General Debate 18 May 2015

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Paulus Gnome

I am pants at FB. I believe that Jamie Whyte would be a sensible choice as the Mayor of Auckland and would like to see some form of social media campaign to get the man onboard.

I have asked David Seymour who has told me that JW ‘does not want to do it’

Every now and again, one has to take one for the team; I believe that this is Jamie Whytes one.

Jamie Whyte IS a better option than goofy and any other idiot from the socialist apartheid parties in New Zealand; write to Jamie Whyte on jwhyte@woosh.co.nz to explain as to why he is suitable to be the man of the hour.

I believe a concerted effort will hopefully convince Jamie Whyte that his pragmatic approach to life can be harnessed for the common good of Auckland and that he has a role to play in politics with greater influence on New Zealand than any member of parliament could hope to achieve; what constituency has an electorate of 1.4 million people?
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May 18, 2015 8:00am
IGM

See distasteful Fairfax has now gone on to attack pensioners in promotion of their beloved Labour and Gutless Little Andy. They reckon pensioners are living in luxury, while the overbreeding for monetary recompense, they represent, are being disadvantaged at their expense. Well leeches of the left, the majority of pensioners have had the guts taxed out of them over the years, and most are deserving of a few crumbs, also most having to face interest rates on property purchases up to 30%. Come on lazy unemployable bludgers, stop breeding and start feeding what you have produced, don’t expect current taxpayers, and past overtaxed members of society, to subsidise your bedroom behaviour and your self-entitlement mentalities. Why does this media outlet always find the need to get comment from either useless taxpayer-funded academics, or fiscally challenged losers, like the current rainbow spokesman for finance, Robertson? I, personally, do not begrudge my taxes going to support retired pensioners, but I take exception to funding bludging layabouts, and so-called refugees, who are overloading our infrastructure, education, health, and housing, being unprepared to do anything to support themselves.
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May 18, 2015 8:01am
OneTrack

“Why does this media outlet always find the need to get comment from either useless taxpayer-funded academics, or fiscally challenged losers, like the current rainbow spokesman for finance, Robertson?”

Because they want to support their friends.
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May 18, 2015 8:03am
kowtow

We’re known as a compassionate society, we must open our borders to all these poor suffering people. We did end apartheid. We can do anything.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/11611501/How-migrants-stranded-at-sea-off-Indonesia-resorted-to-stabbing-each-other-to-survive.html
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May 18, 2015 8:05am
Padriv Ustoev

New Zealand a laughing stock on the front page of the BBC. I personally think we should have the ISIS flag but the Arabic is in a shape of a fern leaf.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32751191
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May 18, 2015 8:06am
Manolo

NZ should celebrate today: the peasants have a new tax, thanks to the feeble National government, the party of low taxes.
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May 18, 2015 8:06am
Left Right and Centre

And on a lighter note . . .

Lane’s car window was smashed and her new Versace handbag stolen from outside her Mt Eden dance studio about 1.30pm yesterday.

NZ ballroom dancer Candy Lane – must be a great dancer – dumb as dogshit !! (I’m victim blaming – what a total prick).

(happened to me at 19 – left cds visible in car – dumb as a sack of hammers)
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May 18, 2015 8:14am
sam green

https://overland.org.au/2015/05/the-last-time-they-turned-back-the-boats/

Maybe a different view …..
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May 18, 2015 8:15am
stephieboy

One of the main features of Prince Harry’s amazing trip to NZ was his cultural immersion reaffirming our nations bi cultural heritage. This of course will bound to displease our fossil monarchist far right wing rat bags,

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11449479
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May 18, 2015 8:20am
Inandout

stephieboy: Harry would have been briefed before he came that we all don’t float around in wakas, do hakas and wear grass skirts, and that NZers speak mainly English. Otherwise he would be puzzled, wouldn’t he?
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May 18, 2015 8:26am
peterwn

stephie – NZ should offer Prince Harry five years expenses paid in NZ next year. There is a nice house near the Basin Reserve he can live in. Not sure whether his grandmother would go along with this.
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May 18, 2015 8:26am
kowtow

The over saturation we had of Maori crap re the Royal Visit made me wonder who draws up the program and why. It was a relief to see him do something normal when he was promoting the FIFA U20 world cup.

They are only 15 % of the population but you’d think it was 150 %.
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May 18, 2015 8:27am
Left Right and Centre

As I watched the PM on Henry Live at 6:43am this morning I thought . . .

If I had that kind of cash – I’d have anything before 10am removed from my timepieces. You know that he does it out of love.
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May 18, 2015 8:27am
Paulus

Let us assume that Harry’s Maori immersion trip was a success.
If we are to become a Republic following the change of flag, to represent the All Blacks and Maori cultures, will he condescend to be our new President ?
There are actually some very eligible Maori princesses, in New Zealand despite what one regularly see in the media.
When we become a Republic that will cut the ties with the Crown so that is the end of the Treaty of Waitangi and the rorts taking place where the elite only see the benefits from the settlements, often created via a litany of lies and subterfuge.
But with Harry as President now that he can do the Haka, not that well, though, but he can practice in time, he can assume the role of the Crown to keep the gravy train running.
It will still be in 20 years time don’t forget as it is totally on going.
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May 18, 2015 8:32am
Ashley Schaeffer

One of the main features of Prince Harry’s amazing trip to NZ was his cultural immersion reaffirming our nations bi cultural heritage.

I only ever saw one heritage on display. 50/50 would have been nice.
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May 18, 2015 8:34am
kowtow

John Key says “He accepted there were “some” children, about 60,000-100,000, living in poverty in New Zealand, not 250,000 as others calculated, Mr Key said.”

Silly man ,there is no true material child poverty here. Why doesn’t he call it like it is.

http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/child-poverty-targeted-in-budget–john-key-2015051807#axzz3aQifjsdJ
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May 18, 2015 8:34am
Manolo

Is the progressive stephieboy a Muslim Maori? 🙂
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May 18, 2015 8:40am
MT_Tinman

I note Stuff.co.nz has a story stating people are scared stiff of WINZ and benefits are just enough for people to survive.

Isn’t it great to see a positive story headline!
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May 18, 2015 8:42am
G152

So the puritans want Dairies to stop selling sweets to children.
And some teacher wants kids to spend all their lunch money in the
school canteen.
Looks like sugar is the next target for the fun nazis
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May 18, 2015 8:46am
Dave_1924

@srylands…. interesting post.

But its an Islamic World problem. Rohingyas are Muslims. Why can’t the super wealthy Gulf States or Saudi etc take the “refugees”? Heck they could even slip over the border back into Bangladesh which is where some of their ancestors came from and they would fit in easily.

Why is it always made out to be a Western issue to sort? A key pillar of Islam is CHARITY… but I don’t see Islamic states rushing in to help… Indonesia is the largest Islamic country on the planet and they don’t want their co-religionists

Abbotts policy on the boats is 100 percent correct. Genuine refugees are sitting in displacement camps all around the world waiting and waiting and waiting to make the head of the UN list to be given a refugee migration spot into Aussie or NZ etc. These people are economic migrants looking for opportunity in the main and are trying to queue jump genuine refugees using their or family wealth to grease the wheel. And if the Rohingyas in this case are fleeing genuine persecution then the Islamic world can look after them

Its not Australia or NZ’s problem
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May 18, 2015 8:49am
Inandout

Paulus: The Maori King, who lives around Huntly, has 5 daughters, so there is surely a suitable one for Harry. He could have a poi dance date with each one and the strongest spinner would make an ideal mate. She would have to be able to put down a hangi, this would be an important requirement.
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May 18, 2015 8:50am
Padriv Ustoev

Sugar is not Halal anyway, so the academics in NZ are moving in the right direction.
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May 18, 2015 8:57am
Maggy Wassilieff

@G152 8:46am

What can we expect when today’s NZ Herald publishes an article on sugar that clearly states
“Sugar has absolutely no nutritional value”?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11448591
The scientific illiterati are well and truly in charge and running the show.
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May 18, 2015 9:08am
kowtow

manolo

stephie is a conundrum. All year round he praises and promotes our “multiculturalism” but today,suddenly , we’re bicultural.
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May 18, 2015 9:09am
srylands

“@srylands…. interesting post.”
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I didn’t post anything.
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May 18, 2015 9:16am
cas

I was wondering what purest countries the authors of that recent UN report on our justice system come from. And having noted that the UN has a staff of 44,000 I expect going round doing such reports is necessary to keep the staff occupied.
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May 18, 2015 9:20am
BeaB

It is worth viewing an excellent TED talk by Roman Mars on what makes a good flag.

Among the sensible principles for us to think about is the advice that any design should be drawn on a rectangle about 2x3cms as that’s what it will look like from a distance.

I am beginning to think the only choice has to be a Kiwi. It’s as much us as the maple leaf is Canada.
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May 18, 2015 9:25am
Jacob

Kim Dotcom and the movie industry don’t exactly get along. Dotcom is wanted by the FBI for allegedly pirating millions of dollars’ worth of copyrighted materials. You might remember when he had his house raided by authorities in 2012, when officials froze his bank accounts and confiscated much of his belongings because of the way his cloud storage service, Megaupload, was being used to make movies available online.

Now, Dotcom says all that could’ve been avoided if only Hollywood had been smarter about distributing movies over the Internet. In an interview with Bloomberg, Dotcom says the film industry could have stopped digital piracy in its tracks if it had beaten Netflix at being Netflix
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/05/14/the-fbis-most-wanted-man-for-digital-piracy-thinks-he-has-solved-illegal-movie-streaming/

Is any of this slightly self-incriminating?
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May 18, 2015 9:27am
Dave_1924

@srylands – apologies…. you are correct Sam Green posted the link. Not enough coffee in system. Sorry
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May 18, 2015 9:27am
jcuk

A little voice in me wondered if after lamenting the closure of the Kiwi run family dairy as a result of super markets these same SMs have a new tack to close more, now Asian run, dairies on the grounds that they are contributing to obese children?

Interesting development locally …our Chinese run takeaway with their collection of late model cars has given way to a kiwi bloke with a beat-up car carrying ‘old’ two letter registration and faded paint. The new occupiers have done a great job sprucing up the place inside and outside. One can only wish them well even if I rarely buy my evening meal.
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May 18, 2015 9:44am
All_on_Red

Jcuk
Not so sure the Supermarkets are up to that but by putting self service kiosks in, they are certainly making it easier and quicker for people to make a smaller number of convenience purchases.
Judging by the number of people I saw in the queue last night just buying a bottle of wine, they are probably hurting liquor stores too.
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May 18, 2015 10:09am
Nukuleka

If anyone wants a really good laugh visit the Flag Consideration Project to view some of the loopy designs that have been submitted. I love it. It shows that NZers have a great sense of humour and that many see the whole exercise as a joke. I look forward to seeing which of the submitted designs manage to make it onto the shortlisted 4 for the 1st referendum. Further fun times ahead.
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May 18, 2015 10:16am
jcuk

All on Red … it was just a wee conspiracy voice whispering to me 🙂 Everybody loves a good nonsensical conspiracy ?
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May 18, 2015 10:22am
UglyTruth

Is any of this slightly self-incriminating?

Not really, US fair use doctrine does not apply in NZ.
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May 18, 2015 10:27am
kowtow

Flightless ,endangered ,tax protected and subsidised bird that can’t defend itself ……..how inspiring.
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May 18, 2015 10:28am
wf

Jamie Whyte has more brains than to saddle himself with the auckland city disaster. I hope.
I can’t think of anyone who would have the gonads to sort the place out. There’s probably an unknown accountant with ideas hiding in an office somewhere, hoping he’ll never be discovered. He should know he’s safe – ideals never count when it comes to Local Government.
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May 18, 2015 10:54am
All_on_Red

“Everybody loves a good nonsensical conspiracy ?”
Especially on Kiwiblog! Some will argue about them all day!
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May 18, 2015 10:55am
wf

And while I’m here – I’m a pensioner. I worked until I was 73. I own my own house. I have 3 children, none of whom have ever been on the dole. They all work, own their own houses and have one each for long term investment as well.
Two put themselves through university, and the third worked a long apprenticeship here and overseas to create a successful career.
All my working life I watched the advance of social welfare, until, by the time of my retirement I was paying for 3 solo mums and their families in taxes, so I was told.
Like many of my friends, my income has shrunk with low interest rates, and increased utility costs/rates/insurance has made balancing the budget a bit of an art form.
I am lucky to have good health, so no burden (so far) on the health system. Likewise the kids, and their kids too.

Like most older people I don’t regret having supported the solo mums, and I am very glad to be receiving the pension but you know what? I think I’ve earned it.
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May 18, 2015 11:16am
Fletch

New Zealand a laughing stock on the front page of the BBC.

ITV have picked up on it also.

http://www.itv.com/news/2015-05-15/new-zealanders-offer-bizarre-submissions-for-new-national-flag/
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May 18, 2015 11:17am
Maggy Wassilieff

The work ethic of Asian dairy & take-away owners terrifies academics sitting on their sinecures.
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May 18, 2015 11:32am
stephieboy

kowtow, ” only bicultural ” ? Not at all. I was referring to the important fact Prince Harry embracing things Maori which is part of our bicultural heritage.

An equal component is our multicultural heritage witnessed by immigration since the country was founded ,but more so recently from Asia and the ME etc. making our country such an exciting , vibrant and interesting society .

Gareth Morgan reminds us of this with his excellent article this last weekend about the need to change our flag. A flag that reflects more the reality of who we are today and not a colonial relic and cringe of British domination so beloved of our ancient fossilised monarchists here at KB and elsewhere ,

Gareth Morgan: Get rid of our flag of subservience

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11448793
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May 18, 2015 11:33am
IGM

Why are UN supporting murri? Statistics are statistics, so face facts, they create more than their share of crime, must be John Key’s fault . . . really!
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May 18, 2015 11:36am
stephieboy

Fletch,

I think changing our flag should be approached with a bit of humour but am sure the British public would appreciate and applaud our desire to move away from the colonial cringe and subservience that appears to be so much part of you and others.
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May 18, 2015 11:42am
cricko

If I never heard from this prick Gareth Morgan ever again it would be too soon.

How come NZ media report every utterence from this prick as ‘news’ ?

Why do the likes of stephieboi @ 11.33 hang on to his every word as gospel ?

Why can’t we have more reports from someone with real insight…… like Anna Guy ?
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May 18, 2015 12:02pm
waripori

Does not seem to be any reaction anywhere to the Greens idea about Kiwisaver for kids. Is that because everyone except the Greens know that the kickstart 1k is already available for any child and all they are advocating really is that the member tax credit also be extended to under 18s?

This has to be the dopiest thing they have ever come up with. For poorer families to get the $500 govt subsidy they will have to come up with $1000 per child per year of their own. There is no way this will happen. Instead the entire benefit would go to wealthier families who have the spare dosh and are organised enough to put the lump sums in.

There may be some benefit in helping kids into tertiary study but there has to be a cheaper and better targeted way to achieve that.

If there needed to be any more proof that the Greens are completely clueless and should never be allowed any say in running anything this has provided it.
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May 18, 2015 12:03pm
stephieboy

cricko, You another member of the 1902 Colonial Cringe club ?

Re Anna Guy . Are you referring to this ?

The War of the Woman’s Weekly Tarts: Anna Guy versus Sally Ridge

https://theovercoatofnewzealand.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/the-war-of-the-womans-weekly-tarts-anna-guy-versus-sally-ridge/
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May 18, 2015 12:07pm
peterwn

All_on_Red – At least supermarkets contribute to fitness as it is a real route march to treat it like a convenience store. Have to go through fruit & veg, milk at middle back and bread and self checkouts at far end via the booze.
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May 18, 2015 12:12pm
Julian

Fairfax hitting a new low – even for them – with a picture of an 84 year-old taking a serious fall as the click-bait leading story on their homepage. Utter b@stards.
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May 18, 2015 12:23pm
RRM

Vote for the Goatse flag!

https://www.govt.nz/browse/engaging-with-government/the-nz-flag-your-chance-to-decide/gallery/design/2238
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May 18, 2015 12:33pm
cricko

stephie,

Your ref to Colonial Cringe club 1902 went over my head sorry, what were you trying to say ?

Why do you give so much creedence to this prick Gareth Morgan ?
Why would you credit him as being an expert on every subject under the sun ?
Why, in your mind, would the opinion of a smartarse knowitall prick like Morgan be worth more than the opinion
of genuine ‘A’ list Kiwi celebrities like Anna Guy or even Sally Ridge ?
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May 18, 2015 12:39pm
Padriv Ustoev

Alluha Akbar!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/68620658/muslim-group-hacks-auckland-university-website
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May 18, 2015 12:44pm
wikiriwhis business

How many National Party MPs have invested in properties / land inside the Special Housing Areas?

http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/20153980

Joseph Davia …. but we WILL be bound by USA Laws and Political domination by American style Police and Army, they have already been in NZ training the Police and Army once the flag is gone and the TPP signed off.
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May 18, 2015 12:44pm
G152

Is the fat kraut still hiding out or has he snuck out of the country while no-one was looking?
And dear old Gareth… has he managed to build that cat meat to North Korea export business ?
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May 18, 2015 12:46pm
stephieboy

cricko, over your head ? Not for the first time. Just take the trouble read Morgan’s article from my link and you’ll see the conecction about 1902 .

Try and guess ?

What does genuine “A” list celeb Anna Guy’s opinion have over Morgan”s precisely ?
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May 18, 2015 1:06pm
Fletch

More nanny state. The Auckland Regional Public Health Service wants to stop dairies selling sweets to children because of the obesity problem. Ey? Dairies have been around for years, and there was not a problem back then.

Dairies shouldn’t be allowed to sell unhealthy food to children, an Auckland health body says.

A new report from Auckland Regional Public Health Service calls for limits on how many convenience stores can set up in one area, and what foods they can sell to children, Radio New Zealand reports.

Its clinical director Julia Peters said dairies are contributing to New Zealand’s obesity problem.

“You’ve only got to go into a dairy or a convenience store and you see what you are confronted with is sugar-sweetened fizzy beverages, chocolate bars, chippies, lollies et cetera,” she said.

The proposals were made in a report to obesity-fighting group Healthy Auckland Together.

The group plans to lobby for changes to the Resource Management Act to allow councils to govern where dairies, takeaways and other convenience stores can set up.

Ms Peters says the rules are needed to prevent future health woes for New Zealand’s young people.

“This is a serious situation, and these foods are no longer treat foods. They’ve become part of people’s everyday lives. That’s not where they should be.”

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/should-dairies-banned-selling-sweets-children-6314607

As always, these people think they know what is best for the rest of us, and their solution usually involves banning something.
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May 18, 2015 1:15pm
wikiriwhis business

Mineweb Censors comment about the end of the Federal Reserve Note

https://s3.amazonaws.com/khudes/Twitter5.17.15.2.pdf
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May 18, 2015 1:17pm
wikiriwhis business

Three traffic officers have been disciplined and several others stand accused of botched checks of hand-held speed cameras, potentially leaving police exposed to legal action over speeding tickets.

The Herald on Sunday can reveal the investigation centres on allegations the officers failed to record how and when the devices were calibrated.

Hand-held speed cameras need to be calibrated and tested before use to ensure they accurately record speed and distance.

Police confirmed they were alerted to “reporting irregularities of three staff” in August 2014.

The investigation concerns three months from April to June 2014 – a year in which Waitemata police issued more than 194,000 speed tickets, the highest number in the country at more than 16,000 a month.

Last year, almost 82,000 speeding tickets were issued nationally each month by hand-held and fixed cameras. About $71 million was paid in fines, mostly for speeding.

http://nzpca.co.nz/red-faced-police-probe-speed-cam-botch-up/
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May 18, 2015 1:23pm
Richard II

John Key has introduced an brand new tax which I’m sure will delight David Farrar and his followers.

It is called an “Intentions Tax” and will target what people think they might do.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/68632426/housing-tax-critics-say-too-little-too-late

The PM while bending over backwards to appear not to be introducing a Capital Gains Tax has deliberately introduced a new one of his own.
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May 18, 2015 1:32pm
IGM

Fletch: Dairies have been around for years, but the arrival of PIs and their mutton flapping habits, is relatively a more modern occurrence. Best the ethnicity of obese kids is taken into consideration, it is not a European problem.
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May 18, 2015 1:33pm
peterwn

WF – there is a suitable candidate for Mayor or Commissioner of Auckland. He is currently unable to take this up just yet – he is at the mercy of the courts. However the main downside to John Banks being in the job is the centre voters might lean towards the left in the next general election.
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May 18, 2015 1:56pm
stephieboy

Fletch , yes it is debatable whether restricting lollies and sweets in Dairies is a desirable option. But I do take it you in the past favoured the restriction of smokes, artificial cannabis and alcohol in them ?

Or… ?

IGM , there you go ever trying to play the race card. Yes obesity is an issue in PI communities but initiatives are in play to try and address the problem,

http://www.aniva.co.nz/preventing-obesity-in-pacific-communities.html
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May 18, 2015 2:16pm
Richard II

Interesting that Russia’s President can do this…

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/68636564/ice-man-putin–match-won-but-why-the-toga

…yet our Prime Minister can’t even hammer a nail.

Putin is 10 years older than John Key, btw.
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May 18, 2015 2:21pm
kowtow

They should have just let these drongoes finish each other off.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11611911/Nine-dead-in-Texas-biker-gangs-carpark-shootout.html
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May 18, 2015 2:37pm
kowtow

Mmmmmmmm, mmmmh, just taste the diversity ,it’s so enriiiiiiiching.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11610908/Nigerian-restaurant-shut-down-for-serving-human-flesh.html
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May 18, 2015 2:38pm
Brigitte

@Richard II

Russia has Putin on the ice, the US has Mitt Romney vs Evander HolyEar – which of those two was more cringeworthy is up for debate. What do we have – er, nothing since Rodney Hide on Dancing with the stars (and that in itself might be less than nothing). Eeeek.
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May 18, 2015 3:23pm
Andrei

At the risk of making some peoples heads explode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v6Jw9rsWCE
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May 18, 2015 4:01pm
Maggy Wassilieff

You would think the lefties would be doing everything they could to protect the poor working mums & dads battling away in corner dairies.
I don’t envy any one of these productive kiwis: the long hours they work, the crap they have to put up with from some customers, and the ever-constant threat of violence.
If the sugar-nazis have a beef about sweet products… they should take it up with the manufacturers not with the poor salespeople.
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May 18, 2015 4:02pm
Andrei

If the sugar-nazis have a beef about sweet products… they should take it up with the manufacturers not with the poor salespeople.

They’ve got too much time on their hands and nothing better to worry about Maggie
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May 18, 2015 4:06pm
Manolo

He will be mourned by stephieboy and UT, but there is one less rat in the world:
http://www.3news.co.nz/world/australian-jihadi-killed-in-syria—report-2015051810#axzz3aSauiyWd

An Australian teenager who moved to Syria to fight with Islamic State insurgents has reportedly been killed.

It’s unclear whether Irfaan Hussein, 19, died in a bomb blast, or was beheaded by jihadists for trying to return to Australia, reports the Herald Sun.

Hussein’s family confirmed the death to the newspaper, but would not comment further. He has links to other young Australians accused of terrorism and shocked his country by moving to Syria last September or October.
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May 18, 2015 4:16pm
publicwatchdog

Here you go Kiwibloggers – something of substance that you might like to debate?

In my opinion, the lack of transparency regarding TPPA discussions and negotiations has now infested New Zealand at the highest levels of central and local government?
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18 May 2015

Further ‘Open Letter’ / OIA request to Minister of Trade Tim Groser, arising from ‘briefing notes’ provided for the ‘informal exchange of information’ between the Minister of Trade and Mayor of Auckland, Len Brown, on the TPPA (and related matters) behind closed doors, on 7 April 2015:

Tim Groser,
Minister of Trade

Dear Minister,

A) Please be reminded of the following statutory requirements of the New Zealand Public Records Act 2005:

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2005/0040/latest/DLM345536.html

3Purposes of Act
The purposes of this Act are—

(c)to enable the Government to be held accountable by—

(i)ensuring that full and accurate records of the affairs of central and local government are created and maintained; and
(ii)providing for the preservation of, and public access to, records of long-term value; and

(d)to enhance public confidence in the integrity of public records and local authority records; and
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How can the public have confidence in the transparency or accountability of those in public office, at the highest levels, without proper written records?

BACKGROUND:

In your OIA reply, (dated 14 May 2015) you state:

“The meeting was organised by MFAT and the Office of the Mayor.

It was an opportunity to discuss with the Mayor, trade and economic issues relevant to Auckland.

In addition to the Mayor and me, the meeting was attended by an official from my office, one official from NZTE and one official from MFAT.

Several of the Mayor’s advisors also attended.

The meeting was not a public engagement.

It was an informal exchange of information.

It was not therefore appropriate to include the public, media or other Councillors.

I have attached a briefing note prepared for me by officials in advance of the meeting.

No formal minute or record of the meeting was prepared. ”
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INCLUDED IN THE (attached) ‘BRIEFING NOTE’:

“Purpose of the call.

This meeting is expected to focus entirely on trade and economic issues.

It is an opportunity for you to give the mayor an update on the FTA agenda and BGA, and discuss their relevance to Auckland’s economic growth aspirations.

The Mayor may use the meeting to brief you on the Council’s new Global Engagement Strategy, in particular, the Tripartite Economic Alliance and Auckland’s candidacy for the Lee Kwan Yew City Prize.

FTA roundup.

You may wish to give the mayor a summary of New Zealand’s various and ongoing and recently concluded FTA negotiations.

In particular, we believe the Mayor would be interested in updates on TPP, Korea, and the China upgrade.

We provide some background on the Mayor’s interest in TPP below.

* The Mayor has expressed interest in the economic benefits to Auckland that the TPP could deliver.

As New Zealand’s exporting hub, and its most internationally connected city, Auckland stands to derive significant benefits from TPP.

In particular, the fact that the TPP promises to better integrate New Zealand into a region accounting for 40% of global GDP, presents significant opportunities for Auckland’s exporters, and ultimately its residents.

While we have no projections of how the benefits of TPP might accrue specifically to Auckland, the mayor will be interested in in a high level discussion of progress in the negotiation, and of the projected benefits at national level, particularly in terms of export growth, investment flow and labour mobility.

It is also worth noting that in December 2012, the Regional and Development Committee of the Auckland Council passed a resolution which encouraged the Government to conclude negotiations on TPP in a way which achieved 12 objectives (see Appendix 1).

These objectives included achieving substantially increased access for agricultural exports, not increasing the costs of medical treatments, and not giving overseas investors more rights than domestic investors.

Mayor Brown was not present when this resolution was adopted, but he is known to be supportive of trade agreements in general.”

OIA Request:

1) Please provide the information which explains how a meeting between yourself as the Minister of Trade (in that official capacity), and the Mayor of Auckland, Len Brown (in that official capacity), for which the attached ‘briefing note’ was provided – can possibly be described as an ‘informal exchange of information’, from which:

– the details of this meeting were NOT minuted,

– elected Auckland Councillors were not informed and were excluded,

– the public and media were not informed and excluded,

can be compliant with the above-mentioned statutory requirements of the Public Records Act 2005.

B) This attached ‘briefing note’, included the following, in my view, significant ‘statistic’:

Appendix 1 : Economic and demographic statistics demonstrating the importance of Auckland to New Zealand’s international connectivity.

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“Auckland’s population is projected to grow by approximately 700,000 people between 2011 and 2041 (assuming a medium populations growth scenario).”

As the initiating petitioner of the following petition, which resulted in a Social Services Select Committee of Inquiry, here is their Report:

Social Services Select Committee Report

http://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-nz/50DBSCH_SCR5953_1/9f8a825ae96c25bddf7d0c8bddb58511039a4d16

The Social Services Committee has considered Petition 2011/64 of Penelope Mary Bright, requesting that Parliament decline to proceed with the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Bill until the lawfulness of the reliance of Auckland Council on the New Zealand Department of Statistics “high” population growth projections, instead of their “medium” population growth projections for the Auckland Spatial Plan, has been properly and independently investigated, taking into consideration that both Auckland Transport and Watercare Services Ltd, have relied upon “medium” population growth projections for their infrastructural asset management plans.

We heard and received evidence from the petitioner, but note that the matters she raised have been addressed publicly by the Auckland Council in statements posted on its website and issued to media.

The Auckland Council’s Chief Planning Officer has said that while Auckland may not grow by one million people by 2041 (the high-growth projection), Auckland Council is preparing for it.

The city has historically met the high-growth projection, and it is therefore prudent for the council to plan accordingly.

He said that the city needs to be prepared for, and infrastructure needs to be able to cope with, growth. He pointed out that the “Unitary Plan”, which is a part of the Auckland Spatial Plan, sets out only rules for development.

We understand that actual development would be undertaken only in response to demand. Regarding the use of alternative projections for higher- and lower-growth scenarios, we note that the council’s Chief Planning Officer has also said that it is prudent for the Auckland Council to provide for the highest likely population growth, and at the same time to be cautious to avoid over-investment.

He said that the council requires organisations it owns or controls to be cautious about capital spending ahead of time to avoid high borrowing, interest, and depreciation costs, and that any underspending on infrastructure could be addressed through regular budget reviews and incremental expansion of facilities such as wastewater treatment plants.

The Mayor of Auckland has also said that using the high-growth projection was the appropriate thing to do, and that the council should not be too conservative in their assumptions about population growth.

We consider that the response to this issue provided by the council appears reasonable, and therefore have no matters to bring to the attention of the House.

Melissa Lee Deputy Chairperson ”

( FYI – the supplementary evidence which I provided the Social Services Select Committee, (dated 14 June 2013) to support this Petition 2011/64, is available here:

http://www.parliament.nz/resource/mi-nz/50SCSS_EVI_50DBHOH_PET3157_1_A338307/c0545be9171849399f2468c6567ae9303ce418ce )

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OIA REQUEST:

2) Please provide ALL/ANY information which explains why this above-mentioned ‘briefing note’ used the medium population growth projection of 700,000 more people coming to Auckland in the next 30 years, rather than high population growth projection, (1 million extra people) which was preferred by both Auckland Council and the Social Services Select Committee in their above-mentioned Report.

Yours sincerely,

Penny Bright

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‘Anti-corruption / anti-privatisation Public Watchdog’

2009 Attendee Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference

2010 Attendee Transparency International Anti-Corruption Conference

2013 Attendee Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference

2014 Attendee G20 Anti-Corruption Conference

2013 Auckland Mayoral candidate (polled 4th with 11,723 votes)

2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate
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May 18, 2015 4:19pm
Manolo

The corrupt bludger, the recipient of Kim DotCom’s generosity, strikes again.
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May 18, 2015 4:27pm
wikiriwhis business

37 ways to un-rig the U.S. economy so it no longer favors the rich
Joseph Stiglitz, Elizabeth Warren and the Roosevelt Institute weigh in on the defining issue of the 2016 elections

A new report written by scores of progressives economists has laid out an detailed agenda to dismantle, reverse and fix how the laws and policies governing the American economy are rigged to benefit the wealthiest individuals and largest corporoation.

The report, “Rewriting The Rules Of The American Economy: An Agenda For Growth and Shared Prosperity,” has just been released by The Roosevelt Institute, where Sen. Elizabeth Warren and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined its chief economist Joseph Stiglitz at its press conference.

“The American economy no longer works for most Americans… What is causing this dysfunction?” the report opens, then answering that question and making dozens of specific law and policy changes, listed below.

“Some point to technological change or globalization,” it said. “Some posit that government has shackled the free enterprise system and hobbled business. Some say that our economy is simply rewarding the risk takers and job creators who have earned the riches coming their way… None of these arguments gets it right.”

“Skyrocketing incomes for the 1 percent and stagnating wages for everyone else are not independent phenomena, but rather two symptoms of an impaired economy that rewards gaming the system more than it does hard work and investment,” it states. “The roots of this dysfunction lie deep in the rules and power dynamics that have prioritized corporate power and short-term gains at the expense of long-term innovation and growth. The outcomes shaped by these rules and power dynamics do not make the economy stronger; indeed, many make it weaker.”

What follows are 37 specific laws and policy changes to restore fairness and balance to the economy without undermining American capitalism.

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/16/37_ways_to_un_rig_the_u_s_economy_so_it_doesnt_favor_the_rich_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

In my view capitalism works provides competition and ensures fair play.

Corporatism hates risk and buys out all competition to have complete power.

The socialists who complain about capitalism in my view are brain dead or ignoring the plain facts of capitalism.
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May 18, 2015 4:28pm
Shawn Herles

France, Standing Up to Russia.

“Some interesting international intrigue has been playing out in Europe. Russia’s the bad guy; the hero, improbably, is France. Early last year, as you may remember, Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, and ginned up a separatist movement in Ukraine’s east. Ever since, it has supported those separatists financially, with arms, and, sometimes, in battle. When Russia started violating “21st-century norms,” the West responded with 1930s-style anti-aggression sanctions.

As the EU worked out what its sanctions would include, France made sure they excluded two Mistral helicopter carriers that France was building, for which Russia had already paid nearly a billion dollars. The deadline for the carriers’ delivery to Russia was last September. As the deadline approached, France suffered a stroke of conscience and announced that it wouldn’t deliver the ships until there was a ceasefire, and movement toward a political settlement, in East Ukraine.

The September deadline came and went. Russia demanded the ships; France wouldn’t budge. Russia gave the French a new, December 1 deadline to turn the Mistrals over. That deadline came and went as well. “What’s the big deal about helicopter carriers?” you might wonder. After all, Russia already has two real aircraft carriers, and a third under construction.

The answer may appear in a wiki-leaked assessment of Russia’s Baltic fleet written by an intelligence company called Stratfor. Like Ukraine, each of the three Baltic countries — Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia — has a large ethnic-Russian population. NATO, and any number of geopoliticos in the U.S. and Europe, believe that after East Ukraine joins Crimea and northern Georgia in Russia’s new empire, Putin plans a pivot to the Baltics. Last September, Russia held an enormous war game along the Latvian and Lithuanian borders. About the same time, Russian spies crossed into Estonia, kidnapped an Estonian intelligence officer, and tossed him in prison. (Where he remains. Free Eston Kohver!)

So give the French credit; they’re taking a big financial hit in order to do the right thing.”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418470/france-standing-russia-josh-gelernter
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May 18, 2015 4:35pm
Dave_1924

@Andrei… brilliant satire that video!!! You should set up a Andrei’s Youtube channel featuring such wonderful musical tributes to the Steel Man of Russia mark II
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May 18, 2015 4:38pm
Shawn Herles

Putin’s vile regime has sunk to all new lows. Russian thugs crossed the border into Estonia, kidnapped Eston Kohver, and threw him in a Russian prison.

Question. Has Estonia invaded Russia? No. Have they allowed terrorists to use Estonia to attack Russia? No.

“Do not forget about Eston Kohver: The international community must pressure Moscow to release abducted Estonian internal security officer.”

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/03/forget-eston-kohver-150315112432470.html

“Half year since snatching of Eston Kohver – what has been done?”

http://news.postimees.ee/3112561/half-year-since-snatching-of-eston-kohver-what-has-been-done?

“EU to Russia: free Estonian security official Kohver”

http://www.baltictimes.com/eu_to_russia__free_estonian_security_official_kohver/
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May 18, 2015 4:42pm
UglyTruth

He will be mourned by stephieboy and UT, but there is one less rat in the world:

Manolo is talking shit again. What a surprise.
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May 18, 2015 4:46pm
mikenmild

Here’s a good TEDx talk that gives the fundamentals of climate change:
https://youtu.be/PtrYNGs9oRM
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May 18, 2015 4:47pm
Johnboy

Jeeze milkey. From table-proper at the Bell to climate scientist?

Your skills show no limits old chap! 🙂
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May 18, 2015 4:53pm
Colville

Just had a look at WhaleOil.
The last 3 posts have a total of 2 replies.
Cam really should just shoot the thing and bury it.
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May 18, 2015 4:54pm
Gulag1917

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeHTziiFVx0
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May 18, 2015 4:56pm
Manolo

Come on, UT. The ISIS beasts are fellow Muslims like you, aren’t they?
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May 18, 2015 4:57pm
UglyTruth

Come on, UT. The ISIS beasts are fellow Muslims like you, aren’t they?

If you’re not sure then you shouldn’t be making your shithead predictions, should you?
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May 18, 2015 5:00pm
cricko

stephieboi @ 1.06

Thanks for your invitation however I have no intention of reading any statement by narcisist
knowitall Morgan.

In answer to your question, I would find it hard to decide who had the better grip on understanding grave
matters of national and international concern, Sally Ridge, Anna Guy or Gareth Morgan.

And, given the above, why do the NZ media report every gormless comment Morgan makes on every subject under the sun as ‘news’ while ignoring the wise musings of Sally or Anna ?

Why do you rate the opinion of a prick like Morgan on an issue such as our flag ?

Why would his opinion carry more weight with you than Anna or Sallys opinion ?
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May 18, 2015 5:06pm
nasska

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gq6nrmrp6yq0agw/Morgan.png?dl=0
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May 18, 2015 5:33pm
Johnboy

Yer an evil bastard nasska…..but I like you! 🙂
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May 18, 2015 5:37pm
Andrei

Andrei… brilliant satire that video!!!

Just trolling American idiots
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May 18, 2015 6:01pm
Reid

The latest whistleblower is David Steele, a 20-year Marine Corps intelligence officer, and the second-highest-ranking civilian in the U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence. He is a former CIA clandestine services case officer, and this is what he had to say:

“Most terrorists are false flag terrorists, or are created by our own security services. In the United States, every single terrorist incident we have had has been a false flag, or has been an informant pushed on by the FBI.

Yawn.

The only people who don’t already know that, are people whose knowledge is so profoundly lacking they probably can’t even toilet themselves, let alone coherently discuss geopolitical matters.

Aren’t they.

But wait, there’s more. Remember the guy who died out walking one day, you know, Robin someone…

“The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al-Qaeda, and any informed intelligence officer knows this. But, there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an intensified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive TV watchers to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the United States.” – Former British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook

“Yeah but what would he know, he was only UK Foreign Secretary, I bet I know more about international affairs than he ever did” say the people to whom it was news that every single terrorist attack on US soil was a false flag…

Yawn
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May 18, 2015 6:02pm
Manolo

The Queens wants an early coronation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/running-to-the-left-hillary-clinton-is-banking-on-the-obama-coalition-to-win/2015/05/17/33b7844a-fb28-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html

Hillary Rodham Clinton is running as the most liberal Democratic presidential front-runner in decades, with positions on issues from gay marriage to immigration that would, in past elections, have put her at her party’s precarious left edge.

The moves are part of a strategic conclusion by Clinton’s emerging campaign: that it can harness the same kind of young and diverse coalition as Barack Obama did in 2008 and 2012, bolstered by even stronger appeal among women.
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May 18, 2015 6:08pm
Andrei

This is an example of Shawn Herle’s “21st century norms”

He claims to be a Christian but approves whole heartedly of burning babies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYKY2F8jy4U&bpctr=1431932220
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May 18, 2015 6:30pm
Reid

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/did-george-w-bush-create-isis

Hey, it’s the New Yorker. So of course he did, according to Shawn.

Unless of course Shawn wants to argue the New Yorker is infested with anti-Semitism, but of course he won’t say that, because he can’t.

So according to the rules Shawn uses to establish veracity, the source is good, therefore so is the information, in every single possible way.

So who created ISIS? Why, G.W.B did.

No doubt about it.

No possible doubt about it.

In any way.

According to Shawn himself.

You heard it direct from him. His logic triumphs. Many of you have enthusiastically endorsed this very logic so one knows of course without doubt you’ll also naturally be endorsing this (somewhat surprising) development. How could you not? So mm, nasska, Richard II, stephie and all the rest of you, now you too, are saying that G.W.B. is responsible for ISIS, aren’t you. Of course you are, you have to. No choice, you chose your logic, now you have to lie in it.

Naturally enough you’ll all know that I and a few others object to Shawn’s logic, so of course I don’t think that G.W.B. is responsible for ISIS simply because the New Yorker says he most definitely without doubt is.

I do think he was, but not because the New Yorker says so.

So you decide, whose logical and whose illogical, in this whole affair.

What a mess eh.

What a total mess.
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May 18, 2015 6:41pm
Reid

It’s quite clear Aus will have to decide who to serve, and quite why it’s playing its cards with a dying global player against a rising global player, is anyone’s guess. But it is.

http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150514/1022148975.html

Because the US would not have announced its deploying strategic B-1 bombers to Aus, unless the Aussies had agreed.

And make no mistake, this is the first ratchet to the equivalent of the Russians deploying missiles in Cuba. And Aus is the meat in the sandwich.

It’s not quite as bad as Cuba, since China still has the buffer of the entire SE Asian peninsula, but these days, with the technology, that’s a psychological not real buffer and it can and will be traded away as the game commences.

But make no mistake, this is a big shot in the war that hasn’t been declared yet, and all of us in this region eventually will have to chose a side.
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May 18, 2015 6:58pm
nasska

Reid

First….I don’t necessarily go along with your quoted article. The creation of Isis should IMHO be credited to a lot of factors but going after Sadham Hussein didn’t exactly endear the USA to many in the ME.

I am intrigued that you would presume that I class the New Yorker as a reliable source or regard it as useful for anything other than soakage at the bottom of the cat’s box. Ref: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hdqeshc5m5m9lsh/images.washingtonpost.com.gif?dl=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/21/lets-rank-the-media-from-liberal-to-conservative-based-on-their-audiences/
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May 18, 2015 7:02pm
Viking2

Here is a must read guys. Fascinating stuff. could explain the mental stste of a few around here. 😆

Seriously it’s very interesting stuff.

http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/gareth-is-right-lets-kill-all-the-cats/

Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia?
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May 18, 2015 7:04pm
Viking2

A nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room when a young woman entered with purple hair styled into a punk rocker Mohawk, sporting a variety of tattoos, and wearing strange clothing.
It was quickly determined that the patient had acute appendicitis, so she was scheduled for immediate surgery. When she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green and above it there was a tattoo that read ‘ Keep off the grass’.
Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon wrote a short note on the patient’s dressing, which said ‘Sorry had to mow the lawn’.
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May 18, 2015 7:05pm
Viking2

A woman and a baby were in the doctor’s examining room, waiting for the doctor to come in for the baby’s first exam. The doctor arrived, and examined the baby, checked his weight, and being a little concerned, asked if the baby was breast-fed or bottle-fed.

‘Breast-fed,’ she replied.
‘Well, strip down to your waist,’ the doctor ordered. She did. He pinched her nipples, pressed, kneaded, and rubbed both breasts for a while in a very professional and detailed examination. Motioning to her to get dressed, the doctor said,
‘No wonder this baby is underweight. You don’t have any milk.’

I know,’ she said, ‘I’m his Grandma. But I’m glad I came.
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May 18, 2015 7:06pm
Reid

First….I don’t necessarily go along with your quoted article.

nasska I don’t care whether or not you agree with it in this particular instance. All I’m saying is that in the past you have gone along with Shawn’s logic that the only thing that matters is the site and the content of the article is secondary by a long margin, to that. I think that logic is quite mental and have said so many many times but you and others have in the past argued very vigorously on that basis so if you want to be consistent and in logic you have to be consistent, then you have to take the consequences of the logic you yourself have chosen to follow.

Sorry about that, but that’s logic for ya.

If you have now seen the light and you don’t want to follow Shawn’s logic anymore then I quite understand and indeed that’s exactly what I’d recommend, but again, to be consistent, then the next time Shawn claims that the site’s veracity is more relevant than anything else, you’re going to need either to become a silent participant in the whole debate, or risk being inconsistent a.k.a. illogical if you wish to join in the braying, as you have in the past.

It’s over to you, I realise it’s a trivial point, but it’s a logical one, isn’t it.

And logic is what we use here to establish veracity, because if we don’t have that, what the fuck do we have.

That’s all I’m saying.

And BTW, I don’t give a shit. It’s Monday evening, the oven’s on for the chips, I’m about to have a great boston steak and I’m watching Lethal Weapon 2 on telly, with a red wine. Life is good.
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May 18, 2015 7:09pm
Andrei

https://twitter.com/bcollaku1/status/599836536985755648
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May 18, 2015 7:11pm
Sir Leslie Bottocks

NZ Music Month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtmlfuEukMs
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May 18, 2015 7:19pm
nasska

Reid

I don’t march in lock step to Shawn’s logic anymore than I do with yours. The whole purpose of reading what is offered on blog sites is to get a perspective that is overlooked or deliberately ignored by the MSM.

You are at polar opposites on most things which is why I generally read comments from both of you. Most of the time I bin the crap but occasionally a nugget of logical info is there for the keen searcher.

Keep doing what you’re doing…..you won’t gather many disciples but you offer a different POV & this is good.
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May 18, 2015 7:20pm
Inandout

Hosking now pimping the burqa women via Seven Sharp, gauging public reaction by having a dummy reporter dressing in the black slitted sacks. His sanctimonious tut tutting at an outspoken reaction from a resident is hypocritical, as he married into a very wealthy and very Christian family. His sort are first on the sharia hit list.
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