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Hagues

Apparently the first is best….
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May 26, 2010 8:21am
Banana Llama

Firs….
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May 26, 2010 8:30am
big bruv

Congratulations to David Garrett and ACT for the passing of the three strikes legislation, to steal a quote from a recent pollie “now our kids will be safe”.

And shame on Labour, the Greens and the Maori party, speaker after speaker stood up and told us how bad this bill will be for the criminal scum, mind you, at least we know now that Labour and the Greens are more concerned about criminals than they are about the victims.
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May 26, 2010 8:31am
krazykiwi

@Hagues – Matthew Ch19 vs30 🙂
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May 26, 2010 8:34am
Yvette

“National’s grassroots supporters are joining a chorus of opposition as price rises caused by the Emissions Trading Scheme begin to kick in.
Prime Minister John Key confirmed there was an ETS protest vote at a party conference last weekend. “There certainly was a remit and they certainly did vote against wanting the ETS, they did vote to delay it.”
Agriculture Minister David Carter has sought to stem caucus concerns by emailing MPs to assure them that claims by ACT about the ETS were just “misinformation”.
ACT leader Rodney Hide said yesterday that the ETS, which begins on July 1, would eat up any gains from tax cuts for 550,000 households earning between $45,000 and $85,000 a year.
Last week’s Budget delivered tax cuts worth an average $25 a week once a hike in GST was taken into account. ACT’s claims are straining relations between the coalition allies, with Mr Key insisting that Mr Hide was wrong.
“The estimate I have is that the ETS will cost the average household about $3 a week and the tax cuts for someone on $50,000 – even if they consume the lot, net of GST, is about $14 or $15.”
– stuff.co
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May 26, 2010 8:34am
Falafulu Fisi

From IOP (Institue of Physics) come these articles on how lasers are shaping different areas of science and technology, check out our series of five exclusive video interviews with leading physicists :

50 years of laser technology

Laser is everywhere today, from telecommunication, computing, medical, consumer goods, industrial.

PS : Einstein first predicted/theorized the existence of laser in a paper he published in 1916 and the technology was realized in the 1950s when Charles Townes built the first maser/laser. Townes won a nobel prize for his invention and if Einstein was still alive at the time when that Nobel Prize was awarded to Townes, there was no doubt then that he would have shared that Nobel Prize at the time.
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May 26, 2010 8:42am
Inventory2

@ Yvette – I’ve just blogged on this. The real dilemma now is who to vote for in 2011 if I decide that this is the circuit-breaker issue preventing me from supporting National. I will not vote for Labour; their ETS would have been far more punitive, and we will be living under the legacy of Cullen’s financial mismanagement for yesr to come. I am reluctant to vote for Act; it hardly projects an image of stability and coherent policy. After that, there’s precious little choice.

Perhaps when 1 July dawns, it may not be as bad as it is currently being painted, but I rather doubt it.

http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2010/05/grassroots-opposition.html
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May 26, 2010 8:52am
dime

gotta say, i HATE the ETS!!!

i do like a bunch of other National policies though.

question – if i vote national next time, will that help them “claim a mandate” supporting the ETS?

cause that pisses me off.
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May 26, 2010 8:58am
krazykiwi

dime – in short ‘yes’. so …

PARTY VOTE ACT
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May 26, 2010 9:07am
Hagues

@ krazykiwi (1) yes normally I am last and today was just my turn to be first

@ krazykiwi (2) yes party vote ACT indeed!
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May 26, 2010 9:13am
Rick Rowling

What Fark does to “First Posters”:

“First Post” time warp

For whatever reason message boards on sites like Fark are forever plagued with morons posting “First Post” anytime a link is posted. Fark automatically turns the words “first post” into the word “boobies” and resets the timestamp on the message to some time in the future so that it isn’t the first post anymore. Attempts to evade that sometimes result in it becoming “weeners” instead of “boobies”.
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May 26, 2010 9:21am
dime

krazy kiwi – i suspect thats the way ill go.

i have voted ACT! in the past, but then my hate of clarke & cullen and the rest of them grew so much, i voted national just to be sure of their demise.

when i first came home from aussie, my brother and i decided to join ACT!. he listed his profession (airline pilot) and on my sheet i listed unemployed or some such. i had only been home 2 days. anyway, we mailed off our applications at the same time. his membership came through the following week and mine never turned up!

to this day it makes me laugh. they didnt want my unemployed ass as a member hehe
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May 26, 2010 9:26am
Say Goodbye to Hollywood

I emailed the PM last night and indicated that if the ETS is implemented then he loses my support. I’ll vote ACT next time.
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May 26, 2010 9:26am
MikeNZ

Party Vote ACT.

I would be a classic National voter, white male euro traditionalist centerist with a social heart.
But John Key and National can’t be trusted for all New Zealanders.
They need some one to keep them on track.
10-20% party vote to ACT will do that and negate the Maori party.
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May 26, 2010 9:29am
MikeNZ

Say Goodbye to Hollywood (357) Says:

we should send them pink slips through the post 🙂
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May 26, 2010 9:30am
malcolm

…he loses my support. I’ll vote ACT next time.

That’ll put the wind up him 🙂
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May 26, 2010 9:30am
Redbaiter

Warmists defeated in Oxford debate-

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/24/lord-monckton-wins-global-warming-debate-at-oxford-union/

More on same issue-

Greenies- The red, the dumb and the angry.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100040527/greenies-the-red-the-dumb-and-the-angry/
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May 26, 2010 9:32am
stephen

it hardly projects an image of stability and coherent policy.

Stability agreed, but what do you mean by “coherent policy”?
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May 26, 2010 9:32am
starboard

yes..confirm that..Party Vote Act…
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May 26, 2010 9:32am
Inventory2

@ Stephen – Sir Roger driving economic policy? No thanks ..
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May 26, 2010 9:51am
RightNow

Carbon to be the largest commodity in the world’ http://www.cnbc.com/id/36782147

“Carbon, when it becomes worldwide, will be unambiguously the largest commodity in the world,” Sandor said in an interview. “The world emits 35 billion tons; it’s priced at $20; that’s $700 billion. Put a 10-20 multiple like you do on futures, [and] you’re talking about $10 trillion at maturity.”

What a great idea, let’s make the rich even richer by giving them a new commodity to trade, with all their profits funded by taxpayers.
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May 26, 2010 10:02am
Say Goodbye to Hollywood

@Malcolm. There is very little one can do, however collectively it could have a huge impact. I listen to Mike Hoskings this morning and he gave the PM and Nick “the dick” Smith a right serve.
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May 26, 2010 10:03am
side show bob

Shonkey is a lying prick. In the lead up to the election he stated that NZ wouldn’t move unless the Aussie’s did on an ETS scheme. He now claims we must honor any international agreement signed on our behalf (Kyoto), surely a man in his position would have known this well before he began campaigning. Why stand in front of the people and state something you knew you could never deliver, scumbag.

But personally I think Shonkey’s balls are been squeezed by international interests. This whole thing has the stench of the UN and the IMF Marxists attached to it. Pretty hard to tell them to fuck off when their hands are on the money tap. We are having the country sold out from underneath us and most of our politicians are either to thick to see this or welcome the New World Order with open arms.
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May 26, 2010 10:11am
Manolo

“I emailed the PM last night and indicated that if the ETS is implemented then he loses my support.”
Good on you for doing it. I sent a similar letter to the PM a few months ago. No reply received.

Unless I’m mistaken (and I would love to be proven wrong), Key is hellbent on implementing the ETS monstrosity.
Why? I don’t know / doubt he’s out to gain personally, so it shows Nick Smith’s nefarious influence on Key.

The Green Party fifth-columnist from Nelson deserves to be sacked.

The political price the National Party pays will be higher the closer we get to July 1.
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May 26, 2010 10:12am
stephen

@ Stephen – Sir Roger driving economic policy? No thanks ..

On the face of it, i’ve always thought of ACT’s policies in economics/finance as probably the MOST coherent – ‘government will spend less and tax less’ – you mean there’s MORE? 😀
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May 26, 2010 10:13am
Dirty Rat

tsk tsk tsk

ACT, there there dears
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May 26, 2010 10:15am
MikeNZ

good points from Melanie Phillips

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NmJlYzJjOTIyMjk0YTZjYzE2ZDg0ZmM2ZDlmMDFhZmY=
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May 26, 2010 10:24am
Jack5

New topic for a mo…

NZ immigration has been shonky, what with staff importing in-laws from the islands and various former politicians making money as migration consultants. But can it really be letting North Koreans settle in NZ? People from a maniac, rogue state that starves its citizens, and threatens its neighbours with nuclear weapons.

A letter in today’s Christchurch Press over the name “Moon Jo” alleges that claims the North Koreans torpedoed the South Korean warship are bogus South Korean propaganda.

Either our immigration policy is worse than rotten or the letter is under a false name that has not been picked up by the newspaper’s letters editor. The English could come from one of Christchurch’s fossil Marxists. For example:

“…is based on dubious circumstantial evidence…” and “…the inquiry has become the target of derision…”

There’s no “Moon Jo” in the Christchurch white pages, but then if a North Korean, he might have a Morse transmitter instead. If not, “Moon Jo” might be a transliteration from one of the fossil Marxist families.
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May 26, 2010 10:26am
kaya

Manolo – “Key is hellbent on implementing the ETS monstrosity. Why? I don’t know”

My father used to say, “when something makes no sense, follow the money. That’s where the answer will lie.”

This has the stench of the UN all over it. The biggest fucked up bureaucracy the world has ever seen demonstrating the enshrined, bureaucratic traits. Creation of rules, regulation and paperwork to justify their irrelevant existence. Next creed, to find ways to fund their pen pushing, shiny arsed irrelevant jobs. The malaise in the western economies is a direct result of this bullshit. Too many wannabe chiefs.
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May 26, 2010 10:34am
side show bob

MikeNZ about says it all doesn’t it. I do hope some of our bent and twisted friends on the left read it, not that if will make much difference to the fools. Most are to thick to realise they are inviting an evil and totally destructive ideology in to their and their future generations lives.
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May 26, 2010 10:40am
philu

“..Why stand in front of the people and state something you knew you could never deliver, scumbag…”

as in..”..if elected…i will not raise gst..’…?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 10:50am
Pauleastbay

Jacks5

There are Jo’s in Christchurch White pages, might be a son, wife etc that wrote letter, but then again you could be right, a nest of North Koreans domiciled in Christchurch sabotaging ECAN and the Crusaders. After all it is Christchurch and nothing surprises me about that place

Jo Dong Hee
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May 26, 2010 10:53am
tom hunter

So the big topics for debate here include: Three Strikes, Booze Bracelets, and Hug a Ginga.

Really!

Meantime out in the world:

– The Federal Housing Authority is trying to prop up the US housing market, failing to do so, and converting itself into the new Freddie/Fannie in the process.

– the DOW and other markets continue their steady decline as people realise that the Greek problem is not just about Greece anymore.

– North and South Korea have cut communications following the South’s finally fronting up and going public with the news that it was the North that torpedoed one of the ships and killed 46 sailors a month ago. F-22 Raptors have been deployed to Guam and Okinawa.

– The centre-left is finally starting to figure out – via the Gulf oil spill and the Sestak bribery business – that their fabulous administration may not actually be smart, competent, honest or transparent.

– Comments like …the United States has lost is influence in the Middle East… don’t help either.
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May 26, 2010 10:54am
philu

“..But personally I think Shonkey’s balls are been squeezed by international interests. This whole thing has the stench of the UN and the IMF Marxists attached to it…”

and that is really funny…

..so..key is a marxist-sleeper…eh..?

who fucken knew..!

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 10:54am
big bruv

Hey Phool

What’s the craic about you getting booted out of the Green by Bradford?
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May 26, 2010 10:58am
philu

her minion…toad(as it turns out..he sez he knows you/you know him..b.t.w.)…

..is the one who compiled the dossier..(that i have never seen)…

..that was taken to wellington..and used to persuade people who have never met me..of my ‘guilt’…(?)

..and the ‘evidence’ their decision to ‘blacklist’ me…

..not their finest moment…

..all those involved in that..

..mind you..in their defence..i do tend to speak out…

..and ’emperors’ don’t like being told we can see their private bits…eh..?

..plus..i was loud/vocal/scathing of their habits of eating charred/blackened bits of (former) animals…

..at all green party ‘do’s’..

so..as ‘carnivorous’-greens….(oxymoron-alert…!..)

i can see their point….

i’d have wanted to get rid of me too..!..)

..(and a paraphrasing of the groucho marx disclaimer that ‘he wouldn’t’ want to join any organisation that would have him..’

..does come to mind..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 11:13am
big bruv

Phool

So are you saying that the Green party have no time for anybody who does not agree with the ruling elite?

BTW, I have never met Toad.
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May 26, 2010 11:18am
philu

look..!..there’s jack s..!..

..he’s one of those slack-jawed/yokel/racist scumbags that christchurch is just chocka-block full of…..

..he’ giving us some of his ‘yeller-talk’…

(‘jack’,..def:..’wank’..)

..so..is ‘jacks 5’ his nickname for his hand…?

..can/should we just call him ‘wanker’..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 11:19am
philu

he sez he knows who you are…

shall i ask him..?

just to confirm..?

he’s just over there…

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 11:20am
big bruv

Phool

Knowing who somebody is does not mean that they “know” you.

I know who Keith Locke is, but I would cross the street to avoid the prick as I have no interest whatsoever in getting to know him as a person.

As far as I can see Toad has one redeeming quality, he is a fan of Test cricket and has no time for that T20 shit, that always goes down well with me.
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May 26, 2010 11:25am
philu

“..So are you saying that the Green party have no time for anybody who does not agree with the ruling elite?..”

no..i am saying some scumbags..they know who they are..conspired to ‘do a number’ on me…

..and they succeeded…

..(and yes..those who didn’t know me..but just accepted ‘the evidence’…also look a bit shabby..

..and the main reason i feel that..

..is that i still do not know what specifcally i was ‘charged with’..

..so was denied that most basic of justice..

the verdict was delivered to me…without me not knowing untill then..that any trial had been held…

(‘holy kangaroo-court..!..defendant-absent..!..batman..!..)

..tho’…as i said..i am a squeaking wheel…

tho’..these days..i understand they have forgone the charred/blackened animal-bits at their ‘do’s’..

..so..y’know..!..if my hectoring played some small part in that incremental move in their conciousness…(‘humane-meat’..?..anyone..?..)

..that’s all good..

phil(whoar.co.nz
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May 26, 2010 11:31am
tom hunter

This is good for a read and a counterbalance to the rather nervy material I posted earlier: The Top Ten Lessons of the Global Economic Meltdown

1. The American Century isn’t over.

2. Liberal capitalism works.

3. The rogue states are parasites.

4. The old left is dead.

5. Nobody really understands the world economy.

6. That goes double for financial markets.

7. The Battle of Financial Markets is over; the Battle of State Finance has begun.

8. The demographic crunch time is here.

9. Culture matters.

10. The politicization of economic governance is dangerous business.
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May 26, 2010 11:31am
philu

and your ‘one redeeming quality’..is…?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 11:33am
Fletch

Falafulu Fisi ,

check out this youtube VIDEO of mosquitoes being killed by a laser. Oh, the humanity!
This is what I need in my room during the Summer. 🙂
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May 26, 2010 12:08pm
pentwig

the liar-bry phool

I see you are still pissing the greens off and they have threatened to put you in moderation. Keep up the good work.

Perhaps we can persuade DPF to take similar action. That way all your excreta will be put up last thing at night when us good people retire. Keep on abusing DPF please.
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May 26, 2010 12:29pm
malcolm

There is very little one can do, however collectively it could have a huge impact [voting for ACT].

Totally agree SGBTH, and I wish more people would vote for ACT. My poorly made point was that for votes for ACT will just strengthen John Key’s position.

Next year ACT should run a campaign addressing the people who wanted to vote ACT but voted National because they thought their ACT vote might be wasted. That logic is flawed and self-defeating.
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May 26, 2010 12:41pm
Viking2

Bruv; Test criket. What’s that you dinsour?
The rest of the world ain’t got 5 days off work to waste.
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May 26, 2010 12:45pm
pentwig

the liar-bry phool on frogblog this am:

phil u Posted May 26, 2010 at 11:40 AM are you recommending the racist sewer that is kiwiblog..?

..the most vile racist polemics are given full rein/enabled there..

so…farrar pointing his deeply-stained fingers at slater/whaleoil..

..is a tad ‘rich’…

phil(whoar.co.nz)

You really are a sick idiot liarbry phool.
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May 26, 2010 12:46pm
philu

“..he most vile racist polemics are given full rein/enabled there….”

what is not true/accurate about that..?

i have asked..in this forum..several times..

..’when is farrar going to clean up this sewer…?

..and stop commenters like you hiding/snivelling behind false-names…?

so..what else is new…?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 12:57pm
big bruv

“and your ‘one redeeming quality’..is…?”

I have far more than one redeeming quality Phool.
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May 26, 2010 12:58pm
big bruv

V2

And I thought you were such a cultured chap.
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May 26, 2010 12:58pm
krazykiwi

phil, Were you lying when you said you have no internet access from your home? Shall we take your silence on this as a confirmation that you are indeed lying?
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May 26, 2010 1:02pm
philu

shit/r.i.p-list:….definition:…ignore…

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 1:15pm
Redbaiter

“So the big topics for debate here include: Three Strikes, Booze Bracelets, and Hug a Ginga.”

Or endlessly pandering to the narcissism of brain damaged bludgers who lack any kind of moral compass.

A good read here Tom-

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/anti-american-left-clutches-at-the-usual-cliches/story-e6frg6zo-1225871286881

Janet Albrechtsen is always very good value. Example-

” five international guests gather to talk about America for the 2010 Sydney Writers Festival. A festival that promised to bring “provocative ideas” and “feisty debate” to Sydney.

….the sleep-inducing sound and sight of five voices all nodding and shaking their heads to the same anti-American melody. Yes, we all voted for Barack Obama, yes, we all want action on climate change, no to religion, nuclear power, the Tea Party movement, the Bush administration (“evil was being actively pursued every single day”), Sarah Palin and Fox News (“I blame Australia. Thanks, Rupert.”)

It’s true the audience seemed content, clapping, heads nodding and shaking in tune. Perhaps this is what the elderly do to relive their salad days of unruly protest marches. Past the age of youthful chanting and traipsing the streets holding up anti-American placards, the audience — with a mean age of 60 — seemed to be here to have their views affirmed.
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May 26, 2010 1:16pm
Peter

I believe Philu.

One was similarly banned from FrogBlog without explanation….
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May 26, 2010 1:29pm
big bruv

Peter

You don’t need an explanation, just disagree with them one or two times and they shut you down.

Remember, the Greens are the party who supported (and still support) the EFA, they are no friends of free speech.
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May 26, 2010 1:40pm
big bruv

Phool

Have you ever tried to join the Greens again?
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May 26, 2010 1:43pm
tom hunter

It’s true the audience seemed content, clapping, heads nodding and shaking in tune. Perhaps this is what the elderly do…

Thanks RB – I laughed – but it’s so true that it’s actually really sad.

There was no sign of reality. As one panel member said, “I just don’t like reality.”

Funnily enough there are eerie similarities with the amusing little confab I’m having with Sonic on another thread.
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May 26, 2010 2:41pm
RightNow

Watch two unarmed men getting shot to bits by a heavily armed Lord Monckton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ0iDoZhLKk
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May 26, 2010 2:46pm
dad4justice

Gotta love Lord Monckton when be says it’s a stitch up with Nobama and the electricity suppliers. Key is the same. The hope the Yanks boot the bullshit ETS into the mud! I wish we had a Prime Minister who told the truth!~!
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May 26, 2010 3:01pm
pentwig

Why is it in Question time that questions asked in maori are not translated for the listening public?

I would have thought with the new technology they have installed it would simply be a plug in for the TV crew
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May 26, 2010 3:05pm
Manolo

Who will confront John Key with the truth about the ETS? The costing figures provided by Key himself, David Carter and Gerry Brownlee do not match.

National Party leaders are lying to the entire country and nobody seems capable of unmasking them. What’s going on?
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May 26, 2010 3:11pm
philu

http://whoar.co.nz/2010/the-greeks-get-it/

“…Here’s to the Greeks.

They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country.

They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse.

They know what to do when they are told their pensions, benefits and jobs have to be cut to pay corporate banks, which screwed them in the first place.

Call a general strike.

Riot.

Shut down the city centers.

Toss the bastards out.

Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare-the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat.

The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it.

The former right-wing government of Greece lied about the size of the country’s budget deficit.

It was not 3.7 percent of gross domestic product but 13.6 percent.

And it now looks like the economies of Spain, Ireland, Italy and Portugal are as bad as Greece’s …

… which is why the euro has lost 20 percent of its value in the last few months.

The few hundred billion in bailouts for other faltering European states, like our own bailouts, have only forestalled disaster.

This is why the U.S. stock exchange is in free fall and gold is rocketing upward.

American banks do not have heavy exposure in Greece, but Greece, as most economists concede, is only the start.

Wall Street is deeply invested in other European states …

… and when the unraveling begins … the foundations of our own economy will rumble and crack as loudly as the collapse in Athens.

The corporate overlords will demand that we too impose draconian controls and cuts or see credit evaporate.

They have the money and the power to hurt us.

There will be more unemployment, more personal and commercial bankruptcies, more foreclosures and more human misery.

And the corporate state, despite this suffering, will continue to plunge us deeper into debt to make war.

It will use fear to keep us passive.

We are being consumed from the inside out.

Our economy is as rotten as the economy in Greece.

We too borrow billions a day to stay afloat.

We too have staggering deficits, which can never be repaid.

Heed the dire rhetoric of European leaders.

“The euro is in danger,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel told lawmakers last week as she called on them to approve Germany’s portion of the bailout plan.

“If we do not avert this danger, then the consequences for Europe are incalculable …

… and then the consequences beyond Europe are incalculable.”

Beyond Europe means us.

The right-wing government of Kostas Karamanlis, which preceded the current government of George Papandreou …

… did what the Republicans did under George W. Bush.

They looted taxpayer funds to enrich their corporate masters … and bankrupt the country.

They stole hundreds of millions of dollars from individual retirement and pension accounts slowly built up over years by citizens who had been honest and industrious.

They used mass propaganda to make the population afraid of terrorists and surrender civil liberties, including habeas corpus.

And while Bush and Karamanlis, along with the corporate criminal class they abetted, live in unparalleled luxury …

… ordinary working men and women are told they must endure even more pain and suffering to make amends.

It is feudal rape.

And there has to be a point when even the American public-…

… which still believes the fairy tale that personal will power and positive thinking will lead to success-

…will realize it has been had…”

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 3:48pm
philu

“..and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse…”

hey..!..isn’t that what john key did to the new zealand economy..?..way back when..?

..when he was a ‘money-trader’..?

didn’t he make squillions betting/drivng down the new zealand dollar…?

..we felt quite a bit of pain…back here…back then…eh..”

seeing as key seems focussed at the moment..in parliament..by answering every question about now…

..with 20 yr-old goff-quotes…

..it may get labour some traction..to actually focus/lean in on key….

..on/over how he….like is being done now to greece…conspired/pulled every lever at his disposal…

..to crash the new zealand economy…

..’cos he..as a money trader…

..had bet big that this would happen..

i reckon labour should turn the spotlight on that….

..i mean..it is topical…eh…?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 3:56pm
Bevan

Manolo: Who will confront John Key with the truth about the ETS? The costing figures provided by Key himself, David Carter and Gerry Brownlee do not match.

National Party leaders are lying to the entire country and nobody seems capable of unmasking them. What’s going on?

We’d rather have National lie to our face, than Labour rodger us from behind.
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May 26, 2010 4:15pm
side show bob

“here’s to the Greeks”………..Seems to me the Greek’s are the makers of their own misfortune. Corruption, inbreed socialism, unbridled welfare, bloated pensions, big to massive government, jobs for the boys, unions with an unlimited sense of entitlements. Sadly for us we to are afflicted with many of the same diseases, with the National Socialist’s content to follow a similar path. Doesn’t really matter what happens to Greece now they are fucked either way. They have squandered their sovereignty away and now dance to the tune of the EU backed by the IMF. Greece whether they like it or not now belong to the New World Order and the other countries in the PIGS will soon follow. New Zealand won’t be far behind them.
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May 26, 2010 4:49pm
side show bob

Oh and Philly I didn’t say Shonkey was a Marxist but one could be forgiving for thinking otherwise. I was saying his nuts are being squeezed by the Marxist’s. Much of the shit going down in this country has more to do with the raving fucking Marxists lunatics in the UN and their desire to see one world governance, what the fuck do you think all this climate change bullshit is about. A lot of money taken in ETS will go to organizations like ICE ( International Carbon Exchange ) which buy and sell carbon credits, they trade in nothing. ICE is based in Chicago, guess who are the main shareholders. The Kenyan, Al fucking Bore the Clinton’s plus many other notable lefty grippers and many other high ranking members of the Kenyan’s administration, the UN also involved. It’s all a vast con.
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May 26, 2010 5:11pm
philu

um..sorry to interrupt yr fantasy…

but it was a corrupt rightwing govt that fucked greece over…

much like the rightwing did in america…with bush…

(um..!..are you channelling red-bum-biter….?..)

you’ll have to dress like him too..

he is in his forties…the shape of his (not-small) bum is imprinted into his lay-zee-boy…

he is in bad shape…wears pastel-coloured cardigans…

…and has a greasy comb-over…

you can see why he dosen’t go out much…

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May 26, 2010 5:55pm
philu

tv3 news…!

hurry..!

tv3 has nailed key lying about his conflicts of interest…

he is also a partner in a big vinyard in sth island..

his business partners…?

the owners of the two supermarket chains..

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May 26, 2010 6:02pm
philu

questiontime in parliament tomorrow promises to be interesting…

.wanna bet that key won’t be there…..?

he’ll have urgent business elsewhere…

..the vid-footage shows him lying to gower…

saying he dosen’t own a vinyard…

then footage of him in dec 2009 boasting to a wine reporter…about his vineyard in the sth island…

..and his ‘label’…(!)..

..then footage of gower asking him outright if he has any conflicts of interest…

.key squirms….says no..and hurrys away…

(holy screaming breach of trust/conflict of interests….!..batman…!..)

remember..!..this vineyard was purchased one month after the trust was formed…

..key is not meant to know..

..this is very serious..

..with of course..his inaction on any real moves on the alcohol-problem…

..falling under a new light…

..eh..?

wot with his (supermarket-chains-owners business-partners…eh..?

..and his ‘earner’/’interests’…as a peddler of piss..

..eh..?

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May 26, 2010 6:16pm
Viking2

Bevan you need a good rogering from behind. It just might poke some sense into you.

There a few on their team that might oblige or you could wise up and party vote ACT.
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May 26, 2010 6:18pm
philu

over the last little while…we have also been afforded the sight of key being stalked in parliament by labours’ hatchet-man….pete hodgson…

..hodgson has been getting key ‘on the record’ in parliament…with seemingly innocuous questions about ‘conflicts of interest’…

now..if hodgson can prove that key has lied to parliament…?

what would that mean..?..farrar…?

prime minister english…?

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May 26, 2010 6:27pm
philu

‘faces’ are reforming for tour….yay…!

lead singer will be mick hutchence from simply red..ew…!

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 6:30pm
Bevan

Bevan you need a good rogering from behind. It just might poke some sense into you.

Oh look, the leg humper has arrived..
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May 26, 2010 6:30pm
Viking2

The Smacking Review.

Latta report shown to be all PC for Key

Investigate Magazine and Family First have revealed what many New Zealanders knew all along, that the Prime Minister’s promised review of the Anti-smacking laws was always going to be a white wash.

The court records revealed in the Investigate story this week show that good parents have been wrongly accused and prosecuted.

It also shows how the host of the ‘politically incorrect TV parenting program’ turns out to be as PC as anyone drawn into the halls of power in Wellington.

Kiwi Party leader Larry Baldock and organiser of the Anti-smacking referendum said Mr Latta’s handling of the facts of the cases and his failure to interview any of the affected parents and children was a very sad abuse of the trust many had placed in him. “He allowed himself to be used and manipulated by a Prime Minister that has already shown he has no regard for true democracy in many ways,” said Mr Baldock.

“The Prime Ministers handling of every major decision is always based upon the desire to govern and hold on to the power to continue to govern at any cost.

“This should come as no surprise, “since power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” as Lord Acton once said. Our system of democracy allows far too much power to be in the hands of one person.

“Faced with the 87.4% ‘no vote’ in the anti-smacking referendum the PM should have submitted himself to the protections of true democracy rather than reinforcing his errant belief that he can do as he wills for his own political interests.

“The PM who said he would change the law if there was ever one good parent wrongly prosecuted must now keep that promise or loose any remaining credibility,” said the Kiwi Party leader.

Ends
Contact Larry Baldock
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May 26, 2010 6:31pm
Manolo

Bevan, you might be happy being rogered by either socialist Labour or neo-socialist National. I am not.

The undeniable fact is Key, Smith, Carter. Brownlee and other National Party politicians are blatantly lying on the cost of the ETS and nobody, including our propagandist host, is prepared to challenge the bastards.

From July 1, it will cost us more to maintain a household for the sake of what? Please tell me.

I must question Key’s motives to go ahead with this insane decision.
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May 26, 2010 6:35pm
Viking2

http://www.nzcpr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=702&p=30297#p30297
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May 26, 2010 6:41pm
philu

“..Bevan you need a good rogering from behind. It just might poke some sense into you.

There a few on their team that might oblige … or you could wise up and party vote ACT…”

..where it will be guaranteed…

..that ‘good rogering from behind.’…

eh..?

brilliant…!

you are such a good public relations asset for yr act-ite/rand-ite-cult…eh..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 26, 2010 6:41pm
Viking2

The Euro crisis.

http://www.nzcpr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=135&p=30299#p30299
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May 26, 2010 6:42pm
big bruv

Did anybody else see that mad Delahunty wimin make a complete fool of herself again at question time?

She really is the gift that keeps on giving, I would have thought that by now the ever increasing female co leader and red Russ might have worked out that every time Delahunty opens her gob she costs them votes.

I imagine that Delahunty may well be given the Bradford treatment in the run up to the next election, for those with a short memory the Bradford treatment involves locking candidates who are a liability (in past elections it was always Bradford and sometimes Locke) in a shed somewhere and not letting them out until all votes had been cast lest they remind the public just what lunatics they are.
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May 26, 2010 6:45pm
krazykiwi

every time Delahunty opens her gob she costs them votes

Mmm. And every day she’s an MP, she costs us money.

Useless. Waste. Of. Space.
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May 26, 2010 6:48pm
big bruv

There ya go…watch Delahunty and laugh..

http://www.inthehouse.co.nz/node/2957
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May 26, 2010 7:05pm
Dirty Rat

philu (8496) Says:

May 26th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
‘faces’ are reforming for tour….yay…!

lead singer will be mick hutchence from simply red..ew…!

phil(whoar.co.nz)

Mick Hutchence hanged himself off a Sydney hotel door whilst having a wank bout 13 years ago. He may be smelling, but would probably still look better than Ron Wood
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May 26, 2010 7:20pm
starboard

lead singer will be mick hutchence from simply red..ew…!

phil(whoar.co.nz)

Hucknall ya fuckwit..whore…news aggregate site…ppfft..
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May 26, 2010 7:44pm
Hurf Durf

Hey Philip.

Socialism doesn’t work.
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May 26, 2010 7:45pm
Viking2

Christchurch leading the Way again!
What’s in the water at the CHCH police Station?

Charge puts family ‘through hell’
By CHARLIE GATES – The Press
Last updated 05:00 27/05/2010

A Christchurch father was “furious” at being imprisoned and losing custody of his child after being charged with assaulting his son.

The father, whose name is suppressed, was given a discharge without conviction on Friday in a case that could have been a test of New Zealand’s anti-smacking laws.

The father was held in custody for at least one night and separated from his four-year-old boy for two weeks under bail conditions that were later relaxed by the court.

“He was furious originally because he was in prison for GBH [grievous bodily harm] and lost custody of his child and all because he was trying to calm a child,” defence counsel Jonathan Eaton said.

Police alleged the man slapped his son on the head in North Hagley Park in January, but Eaton said the father was trying to calm a major tantrum. The child has since been diagnosed with a severe behavioural problem.

“He was originally charged because a witness thought she had seen a slap on the head. The witness had no understanding of the problems of the child. It was only later that more details emerged that painted it in a very different light.”

He also said police were reluctant to withdraw charges in relation to the new anti-smacking laws.

“The police are acutely aware that if they lay the charges the case may well attract quite a bit of publicity, therefore they are obliged to look at it pretty carefully before they move on it,” Eaton said. “For them to turn around at that stage and withdraw seems to be a big ask for the police. They are more comfortable with a discharge. They go through the court process and don’t oppose the discharge. Why did they have to go through the entire process?”

Inspector Derek Erasmus said police acted appropriately.

“Based on what the witnesses said, our decision was totally appropriate at the time. We made sure we had appropriate evidence. There was plenty of evidence and witnesses at the time and I am entirely happy with that. There was no new evidence on what happened at the time,” he said.

Erasmus said he was happy with the outcome.

“We were happy with the outcome. Interventions with other agencies were put in place and the court decided that was appropriate.”

Family First national director Bob McCroskie said the family was “taken through hell” by the court case.

Time for Key to do what Key should instead of being a coward.
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May 27, 2010 6:45am
starboard

..”Inspector” Erasmus is a fool..he would be better being demoted back to his old job of handing out speeding tickets and pestering generally law abiding folk.
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May 27, 2010 6:51am
Pascal

Bevan: We’d rather have National lie to our face, than Labour rodger us from behind.

Oh goody. Party politics above the good of New Zealand. Damn, that sounds like a Labour party ideal.
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