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Tomtoddy

I went along to ACT’s official campaign launch yesterday. Security was supposedly “tight”. Frankly having a bunch of lightweights – they wouldn’t make a 3rd rugby 15 at a small college – trying to manage bag searches, checking for troublemakers and then trying to throw people out makes a mockery of security. If you are serious about being able to stop people or remove them you call in big, ugly-big guys, popping the buttons on their shirts and able to show some mongrel.

The Vision NZ guy who did most of the interrupting anchored himself in the middle of the theatre and it was always going to be difficult to manoeuvre him out, but chaos ruled for 10 mins because there was no plan, nobody was in charge and there was no one fit and able enough to handle him.

As for the journalists whining about getting hurt or blocked they should consider they got off lightly. When people go to the trouble of attending an event to hear a particular message, having media race after anyone interrupting the show rather than focusing on the event itself means they will always be on the receiving end of some anger. Our media are just too arrogant and precious.

Seymour looked tired and his voice was often strained but his message was excellent, well-constructed and he ably demonstrated why ACT is our only hope for the major turn around needed for our country.
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September 18, 2023 8:02am
- Gravelroad
  
  Yes – “the news” these days is seldom about what the main speaker has to say.
  It is always about what some attention seeking and self indulgent protester wants to bore us with.
  It is not news.
  We have become a very dull little country when protesters get more headlines than leaders.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:13am
  - kowtow
    
    In this particular instance te media pahti ( Bradford) actually made it about Act and Act supporters , it was their fault !
    
    These idiot disrupters need to be condemned by the likes of the media , the mis/disinformation crowd and the police , I reckon what that idiot does could amount to disorderly conduct.
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:28am
    - Tricati
      
      Ah, Katie Bradford, who famously said ‘no matter what we do, or what we say, the polls stay the same’ after another poor labour poll some years back – They never change.
      
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      September 18, 2023 9:22am
      - kowtow
        
        And the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree neither.
        
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        September 18, 2023 10:18am
      - thirteenstars
        
        Is that Sue Bradford’s sister or kid?
        
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        September 18, 2023 10:59am
      - Jack5
        
        At the Red Radio site, they’re climbing into National’s Hamilton East candidate Ryan Hamilton over remarks about fluoridation. He clearly doesn’t, or didn’t like it.
        
        RNZ’s dug out comments Hamilton made as long as 10 years ago, and the site says National’s official policy favours fluoridation.
        
        So what? I support fluoridation, but it’s no big deal to oppose it.
        
        Overly vigorous chlorination of water does annoy me. I was among those who queued at Christchurch deep-water bores with taps provided, to get unchlorinated, but routinely tested, water from council pumps. It was the great water Christchurch was once renown for.
        
        Public access was closed in the last few weeks to meet rules of the Labour-Maori water takeover of water supply and our citizen-paid water assets.
        
        Voters who queued for unchlorinated water will no doubt remember the taste when they have their morning cup of tea or coffee before going to the polling booths 26 days from today.
        
        In the meantime, a Hamilton win in Hamilton East might save the city’s name. It will change if the Woke-Maori activist junta is returned.
        
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        September 18, 2023 11:17am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Kowtow, you must mean her mother
        
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        September 18, 2023 12:05pm
      - kowtow
        
        steve
        
        No Kate Bradford is a tv1 emplyee .Yes she’s the daughter . But I’m referring to her Kate’s extremely biased coverage of the Act launch.
        
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        September 18, 2023 12:20pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        @Jack5,
        The real issue in my mind with chlorination is it ruins Hot Water cylinders.
        I guess this falls under the unintended consequence categary ?
        
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        September 18, 2023 1:09pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        13: Daughter of Sue.
        
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        September 18, 2023 7:57pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    “attention seeking and self indulgent protester”
    
    That’s usually the reporter.
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:44am
- Colville
  
  He is in Napier tonight…I will be wandering along.
  
  Saw Luxon in Palmy yesterday..very smooth performance.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:13am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Colville – Watch the smooth Luxon slaughtered by Chippie in the debate tomorrow. I am already feeling sorry for Luxon. The bribed up MSM will be writing puff pieces all over the place how Luxon is no match to Chippie.
    
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    September 18, 2023 12:09pm
- oldpark
  
  Noticed in the grubby wee biased Stuff newspaper today .
  A reporter a has been or never was who was once employed by the corrupt “News of The World “paper . The person puts the boot into ACT PARTY with a cast of thousands and just yesterday a very successful launch with an audience of at least 1500 guests .
  The never was reporter got it wrong lampooning ACT Party her vile comments should have been directed at Labour/Greens /Maori Party who would combined not have attracted such a crowd of committed Voters who want NZ to be “A Nation Once Again” Not a third world type of existence visited on an unfortunate country in the last Six Years. Aided and abetted by the Ardern/Hipkins Green/Maori Party Cartel .
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:24am
  - Guy Preston
    
    …Ardern-Peters/Hipkins….
    
    FIFY.
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:42am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Only 1 major party has managed a good campaign launch with good security.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:34am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yes, they managed to keep the riff raff out, they were organised enough to do so, letting them in looks shabby no matter who it is
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:30am
    - thirteenstars
      
      Well, what more do you expect from a party whose entire political strategy is to “steal” votes that rightfully belong to National?
      
      Have I got that right?
      
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      September 18, 2023 11:01am
      - Guy Preston
        
        No.
        My vote “rightfully belongs” to no party. It must be earned, every time.
        
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        September 18, 2023 11:27am
      - Jack5
        
        No again, Thirteen Stars.
        
        That’s the theme of Leftist saboteurs trying to split the Centre-Right.
        
        Divide and conquer strategy.
        
        The Left is desperate.
        
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        September 18, 2023 12:22pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Hmmmmm
        
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        September 18, 2023 1:30pm
- Terry Dalee
  
  There was a member of the Legalise Cannabis party present at the launch too. He was wearing a suit with that emblazoned with the Legalise Cannabis logo. He was there clearly with an agenda.
  
  BUT
  
  He was respectful and engaging. He did not interrupt.
  The audience were quite happy to listen to him and engage with him afterwards and did not shout him down at all.
  
  Wheres that in the media?
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:27am
  - Dougal10
    
    The protesters probably got in on bradfords press pass.
    
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    September 18, 2023 1:29pm
- Southern Raider
  
  In one section of the Herald Audrey Young is rambling about the division between National and ACT and trying to scare voters about the discord that doesn’t exist
  
  On the breaking news banner is about a serious stabbing at the Albany transport hub
  
  Which story do you think more informs voters at this election?
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:01pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    2nd stabbing now. 1st one bus stop in Albany. Now another stabbing in Waterview??! Cops appear to be on cycleway in pic? What’s up?! This is not a random crime. 2 at diff locations. Of course no details from our communist media who control what we see and hear.
    
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    September 18, 2023 4:19pm
    - Southern Raider
      
      Just watched OneNews.
      
      Violent crime obviously isn’t important as they spent more time asking Luxon ten times his views on a National candidate and fluoridation
      
      They even only asked Chippy once about one of his candidates who said HPV vaccine is “fucken big pharma poison”. But Chippy disputed this was said and the media moved on
      
      Priorities
      
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      September 18, 2023 6:31pm
- ISeeRed
  
  Who was covering security? Armourguard? We dropped them at my supermarket as they were hopeless. They seemed to be an employer of last resort for mostly average-sized South Asian immigrants, including the occasional woman who was really at risk of serious injury by her employer. Every week someone knew came on duty and had to trained from scratch. Our new crew are a mixed bunch of BIG European, Maori, PI and Indian guys who have street smarts, and know when to play it cool and when to take action.
  
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  September 18, 2023 7:16pm
artemisia

First Victoria University can’t manage its finances, needs tens of millions and has to lay off lots of employees. Now Wellington City Council is in a ‘financial crisis’ involving potentially hundred of millions of ratepayer dollars.

Not worry though. Calling it a ‘crisis’ is just scaremongering. Labour councillor Teri O’Neill says it’s just a ‘financial spot’. Mayor Whanau calls it ‘financial headwinds’.

Sounds like some at the council have been taking lessons from Finance Minister Robertson and his PR team.

Meantime, enquiring minds want to know how these blowouts of OPM could have happened, what risks and mitigations were being reported and in the case of the council when are we-the-ratepayers going to be allowed to know exactly how big this ‘financial spot’ is. And how and when the ‘spot’ is going to be fixed.
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September 18, 2023 8:03am
- slightlyrighty
  
  The only uni that seems to have managed the tough times well is Waikato, and much of that can be attributed to them taking on Steven Joyce as a consultant!
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:36am
  - Gravelroad
    
    I understand (from people who know him) that vice chancellor Quigley is also a very sharp operator – with the appropriate qualifications and experience as a Professor of economics.
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:44am
  - Reg Perrin
    
    And getting into Nursing which will be killing Wintecs programme
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:01am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  Otherwise know as what happens when you appoint a librarian as your CE. Hence underlining how wrong the commonly held thought that “anyone can be a CEO” is.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:44am
- rjay
  
  But still the locals want the Greens to be in charge. Will they go for the double in their electorate too?
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:01am
- kowtow
  
  Otago , wanting to be a treaty led university , whatever the hell that is , likewise in financial strife.
  Lots of layoffs there too .
  
  Odd how te media pa ahti want to crush Nact over lay offs but the woke unis , not so much.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:15am
- I remember when
  
  Ahh! The joys of the non-financial Left/Green world.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:17am
Suze Wainwright

I just got an alert on my phone saying Katie Bradford’s business watch – is that an oxymoron?
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September 18, 2023 8:04am
- Damocles11
  
  A ‘foxy moron’ is the expression I believe.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:35am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Foxy, and Katie in the same sentence? Different tastes, I suppose.
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:24am
    - Damocles11
      
      She’s definitely not foxy*. Marginally better looking than her sister Sue perhaps.
      
      *It was a reference to a certain Aussie TV show.
      
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      September 18, 2023 10:56am
      - Guy Preston
        
        I thought Sue was Katies mother??
        
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        September 18, 2023 11:36am
- John Loveridge
  
  With or without “oxy”, “Katie Bradford” and “moron” go well in the same sentence.
  
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  September 18, 2023 6:45pm
Simon

Lied about where the Wuhan virus came from and lied about the jaxx being safe and effective. Now lying about the jaxx injury and kill count.

Good luck to all those who jaxxed up. Mean that most sincerely. You were lied too and you just didnt understand.
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September 18, 2023 8:07am
- Damocles11
  
  Covid-obsessives are rather tiresome. I think they wake up at 4 am in a cold sweat with this single issue on their minds & it then dominates their thinking for the entire day. And it’s a Groundhog Day.
  Most of us have done things in our lives that may come back to adversely impact on our health: we may enjoy a drink rather frequently, have experimented with smoking, have over-indulged at the table, like a fair old sprinkle of salt with meals just to amp up the taste…..but we don’t need some wowser popping up every other minute banging on about it. It’s the same with vaccines.
  
  From my own honest and 100% truthful perspective, I do not know one single person who has been obviously adversely effected by the vaccine, including relatives in their 80’s. They were vaccinated, boosted, and are enjoying happy and full lives. And I honestly do not need someone popping up and saying “but you’re all doomed, you just don’t know it yet.” It’s sick, to taunt people in that way about unknowns. Only a ghoul would do it.
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:07am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Well for starters, 3 members of my family were adversely affected – not permanently, but enough for a major scare. I’m sure there are thousands more.
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:47am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Don Beckett – worldwide there are millions more. Many don’t know it yet because it isn’t being properly investigated. Many have damages the heart, many have damages to their innate immune system.
      The number of adverse effects is a thousand times that of any prior vaccination in history. There are more deaths and injuries than ALL vaccinations in history COMBINED. But they are not being removed from market?
      
      I might have had covid once, was a bit crook for about 5 days, just like a regular winter bug. I’ll never know because I’ll never test, just like I’ve never worn a mask and never will.
      
      I have a good friend who bought into the narrative hard. My friend has had 3 jabs and 4 bouts of covid. She is constantly ‘a bit sick’ and she claims to have ‘long covid’.
      
      No, she has ‘long vaccine’. But of course we can’t talk about it.
      
      Cheers to Ardern and all of those who actively supported this insanity.
      Big cheers to all of those who now realise it was a con job and are big enough to admit it and speak up.
      
      As for those who want to ‘move on’ and pretend nothing happened? Look in your mirror and have a long hard think about what you are saying.
      For those who wonder how they would have acted in Nazi Germany when the stigmatising and segregation of minorities began which led to horrors, you know who you are.
      
      Calling people who are concerned about the worst abuses of a minority in at least a generation ‘obsessives’, is as childish as it is vindictive.
      Telling them to ‘move on’ is an indication of narcissism and cowardice.
      
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      September 18, 2023 12:23pm
  - mawm
    
    Maybe some of us who are “obsessed” by the covid mRNA “vaccines” have lost family to them, or have had life altering injuries from them.
    
    Your comment is appallingly insensitive and insulting to those who did not want to take an unproven novel therapeutic measure that did not go through any form of acceptable testing, that the manufacturers and those promoting it already knew was ineffective and unsafe, that our government forced upon us riding rough-shod over individual sovereignty and contrary to any of the principles of the Nuremberg Code and during which none of our Parliamentary representatives stood up for our rights and the biggest assault of our freedoms ever.
    
    Yes, those “covid obsessives” who are now being asked to vote once again for Parliamentary representatives, the same people who could not stand up to Jacinda, who could not see the abuse of our rights and freedoms, who have not kept themselves up to date with information about the medium term complications and continuing deaths from the “vaccine”, and who cannot stand up in front of us and apologise for the harms done, offer support for those injured, condolences to those who lost close ones and say that they will oppose any such further assaults on our sovereignty and freedom.
    
    This is why it is such a big issue to them during this election campaign.
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:47am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    So in your ‘honest and 100% truthful perspective’, are you saying nobody you know who has been vaccinated has had a single health issue since getting the shot? It’s possible but I doubt it.
    
    The number of serious adverse effects is around 1 in 8000. Reasonably long odds, but we’re talking heart attacks, strokes etc and death there.
    Do you know anyone with ‘long covid’? Anyone with immune issue problems? Anyone who’s had covid multiple times?
    Many things can be cause by the jabs, but there is no way of knowing, because most people are terrified of finding the jab they took was the cause.
    
    What you’re saying is that it’s your belief that nobody you know has had an adverse effect from the jab. That’s because nobody gets checked for it.
    
    Here’s a link to some useful advice for anyone you know who seems to be not quite as healthy as they were prior to the job.
    
    https://covid19criticalcare.com/protocol/i-recover-post-vaccine-treatment/
    
    Probably of no use to them whatsoever, but it’s free advice and handy to bookmark.
    
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    September 18, 2023 12:35pm
    - mawm
      
      Clan – I keep on coming across people who most probably are vaccine injured but have no clue that they are.
      
      There is a deliberate attempt to look the other way by our MoH and hide the numbers. Until such time as they start doing appropriate post mortem examinations on all slightly suspicious deaths, and tissue and blood examinations on the severely injured they cannot claim the numbers they publish.
      
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      September 18, 2023 2:35pm
    - Observer of Life
      
      Clan: Thanks for that link. I’ve never been so regularly sick as I have over the 12+ months. And I now have another issue which appears to be a side affect of the bloody jabs (only 2, but 2 too many) which I’m closely watching and hoping I’m wrong about (saw Dr Peter McCullough talk about it recently and it all slotted into place). Never forget people. NEVER. What you ignore today can easily come back in another version in years to come – climate change seems to be the most obvious at the moment, but who says these pricks won’t repeat all this again with another “health crisis/plandemic”.
      
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      September 18, 2023 8:11pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        OoL – you are very welcome and I hope it is helpful.
        From most of the things I am reading it does seem as though there are protocols that can help repair much of the damage done by these jabs.
        
        The serious adverse effects are still relatively rare at 1 in 8000, but that is still massively more than is normally acceptable.
        
        What has been done to so many people is malfeasance of the highest order and supported by the vast majority of politicians, ‘experts’. journalists and assorted useful idiots with high profiles and influence in various communities.
        
        No wonder they are all shutting down and refusing to acknowledge any of it.
        This next few years is going to be like pulling teeth, but once the information starts coming, it will be unstoppable. There are many in this country who deserve everything coming their way.
        
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        September 18, 2023 8:27pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        Thanks Clan. Like you, I just wish Seymour and Luxon would come clean and admit they got it wrong. Hell, like so many!! But whilst they keep pretending all is well, it just makes them look more and more ridiculous.
        
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        September 18, 2023 8:48pm
  - kowtow
    
    Rory Nairn .
    
    Look him up.
    
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    September 18, 2023 1:51pm
  - judith8409121
    
    oh – sorry – thats right – you were forced to do those things that impact your health by the lies and coercion of your government – my mistake – so you must be over-the-moon you were treated that well. good on you
    
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    September 18, 2023 4:03pm
- mawm
  
  I’ve been saying this all along. The information that the MSM/Pharma/Governments have not been able to suppress is out there and it paints an awful picture.
  
  To those who got the vaxx, for whatever reason, I hope that you got yours from one of those batches that have no/very few recorded side effects. To all of the vaxxed – you have my sympathy for what was done to you by our government and I hope that this has woken you up to the evil that Big Pharma/US bioweapons program/US military-industrial complex /WEF/WHO/Gates foundation/MSM and others have perpetrated on us and that you now question everything that comes from them. They are no longer the good guys.
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:24am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    mawm – this could be helpful for anyone who may have been adversely affected after the jab.
    
    https://covid19criticalcare.com/protocol/i-recover-post-vaccine-treatment/
    
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    September 18, 2023 12:28pm
- miltonF
  
  A friend of mine’s triple jabbed son was admitted to hospital last night. 14yrs old and perfectly healthy. Out of the blue, pneumonia and kidney damage.
  
  I can’t help but wonder…is this a common condition for normal healthy 14yr olds?
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:04pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    You would not think so ?
    
    Dr J Campbell explains about Diabettes.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRohIT7-aik
    
    And an excellent interview,
    https://philipmcmillan.substack.com/p/the-missing-virology-and-immunology
    
    Dr P MacMillan has some great videos explaining Loss of Immune system backed up by valid data. You “May” find your answer in the videos?
    
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    September 18, 2023 4:36pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Turbo cancers are another that are on the rise. I have 2 brothers in law who have ‘suddenly’ developed cancer and a niece who’s fit and healthy soldier husband is suffering from a damaged immune system.
    All coincidences of course and nothing to do with the covid jabs. //s
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:31pm
igm

Just another example of ill-mannered and left-wing Labour/Green supporting unemployable scum.
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September 18, 2023 8:08am
hullkiwi

Good TPU ad being played on the TV. First time I didn’t catch whose ad it was, but saw the authorised name the second time. Will certainly dent the Labour and CTU attack work.
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September 18, 2023 8:10am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  Im also taking great delight in clicking on every single labour advert I see online, my small part in emptying their sadly depleted coffers.
  
  You’re welcome Chippy and I mean that most sincerely. 😀
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:46am
  - crackle
    
    Sorry to suck the jam out of your donut but… https://nopunchespulled.com/2023/09/14/political-donations/
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:42am
cmm

It’s a sad business that hooning teens ended up killing one of themselves, but still, is justice served by charging the driver with dangerous driving causing death? Should it all be pinned on him?

All of then, including the young dead miss, were all complicit in this. They all willingly got into a pink stickered car and participated in the illegal racing and evading police. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Obviously the girl cannot be charged anymore, but why not charge the others too? They were part of it all.

And perhaps the teen that was interviewed here should reconsider her life choices and her definition of a “best friend” before she finds herself wrapped around a telephone pole.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300972620/so-lost-without-my-best-friend-teenager-killed-in-crash-remembered-as-supportive-and-loving-mate
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September 18, 2023 8:11am
- greybeard
  
  My email to Kate Hawkesby yesterday:
  ” https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/canterbury/132955517/family-pays-tribute-to-beautiful-amazing-teenager-killed-in-weekend-crash
  How many more of these stupid tragedies must we have?
  What on earth are 18-year olds doing at 4:45am, in such death traps ?
  And always there are the families and friends who beatify them: too late for concern. “
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:16am
  - kowtow
    
    “Family pays tribute”
    
    The problem with cases such as these ( other than the tragic deaths) is that te media pahti , like vultures seek out the family for the sake of cheap and tragi porn headlines .
    
    Again te media pahti is a huge part of the problem , they are a whore in search of a headline.
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:04am
    - Ghost
      
      The media are scum. I hate the way they photograph people at accidents, on the stretcher, loaded into helicopter, body in vehicle. They have no compassion
      
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      September 18, 2023 10:25am
      - Ra Henare
        
        A bit sensitive are we Ghost?
        You poor thing having to see images you dont like.
        
        I am reminded of roadside Bill boards in China.
        
        Their safe driving campaign showed graphically grisly scenes from road accidents. (ie unedited)
        ie dont end up like this.
        
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        September 18, 2023 4:15pm
      - Ghost
        
        Actually I’m very sensitive on this topic because the last photo I saw of my little brother was taken by a journalist who couldn’t even wait for his body to be removed from his car.
        
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        September 18, 2023 4:50pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        All about clicks and ratings Ghost. Connecting with the lowest of human impulses seems to be the name of the game these days. Sorry to read your brother seems to have died tragically!
        
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        September 18, 2023 8:11pm
    - Damocles11
      
      Victims get no privacy and are used as click-bait to generate income. Irony that media companies are chock-full of progressive journo’s, but if their is such a thing as ‘predatory capitalism’ then they epitomise it. If you go onto the Stuff website you’ll usually be confronted head-on by the jarring sight of some attractive smiling young woman who has been brutally murdered by some filthy criminal. The media shove it in your face like ‘here, choke on this’. It is an outrage and an affront. Do the person’s family truly want their recently deceased loved one being oggled by hundreds of thousands of strangers? I bet these ghouls pull these pictures off peoples social media pages. They are the modern day ambulance chasers & muck rakers.
      
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      September 18, 2023 11:15am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Yep cmm a sad business and I feel for the kids parent and family. But they are always “supportive and loving mates”, never abjectly stupid. And I wonder how many of the “mates” said “don’t go getting in and driving that car”.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:19am
  - I remember when
    
    Isn’t it great being the media and able to deplore the “boy racers’ activities and then report on the inevitable ‘tragic results.’
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:25am
- artemisia
  
  Reported to be fleeing police. That has to be mainly on the driver, even if he was being egged on.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:20am
- peterwn
  
  The passengers can be charged with being accessories to reckless driving – if the Police can gather sufficient evidence to prove this beyond reasonable doubt. The usual method would be to persuade the driver to turn King’s evidence against the passengers (in the hope of a lighter sentence) then play the passengers off against each other. However the Police probably consider it is not worth the bother. In one case a Police officer ticketed everyone in a car on that basis but the Prosecutor probably had to back down with respect to the passengers.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:21am
  - cmm
    
    Yes it is worth the bother to at least investigate them seriously and, preferably, charge whem.
    
    Why? Because these kids need some “feedback”. They need some consequences in their lives. They need to understand that they were not the victims here.
    
    They were accomplices to multiple crimes which resulted in a death.
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:54am
    - septic skeptic
      
      The wise minds that set up our legal framework saw fit to establish a greater burden of proof than what is obvious and self-evident. Quite rightly so IMO. It’s a FAR bigger task to prove a case against a passenger than the driver.
      
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      September 18, 2023 11:37am
      - cmm
        
        Yup, I doubt they’d prove the case, but going through the court system to face a charge could potentially be the feedback a kid needs.
        
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        September 18, 2023 2:16pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    I knew at some remove a couple of cases of young dumb impulsive kids with low comprehension of risk mucking around with cars resulting in fatalities when I were a lad. In each case those involved were extremely affected by the death of mates and halted their dumbfuckery for good. Can’t say I see the point in additional punishment – for normal people, though there will be examples where they are slow learners or have low intelligence/empathy and more is needed.
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:28am
    - Galzy
      
      Exactly, part of any boy racer sentencing regime, should be the requirement for offenders to attend with first responders to car accidents. Consequences soon become apparent, and risk assessment skills are quickly updated.
      
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      September 18, 2023 11:33am
    - Matt Long
      
      Some drunk idiot wrapped the passenger side of his car around a tree on the other side of the road from us, killing one, rather than cutting the tree down they turned it into a beer bottle shrine and had regular sessions where they threw empties into our paddock.
      The council engineer that purposely left dangerous corners on the road to avoid it “becoming a race track” deserves credit for that particular incident.
      
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      September 18, 2023 2:16pm
- Simon
  
  What they prefer to do is use this to inconvenience lawful drivers with large number judder bars in the middle of safe roads, 30kph drive zones and surveillance cameras everywhere . They are happy for a small number of people to kill themselves in a reckless manner so they can use this to pacifier the general population.
  
  The state wants people to be sheep this is why crime in general is not resolved.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:22am
- Ghost
  
  A tragic event that needed not happen. Thoughts with all the family and friends.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:18am
- Terry Dalee
  
  Its called the Law of Consequences, combined with the Law of Physics. You can’t legislate against either.
  
  Yes charge the passengers, they are all complicit but suspend the sentence on the following proviso. Then make them go on a tour of all the schools so they can share what they hopefully have ‘learnt’.. which was paid for in blood.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:17am
- rouppe
  
  The driver chose to run. the driver chose to go at speed. The driver failed to control the vehicle.
  
  It is on the driver.
  
  The family are saying they weren’t racing or doing burn outs. So why run?
  
  A tragedy for the girls family, but the driver is 100% culpable
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:25am
imalwaysright

Winston Peters is to politics what methane is to the weather…..

The latest one to get the blame.
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September 18, 2023 8:12am
Scooter

Good to know the police are “actively” investigating the whereabouts of this crim, after he breached his electronic bail conditions after being accused of 2 murders in one day. I’d hate to think they might just be a little less active. Anyhoo he shouldn’t be too hard to spot in a crowd.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/police-issue-warrant-for-alleged-murderer-naya-ropiu-fabian-wharekura-over-bail-breach/

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/129523319/chad-parekura-murder-accused-revealed
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September 18, 2023 8:12am
- Scooter
  
  Edit, 2nd was an attempted murder. Still a scumbag on electronic bail.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:15am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    How the hell do you get electronic bail after a murder and an attempted murder? This country is screwed.
    
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    September 18, 2023 1:08pm
Souvlaki

I too was there…putting the circus to oneside…..the underlying message/ substance was good…ACT are our best hope .
Jenna Lynch on TV3 last night accusing ACT of ” pushing their co-governance schtick”…..an awful human being imo.
Odd how Seymour is accused of racism…when the very reverse is true…how stupid do these reporters think people are FFS?
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September 18, 2023 8:18am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  That is why National and Act will win in a landslide Souvlaki.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:20am
- Gravelroad
  
  The reporters who are too close to, in particular, the Labour Party, want the Labour Party to win the election no matter what.
  It is as simple as that.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:24am
  - Swifty
    
    I’ve been thinking lately that of all the ‘measures’ of a healthy democracy, constant and passionate debate, on any and all issues, must feature right near the top in terms of importance.
    
    What is the alternative? Meek acquiescence? The citizenry too scared or too impotent to speak their minds? A population constantly bullied about by their supposed representatives? Too fearful of being called nasty names for voicing their honest opinions?
    
    I’m sure plenty would wish the latter were so. But would that be a sign of a healthy or unhealthy society?
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:44am
    - Terry Dalee
      
      A move to Australia to Advance Australia Fair.
      
      They are least take their democracy seriously.
      For a start, you can’t change their Founding document at a whim of the current Government. They have a process embedded in place, binding referendums taken to the people, by the people, for the people. Hence “The Voice”. A very legit way to run a democracy.
      
      Here we have she’ll be right. What do we feel like today? Or it is all run off a cult of personality that’s currently flavour of the month.
      NZ is a joke. One day you’ll all wake up and wonder what happened to it…. you’ll all get the government you deserve.
      
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      September 18, 2023 9:34am
      - Colville
        
        But Eddie Jones is their coach and they just lost to Fiji 🙂
        
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        September 18, 2023 10:26am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Australian states (with the one current exception of Tasmania) are now wall to wall wet left. They are busily working to fck everything up, as they do.
        
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        September 18, 2023 1:39pm
- Tricati
  
  Labour and their MSM enablers don’t want any coverage of co-governance, as they know when the wider population get to fully understand the extent and depth Labour have allowed it to spread, the people will be very angry – Better for Lynch et:al to focus on very small part of National tax plan and go after Luxon than to eplain why there’s been no consultation on co-governance as promised. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-confirms-public-consultation-on-m-ori-co-governance-will-happen-in-2022.html
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:25am
- kowtow
  
  ‘when the very reverse is true’
  
  We really do live in strange times . The media have become very Orwellian , truth being twisted at every turn to suit their far left narrative.
  
  The same thing happened with covid and is happening with climate catastrophism.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:32am
  - leoj
    
    ……. a far left narrative indoctrinated at university.
    
    I do not trust politicians, university professors, teachers or lawyers.
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:52am
- emmess
  
  Did it never occur to these so-called journalists, that abolishing democracy is not a normal state of affairs in a western country, and it might raise a few questions?
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:32am
- Damocles11
  
  According to Te Maori Pati, Maori are genetically superior to the rest of us. That’s the only genuinely racist thing I’ve heard in years. David Seymour is Maori (if part Maori = ‘Maori’ then he is of course as Maori as any of them) but because he doesn’t adopt the codified modern way of expressing his Maoriness he basically gets cancelled. To be a ‘real’ Maori in this day and age you have to get a facial moko & speak the language of grievance and division. It’s a cruel way of left wing (psuedo)academics and elites enforcing obedience on an entire group of people.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:35am
  - Terry Dalee
    
    Sounds like Te Pati have been reading “Mein Kampf”.
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:53am
  - rouppe
    
    “According to Te Maori Pati, Maori are genetically superior to the rest of us.”
    
    Hence why I call them the Mazi Party
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:34am
- Che Guava
  
  How many times do I have to explain that “racism” is simply White people refusing to kowtow to non-White people? It doesn’t mean having or expressing racial animus, like too many people think it does. By definition, non-White people cannot be racist. This isn’t “the left being hypocrites” it is stupid White people not understanding the language used to handicap them. It isn’t the left who are confused about the meaning of words, it is you.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:15am
- NothingLeft
  
  A substantial majority of NZers oppose anti-democratic racist “co-governance”. Media need to stop pushing a racist anti-democratic agenda, or more realistically we need to stop funding those in media pushing the cause of far left regressive authoritarian ethno-aristocratic idiocy. They are a cancer.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:36am
- Paulus
  
  Lynch (another Irish woman) gets more excited waving around, and dreadful whenever she is on television.
  But she thinks she is clever and knows it all.
  I could well have misunderstood, but isn’t she in relationship with one of the leader’s senior people of the major political parties in the election?
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:54am
  - Close Hen Counters
    
    Yup, ACT
    
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    September 18, 2023 2:55pm
- I remember when
  
  David Seymour’s trouble is that like a considerable number of the 700-800,000 Maori population he doesn’t look Maori.
  As Winston realises, you can’t be racist when you talk about Maori if you are Maori.
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:32am
- septic skeptic
  
  Very few people are listening to the campaigns or the msm IMO. Personally, I have been following politics closely since the last election (much longer in fact). I have observed what various politicians do year in year out. My vote is going to ACT, and the local Nat candidate. Now the campaign has started I earnest I am mostly switching off – to avoid all the bullshit.
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:43am
Matt Long

Here’s a surprise, a graph showing deaths per hundred thousand mirrors COLD temperatures with the implication that crazy climate change energy policies caused a good number of them.
The danger to the planet is from government responses to climate change.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/05/10/expensive-energy-may-have-killed-more-europeans-than-covid-19-last-winter
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September 18, 2023 8:19am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Oh no! You mean the same way the covid policies caused more death and destruction than the virus itself?
  
  That the danger to our health comes from the government response to a health issue which only has serious implications for a very small number of people, rather than from the disease itself?
  
  No way!!
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:43am
  - mawm
    
    Every single “fuck up” in any country that I have lived in has solely be as a result of government intervention. As long as we keep on electing inexperienced, unqualified, uneducated ideologues to represent us it will continue to be so.
    
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    September 18, 2023 12:02pm
- Ra Henare
  
  I discarded this article as soon as I read
  
  After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin weaponised his country’s energy supplies: cutting gas exports to Europe and causing prices to surge
  
  LIES. A typical gaslighting position by the Economist.
  
  The west cut off energy supplies.
  Sanctions remember?
  Nordstream??
  
  Putin has always been happy to sell Energy to the West.
  
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  September 18, 2023 4:21pm
  - kisekiman
    
    Are we actually seeing a war for oil taking place? US shale oil production is about to fall off a cliff and in a world where energy is king, Putin appears to be sitting on the crown jewels. Wouldn’t be the first time.
    
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    September 18, 2023 6:00pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Ra Henare – there is very little in our media which is worth reading.
    Mick Hall, the sub editor who correctly modified Reuter’s stories re the conflict in Ukraine, was hunted down like a dog, vilified and smeared for doing his job as a journalist.
    
    There isn’t an honest journalist in mainstream media in this country, they are variously shills, stenographers, useful idiots, liars and frauds.
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:37pm
Maggie Pie

Just as ‘Maori Language Week’ finishes…..

‘Mental Health Awareness Week’ begins.

Soo looking forward to Dan Corbett presenting OneEwes weather tonite 😀
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September 18, 2023 8:25am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Maggie.
  Why on earth do you watch One Ewes?
  Are you not aware of TV3 which at least has the benefit that it’s not owned by the Government?
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:30am
  - emmess
    
    TV3 is government funded, just as bad
    Nobody should watch any TV news.
    There are plenty of ways to get reliable news online.
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:36am
  - Lance
    
    TV3 is sometimes actually worse than TV1 at obscene political bias (as in far-left sock puppets).
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:01am
    - Observer of Life
      
      Lance: Agree. That 7pm programme (the name has escaped me) is case in point.
      Well, I’m guessing it’s still running?
      
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      September 18, 2023 9:22am
  - Yabster
    
    I don’t watch either- record Prime- half and hour- so no time for too much bs- and you can fast forward the ads!
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:03am
  - Che Guava
    
    Why would you watch TV3 instead though? I haven’t watched any broadcast news bulletins for close to a decade. I really don’t see why anyone would. In the age of the internet why would you willingly constrain yourself and limit your horizon?
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:08am
  - Damocles11
    
    Captain, watch OneNews to keep an eye on what the government propaganda machine is up to. ‘Keep your friends close and your enemies closer’.
    
    Watch OneNews put if a TV poller rings, tell them you watch TV3 news.
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:38am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    There isn’t a mainstream media channel in NZ worth a shit. Not one. The content is inane dribble, the ‘news’ is fully compromised narrative control on every single topic.
    My wife likes to watch ‘Country Calendar’ but has been complaining recently that it appears to becoming very ‘woke’.
    
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    September 18, 2023 1:15pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Don’t despair Maggie,
  
  You can kōrero all Month …and even into the first two weeks of next month.
  
  Mahuru Māori is an initiative begun in 2017 to promote the use of te reo Māori throughout the month of September. Mahuru Māori in 2023 is on Friday 15 September, in line with maramataka Māori.
  
  https://www.mahurumaori.com/
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:34am
  - Damocles11
    
    Real life surpassing satire.
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:43am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Had to larf….my partner watched ‘Country Calendar’ last nite.
    
    He was saying they had a Maori guy on from Environment Canterbury promoting the use of Te Reo to the local farming community. Apparently referred to a Helicopter as … “TE WAKA CHOPACHOPA”
    
    Seriously!!
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:48am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Made up on the spot translation names are all over the place. It is just fairy tale bullshit.
      Here is one “hikareti” Doesn’t take much to figure out what that means.
      
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      September 18, 2023 8:55am
      - Jethrod
        
        Another is …..kotanga……..but you need to be a child of th 50/60’s to get it.
        
        Car aerial
        
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        September 18, 2023 9:30am
      - pdm
        
        steve – back in the 60’s again.
        
        Kaitaia – meals on wheels.
        
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        September 18, 2023 10:11am
      - GazzaW
        
        We have a secondhand car sales yard in our locality called Motoka.
        
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        September 18, 2023 11:15am
      - Terry Dalee
        
        https://youtu.be/OMAis8eW280?si=g54FtICm5zTzT2AI&t=177
        
        He’d be spinning in his grave…..
        
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        September 18, 2023 11:34am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Or when my Commer van needed new doors, I just needed a Komator
        
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        September 18, 2023 5:30pm
    - alloytoo
      
      I think we should all adopt that to illustrate the idiocy.
      
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      September 18, 2023 8:56am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Taking the piss would be “racist”
        
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        September 18, 2023 9:08am
    - andrew davies
      
      The guy had some credibility promoting his Maoriness and the Maori way. That was until he wrapped his flounder in tin foil to cook it.
      
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      September 18, 2023 10:20am
    - rouppe
      
      Many many Maori words are an embarrassing pigin English.
      
      Like”morning tea” is “kapu ti”.
      
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      September 18, 2023 10:48am
      - Guy Preston
        
        well, best not to look up the translation for scissors…
        
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        September 18, 2023 12:23pm
    - I remember when
      
      He could have said anything he liked as very few Cantabrians would know whether he was right!
      
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      September 18, 2023 3:38pm
  - Terry Dalee
    
    “The way to turn a treasure into a form of torture is to impose it on people by force, perhaps with the very best of intentions.”
    -David Seymour
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:13am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      It’s certainly turning me against the language which I had been gradually assimilating and occasionally using for the last 30 years.
      Now I deliberately go out of my to not use it and avoid reading anything that starts their story with it in the intro.
      
      Don’t force people to do shit. Same with Maori language as it was with the covid jabs. It will backfire spectacularly.
      Take people with you, don’t push them with a big stick.
      
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      September 18, 2023 1:20pm
- Gravelroad
  
  The weather is very depressing at the moment.
  High winds make kids and animals go crazy.
  Tie me trampoline down, mate.
  Stay indoors and put a teddy in the window.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:37am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It is pissing me off. I am in the middle of doing a cam timing belt on my Prado.
    The days of rolling around in puddles and rain are gone.
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:58am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      And a bit hard getting the boat out for a feed!!
      
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      September 18, 2023 1:21pm
  - Mobile Michael
    
    Mrs Mobile was in Christchurch for the weekend and was supposed to be back last night. Now she is there until Wednesday.
    
    Send help.
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:02am
    - Colville
      
      https://www.ubereats.com/nz
      
      https://www.liquorland.co.nz/
      
      https://escortify.co.nz/auckland-escorts
      
      The last one is in case you need someone to help vacuum the place….
      
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      September 18, 2023 10:31am
- Damocles11
  
  Stand by for Hipkins next big announcement:
  
  “Today I am announcing that a reelected Mahi government will expand Maori Language Week to Maori Language Month. TVNZ and Radio NZ will communicate with viewers & listeners only in Te Reo during this month.”
  
  Media: “Chur”.
  
  Luxon: “And National will….
  Media: “We don’t want to know you absolute selfish ‘neoliberal’ subhuman!”
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:40am
  - I remember when
    
    Tui sign:
    Maori Language Week.
    Maori Language Month.
    Maori Language, Yeah!
    
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    September 18, 2023 3:42pm
- Paulus
  
  Asian Languages Week begins this week so we will see this on TV all week, once Maori Language week actually finishes.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:56am
imalwaysright

“Ardern “heckled” in Canada ”
Nz media clutch their pearls in unison.

The “heckler” was a reporter from Rebel News who asked her about her trips carbon emissions.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jacinda-ardern-heckled-on-canadian-streets-during-her-visit-for-global-action-summit/YBQ4WNEC2VCUJJTG5R644DAXJE/
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September 18, 2023 8:26am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  That is not heckling.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:12am
  - 7kiwi11
    
    That’s Canadian heckling.
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:35am
    - Colville
      
      What would the media have said if someone splashed tomato juice on her in protest??
      
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      September 18, 2023 10:33am
- alwyn.a
  
  I wonder how much her world travelling is costing the New Zealand taxpayer?
  With this trip and her recent one to the WHO you can be pretty sure that it isn’t coming out of her pocket.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:40am
- Damocles11
  
  Asking someone questions is ‘heckling’ these days? If the bloke is a right wing journalist he is now a ‘heckler’ rather than a person trying to get answers to serious questions. How does Ardern justify flying all the way from New Zealand to Montreal, with all the emissions that trip entails, when climate change is, purportedly, an existential threat to human existence? I want to know the answer! The New Zealand media sure won’t ask her.
  
  If asking questions in an insistent and dogmatic manner is ‘heckling’, then can the pack of wild dogs following Luxon around please stop ‘heckling’ him.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:11am
  - Yabster
    
    Lloyd Burr- was in Luxon face -way worse- Luxon was trying to walk off after a stand up- Burr “we have more questions” (basically just repeating the tax question over and over)- what a nasty, biased piece of work he is.
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:25am
    - Paulus
      
      Why do his colleagues call him Lloyd Burk !
      Cos, he is one who is continually rude and thinks he is clever.
      
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      September 18, 2023 10:58am
    - Damocles11
      
      That makes Burr a ‘heckler’, according to the Leftists definition of the term.
      
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      September 18, 2023 11:18am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No no no no, the planes were going anyway with or without her.
    She just hitched a ride.
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:20am
- rouppe
  
  There calling the guy “far right”.
  
  Anything to protect her.
  
  I was going to comment on Trudeau’s Twitter about her visit but forgot my password 😆
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:00am
- mawm
  
  Her government denied one of their reporters – Avi Yemeni, entry to New Zealand. It’s not surprising that they are there to ask her difficult questions.
  
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  September 18, 2023 12:07pm
- Mrs_Right
  
  Comments about that incident on Newshub’s Facebook page got quickly switched off as they weren’t in favour of their NZ princess.
  
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  September 18, 2023 1:15pm
Scooter

Who would have thort reading the weather would encompass such a variety of wokeness.
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September 18, 2023 8:35am
Maggie Pie

OMG! This nearly made me vomit 🙁

WATCH: full screen/sound up.

https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1703217350206689762

And no sign of the fiance or bubs either….bit odd init?
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September 18, 2023 8:39am
- Matt Long
  
  Wrecking New Zealand has been harder on Ardern than wrecking Canada for Castro’s offspring.
  All the comrades together, nice to see the Lenin posters in the anti women protest in Dublin too.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:43am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Matt, I’m assuming you’ve seen the photos of Fidel and the boys mum.
    You can almost pinpoint the moment of conception.
    I heard she was friendly with a band called the Rolling Stones. All great mates.
    Good times !
    He’s the Canadian Mama Mia
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Amazing that someone can do all of that ‘wrecking’ and just walk away from it.
    Should be in jail.
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:16am
  - Terry Dalee
    
    Canada’s woke nightmare: A warning to the West | Documentary
    -The Telegraph
    
    https://youtu.be/Qt2AuVQKpq0?si=i3UusByvOI6DTEP-
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:57am
- hullkiwi
  
  Apparently, she got harranged outside the meeting by a right wing news blog reporter asking her if she was being hypocritical travelling by plane to the meeting to talk about climate change, when she could have done it by zoom!
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jacinda-ardern-heckled-on-canadian-streets-during-her-visit-for-global-action-summit/YBQ4WNEC2VCUJJTG5R644DAXJE/
  
  Oh dear, how the “important half” live!
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:46am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It’s just not the same. Ask BMW Jimmy.//
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:17am
- cmm
  
  I assume this is recent.
  
  Why is there a NZ flag in there? She is no longer representing NZ. This is not a state visit.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:46am
  - Damocles11
    
    Deep State, NZ style?
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:57am
  - Dougal10
    
    Chippy still employs her in a special roll which pays her flights accommodation and security to flit around the world , hence nz flag.
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:42am
- cmm
  
  Bub and Boy have done their job to make Cindy appear “just like me” for the million+ wimminz that voted for her because hormones.
  
  No longer needed. Byeeeeeee.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:51am
- Blog-aholic
  
  The sound he made when he hugged it was vomit inducing.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:58am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “countering violent extremism and implementing the Christchurch Call.”
  
  It was over 4 years ago. Is that all he’s got?
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:01am
  - Damocles11
    
    An unhinged Aussie nutcase perpetrator as well. ‘They are not us’. *He* was never us, he was never a reflection on NZ society. Didn’t stop the gaslighting though.
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:26am
- Scooter
  
  Maggie, don’t forget her pussy, the cat I mean aka Paddles, mysteriously run over just after she was elected.
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/114093497/confession-i-killed-prime-minister-jacinda-arderns-cat-paddles
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:36am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Suicide
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:08am
kowtow

Luxon seems to think that some “co governance” is OK .

And yet here was me thinking the Nats had wanted co management .

These issues are too important and go to the heart of what I consider their wetness when it comes to the constitution.

“We just don’t support the co-governance of public services and that is something that has been different from what has happened in say, the previous National government, where there was co-governance in the context of treaty settlements and the management of local natural resources between iwi and also district councils and other stakeholders, and I think that worked incredibly well and I want to see more of that continue.”

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/act-vows-end-co-governance
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September 18, 2023 8:39am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Seymour – “revisionist interpretations” Bullshit.
  Seymour and Luxon have to destroy the Treaty made up in 1975 and go back to the original. It is going to take some balls, but both need to grow a pair.
  There is only ONE Treaty. The one written in Maori and translated by Henry Littlewood. Today’s version is rogue.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:24am
- Terry Dalee
  
  Someone a lot wiser than I once said:
  
  “If Labour were to introduce Communism to NZ, all National would do, would be to manage it better.”
  
  There in lies your problem.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:01am
- wsk12345
  
  Worked awesome at Te Urewera. how many millions of dollars worth of huts burned down, tracks grown over, kiwi killed by pig dogs? Give us more of that!
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:02pm
Taieri

Should psychiatrists become their own patients?

https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/accepting-people-they-are
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September 18, 2023 8:39am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  She and those like her are most of the problem. “Clients” who come to see her are wanting a clearance that they are not fruitcakes. They want the trick cyclist to tell them that identifying as a cat is OK. Jesus, one school in NZ put kitty litter trays in the school toilet!
  Girls who thing they are guys, and guys who think they are girls actually have a mental condition. We did not hear of this shit in the 60s.
  Most trick cyclists are on the wire anyway.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:33am
Maggy Wassilieff

Labour wants to keep funding the gangsters…

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2309/S00123/labour-cabinet-turned-down-proposal-to-stop-funding-gangs.htm
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September 18, 2023 8:41am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Anti-meth program my left tit. It is plain simple Labour campaigning.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:04am
BeaB

Radio NZ has a huge scoop this morning. Suzi Ferguson in her most sepulchral voice and accompanied by ominous music, ‘exposes’ the Hamilton East candidate, Ryan Hamilton, for – wait for it – openly having anti-fluoridation views and opposing the ban on unvaxed ratepayers entering council buildings. The horror!
If this is the true depth of dismisinformation in NZ, I doubt we have much to worry about.
Perhaps RNZ could ferret out another subject to try to spook us with. This one’s a fizzer.
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September 18, 2023 8:45am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Unvaxed not entering buildings?
  Try and run a business like that. Nope, I am not going to repair your car/trailer until you show me proof of vaccination.
  Come 20th of next month and there is no money to pay the bills!
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:37am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  I found this article pretty distasteful.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-2023-ryan-hamilton-nationals-anti-fluoride-anti-mandate-mp-in-waiting/6XEYQXYNZFAXJO5CUS5INNYWJM/
  
  Trying to instill horror and turn people away from the National Candidate – but when I read his comments shown on the link, they are pretty moderate and even reasonable.
  The guy has an opinion, and on the ‘mandates’ (so-called anti-mandate) it is really quite moderate.
  i.e. He got vaccinated, but doesn’t think people who are not should be excluded from council facilities.
  Oh the horror!
  He was not 100% on message with The Podium of Truth!
  Die MSM. Die.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:56am
- Vinicius
  
  This was in 2013. Ten years ago.
  
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  September 18, 2023 12:47pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  A simple solution for Ryan. He just needs to change his name to Ryan Kirikiriroa and all will be well.
  
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  September 18, 2023 1:39pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Why was Jacinda Ardern signing NZ up to deals with large American companies and keeping very quiet about all the detail$?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/09/what-amazon-said-to-jacinda-ardern-in-confidential-letter.html

Is it really in our best interest to have Microsoft, Amazon, Black Rock and Rocket Lab running the show here?
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September 18, 2023 8:46am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Maybe she was wanting cover to keep her own money secret.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:44am
- Drone
  
  Probably not but without them what do we have, a few flax weavers and a poi industry..
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:42am
Flossie

Audrey Young has written in the Herald of the differences in policy of potential coalition partners National and Act. I look forward to her next submission i.e. how Labour and TPM are so compatible. Thinking in particular of the latter’s
Get Rid of Prisons policy.
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September 18, 2023 8:47am
- kingerstinger
  
  That old bat has always written tripe. I know someone who worked with her in one of his first jobs…bitter, twisted, and nasty.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:46am
slightlyrighty

After the poll results from Wellington Central showing the seat has a very real chance of turning Blue, where do Kiwiblog Readers think the other upset results might come from?

I expect some interesting results from the Canterbury area. The race in Wigram will be close, and I think there is a chance that Megan Woods won’t make it over the line there.

Poto Williams was a disaster, so Christchurch East could be in play as well. The Nats have put up Matt Stock, a Career teacher and School rugby coach. Labour have put up a children’s TV Producer.

Christchurch Central could go Blue again, and Ilam should go Blue again.
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September 18, 2023 8:48am
- Kiwiguy
  
  Hopefully Mt Roskill. One more nail in Michael Wood’s coffin.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:23am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Upper Harbour needs to change to blue. The red candidate I have not even seen. Does she live in Sri Lanka?
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:53am
  - greybeard
    
    Otaki as well: apparently we have someone called Terisa Ngobi as MP, but NoOne has ever seen her in the flesh since the last election.
    Ngobi ? NoShow ? Nowhere?
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:42am
    - leoj
      
      Yet National’s Tim Costley is for all to be vaccinated.
      
      Not much choice as ACT’s Seymour is also pro vaccine.
      
      We are screwed every which way.
      
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      September 18, 2023 11:03am
      - greybeard
        
        Otaki has a large elderly population so maybe Costley is initially playing safe.
        
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        September 18, 2023 2:04pm
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Cameron Brewer is a high enough profile candidate to pull that off. Labour only just squeaked in last time.
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:46am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I read somewhere something like Walters won with a massive 2000+ votes.
      That is not massive.
      
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      September 18, 2023 11:28am
- hullkiwi
  
  Although Wgtn Central is a 3 way race, there are a number of seats in Auckland, Chch and one of the two Dunedin seats may be in play, as well as provincial seats that National have never considered.
  
  Everything comes down to two things:
  1. How many 2020 Labour voters who will vote in 2023 are switching allegiance and where to? And
  2. How many crusted on Labour voters will not vote at all.
  
  Know the above within the bounds of probability and you will know the outcome on 14th October.
  
  For what it is worth, I am expecting an outcome that we have not seen the like of before.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:02am
  - I remember when
    
    Or at least since 2020.
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:38am
- NothingLeft
  
  There will be tactical voting by labour or greens backing whichever candidate is polling higher in Wellington central to ensure Nats don’t win.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:41am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Nothing
    
    Don’t forget that lab and greens couldn’t tactically boil an egg.
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:42am
- Joely Doe
  
  Christchurch East? You’re dreamin’
  
  Christchurch East would vote for a Red lame, blind donkey
  
  Pin a red ribbon on it ass and call it a Labour Polititian, Chch East votes for it
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:22am
  - hullkiwi
    
    ….and what representation has the seat had for that?
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:41am
    - Joely Doe
      
      Poto…
      
      And Lianne Dalziel
      
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      September 18, 2023 3:00pm
  - cmm
    
    …. or maybe they just won’t vote…
    
    Not seeing many red posters when I drive through. Maybe Labour just assume they’ve got Chch East so are wasting resources there.
    
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    September 18, 2023 3:33pm
- GazzaW
  
  Maungakiekie will revert back to blue. One term from the useless Priyanca Radakrishnan has been more than enough. She’s never been seen in three years and she’s been an absolute travesty following on from two outstanding National electorate MPs in Sam Lotu-Inga and Denise Lee. The Nat candidate, Greg Fleming has blitzed the electorate over the last three months and is an absolute shoe-in.
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:38am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Of course virtually all the Labour electorate MPs are useless. If they were remotely capable they would be in cabinet replacing the useless ministers.
    
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    September 18, 2023 12:08pm
kowtow

Here we go again on the schizophrenic , hypocritical te media pahti merry go round.

The industry makes a fortune in a parasitical relationship promoting “celebrity” and then while they are fully aware of all the perversity and abnormality in the lives of these players ( sex drugs and rock and roll ) when the tide goes out on a particular one the media pahti suddenly become more virtuous than a band of Cromwellian roundheads in search of devilry .

A pox on them all.
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September 18, 2023 8:51am
- hullkiwi
  
  What is frightening in this case, is that it is an all out media attack, with criminal accusations, but not one complaint to the police!
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:05am
  - kowtow
    
    Not to worry , Plod have jumped in and have invited complaints .
    
    Seriously, what could possibly go wrong …….
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:27am
  - cmm
    
    Depending on where this happened, maybe:
    
    Making a false complaint to the police is both a criminal and civil matter.
    Making one to the press is only civil.
    
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    September 18, 2023 3:42pm
- lifesgood
  
  He dared to criticise the big drug companies of making millions off the back of covid vaccinations with out knowing how effective or safe they were. He was warned there’d be repercussions and, Oh Look, what do you know?
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:30am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  ‘Emotional abuse’.
  
  Is that even a criminal offence? If so, there’re a few women of my acquaintance who would be skating on thin ice.
  
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  September 18, 2023 1:41pm
  - cmm
    
    … of a female.
    
    These days there is nothing worse than making a wimminz feel upset. That’s pure violence.
    
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    September 18, 2023 3:43pm
Scooter

Smoking man says “Leave the former prime minister alone”. Is he her security guard and doesn’t know her name?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jacinda-ardern-heckled-on-canadian-streets-during-her-visit-for-global-action-summit/YBQ4WNEC2VCUJJTG5R644DAXJE/
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September 18, 2023 8:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “You can’t touch me” Pity it is in wide open public.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:58am
- I remember when
  
  Scooter:
  Is Barbie being blamed for Ken’s behavour too?
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:40am
- cmm
  
  “Global Action Summit” GAS.
  For the biggest gaslighting outfit ever.
  For the hugest pile of hot air ever.
  
  It’s the universe winking at you again…
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:45pm
Damocles11

Among the ‘Objectives’ of the Labour Party – listed on their website – you can find the following:

‘To educate the public in the principles and objectives of democratic socialism and economic and social co-operation.’

If anyone believes that the Labour Party is not a truly radical and hugely dangerous entity masquerading as a mainstream party, I invite you to read up on ‘democratic socialism’:

‘Democratic socialism is a left-wing[1] political philosophy that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy,[2] with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers’ self-management[3] within a market socialist economy or an alternative form of a decentralised planned socialist economy.[4] Democratic socialists argue that capitalism is inherently incompatible with the values of freedom, equality, and solidarity and that these ideals can only be achieved through the realisation of a socialist society.[5] Although most democratic socialists seek a gradual transition to socialism,[6] democratic socialism can support revolutionary or reformist politics to establish socialism.[7]’
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September 18, 2023 8:55am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “democratic socialism” is where you find uneducated nutbars like AOC.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:02am
  - Damocles11
    
    Well it encompasses the New Zealand Labour Party as well, according to their website.
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:21am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Are they all as crazy as a barmaid from DC like AOC?
      The difference between a billion and a trillion is three zeros, and as zeros have no value there is no extra cost.
      
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      September 18, 2023 11:32am
rockape

Seems the Nurses pay rise is delayed, funny that. There MECA agreement was due Oct 22 . When agreement was finalised last month it was agreed it would be settled by this week. Apparently there is a “ technical glitch “ and that overdue settlement is delayed till mid November after the election. Was the settlement not funded by Labour ? Don’t tell me it was a fiscal hole in their budgeting, a hole they want the next government to fill for them while they. Claim they have paid nurses so well. Mrs is currently owed backpay for the MECA, the MECA pay rate, back pay for pay equity and back pay for 10 years of underpaid leave!
Nurses have lost faith in their union and in the Government and will be voting accordingly.
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September 18, 2023 8:59am
- Yabster
  
  really- we all know the unions and the bulk of nurses just like teachers will vote Liebore.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:07am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I know of two that won’t. A senior Nurse in Urology (prostate) and a second that is not a Nurse but a Doctor. She double checks medication prescriptions. She reads this blog and knows who I am.
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:06am
  - rockape
    
    Probably true 3 years ago. However Covid mandates and having to strike, both nurses and doctors has changed that.
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:38am
- Dougal10
  
  They are holding teachers back pay up as well. None of it is funded, the nz tax take is down billions per month.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:49am
- cmm
  
  Draw me a picture why state employees need a union.
  
  Unions are to protect downtrodden workers from the Monopoly-caricature Big Boss capitalists right?
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:48pm
slightlyrighty

A few weeks ago, A petition was presented to parliament asking for a national screening programme for Prostate Cancer

During this campaign, Labour have announce an expansion of existing programmes for Cervical Cancer screening and Breast Cancer Screenings.

A quick search shows that Ministry of Health records about 50 deaths a year from Cervical Cancer and 600 deaths a year from Breast Cancer.

MoH figures on Prostate Cancer deaths are much harder to find, however, organistions like the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Cancer Foundation, as well as Southern Cross, put the figure at about 700 per year.

This is more than Cervical and Breast Cancer combined and yet no screening programme for Prostate Cancer currently exists.

Much is made about Maori being failed by the health system, so is it appropriate to ask why men are being failed as well?
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September 18, 2023 9:01am
- Damocles11
  
  No. Men are the privileged oppressors that inflict the hated Patriarchy on Women, and therefore can be failed with impunity.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:31am
- Tarquin North
  
  Just had that, I was lucky I was caught early with the blood test. Ripped it out 2 weeks ago and am coming right but still sore. Dodged a bullet there, get checked everybody it’s well worth it. The only bad part is I’m back at the politically incorrect capitalist citadel otherwise known as work today.
  
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  September 18, 2023 9:32am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Had mine whipped out 7 years ago. I was only checked and diagnosed after a close family member got diagnosed otherwise no doc would have bothered. I was in my late 40’s at the time.
    
    What’s worse is that the Andrew Little, the former minister of health, also has a successful outcome after early detection, but wouldn’t make sure other men had the same benefit that he had.
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:43am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Lose of enjoyment of life? Those who have had prostate removal must remember it is done for a reason. If the cancer migrates it usually heads for bones – spine or hips.
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:21am
- I remember when
  
  Labour realise that much of their existing ‘core’ support is female and in the appropriate age groups.
  Much of the reason that Jacindamania occurred to the degree it did.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:06am
- Waipuk
  
  As a now, nearly retirement, male I don’t expect anything from the health system.
  
  Males and particularly males of European ancestry are at the bottom of the heap.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:17am
  - mawm
    
    Unfortunately this is the age when one starts consuming healthcare. While I can still afford it I will pay my subscription for private care.
    
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    September 18, 2023 12:30pm
- rjay
  
  You would think Hipkins and Co would have at least some empathy for all those women with prostates….
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:17am
- Ehlana
  
  Tell the campaigners to focus on “women with prostates”. That should get a nationwide programme going quick smart.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:19am
  - Yabster
    
    lol brillant- than would really confuse them!
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:30am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Prostate tests start with PSA tests from blood samples. If it is too high you go for a biopsy. Mine was 12 samples with 2 positive for cancer. 6 months later an MRI. 6 months after that another biopsy with general anesthetic. Groin entry. 35 samples and all clear. The original 2 positives are still there. Active surveillance from now on at 12 or 18 month intervals.
  Breast cancer does get a lot of publicity, as does cervical cancer. More prostate advertising is needed. Go get checked guys.
  Another thing is men can get breast cancer.
  Maori failed by health system is another way of enforcing separatism, and it needs to stop. One people remember?
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:19am
  - Tarquin North
    
    I found the biopsy to be the worst part of the whole thing. As for enjoyment of life, they are a lot better at saving nerves than they used to be. They give you a truck load of viagra which you can start taking as soon as the catheter comes out. Mine came out last thursday and while not currently working is starting to show signs which is a very good outcome. There are far too many stories around about things never working again and ending up with a bag for life, if you get it early those outcomes are very unlikely. Get checked regularly is all I can say.
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I have had cubital tunnel surgery in both elbows.
      Gabapentin is the pill to sooth the nerves, but it works on ALL nerves!
      
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      September 18, 2023 11:35am
      - imalwaysright
        
        S.O
        
        Maybe they should have given you the Viagra to straighten your arms.
        (Said in humour and appreciation of your comments)
        
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        September 18, 2023 11:53am
  - mogg
    
    My prostate test started with a finger up the bum, two minutes and it was all over and done with.
    
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    September 18, 2023 1:12pm
  - wsk12345
    
    How would you screen for male breast cancer? Cmon guys it has to be practical to screen for and I don’t see too many of you “people with breasts that are flat” wanting to get them squished between two plates.
    
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    September 18, 2023 3:15pm
    - Ghost
      
      Males can be tested for breast cancer
      
      25 men a year get breast cancer
      
      https://www.breastcancerfoundation.org.nz/breast-cancer/types-of-breast-cancer/breast-cancer-in-men
      
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      September 18, 2023 3:26pm
      - wsk12345
        
        Sounds like a “personal responsibility” approach, or failing that, get your doc to do a breast exam. Perhaps right before he sticks a finger in your butt for prostate screening?
        
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        September 18, 2023 3:44pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        wsk12345 that would be the “Proctologist” (aka the Urologist), not the GP. 🤣
        
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        September 18, 2023 8:37pm
- rouppe
  
  It’s because they’re is no Ministry for White Mens Affairs.
  
  Oh, wait. Isn’t that called IRD?
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:09am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Very good!
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:36am
- cmm
  
  Men are disposable. Why do you see bleeding heart reports of women and children having to endure something – ignoring the fact that men are enduring the same too.
  
  Something like 90% of men die WITH prostate cancer, but relatively few die FROM it.
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:35pm
- wsk12345
  
  So are we talking funded PSA tests?
  
  Since that is just the cost of a doctors visit, surely it will be race based like cervical smears which are not free for white women either.
  
  Talked to a friend at the weekend who had prostate out recently (cancer picked up from PSA) and he said there isn’t an equivalent screening to womens breast screening??? His only complaint wa that men have to pay for the Viagra prescription despite it being an essential part of recovery.
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:12pm
Rusty

The vicious crime spree across Auckland over the weekend is doing Labour no favours and if it continues up to October 14th then surely Labour is toast.

The people of this country aren’t dumb and they are going to blame Hipkins and his govt for the out of control crime and if he cant see that and thinks free dentals for under 30s is more important to Nzers then they deserve to lose.
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September 18, 2023 9:17am
- hullkiwi
  
  ….but, but, but….that nice Minister of Justice and Police (Ginny Andersen) has a plan…..
  
  Remember violent crime is not on the increase!
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:08am
  - Damocles11
    
    I was watching Question Time one day and Ginny Anderson was bragging about how much more is being paid out to crime victims under Labour than was paid out under the last National government.
    
    I thought a great supplementary question would have been: “Does the Minister realise that so much money is being paid out to victims of crime for the simple reason that her governments policies are making so many of them?”
    
    Sadly, no National or ACT MP saw the opportunity.
    
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    September 18, 2023 12:26pm
  - Paulus
    
    Believe that Ginny and her supporters is for her to stand as next Labour Leader when Chippy goes soon.
    After Chippy must be a woman leader.
    
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    September 18, 2023 1:29pm
Damocles11

Can anyone explain to me how the Left are finally going to achieve ‘fair’ (a political concept that can’t be defined anyway, one persons ‘fair is another persons ‘unfair’)?

What happens in the Socialist Republic of Aotearoa if you’ve got a 3 bedroom house and Ralph has a 4 bedroom one….what’s ‘fair’ about that? What if Jeff has a better hair cut that you? What is Suzy has 10 goats, and you’ve only got 8….how is that ‘fair’? You’ve got a mature feijoa tree, and Andy doesn’t….’unfair’. Your car is blue, Tamiti’s favourite colour is blue….it’s ‘unfair’ that he has to drive the grey car that the state automobile factory (‘KiwiKa’) provided him with. Nigel has terminal cancer…..it’s ‘unfair’ that Freddy doesn’t have terminal cancer….should the state terminate Freddy’s life so that everything is ‘fair’? Jane gets paid more than Tina….how is that ‘fair’?
Everything will have to be standardised, because Leftists can’t stand the thought that someone might have more than them and it’s all so ‘unfair’.

You’ll note that in these Social utopia’s that come into being via bloody revolution or Leftists seizing power, the ‘workers’ lives are usually ones of unrelenting toil and woe amidst appalling living standards, while bureaucrats and party fat cats hoover up what little wealth is generated. Yet the rationale given for these cesspools of human misery is that life has to be ‘fair’ for ‘exploited’ workers. Irony!

Who are the poor down-trodden ‘workers’ of today. No, not coal miners emerging from the pit or vast pools of factory labourers working 18 hour days for a tuppence an hour…..baristas, uber drivers, web designer, retail store staff, farmhands, forklift drivers, Wendy that cheerfully delivers your mail, hair dressers…..hardly the Socialist archetype of the ‘poor downtrodden exploited workers’. I wonder of any of these people would exchange their current high living standards for a ‘fair’ Socialist horror show where living standards collapse but at least we all get to live in a standardised 3 bedroom hovel.
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September 18, 2023 9:27am
- Taieri
  
  What is Suzy has 10 goats, and you’ve only got 8
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  Yes, but Suzy has no use for them, while…
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:38am
- Rusty
  
  @Damo..
  
  Socialist/ Marxist strategy is to create a problem and then fix the problem to their advantage.
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:27am
- cmm
  
  Shouting “fair” is like “racist”. It is just a way to shut people up and demand special treatment.
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:37pm
TripeWryter

I was listening to Carmel Sepuloni the other day on the radio burbling on about how Labour was the party for looking after the workers
How Labour was the party that fought against racism.
I couldn’t help thinking: how quaint. Forty years ago Labour abandoned the worker in favour of the tastes, mores, and sensitivities of the new middle classes.
They forsook concerns about jobs, wages, and conditions for the new racism that included identity politics and a new ‘progressivism’.
Unborn babies were to be killed so that women could be free to realise their potential in the social place and the work place.
Now, according to the Deputy Prime Minister, Labour (even if she didn’t realise it) Labour has remembered working-class New Zealanders and hoping that those Kiwis will forget the last 40 years when their concerns were lost.
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September 18, 2023 9:29am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  In reality, Labour is now the Gay Party. 40%+ of their MPs are homosexual.
  
  Not exactly the party of the manual labourer anymore.
  
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  September 18, 2023 1:50pm
Maggie Pie

Had a quick browse of the Horrid earlier. Hard to believe the number of accused murderers in this country that have been granted Electronic Bail.

There’s at least 3 I can think of…..

> Naya Ropiu Fabian Wharekura (removed bracelet and on the run)

> Hendrix Kahia (removed bracelet and skipped)

> Philip Polkinghorne

And I’m sure there’s a few more as well that I can’t remember?
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September 18, 2023 9:31am
- Damocles11
  
  If a Judge wants to release an accuse murderer on ‘electronic bail’ then it should be permitted, but only in cases where the Judge agrees to house the murderer at his own family home until trial.
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:25am
I remember when

Is James Shaw in real trouble and not just in a political context.
Ian Wishart seems to have found a problem that is not just a matter of what the facts are.
The Platform discussion revealed the three ways that James Shaw could have been successful in an application to qualify to study for an MSc.
Is there a suggestion of criminal activity, as in being dishonest, or are the facts on his application simply extremely embarrassing?

A lot of fanfare when National candidates are found to be wanting, but does history show that the Greens have an extensive track record?
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September 18, 2023 9:53am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  If the allegations are true, this will be the SECOND Green Co Leader to exit under a cloud.
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:08am
  - wsk12345
    
    He will just hold out and most kiwis will never even know there’s been an issue raised. Not in the MSM after all.
    
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    September 18, 2023 3:20pm
    - Matt Long
      
      They kept Hunter protected until well after that election, so are practicing their, nothing to see heres as we speak.
      
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      September 18, 2023 4:49pm
hullkiwi

Question from the are they for real file…..

Police put out a media alert this morning for a wanted Waikato man….out on bail pending his court case for murder.

Seems the poor wee dear has absconded while on bail. The police in their media release said:
1. the abscondee should not be approached if seen by the public (seems he is of a violent disposition),
2. That he is on bail awaiting a court hearing for serious crimes (the press release didn’t actually say he is accused of murder).

Just one question, what dip sh*t judge thought it was a good idea to have a gang associate, accused of murder out on bail awaiting the court case?

Has the judiciary totally lost the plot?
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September 18, 2023 10:17am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Can see how he fooled the Dudge though. Looks harmless enough….
  
  https://odt.co.nz/southland/man-accused-invercargill-murder-breaches-bail
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:27am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Such a sweet looking, innocent toe-rag, not!!!///
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:37am
  - Ghost
    
    Awww poor guy, looks like he fell asleep and someone drove over his face
    
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    September 18, 2023 10:45am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Has the judiciary totally lost the plot?
  
  YES, yes they have. They now use ideology not law.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:32am
  - kowtow
    
    We ain’t seen nuttin’ yet .
    
    Maori “law” is the next big thing.
    
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    September 18, 2023 12:41pm
- Flossie
  
  Short answer – yes, obviously.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:39am
- PeeJay
  
  Serious question – have our judge’s been threatened by the gangs?
  
  I just thought the judges were by and large complete liberal idiots. But then you read something like this happening almost daily, and you think, really? In what universes could bail for this cretin ever be considered a reasonable option?
  
  Hence my query as to whether our judges have been threatened by the gangs?
  
  Wouldn’t take much – the odd pile of manure or rubble randomly left on a few judges driveways….or some gang member has a ‘quiet word’ with the judges partner or kids? In any previous period, this kind of threats against judges would have been met with a reaction from the police bordering on police brutality. Under cuddles? Any threats against judges could be the type of thing the Police HQ would ignore.
  
  Again – absolutely no evidence for this and just a thought – but I just find it utterly bizarre as to why this kind of brazen fuckwittery seems to happen on a regular occurrence.
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:34pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Given the current lawless fustercluck, not inconceivable.
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:40pm
- I remember when
  
  Perhaps the judge thought there would be a pre trial sentencing.
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:50pm
Swifty

Have people noticed how all too NZ Motorsport drivers are whiteys? I see New Zealanders were 1-2 in the Indycars last week, and both white.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/singapore-grand-prix-kiwi-liam-lawson-reacts-to-his-maiden-formula-1-points/T3A2PRFZJBBJBAFCZFWXF3WPGQ/

Clearly racism at work here – can’t something be done to ensure racial equity in this?

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September 18, 2023 10:25am
- NothingLeft
  
  The primary determinant of how far you can get in motorsports is how rich your parents are.
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:46am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Swifty. Haven’t you heard of Kaleb Ngatoa? Pretty successful in Aust. motorsport.
  
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  September 18, 2023 12:51pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Mitch Evans – Formula E
  
  https://www.velocitynews.co.nz/mitch-evans-signs-multi-year-contract-extension-with-jaguar/
  
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  September 18, 2023 1:11pm
- Swifty
  
  Sorry, maybe I should have worded my piece better – I intended it to be a parody of the huge deluge of claims of racism we see of late at any area of human activity where people are represented any differently to their levels in the total population.
  
  It’s all horseshit of course.
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:05pm
thirteenstars

Fiji roll Australia, 22-15. Australia now third in their pool face Wales in a week. A loss in that game and they are out of the tournament.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJlB2ZrYvCQ

I wouldn’t put money on the Wallabies to make it.

Meanwhile Fiji are playing out of their skins. They should have beaten Wales which would all but guaranteed them a quarter-final place. If the Wallabies go down, Fiji will advance anyway.

That means they would meet England in the quarters, and the Poms ain’t too sharp at the moment, making Fiji a semi-final chance.

What a great World Cup. Now, about those All Blacks…
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September 18, 2023 10:30am
- emmess
  
  Mod, can you please not allow comments with RWC results?
  I guess most of us have not a chance to watch the game or a highlight package yet.
  
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  September 18, 2023 12:13pm
- Colville
  
  Fiji should have and deserved to beat Wales and its just a biased ref that stopped it happening.
  The fouls committed by Wales on defense would have had them hung if it was a white skinned team on attack.
  
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  September 18, 2023 12:47pm
- Guy Preston
  
  And for all that, Jones spoke the words that Foster should have had royalty rights to after his run of Firsts:
  “I apologize, its my fault and I take full responsibility for it.”
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:18pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/journalist-chris-lynch-tells-gross-lies-about-christchurch-march/

So 50 protesters becomes 500?
Not peaceful, they banged pots etc.
Here is a message for the Maori protesters: If there is “no room for racism” then stop being racist. Simple.
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September 18, 2023 10:36am
- thirteenstars
  
  From that report:
  
  …Derek Tait led the Destiny Church team with security…
  
  The Destiny Team were incredible, each man taking up a strategic position. They had walkie talkies and were constantly communicating with each other.
  
  Derek was the general, his men and women following his every instructions. They also set up the sound systems. All credit to those in his team who did all that…
  
  Julian had a personal body guard.
  
  Derek gave a mind blowing speech at the start, addressing all the protesters, telling them that he was a Maori and that it was shameful that laws and legislation were being passed in this country favouring people based on the colour of their skin. I saw visions of our very own Nelson Mandela!
  
  My eyes were welling up listening to him. Such bravery. Such clarity. Such truth. Such commitment to democracy!
  
  By saying what he said, he put himself well and truly in the sights of Maori bullies and thugs, Tikanga, who ‘pull into line’ those who step out of line, saying things counter to ‘group think’.
  
  He was incredible.
  
  We live in strange times when a much-maligned evangelical church headed by a Maori “bishop” runs a slick security operation and lends it out to other organisations.
  
  Good for them. That’s what it will take to keep anti-free speech activists from violently shutting down the right of others to speak.
  
  Batchelor has formed a very convenient alliance with Destiny. Perhaps Posie Parker should have done likewise.
  
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  September 18, 2023 11:17am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I dislike Tamaki but having those guys is a good move.
    This is serious now.
    
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    September 18, 2023 11:39am
    - thirteenstars
      
      As I understand it SCG is no longer holding meetings in public venues, instead they are held in private homes, often livestreamed.
      
      While this allows meetings to be held without disruption it’s obviously a victory for the forces of oppression. SCG has been hounded from the public square.
      
      Perhaps SCG can use Destiny security to hold future public meetings free from disruption.
      
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      September 18, 2023 3:25pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Commercial buildings and clubs, wedding reception venues. Yes they are private meetings so protesters can be trespassed. Had to register first. Public halls etc run by Councils usually rejected the meetings.
        The whole thing has shown how good and bad the Police can be.
        
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        September 19, 2023 9:15am
kingerstinger

The media are now collectively shitting themselves, the writing is on the wall for this Government and it’s panic stations across the industry. Evidenced by desperate and slanted attacks on anything to do with National/ACT. The good news (hopefully the next polls show this) is that the general public don’t really care.
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September 18, 2023 10:44am
Maggie Pie

Just been browsing through a few of the stories in the UK Tabloids regarding the accusations of ‘sexual assault and rape’ being made against Russell Brand.

TBF, my partner often gets about the house in his undies all day….. it hardly makes him a rapist.

Just saying.
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September 18, 2023 10:59am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Brand upset lefty power brokers somewhere?
  
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  September 18, 2023 1:31pm
Ghost

Omg, vile bastards

Note, this video shows these scum killing a man

Article

On August 14, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrested a 17-year-old driver of a Hyundai who fled the scene after intentionally running over and killing Andreas Probst, a retired California police chief.
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September 18, 2023 11:15am
- Swifty
  
  Where is the wall to wall coverage in NZ and street protests a la George Floyd?
  
  Crickets.
  
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  September 18, 2023 12:20pm
  - kowtow
    
    From NYPost ;
    
    “Damn that n—a got knocked out!” the passenger says as the driver can be heard stepping on the gas.
    
    maybe that’s why .
    
    or how about the LA deputy ambushed in his patrol car.
    
    Again no mention.
    
    Oh but wall to wall Fentanyl Floyd.
    
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    September 18, 2023 2:05pm
    - Swifty
      
      Oh that’s exactly what it is.
      
      We all know it.
      
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      September 18, 2023 2:52pm
- mawm
  
  There are drivers on the roads in NZ who deliberately use their cars to force cyclists off the road either with a physical push with their car, by means of close “punishment” passes or turning in front of them and cutting them off. Many cyclists are killed or have life altering injuries as a result and the drivers walk away with a slap on the wrist.
  
  Irrespective of your views of cyclists they are legal road users, are somebody’s father, mother, son or daughter, and as an overtaking driver it is your responsibility to ensure it is safe to pass one.
  
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  September 18, 2023 12:49pm
  - Taieri
    
    Many cyclists are killed or have life altering injuries as a result
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    How many?
    
    (Disclaimer: I’m a cyclist)
    
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    September 18, 2023 5:04pm
    - mawm
      
      https://www.nzta.govt.nz/walking-cycling-and-public-transport/cycling/cycling-standards-and-guidance/cycling-network-guidance/cycle-network-and-route-planning-guide/principles/safety-issues-for-people-who-cycle/
      
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      September 18, 2023 7:31pm
Biscuit

Just when I thought New Zealand had the worst coach at this Rugby Worl Cup, up pops Eddie bloody Jones with a ‘Hold my beer!’…
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September 18, 2023 11:57am
I remember when

Just to put things in context:
The All Blacks beat South West Africa at Windhoek by 27-3 during the 1960 Tour.
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September 18, 2023 12:03pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Are you sure it wasn’t 127-3?
  
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  September 18, 2023 12:59pm
Tauhei Notts

I got an email this morning addressed to;
“Kia ora e te whanau o te Pati Reipa.”
I think it has something to do with a grim reaper, but am unsure.
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September 18, 2023 12:06pm
- graham
  
  I’d probably reply with “Not known at this address”.
  
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  September 18, 2023 12:53pm
- HeatherW
  
  Google has one version of te Pati Reipa translating to Labour Party.
  
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  September 18, 2023 1:40pm
Maggie Pie

My partner’s mum was just saying she read where Graeme Hart’s Rank Group
had donated a $100k to NZ First.
She called it… “having a bob each way”
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September 18, 2023 12:41pm
- NothingLeft
  
  NZ First have a lot of form for looking after their donors – enabled by Labour of course.
  
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  September 18, 2023 1:36pm
- Biscuit
  
  Maggie, I always confuse Graeme Hart with that guy Eric Watson.
  
  I have made it my lifelong mission to keep me and my hard-earned far, far away from either type, heh.
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:14pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Certainly NOT to be confused Bikkie!
    There is a big difference…..
    
    Eric’s broke and owes well over 50 mill.
    
    Grae could write a check to clear NZs national debt and still have billions.
    
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    September 18, 2023 2:59pm
- kevn
  
  Tax deductible?
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:49pm
Jack5

The Dilworth school inquiry report is alarming.

How appalling that the scum got away with so much brutality for so long.

Perverts, sadists, losers preying on vulnerable kids.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300972886/dilworth-inquiry-finds-extensive-sexual-abuse-violence-and-bullying-over-half-a-century-at-auckland-school
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September 18, 2023 12:44pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  One has to wonder if Jami-Lee Ross was a victim. He attended that school.
  
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  September 18, 2023 1:01pm
- Biscuit
  
  Agreed, Jack5.
  
  I see Dilworth still have this as their mission statement:
  
  Dilworth School is responsible for the safety, care, education and development of all current and future students.
  
  Seems to me that it omits a second line:
  
  But not at the expense of our perverts, sadists and losers getting their jollies … unless we’re dragged, kicking and screaming, into acknowledging same and expressing faux-remorse.
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:27pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Bank robber Willie Sutton, who when asked why he steals from banks answered “Because that’s where the money is.”
  
  Sadly we need to look very carefully at men who choose careers looking after isolated kids.
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:13pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  And it’s not even a Catholic school. Whoda thunk it.
  
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  September 18, 2023 6:40pm
ClanMcleod

Oh look, they’ve found another reason why people are “dying suddenly” and all cause mortality is alarmingly increased!

I didn’t think my snoring would lead to a stroke at 31

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/i-didnt-think-my-snoring-would-lead-to-a-stroke-at-31/TU37IAZH7RH7DJW77AB4QKDEZQ/

Well I’m glad they cleared that up, totally put my mind at ease!
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September 18, 2023 12:51pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  4 downticks, must be a few snorers scanning the comments today……😂
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:33pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Nah, but the clot was 6 years ago if you read the article, so not possible to link this to the mRNA vaccine or the ‘dying suddenly’ causality theory.
    Sleep apnea is a health topic which has been around for some time.
    
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    September 18, 2023 3:46pm
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      I know, I suffer from it quite badly.
      
      I didn’t read the article, paywalled and I won’t give a cent to the Whoreald.
      
      Whether this particular case was related to the jabs or not is irrelevant. The point is, the list of stories telling us that benign things cause strokes and heart attacks is long and stupid. Is it any wonder people might get suspicious when another stupid headline pops up?
      
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      September 18, 2023 9:00pm
thirteenstars

A trip down (bad) memory lane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCycOM8YsuU

Look at the sickly-sweet, fawning comments. Perhaps have a bucket handy.
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September 18, 2023 1:06pm
Chris Nisbet

Can I vote yet?
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September 18, 2023 1:18pm
- Vinicius
  
  Voting opens on Monday 2nd October.
  
  https://vote.nz/2023-general-election/how-to-vote/find-a-voting-place/
  
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  September 18, 2023 1:37pm
- Flossie
  
  Patience Grasshopper.
  
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  September 18, 2023 1:47pm
Vinicius

Pointed cartoon by Garrick Tremain poking fun at James Shaw and the Greens.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/tremain-imagining
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September 18, 2023 1:28pm
Maggie Pie

I posted earlier that this is the start of…. ‘Mental Health Awareness Week’.

Can’t help but wonder if this is the sort of people they have in mind?

https://tiktok.com/@sisterstalkingshite/video/7279362012990213408
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September 18, 2023 1:56pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Bugga the workers….

Know your place suckas.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/498219/creative-nz-staff-stranding-during-auckland-floods-leads-to-censure
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September 18, 2023 2:01pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Lost me at this point.
  
  The reviewer found senior leaders failed to uphold the core organisational values of mahi tahi, tauutuutu and manaakitanga………
  
  Yeah nah…….
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:29pm
- Drone
  
  Maggy nobody in the article you posted a link to has asked the question WHY were 30 CNZ staff at the Auckland Airport, WHERE were they going, or WHERE had they just come back from. Smells of a super jolly at the taxpayer’s expense. Maybe time for an OIA..
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:01pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Stephen Wainwright has been CEO since 2008. 15 years in the role is clearly too long
  
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  September 18, 2023 6:44pm
Don Beckett

Tucker Carlson has an interesting interview with the probable new president of Argentina. He appears to have the backbone to introduce anti-socialist policies that our centre -right politicians should also embrace.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1702442099814342725
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September 18, 2023 2:03pm
Damocles11

I don’t know why Luxon has to eviscerate one of his own over a comment about flouride from a decade ago. If he capitulates to the LabMedia cabal and axes the bloke it’ll be a poor look.
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September 18, 2023 2:11pm
- mawm
  
  It’s called leadership …. to run down your own side in front of everyone.
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:45pm
  - Matt Long
    
    He very much a groupthink kind of leader.
    
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    September 18, 2023 5:06pm
- Vinicius
  
  He is being far too nice to the media. He needs to be more pointed without being nasty.
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:58pm
wsk12345

In Christchurch yesterday I inadvertently bumped into someone I know from Wellington. Works in govt sector etc.said she was enjoying her visit, loving the chch rebuild, how great it was “but I could never live here. There’s such a lack of [shudders visibly] diversity”.
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September 18, 2023 2:15pm
- mandk
  
  Couldn’t you keep her?
  
  We need to share the pain.
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:46pm
- Swifty
  
  I wonder if she’d say the same thing were she in Korea, Japan, Russia or the majority of Africa, for example.
  
  China or India?
  
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  September 18, 2023 2:47pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Sad that she, like so many of her ilk, is such a racist.
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:25pm
- Swifty
  
  I wonder if she means this kind of diversity?
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pRrKOq9h7qk
  
  Stoning women, cutting off hands, executions – all advocated in England’s Greenlane mosque.
  
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  September 18, 2023 4:44pm
- Jack5
  
  Canada is the only Western country in the world’s 20 most racial/cultural diverse nations.
  
  That’s because of its dual British-French history.
  
  In the now ageing Fearon index NZ ranks at 109th in the list of ethnically diverse countries and 139th in linguistic diversity (second link below).
  
  https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-diverse-countries
  
  AND
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level
  
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  September 18, 2023 5:13pm
ClanMcleod

From OffGuardian:

For a good laugh, here’s an “expert” astrophysicist claiming a hole on the beach is a tiny asteroid impact, even though it’s actually just a hole dug by some guys:

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1702322574951354566

Almost feel sorry for the idiot astrophysicist…….
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September 18, 2023 2:24pm
graham

Driving through some new and recent housing developments in Orewa and Millwater, I couldn’t help but wonder.

If ‘diversity’ is so great, and we need MORE diversity because it just makes everything better …

… then why, oh why, are all new houses built in the same dreary colours with a very narrow range of shades? They’re ALL the same!
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September 18, 2023 2:42pm
- cmm
  
  You’d like St John in Newfoundland. Multicoloured houses – with unofficial “rules” in some area forbidding painting houses the same colour.
  
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  September 18, 2023 4:03pm
- RdM
  
  Keep The Wall Grey And The Mind Will Follow
  
  Actual photo of building wall street art in Auckland, Great North Rd, Ponsonby, Grey Lynn end.
  
  https://imgbox.com/mbh5xMi6
  
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  September 18, 2023 10:46pm
bennerg

I know this will bring out the nay sayers, but I feel strongly because a fundamental principle is involved.

The MSM reports Chris Luxon today saying that ‘Ryan Hamilton’s previous remarks were “entirely inappropriate” and “wrong”, and the candidate’s views now mirror the party’s stance, which is to support the Ministry of Health’s management of fluoridation.’.

The opinion expressed, or the rights and wrongs, are not the point. MMP came along to try and incorporate the range of views of society, better than what FPP did, where there was free reigh by one ruling party. Sadly the same style of government was accidentally created during the pandemic, so we should allbe aware of teh dangers.

What we have here is an electorate MP whose prime responsibility is to his electorate, and primarily stands on his personal reputation and good standing to get elected, supported by a Party. The Party then should represent the coming together of all the MP’s, bringing their unique and individual brand from all over the country, to represent their electorate in Parliament – the “House of Representatives”. IMHO it should not be the “House of Parties”.

Instead in this case, we have a Party leader exercising total control over the opinions and attitude a member of their party may have, without accommodating the individuality that is required for the member to be a representative of the electorate. As it happens, outliers are always outvoted, so for any fringe viewpoints, they do not have a great effect. What we get then are cookie-cutter clones, not electorate representation.

What could, and in my mind SHOULD have happened, is that Luxon’s should have responded: “our party is based on democratic principles, and our MP’s bring a unique and diverse range of viewpoints, all based around our core party principles, from every part of New Zealand to the House of Representatives, where they get tested in Select Committees and wider public consultation.”

He could also have added: “While I do not personally agree with Mr Hamilton’s views, I respect his right to express his individuality, and to represent his electorate in any way he feels necessary.”

Luxon is taking National down a line that causes division – the very mistake that Ardern made. I think it is safe to say National have a better track record on economic management, and a healthy majority want that. But in other matters they really need to be more accepting.
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September 18, 2023 2:48pm
- cmm
  
  Exactly right. An elected MP answers primarily to the electorate. It is their job to represent the concerns of their electorate whether or not those go against party policy.
  
  List MPs are a different matter. They are counting tokens for the party and don’t need to have opinions.
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:57pm
- septic skeptic
  
  In current times it appears that diverse skin colour, sex, sexual identity and serial orientation are prized very highly. Diverse thinking is to be cancelled, because the science is settled.
  
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  September 18, 2023 4:32pm
  - Damocles11
    
    Yes, they insist on ‘diversity’, but it is meaningless if everyone is reduced to group think. But this is Luxon the corporate CEO coming through, waving the big stick and demanding clone-like behaviour.
    
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    September 18, 2023 8:14pm
- Taieri
  
  our party is based on democratic principles
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  Of course it is.
  It used to be called Democratic Centralism in certain parts of the world…
  
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  September 18, 2023 5:07pm
surfing

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mongols-gang-member-allegedly-assaults-picton-publican-after-damaging-property/X65VIVSAGNAPXPPFUPC2Y3EFTQ/

The gangs punish anyone who stands up to their bad behaviour! It’s beyond a joke, while the police facilitate and support this gang misbehaviour because they seem to consider a little bit of lawlessness is preferable to gang retaliation against the police.
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September 18, 2023 3:32pm
- cmm
  
  Sometimes I think it would be interesting if gangs ran supermarkets. No more shoplifting.
  
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  September 18, 2023 4:05pm
- Swifty
  
  Real tough guys.
  
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  September 18, 2023 4:26pm
Drone

Solar Panels and Batteries for homes. Funded from pool of money allocated in the last budget. Which everybody accepted so no problemo today. No cost to the taxpayer. How many more bribes will creep out before the election..
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September 18, 2023 3:39pm
- NothingLeft
  
  PV for household roofs are a terrible investment for a country, they cost several times as much as a larger scale grid installation.
  
  And batteries are just dumb waste for a country with so much hydro.
  
  More sensible to do installations on farms making use of existing large transformers to feed into grid. Or do large grid scale installations that are a lot cheaper to build.
  
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  September 18, 2023 4:38pm
  - greybeard
    
    Just build another hydro dam.
    Or two.
    
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    September 18, 2023 6:30pm
Maggie Pie

OMG! Here’s something I never ever knew.

A bestie tweets…..
David Bain’s groomsman, Paul Tainui Wilson,
MURDERED TWO WOMEN 24 years apart…

https://twitter.com/truereckons1/status/1703605197904478536
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September 18, 2023 3:48pm
- cmm
  
  Even if it means nothing, you’d think the twit would be careful whom he is associated with.
  
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  September 18, 2023 3:53pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Killer who raped, murdered ex-girlfriend didn’t have to disclose new relationships.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/132958161/killer-who-raped-murdered-exgirlfriend-didnt-have-to-disclose-new-relationships
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:17pm
Swifty

One of my, many, objections to co-governance is the false argument advanced by some that the appointing of certain privileged Maori to governance positions will somehow, magically, result in better lives being lived by all Maori.

How? They never say. Not once have I seen any analysis of exactly how this is supposed to occur. Nor in what measure, nor by when.

We are just supposed to take it as fact. Well I’m sorry, I don’t.

I in fact argue that there is no necessary correlation between political representation and the prosperity and welfare of a sub-population. None.

Lately I’ve seen a few articles about how “it’s essential for the welfare of our Asian communities that they have greater representation in our political bodies.”

Here’s another one today:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/indonz/496816/asian-lawmakers-eye-greater-representation-in-parliament-on-back-of-list-rankings

But not once have I ever seen in these articles mention of the great big elephant in the room – that, as an example, our Indian and Chinese communities, now present and thriving in NZ for over 150 years; that they have thrived and prospered in the effective total absence of any political representation at all! At a national level, my understanding is that we’ve had no Indian nor Chinese MPs at all until only recently – and at a local level we have had very, very little and again only relatively recently. But they haven’t let that stop them. They thrive regardless. Why? Well I’m sure it has much to do on building lines NOT reliant on government – preferring to rely solely on the efforts of themselves and their families and their communities to get ahead.

I think once again the emperor has no clothes. We are just being bullshitted to, or more correctly Maori are. Maori believe this crap about the purported benefits of co-governance at their peril in my view. I think it a mirage. A chimera. They will be setting themselves up for great disappointment and dare I say anger when the supposed benefits never materialise.

Oh, some will benefit. It will be those who are already successful or connected. It will be they and they alone who will receive the appointments and the dough. Joe and Jane Hohepa down the farm, the forestry, the fishing boat or processing factory, the orchard or the packhouse, they won’t see one bit of change – except in their pay packets, they’ll be a bit lighter after all the new taxes to pay for it all.

We and they are being sold a pup.
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September 18, 2023 4:22pm
- greybeard
  
  Swifty: send this post to Hawkesby, Hosking, Heather, Nick Mills etc. Get them talking about it.
  
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  September 18, 2023 6:43pm
Maggie Pie

“We’ve delivered 1800 more Police”.
“The public of New Zealand can feel safe”.
“It was an isolated incident”.

– Ginny Anderson (Min of Police)

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OH FOOK OFF!!

– Billy Connelly ( comedian)
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September 18, 2023 5:31pm
- Ghost
  
  But how many have left
  
  I see they have it on their website, but I believe the fact was these 1800 were not all front line officers.
  
  Liars website with their claim
  
  And
  
  Labour is fudging the numbers when it claims to have added 1,800 Police officers, with about 15 per cent of that number having no powers to arrest or role on New Zealand’s streets, National’s Police spokesperson Mark Mitchell says.
  
  Lies
  
  Nothing but lies
  
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  September 18, 2023 5:36pm
andretti

The Small Business Project: The retailer dropping prices amid a cost-of-living crisis
She has employed workers in India,you cant make this stuff up.
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September 18, 2023 5:42pm
Ghost

Stuff have an article up

Why was Jacinda Ardern heckled on the other side of the world?

Don’t need to read it

Because she is a psychopathic liar
A manipulator
A bigot

The damage she has done to this country is so immense I don’t believe most people know or will know the full depth for a while

She will be remembered in history and not for what she would like to known for

May this country thrive again and never see another Jacinda Ardern again.
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September 18, 2023 6:03pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  “Because she is a psychopathic liar”
  
  Possibly a wee bit harsh IMHO. Product of toxic quasi-marxist brainwashing would appear to be closer to the mark to me. Either way should never have been PM as far as I’m concerned.
  
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  September 18, 2023 8:24pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    No, she was and is a psychopathic liar, as well as a narcissist, a fraud and pure evil.
    Her comment ‘yip, yip, that’s what it is’ when asked if she was creating a two tier society will be her legacy. A despicable, twisted joke of a human being.
    
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    September 18, 2023 9:19pm
Ghost

Wow, someone needs to be fired, having students make a dice suggesting a father commits suicide is funny now days?

A primary school in Perth has come under fire after its young students were instructed to create “distressing” activity dice as Father’s Day gifts earlier this month.

As reported by Nine, students at Connolly Primary School in Perth’s northern suburbs were given dice templates to colour in and personalise for their dads or father figures for Father’s Day, which is observed on the first Sunday of September.

Article
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September 18, 2023 6:10pm
Chris Nisbet

So weird that Simon Dallow only managed to go back 7 years through the Antarctic sea ice record to find that some low extents occurred during that time.
If he’d thought to go back two more years he would have been able to tell us the good news that the highest extent since 1979 happened in 2014.
It’s almost like he’s not giving us the full story for some reason.
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September 18, 2023 6:34pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Why not go back a million years for good measure???
  
  So tired of these silly little fkrs playing silly buggers with statistics to fool the gullible and unaware.
  
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