General Debate 9 April 2011

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cha

Oh noes!, the dude wuz gay.
Now we know why the last supper table was so well laid .
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April 9, 2011 7:58am
flipper

Not much joy for Fillie and his mates in the Roy Morgan poll published yesterday.
Lots of gloom …..
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April 9, 2011 8:01am
hj

“In the war between bugs and drugs, bacteria are on the cusp of a crushing victory.

Barely 70 years after antibiotics were introduced, the World Health Organisation has warned that the world could soon face a future without them – and New Zealand experts back the dire prediction. ”

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/4867368/Bacteria-on-brink-of-victory
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April 9, 2011 8:09am
Bobbie black

A kick-ass day in the life of a sort of alcoholic Kiwi writer in Munich.

Woke up, feeling like shit, but remembering the successful patch-up with my gf. The sun is hell on my back but she had not caught me the whole night dropping a full bottle of Schanpps before and while she slept.

It’s BBC on the internet news while she does her farm stealing and I am a little paranoid about my breath, though Schnapps is pretty odourless my instinct tells me to get up and I fix myself a long tomato juice with ice and pepper and while I do it I scull a can of redbull.

“Why do you drink tomato juice today?” she asks as I predicted. I usually drink coffee.

“It’s so hot and I just felt like it.”

It works.

The Redbull wakes me up and I suddenly want to go out.

She takes the usual thirty minutes overtime female get ready time and then we are off.

We run to catch the 1.35 minute train. Trains here run time like most things in Munich.

We go to Odeonplatz and walk around the English gardens, noting the naked gay areas until we find the river surfing area. The water is too low and it looks dangerous but I make a vow to come back in winter and knock off the bitch with multiple cutbacks and re-entrys.

We grab a snack then head to the strong beer festival.

A German friend of mine had recommended it and hey, any excuse to drink in the daytime I had already convinced my Chinese gf.

I had been told the beer was strong and girls liked it as it was sweet.

When we arrived all I was pleased about was the available tables, unlike the Octoberfest which was over-crowded. Plus the warm sun and the trees exploding in the week of spring overhead as with all plants in Munich.

I warned my gf about the strong beer but being a dong-bei she ignored my words and pretty soon we found ourselves sipping at the end of one liter ceramic jug. It is black beer.

I was more stoned than drunk my legs feeling tingly and I really wondered whether they put magic mushrooms in their shit just like I suspected of Kenny Cramps strong cider in Kent.
My gf was off her face, stoned and drunk and I immediately bought her food, German sausage and potato.

Chinese do not have the genes to break down the alcohol.

After one and a half I felt pretty horny and realized the German girls in their traditional ding-dongs were putting their tits out there with no bras.

After I finished two, I knew I was drunk. I would have attempted three but I knew I had to get my gf home by then, very vocal and giggly.

The sun lost it’s warmth as we left and I helped my gf to the train station.

But I knew I would be back.

Wow what a drinking experience.

The Octoberfest sucked for me.

But this was my drinking Heaven.

It was no wonder only certain German friends recommended this.

The Germans, people say they are prim and proper.

Yes they are.

No vomit, no fights, just appreciation of good shit.

I am sold.

At home we were both incredibly horny. As I said more like a drug experience than a drink. We did it like on the discovery channel.

My gf flies out tomorrow morning.

Wish me luck for tomorrow night. I am going for three.
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April 9, 2011 8:10am
iMP

THE DON. Is anyone else as excited as me (sweating in the night) about his bid for Prez 2012? Trumpy has the money, the strength of character and the chuzpah to do it. Can see the campaign slogan now, “Obama…you’re fired!”. This of course might make Sarah Palin or Huck “The Apprentice.” Americans like strong leaders, Trumpy has a clear policy distinctive, a USA-wide brand, and he’s as American as they come. Lots of skleletons, but nothing he can’t face down. Could be VERY interesting. I’d vote for him. he’s just what America needs. Priority 1: he’ll haul in the deficit.

Also, his digging on whether OBama is actually US-born could be very interesting in coming weeks. If Obama has lied (Kenya vs hawaii) he’ll be impeached and Oh dear, Joe B. will be President. Worse than Dan Quayle.

Speaking of which, eating California Quail (my wife is from cali) is like eating sparrows. But isn’t it an example that not all species introductions are bad? I mean, these birds are great and harmless. We’re getting Aussie dung beetles (the Egyptian scarab) soon. All they do is eat dairy cow crap and airate the soil. Isn’t modern life a sum collection of such introductions?
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April 9, 2011 8:26am
Pete George

Trump could give US politics the shake up it desperately needs. But good grief, he’s a birther? Probably not, he knows how to get attention.
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April 9, 2011 8:34am
hj

Piha for sale
Natonal (Party) Real estate >Michael Boulgaris

tp://www.chineserealestate.co.nz/Listing/Sell/2422.html
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April 9, 2011 8:46am
starboard

..too much info Bob
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April 9, 2011 8:49am
joana

It is not just his birth records that are in question. All sorts of other records haven’t been released either. His family members have given two different hospitals in Hawaii as his birth place so they seem as confused as everyone else. Then his Auntie actually saw him being born in Kenya.
What normal person wouldn’t want to clear all this up?
On another topic..the mass murderer in Brazil was an islamic fundie..Why is this not being mentioned in English language reports?? It is in the Portuguese articles. Brazil has been harbouring all sorts of islamics fundies including
Al Quaeda members and now they have paid the price.
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April 9, 2011 8:55am
Short Shriveled and Slightly to the Left

Every time there is a big Lotto prize the Dom Post interviews a statistician who is a bore and refuses to ever buy a ticket.
It makes us all look like bores, and I am sick of it 🙂 .

1/ The odds for 1 line to win are almost the same as the return (if won alone) so what is the big deal! If the odds to win were much higher than the prize then the odds being to large argument would be valid.
2/ It has to be won with most of the money being provided by previous weeks (dead money), so the pool return is actually much larger than the value of the tickets that are competing for the prize.
3/ What is wrong with throwing $20 away to be in a draw that someone has to win (basically people are all throwing in some money with one person (or maybe a little more) taking the pool, but in this case another source (the jackpots from previous weeks) is adding handsomely to the pool)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4867385/Odds-of-1-in-6-million-too-much-for-an-expert
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April 9, 2011 8:56am
Bobbie black

@ starboard

“..too much info Bob.”

Hahahaha, yohoho, hehehehe, mmmmkyayyyy.

Yes, you are right.

I’m a writer.

Sadly I cannot help it.
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April 9, 2011 9:07am
Rodders

hj said “Piha for sale Natonal (Party) Real estate >Michael Boulgaris”

Prejudice and fear for sale
http://www.nzfirst.org.nz
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April 9, 2011 9:12am
hj

Prejudice and fear for sale
http://www.nzfirst.org.nz
………..
Ireland’s economic miracle was driven by Germany. Under Labour, ours is being gifted by Communist China. The Germans sent money, the Chinese are sending people.
http://nbr.infometrics.co.nz/column.php?id=409

Greed forsale
Trust National (international)?
http://www.chineserealestate.co.nz/Listing/Sell/2422.html

“The report added that there was little evidence that immigration boosted local incomes. In fact, the need to build roads and schools meant that net migration contributed to the national deficit.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/4622459/Government-policies-blamed-for-house-prices
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April 9, 2011 9:36am
hj

Who Funds National????
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April 9, 2011 9:37am
lofty

Again this week, winnie gets his 1/2 page of “opinion” published in the BOP times.

At least for balance the other 1/2 page is always used up by Dame Susan Devoy.

The blue rinse brigade love it.
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April 9, 2011 9:44am
Rodders

Who Funds NZ First????
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April 9, 2011 9:56am
cha

Who Funds NZ First????

Check the results from yesterdays Stuff poll.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/lightbox/national/politics/4864392

New Zealand First
114 votes, 21.0%
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April 9, 2011 10:05am
Rodders

Didn’t realise so many Grey Power members had an internet connection.
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April 9, 2011 10:10am
cha

Watch that space Rodders because I reckon the disgruntled will bail from both National and Labour according to their age.

The over sixties and those on super will flock back to Winnie and the 18-35 will go to the greens.
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April 9, 2011 10:16am
wat dabney

The US government might shut down because it can’t agree on a new budget.

Here’s the chart: Amazingly, Obama want’s to consider the recent gargantuan “emergency” spending splurge as the new baseline, and apply an insignificant reduction to it. The other side wants to reduce spending back to the pre-deluge trend line:

http://johnbtaylorsblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/simple-budget-choice-remove-or-lock-in.html
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April 9, 2011 10:18am
Murray

Well we know that American bag men fund both Labour and Mallards imagination.
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April 9, 2011 10:20am
Doug

TVNZ must be hurt losing TV 7, so start another beat up over the deferred payment scheme and running down TV3 and others for taking the option.

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 10th, 2011 By DPF.

The great Mediaworks beatup
The Herald ran a story yesterday headlined “Your $43m lifeline to TV3 owner: and said:
The Government has thrown a lifeline to ailing private media company MediaWorks, which owns TV3, Four, and about half New Zealand’s commercial radio stations.
MediaWorks’ latest accounts show it has essentially received a $43.3 million loan from the Crown to enable it to renew its radio broadcasting licences for the next 20 years.
This got copied all over the place with people aghast that the Government had lent MediaWorks $43m in some secret deal.
However there was no loan and no secret.
In October 2009 (18 months ago) the Government announced:
“The Government recognises that some licensees may have difficulty paying the one-off lump-sum renewal payments for their 20 year spectrum licenses next year.”
Cabinet has agreed to offer an alternative payment option to the radio broadcasters, provided any change is revenue-neutral to the Crown.
This will allow a series of not more than five annual payments incorporating interest at 9.5 percent, plus inflation.
So in reality it is a simple deferred payment option – broadcasters had the choice of paying for a 20 year licence in one lump sum, or spreading it over five years at a higher cost. This is no different to what often happen in the commercial world – you can spread payments out but pay more for them.
It’s not a lifeline, and it is not a loan. It is a liability but that is a different thing. If at balance date I have not paid a bill, I have a liability my creditor but that does not mean they have lent me money.
And finally the taxpayer made money from Mediaworks with the deferred payment. The interest rate is 11.2% and the government 6% on its debt, so the Government makes a net 5.2% from Mediaworks.
Sadly far too many will have just read the original story, and will remain convinced that the Government bailed out Mediaworks with a loan.
UPDATE: I notice the original story was front page and the story the next day clarifying things was very small and obscure.
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April 9, 2011 10:24am
kaya

Where everyone gets a Chinese bargain

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10718150
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April 9, 2011 10:37am
kaya

In the face of all indicator to the contrary……..Dream run for shares despite shocks

There’s a perfect storm brewing.
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April 9, 2011 10:46am
Rodders

cha said ” the disgruntled”

A perfect description of the people to whom Winston appeals. No one else.
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April 9, 2011 10:57am
hj

# Rodders (697) Says:
April 9th, 2011 at 9:56 am

Who Funds NZ First????
If ur scratching, that’s a healthy sign; if your rolling in it then it may be groups whose interests are not those of the majority of people.

Property Council chief executive Connal Townsend said debate about the future ownership of the 16 Crafar dairy farms appeared to have tapped a racist vein, when the real issue was New Zealand’s willingness to value its own landholdings and provide certainty to people who can commit capital, generate local employment, and encourage economic growth.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1007/S00062/overseas-investment-necessary-for-new-zealand

If you can’t afford to live somewhere nice, it’s because you don’t value it enough (and couldn’t compete with the millionaires from Harcourts Shanghai branch)
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April 9, 2011 11:10am
Rodders

hj said “You couldn’t compete with the millionaires from Harcourts Shanghai branch”

Don’t you just love the way Winston’s supporters appeal to fear and envy ? They don’t even try to disguise it.
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April 9, 2011 11:39am
kaya

I rarely agree with what Fran O’Sullivan says but her article in today’s Herald was a good one.

Bill English looked positively gaunt as he fronted the television cameras on Thursday to reveal that the Government might have to find another $1 billion to underwrite the latest episode of Kiwi commercial incompetence.………………

This is a question that needs to be asked. The time must surely be fast approaching when others will be asking some very tough questions. Particularly, the international credit ratings agencies and the country’s overseas lenders on the extent of the New Zealand Government’s capacity to keep writing cheques

Why are we still beholden to lying, corrupt credit rating agencies. The three main culprits contributed much to the GFC, giving (selling) AAA ratings to toxic assets that were basically worthless.

WASHINGTON — A Senate panel investigating the causes of the nation’s financial crisis on Thursday unveiled evidence that credit-ratings agencies knowingly gave inflated ratings to complex deals backed by shaky U.S. mortgages in exchange for lucrative fees.

As with the heavyweight financial organisations responsible for the fiasco, they were left unscathed and are back trading exactly as they did before.
The financial services industries around the world are repeatedly screwing up and are repeatedly being bailed out by taxpayers.
The purported Einstein quote comes to mind:

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result

Are our pollies stupid or complicit? Complcit is a scary thought and a point of view difficult to prove or disprove, but one which gathers credibility as each financial disaster comes around and the options taken are questionable at the very least.

If it is simply that they believe these organisations are “too big to fail” then they need to have a major rethink because “too big to fail” will become the business model to strive for from here on.
I don’t know who said“If they are too big to fail they are too big. but a truer word has never been spoken.
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April 9, 2011 11:51am
Viking2

So the insurer that made the most desparate and disparaging remarks about AMI is also the one that seemingly is refusing to support its own policy holders using subterfuge buried in its policies. Not unlike it self and its competitors in Queensland.

“Frontrunner general manager Laurie Blyth, who has a shop in Lichfield St, has been fighting Vero over depopulation since the September quake and said he was preparing to sue the insurer and his loss adjuster.

Blyth said Vero had agreed to cover the week the shop was closed but not the subsequent four months, when his trade had dropped by 50 per cent because of depopulation. ”

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/4867365/Insurance-shock-for-Christchurch-businesses

# Viking2 (3,747) Says:
April 8th, 2011 at 8:33 pm

Before you get carried away you might like to read this about the problems Queenslanders are having and who with.

Exposing the fat cats behind the shamed insurers who won’t meet Queensland flood victims

* From: The Courier-Mail
* April 08, 2011 12:00AM
* 187 comments

THEY are the insurers Prime Minister Julia Gillard slammed as “callous” and “cowardly” for their treatment of Queensland flood victims.

The man charged with rebuilding the state, Major-General Mick Slater, called them “scumbags”.

Today The Courier-Mail can unmask the men and women behind the shamed companies and their insurance brands and reveal their wealth and web of corporate influence.

The high-flying lifestyles of the companies’ directors are in stark contrast to the lives of many of their flood victim customers, who are still living in caravans, tents and in other people’s homes after the floods cut a swath of destruction through Queensland.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/money/money-matters/text-to-come/story-fn3hskur-1226035631266
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April 9, 2011 11:58am
publicwatchdog

Seen this?

How lobbying works in the U$A.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/3120/

Koch’s web of influence

Koch spends tens of millions trying to shape federal policies that affect their global business empire

By John Aloysius Farrell | April 06, 2011

Koch Inc., headquartered in Wichita, Kan., spends tens of millions of dollars to lobby Congress and federal agencies on issues ranging from oil and gas to the estate tax. Credit: Larry W. Smith/Associated Press

At an EPA hearing last summer, representatives from Koch Industries argued that moderate levels of the toxic chemical dioxin should not be designated as a cancer risk for humans.

Calling Koch

The Center for Public Integrity sought comment from Koch Industries a dozen times during the course of its investigation of Koch’s lobbying network.

Greenhouse cash

When members of Congress sought higher security at chemical plants to guard against terrorist attacks, Koch Industries lobbyists prowled Capitol Hill to voice their opposition.

And when Congress moved to strengthen regulation of the financial markets after recent collapses, Koch Industries — a major commodities and derivatives trader — deployed a phalanx of lobbyists to resist proposed changes.

Charles and David Koch, the owners of the country’s second-largest private corporation, are libertarians of long standing, who contend that government regulations, taxes and subsidies stifle individual initiative and hamper American competitiveness. In recent years, the Kochs have played an increasingly public role as financial angels for conservative causes, politicians and foundations

What’s not so well-known is the activity of Koch Industries in the trenches in Washington, where a Center for Public Integrity examination of lobbying disclosure files and federal regulatory records reveals a lobbying steamroller for the company’s interests, at times in conflict with its public pose.

The money that Koch (pronounced “coke”) has spent on lobbying in Washington has soared in recent years, from $857,000 in 2004 to $20 million in 2008. The Kochs then spent another $20.5 million over the next two years to influence federal policy, as the company’s lobbyists and officials sought to mold, gut or kill more than 100 prospective bills or regulations.

Oil is the core of the Koch business empire, and the company’s lobbyists and officials have successfully fought to preserve the industry’s tax breaks and credits, and to defeat attempts by Congress to regulate greenhouse gases.

But Koch’s diversified interests, and thus its lobbying activities, extend far beyond petroleum. Koch companies trade carbon emission credits in Europe and derivatives in the U.S. They make jet fuel in Alaska from North Slope oil, and gasoline in Minnesota from the oil sands of Canada. They raise cattle in Montana and manufacture spandex in China, ethanol in Iowa, fertilizer in Trinidad, nylon in Holland, napkins in France and toilet paper in Wisconsin.

According to the most recent Forbes magazine rankings, Koch had $100 billion in revenues in 2009 — on a par with corporate giants like IBM or Verizon — and stood a close second to Cargill Inc. on the list of the largest private US companies. The firm has 70,000 employees, and a presence in 60 countries and almost every state.

Koch’s decision to pour millions into lobbying Washington has put them high on the list of corporations whose lobbyists work the corridors of the nation’s capital. Last year, Koch Industries ranked in the top five — roughly on a par with BP and Royal Dutch Shell — in lobbying expenses among oil and gas companies, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

These totals do not include the work of the trade associations that Koch uses to represent its interests in Washington. There’s a major industry group called the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, and obscure organizations like the green-sounding National Environmental Development Association’s Clean Air Project, whose membership lists Koch and two of its subsidiaries (Georgia-Pacific and Invista) with a dozen industrial giants like ExxonMobil Corp., General Electric Co. and Alcoa Inc.

Koch’s lobbyists are known on Capitol Hill for maintaining a low profile. There are no former U.S. senators or House committee chairmen on the payroll. The firm had 30 registered lobbyists in 2010, many of whom are Washington insiders with previous experience as congressional staffers or federal agency employees.
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Who are the chief lobbyists in NZ?

How would we know?

How do ‘lobbyists’ work in New Zealand?

Where is the NZ ‘Register of Lobbyists’ – an ‘open, transparent’ mechanism which the public can use to check ‘who is meeting the Minister(s), and whose interests do they represent?

Why doesn’t New Zealand, ‘perceived’ to be the least corrupt country in the world (together with Singapore and Denmark) according to the 2010 Transparency International ‘Corruption Perception Index’ already have a NZ ‘Register of Lobbyists’?

Or – maybe in New Zealand – you don’t need to bother with lobbyists?

Just front up to Prime Minister John Key yourself at a social function, and have a quick word?

(Saves money on Parliamentary staff, typing up the meeting minutes and reports, no need to book a room for a meeting.. that sort of thing………… 🙂

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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April 9, 2011 12:03pm
hj

hj said “You couldn’t compete with the millionaires from Harcourts Shanghai branch”

Don’t you just love the way Winston’s supporters appeal to fear and envy ? They don’t even try to disguise it.
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so when France was invaded by Germany you would have castiogatedf the French as being “envious”?

The truth is that there are over 300,000 millionaires in China and this is the market Harcourts and the InterNational Party are tapping into. These policies benefit developers, property investors, Banks lawyers, architects but leave other sections of our society in the dust.

Immigration and tax breaks for investment in residential property are being cited as the underlying causes of steep increases in the cost of housing over the past decade.
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The report added that there was little evidence that immigration boosted local incomes. In fact, the need to build roads and schools meant that net migration contributed to the national deficit.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/4622459/Government-policies-blamed-for-house-prices

If Winston farts he’ll go up in the polls.
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April 9, 2011 12:20pm
reid

Have a look at this as a former CIA analyst who rips CNN news-babes a new one as they burble on about how Libya is all about its people’s freedom.

It’s horrific when the MSM departs from its pre-prepared scripts. You actually start to get real information. Oh the humanity.

Also this interesting possibility from the great Pepe on possible? connections between the House of Saud, Bahrain and Libya.
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April 9, 2011 12:31pm
Fletch

joana, yeh, what the media WON’T tell you about the Brazilian shooter – more info here

I had to go to Al Arabiya to find out that he was a convert to Islam, that the letter said that Islam was the true religion and that the letter glorified terrorism and suicide bombings.

“And quickly released the Brazilian media in their Web sites that the young man is a Muslim who converted to Islam some time ago, reinforced what it said summaries of the preliminary report prepared by the police includes what she said about his half-sister, and her name Rozhelain Oliveira, he was eager always on the lookout for Islamic Affairs, expressed several times tendency to link Islam and the Islamic militants and their news, it does not come out of the house a lot and did not have a lot of friends and used to spend almost all his time on the computer.” al-ARABIYA Google Translation

And yet the full page article on the front page on the Herald’s World section makes no mention of the fact.
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April 9, 2011 12:33pm
Rodders

hj said “so when France was invaded by Germany you would have castiogatedf the French as being “envious”?”

Comparing a real estate advertisement to the Battle of France! You must hold a more senior position in NZ First than I had realised.
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April 9, 2011 12:39pm
Ed Snack

Penny, your a little late to the Kocharama expose, didn’t check your email for instructions in time ? Tactics of the left, personalize, and HATE !
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April 9, 2011 12:48pm
reid

I think Toyota is most unwise teaming up with Microsoft to enable cloud-computing in its new generation vehicles.

I would have gone with Google, myself.

Since when have Microsoft done open source and what happens in five years or whenever they renew the agreement, to the proprietary platform Microsoft is almost sure to deliver?
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April 9, 2011 12:49pm
Ed Snack

Hell’s bells, you’re not your. Reminder to self, look before edit runs out.
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April 9, 2011 12:57pm
cha

In the real world a mentally ill man commits mass murder but in Fletch’s bigoted world the murderers conversion to Islam was why he went on his rampage so we’d all be safer if people with a mental illness weren’t Muslims. Amirite?.
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April 9, 2011 1:07pm
reid

Hell’s bells, you’re not your. Reminder to self, look before edit runs out.

Exactly Ed. We all noticed, you know.
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April 9, 2011 1:10pm
Fletch

cha, no. What I’m pointing out is that the media is afraid to criticize Islam. Maybe they’re afraid of another violent incident. The media are being held hostage by Islam – won’t be critical of it – much like Obama. The article in the Herald mentions ‘God’, and that the shooter’s parents were Jehovah’s Witness and that he grew up with that, but it makes no mention of his conversion to Islam. The media would rather people connect it with the Christian God or some other cult – anything apart from Islam.

Do you think that’s fair? I don’t think it’s bigoted to point it out, no more than you or viking2 or some of the other commenters feel the need to point out and criticize anything to do with Christianity
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April 9, 2011 1:17pm
Fletch

The media don’t always lie (although sometimes they do). Most often they just give you part of the facts and let the reader fill in the rest in the direction the media wants the reader to take.
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April 9, 2011 1:22pm
reid

cha, no. What I’m pointing out is that the media is afraid to criticize Islam.

Fletch what’s your hypothesis as to why this is including why it doesn’t just happen here in NZ, or does it just happen here?
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April 9, 2011 1:58pm
publicwatchdog

Those who still support the ‘official’ story about 9/11 – SO need to keep up with the play! 🙂

FYI and consideration folks!

A couple of simple thoughts from a former Welding Tutor with Advanced Trade in Sheetmetal Engineering (me):

9/11

1) If the heat from burning airline fuel (kerosene) can melt steel – how come your kerosene heater doesn’t melt when you light it up?

(er… because the heat generated by burning kerosene is 990C / and the melting point of steel is 1550C ?

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1805/ch3-6.pdf

2) Pick up a block of concrete and drop it on the ground.

How does the impact cause the concrete to turn into clouds of pulverised dust?

(NB: How come with 9/11 – there were clouds of billowing pulversised dust BEFORE the buildings hit the ground?)

Simple, common sense questions………………?

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http://www.ae911truth.org/

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Our mission is to research, compile, and disseminate scientific evidence relative to the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers, calling for a truly open and independent investigation and supporting others in the pursuit of justice.
III. Mission

We call upon Congress for a truly independent investigation with subpoena power. We believe that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that three World Trade Center buildings #1 (North Tower), #2 (South Tower), and #7 (the 47-story high-rise across Vesey St.) were destroyed not by jet impact and fires but by controlled demolition with explosives.

On September 11, 2010, the ninth anniversary, we succeeded in sending a third beam of light into the New York skyline.

Said founder Richard Gage during the press conference that evening, “The people of New York need to see the light–that a third WTC skyscraper not hit by any plane was destroyed on September 11th. They have been deceived about what happened on that terrible day. We are shining the spotlight, literally, on the fact that the official story of what happened at Ground Zero simply cannot be true and that a truly independent new investigation is needed both as a matter of national security and as the key to justice for the victims of the Twin Towers.”
IV. Method

Architects & Engineers for 911 Truth focuses solely on the forensic evidence available to prove that the three World Trade Center buildings were demolished as a means of proving to Congress that a new and independent investigation is warranted.

We also want to explain the evidence to the public at large. We believe that turning the tide of public opinion is the most powerful way to convince Congress to pursue a new investigation.

V. Founder

Richard Gage, AIA, is a San Francisco Bay Area architect and a member of the American Institute of Architects.

He has been an architect for over 23 years and has worked on most types of building construction, including numerous fire-proofed, steel-framed buildings.

Most recently, he worked on the construction documents for a $400M mixed-use urban project with 1.2 million square feet of retail, a parking structure, and 320,000 square feet of mid-rise office space—altogether with about 1,200 tons of steel framing.

Mr. Gage became interested in researching the destruction of the WTC high-rises after hearing on the radio the startling conclusions of reluctant 9/11 researcher David Ray Griffin in 2006, which launched his own unyielding quest for the truth about 9/11. Since founding Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Gage has presented Blueprint for Truth all over the world, and he has appeared on radio shows and television spots.

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Richard Gage on 9 11 : Close Up . TVNZ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM_U7ohGiMU

As seen in this revealing photo, the Twin Towers’ destruction exhibited all of the characteristics of destruction by explosives:

1. Destruction proceeds through the path of greatest resistance at nearly free-fall acceleration
2. Improbable symmetry of debris distribution
3. Extremely rapid onset of destruction
4. Over 100 first responders reported explosions and flashes
5. Multi-ton steel sections ejected laterally
6. Mid-air pulverization of 90,000 tons of concrete & metal decking
7. Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic-like clouds
8. 1200-foot-diameter debris field: no “pancaked” floors found
9. Isolated explosive ejections 20–40 stories below demolition front
10. Total building destruction: dismemberment of steel frame
11. Several tons of molten metal found under all 3 high-rises
12. Evidence of thermite incendiaries found by FEMA in steel samples
13. Evidence of explosives found in dust samples

And exhibited none of the characteristics of destruction by fire:

1. Slow onset with large visible deformations
2. Asymmetrical collapse which follows the path of least resistance (laws of conservation of momentum would cause a falling, intact, from the point of plane impact, to the side most damaged by the fires)
3. Evidence of fire temperatures capable of softening steel
4. High-rise buildings with much larger, hotter, and longer-lasting fires have never collapsed.

WTC Building #7, a 47-story high-rise not hit by an airplane, exhibited all the characteristics of classic controlled demolition with explosives:

1. Rapid onset of collapse

2. Sounds of explosions at ground floor – a second before the building’s destruction

3. Symmetrical “structural failure” – through the path of greatest resistance – at free-fall acceleration

4. Imploded, collapsing completely, and landed in its own footprint

5. Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic dust clouds

6. Expert corroboration from the top European controlled demolition professional

7. Foreknowledge of “collapse” by media, NYPD, FDNY

In the the aftermath of WTC7’s destruction, strong evidence of demolition using incendary devices was discovered:

8. FEMA finds rapid oxidation and intergranular melting on structural steel samples

9. Several tons of molten metal reported by numerous highly qualified witnesses

10. Chemical signature of the incendiary thermite found in solidified molten metal, and dust samples

WTC7 exhibited none of the characteristics of destruction by fire:

1. Slow onset with large visible deformations

2. Asymmetrical collapse which follows the path of least resistance (laws of conservation of momentum would cause a falling, to the side most damaged by the fires)

3. Evidence of fire temperatures capable of softening steel

4. High-rise buildings with much larger, hotter, and longer lasting fires have never collapsed.

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OK toothless goldfish – ‘burp’ away!

(After you have READ and CONSIDERED what these experts have to say? 🙂

🙂

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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April 9, 2011 2:10pm
Viking2

Spend a little time watching this video. Well worth the time.
Don’t be put off by the intro as the interview that follows is the intersting part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rgKSEvbgZs
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April 9, 2011 2:28pm
reid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXsZRc-cdGw&feature=player_embedded

http://www.darkgovernment.com/tr3b.html
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April 9, 2011 2:29pm
starboard

Gawd…its awake..Penny Dim.
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April 9, 2011 2:31pm
Viking2

Here’s another good read.
Will the Maori Party implode leaving National with no Partners after the election?

http://news.tangatawhenua.com/archives/11053
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April 9, 2011 2:35pm
magic bullet

All you conspiracy theorist haters should read up about the 9/11 commission. Very dodgy. A complete whitewash. Also – consider the fact that just because you may flap your mouth to anyone about anything at any time, doesn’t mean people in positions of high responsibility do the same thing. But you can’t even imagine being able to keep your mouth shut can you?
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April 9, 2011 3:02pm
reid

Also – consider the fact that just because you may flap your mouth to anyone about anything at any time, doesn’t mean people in positions of high responsibility can’t.

Er…

I see…
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April 9, 2011 3:05pm
publicwatchdog

“# starboard (1,822) Says:
April 9th, 2011 at 2:31 pm

Gawd…its awake..Penny Dim.”

Hi Starboard!

How are you?
Having a lovely day?

Out of your cave already I see! 😉

(Actually, I’ve been awake for some time – I do more things than just post the occasional well-informed and considered opinion on Kiwiblog you know 🙂

Getting organised for the Howick by-election.

John Key supports ‘partial privatisation’ – I support a partial ‘RATE$ REVOLT’.

NO RATE$ increases!

Absolutely opposed to the proposed Auckland $upercity 4.9% rates increase.

Where could the money be saved to avoid rates increases?

By cutting out the consultants and private contractors – all those ‘private-piggies-in- the middle’.

By returning as many Council services as possible back to ‘in-house’ provision, and Council Works Departments.

Has the ‘contracting out’ / privatisation model worked?

Yes (for the contractors) – NO for the public majority, who don’t have their snouts in the public trough.

Just ask yourself – have YOUR rates gone up or down over the last 20 years?

That pretty much sums it up – don’t you think?

How about yourself ‘Starboard’?

You an Aucklander?

Happy with just being a ‘giant CA$H COW’?

All pay – no say?

🙂

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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April 9, 2011 3:19pm
reid

Penny it’s now more than 1.5 hours since anyone made a comment on a Saturday GD, following your last missive.

Does this tell you anything at all or not really?
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April 9, 2011 4:46pm
joana

Cha , Reid etc. Islam is a mental illness. What Fletch and I were trying to say is in the Portuguese language media there is all this re him converting , being a suicide bomber and the note he left , but in English he is just a killer.
Cha..it has been a fashion for quite awhile now for islamic terrorists to say they have a mental illness , if they get caught..It is an attempt to escape the death penalty…Just more lies..altho a case could be argued..They are allowed/encouraged to lie to infidels or unbelievers..
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April 9, 2011 5:25pm
reid

Cha , Reid etc. Islam is a mental illness.

See my observation joana is that it’s those who conflate all of Islam with people who do these things and secondly conflate their proclamation that in fact its Islam that MAKES them do these things with the clear and evident truth of how the vast vast vast majority of Muslims behave.

See if what people like you and Fletch say was in fact the case, then the world would be overrun with nothing but terrorist-related theats left, right and centre, 24/7/365. Actually, we conduct commerce and normal trade and communications and all the usual things one does when one isn’t at a state of war. This is the case, is it not.

This to me, IMO, gives cause to believe your hypothesis is flawed, in that it doesn’t reflect observable reality.

Rather, my hypothesis, which is that the people and there are a few million of them let’s say around 20 million which includes all of those overt and covert who support and practice terrorism, are in fact doing so for other, various reasons none of which includes Islam. Possibly a small fraction of useful idiots believes they really are dying for Allah but the majority of them are just cynical pricks from amongst the lamentable and large catalogue of the worst possible kind of humanity.

Now observable fact one, to me, is that 20,000,000/1,000,000,000 is a small fraction = 2% and I think last count we had more than one billion Muslims but who cares, lets keep the math easy.

So apparently, only 2% are overtly or covertly participating. This is like saying all Maori think like Hone and Tama Iti and Annette Sykes and Mike Smith and clearly, evidentially, in the real world, they don’t, do they.

This is my problem with your argument joana which you and many many others raise. What I fear is you will create a self-fulfilling prophecy and so far, the MSM’s angles they push and those many black holes of alternative perspectives which they don’t cover, don’t fill me full of confidence that this isn’t the precise plan. And if my hypothesis is correct and yours is wrong, this means that you are the useful idiot, and not I.

Let’s wait and see. I remain as always joana and Fletch open to persuasion that my position is in fact completely mental as I hope you and others also remain open to a similar potential with respect to your positions.
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April 9, 2011 5:47pm
The Hoff

TV3’s ‘The Nation’ seems to have problems with bias and factual reporting…
http://wp.me/p1rzNS-8Z
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April 9, 2011 5:47pm
Manolo

What did Double Dipton English smoke? The poor guy cannot even handle his own portfolio and is trying to take on Australia!

It’s time for him to retire and make room for new talent (not that he has any).

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10718151

It’s time to take on the Aussies, says English

More competition, rather than collaboration, should drive the transtasman economic relationship, Finance Minister Bill English says.

Throwing down the gauntlet in a speech yesterday to the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum, the annual gathering of business leaders and officials dedicated to advancing the relationship in general and the Single Economic Market in particular, English stressed the need to compete with Australia and the advantages the country has in doing so.
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April 9, 2011 5:49pm
Manolo

Corporate cronysim practiced by smile-and-wave.

Key changes tack over meeting with broadcaster

Prime Minister John Key has done an about-face after denying he had a discussion with MediaWorks bosses before the Government decided to give the company a $43.3 million helping hand.

He has now admitted meeting then-MediaWorks boss Brent Impey two months before, when Mr Impey pressed his case for a scheme the Government initially turned down. The scheme, announced in October 2009, allowed radio companies to spread payments on 20-year broadcasting licences over five years, instead of one lump-sum payment.

On Monday, in answer to written parliamentary questions, Mr Key said he had not had any discussions with MediaWorks, which owns TV3 and a network of radio stations. But on Wednesday, he issued a correction, saying he “ran into Brent Impey at a social event [in August] where he briefly raised the issue”.
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April 9, 2011 5:52pm
Yvette

Despite Reid’s “Penny it’s now more than 1.5 hours since anyone made a comment on a Saturday GD, following your last missive.”

Penny  –
All this 9/11 stuff is about a decade old and what expectation can you have that any of it will be better resolved when the USA cannot bring to light even just one particular birth certificate.

Of greater concern to you should be the reputed case being researched quietly for Tuhoe, who never signed the ambiguous 1840 Treaty but another document which in English DOES grant them tino rangatiratanga, self-governorship – a case that is said will in the next few years go all the way to the Supreme Court, with implications entirely greater than anything the City of London Corporation or Israel Lobby have in mind for New Zealand. Waterpressure? You’ve seen nothing …
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April 9, 2011 6:03pm
Manolo

All you conspiracy theorist haters should read up about the 9/11 commission.

mb, I know the perfect, ideal girl for you. It will be a match made in heaven.
Name Penny, surname Bright (what a joke!)

The tin foil wedding gowns will make history.
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April 9, 2011 6:18pm
nasska

Reid @ 4.46pm

It’s going to get worse before it gets better. In another 15 days our screens will be full of full stops & waffling. You don’t by any chance know where one can buy a mouse with a scroll wheel fitted with replaceable ball bearings ?
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April 9, 2011 7:02pm
Yvette

We could ask DPF if WordPress has a feature that compresses double spaced lines into single. There is likely something like that. Less bloody scrolling.
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April 9, 2011 7:06pm
bhudson

Penny / Magic Bullet,

9/11 truth and the “smoking gun” proof.

Take a trip to Dealey Plaza, Dallas. You’ll find The grass there
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April 9, 2011 7:29pm
reid

Of greater concern to you should be the reputed case being researched quietly for Tuhoe, who never signed the ambiguous 1840 Treaty but another document which in English DOES grant them tino rangatiratanga, self-governorship – a case that is said will in the next few years go all the way to the Supreme Court, with implications entirely greater than anything the City of London Corporation or Israel Lobby have in mind for New Zealand.

Really?

Crikey.

Boy lucky we don’t have the best legal brains in the Western world to refer to anymore, isn’t it. Those Wellington people will be able to sort it out, much much better. Stands to reason.

It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

No it’s not nasska. It’ll be great fun. Lots of kicking bottoms and writing names down.
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April 9, 2011 7:30pm
Yvette

“Boy lucky we don’t have the best legal brains in the Western world to refer to anymore, isn’t it. Those Wellington people will be able to sort it out, much much better. Stands to reason.

What do you think they were waiting for.
The Privy Council, being the Colonial Mother Land, would never wear it, but the Supreme Court in Wellington … just look at its facade for starters. Be very frightened.
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April 9, 2011 7:36pm
reid

I think at the end of the day Yvette even the Supreme Court is going to discover they are subject to higher authority. It can’t be tolerated and won’t be allowed. Period.

Unfortunately, it would be a lot easier if we could’ve simply blamed the poms, but the silly lefties took that away didn’t they. The big sillies.

Not to mention they took away all of the vast vast vast vast vast vast wisdom to be absorbed for free in all other areas but let’s not even go there no sirree.

just look at its facade for starters

Combined with its reflecting pools presumably so the Justices can see themselves as they look through the windows at lunchtime, it’s a bit of building alright.

Seriously, if you want my opinion, I think it’s an execrable statement of contempt. A very poor cousin indeed to the majesty and might of the Parliamentary Complex, is the new Supreme Court, for those who have seen it in context.

Reflective really, more of the desperate almost fanatical desire of the 5th Liarbore govt to break the traditional bonds of friendship and comradeship that had bound various nations together for generations. Hulun snapped that in a heartbeat, in various ways, strand by strand.

The Privy Council was the heart-strand, the only one which was out of influence and could also kill her and more importantly, her long term plans that continue here for decades to come. It had to go.

I blame the reef-fish myself. Those fucking morons…
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April 9, 2011 8:16pm
Mary Rose

bhudson (1,102) Says:
April 9th, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Penny / Magic Bullet,
9/11 truth and the “smoking gun” proof.
Take a trip to Dealey Plaza, Dallas. You’ll find The grass there

Everyone knows it was Elvis (actually a descendant of Jesus) who shot JFK. Using a fluoride-tipped bullet.

And 9/11 wasn’t real but staged on the moon (you can tell from the flags). By the Illuminati and space aliens.

😉
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April 9, 2011 9:42pm
bhudson

Mary Rose,

I heard that Elvis’s motive was that JFK was planning to suppress his discoveries of a carburetor capable of using water to power an internal combustion engine, along with lightwave treatment for cancer and also an ability to deliver a wireless electricity grid.

Apparently the secret documents proving all of this were safely hidden for years under the World Trade Center buildings in NYC…
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April 9, 2011 9:55pm
Bobbie black

Massive hangover (from two liters of beer)…sunny day again but decided not to go back today.
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April 9, 2011 10:03pm
Still_Watchin_Ya_All

Second bulletin from Mshattan:

Greetings to left-leaning, politically correct patriots of Aotearoa of male, female, and in-between.

The H team is pleased to hear there will be imminent consideration by the Geographic Place Names board – Ngä Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa — of the names, the “South Island” and the “North Island”. These are just, plain boring. Te Wai Pounamu will be a mouthful for South Island, though.If only the Maori had compasses. We could then have just dropped in Maori for these names.

We have the real coup for Maori though. We will introduce an alternative Maori name for the United Nations! We will release this in due course.

In the meantime, the tired old “South Island” and “North Island” should go.For the good of Labour it is fit that this is done under a National Government. It won’t earn National any more National votes, because the Maori Party is now kaputu as the Maori Battalion would say. In fact, a secret hooray for National. These name changes will prove a vote for National is a vote for the Maori Party.

The Place Names Board is a glorious example of socialism and third world resurgence in action. How stupid to think dim ordinary citizens should think the names they have created for geographic features should continue, particularly those of the two main islands of NZ.Only the wise in government have the right to decide geographic names. The commies can be rats, but they have things like this right.

The two Maori names will likely be Te Ika a Maui for the North Island and, as I’ve already mentioned, Te Wai Pounamu for the South Island. The H1 team earnestly hope the board will also rename Stewart Island Te Punga o Te Waka a Maui.

Sadly, Te Reo is threatened as a living language. The number of fulltime speakers continues to fall. But we will have it adopted as the secret working tongue of the United Nations. It will become the lingua franca of the UN. This secret inside track will give Kiwis, especially Maori, inside running for jobs at the UN. We also plan to get Maori techniques and wisdom adopted for settling of koha from riff-raff countries to the UN.

Within NZ, thanks to the Geographic Place Names Board, Maori will survive like Ancient Egyptian in place names, even if day-to-day oral use dies. The macron over some letters will stimulate tourist interest in colonial grammar and create work for sign writers and software engineers. However it is critical that all signposts, now wooden, be replaced by carved stone signs. Otherwise Te Reo may rot away with the Pinus radiata.

To reiterate, it gladdens this old socialist heart to hear Maori will reclaim naming rights of NZ’s main islands. It’s certainly time we stomped on the whitey majority who have had this privilege to themselves and came up with the utilitarian “north” and “south”. It’s a wonder they didnt’ just call Wellington the Centre.

As for the Geographic place names membership. Three of the 10 members are Maori, appropriately higher than the Maori portion of the population. Ngai Tahu, with fewer than 50,000 members on the tribe’s blood register, and perhaps fewer than 40,000, appropriately has the right to an appointee.

H3 has suggested I supply this information.

Geographic Place Name Board members are:

1. The surveyor-general, Don Grant.

2. Sylvia Allan, a professional planner.

3. Tipene O’Regan, an appointee of Ngai Tahu.

4. Wharehuia Milroy, who is appointed by the Minister of Maori Affairs.

5. David Barnes, representing the Federated Mountain Clubs.

6. Kay Booth, a tourism and recreation consultant.

7. Apirana Mahuika, an appoint of the Minister of Maori Affairs.

8. Professor Michale Roche, nominanted by the Geographical Society

9. Geoff Howard, of LINZ.

10. Kerry Marshall, the Local Government NZ nominee.

What an august group to decide the names for our islands. Aotearoa will be next stop, then renaming Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, and Dunedin. Bloody honky names!

Bye my loyal home-country fans! Or shouldn’t is be saying, Haere ra!

H1
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April 9, 2011 10:21pm
nasska

I was having a nightmare where I found myself nude in bed, and I was looking at a mirror on the ceiling and I discovered that I am a ginger.
Quickly I sat up, found my pants and looked in the pockets to find my driver’s licence photo and it was that same colour, ginger.
I felt myself being very depressed, downcast, sitting in a chair. But it’s a wheelchair. That means, of course, besides being ginger, I’m also disabled. I said to myself, aloud “This is impossible! It’s impossible that I should be ginger and disabled”
“It’s the pure and holy truth,” whispers someone from behind me. I turn around, and it’s my boyfriend. Just what I needed. I am a homosexual and on top of that, with an Australian boyfriend.
Oh my God. Ginger, disabled, gay with an Australian boyfriend and HIV-positive.
The telephone rings. it’s my brother. He is saying, ‘Since Mum and Dad died the only thing you do is hang out, take drugs, and laze around all day doing nothing. Get a job you worthless arsehole’
Mum? Dad? Nooooo … Now I’m also an unemployed orphan. I try to explain to my brother how hard it is to find a job when you are ginger, disabled, gay with an Australian boyfriend, are a drug addict, HIV positive and an orphan, but he doesn’t get it.
Frustrated, I hang up. With tears in my eyes, I go to the window to look out. I see I live in a State Housing slum area. There is rubbish everywhere.
Besides being ginger, disabled, a fairy with an Australian boyfriend, a drug addict, HIV positive, orphaned & unemployed, I live in a shitty neighbourhood.
At that very moment my boyfriend approaches and says to me, ‘Sweetie pie, my love, my little ginger heartthrob, it’s time to go. The Hurricanes game starts in an hour.’
Say it isn’t so!!! I can handle being a ginger, disabled, drug-addicted, homosexual who is HIV positive, orphaned, unemployed & lives in a slum, & has an Australian boyfriend. But please don’t tell me I support the Hurricanes.
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April 9, 2011 10:27pm
Bobbie black

I see the Maori have managed to make a racial issue out of the Aronui post-quake help issue.

Up the Iwi!
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April 9, 2011 10:38pm
Bobbie black

@Nasska, nice one, very entertaining.
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April 9, 2011 10:41pm
Manolo

Another affront to the taxpayer. If this does not constiute troughing and utter waste of money, what does?

Labour MPs Pete Hodgson and Su’a William Sio are off to Mexico and Panama next week.

They will have meetings with Mexican politicians, before attending the 124th Inter-Parliamentary Assembly in Panama City.
Speaker Lockwood Smith says the trip is a chance to strengthen trade and economic links, and share knowledge on parliamentary best practice. The pair returns on April 20th.
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April 10, 2011 6:37am
joana

Reid,
You are still dreaming. To a certain extent I envy you your naivete. Mine was destroyed years ago when I lived in an islamic country. Do you really think you are going to read about every islamic threat in your local rag? Have you any idea just how many islamic threats occur in Aussie? No of course not..and what of the codger in AK who had designs on Sydney’s nuclear plant? Whatever happened to him? Well of course we don’t know..Last I heard he was not in jail but was being allowed to continue his fight with NZ immigration.
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April 10, 2011 8:45am
publicwatchdog

# reid (6,721) Says:
April 9th, 2011 at 4:46 pm

Penny it’s now more than 1.5 hours since anyone made a comment on a Saturday GD, following your last missive.

Does this tell you anything at all or not really?”

Given that I prefer to ‘seek truth from facts’, and ‘presume nothing – check everything’ – I don’t know why the ‘poster’ boyz and grrls appear to have been stunned into silence after reading my very ‘hard-hitting’ and eminently sensible post, calling for a ‘partial rates revolt’ – “NO RATE INCREASE$!” as a key policy in my Howick by-election campaign.

Perhaps those who normally ‘comment’ have had to have a nice cuppa and a lie down, because they are SO upset that they can’t vote for me because they don’t live in the Auckland Council Howick Ward?

🙂

(That’s ok all you poor little goldfish.

Don’t be sad.

You can always pass on the message to others who DO live in the Howick Ward:)

Or, they (you) know that what I am saying is exactly right, but because so many of you are such a mean-spirited lot, you can’t possibly bring yourselves to publicly agree with what I am saying?

(Tricky isn’t it?

So many of you presumably hate RATE INCREASE$ on principle, but you can’t bear to support, or be seen to support the one candidate who is in the best position by far to actually help do something to stop this 4.9% proposed Auckland Council rate increase?

How dumb is THAT? 🙂

It seems that so many of you, haven’t yet learned the secret to being politically effective – which is to work on an ‘issue by issue’ basis, in order to maximise political unity, while agreeing to disagree in a civilised manner on points of difference.

Those of you with some intelligence, who haven’t already, will eventually pick this up this politically VERY HANDY HINT – which I have provided for free (situation normal).

Have a LOVELY day!

(I’m going to be a busy little bee, getting election hoardings prepared – that sort of thing……….

Anyone who wants to help can get contact details from my blog.

http://waterpressure.wordpress.com

If you want more background information on the underpinning issues which help explain how the Auckland $UPERCITY is a SUPER RIPOFF – try checking out:

http://www.stopthesupercity.org.nz
http://www.pennybright4mayor.org.nz

You will see that some of us have been ‘blowing the whistle until our eyeballs bleed’ and have been trying to warn folks for over the last five years about the proposed corporate takeover of the Auckland region.

History has a habit of proving who was right and who was wrong……………

Ask that calm, dispassionate, even-tempered, level-headed ‘ Murray, who always gives a reasoned opinion based on FACTS and EVIDENCE (as you would expect from someone who claims to be a (military?’) historian.

🙂

Penny Bright
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Kiwipolitico
This will not end well
Offsetting Behaviour
Top 14 Predictions for Round 10
Stats Chat
Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet
The Civilian
The Accidental Engagement
Imperator Fish
Making this movie might have been a mistake
Liam Hehir
Why I am retiring from political blogging
Kiwi FireWalker
Angie Warren-Clark: Meet the Newbies
Dan Moskovitz