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Climate science predicts global warming will cause more frequent and severe weather events: more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means Earth retains more energy. Result: droughts, floods … Noticed any recently?

The alternative explanation to that agreed by >97% publishing climate scientists is as simple-minded as A B C D: anything but carbon dioxide.
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March 9, 2017 8:01am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Are you the new Griff?
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:16am
  - EAD
    
    He may not be the new Griff, but he definitely is the old Dennis Horne.
    
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    March 9, 2017 8:20am
    - RalphT
      
      Oh God, not more bad “poetry”.
      
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      March 9, 2017 9:09am
- holysheet
  
  Must be lonely at the top. Never mind, your cousin stupidboy will be along soon to make up the village idiot duet.
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:18am
- krazykiwi
  
  The imperviousness is strong in this one
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:30am
- JIV
  
  Warren Buffett seems to disagree with you.
  
  (Warren Buffett to shareholders: climate change is nothing to worry about)
  
  You would think an insurance company would be most aware of increased disasters, but all you’ve had is a little bit of weather.
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:36am
  - Griff
    
    There is growing acknowledgement among insurers
    that the impact of climate change on future insured
    losses is likely to be profound. The chairman of Lloyd’s
    of London has said that climate change is the number-
    one issue for that massive insurance group. And Europe’s
    largest insurer, Allianz, stated that climate change
    stands to increase insured losses from extreme events
    in an average year by 37 per cent within just a decade.
    Losses in a bad year could top US$1 trillion.
    http://evanmills.lbl.gov/pubs/pdf/climate-action-insurance.pdf
    
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    March 9, 2017 8:43am
    - krazykiwi
      
      growing…
      likely…
      stands to …
      within …
      
      The phraseology of not knowing, but hoping
      
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      March 9, 2017 8:47am
      - Griff
        
        Risk is about odds
        You have Lloyd’s and Allianz,
        Shall I add more ?
        Munichre .
        https://www.munichre.com/en/group/focus/climate-change/index.html
        Swissre.
        http://www.swissre.com/rethinking/the_effects_of_climate_change.htmlit
        
        You do know what Munich re et. al. are don’t you?
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance
        
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        March 9, 2017 9:01am
    - Viking2
      
      They would.
      
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      March 9, 2017 8:48am
    - JIV
      
      Once again forecasts rather than data.
      Ask California how their climate models fair.
      
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      March 9, 2017 8:55am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Insurance Co’s just LOVE “Climate Change”. They can up their charges in an almost unlimited fashion and have a ready made “justification”.
      
      But they have form on this. Back around 2000, Munich Re was pulicizing this “hockey stick” like graph showing how insurances losses had accelerated with all the dreadful weather that they attributed to (back then the name) Global Warming. What they very deliberately failed to do was to publish the companion graph, the one that showed the value of property insured in the most at risk areas.
      
      Turns out that the entire increase in losses could be attributed to that increase in value; so in Florida for example, the value of buildings in Hurricane vulnerable areas had increased enormously. So even though the number of Hurricanes making landfall is at historical lows (so much for “climate change” causing more hurricanes), the costs to insurance companies when one does hit is far higher.
      
      This is absolutely typical of the thoroughly dishonest, and that’s deliberate dishonesty, fraud if you like, of the whole “Climate Change” industry. The Insurance companies as I say, just love CC, it generates money for them in significant quantities.
      
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      March 9, 2017 11:24am
  - Ambergris
    
    Buffet doesn’t disagree about climate change, he disagrees as to it being a negative for the insurance industry because he see it as presenting opportunities for business.
    
    “As a citizen, you may understandably find climate change keeping you up nights,” Buffett wrote. “As a homeowner in a low-lying area, you may wish to consider moving. But when you are thinking only as a shareholder of a major insurer, climate change should not be on your list of worries.”
    
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    March 9, 2017 10:47am
- dime
  
  lol @ at the 97% myth
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:40am
- Peter
  
  “more frequent and severe weather events”
  
  Compared to what period, and if we don’t see these extremes – presumably worldwide – then does that mean the AGW fanboys got it wrong?
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:44am
  - krazykiwi
    
    If it’s [Hot | Cold | Wet | Dry] or there are [More | Less] extreme weather events like [Floods | Droughts | Tornadoes | Storms] then you are to blame and must feel guilty and pay up.
    
    There’s no science in this. It’s dogma. But that’s besides the point.
    
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    March 9, 2017 8:51am
    - Griff
      
      Bingo
      
      then you are to blame and must feel guilty and pay up.
      
      Hello kiwi
      Every major scientific body on the planet is into The attempt to steal your money .
      Along with almost every country.
      The pentagon .
      The reinsurance industry .
      All national weather services.
      N.A.S.A .
      The world health organization.
      ETC ,ETC, ETC.
      You are gibbeirng whacko conspiracy nonsense.
      And you get up ticked by others who are to afraid to address reality so hide in the same delusion.
      ROFLMAO
      Poor little apes.
      Your primitive brain is playing tricks on you to hide the nasties from yourselfs.
      
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      March 9, 2017 9:32am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Griff, I’ve noticed that you are at your most incoherent when on this topic. Perhaps you could get some help?
        
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        March 9, 2017 11:17am
      - Griff
        
        Conspiracy nutter tells me…..
        
        You have to wonder at the power of delusion people like you cope with .
        
        Read this slowly mouthing the words if it helps .
        You are accusing the worlds scientific body’s of a giant fraud to steal money of you.
        
        Your spiel from some opinion piece did not address the science it gibbered talking points. Mostly about irrelevant media personalty’s.
        The scientists it referenced have a long history of having their work having to be corrected by others
        Dr Roy Spencer PHD is a loony tune creationist who thinks god would not let us change the climate .
        
        As well as confusing the science of climate change with the politics of a solution. you are also gibbering conspiracy nonce like a tinfiol wearing nuttjob .
        
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        March 9, 2017 11:32am
      - holysheet
        
        Griff must be trying a new strain of weed. He is normally incoherent on this topic at the best of times. Best if you go back to the usual weed and leave the new stuff alone. The older you get, the body takes longer to assimilate the toxins.
        
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        March 9, 2017 11:45am
      - stephieboy
        
        holysheet, you must know that climate denail attracts all kinds of cranks and crackpots . The classic example of this nuttery is Lord Monckton . Not only a purveyor of climate denial whackery but also quack cures for all kinds of maladies including cancer
        
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        March 9, 2017 11:59am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Griff, I’ll try to keep this simple for you… ok?
        
        1. Science is based on hypothesis confirmed or refuted by observational evidence
        
        2. Climate models (the hypothesis) are not supported by actual observations [http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/CMIP5-73-models-vs-obs-20N-20S-MT-5-yr-means1.png]
        
        3. The impact of CO2 on atmospheric temperatures is logarithmic, not linear as assumed in climate models.
        
        4. There is a net planetary benefit to both increased CO2 levels (greening the planet), and increased temperatures (human life is more at risk from cold temperatures)
        
        I don’t expect you to accept any of this. You’re as intransigent today as you were 5+ years ago when I last discussed this with you.
        
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        March 9, 2017 12:07pm
      - Griff
        
        Quotes dr Roy and his magic graph.
        ROFL
        
        yip kiwi you were gibbering a conspiracy now you are gibbering idiotic talking points .
        
        The impact of CO2 on atmospheric temperatures is logarithmic, not linear as assumed in climate models.
        
        Climate models to do not assume anything
        They are feed physical parameters and the climate sensitivity is a emergent property..
        
        Duh
        it is logarithmic why do you think climate sensitively is expressed as a function of doubling co2?
        
        You are ever totally ignorant or very very stupid.
        
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        March 9, 2017 12:42pm
      - Garbageman
        
        Hi Griff if I remember correctly you are a fairly recent convert to the pro global warming thing yet here you are calling people primitive, nutters etc maybe if you weren’t “roflmao” so much you might be able to have a rational discussion or at the very least see what a total hypocrite you are slamming people that are not as (recently) enlightened as you
        
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        March 9, 2017 1:27pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      Griff, Nothing magic about the graph.
      
      It quite simply shows empirical evidence that 73 out of 73 climate models overstated, in many cases massively overstated, the projected impact of CO2 on global temperatures.
      
      That’s it. Theory invalidated.
      
      Why do you cling to the hope of impending annihilation when you could instead be celebrating life?
      
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      March 9, 2017 1:43pm
      - Griff
        
        Except the graph uses model surface output and compares it to the mid troposphere measurement know to be corrupted by the stratosphere cooling .
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        Apples to oranges.
        
        As to Dr Roy Spencer PHD
        He is the one who claimed his UAH satellite temperature dataset was correct.
        Only to have some else find he had a sign backwards in the calculation.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAH_satellite_temperature_dataset
        He is a creationist nut job who thinks god will not let us change the climate is science .
        Hardly a scientific reference of repute .
        You would rather listen to his fringe stupidity than The National Academy et al,
        god whackers sooo strange.
        
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        March 9, 2017 2:03pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        Griff, there is a strong correlation between mid-troposphere and surface temperatures, just as there is between mid/shallow ocean and surface temperatures.
        
        If you feel comfortable dismissing Dr Spencer’s research on the basis that he has a faith, and, according to Wikipedia, he once got a calculation wrong then you really are beyond any form of reason.
        
        How vociferously you dismiss the assertion that the observations don’t match the projections (ergo the hypothesis has been invalidated), it matters not one bit because you’re wrong – the evidence is now overwhelming.
        
        https://goo.gl/chHzwg https://goo.gl/AW5493 https://goo.gl/hYCSFQ. There are 100’s more. Take your pick.
        
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        March 9, 2017 3:12pm
      - Griff
        
        Dr Roy is an often wrong fringe loon who thinks his magic sky pixie will sort it all out .He has a history of dodgy graphs in the media and on blogs he purports show the models are broken .
        If he is so right why has he never published this startling revolution?
        Because his work is so badly constructed it would not survive peer review .
        
        Do tell us more about your conspiracy?
        I do like laughing at nutters and their conspiracy dribbles
        I note you have wound back on that .
        Wonder why ?
        
        Wing nuts are so funny with their stupidity and dribbling conpsicy nonsense.
        
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        March 9, 2017 3:45pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      Griff, you are exactly where I left you 5+ years ago… incapable of rational debate by way of :
      
      1) Denigrating the experts
      
      2) Denying the evidence
      
      3) Clinging to a dimming hope that we’re all gonna die
      
      Sad
      
      The theory of cataclysmic global warming resulting from man’s activities has been shown to be without basis in fact
      
      One day you’ll open your eyes
      
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      March 9, 2017 4:06pm
      - Griff
        
        ROFLMAO
        The delusion is strong in this one.
        https://goo.gl/chHzwg https://goo.gl/AW5493 https://goo.gl/hYCSFQ. There are 100’s more. Take your pick
        Sure just update this one shall we ?
        https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/
        
        Opps spot on .
        oh dear a gibbering whacko home goal.
        
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        March 9, 2017 4:19pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        I feel like a big cat playing with a very little mouse. Kinda fun, but in the end knowing it will make a rather unappetizing meal.
        
        Now Griff, the graph you linked to shows increasing temperature anomalies. So what? I agree that global average temperatures have been increasing over the last couple of centuries. Just as they cooled before that. And warmed before that. Rinse. Repeat.
        
        My point, which you’ve somehow misunderstood, was and remains, that actual temperature observations are well below predicted temperature trends, ergo the climate models on which the whole global warming theory have been based are now scientifically invalidated. Poof. Gone. Useless. New theory needed.
        
        Oh, and you’ll get extra credit if you can respond without the terms ‘gibbering’ or ‘whacko’ or ‘wing nuts’. Go on, try 🙂
        
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        March 9, 2017 4:33pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Denigrating the experts
        
        If your chosen ‘expert’ is Roy Spencer, then denigration seems a likely consequence.
        
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        March 9, 2017 4:34pm
      - Griff
        
        https://goo.gl/chHzwg https://goo.gl/AW5493 https://goo.gl/hYCSFQ. There are 100’s more. Take your pick
        Sure just update this one shall we ?
        https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/
        
        Pigeon chess .
        Shown his “proof”Shows the opposite of his claim he claims he has won.
        Measurably Deluded and quite mad .
        
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        March 9, 2017 4:49pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    This winter’s Norther Hemisphere snow cover has been well above average, ranking 9th highest since 1967. According to the climate alarmists (aka peddlers of fear) when the world gets hotter it snows more.
    
    http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_seasonal.php?ui_set=nhland&ui_season=1
    
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    March 9, 2017 9:24am
    - Scott
      
      Where is global warming when you need it? It’s been freezing this summer in the Wairarapa!
      
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      March 9, 2017 9:28am
      - dai
        
        OK, let’s try again. Warm air rises, nature abhors a vacuum.
        
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        March 9, 2017 12:48pm
    - stephieboy
      
      kazykiwi, climate change / warming is characterised by extreme weather events that blast hot or cold,
      
      ” How climate change affects extreme weather events”
      
      http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6293/1517
      
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      March 9, 2017 12:22pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        No it’s not. Try again team stephie.
        
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        March 9, 2017 12:26pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        
        This paper is paywalled.
        As I am stuck in a provincial backwater that does not feature Science magazine at the local library, could you please provide the data that supports Peter Stotts’ contention that human-induced climate change has led to more extreme weather events.?
        tx
        
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        March 9, 2017 4:42pm
      - Griff
        
        It is called basic physics Maggy dear
        You know the amount of moisture an atmosphere can hold is depended on the temperature.
        http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00502.1
        
        But hey someone who has posted dragon slayer nuttery don’t really have a clue.
        
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        March 9, 2017 7:33pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Stephiboy’s Science paper is just a speculative discussion of the NAS assessment.
        
        Check out the latest research on event attribution climate science (attributing individual extreme weather events to man-made climate change (as opposed to natural climate variation) and you’ll see that it is still pie-in-the -sky stuff. (but send money quick!)
        https://www.nap.edu/catalog/21852/attribution-of-extreme-weather-events-in-the-context-of-climate-change
        
        https://www.nap.edu/read/21852/chapter/7
        
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        March 9, 2017 8:00pm
      - Griff
        
        Can you actually read Dr Maggy Wassilieff PhD (Botany)?
        What you say it says and what it says are slightly different
        Almost like you a lied my dear little climate change denying nut .
        But hay from past experience I can beat you got that from some Wacko blog and are not even capable of reading it for your self .
        Note how I use your formal name.
        You do know why I do that lovey?
        
        Confidence in attribution analyses of specific extreme events is highest for extreme heat and cold events, followed by hydrological drought and heavy precipitation. There is little or no confidence in the attribution of severe convective storms and extratropical cyclones.
        
        Ya see lovey that book does not say what you claim .
        Bullshiteing old biddy using you degree to try to give authority to you dribbling crap about climate change.
        Face it lady The laws of physics is not waiting around for gibbering loony tunes to wake and stop telling fibs.
        
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        March 10, 2017 12:36am
- artemisia
  
  Quite a few big projects underway to capture and sequester CO2. One that looks promising is Iceland’s work in which CO2 injected under the sea converted to rock within 2 years.
  
  If these initiatives become cheap enough they could change the climate change science dramatically.
  
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  March 9, 2017 9:25am
  - krazykiwi
    
    CO2 is net beneficial to the planet. There’s no need to sequester it
    
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    March 9, 2017 9:42am
    - stephieboy
      
      krazikiwi , the addtion of CO2 over and above the usual is not beneficial to the planet ,
      
      https://skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect.htm
      
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      March 9, 2017 12:27pm
  - kowtow
    
    No doubt all very heavily drawing on the perpetually ripped off tax payer.
    
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    March 9, 2017 10:50am
- krazykiwi
  
  Five Reasons Why Ridicule Is the Proper Response to Global Warming Alarmists:
  
  1. They’re wrong. The devastating heat they predicted simply hasn’t happened. Climate scientists Roy Spencer, John Christy and others have showed this numerous times.
  
  2. They’ve hidden their true agenda. The zealots want to destroy capitalism and take over the world’s economy. Two years ago, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, said “this is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years.” [kk: wow!]
  
  3. They’re hypocrites. Every year, delegates, many of them on private jets, fly to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, from where they hector the rest of us about our carbon footprints. The busybodies also regularly jet to the U.N.’s global warming conferences, held in such global hot spots as Paris, Cancun, Copenhagen and Milan. Wherever they go, their accommodations are always lavish, their travels well attended to, and their dining sumptuous. Of course their goal is to strip 21st-century comforts from everyone else in the name of “fighting” climate change.
  
  4. They’re authoritarians. Merely disagreeing with them is much like disagreeing with the Castros. The clearly deranged Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that some climate sceptics should be prosecuted as war criminals. Last March, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the Senate Judiciary Committee that there had been official discussions about prosecuting “deniers.”
  
  5. Leonardo DiCaprio. Here’s a high school dropout who’s become fabulously rich doing what kindergartners do every day — pretending to be someone else and imagining that they are doing something they aren’t doing, and probably never will or would do. It’s called acting and it pays some of its practitioners well.
  
  7th March, 2017
  http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/five-reasons-why-ridicule-is-the-proper-response-to-global-warming-alarmists/
  
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  March 9, 2017 9:37am
  - Manolo
    
    I’m afraid Griff’s reply to your savage attack will be stentorius. 😀
    
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    March 9, 2017 9:42am
  - Griff
    
    Gibbering whackos
    
    All those big words cot and paste from the MSM opinion pages .
    yet it fails to address the point I just made
    The alarmist are science ,insurance, the governments
    you are living in a dream world ,
    
    They’ve hidden their true agenda. The zealots want to destroy capitalism and take over the world’s economy.
    
    Conspiracy nonsense you have to gibber because you can not cope with who is the “alarmists’.
    
    https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/
    
    http://nas-sites.org/americasclimatechoices/events/a-discussion-on-climate-change-evidence-and-causes/
    
    http://whatweknow.aaas.org/
    
    Ohhhh thsoe nasty scientific types are taking over the world .
    
    Gibber gibber little wingnut
    
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    March 9, 2017 9:48am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Oh dear Griff, no one else needs to gibber, you do enough for all of us combined.
      
      Living proof of how drugs rot the brain.
      
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      March 9, 2017 11:27am
  - pentwig
    
    You are correct KK. Especially item 2.
    If only the greens, Griff, our regular troll steffie and Nick Smith could understand it.
    
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    March 9, 2017 10:04am
- Ross12
  
  William must be very young if he cannot recall several major flooding incidents in the Coromandel over the years. It is nothing new and there will be more in the future –that’s nature.
  
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  March 9, 2017 11:56am
Manolo

Big donor:
Billionaire George Soros gave $246 million to groups behind Wednesday’s “Day Without a Woman” protest, according to a report by a conservative think tank.

Wednesday is “International Women’s Day,” and schools in at least four states canceled classes so teachers and staff members could participate in “Day Without a Woman” demonstrations.
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March 9, 2017 8:05am
- CHFR
  
  I very rarely wish ill on someone but this is one man I would love to see the Karma train hit good and proper.
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:11am
- kowtow
  
  Funny in this day of fake news and the activist media how they made so much of yesterday being International Wimmins Day , a bunch of Swedish builders even donned twat hats for it. There were marches , strikes and tons of news stories promoting the whole thing.
  
  But just a month ago we had International Female Genital Mutilation Day , why no big coverage , why didn’t all the activists go out and chop their naughty bits up in “solidarity” .
  
  https://www.thelocal.se/jobs/article/why-these-swedish-trade-union-bosses-wore-pink-pussyhats-for-gender-equality
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:31am
- dime
  
  if you were making a list of the biggest pieces of shit on the planet, Soros would feature.
  
  hes 86 ffs. hes not going to be around long enough to see his evil little brain transferred to a computer.
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:43am
- Positan
  
  Such “celebrations” of “womanhood” only ever seem to emphasise just how baseless is the nonsense – and how unbelievably fatuous and non-objective are the endorsers, upholders and participants.
  
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  March 9, 2017 9:03am
- Scott
  
  Like who would agree to their female staff going on strike for nothing? Like it’s not like there has been any event to justify a womens’ solidarity March. I know Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States. So it’s okay for women to go on strike?
  
  Man if I was an employer who had women not turn up for work because of this “day without women” I would suggest to them that the following days should be known as “days without a job”.
  
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  March 9, 2017 9:32am
- Fletch
  
  Funny how the ‘Day Without Women’ Protest is LITERALLY Being Led By A Man.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE3dq06icxU
  
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  March 9, 2017 11:15am
wiseowl

Some excited female on moaning report was quoting research by Grant Thornton that gave more results showing how unequal things are for women.
I would like to know who paid for this research ? What was their brief?
Ministry for Women?
If that is the case it is high time men had access to funds to counter this continuing biased feminist agenda.It is beyond the joke.
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March 9, 2017 8:12am
- yossarian
  
  Funny that we have no male protests or movements because men die 3 years earlier than women. Imagine if this was the other way round?
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:25am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Stop talking sense!!!
    
    Clearly you must be a fascist/sexist/racist/homophobe/nazi/islamaphobic/neo-liberal/white supremacist/far right wing hater (did I get them all in? I think I did?)
    
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    March 9, 2017 9:06am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Nope, missed “alt-right”, but never mind, Stephieboy will be along to correct that for you shortly.
      
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      March 9, 2017 11:28am
- Kabull
  
  Raise it as an issue on the next International Mens Day!!
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:53am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  For 80-90 years these women have been denied a basic education….. now they’re turning up to school.
  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39153771
  
  Go grannies!
  
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  March 9, 2017 11:41am
Happychappy

I have discussed this subject before but I find it absolutely astounding that the media don’t find it disgraceful and are to scared to hold Winston to standards that others would be crucified for on Tuesday in the house Peter had obviously been drinking or he is losing his mar and the more he tried to be coherent the worse he got and also couldn’t find his right notes to fit what argument he was trying to debate. If this is the Person to be the king maker in which ever Party he wants to be in Government with then NZ politics are in serious trouble.
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March 9, 2017 8:15am
- Manolo
  
  The love story between whisky and the venal MP is well documented.
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:21am
- macdee
  
  and childishly taking photos of Nick Smith and posting them, it’s a wonder he could keep the phone still enough
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:24am
  - G152
    
    Seeing that the debating chamber is not a public space the speaker should shut down such behavior immediately.
    The Tv cameras are there as I understand by all parties consent.
    Peters is the joke that no-one’s told but keep repeating
    
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    March 9, 2017 8:32am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  King-maker????
  
  He’s going to be King for a day!
  
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  March 9, 2017 9:07am
Igotta Numbum

Missed opportunity… International Mens Day should have been celebrated 9 months before International Womens Day.
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March 9, 2017 8:28am
- Pateke
  
  The Kiwiblog General Debate for mysoginistic old boilers
  
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  March 9, 2017 12:50pm
Left Right and Centre

Please vote this post ‘cheap shot of the day’ . . .

I see the Labour Party are going with a two chick leader strategy – interesting. Wow – one of them is really ugly – and the tall one ain’t exactly Angelina Jolie either.
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March 9, 2017 8:35am
Pongo

Hasnt it been fun this week watching our wonderful media in between posting Trump hit pieces has without any shame taken to kicking English over moving the pension age. Totally ignoring polling has support at 70% but having spent 8 years smacking Key around and calling him foolish for his promise not to move the age its quite an impressive flip flop. The spin of Labour adopted wholeheartedly by the media that its unfair to Jacinda and her friends is dare I say making them look a bit silly.
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March 9, 2017 8:36am
- Happychappy
  
  And Nicky Kaye gave Jacinda a bath in the other poll for her flip flop on being for it in the last Election and against it now. So another Labour MP that used to say John Key Flip flops being found out in doing the same.
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:50am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Pongo, you know it’s the media’s duty to kick National, therefore whatever position National takes they have to take the opposite.
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:51am
Viking2

More National fun police activities.

A dairy farm turned into amusement park has been temporarily closed by its owner as he tries to work through a long list of safety improvements to avoid potential prosecution.

Over the last five or so years, Dave Hunger has developed his Stratford dairy farm into Fernbrooke Farm Amusement Park, complete with cow rides, flying fox, a maze and even magic carpet rides behind a tractor.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/90181209/health-and-safety-dangers-close-dairy-farm-turned-adventure-park
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March 9, 2017 8:52am
krazykiwi

British Airways faces £290,000 bill after running out of toilet roll

Shitty airline in any case 🙂

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/ba-flight-delayed-for-five-hours-because-of-lack-of-toilet-roll/
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March 9, 2017 8:55am
- Nev.
  
  Brings to mind the abandoned spaceship on Frogstar B after Zaphod survived The Total Perspective Vortex.
  
  One day there will be lemon scented napkins.
  Nev.
  
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  March 9, 2017 11:35am
  - Komata
    
    Nev
    Nice to see that you a familiar with ‘quality’ literature… 🙂
    
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    March 9, 2017 12:22pm
- marcw
  
  They could have used some copies of Hager’s last book as a substitute.
  
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  March 9, 2017 4:53pm
Viking2

Interesting which evils congregate.

Air New Zealand, Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin join forces

Air New Zealand is teaming up with rival airlines to form a trans-Tasman aviation lobby group to tackle – among other things – the fees and facilities at the airports they use.

Qantas, Jetstar, Virgin Australia, TigerAir Australia and Regional Express (Rex) will join Air New Zealand as founding members of Airlines for Australia and New Zealand (A4ANZ).

Airport services and charges are high on the agenda with Air New Zealand chief executive Christopher Luxon calling them out as the group was launched.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/90210972/air-new-zealand-qantas-jetstar-and-virgin-join-forces

After having shafted a number of airports in NZ they want more. Want the taxpayer or ratepayer to pay more to keep their commercial operation going.

Why should they. Perhaps they would like to own their own facilities like the rest of us in business often do.
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March 9, 2017 8:56am
- MickMac
  
  Yeah
  I love AirNZ closing down Whangarei Airport while postsing a handsome profit and no doubt decent “bonuses” to the CEO and top guys….
  
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  March 9, 2017 10:02am
  - Lance
    
    If it’s such a wildly profitable route then others will flock in to take over.
    Oh… they haven’t?
    Wonder why?
    
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    March 9, 2017 12:32pm
- Ed Snack
  
  Well, the airport companies do pretty well and get to charge more or less what they want. You though, as a traveller, are the one hit by the charges in the end.
  
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  March 9, 2017 11:30am
Happychappy

Why would the film commission give $800,000 to some one to make a film about Dot Com and his troubles with Hollywood and piracy of their work. Isn’t there better stories in or of NZ to have told and without the stigma or being used for political gain seven months out from a election.
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March 9, 2017 9:04am
Manolo

The book for my good mate Kimbo: “Heavenly errors” by Neil Comins.
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March 9, 2017 9:05am
- Kimbo
  
  Thanks, Manolo.
  
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  March 9, 2017 10:57am
Manolo

Oh dear, his son is a snowflake:
http://www.twincities.com/2017/03/07/son-of-sen-tim-kaine-one-of-six-arrested-during-trump-rally-at-state-capitol-last-weekend/
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March 9, 2017 9:06am
Manolo

The UN, a hopeless supra-national body, can tell any country what to do, can’t it?
The UN human rights chief said Wednesday Donald Trump’s attempts to deport illegal immigrants could breach their human rights.

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein also said he was ‘dismayed’ by the Trump administration’s attempts to ‘intimidate or undermine’ journalists and judges, and expressed concerns about the impact of a Trump order that bans people of six mostly Muslim countries from entering the United States.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4294262/UN-human-right-s-boss-attacks-Donald-Trump-s-migrant-plan.html#ixzz4alcsascU
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March 9, 2017 9:14am
Longknives

Now I wouldn’t usually speak ill of the Dead but I saw a Documentary on this vile piece of crap. Her views were ‘extreme’ to say the least..

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/nyregion/lynne-stewart-dead-radical-leftist-lawyer.html
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March 9, 2017 9:16am
- Kimbo
  
  Not my politics, but to put it into perspective, and I’m sure you can think of plenty of examples (Eammon DeValera, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, Jomo Kenyatta, Nelson Mandela): Yesterday’s terrorist is today’s freedom fighter is tomorrow’s statesman.
  
  Like Benjamin Franklin said when the American Revolution commenced, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately”.
  
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  March 9, 2017 10:45am
SGA

Now I wouldn’t usually speak ill of the Dead …

Then I’ve misjudged you. Apologies.
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March 9, 2017 9:24am
Stars And Stripes

Female teacher jailed for sex with boy says she would have pleaded guilty despite denial
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/90159603/teacher-jailed-for-sex-with-boy-says-she-would-have-pleaded-guilty-despite-denial

Stand by for Rape Crisis to make a statement saying this is indicative of the rape culture which is pervasive in New Zealand.
Sorry I forgot, they are unavailable at the present time due to the more urgent need to re educate some school boys over their Facebook posts.
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March 9, 2017 9:27am
- Nev.
  
  She’s in denial. According to her the reason she is in jail is because she got “bad legal advice”. Any male sex offender who used this cop out would be kept in jail due to lack of remorse. Hopefully the parole board practises equality in this case. I am not holding my breath.
  
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  March 9, 2017 10:23am
Tom Barker

What ever happened to “lock her up”?
Surely now you’re Attorney General you’re in a strong position to convert your campaign cries into legal action Mr Sessions? Instead you’re the one facing Justice Dept investigation. This isn’t what your supporters voted for Jeffrey.
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March 9, 2017 9:46am
BananaLlama

I must be the only one in the country who doesn’t have a problem finding kiwi workers to hire. Oh Smoking pot and hitting the pipe are they? without a drug test would you even know? What they do on their time is their business not mine so i advise keep your nose out and pay people to turn up on time and finish the job.
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March 9, 2017 9:55am
- Ed Snack
  
  Because it’s simple. They turn up, have an accident because they’re drug affected. Guess who gets prosecuted and fined; (hint, it isn’t the druggie).
  
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  March 9, 2017 11:32am
  - BananaLlama
    
    Hire Contractors like everyone else these days and don’t hand me that shit that you can’t, sick of the racist National party trying to fuck over kiwis by pouring in cheap labor.
    
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    March 9, 2017 1:26pm
    - insider
      
      No you are still responsible for safety performance if you own or operate the work site/place. It doesn’t matter whether they are visitors, employees or contractors.
      
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      March 9, 2017 5:48pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        Only if you fail to adhere to safety guidelines.
        
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        March 9, 2017 7:27pm
- Garbageman
  
  In my industry (nothing to do with garbage btw) If people turn up impaired by either drugs or booze people can die, yet we only test on commencement of employment or an LTI lost time injury so on one hand yes people can do as they wish in their own time but you put my other 40 employees in jeopardy then goodbye and good riddance and fyi I have had many prospective employees not come back after they were made aware of our testing policy and they can fuck off to KFC or wherever for all I care and there are only so many facepalms I can manage at once by you labelling it racist the mind boggles at that attitude
  
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  March 9, 2017 2:20pm
  - BananaLlama
    
    Awesome so there is no shortage of workers then just your strict hiring standards. Thanks for making my point.
    
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    March 9, 2017 2:49pm
    - simpleton1
      
      Yeah right, after taking a risk, and allowing for a change in the employee’s life.
      Thoughts after cleaning up damage costing about $10,000 plus down time recently.
      Nothing is certain, but it does make one become very aware of the risks, particularly in small business.
      
      So that is your answer “Hire Contractors like everyone else”
      
      What a cop out.
      So they test their staff so you do not have too.
      Hire immigrants any way, as they have the personnel department to go through that.
      
      Hey it is a problem !
      How do we get children/adults involved, to understand things about life, and to make it worth while to live a life that is worth while.
      To set goals/ambition and then to take steps on that path.
      To be aware of the pitfalls, in gratification, yet find a balance, and still to have fun in life.
      So that at the end one can say they lived life in abundance.
      
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      March 9, 2017 3:19pm
    - Garbageman
      
      so your idea of “strict standards” is me not wanting stoned or drunk people around my employees I guarantee you wouldn’t feel the same if a loved one of yours never came home due to one of these fuckwits you truly cant be as thick as your comments make you out to be but my commitment to that statement is wavering rapidly
      
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      March 9, 2017 4:17pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        No thats you putting words in my mouth, What i say is this. What employees do in their time has NOTHING to do with the Employer and if the law is making them your responsibility then the law is what needs to be changed.
        
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        March 9, 2017 4:32pm
      - Griff
        
        The law dose not make it your responsibility to police your employees recreational time.
        The testing industry and the reefer madness believers both are happy to continue to enforce this silly idea that blood testing, that shows up use up to a month or more ago, must be adhered too.
        A blood test can not tell if you are stoned or not.
        It can not result in a conviction for health and safety purposes .
        http://www.findlaw.co.nz/articles/4314/drug-testing-case-example-drug-use-out-of-hours-an.aspx
        It is just away to stop people who smoke pot being in your industry.
        Around 20 % of the population.
        
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        March 9, 2017 5:07pm
      - insider
        
        @ griff
        
        No you can’t police staff behaviour outside work but it is their responsibility to turn up for work ready and able, and you can discipline them for turning up drugged or over alcohol limits.
        
        The only way you will detect cannabis traces a month after use is if they are chronic heavy users – three or more times a week over a long period. Basically. Their system is so saturates with dope traces, the body takes a month to clear it. I can’t imagine many would trust those people to work alongside
        
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        March 9, 2017 6:03pm
EAD

Under pressure, Amazon stops selling Holocaust-denial books

https://www.thejc.com/news/world/under-pressure-amazon-stops-selling-holocaust-denial-books-1.433963

Amazon (who loudly proclaim as a “corporate value” that they support free speech) needs to make up its mind on this because the contradictions are blatant.

If people dont believe in the holocaust then free speech must prevail so these claims can be debated. If no debate is allowed then people will naturally think that there is something to hide.
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March 9, 2017 9:55am
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Ultimately Amazon is a private company so it has the right to stock what it chooses but I do have to wonder what other lobby groups are going to bring pressure to bear on Amazon to withdraw titles they disagree with in the future.
  Donald Trumps biography because it is sexist and misogynist?.
  Tintin In The Congo because it is racist?.
  The possibilities are endless really.
  
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  March 9, 2017 10:15am
- stephieboy
  
  EAD, for about the only time I agree with you . Holocaust denial should to be able stand up beside the best in Holocaust historical scholarship , eye witness and other accounts.
  
  Just the same as other kinds of preposterous conspiracy theories like Fake Moon landings and Ufology vs Space exploration and Astronomy .
  
  People have the right to be informed and even misinformed .
  
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  March 9, 2017 10:40am
  - EAD
    
    Indeed Stephie,
    
    The truth should not need laws to protect it.
    
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    March 9, 2017 10:52am
    - Kimbo
      
      Good, then you and stephieboy put your money where your mouth is, form your own publishing company, and you can then pour your time, capital and reputations into the venture of pumping out the material.
      
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      March 9, 2017 10:56am
    - stephieboy
      
      EAD, the Holocaust falsehoods that you peddle should simply be either challenged or blithely ignored whether on print or on the web , etc.
      
      I think a problem with Holocaust denial is it that straddles the borderline between untruths and hatred of jews ;
      
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      March 9, 2017 11:44am
  - Lance
    
    On the ‘fake moon’ landings.
    I was having a chuckle at the conspiracy nutters throwing their toys out of the cot at the new Chinese moon rover video. It confirms NASA images / movies are all true and correct.
    Their response is “China is in on the conspiracy as well”
    LOL
    
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    March 9, 2017 12:36pm
- Fletch
  
  Yeh.. I’m all about free speech and such, but unlike subjects such as climate change which people can disagree about and present arguments for or against, the Holocaust is a documented FACT. It didn’t happen that long ago. We have film of the camps. There are still Jews alive that went through it – still with the numbers tattooed on their wrists. Germans are still being hunted down and brought to trial because of the things they did there.
  
  I could deny that the Sun actually exists and write a book about it and , yes, I am entitled to under free speech, but it isn’t very helpful.
  
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  March 9, 2017 11:21am
  - EAD
    
    Fletch,
    
    Nobody is arguing that there weren’t work camps nor are they arguing that they didn’t have their hair shaved or that some were given ID markings. THAT is documented FACT.
    
    That the same internment policies against enemy aliens were used in America for Japanese and in Britain for Germans amongst others hardly rates a mention.
    
    What there is an overwhelming body of evidence arguing against however is:
    – that there were gassings
    – there was a “final solution”
    – that “6 million” Jews were killed. Even when they were forced to revise down the number of deaths at Auschwitz down from 4m+ to less than 1m in 1992 (read below) due to the good work of the revisionists, still the mythical 6m number didn’t change (even the 1m number is wayyyyyyy to high).
    
    http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/17/world/poland-agrees-to-change-auschwitz-tablets.html
    
    And to lump sun rotation and moon landings as somehow being equivalent to questioning the official holohoax narrative….dont make me laugh! For a start, the former 2 aren’t being used as a moral guilt trip to force open the borders of all goyim countries in order to destroy them now are they?
    
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    March 9, 2017 8:56pm
VicParking

A week before the election the US MSM (CNN, Times etc) came out to say that SOURCES have stated that wiretaps have shown that the Trump team were in bed with the Russans in trying to rig the election. Now that they have lost they are saying that there where no wiretaps and the Trump is making it up. The snowflakes seem covered in shit to me.
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March 9, 2017 10:02am
MickMac

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/wikileaks_cia_dump_has_some_peculiar_timing.html

Interesting read.
Julian hasn’t hurt the Russians or Chinese has he?

Plus someone at the CIA needs to shut down the deep web leakers and broker good relations with the President or they’ll find the knife being used on their funding.
I’m sure it is being planned right now.
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March 9, 2017 10:04am
- Griff
  
  You think attacking the investigation community’s funding is a good way to make them toe Trump’s party line?
  I can see multiple issues with this line of thought
  Like will this get them onside?
  Is this bribery?
  Will these attacks on the spy’s result in a US less able to defend agsint terrorist attack?
  
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  March 9, 2017 10:37am
Paul Marsden

Anybody having any issues with Xtra’s email service?
Turned to custard last night and again this morning (and now). Thanks
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March 9, 2017 11:05am
- artemisia
  
  Not having a problem. I’m in Wellington.
  
  They are about to start shifting people off Yahoo so could that be the issue?
  
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  March 9, 2017 11:22am
  - Ross12
    
    When I was shifted over last week I got all 5000+ emails in my deleted box showing up as new emails.
    No warning from Spark — I’m not a computer expert so my first reaction was the computer must have been infected with a virus of some sort.
    After deleting them the computer and my phone all is OK.
    
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    March 9, 2017 12:05pm
  - howitis
    
    Yep Xtra has been dog tucker all today.
    
    However after years of the Yahoo crap one’s expectations are not high.
    I was transferred over on Sunday and had 700 double up emails come across again. I only saw on Saturday that in Yahoo the ‘deleted’ emails never actually delete so took ages to clean out years of that. Yahoo is processor heavy and after a few actions it gets slower and slower. You have to log out and log back in.
    Yahoo was goodnight Irene once Google got going by 2003. It was a poor choice.
    Google Mail (Gmail) flushes out the Trash at 30 days. Yahoo remains full of Trash.
    Spark never informed customers of this because well I guess they are opposed to providing customer service. Moutter fired hundreds of CS staff when he came back after his stint at AIA.
    
    Supposedly a ‘bonus’ according to our lustrous media is that T.O.P. Catkiller Morgan’s son is a shareholder in SMX, the new Spark email platform. That made me roll my eyes.
    The low IQ scribblers could not actually identify why this is a good thing.
    
    Since Simon Moutter has been in charge the joint has got even worse.
    Telecom NZ/Spark have made an artform out of having utterly dreadful CEOs.
    They are now a service retailer not an infrastructure company. Infrastructure went to Chorus. However they appointed an engineer with the personality of a monkey wrench to be CEO instead of a person who understood the retail game ie Chris Quin. Quin took his considerable skills off to sell peanut butter and milk at Foodstuffs.
    The opportunity to ‘do better’ was quashed yet again by the board.
    
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    March 9, 2017 12:57pm
- nasska
  
  Thank the Mythical Deity that someone else is having the same problem with the incompetents at Spark. There’s now cause for vague hope that it may be fixed sometime in the future.
  
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  March 9, 2017 11:23am
  - howitis
    
    Hope is a four letter word
    
    I wonder if this will be similar to the Telecom stuff-up in the early 1990s with ICMS (I see a Mess)
    This was based on Telecom NZ selecting a computer system that had the largest customer base of 50,000 customers in a Texas town and was set up in a Telecom R.O.C.in NZ with 500,000 customers. It was a cock-up for quite some time and fortunately then they had IBM as an integral partner so IBM chucked a few ‘free’ AS/400s at it.
    This was when Telecom were 20% of the NZ stockmarket capitalisation.
    It was a poor effort by a large company. Fast forward to 2017:- Can do better….
    
    Telecom/Sparky is fortunate that its main competitor is Vodafone. Vodafone is British so they have not heard of customer service or if they heard about they shot the person who told them about it. Vodafone have been crippled in NZ since they went with an abortive billing/CRM system about 10 years ago.
    
    Vodafone provides a nice umbrella for Spark to hide under and sneak behind the skirt of that nice lady TINA – There Is No Alternative.
    Slingshot does not count and 2 degrees has had an ongoing month of trouble.
    
    Welcome to Manila. Have a nice day.
    
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    March 9, 2017 2:21pm
- Nev.
  
  Yes, xtra mail is down across the country.
  And apparently the shift has already been made from Yahoo. I got an email at the start of the week about it.
  
  I have had no service for 90 minutes now, in Petone.
  Nev.
  
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  March 9, 2017 11:38am
- Andrei
  
  Yes – it has been terrible, Emails lost, unable to send or receive for days at a time and so forth
  
  Spark has been giving me greif over other things recently
  
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  March 9, 2017 2:56pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Nope, mine has been fine. Webmail works at work and email works at home. Maybe they put me at the head of the queue? because of my abuse in the past?
  Xtra Yahoo works fine when it is working, but when it fucks up they blame everyone and everything except themselves.
  A long time ago I suggested to Telecom NZ that they needed to rebrand. They did, but did not take my advice, and became Spark.
  I suggested “Pelican” When the helpdesk asked why I told them “Then you can both stick your bills up your arse” Went down like a concrete parachute.
  Working fine, keep it up Spark – but the day you fail I will be on your arse so fast. It is 2017, not 1995
  
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  March 9, 2017 6:59pm
Fletch

Did you know that 78% of submissions made to Parliament’s recent euthanasia enquiry were OPPOSED to legalising assisted-sucide and euthanasia in New Zealand?

More than 16,000 Kiwis wrote to parliament to say ‘NO’ to legalised assisted-suicide and euthanasia.

More info – https://www.16000voices.org.nz/
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March 9, 2017 11:23am
- rangitoto
  
  So a few people feel strongly about it. Mostly skyfairy botherers I suspect.
  
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  March 9, 2017 11:31am
  - nasska
    
    What Fletch’s propaganda piece really means is that about 16000 Godnutters sent in a form letter distributed by their churches.
    
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    March 9, 2017 11:36am
    - krazykiwi
      
      nasska, That’s great isn’t it? Groups of people who feel strongly about something working together to be heard. It’s called democracy. Try it. You might like it 🙂
      
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      March 9, 2017 12:19pm
      - Griff
        
        Yip they put a big rubber band around them and treat it as one submission.
        
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        March 9, 2017 1:27pm
      - nasska
        
        How about a busybodying bunch of know-all illiterates trying desperately to push their hallucinations down the throats of the rest of us?
        
        Sounds much better.
        
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        March 9, 2017 1:39pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        nasska, Chill man. Lie down? Meds? And then let me know if these ‘busybodying bunch of know-all illiterate Godnutters’ are exercising their democratic right.
        
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        March 9, 2017 1:50pm
      - nasska
        
        They’re certainly exercising a democratic right but well illustrating that the franchise bar in NZ was set at a ridiculously low level.
        
        In any case it’s more the subterfuge the church leaders have indulged in that rankles. Surely there must be some of their poor misguided sheep capable of making an original submission.
        
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        March 9, 2017 1:58pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        In any case it’s more the subterfuge the church leaders have indulged in that rankles
        
        There are 1.5+ million NZers who associate as ‘Christian’ and probably (sorry, couldn’t find the stats) a few hundred thousand that are regular churchgoers. That 16,000 submitted something says to me that the majority decided not to. Hardly subterfuge.
        
        Surely there must be some of their poor misguided sheep capable of making an original submission
        
        I’m sure there were. I know two who did. One is a palliative care specialist. The other is a cyclist.
        
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        March 9, 2017 3:40pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Politics and sports should not be mixed Fletch.
  Oh I got that wrong.
  Sport and religion should not be mixed?
  Help me out.
  Try Sesame Street, one of these things is not like the other.
  The euthanasia people have their say at the next Election – lobby your candidate
  
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  March 9, 2017 7:10pm
cha

Swamp dwellers graduate to the trough.

The list we obtained includes obscure campaign staffers, contributors to Breitbart and others who have embraced conspiracy theories, as well as dozens of Washington insiders who could be reasonably characterized as part of the “swamp” Trump pledged to drain.

The list is striking for how many former lobbyists it contains: We found at least 36, spanning industries from health insurance and pharmaceuticals to construction, energy and finance. Many of them lobbied in the same areas that are regulated by the agencies they have now joined.

That figure is almost certainly an undercount since we only included those who formally registered as lobbyists, a process increasingly avoided by many in Washington.

https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-hundreds-of-officials-trump-has-quietly-installed-across-government
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March 9, 2017 11:45am
- jonar
  
  I wonder how long Spicer will cope with having to defend this sort of thing.
  
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  March 9, 2017 1:54pm
  - cha
    
    Easy. Baghdad Sean will compare the trough to the swamp and point out how tiny the trough is.
    
    http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/spicer-begs-america-to-look-at-his-tiny-health-care-bill.html
    
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    March 9, 2017 2:17pm
- cha
  
  industries from health insurance and pharmaceuticals
  
  See, there’s so much more money to be made when you get your snout in the trough.
  
  There’s a sweet deal for insurers buried in the GOP’s new Obamacare bill.
  
  Health insurance companies could realize a $1 billion or more windfall over the next decade — and end up paying their CEOs even more money — because of a simple tweak in the GOP’s proposal to replace Obamacare.
  
  http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/07/health-insurers-billion-dollar-windfall-gop-obamacare-replacement.html
  
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  March 9, 2017 5:45pm
Stars And Stripes

Pornography causes you to write offensive Facebook posts about rape and consent
https://www.familyfirst.org.nz/2017/03/wellington-college-incident-is-evidence-of-pressing-need-for-action-on-porn-harm/.
““If we want to tackle sexual violence and the type of attitudes that have fueled the Facebook posts causing concern at Wellington College, we must first admit the role that pornography plays and the harm that it does to attitudes and actions.”

Sorry Bob you are really clutching at straws and just plain barrow pushing here as the sorts of attitudes you are referring to pre date the wide availability of pornography by decades.
You really need to get out a bit more.
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March 9, 2017 12:24pm
- Fletch
  
  What is interesting to me is that the same people who are up in arms about the so-called “rape on campus” epidemic and who march for women’s rights are probably fans of Fifty Shades of Grey, in which a young, naive woman is sexually abused by a rich, powerful man.
  
  Liberals are never consistent.
  
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  March 9, 2017 12:40pm
- Nev.
  
  Neuter all boys at age 8, that ought to fix the problem.
  
  Nev.
  
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  March 9, 2017 12:47pm
Manolo

Will President Trump’s administration manage to reduce red tape?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/08/trump-agency-heads-already-rolling-back-obama-era-rules-on-their-own.html
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March 9, 2017 12:33pm
Fletch

Prager U tackles the fake “wage gap” subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcDrE5YvqTs
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March 9, 2017 1:22pm
BananaLlama

This has to be the first time in History that the political right are complaining about drug addicts getting of their arse and getting a job. Pathetic.
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March 9, 2017 1:42pm
cha

And they’re off….

A Marine detachment from an amphibious task force has left its ships to deploy to Syria near Raqqa, defence officials told The Washington Post.

While special-operations advisers have been on the ground in the country for some time, the move shifts more conventional personnel into the country and represents a new escalation of the US’s involvement there.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/us-marines-on-the-ground-in-syria-to-help-recapture-raqqa-2017-3?
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March 9, 2017 2:40pm
Stars And Stripes

Female sports coach on trial charged with indecencies
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11814540.
“A teen has told a court that as a 12-year-old boy he was too scared to tell his female sports coach to stop when she fondled him intimately and put his hand on her breasts”.

Oh no, rape culture again today.
My mistake, another women.
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March 9, 2017 4:44pm
nasska

Under normal circumstances it’s difficult to find much to praise Winston Peters about but this time the old tusker has hit the nail on the head. In response to the nannying proposal the police heads have made to the Minister re BYO he has this to say:

…..”It is BYO at the races today, but it will become a blanket ban on alcohol at community and family picnics next.”…..

AND

….”For that small minority who cannot behave responsibly with alcohol, we should return the drunk and disorderly laws, which an equally out-of-touch Parliament removed some time ago”…..

He’s right. Dead right!
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March 9, 2017 5:04pm
starboard

A big ” far queue ” to murri..great to see

http://1law4all.kiwi.nz/2017/03/09/maori-statutory-board-given-arse-card-by-high-court/
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March 9, 2017 6:59pm
- Nermal
  
  Do you not realise you turn readers off with your “murri’ BS? I would have clicked on the link otherwise.
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:01pm
  - starboard
    
    I couldn’t give a flying fuck if you look, or not.
    
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    March 9, 2017 8:34pm
- wiseowl
  
  A small victory maybe SB.
  Now we have the Ohaarewho member crying ‘racist’ on stuff when he sees the truth printed out for him and given to his constituents.
  He just doesn’t get it.
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:11pm
  - starboard
    
    Hopefully he’ll get it..right up the cacker election day..
    DCM the pompous prick.
    
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    March 9, 2017 8:36pm
Manolo

An army of bureaucrats is at war with President Trump:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/08/chaos-at-state-dept-is-slowing-trump-down-critics-say/
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March 9, 2017 7:30pm
Stars And Stripes

Teacher suspended for inappropriate relationship with 10-year-old boy
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/90232658/teacher-suspended-for-inappropriate-relationship-with-10yearold-boy.

Hell more rape culture.
No sorry, another women.
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March 9, 2017 7:32pm
nasska

National Women’s Day, the “Day without a woman” strike has shown what a valuable role they play.

Thousands of men have been seen walking into sandwich shops with unironed shirts.
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March 9, 2017 8:01pm
- Nermal
  
  But listen to the silence….
  
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  March 9, 2017 8:02pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Look who will be coming home soon
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/90265522/british-backpacker-out-of-hospital-after-hostage-horror-in-queensland
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March 9, 2017 8:04pm
rightoverlabour

I nearly logged out when I saw that that opening salvo was by W of O quickly supported by the rest of the Climate Nutters (especially Griff). Griff really starts to lose the plot with his childish rants, if he behaved like an adult we would more likely to engage in an intelligent debate. Thank goodness Trump is going to expose much of the fraud that has been perpetuated under the name of science. And no Griff, I wont be responding to anything you say, so don’t waste your time.
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March 9, 2017 9:00pm
- Griff
  
  Ohh Trump is gonna change science .
  It all a plot to steal my money.
  Gibbering whackos
  You dont respond because you dont want me to point out how stupid you are.
  
  You want respect for conspiracy based nonsense?
  ROFL
  Fuck off nutter .
  
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  March 10, 2017 12:49am
Left Right and Centre

I saw in the msm – two years back the cops tasered some fat badarse in his car. 179kg of badarse.
Yeah – er – died soon after – er – ahem – that’s a bit of a downer.
That – is *really* wrong. Come on, cops !!
At the weight of two normal people – use two tasers.

Fark – they should’ve just approached the prick with a steaming hot bucket of KFC and smoked the cant out – hehehehe and then still tasered him – hey cuz – you got a chicken wing in your teeth – I’ll get it – bzzZzZZzzZzZzZz
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March 10, 2017 3:49am
Manolo

This progressive and seller of smoke continues to peddle his crap:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pope-francis-warning-donald-trump-populism-evil-die-zelt-ends-badly-western-democracy-a7620016.html
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March 10, 2017 6:02am
Manolo

The RINO army at work:
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/323163-mcconnell-tax-reform-unlikely-by-august

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday poured cold water on the Trump administration’s goal of completing tax reform by the August recess.
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