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mikenmildagain

Happy 80th birthday to Steve Miller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV3AziKTBUo
“Cause I speak of the pompatus of love”
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October 5, 2023 8:00am
- Lee C
  
  I’ll uptick that one Mioke.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:04am
  - Don Beckett
    
    ‘Mioke’
    Is that the name he goes by in Japan? 😆
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:30am
- 3-coil
  
  M: The one and only…the original Space Cowboy! 🤠
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:38am
Warren

The media can see their corporate welfare that Labour gifted them slipping away at a rapid pace so have let the worms they call Journalists out of the woodwork to help Labour in their quest for power.
A vote for anyone else apart from National or Act is a vote for corruption and more taxes.
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October 5, 2023 8:00am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Some people like that.
  Many moons ago a rich leftie was being interviewed on inflation.
  “Oh I think inflation is a wonderful thing, I could not survive without it.”
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:06am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Brent crude down $4 per barrel overnight.

Watch for local petrol prices to immediately plummet.

Not
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October 5, 2023 8:01am
- john1234
  
  Brent is down but it doesn’t directly feed our costs which are refined petroleum ex Singapore so mostly based on OPEC crude. The OEC Crude and Refined Petroleum commodity prices are on an upward trend over the last few months.
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:00pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Where Brent goes, others follow. Markets are all joined up.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:23pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      I think you’ll find that much of the crude that Singapore processes actually comes from Russia. In 2004 I was up in Nakhodka, Eastern Russia and they were building an oil terminal which was being connected by pipe to new oil discoveries in the Kamchatka peninsular and Siberia north of the border with China. The terminal was a distribution point for Japan, Korea, China etc. & I’m pretty sure Singapore was in that loop as well. Free to be corrected.
      
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      October 5, 2023 12:58pm
      - Dougal10
        
        Shhhh an inconvenient truth
        
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        October 5, 2023 7:03pm
- Paulus
  
  Price is allright – it is the Taxes which affect our pricing more !
  
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  October 5, 2023 2:22pm
peterwn

See:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499375/ahmed-zaoui-detained-in-algeria-for-political-statements-lawyer-says

Those with long memories may remember that Ahmed Zaoui flushed his Algerian passport down the dunny on a flight to NZ then claimed asylum on his arrival to NZ on the basis he faced torture etc if deported back to Algeria. His asylum claim was denied but the Supreme Court ruled that he must be granted asylum and hence residency and in due course was granted citizenship. Now one would have thought that he would thank his lucky stars and keep right away from Algeria.
However “has been arrested by Algerian security forces after commenting on human rights violations at a political meeting at his home.” He seemed to think that things had settled down in Algeria but obviously had not read the tea leaves right. The Arab Centre in Washington DC has a web site article “In Algeria, the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same” – Seems Mr Zaoui has found this out the hard way.
Of course his supporters are wanting NZ to pull all stops to have him released and NZ is offering consular assistance, but he would have be wise not to have entered Algeria in the first place.
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October 5, 2023 8:01am
- Libertarians are right
  
  We tried to get rid of him as we saw him as a security risk.
  Now we have to spend political capital etc to pull his arse out of the fire.
  So we were right then?
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:53am
  - pdm
    
    Lib – I am not sure we should spend anything to save him.
    
    Leave him there.
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:13am
    - bjools
      
      We shouldn’t, but we will. because ALL NZ citizens deserve the same treatment.
      2 thoughts
      1. We shouldn’t have given him NZ citizenship in the first place.
      2. There seems to be an advantage to beinga citizen of Aotearoa!?
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:22am
      - alloytoo
        
        Apparently he holds duel citizenship.
        
        We should stay out of it.
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:25am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’s not as if our Government hasn’t informed us about the dangers of life in Algeria….
  
  New Zealanders in Algeria are advised to avoid any political gatherings, protests and demonstrations, as even those intended as peaceful have the potential to turn violent with little warning.
  
  https://www.safetravel.govt.nz/algeria
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:58am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  If you have dual citizenship you cannot play one country off against the other.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:00am
  - cmm
    
    You can, but you should not. Big difference.
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:12am
  - peterwn
    
    And because of that, I suspect that any consular assistance would be of a very limited nature because he is in ‘home territory’.
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:41am
- alex Masterley
  
  The word “consequences” did spring to mind.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:01am
- nathie
  
  But he left NZ to return home to Algeria a few years ago to permanently live back there.
  
  Realistically how much can (and should) NZ do for someone that has returned to their home land?
  
  Perhaps Deborah “Taliban village sympathiser” Manning should go to Algeria and make her case with the authorities there. Put her money where her mouth is. Probably would get greater international support too. Seriously, the optics of her being there would do Zaoui’s case and any human rights abuses to the forefront of world attention.
  
  But no she will stay here and complain …
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/enemy-of-the-state-the-ahmed-zaoui-file-episode-10-postscript/GM3NEYDAG6APBPXZD7Z7VYOKPM/
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:06am
- Damocles11
  
  Will New Zealand be called upon to intervene and provide sanctuary for this ‘New Zealand citizen’?
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:06am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Given that Ardern happily abandoned and locked out thousands of born and bred New Zealanders, I’d find any suggestion that not helping Zaoui was wrong to be grossly offensive.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:53pm
- Nickc2
  
  Who’s paying his lawyer in NZ?
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:14am
  - Damocles11
    
    We are.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:15am
  - igm
    
    You are
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:54am
  - Biscuit
    
    Lawyer?
    
    Singular?
    
    You wish…
    
    David Garrett may disagree, heh, but I reckon Legal Aid is a rort for lawyers.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:13pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Better ask angry andy what he is going to do about it, then adjust your vote accordingly.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:18am
- artemisia
  
  Not far off pension age so chances are he’ll be back.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:40am
  - peterwn
    
    He would probably have a brain fart on his return flight and accidentally flush his NZ passport down the gurgler.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:49am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Ah Zaoui….
  
  Takes me back to all the normal screaming heads on the Left demanding he be allowed to stay…. after he decided NOT to get of a plane in a place like Indonesia or another Muslim country as he came to literally an end of the world place in NZ..
  
  And then Davey Dobbyn writes a song, full of pathos and emotion, about how we the NZ public should welcome Zaoui in with open arms (despite him being linked as a senior member to a terrorist group in Algeria and the local Security Services wanting shot of him poste haste)…
  “Weeelcooome Home, I bid you welcome…..”
  
  So now NZ is dragged into an international incident because we stupidly gave him citizenship!! Asylum seekers should be granted residence but never citizenship to avoid this type of stupidity. Zaoui has intentional return to Algeria, participated in politics, been arrested always knowing he has a possible shield in a NZ passport…
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:13am
  - Damocles11
    
    The Left are a pack of dribblers.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:16am
  - peterwn
    
    Asylum seekers should not be granted residence. NZ would amply fulfill its international obligations by granting a ‘501’ type visa to asylum seekers. This would let them stay indefinitely as long as they kept their noses clean.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:45am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  It is interesting to note from people I know that work in CAB, Red Cross and with refugees directly, how many go home for weddings and family visits.
  
  The bar for being a recognised refugee needs to be much higher.
  Those shopping for the best welfare state like those that pass through Europe onto the UK are economic migrants only.
  Those who use people smugglers should go to the back of the queue, if any thing.
  And those that commit crimes – revoked.
  International law on this and climate commitments are a millstone around our necks that should be ignored and subverted as much as possible, if not torn up.
  
  Another anecdote I heard from an Aussie mate, that at the detention centres where people claimed to be Afghans, when that war was the current one, the staff laid out cricket gear, and when it was taken up and teams being arranged, “Aha! You aren’t from Aghanistan; you are Pakistanis!”
  Not sure if a true story, but it is true it is a story 😉
  
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  October 5, 2023 11:24am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Afghanistan is pretty good at cricket
    
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    October 5, 2023 7:10pm
- Romney
  
  Imagine my concern.
  
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  October 5, 2023 11:41am
- Paulus
  
  Are not many of his family here currently as it was reported that 18 had joined him once he was here formally some years ago.
  
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  October 5, 2023 2:25pm
  - peterwn
    
    I was asked to write two letters for Immigration confirming that a couple I know (Kiwi and UK guy married in NZ) were cohabiting. Immigration took ages to decide the issue despite the husband having an absolute right to NZ residency by virtue of the marriage. Second case officer wanted another letter presumably as the first one had gone stale. I brought the matter to the attention of the local MP (since left politics) whose response was as useless as tits on a bull. Seems you get priority treatment if not a white Western European.
    
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    October 5, 2023 6:36pm
krazykiwi

Regulars here will know I’ve had Covid-related run-ins with several folks. In most cases I’m happy to drop some evidence gathered over my time researching the topic, and ultimately leave those people – who appear to get their ‘facts’ from the evening news – to their official narrative beliefs. My recent debate with @virtualmark is not one I’m prepared to walk away from as he is part of the vaccine industrial complex and was by his own admission involved in the ‘success’ of the vaccines here in New Zealand. He claims his work was pro bono which amused me as I wasn’t aware the government or its agencies, or pharmaceutical suppliers engaged pro bono workers.

@virtualmark was at pains to tell me that “all my comments are nuts”, that I am “lost in a circle-jerk of other conspiracy theorists”, and that I am “not a serious person”. It is true that I do enjoy a gag or two, and have an encyclopaedic recall of Blackadder, Fawlty Towers and Monty Python. But when it comes to pharmaceutical companies and their paid-off regulator partners monetising the misery and death that their products cause for end-users – including my own family members – then I become very, very serious.

He also changed tune on the topic of ‘vaccine’ induced myocardial injury. On 2-October he claimed “There have always been unexplained cardiac events. There is no evidence that they are more common now than they were pre-2020… You should put up actual medical evidence from a reputable medical study and journal showing how the vaccines lead to unexplained cardiac arrests, or shut up”. The following day he adjusted this, saying “Pfizer were clear back in 2020 that the vaccines would lead to myocarditis in a small number of people, mainly young men”.

So, from no evidence of increased myocardial injuries on Monday, to Pfizer always knew on Tuesday.

He also dropped this classic defense of last resort: “The risk from the vaccine is more than an order of magnitude lower than the risk from actual infection”. My response** to this Pfizer-sponsored nonsense is as follows:

1. A Nordic study of 23 million people found that for young men ages 16 to 24, post-vaccination myocarditis rates were six to 28 times higher than myocarditis rates after COVID infection

2. A 196,992 person large cohort study in Israel concluded that “We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection”

3. Le Vu et al. found that “the risk of myocarditis after mRNA vaccination was 8 times greater than unvaccinated controls for BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech)”

4. Nakahara et al. in “Assessment of Myocardial 18F-FDG Uptake at PET/CT in Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2-vaccinated and Nonvaccinated Patients” concluded that “Compared to nonvaccinated patients, asymptomatic patients who received their 2nd vaccination 1-180 days prior to imaging showed increased myocardial FDG uptake on PET/CT”. This study is important because it doesn’t rely on patients reporting symptoms but instead discovers via cardiac imaging that all ‘vaccine’ recipients had some level of sub-clinical cardiac damage.

5. This is the most comprehensive chronology of the relationship between the experimental genetic injections and myocardial damage that I’ve encountered: Timeline: COVID-19 Vaccines and Myocarditis. A long read.

I have loads more like this, all of which I’m sure @virtualmark will dismiss on account of the source not being “*reputable*”, a term which in his context of use I take to mean funded by Big Phrama and/or their paid off regulatory partners. This is the kind of dismissal I expect in relation to the above. And remember, this note only concerns cardiac-related harm. There is a depressing laundry-list of other harms potentially in store for those who willingly or unwillingly rolled up their sleeves.

@virtualmark is Big Pharma shill writ large, and it is all the more impressive that they get his services pro bono. He’s shown zero contrition for his complicity in the most harmful medical misadventure in history.

** I am open to correction as I can and do misunderstand some of the complex analysis given it is not my life’s professional study.
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October 5, 2023 8:02am
- ClanMcleod
  
  krazykiwi – the weak responses to evidence posted and the complete failure to actually address that evidence, instead, randomly throwing slurs and mud, is any thinking person needs to see.
  
  That virtualmark is a part of this malfeasance is no surprise and makes sense of all of their pathetic comments in an attempt to defend this disaster.
  
  Your contributions have been second to none and have helped point me in the right direction many times.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:17am
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Krazy, your conclusions are bang on and there is so much evidence of deaths caused by the covid jab that it can no longer be denied by the sane!
    
    Adern’s hiding of the damning medsafe report whilst telling us the pfizer jabs were safe and effective makes her NZ’s worst mass murderer by multiples of thousands!
    
    So now the evidence is conclusive we must put our efforts towards “what we do about it”
    
    The first and most obvious step is to send our requirements for the covid inquiry TOR to David Seymour and Christopher Luxon.
    
    Here are 3 to get the ball rolling…..
    
    1. How did NZ go from the back of the pfizer jab queue to buying and administering the early deadly covid batches – after they were known to be deadly?
    
    2. Why were people under 20 being mandated to have the jabs when covid was known to have no material adverse affect on their health?
    
    3. Why did our Doctors push and administer the pfizer jabs without first demanding to see the medsafe report on their safety and efficacy?
    
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    October 5, 2023 8:28am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Pfizer paid Ardern handsomely to hold that report back and keep the “safe and effective” propaganda going.
      And I mean handsomely – prove me wrong. The google machine has been scrubbed!
      I wonder who did that?
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:26am
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        Do you seriously believe that? Or is it all a game to you.
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:26am
      - Ghost
        
        Where is your evidence of this, and don’t use the fake $21 million
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:31am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Wayne. The untimely death of thousands of Kiwis, many in their youth is certainly not a game!
        
        What is your explanation for Adern hiding the medsafe report and lying to us about the Pfizer jab safety and efficacy?
        
        Adern wasn’t lying to us and mandating the jab because it was good for NZ.
        
        Adern certainly didn’t do it to aid her re-election.
        
        And why did Adern Resign from the best paying job she will ever have with no job to go to, then flee NZ?
        
        And why is Hipkins now denying the jabs were mandated?
        
        So many dead people and so many unanswered questions.
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:50am
      - Right of way is Way of Right
        
        Don’t be so bloody ridiculous.
        
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        October 5, 2023 11:08am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Ghost. The google cache has been cleaned.
        It was $23M
        
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        October 5, 2023 11:46am
      - Ghost
        
        It was fake, stop peddling fake shit
        
        Article
        
        The $25 million figure appears to originate on the website apumone.com, which claims to have “all the latest net worth estimated on your favourite celebrities. Right now we have almost 1000 celebrity profiles on the blog”.
        
        Apumone.com provides no information about who runs the site, other than “Apumone Group”. A LinkedIn page locates it in Ghana, however this contrasts with a Twitter account that lists California and describes Apumone as a “media & news company”.
        
        In August, Apumone published a profile on Ms Ardern which reads: “Jacinda Ardern (sic) net worth is estimated at around $25 million which makes her a millionaire. Her salary is around $471,230. Her major source of income is from her private businesses. She is one of the powerful women in the world. Her successful career has earned her some of the luxurious lifestyle and fancy trips.”
        
        The article does not detail how the $25 million was calculated or what “private businesses” the NZ prime minister owns. No businesses are listed against Ms Ardern in the NZ parliament’s register of pecuniary interests. A NZ Companies Office search does not show any businesses with Jacinda Ardern as a director or shareholder.
        
        The $25 million figure surfaced again in a widely circulated tweet in November, with the full text repeated in the Instagram meme in January. In December, the net worth figure was repeated in a blog and was also discussed on a NZ chat forum.
        
        An article on UK-based website, The Focus, rejected the $25 million figure and estimated Ms Ardern’s net worth between $5 million to $10 million. The article calculated her salary since entering parliament in 2008, including the period as prime minister since 2017, but added that Ms Ardern “has written books and has been named as one of the world’s most influential women”, which “raises her net worth again”.
        
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        October 5, 2023 11:52am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Wayne, wait until she buys an apartment in New York.
        
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        October 5, 2023 11:48am
      - Matt Long
        
        It doesn’t really matter whether Labour did what they did with mandates out of blind obedience to their international comrades, or money in front, or payment in kind, or million dollar book deals.
        The first thing that matters is it doesn’t happen again and the second that they face consequences, at the ballot box at the very least.
        
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        October 5, 2023 1:26pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @Ghost.
        “Apumone Group” Ghana.
        Maybe some new Princes live there, Got relatives in Nigeria.
        Pedaling fake shit and you mention Ghana? Saw my dick off. Comedy from Ghost.
        
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        October 5, 2023 4:51pm
    - I remember when
      
      If nothing else occurs, it would seem to be necessary for there to be a full and comprehensive debate on the approval, or otherwise, of vaccination of the under twenties.
      
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      October 5, 2023 11:19am
    - ISeeRed
      
      Whoa, Mark. When you’re not gushing over uber genius Luxon, you sound almost rational. 😎
      
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      October 5, 2023 2:07pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Agreed, and thanks Clan. You and I both know what it is like to be outside the narrative tent.
    
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    October 5, 2023 8:44am
    - Charmaine Hawke
      
      KK you have been on the money from the start and have always had a well researched commentary but the most striking thing to me is the fact you have always asked questions. Your opponents have always made statements that, at the time, could not possibly be backed up by the facts as we have never done anything like this before so could have no idea how it could unfold.
      What was common wisdom in 2019 of never vaccinating into a pandemic seemed to have been forgotten because the media and thus the politicians panicked and a panicked brain does not make good decisions.
      Labour backed themselves in a corner and Pharma did what Pharma does and managed to get them to overbuy a product that is minimally effective at best and harmful at worst and rather than say we were duped they forced it onto us so they fiscal incompetence would never come to light.
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:21am
      - I remember when
        
        Is the current epidemic of National and Act failings in the media a further manifestation of the same approach?
        
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        October 5, 2023 11:22am
- all true
  
  Just watch this.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfLycFHBsro&ab_channel=TIPPerformance
  It is all about where Coronavirus developed and its entire history. The speech was in the EU Assembly by Dr. David E. Martin.
  Conclusion: most countries exercised modern Genocide on their people under the cover to ensure a healthy life of people etc.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:17am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sometimes certain people are best ignored, other times their mis-information needs to be exposed and stopped. The Covid vaccine needs to be investigated right through to a Nuremberg 2.0.
  Virtualmark is just sometimes being a pain in the arse like Mike. Best people make their own choices on whether to engage or not.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:23am
- kevn
  
  kk… virtualnark needs to consider this article. Then apologise.
  https://preview.mailerlite.com/z6e4z1i4k3/2317888431943849995/o3c8/
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:29am
  - I remember when
    
    After all these years the NZ Blood Service is only now prepared to consider taking blood from those UK based during the “Mad Cow’ period.
    Perhaps Dr Susan, and her dog, will advise how long it will be before the vaccinated will be able to relax.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:33am
- Simon
  
  Sudden Cardiac Death/Related continues its march upward. About 350 excess deaths each week in the younger than age 55 bracket. Up 38% (16-sigma) above a very tight and definable normal.
  
  https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1709597922474565776
  
  Expect in NZ in time they will simply stop releasing the excess death information.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:40am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    What country is that from?
    
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    October 5, 2023 7:15pm
- Grunter
  
  A great post krazykiwi…..!
  
  The strongest argument to all the educated idiots who still claim the jab is safe is to say
  
  “So you’d agree then that having a full and open investigation into the current excess deaths needs to happen. If you’re saying it’s not the jab then there is something else causing the biggest increase in excess deaths outside of WW2 and we don’t know what the cause is”
  
  Imagine if excess deaths (YTD NZ is currently at +15%) carry on year after year……!
  
  So we just ignore it and go back to watching Love Island and the Kardashians??
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:04am
- Lee C
  
  Good work.
  My Best Man was an athlete. In ’99 he continued to train after a spleen removal and contracted a virus. As the virus took hold, it travelled to the part of his body which worked hardest – his heart.
  
  He was fortunately detected becasue he collapsed while at work and was correctly diagnosed. He required lots of work including a pacemaker. He was thirty.
  
  When sportspeople in their thirties began to drop dead over the rcent couple of years, to me it bore the hallmarks of ‘Viral Myarcarditis’.
  
  I’ve been racking my brains to think of any recent correllational event that occured on a global scale, to precipitate such a sudden explosion of apparently healty athletes just dropping dead.
  
  The MSM call it ‘Sudden Death Syndrome”, so I suppose that’s all good then.
  
  So if MSM with their training and years of savage inquisitorail nous can’t appear to uncover any ‘smoking gun’, I wonder if anyone here can anyone assist me?
  
  Or am I just being ‘a crank’.?
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:15am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No crank Lee. There has been a lot of shit covered up so as to cover arses.
    It may take 30 years or more to surface. Call it what you want but it is murder/genocide, when it all continued after findings came out.
    Nuremberg 2.0 is needed.
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:35am
  - virtualmark
    
    Lee, sorry to hear about your friend.
    
    But cardiac problems in young people – particularly athletes – is well known about and has been a constant for many years. Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_cardiac_death_of_athletes and have a look at the dates on the notable cases at the bottom.
    
    Reality: Many people have undiagnosed congenital (ie from birth) heart issues, particularly with the wiring not the plumbing. Some of those people will go on to be athletes. Athletes, in particular, place more stress on their hearts. That subset of athletes may find that extra stress triggers their undiagnosed congenital issue. It’s a sad reality that has existed for many many years.
    
    Fantasy: IT’S THE VAXXX!
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:10am
    - I remember when
      
      “Athletes, in particular, place more stress on the heart.”
      Does this mean that they may be the ‘canary in the mine.’
      I don’t notice any stastistics to show that there has not been any increase in the deaths, near deaths, during the time of covid.
      Shouldn’t be hard to find the extent to which congenital heart issues are involved.
      
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      October 5, 2023 11:46am
      - virtualmark
        
        They probably are the canary in the coal mine for heart-related problems.
        
        Look, Covid infection can cause myocarditis and pericarditis. Occam’s razor says it’s *far* more likely that you will get myocarditis etc from infection than from the vaccine – the viral dose from the vaccine is tiny compared to from an infection. Nearly everyone by now has had Covid, although a reasonable portion of people will have been asymptomatic.
        
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        October 5, 2023 12:22pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        You can Occam all you like. The clinical evidence which you are ignoring says otherwise.
        
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        October 5, 2023 12:29pm
    - Clownworld
      
      Wikipedia hardly a reputable source.
      If you dont have a fixed mindset you will allow both the possibility and probability that increased known side effects are a factor in some if not many deaths and injuries.
      This is an appeal to rational discourse not stubborn unscientific fixed idealogues politically driven dogmas.
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:03pm
      - Matt Long
        
        Wikipedia is purged of any contrary to The Narrative by state actors, then pharma companies pat people to write favourable articles for them.
        Then they say, ” look at wiki, see it must be true”
        
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        October 5, 2023 1:34pm
      - mawm
        
        The CIA has “editing” rights at Wikipedia. CIA was partly responsible for the funding of the bat virus research at Wuhan through USAID (one of their fronts), Fauci had a secret meeting with the CIA as part of the cover up, Event 201 hosted by Johns Hopkins and Gates had the head of the CIA (Gina Haspel) attend, etc. I guess Wikipedia is a reliable source on covid.
        
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        October 5, 2023 5:11pm
    - Sacha
      
      Unfortunately the increase in numbers are too many to be ignored. I personally know of two fit and healthy men who died suddenly – they had no time to have unsuspected congenital issues diagnosed, but they DID have mandated jobs and young families to provide for.
      The coincidence is too great to be ignored, & whatever is said in defence of the covid vaccines will be treated with a grain of salt.
      What is more, the incidence of ‘turbo’ malignancies is not passing un-noticed in the community. A friend recently had a radical mastectomy. She had kept up her booster doses. Quite suddenly, within weeks, she had a massive growth – this in a woman who had had regular medical checks. She had surgery within a fortnight of her diagnosis – an almost unseemly rush considering the state of our public medical services – and is committed to regular checks for the foreseeable future.
      People don’t forget – remember that saying: trust is like virginity – you can lose it only once.
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:19pm
    - mawm
      
      Virtualmark – your argument that young people have always died because of congenital problems is so fake. Directly from the BBC. Yes there have been deaths due to cardiac arrests in young adults but fortunately very few and far between. Since the role out of the vaccine there are now orders of magnitude more than before.
      
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      October 5, 2023 5:16pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    The ‘vaccine’ results in a myocarditis-scarred heart which for most people results in a weakened heart with sub-clinical symptoms. The ‘sudden deaths’ are happening in people who are typically engaged in activities that spike their epinephrine (adrenaline) levels – athletes, performers, pilots etc. There’s quite a bit of work going on to understand how and why epinephrine triggers cardiac arrest in the context of myocardial damage.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:26pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Was it true that the kleptocrats wanted jab free pilots to last year’s WEF meeting?
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:36pm
    - TeresaAnn
      
      Also, this is why people are dying in their sleep because the body can produce epinephrine during sleep as a result of stress. So many young people dying in their sleep and following exercise. Alarm bells should be ringing.
      
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      October 6, 2023 1:05am
  - TeresaAnn
    
    Read Doctors for Covid Ethics. They detail how in some dases the spike protein travels throughout the body and lodges in different organs and is leading to death and serious side effects for some. A very technical site but well worth reading.
    The Dangers of Booster Shots and COVID-19 ‘Vaccines’: Boosting Blood Clots and Leaky Vessels
    https://doctors4covidethics.org/boosting-blood-clots-and-leaky-vessels-the-dangers-of-covid-19-vaccines-and-booster-shots/
    
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    October 6, 2023 1:30am
- virtualmark
  
  Sigh.
  
  You guys are literally a joke … https://www.theonion.com/54-year-old-facebook-user-wins-nobel-prize-for-own-exte-1850892290
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:33am
- virtualmark
  
  Let me be very clear.
  
  1. Covid was a serious pandemic, because it was a novel virus that none of us had encountered before, and so our immune systems were very slow to recognise it and to respond to it. Your immune system weakens as you age so the elderly had a worse time of it than the young.
  
  2. But Covid will eventually fade to being nothing more than a head cold, because at heart that’s what it is, and our immune systems are now armed to fight it.
  
  3. Vaccines saved countless lives. Witness the death rates pre-vaccine vs post-vaccine, or the death rates in areas with lower vaccination rates.
  
  4. There were a range of Covid vaccines, with different technologies. The “older style” vaccines, such as the AstraZeneca-Oxford and Novavax ones, had more significant problems with side-effects than the “newer mRNA” vaccines.
  
  5. Pfizer were very clear **before any order was placed** that their vaccine would not prevent infections and would not provide permanent protection. That was also the case with other Covid vaccine options, and with flu vaccines too. It’s a “feature” of upper respiratory tract infections.
  
  6. Pfizer were very clear **before any order was placed** that the vaccine had a small risk of myocarditis, particularly in young men. They estimated about 25 cases in NZ would require medical treatment. This was a real-life trolley problem requiring an adult decision. Personally I would have made vaccinations for under-30s very optional … but the deployment decisions were made by the Ministry of Health and I am guessing they wanted simple messaging.
  
  7. Any side-effects from vaccines, whether that’s the thrombosis problems with the AstraZeneca one or the myocarditis risk from the mRNA ones, is because the underlying virus you are trying to protect against causes those same problems, but at much higher incidence and severity. The vaccine is just a weak mimic of the actual disease, so it carries a weak chance of the disease’s effects. Note the polio vaccines have had the same issues.
  
  8. There will be Covid-related medical problems through the population for quite some years to come – but they are the result of Covid infection, which by now we’ve nearly all had. Covid *infection* gives your body a dose of virus that is thousands of times larger than Covid *vaccination*. So which do you think is going to have the largest effect on your body? It’s the infection stupid.
  
  9. Vaccine decisions attract cranks and conspiracists … and here you are. But the **vast** weight of the medical and pharma establishments disagree with you, and now they have the Nobel Prize behind them as well. Read that article from The Onion I posted above … that’s you.
  
  10. I have never worked for any pharma firm, and I did not take payment for any work I did for the Govt on Covid vaccines. I did, in that process, work with people I found were smart, serious and who weighed up difficult decisions like adults. In comparison you are not serious adults.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:50am
  - wsk12345
    
    @virtualmark
    
    2. “Our immune systems are now armed to fight it”??? What a joke. Why is it that people are getting it over and over again then? And getting much worse flus etc as well bc their immune systems are targeting a single spike protein.
    
    3. “Vaccines saved countless lives”. I don’t even know what to say here. There is no evidence of this, even the Pfizer trials did not show lives saved (quite the opposite). And comparing the early strains with the pair cax strains is delusional.
    
    4. Astra zeneca and novovax are NOT old style vaccines. Covaxin or sinovac are examples of old style vaccines and had very rates of side effects.
    
    5 and 6. Pfizer were NOT vet clear on these points. Quite the opposite. Perhaps they were clear to our government in the contract but not a single person outside those who saw the contract in NZ was provided that info so they could give informed consent. Some of us knew it from overseas but 95% of kiwis did not.
    
    The rest is similar garbage and I’ll not waste my time. The studies are all out there and it’s not my job to lead you to them as you will still deny deny deny…. They sure did a number on you.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:53am
    - virtualmark
      
      People are getting Covid over and over again because that’s what happens with headcolds. By the time you’re an adult you’ll have had 30-40 head colds. Why? Are you broken? Or, maybe, just maybe, hear me out here, upper respiratory tract infections start at a place in the body that has a weak immune system response, so they can get started with a beachhead before your body has a chance to fight them.
      
      Here’s a simple real-life example of the vaccine’s effectiveness. In 2020 un-vaxxed Italy, UK and US had hospitalisation and death rates far in excess of 2021’s vaxxed Australia and NZ. In 2020 the UK Prime Minister got Covid and nearly died in intensive care. In 2021 the NZ Prime Minister got Covid and had a few days off work. What was the difference? Is it just that us Antipodeans have superior physiques? Or maybe, just maybe again … our populations were already vaxxed by the time Covid went through?
      
      Astra-Zeneca in particular is very much an old style vaccine. That’s why Australia went for it – because they can only manufacture traditional vaccines. The thrombosis problems in women were so severe Australia pulled it from use and scrambled to get Pfizer. Mmm.
      
      Pfizer represented the science very clearly, with no embellishment, and were also clear on our place in the queue. I wish the NZ politicians had communicated both those things accurately, but they didn’t. I think it’s fair to criticise that political choice (I do), but I think the anti-Pfizer attitude is misguided and naive.
      
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      October 5, 2023 11:51am
      - mawm
        
        upper respiratory tract infections start at a place in the body that has a weak immune system response, so they can get started with a beachhead before your body has a chance to fight them.
        
        ROLFL. Where did you learn your immunology?
        
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        October 5, 2023 5:38pm
    - I remember when
      
      “Covid was a serious pandemic”
      A pandemic which largely killed off those whose lives have been extended because of health improvements over the last twenty years.
      It largely affected three groups, the elderly, the growing percentage of obese and those with reduced immunity.
      So, yes, for these groups the covid pandemic was indeed a serious pandemic.
      
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      October 5, 2023 11:56am
      - virtualmark
        
        Sure, and the Spanish flu only really killed off people in their 20s and 30s.
        
        But in a functioning society we value all life and are prepared to take quite large steps to protect life.
        
        Most Kiwiblog commenters are retired. Covid disproportionately affects that age group. Do you think we should just shrug our shoulders and allow a number of them to die? What say you all? Fancy taking your chances in the lottery?
        
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        October 5, 2023 12:14pm
  - Lee C
    
    Wow, VM, You mean you peddle this stuff For Free?!?
    I felt you let your argemnts down with an unecessary ‘ad-hominen’ at the end. Otherwise:
    Statement 1 acknowledges COVID-19 as a serious pandemic due to its novel nature and slow immune response in older individuals. However, Statement 2 asserts that it will eventually become nothing more than a head cold, suggesting a contradiction in the perception of COVID-19’s severity.
    
    Statement 2 also claims that our immune systems are now armed to fight COVID-19, yet Statement 8 contradicts this by acknowledging ongoing COVID-related medical problems in the population, indicating that the immune response may not be sufficient.
    
    Statement 3 highlights the effectiveness of vaccines in reducing death rates, but Statement 6 suggests hesitancy regarding vaccinating young individuals due to the risk of myocarditis, which seems contradictory to the overall positive view of vaccines.
    
    Statement 4 mentions different types of COVID-19 vaccines with varying side effects. However, the subsequent statements do not clearly address the implications of these differences, creating uncertainty about the overall safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
    
    Statement 5 argues that Pfizer was clear about the limitations of their vaccine, while Statement 1 implies that the virus’s novel nature was a key factor in its severity, possibly undermining the earlier assertion about clarity regarding vaccine limitations.
    
    Statement 9 dismisses opposing viewpoints as “cranks and conspiracists,” contradicting the earlier acknowledgment of concerns about vaccine side effects and decisions made by health authorities.
    
    In summary, while the statements attempt to provide a comprehensive view of COVID-19 and vaccines, they contain contradictions regarding the virus’s severity, vaccine efficacy, and safety.
    Acknowledging these contradictions can lead to a more balanced understanding of the complex issues surrounding COVID-19 and vaccination.
    
    Yes, ‘balanced understanding’ is vital.
    
    I agree.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:01am
    - virtualmark
      
      Lee,
      
      The key thing with Covid is that it was *novel*. That’s the medical term for a disease that your immune system has never encountered before. Think Polynesians getting diseases from early European explorers.
      
      The challenge with a novel infection is that your immune system (a) doesn’t recognise it quickly and (b) doesn’t know what to do when it does recognise it. So the infection gets time to build up, possibly to a level where it is fatal. Your immune system weakens with age – it gets slower at recognising infections and weaker at responding to them. Which is why the elderly did worse with Covid. Their immune systems took too long to recognise they’d been infected, and then couldn’t fight back strongly enough.
      
      Coronaviruses – such as Covid – cause head colds. Eventually (likely already) we will have encountered Covid enough times to have trained our immune systems and so it will revert to just being a head cold.
      
      Statement 6 is because, IMO, the fatality rate of under-30s is so low that it didn’t justify the small risk of myocarditis in young adults. Trolley problem. Adult decisions that require trade-offs. For the under-30s the trade-off is different than for, say, the over-60s.
      
      As for the rest, that’s all a bit garbled mate. If you think there’s any contradictions then please point them out more clearly.
      
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      October 5, 2023 12:01pm
  - Grunter
    
    So, why all the excess deaths in all ‘vaccinated’ countries? Maybe “long Covid”? Maybe jab?? Maybe something else??
    
    Why are excess deaths being completely ignored by governments, Big Pharma and the MSM?
    
    If they were that confident that it WAS NOT the jab then we would be having a proper investigation. Obviously there is, as a minimum, an outside chance that it IS the jab – which is why they are ignoring it.
    
    My firm belief is that it is the Jab causing excess deaths. But we don’t know 100% for sure.
    
    SO LET’S HAVE A PROPER AND FULL INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS!!!
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:31am
  - krazykiwi
    
    My God, where to start. This one is an eye-opener: –
    
    The vaccine is just a weak mimic of the actual disease, so it carries a weak chance of the disease’s effects
    
    This starkly demonstrates that you have no idea how the experimental mRNA therapeutics work. Far from being a ‘weak mimic’, LNPs are used to encase genetic material that turns the host into a factory that produces trillions of one part of the virus, the ‘spike’, and it’s not even that same spike protein as the virus being two amino acids (prolines) different from the original strain. But at the DNA level, BioNtech’s codon optimised, which means that the DNA that codes for the spike protein is dramatically different. It’s actually only 72% identical at the DNA level.
    
    As for your flaccid, supposed disclaimer that “Pfizer were very clear **before any order was placed** that their vaccine would not prevent infections and would not provide permanent protection”, this is from 31-March-2021, well before NZ received its bulk orders of the Pfizer product:
    
    CHICAGO: Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Wednesday their Covid-19 vaccine was safe and effective and produced robust antibody responses in 12- to 15-year olds, paving the way for them to seek US emergency use authorization in weeks.
    
    Pfizer hopes that vaccinations of the group could begin before the next school year, Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s chairman and chief executive, said in a statement.
    
    I can’t be bothered with the rest. You have studiously avoided addressing any of your unsubstantiated claims that I debunked with evidence. I really don’t know how you sleep straight in you bed at night defending as you do this outrageous assault on humanity by rapacious pharmaceutical companies.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:14pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Sigh. I do understand how they work, but I’m also trying to write something simple and understandable.
      
      The amount of viral protein produced in the cells following mRNA Covid vaccination is massively lower than the viral load that you get from Covid infection.
      
      Simple example: I’ve had three courses of the Pfizer vaccine (2 standard + booster). I had no reaction to any of them. I’ve had Covid once, and it put me in bed for 2 days feeling very ratshit. Question: Why the difference? Answer: Because the viral load from the infection was likely a thousand or more times the viral load from the vaccine.
      
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      October 5, 2023 12:27pm
      - Local Miller
        
        Sorry virtualmark, your understanding of the mRNA jab is NIL, and it looks like your understanding of viral infections is not much better.
        The mRNA jab doesn’t give you the virus, it ONLY GIVES YOU THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO CREATE THE SPIKE from the virus. The spike is that portion of the virus that it uses to attach to your cells so it can inject its DNA into your system. The jab gives you this spike by giving you the partial mRNA strand, which your body then uses to build the spike. This is how DNA strands are used in the body: A portion of a DNA strand is transcribed into mRNA, then this mRNA strand is used to produce a protein. Pfizer did the first step for us, and our bodies do the second step.
        The reason (in theory) you don’t get sick from the mRNA jab is because it isn’t the whole virus, only a small fraction. It’s got nothing to do with viral load. The reason you got really sick when you caught the virus is also not related to initial infection load, all you need is a large enough initial load for the virus to get established. Once established if you don’t have the immunity you need, the virus injects its DNA into your cells which then become baby factories for millions of little C-19 virus “cells”.
        So if the mRNA jab was as effective as you claim, why did you even catch the virus and get so sick?
        
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        October 5, 2023 4:40pm
      - Dougal10
        
        In recent weeks 3 people in my circle have finally caught covid , all thought that the vax had worked and saved them. All 3 were sicker than those of us that had it in early 2022
        
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        October 5, 2023 7:45pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Nobody is going to convince each other other of anything in this debate – especially when both sides are throwing insults.
    
    It is a feature of the human psyche that we latch onto information that confirms pre-held beliefs.
    It is seldom that people are converted, and online algorithms just reinforce what individuals want to hear respectively.
    So why bother with arguing online on a topic which both sides are like religionists? (albiet with their own statistics).
    This is about as much point as the Special Olympics.
    
    On the ‘sudden death’ thing, I am agnostic, and there is too much political capital and emotion tied up to believe any chosen facts or web links by the acolytes.
    
    It is a bit like a graph from our host shows us as the bottom of the OECD around Debt and the CTU shows us as the best.
    Both are fine graphs, choosing which way to squint at it, and I just wish someone will tell the pandemic truth, when the dust has settled.
    Maybe books written 100 years from now.
    
    So far we only know for sure that the mRNA vaccine did/does not prevent the spread of Covid. That was a lie. Lie # 1 confirmed.
    Whether a spike in damaged hearts is caused by the Covid virus itself (since you still catch it, as we all seem to agree) or the Vaxx damages the heart, or both, is not categorically proven and may never be.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:20pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      Covid free New Zealand in 2021 saw a 6% increase in excess deaths after the vaccination program compared to Covid free 2020. Clearly vaccination. NZ was an ideal 4million strong vaccine safety control group to reveal things no clinical trial could.
      https://hatchardreport.com/video-evidence-2000-excess-deaths-in-nz-while-pfizer-vaccine-rolled-out/
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:15pm
      - Fuzzysnuggleduck
        
        I know that people couldn’t see GPs during this time. My mate’s Dad had a fall with a bunch of undiscovered rib fractures and likely internal bleeding. By the time the severity was known and he went to hospital he was poorly and died of cardiac issues.
        So we could point to the lock downs as causing excess death, and lack of access to health or even diagnosis.
        Who knows? We have stats, and my point is that it is hard to know for sure, or who is misusing them.
        
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        October 5, 2023 2:01pm
      - Ghost
        
        Why couldn’t he go to a gp? I went to my gp a few times under lock down. Did other gp’s not allow people to go in that needed to?
        
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        October 5, 2023 2:09pm
      - Fuzzysnuggleduck
        
        Ghost, there was a period of time when GPs did Zoom consultations.
        Not in person appointments, so ‘take an aspirin’ was the result when you aren’t hands (or doing X ray or ultrasound) on for injuries.
        
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        October 5, 2023 3:49pm
      - Ghost
        
        No, a doctor could see people in person if they needed to. Every appointment I had was in my doctor’s office, there were always others either in the waiting room or outside in their cars for car appointments
        
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        October 5, 2023 4:15pm
      - Fuzzysnuggleduck
        
        Probably depended on the practice, and how severe you present, but here is some info around the practice & guidance.
        So 1st option was online, and this bloke being ex-military maybe didn’t make enough of his own pain, although I think he was in hospital less than a week after the consultation.
        
        https://journal.nzma.org.nz/journal-articles/an-investigation-into-the-digitalisation-of-new-zealand-general-practice-services-during-covid-19-open-access
        
        On Saturday 21 March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand and restrictions announced by the New Zealand Government, the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP) requested all GP medical centres in the country immediately adopt virtual triage for all patient contacts and aim to provide 70% of consultations by virtual means, commencing Monday 23 March 2020.1–2
        
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        October 5, 2023 3:55pm
      - Local Miller
        
        Sorry Nothing, but it’s been clearly established in multiple data sets from multiple countries that it’s the vaccine that’s causing the excess deaths.
        There are ample studios now comparing Covid Only, Covid + Jax, Jax only and neither that show the jax is a significantly factor in the excess death stats. Not only that there is a statistically significant increase in deaths the more boosters you have.
        This is not some back room research, but statistics coming out of national health systems like England, Norway, Israel, etc.
        
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        October 5, 2023 4:49pm
      - AndyW
        
        A reply to Ghost’s “Why couldn’t he go to a GP? “…GPs are stopgaps; how many people do you know have been to their GP repeatedly, told “it’s just a sprain/head-cold/mole/…insert excuse here., then they find out it’s something serious/life threatening (one GP told me the mark on my shoulder was caused by my shirt rubbing against my skin – turned out it was a basal carcinoma!!(thanks to my wife’s nagging I sought a second opinion; annoyed I couldn’t get a refund for the first ‘consultation’))…so, GPs are a waste of time when it’s serious.
        
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        October 5, 2023 8:21pm
      - Ghost
        
        Andy, No GP’s aren’t a waste of time, but there are times when one may miss something and a second opinion should be sort. But to blanket statement all gp’s because one doctor missed something on you, which obviously another doctor caught in the second opinion.
        
        Fuzzysnuggleduck, no it didn’t depend on the practise, all practises were open to patients. Most would triage a patient when they rang up, you could ask for a physical appointment. As I aid I always had physical appointments.
        
        Article
        
        Not all patients will be seen in clinics. Some may have their appointments via phone or video.
        
        If patients do need to visit their GP, practices will be keeping patients with respiratory symptoms separate from those who do not: “Patients can be confident they won’t be at risk of catching anything”.
        
        If a practice doesn’t have separate spaces available for patients with respiratory symptoms, these people may be seen outside the clinic – as was done last year, Murton said.
        
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        October 5, 2023 8:41pm
      - Fuzzysnuggleduck
        
        Ghost, you love to have the last word and correct people – but there is the direction to GPs in black and white from a medical journal.
        Not sure how your experience would invalidate another persons or the facts above.
        
        Perhaps if people insisted on a face to face, maybe the GP would see them, or not. it presumes that people knew they could demand it (in theory), and that they felt OK to do so.
        Maybe some GPs ignored the direction above entirely.
        I expect there was variation but it is clear that there was a push to not have people seen directly. Comprendo.
        
        I know the local practice to me was online consultations, and it would have been the case for the person who DIED, as was stated.
        Not sure why only your experience counts, and your view of the world, invalidates things which actually happened.
        If you got to see your local GP in person during lockdown, then good for you.
        Not all did. The preference was online.
        Fact.
        Unless the patient on the screen moaned and clutched their chest then how can you be sure the GP would tell them to come in personally?
        Can you not see that having virtual consultations, particularly with stoic males, meant that diagnosis might be missed?
        Or you just like being contrary?
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:24am
- Philview
  
  I think anecdotally in our own lives the numbers of healthy people now having heart issues raises concern. Prior to Covid in my circle it was unheard of but i think in the last 2 months I have heard of 3 deaths and a couple of people being fitted with pacemakers. All mid forties to early fifties and fit and healthy. I have had the vaccine 3 times but will not bother again.
  
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  October 5, 2023 11:27am
- TeresaAnn
  
  When the jab was first being talked about I did a lot of research, including reading information on the Doctors for Covid Ethics site. https://doctors4covidethics.org/
  
  What I read there convinced me not to have the jab, and I’m relieved that I didn’t. Some of the information on that site is very technical but they know their stuff. They warn about the dangers of mRNA. I have known a number of people who died a very short time after having the Pfizer “vaccine” who had up to then been very healthy and were not in the age category you’d expect to die in their sleep. Others having suffered strokes and one relation left with metal sticking out of the bone in his arm. He was operated on and given the piece of metal in a vial and told he had blood clots in his arm, and he is still suffering problems. It actually took a while for him to be seen by doctors and that appears to be the case for many people suffering adverse effects. Also, ACC don’t want to know.
  
  I’m grateful to those doctors for putting their jobs on the line in order to go against the narrative that the jab was “safe and effective”. Even the editor of the BMJ has stated that shutting down evidence hasn’t helped in determining the safety or efficacy of the jab.
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:39am
Yvette

What is the argument for indigenous language appearing first on any bilingual road signage and, where the primary purpose of the signs are for safety, is any argument as to why the indigenous language should not appear second – or in a lesser font, or colour – an argument as to why English should indeed be first?
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And in fact is the term Aotearoa New Zealand a form of dog-whistling?
Or, is an interviewer asking a political leader about dog-whistling perhaps in some cases also a matter of the interviewer dog-whistling?
N’est-ce pas?
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October 5, 2023 8:02am
- Grumpy Silver Haired Female
  
  Every time I walk in any local parks where clear, understable signs have been defaced with a language purporting to be Te Reo I look away and enjoy the spring and the carolling Tuis. The language is being twisted and deformed into something native speakers before 1900 would not recognise. I don’t believe they knew or played cricket. Was the word alcohol part of their lexicon? Of course not. It’s as bad as creating the term waka in the sky for an aircraft. I now have to put on my noise cancelling headphones and shut my eyes for the safety briefing when I fly. Woke stupidity is destroying the Maori language, and compromising the essence of our beloved country.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:22am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    In my local library I learnt from Te Reo signage the the pre-colonial word for “Self checkout” was “Pae tuku pukapuka-maa te kaitono”.
    
    Transformational changes that makes all of our lives better 😉
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:26pm
  - Paulus
    
    But Maori did invent KFC !
    
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    October 5, 2023 2:32pm
- Observant Octagenarian
  
  Why aren’t the Labour Party advertisements in two languages?
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:44am
  - Ehlana
    
    Why aren’t the Labour Party campaigning on their achievements in government – especially when the last three years they have been unhindered by coalition?
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:51pm
- Guy Preston
  
  Reparations, stage 1…
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:09am
- leoj
  
  No TV in my house – too much maori indoctrination but I do have the radio on quite a lot.
  
  When the A word is uttered, the volume control is down to zero. Wait 30 seconds.
  
  Same goes for maori replacement words.
  
  Old and grumpy has its advantages. I can do what I like and the indoctrination can get stuffed.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:44am
ClanMcleod

I posted this yesterday late in the day, no apologies for posting it again. This is an astonishing revelation that up to 11,005 MoH staff were give ‘special’ exemptions from the jab.

If this doesn’t wake the opposition out of their covid denial position then there can be no doubt they are 100% complicit in the whole disaster and covering their own arses.

This is next level shocking and disgusting.

Secret Jab Exemptions for Healthcare Workers in New Zealand Come to Light

On 15 November 2021 all healthcare workers in New Zealand — doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, midwives and the like — were required to have had their first covid Jab. The covid Jab mandate lasted until late September 2022.
Just tonight I learned that over 11,000 workers received “12A Exemptions” during this period from an Official Information Act request to Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand), the health service agency that absorbed the District Health Boards and manages all public health services nationwide.

How many lost their jobs? How many were vax injured? How many died? While 11,000 were given secret exemptions?

This is utterly scandalous. Were the opposition aware of this? Why is mainstream media not covering this?
MoH staff who were responsible for sticking this experimental substance into peoples’ arms were exempt? Why? They all told us it is ‘tested and approved’. They all told us it was ‘safe and effective’.
Why would 11,005 be eligible for exemption from a super safe medicine? Wouldn’t it be better than them getting sick or dying from the ‘deadly’ covid?

This is a horrendous revelation with very serious implications.

Wtf is happening to this country. 😓😓😓

https://newzealanddoc.substack.com/p/secret-jab-exemptions-for-healthcare
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October 5, 2023 8:07am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Just to clarify, it doesn’t say 11,005 took the exemption, but it was available for that number in the various organisations who applied for and received it. We aren’t going to know the exact number because each individual application was made for a larger group.
  
  The implications and the fallout will be exactly the same, regardless of the actual number.
  
  This is going to piss of a very large number of the electorate. Luxon and Seymour need to make some sort of statement or the implication will be, they were aware of this and supported it.
  The damage to trust is going to be next level.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:10am
  - Drone
    
    Clan whilst I recognise your genuine concern about the deception practised by those in power I feel that the general public has moved on from Covid and the shonky decisions the politicians made at the time. Nothing shocks people any more for longer than the five minutes it takes to read a headline if they happen to see it (and with today’s MSM they won’t). The Internet has become an entertainment medium for the majority, not a source of valuable information, moreover if they find the truth about some shonky deal done between politicians and industry be it big pharma or a construction company there is nobody in the MSM interested in “front paging it”. Sad but largely true..
    
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    October 5, 2023 8:22am
    - wsk12345
      
      Believe me drone, if you were unvaccinated or vaccinated only because of the mandate or vaccinated and injured, you have NOT moved on.
      
      I guess you weren’t treated like a pariah for making your own decision no to have that poison?
      
      I guess you were not told to take it or lose your job and your ability to pay your mortgage and feed your family?
      
      I guess you were not assured the vaccine was safe and effective, had it and got vaccine injured and were then gas lit by doctors (who may no have had it themselves) and politicians.
      
      Trust me, those people have NOT moved on. How much of the population- 15%?
      
      Don’t dismiss us until you’ve been in our shoes.
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:12am
    - cmm
      
      No Drone, I don’t think everyone has moved on but I think a lot want to.
      
      The level of hurt and feeling deception is huge and is growing.
      
      I think many would feel happy with an apology and an admission of error. Why trust anyone that just continues to double down?
      
      If NZ is to rebuild trust in the medical system, then a whole lot of people have to admit they did the wrong thing and promise never to do that again.
      
      Unless that trust is rebuilt then how is NZ ever going to handle a health disaster (a real one – not this CV19 nonsense). For example if the Spanish Flu 2.0 was on the horizon, how would that work out?
      
      Winston Peters’ support comes mostly from people who feel very strongly about this. If anything, he’d be getting a lot more support if he wasn’t such an (inaudible) and untrustworthy on other matters.
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:22am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Yet he was right in the thick of all things covid, him as foreign minister shut loved ones out of the country, and he was Dep PM when cabinet voted to lick us in our houses, anyone that falls for that shit he is a saviour needs their head read
        
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        October 5, 2023 9:40am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        You mention ‘deception.’
        Evil woman, why do you think she ran?
        
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        October 5, 2023 9:45am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Drone
      
      That is exactly the attitude that will allow this to happen again .
      Feel free to move on, but don’t patronise those who are looking for answers.
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:28am
    - Keith White
      
      The families of the dead and the injured are not moving on.
      
      And even if everyone else does (unlikely), I will not. My child now has a significantly shortened lifespan, must take daily medications, and has permanently damaged cardiac function. In the third decade of life…
      
      (I have refrained from saying what I want to say about the corrupt medical bureaucrats and other professional medical Judases who got exemptions for themselves but made their patients – including nurses and many other health care workers as well as the general population – take the jab. Because, it would quite rightly be moderated out of existence).
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:33am
      - Drone
        
        There is nobody who will give you an answer. I took the Vax because I believed in the hype at the time. I was ridiculed by my doctor when I had the first shot as being a doubter. I haven’t bothered with the boosters. I came from an era where vaccines “fixed” things polio, smallpox and a few other diseases. I didn’t think that the government would foist a dangerous vaxx on it’s citizens. More fool me. Maybe I’m lucky but none of my family seem to have suffered any side effects from the Vax. Many people have and it’s sad. But harking after a “truth commission on covid” will not punish the guilty, they collected their money and status and moved on to greener pastures a bit like the “boys in Brazil” perhaps a bad reference.
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:23am
    - Grunter
      
      Drone – unfortunately you are right, the majority of the public has moved on and is ignoring excess deaths and the jab damage.
      
      BUT….
      
      For most of the public TRUST is gone, probably for a generation or more. Ask most Kiwis “would you get another jab if there was another pandemic?’ Most answer No (IMO).
      
      Most Kiwis don’t want to rock the boat either. They don’t want to be labeled as a conspiracy theorist.
      
      Next time round (and there will be a ‘next time’) the educated idiots won’t be able to successfully implement a lockdown, mandate masks, mandate jabs, etc. There will be a much bigger group of Kiwis that just say – “No, I’m not doing that – go away you pinked haired loon…”
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:52am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Yep. The 1987 sharemarket crash scared a generation of investors off the NZ sharemarket.
        
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        October 5, 2023 7:32pm
    - Sacha
      
      Moved on in the sense that they’re sick of talking about it.
      But forgotten? No. People aren’t shocked because they are totally disillusioned and have lost the belief that the government actually cares about them.
      We are not a noise-some people, but maybe we won’t forgive the betrayal.
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:42pm
    - I remember when
      
      Drone:
      So, once more the goalposts are moved and we don’t need to do anything about it?
      
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      October 5, 2023 2:14pm
- simpleton1
  
  The source:—-
  The letter from “Health New Zealand”
  
  “Your request for Official Information, reference: HNZ0002398”
  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7jgMOsbgAApuGb?format=jpg&name=large
  
  PS thank you krazykiwi, Clan McLeod & others for your persistence in bringing up the truth.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:23am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Best ask all of the many Health Minsters to explain – then watch them blamestorm.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:27am
  - Keith White
    
    I’d expect politicians to lie. Bloomfield and Verral and Co. are supposed to be professionally obligated to tell the medical truth. Put them on public trial, under oath.
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:39am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Under Oath means nothing to some. Look at Hillary Clinton.
      My Court case charged with unsafe overtaking maneuver when she drove into the side of me. They both put their had on the Bible, swore to speak the truth, then lied through their teeth. Judges gave me $50 fine and $30 costs. They knew.
      Nobody gets penalised for telling lies.
      
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      October 5, 2023 12:00pm
    - mawm
      
      My first question to Bloomfield would be “who told you to lie?” – Jacinda, 5Eyes (CIA), WHO?
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:47pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        All
        
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        October 5, 2023 4:54pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Best ask them all at once so there is no time for a secret meeting to compose a ‘standard reply.’
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:48am
- cmm
  
  This is, quite seriously, the most shocking thing I have heard for a very long time.
  Many healthcare workers were fired if they didn’t get jabbed and others submitted to the extreme pressure to do so (ie. the threat of being fired).
  
  George Carlin comes to mind: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:27am
  - wsk12345
    
    I was told about 2 yr ago (by a nurse at CDHB) that 300 docs there had received exemptions. I was stunned as I assumed that was part of the ~500 kiwis were were told had received exemptions at the time. Obvs this group of people were not included in the official exemption count.
    
    The nurse that told me lost their job for not getting the vax.
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:15am
    - Ghost
      
      I know a lady whose daughter was let go from Christchurch hospital for not having the Vax. She is now working in Ireland. Her and other doctors and nurses fired have been offered their jobs back and her and her friends have told them to fuck off.
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:22am
    - I remember when
      
      Interesting because I heard of a private hospital where a considerable number of staff members, including doctors, were still unvaccinated with ‘D’ day rapidly approaching.
      Nothing more heard.
      Sudden, last minute, mass vaccination?
      
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      October 5, 2023 2:26pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Many publisised videos of the top dogs getting the jab. We know it was saline, and the deltoid muscle not held correctly.
    The public bought it – the videos were lies.
    
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    October 5, 2023 4:57pm
- Rusty
  
  @Clan..
  
  But Hipkins said no Nzer was forced to take the jab. It was all a matter of choice. We all remember Jacinda Ardern saying there would be no consequences for people not taking it …. yeah right.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:38am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Paraphrased. Nobody will be forced to take the vaccine, and those who opt out will not be punished” Ardern.
    Another thing scrubbed from the google machine, it has gone.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:05am
- G152
  
  Its always been who you know rather than anything else.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:41am
- NothingLeft
  
  A whole lot more on this here: Fucking scandalous that a huge number of smartest and most educated health professionals were granted exemptions because they didn’t think it was safe, but were also officially gagged from talking about it or advising patients against it.
  
  https://hatchardreport.com/the-ministry-of-health-granted-vaccine-exemptions-to-hundreds-among-its-key-staff/
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:39am
  - Keith White
    
    “Fucking scandalous that a huge number of health professionals were granted exemptions because they didn’t think it was safe, but were also officially gagged from talking about it or advising patients against it.”
    
    This. x1000.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:59pm
    - I remember when
      
      Did the Treaty exempt some?
      
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      October 5, 2023 2:31pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        But of course. White Man’s poison. Colonists gave the bug to Maori.
        Ask Willie!!!
        
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        October 5, 2023 5:00pm
- Bullion
  
  Some serious issues with reading comprehension here. Exemptions were given to 103 applicants covering about 11k workers – it does not say if those workers were vaccinated or not (all of them could have been) and it does not say for whom these applicants cover, industry or employer, its just that those workers were not subject to vaccine mandates in place for certain occupations.
  
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  October 5, 2023 2:05pm
- cmm
  
  Does the average NZer even want to know about this?
  
  Sure, there are quite a few people that really are annoyed, especially if they were forced into things unwillingly or if they stood up and refused to get jabbed.
  
  But, equally, there are many, if not the majority, who just willingly go along with whatever they are told. Many just don’t want to know that they have been lied to etc.
  
  Instead, many just double down and follow the government orders more fervently.
  
  It’s a bit like telling someone their partner is cheating. Many just shut their eyes and don’t want to know. Instead they take home a big bunch of flowers and pretend it never happened.
  
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  October 5, 2023 2:29pm
Surely Knott

Police profiling was illegal. But highly accurate it seems.

Police said they were pulling over everybody which is legal but the judge thought they only pulled over people who might fight a profile of gangsters from an earlier fight which is not legal.

Police pulled over two young guys who it turns out had a bong and a gun in the car?!

What are the chances?! Seems police’s senses on who looks dodgy were pretty good.

Ps Awful lot of guns around in Arderns gun free utopia. You can stop someone at random and they have one under the front seat!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/police-profiled-two-whangarei-maori-as-gang-members-when-they-conducted-unlawful-search/YXXPFAC7UJAFJIMG3LYARLF45Q/
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October 5, 2023 8:12am
- Ruawai
  
  Or a sword kept in the car in case of violence…
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:56am
- cmm
  
  Of course you need to do some profiling if you’re going to be effective at policing.
  
  If you’re having a problem with organised crime/gangs then you need to monitor the gangs, the areas where thy live/work and pull over and check people matching the description/profile.
  
  Doing a raid on the bowling club and pulling over 75year old dears going home at 35kph in their Yaris is unlikely to yield results.
  
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  October 5, 2023 2:35pm
Observant Octagenarian

My son told his neighbour he was going to be made redundant, so was using up his sick leave.
“Oh, just like Chippie” the neighbour said.
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October 5, 2023 8:13am
- Biscuit
  
  I was Uptick 50, OO!
  
  Brilliant!
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:19pm
  - pdm
    
    I have 112 hours sick leave.
    
    How do I use that up – I don’t do sickies.
    
    Actually tried to sell it back to my employer for $1,000 about a year ago. They did not take the bait of an approx. 50% discount.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:44pm
    - Ehlana
      
      Probably because if you don’t use sick leave, it isn’t paid out when you leave. And your employer may not be legally able to buy it back anyway. Only 1 week a year of annual leave can be bought back, AFAIK.
      
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      October 5, 2023 12:57pm
      - Dougal10
        
        The govt buys back my wifes sick leave
        
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        October 5, 2023 8:10pm
Scott

Yesterday I voted Act. Although I fundamentally disagree with them on the issues of abortion and euthanasia, our vote is always a trade-off and there were other issues that were decisive.

I attended an Act public meeting in Martinborough and the candidate was speaking about three things – crime, cost of living and co-governance.
Although National has promised to deal with these as well, I like the more root and branch approach of Act.

National always seems to compromise with whatever Labour has done and rests content with lowering the top marginal tax rate and being good managers of the economy.

If co-governance carries on then we will not have a democracy or a functioning economy. Under co-governance the vote of a Maori person is worth five times the vote of a non-Maori person. I support Act’s policy of a referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi is a valuable historical document that paved the way for our democracy but should be consigned to its proper historical place. The idea of an ongoing partnership between Maori and Pakeha is a complete fiction. To my mind the referendum is a good way to deal with this issue.

Regarding crime, even here in Masterton, crime and lawlessness are on the increase. It’s hurting everybody and something needs to be done. Act has promised to crackdown on crime.

I like Act’s approach to the economy and cost of living. They envisage a smaller government, spending less and cutting waste. The current government with its reckless spending has been a huge contributor to inflation. I support more family, individual and community responsibility and less government spending.

Lastly I did vote for the National candidate to represent our electorate. The sooner the incumbent Labour MP for the Wairarapa is consigned to electoral oblivion the better.
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October 5, 2023 8:15am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Scott, I voted for Act too because of its support for farmers although like you I am anti on his view on abortion and euthanasia.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:55am
  - lifesgood
    
    It’s a tough choice, isn’t it? I would like to vote ACT but simply can’t on moral grounds. Their promotion of killing babies and sick people is a bridge too far for me.
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:34am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      It is actually killing babies or at least leaving them to die. I would like to see David and Brooke stand by and watch them die. A baby is a very young human that beathes and cries.
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:14am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    It would be nice if Seymour thanked me for my vote and support instead of a nasty response when I critisized him for his attack on Bob McCoskrie.
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:59am
    - kingerstinger
      
      Well, he’s already got your vote, so he probably doesn’t give a shit. I certainly don’t.
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:41am
- waikatosinger
  
  ACT claim to be liberal/libertarian. So they want the government out of our lives as much as possible and tend towards people making their own choices. The Euthanasia and Abortion policies are the downside of that kind of philosophy. The upside is that they should stand up for individuals when the government starts abusing its power. But they don’t. Where were they during covid when the most massive abuse of government power in our history was taking place.
  
  I plan to vote ACT anyway. But I can’t say I’m all that happy with their priorities.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:28am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    It would be nice to have David come here on KB and thank all who voted Act.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:16am
    - Cassandra
      
      I’ll do it on his behalf. Thanks to all ACT voters. While you’re about it, how about joining the Party?
      
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      October 5, 2023 11:07am
      - Stephen
        
        My partner and I are both ACT members, and we have 8 people in our street of 14 houses that are party vote ACT. That’s why I don’t believe the polls that have ACT at 10%. In last nights 1 News ACT went down 2% and everyone else stayed the same. Where did the 2% go?
        
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        October 5, 2023 12:19pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        I am a member but will not renew my membership or be a member of any political party. I will support lobby groups such as the Maxim Institute, Family First and the Free Speech Union instead.
        
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        October 5, 2023 12:40pm
      - Guy Preston
        
        I’ll do it on his behalf. Thanks to all ACT voters. While you’re about it, how about joining the Party?
        
        Thats very nice of you Cassandra, but I’m disinclined to join a party that seems to hates me, or people who share my world view, as much as every party on the left.
        
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        October 5, 2023 1:02pm
      - cmm
        
        Stephen: Maybe those Act supporters have just become silent tories. They’re getting tired of the abuse etc and just say “undecided” when the polster phones.
        
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        October 5, 2023 2:38pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Of course ACT are bad in many ways. All the parties are. You can’t elect a party that will govern well. But you can elect one that will govern less.
  
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  October 5, 2023 11:51am
- Waipuk
  
  I am party voting for ACT.
  
  I don’t believe the National leadership have the backbone to do what is needed.
  
  Can’t vote NZF as Peter’s can’t even remember his own policies and just as likely to side with labour depending on the size of the bribe.
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:06pm
Ipanema69

Once again it is rubbish day in my part of Auckland. On the walk to the bus stop I counted 48 rubbish bins and 12 of the new organic scrap bins. Thus the response rate to the council initiative is exactly 25%.

If this service was being run by a private sector entity it would have already been cancelled. Howver as it is council run it and probably a thousand other programs like it will continue ad infinitum, with the consequential impact on my rates bill.

Ronald Reagan was right. Government isnt the solutiin. Government is the problem.
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October 5, 2023 8:24am
- artemisia
  
  Wellington City Council is right behind saving food scraps from landfill. The three waste options being considered all include this, driven by councillor Tamatha Paul.
  
  Now that she is hoping for a different trough in Wellington Central and may be in Parliament soon, good time to ask her how much influence she has had on WCC’s wasteful and unrelentingly skyrocketing spending. Of OPM.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:04am
  - pdm
    
    arty our food scraps go to feed the family pig that our granddaughter and her fiancee rear.
    
    Every now and then we get a pork chop and some bacon to share as payment.
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:20am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Nice pdm. Our non-meat food scraps go into my compost bin and end up in my vegetable garden making more vege. And there are virtually no meat scraps other than boiled bones as Mrs Veritas makes vats of chicken, beef, lamb and fish stock.
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:35am
    - Biscuit
      
      Does the family pig have any comment on that arrangement, pdm?
      
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      October 5, 2023 12:21pm
      - I remember when
        
        Just a quiet crackling.
        
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        October 5, 2023 2:50pm
  - artemisia
    
    Thinking about a suggestion for the Wellington CC public consultation coming on food scraps. Going to propose that a very important special department is set up, paid for by ratepayers of course, to manage and monitor food scrap bins and whether they are meeting their targets. At the same time have a process for exemptions if households can prove they have a worm farm or a compost bin so they do not get the cost of the special food bin added to their rates.
    
    Exemptions would have to be renewed each year of course in case people have moved and taken their worm farm with them.
    
    I reckon that would work well. Not cheap of course, but well worth it as There is No Planet B.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:51pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  The council is already billing every ratepayer an additional $80 pa whether you use the bin or not.
  Do the math 🙁
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:14am
  - cmm
    
    Mathsssssssssssssssssssss
    We still have some standards!
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:27am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      It’s not often you’re right cmm – but you’re wrong this time 😀
      
      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/you-do-the-math
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:14am
      - Biscuit
        
        NEWSFLASH!
        
        (Please be sure you are sitting comfortably)
        
        At 10.14 am this fine Thursday, 5 October, 2023, Maggie Pie and cmm came very close – ‘This close, Chief’, to quote ‘Maxwell Smart’ – to beng civil towards each other.
        
        Wonders wil never cease!
        
        [Not being afraid of you in any way, MP, I must say I am on cmm’s side here!]
        
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        October 5, 2023 12:25pm
    - Tom Hunter
      
      Pissed! 🙂
      
      American Cultural Hegemony strikes again!
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:27am
- MCōs
  
  According to the information supplied with my food scraps bin they are not collected until 16-Oct in this neck of the woods
  Hasn’t stopped people putting them out down our street.
  When is/was the start date in your area?
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:47am
  - Lance
    
    We have had them for several months.
    The biggest issue, especially after they have been emptied, is they blow around in the wind, they are too small.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:29am
- Ruawai
  
  Most people probably have an insinkerator. Heard that the food scraps bins from New Plymouth are trucked to Hampton Downs, that is really good for the carbon footprint of a simple vege.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:58am
  - greybeard
    
    “Most people probably have an insinkerator. ”
    What ?
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:36am
  - Flossie
    
    Most people probably don’t have an insinkerator. I know heaps who do not.
    My choice to not have one is based on the huge amounts of water recommended to flush the rubbish through, thus adding to the water bill (which is expensive enough already!)
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:01am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    “Most people probably have an insinkerator.”
    
    No.
    
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    October 5, 2023 2:11pm
    - kevn
      
      BY… aka ‘The Plumbers Cash Machine’.
      Blockage specialty.
      
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      October 5, 2023 3:34pm
      - Colville
        
        Just buy a decent sized one.
        Not $300!
        
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        October 5, 2023 5:37pm
  - Dougal10
    
    We dont have an insinkerator but use an incinerator for every thing apart from glass and tins.
    
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    October 5, 2023 8:17pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Those who don’t use the scraps bin, like us, still pay for it in your Rates. They attract rats and roaming dogs (the ones who let them off the property for a shit)
  Another Council fail.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:11am
- kingerstinger
  
  We don’t put our scrap bin out every week. Nor our red bin. Looks like that goes for people in your area as well. Far bigger fish to fry than the apparently demonic little green bin mate.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:42am
- septic skeptic
  
  I like the food scrap bin. It’s an ideal size for a workshop bin or weeding the garden. Plus the smaller one is used for scraps destined for the compost. Most other food scraps get put into the Labrador.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:46am
- alloytoo
  
  Can we return the bin for a rates refund.
  
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  October 5, 2023 4:54pm
Benedict Yu

I was surprised to see the developers of the technology behind the covid vaccines win this year’s Nobel prize for medicine or physiology.

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/katalin-kariko-and-drew-weissman-penns-historic-mrna-vaccine-research-team-win-2023-nobel

Nobel prizes are mostly awarded many years, and often decades after a break through discovery. Simply because it often takes that long to understand the significance and durability of such discovery.

For example in 2008 the two scientists who discovered that the HPV virus caused most cervical cancers were awarded the prize. Their initial discovery was in the 1990s.

In 2020 the researchers who discovered the Hepatitis C virus were awarded the prize. Their discovery was 30 years ago. However it was only decades later that it’s importance was appreciated in terms of lives saved.

Given the controversy around these vaccines, it seems way too early to award the developers the Nobel prize.
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October 5, 2023 8:24am
- cmm
  
  “Given the controversy around these vaccines, it seems way too early to award the developers the Nobel prize.”
  
  No, that is exactly why they were given the prize – to help give credibility. It’s a continuation of the gaslighting.
  
  I mean, anyone who argues against a Nobel Prize winner is clearly nuts right?
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:31am
  - Simon
    
    The “science” award was about promoting the jaxx as safe and effective. Nothing else. Its a narrative.
    
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    October 5, 2023 8:36am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    It is worth noting that the Nobel Committee were quick to award Egas Moniz the Nobel in 1949 for his discovery of the lobotomy performed by inserting a spike into the brain via the orbit of the eye.
    
    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh35lo.html
    
    That did not age well 🙂
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:10am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      Not to mention Barack Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize around the time the US was bombing the shit out of Libya.
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:37am
  - Taieri
    
    I mean, anyone who argues against a Nobel Prize winner is clearly nuts right?
    ———
    
    Didn’t a certain Al Gore get it?
    And The Rt Hon Dame Dr Jacinda A. truly deserves one. For her endeavours in the field of BS.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:15am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Sorry at sea, BY.
    However Dr McMillon from Vejon Health has a youtube channel talking about this.
    He has some concerns.
    On a side note, The other Noble Bros started Oil Gas company in Baku, Azerbeijan. Quite successful by all accounts.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:35am
  - Ra Henare
    
    and of course Obama given the Nobel peace prize after 8 months in office, show that the system can be manipulated.
    
    The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States President Barack Obama (b. 1961) for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.[1] The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama’s promotion of nuclear nonproliferation[2] and a “new climate” in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world.[3][4]
    
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    October 5, 2023 7:25pm
- Bridgenag
  
  Nobel Prize awarded to mRNA researchers in effort to “Encourage hesitant people to opt for vaccination in the reassurance that it is safe and effective”
  
  https://www.eugyppius.com/p/nobel-prize-awarded-to-mrna-researchers?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:45am
- David Garrett
  
  Bene: As usual, you make excellent points.
  
  To be quite honest, I don’t exactly know what to think about these “vaccines”….other than they certainly don’t work as normal vaccines do, and I won’t be getting any more of them.
  
  My main reason for making that decision is the information about negative side effects clearly was available at the time we were all pushed to take the jabs, but the information was, if not suppressed, certainly not made widely known. It only became widely known after diligent digging by people such as KK.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:49am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    They were also way over-hyped, as explained in this article.
    
    https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/overhyping-vaccines-wasnt-pro-vaccine-it-was-pro-stop-worrying-about-covid/
    
    Even when the “vaccine passes” were introduced it was clear to everyone except Jacinda that the vaccines did not stop transmission. Think of it like this: There have been about 2.5 million cases in New Zealand. The overwhelming majority of these folk were vaccinated and they caught it from someone who was vaccinated. 🙁
    
    This quote from the article, citing a USA doctor:
    
    “Dr. Damania: Now, you and I are both vaccinated. We shook hands. We don’t wear masks. We’re about three feet apart from each other. And in the early days of the pandemic that would’ve gotten us both hung. But now I can say with confidence because I’ve looked at the data, like our chances of giving each other COVID are-
    
    Dr. Bhattacharya: Are zero.
    
    Dr. Damania: Pretty much zero…”
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:20am
    - cmm
      
      “There have been about 2.5 million cases in New Zealand.”
      
      2.5 million? No far far more. There have probably been 8+ million cases. Virtually everyone has had it and many have been back for their second or third serving.
      
      Of course it depends on how you define “case”.
      
      One of my colleagues, up to date on all his boosters, just got his second go around.
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:31am
      - Taieri
        
        Virtually everyone has had it and many have been back for their second or third serving.
        ———–
        
        I haven’t had it and my better looking half hasn’t had it either. May it stay this way too.
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:12am
      - artemisia
        
        Most of my fully vaccinated family have now had c19 3 times, one (primary school age) 4 times.
        
        Me, unvaxxed, once and mild. Not tested but symptoms 2 days after house guest tested positive.
        
        I did not see my family for several months. I will not forget.
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:13am
      - Ghost
        
        I don’t know anyone that’s had it apart from a cousin early on listed as a covid death, not sure he had it, he died from cancer.
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:18am
      - Lance
        
        I have had it twice. First time was like a strong dose of the flu, but I was more tired rather than fevered and nauseous.
        The second time was… meh.
        
        The next door neighbour, a fit guy, was almost ended by it.
        We were both vaxxed.
        I think that is the entire point of genetic variety, some people are more resistant to some diseases than others.
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:36am
      - NothingLeft
        
        Taieri; pretty much everyone has had it – it’s the most transmissible virus we know of. But a significant proportion of people don’t present with any symptoms.
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:55am
      - wsk12345
        
        Unvaxxed I e had it twice. First time a sore throat for 12 hours. Second time I only tested as my elderly father had got it. Interestingly despite being in their 80s and unvaxxed and frail they only found out they had it by accident too.
        
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        October 5, 2023 11:00am
      - Taieri
        
        Taieri; pretty much everyone has had it
        ———-
        
        Until a couple of months ago I was testing weekly for the job. Always negative.
        
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        October 5, 2023 11:05am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        I have not had it.
        
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        October 5, 2023 1:04pm
      - MCōs
        
        Early on the virus was far more deadly than than varieties in circulation now, as everyone knows.
        Both my wife and I picked it up in December last year. She quickly recovered, but I didn’t and after a few months of being told I had long covid it transpired I had lymphoma cancer, which is usually curable. A couple more rounds of chemotherapy and I’ll find out, I suppose.
        
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        October 5, 2023 4:00pm
      - Ghost
        
        I’m sure in a few months you will be telling us that are cancer free. Hope you are doing well with the treatment
        
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        October 5, 2023 4:21pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      ” except Jacinda that the vaccines did not stop transmission.”
      I would like to say how much but it may get me in trouble. Let’s say handsomely handsome.
      Another reason to run. The lifestyle change will be noticeable. Best get some cover from UN.
      Oh yeah, the google machine has been scrubbed.
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:29am
      - kevn
        
        SteveO… Not quite scrubbed, new info still appearing.
        https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/nz-doctors-avoided-covid-jabs-while-insisting-the-public-had-them/
        
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        October 5, 2023 3:58pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Back in 2009 the Nobel committee met and decided to award Obama with that years’s Nobel Peace prize.
  
  He had taken office just 11 days prior and spent a good chunk of that time on the golf course.
  
  Obama later used his acceptance speech to justify sending more troops to Afghanistan.
  
  A Nobel isn’t quite a noble as it once was.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:59am
- Flossie
  
  Just as certain Knight/Dame hoods are dished out almost as a right. Thinking of politicians whose legacy may well be very bad, and also sports coaches that may have had initial but unsustainable good results.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:34am
- Keith White
  
  It’s the same ‘logic’ behind Bloomfield’s knighthood and Ardern’s damehood. “Let us award them these titles so the deplorables think they and we did a great job.” Effem.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Where is my gong for 50+ years to the engineering industry?
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:34am
    - greybeard
      
      Make your own.
      Galvanised.
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:39am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        No job now. Business closed. I do have a birdshit bird galvanised.
        You hang it off the swing arm of a welder – for guys who weld like shit.
        
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        October 5, 2023 12:04pm
- PeeJay
  
  The Nobel committee have frequently made controversial decisions.
  
  If you do a search it’s actually quite an interesting list – the controversy around Einstein is especially interesting – he got an award for one of his more minor theories but his major work was only recognized through the much later work of others. Some thoughts are that his work was not understood by the committees at the time he was nominated.
  
  Most science or economics controversies are usually in relation to overlooking major contributions by others.
  
  The peace prize is a good example of controversy, like Obama being given the peace prize very early into his presidency more in the hope he would be different to Bush.
  
  Do a search on it – quite a fascinating history.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:36am
- Vory v zakone
  
  Dr Robert Malone commented on X…
  “Kariko and Weissman get the Nobel, not for inventing mRNA vaccines (because I did that) but for adding the psuedouridine that allowed unlimited spike toxins to be manufactured in what could have been a safe and effective vaccine platform, if safely developed. Good to know.”
  
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  October 5, 2023 4:51pm
Cassandra

Ngati whatua leader Naida Glavish, when asked what ACT policies were racist: “I don’t need to read their policies. I just need to see the shape of Seymour’s mouth”. BTW Seymour descends from Ngapuhi, Ngati whatua’s conqueror. Who is the racist? And if you take the I out of Naida what do you get? A little less Naida’s mouth and more of her brain might be useful. Might.
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October 5, 2023 8:27am
- imalwaysright
  
  Naida might qualify for a Nobel prize.
  Didn’t she become famous for saying kia ora ?
  That’s more than enough.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:22am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Got her a gong already
    
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    October 5, 2023 7:47pm
Kiwiguy

Winston Peters discusses the climate change hoax as being devised and implemented by globalists:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7115066195678003201/
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October 5, 2023 8:29am
- David Garrett
  
  Kiwiguy: I cannot watch that vid without joining Linkedin…and for my own reasons I don’t wish to do that.
  
  Is there another way of watching it?
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:56am
  - Kiwiguy
    
    Hi David, I’ve just done a search online but cannot find the video on any other platforms. I think it will be on Tiktok (it has the tiktok logo on it) but I don’t have a Tiktok account.
    I’ve actually downloaded the video but I have no idea how to load it to this blog.
    Maybe others here could help?
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:26am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Dropbox does not work – it used to.
      Wait, I just clicked on Kiwiguy’s link and it works. I have no tiktok, instagram. Twitter X is logged out so is Facebook, I don’t know how it works.
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:37am
- Nickc2
  
  IMO, he got that one right!
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:05am
- Bullion
  
  Here is Carl Sagan testifying to Congress in the US in 1985 on Climate Change:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI
  
  It goes against the premise of that linkedin post and clip.
  
  The idea of increasing greenhouse gases, by way of human activity, impacting climate was known in the 19th century, even in NZ in the very early 20th century news articles pointed this fact out:
  https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/04-08-2022/the-new-zealand-newspaper-climate-report-making-waves-110-years-later
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:13pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    And there are plenty of Newspaper Articles from the 1970’s predicting an Ice Age but you go ahead and cherry pick
    Fact is, we have not seen catastrophic warming after decades of being told the world will boil
    Btw- love how Papers Past revealed all those Storms NIWA omitted in their Data
    And all the high Temps from the 40’s
    Nothing like some deceit by omission- for the cause of course
    
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    October 5, 2023 1:11pm
    - Bullion
      
      Great, appeal to the global cooling myth.
      
      An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting “global cooling” and an “imminent” ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about the prospect of global warming. A review of the literature suggests that, on the contrary, greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists’ thinking as being one of the most important forces shaping Earth’s climate on human time scales. More importantly than showing the falsehood of the myth, this review describes how scientists of the time built the foundation on which the cohesive enterprise of modern climate science now rests.
      
      https://www.jstor.org/stable/26220900
      
      Those thinking cooling could eventuate overestimated the impact of aerosol pollution’s cooling effect and underestimated CO2 warming. Aerosol pollution does have a cooling effect, recent measures to reduce aerosol pollution, such as sulphur dioxide, have been linked to record temperatures experienced this year.
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:29pm
Kiwiguy

Someone here in a recent post had some numbers of how many kiwis are on benefits, vs how many are employed taxpayers. (Or something along those lines) The two numbers were dangerously close.
Can someone help me find those numbers again, and also cite sources?
Thanks in advance, KB team.
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October 5, 2023 8:32am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  According to these sources…
  
  Number of NZers in employment – 2,927,000
  
  https://tradingeconomics.com/new-zealand/employed-persons#:housand%20from%201986,the%20fourth%20quarter%20of%201991.
  
  Number of NZers receiving some form of benefit (excluding superannuation) – 630,000
  
  https://www.weag.govt.nz/background/welfare-system-statistics/#:~:text=277%2C410%20working%20age%20people%20receive,19%25%20are%20non%2Dbeneficiaries.
  
  Number NZers on superannuation – 883,239
  https://figure.nz/chart/f0QUavzd3fZSOX3A
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:26am
  - Kiwiguy
    
    Thanks Maggy
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:28am
- cmm
  
  Many, if not most, of the “employed taxpayers” are taking far more out of the pot that they are putting in. They are the hidden beneficiaries.
  
  For example around 58% of families with children receive WFF.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:39am
  - MCōs
    
    Everybody pays gst, which accounts for 15% of most expenditure
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:53am
  - Bullion
    
    WFF is corporate welfare.
    
    Accommodation supplement is landlord welfare.
    
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    October 5, 2023 1:04pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I have seen those numbers. The goose that has the golden eggs stolen is getting real pissed off.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:43am
Grunter

Here’s an interesting read about NZ’s electricity grid, maybe there are some of you that know more about this?

One key message I got was NZ’s peak demand is very different to Aust, and you have to design your grid based on dealing with the peaks. Our winter evening & morning peaks CAN NOT be supplied by wind and solar (no sun and no wind). We need baseload from hydro, geothermal or coal/gas. No mention of nuclear.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/02/new-zealand-grid/
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October 5, 2023 8:40am
- RoboRob
  
  We could put one or two AP300™ SMR westinghouse nukes in he north island (to move generation closer to use and cut waste) and we would be golden. Small, cheap and safe these bad boys generate ~300MW so similar to a larger hydro damn. At ~1b USD they are super cheap compared to the cost of a new hydro.
  
  https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/energy-systems/ap300-smr
  
  If we wanted we could build the big boy
  the AP1000 PWR. At about 3.9b USD this big boy makes about 1100 KW, so almost 3 clyde damns. Personally the ap300 seems more appropriate for NZ.
  
  If we had 2 AP300s NZ would ….
  1) Have gauranteed base line output to cover us for decades (even in dry years)
  
  2) Need less generation as we wast ~10% of our generation shipping it around the country
  
  3) Could build these ‘very quickly’ if a government was motivated. n.b very quickly might be 5-10yrs.
  
  4) Close huntly (probably could put one of these in Huntly) and almost immediately meet out ‘climate change obligations’ without need for anything else.
  
  Seems a win win. Especially when the cost of one of these is only about 8 Wellington town hall rebuids 🙂
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:10am
  - Taieri
    
    this big boy makes about 1100 KW, so almost 3 clyde damns.
    ————
    
    1100 kW is bugger all. Did you mean 1100 MW?
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:21am
    - RoboRob
      
      Lol, yes I did 🙂
      
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      October 5, 2023 11:08am
  - Lance
    
    Ah, but we would then have proof of how dangerous nuclear energy is. So many Greenies heads would explode it would be a national catastrophe.
    /sarc/
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:45am
    - Ehlana
      
      “So many Greenies heads would explode it would be a national catastrophe.”
      
      Why, would they poison the soil?
      
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      October 5, 2023 2:42pm
  - Grunter
    
    Thx for the link RoboRob.
    
    It just shows how out of wack the “Global Boilists” have gone vs reality.
    
    And if a couple of KB bloggers can find this info, WTF is Luxon doing talking up more wind farms and solar panels??
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:51am
    - RoboRob
      
      I assume the polis feel that Nuclear is ‘political poison’ and dont want to talk about it. In the same way nobody wants to talk about removing Working for Families or even getting rid of first year free university.
      
      Thats the danger with these left wing policies, once you get someone on a silly benefit you cant take it away. Nobody likes loosing something.
      
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      October 5, 2023 11:10am
  - Terry Dalee
    
    Just retrofit Huntly with Small Modular Reactors.
    Replace the furnaces with the SMR.
    Rest of the infrastructure is already in place….
    
    Ship the entire module overseas for refuelling, reburb. Don’t have the nuclear expertise or knowledge here to refuel or refurb…
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:00pm
    - RoboRob
      
      The 300 SMR is a Small Modular Reactor 🙂 I know there are smaller in the works but few (none?) commercial yet. Westinghouse have been selling these for some time, so they are proven, which is what nuclear in NZ needs.
      
      With regards to refuelling. I am sure we could actually develop the skills, as AU is with their submarine building. Regardless we could just ship the support team out from the US every 18mths for the refuel. Might even be cheaper that way 🙂
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:57pm
      - cmm
        
        It really isn’t worth playing games with power stations smaller than 300MW (other than small opportunistic ones such as geothermal etc).
        
        You need on the ground operator skills for nukes. The idea that you can just run it as a black box and ship the whole unit overseas for refurb/refuelling is preposterous.
        
        Sure, the skills are not easy to get but they are there. Even South Africa’s Koeberg power station has properly qualified operators. The rest of the South African power fleet might be a complete shambles, but Koeberg is still well run. A major part of that is international oversight. Nobody will sell systems or services to an operator that is not qualified.
        
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        October 5, 2023 4:53pm
      - Terry Dalee
        
        You’ll still need operators to actually operate the plant yes.
        
        But to suggest shipping in yellow cake, creating fuel rods, opening the SMR up, taking out the spent fuel, cooling it for 2 years then reprocessing it…. Let alone store the waste, in NZ… is preposterous….
        NZ will never have the expertise, money, resources or political license to set up a nuclear fuel chain.
        
        The SMR module only goes overseas, gets it’s fuel taken out and refueled by a place that already has the infrastructure…
        It’s exactly what happens with a nuclear submarine.
        
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        October 6, 2023 9:56pm
  - kevn
    
    Robo… Put it in my backyard, no prob.
    
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    October 5, 2023 4:01pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Don’t mention that “N” word.
  I makes the Greens roll around on the floor, making stupid noises and having anxiety attacks.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:49am
  - RoboRob
    
    Yup. They will tell us that the world is ending and climate change is the biggest disaster facing humanity. Mention Nuclear, the climate change silver bullet, and they shit thier pants and start talking about how expensive it is and how solar is cheaper.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:13am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      SMRs. Steam turbine with a separate nuclear source. When it is spent it is replaced, the turbine stays. About 17 t0 power Auckland.
      
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      October 5, 2023 12:11pm
      - RoboRob
        
        Have a look at the link I posted. This also counts as an SMR. It is refuelled every 18mths. at ~300MW a single reactor produces 5-10% of NZs power requirements. I guess two of these would do all or most of Aucklands power.
        
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        October 5, 2023 2:00pm
  - Terry Dalee
    
    Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear
    
    The Greens roll around on the floor, glue themselves to roads and other things and make stupid noises generally anyway……
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:03pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Oh the Green nutters make funny noised and have anxiety attacks when they writhe on the floor.
      
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      October 5, 2023 7:14pm
- Clyde
  
  There are a couple of really easy to understand problems with N’Zs electricity network. The first is that most of the demand is in the top of the North Island and most of the supply is in the bottom of the South Island. The second is that wind and solar are entirely unpredictable. Lastly, and this is a concept that most people don’t understand is that generation follows demand.
  
  The above leads to the inevitable conclusion that the idea of a hydro battery project like Lake Onslow is inherently stupid. Who is going to invest in a generator about as far from the consumers as you can get? It would need another upgrade of the network including the gradually failing Cook Strait cables. I note that the short tubby one on the Labour front bench supports the project, so enough said.
  
  Until nuclear fusion is a practicality then I don’t see anything wrong with a couple of fision plants near where the demand is. Common sense would support it, but the uproar from the tin-hat brigade would be so great it won’t happen.
  
  End result is the inevitable power cuts and ever increasing costs of energy particularly in the North Island in bad cold years.
  
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  October 5, 2023 11:57am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Censorship of free speech is alive!
John Key took to social media and the left took it hook, line, sinker, and most of the arm. Should John Key be allowed to do this? Those who say no are your censorers.

Nobody is bitching about Ardern on social media blowing her arse about voting from New York, but that is not an advertisement right? Convince me. I am sure H1 is heavily advising behind the scenes. See, it’s different when the left do it.
John Key bad, Labour good.//
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October 5, 2023 8:42am
- cmm
  
  Was Cindy really advertising for Labour? I think she was more advertising for herself!
  
  Look at me – I braved the floods of NYC to go vote!
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:50am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Both.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:50am
- kingerstinger
  
  JK living rent free in lefties heads has always been absolutely delicious.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:43am
Warren

Why have the Police hung National out to dry on this announcement that it was a person affiliated to the National the was trespassed for entering Te Pati Maori candidate Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke home.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/499429/te-pati-maori-candidate-s-home-entered-unlawfully-man-trespassed-party-president
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October 5, 2023 8:47am
- RoboRob
  
  It could be that the person is affiliated with National. There are whakos in every part of society.
  
  The real question is why we are more concernd with the Maori party lady and dont seem to care about people on the right suffering similar attacks.
  
  Throw the book at them ALL. One law for all. The labour / Maori partys can enjoy the fruits of there own labours when the offenders get gifted home detention and free internet.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:15am
- Damocles11
  
  The politicised Police don’t want to say a word in case they are accused of ‘racism’.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:23am
- Yvette
  
  Party president John Tamihere said the person involved in the latest incident was “an elderly Pākehā man” who was a well-known advocate and campaigner for the National Party, and the incident was politically motivated. “Huntly’s a small town, and what he wasn’t aware of is that whānau were in residence when Hana on her schedule on her facebook page was out campaigning. When he entered the house and was confronted he advised ‘oh I thought Hana was out on the campaign trail” […] He then fled the scene and was followed to his house in Huntly, his house has National Party hoardings on it … these are facts.”
  
  “in the latest incident” – I am perhaps losing count here, but this latest incident seems to be the fifth time in the past week.
  Perhaps Police Commissioner Coster needs to urgently have the state of mental well-being, or not, ascertained of the alleged home invader, or charge him, or both, and in a electorate close-match with Mamia Mahuta check nothing else is going on
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:38am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    John Tamihere, limited IQ guy. A friend of mine has National Party hoardings on his property. And Labour Party hoardings. And Act Party hoardings. Why? Because they asked. So how then, would Tamihere judge him?
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:44am
- Libertarians are right
  
  This is all coming from Tamahere. The Police haven’t commented at all.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:40am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  This Hana person said she was not at home, but failed to mention someone else was there. Why the secrecy?
  It does not pass the sniff test.
  Where is the note?
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:56am
  - Damocles11
    
    So ‘someone else’ hangs out her place when she’s not there. Could ‘someone else’ possibly stage a few things, like writing a note & stuffing things in a letterbox(?)
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:40pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    And she’s young. There’s no way those people didn’t pull out their phones and record the old white guy that walked into her house.
    
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    October 5, 2023 2:27pm
krazykiwi

Swiss journalist jailed for 60 days. His crime? He called another Swiss journalist a “fat lesbian”. This is what happens when vociferous groups are successful in having laws created to protect their special status.
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October 5, 2023 8:49am
- David Garrett
  
  krazy: I agree entirely. The way things are going it will soon be illegal to call an obviously obese person “fat” – never mind adding an adjective on their sexuality.
  
  I have a young (18 yrs) son. He first told me off for “fat shaming”, and that soon morphed into “body shaming” – apparently making the self evident observation that an anorexic person is skeletally
  /dangerously thin is not allowed either.
  
  But perhaps there is hope for short chaps like me! Hopefully it will soon be illegal for someone to state the obvious: that I am short, which is exacerbated by the fact that I am also built like the proverbial brick out-house.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:02am
  - RoboRob
    
    We prefer vertically challanged 🙂
    
    I too have an 18yr old son (and a 16yr old). They are quite happy to ‘Fat, thin, Uggo, Gay shame etc’. Nothing nasty, they just find the PC so crazy they kind of rebel against it. Their mates are very similar.
    
    Interestingly however, when I sing along to ‘songs’ and use the lyrics, and the lyrics use the N word, they are very unhappy with me. Apparently its only ok to sing those lyrics if you aren’t white.
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:20am
    - Ruawai
      
      All under 20 year olds are super triggered by the N word no matter their political leanings. Yet they are all happy to say the C word.
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:08am
    - David Garrett
      
      Robo: I have the same experience with “the N word”… Apparently it’s quite OK for my son to use it because he’s half Tongan, but absolutely dreadful if I was to do the same.
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:11am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Some acceptable adjectives to use in the future to describe fatties:
    
    bounteous, chubby, curvy, generously proportioned, opulent, plenteous, Rubenesque, voluptuous……
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:38am
    - Keith White
      
      High-buoyancy.
      Low-kidnap-risk.
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:46am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Well padded
        
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        October 5, 2023 7:57pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Maggy: I used to frequent a dating site in NZ …whenever you saw a profile using words like “larger”; “curvy”; “fuller figured” or “voluptuous” you could be near certain that the woman concerned was in fact at least obese, often morbidly so.
      
      I met one – the last time I accepted just a head and shoulders pic before meeting – who was so fat she couldn’t fit in the front seat of a car, but had to ride in the back with someone driving her.
      
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      October 5, 2023 9:50am
    - Swifty
      
      *well-upholstered
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:09am
      - Biscuit
        
        ‘Successfully recovered from Anorexia’
        
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        October 5, 2023 12:33pm
    - plc
      
      Ample?
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:47am
    - greybeard
      
      Meganesque
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:48am
    - BullyHayes
      
      fucking massive?
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:32pm
    - Ghost
      
      Well you can’t call them fat bottom girls, sigh, that got yanked from the next queen greatest hits to appease the forever offended
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:37pm
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Short David? How would this go?
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3W4ZOlA08g
    
    “They got little hands
    And little eyes
    And they walk around
    Tellin’ great big lies
    They got little noses
    And tiny little teeth
    They wear platform shoes
    On their nasty little feet”.
    Hilarious!!
    How cancelled would one get for this these days?
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:48am
    - coge
      
      I’m short, and I find this song hilarious. And a little bit true as well!
      
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      October 5, 2023 12:11pm
- cmm
  
  In some countries defamation is a criminal rather than a civil matter. This can result in jail time rather than just being sued.
  
  Switzerland would seem to be such a country:
  “The law prohibits willful defamation and denigration, with punishment, if convicted, ranging from fines to prison sentences of up to three years.”
  
  https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/switzerland/
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:05am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Yes, that was the explanation given. I’m prepared to wager that calling someone a ‘fat politician’ would be ignored, or ‘fat family first supporter’ (or equiv.) would be applauded. The issue for me is one of selective application of the law to give succor to a protected class of citizen.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:10am
- Cinematic
  
  If it’s a statement of fact I fail to see how it can be criminal. Is said journalist a fat lesbian or is she not?
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:21am
  - cmm
    
    In some countries it is a crime to cause humiliation, insult etc.
    
    Facts have nothing to do with it (you are thinking of defamation).
    
    For example South Africa has the crimen injuria law
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimen_injuria
    
    Swiss law forbids insult and denigration.
    
    https://www.carter-ruck.com/law-guides/defamation-and-privacy-law-in-switzerland/
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:08am
    - Cinematic
      
      I get how calling someone an ugly cretin is an insult. I don’t get how calling someone what they are is a criminal offence. Fat lesbian, if accurate, is merely a statement of fact. No, I’m not confusing it with defamation.
      
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      October 5, 2023 11:47am
      - Keith White
        
        Cretin is a statement of brain function. IQ circa 30. I would not consider calling Rawiri – for example – a cretin, to be an insult. That’s accurately his level of function.
        
        Ugly is a statement of comparative attraction. Since the media and many many others often praise beauty, we may assume they have located the beauties of the spectrum from ugly to beautiful. So, we can still truthfully label someone ugly as long as we do it comme ci – “ugly on the spectrum.”
        
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        October 5, 2023 12:55pm
Kiwiguy

Oh the irony. Apparently New Plymouth doesn’t like National, according to the news. National’s hoardings are getting vandalised.
Yet this is the region that got badly hurt and insulted by Jacinda’s captains call to stop further deep sea oil exploration.
I just can’t fathom how the mind of a leftie works. Maybe it’s Stockholm Syndrome.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/133056444/political-clean-up-needed-as-vandals-strike-across-new-plymouth
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October 5, 2023 8:51am
- emmess
  
  RuIn it for you
  
  Ha, I like that
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:14am
- David Garrett
  
  Kiwiguy: She didn’t just stop offshore Taranaki exploration mate, there was also a completely unannounced amendment to the Crown Minerals Act (Oil is owned by the Crown in NZ, not the landowner) banning any further exploration, whether onshore or offshore, on the East Coast of the North Island.
  
  East Coast crude oil is of much higher quality than that of Taranaki. The problem with getting significant quantities of it has always been the horrendous drilling problems over there. Some recent technical advances mean that those problems may now be able to be overcome. Now we will never know just what is there, so the Greens have won.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:20am
  - Kiwiguy
    
    That makes it even worse. And the locals still support Labour? Absolute madness.
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:29am
  - Hard Cheese
    
    In daydreaming thought experiments I imagine the discovery of a massive oil deposit under a protected DOC wetland, big enough to create a Norway-like sovereign wealth fund and eliminate poverty in NZ…just to see the Greens heads explode and see how quickly they’d abandon their environmental principles
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:52am
  - Stephen
    
    If only we had somewhere in NZ where we could make our own bitumen of a high standard to repair all these potholes.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:23pm
- Damocles11
  
  ‘The locals don’t like National’ is of course the media spin; it’s one or two blokes tagging some National signs. They are hardly representative of the populace of New Plymouth.
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:44pm
Damocles11

This murky saga continues; who was ‘the man’, how was the trespass notice served, how would the fired-up TPM crew know he ‘had links to the National Party’? Nothing is getting any clearer, this whole affair is truly bizarre & the Police say nothing giving TPM free rein to grandstand.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/trespass-notice-served-in-hana-rawhiti-maipi-clarkes-investigation/C3HA4JRHVBCIVGSDKC3XLNSI5Y/

Trespass notice served in Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke’s investigation

By Joseph Los’e
5 Oct, 2023 07:44 AM

‘A man has been served a trespass notice after he allegedly entered the home of Te Pāti Māori candidate Hana Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke’s Huntly house uninvited, party bosses say.

Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere told the Herald that a Waikato man allegedly opened her front gate yesterday, walked up to the front door and walked into her house. He was confronted by a whānau member in the house. Tamihere claimed the accused had links to the National Party.

A National Party spokesperson said they were not aware of these “very serious allegations”.

“Police have not been in touch with us and Te Pāti Māori’s comments are the first time we were made aware of these allegations. National utterly rejects racism and any suggestion that we have engaged in race-baiting,” a National spokesperson said.

Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere said in the latest incident a man entered Maipi-Clarke’s home looking for her yesterday.

“That person who entered the home was caucasian (white) and said ‘Where’s Hana? We looked at her schedule and said she should be out campaigning?”

“Our guy said ‘what the f*** are you doing at Hana’s house. Get the f*** out.”

Huntly Police were notified immediately.

“We have been told the man was issued with a trespass notice and said that was the end of the matter,” Tamihere said.

“What Te Pāti Māori are saying, if this was a Māori who walked into some white person’s home and said where is Tim van de Molen (the local National MP) there would have been a major manhunt launched.

“Furthermore the police have advised Hana that she lives in a cul-de-sac and she needs to be careful.”

“We will be laying a formal complaint.

“We are left with no choice but to elevate this matter to the Commissioner.”

Tamihere said Maipi-Clarke has been the victim of four separate incidents and is traumatised but would not stop her campaigning.

In the first incident, a Te Pāti Māori hoarding on Maipi-Clarke’s property was vandalised. The second incident was a burglary “where the place was left to be known that someone had been in her home” and the third photos left of her prescription, that had been taken from her rubbish bin a day earlier, along with a threatening note.

“We won‘t get into what was written because that is part of the police investigation but you would have thought a handwriting expert could have a view because it was hand written,” Tamihere said.

“Hana is traumatised because she wouldn’t expect this kind of thing to happen. How many MPs or politicians homes have been broken into for political gain?”’
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October 5, 2023 8:53am
- wsk12345
  
  “Where’s Hana?”…. Wonder if he knows her. Ex boyfriend?
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:42am
- cmm
  
  There is a clear attempt to get people to draw the dots connecting this to her other claims of people breaking in and threatening her etc.
  
  This person seems to have walked in through an open front door, not sneaking around etc. so it seems very unlikely the events are connected.
  
  I still think the people doing the break in must have been wearing Maga hats and carrying bottles of bleach.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:11am
- Flossie
  
  Why on earth would National risk their credibility in a Maori seat? We all know it’s not a close run thing there for the Nats. Might be a good idea to look at motive i.e. who stands to gain from intimidating this TPM candidate.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:16am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I bet it’s a load of bullshit, who is in deep shit in that seat? Mahuta, snd she is not on the list, I would be looking there
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:24am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Flossie ,
    
    John Tamihere .
    
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    October 5, 2023 3:23pm
- Hard Cheese
  
  A handwriting expert?!!? FFS, without a suspect they’d even less useful than a psychic.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:23am
Vinicius

I voted on Monday with 2 ticks for National. In 2020 I went for ACT (party) and National (electorate).

ACT lost my support because I think Seymour is having a somewhat flaky campaign. He has to me seemed to be taking 2 steps forward and one step back too often.

I naturally don’t agree with all the National policies but it is imperative to get rid of this current government. Luxon has been generally solid without setting the world on fire.

The most amusing and ridiculous thing about the campaign to me is the relentless Luxon-National bashing by Hipkins-Labour and the left leaning suspects in the old MSM. The debates have all been a waste of time except a couple of the Robertson vs Willis financial debates. I thought the Mood of the Boardroom one was the best.

As for Winston Peters, NZ continues to have voters silly enough to take him seriously.
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October 5, 2023 8:59am
- David Garrett
  
  Vincius: I voted two ticks ACT yesterday with some reluctance. I agree that Seymour has not helped ACT’s cause, particularly over the past couple of weeks.
  
  As I told him in an email, talking about “bottom lines” with the Nats is both arrogant and silly, given that ACT has only one prospective coalition partner, the Nats, just as the Greens only have Labour.
  
  His reply? (He normally just ignores me) was “I’m sorry to hear you are having a bad day”. In other words, more condescending arrogance.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:13am
  - lifesgood
    
    Any specific reasons why you voted ACT?
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:45am
    - David Garrett
      
      Lifes: Mainly because I believe in their core philosophy that small government is best – and that they have made a specific commitment to reinstate three strikes, which the Nats have NOT done. And the fact that ACT is much more specific in their opposition to co-governance than the Nats have been. And that if a Nat led government is going to make any real change, they will need ACT to stiffen their spine.
      
      Had Luxon included “we will reinstate the three strikes law” on his pledge card, rather than the meaningless “restore law and order and keep you safe”, or whatever anodyne statement it was, I may well have had to think carefully before voting.
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:02am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Pretty sure 3 strikes is back under Nats, I am sure I heard Mitchell mention it, their problem with. the way it was was judges weee not using it, the law has to be changed to make it a compulsory punishment
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:16am
      - Ghost
        
        National are reinstating 3 strikes
        
        https://assets.nationbuilder.com/nationalparty/pages/18013/attachments/original/1687647991/Real_consequences_for_crime.pdf?1687647991
        
        Restoring Three Strikes for serious repeat criminals
        
        The justice system should ensure criminals face the consequences of their actions and that victims receive the justice they deserve for the harm they have endured. This is especially crucial when dealing with the most severe repeat offenders, those who commit numerous serious acts of violence or sexual
        offences.
        
        In 2010, National introduced the Three Strikes law to ensure the worst repeat violent criminals faced appropriate sentences, recognising their continued engagement in horrific crimes despite prior
        consequences.
        
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        October 5, 2023 10:26am
      - Cassandra
        
        Nah, DG, go with your instinct. Splitting hairs isn’t the way you should choose to vote. Overall ACT and Seymour have campaigned well and will serve the country well in the next government. Without ACT, National will just be more of the same but slower.
        
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        October 5, 2023 11:22am
      - lifesgood
        
        Fair enough. You make valid points. I cannot vote ACT for a number of reasons but one of them is their deliberate and malicious campaign against our extremely good MP in Tamaki. I have lived in this electorate most of my life and O’Connor is the hardest working rep we’ve ever had.
        
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        October 5, 2023 11:30am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    What electorate are you in David?
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:08am
    - David Garrett
      
      G: My electorate used to be Helensville – being the largest town within it – but now it’s got some Maori name..Kaipara Ki some fucking thing.
      
      BTW who knew the ancient Maori voted? Up here in Tonga there is a sign up at the High Comm saying VOTE HERE…with some made up Maori bullshit underneath it – in the same size font – just in case there are any Maori New Zealanders up here who don’t understand English.
      
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      October 5, 2023 4:31pm
      - Dougal10
        
        Hi David , I know you come back regularly and probably have a electorate to vote in , but do you know what happens to those in this election who haven’t been back for 5 years , do they even get an electorate vote or just a party one.
        
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        October 5, 2023 8:25pm
- Skippytony
  
  Held my nose and two ticks Nats….
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:46am
  - Cassandra
    
    Party vote for ACT much better.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:22am
- Waipuk
  
  I know with ACT I have to swallow a couple of dead rats but National need the backbone.
  
  I just don’t understand why anyone would vote for NZF. On past performance more likely to side with labour.
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:21pm
  - Its only I
    
    New Zealand First is running adverts on youtube etc promising to give zero support to Labour in any way post election.
    Its not the lead muppet in the adverts its everyone below.
    
    Luxon gave Winston another three years…well done that man! sarc
    
    Probably worth keeping a copy of the add.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:40pm
Taieri

He called another Swiss journalist a “fat lesbian”.
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Fattism is offensive and discriminatory. It should be strongly resisted by all possible means, including capital punishment where deemed appropriate.

There’s a significant Body of Scholarship that critically examines the theory and practice of fattism. The Science of Fat Studies has brought a great progress in the development of humanity, particularly in textile and garment industry. No small part of the credit for that should go to the Massey University, which used to maintain a vigorous Fat Studies programme.

Fat Lives Matter!
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October 5, 2023 9:04am
- emmess
  
  Fat Lives Matter!
  
  Tell that to the fatties
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:15am
- David Garrett
  
  Massey University, which used to maintain a vigorous Fat Studies
  
  Yes…isn’t that where the ludicrously named “Cat Pause” used to teach? She had a heart attack and died IIRC.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:40am
  - Pope Punctilious II
    
    “vigorous Fat Studies”
    
    A phrase I never expected to come across.
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:53pm
- Handyman
  
  The New Zealand health system will collapse in another ten years under the weight of fat people, who place the biggest load (figuratively and literally) on the system.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:48am
- MCōs
  
  Plenty of people on this forum have made fun of Megan Woods for being overweight
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:00am
  - David Garrett
    
    MCos: So? Making fun of the obese is not illegal…yet.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:03am
- Waipuk
  
  Fat Lives Matter!
  
  But it is only womens Fat Lives Matter!
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:24pm
- NothingLeft
  
  George Orwell — ‘In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.’
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:34pm
Maggie Pie

This is the outcome after 6 years of Hipkins and Tinetti as Labor’s Education Ministers.

And lets not forget that for 3 of those years, Chippie appointed Shaneel Lal as a member of his ‘Ministerial-Advisory-Group’

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1709409589681123673
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October 5, 2023 9:24am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Notice how the young man holds his pen to write.
  
  It seems many of our youngsters lack fine motor control of their fingers when writing.
  
  This does become a problem during exam time if the pupils take a long time writing down their answers.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:26am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Kerry Woodham asked Chippie this morning what he thort his ‘proudest achievement’ was as Minister-of-Education?
    
    His response….”Introducing lunches in schools”
    
    NO mention of numeracy or literacy. GINGA TOSSER!!
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:52am
    - Ghost
      
      I liked where he called her kiri….. twit
      
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      October 5, 2023 10:55am
    - emmess
      
      Young Hipkins back in the 80s and 90s:
      So Chris, what is your favourite subject?
      Errr I dunno, lunch I guess
      
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      October 5, 2023 12:32pm
cas

I voted yesterday in my smallish town but can report there were no KFC vouchers or New World vouchers or tickets to the Warriors on offer.
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October 5, 2023 9:24am
- MCōs
  
  Same here in Mangere
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:54am
Keith White

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” – English philosopher Herbert Spencer
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October 5, 2023 9:25am
imalwaysright

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499349/mbie-expands-intelligence-spy-unit-mi-beyond-immigration

Any thoughts on this?
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October 5, 2023 9:36am
- BananaLlama
  
  Should be dismantled and the people responsible for hiring foreign companies to spy on New Zealanders sacked and investigated.
  Edit: I noticed a cavet “MI deploys tools to scour social media” so maybe they just brought the software and developed it for their own use which i would be fine with.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:17am
BananaLlama

So how does Kiwiblog feel about the polls that show they will need Winston and NZF to govern?
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October 5, 2023 9:39am
- David Garrett
  
  Banana: Any government which needs NZF will be inherently unstable, and unable to do much of anything.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:05am
  - Ghost
    
    I’m not sure. His ego is huge enough to want to try and fix the damage he did with Ardern to his legacy.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:11am
    - Cassandra
      
      Let’s hope so, because it looks like Lazarus is going to rise. Stake through heart didn’t work.
      
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      October 5, 2023 11:25am
    - Keith White
      
      Yeah, nah, some things do not buff out… however smooth the polish and energetic the polishing.
      
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      October 5, 2023 12:24pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    If the abilities of New Zealand’s previous governments are anything to go by, a government unable to do anything might be just the antidote we need.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:22am
- PeeJay
  
  If the poll is accurate (and we’ll find out next week with the only one that counts), couple of thoughts for what it’s worth.
  
  First – still bloody close. Labour / Greens /Maori block around 41% – possibly a bit more if Maori win more than one electorate and more wasted right leaning votes. That number is concerning – wouldn’t take much for them to have a chance. Concerning that almost half the voters think Labour / Greens / Maori are just what this country needs. That’s bloody terrifying!
  
  Second – NZF. I genuinely hope they miss out but sadly suspect they will be kingmaker. It will be unstable. Peter’s will play the ‘will he / won’t he’ game for weeks. Suspect we could well be in November before the agreement is finally done. And there is no guarantee he’ll go with National – given his past, and his ability to do a 180 on anything he’s previously said (2017 anyone???) I’d say it’s actually more likely he’ll go with Labour than National. Regardless, it’ll take ages to sort and will be a clusterfuck for 3 years.
  
  Thirdly – this is a big issue for the future. My view is National are great at managing but are not really great reformers – if you look back through history, they aren’t actually known for being a reforming party – very much a steady as she goes. NZF if in government with National (and I still doubt this is guaranteed) won’t actually do much – Peter’s will be in first class travel, Jones will be doing provincial bribery, but no real reform. ACT, who want to reform, will have a weakened hand. What this will mean is that IF we get a right leaning government, without a strong ACT presence, it probably won’t do the fundamental reform that NZ requires. Long term, this sets us up for further leftward drift when Labour / Greens / Maori get back in. This is probably a once in a generation chance to dismantle some of the leftist crap and racists crap – sadly, I think we’re just going to see some tinkering around the edges and when the left get back in, we’ll probably look back on this election and see this as the one that got away.
  
  Alternatively, I could be completely wrong and everything will work out.
  
  Guess we’ll see!
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:56am
  - Cassandra
    
    You are completely right. Very good analysis.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:27am
  - artemisia
    
    If NZF turns out to be kingmaker, Mr Luxon can say ‘here’s the deal, take it or leave it, deadline is end of the week’. If NZF doesn’t take the deal are these the options? – they go with Labour, there’s a left or right minority government, or no government. I expect the main parties are considering the options. Suggest a L/G/MP minority government will be no fun to run.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:55am
- All_on_Red
  
  Can we please stop taking Polls which have a poor record of performance seriously?
  And don’t you think the Media are actively pushing NZFirst because the KNOW that could wreck NatAct ruling alone?
  Stop falling for it
  Why do you think the Left like to manipulate Polls?
  Because the gullible fall for it!
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:05pm
  - Ghost
    
    I watched the other day luxon a rule out a deal with TOP. The next day stuff were pushing national could make a deal with TOP, etc. people need to ignore the political reporting. They’re fucked off they have lost control of picking the government
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:14pm
- emmess
  
  Voting ACT but I am okay with it
  Not voting for him (have not forgiven 2017), but I think post-Winston NZ First will be a positive force in NZ politics.
  So let’s see how it goes
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:34pm
- NothingLeft
  
  There’d be a major commercial opportunity in selling Winston Peters voodoo dolls (with a selection of stabbing implements included). Combustible Effigies, and toilet paper and urinal pube-strainers with Peters face printed on them.
  
  Has my vote for most damaging NZer in our entire history. He’s probably cost NZ over $100Billion, and instigated or bought forward our eventual economic demise by 5-10 years.
  
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  October 5, 2023 2:16pm
thirteenstars

Simon O’Connor and Brooke van Velden in statistical tie for Tamaki, 35% plays 33%.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2310/S00033/new-poll-statistical-tie-between-national-and-act-in-race-for-tamaki.htm

Luxon better get himself to the Glen Innes KFC to shore up support.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/10/election-2023-top-australian-doctor-slams-christopher-luxon-for-posting-photo-of-kfc-meal.html
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October 5, 2023 9:50am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  That’s the second poll of that seat, she has not moved the numbers at all, the other poll was two months ago, she will not win
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:22am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    I think she will win. Everyone I talk to in the area seem to be voting for Brooke. In the past they all voted OÇonnor like me as there was really no other choice.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:14am
    - thirteenstars
      
      Indeed, and it goes to show that even under MMP with its dumbed-down focus on party vote that local politics still matters.
      
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      October 5, 2023 11:37am
      - All_on_Red
        
        It also shows how dumb the people reading the Polls are who don’t understand how Polls can be inaccurate with wide Margins of Error but are so arrogant they make foolish statements
        
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        October 5, 2023 12:01pm
      - thirteenstars
        
        “Polls can be inaccurate with wide Margins of Error”
        
        You don’t say?
        
        Well here’s the poll under discussion:
        
        https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/tamaki_poll
        
        Perhaps you could give us your un-dumb reading of the poll so as to disabuse the arrogant and foolish.
        
        Watcha got?
        
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        October 5, 2023 12:40pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        What I got is G the Giant making assumptions on who will win when the difference is only 2% and it’s also a small sample
        Whither the Margin of Error there?
        
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        October 5, 2023 2:01pm
    - Pope Punctilious II
      
      Voting for Van Velden isn’t smart tactically, as she will get in on the list anyway. O’Connor on the other hand, has been ranked very low by the Nats, so needs to win an electorate.
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:59pm
  - lifesgood
    
    I sincerely hope you are right G the giant. I can’t believe people in this electorate are falling for the Jacinda effect.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:32am
    - thirteenstars
      
      Oh, dear. If Brooke van Velden qualifies as a Jacinda then Nicola Willis would be considered overqualified.
      
      Yip, yip.
      
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      October 5, 2023 12:46pm
- wsk12345
  
  I really like them both. The debate the other night was like listening to two adults, such a relief. I think O’Connor will be a big loss to the Nats and NZ and he has a low list ranking by virtue of being a conservative Christian, so hope he wins the seat.
  
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  October 5, 2023 11:09am
- Damocles11
  
  According to the poll, only 19% of people can bring themselves to party vote Labour in Tamaki. 46% of respondents said they would party vote National. NZ First is sitting on 4%.
  
  https://assets.nationbuilder.com/taxpayers/pages/204/attachments/original/1696279516/NZTU_Curia_Tāmaki_Results_Sep_2023.pdf?1696279516
  
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  October 5, 2023 1:32pm
  - Damocles11
    
    ‘78% of 2020 National party voters would vote National again and 17% would now vote ACT.
    Only 42% of Labour voters would vote Labour again, 30% would now vote National, 6% ACT,
    12% Greens and 4% are undecided.’
    
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    October 5, 2023 1:43pm
Rusty

Is it a good look seeing a lot of politicians eating junk food on the campaign trail?

Some of them are going to start packing on the weight by Oct 14th.
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October 5, 2023 9:52am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hahahaha…
  
  All fun & games when Chris Hipkins is photographed on countless occasions eating sausage rolls…..
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/09/chris-hipkins-gives-verdict-on-giant-sausage-roll-cake-police-gifted-for-his-birthday.html
  
  but lefty media has to call in an Australian “expert” when Christopher Luxon stops for a KFC nibble.
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/10/election-2023-top-australian-doctor-slams-christopher-luxon-for-posting-photo-of-kfc-meal.html
  
  FKN HYPOKRTS
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:32am
  - Ghost
    
    Wtf, pathetic. Nothing about junk food Hipkins. Media truly are scum
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:37am
- thirteenstars
  
  Is it just me or has Luxon slimmed down considerably in the past few months?
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:39am
Maggie Pie

‘Mortgage Rate pain to linger for longer in face of Reserve Bank Governor leaving OCR on hold’.

– RNZ

https://twitter.com/apocalypseos/status/1709467212027932794
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October 5, 2023 9:56am
- Scooter
  
  I’d quite like these high term dep rates to continue, just saying.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:25am
Yvette

Political home invasion
■ We want one law for all people, this guy shouldn’t have been trespassed, there should have been<more [that] happened to him in terms of illegal entry and a range of other matters that could have been investigated but were not."
…Maipi-Clarke is standing in Hauraki-Waikato, and at age 20, is one of the youngest candidates of any party.
Tamihere said race-baiting by National and ACT had empowered and emboldened this sort of behaviour, which he said was another in a string of attacks on Maipi-Clarke in the past week.

“We want one law for all people”
It’s good to see John Tamahere agree with Don Brash

■ “We are left with no choice but to elevate this matter to the Commissioner”

Is this dog-whistling the Police Commissioner?

■ Labour leader Chris Hipkins last week gave a speech promising to call out race-baiting and explicitly criticising National, ACT and NZ First for their rhetoric, saying it was playing on people’s fears and would chip away at the Treaty of Waitangi’s place in New Zealand.

And is this last paragraph whistling Chris Hipkins?
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October 5, 2023 10:27am
- Ghost
  
  It’s amazing the party that has caused the most racial division in my life is calling out race baiting
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:30am
- thirteenstars
  
  I smell a beat-up. Not quite a Jussie Smollett, but in that vein. Mountain out of a molehill.
  
  If this is the fourth time they’re obviously dealing with a nutter not a political operative.
  
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  October 5, 2023 10:34am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It would be terrible if the Maori Party was politicising the actions of a mentally-ill person, wouldn’t it?
    
    Might be time for the police to explain why the house-invader has not been arrested and formally charged with entering and harrassing Ms Maipi-Clarke.
    
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    October 5, 2023 10:51am
- Yvette
  
  Better late than never?
  
  Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission
  23 August
  Shared with Public
  Our Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner Saunoamaali’i Karanina Sumeo has taken on an additional role as Acting Race Relations Commissioner. She will lead work in this area, with the support of Rongomau Taketake Dr Claire Charters and Commission staff.
  The portfolio covers race relations, the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, migrants and refugees, and Pacific and Indigenous peoples, as well as the relationship with the National Iwi Chairs Forum and works on constitutional transformation.
  Dr Sumeo says her experience in the Equal Employment Opportunities portfolio has provided her with insights into the human rights issues affecting our refugees, migrants and ethnically diverse communities.
  Her advocacy to combat modern slavery, address worker exploitation and close ethnic pay gaps will be valuable as she takes on the role of acting Race Relations Commissioner.
  
  Not Many People Know This – Peter Sellers
  Peter Sellers?
  Yes, Not Many People Know That
  
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  October 5, 2023 11:32am
  - Taieri
    
    Why do we need “equal employment opportunities commissioner”? Or “race relations commissioner” for that matter? What do they actually do every day?
    
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    October 5, 2023 5:22pm
- peterwn
  
  So it seems an older gentleman possibly wearing a National Party rosette and known to the householder or her associates bowls up to her front door to discuss politics (as is happening all over NZ at present). As soon as it is apparent there is no point in taking the matter further he gives a polite farewell and leaves the property. And this is classed as a ‘home invasion’ warranting a trespass notice. The gentleman will probably have the trespass notice framed and hung on the wall.
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:30pm
  - rouppe
    
    Where’s that information?
    
    All I heard on the radio was “person with links to the national party”.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:46pm
    - peterwn
      
      I think that this is a reasonable extrapolation based on the very limited set of facts that we know about.
      The Labour candidate (or friends) knew who he was otherwise she would not have known to whom to issue the trespass notice. Also the gentleman (in the absence of any signs to the contrary or operative trespass notice) had implied licence to enter the property to knock on the front door but it is his duty to leave expeditiously if requested by the occupier. See Robson v Hallett [1967] 2 QB 939 which also applies in NZ.
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:22pm
      - peterwn
        
        Have to admit that while my hypothesis is right in principle, I did not divine the details correctly. Bish (National’s campaign manager) has provided an explanation on Facebook:
        “Statement on Te Pāti Māori allegations
        An elderly member of the National Party has had grossly exaggerated allegations made about them by people involved with Te Pāti Māori.
        It is incredibly disappointing and upsetting for this individual to be dragged into a political stunt like this.
        This individual recently spoke to Te Pāti Māori candidate Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke at a local meet the candidates event to tell her how impressive she was. At the meeting, they spoke about where she lived as they were both locals.
        Upon seeing a poll result this week showing Maipi-Clarke closely behind the incumbent, this individual visited her home with the intention of congratulating her and wishing her all the best for her campaign.
        The member was invited inside but Maipi-Clarke was not available so he returned home. Another person from the home then went to the party member’s home and asked for their name and phone number so he could update him on Maipi-Clarke’s campaign.
        This afternoon, this individual has been issued a trespass notice. They are bemused and disappointed by the whole situation.
        The party member will not be making any further comment and the party is providing the family with support.”
        
        The Trespass Notice is presumably a gesture from the Police to keep Ginny (about to lose Hutt South) happy.
        
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        October 5, 2023 7:56pm
      - rouppe
        
        That is a big he said she said situation isn’t it?
        
        The smelliest part is how the original statement was couched to suggest the events described were from the same person. They didn’t say that, but that was my initial read.
        
        And “Another person from the home then went to the party member’s home and asked for their name and phone number so he could update him on Maipi-Clarke’s campaign” was the most deceitful act.
        
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        October 5, 2023 9:40pm
    - Sacha
      
      At the other ‘pub’? The police have dismissed the allegations.
      
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      October 5, 2023 8:36pm
  - Damocles11
    
    I think that’s correct, well do. He is a volunteer campaigner who showed up there as part of his door knocking. Obviously you have to go onto someone’s property to do that. There are two sides to every story, no doubt TPM have significantly ‘embroidered’ the facts. He is white and from the National Party, so he is fair game in their eyes and they will attempt to make his life a living hell as part of their vindictive and hateful political point scoring.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:58pm
    - Damocles11
      
      *done.
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:07pm
sungsamning

Fifth Circuit to DHS: Shut down Big Brother

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/10/04/fifth-circuit-to-dhs-shut-down-big-brother-n582325
Looks like another federal court doesn’t support the idea that Homeland Security’s writ includes America’s “cognitive infrastructure.” In a unanimous ruling yesterday, the Fifth Circuit expanded bars on the Biden administration’s Big Brother censorship activities, blocking the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) from any speech-policing communication with private-sector media platforms.
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October 5, 2023 10:34am
- imalwaysright
  
  Sungs,
  
  New Zealand’s version:
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499349/mbie-expands-intelligence-spy-unit-mi-beyond-immigration
  
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  October 5, 2023 11:30am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOi1utE-nD0
Racist (in my view) Rawiri Waititi comes clean (maybe unwittingly) on his disdain for Democracy.
Rawiri Waititi, leader of the racist Māori party (Racist because it IS a race based party) Makes it clear hi is ‘Anti democracy’.

If you read between the lines, what he seems to be promoting is a small elite collective that he calls ‘Community’ to rule the majority.
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October 5, 2023 10:34am
- MCōs
  
  That’s not what *racist* means
  
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  October 5, 2023 11:00am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Racist – believing a race is superior to another.
    Rawiri is very open about his racist views.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:07am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Waititi has a smarter DNA than whitie.
      So he thinks.
      
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      October 5, 2023 11:34am
  - rouppe
    
    It is when that small elite collective can only be Maori.
    
    It is when the self anointed leader of those elites (ie Rawiri himself) believes that Maori have superior genes.
    
    It is when Rawiri is always promoting things that are for the benefit of “his people” – or not to the benefit of other cultures
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:35pm
Damocles11

Ads are popping up on-line which feature a pack of archetypal Labour / Green / Te Part-Maori supporters, urging them to get out and vote. All paid for by the Electoral Commission.
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October 5, 2023 10:43am
- RoboRob
  
  Seen the adds, dont worry they are a waste of money. Most look like ‘environment’ addverts but all of them say something like
  
  person : ‘Votings a waste of time. No one cares what I think’
  
  response : ‘You should vote because you should vote becuase’.
  
  wow, im convinced. I need to vote becuase I should.
  
  Just goes to show how incompetant govt departments have become. p.s. still waiting for my easy vote papers even though I’m not in the electorates they had ‘printing problems’ in.
  
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  October 5, 2023 11:25am
  - Prince
    
    Same here. 3 more mail delivery days to go before Saturday 14th.
    Yes I could turn up without a card and have to spell my name out and my address, to allow them to trawl through to find me. Looking more likely now.
    
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    October 5, 2023 12:01pm
    - MCōs
      
      Back in the good old days that’s what it was always like.
      
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      October 5, 2023 1:44pm
    - Libertarians are right
      
      I did mine standing in line (a guy was walking down the line and filling out cards for anyone that didn’t have one). They look it up on a tablet and write the page and line on it.
      When you go to get your forms they go right to you. You don’t need the vote card.
      
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      October 5, 2023 2:30pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Dam,
  
  Shows how braindead they are if they need to be told.
  
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  October 5, 2023 11:32am
- RichardF
  
  Look at the voting papers, the illustrated characters are wearing headscarves, are brown, or female. No white guys allowed!
  
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  October 5, 2023 7:40pm
Maggie Pie

Things that make you go hmmm…..

“Covid is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
It will hunt down and infect the unvaccinated”

– Chis Hipkins (COVID-19 Response Minister)

Saline, anyone?
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October 5, 2023 11:00am
Ghost

A slow day, stuff now have a live weather thread going, yawn.

Weather live: Summer vibes across the country
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October 5, 2023 11:39am
All_on_Red

Am in HB at the moment
Drove past a Labour sign with the usual ‘In it for you’ but some Wit had changed it to ‘We Ruin it for you’!
Underneath Hipkins picture was written ‘WEF Puppet’
Must be fan of Clan’s!
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October 5, 2023 11:56am
Maggie Pie

FOLLOW THE MONEY 🙁

Genital mutilation is not just a fad.
Chris Moritz says they’ve turned inverted penises into money-making machines….

WATCH:

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1709689853661913465
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October 5, 2023 12:01pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yes a fad. Transgender is a mental disorder – a lot of the time by parents. A 4 year old kid does not think he is a girl. The parents think he is a girl.
  It stays with them until adulthood, then the scalpels come out.
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:17pm
  - Sacha
    
    Well I had a boy who for a brief period when he was about 4 claimed that he was really a girl. (He liked his sister’s ballet tutu and my high heeled shoes). And after he reclaimed his natural-born sexual orientation in his late teens, I rather wished he had stayed that way.
    Fortunately he’s turned out pretty ok in the Dad department.
    
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    October 5, 2023 8:44pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Super-unPC parody of Rich men north of Richmond taking a jab at problems with sex changing:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H6FW9jQyQU
  
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  October 5, 2023 1:19pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Can’t help this. Elon buys Twitter.
Wait for the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfxt-3ZBxt4
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October 5, 2023 12:29pm
Ghost

Another diary stabbing, thanks to the bystanders, you deserve awards

Police have arrested a man after a violent assault at an Auckland dairy this morning.

A 24-year-old was taken into custody after two people were injured about 10.30am, with a male victim needing treatment for critical injuries at Auckland City Hospital. A second person suffered moderate injuries.

Shoppers inside at the time of the attack stopped the offender and held him down, police said.

The hero bystanders then tended to both victims.

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October 5, 2023 12:53pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Ginny will say that was a win for the police.
  
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  October 5, 2023 12:58pm
- mandk
  
  I’m surprised the cops didn’t arrest the shoppers who tackled the attacker.
  
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  October 5, 2023 1:21pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  I thought the Police were looking for an older Pakeha gentleman who owned a property surrounded by National Party hoardings…?
  
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  October 5, 2023 1:44pm
  - peterwn
    
    Some people decline having a National Party hoarding as it can cause all sorts of trouble for them. There are less likely to be ‘consequences’ by having a Labour or Green hoarding on your fence.
    
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    October 5, 2023 6:45pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      The non Labour & Greens hoardings have been smashed and/ or otherwise defaced locally. Labour & Greens signs are pristine.
      
      TPM haven’t bothered to put up a sign – they obviously think there’re no votes for them in Ohariu. A bit racist, when you think about it.
      
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      October 5, 2023 8:23pm
Mrs_Right

According to The Taxpayers’ Union – Chris Hipkins was trying to claim he won’t work with Winston Peters. But he’s already walking that back! He told media earlier this week that “of course” he would pick up the phone to Winston Peters after the election.

I wasn’t aware of this. (I’m not a NZF voter btw).
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October 5, 2023 1:00pm
- Matt Long
  
  Pick up the phone? If the numbers work Labour will be assailing NZ First 24/7
  Please pick up Winston, loved working with you last time Winston. Can offer you 300 billion primary growth fund Winston.
  Who’s got Shane’s number?
  Kiora Shane, can you work with us if Winston won’t?
  
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  October 5, 2023 2:54pm
- Damocles11
  
  Hipkins knows this is the right time to start walking it back. Many NZ First voters have probably already voted & it’s now too late to change that vote. When Winston ends up going with Labour nobody should be overly surprised.
  
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  October 5, 2023 5:05pm
- peterwn
  
  Any PHIL101 student would see the falacy of Chris’s logic.
  
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  October 5, 2023 6:47pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Just heard on ZB that Auckland is expecting more than 50 Cruise Ships to visit here over summer. With 350,000 rich tourists expected into the city!

Best thing they can hope for, is that Mark Mitchell is the new Minister-of-Police….
and he’s given Cuddles the DCM.

Just saying.
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October 5, 2023 1:14pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, for the ‘doorway experience’ shore visit downtown Auckland.
  https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/q/q/1/w/i/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.1420×800.1qqvgt.png/1550170444148.jpg
  
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  October 5, 2023 1:31pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Big spending tourists.
  I was on a cruise last summer that stopped at Port Chalmers, Lyttelton, Wellington, Napier, Mount Maunganui and Auckland.
  My biggest item of expenditure was the $230 speed camera fine in the borrowed car. It got me at Te Poi.
  
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  October 5, 2023 2:47pm
lemuzz

I wonder if this would be called a racist attack if the English translation had been painted over instead?https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/te-reo-m%C4%81ori-words-painted-over-on-40-tauranga-waste-bins-in-racist-attack/ar-AA1hHXT0?ocid=socialshare&pc=U531&cvid=512e2a7bd8ee44f0b506034715841d48&ei=26
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October 5, 2023 1:45pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  If it is in English and defaced it is vandalism, if it is in maori and it is defaced it is racism. We have some precious people in this 3rd world utopia.
  
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  October 5, 2023 4:33pm
Guy Preston

Well, I’ll be damned… its a good thing that I care more about how taxes are spent (in current year) than how much I’m taxed. Just followed Nicola’s advice and had a gander at the NatTaxCalculator. seems me & mine are in line for a whole $49 a fortnight… Fish n’ Chips is back on the menu Boys!

#SqueezedMiddleStillSqueezed
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October 5, 2023 2:01pm
- Damocles11
  
  Certainly better than nothing but I see many Leftys whingeing about it under Hipkins’ latest Facebook post; they prefer Labours endless conveyor belt of free stuff.
  
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  October 5, 2023 5:08pm
Keith White

Not mine…

“For a Cold

We locked down the world,
For a cold.

We killed thousands at nursing homes,
For a cold.

We muzzled and separated people,
For a cold.

We did permanent damage to a generation of children,
For a cold.

We turned on each other,
For a cold.

We forced an experimental mmRNA transfection therapy on people,
For a cold.

Millions lost their jobs, livelihoods, careers, homes, marriages and even lives,
For a cold.

Don’t ever forget what was done,
For a cold!
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October 5, 2023 2:36pm
Maggie Pie

Is it just me…or is anyone else having trouble ‘upticking’ comments?
God only knows how many I must be missing out on 🙁
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October 5, 2023 3:07pm
Biscuit

Problems abound here, Maggie, but in the interest of bettering Wellington/Auckland relations I have just given you your first uptick – and I see it has ‘taken’!

A saint? Moi? Ah, I’m too modest…
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October 5, 2023 3:17pm
Albie

Had to laugh at The [Mod – use correct names] comment to Kerre this morning that a National government will take us back… and his problem is???
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October 5, 2023 3:22pm
Chuck Bird

During September, London cardiologist Aseem Malhotra toured New Zealand giving talks on matters covid.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1049-the-leighton-smith-podcas-30246213/episode/leighton-smith-podcast-214-october-124855406/
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October 5, 2023 3:27pm
krazykiwi

Oh, bless. Christopher wants to create a Minister for Space, announced while visiting RocketLab.

Please don’t let him visit a sewer processing plant.
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October 5, 2023 3:38pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
  
  Admittedly we did need a Space Act because we didn’t have any laws on the books regarding rockets and spacecraft because…. well, we’re New Zealand.
  
  But so far we’ve done perfectly well without a fucking Space Minister. With this will undoubtedly come a Ministry of Space, filled with Space Bureaucrats writing Space Regulations that extend beyond the actual written law of Parliament and which the latter will likely never be aware of. Just one aspect would probably be the inclusion of DIE standards. (Diversity Inclusion and Equity).
  
  As has been recently noted about the FAA’s reluctant granting of another licence for Musk to test the next iteration of Starship in Texas, not one person in the FAA actually has a fucking clue as what to fix on Starship; the only people who do work for SpaceX. The FAA in this case are just there to look over the shoulders of the SpaceX engineers and file paperwork.
  
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  October 5, 2023 3:56pm
  - Taieri
    
    You’ve forgotten Space Cadets…
    
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    October 5, 2023 5:26pm
- kiwi_chileno
  
  Christopher Luxon – space cadet.
  
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  October 5, 2023 4:59pm
- Damocles11
  
  Labour gave millions to some Crown-Maori space entity the other say, a Minister of Space sounds like it’ll be cheap by comparison.
  
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  October 5, 2023 5:10pm
- kevn
  
  kk… We currently have an abundance of ‘Waste of Space’ amongst the incumbent personnel.
  
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  October 5, 2023 5:14pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Cool title, ya gotta admit
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:26pm
Ghost

We already have a minister for sewage, Carmel Sepuloni minister for Auckland….
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October 5, 2023 3:52pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Got solar panels? Guess what?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2005152339843036
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October 5, 2023 4:27pm
- kevn
  
  SteveO…. Yep, 20 year life then bury them. Just when you have finished paying for the solar panels.
  
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  October 5, 2023 5:17pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Solar panels are mostly made of glass and other common elements such as Aluminum, copper, etc.
  
  https://blog.ucsusa.org/charlie-hoffs/how-are-solar-panels-made/
  
  If glass or silicon was toxic then people better stop buying windows or going to the beach.
  
  Our 5.3 Kw solar array was installed just over five years ago and has already paid for itself. Also increases the resale value of the house.
  
  “Solar panels have a lifespan of about 25 to 30 years, with an average annual degradation rate of 0.5%. After 20 years, panels should still be working at about 90% of their original output.”
  
  No one I know would bury a solar panel that is still producing 90% of its original output.
  
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  October 5, 2023 6:09pm
Maggie Pie

TWEET-OF-THE-DAY! 😀 😀 😀

https://twitter.com/iluminatibot/status/1709767472721936764
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October 5, 2023 4:29pm
Keith White

Dr Verrall, check your inbox…

Top U.S. Government Vaccine Adviser Refuses to Get Latest Covid Shot as He Warns of Long Term Impact of Myocarditis

A top vaccine adviser to the U.S. Government has refused to get the latest Covid shot as he warns about the long term impact of myocarditis and other serious side-effects.

In a video posted on X (Twitter) by the ‘Chief Nerd’, Dr. Paul Offit – a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccines committee – said he “didn’t get last year’s bivalent vaccine” and he’s “not getting this year’s vaccine”

“We certainly were surprised by myocarditis and pericarditis and we’ll see whether or not over time when we’re five years into this, 10 years into this, 15 years into this, whether there’s any evidence of residual myocardial disease because the reason you have myocarditis is you’re making immune response to your own heart muscle… We’ll find out about that over time.

(“Dr. Offit has previously been a cheerleader, not only for the Covid vaccines but for the vaccine mandates that forced millions of Americans to get the shots or quit their careers.)

“We’ll find out about that over time? You X%$#@!#!. Many of us warned y’all that you do not test an unresearched and unproven gene treatment on a planetary population? But no, you knew moah bettah —

Dr Offitt 2 years ago – “You do not have the ‘constitutional right’ to refuse the Covid-19 vaccine” – Opinion by Marci Hamilton and Paul Offit – Wed August 25, 2021.

Also Dr Offitt – …defending the first New York City vaccine mandate in summer 2021, he animatedly told CNN that “it is not your right as an American citizen to catch and transmit a potentially fatal infection”.

What changed, doc? Do you want to live longer now? Chickening out?
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October 5, 2023 4:36pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Meanwhile published yesterday in NZ
  
  04 Oct 2023 – Te Whatu Ora is reminding everyone that additional COVID-19 booster doses continue to be available for those who are eligible. This includes people aged 30 and older, and those aged 16 to 29 who are pregnant or are at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19.
  
  This recommendation is grossly negligent, and will cost lives. I’d like to know the name of the person who authorised it.
  
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  October 5, 2023 4:53pm
  - kevn
    
    kk…. Our early settlers will end up paying a big price for this type of offer. It has been focussed on them.
    
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    October 5, 2023 5:22pm
  - Keith White
    
    I don’t really want to pay for an IDD call to the MOH or Sewer Central (previously called the Beehive) but in NZ, vaccines have long been authorised directly by the Minister of Health (= Dr Verrall) following Medsafe approval consequent to the Chief Medical Officer’s (= Dr Bourne’s) recommendation.
    
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    October 5, 2023 5:29pm
Ghost

Nope don’t see any racism from the left happening in this election, right media?

“White people are stupid” and “can be fooled easily” according to a Green Party candidate who also labelled her opponent, Labour Minister Priyanca Radhakrishnan, “****ing useless” and an “incompetent” minister.

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But I do agree with her about Radhakrishnan
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October 5, 2023 4:53pm
- Swifty
  
  Charming.
  
  If this woman is delisted by the Greens, then why wasn’t Marama?
  
  Because the Greens are hypocrites, that’s why. They drown in double-standards. They are saturated by them.
  
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  October 5, 2023 5:35pm
- James Stephenson
  
  As a Maungakiekie resident I’d like to confirm that she’s f-ing useless dim bulb, but nobody’s seen her in three years so…
  
  Thankfully, Greg Fleming is going to stroll in this time round.
  
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  October 5, 2023 6:00pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hmmmmmmmm……..
  
  James Shaw might be in trouble….
  
  Well thank goodness this lady is a GP and not a teacher/University lecturer.
  
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  October 5, 2023 6:12pm
Ghost

New poll

A new Talbot Mills poll has shown NZ First rising again to 6.4 per cent into a hypothetical kingmaker position, while Labour continues to drop and Act drops back into the single digits.

The final pre-election NZ Insight poll by Talbot Mills Research for its corporate clients also has National rising to 38 per cent (up two since the last poll a month ago) and Labour dropping again to 27 per cent (down 3).

The Greens have nudged up to 13 per cent, the party’s highest result in the poll mid-2017. NZ First is up from 5.4 per cent in the September poll.

Act is on 9 per cent, down one. Te Pāti Māori is at 3.1 per cent and The Opportunities Party (Top) are on 2.3 per cent.

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Poor labour, can’t even get a rise in their own polls, viagra perhaps
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October 5, 2023 4:59pm
- Mrs_Right
  
  I believe this poll has Labour way too high. Good to see National going up.
  
  And Act will get double digits on election night.
  
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  October 5, 2023 5:09pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    “And, in my opinion, Act will get double digits on election night.”
    
    There; fixed it for you.
    
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    October 5, 2023 5:25pm
    - Mrs_Right
      
      Goes without saying ….
      
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      October 5, 2023 5:30pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        No, Mrs_Right. Not at all.
        
        You made a wild statement, as if it was incontrovertible fact, when you have no way of knowing if that is the case.
        
        But, don’t be crestfallen. You are not alone. The silly mistake you made at 5:09PM is very common on Kiwiblog.
        
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        October 5, 2023 5:42pm
      - Colville
        
        Steve.
        She said she believes.
        Do you have evidence otherwise?
        If not then pull your head in.
        
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        October 5, 2023 8:43pm
  - Ghost
    
    Only election night will tell but I expect labours core voter base will see them not get the catastrophic numbers some are predicting. I read someone claiming they are at 18% now
    
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    October 5, 2023 5:54pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  The minor party debate tonight should be interesting
  
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  October 5, 2023 5:24pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    At last!!
    
    A Chuck Bird comment I can agree with.
    
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    October 5, 2023 5:31pm
  - peterwn
    
    And Chris Hipkins declined to take part as he presumablt thinks that Labour is not a minor party.
    
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    October 5, 2023 6:56pm
Ghost

We have a press release from the police

Police don’t believe the incidents at Te Pāti Māori candidate Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke’s house were racially-motivated or coordinated.

In a lengthy statement on Thursday afternoon, police said investigations are underway into five reports received in relation to a property in Huntly.

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October 5, 2023 5:04pm
- Ghost
  
  Police Detective Inspector Darrell Harpur said police would be issuing a trespass notice to a Huntly resident after receiving a report at 10:20am on Wednesday. Police said a person entered the property and was subsequently asked to leave.
  
  “Police have established that an election hoarding was stolen from the property on 25 September but note this is in the context of several other hoardings in the area, from a range of political parties, being damaged or defaced.
  
  “This incident has been incorrectly reported as a ram raid – this is more correctly referred to as a theft. At this stage no further line of enquiry is available and this matter has been filed.
  
  “Three other incidents were reported by residents of the property on 25 September.
  
  “Police have followed up on reports of a suspicious vehicle, however at this stage we do not believe this vehicle is linked to any intentions at the property.
  
  “A report of an alleged burglary and receipt of a threatening note. These reports have been investigated and Police have been unable to establish any criminality, although enquiries are ongoing.”
  
  Det Insp Harpur said police have visited the property on several occasions to investigate the reports and provide reassurance.
  
  “Staff have offered crime prevention and safety advice to those occupants. Police do not believe that the incidents have been racially motivated or coordinated. While we acknowledge that the incidents in which people have come on to the property will have been unsettling, we do not believe these constitute a home-invasion style entry into the house.”
  
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  October 5, 2023 5:05pm
- Mrs_Right
  
  Jussie Smollett
  
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  October 5, 2023 6:21pm
Paul Marsden

More today from Hatchard on the jab cover up…

https://hatchardreport.media/pdf-files/additional-information-thousands-of-moh-workers-were-granted-covid-vaccine-exemptions.pdf
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October 5, 2023 5:36pm
kevn

Following up the MOH ‘exemption’ for all debacle…
https://preview.mailerlite.com/y4b8e3t1j2/2318706863018875683/a4i1/
Hello (gonged/rewarded for what?) bloomfield. Let’s be hearing from you. Or hipkins…
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October 5, 2023 5:52pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby-world-cup-2023/133063230/mils-muliaina-on-why-sam-cane-and-beauden-barrett-should-be-nailedon-all-blacks-starters
Muliaina is dead wrong: Cane is not an asset for the ABs, he is a yellow-card magnet and is not leadership material.
Give the job to Ardie/Whitelock/1stFive in that order.
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October 5, 2023 6:26pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Speaker of the House.
Donald Trump?

https://www.thepoliticalglobe.com/trumps-game-changing-revelation-open-to-serving-as-house-speaker/
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October 5, 2023 6:36pm
Maggie Pie

Watching ‘The Chase’ earlier then Simon Dallow came on with The Ewes.
Talk about WOKE!
He’s not half the man he used to be since Ali left him 🙁
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October 5, 2023 6:37pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Dear..

who to believe?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/10/election-2023-man-accused-by-te-p-ti-m-ori-of-unlawfully-entering-candidate-s-home-says-he-s-innocent-wanted-to-wish-her-well.html
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October 5, 2023 6:39pm
- Ghost
  
  The statement the police released had shown she is making shit up. Home ram raided was an election sign being taken.
  
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  October 5, 2023 6:44pm
Prince

Has there been a dirtier election campaign ?
Everyone I know understands National’s tax cuts vary according to personal circumstances.
Labour have successfully organised a media attack because, shock horror, not everyone gets the full $250 a fortnight tax relief.
I have to give Luxon and Willis full credit for not physically attacking the Media lackies for their patently absurd parroting of Labour’s attack lines.

Do you think the NZ Media would highlight my predicament – I get no benefit from the GST off fruit and veggies because I grow my own. Labour is running a scam with that policy.

If National/Act and even NZF find themselves in Government despite these attacks, I fervently pray they will stop any funding, halt paying for newspapers to Govt Depts, and cut back advertising to a bare minimum.
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October 5, 2023 6:49pm
cmm

” Luxon has told members of the public that he doesn’t want any unvaccinated voting for him.”

I’ve seen that claim in a few places. Is it true?

Well I guess that will make any future voting a bit easier until he, or whomever subsequently takes over from him, says otherwise.

What a stupid and divisive thing to say!
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October 5, 2023 7:06pm
- Ghost
  
  If it was true it would be plastered over the media with him saying it
  
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  October 5, 2023 7:11pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Really difficult to believe that any politician would utter such words. Why turn off anyone who might conceivably vote for you?
  
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  October 5, 2023 7:18pm
- Prince
  
  More desperate lies from the Left.
  
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  October 5, 2023 7:42pm
- Keith White
  
  Luxon has said quite a few other stupid and divisive things a year ago
  
  Mod: link is to a Luxon speech 21 February 2022, 2:53 pm where amongst other delights /sarc he stated
  
  “Some would have you believe that the public health response is without fault, while others would deny the very real challenges posed by Omicron, which will result in growing numbers of hospitalisations and illness. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.” No. The jab kills and maims much more than the WuFlu.
  
  “The protest at Parliament includes people who are showing a flagrant disregard for the law – blocking off streets, ignoring rules and abusing Wellingtonians.” Hype much?
  
  “Omicron is highly infectious, but milder. Covid is now manageable for the vast bulk of people at home. It isn’t the flu. But it is similar to other infectious diseases in that it can be controlled and managed. And we have highly promising Covid treatments coming soon.” Nonsense on stilts.
  
  “Use effective public health measures like vaccination, boosters, testing and treatments.” Not safe, not effective, not accurate, and no specific treatments.
  
  “Vaccination has been transformational. Vaccination and boosters are protecting our hospital system.” Bollox.
  
  https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2202/S00145/christopher-luxon-a-divided-society.htm
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:10pm
  - Keith White
    
    And here’s more fuel for the tickfire 🙂
    
    On Luxon’s 1st day, he was asked by RNZ’s Susie Ferguson whether he supported the policy of withdrawing sole parent support benefits for parents that don’t vaccinate their children. He said he supported the idea, and even indicated some support for it extending to Working For Families benefits.
    
    “It’s about a notion of rights and responsibilities. If you want to be part of New Zealand and a civil society, you have certain inalienable rights but you also have responsibilities for the collective and in helping the collective of New Zealand,” Luxon said.
    
    “Get yerself jabbed because yer part of the collective or it’ll cost ya!” Shurely that was Chris H? No, campers, that was your Chris L.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:02pm
  - Damocles11
    
    No I won’t vote for Winston or Hipkins.
    
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    October 5, 2023 11:04pm
Flossie

TV One News tonight should have been presented with the byline “political broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party”.
Unbelievable bias!!!
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October 5, 2023 7:18pm
- Damocles11
  
  Katie Bradford looking directly at the camera and smirking after her piece in the studio. The bias is obvious & it’s serious: the mainstream media will fight for every vote for their Labour masters.
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:19pm
Damocles11

Watching the minor party debate and by geez Peters and Seymour have been strong in standing up to the pathetic Shaw and Waititi and the corrupt Tame and hand-picked audience of young left wingers. Not a Peters voters but I think he is landing some blows here, Seymour maintains his dignity and speaks well in the hostile environment, and Shaw is just a vile weasel.
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October 5, 2023 7:50pm
- Colville
  
  But wow dosent Peters look like someones drunken grandfather!
  
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  October 5, 2023 8:47pm
  - Jack5
    
    I felt sorry for Peters tonight.
    
    TVNZ was teaching him not to attack it, and to remember his place as a mere politician.
    
    The minor-party leaders show allowed Tame to square the account after the Peters attack on him and TVNZ a few days ago (link below).
    
    The Leftist panel afterwards even ridiculed Peters.
    
    As for Colville’s description (his post above) of Peters as a drunken grandfather …
    
    How would Colville describe the man with the tattooed face under a cowboy hat, and how would he describe, standing at the other end of the panel, the very urban looking Green globetrotter purporting to speak on behalf of poor folk?
    
    Peters didn’t win my vote, but he won my sympathy.
    
    Why TVNZ wanted utu:
    
    https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/10/01/winston-peters-attacks-tvnz-says-he-wants-broadcasting-portfolio/
    
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    October 5, 2023 9:07pm
Damocles11

I feel very angry over the way the debate has been conducted. It is a disgrace for TVNZ to set up a ‘theatre of pain’ full of Green supporters so that Seymour gets targeted for abuse and putdowns by Shaw while the crowd howls with laughter and cheers. We will see who has the last laugh when the lection is over.
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October 5, 2023 7:59pm
Hugh Jarse

Is Janet Wilson pissed or just affected by age ?
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October 5, 2023 8:42pm
- Damocles11
  
  I honestly think her and Hooton – both of them depend on media work for a livelihood – are no win the pocket of the Left, who of course have the money and the connections to make it worth both their while. Hooton has a gig at NZME through the New Red Herald, and Wilson’s getting work with TVNZ. They get paid to say what their masters want to hear, a bunch of stuff that undermines the Right.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:16pm
Damocles11

The aftermatch panel afterwards are blowing smoke up Shaws jacksy. We get to see footage of him belitting Seymour in a rerun highlights real. Janet Wilson seems to have gone over to the dark side, she seems to adore Shaw.
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October 5, 2023 8:43pm
Ghost

Did labour change the election laws to try and get a bigger overseas vote?

The rules about who can vote from overseas have changed.

You can enrol and vote in the 2023 General Election from overseas if all the following statements are true:

you are 18 years or older
you’ve lived in New Zealand for more than 12 months continuously at some time in your life
you are one of the following:
a New Zealand citizen who has been in New Zealand within the last 6 years
a New Zealand permanent resident who has been in New Zealand within the last 4 years.

After the 2023 General Election the eligibility criteria will change back to the previous settings of 3 years for New Zealand citizens and 12 months for New Zealand permanent residents.

Link
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October 5, 2023 8:49pm
- Damocles11
  
  Yes they did. Everything is being done to garner as many votes for the Left as possible, that’s why prisoners can now voters , Harry Tam goes around encouraging gang members to vote, we get Electoral Commission ads pitched as typical left wing voters, and they attempted to lower the voting age to 16 years. They’ll be back for another crack at getting the voting age lowered, you can be sure of it.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:22pm
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    He wants another $2.75 million to pay his whanau.
    
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    October 6, 2023 2:04am
Inandout

I watched Tucker speak with a man who has researched the trans business in the US and it is indeed a massive industry. Many sides to this ‘cut and thrust’ procedure apparently but the 25% who have major medical problems afterwards have not been studied so they just live in painful misery. The female to male procedure we are told does not have as many side effects but shit why do it? And then there are the kids who get butchered. There is one message here though that is very plain; follow the money.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/04/lip-filler-tucker-carlson-researcher-money-transgender-inc/
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October 5, 2023 8:49pm
Hugh Jarse

Oh my god, the “expert” panel gave it two to little Jimmy Shaw and one to Rawiri Waititi. Talk about a joke. The only time the audience clapped was Rawiri after a rant. These people are so out of touch with the rest of New Zealand it’s not funny. LOL
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October 5, 2023 8:54pm
- Paul Marsden
  
  There was only one stand out and that was Seymour by a country mile.
  
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  October 5, 2023 9:41pm
igm

Bet PJIF precludes public in New Zealand ever seeing this . . .
https://apnews.com/article/italy-bus-crash-victims-venice-dcde9f5c2b39f19dace8317caa9ebbba
Talk about Pravda, our MSM are far worse.
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