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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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The Rewrap and welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday, all
the best butts from the my Clasking Breakfast on News
Talk zed BE in a sillier package. I'm Glen Hant
today the COVID review with still reviewing COVID reviews. What
data centers are coming to a center near you. Leaked
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messages and people talking about people and saying things they
shouldn't be saying to other people and getting in trouble
with their wives and girlfriends. This is all happening in Australia,
don't worry. And another thing that's happening in Australia is
a similar sort of thing, but more specifically to Anthony Albuneasy.
But before any of that, China doing missile tests in
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the Pacific. Is that on or is that not on?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Mike? China only does what benef it's China. New Zealand
can grizzle and be nuclear free dreamers, but there will
not be any consequence of a China. I'm so glad
you said that, Gary. I was listening to that yesterday
and everyone's upset, and everyone's got tongue wagging and finger
waving and I'm doing What are you going to do
about it? Apart from nothing? You know, you've got a
twenty billion dollar deal or forty billion dollars worth of
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two way trade. There are biggest trading partner. We're reliant
on them. They can pretty much no one likes to
say so, they can pretty much do whatever they want.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
But what about Wayne maps history and tradition, I.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Mean luxing on that yesterday? Honestly, are we still bogged
down in this nineteen eighties?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
We are nuclear free. I mean honestly, we went to
court once and we went to a tribunal and we won.
And that's US twenty twenty to six dollars, is it?
For goodness sake?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes? So we had a former defense Minister Wayne map
On basically saying we've got a history of you know,
keeping the specific nuclear That seemed to be the whole reason.
Because we've done it for a long time, we should
keep doing it. And yeah, don't worry about all that
billions and billions and billions of dollars of trade that
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we like to do with China. Worry about that Yeah,
I'm not sure that that's particularly realistic in this day night.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's the rewrap.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So we're still doing a bit of handwringing over our
COVID response or is it our response to the COVID
response or the review that we had under the response
to a response. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Apparently I read the government are about to give a
formal response this month to the COVID Commission part to report. Now,
Brooklyn Wilden, who drove this, was so concerned about the
mistake made around COVID vaccine advice for the twelve to
seventeen year olds. In the fact Chris Hipkins said he
didn't see any advice, when in fact he did. She
went off to seek advice as to what to do.
The boffins told her what you would expect. They would
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roughly do a lot, do a bit, do nothing, trouble
with the Royal Commissioners. Once they're done, they're done and
launching yet another inquiry. She decided rightly would be wasting
everyone's time. So she's passed it off to the Health
Minister and we stand by. Apparently tricky thing here is accountability.
Will there ever be any Hipkins and Bloomfield the two
critical players have never turned up in person to the commission.
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Once the mistake was discovered that the paperwork on the
vaccine did get to Hopkins in cabinet, no one seems
to want to know anything about it. The head of
the inquiry the case, Illingworth, doesn't answer questions these days.
The report can speak for itself, he tells everyone. Hipkins
relied on the faulty report to say he never saw anything,
even though he did, and Bloomfield refuses all comment. I
go back to my original request that the government do
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things properly, which was an adversarial inquiry i e. They
had the power to force people to turn up because
when they don't and won't, and the Q and A
is all back and forward paperwork. Look what happens and
what does happen? Well, clearly nothing happy to be proven wrong.
But what is the Health Minister going to do, for
goodness sake? What happens to Hipkins or Bloomfield? Apart from nothing?
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Mistakes were made in COVID. We have two commissions Commission
ones of whitewash, Commission to miscritical detail. More more mistakes
are made, Does that give you confidence that the next
time we have an epidemic, we're any better off? Of
course it doesn't. So what as we await the so
called response was the point?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh wow, woa wait wait wait wait, we actually aren't
waiting for a response to the response about the response?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Is that what's happening.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
The PTSD that this causes me just saying the sea word? No,
not that seaword covid ah, Now I have said it.
So data centers, are they the big bad boxes that
people claim they are? Or can we move on and
have some more? Please tell you what is the world?
A question for you? Is the world evolving faster than
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we can cope with? So Katoomba, which is in rural
New South Wales, they're not happy. They're having a data
center debate. Not long ago, data centers were a thing
and they were a thing that we all wanted. Now
apparently we don't. There is already a mountain of coverage
to be read if you want to, from communities all
over the world who dipped their toes into data centers
and regretted it. Katoomba A to a degree being dictated
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to by the state government there one isn't that big,
but they want to stick it right in the middle
of suburbia, about a block from the school and right
by the park. They may or may not get to
say as to where it ends up the local mayor
cause at a parlor crap. The data center issue has
been largely avoided here so far. Of course, according to
my AI generated investigation, we have about fifty six in
operation in this country another twenty year coming. Auckland has
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most Wellington have some. The rest, which is hardly any,
are scattered around the remainder of the country. Now the
trouble is several fold. All the troubles are well worth considering.
One water, they use a shed load of it that
may or may not be an actual issue, depending on
where you put one.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Of course, Two power. This is a major evidence now
shows your local power price rises disproportionately, so much so
in fact, in parts of the States. Now the big
tech company simply cover the total cost that set up
the generation. The lot three jobs, not a lot of them,
may have a few on the build, but after that
nothing much. Katomba didn't really see the five jobs that
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they get as much of an employment boom before the
big one seems to be the noise, the hum. You
can't escape it. There is no escape. It apparently does
your head and it never stops. And because of that,
if you're close to one, guess what, no one wants
to buy your house or any house anywhere near you.
Data centers are needed for AI. AI is going to
change the world or good until it isn't until it
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ends up in your backyard. And guess what they're saying
in Katomba, that age old line we use to object
to everything, not against them. It's just our neighborhood isn't
the right place. You see, The world changes, but some
things never do.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now apparently some people don't like the humming noise that
data centers make. I've noticed in recent months is a
humming noise at my place and you really only notice
that in the middle of the night because that's when
everything else is very quiet.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Of course, and.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I did think maybe it was the neighbor's heat pump,
but there is a datas into sort of across the
valley about a k and a half away. Surely that's
not it. Could it? Could that be it? The other
thing I blame it on is what I call the
mole people. There just seem to be some people in
high viz. Constantly digging holes with the horizontal thruster, putting
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in pipes, and it just seems to be happening in
every single street, and not just in my neighborhood, but
in the neighborhoods next to my neighborhood. And I'm pretty
sure that causes a constant home as well. You know,
you know what it's like with your vertical and horizontal
thrusting the right. So a bit of a thing. In Australia,
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ABC's gone to court because they wanted to leak some messages,
or they had some leak messages, or they might explain it.
It sounds a bit gross to me.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Moral dilemma ABC. This across the Tasman New South Wales
Supreme Court. So the ABC for now have lost and
the judges given the media a bit of a serve
a risk to investigative journalist. So what we've got a
three professional sportsman they can't be named or identified. Three
professional sportsmen. They got a court order barring the ABC
from publishing a story revealing their group chat messages. So
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these are three athletes. They're quote unquite highly credentialed in
their sport. This is in the New South Wales Supreme Court.
One of their ex partners. This is the crux of
the story. One of their ex partners leaked a series
of messages to a journalist at the ABC. Principally they
contain shared jokes, insults, have named other people known as ab,
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CD and EF. They're the plaintiffs and the sport some
crude subscriptions or descriptions rather of sexual acts and domestic violence.
So the ABC stands by the conduct of its journalists
acting in the public interest. So in other words, you've
got a group of sports people. One of them is
in a relationship with a person. The person that relationship
busts up the female concerned obviously a bit you know.
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Agro gets hold of the leaked messages, flicks them off
to the ABC and goes go for gold. Court could
it could also test the National Broadcasters editorial practices. The
judge ruled there was a serious question to be tried
about whether the circumstances in which the messages were obtained
by the ABC were improper or reprehensible. The men argued,
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some of most of them are married, they got children,
and their reputation is going to be ruined, et cetera.
So there's that aspect of it. But more importantly, the
ex partner took a photograph of the group chat when
the couple were still together. His honor rejected the ABC's
argument that the messages should not be protected because they
amounted to trivial tittle tattle. Now, the weird thing about
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that argument is, if they amount to trivial tittle tattle,
then why are you interested, as the ABC in publishing them.
Are you into the business of publishing trivial tittle tattle?
Are you? And so if is this what the It's
not just the media, it's the ab you see, So
the public broadcaster wants to take something that was nicked
from an angry woman, flicked onto a journalist, whack it
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into the public domain, ruin at least three reputations, and
call it news. Now do you how do you possibly
defend that sort of behavior? Obviously the court says we're
not going to and we'll see where it goes. But
it doesn't mean they won it for now. But it
doesn't mean they're going to win it all the time.
But I mean, what's it? And you wonder why the
media has got a shocking reputation for goodness, sake, publicly
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funded broadcasters looking to do that sort of nonsense.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And of course we're all wondering what exactly they were
saying on that group chat. I mean when I say
we are, I couldn't care less, but you know some
people are wondering, does the judge actually know as the
judge seen the messages. It's good to be a judge.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Isn't it the ree wrap Imagine if.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I were saying something about Kylie Minogue, for example, the.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Thing Katie and I were talking about it holding hands
walking through the park, and we both came to the
same conclusion. I came to one other conclusion that she poop.
Putin said, that's ridiculous. But the conclusion we first came
to that solved the problem was when Alba first of all,
what's ELBANIZI have you seen the podcast? Look at the woman,
the alleged comedian. I'd never heard of her. She was
dressed up. She's called bushi. The whole thing stupid. What
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Albanezi is doing there, I've got no idea. It's not
election year. What idiot that surrounds him? Her conclusion was
idiots are surrounded by idiots. She reviews Albanizi as an idiot.
So idiots are surrounded by idiots. What idiot goes with elbow?
Bushy wants to do a podcast, and Bushy wants to
sit there dressed in a kubra and a short dress
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talking to you on your lounge suite, and Elbow goes,
great idea. I mean, honestly, at what point hasn't that
fallen apart? And then the next thing, you know, you
dug yourself a massive hole. What we concluded was the
obvious answer to the question was why are you asking
me these questions? I'm six month married. The woman is
the woman of my dreams. I've never been happier Kylie,
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who surely all words to that effect. Surely that's the
answer to your question. But I Kinleie.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
My question is has anybody asked Kylie or apparently she
isn't She isn't.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Comment, no kidding, And guess what, I don't think she.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Will, which is a shame, because it'd be awesome if
she just came out and said, yeah, I'd do them,
just that, just you know, just and lift it at that.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Imagine the fallout the end fantastic, And then imagine if
Elbow and Kylie actually ended up together, do you reckon
she'd still be a gay icon then that?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Would that help her or hurt that that following that crowd?
These are the questions I like to ask, which is
probably why I don't have my own show apart from
this one and my other very successful podcast, News Talks.
He'd been tomorrow for another edition of that and of
this I'll see you then and then.
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