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krazykiwi

Populism emerges as key economic influence.. and Muldoon makes the cut

In recent years Ray Dalio, head of the Bridgewater hedge fund, has penned many high-minded, and hefty, reports on monetary policy, markets and macro economics.
This week, however, he swerved: Mr Dalio published 61-page report about political populism on the Bridgewater website. While it marks a novel departure for the $100bn-odd fund, Mr Dalio clearly considers the shift in focus to be overdue.

Full report here. There are sections on 10 populist leaders (Lenin, Chavez), and Muldoon from page 52

“Over the next year . . . populism’s role in shaping economic conditions will probably be more powerful than classic monetary and fiscal policies,” he declared, warning that “populism is not well understood because over the past several decades it has been infrequent in emerging countries, and virtually non-existent in developed countries.”
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Muldoon’s populist image benefited from his opponents’ attempts to label him as crass and emotional. This characterization backfired as Muldoon embraced the role and became popular with rural, older voters. His supporters named themselves “Rob’s Mob” in solidarity with his perceived empathy for “the ordinary bloke.” Muldoon further emphasized the divide between himself and his opponents by running a divisive and personal campaign, which included some of the first attack ads in New Zealand politics. In one ad—a Hanna-Barbera created cartoon—the National Party accused Labour of being communists because they were attempting to liberalize the pension system, using dancing Cossacks and Russian architecture to hammer the point home

I remember those ads 🙂
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March 24, 2017 8:01am
- mikenmild
  
  Remember the even scarier one about Pacific immigrants?
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:09am
- Kimbo
  
  Almost right. Muldoon was a counter-puncher. After Muldoon emerged as such a strong asset for National at the 1969 election was he the one first targeted by Labour and their supporters (it was a time of social change, e.g., Vietnam, Manapouri, anti-nuclear, anti-South Africa, abortion reform, etc., so Muldoon was a popular scapegoat for those not happy with “the establishment. In reality he was a moderate and liberal democrat, not a Mussolini or Pinochet as portrayed).
  
  The ill-fated “Citizens for Rowling” (in reality, “pompous elitists against Muldoon”) campaign was an example of the left firing the first shots. Which, with Muldoon, was like bringing a knife to a gun fight. The election landslide of 1975, then Colin Moyle were the results…
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:13am
- Kimbo
  
  Just for krazykiwi – the 1975 “Dancing Cossacks”,
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEuFtVf6oSw
  
  …and for mikey National’s anti-immigration ad of the same year (which was also targeting inbound British immigration as their country went to the pack from the early 1970s onwards)
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6-xc_Oq3io
  
  Muldoon considered Universal National Superannuation his greatest achievement. Contrary to assertions we would now be the Switzerland of the South Pacific if Labour’s (unfair to non-workers such as housewives) contributory scheme had been kept in place, Muldoon always asserted you cannot pay for the future now. Instead you need to be prosperous to pay for today’s needs – including old-age pensions.
  
  Also, as Labour were promising to use the contributions to “fund the economic development projects that have struggled to attract private funding”, one can but observe there was a very good reason why they did not merit the risk!
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:39am
- Viking2
  
  My recollection is that it was Muldoon who called them Robs Mob.
  
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  March 24, 2017 12:39pm
William of Ockham

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/22/arctic-ice-falls-record-winter-low-polar-heatwaves
Extent of ice over North pole has fallen to a new wintertime low, for the third year in a row, as climate change drives freakish weather
Such thin ice now could see record low summertime sea-ice conditions in the Arctic next September. 22March2017

The extent of Arctic ice has fallen to a new wintertime low, as climate change drives freakishly high temperatures in the polar regions.

The ice cap grows during the winter months and usually reaches its maximum in early March. But the 2017 maximum was 14.4m sq km, lower than any year in the 38-year satellite record, according to researchers at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) and Nasa.

“I have been looking at Arctic weather patterns for 35 years and have never seen anything close to what we’ve experienced these past two winters,” said NSIDC’s director, Mark Serreze. 2017 is the third year in a row the Arctic’s winter ice has set a new low.

The new record comes a day after the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation warned that the record-breaking heat that made 2016 the hottest year ever recorded has continued into 2017, pushing the world into “truly uncharted territory”.

The dramatic melting of Arctic ice is already driving extreme weather that affects hundreds of millions of people across North America, Europe and Asia, according to emerging research. [continues]
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March 24, 2017 8:01am
- Souvlaki
  
  William…” I ‘ aint bovvered” !?
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:05am
- holysheet
  
  With stooopidboy banned, wee willy has the village idiot status all to himself.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:07am
  - CHFR
    
    I must have missed something when/how did that happen??
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:32am
    - krazykiwi
      
      http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/03/general_debate_19_march_2017.html/comment-page-1#comment-1893682
      
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      March 24, 2017 8:53am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Jeepers, I missed that. It seems someone took the saying “never go full retard” to mean go well beyond full retard.
        
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        March 24, 2017 9:21am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  William has forgotten to take his meds again.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:10am
  - Jack5
    
    Global Warming enthusiast, and the name, “William of Ockham” – why do they make me think of a Kiwiblog-suspended champion of Global Warming?
    
    “William of Ockham” was a medieval theologian remembered mainly for “Ockham’s Razor”. One explanation of this on the internet is: “Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case, the simpler one is usually better.”
    
    Our suspended Global Warming enthusiast, ~~Whiff~~ or ~~Grief,~~ oh never mind, told us from time to time that he once did a (modest) course in logic, where the razor principle would likely have been mentioned. In fact, I think he mentioned the medieval theologian-philosopher's name.
    
    If "William of Ockham" on Kiwiblog were to champion marijuana, that would surely clinch the pseudonym link.
    
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    March 24, 2017 10:12am
    - mikenmild
      
      I think it is more likely that Jack5 and Agent Ballsack are the same person.
      
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      March 24, 2017 10:41am
      - Jack5
        
        And Milky and zTev!
        
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        March 24, 2017 11:12am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      No,
      William of Ockham is Dennis Horne.
      
      He has used both identities here.
      He posts near identical material here and on other sites where he goes under his own name.
      
      William of Ockham’s spelling and grammar are nothing like Griff’s disjointed diatribes.
      
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      March 24, 2017 12:22pm
      - holysheet
        
        is this him
        http://www.truthwillprevail.xyz/
        or this one
        http://pundit.co.nz/users/dennis-horne
        Or this
        http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/rodney-times/9603977/Light-aircraft-in-beach-drama
        
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        March 24, 2017 6:34pm
- Kea
  
  Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
  
  https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum
  
  NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses
  
  https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:26am
  - jonar
    
    http://grist.org/climate-energy/antarctic-ice-is-growing/
    
    First, any argument that tries to use a regional phenomenon to disprove a global trend is dead in the water. Anthropogenic global warming theory does not predict uniform warming throughout the globe. We need to assess the balance of the evidence.
    
    Second, ice-sheet thickening is not inconsistent with warming! Warmer climates tend toward more precipitation. The Antarctic is one of the most extreme deserts on the planet. As it warms, we would expect it to receive more snow. But even a whopping warming of 20 degrees — say, from -50 degrees C to -30 degrees C — would still leave it below freezing, so the snow wouldn’t melt. Thus, an increase in ice mass.
    
    While on the subject of ice sheets: Greenland is also growing ice in the center, for the same reasons described above. But it is melting on the exterior regions, on the whole losing approximately 200 km3 of ice annually, doubled from just a decade ago. This is a huge amount compared to changes in the Antarctic — around three orders of magnitude larger. So in terms of sea-level rise, any potential mitigation due to East Antarctic Ice Sheet growth is wiped out many times over by Greenland’s melting.
    
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    March 24, 2017 10:18am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Kea, remember:
      1. If there’s more ice, it’s because of global warming
      2. If there’s less ice, it’s because of global warming
      
      kk’s general formula is:
      
      If it’s [Hot | Cold | Wet | Dry] or there are [More | Less] extreme weather events like [Floods | Droughts | Tornadoes | Storms] then humans have caused these events. You shall not not question the orthodoxy. You shall feel guilty and pay any tax, levy or fee demanded of you.
      
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      March 24, 2017 10:30am
      - Fletch
        
        You left out diabetes –
        
        http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/20/health/climate-change-type-2-diabetes-study/index.html
        
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        March 24, 2017 11:26am
      - Tirebiter
        
        Is planetary change really going on? Probably.
        Is it caused or abetted by homo sapiens? Possibly.
        Is there anything homo sapiens can do about it? I doubt it.
        Do I care? Not at all.
        
        With all the crap people have been spewing into the air and the water the last few hundred years I wouldn’t be surprised if it has had some effect on the climate. I would be more surprised if it didn’t.
        But I don’t care because if it’s true that the climate is changing there’s nothing homo sapiens can or will do about it now – for all the posturing. That’s who we are. Suck it up and take your lumps like a man.
        It’s too late to change who we are as a species. We have already demonstrated an inability to grapple with existential threat. So we defer the hard choices to the future whenever we can and invent the delusion of a pleasant afterlife to assure a happy ending. But don’t worry, be happy. Just sit back and work on your tan.
        
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        March 25, 2017 2:58am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      “is not inconsistent with” the most weaselly of weasel phrases used by thermageddonists
      
      finding $0.50 under your pillow the day after losing a tooth is not inconsistent with the tooth fairy being real.
      
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      March 24, 2017 11:33am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      “is not inconsistent with” the most weaselly of weasel phrases used by thermageddonists
      
      finding $0.50 under your pillow the day after losing a tooth is not inconsistent with the tooth fairy being real.
      
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      March 24, 2017 11:50am
- Kea
  
  Earth Cooling At The Fastest Rate On Record
  
  Global temperatures have plummeted this year at a record rate. Over the last ten months, temperatures have dropped more than three quarters of a degree, breaking the previous global cooling record set in 1999.
  
  https://realclimatescience.com/2017/01/earth-cooling-at-the-fastest-rate-on-record/
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:28am
- mandk
  
  [continues]
  
  Please don’t trouble yourself.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:30am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  . . . 30 and he’s gone!
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:47am
  - krazykiwi
    
    It took 48 minutes though. We can do better!
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:49am
    - Kea
      
      “krazykiwi
      It took 48 minutes though. We can do better!”
      
      Children could have been exposed to that post. We need to do more as a community. 🙂
      
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      March 24, 2017 9:11am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  “Mark Serreze has a long history spreading climate BS”
  https://realclimatescience.com/2017/03/the-arctic-is-screaming-at-mark-serreze-to-shut-up/
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:49am
Manolo

A Belgium investigative journalist talks to German television on the dark future of European multiculturalism:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JlkODwQFqs0
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March 24, 2017 8:03am
- kowtow
  
  The Belgians dodged one yesterday.
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/23/belgian-police-arrest-man-trying-drive-crowd-antwerp/
  
  No doubt a lone wolf and nothing to do with the Koran , just “international” terrorism or mental illness , anything but Islam.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:28am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Good boy really, just turning his life around, blah blah blah, platitudes, excuses, obfuscation, anything but a scummy muslim
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:51am
  - GoVege
    
    I thought Islam WAS a mental illness…
    
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    March 24, 2017 10:38am
Scott

Trump says he was wiretapped by Obama administration in Trump tower. CNN says ridiculous, no evidence, Trump is unhinged.
Intelligence committee chairman Nunes now says Trump team did have their communications monitored by intelligence community.
Trump looks like he could be right. CNN wrong (again).
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March 24, 2017 8:05am
- holysheet
  
  No No No,Trump right again? how could this possibly be. All you snowflakes will be in denial.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:09am
- mikenmild
  
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  Trump is unhinged. What he actually tweeted was “How low has President Obama gone to tapp (sic) my phones during the very sacred election process.”
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:12am
  - Andrei
    
    You know Mikey throughout the election cycle and after there were “leaks” from the intelligence community to the media involving communications between Trump surrogates and various Russian officials – that’s a verifiable fact
    
    And transcripts of private conversations between Donald Trump and the leaders of Mexico and Australia also mysteriously found their way to media outlets hostile to Donald Trump
    
    How did this happen mate?
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:21am
    - MCos
      
      Couldn’t possibly have been Wikileaks, who Trump loves by the way. They don’t leak stuff detrimental to the right, including Putin, anymore.
      
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      March 24, 2017 8:38am
  - realityczech
    
    Obama should stand trial for spying on Trump.
    
    As soon as Obama is in prison the country can begin healing from his disastrous regime.
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:39am
    - GoVege
      
      Prison is too good for this monster RC.
      Death is the appropriate sentence for the b*stard who not only tried to steal the election from Trump, but usurped the post of president when he was born in Africa!
      
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      March 24, 2017 10:54am
- nasska
  
  When Trump is proved right yet again the hug puppies will be crushed to death in the stampede for the safe places.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:17am
  - Paulus
    
    Already happening in Washington.
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:46am
- G152
  
  So, situation normal then.
  Any chance the clinton news network will shut down out of shame ?
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:20am
  - kowtow
    
    They have no shame. Yesterday Bill was mourning a mass murderer .
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4341952/Salmond-Campbell-Martin-McGuinness-funeral.html
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:31am
    - Inandout
      
      Some would say ‘birds of a feather’ gather at these funerals. A cynic would say at the after match party Bill would compare his hit list with other attendees.
      
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      March 24, 2017 9:06am
    - krazykiwi
      
      One farmed peanuts.
      The other killed for peanuts.
      
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      March 24, 2017 11:30am
      - Tirebiter
        
        Jimmy Carter farmed peanuts not Bill Clinton. His claim to fame was being a sex addict.
        
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        March 25, 2017 7:42am
- dime
  
  who would have thought – the president has access to information that CCN doesnt.. shock.
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:17am
Longknives

Strange how all the people who relentlessly bash Trump on Facebook are now the ones changing their Profile Pics to Union Jacks and throwing about Anti-Terrorism ‘hashtags’ etc

Like that’s going to help? The Muslim Extremists will see that thousands of Westerners have slightly changed their Facebook Profiles and this will inspire them to stop slaughtering people??
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March 24, 2017 8:09am
- Scott
  
  Yes they say things like “we will not give in to terror” and maybe tighten security even more and arrest a few Muslims. But the fundamental problem remains of a fifth column of unassimilated immigrants who believe it is their religious duty to destroy the infidel. The infidel being their fellow non Muslim citizens.
  The latest terrorist was British born Muslim. At what point do severe measures become necessary?
  Like cancelling citizenships and deporting some of these people. They might seem harsh and it probably is. But given the scale if the problem severe measures are needed now to avert civil war later.
  The British need also to assert their British identity. Multiculturalism is an abject failure. This terrorist although born in Britain, has nothing in common with British people. In fact he hates them so much he feels that it is his religious duty to kill as many of them as possible.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:19am
  - G152
    
    Deport the lot..
    A couple of years removing Daesh supporters from civilization would be well spent
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:22am
- mandk
  
  Some of the useful idiots are also posting stuff saying the the London killer was not a proper Muslim.
  
  Problem is, he was actually a very good Muslim. He read the Koran and he became a martyr.
  
  No doubt, he’ll currently be enjoying his reward in heaven, being waited upon by his 72 virgins.
  
  Beats living in Brum any day.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:36am
  - Paulus
    
    But we are now assured that the figure of 72 Virgins is not the correct interpretation – it means now a bunch of 72 Grapes.
    Verbal interpretation in translation means anything to anybody – ask the Maori.
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:49am
    - G152
      
      One translation gives it as ‘rosy cheeked youths’ could be a gay old time in muzzie paradise
      
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      March 24, 2017 9:54am
  - kowtow
    
    The UK Telegraph has a story , everything we know about Whatshis face…….
    
    ……no mention of Islam or Muslim.
    
    And the Guardian has a headline “Anti-immigration politicians link London attack to migrant policy”. I’d say the Guardian is using the Islamic terror attack to attack common sense politicians.
    
    The Lying Media, and they wonder why journalists are held in such contempt.
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:54am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    I thought the science was settled yesterday on GD where it became a fact that the word virgin was mistranslated and the correct translation of the death cult script was rasin, which again, begs the question, why we cannot off these martyrs with a bumper box of Sunmaid’s?
    
    Apologies Paulus, just seen your post
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:00am
  - kowtow
    
    Ironic the media were running this story the month week a “Brummie” ( yeah right) was planning to murder school kids and tourists in London.
    
    “One in ten of all Britain’s Islamist terrorists come from just five council wards in Birmingham, a report has revealed.
    A terror map of the UK shows 26 of the 269 jihadis came from the highly segregated neighbourhoods.
    The wards have sizeable areas where the vast majority of the population is Muslim.”
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4282510/Terrorism-UK-trebles-five-years.html
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:16am
- Rich Prick
  
  Yes, those snowflakes will be the same ones recently protesting and disrupting at airports over Trump’s executive orders. They are as much a part of the Islamic terrorism problem as the terrorists themselves.
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:34am
Tarquin North

If Nicky Hager hates New Zealand so much why does he continue to live here?
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March 24, 2017 8:15am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Even a despicable social justice warrior (snigger) has to live somewhere and unfortunately for the great majority, it is here!
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:08am
- howitis
  
  Because his Trust fund is here and not in Panama 🙂
  
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  March 24, 2017 11:26am
  - sooty
    
    I wonder hoe much is in the trust fund? Because he is not making money by writing books!
    
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    March 24, 2017 6:24pm
Manolo

Lovely. This will deter Muslims, don’t you think?
https://apnews.com/e2b6328601424b8581bddc263b1071a2/The-Latest:-Berlin's-Brandenburg-Gate-shows-Union-Jack

Lights depicting the British Union flag have been projected onto Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in a show of solidarity after a deadly attack outside London’s Parliament on Wednesday.

A night before, the Eiffel Tower in Paris switched its lights off and went dark to honor those killed in the London attack.
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March 24, 2017 8:15am
- Longknives
  
  That’ll do it Manolo..
  Can you imagine our Grandfather’s Generation (who fought the Nazis) and how they would perceive all this?
  Western Civilisation being relentlessly attacked by a clear enemy but we are all to Wimpy and ‘PC’ to do anything about it! (In case we hurt someone’s feelings..)
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:20am
- Scott
  
  Manolo – of course these are highly effective measures to deter further terrorist attacks. Can I also suggest lighting candles? I know the Muslims will be deterred by that as well.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:21am
- Huevon
  
  Western Europe is lost. The terrorism, and the futile official response to it, just repeats and repeats. In the meantime, “moderate” Muslims assert themselves through restricting free speech, gender segregation of community services, high birth rates and mass immigration.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:29am
- Dave Mann
  
  Oh FFS… I’ve also just read that London is going to hold one of those pathetic sobbing hand wringing wank-fest ‘candlelight vigils’.
  
  One of the most successful achievements of these Muslim attackers is the way they manage to bring out the weak soggy victim mentality that the West has so ardently cultivated.
  
  Makes me sick.
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:19am
  - Kea
    
    They are sniveling cowards. They are happy to have their govt kill hundreds of thousands, while they live comfortable lives. Yet a few of them die in a traffic incident and everyone loses their minds.
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:23am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      That is an offensive post; you really are a moron and I don’t care if you are offended but be grateful that I didn’t call you a wanker because that is what I am thinking
      
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      March 24, 2017 9:56am
      - Kea
        
        Paulus Gnome people like you disgust me. The UK military is part of a group of bully boys who have slaughtered over a million civilians in the last few decades on behalf of radical Zionist Jews. Then you put on a show of fake concern, when a few UK people are hit by a car.
        
        You are a moral cripple so I am delighted you are “offended” by me. If you were not I would kill myself with shame.
        
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        March 24, 2017 4:04pm
    - Jack5
      
      👿 Now Kea, that was a poor bit of trolling. Too edgy, in fact, nasty.
      
      Those of us entertained by your presence request you linger a few more weeks before final flame-out.
      
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      March 24, 2017 10:37am
  - Tirebiter
    
    “One of the most successful achievements of these Muslim attackers is the way they manage to bring out the weak soggy victim mentality that the West has so ardently cultivated.”
    
    True. And another successful achievement has been to scare some governments into adopting draconian laws that will end up destroying their open societies. That was bin Laden’s goal and he has achieved it.
    
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    March 25, 2017 3:04am
- Peter
  
  Make bacon sandwiches compulsory.
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:46am
  - mikenmild
    
    You have something against Jews?
    
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    March 24, 2017 10:45am
artemisia

Your rates dollars at work.

Tauranga CC’s bylaw ban on advertising on parked vehicles has been challenged in court and $5k costs awarded to Geeks on Wheels. They have signwritten cars which shock, horror, are sometimes parked on the street and have attracted parking tickets. Since there have been hundreds of such tickets issued Tauranga CC can expect a few requests for refunds.

An information request to Tauranga City Council also reveals they spent $24,931 of ratepayers’ money on legal fees to pursue $360 of parking fines from Geeks on Wheels.
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March 24, 2017 8:15am
- Manolo
  
  Useless petty tyrants.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:17am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Useless petty tyrants with YOUR rates contribution!
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:19am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  There should be a council rule that they must not spent more rate-payer money on legal fees than a ticket is worth.
  To do otherwise is fiscally irresponsible.
  
  (Yes, I know that the council needs to TAKE A STAND sometimes to scare the proles into submission, but at what cost?)
  
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  March 24, 2017 11:02am
Tauhei Notts

I found an old photo last night. It was of our twin daughters celebrating their eleventh birthday at the mouth of the Tangarakau River. We had taken a canoe trip from the Retaruke river mouth to Pipiriki. I looked at the photo and marvelled at that Tangarakau water becoming a living creature with human characteristics as it flowed, from that point onwards, to the Tasman Sea.
What a load of rubbish.
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March 24, 2017 8:22am
Happychappy

Has Little found a way to trump Winston with his immigration Policy yet or is he off chasing another car. I wonder if he has persuaded the unhappy on here to join his merry band of misfits.
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March 24, 2017 8:22am
- Paulus
  
  Winston appears to be Missing in Action – the little bald one was the leader in Parliament yesterday.
  Winston is quiet for the last few days – unlike him to miss being Top Dog in Parliament.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:52am
  - krazykiwi
    
    It’s not like he lets a hangover get in the way of verbal staggering and a bit of spitting in the house.
    
    He is getting on a bit. Perhaps it’s hard getting up in the mornings?
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:58am
  - marcw
    
    Party leaders rarely attend QT on Thursdays – this is nothing new sorry.
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:21am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Winston was missing on Wednesday as well, both for Question Time and Key’s valedictory.
      
      Perhaps he had a dodgy mixed grill at the Green Parrot on Tuesday 😎
      
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      March 24, 2017 9:28am
Kea

“Moscovites, Germans, Jews and other scum who wanted to take away our Ukrainian state.”

Svoboda’s far right neo nazi movement seems to be spreading outside of the Ukraine, judging by the very active supporters, and defenders, we have here on KB.

This is alarming stuff as Jews flee the Ukraine in terror once again, they rant and foam about the Russians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)
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March 24, 2017 8:23am
stigie

I know i shouldn’t laugh but just can’t help it……Bwahahahahaha

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11823356
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March 24, 2017 8:32am
- B.L.Zeebub
  
  Shaw`s smarmy smirk, obviously an obligatory requirement for all Green Party members.
  Can`t think of one without it.
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:27am
- krazykiwi
  
  From the article:
  
  The Greens have always said you should control spending, you should control debt and you have to be, for the sake of future generations, accountable and transparent.
  
  Weazle-word overdrive. The Greens DNA makes any such care impossible.
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:57am
Longknives

Congrats to Scott Kuggeleijn on his call-up to the Test team!

This young Guy has been through Hell on Earth over the past few years-I really hope he does well.
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March 24, 2017 8:34am
- mikenmild
  
  Probably won’t play. They’ll have Wagner and Henry, the two spinners and Neesham or de Grandhomme.
  
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  March 24, 2017 10:53am
Hugh Pavletich

… New Zealand Labour’s Phil Twyford pressures Government Building Minister Nick Smith … quoting Hugh Pavletich …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YznZ6HjUmFU
( scroll back to beginning if need be)

NZ Labour shows way on housing policy – Leith van Onselen – MacroBusiness Australia

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/03/nz-labour-shows-way-housing-policy/

By Leith van Onselen

New Zealand’s shadow minister for housing, Labor’s Phil Twyford, continues to apply deep pressure to the National Government over housing affordability.

Last year, Twyford called for the elimination of Auckland’s Rural Urban Boundary (RUB), as well as freeing-up density restrictions and creating a new mechanism for financing infrastructure – infrastructure bonds – that will be repaid over the lifetime of the asset through a targeted rate on the properties in a new development. Twyford has also called for a crack-down on foreign and domestic speculators that drive-up the cost of housing.

Last week, Twyford explained in further detail his plan to allow homeowners to pay-off the core housing-related infrastructure over the life of the asset using bond financing. From The NZ Herald: … read more via hyperlink above …

… At the time of this years release of the Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, I explained the Governments housing failings within …

New Zealand’s housing consensus: Where is the political leadership? … Hugh Pavletich … Not PC

http://pc.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/auckland-worlds-fourth-hardest-to-buy.html

… My archival website PERFORMANCE URBAN PLANNING is currently in the process of being updated.
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March 24, 2017 8:34am
- Keeping Stock
  
  … My archival website PERFORMANCE URBAN PLANNING is currently in the process of being updated.
  
  If the standard of editing of your archival website is in any way similar to the editing of your posts here Hugh, thanks for the heads-up to give it a miss.
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:44am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Keeping Stock … The updated http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org is going to be very exciting indeed !
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:51am
    - hmmokrightitis
      
      Theres a whole new definition of “exciting” right there.
      
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      March 24, 2017 9:28am
    - Longknives
      
      Christ- That will be so popular it will ‘Break the Internet’….
      
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      March 24, 2017 9:56am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Key’s economic legacy is a mixed bag … Bernard Hickey … Newsroom
  
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/03/22/16283/economy
  
  John Key left Parliament Wednesday night and gave up the reins of power on his own terms with his popularity still broadly intact, which is both unusual for any politician and would normally indicate a successful legacy. But Key’s legacy is mixed, particularly when it is judged by his own measures of success – wealth and incomes. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
  Mote comments here on the KB thread …
  
  http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/03/keys_valedictory.html
  
  … and in contrast … the Interest Co NZ one ! …
  
  https://www.interest.co.nz/news/86654/key-economic-policy-successes-regrets-including-flag-debate-and-tpp-christchurch-quake
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:45am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    Im sure JK would look at the source of the criticism – Hickey – and wonder on what basis of outstanding success said critic could or should be taken seriously.
    
    Im still waiting for Hickey’s prediction in 2009 to come true, where property values drop between 30 and 40%. The man is so out of his depth its not even funny. Couldnt organise a pissup in a brewery.
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:31am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Just 2 out of 10 sell under the hammer …
      
      Prices ranged from $130,000 to $450,000 at this week’s Auckland apartment auctions | interest.co.nz
      
      https://www.interest.co.nz/property/86672/prices-ranged-130000-450000-weeks-auckland-apartment-auctions
      
      The biggest lineup at this week’s Auckland apartment auctions was at Barfoot & Thompson’s CBD rooms, where 10 apartments were on offer.
      
      They were a good mix too, ranging form a leasehold unit in a building just off the top end of Queen St to a 148 square metre, three bedroom unit on the CBD fringe.
      
      However, there was a surprisingly small number of people at the auction itself considering the number of properties on offer, although telephone bidders were also active on several properties.
      
      Only two of the 10 apartments on offer were sold under the hammer, with the rest being passed in for sale by negotiation.
      
      Three of those that were passed in received no bids. … read more via hyperlink above …
      
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      March 24, 2017 12:54pm
Happychappy

Has Andrew got Jacinda practicing how to do his Angry face when speaking to the media, if so the public won’t take long to to toss the nice girl pretty girl image that the media are trying to portray as the twisting and screwing of her facial expressions will become tiresome and boring.
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March 24, 2017 8:39am
- stigie
  
  Have you noticed she’s not wearing any lipy, eyeliner, eye shadow etc., is that to keep her plain so she doesn’t out do the Labour Leader Angry for now..?
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:45am
  - Happychappy
    
    I know i’m getting old but she doe nothing to push my buttons and the more she try’s to emphasize what she is talking about the less interested I become.
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:55am
  - Paulus
    
    She was very off her perceived game in Question Time yesterday by asking questions of the person who was not in Parliament as if expecting somebody to answer the question concerning another Minister’s statements, who was not there to answer.
    P and Wind flattened.
    Must try harder.
    
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    March 24, 2017 8:55am
  - sam green
    
    No. It’s to help you get some sleep.
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:05am
  - sooty
    
    Shes put on her angry face!
    
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    March 24, 2017 6:30pm
- Antoine
  
  You lost me at ‘screwing of her facial expression’
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:11am
  - Happychappy
    
    It obviously takes little to lose you.
    
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    March 24, 2017 10:23am
Kea

stephieboy

Fucking Nazi piece of shit.

MARCH 19, 2017 6:10PM

A great example of a no-ban comment from the stephieboy/mikenmild troll entity. This indicates clearly who the snitches are who always run to DPF.

There is someone here on KB who fits that description and it is not reid.
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March 24, 2017 9:05am
- sam green
  
  Icarus was a snitch.
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:22am
- Kea
  
  Oh look what slithered out of the shadows.
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:29am
- sam green
  
  Ssssssss…
  
  Just the one personality here.
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:42am
  - Kea
    
    Have you ever considered trying to elevate yourself a little bit slither ?
    
    You are rather tragic, but I am sure you can do better within the limitations imposed on you by both nature and nurture.
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:58am
  - sam green
    
    A snitch in time saves nine.
    
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    March 24, 2017 10:07am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I thought Reid was going to report this.
  
  Doesn’t make for good reading or decent debate.
  
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  March 24, 2017 10:08am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Reid did report it (or he said he would and someone else did) and Stephieboy was suspended on that same thread.
    
    [DPF: Implicit nazi name calling is a strike offence. Strike 4]
    
    IMO, it was an unjust suspension, as Reid constantly goes on about the “Holohoax”, the concept of the Holocaust being a hoax to fool us all.
    
    And, Kea is lying again.
    
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    March 24, 2017 12:12pm
    - Kea
      
      Thanks for that Lucy. It shows the sort of person you really are, for those stupid enough to not see through you.
      
      I put the date and time stamp on there. Anyone can go and see there was no warning given at all.
      
      You actually need urgent help. You are sick.
      
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      March 24, 2017 12:16pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Do you expect David to double or triple ban someone on every single comment? On the same day that Stephieboy made the comment you highlighted, he was pinged for another one. DPF always just puts his ban comment against one comment, not all of them.
        
        Just go back and have a look all the comments you have been banned for – normally you’ve made several of the same type – he just attaches his comment to only one of them.
        
        And yes, you put in the date/time stamp, but how many people will go to the trouble of searching for it to confirm what you are saying? I’m likely to be the only one, since I know you spin and lie about this subject especially.
        
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        March 24, 2017 12:28pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @Lucia Maria
      
      well, perhaps that explains things..
      
      but it looks confusing to me..
      Reid was “implicitly” called a “fucking piece of Nazi shit” on Sunday the 19th.
      
      stephieboy continued posting here until Wednesday 22nd
      
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      March 24, 2017 2:39pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Maggy,
        
        Suspensions have taken a couple of days in the past based on my knowledge of when complaints were sent to David Farrar and when he acted on them.
        
        Now that he’s a father, going from a couple to several days shouldn’t be surprising.
        
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        March 24, 2017 2:55pm
      - Kea
        
        An actual real life; nazi apologist, ardent neo-nazi supporter, and Holocaust denier, is totally immune from any censorship here on KB.
        
        It slithers around the site spreading its hate and lies with full protection. It is the most disgusting evil person I have ever seen on any blog in my entire life.
        
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        March 24, 2017 3:03pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yes, it seems some folks are well aware of the delay between posting a complaint and action being taken.
        
        Probably explains why the real nasty stuff against me usually gets delivered on a Friday/Saturday or really late at night.
        
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        March 24, 2017 3:07pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        What time would you prefer it is delivered?.
        Let me know and I can arrange it☺.
        
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        March 24, 2017 3:12pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Friday/Saturday night is just the crowd at the time, Maggy. I don’t think those sorts really care about any potential consequences. Most, however, don’t have one life left, like Kea here, on a knife-edge from a permanent ban.
        
        BTW, just look at what Kea is flinging my way today. You need very thick skin to survive on a political blog inhabited by trolls.
        
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        March 24, 2017 3:17pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @s&S
        
        I thought we waz mates.
        you’re not getting an Easter egg, now!
        
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        March 24, 2017 3:19pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Get on to it, S&S. We wouldn’t want Maggy to miss out on the enjoyment she gets from her martyr complex.
        
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        March 24, 2017 3:19pm
      - Kea
        
        Reid was ~~“implicitly”~~ called a “fucking piece of Nazi shit”
        
        Maggy stop listening to her. She is not well and lies non-stop. stephieboy was not banned for that comment at all. Its obvious.
        
        It was not “implicit” he called reid a “fucking piece of Nazi shit”
        
        It is a direct statement. Not what DPF banned him for.
        
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        March 24, 2017 3:29pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Kea,
        
        You don’t know what Stephieboy was banned for.
        All you know is that the comment that has been linked to is at least one of the offending comments and that Stephieboy, as a result of what he said on that thread has been suspended for a time.
        
        Given that DPF’s comment was attached to a comment that could have been interpreted in a different way, but that he chose to interpret it as an implicit Nazi comment, he must have read more of the thread and/or got more complaints that focused his thinking.
        
        Whatever the case may be, the comment you find most offensive, in all likelihood, did not get a free pass. It’s just that DPF’s ban comment had to be attached to something and he chose to attach it to a milder comment. I’ve seen that sort of thing happen before in other situations as well, so it’s not unusual.
        
        Making a big deal out of this is not going to get you anywhere.
        
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        March 24, 2017 4:48pm
      - pentwig
        
        Lucia
        You are wrong!!
        I was given strike #1 and strike #2 on 28/12/16 in GD on kiwiblog for calling steffie “daffy duck” and an “idiot”. Same offence and punished twice long after I knew DPF was concerned. I think I called steffie-“daffy” and an “idiot” 5 times in that GD.
        Lucky I did not get to strike 5 I guess>
        
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        March 24, 2017 7:06pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Sorry, pentwig,
        I was not taking into account DPF’s liberal application of strikes in the early stages.
        Even with Kea, a while back, I recommended he just do a permanent ban there and then to save time. And here we are, right on the edge of one.
        
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        March 24, 2017 7:26pm
      - Kea
        
        “I recommended he just do a permanent ban”
        
        Ms pretentious “recommended” !
        
        Note the continued lies to try and cover DPF’s inconsistent giving of strikes. She is defensive because she knows full well she gets special treatment. There is a pattern though; DPF is very reluctant to give out strikes to zionist nut jobs, but is very heavy handed on decent people. Which is something Lucy will never ever be.
        
        “And here we are, right on the edge of one.”
        
        Great. This place has turned into a sewer. If this is what the right has become then it is time to press reset.
        
        I feel like I need to wash after reading the filth, hate and lies that pours out of our your mouth.
        
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        March 24, 2017 7:36pm
krazykiwi

German police believe there are 602 Islamists living in the country who could be capable of perpetrating a terrorist attack.

Apparently only 602 ‘Islamists’ know how to drive a car, and how to use a knife.
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March 24, 2017 9:19am
Happychappy

Did any one listen to Parker in the debate about money laundering and investment bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon. He made a point about the current law being complicated and has taken away the job that Lawyers and Accountants used to have advising the investor and used the Shares in the Power Companies as a example. Well this coming from a man that a lot of elderly lost their life savings in a Company that he as a Lawyer used to be involved in, so I would suggest that maybe some Lawyers should not be able to advise people how to invest and especially ones that people have been burn’t by before.
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March 24, 2017 9:21am
Kea

London attack: Khalid Masood named as perpetrator

He sounds Icelandic
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March 24, 2017 9:27am
Manolo

Hanson proposes a solution for Australia:
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/muslim-ban-to-solve-terror-problem-says-pauline-hanson/ar-BByCsMT?li=BBqdg4K&ocid=mailsignout

“It’s amazing that the Muslim mayor over there has come out and said terrorists’ attacks are part and parcel of a big city,” she said in a video posted to social media today.

“Well, no, they’re not, they don’t have to be, they never have been in the past, and that’s something I never want to hear or see here in Australia from any mayor in any city.”

“That is how you solve the problem. Put a ban on it and then let’s deal with the issues here,” she said.
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March 24, 2017 9:36am
- Rich Prick
  
  terrorists’ attacks are part and parcel of a ~~big~~ city with a big Muslim population.
  
  The Mayor didn’t quite get that right, so I’ve fixed it.
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:43am
  - sam green
    
    Yep. I think Baghdad has had more attacks than most.
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:44am
    - Rich Prick
      
      Well yes, the Sunni and Shia hate each others’ guts.
      
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      March 24, 2017 9:47am
  - Kea
    
    Yes just ask; Afghanistan, Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya …. who have been bombed and attacked by the US terrorists on behalf of radical Jewish extremists.
    
    The same extremists who declared war on NZ for supporting a UN resolution about not invading other countries and killing people !
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:49am
    - Padriv Ustoev
      
      So what you are saying Kea, is that Jews are to blame.
      
      I and many of my Muslim brothers agree. Welcome to the brotherhood, you new Jihad name will be Muhhamad Ibn’al Kia.
      
      Death to the Juice
      
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      March 24, 2017 10:05am
      - kowtow
        
        Yep , the Koran is a hate filled document that even includes instructions to the faithful to crucify ,murder and dismember . Sound familiar?
        
        http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/references-to-jews-in-the-koran
        
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        March 24, 2017 10:35am
      - krazykiwi
        
        That was Padriv doing his “Hi NSA, I’m over here” routine 😀
        
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        March 24, 2017 10:38am
      - Kea
        
        Yes they are to blame. The West has been tricked into adopting the hatred of fanatical extremists jews as their own.
        
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        March 24, 2017 12:20pm
- MCos
  
  That’s not quite all that he said. However to quote what he said in it’s entirely doesn’t suit her purposes and that’s understandable.
  She’s made a career of presenting the worst in people that are different than the majority.
  
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  March 24, 2017 10:11am
Padriv Ustoev

I like how the new London Mayor, you know the one with ties to Jihadi groups is silent on the latest happening in Londonistan.
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March 24, 2017 9:39am
- sam green
  
  He hasn’t been silent. You are a selective listener.
  
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  March 24, 2017 9:46am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Not often I would agree with Sam, but on this occasion he is right.
    
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    March 24, 2017 10:02am
    - Kea
      
      It gives me no joy [chuckle] to point out sam is wrong as usual.
      
      The mayor – bin Sadiq al Khan – only spoke out after considerable pressure, including from Trump.
      
      http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/782655/london-terror-attack-parliament-westminster-sadiq-khan-mayor
      
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      March 24, 2017 10:11am
      - MCos
        
        The Trump you refer to is Don Jnr whose tweet was roundly condemned as was the loathsome Katy Hopkins who is referred to in the Express article as if she was some sort of barometer of British sentiment when she appeared on Fox news who seem to have some sort of vested interest in making the British look like a nation of cowards.
        
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        March 24, 2017 10:28am
      - sam green
        
        Proves my point.
        
        Love the spin from that good old non partisan rag.
        
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        March 24, 2017 10:29am
      - Ross12
        
        MCos
        You are not suggesting there was something wrong with Trump Jnr’s tweet ?
        
        He was quite right to “call out” the Mayor of London’s comment. It was similar to to the French PM (?) saying after one of the attacks in France a year or so back where he said something like — Terrorist attacks are a part of life now. Get used to it.
        
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        March 24, 2017 10:51am
      - mikenmild
        
        Ross, even the dimmest of Kiwibloggers should know by now what Khan actually said, last year, in an interview about anti-terrorism measures:
        
        he believes the threat of terror attacks are “part and parcel of living in a big city”
        
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        March 24, 2017 11:01am
      - Ross12
        
        MM
        Well I take that to mean that he just accepts the fact that terrorist attacks will occur and there isn’t much he or others can do about it but ask those in the city to remain vigilant. What a defeatist attitude for a city leader to take !!!
        
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        March 24, 2017 11:11am
      - Rich Prick
        
        There are many big cities where cries of Allah Akbar followed by death and mayhem haven’t been happening. Admittedly they are cities with few or no Muslims.
        
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        March 24, 2017 11:16am
      - mikenmild
        
        No Ross, he was being realistic about ‘the threat of terrorist attacks’. If you can’t see the difference between that and an imagined fatalistic attitude that such attacks will happen, then I suppose it’s a waste of time suggesting you read the whole interview – about anti-terror preparations.
        
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        March 24, 2017 11:46am
      - Kea
        
        Why don’t they just do what the Jews do and get the USA to bomb their country and kill hundreds of thousands, leaving the place in ruin.
        
        Running over a couple of slow moving poms is hardly going to bring the empire down.
        
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        March 24, 2017 11:53am
      - MCos
        
        As you must know, Ross, London has been subjected to terrorist attacks for at least 100 years.
        One of the perpetrators, they say, was buried yesterday.
        Preparedness is common sense, wouldn’t you say, otherwise Guy Fawkes may have blown up the Houses of Parliament.
        
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        March 24, 2017 11:57am
Paulus Gnome

How convenient
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March 24, 2017 9:47am
Padriv Ustoev

Yeah you are right. He isn’t silent, he is outright endorsing the attacks.
What I meant to say is he is not speaking out against them.
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March 24, 2017 10:01am
Stars And Stripes

Jewish teen arrested over US, Aus, NZ bomb threats
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/327327/jewish-teen-arrested-over-us,-aus,-nz-bomb-threats.
“Hoax threats against Jewish community centres – including in New Zealand – have led to the arrest of teenager, but his defence says he has behavioural problems stemming from a growth.
My client … suffers from a very serious medical problem, a problem that may affect his behaviour, his ability to understand right and wrong,” his defence attorney told Reuters”.

Oh yes the old mental illness defence, now where have I heard that before?.
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March 24, 2017 10:05am
- Kea
  
  “The young man holds dual US-Israeli citizenship”
  
  So what we have here is another false-flag. He is not mentally ill, he is a normal Jewish boy who got caught.
  
  Those bomb threats were used as justification to attack and marginalise Muslims. Which was the entire point all along.
  
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  March 24, 2017 10:15am
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    Not only do the Jews marginalize the Muslims but they also practically force us to run people over and stab them.
    
    I agree my brother. We must put the sword to the neck of Juice.
    
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    March 24, 2017 10:24am
    - EAD
      
      Not only do the Jews marginalize the Muslims but they also practically force us to run people over and stab them
      
      They may not be the ones that run us over and stab us, but they are the ones filling our heads up with anti-white nonsense (see who founded Marxism and the Frankfurt School) and the ones behind mass immigration into Goyim lands (whilst maintaining Racial purity tests to ensure only Jews can move to Israel)
      
      http://www.timesofisrael.com/russian-speakers-who-want-to-immigrate-could-need-dna-test/
      
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      March 24, 2017 10:47am
      - krazykiwi
        
        whilst maintaining Racial purity tests to ensure only Jews can move to Israel
        
        20.8% of Israelis are Arab, and a further 4.4% are neither Israeli, nor are they Arab.
        
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        March 24, 2017 10:55am
      - EAD
        
        @ Krazy Kiwi,
        
        they’ve been there for 1000’s of years.
        
        Most Jews in Israel have been there 2 generations…..max
        
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        March 24, 2017 11:06am
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        You fill your own heads with anti white nonsense.
        
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        March 24, 2017 11:20am
krazykiwi

From the article linked to by stigie at 8:32:

Shaw argues his party’s policies, as they shaped up at the last election, would have delivered tax cuts for 97 per cent of New Zealanders.

That would be paid for with a substantive carbon tax, of course, which is unlikely to thrill farmers and many big businesses.

Riiiiight. So give 97% of NZers an income tax cut, and then make everything they eat, live in, drive, buy and do more expensive.. for those that still have jobs after Shaw’s policies gut the very industries that underpin our economy.

Beware the snake in the [Green] grass.
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March 24, 2017 10:10am
Maggy Wassilieff

South Islanders too mean to buy a ferry or plane ticket to get to the North Island?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/90769048/kaikoura-earthquake-moved-the-south-island-new-research-shows
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March 24, 2017 10:12am
- Brigitte
  
  And Gisborne residents are so rich they cannot be bothered collecting a mere $6.5m.
  
  http://gisborneherald.co.nz/localnews/2703494-135/where-is-our-65m-lotto-winner
  
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  March 24, 2017 10:33am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Why rush when you’re retired?
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/90804730/gisborne-couple-claim-65m-lotto-powerball-win
    
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    March 24, 2017 11:36am
Kea

A JEWISH teenager has been arrested in Israel accused of making dozens of anti-Semitic bomb threats in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and one to a major airline, following a wideranging investigation involving the FBI.
The suspect is a 19-year-old resident of southern Israel and a dual US-Israeli citizen, police said.

http://www.news.com.au/national/crime/israel-arrests-jewish-teen-over-antisemitic-threats-in-australia-us/news-story/e1f2f6dfb2b509a474b875c18302200a

I wonder if the cowardly pro-zionist filth that slither around KB are rabidly typing out retractions about their absurd claims of “anti-semitism” and advocating for more slaughter of Muslims.

I bet they are not. Because people who use fake terms like the weasel words “anti semite” are always the lowest expressions of humanity.

We need to ban Jews from entering these countries until we can figure out what is going on.
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March 24, 2017 10:25am
- EAD
  
  Thanks Kea for bringing this to our attention.
  
  When I bought Trumps comments to everyone’s attention here on Kiwiblog that Jews were likely faking attacks against themselves in order to garner sympathy, the “hating” I had to put up with for telling the truth had to be seen to be believed.
  
  http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/03/trump_praised_for_state_of_the_union_address.html#comment-1882883
  
  I got 3 upticks and 31 downticks for pointing out exactly what Trump said despite most of these downtickers being Trump supporters. It’s unbelievable how brainwashed people are by the Zio-agenda.
  
  Only Bob R and realityczech had the decency to put their head above the parapet and support me. Now that us “anti-semities” are proved yet yet again, I can guarantee you all I will hear is crickets (and a load of anonymous downticks!)
  
  As per the ancient Polish proverb – The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you
  
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  March 24, 2017 10:44am
  - Kea
    
    Better not mention the King David Hotel or Lavon Affair. They will lose it 🙂
    
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    March 24, 2017 11:03am
    - Kea
      
      At least this time the Jews did not actually set off some bombs and kill 91 and injure 46 goyim, then try and blame the Muslims and then make the terrorist bomber PM and give the piece of shit a Nobel Prize !!! Which is what they did to the Jew terrorist who murdered 91 in the King David Hotel.
      
      I am sure they would have slaughtered many goyim if this kids false flag attacks were backed by Israel. However it appears they were not and Israel shut him down to avoid attention being drawn to their own false flags
      
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      March 24, 2017 11:25am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    As per the ancient Polish proverb – The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you
    
    Looks like a neo-Nazi proverb that you’ve picked up from visiting Stormfront and associated sites.
    
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    March 24, 2017 6:11pm
    - Kea
      
      I think it comes from the those people you are so vocal in supporting in the Ukraine.
      
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      March 24, 2017 6:14pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        That is a Kremlin lie that the Ukrainians are Nazis. It was discredited pretty much soon after it came out, and the only people that continue to disseminate it are trolls. You need to find a new angle to keep relevant, otherwise, you just date yourself to 2014.
        
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        March 24, 2017 10:32pm
- sam green
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wsBJvf3zTVs
  
  “Trolling, trolling, we can have fun just trolling ……”
  
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  March 24, 2017 10:54am
- Jack5
  
  👿 Kea, the jungle drums, the drums, they are saying you are a mountaineering theoretical physicist, visiting Kiwiblog to trade verbal trinkets with us savages. The drums, they say, “Kea, he/she laugh because islands people see him/her as mischievous bird-god.”
  
  Bloody intricate drum language in Aotearoa. Seem to have conquered drums’ spelling problem.
  
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  March 24, 2017 10:55am
  - Jack5
    
    What sort of a mountaineer packs in tinned oysters and red wine to enjoy while awaiting rescue? Tell us, oh Kea, who sees everything around the snow line.
    
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    March 24, 2017 11:09am
    - Jack5
      
      Oysters ❗ And a female climbing partner ❗
      
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      March 24, 2017 11:26am
Maggy Wassilieff

Far-right Indian MP punches and strikes air-line steward 20 times for not allowing him to fly Business class on an all-economy flight.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/shiv-sena-seeks-explanation-from-mp-who-assaulted-ai-staffer-leaders-want-action-against-him/articleshow/57795847.cms
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March 24, 2017 10:43am
BananaLlama

After an Islamic terror attack in London that killed British citizens on the streets the British parliament spent hours praising Islam calling it a great religion of peace.
So sick and tired of it all.
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March 24, 2017 11:05am
- Rich Prick
  
  I think they do that so as to not set more of them off. In a “if we’re nice to them and refuse to identify the root cause of the problem, then just perhaps, more of them won’t kill us” kind of way. That, or they’re just politically correct panderers.
  
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  March 24, 2017 11:59am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Politically correct panderers. Is that the same as tolerant multiculturalists? Is that really a made up bullshit phrase or a real and accurate collective for soppy wimp paid law-makers who are scared they may end up as wall decoration somewhere after a big ‘what the f’ noise if they say anything negative or derogatory about the scum of the sandpits?
    
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    March 24, 2017 12:24pm
- Peter
  
  I think it’s time for them to face the hard facts.
  
  Multi-culturalism works a lot of the time, but not all the time. This is because some cultures (set of ideas) just aren’t compatible with modern western democracies (a different set of ideas). They are in direct conflict and cannot be resolved without one culture asserting itself over the other.
  
  Admit the mistake. Make changes. Either way, it’s going to be messy, but only one way has a future.
  
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  March 24, 2017 1:29pm
Inandout

This lady should be taken notice of, for she outlines our future involving Muslims. Our weakness is taken as an opportunity for Islam getting stronger.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/03/22/ayaan-hirsi-ali-islamic-terrorists-dont-say-thank-you-being-politically-correct-religion
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March 24, 2017 11:08am
Dafixeruppa

Good morning all,
I am new to posting here, but I have been watching, reading and trying not to laugh too loud at work over the comments.
I used to post on Stuff, but only when I felt really strongly about things, but after yet another of my posts was deemed inappropriate and not published (I made the mistake of criticising the Greens/Labour announcement), I decided to call it a day and come visit you guys instead.
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March 24, 2017 11:09am
Manolo

A zombie would be proud of crooked Hillary:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/robby-mook-wont-rule-out-hillary-clinton-running-again-in-2020/article/2617982

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign manager isn’t ruling out the possibility that the former secretary of state could run again for the White House in 2020.
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March 24, 2017 11:10am
- Jack5
  
  I see Bill has been in Ireland for the big IRA funeral:
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/23/bill-clinton-joins-mourners-funeral-former-ira-leader-martin/
  
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  March 24, 2017 11:22am
Maggy Wassilieff

British schoolboy finds massive flaw in NASA radiation data.

They’ve been recording “negative energy” multiple times a day.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39355424
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March 24, 2017 11:19am
Jack5

An NZ law firm has popped into the Afghan village debate.

I hope its lawyers know what happened to the ratbags who tried to get rich representing alleged victims of British troops in the Iraq War.

It ended with the loathsome scumbag, law professor Phil Shiner, being struck off as a solicitor because of misconduct, and the inquiry has been quashed after costing British taxpayers tens of millions, and after the persecution of hundreds of veterans.

It’s time to take a stand against Leftists persecuting soldiers.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11824691
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March 24, 2017 11:33am
- Kea
  
  When did Afghanistan attack NZ… or anyone else ?
  
  Who exactly did the NZDF fight, when the Afghan Army was on the NZDF side ?
  
  If it was not an army it must have been …. CIVILIANS they were killing.
  
  And since there was no attack by Afghanistan on any country, it was a WAR CRIME.
  
  The politicians who ordered it should be tried and hung. Not the soldiers.
  
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  March 24, 2017 11:44am
  - Dafixeruppa
    
    So as a new person, is Kea just making comments to stir, i.e. a troll? or does s/he actually believe what s/he is saying?
    
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    March 24, 2017 11:53am
  - krazykiwi
    
    If it was not an army it must have been …. CIVILIANS they were killing.
    
    C’mon Kea. You’re smarter than that – surely? You’re trying to suggest the groups of people who arm themselves, wear uniforms, and undertake combat training, but aren’t paid members of a sovereign armed force are … CIVILIANS?
    
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    March 24, 2017 11:55am
    - Kea
      
      Why no answer about when the Afghan attack on NZ occurred, or our allies ?
      
      krazykiwi you are confusing Afghanistan with the Jew nation of Israel where civilians are forced to join the army and butcher non- jew women and children.
      
      Easy mistake to make.
      
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      March 24, 2017 12:24pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      Why no answer about when the Afghan attack on NZ occurred
      
      Your question underscores an utterly false belief that armed conflict is only justifiable where sovereign nations have declared war on one another.
      
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      March 24, 2017 12:38pm
      - Kea
        
        krazykiwi, okay. Why are were we there ?
        
        How would you feel about Iran invading NZ because they don’t like the way we live ? Would you call the people who resisted the Iranians extremists and then use that resistance as justification in its self ?
        
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        March 24, 2017 12:49pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        As you know, we didn’t invade Afghanistan. NZ was one of 43 countries working on a NATO program end unchallenged terrorist use of that country as a private training ground.
        
        If NZ ever become a training ground for violent terrorist organisations then yes, I’d welcome whatever external support we could muster to route them.
        
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        March 24, 2017 1:03pm
      - Jack5
        
        😎 Suppose Kea were to attack merino sheep grazing on an upland block of a southern sheep station.
        
        Enraged by the savage ripping out of the live sheep’s kidneys the station owner sends a couple of farmhands up the hill with shotguns. They see Kea and a couple of mates and blast them. Wily Kea escapes, but the other two parrots are killed.
        
        Would the family of the dead keas have grounds to sue the station owner?
        
        The kea community’s Leftist mates organise a press release saying Kea was justified in thinking the old Merino ewe was a walking IED. That the two birds shot were innocent civilians not involved in kidney stealing. That the sheep had invaded kea territory, and keas had never invaded the green flatlands down country. And that the whole shooting is a hoar (frost) crime.
        
        Are there grounds for bonanza-seeking lawyers to sue the station owner on behalf of the specific mountain parrot family? Particularly when the kea extended (very extended) family members prefer a deal in which, rather than cash, they get migration rights into flat-land farms heavily dotted with sheep.
        
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        March 24, 2017 4:08pm
      - Kea
        
        krazykiwi, so some Saudi Arabians did a few training things there in the outback somewhere years ago, and you use that to justify 13 years of murdering civilians?
        
        Funny thing is the cowards have lost and are crawling home in draped in shame. Beaten by lightly armed civilian peasants.
        
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        March 24, 2017 4:13pm
    - Tirebiter
      
      “You’re trying to suggest the groups of people who arm themselves, wear uniforms, and undertake combat training, but aren’t paid members of a sovereign armed force are … CIVILIANS?”
      
      Sounds just like a street gang in any large city in America.
      
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      March 25, 2017 2:25am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Kea you are a fuckwit. I suppose you think Isis are civilians as well and should just be left to go about their business.
    
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    March 24, 2017 12:03pm
    - Kea
      
      No I oppose the US sponsoring rebel groups to destroy Syria because Israel wants to attack their allies Iran.
      
      ISIS is Obama’s handy work
      
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      March 24, 2017 12:57pm
  - Manolo
    
    Surely you jest, because your naivety is…
    
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    March 24, 2017 12:14pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Afghanistan hasn’t been attacked properly since Timur e Lang overran the place. Well overdue for a proper attack IMO.
    
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    March 24, 2017 12:18pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Unsurprisingly, it is the law firm that employs Deborah Manning, of Ahmed Zaoui infamy.
  
  Doubtless, this was all set in place BEFORE Hager’s book was released on Tuesday, which simply adds to the perception that this is nothing more than an election year political hit. All we need now is for Herr Schmitz to become involved…
  
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  March 24, 2017 12:19pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    The fat lady singith, or fat boy in this instance
    
    Am I being fattist here?
    
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    March 24, 2017 12:28pm
  - Jack5
    
    Manning has Labour Party links. She was appointed deputy chief of staff by David Cunliffe in 2014.
    
    Yep, Manning was a key player in winning sufficient public support to allow legal NZ residence for Ahmed Zaoui, the former Islamic Party politicians on the run from Algeria.
    
    Manning has also been a spokeswoman for the family of Kaileshan Thanabalasingham, the former secretary of the Refugee Council, who was killed in a house fire in Auckland in December. Kaileshan Thanabalasingham may or may not have been the Kaileshan Thanabalasingham who was deported from Canada because of links to a violent criminal gang. Manning is a member of the executive of the Refugee Council.
    
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    March 24, 2017 4:23pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Thank you Jack5.
      Manning, through her defence of terrorists or terrorist supporters is a traitor to New Zealand and should be disbarred from the legal profession at the very least.
      But who will have the guts to put the wheels in motion?
      
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      March 24, 2017 7:56pm
cha

Fucker’s backpedaling so fast he might hurt himself.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, R-Calif., does not know “for sure” whether President Donald Trump or members of his transition team were even on the phone calls or other communications now being cited as partial vindication for the president’s wiretapping claims against the Obama administration, according to a spokesperson.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intel-chair-devin-nunes-unsure-trump-associates-directly/story?id=46325928
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March 24, 2017 12:27pm
- Kea
  
  cha cheers for that. So they admit to the wiretapping now but are a bit unsure just who they tapped.
  
  Must have been an awful lot of tapping then.
  
  Is Obama in custody yet ?
  
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  March 24, 2017 1:00pm
  - Inandout
    
    More tapping than a Fred Astaire movie.
    
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    March 24, 2017 4:33pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  It’s too late, though.
  
  All the Trumpets already know what to believe, in that Trump was right, and that’s all there is to it.
  
  Details, smetails …
  
  Nunes is toast.
  
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  March 24, 2017 1:02pm
Stars And Stripes

Man charged with indecent acts after allegedly riding mountain bike pantsless
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/90807821/man-charged-with-indecent-acts-after-allegedly-riding-mountain-bike-pantsless
“Detective Senior Sergeant Roger Small said police had received “a number of reports” of a man approaching female walkers near the Henderson Creek cycleway.
The man had then been described as having exposed himself and on several occasions had committed an indecent act.”

Detective Senior Sergeant “Roger Small”
Love it!!!!.
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March 24, 2017 12:34pm
Manolo

The intolerant Left in action:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4341602/Muslim-activist-wants-Pauline-Hanson-censored.html

Left-wing columnists and Muslim political activists have joined forces to call for Pauline Hanson to be censored in the wake of the London terrorist attacks.

The One Nation leader posted a Facebook video on Thursday renewing her call for a ban on Muslim migration to Australia.
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March 24, 2017 12:42pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Those leftist loons should be ignored because of their stupidity. In what sane world do you require us to tolerate Islamic terror by ignoring it and its perpetrators, yet not tolerate anyone who actually discusses it and those who perpetrate it.
  
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  March 24, 2017 12:55pm
Lucia Maria

The Media Have Finally Figured Out How to Cover Trump’s Lies

Not just falsehood by falsehood, but as the defining feature of his presidency.

Donald Trump is not on the cover of Time this week, and that must gall him. The president is the subject of the magazine’s cover story, the promise of which apparently persuaded him to grant it an exclusive interview. But instead of Trump’s visage, the cover features a single three-word question in bold red type: “Is Truth Dead?”

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The question on the magazine’s cover refers to Trump’s apparent ability to lie, dissemble, and distract from the truth—and to not only get away with it but to ride those lies to the world’s most powerful office. The story within by Time’s Washington bureau chief, Michael Scherer, rightly takes Trump’s dishonesty as its premise, then asks: How exactly does it work, and why, and can it possibly keep working now that he’s president?

Add that to opinion in the WSJ this week: A President’s Credibility

Trump’s falsehoods are eroding public trust, at home and abroad.

If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him? Would the rest of the world? We’re not sure, which speaks to the damage that Mr. Trump is doing to his Presidency with his seemingly endless stream of exaggerations, evidence-free accusations, implausible denials and other falsehoods.

Donald Trump has lost the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board

The WSJ’s editorial board had been moving toward Trump. Not anymore.

On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board published a scathing criticism of President Trump, warning that “if he doesn’t show more respect for the truth most Americans may conclude he’s a fake President.” It also colorfully says that “the President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle.”

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That Trump seems to have lost the editorial board of the Journal shows just how poor a job he’s doing. Since his election, the paper’s opinion pages had been moving in a more pro-Trump direction. In February, an op-ed editor critical of the president was reportedly dismissed. The same month, Politico’s Joe Pompeo reported that there was ongoing tension at the Journal regarding how the paper should treat Trump.

Everyone (except the Trumpets) have just about had enough of Trump. This will not end well for him.
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March 24, 2017 1:13pm
- waripori
  
  The biggest lie was that he would get rid of the Affordable Care Act and replace it with better cheaper health insurance that would cover everyone. His recent admission that he did not realise how complicated it all is was a rare moment of candour but betrays the alternative world of wishful thinking he inhabits.
  
  Given Republican control of both houses he should have been able to get rid of the ACA but his reckless promotion of irreconcilable positions which were never acceptable to the Republican right has come home to roost.
  
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  March 24, 2017 1:45pm
kowtow

Hundreds die because politicians encourage them to come and NGO’s wait off the coast for them. It is almost murder.

“Five migrants were found dead in the sea off Libya on Thursday after the boats they were travelling in sank, likely carrying hundreds more to their deaths, an aid organisation said.”

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/five-bodies-found-and-hundreds-feared-dead-as-migrant-boats-sink-off-libya-35560681.html
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March 24, 2017 1:19pm
krazykiwi

This looks promising:

Blood test detects cancer and pinpoints location…before symptoms appear

A blood test which not only detects cancer but identifies where it is in the body, has been developed by scientists.

The breakthrough could allow doctors to diagnose specific cancers much earlier, even before signs such as a lump, begin to show.

It is simple enough to be included in routine annual health checks alongside other tests such as for high blood pressure or cholesterol.

The test, called CancerLocator, has been developed by the University of California, and works by hunting for the DNA from tumours which circulates in the blood of cancer patients.
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March 24, 2017 1:39pm
- Jack5
  
  Sometimes it would be better not to know.
  
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  March 24, 2017 4:14pm
cha

Not all white supremacists are wannabe Einsatzkommando.

A white supremacist and neo-Nazi website condemned the racially-motivated sword slaying of a black man in New York City, with the admitted racists lamenting they will now be “unfairly discriminated against.”

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“White Supremacy is a religion of peace, and the overwhelming majority of White Supremacists are peaceful members of society who do not agree with stabbing random black people with swords,” Anglin wrote. “The attack has nothing at all to do with the religion of White Supremacy, and white supremacists are under no obligation to apologize for this attack.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/white-supremacists-lament-backlash-fatal-nyc-sword-attack-article-1.3006653
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March 24, 2017 1:40pm
- realityczech
  
  Black beasts kill people every day. Why no stories about that ? Obama supported race hate groups.
  
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  March 24, 2017 5:09pm
Manolo

If a Kiwi, she would be a Green Party voter:
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2017/03/australia-is-not-real-it-s-a-hoax-facebook-star.html#.WNNaIEZN604.facebook

This is the question winding Australians up after Swedish Facebook personality Shelley Floryd announced she refuses to believe the world’s sixth-largest country exists.

“Australia is not real. It’s a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace. In reality, all these criminals were loaded off the ships into the waters, drowning before they could see land ever again,” she says.
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March 24, 2017 2:35pm
- krazykiwi
  
  I’m not sure what’s more alarming.. that she said this, or that you found it 🙂
  
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  March 24, 2017 2:59pm
Keeping Stock

Andrew Little is going to get an expensive lesson on the subject of Consequences:

Jo Moir‏
@jo_moir

BREAKING: Little has publicly apologised to Hagaman’s over Scenic Hotel/National donation link. Apology rejected and matter going to court.

Rule #1 in the Bush Lawyer’s Handbook – Never pick a legal fight with someone whose pockets are deeper than yours.
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March 24, 2017 3:04pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  But wait; there’s more. He’s just dug himself into a huge hole:
  
  Jo Moir‏ @jo_moir · 51m51 minutes ago
  
   More
  
  Little accepts there was no connection between the donation and the awarding of the contract and it going to court is not best use of time.
  
  No Mr Little; you going to Court and getting taken to the cleaners by Mr and Mrs Hagaman is probably NOT “best use of time”, for you at least. Especially when you have just acknowledged that the statement you made last year, and which is the basis of the defamation case, was wrong. Just write out and sign a blank cheque…
  
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  March 24, 2017 3:35pm
  - Happychappy
    
    I hope he doesn’t think or has been advised that Jacinda will get her father to get the Hagaman’s to change their mind.
    
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    March 24, 2017 5:11pm
  - niggly
    
    And of course T e l e v i s i o n N e w Z e a l a n d (ya know, the nations primary tv broadcaster, just spelling it out to them as TVNZ themselves seem to have forgotten who they are) did NOT even cover the story!
    
    Yes, did NOT even cover the major story that the Leader of the Opposition is definitely going to court.
    
    Now imagine if it were the National Party Leader that was going to court …. Simon Dallow would be standing in front of the wall sized tv panels (featuring a picture of a sad looking PM) followed by live crosses and opinions from Katie, Corin and Andrea …..
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:19pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      And I can’t see anything about the Leader of the Opposition heading for Court at “The Standard”
      
      (tho’ I didn’t linger long )
      
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      March 24, 2017 9:25pm
      - stigie
        
        Nice of you to take one for the team Maggy..?
        
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        March 24, 2017 9:48pm
- krazykiwi
  
  I suspect the Hahaman’s are not interested in Little’s offers of an apology, or a pay-to-make-it-go-away.
  
  They’d like to see him with a generous covering of the brown stuff.
  
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  March 24, 2017 3:42pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Quite so krazykiwi – the money means nothing to them. I suspect that all they want is a legal judgment that the Leader of the Opposition defamed them, and they won’t care how much that costs them.
    
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    March 24, 2017 3:48pm
    - Swifty
      
      But this can’t be true KS!
      
      It was just the other day that ztev was here predicting that the Hagamans will settle so that their dirty washing would not be aired!
      
      🙂 🙂 🙂
      
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      March 24, 2017 4:55pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Little’s Press release… ???apology to Hagamans is on Pete George’s site.
  https://yournz.org/2017/03/24/little-apology-too-late/
  It is truly a shocker!
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:01pm
nasska

…..”Never pick a legal fight with someone whose pockets are deeper than yours.”….

You’re ignoring all those well paid union members who will happily stump up any amount to support their messiah. 🙂
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March 24, 2017 3:39pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Pass me a Tui 😎
  
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  March 24, 2017 3:49pm
- MT_Tinman
  
  From memory it is the poor bloody NZ taxpayer, not the unionists who will stump up both legal fees and any cash payout in this saga.
  
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  March 24, 2017 4:53pm
  - waripori
    
    Surely that only applies if the person being sued was acting for the Crown.
    
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    March 24, 2017 4:57pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Andrew Little should have been on top of the facts before he opened his gob.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/90820583/labour-leader-andrew-little-headed-to-court-over-defamation-case

Whether this goes the whole shebang, or is settled along the way…it shows that Andrew Little wasn’t paying close attention in his Law classes.
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March 24, 2017 3:47pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  HAGAMANS: APOLOGY DUE A YEAR AGO
  
  In a statement, Lani Hagaman said Little’s statement had come as a surprise.
  
  “It’s difficult for us to accept this as a genuine apology if Earl is receiving the details after it was released to the national media.”
  
  The couple would consider their position over the weekend and seek legal advice, but “at first glance” were likely to continue the defamation proceedings, set to begin at the High Court in Wellington on April 3.
  
  “Mr Little has had 12 months to apologise, and in the interim we’ve spent more than $200,000 in legal fees preparing for this case, which is now only one week away.”
  
  This looks like a desperate last-ditch attempt by Little to get himself out of the hole he dug for himself, especially in light of the comments above in bold.
  
  Nice try Andrew, but don’t make plans for the first week of April. You have a date in the High Court.
  
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  March 24, 2017 3:54pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    He’s even botching the apology!
    Just hopeless.
    
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    March 24, 2017 3:57pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Imagine this clown running a country.
      With the teletubby in the deputy’s chair.
      It’s a terrifying thought, but clearly about 35% of our voters would be happy with it.
      Sometimes I despair at the ignorance of my fellow countrymen.
      
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      March 24, 2017 4:10pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    For a Little chap 200,000 is a Big Scary Number.
    
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    March 24, 2017 4:07pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Especially considering his most recent Pecuniary Interest return:
      
      Andrew Little (Labour, List)
      6 Real property
      Family home (jointly owned), Island Bay, Wellington
      7 Superannuation schemes
      Kiwi Wealth KiwiSaver
      AXA Superannuation (AMP)
      9 Creditors
      ANZ Bank – mortgage
      10 Overseas travel costs
      People’s Republic of China – official visit as Leader of the Opposition.
      Contributor to travel and accommodation: Government of the People’s Republic of China (transport, accommodation, and meals within country but excluding international airfares).
      11 Gifts
      9 x tickets to ICC Cricket World Cup fixtures, February and March 2015 – ICC Cricket World Cup
      2 x tickets to All Blacks v Wallabies game, August 2015, 1 x braided tie and silver fern pin, and 2 x tickets to the Rugby World Cup final – New Zealand Rugby Union
      Kea Jump skydive and combo skydive photography package – Skydive Franz
      
      I wonder what the person with whom he jointly owns his home in Island Bay has to think about all this.
      
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      March 24, 2017 4:22pm
    - Pateke
      
      CRowd funding perhaps?
      
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      March 24, 2017 4:25pm
  - Ross12
    
    KS
    The bit you have put in bold is the key point. If Little was genuine he would have apologised in person and tried his best to keep it out of the media, which might have been hard to do.
    But no –he had to go to the media first and try to make himself look like a some sort of hero.
    On top of that he tries –put it out on late Friday afternoon trick -pathetic
    
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    March 24, 2017 4:20pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Dead right Ross. Instead, it’s a tug-at-the-heartstrings puff piece with a friendly journo, doubtless with the intent of painting Earl and Lani Hagaman as heartless Tory bullies, incapable of forgiveness.
      
      But as Mrs Hagaman notes, they gave him a deadline to apologise, and that expired in May 2016. Little has only himself to blame for his predicament.
      
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      March 24, 2017 4:28pm
      - Swifty
        
        Exactly. Too little, too late.
        
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        March 24, 2017 4:58pm
      - stigie
        
        Don’t worry all is not lost, Angry knows the luvvies will whip around and start up a “Give a little to Little” page !~
        
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        March 24, 2017 5:02pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Andrew Little must wish he was in government. A Labour Party pledge card and a simple law change (retrospectively authorising his allegedly defamatory statements) would have done the trick!
        
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        March 24, 2017 5:56pm
  - Swifty
    
    Beautiful, just beautiful……
    
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    March 24, 2017 4:56pm
Lucia Maria

What is it with the NZ media’s obsession with the word “rubberneckers”? Such as in this story:

Rubberneckers inspire sale of ‘gluten-free’ fence in Kapiti on Trade Me

The story is, this guy has a really strange fence that people stop and stare at, because, well, it’s a really weird fence and not something you normally see. Haven’t seen it personally myself, but looking at the picture I can imagine stopping to stare at it as well.

So, the guy wants to sell it because he can’t cope with all the stopping and staring at his fence. Totally understandable.

But, the story is about “rubberneckers” looking at his fence. As if his fence is an accident that everyone wants a nosey at. Actually, it kind of looks like an accident, but that’s not the point.

If you are going to erect something weird in front of your house, don’t expect people to look away when they come across it as you would expect if someone were getting cut out of a car with the jaws of life. It’s not anywhere near the same thing.

And “rubberneckers” is such a derogatory term for people. I wish the media would just grow up and find a better word.
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March 24, 2017 4:59pm
- nasska
  
  From your link:
  
  ….””I think it’s made especially to keep the ‘spatially-challenged’ undead from making it to your doorway.””…..
  
  Just the ticket for your Bible studies meetings. No more garlic & crosses needed to keep the non believers at bay. 🙂
  
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  March 24, 2017 5:13pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    I don’t think it would pass “The Walking Dead” test. There’s a path and a driveway to get past it easily to the house and no spikes.
    
    As for the unbelievers, maybe they’re the ones that are especially attracted to it?
    
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    March 24, 2017 5:19pm
- Kea
  
  “If you are going to erect something weird in front of your house,”
  
  Like a crucifix ?
  
  What sort of sick people have a model of some poor guy being tortured hanging around the house I wonder.
  
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  March 24, 2017 5:19pm
SPC

I note Labour is catering to nimby’s re Pt England – now opposing building homes on rural land.

Obstructing an iwi’s treaty settlement and the building of new homes to satisfy local demand that this occur elsewhere.

I hope they realise that this effort to win the local seat might/should cost them votes across the rest of Auckland. It is like they do not understand MMP.
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March 24, 2017 5:14pm
howitis

Oh Great !
Light rail from city through Dominion Road to Auckland Airport.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/auckland-city-harbour-news/90825342/plans-to-introduce-light-rail-from-auckland-airport-to-city-centre-confirmed

There seems to be crazy drive to pursue this nonsense.
Newcastle in NSW has just stopped trains into the city centre even though the train tracks have been there for a hundred years. You may have gone 160 km by rail from Sydney but now have to disembark and change over for the last 2km to the city centre.
Who the hell is pushing this?
Canberra has a silly one being pushed as well.

Dominion Rd is congested as it is. One of two lanes in peak hour is give over to buses.
Are they going to get the old Fell engines out of the museum to get up Hillsborough hill. Duh. These were decommissioned from the Rimutaka hill when the rail tunnel was opened in 1955.
Spray them with some WD40 and she’ll be right.
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/video/21377/fell-engine
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March 24, 2017 5:33pm
- Ross12
  
  Goff must have found a very big money tree. First a stadium on the water front and now light rail.
  
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  March 24, 2017 6:08pm
- sooty
  
  Underground all the way.
  
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  March 24, 2017 7:07pm
SPC

Kaikoura earthquake – international analysis.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39373846
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March 24, 2017 5:45pm
Viking2

The annual trade deficit for the year ended February 2017 was $3.8 billion, the largest since April 2009, Stats NZ said today.

http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/industry_sectors/imports_and_exports/OverseasMerchandiseTrade_MRFeb17.aspx
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March 24, 2017 5:57pm
Kea

Over 130 people trying to take shelter from the fighting in Mosul have been buried under the rubble of a building hit by a coalition airstrike, witnesses say in a video released by AP.

https://www.rt.com/news/382111-mosul-airstrike-130-shelter/

I will put some popcorn on and compare the outrage over this with that of a few dead poms hit by a car.
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March 24, 2017 6:29pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  London is a lot closer to New Zealand in spirit than Syria. NZ used to be a British outpost and many NZ kids still go to London as part of the OE. Several of my relatives have gone there and my son’s girlfriend is there now. But none have gone to Syria. I’d put it down to that more than anything.
  
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  March 24, 2017 7:29pm
  - Jack5
    
    Kea knows this, Lucia. He/she’s on a final, kamikaze blog run this weekend.
    
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    March 24, 2017 7:33pm
    - Lucia Maria
      
      Jack, yep.
      Out in a blaze of glory all in his/her own mind.
      
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      March 24, 2017 7:38pm
    - Kea
      
      Yes Jack5.
      
      Now have a good wash after engaging with that thing.
      
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      March 24, 2017 9:50pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Kea, Jack5 and I have started a sweepstake to pick the time for your tenth and final strike and permanent extinction. Based on current form I’m thinking – and taking into account the impending weekend so DPF may not clean up all the parrot droppings in the cage until Monday – about 9:47am on that day.
        
        Care to pick a date and time? 😉
        
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        March 24, 2017 9:53pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Mosul is in Iraq. Just sayin.
    
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    March 24, 2017 7:39pm
    - Lucia Maria
      
      Doh!
      Thanks.
      
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      March 24, 2017 7:54pm
- Longknives
  
  If Muslims really want sympathy Kea they might want to work on their ‘PR’..
  Like maybe stop beheading innocent people and running down children with trucks?..
  Just a thought.
  
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  March 24, 2017 7:38pm
  - Kea
    
    Longknives I agree 100%. Why don’t they just get the USA to do the killing for them like the Jews do ?
    
    They just murdered 130 civilians a few hours a ago. Israel should be delighted.
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:40pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  According to DPF’s comments policy, the next time Kea offends he will be gone forever, and he’s been treading a fine line today.
  Time to buy the popcorn?
  
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  March 24, 2017 8:46pm
  - Kea
    
    Time to try an elevate yourself out of the sewer more like it.
    
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    March 24, 2017 9:38pm
    - Inandout
      
      Scuttle back to the Standard FGS.
      
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      March 24, 2017 10:26pm
Longknives

Why the hell wasn’t this guy still in Prison?? He tried to kill someone only a few years ago..

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/90827397/man-convicted-in-kawerau-siege-trial-had-violent-past
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March 24, 2017 7:34pm
Jack5

Is this a light sentence? Lawyer steals nearly $80,000 from clients and gets six months home detention.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11824333
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March 24, 2017 10:03pm
Tirebiter

Everybody needs a break from the anger and frustration. Do yourself a favor and watch both, they’re hilarious. They’re short and won’t take much time. You can thank me later. Or not.

part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQpdb8tclM
part2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMfWICjKSPc
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March 25, 2017 4:02am
Manolo

The NYT could be right on this occasion:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/us/politics/trump-health-care-bill-regrets.html
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March 25, 2017 6:37am
Tirebiter

When Paul Ryan was a teenager his father died. He and his mother depended on Medicaid to survive. The same Medicaid he wants to zero out. There must be something in the water in Washington that makes people there crazy.
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