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General Debate 21 July 2017

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Prince

I’m no fan of Sue Moroney but what a great job she did in holding the Attorney General, Martin Matthews, to account for his mismanagement at MOT.
Ignoring his Legal Dept’s concerns about the fraudster is bad enough, but as this article points out there are even more serious concerns about his behavior.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-07-2017/the-ministry-of-transport-fraud-case-why-the-rot-goes-deeper-than-joanne-harrison/
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July 21, 2017 12:38pm
- Lance
  
  Trouble is, this is the tip of the iceberg
  Managers screwing over fellow workers for giggles/ power-trips is rife in the Public Service and the assholes get away with it as nobody will call them to account.
  
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  July 21, 2017 12:47pm
- RalphT
  
  MM is Auditor-General, not the Attorney General (which is a political position). But agree with the rest of your comment/
  
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  July 21, 2017 12:49pm
  - Prince
    
    Sorry, stand corrected. I’m a big fan of the current Attorney General.
    
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    July 21, 2017 2:09pm
- Peter
  
  Yes, there is a lot more to it, because this sort of thing is a systemic issue. There will always be bad actors, but it’s the system that allows them to operate for so long.
  
  And who is responsible for that, at each level?
  
  Those are the people we really need to hold accountable.
  
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  July 21, 2017 12:49pm
  - holysheet
    
    No one in the public service gives a fuck about this. It’s not their money so there is no accountability. The powers that be will write a glowing reference for these crooked pricks and let them go on to the next job.
    
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    July 21, 2017 12:54pm
    - MGT
      
      errr… the whistle-blowers show that some public servants do care about what goes on in their organisation.
      
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      July 21, 2017 1:10pm
- Chris2
  
  The public still do not know the true extent of Harrison’s previous criminal offending because of Court rulings at the time.
  
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  July 21, 2017 1:12pm
  - Prince
    
    Let’s all board Martin’s Love Caravan, courtesy of you and me, taxpayers:
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/94917859/mot-fraudster-joanne-harrison-leads-charge-on-staff-engagement
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    July 21, 2017 2:17pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      What is it with the public service and crap like that? I’m not sure which is worse, that the cardboard cut out “Caravan of Love” cost us $5k or that staff took it seriously.
      
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      July 21, 2017 2:50pm
      - Huevon
        
        Their jobs are pointless, so employees get unhappy and can’t effectively produce the pointless crap they are employed to produce. So even more time and money gets wasted by management on “engagement” and pointless morale boosting exercises. It’s insane.
        
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        July 21, 2017 3:33pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        Indeed. Regular floggings would be far more effective. 😉
        
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        July 21, 2017 3:46pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Prince,
  Thank you for bringing that Spinoff bit to our attention. It is things like that and people like you that make this the best blog on the Net.
  I have been very critical of Sue Moroney in the past. I have joked about how she has been instrumental in increasing National Party politician’s majorities.
  But, by her actions in this matter she has shown far more political nous than any of the National candidates who have swamped her at the ballot box on three yearly intervals.
  I will be more hesitant in future when castigating Labour Party politicians.
  
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  July 21, 2017 3:41pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    One swallow does not a spring make
    
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    July 21, 2017 3:51pm
  - Biscuit
    
    TN, agreed.
    
    We (moi included!) are quick to denigrate politicians from the other side of the fence from us.
    
    But we shouldn’t blind ourselves to the fact that our politicians are, overwhelmingly, genuinely there to better their fellow citizens.
    
    Bad political eggs here are almost as rare as in our other service industries – the Police, e.g..
    
    Sue will never get my vote (which won’t worry her TOO much given that I’ve never set foot in Hamilton let alone voted there!) but she gets a ginormous uptick from me for her work here.
    
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    July 21, 2017 3:53pm
Fletch

Question for the day: If United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held a press conference with (say) Russian Ambassador Kysliac to tell the world about a “reset” of relations with Russia that involved pressing a big, fake, plastic button, how do you think the media and the Democrats would respond? Different than when Hillary did it?
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July 21, 2017 12:39pm
- KIWIANTHONY2
  
  Fletch..
  
  read a bit more. Because Hilary pushed a reset with Russian is different to whats happening now. You could use your intelligence and read the millions of public reports in many details about all thinks Trump/Russia.
  
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  July 21, 2017 12:52pm
  - Fletch
    
    I’ve read just about everything there is. None of it backed up with any evidence of wrongdoing with Russia. It’s the Democrat ‘collusion delusion’ as someone put it the other day.
    
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    July 21, 2017 2:16pm
    - Urban Redneck
      
      If a member of the Trump family ordered Beef Stroganoff for dinner, the media would claim “collusion”. They’ve totally lost the plot – they can still not accept that Felonia von Pantsuit lost the election, even though she only ever had two claims to fame: 1, being the wife of one William Jefferson BJ Clinton, and 2, the capital (D) next to her name on the ballot paper.
      
      Turns out Jimmy Hoffa and Amelia Earhart were at the secret meeting Trump & Vlad had at the G20, too.
      
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      July 21, 2017 3:24pm
    - jcuk
      
      Americans have a paranoia about Russia.
      Like some kiwis ‘reds under the bed’
      
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      July 21, 2017 3:36pm
- Ed Snack
  
  I wonder if they would even want to mention that the Russian label on the button actual translated as “Overcharge”. But Hillary and the Dems are the smart ones, right ?
  
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  July 21, 2017 1:34pm
Gazza_001

inb4 salty lefties complain about not having anything to do with their day because GD was late
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July 21, 2017 12:40pm
Hugh Pavletich

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NEW HOME PRICING: PHOENIX SANITY … AUCKLAND, SYDNEY, HONG KONG LUNACY …

PHOENIX SANITY …

Pulte Homes … Phoenix … Arizona

https://pulte.com/homes/arizona/phoenix/florence/parkside-at-anthem-at-merrill-ranch-7739#CommunityDetailsView

… Check out the affordable or near affordable North American housing markets …

2017 13th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf

… Google search ‘……. New Homes’ … for example ‘Atlanta New Homes’ … ‘Dallas Fort Worth New Homes’ … ‘Houston New Homes’ … ‘Phoenix New Homes’ … etc etc.

Note the North American convention is to only include heated areas when stating building areas … while in Australia and New Zealand the convention is to include garaging. Therefore add garaging (circa 6×6=36 square metres (10.764 square feet = one square metre) to the North American examples … to compare apples with apples.

… NOW FOR THE LUNACY … HAVE THE POLITICIANS COMPLETELY LOST CONTROL ? …

… HONG KONG … SYDNEY … AUCKLAND …

Hong Kong average price of new home hits $1.8m … Financial Times
… google search title if blocked …

https://www.ft.com/content/9206350c-6c62-11e7-bfeb-33fe0c5b7eaa

Developers in Hong Kong sold a record $17bn of new housing in the first half of the year, with the average new home costing $1.8m in the world’s most expensive property market.

The jump in sales comes despite heightened tensions in Hong Kong’s relationship with Beijing and is likely to exacerbate anger over the high cost of living and inequality in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

Hong Kong’s biggest property developers are tycoons such as Li Ka-shing, Lee Shau-kee and the Kwok brothers, who exert a substantial degree of influence in Hong Kong’s undemocratic political system. …

… Hong Kong has the world’s least affordable housing relative to income, according to US consultancy Demographia. The median house price is equivalent to 18 years of gross household income, presuming no tax or other living expenses. … read more via hyperlink above …
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July 21, 2017 12:45pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
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  Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) … Lateline – 19/07/2017: The suburbs where homeowners could feel first impact of potential housing downturn
  
  http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2016/s4704698.htm
  
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  
  Broadcast: 19/07/2017
  
  Reporter: John Stewart
  
  In Sydney, house prices have doubled since 2008 – but some property analysts are warning that a correction is looming and housing on the fringe of the city could be the first affected. John Stewart reports. … view and read more via hyperlink above …
  
  A Government-commissioned report has found that land use regulations add about 56% to the cost of houses in Auckland; ‘prices far outweigh costs in most major NZ cities’ … Interest Co NZ
  
  http://www.interest.co.nz/property/88883/government-says-land-use-regulation-blame-56%C2%A0-cost-average-house-auckland
  
  By David Hargreaves
  
  A Government-commissioned report has found that a staggering 56% of the cost of Auckland houses may be due to land use regulations.
  
  The report, which looked at housing in seven major cities in the country, says that land use regulation is hampering the flexibility of housing supply. The report and summary are available here. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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  July 21, 2017 12:46pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Thanks to GD, the scrollwheel-wrecking pain in the arse is back.
    
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    July 21, 2017 12:51pm
    - holysheet
      
      It might be worth it one day to forego GD just to stop this troll from posting his usual shit.
      
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      July 21, 2017 12:55pm
  - Notsofast
    
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    Good work Hugh. Everyone knows how to fix this, by the tax collector taking control of the situation. There is a vast supply of land around Auckland available for any government to do their duty. National have wrecked the country, as the mafia say, they have to go.
    
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    July 21, 2017 1:06pm
    - unaha-closp
      
      Labour controls Auckland Council, everyone knows that. What kind of idiot would want them in charge of the country?
      
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      July 21, 2017 1:15pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
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        Access yesterday’s threads guys …
        
        http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/07/general_debate_20_july_2017.html/comment-page-1#comment-1971764 … and … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/07/links-20-july-2017/#comment-2919583
        
        LEARNING FROM THE IRISH 2007 HOUSING CRASH … THE SEVERE COSTS OF MULTIPLE STRETCH …
        
        Its high multiple lending that ‘does in’ the Banks and their customers … as they learnt with the Irish housing bubble collapse in 2007.
        
        The New Zealand Banks are in no hurry to repeat the 2007 Irish experience … when the housing bubble burst there … putting all its Banks to the wall and requiring bailouts exceeding 70 billion euro or about $NZ 109 billion.
        
        Irish housing across its metros on average went from 4.7 times annual household income in 2007 to 2.8 a few years later … refer the schedule of Demographia Surveys at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .
        
        Australia is currently 5.5 times … New Zealand 5.9. … read more via hyperlinks above …
        
        Just new …
        
        Housing shortage puts strain on Ireland’s revival – POLITICO
        
        http://www.politico.eu/article/ireland-housing-shortage-puts-strain-on-revival/
        
        Prof Bill Black & others discuss the Irish financial system performancve … Youtube
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zd5dRILBw
        
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        July 21, 2017 1:25pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        SPLASH THE TAXPAYER CASH WITH RECKLESS NATIONAL ! …
        
        … WITH THE MASSIVE RENT SUBSIDIES / SPECULATORS WELFARE PROGRAMME ON TOP …
        
        Government spending $140K a day on housing homeless in motels says Labour … TVBZ
        
        https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/government-spending-140k-day-housing-homeless-in-motels-says-labour
        
        Labour says the Government is spending $140,000 a day putting up homeless families in motels. … READ via hyperlink above …
        
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        July 21, 2017 4:31pm
      - cmm
        
        With all the wait for GD to come today, poor old Hugh must be feeling like a bloke who had three too many curries last night.
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:43pm
      - cmm
        
        Too bloody right Hugh….
        
        For $150k, they could have bought 300 of these 5 person tents:
        http://www.kathmandu.co.nz/camp-and-hike/tents-and-shelters/family-camping/retreat-280-5-person-module-tent.html
        
        Seriously, that’s more than you need for shelter. My family and I lived in one for three months. If I can, then so can bludgers.
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:48pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        cmm … If Tories were required to live in tents, that would free up sufficient housing for the more deserving !
        
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        July 21, 2017 7:09pm
  - Notsofast
    
    A simple way to view this is the Fletcher building debacle.
    There is a housing crisis throughout the country that has occurred entirely under National’s watch. Where does the buck stop? Look at those Tongan kumara growers being kicked out by lousy Auckland thugs.
    
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    July 21, 2017 1:19pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      National wanted to fix the RMA to minimise the way it screws the price of land. Remind me again which parties wouldn’t let them.
      Sorry, National is getting the blame here for something they’re not allowed to fix.
      
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      July 21, 2017 2:14pm
      - unaha-closp
        
        This problem doesn’t actually exist within the RMA. The only problem was Len Brown (& Phil Goff).
        
        There is plenty of scope for councils to supply land at reasonable prices, as witnessed by the fact that Auckland Council is currently oversupplying the Auckland Region with land. The problems merely result of the truly awful nature of Auckland Council. Phil Goff deigns to supply virtually no land to Auckland City, because he insists on building huge, car centric, congestion causing, polluting, expensive & expansive sprawls around almost every other town in Auckland.
        
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        July 21, 2017 3:44pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Capt Mainwaring … You are way out of your depth on these urban issues.
        
        The RMA is NOT the core problem.
        
        The core problem is the bureaucratic bloat of larger Councils … where they lose the capacity to meet their infrastructure responsibilities and cope with growth.
        
        Take note of the consents rates per 1000 population per annum for May for smaller and functional LG units of Selwyn (29) Tauranga (15) Waimak (11) on the one hand … and the larger bureaucratically bloated Christchurch (7) Auckland (6) and the Woeful Wellington (3) on the other.
        
        Auckland is below the national average. Unbelievable !
        
        How is the grossly incompetent tinkerer Nick Smith getting away with this ?
        
        Go to this years Dem Survey Page 26 Fig 10 for the consent rates these past 5 years for Christchurch on the one hand and Selwyn / Waimak on the other … http://www.demographia.com.
        
        Go to my website http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org and read RESTORING HOUSING AFFORDABILITY: AN ADVOCATES TALE … taking note at the front end of Donald Ellis’s superb consents rate per 1000 population graph.
        
        The evidence is staring us in the face old chap … well at least for those willing to see.
        
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        July 21, 2017 4:55pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        New Zealand General Election 23 September this year …
        
        Housing Policies – New Zealand Labour Party
        
        http://www.labour.org.nz/housing
        
        … extract …
        
        Remove barriers that are stopping Auckland growing up and out
        
        Labour will remove the Auckland urban growth boundary and free up density controls. This will give Auckland more options to grow, as well as stopping landbankers profiteering and holding up development. New developments, both in Auckland and the rest of New Zealand, will be funded through innovative infrastructure bonds.
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        Following the passing of the Resource Management Amendment Act back March, Bernard Hickey of Newsroom reported …
        
        https://pro.newsroom.co.nz/articles/1629-newsroom-pro-s-8-things-at-8-trolling-millennials-is-easy-defamation-retrials-loom
        
        7. Just in case you missed it…
        
        One curious coda to the RMA debate that concluded last week was that the Opposition parties plus ACT and United Future all voted again during the third reading debate for amendments that would have abolished Rural Urban Growth Boundaries and allowed the financing of infrastructure bonds paid for with targeted rates.
        
        The amendments were defeated by National and the Maori Party.
        
        The irony of a Government that has railed against restrictions on land development by councils voting against removing those restrictions should be noted. And also that the proposal for infrastructure bonds was backed by the right-leaning New Zealand Initiative and voted for by the Greens and Labour. Strange times indeed.
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/07/aucklands-housing-shortage-become-catastrophic/#comment-2907735
        
        Hugh Pavletich
        July 4, 2017 at 5:24 am
        
        Housing affordability, supply issues dominate Kiwi concerns … NZ Adviser
        
        http://www.nzadviseronline.co.nz/news/housing-affordability-supply-issues-dominate-kiwi-concerns-238272.aspx
        
        New research shows that war and terrorism are the top global concerns of Kiwis but many domestic fears involve housing. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        Access additional polling reporting … http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org
        
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        July 21, 2017 5:05pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        NEW ZEALAND: BASIC ‘NUTS & BOLTS’
        HOUSING PERFORMANCE INFORMATION REQUIRED
        
        The selected residential consent numbers May for the following territorial areas were …
        
        Building Consents Issued
        
        http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/industry_sectors/Construction/BuildingConsentsIssued_HOTPMay17.aspx
        
        New Zealand … 2794
        Auckland … 885
        Tauranga … 145
        Wellington … 67
        Christchurch … 225
        Waimakariri … 56
        Selwyn … 138
        
        The finance focused website Interest Co NZ rather surprisingly still just repeats these raw numbers …
        
        New dwelling consents are increasing but still lag well behind growing demand in Auckland where housing shortage continues to worsen | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/88558/new-dwelling-consents-are-increasing-still-lag-well-behind-growing-demand-auckland
        
        The raw numbers on their own however don’t tell us much … unless they relate to the specific areas and population bases being discussed.
        
        Internationally, the accepted standard industry measure are the ‘consent / start / completion rates per 1000 population per annum.’
        
        So to get a real sense of the residential consenting activity each month, the raw Statistics NZ monthly numbers should be multiplied by 12 (annualized) and divided by the number of thousands of people within the areas being discussed.
        
        http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/estimates_and_projections/SubnationalPopulationEstimates_HOTPAtJun16.aspx
        
        For example (using Statistics NZ June 2016 population figures above) , let’s take Christchurch City with its population of 375,000 and its 225 consents for the month of May. Simply multiple the 225 by 12 to annualize it, which gives us 2700. Divide 2700 by 375 (the number of 1000 people living in Christchurch) which gives us a consent rate of 7.2 per 1000 population per annum. Hardly remarkable.
        
        Therefore …
        
        Pop (1000s) May consents / annualized Rate 1000 pop
        
        New Zealand 4700 2794 33528 7.13
        Auckland 1614 885 10620 6.57
        Tauranga 110 145 1740 15.80
        Wellington 208 67 804 3.86
        Christchurch 375 225 2700 7.20
        Waimakariri 58 56 672 11.58
        Selwyn 57 138 1656 29.05
        
        So … appropriately … based on the respective populations, the ‘star performers’ are Selwyn (as usual … by a country mile), Tauranga and Waimakariri.
        
        Not surprisingly, Wellington at about 3.86 per 1000 population per annum is the worst within the above table.
        
        What is the Wellington Council learning from the Selwyn Council ?
        
        What the wider public also need to know is the comparative detailed costs breakout of fringe new housing in middle North America, and the detailed pricing on the fringes of New Zealands metros … as Andrew Atkins explained early 2013 … with THE REAL DEAL …
        
        http://andrewatkin.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/the-real-deal-housing-in-new-zealand.html
        
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        July 21, 2017 5:22pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        HOUSING & LAND USE LAW WILL FINISH OFF THIS GOVERNMENT 23 SEPTEMBER …
        
        To illustrate just how clueless Capt Mainwaring is on the RMA legislation amendment management issue, do read what Pattrick Smellie had to say back in March …
        
        RMA reform – a lesson in how not to do it: Pattrick Smellie | Stuff.co.nz
        
        http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/90212062/pattrick-smellie-rma-reform-a-lesson-in-how-not-to-do-it
        
        … and what Business New Zeralnd (Chamber of Commerce) had to say as well …
        
        https://www.businessnz.org.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/124009/170324-RMA-purpose.pdf
        
        The Resource Management Act has been changed a lot over the years but is still not fit for purpose.
        
        The RMA should be a short, understandable Act that enables responsible development.
        
        After more than 25 years of reforms the RMA remains long, complicated and anti-development.
        
        The latest attempt at reform, the Resource Law Amendment Bill currently before Parliament doesn’t change this enough. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        New Zealand First’s Ron Mark made it clear in the Parliament that in any coalition talks following the election, one of the few bottom lines would be that this RMA Amendment Act must be repealed.
        
        Bernard Hickey of NEWSROOM wrote around the same time …
        
        https://pro.newsroom.co.nz/articles/1629-newsroom-pro-s-8-things-at-8-trolling-millennials-is-easy-defamation-retrials-loom
        
        7. Just in case you missed it…
        
        One curious coda to the RMA debate that concluded last week was that the Opposition parties plus ACT and United Future all voted again during the third reading debate for amendments that would have abolished Rural Urban Growth Boundaries and allowed the financing of infrastructure bonds paid for with targeted rates.
        
        The amendments were defeated by National and the Maori Party.
        
        The irony of a Government that has railed against restrictions on land development by councils voting against removing those restrictions should be noted. And also that the proposal for infrastructure bonds was backed by the right-leaning New Zealand Initiative and voted for by the Greens and Labour. Strange times indeed.
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        The Radio New Zealand Kim Hill interview with PM Bill English a couple of Mondays ago, on the Auckland housing fiasco, gave me the distinct impression he is happy just to throw this election … as the best way of getting rid of the political weapon of mass destruction … Nick Smith !
        
        Study poor Prime Minister English in a state of despair …
        
        VIDEO: Bill English on affordable housing in Auckland | Radio New Zealand News
        
        http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/334786/video-bill-english-on-affordable-housing-in-auckland
        
        One doesn’t have to be too clever to figure out where all this is heading 23 September .
        
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        July 22, 2017 7:09am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Check out the above post at todays (Saturdays Kiwiblog General Debate at …
        
        NEW ZEALAND: HOUSING AND LAND-USE LAW WILL FINISH OFF THIS GOVERNMENT 23 SEPTEMBER …
        
        http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/07/general_debate_22_july_2017.html/comment-page-1#comment-1972959
        
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        July 22, 2017 9:35am
Manolo

The Russian saga goes on and on:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-20/trump-move-to-fire-mueller-likely-would-trigger-purge-at-justice
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July 21, 2017 12:45pm
- Inandout
  
  And the Clinton Foundation dodgy Russian business goes off and off.
  
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  July 21, 2017 12:51pm
KIWIANTHONY2

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Kick Depressed Billy Double dipton English to the gutter and get Steven Joyce ( Competent Business Man) to be our PM

Else we may get Winston Peters and his gang on nut jobs getting in as PM. ( Even though He has some good Policies)

Sue – Mike Hosking for fuller our plane with more CO2 which we will have to now pay more

Ask Kiwiblog to be real. Find out the background truth on our Lazy pathetic MPs.

Make cheesecake Legal again.

Trump needs to resign this month or he’s out by force next month.

Cheesecakes… mmm Please
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July 21, 2017 12:50pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Christ that was a rant from someone who just escaped from kindergarten.
  
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  July 21, 2017 2:16pm
  - Souvlaki
    
    ……too many hash cookies would be my guess…flight of ideas…rambling….disjointed thought process 🙂
    
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    July 21, 2017 2:28pm
  - KevOB
    
    Yeah.
    
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    July 21, 2017 3:19pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    . . . . who just escaped from kindergarten after eating all the raisins in the rabbit hutch
    
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    July 21, 2017 3:55pm
- holysheet
  
  Loon alert
  Escapee from Henry Bennett nutters home, or from the stranded?
  Take your pick.
  
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  July 21, 2017 2:41pm
Longknives

Salvador Dali has had his tomb opened and his body exhumed-

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40677828

All because a 61 year-old Tarot Card reader claims she is his illegitimate Daughter.
She is after a quarter of his Estate (something like 300 million Euros)
Seems Legit..
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July 21, 2017 12:52pm
- MGT
  
  I guess if John Banks doesn’t submit to a DNA test the same might happen to him!
  
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  July 21, 2017 12:59pm
Captain Mainwaring

So the bowtied bouffanted buffoon is pushing the ludicrous idea of a 4km road tunnel to replace the Ngauranga Gorge highway.
He just gifted his seat to Labour.
What a clown.
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July 21, 2017 12:53pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  I wish it was so easy for him to lose his seat. But promises of ridiculously wasteful spending are happening every day in our election campaign and this will just be tomorrow’s fish and chip wrapper. If he wants to be in the news for longer than that he should try admitting welfare fraud or better still, tell us what really happened with Andrea Vance.
  
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  July 21, 2017 1:04pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Be fair, he was a clown before the tunnel idea.
  
  If he spent his time doing his job as vigorously as the efforts he expended trying to get into Andrea’s knickers . . . .
  
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  July 21, 2017 2:05pm
- KevOB
  
  The tunnels not a bad idea at all. Those of us who have travelled the local trains and all who go from Wellington the main way North go through a very long tunnel. It been there at least 78 years.
  
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  July 21, 2017 3:24pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Using peacock-head’s logic the way to fix SH2 between Ngauranga and Petone would be by way of a tunnel under the harbour.
    
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    July 21, 2017 3:35pm
    - Biscuit
      
      Never, CM!
      
      The way to go is to drain Wellington Harbour, extend the airport runway to Petone, build a multi-laned expressway and sell off the rest of the new land for some of that affordable housing!
      
      Whoops, that sounds like Angry Andy’s next policy!
      
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      July 21, 2017 3:58pm
lastmanstanding

Matthews clearly had the hots for the fraudster. Wouldnt mine betting she put it out to keep her job.

Typical of the bullying that goes on in NZ. We are one of the worst countries with bullying at all levels.

Its a social disgrace and one that is tolerated from the top on many organisations across all sectors.

Fact is bullies are cowards. Have had to fire a number of them over the past 40 years in business. In all cases when challenged they broke down like wimps especially the males.

Big at dishing the crap out but like being on the receiving end.

I always found great satisfaction when calling then out and firing them. All deserved it.
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July 21, 2017 12:56pm
- cmm
  
  “Typical of the bullying that goes on in NZ. We are one of the worst countries with bullying at all levels.”
  
  Sure we might have some bullying, and it should not exist, but one of the worst? How do you figure that out?
  
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  July 21, 2017 1:48pm
Shawn Herles

Official press release from the UN Ministry of Liberal Global Governance.

Dear Aotearoans, here is your approved list of parties to vote for in your upcoming election:

The LIBERAL Party (a.k.a The Greens)
The Liberal Party (a.k.a Labour)
The liberal Party (a.k.a National/ACT)

Enjoy your, ummmmm, “choice”, and could the supports of the different versions of the LP please fight amongst yourselves to maintain the pretense.

Thank you for your time and your ongoing obedience to your global rulers. 🙂
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July 21, 2017 1:13pm
G152

How about the ‘political reporter’ for TV1 ?
Totally unbiased reporting …
Riiiight
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July 21, 2017 1:16pm
Manolo

Freedom of expression the Muslim way:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-20/malaysia-bans-despacito-on-state-radio-tv-due-to-lyrics

Malaysia has banned “Despacito” on state radio and television, though it might be hard to slow the song’s record-breaking popularity.

Communications Minister Salleh Said Keruak said Thursday the song was reviewed and banned because of public complains that the lyrics are obscene.
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July 21, 2017 1:19pm
- stephen2d
  
  Didn’t realise so many people in Malaysia speak Spanish.
  
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  July 21, 2017 2:08pm
- Brigitte
  
  Muslims have always been sensitive to song lyrics. At least since 1963 when the FBI investigated ‘Louie Louie’ by the Kingsman. Oh, hang on a second, not Muslim….
  
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  July 21, 2017 2:12pm
- MCos
  
  Thailand bans kissing from it’s many soap operas, so the viewers have to make do with copious quantities of domestic violence.
  
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  July 21, 2017 5:05pm
Paulus Gnome

Reaction of 100 people to the fiscal spending plan of the labour wannabes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT9QippLtyI

A smile on a pretty dismal rainy day 🙂
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July 21, 2017 1:19pm
G152

How about the ‘political reporter’ for TV1 ?
Totally unbiased reporting …
Riiiight
And the breakfast program on TV3 totally news orientated..
Riight
Or the program on TV3 after the 6 pm Fake news…
As if TV3 didn’t do Fake News they embellish it..
And can we please have less of President Trump bashing and more NZ stuff
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July 21, 2017 1:21pm
- MGT
  
  yea, I get annoyed with the way that Mike Hosking is so biased as well.
  
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  July 21, 2017 1:46pm
unaha-closp

Labour Party idiots in power.

8 years of Len Brown and Phil Goff have destroyed the competitiveness of Auckland City:

http://www.superu.govt.nz/sites/default/files/Impact%20of%20land%20use%20report%20110717.pdf

The persistent dedication of the Labour Party to build sprawl massively in every part of the Auckland Region, except next to Auckland City has got results. Unsurprisingly it has resulted in bad results.

The Left will now just blame immigrants.
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July 21, 2017 1:26pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Do you own rural zoned land outside the Auckland urban boundary?
  
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  July 21, 2017 3:37pm
Manolo

Merkel’s ruinous immigration policies:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4715422/German-legal-verge-collapse.html

Germany’s civil legal system is teetering on the verge of collapse due to refugees appealing decisions to expel them from the country.

That is the verdict of a senior judge who said that asylum seeker cases are ‘overwhelming’ the system. ‘The situation is dramatic for administrative courts,’ said Robert Seegmüller, chairman of the Association of German Administrative Law Judges.
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July 21, 2017 1:37pm
- kowtow
  
  Ruinous ? Surely not , it’s the diversity dividend the progressives are always shoving down people’s necks….
  
  “There are currently more than 13,000 girls in Germany whose families plan to have them circumcised – an increase of 4,000 over last year – women’s rights group Terre des Femmes claims.
  “Due to the arrival of migrants from countries such as Eritrea, Somalia and Iraq, we have recorded a huge increase in the number of affected women and threatened girls,” Terre des Femmes spokeswoman Charlotte Weil told DPA on Tuesday.”
  
  https://www.thelocal.de/20170718/enormous-rise-in-girls-threatened-with-genital-mutilation-in-germany-report
  
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  July 21, 2017 1:50pm
  - Albert_Ross
    
    No, there hasn’t been “a huge increase in the number of affected women and threatened girls”.
    
    There has been a huge increase in the number of affected women and threatened girls in Germany. Where they are more likely to be able to get help, and avoid the threat, than if they were still in Eritrea, Somalia or Iraq.
    
    Or do you think those girls would be at less risk if their families hadn’t moved to Germany?
    
    Or that it doesn’t matter if they are circumcised as long as it doesn’t happen in Germany?
    
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    July 21, 2017 2:44pm
    - kowtow
      
      Get help?
      It’s their families that do this shit , they even take them to other third world cities to get it done……
      
      ““We don’t know of any cases where a girl was mutilated in Germany. It either takes place on a holiday back in their homeland, or during a visit to a practitioner in a city such as Paris or Amsterdam,”
      
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      July 21, 2017 3:06pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        Why do they “holiday” back where they allegedly fled from? The war and tyranny can’t be too bad if they choose to holiday in the middle of it.
        
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        July 21, 2017 3:22pm
      - Albert_Ross
        
        You can’t have it both ways. Either there is more genital mutilation going on in Germany than there was before the recent influx of people from Somalia etc, or there isn’t.
        
        In either case, it has still not been established that things are worse for the victims, or for anybody else, as a result of their families moving to Germany, than it would have been if they had stayed in Somalia etc.
        
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        July 21, 2017 3:54pm
- kowtow
  
  Enrichment!
  
  “This coupled with the fact that cases of sexual assaults or harassment were reported by women on Friday and Saturday, with Iraqi and Afghanistani men being investigated, has further added fuel to the fire.
  
  Jens Spahn, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party in the Bundestag (German parliament), said that the events during the fest reflected Germany’s problem with integration of immigrants.”
  
  https://www.thelocal.de/20170720/police-correct-misconceptions-about-small-town-riot-as-politicians-debate-immigration
  
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  July 21, 2017 1:53pm
- Inandout
  
  Germany rose from the ruins of war and became a strong economy, despite the old East dragging them down after unification. This time around they have introduced a virus in the form of Islam, and they are gradually losing their nationhood. The probable outcome – Phase one: when the court system collapses so will law and order. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see utter chaos on the streets of Germany will ensue. Phase two: the resurgence of extremism, which the krauts take to like ducks to water. Phase three: public order and blind obedience to a strong leader.
  
  If I were a towel head I would be making contingency plans to head back to the sand dunes, because it won’t be a picnic for a Muslim living in the fatherland.
  
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  July 21, 2017 2:30pm
- kowtow
  
  Ah, more of that diversity dividend, so enriching.
  
  “Born to Ghanaian parents in the northern German city of Bremen, Sarfo converted to Islam after moving to London.
  He became radicalised while in a German prison for taking part in a robbery and claims to have traveled to Syria in April 2015 to join ISIS.”
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4713380/London-postman-charged-taking-ISIS-execution.html#comments
  
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  July 21, 2017 4:36pm
RF

National are sending out requests for money to fight the election.

I would feel more sympathetic if they stopped contributing to the bloody Clinton Foundation. Aussie did…….
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July 21, 2017 2:08pm
- dad4justice
  
  Have you signed RF? How anybody could think National are acting of the best interests of kiwi’s are insane.
  http://www.taxpayers.org.nz/clinton_petition?utm_campaign=newsltr_cattax2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=taxpayers
  
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  July 21, 2017 2:40pm
questions

Steven Joyce last night…

“Somebody on $48,000 does not need to be paying 30 cents on every dollar”

Can we get a minister of finance who understands how the tax system works?
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July 21, 2017 2:18pm
- VicParking
  
  Explain yourself please. To me it seems that you are the one who does not understand the tax system or Labours proposals
  
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  July 21, 2017 3:36pm
Shawn Herles

Winning! 🙂

“Trump’s Border Wall Gets Full $1.6B Funding…”

http://www.dailywire.com/news/18545/trumps-border-wall-gets-full-16b-funding-big-win-joseph-curl#

“Drill baby drill! Preparations begin for Trump’s border wall with engineers setting up test sites on the Mexican frontier”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4712008/Preparations-begin-Trump-s-border-wall-Mexico.html

“Illegal immigration across the southwest border is down more than 60 percent so far under President Trump”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/4/illegal-immigration-down-67-percent-under-trump/

“The Republican National Committee set another fundraising record of $13.4 million in the month of June, bringing their total 2017 fundraising effort to an impressive $75.3 million. In records provided to The Hill, the RNC revealed it had raised $13.4 million in June, the highest ever in a non-presidential election year, and had $44.7 million in the bank.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel credited the figures to the RNC’s “loyal network of grassroots donors” supportive of President Trump’s agenda.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/20/rnc-breaks-another-fundraising-record-raises-record-13-4-million-in-june/
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July 21, 2017 2:39pm
- holysheet
  
  Nah it’s all false news.
  
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  July 21, 2017 2:44pm
SteveRemmington

This story caught my interest. Considering the timing around the thief from the Green Party and me being naturally suspicious of the media I thought to myself, is this person who is critical of WINZ just a mouthpiece for the left?

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/201851767/it-sets-you-up-to-make-you-feel-inadequate

Took two minutes to expose the subject of the articles true colours.

https://thestandard.org.nz/when-theyre-laughing-at-you/
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July 21, 2017 2:41pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  The entitlement is strong in this one.
  Is there a givealittle page as well?
  I wonder if she’s tried NZWW, since she clearly doesn’t mind publicity.
  
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  July 21, 2017 4:05pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  mum (film-maker Gaylene Preston) had her finger over the lens.
  
  You just can’t make this shit up.
  Please donate – just for comedy value
  
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  July 21, 2017 5:43pm
- realityczech
  
  Why didn’t the father help the dirty skank out ?
  
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  July 21, 2017 5:50pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    why should he? He is another bludger (and artist)
    
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    July 21, 2017 7:29pm
- Flash
  
  WOW! that photo was 2013. I’ve never heard of this “very successful actress on both sides of the Tasman”.
  I would have thought that Mum could have helped out with family expenses – I know I would, if I had the resources that could save my daughter from extra stress at a difficult time.
  
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  July 21, 2017 8:31pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Actually, you’ve got this wrong.
  Chelsea Preston-Crayford gave birth to a very sick child.
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11825057.
  
  She was entitled to benefits in the months that she & her hubby were coping with their dangerously ill baby.
  This is what our Social Welfare is for… genuine recipients.
  
  Genuine people get a hard-time because so many other folks try to rip-off the system.
  
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  July 21, 2017 9:43pm
Kevinnz

Cops issue warning on synthetic cannabis:

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/health/2017/07/police-understood-to-be-investigating-multiple-deaths-due-to-synthetic-cannabis-use.html

Ironically will this give the MOH the kick up the ass it needs to legalise the real thing? Don’t hold your breath but if the government would rather continue with prohibition and let users die then it tells you where the government’s priorities are with regards to drug policy.
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July 21, 2017 2:43pm
- Inandout
  
  Pfft…but what about the homeless? It’s all about the homeless, wall to wall homeless.
  
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  July 21, 2017 3:07pm
  - SteveRemmington
    
    Synthetic Canabis just reduced the homeless number quicker than Labours Kiwibuild policy would have.
    
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    July 21, 2017 3:28pm
  - VicParking
    
    All 23,000 of them. There was 24,000 but 1000 died in the streets. They needed front end loaders to remove the bodies. But dont worry, Once liebour deport all the students and migrant workers, build 100,000 houses in six months every one will have a four bedroom home for themselves.
    
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    July 21, 2017 3:44pm
- kowtow
  
  The only people letting users die are the users themselves.
  
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  July 21, 2017 3:46pm
- Jack5
  
  Always someone-else to blame. Buy drugs from a gang and blame the Government’s drugs policy. Sorry, wrong.
  
  People stupid enough to take this crap take along with it the risk of potential death. It’s no-one else’s fault.
  
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  July 21, 2017 3:47pm
  - Gruffydd
    
    Yip jack so right
    The fact that people buy drugs from a black market dominated by gangs obviously has nothing to do with drugs being illegal .
    Having a illegal market doesn’t make it possible to sell any old rubbish scrapped from a failed cook and cut your drugs with Drano , Sugar and Rat poison.
    
    At all.
    Ever .
    
    ///sarc///
    
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    July 21, 2017 4:08pm
    - nasska
      
      Careful Griff. You forget that God (Tm) has endowed religio/conservatives with the ability to control the lives of normal mortals. Their wisdom includes but is not limited to policy on recreational drugs (except alcohol), abortion, assisted suicide & anything else they don’t like.
      
      If people die or suffer needlessly then it’s just collateral damage.
      
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      July 21, 2017 4:43pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        “You forget that God (Tm) has endowed religio/conservatives with the ability to control the lives of normal mortals. ”
        
        On one issue or another, almost everyone, including you naaska, and Griff, wants to “control people”. Only a few whackjob anarchists want total freedom. Liberals who claim they want freedom, except where it harms others, are merely shifting the goal posts of control, not repudiating control itself. And the definition of “harm” is completely subjective.
        
        Unless you’re an anarchist (and arguable not even then) the “freedom vs control” argument is dishonest nonsense. Truth is, everyone wants control. We just differ on how much and where.
        
        As for me, I wear the authoritarian label with pride. 🙂
        
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        July 21, 2017 5:28pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”Liberals who claim they want freedom, except where it harms others, are merely shifting the goal posts of control”…..
        
        I can live with that.
        
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        July 21, 2017 5:40pm
      - realityczech
        
        “As for me, I wear the authoritarian label with pride. ?”
        
        Shawn, you wear the religious nut job label.
        
        Your ignorant beliefs in life won’t save you from death. When you go that is the end. So you might as well cut the crap now and live a life based on reality.
        
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        July 21, 2017 5:42pm
      - dad4justice
        
        “When you go that is the end.”
        Is that factual or just the ramblings of a loon?
        
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        July 21, 2017 5:54pm
      - realityczech
        
        I am open to any proof you have god exists.
        
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        July 21, 2017 5:58pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Proof sure where did this sense of right and wrong come from if not from a holy God?
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:10pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        @ realityczech
        
        Who’s version of “reality” are we talking about?
        
        Human beings are interpretative creatures. Nobody just sees reality without any filter. And everyones filter, yours included, is a conscious or unconscious set of philosophical assumptions.
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:30pm
      - realityczech
        
        Just the proof thanks guys.
        
        And which god are you all referring to ? Zeus or one of the newer ones ?
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:39pm
    - holysheet
      
      Is it so hard for you to understand? Taking drugs is not compulsory. You do so at your own peril.
      If you think it is laced with all other crap why use the stuff?
      Don’t come bleating on here about the deaths that are the result from the use of drugs. Good riddance to the fuckers, stupid enough to indulge.
      
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      July 21, 2017 4:47pm
      - Gruffydd
        
        Hic……
        Humans take drugs .
        Always have… always will.
        The real problem is over use and addiction.
        
        Guess what drug causes the most harm?
        
        You can go to a bottle store and pickle yourself in enthonol to your harts content with no risk of it being full of methanol or cut with glycol.
        “Hic”.
        Despite this advantage your drug still does the most harm to its users and those around them.
        
        Why should you have the luxury of purchasing your drug in a legal and regulated market when other adults don’t with their recreational drug of choice?
        
        What I do in the privacy of my own home is none of your business provided I do no harm to others .
        
        Yet you conservanuts think it is.
        
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        July 21, 2017 5:23pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        “What I do in the privacy of my own home is none of your business ”
        
        It is if, when we move the viewpoint from the individual to the social, what you do contributes to social, national, or civilizational degradation and decline.
        
        “provided I do no harm to others”
        
        Your definition of harm is mere opinion based on individualist/liberal political ideology. There is nothing wrong with basing your definition on subjective and ideological opinion. Mine is also. But lets be honest about that, and not pretend that definitions of “harm” are objective fact.
        
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        July 21, 2017 5:46pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Shawn Herles
        
        How about taking it out of the abstract and back to the practical issue of drug use that kicked off this thread, and put it into the (to quote you) “social” setting that at least you and nasska and Gruffydd can agree:
        
        On balance, does the criminalisation of some recreational drugs create a net benefit or harm?
        
        And how do you quantify it?
        
        Or are pragmatic outcomes irrelevant, and instead it should be decided on the basis of…ideology?
        
        Not trying to trick you in your words, especially with that last question, and as you are honest enough to admit you are an authoritarian – and yes, we all are to some extent – I’m assuming you don’t have a problem with it.
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:18pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Shawn Herles
        
        Also, not wanting to be a nit-picker, but I’d suggest your descriptors “mere opinion” and “completely subjective” in respect of “harm” are too sweeping and over-egging the pudding. In your self-enforced absence from Kiwiblog you may have missed the development of the meme, Kimbo’s law© – “in blog world the validity of an argument is in inverse proportion to the use of emphatic adverbs”. Consider the update my “welcome back” gift to you 😉
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:27pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        Kimbo, I was addressing the “freedom vs control” framework for thinking about the issue.
        
        As to the issue itself, I lean towards treating it as a health problem rather than a criminal problem. I am not in favor of outright legalization, but I am in favor of ending the “war on drugs” and ceasing to imprison or criminalize people who use them.
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:27pm
      - Gruffydd
        
        No Shawn .
        As always I can back my opinion with statistics and reputable peer reviewed literature from experts in the field.
        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311234/
        http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004477
        http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61462-6/abstract
        Reality has a liberal bias…..
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:44pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Kimbo, I was addressing the “freedom vs control” framework for thinking about the issue.
        
        Hmm. Seems a bit like an illegitimate “others do it too” distraction posing as a “set a framework of reference” argument, especially when I can understand from nasska’s pragmatic judgement about drug use and assisted dying (I’ll leave aside abortion) that there are no direct harmful effect on others. “Lowering the tone/helping to change expectations/modelling a choice”? Yeah, sure, but again, in the main and from a pragmatic point of view, those effects on others are indirect.
        
        Anyway, gotta go to the gym and then enjoy my beers afterwards…
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:48pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        “Reality has a liberal bias…..”
        
        Really Griff? Hmmmm. I can’t remember ever hearing of a lion thinking about the rights of it’s food to live free without interference. Or of a group of lions forming an antelope rights association.
        
        Nature is red in tooth and claw. There is nothing liberal about it, and your “reality” is just liberal ideology.
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:54pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Shawn Herles
        
        …and am off to gym right now, but before I do (and sorry to leave this as a Parting Shot – maybe we can pick it up later), but your approach reminds me of Ken Ham’s arguments for Creation Science.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyZjX2e7Kx8
        
        At the first opportunity, rather than discussing the data (and Gruffydd did post a series of links – his “Reality has a liberal bias….” comment was a tongue-in-cheek exaggeration)
        
        …there is always a reversion back to “philosophical assumptions/frameworks”. Don’t dispute they are always in the play, but they should not be used as a “get out of jail free” card to avoid the issue. And in respect of the “issue” that kicked off this thread, nasska is right – historically conservative Christians have been at the forefront of the move to criminalise drugs, including temperance and Prohibition…
        
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        July 21, 2017 7:21pm
  - Kevinnz
    
    Fair enough but what about people who don’t know what they’re doing buying synthetic thinking it’s real? No one buys cannabis thinking there’s a good chance it’s going to kill them do they? And if you have a drug policy that puts something lethal on the same par as something non-lethal (though still harmful) then I have every right to blame drug policy.
    
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    July 21, 2017 5:03pm
    - kowtow
      
      “No one buys cannabis thinking there’s a good chance it’s going to kill them do they”
      
      Who knows ,no accounting for how thick these losers must be.
      
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      July 21, 2017 5:16pm
Manolo

The WaPo’s daily contribution to fake news:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-lawyers-seek-to-undercut-muellers-russia-investigation/2017/07/20/232ebf2c-6d71-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.4a854c7f1f84
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July 21, 2017 2:51pm
rightoverlabour

Typical crap stuff reporting

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/94971583/honeymooning-brazilian-tourist-clocked-at-202kmh-on-waikato-expressway

The caption under the photo reads

“Brazilian surgeon Marco Filho, adjusting his belt after leaving the Hamilton courthouse on Friday, was charged with dangerous driving after clocking 202kmh on the Waikato Expressway.”

What the fuck has ” adjusting his belt” got to do with the story? And FFS Mercedes are designed to be driven safely at well over 202kmh. Ask any one in Germany.
Pathetic New Zealand road rules, pathetic cops attitudes, and pathetic journalism. ( why was a photo taken of his wife?)

Voyeurs, not journalists….
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July 21, 2017 4:10pm
- Longknives
  
  So the Cops should have just ignored the fact he was driving at 200kph??
  One of my cars is a European V8 (and yep I’ve had speeding tickets)- Doesn’t give me the divine right to blast around New Zealand Roads at 200 clicks..
  *Would your attitude be the same if he was a Boy Racer in a hoody flipping the bird at the cameras?
  
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  July 21, 2017 5:01pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  The highway speed limit in Brazil is 110, so it’s not as if he’s not used to his fancy Mercedes being nobbled by the law.
  Unless in his home country he can get around it by flicking a few hundys the officer’s way.
  That probably explains it.
  
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  July 21, 2017 8:32pm
kowtow

Ridiculous. Surely it’s a trans male. He dresses as a she but is going to a mans’ prison so why insist on calling a he a she?

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/court-news/transgender-woman-held-over-armed-robberies
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July 21, 2017 5:29pm
realityczech

I note the parties favourable to removing restrictions on cannabis are the same ones who want more restrictions on tobacco and alcohol.

This calls into question the sincerity of their self professed liberal values and raises questions about their real agenda.

We have one right here on KB constantly ranting and foaming about other people enjoying a few drinks while totally blazed on illegal drugs !
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July 21, 2017 5:33pm
- nasska
  
  …..”I note the parties favourable to removing restrictions on cannabis are the same ones who want more restrictions on tobacco and alcohol”…..
  
  Leave me out of your fantasy. Anyone can get pissed or smoke themselves to death with my blessing.
  
  All I want is to see marijuana treated in the same way as alcohol. Make both legal or make both illegal…….it’s all the same to me.
  
  Just spare us the hypocrisy of “marijuana bad……booze good”.
  
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  July 21, 2017 5:47pm
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    It was not aimed at you snowflake. What part is “fantasy” exactly ?
    
    [Just spare us the hypocrisy of “marijuana bad……booze good”.]
    
    I did. In fact it was the point of my comment.
    
    I am pro legalisation. I said nothing to indicate otherwise. Read my post again when you are straight. Paranoid much 😉
    
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    July 21, 2017 5:54pm
  - Longknives
    
    “Just spare us the hypocrisy of “marijuana bad……booze good””
    
    Really Nasska? Every day Stuff and The Herald bombard us with some dubious story about Cannabis being ‘Harmless’ and how it ‘Cures Cancer’ etc
    Yet those same Outfits are hammering us relentlessly with stories about the ‘Evils of Alcohol’ (Usually an interview with a kiddie-station Radio host who got drunk once, or a ditzy ex Rugby Groupie who now aspires to Parliament)
    
    I’m for Decriminalisation of Cannabis but spare me the Bullshit please!
    
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    July 21, 2017 6:37pm
    - nasska
      
      …..”Every day Stuff and The Herald bombard us with some dubious story about Cannabis being ‘Harmless’ and how it ‘Cures Cancer’ etc”…..
      
      Dunno…..I never buy the rags & only ever go to their websites if someone links to an article.
      
      I was commenting here, on KBGD, where the crap from the religio/conservative majority is relentlessly pro grog – anti weed.
      
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      July 21, 2017 6:57pm
MCos

One of the Super quarter finals is played at a convenient viewing time for NZ TV audiences.
All of them are shown during RSA daytime.
I don’t understand why our games have to be played in the evenings, particularly in the frozen south, when the Northern Hemisphere games are played whenever they like.
I suspect it’s because our people are just there to provide the entertainment for the fat cats.
Muhammad Ali understood.
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July 21, 2017 5:42pm
- Longknives
  
  Been querying that point for years MCos- Sunny Daytime Test Matches were awesome! So much more atmosphere and excitement than sitting in the Mid-Winter Cold/Rain..
  
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  July 21, 2017 5:47pm
EAD_TWO

I see that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was caught recently warning that unless the European Union changed its attitude towards Israel, it would be destroyed.

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has launched a withering attack on the European Union at a closed-door meeting of eastern European leaders in Budapest, saying the political grouping would wither and die if it did not change its policy towards Israel.

The remarks, caught on an open microphone, underlined Netanyahu’s often barely disguised contempt for the European political union, which has criticised Israel – and his government in particular – over issues including Jewish settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories and the peace process.

…

“I think Europe has to decide if it wants to live and thrive or if it wants to shrivel and disappear,” he said. “I am not very politically correct. I know that’s a shock to some of you. It’s a joke. But the truth is the truth – both about Europe’s security and Europe’s economic future. Both of these concerns mandate a different policy toward Israel.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/19/eu-will-wither-and-die-if-it-does-not-change-policy-on-israel-netanyahu

I don’t know how anyone can interpret these remarks as anything other than clearly implied threats. Netanyahu believes that Jewish lobbying power, if applied in full force, would be able to bring about the destruction of the European Union.

But people on Kiwiblog like Lance and Kimbo constantly tell me that the belief in all-powerful Jews operating behind the scenes is a standard part of anti-semitic conspiracy theory. Thus we are forced to conclude that Israel’s prime minister is a self-hating antisemitic conspiracy theorist. Either that or all of those “conspiracy theories” about Jews are true. ?
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July 21, 2017 5:48pm
- Shawn Herles
  
  “I don’t know how anyone can interpret these remarks as anything other than clearly implied threats.”
  
  I can. Easily.
  
  He was not saying anything about “Jewish lobbying power” bringing down Europe. Your reading that into his remarks, and it’s a pretty silly interpretation, to say the least. It is in fact obvious, given the location of the speech and who he is talking to, that he is referencing the EU’s lax attitudes towards Islamic immigration and terrorism, and saying that it is part and parcel of it’s attitude towards Israel, and this attitude may well destroy Europe.
  
  Note the location, Budapest. Hungary is a country with a staunchly nationalist government, that has refused Merkel and the EU’s demands to take in millions of Muslim “refugees”, and a nation that Israel has good relations with by the way. Plus he’s talking to other Eastern European nationalist leaders who are standing up to the EU over Muslim “refugees”. Obviously, he is talking about the shared enemy, Islam, being a threat to both Israel and Europe, and that the EU has to change it’s attitude towards Islam, including it’s pro-Palestinian attitude. That, not your “Jewish lobby” interpretation, is clearly what he was saying. Especially, as I said, the very obvious clue that he’s talking to nationalist leaders opposed to the EU’s policy regarding Muslim immigration and refugees.
  
  And he’s right. The EU’s anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian ideology is tied at the hip with it’s lax attitude towards Islamic immigration and the “refugee” invasion. And that IS a threat to Europe.
  
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  July 21, 2017 6:13pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Interesting interpretation Shaun,
    
    or he could just be talking about IsraAID, the Israeli Government agency whose raison d’être is to ensure that Europe is flooded with 3rd Worlders.
    
    http://www.newobserveronline.com/2015/11/israel-officially-aids-3rd-world.html?m=0
    
    Contrast Israels policy of pushing endless 3rd worlders into Europe with its own domestic policies that ensure Jewish racial purity and exclusivity, through its racially-based immigration laws, its anti-miscegnation marriage laws (which make it illegal for non-Jews to marry Jews in that country), and its deliberate policy of cleansing Palestinians from their ancient homes.
    
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    July 21, 2017 6:51pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  Lots of people on Kiwiblog make comments that read like threats against the EU (similar to what Netanyahu said). Yet, are we to also believe that Kiwibloggers are also capable of destroying the EU?
  
  Honestly, I read the piece above and can’t see what you are getting excited over.
  
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  July 21, 2017 6:14pm
  - realityczech
    
    Yes its crazy alright. There are even loons out there who think illiterate Muslim peasants living in mud huts are a threat to the West !
    
    Now that is a special kind of crank.
    
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    July 21, 2017 6:19pm
    - Shawn Herles
      
      “There are even loons out there who think illiterate Muslim peasants living in mud huts are a threat to the West !”
      
      Read this, then get back to me.
      
      ‘The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam’
      
      “The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive change as a society. This book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities, but also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode.”
      
      https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Death-Europe-Immigration-Identity/dp/1472942248
      
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      July 21, 2017 6:45pm
      - realityczech
        
        Sorry Shaun the link won’t open on this device, but I recognise it. That is from Germany circa 1930’s.
        
        I was talking about the situation today.
        
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        July 21, 2017 6:50pm
  - realityczech
    
    “Lots of people on Kiwiblog make comments that read like threats against the EU (similar to what Netanyahu said). Yet, are we to also believe that Kiwibloggers are also capable of destroying the EU?”
    
    Are these KB people in charge of nuclear weapons and the best equipped military in the world and backed by the USA military ?
    
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    July 21, 2017 7:13pm
Shawn Herles

“but I recognize it. That is from Germany circa 1930’s.”

Oh dear, you’re one of those. “Nazi!” “Fascist!”

It’s a recent book. Try it. If you have the courage to challenge yourself. Or, dare I say it, confront reality. 🙂
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July 21, 2017 7:02pm
- realityczech
  
  Recommends a book pushing Hitler’s ideas… calls me a nazi 🙂
  
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  July 21, 2017 7:07pm
  - Shawn Herles
    
    “Recommends a book pushing Hitler’s ideas”
    
    Oh dear….
    
    No, it really doesn’t. But at least you have revealed that your devotion to “reality” is in reality a devotion to mindless politically correct mantras.
    
    By the way, Progressive-Liberal Political Correctness is a religion. 🙂
    
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    July 21, 2017 7:15pm
    - realityczech
      
      So it was wrong when Hitler said it… but right now someone else is saying it ?
      
      Which suggests you are a supporter of the central theme. Eg: Lets target a particular religion to preserve our culture.
      
      I am pretty sure that did not work out too well last time they tried it.
      
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      July 21, 2017 7:22pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  @ Shaun Herles,
  
  you and Murray’s book talk of a “strange death of Europe” and that they’re in “self-destruct” mode.
  
  You make it sound as if all this low IQ mass immigration is all some kind of accident and mistake gone wrong rather than being something deliberate in order to destroy all European nations globally.
  
  That is your fallacy and ideological blind spot and why it is actually you who can’t confront reality.
  
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  July 21, 2017 7:13pm
  - Shawn Herles
    
    “You make it sound as if all this low IQ mass immigration is all some kind of accident and mistake gone wrong rather than being something deliberate in order to destroy all European nations globally.”
    
    No, I do think it is deliberate. It’s deliberately being carried out by white progressive liberals filled with self-hate for themselves and their own civilization.
    
    It’s only your notion that it’s all a Jewish conspiracy that I reject.
    
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    July 21, 2017 7:20pm
    - EAD_TWO
      
      Shaun,
      
      Your view of the world is very much that of a Gatestone Online/Breitbart “counter jihad” reader which encourages you to to rage at all the atrocities around you but doesn’t encourage much thinking beyond blaming “dem damn Moooslims Liberaaals”
      
      Step back in time and look at those who have been pushing the “Globalist” agenda (multiculturalism, all the deranged and dementing strands of Cultural Marxism etc.) on the peoples of Europe and the West. The founders of the Frankfurt School, the Zionist movement etc. have been very careful to jealously preserve for themselves the most conservative and rigid of cultural, ethnic and even racial identities. Look at the immigration policy of Canada/Britain/Germany/the USA etc…and then look at that of Israel.
      
      It is “Globalism” for you, but “Nationalism” for me.
      
      What is being elaborated is a horizontally stratified caste system for the entire western world, where the lower strata are denied identity or soul, and only the top tier are allowed a culture, identity and ethnic preservation.
      
      It is as though the world were to become a plantation for a ruling caste, who will sit atop a deracinated mass of interchangeable humanity, whilst preserving their own creed and tribe, much as a mahout sits atop an elephant.
      
      You’re probably not even aware of the miscegenation agenda known as the Coudenhove Kalergi Plan which is already well under way, the colour of skin will be the outer mark of caste… the majority of Europeans in 60 to 80 years could conceivably well be mestizo/mulato as per Merkel’s “Ausichten 2050” – wherein it is speculated that by that date the vast majority of “Germans” will have an immigrant background.. The only race then on earth with white skin would then be in a certain middle eastern ethno state.
      
      Think man – don’t be afraid to challenge the cultural taboos that have made your mind an intellectual prison.?
      
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      July 21, 2017 7:35pm
Jack5

Expect to see more ethnic folk in NZ advertisements. That’s one likely result from a new advertising industry group set up to promote diversity, which presumably means in advertising content as well as in the advertising industry itself.

The NZ advertising industry’s Commercial Communications Council has set up a “Diversity and Inclusiveness Council,” whose declared goal is to to enhance the relevance and competitiveness of the NZ advertising industry by:

• championing the benefits of diversity on creative thinking and commercial outcomes.

• helping member agencies develop greater diversity at all levels.

This diversity council has eight female members and one male member.

When the LGBT folk get their teeth into the advertising industry which way will the industry jump? With conservative Pasifika and Asian consumers or with social liberals? Diversity isn’t as easily defined as scoial liberals think.

The advertising newsletter, StopPress, reporting on the Diversity and Inclusiveness Council, noted that New Zealanders not in the Maori-Pasifika-Asian groups – that is whites – will be a minority (49 per cent) in 21 years, according to Statistics NZ projections.
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- Longknives
  
  “noted that New Zealanders not in the Maori-Pasifika-Asian groups – that is whites – will be a minority (49 per cent) in 21 years..”
  
  Yet they will still pay 90% of the Tax that keeps the Country ticking over…
  
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  July 21, 2017 7:21pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  I see some African has slammed Game of Thrones (set in Medieval Europe) for having a “lack of black people”:
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4706576/John-Boyega-slams-Game-Thrones-lack-black-people.html
  
  Imagine their reaction if they we had a couple of random gingers playing Zulu warriors in Roots or Shaka Zulu…
  
  It appears “cultural appropriation” is good for everyone but whitey.
  
  Perhaps sub Saharan Africans should try writing some great literature in which blacks play the key roles instead of seeking advancement through positive discrimination into European culture. Although that is about as likely as their building and maintaining a civilisation that even blacks would want to live in, far less one capable of creating high culture.
  
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  July 21, 2017 7:46pm
  - SGA
    
    EAD_TWO
    
    Game of Thrones (set in Medieval Europe)
    
    Well… no, it’s not. It’s set in a fictional world.
    
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    July 21, 2017 8:01pm
  - Longknives
    
    George RR Martin could have written a series with 70-30 Black to White ratio.
    The pathetic,shrieking lefties would still be complaining about the lack of ‘Transgender’ and ‘Gender Neutral’ Representation…
    
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    July 21, 2017 8:08pm
    - SGA
      
      Possibly – he could have made them all green and blue if he’d wanted – his world, his call.
      But to say that it is set in Medieval Europe is just wrong. That sort of technological period is popular in a lot of sword and sorcery fantasy writing.
      
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      July 21, 2017 8:30pm
      - Longknives
        
        Are you suggesting there were no Dragons or White Walkers in Medieval Europe SGA??
        
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        July 21, 2017 8:39pm
      - SGA
        
        hehehe – don’t tell EAD, but just quietly between you and me (and the Welsh flag not withstanding), no. 🙂
        
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        July 21, 2017 8:42pm
Rachael Membery

Are there no homeless in ChCh?
http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/94910644/christchurch-backpackers-struggle-to-fill-beds-as-young-tourists-find-city-desolate
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July 21, 2017 7:44pm
Viking2

Judge: Dotcom spied on two months longer than previously admitted .

(who knew?) That will be interesting.

The illegal spying which earned Kim Dotcom an apology from former Prime Minister Sir John Key went on two months longer than previously admitted, according to a High Court judgment.

The revelation – if accurate – would open a can of worms over sworn admissions the GCSB has made in the High Court and the Court of Appeal over assistance given to police ahead of the FBI-inspired 2012 raid which saw Dotcom and three others arrested.

It could also raise the possibility of a fresh apology to Dotcom because Key’s apology was in the context of spying from December 16, 2011 through to January 20, 2012.

Questions have been asked of Prime Minister Bill English but he has not responded. A spokesman for GCSB Minister Chris Finlayson referred questions to the GCSB, even though previous issues around the illegal spying have been handled at ministerial level.

There are also questions for the office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security.

The previous Inspector-General investigated the unlawful spying and ruled there was “confusion” over what residency meant and how it applied to the GCSB’s law at the time.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11893618

If the spying continued a month after the GCSB knew it had broken the law, it would likely compel a fresh investigation.
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July 21, 2017 7:55pm
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  The spying should have been and still should be mandatory. Resident aliens should be on probation for at least ten years and be on their bike for the slightest infraction.
  
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  July 21, 2017 11:00pm
rightoverlabour

What the fuck are the police up to now?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/94962721/excop-fights-police-over-harsh-alcohol-sting-that-could-have-closed-rsa-permanently

Says a huge amount that an ex-cop is prepared to take the alcohol nazis on. FFS it is an RSA club. The members were prepared to sacrifice their lives to serve the country and the police do this to them? Police need to get their priorities right or the mostly deserved respect is going to go out the window. Traffic and alcohol busts are not the things that threaten our society. Crime is, and that’s where the priority should lie.
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July 21, 2017 7:58pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  This is a serious matter. If only the Police could give as much attention to burglaries, Joe Public would be elated.
  
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  July 21, 2017 9:58pm
Jack5

A Stuff report about TVNZ announcers’ pay includes this:

Unlike the BBC, TVNZ is not funded by taxpayer money, and is instead expected to turn a profit by selling advertising.

In fact the 2016 annual report of TVNZ shows that it received Government funding of $4.9 million or $5.4 million (the figures differ in the consolidate income and cash flow sections).

In addition TVNZ acknowledges that New Zealand On Air and Te Mangai Paho provide funding for the production and broadcast of specific programmes. Te Mangai Paho is a State agency that finances programmes promoting Maori language and culture.
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July 21, 2017 8:44pm
nasska

Said a journalist in 1865:

“But aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?”
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July 21, 2017 9:05pm
Manolo

WH rumble:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/us/politics/sean-spicer-resigns-as-white-house-press-secretary.html
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