General Debate 10 October 2017

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Shaun the Sheep

Morning all.
Let’s not turn today’s discussion into an expletive laden personal abuse session like yesterday.
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October 10, 2017 8:04am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Don’t tell me how to live my life you hairy dog’s cock!
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:10am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Why not? Some people need to know how we really feel about them. We uphold honesty above all on this blog! ( along with freedom of speech). Have a good day though!
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:32am
- starboard
  
  Who made you hall monitor Sheep?
  You must be a school teacher.
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:47am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Fuck off, I’m the school teacher on this blog!. LOL! And I’ll fucking tell you how to fucking behave! Now, write out ten times “I shall not swear when abusing trolls”….
    
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    October 10, 2017 8:56am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  ROFL
  
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  October 10, 2017 10:13am
oldpark

A reminder to Mr Peters in his negotiations. National Party got almost 200,000 votes than Labour at the September 23 2017 Election.
The voters message and wishes were for the status quo for NZ to continue.If it ain’t broke why try to fix it,lest we forget.
Any change in the Government of who runs the country of NZ ,will be in the words of the adage or category.
Will be like selling a “Goldmine for a Coalmine”.
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October 10, 2017 8:08am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Sounding a bit like Hillary Clinton there oldpark?
  
  This is the system we voted to keep (twice)! Either we were retarded as a nation to be voting to retain MMP or we wanted to keep on getting insane undemocratic outcomes.
  
  And why blame Winston? He is there courtesy of only 7.5% of the electorate. Surely the ones that fingers should be pointed at are Labour and Greens who are seeking to disenfranchise the biggest group of voters.
  
  This isn’t a bug in MMP. This is a feature. The answer is simple if you don’t like what’s happening, agitate to get rid of our banana republic electoral system.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:29am
  - Pharmachick
    
    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: STV
    
    Problem is, not enough of the electorate can understand it well enough/our political overlords are incapable of explaining it well enough to see how superior to MMP it would be without going back to FPP.
    
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    October 10, 2017 2:38pm
softail 1450

that will depend on the level of triggering going on i suspect ,but time will tell.
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October 10, 2017 8:09am
MT_Tinman

What happens if today Winnie decides to offer no one supply and confidence?
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October 10, 2017 8:10am
- RalphT
  
  Nothing. Life will go on as before; Winston never supplies anyone with anything and there can be no confidence in government when he’s anywhere near power.
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:16am
Paulus Gnome

Anyone feeling the same amount of love for the 15 year old scrote who wrecked that tree as I am?

Darwin example of the year award.
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October 10, 2017 8:10am
- RalphT
  
  And I see he was involved in the incident less than two weeks ago when a car drove the wrong way up the motorway. Darwin award with first class honours.
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:18am
  - VicParking
    
    He was on bail for ” aggravated robbery, endangering transport and aiding a driver in a dangerous manner”. I’m sure that if I was on bail for these crimes my parents would not let me, have a phone and go out of the house. In fact I’m sure my parents would have lobbied to have me kept in jail to teach me a lession. Not these days, Boo Hoo Hoo,
    we must not endanger the child, he must stay in his loving family environment and not be allowed to mix with REAL criminals……
    
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    October 10, 2017 8:53am
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Why the fuck was he on bail?
      
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      October 10, 2017 8:57am
      - VicParking
        
        Because of his age. If he was in jail we would have every human rights lawyer wringing their hands and nashing their teeth, not for the boy but for the anticipation of a hudge compensation cheque, most of which they get to keep.
        
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        October 10, 2017 9:54am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Silly boy. He played Russian roulette with his dangerous behaviour and lost. Harsh but true that he has saved the taxpayer $100k’s for future court and accommodation costs.
      
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      October 10, 2017 9:03am
      - VicParking
        
        No, once the lawyers attend then appeal the police conduct authority, the MSM malign the police and the family call for an independent enquiry $100k will be small bickies.
        
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        October 10, 2017 9:59am
      - KevOB
        
        It’s his parents I feel sorry for. Some youths are adrenaline junkies and over-live life. We get a buzz, or in my case terrified, on a roller coaster but they seek the thrill of a burglary or car chase.
        
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        October 10, 2017 11:09am
    - RalphT
      
      VP, what is this word “parents” you use in the context of this idiot? I would imagine there is only one parent on the scene, the male of the species having buggered off many years ago (to sow his seeds in other parts of the country).
      
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      October 10, 2017 9:04am
    - starboard
      
      That judge should be put in stocks for a day.
      Despicable giving the special brownie bail.
      The justice system is a slow-motion train wreck.
      
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      October 10, 2017 9:05am
    - JibberJabber
      
      Heh, guess where the REAL criminals were.
      
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      October 10, 2017 9:48am
    - Paulus
      
      You are assuming that he had parents.
      They are permanently stoned probably so they would not recognise one of their many unknown children – fatherless too.
      Whanau love him though now.
      
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      October 10, 2017 10:54am
  - big bruv
    
    You’re all a pack of bastards. This young man lost his life, a life in which he has had to suffer the oppressing weight of colonisation and racism.
    So many of you unfeelingly ask why he was on bail, I would surmise that he was on bail because the courts could see what his race up the southern motorway, on the wrong side of the road, for what it was. His ‘crime’ was nothing more than a scream for help, it symbolised his lifelong battle against white privilege, white oppression and his ongoing fight against the tide.
    
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    October 10, 2017 10:39am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      big bruv,
      
      “…and his ongoing fight against the tide.”
      
      You mean like driving the wrong way on the motorway?
      
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      October 10, 2017 10:45am
      - big bruv
        
        Indeed, that is what the young man was trying to say.
        
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        October 10, 2017 10:54am
    - RF
      
      Sob sob… pass me a box of tissues.
      
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      October 10, 2017 11:54am
    - softail 1450
      
      didindonuffin” in all likelihood this young guy was going to kill some innocent person either with his driving or with a weapon ,so it’s possibly a life lost and others saved.
      
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      October 10, 2017 1:08pm
  - Fletch
    
    These kids get too many ideas from films like Baby Driver. Think they can do the same thing in real life.
    
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    October 10, 2017 10:56am
- Swifty
  
  I feel the about same amount of care to him as he showed to us.
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:23am
- Keeping Stock
  
  At least the media is reporting this as a case of fleeing police, rather than calling it a “police chase” and implying the police were to blame.
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:42am
  - flipper
    
    Keeping….
    That is the only good thing to come out of that wider stuff up.
    I am, however, not convinced of over all (not this case, I suspect) by the many cowboys (and butch female coppers) driving Police cars, And their prosecutorial process (Look at the Chester Borrows stuff up and totally u8njustified prosecution, in your home town) should be scrapped and replaced by a Public Prosecutor service. Police should be confined to parking tickets and minor traffic offences – and without prejudice investigations.
    
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    October 10, 2017 11:14am
    - sooty
      
      I saw nz traffic cop program on tv last night, talk about crap cops. Thick as a brick and dumb to go with it. There was a female cop in one case had pulled over young fella towing a trailer with wrecked car on it. The trailer had no wof, rego can’t remember, tow car was ok. She was going on about the tow car was too light to tow. Wrecked car was only bare body on tandem trailer. She had no knowledge about anything, no reason, no backup of rules and regs. Just her, thick as a brick. The police bosses had better have a look at every program, if this is the standards of our policemen. I saw part off another program once with more import police and they were idiots as well. No wonder the police are having trouble.
      
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      October 10, 2017 6:58pm
- RF
  
  I value the tree more than the idiot that killed it.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:05am
- MickMac
  
  Darwin award.
  Whilst I feel for the family, what he was looking to become and already behaving as, I think it was a good result for society.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:50am
  - lifesgood
    
    Yeah, his families WFF will be reduced now with one less kid. That’ll be a bit annoying for them.
    
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    October 10, 2017 1:51pm
- kowtow
  
  Judging by the very little we know of his alleged criminal proclivities a lot of people in his neighbourhood and the local Plod will definitly be feeling the love.
  
  In a few days time our TV MSM will no doubt be treating us to yet another spectacle of yet another haka done in respect of yet another lost life.
  
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  October 10, 2017 10:17am
Digmen1

And not only the figures show that National should lead the government.

I am certain in my belief that the was NO MOOD FOR CHANGE across the wider community.

Sure there was an uplift in Labour when Jacinda got in, but it drifted away after a few weeks of her honey moon.

All the surveys said that people were happy with the economy and wit the way the country was going.
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October 10, 2017 8:17am
Pongo

Soper,s latest in the Herald advising English how to conduct himself in public lest he upset Winston. Hey Barry who won 44% of the vote and who scraped in on 7% and lost his seat.
Winston may have the balance of power but he isnt some god like deity we have to prostrate ourselves in front of. Maybe get your head out of his arse you sycophant, your an embarrasment waiting him to chuck you some crumbs
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October 10, 2017 8:20am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Indeed. If anyone should zip it, it’s Barry Soper, along with some of his colleagues in the media.
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:43am
  - Swifty
    
    How many votes would Barry get?
    
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    October 10, 2017 8:45am
    - starboard
      
      ..for being a pissed old soak? 10/10
      
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      October 10, 2017 8:55am
      - holysheet
        
        Don’t forget his child bride. She would probably give him 1/10 for trying to satisfy her sexual cravings.
        When he’s not pissed, that is.
        
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        October 10, 2017 10:25am
- oldpark
  
  Yes a Lie-bour/Green mafias sycophant. Soper is trying to out do the whimp and wet as a shower, boy wonder mammys boy called Tame.
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:44am
  - RF
    
    He lives up to his name… rarely Sober.
    
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    October 10, 2017 11:57am
Happychappy

Well Jainda is all smiles and happy about the way the negotiations are going and Bill is happy and seems pleased about the way his are going too. But it does not take much time to upset the Winston Peters fan club Leader and Dirt thrower Barry Soper and anyone would think that Bill English targeted him with Sopers attack on Bill English in the Herald today or is he pissed because Peters might be leaning towards National. Either way it seems this so called Journalist wants to say who partners Winton First and his Party.
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October 10, 2017 8:21am
Notsofast

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Philip Morgan and Ben Van derkolk have the choice of showing up next tuesday touting a litany of scientific lies or pulling out of the case. The system is an absolute disgrace, and is treating Mark Lundy like a laboratory rat. New Zealand is under international scrutiny, I hope our politicians and judges are fully cognisant, there will be no more chances to get out of this one with our judicial and scientific reputation intact.

Please anyone who knows people in a position to deal with this, advise them to take control. All facts will soon be on the table and the method by which the people of Palmerston North have been royally rogered by the police judiciary and media will be rigorously exposed.

And there are killers at large.
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October 10, 2017 8:25am
- Swifty
  
  Mark Lundy killed his wife and daughter.
  
  Just like flat-earthers, Bainiacs, Mormons and those who reckon the earth is only 6,000 years old – there will always be a few oddballs who believe something in spite of all the evidence.
  
  Carry on Notsofast – we’re all happy watching you make a tit of yourself.
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:40am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    I concur Swifty.
    
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    October 10, 2017 8:45am
    - Notsofast
      
      Poor old Keeping Stock and his belief in Grantham and Kelly.
      You’ll see soon enough how these hopeless plods shafted your town.
      
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      October 10, 2017 9:03am
  - Notsofast
    
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    Issue by issue.
    1. The earth is round
    2. David Bain is innocent.
    3. Mormons are nutters.
    4. Earth is about 5 billion of age.
    5. In two weeks you will be an oddball if you say Mark Lundy killed his family.
    6. No tits on bulls.
    
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    October 10, 2017 8:46am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      7. Notsofast’s head is a vacuum.
      
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      October 10, 2017 8:49am
      - VicParking
        
        8. You can sneeze your brains out your nose and onto your husbands collar.
        
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        October 10, 2017 8:57am
    - starboard
      
      Notsoquick is Mark Lundy?
      
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      October 10, 2017 8:58am
      - Notsofast
        
        Messenger. Trying to do the deplorable media’s job to help this community.
        
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        October 10, 2017 9:05am
      - softail 1450
        
        not a sofa must have provided that brain matter that was found ,and his hasn’t worked ever since .
        
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        October 10, 2017 1:16pm
    - Swifty
      
      David Bain killed his family.
      
      Why did he do it? I haven’t a clue. But the physical evidence overwhelmingly points to him and him alone.
      
      Face it – you’re backing a lost cause.
      
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      October 10, 2017 9:10am
      - flipper
        
        Bain may have done the dirty deeds.
        It is possible.
        But in respect of the first trial, the PC said he had been “fitted” by the Crown and ordered, as requested by Bain’s Counsel, a full retrial.
        
        Absent the “fit-out”, the second jury said he didn’t.
        Beyond that, everything is speculation, with a
        leavening of fiction
        KB does not need to revisit this matter, and run the risk of legal suits.
        
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        October 10, 2017 11:33am
      - Notsofast
        
        What should concern everyone is that Judith Collins never read Ian Binnie’s report, but put it in the hands of serial false prosecutor John Pike to refer to failed judge Robert Fisher to deconstruct into a moronic complication. You people are not getting the picture of what is going on. But it is worse in Lundy, far worse, if that is possible, because the jury were mislead by Philip Morgan in his mendacious summing up, so the Privy Council had wasted their time.
        
        And it is not remotely possible David Bain did this, left a house strewn with bodies, went on a paper round in the hope his loser of a father would not get up on time. Also there is the small matter of Dempster, the contact temple wound, and the flawless suicide trajectory with ONE shot allowed.
        
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        October 10, 2017 12:31pm
      - Swifty
        
        It’s your serial name-calling that reveals you as a nutter.
        
        Think about that.
        
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        October 10, 2017 4:07pm
    - gravedodger
      
      “2 David Bain is innocent”
      
      2 David Bain acquitted at a second trial over a decade after conviction at an earlier Trial.
      Denied compensation for wrongful detainment as unable to convince MoJ innocent on balance of probabilities.
      
      7 Notsofast is rounded, less than Five billion years old, may or may not be a covert Mormon, holds some rather extraordinary views of criminal acts, may or may not have tits for hands and is no Joe Karem.
      
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      October 10, 2017 10:47am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Unkind to tits!!!
    
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    October 10, 2017 9:17am
- Happychappy
  
  Wow you are still clutching at straws without any substance, how many years is it now and no concrete proof.
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:41am
  - Notsofast
    
    There is a desperate search by prosecutors for concrete proof Lundy was at the crime scene, but instead they have found
    1. Unknown male dna beneath the fingernails of Christine and Amber
    2. Unidentified cloth fibers beneath the fingernails of Christine and Amber.
    The likely scenario is an assailant in an unwashed garment being grabbed from in front by Christine and from behind by 8 year old Amber. First he slays Christine in bed, then he slays the fleeing Amber.
    3. A blood and gore shadow on the wall meaning the assailant was covered in blood and gore, Mark Lundy’s clothes shoes and car revealed zero trace of blood, and they sure tried to find it.
    4. A shoeprint never traced to those known to have been in the just cleaned house.
    5. 6 fingerprints by the broken catch in the conservatory. These fingerprints have never been traced to anyone known to have entered the just cleaned house.
    6. Multiple coloured paint fragments on the floor and in the skulls, which were chemically and colour eliminated as a match to the paint on the tools in Mark’s garage. Yep that was all bullshit and they found his unpainted tomahawk.
    7. The police notebooks show their first belief was there were two assailants in the house, ruling out their later theory. Always look to the first witness testimony.
    8. A 30 liter petrol deficit to make 3 trips.
    9. Use of two illicit and never repeated forensic methods looking like a camel designed by a committee to show that decomposed crap might be CNS tissue and might be human, but proved unequivocally to contain cow sheep and pig dna.
    Likely scenario. Cooking splatter of preserved processed meat.
    
    The case is garbage and the prosecutors know it.
    
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    October 10, 2017 9:00am
    - MickMac
      
      I really hope you are incorrect.
      If you are, the thought that the forensics were abused by NZPolice and Prosecutors is awful.
      
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      October 10, 2017 9:54am
      - Notsofast
        
        I am correct. You will see, it is far worse than you could begin to imagine, all the facts are in the process of being tabled. The privy council called it a miscarriage of justice, and the police rinsed and repeated. Rod Miller has run for cover and left the mess to other idiots to continue their artifice and lies.
        Jeez it is bad alright. The current justice minister could not give a flying continental, in my opinion she could have intervened in a closed community like New Zealand when given the information she has been.
        
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        October 10, 2017 10:05am
      - Notsofast
        
        Also worth noting the New Zealand police flew one of their own to Texas in August last year to hand deliver an award to Rod Miller, yep taxpayer junket.
        The problem is Rod Miller is a disgrace and a fraud.
        
        https://www.propath.com/companies/press-clippings/420-behind-the-scenes-story-rodney-t-miller-m-d-recipient-of-special-commendation
        
        Youn bloody morons on this message board for paying for this!
        
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        October 10, 2017 11:08am
gump

The Republican’s Guide to Presidential Etiquette.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/08/opinion/editorials/republican-etiquette-guide.html
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October 10, 2017 8:26am
- Scott
  
  Usual biased bunch of nonsense from the New York Times. There has been a survey of the mainstream media and their coverage of Trump and found it was over 90% negative. In fact they found only 5% positive stories about Trump.
  And NZ media is worse. Mark my words. In his 8 years of presidency Donald Trump will do nothing right according to the NZ mainstream media.
  This is in contrast to Barry his predecessor, who in 8 years did nothing wrong according to our media’s estimation.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:56am
  - Paulus
    
    The Herald is the bum boy to the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN who all have a fetish against Trump because despite their efforts the voters, like here in NZ, and within the US Constitution, did not to support the left wing criminal Clinton.
    
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    October 10, 2017 11:07am
    - KevOB
      
      I think the issue is indirect support of globalisation.
      
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      October 10, 2017 11:14am
    - RF
      
      CNN… Clinton Network News…..
      
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      October 10, 2017 4:52pm
  - gump
    
    Perhaps they’ll start writing positive stories when President Trump starts doing positive things? They can only write about the things he does – and he does a lot of stupid things that harm the US and its global standing.
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:02pm
- Gabby
  
  I’m starting to wonder if that Chump fellow might not be a bit of an arsehole.
  
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  October 10, 2017 6:56pm
Sideoiler

Anyone feeling the same amount of love for the 15 year old scrote who wrecked that tree as I am?

An absolute tragedy that there were two survivors.
I wondered how many taxpayers had their elective surgery deferred while the surviving scrotes were repaired.
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October 10, 2017 8:27am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  15year olds are genetically programmed to be more than a little lacking in impulse control. Good chance he would have become a productive member of society in 5-10yrs. And loss of a 15yr old has nearly highest cost to society – we have just pumped in nearly all the money we are going to spend on education, and they have not yet paid any tax.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:11am
  - Sideoiler
    
    Good chance he would have become a productive member of society in 5-10yrs.
    
    I seriously doubt that.
    He was involved in two serious crimes in less than a month one of those crimes carries a fourteen year sentence.
    
    And loss of a 15yr old has nearly highest cost to society – we have just pumped in nearly all the money we are going to spend on education
    
    I agree it is unfortunate that we did not get better value for money, but the upside is we will not have to pay for his incarceration and rehabilitation.
    
    I have a sneaking suspicion that had he survived we would have been subsidising housing of him and his children.
    
    I would be very suprised if the taxpayer has not been supporting his parent in some way so that their wee darling doesn’t end up a criminal, so no value for money there either.
    So all in all, “society” is on a winner.
    
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    October 10, 2017 9:35am
    - MickMac
      
      no we have a loss.
      for he influenced others who may well go on to be a “cost” fiscally and emotionaly to society.
      
      I am just glad the NZPolice didn’t get bagged as usual by the press.
      
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      October 10, 2017 9:57am
      - holysheet
        
        what about the poor tree. There it was, going about its daily business of saving us from global warming in its own little way. Next thing, its matches. Who will think of the tree?
        
        Its good to see Darwinism at work at it’s finest.
        
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        October 10, 2017 10:31am
  - kowtow
    
    “15year olds are genetically programmed to be more than a little lacking in impulse control”
    
    So why aren’t more cars stolen and driven up the motorway the wrong way.
    
    The vast majority of all humans have plenty of impulse control ,that’s why we can live in “normal” society.
    
    And a tiny minority make a choice to act in a criminal manner , like this idiot did.
    
    Talking of taxes , he’s just saved society a small fortune in prison costs as well as the uncounted cost of being a one man two legged crime wave.
    
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    October 10, 2017 10:25am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Everyone does stupid shit when they are young, some much worse than others. It is not necessarily a good move to write off a 15 year old, as most come right further down the track. Something like 2/3rds of all crime is committed by slow-learning under 30’s in the thrall of excessive testosterone. I’ve known a couple of reformed young offenders who a strong contributors now.
      
      That said some are write-offs from a young age (I know teachers who have had kids <10 that they are sure will eventually kill).
      
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      October 10, 2017 11:33am
      - kowtow
        
        He wrote himself off and nearly took a few more with him.
        
        No sympathy.
        
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        October 10, 2017 1:23pm
  - softail 1450
    
    no I’m sorry, there was a greater chance he was going to kill some poor innocent mother on her way home from work .
    seriously, no,no,no, that would be a real tragedy and won’t happen now.
    
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    October 10, 2017 5:17pm
    - Gabby
      
      You want to think about that next time you’re wobbling around on your fat girly bike softcock. I wouldn’t want to see you coming the other way.
      
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      October 10, 2017 6:50pm
- Nukuleka
  
  As much as I understand the sentiment and anger behind this post I can’t but be appalled that it has received so many upticks. It is simply nasty to wish that these people had died no matter how foolish their behaviour.
  
  It reflects poorly both on the poster and the uptickers.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:28am
  - starboard
    
    Handwringer
    
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    October 10, 2017 9:39am
  - MickMac
    
    Whilst i understand your spirit I DO NOT agree at all.
    It’s a Darwin Award.
    
    Just as I believe “Burton” should be executed so I believe that he had set his face away from Life, society and had no restraint in him at all.
    
    We dodged a bullet by his death.
    The journey he underwent to get there we all know sadly.
    
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    October 10, 2017 10:00am
  - Swifty
    
    A thought experiment…
    
    If ISIS members came to your front door wanting to kill you and your family for your non-belief – would you do all you could, including killing them, to protect your family?
    
    Or would that be nasty too – wishing them dead because of their foolish behaviour.
    
    Granted these situations are not identical – but the kid was cleary happy to see us dead and on multiple occasions. Is it wrong for us to then have little thought for his demise?
    
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    October 10, 2017 10:19am
    - MCos
      
      “Granted these situations are not identical”
      The only fragment of truth in that piece of nonsense
      
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      October 10, 2017 12:22pm
      - Swifty
        
        It was a question.
        
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        October 10, 2017 1:04pm
  - Pharmachick
    
    Yes and no Nuku, neither you nor the original poster has up-ticks or down-ticks from me because IMHO you’re both right to certain extents…
    
    The original poster was referencing multiple criminal behavior including of the same type that caused the demise of this kid, for which he could still have been in jail if not released on parole early… so many points at which the boy could have been stopped: parental, judicial, corrections etc
    
    As to your comment about “so nasty to wish people had died”. Agree with that, but I don’t think people are “wishing” for a death – they’re commenting on the inevitability and/or basic probability that this would have happened at some time based on this kid’s behavior which, despite what the Horrid would have you believe was *quite* extreme for a 15 year old. Signs were that there would have been further disruption (which, again IMHO; is prefereable to death… but given the proliferation of these young offenders in NZ, I don’t blame the populace for being tired of it.)
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:16pm
  - softail 1450
    
    Nuku. liberal fool.
    
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    October 10, 2017 5:22pm
oldpark

Mr Peters certainly dosn’t want anything to do with the commie “Green” Party. He treats them like they are a piece of “shit” stuck to the bottom of his shoe.
A very wise man. Now that the “green” ratio MPs are six women to “two men”. Greens have flip flopped on their rules. Figures,it is alright when they do it.
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October 10, 2017 8:29am
- VicParking
  
  The more this go’s on the more I want National not to be choosen by the special one. The ’30 silver coins’ he would ask for would be to much and would see National get dicked in the next election and we would loose all we gained in the last six years giving us nine years of hell.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:06am
- sooty
  
  What makes you think Shaw will stay? The Greens can arse him and do a shuffle and end up three of each.
  
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  October 10, 2017 10:07am
- Surely Knott
  
  Stuff interview with Shaw going into negotiation deals with Labour today and Shaw looking on the defensive and unhappy . Maybe reality is kicking in that he is sidelined, and despite having the same power to create a government as Winston he is being treated like a child and the big decisions are happening elsewhere.
  
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  October 10, 2017 1:29pm
srylands

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/341179/teen-killed-in-pursuit-involved-in-previous-crash

I had the misfortune of listening to 5 minutes of morning report this morning while they blamed the fate of this youth on the government for not funding sufficient programs for troubled teens.
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October 10, 2017 9:13am
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  Sorry I have to agree about the insufficient funding.
  
  Where is the tax payer money for the one way helicopter rides out to sea program so many “kiwis” have justifiably earned?
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:18am
  - Gabby
    
    You could offer them a ride on your chopper jizzymitts.
    
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    October 10, 2017 6:46pm
- srylands
  
  The guy they interviewed actually said that we needed to fund support to “wrap around” such teen boys until they reach 35 years old.
  
  Even 5 years ago I would have been incredulous if someone had said that seriously on a news program. Now I expect it.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:26am
  - MickMac
    
    yep
    building resiliance and character in people, isn’t a strength with snowflakes.
    
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    October 10, 2017 10:02am
    - sooty
      
      Well Cindys youth adjacent at only 37yrs!
      
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      October 10, 2017 10:08am
  - VicParking
    
    No doubt the money would be for a scheme he is running. A longitudinal study to follow 12 year olds until they are 35.
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:26pm
- KevOB
  
  How do you tell a teen age adrenaline junkie from the rest: you find them going against the traffic. A bit hard to treat–not necessarily troubled but a compulsive thrill seeker. Some people over-live life.
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:19am
Jazz-Hands Mc Feels

What a difference race and colour makes!

“President Donald Trump is proclaiming Monday as Columbus Day — without any of his predecessor’s qualms.

The president’s proclamation Friday directs the U.S. to celebrate his discovery of the Americas, noting “the permanent arrival of Europeans … was a transformative event that undeniably and fundamentally changed the course of human history and set the stage for the development of our great Nation.”

Trump’s proclamation only praises Columbus, Spain and the explorer’s native Italy.

It contrasts with President Barack Obama’s document almost exactly a year earlier. Obama’s proclamation acknowledged Columbus’ spirit of exploration. But he said the nation should “also acknowledge the pain and suffering reflected in the stories of Native Americans who had long resided on this land prior to the arrival of European newcomers.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-proclaims-columbus-day-without-obamas-qualms-235926643.html

White supremacist US President Trump making America great again!
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October 10, 2017 9:14am
- Scott
  
  Trump is not a “white supremacist” despite what certain trolls may say. He is what is unfashionably known as “a patriot”.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:59am
  - Gabby
    
    More of a ‘bullshitter’ snott.
    
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    October 10, 2017 6:44pm
- MickMac
  
  sorry Jazz that makes you an arse….
  
  sure research has posited that 10-100 million natives died after the europeans came due to various causes.
  
  That does not make President Trump a white Supremacist.
  It only makes you an arse for bandying around emotional painting words at him.
  
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  October 10, 2017 10:14am
  - VicParking
    
    What part of these 100 million deaths was Columbus guilty of. At the same time thousands were being killed in europe by the catholics undertaking the Inquisition. Do you want all catholic churches to be pulled down as well.
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:32pm
    - holysheet
      
      yes please.
      
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      October 10, 2017 5:01pm
Brito

Found this piece really interesting. When I first bought a firearm I had to have a licence and have the registered papers handed to me by the Police before I picked up the weapon. Once they dropped that process they lost control and will never get it a back. According to this piece we have a world leading system. Not from my experience.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/97678281/las-vegas-shooterstyle-assault-weapons-to-go-on-sale-at-wellington-school
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October 10, 2017 9:16am
- starboard
  
  Why do you feel the need to own a killing machine?
  What do you kill?
  Why do you kill?
  
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  October 10, 2017 10:27am
  - Brito
    
    Starboard, I recognise your attempt at levity for what it is. How many guns do you own? And really, do you care that much? The thread through your posts seem to be focused on freedom of speech, thought and action, yet your post here is at odds with your general position. It’s ok, I do understand that these discussions occasionally are a little unsettling as your original paradigms are challenged and a new understanding dawns.
    
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    October 10, 2017 11:05am
  - gravedodger
    
    Do you own any powered vehicles starboard.
    
    So far my weapons have killed Rabbits, Possums, Hares, Dogs, Cattle, Ducks, Geese, Stoats, Magpies, Pigeons, Cats, Wallabys, Thar, Deer, Goats, Rats, all for valid reasons of Humane relief, food, pest control.
    My over forty owned Powered vehicles over fifty years have killed zero people while under my control.
    
    Your comment is somewhat confusing as to its point, I take it you do not own any firearms?
    
    Remind us again how many died last year from vehicle accidents and how many died from firearm incidents
    
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    October 10, 2017 11:07am
    - Johnboy
      
      What?? No Chamois grave old chap..don’t know what your missing, run like bloody rocking horse’s. 🙂
      ps: Now I know what happened to poor old Phil! 🙂
      
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      October 10, 2017 3:19pm
    - Gabby
      
      Weapons don’t kill animals gratedogger, people kill animals.
      
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      October 10, 2017 6:42pm
    - GoVege
      
      Basta*d!!
      
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      October 10, 2017 11:34pm
  - VicParking
    
    No doubt in case you came calling.
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:33pm
  - RF
    
    Starboard.
    
    Just completed a buy / sell transaction and I now have 9 firearms in my locked gun safe. In another locked safe I would have up to 1000 rounds of amunition mainly .22s. Some for a semi auto 22 with silencer.
    
    Life is good and I do not have any urges to visit concerts.
    
    You might question the number of firearms I own however I will point out that I also have a similar number of fishing rods and boxes of flys and lures.
    
    I am just your average Kiwi who enjoys the outdoors both North & South Island.
    
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    October 10, 2017 5:07pm
- kowtow
  
  That article is a pathetic attempt by stuff to have a go at arms collectors , the school and anyone else they can spray shit on.
  
  MSM c#nts.
  
  And we do have a great licensing system.
  
  The problem in NZ is not the licensed shooter it’s the crims and a lack of proper sentencing for firearms offences.
  
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  October 10, 2017 10:40am
Manolo

Oscar-winning performance and PhD in Hypocrisy:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4962826/Meryl-Streep-slams-disgraceful-Harvey-Weinstein.html

Glenn Close, Meryl Streep and Judi Dench have all spoken out about Harvey Weinstein in lengthy statements released early Monday.

‘The disgraceful news about Harvey Weinstein has appalled those of us whose work he championed, and those whose good and worthy causes he supported,’ said Streep.

She went on to say: ‘One thing can be clarified. Not everybody knew.’
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October 10, 2017 9:17am
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  Haha, yep after a long delay ( while they evaluated the possible threat to their careers ) and deafening silence a belated announcement of condemnation of a Hollywood joo.
  
  “She went on to say: ‘One thing can be clarified. Not everybody knew.’”
  
  Liar, liar, liar!
  
  Trying to wriggle and squirm their degenerate feminist butts out of it.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:24am
- Brito
  
  It seems Manolo that if these famous women worked in Hollywood, the leaky entertainment ship would have meant that this was not a secret. Now that Weinstein has been ‘shopped’ the ‘ladies’ are coming out and biting at his corpse. Where were they when it was happening? Why were they silent? Let me see…money! Future employment? He was their mate?
  
  Fickle friends make nasty enemies.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:27am
  - Gabby
    
    Well they reckon he’s probably not going to ruin their careers now Bitcho. They’re not completely stupid Bitcho.
    
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    October 10, 2017 8:07pm
    - softail 1450
      
      grub, unlike you grubby.
      
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      October 11, 2017 6:56am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  They’ve known about his behaviour for over 30 years.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html
  
  When a bully is protected by important people, it is hard to get traction and folks find it easier to look the other way.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:51am
Happychappy

It would be very interesting to know the percentage Left vs Right in the media because it appears to me and my bias view that it has been a 85% against 15% majority to the Left and their absolute distaste for a National Government. If this continues it will not help encourage the young to vote in the foreseeable future.
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October 10, 2017 9:22am
- Brito
  
  If you read anything from about 1968 forward you’ll find a lean to the left in journalism. When the 70’s came along the lean intensified and has continued ever since. Universities have always been left and have created the writers, producers and journo’s we have today. The only way to change that is at the top.
  
  Who owns most of the media outlets? The question then arises, what do these people gain by having a left leaning organisation? If the government is the main share holder generally they would be remiss to tinker with editorial comment. But what’s in it for Tony O’Reilly and Rupert Murdoch?
  
  My guess is that the media is such a small earner for these guys they don’t care. Sport and entertainment is their cash cow, news outlets are loss leaders.
  
  What do others think??
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:57am
  - VicParking
    
    Up until to 70’s NZ drew its university staff from the USA and most of these were Keynesian. From the 70’s on the staff came from England and are Maxists.
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:43pm
    - Brito
      
      Yip that sums it up.
      
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      October 10, 2017 4:32pm
Happychappy

Have we got new moderation on Kiwiblog as I have my comment awaiting moderation for the last10 minutes.
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October 10, 2017 9:32am
- waikatogirl
  
  Think it’s a bug Happy. Copy and reload comment while you can edit usually fixes it.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:42am
DifferentPerspective

Unelected bureaucrats attacking journalists?

Not that the slimy media don’t deserve everything that comes their way – however, I really have a huge problem with public servants voicing their personal activist opinions through Twitter while hiding behind publicly funded institutions.

WOBH carries Duncan Garner’s column about the staggering unprofessionalism of the Human Rights Commission Twitter account administrators in dog whistling an article Garner wrote about the immigration debate.

To think this is an outfit funded by our taxes and they’ve devolved into Antifa-like behaviour, telling lies and accusing a journo of having wrongthink.

If anything requires:
– an investigation
– an apology
– a sacking of the public servant who posted this, and
– the resignation of Devoy

then this is it.

WTF!
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October 10, 2017 9:36am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  The position of race relations conciliator doesn’t have any real power other than to administer a public telling off when people say and do things she doesn’t like. We should completely disestablish the role but I don’t see the point of sacking her for doing what the government hired her to do.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:49am
  - starboard
    
    Maybe somebody should ‘reach out’ to her.
    
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    October 10, 2017 10:38am
    - Colville
      
      reach out and push her off something tall you mean?
      
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      October 10, 2017 11:18am
      - sam green
        
        Are you advocating killing Susan Devoy?
        
        Which Minister in National employed her?
        
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        October 10, 2017 1:05pm
      - starboard
        
        stoooooopid boy
        
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        October 10, 2017 3:38pm
      - Gabby
        
        Reach out of your hole you mean colvile?
        
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        October 10, 2017 8:05pm
- MickMac
  
  I’ve thought for a long time that she wasn’t up to the job.
  But it is a political window dressing, not substance sadly.
  
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  October 10, 2017 10:17am
  - VicParking
    
    I’ve thought for a long time that she wasn’t up to the job. Now I know she isnt.
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:46pm
Digmen1

Imagine if Colombus had not “discovered” America.

It would probably be a backwater hellhole like Africa is today, tribal wars etc etc.

Instead of the greatest country in the world that keeps the world safe, spreads democracy and medical and scientific research etc etc.
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October 10, 2017 9:36am
- Brito
  
  If the US was a backwater then Mexico would have invaded and the wall would be on the Canadian border keeping the Frogs and Poms at bay.
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:59am
- MickMac
  
  some in America say that it was all part of God’s plan for America to be discovered….
  
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  October 10, 2017 10:18am
- big bruv
  
  Digmen
  
  You really think that the USA is the greatest country in the world?
  
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  October 10, 2017 3:56pm
Digmen1

In the Philipines they tried to give their Human Rights commision an annual budget of 1,000 pesos (about $20)

Most of their government voted for the reduced budget!
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October 10, 2017 9:38am
Jack5

Oh dear.

Homosexual couple’s adoption of girl baby ends with her being abused then being beaten to death at 18 months old.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4962982/Gay-father-killed-adopted-daughter.html
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October 10, 2017 10:08am
- MickMac
  
  trolling or informing jack5 ?
  
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  October 10, 2017 10:19am
  - Jack5
    
    Sorry, MickMac, I shouldn’t have provided that link.
    
    The report must be bullshit — heterosexual propaganda, right wing nastiness.
    
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    October 10, 2017 10:42am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The gay father’s gayness is irrelevant.
  
  He does not have what it takes to be a supporting, nurturing “father” who first responsibility is to care for his children (adopted or otherwise).
  
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  October 10, 2017 10:41am
  - Jack5
    
    Odakyu-sen: I think adoption of children by homosexual couples is still new enough, and still uncommon enough, to be newsworthy when a child adopted by such a couple is murdered.
    
    As a side issue: do you recall what the position is with adoption and gay marriage in Japan?
    
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    October 10, 2017 10:46am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Jack5,
      
      There is no such thing as legal homosexual marriage in Japan.
      The family register (koseki) cannot accept two males or two females as a married couple. It isn’t legal. (You could try, but the local city office would refuse to process your application.)
      
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      October 10, 2017 11:31am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Jack5,
      
      Please understand that legal adoption is widely used in Japan, but not in the way they you (as a Westerner) would expect.
      
      I will give you an example. My father-in-law had 3 daughters but no sons. In order for the family name to continue, he adopted his son-in-law (who married his eldest daughter) to be his legal son. Problem solved.
      
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      October 10, 2017 11:34am
      - Jack5
        
        That’s very pragmatic, Odakyu-sen.
        
        Maori seem to share their children with kin. A brother or sister may send to a childless sibling one of their own children to live and grow up with that sibling and spouse.
        
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        October 10, 2017 1:39pm
- Scott
  
  Look please remember the politically correct line – two men are just as capable as a man and a woman of bringing up a child. Adopting out an unrelated child to two homosexual men is an example of our enlightenment.
  
  Pity about the poor kids??
  
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  October 10, 2017 10:41am
- Fletch
  
  There have been several of these over the last few years. If they don’t have that maternal connection it is not the same. It’s not your own flesh and blood.
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:09am
  - sam green
    
    Then any adoption would be the same.
    
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    October 10, 2017 1:08pm
  - big bruv
    
    That’s bullshit Fletch. I am totally against Homo couples adopting however the fact they are not your own flesh and blood has nothing to do with it.
    There are thousands of step fathers and step mothers around NZ who can attest to that fact.
    
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    October 10, 2017 4:17pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Sir Peter Gluckman, Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of NZ, and Chair of the International network of Science Advice to Governments, has written an important article in the Times Higher Education Supplement.

He warns against arrogant scientists and science organisations that overhype their research and try to interfere in political decision-making.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chief-science-adviser-attacks-academic-arrogance-policy
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October 10, 2017 10:36am
- VicParking
  
  Agreed. And in most cases its to obtain a bigger position at the trough.
  
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  October 10, 2017 3:49pm
Fletch

The f****n SJWs are out protesting again including new Green MP Chloe Swarbrick. This time it’s the annual defense industry conference. They’re referring to it as a “weapons expo” and (literally) dressing up as clowns.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/raw-video-weapons-expo-protesters-clash-police-defence-industry-conference-in-wellington

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/watch-crucial-we-protest-green-mp-chloe-swarbrick-rocks-up-support-wellington-weapons-expo-protesters

So yeh, they are trying to take their SJW cues from America and go on about guns but in this case it is all about security for our country. What, do they think our country should not be able to defend itself? That if we’re nice enough to other countries who want to hurt us we can all join hands and sing around the campfire?

Bloody airheads.
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October 10, 2017 11:02am
- cha
  
  The f****n SJWs
  
  So easily triggered, sad.
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  October 10, 2017 11:08am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Stupidity on display is always offensive to the eye.
    
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    October 10, 2017 11:35am
- Peter
  
  Given NZ is mostly engaged in peacekeeping, what are they suggesting? Peacekeeping armed with a smug sanctimonious attitude?
  
  Perhaps Chloe should go into a peacekeeping zone to “have a discussion”.
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:11am
  - Jack5
    
    You’re right, Peter.
    
    Why don’t they demonstrate where it’s needed: in Syria, in North Korea, in Burma/Myanmar?
    
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    October 10, 2017 11:16am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      We really need Swarbrick’s mob in charge when Rocket Man starts flinging his nukes around.
      
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      October 10, 2017 11:35am
      - sooty
        
        They will cover us with the shield of scantimony.
        
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        October 10, 2017 11:56am
      - RF
        
        Stupid bimbo bint….. a school mate for the other child who is trying to be a man and growing a beard.
        
        At one stage I thought National could go with the mung bean eaters but thankfully I came to my senses….
        
        Even Winnie does not want the Greens near his tent… how sad…
        
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        October 10, 2017 12:13pm
    - big bruv
      
      What is wrong with the way things are being handled in Myanmar?
      
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      October 10, 2017 12:47pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Rapid rifling wear from lack of lard on the proje’s? 🙂
        
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        October 10, 2017 1:12pm
- Brito
  
  Fletch when you get down to it, they actually are right on the one hand and completely wrong on the other. ‘War is Murder’ was one of the signs, and it is right. It’s difficult to contemplate our children being placed in a uniform and sent off to fight in a war. I for one will do all that I can to stop that.
  
  But, and this is the key, we need to be more like Switzerland. Have a defence force which trains to defend the borders. Focus on the sea and managing our economic zone, reach out and help the Pacific Islands in times of trouble – the end. If our islands are to remain intact we need the ability to keep others out and hope that they cast their envious eyes elsewhere.
  
  There are systems available today which provide these solutions. We have the technology to develop our own systems which means we don’t rely on others for our protection. That is our Archilles heal.
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:16am
  - Jack5
    
    Brito, to defend NZ by itself we would need a navy bigger than Britain’s – and an Air Force to cover it. We could never afford it.
    
    We have such a huge coast line relative to our geographic land area, and to our economy and to our population, that land-based defence is impossible.
    
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    October 10, 2017 11:18am
  - cha
    
    We have the technology to develop our own systems
    
    *cough* HMNZS Charles Upham *cough*
    
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    October 10, 2017 11:22am
    - Brito
      
      In answer to cha and jack5, yip, I agree. Massive challenges with the coast line and the unfortunate Charles Upham is an insult to the memory of the man. However, the current system is wrong and I maintain that sending our children off to another war will be wrong. Our troops, in general, should never go into a conflict armed and managed the way they are (SAS excluded). Our Navy and Airforce is an embarrassment. We have to change!!
      
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      October 10, 2017 11:34am
  - softail 1450
    
    and what are these mythical systems you speak of ? please enlighten me.
    
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    October 10, 2017 12:26pm
    - Brito
      
      Softail, look at the technology around you. Much of it is manufactured offshore but we have a tech industry here (I’m part of it) which has the capability of producing all that we need (and more).
      
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      October 10, 2017 4:38pm
  - cmm
    
    ” It’s difficult to contemplate our children being placed in a uniform and sent off to fight in a war. I for one will do all that I can to stop that. ”
    
    No you would not. You only talk like that because you’re living in a period where there has pretty much been 50 or so years of relative peace.
    
    If there was an imminent invasion then much more likely you and your kids would grab weapons and fight.
    
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    October 10, 2017 12:37pm
    - Brito
      
      You miss the point. If the problem was on our shores I agree, that’s what would happen. But if the problem was offshore then I would move argue not to send our kids to fight and be butchered in a foreign land. And what peace do you speak of, there has been war since 1945 all over the world.
      
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      October 10, 2017 4:36pm
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  “What, do they think our country should not be able to defend itself?”
  
  Basically, SJWs/Progressives/Marxists HATE Western Civilisation. They want to destroy it and install their Socialist Utopia.
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:25am
- KevOB
  
  Jacinda’s comrades.
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:27am
- Dafixeruppa
  
  Why is she not doing the job that she has been gifted?
  
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  October 10, 2017 12:35pm
Jack5

Some economists exude certainty that they are infallible, but another mirror has cracked at the base of economics – the idea that people make decisions rationally.

The highlighting of the flaw is highlighted by the award of the Nobel Prize for Economics to Richard Thaler.

The Swedish Academy of Sciences says:

Professor Thaler’s research had expanded economic analysis by considering three psychological traits: limited rationality, perceptions about fairness and lack of self-control.

That’s from a piece on Thaler at the ABC web site:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-09/nobel-economics-prize-awarded-to-richard-thaler/9032144
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October 10, 2017 11:11am
- KevOB
  
  I concur that people don’t always make rational economic decisions. However I have proof that the “rational economic man” existed in the stock market in NZ and AUS in the 1970’s. Such a creature is a corollary of the equations that I have. In words: an investment grade quoted company of the same size and earnings expectations has the same value.
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:35am
  - Jack5
    
    Hi Kevin:
    
    Well there’s a chance for a Nobel Prize for NZ.
    
    When humans, with the same educational background, mixing with others similar to themselves, using the same measurements to assess companies, they get the same results.
    
    Unfortunately that doesn’t always equal ration decision making. What about 1987? What about bubbles and crashes generally?
    
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    October 10, 2017 1:33pm
    - KevOB
      
      Markets once once moved predictably. Most people are not aware that price and value are independent. The price moves with liquidity as does the boom and bust. When ‘investors” have had their fill the market is already heading down several months before most know of it. A buoyant over extension of credit wrecks havoc on those short of funds to pay for their purchases–their losses trigger others.
      
      We are in a giant asset bubble because of international bank credit creation. That’s fueled our prices here too. I am standing by for the awful inevitable.
      
      Value is independent and is largely a function of earnings, application, retention and the magnitude of the company. Investment grade shares were never overpriced but fully valued after a period while the new published results were considered. Sometimes a few months would elapse before the market suddenly revalued them to the computed value.
      The rational person is required for that to happen. Otherwise how did so many people arrive separately at the same value? The data was public and the last set of published accounts was the basis for the valuation. Measurable liquidity changed the day to day price.
      
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      October 10, 2017 3:12pm
cha

And the first time the Donald picked up a club he shot a 38-under par round that included no fewer than 11 holes in one.

Really enjoyed a round of golf with President @realDonaldTrump today. President Trump shot a 73 in windy and wet conditions!— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 9, 2017
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October 10, 2017 11:19am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  cha,
  
  I think you are confusing Trump with the leader of North Korea. (Isn’t Kim the one with the record number of holes in one?)
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:28am
  - cha
    
    ya reckon
    
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    October 10, 2017 11:32am
chris

As I predicted the other day, New World is following suit and getting rid of plastic bags at the checkout.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/97714989/New-World-matches-Countdown-to-go-plastic-bag-free-by-2018
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October 10, 2017 11:21am
- Fletch
  
  We should go in and grab a pile of them for later use.
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:27am
  - sooty
    
    Maybe someone will start selling plastic bags in bulk, especially printed ones with a witty comment on them, like fuck you.
    
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    October 10, 2017 11:54am
    - VicParking
      
      There is a store in Manurewa which you can buy supermarket shaped and sized bags.
      
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      October 10, 2017 3:55pm
      - Fletch
        
        Might be worth checking out
        
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        October 10, 2017 8:45pm
- wiseowl
  
  Associate Minister for the Environment has applauded the supermarkets for their stance on plastic bags.
  Where does this guy get his advice from?
  Why did he have to come out with this support?
  This type of statement from a National MP is why National get tagged with the Labour- lite tag.
  Does he have any ability to think this issue through and seek the truth or does he wish to be popular with the lefty brigade?
  
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  October 10, 2017 4:11pm
Keeping Stock

Chloe Swarbrick hasn’t even been sworn in as an MP yet, but she’s already showing solidarity with a protest group intent on stopping people going about their lawful business.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/97718508/Green-MP-Chloe-Swarbrick-shows-support-at-arms-industry-forum-blockade?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

What a pity that the Green Party is still in Parliament, and leeching off the taxpayer’s tit.
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October 10, 2017 11:26am
- rangitoto
  
  We (the public) should be able to impeach elected officials who break the law.
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:35am
- cmm
  
  I hope she’s taking leave without pay to attend… what’s the chance of that?
  
  Quite ironic really that the only reason they have the rights to protest is because armed people have repelled commies from our fine shores.
  
  How well do protests go down in the commie countries they love so much?
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:36am
- Brito
  
  The right to protest is a fundamental right we should support. I disagree with much of the Green’s tripe and please don’t start me on Labour, but returned service men did not fight for the government, in general they fought for their mates first and then country second (the gov and arms industry was way down the list). We should give these people our support to protest but at the same time protest ourselves about their message (if it alienates you or you are opposed to it). The act of protesting is to be applauded and enshrined…or we’re fucked.
  
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  October 10, 2017 12:03pm
  - cmm
    
    No worries with her protesting, as pathetic as it might be. But not while she’s being paid.
    
    And obstructing/assaulting people is NOT protesting.
    
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    October 10, 2017 12:33pm
    - Brito
      
      Agreed. They should be able to protest but not prevent people going about their lawful business.
      
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      October 10, 2017 2:45pm
  - kowtow
    
    Protest , most certainly.
    
    Break the law and obstruct others going about their lawful business , fuck that. Off to court.
    
    PS
    Constitutionally, soldiers fought for the Crown , they’d have all taken an oath of loyalty to the monarch , our head of state.
    
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    October 10, 2017 1:38pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      I agree wholeheartedly kowtow. The conference in Wellington is not breaking any laws, and the delegates should be free to come and go as they wish.
      
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      October 10, 2017 1:52pm
- Inandout
  
  Couldn’t come at a better time for coalition talks and will remind Winnie that the Left are bonkers.
  
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  October 10, 2017 2:10pm
Rich Prick

David Seymour is playing with the idea that Labour might throw Cindy under the bus and give Winston his Holy Grail. If only, I’d love to watch the left riot because they “won”.
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October 10, 2017 11:29am
- Digmen1
  
  David Seymour is an idiot.
  
  He could not even get ACT to single figures.
  
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  October 10, 2017 11:48am
Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/97723386/christchurch-grandmother-jasmine-kasiana-teowai-hudson-jailed-for-250000-benefit-fraud-over-15-years

Some bad news for the greens……and dare I say it, precedent for prosecuting MeTu…….fingers crossed, be still my beating heart !
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October 10, 2017 11:42am
- cmm
  
  There is no way they can let MeTu walk even if her offending is not as bad.
  
  We’re generally dealing with the less intelligent and they need clear messages. If Metu does not get prosecuted then there will be outrage amongst the great unwashed.
  
  Then, too, what about Mr Peters? Didn’t he get caught rorting WINZ? IF so then why isn’t he also before the beak?
  
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  October 10, 2017 12:30pm
  - holysheet
    
    And he still owes us taxpayers $158,0000
    
    Gimme the money, gimme the money.
    
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    October 10, 2017 5:12pm
Manolo

The face of a hungry animal:
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/mcdonalds-customer-allegedly-threatens-to-shoot-auckland-drive-through-worker/ar-AAtc111?li=BBqdg4K&ocid=mailsignout

A McDonald’s drive-through worker in Auckland has been offered counselling, after an angry customer threatened to shoot him, if he didn’t get free food.

The man drove up to the window at a McDonald’s in Mt Roskill at about 2:45am on September 30.
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October 10, 2017 12:51pm
- Johnboy
  
  Show some compassion Manolo. The poor fellow looks like he hasn’t had a decent feed for years.
  I blame the filthy neo-libs that haven’t made takeaways free for indigenous victims of the colonialist oppressors. PM Cindy will do it! 🙂
  
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  October 10, 2017 1:04pm
  - burt
    
    I’m ready, we’re all ready – lets supersize this !
    
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    October 10, 2017 1:07pm
  - RalphT
    
    “The poor fellow looks like he hasn’t had a decent feed for years.” I think there is a typo there, Jb, looking at the photo I think years should be hours.
    
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    October 10, 2017 1:25pm
  - sooty
    
    Should have raced out the back and made him a shit sandwich!
    
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    October 10, 2017 1:28pm
  - VicParking
    
    It was just a cry for help by a down trodden member of our First Nation. Not eaten in a week he was forced to steal a car to feed his family. We need to start a give a little page to support him.
    
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    October 10, 2017 4:03pm
burt

I bet this woman wishes she was an MP.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/97723386/christchurch-grandmother-jasmine-kasiana-teowai-hudson-jailed-for-250000-benefit-fraud-over-15-years
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October 10, 2017 1:06pm
JasonJohns

wow. nzdf sending a post-election signal
http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/news/media-releases/2017/20171006-nzdfs-maritime-patrols-in-fiji-detect-more-infringements.htm
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October 10, 2017 1:07pm
Brito

I think we have it pretty sweet here.

Look at the following and see what you think. The attitudes of the mob (in this case) need to be tempered somewhat…but they are still allowed to protest. The issue is the counter protest…why aren’t there more and why isn’t it louder?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcF-I_0xCSs
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October 10, 2017 1:24pm
AgentBallSack

Hollywood is full of connoisseurs like Weinstein, men whose erotic imaginations are fueled primarily by humiliation, who glut their sensibilities with the most exquisite refinements of shame. A journalist once told me about visiting another very famous Hollywood producer—you’d know the name—who exhibited for my friend his collection of photographs of famous female actresses—you’d know their names, too—performing sexual acts for his private viewing. As with Weinstein, this man’s chief thrill was humiliation, and the more famous the target the more roundly it was savored: Even her, a big star—these people will do anything to land a role; they’re so awful, they’ll even do it for me.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-human-stain-why-the-harvey-weinstein-story-is-worse-than-you-think/article/2009995
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October 10, 2017 1:32pm
- cha
  
  So the Weekly Standard’s pieces on serial sexual harassers Trump, Ailes, O’Reilly and Bolling are ready to go?.
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  October 10, 2017 1:41pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    No, CNN WaPo HuffPo and the Daily Mail have the rights to them. 🙂
    
    A New York Times report on Harvey Weinstein and Miramax employee Fabrizio Lombardo was buried after pressure from the studio and high profile actors, including Kiwi actor Russell Crowe, according to an explosive new claim.
    
    Sharon Waxman, who edits the online Hollywood trade publication The Wrap, says she wrote a comprehensive report on Weinstein’s sexual behaviour for The New York Times in 2004 but that the paper cut out its most contentious parts.
    
    “After intense pressure from Weinstein, which included having Matt Damon and Russell Crowe call me directly … and unknown discussions well above my head at the Times, the story was gutted,” Waxman says.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/97733615/russell-crowe-matt-damon-helped-spike-a-weinstein-expose-in-2004-former-nyt-journalist-claims
    
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    October 10, 2017 1:45pm
Fletch

So now New World have joined in the virtue signaling and say that they are also going to ban plastic bags as well. Why the heck did they bother asking their customers if they were just going to do what they wanted anyway?
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October 10, 2017 1:42pm
- Digmen1
  
  Yes they do not seem to have released the actual survey results.
  
  I voted Keep the bags.
  
  On the radio they are saying “There is increased pressure on other retailers to drop single use bag”
  
  Where is this pressure coming from?
  
  I like them, and I think many of us on here also like them (and don’t litter)
  
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  October 10, 2017 1:46pm
  - VicParking
    
    I have yet to find anyone who voted to remove the bags. They are great for the rubbish holder under the bench
    
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    October 10, 2017 4:06pm
- cha
  
  They asked the question, folk responded.
  
  New World supermarket asks for feedback on plastic bags
  
  Last updated 22:38, September 14 2017
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/96625069/new-world-supermarket-asks-for-feedback-on-plastic-bags
  
  Last updated 11:23, October 10 201
  
  New World will go plastic bag free by the end of 2018 after the results of its BagVote showed people don’t want bags at all.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/97714989/new-world-matches-countdown-to-go-plastic-bag-free-by-2018
  
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  October 10, 2017 1:49pm
  - Fletch
    
    Actually, New World admit that they didn’t actually ask the question about totally banning bags. Their question was about a 10c surcharge.
    
    When we launched the project the discussion was all about introducing a levy, so we wanted to ask our customers what they thought. The overwhelming majority has voted ‘yes – charge me for bags’, but we missed an important question – no bag at all.
    
    http://www.newworld.co.nz/about-us/news/whats-next-for-bags/
    
    But that doesn’t matter, they’re going to go and phase them out anyway, without asking that question. It’s all about virtue signaling and making themselves feel moral. Like most things SJW it has nothing to do with improving the planet or people’s health – it’s all about what appears moral on the surface and in people’s eyes. It’s all about joining the club – hey, look at us! We’re a moral company, too!
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:33pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    All those who feelz good saving the sea life from plastic shopping bags will have completed the survey and said yes to getting rid of bags. Answered mostly by young teenagers who don’t do the weekly shop, have no use for bags even though mum is always handing them one for dirty sports boots, or whatever.
    
    Wait till the customers complain, what will the supermarkets do then?
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:54pm
- mandk
  
  Smart commercial move by New World.
  
  Instead of using NW shopping bags to line their kitchen bins, customers will now need to buy them.
  
  Environmental gain = Zero
  
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  October 10, 2017 1:55pm
  - Poppa
    
    Very true
    
    If I was the head of the opposition chain I would say we are keeping ours & then see how the public react
    
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    October 10, 2017 2:06pm
    - big bruv
      
      Don’t be silly, this is a competition to see who can virtue signal the loudest.
      
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      October 10, 2017 2:28pm
      - Jack5
        
        It’s a pity the Commerce Commission went along with Countdown swallowing the Woolworths chain.
        
        Two national chains – Countdown and New World – doesn’t seem to be enough for real competition.
        
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        October 10, 2017 3:07pm
      - calendar girl
        
        I agree with the sentiment Jack5. But I think the takeover went the other way – Woolworths Australia was cleared by the Commerce Commission to take over Progressive Enterprises (owner of Countdown, etc). That in turn removed any incentive for Woolworths Australia to support and expand its Woolworths supermarket chain in New Zealand.
        
        New Zealand could (and should) have retained three separate grocery groupings – (1) Foodstuffs (New World, Pak’n Save, etc); (2) Progressive Enterprises (Countdown, etc – even if it had ended up under new international ownership by a third party); and (3) Woolworths Australia.
        
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        October 10, 2017 4:01pm
    - SPC
      
      Pak’n Save may be it, they were the first to put a price on them, and have not said they will end their use.
      
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      October 10, 2017 4:07pm
Digmen1

This obese guy and his ilk make me sick

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/97483794/blenheim-man-loses-180kg-still-too-heavy-for-weightloss-surgery

He is 53 and he has just realised that he might die!
He wants an operation that will need two tables two of this , ten of that.

My question is why WINZ etc let him stay on the dole for all those years because he can’t work. (but liked eating)
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October 10, 2017 1:54pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Just cut off his access to funds – make it so that everything has to be bought through a 3rd party spending monitor and get countdown to deliver sensible groceries a few time s a week. A lot cheaper and safer than surgery.
  
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  October 10, 2017 3:27pm
Jack5

Philippines link to ISIS.

(Five per cent of Filipinos are Muslim.)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/09/new-york-terror-plot-suspect-philippines-surgeon-isis-marawi
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October 10, 2017 2:26pm
- Digmen1
  
  (1% of the people living in New Zealand are muslim)
  
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  October 10, 2017 2:39pm
  - Jack5
    
    One or two of them have been fighting for ISIS, too.
    
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    October 10, 2017 2:58pm
Maggy Wassilieff

small, skinny robbers?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/09/six-men-one-moped-robbery-london-mappin-webb-regent-street-jewellers

http://www.inspirefusion.com/media/2014/five_men_on_motorcycle.jpg
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October 10, 2017 2:27pm
rangitoto

So Winnie wants more expensive food, fuel and all imported goods as a bottom line. I’m sure that will go down well with Joe public.
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October 10, 2017 2:27pm
- Maxx
  
  Its telling that his new key issues are all ones that National can work with him on.
  
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  October 10, 2017 2:54pm
Digmen1

Its easy for Winston to say he wants this and wants that. But we are the ones that would have to pay for it.

Two ticks blue
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October 10, 2017 2:40pm
Maxx

So apparently Winstons 3 key issues are an overvalued dollar, overseas investment, and affordable housing.

Well, laws can be changed to add RBNZ needing to control the exchange rates. Only problem is we don’t (and never will) have currency reserves to play that game, so the only way to really affect the rates will be a tightening on money supply which is bound to push up inflation.

Limiting overseas investment can also be done but will require renegotiating some of our FTA’s. Apparently Jacineralla is onto that and she’ll just tell them this is how it is. K? It is amusing that the example he gives is the sale of UDC from ANZ to China’s HNA Group. Obviously ANZ is now a NZ company and has been nationalised. Either that or the limiting of overseas investments is limiting Chinese investments. But that wouldn’t be right from our mate Winston. He’s not a racist.

And with housing, I look forward to the dramatic changes to the RMA that will need to be made. And all the immigrants we’ll need to build them.
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October 10, 2017 2:52pm
- Brito
  
  I agree. Pays to read this little piece from a very tired and obviously deluded Mad Dog Prebble.
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11931472
  
  A grand coalition with those crackpots? I need my pills.
  
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  October 10, 2017 3:02pm
  - Jack5
    
    Brito, what about a National-Labour coalition?
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:04pm
    - Brito
      
      People discuss this possibility in the media and some of my colleagues have talked about that as well. There seems to be a common thread running through the ‘this is impossible’ conclusion. Ideology! Jacinda is too far left and there seem to be plots within plots and schemes within schemes coming from the Labour Party. Ultimately how could you trust the front of house team when you know full well that Clark and Cullen are deeply embedded in the mire.
      
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      October 10, 2017 3:19pm
  - Maxx
    
    His advice has turned out to be valuable that all parties are taking on board /s
    
    I can’t see grand coalitions working in NZ for at least another 20 years of MMP. We need enough time for parties voters to get used to the fact that a party has not sold you out because they have formed a coalition with someone you don’t like. More they are being pragmatic and this is a way to get some of their policy through without being side-lined for 3 years.
    
    The best party to be able to try and get their supporters across this at the moment are the Greens and we know how they feel about it.
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:20pm
    - Brito
      
      But the Greens are really two parties cloaked as one. How can you create a coalition with something which maybe schizophrenic? I’d rather see a willingness by all parties to layout a plan (pre-election) of what a voter can expect if a coalition is formed. Currently you have to think through the options and policies and try and guess what could happen. This method gave us Winston as the power broker.
      
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      October 10, 2017 3:37pm
- Jack5
  
  The RBNZ can’t control the kiwi dollar exchange rates.
  
  The markets will bring the value down , though – and the Kiwi has fallen almost US3c in the three weeks or so since 20 September.
  
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  October 10, 2017 3:03pm
  - Maxx
    
    The RBNZ has the ability to control the money supply and hence the exchange rate through the reserve requirements that they set for the banks.
    
    And sorry, I had it the wrong way around. The RBNZ would need to loosen monetary supply. Of course a by product of this is lower interest rates, and more pressure on house prices.
    
    You will also likely see an increase in inflationary pressure.
    
    But of course this is all easy for ol’ Winston. The markets will do what he tells them to do.
    
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    October 10, 2017 3:27pm
    - rangitoto
      
      We saw how that worked out for Muldoon and Winnie is a Muldoonist at heart.
      
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      October 10, 2017 4:04pm
wiseowl

‘dramatic changes to the RMA that will need to be made’
Like what.
This has often been discussed here.
The removal of references to race based clauses is necessary but otherwise the cries for change are from people who have no idea about the RMA unless they want to have an economic development act which is not what the RMA is about.
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October 10, 2017 3:05pm
- Maxx
  
  I’m no expert on this area but I’m sure there was a report that came out mid year that said that land use regulations accounted for something like 50% of the cost of houses in NZ.
  
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  October 10, 2017 3:31pm
Brigitte

There is a complication that hasn’t been raised (at least not as far as I know). What happens if the legislation introduced for Winnie (as part of the coalition agreement) is defeated when a few govt MPs cross the floor and vote against it?
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October 10, 2017 3:21pm
- Brito
  
  Get it happening enough and you have a loss of confidence in the govt and away we go again. The Gov General can step in and dissolve parliament (ask Gough Whitlam) or as Muldoon did when Waring crossed the floor, the PM calls for an early election. In other words we’ll start to look like Italy and Aussie (unstable).
  
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  October 10, 2017 3:54pm
cha

woot

https://www.facebook.com/StarWars/videos/1666264270091834/
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October 10, 2017 3:27pm
Digmen1

Any country that tries to control its exchange rates end up in doo doo.
Venezuela etc

Our dollar goes up and down over the years.
Its all about balancing our exports and imports.

I am all for NZ keeping ownership of our companies, but not by law or compulsion.
Somehow we need to start to buy back our companies via private shareholding.

If New Zealanders really cared about foreign ownership they would not bank with Aussie owned banks or shop at Countdown or Bunnings.
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October 10, 2017 3:52pm
- Jack5
  
  No sure about that, Digmen1.
  
  Germany has successfully kept its currency lower than it would have been under a completely non-dirigiste government.
  
  First by manipulation, and then through the euro. If Germany still had the mark, it would be through the roof.
  
  Similarly, China keeps the renminbi under control. It also used its muscle to bring the Hong Kong dollar down when the speculators were playing with it.
  
  But I agree that NZ is much too small to openly beat the markets. It could manage the kiwi dollar down by reining in the hype from the political PRs and from the banksters about the NZ economy.
  
  By the wealth measure, GDP per capita, and by the balance of payments, which measures the position against the rest of the world, the NZ economy is torpid.
  
  In fact, the exchange rate is not balancing our imports and exports. If it were, NZ would not have run balance-of-payments deficits for the last 40 or so years.
  
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  October 10, 2017 4:22pm
Digmen1

What about Winston’s other bottom lines

Pike River
Maori Seats
Super age
etc etc
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October 10, 2017 3:55pm
SPC

In MBA the Yankees have beaten the Indians, observing a SPC law that no team from a state that voted for Trump shall win a national sports contest.
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October 10, 2017 4:11pm
Manolo

The bastards cover each other’s backs:
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/entertainment/celebrity/russell-crowe-matt-damon-helped-spike-a-weinstein-expose-in-2004-former-nyt-journalist-claims/ar-AAtdpFF?li=BBqdg4K&ocid=mailsignout

A New York Times report on Harvey Weinstein and Miramax employee Fabrizio Lombardo was buried after pressure from the studio and high profile actors, including Australian actor Russell Crowe, according to an explosive new claim.
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October 10, 2017 4:12pm
cha

I wonder why Gowdy hasn’t opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the four US servicemen killed in Niger.
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October 10, 2017 4:24pm
starboard

“The Foodstuffs supermarket chain had conducted a survey of its customers’ preference for bag options and found an overwhelming majority voted ‘yes – charge me for bags’, ”

How can they say that with a straight face? ” Oh yes please Mr Corporate Foodstuffs..roger me harder please, take every last cent from me for your overpriced groceries and limp stale vegetables, then pump me a bit harder for the plastic bags! Yes !!! Charge me for plastic bags!! ”
Ghastly company.
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October 10, 2017 4:39pm
- MickMac
  
  We don’t go there anymore with the forced green card, without it you don’t get lower prices.
  
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  October 10, 2017 5:18pm
Swifty

I find it interesting to listen to Muldoon talking about Labour in the 80s in a way very comparable with how we talk about them today.

I encourage you to have a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erScQkPr5kQ

Labour, still selling snake-oil after all these years.
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October 10, 2017 4:41pm
rightoverlabour

Looks like the Confederate Flag issue is not going away soon. Got to love some of the idiot comments on stuff.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/97714073/his-grandfather-was-a-slave-now-hes-a-champion-for-confederate-monuments
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October 10, 2017 4:44pm
Hugh Pavletich

Fewer than 100 ‘affordable’ houses built under Auckland Housing Accord | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/97736731/section-prices-doubled-as-initiative-worked-to-boost-affordability

Measures to improve Auckland’s supply of affordable housing have been described as a “dismal failure”.

Auckland Council’s Planning Committee on Tuesday received an update on the provision of affordable housing in the city’s special housing areas.

A report to the committee revealed that fewer than 100 “affordable” houses destined for the free market were built under the Auckland Housing Accord, which ran for three-and-a-half years from 2013, in conjunction with central government. … read more via hyperlink above …

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.

What lessons are being learned from Greater Christchurch … particularly the new residential building consents month after month from the adjoining responsive smaller local government units of Waimakariri and Selwyn Counties ?

Building Consents Issued: August 2017

http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/industry_sectors/Construction/BuildingConsentsIssued_HOTPAug17.aspx

Following the first earthquake events 4 September 2010, it was these two smaller and functional units of local government … Waimakariri and Selwyn ( refer graph early section of ‘Restoring Affordable Housing: An Advocates Tale’ at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org )
that ‘saved’ Christchurch.

Without these two smaller and functional units of local government, Christchurch housing today would be as unaffordable as Auckland ay 10 Median Multiple +

Thank you Nick Smith … for nothing.
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October 10, 2017 5:12pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Millennial who lives in a tent reckons he has the answer to Auckland’s housing crisis … NZ Herald
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11929882
  
  Tom Harper recently moved to Auckland from Christchurch to take up an internship at Radio Hauraki.
  
  He is living in a tent in his mate’s backyard. Here, he explains why.
  
  Before I moved to Auckland my Aunty Chris gave me a tiny clay house. According to her it was “the only house I’d ever own”. And she’s probably right. House prices in Auckland are out the wazoo. … VIEW $ READ more via hyperlink above …
  
  JUST ANOTHER 3 YEARS OF NICK SMITH FAILURE ? … CHECK OUT GONE GONE GOING SECTION AT …
  
  Performance Urban Planning
  
  http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
  
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  October 10, 2017 5:16pm
  - starboard
    
    NURSE !!
    
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    October 10, 2017 5:20pm
    - sooty
      
      Quick send Penny around!
      
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      October 10, 2017 5:24pm
  - thedavincimode
    
    Tom Harper recently moved to Auckland from Christchurch to take up an internship at Radio Hauraki.
    
    Another high roller moves to our largest city and grumbles about not being able to live in Paritai Drive or Herne Bay.
    
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    October 10, 2017 6:10pm
    - nasska
      
      The Rhinestone Cowboy had it worse Davinci. 🙂
      
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      October 10, 2017 6:13pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        PAPER BOY CAN’T AFFORD HOUSE ON PARITAI DRIVE. “IT’S THE GOVERNMENT’ FAULT”.
        
        Burger flipper agrees: “I tried to buy an 800 ha dairy farm doing 700,000 kg. The banks wouldn’t lend to 99.9999999% of the cost.” It’s the gummint.
        
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        October 10, 2017 8:04pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  The views of 62,000 Kiwis here sure makes interesting reading …
  
  Poll: Which governing arrangement would you most like to see? … Stuff / Fairfax NZ
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/97178666/poll-which-governing-arrangement-would-you-most-like-to-see
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:45pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Auckland affordable housing scheme a ‘dismal failure’, councillor says – NZ Herald
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11931349
  
  A senior Auckland councillor has called the city’s affordable housing scheme a “dismal failure”, claiming it has delivered fewer than 100 affordable homes.
  
  Planning committee chairman Chris Darby said the Auckland Housing Accord between the Government and Auckland Council had not worked and he says the council should take some share of the blame.
  
  Instead of delivering thousands of affordable new residences, only 98 free market –
  as opposed to social housing – affordable Auckland homes had been delivered since the accord was struck, Darby said today. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
  Auckland Housing Accord ‘dismal failure’ on affordability | Radio New Zealand News
  
  http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/341219/auckland-housing-accord-dismal-failure-on-affordability
  
  Auckland Council eyes using property development arm Panuku Development Auckland to help establish more affordable housing | interest.co.nz
  
  http://www.interest.co.nz/news/90259/auckland-council-eyes-using-property-development-arm-panuku-development-auckland-help
  
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  October 11, 2017 1:07am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Reports from a month ago …
  
  CEOs concerned about cost of housing in Auckland – NZ Herald
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11921174
  
  By Tim McCready
  
  Housing affordability featured highly the Herald CEO survey, rating as the fourth greatest domestic factor impacting business confidence.
  
  CEOs scored the issue at 7.1/10 (where 1= no concern and 10 = extremely concerned).
  
  This year the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey rated Auckland as the world’s fourth least affordable city for housing, behind Hong Kong, Sydney and Vancouver. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
  Ardern v English: Leaders’ house price claims face credibility claims | Stuff.co.nz
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/96556989/arden-v-english-house-price-claims-face-credibility-claims
  
  … extract …
  
  VERDICT ON ENGLISH
  
  Hugh Pavletich, who describes himself as “somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan”, said: “There has already been a generation that’s been severely mistreated because of this housing issue, and what Mr English is saying is another generation should miss out. That is grossly irresponsible.”
  
  Pavletich said prices must fall, gradually, until they are around three times median income.
  
  English’s vision of prices staying level, but falling in real terms as wages rise, wouldn’t achieve that.
  
  Auckland needed only look to Christchurch for its housing solution, Pavletich said. Spread out. Free up land supply. Let people build.
  
  Pavletich does not believe National has the policies to keep prices flat as incomes rise.
  
  “We will get to Sydney levels and beyond if we leave the current government in place,” said Pavletich.
  
  When National came to office under John key the median house in Auckland cost 6.4 times median household income, he said. “It’s now a “stratospheric” ten times.”
  
  “After nearly a decade of inaction from this government, we have really had enough.” … read more via hyperlink above …
  
  Christchurch leads cooling house market trend | Stuff.co.nz
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/94418443/christchurch-leads-cooling-house-market-trend
  
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  October 11, 2017 1:30am
  - softail 1450
    
    1.30am Hugh ,are you a tweaker?
    
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    October 11, 2017 6:42am
Hugh Pavletich

UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A ‘NONSENSE ISSUE’ … read more at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/10/stop-blaming-supply-expensive-housing/#comment-2972852
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October 10, 2017 5:31pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Do fuck off Hugh. There’s a good chap.
  
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  October 10, 2017 6:12pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Why do you think Penny and Hugh are beginning to comment late in the afternoon?
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October 10, 2017 5:35pm
- nasska
  
  Easy. There are far more readers of the blog in the morning & their rubbish is usually downticked into a rightful oblivion in an hour or two.
  
  If they comment late afternoon they have a chance of staying visible even if there are few readers. It’s all a matter of crap comments & fragile egos!
  
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  October 10, 2017 5:52pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Perhaps it’s thee and me that P & H want to convert.
    
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    October 10, 2017 6:00pm
    - nasska
      
      The Mythical Deity in His/Her compassion would never allow it Maggy. 🙂
      
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      October 10, 2017 6:05pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Whew! I was terrified that their powers of persuasion would overwhelm me.
        
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        October 10, 2017 6:23pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Bugger. What a sensible reason nasska.
    Here was me thinking Maggy was hinting at an affair between Penny and Hugh.
    At least I won’t have to fill in my sheep dip just yet. 🙂
    
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    October 10, 2017 6:16pm
    - nasska
      
      I revealed last night that Penny was scoping Nostradamus from her broomstick JB.
      
      Poor bugger has gone to ground! 🙂
      
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      October 10, 2017 6:23pm
      - Johnboy
        
        I’ve just made a heavy duty pump unit for the sheepdip jacuzzi using an old Seagull with the barge pusher prop nasska. Thought it might just be powerful enough to give someone of Penny’s build a good buzz. 🙂
        Nostra could come out of hiding once I’ve won her heart. 🙂
        
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        October 10, 2017 6:29pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        Poor bugger has gone to ground
        
        I did indeed have an unexpected visit. Fortunately, my high-pressure hose (with a built-in soap dispenser) was within reach, and it seemed to have the same effect that a clove of garlic has on the mythical creature of the night!
        
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        October 10, 2017 6:50pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        I’ve inadvertently reported you JB when all I wanted to do was warn you to keep the tackle well restrained when you fire up the Seagull.
        
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        October 10, 2017 8:07pm
Hugh Pavletich

The Edmunds article below has been up on Stuff for about 2 hours only …

Fewer than 100 ‘affordable’ houses built under Auckland Housing Accord | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/97736731/section-prices-doubled-as-initiative-worked-to-boost-affordability

Poor old yellow Tories … the eunuchs of politics … indeed !
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October 10, 2017 6:10pm
- Johnboy
  
  No doubt about it Hugh your article really pins the blame down to that bloody Tory ACC that we’ve had since 2013. Len and Phil should be taken out and shot!!! 🙂
  
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  October 10, 2017 6:21pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Johnboy … Look deeper and ask why Selwyn and Waimak Councils are performing so well.
    
    Selwyns residential cosenting performance month after month is in world record territory … annualized … in excess of 30 consents per 1000 population per annum.
    
    There are two types of local government in this world … the small and the bad.
    
    If they are allowed to get too big, the bureaucrats just take control and plunder their communities.
    
    The evidence is staring us in the face.
    
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    October 10, 2017 6:31pm
    - Johnboy
      
      It sure is Hugh. Labour led councils (or anything for that matter) spend all their time worrying about looking after themselves and couldn’t give a shit about the folk they’re meant to be serving.
      
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      October 10, 2017 6:35pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Johnboy … It’s a structural problem.
        
        Big is bad in local government.
        
        We went through the circus with the Parker / Marratt regime here in Christchurch … with the 4500 strong Peoples Protest 1 February 2012 …
        Christchurch: The Way Forward | Scoop News
        
        http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1206/S00251/christchurch-the-way-forward.htm
        
        Parker bailed mid 2013 …
        
        Christchurch: the political shambles | The National Business Review
        
        https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/christchurch-political-shambles-nk-142674
        
        Size of local governance is of critical importance … as a former Labour Christchurch Central MP Brendon Burnes opined early 2012 …
        
        Better communication can shine a light in the darkness | Stuff.co.nz
        
        http://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/perspective/6380541/Better-communication-can-shine-a-light-in-the-darkness
        
        … extract …
        
        For this city to best recover from its seismic nightmare, the process of decision- making needs to be inverted to truly empower communities. Such a radical change is very difficult to accept for anyone – of any political persuasion – who happens to be in power.
        
        To date, the required response is tokenistic. A top-down command and control system may be appropriate in the days after a disaster but not in a recovery which will take years. Among the ultimate victims will be those who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk when it comes to true community engagement. Just look at the Christchurch City Council.
        .
        .
        In a nutshell … the Christchurch Council amalgamated disaster means the earthquakes will likely cost twice as much as they should have … $50 billion instead of $25 billion.
        
        I spelled out some … just some … of the reasons … way back in mid 2011 !!! …
        
        OPINION: Hugh Pavletich accuses Christchurch City Council of blindness, blunders and chain dragging; calls for effective leadership, ‘open land’ policy and bendy zoning. Your view? | interest.co.nz
        
        http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/53947/opinion-hugh-pavletich-accuses-christchurch-city-council-blindness-blunders-and-chain-
        
        A bureaucratic disaster of massive proportions … that STILL has not been dealt with !
        
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        October 10, 2017 6:57pm
David Garrett

Peters says: “our decision won’t please everyone”…Stage one of softening up the lefties that he is going with the Nats?? I hope not…I have decided that it’s much better to get the pain over now..for 18 months or two years…
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October 10, 2017 6:56pm
- sooty
  
  The poor greenies only their no mates Labour want them. No one else does?
  
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  October 10, 2017 7:17pm
RF

Road toll today… 297.

Bring back the MOT or at least a dedicated traffic enforcement branch with B & W vehicles.
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October 10, 2017 7:12pm
- David Garrett
  
  RF: We have lots of cars – four times what we had in the 1970’s I believe – and lots of two lane roads…30 years ago the road toll was twice what it is now, so based on four times the cars, 2400 a year if that had continued. Instead it’s 1/10th of that…
  
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  October 10, 2017 7:29pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    843 road deaths in 1973
    https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/20901/road-toll-1921-2007
    
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    October 10, 2017 7:43pm
  - RF
    
    David.
    
    I still keep in touch with my former bretheran who would sooner lock up crooks than give out speeding tickets.
    
    It’s mainly former MOT and those who have an interest in driving well maintained vehicles tend to gravitate to the Highway patrol or traffic units.
    
    Many of my former colleagues believe there should be a separate traffic enforcement branch with decent marked vehicles.
    
    I worry that bull shit castle will decide that lowering the speed tolerance will solve the road toll problem.
    
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    October 10, 2017 7:52pm
    - nasska
      
      ….”It’s mainly former MOT and those who have an interest in driving well maintained vehicles tend to gravitate to the Highway patrol or traffic units.”…..
      
      Interesting. I always thought it was psycho control freaks & nitpickers who preferred interacting with people who wouldn’t give them a richly deserved punch in the face.
      
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      October 10, 2017 8:06pm
      - Gruffydd
        
        We used to have some wonderful specimens of psycho control freaks & nitpickers nasska.
        In an outfit called Mount Albert Council Traffic Department .
        Arseholes in black and white with a cherry on top.
        
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        October 10, 2017 8:19pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”Arseholes in black and white with a cherry on top”…..
        
        Remember them well Griff. In rural NZ they weren’t too tough as bad things could happen if they pissed off the wrong crowd but in the cities they were arseholes. I relied on my licence for my living so I really had to watch out.
        
        Don’t know if you remember but in the early 1970’s a yank film, “American Graffiti” was released. One of the scenes involved a character hooking a chain onto the rear axle of a police car, driving past giving him the brown eye then watching as the well revved up black & white took off in pursuit leaving behind its rear end.
        
        Life mimics art & it took less than ten days before the B&W arseholes in Wellington got the same treatment. Mark4 Cortina in Cumberland Place, Wgtn, a strong bit of wire rope between the front McPherson strut & the nearest parking meter & it was all on for young & old.
        
        Result equaled a bent meter stanchion, a Cortina & its front suspension about 6 metres apart, a highly embarrassed traffic cop & a crowd of younger people bloody near pissing themselves on the spot.
        
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        October 10, 2017 8:41pm
      - starboard
        
        1973..fantastic movie. Sprouted many a movie career..Ron Howard, Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, to name a few.
        
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        October 11, 2017 8:17pm
- Gruffydd
  
  Its just a blip in the road toll that’s been tending down for years .
  http://www.transport.govt.nz/research/roadtoll/annualroadtollhistoricalinformation/
  Modern cars are so much safer than the crap we used to drive.
  
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  October 10, 2017 7:50pm
sooty

Were is Angry hiding lately? You think he would be in the negiations? What with all his negatiation skills. Saw him once at union meeting, lived up to his name.
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October 10, 2017 7:20pm
- David Garrett
  
  Sooty: Yes, good point! A fairly good sign that he’s off back to the bruvvers fairly soon I would say…
  
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  October 10, 2017 7:27pm
  - nasska
    
    You’re joking surely DG. He’s now a list MP in a fairly good spot at the trough.
    
    It’s the best lurk the bum has ever had or ever will have…..he’ll never leave.
    
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    October 10, 2017 7:57pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  negatiation skills
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3IxMQsazAM
  
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  October 10, 2017 7:54pm
RF

The drunken dwarf is full of shit.

Breaking news…….Decision will not be made on Thursday and in answer to a question when….

He replied that if you joined his party you might find out.

What a c**t.
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October 10, 2017 8:10pm
- David Garrett
  
  RF: You heard it here first…I think the prick has been seduced by the Nats…a cup of hemlock if ever there was one…
  
  Meanwhile in other news, a 15 year old scrote has wiped himself out after a 52 second car chase by the cops..and thereby saved the world from what would otherwise have been his no doubt numerous progeny by many different loser women…(three weeks ago said scrote was apprehended driving the wrong way up the motorway, so NO I don’t mourn him at all)
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:14pm
  - David Garrett
    
    That timed out on me..
    
    I don’t actually care if some readers think me uncaring…this prick didn’t care about his potential victims, and it is only pure luck that he didn’t kill someone on either or both occasions…
    
    And surprise surprise “efforts to contact members of his whanau have been unsuccessful”…Life remain nasty brutish and short in some…communities…
    
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    October 10, 2017 8:30pm
  - Digmen1
    
    I’m just sorry for the person that had their car stolen and the emergency services people that had to pick up the mess.
    
    Watching his posts etc he seemed to enjoy showing off.
    
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    October 10, 2017 8:33pm
Jack5

American rapist gets joint custody of child, created when he raped the now eight-year-old boy’s mother, when she was aged 12.

Is this a shock, or is the “rape,” while still deplorable, more akin to what we may still call in NZ something like unlawful intercourse with a child under the age of 16?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41556542
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October 10, 2017 8:32pm
Digmen1

It seems the Las Vegas police were slow to get to that guys room, and waited outside while he shot hundreds of people.
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October 10, 2017 8:34pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-10-03-five-more-things-dont-add-up-las-vegas-massacre-expended-brass.html
  
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  October 10, 2017 9:16pm
RF

David… agree.

I remember a bikie was stabbed to death in the 70s. A rival gang pissed on his grave and NOK who were visiting at the time made a complaint to the Police. I understand the attending Police carrying out a
a visit to the crime scene got caught short
resulting in a repeat of the offence.

Tough…..
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October 10, 2017 8:37pm
- David Garrett
  
  RF: NOK?? Que??
  
  Ah got it…of course… when Maori start banning members of the Mongrel Mob and their scurvy rivals from tangi on marae I might start to take them seriously…somehow I don’t think the mongrels would be welcome on my friend Northland Wahine’s marae…I must ask her…
  
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  October 10, 2017 8:47pm
rightoverlabour

I see the wowsers on stuff are already making funeral preparations for when the speed limit is raised to 110km/h on some roads. The fact is 110 is the defacto speed right now. Some of the better roads such as the waikato and parts of the SHI around Ramarama could cope with 120km/h. Many do that right now as well. Of course the wankers at stuff have a picture of the fuckwit’s car ( now deceased) who played chicken with a tree. That incident, a criminal fleeing from police, has FUCK all to do with the speed that it is safe to drive at. At 110 we would still be at the lower end of international driving speed limits, especially Europe.
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October 10, 2017 9:30pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Hope that guy got a Resource Consent from the Council before he felled that tree.
  If he didn’t, he’s REALLY going to be in trouble.
  
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