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kiwikidsnz

“The World Bank confirms 150 Developing Nations are on Track to overtake NZ, as a succession of National and Labour governments have turned NZ into one of the planet’s worst performing economies ”

https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/the-world-bank-confirms-150-developing-nations-are-on-track-to-overtake-nz-as-a-succession-of-natio
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September 23, 2024 8:03am
- cmm
  
  “The World Bank confirms 150 Developing Nations are on Track…”
  
  This is a ridiculous statement because it is based on the assumption that the current rate of change can be sustained. That is far from true.
  
  Analogy time:
  
  If you got in your car and accelerated modestly from 0 to 60kph (0 to 60 in 5 seconds), then you’re accelerating at 3 m/s/s.
  
  If you sustained that acceleration for 2 minutes you’d be going faster than the speed of sound.
  
  Certainly, Asian economies are going to continue to grow, but that will taper off with time. Simultaneously NZ seems to be on a slide,
  
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  September 23, 2024 11:16am
  - david in Aus
    
    That is what they about the Tiger economies in the 1990s. Fast growth in the early stages of development then it will taper off -Don’t wrry.
    
    Meanwhile South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong are richer per capita than NZ in 2024.
    
    Complacency is hard to shake.
    
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    September 23, 2024 11:29am
  - I remember when
    
    Went to the races on Saturday and found a similar type of problem.
    
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    September 23, 2024 2:28pm
- JackRabbit
  
  “The World Bank confirms 150 Developing Nations are on Track to overtake NZ…”
  
  And it wouldn’t be difficult. A car standing still will overtake a car speeding in reverse.
  
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  September 23, 2024 2:13pm
Bridgenag

Sunday Strip: The Middle-Class Blues
Stealers versus the Patriots

“As censorship becomes normalized, parady becomes outlawed…at least in California.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/sunday-strip-the-middle-class-blues?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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September 23, 2024 8:05am
Bridgenag

Political Justice in New Normal Germany

“In light of all this, the use of a swastika in conjunction with a mask as criticism of government orders may appear in a new light. If it is no longer possible to criticize government actions in an extreme way, what CJ Hopkins was warning against with his posts has come true, namely the rise of new totalitarian government structures and thus the loss of democratic values.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/cjhopkins/p/political-justice-in-new-normal-germany?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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September 23, 2024 8:11am
- Cassandra
  
  It seems to me to be a bit strange that the swasticka is verboten but the hammer and sickle not. Stalin killed more people than Hitler and Mao probably more than both of them. Not that I’d want to see the crooked cross return. Western “civilization” went down the gurgler because of the two World Wars.
  
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  September 23, 2024 8:23am
  - MCōs
    
    The swastika symbolized a previous and deeply repugnant German government that they’re rightfully embarrassed about.
    They don’t want a widespread resurgence of its use.
    
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    September 23, 2024 8:38am
    - Cassandra
      
      My point is that the hammer & sickle also “symbolised a deeply repugnant government”. Starving several million Ukrainians, among lots of other things, is not really any better than the gas chamber.
      
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      September 23, 2024 8:52am
      - Rusty
        
        @ Cassandra — Approx 7 million Ukrainians were murdered by Stalin in the 1930’s.
        
        You never hear that mentioned in the current conflict.
        
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        September 23, 2024 9:39am
    - cmm
      
      MCos: Surely that is the main point.
      
      Why should the Nazis be considered deeply repugnant but the commies not?
      
      Based on track record, the commies and their symbols should be seen as far more repugnant than Nazis.
      
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      September 23, 2024 9:29am
      - MCōs
        
        The horse has bolted with the hammer and sickle. Its use is widespread whereas the swastika was used as a symbol of governing political organization only in Germany and its display more easily controlled.
        As far as I’m aware neither symbol is banned here; if you want to walk down the middle of Lambton Quay with a Nazi flag, good luck to you!
        
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        September 23, 2024 10:40am
      - imalwaysright
        
        There are certain people for whom it is profitable to get the widest possible exposure of the suffering of Jewish people. They don’t want the distraction of the discussion of the suffering of others.
        That’s insulting to the Jewish people who suffered and also to the rest of the worlds hundreds of millions of victims of evil.
        
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        September 23, 2024 10:52am
    - Matt Long
      
      The DDR also had a deeply repugnant previous German government that killed its own citizens for attempting to leave.
      
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      September 23, 2024 10:44am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump warns of Kamala fallout.
She now wants fracking and fossil fuels
If she should win, just watch her renege. All lies.
The auto industry will be gone. No car jobs. Sure auto jobs increased under Biden – because of the manufacturing brought back by the previous Trump admin.

https://patriotsbeacon.com/trump-does-town-hall-event-warns-american-workers-about-kamala-fallout/
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September 23, 2024 8:19am
- kowtow
  
  Article in WSJ about how the leadership of the teamsters in the US are desperate to support the Democratic Presidential candidate in the face of overwhelming membership support for Trump.
  
  This is another symptom of the Swamp , desperate to stop the Disruptor , in order to keep the dangerous status quo ( open borders , low wages , low productivity , high crime , broken society ) running.
  
  You really do have to wonder what the Davos Man agenda is.
  
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  September 23, 2024 8:27am
- cmm
  
  So far Biden/Harris’ CHIPS Act, to spend $52bn to revitalize the USA semiconductor industry is being the flow I expected.
  
  The lions share of this was supposed to go to Intel who are trying to keep their sunset x86 technology alive.
  
  Various breakthroughs over the last 40 years have managed to keep x86 alive, but the industry has now got to the stage where that is now hard up against the laws of physics and other alternatives (ARM, RISCV, etc) are so much more power efficient and cost effective.
  
  $52bn won’t fix that.
  
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  September 23, 2024 8:28am
  - RoboRob
    
    The CHIPS act is a disaster. It sounded a good idea (to me) BUT the roll out has been so slooooooow that it has probably done more damage then good. Intel went on a major FAB buildout, expecting CHIPS money to help pay, instead it has had to cut staff and dividend to help fund the construction while it still waits for its share of the money.
    
    Re x86/
    RISC (Arm etc) vs CISC (x86) is a historic battle. x86 is now, for all intents and purposes, a RISC CPU. It has a small decoder that takes the old x86 intruction set and converts it into internal RISC instructions that the chip processes. The only real overhead is the decoder.
    
    Yes Intels fab has fallen behind, and with that has its performance lead. But x86 in general is far from dead. Efficiency wise (power to processing) x86 (esp AMD x86) is sill near top of class with only Apple outshining it recently.
    
    Much of Apples performance / efficiency comes from
    a) Always being at the best fab node at TSMC, AMD is one or more nodes behind.
    b) Close integration with the system
    c) Putting the system memory on the CPU.
    
    You will note that Intel is doing the same with its new Laptop CPUs, to be released within a month. This CPU reportedly beats current AMD CPUs running at 15w rather then AMDs 25w. Note Apple still wins the power battle on around 6w.
    
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    September 23, 2024 10:57am
Yvette

What is the reason that the 3 Waters remnant, the Maori Advisory Council to the Water Services Regulator, Taumata Arowai, still exists under this National-led Government?

Recently two replacement appointments were made to the Council, which hints at its continuing status.
Why no a Christian or Islamic Advisory Council on Water?
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September 23, 2024 8:20am
- pdm
  
  A question I have asked a number of Government Ministers including PM Luxon (no reply) over the last 3 months or more.
  
  It seems no Cabinet Minister, or even my local MP, wants to talk publicly about it. Later today I will hunt up a sample of the replies I got.
  
  I believe it is something we should be pushing hard for answers on.
  
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  September 23, 2024 9:45am
  - PurplePen
    
    Thanks for asking them. Need to keep on them about this. I wonder if it’s because they’re distracted by other parts of their legislative programme. Does the minister responsible approve Maori advisory council members or is it a board somewhere?
    
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    September 23, 2024 9:52am
- Ghost
  
  National campaigned on keeping Taumata Arowai as the water regulator, I guess with health fucked up it was easier to keep it than give it back to the ministry of health.
  
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  September 23, 2024 10:05am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Good news, cycling-chums!

Shell Lane (aka The Terrace) bike rack report: at 8.20am; nil bikes once more.

No – as I type – one heroic cyclist is using the facilities!

Still plenty of room to pedal on down, and save the retailers of Wellington!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350422119/working-home-killing-wellington
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September 23, 2024 8:20am
- PurplePen
  
  There’s two parks across the road from the Island Bay New World, all painted blue with blue chargers. Haven’t seen a single EV in them. I’m assuming the EV charging company pays Council a fee for the parks.
  
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  September 23, 2024 9:57am
- John Loveridge
  
  Please keep up the reports.
  
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  September 23, 2024 5:12pm
Nukuleka

Murder is legal in New Zealand and, if Todd Stephenson has his way, it will become easier for even more legalized murders to occur.

Before any naysayers accuse me of misrepresentation please explain how injecting someone with a lethal drug to kill them isn’t technically murder.
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September 23, 2024 8:28am
- cmm
  
  Not all killings are murder.
  For example, killing a person in self defence is not murder.
  
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  September 23, 2024 8:46am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Good grief.
  
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  September 23, 2024 8:50am
- Grunter
  
  Murder is unlawfully killing someone with malice.
  
  So, no Todd is not promoting murder.
  
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  September 23, 2024 8:52am
- alloytoo
  
  Murder is an illegal killing.
  
  “Legal murder” is an oxymoron.
  
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  September 23, 2024 9:13am
- Mod88
  
  Full-term Abortion also and Yes it is legal in New Zealand.
  
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  September 23, 2024 9:20am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    And in the case of babies who survive a botched abortion it is legal to let them die as happens in Oz and some US states.
    
    EXCLUSIVE: Healthy NZ baby took two hours to die after late term abortion while hospital withheld medical assistance
    
    https://www.voiceforlife.org.nz/media/exclusive-healthy-baby-took-two-hours-to-die-after-late-term-abortion-nz-hospital-withheld-medical-assistance
    
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    September 23, 2024 9:59am
- newview
  
  Nuk murder implies the person involved doesn’t want to die. These people want to die in a legal and humane way. It’s their decision and reasoning. Not yours.
  
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  September 23, 2024 9:44am
- MCōs
  
  At least we don’t have capital punishment, so there’s that.
  
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  September 23, 2024 9:48am
- Anthony Melchett
  
  Why should you choose whether I live or die?
  
  If I choose to die when it suits me, cleanly and professionally it’s not murder. Sure beats a rope in the garage
  
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  September 23, 2024 9:56am
  - David Garrett
    
    Anthony: sure beats a rope in the garage
    
    Aint that just the truth? As part of my research for a book 25 years ago I learned a lot about judicial hanging, specifically how to do it so as to obtain instant death through fracture-dislocation of the second and third verterbrae.
    
    In short, the heavier the man/woman, the shorter the drop needed. Anyone hanging themselves from a rafter in a garage, regardless of weight, will die by strangulation rather than a broken neck, and that can take up to 30 minutes.
    
    A close friend of mine did this 20 years ago. I am still haunted by the image of him kicking and struggling on the end of a rope for 30 minutes.
    
    I believe in the right of people to end their lives on their terms…but FFS don’t doing by hanging.
    
    (Of course I would rather no-one ever felt desparate enough to do it at all, but that is to deny reality. There have always been suicides, and there always will be)
    
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    September 23, 2024 10:29am
    - Colville
      
      As long a drop as possible , heavy gauge rope so it dosent just cut into you and the knot behind the ear not at the back of the head.
      You want your head to be jerked sideways so your neck snaps nice and quick.
      
      or so I have heard anyways 🙂
      
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      September 23, 2024 12:11pm
- Ghost
  
  Nope. If a person makes the decision to use assisted death that is not murder. You might not like that some people decide to take that path, but that is their decision, not yours. If it doesn’t interest you then you won’t use it.
  
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  September 23, 2024 9:57am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Yes, it is assisted suicide, which is still morally wrong. Because it is legal does not make it moral.
    
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    September 23, 2024 10:06am
    - Dudley Quaffquaff
      
      Don’t do it, if you don’t think it moral. That is your right.
      
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      September 23, 2024 10:10am
      - Don Beckett
        
        That’s a stupid comment & argument.
        
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        September 23, 2024 1:50pm
    - Ghost
      
      Thats your belief system, it’s not others.
      
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      September 23, 2024 10:10am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Morality is objective – unless of course you are a modernist, then there is no such thing as objective.
        
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        September 23, 2024 1:51pm
    - Nobby2
      
      I bet your morals are different than my morals, therefore you can’t preach that your morals versus a legal act take precedence over my morals.
      
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      September 23, 2024 10:50am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Morality is objective – what you are saying is that it is subjective.
        
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        September 23, 2024 1:52pm
    - slightlyrighty
      
      Don, I respectfully beg to differ. Assisted Dying is not suicide. In this case, the death is unavoidable, and the person dying is simply choosing the manner of that death.
      
      If you have watched a loved one go through the end stage of a terminal condition (you may have, but I certainly have) you will have an understanding of why assisted dying may be more ethical than letting a disease run it’s course.
      
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      September 23, 2024 1:01pm
  - Keith White
    
    But we still have to pay for it.
    
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    September 23, 2024 10:36am
    - Ghost
      
      And the people who will use this also have paid taxes. But don’t worry, Im sure the tiny contribution you make to the governments 2024/2025 budget of $180.5 billion might pay to fix a pothole or two
      
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      September 23, 2024 10:41am
      - Paulus
        
        Biggest problem for New Zealand is not enough people actually pay Tax and get more without paying any !
        
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        September 23, 2024 2:31pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Ghost @ 9.57 am: Quite so…And that is the perfect response to the Committed Christians (the preferred term apparently) who wind themselves up so much about others choosing when and how to die, and not waiting for their God to end their lives.
    
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    September 23, 2024 10:41am
  - Taieri
    
    If a person makes the decision to use assisted death that is not murder
    ———–
    
    The catch is in “assisted”. It implies that someone facilitates such a “voluntary” death. And is being paid to do so. By the State.
    
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    September 23, 2024 12:33pm
  - NoFax
    
    You think doctors being granted a power isn’t an issue? I find that divorced from history. Whenever anyone gets a power no matter the field he or she will always look to expand upon that power. This in the natural course of events and happens even over mundane of things in our society. That’s why I prefer government strictly limited. Now, you may be happy to grant powers to the State to overturn centuries and millennia of traditions that no one may murder (and look at the Crimes Act 1961 for the actual definition of murder in NZ), but once the ball is rolling the power granted to doctors today will naturally tend to expand.
    
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    September 23, 2024 2:18pm
    - Ghost
      
      euthanasia Is nothing new, but beforehand it was done quietly, the doctor would up the morphine to help the patient pass over.
      
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      September 23, 2024 2:36pm
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  We’re all going to die of something. The alternative to assisted suicide isn’t life. It is death by other means, many of them far uglier and more painful. If that’s what you want for yourself, that is your right.
  
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  September 23, 2024 10:46am
  - David Garrett
    
    Dudley: Again, spot on. But as Bob McCroskie – who I count as a friend – said to me in a txt exchange recently, we and the Committed Christians are never going to agree, so it’s largely pointless – and just creates bad feelings – our engaging with “them” and them with us.
    
    We have one firm view based on our intellect and conclusions; they have another based on their holy book. And Ne’er the twain shall meet.
    
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    September 23, 2024 11:54am
- Ra Henare
  
  I think this applies here
  
  1. A fact is information minus emotion.
  2. An opinion is information plus experience.
  3. Ignorance is an opinion lacking information.
  4. And, stupidity is an opinion that ignores a fact.
  
  I am wondering what number to assign to Nukus comment.
  
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  September 23, 2024 12:41pm
  - fernglas
    
    5) Belief is opinion confirmed by superstition?
    
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    September 23, 2024 2:12pm
- Miritu
  
  NAP – Non Aggression Principle
  
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  September 23, 2024 1:11pm
- JackRabbit
  
  Nukuleka
  
  …please explain how injecting someone with a lethal drug to kill them isn’t technically murder.
  
  Exactly why the mRNA vaccines i.e. the Cancer Jab, need to be stopped.
  
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  September 23, 2024 2:20pm
Tomtoddy

Kamala stands for what ever her handlers think that people want to hear after intensive polling.
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September 23, 2024 8:30am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Bill to deport illegal sex offenders.
158 Democrats voted against it. There is something seriously wrong with them.
Just deport them, they are illegals ffs. Women’s rights are in the gutter.
Illegals are getting the right to vote. When they get a driver’s licence they are automatically put on the electoral roll!

https://patriotsbeacon.com/158-democrats-vote-against-bill-to-remove-illegal-alien-sex-offenders/
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September 23, 2024 8:40am
- MCōs
  
  34/50 states don’t allow undocumented individuals to obtain a driver’s license
  https://www.immigrationhelp.org/learning-center/drivers-licenses-for-immigrants
  
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  September 23, 2024 8:56am
  - MCōs
    
    About half the states allow for automatic registration of *eligible* individuals to vote when interacting with certain government departments, including when obtaining a driver’s license
    One has to be a citizen to be eligible in America (not the same as NZ)
    https://ballotpedia.org/Automatic_voter_registration
    
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    September 23, 2024 9:09am
    - alloytoo
      
      One does have to be legally resident to vote in NZ.
      
      There is no such restriction on obtaining aa driver’s license
      
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      September 23, 2024 9:16am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Lindsay Graham is warning of a 9/11 style attack.
The terrorists are IN America. They came across the open border.

https://freedomeagledaily.com/theteapartydaily/is-america-doomed-sen-grahams-chilling-warning-about-the-next-9-11/?
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September 23, 2024 8:45am
- slightlyrighty
  
  well, where were the terrorists living on 9/11!
  
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  September 23, 2024 1:02pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The EV dream is going. Fossil fuels are not causing the climate change hoax.
Looks like the shine is wearing off the turd.

https://patriotsamericanews.com/2024/09/interest-in-buying-electric-vehicles-has-taken-a-huge-nosedive-since-last-year/?
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September 23, 2024 8:51am
- alloytoo
  
  Last years EV sales were inflated anyway.
  
  In New Zealand many were registered to meet ETS goals. A year later they haven’t actually left the dealership network.
  
  Similar reports out of UK, many 1 year old cars with less than 100kms
  
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  September 23, 2024 9:26am
  - Paulus
    
    It was said recently that in China there are over One million new EVs sitting in yards, as they cannot get rid of them – at any price.
    
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    September 23, 2024 10:10am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I think they were made just to collect the Govt subsidy then parked up
      Thousands of them.
      
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      September 23, 2024 10:57am
    - Hard Cheese
      
      “It was said recently” = “trust me, bro” LOL.
      
      55% of new cars sold in China are now EV’s or plug-in hybrids. It’s ICE car sales that are plummeting, down 28% year on year in August.
      
      If you think ICE vehicles are making some kind of miracle comeback in China, you’re dreaming.
      
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      September 23, 2024 2:39pm
      - CJames
        
        Are those cars manufactured or sold? There is a big difference, especially where quotas are involved.. There are photos around of acres of EVs in paddocks or on docks in China = just google unsold EVs china – no market.
        
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        September 23, 2024 9:07pm
- NothingLeft
  
  plug in hybrids make the most sense – particularly if we could dial back the excessive emissions regs, oversized catalytic converters etc.
  
  Post about 2000 emissions regs stopped being a meaningful improvement in air quality, and were primarily a tool for big car manufacturers to prevent competition – creating a technological ‘moat’, and Politicians to virtue signal about how they were making them more stringent. It was only ever important in large metropolitan areas, and if we have plug in hybrids then they will mostly be operating on electricity in metropolitan areas anyway, so should be dialed back.
  
  Without the excessive emissions regs engine efficiency can be increased by up to 30% – which amount to a huge reduction in CO2 and fuel use.
  
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  September 23, 2024 10:13am
  - Taieri
    
    plug in hybrids make the most sense
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    So do the EVs. As a purely city only transport. Not much use as a long distance proposition though. And certainly not as a compulsory solution.
    
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    September 23, 2024 12:36pm
- Jethrod
  
  But the smell remains
  
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  September 23, 2024 12:03pm
- MCōs
  
  What’s your issue with electric cars?
  
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  September 23, 2024 1:51pm
  - kevn
    
    mcos… Range anxiety seems the most common problem. Overstated range by makers, in reality, hills, headwinds, passengers, air con, lights all kill the range.
    Round the city is ok.
    
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    September 23, 2024 2:20pm
  - judith8409121
    
    the marketing hype – in reality they have less range, they are more difficult to charge, they take longer to charge, they are unable to tow, left alone they will discharge, they are expensive, they require expensive fixing if the batteries fail. they are scrape metal if they are in a crash, the batteries can be problematic and render them useless. if the discharge while out they cannot be filled by walking to a gas station.- thats the first list.
    
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    September 24, 2024 12:45pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

CNN reporter gets schooled. The economy must be doing OK because this guy owns a boat. He points out that everyone has the same chances whether rich or poor.

https://bongino.com/cnn-reporter-gets-schooled-by-random-shirtless-guy?
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September 23, 2024 8:57am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump a threat to democracy?
Chris Cuomo shoots it down.

https://pjnewsletter.com/chris-cuomo-trump-democracy/?
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September 23, 2024 9:01am
cmm

A family is blaming the bank for their cognitively impaired son being scammed of $250k.

Hmmm…..

Of course there’s more to the story than what is written here but if he really does need close management, then why did the family allow him to have $250k sloshing around in his accounts where he could send it to scammers?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/australian-family-whose-disabled-son-was-scammed-out-of-250000-plan-to-sue-anz-westpac-nz-for-125-million/QZVMUDSTSBAELNWAEAX56KP7EI/
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September 23, 2024 9:07am
- peterwn
  
  This sort of thing is a dilemma for families. A family can try and persuade a person in that situation to relinquish control of their finances but cannot force the issue. The only way to force the issue would be to obtain a court order placing his finances under control of a trustee, but a judge is going to need compelling reasons to take such a step. He would have seemed capable of managing his finances despite his disability although his disability may or may not have contributed to his poor decision making. A person not used to dealing with large sums can be caught in one way or another. For example a woman sold her house intending to move overseas was sitting on the cash (less mortgage) and could not resist spending a bit here and a bit there and realised belatedly that her spending had significantly reduced her cash intended to purchase another property.
  So a person who comes in the money may decide to invest it (wise decision), finds that interest rates offered by banks etc are rather pathetic and so Googles for something with a better return. So something like Du Val or worse still a scammer’s ‘front’ company seems just the thing and they jump in. It seems so good and genuine that when their bank says hey! look out, they proceed anyway then blame the bank when things turn to custard.
  So there is pressure for ordinary bank customers to effectively subsidise those caught by scams. There is a moral hazard here – people would be less vigilant and despite their best intentions would fall for scammers’ tricks. Unfortunately some people need to get their fingers burnt to save everyone else.
  
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  September 23, 2024 10:42am
  - David Garrett
    
    peterwn: I recall some years ago, a senior lawyer in Rotorua losing NZD250,000 to a Nigerian scammer. Once he realised he’d been scammed, he went to Nigeria to try and get it back – and lost another $50,000!
    
    Turned out the bulk of what he lost was clients’ money, and he ended up getting struck off. The moral of the story is of course that anyone can fall for scammers unless they are totally vigilant.
    
    I would get at least three or four scam attempts by email every week – some are obvious, mainly because of poor English, some not so obvious. The “you need to pay $3 so your parcel can be delivered” ones usually originate from a server in some Eastern European country – it helps of course that in Tonga, I am NEVER waiting on a parcel!
    
    And whatever people think of lawyers, one needs an IQ well north of 100 to get a law degree – or at least a degree from AUT or Waikato!
    
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    September 23, 2024 11:10am
    - cmm
      
      “anyone can fall for scammers”
      If they are greedy.
      Or in the case of that lawyer, criminal and greedy.
      
      C’mon DG there is never any excuse to play games with a client’s money.
      
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      September 23, 2024 11:21am
    - peterwn
      
      I understand another lawyer (from the Waikato) facilitated a similar scam on behalf of gullible clients. He loaned them $250k at 19% from a deceased estate and would receive $50k if the clients got their $x millions. He took security over a building one of the clients owned. When it turned to custard the building owner argued it was an illegal contract which the court agreed with and the lawyer had to repay $250k out of his own pocket after unsuccessfully trying to taint the estate with the illegality. You cannot make that sort of stuff up.
      
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      September 23, 2024 11:55am
    - Taieri
      
      a senior lawyer in Rotorua losing NZD250,000 to a Nigerian scammer
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      The General Manager of the Citibank NZ decided to do his bit for the Nigerian millionaires some years ago. Used the bank’s money repeatedly if I recall correctly.
      
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      September 23, 2024 12:39pm
- David Garrett
  
  cmm: Yep, good luck to the plaintiffs with that lawsuit!
  
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  September 23, 2024 10:46am
- JackRabbit
  
  “…plans to sue two major banks for $1.25 million for alleged failings and “gross negligence”.
  
  Perhaps they should sue themselves for being negligent. If their son was “impaired” to the point that he could not make good decisions, the parents could have enacted power of attorney, had a dual authorisation on payments over a certain amount, or schooled him better in financial management.
  
  If he was well enough to not need a power of attorney, it was his decision to invest in a scam.
  
  If he was unwell and not of sound mind, and required a power of attorney, then it is the parents that failed.
  
  Either way, it is not the bank’s fault. And in any case ANZ spotted the scan and tried to reverse it.
  
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  September 23, 2024 2:30pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Project 2025. Trump says he has nothing to do with it. Of course he knows what it is though. Harris yaps about it like a chihuahua. The left won’t even fact check her lies. Trump is having none of her nonsense.
In posts on social media, Trump listed the policies in “Kamala’s Project 2025”

https://pjnewsletter.com/kamala-goes-all-in-on-misinfor/?
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September 23, 2024 9:10am
PurplePen

Greg Foran tells Markets with Madison “I would say to you it has been the No 1 thing on my mind”. Why not just say “It has been the No 1 thing on my mind”. Why preface it with “I would say to you”. Luxon similarly uses the preface “What I want to say to you …”. What’s that point in the preface. The words you’re saying are coming from your mouth. Shipley, always used “I think …”. Well, if it’s you saying it, it must be you thinking it.
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September 23, 2024 9:10am
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  These sorts of fillers are useful to give yourself time to make sure you’ve understood the question and to get your thoughts in order before you get into the substance.
  
  Don’t we want politicians to think before they answer?
  
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  September 23, 2024 10:39am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Communications 101. Seems to be the new way.
  
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  September 23, 2024 10:55am
- imalwaysright
  
  It smacks of someone with commitment problems. There is a feint air of deniabilty by using the word should.
  Also beware of people who use the word “conversation” in place of debate or meeting.
  Conversation is non confrontational and therefore a conclusive outcome is not obligatory, and probably not wanted.
  
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  September 23, 2024 11:17am
PurplePen

I always wonder about the usefulness of earthquake scientists in NZ. Herald has “Hawke’s Bay zone for next big quake”. The scientist says at the end of the article “we need to be prepared for all types of earthquakes and their impacts”. Well yes. It’s NZ. We know this. So spending time finding new cracks in the earth’s mantle or zones seems futile when none of that changes the response required on the surface from us in terms of preparedness and town planning.
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September 23, 2024 9:16am
- Skippytony
  
  I have a friend who works in GeoTech. He told me one day that the technical view is that pretty much all of NZ is in his words “temporary real estate”.
  
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  September 23, 2024 1:38pm
cmm

So Wellington is screwed and people who have freedom of choice are staying the hell away (I can’t say I blame them).

The “solution”? Force government “workers” back into their Wellington offices!

There are at least two problems with that:
1) Forcing people to travel kinda blows the whole “climate emergency” hype out of the water. If climate change really is the worst thing ever, then forcing people into traveling is the last thing you should want.
2) The better workers (ie. the ones you really want to keep) tend to have choices. They will leave. Those that will comply are the dregs that can’t get work elsewhere.

The other big question is whether it will help anyway. Will people go back to their pre-Covid behaviour of going pub crawling after work or will they just finish at 5 pm and go home?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350422119/working-home-killing-wellington
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September 23, 2024 9:17am
- Ipanema69
  
  In my opinion WFH is a complete con. One of my clients is a major nz company. They require work from the office 3 days per week.
  
  There is no point in going to their offices on either Monday or Friday it is a ghost town. Furthermore there is zero chance of getting a response to any kind of communication before 12.00pm on Monday or after 12pm on Friday.
  
  The reality is that at best the entire staff is working four days a week at best.
  
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  September 23, 2024 9:42am
  - cmm
    
    Most government jobs are a complete con so it probably doesn’t matter.
    
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    September 23, 2024 9:54am
  - PurplePen
    
    The other part of the unintended con is employer electricity and other services bill is reduced as is office rental if they’ve managed to downsize office space, all at the expense of the employee enjoying working from home. Successful employers will be those that have managers that can effectively assign workload and responsibility for outputs to employees.
    
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    September 23, 2024 10:07am
  - Paulus
    
    My Son’s Company in Auckland are on to a four day week finally – their Aussie (Sydney HO) parent is back to five days finally – take it or leave it.
    And they say that Productivity has improved too as people interact at work.
    
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    September 23, 2024 10:14am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I don’t really have any issue with the guidelines. However my question is WHY do you want people to travel to Wellington to work in an office 5 days per week? A few observations..
    
    1. Government offices are hideous. They are crowded and noisy. Full of people acting the fool. They are not conducive to serious work requiring concentration. A good home office set up is a dream compared to that.
    
    2. For many agencies, all the staff would not fit in the office.
    
    3. Increasingly, hundreds of people have been employed who don’t live in Wellington. For example for several years, the Ministry for the Environment has had a policy of employing people no matter where they live. This clearly expands the talent pool.
    
    4. Forcing people to travel to Wellington to save cafes selling overpriced coffee and sausage rolls seems perverse.
    
    ….
    
    I would, if forced, be willing to spend two days per week in an office in Wellington. Five days per week, no way. 🤮
    
    The underlying assumption in all this discussion seems to be that folk working at home are somehow slacking off. In my experience, it is the exact opposite. Home is the only place that I can do serious work for extended periods of time. The only reason to go to the office is to build rapport with colleagues. That is important but it does not require 5 days per week, provided that you have invested in a high quality home office.
    
    In summary, anyone who thinks that forcing people into a Wellington office will lift productivity has never tried to work in one in the last 5 years.
    
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    September 23, 2024 5:30pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      “Home is the only place that I can do serious work for extended periods of time”
      
      That’s you, Benedict, and I quite believe you – you’re a singular fellow.
      
      But for many if not most “workers”, WFH means popping up from the desk to put the washing on/ hang the washing out/ empty the dishwasher/ vacuum the kids’s room/ start the slow cooker etc etc. These many distractions eat into the 7 hours and 35 minutes paid for by you and me.
      
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      September 23, 2024 8:16pm
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  The climate bit isn’t totally straightforward. 100 people in an office will use less energy in eg lighting, heating, aircon, computing than will 100 people in 100 separate houses. Whether that is outweighed by the carbon cost of their travel, depends on how they travel. At least some of this carbon will be included within the ETS, so won’t add to total NZ emissions anyway. It may work out as worse for the climate overall, but it’s not obvious that it will.
  
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  September 23, 2024 10:34am
  - imalwaysright
    
    The problem in the public service is how many of the 100 staff are there to do the work of those who can’t or won’t.
    Its very difficult to sack these characters.
    Painting over rust.
    
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    September 23, 2024 11:30am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      On the other hand, the axe count is 6,000+ per the Stuff ticker
      
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      September 23, 2024 2:25pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Who gives a shit? I have had hundreds of flights to Wellington. Domestic JET A1 is in the ETS.
    
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    September 23, 2024 5:33pm
Littletramp

Here’s an insidious truth about inflation, that is never discussed as politicians smile and tell us they have this target or that target, and the rate is now falling due to their actions.
The prices for life’s essentials will never go down, unless inflation falls below zero – that ain’t gonna happen!

Two of the root causes, which they totally control via policy decisions, are energy costs rising which pass right through the production cycle of an economy, and govt deficit spending which is funded through debt and currency issuance.
If politicians worldwide firstly accepted that the overall cost of renewables, including upgrading electrical infrastructure to meet future demand and not yet having a battery tech that could actually meet storage and delivery demands, is not sustainable yet & adoption is before it’s time and secondly pulled in their spending below GDP the world would be a better place.
Trouble is they don’t believe they can do this and get re-elected.
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September 23, 2024 9:21am
- Paulus
  
  Currently, from the media view, the present Coalition Government would not get re elected under any circumstances.
  They may be right too !
  
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  September 23, 2024 10:16am
- cmm
  
  Deflation does occasionally happen, but mainly on things like tech products (eg. you can now get a laptop for $500).
  
  Food and such are challenging to make cheaper, especially with all the extra climate change etc hoops that farmers must jump through.
  
  GDP is a fake measure. It mainly measures consumption and not production. As a result, reducing spending would immediately reduce GDP and would lead to a recession.
  
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  September 23, 2024 10:31am
  - Jethrod
    
    Remember when the brick phones of the 80’s used to cost north of $5000 , you can get a phone now for several hundred dollars.
    
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    September 23, 2024 12:11pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      You can buy several phones in NZ for less than $100.
      
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      September 23, 2024 2:38pm
alloytoo

If people continue to work from home then the value huge public transport projects takes a hit.

We can’t have people left to their own transport devices can we? The might find a non sanctioned solution
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September 23, 2024 9:32am
- sirknz
  
  I was in a bit of back & forth with some Greenpeace clown stating that public transport is the way to go on X a few weeks ago. I pointed out that it would take me 2hrs each way between work and home and ~30 minutes by car at peak time, so
  I would lose 2-3 hours of family time on public transport.
  
  His response was “If it was more frequent then it wouldn’t be 2 hours.”
  
  Um, yes it would still be 2 hours by public transport, regardless of the frequency of the transport options, it would still follow the same number of stops, the same circuitous routes, and bottleneck at the same points. It would only mean that I could have more variability in my start/finish times.
  
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  September 23, 2024 11:20am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    In Hamilton we have the Clockwise and Anticlockwise bus service. Never seen more than 3 or 4 in the bus.
    
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    September 23, 2024 12:26pm
    - John Loveridge
      
      Like the Orbiter in Christchurch. Goes past the corner near my house all the time, both directions, and never more than 3 or 4 people on it.
      
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      September 23, 2024 6:20pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    In Wellington, public transport is the obvious choice if you work in the city. But Wellington is unique in New Zealand.
    
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    September 23, 2024 12:33pm
MCōs

Winston got riled up on morning report this morning because it had been reported a claim had been made a bribe had been paid by a local politician to secure the release of Philip Mehrtens
He claimed NZ never pays bribes/ransoms in such circumstances
This isn’t his first rodeo. He should know that things are what they seem in that part of the world and we know that he knows.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528715/phillip-mehrtens-hostage-takers-claim-bribe-was-paid-to-secure-release
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September 23, 2024 9:36am
- Matt Long
  
  Perhaps rather than a “bribe” some other arrangement was made that delivered some kind of advantage to the captors.
  I’m sure no one in SEA gives or accepts bribes, perhaps they have a koha system.
  
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  September 23, 2024 11:03am
I remember when

If Winston has said no bribe was paid then obviously ……
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September 23, 2024 9:42am
Ghost

Awww. Couple give their kid a stupid name and learn a lesson.

A 7-year-old boy was refused a passport for a family holiday because his name was a copyright infringement of the Star Wars franchise.

Christian and Becky Mowbray had booked a family trip to the Dominican Republic for the end of October, Suffolk News reported.

Article

Years later, however, the name Loki Skywalker Mowbray was problematic, the UK Home Office said.
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September 23, 2024 10:55am
- sirknz
  
  More like bureaucrats being bureaucrats.
  
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  September 23, 2024 11:01am
- rouppe
  
  I wouldn’t have thought that the (UK equivalent of) Department of Internal Affairs has any business deciding what’s a copyright infringement.
  
  If it was a problem they should have dealt with it at the time.
  
  I wouldn’t want to be named that though.
  
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  September 23, 2024 5:31pm
sirknz

Apparently many properties may be in danger of ash falling from the sky the next time Ruapehu erupts.

Just like all the times it has erupted in the past.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350425383/hundreds-thousands-north-island-homes-could-be-covered-ash-next-volcanic-eruption

Well done chaps for this stunning info…
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September 23, 2024 11:25am
- pdm
  
  So true sirk.
  
  I remember Ruapehu erupting sometime during the 1990’s and we got ash at our home in Waipawa.
  
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  September 23, 2024 12:07pm
  - Colville
    
    Look at a video of Mt St Hellens going off…its terrifying.
    
    My ex wife was there in a hotel with her parents. It got a meter of ash on the roof. Quite freaky.
    
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    September 23, 2024 12:22pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  The GNS modelling is likely quite helpful. However the average journalist can’t write about it in any ways that add value.
  
  They would be much better off with this article.”GNS has modeled the ash fall from a future eruption. Click here if you are interested.”
  
  Maybe that is a model. A daily anthology of links to interesting news.
  
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  September 23, 2024 12:29pm
- bythesea
  
  It must be a question of magnitude of an eruption just like with earthquakes. 3 is a rattle, 4 is a bang but a 7 can take your house out.
  
  The article did not give much information on recurrence rates, volcanic intensity level, or even number of buildings by distance.
  
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  September 23, 2024 1:08pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    It is not a linear scale.
    
    http://ete.cet.edu/gcc/?/volcanoes_explosivity/
    
    The last ‘7’ was Mount Tambora in 1815. Mount St Helens was a ‘5’. So was Mount Tarawera in New Zealand in 1886.
    
    A ‘7’ eruption in Ruapehu would destroy much of the central North island. It would emit a minimum of 100 cubic kilometres of ash and magma. The last ‘7’ in New Zealand was Taupo about 2,000 years ago.
    
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    September 23, 2024 2:32pm
    - sirknz
      
      I bet that would put a dampener on the skiing were that to happen anytime soon…
      
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      September 23, 2024 10:11pm
Keith White

Back home for a while to (a) see the family, (b) fruitlessly re-attempt to get answers from Ministry of Health cover-uppers (or should that be up-coverers?) and (c) continue my share of the cemetery circuit (no, not motorcycles – a small group of us are visiting every cemetery in the country to count the excess deaths – the casualties of the JODAD).

Because death and life are binary, and whatever kills you, once you’re dead you get buried or cremated with very rare exceptions. Figures lie and liars figure, but graves don’t.

But whoa! first things first – what in the name of Yipyip Ardern, the Baal-Demoness of the Death-Jab, have Pascall the NZ sweet-makers done with their jet-planes? The new “see-through” ones taste like fossilised wombat pancreas dipped in swamp-scum.

Anyway, for those (few) interested, New Zealand’s place in the world in terms of our leading number of excess deaths (by my rough calculations based on even rougher public health figures that the powers that be have reluctantly let be published) is in the worst five. Fer shure, Shirley.

And when even the British Medical Journal (not yer usual hotbed of pyjamas-media hyperbole) are asking why excess mortality has remained high in the Western World for three consecutive years, it’s interesting in a horribly bad way that all of our political and medical authorities in New Zealand are still and completely ignoring the rampaging medical mammoth in the kindergarten.

In another OIA (not mine but I am very grateful to whoever asked it) we are informed that in 2019 slightly over 2000 New Zealanders presented to emergency departments with chest pain. In 2020 double that number. In 2021, 6 times that number (13,000). In 2022 10 times the number compared to 2019 (21,000). In 2023 still 20,000. Grateful acknowledgement to the Hatchard Report writer(s).

That’s a lot of people with chest pain. And for those with poor memories, the Jab Of Death And Damage became available in February 2021 for older people and generally available in mid 2021. Mandates legislated it for all late in 2021.

There is clearly a close chronological correlation between the jab and chest pain. But a lot of people are cruising like Egyptians – up DeNial.

Still.

At some stage this order-of-magnitude increase in chest pain and related cardiovascular events which correlates so closely in time with the vaccine and the mandates, ought to lead to Ardern, Bloomfield & Co, having to explain themselves in court.

But.

I doubt that will ever happen simply because the whole of our government and much of the medical and nursing and legal professions are guilty, which is why there is a stunning silence in the land.

What is increasingly hard to forgive is that the trend continues as of right now/July this year – New Zealanders are still being told to submit to the Jab Of Death And Damage.

At what point will enough be enough?
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September 23, 2024 11:32am
- David Garrett
  
  Oh dear…How on earth is visiting cemeteries going to assist you in calculating “excess deaths”??
  
  As you note yourself, many people – in fact these days it’s most of them – get cremated, and only a very few of those have “ash plots” in a cemetery. Most peoples’ ashes are either sprinkled somewhere significant to them, or kept on a mantle piece, as I have decreed mine should be when the time comes.
  
  Frankly – and I will never have another jab – your post sounds like the rantings of a conspiracy theorist who has fallen down a very deep rabbit hole – and is entirely unaware of it.
  
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  September 23, 2024 12:53pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Do tell us Keith, what is your position on 5-G cellphone towers? Do they cause cancer, or Covid, as the idiot Billy Te Kaha or whatever his name claimed?
    
    Do you even accept that Covid is a virus?
    
    And can I emphasize again that I am NOT in Mr Yu’s camp (see below) ; I myself will not be having any more jabs, and I am far from certain the “vaccine” was safe.
    
    But I am as sure as hell about one thing: my phone isn’t going to give me Covid, and almost certainly won’t give me glioblastoma (a brain cancer) either.
    
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    September 23, 2024 1:19pm
    - wsk12345
      
      What I do know DG is that I’d listen to someone with medical training that has doubts in this over a career beuracrat or a lawyer.
      
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      September 23, 2024 1:42pm
  - Keith White
    
    The OIA results from deaths especially in clusters of age groups are not very helpful in separating out the premature deaths of the younger groups who have turned out to be more at risk from the mRNA vaccine, than from the coronavirus. Younger people are much less likely than older people to be simply cremated and ashes scattered or parked on a shelf (source: the funeral industry). And looking at (premature*) deaths *i.e. on an age group basis, is helpful to confirm or exclude underlying hypotheses.
    
    The rest of your ad hominem spiel, well, you do you.
    
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    September 23, 2024 1:20pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Younger people are much less likely than older people to be simply cremated and ashes scattered or parked on a shelf (source: the funeral industry)
      
      Good God! You consider the above to be evidence?
      
      I don’t give a rat’s what you think about me, but I am – if you like – inter alia in the evidence evaluation industry. I have been listening to and evaluating evidence as part of my job for more than 30 years.
      
      And your “spiel” – to use your word – contains not one word of it; just a series of wild and frankly ludicrous claims – claims which simply cannot be established one way or another.
      
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      September 23, 2024 1:35pm
  - Ghost
    
    Bit stupid really, I feel for the families of those in the cemeteries who have some nutter going around trying to make their death into what they want it to be
    
    Reminds me of being at a physio a few years ago, I was told about the latest vaccine death in our town, an heart attack and bla bla bla. Asked my gp about it, was one of his patients, not a vaccine death.
    
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    September 23, 2024 1:44pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    The problem with these folk is that their ‘analysis’ never stands up to scrutiny by statisticians. I am still waiting for someone to post analysis of a large scale data set that shows that mortality in the vaccinated is higher than in the unvaccinated. Analysis that has been peer reviewed by reputable statisticians who conclude “yes that COVID vaccine is definitely killing people.”
    
    If I see that, I will pay attention. But no, you get “analysis” of data shots received under the OIA and “analysed” by people who are not qualified to do so.
    
    There is a growing literature that covers the causes of COVID vaccine conspiracy folk.
    
    https://www.isdglobal.org/explainers/anti-vaccine-conspiracies/
    
    I guess the analysis will go on for years.
    
    I predict that the New Zealand Royal Commission will report net year that hundreds of New Zealanders died needlessly because they did not take up COVID boosters. Of course that will not fix the problem. The conspiracy folk in New Zealand will just loose their minds all over again. It is a bit like trying to convince a jehova’s witness to accept a blood transfusion. Logic and analysis and reason do not work. That is exactly what I see here with the rubbish posted about COVID vaccines.
    
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    September 23, 2024 2:13pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Good grief.
  
  Has the incidence of severe cardiac events worsened in New Zealand? I suspect the answer is “no” but fill your boots. What is the nature of those cardiac events? Is there a positive correlation betwen vaccinations and such events? Or does the data show that all cause mortality, including cardiac mortality, is significantly higher in the unvaccinated? Or do you not have such data? In which case you are crying in the wind.
  
  Can you provide a peer reviewed data set that answers those questions?
  
  Well here is the largest study ever undertaken on the relationship between Covid vaccines and cardiac harm.
  
  https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/july/heart-attacks-study.html#:~:text=Incidence%20of%20heart%20attacks%20and,study%20of%2046%20million%20adults&text=A%20new%20study%20involving%20nearly,than%20before%20or%20without%20vaccination.
  
  There are 46 million people in the study. It shows beyond doubt that the covid vaccines substantially lower the incidence of cardiac events compared to those who are unvaccinated.
  
  Of course this is no surprise. What causes myocarditis? COVID. 🙄
  
  I have 6 doses of the covid vaccine. I about to have number 7. Next autumn I will have number 8. I have never contracted COVID. I do not expect that I will ever contract COVID.
  
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  September 23, 2024 12:54pm
  - Inandout
    
    BY, I have had two covid vaccines, had after effects both times, but haven’t caught covid. I know a close friend who has had as many doses as you and has had three bouts of covid, at least that is what the covid tester read. In the world of logic do you not think the human body’s natural reaction to covid is preferable to introduced vaccines?
    
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    September 23, 2024 1:15pm
  - judith8409121
    
    heres a few:
    The documentation by st johns is showing the numbers of out of hospital heart attacks that they get called out for has moved from 5/day to 7/day – from 2,212 in 2019/20 to 2,458 in 2022/2023 [https://pardot.stjohn.org.nz/l/182252/2024-02-12/6zzq8f/182252/1707782781t6hTGAZM/2022_2023_All_of_New_Zealand_OHCA_Report.pdf]
    The global vaccine data network shows increased heart harm see : https://www.globalvaccinedatanetwork.org/Data-Dashboards/Observed-vs-Expected-Rates-Dashboard/Observed-vs-Expected-Rates
    
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    September 23, 2024 1:21pm
  - Miritu
    
    Huge increase in under 40s with emergency chest pain and heart issues in New Zealand.
    Cases skyrocketed from 111 in 2018 to about 29,000 in 2024
    https://www.noticer.news/new-zealand-heart-chest-emergency-visits-increase/
    
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    September 23, 2024 1:24pm
    - Blog-aholic
      
      Hilarious coincidnce that the NZH has an article headlined…
      Why you’re more at risk of cancer in your 40s and 50s – and how to protect yourself…..lol
      
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      September 23, 2024 1:38pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Miritu: Have you actually read your own source? Here’s an extract:
      
      Data obtained from Health New Zealand under the Official Information Act (OIA) by freedom advocate Aly Cook this week shows that such ED visits are on track to hit 29,000 this year, up from just 111 in 2018.
      
      So according to this source – which clearly knows absolutely nothing about NZ – there were only 111 ED visits in 2018, but 29,000 this year. How can you possibly take such dross seriously?
      
      BTW, I have a bridge for sale… It’s in a prime location. More than 50 years old, but very well maintained. All reasonable offers considered.
      
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      September 23, 2024 1:41pm
      - wsk12345
        
        “Such” obviously refers to an earlier piece on heart or chest pain. It’s not hard to understand. The full OIA is linked, why not have a read, it’s only 2 pages and very simple so that almost anyone could under it.
        
        I thought you were a lawyer?
        
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        September 23, 2024 1:45pm
      - David Garrett
        
        wsk: I am a lawyer…and lawyers are trained to recognise bullshit when they see it. May I ask what your profession is? (Actually you’ll probably lie, so there’s not much point in my question).
        
        What do you think about the supposed link between 5-G cell towers and Covid? How about 5-G towers and brain cancer?
        
        BTW on second reading, I understand that the “source” is poorly written, and the 111 visits intends to refer to visits for chest pain and not total visits. I thought the writer might have got confused with our emergency number.
        
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        September 23, 2024 2:22pm
      - NothingLeft
        
        From the link:
        
        “New Zealand hospital emergency department visits by people under the age of 40 with chest pain and heart issues have increased dramatically since 2020, official figures show.
        
        Data obtained from Health New Zealand under the Official Information Act (OIA) by freedom advocate Aly Cook this week shows that such ED visits are on track to hit 29,000 this year, up from just 111 in 2018.
        
        There were 2,219 in 2019, 4,406 in 2020, 13,063 in 2021, 21,416 in 2022, 20,005 in 2023, and 14,639 to June 2024. If the number of ED visits remain consistent this year the final tally will be 29,278.”
        
        That paints a pretty clear picture of a massive step change. ED admissions for heart issues were very rare in people under 40 prior to the covid vaccinations in 2021. And there were very few cases of covid in NZ until 2022.
        
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        September 23, 2024 5:43pm
      - wsk12345
        
        Thanks for calling me a liar David, completely without reason So no, I won’t share my career details with you – what’s the point.
        
        I wasn’t talking a bout nor have any knowledge of 5G towers. Not sure what your point is.
        
        You’re a bit like the Liebour party – when you don’t like the content of the discussion, use ad hominem attacks. It’s beneath you surely.
        
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        September 23, 2024 7:30pm
  - Keith White
    
    My grief for my cardiac-damaged child is not good, Benedict.
    
    All-cause mortality, including cardiac mortality, is significantly higher in the vaccinated than in the unvaccinated.
    
    And yes there are large numbers of studies and will always be some for those determined to accept only studies with conculsions that suit.
    
    I prefer to examine evidence from multiple sources. For example, Alami et al’s meta-analysis (of five studies) indicated that within 30-day follow-up period, vaccinated individuals were twice as likely to develop myo/pericarditis in the absence of SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to unvaccinated individuals, with a rate ratio of 2.05 (95% CI 1.49–2.82).
    
    I don’t see the point in providing you more links, unless we can have a rational discussion.
    
    But don’t worry, the wise authorities in NZ have protected you from ever being seen and treated by people like me 🙂
    
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    September 23, 2024 1:25pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “All-cause mortality, including cardiac mortality, is significantly higher in the vaccinated than in the unvaccinated.”
      
      No. It is not. This is the problem with antivaxxer hysteria. Lies become facts.
      
      The link that I provided is a UK study with a gigantic data set of the UK population – a sample of 46 million. It shows that those who had been vaccinated had, by far, lower adverse cardiac events than the unvaccinated.
      
      It is as simple as that.
      
      Hopefully in about 18 months the Royal Commission will report and kill all this rubbish. Although no doubt a Royal Commission report will not be enough for the antivaxxers.
      
      I don’t care of people don’t get their 6 monthly covid vaccine. I thought that the mandates were appalling. While IMO it is a very foolish choice, it is indeed your free choice. What I do object to is coming to a blog that was once a source for rational debate, and encountering such rubbish. The topic of ‘climate change’ is a similar cause of madness here, but that is another story.
      
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      September 23, 2024 1:47pm
      - Keith White
        
        “What I do object to is coming to a blog that was once a source for rational debate, and encountering such rubbish.”
        
        You could, you know, BY, just not ever read anything I write. It’s very doable. My name’s pretty much at the top as a warning 🙂
        
        I read what you write because I want to stay informed about opposite views.
        
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        September 23, 2024 2:57pm
      - judith8409121
        
        and yet my link of nearly 100 million have vaxed injury up to 80 times background rate – so that’s the problem?
        
        There were many deaths due to the vaccine that would not have happened without it – so those are excess mortality – it’s not a argument of whether deaths occurred due to the vaccine – its and argument of how many. Everyone in the industry agrees the vax caused heart issues.
        
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        September 23, 2024 7:25pm
  - wsk12345
    
    Here’s the OIA. https://pdflink.to/2b5d7b78/
    
    It applies to under 40s.
    
    Correlation is not causation BUT why is nobody asking questions in Health or govt? What else could it be that has caused such a closely correlated and massive increase. I’d love to hear your ideas. The timing means it’s not covid nor lockdowns so what could it be?climate change?
    
    I know you think the vaccines are marvellous but I’m unvaxxed and have had the covid cold 3x. It was a mild cold which I only knew I had bc I was in contact with someone who had it and I’m careful as I have elderly parents. Being in this age group Is rather have a mild cold than risk the so called vaccine.
    
    Apparently about 15% of people will never catch covid regardless of vaccine – I don’t have a link but I read a paper on this early on in the scamdemic, this is normal apparently for all the coronaviruses that came prior. Perhaps you are one of those.
    
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    September 23, 2024 1:39pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “Correlation is not causation BUT why is nobody asking questions in Health or govt? ”
      
      People are asking questions. You just need to wait for the outcome. Would you like to take a wager on some of the conclusions? I am confident that they will not conclude that the vaccines killed hundreds of people.
      
      https://www.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz/
      
      The last time I checked, the covid vaccine has resulted in the deaths of 3 people in New Zealand. That is after 13.4 million shots.
      
      Those pesky facts again.
      
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      September 23, 2024 1:54pm
      - Keith White
        
        If you do not look for the cause, you’re not going to find it. NZ’s pathologists / coroners were ‘advised’ to no longer do histopathology on the myocardium of the suddenly / unexpectedly ‘dead’.
        
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        September 23, 2024 2:55pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “…I read a paper on this early on in the scamdemic, ”
      
      When I encounter made up childish nouns I write off the author as incapable of rational debate.
      
      “Perhaps you are one of those…”
      
      No I have not contracted covid because I get a booster shot every 6 months. Simple as that.
      
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      September 23, 2024 2:03pm
      - Taieri
        
        No I have not contracted covid because I get a booster shot every 6 months
        ———
        
        Luck of the draw, Benedict.
        I have not contracted Covid either and I don’t get booster shots at all, just the initial three jabs. My partner had three jabs as well and got it. Her sister had it twice despite regular boosters.
        
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        September 23, 2024 2:37pm
      - Keith White
        
        So why is this so-great-and-safe vaccine not providing protection that lasts longer than 6 months?
        
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        September 23, 2024 2:53pm
      - judith8409121
        
        so why does this great vaccine not stop transmission?
        so why does this great vaccine not stop you getting covid?
        so why does this great vaccine need so many boosters?
        so why do you recognise that this great vaccine has killed people through heart injury but you somehow squirm about it causing heart injury?
        
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        September 23, 2024 7:29pm
      - wsk12345
        
        What a joke. I know people who have had half a dozen jabs and had covid a number of times. I also know unvaxxed people who have never had it. There’s no correlation there!!!
        
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        September 23, 2024 7:34pm
- newview
  
  Keith there will be many others who like you believe our deep state is capable of such a cover up. Most don’t. Fortunately by far the majority either choose to vaccinate for Covid or don’t. They otherwise just get on with their lives. Your argument is like suggesting global warming is to blame for excess cardiac deaths, or stress caused by financial hardship is causing more heart attacks. It’s nonsense.
  
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  September 23, 2024 1:37pm
  - Keith White
    
    nv: I’ll address just the first sentence. I don’t think there is a cover-up. There is only a cover-up when all information is suppressed or another, false, explanation is given for known facts and figures.
    
    In present-day New Zealand, the figures are known, and no explanation is given for either the excess deaths nor an order-of-magnitude increase in chest-pain presentations to ERs around the country since 2019.
    
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    September 23, 2024 1:40pm
  - wsk12345
    
    Well something is causing a massive and sudden increase in ED visits for under 40s which started about mid 2021.
    
    Massive.
    
    The impact on our heart system must be immense.
    Why is nobody asking questions?
    
    You know why. Because every person who has known about this and pretended it’s not their problem is guilty.
    
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    September 23, 2024 1:49pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “The impact on our heart system must be immense.”
      
      Do you mean the services provided by cardiologists?
      
      OK can you provide any actual data that shows that cardiologists in New Zealand are seeing substantially more cases of significant cardiac illness?
      
      The problem is that 1 in 3 deaths are from heart disease. 175,000 folk have heart disease.
      
      https://www.heartfoundation.org.nz/statistics
      
      Here is one thing that definitely does cause cardiac harm. Guess what? COVID.
      
      https://www.heart.org/en/news/2024/01/16/how-covid-19-affects-your-heart-brain-and-other-organs#:~:text=Research%20shows%20COVID%2D19%20infection,heartbeat%20known%20as%20atrial%20fibrillation.
      
      So if there has been an increase in cardiac events, it will likely be COVID as the cause, not the vaccines.
      
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      September 23, 2024 3:27pm
      - Keith White
        
        BY; you state “So if there has been an increase in cardiac events, it will likely be COVID as the cause, not the vaccines.”
        
        If the Covid vaccines were as effective as you claim, then there should be a decrease from cardiac events and myocarditis because of their effect.
        
        There is instead an increase in cardiac events and myocarditis.
        
        More than 13 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in NZ since 20 February 2021 with 95% uptake by NZers.
        
        So… where is this Covid-induced myocarditis coming from if the vaccine is both safe and effective (at protecting against Covid)?
        
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        September 23, 2024 4:48pm
      - judith8409121
        
        did you see the increase of cardiac arrests from st-johns report I posted its gone from 5/day to 7/day – but that’s ok then?
        
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        September 23, 2024 7:30pm
      - judith8409121
        
        and yet there is direct connection between the vaccines and heart attacks and no connection between a cold virus ( corona is a cold virus) and heart attacks. Strange that anyone should be manipulating to present a game on a respiratory virus. go figure!
        
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        September 24, 2024 8:44am
  - David Garrett
    
    newview: Well said. And here’s a genuine question: I have of course heard the term, but what exactly is meant – or usually meant by the believers – by “the deep state”??
    
    When I was at uni over 30 years ago, the world was apparently run by a shadowy outfit in the US called the Tri-lateral commission. This was of course many years before the internet, so there were far fewer conspiracy theories, but there were some – that Kennedy was killed by the CIA for example.
    
    (Actually perhaps that’s not such a good example, as even the American government now acknowledges that the Warren Commission’s findings were bullshit, and there was some kind of conspiracy behind Oswald and Ruby)
    
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    September 23, 2024 1:52pm
    - David Garrett
      
      …Anyone else who knows what the definiton of “the deep state” usually is, please feel free to jump in. Mine is a genuine question.
      
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      September 23, 2024 2:25pm
      - RoboRob
        
        To me the ‘deep state’ is essentially the unelected bureaucracy behind the scenes that implements govt policy and some of there own policy too. If the ‘deep state’ agrees with a policy it will be implemented promptly and supported publicly. If the deep state opposes a policy expect at least negative leaks, negative commentary and generally dragging the chain until the current administration is replaced.
        
        We don’t need to look to the US to see examples of this here.
        
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        September 23, 2024 2:42pm
    - newview
      
      David I guess deep state is not our MP’s or even Cabinet but a small group in government that might instruct another small group to lose unwanted evidence that might hinder government intentions that may be unpopular . Almost impossible in NZ I would have thought. We aren’t bright enough (:
      We could perhaps imagine the CIA or similar to dabble in such dark arts but in Wellington, I don’t think so. Those with vivid imaginations and have a deep distrust of authority will happily nurture such thoughts.
      
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      September 23, 2024 2:39pm
    - cmm
      
      DG: Deep state is basically a variant of “Yes Minister” – the unelected government workers run the place and the politicians (who are supposed to have oversight on behalf of the citizens) really do not have the control they are supposed to.
      
      From what you have written, I would take it you have sometimes had your efforts thwarted by “the deep state”, especially if you were to add the judiciary to the definition of “the deep state”.
      
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      September 23, 2024 2:40pm
      - David Garrett
        
        cmm: Well I never! I had no idea what the term meant. And YES, I have certainly encountered “the deep state” as you define it.
        
        I have told the story here before, but when we were working in getting the Nats to support three strikes 1.0, at one point we got a briefing from justice officials who claimed that under the proposed law, the prison population would increase by 40% within five years.
        
        Making a longish story short, it eventually emerged that said officials had simply made the figures up, and that the real number of extra beds required after ten years was about 450 – out of a then prison population of about 10,000. So about 5% not 40%
        
        I well remember, when Rodney called the officials out on their bullshit, one of them giving me a look of pure hatred as they left the meeting.
        
        I have no doubt at all that both the Nats and ACT have been well and truly “captured” regarding the latest versionof 3S. Again as I have said here a number of times, if it is passed in its present form, three strikes 2.0 will make things considerably worse than they are now.
        
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        September 23, 2024 2:59pm
    - Ghost
      
      There was an interview with Robert Kennedy jr a few months ago. He was talking about when his uncle was killed, his mother came and got him from school. He got home and ran down to his father, who was talking to the head of the cia. According to Robert his father asked the head ”did you kill my brother”. So yeah, I don’t think that is a good example, lol.
      
      Not helped either by the presidents continuing to refuse to release all the documents, even previous ones who promised to release them.
      
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      September 23, 2024 3:28pm
Close Hen Counters

Some scum of the earth strangles a police dog into unconsciousness – in NZ!!!! – if I was the policeman, I wouldn’t think twice about shooting that bastard in the head
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September 23, 2024 12:55pm
- cmm
  
  As much as people might like dogs, police dogs are not pets. Their role is to take on dangers to save the cops from injury/death.
  
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  September 23, 2024 2:56pm
- MCōs
  
  So the police set the dog onto some lowlife who unexpectedly doesn’t take lightly to getting mauled and puts the dog into a sleeper hold
  For his troubles you’d execute on the spot?
  
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  September 23, 2024 3:32pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Police dogs scar and disfigure people for life – happened to a guy I knew who was bitten on the upper leg while walking home from school by a police dog after another individual.
  
  Would we accept that sort of casual maiming from actual police? Police dogs have their place in taking down offenders with weapons or hunting out drugs or people absconding, but I think it should be fine for anyone to use reasonable force to prevent unreasonable injury – and biting with inevitable permanent scaring is unreasonable injury.
  
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  September 23, 2024 5:35pm
- wsk12345
  
  My understanding was that attacking a police dog was co soldered in line with attacking a cop. So yes, shoot the prick. Those dogs are worth a fortune.
  
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  September 23, 2024 7:40pm
Keith White

I also gotta ask, am I the only one who found the Pascall jet plane mutation unpalatable?
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September 23, 2024 1:41pm
Inandout

Polkinghorn found not guilty. The return of Maggie mayhap?
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September 23, 2024 2:34pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Why? Was she on the jury?
  
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  September 23, 2024 5:42pm
David Garrett

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350425424/philip-polkinghorne-trial-eye-surgeon-found-not-guilty-murdering-wife-pauline

No surprise there; I would have been astounded if, on the evidence as reported, he was found guilty.

This is one of the rare times when I wish we had aspects of the American legal system: it was reported earlier today that “most” of the jury rejected the suicide theory. I would love to know what the final vote for acquittal was. Way less than unanimous I’ll wager.
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September 23, 2024 2:51pm
- Keith White
  
  And if you knew what the final vote for acquittal was, what would that change?
  
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  September 23, 2024 4:43pm
Mod88

And if the dog was hanging off your leg/arm/body part I bet you wouldn’t think twice about defending yourself.. These dogs are not your run of the mill pets. Any other dog doing the same would be euthanised. Police dogs are trained attack animals and have been known to latch onto the wrong target. Should the culprit have run away, No, did he have a right to defend himself from harm, Yes.
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September 23, 2024 2:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

On the website/blog that I can’t mention, the 440 church leaders v David Seymour’s Principles Bill is hotting up.
This is now part 5. I do wish the Mods would let up and let me link to it.
You all know where to go to view it.
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September 23, 2024 4:23pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  No we don’t.
  
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  September 23, 2024 5:40pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Seriously Benedict?
    If I put the link up, then I will get a holiday according to the Moderators.
    I have been warned. There are some who just want any links censored.
    
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    September 23, 2024 5:44pm
    - Mike
      
      I think you should email DPF and ask him to put that site on the blogroll (links). It could easily replace, for one example, Kiwi Firewalker (last post May 2019 – “Why I am retiring from political blogging”)
      
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      September 23, 2024 6:03pm
    - Jethrod
      
      Julian was on that other blog(I think the one you can’t mention) blithering on how it was all Luxon ‘s fault that there is no movement on Maori issues. Incredible huh
      
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      September 23, 2024 7:09pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    I do
    
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    September 23, 2024 6:30pm
- Mike
  
  You could always write a comment setting out the issue in your own words. Not many can be bothered with references to another blog unless the commenter sells it well.
  Ghost does that sort of thing well. And although there used to be a rule here against link-whoring, Tom Hunter’s posts at No Minister are an excellent read. Traffic on that site must be booming.
  
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  September 23, 2024 5:56pm
John Loveridge

Carmel Sepuloni says there is no evidence that increased remote work has created a less productive public service.

That’s because you already couldn’t get a less productive public service.
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September 23, 2024 6:16pm
Swifty

Open lies from the PSA honcho:

Public Service Association national secretary Duane Leo told Checkpoint Wellington’s woes were a direct result of the government’s “slash and cut” policies.

Much of the public service was based in Wellington, being the capital.

“This is a political reaction, blaming public servants for a problem that this government has created. The issue here is that if this government really cared about the Wellington economy, then it wouldn’t have cut thousands of hardworking public servants’ jobs. I think we’re at 6000 jobs and counting. It’s a total distraction.”

The Coalition government has reduced the public service headcount by only a fraction of what Labour grew it. The PSA creeps think we’re stupid.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/528792/government-s-anti-working-from-home-move-a-total-distraction-union
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September 23, 2024 6:36pm
Jack5

In the weekend’s German state election in which immigration is a key issue, the Centre-Left’s Social Democrats (the SPD) have finished just ahead of the Far Right populist AFD party.

The Social Democrats, who have governed the former East German state of Brandenburg surrounding Berlin since reunification in 1990, scored 32 per cent of the vote, ahead of the Far-Right Alternative for Germany (AFD) on 29 per cent.

However, the Far Left party BSW, which, like the AFD, opposes entry to Germany of refugees, took 13 per cent of the vote. The two parties performed well also in state elections in Saxony and Thuringia at the beginning of September.

The Telegraph says that, on present poll figures, if in an election were held at present he AFD would become the second largest party with 19 per cent of the vote, and the BSW would win 10 per cent. “BSW” – for “Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht” – is a political party led by Sahra Wagenknecht, an economist and publicist who has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009.

The SPD is the party of Olaf Scholz, Germany’s Chancellor.
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September 23, 2024 11:21pm
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