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stigie

Penny will be happy that we have GD today, she has a backlog of uninteresting shit she wants to put up !~
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April 4, 2016 8:03am
Nostradamus

Stigie:

Yes – she had to settle for another thread yesterday.

But this is a general debate thread. Penny doesn’t debate anything, but just pisses all over the thread.
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April 4, 2016 8:07am
oldpark

Its not often we get two jokes from a no electoral seat party that keeps on giving. NZs Body Mass Index pin up girl Materialistic Turei from the joke party where she was 28 on the list, the “MCGILLYCUDDY SERIOUS PARTY” ,now masquerading as the “green” party ,they want a sugar tax. Wonder why Turei would call for a sugar tax? go figure.
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April 4, 2016 8:07am
UglyTruth

A skeptic’s view of David Icke’s work…

https://youtu.be/KLop4NUxsQs
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April 4, 2016 8:09am
dave_c_

If one needed any further proof that corporates, councils, governments are in cohoots with one another, you need go no further than the selling off of water from the ashburton aquifier ! Billions of litres of water to be sold for an offshore water bottling company

This is fucking outrageous, when that area suffers from significant drought, and locals cannot even purchase or extend their own water needs.

But I am not surprised, this also happens in the California area – major drought, and the authorities selling off billions of litres of water from the very supply required for its citizens.

No consultation – all very hush hush and under the table like behaviour
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April 4, 2016 8:10am
oldpark

Heard the guy from the” green party” the Mr Bean look-a like calling for a hundred million dollars of taxpayers money to be injected into Kiwibank. Seems part of the money ,if that was succesful ,would surely be gouged from old age pensioners meagre investments,in all banks,where their returns are already taxed. Would have thought the joke party would have called for no tax on bank savings,which already is double taxed.Once when it is on earnings,and secondly on investing.
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April 4, 2016 8:16am
kowtow

dave c

If the area suffers from drought , why haven’t the locals driven a well into the aquifer?
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April 4, 2016 8:19am
Paulus

Whilst out walking listened to Radio NZ Left –

Suzi and Guyon must have taken vinager before coming on.

I can hear them along with the writers praying the mantra taken from George Orwell’s 1984.

Instead of shouting Love Big Brother I can see them all in a line with the similar mantra

“Hate John Key, Hate John Key, Hate John Key”.
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April 4, 2016 8:20am
howitis

I thought I’d watch the 7am news on TV1 to see what has happened overnight.

At about 2 minutes to 7 they had a crossover from the Nelson endurance race and the idiot TVNZ Roydon somebody, the little transported English boy, said
…… I’ll bet they are pleased they get an extra hour today…

How much proof do you need that journos are retards?

Next he will be complaining about the paint fading from too much sun.
This is Monday. There are 24 hours today. Between him and the brunette ditzy they might be able to string together a sentence if given a week. Just maybe. She goes full retard when interviewing Key so I don’t watch. Maybe she needs to hire a DVD of ‘Tropic Thunder’ . If she can work that DVD thingy machine with the buttons. Or even spell DVD.
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April 4, 2016 8:21am
Nostradamus

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, so the saying goes, but not everyone agrees:

An unprecedented leak of more than 11 million documents has revealed the hidden financial dealings of some of the world’s wealthiest people, as well as 12 current and former world leaders and 128 more politicians and public officials around the world.

More than 200,000 companies, foundations and trusts are contained in the leak of information which came from a little-known but powerful law firm based in Panama called Mossack Fonseca. The law firm is one of the world’s top creators of shell companies, which can be legally used to hide the ownership of assets.

The data includes emails, contracts, bank records, property deeds, passport copies and other sensitive information dating from 1977 to as recently as December 2015.

In apparently related news, supermarkets have reported an increase in popcorn sales…
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April 4, 2016 8:23am
dave_c_

kowtow @ 8.19am-

They are not permitted to do that – they can’t get consent – Its not permitted, as part of the bigger plan being managed by beaurocrats and government agencies.

Consent is being witheld more and more across the whole country these days – Look at Hawkes Bay, as another example of this egregious restrictions for locals – but if the dollars are flashed in front of their eyes, anything is possible. Very corrupt in my view
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April 4, 2016 8:24am
G152

Pity that the obesity levels claims the greens and residents of ivory towers
have are wrong..
Makes them all look as unprofessional as they really are
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April 4, 2016 8:24am
kowtow

howitis

I’ll never forget how Rawprawn Christie one Christmas season morning , in reply to a viewers query as to why there were no overtly Christmas deccies on set , ” We woudln’t want to offend anyone” .

Meanwhile ,the paternalist control freaks are in full flight. I see labour are waiting for a study from a failed state , mexico , before deciding on a sugar tax.

Sugar tax ? Fuck off. It’s called personal responsibility.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/300582/govt-won't-be-budged-on-sugar-tax
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April 4, 2016 8:27am
Happychappy

Andrew Little goes off half cocked again without a conversation with Winston Peters confirming that he will partner Labour at the 2017 election.This idiot thinks he can tell the NZ public that the Greens, NZ First and Labour will join together in releasing policy for the next election and got a political slapping from the older politition when Peters said I don’t join or tell anyone my political preference until after a election.Andrew Little is desperate to become the Prime Minister and will bully and lie to achieve his goal
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April 4, 2016 8:28am
kowtow

dave c

No consents ? They should “black up ” , problem solved.
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April 4, 2016 8:29am
Andrei

Nostradamus – what ever financial skulduggery they expose they will stay silent on the Clinton’s dirty dealings and those of the Bush family empire.

From what I’ve read they media has focused their steely gaze on a famous Russian cellist who happens to be a boyhood friend of you know who
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April 4, 2016 8:30am
Albert_Ross

New Health and Safety Laws, and the complaint that they are “too vague”.

So what would be a clear law?

At one extreme: No need for employers or school principals to take any measures, they won’t be held accountable for anything that happens to any of their employees or pupils while on their premises. Hand a chainsaw to the 17-year-old apprentice on his first day and tell him to work it out? Kids want to dangle off a rotting branch that overhangs a busy road? No problem, hey sh*t happens. That’s clear, simple and doesn’t need any enforcement.

At the other extreme: If anything at all happens and an employee or pupil is injured, no matter what the circumstances, the employer is liable. Employee was on drugs, not wearing the safety kit provided, in contravention of a clear instruction? Kid had ignored several warnings and climbed over a fence to get to the tree? Whatever, sunshine, you’re nicked. That’s clear and simple, and easy to enforce.

Both clearly unsatisfactory though, so what we want is something in between that effectively discourages gross negligence without making it impossible to do anything at all, takes account of the fact that every workplace and every school is different, and make it quite clear what needs to be done so that there can be no doubt or unclarity. For example, what should be done to manage the risk of accidental drowning at school?

Either: Wherever there is water (of whatever sort) it must be fenced off, the fence to have the following specified dimensions, be made of the following specified material, be maintained according to the following schedule. That’s clear and simple, but may be totally inappropriate and disproportionately expensive for different circumstances.

Or: Specific, detailed requirements, differentiated according to how deep the water is, whether it is free flowing (how fast?) or not, whether it is seasonal or not, how far it is from the classrooms, etc etc etc. Over to you to search through the several thousand pages of detailed instruction until you find the bit that exactly matches your particular circumstances (or pay somebody else to do so). Once you’ve found it, that’s clear and simple, and it will be easy to demonstrate to the inspector that you’ve done exactly what it said. And that’s only drowning – now for the several thousand pages specifying what to do about fire risk, depending on the age of the building, the age of the children, whether there are trees nearby, whether there is a road outside …

Both also clearly unsatisfactory, so what do we want? Seems we’re not happy with a law that places some responsibility on an employer or principal to decide for themselves what is sensible, and on compliance officers to decide what is reasonable, in the light of the particular circumstances of each particular case – because that leaves scope for doubt and uncertainty. Indeed, we’ve been very clear in discussion here what we don’t want.

But what then do we think the law should say?
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April 4, 2016 8:31am
kowtow

Nostradamus

The Daily Telegraph accompanied that story , like your link did, with a prominent photo of a man who was not named in the leak.

And then the media wonder why they’re not trusted?
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April 4, 2016 8:33am
flipper

Anyone with access to Sky should check out Fox news at 1 (one) p.m. today. Immediately following the Van Susteran Town Hall with Trump they are re-running Brett Baeir’s excellent document on the Obama betrayal of the US military. It features three former Obama Sec of Defense and Joe Lieberman. They all gut Obama. It should be compulsory viewing for Big Gerry, Johnny boy and Muzzer… and idiots like milksop and the stupidboy.

1 (one) pm today (9 p.m. ET in USA).
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April 4, 2016 8:35am
UglyTruth

They are not permitted to do that – they can’t get consent

Fuck the District Councils. Landowners typically are not persons, the rules do not apply.
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April 4, 2016 8:36am
Nostradamus

Kowtow:

This sentence in the article was intriguing:

The year-long investigation was coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), who worked with hundreds of journalists from the world’s top media organisations including the ABC’s Four Corners program.

Just think about that for a moment.
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April 4, 2016 8:38am
Return To Sender

How about that cricket. are we going to see the revival of windies cricket?
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April 4, 2016 8:40am
Left Right and Centre

I wonder what’s on the menu today at Duendin hospital ?
Is it . . . re-heated slop made in and sent from Auckland ?
Reminds me of instant meals from the freezer section – but a lot of those are really cool. Not that I’ve eaten one for donkeys.
Do they serve anything not sent from Auckland ? Is breakfast sent from Auckland ? Do they send breakfast down in box ticking little airline style portions ?
I don’t know what it tastes like but making it, chilling it, 100s of kms later and re-heating ? Really ? Come on.
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April 4, 2016 8:40am
Nostradamus

Return To Sender:

are we going to see the revival of windies cricket?

It depends. Are you talking about cricket – or do you actually mean hit-and-giggle? Because when it comes to tests and one-dayers, the West Indies haven’t been all that competitive lately.
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April 4, 2016 8:41am
Keeping Stock

How about that cricket. are we going to see the revival of windies cricket?

In the shortest, most lucrative format, perhaps. But as far as ODI’s and test cricket go, if the money’s not there, the West Indies’ best players won’t be either.
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April 4, 2016 8:42am
UglyTruth

A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles – almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published – freely available online. And she’s now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world’s biggest publishers.

http://www.sciencealert.com/this-woman-has-illegally-uploaded-millions-of-journal-articles-in-an-attempt-to-open-up-science

https://sci-hub.io/
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April 4, 2016 8:42am
cmm

dave_c_ : “billions of litres of water”…

While I share your concerns to an extent, this one does not bother me. There’s been a lot of media beat up about 40 billion litres of water.

The right is to extract up to 45 litres per second over many years. That’s a tiny amount.

45 litres/sec is 0.045 cumecs. Compare that with the rivers in the area: http://www.ecan.govt.nz/services/online-services/monitoring/river-flows/Pages/River-flows-south.aspx

It is only 0.06% of the flow of the Rangitata river. About two and a half cups out of every 1000 litres
Or 0.025% or the Rakaia. About one cup out of every 1000 litres.

I’d rather divert that anger towards how the media are manipulating people through their alarmist headlines.
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April 4, 2016 8:45am
Nostradamus

Left Right and Centre

what’s on the menu today at Duendin hospital ?

Good heavens! We once had grim eaters who dined out at funerals of people they didn’t know. Now, if I’m following you correctly, we have healthy people who pretend to be sick so they can dine out on hospital meals 🙂
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April 4, 2016 8:47am
cha

The shit has hit the fan and it’s gonna be yuuuge!

http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d3c3495adf4/

http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/en/

http://fusion.net/story/287227/famous-presidents-shell-companies-trove/
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April 4, 2016 8:54am
publicwatchdog

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Any Kiwibloggers still think that it’s all over for Bernie Sandwrs?

http://usuncut.com/politics/bernie-wins-nevada-democratic-caucus/

POLITICS
Bernie Sanders Wins the Nevada Caucus After AllTom Cahill | April 3, 2016

Penny Bright
2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate.
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April 4, 2016 9:05am
kowtow

Another link with a prominent picture of a man not named in the leaak.

The same media are not giving the same prominence to this though. (They would if he were a white MOFO)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3518852/South-African-opposition-says-necessary-action-remove-Zuma.html
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April 4, 2016 9:06am
Captain Mainwaring

Any Kiwibloggers still think that it’s all over for Penny Bright?
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April 4, 2016 9:12am
Keeping Stock

@ Captain Mainwaring – hasn’t she withdrawn from the race? I’m sure I saw that on Kiwiblog 😉
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April 4, 2016 9:17am
Andrei

The shit has hit the fan and it’s gonna be yuuuge!

Wanna bet on that Cha? – a small few of the globalist elite who are are out of favour may get thrown under the bus but they are all at it Cha

People with wealth and power don’t get it by being boy scouts and they write the rules to suit themselves and maintain their position.
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April 4, 2016 9:17am
stigie

“I’m sure I saw that on Kiwiblog”

Yes KS, it sure had me confused until i saw what day it was..?
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April 4, 2016 9:21am
Nostradamus

Keeping Stock:

I believe the Wanganui mayor vacates office later this year. Perhaps Penny could make a positive difference down your way?
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April 4, 2016 9:21am
kowtow

Talking of the Lying Media, the UK Daily Telegraph ,who have named Putin in their headline in this alleged scandal(even though he is not directly implicated) has a new look .

The new look no longer seems to have room for any reader comment.

I wonder if the DT wasn’t happy that their conservative base was letting them know in no uncertain terms at how disgusted they were at the DT’s pro Europe ,”progressive” stance .

So much for an open , honest media . “Je Suis” bwhahahahahahaha.
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April 4, 2016 9:22am
cha

Another link with a prominent picture of a man not named in the leaak

I suppose you’ve analysed the entire 2.6TB of data.
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April 4, 2016 9:25am
Keeping Stock

@ Nostradamus – no, No and NO! We are still recovering from the Lhaws Era, and whilst Whanganui’s outlook is bright, it is most certainly not Bright.
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April 4, 2016 9:28am
RalphT

Nostradamus,
I suggest she by-passes Wanganui and keeps on going south. Taking on Tim Shadbolt for mayor of Invercargill could also double as the final of Clown of the Year. And would be a bonus for Aucklanders as she would be over 1000 kms away.
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April 4, 2016 9:28am
Captain Mainwaring

@ Captain Mainwaring – hasn’t she withdrawn from the race? I’m sure I saw that on Kiwiblog ?

KS, not according to the footnote on her latest post.
But your April 1 post was superb.
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April 4, 2016 9:28am
Captain Mainwaring

Kheeping Shtock.
Yhou ahre bhecoming ohbsessed whith the lhetter H.

Easier if you just call it Wanganui, like most businesses in the city with Wanganui in their name do.
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April 4, 2016 9:33am
RF

I only heard part of a discussion on Fox last night but from what I did hear Obama has apparently censored a speech by the Frence President at the nuclear conference where he refers to Islamic terrorists. This phrase was later deleted from the video of the speech on directions of Obama.

A tricky bastard….
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April 4, 2016 9:35am
Keeping Stock

What RalphT said 😀
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April 4, 2016 9:37am
Manolo

One Islamic beast is captured: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35956301

The leader of al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group Ansaru has been arrested in Nigeria, authorities there say.
A military spokesman said Khalid al-Barnawi was captured in Lokoja, capital of the central state of Kogi.
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April 4, 2016 9:39am
UglyTruth

People with wealth and power don’t get it by being boy scouts and they write the rules to suit themselves and maintain their position.

The world doesn’t run according to their rules.
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April 4, 2016 9:40am
howitis

The worlds media continue with anti-Russian propaganda.
Blah blah blah
It is getting rather boring.
Who are the bad guys in Hollywood movies- Russians.
Even Invercargill born Marton Csokas with a Hungarian father plays this role. Baddy ruskies.

I guess it is Russian Derangement Syndrome. RDS.

The attack on athletes such as Sharapova and the Russian Track and Field team is a deliberate campaign when they are simply among the masses.
Britain is very dirty (plus Spain, France….)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3520967/John-Whittingdale-demands-urgent-probe-sports-doping-allegations.html

Now the news break on World leaders with tax havens – 12 leaders but every western media article shows a picture of Putin.
It is getting really f….ing boring with these 2 year olds playing media giants.
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April 4, 2016 9:44am
Nostradamus

RalphT:

I suggest she by-passes Wanganui and keeps on going south.

I have another idea.

Google Maps tells us that it’s 73.3km (52 minutes without traffic) from Wanganui to Palmerston North. The current Palmerston North mayor, Grant Smith, has said:

“It is a great honour to be elected Mayor of Palmerston North – we have a smart, young workforce, our economy is growing, our centralised location is advantageous and we are becoming a more diverse city – We are on the cusp of something special,” Grant Smith.

It’s one thing to be on the cusp of something special – it takes the right person to make something special happen!
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April 4, 2016 9:44am
flipper

RF (2,132 comments) says:

April 4th, 2016 at 9:35 am

I only heard part of a discussion on Fox last night but from what I did hear Obama has apparently censored a speech by the Frence President
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Butr surely you believe the White House explanation that the deletion wasa result of “a technical glitch”.

Yeah right!!!!!!!!!!
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April 4, 2016 9:49am
UglyTruth

Obama has apparently censored a speech by the Frence President at the nuclear conference where he refers to Islamic terrorists.

As Hollande was talking about the roots of terrorism, the following words were removed from the audio:

“Islamist terrorism, is in Syria and in Iraq. We therefore have to act both in Syria and in Iraq, and this is what we’re doing within the framework of the coalition”

http://thefederalist.com/2016/04/01/the-obama-white-house-just-censored-a-foreign-leader-who-mentioned-islamist-terrorism/

This is significant because of the connection to the Charlie Hebdo false flag:

15 Signs The Charlie Hebdo Attack Was A False Flag

1.) The suspects had traveled to Syria in order to fight against the secular government of Bashar al-Assad.

2.) France itself is responsible for arming, training, and directing the very terrorist organizations fighting against the secular government of Bashar al-Assad.

3.) Both the suspects had been on the radar screen of French intelligence for a number of years. Their terrorist ties did not come as a surprise.

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/01/15-signs-charlie-hebdo-attack-was-false.html
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April 4, 2016 10:03am
Fletch

Obama breaks another promise re: the Iran deal, by giving the Iranians access to the U.S. Financial System.

Obama is doing it again.

To persuade the Republican-controlled Congress to refrain from rejecting the Iran deal, even under the shamefully indulgent Corker-Cardin process to which GOP leaders agreed, the Obama administration made two key promises. The first was that, if Congress went along with Obama on dismantling nuclear sanctions (for the purportedly greater good of winning the terror regime’s commitment not to build nuclear weapons), the administration would stand strong on other sanctions — sanctions that punish Iran for its terror promotion, ballistic-missile development, and related aggression. The second promise was that Iran would continue to be banned from the U.S. financial system.

The latter is a critical restraint on the mullahs. Because the dollar is the world’s reserve currency, the inability to transact in dollars is a significant impediment to commerce — and thus a fitting punitive measure against a rogue nation that bankrolls jihadists. Moreover, because Iran’s economy is dominated by a terrorist entity (the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps), a key component of which is the Quds Force (again, formally designated as a terrorist organization), insulating our financial system from Iran’s prevents our banks and commercial actors from supporting Iranian terrorism (after all, Obama is already doing quite enough of that).

Now, having gotten his deal past Congress, Obama is reneging on both commitments.

[T]his week it emerged that, after struggling to keep the matter under wraps, Obama is preparing to give Iran access to the U.S. financial system. The scheme would start out small at first: Currency conversion into dollars would be permitted in the intermediary steps of commercial transactions with Iranian entities as long as Iranian banks were not involved and American dollars were not directly exchanged for Iranian rials. Even this step, however, is an outrageous betrayal of repeated assurances that White House, State, and Treasury officials gave Congress while the Iran deal was being negotiated. Furthermore, it would begin an inevitable and rapid progression to full-blown Iranian participation in our markets, effectively co-opting American commerce for the purpose of legitimizing the regime and its nefarious activities.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433581/iran-sanctions-obama-lawlessness-united-states-financial-system

IMPEACH the useless SOB.
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April 4, 2016 10:06am
kowtow

From the DT itself

“While Mr Putin himself is not named in any of the documents,”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/03/vladimir-putin-his-close-friends-and-the-2bn-in-offshore-tax-hav/

Still didn’t stop them putting “Putin” in the headline or using his photo.

Luegenpresse.
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April 4, 2016 10:07am
RalphT

Nostradamus,
And we could invite John Cleese over for the inauguration; I’m sure he’d be able to come out with a few choice words about the two of them deserving each other.
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April 4, 2016 10:11am
All_on_Red

The more cannabis you smoke, the more likely you are to be a loser, finds international study

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3520257/The-cannabis-smoke-likely-loser-finds-international-study.html#ixzz44nrJk800
lol
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April 4, 2016 10:17am
Manolo

UT is a Muslim like the Messiah. Surprise, surprise.
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April 4, 2016 10:20am
mikenmild

AoR
Will that make all the heavy drinkers feel quite relieved that they aren’t losers?
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April 4, 2016 10:23am
Andrei

The attack on athletes such as Sharapova and the Russian Track and Field team is a deliberate campaign when they are simply among the masses.

Meldonium has been used by Eastern European athletes for nearly fifty years because it theoretically helps to reduce magnesium loss during exercise – it is virtually unknown in the West though there is probably some equivalent

Suddenly in December WADA announced it was banned from Jan 1 and sure enough in January they decided to test a lot of athletes for “biological passport” purposes and got a lot of Russians and other East Europeans in their net – this being an Olympic year and all

If you don’t realize this was a set up….
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April 4, 2016 10:25am
nickb

Massive story brewing regarding the leak (theft?) of 2.6 terabytes of client files from Mossack Fonseca, one of the world’s largest offshore law firms (who, by the way, operate a NZ trustee company).

A lot of high profile dictators and politicians caught up in it. When the source data is released in May we might know more regarding any links to NZ – one would hope for the sake of our reputation as an international trust centre there are no NZ entities involved
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April 4, 2016 10:35am
nickb

In the shortest, most lucrative format, perhaps. But as far as ODI’s and test cricket go, if the money’s not there, the West Indies’ best players won’t be either.

And can anyone blame them, given the WICB’s behaviour and the money on offer in the IPL?

I never understand why capitalists don’t understand profit-seeking if a professional athlete is involved.
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April 4, 2016 10:37am
publicwatchdog

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Has New Zealand now become a corrupt, polluted tax haven?

Whose interests are being served by allowing NZ ‘foreign trusts’?

Open the books so we can all ‘follow the dollar’?

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/03/new-zealand-foreign-trusts-and-the-unaoil-scandal-more-chickens-coming-home-to-roost-and-theyre-big.html

New Zealand Foreign Trusts and the Unaoil Scandal: More Chickens Coming Home to Roost, and They’re Big
Posted on March 31, 2016 by Richard Smith

NZG may well be wishing they’d not just ignored early warnings of the scandal to come, back in 2012. The chickens, in the form of 11,000 NZ foreign trusts, are simply going to keep coming home to roost now. There is going to be a large and noisy mess.

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Penny Bright
2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate.
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April 4, 2016 10:40am
Happychappy

Penny can produce any evidence that it is corrupt or is it your considered opinion that really does not mean much anywhere in NZ.
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April 4, 2016 11:00am
Paulus

The tall parrot from the Greenpeace Greens Party shows him self to be totally financially illiterate.

Increase the capital of Kiwi Bank by injecting another $100,000,000 so it can compete with the big Australian owned Banks.

Since its formation the Post Office have injected at least four times that and it still only represents 7% of the market, principally taking customers that cannot get traction with the big banks.

To compete the ignorant git should have said to get anywhere near the big Banks an injection of a $Billion would get slightly closer.

Ignorant as pig shit and twice as thick.
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April 4, 2016 11:03am
UglyTruth

UT is a Muslim like the Messiah. Surprise, surprise.

I’m like Obama because I post about what his administration has hidden? Logic fail.
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April 4, 2016 11:05am
dave_c_

cmm – re your comments on water !

You make a good point, and the numbers appear alarmist.

However, that is not the end of the story in my books –

– Why is it that NZ thinks selling water to allcomers is a good idea ? If you ask the Joe punter, in my view they would say – NO
– Why are locals prevented (by the Resource management act) from requesting the use of this (supposedly) surplus water.
– Why (if it is true) has this been done by a backdoor non consultative means ?
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April 4, 2016 11:07am
simpleton1

Has New Zealand now become a corrupt, polluted tax haven?

Has a certain part of Auckland became a “rates haven”?

Then there are Bank accounts emptied and closed.
Was that just entitlement ?
Just what were the purported “activist” expenses?
Was it sleeping bags and tents?, communications? food?
Was there a conflict of interests ?

Open the books !
All of this should be open and exposed.
Where are the minutes of a properly constituted meeting, that ratified the purported expenses claimed.?
Who were the “attendees” of that meeting? Was there a quorum?
Who was the Chairman, movers and seconders?
Was there a conflict of interest of some of the attendees?

Open the books so we can all ‘follow the dollar’?

So far in following the dollar from a closed bank account; It all seems to go to a protesting claimant of a “public watch dog”.
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April 4, 2016 11:14am
iMP

More details here on POEM-GATE II the debacle of Colin Craig v Whaleoil and THAT romantic poem

https://conzervative.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/more-on-poem-gate-ii-colin-craig-v-woil/
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April 4, 2016 11:15am
Jack5

More casualties of the myth of China’s “capitalism”.

China is dumping steel on markets round the world, hammering local producers.

State-owned groups, with shares sometimes held by provincial governments, dominate the Chinese steel industry, which has expanded dramatically since China joined the WTO. China now produces about half of the world’s steel, and owns six of the world’s biggest steel making groups.

With the big slowdown in the Chinese economy, China has announced production cutbacks, and the Chinese industry is estimated to have lost at least around 16 billion NZ dollars in 2015. However, rather than face the political kickback from wiping sufficient jobs – hundreds of thousands – China is dumping its steel on world markets and has slapped a tariff of almost 50 per cent on specialist high-quality steels it has been importing, including from Britain.

One of the smarter countries to react has been the United States, which has imposed a tariff of around 250 per cent on China steel.

We have a steel mill at Glenbrook, owned by Australian company Blue Steel after surviving ownership by the flaky NZ investor Equiticorp. In August Bluesteel warned NZ Steel at Glenbrook would have to slash costs and could face up to 1000 job losses and even mothballing.

If that happens, let the blame go where it deserves to fall: on a huge, foreign, State-controlled industry, and not on free world competition. In the meantime, it might be interesting if the MSM could find out for us whether the free trade agreement with China provides any protection for NZ Steel and what are the chances of our industry surviving China’s protectionism and dumping.
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April 4, 2016 11:22am
Andrei

If that happens, let the blame go where it deserves to fall: on a huge, foreign, State-controlled industry

Why not blame the fucking stupid ETS that increases the cost of steel making
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April 4, 2016 11:35am
Jack5

I see the German Government has set aside more than 6.7 billion NZ dollars to help its steel industry survive.

Free market economics is good, but the countries that really perform seem to observe it fairly loosely.
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April 4, 2016 11:37am
Longknives

I’ve got some friends doing the Godzone Endurance race- What a shame that McCaw’s presence has hijacked the event (much like he himself arrogantly tried to hijack the Flag Referendum) and the Media are speaking of nothing else..I now switch off when I hear news reports of what was potentially a very cool event
“And what we all want to know is where is Richie Today?”…For fuck’s sake!
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April 4, 2016 11:54am
howitis

Jack5: This is why the Talbot steel plant in Wales is facing a huge political backlash against the UK Govt as it faces closure.

I always laughed ironically when the Bolger Govt in the 1990s sold the forests to a JV with the Chinese government-owned CITIC.
The argument for selling the forests- government should not own forests. OK we will sell them to another govt then.
(Stay in your seats please ; this is not Monty Python)

Jack5 …Free market economics is good…..
Just look at the US dairy support and subsidies. WTO is bollocks.
We are bit too pure in NZ like the goody two shoes in class.
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April 4, 2016 11:55am
stephieboy

Jack 5 , I see a recently you made the extraordinary claim that convicted hi jacker Asha Ali Abdille, presented a clear and present danger to our national security even though she had mental health issues . Issues which was used in mitigation , reducing her sentence .Also not forgetting the incident occurred over five years ago.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4067427/Woman-jailed-for-hijack-attempt

I suppose you would argue that she was some sort of dormant terrorist cell anticipating ( and in cahoots ) the rise of the Somali Jihadist militant group al-Shabab ?

Any ideas when the next Islamic inspired hijacking or terrorist outrage will occur on these fair shores ?
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April 4, 2016 12:04pm
Nostradamus

Longknives:

“And what we all want to know is where is Richie Today?”…For fuck’s sake!

Some Kiwiblog readers need to know where Richie is. It’s a bit hard to make arrangements with your gliding companion when he’s in the bush (so to speak)!
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April 4, 2016 12:04pm
Kimbo

@ Longknives

…where is Richie Today?

Well, wherever he is, it is no longer allegedly offside in a ruck…so I thought you would be kinda happy, Longknives!
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April 4, 2016 12:06pm
Shawn Herles

German Govt Splashes €200m To Segregate Women And Children After Migrant Home Attacks

“The German government has pledged €200 million to combat the rampant sexual abuse of children and women in asylum homes.

The Ministry of Families, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) is making the sum available as of April 1st to fund projects designed to reduce the number of cases of sexual abuse committed by predominately male Muslim migrants in asylum homes across the country reports the Local.de.”

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/04/01/germany-migrant-home-sex-abuse/

The German taxpayer has to foot the bill for Muslim depravity. Would have been cheaper not to let them in in the first place.
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April 4, 2016 12:07pm
stephieboy

Manolo (20,752 comments) says:
April 4th, 2016 at 10:20 am

UT is a Muslim like the Messiah. Surprise, surprise.

Manolo derangement syndrome ?
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April 4, 2016 12:07pm
Manolo

A “luminary”, an arsehole, speaks:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/only-hillary-can-stop-bernie-sanders-from-being-us-president-says-michael-moore-20160401-gnvrmx.html

“If everybody shows up to vote, Bernie Sanders will be the next President of the United States,” predicts Michael Moore, the provocative filmmaker whose Fahrenheit 9/11 remains the highest-grossing documentary of all time.

“But first,” he adds, “he has to get through the hurdles of the Democratic Party, which does not want him as their nominee.”
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April 4, 2016 12:08pm
starboard

dave c regarding the water..we lose a shit load out into the Pacific everyday , I dont see there being a problem whipping out 40 billion so long as the withdrawal point is within cooey of the mouth of the river. If it was going to be an issue dont you think the custodians of the land *snigger snort* would be up in arms with their hand out ?
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April 4, 2016 12:10pm
dime

The Democratic party is about as democratic as labour when it comes to selecting their leader.

Bernie is fucked.

God knows what deals were done by the Clintons to secure almost all of the super delegates.

Bernie is hilarious – we need to keep money out of politics!!! but vote for me and ill give you lots of free stuff and free money!!! apparently money spent on ads = bad. money bribing the idiots = good.
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April 4, 2016 12:11pm
kowtow

“Any ideas when the next Islamic inspired hijacking or terrorist outrage will occur on these fair shores ?”

Last week the media briefly reported the SIS had conducted its first warrantless search under new legislation.

Another legal first in New Zealand occassioned by the govts’ immigration and refugee policy ?

We’ll never know as our MSM dare not try and report the facts,ask the questions that need asking ,that would be racist!
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April 4, 2016 12:12pm
Shawn Herles

Obama whines that Iran not following “the spirit of the agreement”

“Iran so far has followed the letter of the agreement, but the spirit of the agreement involves Iran also sending signals to the world community and businesses that it is not going to be engaging in a range of provocative actions that are going to scare businesses off. When they launch ballistic missiles with slogans calling for the destruction of Israel, that makes businesses nervous.”

And he didn’t see this coming? Did he actually think they were going to change?

Idiot.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/obama-whines-that-iran-not-following-the-spirit-of-the-agreement
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April 4, 2016 12:12pm
Jack5

Ah good morning to the Stephiepeople team (12.04 post). Good morning, good morning …. good morning to all of you.

If you are referring to the Somali woman who knifed the two pilots of an NZ regional plane, while it was flying, I’m not sure why you appear to defend her. She was a Muslim, and so was the young Somali man who knifed people in the streets of Christchurch.

This was before the days any Muslim violence was blamed on ISIL brain washing. Then the excuse always was, as for these two, that they were mentally disturbed. There were other cases in Christchurch, as in the case of the man (from some Muslim country, I understand) molesting women joggers in the Port Hills.

The local Muslim community seems to have blamed “mental health issues” as they sought to restrain local MSM from publishing facts of the case.

Still, the fact that NZ jihadis have joined their brothers in ISIL does establish that Muslims have created a new security threat for NZ. We can agree with all of you Stephiepeople on that.
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April 4, 2016 12:12pm
Shawn Herles

“The Democratic party is about as democratic as labour when it comes to selecting their leader. ”

The fact that the Dem’s two candidates are a criminal and a communist says a lot about the current state of the Democratic party.
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April 4, 2016 12:14pm
Shawn Herles

“The local Muslim community seems to have blamed “mental health issues” as they sought to restrain local MSM from publishing facts of the case.”

Hijacking planes and molesting women is just standard Muslim behavior. The “mental health issues” is a crock of shit.

Here are the facts in NZ. We have had one plane hijacking by a Muslim, numerous assualts by Muslims, including sexual assaults and knife attacks, and we have local Muslims leaving to join ISIS.

That’s the reality of Islamic multiculturalism in NZ.

And now we are importing even more, it’s going to get a lot worse.
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April 4, 2016 12:16pm
kowtow

Jack5

There’s no way that story about the Somali hijacker is true.

The gummint and the pro “refugee” camp have assured us that all refugees are carefully vetted before they are accepted to our fair shores.
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April 4, 2016 12:18pm
cha

Look who’s home for lunch with mumsy, smallies and sauce was it, Shawn?.
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April 4, 2016 12:20pm
Nostradamus

Cha:

Look who’s home for lunch with mumsy

I didn’t realise you and Shawn were related!
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April 4, 2016 12:22pm
stephieboy

Shawn Herles, Hilary Clinton convicted of a criminal offence under due process and Bernie Sanders currently a card carrying member of which US Communist party .

I think like some Americans you display serious phobic tendencies to anyone who is even mildly politically different to your right tard belief system .

The Somali boy who allegedly knifed somebody in Christchurch did it as a religious or politically inspired act ? Molesting a jogger on the PortH hills wasyet another example of a rampage of uncontrolled mass male Muslim raping etc in Christchurch and elsewhere ?
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April 4, 2016 12:25pm
cha

Nah, my mum had eggs and soldiers ready for me.
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April 4, 2016 12:26pm
dime

yeah! bernie is a “democratic socialist” which is on par with a rapist who brings flowers.
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April 4, 2016 12:43pm
Gabby

Can’t imagine what’s so commercially shipleytive about this AshBurton water deal.
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April 4, 2016 12:45pm
stephieboy

dime, can you unpack the imagery and symbolism behind that ?
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April 4, 2016 12:45pm
pentwig

you are being a fuckwit again daffy.
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April 4, 2016 12:51pm
stephieboy

pentwig, of course not .I ‘m most careful not to use role models like yourself !
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April 4, 2016 12:57pm
dime

stephie – can you tell me when you became addicted to other peoples money?
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April 4, 2016 12:59pm
Keeping Stock

Lydia Ko has the clubhouse lead at the ANA Inspiration, the first Major of the season on the LPGA Tour. The only player who can topple her, Ariya Jutanugarn, is currently playing the last hole, which Ko just birdied.
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April 4, 2016 1:02pm
UglyTruth

Hijacking planes and molesting women is just standard Muslim behavior.

Slandering Islam is just standard US-Zionist behaviour.

The US is simply following the directions of the house of Moloch aka the Zionist crime syndicate.

“We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran..” from interview with General Wesley Clark.

The Zionst plan for acquisition of a large chunk of the Middle East is laid out in the Oded Yinon plan, which seeks to deprive Muslims of their rightful inhertance as described in the Jewish religious canon.

Of the 7 countries mentioned above, 3 fall within the area sought by the Oded Yinon plan, Libya (Ghaddafi) was challenging the Rothschild financial hegemony, and Iran is openly belligerent towards the terrorist state of Israel.
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April 4, 2016 1:04pm
wiseowl

starboard & dave

That volume of water over many years should not be a big issue and the aquifers that are recharged all the time can handle the extraction.
What is hard to take is the way our own producers are clobbered with ongoing compliance/ regulation costs many of which are unnecessary.

The big issue around water is the underhand moves by government to hand over control of our water to the special people.

I refer again to excellent articles on nzcpr.com that set out the real concerns kiwis should have about water.In fact there should be major protests about what is proposed.
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April 4, 2016 1:05pm
howitis

Ko Wins
Two majors in a row.
She teased us a bit at the start of the back nine but is a last game finisher .
Rio beckons.

Bob Charles and Michael Campbell only ever won the one Major -ever.
Lydia is only 18.

Well done, Lydia.
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April 4, 2016 1:13pm
Keeping Stock

Great news – Lydia Ko wins her second career Major.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/sport/lydia-ko-claims-second-major-at-ana-inspiration-2016040413#ixzz44odQjFVU?platform=hootsuite

It’s hard to believe that Ko is still only 18, yet she now has two Major wins under her belt, is the #1 Women’s golfer on the planet, and now has twelve LPGA titles (and five other professional wins, on other tours). She is a golfing superstar, and I am incredibly proud she calls New Zealand home. Here’s hoping she can add an Olympic gold medal later in the year.
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