General Debate 17 March 2013

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barry

Am Interested in the disagreements and arguements over the film “Argo”

The film itself matters not – its the attitude of the americans which doesnt often show itself so blatantly.
From what I understand the NZ embassy were quite involved in helping some of the US staff. But apparently in the film the NZ help not only wasnt just ignored – but seemingly wriiten off as though it never happened and in fact I read that the sentiment in the film is that the NZ (and others) embassy were a problem.

Typical USA attitude. Not only will they ignore facts – they want to re-write history.

The “Land of the free” – bullshit. The only Free thing is that you are free to agree with and go along with the Government and its various institutions and branches – and what they think.

If i were you DPF – Id not let on when on your trip – that you promote the idea of Free speech. Youll never be allowed to leave the airport if you do

(except for the centre of the country – a different world. For some reason those living within 200 miles of the Mississippi are sort of normal, rational people. They do think that they are the centre of the universe, but in a relatively innocent way. Those on both coasts are just plain dangerous.)
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March 17, 2013 8:18am
Keeping Stock

Lovely to wake up to the sound of rain on the roof this morning. There hasn’t been much so far, but whatever we get will be gratefully received.
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March 17, 2013 8:19am
southtop

Something is wrong with our sky, it has been leaking
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March 17, 2013 8:20am
barry

Well – youre obviously not in the waikato – still as dry as a witches tit here.
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March 17, 2013 8:23am
Pete George

The Greens continue to conjure up a credibility crapping crisis.

Is there a crisis in manufacturing? Hell yes.

And part of that crisis is due to the fact that National and its lackeys refuse to acknowledge the problem.

There was a far more realistic response to that:

I have to disagree with the word “crisis”. This has the implication of something, sudden, unexpected, adverse, and in need of a urgent solution.

I think the word “trend” is more appropriate. There has been a long-term trend, as in many other western countries, for manufacturing to be relocated to countries that provide cheaper labour rates for mass production (e.g. China et al.). The currency situation doesn’t help. But it isn’t the cause.

I worked in manufacturing in the 1980s in a company that closed due to international competition. I went on to work for Fisher & Paykel, in the Taieri factory they closed in 2008 during the last Labour Government reign.

Once again the opposition are Manufacturing a crisis.
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March 17, 2013 8:40am
wat dabney

Cheap energy is fundamentally transforming US manufacturing and we saw just like week that Japan expects the same result from its success in exploiting methane gas hydrates (a “game changer.”)

The Greens seek to effectively prohibit cheap energy in NZ, whilst at the same time shedding these crocodile tears about the effects.

How do they sleep at night?
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March 17, 2013 8:56am
Simon

“Cypriots reacted with shock that turned to panic on Saturday after a 10% one-off levy on savings was forced on them as part of an extraordinary 10bn euro (£8.7bn) bailout agreed in Brussels.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/16/cyprus-savings-levy-imposed-eurozone

NZ has the same type of turds running this country. Govt the crashing interest rates, bloated govt spending and govt money printing. (Bill English is just a big of money printer as Wussel Norman wants to be. It is there on the Reserve Bank bal sheet)

The savers are being fucked over at the expense of govt spending and property speculation. From savings come capital formation and then wealth and job creation. National govt are setting the economy up for the kill when they hand it over the Labor/Greens / NZfirst they will complete the train wreck.

There is no difference between John Key or Wussel Norman. The effect will be the same. John Key is just another statist anti social turd. If in doubt see Europe.
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March 17, 2013 9:08am
Komata

wat d

Re: ‘How do they sleep at night?’

Very easily! They sleep the sleep of ‘the righteous and the just’; They are ‘righteous’ and we (the non-gweens) are ‘just’ misguided.

BUT, don’t forget, when the gweens are in power the ‘misguided’ will all be ‘re-educated’ as there can be no non-conformists who dare to disagree with ‘the righteous’ (ie, those ‘ordained’ gaia to protect her).

Hope that answers the question
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March 17, 2013 9:14am
Kea

The Greens seek to effectively prohibit cheap energy in NZ, whilst at the same time shedding these crocodile tears about the effects.

How do they sleep at night?

Their motivation is not environmental, it is political. They use the environment to promote socialism, that is their goal.
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March 17, 2013 9:17am
Longknives

Looks like New Zealand are going to be saved by rain at the Basin Reserve…
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March 17, 2013 9:45am
Pauleastbay

Why are people getting their tits in such a tangle over a movie ” Argo”?

Is it because new Zeland may have been misrepresented and we are an insecure precious little country?

The last time I looked I didn’t see a rider at the beginning of the movie that said ” This is a documentary and everything in here is true”

FFS , its a movie.

How much traction does the estate of Ronald Hugh Morriesson get if it bitches about how badly his books are transferred to the screen?

New Zealand film makers have never taken any liberties in their movies? i.e Aramoana and the Rainbow Warrior.
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March 17, 2013 9:50am
Pauleastbay

Looks like New Zealand are going to be saved by rain at the Basin Reserve…

February is generally the most settled month of good weather, generally anyway, so NZ cricket puts all the hit and giggle shit on in February- then when real cricket is to be played they schedule them for March, not only March but Dunedin in march and expect to get 5 days uninterrupted play. .

That crowd at the basin yesterday was fantastic, played in february they would have had similar crowds for 5 days ( if it lasted that long)
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March 17, 2013 9:54am
hj

@ Watt:

“as John Westwood, chairman of the energy consulting firm Douglas-Westwood, explained in a slide presentation, it is becoming exceedingly difficult to add new oil production capacity. Some $2.4 trillion in oil industry capital expenditures from 1994 to 2004 increased the worldwide rate of oil production by 12 million barrels per day. However, $2.4 trillion in capital expenditures spent from 2005 to 2010 resulted in a decrease in the rate of oil production of 200,000 barrels per day. (See slide 8 of Westwood’s presentation.)”

http://www.slideshare.net/DouglasWestwood/sns2012-1-mar-2012-jw-slideshare
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March 17, 2013 9:57am
Jimbob

Rodney Hide’s string of good posts has been broken. I do not know what has happened to him over the last week, but he has strayed to the negative side of life. In his column in the NZ Herald he has gone way out into left field to describe how the underclass is picked on by NZ Governments. He has most of his points wrong, with maybe the housing one being half right. Rodney’s effort would be a D- in my book, but an A+ for any teacher.
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March 17, 2013 10:00am
big bruv

Wellingtonians….

Can you please give us cricket tragics an update on the current weather situation.
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March 17, 2013 10:00am
Keeping Stock

@ Pauleastbay – I disagree. In past summers, February, March and often April provide us with our most settled weather.
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March 17, 2013 10:35am
Pauleastbay

Point is KS

Why have the tests when the weather is likely to be changable i.e pissing down like it is in Auckland at the moment with a test starting on Thursday. The only positive is NZC will be able to say they drew a series with England!!!!!

There will a statistican out there that will confirm there is always weather disruption when they are played this late
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March 17, 2013 10:39am
Keeping Stock

When England last toured (early 2008 from memory) the test series was played at an identical time to this, in brilliant weather. For at least the past ten seasons we have played home test matches in March. Unfortunately as one of the lower echelon of test nations, we can’t pick and choose when top teams tour here.

The good news is that the forecast for Auckland for later in the week is good, and as bad luck would have it, I will be doing business up there for the duration of the match from offices within walking distance of the Garden of Eden 😀
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March 17, 2013 10:43am
Pauleastbay

Nice, corporate box or down and dirty with a us plebs?

I’m out of town for the start but will make saturday- Sunday
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March 17, 2013 10:49am
Scott Chris

Extinct frog species may be on the verge of resurrection:

In what may be considered an early Easter miracle, an extinct species of Australian frog has begun its rise from the dead.

Australian scientists have grown embryos containing the revived DNA of the extinct gastric-brooding frog, the crucial first step in their attempt to bring a species back to life.
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March 17, 2013 10:58am
Viking2

Clarkson loves NZ; thinks ‘God made a mistake’

Sunday, 17, Mar, 2013 10:10AM

Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson is gushing about New Zealand in his latest column for London’s Sunday Times.

He was in the country briefly last week filming an episode involving a race from Coromandel to the Far North, between a car and an America’s Cup boat.

In his column he says New Zealand is “absolutely stunning … bite the back of your hand to stop yourself from crying out loud; lovely.”

He says God has made a mistake choosing the Middle East as his religious base, and it should be Godzone.

Children, in Clarkson’s opinion, should be singing ‘Oh Little Town of Wellington’ at Christmas, and Jesus would be from Palmerston North.
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March 17, 2013 11:08am
Pauleastbay

If he was born in Palmerston North V2 he would have nailed himself to the cross.!!!!!!!!!
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March 17, 2013 11:11am
TimG_Oz

I actually thought that was a joke reference to the high number of Born Again Christians in the Manawatu!
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March 17, 2013 11:13am
lilman

First a frog bought back to life.Maybe next we may get a scientist who can determine if the labour party has any DNA worth recovering.
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March 17, 2013 11:19am
Keeping Stock

Cheap seats Paul; I plan to watch the match from a different place each day. Then again, if someone is so kind as to invite me to some high place for a bit of corporate hospitality, I won’t turn them down 😛 I also plan to sit with or near the Barmy Army one afternoon for a bit of comic relief.

Perhaps we need to organise some sort of bloggers’ gathering for a quiet ale or two…
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March 17, 2013 11:20am
bereal

“George Orwell once said that some ideas are so foolish that only an intellectual could
believe them. Multiculturalism is one of those ideas.”

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell031513.php3

i wonder if even the misguided Fabian Socialist Helen Clark still believes multiculturalism is
a good concept.

Is there anyone left who still believes that muslim immigration into western societies is
a good idea ?

(over 40,000 muslims now imported into New Zealand and still counting)

It will end in tears.
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March 17, 2013 11:20am
Viking2

Well he is from Palmy isn’t he. He changed his name to Maharey. Both sactimonous pricks.
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March 17, 2013 11:21am
Pauleastbay

of bloggers’ gathering for a quiet ale or two

that works, if you are posting from the ground we could gather.
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March 17, 2013 11:22am
Viking2

So who has had or got rain?
We have had a coup[le of hours of showers during the night. Overcast, muggy and warm today.

here’s how it looks from above.

http://www.metvuw.com/radar/radar.php?location=nz
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March 17, 2013 11:22am
Viking2

Looking at this their might be a bit of cold stuff coming up the back pasage in a couple of days time.

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/largec.html?area=4&element=0&mode=UTC
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March 17, 2013 11:28am
RF

Quick get me a bucket. Todd Blackadder is now praising Guilford for coming back into the family fold as they missed him and for giving the Crusaders a motivating speech prior to their win last night.

This is the same guy that was spouting forth a couple of months ago that Guilford had committed a serious breach and was gone for the rugby season.

Pure bloody self serving crap.
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March 17, 2013 11:33am
Judith

The god lord has seen fit to deny us of the much needed moisture.
I suspect it has something to do with the gay marriage thingy – he is ensuring when he submits copious quantities of fire and brimstone upon us, it will ignite the parched landscape and this country of heathens will die a fiery death for our wanton ways – or something similar.

Personally I think it has more to do with forgetfulness. This drought is part of living in Godzone. I remember summers like this as a child – as farmers we took due precautions to ensure there was plenty of feed for the herd. The waste water was collected and sprayed over the gardens and instead of baths we washed in a close to disappearing water hole. Of course no one cared if your car was a bit dirty back then, and wearing the same T-shirt two days in a row wasn’t a mortal sin.

The so-called agriculturists of today have got greedy. They overstock their land, they can’t harvest enough feed for their herds, and when we are given glorious summer weather – they are caught with their knickers round their ankles.

Greed is a funny thing – in winter we pray for long hot summers, and when we get what we asked for – we don’t know how to handle it – despite having farmed this land for more than a century, we still seem surprised when it performs just as it always has. A forgetful lot us humans.

Nothing has changed, now we watch the radars, as our forefathers watched the horizon for much needed rain. The one difference is though, back then we used to win the cricket.
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March 17, 2013 11:35am
Griff

Rain in the big smoke v2 about 2mm an hour .

We need at least 100mm over the next few weeks to get some growth for winter.

If you are driving watch out those roads are slippery as a politicians promise.
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March 17, 2013 11:39am
Tauhei Notts

Jimbob at 10.00 a.m.
I disagree with you.
I thought Rodney Hide’s column was one of his best.
It is there to remind us that Act was not the party for the wealthy; it was the party for the battlers who wanted to get ahead in life. Battlers that have it tough because of the entrenched privilege in our country.
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March 17, 2013 12:00pm
Keeping Stock

@ Pauleastbay – will make contact via FB later in the week 😀
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March 17, 2013 12:13pm
joana

For Bereal and others interested in Muslims in NZ..There is an excellent article , Tolerating Intolerance , in the April North and South. It exposes what many muslims in NZ think and believe as well as exposing the sale of seriously , objectionable reading materials in islamic shops in NZ. It vindicates Richard Prosser and makes the people who gave muslims in NZ the thumbs up in our parliament , look like uninformed , abject fools , which is of course what they are.
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March 17, 2013 12:20pm
UglyTruth

It vindicates Richard Prosser

How does it do that, Joana?
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March 17, 2013 12:25pm
joana

Read it..it does not address the flight issue but it addresses many others..stonings , beatings , beheadings , how to divorce a child bride etc..
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March 17, 2013 12:51pm
UglyTruth

Read it

So actually it doesn’t. Why would Prosser apologize if he was vindicated by the facts?
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March 17, 2013 1:10pm
Rodders

UglyTruth – If you are hoping that joana might admit that anything she has proclaimed is not a statement of indisputable fact, I am yet to see it.
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March 17, 2013 1:14pm
Rodders

joana is a Winston supporter. Everything is part of a grand conspiracy (and anyone who disagrees with her must be ignorant.)
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March 17, 2013 1:18pm
Viking2

Judith (1,763) Says:
March 17th, 2013 at 11:35 am

they are caught with their knickers round their ankles.
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sounds like the farmers daughter in the hay shed.

Horny young Farmers and Farmesses. 😎 😆
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March 17, 2013 1:25pm
UglyTruth

Rodders,
If a man said what Joana said then my response wouldn’t be as mild. The Quran says you should show kindness to women.
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March 17, 2013 1:31pm
Rodders

The Quran says you should show kindness to women

It probably doesn’t say anything about kindness to Winston supporters, though 😉
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March 17, 2013 1:34pm
Scott Chris

We need at least 100mm over the next few weeks to get some growth for winter.

I wouldn’t have thought rain would make any difference to your indoor crops Griff 😉
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March 17, 2013 2:45pm
Pete George

It vindicates Richard Prosser and makes the people who gave muslims in NZ the thumbs up in our parliament , look like uninformed , abject fools , which is of course what they are.

Do you mean the old Richard Prosser? Or the new Richard Prosser, the one who has become tolerant to NZ Muslims, talking with them, visiting to them, eating with them, trying to understand them?
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March 17, 2013 3:14pm
Viking2

Now here is a politican on a mission with the guts to get it done. Key should give him a call.

Queensland government sells half stake in coal transporter Aurizon

by: Lisa Macnamara
From: The Australian
March 17, 2013 11:21AM

THE Queensland Government is selling half of its stake in Australia’s largest coal transporter by rail Aurizon Holdings for around $806 million.

Proceeds from the sale of 200 million shares at $4.03 each will go towards paying down debt, Treasurer Tim Nicholls said, and will see the state’s holding in Aurizon fall to 8.9 per cent from 18.2 per cent. The move by the government comes as Premier Campbell Newman is aiming to win back the state’s AAA credit rating and return the budget to surplus in 2014-15.
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March 17, 2013 3:31pm
Pete George

An interesting angle to Solid Energy’s ‘Perfect Storm’ from Andrew McMillan:

The term “perfect storm” was popularised by the 2000 movie of the same title, staring Geroge Clooney.

Desperate for money and with only one last chance to haul a catch for the season, Tyne takes his boat out past his usual fishing grounds. After finally getting a good catch, the boat’s ice machine breaks down and Tyne is faced with heading straight home before his catch spoils. The only problem is that a massive storm system (the “perfect storm”) is in his path. Despite many warnings, Tyne decides to take it on, with dire consequences; the boat goes down and no one survives.

It was a story of desperation, greed, and recklessness.

In consideration, it might actually be a better metaphor than the four abovementioned realised?

http://www.mcmillan.org.nz/2013/03/solid-energys-perfect-storm/
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March 17, 2013 3:38pm
Reid

Interesting science: water under gravity replicating sine wave motion from sound from a speaker.

http://www.youtube.com/brusspup

Interesting esoterica: most people won’t get this, but one or two might.

http://downloads.umu.nu/Books/Michael.A.Hoffman.II–Secret.Societies.And.Psychological.Warfare.%5B1992%5D.pdf
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March 17, 2013 4:05pm
All_on_Red

Just had earthquake tremors in Auckland. Either that or Dotcom has just gone outside
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March 17, 2013 4:08pm
Grant

Just felt ’em here in West Auckland too. First time in years.
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March 17, 2013 4:09pm
Griff

3.9 . 5km depth. 15km north east of Auckland..
March 17 2013 at 4:05:42 pm.
http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/

Auckland is over due for a volcano.
500 years between our 40+volcanoes.
600 since the last eruption.
God is pissed about the gay marriage thingy……

😆
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March 17, 2013 4:15pm
thedavincimode

Either that or Dotcom has just gone outside

Perhaps he slipped on a pie.
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March 17, 2013 4:18pm
Manolo

For the resident pothead: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2294560/The-great-green-1-The-hard-proof-finally-shows-global-warming-forecasts-costing-billions-WRONG-along.html
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March 17, 2013 4:22pm
Griff

To slow manalulu
love the way you always think of me though
Just keep it to KB…..EH….
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March 17, 2013 4:25pm
Pete George

‏@lancewiggs
It’s all fine Auckland. It’s not like it was centered on a volcano or anything.
https://twitter.com/lancewiggs/status/313125734002606080/photo/1
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March 17, 2013 4:31pm
skyblue

I survived the Auckland earthquake.
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March 17, 2013 5:07pm
Viking2

Its confirmed as true.
Aucklanders are sissies.
Two tiny jolts and the world is ending.

As a matter of interest did the jolts move the two islands further apart. i.e. the North Island proper and the Northern Island of the North Island.

Is the motorway closed cause the bridge collapsed into the ManuKau mudflat ?

You did ask.
The first was a 3.7 magnitude 65km northeast of Auckland at 4pm which was 23km deep.

The second, five minutes later, was a magnitude four and was just 6km deep. It was centred 15km east of Auckland putting under Motutapu Island, near Rangitoto Island, in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf.

Both were considered “moderate” by Geonet.

So far, the quakes had only triggered fire alarms, but they were felt from Waiheke Island to Rodney district north of Auckland.

Even the Dotcom mansion, the home of internet millionaire Kim Dotcom was affected.

“Dotcom Mansion is shaking. Small #earthquake. Two in a row. No kidding. Not my fault. I’m in bed,” he tweeted.
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March 17, 2013 5:30pm
Reid

Another link that few will get but some might.

http://www.zengardner.com/avenge-tesla-and-end-supression-once-and-for-all/

If you’re not aware of Tesla and who can blame you if you’re not, this is a good starting point:

http://www.amazon.com/Tesla-Man-Time-Margaret-Cheney/dp/0743215362
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March 17, 2013 5:49pm
Dirty Rat

John Key has reported that Labour had NINE LONG YEARS to fix Auckland’s Earthquake problem

Fuck Labour

oh yeah Fuck Len Brown, his fault too
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March 17, 2013 5:58pm
Joseph Carpenter

I’m surprised more people aren’t commenting with Simon at 9.08am about whats taking place in Cyprus. Basically their government in collusion with the banks under EU orders have secretly flat out stolen 10% of peoples savings in bank accounts during a bank holiday. This has definitely crossed a line. When (and if?) the banks open there will be a bank run in Cyprus though apparently there are secret capital and currency controls now in place, expect violence. The rest of the eurozone will also be watching this, and if I was in Greece, Spain, Italy etc I would be seriously considering withdrawing all my savings at the first opportunity. This could be the beginning of the end for the global financial and economic system.
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March 17, 2013 6:10pm
Johnboy

Joseph Carpenter….You weren’t Jesus’s stepfather by any chance? 🙂
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March 17, 2013 6:14pm
Joseph Carpenter

I can neither confirm or deny re JC’s parentage but I can say I certainly wasn’t his Godfather.
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March 17, 2013 6:33pm
publicwatchdog

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/judge-jock-secrets-inner-bar-ja-p-13716

Yep!

Until there is

1) An ENFORCEABLE ‘Code of Conduct’ for NZ Judges (preferably based upon the Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct)

2) A Register of Pecuniary Interests for NZ Judges.

3) It is mandatory to record Court proceedings and make copies available to parties who request them –

then your ‘just-released one-page blog ruling says simply:

“We’re in charge… We’ll say and do what we damned well like!!!”

is actually never a truer word said in jest (regarding NZ Judges).

Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’
2013 Auckland Mayoral candidate.
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March 17, 2013 6:41pm
Johnboy

All my sheep have strayed since my old barbed wire rusted out. 🙂
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March 17, 2013 6:46pm
Rodders

Were the shakes caused by Penny’s megaphone?
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March 17, 2013 7:14pm
Steve (North Shore)

6KM under Motutapu, the sacred Island or sanctuary.
Wait for it, this is gonna cost the Council heaps to appease
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March 17, 2013 7:16pm
nasska

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y7lviyoxz0nxz1g/Job.jpg
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March 17, 2013 7:48pm
nasska

Doctors are not touting one major side effect of the
impotency drug Viagra. Men are forced to make
conversation for an hour before the pill kicks in.
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March 17, 2013 8:00pm
Rodders

nasska – reminds me of the old one

A man goes into the chemist and asks for some viagra.
’Have you got a prescription,’ the chemist asks him.
’No, but will a picture of my wife do?’
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March 17, 2013 8:04pm
bereal

Speaking of a tosspot of a person.

Who made the statement in the New Zealand parliament,

“I have led a totally innocent and blameless life” ?

And this fuckwit was actually being serious when he said it.

Can you guess who was that member who rated himself a saint?
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March 17, 2013 8:10pm
nasska

Plans are afoot to make lessons about sex and relationships compulsory in all NZ’s schools from ages five to sixteen.

A spokesman said: “Girls will be taught the importance of establishing confidence and stability in a relationship before suddenly changing their minds.
“Whereas boys will be taught how to let it all wash over them.”

Exam papers will be astonishingly easy. For girls the answer to every question will be “Oh nothing!” and for boys it will be “Fuck this shit, I’m off to the pub.”
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March 17, 2013 8:11pm
Rodders

bereal – It wasn’t Winston, was it?
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March 17, 2013 8:12pm
Yvette

Johnboy – All my sheep have strayed since my old barbed wire rusted out.

How the hell did that happen – Penny is supposed to be all about Anti-Corruption of any sort.
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March 17, 2013 8:19pm
bereal

Rodders, no.

Not even Winston is that far up himself.

Clue. This tosspot was a minister in Helen Clarks government.
He saw the writing on the wall and bailed out to look after himself just before the last election.
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March 17, 2013 8:20pm
Viking2

The first Hawkes Bay meeting is now confirmed for 7pm on Tuesday April 9 in the Havelock North Community Centre, 30 Te Mata Road.

Organising the April 9 meeting is none other than Hawkes Bay Ranfurly Shield era player, captain, coach and administrator Dr Tom Johnson.

here’s a recent story about him completing his PhD at the age of 74.

And the man who led Chris Tremain’s campaign team in 2005 when he defied the odds to win Napier for National was…?

http://treatygate.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/hawkes-bay-meeting-7pm-tuesday-april-9-havelock-north-community-centre/

He’s one of six former National Party chairs that say the members have had a gutsful of Key and Finlayson’s surrender of New Zealand by stealth.
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March 17, 2013 8:25pm
Viking2

bereal (2,437) Says:
March 17th, 2013 at 8:20 pm

Rodders, no.

Not even Winston is that far up himself.

Clue. This tosspot was a minister in Helen Clarks government.
He saw the writing on the wall and bailed out to look after himself just before the last election.
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None other than Pete favourite posumn head, fence sitting Wellingtonian with no opinion on anything.

The Great pole sitter Peter Dunne.
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March 17, 2013 8:28pm
bereal

No. This prick is unique.
Silent T may actually truly believe in the cause, the tosser who i refer to believes
he is the cause.
‘Blameless and innocent”
He looks after number one.
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March 17, 2013 8:31pm
Rodders

Not Jim “he who must be obeyed” Anderton then?
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March 17, 2013 8:34pm
nasska

Not Taito Phillip Field Bereal?
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March 17, 2013 8:35pm
bereal

Jeez.

He said he had led a totally innocent and blameless life.
This shithead actually meant it when he said it.

His nickname was Smarmy.
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March 17, 2013 8:42pm
Rodders

oh, Steve Maharey? Didn’t he leave parliament five (or so) years ago?

I have to admit that I thought that was what Christine Rankin claimed that he had said to her (something along the lines of “he had led a career of blameless excellence”)
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March 17, 2013 8:48pm
Steve (North Shore)

Some fun, this man has been very quiet lately.
http://www.pictogame.com/en/play/game/jB3GFnCCKEPb_kick-trevor-mallard
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March 17, 2013 8:59pm
bereal

Rodders, correct. Collecct the cigar.

Rankin gave him a hard time but it was Maharey himself that made that incredible
statement and he made it in parliament on his own bat in support of himself.

The tosser was actually being sincere when he said it.
In fact, your recolection of his statement may even be more accurate.
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March 17, 2013 8:59pm
Griff

kick-trevor-mallard
awesome 148825m
😆
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March 17, 2013 9:43pm
Mike Readman

Quote from David Shearer’s lastest newsletter:

“The news about the shocking handling of Solid Energy by John Key and his Ministers makes keeping our assets even more urgent.”

What the? If the government’s handling them badly, they should be sold before the value goes down!
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March 17, 2013 10:01pm
krazykiwi

Cheap energy is fundamentally transforming US manufacturing and we saw just like week that Japan expects the same result from its success in exploiting methane gas hydrates (a “game changer.”)

The Greens seek to effectively prohibit cheap energy in NZ, whilst at the same time shedding these crocodile tears about the effects.

How do they sleep at night?

Precisely wat.

With the corporate media sham that is “Earth Hour” approaching, it’s time to remember that it is energy that’s lifted us out of the stone age. It is responsible for our warmth and shelter, our food security, our life-giving medical and pharmaceutical technology, leisure, education, travel, trade and security.

In short energy has provided us freedom and progress. Both things the Green abhor, so not a wonder they’re opposed.
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March 17, 2013 10:03pm
wat dabney

Helen Clark says something sensible.

“Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Program, has publicly slammed global strategies to combat drugs, claiming there is increasing evidence that “the war on drugs” has failed. The former prime minister of New Zealand urged Latin American leaders to develop new policies to tackle drugs, which she says should be addressed as a public health problem rather than criminalized. ”

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/15/un_development_chief_slams_war_on_drugs_partner/

I know kids, I’m scared too.
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March 17, 2013 10:06pm
bereal

Griff.

Try and rise above the level of a Pavlovs dog.

Does giving me a thumbs down for every comment i make give you a hardon ?
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March 17, 2013 11:28pm
Manolo

Sinking fast, but are more taxes the solution? http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/17/us-cyprus-parliament-idUSBRE92G03I20130317
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March 18, 2013 6:33am
Tauhei Notts

Cyprus, or Cypress as the NZ Herald have it this morning.
Is it true that when Cyprus re wrote their companies law they followed NZ’s 1993 precedent?
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