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stigie

Is this what Kiwibloggers will be looking forward to in the future ABS..?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/HomelessParis_7032101.jpg
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April 11, 2016 8:08pm
AgentBallSack

stigie, that man has shoes. Someone steal his shoes the uppity bastard. When I am Grand Vizier everyone will be equally happy. You can’t be happy with only 1 pair of shoes. That makes him unhappy. What he needs is LESS shoes. That is one of my new policies.
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April 11, 2016 8:13pm
Sofia

Amid continuing fallout from the so-called Panama Papers, Prime Minister John Key backed down today and, after approval from Cabinet, appointed former PricewaterhouseCoopers chairman John Shewan to review trust disclosure laws.

So Penny asks “Seen this?” …

“PriceWaterhouseCoopers condemned for giving misleading evidence to Parliament and ‘promoting tax avoidance on an industrial scale’
dated Friday 6 February 2015

However –

Shewan’s next move after PwC | The National Business Review
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/shewans-next-move-after-pwc-dw-122167‎
John Shewan, who retires from PricewaterhouseCoopers on Friday, takes up a new, three-year position …

This last was 27 Jun 2012, so Shewan had left nearly three years before Penny’s item.

Isn’t that a little smeary, sort of besmichy, even personal dirty – just a little bit ?
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April 11, 2016 8:14pm
nasska

Griff

I noted Griff, that you mentioned last week that you had risked a visit to Trueblue.

Have you recovered sufficiently to give us your report? 🙂
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April 11, 2016 8:17pm
AgentBallSack

You can’t blame Penny for a small false inference like that! It’s the cunny vapours. Holding her breath makes her light headed.
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April 11, 2016 8:18pm
waikatogirl

~BallSack
Public WartHog and soon to be Grand Vizier / Messiah of Auckland 2016
Sniffing out Bullshit since forever. ™
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Brilliant ABS!

Looking forward to your run as Grand Vizier / Messiah of Auckland, known as Public WartHog.

Let the battle begin… 😉
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April 11, 2016 8:19pm
AgentBallSack

Next up in my vision, nay – preordained mission as Public WartHog:
Stop paying for groceries until the undercover nark store detectives catch me. Do you think they hang around the sherry aisle?
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April 11, 2016 8:24pm
AgentBallSack

waikatogirl there’s one thing you need to know about warthogs.

1. We like being scratched.
1a. We like rolling around in shit.
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April 11, 2016 8:26pm
Nostradamus

AgentBallSack:

Do you think they hang around the sherry aisle?

I didn’t have Cricko (our resident alcohol lover) pegged as an undercover nark store detective! How did his interest in Craigs List ads fit into that line of work exactly?
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April 11, 2016 8:28pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@ABS

I’m a political fashionista and like to keep ahead of the mob.

Any tips on what shade of lippy I should be wearing this season?

Will you be wearing heels or Doc Martins when out on the hustings?

Do you accept bribes?
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April 11, 2016 8:29pm
Griff

I did
Rebaiter radio coming soon…. real right wing radio.
Doesn’t have any more information on it .
I can not see El Guava toll protester of Taranga doing it as it would expose his true identity .
Otherwise the normal deluded rubbish posted with comments mostly just the usual circle jerking.
Thanks red… Thanks for thanking me style.
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April 11, 2016 8:30pm
Gabby

Who the fuck do you think, Cap’n Stainer?
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April 11, 2016 8:33pm
AgentBallSack

Well Maggy, I know you like to run with the mob – wild and free, flapping in the breeze like that song by Steppensheep so I have this to say.

Whatever colour matches your varicose veins.

Shoes are for the liberal elite. Avoid if you can

Yes, of course.
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April 11, 2016 8:34pm
Nostradamus

Cap’n Stainer

Is it just me who thinks Gabby has an unhealthy interest in skidmarks?

It’s enough to drive a person around the S-bend!
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April 11, 2016 8:35pm
stigie

Gobby, come back when it’s a full moon, that a good chap !~
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April 11, 2016 8:37pm
Gabby

Incorrect sementically speaking, but you shouldn’t wear your y-fronts as a hat.
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April 11, 2016 8:38pm
AgentBallSack

I have answered enough questions. See policy 7.

Public WartHog and soon to be Grand Vizier / Messiah of Auckland 2016
Sniffing out Bullshit since forever. ™
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April 11, 2016 8:40pm
AgentBallSack

Gabby
Y NOT?
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April 11, 2016 8:49pm
AgentBallSack

Gabby at home
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April 11, 2016 8:51pm
Reid

Back before 2008 Peter Schiff was harshly criticized and laughed at for his predictions about a coming economic collapse. Among other things Schiff warned that consumer spending had hit a wall, stocks were overpriced and lax credit lending practices would lead to a detonation of the banking system. Rather than heed the warnings, the biggest names in mainstream media tried to discredit him for not toeing the official narrative. Shortly thereafter, of course, Schiff was vindicated and much of the doom he had forecast came to pass.

Today, Schiff continues to argue that the economy is on a downhill trajectory and this time there’ll be no stopping it. All of the emergency measures implemented by the government following the Crash of 2008 were merely temporary stop-gaps. The light at the end of the tunnel being touted by officials as recovery, Schiff has famously said, is actually an oncoming train. And if the forecast he laid out in his latest interview is as accurate as those he shared in 2007, then the the train is about to derail…

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With corporate earnings for the first quarter of 2016 set to be the worst since the Great Recession, Societe Generale economist Albert Edwards is warning that the United States is about to be hit with a tidal wave.

A tidal wave is coming to the US economy, according to Albert Edwards, and when it crashes it’s going to throw the economy into recession.

…the profit recession facing American corporations is going to lead to a collapse in corporate credit.

“Despite risk assets enjoying a few weeks in the sun our fail-safe recession indicator has stopped flashing amber and turned to red”

He continued:

Whole economy profits never normally fall this deeply without a recession unfolding. And with the US corporate sector up to its eyes in debt, the one asset class to be avoided — even more so than the ridiculously overvalued equity market — is US corporate debt. The economy will surely be swept away by a tidal wave of corporate default.

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Despite risk assets enjoying a few weeks in the sun our failsafe recession indicator has stopped flashing amber and turned to red. Newly released US whole economy profits data show a gut wrenching slump. Whole economy profits never normally fall this deeply without a recession unfolding. And with the US corporate sector up to its eyes in debt, the one asset class to be avoided – even more so than the ridiculously overvalued equity market – is US corporate debt. The economy will surely be swept away by a tidal wave of corporate default…

…Will Edwards be right? Of course, but at that point the government – which needs to preserve confidence in growth at all costs – will simply change the definition on GDP first, and when that fails, of “recession” next. And all shall once again be well.

With the new found (and unearned) “wealth” in this country courtesy of Key’s migration policy has come extreme debt levels in the affected metros, so extreme that even a tiny upward move in interest rates would see many unable to service, and even a tiny downturn in employment prospects would see the same. Multiply those “tinys” into what those of us over thirty have seen several times in terms of both magnitude and frequency and you have: what?

I don’t understand why my peers in age and IQ have clapped and cheered relentlessly as Key with his unspoken, unrequested and soon-to-be-unwanted policy aligned us with the debt levels that existed in 2008 in the European and US/Canada economies. I don’t understand why these people thought it was a good thing, when it was only ever going to have one outcome.

I do of course understand why people under 40 have done so, for those are callow, foolish people who have not the experience we seniors have.

All I can conclude with respect to those of my peers who haven’t been raising alarms is: you’re either fucking dumb, fucking evil or fucking ignorant. When the hammer falls and its very close indeed, you’re all, those of you who haven’t been raising alarms, are going to have to select one of those categories for yourself.

Myself, I sleep well.

Always have, always will.

Time’s running out for those of you who haven’t been raising alarms, to be able to tell your children and grandchildren the same.
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April 11, 2016 9:02pm
waikatogirl

Maggy
Will you be wearing heels or Doc Martins when out on the hustings?
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Haha, definitely Doc Martins Maggy.

The vision of a warthog in heels is just too much fun!
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April 11, 2016 9:09pm
cha

El Gauava’s heartbroken knowing his boy Levin was for sale all along. Colonel bunny’s upset too.

“The Senate Conservatives Fund (PAC) purchasing massive quantities ($400,000) of Mark Levin’s books in exchange for favorable candidacy political opinion. Conveniently hidden by the radio host who avoids mentioning the financial conflict created,” the blog pointed out

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/08/gop-establishment-money-funding-mark-levin-glenn-beck-erick-erickson-to-attack-trump/
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April 11, 2016 9:10pm
cha

So it wasn’t just a live boy.

The accusations came to light after investigators found out he was paying an ex-student to stay quiet about sexual abuse allegations, prosecutors allege.

The student was among four others who told investigators he abused them, including one who was 14 at the time, the documents allege.

The allegations date to the 1960s and 1970s, according to the prosecutors’ court filing.

Hastert will not face sexual abuse charges because the statutes of limitation have expired.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/09/politics/dennis-hastert-sexual-abuse-allegations/
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April 11, 2016 9:18pm
Gabby

Oh how we larfed eh, Ancient Ballbag.
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April 11, 2016 9:30pm
Captain Mainwaring

Gobby,
Your meds are on the shelf in the kitchen, above the picture of Castro and beside the keys to the Lada.
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April 11, 2016 9:54pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@Waikatogirl

We are so fortunate to have two political stylists on KB.
It’s pure genius that ABS knew that puce is so me.
I reckon he’s a sensitive new age wart-hog.
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April 11, 2016 9:55pm
publicwatchdog

Here you go Kiwibloggers!

Sink your gums into THIS one 😉

http://nzfirst.org.nz/news/no-confidence-government-house-review

“New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters has expressed no confidence in John Shewan’s appointment to review foreign trust disclosure rules.

“In less than 24 hours the Prime Minister has gone from an overseas expert to someone of the government’s choosing long involved in accountancy practices in New Zealand.

“Mr Shewan was involved in a number of high profile tax cases:

“First, the Westpac Banking Corporation which ended in a Westpac Banking Corporation-IRD dispute which ended in four Australian-owned banks settling for $2.2 billion in December 2009.

“Second, he gave expert advice in the Penny & Hooper case. The Court of Appeal and Supreme Court dismissed his evidence as being inappropriate from an expert witness.

“Third, he was dismissive over the Cook Islands Winebox allegations, preferring ‘form over substance’, a misguided view overruled by the Privy Council, Court of Appeal and the New Zealand High Court.

“Fourth, Mr Shewan has been giving tax advice to New Zealand governments for years.

“New Zealand First wants a proper inquiry with the full powers to obtain disclosure and by a body not contaminated by New Zealand establishment associations.

“Mr Key’s soft option won’t do to allay international criticism that New Zealand is a tax haven.

“This appointment means the government is not taking the issue of New Zealand’s reputation seriously,” Mr Peters said.

_____________________

Penny Bright
2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate.
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April 11, 2016 9:55pm
stigie

“Oh how we larfed eh”

Are you Phil (Phool) Ure Gobby …eh…?
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April 11, 2016 9:55pm
stigie

Winston Peter’s will make a fool of himself again Penny, just like you are !~
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April 11, 2016 9:59pm
Captain Mainwaring

For Christ’s sake Penny, the country knows bloody well not to take the drunken dwarf’s word for anything.
How much does he owe us again? Have you forgotten?

Captain Mainwaring
not 2016 Mayoral candidate for anywhere
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April 11, 2016 10:01pm
stigie

$158000 Penny !~
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April 11, 2016 10:03pm
cha

The Boston Globe’s posted it’s 9/4/2017 front page.

Cracker editorial too.
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Action doesn’t mean political chicanery or subterfuge. It doesn’t mean settling for an equally extreme — and perhaps more dangerous — nominee in Ted Cruz. If the party can muster the courage to reject its first-place finisher, rejecting the runner-up should be even easier.

The Republican Party’s standard deserves to be hoisted by an honorable and decent man, like Romney or Ryan, elected on the convention floor. It is better to lose with principle than to accept a dangerous deal from a demagogue.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/04/09/etrump/JPOQJZK9hUBdBx5rdPkWFK/story.html
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April 11, 2016 10:16pm
flipper

A late night update from The Green Papers….

Election 2016
Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions
January 2016 through September 2016

NOTE: The “soft” delegate count is this website’s estimate of the potential delegate support for each contender based on key delegate selection events already held and is subject to change as we get closer to the National Conventions; the “hard” count is the tabulation of delegates already formally pledged or bound by law and/or Party rules.

Democratic Presidential Nominating Process Republican Presidential Nominating Process

DEMS
“Soft” (Pledged + Unpledged) Delegate Votes
Need to Nominate 2,383
(available) 1,845
H Clinton 1,787
B Sanders 1,132
M O’Malley 1
Total 4,765
+++
GOP
“Soft” Delegates
Need to Nominate 1,237
(available) 809
D Trump 759
R Cruz 544
M Rubio 173
J Kasich 144
Uncommitted 28
B Carson 8
J Bush 4
C Fiorina 1
M Huckabee 1
R Paul 1
Total 2,472
+++

DEMS
“Hard” Delegate Votes
Need to Nominate 2,383
(available) 1,899
H Clinton 1,215
B Sanders 937
Uncommitted 714
Total 4,765
++++

GOP
“Hard” Delegates
Need to Nominate 1,237
(available) 789
D Trump 758
R Cruz 529
M Rubio 173
J Kasich 144
Uncommitted 64
B Carson 8
J Bush 4
C Fiorina 1
M Huckabee 1
R Paul 1
Total 2,472
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April 11, 2016 10:18pm
ex-golfer

Another hack job on John Key: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/78778585/nz-pm-john-key-refuses-to-release-tax-records–what-do-we-know-of-his-assets

Its a pity that Vernon Small-head didn’t outline that none of this is secret as it is all listed on the register of pecuniary interests.

Not to mention that several of the last PM’s of this country have established blind trusts to run their affairs whilst PM.

I guess tomorrow we’ll have the same exposure on Andrew Little? I won’t hold my breath.

The only redeeming feature is that the silent majority are finally revealing themselves in the comments section – NZ is getting sick of the relentless attacks on John Key.
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April 11, 2016 10:19pm
Jim

ex-golfer: exactly my thoughts when I saw that drivel. Repeaters must be pretty desperate to reach into the “have you stopped beating your wife?”, “… refuses to confirm he has stopped beating his wife.” style of tabloid writing.

Meanwhile in Jesusland some journalists have tried a little harder than their NZ pretenders and come up with something that is at least amusing: a make-believe front page featuring President Trump. I still think the Simpsons did it better 15 years ago with their “Bart to the future” episode.
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April 11, 2016 10:43pm
cha

Two post down re-post, congratulations!.
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April 11, 2016 11:00pm
Left Right and Centre

I was listening to the panel on red radio (afternoons) – one prissy sounding woman who must be the life of the party couldn’t understand the poor poll result for Labour because ‘they’re not really doing anything wrong’. What planet are these idiots from ? ‘They’re picking the right issues, but the voters just aren’t interested in them’ – hel-looooo ? What the hell is that nonsense ? ‘Unless the poll is wrong’ – fucking hell – really ? Are they that pathetic ? Labour are the PC licking lunatics firing stupidity in all directions like a bloody Guy Fawkes display. They’re all over the place. They’re in tatters. They’re in freefall. They couldn’t get laid in a brothel. Couldn’t get pissed in a brewery. If they tried to milk a cow they’d wank a bull off. They want the living wage. They’re crim huggers. They have gender quotas. They think half the kids are in third world conditions. They couldn’t run a 50c raffle. They’re a game of Jenga on match piece. They’re pissing into the wind. Pushing shit uphill. Up the creek without a paddle.

One day they’ll try and appeal to more than just the LGBT community, underclass, breeders and all these other trendy noisy oppressed minorities. They are outdated, out-classed, outraged about every little non-issue and getting nowhere with it. Pathetic attacks, appeals and concerted campaigns – nothing. Backwards in the poll. Touchy-feely, inclusive – nicey-nicey, bending over to every pet group – internal fragility, a leader barely backed by the party. They are just wrong. They are the 99 RWC semi-final second half. They are as relevant in 2016 as VHS cassettes.
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April 12, 2016 1:36am
Manolo

Walking towards oblivion:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/11/as-trump-targets-gop-process-speculation-swirls-around-alternative-candidates.html?intcmp=hpbt1
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