Short film, worth a look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzKtI9OfEpk&t=4s

how our Labour government was going to build 10,000 houses without Gib Board?
I would have thought the requisite materials be available so that at least someone, anyone, could build a house, as it seems the government wasnt genuinely going to do this but only paying lip service to an election promise 5 years later?

not an effing righty, shoot the protesters, not a lefty, knitting yoghurt. 
just a citizen with a passing interest in other peoples welfare. i have a house so unaffected, but it would seem others are being ignored in the name of political expedience.

just sayin'

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/3005347...n-trade-me

I want to copy an ebook to my computer from my local library, just for me to read - I don't want to share it, or sell it.  Is there a simple, free and easy way I can do this?  PDF format would probably be the best for me. Thanks.

http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/8912-n...2203070501

Also interesting that none of the main media appear to have picked up this poll for the second time.  And RM was the most accurate of the polls in the 2020 election.

https://frankmacskasy.substack.com/p/the...sioner?s=r

Men's reading rate drops

I think everyone is reading less....for younger people it is a chore, and has been for many years. Back when we had no TV or computer I would read about 4 books a week, now I'm down to one a week...and ebooks these days. I prefer a print book, but I read at work too, so an ebook it is. Is it not considered a manly thing to do ?  Some people only read fiction, some only non fiction...but whatever we read, even if it's crap, it's a learning experience.

I read to my kids every night - I loved it, and it gave them all a love of reading themselves. I was reading to my eldest daughter up to she was 16...it was John Steinbeck by then. But we went from Rupert to Lord of the Rings and beyond. 

Books were almost lost in the Dark Ages, and there have been book burnings up to the present day - I just hope we keep having authors...and printers.

Slightly more sound data around transmission rates 

Quote:His model indicated that, despite accounting for just around two in 10 of all Kiwis, the unvaccinated were responsible for 45 per cent of all new Omicron infections, compared with 39 per cent for those with two doses, and 15 per cent for boosted people.
Overall, the model calculated that, when compared with boosted people, unvaccinated people were 3.1 times more likely to infect others and 2.4 times more likely to be infected.
"More interestingly, transmission from boosted-to-boosted people is only responsible for three per cent of new infections, when normalised by population," Watson said.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-o...AU7EMHJBE/

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politic...-tax-hikes

A 'big speech' which presumably means lengthy. Oh joy - just what we need in the middle of a pandemic!


"National Party leader Christopher Luxon is poised to use the first big speech of his leadership to launch a full-frontal attack on the Government's tax, cost-of-living and welfare dependency record.

On Sunday Luxon is giving a ÔÇ£state of the nationÔÇØ address in Auckland, and it is understood that he will use the speech to announce that National will repeal every extra tax hike or effective tax increases the Government has imposed since Labour came to office in late 2017.
Luxon is expected to also use the speech to outline how the National PartyÔÇÖs centre-right principles can guide New Zealand through a post-Covid world. This is understood to include a continued focus on welfare dependency ÔÇô especially at a time of low unemployment ÔÇô that the centre-right leader has made since Parliament returned last month."


I think most of us can remember the past attention to 'welfare dependency' from National in the past - 'the mother of all budgets' might ring a few bells. And the removal of a training allowance.


And you have to wonder exactly how any National govt would function if it removes that taxation. It does so far, sound rather like more of the same - the wealthy telling those struggling how to live.
Humans are slow learners.

what remains of the 'convoy' showed up in the hutt today looking for a new campsite to pollute.
in a rare show of cooperation the locals got together with iwi and stopped them cold.
there were little old ladies, arms crossed at the road block
one dickhead wouldnt take no for an answer, tried to bully his way in and had to be manhandled out of there.

hopefully they might start getting the picture. the public are not behind you,
we arent interested in your protest or your wacky ideas. morons, no one cares.
go away parasites. crawl back under your rocks, you have no voice, carry no weight and hold no influence, none.
you are impotent. a laughing stock. we laugh at your naivety and bullshit rhetoric.
you are the lowest common denominator in all the country.

ironic that it took such a paradigm shift for the shit to unsettle and cloud the water.
the most stupid antisocial fuckwit 5% have handily formed one group that we can easily monitor, and others can easily manipulate.
the bottom 5%. the dumbest 5%, the most gullible 5%, the loneliest 5% looking for acceptance at any moral cost.

hopefully the mobile wank festival have to sleep downwind of the public urinals at the hutt railway station.

thoroughly enjoying the free to air coverage.
i used to enjoy the mens game but wont pay sky to watch it.
its a great way to build a game, put it on.

listening to the jamaican accented lady commentator takes me back.
during my misspent youth i spent some time (5 months) in negril and Red Rock in the 80's.
its a beautiful accent imho