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On 2/25/2021 at 10:24 PM, meomy said:

Nope, that is wishful thinking on your part!

Just keeping up with the play of the Scientists funded by Tobacco industry and investigations into there dishonest practices to the wider society.

 

BTW, @Memphis are you partial to a tipple of Gin to?If so, which one is your fav?

Gordons.I have the odd one  here and there.Normally on a Saturday arvo.

However my old man was a major in it.Group one performer on the ginny gin.

I try not to come on here after imbibing.

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On ‎2‎/‎26‎/‎2021 at 10:57 PM, Archer said:

I don't know, but how can we have 1,000 plus people supposedly self isolating because of the latest b/s, but NO MENTION of any sort of lockdown, when before,  someone just had to sneeze and AUCKLAND would be shut ?   Cricket, Am Cup maybe ??? 

And there was Fluffy on the news, SMILING as she told the reporter it was all under control, and in that same shot dismissing those reporters, as she obviously wanted to carry on partying  .............. 

 

What people fail to understand is that these scenarios have been happening continuously since the virus was let loose in this country. ... 

1918-1919 or earlier viruses??

People in days before us must be turning in their graves at the lunacy going on in the world.

Academics & Politicians in todays day & age lack common sense & "WORK ETHICS".

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2 minutes ago, meomy said:

1918-1919 or earlier viruses??

People in days before us must be turning in their graves at the lunacy going on in the world.

Academics & Politicians in todays day & age lack common sense & "WORK ETHICS".

It's all a "dry run" of population control for future One World Marxist Government Meomy! The world softened up by China-released virus.Covid kills according to Ardern (what a scholar!!)- well so do motorbikes, cigarettes, drugs, sepsis, sharks-------------------------------------------------

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Mike Hosking: Complacent Government asleep at the wheel over Covid-19

I watched that farce they call a Covid update at 1pm yesterday.

The usual puffery from the Prime Minister. Yesterday's sermon was about death, there was a reference to America. What a country of 350 million with a federal system, and a slightly insane former president, has to do with our circumstances I have no idea. But she'll leave no stone unturned to instil fear in the wider community susceptible to such mind control.

Ashley Bloomfield yet again corrected some dates and times that were given out wrongly on Saturday night. His excuse was they were moving at pace. God forbid they adapt that as a go-to modus operandi, instead of the asleep at the wheel position they currently favour.

We got the news that there were no new cases, and that the cases were all linked. Thus, leading to about 5 million people to ask why 1.5 million are locked down, and the rest are hopelessly inconvenienced yet again because of something that would appear to be contained. Nothing was to be found in the waste-water.

Before the 1pm, by the way, I was reading yet again the global headlines of how a major city gets locked down for one case. The astonishment from around the world continues.

And then to add insult to injury Bloomfield has the temerity to ask us to think about what we can do to stop the spread and the damage. Stay home, work from home, don't line up for a test if there is nothing wrong with you, don’t ring Healthline if all you need is the lotto numbers.

But here's the question for Bloomfield and his trigger-happy Prime Minister, how about you think of the things you can do to avoid the damage? How about you pull your fingers out, stop making phone calls that aren't returned, start knocking on some doors, start using the health act to make people do what they should be doing, and stop apologising for recalcitrants?

How about start putting the majority of New Zealand, New Zealanders, their businesses, and their welfare ahead of a bunch of no-hopers in South Auckland that clearly couldn't give a monkeys about the rest of us?

Two months in, third breach. Second lockdown in February. We don’t have this, it's not eliminated.

Our response isn't good, the attitude is all wrong.

This is a lazy, complacent government, whose major energy expenditure involves defending their ineptitude and trying to explain why things keep going wrong. 

 

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4 hours ago, rdytdy said:

Mike Hosking: Complacent Government asleep at the wheel over Covid-19

I watched that farce they call a Covid update at 1pm yesterday.

The usual puffery from the Prime Minister. Yesterday's sermon was about death, there was a reference to America. What a country of 350 million with a federal system, and a slightly insane former president, has to do with our circumstances I have no idea. But she'll leave no stone unturned to instil fear in the wider community susceptible to such mind control.

Ashley Bloomfield yet again corrected some dates and times that were given out wrongly on Saturday night. His excuse was they were moving at pace. God forbid they adapt that as a go-to modus operandi, instead of the asleep at the wheel position they currently favour.

We got the news that there were no new cases, and that the cases were all linked. Thus, leading to about 5 million people to ask why 1.5 million are locked down, and the rest are hopelessly inconvenienced yet again because of something that would appear to be contained. Nothing was to be found in the waste-water.

Before the 1pm, by the way, I was reading yet again the global headlines of how a major city gets locked down for one case. The astonishment from around the world continues.

And then to add insult to injury Bloomfield has the temerity to ask us to think about what we can do to stop the spread and the damage. Stay home, work from home, don't line up for a test if there is nothing wrong with you, don’t ring Healthline if all you need is the lotto numbers.

But here's the question for Bloomfield and his trigger-happy Prime Minister, how about you think of the things you can do to avoid the damage? How about you pull your fingers out, stop making phone calls that aren't returned, start knocking on some doors, start using the health act to make people do what they should be doing, and stop apologising for recalcitrants?

How about start putting the majority of New Zealand, New Zealanders, their businesses, and their welfare ahead of a bunch of no-hopers in South Auckland that clearly couldn't give a monkeys about the rest of us?

Two months in, third breach. Second lockdown in February. We don’t have this, it's not eliminated.

Our response isn't good, the attitude is all wrong.

This is a lazy, complacent government, whose major energy expenditure involves defending their ineptitude and trying to explain why things keep going wrong. 

 

We must be the Luckiest team of 5 million in the History of Pandemics, the large numbers of Cases , isolation breaches and errors and yet were still Covid free 😆 Been driving around Auckland today, roads still busy and plenty of activity... and watching the news tonight they show empty inner city Streets. How is McDonalds an essential service😮

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A lot of people have decided this PRISON shite is at an end.  Very typical kiwi, as in, we gave you the benefit of the doubt last year and knuckled down but you lost everything with your bullshite we are all in this together, when apparently it was only Aucklands fault.  Thjs bullshit is over !  :) 

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On 3/1/2021 at 9:50 PM, Archer said:

A lot of people have decided this PRISON shite is at an end.  Very typical kiwi, as in, we gave you the benefit of the doubt last year and knuckled down but you lost everything with your bullshite we are all in this together, when apparently it was only Aucklands fault.  Thjs bullshit is over !  :) 

It is Auckland's fault. Lift your game up there Auckwackers and stop your whinging.

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1 hour ago, Uriah Heap said:

It is Auckland's fault. Lift your game up there Auckwackers and stop your whinging.

Just harden up Heap 😜 we must be tough up here ,absorbing countless cases and runaways without as much as a sniffle 😆 

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Put in, Pulled Out and Put in Again

Auckland's Pointless Lockdown

 

By JC 

From memory, it’s about ten days since I last wrote an article and since then rather a lot has taken place. Auckland was put in and pulled out of a pointless three-day lockdown and now we are in a seven-day lockdown which will prove to be equally pointless.

These lockdowns are doing more harm than good. Lockdowns are not the answer to stamping out Covid. The best we can hope for is a relatively effective vaccine and adapting in such a way that we can learn to live with it, as we have with other viruses. If we accept that as the best long term outcome then the current modus operandi of the Government is highly destructive, bordering on trickery.

Propaganda, Petulance and Pernicious Behaviour.

The Prime Minister likes to call it a tricky virus. I venture to suggest we have a tricky Prime Minister. I am getting the sense from listening to talkback that this latest lockdown may be a step too far. Even the media, those people she’s funding to keep onside, are starting to see through the propaganda, petulance and pernicious behaviour of the Prime Minister. She introduced the word propaganda herself in something of a Freudian slip when commencing her berating of members of the Papatoetoe family for not following the rules.

The family, as it now transpires, did not break any of the rules as the family member in question was not advised to get a test. Even if they had been advised to do so, there was nothing to suggest that the KFC student worker should get tested; so that was two major slips in one speech.

These two blunders typify the Government’s handling of the pandemic right from David Clark’s Level 4 bike ride and beach walk. It’s been one error, mistake, gaffe, oversight and inaccuracy after another. 

I don’t recall David Clark getting half the bollocking this family is. He had no excuse, yet got to stay on in Cabinet, which only serves to illustrate what little depth of talent she has at her disposal.

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In a top-class grilling from Heather du Plessis-Allan, Chris Hipkins‘s only defence was that everybody knows to get a test if a family member has tested positive. Technically yes, but a Government running a competent system would not rely on that. Rather than take the blame themselves they are blaming the family for another ridiculous lockdown. As a result, the family, and particularly the young person involved, have been abused on social media.

 

This behaviour by the government is utterly disgraceful. To blame a family for the government’s failure to communicate with them is a form of pernicious behaviour that we should not tolerate from any politician, especially the Prime Minister. It shows what little depth there is to the woman beyond the fake hugs and kisses routine.

The petulance shown is reminiscent of someone who hasn’t progressed far since her days at Morrinsville College. We, as a country, deserve far better than this. Hipkins is no better. He rails at the Tamakis for fleeing Auckland but there’s not a word about Willie Jackson, who was a participant in the decision to put Auckland into level three, staying on at the boxing. He was supposed to be acting as if being in level three from that moment.

The subsequent chaos at the border last Sunday was an avoidable scandal. People having to walk animals on the highway due to stress caused by the heat was a situation worthy of a complaint to the SPCA. Kindness, my rear end. You would have thought those in charge at the border would have had a separate lane for animals in the country of cones. After all, this is not their first try at this nonsense. Why hold up people going into Auckland? The idiotic lockdown was all about those leaving Auckland. But no, both ways for total socialist control. Newshub that night, much to my pleasant surprise, had virtually an hour of negative stories on the Government’s handling of Covid.

 

Now that the true story has come out regarding the Papatoetoe family, the Prime Minister has done her usual Houdini trick and, like Sleepy Joe, headed for her bunker. It is becoming more and more obvious we have a Prime Minister who has never been in control of anything let alone Covid. Her sole raison d’être is to implement her Agenda 30 Marxist policies which she proudly told Bill Gates she was writing into all parts of this country’s legislation.

My message to the Prime Minister is simply this: We don’t want Agenda 30 and we don’t want you.

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1 hour ago, rdytdy said:

 

Put in, Pulled Out and Put in Again

Auckland's Pointless Lockdown

 

By JC 

From memory, it’s about ten days since I last wrote an article and since then rather a lot has taken place. Auckland was put in and pulled out of a pointless three-day lockdown and now we are in a seven-day lockdown which will prove to be equally pointless.

These lockdowns are doing more harm than good. Lockdowns are not the answer to stamping out Covid. The best we can hope for is a relatively effective vaccine and adapting in such a way that we can learn to live with it, as we have with other viruses. If we accept that as the best long term outcome then the current modus operandi of the Government is highly destructive, bordering on trickery.

Propaganda, Petulance and Pernicious Behaviour.

The Prime Minister likes to call it a tricky virus. I venture to suggest we have a tricky Prime Minister. I am getting the sense from listening to talkback that this latest lockdown may be a step too far. Even the media, those people she’s funding to keep onside, are starting to see through the propaganda, petulance and pernicious behaviour of the Prime Minister. She introduced the word propaganda herself in something of a Freudian slip when commencing her berating of members of the Papatoetoe family for not following the rules.

The family, as it now transpires, did not break any of the rules as the family member in question was not advised to get a test. Even if they had been advised to do so, there was nothing to suggest that the KFC student worker should get tested; so that was two major slips in one speech.

These two blunders typify the Government’s handling of the pandemic right from David Clark’s Level 4 bike ride and beach walk. It’s been one error, mistake, gaffe, oversight and inaccuracy after another. 

I don’t recall David Clark getting half the bollocking this family is. He had no excuse, yet got to stay on in Cabinet, which only serves to illustrate what little depth of talent she has at her disposal.

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In a top-class grilling from Heather du Plessis-Allan, Chris Hipkins‘s only defence was that everybody knows to get a test if a family member has tested positive. Technically yes, but a Government running a competent system would not rely on that. Rather than take the blame themselves they are blaming the family for another ridiculous lockdown. As a result, the family, and particularly the young person involved, have been abused on social media.

 

This behaviour by the government is utterly disgraceful. To blame a family for the government’s failure to communicate with them is a form of pernicious behaviour that we should not tolerate from any politician, especially the Prime Minister. It shows what little depth there is to the woman beyond the fake hugs and kisses routine.

The petulance shown is reminiscent of someone who hasn’t progressed far since her days at Morrinsville College. We, as a country, deserve far better than this. Hipkins is no better. He rails at the Tamakis for fleeing Auckland but there’s not a word about Willie Jackson, who was a participant in the decision to put Auckland into level three, staying on at the boxing. He was supposed to be acting as if being in level three from that moment.

The subsequent chaos at the border last Sunday was an avoidable scandal. People having to walk animals on the highway due to stress caused by the heat was a situation worthy of a complaint to the SPCA. Kindness, my rear end. You would have thought those in charge at the border would have had a separate lane for animals in the country of cones. After all, this is not their first try at this nonsense. Why hold up people going into Auckland? The idiotic lockdown was all about those leaving Auckland. But no, both ways for total socialist control. Newshub that night, much to my pleasant surprise, had virtually an hour of negative stories on the Government’s handling of Covid.

 

Now that the true story has come out regarding the Papatoetoe family, the Prime Minister has done her usual Houdini trick and, like Sleepy Joe, headed for her bunker. It is becoming more and more obvious we have a Prime Minister who has never been in control of anything let alone Covid. Her sole raison d’être is to implement her Agenda 30 Marxist policies which she proudly told Bill Gates she was writing into all parts of this country’s legislation.

My message to the Prime Minister is simply this: We don’t want Agenda 30 and we don’t want you.

 

Prescient title describing Fishboy's activities?? Pregnant again and the reason why there has not been a very public vaccination?? Maybe Qanon at play but I trust my sources.😉

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Mike Hosking: PM ditching the weekly interview speaks to a lack of backbone

Mike Hosking: PM ditching the weekly interview speaks to a lack of backbone

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Mike Hosking,
 
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Mon, 8 Mar 2021, 10:43AM
Jacinda Ardern. (Photo / NZ Herald) Jacinda Ardern. (Photo / NZ Herald)

The Prime Minister has not been on the programme this morning, and there is a reason for that.

She is running for the hills.

She no longer wants to be on this programme each week. The somewhat tragic conclusion that is drawn is the questions she gets, the demand for a level of accountability, is a little bit tough.

Officially, her office will tell you they are re-arranging the media schedule this year and are maintaining the same number of interviews. This appears not to be true.

By way of background, this has been coming for most of the year. They rang us and told us this a month ago. But various developments, mainly Covid related, made an appearance here a necessity.

At the time we got the call, and the line about re-arranging, we obviously asked who was replacing us. We are still waiting for a reply despite asking, re-asking, and re-asking again. The reason we're still waiting is no one is replacing us. They know it, we know it, they are just over being held to account.

Without being too unkind to some of the other players in this market, the reality is the Prime Minister enjoys a more cordial and compliant relationship. The questions are more softball. She favours a more benign pitch, where the delivery can be dispatched to the boundary more readily without the chance of an appeal.

To be honest, I'm pleased. The management here, not quite as much. They argue accountability is important, and they're right. But what I argue is the Prime Minister is a lightweight at answering tough questions. The number of times she's fronted on this programme with no knowledge around the questions I'm asking is frightening.

Reports I read, she hadn't. The time I asked whether they're replacing the Tauranga City Council, she replied they didn't do such things. Clearly, not having the slightest clue, in a month or so, they were going to do exactly that.

Those occasions are too many to be comfortable.

And then, your reaction. The two most often used lines post interview are "what was the point of that?" And "I don't know why you bother."

The reality is, too often it's just noise. It's waffle. It's stalling. It's filling. It's obfuscation.

It's a tricky scenario, she should be up for it. Any Prime Minister should be up for it. As a publicly elected official you are asked to be held to account. So, it stands to reason you, at least, put yourself up, even if you don't enjoy it or at times struggle with the complexity or detail of the question line.

It speaks to a lack of backbone that she would want to bail and run. It also speaks to an increasingly apparent trait; they don't handle pressure well. Last week was a very good display of that.

They say she's willing to front on an issue-by-issue basis, so she isn't gone forever.

As for the weekly bit, I lose no sleep. I'm just a bit disappointed she isn't a more robust operator, or keener to defend her corner.

After all, it's our country she's running.

 

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If Hosking had been realistic with his questioning and stopped the National Party inquesitioning he would still have his slot, but JA has told the Grand stander to FO. He is hardly an independent investigative journo and his best before date well passed

No surprises here

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Just now, TurnyTom said:

If Hosking had been realistic with his questioning and stopped the National Party inquesitioning he would still have his slot, but JA has told the Grand stander to FO. He is hardly an independent investigative journo and his best before date well passed

No surprises here

He is right though Tom, she is a lightweight and the number of times she couldn’t answer questions was appalling for someone supposedly “ in control”...

No doubt she will turn up at another outlet where the questioning is not so mean......🙄

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Media Put the Boot in as ‘Jackboot’ Jacinda Runs from the Hard Questions

By CS

Jackboot’ Jacinda Ardern is on the run from the media. Yesterday she cancelled her media slot with Mike Hosking using the flimsiest excuse possible:

A statement from the Prime Minister’s office to Newstalk ZB said: “The Prime Minister’s schedule of media appearances has been reviewed and while it hasn’t reduced overall, it has changed.

“The Prime Minister will no longer do a weekly slot specifically on the ZB morning show. 

“However she, and all her ministers, will continue to appear on the show as and when issues arise.”

NZ Herald

What a weasel. Labour are systematically cancelling centre-right interviewers: first Peter Williams, now Mike Hosking. They will be moving to close them down next.

Mike Hosking has been brutal in his response:

The Prime Minister has not been on my Newstalk ZB programme this morning, and there is a reason for that.

She is running for the hills.

She no longer wants to be on this programme each week. The somewhat tragic conclusion that is drawn is the questions she gets … are a little bit tough.

 

At the time we got the call, and the line about re-arranging, we obviously asked who was replacing us. We are still waiting for a reply. The reason we’re still waiting is no one is replacing us. They know it, we know it, they are just over being held to account.

Without being too unkind to some of the other players in this market, the reality is the Prime Minister enjoys a more cordial and compliant relationship. The questions are more softball. She favours a more benign pitch, where the delivery can be dispatched to the boundary more readily without the chance of an appeal.

To be honest, I’m pleased. The management here, not quite as much. They argue accountability is important, and they’re right. But what I argue is the Prime Minister is a lightweight at answering tough questions. The number of times she’s fronted on this programme with no knowledge around the questions I’m asking is frightening.

Reports I read, she hadn’t. The time I asked whether they’re replacing the Tauranga City Council, she replied they didn’t do such things. Clearly, not having the slightest clue, in a month or so, they were going to do exactly that.

Those occasions are too many to be comfortable.

And then, your reaction. The two most often-used lines post-interview are “what was the point of that?” And “I don’t know why you bother”.

The reality is, too often it’s just noise. It’s waffle. It’s stalling. It’s filling. It’s obfuscation.

It’s a tricky scenario. She should be up for it. Any Prime Minister should be up for it. As a publicly elected official, you are asked to be held to account. So, it stands to reason you, at least, put yourself up, even if you don’t enjoy it or at times struggle with the complexity or detail of the question line.

It speaks to a lack of backbone that she would want to bail and run. It also speaks to … an increasingly apparent trait – they don’t handle pressure well. Last week was a very good display of that.

They say she’s willing to front on an issue-by-issue basis, so she isn’t gone forever.

As for the weekly bit, I lose no sleep. I’m just a bit disappointed she isn’t a more robust operator, or keener to defend her corner.

After all, it’s our country she’s running.

NZ Herald

Barry Soper is just as brutal:

Think about it, Jacinda Ardern’s the accidental Prime Minister.  This rookie leader, plucked from obscurity in the lead-up to the 2017 election, was appointed by Winston Peters simply because she gave him much more than what Bill English was prepared to wear.

But she’s been confirmed by Covid, as the last election would attest to. Without Peters or Covid chances are she’d be leading the Opposition, although even that’s doubtful.

Having worked with the past 10 Prime Ministers, Jacinda Ardern would be the most removed from the media than any of them. This woman who has a Bachelor of Communications doesn’t communicate in the way any of her predecessors have.

She’s the master of soft, flattering interviews and television chat shows, blanching at tough questions.  She’s commanded the Covid pulpit to such an extent that the virus has become her security blanket; without it, she’d be forced to face the reality that her Government has been moribund. 

The Prime Minister’s press conferences usually begin with a sermon – it took eight minutes for her to get to the fact that she was moving the country down an alert level last Friday.  When it comes to question time her forearm stiffens and her hand flicks to those, she’ll take a question from.  Some of us are left barking from the side lines.

Ardern doesn’t relate to the messenger, the team of journalists who make up the parliamentary Press Gallery – they don’t know her.  

All of her predecessors got to know the parliamentary media by inviting them to their ninth floor Beehive office, at least a couple of times a year.  It puts a human face on the public performer.

Ardern has done it once, a few months after becoming the Prime Minister. 

Compare Ardern to the last populist Prime Minister, John Key. The National leader liked to be liked and he was because he was self-deprecating, posing for selfies with students on University campuses, falling off stages and mincing along catwalks. He was a serious politician, but his antics demonstrated to his supporters he wasn’t above them.

The closest Ardern’s got to silliness was admitting she did a dance with her daughter when the country had no active cases of Covid last June.  That admission flashed around the world as do most things when it comes to Ardern.

She’s a celebrity leader and she’s determined to keep it that way, which is why she’s turned her back on the Mike Hosking Breakfast Show. 

The questions were too direct, they got under her thin skin, but, more importantly, she didn’t know the answer to many of them. She was exposed on a weekly basis and it simply all became too much for her.

In doing so she’s turned her back on the highest rating breakfast commercial radio show in the country by far and she has also turned her back on the many listeners who at the last Covid election (her description) switched their vote to her.

Leaders have in the past become exasperated with the media, and at times with good reason, but few, if any, have shied away from the tough questions.  The regular Newstalk ZB slot for Prime Ministers has been jealously guarded by them for the past 35 years.  This is the only regular slot she’s bowing out on.

The populist David Lange once cancelled his weekly news conferences at Parliament, and as chairman of the Press Gallery at the time, I was charged with persuading him to change his mind.

His complaint: “If I picked my nose, they’d show it on television that night.” The resolution to that one was simple: don’t.

Ardern’s phobia is much more deep seated. She’s treading water.

NewstalkZB

Which is why she is now resorting to “sustained propaganda” to get her message across. The woman is a flake and now we are finding it out.

Heather du Plessis-Allan also puts the stiletto in:

I’m disappointed that the Prime Minister has cancelled the long running Prime ministerial interview slot on NewstalkZB’s breakfast show. 

Take out the characters involved. Take out Jacinda Ardern, take out Mike Hosking.   

This slot goes back 34 years.  Holmes, Lange, Douglas, Moore, Bolger, Shipley, Clarke, Key, English.  Those are a lot Prime Ministers prepared to front up and be held accountable.  It’s a long line of democratic history Jacinda Ardern has ended. 

I know that that it got combative between Hosking and Ardern but that’s how the big boys roll.  It’s tough at the top.  If you run the country, you should be able to take a few tough questions. 

I’ve been told a number of times that the prime minister finds the weekly round of interviews very stressful and she has herself admitted that she takes media criticism very hard.   

But it’s actually not Hosking that the PM is no longer speaking to weekly.  It’s voters: the biggest single catchment of voters listening to commercial radio in the morning.  It’s not the same to switch out NewstalkZB for a music radio station.  One is a news radio station – holding a democratic role – and the other is entertainment. 

But while I’m disappointed, I’m not surprised.  Ardern has shown a tendency to duck from tough interviews.  Recently, we’ve seen ample evidence that she’s happy to front the good stuff and make the big announcements, but when there are questions – like whether she started the pile on aimed at the KFC worker – she disappears and sends in her lieutenants.  Often, lately it’s Chris Hipkins or Grant Robertson.

She has in the past cancelled media. I recall taking over ZB’s morning show in Wellington.  John Key used to appear four times a year and take calls from voters.  Ardern cancelled that and appeared once in about 18 months, and refused to talk directly to voters.  

In 2018, she cancelled at the last minute her appearances on Newshub Nation and Q+A. But, she still made time to sit down with the New York Times for a soft interview in which the writer Maureen Dowd talked about her ‘fuzzy leopard slippers’.   

I believe that the prime minister is making a mistake. Unless this decision is reversed, Newstalk ZB cannot allow her back onto the breakfast show in a weekly slot, even in election year when she might come to see benefit in reaching a larger voter pool.   

If that is allowed to happen, it will incentivise future Prime Ministers to act with as much disregard for democratic accountability as and when it suits them. 

Being held to account is not something a politician can take or leave. Jacinda Ardern’s preparedness to abandon such a large group of voters is profoundly disappointing.  

NewstalkZB

If it wasn’t for her pet media apologists she’d be hammered for her lacklustre achievements. Instead, we get stories about her daughter’s poos, her replies to letters from children, sent months or even a year ago, all designed so her compliant media can use these weapons of mass distraction to deflect from the apparent and building multiple failures of her government.

 

 

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Adern has spent from my reckoning 1/4 Billion buying experimental vaccines to test on her team of 5 Million , add to that the huge cost to execute the ‘roll out and your left wondering Why this money isnt being spent on more important things like  Housing and improving Hospitals... Sickening

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6 hours ago, Gruff said:

Adern has spent from my reckoning 1/4 Billion buying experimental vaccines to test on her team of 5 Million , add to that the huge cost to execute the ‘roll out and your left wondering Why this money isnt being spent on more important things like  Housing and improving Hospitals... Sickening

 

Spending 1 million dollars a day on putting people up in motel accommodation

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43 minutes ago, Uriah Heap said:

Were the Mike Hosking interviews with Jacinda Ardern "Tough Interviews"? I don't think so.

They were merely a grandstand for Hosking to promote his conservative, right wing, pro Australian views?

Tough interviews they certainly weren't.

What her media handlers have finally worked out is that a flick of the hair,a frown on the face and a complete dismissal by the eyes doesn't work on the radio.

Your answers though have to have substance and many times she has been found to be wanting in that area.

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The Indoctrination and Politicisation of Children by the Ardern Regime

 

By CS

 

 

One of the first things totalitarian leaders do is to facilitate the indoctrination of children. This will condition them to accept the edicts of the leader and become willing tools of the state to further the subjugation of the population. Despotic leaders crave attention, so they seek that attention from adoring children.

I wrote about the soft media stories that were rolled out last week to shore up flagging support for Jacinda Ardern. This was done by using children to push the soft media stories.

Nazi Germany used the creation of the Hitler Youth to indoctrinate children:

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For the Nazis, the group had other benefits. Not only did it allow the Third Reich to indoctrinate children at their most impressionable, but it let the Nazis remove them from the influence of their parents, some of whom opposed the 

regime. The Nazi Party knew that families—private, cohesive groups not usually under political sway—were an obstacle to their goals. The Hitler Youth was a way to get Hitler’s ideology into the family unit, and some members of the Hitler Youth even denounced their parents when they behaved in ways not approved of by the Reich.

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In New Zealand, we have teacher unions and schools doing the same thing. Let’s for a moment ignore the abrogation of parental responsibilities by the provision of free breakfast and lunches in schools, replacing parents with the state, and look at how teachers are using their positions to shamelessly advocate for and on behalf of Jacinda Ardern.

One of the more insidious methods they use is letter writing. They set tasks for the children and frame those tasks up in the most positive way possible. This is from the Ministry of Education teaching resources.

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The first paragraph sets the tone: the children are going to write telling the Prime Minister how much they appreciate her! 

Then they are to thank her for a job she is paid handsomely for.

And finally they are to express support for her.

 

If that is not indoctrination then I don’t know what is.

Little wonder then that we see social media posts like this:

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And then the resulting news stories gushing about how a student dobbed in her father. There is little mention of how this usually ends up if history is anything to go by.

Just a little bit of research turns up even more evidence of the development of this cult of personality by teachers in favour of Jacinda Ardern.

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Here is another example of the Ministry of Education actually sending out a request for letters of appreciation in their School Leaders Bulletin:

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The “Read More” links to another Ministry of Education document that again asks schools to get students to write to Jacinda Ardern:

 

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Jacinda Ardern then regularly uses these letters to drive soft media. Sadly our complicit media companies go along with the subterfuge by creating news stories about them, thereby completing the cycle of indoctrination and propaganda. In fact there are so many of these stories it is fair to use the Prime Minister’s own descriptor “sustained propaganda” to describe them.

 

Here are but a few examples:

The indoctrination even extends to publishers, like Penguin, who prepared this teaching resource as a companion to a book they’ve published:

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Schools delight in soliciting responses from the Prime Minister as well, publishing them all over their websites:

Naturally, you find that the PPTA, the secondary school teachers’ union, is in on the indoctrination, and have even prepared a resource for teachers about incorporating letter writing as a valid tactic to make societal changes. 

 

They aren’t hiding the fact that this is a political campaign either:

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There can be no mistaking that the children of New Zealand are being subjected to a deliberate, systematic and prolonged indoctrination and politicisation by the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the Ministry of Education, the teacher unions and the teachers.

This should ring alarm bells for any parent, or indeed any honest citizen.

Using children to further political aims by subjecting them to “sustained propaganda” is unconscionable. Sadly it is the preferred method of socialists worldwide as a means to subjugate their citizenry.

I have only found the proverbial tip of the iceberg. I suspect the long march of socialism in our educational institutions has been there for too long to counter.

Adolf Hitler surrounded himself with children and turned them into snitches and fanatical soldiers. Pol Pot indoctrinated children in order to subjugate and kill more than 1 million Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror over Cambodia. Joseph Stalin cultivated a leader cult built around himself.

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Our Prime Minister is building her own cult and using children shamelessly to promote it. The evidence is there for all to see if only you’d bother to look.

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I wondered out loud how long before we saw the creation of ‘Jacinda Youth’ or ‘Jacindajugend’ or perhaps ‘Pirimia Taiohi‘. It was tongue in cheek at the time, but after researching this article I’m not so sure we can be dismissive of the rather dangerous ideas that Jacinda Ardern is promoting.

It seems we have failed to learn from our history, that when a government promotes a cult of personality, turns neighbour against neighbour, children against parents, indoctrinates children and uses the arms of the state to persecute individuals for contrarian behaviour, things eventually turn out worse than ever imagined.

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Propaganda Rules

 

By Dr Muriel Newman 

 

 

We all know politicians engage in propaganda. But most don’t admit it.

Not so Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Desperate to avoid allegations of mismanagement over Auckland’s bungled lockdowns, she began lashing out, claiming individuals have been knowingly spreading the virus – including a young man who’d spent time in Managed Isolation:
“We drum in that messaging around the dangers of Covid pretty diligently for a full two-week period of sustained propaganda.”

 

As Stuff’s Political Editor Luke Malpass pointed out, with those remarks the Prime Minister has now put on record that “the Government has been propagandising Kiwis”. He says however, no-one should be surprised: “the Ardern Government has been delivering a masterclass in propaganda since the pandemic began” – ultimately delivering Labour a crushing election victory.

In fact it was Radio NZ last March, that revealed the Government had spent tens of millions of dollars building a formidable propaganda machine: “The government contracted 28 individuals or businesses to aid the response to the pandemic, the bulk of which were for advertising, marketing and communications. As at 31 May, the government had paid out $16,393,391 to contractors.

“The majority was to two firms who are listed as communications directors by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Clemenger BBDO was paid $3m for its role, which involved the clear and concise messaging such as ‘stay home, save lives’. But the biggest earner OMD, a multinational advertising firm… was paid $12m for its role in the response.”

 

It turns out that everything from “the team of 5 million” to the “be kind to each other” messaging was carefully planned, tested and executed.

At the time, Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking was scathing that so much money was being spent on ‘spin’: “Extraordinary, isn’t it? It shows just how much we got played by a government that was as desperate to score points as it was to actually address a health crisis. Is communication important? Of course. But do you need to pay $16 million for it? No. This wasn’t simple instruction that any government can come up with, this was clearly a highly planned, seriously worked over piece of strategy designed for maximum political impact.

“And the irony is, from the advertising agencies point of view, it worked. We got sucked in, followed orders and came out hailing the Prime Minister with a 59 percent share in a poll. Value for money then? Or a master piece of fantastically expensive spin? Again, we were played like a fiddle.”

 

And we are still being played.

While the latest South Auckland community outbreak of Covid-19 was clearly the result of a failure of Government border security, the Prime Minister is attempting to shift the blame onto the public.

The actual cause of the February 14 infection of a Papatoetoe High School student and her parents, has not been identified, although it seems possible that it could have been associated with the mother’s employment at LSG Sky Chefs in Mangere, which provides laundry and catering services to airlines from around the world.

With a large number of potential contacts associated with the outbreak, including 1,500 students and 150 staff at Papatoetoe High School, along with 450 Sky Chef workers, Auckland was ordered into a 3-day lockdown.

On the 17th, the day the lockdown was lifted, a second family with three cases linked to the school was identified. At that stage, negative tests had only been received from 59 percent of ‘close contacts’ at the school, and 76 percent of ‘casual contacts’, with many students and staff still waiting to be contacted by health authorities.

A week later, when a third household with an infected student (Case I) and two sisters joined the cluster, the Prime Minister lashed out, accusing a family member of going to work at a Botany KFC instead of isolating at home. She even threatened section 70 orders, which enable the medical officer of health to require people to isolate: “We have some legal footing for that … and so there are repercussions.”

The Prime Minister’s attacks incited such savage criticism of the KFC worker, that she was forced to defend herself – and her sister, who worked at Kmart – explaining they hadn’t been told to self-isolate! She demanded an apology from the PM.

The Ministry of Health backed the family. On their ‘Unite Against Covid’ Facebook page, they explained the sisters had done nothing wrong: “Case J (Kmart worker) and Case L (KFC worker) were not required to isolate at the time. The advice for all staff and students of Papatoetoe High School to isolate was updated on 23 February, after the two had attended their shifts at the workplaces. Initially, casual contacts were advised to get a test and self-isolate but their household members were not required to do so. The family complied with the advice they were given at the time… COVID-19 remains the problem, not the people who have it.”

Despite the damage caused by the PM’s accusations, she has not shown the kindness she asks of others – she has not retracted her criticism nor apologised for the distress she caused the family.

By Friday February 26, the cluster had grown to 12 people, and on the Saturday, the discovery of two new cases from the household of a Papatoetoe High School student who had tested negative three times, led to a late-night press conference and the shock announcement of another Auckland lockdown, this time for seven days.

The Prime Minister justified her decision by explaining that while the new cases involving a young man and his mother couldn’t be directly linked to the existing cluster, she was confident a connection would be found.

The link was indeed established the very next day – the mother had earlier been in contact with one of the other infected families – raising an important question: why was the announcement of the second Auckland lockdown made in haste late at night, when holding off for one more day would have shown it was unnecessary? 

To deflect such criticism, the Prime Minister attacked the young man, blaming him for the lockdown, alleging that he’d knowingly defied instructions from health professionals to stay at home after receiving a Covid test – although it turns out there was no evidence to back up such claims.

Clearly concerned the public would begin to question the need for the second lockdown, the Prime Minister dialled up her scaremongering. She reminded everyone that “Covid kills” and called for “the team of 5 million” to “be kind” to each other while dobbing in their family and friends.

At her post-Cabinet press conference on Monday March 1st, the PM reiterated, “even with the full understanding of human fallibility, it is not appropriate and it is not OK for members of the team of 5 million to let the rest of us down. I think we appreciate this virus can mean life or death; it is a virus that kills. Our plan is for short and sharp restrictions in order to break the chain of transmission, but rule breaking can prolong that plan. So that is why I’m asking everyone to continue to back and support one another, and if that means calling a family member or work colleague out for not following the rules, then we should do that. Do it with kindness, but do it.”

Using the well-known propaganda technique of deflection, Jacinda Ardern is blaming the infected to ensure the focus stays away from the real cause of the outbreak – government mismanagement of the border. 

The Simpson-Roache report, commissioned by the Minister of Health after last year’s 3-month Auckland lockdown, had produced a damning indictment of border management, claiming it was not “fit for purpose”. Their concerns included inadequate contact tracing and testing, unacceptable gaps in border security, and a failure to properly take into account the social and economic consequences of public health decisions. 

With the Government clearly not on top of these problems, a blame-game strategy is now being used to shift attention away from the eye-watering cost of Auckland lockdowns – estimated to be in the region of $500 million a week, with the loss of over 1,000 jobs.

If the real cost of public health decisions was taken into account, Auckland’s seven-day lockdown, with zero new community cases reported daily, would either have not gone ahead, or would have been cancelled once the link to the existing cluster had been established. 

This week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator, Dr Bronwyn Howell, a Director of the School of Management at Victoria University, believes far greater scrutiny of the Government’s Covid policies is needed. Accordingly, she has used a risk-management approach to examine the decision to impose compulsory mask-wearing on public transport even when there is no threat of community transfer of the virus:

“Mask-wearing on public transport was made mandatory at Level 2 on August 30 2020. From November 19 it was mandated for Auckland under Level 1, presumably due to the higher population density and larger population in that area meaning transmission risk, if the virus was present, was higher there than elsewhere in the country.

“Under a risk-based management system, the introduction of a new constraint would be justified under two circumstances: new information coming to light that the proposed constraint would lead to a demonstrable reduction in risk in the specific area in which it was applied; and a demonstrated increase in risk in the relevant area that could be effectively mitigated with the measure.

“The question is raised therefore, why the requirement for mandatory mask wearing on public transport across the whole country was implemented, when it was. It does not appear to meet either of the above rational justifications… As there has been no demonstrated community transmission of Covid-19 over most of the country since June 2020, then not only is the relative risk unchanged by the recent events in Auckland, but the absolute risk too is extremely low. So following the science leads to the conclusion that there was no justification.”

Dr Howell’s analysis raises important concerns: if there is no risk of infection, is the requirement for compulsory mask-wearing on public transport simply an overt demonstration of political power? Or is there some other rational explanation?

Jacinda Ardern is coming under increasing pressure for the way she is now handling the pandemic. Concerns are being raised about the Government’s chronic lack of openness about the future, including details of the vaccine rollout. In comparison, the Australian Government published its vaccine strategy in early January to ensure the public is kept well informed.

Through their open letter to the Prime Minister, business leaders too are calling for more clarity over the Government’s plans for New Zealand in a ‘Covid normal’ world.

In reality the Government is clearly struggling to keep us safe. They must know their propaganda will only work for so long, and that even with the press in their pocket, the finger of blame will eventually turn onto them.

But the irony is, they seem blind to measures that are being used successfully overseas to deal with community outbreaks, such as in Vietnam where community cases “prompt a swift response, usually in the form of a hyper-local lockdown — of a single street, village or suburb — to contain the outbreak.”

Couldn’t the latest community outbreak have been effectively dealt with through a similar ‘hyper-local’ response, rather than shutting down the whole of Auckland – including Great Barrier Island?

I will leave the last word to the British actuary Nick Hudson, who, in attempting to bring some balance into the debate about pandemic responses, reminds us about the danger of widespread lockdowns: “History will thus record lockdowns as the product of ideology, unprecedented mass hysteria and drummed-up fear. They will stand as reminders that we must always defend vital freedoms against panicking and power-drunk politicians, even if we find ourselves in the sorry position of lacking journalists who are up to the task.”

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