if they still need/want the surgery. Or why the had to put $8 million worth of measles vaccine in the incinerator? Failure seems to be built into every new massive amount allocated to Health/Education thus greater amounts due not mean better results. Lol
      
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      May 27, 2023 1:47pm
    - backster
      
      And crimes going down and we feel so much safer!
      
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      May 27, 2023 2:13pm
- sirknz
  
  Are you sure he’s not talking about the Labour back benchers?
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:02am
- nathie
  
  So looks like Labour (and MSM) are ignoring what matters the most to NZers – such as the cost of living and escalating violent crime as well as Labour’s enabling of racial division and Labour’s overspending being a burden for future generations and so on.
  
  Sadly it just goes to show how desperate Labour are as they resort to “attacks” and “character assassinations” – oh dear!
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:52am
  - greybeard
    
    Mate (matess ?), you have summed it up perfectly.
    
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    May 27, 2023 5:55pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yet he mentions the age of pension, but refuses to say it doesn’t start rising till 2037, likewise he is countering some sort of cut in kiwisaver that ACT have suggested, snd possibly won’t even happen, he refuses to take into account all the tax indexation for the next 15 years
  
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  May 27, 2023 11:14am
Flossie

At their gathering this weekend Labour intends to rubbish National’s plan to raise the retirement age to 67. Do they know that’s already the plan in Australia. And to say that we would miss out on $100k is ridiculous. For a start it is going to give a retiree an extra two years of Kiwisaver.
The rest of their “reasoning” is just not worthy of even commenting on.
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May 27, 2023 8:07am
- kowtow
  
  The Whoreald has put that Labour claim on its front page . And surprise the cartoon is another attck on Luxon.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:52am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Kowtow people have seen through the media big time. The Herald and co are simply preaching to the choir now. Having said that a simple side by side of cartoons anti opposition and anti government would be a great illustration of the hopeless bias now gripping our media. National and Act could be doing so much more to expose this nonsense to the less engaged voter.
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:00am
  - Flossie
    
    They closed comments on the article fairly quickly!
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:01am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ” Hipkins will use his time at the podium on Sunday to explain who he is, and his vision for election year and beyond.”
  Is that the same ‘podium of truth’ that the liars use?
  
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  May 27, 2023 9:26am
- PeeJay
  
  The problem with the whole retirement age debate is that it ignores some pretty fundamental issues. While in theory, another two years behind a desk for someone in secure employment shouldn’t be the end of the world, it fails to take into account the massive issues we have with ageism and the physical issues for more manual roles.
  
  I’ve seen it happen to others in the professional sectors with older colleagues – the job offers (even in a booming market) drop to a trickle. I’m not so naive to think that it won’t happen to me when my clock ticks over!
  
  I’ve seen older professionals in engineering / construction become terrified every time there is a restructure – they know if they end up unemployed that could be it – they just won’t be hired. Fine if you have your own business and your experience is seen as a plus, but for a lot of employees in that 50 to 60+ bracket, well I’ve seen the fear on their faces – ageism is real. They might be perfectly happy working to 67 or beyond. The problem is ageism means if they get nudged out in their late 50’s or early 60’s, well 67 could seem a bloody long way off – happy to work, seen as ‘too old’, ‘not with it’, or ‘ok boomer’. Maybe they have a house and the partner still has a well paid job so no dole. It happens and will happen more and more. Few young hipsters like old buggers around the place – and this trend is only going to get worse. Any thoughts on how that’s going to be managed so people can actually continue to work until 67?
  
  During our current ‘jobs crisis’ I knew of several firms that were desperate for staff to do QS roles. I directed some older contacts their way – male and female and really good technical staff – but they weren’t even interviewed. It’s never in writing, and nothing was ever said. But the firms I knew that were looking were the same ‘vibrant / diverse’ firm. I know those really solid QS’ didn’t even get an interview because they were pale & stale. And that was during an employment crisis! What chance those older job seekers as they gain a few more years and the retirement ages is ever further away.
  
  And what about those poor buggers doing hard physical jobs? Even those standing on their feet 40+ house a week? Another 2 years could be bloody hard for them. Some will be fine and will want to work until they drop, some, well their body just can’t take it.
  
  If the reality is the age needs to increase to 67 – fine. But don’t just treat it as an accounting issue – there are a whole load of issues around this and they need some serious thought given to it if it is to work.
  
  So far, I’m not seeing anyone talk about the details and issues. As we’ve seen with this shit-show government of the last 6 years – talky talky does not equal doing – good policy needs bloody hard work and planning to make it actually work. Flash announcements and showing money at ‘the problem’ doesn’t work without the detail behind it.
  
  I’m not convinced any party has really thought long and hard about all the issues, not just the accounting.
  
  But sure. Let’s focus on the age and forget about all the other, horrible things like details. She’ll be right eh?
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:33am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yes, and they refuse to take into account the money NZers will receive with the tax indexation
  
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  May 27, 2023 11:16am
- Ra Henare
  
  Last time I checked.
  It is not compulsory to either retire or keep working.
  Human rights laws, Social welfare etc.
  
  So missing out on $100k????
  That would be a personal choice wouldn’t it?
  
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  May 27, 2023 1:13pm
- Piniwi
  
  But Flossie those rusted on followers along with those who accept every party utterance as the “truth” will only hear that. They work the fear factor hard at every opportunity where the emotive ploy is less effective. Some PR whiz kid has come up with the “Coalition of Cuts” but it pails into insignificance when put beside the “Coalition of Chaos” and we wont have to wait long for the Greens/TPM to reinforce that one. It is a sorry bunch trying to keep the flag waving in the absence of their Leader with Davis and Sepaloni second place holders of their respective rolls.
  
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  May 27, 2023 2:02pm
Southern Raider

Labour going full attack dog after last poll result

Hope Luxon has some competent staffers working on clear and short statements to return the serve

The difficulty for National and Act is most of NZ are financially illiterate. There would even be a reasonable amount who believe Govt spending is from money magically created by the Govt. They also have no concept of the size of our debt

They need to describe labour as that relative you all have who is always broke, lending money off family members, but drives a flash car and has everything they have on hire purchase.
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May 27, 2023 8:19am
- Cinematic
  
  The problem Labour has is the 100k isn’t believable. And the less informed won’t bother trying to figure it out. So it’ll be written off as meaningless. Which is exactly what it is.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:43am
  - Flossie
    
    Written off by whom though? The smart amongst us will know it for what it is, but the lefties will swallow it hook line and sinker.
    
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    May 27, 2023 9:37am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      But they don’t be voting for Nats anyway
      
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      May 27, 2023 11:18am
- rouppe
  
  “First Labour’s numbers don’t include the benefit of the tax changes we will make, which means an 18 year old will in fact be better off by $x.
  
  Second, the Coalition of Chaos caused the collapse of dozens/hundreds/thousands of small businesses, losing those families everything, which will take decades to recover from.
  
  Third, people are having to pay for elective surgeries from their own pockets, costing them tens of thousands of dollars right now, because the Coalition of Chaos has overseen the collapse of the Health system.
  
  Fourth, the appalling education statistics the Coalition of Chaos has generated will limit the earning power of a whole generation, causing greater financial loss than all those put together.”
  
  I’ll let you use that for free…
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:17am
- Paulus
  
  No – all that National has to do to Labour’s attack is to ignore it and not be drawn by the media, who will continue to use everything that they can to condemn National?luxon.
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:44am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Focus on how you’re going to make it better, rather than how mean and awful the other side is (which Labour has resorted to big time since the last poll)
    
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    May 27, 2023 1:04pm
Tomtoddy

This is journalism, 2023. Write articles every day criticising Luxon. Be quite cute, saying he “promises much”, “is working hard”, “he is getting coached” but then undermine him, quote vague sources, criticise his tie and sox, rubbish his policy changes. Niggle, niggle.

Then surprise, surprise, proudly announce he is not doing well in the preferred PM polls. How could that be?
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May 27, 2023 8:22am
- Simon
  
  MSM still describes National as right wing. Some National party types should be happy with that at least. National of course are a dripping wet centre left boosted clown show.
  
  Many in National leadership are upset at being described as right wing. But for branding go along with fake MSM on this one.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:30am
  - Cassandra
    
    “Dripping wet Centre left” is the perfect description for National. Even ACT is not right wing totally eg it’ll retain the welfare system. National has some right wing MPs who no doubt keep quiet most of the time.
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:00am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Many in Nats upset at right wing, what bullshit, they may prefer to be called centre right, but stop the utter bullshit
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:22am
- Gravelroad
  
  @TomT-
  Yep,
  Several offerings to that effect in the media today.
  It is insidious undermining which is seldom, if ever, seen applied to politicians from other parties.
  I don’t recall this level of personal manipulation occurring in other election campaigns.
  Amazing what money can buy in the media these days.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:32am
  - Swifty
    
    Hey Gravel, what are your thoughts on being lectured by 16, 18-year old students that your farming practices are all wrong and that they know better how to farm your piece of land, without even having stepped foot on it?
    
    What choice words might you have for them?
    
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    May 27, 2023 8:57am
    - Gravelroad
      
      @Swifty-
      Ha, they are just kids. They know everything and know nothing.
      We older farmers try to treat our many and varied expert advisors with respect- just a shame they don’t show the same courtesy to us.
      You can’t make a sustained living off the land and produce quality food and fibre products for local and export consumption, without investing in renewables, animal welfare and land management attuned to nature.
      End of story.
      PS- much of the best productive land where I live is now covered with housing subdivisions and vineyards. Both these use a lot of water, diesel machinery and unnatural substances eg sprays.
      How do the students fit their land regeneration theories into that? I was so pleased to see their offers of assistance to show us the correct way……..
      
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      May 27, 2023 9:45am
      - Swifty
        
        Haha.
        
        A very gracious response.
        
        Good on you.
        
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        May 27, 2023 9:48am
      - PeeJay
        
        Reminds me of how my mother-in-law used to mash a few famous quotes together. She always said “never argue with an idiot. Arguing with an idiot is like wrestling with a pig – you’ll both get dirty and the pig likes it”.
        
        Good advice.
        
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        May 27, 2023 10:49am
      - mawm
        
        Gravel – good response. Socrates was onto it too – “Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.”
        
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        May 27, 2023 3:20pm
  - Flossie
    
    Any such personal comments about the previous PM were described as misogynist.
    
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    May 27, 2023 9:00am
  - blue collar
    
    Makes me angry too , this country was about giving anyone a fair go , this is manipulative nefarious bullying
    The answer is to do the opposite of what labour has done .
    Appoint right wing boss , sack all lefty journos and bosses , conditionally fund to promote positives for incumbents and hit jobs on opposition .
    That’s the herald , tv1 and 2 and radio sorted
    
    Next , no govt advertising or funding for stuff .
    That’s them down the gurgler , bye bye
    
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    May 27, 2023 9:01am
    - rouppe
      
      That sounds exactly like what Labour and the hard Left are doing now.
      
      So while I understand your anger, I disagree that is the way forward.
      
      Just remove government funding from media and let them stand on their own. Victoria University shows what will then happen
      
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      May 27, 2023 11:05am
  - Ghost
    
    Were you asleep during the key government and the constant hit pieces against national and the occasional hit piece against his kids. Or the free ride that Helen would get while national got hit pieces. Nothing new going on, just maybe people are noticing it more now
    
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    May 27, 2023 9:20am
    - Blog-aholic
      
      There was even a lovely rap song from a chap that described how John Keys daughter was going to be raped……the left lapped that up.
      
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      May 27, 2023 9:29am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      Ghost I think people are noticing now because they’re attempting to defend a government that’s indefensible.
      
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      May 27, 2023 11:08am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I think the media vulgarity will be helping Luxon, the poll suggests voters are now engaging in politics, and they are not listening to idiotic media claims
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:25am
- Prince
  
  As demonstrated yesterday by our host, Luxon is doing quite well in the polls. It is Hipkins who is struggling in spite of the daily media coverage.
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:43am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Another 2% drop in preferred pm for Hipkins, and a lift to 20% for Luxon and what will the media have to gripe about?
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:26am
    - Paulus
      
      Doesn’t matter, I will not vote for Luxon –
      he is not my local Candidate anyway, but I will give two blue votes to my candidate to help get rid of the the most pernicious Government we have ever had.
      
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      May 27, 2023 1:41pm
hullkiwi

Proof the more world turns, the more things stay the same!

The US government is yet again heading again to it’s debt ceiling. So, yet again there will be brinkmanship between the Republicans and Democrats up until the final deadline (15th June).

Dumb question, why can’t US governments (irrespective of hue) learn to live within their means.

The US is proof that their politicians are happy to live with an eternal Ponzi scheme, why when it does so much damage?
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May 27, 2023 8:26am
- sirknz
  
  There is a war in Ukraine don’t you know, they have to funnel funds there so that hey can come back and make the politicians in the US wealthy.
  
  Cant do that if they don’t raise the debt ceiling…
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ” why can’t US governments (irrespective of hue) learn to live within their means?”
  
  Well they have this outfit called Democrats. They have been corrupt for decades – maybe 10 decades. Don’t forget 10% for the big guy. Well there are many ‘big guys’ The GOP is not squeaky clean either.
  To live within their means will not happen until the US stops funding other Countries. People are starving and homeless yet they give away billions overseas. So much in supplying Military Defence to Countries who don’t pay for it.
  US funding to UN is US$12Billion. WHO funded US$686Million.
  Trump withdrew a lot of Funding to all sorts of things. Biden reinstalled most. Maybe Joe should clean up his own back yard.
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:27am
  - Flossie
    
    Why doesn’t OUR Finance Minister understand that WE ought to live within our means?
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:47am
  - PeeJay
    
    Come on Steve – I know you hate the Democrats but both sides are equally responsible for this crap.
    
    You right a lot of good stuff on here and I know you are firmly on the right on the US, but the debt shit in the US is both a red and blue issue and has been going on most of my life – and I’m not a young guy anymore.
    
    Pork barreling is as ingrained in the US as gerrymandering districts – both sides are just as bad as the other. For every thing you label against the Democrats, the GOP are just as bad. It’s one of the most democratic countries in the world and one of the most corrupt – their GFC budgets were basically corporate welfare and screw the little guy – and both red and blue signed up for that. A few minutes of research would show you the extent of red & blue shenanigans on the budget.
    
    You’ve got plenty of good hits on the Democrats, many valid, but let’s not pretend the GOP aren’t equally responsible for the almost annual ‘deficit brinkmanship games’.
    
    Debt deal will be reached – usually always is. And regardless of whether it’s the blues or the reds addict to the debt pile, the US debt pile grows and grows.
    
    What is depressing about their debt addiction though is that sooner or late the bills are always due. And a lot of the debt is held by an increasingly assertive and aggressive China.
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:01am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “The GOP is not squeaky clean either.”
      Many many RINOs.
      
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      May 27, 2023 12:11pm
Philview

I have noticed that Stuff have increased their attacks on Chris Luxon in the last few days. Despite sometimes vowing not to read their material I seem to end up back there for a quick perusal. If they see a future by aligning with left wing activism they have made a bad strategic mistake.
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May 27, 2023 8:29am
- Cinematic
  
  Not many joining you Phil. Their readership continues to plummet. Much like the rest of the msm, they’re not anything like the influencers they think they are. Legacy media.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:41am
- Dougal10
  
  $tuff were broke when sold for a dollar , since then most articles are just ChatGP rewrites of dpmc press releases or opinions of ex staffers of labour ministers , who actually don’t appear to be the ex part .
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:57am
  - Colville
    
    I saw an interesting article recently (cant remember where) wondering about who the backers for Stuff were and when they would be outed.
    When we know who the money is behind Ms Boucher then we will know who is calling the shots.
    
    Its the golden rule….
    
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    May 27, 2023 2:37pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Soros?
      
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      May 27, 2023 4:52pm
    - artemisia
      
      Article from Thomas Cranmer on Substack. Always an excellent read. A national treasure!
      
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      May 27, 2023 6:44pm
- Paulus
  
  It is when a poll shows Labour dropping the numbers despite Little Boy from the Hutt who thinks he is wunnerful.
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:47am
Maggy Wassilieff

How’s Wellington this weekend, folks?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/05/decision-2023-labour-faithful-gather-for-election-year-conference-what-might-the-party-have-in-store.html
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May 27, 2023 8:32am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  How’s Wellington?
  Pissing down, appropriately for the occasion.
  
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  May 27, 2023 8:50am
  - blue collar
    
    Hopefully there’s 50 climate freaks glued to the road btw the airport and wherever the hell the trough is
    
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    May 27, 2023 9:23am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      If only
      
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      May 27, 2023 6:27pm
  - rouppe
    
    Ain’t raining in Porirua
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:11am
- mandk
  
  How’s Wellington this weekend?
  
  Just like every weekend; getting more and more shabby.
  
  Take a trip from Manners Street, along Courtenay Place, up Kent Terrace, along Adelaide Road and through Newtown, to see what I mean.
  
  And it won’t improve until there is better policing (I don’t envy the cops) and until LGWM is put away for good. No one is going to invest along that corridor until the planning uncertainty is removed.
  
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  May 27, 2023 9:05am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Yes, best avoided. The beggars in the street, the boarded up shops, and the drunk and drugged scum down pigeon park from the MSD “emergency” housing.
    
    Even the street lights are falling like autumn leaves because the council in its wisdom took on the design risk. Everything Council touches turns to shit, quite apposite, as it is running down the streets.
    
    Lets get Wellington Moving! I did, never looked back, quality of life is far better.
    
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    May 27, 2023 9:57am
  - Inandout
    
    man, Wellington is heading for the unenviable title of the ‘San Francisco of the South Pacific’. I once enjoyed a casual drive through that city and hopping on the cable car to enjoy the vista or driving around the bays to arrive at a decent cafe. Parking in the CBD is expensive and the safety of one’s vehicle is an unknown. Such a shame.
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:23am
  - Prince
    
    Walked from Basin to Parliament last week. Must have passed at least 50 beggars along the way, in various states of mental distress.
    What happened to the $1.5B the Govt promised a few years back ?
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:46am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Same as always Maggy. Full of bearded men wearing greatcoats and cloth caps. That’s when they aren’t dressed in spearmint frocks with white gloves. And people in tiny, gloomy bars at night with sunglasses and fedora hats. Cool inner city hipsters who make a living off the Government.
  
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  May 27, 2023 9:22am
- Opie
  
  Raining so hard that the lights are on at kids sports.
  
  An awful place full of awful people
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:11am
hullkiwi

Proof the more the world turns, the more things stay the same 2

British Cycling have baned transsexual males competing at elite levels in competitions against biological women.

….and as sure as day follows night, the British alphabet soup mob denounce British cycling, and claim the decision is discriminatory against transsexuals.

Bottom these people are not women, they are men in Lycra drag. If they want to compete do it against biological men. If feel they can’t compete against men, is it because they know they are not good enough?
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May 27, 2023 8:33am
- Swifty
  
  It’s not just discriminatory hullkiwi, it’s GENOCIDE!
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12128347/Transgender-cyclist-Emily-Bridges-accuses-British-Cycling-genocide-violence.html
  
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  May 27, 2023 9:46am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Oh well. If its genocide, then the genocidaires probably need to follow through – after all how much worse can they be?
    
    An idea, how about a small guillotine on-site when the riders check in.
    
    What sort of bigot could possibly object to this simple, “gender-affirming procedure” ™ ?
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:03am
    - Yvette
      
      … gendercide …
      
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      May 27, 2023 10:33am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Emily Bridges – genocide and violence.
    Needs a head doctor imo. The elevator does not go to the top floor.
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:46am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Sorry, but cry me a river, that trans is full of her own proverbial. I have no sympathy for her, she can quit British cycling, and quit the UK. What makes her so important?
    
    What that trans needs is:
    1. A dictionary, she doesn’t know what genocide means;
    2. A history lesson about who the Nazis were & what they did; and
    3. A biology lesson in human physiology, it is a bloke dressed as a female. “She” matured as a male, and has the muscular body mass of a bloke not a biological female.
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:38am
- Ghost
  
  The solution is easy, we don’t need men and woman’s sports, we get rid of it and bring in two new categories
  
  Category 1 born with a penis
  Category 2 born with a vagina
  
  Simple solution
  
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  May 27, 2023 9:55am
  - nathie
    
    Or maybe category 2 = born with a uterus (or womb).
    
    That’s probably a fairer definition of a woman.
    
    (Plus can’t see trans activists advocating for uterus transplants …. surely)!!
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:00am
    - Flossie
      
      Maybe not yet – but that’ll come in time. I mean – how is it fair for ANY woman not to have the right to menstruate??
      
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      May 27, 2023 3:34pm
  - Mark Hanley
    
    and 2 signs for the toilet doors.
    
    * Have a penis and/or testes
    * Don’t have a penis and testes
    
    Ghost and I just solved the gender debate so no-one has to talk about it ever again!
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:11am
- Taieri
  
  Bottom these people are not women, they are men in Lycra drag.
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  “Designating sex on birth certificates as male or female, and making that information available on the public portion, perpetuates a view that sex designation is permanent and fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity. This type of categorization system also risks stifling an individual’s self-expression and self-identification and contributes to marginalization and minoritization,”
  
  Sandra Adamson Fryhofer MD
  Chair at American Medical Association
  
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  May 27, 2023 1:02pm
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    The same doctors who are perplexed at the epidemic of young people dropping dead of “unexpectedly” now struggle to understand the permanent impact of chromosomes on sex.
    
    The education system is worse than I thought.
    
    But, we wouldn’t want anyone’s self expression stifled would we?
    
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    May 27, 2023 3:01pm
    - mawm
      
      Do you know that Jamie Lee Curtis and Nicole Kidman have XY chromosomes? It’s called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome.
      
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      May 27, 2023 3:30pm
cas

A couple of commenst about he justice system.

I read today of a British couple who murdered their small baby getting 29 and 27 years minimum, Beats any of our sentences. They didn’t seem to get any reduction for the usual things our lot get.

Also heard last night that some of the problems with people not getting jail sentences is because there aren’t enough cells. The judge is given info on how many cells there are and if those who should get a prison sentence exceed the numbers of cells available then they can’t be imprisoned.

So it s community detention and wet bus tickets again.
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May 27, 2023 8:38am
Maggy Wassilieff

Graham Adams dissects the Media’s bias toward Chris Hipkins and Labour

By anyone’s reckoning, it is an extraordinary indulgence to overlook the five years Hipkins spent as part of Ardern’s kitchen Cabinet, especially given his mediocre record in portfolios that included education, health and police.

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/05/graham-adams-o-lucky-man-hipkins-and.html
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May 27, 2023 8:44am
- Flossie
  
  What a shame that isn’t available in MSM.
  
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  May 27, 2023 9:01am
- nathie
  
  Hipkins and Education = Universities and Polytech’s/Te Pukenga are failing.
  
  Hipkins and Health = Health system overloaded, doctors and nurses overworked, burnt out and leaving for Australia.
  
  Oh and $hundreds of million wasted on unnecessary bureaucratic restructuring (delivering zilch for patients).
  
  Hipkins and Police = Crime out of control and Police hands are tied when arresting crims (as the system let’s them off).
  
  MSM Outcome 1 = “We love Chippie” (ignore everything else and ignore his low preferred PM poll ratings)!
  
  MSM Outcome 2 = Attack Luxon (Chippie’s nemesis) and talk up (typically normal) Opposition Leader lower poll results!
  
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  May 27, 2023 11:06am
Hugh Jarse

Janet Wilson in her opinion piece in Stuff today asks why National aren’t ahead more in the Polls, I don’t know maybe it’s the constant negativity against Luxon and National by your media associates Janet, just a thought.
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May 27, 2023 8:45am
- MCōs
  
  I haven’t read her opinion piece along with the vast majority of the population.
  Which mean most people are following their own instincts, which seems to be National don’t look any better able to govern the country.
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:05am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Oh bollocks. Anyone can see this is the least competent government ever and by a considerable margin. I suspect we have a case of the “quiet tory” syndrome that saw the UK pollsters fail spectacularly a few years ago. I expect a sound win or better in October in spite of the best efforts of the legacy media.
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:35am
    - Che Guava
      
      Then look what changed when the Tories got back in: absolutely nothing. I think people expecting a substantive departure by a National government aren’t paying attention.
      
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      May 27, 2023 11:30am
      - septic skeptic
        
        I agree. I’m voting ACT.
        
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        May 27, 2023 5:14pm
    - Mark Hanley
      
      Luxon’s clever strategic approach to winning this election is starting to bear fruit in the polls.
      
      National and Luxon’s popularity will snowball into the election as Luxon continues to ignore the attacks by: Labour spin doctors, the despicable NZ media, and deluded Act supporters; concentrating instead on following his expertly planned electoral strategy.
      
      Luxon’s clever strategic approach has gelled the National party MPs and ensured his Minister’s are all on message.
      
      That is what clever and successful leaders do!
      
      It bodes well for National and ACT’s inevitable stint in the halls of power.
      
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      May 27, 2023 12:01pm
      - artemisia
        
        National has a lot of experience and smarts to draw on both inside and outside the House. They know what they are doing, and also when to admit a wrong turn.
        
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        May 27, 2023 12:11pm
- Che Guava
  
  It’s because National aren’t that appealing. If they are better than the alternative, it isn’t by much. Blaming the media for National’s unpopularity is like constantly blaming Winston Peters for how bad Labour were between 2017-20: yes, it’s a factor, but it also avoids looking at oneself in the mirror.
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:39am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  3% ahead of Labour, and to me that’s almost a 10% higher support
  
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  May 27, 2023 11:30am
  - Che Guava
    
    You would believe that without evidence, given that you are one of the biggest parochial supporters of the National Party regardless of anything they say or do. Interestingly, you even used to be a parochial Labour supporter (as I recall from your own past admission), up until National moved leftward into the position formerly occupied by a similarly left-sliding Labour.
    
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    May 27, 2023 12:16pm
    - Mark Hanley
      
      crikey Che, that is quite an ironic call.
      
      Looking at your comments today I don’t see evidence based logical arguments;
      
      I do see baseless accusations, mud slinging, and attacks on: politicians, KB commenters, the National Party.
      
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      May 27, 2023 12:40pm
  - Colville
    
    In support of G…
    its a small margin now but its the long term trend that matters… half a percent..maybe a percent a month… to go from 52/48 now (Nat, ACT/Lab, Gn, M) to 56/44 by October is a big deal.
    
    That would leave the house split 70/50 in our favour.
    
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    May 27, 2023 2:46pm
artemisia

About those showers. There will be households who don’t realise the cost of longer showers and electric heating, especially larger families. They could usefully be better informed.

But how about targeted not sprayed. For example, 127,800 special needs grants in April. Assuming all or most have an interview first so why not ask for a couple of power bills to open a discussion about showers etc.
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May 27, 2023 9:05am
- Ghost
  
  They are targeted to everyone getting a winter energy bonus
  
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  May 27, 2023 9:16am
- Paulus
  
  Easy – lower the sprinkler head !
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:49am
Bridgenag

Friday Funnies: A Dangerous High Tolerance for Lies
Lies; lies, damn lies, and statistics.

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/friday-funnies-a-dangerous-high-tolerance?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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May 27, 2023 9:10am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

Strong letter to Ginny Anderson, and Andrew Coster. These two woke people will di nothing. They probably wont even reply.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/hugh-perrett-writes-fiery-email-to-police-minister-about-levin-police-failure/
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May 27, 2023 9:50am
- Cassandra
  
  Coster should be looking at the job ads. As should the chain of command for Levin. This is appalling.
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:06am
  - Inandout
    
    Cass, the polls/election will reflect the residents’ feelings.
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:32am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Unbelievable that the Cops never asked the big Maori lady in pink for her name.
    A few good things here. Apparently if you give someone a note that they are trespassing, they have been served a “trespass notice” and the Police are compelled to remove them.
    Remember that if it happens again.
    Welcome to Co-Governance. This is what could be coming. You will be bullied by racist Maori Tribes.
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:58am
- thirteenstars
  
  If the police can’t do their job, then members of the public have to start doing it for them.
  
  Motorist handcuffed and detained by UK Police for removing Just Stop Oil protestors who were blocking traffic.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUBRUZ41wIk
  
  Video of incident starts at :34
  
  And how Germany handles exactly the same thing:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwZmv4MsebQ
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:48am
- stiff cheese
  
  We gave a man’s job to a choir boy.
  
  Result: Albert Park. Police refused to protect a peaceful, lawful assembly of women from a snarling pack of brutes.
  
  That was unbelievable to me.
  
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  May 27, 2023 1:39pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Those bastard Police were hiding around the corner on the orders of someone else higher up. WHO??
    The other thing is the Police may have been part of ‘creating news’ for TV1 and TV3 reporters and cameramen/women.
    The Police did not do as the Police did overseas. Separate the supporters from the protesters, and protect all from the speaker, Posie Parker. I wanted to hear her speak.
    Protesters organised by that freak Shaneel Lal.
    
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    May 28, 2023 10:05am
Maggie Pie

Good on Sanitarium for the stand they’ve taken on not allowing Ruby Tui to put pressure on to include the ‘Rainbow Flag’ on her WeetBix card.
Where does this all end?
It would be like Arron Smith insisting his card include the ‘Special Olympics’ logo, after he was discovered having sex with a disabled woman in the toilet at Chch airport.

Just saying.
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May 27, 2023 10:16am
- greybeard
  
  I thought Sanitarium were open to discussions but NZRFU turned it down ?
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:29am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Hmmm. Sounds like Sanitarium haven’t kept abreast of the ‘Budd Lite’ saga?
    
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    May 27, 2023 10:34am
    - Jack5
      
      Sanitarium’s owner, the Seventh Day Adventist Church, has views on LGBT etc.
      
      https://www.hrc.org/resources/stances-of-faiths-on-lgbt-issues-seventh-day-adventist-church
      
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      May 27, 2023 1:21pm
- thirteenstars
  
  Ouch.
  
  Sanitarium’s stand is not surprising given they are actually a charity run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:29am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, after the Bud Light and Target income losses maybe Sanitarium are spooked. I rarely eat weetbix or other manufactured cereals but many other consumers do.
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:35am
- Gravelroad
  
  @MP-
  According to Heather DPA on her programme yesterday around 4.15pm, Sanitarium (or whoever makes weetbix) had made no comment or decision on this issue.
  It was NZ Rugby which said no to Ruby Tui re her request to have a rainbow/LGBT…emblem on her card.
  And this was because they were concerned that it would open the door to others wanting specific advertising material included on the cards.
  
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  May 27, 2023 10:59am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Thnx for clarifying Gravs. Must admit I only had half an ear on the tranny this morning when Andy Savile was talking with Lame Jack. I may have gotten the wrong end of the stik.
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:09am
- kowtow
  
  The front page of the Whoreald was dominated by this beat up.
  
  They also came out in support of Tui in their editorial , stating under the heading “Cowardly rugby move over the Rainbow”
  
  “But the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community are not simply a matter of political discussion-they are fundamental human rights.
  And many in the community are still facing discrimination.”
  
  I wonder what ‘discrimination” is faced and where the paper and indeed Tui stand on men playing/particpating in women’s and girl’s sports .
  
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  May 27, 2023 11:22am
- MCōs
  
  The woman Smith had sex with was not disabled.
  
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  May 27, 2023 11:36am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    What about afterwoods 😀
    
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    May 27, 2023 11:46am
    - MCōs
      
      Did you learn spelling at school?
      Afterwards
      
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      May 27, 2023 11:54am
      - artemisia
        
        Whoosh.
        
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        May 27, 2023 12:04pm
      - kevn
        
        @mcos… Did you learn civility?
        
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        May 27, 2023 12:49pm
      - Jack5
        
        Maggie P. was using a pun, wasn’t she?
        
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        May 27, 2023 1:17pm
      - kowtow
        
        kevn
        
        He needs to find a sense of humour.
        
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        May 27, 2023 1:29pm
      - MCōs
        
        She
        
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        May 27, 2023 2:20pm
    - Colville
      
      Smith was only doing pushups…
      
      She was just giving him a soft thing to push against…
      
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      May 27, 2023 2:50pm
Chuck Bird

Newshub Nation was worth watching this morning. They gave a good plug for Mark Cameron. They also had a woman from early childcare who rubbished what Labour did about extra childcare hours. There were strings attached.

There are also having a go against raising the super are to 67. The news should be soon.
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May 27, 2023 10:48am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://valiantnews.com/2023/05/desantis-accused-of-copying-trumps-2020-sotu-address-in-campaign-video/

Not really. But something else that Trump said to DeSantis:

“Just ahead of the DeSantis announcement, Trump formally congratulated the Florida governor and hinted that his opponent may not be fully capable of battling the “Marxists, Communists, and Radical Left,” who he says are “far worse than the leaders of hostile foreign countries.””

Far worse than leaders of hostile Countries. Yes, I believe that. Same in NZ on a smaller scale. Remember, Labour in 2023 are not the Labour of yesteryear. They are nasty and corrupt, and tell lies that you would not believe. Some lies caught up – and she ran!
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May 27, 2023 11:18am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Famous former child actor Ricky Schroder. I have never heard of him, but he needs to be careful or he will get disappeared. It is not just Hollywood, it includes the Political Elites. Poor guy seemed to be quite distressed making his video.

https://valiantnews.com/2023/05/former-child-actor-claims-he-experienced-satanic-cult-in-hollywood/
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May 27, 2023 11:29am
rouppe

The Herald have posted about Kelvin Davis’ speech, at the Labour congress being held at Te Papa, warning of the “coalition of cuts”.

Isn’t this the same guy with the bizarre poem reading?
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May 27, 2023 11:33am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Kari Lake. Going to play the Democrats at their own game.
“We will turn up to a knife fight with a gun, not a knife OK?”
She is chasing Ballots. One Judge has been the continuing problem for her.

https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1661107147638456320

Gaslighting by the media:
https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1661121391280947209?
Over 300,000 ballots checked at the rate of 3 seconds each for signature verification. Impossible.

Trump is also onto it. Ballot harvesting just like the let do.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1647910945778200579
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May 27, 2023 11:43am
Tom Hunter

Every time I think the US government can’t get more corrupt something like this happens, and as with the discussion above this is not so much about Democrat vs GOP but about a giant state of institutions that pretty much do what they want.

The IRS and journalist Matt Taibbi, where they opened a case on him on Christmas Eve (normally you’d say they must be hard workers to be working on that day), and then turned up on his door the day he was testifying to Congress:

“[The IRS examination] was a three-year-old case, and I didn’t owe them any money. So all of those factors combined to make the optics of this really strange. You would wonder what supervisor would be calling an agent on a Saturday and asking him to come into work to open up a case.”

The only good news is that apparently he’s owed a substantial refund!! 🙂
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May 27, 2023 11:57am
stiff cheese

Re the news last week that our children’s literacy has fallen many places on the world rankings .. so they’re making some changes:

It sounds like Phonics is back in vogue for teaching reading but they can’t CALL it that because that would be too much egg on the face of our local Education GURUS — so now it’s called “Structured Literacy”.

Remember when Phonics was how we did it back in the nineties, until they scrapped it for the new “Whole Language” method? We bragged about it to the world.
What a success it was, said the propagandists.

Unfortunately for California, their teaching profession got sucked into the hype. However, after a year or two of adopting “Whole Language”, they realized it was a flop and dumped it.

But what did we do? Our educators stubbornly soldiered on with the new method. The Ministry of Education wouldn’t back down. Too embarrassing you see, and why would they when ‘the customers’ didn’t have the choice of taking away their tax money to pay for their own Phonics teachers.

Now I expect our rankings to improve, and then the new generation of educators will take the credit “because Structured Literacy works!” (which actually, is just Phonics re-branded, maybe with a few tweaks added so they can claim it’s “different”).
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May 27, 2023 12:00pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  They’ve dumped the stupid “Whole Language” model in New York City as well – and apologised. Phonics for the win:
  
  The chancellor of New York City Schools, David C. Banks, announced a dramatic overhaul of the city’s reading curricula on Tuesday. He admitted that the current system, which is based on progressive ideas of “whole language” instruction, is “fundamentally flawed” and scientifically unsound.
  
  “It’s not your fault. It’s not your child’s fault. It was our fault,” he said of New York’s disastrous reading scores, which show that only 49 percent of children in New York public schools are proficient in reading. “This is the beginning of a massive turnaround.”
  
  Unusually blunt language for a bureaucrat.
  
  Incidentally, in case you’re concerned about this effort being derailed by cunning teachers who nod in public and screw the rules in private, the propaganda effort known as “balanced literacy” has also specifically been given the boot, since it was only ever a facade created as the attacks from phonics supporters grew in the 1990’s; it claimed to merge the two approaches, but in fact hardly used phonics at all. I have to wonder if “Structured Literacy” is the same stunt.
  
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  May 27, 2023 1:08pm
Chuck Bird

Does anyone know how the rules work for an MP to call another MP a liar outside of Parliament? They do it in Oz. Dutton called Albo a liar when he promised to lower power prices by $275/yr.
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May 27, 2023 12:19pm
- Che Guava
  
  Isn’t it self-evident?
  
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  May 27, 2023 12:22pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    No.
    
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    May 27, 2023 1:09pm
    - Che Guava
      
      I thought the implication too was self-evident, but let me add for you Chuck “…that MPs are liars.”
      
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      May 27, 2023 1:16pm
- Xquenda Choudhury
  
  There are no “rules” outside of Parliament. MPs are subject to the same laws as everyone else.
  
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  May 27, 2023 1:26pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Thank you. I assume you mean defamation.
    
    I would hope that our opposition leaders would call the likes of Robertson out when he tells lies or half-truths.
    
    Roberson claimed that Act’s policy was to cut winter energy payments to seniors. Act’s policy was to mean test them. IMHO Roberson at best was deliberately misleading andat wrose lying.
    
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    May 27, 2023 2:22pm
    - Chris Nisbet
      
      If you squint your eyes, poke your tongue in your cheek, and twist his words just right, I’m sure Grant’s words could be construed as truth.
      He’s been a politician for years, after all.
      
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      May 27, 2023 3:23pm
    - Ghost
      
      Means testing seniors will still cut it to some seniors and that sound bite is all Robertson needs.
      
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      May 27, 2023 3:29pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        That is a worry. They would have to have a very high bar at least to start with or they would be out a long time.
        
        I remember back in the mid-60s universal super was at 65 with no means test and you could get means-tested super at 60.
        
        After that Muldoon brought in universal super from 60. That had to be gradually increased to 65.
        
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        May 27, 2023 7:21pm
    - artemisia
      
      A few years back, Mary Holm wrote a column in response to several people saying that over 65s still working should not get NZ Super, or at least be means tested. She talked to IRD who said the cost of this would exceed the savings. So more economic to retain universality.
      
      Perhaps ACT has a winter energy means test benefit/cost analysis in the back pocket. Good to know if it has been done, and that it will be on the table before the election.
      
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      May 27, 2023 6:32pm
BeaB

How to vote? Slippery Chris or Solid Chris?
Easy.
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May 27, 2023 12:19pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  How about Honest David.
  
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  May 27, 2023 12:24pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    That’s the David who said last week that nobody had been killed by the vaccines?
    
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    May 27, 2023 12:42pm
    - H. Upmann
      
      So you are happy to tick a Chris?
      
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      May 27, 2023 12:46pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        No idea at this stage who will get my vote, of anyone does. We’ll see who says and does what in the next few months.
        
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        May 27, 2023 10:04pm
    - Che Guava
      
      Seymour should tell that to Rory Nairn – and he’s just the one we know about for sure, and it defies reason and the laws of probability that he is the only one.
      
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      May 27, 2023 1:18pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Source please.
      
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      May 27, 2023 1:42pm
      - Ghost
        
        https://realitycheck.radio/david-seymour-on-the-important-issues-of-our-times/
        
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        May 27, 2023 1:50pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        I spent over an hour listening to the interview with Paul Brennan. I heard some things of interest but the quote “David who said last week that nobody had been killed by the vaccines?” was not there.
        
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        May 27, 2023 3:36pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Direct quote from him in an email to someone I know. He posted some garbage link that purports to show excess mortality is due to covid. It’s provably utter bollocks. Then said this
        
        … Now presenter with this evidence, you’d either say, ‘hmmm, it looks like the vaccine didn’t kill people, COVID did, I was wrong,’ or you’d keep clinging to total lunacy. Up to you I guess.
        
        I believe it was sent to a number of people, possibly a form letter from a staff member?
        The “total lunacy” comment was doing the rounds on a number of social media sites.
        
        If he didn’t say it then he needs to state so publicly, retract and apologise to the Nairn family, and the many others dead or injured due to this experimental jab.
        If he did say it he’s just another waste of space that a vote would be wasted on.
        
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        May 27, 2023 10:16pm
Maggie Pie

Sounds like this government even want to control how people urinate!

THIS FROM THE BORT & PAID FOR ‘NZ HERALD’

Should men sit down to pee?

Other than outlining the numerous health-benefits, they also go on to say…..in Germany, they call them “sitzpinklers” – a term designed to poke fun at their masculinity.

TBH, I wouldn’t be so quick to judge. My partner went to his GP recently about a pain in his back. He was advised not to lift anything heavy.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1661909523462750209
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May 27, 2023 1:18pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

She left the left. Why did she hate Trump? A protester, a sheep. Never fact checked anything, she was spoon fed lies. She was angry because others were angry. Fake News!

https://www.facebook.com/transformedwithtiana/videos/755130851502509/
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May 27, 2023 1:19pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  When asked questions, she knew she hated Trump, but could not come up with a reason why.
  
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  May 27, 2023 1:21pm
Sparrow

So pleased Mark you enjoyed (sarc) my stuffed up quote from that great Aussie film The Castle.
What you are saying makes a lot sense to people that frequent this blog and indeed myself and you are expecting the electorate to have similar thinking. I hate to disillusion you but the vast majority of people are thinking about how are they going to stretch their money etc etc. Not whether Luxon is a good Manager or not its going to be the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know or like myself I don’t trust any of the bastards so searching around for an alternative if there are any.
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May 27, 2023 2:48pm
- Mark Hanley
  
  Sparrow, fancy a wager?
  
  $1000 says Luxon / National ‘ ACT enjoy a resounding election win!
  
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  May 27, 2023 3:34pm
  - Sparrow
    
    Hi Mark, I am not in the $1000 league. How about $10. ?
    
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    May 27, 2023 3:59pm
    - Mark Hanley
      
      $10 bet accepted.
      
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      May 27, 2023 4:37pm
  - rockape
    
    You have to define resounding, my guess as a guide is National 40%, ACT 15%.
    
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    May 27, 2023 4:57pm
MCōs

We we’re heading towards the SW MW the other day when about ten King Cobra motorbikes went straight through the red lights and pushed in front of us. One guy stopped his bike dead in front of us until his mates passed through.
They then just spread across the MW at about seventy k’s holding every one up.
Kind of showboating really.
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May 27, 2023 3:05pm
- nathie
  
  Crikey MCos you should have been driving a car like this one:
  
  https://youtu.be/cd5OF160G_M?t=16
  
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  May 27, 2023 5:48pm
kowtow

Police now facilitating gang show of power and law breaking. ( dressed up as a funeral)

“Members of the Mongrel Mob led a funeral procession from St Clair around Dunedin city yesterday.About 40 vehicles, including at least one with its registration number taped over, were involved.”

See video .
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/paying-their-respects

We live in a country of general lawlessness and no one in authority seems to care.
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May 27, 2023 3:50pm
Maggie Pie

Can’t find it now, but ‘Soft Tail’ posted a comment here on GD a couple of days ago in reference to…. TARGET.

Now I see where Elon Musk has also raised a question about the same organisation. Wonder if they’re related?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1662291539635126272
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May 27, 2023 3:56pm
Jack5

Hooray to National’s Simeon Brown fpr making a stand on the Road Transport mob Maorifying road signs.

English is the world lingua franca, and foreign tourists on many roads will far outnumber Maori speaker-readers, who also can read English.

A Red Radio report in a typical Leftist style, gives Brown a paragraph or two then dredges up opposition to his view.

The RNZ report cites Belgium as a country with more than one language on its road signs.
Road signs’ complexity is an issue in Belgium, and legislators have evem discussed adding English signage.

Belgium has three official languages (apart from its two languages for the deaf) plus seven minority languages.

Picard, the language of Picardy, spoken by about 2 per cent of Belgians (i.e. by a quarter of a million people), is probably nearest in equivalent size to the number of people who speak Maori in NZ. I doubt there are road signs in the language of Picardy.

As the general election nears, expect hysteria about Maori language from State radio, State TV, and from Labour’s subsidised print media.

Red Radio’s take on Simeon Brown’s view:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/490741/they-should-be-in-english-national-to-ditch-te-reo-maori-traffic-signs

Belgian road signs chaos:

https://www.archyde.com/understanding-belgiums-complicated-road-signs-from-luik-to-liege-and-beyond/

AND Belgium discussion (2014)on road signs in English:

https://www.thebulletin.be/belgian-road-signs-may-soon-be-english
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May 27, 2023 4:34pm
- Ghost
  
  To add to this here are some of the proposed signs
  
  https://www.nzta.govt.nz/media-releases/next-set-of-bilingual-signs-released-for-public-consultation/
  
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  May 27, 2023 4:41pm
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    I am against adding Maori language to the road signs, but if you do please put the English first.
    
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    May 27, 2023 4:59pm
    - greybeard
      
      I am against adding Maori language to the road signs
      
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      May 27, 2023 6:21pm
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    The news release says it is released for public consultation. I had to work hard to find out how you could actually add input. The questinairre that comes up is self serving. Instead of asking whether you agree or disagree the questionnaire asks questions like:
    
    “Do you think that the public and active transport family of signs present a good opportunity to achieve the goal of incorporating more te reo Māori onto Aotearoa New Zealand’s transport network?”
    
    It is not possible to answer the question without saying yes. You are not asked if you think it’s a good idea.
    
    The questionnaire goes on and on asking pretty much the same thing over and over.
    
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    May 27, 2023 5:28pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Links to the consultation
      
      https://www.nzta.govt.nz/about-us/consultations/he-tohu-huarahi-maori-bilingual-traffic-signs-consultation/consultation-materials-english/
      
      and questionnaire-submission
      https://nzta.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eb7ykNEf7jx8fyu
      
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      May 27, 2023 7:28pm
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        Interesting that after you spend the time to answer each of the questions you are not asked to identify yourself. No name or email request.
        
        Someone could easily go there multiple times and skew the results.
        
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        May 27, 2023 7:32pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        skew the results.
        
        Worry not, the result is pre-determined.
        
        Consultation is a formality only.
        
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        May 27, 2023 8:30pm
    - Ghost
      
      I think bilingual signs are a great idea
      
      Ah, sorry officer I couldn’t understand what the sign said and I only had time to read the mumbo jumbo at the top
      
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      May 27, 2023 8:42pm
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        The Kiwiblog moderators are amazing. Still doing their work at 8:42 PM. If ever in Whangarei I would like to shout you a beer or two.
        
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        May 27, 2023 8:53pm
  - artemisia
    
    Open for public ‘consultation’. Proposed signs carefully curated so the more ridiculous ones can be dropped. And the others quietly erected.
    
    Apparently (TVOne News) there has been a huge amount of research done. Perhaps by volunteers? Yeah right.
    
    Unless there is a change of government shortly.
    
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    May 27, 2023 6:38pm
- Jack5
  
  Which will work best? “Stop!” or “whakakati!”?
  
  Red Radio (RNZ) ups the ante in its coverage of Maori road signage.
  
  It now has a comment from Maori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. She comments that the National Party “should go back to school if it thinks including Maori language on road signs is confusing”.
  
  Digging, I find that in November 2020, the web site reported Stuart Crosby, president of Local Government New Zealand, defending Maori on road signs.
  
  “It supports locals becoming more familiar with te reo Maori and it’s a poing of difference for New Zealand [for tourists],” Crosby said.
  
  😠Are my Christchurch City Council rates supporting this organisation, which also has been backing the Three Waters nationalisation?
  
  But really, putting an endangered indigenous language on road signs for tourists?
  
  If any second language were a drawcard on signs in tourist areas, standardised Chinese would be best. That’s where, after Australia, most of our tourists come from.
  
  PS: Thank you Moderator for moving my post from the wrong thread.
  
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  May 27, 2023 5:10pm
  - Ghost
    
    You stupid woman, it is a road, not a place of education. A moment distraction by a stupid sign can cost a life. Oh and btw, if you are telling someone to go back to school if they think Māori is confusing, that is actually the place to learn to read and speak Māori, not on the road. Idiot
    
    Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said having the language included on road signs will help those in the process of learning te reo.
    
    “This is an environment where there’s more non-Māori learning reo than we ever had in the history of Aotearoa. It’s important that we embrace our nation hood, including our indigenous people and our language.”
    
    “We spent a long time trying to make sure we don’t lose our language, so having our culture in our roads is not just about helping those who are fluent Māori speakers, but so those who are in our education system learning reo can see it reflected around our environment.”
    
    She said Brown should go back to school if he thought te reo Māori on road signs was confusing.
    
    Article
    
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    May 27, 2023 9:19pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/132164037/loafers-lodge-victims-remain-at-5-after-detailed-police-search
So why were there news items saying that the could be dozens of fatalities ?

In pictures: ‘Once-in-a-decade’ fire breaks out in Wellington hostel
07:43, May 16 2023
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Wellington mayor at fire scene
• Current Time 0:02
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Duration 0:54

DAVID UNWIN/ STUFF
An overnight fire at Loafer Lodge, in Newtown, has killed an unknown number of people. Wellington City mayor Tory Whanau gives an update.
A fire broke out at Wellington’s Loafers Lodge hostel in Newtown overnight. Dozens of people are feared dead, FENZ has called it a ‘multiple-fatality’ event.
Here are some pictures and videos of the incident.

Live: Dozens of people feared dead in Wellington hostel fire
07:53, May 16 2023

Is this a case of (a) misinformation (b) disinformation (c) outright F**king lying by the so-called “news media” ?
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- Ghost
  
  Because the media aren’t great with facts?
  
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  May 27, 2023 4:45pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Sounds like the 11 or so who were still missing a couple of days ago managed to escape but don’t want to admit they lived there.
    
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    May 27, 2023 5:01pm
Tasman devil

Robbo:
Prime Minister the plebs can’t afford
to buy food.

What should they do?

Boy from the Hutt:
Let them eat sausage rolls.
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Maggie Pie

“We are looking forward to our next Prime Minister Elect being…. a ginga from the Hutt”

– Dep PM Marama Davison (Lab Party Conference 2023)

😀 😀 😀

[BATZ = NB.]
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- Ghost
  
  Ginga from the hutt? Are you saying prince harry is married to Jabba the Hutt ?
  
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  May 27, 2023 6:22pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Me gain.
    
    😀
    
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    May 27, 2023 7:08pm
Tasman devil

Robbo:
Prime Minister shall we set up a Give a
Little page to feed the plebs?

Boy from the Hutt:
We need to form a working
group and get KPMG to look
this. Will only cost the usual
$5 million and will report in
24 months by which time
most of the plebs have gone to
Australia.

Simple. Like Kelvin. Mean time Megan
is not to be photographed eating sausage rolls.
Understood?

Robbo:
We need to have that conversation.
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