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Tomtoddy

My wife was shopping in a supermarket yesterday and witnessed a very blatant shoplifting incident. A woman, may be 25 – 30 years old, (we won’t mention ethnicity) took a couple of tins of the most expensive infant formula and walked through the self charging area without stopping. Another customer yelled something and a rather overweight security person then intervened trying to take the tins from her. A couple, who were obviously friends then joined in with lots of yelling, rather foul language and accusations of intimidation, assault, racial profiling, knowing my rights, etc. She left without paying still yelling obscenities out in the carpark.

The security person seemed to be at pains not to handle any of the three involved, rather blocking them and trying to grab the tins from her. Among the claims the thief made were: she had hungry babies, she was desperate, she forgot her purse, the supermarket could afford it, lots of people take food without paying, plus other excuses.

According to a granddaughter who works part time stacking shelves the problem is growing, it is very significant and impacts all prices. She said the manager told her it costs him between $50 and $100 for every $1.00 in value stolen. They are told not to intervene but report theft. Some even fill trolleys and walk out getting away with it.
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November 29, 2023 8:03am
- pdm
  
  TT – Security Guards are not allowed to handle people in any way.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:19am
  - John Loveridge
    
    They need bouncers then, not security guards.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:03am
    - David Garrett
      
      John L: We need a change of laws, and urgently, to give shop staff – including security – the right to stop people and search them – provided there is a clear notice warning of that possibility on the door of the premises, which you still see now and then.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:18am
      - Paulus
        
        Set up after till exits where the paid bill has to go through a verification system, before the gates open.
        Do this overseas I understand.
        
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        November 29, 2023 1:49pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    I don’t understand this. I’m fairly certain that general public may use something like “That force which is reasonably necessary to prevent the commission of a crime” in NZ. So stopping a thief seems well within rights of a security guard or any member of the general public
    
    If the problem is that they are afraid of being done for assault then the problem is the police+prosecution and judiciary for being pricks about guarding what they see as their ‘turf’ from others stepping in because they aren’t adequately addressing the problem.
    
    It shouldn’t require any law changes, just a change in how police + judiciary etc accommodate reasonable society-protecting behaviour
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:20am
    - lastmanstanding
      
      Back in 1995 I made a citizens arrest of a guy who had stolen a car from the dealership I managed. Long story short a mate who owned a tyre shop rang me to report the guy had turned up wanting to swop the aftermarket wheels for standard wheels. I rang the cops to tell them when the guy was turning up to collect the car. I arrived at the tyre shop before the cops and put my hand on the crooks shoulder and said ( and I enjoyed this) Your nicked thats my car. The cops turned up a couple of minutes later and cuffed the guy and took him away. They said I was well within my rights to do what I did. Citizens arrests are still on the books.
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:38am
  - cmm
    
    “Security Guards are not allowed to handle people in any way.”
    
    I don’t think that is the law. Rather that is company policy.
    
    If you handled a person to repossess some stolen property then I doubt very much they’d be able to ping you for assault.
    
    Sure, if you punched their lights out, but firmly grabbing an arm etc I doubt it.
    
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    November 29, 2023 12:09pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      So what are the security guards Labour put outside every single WINZ office in the country after the murder at WINZ in Ashburton?
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:12pm
      - cmm
        
        Show of force to make people feel the government is in charge.
        Same as the cops that turn up half an hour after you needed them.
        
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        November 29, 2023 2:21pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        According to a security guard I spoke with last week, who works at a WINZ office. They’re there to shuffle the staff and clients into a “safe room”.
        
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        November 29, 2023 4:27pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      Might it also be safety elf “Worksafe” stupidity? That if a security guard gets injured in an assault that the company is then liable for that and subject to fines for not take “all practicable measures to prevent” etc.
      
      If so then send in the orcs to fix that particular piece or regulatory nonsense.
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:33pm
    - sirknz
      
      Security guards have no more rights then any other citizen. That means they cannot touch you or anyone else for that matter.
      
      It isn’t company policy, it is the law.
      
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      November 29, 2023 1:47pm
      - cmm
        
        Rubbish. Anyone, including security guards have the right to protect property.
        
        Here’s the Crimes Act:
        
        53 Defence of movable property with claim of right
        
        (1) Every one in peaceable possession of any movable thing under a claim of right, and every one acting under his or her authority, is protected from criminal responsibility for defending his or her possession by the use of reasonable force, even against a person entitled by law to possession, if he or she does not strike or do bodily harm to the other person.
        
        Grabbing, pushing, shoving, obstructing a person is allowed. striking (ie hitting them) or hurting them is not allowed.
        
        Here is some community law advice:
        https://communitylaw.org.nz/community-law-manual/chapter-33-common-crimes/assault/possible-defences-to-assault-charges/
        
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        November 29, 2023 2:30pm
      - Ghost
        
        https://communitylaw.org.nz/community-law-manual/chapter-33-common-crimes/shoplifting/the-shops-powers-and-your-rights/
        
        Shop staff or security guards can forcibly prevent you leaving the shop only in two kinds of situations:
        
        expensive items – if the things they suspect you of stealing are worth $1,000 or more (a higher-end laptop for example), or
        night time – if it’s between 9.00 pm and 6.00 am (when you’re in an all-night service station for example).
        They also need to have “reasonable and probable grounds” for believing that you’ve stolen the items. A vague suspicion won’t be enough.
        
        In these cases, the shop staff or guard would be carrying out what’s sometimes called a “citizen’s arrest,” and they can use reasonable force to hold you. However, they still don’t have the right to search you or your bag without your consent.
        
        If neither of those situations justifying a citizen’s arrest apply, the shop can ask you to remain but you don’t have to do so – you can simply walk away.
        
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        November 29, 2023 2:36pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    They are also paid about $18 an hour last time I checked and are pretty much left defenseless. It’s also an excruciatingly boring job.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:05pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Most of us don’t steal stuff because we have a moral backbone. For the feral remained there needs to be consequences, and they need to be a visible deterrent to others.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:22am
  - MCōs
    
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    I suppose that depends how you define steal.
    Plenty of upright citizens have no issue with avoiding tax by paying tradies in cash.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:59am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Tax is theft. We mostly accept this theft on the basis of some social contract whereby society itself benefits from that theft. If it ever becomes clear to the majority that the state does not uphold its end of the social contract the peer-to-peer transactions will happen more frequently. Brazil is a great example of this.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:03am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Theft is
        
        dishonestly and without claim of right, taking any property with intent to deprive any owner permanently of that property or of any interest in that property
        
        – Crimes Act s.219
        Taxation is not theft.
        
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        November 29, 2023 9:23am
    - David Garrett
      
      MCos: Another bush lawyer. Paying a tradie in cash is NOT either illegal or “avoiding tax” on the part of the payer. Whether the tradie declares payments made to him is up to him…if he doesn’t then HE is avoiding tax – in fact he is actively evading it.
      
      Tax 101 (and I didn’t even do it)
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:39am
      - mikenmildagain
        
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        Morally wrong to assist a tradie to evade tax. Most ethical people wouldn’t do it.
        
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        November 29, 2023 9:55am
      - Burtland
        
        warning: stop feeding the seagull your fish and chips and he might stop annoying you
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:33am
      - krazykiwi
        
        My God … the odious troll who supported the state mandating people to take experimental injections, who endorsed NZers being locked out of their country, and who gleefully supported the unvaccinated being excluded from society presumes to lecture us on morality.
        
        Every time I find something disgusting on the side of my shoe, milky, I am immediately reminded of you.
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:49am
      - Cassandra
        
        Interesting take on ethics by mike. Some people can be ethical and unethical simultaneously.
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:58am
      - hullkiwi
        
        MMA, paying somebody in cash can never be considered, knowingly helping a tradie/business owner etc. to evade tax. For example a shopper paying cash (which is legal tender) for purchases to a shop keeper is a normal business activity. How can that be encouraging a shop keeper to evade tax?
        
        Please note, avoiding tax is legitimate, as tax avoidance is deemed to be minimising the tax liability of the taxpayer through their legitimate business activity. Tax evasion is the non payment of a tax liability that has arisen because of either a tax income stream has arisen, or a transaction attracting GST or other excise has occurred.
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:17am
      - david
        
        Cassandra, would that be Schrodinger’s Ethics by any chance?
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:49am
    - herb1
      
      So you never pay cash at any retailer , cafe etc. if you did by your own implication your helping or encouraging the recipient to avoid THEIR tax obligations
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:45am
      - Lara
        
        You ‘re helping!
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:34am
    - peterwn
      
      How the tradie handles his business matters is of no concern of the customer. It is not the customer’s job to enforce IRD policies.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:46am
    - Simon
      
      How is paying a tradies in cash a crime by the payor?? How is the payor avoiding tax….. Probably cut out reading MSM for a while.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:55am
    - rouppe
      
      Whose responsibility is it for paying the tax?
      
      Hint: Not the person paying for the work.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:58am
      - MCōs
        
        Let’s not beat around the bush
        If someone says pay me cash and I’ll knock off the gst and you agree, whatever the law might say is hardly the point.
        On the other hand
        If you pay cash at a restaurant with no such agreement it’s not your lookout what the restauranteur does with the cash, wouldn’t you say?
        
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        November 29, 2023 12:07pm
      - wsk12345
        
        Ok mcos so I should be forced to pay my bills electronically to avoid the risk that the tradie might choose not to pay tax? Why don’t we just go right to a CBDC?
        
        I prefer to pay irregular bills in cash. Quick and easy. It’s none of anyone else’s business what I spend my money on, the same as it’s none of my business what happens to the money after it leaves my possession.
        
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        November 29, 2023 2:24pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      It gets better…
      
      Tradie taking cash pays no tax on the money. There is even a GST refund on materials that were used in the job …. 🙂
      
      What’s not to like?
      
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      November 29, 2023 1:19pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      MCōs so it’s cool if I steal your stuff? Because someone somewhere did a black market deal?
      You are making what’s known as a (cheap-shot) false equivalence. My lefty friends (what’s left of them) do that all the time. Pinning them down on this crap stunt is like trying to catch fish with bare hands.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:10pm
- alex Masterley
  
  I have seen similar incidents in our local countdown.
  During one of them, I asked the thief if she was going to pay. She suggested that I have carnal relations with various members of my family. I then loudly suggested to her that she was a thief.
  Her response was to ask if I wanted a fight. When I said yes she took off at a rate of knots.
  I have seen the thief a couple of time since, again walking out with some items.
  The problem is endemic according to a golfing colleague who runs a supermarket in another part of town.
  Not good.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:23am
  - Burtland
    
    same at local countdown – feral walked in, pinched a bottle of wine then walked out the entrance through the swing gates
    
    the supermarkets have given up – they just pass the cost on to their “valued” customers
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:42am
- MCōs
  
  On the other hand.
  My wife was shopping in the local supermarket for a couple of bits and pieces. When she got to the cashier she found she’d left her atm card at home
  A young bloke behind her (we won’t mention ethnicity) paid for her stuff.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:30am
  - MCōs
    
    That’s a bit mean spirited
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:48am
  - RoboRob
    
    Very nice. It’s good to see good people still about 🙂
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:52am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Bet he was a ytee. Just saying.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:52am
  - Random T Person
    
    My boys went up to the local shop the other day with my (newly issued) credit card and couldn’t remember the PIN. The dude behind them paid for their ice creams. What a nice man.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:58am
  - Burtland
    
    Local Westpac had a feral sitting outside begging – staff indicated to him he should come in – they opened a new customer bay, gave him some cash and he left – nice bank.
    
    Conversation between the staff afterwards suggested he was a regular.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:53am
- Simon
  
  NEW YORK, June 29 (Reuters) – Top executives and major law enforcement agencies in the U.S. are fretting about organized crime rings targeting retailers’ stores and trucks for goods they can resell online.
  
  Gangs of thieves coordinate to steal many millions of dollars of merchandise – often perfume, cosmetics, toiletries or power drills.
  
  https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/organized-retail-crime-multi-billion-dollar-problem-2023-06-29/
  
  Police should be arresting all shop lifers and bar coding them.
  
  There will likely be a NZ black market for shop lifted items but not sure of the extent. Does anyone know if investigation of potential black market of shop lifted items?
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:47am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    I bought a Jacket on Trademe recently. When it arrived it had the tags from Hunting and Fishing still on it. Apparently it was an unwanted gift I paid half the price for the unworn garment. Who’s to know one way or the other?
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:42am
    - hullkiwi
      
      …and there is the warning to anybody purchasing such items, even on Trade Me. Whether you buy the goods, provedence is everything. If the goods were stolen, it doesn’t matter how much you paid for the goods, ownership is still with the party from whom the goods were stolen….
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:27am
- John Loveridge
  
  There is an ongoing epidemic of walk-outs at the Pak ‘N Save in Kaitaia. If I remember correctly what my buddy told me they don’t even bother with security, because the thieves and the security guards are all “whanau”. I don’t know how a business can keep running under those circumstances.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:03am
  - lifesgood
    
    The rest of us pay for it in higher prices.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:02am
  - peterwn
    
    It probably won’t. The franchisee owner-operator bears the losses, not Foodstuffs. The other option is to hike the prices just short of the opposition to cover the losses (there does not seem to be a Woolworths in Kaitaia anyway).
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:24am
  - greybeard
    
    I believe that that “whanau” thing would explain a lot of Oranga Tamariki actions as well.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:43am
- surfing
  
  Either stolen for order, or she had no money due to involvement in drugs and alcohol.
  
  Either way, if I was PM….
  
  Security guards would have special legal rights to detain, cops called and arrest her for theft, and this automatically triggers social services to roll in and remove her kids until she has been assessed for child neglect.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:32am
  - peterwn
    
    The Government was granted special powers to certain transit security/revenue staff, so it would be quite appropriate to give limited enforcement powers to registered security guards who pass appropriate NZCA units in security, loss control and the associated legal framework.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:30am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Since when did they lose all powers? I know the woke previous regime are crazy enough to do it, but I do not remember them going through legislation to de power security guards
    
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    November 29, 2023 12:18pm
artemisia

So Mr Renney from the CTU is really worried that tax changes for landlords will blow out the tax revenue deficit bigly. “Christmas for landlords” he says.

As he is an actual economist, I am sure he has taken into account the savings from proposed changes in the rental sector. Like investors coming back or not selling up, savings from emergency and social housing if supply increases and risk of suboptimal tenants decreases. And then there are the empty rentals not available to seasonal workers due to Labour’s tenure rules.

Just ECON101 – supply and demand.
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November 29, 2023 8:05am
- RoboRob
  
  ‘As he is an actual economist’…..
  
  I learnt a long time ago that any ‘economist’ working from the unions is first and foremost a PR mouthpiece for the unions and Labour party.
  
  Also, unlike accountants and other professions, their is no professional qualification for an economist. Once you have an economics degree anyone can claim to be the economist for xyz company / organisation.
  
  And yeah, you don’t need any economics qualifications to understand that increasing costs to suppliers / businesses will lead to increased costs to the consumer, in this case the tenant.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:04am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    no professional qualification for an economist
    
    LOL
    There is no ‘professional qualification’ either for a:
    – geographer
    – historian
    – biologist
    – physicist
    – astronomer
    etc
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:28am
    - Simon
      
      CTU economist who stopped learning decades ago. A dinosaur. Economist it impresses the simple folk who struggle to pay for this rubbish.
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:08am
    - RoboRob
      
      True, so when someone makes a call to authority like ‘Im a biologist so believe me when I say…’ you should take it with a grain of salt unless you are aware of the qualifications and reputation.
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:09am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Yeah, but you didn’t really talk about that. You said economists couldn’t be taken seriously because they don’t have ‘professional’ qualifications like accountants.
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:40am
      - JackRabbit
        
        And there is a vast difference between having a qualification (a piece of paper that says you passed a spot test exam that you crammed for), and being qualified, which means you have the knowledge, experience, and understanding.
        
        Those that are effective in technology and IT, are in the main qualified people who have no pieces of paper (qualification).
        
        A plumber that dropped out of school at 15 and makes $300k per year in his own business, is 20 times smarter than uni graduate with a BA, MA, Phd, but who can’t get a job, or ends up working for a govt dept being an expert in climate change or perhaps a green or Labour MP.
        
        On an adjusted IQ scale, where they test for the ability to apply your knowledge to the challenges of survival and productivity, requiring complex and quantum analysis, and actual work, James Shaw and Chloe Swore Brick, would be hovering around 25-30%.
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:12am
    - Cassandra
      
      And they’re all judged by their peers by what the say and write. Much less so in the economists case. It’s a difficult profession to define. Read Croaking Cassandra.
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:03am
    - hullkiwi
      
      MMA, what has happened to your Google skills of late?
      
      Just as there is a professional body for accountants, there is a professional body for economists. It is New Zealand Association of Economists (www.nzae.org.nz), and most of the professions you listed have their own professional bodies.
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:54am
  - Burtland
    
    warning warning : dont encourage the seagull with your fish’n’chips
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:59am
    - ISeeRed
      
      He gets more than enough downticks to warrant a holiday. He’s not welcome here.
      
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      November 29, 2023 4:32pm
- peterwn
  
  Funny that the trade unionist is more concerned about general economics than about the availability of accommodation for union members. No acknowledgement that the removal of deductability puts upward pressure on rents.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:39am
  - JackRabbit
    
    Unionists and Labour lovies squeal if their freebies gravy tap is about to be turned off. Landlords are not getting freebies with the law change.
    
    They are simply being allowed to include all costs in the running of their business, of which mortgage interest is one.
    
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    November 29, 2023 11:16am
- Burtland
  
  “Craig Renny brings a wealth of experience with him having worked most recently for the Minister of Finance, Grant Robertson as his Senior Economic Advisor for five years”
  
  the cancer spreads
  
  https://union.org.nz/ctu-announces-new-economist-and-director-of-policy/
  
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  November 29, 2023 11:03am
  - peterwn
    
    If he was that hot then surely Nicola Willis would have kept him on.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:17pm
- oldgolfer
  
  He who featured so prominently during the election campaign. So often, in fact, I thought he was on contract to various networks.
  
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  November 29, 2023 11:47am
Lee C

It’s called ‘Bidenomics’ Tom…
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November 29, 2023 8:06am
- Random T Person
  
  Or Piketty’s Wet Dream.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:59am
Grunter

A decent read on the imminent collapse of the global financial system and why wealth protection by buying gold is the only way out of this mess. Gold price nudging towards an all time high in USD today.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/von-greyerz-financial-system-has-reached-end
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November 29, 2023 8:07am
- krazykiwi
  
  “Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero”
  — Voltaire
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:34am
  - Dudley Quaffquaff
    
    When is “eventually”? Eventually we’re all going to die, and so eventually are our children and their children, and eventually the sun’s going to explode and Earth will be incinerated. France, where Voltaire lived, is among several countries where the value of paper money has not returned to its intrinsic value of zero in the 250-odd years since he left us.
    
    You might want to argue that paper money only has a value because of the social convention that says it does. Fine; but if we do get ourselves into a situation where social conventions about what’s valuable don’t hold any more, I would put it to you that gold’s not going to help either
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:47am
- Stellaboxer
  
  The financial system is always on the verge of collapse according to those who sell gold. I remember a guy in the states back in 2016 who was predicting the end of the financial system and collapse of the US dollar by May of that year in fact he had written a book which was a guide to navigating the ensuing chaos and which metals to buy and how which retailed at US $ 25.00 payable by PayPal or credit card lol.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:37am
  - krazykiwi
    
    I agree that concern by gold sellers is naked self interest. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real risk ahead though. Fiat money is a Ponzi scheme, and CBDCs are being positioned as the way out. There will be no better way to enslave humanity than have CBDCs achieve critical mass.
    
    This substacker – Peter St Onge, Ph.D – has good analysis on the topic of money systems, central banks etc.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:01am
    - Grunter
      
      Of course no one has a crystal ball – we’re all ‘reading tea leaves’ of some sort and trying to figure out “what’s next??”
      For me, having some physical gold seems to make some sense. It is the only money that has survived 5,000 years.
      The current global debt can not be paid back – it is now mathematically impossible because it is so big. And it is growing faster than at any other point in history. So we are either seeing something that has never happened before in history (exploding credit/money printing with no collapse) – or we are going to see history repeat itself whereby reality hits a brick wall.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:31am
      - Stellaboxer
        
        I totally agree Grunter every portfolio should have some metal in it, in my opinion its a no brainer. I was actually pointing out the fact that the guy predicting the imminent collapse of the dollar and financial system wanted paid in dollars by the about to collapse financial system such was he’s confidence in his own prophecy .
        
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        November 29, 2023 9:48am
  - sungsamning
    
    The same stuff was doing the rounds on YT after the GFC in 2008-2010. I don’t recall it causing a depression then.
    
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    November 29, 2023 5:03pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Zero Hedge has been famously described as ‘accurately predicting 200 of the last 2 recessions’.
  It’s garbage.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:30am
  - Simon
    
    In June, we noted that Meta’s Instagram was caught facilitating a massive pedophile network, by which the service would promote pedo-centric content to other pedophiles using coded emojis, such as a slice of cheese pizza.
    
    According to the the Wall Street Journal, Instagram allowed pedophiles to search for content with explicit hashtags such as #pedowhore and #preteensex, which were then used to connect them to accounts that advertise child-sex material for sale from users going under names such as “little slut for you.” And according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Meta accounted for more than 85% of child pornography reports, the Journal reported.
    
    https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/instagram-reels-sexualizing-children-offered-adults-who-follow-preteen-influencers
    
    Good reporting on the sick fuck Meta business model. More relevant than say lame Christchurch’s call. Real world from Zero Hedge.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:16am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Most economists would struggle to explain what has already happened.
    Asking one to predict an economic outcome is probably worse than flipping a coin.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:39am
    - hullkiwi
      
      There are two well known cliches about predicting the future, these are:
      
      1. What happened yesterday or 12 months ago, is no more a basis for predicting what will happen tomorrow than tossing a coin 49 times and getting heads and expecting the 50th coin toss to be tails; or
      2. Any forecast set in concrete about the future, will only ever be a monument to stupidity, as subsequent events always mean predictive forecasts are just like yesterday’s newspapers…
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:33pm
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  I am not well informed about Gold as a protection against the collapse of the financial markets.
  
  So what happens when said markets collapse?
  
  If I own Gold, how do I use this asset?
  
  Do I need a safe and scales and a means of splitting my gold and a list of places that will be happy to trade goods and services for gold?
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:42am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Governments really, really don’t like citizens storing wealth in assets they can’t control – gold being one of them. The increasing regulation (or attempted regulation of) cryptocurrencies like BTC is another indicator.
    
    And if they can’t control, they simply seize the asset as US government did in 1933 when Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102, which made gold ownership–both in coins and in bars–illegal for all Americans and punishable by up to ten years in prison. Anyone caught with gold would also have to pay a fine of twice the amount of gold that was not turned over to the Federal Reserve in exchange for paper money.
    
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    November 29, 2023 2:49pm
    - mawm
      
      Australia did it in 1959. What’s to stop any government from doing it?
      
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      November 29, 2023 4:03pm
- virtualmark
  
  Grunter, a few questions:
  
  1) How you going to hold your gold? Are you going to take physical delivery of it and store it at home? If so please send me your address. Or are you going to rely on someone like a dealer to store it in their vault? Do you trust them? If the world all turns pear-shaped what’s to stop them running off with your gold?
  
  2) Now you have gold, and the world has turned pear shaped … how are you going to use your gold? Do you think you can rock up to the local Four Square and pay with it? Are you going to carry some scales and shave off just the right amount? And what’s to stop them stealing your gold?
  
  Honestly, if the world ends up in such a dark place that you think your gold is useful what you’ll actually find out is the only things that have value are guns and tinned food.
  
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  November 29, 2023 4:02pm
- ISeeRed
  
  I’ve been hearing this since the 90s.
  
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  November 29, 2023 4:32pm
Opie

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/young-makeup-artist-on-contraceptive-pill-dies-from-blood-clot/

Hmmm. September 2021 you say. Just for avoidance of doubt, could we please know when these poor young ladies were “vaccinated” before they were suddenly riddled with blood clots and died suddenly?

I’m an engineer, not a coroner so I don’t beleive in coincidences…
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November 29, 2023 8:09am
- Simon
  
  A coroner is just some lame lawyer. In a real court setting the Judge gets to hear from both sides experts witnesses. Whereas a coroner just gets fed whatever garbage say govt doctors come up with.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:19am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  My mates wife had the same thing back in the 80s so yes it does happen
  
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  November 29, 2023 12:23pm
  - mawm
    
    What we do need to know is if there is an increase in the frequency of blood clots. The mRNA vaccines have been shown to be coagulopathic. I’m sure our MoH is onto it.
    
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    November 29, 2023 4:06pm
- sirknz
  
  This was happening before Covid jabs.
  
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  November 29, 2023 2:26pm
- virtualmark
  
  Blood clots are a long-standing well-known risk from the contraceptive pill.
  
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  November 29, 2023 4:04pm
Tomtoddy

I am no fan of Winston Peters but he is right to call out the self righteous media over the $55 million fund. Sitting in judgement on themselves, smugly denying any bias shows how far out of touch they are and how immature and arrogant they have become.

Few writers have strong journalistic skills, an ability to write independently, deliver any value and understand their role as the fourth estate.
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November 29, 2023 8:09am
- Mark Hanley
  
  So far so good with Peters (except the dumb cancelling of the $2m foreign house buyers tax).
  
  I wholefully support his stance on the media. Their disgraceful bias should never be forgotten. Defund them.
  
  The beefed up covid inquiry looks great. Execution will (as always) be key.
  
  2 things on my wish list still outstanding.
  1. Retrieving our tax money from corrupt organisations and politicians. The National Party is hiring more tax auditors, they should start those auditors investigating government spending over the last 6 years. Retrurn on investment will be much greater!
  2. a beefed up MP / MP family conflicts of interest policy with judicial monitoring and harsher consequences.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:23am
  - NothingLeft
    
    But NZ Fist’s pork barrelling PGF from 2017 has to be ring-fenced right?
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:24am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Tomtoddy – don’t forget the covid advertising revenue which dwarfs the PIJF.
  
  NOBODY in the mainstream media was ever going to dare challenge the narrative while taking those easy dollars. They knew what side their bread was buttered on.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:30am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Clan,
    Exactly . Any weakness in pushing the régimes propaganda was punished by cancelled advertising for the following week.
    This was monitored by the hundreds of ‘PR consultants ‘.
    Very sinister and very effective and, for most of the treasonous media, very lucrative .
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:03am
  - JackRabbit
    
    Tomtoddy – don’t forget the covid advertising revenue which dwarfs the PIJF.
    
    And all the state media topups. And the excess staff and expenses through a myriad of rabbit holes, pocket pissing and backhanders.
    
    My guess is that over the last 3 years, the media has benefited directly in excess of over $300 million.
    
    I would not be surprised if directly and indirectly over the last six years the media expenses of the Labour govt was north of a billion.
    
    As an example, Pike river was a pure Labour marketing stunt, at a cost of $80 million. As were trees, houses, child poverty, light rail, harbour tunnel, etc, etc, as they had no intention of following through but did it to gain popularity, i.e. marketing.
    
    They were all marketing stunts. Millions upon millions of expenses, all for marketing Labour, but no actual doing.
    
    Light rail in Mount Roskill was supposed to be finished by 2020, but in 2023 not even started. Not one peg in the ground, not even a spade of earth turned. Millions upon million spent. So a pure marketing exercise.
    
    And all those communication jobs they created, in govt, and in just about every state owned enterprise. All those Maori name changes. All marketing to sell an agenda.
    
    And then the Covid / Vaccine fiasco.
    
    If there had been no Covid theatre, and no stories to print, advertising revenue would have slumped.
    
    I’m revising that figure of one billion. Upon reflection, total ‘marketing spend’, so a media expense, by Labour, is probably in the tens of billions.
    
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    November 29, 2023 11:33am
- redeye
  
  Also this little bit of bribery;-
  
  The Government is facing accusations of manipulating news narratives, after paying TVNZ and Stuff advertising to feature content with hand-picked experts in their news segments and platforms.
  
  In July, National’s Simeon Brown wrote to Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods requesting the government’s advertising expenditure.
  
  Thomas Cranmer, (not his real name) an online political commentator, first reported that the Government spent $200,000 between March 11, 2022, and November 26, 2022 with Stuff, as well as the $300,000 in November 2022 with TVNZ.
  
  …
  
  A TVNZ staff member told Chris Lynch Media it was standard practice for governments to advertise with media companies – “but channelling those advertisements inside of programming – on-air time – as news content in television shows was unorthodox.”
  
  https://www.chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/labour-government-pays-tvnz-news-division-for-content
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:05am
  - Nickc2
    
    Corrupt to the core!
    Will they be held to account? No, not a snowball’s show in hell. Te MSM is circling the wagons as we speak. They’re complicit as hell but not one of them has the balls to come out and admit it.
    
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    November 29, 2023 12:06pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      Nick, to paraphrase a quote from Shakespeare
      “me thinks, the lady (The Media Pardy) doth protest too much”.
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:47pm
- nathie
  
  Winston is playing to his supporters and “outraged” journalists (especially tv journos) are amplifying Winston’s narrative that journos are “corrupt”.
  
  Now the journos are trying to manufacture further “outrage” by having Luxon/National comment.
  
  Personally I wouldn’t say journos (speaking generally) are “corrupt” but I would say some of them are “fools”, particularly when their manufactured “outrage” is amplifying the message to the wider population that there is a problem with ~~Winston~~ the MSM which can be “bribed”!
  
  Apart from partisan lefties, the rest of the population (who usually couldn’t care less) will simply remember “MSM” and “bribes”. Oh dear!
  
  If the MSM had any sense, they would let this matter fade away (as their actions are having the opposite effect). But no, they can’t see this so they won’t …
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:22am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Yep, I think the media are already starting to wind the story down a little bit – for whatever reason.
    
    As always, Thomas Cranmer has done a good overview of the PIJF situation – also incorporating Winston’s hyperbole – on Twitter.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:39am
  - Vinicius
    
    I don’t have a problem with Peters playing the media attack dog. It is important that someone in the new government does this BUT for goodness sake he needs to stop hijacking events where government business is being transacted.
    
    He’s done this three times within a week and it is getting tiresome.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:42am
    - JackRabbit
      
      No, he needs to keep it up.
      
      While criminals who rooted this country and took lives with the fake vaccines, and the media whores who enabled said criminals, are still walking around. So it needs to be said, and said over and over.
      
      It is not tiresome. Ardern preaching from the Pulpit of Lies every day was tiresome. Hipkins, continuously prattling on about how bad the coalition is, is tiresome.
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:39am
      - Vinicius
        
        You need to read again what I wrote.
        
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        November 29, 2023 1:16pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        Vinicius.
        
        I DID read what you wrote. Which is why I wrote my reply.
        
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        November 29, 2023 2:01pm
- Spring Bank Westie
  
  Case in point, AM Show this morning where Willy Jackson was able to deflect any suggestion of government involvement in broadcasting after the PIJF, the AM crew denying they had been bribed, then immediately afterwards challenged Nicola Willis for potentially not delivering on an election promise regarding tax relief and cost of living.
  
  I recall when the same happened after the last two elections that Ardern woman simply stated that those promises were based on what Labour would have done if they were alone in government, but now they’re in a coalition they can’t be held to everything they had promised.
  No challenge, no response, just let her get away with it.
  
  The fact that Nicola didn’t respond in the same way fills me with confidence.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:06am
- Rusty
  
  @Tomtoddy
  
  The Tova and Jessica media shows with Ardern during covid was an absolute disgrace.
  
  You wouldn’t have thought there were any other journos in the room back then.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:07am
- Handyman
  
  Labour (Hipkins) went straight to bully tactics, which have always worked in the past. He is calling on Luxon to bring Peters into line.
  
  If I was the PM….
  “Mr Hipkins has raised the question over the alleged bribery of the media under his watch.
  Today I am launching an official inquiry into whether the $100m given by the Labour government to the media influenced editorial positions.
  
  The scope will include if there was any “pay to play” contracts; whether proper procurement processes for advertising were followed and whether media properly distinguished paid content from editorial content.
  
  The inquiry will be managed by the media minister and the Deputy Prime Minister. “
  
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  November 29, 2023 1:15pm
Matt Long

MTA would like to make more money from WOFs and force people out of older cars, so they can sell more new cars, would also like the government to provide more workers to enable this.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/business/350119402/push-car-industry-make-wofs-more-frequent-older-cars
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November 29, 2023 8:10am
- nz_aj
  
  I’ve always thought the law change to annual WOF for cars 2000 and newer was flawed for not being defined by age and odometer distance since last WOF.
  Think about this every time you see a blown tail light, and wonder what else is wrong.
  I’d also like to see emmissions testing for NOx and hydrocarbons. We’re the only 1st world country that doesn’t.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:34am
  - Nickc2
    
    I have a Classic car which I keep as a pet and only drive it on special occasions, hence, I’m in favour of WOFs according to distance traveled.
    Surely, if we can do it for Road User Charges, we can apply the same practice to WOFs.
    
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    November 29, 2023 12:18pm
- Dougal10
  
  When all vehicles go to ruc the time based wof /cof should be dumped in favor of useage/km based inspections.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:43am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    I agree Dougal10 however I had a series on Jaguar xj6 which is the only car that actually went wrong if you didn’t drive it!
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:54am
    - Nickc2
      
      Must have been a Pom-built Monday or Friday car.
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:20pm
  - Kiwiguy
    
    I can see your point, but it’s not quite as cut and dried as that IMHO.
    Time and lack of use can cause a car to deteriorate too.
    I have a ‘spare’ car that I use for towing, (About to sell it now) and I haven’t used it for months. It’s now in an unwarrantable condition due to just sitting around doing nothing. Nothing major to fix, but it definitely needs to be sorted before it’s roadworthy again.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:56am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Although I would be affected, I am inclined to agree that cars older than 20 years should be checked every six months. I just looked it up. In 2020, 19.5 percent of cars are older than 20 years.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:45am
  - John Loveridge
    
    Benedict, I own 3 classic cars. One is 52 years old, the other two are well past 20. They are each driven 1000 kms per year if they’re lucky, and they’re immaculately maintained. Do you think they need to be checked every 6 months?
    
    These three vehicles are on a joint low-mileage classic car insurance policy with certain conditions that must be met, but the cost is kept low. Some equivalent scheme should be realised for WOFs for cars such as mine, to differentiate them from old, worn out bangers with bald tyres.
    
    In fact, the New Zealand Federation of Motoring Clubs has been pushing for 12 month WOFs/COFs for qualifying vehicles.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:12am
    - rouppe
      
      Haven’t they already been carved out via the “classic car” registration category?
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:45am
      - John Loveridge
        
        Vehicles over 40 years of age pay a reduced registration. That has no bearing on the WOF/COF issue.
        
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        November 29, 2023 2:20pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    I have a (well maintained) 1951 Citroen Light 15. A toy/hobby vehicle. Might do 3000 km in a busy year. Six monthly warrants are a bit OTT …
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:16am
    - Flossie
      
      I feel exactly the same about the necessity for a six monthly warrant for our boat trailer. It makes the return trip to the boat ramp – about 1.5km each way – on average once a fortnight.
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:34am
      - Dougal10
        
        Reregister your boat trailer as a new one and go back to yearly warrants.
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:14am
      - Ian Boag
        
        Your chances of being nailed if you just put the rego on hold are pretty low.
        
        Heaven forbid that I should be seen as encouraging people to break the law …. but …. if you go to holiday home places like Omori/Kuratau on Lake Taupo you see quite a bit of this 🙂
        
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        November 29, 2023 1:30pm
    - rouppe
      
      Yeah but you could make the same argument for my motorbike. I currently only do about 3000-5000km on my Guzzi due to other pressures. Is a $600+ registration fee still reasonable?
      
      Plenty of arguments either way but there it is…
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:48am
      - Ian Boag
        
        I was talking about WoF’s. Thos things that many jurisdictions around the world don’t bother with …
        
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        November 29, 2023 1:32pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Good on ya, Ian
      
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      November 29, 2023 7:06pm
Surely Knott

A second Blood Clot death of a young woman “from the pill”.

Coincidentally it is in the same month, Sept 2021as the first clot death of a young 17 yr old Isabella.

But the media report deliberately omits the relevant question. What happened in Sept 2021 that was different? Was she vaccinated and when?

The whole article doesn’t mention if she was vaccinated. So we don’t know if the coroner even considered this as a factor. The headline for both deaths is the Pill caused it and they also blame a clotting gene mutation. How unusual to have 2 extremely rare contraceptive deaths in one month.

I accept that the contraceptive pill can cause blood clots.
I accept that the two had a clotting mutation.

But the vax also caused clots. And that was what changed in September in NZ.

The vaccine is ignored in todays story. Maybe the vaccine didn’t cause it alone. Maybe it was contributory. Maybe it didn’t cause it at all. But without the relevant info we can not be sure.

But the media withholding the information creates more distrust.

The media also waited 2 years to report the Coroners findings. They did not report these deaths in September 2021 when they happened, or their vax status so people could make their own informed decisions about a new experimental drug.

. Never again. I honestly no longer trust any of them.

Was she bloody vaccinated. Tell us the TRUTH!
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- Ghost
  
  She had heterozygous Factor V Leiden mutation, which causes blood clots. Please stop taking people’s deaths like this and trying to spin them to the vaccine.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:33am
  - Opie
    
    It’s a bit convenient though isn’t it?
    
    As I said above, just let people know that it wasn’t related to taking the vaccine if it wasn’t, so we can be confident about these things instead of having to challenge them because they are ommited.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:42am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      But the morons would just claim that ‘wasn’t related to the vaccine’ was a lie, and continue trotting out their usual bullshit.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:35am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        milkey – you’d best stay out of it, the receipts of your many idiotic comments on all things covid are still available. You were wrong in every single aspect and still are.
        
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        November 29, 2023 9:58am
      - Surely Knott
        
        From the Ministry of Health -. “Oral contraceptives causing adverse effects in therapeutic use: From 2000 to 2018 there were NO deaths in New Zealand where this was recorded as the underlying cause of death”
        
        So it certainly was bad luck that we had 2 deaths in young people in September 2021 at the beginning of the vaccination campaign.
        
        https://fyi.org.nz/request/16965-deaths-attributed-to-the-contraceptive-pill-each-year
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:13am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Ghost – while there is a proven, huge increase in excess all cause mortality and NOBODY is checking to see if there is any potential connection to the jabs, then this is a valid question.
    
    It is simply impossible that every single ‘sudden death’ in the alarming numbers we’re seeing are just a coincidence. They have only happened since the rollout of this experimental garbage.
    
    There is way more than enough correlation to warrant an immediate cessation of the jabbing programme while the much needed, broad ranging, thorough inquiry is held.
    
    Read my post above about the law changes re coroners that look specifically designed to hide such deaths.
    
    There are many, many more deaths that are as a result of these jabs than we are led to believe. Most in the medical field won’t go near it, they know if they do they will likely be complicit in the deaths of many people who should still be alive.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:56am
    - Ghost
      
      No clan. This lady’s cause of death is stated, stop acting like vultures and twisting deaths like this. It’s vile. Have some compassion for her family before you do this. You are no better than those who took normal deaths and attributed them to COVID, you have no respect for the loved ones when you are doing this and no care that they might see you taking their loved ones death and twisting it into your agenda.
      
      Think about her loved ones and how they would feel seeing her death taken like this. It’s different when you talk in general, but when you take a specific death, leave them alone.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:05am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Ghost. Are you showing respect to the many victims of NZs historic rise in all cause mortality.
        
        The excess mortality coincides with the covid jab campaign – covid arrived in nz months after the jabs began and very few excess deaths are caused by respiratory issues.
        
        Deceased’s loved ones still have no investigation and no plausible explanation for the excess deaths.
        
        How is that showing respect?
        
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        November 29, 2023 9:21am
      - Ghost
        
        You can do this without bringing up specific cases like this, it’s not hard to do.
        
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        November 29, 2023 9:25am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        People die of a heart attack. They may not know that their heart was damaged by the jab. Because NOBODY CHECKS.
        
        The jabs damage your innate immune system. FACT.
        These unfortunate ‘sudden deaths’ may or may not be due to the impact of the jabs. But NOBODY CHECKS.
        
        I’m not saying definitively that particular person died from the impact of the jab because I’m not a doctor. I’ll bet every dollar I have that many, many people HAVE died due to the impacts of the jab, but NOBODY CHECKS.
        
        General deaths, specific deaths, it’s long past time that vaccination status is recorded on death certificates.
        Within a couple of years we should have a definitive answer as to whether or not the jabs are implicated. Hint. They will be without a shadow of a doubt.
        
        I presume your outrage is genuine, but you’re wrong. This is one of the biggest health related disasters in history and it is being deliberately ignored and actively covered up.
        
        Take your outrage to Hipkins, Ardern, Bloomfield, Verrall, and all of the people who support them including the mainstream media. They are the ones responsible for any speculation.
        
        I have a very good friend diagnosed terminal with pancreatic cancer. He never wanted the jab. Was forced to due to his business being in trouble.
        We spoke the other day. The potential of jab involvement wasn’t mentioned, the elephant in the room that none of us are allowed to mention?
        
        I fucking detest the people responsible for what has happened to this country and the people in it.
        
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        November 29, 2023 9:45am
      - Opie
        
        By not investigating you are disrespecting the families.
        
        The bare minimum they deserve is the truth
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:11am
      - Ghost
        
        It’s pretty easy to have the conversation while respecting the loved ones.
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:50am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Ghost – just 2 more articles with concerning evidence that this needs to be stopped and investigated which will have the added benefit of removing speculation.
        
        https://dailysceptic.org/2023/11/27/new-evidence-that-covid-vaccines-may-promote-hyperprogressive-cancers/
        
        https://dailysceptic.org/2023/11/27/freedom-of-information-request-reveals-the-mhra-did-not-follow-up-half-of-vaccine-death-reports/
        
        While this information is being either ignored or buried, there will be speculation around every sudden death.
        
        One brother in law buried last week. Cancer. The other brother in law getting stem cell transplants, cancer. Good friend with hyper aggressive cancer who’ll be lucky to see Xmas.
        Niece’s husband suffering from auto immune problems.
        
        3 out off 4 of these people are extremely fit and healthy, non smoking, non drinking. One an avid surfer, one an avid cyclist, one a young and fit soldier.
        The one who died was not unexpected.
        The others are off the scale weird.
        
        I’ve changed my mind, ‘correlation is likely to be causation’ until proven otherwise.
        
        Over to the health authorities. You know what to do Shane Reti.
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:00am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Ghost – the vax conversation is practically impossible to have when you are talking to someone who is jabbed and having health issues.
        
        One friend is adamant they have ‘long covid’ when everything they are presenting with suggests vax damage. I know from the look on their face, they know this but they refuse to admit it.
        
        As for my terminal friend, he will undoubtedly have something nagging in the back of his mind, but I was never going to bring it up. It won’t make any difference to his outcome. Premature death.
        
        No, it has never been an easy conversation. It should be, but due to years of Ardern tyranny, brainwashing and propaganda, telling people to dob their neighbours in if they go for a walk, telling former mates they can’t come into the club they’ve been a member of for years, refusing to let people into the shop because they aren’t jabbed, or masked or both.
        
        It was deliberately done to prevent the very conversations that SHOULD be happening. Like I said in another post, your outrage should be aimed at those responsible for the speculation. Politicians, ‘experts’ and media.
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:51am
      - Surely Knott
        
        “Think about her loved ones and how they would feel seeing her death taken like this” Taken like what. Everyone here is empathising with the tragedy of a young person dying.
        
        But if you force an experimental medical product on the public, you have a duty to talk in a timely manner about any side effects that appear during that period. That’s why the medsafe reports were set up. Because they had a duty to report on this only provisionally approved medicine.
        
        Except those reports were not full case studies like the ones in the USA.
        
        Rory and Isabellas and the Makeup artists deaths all in September.
        
        I’m sick of this nanny state control of information.
        
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        November 29, 2023 12:05pm
      - mawm
        
        Ghost – I would still like to know her vaccination status and if she was informed of the risk of clots, especially in view of her Leiden Factor V mutation. Because if she knew about both would she have taken the vaccine if she so did?
        
        What about the second woman?
        
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        November 29, 2023 4:19pm
      - Ghost
        
        The teenage girls parents asked people to stop doing this with their daughter’s death when she died. They were distraught with the rumors going around. You people need to stop and think what you are doing to these families with this.
        
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        November 29, 2023 4:41pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      This woman should never have been taking oral contraceptives with this syndrome. Sadly she did not know that she carried this gene.
      
      Factor V Leiden carriers who use oral contraceptives at extreme risk … https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10943572/.
      
      I agree with ghost. The lesson from these stories is to ensure that young women are aware of the risks of oral contraceptives.
      
      As I commented separately, severe COVID causes a major increase in the risk of DVT.
      
      Has there been a materiel increase in DVT in COVID vaccinated young women who have not had severe COVID? I agree that if the answer is YES, that warrants investigation.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:22am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        BY – where was her doctor and ‘informed consent’ in this process? Surely they had her medical records in front of them?
        
        Also do you have a link to evidence that covid causes those problems?
        
        I know a number of people who are currently suffering from medical issues who are convinced it is ‘long covid’. They can’t possibly consider it might be vaccine injury, because that would mean admitting they made a mistake.
        
        Until a very thorough inquiry is carried out there will always be speculation. Recording vaccine status against hospitalisations and deaths should quickly reveal the truth.
        
        And that means real vaccine status. As in, you are vaccinated if you ever had even ONE shot of this experiment. Because even ONE shot will have ongoing implications.
        
        Not ‘two weeks after your second dose’ or not vaccinated because you didn’t get your booster. Simple.
        
        Have you ever had an mRNA injection? You’re in group A.
        
        If you’ve never had one, you’re in the control group.
        
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        November 29, 2023 9:52am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Clan
        ‘Long covid ‘. It amazes me how they can attribute so many conditions to people solely on the basis that they may at some time have had a dose of influenza.
        
        Same with ‘Asymptomatic’.
        That’s a great one.
        Doctor: “you don’t have any symptoms but you’ve got the covid flu, you are asymptomatic !”
        Me: “I’ve got two arms and two legs, can you write me an ACC chit for asymptomatic quadraplegia?”
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:01am
      - wsk12345
        
        These two?
        Vaccinated in late September…
        VAERS IDs 1796940 and 1907926
        medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.…
        
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        November 29, 2023 3:07pm
    - wsk12345
      
      Clan – check these out. Sounds like them and yes, box vaxxed recently….late September…
      VAERS IDs 1796940 and 1907926
      medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.…
      
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      November 29, 2023 3:08pm
  - Simon
    
    Reasonable to ask if jaxx related. No truth available.
    
    Divya ‘had had her third booster vaccine’ 4 days prior to her massive heart attack. Being 25 Jan 2022 that was presumably her 3rd dose of vaccine. She had to take the next day off work because she felt unwell and complained of pain in the L side of her neck and shoulder (symptoms consistent with a heart attack). She worked a night shift on 28 Jan then slept before waking later that afternoon and experiencing dizziness and chest pains. Soon after she suffered a cardiac arrest.
    
    It is important to note that prior to the deployment of the Pfizer injection it was EXTREMELY RARE for healthy young women to suffer heart attacks, and even those with co-morbidities such as obesity, diabetes or smoking would be highly unlikely to have a heart attack at the young age of 31.
    
    However, the pathologist apparently told the coroner her death was most likely related to an ‘underlying weakness of the coronary arteries’. Without seeing the pathologist’s report, it is difficult to know what this actually means. Were they aneurysmal, had they ruptured, was there actually anything abnormal detected, or was this just a ‘diagnosis’ used to fill in the paperwork.
    
    The coroner, Luella Dunn, (spelling as per Herald article, apologies if incorrect) a lawyer, not a doctor, advised that the pathologist found no evidence to suggest the vaccine contributed in any way to her death. What evidence exactly was the pathologist looking for? Were any tissues stained for spike protein, was there vascular inflammation, blood clots, myocarditis? We have been unable to get a clear, or even any sort of answer, to this question from our authorities. What if they are not actually looking for anything? After all, if you don’t look, you won’t find
    
    https://nzdsos.com/2023/03/13/death-of-divya-simon/
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:04am
    - Surely Knott
      
      Thanks Simon. That was the info I wanted. The facts of the case. Pity it isn’t made public in the media. Obviously not a good look.
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:28am
      - wsk12345
        
        They are both in VAERS – my other comment has the IDs.
        
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        November 29, 2023 3:11pm
    - Keith White
      
      The other problem is that by not investigating post-vaxx deaths properly or at all, it further disadvantages the families of the deceased.
      
      Because, if proper pathological investigation complete with myocardial and other histology shows that the cause of death was in fact related to the vaccine, there is a financial benefit under ACC to the survivors of the deceased – even if that of course doesn’t make up for the loss. But it does help especially if there are minor children, or the surviving partner is unemployed. So by changing the rules for coroners, the Labour Government wilfully, deliberately and negligently – I would further add criminally – disadvantaged the loved ones and dependents of the deceased.
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:12am
  - krazykiwi
    
    “She had heterozygous Factor V Leiden”
    
    By the time the vax rollout happened here it was already well established that all of the vaccines caused clotting, most notable the AZ vax which had already been withdrawn from the UK.
    
    So we can assume her doctor would have advised against taking the vax. Informed consent and all that.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:42am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      “She had heterozygous Factor V Leiden”
      
      I read that as:
      
      “There was no chance the jab was involved in this tragedy, move along, nothing to see here”.
      
      The destruction of trust in our health systems is one of the most damning aspects of all this. Many more will due due to avoiding the system. I’m one who has no interest in going to my medical centre.
      
      Especially since finding out that last time I went to get my tetanus shot updated, I was jabbed for two other things at the same time. Diphtheria and Pertussis. Not saying I wouldn’t have had it, but nobody told me this was happening. That’s NOT informed consent.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:57am
    - Keith White
      
      Sadly, assuming review by the doctor who knew her condition is not a necessarily valid assumption as a generalisation, although it may have been true in this case – we likely will never know.
      
      You will all remember the threatening letters issued by the NZ Medical Council and the NZ Medical Association advising the serious consequences right up to losing their career, for any doctors who spoke against the pro-vaxx narrative.
      
      “Council’s view that there is no place for anti-vaccination messages in professional practice, nor any promotion of anti-vaccination claims including on social media and advertising by health practitioners. Council expects doctors to be aware of, and comply with, its published standards of clinical and ethical practice.  It is open to Council to review a doctor’s compliance with its standards whenever it has reason to consider a doctor is failing to do so.
      
      If a doctor is not complying with the standards set by Council, there are a number of options available to Council which in the most serious cases can include suspension or placing conditions on a doctor’s practice to protect the public from harm and referring the notification to a Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) for further investigation. ”
      
      https://www.mcnz.org.nz/assets/standards/Guidelines/Guidance-statement-COVID-19-vaccine-and-your-professional-responsibility.pdf
      
      (Mod: link is to the original Bully-Letter).
      
      They revoked it in September but will not retract it, apologise for it, or admit that they were wrong both on the facts and the ethics of their bullying.
      
      Ask me how I know (or not).
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:16am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Keith White – disturbing evidence showing how much of these harms have been covered up.
        
        https://dailysceptic.org/2023/11/27/freedom-of-information-request-reveals-the-mhra-did-not-follow-up-half-of-vaccine-death-reports/
        
        So the people in the UK responsible for following up, failed to do so in half of them?
        
        What are the numbers in NZ? I would warrant even higher.
        I know of a number of vax injured who were ignored or fobbed off for many, many months and who had to self report because the local medical centre refused to register them on CARM.
        
        My good friend with the pancreatic cancer was fobbed off over a year ago when he presented with frequent stomach pains, told him it was caused by painkillers he was taking for bruised ribs. By the time of diagnosis he has been given less than three months to live.
        
        This is an apparently respected site.
        
        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9840226/
        
        The COVID-19 vaccines may lead to acute pancreatitis. The mechanism of pancreatitis caused by COVID-19 vaccines is unclear. Acute pancreatitis can develop after COVID-19 vaccination. This process can even happen a few months later. Therefore, to better diagnosis and prevention of long-term complications, it is necessary to measuring the lipase or amylase in patients that received COVID-19 vaccine if abdominal pain was occurred.
        
        In the NZ medical system, ‘yeah nah, it’s just those painkillers you’re taking, she’ll be right bro, definitely nothing to do with the jabs eh!’
        
        But Ghost tells us we’re naughty if we speculate…..wtf are we supposed to do? Oh that’s right, we’re meant to stfu and pretend nothing is happening.
        
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        November 29, 2023 12:44pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    I’m not denying she has Heteroygous Factor V Leiden or that it may be a contributory factor.
    
    I’m asking why the media are witholding whether she was giving the clot shot.
    
    I’m asking why the full case is not publicly available on the coroners website like the first Pill/clot death of Isabella when you search for contraceptive pill.
    
    I’m asking why her name is withheld so we can’t search the coroners page for the full case. Or an ID number isn’t used.
    
    I’m asking why she was given the clot shot or the pill if she had a clotting disease.
    
    I’m asking when she took the shot. And what day she started taking the contraceptive pill
    
    It is you that is witholding information.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:04am
    - Ghost
      
      No, you are taking a person’s death and putting your agenda into it. The autopsy found her cause of death, but the likes of you and clan cannot accept that and have to take it and twist it. It’s vile. People can talk about possibilities in a non personal way without bringing up information of who the deceased is
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:56am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Ghost – I didn’t take anyone’s death and twist it.
        
        I asked totally valid questions. The ones that plenty of people are asking, but apparently nobody in our health system wants to acknowledge, let alone attempt to answer.
        
        We’re expected to believe that all the young, fit people falling over and dying is not unusual, to just pretend it isn’t happening.
        
        Whatever you do, don’t DARE ask if the vaccination might have contributed, that’s beyond the pale!!
        
        What’s beyond the pale is what has been done to all of us over the last four years, jabbed and unjabbed. You should be more outraged about that.
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:41am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Surely Knott – the bs is being covered up as fast as they can, but it is also being revealed more rapidly every day. The idea that there are only 4 proven deaths from jabbing is completely implausible.
  
  What is even more implausible is the claimed number of covid deaths and the claimed number of lives saved. Particularly when the rationale to identify someone as ‘vaccinated’ is farcical.
  
  You aren’t ‘vaccinated’ until 2 weeks after your 2nd shot, you aren’t ‘vaccinated’ until you’ve had your booster. The distortion and fudging of data is next level.
  
  Here’s another example of a ploy used to cover up sudden, unexplained deaths.
  
  However, it’s the proposal to allow the cause of death to be recorded as “unascertained natural causes”, with no need for an autopsy or further investigation, that has forensic pathologists worried.
  
  An absolutely astonishing law change.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/478962/death-by-natural-causes-sweeping-power-to-classify-deaths-could-mean-coroners-miss-vital-clues
  
  The inquiry cannot come soon enough.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:52am
  - Ghost
    
    On average 2 woman die a year from clots caused by the pill in NZ
    
    New Zealand has the highest rate of women on the pill – and it is killing two of them every year.
    
    Research released yesterday by the Ministry of Health has found that 20 women taking oral contraceptives have died of pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in the lungs) in the past 10 years.
    
    Article
    
    But hey. Facts don’t matter to you people
    
    You are as bad as the officials that would take normal deaths and turn them into COVID.
    
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    November 29, 2023 4:53pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  There is good evidence that severe COVID causes deep vein thrombosis.
  
  https://www.hri.org.nz/health/your-health/lifestyle/people-with-coronavirus-are-at-risk-of-blood-clots-and-strokes
  
  I suspect that the data on the causes of DVT would be difficult to unravel. Smoking, obesity, and oral contraceptives are long understood risk factors.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:59am
  - MCōs
    
    I had dvt maybe fourteen years ago.
    My daughter had one at the same time, one of my grandmothers died of pulmonary embolism, both of her daughters died of strokes. They were all the children she had.
    All blood clots of one sort or another.
    None could be pinned on covid vaccines, but I’m sure if it had happened in recent times someone would try to make the connection
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:56am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      MCōs – indeed, but as it’s now known to cause potential problems, unless it is checked for and proven NOT to be involved, the speculation will continue.
      
      Surely the simplest way to put this to rest is to be open and transparent and to stop dismissing the possibility? Who knows, we might even find out that the jabs really are ‘safe and effective’. //
      
      🤡🤡🤡
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:10am
  - Keith White
    
    To prove that severe Covid causes (an increased number of over-the-baseline-incidence of) DVTs, a study needs to be done on similar populations which are matched except for Covid infection. That study has not been done. So there is not only no good evidence – there is no evidence at all.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:57am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      There have been so many lies and fraudulent studies fine re this covid insanity, off the charts stuff.
      And people wonder why others speculate?
      
      It’s not difficult to work out, apparently the hard part is getting authorities to acknowledge there are concerns and do the responsible thing. Investigate.
      
      The more this falls to happen, the more speculation there will be.
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:06am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    BY – yes I had a friend who developed serious DVT on a flight from Europe, luckily the outcome was positive.
    My point is still the same, the jabs damage the innate immune system. This may well be a contributory factor in any death. Just as for many, heart failure was cause of death but covid contributed to the heart failure due to respiratory illness. But these were ALL listed as covid deaths.
    
    Of course there were the extreme cases of those who died of gunshot wounds put down as covid deaths.
    
    All of this uncertainty and angst is a direct result of the horrific and moronic war that was waged on the whole planet due to a ‘pandemic’ that was not remotely exceptional.
    Dismissing the possibility that the jabs might be causing problems isn’t the solution, we need total transparency on this subject or we will never rebuild any trust.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:07am
    - waikatosinger
      
      This pandemic was exceptional. It was the first from an engineered virus.
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:21pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        waikatosinger – that we know of!
        
        I’m guessing most of us had zero clue that ‘gain of function’ research was a thing and would have been horrified if we had known.
        
        But remember if you suggested it came from a lab you were a foil hat wearing nutter?!
        
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        November 29, 2023 1:13pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    BY – the headline on your link didn’t inspire me.
    
    People with coronavirus are at risk of blood clots and strokes
    
    The number of ‘reasons’ for increased mortality since it was known that the jabs were a problem, particularly with the heart, is as long as it is ludicrous and convenient. My skepticism is another indication of my levels of distrust no doubt.
    
    More important information would be the vaccination status of all of those people admitted to hospital with ‘covid’. Eventually those statistics should reveal if there is any correlation between DVT and vaccination status.
    
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    November 29, 2023 1:11pm
- R
  
  Tell us the TRUTH…..
  @S Knott,…. as you may have noticed this week, the media are having a little bit of trouble with the exposure of the TRUTH
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:34am
- JackRabbit
  
  My GP said that prior to Covid, a patient with myocarditis was rare. After the vaccine, he had hundreds of his patients alone, with myocarditis.
  
  And I know a dozen people directly that have had clotting or clotting symptoms.
  
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  November 29, 2023 11:46am
Matt Long

Who knew Susan Sarandon was a vile lefty? Pretty much everyone.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/susan-sarandon-dropped-talent-agency-anti-jewish-comments
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November 29, 2023 8:11am
Maggie Pie

A bestie txts…

‘The idea that a single human life will be saved by demanding that Waka Kotahi be called New Zealand Transport Agency is the strangest fancy. The late-night ravings of a man alone in a bar…’

– John Campbell (TVNZ)

Although JC may well have a point of course. Changing the name of CYFS to Oranga Tamariki never prevented babies being murdered.

Just saying.
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November 29, 2023 8:13am
- Cassandra
  
  I don’t think that the reason for renaming the Kotahi Canoe is saving lives but rather reducing confusion.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:27am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I must correct you Cassandra…..
    
    Even tho’ my Williams Dictionary of The Maori Language gives the meaning of waka as canoe, I heard Willie Jackson a couple of days ago stating that waka means vehicle….and lo & behold, that’s what Google translate says:
    
    https://translate.google.com/?sl=mi&tl=en&text=waka&op=translate
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:08am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Even in Spanish it translates to…. “vehiculo”
      
      Coincidentally, Willie’s DNA test results came back as 2% Spanish.
      
      Just saying.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:32am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Waka has a number of different meanings. Like many words in English.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:38am
    - septic skeptic
      
      So Maori had no specific word for their canoes??
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:00am
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        And had a long history of wheeled vehicles, also known generically as Waka? Who knew?
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:41am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        waka taua – war canoe
        waka hourua – double-hulled canoe
        waka huia – treasure box
        You could Google a few more
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:42am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Miken
        
        A reasonable conjecture then is that waka may mean that which encompasses a void.
        Congratulations to whoever named waka kotahi!
        Very perceptive .
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:13am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Personally I think a great many lives can be saved by having government departments focus on core outcomes rather than treaty interpretation and teaching the public te reo. That starts with a re-brand and a new (old) name.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:50am
    - Dave
      
      And at least some of the public’s time can be saved too.
      
      On my first visit to Puhinui Station, I was still wading through bold type Maori first, English second, trying to find where I wanted to go on the lift when others pressed the up button.
      
      While waiting for friends, I read the escalator instructions: three lines of incomprehensible Maori followed by two lines of comprehensible English telling me not take a pram (waka pepe in the Maori text) or a scooter (kikuta) or a bicycle (pahikara) on the elevator.
      
      Not a big deal, especially since you need to read these notices only once, but at rush hour maybe a problem, especially for tourists – about eight or so backpackers came through while I was waiting.
      
      But a notice’s function is quick and clear communication, not language teaching.
      
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      November 29, 2023 2:16pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    I don’t think that the reason for renaming the Kotahi Canoe is saving lives but rather reducing confusion.
    
    On the contrary, it is well known that confusing road signs lead to accidents and deaths especially with overseas visitors.
    
    In one international study, New Zealand was singled out as having a very high accident / death rate due to poor signage, and that was before the onslaught of Maori signage in the last 6 years.
    
    And Kotahi Canoe, or New Zealand Transport Agency as it was known back then, are aware of that study because they were asked to respond, and did respond. Their reasons for the high death rate, although fluffed up, mostly track back to confusing signage.
    
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    November 29, 2023 11:53am
  - Beach Haven expat
    
    As with most John Campbell pieces of logic, test it in reverse.
    
    Did changing NZTA to Waka Kotahi save lives?
    
    No. Then what’s your point?
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:18pm
- Simon
  
  It’s not a demand. It’s a simple decision by democratically elected officials. Where lives are lost is when this woke organisation diverts resources from traffic safety into fake climate change management. Name change needed to bring in line with its core functions. This will save lives.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:13am
- John Loveridge
  
  I don’t believe that changing the New Zealand Transport Agency’s name to Waka Kotahi ever saved a single human life.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:15am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    NZTA didn’t change its name. It has two names.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:38am
    - Nukuleka
      
      More obfuscation and half truths from Mike. Par for the course.
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:01am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Complete truth.
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:43am
    - MCōs
      
      In the good old days it was the Roading Division of the MOW. The design office was in the Vogel Building on Aitken St and I worked there c1969
      The whole fourteen storeys plus a couple of basements was occupied by the MOW.
      A friend of mine worked in the architectural office and spent his time doing nothing. So he left
      Unfortunately he was an assisted immigrant from the UK and was bonded for five years or whatever and the Works wanted their money back. He refused to pay so they took him to court.
      There was a two page spread in the Truth, which loved that sort of thing. In his defence he said he was employed as an architect, but he was given no work and he produced an array of witnesses who swore they also worked in the office and were given no work.
      Nevertheless he lost and was ordered to pay back the bond, which he never did.
      Understandable the witnesses dared not show their faces in that office again!
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:18am
- R
  
  changing NZTA to Waka Kotahi, didn’t prevent road deaths either.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:36am
Matt Long

The good people of Gaza don’t deserve to be punished by warfare for the “justified” actions of Hamas, the surveys that show they overwhelmingly support Hamas are biased.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/israeli-hostage-briefly-escaped-hamas-before-locals-handed-him-back-to-terrorists-report
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November 29, 2023 8:15am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Funny thing that, the people of the ghettos in Northern Ireland ‘supported’ the IRA or the UVF/UDA depending on which ghetto they lived in. Were more than happy to put money into the collection tins that came round every club or pub on a regular basis. //
  
  Do you really think that civilians in any similar situation have the ability, let alone the desire to identify the ‘terrorists’ and hand them over to the Israeli authorities? Have you seen what happens to civilians in these situations if they are deemed ‘collaborators’?
  
  Many may oppose Hamas, but they have zero chance of speaking out and living for long.
  
  I’d love to see how long many of the keyboard warriors would last in such a situation. No concept and apparently no humanity.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:05am
  - NothingLeft
    
    You can’t excuse the population of a mad king for fighting the wars of the mad king. Because the regime of the Mad King must be stopped.
    
    Hamas has been indoctrinating the children of Gaza for a generation – more than a million of them. While that was not their choice they are nonetheless transformed into, or at minimum sympathetic to evil genocidal zealots.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:34am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      NothingLeft – the children of Northern Ireland are indoctrinated. I’ve been on a bus that was stoned by kids as young as 5 or 6, because the bus number identified the destination and therefore the passengers’ religion.
      
      So your solution is, ‘nuke them all’?
      
      It’s been said before, terrorists aren’t born, they are created.
      
      There’s nothing more I can say to people like you on this subject.
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:16pm
      - MCōs
        
        I went to catholic schools
        The Irish priests made sure we knew right from wrong. I distinctly remember being told how bad the Orange men were, and rightly so!
        Dad and his brothers and their father were all members of the Hibernians.
        They used to play darts with the local Orange Lodge, I found out later.
        
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        November 29, 2023 2:29pm
  - MCōs
    
    If someone blows up your house and kills your family, who are you going to support?
    Why did America lose the Vietnam War?
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:29am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Exactly clan,
    I grew up in Norn Iron.
    There were no ‘undecideds’
    If you weren’t with them then you were against them.
    Even going to a police station meant you got a visit from ‘the boys’. Hence, we self policed with vigilantes. It worked well, very little crime in our area.
    
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    November 29, 2023 11:22am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      imalwaysright – yup, that was one positive. There was stuff all crime, certainly burglaries and sexual type assaults were almost non existent.
      
      But the idea that some here have that the civilians of Gaza are responsible and therefore getting what they deserve, is lacking empathy off the scale.
      
      Don’t know what part of the city you were in, but most people I knew were simply interested in getting through the day, feeding the family and avoiding trouble.
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:29pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        Turf Lodge.
        Yes there is a disconnect with some commenters and the reality of being subject to the, sometimes fatal, whim of a terrorist who is supposed to be on your side.
        Still, if they are fortunate enough not to have experienced it then that is a good thing.
        We were motivated by fear of our own as much, if not more, than fear of the enemy.
        Most of us did the rosary every night at 6pm to pray for it to stop.
        
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        November 29, 2023 12:51pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    I like the perspective of prominent Israeli Historian has on the whole thing. His Parent survived the Concentration camps in Germany.
    
    Rather dry delivery without emotion altho he does reference Gaza as a Concentration Camp
    
    And bats off Pears Morgan baiting him to call Hamas terrorists like the rest of the world.
    
    two points.
    1 The Historian points out that one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter
    2. The rest of the world has not labeled Hmas a terrorist organisation. Only a handful of Countries plus the EU have.
    
    Very interesting interview, especially the bit where he calls Hilary Clinton a liar (he also labels Bill Clinton a repeat liar on the subject of peace talks.)
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Sh-ERypMA
    
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    November 29, 2023 2:44pm
- emmess
  
  Notice how the Hamas reported death toll keeps rising at a relatively constant rate, even during the truce.
  Complete BS, made up numbers.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:48am
  - Keith White
    
    And since Islam requires burial by sunset of the day after, where are all the live-streamed and drone video evidence of over 10,000 burials? Islam forbids cremation. We’re being lied to as usual by the Religion of Pieces. Taqqiya.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:00am
    - Ra Henare
      
      My goodness you are showing your ignornace of using google.
      type in funerals hamas
      
      You will see lots of body bags and the information that they are buried in mass graves with no ceremonies
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      As usual you seem to have forgotten about critical thinking in lieu of ideological rants.
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:39pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Would you guys be happier if the death toll as only 10,000? Or would you prefer it to be much higher than reported?
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:45am
    - Keith White
      
      “Would you guys be happier…” – Vile strawman Mikey.
      
      What I am asking is since Hamas were visibly thrilled with livestreaming their horrible rape, torture and murder atrocities 5 weeks ago, why so suddenly their video-horror-influencers are entirely absent and are just saying “trust us, the numbers are accurate.”
      
      I guess they learned that from our own ex-PM: as she said, “We will continue to be your single source of truth,” and that, “Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.”
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:22am
      - Ra Henare
        
        Again just a modicum of research will show international organisations publishing numbers.
        based on observers on the ground.
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:41pm
Matt Long

So apparently the pro Palestinian artwork was a sign saying “No Zionists.”
That really encapsulats the subjective nature of Art.
https://thebfd.co.nz/2023/11/29/faces-of-the-day-137/
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November 29, 2023 8:20am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I’m waiting for the Free Speech Union to condemn this:
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/301015475/art-gallery-told-to-remove-palestinian-art-expo-from-window
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:40am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Unless there is a clause in the tenancy that prohibits such art, yes I agree with you. The FSU should speak up.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:49am
    - Manu-Rau
      
      Agreed, but with another unless.
      
      Unless the tenancy agreement includes a clause requiring the tenant to take reasonable steps to ensure the property is not damaged. If someone chooses to add their own artwork — like a brick through the window — why should the landlord bear the cost of repairs?
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:16pm
mandk

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/sad-but-unsurprising-government-to-close-the-productivity-commission/HXECYUXAQFAP5OZOUIWWE46SL4/

Why would anyone regard the shutdown of the Productivity Commission as sad?

The organisation became useless the day Grant Robertson appointed Ganesh “capitalism is a scam” Nana as chairman.
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November 29, 2023 8:25am
- Cassandra
  
  And his colleagues, mostly fat lefties.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:28am
- Opie
  
  Great news. I forgot nana was involved.
  
  Good riddance to another money wasting leftie that wouldn’t have the first clue about productivity.
  
  I’m sure he will have done well over the last 6 years. Maybe he could buy a subway or pizza hutt franchise.
  
  We need to start a list of all the Cindy faithfulls that are getting kicked out of their cushy jobs that have been gifted to them
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:46am
- Benedict Yu
  
  It had potential at the start. However all governments seemed to mostly ignore it. Then as you say Grant Robertson wrecked it.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:06am
- ClanMcleod
  
  No doubt Ganesh is multi talented and skilled and will have no problem whatsoever getting a real job.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:09am
  - Simon
    
    Yep no doubt these govt gurus will have streamlined highly efficient startups worth millions in the matter of months.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:17am
    - NothingLeft
      
      LOL.
      
      I’m hoping most of these surplus Wellingtonian economy wrecking nut-bars emigrate
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:36am
- Gussy Fink-Nottle
  
  The Productivity Commission’s latest publication was entitled ‘Multidimensional disadvantage and wellbeing’.
  The one before that?
  ‘A quantitative analysis of disadvantage and how it persists in Aotearoa New Zealand’.
  
  Disadvantage and well-being are not drivers of poor productivity, they are the bloody outcomes!
  
  It’s like a review of car safety standards that recommends employing more trauma surgeons.
  
  A complete and utter waste.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:43am
- mikenmildagain
  
  The Productivity Commission was useless from the moment it was set up last time by ACT. The Ministry of Regulation will be useless from now until it is replaced by another brain fart.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:43am
  - JJ56
    
    The early reports by the Commission pre Ardern govt’s appointments were pretty useful.
    
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    November 29, 2023 11:54am
krazykiwi

On Friday New Zealand is scheduled to approve sovereignty-limiting amendments to the WHO Pandemic Treaty.

By ‘scheduled to approve’ I mean approve by default, because we have not (yet) opted out. Yes. that’s how it works.

I have it on good authority that Dr Reti has this under control. Let’s see. He only has a couple of days to act now.
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November 29, 2023 8:26am
- MCōs
  
  Here’s a Stuff article on the subject from earlier this year
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/the-whole-truth/132171227/no-the-who-isnt-about-to-deprive-nz-of-its-sovereignty
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:46am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    ‘Stuffed’. Righto, that should be dependable and accurate journalism…….you’ve put my mind at ease, the sooner we sign up the better……//
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:10am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Real story in some anonymous Substack piece, no doubt.
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:46am
      - Keith White
        
        Please do go right ahead and set up a substack in your own name – with paid subscriptions, so not just KBers but the rest of humanity can enjoy your sophisticated and insightful commentary and value it accordingly. But you might want to keep your day job in the meantime, if you have one.
        
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        November 29, 2023 10:03am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Citing a Stuff journalist as a source of evidence? You make a fool of yourself, MCos. I have read the treaty amendments and they most certainly do permit unelected WHO bureaucrats to direct domestic actions in relation to pandemics, or even ‘possible pandemics'(!) as designated by WHO
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:11am
    - Dudley Quaffquaff
      
      And what are they going to be able to do about it, if a signatory country doesn’t comply with their directions?
      
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      November 29, 2023 9:36am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Exactly. What happens when powerful countries like the USA, Russia or Israel ignore international law? Nothing.
        
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        November 29, 2023 9:49am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Dudley, you have the option of: –
        
        (a) dismissing the sovereignty-limiting pact; or,
        
        (b) agreeing to the sovereignty-limiting pact on the basis that you can’t see how it could be enforced in any case.
        
        Which is the wisest course of action?
        
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        November 29, 2023 9:49am
      - waikatosinger
        
        The wisest course of action is to withdraw from the treaty.
        
        The WHO is still free to recommend. And we are free to decide whether or not to follow that recommendation. There was and is no need for these clauses that purport to override sovereignty.
        
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        November 29, 2023 12:30pm
    - MCōs
      
      So it’s Katie Kenny’s interpretation of the situation as opposed to Krazy Kiwi, backed up by a ‘good authority’?
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:43am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Stop digging, MCos… you’ve hit bedrock.
        
        Katie Kenny has graduate Diploma in Journalism and started as an intern in 2013, building on her experience writing for student magazines and her local paper.
        
        I’m pretty comfortable getting my sense of the word by looking at the evidence myself.
        
        If you want to rely on Katie and her ilk on matters of strategic, sociopolitical interest then be my guest. I’d not picked you as being that stupid, but I’ve been wrong before.
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:01am
      - MCōs
        
        If ‘stupid’ means not agreeing with your point of view I guess guilty.
        I might also point out I didn’t say I agree with the point of view expressed in the Stuff article either.
        I wonder if young Kenny also thinks I’m ‘stupid’
        
        Seeing as someone mentioned Voltaire here’s another of his quotes
        ‘It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere’
        
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        November 29, 2023 12:40pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Ah… on page 10 of the Coalition Agreement:
  
  – Ensure a ‘National Interest Test’ is undertaken before New Zealand accepts any agreements from the UN and its agencies that limit national decision-making and reconfirm that New Zealand’s domestic law holds primacy over any international agreements.
  – As part of the above, by 1 December 2023 reserve against proposed amendments to WHO health regulations to allow the incoming government to consider these against a “National Interest Test”.
  
  Never though I’d say this: Kudos to Winston.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:58am
oldpark

A question about the $55 Million Dollar Handout to certain so called Mainstream Media Outlets in NZ by Ardern/Hipkins Government .
When I heard Stephen Joyce talking to the holier than thou Hoskins saying National would not dream of handing out any money to NZs Mainstream Media .That comment said plenty .
Would be interesting to find out what News Outlet got the type of handout in dollar amount .
Will we ever know if say Hoskins employer NZME got too much or not enough,or say some of the biased proven Print news/ TV outlets were almost Bankrupt and desperate to remain in business .
Another question has to be ?Perhaps a list of media beneficiaries who got the big dollars to control the news, allegedly in a biased way, could or show who was caught swimming naked when the tide turned and NZs woke to the fact that half the lies NZs Mainstream Media conveyed were not true and voted Accordingly.
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November 29, 2023 8:31am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Never forget the multi millions spent on advertising the covid circus propaganda. There would have been an unwritten code that you DON’T criticise the policies or any aspect of the whole fiasco. Or you don’t get the work.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:13am
- lifesgood
  
  Gosh Hosking went all out to justify the PIJF this morning. He was really worked up about any suggestion that the media were following government orders and in complete denial that there was any media bias. Well, you could have fooled me. Methinks Hosking doth protest too much
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:13am
  - waikatosinger
    
    Keep the PIJF. Just change what public interest means. Make them promote the Hobson’s choice interpretation of the treaty if they want the money. That is a dead rat most will refuse to eat. Maybe they’ll learn a lesson.
    
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    November 29, 2023 12:34pm
  - Beach Haven expat
    
    Given he’s spent the last three years, if not six, slagging off the media for their bias towards Labour, it all feels a little inconsistent.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:28pm
- Steve Todd
  
  Deliberately referring to Mike Hosking, twice in the same comment, as ‘Hoskins’, simply because, on this occasion, you disagree with him, is juvenile behaviour, oldpark.
  
  For goodness’ sake, grow up!
  
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  November 29, 2023 11:45am
  - oldpark
    
    A typo Mister ,How about the comment of Steven Joyce and the story.Or do you always look for negitaves .Just like the so called MSM when it suits them .
    
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    November 29, 2023 1:00pm
    - Steve Todd
      
      A typo Mister […].
      
      That’s nonsense, and you know it. The ‘s’ and the ‘g’ are three keys apart. And you did it twice!
      
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      November 29, 2023 1:24pm
  - Ghost
    
    Just as a side note, my iPad autocorrects hosking to Hoskins.
    
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    November 29, 2023 1:38pm
    - Steve Todd
      
      Okay. Fair enough. As I’ve said a couple of times previously, I use a desk top computer. But, this would not have been the first time oldpark has mentioned Hosking in a comment, so, if he is using an iPad, he would know to force the spelling of Hosking.
      
      I’ve just experimented on my smart phone. When I get to the ‘n’ of ‘Hoskin’, the alternatives at that point are ‘Hosking’ and ‘Hoskins’. As soon as I enter the ‘s’, to spell ‘Hoskins’, the alternatives become ‘Hosking’ and ‘Hopkins’. When I enter a space to continue, ‘Hoskins’ stays as Hoskins.
      
      And, when I go (x-ing) back and enter the ‘g’, to spell ‘Hosking’, the alternatives become ‘Hoskins’ and ‘Hosting’. When I enter a space to continue, ‘Hosking’ stays as Hosking.
      
      So, no, I don’t buy it. oldpark knew exactly what he was doing, which he did for his own silly reasons. Hopefully, now that he has been called out, he will take care in future to spell people’s names correctly, including the names of people he happens to be disagreeing with at any given time, and for any reason.
      
      I leave it at that.
      
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      November 29, 2023 2:32pm
      - oldpark
        
        You know nothing about me Mister . Or I you .What is your Problem . Maybe you are moonlighting to be a moderator. Asking for a friend of mine who is also a wee nosy parker .
        
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        November 29, 2023 3:00pm
      - Beach Haven expat
        
        What a lot of fuss about nothing.
        And I’m sure Mr Hosking has had worse monikers attached to him.
        
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        November 29, 2023 8:32pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Their names are “Steven Joyce” and “Mike Hosking”.
  
  “Would be interesting to find out what News Outlet got the type of handout in dollar amount.”
  
  There is no need to wonder. It is all publicly available:
  
  https://www.nzonair.govt.nz/funding/journalism-funding/#funding-decisions
  
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  November 29, 2023 11:49am
  - oldpark
    
    Thanks for that link Benedict Yu. A real Eyeopener .
    Would be great to see some exposure of who or what got the $55 ,000,000 Dollar handout .
    The so called Left of Left media and their cohorts did very well .
    
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    November 29, 2023 1:28pm
Damocles11

It seems the Left community and the media are determined to treat the new government as a brief illegitimate interregnum unjustly foisted on ‘decent’ woke Kiwi’s by the vagaries of MMP and the voting patterns of a group of ‘ungrateful’ and ‘selfish’ people. Meanwhile the (in their eyes) rightful PM Chris Hipkins will be provided a platform to deliver a constant critical running commentary on the ‘gang of thugs’ while awaiting his pre-ordained and inevitable return to power in 3 years time.
At the moment we are seeing the media throwing a constant barrage of metaphorical rotten tomatoes at the hated (by the Left apparatus) new government. I can’t help thinking that this looks very much like Trump’s election in 2016 and the fraught term of office that followed, with daily hysteria in the media being the most notable feature.
This is going to get very tiresome, very soon.
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November 29, 2023 8:38am
- Grunter
  
  It will accelerate the death of all/most MSM. It was tiresome for a lot of us a few years ago, so we stopped watching/listening/reading MSM.
  
  Why anyone still fills their brains with this poison is beyond me. The MSM are so obviously biased propaganda merchants.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:06am
  - Keith White
    
    There seems little doubt – based upon both theoretical speculation and real-world medical monitoring studies – that constant paranoid negativity contributes to actual and significant pathological illness of the mind. These nattering nabobs of negativity are not going to find and settle in a steady state, they are just gonna spiral further down. I will take no delight in that, although it won’t bother me much either because they were warned, as all of our mothers warned us: “okay, even if you didn’t start it, you’re going to finish it now”.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:06am
    - Don Beckett
      
      ” nattering nabobs of negativity ”
      Very good. 😆
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:01pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        It’s not original, Don.
        
        I would have first heard that expression back in the 70s, in some sort of UK context.
        
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        November 29, 2023 12:37pm
      - Keith White
        
        I stole it from Spiro Agnew 🙂
        
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        November 29, 2023 12:50pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Thanks, Keith.
        
        I got the decade right, and I’m not necessarily wrong with the context in which I first heard it, although the only other realistic context would have been a US one. But Agnew rings a bell.
        
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        November 29, 2023 1:34pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Spiro Agnew. Now, there’s a blast from the past. Appointed VP to make the Trickster look good.
        
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        November 29, 2023 7:30pm
Maggie Pie

And I see where the Judge has reserved her decision in the Siouxsie Wiles employment case, where she’s suing Auckland Uni after alledging ‘they left her vulnerable to mental and physical harm’.

Will be very interesting to follow the outcome of this one.
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November 29, 2023 8:40am
- Flossie
  
  It wasn’t noticeable that Ms Wiles was reluctant to take up each and every opportunity to put herself forward. I find it unlikely that all her many TV appearances were at the behest of her employer.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:18am
- imalwaysright
  
  Siouxie can’t comprehend that when you feed the population lies and deception whilst being sponsored by a toxic régime that some people may not like you very much.
  
  I wonder if it is possible to sue Siouxie for her treachery?
  
  She caused many people to suffer unnecessary fear and worry and would have convinced many to take the jab and perhaps get sick or die because of it.
  
  Makes her hurty feelings look a bit inconsequential.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:19am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Strange how we haven’t had much publicity about the latter stage of this case.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:26am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Maybe there are aspects of the case that need to be kept out of the media?
    Siouxie works in a PC3Lab close to the hospital – seriously high risk pandemic microbe stuff.
    Certainly not some cushy office job.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:43am
    - Keith White
      
      Surely she would not do a Shi Zhengli with NZ taxpayers’ assets? Too awful to contemplate, so I shan’t.
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:08am
  - Beach Haven expat
    
    No, standard court reporting.
    The opening and prosecution (or in this case claimant) bits contain the juiciest parts and the defence/respondent bits less so. Also reader attention wanders to other subjects so coverage swings back in for the verdict.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:37pm
Biscuit

Mr ‘I’m still relevant, I really am! I’m in it for you!’ ex-Prime Minister Chris Hipkins whines that he thinks Winston picking on the media ‘may be breaking the law.’

Yonder Hipkins is, of course, completely quiet on his erstwhile Cabinet buddy, Willie Jackson, threatening revolution because the election didn’t go his way.

Curious, too, that Hipkins dismissed all of Jackson’s pre-election ‘hijinks’ witb a ‘oh, that’s just Willie’ conversation-stopper. Why no similar ‘Oh everyone knows Winston’s ploys’ rejoinder now, Chipster?

Instead we get a “Luxton can’t control him’ aside … totally forgetting all the times he, Chippie, was given the run around by team members HE couldn’t control, heh.
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November 29, 2023 8:40am
- Beach Haven expat
  
  Willie’s Q&A threat to the child Tame a few months ago too Chris?
  Kiri’s ‘advice’ to RNZ when her lover flounced out having not got a promotion? (and how did that relationship work out for you Kiri?)
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:41pm
nathie

About the PIJF issue that has blown up (eg by some aggressively defensive MSM journos and Winston, well being Winston).

One of the most controversial/radical/divisive aspects of the PIJF (which the MSM journos are ignoring) is that the accompanying “Te Tiriti Framework for News Media” documents (there are two of them).

To quote the 8 paged “Ti Tiriti Framework” it states on page 4:

Rationale
As tangata whenua o Aotearoa, Māori have never ceded sovereignty to Britain or any other State. He Whakaputanga/Declaration of Independence (1835) and te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840) asserted and continue to assert Māori sovereignty, and were signed by hapū and the Crown.

This is the radical/activist reinterpretation of the ToW, which now permeates eg Education, the (Labour) Govt & Public Service and now the Judiciary, that Māori have never ceded sovereignty. Which is BS and totally against the evidence of the time (1840) whereby Maori Chiefs debated the fact that they will be losing sovereignty.

To also highlight the radical/activist “Ti Tiriti Framework” dis-information, it raises the Declaration of Independence (1835). Now this Declaration had a specific purpose (eg to allow Maori to trade with NSW and IIRC to counter potential French claims to NZ) and was only signed by some Northland tribes. It was then surpassed by tie 1840 ToW. For the “Ti Tiriti Framework” to be ignorant of the background and to deceive modern day NZers is despicable. It needs to be scrapped.

Now the rest of the quoted page 4 paragraph then quotes “institutional racism” revisionist bullshit (to save time I won’t expand further but have a read).
https://www.nzonair.govt.nz/documents/790/2022_03_Irirangi_te_Motu_NZ_on_Air_Te_Tiriti_framework_only_for_News_Media.pdf

Then there is a more comprehensive “Evidence” “Ti Tiriti Framework” (29 pages). Page 11:

The Treaty ‘principles’
Repeated references by the Government to the English version, in which Māori supposedly ceded sovereignty, have created systematic misinformation that protects the Government’s assumption of sole parliamentary sovereignty

https://www.nzonair.govt.nz/documents/789/2022_03_Irirangi_te_Motu_NZ_on_Air_Te_Tiriti_Framework_and_evidence_for_News_M_EPcNdaD.pdf
But wait there is more modern day idiotic thinking:

Because the substance of the Treaty relationship is clear in the Māori text, and because of the lack of Māori involvement in their development, none of these ‘principles’ have been endorsed by Māori.

FFS there were no “principles” back in 1840!

The three sections of the ToW were generally clear in an overall sense (despite some translation peculiarities).

From Te Ara:

Article One: in Māori it gave Queen Victoria governance over the land, while in English it gave her sovereignty over the land – a stronger term.

Article Two: Te tiriti guaranteed chiefs ‘te tino rangatiratanga’ – chieftainship over their lands, villages and treasured things. It also gave the Crown the right to deal with Māori in buying land. The English-language treaty gave chiefs ‘exclusive and undisturbed possession’ of lands, forests, fisheries and other property. It also gave the Crown an exclusive right to deal with Māori over buying land.

Article Three: both versions gave Māori the queen’s protection and the rights of British subjects.

https://teara.govt.nz/en/te-tiriti-o-waitangi-the-treaty-of-waitangi

There we go Article 1: Governance/Sovereignty to the Crown.

No ifs or buts as the radicals/activists/Labour/judiciary are saying. These divisive fools need to Honor The Treaty!
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November 29, 2023 8:49am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Someone on here yesterday (not saying who) suggesting that Alexandra Pelosi’s vid about the Jan 6th insurrection was more fake news with no proof.
“Still incapable of providing evidence to support your claim but don’t let facts get in your way.”

“During this exchange, she openly refutes the idea that the protests constituted an insurrection and expresses her belief that the courts in Washington, D.C., are too biased to conduct fair trials for those who supported the former president.”

https://therecorddaily.com/revelations-from-pelosis-daughter-shatter-january-6th-insurrection-claims/?

How’s them bananas?
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November 29, 2023 9:00am
- RichardX
  
  I made no comment as to the veracity or implications of the video which is also the subject of your link today.
  
  To suggest otherwise using a partial quote, out of context, makes you appear either dishonest or too stupid to comprehend what was written.
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2023/11/general_debate_28_november_2023.html#comment-3476582
  My comment, as linked above included the specific claim I was responding to.
  It was in response to your claim that Speaker Pelosi, somehow twice prevented the use of the Nation Guard on January 6. You have also previously claimed many times that Trump requested these troops on more than one occasion in the weeks prior to Jan 6.
  
  I have provided sworn testimony that contradicts your claims.
  You have provided nothing, except of Trump’s own assertion, in support of your claim.
  
  Nothing in the opinion piece you posted today addresses this issue.
  
  Your claims that Ardern was paid millions by Pfizer and Michelle Obama is a man are equally unsupported.
  
  It gets boring asking for evidence you appear unable to provide but not as boring as you repeatedly make claims you are unable to support with evidence.
  
  It would require a level of self-awareness, introspection, and critical thinking that you have not yet demonstrated but you should try thinking about why you believe what you believe and the process you employ to determine what is true.
  It may be a more productive use of your retirement than your current pursuits.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:03pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘The former chief of U.S. Capitol Police says security officials at the House and Senate rebuffed his early requests to call in the National Guard ahead of a demonstration in support of President Trump that turned into a deadly attack on Congress.
    
    Former chief Steven Sund — who resigned his post last week after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for him to step down — made the assertions in an interview with The Washington Post published Sunday.
    
    Sund contradicts claims made by officials after Wednesday’s assault on Capitol Hill. Sund’s superiors said previously that the National Guard and other additional security support could have been provided, but no one at the Capitol requested it.’
    ‘Sund told the Post that House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving was concerned with the “optics” of declaring an emergency ahead of the protests and rejected a National Guard presence. He says Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger recommended that he informally request the Guard to be ready in case it was needed to maintain security.
    
    Like Sund, Irving and Stenger have also since resigned their posts.
    
    Sund says he requested assistance six times ahead of and during the attack on the Capitol. Each of those requests was denied or delayed, he says.’
    https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955548910/ex-capitol-police-chief-rebuffs-claims-national-guard-was-never-called-during-ri
    
    You have been shown this and other evidence before.
    Thats THREE people stating this.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:45pm
    - RichardX
      
      None of which proves Trump twice requested troops weeks prior to Jan 6 and Pelosi stopped it, which is Otto’s claim.
      
      Another swing and another miss.
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:12pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-order-national-guard-156055113284
    
    Seems Trump was POTUS but not Commander in Chief. Pelosi stopped his request.
    Enough of your nonsense.
    
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    November 30, 2023 8:37am
    - RichardX
      
      You ink to an article that 100% refutes your claim and claim vindication?
      
      I’m still not sure if it is stupidity or dishonesty.
      
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      November 30, 2023 8:42am
Vinicius

There is extensive information about the Public Interest Journalism Fund on the NZ On Air website:
https://www.nzonair.govt.nz/funding/journalism-funding/

There is extensive information and documents on this page. Anyone who wants to read this will have to dig around a bit.
1. Copies of contracts and other guidelines.
2. A full list of who got funding under the PIJF.
3. Who was responsible for evaluating applications.

Some examples of who got funding (see under the ‘Funding decisions’ heading):

Round 7

1. Newshub Nation 2023, 42 x 60min, including Budget and election specials, for Discovery NZ, up to $999,781. A weekly political current affairs programme that provides political news, interviews, and analysis.

2. Q + A with Jack Tame 2023, 40 x 60min plus 1 x 118min special for TVNZ, up to $842,200. TVNZ’s leading political current affairs programme that tackles newsworthy political issues alongside debates and interviews.

Finally, Megan Woods talking to Mike Hosking this morning stated that Winston Peters was in cabinet in 2020 when the PIJF decision was made. Did he raise any red flags in cabinet at the time? If not why not?
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November 29, 2023 9:01am
- NothingLeft
  
  He was probably napping.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:41am
- Vinicius
  
  In addition under Round 3 of the PIJF:
  
  1. Newshub Nation 2022, 41 X 50 mins, Discovery NZ for Three, up to $978,175. Current affairs.
  2. Q + A with Jack Tame 2022, 40 x 59 mins, plus a two-hour special, TVNZ, up to $842,200. Current affairs.
  
  So, in 2022 and 2023 Newshub Nationreceived $1.97 million. Q & A with Jack Tame received $1.68 million also for the same two years.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:18am
- Libertarians are right
  
  It’s worth noting that Willy Jackson has said that the Treaty requirements were added by NZ on Air who were administering it so it’s entirely possible that it was done this way to hide the true intent from Winston (i.e. Labour told NZ on Air to add it at their end for plausible deniability), just like how they hid He Pua Pua.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:50am
- Swifty
  
  That’s very interesting as PIJF apologists have been saying this week that political journalism was not eligible under PIJF.
  
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  November 29, 2023 12:02pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    That’s because they ignored the exemptions:
    Maori interests are exempt.
    Long Form shows etc are also exempt.
    
    So basically, the exemptions are so big that you could drive a truck through them.
    
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    November 29, 2023 1:08pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Vini
  Winston was against it so Robertson ran off and told the media. Ever since they have been gunning for Winston .
  
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  November 29, 2023 1:36pm
  - Vinicius
    
    Not surprised that Robertson was up to skullduggery in the background. One of the more unlikeable MP’s.
    
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    November 29, 2023 1:47pm
wsk12345

Bumped into an old mate last week after the coalition agreements came out. She admitted to voting left but said she was really happy with the three way coalition and many of the things they are reversing. She agreed that the media are behaving disgustingly.

I wonder how many lefties feel the same way – couldn’t bring themselves to vote centre or centre right, but when pushed admit they are happy with the election result.
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November 29, 2023 9:05am
- Notsofast
  
  A lot of aged lefties voted NZF. In some ways the 6% is surprisingly low, polls will see a surge, at the expense of Greens one could expect.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:05am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    NZF popularity inevitably declines when they are part of a government.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:48am
    - Colville
      
      I would bet you it hasnt declined this week!!
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:57pm
      - MCōs
        
        Hasn’t been a week yet.
        Towards the end of the first Ardern term he started to get very critical of the government, but the tactic didn’t work.
        This time he’s changed tack and gone after the media, but you can be sure he’ll have his eye on Act & the Nats down the track.
        His problem with attacking the media is he has little support and although he can hold a grudge so can they.
        
        ‘Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel’
        Mark Twain
        
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        November 29, 2023 2:19pm
Kiwiguy

I had cause to drive one of my staff cars during the week. They had the radio set on 99FM.
The announcer called it Radio Hoe Ducky.
Never heard of it before.
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November 29, 2023 9:05am
- NothingLeft
  
  It’s amazing how modern woke buy into bullshit invented changes in accent and pronunciation. The language and place names were phonetically recorded in the 1800’s, and there was no weird agenda to change f’s into wh’s or any of the other recently invented malarky.
  
  It is perfectly clear that the whole name and pronunciation change enterprise is nothing more than tedious efforts by insecure teens to make their parents jump through hoops – exercising power in pushing others around for no reason other than massaging their egos + busy work for useless underemployed SJWs. We shouldn’t indulge it because it’s just rewarding the behaviour.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:50am
  - Flossie
    
    Not to mention the more recent weird agenda to add macrons (think that’s what those lines are called?) above some letters.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:43am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Macrons indicate a lengthened vowel sound. the difference between ‘a’ in Māori and ‘a’ in haka, for instance.
      The long ‘a’ is sometimes written as ‘aa’ for those who find macrons a bit too sophisticated.
      
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      November 29, 2023 10:51am
      - Dougal10
        
        In french and some other euro languages.
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:36am
      - Jack5
        
        Milky’s Macrons indicate …
        
        From ‘Wikipedia’:
        
        “… [the] name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (ma krón) ‘long’ because it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics. It now more often marks a long vowel.”
        
        The use of macrons is quite recent in Polynesian languages.
        
        I like the Cook Islands Maori approach and especially the name used for this diacritical mark: “In Cook Islands Maori, the macron or mākarōna is not commonly used in writing, but is used in references and teaching materials for those learning the language.”
        
        Wikipedia says sometimes a “trema” is used in NZ Maori when a macron “isn’t available”.
        
        What is a trema?
        
        I’ll try pasting the code here, and if it doesn’t work, you can see one over an “O” at the link below:
        
        My attempt on the Maori alternate diacritic most Maori don’t seem to know about: ö
        
        If that doesn’t work you can find one here:
        
        https://nathaliedoucet.live/2020/07/22/what-is-a-trema/
        
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        November 29, 2023 3:28pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      More unnecessary tasking behaviour by insecure Maori activists desperate to be relevant and exercise power over people. It slows down typing, makes written Maori more painful to use and adds nothing to communication as people writing it and reading it almost always already know how to pronounce the words (such as in English with it’s vast array of phonetic variations and adopted words)
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:52am
      - MCōs
        
        You’re lucky French isn’t your first language, eh!
        
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        November 29, 2023 12:46pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Remember when maori was pronounced moedee.
    
    Taupo became Tipu and then Tore pore.
    
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    November 29, 2023 1:43pm
- kevn
  
  Kiwi… I listen to 88Fm in the car. No announcers, no ads.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:53am
- Notsofast
  
  This is where proper scholarship of the spoken language is necessary. People forget that English speakers and writers wrote down what they heard. They did not hear O for AU, they heard ah oo, so O is wrong.
  The D is interesting because Thomas Sir Augustus Earle wrote Kiddy Kiddy for what has become Keri Keri.
  So Howdakky would be arguably correct.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:00am
- lifesgood
  
  Yes, I wondered what on earth a Cody tree was too.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:18am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Lockdown lockdown, wear your mask, social distancing, don’t talk to anyone. Vaccines vaccines, let’s take the public for another ride.
Here we fucking go again under the Biden Admin.
Won’t happen in NZ. We now have a Govt that are not commies!

https://therecorddaily.com/the-looming-health-crisis-america-braces-for-a-winter-of-viral-turmoil/?
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November 29, 2023 9:07am
- krazykiwi
  
  If there is a crisis, it is because the MRNA shots have made every recipient more susceptible to Covid infection. The evidence of this is now overwhelming. Billions of damaged immune systems, and the official advice from officials in USA (and NZ for that matter) is to take more MRNA shots.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:21am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That is a bit worrying. I had two shots so I could get the silly passport. No reactions.
    The thing is I may have had Covid and not even known. It would have given me natural immunity if so. Then the vaccines would have destroyed my natural immunity.
    Fast forward six months and I did have a positive test. I did not feel unwell, asymptomatic, only took it because my daughter tested positive.
    So I do wonder about the future.
    I have natural immunity for many things you get as a kid. Chickenpox, measles, all of it. Also the important vaccines, polio, tetanus, whooping cough, etc.
    Some there was no vaccine back then. We also lived in the sticks, way out the back of Te Kowhai. Can’t go running to the Doctor every time someone sniffs.
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:58am
  - Dougal10
    
    Lots of 4 shotters catching the covid thing around here now, and they seem to be twice as sick as those that had it a couple of years ago with 2 shots and much sicker than us cleanskins seemed to get.
    
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    November 29, 2023 11:44am
- waikatosinger
  
  More like America braces for an insane election season.
  
  The new covid hysteria is going to be used to try to justify emergency mail in voting so that they can rig the vote.
  
  Again.
  
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  November 29, 2023 5:34pm
Ghost

No surprise

The new Finance Minister Nicola Willis has slammed the previous Labour Government for leaving the books with “nasty financial surprises” that National will have to clean up.

The new Government was sworn in at a ceremony at Government House on Monday and Willis has since received briefings from Treasury officials about the state of the country’s books.

Article
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November 29, 2023 9:12am
- Kiwiguy
  
  No surprises there. The outgoing govt most likely did it deliberately and maliciously and are now chortling into their organic chai tea about it.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:27am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Complaint of every new government ever.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:52am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  It’s a bit strange that the socialists hate National so much. If National and co weren’t around, who would fix the economy enough so the socialists can misspend all the money next time us idjuts vote them back in.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:00am
- Benedict Yu
  
  She is not very specific. She cites the government committing to policies without funding them. Yes, and these were all listed in the PREFU as specific fiscal risks.
  
  I know I am a broken record on this. If she uncovers a serious fiscal commitment that was not disclosed, I will be the first to admit I was wrong. It would mean that Grant Robertson deliberately broke the law.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:09am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Dead right. One could argue about the estimates around those fiscal risks, or that some programmes may not be able to be funded beyond the 4-year budget horizon, but all the essential detail is there.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:54am
  - Dougal10
    
    He does seem to be keeping his head below the parapet which is unusual for him
    
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    November 29, 2023 11:47am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Yep. Robbo is under the radar ATM
      
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      November 29, 2023 7:36pm
- Swifty
  
  Six years of incompetence and profligacy.
  
  It always comes back and bites you.
  
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  November 29, 2023 12:03pm
Gravelroad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/133359857/taranaki-mum-of-two-becomes-worlds-first-woman-to-benchpress-more-than-300kg
Yes, very good, well done.
But what has the breathless claim that this athlete is a “mum of two” got to do with anything?
Why is that significant enough to warrant a headline?
Will wait to see a headline that states “Dad of two wins bike race.”
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November 29, 2023 9:14am
- NothingLeft
  
  When you see bench press records it is normally with short people who have the bar resting on their chests that extend so far out from their rib cages that they are doing little more than straightening their already nearly-straight arms as the bar moves up a couple of inches.
  
  Enormous boobs and high BMI are a big advantage in this game.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:54am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  It’s not uncommon for women who have given birth to have weakened pelvic floors. So yes, being a mother is relevant here. Though, normally I’d agree with you.
  
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  November 29, 2023 7:39pm
Maggie Pie

I’m only reposting this link to the Greens petition calling to save the ban on Oil & Gas exploration so you can read the comments. What a hoot!!

https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1728923630980182146

Why the member-for-tijuana bothers following me on ‘X’ is a worry 😀
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November 29, 2023 9:16am
- Keith White
  
  He follows you because Stockholm Syndrome, Maggie 🙂
  
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  November 29, 2023 12:53pm
ClanMcleod

An excellent show this morning with Paul Brennan on Reality Check Radio.

https://realitycheck.radio/

First up was an interview with new minister Casey Costello.

Next up, an interview with Dr Peter McCulloch re vax harms and pending revelations.

Currently listening to a lawyer and legal expert, discussing the proposed WHO changes to international health regulations that would give them unprecedented power to impose health measures during a future ‘pandemic’.

The replays should be up later today, I think they also repeat the morning show in the early evening.

https://realitycheck.radio/replays/
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November 29, 2023 9:19am
ecco

Can someone clarify, are some of these media outlets receiving the PJIF money in the guise of covid period hardship, still going to receive these payments until January 2026? Did Hipkins’ governemnt make this extension? If so, what was the rationale for the extension?
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November 29, 2023 9:25am
- NothingLeft
  
  Rationale? Obviously to keep Labour’s far-left propaganda outlets funded through at least their first term in opposition.
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:56am
- kevn
  
  Recipients… wide coverage.
  https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/pijf
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:57am
  - Vinicius
    
    What a shameful waste of precious taxpayers dollars and surprise, surprise NZME, Stuff, TVNZ and RNZ amongst the greediest of the greedy.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:39am
- Vinicius
  
  See my comment above at 9.01am for more detail on how to access detailed information on the PIJF
  
  Open the weblink in my comments and under ‘Funding decisions’ look for the subheading ‘Details of all funding decisions under the PIJF’
  
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  November 29, 2023 9:59am
- I remember when
  
  Was the PJIF the equivalent of a ‘backhander’ for services rendered.
  Here’s some money, a sizeable amount, and we will decide how you report co-governance, which will be included in a large part of our legislation.
  You won’t be telling a lie, only not telling your readers/viewers the whole truth.
  That’s not a lie, is it?
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:00am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

Tuku Morgan is desperate to hold on to the Waitangi Tribunal post 1975 Treaty. Why? Forestry and Fisheries, that is why. Forestry and Fisheries are not in the 1840 Littlewood Draft or the 1840 Maori TOW.
He wants the illegal Gravy Train to continue.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/maori-are-using-our-money-to-take-us-to-court-and-a-whole-lot-more/
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November 29, 2023 9:40am
- Vinicius
  
  Perhaps the gravy needs some laxative added?
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:07am
I remember when

Another corrected headline!
“Covid-19 still NZ’s ‘biggest infectious disease problem’ – Michael Baker: RNZ 27 November.

Covid-19 still NZ’s ‘biggest infectious disease problem’?

Fixed.
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November 29, 2023 9:41am
- Keith White
  
  Michael Baker still NZ science’s biggest credibility problem.
  
  (Siouxsie Wiles distant swimmer-up).
  
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  November 29, 2023 12:54pm
Nickc2

In your opinion, did the previous Govt bribe the MSM with their PJIF?

Uptick YES
Downtick NO

Feel free to justify your conclusion(s) if required.

IMO, the MSM (including Hosking) have been playing with semantics on the subject all morning, but at the end of the day, it’s people’s perceptions that count.
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November 29, 2023 9:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Time for OIA to put the left lies to rest.
  We are tired of the Fake News.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:02am
- Libertarians are right
  
  They required the media to take a very specific political position, that at least 3 major parties disagreed with or else the money would have to be paid back. That is corruption, no question.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:37am
- Jake Dee
  
  Yes BUT it’s not as simple as The government bribing the journos with the PIJF. It is corrupt and it is bribery but of a more sophisticated form that slipping a writer cash to run a puff piece on your party. It runs along the lines of the famous American political machines like the old school Tamaney hall best summarized as “jobs for the boys”. Positions on the government payroll and fat contracts are made available but only to those who support the correct faction. The voters in those ‘machine” run cities could vote however they liked but if they went the wrong way they got frozen out the next time goodies were distributed.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:05pm
goNZ1

”This is sick. Hamas forced Danielle Aloni – who was held hostage with her 5-year-old daughter – to write a thank you letter saying how well Hamas treated her in captivity.
Like it was a f—–g visit to grandma rather than a murderous death cult that held them for 50 days in the… pic.twitter.com/atV3QBsPIZ
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 27, 2023
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November 29, 2023 9:46am
- Blog-aholic
  
  That is simply the terrorist MO.
  Force captives to say or write propagandist BS or else.
  
  Of course the else is either your life or someone else close to you.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:10am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Labour left the cupboard bare.
They do the same thing every time. Remember the nasty bastards Clark and Cullen?
People still vote for their lies!

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/labour-left-govt-books-with-snakes-snails-and-nasty-financial-surprises-willis/ar-AA1kGnWB?o
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November 29, 2023 10:08am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I’m sceptical. See my comment up thread. All politicians can be hyperbolic on this stuff.
  
  Michael Cullen said that the cupboard was bare before the 2008 election. The 2008 PREFU duly pointed out that the cupboard was bare. Bill English did not discover that the cupboard was bare for the first time on becoming Finance Minister.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:13am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Actually, Cullen hid the ACC blowout which was a nasty surprise for Bill English.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:33am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      I’ll give you that one. However, critically the resulting Ministerial Inquiry found that the Treasury made an error of judgement by not including the ACC blowout in the PREFU.
      
      https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/49HansD_20090303_00000690/ministerial-statements-accident-compensation-ministerial
      
      Treasury’s approaches to identifying fiscal risks were subsequently made more stringent.
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:04am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        Ah yes, the Treasury bureaucrats making a mistake during the election that benefitted Labour.
        Just like they did in 2017 when Robertson had an $11B hole against the Prefu yet immediately after the election Treasury adjusted their forecasts (citing the Prefu as being incorrect), moving short term growth predictions to long term, removing most of the hole (which Robertson then created anyway).
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:17am
  - Jack5
    
    Meanwhile the news media continue to give Labour a great run.
    
    Today, for example, we have Hipkins saying Peters could be breaking the law with his comments about the media. This, on Stuff, is in a video clip cunningly inset into a report under a headline mentioning Nicola Willis.
    
    Did the news media ever before let defeated politicians continue to have the floor?
    
    Was Bill English quoted on the new Labour Government? 😂😂
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:52am
    - MCōs
      
      “Did the news media ever before let defeated politicians continue to have the floor?”
      
      Donald J Trump
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:51pm
    - Jack5
      
      Radio NZ’s “Red Morning” Report also giving a platform for Hipkins:
      
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/503495/labour-party-leader-chris-hipkins-says-winston-peters-running-the-show-in-new-government
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:53pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

They are picking on me – the pink terror.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/lawyer-says-auckland-university-conducted-witch-hunt-against-dr-siouxsie-wiles/ar-AA1kEoSB?
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November 29, 2023 10:10am
- peterwn
  
  Seems to me she is expecting the University to use powers it does not have to protect her. Also is an employer liable to protect an employee who engages in things outside her employment.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:52pm
Maggie Pie

If the new Min-of-Health Shane Reti is serious about protecting ED Doctors & Nurses from serious assaults….the government is going to have to very quickly change the law so Security Guards have similar powers to the Police in these situations.

Either that, or allow concealed-carry for on duty qualified medical staff.
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November 29, 2023 10:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The idea that security guards can not touch you is stupid. Why have them?
  I have seen it with runners at Countdown. Staff can’t stop the thief, neither can security. A young Maori guy chased the runner but lost him. He must have removed his hat and jacket.
  Time for Law changes, and the Police to stop being sissies.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:34am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    That could go south very quickly. All security guards are minimum wage workers. You really think you can train the current workforce of security guards to safely use force to apprehend offenders who may have weapons and be on meth? I don’t see it.
    
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    November 29, 2023 10:54am
    - Keith White
      
      The big chains can afford to train higher-wage skilled security workers with the savings from less theft.
      
      They can be issued Tasers and the video will show if the tasee was in the wrong. If a thief, jailtime. If not a thief, compensation time.
      
      Or. you know, the police could just damn well turn out and arrest and charge thieves. I know asking police to stop cuddling up to gangs and ethnic supremacists and do their actual tax-funded job is a big ask, but hey, it might very well turn the thief-tide.
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:00am
      - NothingLeft
        
        A jailed thief doesn’t do any thieving, freeing up police to catch more criminals, and leading to a virtuous cycle of less crime and greater deterrence as there is less chance of getting away with it.
        
        Won’t take much change in sentencing practices to have major impact over the next few years, though jailed population will obviously grow.
        
        Lets figure out ways of making jail a lot cheaper. I suggest putting jailing of long term prisoners out to tender by third world countries – make use of their lower labour costs.
        
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        November 29, 2023 7:24pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Arm them, with training of course. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. NZ needs to grow up.
      Armed Police/Security that are trained. I have talked with many Police and Security guys in Hawaii and Alaska. In Alaska guns are everywhere but mostly unseen. At out hast families houses they had about 5 in each house. I only knew where one was, a pump action 12G, loaded.
      Up there in Alaska they think an unloaded gun is like trying to put year seat belt on when you know you are crashing.
      Hawaiian Cop said that Kiwis might find Police armed could be intimidating. To me that is only if you have done something wrong. I asked for his photo, then asked him to move his hand so the firearm was in the shot.
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:28am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        That’s one of the things I love about staying at Waikiki 😎
        Having the Police patroling the beach on their 4-wheelers with a 12g Shotty holstered next to them.
        
        It’s one of the few places I feel comfortable walking to and from the surf knowing no one dare molest me.
        
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        November 29, 2023 11:46am
- MCōs
  
  “allow concealed-carry for on duty qualified medical staff.”
  
  The first person they would have shot when I was in hospital would have to have been the physioterrorist.
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:50am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Reading your posts yesterday and again today cossie, it sounds like you’ve spent an awful lot of time in hospitals.
    
    You really are a sick man 😀
    
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    November 29, 2023 11:10am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Some of use have been knocked around a bit. Pinched nerves, neck surgery, skin grafts, crushed foot. A metal workshop is no place for the meek and mild.
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:30am
    - MCōs
      
      I was born with a dislocated hip, which has given me trouble all my life.
      These days babies are tested at birth. Not then and it was two years before anyone found out.
      I subsequently spent 13mths in Dunedin Hospital with my leg in plaster far away from my family in Timaru.
      
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      November 29, 2023 1:02pm
- Arthur Fleck
  
  Why is it a bouncer can physically remove you from a bar, but a security guard can’t touch you?
  
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  November 29, 2023 10:51am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    A bouncer cannot lawfully use force of any kind against a patron.
    
    https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/what-are-bouncers-legally-allowed-to-do.html
    
    If they do so, they can, and have been, charged with assault.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300778570/bouncer-charged-after-alleged-assault-leaves-patron-needing-stitches#:~:text=A%20bouncer%20has%20been%20arrested,Bar%20on%20Auckland's%20Karangahape%20Rd.
    
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    November 29, 2023 11:07am
    - Arthur Fleck
      
      Legalmatch is an American website so I’m not sure how relevant that is to NZ.
      
      Patrons are physically ejected from bars in New Zealand every weekend, so why aren’t we seeing a tidal wave of prosecutions against bouncers? It usually only occurs when the bouncer has been overly heavy-handed resulting in injury to the ejected party.
      
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      November 29, 2023 11:16am
    - cmm
      
      BY: You’re grabbing at the most extreme examples again.
      
      Clearly breaking someone’s arm or jaw is overstepping the mark and could land you on the wrong end of an assault charge.
      
      But firmly guiding a person out of a pub is perfectly fine.
      
      I did a bit of bouncing during my university years (in South Africa). I never hit anyone. I did grab a few arms/shoulders and such and blocked a few blows. However at over 6ft 5 most people look at me for a few seconds and most pissed guys can figure out their odds.
      
      What seems to be limiting the actions of staff the most is not the law, but company policy.
      
      In other words the companies tell their security staff not to intervene because they are worried about the situation escalating and potentially turning into an ugly incident that might cost them tens or hundreds of thousands in court costs etc.
      
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      November 29, 2023 12:23pm
      - Jack5
        
        Wonder what the position would be for security guards who have German Shepherds and who are trained dog handlers?
        
        A guard with a German Shepherd would settle down most thugs and rowdies.
        
        Especially if the guard carried an intimidating-looking baton and pepper spray.
        
        The dogs could meet the same cleanliness and health standards as guide dogs. That might satisfy hospitals and supermarkets.
        
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        November 29, 2023 1:05pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The bouncer is really breaking the Law. NZ is backward.
    
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    November 29, 2023 11:32am
    - mtamati
      
      Steve…
      Bouncers have delegated authority from the establishment owners to remove willful trespasses from the premises…Likewise with any property owner or their agent. Everyone has a right to come onto you property but be comes a trespasser when asked to leave and refuses to. That trespasser becomes a wilful trespasser after failing to leave after a warning to do so and can be legally removed. Any resistance to their physical removal is an assault on the property owner/agent.
      
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      November 29, 2023 1:00pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  If security guards are going to have similar powers to the Police, they will need similiar skills and training. That will mean an entirely different workforce to the current minimum wage workers.
  
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  November 29, 2023 11:11am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Mostly Disagree. Perhaps a day or two of basic safe control techniques, and emphasis on minimizing level of violence employed.
    
    Perhaps a minor amendment to law regarding citizens arrest to make it less dangerous to use (opens arresting person up to a lot of potential legal jeopardy) for the purposes of theft prevention by retail workers and assisting members of public.
    
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    November 29, 2023 12:03pm
  - cmm
    
    BY: “If security guards are going to have similar powers to the Police, they will need similiar skills and training.”
    
    They don’t need full training and powers. Nobody is expecting these security guards to be able to intervene in domestic violence, use fire arms, do high speed car chases or take written statements etc.
    
    Just be able to grab a person by the arm if they are blatantly stealing stuff.
    
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    November 29, 2023 12:14pm
    - MCōs
      
      Domestic violence might be on the cards
      
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      November 29, 2023 3:35pm
- peterwn
  
  As long as they do not take loaded firearms into the MRI room.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:46pm
Keith White

As much as I would like to see the previous Prime Minister, the previous Minister of Health, the previous Chief Medical Officer, and the head of the New Zealand medical profession all held to account for the deaths and damage they directly caused by lockdowns and vaccine mandates – realistically there is almost no chance of any of those people being held to legal account.

That said, and I’d like to be hugely wrong on this next scenario; a more insidious and underappreciated, but coming close to orders-of-magnitude-higher death and morbidity toll is likely to arise due to the hyperinflation which is ‘around the corner’.

Trying to avoid a TL:DR.

The Roman Empire crashed spectacularly due to failure to keep outgoings matched to incomings. We are doing the same thing, less dramatically. The Roman emperors trying to delay disaster until the end of their term / life (sometimes the same thing) resulted to debasing the currency, clipping the coinage, changing the composition, even literally making them smaller. Our equivalent of this policy is Robertson vastly and suddenly expanding the supply of digital and then printed money.

But whether you clip and debase silver coins or print more fancily-inked paper, the result is the same; the quantity of money increases without any matching income or production; therefore we get inflation, therefore we get increases in cost of living, therefore we get demands to get paid more, therefore we circulate more fiat / digital currency, via keystrokes in Orr’s office. And around and around we go until one day, the music stops, the tide goes out, and we see who’s been swimming naked.

Are we seeing anything different going on in New Zealand and the world, from what the Romans and the Germans experienced? I’d say we are not. It’s useful to read the lived experience of those who for example survived the Weimar Republic – and more recently, the Zimbabwean inflation, the Venezuelan inflation, the Argentinian inflation, the Greek inflation, inflation after the fall of the USSR and so forth; not because there can be a realistic expectation that only we in the 21st century are smart enough to stave off such disaster, but so that we know how to best prepare for our families.
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November 29, 2023 10:33am
- Grunter
  
  Keith – it may not happen ‘soon’ – but it will happen. IMO the house of cards ponzi scheme collapses within the next 5 years. And realise that the fractional banking system we are all part of means the money you have in your bank account isn’t actually there….!
  
  So read up, as you have already, on past historic money system collapses and see what citizens did to survive/thrive. For example;
  – Buy gold and silver to preserve some wealth
  – Grow your own food within your local community
  – Make your own stuff within your local community
  
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  November 29, 2023 11:32am
  - Keith White
    
    Grunter, you are entirely correct.
    
    Musing further there is one other thing that I have turned to in recent years: aligning future expectations more closely to sensible levels.
    
    For example, decades ago, Her Majesty’s drill sergeants educated me quite forcefully in the minimum amount of stuff I needed to survive and thrive. At that time, I could carry everything I needed in one pack. Over the years I tended to forget that, and started accumulating more and more. After uni the move to my first job could be still be accomplished in a (albeit somewhat crammed) Austin Mini – the Issigonis design, not the Beemer-boomer version. Skip forward to marrying and having # 1 baby, and the first house move was with a van with a trailer. Skip forward 30 years, a container was necessary…
    
    But what do we need versus what do we want to have? I got a quite quick re-education on what the basics are when I got locked out of coming home by Labour because of the Chinese flu while overseas for work, became of course an overstayer, and got used to sleeping and living in a car in Eastern Europe. Quite quickly the essentials were, easily defined, and the nice to haves basically unnecessary. (Over about an eight month period the thing that I really would not have wanted to lack access to was modern dental care, but fortunately, paying the dentist cash was still an option). If things really do go completely down the gurgle, I hope I can quickly reclaim that attitude and walk away from everything that isn’t family and isn’t portable. Although staying put and bartering with skills and stores and the occasional gold Kiwi coin could be preferred, (a) things may not turn out that way and (b) I’m way too old and decrepit to star in my own episode of Doomsday Prepper: the Grumpy Geezer Returns. 🙂
    
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    November 29, 2023 3:54pm
Jack5

A great investor dies …

Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s right-hand man in Berkshire Hathaway, has died at 99.

Munger, says the “Wall Street Journal,” talked Buffett into buying See’s Candy Shops at three times their net worth and they provided $US2 billion in net profit for Berkshire over two decades.

He also led Buffett into buying into the Chinese electric-car and battery firm, BYD, and later selling down at a huge gain.

Munger worked in Buffett’s grandfather’s grocery store as a boy. After war service he became a lawyer.

Munger lost an eye in bungled cataract surgery 45 years ago, and in video of Buffett’s annual meetings he is seen beside Buffett, with thick glasses and one of his eyes a glass replacement.

The “WSJ” quotes a couple of Munger’s quips at shareholder meetings:

“… I would rather throw a viper down my shirtfront than hire a compensation consultant.”

And, asked about investing in Internet companies:

“ … if you mix raisins with turds, they’re still turds.”
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November 29, 2023 10:35am
- MCōs
  
  Warren Buffet told Katherine Graham that America has the best healthcare system in the world.
  Where else can you spend a million dollars and extend your life by six months in a coma.
  
  I have her autobiography somewhere, which is a great read. If I had the time I’d look it up and get the exact quote, but that’s the gist of it.
  
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  November 29, 2023 1:37pm
  - Jack5
    
    Here’s Buffett reported in June describing the American health system as a “tapeworm in the American economy.”
    
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-says-american-healthcare-210531993.html
    
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    November 29, 2023 1:44pm
    - MCōs
      
      Must have gone down hill since Katherine Graham’s day. The book was written 25yrs ago
      
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      November 29, 2023 1:59pm
  - MCōs
    
    Graham’s family was Jewish, but in name only and showed no interest in religion
    One evening at a dinner with all sorts of Washington big shots her young sister said
    ‘Who’s this Jesus Christ I keep hearing about?’
    
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    November 29, 2023 1:54pm
- Jake Dee
  
  I have been watching some of the Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger chats on YouTube recently and I was pleasantly surprised. Both of them were old school American “greatest generation” entrepreneur types very different than the later boomer smash and grab yuppies.
  In one chat Warren Buffet tells a joke about the two of them being kidnapped by Red terrorists
  “alright you capitalist pigs, you will be shot for your crimes against the workers, but as we are not barbarians before you die we will give you one last request”
  Charle Munger says “well before I die, I would like to give my presentation about how Wal-Mart managed to increase productivity by reorganizing it’s supply chain”
  Warren Buffet says “my request is that you shoot me NOW!
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:22pm
mikenmildagain

Why can’t we have politicians this entertaining:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/26/a-bit-of-a-clown-a-look-at-congressman-george-santoss-endless-fabrications
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November 29, 2023 10:59am
- kevn
  
  mma… We did.
  
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  November 29, 2023 11:30am
- Libertarians are right
  
  James Shaw lied about having a degree and somehow got into post grad study in the UK without it. That’s a start.
  
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  November 29, 2023 1:19pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/why-poor-leadership-is-cost-our-country-dearly/?
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November 29, 2023 11:12am
Rumblestrip

A man is in the court news today for making a fraudulent insurance claim over a “stolen” vehicle.

Despite being convicted, his lawyer applied for a discharge without conviction, saying “convictions would have a significant impact on [his] business and his ability to obtain insurance and finance in future.”

It there anything defence lawyers won’t try to pull now? I mean, the guy tried to defraud his insurance for over $70,000 and his lawyer is complaining it might be harder for him to get insurance in the future!!??
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November 29, 2023 11:49am
Maggie Pie

Starting to get a bit wurried that Mark Mitchell might we going soft on ‘The Lantern’ 🙁
Heard him this morn on ZB while I drying my hair telling Hosk…. “that his meeting with the Commissioner went well and hoped they could move forward”

Mark’s credibility is on the line here.
He’s indicated for the last 3 years that Cuddles needs to go.

Hmmm.
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November 29, 2023 11:58am
- septic skeptic
  
  We have to charitably assume he is going softly softly to avoid wasting our money on a big payout. If they are serious about major changes, fresh leadership is essential.
  
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  November 29, 2023 12:08pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  The police minister can’t fire (or hire) the police commissioner.
  
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  November 29, 2023 12:54pm
  - Keith White
    
    There is more than one way to defur a metaphorical feline.
    
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    November 29, 2023 12:57pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Some people are so naieve Keith they don’t know sh*t.
      All it takes is a word in the right ear and the police minister can do what he likes.
      
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      November 29, 2023 1:32pm
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        Maggie
        It is not as easy as you think. At the minimum Mitchell would have to publicly state he has no confidence in the Commissioner and can see no way he could work with him. Said as a Minister, not as Opposition spokesman. He would then have to answer numerous questions in Parliament. A major distraction for the government in general.
        Much more appropriate to try and work with the Commissioner.
        
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        November 29, 2023 5:49pm
  - peterwn
    
    Only the Guv can do that on the advice of the PM. And the PM would generally seek advice on this from the Police Minister. However there are indirect methods such as when Helen Clark informally dispatched a Police Commissioner.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:36pm
- thirteenstars
  
  I cannot remember a Minister of Police who did not act as an advocate for the police and close ranks with police as a matter of course.
  
  I’ve never liked that tendency which is the proper function of the NZ Police Association.
  
  The Minister should remain apart and judge the performance of the police objectively so that when action needs to be taken it can be done without fear or favour.
  
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  November 29, 2023 1:17pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fo7IRn7KSM
Family First Board Member Sue Reid talks conservatism under the new government.

FF are quite pleased that there are dedicated ministers, and ministries to fix some of the problems they focus on. The government doesn’t need to change DEI, or ESG. They’re on the way out overseas.
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November 29, 2023 12:32pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8UbOwMyTTo
BLM Co-Founder Endorses Trump.
Hold up, wait a minute… This is impossible! Did BLM actually just for real decide to do what it claimed it wanted to do!? This is awesome!
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November 29, 2023 12:33pm
thirteenstars

Nicola Willis on some breakfast show this morning where the first three minutes was spent grilling her about what Peters said:

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

Sure, they’ve got an agenda but Willis didn’t do herself any favours here. She could have agreed with Peters or simply could have told them to talk to Peters because he was the one being quoted.

Reminds me of the interview Sean Plunket did with Willis before the election in which he raised the subject of men in women’s sports and men in women’s changing rooms. Willis waffled on and finally, when asked how she would feel about her daughters sharing a changing room with a man, she said since that had never happened to her she had no opinion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po4KcAY8QkU

Irony is Willis was also being asked there to comment on what Peters had said, and she opined, “Well, we’ll see how that all comes to pass.”

Come to pass that it’s now a coalition policy: “Ensure publicly funded sporting bodies support fair competition that is not compromised by rules relating to gender.”

https://www.nzfirst.nz/coalition-agreement

The upshot of all of this is that the media and political activists are never going to relent. You can’t make friends with them in the same way that you can’t hug a tiger. Willis needs a bit more Thatcher and less Ardern in her demeanour. Luxon is facing the same problem. These guys better wake up, and fast, and start punching back hard by refusing to indulge in fringe issues, putting interviewers in their place and talk about nothing but policy.

It also might help the likes of Willis if you can actually take a principled stand and agree that men should not be in the same changing rooms as girls and that the PIJF required funding recipients to adhere to the Treaty principles as a condition of that funding.

Simply telling the truth is usually the best way forward.
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November 29, 2023 12:52pm
- Jack5
  
  Willis is naive about news media.
  
  She will get hell in the next year or two about NZ’s dangerous balance-of-payments deficit.
  
  The Leftist media will try to entrap her and pin the economic mess on the new government rather than on the real culprits, Ardern-Hipkins-Robertson-RBNZ with their:
  
  – Continuing, unadjusted imports surge as they both shut down the economy for Covid and financed this by printing tens of billions of dollars through bond issues. Demand continued from the Covid idle.
  
  – Bias, reinforced by the Greens, against agriculture, our main export income earner. (In fact, it’s what NZ survives by.)
  
  – Pumping billions into the economy through spending on consultants and waste.
  
  Nicola Willis will be a one-term Finance Minister unless she goes bulldog when she talks to the bloc of State-owned and State-subsidised media. Otherwise they’ll chew her and spit her out.
  
  The background to what’s coming:
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/on-the-tiles-this-fiscal-challenge-will-keep-nicola-willis-up-at-night/ar-AA1krp3U
  
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  November 29, 2023 1:35pm
Maggie Pie

With the weather on the improve, I’ve suddenly got sooo much on my plate I’m starting to lose track. Does anyone remember when Kiri was due to appear in Court again?
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November 29, 2023 1:05pm
- Flossie
  
  I think it’s tomorrow Maggie.
  
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  November 29, 2023 2:42pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Aha ok – thx so much for that Floss!
    The others we need to keep an eye out for are Karel Scroubek and Dr Polkinghorne.
    
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    November 29, 2023 3:39pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep…
    
    The Wellington District Court registrar subsequently confirmed an adjournment had been sought and granted by consent, and the next call of the matter would now be November 30.
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiri-allan-car-crash-court-case-adjourned-for-third-time/EHHSE3C4FFCKTD7SDESQQI4HXU/
    
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    November 29, 2023 6:10pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Third time lucky then Maggz?
      
      LOL!!
      
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      November 29, 2023 6:43pm
grumpy

…..and, just like that, NZ Herald and Stuff launch a co-ordinated attack on Luxon giving front page space to the loser Hipkins.
…….and, NZ on Air give Jack Tame’s show $1m to spread Labour propaganda in a giant FU to Melissa Lee.
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November 29, 2023 1:49pm
kevn

grumpy…. For those who won’t do the horrid. But who’s listening to hipkins anyway?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/labours-chris-hipkins-first-press-conference-as-opposition-leader-claims-national-led-govt-has-fiscal-hole/4GWILLN3EZA5BCPI6VUX3Z3AVY/
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November 29, 2023 2:27pm
Maggie Pie

RB see no reduction in the OCR for the next 2 years!
This last few weeks have been nothing but good news for TD’s 😀
And stronger NZD means cheaper petrol and overseas holidays for a start.
Happy Days!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EfGDvDGE7zk
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November 29, 2023 2:57pm
- Ian Boag
  
  stronger NZD means
  
  less money for exporters eg farmers ……
  
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  November 29, 2023 3:50pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Fortunately, my partner is more on the import side of things….
    
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    November 29, 2023 4:28pm
- mogg
  
  Orr is out on his own with that statement, remember you are quoting somebody who said that ‘inflation is transitory about two yrs ago.
  Secondary market bonds are a sea of red today.
  
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  November 29, 2023 4:36pm
MCōs

Two more Thai hostages released
https://x.com/thaienquirer/status/1729688527082819856?s=61&t=yFkzCNMWRCaVt1p5eRxUog
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November 29, 2023 3:33pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Thats wot we love about Thai restaurants.
  The staff always look so happy to see us 😀
  
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  November 29, 2023 3:43pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Does anyone still believe this shit? ”
Safe and effective” – Obama. Wonder who told him that?
https://twitter.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1728772624891961803?
This Obama is becoming a very dangerous man – pulling Biden’s strings.
Beware America, beware the World. Obama is not a nice person and neither is Fauci.
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November 29, 2023 3:58pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  And I can tell you someting else SteveO…. Big Mike is running for Prez.
  
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  November 29, 2023 4:24pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yep we know.
    
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    November 29, 2023 5:39pm
- peterwn
  
  Oops, I accidentally downticked this one.
  
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  November 29, 2023 8:26pm
Swifty

And STILL Stuff are obfuscating and lying about the PIJF:

https://tkr.ro/e/EOs4ENiYRVi1MVf3

No mention of the PIJF conditions of active commitment to the treaty principles, Maori sovereignty etc etc.

They continue to misrepresent the real situation!

Where is the Disinformation Project? The HRC? Is there no civil service body who will call out this deceit? Is there nobody who will stand up for the truth? Is there nobody on our side who will call this bribery for what it is?
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November 29, 2023 4:02pm
- kevn
  
  Great summary of the PIJF…
  https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/robert-macculluch-winston-is-right.html#more
  
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  November 29, 2023 5:38pm
Maggie Pie

My partner’s mum was just telling me some lefty retard from the Horrid (Tom somebody or other) has written what amounts to nothing more than a hit-piece on National’s 100 day plan…. and then used 2/3 of the article to quote the irrelevant views of what Chippie believes Luxo should do about Winnie’s critisism of the PIJF.

As she said… “Who gives a flying fcuk wot Chippie thinks anymore?”
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November 29, 2023 5:01pm
mogg

“Yes it is bribery” and why it is still going on.

https://youtu.be/CAo6b63sK_8?si=EM5Joj1LFgkqIGc9
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November 29, 2023 5:12pm
Swifty

These people are insane.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/133368384/nationalled-government-rejects-call-to-change-ableist-immigration-policy

With a fixed pot of taxpayer money, they would have Kiwis die from lack of medicines or surgeries so that the disabled members of families of overseas nationals be taken care of instead.

The people calling for these changes are a menace. They think they are doing good, but they’re not. They will be responsible for the deaths of New Zealanders deprived of our scarce health dollars.
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November 29, 2023 5:14pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Yep, I feel sorry for the people affected but it’s just not our problem.
  
  For the counter factual, if we’re going to take one disabled foreigner, then why not take them all? If we can’t afford all, then what is the right number?
  
  Or we could simply conclude that we shouldn’t take any.
  
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  November 29, 2023 7:57pm
  - Swifty
    
    And I resent us being guilt-tripped into it.
    
    What the hell has this got to do with us?
    
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    November 29, 2023 9:13pm
Swifty

Just what has Wellington’s Mayor been up to this time?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington-mayor-tory-whanau-admits-alcohol-problem-i-am-a-flawed-person/ZRSDRWCGGZCDBJQOSA7VSF2OVM/
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November 29, 2023 5:26pm
Maggie Pie

And now look what we’ve got….
pissed mayors in Wellinton, pot smoking MP’s in Auckland. What a mess!

It’s time for TOTAL CLEANOUT – surely to God?
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November 29, 2023 5:46pm
- nathie
  
  It was reported that the Wellington mayor’s drinking incident happened two weekends ago (on the 18th).
  
  So was she trying to hide it all this time? If so what does it say of Tory Whanau’s integrity by not owning up to it sooner?
  
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  November 29, 2023 6:09pm
  - Keith White
    
    Tory W’s tenure so far reminds me of a legendary fitness report back in the day: “This officer has performed his duties to his entire satisfaction.”
    
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    November 29, 2023 7:11pm
- Keith White
  
  Wellington’s Mayor is entirely suitable as a role model for Wellington City’s Public Disservice voters.
  
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  November 29, 2023 6:09pm
- MCōs
  
  Rob Muldoon seems to have been a complete pisshead and by the sounds he wasn’t the only MP, but to the best of my knowledge he was the only one to call a snap election whilst severely intoxicated
  
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  November 29, 2023 7:38pm
  - peterwn
    
    At the time I said it was a fail safe system when calling an election when under the influence.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:22pm
  - Keith White
    
    I believe that is true. On the other hand, without Muldoon, we wouldn’t have had any of the Think Big projects that have kept our country energy-functional lo! these many years.
    
    It was a staggeringly successful plan when inflation was twice as high as now, mortgage rates were over 20% and the economy was experiencing its worst recession in decades – “Think Big” had its beginnings in the international oil shocks of the 1970s. Oil prices increased 400% from 1973, and New Zealand was particularly hard-hit. Muldoon got CNG and LPG up and running, and built the Marsden Point refinery. That’s pretty good for someone who was allegedly half-cut a lot of the time, not so?
    
    And now what do we have? Complete and total dependence on dirty Indonesian coal and overseas tankers arriving on time every <2 weeks or we suddenly can't drive or fly anywhere any more.
    
    So Cossie – I'd rather have Muldoon in charge than Whanau or Ardern in charge.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:28pm
Gravelroad

Tory Whanau, Mayor of Wellington, stating she has a drinking problem.
So why then did her Green Party colleagues and other Wellington based leftists think it appropriate and professional to push her to stand for mayor and speak glowingly of her suitability. I heard several of them do this on radio – how great she would be, snigger, snigger.
They just play the voters for absolute fools.
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November 29, 2023 6:21pm
- Inandout
  
  Gravel, on the subject of Wellington council voters….well your last sentence answered that.
  
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  November 29, 2023 6:31pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  They just play the voters for absolute fools.
  
  and haven’t they been successful?
  
  Or are we expected to believe that Tory Whanau’s drinking problem has just developed?
  
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  November 29, 2023 7:03pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Very likely, being Mayor can do that to you.
    
    Best for her own health that she resigns so she can get herself right.
    
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    November 29, 2023 8:01pm
greybeard

Here is some more “misinformation” for you , courtesy of “Stuff”.
An article about the killing of a woman by a gang member.

“Latest headlines
6:05pmWellington mayor admits alcohol problem
6:02pmWhat’s on in Nelson Tasman
5:55pmLive: Black Caps lose both openers against Bangladesh
5:44pmWhat they missed: Freed Israeli hostages return to tragedy and joys
5:43pmBlenheim business owner found guilty of indecently assaulting employee
5:06pmCrips member denies shooting grandmother
5:00pmWhy golf’s new $10m rock star wears a chef’s hat”

The entry at 5:06pm implies, to me at least, that the Crips member denies shooting HIS OWN grandmother.
How else can you read that ?
However , it was not as bad as that, it was merely someone else’s granny who was his apparent target. Nothing to see here.
STUFF: truly the bargain-basement of “news”
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November 29, 2023 6:22pm
- JJ56
  
  However, ‘bringing you news like this costs money so send money’.
  
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