General Debate 26 October 2016

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Tauhei Notts

I went to a club’s annual general meeting last night. Much time was spent trying to comprehend the meaningless mish mash of numbers presented pursuant to the new Public Benefit Entities accounting standards.
Who writes that tripe?
Much time was spent on discussing non financial liabilities. One wag stopped that discussion with the rhetorical question;
“Is a non financial liability a verbose euphemism for a wife?”
Once upon a time I could understand financial statements. Not any more.
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October 26, 2016 8:08am
- thedavincimode
  
  Notts, it looks like the author of that tripe has taken exception to your comments.
  
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  October 26, 2016 8:13am
- thedavincimode
  
  Oh dear. Someone’s having a bad day already.
  
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  October 26, 2016 8:15am
- Inandout
  
  And then Health & Safety should have been on the agenda. All responsible meetings must include workplace health, liability insurance and a host of other ‘compliances’, especially if local body money is involved. I decided to relinquish my membership of a certain community Trust as it became a risky and onerous task. This whole bloody country is being choked by petty regulations.
  
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  October 26, 2016 8:16am
  - GoVege
    
    If it makes you feel any better, let me reassure you that most people are ignoring those “petty regulations”, especially those relating to safety.
    
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    October 26, 2016 10:39am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Then the law is obviously an ass. I’m livid that this abortion of a piece of legislation was implemented by a National govt – expensive, wasteful, destructive of small businesses (I know people who have closed businesses due to the increased compliance costs imposed) and personal freedoms for almost no benefit. I will vote for anyone who commits to repeal it.
      
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      October 26, 2016 3:34pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Good grief. Didn’t realise that there were that many chartered accountants out there wanting to put the boot into me! 😆
  
  At least you could click on T Notts and even things up a bit. After all, it was his original post!
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:13am
Don the Kiwi

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has been one of the more interesting observers of the current race for President. He is clearly now fed up, and I can’t help but wonder how many voters quietly share his sentiment?

“I’ve been trying to figure out what common trait binds Clinton supporters together. As far as I can tell, the most unifying characteristic is a willingness to bully in all its forms.

If you have a Trump sign in your lawn, they will steal it.

If you have a Trump bumper sticker, they will deface your car.

if you speak of Trump at work you could get fired.

On social media, almost every message I get from a Clinton supporter is a bullying type of message. They insult. They try to shame. They label. And obviously they threaten my livelihood.

We know from Project Veritas that Clinton supporters tried to incite violence at Trump rallies. The media downplays it.

We also know Clinton’s side hired paid trolls to bully online. You don’t hear much about that.

Yesterday, by no coincidence, Huffington Post, Salon, and Daily Kos all published similar-sounding hit pieces on me, presumably to lower my influence. (That reason, plus jealousy, are the only reasons writers write about other writers.)

Joe Biden said he wanted to take Trump behind the bleachers and beat him up. No one on Clinton’s side disavowed that call to violence because, I assume, they consider it justified hyperbole.

Team Clinton has succeeded in perpetuating one of the greatest evils I have seen in my lifetime. Her side has branded Trump supporters (40%+ of voters) as Nazis, sexists, homophobes, racists, and a few other fighting words. Their argument is built on confirmation bias and persuasion. But facts don’t matter because facts never matter in politics. What matters is that Clinton’s framing of Trump provides moral cover for any bullying behavior online or in person. No one can be a bad person for opposing Hitler, right?”
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October 26, 2016 8:09am
- doggone7
  
  I look forward to the Scott Adams’ observations about the Trump supporters!
  
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  October 26, 2016 8:51am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    He is a Trump supporter – prepared to support a foul-mouthed womaniser who at least has the Costitution of the USA at heart, along with working people, borders and the Rule of Law rather than a duplicitous lying corrupt banshee like Hiltery.
    
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    October 26, 2016 12:10pm
    - Flash
      
      I could cope with a ‘foul-mouthed’ womaniser if he ran the country well. As far as I can tell the description fits the successful alpha-male US citizen – indeed is an accepted definition.
      But thank goodness I don’t have to make the choice.
      
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      October 26, 2016 12:58pm
    - deadrightkev
      
      Why don’t you just tell us yourself or are you too fucken gutless?
      
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      October 26, 2016 1:53pm
- RF
  
  Don the Kiwi.
  
  Clinton is an evil corrupt POS that should be locked away instead of running a country.
  
  It appears she will win and if this happens you will have a seriously divided USA.
  
  God help them….
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:01am
wiseowl

Clinton is speaking now and debunking all those things you have just mentioned Don.
The Democrats are lovely people who wouldn’t hurt a fly.
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October 26, 2016 8:16am
- Don the Kiwi
  
  wiseowl.
  I’m not sure whether you are serious, or being sarcastic ……. 😉
  
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  October 26, 2016 8:23am
  - wiseowl
    
    Sarcastic.
    I could not believe she could stand up there and spout the opposite of what she represents.
    Lie after lie.
    
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    October 26, 2016 12:58pm
Happychappy

Ron Mark the MP that had a dream he was a ex SAS soldier has had another rant about John Key saying that he thinks that he likes to be seen like President Obama on Airforce One.This is one of the reasons Winston and NZ First can not be Trusted that they will go with National if put in the position of kingmaker as it all about them not their party
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October 26, 2016 8:17am
- RF
  
  Dear God.
  
  Ron in a bad mood ?. Did he over cook the eggs in the mess this morning. Bloody useless Army cook.
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:05am
  - Jack5
    
    Mark wasn’t an army cook. He joined the Army as a teenager and trained as a mechanic. He rose from the ranks to lieutenant.
    
    He did try to join the SAS, and you can read about that at the link below, and then served with the Sultan of Oman’s Army, and with the Sultan’s special forces, presumably in the capacity of a mechanical officer.
    
    “Happychappy” and “RF” shouldn’t sneer at Mark’s service unless they have been in the army themselves, and as more than three-month CMT trainees.
    
    Otherwise, we might conclude they are working off some intra-party or inter-party grudge.
    
    Mark’s background at the NZ First site:
    
    http://nzfirst.org.nz/ron-mark
    
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    October 26, 2016 9:25am
    - niggly
      
      That may be so but unfortunately for Ron Mark he comes across as an uninformed, arrogant, smarmy buffoon when it comes to discussing wider NZDF issues.
      
      Every time too! What’s worse he seems to enjoy coming across as an opinionated fool (sorry, opinionated “tool” may be more appropriate for the former loud mouth mechanic).
      
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      October 26, 2016 9:42am
    - Happychappy
      
      Well he should watch what he says in Public about others.If you want to use your influence to slag off the Prime Minister make sure the statements you have made are correct.
      
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      October 26, 2016 9:50am
      - Jack5
        
        Happychappy, attacking a person’s Army record is another step down the ladder of civility, in my view.
        
        And I note that some here seem to look down their bluish noses at the fact that Mark was a mechanic. National too elite to need the votes of tradies and their families?
        
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        October 26, 2016 10:15am
      - niggly
        
        @Jack @ 10.15 .
        Fair point about people, myself included, dissing Mark’s mechanic background (mechanics and logistical support is important to sustain an Army, without them there would be no fighting army)!
        
        My beef is he is still an uninformed, smarmy buffoon, doing NZFirst no favours when uses the NZDF to beat up the Govt (because he can’t even get his facts right about the NZDF eg he is misquoting/misrepresenting the NZDF), in other words he comes across as hollow, exploitative as in using others, incorrectly, to make his point.
        
        BTW I have voted (party vote) NZFirst before but won’t be fooled again by their charlatan bauble seeking leader nor his smarmy deputy. If they pulled their heads in and started acting constructively, instead of proving all they are good for is being a lazy, attacking opposition party, I possibly could rethink offering them some support, but every time Ron Mark speaks he puts his foot into mouth so I see they will never change as they sleepwalk to power behaving with that “born to rule” arrogance they supposedly despise whilst applying that label to everyone else.
        
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        October 26, 2016 11:03am
    - Harlequin
      
      I spent 20 years as a Regular Force soldier [including a tour as a Rifleman in Vietnam during 1969] and another 7 in Territorial Force. None of the people that I served with would ever comment publicly on any military matter outside of their field of expertise.
      I can share that in early November 1967, I and around 90 others were stranded overnight in Alice Springs when the 2 year old C130 Hercules taking us to Malaysia broke down. We had to wait for another aircraft to complete our trip. Sound familiar?
      So what makes a Commissioned Vehicle Mechanic an expert on B757’s? Or strategic military matters?
      
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      October 26, 2016 2:33pm
      - Jack5
        
        Harlequin, Mark is the spokesman for a political party, and it’s perfectly in order for him to speak on matters of defence such as what he believes are the state of aircraft.
        
        You state:
        
        None of the people that I served with would ever comment publicly on any military matter outside of their field of expertise.
        
        In my experience, soldiers give their opinions on anything they feel like, just like other people.
        
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        October 26, 2016 10:00pm
      - Jack5
        
        Mark should be subject to criticism like any other MP, but let’s hope some of the attacks on him aren’t related to his past statement under Parliamentary privilege about a person or persons formerly associated with NZ politics.
        
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        October 26, 2016 10:07pm
Don the Kiwi

Kiwiblog must be programmed to give a reflexive ‘down-tick’ to any and all comments. 🙂
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October 26, 2016 8:26am
- Griff
  
  I gave you a tick .
  Butt hurt trumpies are so funny .
  
  Nazis, sexists, homophobes, racists,…Yip and sore Losers to boot……
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  Losers……..
  
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  October 26, 2016 8:33am
  - mandk
    
    I agree with you, Griff.
    
    I don’t hold Clinton is high regard, but the CDS on this site is often as bad as the KDS is over at The Standard.
    
    Go on Trumpies. Down-tick away.
    
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    October 26, 2016 8:39am
    - Griff
      
      The anti Clinton propaganda is so transparent .
      We have endured it daily for well over a year.
      Benghazi, Emails, the Clinton Foundation story’s are all built on bullshit and bluster.
      Trump on the other hand has displayed a total disregard for the conventions of decency and process of democracy .
      His fans are deplorable.
      This is why in Trumps own words .
      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/jan/24/donald-trump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-not-lose-votes-video
      
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      October 26, 2016 8:48am
      - Paulus
        
        Wait until the US election is over and Clinton will in her dottage take centre stage then what will the New Zealand political left wing media do.
        I assume that they will turn again again again against Key.
        This time they want to rig the next Election, which they failed to do last time as their views were ignored.
        
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        October 26, 2016 8:59am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Griff:
        
        Well know believer in and shill for climate change theory
        Supporter of Clinton
        All you need is a belief in God to complete the trifecta of crazy.
        
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        October 26, 2016 9:14am
      - Griff
        
        Yip ball sack.
        You are an idiot.
        
        The believers in climate change include every major scientific body on the planet The worlds governments, The UN, The World bank,The world meteorological society, The major reinsurance firms, the Pentagon etc etc etc .
        
        Science is not a political opinion.
        
        Its fuckin based on the laws of Physics mate.
        They are not negotiable and dont take any notice of politics.
        
        The crazy is those like you who reject the conclusions of science for political expediency because reality interferes with your ideology.
        
        The laws of nature dont give a toss if you dont believe in them.
        
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        October 26, 2016 9:32am
      - Fletch
        
        Griff, gimme a break. If you look at Clinton with an unbiased eye, you can see nothing but a history of corruption, venality, and incompetence. In no way is the woman suited for leadership. And “propaganda”? Not from the media, that’s for sure. The media are all on her side and do their level best not to cover her misdeeds. The only thing she has to blame are facts. undeniable facts.
        
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        October 26, 2016 12:48pm
      - cha
        
        Griff, gimme a break.
        
        Colin intends to give Hillary one…..
        
        Speaking before the Long Island Association, a trade group that frequently hosts political figures, Mr. Powell divulged his intentions come Election Day.
        
        “I am voting for Hillary Clinton,” he said, according to Matthew Cohen, a spokesman for the association. Mr. Powell went on to praise Mrs. Clinton for her skills as a leader and her experience.
        
        Paule Pachter, a Long Island Association board member, said that Mr. Powell was blunt.
        
        “He said he would support Hillary Clinton and he also elaborated on several reason why he felt that Donald Trump was not the right candidate,” he said. “He spoke about his inexperience, he spoke about the messages that he’s sending out every day to his supporters, which really paints our country in a negative light across the globe with all our allies.”
        
        http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/us/politics/colin-powell-hillary-clinton.html
        
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        October 26, 2016 1:02pm
kowtow

An important freedom crushed by cultural marxism. Freedom of conscience. The irony is the message was political and in NI so called same sex marriage is not legal, The bakers were asked to decorate a cake with a message contrary to the law.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/24/born-again-christian-ashers-bakery-lose-court-appeal-in-gay-cake-row
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October 26, 2016 8:34am
holysheet

You are slipping DPF. You have not got the ear of the govt like we are lead to believe here.

With JK out of the country, the minions in cabinet are about to approve putting up our money to fund Duco and their boxing match.

If they do this I, like so many others, will be voting for ACT at the next election.
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October 26, 2016 8:37am
- calendar girl
  
  Me too, HS. I heard Steven Joyce’s words of encouragement and optimism yesterday, and was appalled that he was even giving a second thought to putting public money into this prize fight. (Rein him in, Bill English – you’re supposed to be in charge at the moment.)
  
  The opportunist Dean Lonergan is spinning our elected government with little subtlety, but with a very good chance that he will hit the show-biz jackpot. A demeaning lolly scramble – all to be seen as our Government ‘supporting’ a shady professional activity that not one in 50 New Zealanders care a damn about.
  
  Nothing but ‘bread & circuses’ 3rd-termitis on the part of an unopposed National government, now devoid of strategic ideas.
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:43am
- marcw
  
  Nothing I heard Steven Joyce say made me think he would actually support this application. What he did was diplomatically answer reporters’ questions without seeming to give a yes or no reply. Exactly as you would expect a skilled politician to do. I seriously doubt any money will be given to Duco – they are too much focused on making money, not sport, and boxing is too corrupt to be considered for taxpayer funding.
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:07am
- howitis
  
  Lonergan is an 18 stone thug who was on Hauraki breakfast in the mid 1990s. He started as news reader then talked over the top of everyone. The show collapsed. Prior to that Leah Panapa held her own with ‘the boys’ .
  
  Lonergan became involved with Yellow Ribbon charity and creamed off considerable funds as ‘expenses’ for running it.
  
  2003 article.
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3099010
  …. Hundreds of thousands of dollars raised by last year’s Fight for Life boxing event went to organiser Dean Lonergan, although it was implied that all proceeds would go to charity.
  The Weekend Herald has learned that the high-profile event raised almost twice as much as was disclosed at the time. Almost half the proceeds went towards covering costs and Mr Lonergan’s cut of $411,000.
  Advertising for the Fight for Life stated that all proceeds would go to the Yellow Ribbon youth suicide prevention programme….
  
  … But the organisers have now told the Weekend Herald the actual total income generated from public donations, sponsorship, ticket sales and other sources was $1.9 million.
  …Mr Marinkovich said that after the $1.9 million came into Yellow Ribbon, bills totalling about $520,000 for running the event were paid. Then Dean Lonergan Events Ltd took its 30 per cent fee of $411,000.
  That left Yellow Ribbon with about $960,000, and Mr Lonergan donated back about $40,000 to allow the charity to clear $1 million, which was the total it had hoped to raise….
  
  Lonergan has form at making sure expenses eat up any ‘surplus’.
  Incidentally Bill English fought in that Yellow Ribbon boxing event.
  
  I suspect Dildo Joyce will give away taxpayers money as he is wont to do. Santa boy with OPM.
  Why he gives money to tech and other startups instead of taking an equity stake could only be down to being a dildo. That ChCh nurse had his number.
  Reuniting Joyce with his origins. False cock meets true cock.
  
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  October 26, 2016 12:20pm
  - cha
    
    Dean Lonergan’s claim to fame.
    
    https://youtu.be/X-NQq611x8k?t=38s
    
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    October 26, 2016 12:24pm
  - Fletch
    
    I preferred Loosehead Len.
    
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    October 26, 2016 12:52pm
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
A profile of three Violent Trump supporters involved in an alleged plot to murder Somali immigrants ,

“As the presidential vote nears, concerns about Election Day violence—a phenomenon the US hasn’t experienced in decades—grow commensurately. With Donald Trump exhorting his followers to police ballot boxes, and with the Republican nominee’s claims of potential “rigging” drowning his policy recommendations, the likelihood of a peaceful Nov. 8 is fading alongside the democratic norms Trump has been undermining over the past few months.

But while much of these concerns remain hypothetical, we’re already getting a small taste of the threat the US may soon be facing.

On Oct. 14, the Department of Justice released a litany of accusationsagainst a trio of Kansas militants allegedly involved in a plot to murder Somali immigrants. According to authorities, the three domestic terrorists were preparing to unleash a series of car bombs against Somalis living in the small town of Garden City, Kansas. The trio—Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright, both 49-year-old men and from Liberal, Kansas, and Patrick Stein, a 47-year-old man from Wright, Kansas—had considered targeting both churches and mosques before centering on an apartment complex that is home to more than 120 immigrants….”

I would add a not that dissimilar demographic to Trump supporters here ,

http://qz.com/817932/kansas-domestic-terror-plot-election-day-violence-from-trump-supporters-is-already-happening/
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October 26, 2016 8:42am
- Andrei
  
  And on a daily basis Stephieboy continues to reveal his lack of intelligence and analytical skills as evidenced here.
  
  What the hell do three crazies from Kansas have to do with Donald Trump?
  
  There are 300,000,000 people in the USA Stephiebot – quite a few of them are crazy
  
  At any one time about 1% of those 300,000,000 are locked up which is an astonishing number in itself but hey ho
  
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  October 26, 2016 8:50am
  - fernglas
    
    Three crazies in Kansas have as much to do with Donald Trump as one crazy in Nice has to do with Islam.
    
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    October 26, 2016 9:02am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Except Trumps mantra isn’t kill everyone who disagrees with you.
      
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      October 26, 2016 9:16am
      - itstricky
        
        Forget, did we not?
        
        Donald Trump has been accused of a making an “assassination threat” against rival Hillary Clinton, plunging his presidential campaign into a fresh crisis.
        
        The volatile Republican nominee was speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, about the next president’s power to appoint supreme court justices. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the second amendment,” said Trump, eliciting boos from the crowd.
        
        “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.
        
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        October 26, 2016 12:05pm
    - Jack5
      
      Of course, Fernglas, we forget we were told in the post-slaughter propaganda: “they stopped going to the mosque six months ago”.
      
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      October 26, 2016 9:30am
    - kowtow
      
      Looks like the Kansas crazies wanted to target churches too. Islam and terror ? Big connection , it’s all mandated by Allah himself, in the Koran, the literal word of God. If it has nothing to do with Islam , how come they’re always shouting Allah Akbar while they’re murdering people or trucking thro crowds?
      
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      October 26, 2016 9:50am
  - EAD
    
    2 points
    
    WTF are Somalis doing in Garden City, Kansas?
    
    Notice how despite all of the far-right, extremist, neo-nazi, blah blah plots the MSM tells us are out there, no “far right” terror attacks have actually happened, anywhere?
    
    Islamic atrocities on the other hand……
    
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    October 26, 2016 9:34am
    - stephieboy
      
      Appalled and horrified as you will be the US has admitted nearly 100,000 Somali Refugees since 9/11,
      
      http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/almost-100000-somali-refugees-admitted-us-911
      
      Now surely this has to be a Marxist Jewish plot ?
      
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      October 26, 2016 9:42am
      - fernglas
        
        An engrossing read is “The Burgess Boys” by Elizabeth Strout, where the impact of a large number of Somalis on a small East Coast US town forms the backdrop to a compelling plot.
        
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        October 26, 2016 10:45am
- Ed Snack
  
  I guess this is the media’s response to the Project Veritas videos that has the Clinton campaign illegally coordinating with a PAC and the actual violence committed by the Clinton campaign and supporters.
  
  Can’t have the queen of corruption exposed, quick find a media “squirrel” to distract all our low info voters…
  
  Pretty transparent trash.
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:55am
Manolo

The Republican Party is gone, history, dog tucker:
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-25/florida-puerto-rican-immigrants-clinton

“From senior citizens to 22-year-old college students, anybody who’s anybody is moving here from Puerto Rico,” Clyde Fasick, a student from the Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico working on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign in Osceola.
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October 26, 2016 8:53am
- tom hunter
  
  Ummmm – people from Puerto Rico have always been freely able to move to the USA. That’s because the former is a US Territory.
  
  Of course the reason so many are suddenly moving is the fantastically screwed up economy of Puerto Rico, as written about here by George Will earlier this year, with a very prophetic title.
  
  What happens in Puerto Rico won’t stay there:
  
  Puerto Rico’s approximately 18 debt-issuing entities have debts — approximately $72 billion — they cannot repay. The Government Development Bank might miss a $422 million payment due in May, and the central government might miss a $2 billion payment in July. Congress will not enact a “bailout,” meaning an infusion of U.S. taxpayers’ money.
  
  Now if we just make the racial assumption that the ethnicity here means an automatic vote for the Democrat Party, then yes, the GOP is fucked.
  
  If, on the other hand, we see a GOP that fights to reach out to these new immigrants and points out that in voting for the Democrats in the USA, they’re voting for exactly the same fucked-up ideas that they’re running away from – then the GOP has a future.
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:43am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Tom, and they’re known as the “stupid party” because… ?
    
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    October 26, 2016 9:56am
    - tom hunter
      
      🙂
      
      What I’ve always appreciated is that the Left assume that the GOP are the stupid party anyway – but are then surprised to find GOP members also referring to it as that. Yet the Left never bother trying to understand why.
      
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      October 26, 2016 10:05am
Happychappy

Well if National help fund Duco and the world boxing fight they are only helping the same people that are running a constant campaign against them on Housing,poverty and the poor and giving them more ammunition to fire at the Government and their Policy’s.What the Government need to understand is the people that will want to complain that they want to see this fight will not vote national and will still protest and make a noise about how they again are supporting the top 1%.I am against the Government giving any funds to help promoters have this fight in NZ
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October 26, 2016 8:55am
Manolo

Another of Obama’s failed promises:
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/302554-obamacare-hikes-leave-dems-exposed
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October 26, 2016 8:58am
Ross12

I saw a little of CNN last night going about the +12 lead Clinton has according to the ABC poll. They have come out later with their own poll showing +5 to Clinton. Are we to conclude Clinton’s campaign is in free fall ? (/sarc)
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October 26, 2016 8:59am
- Griff
  
  Interesting…
  
  Sen. Mitch McConnell and many political pundits claim that voters will have to choose a “lesser of two evils” in this election. That cliché is based on how high Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s unfavorable ratings are compared to previous candidates. But favorable ratings don’t always tell us everything, and there are strong signs that voters don’t consider Clinton to be less tolerable than past candidates. (Trump on the other hand….)
  
  A simpler method for determining positive or negative support is to ask people whether their vote is affirmatively for one candidate or in protest against the other. The latest ABC News survey reveals that, in fact, Clinton’s voters feel about as positively about their candidate as any candidate’s supporters have felt about their own preferred candidate since 1980. Trump voters are less enthusiastic about him: Since 1980, no group of supporters have been less affirmative in their support for their candidate.
  
  Right now, 56 percent of Clinton voters say they are mainly for her compared to just 42 percent of the same voters who say they are voting against Trump. This 56 percent is the highest it’s been all year in the ABC News poll, and it’s been steadily climbing for Clinton since July. In the same survey, only 41 percent of Trump supporters say they are voting for him, while 54 percent say they are mostly voting against Clinton. Those numbers are about the same as they’ve been all year.
  
  http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/clinton-voters-arent-just-voting-against-trump/?ex_cid=2016-forecast
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:10am
  - Ross12
    
    Did you miss the ” sarc” bit at the end of my post, Griff?
    
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    October 26, 2016 9:35am
    - Griff
      
      No.
      Did you miss the interesting bit at the beginning of mine?
      
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      October 26, 2016 9:41am
      - Ross12
        
        No. All it tells me is that the USA will be a very divided country , no matter who wins. This election is not just about a difference in policies.
        
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        October 26, 2016 10:05am
VicParking

Sargent Andy was interviewed on Red Radio this morning telling us that the soldiers we are training in Iraq are not involved in the fight for Mosul because they did not bother to turn up. He will be bringing all our soldiers home and sending over brigades of union officals to help with reconstruction, no doubt lead by the chief of the SAS major general Ron Mark.
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October 26, 2016 9:12am
- Jack5
  
  See my post above about the rather ignorant sneers about Ron Mark’s army service, surely from people who’ve never been soldiers.
  
  Sneering at Mark won’t stop the voting swing to NZ First – it’s about immigration.
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:38am
  - Happychappy
    
    As i can’t reply to your last comment to me i will reply here.First of all what is the difference to Ron Mark making fun of John Key and his job as Prime Minister to me saying he had a dream he was in SAS. The other point i will make is i did Noggy Service and was proud doing it,my brother and his wife did over twenty years service in the army and both think Ron Mark is a joke so not all agree with your sentiments
    
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    October 26, 2016 10:37am
- holysheet
  
  be worth voting for liabore if they promise to send all their union mates to help in Mosul.They would feel at home in that shithole
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:46am
Manolo

UK Labour rapidly losing altitude:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3868888/Age-checks-make-ashamed-British-says-Diane-Abbott.html

Labour’s ex-home secretary Jack Straw was among those who backed the introduction of dental tests to check age of the ‘child’ refugees.

Speaking at a Labour assembly against austerity event on Saturday, Miss Abbott said: ‘‘What commentators in this country have to understand is that nobody would leave their home, cross the Sahara in many cases, risking their lives, cross the Mediterranean, in particular risking their lives, if they were not desperate.
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October 26, 2016 9:13am
- Rich Prick
  
  … for gold-plated welfare.
  
  They passed through many war-free countries in their quest for the UK’s welfare, what was so wrong with any of those places, other than the welfare not being as generous?
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:40am
Manolo

How stupid can these sellers of smoke be?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/25/vatican-bans-catholics-cremation-ashes-loved-ones-home

Catholics are forbidden from keeping the ashes of cremated loved ones at home, scattering them, dividing them between family members or turning them into mementos, the Vatican has ruled.

Ashes must be stored in a sacred place, such as a cemetery, according to instructions disclosed at a press conference in Rome on Tuesday.
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October 26, 2016 9:15am
- G152
  
  Another thing catholics can ignore along with birth control
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:16am
Chuck Bird

Conviction over false rape complaint following sex with minor

http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/85715258/conviction-over-false-rape-complaint-following-sex-with-minor

It will be interesting to see what sentence this bitch gets on November 18 when she is sentenced.

On the breach of bail charge, she was convicted and discharged so that makes me think she will get a sentence she deserves.
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October 26, 2016 9:28am
- Northland Wahine
  
  Put her in a locked room with the boys mother and let justice take its course.
  
  Actually, if she gets jail time, I imagine a few of her fellow “flatmates” will be dishing out their own justice.
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:45am
stephieboy

“While the world watches Syria, Russia is creeping closer to Georgia”

Putin and the Kremlin’s machinations in the Caucuses

J”ariasheni, Georgia: Marked in places with barbed wire laid at night, in others by the sudden appearance of green signs declaring the start of a “state border” and elsewhere by the arrival of bulldozers, the reach of Russia keeps inching forward into Georgia – with ever more ingenious markings of a frontier that only Russia and three other states recognise as real.

But while dismissed by most of the world as a make-believe border, the dirt track now running through this tiny Georgian village nonetheless means that Vephivia Tatiashvili can no longer go to his three-storey house because it sits on land now patrolled by Russian border guards.

That track marks the world’s newest and perhaps oddest international frontier; the elastic boundary between Georgian-controlled land and the Republic of South Ossetia, a self-proclaimed breakaway state financed, defended and controlled by Moscow…”

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/while-the-world-watches-syria-russia-is-creeping-closer-to-georgia-20161023-gs8yql.html
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October 26, 2016 9:29am
- DoctorDoc
  
  Yup watch as Andrei and the other faux-conservative Putin fanboys jump to defend this. Probably by stating”b-b-but the US is doing it too!”
  
  Yup people who claim to be conservative will support a former member of the KGB (an organisatiom that tortured and murdered opponents of its far left ideology) bully a small Christian nation.
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:46am
  - Andrei
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=068f9YFqVPA
    
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    October 26, 2016 9:53am
    - DoctorDoc
      
      Why do you always feel the need to post videos only you can understand?
      No one else speaks your Bond villain language retard
      
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      October 26, 2016 10:48am
- Andrei
  
  Why do you care about South Ossetia, a place you couldn’t even find on the map, Stephiebot?
  
  A place you know nothing about or the issues it faces
  
  South Ossetia is a very long way from New Zealand, the USA and Australia and has no historical or cultural affinities with any of these these places
  
  South Ossetia aligned itself with the Russian world more than 300 years ago but now the Godless American Empire would like nothing better than to occupy it with syphilitic ridden NATO forces and to hold triumphant Gay Pride Parades in Tskhinvali to show the locals who their new boss is
  
  But fortunately for now they have been blocked in this wickedness
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:49am
  - tom hunter
    
    but now the Godless American Empire would like nothing better than to occupy it with syphilitic ridden NATO forces and to hold triumphant Gay Pride Parades in Tskhinvali to show the locals who their new boss is.
    
    Comedy Gold. Did I say Gold?. I meant Platinum.
    
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    October 26, 2016 9:58am
    - Andrei
      
      You will love this Tom
      
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      October 26, 2016 10:13am
    - Andrei
      
      Scenes from NATO occupied Montenegro
      
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      October 26, 2016 10:16am
  - Jack5
    
    Andrei – some say Stalin was an Ossete rather than a Georgian.
    
    In fact I think a famous poet got sent to Siberia for a satirical poem about Stalin that called him an Ossete.
    
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    October 26, 2016 10:02am
    - Andrei
      
      His mother was Ossetian as is well known
      
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      October 26, 2016 10:07am
      - Jack5
        
        While we’re talking about Stalin, the satirical poem about him by Mandelstam (that led to the poet’s imprisonment in Siberia and death there) might be of interest (translation from Wikipedia):
        
        We are living, but can’t feel the land where we stay,
        More than ten steps away you can’t hear what we say.
        But if people would talk on occasion,
        They should mention the Kremlin Caucasian.
        
        His thick fingers are bulky and fat like live-baits,
        And his accurate words are as heavy as weights.
        Cucaracha’s moustaches are screaming,
        And his boot-tops are shining and gleaming.
        
        But around him a crowd of thin-necked henchmen,
        And he plays with the services of these half-men.
        Some are whistling, some meowing, some sniffing,
        He’s alone booming, poking and whiffing.
        
        He is forging his rules and decrees like horseshoes –
        Into groins, into foreheads, in eyes, and eyebrows.
        Every killing for him is delight,
        And Ossetian torso is wide.
        
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        October 26, 2016 10:38am
      - GoVege
        
        Very interesting, thanks, Jack5.
        Not surprised that poor fella ended up dead.
        We had a poet who inspired one of the assassination attempts on Hitler staying here in Auckland with Frank Sargeson some years ago.
        BTW, could that reference to “livebait” mean the same as our modern torture of fish?
        Good Ole NZ…80 years behind the times.
        
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        October 26, 2016 11:45am
  - DoctorDoc
    
    It’s amazing how your filthy mind works Andrei. No matter what we are discussing you can always bring it back to your disturbing fascination with homosexuals.
    
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    October 26, 2016 10:41am
    - Andrei
      
      Whats filthy minded about showing local people resisting the imposition of a foreign religion upon them by a foreign occupying power?
      
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      October 26, 2016 11:02am
      - DoctorDoc
        
        Because you can never discuss anything on this site without relating it back to your great interest in homosexuals.
        
        I wonder do you talk this much about queers in real life with your family?
        Your wife must be getting a bit concerned about you Andrei you old perverted creep.
        Also she is also probably concerned by the way you probably like to call her “Vladimir” when you are in bed together.
        
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        October 26, 2016 11:40am
- SPC
  
  When will South Ossetia and North Ossetia be united and become the independent nation state Ossetia?
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:04am
Jack5

Anyone noticed a pronunciation change in NZ English that is increasingly noticeable?

It’s saying “sh” for “s” when saying “st”.

We hear “conshtruction” rather than “construction” and “shtrong” for “strong”.

One of the early “sht” speakers is John Key. Most of the others I’ve noticed are younger folk.

How long before a young cop yells: “Shtop! Shtop or I shoot!”
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October 26, 2016 9:36am
- James Stephenson
  
  I can’t shay I have, but thankyou for pointing it out Mish Moneypenny.
  
  Mind you, this is a country that manages to pronounce words like “door” and “more” with two syllables, so who would know.
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:43am
  - Jack5
    
    Thanksh for that conshtructive comment, Mr Shtephenson. We seem to be in shtep on this.
    
    I’m not trying to give anyone “shtick”, it’sh jusht that I find it intereshting.
    
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    October 26, 2016 9:54am
    - James Stephenson
      
      So do I, but one should never miss the opportunity to do a Sean Connery impression, even if it is in writing. 😀
      
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      October 26, 2016 10:05am
      - Kimbo
        
        Plus it’s easy. No matter what the role:
        
        gangster-era Chicago Irish flatfoot cop
        
        Russian nuclear submarine commander
        
        or Richard the Lionheart
        
        …Sean Connery’s accent is always the same 😉
        
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        October 26, 2016 11:07am
    - Jack5
      
      Perhaps some day soon a person in court on charges related to failing to stop at the command of a police to “stop” will say in mitigation:
      
      No-one said “stop!”. I only heard someone talking in German. That scared me and I thought I had better get out of there.
      
      Perhaps the NZ version of English is mysteriously reverting to its Germanic roots.
      
      Regardless, it’s shtrange.
      
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      October 26, 2016 10:06am
      - GoVege
        
        That reminds me, Jack.
        Was talking to a friend on the weekend who enjoys studying German.
        He said he got a German book out of the library recently and it was absolutely filthy.
        I said “Yes I know, those northern Europeans have a very crude sense of humour.”
        He said, ” I meant the book was in a filthy condition”!
        
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        October 26, 2016 10:48am
- kowtow
  
  I think it started as an affectation among shertain American news readers . It is now very common in the media community……..thickos. Peninshula is another.
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:45am
- niggly
  
  Did you hear that in the MSM by chance?
  
  Asking because I notice every MSM reporter (Radio NZ, TVNZ, TV3, doesn’t matter they all do) pronounce the region “Pacific” (as in “Pasifika”) as the word “Pissific”.
  
  I then find it odd that the likes of Radio NZ go out of their way to introduce their reporters/stories in Te Reo (without an English translation, which then does nothing to advance the Te Reo cause with wider NZers) but can’t even get the basics eg Maori/Pasifika vowels correct when talking off-script about some place somewhere called the Pisssific!
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:55am
- AgentBallSack
  
  Almost as bad as living in
  
  Funganooey
  
  (Apologies to KS)
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:01am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Nothing wrong with Whanganui ABS, which, by the way, is still pronounced Wanganui. Our city is in very good heart, and if the proposal for a ferry link from Whanganui to Motueka goes ahead, it will boom.
    
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    October 26, 2016 10:17am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      My main beef with Whanganui is every time they pronounce it on TV, I still think they’re saying Whangerei. I have to double check and think where the hell is that again?
      
      No disrespect to the mighty river city of Wanganui!
      (The locals may hunt me down)
      
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      October 26, 2016 11:16am
  - Jack5
    
    Just heard another one on Radio NZ’s Labour Programme sports section: cricketers “frushtrated”.
    
    It is an interesting shift in pronunciation.
    
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    October 26, 2016 12:36pm
- Manolo
  
  Key is the finest example of this corruption of the English language. Can I call it corruption?
  
  D’ora in poi dobbiamo parlare italiano!
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:12am
- kowtow
  
  Oshtralia.
  
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  October 26, 2016 12:04pm
- Fletch
  
  It’s usually the same people who say “ahks” instead of ask.
  
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  October 26, 2016 12:58pm
- Gabby
  
  It’s largely limited to the drunks.
  
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  October 26, 2016 5:12pm
- VicParking
  
  Dont worry we will have to speak maori on penalty of stoning before to long
  
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  October 26, 2016 9:21pm
kowtow

An “art” exhibition at a Sydney beach was ruined by high tides , however the good news is nothing of any merit was lost.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/25/sculpture-by-the-sea-artwork-destroyed-as-huge-swell-batters-beach
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October 26, 2016 9:43am
Jack5

Former MPs with their snouts still in the trough of free international air travel:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11735471
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October 26, 2016 9:51am
Manolo

A fair comparison between rags:
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/alleged-clinton-fixer-new-york-times-become-national-enquirer/

“The New York Times has become the National Enquirer, and the National Enquirer has become The New York Times,” Rovin said.
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October 26, 2016 10:00am
publicwatchdog

Upon what lawful basis does (yet to be sworn in) Auckland Mayor Phil Goff get the power and authority to remove Auckland Councillors Mike Lee and Christine Fletcher from the Board of Auckland Transport?

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2009/0032/latest/DLM2044937.html#DLM2044937

Penny Bright

‘Anti-privatisation/ anti-corruption Public Watchdog’.
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October 26, 2016 10:13am
- thedavincimode
  
  The power to act in the public interest. It might be the only occasion he does it but well done anyway goof.
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:16am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Upon what lawful basis does an unkempt old harridan from School Road get to opt out of paying her rates for nearly ten years?
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:28am
- stephieboy
  
  publicwatchdog , the day of reckoning must be almost nigh when you are dispossessed of your dwelling as it goes under the auction hammer ?
  
  Accommodation thoughts ?
  
  http://www.radionz.co.nz/assets/news/63585/eight_col_homeless.jpg?1459101748
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:40am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Things are bad for Penny when even stephie is putting the boot in.
    Give her a kick for me stephie!
    
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    October 26, 2016 12:18pm
    - sooty
      
      The lawful reason for far goof to get rid of them is that he don’t like you. May the acc sell your house out from under you.
      
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      October 26, 2016 2:19pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  See? I Spray and Walk Away
  Rubbish stays
  I walk away
  
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  October 26, 2016 6:01pm
G152

Pay your rates
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October 26, 2016 10:19am
- stigie
  
  Not Likely, the Auckland Council has no testicles you see !~
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:48am
  - sooty
    
    We know that far goof don’t.
    
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    October 26, 2016 2:20pm
Captain Mainwaring

At least he’s got a home now.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11736038
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October 26, 2016 10:26am
Jack5

Fasten your safety belts!

The country’s biggest bank, ANZ, warns of what’s coming to Auckland property prices.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11735906
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October 26, 2016 10:26am
EAD

The controlled MSM is the new Pravda – don’t ever stray from the approved line or the Cheka will come for you in the night:

The editor of Austria’s largest paper is charged with hate speech over anti-migrant article:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10/25/editor-of-austrias-largest-paper-charged-with-hate-speech-over-migrant-article/

At sad thing is though, at least under the Bolsheviks, at least the public knew the Press was an arm of the State…

http://irishsavant.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/new-pravda.html

From Savants article…..over 4 years ago!

Throughout the totalitarian West, the Marxist internationalist elites, while busily flooding their countries with tens of millions of third worlders, have introduced specific measures to keep the native populations down and in check.

These measures have come in the form of Hate Crimes Laws. The laws state that a crime is not just a crime if we can find a deeper motive, such as hate of a specific race, sex, religion or sexual orientation. Thus the Lords of Humanity have given themselves the power of God to know what is inside the hearts of men.
In practical terms, what this means is 1. A murder is not just a murder if hate is involved. Say again? This means certain lives are worth more than others, a protected class, another insult to Christ and justice. 2. If the local jury trial is considered to lenient, then those globalist elites of the West can try the person again for “hate” or rather in actuality for the same crime, twice. Again, an insult to justice that Western serfs bow, grin and bare.

But this gets worse, since in practice, the elites decide who is a racist and who is not, they use these laws sparingly to keep the native population down, shackled and paranoid of the knock on the door.
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October 26, 2016 10:28am
- stephieboy
  
  EAD, and dem (((( Jews )))) (((( George Soros))) behind all this ?
  
  Hate Crime laws might be debatable but what is indisputable is Irish Savant and you ability and freedom to vigorously dispute and question them !
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:33am
Jack5

Related tothe Auckland property bubble …

In Canada, a China representative is angry about the tax that has put Vancouver’s super high property prices into a dive. Is it fear of Beijing that’s stopping the National Coalition Government from acting on the Auckland property bubble?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-29/furious-chinese-envoy-slams-vancouver-real-estate-tax-local-housing-market-implodes
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October 26, 2016 10:30am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  I think it’s pretty obvious for some time that is the fear of Beijing.
  
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  October 26, 2016 12:31pm
Manolo

This article could upset stephieboy:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3871454/The-Sniper-Mosul-strikes-Marksman-takes-ISIS-executioner-just-moments-behead-Iraqi-teenager.html
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October 26, 2016 10:43am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, another deluded one who believes the Mosul offensive against ISIS by the Iraqi army and Kurds is an illusion ?
  
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  October 26, 2016 12:35pm
Griff

New Zealand the easiest place to do business –
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/new-zealand-easiest-place-do-business-report

New Zealand edged out Singapore as the easiest country for doing business in the World Bank’s latest rankings, while several emerging market countries improved the most by pursuing business-friendly reforms.
New New Zealand 10 dollar and 5 dollar notes and coins.

In its annual “Doing Business” report, the World Bank cited reductions in labour-related taxes and new regulations that make paying taxes easier as key reasons for moving New Zealand to the top spot from its previous runner-up position.

Suck on that redtwit
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October 26, 2016 10:47am
SPC

Trump’s Super Pacs have been caught accepting the offer of foreign money.

Influence of foreign money as an attack on Clinton. strike 1.

Trump campaign money is being used to buy one of Trump’s books – presumably to give as gifts to either voters/supporters or campaign staff.

Clinton personally benefitting from funding. strike 2

Trump hosted parties in the 90’s that included prey – youngish teens.

Clinton sleaze factor. strike 3

Trump video 2008 – high praise for the Clinton Presidency and condemnation of the unfair attacks on his wife during the 2008 campaign – a fine woman.

MSM shows the alt media how it is done in the big leagues. Now to the other (America is the free world) world series.
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October 26, 2016 11:02am
- SPC
  
  Even reporting what the MSM has uncovered about Trump is unpopular with those who would rather the public did not know.
  
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  October 26, 2016 12:13pm
Hugh Pavletich

NEW HOMES ON SOUND GROUND – SAY GREATER CHRISTCHURCH HOMEBUYERS … CHRIS HUTCHING … THE PRESS

New homes preferred over quake repaired houses | Stuff.co.nz

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/85347358/new-homes-preferred-over-quake-repaired-houses

Craig Gosney looked at several older homes before choosing to buy a land and house package at the new Prestons subdivision off Marshland Rd in Christchurch.

Gosney said he considered it was cheaper to buy what he and his family wanted.

“When you buy an older home you don’t know what’s under the carpet.” … read more via hyperlink above ….

Rolleston: Time to take it seriously | Stuff.co.nz

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/83246929/rolleston-time-to-take-it-seriously

Industrial Land For Sale – Christchurch, New Zealand » IZONE

http://www.izone.org.nz/?gclid=CKfel7j59s8CFQujvQod4jkHMw
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October 26, 2016 11:10am
cha

Taking the ship with him, too.

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has stopped holding events for his high-dollar fundraising operation for the rest of the campaign, an unusual move that deals another serious blow to the GOP’s effort to finance its get-out-the-vote operation before Election Day.

Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s national finance chairman, said in an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday that Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee between the party and the campaign, held its last formal fundraiser on Oct. 19. The luncheon was in Las Vegas on the day of the final presidential debate.

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But Trump’s decision effectively turns off one of the main spigots to the Republican National Committee, which collected $40 million through Trump Victory as of Sept. 30. The party has devoted a large share of the funds to pay for its national voter mobilization program to benefit the entire Republican ticket.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/25/trump-halts-big-money-fundraising-cutting-off-cash-to-the-party/?postshare=7781477429683957&tid=ss_tw
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October 26, 2016 11:14am
- Fletch
  
  Does the amount of money a candidate raises really have that big an effect on their chances of winning? I personally can’t see it.
  
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  October 26, 2016 1:01pm
  - cha
    
    In the end it’s the ground game that wins and ground games cost lots.
    
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    October 26, 2016 1:05pm
- Don the Kiwi
  
  The Washington Post ????
  
  Hhahahahahah.
  
  Who’d believe the bullshit that that leftist pump regurgitates ???
  
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  October 26, 2016 5:40pm
GoVege

No mention today on Kiwiblog about the big news last night that farm workers are STILL kicking and stomping infant cows and tearing them from their mothers?
Yet we had a discussion just recently on how Farm Watch was suspected of secretly filming milking sheds?
Looks like FW may have been entirely justified….
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October 26, 2016 11:19am
- kowtow
  
  What’s your view on abortion?
  
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  October 26, 2016 12:09pm
  - SPC
    
    Mine is that a woman’s life has as much value as any other human being.
    
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    October 26, 2016 12:12pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Excellent resonse . Yet I think the consensus in NZ is that an abortion is something not to be taken lightly whilst never ever denying a woman’s right to choose as prescribed by our current law .
      
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      October 26, 2016 12:40pm
      - Jack5
        
        “Whilst”? “Whilst”? “Whilst”?
        
        Where did thee learn thy English, Stephie X?
        
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        October 26, 2016 12:51pm
      - SPC
        
        Whilst is an alternative to while as a conjunction and relative adverb. It is a newer Middle Ages era form than the earlier OE more general purpose while. Just sounds old-fashioned as few still use the newer more limited use word whilst.
        
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        October 26, 2016 12:59pm
      - Jack5
        
        SPC (12.40): Thank thee for thine elaboration.
        
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        October 26, 2016 1:02pm
      - SPC
        
        Probably pronounced whilsht locally.
        
        The local pronunciation of such words is a hangover from the days of the shwill – people communicating while drunk and waiting in a queue to piss.
        
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        October 26, 2016 1:09pm
      - stigie
        
        Bugger me, i’ve never seen Stiffyboy with so many upticks..?
        
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        October 26, 2016 1:20pm
    - Fletch
      
      And is that other human beings life worth as much as the mothers? And if not, why not?
      
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      October 26, 2016 1:03pm
      - SPC
        
        When those who say they are pro life give equal weight to the lives of women, then there is a debate worth having.
        
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        October 26, 2016 1:16pm
      - GoVege
        
        The problem is, Fletch, that other potential human life is inside another person’s (admittedly merely a woman or girl’s) body.
        In many cases we have to consider the well-being of who is here first.
        (A bit like we are entitled to consider the well-being of Kiwis first, before we bring in thousands of people from overseas who want to live here.)
        There is also the issue of quality of life.
        Most couples could have 20 kids if they tried. ..but most people consider that would be pretty harsh on the earlier few children, not to mention the planet etc.
        Comprendez vous?
        
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        October 26, 2016 2:14pm
  - GoVege
    
    Totally in favour of it, kowtow.
    In fact, abortion could solve this whole terrible dilemma of millions of baby calves being sent to be slaughtered every year.
    If farmers would feed their dairy cows something to get them to miscarry, they would come into milk without producing a live calf they bond with.
    (Would mean less veal, but what kind of creep eats baby cows anyway?)
    Problem solved….farmwatch can turn their attention to livebaiters.
    
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    October 26, 2016 1:52pm
- Garbageman
  
  That might have something to do with the fact that people with common sense don’t try to tar an entire industry because of the occasional dropkick, shit happens in all forms of industry the perpetrators usually or hopefully get caught and dispensed with and life for everyone else moves on, FW just another bunch of activist wankers that would happily cripple this country to suit their agenda (tearing them from their mothers lol how emotive and dramatic veg almost bought a tear to my eye)
  
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  October 26, 2016 12:17pm
  - Jack5
    
    I don’t think you can blame NZ activists totally for the bad publicity, Garbageman.
    
    First, New Zealand dairy farm managers and or workers in Chile, were in trouble not so long ago for cruelty to animals.
    
    Second, and by far the most important factor – new technology. This is the age of cheap, ubiquitous sound and video recording, on smart phones or cheap cameras.
    
    The technology is causing mayhem everywhere: cops roughing up people (or in America occasionally shooting them), medical professionals inappropriately touching female patients, or this politician doing the same:
    
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/Caught-on-camera-MP-home-minister-Babulal-Gaur-touches-woman-inappropriately/articleshow/51929537.cms
    
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    October 26, 2016 1:00pm
  - GoVege
    
    FYI Garbageman, cows, like most mums of infants, have a very powerful maternal instinct.
    As a mum myself I can definitely commiserate with what these poor mother cows must go through
    Seriously…
    Do you really think that our species is the ONLY one that has feelings?
    How do you think most species, including our own, survived for millions of years?
    I’d put a lot of it down to that amazing maternal instinct, myself.
    
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    October 26, 2016 2:00pm
  - GoVege
    
    This issue is being debated as we speak on 1ZB.
    Farmwatch are being lambasted as a bunch of nutty vegans.
    One idiot just claimed her “canine” teeth entitle her to eat animals.
    
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    October 26, 2016 2:04pm
dave_c_

So the next time you find yourselves despondent over the 2016 presidential candidates, remember that it’s just a puppet show intended to distract you from the silent coup being carried out by America’s shadow government.
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October 26, 2016 11:33am
SPC

Three people contest for the titles – dumb, dumber and dumbest.

Contenders, Clinton, Dunford and Trump.

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37766786

The topic US policy in Syria.

Clinton. She does realise a no fly zone requires UNSC permission and Russia can veto it – so why waste time suggesting it.

Dunford. Is it his own arrogance, or his belief in US government arrogance, that leads him to think a no fly zone involves only US planes (or allies supporting US led missions and objectives) still flying – to stop others doing anything while completing operations to defeat IS and then take out a government supported by Russia.

Trump. There will be huuugest war, WW3 if Clinton is elected, if you are not nice to Putin you have to fight him – there goes decades of US containment policy. Reagan he is not.
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October 26, 2016 11:41am
Inandout

It appears electronic voting in the US has been hacked by Democrats in some booths. A vote for Republicans suddenly becomes a vote for Democrats, as has happened in many cases now being disclosed. The voter has to ask a supervisor to change the vote back to Republican. Those pushing for electronic voting in NZ should just quietly go away.
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October 26, 2016 11:44am
- SPC
  
  One reason for people to vote early – when there is time to sort any problems out. Much tougher on election day.
  
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  October 26, 2016 11:51am
  - SPC
    
    But if people prefer Republicans bleating on election day they could not get their vote to count – Hillary stole it – so be it.
    
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    October 26, 2016 12:16pm
Manolo

Incredible cash reserves:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/25/apples-cash-hoard-now-nearly-238-billion.html

Apple’s enormous cash hoard grew to $237.6 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, up $6.1 billion from the previous quarter.
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October 26, 2016 11:57am
- Inandout
  
  That will make the Saudi princes who invest in Apple very happy.
  
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  October 26, 2016 12:31pm
- tom hunter
  
  That’s why the USA needs to elect Bernie Sanders and fill the halls of Congress with fellow True Believers in Socialism.
  
  Becuase then they can just confiscate all that wealth from the blood-sucking Apple and use it to pay for the US Federal government. It’ll cover all the spending starting January 1st to ….
  
  …. January 6th.
  
  Oh well. Plenty more Apples where they came from. Amiright?
  
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  October 26, 2016 12:43pm
  - SPC
    
    Putin has done this to a privatised Russian oil company, but to recover “unpaid tax”.
    
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    October 26, 2016 12:48pm
Manolo

Everyone for the crook:
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/10/25/theyre-illegal-immigrants-go-door-door-behalf-hillary/

In 2012 the Obama Administration granted temporary legal status to close to 750,000 illegal immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Now they are going door-to-door campaigning on behalf of Hillary Clinton and other Democrats.
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October 26, 2016 12:22pm
stephieboy

Manolo, the Democrats have traditionally been since the 20th century the party for immigrants.

Now would you seriously expect them to go door knocking for Trump ?

Is it illegal for them to go canvassing door to door ?
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October 26, 2016 12:46pm
- Fletch
  
  Although we hear many progressive laments today about how Republicans are against immigrants— an allegation supported by nothing more than opposition to illegal immigration— in reality no one has attacked immigrants with the venom of progressives.
  
  In fact, the progressive assault on immigrants in the 1920s was unprecedented and had far-reaching consequences. America had long been considered a magnet for immigrants. Hundreds of thousands of Irish, Italians, and Jews came to America in the nineteenth century, and these groups helped build America. Immigration levels were just as high in the early twentieth century. More than four hundred thousand immigrants came to America each year from 1900 to 1920.
  
  But progressives hated immigration largely because they hated the types of immigrants whom they saw entering the country. Sanger’s main cause was birth control, but she too eagerly backed immigration curbs for “unfit” populations. Sanger argued that America should “keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as the feebleminded, idiots, morons, the insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and others.” 13
  
  Progressive influence was instrumental in the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924. From the outset Sanger supported the law, but her public endorsement of restrictive immigration came later, in a speech in 1932 titled “My Way to Peace.” Nevertheless, for the first time in American history, laws were passed that systematically barred people from entry and established quotas based on race and national origin.
  
  White immigrants were preferred over immigrants of color, and northern Europeans were preferred over southern Europeans. Of course there were laws that restricted Chinese immigration in the nineteenth century. These were anomalous, however, and there were no laws that curtailed immigration from Europe.
  
  The 1924 law put even most Europeans on the unwanted list. The effect was immediate. In the period from 1925– 1939, immigration levels dropped to around twenty-five thousand a year, an astonishing 95 percent decline from earlier levels. Progressive “reform” had won the day. This “reform,” however, had dangerous consequences.
  
  During the 1930s there were last-ditch efforts to waive some of the restrictions of the 1924 Immigration Act in order to grant asylum to Jews whose lives were in mortal danger from the Nazis. These were not Jewish applications that came through the mail from Germany. The issue was far more pressing. Almost a thousand German Jews waited desperately in a ship off the coast of Florida, seeking a life-saving approval of their immigration papers. Progressives like Harry Laughlin— a director of the Birth Control League and close ally of Sanger— resolutely opposed entry to the U.S. by these Jews.
  
  In his report, Immigration and Conquest, Laughlin sought to prove that Jews were hard to assimilate and that they would cause a “breakdown in the race purity of the superior stocks.” 14 In a sense, American progressives like Laughlin were tacitly collaborating with the Nazis who obviously did not want the Jews to escape to the United States. As a consequence of progressive resistance, the Nazis got their wish and the ship was sent back to Germany.
  
  D’Souza, Dinesh (2016-07-18). Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (Kindle Locations 2763-2767). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.
  
  Facts are pesky things, aren’t they?
  
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  October 26, 2016 1:20pm
  - Griff
    
    Yip Fletch .
    Why dont you read up on Prescott Sheldon Bush and Henry Ford ?
    Nazi party sympathizers to the core.
    
    Times change.
    Political positions normal a couple of generations ago no longer resonate now.
    Conservatives have issues with that by definition being stuck in a time warp of primitive thinking .
    
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    October 26, 2016 1:40pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      http://dogandlemon.com/sites/default/files/cars_nazis.pdf
      
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      October 26, 2016 6:13pm
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        In 1937 ?
        Probably true – many Americans, particularly of German descent, supported Hitler.
        
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        October 26, 2016 7:41pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Fletch , Dinesh D’Souza gives a highly distorted perspective on the 1924 Immigration Act that sought to restrict the flow of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe and especially Asia and Africa.
    
    The two sponsors of the Act were Republicans Congressmen Albert Johnson and senator David Reed . It was signed into law by Republican President Calvin Coolidge ,
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
    
    None I believe had ” progressive ” views and certainly nothing secret about the above facts .
    
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    October 26, 2016 2:11pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Four downticks from obviously Trump deluded losers !
      
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      October 26, 2016 3:32pm
  - Gabby
    
    Dinesh doesn’t speak English real good. He probably thinks fascists are leftwingers and worships swastikas as good luck fetishes.
    
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    October 26, 2016 5:39pm
Jack5

Barely Sober in the Hooerald says some immigrants bring their parents to NZ, then move to Australia when they get NZ citizenship but leave parents behind in NZ. Here they are looked after by NZ super. payments and health care. In Australia, the parents aren’t covered.

Won’t be too long, though till Australia tightens entry for citizens of increasingly multicultural New Zealand.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11727699
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October 26, 2016 12:47pm
- SPC
  
  They already have.
  
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  October 26, 2016 12:50pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Very common for South Africans, get their useless relatives and olds into NZ and then fuck off to Australia to get away from having to support them.
  
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  October 26, 2016 4:16pm
Andrei

U.S.-Led Coalition Preparing To Retake Raqqa As Mosul Offensive Continues

How the fuck can the USA “retake” the Syrian city of Raqqa, a city they have never held?

What they really intend to do is to steal al Raqqa and its resources from Syria by using violence
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October 26, 2016 1:11pm
- Andrei
  
  There is no difference between Nazi Germany invading Poland and the USA invading Syria
  
  None!
  
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  October 26, 2016 1:15pm
  - SPC
    
    No difference between Soviet Russia taking part of Poland while in a non aggression pact with Germany, than the West supporting FSA and Kurds taking Raqqa off IS while in a non aggression relationship with Russia (helping the Syrian government).
    
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    October 26, 2016 1:26pm
  - cha
    
    None!
    
    Yeah, those Americans and their shipping of hapless Syrians west to Germany to be used as ~~forced labour~~ factory fodder.
    
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    October 26, 2016 1:33pm
- SPC
  
  Andrei, you don’t have the right to question the right of the free world (USA) to misuse the English language.
  
  I guess what we have here is Russia, which claimed it was fighting IS when the west was failing to do so, now bleating that the IS is being rolled up by the west/Iraq/Kurds while Russia is still focused on fighting the non IS rebels
  on behalf of the Syrian government.
  
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  October 26, 2016 1:23pm
  - Andrei
    
    It is not misusing the English language SPC – it is using the English language to lie and deceive the public in order to justify another crime against the UN Charter and international law
    
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    October 26, 2016 1:29pm
    - SPC
      
      Hardly the UNSC passed a resolution supporting the use of force to defeat IS.
      
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      October 26, 2016 1:31pm
  - SPC
    
    And they are “taking” territory from IS at the direction/request of the UNSC after all.
    
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    October 26, 2016 1:29pm
- stephieboy
  
  Andrei , doing a master in Orwellian doublethink and newspeak ?
  
  Putin and you can’t bare the thought that Russia and Assad’s Syria aren’t doing it all alone against ISIS ?
  
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  October 26, 2016 2:23pm
Ed Snack

Oh dear, the WaPo has discovered some little gems in the Podesta emails:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/her-instincts-can-be-terrible-wikileaks-reveals-fears-and-frustrations-inside-clinton-world/2016/10/25/a6ceefdc-9ae0-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html

So, the Clinton campaign et al knows that it is illegal and off-base and wonder what to do about it. All the time while trying to sell (and successfully to the MSM) that it was all kosher and above board. Golly, what deceitful people they are, who would have guessed…
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October 26, 2016 2:08pm
- tom hunter
  
  I’m enjoying two sets of email leaks.
  
  The one where Abedin’s ends by saying that Hillary will be sticking closely to her notes that morning, as she is “still not perfect in her head.”.
  
  And then the ones where Hillary’s aides are all a flutter about Obama publically denying he knew of Hillary’s private email server and how this needed to be “cleaned up”. I laughed even more at this comment from Powerline:
  
  … and I don’t believe any reporter has ever asked Obama why he claimed to have no knowledge of Hillary’s illegal handling of classified information when he himself corresponded with her on her illegal server–using an alias!
  
  Muhahahahahah. I love the faith he has: no reporter has followed up and asked Obama. What a surprise. That might hurt Obama and Hillary – and we can’t have that in the MSM.
  
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  October 26, 2016 2:22pm
- stephieboy
  
  Ed Snack , an interesting contrast to this ,
  
  Inside Donald Trump’s echo chamber of conspiracies, grievances and vitriol,
  
  He is preaching to the converted. He is lashing out at anyone who is not completely loyal. He is detaching himself from and delegitimizing the institutions of American political life. And he is proclaiming conspiracies everywhere – in polls (rigged), in debate moderators (biased) and in the election itself (soon to be stolen).
  
  In the presidential campaign’s home stretch, Donald Trump is fully inhabiting his own echo chamber. The Republican nominee has turned inward, increasingly isolated from the country’s mainstream and leaders of his own party, and determined to rouse his most fervent supporters with dire warnings that their populist movement could fall prey to dark and collusive forces…”
  
  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-campaign-20161016-story.html
  
  And you whinge about MSM like the Washington Post !
  
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  October 26, 2016 2:34pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    cha-ching!
    4 downticks for the price of one!
    
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    October 26, 2016 3:09pm
Manolo

Taxpayer rebelion:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3872758/We-t-cope-migrants-councils-tell-Town-halls-warn-families-face-increased-tax-bills-pay-influx.html

Millions of families could face an increase in their council tax bills to pay for the influx of migrants from Calais, town halls warned last night.

Local authorities are expected to receive almost £40,000 a year from the Home Office for every young refugee they care for. But they say the real cost can reach up to £133,000.

Our own stephieboy, multiculturalist of the highest order, wants the same for NZ.
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October 26, 2016 2:23pm
- kowtow
  
  It is totally beyond me how taxpayer voters keep voting for the same parties that impose these burdens on them. Or perhaps its not taxpayers who vote for this continuing madness , it’s the have nots voting for more of OPM. Isn’t universalism and socialism marvellous.
  
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  October 26, 2016 2:39pm
  - Gabby
    
    That’s a pretty good argument for increasing the number of haves you got there.
    
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    October 26, 2016 5:46pm
SPC

Pity we did not get the Trump nationalism vs Sanders socialism contest that the “Zionist form HRE” in the new world that they (the elitists there) deserved.
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October 26, 2016 2:30pm
Happychappy

Where is the same outrage that was accorded to the Chief’s and other rugby professionals that had offended the Media and public with their misdemean’our’s not so long ago.
“A Professional who has been convicted of Indecent Assault is seeking Permanent Name suppression.”
For the moment the man is allowed his name and occupation secret.The man was sentenced in the high court last year of Indecent Assault with intent to offend with the Judge also saying he might have good reason to have name suppression.This is double standards again from our media and just shows again the poor standard of journalism.
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October 26, 2016 2:31pm
Fletch

Miley Cyrus – a Hillary voter who said she is going to go from door-to-door to stump for Hillary – has let concert-goers in the front row grope her crotch. I bet she was one of the people saying they were appalled by Trump’s “grab her pussy” comments, but here she is asking her fans to grope her in the same way. I just don’t get it, to be honest. Liberals have no constancy.

http://www.someecards.com/entertainment/celebrities/miley-cyrus-let-audience-grope-her-crotch/
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October 26, 2016 2:57pm
- cha
  
  That’s a tough one Fletch….umm…oh, that’s right, consent!.
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  October 26, 2016 3:33pm
  - Fletch
    
    Well, so did the woman in Trump’s comment.
    
    “And when you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump said. “You can do anything.”
    
    “Grab them by the pussy,” Trump added. “You can do anything.”
    
    So presumably the woman gave her consent. Just like Miley gave hers.
    
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    October 26, 2016 3:46pm
    - cha
      
      And if I say Fletch let me help myself to his shit, presumably, you gave your consent.
      
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      October 26, 2016 3:49pm
      - Fletch
        
        Not if you saw me running after you and screaming and yelling, which the woman who Trump talked about groping presumably never did, because he was famous. You’re not famous cha, so I doubt I’d let you steal my stuff without putting up some kind of fight.
        
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        October 26, 2016 4:37pm
cha

Oops, someone let this one slide past them.

http://donaldtrump.gop/
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October 26, 2016 3:44pm
Fletch

Happy Birthday Hillary!

If you notice @woodhouseb is nervous & losing his temper on TV. Stay tuned tomorrow Brad, because you’re going to have a busy busy day.

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/791027018834014209

Hi, @HillaryClinton & @woodhouseb. When you were coordinating, did you take money from a bank in BELIZE and then return it AFTER first vid?

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/791103954797101057

‏@JamesOKeefeIII

Because @HillaryClinton and @woodhouseb — you may want to look at that whole BELIZE account money transaction before tomorrow around noon.

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/791104585276481536
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October 26, 2016 3:54pm
cha

This might be the dumbest fucking thing anyone has said during the whole election season.

If there are no sponsored terror attacks before Election Day, it means ISIS prefers Clinton. They have the means. Think about it. #Trump— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 25, 2016
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October 26, 2016 4:02pm
Manolo

Some US towns do not want a bar of the buggers:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/25/michigan-township-feds-will-not-actively-participate-refugee-resettlement-program/

The resolution stated: “The Township of Waterford will not actively participate in the Refugee Resettlement Program until the Program has been significantly reformed, and until it has been demonstrated that the Townships of Oakland County have the capacity to absorb refugees without diverting funds from needy residents or exposing their residents to unwarranted security risks.”
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October 26, 2016 4:22pm
tom hunter

Oh look, moron Leftie journalists wonder what went wrong – and who’s to blame,
CBS Anchors Bewildered by Obamacare 25 Percent Premium Hikes: ‘What Happened?’

“Because the idea was not only to spread coverage around, but that by spreading the coverage around, not only would it help people get more preventative care, but then it would ultimately bring the costs down, and instead, the premiums are skyrocketing,” O’Donnell said, sounding exasperated.

“And so the question is, what happened?” Rose said.

“Yeah, and who’s profiting on this?” O’Donnell asked.

“What can be done?” Gayle King, a Barack Obama donor, asked.

“Is the way the law was set up failed? It’s a really interesting story,” O’Donnell said.

Gosh, it’s just a total mystery – isn’t it morons?
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October 26, 2016 4:31pm
- Griff
  
  yip Tom
  A total mystery why the yanks pay more than twice as much for health care than the cost of social systems used in more enlightened western country’s .
  Yet yanks die younger and have less equitable outcomes .
  It wouldn’t be that the commercial for profit health system is at fault now would it?
  Here is your reply already written for you.
  Gibber gibber free market ideology rules despite facts… fuck reality who needs that .
  
  There is Left and Right and the stupid yanks broken political compass bullshit.
  
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  October 26, 2016 4:42pm
  - tom hunter
    
    I think I’ve said this before, Griff, but on this issue you have no idea what you’re talking about, which should be rather embarassing for a guy who votes for the ACT party.
    
    Or don’t you think economics applies to healthcare? And if you don’t, do you have any idea why?
    
    BTW, here’s the story of why “Single Payer Healthcare” failed to get any traction even in Lefty Vermont. You should read it Griff. You might learn something.
    
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    October 26, 2016 4:47pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      Tom, I don’t think Griff’s brain allows “learn” any more.
      
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      October 26, 2016 4:52pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Unfair. Heavy marijuana users can learn new stuff, they just can’t generally be bothered, and don’t remember it an hour later.
        
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        October 26, 2016 9:55pm
  - nasska
    
    ….”A total mystery why the yanks pay more than twice as much for health care than the cost of social systems used in more enlightened western country’s”…..
    
    And yet have the highest malpractice insurance premiums & the richest litigation lawyers on the planet.
    
    Maybe that’s where the ignorant fools go wrong.
    
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    October 26, 2016 4:53pm
  - Griff
    
    Or don’t you think economics applies to healthcare? And if you don’t, do you have any idea why?
    
    Because health care is a public good
    Allowing people to make money means we lose site of the good in the name of profit. This means Americans as a group are worse of than in country’s where the government runs a single payer not for profit health care system.
    This is a fact confirmed by looking at the costs and benefits of the different systems. https://assets.weforum.org/editor/Zug2NK2F2gPBlMfQpPW26NIX3W-nS8u6R3OJLkq8nHY.JPG
    This does not mean there is not room for profit based enterprise within a public system. ACT has a mix of public private as policy not the total abandonment of all social based government services. If you can afford to go outside of the public system good on you you just pay twice for the privilege. Our system is still cheaper than you pay in the USA .
    The insurance based model as practiced in the USA does not work. It costs far more for less result ..
    
    Only a gibbering nut lets ideology rule over reality .
    
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    October 26, 2016 5:07pm
    - tom hunter
      
      Because health care is a public good
      Allowing people to make money means we lose site of the good in the name of profit.
      
      Okay – why is food not then a public good? It’s essential to life. Yet it’s an almost entirely private-sector system based on profit.
      
      Your argument about healthcare was made in the past about food. Do you understand why the state-farming at 80% only produced shortages and shit food? Have you actually thought about why that is, why the current system works with an essential need of humanity – and why healthcare is supposedly utterly different that it has to be under almost entirely state control?
      
      I’ve asked you this before and I’ll have had in response is a link to life expectancy and infant mortality. And cost. You clearly never bothered thinking about it at all.
      
      ACT has a mix of public private as policy not the total abandonment of all social based government services.
      
      Chuckle. Not what your opponents say – they actually use the same arguments against ACT that you’re using against me – plus the abuse and the tearful implication that I don’t care about the sick.
      
      And when have I ever suggested the total abandonment of all social-based services? In fact I’ve said – on this blog – that a public health-care system is necessary. I just think that having the state occupy 80% of any system is a bad idea.
      
      Only a gibbering nut lets ideology rule over reality .
      
      Only a twat interested only in abuse who has no respect for his debate opponents, sticks cloth over his ears and refuses to listen, or think.
      
      BTW, I’ve dealt with your arguments on life expectancy and infant mortality before, explaining to you in some detail, with links, why we’re talking apples and oranges comparisons. I’ve also explained to you in detail, why heavily socialised systems like ours – not to mention the Godforsaken NHS in Britain – actually produce worse health stats in the areas that healthcare can actually affect.
      
      But obviously you had no interest in reading or thinking about I wrote. You just returned to the same old crap, plus your tried and trusted abuse.
      
      Wait, wait…… Say “gibbering” again. It makes you look soooooo smart.
      
      ROFLMAO.
      
      You know you want to.
      
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      October 26, 2016 5:30pm
      - Griff
        
        Stupidity.
        Worshiping the yanks fucked up system and their politics blindly despite the issues they have with distorted political landscape because of their dumb two party system.
        
        USA the only place in the world where god whacking conservative is right and secular liberalism is left.
        
        Tom you bore the fuck out of me with your republican politics.
        
        Ra ra republican….
        Donald Trump is your supreme leader.
        GOP party of the deplorably low info wackos.
        
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        October 26, 2016 5:44pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Griff has no argument, just abuse.
        Seems like Griff is becoming an embittered leftie.
        
        Or should I say Greenie (wink) given his poison of choice. (allowed in that bastion of horror the USA these days)
        
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        October 26, 2016 9:42pm
Fletch

Unbelievable –

Thousands of California soldiers are being forced to repay large bonuses that were given to them a decade ago for reenlisting and going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The bonus of $15,000 or more was offered as an enticement by the California National Guard, but now the Pentagon is demanding the money back after an audit revealed they were overpaid.

If they refuse, the nearly 10,000 soldiers this affects will be hit with interest charges, tax liens, and wage garnishments.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2016/10/24/unreal-pentagon-demands-soldiers-repay-bonuses-n2236280
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October 26, 2016 4:50pm
Ed Snack

Fletch, why so unbelieveable ? In the USA, as we know, there’s one set of rules for the plebs, and one for the rulers; I’ll bet the Californian National Guard leaders who made these illegal payments won’t be sanctioned or have their pensions touched.
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October 26, 2016 4:57pm
- Fletch
  
  I guess that is 10,000 guaranteed voters for Trump if he promises they don’t have to pay it back. Then again, I’m thinking soldiers probably vote Republican anyway.
  
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  October 26, 2016 5:01pm
nasska

The more I study the cost of health insurance in the USA the more I wonder how any average wage earner can afford it.

1) What we would call an “excess” except that it is calculated on a year’s worth of claims…..”Families in high-deductible plans must pay more than $2,600 out of pocket, $4,332 on average, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.”……

2) …..”Once workers have surpassed their deductibles, they pay an average $24 copay for a primary care office visit, $37 for a specialty care office visit, and $308 for a hospital admission.”…..

3) ….”employees with family coverage pay $413 a month on average. That’s because employers require workers to cover a greater part of the cost of insuring an entire family. On average, employers pay 82% of the premium costs for single coverage, but only 71% of the premium costs for family coverage”…….

4) The gross wage for a check out chick in Montana is about $7/hr US.

1, 2 & 3…….http://time.com/money/4044394/average-health-deductible-premium/
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October 26, 2016 5:21pm
- Griff
  
  Many can not nasska .
  The number one reason for bankruptcy in the USA is medical bills.
  
  A recent Harvard University study showed that medical expenses account for approximately 62 percent of personal bankruptcies in the US. Interestingly, the study also showed that 72 percent of those who filed for bankruptcy due to medical expenses had some type of health insurance, thus debunking the myth that only the uninsured face financial catastrophes due to medical-related expenses.
  
  http://www.cnbc.com/id/100840148
  
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  October 26, 2016 5:27pm
  - tom hunter
    
    And here we go again on a variation of the topic. Your latest wheeze (2013) is no different to the previous one you posted and I long ago gave you the counter, of which this portion was key
    
    Our analysis of their data finds a causal link in only 17 percent of personal bankruptcies. Nor do their data support their contention that “solidly middle-class Americans” are threatened. Four decades of studies that have explicitly addressed the bankruptcy–medical spending connection lend credibility to our conclusion. These studies, which we discuss below, support a much smaller figure than half, as does a more recent national consumer survey sponsored in part by the Harvard School of Public Health.3 As for the “solidly middle-class” citizens who face “impoverishment,” Himmelstein and colleagues report an average household income of $25,000 for their respondents—a level more accurately characterized as “marginally middle class.”
    
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    October 26, 2016 5:43pm
    - Griff
      
      Links to a think tank written piece of fluff to counter a paper from Harvard the worlds premier medical university .
      Your source.
      
      The Center for Health Industry Market Economics at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois
      
      sorry Timmy such a partisan source of codswallop is typical for right wing USA bullshite .
      
      Twice the cost and die younger
      fact
      Higher infant mortality than most the west
      fact .
      Number one cause of bankruptcy medical expenses.
      fact
      
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      October 26, 2016 6:01pm
      - tom hunter
        
        You really are such an ignorant little man sometimes. If you had even the smallest knowledge about NorthWestern University and the School of Management there in Chicago you would never have written anything as fucking retarded as that.
        
        And that’s before we get to the detailed analysis, which of course you did not read and probably would not understand even if you did.
        
        Annnnnnddd there you go again on life expectancy, births, yada, yada.
        
        Idiot. Go join Stephieboi in the pen.
        
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        October 26, 2016 6:40pm
      - Griff
        
        I read it Tommy or as much as I needed to get the spin.
        Gee its only the lower middle class that lose badly .
        Never mind poor people dont count in the USA ..
        Only earn $25000 who cares if you get sick.
        
        Access to health care is not just for the rich or well off in a caring society like our liberal one .Health care as a public good means that no one losers out .
        
        The Center for Health Industry Market Economics
        
        Gibbering ideologues batman.
        Ya dont think they might be just a little predisposed to push free market solutions do you…?
        
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        October 26, 2016 7:13pm
    - tom hunter
      
      ….or as much as I needed to get the spin.
      
      Clap ….. clap ….. clap. Yeah – some real research and thinking there.
      
      Given what you said, I know how much you’ll love this comment:
      
      In my view, the provision of health care cannot continue to be dependent upon the whims and market projections of large private insurance companies whose only goal is to make as much profit as possible
      
      Words out of your mouth, no?
      
      That’s Bernie Sanders a few months ago. I presume you’d disagree with him on other matters of economics. Anyway, it led to some amusing variations.
      
      In my view, the provision of gasoline cannot continue to be dependent upon the whims and market projections of large private energy companies whose only goal is to make as much profit as possible.
      
      In my view, the provision of housing cannot continue to be dependent upon the whims and market projections of large private realty companies whose only goal is to make as much profit as possible.
      
      In my view, the provision of bread cannot continue to be dependent upon the whims and market projections of large private food companies whose only goal is to make as much profit as possible.
      
      BTW, I wouldn’t be too critical of gibbering, American, right-wing think tanks if I was you.
      
      They supplied much of ACT’s policy – as your left-wing opponents constantly remind you.
      
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      October 26, 2016 7:47pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Griff is really a leftie but he pretends to be a liberal
        
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        October 26, 2016 8:24pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Yep, pretty much obvious to everyone that US model of healthcare costs more and produces on average far worse outcomes than NHS style socialised medicine. Too much money lost in inefficient admin and minimally beneficial arse-covering procedures and over-prescription.
  
  But too many vested interests to allow large change or improvements in efficiency.
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:01pm
Manolo

Those gullible Americans who voted for hope and change:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/10/25/Arizona-obamacare-premiums/

The Department of Health and Human Services revealed Monday that premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan will increase an average of 25 percent across the 39 states served by the federally run online market…

However, in Arizona, unsubsidized premiums for a hypothetical 27-year-old buying a benchmark “second-lowest cost silver plan” will jump by 116 percent, from $196 to $422, according to the administration report.
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October 26, 2016 5:32pm
Captain Mainwaring

It’s a while since we heard from Yoza, Gabby and a couple of other lefty idiots whose names I’ve forgotten.
Long may that situation continue.
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October 26, 2016 8:02pm
- itstricky
  
  I only ever want to hear from people who agree with me.
  
  If only life were that simple. It would be dead boring. And probably nowhere as advanced.
  
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  October 26, 2016 8:55pm
sam green

I see John Key has gone to India with Bronagh and left Hekia behind. I hope she won’t be too lonely.?
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October 26, 2016 9:07pm
- Jack5
  
  That smear is so outrageous and so impossible it’s laughable, Sam Green.
  
  If you are Labour’s version of the Clinton counter-attack on Trump, you need another Leftist role you can handle, Sam.
  
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  October 26, 2016 11:40pm
  - mikenmild
    
    He is an attractive man though, isn’t he? I should imagine most of the female cabinet ministers are in love with him. Maybe one or two of the males too.
    
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    October 27, 2016 7:06am
Jack5

Also of interest is who Key has with him on the great junket visit to India. The retinue includes, according to the Hooerald:

… Included in the 35-strong business delegation travelling with Key are Vice-Chancellors from the University of Otago, Waikato University and deputy and pro Vice-Chancellors from the University of Auckland and University of Canterbury.

The tertiary institutions are effectively selling NZ citizenship to stuff their roles and keep their bloated staffs occupied.

I doubt that Key has any intention of trimming back the immigrant flood from India – tens of thousands of young Indians coming to NZ to study but more or less promised this is a path to NZ residency.
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October 26, 2016 9:44pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Jack:
  
  If you were a young Indian, you’d say the opportunity to learn about Te Tiriti is worth the flight and tuition costs. A pathway to citizenship would be the cherry on top!
  
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  October 26, 2016 10:10pm
  - Jack5
    
    Good point, Nostradamus.
    
    I wonder if they go to a Maori tertiary institution, whether they might get tribal membership, too.
    
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    October 26, 2016 10:25pm
Manolo

Lively discussion:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/25/you-are-fascinated-with-sex-that-megyn-kelly-newt-gingrich-showdown-was-one-for-the-ages/
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