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Comment:Open mike 12/07/2022
Date published: 8:35 am, July 13th, 2022... quote is not scientific research: Rosemary McDonald. Rather it is a comment...
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Comment:Open mike 12/07/2022
Date published: 8:46 pm, July 12th, 2022Maybe the powers that be thought it was better to have a Dr rather than no Dr at all. At the time he was suspended, he had been restricted to carrying out consultations via Telehealth due to not being immunised against Covid-19. Because of his recent ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/07/2022
Date published: 6:51 pm, July 12th, 2022...find evidence to back up your conspiracies. What conspiracies? I provided a link to a letter in The Lancet which suggests that Covid vaccine mandates for healthworkers are unjustified because studies show that it makes no difference whether the worker ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/07/2022
Date published: 5:25 pm, July 12th, 2022You know perfectly well why nurses (and doctors) who are not vaccinated (and masked) can't work in their profession … We do? Vaccine effectiveness studies have conclusively demonstrated the benefit of COVID-19 vaccines in reducing individual symptomatic ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/07/2022
Date published: 12:11 pm, July 12th, 2022I have admired and supported Hager's work for years, but like others on the Old Left have been disappointed to see him join (seemingly unquestioningly) the Team of Mainstream Media Personalities Standing Against (what we have reliably been informed is ) ...
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Comment:Open mike 10/07/2022
Date published: 11:28 am, July 10th, 2022omment @ 4 was in reply to this. Reply button didn't work. Thanks for posting this Fw.
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Comment:Open mike 10/07/2022
Date published: 11:13 am, July 10th, 2022Time to do the maths.... Assisted dying – kicking us when we’re down For many palliative care workers, the introduction of fully-funded euthanasia rubbed salt in the wound of neglect. As at February, the Health Ministry had six full-time positions ...
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Comment:Open mike 03/07/2022
Date published: 9:11 pm, July 3rd, 2022Something that has not been proven is just that: unproven. The absence of sufficient proof or evidence does not make it a lie. Spoken like a true politician. And the more we repeat the 'unproven' statement the more likely it is to be perceived as being ...
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Comment:Open mike 03/07/2022
Date published: 9:05 pm, July 3rd, 2022Sigh. I said "...almost toxic to some." So just stop with the BS please. None of this means that these vaccines are without some side effects and can never cause serious adverse events, no vaccines are. But the Pfizer shot has attracted a shit tonne of ...
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Comment:Open mike 03/07/2022
Date published: 8:46 pm, July 3rd, 2022Well done Matiri. Such a sleuth. I've done this before here on TS, but if you insist. ...she waved a weapon at the helicopter causing it to take evasive action, resulting in a lot of damage ... What evasive action? What damage? There's this little thing ...
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Comment:Open mike 03/07/2022
Date published: 3:52 pm, July 3rd, 2022Not 'political'...as in aligned with a particular party or direction (Left, Right, Whatever.) ....but certainly not naive. No siree. Some of us have already been trespassed from Parliament in years past. Some of us marched down Queen Street against the ...
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Comment:Open mike 03/07/2022
Date published: 12:30 pm, July 3rd, 2022(Need to add, the original article is pretty low on actual details and information.) Thank you for pointing that out. The ODT did actually report on both protest groups. And got a statement from both spokespeople. I'm disappointed they didn't do a back and...
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Comment:Open mike 03/07/2022
Date published: 12:21 pm, July 3rd, 2022Māori can be part of groups, or lead them that are adjacent to fascists. We saw that in the parliament grounds occupation. We did? See that at the parliament grounds occupation? I know that is what was claimed...but was it actually proven? Because if it ...
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Comment:Open mike 03/07/2022
Date published: 10:14 am, July 3rd, 2022Ahead of the event, AntiFascist Ōtepoti spokeswoman Sina Brown-Davis said the march did not represent the values of the wider Dunedin community. Mr Tait was close associates with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, she said. Mr Tait does make a good point. ...
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Comment:Open mike 02/07/2022
Date published: 3:56 pm, July 2nd, 2022Who is this "Sara" from Panmure? Are we now dispensing with basic verification of 'quotes'? This is a very serious accusation, and at the very least the person claiming that this is what O'Connor said should include their full name and perhaps some way of ...
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Comment:Open mike 28/06/2022
Date published: 6:50 pm, June 30th, 2022Solar with batteries and still on the grid. Until we see if we can live within the solar capacity. Having happily lived in a Bus for a number of years with 300 watts on the roof it will be interesting to see how power extravagant we have become living in ...
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Comment:Open mike 30/06/2022
Date published: 11:32 am, June 30th, 2022So we know where she stands: bodily autonomy for vaccines against a deadly disease, but not bodily autonomy for an unwanted pregnancy, rape, ectopic pregnancy, incest, etc. Macskasy is more than a little OCD about providing references. I see no reference ...
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Comment:Daily review 29/06/2022
Date published: 10:16 am, June 30th, 2022The evidence of the efficacy of vaccines has been around for effing decades. That wasn't the question. You said...The Pfizer vaccine has no more side effects than other vaccines going back many decades to the smallpox vaccine. ... and I asked you to ...
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Comment:Daily review 29/06/2022
Date published: 9:49 am, June 30th, 2022....that does not mean the rest of us have to be denied them. Who is trying to deny anyone the Pfizer jab?
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Comment:Daily review 29/06/2022
Date published: 9:46 am, June 30th, 2022Here you are....https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/profs/PUArticles/March2020/Influenza-vaccine-2019-what-to-expect-this-year.html Estimated reporting rate per 100,000 doses 16.9 and.... https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/safety-report-41.asp#top10_bar On ...
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Comment:Daily review 29/06/2022
Date published: 8:50 am, June 30th, 2022The Pfizer vaccine has no more side effects than other vaccines going back many decades to the smallpox vaccine. Can you provide evidence to support this statement? Un- referenced statements on government or pharmaceutical industry funded sites do not ...
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Comment:Daily review 29/06/2022
Date published: 8:35 am, June 30th, 2022Robert. I am not quite sure what you are saying. Can I assume that since the woman deliberately chose this method of protest and resistance, and she was not surprised at the actions of the police...that dragging her by her hair, smothering her with a ...
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Comment:Daily review 29/06/2022
Date published: 8:29 pm, June 29th, 2022...one woman who was wandering around without a stich on – which is a punishable offence – was resisting arrest and had to be restrained ... No Anne. She was not wandering around. She was sitting down with her back to the police line. You are making this ...
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Comment:Daily review 29/06/2022
Date published: 8:18 pm, June 29th, 2022Your link says she was treated for a sternum injury, not a broken sternum. Your points are well enough made without exaggerating. No, it doesn't. It says... One elderly woman had ribs broken and is now in hospital; a friend was elbow punched in the chest; ...
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Comment:Daily review 29/06/2022
Date published: 7:58 pm, June 29th, 2022It was only the Herald link that failed. All the others are working fine. Should I just not embed Herald links, or do you not want any links embedded?
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Comment:Daily review 29/06/2022
Date published: 6:32 pm, June 29th, 2022One way of looking at it is that perhaps the thugs police should be grateful to the Freedom Villagers for presenting them with an ideal opportunity to test out their new kit. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/revealed-police-used-sound-cannons-against-...
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Comment:Open mike 28/06/2022
Date published: 8:42 am, June 29th, 2022...diesel gennies (pesky things ...) And noisy. Even when 'suppressed'. There's not only the rattle and hum, but a thrummmm. Really, really, really negatively impacting on in- line neighbours. Especially at midnight. Or at 4.30am. (The assumption is that ...
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Comment:Open mike 28/06/2022
Date published: 4:26 pm, June 28th, 2022Our fearless defenders of Law and Order might have further harmed their reputation with the Young People after this disgusting display of 'protect and serve'. The kid's name is Alexander. He is 17 years old. He was peacefully protesting and offered no ...
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Comment:Open mike 26/06/2022
Date published: 2:19 pm, June 27th, 2022Indeed. The operative word being "temporary". I have spoken with a few people who truly believed they were dying from a 'heart attack' after their 2nd jab. There's no way in hell these people could be persuaded to take another. However 'recovered' they may...
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Comment:Open mike 26/06/2022
Date published: 9:44 am, June 27th, 2022If you haven't listened to this...https://rdln.wordpress.com/2022/05/24/marama-fox-on-the-maori-presence-at-the-recent-parliamentary-protests/ ...thoroughly engaging. It may very well be one of the truer, most credible accounts of the Freedom Village ...
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Comment:Open mike 26/06/2022
Date published: 9:39 am, June 27th, 2022I have learned to listen... rather than tying up valuable working time watching. My wee tablet has good sound (I don't do earphones), and often accompanies me as I work. (Leaving it in full sun while up a ladder painting was not the best idea. )
- The Sunday Essay: A buzzy year
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- Proposed repeal of Oranga Tamariki Act section 7AA breaches Treaty of Waitangi – TribunalThe government is planning to repeal Treaty obligations from the Oranga Tamariki Act. ...7 days ago
- Committee Silences Majority Of Submitters On Fast-track Bill
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