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Dennis Horne

Yesterday I wrote a comment about rape; I was challenged on a number of points. I started by saying where Man fits into “my” Universe. I then say where sexual aggression — “rape” — fits into our evolution. I don’t think we can escape that. We didn’t “design” ourselves. Nor can we “redesign” ourselves. I am not saying assault ought be acceptable or legal in our society. But wishful thinking will not help us.

It may be inevitable that some life forms become more complex, because they become better adapted, but that does not mean evolution had a goal, and it was Homo sapiens or “something like”, as Weihana put it. Nor does it mean it wasn’t by chance – by accident. We were not “designed”, we are a funny mixture of past animals. As individuals we can reason but as a species we are not essentially rational, living as robots might. We are victims of fad and fashion muddling along.

Saying that Man serves his own purpose is like saying the purpose of a car is to be a car. Clearly our lives can have some meaning to ourselves, but Man has no purpose – except to worship gods if he chooses.

Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance”, entanglement, means we are all one. I don’t see any need for spirits. The Universe is a weird place — beyond our understanding — but it seems “real” to me. It’s an act of faith – in myself.

I wrote: “To survive, society needs structure and discipline.” I don’t see any evolutionary pressure. I would suggest rape and pillage is more “natural”. We don’t have to look far back into NZ history to see that.

How does the existence of barbarism contradict the superiority of civilized democracy?
I wrote: “We cling to the myth civilisation is man’s natural, preferred state; that democracy is superior and self-perpetuating. Actually, there is always barbarism.” I didn’t conflate civilisation and democracy. Civilisation is better for most people but all the big democracies are bankrupt, including USA. Once we discovered we could vote instead of working democracy was doomed.
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November 26, 2013 8:01am
iMP

HERE SHE goes again. Mayor Lianne Dalziel produces a THIRD household wide piece of Labour party advertising for one particular candidate in the local by-election. This is an abuse of the office of Mayor.

http://conzervative.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/more-labour-advertising-from-mayor-dalziel-third-item/
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November 26, 2013 8:01am
Azeraph

Zaha Hadid’s vagina stadium only looks like it if you already have the thought of a vagina in your mind before hand, a typical male line of thought every 15 seconds. It looks like a big UFO frying shaucers vagina.
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November 26, 2013 8:06am
The only red for me is that of Manchester United

Doesn’t the Anadarko exploration team actually have to discover oil first before the worry about the remote possiblity of oil spils?
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November 26, 2013 8:10am
peterwn

iMP – Labour must be scared stiff of losing if they are having to resort to three letter drops. They cannot afford it. They should be saving every penny for 2014.
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November 26, 2013 8:10am
big bruv

Has Len Brown resigned yet?

Has Penny Bright paid her rates yet?
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November 26, 2013 8:21am
david

Big Bruv – may as well ask “Is the Pope a Presbyterian?”
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November 26, 2013 8:42am
Longknives

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11162806

Drill away boys! And feel free to sink a few of those useless pothead Greenies trying to get in your way….(would be the first bath most of them have had all year)

Good to see My Key agrees-
“Mr Key described last weekend’s ‘banners on the beach’ protest against the exploratory drilling as “rent-a-crowd”.”
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November 26, 2013 8:43am
liarbors a joke

“Mr Key described last weekend’s ‘banners on the beach’ protest against the exploratory drilling as “rent-a-crowd”.”

Who know doubt drove down in their fossil fuel burners to rant and wave. Piss off back to your communes..you don’t speak for the majority.
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November 26, 2013 8:47am
flipper

It would be a public service if John Key were to pack wussel red melon and weasel Hughes into a suitcase and send them to Norway….. to drill exploratory WELLS.

BUT, they would not drill anything. They would simply turn on the printing press to produce the oil money that Norway salts away, day by day, in its futures fund.

To think that these arseholes have sworn an oath in the Parliament. Perjury.
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November 26, 2013 8:50am
doggone7

“Has Len Brown resigned yet?”

Maybe ask on the blog sites where various pundits said he will be “gone by Monday.” Most of them had very specific notions of a very specific Monday. Long gone Mondays.
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November 26, 2013 8:51am
kowtow

“Drill away boys”

The way Radio Aotearoa formerly New Zealand reported the soap dodgers protests ,you’d swear the whole country was up in arms about Anadarko,oil spills and global warming.

But then that’s what RNZ would like us to think.

Talking of economic sabotage and leftists double standards there’s a French warship docked in Dunedin at the moment……now these are the guys who nuked the South Pacific and bombed that silly protest ship in Auckland , yet they get to send ships here,while the Yanks who saved our bacon in 1942 ,are not welcome!

Time to get rid of this Soviet inspired boycott.
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November 26, 2013 8:54am
Paulus

To such as Len Brown and Lianne Dalziell there is no such thing as abuse of responsibility as Mayors – after all they are Socialists.
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November 26, 2013 8:57am
All_on_Red

I see that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford now has an approval rating higher than Obama! The linked list may explain why.
http://www.infowars.com/why-obama-thought-he-could-get-away-with-obamacare/

It’s amazing to see all his “achievements” detailed. I don’t think the US people have any chance of improvement while he is still in office.
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November 26, 2013 8:59am
nickb

Blow for England with Trott pulling out of the Ashes…

Huge pressure on the sacrificial lamb that replaces him
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November 26, 2013 9:00am
publicwatchdog

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Good moaning Kiwibloggers!

It’s Tuesday 26 November 2013, about 6.30am, and I’m about to get dressed, finish packing bag and get bus to 488 George St Sydney to attend a full day workshop at the Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference.

Have trimmed over 700 ‘business’ (NOT) cards, ready to do ‘swapsies’ with as many of the fellow attendees as possible.

ACTIVISM 101 – GET THEIR NAMES! 🙂

Tonight is a net-working event, so it will be quite a big day.

I have printed off copies of the request Lisa Prager and myself have made to the NZ Serious Fraud Office, requesting an investigation for alleged bribery and corruption by Mayor Len Brown and Sky City (Auckland), to discuss with anti-corruption experts and any Australian media who may be interested.

(It seems that many people I’ve spoken to here are aware of the Auckland Mayor ‘sex scandal’.
However, the fact that there was NO ‘due diligence’carried out by Auckland Council on the increased risk of money-laundering, arising from the NZ International Convention Centre (or – as I prefer to call it – the Sky City ‘money-laundering’ ) Act 2013, whilst on Mayor Len Brown’s ‘watch’, doesn’t appear to be so widely known, probably because of what seems to be effectively a mainstream media ‘blackout’ on this story?).

Meant of course in a caring way 🙂

If you would like to see a copy of this SFO complaint folks – especially ‘Big Bruv’?), check out http://www.pennybright4mayor.org.nz

PS: AGAIN – I have not and WILL not pay Auckland Council rates while ‘the books’ are NOT open, and citizens and ratepayers are not being told EXACTLY where our public rates monies are being spent.

Kind regards,

Penny Bright

‘Her Warship’ 😉
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November 26, 2013 9:02am
Longknives

What are the TAB fixed odds on Penny’s “Activism 101′ rant getting 40 Thumbs Down by lunchtime?

I’d throw a lazy tenner down…
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November 26, 2013 9:08am
liarbors a joke

My god you talk some shit Penny Bright…
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November 26, 2013 9:09am
liarbors a joke

Murderer Macdonald was going to be sent to Christchurch if his parole application was successful..

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/9441091/Ewen-Macdonald-had-job-lined-up
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November 26, 2013 9:11am
Komata

Ummmm

Has anyone else noticed that in the photograph accompanying the Herald article, the ‘Save our Seas’ Banner is printed on a polypropylene /nylon background, using synthetic inks, that the hull of the yacht in the foreground is painted with oil-based paint and that the camera (or computer) being held by the individual in the centre of the photograph is largely composed of plastic materials, as are probably some of the apparel the two ‘protesters’ are wearing . As well there is a drum/bucket beside the mast near the right-hand side of the photo, which if not made of plastic |(most likely) is at minimum covered with a plastic covering with lettering printed upon-it.

The last I heard, the polypropylene, and plastics to which I have referred were all made from the evil material ‘OIL”.

A slight stench of hypocrisy methinks….

BTW: Should the Tasman cut up rough (as it is renowned for so-doing), and a ‘protest yacht’ gets into difficulties, international maritime law would require the drilling vessel to come to the yacht’s aid. One has to wonder if these protesting-individual’s ‘Green’ principles would still hold if they had to chose between accepting salvation from the ‘enemy’ or sinking, and, if they were rescued, whether they would ‘accept’ the ships hospitality or just sit, wail, and continue to plot.

Hypothetical certainly (so far) but one does wonder…
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November 26, 2013 9:13am
graham

Auckland Council: books not open, not transparent (according to Penny).

Penny Bright: Does not answer questions put to her, not transparent, refuses to state whether she would sign up to the ‘code of conduct’ that she wants other people to sign up to.

Sounds like a match made in heaven.
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November 26, 2013 9:15am
Manolo

The Greenie Morgan is rebuked: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/9440894/Morgans-offer-fails-to-attract-Govt-funding
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November 26, 2013 9:15am
igm

See “Snake” Vance running a support column for Fat Slug Dotcom.
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November 26, 2013 9:16am
iMP

Labour Mayor of Christchurch Lianne Dalziel is actually in brecah of several aspects of the CCC Code of Conduct & Ethics.

http://conzervative.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/mayor-dalziel-breaches-christchurch-code-of-conduct/
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November 26, 2013 9:20am
Manolo

Was Dunne invited to Vance’s wedding? 🙂
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November 26, 2013 9:21am
gravedodger

@ L a j 9 11, I think McDonald is in ChCh and has been out on work detail clearing trees felled in the NW storms.
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November 26, 2013 9:21am
liarbors a joke

Doesnt surprise me GD…wet bus ticket justice system , Im surprised he did any time in the slammer..no justice for bobby calves.
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November 26, 2013 9:32am
Sofia

Afghanistan considers reintroduction of public stoning for adulterers
Proposal to bring back one of the most repugnant symbols of Taliban regime is in draft revision of country’s penal code
– http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/afghanistan-reintroduction-public-stoning-adulterers

Just as well, Len Brown, you don’t live in Afghanistan, because there “stoned” doesn’t mean what Toronto Mayor Rob Ford thinks it does.
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November 26, 2013 9:34am
wikiriwhis business

This sounds right

Fluoride in water ‘illegal’

Local body councils are breaking the law and breaching human rights by fluoridating water supplies, an anti-fluoride group has told the High Court at New Plymouth.

The group, Health New Zealand, yesterday opened its test case targeting the South Taranaki District Council’s decision to fluoridate water supplies in Patea and Waverley.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/9441111/Fluoride-in-water-illegal

Water meters will be next then water privatisation for off shore profits as the govt helps rape the country.
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November 26, 2013 9:35am
wikiriwhis business

Key would be the first to get this hero locked up if he could.

Politicians would never even have told us about five eyes.

Spying leaks may include NZ – Key

Prime Minister John Key says it’s possible US whistleblower Edward Snowden has documents on New Zealand’s spying activities.

But he doubted there would be anything to embarrass the country.

“I really don’t know what he has, I just know he has a whole lot of information – that’s the reports – and apparently lots and lots of documents, and we’re part of the Five Eyes,” he said on Firstline.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9442391/Spying-leaks-may-include-NZ-Key
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November 26, 2013 9:41am
OneTrack

“Fluoride in water ‘illegal’ ” – according to a group of fruitbats that don’t have anything better to do

But, of course, the hard-left propaganda organisation Stuff, gives it a heading which implies that it is true.
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November 26, 2013 9:42am
Pete George

Whale Oil highlights a political rarity, hypocrisiy. Phil Twyford tweeted:

@PhilTwyford
Anyone else think it unseemly that Westie chick Paula Bennett took all of 20 min to jump ship to the Shore after boundaries announcement?

This was slapped back at him:

@patrickgowernz
Dear Phil, how many times have you jumped Auckland electorates in your career? Thanks, Paddy

@JordanMcCluskey
You contested four selections before striking gold though right?

They, as WO puts it, kicked Twyford slats.
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November 26, 2013 9:42am
wikiriwhis business

Filming earns return to jail

Smell a rat about this story.

‘Sisson deleted the recordings but the police were able to recover them.’

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/9441121/Filming-earns-return-to-jail
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November 26, 2013 9:43am
wikiriwhis business

Oil ship begins drilling

Prime Minister John Key said said the Navy could be brought in to deal with the Vega.

The beginnings of martial law. Australian soldiers have already been reported questing NZ citizens on the st.

In the US there’s a law against the military policing the citizens. Posse Comatatus. which seems to be stripped away.

No surprise then we seeing the military intruding here.

Times have changed. No military were used during the Springbok protests. A soldier did tell me army personnel were used to photograph protest leaders.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9441095/Oil-ship-begins-drilling
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November 26, 2013 9:49am
OneTrack

wiki – Do you mean the traitor Snowden who, along with wikileaks of course, succeeded in making the world a less safer place than it was. Tell us about current relations between Australia and Indonesia, or the US and Germany for example. Yeah, things are going great. Is this when we all jump in the air for a “High five”?

By the way, where is “No means no” Assange? Its all gone quiet.
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November 26, 2013 9:51am
wikiriwhis business

‘Speeding threshold reduced’

Desperate for revenue as drivers are more educated and the road toll continues to slip.

Speed is not the blame for accidents. Rather drivers moving out of their lane. Impatience.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/9442723/Speeding-threshold-reduced
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November 26, 2013 9:54am
wikiriwhis business

‘wiki – Do you mean the traitor Snowden who, along with wikileaks of course, succeeded in making the world a less safer place than it was. ‘

I wish the world was as nice and innocent as you think One Track
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November 26, 2013 9:55am
MT_Tinman

liarbors a joke (1,028) Says:
November 26th, 2013 at 9:32 am
Doesnt surprise me GD…wet bus ticket justice system , Im surprised he did any time in the slammer..no justice for bobby calves.

Terrible indeed.

Perhaps to illuminate Mr MacDonald’s misdeeds you can give us the exciting fate of most bobby calves that Mr MacDonald deprived them of.
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November 26, 2013 10:04am
MH

Perhaps the main reason the in cum bent mayor has not resigned is he wants to put this P. Bright affair to bed,once and for all. Perhaps one has principles.
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November 26, 2013 10:06am
wikiriwhis business

Monty Python show sells out in 43 seconds

More shows programmed.

Can’t see them coming here.

They are not keen on OZ. As John Cleese quipped. “There are planets closer”

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/9442623/Monty-Python-show-sells-out-in-43-seconds
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November 26, 2013 10:09am
peterwn

Wiki – “Prime Minister John Key said said the Navy could be brought in to deal with the Vega.
The beginnings of martial law. ”

Hardly, navies have always policed the oceans. By your definition, New Zealand has had martial law for a pretty long time – in fact right back to James Cook’s time.

In any case, the local cop at Raglan could ask the navy for assistance and the navy would then be legally assisting the police. Granted the navy would want affirmation from higher authority before giving assistance of this sort.
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November 26, 2013 10:22am
MH

wiki-any comments about Huawei spying abilities and ties o PRC central govt?
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November 26, 2013 10:30am
Komata

Wiki

Re: ‘Prime Minister John Key said said the Navy could be brought in to deal with the Vega.’

The New Zealand sovereign law under which this drilling ship is operating is very clear; all other vessels must remain at a distance of at least 500 metres from this vessel. The law does not stop vessels of any sort from approaching the ship, it merely says that, for their safety, they must remain outside a specifically-defined legal barrier.This is the law of the sovereign state of New Zealand. it is law that is recognised internationally by most other sovereign states.

The owner of the Vega has chosen to disregard that law, evidently believing that it is above such trifles. The owner has DELIBERATELY chosen to remain in a specific spot. It has DELIBERATELY chosen to break both sovereign and international law and it has DELIBERATELY chosen to put itself ‘In harm’s way’.

As it is obviously impossible to send-in Mr. Plod to remove this law breaker, (the NZ Police not being equipped with amphi-cars), the Prime Minister of the Sovereign State of New Zealand has no other choice BUT to use the Royal New Zealand Navy for the purpose of apprehending and removing this vessel. As such he is operating in complete accordance with New Zealand sovereign law, and in accordance with that of other sovereign states.

You evidently regard this course of action as a joke and perceive it to be an imposition of martial law in this country.

On that basis, therefore, and in the interests of informed and learned debate, I (and no-doubt others) would be interested in learning what alternative-option is available to a Prime Minister in this instance, and what your solution to this matter (the DELIBERATE breaking of both sovereign and international law) would be?

BTW: Notice that I have not used JK as the Prime Minister in this instance. As an individual, he is, in this instance irrelevant. We are talking here about a DELIBERATE challenge to a duly-constituted and internationally-recognised sovereign nation, and to the position of Prime Minister of that nation. The name of the person is not important, the position (and what it implies) is.

Your answer?

Thanks
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November 26, 2013 10:33am
wikiriwhis business

‘Your answer?’

The offending boat is being used as an example to others.

If 20-30 boats or more were causing a problem there would be a case for the authorities to act.

complete knee jerk from the govt who are clearly intimidated by the amount of protest onshore as well.

I do think this case as adding weight against a National win in 2014.

also, how you see any context of humour from me is puzzling.

Although, I do agree and am helped by your legal definitions.
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November 26, 2013 10:55am
wikiriwhis business

‘Kiwi hits five-year high against aussie ‘

The New Zealand dollar is trading at five-year highs against the aussie as both countries’ central banks deliver opposite views on their economies and monetary policy.

The kiwi recently traded at A89.52 cents, after reaching a high of A89.88c last night. The New Zealand dollar has not traded at these levels since October 2008
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9442686/Kiwi-hits-five-year-high-against-aussie

Anyone think this is simply a bubble about to burst. Just as leading up to 2008.
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November 26, 2013 10:56am
Ross12

Greenpeace obviously likes paying lawyers bills or just clogging up the courts.

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/20017781/legal-challenge-to-anadarko-drilling/

Why did they wait until now to grandstand ?? Why didn’t they challenge the decision to allow the exploration permit when it given ( which I assume was year or two ago ) ??
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November 26, 2013 10:56am
wikiriwhis business

‘wiki-any comments about Huawei spying abilities and ties o PRC central govt?’

Did you see the article I posted concerning a man in Britain who found digital TV’s were spying and collecting data on house holds?
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November 26, 2013 11:00am
thedavincimode

Your answer?

in order of preference …

1. Team America World Police

2. Thunderbirds

3. Stingray

wiki

You are bonkers.
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November 26, 2013 11:00am
Pete George

Not just Greenpeace Ross12, also the Greens:

Anadarko should cease drilling until the legal issues around their permission to drill are decided, the Green Party said today.

Greenpeace today filed papers asking for a Judicial Review of the process the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) followed when it gave Anadarko permission to drill off the coast of Raglan.

http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/delay-drilling-until-judicial-review-decided-greens/5/175139

Same approach as on asset sales – halt everything until Greenpeace/Green protests have run their course.

This is Green style democracy, where the Government proposes things, the Government passes legislation, but nothing is allowed to happen until every petition and protest and inquiry is complete.

Green style democracy when in opposition.
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November 26, 2013 11:03am
wikiriwhis business

‘You are bonkers.’

It did come to me the Christmas parade in Auckland needs a Thunderbird float.

Several very good ones. Pink roller and palms included.
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November 26, 2013 11:04am
thedavincimode

They should have a scene from the Mayor’s office on a float.
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November 26, 2013 11:06am
wikiriwhis business

‘They should have a scene from the Mayor’s office on a float.’

I was thinking about the scene when the deputy Mayor drove past lol

50,000 others probably did as well haha
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November 26, 2013 11:10am
Pete George

Spies worry over “doomsday” cache stashed by ex-NSA contractor Snowden –

British and U.S. intelligence officials say they are worried about a “doomsday” cache of highly classified, heavily encrypted material they believe former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has stored on a data cloud.

The cache contains documents generated by the NSA and other agencies and includes names of U.S. and allied intelligence personnel, seven current and former U.S. officials and other sources briefed on the matter said.

One source described the cache of still unpublished material as Snowden’s “insurance policy” against arrest or physical harm.

“The worst is yet to come,” said one former U.S. official who follows the investigation closely.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/25/us-usa-security-doomsday-idUSBRE9AO0Y120131125

And John Key seems to accept that Snowden leak material will include New Zealand related information.
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November 26, 2013 11:12am
Fletch

Great.

The Govt is on another revenue-collecting jack. 😐

Motorists will be under stricter controls this summer with the threshold for speeding reduced for the whole of the next two months.

From December 1 to January 31 police will have a tolerance of just 4km/h above the speed limit for all drivers, the Government says.

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/speed-tolerance-limited-4km-h-all-summer-5726475
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November 26, 2013 11:12am
Fletch

SO, as has been said, Iran really isn’t giving up a lot in this deal that is supposed to be so great.

The United States released $8 billion in frozen assets to Iran on Sunday in a move meant to ensure Tehran’s compliance with a nuclear pact signed over the weekend, according to top Iranian officials.

Iranian government spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht confirmed on Monday morning that the U.S. government had unfrozen $8 billion in assets that had been previously blocked by the Obama administration.

Additionally, Iran announced on Sunday that its nuclear work will continue despite the deal, which aimed to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and enrichment of uranium, the key component in a nuclear weapon.

Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif, who helped ink the deal, praised it for recognizing Iran’s right to enrich uranium, a key sticking point that had delayed the deal until Saturday evening.

“The [nuclear] program has been recognized and the Iranian people’s right to use the peaceful nuclear technology based on the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty] and as an inalienable right has been recognized and countries are necessitated not to create any obstacle on its way,” Zarif told reporters over the weekend.

“The program will continue, and all the sanctions and violations against the Iranian nation under the pretext of the nuclear program will be removed gradually,” he added.

Iran’s most well-known nuclear sites will remain operational under the deal, according to Zarif, who presented a very different version of the agreement than that described by the White House on Saturday.

Over the next six months, Iran will see “the full removal of all [United Nations] Security Council, unilateral and multilateral sanctions, while the country’s enrichment program will be maintained,” Zarif said.

The Fordo and Natanz nuclear sites will also continue to run, he said.

“None of the enrichment centers will be closed and Fordo and Natanz will continue their work and the Arak heavy water [nuclear reactor] program will continue in its present form and no material [enriched uranium stockpiles] will be taken out of the country and all the enriched materials will remain inside the country,” Zarif said. “The current sanctions will move towards decrease, no sanctions will be imposed and Iran’s financial resources will return.”

America recognized Iran’s right to enrich uranium up to 5 percent under the deal, according to both the Iranians and a White House brief on the deal.

http://freebeacon.com/reports-u-s-unfreezes-8-billion-in-iranian-assets/

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920903000343
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November 26, 2013 11:20am
nostrils

“The Govt is on another revenue-collecting jack.”

“Motorists will be under stricter controls this summer with the threshold for speeding reduced for the whole of the next two months.

From December 1 to January 31 police will have a tolerance of just 4km/h above the speed limit for all drivers, the Government says.”

Of course you could always limit your speed to 105 k’s 🙂
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November 26, 2013 11:31am
Fletch

From a new Roy Morgan poll taken in Australia.
70% of Australians say that Australia is not becoming a better place because of Islam.

38 percent: a growing Islamic population and Islamic immigration are bad for Australia

44 percent: strong, clear link between Islam and terrorism

50 per cent want the Shari’a banned

53 percent: ban the burqa from public spaces

57 percent: Concerned about Islam in the world today

70 percent: Australia is not becoming a better place because of Islam.

96.5 percent disagree: Christmas, Easter and ANZAC day should no longer be celebrated.

Full report here –
http://www.qsociety.org.au/downloads/QSoc_Morgan_Poll_Islam.pdf
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November 26, 2013 11:32am
wikiriwhis business

‘Of course you could always limit your speed to 105 k’s ‘

The limit is 104 k’s

Zero tolerance fascism.
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November 26, 2013 11:33am
Fletch

Of course you could always limit your speed to 105 k’s

I guess that would be 104km.
I don’t increase speed over 100 unless I’m overtaking something. It’s the overtaking speed I’m wondering whether they will ticket on.
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November 26, 2013 11:35am
skyblue

The speed limit thing is easy, just stay at or under 104/54/74km/hr. Painful for some but common sense for others.
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November 26, 2013 11:35am
Manolo

Right on the money: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/letters-to-the-editor/9434351/Letter-On-the-road-to-Venezuela
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November 26, 2013 11:38am
James Stephenson

It’s the overtaking speed I’m wondering whether they will ticket on.

Of course they will, this is about beating strict compliance into us, the last thing they want is intelligent, thinking drivers making decisions for themselves.
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November 26, 2013 11:40am
wikiriwhis business

Some incredible sanity from a council

councillor Marion Miller said the council was not in a position to tell farmers how to use their land.

“We can not tell people what to do on their land.”

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/9442176/Council-divided-on-water-strategy
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November 26, 2013 11:42am
Komata

Wiki

Thank you for your reply; it was very interesting, revealing and enlightening. .

Concerning your observation that ‘… The offending boat is being used as an example to others’.

By extension of your observation, (and to use an analogy, with which you may be familiar, but hopefully, not), the following example:

Your house is being burgled, and you call the Police, explaining the position.

Their reply?

Sorry sir, can’t help, not worth it, BUT tell you what, if , say, 10 more turn-up let us know, then we’ll send somebody around to have look and do something about it, otherwise its simply not worth it.

Your reaction would not, perhaps, be polite, as you were, after-all expecting ‘protection’ in your situation.

Likewise the Vega. It too is committing a criminal offence’, and as such the majority of the citizens of the sovereign state of New Zealand are also expecting a response; yet, your comments indicate that, like my mythical copper, you would rather wait for ’10 more to turn up’, before taking action.

The Government’s reaction is not a ‘…Complete knee jerk from the govt who are clearly intimidated by the amount of protest onshore as well’, rather it is a response to the actions of the Vega in(as already noted) DELIBERATELY breaking the law. Intimidation doesn’t enter into the equation. The ‘law’ may be an ass, BUT it is still the law.

And as for making an example of the ‘poor little Vega’ (my paraphrase).?

Consequences are the result of actions. Do good things, good things tend to happen. Do bad things, then bad things tend to happen.

The Vega is (as I said) DELIBERATELY breaking the law; this, as things currently stand in the New Zealand legal framework, is a ‘BAD’ thing. As I have already noted, BAD things tend to happen to those who do BAD things’.

Therefore, the Vega (actually its owners) should be punished, and, to make sure that they are, the law must become involved. The ‘law’ in this instance would be in the form of the Royal New Zealand Navy, ipso facto, an extension of the law operating within the Sovereign State of New Zealand.

From a strictly-legal aspect, there is really no choice available, irrespective of who holds the political power. The law has been passed by the elected-representatives of the sovereign state. Having been passed, it is now in effect. It must be enforced, and if it is NOT then what is the point? Discard one law, then one might as well discard them all, with the inevitable result that a downward slide starts…

Again thanks for your reply.
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November 26, 2013 11:49am
wikiriwhis business

‘Again thanks for your reply.’

time will tell how much NZ profits or is swindled by this Anadarko
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November 26, 2013 11:57am
Rowan

Liarbors

Who are you implying that EM killed? last night you said you were not advocating that he killed Scott, yet you still refer to him as ‘murderer’
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November 26, 2013 11:58am
Rowan

For Kea

Does this explain your creation, In the beginning were you a fish, or are you just the mutant retarded offspring of 5 monkeys having butt sex with a fish squirrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LzSX37C5J4
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November 26, 2013 12:17pm
wikiriwhis business

First Kiwi in space. and great looking family.

Andy Pierce has won a chance to be the first New Zealand astronaut.

And all he did was buy some shower gel.

The North Auckland resident is one of two Kiwis heading to AXE Global Space Camp in Florida to undergo astronaut testing with a chance to fly into space on the new XCOR Lynx commercial reusable launch vehicle.

Pierce says he bought a bottle of Lynx shower gel, saw a competition on the wrapper and entered online.

“I got a phone call in June last year saying I had won. At first I thought it was somebody having a laugh. But the caller asked I send the receipt off with some forms.”

Organisers called again, validating his win.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9443165/Dad-is-a-true-space-cadet
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November 26, 2013 12:19pm
kowtow

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but the Americans should have done the Israeli thing and just quietly gone round the world bumping off the opposition,how the heck anyone thought you could create a civil society out of a Muslim shit hole is beyond me.

The lives and limbs of our servicemen and women weren’t worth the sacrifice they sadly made.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/11/afghanistan-plan-stone-adulterers-death-20131125133453835281.html
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November 26, 2013 12:20pm
wikiriwhis business

‘Hindsight is a wonderful thing but the Americans should have done the Israeli thing and just quietly gone round the world bumping off the opposition,’

Perhaps the days of CIA infiltration and School of the America’s in the US to train guerilla’s to destroy Sth American countries is over thanks to Wikileaks and Snowden.
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November 26, 2013 12:25pm
wikiriwhis business

Super council for Hawkes Bay

Panel: Merge Hawke’s Bay councils

One council, one mayor and one voice is the best way forward for Hawke’s Bay, according to the Local Government Commission.

Merging the region’s five councils into a single authority is the Commission’s preferred option for governing Hawke’s Bay, it announced today.

Creating one council could save the region up to $10 million a year, the proposal says.

A new Hawke’s Bay Council would replace Napier City, Wairoa, Hastings and Central Hawke’s Bay District Councils along with the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council. It would also include a small area of Rangitikei District
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9443440/Panel-Merge-Hawkes-Bay-councils

So obviously an agenda for the country
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November 26, 2013 12:38pm
iMP

UnFair facts at Fairfax this morn. and factional drooling by Chris Trotter today in the MSM…

http://conzervative.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/some-partisan-drooling-by-trotter-today/
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November 26, 2013 12:39pm
kowtow

Oh look ! How’s that global warming going?

Australian ice breaker icebound in Antarctica.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/2013/11/25/14/59/australian-icebreaker-stuck-in-antarctica
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November 26, 2013 12:50pm
Don the Kiwi

kowtow.

Griff will have a totally verifiable and beautifully enunciated explanation for you any time now.

Believe it………………or not. 🙂
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November 26, 2013 1:22pm
liarbors a joke

The bobby calves Rowan. You may not call it murder..you may not think its murder..but I and many others do.

EM is a murdering scumbag who should rot in prison.
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November 26, 2013 1:23pm
OneTrack

“The speed limit thing is easy, just stay at or under 104/54/74km/hr.”

Unless your speedo isn’t reading correctly, which was the reason for the discretion in the first place.
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November 26, 2013 1:34pm
kowtow

DTK

Gwiff’s reply will likely include those familiar terms of endearment……conservonutters ,godwhackers,zombies,nonce and or sychophant.
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November 26, 2013 1:45pm
Longknives

“What are the TAB fixed odds on Penny’s “Activism 101′ rant getting 40 Thumbs Down by lunchtime?”

Only 34 by 1:45pm…
Seems I underestimated Penny’s popularity!
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November 26, 2013 1:56pm
Samuel Smith

This blog has been so boring since bedwetter left.
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November 26, 2013 2:34pm
Don the Kiwi

Gee SS.

That’s the first time I have ever given you an up-tick.

I wonder if there will be a second? 🙂
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November 26, 2013 2:36pm
Manolo

Good time to cross the ditch and spend big: http://money.msn.co.nz/businessnews/national/8761288/nz-dollar-at-five-year-high-against-aussie
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November 26, 2013 2:38pm
Ryan Sproull

Good time to cross the ditch and spend big: http://money.msn.co.nz/businessnews/national/8761288/nz-dollar-at-five-year-high-against-aussie

Subtitled: Six Months Ago Was a Bad Time for Ryan to Take a Job in Australia.
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November 26, 2013 3:44pm
Manolo

Hoisting the white flag: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/25/administration-going-to-plan-b-on-exchanges/
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November 26, 2013 3:54pm
wikiriwhis business

Bank of Tokyo threatened Government

The Bank of Tokyo threatened the Government with bad publicity and warned of implications for foreign investment if it was forced to take a haircut over Solid Energy, the High Court has heard.

Solid Energy ran into financial difficulties last year, culminating in a creditors’ compromise in September where the terms of debt were reset and the company’s bankers agreed to acquire shares with a face value of $75 million, while the Crown would acquire $25m worth.

The Government’s plans to restructure Solid Energy have been challenged by the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in the High Court in Auckland.

Opening the case for Solid Energy, Alan Galbraith, QC, said that in a letter to Treasury the Bank of Tokyo had made threats, including bad publicity, if it were forced to wear losses from Solid Energy

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9443805/Bank-of-Tokyo-threatened-Government

Bankers and financiers are the real threat to civilisation.
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November 26, 2013 4:23pm
Tom Jackson

This blog has been so boring since bedwetter left.

He left?

Banned?
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November 26, 2013 4:46pm
Kea

I’m no longer sure if I really am a lying prog communist coward troll who hates baby Jesus. I have no one to tell me these things (20x a day) anymore 🙂
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November 26, 2013 4:58pm
Kea

how the heck anyone thought you could create a civil society out of a Muslim shit hole is beyond me.

Easy kowtow. The same way they did with Israel.

1. Give them what they want.

2. Pay for everything.

3. Shame into silence, or give no voice to, opposition.

4. Have the biggest military power in the world attack all their enemies for them.

5. Give them billions and billions of dollars.

You could turn Haiti into paradise with all those hand outs.
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November 26, 2013 5:04pm
Tom Jackson

You could turn Haiti into paradise with all those hand outs.

The ganja would be better in Haiti too.
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November 26, 2013 5:10pm
stigie

Tom, Reddy sulked and left for a while to gather his thoughts.
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November 26, 2013 5:12pm
Pete George

For anyone who’s missing Reddy Twitter seems to be his new hangout: https://twitter.com/Redbaiternz
Relatively civil so far.
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November 26, 2013 5:19pm
Tom Jackson

Hahahahaha. David Cunliffe follows him.
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November 26, 2013 5:43pm
igm

National: Don’t worry about polls, just rid the country of that obese kraut, even do a reciprocal with US; Goff sent a plane for “The Dyke’s” husband of convenience when he committed a foul offence and wanted him out of the country, so they can send a plane to rid us of this fat left-wing plaything who is once again headlines in mainstream media.
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November 26, 2013 5:44pm
Viking2

Students who cheated on a simple task were more likely to want government jobs, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania found in a study of hundreds of students in Bangalore, India.

Their results, recently released as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, suggest that one of the contributing forces behind government corruption could be who gets into government work in the first place.
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bhahahaha.
Wouldn’t you just know it.

Govt. employs corrupt people. (mind you we knew this without scientific research didn’t we?)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/9442889/Cheaters-more-likely-to-want-govt-jobs-study
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November 26, 2013 5:57pm
Yvette

For Johnboy

A lawman stops at a farm,
Over the hill in Wainui
Talks with the old owner,
A little simple, as far as he could see.
He tells the farmer, ‘”I need to inspect your land
For stuff illegally sown
Drugs – you know : marijuana, pot, or weed,
Or grass that shouldn’t be grown.”
The old rancher says, “Okay, but do beware –
I wouldn’t go in that paddock over there.’
The Officer verbally explodes, “I do declare,
Mister, I’ll go just anywhere.
I have the legal authority
Of the Federal Government bestowed on me.”
And reaching into his rear pant pocket
He removes a badge, saying “See?”
And the officer proudly displays it to the farmer,
Reaching out his hand
“This badge means I am entitled to go wherever I wish,
On any part of your land.
No questions asked or answers given.
Have I made myself clear?
Do you understand?”

The old farmer nods politely and goes on about his chores,
And ignores the officer, the farmer relaxed in his mind
Until he hears loud screams and spies
The man running for his life, and close behind
The farmer’s ram, inspiring the officer’s frantic cries,
Sheer terror showing in the lawman’s eyes,
And every muscle in his body is straining
As at every step the ram is gaining.

The old rancher immediately throws down his tools,
Runs to the fence, “Yep! – there ain’t no telling some fools”
And yells at the top of his lungs as loud as he can manage
“Your badge!” he cries “Show the ram your bloody badge!”
__________

Johnboy (12,000) Says:
November 24 th, 2013 qt 9:12 pm

“Is Johnboy away having the sustenance of a beverage and perhaps the hug of a sheep or three while deciding on what to deliver his 12,000th comment?”

Not at all Yvette. I am sorry we never met. I’m sure we would have liked each other. Au revoir, my dear. 🙂

See y’all 🙂
__________

Yes, Johnboy, I’m sure we would have liked each other – Au revoir, Johnboy, bon nuit
See y’all, Kiwibloggers, even Penny.

Thank you, David Farrar, merci
🙂
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November 26, 2013 6:48pm
UglyTruth

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but the Americans should have done the Israeli thing and just quietly gone round the world bumping off the opposition,how the heck anyone thought you could create a civil society out of a Muslim shit hole is beyond me.

At least Muslim shit holes don’t suffer from the corruption of your civil society.
What’s really ironic is civil society can be way more barbaric that the “barbarians” that they distance themselves from.
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November 26, 2013 7:13pm
Kea

I find it amusing that Red left kiwiblog because the people here were not important enough, but now fills his days twittering like a school girl 🙂
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November 26, 2013 7:51pm
nasska

Just imagine how many “friends” he’ll get Kea. 🙂
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November 26, 2013 7:55pm
nasska

All charges have been dropped against the man who physically and mentally abused three women for over thirty years in London.

Turns out it was just a normal Muslim family.
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November 26, 2013 8:00pm
Kea

Nasska, yes indeed. I wonder if David caught him doing the same thing here he did on Whale ?

Are cowardly prog scum allowed to twitter ? 😉
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November 26, 2013 8:00pm
nasska

….”Are cowardly prog scum allowed to twitter ?”…..

I don’t know & I never intend to find out Kea. Twitter is not my thing but perhaps you can keep us posted on how the Great Blogger gets on.

Regular reports, say every six months will be fine. 🙂
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