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virtualmark

The first in an occasional series of great quotes from US Presidents.

Starting with James Madison, known as the Father of the Constitution, who wrote to Thomas Jefferson in a letter in 1798:

“The Constitution supposes what the history of all Governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it.”
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February 8, 2017 8:01am
- EAD
  
  My favourite both for its simplicity and it’s powerful resonance back to a time when America was truly the Shining City upon a hill that the rest of the world looked to.
  
  “Make America Great Again”
  
  – Donald Trump, 2016
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:16am
  - virtualmark
    
    So EAD,
    
    When did America stop being great? And why?
    
    Madison prepared for the Constitutional Convention by reading the histories of Polybius, the orations of Demosthenes, Plutarch’s “Lives”, Fortune Barthemely de Felice’s thirteen volume “Code de l’Humanite” in the original French and much more.
    
    Trump prepared for the Presidency by watching Fox News.
    
    MAGA.
    
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    February 8, 2017 8:24am
    - EAD
      
      @ Virtualmark
      
      When did America stop being great?
      
      some would say October 3rd 1965,
      others would say December 23rd 1913,
      
      but I would say May 9th 1865 was when the rot began. This of course being the date when the South officially lost the Civil War and so begun the great usurpation of Central Government away from the States (no, despite the approved versions of history, the American Civil war was not about abolishing slavery) and so began the process of turning a nation of rugged independent frontiersmen into the collectivist rabble you see marching on Washington to “oppose Trump’s misogyny”
      
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      February 8, 2017 8:41am
    - holysheet
      
      I am presently reading on my iPhone 7 the Conrad Black biography of FD Rooservelt. It’s 3360 pages of his life. There are similarities between the New Deal introduction in the height of the depression and the actions of Trump now.
      My guess is Trump has actually read this at some time. So Virtualmark, your assertion that fox news is the only source of his thinking is patently false.
      I suggest you get out more and try reading about historical figures. You might actually learn something. After all there is nothing new in this world, just a different slant on it.
      “He who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it.”
      
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      February 8, 2017 8:48am
      - virtualmark
        
        holysheet,
        
        I suggest you get out more and try reading about historical figures.
        
        Umm, in the original post in this thread I quoted from James Madison writing to Thomas Jefferson. In my second post I set out Madison’s reading as he prepared for the Constitutional Convention.
        
        Do you think about what you’re writing before you hit “Post Comment”?
        
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        February 8, 2017 9:08am
      - virtualmark
        
        And, to be more direct, because subtlety is clearly lost on you:
        
        Madison: “The Constitution supposes what the history of all Governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it.”
        
        Bannon: “We’re going to war in the South China Sea … no doubt.”
        
        holysheet: “He who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it.”
        
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        February 8, 2017 9:09am
      - holysheet
        
        I was referring to your fox news comment.
        
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        February 8, 2017 9:12am
    - Scott
      
      I would say America stop being great when it stopped believing in itself. That was during the rise of liberalism and leftism and progressivism probably beginning in the 1960s. Now in America the left believe everything America does is bad. Vietnam’s bad, treatment of women bad, America is racist, America is sexist. The leftist language goes on and on every day.
      
      We can totally see that phenomena in New Zealand as well. We have to learn Maori to make up for the terrible things we did in the 19th century – “colonial oppression”. We have to have more women in boardrooms to make up for our patriarchal sexist attitudes. It goes on and on. According to leftist principles Western civilisation is not great, America is not great, New Zealand is not great.
      
      That’s one of the reasons the left hates Donald Trump so much. He believes in American greatness, we once were a proud people and we can be again.
      
      Oh for a leader like that here!
      
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      February 8, 2017 9:11am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        We have to learn Maori to make up for the terrible things we did in the 19th century – “colonial oppression”. We have to have more women in boardrooms to make up for our patriarchal sexist attitudes. It goes on and on. According to leftist principles Western civilisation is not great, America is not great, New Zealand is not great.
        
        That’s racist, sexist and oppressive to minorities you fucking fascist
        
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        February 8, 2017 9:16am
      - cmm
        
        “I would say America stop being great when it stopped believing in itself. ”
        
        Or maybe when it started to believe in itself too much and stopped actually working at improving and got over entitled.
        
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        February 8, 2017 10:04am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Virtualmark, I think you fall into the trap of taking the opposition caricature of Trump and believing that to be true.
      
      There’s no particular reason to assume that Trump is so particularly stupid as to only watch TV and assume a knowledge of the world based on that. For a start he ran a far more intelligent and reality based campaign than Clinton with a specific focus on the States that were important in order to be elected. That may or may not have been a strategy devised by someone other than Trump but he (obviously) agreed and went along with it. It was no accident that the probably only viable strategy he had to get to 270 electoral votes was the one they followed.
      
      A cheap and ineffective shot.
      
      Anyway, these days I doubt anyone would read what Madison did, and they’re just old, dead, white men anyway.
      
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      February 8, 2017 12:04pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Ed,
        
        Yes, I’m sure the Donald gets input from more than Fox News – although it’s clear from his tweeting that he’s a cable news addict.
        
        But that said, the Donald is clearly not in the same intellectual orbit as men like Madison & Jefferson. They may be old, dead, white men now. But I still respect the intellect, wisdom, fairness and bravery that saw them write the Declaration of Independence (an act of treason for which they could be horribly executed) and the Constitution (one of the greatest documents written by men).
        
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        February 8, 2017 1:12pm
      - cha
        
        Yes, I’m sure the Donald gets input from more than Fox News
        
        Apparently so….
        
        https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/trumps-suggestion-that-the-media-is-ignoring-terrorist-attacks-has-a-familiar-source-infowars/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.bf93fadfd28b
        
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        February 8, 2017 1:21pm
      - SGA
        
        virtualmark
        
        But that said, the Donald is clearly not in the same intellectual orbit as men like Madison & Jefferson.
        
        Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, etc – bloody progressives.
        
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        February 8, 2017 1:45pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      It stopped being great when the PUSSIES made some NOISE and the MSM started their BULLSHIT
      
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      February 8, 2017 6:59pm
Working Class Bigot

More fake climate change “science”. When is the world going to wake up to this bollocks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4192182/World-leaders-duped-manipulated-global-warming-data.html
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February 8, 2017 8:03am
- PhilBest
  
  James Delingpole’s take is delicious reading, as always:
  
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/06/delingpole-noaa-scandal-gives-trump-the-perfect-excuse-to-drain-the-climate-swamp/
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:14am
  - Simon
    
    New Zealand will commit up to $200 million to support countries’ climate change efforts – and $20 million toward ground-breaking research to slash agricultural greenhouse gases.
    
    Prime Minister John Key announced the new funding at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), where close to 200 nations are meeting to thrash out a new agreement to tackle global emissions.
    
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11553794
    
    Empty suit Key was shoulder tapped by Obama and pisses away hundreds of millions. Drain the swamp.
    
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    February 8, 2017 8:27am
    - wiseowl
      
      I think we have discussed here before.That $20 million to try and stop sheep and cows farting is an absolute waste of time.
      May as well flush it down the toilet.
      
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      February 8, 2017 8:41am
      - GoVege
        
        Better still…stop eating cows and sheep.
        Grow fruit and nuts and veges.
        Be healthy and save the planet and our money.
        Win-win-win!!
        
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        February 8, 2017 11:34am
      - simpleton1
        
        Instead of the cows sheep, birds, insects, decay, swamps, etc.
        Yes we may as well all start farting. Pheww.
        
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        February 8, 2017 11:43am
      - cmm
        
        GoVege
        
        Ultimately photosynthesis makes plant matter and most of that ends up falling on the ground and rotting (ie. being eaten by microbes) creating… methane & CO2.
        
        Some of it might get eaten by insects, zebras and pandas and such or domestic animals – which burp/fart it out in the form of… methane and CO2.
        
        Some of those animals we eat.
        
        No matter the
        
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        February 8, 2017 12:19pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And here is an analysis of the dodgy algorithm used by the Climate gatekeepers… Temperatures in the past are constantly adjusted (downwards).
  
  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/07/more-on-the-bombshell-david-rose-article-instability-in-the-global-historical-climate-network/
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:31am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Mail on Sunday launches the first salvo in the latest war against climate scientists
    
    David Rose penned an attack described by expert as “so wrong it’s hard to know where to start”
    
    John Abraham
    
    In this new political era, climate scientists and their science are under attack. The attack is from multiple fronts, from threats to pull funding of the important instruments they use to measure climate change, to slashing their salaries and jobs. But there is a real fear of renewed personal attacks, and it appears those fears are now being realized. What the attackers do is identify and isolate scientists – a process termed the “Serengeti Strategy” by well-known and respected scientist Michael Mann who suffered these types of attacks for years.
    
    The author of the recent attack piece, David Rose in the UK, has a history of denying the well-established science of climate change. He has a long history of making incorrect climate change statements. In the attack, Mr. Rose claims that scientists used misleading data in a recent (2015) paper that studied the rate of temperature change across the globe. He reportedly obtained information from someone who works at NOAA to imply that internal review procedures were not followed as the paper was prepared for publication. What Mr. Rose omitted however, is incredibly telling and he does a disservice to his readers….”
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/feb/05/mail-on-sunday-launches-the-first-salvo-in-the-latest-war-against-climate-scientists
    
    The Climate deniers lean on a David Rose and a Sleaze Tabloid for their Climate Science Denial.
    
    LOL !
    
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    February 8, 2017 9:22am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      As opposed to pearls of shit shaped wisdom from jihadibride.com, stephieboy?
      
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      February 8, 2017 9:47am
      - stephieboy
        
        ABS , very deep stuff there ( dripping of course with sarcasm )
        
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        February 8, 2017 10:00am
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        No stephie – just dripping. You drip
        
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        February 8, 2017 12:28pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Get with the programme, stephieboy.
      
      The information about the dodgy work going on at NOAA is from their recently retired supervisory meteorologist, Principal Scientist Dr John Bates,
      Board member American Geophysical Union.
      
      You can read his own account here, if you don’t want to take in David Rose’s journalistic precis.
      https://judithcurry.com/2017/02/04/climate-scientists-versus-climate-data/
      
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      February 8, 2017 9:48am
      - stephieboy
        
        Maggy Wassilieff ,as I’m not an expert on these matters ( unlike maybe you ) I will continue to defer to the scientific consenses rather than the Sleaze Daily Mail and your link,
        
        Climate Denial Crock of the Week
        with Peter Sinclair
        Much Ado about a NOAA Thing
        
        Deny-o-sphere about to erupt with news of another “Climate scandal”.
        Fortunately, science.
        
        The ever-reliable science denial vector – Daily Mail has come out with another set of accusations about NOAA temperatures.
        I guess they didn’t realize that those findings have already been confirmed in a well vetted Journal.
        
        Above, study author Zeke Hausfather.
        
        Scientific American:
        
        ‘Various studies have debunked the idea of a pause, or hiatus, in global warming—the contention that global surface temperatures stopped rising during the first decade of this century. The arguments for and against “the pause” were somewhat muted until June 2015, when scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published a paper in Science saying that it had slightly revised the sea surface temperatures it had been citing for the 1900s. The measurement methods, based on sensors in the engine intake ports of ships, had been flawed, NOAA said. The revised methodology also meant that sea surface temperatures during the 2000s had been slightly higher than reported. NOAA adjusted both records, which led to a conclusion that global surface temperatures during the 2000s were indeed higher than they had been in previous decades. No hiatus.
        
        Critics attacked NOAA, claiming it had cooked the books to dismiss claims of a pause. Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas opened a congressional investigation of NOAA scientists, including demands that they turn over their emails, which they have not….”
        
        https://climatecrocks.com/2017/02/05/much-ado-about-a-noaa-thing/comment-page-1/
        
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        February 8, 2017 9:58am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        
        I will continue to defer to the scientific consenses
        
        If you had bothered to read Phil Best’s link above you would have discovered this quote:
        
        “There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.”
        
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        February 8, 2017 11:24am
      - stephieboy
        
        Maggy Wassilieff,
        
        Ok , then I will defer to these scientists and Noble Lauretes including others like Sir Paul Nurse and atmspheric chemist Paul J Grutzen ,
        
        https://qz.com/444787/a-group-of-nobel-laureates-have-signed-a-declaration-calling-for-urgent-action-on-climate-change/
        
        Yourself ?
        
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        February 8, 2017 11:45am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        yourself
        
        My days of deferring to authority figures are over, rover.
        
        Question the data, observe for yourself, be a little bit sceptical about folks protecting their own patch.
        
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        February 8, 2017 12:22pm
- PhilBest
  
  There is a good contribution from Matt Ridley, that the DomPost has very nobly run this morning.
  
  In it there is a quote from Judith Curry, a climate scientist who stepped out of line some years ago, inferring that this latest whistleblowing is a consequence of the changed political climate. The whistleblower would have been too afraid under the Obama administration.
  
  Bring it ON!!!
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:36am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Phil Best ,
    
    Matt Ridley Climate Misinformer ,
    
    https://www.skepticalscience.com/Matt_Ridley_blog.htm
    
    Including his finaicail intersts in the Coal Industry ,
    
    https://www.desmogblog.com/matt-ridley
    
    LOL yet again !
    
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    February 8, 2017 9:24am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Both those websites are climate disinformation, they are simply unacceptable as references. Skepticalscience is run by a serial liar and ethically challenged fellow, and desmog is a paid for disinformation site.
      
      Joke’s on you.
      
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      February 8, 2017 12:07pm
- realityczech
  
  Even the communists have moved on from that climate change nonsense. Now the big threat to humanity is Trumps speech crimes.
  
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  February 8, 2017 6:57pm
PhilBest

I am wondering whether many people noted an opinion piece in the Monday Herald, by Ted Dawe, the author of a novel for teens that is apparently on the grubby side.

The opinion piece was boilerplate PC revisionism of early NZ history and lefty garbage: Maori weren’t doing agriculture because of the land’s “infertility”; they were in a state of “equilibrium”, including in “the tribal balance of power”. And the worst disaster for the country, was the introduction of private property ownership!

One shudders to think of the possibility that besides this rot being in a mainstream daily newspaper, this is the narrative being taught to kids in our education system.
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February 8, 2017 8:08am
- cmm
  
  Expect to find this included as part of the school curriculum.
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:12am
  - holysheet
    
    And interpreted into Te reo as well.
    
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    February 8, 2017 8:23am
    - cmm
      
      … and we’re paying.
      
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      February 8, 2017 8:53am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Apart from the kumara, what other plant species could the Maori have cultivated in a sustainable way (i.e., not through forest burn-off).
  
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  February 8, 2017 11:44am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    guilt-ridden whitey’s?
    
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    February 8, 2017 5:13pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Taro, gourd, yam, ti in northern North Island
    
    http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/gardens/page-1
    
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    February 8, 2017 5:41pm
    - Scorpion
      
      The Native Gourd Grown in NZ has the Same DNA
      of a Gourd Found in Kentucky USA
      
      Figure that one out Folks
      
      Everything is not as it Seems
      
      Kumara is also used as the Native Word for Potato
      not just in NZ
      
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      February 8, 2017 9:59pm
Longknives

Well said Mark Reason-

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/89145281/mark-reason-confidentiality-on-patrick-tuipulotus-positive-test-damages-new-zealand-rugby

New Zealand Rugby (and most of their gushing/adoring media) are blatantly covering-up this story about yet another All Black ‘Role Model’ getting caught doping..
So typical of the sickening arrogance that permeates New Zealand Rugby.
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February 8, 2017 8:09am
- Simon
  
  After last round of 6 Nations so many Kiwi accents.
  
  Some not coping too well. Sad!
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:30am
- Keeping Stock
  
  I rarely agree with you on rugby matters Longknives, but on this occasion NZR has made an absolute blunder in the way the Tuipolotu case has been handled. They should have been up-front about the positive test right from the moment they were informed of it.
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:49am
  - kowtow
    
    Good thing we’re not Russians then.
    
    Putin , Putin, Putin.
    
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    February 8, 2017 8:57am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Really? So if it is prescribed medication due to a private medical matter that should be made public just because he is an All Black? If he’s been using stuff to get an edge, fair enough but facts should be sought before trial by media. Mark Reason is the last person I would put any credence in.
    
    Remember Ben Tune, the Wallaby? Nearly lost his leg due to post op complications of a knee reconstruction. He then copped a ban from the IRB & WADA owing to the prescribed meds which saved his leg being on the long list of banned substances. It can work both ways.
    
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    February 8, 2017 11:26am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      If he had a valid Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) it wouldn’t be an issue Salacious. The fact remains that when the positive test became known, it was sufficiently significant that Tuipolotu was sent home before the end of the European end-of-season tour. By not being open and transparent at the time NZR has created a far bigger issue than it may otherwise have been.
      
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      February 8, 2017 1:33pm
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Fair enough KS but you will also note that Dan Carter had a TUE and that didn’t stop the usual media hacks (and the usual anti-NZR KB commenters) from going full retard on him if only because he didn’t “front” with it as it was a personal medical issue.
        I stand to be corrected on the Tuipolotu case but at that level they are generally very aware of their oblgations and the chances of being caught so would be surprised if there was anything to it other than a dumb mistake or media beat up
        
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        February 8, 2017 3:27pm
- RF
  
  While we are talking about drug use by high profile sportsmen what’s the latest with DC & his mate Joe.
  
  The French anti drug agency had reopened the investigation and were having a closer look at them.
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:55am
- RF
  
  Longknives.
  
  Unfortunately you have struck a raw nerve and will receive many downticks.
  
  The one eyed hero worshippers have double standards concerning their sports gods. They can do no wrong.
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:13am
Manolo

Angry Andy could learn from this crook:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-rahm-emanuel-national-democrats-advice-0207-chicago-inc-20170206-story.html
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February 8, 2017 8:10am
- PhilBest
  
  Good point…
  
  “…the mayor expanded on what he believes is the road map back to power for his party — putting moderate candidates such as veterans, football players, sheriffs and business people up in Republican districts…”
  
  Imagine Labour running people like this, eh, instead of the wall-to-wall unionists, teachers, lawyers, academics, career consultant/advocates and career party-machinists.
  
  But Emanuel also says:
  
  “…Sometimes, you’ve just got to win, OK? Our party likes to be right, even if they lose…”
  
  They’re actually wrong, which is why they lost, but hey….
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:27am
oldpark

A tale of two hypocrites who sold out their principles,if they ever had any. Angry Andy Little better known as Mr 7% was seen in Waitangi arse licking Maoris to get a few extra votes,from the Marae that wanted $10,000 for media coverage,didnt stop has been/or never was so called Liebour Leader and embarrasment to the nation of New Zealand “ANGRY andy Little”..the other hypocrite who sold out his principle is Willie Jackson ,for a fist full of dollars,Jackson the Chief Executive Manukau Urban Authority,for Te Kura Maori o’Waatea, a charter school for at least 40 Maori Students. Seems Liebour hates Charter Schools,and by his acceptance to join Labour Party Jackson must concur.
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February 8, 2017 8:13am
- rangitoto
  
  “Jackson the Chief Executive Manukau Urban Authority,for Te Kura Maori o’Waatea, a charter school for at least 40 Maori Students. Seems Liebour hates Charter Schools,and by his acceptance to join Labour Party Jackson must concur.”
  
  “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them, well, I have others.”
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:22am
- Gabby
  
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  Then he pulled an oldfart’s ponytail. My how he squealed.
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:35am
  - cmm
    
    Morning Gabby.
    
    Off to work soon to pay your way in the world?
    
    I’ve already paid $70 in tax this morning. You?
    
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    February 8, 2017 8:58am
    - Gabby
      
      On a break from cold calling cmmie?
      
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      February 8, 2017 11:14am
      - cmm
        
        Hi Gabby…
        
        Paid $180 in tax so far this morning. I think I might take 40 minutes off for lunch today.
        
        I hope you’re enjoying all the technology us tax payers provide for you to play with. Thank us any time…
        
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        February 8, 2017 2:00pm
Carrion Baggage

Companies like Mighty Ape and The Warehouse should be forced to buy Kiwi made products first and only import products not made here. Running small businesses in NZ is TOUGH and to see competitive products on the shelves in these stores, imported from China, is a real kick in the guts. In some cases they have stolen NZ IP too which make it even worse. China doesn’t have the same labour and employment laws and no minimum wage requirement like NZ does. By importing competing products (probably made by slave children paid next to nothing) they are effectively bypassing our laws. Changing the geography of your product’s manufacture shouldn’t excuse you from the laws of your country.
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February 8, 2017 8:13am
- wiseowl
  
  Carrion
  Welcome to globalisation.
  Where have you been?
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:26am
  - Carrion Baggage
    
    Hi Wiseowl. In my workshop I guess 🙂
    Imagine you have an idea. You make a few prototypes and bring them to market. People seem to love the product so you tool up a workshop and hire some staff, working with WINZ you have a genuine desire to help people learn new skills and succeed. Things are going well, and you’re excited as the company begins to flourish. You are head down arse up putting in some long hours.
    Then one day you’re out shopping, and BOOM, there it is. Your product. On the shelf, staring back at you. Your heart skips a beat, but as the fog of confusion lifts your hearts sinks as you realise… you didn’t make it.
    How often is this story repeated around NZ. We should be protecting these innovators and their ideas and products, and celebrating their succcesses on store shelves all over the country.
    
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    February 8, 2017 8:39am
    - PhilBest
      
      Yes, but there is a bright side able to be seen in numerous US examples. Most of the profit in many clever new inventions, is made by the inventor’s company back in the USA. The actual manufacture is of more marginal value, when the low wages and local enviro and resource impacts are taken into account.
      
      “The New Geography of Jobs” by Enrico Moretti, is very enlightening.
      
      EDIT: and a lot of new products success is due to scale and affordability. If you insist on doing high-wage cottage industry manufacturing, you will just end up as a forgotten early trier in the industry.
      
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      February 8, 2017 8:52am
      - VicParking
        
        We will all have to buy the state produced product make in the state factory staffed by state prisioners.
        Plain packaged and available in the state shop.
        Can hardly wait to put on my state sanctioned suit and go down to the cake tin to hear a six hour speach by our great leader Angry Andy.
        
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        February 8, 2017 10:48am
- holysheet
  
  Get life. You have the answer in your hands. If you can identify where the product was made and there is a competing product made in NZ, buy the one made in NZ. No body is forcing YOU to buy the cheap one. It’s wingers like you with no brain that piss me off no end.
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:28am
  - Carrion Baggage
    
    You’re approaching it from a different angle. Have some compassion.
    
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    February 8, 2017 8:40am
    - holysheet
      
      Are you referring to the wood splitter by any chance?
      
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      February 8, 2017 8:53am
      - Carrion Baggage
        
        I agree with your first comment, a “buy NZ made” campaign would be great. There’s a whole raft of reasons (economic and environmental) why buying locally sourced and made products is good.
        I’d just urge you, you don’t have to make personal attacks and call people names to make your point. These issues affect real people with real families and there’s enough hate out there at the moment.
        
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        February 8, 2017 9:22am
  - waikatogirl
    
    The sad fact for small business operators is that unless you can retain your products intellectual property then it is inevitable it will be copied and sold in competition to yourself.
    
    Sadly it is all too easy for most products to be copied.
    
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    February 8, 2017 9:11am
- cmm
  
  Remember the Good Old Days of protectionism?
  
  “In February 1966 the average price of a 23-inch black and white television ‘consolette’ was £131, equivalent to nearly $5000 today.”
  
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/first-official-tv-broadcast
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:03am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    “In February 1966 the average price of a 23-inch black and white television ‘consolette’ was £131, equivalent to nearly $5000 today.”
    (That’s a 38x increase, assuming 1£ = $1)
    
    “In February 1966 the average price of a 3-bedroom house in Auckland was £5000, equivalent to nearly $850,000 today.”
    (That’s a 170x increase, assuming 1£ = $1)
    
    Gosh. I bet more young Kiwis wish there had been a little more protectionism in the domestic housing market.
    
    (My figures may be wildly incorrect. Please comment.)
    
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    February 8, 2017 11:51am
    - rangitoto
      
      When decimal currency was introduced the value of the dollar was pegged at ten shillings. ie $2 = 1£.
      
      In 1966 first mortgage rates were around 7 percent. Not much higher than now. Hower the rates rose steadily till the 1980’s when they peaked at 20% or so.
      
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      February 8, 2017 12:49pm
    - Inandout
      
      This may be more accurate. Just enter a figure and date.
      
      http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary-policy/inflation-calculator
      
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      February 8, 2017 12:52pm
- dime
  
  we dont have the manufacturing base in most cases.
  
  Dime is an importer. we cant make most of what i import here. its not the factory we deal with makes every part.
  
  “China doesn’t have the same labour and employment laws and no minimum wage requirement like NZ does. By importing competing products (probably made by slave children paid next to nothing) they are effectively bypassing our laws”
  
  this is incorrect. the minimum wage over there goes up every year. its getting more and more expensive to make stuff in china. vietnam, indonesia etc becoming more important. hell, one factory who wants to sell me stuff is now in bangladesh.
  
  sorry you have been ripped off. its a fucking horrible feeling.
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:12am
  - Longknives
    
    “Dime is an importer. we cant make most of what i import here”
    
    Ukrainian ‘Working Girls’??
    
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    February 8, 2017 9:22am
    - dime
      
      ha im a changed man.
      
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      February 8, 2017 9:27am
      - Johnboy
        
        Was it painful boring a hole and turning your willy inside out dime? 🙂
        
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        February 8, 2017 4:01pm
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Should individual consumers be forced to buy NZ made too at Gunpoint? Even if they don’t want NZ made products?
  
  Please explain how the forcing will work.
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:43am
  - cmm
    
    I’m such a good lover that women should be forced to sleep with me.
    
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    February 8, 2017 10:35am
Stars And Stripes

No logic to more police, prison beds – Salvation Army
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/324008/no-logic-to-more-police,-prison-beds-salvation-army.
“There’s no logic to increasing police numbers and building more prisons because there’s no evidence to suggest crime is actually on the rise, the Salvation Army says”.

So according to the Salvation Army NZ should only be increasing police numbers if crime is rising apparently.
The fact that a lot of the clearance rates on present crime such as burglary is down in the 20-30% is okay obviously and no cause for concern.
As long as serious crime is contained then everything is fine as lower end crime is just one of those things we should put up with seems to be their position.
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February 8, 2017 8:19am
- fernglas
  
  More people are going to prison because the crimes of which they are convicted are more serious. A simple adding up of the number of assaults, for example, may quantify them but doesn’t explain their seriousness. So even if there is not more crime, there can be worse crime.
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:25am
- oldpark
  
  Also if the Sallies see no logic, in common sense decisions,why oh why have they put up their usurious rents on all,of their massive property portfolio.Its logical when they do it.
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:25am
- holysheet
  
  These bunch of wowsers are no more than another branch of the Liabore party. If these dumbarse crims didn’t commit crimes, the prison numbers would be dropping.
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:32am
  - Gabby
    
    That’s why Labour propose increasing police numbers further, because they’re in lock step with the sallies. Wholly shit thinking as usual.
    
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    February 8, 2017 8:39am
- PhilBest
  
  Why is it SOOO hard to see the connection between getting tougher and “locking up crims sooner in their career”, and crime rates reducing?
  
  Unsolved crime is massive but it is not committed by unknown criminals. It is committed by known criminals, it is just that they are doing ten times as much as what they get caught for. Lock them up sooner and more often, and for longer, crime falls dramatically. As I say, what’s so hard to understand?
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:41am
  - kowtow
    
    Yep and when “Senior Managaement Plod ” who make such a fuss about 1 or 2 kph’s over the limit couldn’t be arsed to do their sworn duty to protect the public’s property, is it any wonder the crims run riot first and on the rare occassion they are caught get a slap wet bus ticket .
    
    The “Establishment” really is failing us.And in so doing only encourage crime to flourish.
    
    “Police are keeping tight-lipped about when changes to a policy to attend home burglaries within 24 hours were scrapped and why it is no longer possible to attend all break-ins “within a reasonable timeframe”.’
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/police/police-quiet-burglary-policy
    
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    February 8, 2017 9:03am
- RF
  
  Solved the lack of Police numbers.
  
  Recruit Salvation Army do gooders and put them in Police uniforms.
  
  They appear to have all the answers to our problems.
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:03am
- MCos
  
  It’s election year, which means that National & Labour will once again be trying to demonstrate to the voters that they are ‘tough on law & order’.
  This means more money spent on police & prisons. Always a vote winner, or at least not losing ground.
  As usual people, like the Sallies, who work with the downtrodden and poorly educated & who generally commit the crimes & occupy the prisons, will want the money spent on housing, rehabilitation, education etc
  Take your pick.
  Unfortunately for the latter the people they are trying to help are not a particularly endearing lot for most people . . . .
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:14am
Happychappy

So Andrew Little thinks it is all right to do back room deals and upset members of his caucus and other members in Labour and then tell them they must have discipline and keep the discussion in house. This from their Leader that is more interested in becoming Prime Minister of NZ than keeping to Labours values. Again this coming from the Muppet that was preaching that National were in disarray and tearing themselves apart when Bill English was appointed Prime Minister after John Key, but now we find out not only did National keep their discipline in their debate they are a Party in unison and do not show the infighting that has been high lighted in Labour over the few days. This shows Labour is still not a Party to govern NZ.
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February 8, 2017 8:22am
- Gabby
  
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  Bingles is a barfalaw sauljaah, faiteen for amereekaaa.
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:41am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    The men in white coats will be there shortly Gobster. Just take your meds and wait for them, there’s a good chap.
    
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    February 8, 2017 9:33am
kowtow

Trump derangement syndrome.

He’s personally responsible for border jumpers freezing their bits off , but wait there’s more , the example cited happened under Obumbies’ watch , he who is currently hob knobbing wirth the rich and famous in the Caribbean.

“A growing number of asylum seekers are braving freezing cold temperatures to walk into Canada from the US, driven by fears of what Donald Trump’s presidency will mean for refugees, advocates say.”

and

“The risks being taken by these asylum seekers were laid bare on Christmas eve, when two refugee claimants, Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal, were found trekking through waist-high snow in Manitoba. Their journey into Canada had started in North Dakota with a C$400 cab ride that dropped them within sight of the border.

Mohammed, 24, said he had fled Ghana over fears of being persecuted for being gay and Muslim. After a judge in the US denied his asylum request, he was facing deportation. He met Iyal, 35 and also from Ghana, in the US, and the pair decided to try their luck at making it to Canada.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/us-refugees-canada-border-trump-travel-ban
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February 8, 2017 8:31am
- holysheet
  
  These illegal fuckers know and see the writing on the wall for them and their ilk. These sanctions Trump is implementing are nothing more but common sense to the average voter.
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:36am
  - stephieboy
    
    Build a est $30- 50 billion Canadian /US border wall and make the Canadians pay .
    
    There all fixed !
    
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    February 8, 2017 9:36am
Keeping Stock

Very sad to hear the news this morning of the death at just 61 of Steve Sumner. Sumner led the All Whites through the glory days of 1981, to the World Cup in Spain in 1982. He scored a goal in the 2-5 loss to Scotland, and is one of only four All Whites to have scored a World Cup finals goal.

Sumner was a terrific player, a great leader of possibly the best All Whites team ever, and from all reports, a thoroughly decent bloke. My sincere condolences to his family, his former team mates, and everyone in the football community who knew him.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11796536
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February 8, 2017 8:32am
- Longknives
  
  Very Sad- RIP to a great player/figure in New Zealand Football.
  I remember 1982- Football went absolutely mad in this Country thanks to Sumner and his boys..
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:25am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Quite so Longknives – it all started in late April 1981, when the All Whites somewhat unexpectedly drew with Australia 3-all at Mount Smart in the first Oceania Group qualifying match. It really gathered steam when we beat Australia 2-nil at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the return leg, a match where Grant Turner scored one of the great All Whites goals.
    
    They then qualified for a group with three Asian sides; China, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. There was the infamous match against Kuwait in Auckland where a spectator threw a can at the very dodgy Indonesian referee, the win over the Saudis away where we scored five goals in the first half, but couldn’t get one in the second, and finally the 2-1 win over China in the play-off in Singapore. They were great times indeed.
    
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    February 8, 2017 2:09pm
EAD

“The mother of a backpacker who was stabbed to death in Australia has criticised the White House for labelling her death a “terror attack”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-38893253

All news sources (even the Guardian) have reported the attacker was screaming “Allahu Akbar” at the time, I think it’s reasonable for this to be classed as a “terrorist attack”. Even if the terminology lacks nuance, we all know what we’re talking about – muslim nutjob killing in the name of Allah. But not this womans cucked, lefty, idiotic mother who won’t have it, and now wants to attack Trump because the White House has classified it as such.

What’s the matter with these people

It seems such a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome whereby even in her daughters death she can’t bring herself to see what it seems only us “bigoted, racist, far-right Nazi Trump supporters etc” can see is not just the issue of the time, but the issue of civilisation itself.
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February 8, 2017 8:33am
- stephieboy
  
  EAD , has the White House included Asha Ali Abdille in their list plus the non existent Bowling Green Terrorist attack ?
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:42am
  - virtualmark
    
    stephieboy,
    
    I believe the correct term is “Bowling Green massacre”.
    
    I have been to Bowling Green (petrolheads will understand). I consider myself fortunate to have escaped the massacre.
    
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    February 8, 2017 10:10am
    - stephieboy
      
      Are you a Bowling Green Truther ?
      
      http://www.salon.com/2017/02/07/watch-stephen-colbert-admits-that-he-is-a-bowling-green-massacre-truther/
      
      I undertstand it never happened ?
      
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      February 8, 2017 10:32am
      - virtualmark
        
        I’m sure it was a tragedy for the families of all those killed there.
        
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        February 8, 2017 1:16pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Which families ?
        
        ” Kellyanne Conway References Non-Existent ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ as Reason for Entry Restrictions
        Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway pointed to the ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ as a reason to restrict immigration, but no such event occurred…”
        
        http://www.snopes.com/2017/02/03/bowling-green-massacre/
        
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        February 8, 2017 2:44pm
- virtualmark
  
  EAD,
  
  I think the view of the Police was that the attacker was a guy who was obsessed with this particular girl, and that the attack was driven more by unrequited love than anything else.
  
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  February 8, 2017 10:29am
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Cuck soccer.
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February 8, 2017 8:43am
- Rich Prick
  
  Labour/The Greens must be delighted to have you as their poster child on here. Keep up the “good” work.
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:09am
Keeping Stock

Willie Jackson on Charter Schools (Manukau Courier, May 2016)

The opposition’s stance on partnership schools won’t get a pass mark from me. And as far as Maori are concerned, Labour’s Education spokesman Chris Hipkins’ Private Members Bill to scrap partnership schools rates an E.

True, there has been the odd failing and in some cases questionable purchases. But when you look at the success this alternative style education model has had for Maori, then it gets an A+ every day.

I truly believe in the partnership school model. I believe in it so much we have one at Nga Whare Waatea. The kura comes under the Manukau Urban Maori Authority of which I am chief executive.
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To me it appears that Labour’s need to appease the unions is at the expense of children’s education. John Tamihere, who is the chief executive for the Waipareira Trust and a former Labour Party minister, and I have supported the charter school concept for a number of years now.

We will try anything that will help turn around the negative statistics in terms of Maori students failing in mainstream schools. That doesn’t mean we are anti-mainstream schools or in fact anti-Labour – it means we are pro-Maori and pro our people.

It is Hipkins’ right to put this through as a Private Members Bill but I would suggest that not even his own party colleagues are happy with his stance and when push comes to shove, they might not vote for it to happen. Let’s hope not.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/80261001/opinion-willie-jackson

Willie Jackson on Charter Schools (via Katie Bradford, February 2017)

Katie Bradford ‏@katieabradford 18 hours ago

On charter schools, Willie Jackson now says he’ll go along with whatever Labour party policy is

Let that last bit sink in for a moment; Willie Jackson has sold out his principles for the possibility of a place at the trough. He’s also sold out the Maori people he purports to represent.
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February 8, 2017 8:46am
- holysheet
  
  You cannot sell out something you never had. This racist prick has never been anything but an Uncle Tom. He saw a way to make some money by running a charter school, get taxpayer funding and change his ideology at the same time.
  
  Liabore are really desperate to have to get him as a candidate. It’s an insult to maori as well.
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:01am
- MCos
  
  I read a biography of a particularly famous American who, prior to WWII, was very sympathetic to the Communist Party and gave them substantial sums of money.
  However, he refused to become a card carrying member because doing do would have required him to subscribe wholesale to a manifesto some of which he disagreed.
  So if you join the ranks of the Labour Party it looks like the same applies. Mr J has had to swallow a dead rat or two.
  I suppose that’s the price of ambition.
  Small beer compared to some of the breathtaking U-turns we have witnessed elsewhere . . . .
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:37am
Inandout

The 97 companies (excluding Amazon) fighting Trump’s immigration ban need their finances looked into. How many of these companies use migrants for cheap labour?
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February 8, 2017 9:01am
- MCos
  
  I wonder how many industries in NZ are propped up by near minimum wage migrant labour?
  Quite a few I would suggest.
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:20am
- peterwn
  
  IRS got this sorted years ago – they will not do tax audits on people at the say-so of the White House etc.
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:43am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Unless the people are *gasp* Republicans and Tea Partiers, then it’s open house on investigations and audits.
    
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    February 8, 2017 12:15pm
- wiseowl
  
  It is a concern that these companies appear to be saying that their views are more important than the people.
  It is dangerous that they are using their financial might to (or maybe Soros money) to challenge laws that don’t really affect them.
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:43am
Lucia Maria

Firebreathing rhetoric from Germany, Spiegal Online:Europe Must Defend Itself Against A Dangerous President

The United States president is becoming a danger to the world. It is time for Germany and Europe to prepare their political and economic defenses.

That was the summary of the article, and now here’s a big chunk ..

Among the things that counted as true progress during the 20th century were multilateralism and free trade. The world has become so complex that no single country can solve the major problems on its own — that was our recognition. Organizations like the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, NATO and the EU were all created for this reason. None of these organizations is perfect, but they are what we launched — and we do need them. Bannon now wants to wipe them away, and either Trump is executing Bannon’s intentions or he shares them.

That’s why under President Trump, both the justified and the contemptible will be melded. Injustice is a major issue of our times, as are fears of digitalization and globalization — and rightfully so given that the division of society and the speed of modern life is, in fact, extreme. Trump fuses these worries of his voters with nationalism and xenophobia. That’s how demagogues work and it is how they become effective. The fact that the United States, a nuclear superpower that has dominated the world economically, militarily and culturally for decades, is now presenting itself as the victim, calling in all seriousness for “America first” and trying to force the rest of the world into humiliating concessions is absurd. But precisely because this nonsense is coming from the world’s most powerful man, it is getting trapped by him.

This is not a threat that will somehow resolve itself. The German economy has become the target of American trade policy and German democracy is ideologically antithetical to Trump’s vision. But even here, in the middle of Germany, right-wing extremists are trying to give him a helping hand. It is high time that we stand up for what is important: democracy, freedom, the West and its alliances.

Hmmmm, Germans against Trump. Will EAD be able to reconcile the two positions?
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February 8, 2017 9:22am
- Inandout
  
  Methinks Germany has much more to worry about than Trump. America will be around to once again save Germany from internal chaos, but this time it won’t be called ‘The Marshall Plan’.
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:30am
- EAD
  
  Hmmmm, Germans against Trump. Will EAD be able to reconcile the two positions?
  
  What sort of comment is that Lucia?
  
  A more correct description of the above might be “another Globalist MSM rag against Trump”.
  
  Not exactly a hard position to reconcile…
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:34am
  - stephieboy
    
    EAD, your anti Globalist stance defies the reality of the modern world including the internet , improved telecommunications , transport infrastrcuture etc , etc that has made head in the sand and dinasour protectionism a thing of the past .
    
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/18/article-2525602-1A2B2A3600000578-553_634x408.jpg
    
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    February 8, 2017 9:46am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    EAD,
    
    What sort of comment is that Lucia?
    
    It’s a probe.
    
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    February 8, 2017 9:48am
- cha
  
  Firebreathing rhetoric from Germany, Spiegal Online
  
  The German press had it right a wee while ago, too.
  
  https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/normalization-lesson-munich-post/
  
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  February 8, 2017 11:15am
  - stephieboy
    
    cha, again a great find . Ron Rosenboum’s book “Explaining Hitler” is well worth a read where he gives some attention to the Munich Post and their perceptive, courageous and brazen criticism of Hitler and the Nazis .
    
    The newspaper certainly raised the ire of Hitler ( the Poisoned Kitchen ) and of course had it immediately shut down and its Editor and Journalists carted off to concentration camps . I understand few ,if any, survived .
    
    Most Chilling and today’s comparsions, sobering .
    
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    February 8, 2017 12:04pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      Sure, because right now Trump is jailing reporters and deporting the editors to the special concentration camps he’s building.
      
      Meanwhile, back under Obama, the administration was bugging reporters and including them (falsely and perjurously) as participants in a national security surveillance operation so they could spy on them in secret……and nary a peep was heard.
      
      Another difference was that the Munich Post was publishing the truth about the Nazi’s, the MSM today are fully into the “Fake News” phase against Trump.
      
      The real wannabe Nazi’s today are the Democrats with the SA-like footsoldiers in the Antifa group.
      
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      February 8, 2017 12:22pm
      - cha
        
        because right now Trump is jailing reporters and deporting the editors to the special concentration camps he’s building
        
        Baby steps ……
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        If the morons who killed all of those people at Charlie Hebdo would have just waited, the magazine would have folded – no money, no success!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2015
        
        http://www.cjr.org/first_person/donald_trump_lawsuit_new_york_times.php
        
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        February 8, 2017 1:00pm
    - EAD
      
      A better book might be Onwards Christian Soldiers that I’ve incidentally just finished reading:
      
      https://www.amazon.co.uk/Onward-Christian-Soldiers-Journalists-Dissident/dp/0939482622#secondary-view-R31ZACMMHO25G9_1485980406670
      
      I will do a book review of it in the next few days and share it on General Debate so readers can get a different perspective into this fascinating piece of history.
      
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      February 8, 2017 5:18pm
Stars And Stripes

Vanuatu’s Torba province to ban Western junk food
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=11796610.
“Western junk food is rotting the teeth of Vanuatu’s “pretty young girls”, Torba’s head of tourism and community leader, Father Luc Dina said and we want it gone”.

No mention of boys in the article so one has to wonder what exactly the pretty young girls over there are doing with their teeth which is causing such concern!!!.
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February 8, 2017 9:40am
- Gabby
  
  They’re smiling. You won’t have seen that before, scabby.
  
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  February 8, 2017 11:12am
Manolo

After a long conversation with her philanderer husband, crooked Hillary concludes:
“Despite all the challenges we face, I remain convinced that yes, the future is female.”

http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/hillary-clinton-urges-women-to-step-up-and-speak-out-in-new-video/ar-AAmI9t0?li=BBqdk7Q&ocid=mailsignout
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February 8, 2017 9:53am
- Rich Prick
  
  The old girl must have missed the memo, identity politics is soooo 2016. Wearing a vagina on one’s head is not a political statement, its just laughable.
  
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  February 8, 2017 10:20am
- rangitoto
  
  She will have her wish when Ivanka Trump is elected POTUS in 2024.
  
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  February 8, 2017 10:22am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    MSM are doing their best to destroy her businesses so I wouldn’t think this is too far from reality.
    Also she too has a Vagina. Will it be the “right” vagina though?
    
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    February 8, 2017 12:03pm
    - stephieboy
      
      ABS, another closeted opposer of Womens Rights / Feminism and supporter of “put women in their place “Sharia ?
      
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      February 8, 2017 12:14pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        stephieboy..
        I want Ivanka Trump to be the first woman President.
        
        Do tell me how this is opposing womens rights?
        
        Oh wait, she’s happily married and has a loving nuclear family of children she actually birthed herself. I can see how that goes against the beliefs of nu-feminists who only have Black or Asian children other people gave birth to.
        
        I must say, it takes a certain kind of slack jawed idiot to deliberately misquote people as consistently as you do.
        
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        February 8, 2017 2:12pm
  - Paulus
    
    No, Chelsea Clinton, financed by her husband’s Soros family.
    She will be a Representative in short time as there is a vacancy arising in New York by a retirement arrangement.
    
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    February 8, 2017 1:50pm
mandk

That comment by Andrew Little about Bill English not being a leader will come back and bite him on the bum:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/89167955/little-changes-tack-saying-davis-and-senior-mps-should-rank-ahead-of-jackson

Fancy being told what to do by a junior spokesperson and your party’s junior wing.

Oh, the shame!
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February 8, 2017 10:26am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Oh dear; Little falls at the first hurdle.
  
  This is a HUGE backdown, because he cannot possibly give Jackson a winnable place on the list, if he wants David Parker, Trevor Mallard and himself to come in to Parliament as list-only MP’s.
  
  The only way Labour can bring about gender equity is by stacking the list with females in the top positions. If Greg O’Connor wins Ohariu, the problem is further magnified, and another female will have to come into Parliament via the list to balance the penis to vagina ratio.
  
  And of course, that presents Labour with a massive problem on current polling, let alone the likely backlash to Little’s attempt to manipulate Labour’s list by bringing in fellow union hacks. It is still not beyond the realms of possibility that Labour may only get a couple of List MP’s, or even fewer.
  
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  February 8, 2017 10:56am
  - Rich Prick
    
    I know quotas are really important on the left, but they can be rather difficult to achieve bearing in mind all of the “identities” they have to include. Perhaps they should all become gender-fluid.
    
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    February 8, 2017 11:17am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      “Perhaps they should all become gender-fluid”
      
      You haven’t taken much notice of the Labour Party lately have you?
      
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      February 8, 2017 12:07pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        I’ll grant you, some of the evidence as to gender advanced by Labour is pretty questionable.
        
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        February 8, 2017 2:34pm
      - Garbageman
        
        May I introduce the term gender-flaccid cos I know what happens to my anatomy whenever I see or hear one of those old harridans
        
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        February 8, 2017 3:05pm
  - iera
    
    I believe Adern and Moroney are currently List.
    So this coming Election, Labour would need enough List Seats for:
    Andrew Little, Kelvin Davis, Trevor Mallard, David Parker, Sue Moroney, King (if she’s still around), Jacinda Adern (if she misses Mt Albert), and about three more women because currently about 12 of 31 members are women, and then Willie Jackson (about 11th), if the current Labour Electorate seats stay the same.
    
    There are currently 5 Labour List Seats I think, so Willie would miss by 6 places.
    And he has already resigned from Radio Live.
    
    [PS: Why must Poto Williams keep caucus matter ‘in house’, when Little goes public first with exactly the same caucus matters?]
    
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    February 8, 2017 1:01pm
    - holysheet
      
      because it’s liabore. Do as I say, not as I do.
      
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      February 8, 2017 2:31pm
Lucia Maria

Move far away, down to the bottom of the world away from the traditional enemy and look what happens!

Russian millionaire details plans for new Romanov empire on Pacific islands
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February 8, 2017 10:33am
- Gabby
  
  Tax dodge.
  
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  February 8, 2017 11:10am
- jonar
  
  Hope he’s got a plan for the effects of climate change on Kiribati.
  
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  February 8, 2017 1:45pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Mean Sea Level Trends
    750-012 Kanton Island & Kanton Island B, Kiribati
    ‘The mean sea level trend is 0.58 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence
    interval of +/- 0.87 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from
    1949 to 2007 which is equivalent to a change of 0.19 feet in 100 years.’
    https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_global_station.htm?stnid=750-012
    
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    February 8, 2017 1:59pm
Manolo

America’s Miss Dim:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/maxine-waters-pelosi-isnt-ready-to-talk-about-impeachment-im-ready-to-talk-about-it-video/
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February 8, 2017 10:35am
Manolo

Isn’t a bit late for multicultural Europe??
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4199918/Most-Europeans-want-end-migration-Muslim-countries.html

‘Sobering’ new figures reveal that more than half of Europeans favour banning immigration from predominately Muslim countries.

A survey carried out by London-based think-tank The Royal Institute of International Affairs found that 55 per cent of Europeans across 10 countries think further immigration from mostly-Muslim countries should stop.
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February 8, 2017 10:37am
Johnboy

The scariest story on Stuff today isn’t Trump being sans bathrobe!

It’s Polly slobbering Whitaker’s on the sheets! 🙂
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February 8, 2017 10:49am
Manolo

Will Trump defeat progressive Brown?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/07/california-governor-trump-ratchet-up-war-words.html

Tensions between the Trump administration and California leaders are escalating into an all-out political war, as Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies vow to fight the president tooth-and-nail over everything from sanctuary cities to environmental policies.
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February 8, 2017 11:07am
- holysheet
  
  With Trump and the Republicans controlling the federal purse strings. These snowflakes will soon realise that he who pays the piper, calls the tune.
  
  That famous democrat president FDR, had the same problem with some democrat state. He just shut off the federal money until they came around to his way of thinking. But once again it’s different when the left do it. even with one of their own.
  
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  February 8, 2017 2:37pm
  - holysheet
    
    And so it starts
    https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/07/california-repubilcans-want-to-block-high-speed-rail-funding/
    
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    February 8, 2017 2:58pm
Hugh Pavletich

New Zealand Housing Affordability … Just More Political Hot Air …

… These guys are paid by us to parrot and process public opinion … that’s all …

… There is no sadder sight than the pompous parrots pontificating …

… It is the House of Representatives … not the House of Geniuses …

Housing a key focus for National-led govt this year, PM English says; Targets KiwiSaver fees, overseas investment & trade | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/85872/housing-key-focus-national-led-govt-year-pm-english-says-targets-kiwisaver-fees

Prime Minister Bill English and Labour Party leader Andrew Little kicked off the Parliamentary year with exchanges on housing policy in the House of Representatives.

In tabled speech notes Tuesday afternoon, English promised to increase the supply of land for housing. Little promised to cut down on house purchases by non-residents. … read more via hyperlink above …

Why the serious progress lag ?

Refer ‘2016’ and ‘ … The Great Consensus Emerges …’ sections …

… and the …

October 2012 Housing Affordability Announcement

… accessible …

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/

… When can we expect the political parrots to start performing ?

… (read the sorry history below)…

… Or are they going to allow Australia to beat us ? …

Deluge of affordability data forces government’s hand | The New Daily

http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2017/02/02/housing-affordability/

Voter backlash and a slew of damaging data has made it impossible for the government to refuse to act on housing affordability, setting the scene for a May budget that unleashes superannuation fund money to fix the problem.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull pledged to the National Press Club on Wednesday that “ensuring more Australians can afford to buy a home is a priority”, although he warned there are “no quick fixes or silver bullets”.

It has been a tough two weeks for a party that until recently denied there was anything wrong, as report after report proved the ‘Australian Dream’ is getting out of reach. … read more via hyperlink above …
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February 8, 2017 11:35am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  New Zealand’s housing consensus:
  Where is the political leadership ?
  
  The 1st Annual Demographia International Housing Affordabilty Survey was released early 2005.
  
  These annual surveys, as Oliver Hartwich of The New Zealand Initiative within the Introduction to this year’s edition makes clear, have proven to be an essential foundation for constructive public discussion of these issues.
  
  By early 2007, the then New Zealand Opposition National Party, under the leadership of the young John Key, started to ‘use’ the housing issue to pressure the then Labour Government in the lead-up to the late 2008 election.
  
  The Key led (centre – right) National Party won.
  
  Mr Key was extremely clear from 2007 through to the election late 2008, as this interview and speeches at the time illustrate.
  
  Sadly … post- election …the ambitious action man became the can kicker.
  
  In advocacy terms however, the ‘tipping point’ was the October 2012 Government response to housing affordability report ( video – media presentation ), led by then Finance Minister (now Prime Minister) Bill English … with the focus on –
  
  * land supply,
  * infrastructure financing,
  * process and
  * construction costs.
  
  The performance since that time … now over four years ago … could most charitably be described as woeful.
  
  The incompetence of a supposedly centre-right government has been extremely disappointing.
  
  Mr Key had long been disruptive to progress on these issues … again, as this writer made clear soon after the major October 2012 announcement with … Housing: Mr Key – Get on the Programme .
  
  Since the October 2012 announcement, for example, Auckland housing has further inflated from about 6.7 times household income to 10.
  
  Auckland’s median house price was $427,500 when Mr Key’s Government came to office late 2008 ( refer 2009 5th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey ).
  
  If prices had even been held at this level … with a sound mix of land releases and progressive bond financing of infrastructure … and with Auckland’s current median household income of $83,000, Auckland’s median multiple today would be 5.1 not the current 10.
  
  Median house prices are currently way out of control at around $830,000.
  
  Better still … if prices had been allowed to gently ease since late 2008 (as polling has illustrated most New Zealanders prefer … and currently getting underway in Greater Christchurch, led by easing rentals), then Auckland today would be well on the road to restoring housing affordability.
  
  Auckland’s house prices would now be around 4 times household incomes.
  
  The median house price would be about $330,000 … not the current stratospheric and grossly irresponsible $830,000 !
  
  Political failure of epic proportions !
  
  Thankfully however … there is now a very broad consensus across the political spectrum.
  
  This is thanks to New Zealand being a dynamic democracy with an engaged and responsible media … as illustrated within the extensive postings within ‘Three Years On … The Great Consensus Emerges’ and the ‘2016’ sections of this writers archival website Performance Urban Planning .
  
  This broad consensus is remarkable. A world first.
  
  By May 2016, polling by Newshub / Reid Research found an unprecedented 76% of the public dissatisfied with the Governments management of the housing crisis.
  
  What had been a housing crisis worsened to become a political crisis as well.
  
  I predicted late August housing would be Mr Key’s Waterloo .
  
  Also during late August, Mr Key had an unfortunate interview with Mark Sainsbury at Newshub .
  
  Labours Housing Spokesperson Phil Twyford followed, speaking competently with conviction.
  
  Mr Twyford’s comments reminded one of Labour’s proud history on housing … Restoring the housing that Jack (and Norm) built … Oliver Chan … Spinoff .
  
  Late November, the Labour Party leader Andrew Little spoke to the Property Council .
  
  Housing concerns featured very prominently within the September New Zealand Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom 2016 .
  
  Business leaders had lost confidence in Mr Key. And even more so, his Housing Minister Dr Nick Smith.
  
  Mid 2016 Nick Smith welcomed the Labour Party’s call to abolish city limits .
  
  Astonishingly, he has made no attempt whatsoever to reach out to other political parties to form a broad coalition on these issues.
  
  The broad consensus is there. The only obstacle are political incompetence and inertia.
  
  In contrast, Labour’s Housing Spokesperson Phil Twyford, with his colleague David Parker, are reaching out to other political parties, as happened with the Housing Accords Extension legislation earlier September … and on other occasions.
  
  In private during September and with an election required by the end of 2017, Mr Key made the decision he was going to exit politics.
  
  He had no intention of facing the music in 2017.
  
  Within the meandering Media Conference on the date of his resignation … Monday 5 December … no mention was made of the housing crisis.
  
  Remarkably, the journalists present failed to ask Mr Key … why ?
  
  2017 is election year … with housing the Number One issue … again … as this pre – Christmas poll result made clear … ROY MORGAN: Bill English must find solution to housing crisis
  
  Voters will decide who is capable of getting the essential changes in place … an exercise in sorting out the performers from the pretenders .
  
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  February 8, 2017 11:38am
  - Happychappy
    
    Know wonder Labour are broke having you as there spokesperson must cost a fortune just for cut, copy and paste other peoples opinion.
    
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    February 8, 2017 11:58am
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Great Call! ♥️ It
      
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      February 8, 2017 8:10pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Dream on Hugh.
    
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    February 8, 2017 12:02pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Looking for affordable housing? Try Canadian Atlantic Provinces … News-Optimist
      
      http://www.newsoptimist.ca/opinion/columnists/looking-for-affordable-housing-try-atlantic-provinces-1.9711430
      
      In an age of bloated house prices in many urban centres, Atlantic Canada’s situation is enviable … read more via hyperlink above …
      
      Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
      
      QUICK ACCESS … SURVEY SCHEDULES
      
      MAJOR MARKETS … RANKINGS
      http://www.demographia.com/dhi13-s1.pdf
      
      ALL MARKETS … RANKINGS
      http://www.demographia.com/dhi13-s3.pdf
      
      ALL MARKETS — ALPHABETICAL
      http://www.demographia.com/dhi13-s4.pdf
      
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      February 8, 2017 7:22pm
  - Jack5
    
    Vancouver shows early signs that it’s successfully bringing its housing bubble under control: sales in January down almost 40 per cent on January last year.
    
    British Columbia’s 15 per cent tax on foreign home buyers seems to be working.
    
    It’s interesting that Vancouver’s bubble was blown even higher by a falling Canadian dollar. If the kiwi dollar falls this year, will that re-fuel the Auckland bubble?
    
    https://qz.com/903194/vancouver-house-prices-are-falling-as-it-gets-its-real-estate-bubble-under-control/
    
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    February 8, 2017 12:15pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Where is the broad coalition on urban limits abolition
      &
      Bond financing of infrastructure ?
      
      NZ house prices look to have peaked, Joyce says as Treasury warns borrowers on rising interest rates; Greens eye BC-style stamp duty | interest.co.nz
      
      http://www.interest.co.nz/property/85903/nz-house-prices-look-have-peaked-joyce-says-treasury-warns-borrowers-rising-interest
      
      … concluding …
      
      … Joyce responded that high house prices were “predominantly” a supply side problem, adding that capital inflows created opportunities for the New Zealand economy. The response needs to be to ensure there is sufficient land to build houses on, he said.
      
      Meanwhile, the debate on house prices spilled over into Parliament’s Question Time on Wednesday afternoon, with Labour Party leader Andrew Little quizzing Prime Minister Bill English. Little cited the latest Demographia survey showing Auckland’s housing market is the world’s fourth most unaffordable, asking English to accept New Zealand is facing a housing crisis.
      
      English responded that the reason for Auckland’s problems was 20-30 years of misguided planning in the city, “designed to stop the city growing”. He cited the new Auckland Unitary Plan and Housing New Zealand developments in Hobsonville, Tamaki and Northcote as evidence supply would loosen.
      
      “The problem has been constrained planning that stopped the supply of housing when it was needed,” he said. It will take a number of years with house building of more than 10,000 per year to alleviate Auckland’s supply problem, he said. … read more via hyperlink above …
      
      WHY HAS THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT
      FAILED TO DATE
      TO FORM A BROAD COALITION
      ON ABOLISHING CITY LIMITS & BOND FINANCING INFRASTRUCTURE ?
      
      MID 2016 … and earlier …
      
      Abolish Auckland city limits – Labour – Business – NZ Herald News
      
      http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11640374
      
      beehive.govt.nz – Nick Smith – Labour support on city limits (abolition) welcomed
      
      https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/labour-support-city-limits-welcomed
      
      Editorial: House in order – The Listener
      
      http://www.noted.co.nz/currently/social-issues/editorial-house-in-order/
      
      Editorial: Labour’s bond proposal makes sense – Business – NZ Herald News
      
      http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11643010
      
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      February 8, 2017 7:26pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Even Greens support scrapping Auckland’s RUB, but Goff doesn’t! | Kiwiblog
        
        http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2016/05/even_greens_support_scrapping_aucklands_rub_but_goff_doesnt.html
        
        Opinion: Planning rules the cause of housing crisis … Twyford & Hartwich … New Zealand Herald
        
        http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11553128
        
        … and …
        
        7 SEPTEMBER 2016
        SPECIAL HOUSING AREAS LEGISLATION EXTENSION
        URBAN LIMITS ABOLOTION AMENDMENT
        SUPPORTED BY
        LABOUR, THE GREENS, NEW ZEALAND FIRST
        REJECTED (SURPRISINGLY) BY
        THE GOVERNMENT & ACT (DIDN’T MEAN TO) !
        
        Where is the political leadership ?
        
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        February 8, 2017 7:28pm
- wiseowl
  
  And if you follow the debate on Sky News Australia they front the problem and point out that immigration needs to be cut.
  
  The US want to cut in half legal immigration.
  
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  February 8, 2017 1:30pm
Johnboy

This IS a surprise! 🙂

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/88871773/frustration-mounts-with-no-sign-of-roading-crews-three-months-after-kaikoura-earthquake
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February 8, 2017 11:43am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  It will take years for the state to rebuild the roads (especially if they don’t simply bulldoze the slips into the sea as they would do in Japan).
  
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  February 8, 2017 11:58am
  - Johnboy
    
    For Gods sake Odakyu old chap…..think of the Whales….We worship them you eat the poor blighters! 🙂
    
    ps: Scientifically of course. 🙂
    
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    February 8, 2017 1:48pm
  - realityczech
    
    Johnboy, I hear the Japanese are very good at getting railroads built in difficult conditions 😉
    
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    February 8, 2017 7:36pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Quite so however it would appear that the execution of errant reactor cores are beyond even the great skill of our Samurai friends. 🙂
      
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      February 8, 2017 7:43pm
      - realityczech
        
        They should have stuck to whale oil lamps for lighting. Its not like they are going to run out any time soon.
        
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        February 8, 2017 7:49pm
Fletch

A very good interview here. Hollywood Reporter columnist Michael Wolff is interviewed on CNN about the media and Trump. Wollff is currently the only journalist doing what journalists have always done when a new administration comes in – he is going in and asking questions and finding out what they plan to do etc.

“I am the only person having this conversation [with the Whitehouse], and then my conversations get retailed throughout the media chain”

He also agrees that the media is at war with Trump – no doubt about it. “At the very center of this, is this new grail that we have – how are we going to take this guy down”.

WOLFF: I think it’s — and I mean this with truly no disrespect, but I think you can border on being sort of quite a ridiculous figure. It’s not a good look to repeatedly and self-righteously defend your own self-interest.

The media should not be the story. Every week in this religious sense, you make it the story. We are not the story.

STELTER: There’s room for one hour a week on CNN for this?

WOLFF: Listen, I love your show. I just wish you wouldn’t turn to the camera and lecture America about the virtues of the media and every one trying to attack it. The media will be fine.

STELTER: The media doesn’t need defending at this moment?

WOLFF: The media does not need defending by the media certainly.

You know, and so far, the media is — I mean, “The New York Times” front page looks like it’s 1938 in Germany every day.

STELTER: No, it does not. Give me a break.

WOLFF: “The New Yorker”, as I say, has left all of its standards behind and now become, you know, an opinion vehicle constantly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz8C9VZzSxU
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February 8, 2017 11:44am
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch ,
  
  ‘You know, and so far, the media is — I mean, “The New York Times” front page looks like it’s 1938 in Germany every day.”
  
  ???
  
  Oh sure ! ( sarc )
  
  http://mediengeschichte.dnb.de/DBSMZBN/Content/DE/Bilder/Themen/10-medienmanipulation-im-ns-01.jpg?__blob=normal&v=2
  
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  February 8, 2017 12:07pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Bet we won’t see that syndicated like all the stories about Green @#$%ing Day. 50 year old multimillionaires with liberal opinions on everything
  
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  February 8, 2017 12:18pm
Johnboy

Thank goodness the real workers are on the job and have all the desks and chairs adjusted so the job can proceed with alacrity! 🙂

“The newly-established North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery (NCTIR) is heading the project and announced last week that more than 100 technical designers were now based in Christchurch, working on the repair solution for each of the sites.”

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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February 8, 2017 11:47am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Why do you need 100 technical designers to drive half a dozen big bulldozers?
  
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  February 8, 2017 12:05pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    Because all you ever need is a bulldozer ? Have you seen those slips, they’re unstable from the top down and bulldozing away the base will just bring more down. Plus the simple solution is just to push the lot into the sea which is no doubt proscribed on environmental grounds.
    
    For the big slips I would hope that they do have appropriately qualified people both going on site and studying the geology and working out the best engineering solution to a large problem.
    
    I do wonder if in some of the worst affected places it would be a better solution to actually build an off-shore bridge like roadway for a certain distance, expensive as hell but perhaps more resilient. An alternative inland route South would probably avoid Kaikoura altogether.
    
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    February 8, 2017 12:38pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Offshore bridges are extensive used in coastal hilly regions of Japan. The capital cost is high, but they really work well.
      
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      February 8, 2017 1:18pm
    - nasska
      
      There won’t be much work for dozers, at least in the initial stages. The first task will be getting diggers to the top of the screes & benching back to a solid cliff face. Photo in first link is taken from a chopper above the work under progress after the 2011 Manawatu Gorge landslide. The task faced in Kaikoura is vastly greater:
      
      http://www.higgins.co.nz/assets/images/News/_single_full_width/IMG_2510.jpg
      
      And from across the river:
      
      http://mwh-projects.mwhglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image_607343671.png
      
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      February 8, 2017 2:08pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        A couple of robot bulldozers (they exist) to do the dangerous road-level work. Or widely available GPS guided Farm Tractors pulling or pushing blades. Replacing machinery is way cheaper than extreme safety maintenance
        
        50 years ago this work would have been completed in a month at a cost of a few 10’s of millions – read about some of old roading projects in South Island, like the bulldozers into Fiordland Skippers Canyon or Hood’s (mostly single handed) making the Mount Hutt skifield road). Excessive regulation has killed our ability to build and maintain infrastructure.
        
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        February 8, 2017 6:16pm
      - realityczech
        
        Yeah just look at what the Japanese achieved in Burma…
        
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        February 8, 2017 6:55pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”Excessive regulation has killed our ability to build and maintain infrastructure.”…..
        
        Hard to counter that argument. Completing any project in NZ is child’s play compared with getting approval from OHS wankers & the snail cuddlers.
        
        That said clearing slips such as occurred in the Manawatu Gorge & Kaikoura is not a matter of running a dozer through the tail of the slip until the existing road is exposed. Somehow the unstable scree has to be brought down & the face cleared. Failure to do so will see road users reduced to roadkill on a regular basis as long as there’s loose material above.
        
        Dozers also have their limitations. All they can do on slips is push material from one place to another. They can’t load it for disposal nor work above track level. When the roadworks you instance were underway the modern digger hadn’t been invented.
        
        I do agree however that technology such as used in flying drones will replace men operating machinery on dodgy slopes. Difficult roading projects in the 50s were considered a success if only three or four men lost their lives for every ten miles.
        
        Nowadays equivalent loss of life would be considered avoidable carnage & rightly so.
        
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        February 8, 2017 7:06pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Quite so Ed. I heard someone mention in Parliament yesterday that the biggest slip on the road north of Kaikoura is around 1000 feet high. That represents a helluva lot of rubble already disturbed, and if the experience of the Manawatu Gorge is anything to go by, several times more waiting to tumble down.
      
      Fixing SH1 north of Kaikoura is going to be a very slow and deliberate process, and I’d far rather that it took longer if it’s done properly the first time around.
      
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      February 8, 2017 3:43pm
Rodney Randall

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM LIZZIE MARVELLY

https://youtu.be/EnxyWwJ2vr0
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February 8, 2017 11:47am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Why would I even bother to open it?
  
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  February 8, 2017 12:04pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Can we have a precis Rodney? I’m with Mainwaring.
  
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  February 8, 2017 12:20pm
- Jack5
  
  Rodney, I thought it was satire, and her voice had been run through something like Audacity. But it’s not satire, is it?
  
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  February 8, 2017 12:20pm
  - Jack5
    
    Sorry, it is satire, and quite good too. The lady is very satirizable, to coin a word.
    
    Being unfamilar with Marvellous Nelly I had to dip into one of her real Youtube pieces:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HQjS33JJFE
    
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    February 8, 2017 12:28pm
    - Rodney Randall
      
      I sat watched half of that Ted x speech.
      ted x is now McDonalds foe the intellect.
      
      Insufferable but abundance of material for satire.
      
      We are blessed to have the wonderful Lizzie Marvelly.
      
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      February 8, 2017 2:38pm
- Dave Mann
  
  She’s an idiot… but a hot looking idiot 😀
  
  Also, I’ve heard her sing and her singing voice sounds great, however her speaking voice is just awful. How on earth can that irritating high pitched squeak be transformed into such a good sound when she sings?
  
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  February 8, 2017 12:44pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Same way as a lovely creature that looks absolutely beautiful with her tits out and a sword in her hand becomes a total bloody tosser when she spouts off and climbs up a drill ship Dave.
    
    Our so-called celebs just seem to take themselves far too seriously for the intellectual credentials they actually hold. 🙂
    
    ps: None of the above should be taken as any reflection at all on the ability of Dame Susan Devoid! 🙂
    
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    February 8, 2017 1:58pm
  - Dave Mann
    
    Yes, her voice must have been digitally altered in that Waitangi Day clip. I went to the link that Jack5 suggested (thanks) and heard her real voice – but only for a minute or so as I had to leave the keyboard to vomit 😀
    
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    February 8, 2017 2:17pm
    - Rodney Randall
      
      Haha.
      
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      February 8, 2017 2:34pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      I couldn’t go any further than the “long shower” bit. Although, I’ll admit, part of me wanted know more.
      
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      February 8, 2017 2:49pm
      - Dave Mann
        
        😀 😀 😀
        
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        February 8, 2017 7:13pm
- Jack5
  
  There are now so many TED talks just about everyone can find something they think is enlightening, but there are a helluva lot of junk ones.
  
  I found the following quote from a piece in the Guardian by Benjamin Bratton, to be relevant. Bratton is professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego, and director of a think-tank at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology.
  
  “TED of course stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design … I think TED actually stands for: middlebrow megachurch infotainment.”
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/30/we-need-to-talk-about-ted
  
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  February 8, 2017 2:31pm
Manolo

A call to fight the barbarians:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3443786/Forget-decency-fight-sex-jihad-Femme-fatale-extremist-Pegida-group-accuses-Muslims-targeting-Western-women-gay-men-calls-public-grab-pitchforks.html

Tatjana Festerling, 51, the second-in-command of the anti-Islam group Pegida, said ‘political correctness’ was putting women and gay men at risk of assault. In a vicious attack on Muslim migrants and the political elite, she said: ‘Germany is like an open-air psychiatric ward with the mental illness of political correctness.

‘We don’t have time for decency any more. If we don’t grab our pitchforks and fight the Islamisation of Europe, we are lost.’
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February 8, 2017 12:19pm
Manolo

Our own stephieboy has already ordered 50 copies of this unmissable book:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danafeldman/2017/01/26/barack-obama-is-likely-to-get-20m-advance-to-write-his-memoir/#686b85aaf52b

Regardless your political affiliation, there’s an undeniable fascination with former President Barack Obama and per Esther Newberg, co-head of ICM Partners’ publishing unit, this is one reason he is likely to get more than any president has with at least a $20 million advance for his memoir.
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February 8, 2017 12:34pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, I suppose your idol the deluded Sarah Palin had advances to match ?,
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/palin-uses-book-to-get-her-revenge-1820407.html?amp
  
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  February 8, 2017 2:51pm
JasonJohns

Next steps to MAGA

Increased surveillance of Muslims leading up to registration. Bulk revocation of visas from people from Muslim countries, so they become illegals and liable for mass deportation — which, as an operational footnote, also requires mass internment for logistical reasons.

Register, round up, deport/eliminate.

A good lesson for NZ.
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February 8, 2017 12:39pm
Fletch

It seems that the protesters at Standing Rock have left behind enough trash to create an environmental crisis. How ironic…..

http://www.dailywire.com/news/13219/lol-standing-rock-protesters-leave-behind-enough-frank-camp
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February 8, 2017 12:44pm
cha

So, there’s this 9th Circuit court hearing going on…

DOJ says proceedings are moving too fast for them to have all evidenceJudge replies that it's DOJ that requested emergency hearing— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) February 7, 2017
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February 8, 2017 1:12pm
- cha
  
  Oh dear.
  
  Never a good day for the admin when the government lawyer says — mid-argument — he's not sure he's convincing the Court … #travelban— Ed Henry (@edhenry) February 7, 2017
  
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  February 8, 2017 1:36pm
  - SGA
    
    Please – he’s not sure he’s convincing the so-called Court.
    
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    February 8, 2017 1:53pm
cha

Frak, Apollo’s fallen off his perch.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/richard-hatch-battlestar-galactica-star-dead-71-article-1.2966680
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February 8, 2017 1:50pm
- Ashley Schaeffer
  
  I down-thumbed you because up-thumbing a death notice seems counter-intuitive. Frak indeed.
  
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  February 8, 2017 2:30pm
Jack5

Australia has debt problems, says Bloomberg.

Because Australian banks dominate NZ’s financial structure, any Australian debt problems have ramifications for us:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-07/cracks-are-appearing-in-australia-s-trillion-dollar-debt-pile
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February 8, 2017 2:09pm
Johnboy

Do any of you listen in to the Fire Service on a scanner?

Did you realise that a Pakeha has to extinguish his brazier/cooking fire/bonfire but an ethnic chap can keep stoking his up as it’s a “cultural fire”…. 🙂

One country….two laws! 🙂

You voted for these folks! 🙂
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February 8, 2017 2:17pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Over 12 hours of good rain in Gizzy so far… up to 30mm…. looks like another day of rain tomorrow, too.
yay.
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February 8, 2017 2:29pm
- Johnboy
  
  Cultural fires should stay under control then Maggy? 🙂
  
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  February 8, 2017 2:37pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Been one month since 3 little waifs set my hill alight.
    That might be it for this year’s entertainment.
    
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    February 8, 2017 4:21pm
Left Right and Centre

Anyone care to comment about the Govt’s pending Pay Equity legislation to pay women their own special feminist minimum wage ?
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February 8, 2017 2:38pm
- Ashley Schaeffer
  
  Sounds like something the National Socialist Party would get behind.
  Also sounds like a good way to encourage employers to hire more men.
  
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  February 8, 2017 2:48pm
- wiseowl
  
  It would be nice for someone to explain who is not getting paid so called equal wages for equal work.
  This legislation is another stupid move adding to so much legislation that has been thrust on us because of PC bs.
  
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  February 8, 2017 3:40pm
Johnboy

The Fire Service used to call them hangi’s (in pre PC days) but that obviously offended PI’s so now they are “cultural fires”……You do have to have a laugh. 🙂
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February 8, 2017 2:41pm
Manolo

The columnist predicts the demise of pinko Turnbull:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/turnbull-is-toast/

Most people are bemused when I predict that Malcolm Turnbull won’t be prime minister by the end of the year.
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February 8, 2017 2:53pm
Manolo

Another excellent article from The Spectator Australia:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/vulgarian-populist-brawler/

Heck, most of the pontificators writing in the Australian were just about as anti-Trump as their ABC colleagues, meaning they didn’t think The Donald could win just as they didn’t think he should win. Well, not that surprising, I suppose, given that paper’s whole-hearted support for Mr Turnbull.
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February 8, 2017 2:56pm
- Johnboy
  
  Hell Aussie’s ain’t too bright Manolo. This feller could take over from Doc Martin! 🙂
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/89199753/australian-brain-surgeon-jams-finger-in-tray-table-sues-austrian-airlines
  
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  February 8, 2017 3:04pm
Jack5

The old tiny cellphones that were useful for text and talk only are now giving smart phones a run for the money in world sales.

Many of us will still have some lying around.

Advantages for Third Worlders – price, and they don’t recharging nearly as often.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-07/smartphones-have-an-unexpected-new-rival
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February 8, 2017 3:02pm
- Johnboy
  
  They don’t seem to build cellphones for chaps with big fingers anymore. I loved my Motorola brick on the old analogue system. Fingers fit the buttons and it worked in places the digital shit didn’t.
  Sometimes worried what chaps with scanners were hearing but since I led such a pure life nothing I could be blackmailed for! 🙂
  
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  February 8, 2017 3:16pm
Fletch

R.I.P Richard Hatch – ‘Apollo’ on the original Battlestar Galactica.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/rip-richard-hatch-the-original-apollo-and-a-tireless-b-1792109201
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February 8, 2017 3:07pm
Pateke

Paula Bennett on fire in Parliament this afternoon. Hoed into Labour bigly, even to the point of claiming the Jacintagration of the Labour Party.
Winsome Winnie barely able to string words together, claiming conspiracies that he wasn’t invited to a drought meeting with northland farmers organisaed by Nathan Guy. Nathan said along the lines of ‘waste of time asking him as he’s not been seen in Northland for months.’ Winnie apoplectic.
Great start to the year. Speaker’s New Year resolution not to eject anyone from the house hardly likely to get passed February.
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February 8, 2017 3:26pm
Chuck Bird

I wonder if Willie cut off his willie is that would resolve the problem of gender balance.
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February 8, 2017 3:30pm
stephieboy

WOW ! The GOP wanting to make America great again,

House Votes To Overturn Obama Rule Restricting Gun Sales To The Severely Mentally Ill

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/02/513126985/house-votes-to-overturn-obama-rule-restricting-gun-sales-to-mentally-ill?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social

LOL !
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February 8, 2017 3:45pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Yes, liberals are now allowed to buy guns too. 🙂
  
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  February 8, 2017 4:02pm
  - Fletch
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6aA3fiwTs0
    
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    February 8, 2017 4:45pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Now they have to vet which ones are stable, and which ones are retarded fuckwits. There is the problem. Oh, then there is the criminal aspect who don’t buy them – just steal them
    
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    February 8, 2017 7:09pm
- realityczech
  
  Wow you could move to the US and buy a gun stupid, if you were not on the restricted immigration list that is.
  
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  February 8, 2017 7:02pm
Pateke

Paula Bennett on fire in Parliament this afternoon. Hoed into Labour bigly, even to the point of claiming the Jacintagration of the Labour Party.
Winsome Winnie barely able to string words together, claiming conspiracies that he wasn’t invited to a drought meeting with northland farmers organisaed by Nathan Guy. Nathan said along the lines of ‘waste of time asking him as he’s not been seen in Northland for months.’ Winnie apoplectic.
Great start to the year. Speaker’s New Year resolution not to eject anyone from the house hardly likely to get past February.
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February 8, 2017 3:49pm
Fletch

Ronald Reagan’s Democrat/Republican joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK3Eo9cScEQ
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February 8, 2017 4:54pm
nasska

When I see a girl, I first look at her hair. Then at her eyes, lips, neck…

Damn dial-up!
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February 8, 2017 8:18pm
- stigie
  
  Damn, what cums after that…..?
  
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  February 8, 2017 8:36pm
  - Johnboy
    
    A writhing eel in a bucket? 🙂
    
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    February 8, 2017 8:43pm
    - nasska
      
      Was that a big bucket or a small bucket JB? 🙂
      
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      February 8, 2017 8:49pm
      - Johnboy
        
        I’d like to think that I ejaculate in small but very important amounts nasska.
        Others may disagree of course. 🙂
        
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        February 8, 2017 8:54pm
      - stigie
        
        Plastic or metal JB, did it have water or semen in it..?
        
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        February 8, 2017 8:54pm
EAD

Geez – looks like the long Summer nights have put a dampener on late night GD. Take away Nasska’s little interlude then it’s 4 hours since Fletchs comment.

PS: Welcome back Johnboy, you haven’t seen Reid on your travels by chance?
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February 8, 2017 8:53pm
Johnboy

Thanks EAD. Has Reid been MIA for long?
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February 8, 2017 8:56pm
- EAD
  
  DPF gave him a 2 week ban after a profanity at Stephie (hey, who can blame him!) back in Mid-January but he hasn’t been back since aside from a brief reincarnation as Reid2.
  
  Thought you may have been for a beer with him down in the Hutt!
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:25pm
cha

30,000 hours.

https://defensetech.org/2017/02/03/aging-u-2-hits-milestone-gathering-intel-isis/
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February 8, 2017 8:58pm
- Johnboy
  
  Makes an old pilots heart race to read that cha. If only the SR71 still operated!!!!! 🙂
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:08pm
Johnboy

I couldn’t see any lifeboats stigie so it must have been water. 🙂
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February 8, 2017 9:03pm
Jack5

An interesting American politician is Hawaiian Tulsi Gabbard, daughter of an (American) Samoan and a white American mother, and herself a Hindu.

She went to the front to serve as a medic after being elected to the Hawaiian state legislature and again, this time as commander of a police unit.

She’s created controversy by going to Syria and meeting Assad.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/7/syrian-moderates-are-not-what-they-seen/

and a contrary view:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/07/tulsi-gabbard-in-new-trouble-over-her-syria-jaunt.html
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February 8, 2017 9:21pm
Jack5

Maori writer Patricia Grace wants Maori to be exempted from the Public Works Act.

That would mean new roads would have to go around Maori land (unless there were multi-million dollar bribes perhaps).

This is interesting. Maori presumably would still be able to use other roads and railways and public facilities that initially used the Public Works Act. More of the policy: what’s mine is mine and what’s yours if half mine.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/324087/'tangata-whenua-in-this-country-have-given-enough‘
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February 8, 2017 9:27pm
wiseowl

Don’t worry ,they don’t need an exemption.
Our council is building a road costing $13m that is totally unnecessary but other options included going past marae ( 3 in fact).
The council didn’t want to stand up to race based opposition so chose to stuff up the lives of a number of producers and businesses by ploughing a road through a new route to avoid standover tactics.
Appalling.
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February 8, 2017 9:35pm
- EAD
  
  ahh but Wiseowl,
  
  don’t you realise – according to what our Ministry of Truth tells us we are all equal. What you not supposed to understand or notice though is that some are more equal than others as Orwell so succinctly put it.
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:55pm
wiseowl

Mark Latham on the Bolt Report tonight.
Brilliant.
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February 8, 2017 9:41pm
Jack5

Where is everyone tonight … no problem I’ll talk to Wiseowl and the empty hall until the rest of you folk are home from your Te Reo night classes …

Our national fibre internet network, being rolled out at a cost of billions of dollars, just might be a vast mistake if the actions of some big technology companies are any indication. They seem to be betting on new breakthroughs in wireless.

Here’s a taster of an article from ZDNet [FTTP is “fibre to the premises”] :

Now that Google is retreating from FTTP rollouts in favor of fixed wireless (powered by its Webpass acquisition), it’s unclear yet whether its fiber competitors will lose their enthusiasm for FTTP. Since Google chased out the Google Fiber CEO and laid off 9 percent of its staff last fall, AT&T has gone very quiet about its Fiber plans. Instead, it’s been touting its 5G trials and its new “AirGig” technology to deliver gigabit internet over power lines.

Sorry the link handle is so long,but it seems to work:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/fiber-broadband-is-it-a-waste-with-5g-and-elon-musks-satellites-on-the-horizon/?loc=newsletter_large_thumb_featured&ftag=TRE17cfd61&bhid=22329532938880423690486734870500
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February 8, 2017 9:47pm
- Jack5
  
  It’s nice, though, to see the writer thinks optical fibre like NZ’s, still may have some further development advantages. 😉
  
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  February 8, 2017 9:54pm
Scorpion

High Time the

NATIONAL SOCIALISTS OF THE
NATIONAL PARTY CALL THEMSELVES
WHAT THEY ARE>>>

THE

“CHINATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY” of
What used to Be New Zealand
and is Now

COMMUNIST CHINA
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February 8, 2017 9:56pm
- Jack5
  
  Another poster with a jammed caps-lock key.
  
  New mechanical keyboards beginning to come out of China are now affordable and some have “roll over” meaning keys are less likely to jam during fast typing.
  
  I think the falling price may be being caused by the electronic switches at the core of mechanical keyboards coming out of patent coverage.
  
  A geek lurking on Kiwiblog may be able to tell us more.
  
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  February 8, 2017 10:03pm
Scorpion

Rotweiller Good Choice of Dog
if you are in Auckland Get one or Similar

Get one now do not wait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmLMU6D9ctA
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February 8, 2017 11:05pm
Manolo

This hack would like to see it like Mexico:
http://fusion.net/story/385273/jorge-ramos-united-states-anti-immigrant-rhetoric/
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February 9, 2017 6:29am
Manolo

Snowflake second-rate celebrities:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/02/08/celebrities-weigh-in-on-betsy-devos-confirmation-this-is-murdering-our-school-system.html
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