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Warren

Labour goes from one disaster to another with the political bribe siphoning billions of taxpayers dollars to hopefully get ahead of the pack wanting to change the Government.
Labour promises four weeks paid parental leave for partners if re-elected.
Partners are currently entitled to two weeks parental leave (PPL) unpaid leave, but Labour staggard plan would give four weeks paid leave by mid 2026.
The new scheme would be phased in from July 1st 2024 with leave taken either concurrently or consecutively with the primary carer and on top of the current entitlement.
This policy will be solely funded by the Government Hipkins says.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/495797/labour-promises-four-weeks-paid-partner-s-leave-for-new-parents
Are the public that stupid that can’t see that this will be funded by a Government that has run out of ideas and is spending money from next year’s budget to get you onside, only to tax you more so they can put New Zealand further in debt leaving future generations to pay the bill.
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August 15, 2023 8:01am
- Prince
  
  Two weeks ago they were against this policy, voting Nicola Willis’ bill down, mumbling something about breast feeding, La Leche….
  Now two weeks and a few focus groups later, they have turned 180 degrees and are advocates.
  Can anyone state what Labour stands for any more, other than whatever keeps them in their limos and on the green leather chairs ?
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:58am
  - kowloon
    
    Unfortunately for Labour, but fortunately for us the gainfully employed, Labour are knot on the mailing list from National Party HQ about pending policies for the election. Thus they have to wait for an official announcement of a good idea policy, before they can spin it as one they were ‘working on’.
    Bit like all their announcements from the podium.
    Hope that Christopher Luxon dumps that ppodium from parliament; and replaces it with a sawhorse to sit on for announcements- more reflective of the working people striving to survive.
    
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    August 15, 2023 10:07am
- Swifty
  
  “Funded by the government…”
  
  It’s one of the most cynical statements in NZ politics nowadays. I wonder what proportion of New Zealanders fall for it.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:07am
  - bjools
    
    what is the latest polling on Lab/Gr/TPM share of the vote?
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:52am
    - rockape
      
      Surprisingly high given their performance.
      
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      August 15, 2023 10:04am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Rockape
        You mean more than zero?
        
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        August 15, 2023 11:43am
    - Stephen Russell
      
      See:
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-2023-new-poll-labour-back-to-30s-nationalact-can-still-govern/NMLG3GPO2RCBDPZJ7MWNBHLYK4/
      
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      August 15, 2023 10:25am
  - kowloon
    
    along the lines of … I’m from the govt, and here to help”!!
    
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    August 15, 2023 10:08am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “This policy will be solely funded by the Government Hipkins says.”
  
  Hey Chippie where does the Govt get the money to fund this?? I don’t remember being asked. You just spent the Taxes my Great Grandson will be paying – thanks.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:15am
- nathie
  
  No mention of the MSM grilling Labour (like they do National) on where exactly the money will come from to fund these bribes!
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:15am
- AitchW
  
  Sadly Warren a lot of voters are that stupid. We’ve become so accustomed to election year bribes that a lot of voters swallow them whole and vote for the fattest bribes!
  
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  August 15, 2023 12:22pm
- miltonF
  
  This comment might be unpopular but I think benefits for families have reached ridiculous levels. I don’t think it can be morally justified. I feel this is hard topic to bring up without being labelled uncaring etc, but let’s look at the facts.
  
  Free healthcare for birthing and kids
  Paid maternity leave
  Free education for 13yrs per child
  20hrs free childcare per week per child, plus further subsidies
  Free dental up to 18yrs old
  Best start child credit $60 per week for children under 2
  Free public transport until 18yrs old
  Working for families
  Accomodation supplement
  
  I’m sure there are some I’ve missed. Now they want to give fathers a month of paid holidays on top. What the actual…
  
  The fact is, parents in NZ do not have to spend a dime on their children. The costs of having children are literally entirely covered by the taxpayer, or in other words – people WITHOUT kids are paying all of the costs of people having children. Is this morally acceptable? No. Not at all.
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:21pm
  - Bullion
    
    Some of this is not entirely accurate (free PT for under 13, half price to 25. Dental care is not free for everyone under 18: “Children in New Zealand who meet the eligibility criteria for publicly funded health and disability services are entitled to free basic oral health services from birth to 17 years of age (until their 18th birthday)” – some region/community providers do have free dental but limited such as Bee Healthy no ACC dental, no orthodontic treatment etc.)
    
    But I get the gist, and for argument’s sake parental support is removed – it will lead to less kids being born, more kids living in poverty, worse health outcomes, more kids with worse education, fewer people participating in the workforce – there will be lots of consequences for society – do we need to increase immigration to offset even lower fertility rate to pay for older NZers healthcare and retirement, are we happy with removing rungs from the ladder to help people improve their lives, increased inequality and link to higher levels of crime etc.
    
    There are still significant costs to having kids, opportunity costs to parents removing themselves from the workplace to raise kids – income down for many even taking into account PPL and hindrance to career progression, feeding and clothing costs, some healthcare costs, housing (you will require larger houses), transport (either extra PT or larger vehicle plus more trips) etc.
    
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    August 15, 2023 2:54pm
- Stellaboxer
  
  This government has moved from provoking anger from me to disgust.
  
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  August 15, 2023 3:32pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

So, will NZ Football subsidise Men’s football with the profits from the Women’s World Cup?
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August 15, 2023 8:01am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  What profits? They gave away 20,000 free tickets.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:16am
  - bjools
    
    A New Zealand family of five purchased the tickets that took the sales total to 1.5 million for the Women’s World Cup on Monday.
    1. It’s not finished.
    2. 20000 promotional tickets, not a bad return.
    Be careful, or Grant Robertson may offer you a job, with maths like that.
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:58am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      If I take that job, he would sack me for correcting him all the time!
      I know numbers.
      
      I did not know about the the purchase by the family of 5.
      
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      August 15, 2023 10:30am
- thirteenstars
  
  Of course not. This is all about equity.
  
  Martin Devlin gave the figures on the NZRFU funding for women’s rugby and it was massive. And that’s in a year the Rugby Union ran a huge deficit.
  
  Can’t wait to find out how much Netball NZ are spending on men’s netball to get the blokes up to the same standard as the girls.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:11am
Monty

The highlight of each week has to the the skewering of Chris Hipkins by Mike Hosking
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August 15, 2023 8:02am
- I remember when
  
  Will they be changing his nickname from Chippy to Jasper?
  He is starting to look like he is haunted.
  Perhaps the tide is turning, in the greater percentage of his photos he is looking less than ‘chippy.’
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:41pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Casper?
    
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    August 15, 2023 7:22pm
Mark Hanley

Mark Hanley
I was asked to justify my bold call that Luxon could be the greatest PM NZ ever had…..

a. Luxon is a proven intellectual leader with an ability to connect with people (don’t believe the despicable nz media nonsense)
b. Luxon has a strong moral underpinning.
c. The only question left is will Luxon (and Seymour) have the balls to take on the hard tasks.

A few examples of (hard task) policies to drive NZ forward.
1. Restructure, rationalize, replace, and downsize the public sector. 75% need to go and quality staff brought in by removing the current requirement to favour brown and gay over ability and experience. There is a signal Luxon is taking on this task with the introduction of the infrastructure commission.

2. Restructure primary intermediate and high schools, reset the curriculum and teaching methods back to the times our education was internationally competitive, remove racial bias from all aspects of education, ratify the curriculum with a referendum and require a referendum for major changes, bring back national standards, introduce results based pay for principals and teachers, report all schools’ performance to parents, give successful principals the ability to oversee multiple schools, reintroduce charter schools, disband the disastrous government department of education and establish an education commission with pay linked to results.

3. Restructure universities, defund 75% of admin staff (it is disgraceful NZ universities now have more admin staff then academics), concentrate the bulk of public funding into wealth generating engineering and IT students, remove race based policies, expand medical schools, and make the humanities and communications departments self funding.

4. Adopt the successful Guiliani law and order principles… arrest and punish all criminals, no matter how small the crime. Arrest rate is very strongly correlated with crime reduction.

5. A full covid inquiry by a Swedish Judge including vaccine procurement and administration. In light of the recently surfaced medsafe report’s damning assessment of the Pfizer covid jab; include an investigation into Jacinda’s false statements the vaccine was safe and effective; an investigation into why Doctor’s supported and administered the Pfizer jab contrary to medsafe’s assessment; and a transparent investigation into the cause of NZ’s horrific mortality coinciding with the Pfizer jab rollout. Instigate criminal investigations where foul play is detected.

6. Introduce binding citizens referenda to ensure any future changes to the excellent policies Luxon implements will require the approval of voters.

7. A forensic audit of all government spending over the last 6 years and criminal investigations of any suspected foul play.

8. A complete and comprehensive overhaul of the laws and regulations relating to government conflicts of interests, complete with independent oversight and harsh consequences if conflicts of interest policies are breached by MPs and their families.

9. A treaty of Waitangi Referendum. It’s time to put the historically corrupt treaty industry to bed!

10. Study and copy Ireland’s success.
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August 15, 2023 8:02am
- Burtland
  
  defund organisations providing education programs based on de-colonisation to the Ministry of Education – NZCER needs to go
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:57am
- Grunter
  
  I like your 10 pt list. I’m just not as convinced that Luxon is the man to do it. Seymour will add some steel, but not on the Covid Inquiry.
  
  To implement the above, we will also need a decent sized army to hold off the imminent threat from Maori seperatists and a new hydro dam to hold back all the lefties wetting their pants!
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:57am
  - The Goblin
    
    Have you seen the racial makeup of the army? There might be a problem with divided loyalties there.
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:47am
    - kowloon
      
      Very much so; the military is very maorified now.
      
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      August 15, 2023 10:15am
  - Che Guava
    
    If words are literally violence as some claim, and as such they can cause great harm if freely expressed, then we should just supply our armed forces with dictionaries and thesauruses and public speaking training, thus reducing the military budget to practically nothing.
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:06am
  - I remember when
    
    The fact is that whether you vote for National or ACT , one will not be the next government without each other.
    
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    August 15, 2023 2:44pm
- Pope Punctilious II
  
  Most of those are good ideas. Much needed ideas! But most of them won’t happen because the Nats are not the party you and I would like them to be, because they are afraid of being branded “racists” etc and because they are beholden to a corporate world that is now distinctly woke. Luxon has said he wants the Nats to be “more diverse”, when what they need to be is more evidence-driven and more competent.
  
  Some good suggestions about universities, but your proposal won’t actually fix the main problem – which is the current funding model. Our universities are required to compete for a limited pool of students, and so spend vast sums on marketing their respective products that differ only slightly more meaningfully than those sold by BP, Caltex, Mobil etc. I agree that some of the admin staff could go, but a lot of them are actually essential under the current model. I have what you might call “inside knowledge” of the university system, and we have some superb admin staff. Frankly I’m more worried about woke academics, who are by no means confined to “gender studies”, “indigenous studies” – there are now plenty of them in science and engineering!
  
  The current funding model puts the students in charge, and is about quantity rather than quality of education – the worst possible option. Better options are (1) a proper state-run university system (as in Denmark or Germany) with strict academic entry requirements, funded from block grants rather than on a per-student basis; and (2) genuine private universities, with the shareholders in charge.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:10am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Thanks for the insights Pope. I copied your university funding options to my wish list.
    
    I also believe we need to remove trades from universities by expanding apprenticeships. There is no need for our nurses and teachers to waste 3 years and $100k fees/living when they can work, train, and study on the job.
    
    On the upside, my daughter is studying engineering at Auckland. I was bouyed to see their evidence based assessment of the real, naturogenic, causes of global warming.
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:53am
    - I remember when
      
      With nursing training/qualifications would a major training hospital in both the North and South Islands be the best of both worlds.
      Or perhaps, training facilities with working ED’s attached to them.
      They may only be available for other than serious cases but could reduce the present waiting times and lack of doctors.
      
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      August 15, 2023 2:58pm
  - goNZ1
    
    I must say it was very disappointing that Penk was slapped down for calling out that POS Tovar recently. Will Luxon slide into wokery a la Air New Zealand during his reign?
    
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    August 16, 2023 2:31am
- Mr T
  
  I just wish and hope you are proven to be right, but I have my doubts, unless ACT can force some of these issues to happen.
  You could add immediately sack all woke and left thinking govt staff employed on vanity projects. Just pay any redundancy and get them gone.
  We need a 100 day plan of action
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:17am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  How do you expect to justify your promotion of Luxon by listing a bunch of things that Luxon has never said he would do?
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:21am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Agree NK, I was wondering the same.
    
    Luxon’s first priority should be to rid himself of his fear of the media .
    
    His fear will prevent him from being proactive and he will end up as a lame duck constantly trying to put out political fires.
    
    Fear breeds contempt and they will just get worse.
    
    If he told one or two of them to fuck off he would get some respect.
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:57am
    - Mark Hanley
      
      Watch Luxon’s recent media interviews and you will see he has identified and fixed his media facing weakness.
      
      That is what stellar managers do.
      
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      August 15, 2023 3:23pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  9. is a goer. NZ is living under false pretentions with tat rogue Treaty containing Lies.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:21am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Like it says in the advertisement – You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:33am
- Warren
  
  You will never win with the haters on here concerning Chris Luxon Mark you can go back to Bill English when he was Leader the first time then Don Brash these same voters used to say even with John Key we have voted for Winston to keep National honest and look at the way they have changed their tune nowadays.
  I cannot think of a National Leader that they have liked since Bolger ,so maybe these so called astute so called voters won’t be happy until they have succeeded in destroying the National Party.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:52am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Warren. The National Party is NZ’s most successful political.party and will continue to be so. Why? They continually attract quality people like Dr Reti and Luxon.
    
    Anyone who votes for the mind blowingly dishonest Peters (never forget Peters’ fanciful promise to remove Maori seats followed by his demonstrably false claim Labour hid He Puapua from him) to keep someone else honest need their heads checked!
    
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    August 15, 2023 10:14am
  - Frank the tank
    
    As ‘one of those’ you have got your analysis all wrong. Some context:
    
    1). The ‘center’ has moved left over the past 20 years. Establishment parties move with the center – people, like me don’t.
    2). Looking at the establishing principals and National’s behaviors over the past 30 years it’s the party not it’s former supporters that have moved position on such issues as Welfare and ToW.
    3). Right politics under any proportional system will splinter over the next 10 years because the establishment parties reluctance to stick to principals and moved from the defined center.
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:17am
  - mawm
    
    Warren – hate is a very strong word. I do not think people on this blog who criticise Luxon hate him and probably like me they are more contemptuous of him. He is the leader of the opposition to the worst government ever and he can barely get his nose in front and his solution is to move further left!!
    
    I think that commenters who continuously make excuses for him are probably causing more damage to the Party than those criticising him.
    
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    August 15, 2023 2:36pm
    - Mark Hanley
      
      MAWN. I’m surprised at your acerbic comment given your self confessed alignment with Luxons / Nationals policies.
      
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      August 15, 2023 3:27pm
      - mawm
        
        Mark – Really! I have never confessed to aligning to Luxon’s policies. I have been a lifelong Tory voter but can no longer vote for them as they have moved away from me. That started under Keys.
        
        I’m surprised that you think my comment was acerbic. They are representative of a lot of voters feelings.
        
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        August 15, 2023 8:32pm
- kowloon
  
  Give the man a chance,! that is a big task for a three year period. It will take National lead govt 18 months to find all the hidden agenda items. The civil servants won’t help this exercise; as it will make most of them unemployed, where else would they get a 120,00 salary for organising farewell parties and developing ‘spin’ announcements.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:13am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    The National Party will have 9, hopefully 12. years to implement and cement their policies.
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:19am
- Frank the tank
  
  1-9 won’t happen under a Luxon/Willis/Bishop. They are governed by where the media/polls determine the middle nor will they be able to ‘go to war’ with PSA or education unions or indeed Maori elite.
  10. – Ireland success was due to a low base, being an EU member and low taxes. Talk to people from Ireland now – they are at least as poorly performing as us.
  
  Not being mean – just trying to point out facts.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:52am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Hi Tank. That is an interesting use of the word…. “facts”
    
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    August 15, 2023 2:15pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Ha!
  You make a bold call that Luxon will be great/the greatest, but then list of 10 things that have to be done for success, NONE of which are National policy and some of which would be or are already ruled out by them!
  
  Your dreamin’, mate. These are far from National policy. Great ideas I would say: Full covid enquiry**, referendum on the Treaty, binding referenda, remove race based polices, defund and restructure universities, etc. etc. Agreed.
  But dreamin’.
  
  **A Covid enquiry should not just be all about the jab, but include equally the failure to follow the pandemic plan, the cost of locked borders, regional lockdowns, the impacts and humanity of how MIQ was run, the modelling blunders, the podium of distortion, impacts of social cohesion, etc. etc.
  
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  August 15, 2023 11:46am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Hi duck.
    
    Thx for highlighting the extra facets of a covid inquiry.
    
    The reason I honed in on the covid jab is I believe there was proveable criminal behaviour.
    
    The procurement of the deadly early batches after the original purchasers and Pfizer discovered how unacceptably deadly the batches were, then proceeding to jnject the deadly batches into our medical fraternity was pure evil.
    
    OH and you are right, I’m dreaming….
    OR …
    in management parlance, I’m articulating strategic goals.
    
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    August 15, 2023 2:56pm
  - Tom Hunter
    
    **A Covid enquiry should not just be all about the jab, but include equally the failure to follow the pandemic plan,….
    
    Yes. My suggestion on what a Royal Commission on C-19 should cover. TBF I was allowed to post this here at KB as a guest post.
    
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    August 15, 2023 5:26pm
- waikatosinger
  
  You’ve got a couple of things in there where you want to lock in stuff and require a referendum to change it. I understand the temptation. However that kind of approach can be used by Labour as well as by National and with a couple of exceptions it is a bad idea. You don’t want a government to be able to lock in changes so that they cannot be undone by a future government.
  
  The exception is anything involving the electoral system. Changes to the electoral system absolutely should require a referendum. Our system currently lacks any safeguards against a government willing to change electoral rules to keep itself in power, and it needs some.
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:15pm
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Hi singer.
    
    The Swiss managed to implement a successful referenda system, and feedback from the Swiss voters Is very positive.
    
    Referenda are particularly important in NZ as the governing party currently has absolute power.
    
    Voters proved we can fulfill the upper chamber role successfully with our great decision making on the marijuana and end of life referenda.
    
    Do you you really want to leave those decisions to Chloe Swarbrick amd Marama Davidson, or suffer a repeat of the disastrous Labour government wasting our money and poisoning our children??
    
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    August 15, 2023 3:17pm
- Allan
  
  Mark,
  well said very impressive, I have forwarded this post to Luxon and Seymour in order to assist them in formulating worthwhile policies when the current bunch of Student Union numpties are booted out on their collective bums after October 14th and replaced by grown ups with real life experience.
  
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  August 15, 2023 3:00pm
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Thx Allan.
    
    I hope more KBers do the same.
    
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    August 15, 2023 3:44pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Not so sure about Ireland, who shafted their EU compadres by offering low taxes for multinationals while also offering access to the EU.
  
  Not a great model, and not one we can emulate in any event.
  
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  August 15, 2023 7:27pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Here’s a good use case. The lake is overflowing so solutions are needed.

‘Another option is redirecting water.

But

“From a mana whenua perspective, we’re not that keen on major engineering solutions.”’

Will 3 Waters take responsibility for this kind of thing?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/08/communities-flooding-as-rotorua-district-lakes-rise-dangerously-high.html
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August 15, 2023 8:04am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  And I note that its “cos climate change”. What utter shit.
  
  Nothing to do with the fact that the Tongan eruption put trillions of litres of water into the atmosphere, and it only goes one way once its there.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:59am
- JJ56
  
  For a long but useful analysis of the state of the current weather Judith Curry has just posted at her blog https://judithcurry.com/2023/08/14/state-of-the-climate-summer-2023.
  
  Spoiler alert: CO2 effect is unable to be detected.
  
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  August 15, 2023 12:53pm
Matt Long

Covid boosters shown to protect pregnant woman and babies, umbilical cord blood shows antibodies crossing to fetus.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the sharp decrease in birth rates recorded in highly vaccinated countries?
https://www.foxnews.com/health/covid-vaccines-boosters-shown-protect-pregnant-women-newborns-transferred-protection
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August 15, 2023 8:05am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Apparently correlation is not causation. /s
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:12am
  - Keith White
    
    In June 21 I implored the NZ Medical Council to ask – and research and answer – the question: could this mRNA vaccine be our generation’s thalidomide, but on hugely larger scale?
    
    Surely we should not abandon decades-long-observed safety precautions and 3-phase testing and just command 5 million people to take a poorly researched and untested treatment?
    
    Well, ‘we’ did. And now millions of innocents are paying the price.
    
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    August 15, 2023 8:28am
    - mawm
      
      Very few new drugs are approved for use in pregnancy. The reason why is the huge cost of testing so manufacturers just add a warning not be used in pregnancy. It is astonishing that the average family doctor went ahead and administered an inadequately tested drug to pregnant women.
      
      Primum non nocere.
      
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      August 15, 2023 2:50pm
- Bridgenag
  
  A miscarriage of statistics: The thalidomide sequel
  Proof that the miscarriage rate after the COVID vaccines is far higher than the real background rate and how the pharma corporations tried to hide it.
  
  https://open.substack.com/pub/arkmedic/p/a-miscarriage-of-statistics-the-thalidomide?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:24am
- Bridgenag
  
  COVID-19: Newly Published Research and CDC Data
  The truth sets people free
  
  https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/covid-19-newly-published-research?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:26am
- Mrs_Right
  
  I decided not to get the vaccine when I was pregnant in 2021/22. I’m so glad I didn’t. Had Covid in 2022 together with my husband who is vaccinated (to keep his job). He got it way worse than I did. I felt tired for about 3 days but had no other symptoms.
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:29pm
Grunter

Nobel Prize winner (2022) Dr John Clauser (Physics) has called out the entire climate scam. He calls it corrupt. He says the UN’s IPCC is spreading dangerous misinformation.

This is a seriously level headed, intelligent scientist. I think I trust him more than James Shaw, Al Gore and Greta!

https://clintel.org/nobel-prize-winner-dr-john-f-clauser-signs-the-clintel-world-climate-declaration/
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August 15, 2023 8:08am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I think Luxon prefers Shaw. He has said that much.
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:54am
slightlyrighty

Labour’s announcement re paid parental leave, which comes into effect after 3 years and costs 75 million, after voting down Nicola Willis’s bill, which could have been implemented immediately and cost NOTHING, will simply make Labour look as petty and as venal as we suspected.

Politically, it’s a disaster for them, and if they had any sense, they would have voted for Willis’s bill and cut their losses. However, hubris won’t allow them to do so, and this is what’s going to kill them this election.

Labour will go into this election proud of their achievements. All National has to do is show just how little Labour has achieved.
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August 15, 2023 8:10am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Newstalk ZB news has been reported that the extra four weeks will be paid “by the government”. No it won’t; the long-suffering taxpayer will pay it.
  
  But this is purely political theatre; Labour is prepared to add 15% to the cost of Paid Parental Leave just to deny Nicola Willis a win in the run-up to the election. The irony is that she has already pledged, if National is reelected, to reintroduce her Bill as a government measure within 100 days of taking office, so she may well have the last laugh.
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:48am
  - nathie
    
    Labour: “Paid by the government”.
    
    Or in other words – “Free Now, Pay Later”! (By taxpayers)!
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:19am
    - I remember when
      
      “Paid by the government.”
      The whole ‘paid by the government’ ignores the associated disruption and costs still covered by employers.
      
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      August 15, 2023 3:03pm
  - Ghost
    
    Tax payer? Na it will have to be paid by a loan from the Chinese, We’re beyond broke, no money for any promises.
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:46am
  - septic skeptic
    
    It’s a nice to have but wouldn’t be on my list for the first 100 days.
    
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    August 15, 2023 10:20am
- cmm
  
  Something really needs to us 60-year-olds who missed out on this treat because our breeding days are over. This is extremely discriminatory.
  
  I would like to suggest that the only way to correct this unfairness is to give older, post-breeding age people a “top up” to make this fair.
  
  Therefore I demand:
  * Every post menopausal woman who is not able to take advantage of this policy should be given 3 months of paid time off for every child they had.
  * Every male partner for these women should be given a month of paid time off for each child they had.
  
  If this is not corrected then the older people in the country will be incredibly disadvantaged. This needs to be addressed immediately.
  
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  August 15, 2023 5:21pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Or CMM, you could just get out on the ram-tan.
    
    I’m reliably informed that the term for an older but still attractive man is ‘beekeeper’.
    
    Rock that beekeeper vibe!
    
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    August 15, 2023 7:34pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Plain and simple, this idiot hates America. Why does he do this?

https://redbloodedconservative.com/2023/08/14/biden-blows-twice-the-cost-of-the-wall-on-saving-ukraine-with-untraceable-funds/
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August 15, 2023 8:12am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Untraceable?
  Well you can guarantee the big guy is getting shitloads.
  America is dying.
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:18am
  - Che Guava
    
    America is dying, or you could say it is being killed, but it’s not because of Joe Biden. At the highest level, and a lot of the lower ones, they are all completely corrupt and out for themselves. Then you get a guy like Trump (who they say is a habitual liar and corrupt, a massive projection if there ever was one) who is intensively investigated in all aspects of his business dealings and personal life for 10 years and all they can get on him is some minor accounting errors, a few classified dox, and some ambiguous statements to his legions of loyal fans (which is the real issue they have with Trump, if we are honest). In other words, comparatively nothing. So yes, the Bidens are completely corrupt, but then again so is almost everyone else.
    
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    August 15, 2023 8:50am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      America is dying because of Joe Biden, the Biden Family, the Biden Administration, The Democrat Establishment.
      Most in the World have no idea of the corruption. That is why they want Trump stopped, because their corrupt lifestyle will crash. Democrats will fight, steal and even kill to save their swamp. One of Hillary’s inner circle met his maker recently.
      Here, from pre 2016 and pre 2020:
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S63MW41dP58
      
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      August 15, 2023 11:03am
      - Che Guava
        
        Take a 30,000 foot perspective of things, rather than taxiing around the runway. “Biden” and “Killary” and “The DemonRats” are a soap opera designed to distract from the set, the script writers, the director and the production company.
        
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        August 15, 2023 11:53am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Would you like a MAGA cap? I have about 8 now.
      They were free, just pay shipping.
      
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      August 15, 2023 11:08am
- Grunter
  
  Biden is a complete scumbag. Taking us to the brink. And still lots of calls for NZ to join him in funding Ukraine. It’s just bizarre.
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:23am
  - Burtland
    
    and here you go again, conflating Ukraine with Biden
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:11am
    - Che Guava
      
      Exactly. Biden’s just signing the endless checks made out Zelensky. To conflate Biden with Ukraine ignores the reality that Biden is merely the wooden figurehead attached to the Ship of State, not the guy at the helm.
      
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      August 15, 2023 10:46am
    - Grunter
      
      Burtland – you’re not seriously saying Biden and has nothing to do with the Ukraine mess? May be you are joking?
      
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      August 15, 2023 10:56am
      - Che Guava
        
        Hey Jack! Ukraine is about freedom and democracy and rainbow people and the sacred rules-based order going up against an authoritarian megalomaniac with a diabolical vision of a reconstituted Soviet Union. And nothing else. What, are you on the Kremlin payroll? Perhaps a subversive Chicom spewing anti-Western rhetoric, sent by Chairman Xi himself? C’mon man!
        
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        August 15, 2023 11:31am
imalwaysright

Heard some propaganda on the radio news:

Apparently labour voters are shy about taking part in telephone polls!
(How do they know?)

Here we go, maybe that will explain the sudden rise in popularity of Labour on election day.

I’m sure the electoral commission will have the press release already written .
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August 15, 2023 8:16am
- Phronesis
  
  Would you admit to considering voting for this Government?
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:50am
igm

Listening to Steven Joyce is so enlightening, especially after having to listen to lies, deception, and innuendo from the current line-up of weirdos, wimps, leeches and losers masquerading as government!
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August 15, 2023 8:18am
- mogg
  
  Yes you are describing the curse of the ‘career politician’, they are leeches on society. That’s why I will be supporting Luxon he will know how to get things done.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:28am
  - igm
    
    Luxon should not have apologised to O’Brien when Penk stated a truthful fact. He shot himself and the party in the feet, this not being the first time he has done this, undermining an MP.
    
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    August 15, 2023 5:33pm
Bridgenag

For all things pertaining to the Ukraine/Russia war

SITREP 8/13/23: AFU Struggles For Symbolic Meaning In Late Summer Doldrums

SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
AFU Struggles For Symbolic Meaning In Late Summer Doldrums

[Mod – fixed link]
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August 15, 2023 8:20am
- Bridgenag
  
  last three words need deleting from the link …. sorry
  
  [Mod – fixed]
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:06am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Great Thanks
    
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    August 15, 2023 1:21pm
- Grunter
  
  Western media have finally changed course. They are now admitting that the much promoted Ukrainian counter-offensive has failed. In fact, they acknowledge that it never had a chance to win in the first place.
  
  The Hill, the Washington Post and CNN now agree that the Ukrainian army will never achieve its aims.
  
  In the northeast around Kupyansk the Russians have started their own offensive which has the Ukrainians on the run. Ukraine has ordered the evacuation of the area:
  
  A mandatory evacuation has been ordered for the Ukrainian city of Kupyansk and its surrounding areas, as Russia intensified shelling of Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region and claimed to have captured Ukrainian positions near the city on Thursday.
  
  But Kupyansk is a Russian city and people refuse to leave.
  
  Now the question moves to – so what will the demented Biden now do in the face of imminent defeat? Lets hope he gets talked down from any further escalation and sending even more innocent young men to their death.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:14am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Citations needed
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:19am
    - Grunter
      
      I regularily watch The Duran (YT channel). Also follow Col MacGregor and a few others. They have been pretty accurate with their predictions and ahead of MSM on development by 4-6 weeks.
      
      The link above by Bridgenag provides a similar vein of commentary.
      
      I don’t think anyone can provide ‘citations’ as such on an active war. Propaganda on both sides is always the name of the game. All I’ve done is call BS on the typical western MSM narrative. If it comes out of Biden’s mouth it is almost certainly rubbish (IMO).
      
      We all decide what info to digest and then think about. I choose the guys above (not just one source) and reject most MSM. May be that’s wrong? But I don’t think so based on what has happened in the Ukraine over the past 18 months.
      
      By the way – most of this is not pro-Russian as such. It’s merely pointing out the fallacies in the logic being used by NATO leaders and what they are saying and trying to achieve in Ukraine.
      
      For me, as soon as the MSM started showing Zelenskyy as some kind of rock star war leader (similar to the NZ Jacindamania craze during Covid), my immediate reaction was “BS”
      
      One thing is for certain, the Russians aren’t going anywhere and NATO don’t have the fire power to shift them.
      
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      August 15, 2023 2:27pm
    - mawm
      
      All-on-Red – A couple of days ago I gave you links to a neutral military comment site and to the MSM, specifically WaPo, CNN and The Hill beginning to admit the truth. Those links contained everything Grunter has said above.
      
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      August 15, 2023 3:05pm
  - kowtow
    
    The Russians are shelling
    a ‘Russian’ city to “liberate” the Russians who live there, while the Ukrainian govt have told them to get out ‘cos of the Russian shells .
    
    I’m confused about who’s more interested in their safety.
    
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    August 15, 2023 12:33pm
    - mawm
      
      Are they? I think this is just projection. The Ukies are planning on leaving and are telling people to leave, press-ganging the men into their army and for some unknown reason are separating kids from their parents. They are not nice people.
      
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      August 15, 2023 3:08pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Robotyne and Urozhaine have just been liberated. Fleeing Ruzzian troops massacred. The attrition approach is working. There also three bridgeheads across the Dnipro in Kherson. The clock is ticking down for Putler.
    
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    August 15, 2023 1:04pm
Surely Knott

New Zealand’s biosecurity madness:
Remember when we used to spray the passengers on the plane arriving in NZ.
Remember when we used to crop spray painted apple moth all over Auckland.
Remember when we shut down our entire regional park of our largest city for an endemic water mould, genetically proven to be 100’s of years old when trees were obviously healthy and thriving.
Remember when we shut down our entire country, had passports, divided people, quarantined visitors, and force vaccinated for a coronavirus.
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August 15, 2023 8:24am
- nathie
  
  For better or worse the following will also be remembered for the next 10-20 years:
  
  “Jessica, then Tova”!
  “Jessica, then Tova”!
  “Jessica, then Tova”!
  “Jessica, then Tova, but not Barry”!
  “Umm Tova, then Jessica”!
  “Jessica, then Tova”!
  “Jessica, then Tova”!
  “Jessica, then Tova”!
  “Jessica, then Tova, then umm Barry”!
  “Jessica, then Tova”!
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:30am
- Random T Person
  
  Truly we live in a fucking clown country at the end of the world. Mass idiocy.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:30am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Spraying the pane was a joke, returning from Hawaii. Overhead lockers, under the seats. Sprayed the seat as we stood up. Then finally Customs. Over 4 hours since landing I was out the front ready for a shuttle (trailers I made !)
  It was not just the crew doing this, guys in paper overalls, same as I used for spray painting. I am sure it was all just a training exercise about ‘control’
  
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  August 15, 2023 11:22am
Maggie Pie

So, RT reporting that Wikileaks whistle-blower Julian Assange may consider a plea deal with the US Justice Dept, which will allow him to return to Australia. But can Joe Biden be trusted?
My partner said he wouldn’t like to be in his shoes 🙁

https://www.rt.com/news/581273-us-julian-assange-plea-deal/
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August 15, 2023 8:24am
Bridgenag

Mods Please leave out the last 3 words on the Simpliticus post
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August 15, 2023 8:27am
Tony Stuart

Former senior Labour Party Minister Iain Lees-Galloway on Twitter last night:

Iain Lees-Galloway
@IainLG

Sigh. Taking GST off food really is silly isn’t it? I pity the Labour candidates getting grilled about what’s in and what’s out at every local debate.

5:54 PM · Aug 14, 2023

https://twitter.com/IainLG/status/1690965067683246080

I would speculate that many of ILG’s former colleagues would agree wholeheartedly with him, especially his old Cabinet mates Grant Robertson and David Parker. It’s certainly unusual to see a fairly recent departee from Parliament firing such a solid shot across the party’s bows.

Who knows; maybe Lees-Galloway is eyeing up a return to Parliament in 2026 after Chris Hipkins is rolled post election.
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August 15, 2023 8:29am
- I remember when
  
  Just took a stroll along the frozen vegetable aisle, looked as if it would need a bomb disposal squad to handle the eruptions.
  
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  August 15, 2023 3:07pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

So, Covid restrictions gone? There will be thousands of programed idiots who will still wear masks. I see them at the supermarket. I enter an isle, a mask wearer enters the other end, sees me maskless so U-turn and gone. Have I got Leprosy?

Now this is the diversion I was talking about yesterday. What are Labour up to in the background? Lifting Covid restrictions! There is a lot more to this. If Labour should win the Election, there is this Eris thing. EG5. Then XBB.1.5.
If Labour win be prepared for the control, the mandates, only one person allowed to go shopping. One Socialist has gone, but the rest are there along with the liar brigade of experts.
Steve Overdoing it? Really?
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August 15, 2023 8:32am
- Close Hen Counters
  
  Despite the mask restrictions lifted, I arrived at work today (a metropolitan auck hospital) and was told we have to continue wearing masks because 45% covid people are asymptomatic and we still may catch covie from them …. I lost my mind and told the department I absolutely refuse to wear a mask. Have been out of medical school for decades, have been exposed to a tonne of bugs over those years never wearing masks – it’s the woke police gone mad
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:20am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Good on you. Up their nose with a rubber hose.
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:24am
Gravelroad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/gender-and-society/300949783/most-men-except-sam-uffindell-dont-see-domesticity-as-something-that-deserves-a-medal
Seems a few “journalists” have a secret crush on Sam Uffindell.
Am unsure as to whether the reference in the final sentence by Ms Johnson is a mistake or intentional:
“After all, who wants to be lectured on masculinity by someone whose attitudes belong in the era of the aristocracy and nobel peasantry.”
Am not sure that the developer of dynamite and the giver-outer of prizes, Alfred Nobel, was a peasant or an aristocrat.
But comparing Mr Uffindell to Nobel can’t be all bad.
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August 15, 2023 8:32am
- David Garrett
  
  Gravel: Until he suddenly departed Stuff, I used to have an ongoing email banter with a fellow called Mark Stevens – it began with me pointing out “today’s glaring mistake”, and 9/10, Mark responding with variations on “Oh FFS…thanks David”.
  
  Spelling and grammatical mistakes are totally unforgivable in the age of spell-check; and it is quite obvious that most “journalists” can’t be bothered to proof read their own work. There are a few notable exceptions, but they are almost all “old guys” like me and Barry Soper.
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:45am
- Dave
  
  Uffindell’s doing the shopping comment sounded rather sexist, but has provoked indignation far in excess of the evidence. Some people just want to be outraged.
  
  My wife does all the daily cooking, so I must be a lazy, sexist pig. Oh, wait a moment – I scrub the kitchen floor and do all the vacuuming and toilet/bathroom cleaning, so she must be a lazy slattern. Etc.
  
  Without knowing the rest of the paid/domestic work arrangements, living away from home, and personal preferences in the household, it utterly impossible to infer anything from what sounded to be a throwaway line in a speech about CPI inflation.
  
  I, for one, identified with his choosing the cheap block of cheese, instead of the tasty.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:45am
  - Philview
    
    I feel sure in the original comment Sam mentioned that he spends a lot of time away from home working in Wellington. The media are so so keen to attack the National Party that context is irrelevant.
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:15am
  - Beach Haven expat
    
    Hipkins was waffling on about how many people he sees having to put food back when he does the supermarket run. I am dubious.
    Is it like he’s always down the RSA as he claimed?
    
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    August 15, 2023 1:28pm
    - I remember when
      
      Did Hipkins mention that when people put food back at the Supermarket – it is seldom back where they got it from!
      
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      August 15, 2023 3:39pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Despite her impressive accomplishments, inexplicably Ms Ferrety Johnson seems incapable of attracting an alpha male. One should treat her articles as a cry for help.
  
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  August 15, 2023 7:39pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

A foolish fantasy? Yep, with our money. How can this shit be stopped?

https://craigbushon.com/2023/08/renewable-energy-is-a-foolish-fantasy/
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August 15, 2023 8:34am
Benedict Yu

Quick update on the Kellie Jay Keen visit on 20 September.

According to her, she has been contacted by two members of the New Zealand Police. Apparantly by telephone. They have told her three things.

Firstly they “cannot guarantee her safety” if she visits.

I guess that is, literally correct. The police cannot. However they have not told her what they will do to protect her safety. The worrying inference is that they intend to do nothing.

Secondly, they advised her that she is not required to appear in the court proceedings regarding the man who assaulted her. They further said that if she insisted on participating, she should do so via video link from the UK.

Thirdly, if she does come to New Zealand, she should not organise a speaking event outside the District Court.

https://www.youtube.com/live/pFHfGRyCrrk?feature=share

Of course, she is ignoring all this police advice.

The Government will not want another riot. I can see only two outcomes…..

The Police deploy in force to protect her and her supporters, or she is denied entry to New Zealand.
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August 15, 2023 8:37am
- kowtow
  
  Mustn’t forget the police resources devoted to regular gang parades aka funerals.
  
  When Plod wants he can find the personpower .
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:46am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Youth offender taxi, gang tangi escort services and KFC delivery.
    Keeping a baying mob away from people exercising free speech; not so much.
    
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    August 15, 2023 12:39pm
- David Garrett
  
  Bene: I agreee 100%…and if she is refused entry to NZ – like some odious holocaust denier – that will be an utter disgrace.
  
  I actually bristle each time I see KJ described as “an anti-trans activist”. She is nothing of the sort! All she has ever said is “the definition of ‘woman’ is an adult human female” and that women’s spaces should be for women only. That’s it.
  
  She has taken great pains to make it plain she has nothing whatsoever against the transgender freaks of nature – so long as they stay out of spaces reserved for women – defined as above.
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:51am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    She campaigns on two other points.
    
    Prohibition on medical and surgical measures on children.
    
    No men in women’s sports.
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:02am
  - Che Guava
    
    On what principle should an “odious holocaust denier” be refused entry to New Zealand? I assume you’re talking about David Irving who, up until he was unable to find primary documents supporting the popular narrative, was considered an outstanding historian, writer and a meticulous researcher.
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:02am
    - Dave
      
      Sort of. His reputation as a productive historian was destroyed when he went from pointing out the lack of a specific directive by Hitler explicitly ordering the Holocaust, something generally accepted by historians, to denying the Holocaust, as a deliberate and hugely resourced policy entirely consistent with Hitler’s views, occurred, plus evidence in a libel case that he systematically distorted historical evidence to reach this conclusion.
      
      Like you, I have no objection to Holocaust deniers coming to NZ, as this provides an opportunity for historians to refresh our knowledge with the massive counter evidence.
      
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      August 15, 2023 10:11am
      - Che Guava
        
        For one thing, being labelled a “denier” of x presupposes that x is the case. Isn’t the very point of historical research to uncover the truth of the matter under investigation, regardless of the implications?
        
        Why is there such an absolute aversion to anyone questioning any aspect of the holocaust narrative? It far exceeds any religious heresy. On the one hand, we are told that it and all details are completely settled and irrefutable, yet on the other hand, it is illegal to question the event in many jurisdictions and people have been sent to prison for doing so. The latter seriously and obviously calls the former into question, does it not? This is completely bizarre, and it requires a rational explanation beyond “it causes offence.”
        
        No doubt many will disagree. But if anyone can point out any other historical event that attracts even half the amount of vitriol and repudiation towards anyone who questions it, I’d like to hear what it is.
        
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        August 15, 2023 10:36am
      - Dave
        
        I don’t support laws against Holocaust denial, but the evidence is so overwhelming that I wouldn’t take very seriously anyone denying that it occurred. However, there might well be room for argument over the details.
        
        Is there an absolute aversion to anyone questioning any aspect of the Holocaust narrative? That’s a sweeping claim.
        
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        August 15, 2023 11:19am
      - Che Guava
        
        Wouldn’t “overwhelming evidence” stand on its own merits though? Why would laws be needed to criminalise questioning a past event that was supported by overwhelming evidence? Aren’t the logical implications obvious? You can’t get sent to prison for denying what occurred in the US Civil War, or the brutal Japanese invasion of China, or the Battle of Jena.
        
        BTW, when I speak of the holocaust, I speak of systematic extermination using technological means. That is an extraordinary claim. Don’t extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? Nobody doubts that camps existed. In fact, they existed for years after the war as well, run by the Allies and used to imprison Germans. You don’t hear about this, though.
        
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        August 15, 2023 11:43am
      - Fuzzysnuggleduck
        
        I find it really disturbing that there are people in NZ that dont believe there was an industrial genocide of the Jews.
        The Nazi party policy around race and Jews, and those architects who assisted and were captured rather than escaped by other means – the fact that in the Nazi system all power came from the top and the Leader/Der Fuhrer – so many resources, trains and camps used to transport and complete the Special Treatment….it is sheer lunacy to deny the holocaust or even quibble over the scale or intentions.
        
        That there is no written instruction or order from Lenin to have the Tsar’s family executed does not mean he didnt authorise it, or it didnt happen.
        Same as when a Mafia boss orders a killing – we don’t claim they are innocent due to the lack of written orders, or the fact their hands didnt kill.
        Of course a meeting like the Wansee conference happens with the approval and knowledge of Hitler. The policy for the Jews evolved and got much worse after deporting alone was seen as insufficient or too complicated.
        
        I have even argued with a jew-hater in NZ that the SS did not do mass execution (despite the harrowing evidence in photographs or eye witness or recollections of the culprits) nor did they dig up mass graves and attempt to destroy the physical evidence of the mobile Einsatzgruppen as the Russians reclaimed land – or that body counts weren’t all being reported back towards the centre.
        
        Holocaust deniers are a less funny version of Flat Earthers. Not cute or silly, but repulsive and worrying.
        
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        August 15, 2023 12:50pm
      - Che Guava
        
        You are free, of course, to be repulsed
        
        [ Mod : got it in one. There are blogs here and there that are happy about holocaust denial. Find one ]
        
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        August 15, 2023 1:29pm
- Nickc2
  
  Wow! It’s good to see the reputation of a third-world corrupt South Pacific dictatorship lives on eh?
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:53am
- Yabster
  
  If she has a rally- I think plenty of men will go and protect her and the woman that want to listen to her.. be a fun day out I reckon..
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:53am
- Inandout
  
  BY, from a UK site which shows the trans thugs are getting out of hand.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMIvcYNo2Zo
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:02am
- Chris2
  
  Benedict – is it possible the calls Parker says she received from the Police were actually from opponents to her, impersonating the NZ Police, to try and keep her out of New Zealand?
  
  It’s the sort of stunt her opponents would devise.
  
  And why were two calls necessary, not just one?
  
  Ms Parker should name the callers so their Police Officer bone-fides can be established.
  
  If this was legit then it should be in writing to her on NZ Police letterhead. Not a phone called which can not be OIA’d.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:02am
  - artemisia
    
    Actually the content and timing etc of phone calls can be subject to the OIA. It is not a requirement to be written or graphic. So discussions and meetings that are not documented but meet the OIA requirements can be requested.
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:53am
    - Nickc2
      
      Call Registers can be searched. A few NZ agencies can do it officially. They can trace a call leaving NZ to a designated off-shore number and an incoming call to a designated NZ number.
      
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      August 15, 2023 10:17am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      You are correct. However I have never seen any examples.
      
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      August 15, 2023 11:20am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    It is possible it is a scam call.
    
    However the police do actually telephone people on official business.
    
    Also this is a woman who I think would have good instincts. I would hope she would do the obvious. Ask for their names and badge numbers and a New Zealand number she can call to confirm their identities.
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:19am
    - Keith White
      
      In quarantine hotels – at least the one I was in – NZ police personnel hid their badge numbers and like the nurses on duty, could not be identified then or later.
      
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      August 15, 2023 3:05pm
- Matt Long
  
  To add some balance, I recently saw on X one of the protest mob saying they had been spoken to by police and wouldn’t be protesting outside the court.
  I presume police aare trying to avoid a confrontation and fallout for themselves.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:17am
  - Notsofast
    
    It is a spectacular pr disaster for the so called trans community, were it not for Spark, Vodaphone Stuff and the Herald blatantly misrepresenting the truth, New Zealanders at large would understand what worthies like Dame Sue Bagley are doing to the children.
    In relative terms, Shaneel Lal is a harmless buffoon.
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:00am
- Beach Haven expat
  
  Unsurprising but woeful on all three counts:
  1) They can’t guarantee her safety because they can’t be trusted, as evidenced from Albert Park;
  2) She’s the victim. They should be doing everything in their power to have her at court so she can help their prosecution and, importantly for her, see justice done;
  3) I’m not sure it is down to the police to “advise” (read pressurise) a person not to do a thoroughly lawful (and protected under right to free speech and freedom of assembly) activity.
  They really just don’t get it, do they?
  
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  August 15, 2023 1:36pm
Benedict Yu

I see that the pink haired terror had a meltdown over the end of the COVID measures. However she REALLY outdid herself. 😅

“Gutted by today’s news that masking in healthcare settings and mandatory isolation are goneburgers,” she wrote on Twitter.

“Sending hugs to everyone who understands what this means. I’m going to keep doing all I can because that’s all we’ve got left right?”

In an opinion piece for The Post on Monday, Wiles wrote, “We should keep what little protections we have until better vaccines are available and we’ve upgraded our ventilation standards to get the virus out of the air… These protections will help keep future Covid waves to a minimum.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/132741197/the-end-of-covid-measures-chris-hipkins-longed-for-the-day-but-some-are-worried

Whoa🐎 let’s back up..🔙

Siouxsie Wiles tells us that we need to be masked and isolated “until better vaccines are available”.😳🤬

There are going to be “better vaccines”? What? 😲This is the person who assured us that the Pfizer vaccine was safe and effective. 🤥Now she tells us that we need the restrictions in place until we get “better vaccines”.😅

Few people are going to accept more vaccines. That is evident from the 20 percent take up of the “better” booster that became available in April.

I can just see Winter 2025. The pink haired terror emerges to announce that Pfizer has developed a “better vaccine”. 😅

Also she thinks that we are going to upgrade ventilation systems in all buildings to “get the virus out of the air”? 🤡🤡🤡 Good luck with that.
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August 15, 2023 8:38am
- Opie
  
  She is literally insane.
  
  If the pink hair doesn’t prove it, the locked twitter profile should finish it off for you.
  
  Here is my opinion and it’s the only one that’s right so I won’t event anyone speak against it.
  
  A perfect match for the ex pm.
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:44am
  - Che Guava
    
    Bright colours frequently represent danger in nature, and act as a warning to maintain distance. This principle extends to life forms such as that insufferable idiot.
    
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    August 15, 2023 10:21am
    - mawm
      
      I have this theory that brightly coloured hair dyes penetrate the brain through the hair follicles and cause stupidity.
      
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      August 15, 2023 3:30pm
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        More a signifier of mental illness.
        
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        August 15, 2023 6:54pm
- Grunter
  
  This just reinforces what a pack of nut jobs we had “advising” us dressed up as “experts”.
  
  Public trust in the health system and govt will never recover from this. And watch as the MSM collapses over the next few years.
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:48am
- kowtow
  
  Wiley E Wiles telling us ….
  
  …….she who went to the beach during the draconian lockdowns with a pal for a swim.
  And Dr Blofeld and one and all declaring a swim wasn’t a swim.
  
  No prosecution while others ( think so called Wanaka runaway couple) were persued and persecuted by te pahti media etc
  
  Never forget , never forgive.
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:54am
- Nukuleka
  
  Hi Benedict: your talking of the ‘pink haired terror’ reminds me of the daily posts you used to write about your friend ‘the tall red head’ and her escapades in the employment of Kainga Ora. We’ve not heard much from you about her goings- on lately. How’s life for her on the cutting edge of social housing?
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:04am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Nuk,
    With respect, I think Benedict had to take a holiday from KB because Kainga Ora complained about his exposing her horror stories on this blog.
    Don’t go back there.
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:23am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I will not be discussing any issues relating to family on Kiwiblog, other blogs, or social media.
    
    That is my final word on the matter.
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:34am
- Taieri
  
  Siouxsie Wiles tells us that we need to be masked and isolated
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  She is correct. She definitely needs to remain masked and to be permanently isolated.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:23am
- graham
  
  In an opinion piece for The Post on Monday, Wiles wrote, “We should keep what little protections we have until better vaccines are available …”
  
  This would be the same Siouxsie Wiles who is on record as telling us that “… it looks to be up to 95% effective in the real world … protecting people against having symptoms, needing hospitalisation, and death“?
  
  So which is it? Is the vaccine 95% effective against symptoms, hospitalisation, and death? Or is it an inadequate “little protection” that is so ineffectual that it needs propping up with masks and isolation, just serving out its time until the new and improved vaccine comes along? Inquiring minds want to know, Dr Wiles …
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:12am
- JimBobJoe
  
  So which of the 10,000s of virus strains we deal with every day deserve the special vaccine and air filter treatment Ms Wiles wants to deal with COVID19? Or is it only the one virus Ms Wiles thinks is harmful?
  
  Are her proposed measures aimed also at the other Corona viruses (3 or 4 distinct families of Corona Viruses as I understand it before COVID19 ”appeared” in Wuhan)? We as humans have coped/coexisted with Corona viruses for a long time and we as a species have survived and flourished.
  
  What about all the other upper respiratory tract infectious viruses humans deal with like rhinovirus, RSV, Adenoviruses etc etc?
  
  Ms Wiles has lost her mind in my view. As a scientist she should know that the competition between the human body and viruses of many types has been going on since humans appeared on earth.
  
  As such the human body has sophisticated, not fully understood by science, immune system to protect the body. Those immune system to deal with viruses, including novel viruses, regularly as well as fungi, bacteria, parasites etc
  
  The human immune system needs to be given the building blocks that it operates on to be effective: sunshine, vitamin and mineral rich food and exercise to keep the body trim and allow important processes like Vitamin D synthesis to occur.
  
  Ms Wiles should be promoting healthy eating and living to her base, not running scare campaigns about masking and waiting for science to build a better vaccine.
  
  Science, and the Technology it enables, is great. Science provides some awesome life saving & life enabling products, techniques and technologies.
  
  But the basis of good health is good quality food, exercise and reasonable exposure to fresh air and sunshine.
  
  Big Pharma and its running mate, Big Food, are not focused on health they are focused on profit. Less processed food and less wholesale distribution of unnecessary Pharmaceuticals is what is required.
  
  May Ms Wiles can turn her focus there?
  
  Not.Holding.My.Breath.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:42am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  ‘Sending hugs to everyone’
  
  Those better be virtual hugs, otherwise she’s at risk of damaging the narrative.
  
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  August 15, 2023 7:44pm
hullkiwi

Labour’s next own goal and they can’t help themselves.

One upmanship on parental leave, 3 weeks after voting down Nicola Willis’ bill, they announce a promise to implement a policy with an extra month of paid leave for the secondary parent. What brains trust came up with this one?
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August 15, 2023 8:38am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Indeed; they’re prepared to increase the cost of PPL by 15%, simply so that Nicola Willis wasn’t seen as having a political win so close to the election. It’s small-minded political hackery of the worst kind.
  
  Sadly however (for Labour) they may discover they have won a Pyrrhic victory…
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
  
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  August 15, 2023 11:59am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Gun parts are not weapons. Democrats slowly trying to change the Second Amendment.

https://roccistuccishow.com/supreme-court-allows-atf-ghost-gun-rule-to-remain-in-effect/

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

NOT BE INFRINGED!!
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August 15, 2023 8:47am
- David Garrett
  
  Steve O: Oh dear…I usually find your comments quite perceptive.
  
  You do realise don’t you that: 1) when the American Constitution was written, the security of the new “state” was far from assured (the Brits had a war to try and reclaim their colonies in 1812); and 2) at the time there was no army, so a “citizens militia” was utterly necessary?
  
  But why am I bothering? I am never going to convince you or people like you that a 250 year old anachronism is just that.
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:59am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    That is completely irrelevant David. The Constitution is the basis of the law. The fact that the reason for the law is no longer relevant isn’t relevant. Nor is the fact that the US has a massive gun problem.
    
    The Originalist view of the Constitution is the only correct way to view it. Saying things are unfair or different or no longer relevant is a dishonest attempt at circumventing the actual procedures in place to change the Constitution. If their beliefs were actually held by a Constitutional Majority, then they would be able to change the Constitution. They don’t, that’s why they’re trying to subvert the Constitution and pretend it evolves along with their ideological beliefs.
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:26am
    - All_on_Red
      
      America has a crime problem, not a gun problem
      
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      August 15, 2023 9:42am
      - Colville
        
        No. American has an attitude problem.
        
        People believe because its their “right” to own a gun that comes without responsibilities.
        
        If you purchase a firearm I would argue that you are responsible for that weapons outcomes no matter what… if it gets stolen from you or your kid shoots someone with it then its you that has to wear that because you did not take enough care with a deadly object.
        
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        August 15, 2023 9:52am
      - Che Guava
        
        To get specific, America has a Black crime problem, not a crime problem per se. Blacks shoot each other at an alarming rate. If you took Blacks in the ‘hood out of the equation, America would have a gun crime rate comparable to any other European country (who often now have knife crime problems, but that’s for another comment).
        
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        August 15, 2023 10:00am
      - Che Guava
        
        “…if it gets stolen from you or your kid shoots someone with it then its you that has to wear that because you did not take enough care with a deadly object.”
        
        So car owners who have their cars stolen and the thief goes on to cause a fatal accident should also be made to “wear it”? Cars don’t kill people, drivers do.
        
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        August 15, 2023 10:25am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        America also has a major mental health problem.
        Unfortunately, both if these issues have created a gun problem.
        
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        August 15, 2023 10:33am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        No. America has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem.
        Note, most of these mass shootings are in “GUN FREE ZONES”
        Part of the mental health is they are cowards.
        
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        August 16, 2023 7:44am
    - Cassandra
      
      I think you could still be a black letter lawyer and argue that bearers of arms should be in the militia. And not disqualified. Note that Hunter Biden was not permitted to bear arms.
      
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      August 15, 2023 10:39am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        Funny story – druggies not being allowed guns is currently being challenged in the US.
        
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        August 15, 2023 11:02am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Yep. Because you never know when the British will be coming.
        
        Perfidious Albion!
        
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        August 15, 2023 7:47pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Trump was/is. CC permit (concealed carry)
        He has 5 guns.
        
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        August 16, 2023 7:48am
  - Matt Long
    
    I don’t believe the 1812 war was to reclaim HM lost colonies DG, but you are correct that there’s no way the current HM would attempt a reclamation.
    However I would be surprised if the writers of the declaration did not foresee the possibility of tyranny arising within America despite the checks and balances set on the government.
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:36am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun
    You seem oblivious to the over 3 million criminal incidents and attacks each year which are stopped because the victim was armed
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:41am
  - Dave
    
    … a 250 year old anachronism…
    
    I suspect that in NZ many who criticise the anachronism of the 2nd amendment will passionately defend our 183 year old anachronism.
    
    I would defend both as more-or-less non-achronistic, as they were written:
    
    The 2nd amendment because of its requirement that guns are conditional on a ‘well regulated militia’, which imposes duties on gun owners, and because in both colonial statutes and England, guns were recognised as necessary for self-defence – when seconds matter, the police are only minutes away. So still relevant.
    
    The ToW because, except for the second article pre-emption sentence – clearly inconsistent with the third article’s same rights provision and abandoned 160 years ago, as written is quite consistent with modern democracy. The alleged principles are a different story.
    
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    August 15, 2023 10:55am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Anachronism or not, The Constitution has the second for a reason.
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:29am
  - NoFax
    
    The Supreme Court in the US has ruled that individuals have the right to bear arms for traditional uses such as self defence irrespective of connection to a militia – as per the Heller case. So, DG, you have to convince the SC.
    But I’m of the view, if I don’t have the means to excercise a right I don’t really have the right. It’s no good to say I have freedom of speech if I’m prohibted from all media (internet, press, tv, etc) and confined to very limited forms of expression. If I don’t have the means to self defence then I don’t really have the right.
    
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    August 15, 2023 12:10pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    I am a firearms owner, and do think I should be able to retain them as I please.
    My trust in the Police has declined due to their politicisation. I used to collect firearms as historical items, but I do like the idea of having them for home defence. Can’t admit that though – the police don’t like that.
    
    However, the USA is not an example to follow and not really relevent to the debate here.
    
    The idea that the Constitution is sacred, and never changes, makes as much sense to me as the inability of Islam to reform beyond medieval mindsets because it is seen as ‘perfect’.
    The answer to guns is more guns, just like the answer to racism is more racism.
    
    But their ship has long since sailed. Moot point.
    
    If the point of firearms in private hands was to defend the state from outside aggression (LOL!), or keep the King of England out, then they should be all means be able to arm themselves as was envisioned – but only presumably with an 18th century flintlock.
    
    That said, if I was living in America I would reflect the (unfortunate) reality, and would want to be packing heat (a handgun) everywhere I go!
    
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    August 15, 2023 2:45pm
  - cmm
    
    DG: You are correct that it is an anachronism, but there is a way to change it: introduce another amendment.
    
    As I am sure you are aware, the US constitution is not a single document. Over time there have been many amendments. I believe the current tally is 27.
    
    Some of these replace/invalidate previous amendments. For example:
    * 18th banned booze and introduced prohibition.
    * 21st repealed the 18th and allowed booze again.
    
    If the second amendment is out of date and should no longer be in the constitution, then there is a way to address that: introduce, and get passed, the 28th amendment to undo the second amendment.
    
    Until then, anachronism or not, broken or not, the second amendment stands.
    
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    August 15, 2023 5:40pm
- Inandout
  
  SO, the chances of stripping firearms from those V-8 loving ol boys from the Mid West would be akin to believing we have enough lithium to make every vehicle an EV by 2030. Any potential invaders of the US would have their work cut out facing millions of firearms and this is possibly why anti firearms people would rather de-arm from within.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:13am
- Che Guava
  
  The right to bear arms is about citizens’ ability to defend themselves against the government. The US government therefore has an obvious conflict of interest when it wants to disarm the populace. The argument for an armed citizenry is similar to the one the government itself uses to justify the routine mass surveillance of its citizens: if the government doesn’t attempt to overreach, then they should have nothing to fear from an armed populace.
  
  If they cared about the misuse of firearms, they’d send the military into crime-ridden Black neighbourhoods, which are the loci of gun crime. Instead, they want to disarm White guys with assault weapons because gun crime is completely acceptable, whereas the threat of overthrow by armed White men isn’t.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:08am
Forrest

Interesting that Labour claims that the newly announced 4 weeks of paid parental leave for the partner of a baby’s carer will be paid for ‘entirely by government’.
How has this been costed?
eg if an employee is on $100,000 p.a. does this mean that the taxpayer forks out 4 weeks of pay or over $8,000 to the partner?
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August 15, 2023 8:49am
- Colville
  
  Nicola will be in the 12.00 news showing where the quarter billion$$ hole is in this announcement..
  
  She will start the briefing by say…
  
  “Look guys…you are making this too damm easy!!”
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:57am
Colville

Some really good news!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby-world-cup-2023/132743209/advantage-all-blacks-as-french-star-romain-ntamack-is-ruled-out-of-rugby-world-cup

Ntamack is out. Probably Frances best player in a very good team of very good players!!

The seesaw may have just tipped our way a little bit!
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August 15, 2023 8:50am
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINEN QUESTION

Listening to The Hosk grilling Chippie this morning.
There’s no doubt they hate each others guts.

Although yesterday, heard Hosk say “that he actually likes Robbo”.

Wonder if he really means that….or is he just afraid of the gay blowback if he said what he realy realy thinks?
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August 15, 2023 8:56am
- David Garrett
  
  Maggie: I strongly suspect it’s the latter…I very much doubt Hosking has much time for blubbery [insert old fashioned word for gays].
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:00am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    poofter?
    
    😀 😀 😀
    
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    August 15, 2023 9:11am
    - Colville
      
      Pillow biter??
      
      or be polite and say “confirmed bachelor” ?
      
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      August 15, 2023 9:58am
  - mogg
    
    Probably the best line from Allo Allo. When a Renee Artois is asked by Captain Gruber,
    “Renee were you born in Nancy” he replies,
    “Yes we are all Nancy boys here”
    
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    August 15, 2023 10:49am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I do not believe that Hosking is a hateful type of person.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:17am
  - Colville
    
    ..unless he has a 70km/hr motor home blocking his Ferrari on a winding road….
    
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    August 15, 2023 10:00am
    - Che Guava
      
      Hoskins must hold the record for the longest mid-life crisis in history. Are his short stature, his hair product and his Ferrari all related? Perhaps we could ask Kate for comment.
      
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      August 15, 2023 11:26am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Che.
        You’re so anti him you can’t even make the effort to spell his name correctly.
        
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        August 15, 2023 7:59pm
zulumonster

I can’t help but think that even having a “Deputy chief executive Māori of Corrections” is a sign there are serious problems with Maori criminal offending … but for the man himself to resign after allegations of pretty awful behaviour is a real own goal!
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/corrections-deputy-left-after-behaviour-claims?mc_cid=76be161c80&mc_eid=b68775a22a
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August 15, 2023 9:01am
- Cassandra
  
  They have a Deputy (Maori) because of racism, not because of crime. Similarly, every university has a deputy VC (Maori) for the same dopey racist reason.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:43am
- greybeard
  
  He looks a lot more European than maori: odd that he accused staff of not being “maori enough” !
  One of Kelvin Davis’s protegees.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:59am
rockape

I keep a weather eye on the NZ Dollar/ pound exchange rates. Mainly because the largest part of my retired income comes from the military pension I have received since I was 41. My last rise in pension was 10% this year due to the hi inflation in the uk. But I can add to that another 10% because that is how much the NZ a dollar has fallen against the pound in the last 12 months. Says something about how bad our economy really is.
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August 15, 2023 9:07am
- greybeard
  
  Bad this morning: 60c USD and 47p UK.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:19am
Gravyman2

I have to admit I was wrong about Mr Peters. Up until now I had thought of him as a bloviating coprophage entirely consumed by self interest. I now realise he is in fact the glitter-turd of New Zealand politics. He pops out every three years, rolls around looking good and hopes someone will pick him up. Regret rapidly follows.
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August 15, 2023 9:21am
Scooter

Actually it’s funny (not) that we were told to get the Covid jab to save granny but now there’s silence about excess deaths killing many young etc.
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August 15, 2023 9:25am
- Keith White
  
  The hysterical pro-mandators can literally not afford to admit they were lethally wrong. All the people who lost loved ones, whose loved ones have been medically crippled by the nMRNA treatments, who miscarried and lost babies or whose sons and daughter lost grandchildren-to-be; all those locked down and locked 0ut by the Covid Cultists — these people will not forget. The nicer ones may well forgive, but the rest of us will not.
  
  A note from the past (June 2021) from the President of the NZ Medical Council:
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/445179/doctors-spreading-misinformation-about-covid-19-may-lose-their-job-medical-council
  
  “The Medical Council is warning doctors spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic and the vaccination rollout that it could cost them their jobs.
  
  “Medical Council chair Dr Curtis Walker said a small number of doctors were peddling conspiracies.
  
  “It’s questioning the severity of Covid, it’s questioning the safety of vaccination, it’s questioning whether the whole thing is a conspiracy theory.
  
  “You know you name it, this is what’s been put out there.”
  
  Chairperson of the Combined Medical Staff Executive group, Curtis Walker says any doctors found to be spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine could potentially lose their job.
  
  Dr Walker said an independent body was investigating to decide if charges should be laid with the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal.
  
  Doctors have a professional duty to provide advice based on evidence, he said.
  
  “There’s a mountain of evidence out there of how effective and safe the Covid vaccine is.
  
  ***
  
  Well now 2 years later there is certainly a mountain of evidence that the vaccine is not effective, does not prevent transmission, and does kill and medically maim a significant percentage of the people made to take it – or who believed the “Single Source of Truth”.
  
  Med: the link is to a RNZ web page from 21 June 2o21 headlined “Doctors spreading misinformation about Covid-19 may lose their job – Medical Council.”
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:48am
  - Sparrow
    
    I recommend watching Painkiller on Netflix.
    It shows how big Pharma killed thousands of people and made billions. Its disgusting. Its always about money. The family knew what they were doing and bought officials, politicians. Have never paid the price should be in prison. Initially the drug was not approved they got around this. Sounds familiar. Did not Medsafe chief refuse Covid vaccine approval but got ignored.Nothing changes. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
    
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    August 15, 2023 10:27am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      While the Medsafe CE did decline to approve the vaccine (Pfizer) based on the evidence available to Medsafe at the time, it was formally approved by the MAAC, which is effectively an escalation path when a remedy or treatment is declined approval via the standard process.
      
      No one knows who sits on the MAAC apparently, at least that is what the Thomas Cranmer twitter and substack says.
      
      Tarring the Medsafe CE is not fair, the CE was overruled in what I suspect was a political directive, with that directive not being documented but verbal to hide the directive arising from within the Ardern Ministry (theory not an accusation so imho)
      
      Holding people to account requires the Public, the people from whom all Government and Executive branch power arises, to actually know who made the relevant decisions and gave the relevant directives.
      
      A no holds bar open terms of reference Royal Commission review of the whole COVID saga is required – across vaccines, mandates, MIQ and Lockdowns plus any other area the commissioners choose to investigate.
      
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      August 15, 2023 10:54am
  - Taieri
    
    Medical Council chair Dr Curtis Walker said a small number of doctors were peddling conspiracies
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    And who defines “conspiracy” and “misinformation”? Dr Curtis Walker? By virtue of what?
    
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    August 15, 2023 10:44am
  - mawm
    
    Keith – In todays Herald – The NZ Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has decided to investigate a Christchurch doctor for sharing “misleading and inappropriate” information about the Covid-19 pandemic on her YouTube channel. Horror of all horrors – she used “memes”.
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchurch-doctor-samantha-bailey-under-investigation-for-sharing-controversial-covid-19-information-on-her-youtube-channel/2MJ6EOOKRVFYRJ7F67AAPKFJAA/
    
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    August 15, 2023 3:43pm
    - Keith White
      
      Yes, and the principal witness seems to be a man who could not avoid watching Dr Bailey’s videos for some reason.
      
      “Today, a man, who has permanent name suppression, described how one of Bailey’s videos came up on his suggested feed on YouTube as he had been watching lots of Covid content as he had family overseas.
      
      “He made a complaint to the Medical Council about Bailey’s conduct the following day.
      
      “The man said he found Bailey’s video “deeply concerning”, noting that she clearly identified herself as a doctor and in his opinion was “insensitive” and “offensive” with her use of memes and hand signals, such as air quotes when talking about the public health sector.
      
      “In his opinion, Bailey was using her status as a doctor to “give weight” to her opinions and was attempting to “monetize” her views by encouraging viewers to buy a book she co-wrote.
      
      Quelle horreur!!! Making money off one’s opinions expressed in public! So when do we see the Pink One, the Plank One, the Knighted One and the ex-PM in the dock?
      
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      August 15, 2023 5:08pm
- kevn
  
  Yep, not pretty…
  https://chriswaldburger.substack.com/p/tragic-justification-the-bodies-pile?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
  
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  August 15, 2023 11:35am
- miltonF
  
  Exactly. Massive delusion out there. Mass formation psychosis. When everyone was healthy and noone was dying, we were told everyone was dying and we needed to get the “vaccine”. Now after the vaccine, when everyone is actually unhealthy and dying, it’s “nothing to see here”.
  
  I’m just amazed at how powerful the propaganda is, or how gullible the average person is. I haven’t decided which. It appears that it is extremely easy to convince people that reality is a lie and vice versa.
  
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  August 15, 2023 3:00pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  To be fair, we weren’t told to get the Vax to save the young people
  
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  August 15, 2023 7:51pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

Why Seymour Has Suddenly Become A Big Worry.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/what-seymour-says-shows-he-has-a-long-way-to-go-with-respect-to-expunging-co-governance/
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August 15, 2023 9:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  There is no mention of partnership in the Treaty. None whatsoever. Why did Seymour not pick up on this? He is not aware of the Treaty in Maori, the 1840 Treaty. He does not know what it says and especially what it does not say (forestry and fisheries are a late edition by Sir Hugh Kawharu)
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:44am
- Grunter
  
  Hmmmm – I’m as anti-co governance as anyone, but I think this link has over reacted some what to what Seymour said about a couple of Maori carvings appearing outside parliament. Definitely headline grabbing IMO.
  
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  August 15, 2023 9:59am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You are probably are correct. But even bad publicity is still publicity.
    Julian Batchelor is very clever. This is the first time I have seen him refer directly to Politics.
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Luxon and Seymour.
  “If they can’t / won’t give the detail, then don’t give them your vote. It’s the same for all political parties. Voters need to know who and what they are voting for. Period.
  Well no National or ACT vote means another 3 years of Labour. NZ is already fucked.
  
  Luxon and Seymour – both of you need a crash course of the Treaty – the Treaty in Maori, and the Littlewood English draft translation in English.
  Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVgY03s6Tqc
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:16am
  - Cassandra
    
    Seymour is well aware of the Treaty. Read his speeches and ACT’s policies. Then vote ACT.
    
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    August 15, 2023 10:45am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      He would be aware of today’s 1975 Waitangi Tribunal Treaty, with the additions in 1989 by Sir Hugh Kawharu (forestry and fisheries)
      How about the 1840 version written in Maori and the Littlewood Draft?
      We need to go back. Why? To stop the Gravy Train that is bleeding NZ dry.
      
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      August 15, 2023 11:43am
Warren

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/08/14/nz-politics-daily-14-august-2023/
I thought Martyn Bomber Bradbury was one of the Labour Parties biggest supporters.
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August 15, 2023 9:35am
- Cassandra
  
  No., he’s just a foul-mouthed lefty gasbag.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:46am
  - Tricati
    
    Well said.
    
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    August 15, 2023 12:13pm
  - kowtow
    
    ….who is in love with listening to himself.
    
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    August 15, 2023 12:57pm
  - Warren
    
    Is that any difference from your whinging and abuse towards Chris Luxon .
    
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    August 15, 2023 2:22pm
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      ‘Abuse of Luxon’, LOL.
      Being offended on the behalf of other people is part of recreational outrage.
      
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      August 15, 2023 3:19pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  No – he is more inclined towards the radicalism espoused by the Greens around property and redistribution and from his writings he is fully on board with the Environmental Policies of the Greens.
  
  You could characterise him as far Left and aligned to whoever allows him to make a living backing the far left policies and ideas in his normal OTT speaking and writing style, at least that is my analysis of him.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:57am
I remember when

When you look at what is, has been, happening in Palmerston North recently you wonder what sort of childhood experience would –
Make you cut off someone’s finger.
Murder them.
Need to carry guns, knives.

Then you ask will a spell of ‘home detention’ turn them around.
After all, if they are imprisoned, they will be put in the whichever prison houses members of their gang.
Can’t mix them up because even in prison they can’t stop them trying to kill each other.

This is a serious problem with riches involved that they could only dream of earning legitimately – and allows them to be a warrior again.
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August 15, 2023 9:47am
- JimBobJoe
  
  The Suburb of Highbury in Plamie needs a Maximum security fence around it with motion detectors, tunneling detectors and armed guards. Evacuate all the non gangsters and leave the rest to fight it out. Its been a ghetto and hellhole for decades..
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:59am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Yeah well, I think they’re all traumatised by John Cleese and the Spanish Women’s football team.
  
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  August 15, 2023 7:53pm
I remember when

US Cyber Trust Mark:
An idea that covid vaccines make me have doubts that it will be without outside influence.
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August 15, 2023 9:55am
Maggie Pie

If the allegations raised by the ‘Daily Mail’ in relation to tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s involvement with Jeffery Epstein are proven, is he likely to have his NZ citizenship revoked?

https://tiktok.com/@rocksmoke2.0/video/7265649199461469473
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August 15, 2023 10:00am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Thiel is gay… was Epstein supplying young boys?
  
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  August 15, 2023 11:00am
- JimBobJoe
  
  The allegations are all couched as May have in Forbes etc… Given its sourced back to the New York Times, one may think its a smear against an openly Right of Centre person….
  
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  August 15, 2023 11:06am
Biscuit

So what will be the next major stuff-up as Labour totters towards (deserved) electoral oblivion on October 14?:

In recent weeks we’ve had:
* The Justice Minister resigning after police charged her with careless driving and refusing to accompany a police officer after a car crash
* The Transport and Immigration Minister resigning after failing to disclose conflicts of interest related to shareholdings
* The Police Minister sacked after supplying confidential information to donors
* The Customs Minister defecting to Te Pāti Māori.

And, just when you think ‘Could things get any worse?’ we learn that the Finance Minister can’t (won’t?) even correctly cost his boss’s flagship No-GST-on-fresh-food policy.

Sheesh, eh?
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August 15, 2023 10:03am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hawaii/Maui.
There will be many more deaths. Over 1000 reported missing. Rescue teams have not gone into buildings yet.
When we were in Hawaii/Oahu in 2017 a helicopter flew us around the Island, over the Dole Plantation. Then we flew over old sugar cane and pineapple farms. Pilot told us they were a fire risk but nothing was being done.
Well it has happened now. Glad we are not there, especially on Maui as we have not been to that Island.

https://libertyonenews.com/maui-wildfires-caused-by-nonnative-grasses-grown-on-abandoned-farmland/
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August 15, 2023 10:03am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Went to Lahaina in 1988. It was a beautiful historic town. This is tragic.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:46am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Donald Trump will start WW 3.
Um nope.

https://finishtherace.com/ella-ford/house-chairman-6-billion-biden-is-unfreezing-for-iran-going-to-terror-nuclear-bomb-aspirations/

Yes there are detained Americans, but who wants Iran’s Nuclear program started again?
These Iran people are mad. See what they do to Women?
Edit – spelling.
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August 15, 2023 10:46am
- Che Guava
  
  “See what they do to women”
  
  Have you seen what the West has done to so many of its women? Frequently fat, childless, coarse, vulgar, slovenly and tatooed etc. On the other hand, many Iranian women are stunning, devout, respectful. At the risk of simping, Persian Princesses. Whatever the Iranians are doing to their women, we should follow suit.
  
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  August 15, 2023 10:52am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No schooling for females. It is not just Afghanistan.
    I know they are good lookers!
    
    https://nikmood.com/restriction-for-iranian-women-what-are-the-limitations/
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:49am
    - Che Guava
      
      Why is “women going to school is good” seemingly an unquestioned first principle? There is a difference between education and schooling.
      
      Schooling just means they aren’t reproducing when they are most fertile. They can read a book or three when they aren’t actively mothering, and then, if they wish, go to school all they like when their kids are grown. That is how a sane society would structure things, not the inversion of sanity we have been told to cherish.
      
      When I hear that Muslim women aren’t going to Uni or wearing miniskirts or drinking alcohol, I start to contemplate and wonder where the West went off the rails.
      
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      August 15, 2023 12:00pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Nope! Keeping them subservient, imprisoned in their homes, veiled…no, no, no.
    But I do agree about so many of our young women today. Who ever told them tatts were a good look. In my view any woman with a tat is labeled in my mind and not in a good way. Tramp stamps. I would suggest if you want to make money get into the tattoo removal business smartly. All these tattooed young women are going to be very regretful women one day.
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:51am
    - Che Guava
      
      “Keeping them subservient, imprisoned in their homes, veiled…no, no, no”
      
      Loaded language aside, why would you assume that all cultures should have the same practices and norms, and further, that Muslim women should and must reject those norms? No doubt some Muslim women are unhappy with their lot, but then again, look at the high rates of depression that women in our “more enlightened” society experience.
      
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      August 15, 2023 12:07pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Chin barcodes?
      
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      August 15, 2023 6:59pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Morality police are awesome.
    That a woman can be arrested, and die during detention, for going out without a hijab – this is something NZ should aspire towards!
    
    By why stop there? Stoning and burkas are useful for particularly problematic women.
    
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    August 15, 2023 3:26pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    What you say of western women is of their own doing – not Government doing.
    
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    August 16, 2023 7:53am
Jack5

Political activism – in this case of the environmental type – is now rampant in the banking system.

Gareth Vaughan, at the web site interest dot co (link below), explains how NZ rural lenders are targeting emissions in dairy farming.

Add this to the deposit-cancelling Wokeism that’s occurred in the UK, and you see the insidiousness work of activists who regard the traditional methods of democracy to be insufficient.

Being a “bankster” is tough enough without becoming a “wokester” as well.

Is this trend the result of the rise in the banking industry of soft-skill occupations like human resource management and public relations? I mean “soft skill” in the sense of traditional, financial skills across millennia.

https://www.interest.co.nz/rural-news/123574/bnz-having-target-reduce-its-financed-dairy-farming-emissions-through-membership
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August 15, 2023 10:47am
thirteenstars

Kellie-Jay Keen’s latest about coming to NZ for the trial of her attacker:

https://www.youtube.com/live/pFHfGRyCrrk?feature=share&t=1588

That’s real guts.
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August 15, 2023 10:53am
- Jack5
  
  Just looked at that video clip referred to by Thirteenstars.
  
  “Kellie-Jay Keen” on Hipkins:
  
  “Is he on the side of the rainbow mob [or] is he on the side of women.”
  
  National and ACT would be smart if they stayed clear of this stoush.
  
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  August 15, 2023 11:14am
  - thirteenstars
    
    ACT has already sided with the right of these women to speak without being assaulted, and months ago when the Albert Park debacle occurred.
    
    Like hell they should stay clear of it. If the Nats and ACT can’t defend the principle of free speech and the right to assemble the there’s something wrong. And if they can’t say it’s the job of the police to provide a presence to keep public order then that’s even worse
    
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    August 15, 2023 11:42am
    - Jack5
      
      The country’s undergoing both high inflation and a crime wave.
      
      I agree with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, with the first one physiological, including need for food, water, warmth. This entails affordable food and housing.
      
      The second ranked of Maslow’s needs is safety, which in NZ’s case means safety from gangs, ram-raiders, city thugs.
      
      Surely the first targets for a political party two months from an election would thus be first, inflation from Labour’s money printing during Covid; and second, the crime wave.
      
      The goal of freedom would come after emphasis on those two themes.
      
      For the election: simple messages, simply put, repeated and repeated and repeated.
      
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      August 15, 2023 4:11pm
      - thirteenstars
        
        Oh, for goodness sake, who’s suggesting it be made an election issue?
        
        If asked in passing I’m sure both Luxon and Seymour, and Peters, can express the firm view that free speech is paramount and the police need to safeguard public safety. End of story.
        
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        August 15, 2023 5:08pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I will be there.
  
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  August 15, 2023 7:17pm
Jack5

For those who follow the leader in investing …

Berkshire Hathaway, the company of legendary investor Warren Buffett, has been selling shares in the vide0-computer games industry and buying stakes in house building companies, reports the “Wall Street Journal”.

It has reduced a stake in the entertainment firm, Activision Blizzard, known for games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.
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August 15, 2023 11:05am
- miltonF
  
  I’m a keen gamer and lover of all things technology.
  
  My prediction is that we will see a massive decline in the value of gaming companies. I see three issues:
  
  Competition: There are so many companies and games being churned out. People only have so much time to invest in gaming. There is a massive oversupply of product. Supply and demand suggests prices will fall.
  
  Cost to market: Technology, AI, applications, have reduced the time and cost to produce these games. It’s not uncommon to see entire games from start to finish, produced entirely by one single person. There’s only so much you can charge for that.
  
  Game quality. Many of these larger companies have been relying too much on IP and churning out rehashes of the same products. Going with what they perceive as the “safe bet” over taking a risk and developing something original. Too many remasters and successions in series Ie Call of Duty 17. How is Call of Duty 17 any better/different than Call of Duty 16?
  
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  August 15, 2023 3:16pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    “Game quality. Many of these larger companies have been relying too much on IP and churning out rehashes of the same products. Going with what they perceive as the “safe bet” over taking a risk and developing something original. ”
    
    Yep, and consider movies. Transformers, Marvel movies, Disney live action and race swapped remakes. Soft reboots (Star Wars) and spin offs.
    When it comes to big profits, sadly, better to turn the handle on a machine pumping out essentially the same product than take a chance on something new.
    
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    August 15, 2023 3:30pm
Blog-aholic

J, J and Mary do Stuff have a hard on for Uffendell.
They have being going hard at him like a robbers dog over his grocery shopping FFS………
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August 15, 2023 11:23am
Surely Knott

NZ’s liberal party (Act) is running an illiberal “Tough on Crime” billboard message.
NZ’s socially conservative party (NZ1) is being backed by the Liberal freedom movement.
NZ’s conservative party (Nats) whose focus is roads instead of rail “Is getting the country back on TRACK”
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August 15, 2023 12:08pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Libertarianism is not freedom from consequences, i.e. “boys will be boys” treatment for the Mongrel Mob.
  You are free to live your life, so long as you don’t impact upon others. That is liberty.
  If you do start to impact on others, then far better that the state dispenses justice and protection for the other citizens.
  The alternatives are vigilantism or fear.
  So small government is great, but as far as justice and health, and possibly education, these things are a core service to supply.
  There is no paradox.
  
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  August 15, 2023 3:34pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Jacinda Ardern’s parting gift to New Zealand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxIrhmn7cGI
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August 15, 2023 12:10pm
Ghost

Someone is getting angry.

A war of words is brewing between Grant Robertson and Nicola Willis over Labour’s GST policy, which suggests the two seasoned political operators may be getting under each others skin.

Robertson has called Willis a liar – one of the most taboo words in politics.

Article
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August 15, 2023 1:04pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  She should NOT call him a liar. She should use Churchill’s term:
  
  Mr Speaker, The Honourable Gentleman is Guilty of a Terminological Inexactitude.
  
  She should then add ” He is neither Honourable or a Gentleman”
  
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  August 15, 2023 1:35pm
  - rockape
    
    One of the best put downs I remember from my military days was “ I would not breed from that officer “ said in someone’s annual assessment.
    
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    August 15, 2023 3:09pm
- Lance
  
  Good grief, pot calling the kettle black.
  Robbo lies constantly and incessantly with a straight face.
  Judith Collins blamed Robbo for starting the deliberate lie that bought her down under the Key administration. Aided and abetted by the filth the lying media have descended into.
  Robbo was claiming he was always in favour of the GST coming off fruit and veges all along to but scratch the surface.
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:10pm
- Frank the tank
  
  He is being found out almost daily, has a PM deliberately undermining and overriding him and now knows the party is almost up and if stays in parliament will get a kicking from the incoming government on a daily basis when the true financial state of New Zealand becomes apparent.
  
  In short he is losing control over his narrative of being a competent finance minister.
  
  If the right win he’ll resign within a month and get a gig with someone associated with either Clark or Ardern.
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:12pm
- Prince
  
  I really like the way Willis is owning Robertson now, pointing out the pressure he is under and the dead rats he is having to swallow, while he thrashes around wildly
  Is this the moment you know the election is won – similar to Muldoon’s ‘I love you Mr Lange’ submission in 1984 ?
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:16pm
- graham
  
  Nicola Willis is proving quite adept at getting Lefties riled up 🙂
  
  Remember when Willis was said she did not feel safe in central Wellington – something I think many women (and men) would sympathise with – and Marama Davidson called her racist and ‘classist’.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/438697/national-s-nicola-willis-and-green-co-leader-marama-davidson-clash-over-racist-accusation
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:46pm
sirknz

Genius idea from the smooth brains. Let’s close down level crossings across Auckland for 45 minutes per hour during peak time. So for a minimum of 3 hours every day, people are going to be unable to drive down certain streets.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/300948556/auckland-rail-crossings-will-be-closed-45-mins-an-hour-during-peak-commute

This will do wonders and just proves that Auckland Transport does have a group of people who’s sole reason for being is to find new ways to fuck up your commute every day.
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August 15, 2023 1:09pm
- Lance
  
  The worst part is these halfwits are all on big bucks
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:12pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I’m sure I heard a news story the other day where AT admitted one of their objectives was to discourage people from driving cars. I think one f the political parties was promising to change that.
  Actually, this article makes it pretty clear they want people to make “better choices” and get out of their cars.
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:29pm
Chuck Bird

I just heard Luxon on The Country with Rowwna.

He said the only way to get a change of government is two ticks blue. That is totally untrue. Does he think Act voters are stupid?
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August 15, 2023 1:22pm
- mandk
  
  What do you expect him to say?
  
  I’m sure David Seymour would say the same thing about ACT.
  
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  August 15, 2023 1:37pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    No, he would not. David has a degree in science and a logical brain. He says a vote for Act will not just mean a change of government but a change of policy.
    
    How much different is Luxon’s position on a climate emergency than Labour or the Greens?
    
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    August 15, 2023 2:25pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Actually there are billboards up saying ‘Party Vote ACT” in my city, so not exclusively.
    
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    August 15, 2023 3:38pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Seymour says part vote Act so it would be fair enough for Luxon to say party vote National. However, he does not stop at that. He says the only way to get a change of government to party vote and electorate vote National. This is not true. What matters is the total votes of National and Act.
      
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      August 16, 2023 7:51am
- All_on_Red
  
  Ffs What do you expect him to say?
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:06pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Why downtick – Chuck’s comment is valid. There are 3 (yes 3) options for a change in government.
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:15pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Downticked because its a dumb comment
    Luxon is Leader of the National Party.
    To expect him to say anything else is just ignorant and naïve.
    
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    August 15, 2023 2:31pm
    - Libertarians are right
      
      But it’s an actual lie. Not misrepresentation or any other kind of sophistry.
      
      As leader of National I would prefer if he actually said why two ticks blue is the best way to get rid of Labour and more importantly, their legacy.
      
      Also, technically, if every voter on the right voted National Electorate and ACT party, creating a massive overhang, you would guarantee a change in Government. It’s horrendously anti-democratic but it would get rid of Labour.
      
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      August 15, 2023 3:06pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      To object to his treatment of Maureen Pugh is not ignorant and naïve.
      
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      August 15, 2023 3:06pm
- hullkiwi
  
  Chuck, as All-in-Red has said below your comment is dumb. Luxon is the National Party leader, so he will naturally urge people to support National.
  
  Further, at least Luxon is working for a change of government. Unlike Act, which seems more intent on taking votes from National, than taking votes from Labour. Thereby ensuring the status quo, after 14/10/2023.
  
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  August 15, 2023 3:20pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    When I saw this I resigned from National and a while later joined Act. National used to be the farmer’s party. Now Act is the farmer’s party.
    
    Christopher Luxon’s desire to work more with the Government
    
    And it’s not just Labour being dished compliments; he says Climate Change Minister and Green Party co-leader James Shaw is “someone I really respect and have spent a lot of time with’’.
    
    He wants his climate change spokesperson Scott Simpson to have a close working relationship with Shaw and to work hard on a bipartisan approach.
    
    “The background is that I was very much about embracing net carbon zero.’’
    
    https://www.newsroom.co.nz/chris-luxons-desire-to-work-more-with-the-government
    
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    August 15, 2023 4:26pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      Chuck that is out of context. Why shouldn’t they work in a bipartisan approach?
      
      Remember, National withdrew from the bipartisan housing accord and called the climate change proposals on farming dead, because the govt did not work in a bipartisan manner.
      
      Given the govt and the Greens show they can’t be trusted, do you think National is so naive as to sign away NZ’s primary industry, just because they try to achieve a bipartisan approach?
      
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      August 15, 2023 5:08pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Possibly. If Luxon cannot understand how science works he should listen to real experts Dr Judith Curry. Watch the video 7.5 minutes.
        
        Judith Curry: How Climate “Science” Got Hijacked by AlarmistsJudith Curry: How Climate “Science” Got Hijacked by Alarmists
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVi01vJ4nxM
        
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        August 15, 2023 6:00pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Hey Chuck, maybe you should write him a letter about it?
        
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        August 15, 2023 6:29pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        All_on_Red, I emailed my resignation with my reasons. When I was a member I was very clear on my views supporting our farmers. I spoke to Todd Muller and Field Days about methane. He was in favour of taxing farmers on methane. I asked him how many PPM of methane was in the atmosphere. He did not know. I asked him about the half-life of methane. He did not know that either. I asked why tax methane. He said that was because of expert advice. I asked him to name the experts. He would not say.
        
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        August 15, 2023 8:23pm
Ghost

This story continues to bother me

Woman who found missing toddler Willow saw her ‘in the middle of the road’

She found the child wondering on the road at 2.15pm

She posted on Facebook about the child at 6.30pm

Huh, wtf.

There is just something very wrong with this story
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August 15, 2023 1:31pm
- greybeard
  
  Just what I said on GD yesterday:
  “The kid was missing for 6 hours, and the woman who found her went to Facebook instead of ringing the police.
  She must have had the kid for ages.
  Something doesn’t sound right with this.”
  
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  August 15, 2023 1:47pm
  - cmm
    
    Quite plausible.
    
    She probably didn’t want to get the police and other government services dragged in since that would cause problems for the mother.
    
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    August 16, 2023 9:46am
- sirknz
  
  The entire story just feels wrong.
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:11pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  IMO if I found a child on the street I would immediately ring the police….and I mean immediately.
  
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  August 15, 2023 2:13pm
Chuck Bird

Nothing wrong with the story, just the woman.
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August 15, 2023 1:39pm
sirknz

Anybody got any idea on the timeline for Worksafe to begin investigating gang shootings and whether any gang members injured in such incidents will be eligible for ACC?
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August 15, 2023 2:13pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Dr Muriel Newman. NZCPR.
Six years of failure. Labour is a second term Government.
After nine years of National, economists were describing New Zealand as having a “rock star” economy.
What happened?
This is from yesterday, I just got it by email.
https://www.nzcpr.com/six-years-of-failure/
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August 15, 2023 2:31pm
- Jack5
  
  Bullshit about New Zealand having a rock star economy began in 2014, and was created by HSBC economists in Australia.
  
  According to the commentator Grant Morris linked to below, until 1965 NZ was in the top five countries or so in wealth as measured by GDP. In the 1950s it was in the top three.
  
  The big slide was from 1967 to 1980, and most of the causes were external, Grant says. They included the dive in wool prices from 1967, oil prices soaring in the 1970s, and Britain joining the EC in 1973.
  
  At present, the CIA World Factbook ranks NZ 42nd in GDP per capita.
  
  Neither was HSBC itself “rock star”. Two years earlier (i.e., in 2012) the bank was fined $US $1.92 billion by the US Justice Department for laundering cash from Mexican drug cartels. In addition it was ordered to pay pay $US665 million to US government agencies in “civil penalties”.
  
  Grant Morris on NZ’s economic decline in wealth as measured by GDP per capita:
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018710986/the-history-of-new-zealand-s-gdp-per-capita-ranking
  
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  August 15, 2023 3:14pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Before the UK entered the EU, NZ was just an extension of the British Agriculture. We grew sheep and beef, made crap cheese and exported it at basically a guaranteed price to the UK.
    
    The Conference Lines had a fleet of approx 120 ships carrying Aus/NZ produce to the UK and UK products back to Aus/NZ.
    
    There was damn all marketing done as it was to a guaranteed market. There were some exports to the US and Japan and exports/imports from Aus.
    
    Britain entered the EU and NZ was in the poo and had to find other markets and other industries. The car assembly industry employed THOUSANDS and that has gone and the garment industry has disappeared with cheap imports from China. And so on and so forth.
    
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    August 15, 2023 4:22pm
Jack5

Is this a Greenie own goal?

Noise pollution from wind power turbines blamed for killing whales.

Thousands of wind turbines driving whales to suicide?

https://public.substack.com/p/save-the-whales-again?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-33f4a0c1-5ed4-4268-90cc-dcafacf05657
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August 15, 2023 2:46pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Jack Smith and his kangaroo Court.
Out-of-district grand jury? Witch hunt as Trump says.

https://roccistuccishow.com/judge-aileen-cannon-blasts-jack-smith-for-operating-out-of-district-secret-grand-jury-in-blistering-order/
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August 15, 2023 2:49pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Nothing happening here, move along.

https://billingsreport.com/mi-ag-dana-nessel-confirms-8000-to-10000-suspected-fraudulent-registrations-delivered-to-muskegon-clerk-october-2020/
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August 15, 2023 3:02pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  38,000 resident an they get 8000 new voter registrations?
  OK!
  
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  August 15, 2023 3:05pm
Gravelroad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/300950485/we-live-on-bare-basics-55-of-new-zealanders-struggling-financially
The couple in this story have 6 children between them – the youngest being 2 months old.’
Presumably, they chose to have this child.
The mother had to give up her job and now finds paying the bills increasingly difficult.
In this day and age, perhaps people should be aware that having more and more kids will impact on your housing and food purchasing requirements.
Or is that just terribly heartless……
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August 15, 2023 3:06pm
- miltonF
  
  Or they could just vote to take more money from childless kiwis. It’s worked well so far.
  
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  August 15, 2023 3:20pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Brilliant isn’t it? High taxes on middle class who struggle to afford children – and so delay and frequently miss out on having them, in order to pay failures who on average do a far worse job of raising kids who will contribute to NZ.
    
    We have to toughen up and say no. Make having babies strictly a privilege rather than a right, contingent on (say) having paid $100k in income tax, or $200k combined with partner. Prove you are a useful contributing human before making more.
    
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    August 15, 2023 5:05pm
    - info@cruzpro.com
      
      Kids are going to happen and you can’t stop it with a law or rule.
      
      You can however stop giving these children creators money for doing so.
      
      Childless people saving to be able to afford to have a kid should not be forced to pay for those people who have children when they can’t afford to take care of them.
      
      When people have children they can’t afford to feed and don’t get public support they very likely have relatives who can help them. If not, there are plenty of childless couples who would love to adopt one of them.
      
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      August 15, 2023 6:22pm
- cmm
  
  There being at least 28 ways to choose to NOT have a child, we can assume that they intended to have this 2 month old too.
  
  Sure, sometimes machinery breaks down, but not 6 times!
  
  Perhaps it is time the woke-maths numerical literacy started using a few number stories involving household budgeting.
  
  “Rangi and Sarah have a budget of $120 a week after paying for food and rent. They have 5 babies who each need $10 of cloths and $15 of nappies a week. Can they afford another baby?”
  
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  August 16, 2023 9:31am
hullkiwi

….and the disconnect goes on….between the NZ judiciary and the sentences they hand down for those found guilty……

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/08/judge-sentences-two-of-new-zealand-s-most-notorious-sexual-predators-to-home-detention.html

NZ needs a change of government, and for the politicians and judges to start recognising that people guilty of serious crimes including assault, sexual assault and rape need to be punished and locked away from society with imprisonment.

End of story!!!!
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August 15, 2023 3:13pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

De Santis removing Soros backed DA. She is a crim hugger.
Here in NZ we have someone (or many) like this.

https://billingsreport.com/desantis-suspends-soros-linked-prosecutor-over-neglect-of-duty-and-incompetence/
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August 15, 2023 3:23pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Jack Smith is a political mule for Biden.
Matt Gaetz is going to fix it. Trump will be the ultimate whistleblower.

https://billingsreport.com/matt-gaetz-devises-an-ingenious-plan-to-give-trump-immunity-from-jack-smith/
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August 15, 2023 3:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Royalty checks?
I suspect someone (safe and effective) was on this ‘royalty’ program.
Seems people who lie get looked after…..

https://billingsreport.com/huge-pharma-royalty-checks-sent-to-dr-fauci-and-dr-collins/

There is a video but just buffering. I think it is Rand Paul nailing Fauci.
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August 15, 2023 3:58pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Yes, only buffering endlessly. Who has the power to sensor a video by stopping you looking at it?
  
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  August 15, 2023 6:12pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    If you can get it started, reduce the quality to 480 and there are less stopd.
    
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    August 16, 2023 8:12am
Ghost

Well done to Disney for teaming up with Seann Altman to market products to girls. It’s very obvious you haven’t learned from bud light

Anyone interested in some cheap adventure parks or even a global broadcasting giant, soon going dirt cheap

A former Anheuser-Busch executive who has given frequent interviews on the Bud Light controversy said that Disney is now making a similar mistake after partnering with a self-described “gender fluid” influencer.

Article
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August 15, 2023 4:00pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hi ho hi ho, it’s off to jail he goes.

https://billingsreport.com/trial-likely-in-hunter-biden-case-after-plea-deal-falls-apart-prosecutors-say/
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August 15, 2023 4:12pm
- NothingLeft
  
  There is very limited rule of law at the top level of politics in US. If it is inconvenient to agenda of DNC there will be no prosecution, and certainly no jail, remember also that Biden can pardon anyone he pleases – so kind of pointless to even try – except to show up the systemic corruption.
  
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  August 15, 2023 4:24pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Now for NZ News. What happened today?
Blofeld is almost claiming a victory. All of the liars are. Just waiting for the pink terror’s greatness. ‘There is no question we saved lives.’ 80,000 lives remember?
Fuck, we can recognise people again.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/revealed-dr-bloomfield-s-text-to-the-minister-upon-latest-covid-19-news/ar-AA1ff9Xs
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August 15, 2023 4:20pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  in other News, someone and his husband made some cakes.
  GST or no GST is a lovely headache.
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/hipkins-reaches-back-into-his-hat-after-boondoggle-policy/ar-AA1fge1q
  Garlic and chopped up coriander would be exempt from GST but was left stumped on basil growing in a pot and vacuum-packed peeled cloves of garlic.
  
  EVERYTHING LABOUR TOUCHES TURNS TO SHIT, but this shit does not start until Apri 1st next year. Nice joke Chippie.
  
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  August 15, 2023 4:29pm
- Keith White
  
  Never Forgive. Never Forget. Peace Crimes Tribunals.
  
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  August 15, 2023 5:12pm
Dougal10

David Seymour owns Hipkins’s lilly white ass. He has managed to get Chippy to call him a racist in the house.
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August 15, 2023 4:50pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  If Chippie lost it in the house today, then Willie Jackson never had it to begin with.
  
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  August 15, 2023 7:49pm
CAKE FACE1

Return of the Jedi was released in 1983.

It was nowhere near as good as The Empire Strikes Back, but this flick did introduce the magical character of Jabba the Hutt. If you don’t know him, google it! Does he remind you of anyone?

Exemplifying greed and gluttony, he had an insatiable appetite… I’m not sure why forty years later, I’m thinking about Jabba the Hutt…

What does it all mean?
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August 15, 2023 5:59pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Just a Jabba from the Hutt?
  
  Might work better if it were Robbo
  
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  August 15, 2023 8:01pm
kiwikidsnz

The USA middle class zeitgeist is going viral this week
https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro
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August 15, 2023 6:28pm
Prince

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August 15, 2023 10:51pm
cmm

Maybe what is REALLY happening is that Chippie is running a big fiddle.

Maybe Chippie is getting paid a $5k “finder’s fee” for every high value Kiwi that leaves NZ and takes their skills to Australia.

What else makes sense?

It would make massive sense for Australia to do this. Heck, they’re paying a $20k sign-on bonus for our cops.
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