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Matt Long

Lots of climate news today, Britain wakes up to reality a bit.
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/08/02/uk-caves-to-fossil-fuel-industry-by-embracing-carbon-capture/
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August 4, 2023 8:03am
- Matt Long
  
  SA is awake to reality but will do nothing.
  Load shedding is great new-speak for cutting power to consumers when most needed.
  https://businesstech.co.za/news/energy/708500/new-low-for-load-shedding-in-south-africa/
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:06am
  - Matt Long
    
    And the Australian consumer watchdog says zero emissions vehicles is misleading.
    https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/electric-cars-arent-zero-emissions-australian-consumer-watchdog
    
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    August 4, 2023 8:07am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      They run on coal and natural gas.
      
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      August 4, 2023 8:58am
      - Phronesis
        
        My car is IC (Internal Combustion) powered. My neighbours Tesla is also IC (Indonesian Coal) powered.
        
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        August 4, 2023 10:20am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Well done Phronesis.
        
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        August 4, 2023 2:50pm
  - cmm
    
    SA load shedding has reduced a lot as this year has progressed, but that is not a good thing.
    
    The reason load shedding has reduced is that the demand for electricity has gone down as electricity-dependent companies have just given up and closed their doors.
    
    Electricity demand is now about 25% less than it was 15 years ago with a much smaller population.
    
    This is of course hurting the ailing economy.
    
    Unemployment is around 40% and far higher amongst the hot-headed, and over-entitled, youth. These people are ripe for revolution. They are exactly the people that the EFF is targeting with their “kill the boer” stuff.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:03am
    - alloytoo
      
      My wife’s uncle’s small manufacturing business in Capetown has gone under because not only does “Load shedding” effect his business, if effects his entire supply chain.
      
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      August 4, 2023 9:25am
      - cmm
        
        Yup, and there go another 20 to 50 jobs…
        
        There’s a massive chain reaction when a business closes:
        * If it is supplying other businesses, they might now close do to supply chain issues.
        * If it is being supplied by others, they might close because their customers have gone away.
        * One less bus driver required to drive the ex-employees to work.
        * The ex-employees no longer go down to the greasy spoon at lunch time for take aways. One burger flipper/ server has to be fired there.
        * One less courier driver needed.
        …
        
        It’s a real mess. And it can really only end one way.
        
        It is interesting that the US foreign affairs woman that always seems to visit just before arab spring type uprisings is currently (or was recently) in SA.
        
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        August 4, 2023 1:21pm
    - Chris Nisbet
      
      Yeah, but the important thing is that their CO2 emissions are down. /s.
      People like James Shaw want to get rid of our coal-fired generation, and must be wishing NZ could follow SA’s lead.
      
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      August 4, 2023 9:37am
      - Skippytony
        
        They should move there then
        
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        August 4, 2023 10:23am
      - cmm
        
        Jimmy Shaw’s sister is married to a billionaire in Cape Town. He has more than enough information to know that he’s being a fuckwit.
        
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        August 4, 2023 11:30am
- Scott
  
  Meanwhile in Europe – “There’s already huge pressure on the grid as a result of Europe’s green policies, he pointed out: “The electrification of transport, heating and industry, has coincided with more irregular supply from renewable sources like wind turbines and solar fields.”
  https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-cities-fight-keep-lights-on-extreme-weather-climate-crisis-energy-blackout/?fbclid=IwAR3EOZbpry4hjXucQT37bxbIhaKhpjYMHbdPF1IxeVAN9Bw80wLNrLB_J00
  
  Europe and Great Britain have invested many many millions of dollars on solar and wind. The fact of the matter is that when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining you get nothing from solar and wind. Here in Masterton this morning the wind isn’t blowing and there is very weak sunlight. But people still are going to want their hot showers, turn on the heat pumps, boil the jug and put bread in the toaster. So you need fossil fuel when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining.
  
  It seems that solar and wind are also very weak sources of energy. So without fossil fuel you are going to have blackouts? I think we are wasting money on solar and wind. We do need alternative sources of energy but they are not it. They are weak sources of energy and they are unreliable and intermittent. They produce electricity less than one half of the time. How can we run an economy on that?
  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/why-wind-and-solar-will-never-work-2.php
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:15am
  - Ehlana
    
    Sounds like wet-back wood fired ranges might be making a comeback. And perhaps we’ll go back to bath night once a week instead of twice daily long hot showers. I even heard someone suggesting mending clothes instead of throwing them away.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:10am
    - Grumpy Silver Haired Female
      
      In the olden days… I agree, but it seems that a large proportion of the population were never taught to sew (men and women alike) so have no idea even that clothes can be mended, let alone how to go about it.
      Maybe not weekly baths, but alternate days for showers and no showers over the weekend, as elderly people in rest homes are forced to endure, due to lack of staff. And that’s another story.
      
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      August 4, 2023 11:58am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Listening to RCR today it appears over a thousand Mum & Dad run rest homes have gone out of business in NZ under the watch of this govt. Apparently they found themselves running at a loss.
        
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        August 4, 2023 8:44pm
  - alloytoo
    
    If the world is “Boiling” one has to wonder why we haven’t embarked on a massive Nuclear expansion program.
    
    By every statistic nuclear is the most reliable power available and nuclear plants last 3-4 longer than wind and solar.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:29am
    - Che Guava
      
      Because it’s not about reducing emissions in itself and replacing existing generation and output with other “climate friendly” means, it is about emotionally manipulating people into accepting that they will have less and be able to do less, and that these reductions will be mandated by law. The manipulated “response” to the “Covid emergency” is no different in practical effect to the manipulated “response” to the “climate emergency.” They are both part of the same project to herd the credulous cattle towards accepting a control grid and greater systematic regimentation of their lives.
      
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      August 4, 2023 10:26am
      - mawm
        
        It’s all for the “common good”, for “fairness” and “reparations for colonialism”. //s
        
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        August 4, 2023 11:57am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      You mentioned that bad word again. Now you done gone and made all the Greens rolling around on the floor with anxiety attacks.
      
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      August 4, 2023 10:34am
    - Tom Hunter
      
      If the world is “Boiling” one has to wonder why we haven’t embarked on a massive Nuclear expansion program.
      
      Around 2010/2011 here on Kiwiblog I ran an estimate that to replace the global coal-burning power stations that then existed with nuclear power stations the world would have to build eleven per month (assuming each one being twice the size of the average US nuclear fleet) for ten years.
      
      There was no sign of such a crash program then, nor is there today. And we’ve lost more than a decade and the global coal-burning has increased.
      
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      August 4, 2023 1:15pm
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    This morning, Transpower indicated that wind was supplying about 1/10 of what coal/gas were. Sometimes it’s even less.
    Wind/Solar are OK I guess, but only if they compete with decent sources of generation on a level playing field, and don’t make our grid (more) fragile.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:42am
    - alloytoo
      
      Wind is occasionally good for pumping water and solar is good for charging batteries on Cell towers.
      
      Oh and on groovy garden solar lights.
      
      That’s about all.
      
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      August 4, 2023 10:13am
      - mawm
        
        Ask any live aboard yachtie about the struggle with generating enough power to charge their batteries, the on going maintenance of those batteries and having enough power to run even the least of what we have become used to to lead a modern life. This is a microcosm of what they are trying to achieve with renewables.
        
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        August 4, 2023 12:04pm
    - Grumpy Silver Haired Female
      
      This conversation is ignoring that most of our electricity is generated by Hydro dams, and geothermal power stations.
      see https://www.andritz.com
      Hydropower is the main renewable energy source in New Zealand, supplying 62% of the country’s total, with wind turbines supplying 4% and geothermal 18%. The remainder is mainly supplied by gas and a small amount by a large coal-fired power station located near New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland.
      
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      August 4, 2023 12:04pm
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Don’t worry Scott Labour have a plan to make sure there isn’t an Economy left to run. You see it all makes sense .
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:43am
Don Beckett

That global warming is a real bugger – quite a solid frost in Matua this morning, That’s 3 frosts so far for the year, which makes it a frostier year than last year. Hottest month ever ? Hahaha.
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August 4, 2023 8:05am
- Simon
  
  That mad turd from the UN stating the age of boiling has been reached. No one in NZ votes for these UN nutjobs but they send orders to NZ govt none the less.
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:13am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    They don’t send orders. New Zealand signed up to the UNFCCC and for 25 years has led the charge on many of its rules.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:00am
    - mawm
      
      I think I’ll advise Winston to add leaving the UN to an anti covid vaccine stance. It’s sure to win him an extra 10%. //s
      
      The current Secretary General of the UN is António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres. Prior to that he belonged to the Portuguese Socialist Party and was the prime minister of Portugal.
      
      The current Director General of the WHO is Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , a member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front which is a leftist, ethnic nationalist, paramilitary group, and the former ruling party of Ethiopia. He held the positions of Minister of Health and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
      
      Our past governments, without our consent, have surrendered our sovereignty to these socialist organisations.
      
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      August 4, 2023 12:30pm
  - John Loveridge
    
    The UN has long since ceased to be an organisation of cooperation between nations and instead seeks to be an unelected world government. I’m not sure that I want to live on an Earth, boiling or otherwise, with that histrionic Spaniard in charge. Thinking of moving to Mars.
    
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    August 4, 2023 10:11am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Meanwhile the IPCC has a new head who is telling people to stop the hysterical alarmist BS. I wonder how long before the cancel complex get him shut down.
    
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    August 4, 2023 8:48pm
- CJames
  
  Remember the way they do the maths can make it warmer. They often use the average – really not a true average, just max plus min, divided by two. Frost in the morning with fine day afterwards may have a higher average than grey all day.
  That is disregarding those sites that used to be rural but are now urban with a heat island, and the adjusting downwards of the past by “corrections”
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:18am
- Benedict Yu
  
  There is a light frost in Christchurch today. However it has been a very mild winter.
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:58am
  - Cinematic
    
    Not so in Auckland. We’re entering a period of several years of cold winters. Be warmer in the other hemisphere.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:09am
  - Scott
    
    But is that just the weather? Yesterday and the day before were bitterly cold here in Masterton. We also just had the worst summer, the coolest, most wet and cloudy summer in living memory. Given “global boiling” that doesn’t seem to make much sense?
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:10am
    - Chris Nisbet
      
      Cold in a region is just weather. Warm in a region is clear evidence of global warming.
      /s.
      
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      August 4, 2023 9:46am
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    Lucky ChCh.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:44am
  - Ghost
    
    Same down here, usually the ground is frozen solid for a good part of winter, not this year. Hopefully a warmer summer than the last several years is on the way, been coolish with snow on the hills the last several summers.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:52am
    - waikatosinger
      
      The oceans surrounding NZ are currently a bit warmer than usual because we are experiencing the tail end of a La Nina. Expect things to cool down locally next year.
      
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      August 4, 2023 10:08am
Ehlana

Happy Friday!

Today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. I suggest those for morning tea, as I don’t think they’ll go so well with National White Wine Day, which you’ll probably want to celebrate later on.
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August 4, 2023 8:07am
- Random T Person
  
  Probably?
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:37am
  - Ehlana
    
    You probably have to go to work first.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:13am
    - Random T Person
      
      Probably.
      
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      August 4, 2023 9:15am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  National days. Now where is that Mike troll?
  Is he having a holiday?
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:03am
  - GazzaW
    
    Maybe he has finally been excommunicated.
    
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    August 4, 2023 3:52pm
    - Observer of Life
      
      Gazza: His bosses have run out of funding.
      
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      August 4, 2023 10:19pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    It’s summer in Europe.
    
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    August 4, 2023 8:22pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  I say Labour voted down the Paid Parental Leave Bill out of sheer spite that they facing losing the election. Its another sign that theyare a feral venal nasty bunch of bastards and bitches. They dont know who to lose gracefully because they have no breeding. They were dragged up not bought up. I say may they all rot in hell slowly.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:15am
  - greybeard
    
    By the look of them, some were not dragged-up, they were inflated.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:29am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Then they took a shellacking from Willis about the shame they put on families that try to work as a team for years, shame on you she managed to get onto the tv news, she pointed out you can still work and breast feed at work, she has worked through having 4 kids by the look one after another going by their ages.
    
    The it takes a village bullshit when Ardern was having her kid is such a joke, Ruth Richardson was minister of finance had a kid on Friday, and was back at parliament on Monday, there were no crèches in parliament then
    
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    August 4, 2023 10:21am
- Jack5
  
  Is “Ehlana” the latest iteration of poster Mike/Milky?
  
  “This day in history” has been a popular theme/subject/trope of Milky’s.
  
  Chocolate Chip Cookies, long a popular biscuit in NZ, were invented in America in 1938.
  
  Our version’s from Griffins, which began as a flour mill in Nelson in 1864. Griffins is now owned by Intersnack, of Germany, and Universal Robina Corporation, of the Philippines.
  
  Universal Robina is part of Summit Holdings, one of the biggest groups in that country. Investments include airlines, banks, real estate, and telecommunications.
  
  As you nibble on your biscuit, Milky, ponder on that trivia you didn’t need to know.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:20am
  - Ehlana
    
    No, but I will admit to borrowing the idea. It makes a nice light change from more serious subjects.
    
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    August 4, 2023 11:26am
    - Jack5
      
      😞 Sorry Ehlana, sorry Milky!
      
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      August 4, 2023 11:37am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Will the anti cat league do an RCD?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/03/cyprus-cats-to-be-given-human-covid-medications-after-thousands-die-from-feline-variant?
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August 4, 2023 8:08am
BarryB

Ukraine war update…………
Well theres not much to say really. The Ukraine offensive continues to do not much. It seems that so far the Ukraine ground forces have not yet got over the first of the Russian defense lines. This is becoming a problem for Zelenskyy –
and will become a bigger problem – as hes not making any positive use of all the western aid that he has received.
Putin is in not much of a better position with the Russians suffering a few problems as a result of the drone attacks.
Putin has said – at the African summit hes hosting – that they are ready to talk but Zelenskyy says hes not ready to talk – yet.

Something that has come up is that Russia is starting to claim that the eastern areas of Ukraine that Russia is occupying and which is the area that Russia says is ‘part of Russia’, following so called referendum, is ‘Rusian territory’.
Combine this with the claim of a Russian figure that ‘attacks on Russian territory’ could result in the use of battlefield nuclear weapons – is a new approach.

Meanwhile the Ukraine continues to be wrecked, its infrastructure smashed up, Ukrainians displaced and killed, the grain export industry halted and more Ukrainians flee the country – all because Zelenskyy wants to join NATO.

But at the recent conference in Vilnius (I think) NATO said ‘drop dead – now is not the right time’ , and in fact it has never been the right time. NATO isn’t so stupid as to want WWIII.

Whats the prognosis then. Its most probable that the Ukrainian Offensive will go no where, the West will start turning off the aid supply (its not actual aid – its all a loan), Ukraine will not get back any of its lost territory and the big loser will be the Ukrainian people. And I would not be surprised if Zelenskyy finishes up a bit like Mussolini. These eastern Europeans get a bit nasty when they conclude that they’ve been lead up the garden path.
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August 4, 2023 8:10am
- Bridgenag
  
  SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER has terrific posts about Russia and the Ukraine
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:06am
- kowtow
  
  ‘Whats the prognosis then.’
  
  We all give in to dictators.
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:07am
  - kisekiman
    
    Ukraine has already given in to dictators, just not the one you think.
    
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    August 4, 2023 11:29am
    - kowtow
      
      Ukraine’s future is westward and therefor democratic ( relatively) . Russia’s too could be , but it’s up to its people . Meanwhile they’re severely repressed .
      
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      August 4, 2023 12:30pm
      - mawm
        
        The Maiden revolution was democratic! Zelensky cancelling elections is democratic? Pull the other one.
        
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        August 4, 2023 5:01pm
      - Clownworld
        
        Democracy is not the same democracy we once thought and fought for.
        Democracy now is simply groupthink of woke and Orwellian totalitarian authoritarian anti-national sovereignty leading undoubtedly to one world no borders WEF UN “international community” future.
        Democracy now is when you agree with the mainstream propaganda to the detriment of critical thinking for yourself. Express an opinion counter to the prevailing fairy-tale (narrative) and you will be smeared, ostracised and “othered”.
        
        Democracy when it meant national sovereignty and independence with freedom to think, say and do within the legal confines of a functioning country and live life relatively free of a government which served the people…not so much.
        
        Oh and for the record the USA is a republic ( or was) not a democracy.
        
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        August 4, 2023 11:39pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Zelensky can’t conclude a peace with Putin, Nationalist fanatics will kill him if he does. [Mod – stupid accusations deleted]
  
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  August 4, 2023 11:00am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Interesting.
    Stupid accusations deleted.
    Sounds like Twitter and the FBi 🙂
    
    Freedom of speech bites the dust again.
    
    [Mod – people can have conversations here without making accusations because they do not like or support what is said, very easy to have a conversation without personal insults, attacks etc]
    
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    August 4, 2023 12:36pm
    - Ghost
      
      Freedom of speech? You are on a private blog and you are given the privilege to comment on it.
      
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      August 4, 2023 1:09pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        You are mates with the mods?
        
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        August 4, 2023 8:27pm
      - Ghost
        
        No idea who they are
        
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        August 4, 2023 8:56pm
- rangitoto
  
  Got any other Kremlin talking points?
  
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  August 4, 2023 11:29am
  - Clownworld
    
    Smear rather than care for the truth.
    Critical thinking requires listening to both Russian and Ukraine propaganda, oh and the globalists propaganda.
    Still Putin is a member of the WEF so who knows what is really going on?
    Maybe a war that serves multiple aims except that again innocent civilians are slaughtered to appease the puppet masters.
    Peace not war should be the aim.
    
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    August 4, 2023 11:42pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Ukraine has a big advantage in artillery range and accuracy and are knocking hell out of Russians in what has evolved into a withering attritional campaign, with added long-range drone and missile sapping of Russian logistics. Russians have no ability to prosecute any successful offense – they are being beaten back slowly along most of front taking big loses. Even more-so when they might show small occasional short-lived gains for a few days or weeks in some spot via desperate meat-wave offensives. Clearest evidence is rate of Russian artillery fire that has plummeted in recent times as their guns have been taken out and ammo is in increasingly short supply, as is fuel as rear bases are targeted and their logistical capacity shrinks.
  
  This is similar to last years Kherson campaign, where Russia held lines for months while being hammered until eventually they couldn’t sustain it any longer and collapsed back over the Dnipro.
  
  However Ukraine is unable to make break-through advances due to high-density mine fields anti-tank weapons and Russian helicopters hanging back from the front lines to target any massed force. They combine to wreck any focused armoured assaults. Slower creeping attritional warfare is really Ukraines only option, they’ve taken back maybe 500km² through this summer offensive as Russia has lost 100k troops, thousands of artillery and armour units trying to defend.
  
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  August 4, 2023 12:06pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Apparently the Mines are laid 3-4 per sq metre.
    Thats high density alright!
    
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    August 4, 2023 1:17pm
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      Yep, saw some footage of Ukrainians in a minefield, many injured, and trying to be extracted by a couple of light APCs, like Bradleys.
      One guy jumped from the ramp, into a crater of exposed soil amongst all the grass – trying to reach the wounded. Made sense, to jump into a place where the mine had detonated as first step….but….Boom.
      Pixelation on the video, since his lower leg got blown off, and a bloodied person dragged back into the vehicle. Didnt even make it 3 feet. 🙁
      
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      August 4, 2023 3:25pm
  - mawm
    
    NothingLeft – straight from the BBC, Reuters, AP, AFP – all major conveyors of Western propaganda. You have a brain, use it for some research of your own.
    
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    August 4, 2023 5:07pm
    - Burtland
      
      Yeah NothingLeft – you need to read more RT and get your facts straight
      
      heres a good example straight from Shoigu in RT
      https://www.rt.com/russia/580808-crimea-mass-drone-strike/
      
      doesnt really match the video of the russian ship limping into Novorossiysk
      https://t.me/dvish_alive/26263
      
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      August 4, 2023 9:34pm
- miltonF
  
  I feel like many people are confused about the war in Ukraine. Everything is actually going as planned. This is primarily an economic war perpetuated by the United States. They are not interested in “winning”. The goal is to cause as much mayhem as possible and make big money in the process. As long as the USA is winning economically, they will drag this out indefinitely.
  
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  August 4, 2023 5:26pm
  - Burtland
    
    a war planned by the US that was started by Putler … whos confused?
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:12pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    I kind of agree. Nato has been supplying sufficient old equipment to keep Ukraine in the fight, but not things that would let them push forward and win quicker (attack helis, fighters, longer range missiles, torpedos etc) and so increasing the loss of life horribly. Not making it possible for Ukraine to destroy the Kerch and Crimea-Kherson Bridges is unconscionable – that would wreck Russians southern logistics and their ability to fight with minimal loss of life.
    
    US military industrial complex is loving the spend-up on munitions, and depletion of old equipment to be replaced by new expensive systems.
    
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    August 4, 2023 10:47pm
  - Clownworld
    
    On reflection why is Putin a member of the WEF?
    Where else could Russia attack?
    Israel?
    If a global reset is required what better than a ongoing war or multiple wars to destroy geopolitical rivals to give up sovereignty to a benevolent future global dictator. Peace for everyone no more borders no more wars…(sarc)
    
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    August 4, 2023 11:46pm
otago-man

Red meat schedules dropping, dairy auctions dropping, log prices dropping, strong wool near worthless, farm inflation in the mid to upper teens, not much rural tax this year to come in
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August 4, 2023 8:11am
- Philip Hart
  
  As a rural accountant, the only thing farmers have to look forward to this year are tax refunds.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:21am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  We had an auction yesterday with the first fine wools, Merino was up more than a dollar from valuation, some half Breda were up a bit too
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:16am
Matt Long

Wellcome to a brave new world where gun control and firearms registers prevent all crime.
Ohh, well maybe if we empty out the prisons and allocate money for fog cannons.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-shut-part-of-queen-st-after-major-incident/FH7TIXAZAFEZVOH2JTIAYMTBDM/
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August 4, 2023 8:12am
- youcanthandlethetruth
  
  Personal fog canons should be distributed to all New Zealanders
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:21am
  - Spring Bank Westie
    
    Careful with those fog cannons, there were so many ram raids in Auckland the other day the airport was closed.
    
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    August 4, 2023 12:32pm
- emmess
  
  Remember this, guns don’t kill people, lowering the prison population does.
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:23am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Has anyone asked Special K what his thoughts are?
    Media?
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:11am
  - Nickc2
    
    What’s wrong with the Nats and ACT? They should be prosecuting this line vigorously 24/7 and throwing to the Maori Party insinuating they must be over the Moon now Kelvin’s sprung all their rellies from Prison so they’ll be home for Chrissie! Instead, they’re more interested in the size of Robo’s hole.
    Get some mongrel FFS.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:25am
- Frank the tank
  
  I’m sure the firearms register will fix all this gun crime just as the gun buy back scheme (scam) did……
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:30am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Maybe allow citizens to have pepper sprays for self defence.
    
    Watch the scotes doing ram raids get a facefull and run crying to Mummy about those bad people in the shops.
    
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    August 4, 2023 12:40pm
    - Keith White
      
      And a trebuchet for the Kainga Ora nogoodnik neighbours.
      
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      August 4, 2023 2:46pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Now you’re talking!
        
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        August 4, 2023 8:26pm
- pdm
  
  Matt – under no circumstances should you forget Ginny’s latest brain wave:
  
  VOLUNTEERS PATROLLING THE STREETS.
  
  Actually Ginny this has been happening for years. I was an original member of Waipawa Community Patrols which started in late 1980’s or early 1990’s.
  
  Our daughter has been an active member of Havelock North Community Patrols for last four or five years and they were operating well before she joined them.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:08am
  - greybeard
    
    Ginny assures us that under their watch Labour has put 1800 more volunteers on the streets.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:31am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Not following that. Volunteers are volunteers, they are not ‘put’ anywhere.
      Is this Ginny person that thick? A dictionary on her desk is in order.
      
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      August 4, 2023 10:16am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Volunteer.
        NOUN
        a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task
        
        So what the fuck has Labour got to do with this? Another brain fart.
        
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        August 4, 2023 10:19am
      - greybeard
        
        For God’s sake Steve, I was trying to be funny/sarcastic and allude to their “1800 extra police”.
        
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        August 4, 2023 10:40am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Jesus greybeard, I missed that by a country mile.
        I am usually pretty good at knowing when someone is pulling my left tit!
        
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        August 4, 2023 2:54pm
David Garrett

Another shooting in Auckland last night – almost certainly gang related given the reference to red clothing.

The most disturbing thing for me is that the shooter reportedly “pulled out a gun”, suggesting the weapon was a pistol and not a rifle or shotgun; even a sawn off would be hard to hide in clothing.

Thank God they repealed that dreadful three strikes law eh!!

Completely off topic, what’s happend to Milky/Mikey/Mikenmild…has he been given a holiday, or has he stormed off in a huff again?
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August 4, 2023 8:15am
- Simon
  
  Yep and the police have “zero tolerance for violence in public places” blah blah blah. The police have plenty of tolerance for non stop property crime. Which is where violent crime springs from.
  
  Escaped on a lime scooter. No threat to general public. What a load of shit. Did the police not want to commit another NZ style death penalty?
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:21am
- Biscuit
  
  David, I protest.
  
  First, Ehlana takes me to task for my dunking chocolate chip biscuits in my white wine and now you go and introduce Milky/Mikey/Mikenmild into a day that, dry still and cold, was proceeding perfectly in a Milky/Mikey/Mikenmild-free fashion.
  
  Consider thyself frowned at!
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:22am
  - David Garrett
    
    Biscuit: Mea culpa Sir/Madam, mea maxima culpa…
    
    But you didn’t answer my question (of course you may not know the answer) Has he been given a holiday, or has he stormed off in a huff?
    
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    August 4, 2023 8:38am
    - Biscuit
      
      I’m in a very forgiving mood today, David, and would offer you a white-wine-soaked chocolate chip biscuit if only I wasn’t so afeared you’d bloody TAKE it!
      
      Sorry, I don’t know the answer to your question…
      
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      August 4, 2023 8:53am
      - Biscuit
        
        Oh, and David, re your ‘Sir/Madam’, I just checked, chuckled contentedly and can confirm that I am 101% ‘Sir’.
        
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        August 4, 2023 9:10am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        But it’s not a matter of what you biologically ARE Biscuit. What matters most is what you WANT to be!
        
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        August 4, 2023 10:59am
    - Bridgenag
      
      Whatever it is, it is lovely without him cluttering up the place
      
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      August 4, 2023 8:53am
    - kevn
      
      DG… He was/is the downtick king. Now he can just …go.
      
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      August 4, 2023 8:55am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Downticks are badges of honor. They show that you have pissed off someone.
        
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        August 4, 2023 10:28am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      He’s still here in spirit DG….
      happy to just automatically downtick anyone he sees as successful in life 😀
      
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      August 4, 2023 8:59am
      - Biscuit
        
        I never thought of it that way, Maggie.
        
        I’ll take one for the team and say to the downtrodden/disgruntled:
        ‘DOWNTICK ME!’.
        
        Call it my public service act for the day…
        
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        August 4, 2023 9:06am
    - pdm
      
      DG – you have achieved a world first.
      
      I do not know of anyone else in about 30 years that has apologised to Biscuit.
      
      Mmmm I see you got him though – Biscuit has long held himself up as someone who knows everything.
      
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      August 4, 2023 9:13am
      - Biscuit
        
        Careful, pdm, careful!
        
        Good weekend ahead – the NPC kicking off, a daytime Rugby Test (if you can call anything with ‘Wallabies’ in it a ‘Test’), Winter Cup Day at Riccarton, Liverpool about to kick-off Season 2023/24, the New Zealand Labour Party one Saturday closer to electoral oblivion…
        
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        August 4, 2023 9:29am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Mike is probably working on anther pseudonym and VPN.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:17am
  - Ehlana
    
    Oh dear, Biscuit. I didn’t mean to deprive you of such a basic pleasure. Dunk away, sir.
    
    Perhaps you could do recommend the perfect white for chocolate chip cookies?
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:29am
    - Biscuit
      
      Heh heh…
      
      We’re simple folk in this household and will happily dunk our biscuits into ANYTHING!
      
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      August 4, 2023 9:31am
    - pdm
      
      Sir Biscuit = scary thought.
      
      BTW hard to see Justaskme beaten in the Winter Cup even with 61kg.
      
      Cork the big danger.
      
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      August 4, 2023 11:40am
      - Biscuit
        
        Feareth not, pdm, honours do nothing for me.
        
        I agree re Justaskme – and can see him being run down in the last 50 metres by a nice roughie like, oh, Make Time at 20-1-to-1…
        
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        August 4, 2023 3:55pm
- CJames
  
  Though I rubbished him most of the time, I didn’t mind Milky/Mikey/Mikenmild posts. Regularly downticked him but I upticked more than a few of them.
  Though it can get really frustrating when you have someone who wants to argue black is white, having contrary opinions there is very important on a blog. Otherwise, it becomes just an echo chamber. Look how bad the Standard is – though a lot of that is the bad moderation by the egotists.
  People who make bad arguments to support their opinions need to be called out. That is the only way to get better informed.
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:50am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The thing about Mike is he has a wealth of knowledge. He is not roaming the google machine all the time. But the bad bit is he diverts into disruption all the time.
    Pity really.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:21am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    My only issue with his posts is, they were rarely actual discussion or debate. Arguing black is white when it clearly isn’t is not constructive. It’s corrosive and adds nothing.
    Honest, open disagreement on any subject can be a wonderful thing but Milky is a troll 99% of the time. An irritant, nothing more.
    
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    August 4, 2023 10:45am
- cmm
  
  DG, the whole point of a sawn-off is to be able to hide it in clothing.
  
  But, yes, a pistol is likely. I am sure they’re easy enough to get if you’re not shopping on high street.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:07am
  - Ruawai
    
    Ginny Anderson will spend the morning wondering how he got a gun.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:17am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Wondering how he got a gun license to be able to buy a gun.
      
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      August 4, 2023 10:47am
- RoboRob
  
  This highlights a major issue with the police and media. Surely the fact that gang members were involved is a significant part of the story? But no, the media and police continue to hide gang involvement in crime, leaving the public to read between the lines to try and work out what really happened. This is clearly by instruction by the current government and reporters should be embarrassed to follow this edict. A true journalist would know they have ZERO reason to follow edicts from the government.
  
  The same issue exists for suicide reports. News reports say ‘xx suddenly passed away in their hotel last night, police do not consider the death suspicious’. We have learnt the code words that indicate it was a suicide however what about where someone actually did die suddenly and it wasn’t suicide? Bloody stupid reporting.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:09am
- Ghost
  
  Mike hasn’t posted here since the electric scooter explosion in Wellington, hopefully not him.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:40am
  - Steve Todd
    
    Relax, Ghost. The brilliant, funny, always readable mikenmildagain / Mike lives in Lower Hutt, not on Tory Street (off Courtenay Place), Wellington.
    
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    August 4, 2023 10:37am
- Handyman
  
  There was time when a gangland brawl with two people being shot on the streets of Auckland CBD was a big story. This has gone from a “Police incident” with no details, no witnesses and no CCTV to a vague story without using any keywords (for future searching) of gangs, Maori or guns.
  Within two hours the story was relegated below a trial being called off and Trump news from yesterday.
  
  Maybe the charge of “gang member shoots two people at close range with gun and escapes on e-bike” will get downgraded to “fails to accompany Police”.
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:48am
- Piniwi
  
  Funny DG they seem to be a scooter gang as opposed to a bikie gang. Both victims were listed as critical so it might escalate although there is not much difference in judicial outcomes from shooting or killing with the right cultural report.
  
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  August 4, 2023 12:24pm
softail 1450

Matt Long, gunfight at the AK corral, again. Arderns gun grab has worked a treat.
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August 4, 2023 8:15am
- Drone
  
  softail 1450, yes we still have gun incidents but imagine how much worse it would have been if Jacinda hadn’t confiscated all the guns from the really bad people.. //
  
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  August 4, 2023 11:33am
Simon

Shooting in Auckland CBD under a dozen CCTVs. All that CCTV over Auckland isnt used to stop crims its used to monitor the lawful.
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August 4, 2023 8:16am
Maggie Pie

Imagine having paid many millions for a luxury Apartment in the downtown area, and for the second time in 2 weeks heavily armed police tell you not to leave the building due to yet another shooting in the streets below.

This is the reality of Auckland City again today.

Then, you read this in the news from yesterday….

‘Prime Minister Chris Hipkind cuts the ribbon on 276 new homes at the ‘Te Matawai’ Greys Ave development off Queen Street.
A modern building with traditional Maori design elements and housing a range of social services.
Three quarters of the homes will be administered by Kaianga Ora with promised support services for tenants…..

https://twitter.com/NewsroomNZ/status/1687188195979517957
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August 4, 2023 8:18am
- alex Masterley
  
  Calling them homes is a bit of a stretch.
  90 studio units and 133 single beddies on the block.
  Chicken coops yes. Homes no.
  All I can say is stay clear of Greys Ave in future.
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:26am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    And interesting to see Te-Kakhu-Whaihanga-Institute-of-Architects President quoted as saying…
    
    “If we build state housing right, we’d need to build less prisons”
    
    What a 3rd world sh!thole this place has become in the last 6 years.
    
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    August 4, 2023 8:36am
    - Tempist
      
      Is that a mangled reference to HomeD?
      
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      August 4, 2023 8:55am
    - alloytoo
      
      Ghettos are prisons in and of themselves.
      
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      August 4, 2023 9:37am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Lol Maggie, you couldn’t write a movie script of this crap. One minute you have leftist mayors wailing about how they want central Auckland to be “vibrant” and a tourist destination along with Auckland being the “most liveable city”. Then the Government come along and plonk a housing estate smack in the middle of town. I mean, what could possibly go wrong with night life in a “vibrant” Auckland…. well 24 hours a day really. The genius is real.
      
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      August 4, 2023 12:37pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Great for Chloe though right? White retired people are being told they indirectly they are not welcome in Central Auckland.
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:29am
- David Garrett
  
  Maggie: that “promised support for the tenants” will that “wrap around” kind of support that seems to work so well for gang member families.
  
  When will it dawn on someone in the Labour cabinet that some people are just fucking evil? Former leader Phil Goff knew…He and I had an off the record discussion about three strikes years ago (I feel free to quote it now, since both of us have been out of politics for many years)
  
  He said, of prisoners and recidivism, “Some of them are just fucked in the head; we all know that”
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:30am
  - Matt Long
    
    DG, Was he pleased because that made them lifelong Labour supporters?
    
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    August 4, 2023 8:37am
  - Ehlana
    
    We need to distinguish between vulnerable and criminal. Vulnerable to me is people who have problems due to earlier trauma, chronic medical conditions, physical or intellectual handicaps, or mental illness. They are the people who, temporarily or permanently, need additional support to live in the community. Giving them that support is probably cheaper and better than putting them in institutions.
    
    Criminal, on the other hand, is people who destroy the public housing they’ve been provided with and intimidate neighbours. Those people need secure housing, built vandal proof, probably away from residential neighbourhoods and with some sort of controls over access and behaviour.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:57am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “Those people need secure housing, built vandal proof, probably away from residential neighbourhoods and with some sort of controls over access and behaviour.”
      
      So you mean a “jail?”
      
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      August 4, 2023 10:52am
      - Ehlana
        
        I mean if you can’t behave living in the community in taxpayer-funded housing, you get moved out quick smart and if you need somewhere to go, well, that concrete block building is there. Otherwise, you can find your own housing (like everyone else does) with whoever wants to take you in.
        
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        August 4, 2023 11:10am
- pdm
  
  `administered by Kaianga Ora’
  
  Surely now the most misleading words in the New Zealand vocabulary.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:16am
- imalwaysright
  
  I wonder how many robbery, rape, and murder reports will reference this address.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:19am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Has anything been trashed yet?
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:28am
- John Loveridge
  
  Will anybody want to buy remaining quarter? The 75% will soon turn into a downtown slum, much like the KO developments not far from, but thankfully not in, my neighbourhood.
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:17am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Wonder how many people may have already bought apartments off the plans without knowledge that KO would end up buying the others at a substantial discount?
    
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    August 4, 2023 11:06am
    - John Loveridge
      
      There’s a moral to that story: don’t ever buy off the plans.
      
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      August 4, 2023 11:48am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, I remember the Auckland Council owned a block of flats in Greys Ave where the down and outs lived. Some good tenants, some bad.
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:41am
Frank the tank

Question for the morning:

Just how big is Robbo’s (fiscal) hole?
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August 4, 2023 8:31am
- alex Masterley
  
  The words “gaping tunnel” spring to mind.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:11am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    There is a pic of him today discussing it in media, his face and eyes snd his as usual open mouth is a classic
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:40am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Hahahahaha, Willis will have gained support from the undecideds after stoping and laughing after saying “how big is your hole” she couldn’t have said it to a better blowhard
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:38am
  - kowtow
    
    “Undecideds” won’t know it happened , who was involved or even care.
    
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    August 4, 2023 10:13am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Oh they will have seen and heard it, just because you don’t watch the news, it doesn’t mean voters don’t
      
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      August 4, 2023 12:16pm
- Paulus
  
  Robbo’s hole is said to be $20 billion but I expect $30 billion more correct.
  Treasury will be told to do some Creative Accounting again.
  
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  August 4, 2023 11:09am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Willis has stated she reckons it’s more like 30 billion
    
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    August 4, 2023 12:17pm
Matt Long

Labour’s exceptional achievement with regard to homelessness shown in Whangarei. Five years ago 100 people, now five hundred.
They must have exceptional strength of mind not to look in the mirror and say they’re absolutely useless and reign like Ardern did.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/homeless-in-northland-jason-poutai-and-carrie-kake-team-up-to-find-permanent-night-shelter/GAXVZUL43JDWHD23HU4JWFSOMU/
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August 4, 2023 8:35am
- Matt Long
  
  Resign like Ardern did dammit.
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:56am
  - Paulus
    
    She did not resign but ran away from the mess she created leaving the mess to her colleagues to try and sort out, which they could not ,do hence it remains Ardern’s mess.
    
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    August 4, 2023 11:12am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    No, given where we are in the electoral cycle I’d put up with the remaining 70-odd days of Labour in return for the pleasure of seeing them being handed their arses on Election Day.
    
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    August 4, 2023 8:33pm
cas

As if we didn’t need many more examples of the fact Labour couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery, as an east Coast electorate voter, I have been amazed to see adverts for the local MP Hon Kiri Allan in the last two week’s of one of the local newspapers. This week “I’m here to help. You can reach me here…..”
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August 4, 2023 8:44am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Tamati Coffey is missing a trick…..
  
  Tho’ he does seem to have got a pic with another Labour wannabe in the local news…
  
  https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/minister-calls-in-on-turanga-health
  
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  August 4, 2023 1:38pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Wonder what Penne REALLY thinks of Tamati’s peeky-blinders cap?
    
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    August 4, 2023 2:31pm
Maggie Pie

Wonder what’s happened to MCos? Hope he’s ok.
Really missing his often naive comments and twisted sense of humor.
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August 4, 2023 8:45am
- Frank the tank
  
  In Thailand on a massage table?
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:15am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I think he has a property in Thailand.
    
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    August 4, 2023 10:54am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      They have the internet there, I believe
      
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      August 4, 2023 8:34pm
Tomtoddy

Noted an article by Audrey Young and a second by Hooten on possible cabinet position in a Nat/ACT government. Young’s suggestions were simply an insult – did she simply copy Luxon’s suggestions? Hooten was much more perceptive.

It is likely to be a very difficult negotiation despite the bonhomie between the leaders. The difficulty centres around reform – National dislikes change and ACT are all over it with bold ideas. Selecting cabinet posts will tell us where National will tolerate fundamental reform. ACT will want some core positions and they deserve recognition for often leading the public policy debates over the last six years. Expect a tough, toe to toe tussle.

Gawd help us if WP is in the mix.
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August 4, 2023 8:46am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I suggested to David last night in Hamilton that Act should go for a Minister for Climate Change.
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:56am
  - alloytoo
    
    That would be an interesting litmus of the public’s position on the matter.
    
    I personally think any Minister for Climate change’s first action should be to invite Bjorn Lomborg to the country to discuss rational policy.
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:40am
    - Southtop2
      
      and Patrick Moore https://heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/patrick-moore/
      
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      August 4, 2023 1:11pm
  - Colville
    
    and watch James Shaw’s head explode??
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:43am
    - Biscuit
      
      Exactly, colville.
      
      ‘But, but, my solution to climate problems isn’t for opposing viewpoints to be given any credance but is for me and my flunkies to jet off, first class, quadruple-star luxurious hotels at least once a year to the latest conference and NOT to bring discussion re those problems here where we’d, gasp, miss out on our freebies…’
      
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      August 4, 2023 11:58am
  - Steve Todd
    
    @Chuck Bird @ 8:56AM
    
    What was his response, Chuck?
    
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    August 4, 2023 10:52am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      It was positive but I got the feeling it would not be likely. However, the more votes Act gets the more likely it could happen.
      
      It is my view that Luxon is an alarmist.
      
      I hope that Act could save some money if they gave a warning to all alarmists be them from the Climate Change Commission or NIWA that they will have to support their claims with evidence.
      
      They should be prepared to debate with Dr Curry, Dr Moore, Lomborg or any real experts.
      
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      August 4, 2023 2:56pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Thanks for responding, Chuck.
        
        Unfortunately for you, I suspect, an employee of a Crown Research Institute (essentially a public servant) most likely would not be permitted to debate privately employed climate experts who advocate an alternative view (assuming they agreed to do so), even if he wanted to and thought he could “wipe the floor” with them.
        
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        August 4, 2023 3:18pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Well, if Seymour wants to be do arrogant, then it will not be a good government, hod we may as well keep the mess we have
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:49am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  If Luxon is clever, he’ll ‘let’ ACT take those portfolios where ACT espouses policy that National would like to see enacted but where they lack electoral support to do it themselves.
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:43pm
cas

From the “we know what’s good for you” basket, Lotto is trying to limit or is limiting Lotto outlets in smaller places to one per town.

It would dent their profits I would have thought but hey that gives punters more to spend on pokies and booze.
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August 4, 2023 8:46am
- NoFax
  
  I would think it is probably shift people to buy online or via the app rather than trying to reduce people buying tickets.
  
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  August 4, 2023 3:17pm
mandk

According to the Taxpayers’ Union, Hutt Superior has the 3rd lowest rates in the country. 25% below the average for all Councils and 35% below Lower Hutt.

Lower Hutt folk must be delighted they elected a Labour Party stooge as Mayor.
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August 4, 2023 8:46am
- DimChappie
  
  Yes delighted to pay higher rates and endure compulsory council rubbish collection. Lower Hutt mayor Campbell Barry has been elected vice president of Local Government NZ and Selwyn mayor Sam Broughton is president. Link to the news and Sam singing a waiata to a Three Waters meeting:
  https://shorturl.at/lnwZ2
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLSjcS39Dds
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:52am
  - Matt Long
    
    Thanks, but no thanks.
    
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    August 4, 2023 10:23am
- plc
  
  No doubt thanks to Chippy!
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:02am
Bridgenag

“To date, the Australian Government has refused to release its contracts with the Covid vaccine manufacturers. However, the provision of the federal vaccine injury claims scheme and the budgetary allocations for indemnity costs have been taken to indicate that it is the Australian Government (and therefore, taxpayers) who are copping the cost of Covid vaccine harms, not the pharma companies.
In 2021, it was widely reported that the big vaccine providers (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, etc) were riding roughshod over governments, securing secret contracts that enabled them to keep ownership of publicly funded patents, enabled profiteering, and that excused them from liability.”

‘End Big Pharma vaccine indemnity’: new bill tabled in Australian Parliament

https://open.substack.com/pub/rebekahbarnett/p/end-big-pharma-vaccine-indemnity?
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August 4, 2023 8:48am
- Matt Long
  
  The governments were desperate for the safe “effective” vaccines to protect their populations from the deadly virus. Best corporate con job since sub prime mortgage instruments?
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:07am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Those contracts probably included healthy bribes for those doing the fear porn.
  I am picking it was the same in NZ.
  
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  August 4, 2023 11:02am
Southern Raider

Good to see Labour is in full election mode and trying to cover up their 6 years of failure

This mornings revelation on Hosking breakfast with a senior doctor was
– they have been instructed to issue surgery dates to all patients to show backlog is solvable by Xmas but the surgeries won’t actually happen as not enough capacity eg knowingly lying to patients
– to solve issues with surgeries being cancelled due to lack key functions they have just reduced capacity available to be booked so they can claim cancellations aren’t happening anymore

How can Labour and Whatu Ora get away with this
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August 4, 2023 8:49am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I am down for cubital tunnel (funny bone nerve) surgery on Monday. Hope it is still a goer.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:35am
  - Lance
    
    I had been waiting for surgery for 3 years and and it was implied don’t expect it anytime soon. With a few days notice I was given a date. Last Friday done and dusted.
    I was wondering WTF happened there, not that I am complaining (now).
    After hearing that on Hosking this morning it all makes sense.
    Recovering at home and still amazed it actually happened.
    
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    August 4, 2023 12:11pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Different surgeons do different surgeries. What I mean is my surgery is done by someone who does nerve surgery in the arm and hand. Not trauma surgery, that is left to the ‘plastic surgery’ people.
      The guy doing my arm does not even do rotor cuff surgery (which I need as well)
      
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      August 4, 2023 3:03pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yes, they kept doing this with my missus, meant to have opp in Feb, she made a formal complaint and CC the MPs from both sides in and walla she got her opp
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:06am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Hey hang on a minute Southern Raider didn’t we lockdown and ruin the country to flatten the curve and save the health system from being overwhelmed and collapsing? Are you telling us it’s overwhelmed and collapsing anyway. How can that be? Maybe we could ask Michael Baker, remember him?
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:21am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    We did. The plan was, shut the place tight until the ‘miracle vaccine’ came along.
    
    In the meanwhile, not a single cent spent on preparing the hospitals for any sudden increase in demand. Not a single word of advice to people about the steps you can take personally to ensure you are healthy and in a position to fight a potential infection.
    
    It’s almost as if they wanted as many people to get sick and die as possible. The policies they implemented ensured this would happen.
    
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    August 4, 2023 11:07am
  - Burtland
    
    they didnt do anything because they knew it was a scam
    – Clark and the Pink Terror out biking, Boris partying – then a round of gongs for all involved. They didnt even anticipate the flowon effects.
    
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    August 4, 2023 2:42pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The Pink Terror was swimming/paddling.
      Clark was also moving house.
      Rules for thee…..
      
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      August 4, 2023 3:08pm
kevn

Sthn… That Dr feral is quite the piece of work concocting such a strategy.
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August 4, 2023 8:59am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Reti has gone yo Boshier, Reti has received a formal notification from Boshier that Verral has been instructed to produce data she was hiding from Reti, this is a second strike from Boshier, she was on notice
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:08am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Dr feral is a ‘do you know who I am?’ person.
  
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  August 4, 2023 3:10pm
mandk

It would be good to see a live TV debate between Drs Reti and Verrall.

But it would never happen, of course. Dr Reti would rip Dr Verrall to shreds.
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August 4, 2023 9:13am
- Blog-aholic
  
  The good doctor V would burst into tears. She seems on the edge everytime she opens her gob.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:46am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I don’t know if that wavering voice is she gets upset, or she is about to do her nuts – a thermonuclear meltdown.
    
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    August 4, 2023 3:14pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  She can’t string a sentence together
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:13am
  - plc
    
    Ha ha
    
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    August 4, 2023 11:07am
Random T Person

‘The Girls’ went to the movies last week. They watched ‘Barbie’. A group including two lawyers, a scientist, and a graphic designer. They loved it.
‘The Boys’ are going to the movies tonight. We’ll watch ‘Oppenheimer’.
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August 4, 2023 9:16am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  I did my part in maintaining basic standards of civilization by taking my two daughters to see Oppenheimer.
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:11am
- Lance
  
  The Barbie Movie where all males are idiots.
  
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  August 4, 2023 12:15pm
Swifty

“Bro…..”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/five-appear-in-court-charged-with-robbery-of-whangarei-michael-hill-jeweller/CBRZZFKIVBALXH5PYAWGTNJPEE/

FFS.
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August 4, 2023 9:18am
- mandk
  
  Those poor boys. They have clearly not had enough wrap around support.
  
  I’m sure that, underneath, they are good boys.
  
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  August 4, 2023 10:03am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/kaipara-mayor-subjected-to-heavy-manipulation-and-bullying/
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August 4, 2023 10:04am
Maggie Pie

Here’s a question that’s gone viral on Twitter…

Will National/Act commit to reversing all this Maori name b.s. of our Gov Depts, Place Names etc, to help get the country back on the road to recovery?

Everybody we know is saying whether they actually bother to vote OR not, may well hang on the answer to this.

(And as an aside, just collected my p&p order from NW and BITB Jasmine Rice….. o/s 🙁 )
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August 4, 2023 10:34am
- Albert_Ross
  
  And this is why we get crap-awful government – voters allowing their votes to be determined by trivial, inconsequential issues.
  
  Seriously, everybody you know would rather see New Zealand remain in the hands of a Government that’s destroyed the economy, the nation’s physical, social and administrative infrastructure, and countless individual lives along with it – rather than vote for a party that thinks there are more urgent issues and better uses of public resources than changing a few names?
  
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  August 4, 2023 12:18pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Do you have similar concerns about the scarcity of boil-in-the-bag Jasmine Rice, Al?
    
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    August 4, 2023 1:50pm
- Notsofast
  
  Which party if any is plotting a reversal?
  I imagine it’s too late.
  I would start by getting rid of the confetti, also known as macrons. On not one occasion have I seen one where necessary, but seeing tui with 2 microns excited me, poor creature.
  
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  August 4, 2023 12:26pm
- Albie
  
  Drove back from Broadbeach to Brisbane airport at 4:30am this morning. Dark, of course, and light rain.
  All road signs in English but still required high levels of concentration navigating toll roads and fast moving semi’s.
  My mate in the car said he could only imagine what the drive would have been like if the signs were bi lingual!
  I wonder if anyone in Watta Catastrophe has actually thought about the road safety implications of this woke, virtue signalling nonsense?
  Don’t agree with Albert T that this is trivial.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:10pm
Jack5

The student-visa rort is back off the ground and flying again.

One of the topics on Red Radio this morning was foreign students for polytechnics.

A young Filipino said the reason he came to New Zealand rather than another country for Western education was the citizenship path.

What a mess. Hipkins has pushed our polytechnics into a highly expensive merger.

But that’s the lesser problem. The bigger one is that our post-secondary education is now focused on selling citizenship and has defaulted on educating New Zealanders — and on meeting the country’s work-skill needs.

With the world’s hundred million refugees and with billions of people who would enthusiastically move to developed countries, an intelligent New Zealand that felt it needed to sell citizenship would target the already highly educated and the already highly skilled.

Migration is a buyer’s market for developed countries.

And there’s no need cut in foreign recruitment agencies into sales of NZ citizenship.
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August 4, 2023 11:03am
- Jack5
  
  The world migration “market” …
  
  For countries that want immigrants (like NZ) it’s a buyer’s market, but from the standpoint of developed countries that want to sell citizenship, it’s a seller’s market.
  
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  August 4, 2023 11:57am
  - cmm
    
    It depends on who you’re calling the seller and the buyer.
    
    Not all immigrants are the same.
    Most countries are falling over themselves to attract high quality immigrants – except NZ which treats them like shit (it was way better when I came in 1992).
    
    NZ makes it relatively easy for low quality immigrants to get in and get on a pathway to residence/citizenship.
    
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    August 4, 2023 1:50pm
ClanMcleod

From the UK, but the same is happening here.

In today’s Britain, there’s a disturbing trend of unpopular policies being foisted upon the public. It’s as if the elite is turning a blind eye to public opinion, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph. It’s time for politicians to start listening to the voters before things get out of hand. Here’s an excerpt:

Britain’s deranged war on cars, our looming ban on gas boilers, the de-banking scandal, the failure to prosecute crime, the attempted cancellation of women, the sabotage of the Brexit agenda, the scale of migration: welcome to anti-democratic Britain, where the beleaguered majority is increasingly subject to the whims of an entitled, activist elite that often seems to despise the people over which it exercises so much power.

https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1687131249943453697?s=20

Here’s hoping the next government can start to address this serious problem.
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August 4, 2023 11:15am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump Indictment 3.0.

https://rantsofizzo.com/dominick/trump-indictment-3-0/

This whole thing is to divert the media and public attention away from Hunter and Joe’s dealings with Ukraine, Burisma, and China.
Joe Biden has been doing shady deals for over 50 years, so have a lot of his family.
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August 4, 2023 11:23am
ClanMcleod

el gato malo poses some interesting question in this blog post.

How to derail a civilisation

if you wanted a weapon to destroy a society, how could you improve upon the confluence of carbon obsession and woke? you’ll make them poor. you’ll convince them that math is racist. you’ll pit group against group, make a muddle of sexuality, vilify child rearing, and have everyone so furious fighting over and politicizing nothing that they’ll barely notice their demographic decline, their school scores sliding, their science stultifying and politicizing, and their family structures dissolving. you’ll have them clamoring for truth ministries and ideological purity over fact.

if you’ve got a nastier playbook than that, i’d love to hear it.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/how-to-derail-a-civilization

Worth reading in full
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August 4, 2023 11:23am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING…

Justice Andrew Becroft aborts Mt Roskill murder trial due to what he described as…. ‘grossly inadequate’ Police disclosure.

What I’d like to know, is what happens now to the 3 defendants charged with the murder?
Are they held in custody to await a new trial – or are they free to go?

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1687233576171884544
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August 4, 2023 11:23am
- cmm
  
  Cruel and unusual punishment etc…
  Probably going to be sent home with compensation and the local cops will all have to go around and say sorry.
  
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  August 4, 2023 1:47pm
  - JimBobJoe
    
    No trial is rescheduled to allow the defense to prepare properly now that the Police have actually done what they are suppose to do – allow discovery of the evidence the prosecution will present…
    
    The Police Detective and the Evidence Custody Officer in this case should be severely censured. They botch it – lost evidence my arse! they were hiding stuff from the Defense and the Prosecution
    
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    August 4, 2023 9:44pm
Jack5

Judge Andrew Becroft has aborted the trial of three people on a murder charge on a prosecution technicality.

He’s the former Children’s Commissioner who campaigned to raise the upper age limit for the Children’s Court from 17 to 18.

The then-president of the Police Association, Greg O’Connor (now a Labour MP) called the Becroft move “absolutely and utterly ludicrous”.

An NZ First MP, Ron Mark, at the time (2007)
had a private member’s bill before Parliament seeking to lower the age at which children could be prosecuted from 14 to 12.

Becroft’s position on youth court age looks more questionable with the plague of youth ram raids.

Trial halted:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300943055/mt-roskill-murder-trial-aborted-as-judge-cites-grossly-inadequate-failures-by-police
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August 4, 2023 11:30am
- cmm
  
  HTF can a washed up activist then become a judge?
  
  It is one thing being an activist and being kept in a box surrounded by (some) sanity thanks to elected officials keeping you in check.
  
  But judges are pretty much given the keys to the castle. They can basically do what they want with very few restraints.
  
  Making an activist into a judge is an extremely bad idea.
  
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  August 4, 2023 1:45pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    And this cmm….
    
    “As a schoolboy, I simply wasn’t taught the full extent of New Zealand’s history. Not taught the injustices, nor the effects of colonisation. And I think when we learn our history….we’ll be more productive members of our community, and things will change”
    
    – Judge Andrew Becroft (retiring Childrens Commissioner) E-TANGATA 7 Nov.2021
    
    Appointed to the High Court Bench a couple of months back.
    
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    August 4, 2023 2:22pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Tucker Carlson Interviews Hunter Biden’s Ex-Business Partner.

https://spreely.video/v/2711162888/Tucker-Carlson-Interviews-Hunter-Biden-s-Ex-Business-Partner
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August 4, 2023 11:31am
ClanMcleod

Poor Carmel Sepuloni gets crucified in the comments after this Twitter post.

A brilliant evening with some fierce women in business + law last night at
@RussellMcVeagh. So good to be in a room filled with women supporting women — something we all need more of.

The comments are gold!

https://twitter.com/CarmelSepuloni/status/1686994217892204544?s=20
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August 4, 2023 11:51am
I remember when

Pediatricians back youth gender care, but call for a review: NY Times.
The influential American Academy of Pediatricians renewed its support for gender-affirming care of children, which is banned in 19 states.
At the same time, the doctors took the extra step of commissioning a review of research on the treatments.

Perhaps a lucrative alternative will result in a change.
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August 4, 2023 11:55am
Maggie Pie

“I need just one more indictment to ensure my re-election”

Donald J Trump. 45th President of the United States. 3/8/2023
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August 4, 2023 1:02pm
- bjools
  
  If he collects enough “indictments” he may get a free mug with past Presidents faces on. Starting with Biden….maybe he could collect the whole set.
  
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  August 4, 2023 4:15pm
Observant Octagenarian

Consternation among climatists as new head of IPCC says 1.5 degrees warming is not a threat.
Quote:
“The new head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told The Telegraph in Britain and German news magazine Der Spiegel that heating above 1.5 degrees Celsius was “not an existential threat to humanity””
Here is the link:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/300940630/new-global-climate-chief-accused-of-appearing-to-forget-pacific-islands
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August 4, 2023 1:27pm
Lance

WTF is going on with TOP?
Their leader came across as a complete twat on “The Platform”
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August 4, 2023 1:29pm
- cmm
  
  So what’s changed then?
  TOP’s always been like that. Why should it change?
  
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  August 4, 2023 1:41pm
ClanMcleod

The second formerly fit and healthy Brighton FC player to be forced to retire due to a heart condition.

The 22-year-old Belgian defender Lars Dendoncker announced last week that he was retiring from football due to a heart condition, thus making him the second Brighton player to retire because of heart problems in less than a year.

Dendoncker, the younger brother of Leander Dendoncker of Aston Villa and the Belgian national team, announced his retirement on Instagram, saying “this was and will be the hardest decision ever in my life” and that it “really hurts”. He was signed by Brighton & Hove Albion on a two-year contract in 2020 and played for the Scottish side St Johnstone for a year on loan.

Although Dendoncker has only now made his retirement official, he in fact already stopped playing football over a year ago after being diagnosed with myocarditis.

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/03/belgian-defender-is-second-brighton-player-to-retire-with-heart-problems-in-last-year/

Correlation is not causation…… /s
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August 4, 2023 1:42pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  The big issue with the myocarditis is that if you took the vaccine and didnt know it could damage the heart – as a pro athlete you keep training. So if the spike protein gets to the heart sac or the actual heart muscle and causes damage, the strain of hard physically training hits a the heart when its already under stress (damaged) – which can be fatal or cause long term issues.
  
  Protect advise on taking the vax and proper pot injection monitor would prevent the hard training aspect and protected these elite athletes
  
  A pox on the medical profession for accepting a new treatment with totally inadequate trial data to explain the pros and cons correctly to patients under their care.
  
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  August 4, 2023 9:50pm
In Vino Veritas

The Linwood legend, Tane Norton has passed away at 81. Captained the All Blacks to beat the British Lions in 1977, played 27 tests (consecutive) and 61 games for the All Blacks and 82 for Canterbury. Norton was educated in Methven and first played for Mid Canterbury in 1961 as a 19 year old.
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August 4, 2023 1:44pm
Swifty

But still with six months to actually leave:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300942975/whnau-to-get-land-back-after-huatas-withdraw-appeal-following-37year-occupation

Why do I have a sneaky feeling this ain’t ova.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h55HYoV0HH4&pp=ygUMaXQgYWluJ3Qgb3Zh
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August 4, 2023 2:18pm
ScrubOne

For those who would like a quickish reminder of the disaster of the last 6 years,
https://halfdone.wordpress.com/coalition-of-chaos-the-ardern-files/

It’s a work in progress but 2017 and 2023 are mostly done.
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August 4, 2023 2:36pm
Tony Stuart

We had an excellent night last night at two functions with DPF giving some analysis on the polls and current trends.

https://twitter.com/TonyStuart55/status/1686974191671889920

Both functions though operated on Chatham House Rules, so I can’t share any of DPF’s morsels. The man knows his stuff though! Thanks David.
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August 4, 2023 2:44pm
I remember when

Add dairy farm workers to the list of people who’s jobs have reduced or terminated.
Reduced income, increased prices for imputs and, of course, the effect of the minimum wage, visa worker higher salary level, increases.
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August 4, 2023 2:54pm
ClanMcleod

Pfizer under fire from Australian Senator. Watch them squirm. The noose is closing.

Here’s why they’re having a hard time articulating the reason why vaccines cause myo/pericarditis. It’s a catch 22.

If they blame it on the spike protein, as Paul Offit recently did, then the question of lab leak becomes incredibly important. We need to understand why the spike is how it is and whether its origin was related to any bioweapons programs or similar.

If they blame it on the LNP or other core components of the mRNA platform, they’re throwing their cash cow under the bus and are risking untold billions in future revenue.

So they’re claiming they have no idea about the mechanism by which the vaccines are causing heart damage. Which, in any sane world, would act as rock-solid evidence that the manufacturer has no idea what its product is doing in the human body and trigger an instant recall.

https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1687097831914692608?s=20
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August 4, 2023 3:03pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hand signals. This is going beyond stupid. The OK sign is not OK.
Some people just need a smack in the chops to wake them up out of their permanent idiocy.
https://thepatrioticvoice.com/uniondailypost/flashing-the-ok-sign-is-not-ok/?aff_id=1262&utm_placement=uniondailypost
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August 4, 2023 3:21pm
Maggie Pie

“Was it one of them again, Yogi?”

“It’s always them Booboo”

“Did he have any distinguishing features Yogi?”

https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ/status/1687264864102907904
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August 4, 2023 4:04pm
- bjools
  
  Looks like a bad Batman villain….
  From now on known as scribble face.
  
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  August 4, 2023 4:07pm
- Ghost
  
  Poor guy, it used to be you fall asleep on a school camp they draw a dick on your face, looks like now they just scribble lines everywhere on the dicks face….
  
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  August 4, 2023 4:21pm
bjools

Q:
This dude, Tom Phillips, why are they looking for him?
Genuine question, I have seen little, except he has his kids.
they are his kids, he has custody?
Where is the mother?
Apart from steeling a car (which it appears he did AFTER he took the kids), what crime has he committed concerning the children?.
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August 4, 2023 4:05pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Tom and his kids now hold the record for the longest game of Hide & Seek in New Zealand.
  
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  August 4, 2023 4:40pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Tom Phillips is the 2023 version of George Wilder. He can survive on his own in the bush. Bit more of an effort with 3 children. I think the Police are not releasing certain bits of information – regarding the safety of the kids. No comment about his mental health from Police. Hope all ends well.
  Remember George Wilder? Escaped 3 times, and at one stage he was helping Police look for himself!
  
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  August 4, 2023 4:42pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300943032/8-years-in-jail-for-father-who-punched-baby-in-the-face-slamming-him-into-sofa
This piece of maori shit deserves a bullet.
Nothing less.
Just look at what he did.
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August 4, 2023 4:36pm
- sirknz
  
  My reaction was almost identical.
  A 5 month old. Wrapped tape around the baby’s head, then punched it and then broke the baby’s arm.
  A bullet is too quick for what this absolute fucking loser did. Break a bone a day.
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:21pm
kevn

Maggie… So, kiri allan (and partner) daughters father is tamati coffey.
How cool (or not) is that.
Link for the disbelievers…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/election-2023-labour-candidates-tamati-coffey-and-ikaroa-rawhiti-hit-the-ground-on-the-east-coast/B4N27665PRBSHNYIFHZNRR2BSE/
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August 4, 2023 4:37pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  No wonder he decided to take the queer route.
  
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  August 4, 2023 4:44pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  I hope he had permission to release that info.
  
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  August 4, 2023 4:47pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Labour incestuous much?
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:57pm
Homas

A little story for anyone who misses the days when you could discern a gummint agency’s mission from its name…

Working on contract for a major dept. Just got sent back to work-from-home due to a double-booking on the desk-space front. Turns out some regional honcho got the impression that the other lot were just our lot under the Maori name.
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August 4, 2023 5:02pm
kevn

fighter… Indeed. One of the mothers/partners was clearly ok with it, the other I wouldn’t think so.
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August 4, 2023 5:03pm
Maggie Pie

Is ‘Cuddles’ still a happening thing out there?

Asking for friend with a downtown penthouse
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August 4, 2023 5:13pm
Ghost

I had to look at my calendar and make sure I hadn’t fallen asleep and it April 1st already.

Talking to a friend in the USA her son has been contracted by the local university to remove all the urinals from the men’s toilets because trans men have been getting stressed out having them in there
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August 4, 2023 5:21pm
- Matt Long
  
  The funny thing there is that last time I was at an seminar in the US, because the Woman’s WC had a huge line, the ladies were hijacking the shorter line to the Men’s and forming a line past the urinals (Which they didn’t use. ) to the cubicles.
  The Trans people sure are special.
  
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  August 4, 2023 6:29pm
- Homas
  
  You mean remove the urinals and install “sanitary” goods dispensers and disposal units? I shit you not.
  
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  August 4, 2023 6:36pm
NZer In Exile

Anybody else think that Jacinda Ardern’s Damehood should be reversed?

To me it seems to be a mockery of the NZ people considering the parlous state NZ is now in and the crap they’ve been through under this hideous govt. Consider also the promises made by her (EG open and transparent etc etc).
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August 4, 2023 7:55pm
- Ghost
  
  Stripped from her, the damage she did to New Zealand is immense, the damage she did to society will take a long time to heal. Create apartheid, bankrupt a country financially and morally, leave every part of government worse than when you came into power and become a dame.
  
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  August 4, 2023 8:18pm
NZer In Exile

A Brief History of Climate, From Prehistory to The Imaginary Crisis of the 21st Century:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/02/a-brief-history-of-climate-from-prehistory-to-the-imaginary-crisis-of-the-21st-century/
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