General Debate 25 August 2017

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VicParking

Even Red radio are having to say that the Tooth fairy is slipping up on policy. No wonder they are limiting her visits to primary schools
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August 25, 2017 8:24am
- peterwn
  
  If Labour get in things are going to be a bit like the 1972 to 1975 Kirk government. Norm Kirk was distrustful of the public service and told his Ministers that they were to stand no nonsense from them. He virtually gagged the public service and insisted all utterances were via ministers. So when some rare chicks hatched at Mt Bruce, their progress had to be reported via the responsible Minister instead of local staff advising the media directly.
  Anyway, the Kirk government was going to ‘listen’ to the people. So when some group complained that a hydro power station was allegedly causing a problem the Electricity Minister would direct the NZ Electricity Dept (as it then was) to restrict the operation of the station to ease the alleged problem. The Department’s Assistant General Manager (a hardened professional who could be a proper b_) realised arguing was futile and made sure the limitation was applied, telephoning the station superintendent directly to make sure that it happened. This required make-up generation which had to come from the Marsden oil fired station – at a time when oil prices was skyrocketing. Norm Kirk had promised that Government charges would be held for 3 years, so this cost was not passed to customers. Finally Treasury got so alarmed that the Minister of Finance stepped in and had the Minister of Electricity replaced.
  So when Jacinda promises to ‘listen’ it would all depend who she and her people are going to listen to. For Charter Schools she will listen to NZEI and PPTA but not the Charter School pupils and their parents.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:00am
  - Kimbo
    
    Good post.
    
    For all his outstanding qualities and legacy as a Foreign Minister, Norman Kirk’s (and then Bill Rowling’s) third Labour government made a cluster fuck of many of its attempted reforms, even with the bad luck of the First Oil Shock on its watch. Kirk, for all his “practicality” (the man built his own house from blocks he made himself!) couldn’t translate that “common sense” into government and blamed the supposedly intransigent bureaucracy.
    
    Winston Peters more than any other current politician is of that era and paradigm of the 1935-84 “fortress economy”, and appeals to those voters who can’t see that what is “practical” i.e., matches their needs perfectly, is not necessarily easily repeatable for others on a large bureacratic scale, or there are other more expensive opportunity costs, e.g. insisting on NZ Wool carpets. Hence, when it comes to the big picture, they are impractical.
    
    But Ardern is not even that. She strikes me as no Kirk – no hands-on practical skills, but only adept at manipulating perceptions and opinions with bullshit phrases like “it’s time to have a conversation”. Usually sooner rather than later the reality fails to match the promises and it turns sour. But will that be in the next four weeks? I’m still guessing she will show her weaknesses at some point in the campaign…
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:39am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Kimbo: “But Ardern is not even that. She strikes me as no Kirk – no hands-on practical skills, but only adept at manipulating perceptions and opinions with bullshit phrases like “it’s time to have a conversation”.
      
      Cindy loves bumper sticker phrases. As you say Kimbo, all sounds great until voters realise there is no substance behind her platitudes.
      
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      August 25, 2017 10:26am
      - KKKKatee
        
        I’m waiting for her to start dropping “totally” in her dialogue if she hasn’t already. After all, that’s what the cool, hip chicks so. Gosh, if we all thought Andrew Little deserved the tag “Angry”, then I think we’re starting to see ‘lil Ms Ardern showing flashes of anger. Once you get them angry, they’ve lost it I think.
        
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        August 25, 2017 11:06am
      - GazzaW
        
        No substance behind her platitudes and no substance sitting beside or behind her on the Opposition Benches.
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:15pm
      - RF
        
        Ardern is just a foot stamper when she does not get her way.
        
        Heaps of self doubt and lacks confidence.
        
        Why is she walking in the lions den ??????
        
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        August 25, 2017 5:51pm
    - KevOB
      
      It’s already happened. The TV party advt shows her stepping out to address a meeting. She has her back towards us and we have no idea of what is going on. Brilliant waste of money. I think the implied message might be “trust me” as nothing else is offered.
      
      Where are considered viable alternative policies?
      
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      August 25, 2017 11:49am
    - Shawn Herles
      
      “I’m still guessing she will show her weaknesses at some point in the campaign…”
      
      She already is.
      
      “She was on the back foot for the first time’ – commentator says Jacinda Ardern ‘flounders’ on tax issue this week”
      
      https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/she-back-foot-first-time-commentator-says-jacinda-ardern-flounders-tax-issue-week
      
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      August 25, 2017 12:57pm
- thedavincimode
  
  No wonder they are limiting her visits to primary schools
  
  All part of her cunning ploy to target the 2032 election by which time she’ll be really hitting her straps.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:24am
  - ztev
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    These days you arent expected to spout policy out on the ‘grip and grins’
    
    Its the voters turn to be in the picture.
    Online is the place for policy anyway, and even with that national made sure they were light on that, plenty happy talk instead.
    
    Bills taken to saying ‘probably’ to a lot of questions when asked for answers.
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:48am
    - GazzaW
      
      Stupid comment ztev re Bill’s ‘probably’. A probability is way more definitive than the ‘dunno’ from Taxinda regarding CGT, water taxes, regional fuel taxes and all the other ‘policies’ dreamed up on the hoof and presented to us with no detail.
      
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      August 25, 2017 1:21pm
  - cmm
    
    It’s probably also making her egg timer run quicker too.
    
    Cindy, do yourself a favour: go have the kids you so desperately want to have, then come back to politics in 15 years.
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:06am
- sooty
  
  No votes in schools. Haaaaaa haaaaaa.
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:29am
redeye

I got my Car rego bill yesterday. $158.00. I looked back and in 2009 it was $379.00 for the very same car.
2 ticks blue.
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August 25, 2017 8:26am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  How long did you register it for redeye? I did mine yesterday for 12 months and it was $75.60.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:36am
  - VicParking
    
    Redeye drives a Mac truck.
    
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    August 25, 2017 8:43am
  - Gruffydd
    
    Depends on the safety of the car.
    Lots of Air bags traction control etc gives you a cheaper rate.
    
    Buy a ford mustang if you want to pay more for your ACC Levey. Ford managed to score only 2 out of five in testing due to deleting many safety aids for the Australasian market.
    
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    August 25, 2017 8:50am
  - redeye
    
    Nissan Pathfinder for 12 months.
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:26am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Subaru forever !!
      
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      August 25, 2017 11:49am
  - starboard
    
    Maryan Street was the minister running ACC during the klarkula error when it practically went broke. Complete amateur. Out of her depth. Just like all liarbor party seat warmers.
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:36am
- m@tt
  
  I regoed my er6 last month. It cost me $519.87. Almost triple what it did in 2009. Despite the fact I have never had an accident on two wheels.
  I’m still undecided where my two ticks are going.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:52am
  - cmm
    
    ACC is a no-fault scheme.
    
    It is nothing to do with individual fault, but with costs. If you crash, through your fault or not, the chances are you’re going to get hurt worse than someone in a car crash. Therefore it costs more to fix. Therefore you pay more ACC.
    
    Same deal for everyone else: farmers pay more for ACC than office workers because farm injuries cost more to fix than paper cuts.
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:13am
  - pdm
    
    What is an er6?
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:16am
    - Random T Person
      
      Kawasaki 650cc motorcycle. Like all motorcycles, dangerous as. I briefly got a bike here in NZ, but one of the things that made me get rid of it was the huge ACC…and also the realisation of how dangerous a motorbike is. An issue which didn’t even cross my mind when I was in my teens/early 20s.
      
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      August 25, 2017 9:24am
      - Kimbo
        
        Yep. I don’t know a single person who rides a bike who hasn’t come off it in some accident.
        
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        August 25, 2017 9:42am
      - Dafixeruppa
        
        I was about to say me, but then I had an accident too.
        Technically not my fault, but…
        
        EDIT: @Kimbo
        
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        August 25, 2017 11:03am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Dafixeruppa
        
        Yeah, and whether you are at fault or not, the result is the same and much worse for a motor cyclist. Sorry, don’t have much time for motor cyclists and cyclists even though I am paranoid about them when I encounter them on the road – like the idiot cyclist last night on a country road riding without lights or reflective gear.
        
        Had a mate, took up cycling, always insistent he was careful – and he was. Killed by a truckie who was in the wrong. So my mate was not at fault…and is still dead. 🙁
        
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        August 25, 2017 2:44pm
    - cmm
      
      One of those nasty things thats stuck in the radiator grill.
      
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      August 25, 2017 10:25am
  - VicParking
    
    Its not you but all the other bike riders who think they are made of strengthened steel but spend three months clogging up the hospitals and another six months living off ACC.
    
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    August 25, 2017 10:28am
- GazzaW
  
  I’m paying my annual self-employed ACC bill this week with an equal amount of gratification. Good work National – you inherited a deeply indebted dog and it’s now working as it was intended.
  
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  August 25, 2017 1:24pm
duggledog

Where is National’s campaign?

I reckon it’s time to hit hard and heavy, plain English (guffaw) in easy to understand ‘Iwi Vs Kiwi’ style.

’50 Cents to Flush Under Labour”

‘Labour Associates Greens’ Leader Can’t Afford House On $250 K”

“Labour = Greens = Encouragement Of Welfare Fraud”
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August 25, 2017 8:26am
- Gruffydd
  
  The greens have managed to self immolate.
  They are around 5% in polling.
  At the present the more you attack the greens the stronger you make labour.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:31am
  - john1234
    
    The perfect sport for Greens is 4.9%. Same for TOP. Do that and that 10% left bloc suddenly becomes 5% left 5% right under our MMP.
    
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    August 25, 2017 8:54am
- holysheet
  
  When your opponent is digging a hole, don’t bother to stop them.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:37am
  - Nosmo King
    
    Lend them a helping hand by making the hole even deeper so they can no longer crawl their way out.
    
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    August 25, 2017 8:45am
    - Colville
      
      nosmo.
      I think there is a pretty solid argument that having the greens on around 7% is actually helpful for National for this election.
      Having the Greens in the mix really makes it hard for Winnie and limits his choices.
      But then I would love to see National just to say NO to Winston now and go into the election yelling that either you are a National supporter or a Labour supporter and any vote for Winston is a vote for Taxcinda.
      
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      August 25, 2017 8:54am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        I think there’s an even more solid argument for the Nats getting 51% when they can tell everyone else including Winnie to naff off.
        TWO TICKS BLUE !!!
        
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        August 25, 2017 9:04am
      - Nosmo King
        
        Personally, I would prefer a bi-partisan approach in implementing government policies. That will work if the involved parties stick to the agreed terms from start to finish.
        
        Then again the political parties these days tend to flip-flop and switching sides before the ink is dry. I doubt this kind of thing will happen.
        
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        August 25, 2017 9:14am
      - PhilBest
        
        We’ve had a “bi partisan” approach for the last 9 years – National administering Helen Clark’s vision for NZ. The inevitable result is what we are seeing now – the Left staging their next-phase assault. What we actually need is “right wing” governments who repeal stuff, and policy that see-saws around roughly the same overall position. What we have now is an inexorable “ratchet” to loonier and loonier leftism.
        
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        August 25, 2017 9:29am
      - Gabby
        
        TULIXPU !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !
        
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        August 25, 2017 10:59am
- Gabby
  
  You’d have to be chocka with duggledung to blow 50c on a flush. Ease up on the stewed prunes.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:03am
- tf78
  
  I believe it starts tomorrow or Sunday.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:18am
Maxx

With The Green Party now a shell of their former socialist selfs, is a coalition with Nats now a possibility, especially if they’re mainly focused around enviromental issues?
Really gives them the opportunity to reposition themselves as a centrist party and stick it to Labour for leaving them out in the cold for all of those years!
And also opens up more coalition options for Nats especially for 2020+
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August 25, 2017 8:28am
- VicParking
  
  If you don’t get 5% you can’t stick to anyone.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:30am
- srylands
  
  Sure but it needs to be burned to the ground and started again. That requires the Greens to be out of parliament for 3 years.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:30am
- marcw
  
  If you look at the 6 list members that would get in on 5%, I wouldn’t want them looking after my dog to be honest. (Shaw, Davidson, Genter, Sage, Hughes, Logie). Knobs the lot of them.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:39am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Oh god. I was hoping that at least ghastly Logie would be unemployed come 24 September. Bugger. She’s still got a chance of keeping her snout in the trough. You’re right though – they’re all awful. Not one of them appear to be of any use to anyone – let alone the ‘poor’ people they claim to represent.
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:31am
    - Kimbo
      
      ot one of them appear to be of any use to anyone – let alone the ‘poor’ people they claim to represent.
      
      …including in Logie’s (self-appointed) case the Sri Lankans! 😉
      
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      August 25, 2017 9:43am
    - pdm
      
      I think Hamas quite like Davidson – after all she took a boat ride to try and see them.
      
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      August 25, 2017 10:16am
      - sooty
        
        When James Shaw gets tossed, who will the nutless co leader be? Maybe Gareth Hughes?
        
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        August 25, 2017 10:36am
  - wiseowl
    
    Is Genter a dual citizen?
    
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    August 25, 2017 12:45pm
- calendar girl
  
  Great in theory, Maxx. But the Greens need to demonstrate first, to New Zealand at large, that their primary policy interest is in the natural environment, not in ramping up Labour’s socialist policies.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:40am
  - GoVege
    
    What about National ‘s socialist policies?
    Especially their ties with the Maori Party?
    
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    August 25, 2017 8:56am
krazykiwi

The Civilian has posted an excellent summary of Peter Dunne’s achievement over his 33 years in parliament. Grab a coffee and settle in.
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August 25, 2017 8:30am
- VicParking
  
  I see you used achievement singular and that was his resignation.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:46am
- Prince
  
  I’m no big fan of Dunne but that’s a feeble attack – Gabby-like.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:49am
  - lifesgood
    
    Love The Civilian. You do realise it is satirical?
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:00am
    - Prince
      
      Empty pages was funny when Bob Jones published a blank book titled ‘Achievements of the Third Labour Government’, back around 1976.
      The ‘satire’ looks tired now.
      
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      August 25, 2017 9:15am
      - geoff3012
        
        Think it was 74
        
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        August 25, 2017 10:03am
mandk

The Green Party wants to pour $630-$700 million of taxpayers’ money into a Wellington light railway.

Even if you accept that it could be built that cheaply, the BCR is only 0.05.

Thank goodness these nutters are never going to get near government.
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August 25, 2017 8:30am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Gang Green
  Gangrene
  Gone Green
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:31am
  - Colville
    
    ….hand me my bone saw…amputation is required
    
    here…bite down on this stick!
    
    *bwahahahahaha* 🙂
    
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    August 25, 2017 8:59am
  - GazzaW
    
    ……certainly not Green With Envy.
    
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    August 25, 2017 1:30pm
- PhilBest
  
  Vichy National has already caved on paying for loony Watermelon local government Dorkland’s trams. Where is their “red line” that will be the basis for saying “no” when Wellington’s even more loony local elected representatives come along with their hands out too?
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:53am
- Huevon
  
  What is it about trains and lefties?
  
  And wtf is “light rail”? It’s a TRAM!!!
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:44am
  - KevOB
    
    Where could you put one in Wellington? There’s no room.
    
    In Sydney they tried with an elevated one but I believe that has been abandoned. It was fun to ride. Wellington would only have room for a single line unless they stacked the return on another level.
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:58am
    - GazzaW
      
      The Sydney monorail is being or has been demolished. It was a fucken eyesore in the CBD and a never-ending drain on the taxpayer.
      
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      August 25, 2017 1:35pm
Steve (North Shore)

Someone on $250K can’t or won’t buy a house but wants to spend other people’s money?
Do you really want them near the Taxpayer’s chequebook? I don’t think so Tim
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August 25, 2017 8:30am
- Gabby
  
  He’s thrifty Stoive. You angry he’s not ponzi material bro?
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:23am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    He will be Ponzi material if he gets his hands on the finances. Fuck that, I will sell up and move to Thailand like Starboard. Or go to Alaska (that’s in 2 days btw)
    
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    August 25, 2017 5:03pm
Captain Mainwaring

Saw a Jacinderella poster this morning with ‘Free Education’ plastered over it.
Didn’t know she’d announced that one yet.
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August 25, 2017 8:31am
- Happychappy
  
  Well this might be the reason Gareth Morgan has spouted Jacinda will win the Election it must also have a factor in him saying she’s intelligent.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:52am
- GazzaW
  
  Labour should have finished off the ‘Free Education’ caption. ‘Free Education from the NZEI’ would be more accurate.
  
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  August 25, 2017 1:37pm
- Southern Raider
  
  I bet this gets dropped in the last week of the campaign to guarantee she cleans up the young vote just like her mentor did
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:53pm
alloytoo

In the history of the 20th Century when did communism ever result in a good environmental outcome?
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August 25, 2017 8:32am
- PhilBest
  
  Or when have gummint owned enterprises even in the non-commie world been held to the same standards under enviro regulations, as the private sector? Oh, all sorts of “imperatives” apply then, don’t they.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:55am
- kowtow
  
  In terms of human death rates ,very highly.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:23am
- rangitoto
  
  You might argue that Pol Pot made the environment better in Cambodia by wiping out half the population. That was a mild implementation of the Green’s policy.
  
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  August 25, 2017 11:23am
waikatogirl

Police caught Rollie Heke at 1.30am this morning at a house in Kaiangaroa forest. Heke had been on the run for 12 days after shooting at police in Morrinsville.

Well done the police.
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August 25, 2017 8:33am
- Inandout
  
  Then we have the two who fled from Police in Tongariro, and a rahui has been placed on the area. The local tribe led a karakia at the search site and a rahui was placed on the whole area.
  
  A Police spokesman explained the function of the rahui:
  (a) To acknowledge and honour the significance of the event and the affected families.
  (b) To ensure the physical, cultural and spiritual safety of the community.
  (c) To ensure the physical, cultural and spiritual safety of the rahui area.
  
  Search efforts will not be hampered by the rahui. And this is all for two scumbags, one sought for aggravated robbery.
  
  My wife, a normally placid woman and not known for outbursts, displayed her anger at what she calls this unnecessary cultural bullshit. Just think how the Police must feel when they have to walk on eggshells when looking for these arseholes.
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:01pm
  - Gabby
    
    Your wife’s got quite a mouth on her downanout. Given the frequency of her outbursts I think her placidity may be up for debate. You may have a dose of that thar Stockholm Syndrome.
    
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    August 25, 2017 12:08pm
    - Prince
      
      Is that really Gabby ? Complex words, sentences.
      Still using silly name syndrome but…bring us back our Gabby.
      Two ticks Blue.
      
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      August 25, 2017 12:28pm
      - Gabby
        
        TulixPu.
        
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        August 26, 2017 1:15pm
    - Inandout
      
      Think….slowly…gabby…engage… brain….before… typing.
      
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      August 25, 2017 12:42pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Personal comments about KBers’ partners are not appreciated Gobby.
      
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      August 25, 2017 1:41pm
      - Gabby
        
        Even imaginary ones guzzla?
        
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        August 26, 2017 1:15pm
  - RF
    
    The Police should send in a drone when the weather improves and watch for hawks circling.
    
    The unknown factor will be the activity of wild pigs in the area.
    
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    August 25, 2017 5:42pm
simpleton1

Could it have been the same one wondering around the Australian Senate? She was well covered over.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4814426/Knife-wielding-woman-wearing-burqa-robs-Melbourne-Subway.html

The car registration must have given the game away.

Instead of banning the burka, perhaps a registration plate should be embroidered front and back on it.
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August 25, 2017 8:33am
- Gabby
  
  How about a photo of the occupier pinned to the chest. Rear view on the back.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:25am
  - simpleton1
    
    A great solution and compromise.
    It should be welcomed at the mosque, as it would sure ease a lot of confusion !
    
    Just what would be the penalty for “burka conversion”?
    We would need confidence in the new system !
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:34am
    - Gabby
      
      A rego fee would cover the costs along with a wof for thread depth and the like.
      
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      August 25, 2017 11:04am
      - simpleton1
        
        The rego would help is assuring the correct ownership of the burka.
        
        That wof would for thread depth, is a great safety concept in protecting the wearer.
        
        It must be sure that no sunlight can get through.
        It must be able to with stand any acid.
        It should be fire proof as sometimes burn ups do happen in the kitchen.
        It must be able to absorb the force of any strike, so it protects its inhabitant from broken bones.
        Unlike tyres that disperse moisture, it must soak up all moisture, and that there is no leakage.
        
        No wonder the burka is such a wonderful item for a muslima.
        It is not just a duty, and so they relish wearing it at all times.
        
        It is so important that burka Standards are kept up !.
        
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        August 25, 2017 11:41am
Happychappy

So the punter in Auckland say Bill English is the most trusted to lead this country and that is where the Election can be won or lost. Jacinda has the majority of her support at 27 years or younger and Bill has those above so all you sad sacks out there grizzling about dull and boring Bill English maybe are not right as the momentum swings back to National over the running of the economy.
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August 25, 2017 8:34am
- mandk
  
  Bill can be as dull and boring as he likes.
  
  I don’t want an exciting and glamorous PM.
  
  I want a competent PM.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:42am
  - PhilBest
    
    John Howard comes to mind. Aussie was lucky to have him. Not only boring and competent, but principled as well. Money quote: “winning the argument is more important than winning the election”. I’m afraid that ain’t anyone in Vichy National at the moment.
    
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    August 25, 2017 8:58am
    - PhilBest
      
      John Howard was still saying the same things as PM, and for all 3 terms, that he had been saying in opposition 10 – 15 years earlier. Compare with Bill E or John K. Hahahaha.
      
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      August 25, 2017 9:32am
- pdm
  
  The only place Comrade Taxcinda wins over Bill is in Wellington where the Public Servants reign.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:47am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    State Sector Employees. Public Servants only serve themselves
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:01am
    - pdm
      
      Exactly Steve – Public Servants.
      
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      August 25, 2017 9:19am
      - VicParking
        
        Self servants
        
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        August 25, 2017 10:33am
- KKKKatee
  
  Jacinda’s very excited at the moment. In fact, she’s OTT – promising free this, free that all the while planning to tax everything and everyone. I’m not entirely sure she can remember what she said last week. So I’m seriously doubting her ability to actually run the country. Her soundbites are all the same – “I don’t have the detail on that” or “I haven’t been briefed on that”. You get the picture. No. I’ve decided I don’t want a flippertygibbet running the country. I ‘m looking for someone who is stable, sensible and visionary to keep on leading us. Jacinda won’t be able to do that – it’s not in her DNA – rather she’s a rabble rouser who loves to stir the masses up. And all this rubbish about ‘understanding farming’. No she doesn’t. She should stop saying that as it’s getting up the farmers’ snouts.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:19am
  - Kimbo
    
    …and there you have it. Despite all the accusations of “Labour-lite”, “18 years of Helen Clark”, and “Vichy National” from the hard-right wingers who try and co-opt National and make it something it has seldom ever been, you’ve hit on the reason why it is the natural party of government. In essence occasional policy difference is only part of the manifestation of the reason National usually beats Labour on the core issue of…competence.
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:49am
    - Gabby
      
      Speaking of projecting competence, Pullya’s been pretty quiet. Haven’t heard much from Browneye recently either.
      
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      August 25, 2017 11:07am
VicParking

Julie Anne “Its not about cost, it about getting people from A to B”
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August 25, 2017 8:34am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Money means nothing, as long as it is ‘other people’s’ money
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:46am
  - Prince
    
    And the people going from A to B don’t have to pay.
    
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    August 25, 2017 8:52am
- Peter
  
  Name the pensioners, the sick and the kids who will see a reduction/limitation in benefits to fund your ‘don’t worry about the cost” railway, Julie?
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:53am
- mandk
  
  The problem is that only a tiny fraction f the population wants to go from A to B.
  
  The vast majority want to go from C to B and then to D.
  
  Or they want to go from Y to Z, neither of which is near A or B.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:04am
  - chris
    
    A classic example of socialist transport planning is in my neck of the woods. Auckland Transport decided Glen Innes needs to be a transport hub, so they were going to drop a bunch of useful bus routes that have been around for as long as I can remember (and I’ve been living in this area for about 35 years) and expect people to bus to GI and then jump on another bus. So instead of catching a single bus to school which takes maybe 10 minutes, my kid would have had to catch a bus to GI (at least 10 minutes), wait around for bus #2 (10 minutes?) and then catch bus #2 to school (another 10 minutes). Clever stuff. I’m pretty sure the petition everyone signed worked. Bunch of stupid idiots though for ever thinking it was a good idea.
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:29am
    - MickMac
      
      But they are still employed on your dime aren’t they??
      Someone should always be the front man and the one we can sack….
      gets rid of them but slowly
      
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      August 25, 2017 6:24pm
- PhilBest
  
  Actually it is about preventing the proles from getting from ANY “A” of their choice TO ANY “B” of their choice – which is what roads and cars are for.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:05am
- cmm
  
  People want to go from A to B, but you’re sending them to V,E,N,E,S,U,E,L,A!
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:18am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    estupendo!
    
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    August 25, 2017 12:25pm
- GazzaW
  
  Why does Wellington need a tram service to the airport? It’s a domestic airport in all but name only – trans-Tasman routes are at best regional. Only the local pollies and bureaucrats view it differently. Take Wellington’s Aussie counterpart, Canberra. Similar size population as Wellington, a capital city and the only longhaul service from its airport is the SIA twice-weekly service to Singapore and Wellington. No tram service to the airport in Canberra – you get a shuttle.
  
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  August 25, 2017 1:52pm
krazykiwi

Well no shit Sherlock…. NZ voters believe Bill English well ahead of Jacinda Ardern as most capable leader, but even that does stop Audrey Young from opening with a line about how much more popular Taxinda is than was Angry.

Come on NZ.. we’re electing a LEADER, not choosing Beehive furnishings.
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August 25, 2017 8:35am
- VicParking
  
  But she is popular “Just love her hair”, “she has such a nice dress sense”‘, “I think her lipstick is so nice, I hear its from ‘Sus scrofa’ of Paris.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:53am
- cmm
  
  I call bullshit. Bill has not shown any basic competence.
  
  Does Bill know any of these:
  
  1) The optimum number of times to bang the chip basket against the frier to get rid of the extra fat, but not make them too dry? Correct answer: 3 times for normal chips, 4 times for kumara chips.
  
  2) How many shakes of chicken salt do you put on chips? Correct answer: two shakes for the first scoop, then one more shake for each subsequent scoop.
  
  3) How many staples fit in a Rapid F18 stapler? Correct answer: 150.
  
  If he doesn’t know the basics like that. How can we expect him to work the till?
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:29am
  - Swifty
    
    Heh
    
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    August 25, 2017 10:18am
  - rangitoto
    
    Let’s see Taxcinda vs Bill in a sheep shearing contest. We already know Taxcinda would win easily at tax payer shearing.
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:37am
  - RF
    
    cmm.
    
    Obviously Bill is not fit to be PM.
    
    Those are basic skills required to run the country and chair APEC.
    
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    August 25, 2017 5:21pm
- GazzaW
  
  The Herald has spouted forth with the news that Metiria Turei and Barnaby Joyce are leading the race for the New Zealander of the Year Award. How scarey is the thought that these people will be ticking the boxes on polling day? Surely the Greens must have hijacked the voting.
  
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  August 25, 2017 1:57pm
oldpark

See the latest poll, has Bill English way ahead of Angry Andy Little’s replacement,to be the most capable to run NZ in a very responsible fashion.
That poll covers most of NZ except the Lie-bour/Green Party stronghold of Wellington.
Makes one wonder why the head in the sand Lie-bour/Green supporters in Wellington ,would feel that the latest addition as Lie-bours Leader,could improve the head in the sand stance of the present cabal of do nothing Liebour MPs Wellington ,the same pack of no hopers who championed the grid lock traffic in Wellingtons Mt VICTORIA Tunnel.
Robertson and King and all their sycophants in the Wellington City Council
were over the moon when the solution to Wellingtons grid lock problems,the Basin Reserve Flyover was vetoed.
Sounds like Wellingtons Labour/Green voters are quite happy in their misery and do nothing MPs.
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August 25, 2017 8:37am
- mandk
  
  By and large, Wellington buses work reasonably well.
  
  But can you imaging what it would be like if half of them were replaced by a light railway? You would only need a minor incident somewhere along the Hunter St, Customhouse Quay, Willis St, Manners St stretch and the whole city would grind to a halt.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:48am
  - PhilBest
    
    There is a letter in the DomPost this morning from one of the chief Goebbells’s of the light rail fraudsters claiming that light rail to the airport “won’t hold up traffic” anywhere “because look at all the examples of light rail in European cities that don’t hold up traffic”.
    
    FFS. The sheeple voters in Wellington only have themselves to blame if they let these fraudsters have their way. Dorklanders have already had it put over them.
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:08am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Do you still read the DomPost? Does anyone else?
      
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      August 25, 2017 9:34am
      - VicParking
        
        I do on Saturday as it supplies a whole week of kitty litter, toilet paper and fire starters.
        
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        August 25, 2017 10:39am
      - PhilBest
        
        If you still hold any hope that the long political war is worth fighting, you do need to pay attention to the tactics the enemy is using.
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:26pm
- Gabby
  
  You are Robert Moses and I claim my expressway.
  
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  August 25, 2017 11:47am
  - PhilBest
    
    Ah, Robert Moses, now there was a man of action. I wish we had one like him let loose on our cities for around 2 decades to play catch-up with the road network deficit.
    
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    August 25, 2017 1:19pm
Ross12

While talking about polls , this one from the US is interesting. Despite 24/7 hammering from 90% of the MSM and so called turmoil within his own party, the poll says if the election was held again Trump still wins
http://www.dailywire.com/news/20144/new-poll-shows-trump-wins-2016-election-if-held-jacob-airey#exit-modal
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August 25, 2017 8:52am
Manolo

Taxcinda disagrees violently:
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/english-rated-most-capable-leader-poll/ar-AAqERDI?li=BBqdg4K&ocid=mailsignout

Voters rate Bill English a more capable government leader than Jacinda Ardern, a new poll has shown.

The Herald-ZB-Kantar poll released on Friday gives Mr English, National Party leader and prime minister, 45 per cent against Ms Ardern’s 32 per cent.
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August 25, 2017 8:54am
- VicParking
  
  Ofcourse she is. She can point her finger better than anyone and has a team of “economic advisors” behind her second to all.
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:42am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    And of course all the heavy-weight policy analysis and economics theory she picked up doing a communications degree
    
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    August 25, 2017 1:38pm
oldpark

Let us not forget that the Green Party wants a so called light rail solution to the Labour/Green Party supported traffic grid lock in Wellington. Greens were against Transmission Gully,as well in conjunction with Labour/Green MPs and the waste of space Welington City council.
Interesting it took a National Government to make sure in a Labour/Green Party stronghold that Transmission Gully and the Kapiti by-pass was enacted.
All in the face of a pack of useless do nothings for Wellington and Greater Wellington traffic problems.
It also beggars belief that the clown known as Justin Lester a Lie-bour Party ratbag and Wellington Mayor,favours Light rail. Same pest is against Basin Reserve Flyover in conjunction with his Lie-bour.Green Party mates,like Robertson and the other clown Eagle,standing for the persons seat,who was also against the Flyover ,a woman called Annette King.
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August 25, 2017 8:54am
- PhilBest
  
  The MSM is very responsible for giving this urban transport fraud so much cred. The sheeple unfortunately believe a pack of outright lies about the costs and benefits of rail based public transport and also about cars and roads (lies to the opposite effect).
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:11am
tvb

The only issue is management of the economy. NZ is just a heartbeat from being a banana republic which it would be with poor management. We are essentially Argentina without the corruption and mismanagement and the Peronists (i.e. The Labour Party) running things.
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August 25, 2017 8:55am
- niggly
  
  Absolutely and thanks to Ztev yesterday reviving old threads, I then came across DPF’s excellent 2008 analysis of the then Labour PREFU: Ten years of deficits.
  
  It is worth re-reading this and reminding ourselves that Labour are totally incompetent at running a nation’s economy (they couldn’t even run their own Party well over these last 9 years) …. and to make matters worse look at who Labour’s finance minister is now – Grant ‘cut & paste Economist articles’ Robertson and their new leader who is totally out of her depth plus a bunch of other wannabe numpties – scary times ahead! Labour: Venezuela here we come?!!
  
  http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2008/10/prefu_ten_years_of_deficits.html
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:07am
waikatogirl

For all those on a friday who wish they could have a little windfall and chuck the job in. A 52 year old mother of 2 won the lottery overnight in the USA. The pot was a cool $1 billion. She has informed her boss at the medical centre that she will now be retiring.
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August 25, 2017 8:59am
- mandk
  
  I heard that a 52 year old mother of 2 in Caracas won a billion Bolivars on the Venezuelan lottery.
  
  She didn’t bother picking up the prize, though. The bus fare to collect the prize was two billion 😉
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:08am
  - VicParking
    
    She should have gone on light rail, I here its cheap and free to ride on.
    
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    August 25, 2017 10:44am
niggly

One thing I’ve noticed about Jacinda (now that she appears nightly on tv) is that she is a fantastic liar!

The latest example is despite the Greens now running a candidate in Ohariu which is a shot across O’Connor’s bows, Jacinda smiles and says everything is fine between Labour and the Greens. Ditto when she replies that Labour isn’t stealing the Green vote when they having been stealing their policies!

Sure I get that ‘all’ politicians ‘lie’, but usually they do so with a bit of a cheeky grin, but Jacinda still keeps the same straight-bat smiling face! Which I’m not sure that is a good thing because for one, we know she is lying, and two, it then brings into question whether the she is always telling the truth!

Perhaps she needs to drop the smiles and learn to deploy Helen’s death stare when faced with tricky and uncomfortable questions! 😉
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August 25, 2017 9:02am
- holysheet
  
  Please no. The vision of Cindy without her toothy smile is a step too far. Helun was bad enough.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:10am
- oldgolfer
  
  Taxcinda’s smile is so false, and she is looking increasingly ragged.
  Dare I mention the crumpled cream coat?
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:15am
  - pdm
    
    `Dare I mention the crumpled cream coat?’
    
    Clark didn’t get the ironing done!!
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:23am
    - Prince
      
      Fair go people. Bill’s suits often look ruffled. Let’s keep the discussion on politics.
      
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      August 25, 2017 9:28am
      - pdm
        
        A bit short on `attempted’ humour this morning Prince.
        
        Given your nom de plume I suppose the valet does your ironing. lol.
        
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        August 25, 2017 10:26am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Oh goodness,
      could you people please keep up?
      
      It’s haute mess.
      https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/aug/16/trench-coat-messy-style
      
      Jacinda is a style leader.
      Take notes and follow her lead.
      
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      August 25, 2017 10:33am
      - Flash
        
        AND I see she’s wearing that dirty pink colour that my daughters tell me is the new fashion shade for this season –
        Daughters wouldn’t be seen dead in it.
        
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        August 25, 2017 11:21am
    - VicParking
      
      Peter was a piss poor ironer.
      
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      August 25, 2017 10:45am
      - pdm
        
        Hard to do the ironing when she lives in Auckland, Wellington and New York and you live in Christchirch VP.
        
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        August 25, 2017 10:59am
- RF
  
  I have discovered that if you can see Jacinda’s teeth it is a sure indication that she is lying.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:24am
  - Dafixeruppa
    
    I thought if her mouth was open… oh wait…
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:23am
- krazykiwi
  
  Don’t you worry. The puppet-master’s death stare will get more airtime if the puppet starts a ‘conversation’ about a republic.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:33am
  - tf78
    
    I heard a voice on ZB yesterday and thought it was Helen – wrong it was Taxinda – that didn’t take long!
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:37am
  - Gabby
    
    Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:22am
- doggone7
  
  Jeez, now she’s not capable of being PM because she doesn’t lie as well as Key and English?
  
  If lying with confidence is the measure, Collins would’ve been PM yonks ago.
  
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  August 25, 2017 11:17am
  - GazzaW
    
    Cunliffe would be a better yardstick doggone. Or was he just plain stupid?
    
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    August 25, 2017 2:08pm
- KevOB
  
  Jacinda believes herself so she only speaks the truth.
  
  She has no discrimination but her embedded ultra socialist values prevail despite no matter the presentation.
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:17pm
doggone7

David Seymour desperately seeking relevance calls someone a fucking idiot to get some headlines and now shows he needs to attach himself to Bill English’s shoelaces. Another analogy could be that he’s like a little cross-eyed half breed terrier barking at cars going past and occasionally chasing one a few metres down the road to show he controls the street.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1708/S00457/seymour-responds-to-prime-minister.htm
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- Colville
  
  goggone7
  Seymour was spot on too!
  
  I am pretty sure I am going to vote for the hologram 🙂
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:08am
- Gabby
  
  That was just a glitch in the program. All back to ‘normal’ now.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:54am
- GazzaW
  
  A bit like Robbo then doggone?
  
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  August 25, 2017 2:10pm
jcuk

I am a railfan and have travelled on numerous light rail outfits around the world BUT for an earthquake city like Wellington the battery operated buses are a safer use than things which need wires or rails.
My only concern is how the charging stations survive during an earthquake.
Funny thing I remembered … travelling on old ‘light rail’ the trams many time from centre city to suburbs back years ago before the current bias for petroleum powered vehicles. LOL
🙂
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August 25, 2017 9:04am
- PhilBest
  
  Everyone needs to read Clifford Slater: “General Motors and the Demise of Streetcars”. There were big-picture inevitabilities about the death of trams everywhere. They were actually kept on life support for too long. One of the things that got banned to protect them, was early car drivers “scalping” riders from stops on their commute.
  
  Decades later, we have technology that makes rider-sharing even more of a no-brainer, all we need is the regulatory freedom.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:16am
- PhilBest
  
  Another recollection you often hear from old folk about trams, is how hazardous the tracks made it for cyclists.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:17am
  - RF
    
    Based on that information bring back more tram tracks… bloody cyclists….
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:26am
    - krazykiwi
      
      We love you RF. Honest.
      
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      August 25, 2017 9:34am
  - insider
    
    My favourite story to share with Greens is of the death last year of an Edinburgh cyclist who slipped on tram lines and was run over by a bus.
    
    That tramline by the way, went years over schedule and was 100% over budget
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:36am
  - KevOB
    
    I can vouch for that. The rails were embedded at road level so a sunken guide was created. Cyclists hated them. No one would go near them in town it was too risky. In the suburbs avoidance was required.
    
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    August 25, 2017 12:21pm
- VicParking
  
  I traveled on light rail to Athletic park in 1957.
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:49am
  - KevOB
    
    “Trams”.
    
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    August 25, 2017 12:24pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96109546/national-pledges-120m-extra-for-new-christchurch-stadium

15 seconds in to vid:

Look at these prevaricating twats attempting to sell Bread and Circuses.
Smarmy fake grins from Wagner and Adams and they continue to pour the brown stuff over our heads
Oxygen thiefs.

GIVE THEM BREAD AND CIRCUSES AND THEY WILL NEVER REVOLT – JUVENAL

I predict a massive revolt at the polls for better or for worse.
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August 25, 2017 9:13am
- PhilBest
  
  Its a shame that the choices on offer are so bad. We’re basically back to the major parties trying to outdo each other in bribing voters. The bill has to come due one day. Even WFF stands unrepealed in spite of the famous “Communism by stealth” condemnation of it when Labour introduced it.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:19am
  - PhilBest
    
    And if Labour (in coalition) does introduce a whole lot of bad policy, can we count on Vichy National to stick to their arguments “against”, to the point of repeal of that bad policy when they are back in office again? Hahahaha. A future National government might just pass a water tax scheme (not just “not repeal” it), on current historical trajectory!
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:26am
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Bang on Phil.
    
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    August 25, 2017 10:38am
  - Shawn Herles
    
    “Even WFF stands unrepealed”
    
    Of course it is. No political party with an ounce of sense will go into an election telling working families and the middle class that they will be worse off if you vote for them. There is a reason ACT is floundering at less than 1%.
    
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    August 25, 2017 1:12pm
- SPC
  
  Meanwhile the Canterbury DHB faces a $50M deficit this year.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/96077978/no-health-cuts-despite-budget-blowouts-for-dhbs-around-the-country
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:49am
  - VicParking
    
    Less overseas trips will fix that.
    
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    August 25, 2017 10:50am
Left Right and Centre

Ok – who came up with ‘Taxcinda Yahardearned’ ?
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August 25, 2017 9:14am
Nev.

Media now beating up on Trump Tweet spelling. Since they have forgotten the past, let me remind them attack policies like this was how Andrew Jackson got elected as the first Democrat President.

The public felt that the press were attacking average people and rallied behind him.

The average American spells no better, and Twitter users on a whole, spell exponentially worse.

Nev.
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August 25, 2017 9:31am
RF

I hear that the labour socialist Megan Wood is now using her Doctor title again. Not a medical Dr.

Years ago when she was trying for the Christchurch Mayors position she was heavy on the Dr title and insisting that she be addressed as this.

She got put in her place and it was quickly dropped.

Now she must think it gives her the edge to be addressed as Dr.

Two ticks blue….
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August 25, 2017 9:33am
- Gabby
  
  Tulixpu…..
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:58am
  - simpleton1
    
    Would that Dr. send the sample of yours to be tested to get the Tulix? ?
    Some fetishes are bit off putting.
    Could be my error, as perhaps you want to put it in the ~~tulix~~ tulip flower pot.
    Just do not smell the flowers.
    
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    August 25, 2017 10:00am
    - GazzaW
      
      Gobby’s unfortunate complaint is known as coprophagia.
      
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      August 25, 2017 2:13pm
- mikenmild
  
  So you would refuse, on principle, to accord Nick Smith or Lockwood Smith the title of ‘Doctor’?
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:05am
  - RF
    
    Wood is entitled to use Dr if she really feels the need to however it’s the timing so close to the election that make me very suspicious. Others with titles have more class and you have just named two.
    
    I guess it’s a Kiwi thing.
    
    i.e. Sir. John Key, Just call me John.
    
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    August 25, 2017 10:22am
    - VicParking
      
      Sir Pinetree RIP
      
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      August 25, 2017 10:52am
    - Gabby
      
      Just call me John and stop squirming.
      
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      August 25, 2017 11:15am
  - Dafixeruppa
    
    Well I have always just called them Nick and Lockie (or Lockup)
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:27am
  - Swifty
    
    In my experience, ANYONE who insists on being addressed as Dr is invariably a wanker and has self-esteem issues – unless they’re in an overcoat and is donning a stethescope.
    
    Dr Michael Cullen…snigger.
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:31am
    - mikenmild
      
      Why do only medical doctors earn your respect, when their academic distinction is lesser?
      
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      August 25, 2017 12:31pm
      - Jack5
        
        Milky, that’s a sweeping statement.
        
        No way does a “Ph. D. in communications”, for example, take anywhere near the rigorous study and training it takes to become a G.P.
        
        A Ph.D. in political science, and many other qualifications from flaky social sciences are also pretty flimsy. I think you can get a Ph. D. in social work these days, too. Perhaps handy for those taking time off work to see their probation officer – “I’m off so see my doctor”.
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:44pm
      - Swifty
        
        I refer to them as doctor, because ‘doctoring’ is what they do.
        
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        August 25, 2017 2:16pm
      - Swifty
        
        Also, a good example is with Sir Ralph Norris.
        
        He and I worked closely together on a few vehicles he needed tidying up. In written communications I’d use ‘Sir Ralph’, but if I used that in person he’d ‘express his discomfort….’
        
        That is the NZ way, I believe, and I liked him even more because of it.
        
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        August 25, 2017 2:24pm
      - Gruffydd
        
        You are being silly jack.
        The social sciences still have to do an impressive amount of work to get a P.hD .
        The sig other brought home her mentors thesis last week. A tome of over a thousand pages representing about four years full time work.
        Skimming it I could see not only how densely packed with knowledge it was but also the amount of research required to produce such a document.
        The girl is budgeting at least five years to do hers.
        
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        August 25, 2017 3:14pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        No they don’t have to do “an impressive amount of work”, they probably have to do a lot of writing, but work in general is not necessarily required. Politicking though IS generally required…
        
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        August 25, 2017 4:44pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  She has a Ph.D. in NZ history.
  
  You could argue that history is where the Labour Party resides… so perhaps her use of her academic title is fitting.
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:49am
  - mikenmild
    
    Thank you, Dr Wassilief.
    
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    August 25, 2017 10:56am
  - doggone7
    
    And argue that at least she did something to gain the title. Gain it so that those who can hardly spell ‘Dr’ can attack her because they’re afraid she’ll help put them down in September.
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:19am
  - insider
    
    Anyone who has worked hard enough to earn a PhD has earned the right to their title, if you ask me, no matter what their political stripe
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:44am
  - Longknives
    
    If I had a PHD (Sadly I only have a Bachelor’s Degree- But I’m dynamite in Pub Quizzes Kimbo!) I would use the title ‘Dr’.
    I don’t have an issue with it.
    
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    August 25, 2017 2:39pm
    - Longknives
      
      You would be a complete arse if you called yourself ‘Dr’ after an Honorary Doctorate though..
      
      http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-doctor-is-not-in-maya-angelou/
      
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      August 25, 2017 2:44pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Duly noted, Longknives, especially as MrTips has defected from my team on account of our difference of opinion over Mother Theresa! 😉
      
      BTW – have you seen the new formatting on cricinfo including the scorecards? Bloody awful!!
      
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      August 25, 2017 2:48pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Cricinfo is barely readable. I think there must be some internet law that any website redesign degrades the user experience.
        Probably done now by people with PhDs in website design…
        
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        August 25, 2017 3:32pm
    - RF
      
      Yeah…. I know but to me it’s a matter of timing. She can call herself the Queen of Sheba for all I care.
      
      I can remember she insisted on the term doctor way back and was very shitty if you did not address her as such.
      
      It became a joke so it was quickly dropped.
      
      Possibly because she thinks she has a sniff of being in Govt it’s time for the emperor to wear new cloths. I hope she does not start parading around in designer jackets like Crooked Metiria.
      
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      August 25, 2017 5:13pm
- KevOB
  
  ☑️☑️
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:25pm
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    Tulixpu
    
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    August 25, 2017 6:52pm
Lucia Maria

The changing world of tech and the possibilities for trickery …

AI and CGI will transform information warfare, boost hoaxes, and escalate revenge porn

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer-generated imagery (CGI) technology, over the coming decade it will become trivial to produce fake media of public figures and ordinary people saying and doing whatever hoaxers can dream of — something that will have immense and worrying implications for society.

There will be more work available to techies to verify whether video is real or fake as well.
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August 25, 2017 9:38am
EAD_TWO

Ingrid Carlqvist–the rather naive Swedish journalist who had recently discovered the good works of Barbara Lerner Spectre and was the main voice against mass migration in her country–is banned from SoundCloud:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/24/swedish-anti-mass-migration-podcasts-taken-soundcloud-hate-speech/
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August 25, 2017 9:38am
- mikenmild
  
  Private sector platforms should be forced to host opinions with which they disagree?
  Can’t neo-Nazis set up their own communications networks?
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:01am
lastmanstanding

I predict this is about where the Party vote will be.

http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/english-rated-most-capable-leader-poll/ar-AAqERDI?li=BBqdg4K&ocid=UP97DHP
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August 25, 2017 9:41am
MCos

Michael Hosking is his own worst enemy.
The other night he inferred that you needed to be on the Maori roll to vote for the Maori Party.
This, understanderbly, annoying the Maori Party and TVNZ inferred that Hosking would apologize and clarify the situation.
He did neither.
He employed some typical Hosking-speak to show his original statement was perfectly logical and only a blithering dunderhead couldn’t see that anyone could vote for the Maori Party.
We seem to live in times when humility is a dirty word amongst radio & TV personalities
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August 25, 2017 10:02am
- mikenmild
  
  Colour me shocked: Mike Hosking unable to admit he got something wrong?
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:18am
  - Gabby
    
    The ‘facts’ being out of alignment with his truth is not Horeskin’s problem. His dustbuster is fully charged.
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:30am
Lucia Maria

Pro-Russian Bots Take Up the Right-Wing Cause After Charlottesville

The same social media networks that spread Russian propaganda during the 2016 election have been busily amplifying right-wing extremism surrounding the recent violence in Charlottesville, according to researchers who monitor the activity. It’s impossible to tell how much of the traffic originates from Russia or from mercenary sources. But there were hordes of automated bots generating Twitter posts and much more last week to help make right-wing conspiracy theories and rallying cries about Charlottesville go viral.

A sample of 600 Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations have been promoting hashtags for Charlottesville such as “antifa,” a term for activists on the far left; and “alt-left,” a term Trump used, which was interpreted by many as suggesting an equivalence between liberal demonstrators and white nationalists in the so-called alt-right.

Read the whole article. We have a number of spreaders of this sort of disinformation here on KiwiBlog as well.
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August 25, 2017 10:03am
- kowtow
  
  “equivalence between liberal demonstrators and white nationalists”
  
  And there’s a problem right away. The anti statue rabble are not “liberal”. They are far left anti white racists.
  
  Of the same ilk who want other statues torn down and history rewritten .
  Rhodes must fall , now even Nelson is in the gun.
  
  My message to these illiberal “liberals” is, ‘Fuck You , Commie bastards.’
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:25am
  - Gabby
    
    ‘Fuck you, foreign rich pricks’ kids.’
    
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    August 25, 2017 10:50am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Kowtow,
    
    The anti statue rabble are not “liberal”. They are far left anti white racists.
    
    What about those that came out protesting against the neo-Nazis? What are they?
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:39am
    - Fletch
      
      Antifa are historically Communists; the group of the same name fought against Hitler’s brown shirts in the 1930’s – they even have basically the same flag
      
      The young woman, Taqiyah Thompson, who climbed up the statue in Durham that protestors pulled down the other day belongs to the Worker’s World Party (WWP), a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist group originally formed in 1959 as a hard-line offshoot of the more moderate Socialist Workers Party. The group even support North Korea.
      
      So when you’re talking Antifa vs neo-Nazis you’re really talking Stalin vs Hitler. There isn’t one group that is better than the other. Trump was right to condemn them both. Oh, and it was Antifa throwing bottles of urine at the police two days ago – not any right-wing group.
      
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      August 25, 2017 12:05pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        So when you’re talking Antifa vs neo-Nazis you’re really talking Stalin vs Hitler.
        
        Yeah, it’s easy to label opponents “Nazis” or “Commies”, it’s far more difficult to prove that they are “Nazis” or “Commies”.
        
        The Nazis are easy, in the case of Charlottesville – they were out there and obvious. However, to limit the opposition to “Commies” as opposed to normal, everyday people who are opposed to “Nazis” marching in their streets is to just add to the noise and confusion about what is going on.
        
        You are amplifying the Russian trolling on this, Fletch. That is obvious.
        
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        August 25, 2017 12:53pm
      - Gruffydd
        
        Lucia Maria
        They have been maneuvered into a position were bullshite is far more believable to them.
        Anything you say will just add to their belief that the crap they get from the likes of Bannon is real.
        Antifa is just a target to put their minds onto and distract them from the fact Trump is an abject failure and the far right a bunch of nutters their fathers generation fought and died to protect us from.
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:08pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        “You are amplifying the Russian trolling on this, Fletch.”
        
        Conspiracy theories are never a good explanation, for anything.
        
        “However, to limit the opposition to “Commies” as opposed to normal, everyday people”
        
        That would be true of both sides. Many normal, everyday people oppose erasing the past to make it PC.
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:16pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Pulling down symbols of racism does not ‘erase’ the past – it’s simply a refusal to accord public honours any more to the defenders of racism.
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:23pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        “Antifa is just a target to put their minds onto and distract them”
        
        No Griff. Antifa is real and has been the instigator of the vast majority of violence since Trump was elected. That violence is well documented throughout the media, not just on the Right. Antifa has been labelled domestic terrorists by the New Jersey office of Homeland Security.
        
        “from the fact Trump is an abject failure”
        
        The economy is booming as Trump drives a bulldozer through Obama’s job killing regulations, illegal border crossings are down by 70% because his admin is enforcing immigration law, he put a stop to using the military as a liberal social experiment on the “transgender” issue….and that’s just the tip of the iceberg on what he has achieved so far. Given the ridiculous levels of opposition from the media, the Dems, and the some within his own party, he’s doing rather well.
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:26pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        “Pulling down symbols of racism does not ‘erase’ the past – ”
        
        Yes, it really does. And if you pulled down all the “symbols of racism” according to the Left, we would have no historical monuments left. The Left, not just in the US but in the UK as well, has been targeting any and all monuments to anyone they think is “racist” or “imperialist” or just plain old white men.
        
        ‘CNN’s Angela Rye Calls for Washington, Jefferson Monuments to Come Down’
        
        http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/17/washington-jefferson-lee-monuments-coming-down-charlottesville-attack-cnn-says-take
        
        “Top UK university to swap portraits of bearded white scholars with wall of diversity”
        
        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/07/14/top-uk-university-replaces-busts-portraits-bearded-white-scholars/
        
        Southern culture is just the tip of the spear. The PC nuts behind the movement won’t stop with the South.
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:34pm
      - Gruffydd
        
        yess Shawn it is really Antifa .
        Last week it was really blm Sjl Muslims Cliton…..
        
        I don’t doubt there is a group styled Antifa .
        Without doubt they are responsible for bashing
        the odd Nazi.
        I would be tempted myself.
        If EAD came knocking at the door in his full SS uniform I have two words .
        whos that
        He might get out the gate before Brutus takes a chunk off his arse . Same goes for the rest of the lunatic fringe.
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:57pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Shawn is making his usual mistake of attributing fringe opinion to a much larger group he wishes to smear.
        I think most people can understand why George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are on Mt Rushmore and Robert E Lee, Jefferson Davis and the rest of the crowd that tried to destroy the United State for the right to keep slaves are not.
        
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        August 25, 2017 3:37pm
    - kowtow
      
      That’s who I’m talking about ,they are the far left anti white commies.
      The same people who attack the police at so called blm riots and who front up to every anti Trump riot.
      
      Far left , anti white pricks who’d be more at home in Chavista Venezuela , North Korea or Cuba.
      
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      August 25, 2017 12:18pm
    - realityczech
      
      “What about those that came out protesting against the neo-Nazis?”
      
      They are further left and authoritarian than even the Nazi. Their movement has killed around 200 million people (and counting) since world war two.
      
      I think it is best you don’t bother yourself with politics sweetheart. It seems to upset you and lead to intemperance.
      
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      August 25, 2017 5:36pm
  - Fletch
    
    I think that much of the whole reason for the Left tearing down these statues is because they are a reminder that it was Democrats who supported slavery (who fought and died for it), who were Confederates, and who were the KKK. By tearing down these monuments they hope future generations won’t remember their violent, racist ways.
    
    Heck, Nancy Pelsoi’s own dad, Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr, was there at the unveiling of a statue of Lee and Jackson 50 years ago and said at the time, “Today, with our nation beset by subversive groups and propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity, we can look for inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and determined in preserving our sacred institutions.”
    
    http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-monuments-removed-20170816-story.html
    
    This is the same Pelosi who supports these types of statues being removed.
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:58am
    - mikenmild
      
      Never disagreed with your dad, Fletch?
      And which side would you have taken in the Civil War, buddy?
      
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      August 25, 2017 12:34pm
      - Fletch
        
        And which side would you have taken in the Civil War, buddy?
        
        I’d like to think The Union, of course, but hindsight (as they say) is a wonderful thing. I am currently reading (on and off) Lincoln: A Life, Volume 2, by Michael Burlingame, and also, Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past, by Bruce Bartlett (a real eye-opener about the Democratic Party’s racist history).
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:03pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        “And which side would you have taken in the Civil War, buddy?”
        
        Why does it matter to you? After all, according to your own ideology on moral issues, the South was not wrong in any objective way. Slavery was (more or less) accepted as right in the South, so on the basis of your claim that social consensus determines what is right or wrong, you have no basis for criticizing the South in any objective way.
        
        According to your own stance of subjective morality, the soldiers who fought for the South were right to do so.
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:44pm
      - mikenmild
        
        That’s quite an interesting approach, Shawn. But I never suggested such moral questions could always be resolved peacefully.
        While it would have been commendable had the southern leaders decided to move with the tide of human progress and reject slavery; they did not do so, and eventually resolved on rebellion and war.
        
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        August 25, 2017 3:41pm
      - Jack5
        
        I imagine if you were a young white in the South, the pressure to join the Confederate Army would have been overwhelming. Similarly with the Union Army for young men in the North. They didn’t get much choice.
        
        A bit like Germans in 1944-45 being conscripted into the Waffen SS. It wasn’t a moral choice by that part of the war. The novelist Günter Grass was conscripted into an anti-aircraft gun crew when he was still at high school, and then, near the end of war, was conscripted into an SS panzer division and was badly wounded in a Russian attack. Kids who were deserted were frequently hanged and their corpses left swinging in public as a warning.
        
        Sympathy for the Confederates must have remained high after the Civil War in many parts of America. Consider the way Jesse James and his
        outlaws were regarded as heroes by many.
        
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        August 25, 2017 5:28pm
      - Jack5
        
        Surprising who loves the memory of the Confederate guerrilla Jesse James.
        
        https://youtu.be/zX60mtmm9bA
        
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        August 25, 2017 6:09pm
    - Lucia Maria
      
      Fletch.
      
      Take a breath and read the article about Russian bots getting involved in spreading this sort of stuff.
      
      And then, think.
      
      Think about whether or not you’ve absorbed a whole warped storyline about what’s going on in the US.
      
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      August 25, 2017 12:41pm
      - Fletch
        
        I am watching Dennis Prager live on Facebook right now –
        
        https://www.facebook.com/prageru/videos/1519290938113757/
        
        As he says, he is a Jew so of course he hates Nazis vehemently, but he says that Nazis in America are “a nothing”. They have no influence. It is the Left which demonstrates and takes over Deans offices in universities, who close down roads and tunnels, who violently demonstrate and riot in the street to prevent speakers they don’t like from having a voice. It is Leftists who shoot cops. A Leftist who opened fire on the Republican baseball team. You almost have to associate the word “activist” with “left”.
        
        As Prager points out, that is where the real threat in America is coming from. Not the right-wing or the “alt-right” (the term that Hillary coined).
        
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        August 25, 2017 12:54pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Prager is trapped in pre-2014. The internet is the new battleground now.
        
        The funny thing also, is that “the Left” in the US is more right wing than the right here in NZ.
        
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        August 25, 2017 1:03pm
      - realityczech
        
        Oh dear Lucia. What is it with you and the Russians. Haven’t the poor buggers suffered enough with beating the Nazi and years of terrible govt ?
        
        They are taking their first baby steps with democracy in their very long history. They are not evil and your conspiracy theories are frankly lunatic.
        
        Pour yourself a drink and get into something sexy before hubby gets home. You need to get grounded.
        
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        August 25, 2017 5:40pm
- simpleton1
  
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-may-take-down-christopher-columbus-statue/
  
  currently under review in an effort to remove “symbols of hate.” De Blasio, a Democrat who is running for re-election this November, ordered the review after the violent confrontations between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Virginia earlier this month.
  
  “We have to look at everything here,”
  
  That will cure the problem of “white kid’s privilege and white guilt”
  What was the question? 🙂
  
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  August 25, 2017 11:06am
  - Gabby
    
    How can privileged brown kids get a social edge on their white friends?
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:25am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      How can white kids get to have the same entry and bursary advantages enjoyed by their ‘indigenous’ friends is the question
      
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      August 25, 2017 2:03pm
- realityczech
  
  A “right wing” former KGB officer of the USSR ? LOL 🙂
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:21pm
- KevOB
  
  If it about the Americas don’t believe a word of it. They are so seriously hysterical at present as to be pathologicial
  
  Keep the American disease out of NZ.
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:50pm
  - Gabby
    
    Merkin dizzies! Merkin dizzies!
    
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    August 25, 2017 6:44pm
Right of way is Way of Right

Every time I see a Labour election hoarding these days I think it’s a policy promise of free dental care….
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August 25, 2017 10:16am
- Gabby
  
  You could do with it.
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:49am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Or a new Hyundai front grille
  
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  August 25, 2017 2:04pm
- alloytoo
  
  What a real policy to benefit people?
  
  Alas not to be.
  
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  August 25, 2017 2:38pm
SPC

Some DHB’s facing budget crisis this year.

Apparently they can/will be expected to make cuts while continuing with full health services …

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/96077978/no-health-cuts-despite-budget-blowouts-for-dhbs-around-the-country
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August 25, 2017 10:33am
- VicParking
  
  How many times do I need to tell you, “cut down on overseas trips and stop breeding”.
  The more new diseases we discover the more specialists we need. Once we only needed one doctor and in his spare time he shod horses.
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:57am
  - Gabby
    
    Mostly we were dead by 30 but, swings and roundabouts vic.
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:18am
- KevOB
  
  Typical election season propaganda.
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:47pm
sooty

New speed on certain roads at 110km. Whats the chances of speed cameras on everyone. Revenue collecting, you betcha!
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August 25, 2017 10:59am
Hugh Pavletich

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NEW ZEALAND ELECTION: THE FRACTURING RIGHT …

ACT leader David Seymour says he does not regret swearing | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96122252

… extract …

… “Has Bill English spent any time at all with voters recently? Because what I hear from angry constituents when I go door to door puts my language to shame. People are furious, not just about shifty Winston Peters, but a broken housing market and rising crime under both Labour and National.

“I do not regret my words and ACT will not back down.”

On the campaign trail in Christchurch, after announcing a National policy to stump an additional $120m to build a new stadium, English said Seymour’s response was ill-advised.

“My advice to him would be not to repeat profanities in public if that’s what he’s doing.” … read more via hyperlink above …
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Where are the disillusioned and seething young National backbenches speaking publicly ?

Remember Derek Quigley in the Muldoon administration pre – 1984 ? …

Derek Quigley – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Quigley

… and the famous bust – up with Muldoon (viseo) …

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=derek+quigley&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl5qyY__DVAhWEUrwKHbBTCcAQ_AUIDCgD&biw=458&bih=320
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New Labour leader Jacinda Ardern certainly is impressive …

‘I would get a bit of a talking to’ – Jacinda Ardern tut-tuts David Seymour’s F-bomb | 1 NEWS NOW | TVNZ

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/would-get-bit-talking-jacinda-ardern-tut-tuts-david-seymours-f-bomb
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- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Housing – 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. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
  2017 13th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
  
  http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
  
  National discovers a new feeling – panic … Tracy Watkins OPINION … Fairfax / Stuff NZ
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/95888082/National-discovers-a-new-feeling-panic?cid=app-iPad
  
  BNZ’s Tony Alexander says first home buyers are buying fewer homes because house prices are ‘too high’ and the loans they would need are ‘too frighteningly big’ | interest.co.nz
  
  http://www.interest.co.nz/property/89385/bnzs-tony-alexander-says-first-home-buyers-are-buying-fewer-homes-because-house
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:09pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    A third of luxury real estate deals involve ‘suspicious activity’ … CNBC … h/t JG …
    
    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/a-third-of-luxe-real-estate-deals-involve-suspicious-activity.html
    
    The Treasury Department said that 30 percent of high-end real-estate deals that were subject under a new watchdog program involved “suspicious activity” and potential money-laundering.
    
    Treasury this week expanded and extended a program targeting luxury real estate deals in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and other big markets to prevent the use of real estate for money-laundering by overseas buyers. The program was designed to prevent buyers from using shell company’s or LLC’s to hide the identities of the real buyers. … read more via hyperlink above …
    
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    August 25, 2017 12:19pm
    - stigie
      
      Phuck Hugh !~
      
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      August 25, 2017 1:18pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Three consecutive doses of verbal diarrhoea is too much to bear Hugh. The literary equivalent of amoebic dysentry.
      
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      August 25, 2017 3:11pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Read today NATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW … ELECTION CAPITULATION … EDITORIAL …
        
        Gird your loins for Labour led Government
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        August 25, 2017 3:38pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Auckland’s Housing Boom is an Emperor with New Clothes … Brendon Harre … Medium
        
        https://medium.com/land-buildings-identity-and-values/aucklands-housing-boom-is-an-emperor-with-new-clothes-d3bed9a8fdcd
        
        Politicians, pundits and the media repeatedly claim that house building in Auckland is booming, that construction is at the fastest rate ever and that the building boom is so big it has reached resource limits for skilled labour and materials. The reality doesn’t match these claims. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        August 25, 2017 4:12pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        How Property Rights Benefit The Poor … Chuck DeVore … Forbes
        
        https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2017/08/24/how-property-rights-benefit-the-poor/#438e1957284b
        
        The U.S. Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, rolled out in 2009 and updated in 2013, addresses the weaknesses of the Official Poverty Measure. Moreover, the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) shows many interesting statistical connections to economic and public policy variables, unlike the Official Poverty Measure. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        Texas Is Winning America’s Homebuilding Race … Statista … h/t SW
        
        https://www.statista.com/chart/10736/texas-is-winning-americas-homebuilding-race/
        
        According to new research by Trulia, Texas is leading America’s homebuilding race with Austin, Dallas and Houston collectively on track to build 130,000 new homes this year. That represents 10 percent of all U.S. building permits and nearly as many as 50 large American metro areas combined in 2017. While residential construction is growing in the south, several markets in the northeast of the country are expected to struggle to surpass 500 new homes this year. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        Who Will Win the Homebuilding Race of 2017? … Trulia
        
        https://www.trulia.com/blog/trends/homebuilding/
        
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        August 25, 2017 7:26pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Fleets of ‘driverless’ lorries will be trialled on Britain’s motorways from next year, Government announces … UK Telegraph
        
        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/fleets-driverless-lorries-will-trialled-britains-motorways-next/
        
        Fleets of “driverless” lorries which accelerate and brake at the same time will be trialled on Britain’s motorways for the first time next year, ministers have announced.
        
        Up to three lorries will travel in automated convoys which will be controlled by a driver in the lead vehicle in a bid to cut congestion and emissions.
        
        However the AA has warned that the plans could pose a significant risk to motorists, highlighting the fact that the platoons will be the equivalent of half a football pitch long. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        August 25, 2017 8:29pm
- realityczech
  
  “New Labour leader Jacinda Ardern certainly is impressive”
  
  To be fair I’d root her over Bill.
  
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  August 25, 2017 5:41pm
  - Gabby
    
    That doesn’t sound like too good a deal for Bill czitty. Couldn’t he step out and make a spag pizza?
    
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    August 25, 2017 6:41pm
sooty

Why is Taxinda targeting school kids.
They don’t vote.
They don’t ask hard questions.
Photo opportunities.
Gullible media.
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August 25, 2017 11:22am
- Gabby
  
  They have phones that can take those newfangled photomajngies sooky, and they have parents some of whom talk to their kiddies.
  
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  August 25, 2017 11:28am
- kowtow
  
  Those photo ops with brown kids being fed are a reminder to all that there’s far too much white privelige in Aotearoa and Labour are the girls to fix it.
  A vote for Labour is a vote for full tummies and a lifetime of care and welfare, paid for by whitey.
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:23pm
- Inandout
  
  ‘Never Work with Children or Animals’ as the old saying goes.
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:52pm
- alloytoo
  
  1. Shshh don’t tell Jacinda that.
  2. Yes
  3. Yes
  4. Yes
  
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  August 25, 2017 2:42pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z780YbuZE2M&feature=youtu.be
Mayor Dalziel rules out Chch rate payers meeting stadium shortfall.

Mayor Lianne Dalziel, in a tremendous performance (up there with Tony Marryatt’s “I don’t want to burden the rate payer” ), states: she will not be going back to the people of Christchurch to meet the proposed stadium shortfall!

Keep pouring the brown stuff over our heads.

A magnificent performance of weasel words archived for posterity!
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August 25, 2017 11:39am
- Rodney Randall
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ-najBBi7U
  
  CEO Tony Marryatt – Draft Annual Plan Open Day, 28 April
  
  “I don’t want to burden the city with debt and therefore there is no capacity for aspirational projects into the future.” Tony Marryatt C.E. C.C.C.
  
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  August 25, 2017 11:47am
- holysheet
  
  Well, that’s fine then. The taxpayer will keep their millions in contributions and save it for a rainy day.
  
  Talk about ungrateful. These fucking lefties want it all. Just wait for Cindy to get the chance next week to say elect liabore and we will give you the 500 mill to build it.
  
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  August 25, 2017 2:05pm
- GazzaW
  
  A sports stadium must be second only to an international airport in terms of a political legacy for any decent self-serving mayor. Free tickets for life, corporate boxes and maybe even naming rights. The ultimate prize for Lianne along with a damehood. Just imagine – the Lady Lianne Dalziel Sports Stadium. It has a ring about it.
  
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  August 25, 2017 3:17pm
  - RF
    
    Followed by a “hic”.
    
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    August 25, 2017 5:02pm
- Gabby
  
  The rugby union inc isn’t short of a bob or two. Maybe it’s time they came to the party. Before the drinks are got in for a change.
  
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  August 25, 2017 6:39pm
Manolo

Do as I say…, the usual tactics from the socialist and peddler of lies resident of Rome:
http://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/italia/13222293/papa-francesco-e-lo-ius-soli-la-legge-del-vaticano-proibisce-la-cittadinanza-agli-immigrati.html

Se una donna immigrata partorisce a “casa” di Bergoglio, il nuovo nato non è automaticamente un cittadino vaticano. Questo perché il Vaticano non prevede, nelle sue norme, il diritto di cittadinanza per ius soli.
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August 25, 2017 11:44am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Ah and the two that upticked this are fluent in Italian ( or did you just use Google translate)?
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:41pm
  - Manolo
    
    No Google Translate: I speak Italian.
    
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    August 25, 2017 1:00pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Feel free to read similar, in English, written over 20 years ago
    http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc0504/article_473.shtml
    
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    August 25, 2017 2:37pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ef_1503567707

Refugees clash with police in downtown Rome
Refugees settled a “camp” in a square in Rome downtown (not far from the main train station).
After a week police decided to clean up the area.

How’s that diversity dividend working out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzg4z6nPdm4
Cape Town South Africa, 1985
Members of the South African Police and the South African Railways Police hid members on the back of a railways truck. Rioters attacked this truck and the policeman returned fire with shotguns and arrested suspects. This was a place very well known for trucks getting attacked.

Europe, 2020?
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August 25, 2017 12:03pm
- Manolo
  
  Those lovely Africans that have invaded (and continue to invade) Italy are making it richer, aren’t they?
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:34pm
Fletch

Meteria leads in nominations for New Zealander of the Year? Really? WTF is wrong with people?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11911051
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August 25, 2017 12:12pm
- KevOB
  
  That was in the Darwin Section.
  
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  August 25, 2017 12:53pm
  - holysheet
    
    Don’t you mean the fat arse retard section?
    
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    August 25, 2017 2:06pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Where’s Keeping Stock?
      
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      August 25, 2017 3:43pm
      - Kimbo
        
        No, no. Given that holysheet recently “endorsed” Metiria Turei’s assassination, that was a vast improvement, indeed even a compliment by his standards. Lucky to have his heft and considered commentary 😉
        
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        August 25, 2017 4:14pm
      - holysheet
        
        Would it make you happy if I endorsed yours Kimbo? One has to be seen to be treating all low life as equals.
        
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        August 25, 2017 4:47pm
- Longknives
  
  This is hardly surprising considering Taiki Waititi was awarded ‘New Zealander of the Year’ after threatening to punch John Key and calling him a dickhead.
  
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  August 25, 2017 2:29pm
  - howitis
    
    Do you mean Taika Cohen?
    
    I guess he is not on McCully’s Xmas card list.
    
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    August 25, 2017 7:35pm
Fletch

A film maker asks liberals in the street whether we should have an economy like Venezuela to combat income inequality because everyone waiting in the food lines is the same. The clueless answer yes…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBKGyP-GYCY

Just goes to show how brain dead people are.
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August 25, 2017 12:21pm
- Ed Snack
  
  I think they answer yes because they imagine that YOU would be waiting in line, but not them…
  
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  August 25, 2017 4:35pm
sooty

English Bristol rugby team have taken up maori dancing.
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August 25, 2017 12:24pm
- GazzaW
  
  ………are you sure that you didn’t mishear? More likely to be morris dancing.
  
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  August 25, 2017 3:34pm
  - sooty
    
    No. It was in the nz herald so it must be true! Imagine if the poms come here and did some maori dancing. Would it be before or after the allblacks dancing?
    
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    August 25, 2017 5:13pm
    - Gabby
      
      I believe the hosts go first sooky.
      
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      August 25, 2017 8:32pm
Ross12

I think Clarke might start to regret the day she compared Ardern to Macron

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/emmanuel-macron-has-spent-26000-makeup-first-three-months-french/
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August 25, 2017 12:37pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  Indeed, those teeth don’t come cheap. Maybe she could promote free dental visits for everyone.
  
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  August 25, 2017 1:57pm
krazykiwi

Qantas Airways has announced plans to offer the world’s longest flight, of 20 hours, between Sydney and London.

The airline wants to offer the 17,038km flight by 2022, should Airbus or Boeing deliver aircraft capable of meeting the distance.

Great. I’m going to announce a longer flight of 384,000km (Wellington to the moon), and these will start as soon Airbus or Boeing deliver aircraft capable of meeting the distance.
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August 25, 2017 12:57pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  No need to be silly kk, this will happen.
  And by 2030 Air NZ will be going non-stop Auckland-London.
  Planes are continuing to get more efficient. You’re probably too young to remember when you couldn’t get to LA without a refuelling stop at Honolulu.
  
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  August 25, 2017 2:00pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Maybe even sooner than 2030 Captain. There’s a long range version of the Dreamliner on the drawing boards. When I worked in Fiji in the 70s trans-Pacific flights from North America landed at both Honolulu and Nadi enroute to Auckland & Sydney. Tahiti and Pagopago were also used as refuelling stops.
    
    There’s an excellent book called Zulu Alpha Echo written by Guy Clapshaw, a retired Air NZ captain that relates many a humorous chapter about that era of aviation. A great read.
    
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    August 25, 2017 3:28pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    I remember it all right. Stopped there several times and waited while the old trucks trundled under the wing and pumped in the avgas. With the door open you could smell the stuff wafting on the night air! No smoking while on the ground, only once airborne again.
    
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    August 25, 2017 4:38pm
    - GazzaW
      
      I looked after an inbound tourism company’s operation in Nadi and we had to turn out every morning between 0100 and 0500 to meet the Air NZ, Qantas, Pan Am, Canadian Pacific and BOAC flights that brought hundreds of passengers in from North America and Europe. They were real heydays for Fijian tourism. Your comment re the smell of avgas brought it all back given the basic nature of Nadi Airport’s facilities then. A combination of avgas, frangipani and high humidity.
      
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      August 25, 2017 5:05pm
      - starboard
        
        Jet A1 my man..just sayin
        
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        August 25, 2017 8:42pm
krazykiwi

Read about Shampoo Socialism.

Emmanuel Macron has spent €26,000 on makeup in his first three months as French president
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Nicolas Sarkozy, meanwhile, paid a whopping €8,000 per month for his, according to Vanity Fair
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But all these sums pale into comparison with the £99,000 Mr Hollande paid his personal barber. The huge amount sparked accusations of “shampoo Socialism”
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August 25, 2017 1:02pm
- mikenmild
  
  No word yet on how much it costs to maintain President’s Trump’s alleged hair?
  None of this stuff is cheap.
  
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  August 25, 2017 1:26pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    Squirrel !
    
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    August 25, 2017 4:30pm
sooty

Someone said nzherald released a poll today. Went looking and could not find it. Must mean Bills so far in front, they are hiding it!
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August 25, 2017 1:27pm
- Scott
  
  sooty – ask and it shall be given to you. Seek and you shall find.
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11910584
  
  And what does it say?
  
  Who do you think would be most capable of running the government?
  
  Bill English comes out way on top at 45%!
  
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  August 25, 2017 1:43pm
  - GazzaW
    
    It wasn’t on the front page for very long. Displaced by the story that Turei and Barnaby were the frontrunners for New Zealander of the Year. Go figure!
    
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    August 25, 2017 3:31pm
    - Gabby
      
      I get the strong impression some people might not take the exalted title of New Zealander of the Year entirely seriously.
      
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      August 25, 2017 8:31pm
  - sooty
    
    Thanks. I figured as much. The media party electioneering again!
    
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    August 25, 2017 5:06pm
  - Gabby
    
    If Jacinda has any sense she’ll hire him. Chuck in a free burner phone.
    
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    August 25, 2017 6:26pm
Manolo

Strong arm tactics and boycott threats from the racists:
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/call-to-boycott-seven-sharp-sponsor-over-hoskings-comments/ar-AAqFnph?li=BBqdg4K&ocid=mailsignout

Māori corporations who bank with ASB should reconsider their business if it continues to sponsor Mike Hosking’s television show, says Māori Party president Tukoroirangi Morgan.
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August 25, 2017 1:47pm
- holysheet
  
  Who gives a fuck what this brown fancy nickers prick thinks? Talk about getting above himself.
  I wonder how much money these maori entities have borrowed from the ASB. I bet they will not be paying it all back in protest.
  
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  August 25, 2017 2:12pm
Jack5

Thanks to the liberal mainstream media, these days when you read the word “racism,” it is usually qualified by the adjective “white” – “white racism”.

Here’s a New Zealand example, and from our Deep South, of alleged “racism” but without the “white”:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/96142425/i-can-smell-you-it-smells-like-asian-dog-drunk-policeman-tells-asian-security-guard
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August 25, 2017 2:17pm
- realityczech
  
  Jack they actually teach that non-whites can not be racist. Its accepted wisdom among the fallen.
  
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  August 25, 2017 5:45pm
Left Right and Centre

5 000th comment

*etch etch* LR&C was here . . . KB rules, ok ?
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August 25, 2017 2:18pm
- Longknives
  
  Congrats L,R & C on this momentous occasion!
  
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  August 25, 2017 2:20pm
skyblue

Take some toast, salt and pepper to the Southern Motorway. There is heaps of scrambled egg to be had.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11911114

Pity we did not have light rail to put our cars on to to avoid the pile up.
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August 25, 2017 2:40pm
Fletch

Tucker Carlson starts off his show enumerating all of the statues being removed and places renamed as the Left goes crazy in an attempt to do something(?) as regards history. Bury it? I’m not sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3upyIwAJpQ
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August 25, 2017 2:50pm
Lucia Maria

I Used To Be a Neo-Nazi. Charlottesville Terrifies Me.

These newer offshoots have been far more successful than we could ever have dreamed. When you see crowds of hundreds marching through the streets with their faces uncovered, when white supremacist leader Richard Spencer holds a news conference a few days after a woman was killed by one of his fellow travelers and hosts reporters in his home, it becomes clear just how much more terrifying this new generation of extremists is. They’re savvier than we were. Better connected.

And better defended by the useful idiots.
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August 25, 2017 3:09pm
- Ed Snack
  
  Lucia, those people are creating Richard Spencer, he had something like 200 supporters in the US, but thanks to all the relentless publicity he gets, the numbers have grown. After all, his organisation is the mirror image of BLM and Antifa; both sides want segregation and are overtly racist. And just BTW, Politico is one of the Democrat’s house magazines, so don’t expect rational commentary from them.
  
  Ignore Spencer and his stupid ideas die a natural death.
  
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  August 25, 2017 4:34pm
  - Inandout
    
    And Soro’s ‘Southern Poverty Law’, a misnomer if ever I heard one.
    
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    August 25, 2017 4:55pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    I’ve generally found ignoring things do not make them die. That’s a common myth that people are told that doesn’t really work. If you ignore something then it can grow unhindered. Far better to expose it for what it is and let it shrivel up in the sunlight.
    
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    August 25, 2017 5:29pm
    - realityczech
      
      Lucia, you have frequently expressed a rather passionate desire to restrict the exposure of ideas you disagree with on this very forum.
      
      You seek to control others as you struggle to control yourself.
      
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      August 25, 2017 6:05pm
SPC

The Herald’s stories are so 2014 at the moment.

GCSB found to be spying illegally in a Megaupload court case and National once again accused or ripping off their election music.
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August 25, 2017 4:51pm
- Gabby
  
  Jawsie’s pretty sure they got it pretty right this time.
  
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  August 25, 2017 6:22pm
- rangitoto
  
  Hopefully they are spying on in legally now. The sooner he is handed over to the Don the better.
  
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  August 25, 2017 9:17pm
Inandout

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/25/several-injured-attack-australian-national-university-campus-canberra

The guy was Caucasian and never shouted anything when he attacked the tutor with a baseball bat. This will spin in all directions as to his motive.
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August 25, 2017 4:52pm
sooty

If National win the election are we going to have a rerun of the american one, where the snowflakes went all hurty feelings, rioting, breaking laws etc.
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August 25, 2017 4:56pm
- holysheet
  
  If When National win the election are we going to have a rerun of the American one, where the snowflakes went all hurty feelings, rioting, breaking laws etc.
  
  Yes there will be chaos, vagina protests, no body voted for national, university protests, misogyny, Cindy was done, the sky is falling, the end is neigh, yardy yardy bloody yardy. Oh the shame, the humiliation. No matter what we said or what we did, no body listened to us.
  
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  August 25, 2017 5:05pm
- GazzaW
  
  Not unless a frustrated media whips up the masses.
  
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  August 25, 2017 5:10pm
chiz

It’s National Poetry Day! I thought I would share my attempts:

An Ode To Colin

If there were two of me,
would that me twice as much a dick?
If you like my poetry,
you must be thick.

And

Another Ode To Colin But I Might Change It’s Name If I Come Up With A Better One.

My poetry
has holes in it,
Some people think
that’s because I’m full of —–

What do people think?
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August 25, 2017 4:59pm
- nasska
  
  Don’t throw in your day job yet. 🙂
  
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  August 25, 2017 5:12pm
  - realityczech
    
    The take away is – cha is longing for twice as much dick in his holes.
    
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    August 25, 2017 5:31pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  How strange that Wellington’s double-rapist poet gets his name suppression lifted on National Poetry Day.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/96154140/Wellington-poet-guilty-of-rape-and-it-can-now-be-revealed-it-was-his-second-offence
  
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  August 25, 2017 6:13pm
  - Gabby
    
    Shame he didn’t stick to ‘looking for his roots in Africa’ really. Not for Africa of course.
    
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    August 25, 2017 6:19pm
- Gabby
  
  chiz
  you give
  me
  the chitz
  
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  August 25, 2017 6:14pm
Jack5

TVNZ 6.0 news talks of a rock star welcome for Adern in Dunedin.

The media rapture continues.
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August 25, 2017 6:01pm
EAD_TWO

A letter to the Editor from an ex-Serviceman after watching the movie Dunkirk. A lengthy post hence posting it after 6pm towards the end of the thread.

nb: In Canada the movie was released under the name “Churchill” rather than “Dunkirk”

June 10, 2017

Editor
NATIONAL POST
Toronto

Dear Sir,

Re: Churchill: the Movie (NP June 9, 2017)

Churchill certainly acted on occasion as a “doddering fool” as portrayed in the new movie Churchill, reviewed by Chris Knight (NP June 9, 2017). However, to dismiss his disastrous seeming ineptitude as merely drunken stupidity, hardly does him credit. The Great Man was arguably the most profoundly evil war criminal of all time. He was also probably the greatest con-artist ever, spellbinding the media and whole otherwise-sane populations into thinking WWII was a splendid idea, even though the catastrophic experience of WWI was still within recent living memory.

In 1939, Churchill and his “War Party” campaigned for war against Germany in the full knowledge that the real threat to Western Civilization was Bolshevist Russia, not our cultured Christian German kinfolk who had done nothing to harm us. Clear confirmation of his perfidy emerged when Germany and Russia invaded Poland and Britain declared war only on Germany’ when the occasion called for neutrality and eventually a NATO-style alliance to overthrow the cruel Soviet dictatorship and liberate its terrorized subjects.

Britain had a second chance to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in 1940 when Hitler offered a munificent peace treaty that would have saved the British Empire and millions of lives, but Churchill, inflamed by hatred imparted by his secret, vengeful Zionist paymasters, rejected the offers and doomed Britain, and Western Civilization to inevitable collapse.

For this calamitous, contrived blunder and his many other fatal decisions, “that Bastard Churchill”, as he was known to colleagues who understood him, does not deserve enshrinement in movies as a statesman, no matter how inept, but rather should be condemned in perpetuity as an arch-traitor and war monger supreme, responsible for incalculable loss of life and loss of freedom, especially freedom of speech, by survivors and their descendants

Churchill’s image as a competent and fearless leader is a myth that can be demolished easily by any objective, intrepid researcher. The myth originated when Churchill was sent to South Africa as a young correspondent to cover the Boer War. To create a story, he persuaded a gullible local British Commander to send an armoured train into Boer territory and to take him along. The Boers readily captured the train, taking the troops and Churchill prisoner. Churchill, left unguarded, easily “escaped”, and was given undeserved acclaim, while the British Commander was reprimanded for his folly.

The notoriety helped Churchill win a seat in Parliament and eventually appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty, He soon revealed his bloated ego and incompetence in the Dardanelles Campaign when thousands of Australians and New Zealanders were mindlessly sacrificed in a hopeless assault (a lethal stupidity Churchill repeated when he sent Canadian soldiers to be slaughtered on the impassable beach-front at Dieppe).

In the mid-‘thirties, the discredited warmonger, after accepting large payments from Jewish-American millionaires to stave off his impending bankruptcy, formed a group known as the “War Party” that strongly urged Britain to make war on Germany. After war was declared and the British Army quickly defeated, Britain was left defenceless, but spared by the pro-British Hitler who allowed the 300,000 man British Army to leave France unhindered. and offered Britain an honourable peace that would have preserved the Empire intact, with German military protection if required. Although Hitler’s magnanimity made possible the “miracle of Dunkirk”, Churchill, contemptuously and contemptibly, rejected the peace offer, sealing the fate of hundreds of millions, dooming Western Christian civilization and sacrificing his own country, simply to satisfy his quest for Supreme War Lord status and to satisfy his Shylockian Zionist paymasters.

As for hero status, he was a coward, cynically trashing the lives of trusting subjects, military and civilian, while ensuring his own safety (during the Blitz, Churchill would leave London when Intelligence informed him of an impending Luftwaffe attack, then return to bomb sites as soon as the raid ended for photo-ops, giving the impression he had shared the danger).

To satisfy his blood-lust and ensure, before the war’s end, his place as the most indefatigably sadistic war criminal of WWII, he ordered the fire-bombing of the undefended City of Dresden, knowing it was packed with women and children fleeing the rapacious Red Army and that most would be burned alive in the holocaust. (W/C “Giff” Gifford of St. John, NB, who unwittingly led an RCAF Squadron in the diabolical attack said, upon learning of the purpose and result of the raid (as told to the Senate CBC “Valour & Horror” enquiry) that he “felt remorse every day” for the rest of his life for the murder of the innocents and mindless obliteration of Europe’s most beautiful architectural treasures).

Churchill was my childhood hero for whom I was – literally, by enlisting in Air Crew – prepared to die. I now see him for what he was; a drunken, unscrupulous, corrupt, cynical, racist, immoral, dishonest, self-serving arch-traitor. Ironically, it was his nation’s would-be saviour, the much reviled Adolf Hitler, whom I was taught to hate, and who graciously offered an optimum solution which would have handed Britain not only a real victory but also would have liberated Stalin’s terrified subjects. A genuine statesman, he would have made possible a permanent Pax Germanicus-Britannicus-Americanus that would have freed the Western Democracies from rule by a cunning, parasitical, hostile, powerful Enemy Within (against whom Hitler repeatedly warned) who were (and are) a far greater threat to our freedom than ever was posed by our resurgent, friendly, compatible, cultured German kin..

Churchill became an icon by combining outrageous chutzpah with cunning, deception, duplicity and unmatched eloquence but as a leader was hardly more competent than Steven Harper, and couldn’t hold a candle to Mackenzie King, or Hitler, for that matter. Most young Canadians of my era fell for his oratory, and many paid with their lives.

Had justice prevailed, Churchill would have been charged, convicted and hanged as the greatest war criminal of WWII, if not of all time. By declaring war, then prolonging the war instead of accepting Hitler’s generous offer of an honourable peace in 1940, he caused 150 million unnecessary casualties, incalculable suffering, destroyed Britain, the country he cynically pretended to save, eliminated Christian Germany as a bulwark against the genocidal Soviet dictatorship, betrayed Poland into Stalin’s clutches and, calamitously, as it turned out, abandoned innocent, defenceless Palestinians to the tender mercies of sadistic, predatory Zionists.

Churchill set the stage for the Cold War, Middle East wars, Third World chaos, ethnic conflict, refugee invasions and subversion of the Western Christian democracies, leaving them under hostile Jewish hegemony – a much more deadly threat to their race, traditions, property, freedom and ultimate survival than the invented threat posed by Hitler’s Germany. Had it not been for Churchill’s diabolical treachery, which cannot be excused by mere bouts of drunken megalomania, the world today would be, in every respect, a far better and safer place.

As ever,

Ian V. Macdonald
Ex-RCAF, RNFAA, Canadian Foreign Service rtd.
Author Star Weekly at War, OTTAWA – the Golden Years etc
Member, Dominion Command, Royal Canadian Legion
455 Wilbrod Street
Ottawa ON K1N 6M7
613 241 5389
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August 25, 2017 6:17pm
- Jack5
  
  Ian Verner Macdonald, aged 92, is a controversial figure in Canada.
  
  This is from the Wikipedia piece on Macdonald that I link to below:
  
  In the early 1990s, Macdonald permitted white supremacist rallies, as well as camps by neo-Nazi skinheads and Aryan Nations groups, to be held on his property. He was a friend of James Alexander McQuirter, leader of the Canadian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in the 1980s.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Verner_Macdonald
  
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  August 25, 2017 7:07pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    @ Jack5,
    
    We’re never going to be able to escape our current predicament if you are unable to look past the labels that the MSM and shills put on decent people are we?
    
    If 6,000 people marching to protest the removal of a statue can be labelled as “Supremicists” and “Nazis”, what hope have we got of debating in an honest manner.
    
    Where we’ve arrived to as the West, hasn’t occurred by accident and WWII is literally ground zero in that understanding.
    
    It was during WWII that government propaganda was honed and refined, using State controlled radio and media coverage, to control not just information but the narrative, of what the Germans were fighting for, so as to hate all people who stand up for White people. The wartime propaganda and narrative didn’t end with the war, but has been developing ever since, with no honest analysis of the Nazi phenomenon and the reasons they emerged, glorification of the holocaust, and creeping anti-White racism, where all White people are now “Nazis”, and there is no such thing as a bad Jew.
    
    We have been lied to since the beginning of the second world war. The facts therefore are a shock to most people when they hear it so clearly laid out
    
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    August 25, 2017 9:55pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  And now? ….
  
  America’s neo-Nazis don’t look to Germany for inspiration. They look to Russia.
  
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  August 25, 2017 7:10pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Wapo?
    Still bleating Russia Russia Russia and of course an idiot like you falls for it.
    Sooo funny.
    
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    August 25, 2017 7:37pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Sorry, too bloody long. If you want to paste essays, start your own blog.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:55pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  I have just finished a book about Rudolph Hess’ flight to Scotland in May 1941. EAD, thank you for bringing that lengthy letter to my attention. It helps me better understand the book, “Hess, Hitler and Churchill”. Yes, Rothchild had bankrolled Churchill when Chartwell was close to a mortgagee sale. Shylock demanded his pound of flesh.
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:48pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    No worries Tahuei,
    
    It was well known that Philip Sassoon was Churchills primary advisor and once he bailed out the bankrupt Churchill for fear of losing Chartwell, he had him by the short and curlys. Heck, even the Times of Israel cover the relationship!
    
    http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/sassoon-and-the-world-of-privilege/
    
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    August 25, 2017 11:07pm
Steve (North Shore)

Fuck I am going from the Shore to Auckland Airport on Sunday. Fuck the Buses, fuck the trains, fuck family spending all that time and money for PARKING. Shuttle is $67 for 2 of us with 5 bags. Stick your trains and buses ideas up your arse.
How about all the morons use public transport and then I get to the Airport quicker on a shuttle?
Also frees up the motorway for me and my Land Cruiser and boat 🙂
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August 25, 2017 6:18pm
- realityczech
  
  “Stick your trains and buses ideas up your arse.”
  
  I’m on your side, but isn’t the shuttle actually a bus and will you stick it up your arse ?
  
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  August 25, 2017 6:22pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    The shuttle is ordered, and picks me up at my gate.
    No walking to a bus stop, no waiting for a timetabled bus (and transfers like 5 to the airport)
    So the shuttle works.
    https://www.supershuttle.co.nz/
    
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    August 25, 2017 6:46pm
krazykiwi

Lesbian fantasist who invented rape and sexual assault allegations against 15 men to get attention from her girlfriend has been jailed for ten years.

Jemma Beale, 25, claimed she had been raped by nine men and seriously sexually by six in four different encounters over the space of three years, causing one man to be wrongly jailed.

What a piece of filth. I hope prison hurts.
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August 25, 2017 6:21pm
SPC

The sensitive wussies complaining Ardern gets media coverage can find company in Ankara, Riyadh, Beijing and the White House.
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August 25, 2017 6:46pm
All_on_Red

More than one way to skin the cat.

‘If the corruption trial of Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez ends in a conviction, Republican Gov. Chris Christie would be responsible for picking his successor, potentially heralding the end of Obamacare.

Republicans in the Senate were just one vote away from passing an Obamacare repeal last month, and if Menendez gets forced out of office on a conviction, Christie, a Republican and long-time Trump supporter, would almost certainly pick a Republican to replace him. Christie will leave office Jan. 16, however, so the jury will need to hand down a conviction before then if Senate Republicans hope to secure the potential 53-37 majority.

Menendez stands charged with using his office to further the business interests of long-time friend Dr. Salomon Melgen, who was convicted in April of stealing $105 million through Medicare fraud between 2008 and 2013. Records show the senator accepted several campaign donations from Melgen, including vacations to Paris and the Dominican Republic, ABC News reported.

Prosecutors allege that Menendez repeatedly met with then-Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and acting Medicare administrator Marilyn Tavenner to intercede on Melgen’s behalf in Medicare disputes.’

Despite what some MORONS have been saying, I don’t think the 2018 mid terms are going to go well for the Dems either.
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August 25, 2017 7:51pm
KevinH

Dunners is a Labour stronghold so it’s no surprise Jacinda visited with a grab bag of promises such as the new hospital. Problem is she is preaching to the converted, great for a photo op but zero impact on the bottom line.
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August 25, 2017 7:51pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  National won the party vote in Dunedin North and South 2014, but David Clark and Clare Curren with 6000 & 4000 majorities were obviously better candidates than National’s selections.
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:02pm
nasska

If a Muslim beats his wife, would it be domestic violence or child abuse?
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August 25, 2017 8:19pm
- starboard
  
  heh..lol
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:35pm
- stigie
  
  Anything under 8 year old wife would be……???
  
  Got me fucked Nasska !~
  
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  August 25, 2017 8:50pm
Jack5

The web site of Stuff, formerly known as Fairfax NZ, has launched a full-scale Leftist broadside on Mike Hosking, calling for him to be fired.

The author is one Dani McDonald. Anyone know who she is?

This is one of the strangest attacks I’ve ever read in the NZ media.

Looks like Stuff has thrown overboard any attempts to be even handed in the run-up to the election.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/96152694/mike-hoskings-views-and-attitude-dangerous-to-tvnzs-integrity
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August 25, 2017 10:32pm
- Jack5
  
  An alarming thought: Kea hasn’t infiltrated Stuff, has he/she?
  
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  August 25, 2017 10:58pm
Manolo

Of interest to those of us who follow the markets:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/yellens-speech-in-jackson-hole-may-doom-her-chances-for-second-term-at-fed-2017-08-25

Yellen used her high-profile podium to give a robust defense of the regulations put in place under the Obama administration in the aftermath of the financial crisis. She disagreed with the position of President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans that the regulatory burden is strangling lending and has hamstrung the economy.
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