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Anthony Melchett

More covid tyranny exposed…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DulLO6C0Dik

Dr. Jay Varma, who ran the New York City Covid response for then-Mayor Bill de Blasio for a year and a half, told an undercover reporter that during that time he and others engaged in drug-fueled sex parties — as other people watched their relatives die alone.

Every morning at 10:00am, for a year and a half, Dr. Varma sat next to the mayor for a daily press conference.

In fact, Dr. Varma reports that he “was the one who convinced the mayor to make [the Covid shots] a mandate.”

“It’s so funny, because I did like all this deviant sexual stuff while I was on TV,” he recalls.

Had New Yorkers found out he was having “sex parties during Covid,” he admitted it would have been a “big deal” and “a real embarrassment.”

He is very open: people are too stupid to make decisions, so we have to make them for them. Education is not going to persuade them. The education is so that after they finally give in and get the shots, they can comfort themselves with, “Well, I’ve heard it’s safe and I guess it was the right thing after all.”

“The way we do it in public health,” he said, “is we make it very uncomfortable to be unvaccinated…. They didn’t get vaccinated because they heard it was safe; they gave in because it was really hard.”

As was obvious to many from the start, these people manifestly did not fear the thing they energetically urged you to fear.
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September 20, 2024 8:08am
- kowtow
  
  The number of corruption stories coming out of Democratic run NY at the moment are mounting.
  
  ‘Family members of seniors who died in nursing-homes saw the emails as proof that Cuomo not only made decisions that killed their loved ones, but also lied about it.’
  
  https://nypost.com/2024/09/19/us-news/cuomo-personally-altered-covid-nursing-home-death-report-that-low-balled-fatalities-emails-show/
  
  But as it’s not Republican our te meedia paahti just won’t run them.
  
  Move along please , nothing to see here.
  
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  September 20, 2024 8:37am
  - cmm
    
    “But as it’s not Republican our te meedia paahti just won’t run them.”
    It would also lead to bodies being dug up on our fine shores too . Cindy the Pink Rincess and others would lose some of their gloss.
    Not to forget the media would also need to look into the mirror and consider their part too.
    
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    September 20, 2024 8:55am
Scooter

This is the video on Kea Kids News (funded by NZ on Air) that the NZ Herald thought was acceptable to air on a kids channel. God knows what the parents were thinking.

https://youtu.be/YJAh9YSN4So?si=Lm9JaWuTvNlEXDYk
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September 20, 2024 8:10am
- Flossie
  
  Gender issues aside, what parent is allowing (or, it would seem, encouraging) their young child to be sexualised like this?
  
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  September 20, 2024 8:48am
  - cmm
    
    It’s the latest rage amongst parents.
    Having a kid with ADHD is boring. Everyone has one of those.
    If you want to be trendy then you need a gender diverse child.
    
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    September 20, 2024 8:58am
    - Anthony Melchett
      
      What’s scary is there are practicing teachers that have coerced their own kids to become transvestites and use it to tell everyone how great they are.
      
      They should have their teaching licenses cancelled.
      
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      September 20, 2024 9:04am
      - NothingLeft
        
        In generations past virtue signalling mothers and fathers would encourage their children to go into dangerous or personally destructive lifestyles like the Navy, Army, Convents, Priesthood, Missionary work etc to make them look good and provide bragging rights at the cost of their children’s lives/happiness.
        
        Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
        
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        September 20, 2024 3:14pm
    - AitchW
      
      Let us hope that the government bans puberty blockers soon for the kid’s sake.
      He’s already damaged psychologically, image the mess if his loving parents fill him with damaging hormones as well.
      He will need hours and hours of psychological therapy in the not too distant future.
      I wonder if Oranga Tamariki will take action?
      
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      September 20, 2024 9:25am
      - JackRabbit
        
        He’s already damaged psychologically, image the mess if his loving parents fill him with damaging hormones as well.
        
        Identify as a girl, and become NZ’s Greta?
        
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        September 20, 2024 10:21am
      - Stellaboxer
        
        It’s just Darwinism leave them to it.
        
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        September 20, 2024 11:08am
      - NothingLeft
        
        True, but sad, unnecessary harm being done by toxic self involved ’empathizers’ to a someone too young to know better or see the bitter hopelessness of the path they are being goaded into.
        
        I bet a tragically large fraction of these transistors end up auto-deleting in next 2-3 decades.
        
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        September 20, 2024 7:39pm
    - Flossie
      
      It’s not so much the gender. If that was a seven year old girl prancing about like that, and dressed like that, I would be equally concerned.
      
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      September 20, 2024 9:35am
      - Anthony Melchett
        
        Agree, but convincing your son to dress and act like that adds a whole new level of psychological disorder.
        
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        September 20, 2024 9:42am
      - cmm
        
        Certainly. Can’t kids be kids?
        
        A family friend of ours started dressing up her daughter in slutty clothes, make up, etc from age 10 or so “to look like mum”.
        
        Fast forward to age 16 when she came home pregnant and a list of 5 potential fathers.
        
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        September 20, 2024 9:45am
    - John Loveridge
      
      Food allergies no longer cut it in the mums’ coffee group?
      
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      September 20, 2024 9:35am
      - sirknz
        
        It’s too easy to fake a gluten intolerance for a kid and it is invisible, a tranny for a kid though, that stuff is visible and requires a bit of effort and coaching.
        
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        September 20, 2024 9:45am
    - kowtow
      
      You know when these childhood “problems” have gone mainstream/boring when the parents virtue signal with bumper stickerism such as “My hero has autism”.
      
      Talk about letting it all hang out.
      
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      September 20, 2024 10:55am
- Taieri
  
  God knows what the parents were thinking
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  Thinking?
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:09am
  - cmm
    
    “God knows what the parents were thinking”
    
    It’s one-up-manship.
    
    The mother will be thinking that all her friends are green with envy.
    
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    September 20, 2024 9:46am
- imalwaysright
  
  Who were the adults in the room who scripted, directed and filmed it.
  Who got the young fella to pull his skirt aside to expose his entire leg while on the couch.
  I also wonder about what they have edited out.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:10am
  - sirknz
    
    Pretty sure they wouldn’t even get home d in Tauranga…
    
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    September 20, 2024 11:54am
  - JackRabbit
    
    Who were the adults in the room who scripted, directed and filmed it.
    
    There were none.
    
    An adult comprises an adult body and a mature mind.
    
    In this case there may have been one or more adult bodies but with mentally depraved minds.
    
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    September 20, 2024 12:50pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  By the look of the house its a rich Mummy who has a twisted mind and wants attention for her and her kid.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:11am
- I remember when
  
  Who knows, with the way politics work now, he might be Prime Minister next.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:16am
- rouppe
  
  Then when he flips it and is injured with significant gravel rash and broken ankles they’ll be wailing about how the government doesn’t ban people riding quad bikes in shorts and high heels
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:19am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Rouppe,
    
    Good point about riding the quad in high heels.
    Extremely dangerous, but clearly worth the risk for the dramatic entrance on the bike.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:02am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  That’s a damn good interview.
  
  Put Jessie on TV News now.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:25am
  - imalwaysright
    
    “Jessie”. Convenient name, did the parents design this kid perhaps. Very easy to manipulate a child to be anything you want him to be.
    Frankenparents should be a word.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:18am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Comments turned off. Now why would the ferald do that? Not getting the reaction they wanted?
  7 year old transistor.
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:22am
- Notsofast
  
  This follows the editorial parading trans kids as a fantastic thing in the disgraceful editorial ridiculing Winston Peters and the 60 athletes who encouraged him to persevere with keeping men and boys out of sport that is the domain of women and girls.
  The editorial that promoted Mr Imane Kheliffe as a true woman who correctly smashed the faces of real women.
  The Herald is into trans maximalism.
  There are countless articles by Jane Phare and others promoting transing kids.
  Waste ink and write to them with some home truths I suggest.
  Stuff has pivoted slightly, to damn them with faint praise.
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:41am
- Taieri
  
  This is the video on Kea Kids News (funded by NZ on Air) that the NZ Herald thought was acceptable to air on a kids channel.
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  The video is no longer accessible. Wonder why?
  
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  September 20, 2024 12:24pm
  - Notsofast
    
    Here it is on the magnificent Ro Edges X account
    
    https://twitter.com/rosey_nz/status/1836543908031172812?t=S2P2p6Y_3UjrPExd8BIdHQ&s=19
    
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    September 20, 2024 2:15pm
Matt Long

Here we have some racial activists being convicted of taking money from Russia to spread a message of genocide against blacks in the USA.
Lucky things like that would never happen anywhere else.
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1836171214647136448
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September 20, 2024 8:12am
- Matt Long
  
  Elsewhere, it’s completely noble and not at all hypercritical that SA should take Israel to the ICJ for genocide.
  https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1836837039292969333
  
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  September 20, 2024 8:14am
- Jethrod
  
  You can just tell by looking at them that they are Democrats!
  
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  September 20, 2024 8:25am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Under shot jaws !
    
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    September 20, 2024 12:26pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

ABC moderator and fact checking.
Trump was fact checked 7 times and Harris nil.
I guess it is pretty hard to fact check word soup waffle/salad.
Will ABC put this on their evening news?

https://crystalclearnews.com/abc-news-moderator-admits-to-targeting-trump-for-fact-checking-while-ignoring-harris/
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September 20, 2024 8:15am
- Scott
  
  When Trump made the statement in the debate about Haitians eating dogs and cats many people even on the right threw up their hands in horror. Why not talk about verified things like the people killed by illegal aliens? Why choose an unverified story that seems incredible and very hard to believe?
  
  Yet maybe Trump is playing 4 D chess? The statement about eating cats and dogs has been transformed into a meme and gone viral.
  
  Here’s an example. A young guy made it into a song that’s had millions of views –
  https://youtu.be/3BrCvZmSnKA?si=IXEkIffkAT71bJg
  And this is just one example. It’s apparently a top trending meme on TikTok!
  Now is it true? Apparently Haitians like cat meat. We have testimony of a resident saying she’s seen Haitians grab ducks in Springfield. But is the cats and dogs thing true? We don’t know. We have some reporting on this –
  
  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/update-ohio-resident-reportedly-horrified-after-spotting-missing/
  
  But what Trump has done is highlight the plight of a town of 60,000 that gets landed with 20,000 Haitian immigrants in the space of 3 years. He’s the only one who cares about the people of the town. He’s the only one who cares about their culture and their way of life.
  Under Trump these things will stop. Under Kamala they will continue. That I can tell you. 😎
  
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  September 20, 2024 8:20am
  - kowtow
    
    Have te meedia paahti gone to Springfield and asked any of the deindustrialised workers there how they feel about hosting and living with the consequences of huge numbers of incomers.
    
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    September 20, 2024 8:41am
    - kevn
      
      kow… Indeed, this is how to do it.
      https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1836454305836208607
      
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      September 20, 2024 9:08am
    - Blog-aholic
      
      I caan tell you this much, Homer is one unhappy customer.
      
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      September 20, 2024 9:28am
      - AitchW
        
        D’oh!
        I see the compulsive down ticker is in the house.
        
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        September 20, 2024 10:15am
  - cmm
    
    Exactly right Scott. Trump is a successful showman and knows how to pull in the eyeballs.
    
    If he had said “There’s a town of 60,000 in Ohio that is completely overrun.” nobody would have looked.
    
    But by picking on the cats and dogs issue, this has put Ohio squarely in the news for over a week now.
    
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    September 20, 2024 9:02am
    - All_on_Red
      
      There’s video evidence of cats being grilled by African Migrants from the Republic of Congo in Dayton- which is the city next to Springfield
      
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      September 20, 2024 9:34am
      - kowtow
        
        Oh well that’ll take the pressure off the gorillas.
        
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        September 20, 2024 10:16am
      - MCōs
        
        I’ve seen rats being barbecued upcountry in Thailand
        In fact I’ve eaten some rat meat, not to mention frog, snails and even KFC
        
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        September 20, 2024 3:05pm
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Trump is using Obama’s theory of stray voltage:
    
    It is the brainchild of former White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe, whose methods loom large long after his departure. The theory goes like this: Controversy sparks attention, attention provokes conversation, and conversation embeds previously unknown or marginalized ideas in the public consciousness.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:00am
    - Mike
      
      It’s Obama’s fault that Trump has to lie so much.
      
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      September 20, 2024 10:18am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yesterday I read about two horses stolen and butchered in another town. Miami-Dade.
    No proof of who did it – take a guess.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35pazelazwo
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:42am
    - NothingLeft
      
      Italian Mafia?
      
      Happens all the time around NZ – animals butchered in fields by thieves looking to score a few $100 in free meat.
      
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      September 20, 2024 3:18pm
- I remember when
  
  Is fact checking an attempt to make the media relevant.
  It seems to work by making social media always wrong and if it isn’t in mainstream media it didn’t happen.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:23am
  - kowtow
    
    “Fact checking ” own goal.
    
    The moderators fact checks of The Don and their total failure to fact check Happy Harris simply proves their partisan , activism . And that “fact checking” is anything but.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:19am
- JackRabbit
  
  ABC moderator and fact checking.
  
  Mainstream media fact checking itself.
  
  CBS fact checking Kamala and the polls….
  
  After visiting three different restaurants in Nevada, CBS correspondent Adriana Diaz admitted she could only find three people planning to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, while the rest were “really excited” about former President Trump.
  
  Though Diaz described Pahrump as a deep red area in Nevada, the sentiment continued in Reno and Las Vegas.
  
  “I want someone who’s strong, who demands respect and gets the respect and can deal with foreign leaders. I think Trump’s the guy,”
  
  In Reno, a table of women supporting Trump said their greatest concern was the border.
  
  “Illegals. They got to go,” Trump supporter Debra Canestrini said.
  
  When Diaz said many of them were seeking asylum, Canestrini responded, “Baloney. They’re coming here for the freebies.”
  
  https://www.foxnews.com/media/cbs-reporter-finds-only-3-harris-supporter-3-nevada-restaurants-people-really-excited-about-trump
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:43am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “I fear for our Country” said one.
    Well he is not the only one.
    Think Ardern x 100, and you have Harris. She will kill America as we know it.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:50am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      Steve Otto Harris has to contend with the US constitution where as Ardern could just ignore the ridiculous Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights you have taken away if you ever need them.
      
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      September 20, 2024 11:19am
    - JackRabbit
      
      And prior to saying “I fear for our country”, he said:
      
      “I tell ya, I’ve never owned a gun in my life, and I own four of them now.”
      
      I see the downtickers are out of bed. Must be being paid per downtick.
      
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      September 20, 2024 12:02pm
      - Hard Cheese
        
        So it’s only people who downtick you that get paid, not people that uptick you? If you can get paid for downticking, clearly only stupid people uptick you.
        
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        September 20, 2024 2:18pm
      - Ghost
        
        No, according to Otto if you get downticks it means you are over the target. Mike is our most over the target person on kiwiblog with all his truth….
        
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        September 20, 2024 2:37pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        Uptick agree, downtick disagree with the comment. Pretty simple really.
        
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        September 20, 2024 3:32pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Terrace Bike Rack report. At 8.15am, null bike.

Another beautiful day in the Capital too, ideal for the pedal pushers.

Honestly, why do we bother.
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September 20, 2024 8:16am
- imalwaysright
  
  They should put it on display in Te Papa with all the other crap.
  Call it “Genterification of the inner city”.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:30am
  - kowtow
    
    Move it to Cuba St as a burlesque ‘installation’ for the Wellington BDSM Weirdos .
    
    ” Town Bike on a Rack”
    
    Lube not included.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:36am
- greybeard
  
  As I have previously mentioned, wait until the council decides that they put it in the wrong place and have to start all over again !
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:18am
  - cmm
    
    Yup, won’t be able to dig it up and move it. They’ll have to buy a new one.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:58am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Why do we bother? We bother so that we can feel good and our useless social science degree doesn’t seem so ludicrous.
  
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  September 20, 2024 11:22am
Maggy Wassilieff

Would you pay $995 to study a compulsory paper you have no interest in?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528481/bold-move-auckland-university-making-course-covering-treaty-of-waitangi-compulsory
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September 20, 2024 8:26am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Dirt cheap for something so ‘life enriching’.
  
  And anyway, if it’s taught at a university, it must be 100% true, fact checked, unbiased and credible…
  
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  September 20, 2024 8:44am
  - PurplePen
    
    At a top NZ university you mean surely.
    
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    September 20, 2024 5:23pm
- cmm
  
  People do that all the time.
  Nothing new in this really. People want their degree, they just take the lumps.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:03am
  - JackRabbit
    
    And the post course essay about what they learned in the course that was of value, will be a sheet of blank A4 paper.
    
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    September 20, 2024 9:45am
  - wsk12345
    
    You could not pay me to sit that course.
    
    Plenty of other study options in NZ and offshore/online.
    
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    September 20, 2024 1:49pm
- alex Masterley
  
  It is going to be one of those courses that you have to pass by providing the correct answers to go further in your university studies.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:08am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Didn’t the public service get $7,000 to learn the language of the special people?
    
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    September 20, 2024 2:00pm
- rouppe
  
  I’d have my child move universities.
  
  If necessary, to an Australian one.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:22am
  - Flossie
    
    How long before there’s a compulsory Welcome To Country course you are required to pass over there!
    
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    September 20, 2024 9:48am
- rouppe
  
  But pro vice chancellor Māori Te Kawehau Hoskins said students will benefit from the various units which include critical thinking, academic writing and working in groups.
  
  I wonder if they truly mean “critical thinking” or in fact mean “critical (race) theory”.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:25am
  - JackRabbit
    
    Which should demonstrate to anyone the ease with which fraudsters hijack and override the meaning of words.
    
    Clearly said Chancellor needs to be fired and sent back to primary school to learn English and the meaning of words.
    
    Said Chancellor does not understand the specific term “critical thinking”, has never researched it, or studied it, or the many underlying principles behind critical thinking.
    
    Said Chancellor probably thinks it means “thinking that is critical of anything other than one’s own viewpoint”. How did someone with such a big learning deficiency and glibness ever rise to be a Chancellor?
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:09am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I thought all the students entering University had U.E., i.e. they had already gained a qualification to show that they could cope with Univrsity study.
    
    And I’ve no idea where Te Kawehau Hoskins got her education, but there wouldn’t be a state school in NZ that didn’t expect their pupils/students to work in groups.
    
    Clearly the woman has never set foot into a school science lab where there is never enough equipment for pupils to work individually….. and did she ever do P.E. / Drama/ Music at school?
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:16am
    - rouppe
      
      Not to mention the “academic writing”. How does a course on “knowledge of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand history” help with academic writing?
      
      Maori didn’t have any writing back in the Treaty days, let alone academia…
      
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      September 20, 2024 11:34am
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      Unless sections of the course have been authored by Khylee Quince and Emmy Rakete, I simply couldn’t take it seriously…
      
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      September 20, 2024 1:11pm
- cas
  
  It’s a long time since I was at university. What happens if you don’t attend and therefore fail the course? I presume you can get through on other subjects. Or is it compulsory to pass it in addition to study it.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:28am
  - cmm
    
    Almost certainly a required course.
    
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    September 20, 2024 9:50am
  - JackRabbit
    
    It should make anyone seriously question the value of the course and the degree.
    
    In IT the overwhelming bulk of good hires are people without degrees. IT is changing so fast that “on the job training” is highly valued. Having said that, when it comes to standards, all the good programmers and engineers are usually 50+.
    
    Same with health. Aside from running repairs like broken bones, an increasing percentage of health successes are not coming from mainstream medicine anymore.
    
    Besides, The Treaty of Waitangi is three articles/paragraphs. Can you imagine the uproar if said universities charged $1k to compulsory study the lord’s prayer?
    
    It would be more helpful if they charged $1k to compulsory learn the Crimes Act, and the NZ Bill of Rights, because by all accounts the Te Reo evangelists and their followers seem to be very deficient in this area.
    
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    September 20, 2024 9:58am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Students will sleep through it, and fill out the multi-choice test. It is abundantly clear that there will only be one “correct” answer, no point in wasting time, take the free credit.
    
    It is a disgrace, but this is how it rolls in New Zimbabwe, comrade.
    
    Now if Don Brash was the visiting lecturer, it might be more honest, but we already know what the correct message is.
    
    The tricky part is threading the needle between poor ignorant oppressed brown people exploited by the evil white man, and proud successful chiefs and Iwi with agency…
    
    Then do Kaupapa Maori during the land wars. Fact is that more Maori fought for the British than the other side.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:14am
    - rouppe
      
      Except its $1000 course fee.
      
      When i did my BSc in the 80’s, the first year compulsory courses were chemistry, physics, math.
      
      Which, of course, related to the degree, and set you up to specialize the following year.
      
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      September 20, 2024 11:45am
    - JackRabbit
      
      Students will sleep through it, and fill out the multi-choice test.
      
      And in doing so, perpetuate the scam. Teachers are doing the same thing.
      
      “I know the Te Tiriti stuff is all nonsense, but I’m 58, and how am I going to start a new career at my age? I’ve got 7 years left. So I tick the boxes, and teach the children, just so I can pay the mortgage.”
      
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      September 20, 2024 12:07pm
- Scott
  
  I’d like to suggest another compulsory course to balance their education – “The history and wisdom of western civilisation and why we should be grateful to our ancestors who built this wonderful country”.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:32am
- John Loveridge
  
  Critical thinking is the very thing they don’t want to encourage!
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:38am
- I remember when
  
  Compulsory university courses – what could possibly come next.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:39am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Maybe best to not think about that.
    We all know what the top compulsory course will be.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:55am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    There have always been compulsory courses in a lot of degrees.
    
    This compulsory course is different as its not a requirement for later study but instead appears to be indoctrination
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:58am
  - Taieri
    
    I had to do a compulsory “Research Methods” course at an Australian university. A complete and an utter waste of time it was, as I didn’t learn anything from it.
    
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    September 20, 2024 12:14pm
- John Loveridge
  
  “International students will also be required to take the course.”
  
  Why, in the name of God?
  
  “Hoskins said many opted to come to New Zealand because they enjoyed the ‘cultural vibrancy’, Māori people and Māori world.”
  
  No they fucking don’t.
  
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  September 20, 2024 11:38am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Might end up mugged by the special people in Queen Street
    
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    September 20, 2024 2:03pm
  - JimBobJoe
    
    International Students, going back to the early 2000’s where attracted to NZ because of: Cost, a British Based Education system at Secondary and Tertiary level, NZ being considered a safe and stable country plus a beautiful country to explore during breaks
    
    Those were NZ’s selling points…
    
    Maori culture was not part of the initial big surge in NZ export Education….. if that is now a marketing point its verry recent….
    
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    September 20, 2024 3:29pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Wife explains why the car is on fire.

https://babylonbee.com/news/i-was-born-into-a-middle-class-family-explains-wife-when-husband-asks-why-the-car-is-on-fire?
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September 20, 2024 8:32am
- John Loveridge
  
  The important thing is, his wife is really hot.
  
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  September 20, 2024 11:39am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

What Trump faces on his way to a rally.

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-dodges-falling-piano-swinging-death-blade-spiked-pitfall-trap-on-way-to-rally?
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September 20, 2024 8:35am
Matt Long

In Lebanon you can tell the terrorists and their supporters by who is afraid to use cellphones, in the west you just have to look at their social media.
https://x.com/hahussain/status/1836510448268751095
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September 20, 2024 8:45am
- kevn
  
  Matt… Must be difficult.
  https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1836638993556832558
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:09am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I just might put that on Facebook later – to see if they jail me!
    Blah blah blah community standards!
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:59am
Jack5

The Free Speech Union has criticised legislation to ban gang patches.

“It is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act, does nothing to get to the root of the problem, and we’re all worse off because of it,” says Roderick Mulgan, chairman of the Free Speech Union.

“Police should be tough on actual crime – not wardrobes,” says Mulgan. “You don’t have to agree with gangs to defend their rights. When we open the door to censorship, we’re all worse off.

“If we censor select people, the shoe can very quickly switch to the other foot. You can’t pick and choose who gets free expression. What will be banned next?

I would rather gang trash be readily identified by their jackets. Know your enemy.
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September 20, 2024 9:06am
- imalwaysright
  
  Yes, good point from Mulgan.
  The cops and the courts have plenty of laws on their side to enable them to eliminate gangs, but they seem to reserve those laws for non gang citizens.
  Freedom of speech and freedom of expression only works when it includes everyone.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:46am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Absolutely. If necessary, define gangs as a criminal organisation and make it illegal to be a member. But to say gang membership is fine but wearing the jacket is illegal, is not the action of a serious thinking person. Classic case of either the politicians are idiots or they believe we are.
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:05am
  - AitchW
    
    Is it any different to legislating against the display of Nazi symbols like the German government did years ago?
    When you see images of the posturing, swaggering thugs festooned in their gang symbols it’s offensive and, to anyone nearby, very intimidating.
    Ban the patches, it’s one more action in a suite of measures to eradicate the scourge that is gangs.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:20am
    - Colville
      
      So govt bans a bulldog head (as a Mob symbol) but wont ban a poodles head coz its cute and fluffy??
      
      What about red sneakers?? the are THE Mob symbol that you are mobbed up but not yet patched. Going to ban them?
      
      Its bullshit and a distraction. Just arrest every gangmember on sight and hold them for being part of a suspected criminal organisation. Get them to prove where their money comes from. Ban them from gathering with others of similar persuasion.
      
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      September 20, 2024 11:37am
- kowtow
  
  I can’t agree that this is a genuine free speech issue.
  
  The open display of regalia denoting membership of a criminal organised crime group can hardly be protected by any notions of freedom.
  
  We are not and have never been free to express opinions supporting criminality.
  
  Oddly enough RNZ ran an article about “gang patches” , a lengthy piece , but omitted what I thought was an essential ingredient ;
  
  how does one get patched and why .
  
  who suffered in order for some thug to be able to overtly proclaim his criminality.
  
  therein the crux of this matter.
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:27am
- Ghost
  
  My problem with this law is banning a person from wearing a gang patch in their own home.
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:30am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    It is not banning every gang member in their home, you have break the no patches in public three times. The police will be able too seize patches if they raid places, it won’t be an excuse to go in and have a look, but the patch can be taken
    
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    September 20, 2024 12:44pm
    - Ghost
      
      G, at no point should yo7 be dictating to anyone in their private home what they are wearing. That is a very slippery slope
      
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      September 20, 2024 1:09pm
- Parnell Gun Club
  
  A totally performative and useless piece of legislation. The sort of BS I’d expect from the liberal-left. I thought this government had a bit more substance to it.
  When the police show little inclination to enforce the law on the high streets and town centres how delusional is it to expect them to police peoples’ living rooms?
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:37am
MCōs

In America the Reserve Bank has lowered its interest rate by 0.5% and the economy is generally looking good.
I looked at an array of stock markets and share prices and the only one steadily declining is Trump Media and Technology aka Truth Social which is worth about a quarter of what it once was
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September 20, 2024 9:10am
- kowtow
  
  Stocks in ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome Inc’ would do very well , among a certain constituency .
  
  Good thing you’re not a REIT , as you allow people to live rent free in your head.
  
  Innit.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:19am
  - MCōs
    
    The forum has multiple examples of wild pro Trump adulation every day and you accuse me of letting him live rent free in my head for pointing out shares in his social media venture are tanking!
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:51am
    - All_on_Red
      
      The Share Price is pretty much back to where it started.
      It got hyped so much and rose so much that the Trump Media CEO Nunes warned it was unrealistic and wouldn’t last.
      Todays Market Cap is currently around $3B so Trumps 60% Share is worth around $1.8B- which is a YUGE gain for him.
      So saying its ‘tanking’ is shallow analysis.
      
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      September 20, 2024 1:55pm
      - NothingLeft
        
        It’s clearly going to die – even if it is a long slow death. It offers nothing that X doesn’t have, and has far smaller and shrinking daily active user base:
        https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/107419253-1716475387199-DjFHu-truth-social-monthly-desktop-and-mobile-web-visits-in-u-s.png?v=1716475395
        
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        September 20, 2024 2:53pm
      - MCōs
        
        Truth Social was launched in June 2022 and debuted on New York’s Nasdaq stock exchange in March 2024.
        Throughout that whole time its share value hasn’t been as low as it is now. About the middle of July it was around $40 and has steadily declined to $14.70 at close yesterday.
        
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        September 20, 2024 2:53pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Even MSNBC disagrees with you
  ‘On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point…. The Fed also announced more cuts are likely before the end of the year.
  
  The combination suggests the Fed is taking the threat of a slowdown to the American economy seriously. It’s about time — in fact, it’s long past time. ‘
  ‘Yes, at first glance the U.S. economy, appears to be doing “basically fine,” as Powell put it in his press conference today. The stock market is booming, and retail sales and consumer confidence remain solid. But under the surface, signs of trouble are increasing.
  
  Credit card debt has been rising over the past year. So, too, have credit card delinquencies, which are now at their highest rate since the 2008 financial crisis. Auto loan delinquencies are up as well. Unemployment, though still a relatively low 4.2%, is nearly half a percentage point higher than a year ago. Payroll growth is slowing, and the job market is stagnating, particularly for white-collar workers.’
  https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/federal-reserve-interest-rate-cut-economy-rcna171501
  And if the economy was so good why does all the Polling show voters main concern is the economy?
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:31am
- Jack5
  
  A total of 5289 stocks are trading on the two big American stock exchanges, the NYSE and Nasdaq. There are bound to be hundreds “steadily declining”.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:34am
- cmm
  
  “In America the Reserve Bank has lowered its interest rate by 0.5% and the economy is generally looking good.”
  
  How do you define “good”?
  
  They have $35trillion in debt (over $100k per person) and that is only getting worse. They have no way to slow it down – let alone repair that.
  
  But while they keep injecting in money they can maintain the fiction.
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:54am
  - kowtow
    
    And how can an economy that struggles to create meaningful well paying jobs be described as good while importing millions of migrants who require jobs,housing ,health and education.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:29am
- Matt Long
  
  Take a look at the stock for 23 and me.
  Truth Social recently had a pause or rise due to Trump announcing he would not sell his shareholding, but it’s business model is unlikely to succeed, particularly with Trump having competition from Twitter under Musk for a free speech platform.
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:42am
  - waripori
    
    No pause now.
    DOW up 1.26% today but Trump media down 5.89%. Now down 82% from peak after listing a few months ago.
    
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    September 20, 2024 10:58am
Chuck Bird

Not premium. What a low life the mother is.

Tauranga man jailed for 11 years after sexually abusing stepdaughter

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/tauranga-man-jailed-for-11-years-after-sexually-abusing-stepdaughter/66XYATVM2JBVZCYGFM7W5QFE7E/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nzh_fb&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1726722981
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September 20, 2024 9:23am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Unlucky him eh. Some dude who was from Tauranga who had pedo pics just got some home D…..guess its all in the nuance?
  Maybe the judges could get together and have a conflab to split the sentencing more evenly…….
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:32am
- MCōs
  
  The article starts off by saying it may be distressing for some readers
  Well it was distressing for me
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:56am
Bobba Fret

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cut-up-your-credit-cards-financial-experts-advice-to-kiwis-the-front-page/D6GOKFH33RELPMSPI6CAAUJWU4/
Latest NZH article, couple struggling to make ends meet on household income of $350k!!! Just goes to show, its not what you earn its what you spend, Comments are interesting
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September 20, 2024 9:23am
- cmm
  
  It is really about entitlement and spending more than you earn. This is not something you can fix with income – only by changing your mindset.
  
  On $350k you should be able to be putting over $200k into paying off your mortgage or saving ($17k a month).
  
  Repayment of a $1.1M mortgage at $15k a month ($180k a year) would clear it in 8 years.
  
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  September 20, 2024 11:12am
- ChristopherW2
  
  There’s a line in a short story by Tolstoy about a rich couple: “their needs were modest; they only ever needed a little more than what they had.”
  
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  September 20, 2024 4:47pm
I remember when

Bluebridge appear to have ‘front footed’ the Connemara power loss.
Does private ownership mean problems are accepted and reasons given to prevent even worse publicity.
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September 20, 2024 9:34am
- MCōs
  
  What do you mean “front footed”?
  They can hardly deny it happened and as far as I’m aware nobody is letting on what the problem was other than the power cut out.
  While the spotlight has recently been on the Interislander people forget this is the second time for Bluebridge this year.
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:42am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hillary is not jealous of Kamala. Really?
Crooked Hillary Clinton — still reeling from her humiliating loss to President Trump and desperately chasing relevance — says she’s now a top advisor to Kamala Harris. Birds of a feather!
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1836802607651692741

https://patriotpowerednetwork.com/hillary-clinton-expresses-no-jealousy-over-harris-potential-presidency/

If Kamala should win and Hillary is on the scene, there will be trouble. She whii never get over Donald Trump.
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September 20, 2024 9:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  will* never get over.
  Jesus, the typos that I just don’t see!
  
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  September 20, 2024 11:12am
I remember when

Some investors want Woolworths to sell their New Zealand arm and concentrate on their stagnating Australian store sales.

But the Grocery Commissioner said they were a ‘gold mine.’
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September 20, 2024 10:02am
Anthony Melchett

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhn3BBnJZd4

If you ever needed another reason to boycott fonterra, they have now opted for the deluxe virtue signalling option of putting some nonsense Maori words on their tankers.

Can someone please tell me how that gets Maori kids to school and their parents ro attend hospital appointments and work ready courses?
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September 20, 2024 10:17am
- Blog-aholic
  
  1. It doesn’t
  2. It won’t.
  
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  September 20, 2024 11:04am
- JackRabbit
  
  “…and their parents to attend hospital appointments…”
  
  It doesn’t. But be grateful. When you get told you have been placed in a 9 month queue to get a routine surgery done, tell the hospital you are available at very short notice (hours) if there is cancellation.
  
  Because of last minute cancellations by such types, and your willingness to fill an empty spot at short notice, more often than not, you can get your surgery done within days instead of months.
  
  If someone cancels late in the day before a next day 8am surgery because they are sick, hungover, out protesting climate change, or need to demonstrate at the local council against the loss of Maori wards, etc. you will get a phone call to get you in to fill the vacant 8am slot.
  
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  September 20, 2024 12:20pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Foreign meddling in Trump campaign. Hacked material sent to Biden/Harris admin.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-fbi-hacking-trump-election-interference-2020-3631e1832a8edb549d53126585503f32
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September 20, 2024 10:29am
- cmm
  
  I’m sure the Deep State doesn’t need Iran’s help.
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:18pm
vand

Matt… Must be difficult.
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1836638993556832558

Yes iced coffee is the go to now in Lebanon
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September 20, 2024 10:53am
Ghost

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said Thursday that a senior Homeland Security Department official approached him as a whistleblower shortly before the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life and alleged U.S. officials are aware that five different “assassination teams” are pursuing the former president

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/dhs-knew-5-assassination-teams-after-trump-2nd-attempt-gaetz
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September 20, 2024 11:02am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  What a tough life he has. Not walking away though, he is committed.
  I don’t know how he does it. I guess he thinks that if he should be killed, he gave it his best shot. The old interviews are worth watching.
  
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  September 20, 2024 11:17am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Gates is trouble with a capital T, not sure he can be trusted, he is the fool that keeps destabilise Republicans, and has called for two speakers heads
  
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  September 20, 2024 12:48pm
TripeWryter

On YouTube this morning …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsSJdH6wdzU
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September 20, 2024 11:17am
- Don Beckett
  
  That is a very slanted article, and Chris Finlayson comes across a a liar, IMO. No questions were asked about whether the treaty was a partnership or a surrendering of sovereignty. No Maori leaders like Sir Apirana Ngata were quoted, and Winston Peters was not interviewed.
  It was sensationalist, and said nothing when a couple of Maori leaders said there would be war, and no mention was made of the involvement of activivst judges, and most of all, the Ardern govt’s ramming through of many fof the Maori favoured, racist policies.
  Not a good look.
  
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  September 20, 2024 1:41pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The United Spot.
The Tears are delicious.
This is satire, but don’t tell the lefties!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AyNOtOkXAA
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September 20, 2024 11:26am
Jack5

Green propaganda hits property insurance

That headline’s biased spin. But could it be put it on reported fears that proposed hazard maps are stopping properties in Nelson city form being insured?

New Zealand’s long been a risk area for insurance: earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, potential tsunami.

We conceded we lived in the Shaky Isles, then got on with life. But day after day the media show us floods or supposedly shrinking icefields from every conceivable corner of the world. “Doom! Doom!” is thundered as we are coerced to share the Greens’ nightmare.

Nelson City Council has put maps out for consultation that show areas shaded for potential flooding, quake hazard, slope risk and “inundation” (does this mean post-quake soil liquefaction?).

A new worry for the locals. What if the house is uninsurable? If uninsurable can we ever sell it? Could we get one of those reverse mortgages on it to fund cruise-ship trips in our retirement?

Have Greens over-stoked climate fears to the extent that they are over-influencing property insurance, and inevitably from that, property values?

An alternative extreme view is that insurance companies have been sleeping. Property insurance claims from the Christchurch earthquakes totalled $38 billion, almost three-quarters of which was met by international re-insurance.

Nelson hazard maps:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528498/hazard-mapping-has-chilling-effect-on-nelson-property-market

Christchurch quake claims:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/canterbury-earthquakes-nzs-most-costly-insurance-event-38-billion-in-property-claims/B3BTHGTU3TJ22QFBHG36QKWUXE/
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September 20, 2024 11:37am
- JimBobJoe
  
  “and “inundation” (does this mean post-quake soil liquefaction?).”
  
  I would suggest this means a rise in Sea level leading to water permanently covering an area, as opposed to flooding being rivers/streams over flowing and covering an area temporarily.
  
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  September 20, 2024 3:38pm
- Eastlander
  
  Something doesn’t add up here. Councils throughout the country provide online maps with overlays indicating hazard types and magnitudes. Everyone knows hazard maps aren’t a substitute for site-specific data so why should it suddenly be an issue in this instance?
  
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  September 20, 2024 4:23pm
rouppe

Suz Guez makes a submission to Rotorua Council about her dog attack.

I was left thinking, what would be the response if those injuries had been caused by an attack with a knife.

Is it really any different if a person attacks someone with a knife, or allows their dog – especially a dog designed for killing – to cause largely similar injuries?
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September 20, 2024 11:54am
BananaLlama

Political Cuckoldry, a word more offensive than i thought.
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September 20, 2024 12:19pm
MCōs

This person raises an interesting point re nuclear power in Australia
It’s probably flawed inasmuch as all angles can’t be considered in one tweet
https://x.com/glenntheplummer/status/1836911739759382917?s=46&t=XZLqGbhN-xeYzprhTaktsg
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September 20, 2024 12:19pm
greybeard

I see that the Maritime Union of NZ is expressing concern about the various Cook Strait Ferry breakdowns.
Are any of their members involved in (a) the actual operation of the ferries’ propulsion and navigation and (b) any maintenance of the ferries’ propulsion and navigation systems ?
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September 20, 2024 12:41pm
- Taieri
  
  Are any of their members involved in (a) the actual operation of the ferries’ propulsion and navigation and (b) any maintenance of the ferries’ propulsion and navigation systems ?
  ———-
  
  Yes. In “support” capacity.
  
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  September 20, 2024 1:47pm
  - greybeard
    
    So they are not actually “hands-on” during any voyage?
    
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    September 20, 2024 6:47pm
mandk

Hezbollah leader says exploding device attacks “crossed all red lines”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79n1v4d203o

I get it now – firing missiles indiscriminately into civilian settlements in Israel is acceptable, but targeting members of a designated terrorist organisation is evil,
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September 20, 2024 12:46pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Oddly he didn’t think that the fence they crossed might also have been a line not to cross?
  
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  September 20, 2024 1:44pm
Stellaboxer

This morning I drove over the Rimutaka hill road from Wairarapa towards Wellington at around 9am. After some road works I rounded a bend to find that the passing lane had been coned off and in the passing lane parked was truck for dispensing of these cones and in it was a man apparently engrossed with his cell phone. Nothing out of the ordinary nowadays.At around 12.30 I returned and there was the same man in the same truck but now asleep. I wonder why it’s costing so much to fix the roads.
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September 20, 2024 1:09pm
- kevn
  
  Stella… There are usually 2 people in trucks doing what you describe.
  
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  September 20, 2024 3:40pm
AitchW

I’m seeing an increasing number of “trans women” with facial hair. Can they not just pick a side?
I think the most hideous one I’ve seen was the one in Olympics opening ceremony with the blonde beard. Sleazy, crude and offensive.
Oh, and all over the little girl.
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September 20, 2024 2:24pm
- Stellaboxer
  
  If you don’t embrace perverts you’re a bigot . Neo Marxist playbook.keep up
  
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  September 20, 2024 9:29pm
- cmm
  
  They don’t necessarily want to be women. They want to be transwomen.
  
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  September 20, 2024 10:16pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

These 3 States will decide.

Video, it is good.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/these-three-states-will-essentially-decide-the-2024-presidential-election/ar-AA1qR3hn?
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September 20, 2024 2:38pm
Ghost

Sad if true

Arizona Globe journalist Christy Kelly has reported a troubling development following former President Donald Trump’s rally in Tucson, Arizona, last Thursday.

Kelly noted that “as many as 20 people” were affected by these symptoms, all of whom were seated on the left side of the stage.

“Many supporters seated behind Trump onstage went to the ER after the rally with “blurred vision” and “burning” to the eyes. I spoke to several who still have not fully recovered. As many as 20 were affected,” Kelly wrote on X.

Article

It’s a mystery at a Donald Trump rally that left multiple people with eye injuries and few answers.

The News 4 Tucson Investigators spoke exclusively with six people who were seated on stage behind the former president during his rally in Tucson last week. Three of them agreed to on camera interviews.

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September 20, 2024 3:27pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Infrared laser I bet. I’ve been expecting this to start being a problem for a long time, and there’s no defense, I’m amazed it isn’t first choice for terrorists and political violence. Evil arseholes can permanently blind people silently, invisibly and anonymously from 100’s of meters away using easily sourced lasers that only cost a few $100. It’s an obvious tool to destroy politicians or celebrities.
  
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  September 20, 2024 7:48pm
Sir Henry Morgan

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/waka-jumper-mahi-and-chilly-bin-added-to-oxford-english-dictionary/PWX2D4XYSVBXVICJ7ZP376TQZU/

The original headline noted how one word was particularly “controversial”. The word turned out to be “Aotearoan”, on the basis that it involves the faux pax of defiling a pure Maori word with a dirty English suffix. We get advised to consider “tangata Aotearoa” instead.

In contrast, endless media crowbarring of Maori words into English sentences is cleansing and ennobling.

The other day I read some news story on Mongrel Mob attacking someone’s “whanau home”. I’m surprised they missed the alliterative possibilities of “whanau whare”, but then if you went that route you’d lose the shock value that comes from the jarring juxtaposition of different languages.
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September 20, 2024 3:53pm
Ghost

Kia Ora folks, honourable Shane jones here. Last week in parliament I had to respond and put the Green Party in their place

Shane Jones: What about self-responsibility?

When doesn’t someone have to put greens in their place?
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September 20, 2024 4:03pm
MH

Re the special ops in Ukraine, remember that rifle gun-slinging Charlton Heston who said at the end of the movie looking at the leaning statue of liberty in the sand “We finally, really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up”.
Now all that we will be left with is to become the planet of the Apps.
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September 20, 2024 4:15pm
- greybeard
  
  MH !
  “Planet of the Apps” ! Get down to your nearest lawyer and take out a trademark !
  
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  September 20, 2024 6:57pm
Ghost

Bye bye

The Green Party has been given the all-clear to waka jump Darleen Tana after the High Court declined Tana’s application for judicial review.

The decision paves the way for party delegates to meet and decide whether to use the waka-jumping law to oust Tana from Parliament, where she now sits as an independent MP.

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September 20, 2024 4:55pm
- AitchW
  
  Hmmmm it’s not very kind to invoke the waka jumping legislation, surely it would be contrary to Green kaupapa to do so?
  Or is kaupapa only important when it suits them?
  
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  September 20, 2024 5:14pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Time for a lightly sautéed helping of rattus rattus, with a side helping of rattus norvegicus. No rattus exulans, though. The Greens wouldn’t be seen dead eating a Maori rat.
    
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    September 20, 2024 7:09pm
- rouppe
  
  It’s nice that Darleen Tana’s handbag and her lawyer’s shoes matched…
  
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  September 20, 2024 5:38pm
- John Loveridge
  
  Good. Now fuck off, Darleen.
  
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  September 20, 2024 5:41pm
- fernglas
  
  The decision, or what we can see of it, makes it clear that the application was misconceived and meritless. Costs awarded against her won’t help her financial situation, either, nor will the fees her lawyer will charge her, unless it’s being done at mate’s rates. The JR looks like just another manifestation of her truculent and arrogant approach to her responsibilities to the community she purports to represent.
  
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  September 20, 2024 7:10pm
  - fernglas
    
    I should add that it is not uncommon in cases involving the public interest for costs orders not to be made, so the fact that there has been an award suggests that the judge wasn’t too impressed with that aspect of it either.
    
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    September 20, 2024 8:13pm
Chuck Bird

McBLOG: Yes, the NZ Herald did sink this low

The agenda of the once great NZ Herald is becoming very clear – and for those who weren’t sure, this week removed any doubt. In a specifically child-focused section on the newspaper website, they featured a 7-year-old child in stilettos pushing catwalking, crossdressing and even some twerking. Who needs drag queens in libraries to indoctrinate our children when we have the NZ Herald.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoqvMygnEyE
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September 20, 2024 5:10pm
- AitchW
  
  My god it speaks volumes to the appalling decline in the Herald’s once respected editorial standards that this crap got through. It’s soft porn for pederasts!
  
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  September 20, 2024 5:17pm
- Inandout
  
  CB, well take your pick of the Herald ‘journalists’, I will not comment further.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/journalists/
  
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  September 20, 2024 5:33pm
  - JimBobJoe
    
    What the hell senior management position is this:
    
    “Lois Turei is NZME’s Head of Cultural Partnerships and Newsroom Diversity”
    
    NZME and the NZ Herald can’t go broke quick enough – unfortunately ZB via Hosking is minting enough coin to delay the long term collapse…
    
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    September 21, 2024 8:37am
greybeard

Roigard is on the way back. Thank God. Maybe we will win the Northern Hemisphere tests after all.
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